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Charter trumps policy, NorthVan resident says BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A North Vancouver man says the North Vancouver school district is violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by stopping residents from filming or broadcasting school board meetings.

Shane Nelson, who previously ran for the school board, has been told twice in two months to turn off his camera or be kicked out of the meeting.The first time in October, he was told it was because recording meetings was a violation of the school board’s policy that deals with surveillance cameras.The second time, unspecified “privacy legislation” was the justification.

Nelson said he wants the board’s debates to be recorded and available for public scrutiny on principle, and video recording in public is a form of expression guaranteed by Section 2 of the charter, he said.

Ultimately, the district should be filming and live broadcasting its meetings and posting them online after, just as the municipalities do, Nelson said.

But recording and broadcasting meetings isn’t currently addressed in the policy that governs the board procedures, said Franci Stratton, board chairwoman, in an interview Thursday.

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We’ve always had a process that we record meeting minutes and they’re part of the public record,” she noted.

Stratton said meetings tend to draw in children whose parents may not consent to filming and she did receive emailed complaints about Nelson See School page 9

Hundreds of tires slashed overnight BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

North Vancouver RCMP are looking for suspects after someone went on a vandalism spree resulting in more than 200 tires slashed overnight and counting.

The suspects appear to have focused their destructive energy on

vehicles parked between Capilano University and Park & Tilford Centre in the early morning Thursday, according Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman.

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In scope and monetary damage, it’s the biggest case of criminal mischief De Jong said he has seen on the North Shore.

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this magnitude where so many vehicles have been victimized,” he said.

De Jong said the RCMP have called in extra officers to help canvas the neighbourhoods affected and review several surveillance footage clips they’ve received so far.

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Wider walkways planned for causeway Stanley Park safety plan popular with cyclists BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

North Shore cyclists and pedestrians will have a little more elbow room and a lot more safety when traversing the Stanley Park Causeway if the province and Vancouver Park Board follow through on recently released plans.

The ministry of transportation and infrastructure on Tuesday debuted its designs to separate northbound and southbound cyclists onto opposite sides of the road, along with wider sidewalks and a pedestrianonly route.

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The west sidewalk will be widened by a more modest 0.4 metres and be reserved for southbound cyclists only. Both sides will be separated from the

road by a 1.4-metre high safety fence. Widening the sidewalks would mean removing 14 of Stanley Park’s hallowed trees.

The plan is being warmly received by North Shore members of the cycling advocacy group HUB. Members of the group had been lobbying for

safety improvements since May 2013 when a North Vancouver woman was killed after she fell from her bike into the path of a West Vancouver transit bus.

“It’s a pretty creative way of getting almost everything we asked for,” said Heather Drugge, HUB spokeswoman. “It’s pretty interesting, isn’t it, because

of the asymmetrical nature of the design. I think overall we’re very pleased.”

It will take some time for cyclists and pedestrians to acclimate to the new rules but engineers did a good job of making the design match the needs of both cyclists and pedestrians, Drugge said.

The southbound, west sidewalk tends to have more conflicts as cyclists pick up a lot of speed on the downhill from the Lions Gate Bridge, she said.

And the east side is more suited to a shared path, Drugge added.

“Not only is the east side very wide, the cyclists are not moving very quickly because it’s uphill.

If everybody behaves, this system should work,” she said. “Whenever you enter into social engineering… there’s always going to be some non-compliance.

But the non-compliers are probably going to be oneoffs.”

CNV mayor’s address

Police seek surveillance video of crime spree

Mussatto sets priorities for next four years

From page 1

BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Housing, a revived public waterfront and greener transportation — newly re-elected City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto set out his legislative agenda for the next four years in his inaugural address to council Monday night.

Mussatto started by indicating council will implement the Roger Brooks plan to revive the Shipyards district and Foot of Lonsdale to make it an “animated, lively, family friendly, people place and a destination that attracts and excites people year-round.”

“We have a vision and plans that show us the path to accomplish this,” he said.

Lower Lonsdale business owners can also expect they’ll be getting See Transit page 5

The province’s engineers also came forward with a concept that will create the least amount of grief for environmentalists, many of whom are also cyclists, Drugge said.

“Other options that came up would have removed so many trees on the other west side that the whole thing never would have gone through,” she said.

The Vancouver Park Board must still vote on whether to allow the province to go ahead with the work, but based on the conversation Drugge had with park board members on Tuesday, she is optimistic that will happen this spring.

“They seem to think this was an excellent compromise position,” she said.

The ministry of transportation and infrastructure and the park board are both asking for public feedback on the plan at gov.bc.ca/ stanleyparkcauseway.

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other detachments who have experience in something similar of late,” he said. “We did get some blood on one of the tires so we’ve got forensics on that for a possible match.”

In the meantime, police say to leave your car parked if its tires have been slashed.

Anyone who saw anything suspicious near the vandalized cars overnight is asked to call North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.

Mulgrave denied donor funds for expansion STEFANIA SECCIA sseccia@nsnews.com

B.C.’s Attorney General took the Mulgrave School Foundation to court — and won — over its intention to use donated funds for capital costs when they were meant for scholarships.

In 2011, Mulgrave started a $23-million project to expand its

campus on Cypress Bowl Lane to include a senior school building.

From 2008 and 2010, the independent school received approximately $1.1 million in donations for its scholarship program from four donors.

Although the foundation received the donors’ consent to repurpose the funds for offsetting construction

costs, B.C. Supreme Court Justice David Masuhara denied the action because of bureaucratic red tape.

Mulgrave School was founded in 1994.

Its foundation was incorporated in 2007, achieved charitable status in 2008, and became a public entity in 2009.

Since 2001, the 100,000-square-foot school building has housed

classrooms, science labs, gymnasiums, a library and a theatre. Then in 2010, it expanded with its Early Learning Centre facility.

When the foundation set its eyes on the multimillion-dollar senior school project — meant to give grades 10 to 12 students university guidance and a counselling centre — it had to take out a loan. The school would

rely on donations to help pay off the loan.

While the project is scheduled to be completed by 2015, the school wouldn’t be able to pay off the large loan until 2017.

So when the foundation attempted to redirect the funds from the scholarship program, the B.C. Attorney General’s office See Charitable page 5

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Transit a top priority From page 3 a Business Improvement Area, which will add an additional levy on their tax bills to be spent on projects meant to foster more commerce in the area.

Not forgotten was the languishing Harry Jerome Recreation Centre, which Mussatto pledged council would be dealing with early in the new year.

Residents can also look forward to a completed Spirit Trail spanning the city’s entire east-west border as well expansions of the Green Necklace, both part of the mayor’s goal to coax people out of their vehicles.

On the matter, Mussatto said the city will be actively pursuing more transit as a referendum on

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“Effective immediately, council’s top priority is to improve bus and SeaBus services on the North Shore. We will work with TransLink to ensure a

third SeaBus is a reality and focus on improving the SeaBus area,” he said.

Mussatto also stated his policy preferences for the perennial affordable housing problem on the North Shore, which include protecting existing rental housing and ensuring a range of housing options.

“This council wants to make it easier for families to stay in North Vancouver and we will continue to work hard to make home ownership and rent more affordable.

During the next four years we will assist residents by streamlining the process for coach houses, secondary suites and the city will actively seek purpose-built rental housing.”

Those were issues

of contention in the now stalled Official Community Plan, which Mussatto also addressed.

“We are committed to adopting a new OCP as soon as possible,” he said.

On the matter of North Vancouver school district lands, Mussatto said he supports the preservation of open space at Lucas Centre and Cloverley.

“While fields there may need improvement, which we will support, I will not support any revision to the zoning of these lands unless absolutely necessary in this term of council,” he said.

Mussatto is joined at the council table by firsttime Coun. Holly Back and returning incumbents Don Bell, Craig Keating, Linda Buchanan, Pam Bookham and Rod Clark.

Setting it straight A story in the Wednesday, Dec. 3 paper incorrectly stated that Jonathan Wilkinson is running as the Liberal Party of Canada’s candidate for Burnaby North-Seymour in the next federal election.

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orth Vancouver school board is finishing its term with an F in transparency.

In the last two meetings, residents have come hoping to record the board’s debate. Not seeing a policy to rigidly tell them what to do, the board told the residents to turn their cameras off or be kicked out.

This was the wrong decision.

The board and its administrator seem to be forgetting another policy called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is the supreme law of the land. The Supreme Court of Canada has deliberately interpreted our fundamental right to expression in a very broad, far-reaching way, including for the use of cameras in public places.

Of course there are justifiable limits when safety or personal information is concerned, but elected officials have

zero expectation of privacy while they’re engaged in official debate.

As a society, we actively encourage citizens to be engaged with their governments, to scrutinize their debates and question their decisions.

Whether the school board intended it or not, this has the effect of reducing transparency and possibly running afoul of the charter.

All of this, however, is losing sight of the forest for the trees. Of course anyone should be able to record board meetings but it should be something actively done by the school district.

The technology required to record and livestream a meeting exists in most anyone’s pocket. Most municipalities have been doing this for years. It’s the single biggest step our school districts could take to reach out to citizens who have a right to know.

There’s a new kid on the development block If you loved theWeegies, as I tenderly call the WestVancouver Citizens for Good Government, you may adore theWest Vancouver Housing Association.

