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A West Vancouver-based charity with a soft spot for North Shore Rescue has doubled the amount

donated to the Tim Jones Legacy Fund.

Ian and Rosemary Mottershead of the Charros Foundation approached the team early this week to offer a $118,000 cheque,

to match the amount offered up by more than 1,000 friends, businesses and perfect strangers who admired Jones’ selfless devotion to saving lost souls in the woods.

“We were obviously very, very surprised and very happy to receive that.

(Treasurer) Ron Royston announced it at our team

meeting (Tuesday) night and everyone was surprised and happy and gave a round of applause for the Charros Foundation,” said John Blown, longtime NSR team member.

NSR set up the legacy fund in hopes of growing it to a point it will generate enough interest to cover the costs of operations, training

and gear. The team has to hunt for grants and private donations to cover the costs on an annual basis.

“It’s going to go towards that fund and that will provide more stable funding for us over the years. It was the dream of Tim’s that we’re not always scrounging for money and not knowing if we’re going

to have enough to pay for training and equipment,” Blown said.

Ian Mottershead said the donation, along with several other sizable gifts to the team, was driven by an admiration of NSR members’ selflessness.

“We just think that they

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Port Metro Vancouver is inviting some public feedback on the draft land use plan it will use to guide the body through the next 15 to 20 years.

But don’t expect any big surprises or drastic changes in the plan’s outlook for the North Shore port properties.

“Frankly, there’s not a lot of excitement in it because we’re not going ‘Aha! This whole area is changing its future and its destiny.’ It’s more about clarity, consistency and other things,” said Greg Yeomans, the port’s manager of planning.

“There are no new terminals. There are no brand new industrial sites. Essentially the terminals are there and we’re expecting them to stay there. The industrial See Online page 3

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Report details MLA expenses

Yamamoto is N. Shore’s top earner, Sturdy claims highest JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

North Shore MLAs were collectively paid $342,000 and logged almost $84,000 in expenses for nine months on the job last year, ending in December.

North VancouverLonsdale MLA Naomi Yamamoto earned the most between April 1 and Dec. 31, with a nine-month salary of more than $98,000, including more than $21,000 for cabinet duties as minister responsible for tourism and small business.

North VancouverSeymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite and West

Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan were paid salaries of $86,000 and $84,500 over the same time period, which included approximately $8,000 for extra duties. Sultan had a brief stint in cabinet, which ended in September, while Thornthwaite is parliamentary secretary of student support and parent engagement.

Jordan Sturdy, the newly elected MLA for West Vancouver Sea-to-Sky, earned just over $73,000 from May until December, including approximately $8,500 for duties as parliamentary secretary to Transportation Minister

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Todd Stone. Sturdy also continued to collect his $25,000 annual salary as mayor of Pemberton during that time, a move criticized

by Dermod Travis of Integrity B.C. “To take two salaries

from the public purse is inappropriate,” he said.

Sturdy announced his resignation as mayor at the beginning of 2014.That took effect last week, on Feb. 5.

Sturdy also logged the highest expenses of the four MLAs — almost $26,000 — between May and December, including over $14,000 in general travel costs and almost $4,000 on in-constituency travel.

Sturdy’s expenses also included about $2,200 in “per diem” costs for meals and about $3,400 in a capital city living allowance.

Most MLAs — including those from the North Shore — receive an allowance to cover the costs of accommodation in Victoria, whether that’s renting an apartment, staying in hotels

or paying money towards a mortgage.

Sultan, who owns property in Victoria, clocked just over $23,000 in expenses between April and December including $9,000 for a Victoria living allowance and about $9,300 on travel.

Yamamoto spent just under $19,000 in expenses, including $5,200 in Victoria accommodation and about $10,500 in travel.

Thornthwaite’s expenses were just under $16,000, including $2,100 for a living allowance and $12,000 on travel.

All provincial MLAs combined spent roughly $2.3 million on expenses between April and December.

Both Travis and Jordan Bateman, director for

the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, called for more transparency on MLAs’ expenses.

Bateman said the details released publicly by the clerk’s office, for instance, don’t provide any information about how many trips are included in the travel costs. Many expenses — including the $61 “per diem” for meals — also don’t require receipts.

Travis said he questions some MLAs getting $1,000 per month towards Victoria living expenses plus $61 per day for meals when the legislature rarely sits more than 50 days a year.

“We don’t expect them to couch surf or stay at theYMCA or stay in dormitories together — but there has to be a happy medium,” he said.

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development that’s there, we’re expecting to stay there for the foreseeable future.”

Unlike a city’s official community plan or zoning bylaw, the port’s land use plan only uses eight broad definitions to describe a property’s general use. The controversial upgrade of the Neptune coal terminal and the expansion of Richardson’s grain terminal that were announced following approval of the Low Level Road project wouldn’t have required any amendments to the old plan as they didn’t change

the use of the land or water.

Most of the changes laid out in the draft released this week involve taking land or foreshore that is currently undeveloped and designating it for conservation. Those spots include the foreshore at the northwest and northeast end of the Lions Gate Bridge, the Lynn Creek outflow, where the Seymour River meets the Burrard Inlet and the Maplewood Conservation Area and the inlet on its western edge.

“It’s not creating vast new tracks of conservation lands. What it is is finding out there are number of

smaller sites on the North Shore that are either cheek-by-jowl to a creek, or important habitat. They really have no development potential but they might have conservation or recreational value,” Yeomans said.

Similarly, the port is looking to formalize the area off Cates Park as recreational and the water in front of McKenzie Barge and Lynnwood Marina as commercial.

The one exception is a plot of land on Dollarton Highway just north of the Maplewood Conservation Area and east of Goldenwood Hall

boarding school. That area has been named a special study area, meaning the port is holding off on giving it a designation anticipating some future unknown use.

“The jury’s out ultimately on what should happen on that site. We don’t have a development proposal today. We don’t have a specific development intent for the site. It’s got pros and cons one way or another,”Yeomans said.

It’s likely a proposal will come forward in the next five years, he added.

Residents interested in commenting on draft plan or questioning port staff on land use can either attend

one of a series of meetings set up by the port, or use an online tool launched this week.

The North Shore meeting takes place on March 6 at the Pinnacle at the Pier hotel, starting at 6:30 p.m. Beyond that, the port has set up an interactive map at porttalk. ca/landuseplan that details the proposed changes, and offers a chance to raise questions and comments that will go into the creation of the final plan.

In the end, it will be up to Port Metro Vancouver’s board to adopt the plan, which Yeomans expects will happen at the end of 2014.

are a remarkable bunch of men and women. When you consider the number of hours they put in, they don’t have any spare time.

They do 85 calls a year, which means they’re called out one or two times a week,” he said.

Charros has mainly chipped in to help with capital costs like vehicles and the team’s new rescue base, but Jones’ death prompted the foundation to change tactics slightly, Ian said.

“We got to know Tim Jones over the last 10 or 15 years. His death was just such a stunning shock to us. We had been talking about this fund to finance their annual operations for some years,” Ian said. “It’s a very important thing to provide continuity so the team members don’t have to worry about how they cover their costs all the time.”

Following the donation, the online campaign at fundrazr.com sits at more than $237,000 and remains open.

Also contributing to the fund this week was Grouse Mountain, which matched donations from visitors to its free Family Day pancake breakfast event and topped up its contribution to $5,000.

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Setting it straight

Avalanche risk high, stay in bounds: NSR

A story in the North Shore News on Feb. 7 stated that a company, 1932 Investments, had pleaded guilty to a Fisheries Act Charge.

The court agreed with a sentencing submission made jointly by the company and the Crown by imposing a fine on the company of $500, and by ordering the company to make a payment of $64,500

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North Shore Rescue is warning hikers, skiers and snowshoers to keep in bounds and away from backcountry trails this weekend as avalanche risk is high.

The Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a bulletin stating the avalanche risk at the treeline elevation for Thursday and Friday is high, and considerable for Saturday.

“After a long dry period, we’re now seeing a more typical winter storm cycle on the North Shore mountains. It’s good news in that we’re finally getting some good snow on the local mountains and the ski resorts are enjoying that, and that’s where we’re recommending people recreate on the North Shore mountains over the coming days,” said Doug Pope, NSR search manager.

“Anything outside of the resorts and travel in any avalanche terrain is not recommended . . . until the storm cycle completes itself.”

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hile the federal budget offered thin gruel for most this week, the decision to ditch the immigrant investor program (or the buyyour-way-into-Canada program, as it was alternatively known) is a welcome move.

The issue obviously isn’t with either immigrants or investment, both of which are needed and desired by Canada.

But the program as it previously existed did little to foster immigration by those who genuinely planned to build their lives in Canada.

According to the government itself, once the cash was handed over, there was little evidence immigrant investors maintained ties here.

The program was also no great shakes in the investment department, with many immigrant investors moving their families to Canada but continuing to conduct business elsewhere. Most paid less money

in taxes over the long term than their own hired help.

There have been rumblings about the effect this move might have on luxury home sales. But last time we checked, the intent of such programs was not to bolster commissions on high-end real estate deals. It could even be argued that putting a damper on stratospheric house prices is a positive development.

The major flaw in the decision is whom it does not affect — immigrant investors headed to Quebec, which is continuing its own program.That, of course, is part of a much larger conversation.

In the meantime, we wish the government luck with programs like the startup visa that will hopefully do better to lure immigrants who will become the innovators of the future.

Those are values this country was built on.

N. Shore amalgamation is but a dream North Vancouver City Coun. Guy Heywood and North Vancouver District Coun. Doug MacKayDunn are pressing for unity of the three North Shore municipalities.

