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Cold snap welcomed by ski hills

Possibility of more snow on the way for weekend JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

The North Shore’s mountains may not look like white elephants yet but there’s enough cold in them thar hills for tobogganing, skiing and snowboarding.

Mt. Seymour’s tobogganing and learning areas are ready for fresh tracks, but the mountain is about one foot of snow away from opening the rest of their runs, according to Emmalee Brunt, the resort’s communications co-ordinator.

The resort needs enough snow to safely carpet stumps and rocks before letting skiers and snowboarders head downhill, Brunt said.

A dusting over the weekend gave Seymour a base of about 33 centimetres, bringing the resort halfway to last year’s opening day base of 66 cm.

Grouse Mountain got 35 cm of snow for Christmas, bringing the base to 99 cm and allowing the resort to open Paradise Bowl, The Cut, the Upper and Lower Peak, and snowshoeing trails, according to public relations manager Jacqueline Blackwell.

“Looking ahead to this week, it’s supposed to be clear and cold,” Blackwell said. “That’s great news for our snowmaking efforts.”

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Despite fears El Niño might drop wet warmth on Cypress this January, the current cold snap has allowed for roundthe-clock snowmaking, according to spokesman Joffrey Koeman.

The resort had six of their 53 runs open by the See More page 5

Reef society planning Annapolis sinking BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The Artificial Reef Society of B.C. says it is in the final stages of preparation to sink HMCS Annapolis in Halkett Bay Provincial Marine Park off Gambier Island in Howe Sound.

But groups opposing the plan to sink the decommissioned destroyer say the reef society is jumping the gun as there are environmental and legal issues that are still not resolved.

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Horoscope A look at the year ahead

MICHAEL O’CONNOR Life coach astrologer

The year 2015 is a Universal 8 year and will prove very eventful and challenging, and at a mass collective level.

Eight is the power number symbolic of the culmination of the nine-year growth cycle. It can be compared with the harvest, which implies abundance on one hand and hard work on the other. Number 8 is also a strong indicator of change and even transformation. All the signs are there, footings in place and the momentum is steady and strong.

In terms of intensity, it can be likened to the playoffs or to end-of-the-year exams. In this respect, an eight year is also about returns on actions and efforts made in the past seven years in particular. In this respect it may be accurately understood as a number of karmic returns.The returns may be very positive or very negative or something of a mix anywhere in between.

February and November should prove especially eventful in terms of major new initiatives that come to mass attention. May will reveal a significant turning point where the plot noticeably thickens and key players leave the stage. July will reveal the ending of old alliances and the beginnings of new ones.

Visit sunstarastrology.com to read the longer version of the 2015 Horoscope for theYear.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) In 2015 you will embark upon new adventures.These will be marked by a mix of enthusiastic moves and a more serious approach to education.This will become especially evident by late summer.Take a proactive approach to have a say in the outcome of that process. Deep changes in you over the past few years will now direct you to a dynamic new learning curve. For the most part, 2015 stands to be a time of inspirations and aspirations to balance a more serious approach to the acquisition of knowledge with a creative and playful orientation.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 21) As 2015 gets underway there is reason to say that your confidence levels remain high.You will need all the healthy self-esteem you can muster as new developments, subject to a process of deep change — even what will in the course of time amount to nothing short of a metamorphosis — come into effect.This will become increasingly evident

over the first few months of 2015.You do have a say in this process and the change can be directed to occur at all levels — physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Expect it and work with it. Expect new alliances and coalitions to come to the fore before 2016 begins.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 21) A prolonged cycle of mixed extremes in 2014 brings you to the advent of hopeful aspirations for 2015. At best, new creative inspirations are stirring and these are awakening latent creative gifts and leading you to important new relationships and professional involvements.You will experience challenges to better know yourself, understand people and be up to date with larger trends and events affecting the world. Direct your energies to a variety of creative fronts but avoid scattering your focus.The year 2015 will be a year of renewed vigour and deepened commitments.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22) In 2015 you will be focused on making some key investments. How to invest and where to best direct your time, energy and resources will prove important, especially earlier in the year, and with extra emphasis yet again between June and September.

Philosophical and spiritual interests and curiosities may also guide your focus to unprecedented degrees. Although 2015 may not prove altogether peaceful as circumstances provoke heated emotions, it does stand to be a year that both widens and deepens your overall levels of knowledge and understanding.

LEO (July 22 - Aug. 23) In 2015 it remains important that you continue to build for the future.This includes identifying what constitutes your greatest assets and aspirations for self-actualization.The key for the first half of the year is to initiate those projects and modes of self expression that you feel moved and inspired to share.With these in place you can allow for a steady process of development for the

coming few years. As well, this preparedness will support you to take yet another plunge into the deeper reaches of your subconscious to lay claim to creative gifts and treasures that await you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) The time has come for you to retrieve some of your hidden reserves that have been waiting for this time in your life.Your success may depend upon just how clear you are about your direction.

This is a call to turn within.

Even if you are clear about your worldly ambitions, this time represents an invitation and a golden opportunity to activate a stronger link between your conscious and subconscious, your personality and your soul. All outer reaches will ideally be complimented by your own inner connection. Do this now and by mid-summer you will have treasures to enjoy and to share with the world.

LIBRA (Sept. 22 - Oct. 22) The past few years may well have been a time of “paying your dues.” Now the tide is turning and you will feel inspired to increase your overall scope of knowledge, and to get more educated in a variety of areas. It is quite important that you get going early in the year to establish a momentum.This will weave into an increase of your overall mode of self expression, which includes sharing your beauty, whatever form it may take. By spring you will feel even more moved to exercise a quality of grace, harmony and diplomacy in the light that it is more advantageous in many ways to express positivity, and to make friends.

SCORPIO (Oct. 22 - Nov. 21) The year 2015 stands to be an expansive time especially in your public and professional sphere.

An increase in your urge to be more creative and imaginative will persist as well for much of the year.

You will become increasingly interested in expanding your awareness and overall scope of knowledge. Much continues to gestate especially in terms of who and what you love SeeYear page 9

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beginning of the week with plans to open more each day.

Low temperatures have allowed the resort to make enough snow to cover 125 football fields, according to Koeman.

There’s a 40 per cent chance of more snow Friday afternoon and evening, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Colin Tam. There’s also a “vague” chance of snow Saturday as weekend temperatures are predicted to range from 3 C to –1 C. While the cold snap is good for the ski hills, it’s not so welcome in other corners of the North Shore.