The WVHA is a new kid on the development block.

Literally. It has a storefront in Dundarave.Two wellplaced, mystified West Van town hall personages agreed with the undersigned that, as of last week, they’d never seen it open. Nor did it have a website. Or any Googleable reference.

Agent Tj3s8 — a development sceptic, so take the opinion with a large grain of NaCl — says the WVHA consists of “the worst” real estate heavies, the most powerful developers and salespeople.

Meaning the best, biggest, most successful, by positive interpretation.

And why is the WVHA

Pretty much like the selfinterest of all of us when our dollar is at stake.

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springing into life now?

Because next month West Van council begins serious debate on an updated official community plan, which will take many months to pass.

In that time gap, so goes the cynical view of Agent Tj3s8, the real estate business will put foot to the floor to rush town hall development approvals before a possibly more stringent OCP is passed.

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Fittingly next up, gloomy retail news: Baracos + Brand is closing — a quality men’s store that would have attracted well-heeled residents of Grosvenor Ambleside, steps down Bellevue, had it held on for a few years.

Christine Baracos and late West Van councillor John Clark co-owned the store under the smartly named The Mensroom. Its successor’s closure supports Mayor Michael Smith’s case that many Ambleside businesses are suffering near-death experiences, and Grosvenor is a major step toward rejuvenation.

So Smith (and Grosvenor) must welcome the reborn Shell station across Marine Drive, long an

inglorious mudhole entrance to Ambleside that hardly enhances sales of condos — which, Agent p49scR, a new agent whose accuracy is untested and is only on the apprentice list, declares are projected to start at $1.6 million and, for the two penthouse-type terrace homes, will be north of $15 million each.

Michael Ward, senior vice-president and general manager of Grosvenor Americas, responds: “Price lists are not something we distribute, but rather we provide those that are interested in purchasing specific residential units with the individual pricing for that unit.” Grosvenor Ambleside’s presentation centre will be completed in February,Ward adds.

••• As Constant Reader knows, my only journalistic

fault is an abiding kindness.

So I’ve been musing about my words, last time at bat, about Coun. Craig Cameron’s pain that council duties were costing him — he has to take time off from what we might call real work. He’s right.

Most present councillors are either retired or aren’t principal or sole breadwinners.

Exceptions are Cameron, a government lawyer who has lost income due to council demands, and newcomer Christine Cassidy, a financial adviser, who may find herself in the same financial boat — a metaphorical leaky 12-foot rowboat. Councillors are paid about $30,000 a year for running a municipality where top staff get up to seven or eight times as much.

So vote-topping Cameron isn’t whining. He’s just more open than others about the

sacrificial realities of council service in 2014.

••• I allow myself one sports comment per year.This is it: My deep distrust of contact sports — football and, yes, hockey, about which I have a puckish sense of humour — deepened last weekend.

Hamilton, my home town (only 51 years away from it, seems like 52), crushed favoured Calgary with a touchdown in the last 35 seconds of the Grey Cup game … but for an interference call that wiped out Brandon Banks’ classic 90-yard run to the end zone.

And left Calgary’s 20-16 lead intact. From my seat in Section 444, the referee instantly resembled the man who ain’t got rhythm, nobody’s with him, he’s the loneliest man in town (that’s Irving Berlin, kiddies).

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Lost in all the oil rhetoric is realism

Despite the promises you hear chanted on Burnaby Mountain, there is no way the oil industry will be out of our lives in our lifetime.

Oil is everywhere. It affects everything.The clothes you wear, the computer you use, the television you watch, the food you eat – all are touched by oil at some point, either at the creation stage or on their journey to the consumer.

A recent book by journalist Rose George, entitled 90 Per Cent of Everything, documents that almost everything you use in life has travelled to your destination by container ships, fueled by diesel oil.

She spent a year on those

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View from the Ledge ships, noting that pretty well everything we buy, we ship.

The little-noticed world of shipping, and the irreplaceable role it plays in the world, is just one example of how deeply oil has seeped into our daily lives.

Preventing a pipeline, as those on Burnaby Mountain are hoping to do, may sound noble but it will have absolutely no impact on the oil industry. It is too massive, too deeply entrenched in our society for the halting of a pipeline’s construction in a tiny corner of the world to constitute more than a tiny blip in the overall scheme of things.

The protest against the Kinder Morgan pipeline has been compared to the Clayoquot Sound “war of the woods” protest in the 1990s.The two are decidedly different.The forestry protest was about ending clear-cutting logging of old growth timber, a practice very few people had any personal experience

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with. but the pipeline protest is about oil, which touches everyone, every single day.

While it was easy to target the forest industry back then, it is more than a bit disingenuous for environmentalists to demonize the oil industry – including that which operates in the Alberta tar sands – while they, like everyone else, uses so much of that industry‘s product.

There is a refusal by many of those on Burnaby Mountain to acknowledge

this unavoidable fact, and to pretend that there is no inconsistency in advocating for eliminating or weakening an industry while at the same time relying on that same industry for their livelihood.

Of course, some do acknowledge this inconsistency and say just because they drive a car, that doesn’t mean they can’t work towards curbing carbon emissions.

Fair enough, but lost in the chanting and rhetoric

that flows from the Kinder Morgan protesters (or Enbridge protesters) is any notion of realism.

Instead, they project a romantic vision that is simply unattainable. Oil is here to stay, until there is no more of it left.

Another example of the quiet little “inconsistency” that exists for so many of those who condemn the oil industry, especially the Alberta oil sands, is the See Pension page 11

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School board to consider policy review From page 1

recording without permission in October.

Still, Stratton said the board will be reviewing its own policy, which could lead to cameras in the board room, either from citizens or the school district staff.

“We can’t circumvent the process which we go to in order to establish policy or to review policy. I think we’ve heard Mr. Nelson and others and said this is something we need to consider and we put it on the inaugural board meeting agenda,” she said. “We’ll ask

for them to expedite it so we can see where it’s going to go in the next couple months.”

But Nelson stressed he shouldn’t need permission or a policy to be allowed to record the trustee debates and post them online any more than he would need permission to record and post what he sees in any other public space.

“I spent a ridiculous amount of time last night reading over all of the policies of the board, all of the charter, case law, privacy policy both (the Personal Information Protection

Act and Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act) and my reading of it is there’s absolutely no justification of it or legal backing or school board policy that prevents recording of the meetings,” he said.

The standard board meeting minutes fail to reflect the scale and nature of debate before decisions are made, he said.

“How can anybody know what the dissenting opinion is if there’s nothing in the minutes about it and there’s no video record and there’s no media present?” he asked.

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association, meanwhile, says some limits on what is recorded would be justifiable, like if sensitive personal information is being discussed. But it would be “backwards” to start with a blanket ban on recording.

“Outside of a carefully drafted, appropriately tailored policy that governs the justifiable exceptions, we can’t think of a reason why you couldn’t — the same as you take notes — record a public meeting,” said Micheal Vonn, BCCLA policy director. “It’s on the

government to justify why they are not giving more open access to their public meetings — not for the citizen to justify why they need it.”

Nelson has agreed to Stratton’s request that he not record the Dec. 9 meeting because the children of the board members will be present for the swearing in, but he does plan to keep “putting

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Charitable gift was for scholarships From page 3 was opposed because the gifts were given for a discrete purpose — scholarships and bursaries — and not for the school’s capital campaign for the construction of new buildings.

Masuhara agreed.

In his ruling, the judge stated that although the donors agreed to repurpose the funds, when the money was given to

the charity under the Society Act the purpose was for the advancement of education through scholarships.

Masuhara also noted that the foundation did not provide enough evidence to prove there is an “impossibility or impracticability” for the money not to be used for the scholarship program.

Mulgrave’s new senior school is expected to open to classes in January 2015.

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INQUIRING REPORTER Although snow swept through the Lower Mainland Friday night followed by frigid wind chills and frosty temperatures, Environment Canada is expecting the next three months to either be average or warmer than usual thanks to El Nino, with the North Shore settling back into the old routine of showers, rain and more showers. But there might be hope for clear and cold fans — the Weather Network’s long-term forecast predicts colder temperatures, but not as bad as last year. Which would you prefer? Have your say at nsnews.com.

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Referees have power to determine a win or loss From page 6 Vancouver Sun sports writers mocked the illegal block call. Iain MacIntyre doubted that Taylor Reed’s infraction influenced Banks’ spectacular run: “By CFL standards, deciding the Grey Cup on largely innocuous contact was absolutely predictable.” Cam Cole: “That’s not to say there wasn’t a foul on the play.The problem is that there’s a foul, or two, or five, on pretty much every play in football.”

(Canada’s real gridiron drama was Saturday, when my school, Hamilton’s

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Two hometown losses in a weekend!) Back to the point: In hockey, as in football, the line between fair and foul is often so subjective, so arbitrary — penalties commonly aren’t called in overtime, f’r instance — that refs have huge power to determine winners and losers.

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Pension funds invested in oil From page 7 pension fund they pay into.

The B.C. public sector pension fund is administered by the B.C. Investment Management Corp., which has more than $100 billion in investments that fund the pensions for more than 500,000 people — teachers, professors, MLAs, municipal workers, etc.