Enlightened. Logical.

Sensible. Won’t happen.

The Three Jealous Sisters would never agree.

If they somehow did, I’d propose that name for the united one — if Canada can tolerate weird names like Moose Jaw, HeadSmashed-In Buffalo Jump, and Toronto, why not Three Jealous Sisters?

Derrick Humphreys, who, rarely, was both a City alderman and later West Van mayor, ran for mayor of NVC on an amalgamation platform in 1961. Failed.

Humphreys later blamed the dug-in fire departments. (His proposed name for the

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unified city: Capilano.

Not bad.) Coincidentally, WV council is currently looking at its own richly manned and womaned fire department, budgeted for $13.2 million this year compared with geographically much smaller North Van City’s $9 million.

But that’s just one bump on the road to amalgamation. Where

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Police — RCMP, ditching proud West Van’s own police? Who’s to be king, er, mayor? You could sell tickets to watch present councillors’ turf-protecting.

And a staff money-saver?

You kidding — when did bureaucrats ever willingly agree to that?

Nice try, Couns.

Heywood and MacKayDunn, but 53 years after Humphreys’ stab at it, North Shore amalgamation is still a dream. Or nightmare.

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Speaking of bureaucrats: In 2012 Grant McRadu, now departed West Van chief administrative officer — for a smallish municipality of under 45,000 — was paid $233,349.56. The mere finance minister of a vast and fiscally admired

country of around 35 million, Jim Flaherty, is paid the standard cabinet salary of $236,900 — a bare gap of about 1.5 per cent above McRadu’s.Yep, folks, Canada’s closely knit mandarins have the taxpayers by the short-andcurlies.

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West Van preened that its 2012 annual report won “the” Canadian Award for Financial Reporting for clarity and full disclosure, conferred by the Government Finance Officers Association.

Well and good. Council under fiscal conservative Mayor Mike Smith deserves warm praise for freezing local tax rates in the last couple of years.

But, curiosity raised, I called Jim Phillips at GFOA headquarters in Chicago: Were any

other Canadian cities so honoured?

Phillips replied: Not all the tallying has been done, but about 50 of them were.

Not quite the exclusive award it seemed to be.

By the way, the GFOA, with 17,500 members in the U.S. and Canada, holds its annual convention next month in, wait for it, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.You were expecting Inuvik?

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Ha, ha, what would Marxist mass murderers Lenin and Stalin say about an exquisite Russian couple dancing on Sochi’s ice to “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend?”

Possibly: The revolution’s over, comrades.

Or not. The old tyrants might say: Patience. The Western capitalist nations are collapsing, just as

Marx predicted.

As I’ve found in my last three or four years of university classes, neoMarxist theory is valiantly kept on life support in Western academe.

Meanwhile post-Soviet Russia has maintained a few old evils while adopting some of the West’s.

Nothing as decadent, though, as the growing legal acceptance of drugs.

Marijuana, already touted as the next big investment thing, followed for sure by a high-priced regulatory and health system bureaucracy paid for by the squares, will become kid stuff. This shy voice long ago predicted: Legalizing pot is nearer to the beginning than the end of the drug disaster.

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Transit tension mounting in region The increasingly serious game of chicken between the provincial government and the mayors of Metro Vancouver over transit funding shows no sign of ending.

Last week, I wrote that the transit referendum scheduled for the fall faced a rocky road before actually being held.

Now, however, the standoff casts doubt on whether that referendum will actually be held at the same time as the upcoming municipal elections.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone now insists he wants the mayors to craft a “vision” of transit priorities, and plans to use that to frame the question to put to voters in the fall. Good luck with that.

Historically, the mayors have displayed little evidence of agreeing on how to pay for transit improvements.

For example, proposals like a parking tax or a vehicle levy have been kicked around

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from time to time, but various mayors have balked at those ideas.

Then there is the question of transit priorities.

This is where searching for that elusive consensus really breaks down.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson wants a rapid transit line down West Broadway out to the University of B.C. But Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts (whose municipality is the fastest growing of them all) insists three light rail lines are needed in her town.

Then there is New Westminster.The first capital city’s ancient network of roads can’t handle much more traffic, a fact cemented by the recent influx of cars and trucks avoiding the Port Mann Bridge toll in favour of the Pattullo Bridge, which feeds into the city.

And so New Westminster doesn’t want an expanded Pattullo Bridge, which is what Surrey favours. Can’t everyone just get along?

Stone (and Premier Christy Clark) is adamant the referendum will be held.

But given the apparent unanimous opposition of the mayors affected, it is hard to see the point of carrying through with it.

If the mayors don’t deliver that “vision” of transit priorities that Stone is looking for, what kind of question would he put on the ballot? Does he ask voters to approve some kind of tax or levy that isn’t supported by the mayors, only to watch as it

is voted down? Because the referendum was a campaign promise in the B.C. Liberal platform, it’s hard to see the government bailing on it entirely, even though the Opposition New Democrats are calling for it to be scrapped.

Part of the sensitivity here is the painful lesson learned from the HST debacle: don’t spring a new tax on voters without getting their approval first, or before at least spending a long time educating them about the need for it.

A possible compromise here would be to hold the referendum at a later date. As I noted last week, a number of mayors are spooked at asking voters to approve a new revenue measure in a referendum at the same time they are seeking re-election.

A better, and more workable option may be to

hold the referendum next spring or even the following fall. After all, even in the unlikelihood of a referendum question being approved by the voters in the fall, no new transit project is going to be built anytime soon.

Whether it’s the UBC rapid transit line or a Surrey light rail line or a further extension of SkyTrain, any such project won’t begin being built for at least a year anyways. So there is no urgent need to have the referendum in the fall.

The premier says she favours the fall vote because voters will be more focused, and she argues that an election is the perfect time for a debate to occur around issues and policies.

She may be right about that, but voter turnout in municipal elections is usually quite low.

Given what’s at stake regarding potential transit

improvements (there are about $20 billion worth of projects on various drawing boards) surely the best scenario is to hold a referendum when there is more enthusiasm for it.

The provincial government needs the mayors to buy into this scheme. And the mayors need to put aside their parochial positions and come up with a regional plan (however difficult it may be to achieve that).

The government, having been elected with a transit referendum as part of its campaign platform, can legitimately argue the voters have endorsed such a thing.

But the mayors can argue they are beholden to their constituents — and not the region — at election time.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC Keith.

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First Nations call for radiation tests Effects on marine life from Fukushima fallout a concern

JOHN GLEESON AND JEREMY SHEPHERD editor@nsnews.com

B.C.’s grand chief and First Nation leaders on the Sunshine Coast are supporting a call for Ottawa to “systematically and properly” study the full impact of Fukushima radiation on theWest Coast fishery.

Radiation from the March 2011 nuclear accident arrived off the B.C. coast last year, Robin Brown, ocean sciences division manager with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, said Feb. 4.

“According to our observations, the radiation from Fukushima was detected in B.C. coastal waters in June 2013. Barely detectable, but detectable,” Brown said.

Although the federal government tested food samples, including some domestic fish species, in 2011 and early 2012, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said last week (Feb. 5) that “further testing of

imported or domestic food products for the presence of radioactive material is not required.”

Last month,Tahlton Central Council president Annita McPhee wrote national Chief Shawn Ain-chut Atleo, urging him to press Ottawa for action amid growing concerns by members of the Tahltan Nation in northwestern B.C. “We cannot sit by and watch and wait to see what the full impacts of the Fukushima disaster will be on our salmon and our way of life,” McPhee wrote. “To date, we have not seen or heard of Canada taking this issue seriously and working in a real way to address it.”

The letter called on Atleo to “raise this issue at the highest levels of the federal government, and demand action.”

In an interview, McPhee said news reports about Fukushima have bred fear in her community.

“Some people are not eating their fish because they’re scared. Some people don’t want to feed it to their

kids.We don’t want to get cancer.We already have lots of cancer up in our area. I mean, lots,” McPhee said.

“The Tahltan people have been very concerned about what’s going on.We get our fish from the Stikine River, but it comes from the Pacific Ocean,” she said. “As First Nations, we’ve got to come together and address this, force the government’s hand.

We have a right to know if our fish is safe to eat.”

B.C. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip echoed that view, calling the federal government’s inaction “highly irresponsible.

“I think it’s certainly a legitimate concern,” Phillip said. “Other jurisdictions — other countries — realize there is a very real potential for contamination.

Unfortunately, Canada doesn’t seem to be taking any steps whatsoever to acknowledge this as a potential threat.”

Instead, Phillip noted, DFO has been downsized, representing “a significant disinvestment” in the West Coast fishery.

“It’s not only unacceptable, but it’s very negligent of the government of Canada,” he said.

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Nation member Rueben George, radiation concerns are just one more aggravating aspect in an increasingly threatened environment.

“I think overall it’s been progressively worse and worse and worse, and that’s just one of the destructive factors,” he said.

Personally hesitant about eating fish from the region, George said questions about escalating cancer rates need to be addressed.

“Already there’s so many questions that I think our society needs to know. At what level is it too dangerous?” he asked.

On the Upper Sunshine Coast, Sliammon Chief Clint Williams said he fully backs McPhee’s call for testing and full disclosure.

“Our people really cherish salmon, it’s always been part of our culture, so we absolutely encourage that.We want to make sure our food is safe. And it’s not just salmon either — it’s clams, geoducks, sea urchins,”Williams said. “I’m sure those concerns are shared all up and down the coast here.”