As the temperature drops, more homeless people are expected to seek refuge at the Lookout Emergency Aid Society shelter on West Second

Street and Bewicke Avenue, according to the society’s executive director Shayne Williams.

“We’ve got more room so we’d encourage the general population, if they see somebody on the streets, to redirect them to any Lookout location and we’ll get them to a bed that night,” Williams said.

The shelter has 45 beds and 20 additional mats ready to be rolled out in cases of extreme weather.

There is a waitlist for a bed but Williams stressed they had 12 spare mats Monday night.

One of the major risks for homeless people during winter is sleeping next to a fire or a burner, said Williams, referring to the tragic death of Douglas Lalonde.

North Shore carpenter Lalonde died in 2012 when a candle lit fire to a chair, spreading through the abandoned shipping

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Williams urges anyone in danger to come to a shelter this winter.

“We’d sure like to see anybody who’s on the streets come in and stay warm,” he said.

“We don’t want to see anybody expire from the cold weather.”

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The Metro Vancouver homeless count recorded 119 North Shore residents without shelter this March, but that number is likely the result of a “severe under-count,” according to Williams.

“For folks that don’t want to come in, they’ve gone farther out,” he said,

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obody in prison seems to support the Conservative government these days — not even the guards.

The Union of Correctional Officers recently came out for the Liberals, or the NDP, or pretty much any party that won’t keep packing prisons like piñatas.

It’s a good reminder that all the Conservative posturing about standing up for victims has created its own set of victims.

Sentencing more prisoners to longer sentences — often leaving them sharing bunks — has left guards dealing with combustible situations that only seem to be getting worse as the political posturing continues.

Steven Blaney, our Minister of Public Safety, recently said all convicted criminals belong behind bars.

It’s the type of statement that fails to distinguish between multiple murderers

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and someone who gets caught shoplifting cookies.

We don’t endorse coddling prisoners.

In fact, we think convicts should be treated the same as they’d be treated in Texas — with the drug and mental health treatment programs that helped lower the crime rate and averted a budget crisis.

Those who don’t object to the Conservatives’ commitment to incarceration on the grounds of morality might object on the grounds of fiscal responsibility.

Corrections expenses went up 33 per cent from 2002 to 2012, according to a Fraser Institute study.The crime rate dipped 27 per cent over the same period and it continues to drop, both in terms of frequency and severity.

At this stage in Canada’s history, locking up more people ought to be a crime.

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Protectionism is bad economic policy

Dear Editor: More than one person has written to the North Shore News to express dismay that TransLink did not commission a local supplier to build the new SeaBus, the Burrard Otter II. Why, they wonder, shouldn’t that money — TransLink spent $22 million, according to their Buzzer blog — have stayed in B.C. to provide local jobs and flow on to

local businesses? I can think of three reasons why TransLink was right not to buy locally: 1. It’s not TransLink’s mandate to support local industry or provide local jobs. Rather, they are responsible for public transportation in the Lower Mainland, and have many projects that need funding.

Every extra dollar spent on one project is a dollar they can’t spend on something

else that also needs doing.

Therefore they have a duty to economize and not to spend any more than necessary on any one acquisition. Damen, the Dutch shipyard that won the contract, submitted a bid that was $2 million lower than that submitted

by North Vancouver’s Allied Shipbuilders. That’s a $2-million head start on some other transportation project.

2. The money spent is not lost to Canada. The $22 million that Damen got for the ship is Canadian money that can only finally be spent in Canada. It will make its way home to be exchanged for exports of Canadian goods and services.

3. Playing favourites with bidders would invite reprisals. If TransLink had rejected the winning bid from the Dutch supplier

in favour of a second- or third-best bid from a local provider, then the local provider — and other Canadian firms — might find themselves shut out of bidding for projects in Holland and elsewhere.You would have Canadian firms submitting winning bids, only to be told “no thanks.”

Protectionism is a hostile policy. Like all bad economic policies, it does provide short-term

Shame on care home for wage policy Dear Editor: I was shocked and appalled to read about the current labour dispute at Inglewood.That starting wages today are one cent more than they were 20

years ago speaks very loudly to the dismissive view this employer has of its staff.

Shame on Inglewood.

Putting aside their contempt for workers, we must ask a very troubling

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I urge everyone with

friends and family in Inglewood to pressure the employer to treat fairly those who so faithfully look after those we love.

Drew Meikle West Vancouver

gains to a small group, in this case a local business and its suppliers. But this is at the expense of the long-term competitiveness and prosperity of the city, province, country, and world as a whole. Like scratching a mosquito bite, it’s tempting and can be hard to resist, but nonetheless, wise people resist it.

Paul Vitols North Vancouver

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NDP, Libs both face challenges in 2015 As we move into a new year, it’s clear that while both of B.C.’s major political parties face significant challenges on the horizon, they are much different from each other.

For Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals, a top concern in the coming year is ensuring (or at least hoping) the provincial economy grows and does not falter. On top of that, Clark needs strong evidence that a liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry really will set down roots in this province.

Many people say Clark has gone “all in” on LNG, but it’s more accurate to say she’s gone all-in on the economy. Her government’s three-year fiscal plan actually doesn’t contain any revenues from LNG operations, and that likely will remain the case for at least a couple more years after that.

But she needs her government to balance its budget every year, which means other industries and the overall tax base must remain strong and growing.

The coming fiscal year projects another budget surplus, which is predicated in part by a big increase in sales tax revenues, even though that revenue stream actually slumped this year.

But barring a major setback in the global economy, there is no worry the budget will slip into a deficit from its projected surplus of around $500 million.That should insulate Clark and her government from any wrath from the people who voted them into power in the first place.

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View from the Ledge Of course, the B.C. Liberals will continue to battle the environmental movement in the coming year, which suits them just fine. And Clark’s government will continue to be charged with ignoring such issues as child poverty, the “clawback” of child support payments for those on disability assistance, and social services in general.

But the Liberals were voted into office on the strength of their economic appeal, not because they were seen as kind and generous to those less well off. So don’t look for this political leopard to change its spots anytime soon.

The challenges facing John Horgan and his New Democratic Party are something else altogether.

The party continues to try to sort itself out after the bruising election defeat in 2013.The caucus has yet to regain its footing, and Horgan is still a relatively unknown quantity among voters.

One of the more immediate challenges will arise early in the year if either of the two MLAs seeking the federal nomination in the Vancouver East riding

actually win it. Mable Elmore and Jenny Kwan are squaring off for the seat, and if one of them departs as a result it will mean a new face will eventually emerge in the NDP caucus. But will that potential newcomer reflect the direction Horgan wants to take the party, or one others want to take it?

