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Port terminal plans rail expansion Cargill aims to add rail track to boost its grain shipments JANE SEYD jseyd@nsenws.com

Cargill Terminal, one of two port terminals in North Vancouver that handles grain, has

applied to expand its rail system to allow more wheat to be shipped through the terminal each year.

The company wants to add rail track within its

terminal to allow more efficient unloading of railcars that bring wheat and other agricultural products from the Prairie provinces to be shipped out for export.

The changes would see the number or railcars arriving at the terminal increase from 125 cars a day to between 175 and

200 cars per day and the number of incoming trains per year go from 325 to 500.

The changes would see the terminal’s grain handling capacity jump from about 3.4 million metric tonnes of grain per year to 5 million metric tonnes.

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Port Metro Vancouver has seen wheat exports soar in recent years — from 5.8 million tonnes in 2011 to 6 million tonnes in 2012 and 7.6 million tonnes in 2013.

Between November 2013 and November 2014 the port handled 8.4 million

expansion comes after recent years saw recordsetting volumes of grain crops on the Canadian prairies.

Last year, the federal government ordered Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways to move minimum volumes of grain to ensure farmers got their crops to market.

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Work on new Keith bridge set to begin BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Construction work is now “imminent” on building a new Keith Road bridge more than twice as wide as the original.

Once complete in the fall of 2016, the bridge will have five lanes — two east and two west plus a rightturn lane to separate drivers wanting to continue south on Mountain Highway.

Replacing the 70-yearold original, which was reaching the end of its lifespan, is part of a larger vision to improve traffic flow around the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing bridgehead.That also includes the Keith Road extension around the new Seylynn tower and redesigns of the various onramps and offrramps in the area, starting with the Mountain Highway interchange.

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Victoria Park to get new condo rentals BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnew.com

There’s a new tower coming to east Keith Road next to Victoria Park.

A split City of North Vancouver council voted Monday night to approve the 16-storey tower containing 52 strata units and 41 rental units at 161165 East Keith Road.

The vote passed 4-3 with support from Mayor Darrell Mussatto and his council allies: Couns. Craig Keating, Linda Buchanan and Holly Back.

Debate at the council table pitted the project’s high energy efficiency and replacement of the city’s rental stock against objections over its sheer size compared to the tiny lot it sits on.

Beyond the green building standards and purpose-built rental units protected by a legal covenant, Developer FDG Property Management will pay the city $1.8 million to purchase density from the adjacent city-owned boulevard to the north of the building.The city is also reducing the minimum space between towers from 80 feet to just over 68 feet and the required setback from the property line. FDG must enhance and maintain the boulevard as part of the agreement.

The project will require the demolition of a 12-

unit, three-storey walk-up building from 1954 in “relatively poor” condition, according to city staff.The building’s 14 residents will be given four month’s notice before eviction, one month’s free rent, free access to moving vans, boxes and a driver as well as help in finding new accommodations.

The new units will range from 500-square-foot bachelor suites to 1,300square-foot three-bedroom condos. Rents should be around $2.50 per square foot according to the building’s architect Michael Katz.

Coun. Pam Bookham voted against the project on the grounds that it was “shoehorned” into the lot, and that its biggest impacts would be felt by the people who will face eviction when construction starts. “You don’t address poverty by displacing people from affordable housing or by driving up land values by creating this kind of development potential,” she said.

Mussatto countered that today’s pricey market rentals will be tomorrow’s affordable rentals, especially as older buildings are torn down and replaced, often without rental units at all.

“I’m hoping in 20, 30 or 40 years will be the new low-end of market rental as new buildings come online.

I know it’s hard to say but we have to have new rental

units and we need these units in the city,” he said.

Couns. Rod Clark and Don Bell joined Bookham’s dissent.

None of the residents who turned out to a public hearing on Monday night spoke in favour of the project, nor did any of the 19 residents who wrote letters to council and 37 residents in the neighbourhing building who signed a petition in opposition.

Among the opponents was Linda Heese, who lives in one of the highrises on the north side of the park, who argued the density council was prepared to grant was three times higher than what the official community plan would normally allow. “It is so far beyond what should even be considered that it is hard to understand why we are even here to discuss this proposal,” she said.

Other reasons given to shoot the project down included that it would swallow up street parking in the neighbourhood, reduce privacy for residents of nearby buildings, encourage other developers to knock down older buildings and that it would be disrespectful to the sanctity of the cenotaph in Victoria Park.

The project received its first reading by council in February 2014 but the public hearing and vote on second and third readings

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Youth event honours Zoe Mountain workshop, nature hikes are Longeway-Lewis’ legacy MARIA SPITALE-LEISK newsroom@nsnews.com

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The North Shore mountain trails were a little cleaner when Zoe Longeway-Lewis was alive.