Former Shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation chief Calvin Craigan concurred, saying

that any contamination of natural foods from the sea will affect coastal Native communities.

“If that’s going to happen in the long term, and it is, all First Nations have to get together and call for testing,” Craigan said.

Last October, a report by five DFO scientists concluded that, due to ocean currents, “the inventory of

Fukushima radioactivity will almost entirely shift from the western to the eastern North Pacific during the next five years.”

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that for six months the Portland Hotel Society’s Drug Users Resource Centre has been providing two crackpipe vending machines — the better, you see, to protect addicts from reusing pipes and thus getting and passing on diseases. A bargain for only 25 cents a pipe, and another Vancouver first that we don’t need — like the taxpayer-funded “safe” injection site championed by its enablers and enthusiasts.

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DFO to continue water sample tests From page 9 different study models.

One model suggested ocean contamination would exceed levels of maximum fallout from nuclear tests and previous accidents such as Chernobyl, while the other model said levels would equal the amount of contamination that existed in 1990.

“These levels are still well below maximum permissible concentrations in drinking water for cesium-137,” the report said. “Not an environmental or human health radiological threat!”

Despite that caveat, the report cited “many reasons for study,” including human health and marine biota.

Brown, one of the co-authors of the report, acknowledged that neither study factored in ongoing discharges from Fukushima after the March 2011 release.

“But there are several lines of evidence,” he added, “to suggest that the ongoing releases, while serious, are small compared to the initial release and will not impact arrival time or peak concentration.”

DFO will continue to test water samples from a line of monitoring stations in the Pacific, Brown said, stressing the low levels that have been detected to date.

“These levels are in the barely detectable range.They are extremely low,” he said.

Asked if West Coast marine life was being tested, Brown said: “I know Health Canada is doing some kind of research mode measurements. I know they are measuring concentrations in fish.”

When contacted, however, Health Canada referred Coast Reporter to the CFIA, which said tests were conducted on some

species in August 2011 and February 2012, and all test results were below Health Canada action limits.

“Based on our test results, as well as our ongoing assessment of information from a variety of expert resources, further testing of imported or domestic food products for the presence of radioactive material is not required,” the agency said in an email response.

“The CFIA continues to monitor events in Japan and assess any potential impacts on Canada’s food supply,” the agency added. “Information from Japanese officials, Canadian government partners, Canada’s foreign embassies and international authorities are considered as part of our assessment.”

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THIS WEEK: — Granville Island hostsWinterruption Festival Feb. 14-16.The PerformanceWorks Music Series presented by Coastal Jazz and Blues Society includes ticketed and free shows from artists such as Qalandar. See story page 25. For complete schedule visit granvilleisland.com/ winterruption.

— NeverYouMind Productions presents A Particular Class of Women at Presentation House Theatre Feb. 18-23.

See story page 18. For more information visit phtheatre.org.

— The 17th annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival continues this weekend with the grand finale awards presentation set for Centennial Theatre tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. For more information visit vimff.org.

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She danced for the first time when she was three years old.

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practice and my dance informs my experience in school,” she says. “The thing about teaching is that it makes you articulate what you otherwise wouldn’t have to articulate so you’re breaking down things that when you’re just dancing yourself you might not have to.”

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Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder Photographer Katie Huisman explores Physical Attraction

■ Katie Huisman: Physical Attraction, Feb. 13 to March 8 at Initial Gallery, 2339 Granville St.,Vancouver. Artist talk Feb. 22, 2-3 p.m.

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Physical attraction has much to do with measurements, according to recent findings by Vancouver-based photographer Katie Huisman. For her new solo exhibit, aptly titled Physical Attraction, on until March 8 at South Granville’s Initial Gallery, Huisman photographed 50 couples, varying in age, ethnicity and sexual orientation.The

length of the relationship also ranges, from two months to 61 years.

Ever-curious about the nature of attraction and the instant magnetism that draws certain people together, Huisman snapped each of her subjects from 12 different angles and then superimposed the partners’ faces on top of each other, creating a composite image.

She then measured the distance between pupils and discovered that, of the couples photographed, 90 per cent of the horizontal distances between the eyes match within two millimeters. And when viewed from the side, the couples appeared to mirror each other.

“It’s interesting that 86 per cent of the profiles matched up in the couples that I studied,” she says.

Additionally, Huisman found that 86 per cent of the vertical distances between the nose and eyes match.

The results surprised her.

“I thought perhaps the matching faces would be more evident in younger couples,” she says, explaining she originally believed people in their late teens and 20s might be more likely to get together based on physical appearance. But she was wrong. “It’s totally systematic throughout all ages, so I was really surprised by that.”

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Huisman considered that and intentionally recruited photo subjects who, superficially, looked very different when viewed side by side.

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“Generally when I dance I want audience members to feel something in their body that they’ve felt before so I want to access something that is generally and universally human, and I want to pull something out of them that could be a specific feeling, it could be a memory, it could be an emotion,” she says. “I would rather that than any type of awe.”

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Those involved in an upcoming play profiling the intimate lives of a group of women working in a strip club in the 1980s hope audiences walk away inspired to think before jumping to conclusions about a person’s personality based upon their profession.

“The play is really about breaking stereotypes that we often hold in our society, whether we know it or not,” says Flora Karas, one of the creators of NeverYouMind Productions, which is set

to open its production of A Particular Class of Women,Tuesday at North Vancouver’s Presentation HouseTheatre.

“A lot of the times when you think of strippers there’s a whole slew of associations that come to mind.This play basically deconstructs those stereotypes and I think that’s really important because it doesn’t matter whether you’re working as a fireman, whether you’re working as a stripper, whether you’re working as a real estate agent, all of those professions come with a slew of stereotypes,” she says.

Karas, aVancouver resident, formed NeverYouMind Productions in February 2013 with partners Lauren A. Campbell and Lisa-Marie Marrelli.

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community theatre group Emerald Pig, based in Maple Ridge.

“We had such a great ride with it, we won a couple of awards in a local community theatre competition, and after the play was over, we just felt like we weren’t done with it yet, there was so much more we could do,” says Campbell, a Port Coquitlam resident.

A Particular Class ofWomen was written by Canadian playwright Janet Feindel and was inspired by a 1985 Ontario court case where a judge minimized a crime against a stripper, saying the victim “was from a particular class of women whose profession it is to promote lust,” according to the play’s promotional materials.

“It’s just a really empowering and beautiful story that we wanted to bring toVancouver,” says Campbell.

With Karas on board, the trio decided A Particular Class ofWomen would be their inaugural production and premiered the play last

fall at Granville Island’s WaterfrontTheatre and atThe Columbia in New Westminster.They’re currently touring the work, having just completed a run last week atVancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre.

They’re bringing the show to Presentation House Feb. 18-23, and then to Port Moody’s InletTheatre, March 6-8.

All three women are featured performers in the play, joined by five other actors.The action centres around one woman, Lil, played by Michelle Ferguson, who gets fired because she’s considered to be too old to be a stripper, and is interwoven with monologues by her colleagues atThe Cabaret Circus.

Campbell plays Luv, “a Southern belle,” who opens up about abuse experienced in her marriage, leaving her husband and the challenges of supporting her children.

Empowered by her journey, she talks openly about her sexuality.

Karas plays Pink Champagne, who emigrated from Poland to Canada.

“She does not in any way feel shameful for what she does, she takes a lot of pride in her work and she’s using it as a stepping stone towards attaining her highest and greatest good, which is movie stardom,” says Karas. “She wants to be a movie star and this is where she’s beginning.

Nobody’s going to tell her otherwise. She’s full of optimism when it comes to her success. She has worked very hard to get to where she is.”

Pink Champagne’s story resonates with Karas as her own mother and grandmother emigrated from Greece to Canada in pursuit of a better life.

“There is no difference with the personality type between me or my mom or Pink Champagne.We will do anything we can to grow and to attain our highest and greatest goods,” she says.

Marrelli, a Maple Ridge resident, also feels a connection to her character, based on a shared love of making people laugh.

Bringing Clown Angel — or “Miss Nude Newfoundland” as she’s referred to by the

MC — to life, required her to draw upon her clown training undertaken as part of her theatrical background.

“Clowns always tend to cover up so much of their sadness,” says Marrelli.While Clown Angel is a hilarious, upbeat performer, the sad side of her story comes out

— that she was a victim of rape and lost her sister to suicide.

Despite its focus on the inner world of those working in exotic dance clubs, the play is intended to have wide appeal.

“It’s about empowering women, it’s about giving the

strength for people to step outside of their boundaries, outside of their comfort zones and to feel something different,” says Marrelli.

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PUBLIC HEARING 962 Montroyal Boulevard What:

Public Hearing on proposed District of North Vancouver Rezoning Bylaw 1304 (Bylaw 8034)

When:

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Where:

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The proposed subdivision requires an amendment to the Zoning Bylaw to establish specific lot size regulations for the subject property.

What changes?

In order to create the two 10m (33ft) lots, the site must be added to Section 310 Special Minimum Lot Sizes in the Zoning Bylaw. The proposed subdivision will create two 10m (33ft) lots that are generally in keeping with the established lot pattern along the north side of the 900 block of Montroyal Blvd.

When can I speak?

Please join us on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 when Council will be receiving input from the public on this proposal. You can speak in person by signing up at the Hearing or by providing a written submission to the Municipal Clerk at the address below or input@dnv.org before the conclusion of the Hearing.

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The bylaw, Council resolution, staff report, and other relevant background material are available for review by the public at the Municipal Clerk’s Office or online at www.dnv.org/public_hearing. Office hours are Monday to Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm.

