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Public debates Concert Properties proposal to rezone for residential JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

A momentous decision that could impact the City of North Vancouver for years to come — was not made Tuesday.

Concert Properties has spent the last four years

pitching and refining a project that would bring 800 strata and rental units and more than 300,000 square feet of commercial space to the strip of land south of the North Shore Automall and bordered by Bewicke Avenue.

Four of the project’s

buildings could stretch between 70 and 90 feet.

Council heard one last round of public comment from the project’s champions, who consider the development a great use of the city’s waterfront, and detractors, one of whom objected to the use of the term waterfront.

“The city of North Vancouver has no jurisdiction and no

governance . . . no authority to deal with the future of that site,” said Dave Watt, pointing out the actual waterfront is under the control of Port Metro Vancouver.

The real estate agent questioned the need for the development.

There are currently 454 apartment-style condominiums available for rent in the City

and District of North Vancouver, not including townhouses, according to Watt.

Concert Properties president Brian McCauley said his company does not build without significant pre-sales. Also, while North Vancouver may have a seven month supply of rental stock, the Harbourside development would be built over 10 to

15 years.

The site currently allows a floor space ratio — which measures total floor space against the size of the lot — of 1.0.

The project would boost that ratio to 2.2, which was good news for project supporter Ron Spence.

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Heavy lift at Seaspan shipyard JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Look up. Look way, way up.

There’s a blue behemoth on the North Vancouver waterfront — Seaspan’s massive new gantry crane, which this week became the most visible part of the shipyard’s $200 million modernization project.

“There were a lot of high fives around here today,” said Brian Carter, president of Vancouver Shipyards on Wednesday. “It represents a significant milestone.”

The crane, which can lift 300 tonnes, was shipped from China in three pieces and erected on the east side of the Vancouver Shipyards site this week.

The rectangular-shaped crane stands 80 metres tall and runs on rails within the shipyard site.

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Grant Connell courts renamed Tennis champ says it was time to lose the moniker ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

The Grant Connell Tennis Centre will no longer be known as the Grant Connell Tennis Centre and there’s at least one North Shore resident who’s pretty pleased about that: Grant Connell.

On Wednesday the District of North Vancouver announced

that it will be changing the name of the public facility to the North Vancouver Tennis Centre as part of an expansion that saw the addition of new amenities and three new courts.

Connell, a longtime North Shore resident and former tennis pro, said he actually sent a request about a month ago for the name to be changed. He’s happy with the change, although he joked that they could have taken a little longer to talk it over.

“I was a little amazed at how fast they said yes,” he said with a laugh. “My kids are really ticked off at me

because they liked it. That was their only sense of credibility with them.”

Connell was not involved in the original creation of the facility — it’s owned by the district and operated by the North Vancouver Recreation Commission — but he was chosen as the building’s namesake to honour his impressive tennis career that included many big Davis Cup wins for Canada as well as a No. 1 ranking in the world in doubles.

Now a West Vancouver resident, Connell said he asked for the change because the old name was

hampering his new line of work as a Realtor.

“I politely requested it. I don’t want to sound like an ungrateful idiot. I work for a living and I just found that it was a bit of an albatross to my business,” he said. “There are still so many people who think I run and own that facility and that I’m a part-time Realtor. It’s a killer to my business.”

Connell, however, said he was honoured to have his name on the centre.

“It was a really good honour and I appreciated it,” he said. “I’m probably the worst person for

nostalgia and looking backwards — I probably was a bit of a stick in the mud — but I did appreciate it.”

District Mayor Richard Walton said that there will be a plaque installed in Connell’s honour at the renamed and revamped centre, adding that the name change will help people understand the nature of the facility.

“Renaming this facility to the North Vancouver Tennis Centre provides the opportunity to further promote it as a public facility, open to users of all ages and abilities,” he

stated in a DNV press release. “We would like to thank Grant for his contribution to tennis and its growing popularity in our community.”

The $4.6 million expansion to the centre includes a children’s court, a two-level viewing area, an expanded lobby and a meeting room. Increased parking, new street lighting and restoration of the adjoining riverbank area were also part of the project.

A renovation celebration will be held Sunday, April 6, 2-3 p.m. at the centre, located at 280 Lloyd Ave.

Workforce to grow to 1,000 From page 1 While the final structural piece of the crane — the main horizontal girder — was lifted into place over several hours on Wednesday, it will still take several more months to install the cables, hydraulics and other systems to get the crane ready for work.

The crane will do the heavy lifting when the shipyard starts building vessels under the federal government’s $8 billion National Shipbuilding Program this fall. Ships will be built in separate pieces before the parts are moved into place by the crane for final assembly.

Once it is operational, the gantry crane will be the largest of its type in Canada, said Brian Carter, president of Vancouver Shipyards.

The total cost of the crane, installed, is between $15 million and $20 million.

Carter said there has been plenty of interest in the crane as it went up this week.

“You can see this thing from a long way,” he said.

“People understand what it represents, which is economic interest on the North Shore.”

Seaspan will officially name the new crane later this spring when it chooses a winner from among 228 entries submitted by North Shore students from grades 4 to 7.

In order to erect the gantry crane, an even taller, stronger crane had to be brought to the Vancouver Shipyards site to lift the pieces into place.

That crane — a large crawler crane with a 115-

metre long boom and capacity to lift 1,350 tonnes — was shipped from Russia by the company contracted to get the gantry crane up and running.The crawler crane itself was put together from 80 truckloads of parts, said Carter.

At a height about 35 stories, it’s been attracting quite a lot of attention on the North Vancouver waterfront, he said. “It’s the tallest thing on the North Shore.”

That crane will be taken down when its work is finished.

Work on the shipyard’s modernization project is about 75 per cent complete, said Carter, and is on track to be finished by the end of October this year. It includes construction of four new buildings on the site.

Seaspan will begin working on the federal shipbuilding program this fall, with construction of an offshore fisheries science vessel.

That project is scheduled to start in October and take about 18 months.

Seaspan will build three fisheries science ships and an oceanographic vessel before starting work on the two joint support ships for the navy and polar icebreaker sometime between late 2016 and 2017.Those ships will be the biggest ships ever built in western Canada.

The workforce at Seaspan is expected to grow to about 1,000 at that time, said Carter.

Last fall, the federal government also announced plans to build an additional 10 Coast Guard vessels at Seaspan, worth over $3 billion.

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Spence’s only objection was the lack of a recreation centre embedded in the project.

The development’s proximity to train tracks constitutes a tragedy waiting to happen, according to former mayoralty candidate Ron Polly.

Polly implored council to install a pedestrian overpass at Bewicke Avenue at the applicant’s expense.

“I have seen what happens at railway crossings. I have seen it, and people and trains do not mix,” he said.

Coun. Guy Heywood asked how Concert would react if a pedestrian overpass was added to the project at this late date.

McCauley said he’d be disappointed but would work with city staff.