Public sector unions such as CUPE and the B.C.Teachers’ Federation have been at the forefront when it comes to attacking

the oil sands industry.Yet their members stand to financially benefit from that very industry, because of the inescapable role oil plays in pretty well everything, including their pensions.

The BCIMC’s investment holdings include $603 million invested in Suncor, one of the largest oil sands companies. another $409 million is with Enbridge, while $372 million is with Canadian Natural Resources and $284 million is parked with Exxon Mobil.

All told, the BCIMC has almost $3.6 billion invested in the oil sands alone (including, ironically, a small stake in Kinder Morgan). Plus another halfbillion dollars in companies associated with pipelines.

Plus hundreds of millions of dollars in Alberta real estate — including a property in Fort McMurray, which is Ground Zero for the tar sands — and the Alberta government itself, all of which benefit hugely from that province’s oil sands development.

Want to fight climate change?

Drive less, fly less and buy less.

But don’t for a moment think that shutting down a pipeline is going to have any impact whatsoever, other than easing some guilty consciences of people who will continue to use the oil industry just as much as they did before the protests on Burnaby Mountain.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC. Email: Keith.Baldrey@globalnews

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BRIGHT LIGHTS

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FANS Tribute to the Arts

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— The Kwakwaka’wakw and their Film —

In the Land of the Head Hunters

“The Kwakwaka’wakw first began to accommodate Edward S. Curtis and his photographic apparatus at Fort Rupert, British Columbia, sometime around 1910. By that time, they already had a substantial history with anthropologists, colonial agents, and early tourists coming to take their pictures.

Rather than documenting Native life in 1914, Head Hunters documents a moment of cultural encounter between Curtis and the Kwakwaka’wakw actors and consultants who were performing Curtis’s scripted version of their own past for the camera . . . . Even more noteworthy than Curtis’s embellishments, though, is the film’s portrayal of actual Kwakwaka’wakw rituals that were prohibited in Canada at the time of filming under the federal Potlatch Prohibition (1884-1951), intended to hasten the assimilation of First Nations. Despite this legislation, the dances and visual art forms — hereditary property of specific families — were maintained through this period and transmitted to subsequent generations, including the performers

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Evening hosted by filmmaker Colin Browne.

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When American photographer Edward S. Curtis witnessed the rich culture of the aboriginal community in Fort Rupert and Alert Bay 100 years ago, he decided to make a melodrama set against the backdrop of precolonialism in North America.

He collaborated with the Kwakwaka’wakw people to tell a tale of love, war and adventure before contact with European settlers.

On Dec. 7, 1914, his silent film In the Land of the Head Hunters screened in Seattle. It was

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But the film was a financial disaster that was not preserved properly.

That is, until a recent restoration project between academics and descendants of the film’s cast worked to re-release it on its 100year anniversary, which will be screened at Vancity Theatre and Pacific Cinémathèque this weekend.

Hereditary Chief Bill Cranmer, of the N’amgis First Nation, was part of the restoration project between academics and the U’mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay. But Cranmer also has personal ties to the film, as his great-grandfather, George Hunt advised Curtis during shooting. He’s also related to the film’s leading stars.

“It’s pretty special for us as descendants of the actors in the film,” he says. “My great aunt Maggie Frank was the star, and my great uncle Stanley Hunt was the male star.”

The film mixes documentary and dramatic elements, with authentic traditions and rituals, including the potlatch ceremony, which at the

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“It’s really something special,” Cranmer notes. “I knew my great aunt, my great uncle when they were fairly old and to see them as they were way back then is something special.”

The film shows his ancestors as the healthy, industrious people Captain Vancouver discovered in 1792, Cranmer added.

“Our old people were pretty good actors,” he says. “A lot of the things we do in our ceremonies involved a certain amount of acting.”

The film is a significant link between the community and its ancestors, Cranmer said.

“His work was very valuable to us,” he says.

“We got to see, first off, our ancestors as they were. We got to see some of the dances… lots of information that probably would’ve disappeared if it hadn’t been for Curtis’s work.”

Colin Browne, a film scholar and Simon Fraser University professor who was involved with the restoration project, says from 1915 to the early 1970s the film dropped from the public’s purview, which is why it isn’t as recognized as much as other iconic movies from that bygone era.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING

A redevelopment is being proposed for 1203, 1207 Harold Road to construct a residential townhouse project.

You are invited to a meeting to discuss the project.

Date: Time: Location of the Meeting:

Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:00 p.m.

Mollie Nye House 940 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver

The applicant proposes to rezone the site from single-family zoning to a comprehensive development zone to permit an 8-unit ground oriented townhouse development.

The proposal includes one building. 8 units will have two parking stalls per unit.

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The meeting is being held by Homefield Investments Ltd. and Integra Architecture Inc., in compliance with District of North Vancouver Council Policy.

The applicant will present details of the proposal and discuss any concerns residents may have.

Information packages are being distributed to residents within a 75 metre radius of the site. If you would like to receive a copy or if you would like more information, please contact: Mike Brody of Homefield Investments Ltd. at 604-980-2954; Casey Peters of the Community Planning Department at 604-990-2388; or Duane Siegrist of Integra Architecture Inc. at 604-688-4220 or bring your questions or comments to the meeting. *This is not a Public Hearing. Council will receive a report from staff on issues raised at the meeting and will formally consider the proposal at a later date.

at 12:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. Registration required.

GRAFFITI CO. ART STUDIO 171 East First St., North Vancouver. Tuesday-Friday, 1:30-6:30 p.m. or by appointment. 604-9801699 or gcartstudio@shaw.ca HOLLAND/CROFT STUDIOS 106 West First St., North Vancouver. 604-250-5562 KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com LIONS BAY ART GALLERY 350 Centre Rd., Lions Bay. Featuring established and upcoming artists.

Monday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-921-7865 lionsbayartgallery.com LYNNMOUR ART STUDIO AND GALLERY 301-1467 Crown St., North Vancouver. Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. or by appointment. 604-9294001 nsartists.ca/garyeder Contemporary and Abstract Paintings by Gordon Oliver, Robert Botlak and GaryW. Eder.

THE MUSIC BOX 1564 Argyle Ave.,West

Vancouver.

MYSTIC MASK ART STUDIO 319 West 28th St., North Vancouver.

NAVA ART CENTER 1355 Main St., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 5-9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 2-8 p.m. 604-9856282 NORTHSHORE AUTO MALL 104-788 Copping St., North Vancouver.

Throw Mark Weave: Four artists (Vincent Massey Pottery, Cheryl Massey Baskets, Lisa Geddes Paintings and Erica Massey ChicaVerde Jewelry) will show their works of pottery, paintings, baskets and jewelry Dec. 12 from noon to 9 p.m., Dec. 13 and 14 from noon to 5 p.m. Opening reception: Thursday, Dec. 11,4-9 p.m.

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NORTH VANCOUVER COMMUNITY HISTORY CENTRE 3203 Institute Rd., North Vancouver. TuesdaySaturday, noon to 5 p.m.

604-990-3700 x8016 nvma. ca Sharing Our Stories: A display that features reminiscences shared by some Canadian Iranian North Shore residents about why they chose to live here

PRESENTATION HOUSE SATELLITE GALLERY 560 Seymour St., Vancouver.WednesdaySaturday, noon to 6 p.m. satellitegallery.ca The Port/Matthew Buckingham: Obscure Moorings: An examination ofVancouver’s role as a port city and its relation with the maritime worker will run until Dec. 6.

RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Art and Deco: Abstract compositions by Michael Jeffery and Christmas decorations

by Parkgate Ceramic Studio members will be on display until Dec. 7.

Blue Sky Meets Fired Earth: Landscape paintings

by Cathy Roddie and ceramic forms by Liz De Beer will be on display from Dec. 7 to Jan. 11.

SANDRINE PELISSIER STUDIO 125 Garden Ave., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Weekly non-instructional life drawing classes.

SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Winter Gift Gallery: The gallery will be selling a selection of holiday gifts by local artists until Dec. 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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From page 16 Thursday at noon there will be a 20-minute curator’s talk with background on the current show in the gallery.

SHELTON ART/ STUDIOS GALLERY 3540 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. Studio visits by appointment. 604-9225356 sheltonart.com SHIPBUILDERS’ SQUARE 15 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver.

THE SHORE PRESENTATION CENTRE 238 Fell Ave., North Vancouver. Daily, noon to 5 p.m.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE

1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.

604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Silent Auction: Capilano University IDEA students will hold an auction of paintings from the Reflections 2015 calendar series. Bidding will close Dec. 6 at 4 p.m.

Gifted: An exhibit of works by the volunteers who work at the Silk Purse will run from Dec. 9 to 21. Opening reception:Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2-4 p.m.

SPACE EMMARTS STUDIO 305 Mansfield Pl., North Vancouver.Wednesday and Friday, 2-5 p.m. or by appointment. 604-3750694 emmarts.ca STARFIRE STUDIO 6607 Royal Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-922-5510

starfireattheferries.com 195 STUDIOS — ARTISTS ON PEMBERTON 195 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver. 195studios.ca TARTOOFUL 3183 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver. 604-9240122 tartooful.com VIPOND STUDIO AND GALLERY 195 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver. By appointment only. 604-209-1197 Landscapes in oil on canvas by NormanVipond.