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Audience reacts positively to play’s honest portrayals From page 19

life, the roles require a fair amount of physical openness as well, as the actors wear bikini costumes, and generally show a lot of skin throughout.

“It’s the scariest show to do but through that great vulnerability I think I’ve

personally found a great strength,” says Karas. “I’ve never been comfortable with my quote-unquote meat suit. . . .When you have to really own it and live in it and share it with an audience, I feel like I’ve entered a whole other level of self-confidence and acceptance and love for the human body. I know for

the other girls in the cast, just us being so courageous and around each other all the time and seeing all the different shapes and sizes, has helped us have a sense of confidence that comes from within. A lot of the time women’s confidence comes from an external thing.”

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PUBLIC HEARING

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When:

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Where:

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What:

Public Hearing on proposed North Vancouver Rezoning Bylaw 1302 (Bylaw 8028)

When:

7 pm, Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Where:

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What is it?

The bylaw proposes to redevelop two single family lots located at 3014 and 3022 Sunnyhurst Road for a seven unit townhouse project which require rezoning and issuance of a development permit.

What changes?

Bylaw 8029 rezones the subject site from Residential Single Family 6000 Zone (RS4) to Comprehensive Development 51 (CD51) to enable the development of a seven unit residential townhouse project.

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“I think it was just a magical journey right from the beginning because we all came together out of the good of telling this story. I often say the magic follows

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of the performers.That empowerment has given the actors further motivation.

NeverYouMind Productions’ version of A Particular Class ofWomen has so far been well-received, which the company cocreators are incredibly grateful for.

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to do, but the most beautiful thing to do, for any actor, any woman, to just fully accept their body exactly as they are, imperfections and everything,” she adds.

Many female audience members have thanked the actors for the feelings of empowerment that grew after witnessing the fearlessness

Please join us on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 when Council will be receiving input from the public on this proposal. You can speak in person by signing up at the Hearing or by providing a written submission to the Municipal Clerk at the address below or input@dnv.org before the conclusion of the Hearing.

The bylaw, Council resolution, staff report, and other relevant background material are available for review by the public at the Municipal Clerk’s Office or online at www.dnv.org/public_hearing. Office hours are Monday to Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm.

What is it?

The bylaw proposes to redevelop six single family lots located at 1570, 1576, and 1584 East Keith Road and 743, 763, and 777 Orwell Street and a small portion of road allowance for a thirty-two unit townhouse project which requires rezoning and issuance of a development permit.

What changes?

Bylaw 8028 rezones the subject site from Residential Single Family 7200 Zone (RS3) to Comprehensive Development 76 (CD76) to enable the development of a thirty-two unit residential townhouse project.

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Please join us on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 when Council will be receiving input from the public on this proposal. You can speak in person by signing up at the Hearing or by providing a written submission to the Municipal Clerk at the address below or input@dnv.org before the conclusion of the Hearing.

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Who can I speak to? Casey Peters, Community Planner, at 604-990-2388 or petersc@dnv.org.

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Karas and her partners have high hopes for their new company and plan to unveil a full season of plays next year.

In the meantime, all efforts are focused on completing the current tour of their inaugural production and they encourage community members to take in an upcoming performance.

“We are baring all, essentially we are going to take all off, figuratively, and show the world a different side of theatre, and a different side of humans,” says Marrelli.

“Give it a shot. Give us a try. Come, test the waters and then judge us after.This is about not judging people, this is about breaking those boundaries and we want people to walk away talking,” she adds.

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CALENDAR From page 21 North Vancouver. Open by appointment only. 604-9903700 x8016 NorthVancouver Experience, an ongoing

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Land and See: Acrylic on canvas landscapes and flowers by BeatriceWatson and photographs and cut and paste abstract compositions by Cindy Goodman will be on display Feb. 23-April 13.

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MUSIC

Qalandar builds on Persian tradition

Gordon Grdina performing with new band at Winterruption fest

■ Qalandar, Performance Works, Granville Island, Sunday, Feb. 16 at 3:15 and 4:30 p.m. All ages, free admission as part of Winterruption 2014.

For music schedule visit coastaljazz.ca/series/ winterruption_2014.

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Musician Gordon Grdina has performed in many different contexts since graduating from Capilano College, with a degree in Jazz Studies, back in 2000.

As a member of Dan Mangan’s touring band as well as the leader of several jazz and world music ensembles (such as Sangha, which also includes fellow Cap grads Hidayat Honari and Neelamjit Dhillon) Grdina is used to working in a wide range of formats as a guitarist and oud player.

His latest band, Qalandar, gives Grdina a chance to tap into Vancouver’s Persian community for inspiration.

The ensemble, featuring Reza Honari on kamanche, Ali Razmi on tar, Hamin Honari on tombak and daf, Kenton Loewen on drums and Grdina on oud, combines Arabic, Persian and free improvisation with traditional tunes and contemporary pieces.

“Every band’s got its own purpose,” says Grdina. “Even though how the music’s made seems all the same to me the outcome of how it all comes together depends on who the musicians are and what music you’re playing.

Early on whatever I was interested in artistically went off in different directions. I was into a lot of stuff — Persian, Arabic and Indian music. I got See Drummer page 26

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Drummer opens up the sound From page 25

into doing more specifically Arabic stuff and started Haram, a big 10-piece, but that’s also influenced by all my free jazz friends in town who play that music so it’s kind of a hybrid of those two things.

Qalandar is really trying to delve deeper into Persian music mixing that with a more Western sense of improvisation.”

Up until now Qalandar have rarely performed live although they have played a few gigs at China Cloud on Main St. while developing their sound. They initially formed as a quartet but after playing a few shows

Grdina suggested bringing Loewen into the mix.

“We started talking about how we wanted to add some other things to it and move it around,” Grdina says. “I kept wanting to hear Kenton, who is my favourite drummer in town, and Hamin play, because I think they are very similar.

I thought, ‘Man we’ve got to get those two together.’

When the opportunity came up we added Kenton and that just fit perfectly and everybody liked it. It’s another groove element and another percussive thing for them to influence each other. It really opens up the way we play which

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“I feel that often gets said just because that’s what Kenton and I do,” he says. “Of course that’s an influence but that’s just because I’m playing and that’s a thing I’ve done a whole lot of but you would never hear anything in there that you would think sounds ‘jazzy.’ We’re not bringing anything in there to make it sound Western. It’s just the fact that it’s a drum kit that makes that happen.

“We’re playing Persian rhythms on a drum kit so the universality of rhythm is there. There’s certain beats that are almost hip-hop beats but it’s a traditional Persian rhythm pattern. It’s all coming out of that. Once you’re improvising it’s counterintuitive to try and cut off things that you know in order to create something specific. Everything is coming out so there’s stuff that we’re playing that will have been influenced from listening to Ornette Coleman or something like that. Things will come out percussion-wise or in a drum solo that will sound like Ed Blackwell or something African and

that’s just because of the person that’s doing it. It’s not something that was specifically thought or brought to the table.”

Grdina says it’s a testament to the sensitivity of Loewen as a drummer that he can work himself into Qalandar’s sound.

“His ability to play a massive dynamic scale and to intuitively get onboard with things makes it work. There’s something happening and he plays along with it — he knows rhythm, he knows time, he’s studied Indian music, he’s got a lot of influences within him. He used to play tabla. There’s all these things in him that allow him to be open to the complexities of the rhythms. He can do it on the fly and instantly recognize what he needs to do to be a part of it. It’s the sensitivity of his playing that makes it possible.”

As a relatively new project Qalandar is in the process of figuring out what they want to play.

“We’re still working on repertoire,” says Grdina.

“We’re working on where we’re going to push the direction of the band.

Everybody’s written stuff for the band. I have three tunes in mind that are sort of in an Arabic style with some universal things.

There’s nothing that is specifically Persian but it works within the repertoire that we know together and then Ali has written some tunes that are pretty traditionally Persian. I

Discography ■ Gordon Grdina / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian: Think Like the Waves (Songlines 2006) ■ Gordon Grdina’s Box Cutter: Unlearn (Spool 2006) ■ Gordon Grdina Trio: ...If Accident Will (Plunge 2008) ■ Gordon Grdina’s East Van Strings: Breathing of Statues (Songlines 2009) ■ Gordon Grdina Trio with Mats Gustafsson: Barrel Fire (Drip Audio 2010) ■ Gordon Grdina’s Haram: Her Eyes Illuminate (Songlines 2012) ■ Gordon Grdina & Mark Helias: No Difference (Songlines 2013) think he’s going to do some singing on it too. Resa has also written some pieces for it and then there’s a piece that Neel wrote for Sangha in a Persian style.

There’s not really a classic repertoire that we’re doing in this band — it’s more of a contemporary take on Persian ideas.”

— Qalandar performs two shows Sunday afternoon at PerformanceWorks as part of the three-dayWinterruption Festival on Granville Island.

For more of the interview with Grdina go to nsnews. com/entertainment.

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FILM

In Robocop the future is now

■ Robocop. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton.

Rating: 5 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

It’s a banner week if you grew up watching ’80s movies, since Friday sees remakes of both Robocop and About Last Night hitting the big screen.

About Last Night takes place in a present where Kevin Hart takes over from Jim Belushi; Robocop takes place in the near future, where Detroit looks an awful lot likeVancouver.

