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[Editor’s note: This story previously appeared in Megaphone Magazine, a local bi-weekly sold on the streets by homeless and low-income vendors. For more information about Megaphone, visit www. megaphonemagazine.com.]

Rosesari in her room at the May Wah hotel, a privately owned single room occupancy hotel in Vancouver’s Chinatown. She pays $320 a month. Her neighbours on the same floor pay $200 to $290 a month.

Chinatown’s Tough Evolution

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i hao,” says a red painted wall on the southwest corner of Main and Keefer.

It is an English phonetic spelling of “hello” in Cantonese —part of a huge advertisement for a coming condominium development in the rapidly-upscaling Union-Keefer-Georgia area between Main and Gore streets in Chinatown.

Do working-class ethnic enclaves have a space in future cities?

Vancouver’s changing Chinatown reflects shifts across North America.

The inscription has the unintended effect of mocking the people crowding the bus stop below. Most of Chinatown’s Chinese residents can’t read or speak English, nor can they afford what the developers call “achievable home ownership” at 1888 Keefer Street. Obviously, the condo advertisement The view outside on is not for them, though it pretends to speak Pender Street. their language.

What gets lost in translation is that despite the new condo towers, restaurants, and coffee shops catering to a new class of English-speaking residents and workers in the neighbourhood, Chinatown’s longeststanding residents are barely holding on to their homes in a part of the city that has been central to their lives and family histories in Vancouver.

Recent flashpoints, like the city-ordered demolition of the Ming Sun Benevolent Society headquarters in December and the 30 to 40 percent rent increases served to elderly residents of the Chau Luen Tower on Keefer Street earlier this month, are signs of the precariousness facing Chinatown’s predominantly elderly Chinese-speaking residents. The population is already on the margins because of their poverty, their language and their age.

The BC Residential Tenancy Branch recently ruled against a landlord’s attempts to raise the rents at the Chau Luen, marking a victory for the renters who would have otherwise been priced out of the building and the neighbourhood.

But with recent reporting from the Carnegie Community Action Project that there are no more rooms renting for the monthly $375 shelter allowance rate for people on income assistance, and with a 30-year Local Area Plan to be passed for the Downtown Eastside (DTES) next month, Vancouver’s Chinatown persists as a contested space.

The neighbourhood lies at the nucleus of the city’s ongoing tensions around housing affordability, racialized discrimination,

Story and photos by Jackie Wong, Megaphone Magazine

access to services and questions about who has the right to the city.

Changing neighbourhoods, unchanging attitudes The cost to rent an office or retail space in the east side of the city is more affordable than renting spaces in the central parts of downtown or the city’s west side. So it makes sense that Chinatown, an historically working-class ethnic enclave, is soughtafter territory for Vancouver’s creative class and upmarket professionals. The change in the neighbourhood is a hot conversation topic among Vancouverites, but the experience is not this city’s alone.

Chinatowns across North America are undergoing similar transformations. In the United States particularly, community organizers are raising concerns about the impacts that gentrification will have on Chinatowns’ original residents.

Last year, New York City’s Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) embarked on the United States’ first multicity Chinatown land-use study to compare Chinatowns in Philadelphia, Boston and New York City. The results, published in a fall

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The Vancouver Second Mile Society’s Chinese Seniors Outreach project coordinator, Cindy Pang (left), walks with 93-year-old Gai Li Lin.

Gai Li Lin has lived at the May Wah for eight years.

2013 report, are strikingly applicable to local discussions: “Recent luxury and high-end developments in each city’s Chinatown have directly and indirectly threatened both current residents’ and future immigrants’ ability to live, work, shop, and participate in the community and cultural life of these historic neighbourhoods,” reads the report. The result, report co-author Andrew Leong told the BBC earlier this month, is “a sanitized ethnic playground for the rich to satisfy their exotic appetite for a dim sum and fortune cookie fix.”

Here at home, Vancouver’s lack of strong ethnic community organizing is evident in the relative invisibility of nonEnglish speaking citizens in public conversation. That invisibility has consequences everywhere in the community, from the widely-felt and seldom-documented racism and discrimination experienced by Chinese-speaking seniors in DTES food line-ups to the quiet resignation with which many will submit to circumstances that English speakers, or people who are able to leverage more capital in society, would refuse to accept without a fight.

While Chinatowns across North America are facing similar uncertainties, cities differ in their responses to the concerns raised by community organizers about gentrification and its related evictions, affordability and accessibility concerns.

That the AALDEF exists at all is evidence of a robust culture of multi-ethnic community organizing in major American cities.

“Perhaps because of history, or because of the lack of community activism for the Chinese community and with the Chinese community, it plays out in terms of their response,” says King-mong Chan, a researcher and organizer for the Carnegie Community Action Project. Chan is one of only a handful of Chinese- and English-speaking bilingual outreach workers in the DTES.

In San Francisco, hundreds of housing rights advocates, spurred by the outreach work of the influential Chinese Community Development Center, threw their support behind an elderly Chinese couple threatened with eviction from their home near San Francisco’s Chinatown last fall.

Community action against the eviction delayed their moveout date. And while the family eventually lost the fight to keep their home, a robust community of bilingual housing advocates worked with them to find them a new affordable rental apartment, a rare treasure that is arguably even harder to find in expensive, tech-booming San Francisco than it is in Vancouver.

His work includes connecting with Chinese-speaking elders in the DTES and Chinatown to learn about their living situations, their housing needs and how they can be better connected to community services that will benefit them.

I look old, 92-year-old Rosesari says, but my heart is still young

Chan says he observes a disturbing complacency among the Chinese-speaking population that he doesn’t see as frequently among English-speaking residents of the DTES. “When I talk to them, they don’t have the money to buy certain food. So they buy cheaper food,” he says. “They’ll just sort of accept the fact they have less and less money to buy food as opposed to speaking out.”

I was told similar stories of the quiet resignation that comes from learning, over the span of a life, to live with less and ask for little while writing a series about Chinatown seniors last year for Vancouver’s Tyee Solutions Society.

“They’ll force a smile to cover the pain and overcompensate for it, to reassure me that things are fine when I know they’re not,” Deanna Wong, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre’s Chinese seniors’ outreach coordinator, told me.

“They have my contact information. But a lot of times they won’t want to trouble me for it.”

To live with the assumption that there are no supports available is also historically rooted.

The legislated racial discrimination that many Chinese citizens faced in their first years in Canada is still alive in the memories of the seniors who now live in Chinatown.

Many of them still have racial epithets hurled their way on the streets; of the little research conducted on the Chinesespeaking seniors community in the inner city, racialized discrimination is a top challenge facing the population.

Frontline workers like Wong, Chan, and others are well aware of it. The challenge, however, is creating action from awareness.

Creating a new sense of community “Despite government considerations on how best to reconcile historical wrongs and discriminatory laws faced by Chinese-Canadians in the past, there

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a Chinese-Canadian population that experiences discrimination and neglect.”

keeps the communities away from each other, even though its members rub shoulders all the time.

So says a proposal co-written by Doris Chow, a frontline worker in the DTES. In collaboration with other community service organizations in the neighbourhood, Chow submitted a proposal to the provincial government in January to create a legacy fund to re-invigorate the Chinese benevolent associations that used to play a stronger role in contributing to Chinatown’s social fabric.

“There are Chinese seniors living in the same buildings as Downtown Eastside residents. And they’re intermingling all the time. But our interventions are completely separate,” Chow says. “So the services that are available in the Downtown Eastside can be sometimes one-dimensional and they don’t have the capacity to take into consideration the Chinese seniors that come to the Downtown Eastside to access the food, housing, health and mental health services.”

remains currently

The benevolent associations were originally established at the turn of the 20th century to safeguard ChineseCanadians from discriminatory legislation,” Chow says.

Today, she says, “there’s this gap in services the associations can fill?and quite [culturally] appropriately, too.”

She’s talking about gaps in housing services that could potentially be filled by benevolent associations that currently own Chinatown property but lack the capital to renovate it for community use.

Community organizations serving both the Chinese- and English-speaking populations of the inner city supported the legacy fund proposal, including the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, MOSAIC BC, the Dugout and Union Gospel Mission.

The wide-ranging support speaks to a growing appetite to think about the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown in more integrated terms; a lack of coordinated service provision

Change is happening quickly in the DTES and Chinatown.

Next month, Vancouver city council will pass the 30-year local area plan for the neighbourhood. And the city is already considering leasing the site of the former Vancouver police station at Main and Cordova streets to a California tech firm, despite interest from community groups to use it as a hub for social innovation that serves the Downtown Eastside community.

These changes, of course, are not Vancouver’s alone. They are, as the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund calls them in its Chinatown land-use report, “government policies accelerating gentrification.”

Even so, its authors acknowledge, “Chinatowns have persisted as havens for low-income immigrants and workers, not only because of the continued need for affordable and culturally appropriate services and goods, but also because of the many people fighting to maintain their existence.” o

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Editor’s Note

Welcome to the March issue of Guidebook.

How’s it going, friends?

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Already two weeks have gone by, which means we have another packed issue of Guidebook ready for your eyeballs. I’m no fashion expert, but thanks to some talented folks from around the world who are coming to the city for Vancouver Fashion Week, we have some exciting style ideas to share with you. Take a look starting on page 34!

On our cover is an inspiring umbrella/hat combination designed by Emma Jorn from Copenhagen, Denmark. Though we’ve seen a few sunny days lately, I’m certain the rainy season isn’t over yet. That’s why Jorn’s rainproof, bike-friendly pieces are perfect for Vancouver’s shifting climate.

Sarah Berman Editor

Speaking of style, flip to page 39 to catch a glimpse of the fashionable nightlife Vancouver has to offer. Our friends at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival have provided photos of the directors, actors and festival volunteers that attended last week. This is a new feature in the magazine, so tell us what you think by emailing sarah@ theguidebook.ca. Photo submissions welcome!

I’m also proud to share with you and important story by friend and colleague Jackie Wong, which originally appeared in Megaphone Magazine. Wong has studied the struggles facing low-income Chinese-speaking seniors in Chinatowns across North America. Here in Vancouver, rent hikes and demolished benevolent society headquarters point to an ethnic and economic transformation. Wong asks: where do working-class ethnic enclaves fit into our future cities? Flip back to page 4 to read more.

Our UBC interns Seo Yeon Bae and Euihyeon Nam have made big contributions to this issue. Seo Yeon profiled Korean Cultural Week at UBC and wrote a preview of upcoming events at Roger’s Arena. Meanwhile, Euihyeon breaks down the basics of applying for health insurance in British Columbia for our Q&A section. I am so grateful for these entertaining and helpful contributions. If you are attending a postsecondary school in BC and would like to apply for an editorial internship please drop me a line at sarah@theguidebook.ca.

Our news section looks at cuts to English as a Second Language (ESL) programs for immigrants at 17 schools across British Columbia, including Vancouver Community College and Kwantlen Polytechnic. Headlines from around the world include El Salvador’s presidential election, a still-missing Malaysian jet, and Japan’s first ISS space commander. Due to popular demand, we’ve enlisted a local tax expert to explain how to file Canadian taxes as a non-resident or new immigrant.

Thank you contributors! Thank you advertisers! And most importantly thank you readers! We’re forging ahead with more exciting content, events and opportunities because of your belief in this magazine. Send your reactions, your suggestions, and your favourite after-school hangouts to sarah@theguidebook.ca.

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Hong Kong Spirit Film Week Vancity Theatre 1181 Seymour Street Vancouver, BC March 14, 2014 to March 19, 2014 www.viff.org Five acclaimed movies from Hong Kong will be playing at the Vancity Theatre at various times from Friday, March 14 until Wednesday March 19. The series is sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office.

Norouz Celebration Potluck Richmond Richmond Cultural Centre 7000 Minoru Boulevard Richmond, BC

Friday, March 14, 2014 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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March 15, 2014 11:00 am - 3:00 pm ww.rcfm.ca

11851 Westminster Hwy Kinsmen Pavilion Richmond, BC

Come join us in celebrating Norouz and learn about Persian New Year. Bring your favourite dish to the potluck and enjoy Persian food, sweets, music, dance and more.

Every first and third Saturday from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm is an indoor farmers market. The market features 20 to 24 vendors offering fresh local produce, prepared foods and handmade crafts as well as award-winning River Market restaurants. Every market we feature live music and kids’ activities. Free parking available in B Deck West of the Front Street Parkade at 560 Columbia Street.

Saturday Mar 15, 2014 - Sunday Mar 16, 2014 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Drop in to see snakes, lizards and geckos. This is a great opportunity to talk with the people who know reptiles best.

Presented by the West Coast Society for the Protection and Conservation of Reptiles.

This event is for all ages, disability access is available.

Admission: Free Royal City Farmers Market New Westminster River Market 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster, BC

Exotic Reptile Show Richmond Richmond Nature Park

Admission by donation.

CelticFest 10th Anniversary Gala - Vancouver Vogue Theatre 918 Granville

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Performances by the Once, Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, the Paperboys, and Hermitage Green. Part of CelticFest Vancouver.

Celtic Village and Street Market - Vancouver Granville Street between Robson and Georgia Mar. 15, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Mar. 16, 10:00 am to 5:00 p.m. www.celticfestvancouver.com

Two-day celebration of Celtic music, dance, food and shopping. Includes music on the Mahony & Sons Music Stage, local dance troupes on the CelticFest Community Stage, a mass Celtic-drum session, a penny-whistle workshop, street performers like the Unipiper and the Green Men, sword fighting

by Academie Duello and the Society for Creative Anachronism, and a street market featuring food and the work of artisans. Part of CelticFest Vancouver.

The event also runs at Robson Square.

Admission: Free St. Patrick’s Day Parade Vancouver Various Streets, Downtown Vancouver March 16, 2014 11:00 am

The 10th annual event features thousands of participants, including marching pipe and drum bands, Celtic music groups, acrobats, drill teams, and Irish and Scottish youth dance groups. The parade will start at Howe and Davie, proceeds north on Howe to Georgia, and ends at Georgia and Granville. Part of CelticFest Vancouver.

Louis Lortie performs Chopin’s 1st Piano Concerto - Vancouver

Orpheum Theatre 601 Smithe Street at Seymour Vancouver, BC March 15, 2014 8:00 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Gold presents: One of Canada’s all-time favourite artists, Louis Lortie plays Chopin’s beautiful, romantic First Piano Concerto, in a concert that also features Canadian composer Dorothy Chang, and the Finlandia-like, Nordic landscapes of Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1.

French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has attracted critical acclaim throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. He has extended his interpretative voice across a broad range of repertoire rather than choosing to specialize in one particular style. The London Times, describing his playing as “ever immaculate, ever imaginative”, has identified the artist’s “combination of total spontaneity and meditated ripeness that only great pianists have.”

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There will be a gala party at Fluevog Shoes’ Gastown location on April 5, where South African food and wine and live jazz will be shared shared amongst film lovers.

All of the following films will be screened at:

Talks will be broadcasted live on the BC Place Jumbotrons.

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Community Tour for Newcomers - Richmond

Breathe Again April 5 @ 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Richmond City Hall, room 2004 6911 No 3 Road Richmond, BC Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Kurt Orderson has dedicated his career to training black swimmers living in townships. This film is an expression of the intersection between the personal and the political for a black sportsman growing up in Apartheid South Africa.

The City of Richmond, is facilitating a community tour for families new to Richmond.

Join us for a fun and interactive tour of Richmond where everyone can have a chance to learn about the history of our land and its people. Childcare and lunch will be provided.

Constantinople - North Vancouver

This event is for ages six to senior.

Capilano University 2055 Purcell Way North Vancouver, BC Mar 16, 2014 7:30 p.m. www.caravanbc.com

We will meet at Richmond City Hall in room 2004 at 10:00 am on Tuesday, March 18, and a bus will take us around our community. The tour will end back at City Hall by 3:00 pm that same day.

Caravan World Rhythms presents Persian music from the 16th and 17th centuries, featuring singer Sepideh Raissadat.

Vancouver South African Film Festival

Admission: starting at $36

This tour is free but spots are limited and registration is required. To reserve your spot, please contact Taushif Kara by email at taushif@rmcs.bc.ca or by phone at 604-248-0433.

TED Talks Conference Vancouver

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Vancouver Convention Centre 1055 Canada Place Vancouver, BC March 17 to 21, 2014

Various Venues Vancouver, BC March 18 to 24, 2014 www.vanfashionweek.com

2014 marks TED’s 30th anniversary, and the theme for TED2014 is simply this: “The Next Chapter.” We’ll be seeking to understand what

Industry event showcases international designers from over 30 global fashion capitals.

Participating designers include Green Embassy, Susana

Felix April 5 @ 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Thirteen-year-old Felix Xaba dreams of becoming a saxophonist like his late father, but his mother Lindiwe thinks jazz is the devil’s music. When Felix leaves his township friends to take up a scholarship at an elitist private school, he defies his mother and turns to two aging members of his father’s old band to help him prepare for the school jazz concert.

The Creators April 5 @ 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Step into the lives of six artists sculpting South Africa’s future from the fragments of a tumultuous past in this extraordinary documentary. The artists each re-craft—and the impacts of Apartheid—in their own artistic languages. How does creative expression traverse the divide?

Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the new South Africa April 5 @ 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Soft Vengeance is a film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter, set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa. As a young man, Albie defended those committed to ending apartheid.

For his actions as a lawyer, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement, tortured and forced into exile. In 1988, a car bomb cost him his right arm and the sight of one eye, but he survived. Returning to South Africa following the release of Nelson Mandela, Albie helped write the new constitution and was appointed to the new Constitutional Court.

Miracle Rising / Cry Freedom April 6 @ 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm As a tribute to Nelson Mandela, we present two different looks at his extraordinary life. Miracle Rising, the epic story of the end of Apartheid and South Africa’s transition to a new democracy, and Cry Freedom, a revealing look at South Africa’s hopes and fears, as violence and corruption threaten to tear apart the “rainbow nation.” o

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Admission: $30-300 Vancouver Symphony: The Great Russian Classics Vancouver The Orpheum 601 Smithe Street Vancouver, BC March 20 2014 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

(604) 876.3434

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Tea and Trumpets presents: Great Russian Classics.

Passionate, full-blooded and extraordinary in every way, the great Russian classics form an important part of the core of the repertoire. You will thrill to the music of Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Le Coq d’or Wedding March, Mussorgsky/ Ravel’s Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition and much more. Gordon Gerrard conductor. Christopher Gaze host.

A charming matinee series of popular, lighter classics, woven together with stories about the composers and their music with the inimitable style and panache of Christopher Gaze. Tea & Trumpets comes complete with complimentary tea and cookies served in the lobby before each concert!

Nils Frahm - Vancouver Electric Owl 928 Main, Vancouver March 20, 2014 7:00 p.m.

Berlin-based experimental pianist, composer, and producer performs material from latest album Spaces, with guest Douglas Dare.

Ga Ting - Richmond Richmond Cultural Centre 7000 Minoru Boulevard Richmond, BC March 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 at 8:00 p.m.

March 23, 26, 29, 30 at 2:00 p.m.

Ga Ting (Family in Cantonese),

TED talks happening in Vancouver March 17-22

is a complex cultural and inter-generational exploration on themes of family, love and mortality. The new full-length production is presented by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and the Frank Theatre company. It will be performed in English and Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles.

The tech, art and design conference celebrates its 30th anniversary with Bill Gates, astronaut Chris Hadfield and more. Select schools, libraries and non-profits will be screening the talks live.

The play weaves a powerful story about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the death of their son, Kevin. Not only do they have to deal with their grief, they also have to face their personal reactions to the sexuality of their son when approached by his boyfriend.

As the characters share memories of Kevin, their dinner conversation eventually evolves into a cultural and generational clash.

Ga Ting marks the playwriting debut of Canadian actor Minh Ly and the cast includes veteran actor and former Vancouver councillor BC Lee, Michael Antonakos and Hong Kong film star, Alannah Ong.

PHOTO: Bill Gates: “If you gave me only one wish for the next 50 years, it’d be to invent the thing that halves the cost energy with no CO2. This is the one with the greatest impact.” Speakers like Gates will be televised on the jumbotrons at BC Place from March 17 to 21, 2014. Photo via Wikipedia.

Tickets start at $15, available at www.vact.ca, the Richmond Cultural Centre front desk or by phone at 604-247-8300.

The webstream will be open to accredited secondary schools, universities, libraries, community centres and non-government organizations in the following communities: Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Richmond, Squamish, Surrey, Vancouver, Victoria, West Vancouver and Whistler.

Kwantlen University has confirmed it will screen the talks at the Grassroots Cafe located at the school’s Surrey campus.

TED organizers said BC Place also agreed to provide live televised distribution of the talks on its Jumbotron screen located at Terry Fox Plaza, according to the Vancouver Sun. The viewings will take place every day, starting March 17. The televised access will run to 7:45 p.m. each night until March 21, when it ends at 1 p.m.

Vancouver Canucks open hockey practice Vancouver Rogers Arena 800 Grif iths Way Vancouver, BC March 22, 2014 Doors at 10:00 a.m., practice at 11:00 a.m.

“This is our 30th birthday and we decided to make this the most ambitious TED yet,” director of partnerships Tom Rielly told BC Business. “So we wanted to do something that would give back to the community in a real and exciting way.”

The Vancouver Canucks will be opening the doors at Rogers Arena for an open practice on Saturday, March 22. Get an up close view of your favourite players and coaches as they prepare for the final stretch of the regular season.

Fans attending are encouraged to arrive early to participate in the pre-practice concourse activities including face painting, prize giveaways, and interactive games. The festivities will also include appearances by FIN, the Canucks Mascot.

For the first time ever, the world-renowned technology, entertainment and design conference known as TED Talks will be hosted in Vancouver. The bad news is, tickets cost over $7,000 and were sold out last year.

But the good news is, many students will be able to watch the talks live for free.

PHOTO: William Kamkwamba from Malawi is an all-star TED Talker who will be speaking on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 from 3:45 ? 5:00 p.m. When he was 14, he built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, working from rough plans he found in a library book called Using Energy.

Speakers will touch on topics ranging from education to climate change, form architecture to music, from typography to fireflies. Randall Munroe will talk about his passion for What If questions. Yoruba Richen will talk about the fastest-moving social justice campaign in history. Wendy Chung will offer a scholarly overview of what we know right now about autism. And Chris Hadfield of NASA will put down his guitar long enough to talk to us about life in space?and back on earth. o

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Hong Kong Spirit Film Week at the Vancity Theatre Five acclaimed movies from Hong Kong will be playing at the Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street) from Friday, March 14 until Wednesday March 19. The series is sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office.

The Way We Dance Saturday, March 15, 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 16, 6:30 p.m.

Described as nothing less than “miraculous� this low budget HK dance film became a box office sensation last summer and newcomer Cherry Ngan became an overnight star.

Fleur (Cherry Ngan), who used to spend time working at her parents’ tofu restaurant is now a member of BombA, a hip-hop dance group at her university. A chance encounter brings her in touch with Tai Chi, a traditional martial art that local elders usually practice for its health benefits. She soon finds innovative ways to incorporate the movement vocabulary of the ancient form into her dance. But just when she is ready to challenge another group on the dance floor, her foot is severely injured in

an accident. Will she persevere? “A cracking spectacle that showcases some of Hong Kong’s best street dancers� The Hollywood Reporter “The choreography shows flashes of genuine inventiveness that will impress even those unfamiliar with the street dance scene.� Twitch “After all these years, we have finally found the new hope for Hong Kong cinema.� Shu Kei Cantonese with English subtitles.

Datong: The Great Society Wednesday, March 19, 7:00 p.m.

Framed around the Swedish sojourn (19041908) of Kang Youwei (Liu Kai Chi), who famously revived the Confucian utopia Datong: The Great Society, the film traces the struggle of Kang, his daughter Tung Pih (Lindzay Chan), and his disciple Liang Qichao (Ben Yeung) to modernize China’s imperial monarchy. “Exciting, inventive, bold, post-modern!�

Ann Hui, filmmaker

Cold War (Hon zin) Saturday, March 15, 9:00 p.m. and Tuesday, March 18, 9:00 p.m.

English, Chinese and French with English and Chinese subtitles.

Drug War (Du zhen)

This breathless, twisty Hong Kong cop thriller triumphed at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards, picking up nine statuettes including best film, best director, best screenplay and best actor (Tony Leung Ka Fai).

Cantonese with English subtitles.

Tuesday, March 18, 7:00 p.m.