Horgan is trying to steer the party towards a platform

that is more business friendly, and more accepting of development (although I can’t find a specific major resource project the NDP actually supports).

For example, the NDP actually voted in favour of the B.C. Liberals’ LNG tax legislation in the past session.This appears to have infuriated many environmentalists. As well,

Horgan hasn’t dismissed building the Site C dam out of hand. He just doesn’t see the need to build it now.

As I’ve pointed out before, this development versus the environment issue is the one issue that could explode in the face of the NDP. Horgan’s chief task in the coming year — and well beyond that — is to figure

out a way of appearing credible on economic issues, while still keeping the increasingly vocal green flank of his party in check.

This will be very hard for him to do.The environmental wing wants to shut down most resource developments — pipelines, mines, port developments See Horgan page 8

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INQUIRING REPORTER It’s the time when we pledge to eat less, drink less alcohol and less coffee, cut sugar, cut fat, cut out procrastinating, cut our debt, spend less time working, spend more time working out, and learn the banjo. Those resolutions usually live a short, unhappy life. But even if we can’t help being caffeinated, workaholic procrastinators with a sweet tooth and a monstrous debt load, we can still try to be the change we want to see in the world. If not, we can at least drink the odd cup of decaf.

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Alex Chappell North Vancouver “No. If you’re going to do something and make a positive change, don’t wait for New Year’s, just do it.”

Margaret Hurrell North Vancouver “Yeah. I’m going to quit smoking and I’m going to lose 15 pounds.”

Will you make a NewYear’s resolution?

David Atkinson Vancouver “No, I’m not going to make a NewYear’s resolution. I try to make resolutions all through the year.”

Heather Zolis North Vancouver “Definitely. It’s a great time for new beginnings.”

Steve Booth North Vancouver “Probably not. I always seem to break them.”

Halkett Bay group opposes scuttling From page 1 permitted,” said Howard Robbins, artificial reef society president. “We’re hoping to get it down before the end of January.”

When the time comes, the 113-metre vessel will be towed into place and anchored to concrete blocks before specially designed explosive charges will punch square holes in the hull

allowing it to sink about 32 metres to the seafloor.

Once inspected, it will be fully open to be explored by qualified divers who will be encouraged to document the various species that move

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into the wreck in a citizenbased science project called the Annapolis Biodiversity Index Study.

But the Save Halkett Bay group hired an independent lab in November to take a paint sample from the hull, which was tested and shown to contain tributylin, a toxic anti-fouling agent designed to prevent sea life from growing on ship hulls.

It was banned by the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization in 2008 and by the Canadian government in 2009.

“It doesn’t actually matter what the quantity is because it’s a substance that’s not allowed to be disposed of, especially at sea,” said Gary MacDonald, Save Halkett Bay spokesman. “We simply don’t understand why (the artificial reef society) isn’t pausing and really checking to make sure the ship is clean.”

Robbins, however, said he questions the validity of the Save Halkett Bay group’s testing and that he will defer to Environment Canada, which has the final say on the project. “We follow Environment Canada’s rules.

They’re the ones that set the standards and they’re the ones that have certified the ship as ready to go and clean for the environment,” he said.

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NIMBYism masking itself as environmentalism, Robbins said.

Save Halkett Bay is now formally asking Environment Canada for a board of review to re-evaluate the Annapolis’s permit and for a full independent inspection of all the materials aboard the ship.The group is also awaiting a response to its court petition to halt the sinking.The petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court in October cites the project’s failure to comply with provincial park regulations.

The petition also cites other groups that have opposed the sinking, including the Islands Trust, on the grounds that sinking the ship would violate its land use bylaws and the United Church of Canada because it owns a campground on Halkett Bay where kids go canoeing and swimming.

Much of the controversy

over the project has been misplaced, according to Jeff Marliave, vice-president of marine science at the Vancouver Aquarium and an independent arbiter on the project.The seafloor in the area where Annapolis will be sunk was permanently damaged by layers of Douglas fir bark piling up during log booming years, he said. “… I think, in all, this is a very safe place to put down a feature that will become a very safe dive site,” he said.

Marliave added the ship will create new habitat and keep divers from naively damaging more fragile, real reefs. “I would predict from what we know about Halkett Bay that we’re going to be seeing glass sponges and rock fish and all kinds of things,” he said.

Environment Canada could not provide a comment prior to press time.

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etc. -- which is a position, if adopted by the NDP, that is guaranteed to translate into electoral disaster once voters go to the polls again.

Can Horgan keep this increasingly shaky coalition together in the coming year?

And can the provincial economy continue to post moderate gains in the months ahead?

The answers to those questions will begin to shape the outcome of the next provincial election, even if that is still a long ways away.

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Year of change written in the stars

From page 3

and desire and why.You will choose your associations more deliberately and with more forethought this year than you have perhaps for some time. By the end of 2015 you will have cultivated interests and friendships that support your “work” with serious interests to nurture new appreciations of creative genius.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21 - Dec. 21) With Saturn now in your sign you will undergo a powerful process initiating a new phase of growth in 2015. It will require patience and commitment to reconsider what constitutes security. Summer 2015 could prove rather trying if you are not stable and focused upon clearly defined objectives, so begin that process now. However, if these over-emphasize the material side at the expense of the spiritual, the imbalance could well produce confusion and fragmentation. Focus to strike a balance based on the realization that you are a spiritual being having human experiences.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21 - Jan. 19) You have come to an important turning point and it is time to activate a series of new commitments.

This may well imply the completion of long standing involvements and/or these will have to undergo measurable changes. Improvements in your health and lifestyle in general are featured. On one hand this implies breaking free of limiting perspectives and destructive lifestyle habits and on the other engaging in some kind of apprenticeship and/or educational learning curve. Sometimes this can come about simply by handson experiences. But the status quo of your life is changing.

This will affect your public and/or professional life and will invariably affect your home and family life as well.This is a call to renegotiate terms and to be inventive.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 19 - Feb. 19) You have been undergoing a deep purification process at subconscious levels and this will continue. At best, this is leading you to stabilize your focus upon your own heart centre and higher mind, to gain solace in the spiritual aspect

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PISCES (Feb. 19 – March 20) Expect your overall focus to shift in 2015. Generating more confidence in your creative abilities will become even

more important throughout the year.This includes an appreciation of the cocreative process, which implies your deliberate will to participate, balanced by receptivity to higher powers and larger realities.