In 2028, mechanized limbs have been fine-tuned to the point where an amputee can play classical guitar again. But the arts don’t pay the bills — as every classical guitarist and writer know — so the company plans to turn a profit with a shiny, new law-and-order “product.” Robots are already being used overseas See Not page 29

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Not much human left after Omnicorp gets involved

From page 28

in military deployments (“Operation Freedom Tehran” starts the film off) but the plan is to have robots serve and protect, stateside.

That’s where policeman Alex Murphy comes in (Joel Kinnaman, of TV’s The Killing). Murphy is in the middle of a weapons investigation when a car bomb detonates, burning 80 per cent of his body and leaving him near death. An Omnicorp doctor (Gary Oldman) offers Murphy’s distraught wife (Abbie Cornish) a radical way to save him. But “what kind of life will he have?” she worries.

At first Alex is too human, too slow, according to Omnicorp president Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton, a convincing baddie). Dr. Norton is ordered to tweak Alex and take out some more of that pesky human fallibility.

There’s not much human

left, by the way: a very cool dismantling scene shows exactly which bits of Alex are still left.We can see the inner workings of his brain pulsating, his throat swallowing.

This time around the science is a little more exact: Robocop gets his specific dosages of nutrients from a high-tech feeding system, rather than from sludge in a Dixie cup. Separated from his wife and son, Alex is dehumanized further, to the point where “now when the visor comes down he’s just a passenger . . . . with the illusion of free will.”

How much humanity do we need to enforce the law and administer justice?

Does profit always trump goodwill? One perspective is hammered home via Samuel L. Jackson, as a nightly cable show newsman who gives America the hard sell on the efficiency of Omnicorp’s robots.

Kinnaman doesn’t

quite have PeterWeller’s cheekbones, but he does have the pre-Robo swagger and post-op icy stare, both necessary Robocop ingredients.

Director Jose Padilha offers many modern updates from PaulVerhoeven’s 1987 original (the police chief is a woman, for example, and even badass dads kiss their boys goodnight). But there are also bursts of nostalgia for Robo fans (the throwback line “I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar,” plus strains of the original score). But in an age of Transformers and superheroes, Robocop might not be novel enough to score legions of new fans.

Overall there’s too much exposition between explosions.The original was darkly comic, but despite some good supporting performances (Jay Baruchel, Jackie Earl Haley), the sequel is mirthless and too buttoned-up. Robocop needs to loosen a bolt or two.

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CALENDAR From page 22 WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St.,West Vancouver.TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7295 westvancouvermuseum.ca Ukiyoe Spectacular: Over 100 Japanese woodblock prints from the 1800s will be on display until March 22.

Kuniyoshi’s comic prints: Saturday, March 8, 2-4 p.m.

YEATS STUDIO & GALLERY 2402 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver.WednesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 778279-8777 craigyeats.com

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ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

North Shore Folk and Blues Club: Acoustic musical entertainment the third Sunday of each month, 7-10 p.m.The Gram Partisons and Stab the Cat, as well as various artists, will perform Feb. 16.Admission: $10 at the door. 604-986-3078 CAFÉ FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

138-140 East Esplanade, North Vancouver. MondayFriday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. 778-340-3379 cafeforcontemporaryart@ gmail.com CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Cap Jazz Series: The KennyWerner Trio will perform Thursday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m.

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Cap Classics —Viennese Masterpieces: Mozart and Beethoven will be performed by the Borealis Quartet and Gene Ramsbottom on the clarinet Friday, Feb. 21, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

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CALENDAR From page 30 The Food of Love: In celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, Lions Gate Sinfonia will present music inspired by the Bard with a guest narrator Saturday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $39/$35/$12.

Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon: TheWest VancouverYouth Symphonic Band will perform swing classics with guest conductor Dal Richards Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. Other guest artists will include Gene Ramsbottom, Julia Nolan, Marcus Mosely, Malcom Aiken, Bill Sample and Cam Stephens.There will also be a silent auction.Tickets: $28.50.

North Shore Classics 2: TheVancouver Symphony Orchestra will perform Monday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m.

Admission: $38/$34/$25.

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Accompanying Maria will be pianist Brenda Baird and Tim Stacey on the bass.

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A Song on theWind: The Wind Song Trio featuring soprano Catherine Laub, pianist Ritta Attrot and Julie Begg on the clarinet will perform Thursday, Feb. 27 at 10:30 a.m.Tickets: $15/$12.

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Winter Light: The Ambleside Orchestra will perform Friday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.Admission by a

suggested donation of $20. amblesideorchestra.ca WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Friday Night Concert: Traditional Mexican music with a northern twist will be performed by Mariachi Los Dorados Friday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m.

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Love Is: The Marcus Mosely Chorale with guests The Sojourners will perform See more page 36

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DEEP COVE COFFEE HOUSE Mount Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver. 604-3635370 jane@nsrj.ca The Honeyflowers: Betty Berda and Shelley Stevens will perform original tunes Friday, Feb. 21 at 9 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. and warm-up acts start at 7:30 p.m.Admission: $10 which includes coffee and goodies.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver.Tickets: 604981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Meeting Mozart: City OperaVancouver will present four singers, two pianists and a narrator to bring the sounds and passion of Mozart Saturday, Feb. 23 at 4 p.m.

Tickets: $35/$30/$25.

WestVancouver District Talent Show: Sentinel, Rockridge andWestVancouver secondary will have five acts each competing for prizes Monday, Feb. 24, 7-9 p.m.

Tickets: $5/$3. Profits will be donated to a local youth charity.

LYNN VALLEY UNITED CHURCH 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. 604-9872114 lynnvalleychurch.com Friday Night Live: A weekly series with improv actors AddLibretto playing hosts to musical guests Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Schedule: Feb. 14, The Sharp 5; Feb. 21, Jennifer Suratos; Feb. 28, Simon Kendall; March 7, Shawn Farquhar and March 14, Silk Road.Admission by suggested donation of $10.

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GRAND OPENING Aritzia’s new flagship store was set to open its doors yesterday as part of the Park Royal South expansion.

Aritzia first opened its single boutique 30 years ago inVancouver.

The newWest Vancouver location will be the largest in Canada.

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There may still be brisk temperatures in the Lower Mainland weather forecast, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking (or fantasizing) about your spring wardrobe.

Last weekend, Holt Renfrew vice-president, fashion editor Lisa Tant, a former West Vancouver resident now based in Toronto, visited the

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luxury department store’s Vancouver location to present a spring 2014 fashion overview.The runway show highlighted four key trends.

Sugar Rush According to Tant, spring 2014 sees the return of pretty pastels. Look for these girlie shades in everything from soft, flowing dresses to more structured blazers.

To incorporate this trend into your wardrobe,Tant

recommends investing in a statement pastel piece that can be paired with everything from other pastels to boyfriend jeans and high heels. And when it comes to accessorizing,Tant says metallics complement pastel ensembles well.

Pattern Play Big, bold and colourful prints are hot for the upcoming season. From oversized flowers to a mix of stripes and dots, these

patterns make a statement.

Tant recommends adding some contrast to your patterned ensemble by pairing prints with basics — like a crisp white shirt.

Urban Sport The Olympics are in full swing, and so too is sportswear-inspired style.

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LOOK MY HEART WILL GO ON Roses and chocolates - yawn!

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THE GOOD FIGHT We’re harbouring a little crush on designer/actor/model/ director/all-round Renaissance man, Waris Ahluwalia. Now we can finally wear his jewels— affordably, that is. The dapper designer collaborated with ALDO on a #FriendsFight friendship bracelet, and for a good cause. Read more on www.vitamindaily.com

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Small enough to slip into a pocket or purse, but filled with so much information that you won’t want to leave it behind.

The first book of Princeton Architectural Press’s new Instant Expert series takes a detailed look at fashion’s most coveted item.

More than simply a look a shoe fashion, O’Keeffe hits a wide range of topics and provides expert advice on each one.

Proper shoe fitting, names for all the various styles,

Fashion File BLUSH BRIDAL CLOSING After eight years in business, Blush Bridal and Special Occasions on Bellevue Avenue in West Vancouver is tossing the bouquet and calling it a day. The store’s closing out celebration will include a bridal sample sale Feb. 14-17, featuring designer bridal gowns and evening wear for spring and fall 2014. blushoccasions.com

how a hand-crafted shoe is made, top international designers, and many other topics are highlighted. To make things even more interesting there are plenty of fascinating bits of shoerelated trivia, such as a version of Dorothy’s red slippers that jeweller Harry Winston created using 25 carats of diamonds and 1,500 carats of rubies.

With a $3-million price tag they are considered to be the most expensive shoes ever made.

Throughout the book are remarks from designers, shoemakers, and collectors expressing their expert opinions on a variety of topics. There are

WE LOVE THE WILD CAMPAIGN On Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, apparel and outdoor goods company Sitka will donate 100 per cent of its online proceeds to the Pacific Wild Alliance, a non-profit organization working to protect wildlife and their habitat in B.C.’s Great Bear Forest. sitka.ca VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK fall/winter 2014 takes place March 1824.VFW features both emerging and established

a number of photographs but most of the shoes are presented with exquisitely drawn illustrations by Tonwen Jones.

— Terry Peters

designers from more than 30 global fashion capitals.

The bi-annual six-day event is attended by more than 20,000 guests including industry professionals, buyers, media and VIPs. For tickets and info visit vanfashionweek.com Compiled by Christine Lyon Fashion File is a weekly column. Priority is given to North Shore events and organizations. Send your info as early as possible to clyon@nsnews.com.