The project includes bike lanes, pedestrian walkways and a car-share program, but none of those measures can alleviate the gridlock choking Harbourside, according to Amanda Nichol.

The project also includes a 24-seat community shuttle bus, which would offer complimentary service from Harbourside to Lonsdale Quay. The shuttle would cease operations once TransLink beefs up service in the area.

If the project is approved,

Concert Properties would shell out approximately $28.5 million for parks improvements, an upgrade to the Spirit Trail, public art and road work, as well as other improvements.

The project will add life and vibrancy to an area awash in potential, according to neighbourhood proprietor Louis Gervais.

Many speakers at Tuesday’s meeting complimented the project but questioned its location.

“I think this is a really attractive proposal that’s in the wrong place,” said Fred Dawkins. “It’s plopped down in the middle of industrial land where we need to generate jobs.”

The project’s second and third reading could be debated by council in April.

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Scooter stolen from stoop Senior distraught over nighttime theft of cherished mobility aid BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A North Vancouver senior is hoping whoever stole her mobility scooter on Monday night needs it more than she does.

Pat Winship, 65, came out to her East 21st Street front deck Tuesday morning to find the scooter and its charger had both disappeared in the night.

The thief didn’t just steal an expensive piece of equipment so much as he made off with Winships’s ability to do things on her own, she said.

“I lost my husband unexpectedly on Christmas Eve. I’ve had to do everything on my own now. I understand that and I have lots of wonderful friends, but I like to be as independent as I can,” she said, becoming emotional.

“I like getting out. I like being able to do it myself and this is the only outside one I’ve got.”

Winship uses the scooter to make quick trips to the store, to get

to her exercises classes at the Karen Magnussen Community Recreation Centre and, most importantly, to walk her French poodle Brigette.

Winship contacted North Vancouver RCMP to report the theft but she was told there would be little investigators could do without having any witnesses.

Winship’s friends have volunteered to take Brigette for walks and she can get her groceries delivered or drive her car, but the real loss is to her badly needed independence, she said.

In order to keep her sanity, Winship said she has to tell herself the scooter wound up with someone who needs it more than her.

“Maybe some idiot kids have a really disabled grandfather and they thought they could do this for him,” she said. “I just don’t want to think some drug-addled idiot took this just to make a quick $500 and didn’t think of the consequences.”

She’s now asking her North Shore neighbours to be on the lookout for a three-wheeled, candy apple red Pride Celebrity mobility scooter.

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lossoms may be bursting out on cherry trees, but April is still the cruelest month when it comes to rate increases on a whole slew of costs borne by average citizens. And those are just the latest increases — piled on top of others that already took effect.

Among some examples, Hydro rates went up nine per cent this week — the beginning of a planned 28 per cent increase over the next several years.

Unless you have access to taxpayer-funded vacations to warmer climes — as some members of the legislature evidently do — avoiding Hydro bills isn’t an option for most people, who will feel the increase acutely next winter.

We’d also better hope the hit to the thermostat won’t result in people getting sick. Medical premiums also went up again this year.

Of course, Hydro and MSP increases

also have direct effects on the bottom lines of other institutions — like schools, also funded by, guess who? Taxpayers!

B.C. Ferries fares also went up again, co-ordinating with decreases to service expected to continue for several years.

But ferries apparently aren’t part of the highway system, like they used to be.

Upgrades are reserved to get wealthy people to their second homes in Whistler.

Also going up? The cost of postsecondary tuition, ICBC rates and even the cost to mail a letter — which now costs $1.

That’s an amazing number of increases for a government that prides itself on balancing the budget without adding “taxes.”

Unfortunately, the increases are still coming from the same place — your wallet.

And that’s no April Fool’s joke.

Trash this monster of a recycling plan The B.C. government is trying to fix something that isn’t broken — and it’s making a mess in the process.

Cities and towns in B.C. have successful recycling systems in place, but the province has thrown everything into confusion by mandating creation of a monster called Multi-Materials B.C. Since MMBC began ramping up, one protest has followed another, as municipalities and businesses began to realize the effects it would have on them.

Premier Christy Clark has called the creation of the new organization a “bumpy road.”

Business groups across the province have allied under the banner Rethink It B.C., to demand

the government delay implementation and sit down to talk about changes to the new entity.

MMBC was created after the government changed the provincial recycling regulations in 2011 so that responsibility for recycling packaging and printed paper moved from municipalities to the industries that produced the material.

The theory is that the companies that profit from products that produce waste should have to pay the cost of recycling that material.

Proponents say the added cost will also be an incentive for those companies to reduce the amount of packaging they use, as not producing waste is a better solution than recycling it after it is produced.

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B.C. picked MMBC as the organization to manage the new program, beginning May 19. It will be funded by fees collected from companies that use packaging or create printed paper, instead of being funded by municipalities.

Lana Popham, Saanich South New Democrat MLA, last week (March 24-28) said: “They are setting up a system that’s dangerously close to a monopoly. This will inevitably lead to a decrease in quality of services and increase in price.”

This is a B.C. initiative, but it is being run by a board of directors representing Unilever Canada, Wal-Mart, Tim Hortons, Loblaws, Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble.

Does anyone expect them to put B.C.’s interests first?

The province has already responded to the horrified outcry from small businesses and exempted them from paying fees to MMBC if their revenues are below $1 million a year, they produce less than a tonne of packaging each year or they are single outlets.

That excludes the majority of businesses, but means the remaining ones — and their customers — will have to foot the bill for everyone’s recycling.

MMBC’s fees will be much higher than those in other regions.

For instance, newspapers would have to pay 20 cents per kilogram, compared to 0.42 cents in Ontario. Corrugated cardboard would be

charged 29 cents per kilogram, compared to 8.4 cents in Ontario.

The organization says the higher fees are because MMBC will serve apartment buildings, while Ontario’s program serves only houses, but the cost differential is still excessive.

Newsprint is already the most successfully recycled product in the system.

About 85 per cent of all newspaper in B.C. is recycled, and municipalities generate revenue from it because it is the most valuable recycled material.

Newspapers are among the industries most worried about the new system. Peter Kvarnstrom, chairman of the Canadian Newspaper Association, warned that the added

costs are so significant to an industry that is already fragile that they will force layoffs in newsrooms across the province.

B.C.-based magazines will be penalized because they will have to pay for recycling, while international publications that are printed elsewhere and shipped to the province, pay nothing.

In essence, a B.C. magazine will be subsidizing Vanity Fair.

Everyone, including the critics of MMBC, can get behind the idea of reducing waste. But the province needs to listen to Rethink It B.C.’s call for solutions to very serious concerns.

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One of the major fault lines that divide the B.C. Liberals from New Democrats was on full display last week as the government moved to significantly overhaul the Agriculture Land Reserve.

The ALR is viewed in almost religious tones by the NDP. It was the NDP government of the 1970s, after all, that created the ALR in the first place.