Consolidating everything you have done, accomplished and achieved up to now in your life is especially wise and will prove invaluable from the latter half of the year on especially. So focus to clear debts, tie up loose ends, get your papers and affairs in order and get clear on your creative focus wherein all the preparations and ground work are well established. sunstarastrology@gmail.com

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Selected radio works

by Samuel Beckett: All That Fall (broadcast 1957) From an AbandonedWork (broadcast 1957) Embers (broadcast 1959) Rough for Radio I (published 1976) (written in French in 1961 as Esquisse radiophonique) Rough for Radio II (published 1976) (written in French in 1961 as Pochade radiophonique) Words and Music (broadcast 1962) Cascando (broadcast:1963 French version; 1964 English translation)

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Duncan Fraser is excited at the prospect.

Audience members taking in a performance of All That Fall, a Samuel Beckett radio play making its Canadian premiere by Blackbird Theatre at Vancouver’s The Cultch this month, will each be rewarded with an entirely unique experience.

“Because it’s radio, you get to come and paint your own play,” says Fraser, who is directing the production, on now through to Jan. 24 at the Vancouver venue, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this season.

“There’s going to be several hundred people every evening go out of this theatre, each one with a different image of the characters and a different idea about what happened,” he says.

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oneself are all too rare.

“Now we are provided with someone else’s view of almost everything,” says Fraser, explaining film and television have made their own choices regarding aspects like a character’s appearance, leaving little to audience members’ imaginations.

“You’re not inventing anything visually for yourself anymore, it’s all given to you. It seems a shame.This is an opportunity for an audience to come and invent their own images through their own imagination and colour them from their own life experience, and prejudices, and quirks, and how their mother and father saw them, and so on. So a really personal way of viewing the world rather than being given everything from someone else,” he says.

All That Fall marks the Vancouver-based professional theatre company’s 12th major production since its 2005 launch. Fraser describes the work as a sort of comedic who-dunnit that differs greatly from the playwright’s well-known works.

“This is Beckett as you’ve never seen him before. It’s comical and easily digestible. It’s sort of Beckett-light,” he says.

All That Fall sat unperformed for approximately 50 years.The one-act radio play

was initially written for the BBC in 1956. After it was broadcast a year later, Beckett received many requests from prominent theatre producers, Sir Laurence Olivier included, who were interested in producing the work as a stage play. All such requests were refused by the playwright.

“He absolutely refused anything but it to be a radio play. ‘Voices coming out of the dark’ is how he said it should be done,” says Fraser.

After Beckett’s passing, his estate maintained his stance and it wasn’t until 2012 that English theatre, film and television director Trevor Nunn’s request was approved. Beckett’s estate granted the script to be staged as a radio play and All That Fall was mounted in London in 2012, followed by NewYork in 2013.

“And now we are next, so terrific,” says Fraser.

Blackbird is no stranger to Beckett, having presented a successful run of Waiting for Godot in its 2011/2012 season.

“The estate of Samuel Beckett were so pleased with their previous production of Waiting for Godot that they allowed Blackbird to have the Canadian premiere of this, of All That Fall.They were very lucky to get it,” he says.

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Propellor Design: A “range” light sculpture inspired by the North Shore mountains and five meridian pendant lights are currently on display.

CAROUN ART GALLERY 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver.Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 8 p.m.778-372-0765 caroun.net Abstract Painting Exhibition: Paintings by Venus Arastoo Nejad will be on display until Jan. 14.

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Meet the artist: Saturday, Jan. 10, 2-3 p.m.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Keel Blocks: A photography exhibition by MikeWakefield of 20 large colour photographs of the NorthVancouver shipbuilding industry will run until Jan. 19.

LYNNMOUR ART STUDIO AND GALLERY 301-1467 Crown St., North Vancouver. Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. or by appointment.

604-929-4001 nsartists. ca/garyeder Contemporary and Abstract Paintings by Gordon Oliver, Robert Botlak and GaryW. Eder.

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

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A display that features reminiscences shared by some Canadian Iranian North Shore residents about why they chose to live here and about their experiences creating new lives and memories will run until March 28.

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Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 604-986-1351 presentationhousegallery.org Lee Friedlander’s photographs and books will be on display until Feb. 8.

PRESENTATION HOUSE SATELLITE GALLERY 560 Seymour St., Vancouver. WednesdaySaturday, noon to 6 p.m. satellitegallery.ca Mainstreeters —Taking Advantage, 1972-1982: An exhibition that brings to light an under-recognized chapter ofVancouver art history will be on view from Jan. 9 to March 14.

Opening reception:Thursday, Jan. 8, 6-9 p.m.Tour and conversation with curators: Saturday, Jan. 31, 2 p.m.

RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Blue Sky Meets Fired Earth: Landscape paintings

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WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca 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.

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Yuen Po bird garden has many charms JOHN KEYES MeridianWriters’ Group

KOWLOON, Hong Kong: If you want to know why the caged bird sings in this part of the world, all you need to do is wander the narrow streets of Kowloon’s Mong Kok district until you come upon the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden.

Here, on any pleasant afternoon, certain Hong Kongers like to convene, transporting their feathered friends in small cages, and everyone present gets to enjoy an avian sing-along.

The Yuen Po Street Bird Garden opened in 1997 after relentless urban redevelopment in Mong Kok demolished the bird stalls in nearby Hong Lok Street, traditionally known as Bird Street. Such was the outcry by local bird fanciers and tourists that the city responded with this purpose-built facility, a series of raised courtyards shaded by grand indigenous trees, many of them conveniently

labelled for keen arborists, and a high pagoda-style roofline, where countless free pigeons stare down in what must be the pigeon version of wonderment.

Flocks of sparrows hop around the courtyards, pecking at birdseed.

That’s because, this being Hong Kong, the garden is primarily a commercial market where some 70 merchants occupy stalls selling an array of birds (song birds, love birds, budgies, fighting birds, parrots and more) as well as every imaginable size and shape of ornate cage (teak, bamboo, plastic and, for large-beaked birds that might muscle up to the bars and go voom, metal). There are vendors of cage ornaments, birdseed, live insects and grubs, everything an owner might need. Small cages containing birds for sale are stacked everywhere, while large parrots and other exotic birds stand alone on perches and pose for photographs behind signs warning not to touch.