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CALENDAR From page 31

firstimpressionstheatre.com Private Eyes: A comedy of suspicionWednesdays to Saturdays, Feb. 27-March 15 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $18/$16.

a gospel celebration of love Friday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $25/$20.Tickets: themarcusmoselychorale.ca or mmtickets@shaw.ca. Info: 604-770-0744.

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ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Grand Theft Impro: An improv sketch show that uses audiences suggestions to create 90 minutes of stories, scenes, songs and comedic chaos, the last Saturday of every month at 10:30 p.m.Tickets: $12.

CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Witness for the Prosecution: An Agatha Christie classic courtroom drama will run until Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. with a matinee Feb. 15 at 2 p.m.Tickets: $22/$15/$10.

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-9456

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Chelsea Hotel:The Songs of Leonard Cohen: An eclectic cabaret of loves won and lost Feb. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $50/$42/$25.

Alice inWonderland: A Sentinel secondary stage production Feb. 25-March 1 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee March 1 at 2 p.m..Admission: $17/$15.Tickets: sentinelstage. ca or at the door.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. 604-9903474 phtheatre.org A Particular Class of Women: A deconstruction of the often held stereotypes of strippers with a comedic journey into the world of strip clubs in the 1980s Feb. 18-22 at 8 p.m. with a matinee Feb. 23 at 2 p.m.Tickets: $23-$28.

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Design in Calgary. She runs a freelance commercial photography business in addition to pursuing her artistic projects. Physical Attraction is her first solo exhibit in Vancouver.The concept came to her three years ago.

“I found myself really interested in observing people in romantic partnerships and kind of taking a look at their faces and wondering what attracts them and noticing similarities between couples and spouses,” she explains.

“That really inspired me to start photographing them and looking at them in a really systematic way.”

Realizing that many long-term partners adopt each other’s expressions and mannerisms over time, Huisman opted to shoot all her subjects mug shot style and in black and white to strip the couples of any similarities that might be apparent in person.

While she says she realizes there is more to attraction and the

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nature of relationships than mathematical measurements, she also doesn’t think the similarities she discovered are coincidental.

“Personally, it’s changed my own view in romance,” she says of her photo series. “It made me realize that our intellect and our instinct maybe sometimes have a little bit of a battle.

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intellectual level, others may be more a primordial attraction.”

In researching the “why factor,” she came across the not-so-romantic concept of assortative mating, which states that animals, humans included, tend to selectively mate based on common characteristics. Meanwhile, she’s heard many inquiries as to what role narcissism plays in partner selection.

“That’s not something I’ve looked into too much,” she says, “but it creates an interesting conversation, especially with our information world and our constant self-profiling.”

Whatever the reason behind her “similars attract” findings, Huisman hopes her exhibit creates a discussion — one that she is excited to participate in on Feb. 22 when Initial Gallery hosts an artist talk.

“The reality is, long-term relationships and coexisting with somebody is a constant process of evolutionary flux,” she says. “The purpose of the show is to create a conversation around physical attraction and romance.”

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CALENDAR From page 36 1860 Sutherland Ave., North Vancouver. 604-9033500 Grease: The student theatre group will perform Feb. 20-22 at 7 p.m. (Feb. 21 and 22 sold out.) Admission: $10.Advance tickets can be purchased at the school during lunch hour from 12:35 to 1:20 p.m.

THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca Having Hope at Home: A romantic comedy about home birth Feb. 14, 15, 19-22 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $18/$16.

A Little Grimley Evening: Two short comedies, Last Tango in Little Grimley and Last Panto in Little Grimley, will be performed by the SMP Dramatic Society Feb. 27-March 1 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $15. Reservations: 604-7670665

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Book review

Infographics give us a feast of facts ■ The Infographic History of the World by Valentina D’Efilippo & James Ball. Firefly Books, 224 pages, $35.

Since ancient times man has used drawings to communicate information.

The start of the modern era of information graphics has been credited to William Playfair who invented the line graph and bar graph in 1786, and later pie charts and circle graphs.

We have come a long way since then and authors Valentina D’Efilippo and James Ball celebrate the many unique ways that information can be visually shared in this entertaining look at the history of the world. They present their data in four sections: In the Beginning, Getting Civilized, Nation Building, and The Modern World.

Within those categories they look at a wide range of topics covering everything from the Big Bang theory

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DJs spin classic dance music from the ’80s, ’90s and today.

QUEENS CROSS PUB 2989 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. queenscross.com AdamWoodall performs acoustic music every Sunday, 7:30-11:30 p.m.

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CALENDAR From page 37 2427 Marine Drive,West Vancouver. 604-926-8838 Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty will perform every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m.

RUSTY GULL 175 East First St., North Vancouver. Live music Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Mostly Marley performs every Sunday, 7 p.m.

SAILOR HAGAR’S BREW PUB 235 West First St., North

Vancouver. Live music every Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. 604-9843087 THE VILLAGE TAPHOUSE The Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver. 604-9228882.

WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver.

Other events

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KENNY WERNER TRIO

February 20 @ 8 pm $30/$27

With Ari Hoenig (drums) and Johannes Weidenmueller (bass).

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March 3 @ 8 pm $57/$54

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A theatrical evocation of the music of Leonard Cohen.

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March 8 @ 8 pm $32/$29

Brazilian singer/songwriter with pianist Philippe Baden Powell.

138-140 East Esplanade, North Vancouver.

Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. 778-340-3379 or cafeforcontemporaryart@ gmail.com Open Mic: Actors, musicians, poets and spoken word artists are invited to take the microphone every second and last Friday of the month from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

New Works: Readings of new work by local playwrights the third Thursday of the month, 7-9:30 p.m.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: A series of extreme adventure films and presentations will run until Feb. 15.Tickets: $21/$19. Schedule: vimff.org.

Juste pour Rire — Just for Laughs: A line-up of some of the best comedy artists performing in French Friday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $30/$25/$20.

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KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Turandot: A Royal Opera House cinema screening of Puccini’s final opera Sunday, Feb. 16 at 2:30 p.m.Tickets: $20.

Movies at the Meek: The thriller All is Lost will be screened Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $12.

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CALENDAR From page 38 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. 604984-0286 x8144 nvdpl.ca Author Talks: Patricia McCuaig will talk about her book Flying Duchesses: Aristocratic Adventures of a Canadian Pilot which celebrates her father’s adventures as a pilot to the Duke ofWestminster Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7-8:30 p.m.

Registration required.

Movies at Your Library: A screening of Captain Phillips will take place Friday, Feb. 28, 6-8:45 p.m.

Registration required. Free.

SFU Philosopher’s

Café: Sideh Manavipour will moderate a discussion Wednesday, March 12, 7 p.m. on the topic:“Is the phenomenon ‘God’ real?” 778-782-8000 philosopherscafe.net.

Vancouver. 604-929-3727 nvdpl.ca Movies at Your Library: A screening of 12 Monkeys will take place Thursday, Feb. 20, 2:30-4:30 p.m. No registration required. Free.

MOUNT SEYMOUR UNITED CHURCH 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver.

Film Night: A screening of Al Helm (The Dream): Martin Luther King in Palestine will be shown Sunday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m.

Free.

PARK & TILFORD CINEPLEX ODEON THEATRE 200-333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver.

The North Shore International Film Series: The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will screen Canadian, independent and foreign films throughout the fall, winter and

PARKGATE LIBRARY 3675 Banff Court, North

spring. Gabrielle will play Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m.

Tickets: $11. Info: 604988-6844 nvartscouncil. ca/events/north-shoreinternational-film-series.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Songs and Stories: Composer Michael Conway Baker will share show biz, film and concert music stories past and present the third Wednesday of every month, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Admission by donation.

WEST VANCOUVER

BAPTIST CHURCH 450 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver.

Movie Screening: Girl Rising, stories about how educating girls will change the world, will be shown Saturday, Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m. Free.Tickets: eventbrite. ca.

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Jazz Talks with Neil Ritchie: Unique seminars touching on topics from across the decades Tuesdays, until March 4, 10:30 a.m.-

12:30 p.m.

SFU Philosopher’s Café: Randall Mackinnon will moderate a discussion, Friday, Feb. 21 from 10:30 a.m. to noon on the topic:“Should the Senate be abolished or simply admonished?” 778-7828000 philosopherscafe.net Authors in our Community: Writer E.R. Brown will discuss his newly published crime thriller Almost CriminalWednesday, Feb. 26, 7-8:30 p.m.

— compiled by Debbie Caldwell. Email information for your North Shore event to listings@nsnews.com.

NORTH SHORE’S

restaurant guide $ Bargain Fare ($5-8) $ $ Inexpensive ($9-12) $ $ $ Moderate ($13-15) $ $ $ $ Fine Dining ($15-25) LIVE MUSIC

AUSTRIAN Jagerhof Restaurant

OPEN MIC/KARAOKE

BRITISH $ $ $ The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar

Best Little Schnitzel House in Town

71 Lonsdale Ave, N. Van. 604-980-4316

BISTRO Hugos,Artisanal Pizzas and Global Tapas $$

$$

Excellent seafood and British dishes on the Waterfront. Friday and Saturday, Prime Rib Dinner.

Sunday,Turkey Dinner.Weekends and Holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny. Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

CHINESE

For 2 or 200! Enjoy sweeping views through the 6th fairway,to the ocean at Gleneagles Clubhouse.Larson Station West Coast Bistro,a fabulous little restaurant and banquet facility, tucked away on the Gleneagles Golf Course.LIVE MUSIC Fridays & Saturdays BRUNCH on weekends.

Family friendly & casual,with fl avours of the West Coast.