The French Connection meets The Wire in this exhilarating mainland China cop thriller from Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To. Faced with the death penalty, drug trafficker Timmy Choi reluctantly enters

into a partnership with narcotics cop Zhang to break a rich and powerful crime syndicate.

Unbeatable (Ji zhan) Friday, March 14, 9:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 16, 8:50 p.m.

This mixed martial arts drama packs a real dramatic punch thanks to director Dante Lam’s sophisticated filmmaking and a powerhouse performance from star Nick Cheung. “The storytelling artistry of Hong Kong helmer Dante Lam and Nick Cheung’s powerhouse performance make a raw and compelling experience out of this actiondrama set in the world of mixed martial arts. While Lam never loses his grip on the action, he also beautifully modulates his characters’ turbulent ups and downs like musical movements, expressing the protagonist’s motto that fighting is all about setting your own rhythm.� ?Maggie Lee, Variety Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles. o

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Event Guide, Calendar Fans planning to attend must register to confirm their attendance. A confirmation email provided after registration must be presented at the gate for entry into Rogers Arena for the Open Practice.

Space is limited to lower bowl capacity with general admission on a first come, first served basis.

Admission is free, but attendees must register at http:// canucks.nhl.com/club/page. htm?id=85897 Rain City Chronicles “Das Lexikon” - Vancouver Vancouver Alpen Club 4875 Victoria Drive Vancouver, BC V5N 4P3 March 22, 2014 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. www.picatic.com/daslexikon

On March 22nd the Rain City Chronicles storytelling series is cooking up something tasty?with a German twist!

Rain City is combining forces with Bestie, the beloved German street food hot-spot in Chinatown, and Ken Tsui, the pop-up producer who staged The Cafeteria with us last November, to present Das Lexikon. The evening will go down the Vancouver Alpen Club, a local institution located on Victoria Drive that you’ve likely been curious about.

Tickets are $39, available via Picatic.

Blue Man Group Vancouver Queen Elizabeth Theatre 650 Hamilton Street Vancouver, BC March 25 to 30, 2014 www.ticketmaster.ca

Blue Man Group present multimedia performances featuring a live band playing tribal rhythms, a prosceniumsize LED curtain, and a highresolution screen. Their wildly popular theatrical shows and concerts combine comedy, music, and technology to produce a totally unique form of entertainment. The New York Times heralds the show as “One of the most delightful performance pieces ever

staged.” E! Entertainment News exclaims, “Blue Man Group is what every live performance aspires to be.” The Baltimore Sun raves, “Blue Man Group packs a wallop. It’s a big, loud, funny, silly, visually arresting production!”

Although it is impossible to describe, people of all ages agree that Blue Man Group is an intensely exciting and wildly outrageous show that leaves the entire audience in a blissful, euphoric state. With no spoken language, Blue Man Group is perfect for people of all ages, languages, and cultures.

Admission: $35 (plus service charges and fees) Unique Lives: Jane Goodall - Vancouver

www.viff.org/

Italian with English subtitles.

Andrei Serban’s staging of Puccini’s final opera is a glorious pageant of rich colour, dance and drama, now on Vancity theatre screens.

Turandot is a tale of disguised identities, riddles, ritual executions and powerful, triumphant love. This is a spectacular production of the dark Oriental fairytale, with magnificent sets, elaborate masks and costumes inspired by traditional Chinese theatre.

One of the greatest Turandot singers today, Lise Lindstrom, makes her Royal Opera debut, with Marco Berti in the role of Prince Calaf.

Conducted by Henrik Nanasi.

Opheum Theatre 601 Smithe Street Vancouver, BC March 25, 2014 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

1.866.449.8118

205 minute running time includes two intermissions.

Tickets $22.

Over 50 years ago, Dr. Goodall began a relentless mission deep in the African jungle. In her speech, “Making a Difference”, Dr. Goodall will take you on a secret journey into the world of the Gombe Jungle and the Chimpanzee. One could say that Jane Goodall is fighting a one woman environmental revolution. She travels 300 days a year lecturing and raising money for the Jane Goodall Institute. In 2003 Queen Elizabeth named her a Dame of the British Empire for her work with primates. “The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves”, says Jane Goodall.

Her path-breaking work on primate behavior will continue to be a guiding light for anthropologists, biologist, and students for centuries to come.

Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, SFU Woodward’s 149 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC April 5 and 6, 2014 www.vsaff.org

Turandot, recorded at the Royal Opera House Vancity Theatre 1181 Seymour St Vancouver, BC Sunday, March 30, 2014 at 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.

as full as we can from early morning to late evening with all the best dealers, tournaments, guests, performances, and fun.

Tickets available online or person at Gamedeals (407 Columbia St. New West.)

Schedule includes 8-bits of Destiny Art Show, tournaments & gamer challenges, improv, retro game trivia, performances by “Zero Gen” and “missingNo” and an all-new retro gaming burlesque show.

Admission: $20 Sakura Days Japan Fair Vancouver VanDusen Botanical Garden 5251 Oak Street (37th & Oak) Vancouver, BC Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6, 2014 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. www.japanfairvancouver.com

April 6, 2014 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Shop over 30 local labels for clothing, jewellery, bags, scarves, and kids’ clothes for $50 or less.

Participating labels include Vancouver designers Adhesif Clothing, Allison Wonderland, Bronsino, Daub + Design, Elroy Apparel, Irit Sorokin Designs, Kdon, and Shop Cocoon.

Justin Trudeau Vancouver Convention Centre 1055 Canada Place Vancouver, BC April 11, 2014 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The Vancouver Board of Trade hosts Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and member of parliament for Papineau.

Fan Expo Vancouver

Vancouver South African Film Festival - Vancouver

The Vancouver South African Film Festival presents contemporary documentary and feature films that explore the culture, history and politics of South Africa ? films that entertain and inform and show the new face of South Africa.

The Vancouver South African Film Festival is a non-profit event organized entirely by volunteers. All proceeds go to support the important educational development work Education without Borders has been doing in South Africa since 2002.

Retro Gaming Expo - New Westminster The Columbia.

530 Columbia Street New Westminster, BC Saturday, April 5, 2014 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. www.vancouvergamingexpo.com

This year we are packing 1 day

The sakura (Japanese cherry blossom) has long been a traditional icon in Japanese culture and is a symbol of spring. In 2008, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (VCBF) started the Sakura Days event.

In 2009, several of Vancouver’s leading Japan-Canada business associations formed the Japan Fair Organizing Committee and joined forces with the VCBF to create a unique JapaneseCanadian festival event. At Sakura Days Japan Fair you can experience modern and traditional Japanese cultural arts, cuisine and business.

Soak in the wonderful Japanese festival atmosphere and enjoy delicious Japanese food and sake, cultural performances, arts and crafts and learn about Japanese culture and business.

Enjoy taiko drumming, martial arts, koto (Japanese harp), dance and singing performances. Participate in a tea ceremony, or learn about ikebana (flower arranging), origami (paper folding), haiku or calligraphy and try getting dressed in an authentic yukata.

Nifty for Fifty Sale Heritage Hall 3102 Main Street Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Convention Centre 1055 Canada Place Vancouver, BC April 18, 2014 from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

April 19, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

April 20, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Annual event features celebrities, panels, workshops, and shopping, including the newest in anime, manga, comics, sci-fi, gaming, and horror.

Guests include Steven Yuen (The Walking Dead), Karl Urban (Almost Human, Star Trek), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad,Revolution), Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Stephen Amell (Arrow), Eliza Dushku (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Dollhouse), Ray Park (the G.I. Joe films, Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace), Charisma Carpenter (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville), Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5,Tron), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Tony Moore (Deadpool, The Walking Dead), and Vancouver horror directors Jen & Sylvia Soska. o

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Guidebook Immigration News

Cuts threaten Kwantlen’s English language classes for immigrants University program helped increase literacy rates among newcomers to Canada. International students are not affected by the change.

By Katie Hyslop, TheTyee.ca Despite being the second most immigrant-reliant economy in the world, Canada doesn’t have a great track record in taking care of its newcomers.

The economic well-being of recently arrived immigrants has declined over the past quarter century, according to a 2010 TD Bank report. One of the problems is Canada’s “poor recognition” of foreign education and credentials, but the other is a poor literacy rate among immigrants in either of Canada’s two national languages.

Last December, TD found 60 percent of both new and established immigrants had literacy rates below desired levels as defined by the OECD. Canada depends on immigrants to buoy its increasingly aging workforce. That’s why Geoff Dean, co-chair of academic and career preparation at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and a college-level math instructor at the institution, finds it baffling that his employer would cut its English “academic” literacy classes for immigrants.

Currently 58 immigrant students take the classes, and unlike their international student peers who pay for English as a Second Language classes through their tuition, the provincial government covers the cost.

Kwantlen is not allowed to collect tuition for the classes.

The classes also differ from the English Language Services for Adults (ELSA), similarly funded by province, which deliver “basic and intermediate-level English training” at many community centres, immigrant service centres, and other post-secondary institutions.

The “academic” English classes currently on the chopping block are specifically designed to help students who want to enter post-secondary programs. Many of the students who take the classes use them as a steppingstone into Kwantlen’s degree and diploma programs.

Despite the relatively small number of students affected, Dean fears because the cuts are being made at Kwantlen’s Lower Mainland location—where the majority of immigrants live in BC—a larger number of potential students will now lose out on the opportunity of free academic English classes over the long term.

“If we’re going to have a healthy economy for just our region or the whole province, we’ve got to do better,” he said.

Kwantlen is one of 17 institutions in the province whose introductory English language studies programs for immigrants will lose provincial funding as of March 31. Others include other post-secondary institutions like Camosun College and Vancouver Community College.

The federal government is poised to announce funding for English language training for immigrants this spring.

But it will be for intermediate English classes, not those intended to help immigrants into college or university training programs.

Because of Kwantlen’s status as a teaching university, Dean believes the cuts also violate provincial requirements that mandate adult education, including English as a Second Language, must be taught without charging tuition. Kwantlen will still provide for-tuition English classes for international students.

“We have a lot of students who come here delighted to be part of a university,” said Dean.

“They want to be able to have a smooth pathway, from

entering a university to doing whatever upgrading they need there, and then getting into doing their career training or whatever it is they’re aiming for.”

“Some people told me, ‘Oh, I learned English at home using the internet,’” she said, “but it was not just about learning English: [Kwantlen] helped me with everything, with all aspects of a new life in Canada.”

‘It’s not just about learning English’ Province will monitor federal funds: minister Previously funded by the province from a pool of $17 million to support immigration settlement programs—$1.35 million of which went to Kwantlen— the classes were cut after money stopped flowing from the federal government to the province via the CanadaB.C. Immigration Agreement.

In 2012, the federal government announced it was killing the agreement in favour of providing funding directly to institutions. Last summer, it held an open call for funding applications from organizations like immigrant services, public schools, and even postsecondary institutions that already provided English Language Services for Adults, which deliver “basic and intermediate-level English training.”

In an email to The Tyee, a spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada said the federal government is still invested in providing English language instruction for newcomers, but it wants to streamline the process nationwide, which is why it cancelled the Canada-B.C. Immigration Agreement in favour of directly funding programs.

“We are not only committed to ensuring that each region of Canada receives a fair share of funding, but also that immigrants have access to the same level of services, including language training such as ESL courses, regardless of where they choose to settle. The change will also ensure that the settlement program supports the federal interest in nation building and citizenship.”

An announcement on who will receive funding is expected soon. Kwantlen hasn’t applied for that funding, though, because the proposed training would only produce intermediate level English literacy, as opposed to the literacy levels Kwantlen and other post-secondary institutions require.

Niloufar Saffari was a Kwantlen student who took the university’s academic English class. Recently emigrated from Iran when she started in 2001, Saffari needed to upgrade her education because her bachelor in computer science from an Iranian university wasn’t recognized in Canada.

“At the time there was a community centre for immigrants, which had some English classes and it was close to us as well. But I decided to go [to Kwantlen] because I had this university degree, [and] I realized what the difference is between a university and community centre,” she recalled.

During the two years she spent in the program, she also took a few academic courses, including an introduction to psychology. She fell in love with the subject and changed her career trajectory from computers to psychology.

After finishing English she enrolled full-time at Kwantlen and completed a bachelor in psychology. Now in her second semester of a master’s of science at the University of British Columbia, Saffari said she owes everything to Kwantlen’s English classes.

Last week, the provincial Ministry of Advanced Education announced an injection of $10.5 million in transition funding for the 17 institutions to continue their ESL courses until the federal programs come online. Kwantlen will receive $800,000 to allow the 58 students currently taking academic English to finish the program by August.

But that doesn’t do much for future domestic immigrants who want to take academic English. Kwantlen’s Dean said a letter from vice president academic and provost Salvador Ferreras and vice-president finance Gordon Lee to the Senate Standing Committee on the University Budget noted an incremental increase in the university’s operational budget of $2.75 million.

“In other words, Kwantlen is projecting an increase in operating funds that is more than enough to continue to provide the same number of ESL classes for domestic students that had been offered in previous years,” he said.

But in an email from Ferreras, he said the incremental increase depends on a projected student increase, so it’s uncertain. If the funding increase even happens, it’s already spoken for.

“These are funds that will be allocated to ongoing commitments to students to accommodate what we expect will be more students using the existing services [Kwantlen] provides,” he wrote.

Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk said the province isn’t abandoning these students, and will monitor the new federal programs for gaps that they could fall through. “We’re going to be able to do a gap analysis after the federal government’s program gets rolled out: where are they going to deliver it? How are they going to deliver it? How many are they going to deliver to?” he said.

As for Dean’s concerns that Kwantlen is violating the University Act by not providing these courses, Ferreras said he isn’t worried because it’s the province cutting the funds.

Although the university will have to lay off some instructors—Ferreras estimates eight or nine in total—Kwantlen isn’t getting out of English academic instruction for immigrants altogether. The university has granted some faculty relief from teaching classes to allow them time look at ways to deliver ESL for specific academic areas like Health or Accounting.

However, without provincial or federal funding for the courses, Kwantlen would need to get permission from the provincial government to charge tuition.

“If [our faculty] could do it, we may find a way to solve the problem because, yes, our ESL students very often ladder into our own programs and into successful careers,” said Ferreras. “So there’s a lot of value in it, and we don’t want to lose that link.” o

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Vancouver Community College also affected by cuts

By Sarah Berman

Despite having waitlists and full classes for English as a Second Language (ESL) training at Vancouver Community College, the school has begun the process of laying off ESL instructors, as a result of funding cuts.

The English language program is underfunded by over $6 million for the fiscal year starting April 1st, 2014, according to a VCC press release.

Seventeen institutions are affected by the cuts, including Kwantlen Polytechnic.

“It’s a complicated issue,” explains Frank Cosco, chief steward of the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association (VCCFA). “My understanding is the federal government has been transferring money as part of agreements to the provincial government since the early 1970s, and that the province uses some of that money to fund adult ESL classes in public colleges.

“In April 2012, the federal government wanted to stop that—they’re not going to continue that transfer.” The first stage of job losses at VCC is in the form of voluntary departure incentives, which means a loss of between 15 to 25 full-time jobs as of March 31. The VCCFA has been informed that this will be followed by further layoffs.

VCCFA is petitioning the provincial and federal governments to continue funding adult ESL classes at current levels.

“Restoring proper funding for ESL training is an investment in our economy,” explained Karen Shortt, President of the Vancouver Community Faculty Association. “Our graduates go on to open businesses, use their previous professional training, hire employees, work at betterpaying jobs, pay taxes, and contribute to their communities. ESL training is a key investment that creates those opportunities sooner. It doesn’t make sense to cut it.”

Cosco says the situation remains “fluid” as new funding agreements may be coming. The province may choose to “backfill” funding to compensate for federal cuts.

“VCC is short of what we need to maintain this programming that it has, so it looks like there will be some reductions at some point in the fiscal year,” Cosco says. “However in April everything might look the same, or almost the same—we might not see the impact of this until after the summer.

“I don’t want to be misunderstood: after the summer, the situation could look much better, but from the provincial funding point of view, it’s very hard to predict.” o

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Talking taxes with Gabrielle Loren

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You don’t have to be a certified accountant to feel prepared for tax season. If you think about it clearly, all you have to do is fill out a few forms. But for newcomers to Canada, the task of declaring income or claiming credits can feel impossibly difficult. We chatted with North Vancouver tax expert Gabrielle Loren of Loren, Nancke & Company about filing a Canadian tax return as an international student or new immigrant. Her best advice? If you’re not 100 percent sure, don’t be afraid ask.

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Guidebook Q&A for Newcomer

It’s the most confusing time of the year. Tax season is upon us, and you may be wondering whether or not you need to fill out a tax return and mail it to the government.

To make the process easier, we’ve spoken with a tax expert from North Vancouver who has helped thousands of people file their taxes as international students and as new Canadians. The main takeaway is this: you do not need to file a return if you are a resident of another country and have not made any Canadian income (from a part time job or selfemployed business). However, if you have stayed in Canada most of the year and intend to stay as a resident, then you may have to file a return.

Residents of Canada may receive some tax refunds and deductions. If you are still not sure, ask a tax expert for help.

Taxes for international students Here’s what Gabrielle Loren has to say about filing as an international student: “The first question is whether or not the student is a resident of Canada for tax purposes. Just because you go to school here doesn't mean you have to file a tax return.”

If you’re not sure if you’re a resident, think about what bank you use, and what identification you carry. “Residency is where do you call home, where your health card is from, where you keep your bank account and so on,” Loren says.

“For example, if a student comes to Canada from China to study from September to December, and he or she goes back home for Christmas and summer break, that student doesn’t actually have to file a return unless they have Canadian source income.”

Most international students do not get a job in Canada because they do not have a Social Insurance Number (SIN), which many Canadian employers need. “If they decide to get a job, the issue most kids will have is finding a job that gives taxable Canadian income,—if they don't have a SIN, they can't hire you.

“But that doesn't mean students won't have a job.

For instance a student may run a side business.

A tutoring business is a perfect example. If an international student makes money by tutoring on the side, then they would have to file a Canadian tax return.”

International students with Canadian income have to file a return no matter what. But most likely, an international student won’t make enough money to have to pay taxes anyway. Any income under $10,000 a year will not be taxed. “Even if they're resident of China, have to file the income,” Loren explains.

If you make income, you can also deduct many of your expenses. “In your tax report you can deduct expenses, for example if the student has to drive by car or bus to other places to give the tutoring, the government will offset that income. The net profit is all you would pay taxes on,” says Loren.

“But unless it’s over $10,000 they’re not paying a penny of tax,” she adds. Because of this, Loren says the vast majority of international students will not have to file a tax return, and therefore will receive no GST or child tax credits.

“Most students would not be eligible for refunds,” Loren says.

Taxes for new immigrants People who are immigrating to Canada have a much more complex tax system to deal with, and it gets even more complicated for students who decide to stay in Canada permanently. Loren recommends contacting an accountant who specializes in nonresident and new immigrant taxes.

One thing to remember is that taxes are based on residency—not on citizenship. So the status of a citizenship claim makes no difference in Canada.

Loren explains: “The deemed resident status kicks in not only by how much time you spend here.”

Canada uses a 183 day rule: if you’ve spent more than 183 days of the previous year in Canada, you could be a “deemed resident.”

“It’s one day more than half the year: if you're here 183 days could be a deemed resident of Canada,” Loren says.

But the 183 day rule isn’t all the government looks at. “There's a form that you can fill out, called a request for ruling of residency status, but it takes 6 to 8 months to get that processed,” says Loren, adding that “common sense” is the best method.

Loren says a good thing for new immigrants to do when they arrive in Canada, is “take an inventory of the different things they own that might have a tax implication.”

“For example, someone from Iran may have a home in Iran that a brother-in-law lives in,” she says. “They may have stocks and bonds and cash in the bank, plus furniture and fixtures. If they buy a new car, and rent a place in Canada, they need an inventory by asking ‘What do I own? What is it worth? What is the fair market value?”

Fair market value is what somebody not related to you would pay for the property. These values will determine how much tax you will pay for years down the road. “What I call ‘entry values’ will determine the cost for Canadian tax purposes,” says Loren.

“If these Iranian immigrants sold their home, they would have to report on their Canadian tax return that the house sold for $120,000.” Bottom line: if the value of a house or other property in another country goes up a certain amount, new immigrants will have to pay capital gains tax in Canada.

The good news is, new immigrants can take advantage of some tax refunds. ”For instance. a good one if they have children under the age of six, is the universal childcare benefit of $100 per month,” says Loren. New immigrants can also file for a GST credit, which can be up to $230 depending on income.

For international students who choose to stay after their studies, there may be some tuition credits to claim. “But you can’t file for them unless you are a resident,” says Loren. “For example, if in 2012 you weren’t a resident yet, but at university, then in 2013 you become a resident and decide to stay …

For 2013 your tuition credits would move forward, but your 2012 credits would be lost.”

Loren says taxes can be very individual, so experts are the best source of information. “If you’re not 100 percent certain, ask,” she says. “If you go to the CGA website, you can find an accountant in your area that has expertise.”

To get a tax accountant referral, visit www.cgabc.org. To learn more about Gabrielle Loren, visit www.LNCO.ca. o

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GuidebookReader’s Survey

Complete the survey and enter our Readers Contest. There are four ways you can enter: 1) Fill in the survey questionnaire in this issue of Guidebook and mail it to us at: Guidebook, #206-508 Clarke Road Coquitlam, BC V3J 3X2 2) Fax the completed survey questionnaire to us at 604-936-6099 3) Scan the completed questionnaire, and email it to info@theguidebook.ca 4) Visit our website at www.theguidebook.ca and complete the online survey questionnaire

, New Immigrants 1.

What’s your age group?

 Under 18  25-34  45-54  65-74 2.

You are:

 Male 3.

 18-24  35-44  55-64  over 74

 Female

What is your home country?

 China  United States  Korea  Iran  India  Japan  United Kingdom  Mexico  Hong Kong  Malaysia  Germany  Taiwan  Indonesia  Singapore  France  Australia  Saudi Arabia  Brazil  Thailand  Italy  Other_____________________ 4. What is the highest level of education you have completed?  Didn’t complete high school  Graduated high school  1-3 years of college or university  Undergraduate degree or diploma  Graduate school or Professional Degree  Other (please specify) ________________________ 5. Where are you studying in Metro Vancouver:  Elementary or High School  ESL school  Community College  Technical School  University 6. Are you working in Metro Vancouver?  No  Part-time  Full-time  Other (please specify) ________________________ 7. How long have you been in Metro Vancouver?  Less than one month  One to three months  Three to six months  Six months to a year  More than a year 8. What type of housing do you have?  Live with family  Homestay  Share rent with other(s)  Rent alone  Own my home

9. What is your main source of transportation?  Bicycle  Taxi  Public Transit  Rent car  Car share (Car2 go, Modo, Zipcar)  Own car 10. Do you shop for your own groceries?  Yes

 No (Please go No. 12)

11. If Yes, which of these grocers do you use?

(Please check any that apply)  Buy-Low Foods  Choices Market  Extra Foods  Granville Island  London Drugs  MarketPlace IGA  Nesters Market  No Frills  Overwaitea Foods  PriceSmart Foods  Safeway  Save-On-Foods  Shoppers Drug Mart  Stong’s Markets  SuperValu  H Mart  Hannam Supermarket  T&T  The Real Canadian Superstore  Urban Fare  Walmart Canada  Whole Foods 12. In the last six months, approximately how many times have you gone out to an art gallery or museum?  Never  Once or twice  3 to 4 times  More than 4 times 13. In the last six months, approximately how many times have you attended a live theatre performance or live concert?  Never  Once or twice  3 to 4 times  More than 4 times 14. In the last month, approximately how many times have you gone out to a movie or film festival?  Never  Once or twice  3 to 4 times  More than 4 times 15. In the last month, approximately how many times have you gone out to a

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17. When eating out, how many times a month do you eat the following types of restaurants?  Chinese  Indian  Italian  Japanese  Korean  Western  Other (please specify) __________ ___________________________ ___________________________ 18. If you went out to restaurants in the past month, how much per person, on average, did you spend each time?  Less that $10  $10 to $25  $25 to $50  $50+ 19. Do you plan to purchase any of the following items in the next 12 months while you are here?  Automobile  Books/CD/Magazine/DVD  Computer/Laptop/Tablet  Financial Services/Banking  Home electronics/Appliances  House/Condo  Movie/Performances  Musical Instruments  Phone, Mobile Phone  Ticket to Sports event (hockey, soccer, football, etc.)  Travel/Airline/Hotel  Insurance  Golf item  Healthy Food/Vitamin  Personal Care (Cosmetics/ Perfume, etc.)  Lawyer Service 20. Do you plan to travel while you are studying here?  Yes

 Alberta  California  Kelowna/BC Okanagan  Interior of BC  Toronto  Montreal  Ottawa  Niagara Falls  New York  South America  Other (please specify) _________ ___________________________ ___________________________

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 Bowling  Cycling  Golf  Gym  Hiking  Skiing/Snowboarding  Snowshoeing  Swimming 23. What do you think of the design of Guidebook?  Perfect!  It’s good  It could use some improvement 24. What parts of Guidebook’s design stands out most, what could use some work and what should be improved?