So even to tinker with the ALR is viewed as some sort of war crime by New Democrats, who view any changes as nothing less than a sell-out to developers (who are, of course, right up there in the NDP’s Villains Hall of Fame).

The rumours that the government was going to make major changes to the ALR have been brewing for months, and ardent defenders of the ALR had been making dire

really affect those areas, however. Instead, the government has essentially created a second ALR, comprising land in the Kootenays, the Interior and the North.

Almost 90 per cent of existing ALR land will be in this new, second zone.

And the rules for what can happen to that land will be drastically altered, to allow non-agricultural development on some of it.

From that perspective, it appears that most of the ALR may soon be paved over. That is unlikely, however, given that the new regional panels that will make decisions on the use of ALR land must still stick to the guiding principle of protecting that land.

Nevertheless, given that local economic, cultural and community interests will also be used to determine what happens to ALR land in this new “Zone 2” there

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predictions that the reserve was going to be destroyed.

In the end, the changes are indeed significant but hardly revolutionary. The ALR will remain, albeit in undoubtedly a smaller size.

I suspect when most people are asked what the ALR actually consists of they point to such places as the farms of the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island, as well as the tree orchards of the Okanagan.

None of the changes

will undoubtedly be more development on much of it.

The government is arguing that since most of the land in Zone 2 is not used for food production and is less than ideal “farm” land (ie., it has poor soil quality or is covered in snow much of the year) the person who owns it should be allowed to make a living off it that may not involve strict farming operations.

This new approach is reflective of the B.C. Liberal government’s central thesis: economic development is of paramount importance, and many decisions leading to that are best left to local authorities.

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Nature not luxury is North Shore’s draw

Dear Editor: Quite often we read that in our three North Shore cities, developers in conjunction with our elected officials announce that in their respective municipalities they are about to embark in a new venture.

These ostentatious projects are presented to us as “the best in Canada, the first in the world, the most exclusive in North America, the most sumptuous on the planet” as if that is what we, the people who live and work here, are looking for.

All the people I know and speak to, that live in any of the three municipalities, have moved here for the exact same reasons: we want to be near nature, we love our parks, our seawalls, our trails and our backyards.

We also enjoy the tranquility that we have, we take pleasure in shopping in our local shops, recognize and being recognized by our neighbours.

These and many other valid reasons never mention basking in luxury, on the first and best, on the most sumptuous.

We have moved here because we want an enjoyable and small city approach.We like our schools because of the education our children get thanks to devoted teachers and administrators.We are not looking for the most exclusive schools on the planet.

We only want what is best for our children: good teachers, clean and safe environment and decently equipped schools.

What have we gained in the last 10 years of promoting these elegant and magnificent developments?

All I can see is that it takes 10 times more time to get to places because of the traffic, that all the new developments are eliminating — slowly but surely — the possibilities that our children can live in

the same place where they grew up.

We don’t want the best produce in the planet, we want healthy and sustainable produce. Local produce.

We don’t want to have the best waterfront in Canada, we want one where we can walk, enjoy the shore, enjoy our neighbors.

We all take pleasure in sunny days, fresh air, clean water. And none of those are unique and exclusive or the fanciest and most sumptuous on the planet.

Do we have a better sun than the one in other countries? Do we have the best air on the planet?

In these misleading announcements they are selling us something we did not ask for.

I don’t recall that North Shore residents were loudly asking for a ferris wheel, similar or better than the one in London.

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Upcoming Meetings Following is a list of North Vancouver District Council meetings for this month. Please note that this list is subject to change and new agenda items/meetings may be added during the month.

Council Meetings:

Monday, April 7, 7 pm Monday, April 28, 7 pm

Public Hearings:

Tuesday, April 8, 7 pm Tuesday, April 15, 6 pm

Committee of the Whole:

Tuesday, April 8, 6 pm Monday, April 14, 7:15 pm

Special Meeting:

Monday, April 14, 7 pm

For more information: • visit www.dnv.org for agendas, minutes and schedules of upcoming meetings • call 604-990-2315 for a recorded listing of agenda items • visit www.dnv.org/agendanotice to have agendas delivered to your inbox • visit any District Library to view a copy of the agenda which is available the Friday before the regular Council Meeting

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As they say, the devil is in the details (in this case, “regulations” set down by the provincial cabinet).

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The ALR has become shrouded in romantic myths over the years.

Changing its structure is undoubtedly controversial and loaded with political implications.

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store on zoned farm land, or should local residents have that authority?

Clearly, the government has opted to take the latter view regarding farmland that is outside the food producing areas such as the Fraser Valley, the Okanagan and Vancouver Island.

I suspect this approach will be a popular one in many of those communities that will now move to develop some of the land that was put into the reserve many years ago for various reasons, many of which have outlived their relevancy.

And I would bet the NDP’s vociferous opposition to this will make it harder for the party to gain traction in those ridings outside Metro Vancouver.

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Take a break from development From page 9 All I can remember is, that the quality of life we all aimed for, is slowly deteriorating in the name of progress.

Instead of the fresh air we used to have, only 10 years ago, we have now air pollution due to traffic and unsustainable density and growth.

It’s becoming more and more frustrating to drive, to find a parking space or find a grocery store with decent prices.

Can we please take a break in all these pompous

developments and start thinking of what is best for the people who live here?

Can we have a North Shore-wide plan that includes better transit

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I think it’s about time.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE

to ARTS & CULTURE

THIS WEEK: — Terminal City Rollergirls kick off Season 8 tomorrow night at Kerrisdale Arena.

See story page 17. For more information go to terminalcityrollergirls.com.

— The Moth Orbit Object Theater presents an original puppet show The Beanstalk at Seymour Art Gallery on Sunday, April 6 at 2 p.m. as part of the opening reception for Start with Art, the gallery’s annual exhibition for children. See story page 25.

— North Shore Cric Crac Storytelling Evenings at the Silk Purse Gallery: Traditional and original stories and music on Sunday,April 6, 7-9 p.m. For more info call 604-985-5168 or contact northshorestory@gmail. com.

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Road trip ■ Cas & Dylan premieres tonight, Friday, April 4, at Vancouver’s Fifth Avenue Cinemas. A Q&A with director Jason Priestley will follow tomorrow’s early evening screening.

ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

From LynnValley to Los Angeles, Argyle secondary grad Jason Priestley’s career in the entertainment industry has continued to take him to new heights.

From his breakout role in beloved ’90sTV drama Beverly Hills, 90210, to recently starring in acclaimed HBO Canada comedy Call Me Fitz, the actor has logged lots of onscreen time. He’s also no stranger to working behind the scenes and has long been an avid director, working on both of his hitTV

shows, as well as countless other projects.

“I’ve been directing for 20 years and it’s something that I really love and something that I’ve always loved,” says the Los Angeles resident.