1352 Lonsdale Ave., N. Van. 604-988-9885

Chef Hung Taiwanese Noodle

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The Salmon House

This winter,why not chase the cold away by cozying up in the warmth of Hugos? 2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. 604-987-3322 Bring your family and friends for lunch or dinner and choose from our menu of global favourites.From Neopolitan style pizza to Swiss fondue or crackling Neighbourhood chicken thighs with tamarind sauce Noodles House $ to authentic Tom Kha Gai...there is North Shore’s best variety & quality something for everyone.

Chinese food.Serving Lunch & Dinner 5775 Marine Drive, West Vancouver 7 days a week.Eat in,10% off takeout.

604-281-2111 Free delivery min.$20.00 order within hugos@eagleharbour.ca, 3 kms.

Larson Station West Coast Bistro & Banquets $ $ $

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Serving spectacular views and fine, indigenous west coast cuisine for over 30 years. Lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. Live entertainment in Coho Lounge on weekend evenings.

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604-926-4913

Critically acclaimed worldwide for its delectable beef noodle, Chef Hung has won numerous Championships in Taiwan and now crowned the Kypriaki Taverna $$ Best Noodle House in Vancouver!

For the BEST quality and the BEST Come see what all the excitement prices, come visit or call for delivery is about. today. Open everyday @ Noon for lunch.Voted one of the top 1560 Marine Dr., W. Van. 778-279-8822 5 Greek restaurants in the Lower 6190 Marine Drive, West Vancouver Mainland.With our outstanding UBC Wesbrook Village: 778-279-8874 food, reasonable prices, friendly 102 - 3313 Shrum Lane, Vancouver Truffle House & Café $$ 604-228-8765 service and candle-lit charm you will The Truffle House & Café is truly a see why so many people call it their warm place to eat European cuisine Aberdeen Centre: favourite restaurant. Call for delivery/ with friendly service and reasonable 2800 - 4151 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond take out tonight or come in for a price. Philippe & Fabienne Chaber 604-295-9357 relaxing Mediterranean experience. have created a cozy and www.chefhungnoodle.com

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comfortable atmosphere and offer a delicious combination of French, Italian and West Coast specialties that your taste buds will love.Already $$ well known for their brunch & lunch, The Observatory An epicurean experience 3700’ the Truffle House is pleased to offer you DINNER! Join us Friday & above the twinkling lights of Saturday evenings from 5-10 pm for Vancouver. delicious seasonal menus.

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Grouse Mtn, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, N. Van. 604-998-4403

Handi Cuisine of India

Village Tap House $$

Reader’s Choice 2006 Winner offering Authentic Indian Cuisine.

Open for lunch and dinner,7 days a week.Weekend buffet,ocean view, free delivery.

Palki Best Indian Cuisine $ $ $$$

Classic French cuisine served in an elegant and graceful setting.

For over 34 years, Chez Michel has treated guests to only the best.

Traditional seafood and meat entrees, dressed in rich, tempting sauces, are specially featured alongside a superb selection of wines and a decadent dessert list.

Superior service with a waterfront view helps complete your lunch or dinner experience.

$ $ 1373 Marine Dr. (2nd flr) W. Van.

INDIAN

1340 Marine Dr., W. Van. 604-925-5262 www.handi-restaurant.com

FRENCH Chez Michel

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Where one spicy sauce does not fit all.Readers’Choice award winning restaurant for 5 years! Open for Lunch & Dinner.Lunch Buffet $10.95.

116 East 15th St, N. Van. 604-986-7555 www.palkirestaurant.com

$$

VOTED BEST PUB by you - The Bear is your friendly, comfortable local that has free parking plus a taxi stand.

Full take-out menu. Daily drink and food specials.We are 100% smoke & UFC free. Reserve your Xmas party today [max. 45ppl] limited space.

1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van www.blackbearpub.com 604.990.8880

The Rusty Gull

$$

A Lower Lonsdale legend for 23 years. Home to the best in live music Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun nights. Great food selection that surpasses the norm.

The best weekend breakfasts ‘til 2pm. Great selection of import draft.

All Canucks PPV games on the big screens.

175 East 1st St., N. Van. 604-988-5585 Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub

$$

Offers an excellent menu, the best craft brewed ales & lagers in Vancouver, live music, satellite sports, pool table, dart boards & heated patio with a spectacular city view.

86 Semisch Ave., N. Van. 604-984-3087

Damn good pub! We try to take everything that’s good about a pub, and leave out what’s not, then add lots more good… Start with a comfortable room around a giant fireplace, add 20 ice cold brews on tap, really damn good food, some awesome events, and pretty much the most personable group of folks you’ll ever meet… and welcome to the Village Tap House! Come in for dinner, to catch the game on our dozens of high-def flat screens, or check the events page to see what’s happening this week.

1C - 900 Main Street, Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver 604-922-8882 info@villagetaphouse.com

PUB

The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub

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WEST COAST

Pier 7 restaurant + bar $$$

Enjoy dining on the waterfront with our inspired west coast boat-to-table choices that feature seasonal offerings.Our bar features an extensive wine and cocktail list and 5T.V.s so you’ll never miss a game.We are located in Lower Lonsdale at the Pier,on the water.

No other restaurant in North Vancouver gets you this close to the water.We are open for Lunch & Dinner.

Pier 7: Brunch is now served until 2:30.on weekends and statutory holidays

25 Wallace Mews North Vancouver,BC 604-929-7437 www.pierseven.ca

The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel

SEAFOOD

$$$

Montgomery’s Fish & Chips $

Inspired by BC’s natural abundance of fabulous seafood and the freshest of ingredients, dishes are prepared to reflect west coast cuisine. Open 7-days a week for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night lounge.We are located on the corner of Lonsdale & Esplanade.

The Lobby Bar: We now have Live music every Friday night from 8-11pm!

International Food Court, Lonsdale Quay Market 604-929-8416

WATERFRONT DINING

C-Lovers Fish & Chips

$$

The best fish & chips on the North Shore!

Marine Dr. @ Pemberton, N. Van. 604-980-9993 & OUR NEW LOCATION: 6640 Royal Ave., Horseshoe Bay, W. Van. 604-913-0994 The fastest growing Fish & Chips on the North Shore.

The MarinaSide Grill

THAI Thai PudPong Restaurant

$$

West Vancouver’s original Thai Restaurant. Serving authentic Thai cuisine. Open Monday-Friday for lunch. 7 days a week for dinner.

1474 Marine Dr., W. Van. 604-921-1069 www.thaipudpong.com

138 Victory Ship Way, N. Van. 604-973-8000 www.pinnaclepierhotel.com

$$

Enjoy your Waterfront dining experience with our extensive menu.

From eggs benny to juicy burgers during our popular brunches to our famous prime rib, hot scallop salad, clam chowder, king crab, steaks, seafood style cordon bleu. Rooms available for private parties and free parking. Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner seven days a week.View full menu www.marinasidegrill.com.

1653 Columbia St, N. Van. (2 blks South of Main & Mtn Hwy under the bridge) 604-988-0038 www.marinagrill.com

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At the front, the air intakes are larger and the headlights have more sweeping design and also feature LEDs.

Miata turns 25 Twenty-five years ago today, the world saw the introduction of what would become the most successful convertible ever made.This week in 1989, the Mazda Miata bowed at the Chicago Auto Show. In February.

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The Miata had a unique and slightly protracted birth, generated from the seed of an idea planted by Bob Hall, an American auto-journalist.

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The biggest changes occur at the back, however.

The rear hatch has been revised with a larger window on a steeper rake.

This helps smooth out the car’s silhouette. The spoiler is also wider, licence plate holder is lower, and the LED taillights are more pronounced.

Modern Porsches have become class leaders for interior style and quality. No longer are they sports cars with sparse accommodations.

The Panamera’s cockpit is very driver-focused but other occupants will be comfortable indeed, especially in the stretched Executive models.

In Executive versions the wheelbase is extended 15 centimetres. These models are the equivalent to flying in business class on the most prestigious airline.

Performance When you look at the Panamera’s engine options, you realize just how much performance this luxury

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Even the base model boasts more than 300 horsepower.

The entry-level engine, found in the Panamera and Panamera 4, is a 3.6-litre naturally aspirated V-6 that produces 310 h.p. and 295 foot-pounds of torque. This is capable of hauling the rear-wheel drive cars from zero to 100 kilometres per hour in 6.3 seconds; 6.1 seconds in all-wheel drive trim.

Stepping up to the S/4S models sees a drop in displacement to 3.0litres, but the addition of two turbos. Through clever engineering, the “downsizing” increases horsepower to 420 h.p. and decreases fuel consumption 18 per cent.

The GTS model retains the 4.8-litre naturally aspirated V-8. A new air induction system helps produce 440 h.p. and 384 foot-pounds of torque.

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Panamera has many engine options From page 46 are mounted parallel, one for each cylinder bank, and the cooler air boosts horsepower to 520 and torque to 516.3 footpounds.

The new comer to the range, the S E-Hybrid, is a parallel plug-in hybrid.

This means it can run on its 3.0-litre supercharged V-6, which generates 333 h.p., or its electric motor producing 95 h.p., or both, combining for 416 h.p.

The lithium-ion battery can be recharged in about four hours while plugged in or can recuperate some electricity while driving through brake energy recovery or the combustion engine.

Driving the new S E-Hybrid is not much of a departure from the traditional Panamera’s.

It will rocket to 100km/h in 5.5 seconds, but even under hard acceleration, it doesn’t make much noise. Also, the steering and brakes are not quite as razor sharp, mostly due to their regenerative responsibilities.