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Home buying season?

Canada’s real estate outlook Though prices are high, sales are up in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. A recent report shows Canadians are more likely to enter a bidding war compared with last year. Experts recommend proceeding with the largest down payment possible.

More bidding wars in 2014

Canada’s real estate market is one of the highest valued markets in North America. A recent report by the Financial Post revealed Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary are among the most expensive real estate markets in the world. But sales have gone up since 2013. In Vancouver 2,530 homes were sold in February, a 40.8 percent increase from a year ago.

According to the BMO Home Buying Report released earlier this month, more Canadians are willing to fight it out to secure a property, with 34 percent of Canadians willing to enter a bidding war when it’s time to buy a home. That is an increase of 6 points, or 21 percent, from a year ago.

In major city centres, appetite for competitive bids is the highest in Toronto and Vancouver (44 percent and 41 percent respectively). Provincially, prospective buyers in

the Prairies and British Columbia are the most willing to compete on the price of a home (38 percent respectively).

The report also found current homeowners visited an average of 9.5 homes before buying. While half (49 percent) were successful on their first bid, this figure drops to 42 percent among those who bought in the past 5 years— including 32 percent in Vancouver and 24 percent in Toronto.

To account for these conditions, Parsons noted that those planning to buy a home should sit down with a financial adviser to develop a comprehensive plan that will help them reach their down payment targets and find a mortgage that suits their needs.

For example, BMO’s five-year fixed low-rate mortgage currently offers a rate of 3.49 per cent and comes with a maximum 25 year amortization, allowing customers to pay their mortgage off faster and save in interest over the long term. o

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As many buyers begin their hunt for the perfect home this spring, mortgage experts at Canada’s Bank of Montreal (BMO) are advising that the first step to ensuring long-term affordability is having the largest down payment possible. “Among the many considerations for prospective home buyers, the most important of all is building a substantial down payment,� says BMO mortgage expert Laura Parsons in a Marketwired press release. “A larger down payment means the buyer will have to borrow less, resulting in lower overall housing costs.�

Parsons added that a typical down payment ranges between 5 percent and 20 percent. Those with down payments that equal less than 20 percent of the purchase price will need to pay mortgage insurance on their loan, which will add to their overall costs.

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Talk of the Town All photos courtesy of SFU’s Health and Counselling Services’ Facebook page.

Puppies will help SFU students stay stress-free during exams Exam season is fast approaching, but Simon Fraser University has a solution to pre-exam stress: puppies!

Cute, cuddly puppy dogs will make an appearance at three SFU campuses around Metro Vancouver. The “Stay Pawsitive” program initiated by SFU Health and Counselling Services calls it “puppy therapy.”

“Health and Counselling Services tends to see more students during this time as stress levels rise, and it’s important to tend to student needs beyond our clinic and counselling services,” says marketing coordinator Jennifer Perutka in a November press release.

At SFU Burnaby, the puppies from Pacific Assistance Dog Society (PADS) will be visiting the Convocation Mall on Thursday, March 20, Thursday, March 27

SFU’s “Stay Pawsitive” program is very popular among SFU students.

and Thursday, April 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

At the Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver, PADS puppies will be making an appearance on Wednesday, March 26 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

SFU’s Surrey campus will be visited on Monday, March 31 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The puppy playtime will happen in the hot tub area of the campus. o

SFU students get some “puppy love” during exams, thanks to a health and counselling program

Puppies will visit SFU’s Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey campuses between March 20 and April 3.

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The University of British Columbia’s Persian Club (UBC) will be presenting a massive Norouz gala at the Imperial Theatre in Vancouver on March 21.

International students come together for Persian New Year celebrations Nowruz. Norooz. Norouz.

The event has many English spellings, but the meaning remains the same.

For Persian cultures in Vancouver, Norouz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. This year it will become 1393: that’s 1,393 years since Prophet Muhammad’s migration to Medina.

Simply put, Norouz is celebrated on the hour, minute and day of the northern astronomical equinox—usually on or about March 20th.

This year the Persian New Year falls on March 20th at 9:57 a.m. Navid Fattahi, president of the UBC Persian Club, say he’ll be counting down the new year with fellow students at an outdoor celebration near the middle of campus. “There’s going to be a tea house we’re setting up, Persian dance, Persian music, and Persian food.”

There are around 70,000 Iranian residents throughout BC, some of whom are studying at Vancouver colleges and universities. Although Norouz is first and foremost a celebration of family, Persian students come together when relatives can’t. “As an international student, my family is not here, but for us we get together with friends and celebrate it,” says Fattahi.

Community celebrations span throughout the week.

This year, Metro Vancouver offers many ways to mark the occasion, from West Vancouver to Richmond, from UBC campus all the way out to Port Moody, BC. Beginning on March 14, Richmond, BC will celebrate the coming solar year with a potluck dinner at the Richmond Cultural Centre. Dishes may include Reshteh Polo (rice

and noodles), Naan Berenji (rice flour cookies) and Noghl (candied nuts).

A Norouz table is set with seven items: a mirror symbolizing the sky, an apple symbolizing earth, candles representing fire, rose water representing water, wheatgrass representing plants, a goldlfish bowl representing animals and painted eggs symbolizing fertility. Sabzi Polo Mahi (rice with green herbs and fish) is also traditionally eaten at this time.

Other Norouz events in Vancouver include the Persian Fire Festival (Chaharshanbe Suri) in West Vancouver. This festival is the celebration of the light (the good) winning over the darkness (the bad); the symbolism behind the rituals are all rooted back to Zoroastrianism. The free festival includes live music, fire jumping, Persian food and dance performances. It is held on March 18th this year, in West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park. The 24th Annual Fire Festival hosted by The Iranian-Canadian Congress of Canada.

Iranian comedian Maz Jobrani will be in Vancouver March 21, 2014. He is performing at the Vogue Theatre in downtown Vancouver.

Port Moody residents can celebrate the new year at The Point Pub on March 21, 2014. DJ Y.K, Yubi and Arash are spinning music for the night.

After the Norouz countdown, the UBC Persian Club is going all-out with a downtown gala the next day. This year’s swanky Norouz party is taking place at Imperial on Friday March 21th 2014. It is a formal, 19 plus event with valet parking and live entertainment. DJ Bliss and Radio Javen will play Persian hits until 3:00 a.m. Tickets are $40. o

Haft-Seen, White House ceremony for new Persian Year, prepared by Laura Bush./White House website

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‘We Are Jose’ tamale sale raises money for legal defense March 28, 2014 4 p.m. onwards Walnut Grove Lutheran Church 20530 88th Avenue Langley, BC

PHOTO: Echelman sculpture in Sydney, Australia, 2011.

Photo via www.echelman.com.

What IS that?

PHOTO: A digital rendering of the aerial fishing net sculpture planned for Vancouver.

TED Talks artist Janet Echelman is about to unveil a 745-foot temporary sculpture suspended in downtown Vancouver skies.

Construction will be completed Friday, March 15 on artist Janet Echelman’s 745foot sculpture that will be suspended across Vancouver’s downtown harbour for a week during the 2014 TED conference. The piece extends between

two 24-storey buildings, including Vancouver’s Convention Centre, where the TED Talks will take place. A lighting ceremony will take place Friday.

The installation involves cranes, hard hats and engineers. “That’s half of the main span of the Brooklyn Bridge,” Echelman told the TED Talks blog of the project’s scale. The billowy fishing net artwork is more than twice the size of the artist’s largest previous sculpture.

“It’s a huge jump, and it turns out that even for soft net sculpture when you increase the size, the wind forces grow exponentially. My engineer said to me, ‘You’ve doubled the length of your sculpture, but your wind forces are 10 times larger.’”

To support the artwork across such a large span, Echelman utilized Honeywell Spectra fiber, a lightweight, durable material that is 15 times stronger than steel by weight.

On her professional website, Echelman explains that the sculpture is meant to be interactive with people and the city.

“In the daytime, the sculpture’s delicate

yet monumental form is subtle, blending in with clouds and sky,” she says. “At night, it comes alive with illumination.

Using physical gestures, visitors will be able to choreograph the lighting in real time via their mobile devices.”

This sculpture installation will be available to the public in Vancouver from Friday, March 15 through to Friday, March 22, 2014. It is designed to travel to other cities around the globe after the exhibition during the 2104 TED conference—which uses the catchphrase an “idea worth spreading.”

“It’s really exciting for me as an artist to see the work grow and unfold in ways beyond what I could imagine,” says Echelman. “I look forward to finding out what people feel and think, and how it affects them.”

Tickets for TED Talks have been sold out for nearly a year, but Kwantlen University has confirmed it will televise the conference at the Grassroots Cafe on the school’s Surrey campus. BC Place has also agreed to screen the talks on its Jumbotron in Terry Fox Plaza. o

The Federal Court of Canada has set a date for the Judicial Review on Jose Figueroa’s immigration case. Figueroa is a SalvadoranCanadian living in Langley, who has lived in Canada for 15 years.

According to the website WeAreJose.com, Figueroa applied to live in Canada because he faced danger, having stood up against a repressive military dictatorship during a violent civil war in El Salvador. Canada accepted him on these grounds. However, in 2010, the government ruled to deport him.

The deportation was based on ties to a “terrorist organization.” Twenty years ago, Jose was a student organizer for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)—an organization that opposed military dictatorship. After the civil war ended in 1992, the FMLN became a political party. A presidential election in El Salvador earlier this month showed the left-leaning FMLN ahead with 50.10 percent of the vote.

Figueroa is fighting the deportation ruling, arguing that Canada has mistakenly labeled the FMLN a terrorist group. His hearing will take place on May 26, 2014. A pupusa and tamale sale in a Langley church is raising money to cover Figueroa’s legal fees.

“The minister of immigration has tax payers’ money to cover lawyers, CBSA officers, legal proceedings fees; but immigrants and refugees don’t,” reads the event invitation. “You can help provide immigrants with a voice supporting this cause.”

A dance instructor will be teaching salsa and cha cha steps between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Food orders can be placed by e-mailing to forfreedomssakeldi@gmail. com. o

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News|WORLD From the Front Pages

Every week our editors scour the front pages of international newspapers to find headlines trending from around the world.

El Salvador election too close to call As of Monday, March 10, the presidential election in El Salvador was too close to call.

Al Jazeera reported that both sides have declared victory in the runoff vote. A recount is currently underway.

Opinion polls ahead of the Sunday vote suggested that Salvador Sanchez Ceren from the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) was ahead of Norman Quijano, the candidate of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and mayor of the capital, San Salvador.

But with 98 percent of returns tallied, Sanchez Ceren, a former far-left fighter, was leading on a razor’s edge: 50.10 percent to 49.90, according to election authorities.

The difference is slightly more than 8,000 votes. “We have a victory to celebrate FMLN party chair Medardo Gonzalez told the press.

But his ARENA counterpart was convinced its side had won.

“With the data from the electoral tribunal and our own tallies, of the utmost precision, we can say that we have achieved a victory for the Salvadoran people,” ARENA chief Jorge Velado said.

Election officials told both sides to wait for final results.

Via Al Jazeera.

Malaysian flight disappears, two passengers used stolen passports Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur International Airport just after midnight on Saturday, March 8 and disappeared without a distress call.

Authorities have not been able to locate the jet or any debris over several days.

Two men boarded the plane using stolen passports from Italy and Austria. It is not clear if the two men had anything to do with the plane’s disappearance.

The New York Times reported that a sweeping search on Monday, March 10 failed to find any sign of the jetliner near its last known location. Experts are confused about how a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard could have vanished without a trace.

Via the New York Times.

Ukraine will hold a referendum on the secession of Crimea Russian forces have effectively taken control over Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported the crisis has turned into Europe’s greatest geopolitical conflicts since

the end of the Cold War. On Sunday, March 16 the region is to hold a referendum on whether to split off and become part of Russia. Many Western countries have stated they will not recognize the secession, according to CBC. “We have to admit that our life now is almost like … a war,” Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsya told the press before meeting his counterparts from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. “We have to cope with an aggression that we do not understand.”

Via CBC.

Japan remembers Fukushima disaster on third anniversary On Tuesday, March 11 Japan marked the third anniversary of the earthquaketsunami disaster which swept away 18,000 victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked a nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power.

Today, about 267,000 people are still living in temporary housing and other makeshift facilities nationwide, according to the Japan Times.

Remembrance ceremonies were held in towns and cities around the disaster zone and in the capital Tokyo, where Emperor

Akihito and Empress Michiko are to lead tributes to those who lost their lives in Japan’s worst peacetime disaster.

Via The Japan Times.

Protests in Venezuela enter second month As heated protests in Venezuela have continued for nearly six weeks, moderates in the opposition are beginning to feel alienated according to Reuters. So far the protests have shown no signs of toppling President Nicolas Maduro, as the socialist leader continues to call for talks rather than violence.

The country’s worst civil unrest in a decade has killed at least 20 people, including supporters of both sides and members of security forces.

Day after day, thousands of opposition supporters march peacefully in cities around the nation, demanding political change and an end to high inflation, shortages of basic foods in stores, and one of the highest murder rates in the world.

Via Reuters.

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Billions in Nigerian oil funds still missing Nigeria’s central bank governor Lamido Sanusi has been suspended after his reporting found over $20 billion in oil funds have gone missing. If his findings are accurate, the Financial Times reports “one of the biggest heists in human history has been taking place under the nose of 170 million Nigerians.”

About five percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) has allegedly been taken from the state oil company, according to the Financial Times. Oil revenue typically accounts for 70 percent of the Nigerian government’s revenue.

the 1980s and includes several of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers and exporters.

The move escalated an internal power struggle over foreign policy in the PGCC, which also includes Kuwait and Oman, and represents a significant challenge for Qatar’s young ruler months after he took power.

Saudi Arabia, the biggest PGCC state by population, size and economy, has grown increasingly frustrated over recent years at the efforts of Qatar, a country of just 2 million, to leverage its large wealth from gas exports into regional clout.

Qatar’s stock market tumbled 2.3 percent after the announcement.

Via the Tehran Times.

Via the Financial Times.

Suicide bombing in Iraq kills 45 people At least 45 people were killed by a suicide bombing in Iraq on Sunday, March 9 according to a Democracy Now report.

The bomber hit a checkpoint in the southern city of Hilla.

Democracy Now reported that more than 100 people were wounded. The attack engulfed several dozen cars in flames, trapping motorists inside.

Violence continues to rage in Iraq this year after more than 8,000 deaths in 2013.

Via Democracy Now.

Qatar loses envoys from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain

Nepal cracks down on Tibetan activists

Via the Japan Times.

Nepal police arrested at least nine Tibetans from two areas in the capital city of Kathmandu on Monday, March 10. Police also beefed up security around “sensitive” areas to prevent any anti-China demonstrations, according to reports by The Hindu.

“Five suspected people, including two women, have been detained from Hattisar and four women from Swoyambhunath area,” Nepal Police spokesperson Ganesh K.C. told The Hindu. The visa section of the Chinese Embassy is at Hattisar, and Swayambhunath has a famous Buddhist temple and a sizeable number of Tibetans.

Ganesh declined to say what action would be taken against the “suspected people.”

“We have begun investigation,” is all he would say.

Via the Tehran Times.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar last week in an unprecedented split between the Persian Gulf Arab allies, according to the Tehran Times.

Qatar’s cabinet voiced “regret and surprise” at the decision by Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) counterparts but said Doha would not pull out its own envoys in response.

A pro-Western alliance of absolute monarchies, the PGCC was set up in

since he and two crewmates arrived at ISS on November 7 according to the Japan Times.

“I am humbled to assume the command of the space station,” Wakata said during a change-of-command ceremony broadcast on NASA Television.

Outgoing station commander Oleg Kotov, flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy, both from Russia, and NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins are due to depart the orbital outpost Monday. Their replacements arrive March 26.

Wakata’s command marks just the third time the station is being overseen by a crew member who is not from NASA or the Russian Space Agency—the two primary partners of the 15-nation project.

Canadian Chris Hadfield was commander from March to May 2013, while European Space Agency astronaut Frank DeWinne led a station crew in 2009.

Koichi Wakata becomes first Japanese astronaut to oversee International Space Station Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata assumed command of the International Space Station on Sunday, March 9 becoming the first Japanese to oversee a manned space mission.

Wakata, 50, had been a flight engineer

A notorious Mexican drug cartel boss gets a big screen debut in Texas

Forbes reports the recently-released film is a “blend of mythology and hard facts.”

Via Forbes.

Population of Norway exceeds 5 million Statistics Norway released a report on Wednesday, March 12 revealing the population of the country has surpassed 5,000,000.

Compared to other countries, Norway’s immigration and birth rates are low. Most foreign nationals in the country are from Europe. The Norway Post reported that among the 483,200 foreign nationals who are residents of Norway, Polish nationals represented 18 percent, or 85,600 persons.

Other large groups of foreign nationals were from Sweden and Lithuania, with 44,200 and 35,800 respectively.

The population of Norway 100 years ago was half that of today, according to the report.

Via the Norway Post.

It’s only been a few weeks since Mexican drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán (known to many as “Shorty”) was arrested

by Mexican marines in Mazatlan, Mexico.

And yet, a British film crew has already released a movie about his “mythical status.” The movie The Legend of Shorty premiered at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Texas, according to Forbes.com.

The film is a 90 minute documentary co-directed by British filmmaker Angus MacQueen and Peruvian journalist Guillermo Galdós.

Guzmán is responsible for moving huge shipments of drugs through North and South America and even Europe. His cartel has been heavily involved in the bloody drug war that has torn through parts of Mexico for the last few decades.

During the four-day cartel bust in February, authorities arrested 13 people.

They also seized 97 rifles, 36 handguns, two grenade launchers, a rocket launcher, 43 vehicles, of which 19 were armoured, 16 homes and four ranches. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Marshals Service were “heavily involved” in the capture.

Philippines declares moringa its national vegetable The Philippine House of Representatives passed a law on Wednesday, March 12 declaring the super-nutritious plant moringa (locally known as malunggay) is now the country’s national vegetable.

The law also named November “National Malunggay Month.”

The health benefits of this locallygrown tree places it among the world’s super foods. Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia, the bill’s author, cited the economic, nutritional and medicinal benefits. Moringa has four times the vitamin A of carrots, seven times more vitamin C than oranges and more calcium than milk by weight.

De Venecia also stressed the importance of moringa products to the Philippine economy.

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Keep an eye on Guidebook, as we bring you the best opportunities in town.

In July 2014 Guidebook will be releasing a special issue with a fold-out map and infographic that explores all the cultural opportunities that Metro Vancouver has to offer newcomers to Canada.

This fold-out poster will be an entertaining and insightful resource which international students can pull out and display while adjusting to new surroundings.

We’ll be mapping out restaurants, historic sites, fashion boutiques, tourist destinations, wellness resources and the best places for students to socialize.

In addition, Guidebook will produce a stand-alone brochure so that international students contemplating Vancouver as a destination will be able to “Discover Vancouver” before they arrive.

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The Discover Vancouver issue, brochure and fold-out supplement will be invaluable resources for students that arrive in Vancouver for the first time during the August shopping season. Watch this space for more updates about the latest Discover Vancouver opportunities and developments. o Guidebook’s “Discover Vancouver” brochure: coming July 2014.

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LETTERS

[Editor’s note: the following letter was written by the Chair of the University of British Columbia’s Board of Governors John Montalbano. He is introducing Dr. Arvind Gupta, replacement to university president and vice chancellor Professor Stephen Toope.]

Photo by Martin Dee.

UBC introduces new university president Dr. Arvind Gupta starts his new job on July 1, 2014

To the UBC community, After an extensive, international search, it is my great pleasure to announce UBC’s 13th President and Vice Chancellor—Dr. Arvind Gupta. While the prospect of leading one of the world’s great universities produced a host of stellar candidates, the very best emerged from the midst of our own community.

Dr. Gupta is currently Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of Mitacs, a not-forprofit organization recognized internationally for its success in focusing students to be the next generation of innovators with the requisite research and business skills.

Arvind Gupta is a respected specialist in science and innovation policy, who has forged meaningful research collaborations between civil society, universities and business. His research expertise is in the field of combinational algorithms with applications to fields such as bioinformatics, which utilizes computer science to understand genetics.

Since 2012, Dr. Gupta has been a member of the Government of Canada’s Science, Technology and Innovation Council, an advisory body that provides external policy advice on science and technology issues and produces regular national

reports measuring Canada’s science and technology performance against international standards of excellence.

Arvind Gupta lives in Vancouver with his wife Dr. Michelle Pereira. He has three daughters, two of whom are students at UBC.

In 2010, he was appointed to a six-member expert panel to review federal government support to industrial research and development. The recommendations of that panel entitled “Innovation Canada: A Call to Action” have had a significant and ongoing impact on government policy.

Dr. Gupta will begin his five-year term on July 1. At this time, I invite you to join me in welcoming Dr. Arvind Gupta as UBC’s new President, and to pledge your support in this exciting and challenging role.

He speaks frequently on research and innovation policy across Canada with academic, public, and private sector audiences, as well as addressing international innovation issues. He is a regular contributor to the national dialogue through opinion editorials on international collaboration and recruitment, international competitiveness, innovation and productivity.

Dr.Gupta earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1991. He sits on a number of Boards including the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, the Banff International Research Station, the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, the Canadian Mining Innovation Council, Mprime Network, and Mitacs as well as serving on the International Scientific Advisory Board of GRANDNCE.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to formally and publicly thank Professor Stephen Toope. Under his leadership, UBC has made great strides in the execution of its vision and strategy, elevating the university’s reputation and capabilities on all fronts. Stephen’s leadership has been exemplary. We look forward to continuing to work with Stephen as he guides us until the very end of his term June 30, 2014.

John Montalbano Chair UBC Board of Governors

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Student Spotlight: Korean Cultural Week at UBC

By Seo Yeon Bae (UBC intern)

For the past two years, KCS (Korean Culture Society) proudly hosted their main event, Korean Cultural Week, at UBC with the purpose of promoting Korean culture to the students, including students from Korean backgrounds.

Organized by a team of 30 volunteers who come from very different cultural backgrounds, these students share the simple goal of presenting what Korea is like. We interviewed the president and one of the volunteer members of the club.

Could you please briefly introduce yourselves?

Irene: Hello, my name is Irene Jung. I am the president of KCS. I am a third year commerce student at UBC. Na Yeon: Hi. I am Na Yeon Park. I am a second year student at UBC and it is my first time volunteering for KCS. What is KCS? How was this club formed?

Irene: KCS, which stands for Korean Culture Society, started in 2012. Up to that point, there only had been clubs that involved Korean people for Korean culture. No other clubs (specifically designed for non-Korean people) attempted to accept those who do not share Korean backgrounds. So we started the Korean Cultural Week (KCW) in March, 2012 as a part of UNIK (Undergraduate Networking Informants of Korea).

We interviewed part of the team presenting Korean Cultural Week on behalf of the Korean Culture Society March 17 and 18.

At the time, we were not registered as an official club in AMS, the student society of UBC. We officially registered as KCS in September, 2012. We are trying to change our name to You and I Korea (UNIK) simply because UNIK sounds familiar to most of us (laugh). I participated in the first KCW event as a volunteer, I was the event coordinator last year, and now I am the president!

Could you explain its history, purpose, size and differences from other Korean clubs in UBC? Irene: The objective of KCS is to inform and share what real Korean culture is to non-Koreans and even Koreans who do not have sufficient background information about it. Currently we have 13 executive members and approximately 30 members. The biggest difference between other clubs‌ I would say unlike other Korean clubs at UBC, those who are not Korean freely join our club. For instance, we first started the club with some Caucasian and Chinese executive members.

How long have you guys prepared for Korean Cultural Week?

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because (I would say) our club basically exists for the KCW event. We have a weekly meeting where we discuss and organize ideas.