“It’s something that I’ve always been able to do in combination with my acting career — But I seem to be spending more and more time directing these days, which is fine with me, because it’s something that I am incredibly passionate about.”

Priestley’s latest foray saw him tackle his first feature film, Cas & Dylan, starring Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss and rising starTatiana Maslany (a Regina native whose credits include science fiction thriller Orphan Black as well as Grown Up Movie Star and Picture Day).

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“I’d wanted to direct a feature film for quite some time and this film found its way to me,” says Priestley.

“I thought that the film felt like the right size and scale of film to tackle as a first film. It’s a very character-driven piece. It’s essentially a two-hander,” he adds.

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winds up on the lam with an ‘anything-but-normal’ 22year-old, Dylan, (Maslany), according to the film’s promotional materials. After accidentally hitting Dylan’s boyfriend with his car, the duo headWest: Dylan in pursuit of her dream of becoming a writer; and Cas intent on overcoming his case of suicide note writer’s block.

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by Jessie Gabe (Mr. D, and Being Erica). Producer Mark Montefiore, in search of a director, got in touch with Priestley.

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“We were able to find Tatiana Maslany, who gives an amazing performance in the film,” says Priestley.

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They ended up chatting for three hours.

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SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 Start with Art: An annual exhibition of art for children by establishedVancouver artists will run until April 27.The art can only be bought by those under 16 and is priced very moderately. Opening reception and puppet show: Sunday, April 6, 2-4:30 p.m.

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LYNNVALLEY UNITED CHURCH 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. 604-987-2114 lynnvalleychurch.com Friday Night Live: A weekly series with improv actors AddLibretto playing hosts to musical guests Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Schedule:April 4, Dave Morris.Admission by suggested donation of $10.

April 12 at 8 p.m. and April 13 at 3 p.m.Tickets: $30/$25/$10.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Fauré Requiem: The Lions Gate Sinfonia will perform a program of peace and hope Saturday,April 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $39/$35/$12.

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

TheWest Coast Harp Society will present a concert with Irish harpist Maire Ni Chathasaigh and guitarist Chris Newman Sunday, April 6 at 8 p.m.Admission: $25 at the door. Reservations: evolpebligh@gmail.com.

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LYNNVALLEY LIBRARY 1277 LynnValley Rd., North Vancouver. 604-984-0286, x8144 nvdpl.ca Gypsy to Jazz: The North Shore Chamber Orchestra will perform Sunday,April 6 at 2 p.m.Admission: $10/$8/$5.

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■ Terminal City Rollergirls begin season 8 on Saturday, April 5 at Kerrisdale Arena. Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets at the door: Adults $15, Kids $10. Info: terminalcityrollergirls. com.

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Most people remember their first time.

For Megan Pinfield that time came this past fall.

The North Vancouver mom had never played a

contact sport before and had no idea what it would feel like to get hit by an opponent.

“The first time that really happened and I went flying, that was a bit of a shocker. But once you get the first one out of the way it’s OK,” she explains. “It doesn’t seem as bad now even though sometimes it probably is worse than that first one. But the first one is always the one you remember.”

Pinfield is a member of Riot Girls, one of four teams in the Terminal

City Rollergirls roller derby league. She is new to the league this year after making it through the “fresh meat” training and getting drafted by her team.

If you haven’t seen a recent roller derby bout, it’s worth taking a look.

There are many rules to the game, but the gist of it is simple. Two teams race around a flat oval track. One player from each team, known as the jammer, attempts to score points by lapping the opposing team’s blockers.

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Blockers try to stop jammers by hitting them with their shoulders or hips, and it’s not unusual for players to wipe out because of it.

“It’s a very physically demanding sport. It’s full contact, and it’s not staged, it’s real. So when you get hit it hurts,” explains Pinfield.

But there is an upside.

“There’s something about realizing that you can get knocked down over and over and over and See Roller page 18

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Roller derby experiencing a revival From page 17

keep getting back up,” she says.

This Saturday, the league will host its season opener, a double-header at Kerrisdale Arena with Faster Pussycats facing off against Public Frenemy, and the Riot Girls versus Bad Reputations.

Pinfield admits that Bad Reputations is a tough team to beat.

“It’s going to be interesting. Every bout

is different and it’s so dependent on who’s out on the line, who’s in the penalty box, who plays what move, and you just never know what’s going to happen. I think that’s why it’s so exciting.”

Roller derby had its heyday in the 1970s and ‘80s, but is experiencing somewhat of a revival with leagues cropping up across North America in recent years.

In the past, it was known as much for its

theatrical elements as its rough contact. While cheeky costumes and names are still part of the fun, roller derby players take their sport seriously.

“This is a real sport,” says Pinfield, whose derby name is Green Megs and Ham. “These women are athletes and they are working so incredibly hard for this.”

And they have the wounds to show for it.

Bruises, sprains and other maladies are par for the

course.

“Nobody wants to get injured but I think we all kind of go into this knowing it’s probably going to happen at some point,” says Pinfield, adding with a laugh: “I think it’s also a little bit of a badge of honour in derby to have big bruises.”

With its combination of combat, costumes and a bit of kitsch thrown in, there is much to like about roller derby. For Pinfield, what piqued her interest in

the beginning is different than what appeals to her now.

“I think in the beginning it was just the novelty of doing something on roller skates because I used to roller skate as a kid and thought it was fun,” she explains. “But I think that it has shifted now for me. It’s all about the people involved. It’s just an amazing group of really smart, athletic, intelligent, intense women that are all working for the common

goal of winning the bout.”

This Saturday night, Pinfield will hit the rink as Green Megs and Ham, but by day she is a clinical therapist, and says with a laugh: “I spend most of my day putting people back together and my evenings tearing them down.”

Terminal City Rollergirls season opener is on April 5 at Kerrisdale Arena. Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets at the door: Adults $15, Kids $10. Info: terminalcityrollergirls.com.

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PUBLIC HEARING 3829 and 3919 Dollarton Highway Redevelopment of four industrial lots What:

A Public Hearing about redevelopment of four industrial lots located at 3829 and 3919 Dollarton Highway. The proposed development will consist of a ninety-five unit mixed apartment/townhouse project.

When:

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This proposeal requires amendments to the Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaws.

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Start with Art exhibit young at heart Seymour Art Gallery hosts show designed for children JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Liane Varnam had spent six years industriously working toward a double major in animal science and zoology when she received news of a death in the family.

“When my grandmother died I went, ‘Screw this, I always wanted to be an artist,’” she recalls.

Years after her time studying at Emily Carr, Varnam’s voice is filled with the passion that first pushed her to the easel.

“I was never so happy as the night before I started my first day at art school,” she says. “I couldn’t sleep. I was just lying in bed going: ‘Oh my god, I’m going to art school tomorrow.’”

Varnam is one of more than a dozen artists filling the walls of the Seymour Art Gallery for StartWith Art, perhaps the only exhibition where the paintings are hung a few feet lower than

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illustrations for a book of fairy tales still waiting to be written.