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CALENDAR From page 17 In the Gallery — Things That Go: Images of boats, buses, trains and cars from the library’s historical photograph collection will be on display until Jan.12.

WEST VANCOUVER MUNICIPAL HALL 750 17th St.,West Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 604925-7290 Art in the Hall: An exhibition of photographs by Francine Drouin will run until Jan. 30.

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MUSEUM 680 17th St.,West Vancouver. TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7295 westvancouvermuseum.ca Harry and Jessie Webb: — Artists inVancouver’s Jazz Age: An exhibition that draws from the artists’ estate will run until Dec. 6.

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

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CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Winter Harp: An ensemble of harps, flutes, medieval instruments and percussion combine for a concert of carols, poetry and song Dec. 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $37/$34.

CAULFEILD COVE HALL 4773 South Piccadilly Rd., West Vancouver. 604-8127411 caulfeildcovehall.ca

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Candlelight Carols: The VancouverWelsh Men’s Choir will perform a Christmas concert accompanied by choirs from Argyle secondary Friday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $30/$27/$12.

A Traditional Christmas: TheVancouver Symphony Orchestra will perform holiday music Friday, Dec. 19 at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Admission: $42/$37.Tickets: 604-8763434 or vancouversymphony. ca.

Gloria! A Christmas Celebration: Lions Gate Sinfonia will perform traditional carols followed by a singalong Saturday, Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $39$35/$18/$12.

DEEP COVE COFFEE HOUSE Mount Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver.

604-363-5370 jane@nsrj.ca Pearl: Kathy Francis and Andrea Smith will perform “cool” tunes, harmonies and multi-instruments Friday, Dec. 19 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.

JOHN BRAITHWAITE KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. Tickets: 604981-6335 kaymeekcentre. com Year End InVoice: Pandora’sVox and Espiritu will perform their annual

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Christmas concert Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 6 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $32/$28/$24/$20/$12.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas — Buddy and The Killer in Concert: Zachary Stevenson as Buddy Holly and Lance Lipinsky as Jerry Lee Lewis will perform a tribute concert Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m.Tickets: $42.

The B3 Kings will perform their annual Christmas concert Dec. 10 and 11 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $30/$15.

Winter Express: Harmony House Music School and Harmony Training and Performance Society will present an evening of artistic expression of contemporary music Friday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m.Tickets: $20/$15/$10.

Celebrate the Love at Christmastime: Amanda Wood will perform her annual Christmas concert featuring guest artists and musicians Friday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m.

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Council Meetings:

Monday, December 15, 7pm

Committee of the Whole: For more information:

Monday, December 8, 7pm

• visit dnv.org for agendas, minutes and schedules of upcoming meetings • call 604-990-2315 for a recorded listing of agenda items • visit 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

Holiday Hours District Hall and Operations Centre will be closed December 24 (at noon), 25, 26, and January 1. Our Customer Service Centre at District Hall will be open December 29, 30, 31 and January 2 responding to general telephone, email and walk-in enquiries.

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CALENDAR proceeds will support Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

I Sing Along WithYou: Dastan Ensemble and Jamal Kurdistani will perform

Persian classical and Kurdish music Saturday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. Admission: $45.Tickets: 604-985-6282.

A Traditional Christmas: TheVancouver Symphony Orchestra will perform holiday

music Saturday, Dec. 20 at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Admission: $42/$37.Tickets: 604-8763434 or vancouversymphony. ca.

David James & Big River will perform a tribute

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LONSDALE QUAY 1PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-990-3474 phtheatre.org Van Django Bells: Van Django string, swing, jazz quartet will perform a Christmas variety show Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $16-$20.

SEYMOUR ART SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Classical Concert Series: Sarah Jane Scouten and Jack Dwyer will play a stripped down set of seasonal folk tunes Thursday, Dec. 11 at 10:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

ST. ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH 1044 St. Georges St., North Vancouver. 604-9850408 st-andrews-united.ca Christmas With Bach: The Laudate Singers will perform with a baroque orchestra Sunday, Dec. 7, 3-5 p.m. Admission: $35/$30/$15.

Tickets: 604-729-6814 or laudatesingers.com.

ST. DAVID’S UNITED CHURCH 1525 Taylor Way,West Vancouver.

A Christmas Story: Musica Intima will perform traditional holiday favourites and contemporary works Saturday, Dec. 20 at 2:30 p.m. Admission: $35/$30/$10.

Tickets: 604-731-6618 or musicaintima.org.

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International Volunteer Day

Celebrating volunteers at home and around the world North Shore Community Resources wishes to recognize and thank the many citizens who volunteer in our communities.

• 13.3 million people across Canada generously help organizations to deliver important programs and services.

• Volunteers contribute to over 2.1 billion hours of service annually in our country.

• You make a difference and it is appreciated.

On December 5th North Shore Community Resources joins the rest of the world in celebrating your volunteer commitment to our communities.

Thank you!

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Saturday morning cartoons ran for six hours back then, beginning at the crack of dawn with a marathon of Loonie Toons classics and reaching an apex around 10 a.m. with shamelessly commercial TV shows based on bestselling toys of the day (Pole Position, Rubik the Amazing Cube, Ewoks, etc.)

The animated odyssey tapered off around noon with more adolescent-oriented dramas about gaunt popstars with fingerless gloves and feathered hair vying for top spot on the music charts.

Throughout the programming, advertisers hard-sold messages about the must-have awesomeness of one toy or another, encouraging boys and girls to ramp up the parental nagging before offering speedy disclaimers about required assembly and the exclusion of batteries.

That year, in the lead-up to Christmas, there was one heavily promoted toy that infected my impressionable brain with a singular obsession of such magnitude that I was scarcely able to converse on any subject that could not be easily segued back to it.

It was a small, scale model motorcycle that could be inserted into a square starting gate equipped with a rotating handle. When you cranked

Seymour Dance Presents

THE NUTCRACKER Sunday December 7

Shows are 1pm and 4pm.

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Get into the holiday spirit with this charming production of dancers aged 3-18. Over 100 students perform this classic after the hard work of over 80 hours of prep and practising.

STUDIO IN THE

The Nutcracker is one of the world’s favourite ballets, and with Seymour Dance’s version- you’re in for a treat! This fairytale bursts with bewitching dancing, magical sets and the prettiest costumes imaginable.

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the handle, the motorcycle’s motor mechanism wound tightly. A red launch button sent the taut motorcycle screaming out of the gate, balanced on its two wheels, for an advertised distance of 30 feet. Wow! In the history of toys, had there ever been anything cooler and of greater value for $20? I thought not.

In my family, which is of Latvian origin on my mother’s side, the principal Christmas celebration took place on the evening of Dec. 24. The tradition was to have an elaborate meal and then repair to the living room to open presents for untold hours. Christmas Eve 1982 was marked by an explosive anticipation of opening a certain large present that I was certain contained the best toy ever fashioned. The gift was placed near the back of the tree and I was under strict orders not to touch it until it was time to open it.

Stripped of my appetite through sheer nauseous excitement, the time finally came for me to open the glorious gift. With trembling

hands I tried to lift the box from the ground. Alas, I fumbled, the box proving much heavier than I expected.

Odd, I thought, that the motorcycle should be so heavy. Perhaps its weight is what allowed it to stand on two wheels.

Lugging the absurdly heavy package to a spot on the floor, I felt my cheeks flush with unbridled glee. I tore the paper from the package, revealing a generic cardboard box underneath. I opened the box and fished inside, expecting glossy toy packaging to emerge.

Instead, I encountered layers and layers of tissue paper and felt my hand graze something rough and cold.

Perplexed, I extracted two red bricks from the bottom of the box, placing them at my feet. Bricks? What? Were they to build a jump for my motorcycle?

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Royal City Youth Ballet Company Society proudly presents, for the 26th season, the full length ballet, the Nutcracker.

The longest running Nutcracker ballet performance in Canada!

• Serving families and individuals across the North Shore • Providing counsel + coaching, food + clothing that saves lives

Don’t miss your opportunity to see this unique show that delights audiences of all ages.

• Offering one-to-one care. Restoring people to healthier, productive lives • Grassroots support from households, business, churches, community groups

“Extending a hand up, not a hand out” makes a healthy inclusive community

Artistic Director, Camilla Fishwick-Kellogg Executive Producer, Trisha Sinosich-Arciaga

Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver Sunday, December 21 at 1 & 4 pm Box Office: 604-984-4484 www.centennialtheatre.com

PLEASE DONATE TODAY: ONLINE: harvestproject.org

BY MAIL or IN-PERSON: 1073 ROOSEVELT CRESCENT, NORTH VANCOUVER, BC

For more information, and a full list of performances, please visit our website:

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Family literacy tips

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ith kids off school and parents home from work, the winter holidays are perfect for creating family time to play and learn together.

In a recent press release, ABC Life Literacy Canada offered the following holiday family literacy tips.

LYNN VALLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY EVENTS

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When you include fun learning activities in your family’s holiday time, everyone stays sharp and ready for the new year. Find more family literacy tips and activities at familyliteracyday.ca.

UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE VILLAGE CHRISTMAS TREE WALK COME AND ENJOY! The Village Plaza will be filled with dozens of beautifully decorated trees and music will be playing around the clock.

Each tree uniquely decorated in the holiday spirit.

Come vote for your favourite!

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the stamp of the Swiss flag.

Upon opening the diminutive package, I stared in utter bewilderment at the tiniest pen knife I had ever seen.

Equipped with a short, surgically sharp knife on one side and a rough nail file on the other, the tool was a junior version of the Swiss Army Knife popular with grandfathers, scout leaders and precisely no seven-yearolds.

I managed to choke out a thank you to the giver of the peculiar gift, who explained to me that the bricks were simply a way of throwing me off the scent of the pen knife; if I had snuck a shake of the gift while no one was looking I would not have guessed that it contained a one and three-quarter-inch blade. Truer words were never spoken; that’s right, I would never have guessed.

I received many thoughtful and fun presents that year, but the mega-cool, alwayswanted-it-and-couldn’tpossibly-live-without-it motorcycle was not one of them.

For weeks I regarded

that pen knife with scarcely contained disdain. But in the spring, the knife found its way into my pocket every now and then, and eventually I did not leave home without it. Its precise, sharp blade fashioned countless wooden arrows and cut through the twine of ingenious traps I set for bad guys in the backyard.

It came in handy on camping trips and helped me to mark park benches and tree stumps with a set of timeless initials commemorating my time there. That knife remains an enduring memory of my childhood, of a time when the everyday adventures of my imagination eclipsed the machinations of advertising.

Maybe my own kids will find some version of bricks under the tree this year.

Chris Dagenais is a North Shore resident and a regular contributing writer to the North Shore News. His weekly restaurant review column runs in the Wednesday issue of the paper and online at nsnews.com. Contact: hungryontheshore@gmail. com.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

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Friday, December 5, 2014 - North Shore News - A35

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‘Joey Pouch’ provides needed support It is a product that is long overdue but finally there is a place for men to keep things where they belong.

Local company 2UNDR has designed the ultimate pair of men’s underwear. The brochure description says it best, “Sewn inside each pair of 2UNDR is a soft and comfortable penthouse condo for your most valuable assets. We call it the Joey Pouch.”

The goal for North Shore resident Jeff Williams was to produce a highperformance men’s athletic underwear.

Working with top designer Rocky Harris, Williams created three distinct styles.

Besides the unique Joey Pouch, the attention to detail is foremost in every style. Waistbands that don’t roll up, flatlocked stitching that is intelligently located to avoid potential rub zones and moisture wicking materials all provide a great fit that performs well.

Comfort, fit, style and a sense of humour were all brought to play in creating the three product lines. Day Shift is a cotton-modal blend mid-length boxer brief. Swing Shift adds a beechwood fibre to the cotton-modal blend creating a soft fit that keeps you chafe-free. The Gear Shift is a more athletic cut with a compression-like feel that includes Garmatex’s patented ColdSkin material.

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One dollar from the sale of every Ronnie Renner pair will be donated to Red Bull’s Wings for Life charity that supports spinal cord research.

Currently there are two locations that carry the product on the North Shore: Obsession Bikes, 94 Lonsdale Ave. and Rona Building Centre, 915 West First St. — Terry Peters

Margot J. Leviton will be selling her healing stone jewelry. crystal-connections. myshopify.com SCARVES FOR WATER The West Vancouver-based Obakki Foundation has released three new limitededition modal-blend scarves

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CALENDAR

Town Hall Meeting

Rezoning Application 1549 St. George’s Avenue Porte Development Corporation has applied for a Development Application to amend the Zoning Bylaw to permit a one-storey addition to the existing three- storey apartment building to create a four-storey rental apartment with a total of 29 units.

A density bonus is requested for the provision of rental units.

A reduction of nine parking stalls is requested, with the current parking area maintained to provide six surface parking stalls, accessed from the rear lane.

This Town Hall Meeting provides interested members of the public an opportunity to learn about and respond to the proposal prior to Council consideration.

Date: Time: Place:

Wednesday December 10, 2014 6pm - 9pm; Presentation at 7pm John Braithwaite Comm. Centre Anchor Room 145 West 1st St North Vancouver, BC

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B3 Kings dig into Christmas groove Jazz quartet continue tradition with gigs at Kay Meek Centre ■ B3 Kings, Kay Meek Centre, Dec. 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. For more information visit kaymeekcentre.com.

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The band isn’t prepared.

The crowd is about to sweep inside to hear Christmas carols filtered through Bill Coon’s guitar improvisations, Cory Weeds’ saxophone solos, Denzal Sinclaire’s joyful crooning and all the innovation Chris Gestrin’s 10 fingers can summon out of his B3 organ.

Only they’re not prepared.

“We never get together and rehearse,” admits Weeds.

That lack of preparation is particularly apparent at sound check.

“It always sounds very bad,” the saxophonist says.

And while Sinclaire sorts out his drum kit, Weeds thinks of all the people who paid good money to hear the quartet.

“We’re really not prepared,” he says. “And then something happens when we hit the stage.”

That something is the chemistry between four musicians who each listen with the attentiveness of a

great conversationalist.

Sinclaire bops his head in approval to every blistering note Weeds plays on “We Three Kings” and Coon is clearly absorbed in each organ riff Gestrin offers up on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

The group formed a little more than 12 years ago at a benefit concert for Weeds’ now defunct Vancouver jazz club The Cellar.

Sinclaire, who was beginning to garner comparisons to Nat King Cole at the time, agreed to perform at the gig.

“At the time he was playing with a quintet — that’s the band that I wanted and that’s the band I assumed he was going to use,” Weeds recalls.

While going over the stage setup, Sinclaire mentioned he’d be playing drums and Gestrin would be on organ.

“When I heard that I was very disappointed. . . .

I didn’t even know Denzal played drums.”

Weeds elected not to argue with the singer, who was, after all, playing for free.

Weeds joined the duo on stage for a 45-minute set that he says was more fun than almost anything he’d ever done.

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Sinclaire, an admirer of John Coltrane drummer Elvin Jones, put as much passion and precision into his drumming as he did into his singing.

The trio reunited for a Christmas concert at The Cellar, partially at the behest of Gestrin, who’d “always been bugging me about doing holidaythemed shows,” Weeds says.

After adding Coon on guitar the quartet was complete and a Vancouver Christmas tradition was born.

“Every year we close out The Cellar — or, we used to close out The Cellar,” he corrects.

The West Broadway mainstay hosted jazz acts for more than a dozen years before falling silent in February.

“There’s a sense of fear, a sense of desperation that I feel and a sense of ‘Where the hell are we going to play our music?’”

Weeds says.

A few Vancouver clubs have hosted some of The Cellar’s former acts but for Weeds the absence of live jazz in the city seems acute.

“Things ebb and flow and they go up and down,” he notes. “To me it seems a little scarier than other times.”

The club’s closure left a hole in the city, not just for Weeds but for any musician who favours unusual time signatures and moments of musical spontaneity.

However, if the club’s closure is testament to skyrocketing commercial rents, the B3 Kings concert at the Kay Meek is a mark of the group’s resilience.

“We’re excited that the tradition is continuing.

A lot of Cellar traditions were in jeopardy when I closed the club.”

For some jazz players, playing Christmas music feels a bit like putting a chef on a fast food assembly line, however Weeds is quick to clarify what the group does.

“I don’t really look at it as playing Christmas music,” he explains. “It really is a jazz gig. Sure, we play ‘Jingle Bells’ but when you’ve got Chris Gestrin, Bill Coon, and Denzal Sinclaire as your rhythm See B3 Kings page 42

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THEATRE

Actors capture the spirit of the season Jay Brazeau hosts show at Presentation House Theatre

■ A Few of My Favourite Things, Dec. 11-14 and 1821 at Presentation House Theatre, 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: $10-28, available at phtheatre.org or by calling the box office at 604-990-3474.

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A flubbed line here, a missed cue there, a slightly off-key instrument. It’s those little human errors that give theatre the real-life quality Jay Brazeau finds so endearing.

“I always say that the best kind of theatre I’ve ever seen is when mistakes happen,” says the seasoned North Vancouver actor.

So, he won’t be kicking himself if he stumbles over a word — or a microphone cord — while hosting this year’s familyfriendly Christmas show at Presentation House Theatre, A Few of My Favourite Things. Brazeau will be joined on stage by five recent graduates of Capilano University’s musical theatre program and together they will share stories, sing songs — both holiday favourites and Broadway hits — engage the audience in a sing-along and take crowd requests. The participatory nature of the show means the performers will need to think on their feet and work their improvisational skills.

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stories, sing songs and have some laughs. He says he hopes patrons leave the theatre feeling as though they’ve just been to “a really good party.”

Meanwhile, he’s also excited to be home for the holidays this year and participating in a show in his own backyard.

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When deciding on this year’s holiday offering, Presentation House Theatre’s artistic director Kim Selody says he wanted to capture the spirit of the season in a positive way without getting bogged down by tradition.

“One thing we wanted to do was something that was a little bit broader, more secular and more fun, and more inclusive within the community,” he explains. “We basically are opening up the theatre and

making it like a giant living room and inviting the audience to come in and join us and be entertained for about 90 minutes.”