Could you explain what this year’s KCW is like and introduce some of the main events of KCW?

choose what to paint on their faces such as Korean words, KCS mark or Taegeukgi, the national flag of Korea. We also have some information booths such as Korea tour booth and KCS booth. Those booths are to provide information about landmarks in Korea and KCS. KCW is a good chance to promote our club.

Any result or outcome from last year’s KCW?

Irene: It will take place March 17 and 18 at the SUB (Student Union Building) at UBC from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Some of the main events we host are the tea ceremony, calligraphy, photo booth, face painting and reply 8090. For the tea ceremony, we will invite a guest to teach students how to make and drink tea in the traditional Korean way. This was one of the popular booths last year.

We have two new events: calligraphy and reply 8090.

We will bring Korean traditional paper fans so that students can write either their names or some Korean words. Reply 8090 booth is designed for Korean students.

We will have lots of junk food. For photo booth, students can wear Hanbok, traditional Korean clothes, and take pictures. For face painting, students can

How does the club promote KCW? Irene: We mostly promote it on Facebook since everyone uses it. It is fast and does not cost too much.

We also use student run radio on campus. I go there on Tuesday and talk about KCW. In addition, we are planning to print out some posters and put them on campus.

Irene: Our club was promoted very much. Some of the volunteers we have this year have researched about the club by themselves and contacted us for possible volunteering positions. Furthermore, when we were recruiting this year’s executive members, it was quite competitive.

What have you learned from preparing KCW?

We posted about KCW on ‘Nate Pann’, a Korean portal site, two years in a row and we had very positive feedback. It is a good improvement to see more people get to know about our club!

Na Yeon: One thing that can improve, I would say, is that we should do better research on how non-Koreans feel about Korea. Also specifying what kind of results we want from the event is a good idea.

Irene: I am very proud to present to UBC students the beautiful Korean traditions and cultures. We started to prepare for it earlier than last year so we had much more time to organize and shape our ideas.

What is different from last year’s KCW? Irene: Compared with last year, we are more organized because we know which events are going to be successful and how to prepare for them.

Korean Cultural Week, the biggest event held by UBC KCS, will happen on Monday, March 17 and Tuesday, March 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at UBC SUB. o

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Vancouver Fashion Week runs March 18 to 24, featuring bike-friendly rain clothes by Danish designer Emma Jorn.

By Sarah Berman

Now that we’ve officially entered spring, Vancouver’s fashionforward are already talking about fall and winter styles. But one thing that never goes out of style in Vancouver, is keeping dry and warm when it rains.

In our preview of Vancouver’s Fall/Winter fashion week— which runs from Tuesday, March 18 until Monday, March 24— we’ve looked at some young international designers who have Vancouver’s climate and culture in mind.

Emma Jorn from Copenhagen will present a mini clothing line called Takaokami, which combines Tokyo’s urban fashion with waterproof practicality. We also talked to Chinese designer Ophelia Song about her new line called “The Painting” which draws inspiration from art history’s greatest painters. Susanna Bettencourt from Portugal will show off intricately knitted fashions, Colombia’s David Alfonso will showcase innovative menswear, and Korean designer Soojin Lee will be one of many favourites for Vancouver Fashion Week (VFW) founder Jamal Abdourahman.

As one of the fastest-growing fashion weeks in the world, Vancouver Fashion Week has now celebrated the city’s multiculturalism, environmental awareness and creativity for 24 seasons. Abdourahman says much has changed this year.

“For the first time ever we have a presenting sponsor,” says Abdourahman. “We have more shows, more quality designers, and more attendees. That’s what makes it different.”

VFW will be showcasing Fall/Winter 2014 design collections at the Chinese Cultural Centre on 50 E Pender alongside 20,000 attendees. For tickets and more information, visit www. vanfashionweek.com.

Emma Jorn, Denmark “I’ve always been interested in playing dress-up,” says Emma Jorn, creator of the mini clothing line Takaokami. Jorn has been inciting a “rainvolution” in Copenhagen’s urban fashion scene since 2010.

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“I was always interested in what it means when you change your clothes—you change the way people see you,” she says.

Reached via Skype from her home in Copenhagen, Jorn says she’s fascinated by the way new clothes can have a therapeutic effect on people. “Sometimes it’s like being a doctor—you make people feel good.”

The name of her label, Takaokami, doesn’t sound Danish. That’s because it is the name of a Japanese rain god, which characterizes Jorn’s line of bike-friendly, urban-focused rainwear. She’ll be presenting a series of umbrella-sized hats, rainproof dresses and jackets in Vancouver during the city’s biannual fashion week.

Jorn’s quirky, larger-than-life designs developed out of a background in costume design. “I did some work with costume design before, and then wanted to work with bigger productions than for theatre,” Jorn says of her education as a costume tailor.

“For a play you only produce one costume at a time—so I really wanted to work with fashion designer instead, to make pieces that can be mass produced.”

Jorn’s pieces aren’t just for humans—some of them are meant to adorn bicycles. “I’ve always been interested in biking a lot,” Jorn continues. “In Denmark, most people have at least one bike; it’s totally a preferable transport in Copenhagen.”

traditional rain jackets and boots are built for comfortable hiking, not stylish urban appearance. Jorn set out to make clothes inspired by the streets of Tokyo, made for the slippery streets of Copenhagen.

“My own line starting super small scale,” she recalls of her first run of skirts. “I started out by making one colour and one textile—a collection of seven designs.”

Jorn has put a lot of thought into the mechanics of cycling in the rain. “I had to do something about it, the idea of putting rain trousers on top of what you’re wearing—it was so annoying and uncomfortable.”

“When you bike, your thighs and knees get wet,” Jorn explains. “At first I made a skirt that’s mainly protecting the thighs and knees. It’s longer in the front, and shorter in the back, so it’s designed for a bike. Then came the rest of the designs.”

Jorn’s other pieces include a floor-length rain poncho, a three-headed coat and a Christian Dior-inspired hat that doubles as an umbrella. “I like the idea of doing a practical rainclothes version [of Dior],” she says.

Jorn’s Takaokami clothing line will hit the runway on Sunday, March 23 at 6 p.m. at the Chinese Cultural Centre on 50 East Pender Street.

David Alfonso, Colombia But much like Vancouver, Copenhagen can be a rainy city for many days at a time. “It rains so much in Denmark,” Jorn laments.

“That’s the most annoying part of Denmark, when it rains.”

Jorn also finds traditional rain clothes quite annoying. Like Canada, many

David Alfonso will bring his Colombian menswear brand Eriko to Vancouver’s runways during VFW. “Eriko is betting on breaking the paradigms of classical and conventional,” Alfonso told a Columbian design blog called Las Molinas earlier this year.

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Ophelia Song drawings

Bright classical patterns are a mainstay for Alfonso. “The color and texture are the stars of the brand identity, where the silhouettes respect the standards of the male body but highlight an eclectic, diverse, complex and versatile spirit that modern man needs to explore,” he told Las Molinas.

“People today are concerned about their image, proposes trends, ensures its image under their dress and not afraid to take risks. That’s Eriko, a current proposal for the modern man who likes to be the center of attention.”

Ophelia Song, China At heart, designer Ophelia Song is a fine artist. “I chose

fashion design as my career because I think fashion design makes art functional,” says Song, reached from her studio in Chengdu, China. “I saw garments are the walking art pieces.”

Vancouver.”

This time, she says, “I do wish to see lots of other designers’ work.”

Soojin Lee, South Korea

Song’s 2014-15 line is called The Painting—which is fitting for her timeless, impressionistic designs. “They are inspired by three paintings painted by me and one of my artist friends, Wenhao Liu.” Era-defining painters like Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso also influence Song’s classically-trained styles. Unlike Jorn, Song has visited Vancouver before. “It was long ago, and I came to sightsee the Rockie Mountains and passed by

Soojin Lee is a South-Korean born fashion designer based in London, UK. She is considered one of the most promising among new and emerging designers and one of the most innovative Korean fashion designers. She will bring her newest designs to VFW. “I met with Soojin in London back in January, and her stuff’s amazing,” VFW founder Jamal Abdourahman says. o

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GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT These red carpet snaps were taken at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival’s opening gala on March 6, 2014. Photos

by Kimberly Tseng and Marie Conboy.

Had a great weekend out? Want to share with the Guidebook community? If you would like your photos published in Guidebook, send them to sarah@theguidebook.ca with the word “Nightlife” in the subject line. o

Laura Adkin and Marly Reed, director of Mimi and Me

Bottom left photo caption on Girls Night Out should read: Maria Stella Paredes, Maria Ruiz, Patricia Ortega, Danais Yera

‘Evangeline’ actor Mayumi Yoshida

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Every language has expressions that have special meanings. The meanings are more than the sum of the words. These expressions are called IDIOMS. English has many idioms. The meanings of these expressions are not always clear. You might hear these phrases on the street, or in conversation with English speakers. Guidebook presents some common English idioms and their meanings. We hope this will make these expressions easier to understand.

Get to the bottom of it Meaning: to discover the truth about, or understand the causes of something.

Keep your eyes peeled Meaning: to watch very carefully for something.

“There is clearly something fishy happening here, and I feel determined to get to the bottom of it.”

“There’s an orange sign on the left side of the street when you’re headed east on Broadway. Keep your eyes peeled—you don’t want to miss it!”

Preaching to the choir Meaning: to praise or speak with a group of people who already agree with you.

“You don’t need to tell a Vancouver environmentalist about the need to preserve green space. That’s preaching to the choir!”

Socked in Meaning: when it’s so foggy you can’t see anything but white.

“Dude. I couldn’t see that snowboarding jump at all. The mountain was completely socked in.”

Lame duck Meaning: a public official who has a short time left to serve in office and therefore has less power.

“By now Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should be a lame duck. And yet, they let him file his papers for reelection. What is this world coming to?”

Heart to heart Meaning: a serious conversation between two people in which they talk honestly about their feelings.

“Do you have a minute? I’d like to have a heart-to-heart about our friendship.”

Strike a balance Meaning: to find a satisfactory compromise between two extremes.

“I try so hard to strike a balance between studying and partying. But usually I end up partying too much.”

Coming down the pike Meaning: about to appear or arrive. See also: coming down the pipe.

“We’ve got all kinds of student events coming down the pike. Check out our website to see what’s happening.”

Bring home the bacon Meaning: to make money; to earn your family`s living.

I work all these long hours so I can bring home the bacon one day.

Apples and oranges Meaning: to compare two things that are not similar and should not be compared.

“You can’t compare the antics of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson with the shenanigans of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

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Sandwiches can be a depressing food.

Whether it’s peanut butter and jelly slapped between two slices of white Dempster’s bread, or a plain (non-grilled) cheese sammie, these foods can be reminders of elementary school—or perhaps our own laziness.

This is probably why some Vancouver restaurants have decided to think outside the typical lunch box. Whether it’s switching ingredients, fusing culinary cultures, or even ditching the bread altogether, these sandwiches are breaking with tradition with tasty results.

Miura Waffle and Milk Bar 2521 Main Street Vancouver, BC (604) 687-2909 For a unique sandwich experience, the husband and wife operated Miura Waffle and Milk Bar offers a selection of sweet and savoury options with innovative Japanese essence.

The waffles are made fresh to order, cut in half and filled with delicious things to make a “sando”—an abbreviation of sandoiichi, the Japanese word for sandwich. The Miuras recently opened their new location on Main Street just south of Broadway, easily accessible by transit.

A popular choice is the “Bulgogi” made with marinated beef, egg sauce, and kimchi. Also available are “Wasabi Salmon,” “Hoisin Sausage” and the crunchy “Chicken Karaage”

sandos.

If you have a sweet tooth, dessert options include the “Banana Caramel Sando,” the “Boston Cream,” with chocolate and house-made custard, “Cheesecake Sando” and the classic “Fruits and Cream Waffle Sando.”

Noteworthy milkshakes are also offered.Vanilla ice cream is made in house, and the creative infusion of Japanese flavours—chocolate-wasabi and caramel-miso are two examples—make these shakes truly unlike anything else offered in Vancouver.

Also delectable are the “Yoggy Milks”: sweet and tangy yogurt drinks made with real fruit or even maple syrup. Yum.

Miura Waffle and Milk Bar established a strong reputation for great food at their previous location on Davie Street, and was featured on the Food Network series You Gotta Eat Here!

The new Main St spot, besides being centrallylocated, has a warm, comfortable atmosphere, thanks to its high ceilings and wood-panelled decor.

They also serve beer, and are open till eleven on Fridays and Saturdays, making it a good place to meet friends for a drink and snack before going to an event. Don’t overlook this singularly tasty culinary experience.

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Big Lou’s Butcher Shop and Sandwich Counter 269 Powell Street Vancouver, BC (604) 566-9229

I’m pretty sure this Brooklynstyle deli and butcher shop has the meatiest sandwiches in town. Though its palette is multicultural (menu items include a Korean-inspired bulgogi chicken sandwich and a Vietnamese-style bahn mi) the presentation is allAmerican (read: huge).

Yes, it may be a challenge to finish Big Lou’s interpretation of a Vietnamese sub, however every bite you can handle will be a delicious melt-inyour-mouth experience.

Spicy pickled green beans rest on top of marinated pork shoulder and housemade duck paté. The perfect amount of carrot and cilantro balance out this sweat-inducing sandwich.

Big Lou’s is located in historic Japantown. The front entrance tiles read “Komura”—the name of a grocery store that occupied the building from 1906 to 1941. Japanese residents were evicted from Vancouver during the Second World War, and many never

returned to the area.

While you’re there for a lunch break or afternoon sammie, check out the butcher counter for their selection of locally-sourced pork, beef, lamb and chicken cuts. If you’re in the neighbourhood (admittedly it’s an awkward part of town to pass through transit-wise) these meats are cut to order in any style to suit your home cooking needs. There’s also soups, sausages and pies to take home.

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‘Don’t let your schooling interfere with your education’

By John Boucher

This famous phrase from Mark Twain has never been more relevant than it is in these driven, dizzy days. I know that you are tired of me writing the following sentence: “I know that you are tired of old people telling you that the world was simpler and much more predictable 30, 40 or 50 years ago.” But I can’t seem to avoid using it because it’s true—if you wanted to have a reasonably well-paid, fulfilling and secure career, you had to get yourself a college/university degree, and if you followed that path and didn’t meet any great misfortunes along the way, you were fairly sure of ‘success’.

But now everything is ‘up for grabs’ and I don’t blame you if you are experiencing a certain level of anxiety.

My basic question is: Are you getting an education, or are you being trained?

This harkens back to this column a few issues ago where we discussed the soonto-be computerization of so many traditionally human, cognitive and manual jobs.

As usual, I like to look at etymology (word roots): Education comes from the Latin, ex-ducere, to lead out, or to draw out. The idea of the old Greeks was that as a child you already knew everything (from a past life, I gather, although how you had learned things in that past life was not questioned) and just had to be allowed to remind yourself of the required knowledge with the aid of a guide or teacher, who would ask leading questions, generally known as the “Socratic method,” to pull you towards what, afterwards, would seem obvious.

“I knew that!” The most famous exposition of this method is in the Platonic dialogue of Meno’s slave, in which Socrates guides the boy towards constructing a square twice the area of a given square; and it does seem obvious when you look at the diagram. It’s not necessary to learn about the square root of two, or memorize any formulas.

Note that this approach to learning would be somewhat in opposition to “induction” (i.e. “putting in,” “filling up,” or “programming”/”training”). The latter is best done in some kind of institution, be it brick–and–mortar, or perhaps online, unless you are lucky enough (at a young age) to have parents or family members who can afford the time and efforts needed for home schooling.

When I was a high-school teacher, I would sometimes be reminded by parents (usually fathers) that it was my job to “fill-up” little Johnny with all the facts necessary for his matriculation ticket, just like taking the cap off a gas tank, selecting the grade of gas, and pumping it into the kid’s eyes and ears.

The Socratic Method works great for concepts, especially in all sciences (but extra especially in physics) and in mathematics; concepts which are intuitively, or logically, or observationally clear to the student. But it is pretty useless when it comes to, say, learning the vocabulary of a foreign language. After all, you are not born with the Maori word for, say, “spear” hanging on your lips, ready to be blurted out at the merest hint, even if you are Maori. You have to learn it and remember it.

Schooling comes from the Latin schola, meaning originally a school but now any institution where organized learning occurs. The salient term here is “institution” and we know that institutions, especially K-12, tend to be fairly stifling and ruledriven—not to mention biased towards the personal and political philosophies of the teachers and administrators involved; and this is what Mark Twain was warning against.

As, of course, was Pink Floyd: “We don’t need no education / We don’t need no thought control / No dark sarcasm in the classroom / Teachers leave them kids alone.” Familiar?

Back to my basic question. I am not trying to drive you into a false dichotomy here, saying it must be exclusively one way or the other; it is obviously always a mixture of the two, but if I ask a graduate of some technical institution how a television works and they pick up a remote and tell me which buttons to push, then I know I am dealing not with a scholar, but with a trainee. And that trainee is in trouble when the remote becomes as obsolete as the Apple Lisa or MySpace, because one thing is for sure—every current technology will be obsolete in less time than it has ever taken before for them to fade.

If you are thinking of taking a class of ‘dedicated’ training for one particular field using one particular technology, please reconsider.

The “winner” in this game is the person who has learned how to learn, the general problem solver, and the person for whom learning is a lifelong pleasure.

This means, of course, you getting back to reading if you have let it slide since your school days.

At my old university in England, when you were first befriending a new student, you didn’t ask, “What is your major? Or “What are you studying? You asked “What are you reading?” which meant the same thing.

Anyway, if you still have ambivalent feelings about your earlier schooling, I hope those are fading now as we all realize that lifelong learning has become the norm. In a world where your chosen career can evaporate overnight—You have 30 minutes to clear your cubicle!—you are going to have to be flexible.

The corporate takeover of so many campuses has meant less and less of a general approach to creating rounded, well-read, wise human graduates (who tend to think for themselves), and more and more the ‘hard-wired’ corporate trooper who will be dropped like a hot potato when no longer needed.

The former tends to be a much happier, not to say, much more interesting person. As Joseph Campbell used to say—“Follow your Bliss.” You’ll be much happier in the long run. And Ford Escorts do 110 kph just as well as BMW’s.

I am thoroughly convinced that we are now at a stage in human development where all functions of memory can be handed over to the machines, just as muscle tasks were handed over to machines during the Industrial Revolution.

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Guidebook Q&A for Newcomer

Your QUESTIONS, ANSWERED As a newcomer to BC, it’s natural to have a long list of questions about life in your new country. That’s why Guidbook would like to dedicate this space to answering the questions of our readers. If you have a question about finding housing, applying to schools, applying for visas, saving money or even discovering Vancouver’s nightlife, send your query to sarah@theguidebook.ca. If we don’t know the answer, we’ll find an expert to advise.

BC’s Health Insurance Plan:

Medical Services Plan

By Euihyeon Nam (UBC Intern)

It is already March. Some might expect the warm spring weather to arrive by now, but but the cold and the rain are not gone yet in Vancouver. Many people tend to catch a cold during this period, so it is the right time for people, especially newcomers, to check if they have proper health insurance.

What is MSP? The health insurance plan in British Columbia (BC) is called Medical Services Plan (MSP).

Who should apply?

Surprisingly, MSP is not only for the citizens and permanent residents of Canada, but also for the international students and anyone who is permitted to stay in BC for six months or longer.

When should apply?

The sooner, the better. The newcomers are recommended to apply as soon as they arrive in BC because MSP coverage becomes effective three months after applying.

What are benefits?

How do I apply?

MSP covers a basic medical care, most physician and specialist (e.g. surgeon, anaesthetist, psychiatrist) visits and most hospital visits.

Firstly, go to www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/index.html, and download and fill out the online application form. After completing the form, mail it to HIBC with a copy of your passport. The BC Services Card and confirm mail will arrive within three months.

*Note that it does not cover dental care, eye examination and some eye equipments (e.g. glasses, corrective lenses) and prescription drugs.

How much?

The price is different depending on the number of applicants.

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Number of People Price ($/month) One person Family (two people) Family (three or more)

*The BC Services Card, introduced in February 15, 2013, is a replacement of the Care Card. It is a valid identification piece and can also be combined with the driver’s license.

$69.25 $125.50 $138.50

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Venue Spotlight

ROGER’S ARENA

By Seo Yeon Bae (UBC Intern)

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Lady Gaga, Michael Buble, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Pink, Cher, One Direction, Imagine Dragons, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z. Can you guess what they have in common? They all have held or will have their concerts at Rogers Arena.

Rogers Arena is the home to the Vancouver Canucks, and also serves as one of the biggest venues for major events in Vancouver. The arena can accommodate approximately 18,890 people at once and has welcomed more than 21.6 million visitors since its opening in 1995. Here are some of the major shows coming to Rogers Arena:

Lady Gaga Lady Gaga is having her concert, The artRave: ARTPOP Ball at Rogers Arena on May 30, 2014. Her tour begins on May 4 in Florida, and she visits five more Canadian cities including Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Toronto. The tickets went on sale on Dec 9, 2013 and the prices range from $35-200.

Michael Bublé One of the most well-known Canadian singers began his tour in Finland on February 21, 2014 and will end up in Mexico on Aug 9, 2014. His visit to Vancouver is on June 19-20, 2014. Major cities include New York, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, Sydney, Melbourne and Stockholm. The tickets are on sale now and the prices range from $49-119.

Lady Gaga

Katy Perry

Michael Bublé

Lionel Richie

Cher (center), Julianne Hough (right) and Tyne Stecklein (left) in Screen Gems’ BURLESQUE. PHOTO: jonnessa_flickr

Lionel Richie Five-time Grammy winner Lionel Richie has recently announced to extend his global world tour, “All The Hits All Night Long” with a special guest, CeeLo Green. His concerts have sold out in several places including Australia and New Zealand. His tour will kick off at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on May 29, 2014. Ticket prices vary from $325-425 for two people.

Cher Cher, an American singer who is also well known as the Goddess of Pop, is having her “Dressed to Kill” Tour from March 22, 2014 to July 11, 2014, for 4 months. The 67-year-old singer will kick off in Phoenix, Arizona. She will visit eight cities in Canada including Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary and Vancouver. Ticket prices vary in great extent from $80 and are available online.

Katy Perry The 11-time Grammy nominee singer Katy Perry has recently announced “The Prismatic World Tour.” The massive tour includes 46 cities worldwide. She will kick off in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 22, 2014. She will be visiting Vancouver on Sept 9 and 10, 2014. $1 of each tour ticket sold for the North American leg will be donated to UNICEF. o

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in BC On the following pages you will find lists of important resources that are valuable to international students and new Canadians. Here you will find everything from entertainment to housing, from schools to libraries, from hospitals to consulates.

We even have employment listings to get you started on your new life in BC.

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Institution Capilano University Emily Carr University of Art and Design Fairleigh Dickinson University Kwantlen Polytechnic University Quest University Royal Roads University S.F.U. (Simon Fraser University) Thompson Rivers University Trinity Western University U.B.C. University of Victoria University Canada West University of the Fraser Valley University of Northern British Columbia Vancouver River Island University

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Location(s) E U

P

T

North Vancouver 1968 7,500 0 7,500 Vancouver 1925 1,870 28 1,898 Vancouver 78 2007 78 [not in citation given] 0 Richmond, Surrey, Langley 1981 16,811 0 16,811 Squamish 2002 300 0 300 Victoria 1995 887 3,385 4,272 Burnaby, Surrey & Vancouver 1965 29,697 5,507 35,204 Kamloops 1970 13,072 100 13,172 Langley 1962 2,130 730 2,860 Vancouver & Kelowna 1908 41,700 8,630 50,330 Victoria 1963 18,863 3,542 22,405 Vancouver 2005 n/a 0 n/a Abbotsford, Chilliwackand Mission 1974 8,124 40 8,164 ColumbiaPrince George 1990 3,068 490 3,558 Nanaimo, Duncan,Parksville & Powell 1969 6,116 163 6,279

E – Established, U – Undergraduate enrolment, P – Postgraduate enrolment, T – Total enrolment

604-599-2100 8771 Lansdowne Rd, Richmond, BC V6X 3V8

Simon Fraser University

778-782-3111 www.sfu.ca 8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6

Institute BCIT(British Columbia Institute of Technology)

www.jibc.ca 604-525-5422 715 McBride Blvd., New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5T4

Nicola Valley Institute of Technology www.nvit.bc.ca 1-250-378-3300 4155 Belshaw St.