Her paintings are often dreamlike renderings of animals, but in almost

each case the animal has a destination that lies in the world beyond the frame.

“I feel like I’m always in the middle of the story,” she says.

Much of Varnam’s work lives on the bridge between realism and surrealism.

The dimensions of a certain bird seem perfectly life-like, and so do the

dimensions of the small boat flying through the sky.

There is no word in the Balinese language for art.

The theory goes that the concept is woven so deeply into the culture that the word is superfluous.

It’s a concept that might resonate with Varnam.

“I think everyone is creative,” she says. “There’s no such thing as an uncreative person. . . . Cooking is art, gardening is art, writing is art.The whole best parts of being alive to me are the creative parts.” ❖❖❖ Exhibition artist Sean Karemaker’s entry into the world of comic book art seems like a fluke.

Karemaker’s father was a barber.Todd McFarlane’s father was a client.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s McFarlane drenched the comics world in Spider-Man’s finely detailed webs and created his own hero: the vicious Spawn.

“We got a lot of those things for free when they first came out,” Karemaker says.

The comics fueled him to create his own superheroes.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

NV mom hatches a business idea Robin’s Egg showcases local designs

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“When I say that I am totally inept with a sewing machine, believe me that that’s true,” Robin Turnill says, laughing.

Turnill is the brains behind Robin’s Egg Boutique, an e-boutique that sells baby and toddler fashions, accessories, décor and toys.

The online store, which celebrates its one-year anniversary at the beginning of May, showcases the designs of local mothers, all of whom Turnill sourced out herself.Turnill says she takes care of all the marketing, sales and business aspects of the boutique, and leaves the sewing up to the professionals.

“I’m terrible, which is why I’m so in awe of how talented all of the designers are,” she says.

The idea for the boutique came to Turnill shortly after the birth of her daughter, Helen.

“I was sourcing out, through friends and in the community, different people, different mums actually, who were stay-at-home mums who were designing products in their free time,” she says. “One designer in particular, she has young twin boys, and the second they would go down for a nap she’d start designing all these onesies.”

The designer was Stephanie Devlin, now part of the design team at Robin’s

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Turnill quizzed Devlin on why she was not selling more of her clothes and elevating her business.

“She would tell me, ‘You know, I really can’t focus on the business side, I really enjoy just the designing of it,’” says Turnill. “So it happened. I just started meeting more and more

women in the community, mostly North Van mums.”

A couple of mothers had already launched their own businesses from home, she says.

“Once they had had their own children, they realized, ‘I’m really passionate about design, I want a job that affords me flexibility to work my own hours, that works for my family,’” says Turnill.

“So I thought to myself, ‘It would be great to bring a number of these mums together under a platform which, for many of them, would be their first foray into the retail world, and provide them an opportunity to get their name out there.”

Once the idea had been formed,Turnill grew more excited and began actively reaching out and making connections in the community through friends and referrals.

She says she chose to open an e-boutique because she wanted the flexibility that a storefront could not offer.

“At the time I was working as a full-time faculty member at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, in their business program,” she says. “The thing that’s just fabulous about an eboutique is that I find that in the evenings and during Helen’s naptimes or when

my partner’s home, I’m able then to package products up and respond to clients and so forth.”

More than half of the designers for Robin’s Egg are from the North Shore, says Turnill, with the rest hailing from North Burnaby and the Fraser Valley. All of them are mothers.

“I absolutely could not have done this without the beautiful work that all the designers have done,” says Turnill. “I will see babies wearing the clothes of Robin’s Egg and I’m so proud and happy.”

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Jones will be selling items from her Jennifer Jones Jewelry collection. And fellow North Vancouver resident Trudy Wynans, the creative force behind Toodlebunny Designs, will also be selling her jewelry.

The annual indie designer showcase takes

range from onesies and quilted play mats to handcrocheted hats and booties.

“The crocheted booties, can’t keep them in stock long enough, although probably that will change with the shift of the season,” says Turnill.

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Turnill says. “It’s very soft on babies and toddlers.”

Although Robin’s Egg products have taken flight in B.C.,Turnill says her biggest customers are residents from Quebec and Manitoba.

“They love the onesie line, every day I’m shipping something off to Quebec,” she says. “They know their fashions out there, I’m very flattered.”

Turnill says the next move for the boutique is to expand the product lines.

“Now that I have an idea of how things have operated

over the last year, I am now going to be meeting with more designers,” she says, adding that she wants to work with more mothers she knows who are very talented and “anxious to have their products out there and being showcased.”

For now,Turnill is grateful not only for the design team, but the support she has received from the community. “It’s been really great and it’s been a very positive experience.”

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FILM

Priestley planning to publish memoir

From page 13

make a movie with me. So it was pretty exciting,” says Priestley.

Priestley couldn’t be happier with the performances of his two leads. “Richard andTatiana really delivered beautiful performances for me in the film,” he says, crediting the collaborative approach they took on the project. From the rehearsal room to the final day of filming, they were constantly rehearsing, rewriting scenes, throwing things out and making changes.

“The script was evolving right until the last day of production,” says Priestley.

“I think the fact that we were all able to be as collaborative with each other as we were, really paid big dividends for us in the final edit of the film,” he adds.

Priestley plans to continue directing feature films and currently has a few in development, including one he hopes to shoot in Vancouver this summer.

He’s also still busily working as a director for television, including on new sitcom Working the Engels, starring Andrea Martin.

Priestley directed four episodes this winter and his next is set to air April 9.

“I had ScottThompson and Eugene Levy in that

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When asked whether Call Me Fitz, which just finished its fourth season, will be returning, Priestley is sad to say the series will not be coming back for a fifth.

“We had a really great run on Call Me Fitz and we had a great time making that show.

I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. . . . I will miss working with all those

people a lot,” he says.

However, next month, Priestley will mark another career first, adding yet another feather to his cap, this time: writer. In May, his autobiography, Jason Priestley: A Memoir, will hit shelves.

“I don’t know when I had time to write that but I did,” he says.

“I figured I’d better write it all down before I forgot any more of it,” he adds.

The book covers Priestley’s life growing up on the North Shore and his early years of being in Los Angeles, a “crazy time,” he says, carrying through his Beverly Hills, 90210 days.

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FILM

Captain America back in action ■ Captain America: TheWinter Soldier.

Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo. Starring Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson.

Rating: 7 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

Steve Rogers/Captain America missed a lot being kept on ice for 70 years.

He keeps a notebook and jots down a cultural to-do list that includes Thai food, StarWars and Marvin Gaye.

When asked what it’s like waking up in the future, Steve quips: “the food’s better, we used to boil everything.”

But that flippancy belies the disconnect that Cap feels from the modern age.