When it comes to the song lineup, Selody is fairly tight-lipped, not wanting to give away any surprises.

“Obviously we’re going to do something from Mame because that’s a musical that takes place at Christmas,” he reveals.

And it’s a good bet The Sound of Music number that inspired the variety

show’s title will also be heard. But it’s important to keep the evening open, Selody says, leaving room for spontaneity. “(The show) really changes each night depending on who’s in the audience, depending on what they’re interested in seeing and hearing.”

With pianist Joseph Seserko accompanying on the baby grand, Selody is confident the cast will be able to handle any song See Karaoke page 42

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THEATRE

Your guide to HOLIDAY GIFTING, HOSTING & TOASTING!

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Avenue Q meant for grown-ups ■ Arts Club Theatre prodcution of Avenue Q at Granville Island Stage until Jan. 3, 2015.

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It feels like the first time — only better.

This production of Avenue Q is even slicker and funnier than last season, and although it’s not Christmas-y, it’s bound to make you ho-ho-ho like Santa. However, that jolly old fellow, being a saint, might cover his eyes when there’s puppet sex going on and on and hilariously on.

Don’t be put off by it; it’s very funny and pretty brief.

If you really can’t bear to watch, just shut your eyes and think of England.

Avenue Q is a Broadway musical for grownups, an adult takeoff on Sesame Street that uses puppets just like the kids’ show.

Created by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx back in 2002, it went on to win three Tony Awards in 2003 and now tours internationally.

The puppet handlers, in contrast to Sesame Street, are fully visible and some of the show’s tremendous appeal is watching how,

for example, Lucy T. Slut becomes an extension of performer Kayla Dunbar; when Lucy sashays, Dunbar does, too. And when Lucy flings her blond curly locks around, Dunbar’s hair is flying around, too. Seeing the show for the second time, I was much more aware of the skill of the puppeteers. It’s hard to say where the performer ends and the puppet begins. And it’s a workout; under Peter Jorgensen’s direction, seven actors sing, dance and handle nine puppets.There are 21 sing-able songs and you will definitely leave the theatre with an earworm that goes, “It’s sucks to be me/It really sucks to be me.”

Princeton, manipulated by boyish, tremendously appealing Jeremy Crittenden, has just graduated with a BA in English. But he can’t find a job, can’t pay his bills and can’t find an affordable place to live except down on multicultural, downon-its-luck Avenue Q, rendered with wonky, cartoonish apartment buildings by set designer Marshall McMahen. There, Princeton meets plain-Jane kindergarten assistant Kate

Monster (Kayla Dunbar who also handles Lucy), Nicky and Trekkie Monster (Nick Fontaine), Mrs. Thistletwat (Jeny Cassady) and humans Brian (Andy Toth), Christmas Eve (Selina Wong, a little sparkplug with big pipes) and Gary Coleman (Evangelia Kambites).

Coleman, by the way, was a child star that petered out in adulthood.

Avenue Q is clever: it knocks the stuffing out of Broadway musicals with their often-smarmy lyrics.

Songs like “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist,” “The Internet is for Porn” (“Grab your dick/And double click”) and “I’m Not Wearing Any Underwear” will have you chortling. And yet it celebrates the genre at the same time.

From the press release — because I couldn’t describe it any better — Avenue Q touches on “raucous sexual congress, failed childhood stardom, excessive drinking... cute creatures doing bad things... getting laid off, finding your purpose... homosexuality, racism, See Something page 41

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CALENDAR From page 24 4773 South Piccadilly Rd., West Vancouver.

The Magic of Christmas: An unplugged evening of Christmas music featuring Michelle, Monique and Michael Creber, Gabriel Brown, Andrea Libman, EdithWallace, the Cypress Singers and other special guests Sunday, Dec. 7, 7:30-10 p.m. Admission: $90/$45/$25. Info: magicofchristmas.com.

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca TheVancouver Bach Choir along with two guest soloists will perform excerpts from Handel’s Messiah as well as a selection of traditional carols Friday, Dec. 12, 7:30-8:45 p.m.There will also be a short audience singalong.

Theatre

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-3200 deepcovestage.com Rumpelstiltskin: A pantomime version of this classic fairy tale will run Dec. 17-19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, Jan. 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. with matinees Dec. 20, 21, 27, 28 and Jan. 3 at 3:30 p.m.

Tickets: $15.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Don Pasquale: An opera performed byVenture Opera of NewYork Friday, Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $40/$30/$20. Following the opera there will be an after party featuring The Boom Booms from 10 to 11 p.m.

Admission: $40/$30/$20.

RICHMOND GATEWAY THEATRE 6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond. 604-270-1812 gatewaytheatre.com Crazy forYou: North Shore native, dancer Afton Toler will perform in this Gershwins’ musical until 31.Tickets: $48.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Opera Shorts — Opera in the Afternoon: A Christmas showcase of carols, opera arias and duets will be performed Sunday, Dec. 7, 24 p.m. Admission: $20/$10.

Christmas With Charles Dickens: Festive theatre and music Thursday, Dec. 18, 10:30 a.m. Admission:

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THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca Cinderella: A pantomime tradition Dec. 5-7 and 11-14, Thursday and Fridays at 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 and 4 p.m.

Tickets: $10/$5.

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Dance

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Hansel and Gretel: Pacific DanceArts along with Coastal City Ballet will bring this fairy tale to life Sunday, Dec. 14 at 2 and 5 p.m. Admission: $30/$22.

Winter Concert of Dance: AnnaWyman School of Dance Arts will perform Saturday, Dec. 13 at 4 p.m.

Admission: $25/$17/$13/$5.

Tickets: 604-926-6535.

Nutcracker: Royal City Youth Ballet will perform this holiday tradition Sunday, Dec. 21 at 1 and 4 p.m.

Tickets: $35/$25.

Clubs and pubs

BEAN AROUND THE WORLD COFFEES/ BEANS ON LONSDALE 1802 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Live music every Thursday, 8 p.m.

604-985-2326 CASA NOVA CAFÉ 116 East 14th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2223 info@casanovacafe.ca CHESHIRE CHEESE RESTAURANT AND BAR Lonsdale Quay 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver.

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THE EAGLES CLUB 170 West 3rd Street, North Vancouver.

LEGION #118 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. 604-985-1115 info@legion118.com

ELECTRIC OWL 928 Main St.,Vancouver.

604-558-0928 FINCH AND BARLEY 250 East First St., North Vancouver. finchandbarley. com HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Open Mic: Every Thursday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Live Music: Every Saturday evening with jazz on the second and last Saturday of each month.

JACK LONSDALE’S PUB 1433 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Live music every Friday and Saturday

LYNN VALLEY LEGION 1630 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver.

NARROWS PUB 1979 Spicer Rd., North Vancouver.

MIST ULTRA BAR 105-100 Park Royal,West Vancouver. 604-926-2326 DJs spin classic dance music from the ’80s, ’90s and today.

QUEENS CROSS PUB 2989 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. queenscross.com Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every Sunday, 8-11 p.m.

THE RAVEN PUB 1052 Deep Cove Rd.,

North Vancouver. theravenpub.com RED LION BAR & GRILL 2427 Marine Drive,West Vancouver. 604-926-8838 Open Mic Night: A variety of talent fromWestVancouver and beyond Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Participation welcome.

Info: ethosproductions@shaw. ca.

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 MusicWednesday, Friday and Saturday; Mostly Marley performs every Sunday, 7 p.m.

SAILOR HAGAR’S BREW PUB See more page 42

pornography, masturbation, interracial marriage, interspecies relationships (monsters and humans)... coming out of the closet, coming out of your apartment... coming out of your shell, and recycling.”

In other words, there’s something for everyone.

The facts behind New Yorker Rick Lyon’s puppet design are interesting: some of the puppets are worth $10,000, built and rented out all over the world by Lyon. “Rehearsal puppets” are provided before the cast gets to handle the real deals. Theatre companies can build their own but there’s a lot involved: weight, facial expression, durability; renting only makes sense.

Avenue Q lyrics are smart; the voices are note perfect; the three-piece band, under the musical direction of Sean Boynton, goes to beat the band.

This show sold out last season; it will probably sell out again. It’s a little bit raunchy, a whole lot funny and even better than the first time.

Do not take the kiddies; they might try some of that “raucous sexual congress” at home and get put on Santa’s naughty list.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

Avenue Q runs until Jan. 3 at the Arts Club Granville Island Stage. For tickets, call 604-687-1644 or go to artsclub.com.

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CALENDAR B3 Kings: Giant Steps to Jingle Bells

From page 24 235 West First St., North Vancouver. 604-984-3087 Live Music every Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

From page 38

TWO LIONS PUBLIC HOUSE 2601 Westview Dr., North Vancouver.

Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every Wednesday, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

section, and we’re doing a funky groove . . . I can play that forever. It doesn’t matter if it’s ‘Jingle Bells’ or ‘Peter Cottontail’ or ‘Giant Steps.’”

The group’s audience may be as eager to get “Last Christmas” by Wham! out of their heads as they are to shed the snow from their boots.

“We have people that hate Christmas carols that just can’t stand hearing Christmas carols starting Nov. 20 and the last thing they want to hear is Christmas carols,” Weeds says. “But they like Christmas and they want to be in the spirit.”