Colleges Acsenda School of Management

www.acsenda.com 604-430-5111 9th Floor, 1090 West Pender St., Vancouver, BC V6E 2N7

www.unbc.ca 1-250-960-5555 3333 University Way, Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9

Thompson Rivers University

www.tru.ca/ 1-250-828-5289 900 McGill Rd, Kamloops, BC V2C 6N6

Fairleigh Dickinson University view.fdu.edu 604-682-8112 842 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2P6

Vancouver Island University

www.viu.ca 1-250-753-3245 900 Fifth St, Nanaimo, V9R 5S5

Royal Roads University www.royalroads.ca 1-250-391-2600 2005 Sooke Rd, Victoria, BC V9B 5Y2

University of Victoria

www.uvic.ca 1-250-721-7211 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, V8P 5C2

University Canada West

1-800-360-7213 www.ucanwest.ca 1111 Melville St, Vancouver,

camosun.ca 1–877–554–7555 3100 Foul Bay Rd, Victoria B.C. V8P 5J2

Douglas College

www.jibc.ca 1-888-865-7764 715 McBride Blvd., New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5T4

Quest

www.questu.ca 604-898-8000 3200 University Blvd, Squamish, BC V8B 0N8

University of the Fraser Valley

www.ufv.ca 604-504-7441 33844 King Rd, Abbotsford, BC V2S 7M7

Trinity Western University twu.ca 604-888-7511 7600, Langley, BC V2Y 1Y1

Capilano University

www.capilanou.ca 604-986-1911 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC V7J 3H5

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

www.ecuad.ca 604-844-3800 1399 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9

University of British Columbia

www.ubc.ca 604-822-2211 2329 W Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

Kwantlen Polytechnic University www.kpu.ca

Vancouver Community College (VCC)

www.viu.ca 1-888-920-2221 900 Fifth St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5S5

Career Colleges Academy of Learning College www.AcademyofLearning.com 604-987-4277 1221 Lonsdale Ave., Suite 300 North Vancouver, V7M 2H5

AD Canadian Tourism College

Justice Institute of B.C.

University of Northern British Columbia

www.selkirk.ca 1-888-953-1133 301 Frank Beinder Way, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 4L3

Vancouver Island University

www.douglas.bc.ca 604-527-5400 PO Box 2503, New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5B2

BC V6E 3V6

Selkirk College

Justice Institute of British Columbia

Camosun College

University

www.cotr.bc.ca 1-877-489-2687 2700 College Way, Box 8500, Cranbrook B.C. V1C 5L7

www.vcc.ca 604-871-7000 1155 East Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4V5

www.educacentre.com 1-800-747-4825 896 West 8th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1E2

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College of the Rockies

www.bcit.ca 604-434-5734 3700 Willingdon Ave., Burnaby, B.C. V5G 3H2

Collège Éducacentre

List of School

Salmon Arm, B.C. V1 E 4N3

www.tourismcollege.com 604-582-1122 #320 - 10362 King George Blvd, Surrey, B.C. V3T 2W5

Alexander College

www.alexandercollege.ca 604-681-5608 #100 - 602 West Hastings, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 1P2

Alive Academy of Natural Health www.aliveacademy.com 604 295-9333 / 1-800-663-6580 100 - 12751 Vulcan Way, Richmond, B.C., V6V 3C8

Alliance Career College

alliancecareercollege.com 604-498-0701 202 - 10114 King George Blvd, Surrey, B.C. V3T 2W4

Amethyest College

www.amethystcollege.com 604-559-9123 201 - 6125 Sussex Ave., Burnaby, BC. V5H 4G1

Arbutus College

Langara College

www.arbutuscollege.com 604-681-7701 #580- Spencer Bldg Harbour Centre, Vancouver, V6B 4N5

College of New Caledonia

BC College of Optics www.bccollegeofoptics.ca 10070 King George Blvd, Suite #208 Surrey, BC V3T 2W4 604-581-0101

www.langara.bc.ca 604-323-5511 100 West 49th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 2Z6 www.cnc.bc.ca 1-800-371-8111 3330-22nd Ave., Prince George, B.C. V2N 1P8

Nicola Valley Institute of Technology www.nvit.ca 1-877-682-3300 4155 Belshaw St., Merritt, B.C. V1K 1R1

North Island College

www.nic.bc.ca 1-800-715-0914 1685 South Dogwood St., Campbell River, B.C. V9W 8C1

Northern Lights College

www.nlc.bc.ca 250-782-5251 11401 8th St. Dawson Creek, B.C. V1G 4G2

Northwest Community College

www.nwcc.bc.ca 1-877-277-2288 4815 Swannell Drive Box 338 Hazelton, B.C. V0J 1Y0

Okanagan College

www.okanagan.bc.ca 1-888-831-0341 2552 Trans Hwy. NE,

Aveda Institute

www.avedainstitute.ca 604-669-6992 101-111 Water St., Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1A7

Blanche Macdonald Centre

www.blanchemacdonald.com 604 685-0347 100 - 555 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC. V5Z 3X7

Cambridge College

cambridgecollege.ca 604-438-7246 454 -4800 Kingsway, Burnaby, V5H 4J2

Canadian College of Performing Arts

www.ccpacanada.com 250-595-9970 1701 Elgin Road Victoria, V8R 5L7

Canadian College of Shiatsu Therapy shitsu.vc 604-904-4187 142 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, V7M 2E8

canadianhealthcareacademy.com 604-540-2421 93 Sixth St 2nd floor, New Westminster, V3L 2Z8

Canadian Tourism College

www.tourismcollege.com Vancouver : 604-736-8000 #300 - 530 Hornby Street.

Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2E7 Surrey : 604-582-1122 #320 - 10362 King George Hwy., Surrey, BC V3T 2W5

CareerGate Community College 604-855-8808 107-33119 South Fraser Way Abbotsford, BC. V2S 2B1

CDI College

www.cdicollege.ca 1-800-675-4392 710-626 West Pender St, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1V9 500 - 5021 Kingsway, Burnaby, B.C. V5H 4A5 180 - 4351 No.3 Rd, Richmond, B.C. V6X 3A7 100 -11125 124th St., Surrey, B.C. V3V 4V2

Centre of Art & Technology Canada

9222 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC. V2P 4R2

Greystone College

www.greystonecollege.com 604-682-3880 560 Granville St., Vancouver, V6C 1W6

Hair art Academy

hairartacademy.com 604-541-1541 15585 24th Ave., Surrey, BC. V4A 2J4

Insignia College of Health and Business

604-279-1800 8788 McKim Way Suite 3180, Richmond, B.C. V6X 4E2

Pacific Coast Community College pacificcoastcommunitycollege.com 604-730-1106 202 - 1338 West Broadway, Vancouver, V6H 1H2

Pacific Flying Club

www.pacificflyingclub.com 604-946-0011 Unit 4 - 4335 Skeena St., Delta, V4K 0A6

Pacific Horticulture College

insigniacollege.com 250-381-7733 / 1-888-681-7733 200-607 Yates St., Victoria, BC. V8W 1L1

hcp.ca 1-250-479-6162 505 Quayle Road. Victoria, BC. V9E 2J7

John Casablancas Institute of Applied Arts

Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts

www.jcinstitute.com 604-688-0328 Suite 150-220 Cambie St, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 2M9

Kosmetae Academy

www.kosmetae.com 604-850-5777 / 1-800-661-5755 3-32700 George Ferguson Way Abbotsford, BC. V2T 4V6

www.picachef.com 604-734-4488 101-1505 West 2nd Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3Y4

Pacific Rim College

www.pacificrimcollege.ca 250-483-2119 229-560 Johnson St., Victoria, V8W 3C6

ProCare Institute Inc.

www.digitalartschool.com 250-860-2787 100-1632 Dickson Avenue Kelowna, V1Y 7T2

Lions Gate Career College

www.lionsgatecareercollege.com 604-639-9075 2nd Floor - 321 Water St., Vancouver, V6B 1B8

CG Masters School of 3D Animation and Visual Effects

www.procare.ca 640-291-0030 / 1-800-2820030 4411 Hastings Street, Suite 240 Burnaby, BC. V5C 2K1

Lost Boys Studios- School of Visual Effects

Q College

academy.cg-masters.com 604-553-2462 800 Carnarvon St. Suite 320, New Westminster, B.C. V3M 0G3

Coastal Pacific Aviation

www.lostboys-studio.com 604-558-4999 200-495 Railway St., Vancouver, B.C., V6A 1A7

www.coastalpacific.com 604-855-1112 30575 Approach Drive Abbotsford, V2T 6H5

M.C. College

Drake Medox College

Metropolitan Community College

www.drakemedoxcollege.com 604-629-0196 200 - 535 West 10th Ave. 2nd Floor, Vancouver, V5Z 1K9

Discovery Community College

discoverycommunitycollege.com 1-877-737-0758 22141 119 Ave. Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 2Y7 Unit A&B 1713 Bowen Road, Nanaimo, B.C. V9S 1G8 266 Moilliet St. Parksville, B.C. V9P 1M9 6151 Russell Place, Port Alberni, B.C. V9Y 7W3 201 - 1025 Cliffe Ave, Courtenay, B.C. V9N 2J9 1325 Shoppers Row, Campbell River, B.C. V9W 2C9

mccollege.ca Vernon 1-250-542-8393 3409 31 Ave. Vernon, B.C., V1T 2H6

www.metropolitancollege.ca 604 320-3332 5675 Boundary Rd., Vancouver, BC. V5R 2P9

Mirage Spa Education Canada

miragespa.ca 604-217-6631 2520 Turner St., Victoria, V8T 5J2

Ms. Lorea's College of Esthetics & Nail Technology Inc www.msloreas.com 250-561-9192 1593 3rd Ave., Prince George, B.C., V2L 3G3

MTI Community College

www.excelcareercollege.com 250 334-2452 / 1-888-280-2452 203-1995 Cliffe Ave., Courtney BC. V9N 2L2

www.mticc.com Vancouver 604-682-6020 541 Seymour St., Vancouver, B.C., V6B 3H6 Burnaby 1-604-437-6030 Suite 100 - 6446 Nelson Ave., Burnaby, B.C., V5H 3J5 North Road 1-604-559-6020 106 – 3433 North Rd, Burnaby, B.C., V3J 0A9 Abbotsford 1-604-864-8920 308 - 2777 Gladwin Rd, Abbotsford, B.C., V2T 4V1 Chilliwack 1-604-392-6020 45860 Cheam Ave., Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 1N6 Surrey 1-604-583-6020 10072 King George Blvd, Surrey, B.C. V3T 2W4

Fraser Valley Community College

Nimbus School of Recording Arts

DiveSafe International

www.divesafe.com 250 287-3837 / 1-888-325-3483 342 - 1003A Island Highway Campbell River, B.C., V9W 5B6

Eton College

www.etoncollege.ca 604-677-4431 706-333 Terminal Ave., Vancouver, V6A 4C1

Excel Career College

www.fraservalleycommunitycollege.com 604-599-5535 210-8334 128th St., Surrey, V3W 4G2

Gateway College

www.gwcollege.ca 604-738-0285 395 West Broadway, Vancouver, V5Y 1A7

Gente Bella Beauty Academy www.beautyschool.ca

Canadian Health Care Academy 604-795-9158

nimbusrecording.com 604-875-8998 242 East 2nd Ave.,Vancouver, V5T 1B7

North American Montesorri School

www.montessoritraining.net 604-531-6665 13469 27 Ave., Surrey, V4P 1Z1

Omni College

omnicollege.com

qcollege.ca 250-298-5059 301 - 771 Vernon Ave., Victoria, V8X 5A7

Rhodes Wellness College

www.rhodescollege.ca 604-708-4416 280-1125 Howe St., Vancouver, V6Z 2K8

Sprott Shaw College

www.sprottshaw.com Vancouver 604-683-7400 200 – 885 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, B.C., V6C 1N8 Vancouver East 604-251-4473 2750 Rupert St, Vancouver, B.C., V5M 3T7 New Westminster 604-520-3900 420 – 88 Sixth St, New Westminster, B.C., V3L 5B3 Richmond 604-270-8867 7920 Cambie Road, Richmond, B.C., V6X 2B8 Surrey 604-583-1004 217 – 9801 King George Blvd, Surrey, B.C., V3T 5H5 Nanaimo 250-754-9600 6 – 140 Terminal Avenue, Nanaimo, B.C., V9R 5C5 Abbotsford 604-504-3323 1 – 33655 Essendene Ave. Abbotsford, B.C., V2S 2G5 Victoria 250-384-8121 2621 Douglas Street, Victoria, B.C., V8T 4M2 Kelowna 250-860-8884 200-546 Leon Ave, Kelowna, B.C., V1Y 6J6 Penticton 250-770-2277 2603 Skaha Lake Road, Penticton, B.C., V2A 6E8 Kamloops 250-314-1122 301 – 340 Victoria Street, Kamloops, B.C., V2C 2A5

Stenberg College

www.stenbergcollege.com 604-580-2772 750-13450 102nd Ave., Surrey, V3T 5X3

Suki’s Hair Academy

www.sukis.com/academy 604-738-0519 206-1030 Georgia St., W Vancouver, B.C. V6E 2Y3

TEC The Education Company Inc. www.tecglobal.net 604-634-1113 200-13889 104th Ave., Surrey, V3T 1W8

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Thompson Career College

www.thompsoncc.ca 250-372-8211 744 Victoria St., Kamloops, V2C 2B6

Tru Spa Institute

truspainstitute.ca 250-754-8637 #1 - 77 Victoria Crescent, Abbotsford, V9R 5B9

Utopia Academy

www.utopiaacademy.com 604-681-4450 220-181 Keefer Place, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6C1

VanArts - Vancouver Institute of Media Arts

www.vanarts.com 604-682-2787 570 Dunsmuir St. Suite 600, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1Y1

Vancouver Career College

www.vccollege.ca 1-800-651-1067 1100 - 626 West Pender St. Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1V9 5021 Kingsway, Burnaby, B.C. V5H 4A5 5-1180 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, B.C. V3B 7L2 Suite 230 Gateway Tower - 13401 108 Ave, Surrey, B.C. V3T 5T3 2702 Ware Street, Abbotsford, B.C. V2S 5E6 1649 Pandosy Street, Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 1P6

VANCOUVER COLLEGE OF COUNSELOR TRAINING

www.vcct.ca 604 683-2442 / 1-800-667-3272 206 EAST 6TH Ave., Vancouver, BC. V5T 1J8

WESTERN ACADEMY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

westernacademyofphotography.com 250-383-1522 / 1-866-889-1235 755A Queens Ave., Victoria, BC. V8T 1M2

Western Maritime Institute

www.maritimeed.com 250-245-4455 3519 Hallberg Rd., Port Alberni, V9G 1B5

Windsong School of Healing Ltd.

www.windsonghealing.com 250-723-3307 6199 Smith Rd., Port Alberni, V9Y 8M1

Winston College

winstoncollege.com 604-357-8022 1176 Eighth Avenue, New Westminste, V3M 2R6

BC, V6E 1A3

604-981-1000, Fax : 604-981-1001

EF International Language School

School District No. 044 (North Vancouver)

www.ef.com 1-800-387-2457 #400 – 929 Granville St., 4th Floor, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1L3

Eurocentres – Vancouver

www.languagecanada.com 604-688-7942 #250 – 815 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC V6C 1B4

GEOS Language Academy

www.geosvancouver.com 604-684-6407 #298 – 1199 West Pender St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 1B6

Inlingua Vancouver

www.inlinguavancouver.com 604-605-0960 #300 – 150 Water Street (1) Vancouver, BC, V6B 1B2 #300 – 816 Granville Street (2) Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K3

International House

www.ihvancouver.com 604-739-9836 #200 – 1215 West Broadway Vancouver, BC, V6H 1G7

International Language Schools of Canada (ILSC) www.ilsc.ca Vancouver 604-689-9095 555 Richards St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 2Z5

Intrax International Institute

www.intraxinstitute.edu 604-609-9934 827 West PenderSt., Vancouver, BC

Kaplan International English

www.kaplaninternational.com 1 800 818 9128 #300 – 755 Burrard St., Vancouver

Language Studies Canada (LSC) Vancouver

www.lsc-canada.com 604-683-1199 Suite 200, 570 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, BC

Newton College Vancouver ncv.ca 604-683-7218 #790 – 555 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC

Pan Pacific International English College

www.panpacificcanada.com 250-380-9030 3rd Floor – 810 Fort St., Victoria, BC

Vancouver English Centre

www.vec.ca 604-687-1600 250 Smithe St., Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Georgia College

ESL Schools

www.vgcanada.com 604-688-9057 #101 – 1190 Melville St., Vancouver,

ISS Language and Career College of BC

VanWest College

www.lcc.issbc.org 501-333 Terminal Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6A 2L7 (604) 684-2325

Come Together Vancouver English School www.ctvancouverenglishschool.com 604-358-7292 #120-1020 Mainland St., Vancouver

Archer College

604-608-0538 Main Floor – 788 Beatty St., Vancouver, BC

www.vanwest.com 604-731-5256 ext. 109 #200 – 1016 Nelson St., Vancouver, V6E 1H8

Western Town College www.wtccanada.com 604-844-7660 #100–626 West Pender St.,Vancouver

Zoni Language Centre Vancouver

www.zoni.com 604-687-7000 568 Seymour St, 4th floor, Vancouver, BC V6B3J5

Bodwell Language School

604-602-7633 www.bodwell.edu 473 West Hastings St., Vancouver

School District

CSLI – Canadian as a Second Language Institute

School District No. 039 (Vancouver)

Canadian College of English Language

School District No. 045 (West Vancouver)

www.csli.com 604-683-2754 188 Nelson St., Vancouver, BC

www.canada-english.com 604-688-9366 #450 – 1050 Alberni St., Vancouver,

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www.vsb.B.C.ca 1580 West Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 5K8 604-713-5000, Fax : 604-713-5049 www.sd45.B.C.ca 1075 21st St, West Vancouver, V7V 4A9

Hospitals

www.nvsd44.B.C.ca 2121 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2K6 604-903-3444, Fax : 604-903-3445

School District No. 041 (Burnaby)

www.sd41.B.C.ca 5325 Kincaid St, Burnaby, B.C. V5G 1W2 604-296-6900, Fax : 604-296-6910

School District No. 040 (New Westminster)

www.sd40.B.C.ca 1001 Columbia St, New Westminster B.C. V3M 1C4 604-517-6240, Fax : 604-517-6390

School District No. 038 (Richmond)

www.sd38.B.C.ca 7811 Granville Ave, Richmond, B.C. V6Y 3E3 604-668-6000, Fax : 604-233-0151

School District No. 043 (Coquitlam)

www.sd43.B.C.ca 550 Poirier St, Coquitlam, B.C. V3J 6A7 604-939-9201, Fax : 604-939-7828

School District No. 042 (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows)

www.sd42.ca 22225 Brown Ave, Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 8N6 604-463-4200, Fax : 604-463-4181

School District No. 075 (Mission)

www.mpsd.ca 33046 Fourth Ave, Mission, B.C. V2V 1S5 604-826-6286, Fax : 604-826-4517

School District No. 078 (Fraser-Cascade)

www.sd78.B.C.ca 650 Kawkawa Lake Rd, Hope, B.C. V0X 1L4 604-869-2411, Fax : 604-869-7400

School District No. 037 (Delta)

www.deltasd.B.C.ca 4585 Harvest Dr, Delta, B.C. V4K 5B4 604-946-4101, Fax : 604-952-5375

School District No. 036 (Surrey)

www.sd36.B.C.ca 14033 92nd Ave, Surrey, B.C. V3V 0B7 604-596-7733, Fax : 604-595-6307

School District No. 035 (Langley)

www.sd35.B.C.ca 4875 222nd St, Langley, B.C. V3A 3Z7 604-534-7891, Fax : 604 533-1115

School District No. 034 (Abbotsford)

www.sd34.B.C.ca 2790 Tims St, Abbotsford, B.C. V2T 4M7 604-859-4891, Fax : 604 852-8587

School District No. 033 (Chilliwack)

www.sd33.B.C.ca 8430 Cessna Dr, Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 7K4 604-792-1321, Fax : 604 792-9665

School District No. 061 (Greater Victoria)

www.sd61.B.C.ca 556 Boleskine Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8Z 1E8 1-250-475-3212, Fax : 250 475-6161

School District No. 064 (Gulf Islands)

www.sd64.B.C.ca 112 Rainbow Rd, Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 2K3 250-537-5548, Fax : 250 537-4200

School District No. 062 (Sooke)

www.sd62.B.C.ca 3143 Jacklin Rd, Victoria, B.C. V9B 5R1 250-474-9800, Fax : 250 474-9825

School District No. 068 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith)

www.sd68.B.C.ca 395 Wakesiah Ave, Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 3K6 250-754-5521, Fax : 250 741-524

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911 (If available) 1-800-567-8911 604-822-4444 1-800-663-3456 1-800-663-9911 1-888-769-3766 1-866-436-7847

Non-Emergency Numbers P : Police F : Fire A : Ambulance Abbotsford P 604-859-5225 F 604-853-3566 A 604-872-5151 Aldergrove P 604-532-3200 F 604-532-7500 A 604-872-5151 Anmore / Belcarra P 604-945-1550 F 604-937-4102 A 604-872-5151 Bowen Island P 604-947-0516 F 604-947-9324 A 604-872-5151 Burnaby P 604-294-7922 F 604-294-7190 A 604-872-5151 Chilliwack P 604-792-4611 F 604-792-8713 A 604-872-5151 Coquitlam P 604-945-1550 F 604-927-6400 A 604-872-5151 Davis Bay P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-7017 A 604-872-5151 Delta P 604-946-4411 F 604-952-3100 A 604-872-5151 Egmont P 604-885-2266 F 604-883-9270 A 604-872-5151 Garden Bay P 604-885-2266 F 604-883-9270 A 604-872-5151 Gibson P 604-885-2266 F 604-886-7777 A 604-872-5151 Halfmoon Bay P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-5712 A 604-872-5151 Langley City P 604-532-3200 F 604-514-2880 A 604-872-5151 Langley Township P 604-532-3200 F 604-532-7500 A 604-872-5151 Lions Bay P 604-892-6100 F 604-543-6700 A 604-872-5151 Maderia Creek P 604-885-2266 F 604-883-9270 A 604-872-5151 Maple Ridge P 604-463-6251 F 604-463-5880 A 604-872-5151 Mission P 604-826-7161 F 604-826-2313 A 604-872-5151 New Westminster P 604-525-5411 F 604-519-1000 A 604-872-5151 North Vancouver City P 604-985-1311 F 604-980-5021 A 604-872-5151 North Vancouver District P 604-985-1311 F 604-980-7575 A 604-872-5151 Pender Harbour P 604-885-2266 F 604-883-9270 A 604-872-5151 Pitt Meadows P 604-463-6251 F 604-465-2401 A 604-872-5151 Port Coquitlam P 604-945-1550 F 604-927-5466 A 604-872-5151 Port Moody P 604-461-3456 F 604-469-7795 A 604-872-5151 Richmond P 604-278-1212 F 604-278-5131 A 604-872-5151 Roberts Creek P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-6871 A 604-872-5151 Sechelt P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-7017 A 604-872-5151 Secret Cove P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-5712 A 604-872-5151 Selma Park P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-7017 A 604-872-5151 Squamish P 604-892-6100 F 604-898-9666 A 604-872-5151 Surrey P 604-599-0502 F 604-543-6700 A 604-872-5151 University Endowment Lands P 604-224-1322 F 604-665-6000 A 604-872-5151 Vancouver P 604-717-3321 F 604-665-6000 A 604-872-5151 West Vancouver P 604-925-7300 F 604-925-7370 A 604-872-5151 Whistler P 604-932-3044 F 604-935-8260 A 604-872-5151 White Rock P 778-593-3600 F 604-541-2121 A 604-872-5151 Wilson Creek P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-7017 A 604-872-5151

B.C. Children’s Hospital 604-875-2345 4480 Oak Street.

Vancouver, BC, V6H 3V4 B.C. Women’s Hospital 604-875-2424 4500 Oak Street.