All models, except the hybrid, come with Porsche’s seven-speed PDK transmission, which is lightning quick. The S E-Hybrid comes with an eight-speed tiptronic S gearbox.

They all come with selectable driving modes. Normal mode is comparatively softer and more comfortable.

Selecting Sport mode quickens the throttle response and tightens the suspension. On equipped models, the Sport Plus mode takes everything to the next level, but is only

recommended for warm, dry roads.

One thing to be aware of when driving the Panamera is that it is a long car, especially in the Executive trim. To maintain a sporty appearance, Porsche used smaller side mirrors which make reversing and parking difficult.

At the end of the day, the Panamera doesn’t drive as “crisp” as a typical Porsche coupe but it definitely has more character and sporty intentions than such vehicles as the BMW 6series and Audi A7.

Environment Inside, a similar theme to the exterior styling was used. The evolutionary approach and minor alterations should make current owners feel at home.

The centre console is the command zone and is full of buttons. A touchscreen, set higher on the dash, also remains.

From the driver’s position, all the important information is clearly displayed in Porsche’s signature five-gauge panel.

Sticking with tradition, a large tachometer takes centre stage. The S EHybrid gets minor tweaks, namely bright green needles and an efficiency gauge replacing the speedometer.

The rear seat in standard wheelbase models is designed to comfortably seat someone who is sixfoot-four. There are only two seats in the back, but both passengers have a lot of room. For those who feel they need to offer more space and luxury to their rear passengers,

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Features The Panamera ranges in price from $89,500 for the base model up to $184,100 for the Turbo Executive.

Standard equipment includes auto start stop function, power liftgate, sunroof, heated exterior mirrors, seven-inch colour display, navigation, heated front seats, Homelink, and Bluetooth.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include heated rear seats, ventilated seats, rearview camera, lane departure warning, blind-spot detection, and adaptive cruise control.

Fuel efficiency numbers for the base model are 11.6 (litres/100 kilometres) city, 7.4 highway and 9.7 combined.

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factory where these little cars would be made — thus making them reliable.

Today the Miata is the quintessential sportscar, available brand-new at a relatively accessible price, or used for the cost of a pretzel at a hockey game.They’re tough, they’re durable, and even if they’ve been driven to within an inch of their life, they’re still a barrel of laughs.

What’s more, an entire aftermarket has sprung up over the quarter-century,

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Sinkhole attacks Corvette Museum How’s this for a nightmarish scenario? This week, a huge, 30-foot deep sinkhole opened within the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., and dragged eight ‘Vettes to

their doom.

Forty feet across, the gaping maw of the giant hole greeted museum employees as they opened up for the day on Wednesday. Down at the bottom, a jumbled mass of metal and fibreglass is all that remains of the historic Corvettes.

The cars affected are priceless, including the millionth and 1.5 millionth ‘Vettes ever produced, an early 1962 model, and a 1993 and 2009 ZR-1 on loan from General Motors.

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So far, one Corvette has been saved, lifted out with a crane, though damaged. It’s a 1983 ‘Vette, the last known survivor of a very short production run.

The good news here, such as it is, is that the cars swallowed up are valuable enough to be worth spending the thousands required to bring them back to factory condition.The bad news is what this structural instability might mean for the rest of the museum.

New Mercedes-Benz S-Class coupe dances through corners Between BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz, soon there won’t be an unexplored niche in the automotive kingdom.

Happily, M-B’s latest update isn’t a crossover, but a stately coupe version of their rangetopping S-Class.

Considering Mercedes hasn’t really had the best styling of late, the new coupe manages to look really quite sleek and modern, and at the same time more athletic than

earlier offerings.The rear, for instance, contains elements of the mighty SLS AMG. More interesting is something M-B calls “active curve tilting function,” an electronic ride-control mechanism that works with the air suspension to tilt the car into a turn, like a motorcycle rider setting up to carve through a corner.

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Come to think of it, it’s more like sailors lining up on the railing of a racing yacht than a motorcycle rider.

Of course, all this tech will set you back a rather impressive amount of money, and will be combined with the full S-Class suite of unique driver’s aids and a range of powerplants underhood.

Volvo promises Polestar power forV50 wagon At the Chicago Auto Show over the weekend, Volvo pulled the wraps off two bright-blue machines with a little more Swede speed than is usual. Hearkening back to the mighty R badge that used to signify an interesting combination of turbocharged bork with all-wheel-drive capability, the Polestar concepts come with 345 horsepower and 369 foot-pounds of torque; not quite as exciting as the 500 h.p. concepts, but certainly a little bit more zip than you can get now.

The V50 Polestar is a particularly handsome wagon, and comes with a suspension set up for real Swedish-style hoonery, uprated brakes, and a rear-drive bias to its AWD system.There won’t be very many of these blue beauties available, sadly, and no, they won’t be making one with a manual transmission.What’s the Swedish word for “drat”?

Aston Martin recalls cars for counterfeit accelerator pedals When Aston Martin and counterfeit appear in the same sentence, one might expect the story to be about a fibreglass body-kit on a Jaguar, or an unlicensed jacket found hanging in a shop in Hong Kong.You wouldn’t really expect fake accelerator pedals.

However, it turns out Aston has to recall nearly 75 per cent of their cars built after 2007 for a different sort of counterfeiting issues.

The accelerator pedal arms, which were supplied by a sub-contractor in China, were made of an off-brand plastic and rebadged as a tough DuPont plastic before being passed along.

Nobody has been injured, and no deaths have been reported, but there’s certainly a bit of carnage

here for Aston’s rep. First of all, at nearly $300,000 for some of their offerings, why aren’t the accelerator arms on these cars made from

teak, and sterling silver, and mastodon ivory? Secondly, if even Aston can’t keep an eye on suppliers with only 75,000 cars sold over the last

seven years (or thereabouts), how difficult must it be for a Ford or Toyota to keep their eyes on material quality?

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the days when the English motoring industry could supply their own inferior building materials. As it happens, Aston Martin plans to relocate sourcing of their plastics to the U.K. as soon as possible.

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Wise customers read the fine print: •, *, », ‡ The Motor Trend Truck of the Year Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after February 1, 2014. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,695) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. •$19,888 Purchase Price applies to 2014 Ram 1500 ST (24A) only and includes $7,000 Consumer Cash. $26,888 Purchase Price applies to the 2014 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 (25A) only and includes $8,500 Consumer Cash and $1,500 Loyalty/Conquest Bonus Cash. *$7,000 in Consumer Cash Discounts is available on new 2014 Ram 1500 models. $8,500 Consumer Cash Discount is available on new 2014 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4. See your dealer for complete details. »$1,500 Ram Truck Loyalty/Conquest Bonus Cash is available to qualified customers on the retail purchase/lease of any 2013 Ram 2500/3500 models (excluding Cab & Chassis models) and 2014 Ram 1500 (excludes Reg Cab models) and is deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. Eligible customers include current owners/lessees of a Dodge or Ram pickup truck or any other manufacturer’s pickup truck. The vehicle must have been owned/leased by the eligible customer and registered in their name on or before February 1, 2014.

Proof of ownership/lease agreement will be required. Additional eligible customers include licensed tradesmen and those working towards Skilled Trade certification. Some conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. ‡4.29% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2014 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 model to qualified customers on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Example: 2014 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 with a Purchase Price of $26,888 (including applicable Consumer Cash Discount) financed at 4.29% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 208 bi-weekly payments of $153 with a cost of borrowing of $4,899 and a total obligation of $31,787. ≠Based on Automotive News classification and 2014 Ram 1500 3.6 L V6 4x2 and 8-speed transmission. 11.4 L/100 km (25 MPG) City and 7.8 L/100 km (36 MPG) Highway. Based on 2014 EnerGuide fuel consumption guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Government of Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on powertrain, driving habits and other factors. Ask your dealer for complete EnerGuide information. ±Best-selling based on R. L. Polk Canada, Inc. 2014 CY new vehicle registrations for retail sales of large Heavy Duty/Super Duty≈ pickups. ≈Heavy Duty/Super Duty vehicles include: 2500/3500 Series Ram Trucks, 2500 and 3500 Series for GMC and Chevrolet Trucks, F250/F350 and F450 series for Ford Trucks. ¥Based on longevity of entire Ram large pickup segment compared to all competitive large pickups on the road since 1988. Longevity based on R. L. Polk Canada, Inc. Canadian Vehicles in Operation data as of November 1, 2013 for model years 1988-2013 for all large pickups sold and available in Canada over the last 25 years. ≤Based on 2013 Automotive News full-size pickup segmentation. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc.

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120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometer ΩLimited time lease offer based on a new 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. ¥1.99% lease APR for 60 months O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $139.44 with a dealer contribution of $70.00. Downpayment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $18,127.20. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometer. †Limited time lease offer based on a new 2014 Accord LX model CR2E3EE. ‡2.99% lease APR for 60 months O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $139.05. Downpayment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $18,076.50. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometer. £Limited time lease offer based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX.€1.99% lease APR for 60 months O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $80.56. Downpayment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $10,472.80. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometer. **MSRP is $17,185 / $27,685 / $25,685 / $16,130 including freight and PDI of $1,495 / $1,695 / $1,695 / $1,495 based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX / 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES / 2014 Accord LX model CR2E3EE / 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX. PPSA, license, insurance, taxes, and other dealer charges are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ¥/£/€/Ω/*/#/‡/† Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent’s fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery. Ω/€/¥/£/** Offers valid from February 1st through 28th, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.