THE VILLAGE TAPHOUSE The Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver. 604-9228882.

Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every Thursday, 8-11 p.m.

WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver.

The Celtic Medley Song and String Player’s Showcase comes toWaves the first Saturday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Free. Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604-985-5646.

Karaoke Christmas From page 39

Other events

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour: An exploration of remote landscapes and mountain cultures to adrenaline-fueled action sports Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $20.

LONSDALE QUAY 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. lonsdalequay.com LYNN VALLEY LIBRARY 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. 604-9840286 x8144 nvdpl.ca Book Launch Soirée: Fifty!With a Fabulous Future will be launched in

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca North Shore Cric Crac Storytelling Evenings: How music came to the world

$

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

not an uninhabited place and Seaman includes these polar animals and birds within this formidable landscape.

Beautiful reproductions of her breathtaking photographs fill the pages and offer a

view into a place few get to see. By sharing her pictures and stories Seaman hopes to bring the plight of the atrisk polar regions to a wider audience.

—Terry Peters

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Admission: $50.Tickets: booklaunchsoiree.eventbrite. ca.

Fish Don’t Climb Trees — A Whole New Look at Dyslexia: Author Sue Blyth Hall will talk about her book on understanding and overcoming the challenges and enjoying the gift of dyslexia Wednesday, Dec. 10, 7-8 p.m.

Registration required.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Movies at the Meek: The Overnighters will be screened Sunday, Dec. 14 at 2 p.m.

Tickets: $12.

request thrown their way.

“Joseph is one of those amazing brains who can pretty much play anything that’s requested just off the top. He’s got an amazing repertoire.”

Fortunately, those in the audience don’t need to have as extensive a repertoire if they want to sing along. Unlike the 2012 edition of A Few of My Favourite Things, this year’s production will feature the lyrics on a large screen, complete with a karaoke-style bouncing ball, so everyone can join in.

Call Maryam 778-858-4643 to book today!

Expires Dec. 19, 2014

ROYAL TREATMENT SPA 712 Queensbury Ave, North Van (just south of E. Keith Rd/Grand Blvd)

will be presented by the North Shore Storytellers Sunday, Dec. 7, 7-9 p.m. Admission: $9/$7. Info: 604-985-5168, northshorestory@gmail.com or vancouverstorytelling.org 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 MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca SFU Philosopher’s Cafe: Everyone is welcome to join

a discussion with moderator Randall MacKinnon Friday, Dec. 19 at 10:30 a.m.Topic: What are the pros and cons of philanthropy? Info: 778-7828000 or philosopherscafe.net.

Book review

Images document a world on the edge ■ Melting Away by Camille Seaman, Princeton Architectural Press, 160 pages, $68.

Floating in the dark, icy waters of polar oceans the ancient icebergs appear like sentinels for a frozen fortress.

They are captured in the stunning photographs of Camille Seaman who has traveled to both the Arctic and Antarctic many times since her first trip in 1999.

Her witness to the dramatic changes in those fragile regions is presented in the descriptions to her images

and in seven short essays that recount her journeys.

As ship’s photographer on the M/V Fram, and other research vessels Seaman had first hand access to this rare environment and shared the experience with a wide range of scientists.The photographs she shares in this incredible collection tell a story of a world threatened by a changing climate.

The unexpected range of colours that appear in the massive ice formations add to the organic presence of these moving mountains.This is

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FILM

Corner Gas finds its niche onscreen

■ Corner Gas:The Movie. Directed by David Storey. Starring Brent Butt and Gabrielle Miller. Playing now at International Village.

JULIE CRAWFORD ContributingWriter

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risqué as things get in Dog River – no nudity, and the only scene of peril might be the sight of Brent’s cranky dad Oscar (Eric Peterson) hanging upside down from a tree. It’s unabashedly Canadian, right down to the Anvil t-shirt worn by Hank, and it’s good fun.

That’s precisely the way Gas fans like it.

A development is being proposed for 3730-3736 Edgemont Blvd, to construct a 7 unit townhome project with underground parking. Harbourview Homes are pleased to invite you to attend a meeting and discuss the details of the project.

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and wife Robertson live in Vancouver, as does Ewaniuk; Cardinal lives in Squamish; the North Shore’s Craig Northey did the theme song. Everyone looks like they’re loving every minute of the shoot in Rouleau, Saskatchewan.

You won’t find any cursing in Corner Gas: The Movie — “bum” is as

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Serena (14A) — Fri, MonThur 6:55, 9:35; Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 p.m.

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grandmotherly pangs?

Does anyone actually stop for gas?

It’s good fun watching Wanda run the illegal Copa Havana, which is, sing along with me, “the hottest spot here to Kelowna”.

And straight-man Brent Butt’s delivery is reliably funny. The reunited cast is largely local: Butt

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doughnut plant.

The ever-optimistic Lacey cottons on to the idea of entering the Quaintest Community In Canada contest, which promises enough prize money to fix the town’s water supply and get the electricity turned back on. “Let’s get quantin’!” someone enthuses.

Will the town’s residents succumb to the lure of quick money or band together in order to save the town? Will Brent’s mom (Janet Wright) find relief from those

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“Nothing exciting ever happens around here,” says Hank. Cue the werewolfversus-robot battle in the middle of the gas station.

But the real crisis is the town’s finances. Dog River is falling apart and broke, in stark contrast to the starched-white perfection of the town of Wullerton (spit), their closest neighbour and rival. Smelling blood, a giant doughnut, soup and sandwich chain (remind you of anyone?) is planning to buy up the town and turn it into a regional

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The gang is standing at the Corner Gas counter — which is stocked with Canadian staples like Old Dutch chips and Hawkins cheezies — pretty much exactly where they were when the TV show ended five years ago.

But the bright, sulphuryellow Saskatchewan prairie looks even better on the big screen, in a limited run of Corner Gas:The Movie, playing now and through the weekend in Vancouver.

The sitcom ran for six seasons and became a hit thanks to its as-faras-you-can-get-fromHollywood premise and the unabashedly corny situations faced by Brent Leroy (Brent Butt) and his fellow Dog River residents.

Everyone is back: Lacey Burrows (Gabrielle Miller) still runs the café next door and seems the perfect match for Brent. The perpetually unemployed Hank Yarbo (Fred Ewanuick) is still scheming on ways to make a million, while gas station employee Wanda (Nancy Robertson) puts some illegal schemes of her own into action, all under the nose of a very pregnant Const. Karen Pelly (Tara Spencer-Nairn) and the newly retired Sgt. Davis Quinton (Lorne Cardinal).

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Information packages are being distributed to residents within a 75 meter radius of the site.

If you would like to receive a copy or if you would like more information, please contact Natasha Letchford of the community planning department at 604 990-2378 or bring your questions and comments to the meeting.

This is not a Public Hearing. DNV Council will receive a report from staff on issues raised at the meeting and will formally consider the proposal at a later date.

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FILM

Collector salvaged copy from dumpster

From page 13

What saved it was a film collector who salvaged a single, incomplete print from a dumpster in 1947. Hugo Zeiter then donated it to Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History.

“The film has been around since the early ’70s in a different version, which was called In the Land of the War Canoes,” he says. “That film was usually restricted to classrooms.

“It had a soundtrack which was in the language of the Kwakwaka’wakw people in Fort Rupert and Alert Bay.” But time was unkind to the re-edited 1974 version by Bill Holm and George Quimby as the projectors damaged many of the reels.

“It was mostly shown in universities in anthropology classes,” Browne explains. “People didn’t understand it very well. I’d often show it to my students and they often fell asleep because they didn’t quite get it.”

The film was also the subject of criticism and used as an example of the negative impact colonialism had on aboriginal communities.

“But the film was meant to take place before contact,” Browne notes. “All of the costumes and all of the ceremony – everything but the melodrama, really – was all designed by the Kwakwaka’wakw people and performed by them.They were imagining.”

In truth, Browne adds, it was 1914 and the community was wearing overalls, dungarees, dresses, bonnets, using gas boats and attending church.

Some damaged clips from the film were found at the University of California, Los Angeles Film and Television Archive.The original score was filed at the library of the Getty Research Institute, however, it lacked the title connecting it to the film.

The resurrection project for the original film by Curtis was started by American academics Aaron Glass and Brad Evans, with Browne’s assistance.

“Now there’s a brand-spanking new restored version and the reason for that is because of Aaron Glass, a colleague of mine who studied here, went to Emily Carr (University) and UBC . . . . and discovered at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles was the music for the original score of the film.”

This score is the oldest one in existence for a film more than 60 minutes long in North America, according to Browne.

The idea to restore the 1914 film several years ago sparked yet another collaborative effort between the community and academics to restore a historical piece of the Kwakwaka‘wakw culture.

The new version also features John J. Branham’s original 1914 score performed by Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble.

“It’s thrilling for those of us who like movies and for those of us who somehow think it always happens somewhere else to realize one of the great films of that period was made here,” he says. “This film that was actually quite influential were counted in terms of the history of cinema but people haven’t known this story.”

There will be two screenings of the film at Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver on Dec. 5 and 6.The exact centenary anniversary screening of the film on Dec. 7 will be at Vancity Theatre, and will feature Browne and Cranmer on hand, including others involved with the restoration project, to discuss the film followed by a food and wine reception.