Vancouver, BC, V6H 3N1 Cambie Surgery Centre 604-874-1349 2836 Ash St, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 3C6 Holy Family Hospital 604-321-2661 7801 Argyle St. Vancouver, BC, V5P 3L6 Lions Gate Hospital 604-988-3131 231 15th St E, N. Vancouver, BC V7L 2L7 Mount St. Joseph Hospital 604-874-1141 3080 Prince Edward St, Van. BC, V5T 3N4 Providence Health Care 604-876-7191 4875 Heather St, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 0A7 St. Paul’s Hospital 604-682-2344 1081 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6 St. Vincent's Hospital 604-325-4116 Langara 255 62nd Ave W, Vancouver. BC, V5X 4V4 UBC Hospital 604-822-7121 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5 Vancouver General Hospital 604-875-4111 855 West 12th Ave, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1M9 Campbell River & District General Hospital 1-250-287-7111 375 2nd Ave. Campbell River, BC. Central Vancouver Island Health Region 1-250-755-3010 610 495 Dunsmuir. Nanaimo, BC. Chemainus Health Care Centre 1-250-246-3291 9909 Esplanade. Chemainus, BC. Cowichan District Hospital 1-250-746-4141 3045 Gibbins. Duncan, BC. Cumberland Health Center 1-250-336-8531 2696 Windermere Ave. Cumberland, BC. Eagle Park Health Care Facility 1-250-752-7075 777 Jones St. Qualicum Beach, BC. Hospital Port Alice 1-250-284-3555 1090 Marine Dr. Port Alice, BC. Hospital St George's 1-250-974-5585 182 Fir. Alert Bay, BC. Hospital West Coast General 1-250-723-2135 3841 8th Ave. Port Alberni, BC. Kyuquot Red Cross Hospital 1-250-332-5289 100 Okime Isl, Kyuquot, BC V0P 1J0 Ladysmith General Hospital 1-250-245-2221 1111 4th Ave. Ladysmith, BC. Nanaimo Regional General Hospital 1-250-755-7615 1200 Dufferin Cres. Nanaimo, BC. Port Alice Hospital 1-250-284-3555 1090 Marine Dr. Port Alice, BC. Port Hardy Hospital 1-250-949-6161 9120 Granville. Port Hardy, BC. Port Mcneill & District Hospital 1-250-956-4461 2750 Kingcome Pl. Port Mcneill, BC. Red Cross Outpost Hospital 1-250-728-3312 245 Bamfield Boardwalk.

Bamfield W, BC. St George's Hospital 1-250-974-5585 182 Fir. Alert Bay, BC. St Joseph's General Hospital 1-250-339-2242 2137 Comox. Comox, BC. Tahsis Health Centre

1-250-934-6322 1085 S Maquinna Dr. Tahsis, BC. Tofino General Hospital 1-250-725-3212 261 Neill Tofino, BC. Trillium Extended Care Hospital 1-250-947-8230 401 Moilliet St, Parksville, BC V9P 1J9

Youth Clinics Access for Deaf/Hard of Hearing 604-660-0508 Richmond or Vancouver TTY/TDD Vancouver, BC Boulevard Youth Clinic 604-261-6366 2110 W. 43rd Ave., Vancouver, BC Tuesday: 2:30pm-5:30pm Broadway Youth Resource Centre 604-709-5720 691 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC Monday: 2:30pm-5:30pm Thursday: 4:30pm-7:00pm Commercial Drive Youth Clinic 604-253-3575 1145 Commercial Dr., Vancouver, B.C. Thursday: 2:30pm-6:00pm East Youth Clinic 604-872-2511 3452 Crowley Dr., Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday: 3:30pm-6:00pm Friday: 2:00pm-4:30pm Knight Street Clinic 604-321-6151 6405 Knight St., Vancouver, B.C. Monday: 2:00pm-4:30pm Thursday: 5:30-8:00pm Main Street Youth Clinic 604-709-6400 3998 Main St., Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday: 2:30pm-5:30pm Pine Community Health Clinic 604-736-2391 1985 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. Mon, Tue, Thu, & Fri: 9:00am-12:00pm, 2:00pm-5:00pm Wed: 9:00am-12:00pm, 2:30pm-7:30pm *except third Wednesday of each month: 9:00am-12:00pm, 4:30-7:30pm Sat. (youth under 25 only): 1:00pm-4:00pm Three Bridges Youth Clinic 604-736-9844 1292 Hornby St., Vancouver, B.C. Monday to Friday: 8:30am-8:00pm **FREE CLINIC**

Consulates Australia 604-684-1177 1225-888 Dunsmuir, Vancouver Austria 604-683-5808 1380-200 Granville Street, Vancouver Belgium 604-684-6838 570-688 West Hastings Street, Vancouver Britain 604-683-4421 800-1111 Melville Street, Vancouver China 604-734-7492 3380 Granville Street, Vancouver Colombia 604-685-6435 890-789 West Pender Street, Vancouver Croatia 604-871-9170 3550 Commerical Street, Vancouver Denmark 604-684-5171 755-777 Hornby Street, Vancouver Equador 604-420-7767 9032 Lyra Place, Burnaby Finland 604-688-4483 1100-1188 West Georgia, Vancouver Germany 604-684-8377 704-999 Canada Place, Vancouver Greece 604-681-1381 500-688 West Hastings St. Vancouver

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$BNFSPO 4U #VSOBCZ #$ 7 + - McGill Branch 604-299-8955 4595 Albert St. Burnaby BC V5C 2G6 Tommy Douglas Library 604-522-3971 7311 Kingsway Burnaby, BC V5E 1G8 Coquitlam Public Library library.coquitlam.bc.ca/default.htm Poirier Branch 604-937-4141 1PJSJFS 4U $PRVJUMBN #$ 7 + " City Centre Branch 1169 Pinetree Way. $PRVJUMBN, BC. V3B 0Y1 604-554-7323 Fraser Valley Regional Library Abbotsford Administrative Centre 604-859-7141 1-888-668-4141 (Toll free within BC) 34589 DeLair Rd. Abbotsford, BC Canada V2S 5Y1 Abbotsford Community Library 604-853-1753 33355 Bevan Ave. Abbotsford, BC, V2S 0E7 Agassiz Library 604-796-9510 7140 Cheam Ave Agassiz, B.C. V0M 1A0 Aldergrove Library 604-856-6415 26770 - 29 Avenue Aldergrove, B.C. V4W 3B8 Boston Bar Library 604-867-8847 Boston Bar Elementary School 47643 Old Boston Bar Road Boston Bar, B.C. V0K 1C0 Brookswood Library 604-534-7055 20045-40 Ave. Langley, B.C. V3A 2W2 Chilliwack Library 604-792-1941 45860 First Avenue Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 7K1 City of Langley Library 604-514-2850 20399 Douglas Crescent Langley, B.C. V3A 4B3 Clearbrook Library 604-859-7329 32320 George Ferguson Way Abbotsford, B.C. V2T 6N4 Fort Langley Library 604-888-0722 9167 Glover Road Fort Langley, B.C. V1M 2R6 George Mackie Library 604-594-8155 8440 - 112th Street Delta, B.C. V4C 4W9 Hope Library 604-869-2313 1005A - 6th Avenue Hope, B.C. V0X 1L4 Ladner Pioneer Library 604-946-6215 4683 - 51st Street Delta, B.C. V4K 2V8 Maple Ridge Public Library

604-467-7417 130-22470 Dewdney Trunk Road Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 5Z6 Mission Library 604-826-6610 33247 Second Avenue Mission, B.C. V2V 1J9 Mount Lehman Library 5875 Mt. Lehman Road Abbotsford, B.C. V4X 1V5 604-856-4988 Muriel Arnason Library Township of Langley Civic Centre 130 - 20338 65 Avenue Langley, B.C. V2Y 2X3 604-532-3590 Murrayville Library Unit 100 - 22071 48th Ave. Langley, B.C. V3A 3N1 604-533-0339 Pitt Meadows Public Library 604-465-4113 #200 - 12099 Harris Road Pitt Meadows, B.C. V3Y 0E5 Sardis Library 604-858-5503 5819 Tyson Rd. Sardis, B.C. V2R 3R6 Terry Fox Library 604-927-7999 2470 Mary Hill Road Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3C 3B1 Tsawwassen Library 604-943-2271 1321A - 56th St. Delta, B.C. V4L 2A6 Walnut Grove Community Centre Library 604-882-0410 8889 Walnut Grove Drive Langley, B.C. V1M 2N7 White Rock Library 604-541-2201 15342 Buena Vista White Rock, B.C. V4B 1Y6 Yale Elementary School Library 604-863-2279 65050 Albert St. Yale, B.C. V0K 2S0 Yarrow Library 604-823-4664 4670 Community Street Yarrow, B.C. V2R 5E1 Gibsons and District Public Library 604-886-2130 gibsons.bclibrary.ca 470 South Fletcher Road Gibsons, B.C. V0N 1V0 Greater Victoria Public Library Central 1-250-382-7241 735 Broughton St. Victoria BC. V8W 3H2 Bruce Hutchison 1-250-727-0104 4636 Elk Lake Dr. Victoria, BC. V8Z 7K2 Central Saanich 1-250-727-0104 4636 Elk Lake Dr. Victoria, BC. V8Z 7K2 Emily Carr 1-250-475-6100 3500 Blanshard St. Victoria, BC V8X 1W3 Esquimalt 1-250-414-7198 1231 Esquimalt Rd. Victoria, BC V9A 3P1 Goudy 1-250-391-5702 119-755 Goldstream Ave. Victoria, BC V9B 0H9 Juan de Fuca 1-250-391-0653 1759 Island Hwy. Victoria, BC V9B 1J1 Nellie McClung 1-250-477-7111 3950 Cedar Hill Rd. Victoria, BC V8P 3Z9 Oak Bay 1-250-592-2489 1442 Monterey Ave. Victoria, BC. V8S 4W1 Saanich Centennial 1-250-477-9030 3110 Tillicum Rd. Victoria, BC. V9A 6T2 New Westminster Public Library 604-527-4660 716 - 6th Ave New Westminster BC V3M 2B3 North Central Library Federation c/o Burns Lake Public Library

Burns Lake BC V0J 1E0 1-250-692-3192 North Vancouver City Library 120 W 14th St North Vancouver BC. V7M 1N9 604-998-3450 Fax:604-980-8145 North Vancouver District Public Library www.nvdpl.ca/ Lynn Valley Branch 604-984-0286 1277 Lynn Valley Rd North Vancouver, B.C. V7J 2A1 Capilano Branch 604-987-4471 3045 Highland Blvd.

North Vancouver, B.C. V7R 2X4 Parkgate Branch 604-929-3727 3675 Banff Court North Vancouver, B.C. V7H 2Z8 Pemberton and District Library pemberton.bclibrary.ca/ 604-894-6916 7390A Cottonwood St. Pemberton, B.C. VON 2L0 Port Moody Public Library library.portmoody.ca/ 604-469-4575 PO Box 37 Port Moody BC V3H 3E1 Powell River Public Library 604-485-4796 4411 Michigan Ave Powell River BC V8A 2S3 Richmond Public Library www.yourlibrary.ca Brighouse Branch 100-7700 Minoru Gate Richmond, B.C. V6Y 1R8 604-231-6404 Ironwood Branch 11688 Steveston Hwy, Unit 8200 Richmond, B.C. V7A 1N6 604-231-6468 Steveston Branch 4111 Moncton Street Richmond, B.C. V7E 3A8 604-274-2012 Cambie Branch Unit 150 - 11590 Cambie Road Richmond, B.C. V6X 3Z5 604) 273-2223 Sechelt Public Library PO Box 2104 Sechelt BC V0N 3A0 604-885-3260 Fax:604-885-5183 Squamish Public Library PO Box 1039 Squamish BC V8B 0A7 604-892-3110 Fax:604-892-9376 Surrey Public Library www.surreylibraries.ca City Centre Library 10350 University Drive Surrey, B.C. V3T 4B8 604-598-7300 Cloverdale Branch 5642 - 176A Street Surrey, B.C. V3S 4G9 604-598-7320 Fleetwood Branch 15996 - 84 Avenue Surrey, B.C. V4N 0W1 604-598-7340 Guildford Branch 15105 - 105th Avenue Surrey, B.C. V3R 7G8 604-598-7360 Newton Branch 13795 - 70th Ave. Surrey, B.C. V3W 0E1 604-598-7400 Ocean Park Branch 12854 - 17th Avenue Surrey, B.C. V4A 1T5 604-502-6304 Port Kells Branch 18885 - 88th Avenue Surrey, B.C. V3S 5X7 604-598-744 Semiahmoo 1815 - 152nd Street, Surrey, B.C. V4A 9Y9 604-592-6900 Strawberry Hill 7399 - 122nd Street Surrey, B.C. V3W 5J2 604-501-5836 Vancouver Public Library www.vpl.ca

Central Library 350 West Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B1 604-331-3603 Britannia Branch 1661 Napier Street Vancouver, B.C. V5L 4X4 604-665-2222 Carnegie Branch 401 Main St. Vancouver, B.C. V6A 2T7 604-665-3010 Champlain Heights Branch 7110 Kerr St. Vancouver, B.C. V5S 4W2 604-665-3955 Collingwood Branch 2985 Kingsway Vancouver, B.C. V5R 5J4 604-665-3953 Dunbar Branch 4515 Dunbar St. Vancouver, B.C. V6S 2G7 604-665-3968 Firehall Branch 1455 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1J8 604-665-3970 Fraserview Branch 1950 Argyle Drive Vancouver, B.C. V5P 2A8 604-665-3957 Hastings Branch 604-665-3959 2674 East Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C. V5K 1Z6 Joe Fortes Branch 604-665-3972 870 Denman Street Vancouver, B.C. V6G 2L8 Kensington Branch 604-665-3961 1428 Cedar Cottage Mews Vancouver B.C. V5N 5Z1 Kerrisdale Branch 604-665-3974 2112 West 42 Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6M 2B6 Kitsilano Branch 604-665-3976 2425 MacDonald Street Vancouver, B.C. V6K 3Y9 Marpole Branch 604-665-3978 8386 Granville Street Vancouver, B.C. V6P 4Z7 Mount Pleasant Branch 604-665-3962 1 Kingsway Vancouver, B.C. V5T 3H7 Oakridge Branch 604-665-3980 191 - 650 West 41st Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 2M9 Renfrew Branch 604-257-8705 2969 East 22nd Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V5M 2Y3 South Hill Branch 604-665-3965 6076 Fraser Street Vancouver, B.C. V5W 2Z7 Strathcona Branch 604-665-3967 592 East Pender Street Vancouver, B.C. V6A 1V5 Terry Salman Branch 604-665-3964 4575 Clancy Loranger Way Vancouver, BC V5Y 2M4 West Point Grey Branch 604-665-3982 4480 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6R 2H9 West Vancouver Memorial Library 604-925-7400 1950 Marine Dr West Vancouver BC V7V 1J8 Whistler Public Library 604-935-8433 4329 Main St Whistler BC V0N 1B4 Alert Bay Public Library 1-250-974-5721 PO Box 440, Alert Bay BC, V0N 1A0 Kootenay Library Federation 1-888-664-4553 PO Box 3125 Castlegar BC. V1N 3H4 Beaver Valley Branch beavervalley.bclibrary.ca

1-250-367-7114 1847 - 1st Street PO Box 429 Fruitvale, BC V0G 1L0 Castlegar Branch castlegar.bclibrary.ca 1-250-365-6611 1005 Third Street Castlegar, BC V1N 2A2 Cranbrook Branch www.cranbrookpubliclibrary.ca 250-426-4063 1212 2nd St. North Cranbrook BC V1C 4T6 Creston Branch www.crestonlibrary.com/ 250-428-4141 531 - 16th Ave. S Creston BC V0B 1G5 Elkford Branch www.elkfordlibrary.org 816 Michel Road PO Box 280 Elkford BC V0B 1H0 Fernie Branch fernie.bclibrary.ca 1-250-423-4458 492 Third Avenue PO Box 448 Fernie BC V0B 1M0 Grand Forks Branch grandforks.bclibrary.ca 1-250-442-3944 7342 Fifth Street PO Box 1539 Grand Forks BC V0H 1H0 Greenwood Branch invermere.bclibrary.ca 1-250-342-6416 201 - 7th Avenue PO Box 989 Invermere BC V0A 1K0 Kaslo Branch kaslo.bclibrary.ca/ 1-250-353-2942 413 Fourth Street PO Box 760 Kaslo BC V0G 1M0 Kimberley Branch kimberley.bclibrary.c 250-427-3112 115 Spokane St Kimberley BC V1A 2E5 Midway Branch midway.bclibrary.ca 1-250-449-2620 612 - 6th Avenue PO Box 268 Midway BC V0H 1M0 Nakusp Branch nakusp.bclibrary.ca 1-250-265-3363 92 - 6th Avenue, NW PO Box 297 Nakusp BC V0G 1R0 Nelson Branch nelson.bclibrary.ca 1-250-352-6333 602 Stanley St Nelson BC V1L 1N4 Radium Hot Springs Branch radium.bclibrary.ca 1-250-347-2434 Unit #2 Main Street West PO Box 293 Radium Hot Springs, BC, V0A 1M0 Rossland Branch rossland.bclibrary.ca 1-250-362-7611 2180 Columbia Avenue PO Box 190 Rossland BC V0G 1Y0 Salmo Branch salmo.bclibrary.ca 1-250-357-2312 106 - 4th Street, PO Box 458 Salmo BC V0G 1Z0 Sparwood Branch sparwood.bclibrary.ca 1-250-425-2299 110 Pine Avenue PO Box 1060 Sparwood BC V0B 2G0 Trail Branch www.traillibrary.com 1-250-364-1731 1051 Victoria St Trail BC V1R 3T3 Lillooet Area Public Library PO Box 939 Lillooet BC. V0K 1V0 Lillooet Library 1-250-256-7944 930 Main Street PO Box 939 Lillooet, B.C. V0K 1V0 Gold Bridge Library Branch 1-250-238-25211 Haylmore Street. General Delivery

Gold Bridge, B.C. V0K 1P0 Bridge River Library Branch 1-250-259-8242 41 Bridge River Town site PO Box 19 Shalalth, B.C. V0N 3C0 Burns Lake Public Library 1-250-692-3192 PO Box 449 Burns Lake BC V0J 1E0 Cariboo Regional District Library 1-250-392-3351 180 - 3rd Ave N Suite D Williams Lake BC. V2G 2A4 Castlegar & District Public Library 1-250-365-6611 1005 Third St. Castlegar BC. V1N 2A2 Chetwynd Public Library 1-250-788-2559 PO Box 1420. Chetwynd BC. V0C 1J0 Cranbrook Public Library 1-250-426-4063 1212 2nd St. North. Cranbrook BC. V1C 4T6 Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library 1-250-782-4661 1001 McKellar Ave. Dawson Creek BC. V1G 4W7 Elkford Public Library 1-250-865-2912 PO Box 280 Elkford BC. V0B 1H0 Fernie Public Library 1-250-423-4458 PO Box 448 Fernie BC. V0B 1M0 Fort Nelson Public Library 1-250-774-6777 PO Box 330 Fort Nelson BC. V0C 1R0 Fort St. James Public Library 1-250-996-7431 PO Box 729 Fort St. James BC V0J 1P0 Fort St. John Public Library 1-250-785-3731 10015 - 100th Ave. Fort St. John BC. V1J 1Y7 Fraser Lake Public Library 1-250-699-8888 PO Box 520 Fraser Lake BC V0J 1S0 Grand Forks & District Public Library 1-250-442-3944 PO Box 1539.

Grand Forks BC. V0H 1H0 Grand Forks & District Public Library 1-250-442-3944 PO Box 1539 Grand Forks BC V0H 1H0 Granisle Public Library 1-250-697-2713 PO Box 550 Granisle BC. V0J 1W0 Greenwood Public Library 1-250-445-6111 PO Box 279 Greenwood BC. V0H 1J0 Hazelton District Public Library 1-250-842-5961 PO Box 323 Hazelton BC. V0J 1Y0 Hazelton District Public Library 1-250-842-5961 PO Box 323 Hazelton BC. V0J 1Y0 Houston Public Library 1-250-845-2256 PO Box 840 Houston BC V0J 1Z0 Hudson's Hope Public Library 1-250-783-9414 PO Box 269 Hudson's Hope BC. V0C 1V0 Invermere Public Library 1-250-342-6416 PO Box 989 Invermere BC. V0A 1K0 Kimberley Public Library 1-250-427-3112 115 Spokane St Kimberley BC V1A 2E5 Kimberley Public Library 1-250-427-3112 115 Spokane St. Kimberley BC. V1A 2E5 Kitimat Public Library 1-250-632-8985 940 Wakashan Ave. Kitimat Bc. V8C 2G3 Mackenzie Public Library Box 750 Mackenzie BC. V0J 2C0 1-250-997-6343 McBride & District Public Library 1-250-569-2411 PO Box 489 McBride BC V0J 2E0 Midway Public Library 1-250-449-2620 PO Box 268 Midway BC. V0H 1M0

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Guidebook | MARCH 14, 2014 | British Columbia #20 - 301 Hwy. 33 West Nelson Public Library 1-250-352-6333 Kelowna, B.C. V1X 1X8 602 Stanley St Nelson BC. V1L Salmon Arm Branch 1N4 1-250-832-6161 #285 Piccadilly Mall 1151 10th Ave. SW Okanagan Regional Library 1-250-860-4033 Salmon Arm, B.C. V1E 1T3 1430 KLO Rd Kelowna BC V1W Sicamous Branch 3P6 1-250-836-4845 Armstrong Branch #2 - 446 Main Street 1-250-546-8311 Sicamous, B.C. V0E 2V0 #10 - 3305 Smith Drive Silver Creek Branch Armstrong, B.C. V0E 1B1 1-250-832-4719 Cherryville Branch 921 Salmon River Rd. 1-250-547-9776 Salmon Arm, B.C. V1E 3G3 1114 Hwy. 6, Cherryville, B.C. South Shuswap Branch V0E 2G3 1-250-675-4818 Enderby Branch #1 - 2676 Fairway Hills Road 1-250-838-6488 Blind Bay, B.C. V0E 1H2 Box 226 (Mailing Address) Summerland Branch 514 Cliff Avenue (Location) 1-250-494-5591 Enderby, B.C. V0E 1V0 9525 Wharton Street Falkland Branch Summerland, B.C. V0H 1Z0 1-250-379-2705 Vernon Branch 5771 - Highway 97 1-250-542-7610 P.O. Box 33, Falkland, B.C. 2800 - 30th Ave. V0E 1W0 Vernon, B.C. V1T 8S3 Golden Branch Westbank Branch 1-250-344-6516 1-250-768-4369 819 Park Ave., Golden, B.C. #31 - 2484 Main St. (Hwy 97 S) V0A 1H0 West Kelowna, B.C. V4T 2G2 Hedley Branch 1-250-292-8209 Pender Island Public Library 789 Scott Ave., Hedley, B.C. PO Box 12 Pender Island V0X 1K0 BC V0N 2M0 Kaleden Branch Pender Island Public Library 1-250-497-8066 Branch 101 Linden Ave., Kaleden, B.C. 1-250-629-3722 V0H 1K0 4407 Bedwell Harbour Road Kelowna Branch Pender Island, BC V0N 2M0 1-250-762-2800 Mayne Island Public Library 1380 Ellis St. Kelowna, B.C. V1Y Branch 2A2 1-250-539-2597 Keremeos Branch 411 Naylor Road 1-250-499-2313 Mayne Island, BC V0N 2J0 638 - 7th Ave., Keremeos, B.C. Galiano Island Community V0X 1N0 Library Branch Lake Country Branch 1-250.539.2141 1-250-766-3141 2-1290 Sturdies Bay Road #2 - 10150 Bottom Wood Lake Galiano Island BC V0N 1P0 Rd. Eddie Reid Memorial Lake Country, B.C. V4V 2M1 Library Branch Lumby Branch 1-250-539-5312 1-250-547-9528 140 East Point Road 2250 Shields Ave., Lumby, B.C. Saturna Island, BC V0N 2Y0 V0E 2G0 Penticton Public Library Mission Branch 1-250-770-7781 1-250-764-2254 785 Main St. Penticton BC. 4105 Gordon Dr. Kelowna, B.C. V2A 5E3 V1W 4Z1 Prince George Public Library Naramata Branch Bob Harkins Branch 1-250-496-5679 1-250-563-9251 3580 Third St. Naramata, B.C. 887 Dominion Street V0H 1N0 Prince George, BC V2L 5L1 North Shuswap Branch Nechako Branch 1-250-955-8198 1-250-962-9710 3867 Squilax Anglemont Rd 6547 Hart Highway Scotch Creek BC V0E 1M5 Prince George, BC V2K 3A4 Okanagan Falls Branch Prince Rupert Library 1-250-497-5886 1-250-627-1345 #101 - 850 Railway Lane 101 6th Ave Okanagan Falls, B.C. V0H 1R4 W Prince Rupert BC V8J 1Y9 Oliver Branch Radium Hot Springs Public Library 1-250-498-2242 1-250-347-2434 6239 Station St., Oliver, B.C. PO Box 293 Radium V0H 1T0 Hot Springs V0A 1M0 Osoyoos Branch Rossland Public Library 1-250-495-7637 1-250-362-7611 8505 68th Ave., Osoyoos, B.C. PO Box 190 Rossland BC. V0G 1Y0 V0H 1V0 Salmo Public Library Oyama Branch 1-250-357-2312 1-250-548-3377 PO Box 458 Salmo BC V0G 1Z0 15718 Oyama Rd. Salt Spring Island Public Library Oyama, B.C. V4V 2E1 1-250-537-4666 Peachland Branch 129 McPhillips Ave 1-250-767-9111 Salt Spring Island BC V8K 2T6 Peachland Village Mall Smithers Public Library #40 - 5500 Clements Crescent 1-250-847-3043 Peachland, B.C. V0H 1X5 PO Box 55 Smithers BC V0J 2N0 Princeton Branch Sparwood Public Library 1-250-295-6495 1-250-425-2299 107 Vermilion Avenue PO Box 1060 Sparwood BC Princeton, B.C. V0X 1W0 V0B 2G0 Revelstoke Branch Stewart Public Library 1-250-837-5095 1-250-636-2380 605 Campbell Avenue PO Box 546 Stewart BC V0T 1W0 Revelstoke, B.C. V0E 2S0 Taylor Public Library Rutland Branch 1-250-789-9878 1-250-765-8165 PO Box 730 Taylor BC. V0C 2K0