“She always, even as a little girl, would bring other kids’ garbage home from the playground in her lunch kit,” recalls her mom, Corey Longeway.

That environmental altruism carried on into adulthood for LongewayLewis who would continue to clean up the trails, particularly on Mount Seymour, near her home in Deep Cove.

Around the same time, the avid snowboarder began volunteering with Beyond Boarding — a local collective

dedicated to channeling members’ enthusiasm for snowboarding into social and environmental justice causes.

“I think her biggest contribution was being (Beyond Boarding’s) biggest advocate, and just spreading the word,” says Corey. “Zoe has a saying: ‘Respect the forest, water and air we breathe, and in return you will have a place to be free.’”

Her environmental stewardship complemented Longeway-Lewis’s studies in fisheries, wildlife and recreation management at BCIT, as well as her charitable efforts on a national and international level with the David Suzuki and World Wildlife foundations respectively.

On May 17 of last year, while preparing to start a summer job as a parks operator on Vancouver Island’s North Coast Trail, and making wedding plans with her fiancé, Longeway– Lewis passed away suddenly from a ruptured brain AVM (arteriovenous malformation). She was 24.

To honour her local environmental legacy, Beyond Boarding is putting on a youth workshop this Saturday on Mount Seymour.There will also be monthly hikes organized in Zoe’s memory.

Beyond Boarding’s cofounder,Tamo Campos, said these nature walks will be a fitting tribute to Longeway– Lewis. “Instantly when you met her you could tell she was passionate about the outdoors.This passion and connection with nature that Zoe carried really is at the backbone of what Beyond

Boarding is all about,” said Campos.

Before she died, Longeway-Lewis earned the title of “forest floor sweeper,” after pledging to pick up and pack out any trash she found while hiking, biking, or snowshoeing.

Longeway-Lewis told her Beyond Boarding peers: “It’s crazy how many granola bar wrappers, Ziploc bags, and beer cans you’ll find left in the forest. Let’s keep those outdoor spaces natural and free of our junk!”

Beyond Boarding’s aim is to take LongewayLewis’s legacy and empower young people by making a connection to nature.This will hopefully inspire them to become more aware of environmental and social justice matters, said Campos.

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obviously,” said Carolyn Drugge, project coordinator. “It should provide some relief but it’s not the magic bullet.”

The latest design also features 3.2-metre sidewalks/bike lanes that are separated from the vehicle traffic by a barrier, which was something cycling advocates had been lobbying for.

Though the Keith Road traffic often backs up well into the City of North Vancouver, the $12.7million cost is being covered by district taxpayers and through development cost charges the district collects from new construction projects.

Contractors will be firing up the chainsaws next week to start removing trees in Bridgman Park all the way to Lynnmouth Avenue in order to make room for the new bridge and lanes of traffic.

While 150 trees will be cut down by the end of February and the trails

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The district will be replacing the trees in the area at a ratio of three to one.The project also calls for improvements to be made to the parking lot and trails. District council voted last fall to take 26 undeveloped lots on the north side of Keith Road and turn them into

parkland, which will result in a net increase in park space, Rogers said.The informal trails that traverse the undeveloped land will be improved and connected with the existing trails in the area. “We’re really solidifying and improving trail access overall,” she said.

All the tree-cutting must be done by the end of February, before raptors begin nesting.

Engineers plan to keep the existing bridge open while the first half of the new bridge is constructed

immediately to the south.

Once it is capable of handling traffic, the old lead paint covered bridge will be decommissioned and replaced with the second half.While there will be some off-peak hours lane closures, the plan is to keep traffic flowing through during construction.

“We have an extensive traffic management plan.

We’re going to maintain what’s there,” said Shaun Loader, project engineer.

The project should bring environmental improvements to Lynn Creek itself, which is an important salmon spawning habitat. Storm water runoff will be captured by a perforated pipe and redirected back into the soil, rather than into the creek.

“The ground acts like a natural filter and that will improve the water quality as it travels down through the water table and into the creek as well,” Loader said.

Improvements to the riparian areas on both sides of the creek are also included in the work plan.

Lions Gate down to one lane after 10 p.m.

BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

If you’re planning on travelling to or from Vancouver via the Lions Gate Bridge at night anytime soon, you might want to make other plans.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is reducing traffic on the bridge down to two lanes starting at

7:30 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, until the end of February.Things will get a whole lot worse at 10 p.m. when all the north/south traffic will be funnelled into one lane in alternate directions until 5 a.m.

West Vancouver resident Margaret Baker got stuck in the “brutal” single-lane mess on Wednesday when it took her an hour and a half to get from Kitsilano to her home

at 21st Street and Marine Drive. “I couldn’t even see the end of the traffic,” she said. “I just couldn’t believe how slow it was. ...We were stopped at some points, for what felt like 10 minutes at a time.”