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“In the very old days, only men went to restaurants,” she says. “They would bring their birds along and let them sing. It became very competitive: which one looks better, which one sings better? It’s still a man’s game.” Most men

bring their birds to the Yuen Po Street Garden in bamboo cages, Liu says, “because they are light and easy to carry.” Occasionally they’ll reward their pets with crickets, fed with chopsticks through the cage bars.

With the profusion of live birds, it would be easy

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If you go: Yuen Po Street Bird Garden is a 10-minute walk east of the Prince Edward MTR station.

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“I wanted to join the book club so I could meet other people around my age who like to read and are as passionate about reading as I am,” she explains in an email to the North Shore News.

The book club has been in operation at the library for about a year and a half, and facilitator Linda Fox says it has been very successful.The free club currently has 12 regular members (drop-ins are welcome), and it is open to teens in grades 7-12.The group meets once a month to discuss a book that has been chosen though a vote among the club members.

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Fox leads the discussion with questions that are sometimes specific to the book, and sometimes more about broad topics explored in the story.

Examples include, “Did you like the main character?” “Were you surprised by the ending?” and “Which character did you identify with the most?”

Some thought-provoking questions may include discussion about bigger topics like relationships or poverty.

“There’s no right answer,” explains Fox, noting the questions are not meant to be a quiz, but simply to spark a discussion. “The discussions that come out of it are just amazing,” she adds.

“The things I most enjoy about (the club) are that we can all discuss the book and really analyze the storyline and voice our opinions and still have fun while being respectful of everyone’s point of view,” says Mendez. “And since I’m very passionate about reading, I’m glad there’s a place where we can all talk about the characters and what makes their world different and similar to the world around us, and be completely understood when you say ‘I stayed up all night reading this book, it was so good!’ or ‘It was terrible!’”

Fox explains the original purpose of the club was to design a place where teens could gather and talk about books and have fun and share their stories and thoughts.

She says many of the members have formed new friendships as well, and describes the environment of the group as fun and inspiring.

All genres are included on the club’s book list, and this year the group has read a number of popular teen fiction titles including The Fault in Our Stars, The Maze Runner, and Divergent.

“We’ve read so many I couldn’t possibly pick a favourite,” says Mendez when asked what her top choice has been so far. “It really depends on many things. But storyline-wise probably A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray for its historical aspects and really cool magic.”

The group is currently reading The Coldest Girl in Cold Town and will meet to discuss it in January.

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Scottish country dancing Colette Hamner is with the Delbrook Scottish Country Dancers. She has been doing Scottish country dancing for 50 years, and has taught kids through the NorthVancouver Recreation Commission for 25 years. She recently answered questions from the North Shore News about this unique form of dance.

1. How would you describe Scottish country dancing?

Scottish country dancing is the ballroom dancing of Scotland. It is danced in the castles and in the cottages.The major universities in Scotland all have performance teams.

Scottish dancing tells stories, it commemorates special events, and it keeps a cultural heritage and music alive.While it is not a competitive dance form, there are Scottish dance teams and classes all over the world.

2. Is the dance you do more traditional or is it more modern?

Both. Many of the dances have been around for hundreds of years, but new dances are written yearly.

In fact, the students (at the recreation centre) this year have written and submitted a dance for consideration to be published.This was a competition open to young dancers only and was submitted to the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society in Edinburgh, Scotland, in November 2014.We hope to hear back in the spring if the dance has been successful.

3.What type of music do you use for it?

We mostly use Scottish dance music (reels, jigs and strathspeys) as the timing has to fit the steps, which are traditional.

However, we have danced to modern pop music if we are choreographing a dance.

This is another skill the children learn.They create and perform dances, and they learn to work as a team and support each other as a group.There is no place for ego and in all the years I have taught, there has never been competition or ill will between the members of the group.

4. Is this type of dance difficult to learn?

Everyone is welcome, and as with any skill it takes years to perfect. No, it is not difficult to learn and

people will be dancing from the first class onwards. But like learning how to play the piano or drive a car, it takes time to develop the grace and the strength to do the dances well. Scottish dancing is a fantastic workout. It is highly aerobic and a great way to get fit.

5. Is it similar to any other type of dancing?

It is social dancing and has been compared to square dancing in some of its movements and formations.

However, it is a formal dance and I think the best way to describe it is a cross between highland dancing (which traditionally is only for men and is very warlike), and square dancing.

6. Are there traditional outfits or costumes worn with Scottish country dancing?

Not really. For beginner dancers, comfortable clothing and soft shoes (ballet type shoes) are all that is needed. As people progress, they may want to buy a kilt, and for those who join demonstration teams, there is generally a team outfit.The men will always wear kilts for demonstration purposes and the ladies have more flexibility. Long white dresses and tartan skirts are common outfits. Some of the young people wear jeans or shorts or even medieval costumes.The list is lengthy.

7.What do you like about Scottish country dancing?

The thing I love about Scottish country dancing the most is that everyone can do it. It is inclusive to all. Even more, it is multigenerational.We have two main parties a year: a Christmas party and a spring tea dance. At these events (held at the North Vancouver Recreation and Cultural Centre) there can be up to four generations dancing

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JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

It’s a remarkable chunk of Canadian history that went widely unnoticed until the publication of Ontario author Lawrence Hill’s The Book Of Negroes in 2007.

The book refers to a historical ledger of over 3,000 names of black loyalists who fought for the British during the Revolutionary War. They fought on the losing side but the former slaves found freedom nonetheless, having been promised emancipation in return for a year’s military service. The black soldiers fled along with the British and were evacuated to Nova Scotia.

Offered passage home, over a thousand made the perilous journey back to Sierra Leone. The rest started the first black communities in Canada.

Hill’s book has been made into a six-part mini-series that airs Jan. 7 on CBC (followed by a U.S. run on BET in February). Directed by Toronto’s Clement Virgo (TheWire), the series features Aunjanue Ellis as Aminata, the novel’s heroine and eventual ledger-writer; Lyriq Bent plays Chekura, her husband. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Louis Gossett Jr. also star.

Jamaican-born Bent never imagined being an actor while growing up in Toronto’s rough Jane-and-Finch neighbourhood. It took a job selling long-distance services door to door during college to prod Bent — “not really a people person” — out of his comfort zone. “I thought I was going to deal with a lot of racism and I had no idea how to act in that situation,” he says, “but that never really happened.” The fact that “even little old white ladies” were giving him positive feedback resonated with Bent, giving him much-needed confidence.

A co-worker introduced him to an acting coach. While working on his first student film Bent ran into Virgo in a bar in Toronto, drinking with Bruce McDonald. The young actor had studied pictures of the directors “so if I ran into them I’d know who they were and could introduce myself.” (Bruce was talkative, Bent says, Virgo less so.)