Port Alice BC, V0N 2N0 Port Clements Branch 1-250-557-4402 Box. 283, 35 Cedar Ave E Port Clements BC V0T 1R0 Port Hardy Branch Tumbler Ridge Public Library 1-250-242-4778 1-250-949-6661 PO Box 70 Tumbler Ridge 7110 Market BC V0C 2W0 Port Hardy BC V0N 2P0 Port McNeill Branch 1-250-956-3669 Valemount Public Library 1-250-566-4367 4-1584 Broughton PO Box 368 Valemount BC V0E Port McNeill BC V0N 2R0 2Z0 Port Renfrew Branch Phone: 250-647-5423 PO Box 108, 6638 Deering Rd Vancouver Island Regional Library 1-250-758-4697 Port Renfrew BC V0S 1K0 Box 3333 Nanaimo BC V9R 5N3 Quadra Island Branch Bella Coola Branch 1-250-285-2216 1-250-799-5330 654 Harper Rd 450 MacKenzie St Quathiaski Cove BC V0P 1N0 Bella Coola BC. V0T 1C0 Qualicum Beach Branch Bowser Branch 1-250-752-6121 1-250-757-9570 660 Primrose Box 181 #111 - 6996 Qualicum Beach BC. V9K 1S9 W Island Hwy Bowser BC V0R 1G0 Queen Charlotte Branch Campbell River Branch 1-250-559-4518 1-250-287-3655 Box 339, 138 Bay, Community Hall 1240 Shoppers Row Queen Charlotte BC V0T 1S0 Campbell River BC V9W 2C8 Sandspit Branch Chemainus Branch 1-250-637-2247 Phone: 250-246-9471 Box 228, Seabreeze Plaza, 2592 Legion St Alliford Bay Rd. Sandspit BC V0T Chemainus BC V0R 1K3 1T0 Comox Branch Sayward Branch 1-250-339-2971 1-250-282-5551 1720 Beaufort Ave 641C Kelsey Way Comox BC V9M 1R7 Sayward BC V0P 1R0 Cortes Island Branch Sidney / North Saanich Branch 1-250-935-6566 1-250-656-0944 1255 Seaford Road (Linnaea Farm) 10091 Resthaven Drive Manson's Landing, BC. V0P 1K0 Sidney BC V8L 3G3 Courtenay Branch Sointula Branch 1-250-334-3369 1-250-973-6493 300 6th Street 280 1st Street Courtenay BC V9N 9V9 Sointula BC V0N 3E0 Cowichan Branch Sooke Branch 1-250-746-7661 Phone: (250)642-3022 2687 James St., Duncan BC., 2065 Anna Marie Road V9L 2X5 Sooke BC V9Z 0A4 Cowichan Lake Branch South Cowichan Branch 1-250-749-3431 1-250-743-5436 68 Renfrew Avenue PO Box 918 Box 118, 310-2720 Mill Bay Rd. Lake Cowichan BC V0R 2G0 Mill Bay BC V0R 2P0 Cumberland Branch Tahsis Branch 1-250-336-8121 1-250-934-6621 2746 Dunsmuir Ave., 977 Maquinna Dr S Cumberland BC Tahsis BC V0P 1X0 Gabriola Island Branch Tofino Branch 1-250-247-7878 1-250-725-3713 #5 - 575 North Rd, 331 Main St Tofino BC V0R 2Z0 Gabriola Island BC V0R 1X5 Ucluelet Branch Gold River Branch 1-250-726-4642 1-250-283-2502 500 Matterson Dr Gold River Branch Ucluelet BC V0R 3A0 396 Nimpkish Dr Union Bay Branch Gold River BC., V0P 1G0 1-250-335-2433 Hornby Island Branch 5527 Island Hwy 1-250-335-0044 Union Bay BC V0R 3B0 1765 Sollans Rd Woss Branch Hornby Island BC 1-250-281-2263 V0R 1Z0 4503B Railway Ave Ladysmith Branch Woss BC V0N 3P0 1-250-245 2322 #3 - 740 First Ave., Vanderhoof Public Library Ladysmith BC., V9G 1A3 1-250-567-4060 Masset Branch Bag 6000 Vanderhoof BC V0J 3A0 1-250-626-3663 Box 710, 2123 Collison Ave Masset BC V0T 1M0 Nanaimo Harbourfront Branch 1-250-753-1154 Vancouver Airport 604-207-7077 90 Commercial St Yvr.ca Nanaimo BC., V9R 5G4 Nanaimo Wellington Branch Harbour Air 604-274-1277 1-250-758-5544 Harbour-air.com 3032 Barons Rd Nanaimo BC V9T 4B5 Helijet Airways 800-665-4354 Parksville Branch Helijet.com 1-250-248-3841 100 Jensen Ave E West Coast Air 604-606-6800 Parksville BC., V9P 1K3 Westcoastair.com Port Alberni Branch 1-250-723-9511 4255 Wallace St, Unit B Port Alberni BC V9Y 3Y6 Port Alice Branch 1-250-284-3554 Veteran's Taxi Service 617-527-0300 Box 190, Marine Drive Thompson-Nicola Regional District Trail & District Public Library 1-250-364-1731 1051 Victoria St Trail BC V1R 3T3

Regional Air Travel

Transportation

Bay State Taxi 617-566-5000 Independent Taxi 617-426-8700 Black Top & Checker cabs 604-731-1111 Limojet 604-273-1331 Vancouver Taxi 604-871-1111 Yellow Cab 604-681-1111 Airporter bus 604-946-8866 Yvrairporter.com Amtrak 800-872-7245 B.C. Ferries 888-BCFERRY Bcferries.bc.ca City buses 604-953-3333 Translink.bc.ca Gray Line of Victoria 800-667-0882 Greyhound Lines of Canada 604-683-8133 Pacific Coach Lines 604-662-7575 Pacificcoach.com SeaBus Translink.bc.ca 604-953-3333 SkyTrain 604-953-3333 Translink.bc.ca VIA Rail 888-842-7245 Viarail.ca MBTA 617-722-3200 Peter Pan 800-343-9999 Greyhound Bus Lines 800-231-2222 Continental Airlines 800-525-0280 Delta Airlines 800-221-1212 United Airlines 800-241-6522

Tourism and Trade B.C. Chamber of Commerce 604-683-0700 Bcchamber.org BC Place Stadium 604-669-2300 Bcplacestadium.com Better Business Bureau 604-682-2711 Bbbvan.org Real Estate Board of Vancouver 604-730-3000 Rebgv.org Tourism British Columbia 800-435-5622 Hellobc.com Tourism Vancouver 604-683-2000 Tourismvancouver.com

Shopping centres Metropolis at Metrotown 604-438-4700 4720 Kingsway Suite 604, Burnaby, V5H 4N2 www.metropolisatmetrotown. com Park Royal 604-922-3211 2002 Park Royal South, West Vancouver V7T 2W4 www.shopparkroyal.com Pacific Centre 604-688-7236 701 Georgia St W, Vancouver V7Y 1G5 www.pacificcentre.com Guildford Town Centre 604-585-1565 2695 Guildford Town Centre, Surrey V3R 7C1 www.guildfordtowncentre.com Coquitlam Centre 604-468-5650

2929 Barnet Hwy Suite 2201, Coquitlam V3B 5R5 www.coquitlamcentre.com Uptown Centre (formerly Town and Country Centre) 250-383-8093 NP, Victoria V8Z 0B9 www.shopuptown.ca Richmond Centre 604-713-7467 6551 No 3 Rd, Richmond V6Y 2B6 www.richmondcentre.com Woodgrove Centre 250-740-3555 6631 Island Hwy N, Nanaimo V9T 4T7 www.woodgrovecentre.com Lougheed Town Centre 604-421-3434 9855 Austin Ave, Burnaby V3J 1N4 www.lougheedtowncentre.com Willowbrook Shopping Centre 604-530-2115 19705 Fraser Hwy, Langley V3A 7E9 www.shopwillowbrook.com Central City Shopping Centre 604-588-5271 10153 King George Blvd, Surrey V3T 2W1 www.centralcity.ca Lansdowne Centre 604-270-1344 5300 No 3 Rd, Richmond V6X 2X9 www.lansdowne-centre.com Sevenoaks Shopping Centre 604-853-7153 32900 S Fraser Way Suite 201, Abbotsford V2S 5A1 www.shopsevenoaks.com Aberdeen Centre 604-273-1234 4151 Hazelbridge Way, RichmondV6X 4J7 www.aberdeencentre.com Brentwood Town Centre 604-299-0606 4567 Lougheed Hwy, Burnaby V5C 3Z6 www.brentwoodtowncentre.com Tillicum Centre 250-381-7123 3170 Tillicum Rd, Victoria V9A 7C5 www.tillicumcentre.ca Aberdeen Mall 250-374-3400 1320 Trans Canada Hwy W Suite 275, Kamloops V1S 1J2 www.aberdeenmall.ca Westshore Town Centre 250-474-3269 2945 Jacklin Rd, Victoria V9B 5E3 www.westshoretowncentre.com Mayfair Shopping Centre 250-383-0541 3147 Douglas St Suite 221, Victoria V8Z 6E3 www.mayfairshoppingcentre.com Capilano Mall 604-990-5426 935 Marine Dr, North VancouverV7P 1S3 www.capilanomall.com

Movie Theaters Ü Vancouver Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas 604-806-0799 88 West Pender Van, V6B 6N9 Dunbar Theatre 604-222-2991 4555 Dunbar St. Vancouver, BC V6S 2G7 Fifth Avenue Cinemas 604-734-7469 2110 Burrard St. Vancouver, BC V6J 3H5 OMNIMAX Theatre at Science World 604-443-7443 1455 Quebec St. Vancouver, BC Pacific Cinematheque

604-688-3456 1131 Howe St. Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7 Rio Theatre 604-878-3456 1660 E. Broadway V ancouver, BC V5N 1W1 Scotiabank Theatre 604-630-1407 900 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC, V6Z 3G5 The Park Theatre 604-709-3456 3440 Cambie Street Vancouver, BC V5Z 2W8 Vancity Theatre 604-683-3456 1181 Seymour St. Vancouver, BC V6B 3M7 Ü North Vancouver Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade 604-983-2762 200 West Esplanade North Vancouver. BC V7M 1A4 Park & Tilford 604-985-3911 333 Brooksbank Ave. North Van. BC V7J 3S8 Ü Pitt Meadows Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Centre Cinemas 604-460-6455 410-19800 Lougheed Hwy. Pitt Meadows, V3Y 2W1 Hollywood 3 19190 Lougheed Hwy Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 1B3 604-459-6004 Ü Langley Colossus 604-513-8747 20090-91A Ave. Langley, BC V1M 3Y9 Ü White Rock Criterion 4 604-531-7456 2381 King George Hwy White Rock, BC V4B 1A6 Rialto Twin 1732 Johnston Road (152 Street) White Rock, BC V4B 1L3 604-541-9527 Ü Burnaby Dolphin Cinema 4555 Hastings St. Burnaby, BC V5C 2K3 604-569-3369 SilverCity Metropolis 4700 Kingsway Ave Burnaby, BC V5H 4M1 604-435-7474 Ü Surrey Hollywood 3 Cinemas 604-592-4441 7125 138th Street Surrey, BC V3W 0E1 Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford 604-581-4218 15051-101st Avenue Surrey, BC V3R 7Z1 Strawberry Hills Cinemas 604-501-9400 12161 72nd Ave. Surrey, BC V3W 2M1 Ü Coquitlam SilverCity Coquitlam 604-523-2911 170 Schoolhouse St. Coquitlam, BC V3K 4X9 Ü Richmond SilverCity Riverport 604-277-5993 14211 Entertainment Way Richmond, BC V6W 1K4 Ü New Westminster The Landmark Cinemas 10 604-549-9292 390-800 Carnarvon Street New Westminster, BC V3M 1G2

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Classified o Rent Property o Rent/ Homestay o Employment o Buy/ Sell Source: www.gottarent.com/bc/vancouver, www.caprent.com

Rent Property WESSEX GATE 3408 Crowley Drive Vancouver, BC V5R 6C3, Near Collingwood Village & Joyce St Skytrain Key property details Great selection of contemporary studio and one and twobedroom apartments. Features include a resident lounge and a large, bright central laundry facility Modern exercise room with cardio equipment, universal gym and a TV located in neighbouring Earles Court. 1.888.460.3108 Maple Apartments 1220 Cardero St. Vancouver, BC V6G 2H7 Near Cardero St & Davie St Maple Apartments is a 9 storey character building Clean & quiet building.

1.888.311.0754 Regency Park 1225 Cardero St. Vancouver, BC V6G 2H8 Near Cardero St & Davie St, The views alone are worth the rent, All suites are fully renovated In the heart of Vancouver’s West End 1.888.534.0536 Ocean Park Place 990 Broughton St. Vancouver, BC V6G 2A5 Near Nelson St. & Broughton St. Private balconies. Just minutes to the beach 1.866.921.1905 Collingwood Village 3528 Vanness Ave. Vancouver, BC V5R 6G4 Near Collingwood Village & Joyce St Professional on-site staff maintains the building premises and grounds. Fitness Room, roof top barbecue area and tenant lounge. Security measures, such as computer-controlled card access and a video surveillance system give you peace of mind. 1.888.460.3108 The Melbourne 3433 Crowley Drive Vancouver, BC V5R 6C5 Near Collingwood Village & Joyce St Computer-controlled card access and a video surveillance system give you peace of mind.

Meeting room and a large, bright central laundry facility. 1.888.460.3108 Barafield Apartments 1260 Harwood St. Vancouver, BC V6E 2S4 Near Jervis St & Harwood St Aquatic and Recreation Center nearby Parking available. 1.888.556.5171 Georgian Towers 1450 West Georgia Street Vancouver,

BC V6G 2T8 Near West Georgia St & Nicola St. $700 Move-in Bonus, Fabulous views from apartments Large gym on site. 1.866.757.0896

Conveniently located near Nanaimo Skytrain Station. Many with views of the North Shore mountains and city Smoke free environment 1.888.460.3235

of the city, with mountain views, this mature site with large trees and gardens is the ideal location for commuting or working in the area.

604-931-3273

Forte 1755 West 14th Avenue Vancouver, BC Near West 14th Ave & Burrard St. Forte Apartments is surrounded by beautiful gardens and majestic mountain and city views. Resident managers onsite. FOB access security system. Large updated units. Pedestrian-friendly streets and lively cafe-strewn sidewalks.

1.866.941.7403

Cheryl Manor 210 East 2nd Street Vancouver, BC V7L 1C5 Near 3rd St. E. & Lonsdale Ave. Bach/ Studio. Heat & Water Included - Plus Electricity. 1.888.310.0541

Sherbrooke Manor Apartments 329 Sherbrooke St., New Westminster Closeness to the Sky Train.

The short commute to downtown Vancouver or for those who work close by makes Sherbrooke Manor Apartments the ideal place to live for all.

604-980-3606

600 Drake 600 Drake Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5W7 Near Yaletown, This apartment community includes furnished and unfurnished suites with heat and hot water, balconies, carpet or laminate flooring A well-lit and gated underground parking facility and bicycle storage. 1.888.459.6068 Metropolitan Towers 930 & 980 Seymour Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1B4. Near Seymour St & Smithe St Now offering 3 month leases on Furnished Bachelor Suites! *Please call for more details Games / Social Room & Theatre/Media Room Guest Suite. 1.888.430.8149 Bayview at Coal Harbour 1529 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6G 3J3 Near W Pender St & Nicola St, Concierge Service Brand new stainless steel appliances, Great ocean and mountains view 1.888.431.2158 Dunway Court 3550 West Broadway Vancouver, BC V6R 2B6 Near Alma St & W Broadway Unique California style building with superior customer service. Indoor parking. Close to Kitsilano Beach.

604.714.4082 Laurier House 4750 Arbutus Street Vancouver, BC V6J 4A4 Near Arbutus Street & W 33rd Avenue Laurier House offers sophisticated West Coast living. Beautifully landscaped gardens Wheel Chair Friendly. 1.866.454.9857 Larchway Gardens 2475-2485 West Broadway Vancouver, BC V6K 2E7, Near Larch St & W Broadway, Unique California style building, Indoor parking, Superior customer service. 1.877.640.1781 Kingsley Manor 2121 Franklin Street Vancouver, BC V5L 1R7 Near Lakewood Dr & Franklin St. Great Unit! Freshly Painted Brand New Kitchen Clean Quiet Building You have to come and see it!

Simon Fraser University is nearby.

1.888.540.6758 The Westridge 4170 & 4180 Nanaimo Street Vancouver V5N 5H7, Near Nanaimo Skytrain Station

Shelley Court 230 East 2nd Street Vancouver, BC V7L 1C5 Near 3rd St. E. & Lonsdale Ave. 1.888.858.1781 Gary Manor Near Yew St. & W 8th Ave. 2225 West 8th Avenue Vancouver, BC V6K 2A6 1.888.544.8031 Cassiar Court 1710 Cassiar Street Vancouver, BC V5M 4R9 Near East 1 Ave & Cassiar St. This well-designed complex offers contemporary 1 & 2 bdrm garden apartments and 3 bdrm townhomes.

Concert’s professional on-site staff maintains the building premises and grounds Cassiar Court is pet friendly 1.888.459.4001 Fraser Pointe I and II 3033 & 3083 East Kent Avenue North Vancouver, BC V5S 4R2, Near River District. 1.888.544.8031 Townhomes also at this location Pets are permitted with some restrictions Located in Vancouver’s newest neighbourhood - The River District 1.888.459.4207 International Plaza Apartments 1989 Marine Drive, North Vancouver, BC These apartments for rent in Vancouver are just minutes away from the sea and mountains. Located just 10 minutes from downtown and 30 minutes from Vancouver International Airport. 604980-3606 Dolphin Square Apartments 8200 Park Road Suite 114, Richmond, BC Short walk to the Richmond Centre and in close proximity to the future Skytrain station at No3 Road and Saba.

Being close to major shopping centres, schools and community 604-273-0269 Carlton Park Gardens Apartments 10951 Mortfield Rd, Richmond, BC Located south of downtown Vancouver, is close to the Steveston Highway and other major commuter routes. Beautifully landscaped grounds and the perfect community for your next home. 604-275-2664 Cypress Gardens Apartments 1114 & 1132 Howie Street, Coq., BC Located in the established central area of Coq., 1114 and 1132 Howie St. Close to parks and all conveniences, it is your best choice for apartments for rent in Coquitlam. 604-931-3273 Sydney Place Apartments 544 Sydney Ave., Coq., BC These apartments for rent in Coquitlam are Located in the parkland community

Royal Ridge Apartments 315 Agnes Street, New Westminster Close to the Columbia Sky train station, the Fraser River, Quay Public Market, Douglas College. Columbia Square Plaza and Royal City Centre Shopping Centre.

A fitness room is also available for your use at no extra charge.

604-521-7259 Park Regency Apartments 612 Clarke Rd., Coquitlam Just 15 kms from the city of Vancouver and bordering New Westminster and Burnaby, A small property with ample access to shopping at the Lougheed Mall and other retailers provides everything you would need in your day.

604-931-7376 Gateway St. 1000 Brunette Ave. Coquitlam, BC .

Near Brunette Ave. & Nelson Newly renovated suites.

Only minutes from Lougheed Mall, Braemar Gardens takes pleasure in having shopping, restaurants and a movie theatre at its doorstep.

1-888-617-4868 WHITGIFT GARDENS 550 Cottonwood Ave. Coquitlam, BC V3J 2S1. walking distance of both Mountain View and Roy Stibbs Elementary Schools.

Lougheed Town Centre, hiking or biking on Burnaby Mountain, Simon Fraser University and the Millennium Skytrain Line are also nearby.

604-980-3606 Gateway It's only a short walk to Lougheed Mall Shopping Centre and public transit offering transportation. Westview Manor tenants enjoy large, renovated, oneand two-bedroom suites. Rents include heat, hot water and a storage locker.

Underground parking is available.

1-888-617-4868 Tantus Towers 810 St. Andrews Street, New Westminster, BC wonderful views of either the Fraser River and Mount Baker. The units are very large and come in various layouts, some with eat-in kitchens. All units are equipped with energy efficient windows.

604-521-7259 Princeton Place Apt 1021 Howay Street, New Westminster, This beautifully maintained property is ideal for commuters given the closeness to the Sky Train or the short commute to downtown Vancouver.

604-521-8831

Rent/ Room Rent/ Homestay [Rent] Silhouette Condo near Lougheed Station $1650/ month

2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, 9888 Cameron Street, Burnaby Lougheed Town Centre, Cameron Recreation Centre, Burnaby Public Library, Save-On Foods, Shopper's Drug Mart, the BC Liquor Store, TD Canada Trust, Tim Horton's Ask: 778 839 7671 email rental@ alspm.ca [Rent] Westminster Condo Towers $1050 per month Westminster Towers: 838 Agnes Street, New Westminster; Great location! 17 year concrete condo. Conveniently located for all your needs.

- 1 bdrm suite with 1 full bathrooms. ~ 550 sq. ft. 1 car park.

Brand Microwave, Refrigerator, Washer etc.

Excellent location, next to Plaza 88.

Huge growth in this area will make for a very desirable suite to own. Close to Douglas College.

Walk to SkyTrain, IGA Market, New West Quay Public Market.

Ask: 778 839 7671 email rental@ alspm.ca [Rent] ALTAMONTE BOSA 1,000sf 23 Floor Condo $1,600/ month 2 bed & 2 bath Condo in Altamonte built by BOSA at Westwood Village.

North facing with great views of mountains and lake. Features gourmet kitchen with granite countertops, gas stove and stainless appliances, bath tub & shower booth in master bathroom, electric fireplace, large balcony and storage locker. Excellent amenities including fully-equipped gym, billiards lounge & clubhouse with kitchen. Short walking distance to shopping, restaurants, community center, schools and public transit. Ask: 778-887-1128 [Rent] Coquitlam House for Rent $2500/ month 2976 Christina Place Coquitlam. BC 3000 sqft, 4 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom Ask: 778 554 6829, 604 942 0015 [Rent] Cornerstone Condo at Gateway $1,050/month #801 13353 108th Avenue, Surrey, BC Bedroom 1 + den (830 SF), Bathroom 2 South East Corner Unit Living at Cornerstone offers the perfect balance of urban convenience and recreational pursuits. Cornerstone at Gateway is steps to the Gateway SkyTrain Station that will connect you to downtown Vancouver, New West as well as Burnaby within a heartbeat. In addition, Cornerstone has its own pedestrian linear parkway, restaurants, shops, fitness centre and daycare centre. And right across the street from Cornerstone at Gateway, there is a lavishly landscaped one acre urban park with a lake and interactive fountains. Cornerstone at Gateway is managed by Colyvan Pacific 604-5991650. 1 cat or 1 dog allowed, rentals allowed with restrictions.

Ask: 778-887-6211 [Rent] Finished Basement Rent home in Tynehead Region Surrey 8319 170A St Surrey. BC 1 Bedroom + den, 1 Bathroom : 1 Huge parking lot is ideal for RV parking or multi family use. Come see this beauty!