He has taken to wandering an exhibit dedicated to himself at the Smithsonian, for solace. And, as he keeps explaining to persistent matchmaker BlackWidow (Scarlett Johansson), modern women confound him.

More serious than romantic concerns are political ones: things were more cut-and-dried in the 1940s, when Nazi Germany was the clear threat and the dark forces of Hydra were at work. As an already-reluctant agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Steve finds it increasingly difficult to figure out what he’s fighting for.

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Fan boys should know that CNET recently valued Captain America’s iconic shield at $54 million, based on the value of fictional element vibranium ($10,000 an ounce, according to an issue of Fantastic Four) and Marvel’s official weight of the shield (12 pounds).

UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre shares one early scene with Cap, taunting him with “I thought you were more than just a shield,” whereupon the Captain proves bareknuckled that he has more than one weapon in his arsenal.The fighting is the real star, innovative and well-choreographed.

But when the lines between good and evil, between bad guy and hero, are so effectively blurred, the story becomes less engaging and more like one long, albeit impressive, brawl.This isn’t a superhero sequel for kids, it’s an action thriller for adults; but even grown-ups will miss the charm of the original.

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TELEVISION

Heartfelt series brings family together

Young cast play big part in the success of new TV production ■ When Calls the Heart, broadcast Saturdays at 9 p.m. on the Hallmark Channel and starting April 16 on Super Channel in Canada.

ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

When asked to describe her newest show, When Calls the Heart, Erin Krakow wants to emphasize one thing above all others.

“When Calls the Heart is a beautiful, family-friendly show,” says Krakow. “We’re working on a program that is quite possibly the only show on television right now that is family friendly in a way that satisfies every age group.”

When Calls the Heart, a new series on the Hallmark Channel, takes place in a 1910 coal-mining town aptly named CoalValley. Krakow plays ElizabethThatcher, a teacher from a fairly affluent

family and a newcomer to a town that has just undergone a terrible mining disaster.

“She’s very much a fish out of water,” says Krakow.

“She’s trying to help these kids and teach them and really make a difference.”

The women in town must now cope not only with the loss of brothers, husbands and sons, but also work at rebuilding their lives in the very mine that took their loved ones to keep food on the table.

The series also stars Lori Loughlin, of Full House fame, and Daniel Lissing, as well as featuring several young North Shore actors.

When it comes to her costars, Erin Krakow has nothing but praise, especially for some of the youngest members of the cast.

“These kids bring such an incredible energy, they have such positive attitudes and See Krakow page 35

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TELEVISION

Krakow inspired by her own teachers

From page 33

the kind of acting that they’re doing is just so organic and so real, “ says Krakow. “It’s really been such an honour to get to work with them and get to know them. I’m really just so impressed with the work that they’re doing and they bring a smile to my face every day.”

Krakow says many aspects of the show drew her to the project, including the character of Elizabeth Thatcher.

“Getting to play a woman who is so passionate about what she does, she stands up for what she believes in, she has a great love for children, as do I,” she says. “(And) getting to work with Michael Landon Jr. and Brian Bird, the creators of our show who just have such a passion for this story and they’ve really given us something beautiful to work on.”

Krakow says it has not been difficult getting into the mindset of a woman in the

early 20th century.

“We’ve got a very, very talented crew, we have an amazing wardrobe department that really just send me right back to 1910, hair and makeup, the sets they build, it just helps so much to be able to walk on set and feel like I’m already a part of that world,” she says. “Probably the biggest challenge is, well wearing the corset is not always easy, though it does help with body language and whatnot.”

Krakow says she prepared for the role through extensive reading on the time period and drew from her own life experiences.

“I spent a lot of time with kids; I used to be a nanny, a camp counsellor and I taught drama, so that really helped me with the process,” she says.

Krakow is also a graduate of the Juilliard School in NewYork City. She has played a string of leading ladies onstage, including Helena in A Midsummer

Night’s Dream andYelena in Black Russian. Krakow says she’s been very lucky to work in both mediums and each one presents its own set of challenges.

“When you’re doing a play, a lot of times you’re doing the same show every night for months at a time, some people years at a time, and you’re performing for a live audience which can be an interesting challenge,” she says. “Working onscreen you’re having to do the same scene over and over again, for sometimes hours at a time and making sure you keep that fresh for every performance is really important, as it is in theatre.”

Krakow says for this role in particular, she drew inspiration from her former teachers among others.

“I’ve had some really special teachers in my life who have inspired me, who have been so passionate about what they do,” she says. “I think a lot about my parents and the kind of morals they instilled in me growing up and how they may have just led by their example and using that with the kids.”

The show began filming in B.C. in September 2013 and working in Canada was a first for Krakow.

“It’s been really wonderful getting to film in Canada,” she says. “Everyone was so lovely, really warm and welcoming. It’s such a beautiful, beautiful place to film.”

Krakow says the energy on set has been very positive and loving.

“I really love what I do and I’m lucky in that I show up to work every day and I’m surrounded by people who also love what they do,” she says.

When Calls the Heart will air in Canada on Super Channel starting in April.

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Calls-the-Heart. Krakow says audiences should look forward to plenty of adventure, romance and “heart-warming moments.”

“Its going to bring the family together, which I think is so important and that has probably been the most special part of it,” she says.

“I can’t imagine an audience that wouldn’t like it.”

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Evolution of Carr explored

From page 20

achieve in her lifetime came late and was divided between her book, Klee Wyck, which received a Governor General’s Award for Literature in 1941, and her later paintings.

Ian M.Thom, Senior Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery introduces this collection with a concise overview of her career. He guides us through her artistic development and references those important stages to the artwork included in the book.

Beginning with an early ink drawing titled Snowdrops from 1894 we are shown

an evolution of Carr’s work as she explores various approaches and is influenced by other artists.There are noticeable turning points, such as her first exposure to native Indian culture, which she captures with a historian’s accuracy for colour and scale. Later on her contact with the Group of Seven painters results in a more expressive style and the stronger connection between the landscape and the totem poles she was drawn to.

While not a complete catalogue of her output, the 120 beautifully reproduced images provide a powerful overview to the breadth of her works.

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Gallery focuses on young audience From page 25 “I started drawing my own comics,” he says.

“That’s what basically got me into art in the first place.”

Karemaker makes time for the North Shore News during a lunch break at Smoking Gun Interactive, a Vancouverbased video game company.

For Karemaker, a break from work is usually the beginning of his own work.

His eye for composition is reminiscent of Norman Rockwell, but his sensibility

leans toward the insane and the honest.

There are dreamlike images of three-handed women and mines in Poland that would curl Salvador Dali’s waxed mustache into a smile.

And then there are the unvarnished works: the hands of a homeless man, the preoccupation of a drifter.

Karemaker’s background as comic book collector has resurfaced in autobiographical comics about his own life.

Karemaker said he didn’t find much encouragement in his own school. However, that may be why he enjoys teaching children so much.