Kwakwaka’wakw refused to play to the stereotypes From page 13 associated with this project.An extension of their previous engagement with international expositions, ethnographers, and museums, the film in part helped the Kwakwaka’wakw evade the potlatch ban, maintain their expressive culture, and emerge as actors on the world’s stage. By adapting their traditional ceremonies for Curtis’s film while refusing to play stereotypical “Indians,” the Kwakwaka’wakw played a vital role in the development of the most modern of commercial art forms — the motion picture.”

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Directed by Anne Fontaine. Starring Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini. In French with english subtitles.

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Brit newcomer Gemma Arterton (Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace) is the perfect foil for veteran French actor Fabrice Luchini in Anne Fontaine’s thoroughly entertaining romantic comedy Gemma Bovery.

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Gemma. Isn’t that wild? Here in Normandy where Flaubert Penguins of Madagascar (G) — Sat-Sun 12:15 p.m. wrote his masterpiece.” Son: “The movie sucked.”

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Bovery moves along with a Mozartian lightness playing The Theory of Everything (G) — Fri, Mon, Wed-Thur off English/French stereotypes throughout. The script 6:50, 9:45; Sat-Sun 1, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; Tue 4, 6:50, 9:45 rarely goes for overt laughs, but Luchini like a modern-day p.m. Thur 1 p.m.

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It’s pretty amazing when you think about it.

Here, sold at a regular dealership alongside ordinary internal combustion engines, is a perfectly ordinary car with four doors and a hatch that just happens to plug into the wall. It’s not wildly futuristic, nor impractical, nor really avant-garde. It’s just a car.

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Mudguards are standard.

In fact, if there’s any criticism to be made, it’s that the Leaf isn’t more striking. Much like the Prius, its appearance is very unassuming, built to appeal to the masses rather than make a big statement.

Option the Morningsky Blue if you want to draw attention to yourself, but beyond that, the Leaf doesn’t shout about its e-creds.

Environment Inside, the Leaf is again mostly ordinary, with a few unusual touches. Because it saps power to warm up the cabin, there are heated seats front and rear, and a standard heated steering wheel. This latter is just the best. I don’t know how we all manage to live through the winter without

a heated steering wheel.

The seats are nicely comfortable, with plenty of rear legroom, and the trunk is well-sized.

Because it was designed from the ground up to be an electric car, the Leaf doesn’t suffer from the cargo loss you find in electrified versions of regular cars, such as the Ford Focus EV with its cramped rear hatch.

Other than that, some futurism extends into the cabin, where the instrument display shows a series of dots displaying power use or regeneration. Mid-range and higher models get a range indicator as part of the satellite navigation that shows how far you can go on a charge, and the puckshaped gear-lever is like something you’d expect to find on a Star Trek shuttle.

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TODAY’S DRIVE

Fiat Beast roars back to life after 100 years

Brendan McAleer

for the time), in a car that’s nearly as tall as a man.

No wonder they called it the Beast — only one of the two prototypes is still in existence, and has painstakingly been restored over several years. Started on video for the first time, a whole documentary is coming soon. I’m excited to see it, and also slightly terrified.

we talking? 28.5 litres.

That’s more than 14 Honda Civic’s worth of displacement to crank out 300 horsepower (not bad

Falling gas prices predicted The plummeting price of oil and OPEC’s decision to keep production rates constant are being hailed as

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird:

The beast of Turin roars again Corvette? Hellcat?

An offshore racing boat?

Never mind all those puny engines — if you want a big motor, Fiat’s got you covered.

Witness the freshly restored Fiat S76, better known as the Beast of Turin. More than a century ago, it set a speed record of more than 225 kilometres per hour, thanks to its mighty engine. How big are

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harbingers of lower prices at the pump, Bloomberg reports. Speaking with several analysts, the business news site indicated that the cost per gallon of fuel might drop lower than two dollars in the United States. Already, prices are hovering around $2.20 in some areas.

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France declares war on diesel “In France, we have long favoured the diesel engine,” said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in a speech last month.

“This was a mistake, and we will progressively undo that, intelligently and pragmatically.”

Zut, as they say, alors!

But isn’t Europe all about the pint-sized car with a grumbly diesel engine of microscopic displacement?

Seems like every European manufacturer provides a diesel option in nearly everything other than outand-out sportscars. BMW even makes a range of Mbranded diesels.

However, while diesel cars are good on C02 emissions and overall efficiency, older models produce particulate matter, and it appears that France would prefer its drivers go mostly electric. Tax-based strategies will be set up to both punish diesel owners as well as entice them into trading in on an electric vehicle.

Well that’s going to go well. Something like 80 per cent of French vehicles are diesel-powered, and further taxation is going to enrage them — you might as well try to ban berets and stripey T-shirts. Plans haven’t yet taken effect, but when they do, perhaps expect Monsieur Valls to be

guillotined within the first week.

Ford Performance readies for Detroit With the last of this year’s auto shows out of the way, manufacturers are looking to make a big noise in 2015. Judging from the rumours leaking out about Ford’s plans for Detroit in January, the Blue Oval is going to kick off the year in style.

First, there’s the rumoured GT-350R, an even harder-core race version of the just-released Shelby GT-350. Not too much of a surprise, this’ll likely ape the same aerodynamic and other enhancements the old Boss 302 Laguna Seca edition had.

Also on the way, and potentially a huge scoop, is a return of the Ford GT. With Nissan poised to join Toyota, Audi, and Porsche in high-level LeMans racing, Ford seems to be readying itself to field an entry in the GTE class, and there’ll be a road-going version as well.

Lastly, we’ll also likely see the Focus RS debuting in Detroit. With Europe now getting the new Mustang, Ford’s going to bring over the hottest hatchback it sells, and the rumours are it’s going to be all-wheel drive. Headto-head against the Golf R? That’d make for quite the comparison test. I’d certainly volunteer.

Watch this space for all the best and worst of automotive news, or submit your own auto oddities to mcaleer. nsnews@gmail.com. Follow Brendan on Twitter at @ brendan_mcaleer.

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Downward swings in pricing seem to spur demand any time fuel drops, but it’ll likely climb back up again, so Canadians, keep buying those Honda Civics you love so much.

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Leaf actually fun to drive around town From page 52 faster.

That’s assuming you have it in the right mode, however. Put the Leaf in eco-mode, and the throttle response drops to a level that makes it feel like you’re driving through maple syrup. Range is improved, but the car feels

very slow.

Flick it back into regular mode while driving (just a push of the thumb on the steering-wheelmounted button), and the Leaf surges forward with glee. It’s actually pretty fun to scoot around in regular mode at city speeds, with the Leaf ’s point-and-shoot torque meaning you can zip forward to merge with ease.

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TODAY’S DRIVE

No incentives offered in B.C. to lower price

From page 54

the range. The 2015 Leaf is much quicker to charge than previous models, but with the batteries fully topped off, it still only provides a total theoretical range of 135 kilometres.

That’s about a quarter of your average compact commuter, and if you run low on electric power, recharging is a somewhat more involved affair than just popping over to the gasoline pump.

However, for most everyday driving tasks, the Leaf is more than up to the job. I drove it home, up the hill from downtown to the North Shore, didn’t bother plugging it in, then drove to and from Richmond in rush hour. Even though the weather was cold enough to be running the power-sapping heater nearly full blast, there was still enough juice left to run for groceries, or pick up kids from school, or perform all the other little end-of-day tasks you might have.

You don’t even really need a quick charger

at home, as the Lower Mainland is dotted with chargers these days. Park out front at the Granville Island Public Market and you can charge up your car for free.

It’s an interesting way to get around, with hardly any drawbacks.Yes, longdistance roadtrips are a bit tricky, but that’s why you buy a Hellcat Challenger as a second car. Or maybe that’s just me.

Features As mentioned, midrange Leaf models come with satellite navigation, based on a seven-inch touchscreen display. A backup camera is standard, and the top-level cars come with Nissan’s clever Aroundview monitor which shows a view all around the car. Hence the name. Obviously.

Keyless entry and pushbutton start are standard, as is the aforementioned heated steering wheel, which I may have allegedly tried to steal and install in my own personal car. Allegedly.

There’s also a huge

suite of Bluetooth-related technologies, including streaming audio and a hands-free text-message assistant. Possibly the most interesting smartphonerelated feature is the Carwings app, which lets you monitor your Leaf ’s charging, battery levels, and even kick on the airconditioning remotely.

Fuel economy is officially rated at the equivalent of 1.9 litres/100 kilometres, or about $3 to charge.You can also set the Leaf up to draw power during off-peak times, when electricity is cheaper, bringing costs down further. The base model Leaf starts at $31,798.

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Competition Chevy Volt ($26,670) So what if you don’t want to worry about range at all? The Chevy Volt asks

the question, and provides a solution.

With an electric-only range of 61 km, and an internal-combustion engine to back that up for longer trips, the Volt basically provides the best of both worlds. It’s also

pretty quick, with 273 footpounds of torque on tap.

Drawbacks are a slightly dated appearance (there’s a refresh coming soon), and an electric-only range that’s shorter than the Leaf ’s. mcaleer.nsnews@gmail.com

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