5 minutes by walk from Elementary School

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Guidebook | MARCH 14, 2014 | British Columbia Bsmt is finished w/1 bdrm + den w/ separate entry Kitchen and Laundry facility ready. Huge parking lot is ideal for RV parking $800 per month + Utility 1/3 Ask 778-388-1767 [Rent] 1Bed+Den Rent, DownTown SKY Train 689 Abboott St. DownTown Vancouver 1Bed + Den+1 parking+ Gym+ swimmingPool, South East face 270 View, hard wood/ new style interior/ SKY Train ¡°China Town- STADIUM, Costco, T&T 1ºÐ, Library, near Robson Street. $1,600 per month,No Pet ,NO Smoke.

604-862-5959 .

[Rent] Near DownTown 2 Bedroom + Den Condo 587 7th Ave W. Vancouver West False Creek's prestigious Condo at Affiniti. Featuring 2 Bdrms + 2 Baths, floor to ceiling windows w/ large balcony overlooking DT, False Creek and N/S Mtns. High-end appliances for superb modern living. Close to all amenities and one block away from Olympic Village Skytrain Station. Don't miss it. $2500 per month (utilitiy not included) Ask 778 839 7671, rental@alspm.ca [Rent] $2600 / 4br - 2508ft- FURNISHED 4 BED + 4 BATH HOUSE RENT in FRASER HEIGHTS, SURREY (Fraser Heights, Surrey) 108XX 166A STREET SURREY BC FURNISHED 4 BED + 4 BATH HOUSE RENT in Fraser Heights, Surrey Main & Upper floor, 2508 SQFT, (NOT including BASEMENT).

Main floor...Living room, Dining, Kitchen, Eating area, Family room, Laundry, 1 bath.

(1 SMALL DEN IS NOT INCLUDED).

Upper floor...4 bed rooms, 3 bath rooms.

Close to everything, school, transportation and shopping..etc. monthly rent...$2600 per a month + 2/3 utilities.

NO PETS, NO SMOKING, PLEASE. Available from APRIL 01ST, 2014.

For viewing, please contact Peter, Text (604) 307-2737, or Email.

[Homestay or room rental] measj@icloud.com Hi, I'm looking for a student(s) who needs a Homestay or room rental.

Walking distance to royal oak skytrain station, nearby bus stations(including To sfu) and Safeway, assi(Korean market) etc.- very convenient location, 1st floor, separate kitchen and entrance door- 1 room: $500 or Homestay:$800 [Rent] $2600/2br/815ft Luxury 2 bedrooms at Jameson House 2903-838 West Hastings St. Vancouver BC View : Ocean view, City view, Security deposit :$1300 1 Parking No Pets, No Smoking (including on the patio), No subletting [Room Rent] 4961 IRMIN ST, BURNABY , BC. V5J 1Y6, Canada Duplex in Metrotown, Year Built1970 Over 5000 sq ft of a nicely renovated legal side by side duplex on a 66' x 125' large duplex lot on a quiet cul-desac in prime metrotown location. lots of renovations over the past 15 years including roof, windows, kitchens, doors, and paint.

1 Bedroom & 1 Bathroom, $400/ month Ask; 604-438-0492(home), 604-838-

5836(cell).

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Designed by the world renowned Foster + Partners, Jameson House features ultra sleek & modern design with leading-edge energy efficient technology. OPEN living room, spectacular views of city, 9-ft ceilings, in-floor radiant heating, contemporary kitchen by Dada Cucina of Italy, Gaggeneau & Sub-zero appliances(Washer/Dryer, 24” Stainless Steel Oven), & imported Travertine flooring. Enjoy 24/7 concierge service & the first FULLY AUTOMATED valet parking system in Canada. Within steps to the prestigious Terminal City Club & high-end shopping, #2903 is truly THE HOME to rent in the centre of Downtown Vancouver.

Ask 778-881-2396 [Rent] [UBC] 2BD&2Bath Luxury, Modern Condo 2280 Wesbrook mall, Vancouver, V6T 2K3 2 Bedrooms and 2 Bathrooms Condominium on 2nd floor at Keats Hall in centre of UBC campus. Around 840 sqft. Built by Polygon in 2005.

Directly across from UBC's medical building (Life Science) and pharmacy building, 5 minute walk to Woodward Library and UBC hospital. 5 minute walk to UBC village restaurants and services, less than 10 minute walk to UBC bus loop, pool, and gym. Clean, in excellent condition, quiet, and secure.

Well lit and sunny with many windows, large living room, and private patio overlooking a large garden. 2 private bathrooms, secured underground parking space, large washer and dryer included in unit. Not furnished. No pets please. $2000/month. Hot water and heat included. Available on January 1st, 2014.

For more information or to schedule a viewing, please send an email or text/ call (604-715-3741). Serious inquires only please!

[Rent] New Condo next to Olympic village. Downtown 1Bed, 1 Bath, 1 Den, 1 Parking , Rent $1450 Close to every amenites including public trans, shopping and restaurants P: 604-216-2915(9am - 5pm only) C: 778-288-9965, cms4070@hotmail. com [Rent] UBC Campus 2BD&2 Bath Condo at Keats Hall Condominium on 2nd floor at Keats Hall in centre of UBC campus. Around 840 sqft. Built by Polygon in 2005.

Directly across from UBC's medical building (Life Science) and pharmacy building, 5 minute walk to Woodward Library and UBC hospital. 5 minute walk to UBC village restaurants and services, less than 10 minute walk to UBC bus loop, pool, and gym.

Clean, in excellent condition, quiet, and secure. Well lit and sunny with many windows, large living room, and private patio overlooking a large garden. 2 private bathrooms, secured underground parking space, large washer and dryer included in unit.

Not furnished. No pets please. $2000/month. Hot water and heat included.

Available on Jan 1st, 2014.

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First and foremost , this beauty is an end unit and while that might not seem like a big deal, But IT IS! With an end unit you get more space for the whole family, you only have one shared wall so this place is super quite, you have way more natural sun light from windows on 3 sides And you will get a great breeze in the summer when other places are all stuffy, but not here!

Secondly, you have tons of space! With over 1850 square feet of living space on three full floors... that way everyone has their own room and you can retreat fully fenced and professionally landscaped backyard perfect for relaxing or even entertaining. Your new place is located just off the Fraser Highway in Surrey, 16355-82nd ave, so you're off the main road for peace and quiet, but close enough so you can get anywhere quick, fast and in a hurry.

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2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, In suite Laundry and Dryer Just a few blocks from Boundry Elementary school, tennis courts, parks and playground.

No pets non smokers please. Avail Now Ask 604-786-66300

[Room Rent] 1 Room, Townhouse Coquitlam $530 Lougheed Sky Train 5 minutes by walk T4601 3970 carrigan CT. Coquitlam GYM, SWIM, SAUNA, HOTTUB, internet wifi Insuite Washer, Refridgrator, Furniture etc.Ask 778-242-4246

[Rent] 846 Westview Crescent North Vancouver 1,030sqft, 2 Bed, 2 Full Bath Rent: $1,600/ month(Heating included) Welcome to Cypress Gardens, our housing complex located in North Vancouver. Our nine acres and a half lot is surrounded by creeks on the North and West sides, limited by Westview Drive on the East side and by the Westview Commercial Centre on the South. It contains 177 units between apartments and town homes.

We enjoy one of the most desirable locations in the North Shore and in the Lower Mainland, close to amenities such as William Griffith Recreation Centre, Delbrook Recreation Centre and the already named Westview Commercial Centre. Lonsdale Ave. and downtown North Vancouver are at a short distance and we can even take a leisure stroll to the City Hall and the modern main Library. Several Primary and Middle schools are at a walking distance.

Available Jan 1st or 15th. 2014.

Ask: 778-997-2496

[Rent] 866 38TH Ave, Vancouver East Rent: $1,600/ month, 2 Bed, 1 Bath Excellent home with 10' ceilings & welldesigned living area.

This home has 2 suites built-in by the developer with separate entrances that currently bring.

This home has a tile roof, private backyard with a detached garage & warranty. Shows well.

The interior of the home has been nicely maintained, & the separation of bdrms & living area makes this a nice family home.

Built in vacuum system, security system, H/W floors & big kitchen/breakfast area adds to the livability of this property.

The 2 suites have access from the interior for a family who want to use more space. 2 years remain on the Developer's Warranty.

Located on a quiet street w/ large, oak trees in a very nice neighborhood. Easy access to transit, schools & services.

This would also be a great investment with potential rental income in the $3,500 per month range. A nice place to come home to. Ask Hanad: 778960-3332

[Rent] House 1 floor. 2853 Mccoomb Drive. Coquitlam.

Walk Score of 80 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.

This location is in Coquitlam. Nearby parks include Scott Creek Ravine, Lafarge Park and Walton Park.

Nearby schools include School Board Coquitlam, Academy of Learning Computer & Business Career College and Hot Salsa Dance Zone.

The closest grocery stores are Sun Tung Fat Supermarket, T & T Supermarket Inc and Coquitlam Integrated Health.

Nearby coffee shops include Tim Hortons, Starbucks and 7-Eleven.

Nearby restaurants include Tanoor.

Pizza, Church's Chicken and Mini Malaysia Restaurant. no pet no smoke $1000/ month (utility 1/3(elect. gas) ASk 604-249-8707 [Rent] Brand new Highrise Codo near Coquitlam Centre

2 Beds, 2 Baths, Rent $1700, Damage deposit $850 Outdoor Swimming pool, Hot tub, Professionally equipped Fitness Centre, Outdoor Barbeque area, Social Lounge with full kitchen and media room and Putting Green.

Shopping (Coquitlam Centre, Target, Superstore, T&T), Library, Transit (West Coast Express, Evergreen Line - 2016), Lougheed Hwy, Parks and Schools (Douglas College). Brand New Insuite Washer, Dryer, Stainless Steel Appliances (Fridge, Dishwasher, Gas Stove, Microwave) and Laminate floors, Flat screen TV, Dining table, Leather Sofa, Queen size bed & Double bed with brand New comfortable Mattresses.

Ask 778.986.7653 [Rent] 2 Bedrooms and 1 Bathroom condo at Great Location in Surrey Central Rent - $1200 / month, 13399 - 104th Avenue, Surrey, Near Surrey Central Shopping Center, Brand New Public Library, North Surrey Recreation Centre, SFU Surrey Campus, Secondary & Elementary Schools Convenient Commuting Location - Steps away Surrey Central Skytrain Station 9ft ceilings, Stainless-steel Appliances and Beige/Black quartz Counter-tops.

Available From Dec 1st. Main Floor equips with Fitness Centre & Amenity Room including Media Room, Library, Party Room and Pool Table. Rent including the following: - 5 Brand New Appliances (In Suite Laundry), - 1 Parking Stall, 1 Storage Locker, Cold/Hot Water Resident Building Manager & Night Security Guard assist your homelife. Contact : Matt 778 839 7671 or email rental@alspm.ca [Rent] Two Bedroom +One Bathroom Condo Near Lougheed Skytrain - Cora Rent : $1,300.00 / month Great Location at the boundary between Burnaby & Coquitlam.

Steps away from Lougheed Skytrain & Lougheed Mall. PriceSmart Foods, Shopper’s Drug Mart, lots of restaurants and more shopping along North Road and Austin Ave. 10 minutes to SFU, 15 minutes to Burnaby High Tech and Business Park. Available From Dec 1st. Small Pet Allowed but No smoking Contact : Matt 778 839 7671 or email rental@alspm.ca [Rent] 3 Bedroom & 2 Full Bathroom Town House. North Vancouver-Tanager Bedroom : 3, Bathroom : 2 Full bat, Parking : Garage fits 2 cars. Size : Approximately 1500 sqft. Number of floors : 3

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[Rent] New spacious town house $2800/month, This spacious town house was built in 2006 and is occupied and managed very well by the owner. The unit is equipped with : - Hardwood floor - High-end Stainless appliances Location is also great in a beautiful neighbourhood which is peaceful,safe, and also is conveniently close to : - Ron Andrews Rec Centre, Canlan Ice Sports, Parkgate Shopping Centre, Windsor Secondary, Blue ridge Elementary school, Seymour mountain park, Deep cove, McCartney Creek Park.

- Minimum 1 year lease required. No Pet/ No Smoking, Available from : Jan 1st, 2014 Contact : Matt 778 839 7671 / rental@ alspm.ca [Rent] Metrotown, 4959 4961 IRMIN ST, Burnaby $3650 / month, Over 5000 sq ft of a nicely renovated legal side by side duplex on a 66’ x 125’ large duplex lot on a quiet cul-de-sac in prime metrotown location.

4 kitchens, 6 bedrooms, 6 baths, lots of renovations over the past 15 years including roof, windows, kitchens, doors, and paint. Present rent $3650 to long term tenants.

604-438-0492(home), 604-8385936(cell) [Rent] 903-9262 University Crescent, Burnaby $1,650/ month, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, 993 Square Feet Beautiful, fantastic, panoramic inlet and mountain view. Sub-penthouse unit in Novo II built by reliable Intergulf. Large balcony offers all around open view. The suite has a formal dining room and spacious den for home office or 3rd bedroom with a wonderful floorplan. Total 993 sq. ft. of floor area plus 108 sq. ft. of balcony provides a perfect living space. New & quiet SFU residential community, steps to SFU campus, Burnaby Mountain Park & public transportation, close to indoor/ outdoor recreation facilities, hiking trails & all levels of schools and more. 604 2916267 [Rent] New 33rd floor, 2 br, 766ft² apartment for rent at Surrey CityCentral $1200/month. New 33rd floor, 2 br, 766ft² apartment for rent at Surrey CityCentral, 2min walking distance to King George Skytrain (35min to downtown), T&T, SFU and library. 7 min away from Hannam Supermarket. 778300-0727.

3 beds, 2 baths, kitchen and laundry room $1200/month, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 1 living room, 1 kitchen (stove + oven + fan + fridge) and 1 laundry room (washer + dryer) Whole new basement sweet for rental. Close to Willowbrook Mall (5 mins drive), Real Canadian Superstore (5 mins), H-Mart (5 mins), Costco (8 mins), easy to transit, 10 mins drive to Kwantlan University, 15 mins drive to Trinity Western University Located in Township of Langley 778-8384391. ease contact Eric Chang for more information.

[Rent] Single House in Township of Langley $1950/month, 6957 197B St Langley, BC. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 1 living room, 1 kitchen (stove + oven + fan + fridge) and 1 laundry room (washer + dryer).

Close to Willowbrook Mall (5 mins drive), Real Canadian Superstore (5 mins), H-Mart (5 mins), Costco (8 mins), easy to transit 10 mins drive to Kwantlan University, 15 mins drive to Trinity Western University. Please contact Eric Chang for

[Rent] 903-9262 University Crescent, Burnaby $1650 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, 993 Sqft Beautiful, fantastic, panoramic inlet and mountain view. Sub-penthouse unit in Novo II built by reliable Intergulf. Large balcony offers all around open view.

The suite has a formal dining room and spacious den for home office or 3rd bedroom with a wonderful floorplan. Total 993 sq. ft. of floor area plus 108 sq. ft. of balcony provides a perfect living space. New & quiet SFU residential community, steps to SFU campus, Burnaby Mountain Park & public transportation, close to indoor/outdoor recreation facilities, hiking trails & all levels of schools and more. All furniture are available. Just new laminate floor, toilet & paint Call 604 2916267 [Rent] 1 Bedroom Condo near Surrey City Central $920 a month, 13399 104 Street, Whalley, Surrey Located 2 blocks away from the Central City Mall and SFU Surrey Campus, and close by is Surrey's premier public amenities includingSurrey Recreation Centre, Surrey Public library, Central pub, Blends, Starbucks, Royal Kwantlen Park, shopping, schools and golf courses. With the Surrey Central Sky Train Station less than 200 meters away, D'Corize is connected to everywhere. Go downtown, visit New Westminster Quay or head to Metrotown in minutes. Fully equipped kitchen, activity room with pool table, fireside lounge, library and a multi-purpose flex room. Ask Peter Kim, PeterKim907@hotmail.com or 778 317 2990

Golden Ears Bridge which makes commuting to the Lower Mainland simple. Public transportation is nearby as well. $450/ month (included utility) ASk 778-988-9224 [Rent] Close to Skytrain Station (West Coquitlam) 1 room in a private house for rent for a Student, International Student or single working professional.Quiet neighbourhood, clean, bright furnished bedroom with shared bathroom, kitchen, laundry facility, and shared living room. · Great and convenient location. · Close to schools (SFU, Coquitlam College) · Close to Superstore, IKEA, SilverCity, Bowling Alley, many shops and restaurants. · Close to bus stop and close to Skytrain.

We are looking for a tidy, quiet, respectful, and responsible. $1,000/Month, Wi-Fi internet access included.

Please call 604-612-8562.

[Homestay] Hi, I'm looking for a student(s) who needs a Homestay or room rental. Walking distance to royal oak skytrain station, nearby bus stations(including To sfu) and Safeway, assi(Korean market) etc.- very convenient location 1st floor, separate kitchen and entrance door- 1 room: $500(2room& 1bath are available) or Homestay:$800 604-434-0550 or 604-773-9984

[Homestay] $700 in Fraser Heights We have a 2 furnished bedrooms in our large, clean, non-smoking home for a responsible, clean, quiet, non-smoking student(s). You will be sharing our home with our family, for a monthly shared accommodation fee of $700 per month which does NOT include meals.

For an additional fee, we can provide: meals for $200 per month).

- Large 2600 sqft home, yard, private bedroom, semi-private bathroom, shared TV room, shared kitchen and laundry, and wireless internet.

- Bus stop is right outside the door [Rent] D’Corize Condo- 13399 104th - Walking distance to Fraser Heights Avenue, Surrey Secondary School Luxury finishes include 9-foot ceilings, PLEASE NOTE: floor to ceiling windows, engineered - you must provide verifiable proof of laminate floors, spacious balconies and enrolment at a college or university. patios with wonderful views, stainless steel appliances that compliment kitchen you must provide verifiable proof of your identity. decor with imported polished granite you must provide verifiable references. countertops, full-wrap walnut or zebra wood laminate NO smoking or drugs. NO pets. NO parties.

If you are interested in sharing our “peaceful” cabinets and ceramic tiled backsplash. home with us, please contact us (778-710Elegant bathrooms feature the 1838) with any questions you may have. ?Millenium Spa?? which is an exquisite ceiling mounted rain shower, white ceramic wall tile and imported [Sale for Business] polished granite countertops.

Large Dry Cleaner and Commercial Laundry The amenities at D?Corize include a fully We are a medium to large dry cleaner and equipped fitness center, a business centre, commercial laundry in the beautiful seaside town of Campbell River. All our equipment media centre with plasma TV, fully equipped kitchen, activity room with is brand new, replaced December 2013, we are the only drycleaner in the area as well as pool table, fireside lounge, library and a the Comox Valley. We have a location in each multi-purpose flex room. town. Our 2 dry-cleaning machines are one of Ask Peter 778 317 2990 or the very few brand new organic K4 solvent in PeterKim907@hotmail.com BC. We have been in business over 35 years . Asking price is $ 599,000 Please kain94@ [Room Rent] 1 Bed + Den, 1 Bath. telus.net for more information.

Thunderbird Lodge Harron Place Apartments 12128 222 Street, Maple Ridge BC, V2X 5W5 Employment Features include in-suite storage, attractive landscaping, secured underground parking, elevator and balconies or patios Advertising Sales Representative for each suite. The rental rates are below (Metro vancouver) market for the area; strong potential "Guidebook" is looking for advertising sales exists for future rental increases on representative in Metro Vancouver. turnover.

The Guidebook is published bi-weekly for Harron Place located in quite peaceful international student and new immigrants. setting, while having everything nearby. · Duties: Being close to Parks, Elementary and - Responsible for sales of advertising for the Secondary Schools makes this a great publication. place to raise your family. It is minutes - Developing new business accounts. away from Haney Place Mall, Valley Fair Mall, great restaurants and pubs, and the - Maintaining existing relationships and

expanding professional networks. · Qualifications: - One or more years proven (advertising)sales experience - Excellent communication skills - Self motivated with a strong work ethic - Achievement oriented · Compensation: Basic salary plus Commission. · Please email us a cover letter with resume info@theguidebook.ca Edo-Ya Sushi (Delta) is looking for Japanese/ Korean Food cooks - Position Type : 2cooks, Full time, 37.5 hours per week - Position requirement : Complete secondary school. Minimum 3 years’ experience in Japanese and Korean-style western cooking Basic English · Duties: Developing new Korean & Korean style western menu, Prepare and complete dishes Ensure quality of food and determine size of food proportions Inspect kitchens and food service areas Supervise kitchen staff and helpers · Work Location : 0875995 B.C. Ltd. dba Edo-Ya Sushi 1350 56 Street, Delta, BC V4L 2A4 If you are interested in this opportunity please send your resume to edoyadelta@hotmail. com or the above address.

Sushi House in Prince Albert is looking for kitchen helper/ Food server · Position type : Full time, 30hours per week, hours will vary with weekend work · Number of positions (Vacancies) : kitchen helper 2/ Food server 1 · Job requirement : Some of secondary school, Experience is an asset, but not required. · Job duties : - Kitchen helper Helping cooking-Prepare simple foods when the chef requires, Dish washing cleaning kitchen area Wash and peel vegetables and fruit Unpack and store supplies in refrigerators, cupboards and other storage areas - Food server Provides food and beverage service to guests using good customer service skills Goal is to exceed guest expectations, Set up tables , Services food, coffee, water and other beverages Clears tables throughout the dining experience using proper methods for removing Dishes, glassware and silverware Cleans banquet and dining rooms during and after the dining experience • What we Offer : • Compensation : $ 11 per hour • Benefit : 2 weeks paid holidays. Meals provided, employee discount If you are not live in Price Albert we will provide Transportation fee, and 1 month free accommodation and we will assist you looking for house · Work location : 9-77 15th Street East, Prince Albert, SK, S6V 1E9 If you are interested, Please send your resume to sushihousepa@gmail.com or above address Office administrative assistant Logos Holdings Ltd .(dba. Canadian Greetings) is looking for office administrative assistant. · Position Type : Full Time, 30.0 hours per week · Requirement : Completion of secondary school is usually required. More than 2 years clerical experience required. Positive, energetic,

lots of patience and able to communicate effectively · Duties : Open and distribute incoming regular and electronic mail and other material and co-ordinate the flow of information internally and with other departments and organizations · Schedule and confirm appointments and meetings of employer Order office supplies and maintain inventory Answer telephone and electronic enquiries and relay telephone calls and messages Set up and maintain manual and computerized information filing systems Determine and establish office procedures Greet visitors, ascertain nature of business and direct visitors to employer or appropriate person · What we Offer : $21.00 per hour · Benefit : 2 weeks paid holidays · Location : 1014 Robson St. Vancouver, BC Please send your resume to s.jeehyun@ hotmail.com or to the above address.

Outlook Motor Hotel is looking for a Light duty cleaner · Position Type: Full Time, 35.0 hrs per week · Number of positions (Vacancies) : 1 · Job requirement : Education : Completion of secondary.

Experience : Not required . We will train. · Duties : - Clean the public area such as lobbies, hallways, office and rooms of hotels - Attend to guests’ requests for extra supplies.

- Provide basic information on facilities.

- Make beds, change sheets and distribute clean towels and toiletries. · What we Offer : · Compensation : $15.00 per hour · Benefits : 14 days paid holidays · Work location : 105 Franklin Street, Outlook, SK S0L 2N0 If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your resume to hoteloutlook@gmail. com or the above address.

Hiring for a Logistic specialist We are now hiring for a Logistic specialist. If you are responsible, active, easy-going person, looking for a great job opportunity with a stable income, this job will suit you. · About company: We are a business unit delivering services to European customers. We are a global brand and the world’s third largest logistic company. We present virtual addresses for customers from Europe and Asia. · Requirements : - Constant access to the Internet; - Possibility in making the photos of the packages; - Flexible shipping options; - Responsibility; - Activity; - Readiness working in one team; · Duties; - Stay at workplace (home address) from 9 am till 5 pm; - Receive packages during the working hours; - Inform your coordinating manager with the photos of received packages; - Print the shipping label; - Place the shipping label on the package; - Deliver parcels to the FedEx facility; - Report your coordinative manager with the receipt Compensation.

Your salary will be 1500$ per month (Base Salary), plus 20$ for each parcel you have received (Parcel’s Payment).

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