“A lot of adults think that art is this mystical thing that they can’t do, and kids don’t really have that yet,” he says.

That lack of childhood inhibitions served Varnam well.

Before she was in kindergarten,Varnam was grinding stones into pigment powder.

“I grew up in a

household where there was no art,” she says. “I’m kind of a pine tree from the fir forest.”

Schools should be doing more to nurture the imagination and the impulse to create, according to Varnam.

“That really important human expression of play and creativity is getting neglected and suffocated and dying on the vine, and I think that’s one of the reasons I like the StartWith Art program so much,” she says.

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

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While waiting politely for a pedestrian to clear the intersection, this car received a wide grin and a giant wave from a woman wearing industrial welding goggles. She looked a bit like a bee. So does this.

It’s the Beetle GSR, a special edition version of Volkswagen’s Turbo Beetle that’s a real honey of a car.

Take that comment literally — this machine really does look like it was hatched in a hive.

The name comes from a tribute to the 1973 GelbSchwartz Renner (YellowBlack Racer), a similarly bumblebee-shaded machine that is so famous, you never heard about it until just now when I mentioned it.

Sold only in the German home market, it had 50

This new version has 210 turbocharged horses to draw on: is it all buzz, or is there a sting in the new GSR’s tail?

Brendan McAleer

Grinding Gears

horsepower from an aircooled 1.6-litre engine and slightly larger wheels and tires — no Muhammad Ali here.

Still, for the time the car was fairly nippy, and marked a change for the humble people’s car from modest little fuel-sipper to unlikely performance hero.

Design The previous generation of front-wheel-drive Beetle was very popular, but might have been accused of being a bit cutesy in its homage to the sturdy, no-nonsense original. I mean, a flower vase next to the steering wheel? That’s a bit much.

However, when VW decided to drop the turbocharged four-cylinder engine out of the GTI into the car, those cute looks were suddenly hilarious. Here was a car from the Care Bear/My Little Pony school that was perfectly capable of dusting off the hot hatchbacks of the day.

See Retro page 42

McLaren confirms entrylevel supercar Finally, a McLaren that even I can — well, can dream about, if we’re being See McLaren’s page 42

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The new car is much less saccharine-sweet, with an extended profile that gives it something of the look of a Porsche. All GSRs get the cosmetic upgrades of the R-Line cars, which means aerodynamic trim, including a large spoiler, and 19-inch alloys shod in wide, 235series rubber.

There’s also LED strip lighting up front, and in case you missed the point, an all-over yellow-andblack graphics package that includes GSR proudly emblazoned on the flanks.

If you don’t like getting attention, this is the wrong car for you (happily, the ordinary R-Line Turbo Beetle packs most of the same features in a less

Ford gives Mustang an affair to remember If you’re not a Mustang fan, then brace yourself. It’s the 50th anniversary of the car this year, and the stunts are coming.

For instance, as part of paying tribute to the reveal of the original Mustang at the 1964 NewYork World’s Fair, Ford has decided to plonk their newest ‘Stang atop the Empire State Building.They did the same thing with the original.

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It’s also a bit too heavy to just tell Cary Grant to pick up one end and carry it up the staircase.

Instead, Ford has carefully measured the size and weight of what they can cram in the Empire State’s elevators, and is sectioning their display car into pieces.They’ll then roll the car up to the observation deck on specialized racks, and assemble it. And then, hopefully, do a giant burnout. (But probably not.)

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Retro Beetle built for having fun

From page 41

showy carapace).

Environment If yellow stitching on a flat-bottomed steering wheel can really be considered tasteful, then the inside of the GSR is more tasteful than the exterior. It’s actually quite reserved in here, and you might never know it was a limited-run model — except that VW has helpfully written that fact on the steering wheel.

Just 3,500 GSRs will be sold worldwide.With the original car, all were gone in just two months.

In Canada, fewer than 100 will be imported, so perhaps the rarity value is worth something.

As far as the rest of the interior goes, this is essentially just an R-Line Beetle with a few extra badges.You get comfortable, great-looking seats that don’t provide quite enough lateral support as compared to a GTI, a very VW-looking dash layout, and a multigauge pod.Where the regular Turbo Beetle gets a neat carbon-fibre trim, this car gets matte-finish treatment to most of the surfaces, and the aforementioned yellow stitching everywhere.

This particular version was equipped with the

Beetle’s Technology package, which adds satellite navigation and an eightspeaker-plus-subwoofer Fender-branded premium audio.This last works great for cleaning out your ears because it can and will melt your earwax.The navigation is very slightly out of date compared to upcoming systems from Chrysler and Ford.

While the Beetle’s shape does limit headroom and would send most young parents tut-tutting and heading for a five-door GTI or a GLI instead, it’s actually not all that bad for short distances. A child seat does (barely) fit, and an adult passenger could endure a short lift across town.

Essentially, owning this car requires something of a sense of humour, both inside and out. And, speaking of giggles, let’s talk about what’s under the hood.

Performance Ten more horsepower.

That’s all I’m asking VW, just 10 more horsies to give this blazing-yellow Bug some genuine performance credentials over and above the regular Turbo Beetle. No dice.

Still, the original GSR didn’t have any more punchbuggy than the 1600 Beetle it was based on, so perhaps tradition is being upheld.

Besides which, this isn’t really a car about winning races — this is a car designed around the concept of having a bit of a laugh.

Two transmissions are

on offer, a six-speed manual that’s a bit more engaging, or a $1,400 six-speed dualclutch gearbox that adds stop and go practicality without losing much of the fun.The 210 h.p., 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo is the same venerable mill that’s found throughout the VW lineup. It’s responsive and grunty, and makes a really good noise.

If we’re being cruel, the GSR is about five per cent worse than a normal GTI in every measurable physical dynamic.The steering is just that bit less engaging, the brakes are just a bit squishier, the handling is a bit disturbed by the higher roofline.Then there’s the choppy ride of those 19-inch alloys, which look great and stick well on smooth sweepers, but aren’t really a performance advantage.

There’s a reason the top dog Golf R rides on 18-inch rims.

So, if you’ve got a racing helmet with a VW sticker on it, then maybe you’re best off sticking with the GTI, particularly the new one coming later this year which is simply excellent. But what if you just want to have a bit of fun?

Here, the GSR becomes an out-and-out hoot.

Because it’s so bright and cheery — and attractive to police officers — you don’t really drive it aggressively, but just with a bit of fizz from the punchy turbo engine, and a wave out the window. If someone in a more-powerful Focus ST

Features As mentioned, the GSR is a trim beyond a fully loaded top-of-the-line R-Line Turbo Beetle, so you get 19-inch alloys, full leather interior, Bluetooth handsfree, heated seats, bi-Xenon headlamps, etc., etc.

Aside from choosing which transmission you want for your waggle-dance, the only option on the GSR

From page 41

honest.You, on the other hand, might actually be able to swing the payments. If you aren’t using that kidney, that is.