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But Book of Negroes is his dream project. Bent shot a full day with Oscarwinner Cuba Gooding Jr. before it sank in: “I didn’t even realize until I got home and began to unwind, I started to get a little bit wigged out,” he says. Bent couldn’t even remember the day: he just hoped it had gone well. Gooding Jr, he says, was nothing but supportive and Emmy- and Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. took great care and time to talk to him about his career and his future.

“He was incredibly giving . . . It did not fall on deaf ears, I promise you.”

All the negativity Bent has encountered in his years in the business was “wiped out” by the four months he spent shooting in South Africa, which he calls “a spiritual awakening.” It was Gossett Jr. on his last day of shooting who noted the significance of white and black South Africans, Canadians, Americans and

people from other African nations working together on a movie about the slave trade in a nation only 20 years removed from apartheid. “You could hear a pin drop,” says Bent.

But it wasn’t just the role of a lifetime, says Bent, it was an education. While the actor had scant knowledge about Canada’s role in the slave trade, his American co-stars had none. “I think Americans were delighted and gobsmacked that Canada had such a pivotal part in history, and a hundred years before the underground railroad.”

Bent encountered racism in Canada – “I just thought it was my thick accent.

It wasn’t until I became older that I understood things were going to be different for me, that I’d have to work extra hard and extra smart,” — but says Canada and the U.S. are night and day when it comes to owning up to history.

Americans are constantly trying to make white Americans embrace the fact that it happened, but “that mental slavery is still there.” Canada, he says, is not afraid to

shine a light on its past: “this is the part we played, let’s learn from it and move on.

It’s what you do with those wrongs that determines what kind of country you are.”

Book of Negroes isn’t any more relevant today in the wake of Ferguson and recent police shootings than it would have been 20 years ago, he says. “Let’s ask the question 50 years from now and see if there’s any change.”

Bent is thrilled that the book is being re-released in the U.S. (where it was known as Someone Knows My Name) under its original title, with educational outreach to both Canadian and American schools and colleges in the works. Plus, Bent’s photo is on the cover. “It’s better than having my own action figure!”

“It doesn’t get any better for me right now,” says Bent. “2015, if you can beat that, bring it.”

The television miniseries adaptation of Lawrence Hill’s Book of Negroes premieres on CBC Jan. 7 and continues the following five Wednesdays at 9 p.m.

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Fraser, a Vancouver resident, has long been attracted to Blackbird’s mission of producing classic theatre.

“People are hungry for this stuff.They are the greatest plays ever written.

Once in a lifetime you might get a chance to see one of them,” he says.

Fraser has been previously involved with the company as an actor, serving as a cast member of The Birthday Party, UncleVanya and Mary Stuart.

Fraser is a veteran and award-winning actor of the stage and screen (big and small), and has performed across Canada, Britain and South America. He spent seven of the last eight summers at Vancouver’s

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Actors of the stage or screen have a number of tools at their disposal, like movement and facial expressions.

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The Blackbird Theatre production of All That Fall features five veteran CBC radio artists: Leanna Brodie, Adam Henderson, Lee Van Paassen, Gerard Plunkett and William Samples, playing 11 roles.

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“To find out how some of this stuff is generated is very curious,” says Fraser.

All That Fall will appeal to audiences whether they’re fans of Beckett or not.

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“He was a very secretive man you know, he never let on, never talked to anybody about anything, wouldn’t discuss his work or anything, so we find out a little bit about him in this play and what his youth was like,” says Fraser.

Those unfamiliar with Beckett will enjoy themselves all the same due to the content as well as the form itself, says Fraser.

“It’s this new medium that they’re not used to, so it’s going to be quite titillating,” he says.

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www.sailorhagarspub.com 86 Semisch Avenue, N. Van. | 604-984-3087 Spectacular view of Vancouver harbour & city, enjoy great food in a Brew Pub atmosphere. 18 beers on tap including our own 6 craftbrews. Live music, satellite sports, pool table, darts & heated patio.

Village Tap House

$$ www.villagetaphouse.com 900 Main Street, Village at Park Royal, W. Van. | 604-922-8882 Start with a comfortable room, a giant fireplace, add 20 ice cold brews on tap, really damn good food, some awesome events, & the most personable group of folks you’ll ever meet…welcome to the Tap House!

BRITISH

The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar $$ 2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-987-3322 Excellent seafood & British dishes on the waterfront. Dinner specials: Friday & Saturday- Prime Rib. Sunday - Turkey. Weekends & holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny. Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

CHINESE

Neighbourhood Noodle House

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www.neighbourhoodnoodlehouse.com 1352 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. | 604-988-9885 We offer the best variety and quality Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese cuisine with no MSG or additives at a very affordable price. Family owned and operated for over 18 years. Conveniently located in central Lonsdale.

SEAFOOD

C-Lovers Fish & Chips

www.c-lovers.com Marine Drive @ Pemberton, N. Van. | 604-980-9993 6640 Royal Ave., Horseshoe Bay, W. Van. | 604-913-0994 The best fish & chips on the North Shore!

Montgomery’s Fish & Chips

International Food Court, Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-929-8416 The fastest growing Fish & Chips on the North Shore.

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Chef Hung Taiwanese Beef Noodle $$ www.chefhungnoodle.com 1560 Marine Dive., W. Van. | 778-279-8822 Critically acclaimed worldwide for its delectable beef noodle, Chef Hung has won numerous Championships in Taiwan and now crowned the Best Noodle House in Vancouver! Come see what all the excitement is about.

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The Observatory

The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub

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www.grousemountain.com Grouse Mtn, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, N. Van. | 604-998-4403 A thrilling and epicurean experience 3700’ on Grouse Mountain above the twinkling lights of Vancouver.

The Salmon House $$$$ www.salmonhouse.com 2229 Folkestone Way, W. Van. | 604-926-3212 Serving spectacular views and fine, indigenous west coast cuisine for over 30 years. Lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. Live entertainment in Coho Lounge on weekend evenings.

FRENCH

Chez Michel $$$ www.chezmichelvancouver.com 1373 Marine Drive (2nd flr), W. Van. | 604-926-4913 For over 34 years, Chez Michel has delighted guests with his Classic French cuisine. Seafood & meat entrees, a superb selection of wines & a decadent dessert list. Superior service with a waterfront view completes an exemplary lunch or dinner experience.

CASUAL

Northlands Bar and Grill $$ www.golfnorthlands.com/bar-grill 3400 Anne MacDonald Way, North Vancouver | 604.924.2950 ext 2.

Casual West Coast dining where nature is your dining partner.

Sweeping views of Northlands 18th hole.

Thai PudPong Restaurant $$ www.thaipudpong.com 1474 Marine Drive, W. Van. | 604-921-1069 West Vancouver’s original Thai Restaurant. Serving authentic Thai cuisine. Open Monday-Friday for lunch. 7 days a week for dinner.

WEST COAST

Pier 7 restaurant + bar

$$$ www.pierseven.ca 25 Wallace Mews, N. Van. | 604-929-7437 Enjoy dining literally ON the waterfront with our inspired West Coast boat-to-table choices & extensive wine list. We’ve got 5 TV’s so you’ll never miss a game. Brunch until 2:30 weekends & holidays.

The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel $$$ www.pinnaclepierhotel.com 138 Victory Ship Way, N. Van. | 604-973-8000 Inspired by BC’s natural abundance of fabulous seafood & the freshest of ingredients, dishes are prepared to reflect west coast cuisine. Breakfast, lunch, dinner & late night lounge, 7 days/week.

Live music Fridays 8 - 11 pm.

WATERFRONT DINING

The MarinaSide Grill

www.marinasidegrill.com 1653 Columbia Street, N. Van. (Under 2nd Narrows Bridge) | 604-988-0038 Waterfront dining over looking Lynnwood Marina under Ironworkers Memorial Bridge.

Open every day at 8 am. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Brunch weekends and holidays serving eggs benny to juicy burgers, hot scallop salad, clam chowder. Happy Hour everyday from 3 - 5 pm.

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Out with the old, in with the new Stylist offers tips to refresh a tired wardrobe in 2015

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

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It’s that hopeful time of year when many people resolve to leave behind the blunders of the outgoing year and make positive lifestyle changes. While it may not be among the top five New Year’s resolutions of 2015, organizing a cluttered wardrobe is a priority for many. Anyone with an overflowing closet who has seemingly nothing to wear would likely benefit from a good oldfashioned purge.

We asked North Vancouver resident and style consultant Lori Harris to offer up some advice when it comes to appraising all those socks, scarves and sweaters and deciding what stays and what goes.

Harris is an elementary school teacher-librarian, but her lifelong love of fashion led her to train as a style consultant at the Image Resource Center of New York. In addition to her day job as an educator, she also runs a fashion and style business on the side called Stylesmarts (stylesmarts.ca). Among her clients are working professionals, new moms, people who have lost weight and need help dressing their new body shape, people who are out in the dating world, or people who just want to reboot their current look.

In addition to teaching

and working with her Stylesmarts clients, Harris also volunteers with Dress For Success and the Cinderella Project.

North Shore News: My closet is chock-full of clothing I’ve accumulated over the years.What items should I consider throwing out or giving away?

Lori Harris: So often, I find myself standing in overflowing wardrobes with clients who claim they have nothing to wear. Brimming closets can be the cause of much frustration when it comes to getting dressed. Why make mornings more difficult than they need to be? The new year is a perfect time for a closet edit.

Toss (and hopefully donate depending on the condition): garments that don’t fit or flatter, those you don’t love (particularly if they don’t make you feel good), pieces that look outdated, clothing that doesn’t suit you or your lifestyle, or has been loved to death.

NSN: I still have quite a few wearable pieces.What items should I hold on to?

LH: There is a statistic thrown around the stylist world: most people wear 20 per cent of their wardrobe 80 per cent of the time. It isn’t scientific, but reflects the majority of See Investment page 24

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If you ruthlessly apply the rules of what to keep, the clothes left hanging in your closet should see the light of day more often.

Keep: pieces that flatter your body type, match your lifestyle, reflect your personality; those that you wear and love.

Maybe: garments that require tailoring for proper fit (only if you will wear once altered to justify cost), or if styled differently you may work into a more regular rotation.

NSN: OK, now that I’ve freed up some closet space, what should I be looking to add to my wardrobe for 2015?

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LH: Examine what is left and look for gaps in your wardrobe. This will become your shopping list. Perhaps you could use some fitted jackets, a modern trouser or a new pair of dark denim. Maybe you have the wardrobe essentials, but could

refresh with accessories.

Don’t get bogged down by trends. It is important though, to feel current when it comes to style. In 2015, why not incorporate a shade of burgundy?

“Marsala” has been deemed the colour of the year. If you are looking to add more print, bold stripes and florals will dominate this spring as will gingham.

NSN: What types of clothing should I invest money in and what can I buy on the cheap?

LH: I am a huge believer in the cost per wear philosophy when it comes to shopping for investment pieces.Yes, they are more expensive. But, if chosen wisely, they become wardrobe workhorses and end up owing us next to nothing. Be sure to focus on quality and fit.

Invest in: coats, leather jackets, dark wash denim, bags, boots and watches.

On the cheap: trendier pieces such as graphic tees or fashion accessories.

Stores like Joe Fresh or

Zara have fantastic pricepoints that allow you to infuse some modern clothing each season without breaking the bank.

NSN: How can I inject some personal style into my everyday attire?

LH: I love this quote from Greek philosopher Epictetus: “Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

Notice looks you are drawn to that align with your personality or taste.

Magazines or social media (Instagram, Pinterest) are great inspiration. Do you gravitate to classic, trendy, edgy, feminine/masculine, sporty or creative? Style does not need to fit into a box, yours may combine several elements.

Look for pieces with unique details; and always incorporate colour, print, texture or shine into an outfit. Personality lies in visual interest.

No matter the style, comfort and confidence are key. When we feel good, it shows.

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Grinding Gears

After a sweeping through of winter rains that had many residents of Lynn Valley considering the purchase of stilts, it looks like 2015 will dawn in crisp, sunny, frosty splendour.

Needless to say, every body shop on the North Shore is about to pay off their Christmas Visa bill in three days of work.

But it’s also a bright and

happy time to both look back at what 2014 brought to the table in new cars, and to look forward to what 2015 might hold. Here, as every year, is my own personal look at the newsmaking sheet metal of the automotive world this year.

The Jurassic Park Award: Dodge Hellcat(s) Might as well start things off with the two machines

that received so much press this year, you’d think FiatChrysler had invented cold fusion.They’re called the Hellcats, and they’re the last bellows of a dying dinosaur.

Each is a monstrously heavy rear-drive machine (either two- or four-doored), and each has a retro name.