The MP4-12C led the charge for McLaren, and while it had a name better suited for a Xerox photocopier than a supercar, it’s done fairly well.The company’s new P1 has further tightened

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Stop sign No better dynamically than regular Turbo Beetle; stiff ride; slightly compromised handling.

The checkered flag Buzzy, but in the good way.

the company’s grip on the public’s imagination.

The cars still don’t have the pedigree imbued by a Ferrari badge, but even non-car-types know that a McLaren means business.

But speaking of business, just selling astronomically expensive unobtainium doesn’t work all that well in the long run.Thankfully, McLaren has just confirmed that they’re working on a relatively affordable

$160,000 entry model called the P13.

Designed to take on cars like the 911 Turbo and the Audi R8, the new baby McLaren will reportedly have two body styles (coupe and convertible, likely), and have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 500 horsepower. Sounds tasty.

PaulWalker accident See Speed page 43

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package is the Technology bundle.This includes satellite navigation and the powerful Fender stereo for $1,090 — not bad.

Fuel economy for VW’s four-pot turbo isn’t bad either, with official ratings of 9.0 litres/100 kilometres city and 6.5 l/100 km on the highway. Like any other turbocharged vehicle, you’ll struggle to hit those figures if you drive the car as it’s meant to be driven, but VW is often closer than most.

wants to stoplight race you, then just roll your eyes and let them go — the GSR isn’t built for would-be Vin Diesels.

Instead, it’s easy to drive, with much better sightlines than the old car, excellent grip on long sweeping corners, and a comfortable, upright driving position. It’s not a serious car, but the world is full of serious cars stuck in traffic. At least with this bright yellow package, you’ll gather a smiling wave or two, rather than a scowl.

Competitor Nissan Juke Nismo RS ($28,298) Well, why not? If we’re talking about weird, insectoid cars, then Nissan’s Juke has to come into the discussion. This version, the Nismo RS, is just about the oddest Japanese car you can buy in Canada.

Its 1.6-litre engine punches out 215 h.p., five more than the VW from less displacement.

You can also get the car with torque-vectoring all-wheel drive, if you’re willing to drop the manual transmission for a CVT instead, but the RS model is only available as a frontdriver.

With upgraded brakes, a tightened suspension and a willing chassis, the Juke is a bona fide performance car. It’s no retro-ride either, but looks like a time traveller from a distant future. Sure, it’s a bit ugly, but that’s just another word for unique. mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

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Speed cited in Walker crash

From page 42

investigation releases conclusions The death of actor Paul Walker last November seemed to galvanize the press — all the talking points were there: a fast car, a successful actor, an association with a movie franchise based around street racing. Conjecture, much of it baseless, was the order of the day.

The conclusions are in, and the culprit has been fingered. Speed is indeed what caused the fatal crash that claimed the lives of Walker and the driver of the Carrera GT, Roger Rodas.

Both men were experienced drivers with extensive track time.

The posted speed limit on the road where the crash occurred was 45 miles per hour, and investigators now believe that the 2005 Porsche was travelling at approximately 80-90 m.p.h. when it lost control.The Carrera GT is a notoriously tricky car for an amateur to drive, and the report notes that the tires on the vehicle were nine years old.

No mechanical failure was

reported, and no racing was going on as no other vehicles were noted in the area.

It is, at least, some kind of answer for the friends, family, and fans of Paul Walker, and perhaps a sobering reminder for anyone who has sat in the passenger seat of a car and felt like the driver was going a little too fast.

Volvo hints at luxo-wagon Media and public response has been extremely positive for Volvo’s latest concept car. A gorgeous, umber-hued shooting-brake, it at once pays homage to the classic P1800 and yet is full of modern touches. It’ll probably be very safe too, but who cares about the boring stuff when it looks this good?

While a production version is not entirely out of the question,Volvo’s currently more interested in volume-selling cars, and is looking at using design cues from this concept to inform their upcoming 90-series cars.The XC90 crossover has always been a strong seller, and is due for a redesign; we could also see a V90 sedan and possibly a

coupe or convertible.

Porsche’s firery GT3s The GT3 is a race-spec version of the 911, and perhaps the hottest 911 variant made. Certainly, the ones that have been catching fire recently are pretty toasty.

Earlier in the year, Porsche told all 911 GT3 owners to stop driving their cars immediately while a solution was worked out.

The source of the problem isn’t quite clear yet: wiring?

A mis-routed exhaust?

If Porsche hasn’t figured it out yet, I can probably help.The problem is that the latest generation of the car isn’t available with the option of a manual transmission.You can have the (admittedly excellent) PDK seven-speed dualclutch transmission, or you can take the bus.

Well, as it turns out, you’ll be taking the bus either way, at least for now.

Please, Porsche, give buyers of your most engaging car the ability to have the option of a manual, and perhaps the angry god of stick-shifts will stop smiting your cars with lightning bolts. brakingnews@gmail.com

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2012 E350 Cabriolet

V1406131A Indigolite Blue

$56,900 $54,700

2014 E350 Cabriolet

V673104

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$73,900 $70,800

2013 SLK350

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$66,900 $62,700

2013 E350 Cabriolet

V623771

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$61,900 $58,700

2011 E550 Cabriolet

M626299

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$52,800 $49,700

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$66,900 $62,700

2013 E350 Cabriolet

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$61,900 $59,700

2011 E550 Cabriolet

M645831

Obsidian Black

$54,800 $52,700

2013 SLK350

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Obsidian Black

$66,900 $63,700

2013 E350 Cabriolet

V609276

Obsidian Black

$61,900 $59,700

2011 E550 Cabriolet

M651750

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$55,900 $52,700

2013 SLK350

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$66,900 $63,700

2013 E350 Cabriolet

V628222

Obsidian Black

$63,900 $60,700

2011 E550 Cabriolet

M670444

Diamond White

$55,900 $52,700

2013 SLK350

V672995

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$67,900 $64,700

2013 E350 Cabriolet

V638535

Diamond White

$63,900 $60,700

2013 E550 Cabriolet

V638534

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$70,800 $67,700

2011 SL550R

M677828

Alabandite Green

$78,800 $75,700

2013 E350 Cabriolet

V642486

Obsidian Black

$63,900 $60,700

2014 E550 Cabriolet

B650577

Diamond White

$79,900 $77,700

2007 SL55 AMG

M665786A Obsidian Black

$59,900 $57,700

2013 E350 Cabriolet

V642492

Obsidian Black

$63,900 $60,700

2013 SLK250

V641285

Obsidian Black

$54,800 $51,700

2011 SL550R

M648054

Obsidian Black

$79,900 $77,700

2013 E350 Cabriolet

V642498

Diamond White

$63,900 $60,700

2013 SLK250

V642481

Obsidian Black

$57,800 $53,700

2013 SL550R

B629675

Obsidian Black

$99,900 $92,700

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