Each come in a variety of silly colours. Each is a big, burly brawler that appears to make little concession

to either aerodynamics or modern traffic.

However, the Charger and Challenger Hellcats are also both fitted with a 6.2-litre supercharged V-8 that makes 707 horsepower and sounds like a drill press being used to give an Allosaur a root canal.

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majesty in what Dodge has done here.

It’s not the way forward: even though both cars get acceptable highway fuel economy thanks to a clever eight-speed transmission, they’re more a last gasp of the oil age. If hybridization, electrification, and lightweight materials are the future, these cars will be the ones that make a gearhead’s eye glimmer with nostalgia.

And what does Dodge charge for your own personal pet dinosaur? A paltry 60-odd thousand dollars.To quote Samuel L. Jackson’s character from the titular movie: “hold on to your butts.”

The Maybe Things Won’t Be So Bad Award: BMW i8 Flick through the headlines outside the automotive section of any newspaper, and it’s hard to keep up a positive outlook if you’re into cars.Traffic grows apace, alongside urban densification. Fossil fuel supplies dwindle, while the effects of using them increase. Manufacturers seem intent on not just isolating us in floaty metal cocoons, but would happily wrest the wheels from our grasp, turning drivers into passengers.

However, there is the odd glimmer of hope, and you can find one such machine in the BMW i8. First, it’s futuristically pretty, a dagger-like coupe that looks as if a vision of the future was shattered into pieces and then someone fitted wheels to one of the shards.

It’s got a frisson of the wedginess of the foldedpaper designs of the 1970s, but it’s all modern, as if 3D printed from schematics stolen from the Tron movies.

It’s wonderful looking, and people seem to love it.

Under the slippery skin is a pair of engines, one electric, one a highefficiency turbocharged unit, totalling 362 h.p. and excellent low-end torque.

The result is a sprint to 100 kilometres per hour in a claimed 4.4 seconds, more than quick enough to get you in trouble, yet producing fuel consumption and emissions like a Prius.

Best of all, while the i8 is expensive, it’s not hypercar expensive.You’d pay about the same for a well-optioned Porsche 911 Carrera 4S. In terms of prestige, performance, and attraction, the i8 is right there with the Porsche. Might this sort of thing be available for the price of a Scion FR-S in a decade? Dare to dream.

Mr. Personality:The Kia Soul Performance is only one yardstick by which the excellence of a modern car can be measured. Other desired features include comfort, efficiency, style, and variety. So go for a Soul.

With the new Soul EV now on the market (and don’t ask me why they didn’t call it the Electric Soul and hire Grand Funk Railroad as spokes-funkpersons), this sprightly little Kia crossover offers a choice of zero emissions driving in a shape that’s a little less dull than a Nissan Leaf. It’ll pip the Leaf on range too.

It also comes with a choice of peppy and efficient four-cylinder engines, enough passenger and cargo space to haul most of what you might need, a ride height that’s upright to see your way through city traffic, and a design that stands out without compromising practicality much.

As a result, the Soul sells very well for Kia, and has done more for their brand image than any dancing hamsters ever did.

The Don’t Bother Wiping Your Feet Award: Subaru Outback People have been used to Subaru being a quirky niche player in the market for so long, they’re always surprised to hear how well the company is doing.To date, Subaru is the eighthranked automaker in the United States on sales volume, beating Volkswagen and Mazda, and they’re not far off being able to challenge Hyundai. In Canada, they’re just ahead of Mercedes-Benz, and climbing.

Naturally, congratulations are in order, or at least some pretence to get me in the same room as the Subaru brass and administer the electrodes until they bring back the WRX hatchback. However, if you’d like to get an idea why Subaru’s been on the rise so much of late,

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Subaru sells entire forests of Foresters, but their Outback sales are up by nearly half — why so?

The car itself is somewhat unremarkable to drive: smooth, planted, but not particularly quick with the volume-selling 2.5-litre flat-four.

It’s just that the Outback fits the West Coast lifestyle so nicely. It’ll carry bikes n’ kayaks without being too tall to load either; it’s got plenty of room inside for kids and/or retirement gardening projects and/or big hairy smelly dogs; the ground clearance is better than crossovers like the Toyota Highlander.

The Outback is rugged enough to get nearly any outdoors-oriented job done, and its somewhat agricultural roots have been polished smoothed by the years, fading away like (to use an entirely random example) Paul Hogan’s career prospects. Nice enough to ferry around your in-laws, still likes to get muddy.

The Derek Zoolander Award for being Really, Really, Really, Ridiculously Good Looking: Jaguar FType Coupe Jaguar’s F-type is simply stunning. It embodies the best attributes of the E-Type in that even were it merely broken down in your garage, it’d still be worth an ogle or two.

It’s also cramped, slightly

thirsty, loud enough to be embarrassing, and the trunk space is that of a sock drawer. And yet: phwoar, as the Brits say, or at least they do in The Beano.

The Herbie the Love Bug Award: Nissan Micra If you remember the old 1960s era movies about Herbie and his increasingly unlikely adventures, one of the principal conceits of the films was the unsuitability of a VW Beetle for competition racing. It was thus hilarious when Herbie trounced his much more powerful competition by driving upside-down through tunnels and various other hijinks.

Nissan’s Micra echoes this never-say-die pluckiness by being both the cheapest new car you can buy in

Canada, and still having its own spec racing series.

With a 1.6-litre engine making just 109 h.p., it’s no rocketship, yet beat the tar out of this little bugger and it’ll scoot along happily.

For many young people, the Micra may be their first new car, in something of a bare-bones spec. It’s usefully sized, it’s fun to drive, and when you take into account the warranty and the low borrowing rates, it’s really rather cheap.

A perfect car for Canadians, then, particularly those of us with a last name like Villeneuve.

Things To Look For in 2015: • The first drives of the new Mazda MX-5 • Ford Mustang Shelby GT-350 takes on Chevy’s

Camaro Z/28 • Ford and Nissan both return to LeMans racing • Maybe, finally, the Acura NSX launches • Porsche’s Cayman GT4 might finally eclipse the 911 • Aston-Martins powered by AMG V-12 may cause Battle of Britain pilots to rise from their graves • Tesla’s Model X may make or break the company • Crossovers of all kind continue world domination • Ken Block accidentally uses up world supply of tires and GoPro HD cameras.

Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and automotive enthusiast. If you have a suggestion for a column, please contact him at mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com.

Follow Brendan on Twitter: @ brendan_mcaleer.

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