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meanwhile, will find the Lions Gate’s sidewalks closed during the daytime as crews work to replace the joints. One sidewalk will be kept open at all times and work crews will alternate closures to best fit with cycling commuter schedules.

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he National Energy Board has ruled the B.C. government and public do not have the right to see Kinder Morgan’s emergency response plans, citing “personal, commercial and security reasons.”

As a make-good, the energy giant apparently offered to turn over its plans in full to the government, but not the public at large. The premier took to the airwaves on Tuesday to say that simply wasn’t good enough, and rightly so.

While the government is elected to represent us and the bureaucracy is hired to serve us, the public at large has a stake in the outcome of this process and, accordingly, the right to know and scrutinize all aspects of it.

“Trust us” doesn’t cut it for the communities, environmental groups, First Nations and first responders along the pipeline’s path and it doesn’t cut it

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Christy Clark has made a big deal of her “five conditions” for approval of any pipelines in B.C., two of which were “world-leading” oil spill response, prevention and recovery systems for both B.C.’s coastline and land-based spills.

In 2013, a federal panel concluded Canada was not prepared to handle a major tanker spill in Southern B.C. Pipeline advocates will tell you they are safer than ever yet spills continue to happen and clean-ups can be botched.

If Kinder Morgan’s pipeline — or any other pipeline for that matter — is to go ahead, we’d rather that be decided after a full public vetting of the worst-case scenarios. That sure beats finding out after the fact the plans weren’t up to snuff. Better to ask permission than beg forgiveness.

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James not up to her usual standards Dear Editor: I write to comment on Elizabeth James’ column Transit Governance is Mired in Conflict, published Jan. 7.The future of transit in the region is an extremely important issue.

Unfortunately, Ms. James’ column on the subject is not up to her usual standards.

Ms. James asserts that “newly elected members of

council swear an oath under the Local Government Act to foster the economic, social and environmental well-being of their (own) communities.”The truth is, we do no such thing. Rather, our oath requires us to swear that we will “faithfully perform the duties of (our) office and will not allow any private interest to influence (our) conduct in public

matters.” Pursuant to the act, our role is to determine what it is in the public interest.

The main point Ms. James makes is that is that regional governance structures place local officials, like Mayor Walton, in a “conflict of interest.”

Unfortunately, this term is widely misunderstood and all too often misused.

Broadly speaking, conflicts of interest are situations in which an individual is in a position to exploit a professional or official capacity in some way for their personal or private benefit (hence, the wording of the oath).The conflict of interest can be real or (reasonably) perceived.

Mayor Walton (or any other elected official) is

simply not in a “conflict of interest” when, as part of his role as mayor, he sits on regional decisionmaking bodies and is asked to consider the interests of the region.There are no personal or private benefits from this work that corrupt Mayor Walton from fulfilling the duties of his role as See Transit page 10

Hockey parents in the penalty box for behaving badly Dear Editor: To hockey parents who attended the Atom’s game Saturday, Jan. 17, I’m a grandparent of one of the nine-year-old players.

(On that day) some adults displayed behaviour that the nine-year-old child

would find themselves in trouble for.

Yes, one of our parents brought an air horn to the game with the intention of celebrating our team’s success in getting a goal — not to offend or upset any child and in this case some

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moms from the North Shore team. This was a kids’ game. We had a rough start to our season and in other rinks over the Lower Mainland, music and horns were blasted when the teams beating us scored.

Our horn-honking parent

is simply celebrating our girls’ successes, nothing more. The kids think it’s fun. Simple as that.

But we’ll be the bigger person here and apologize for upsetting the parents.

Taking a ridiculous argument out to a parking

lot in front of young children to the point of saying (you’re) going to call police and to get off “your” property is a splendid example for young kids.

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Pedestrian proceeds with caution Dear Editor: I am alarmed about the dangerous drivers on the North Shore who think they own the road.

At 17th Street and Marine Drive in West Vancouver, three times in less than a month, motorists have sped downhill to turn right onto the main road at the stop light where I had the right of way with the walk sign — they did not even see me because they never looked for a pedestrian.What a perfect place for police to apprehend bad drivers.

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Why Harper is still frontrunner, despite all How is it that Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has been vilified by his political opponents like few politicians before him, is still the frontrunner when it comes to winning the next federal election in October?

How can someone who stirs up deeply passionate and emotional negative responses on so many issues still look like the one to beat come the vote?

There are many reasons to be upset with the Harper government (and many other governments, for that matter). So how can it even stand a chance of being re-elected?

While political polling has to be taken with a very large grain of salt these days (given how wrong some of them have been in recent elections), one can’t simply dismiss out of hand a series of polls that put the Conservatives firmly in the lead over the federal Liberals and NDP. The latest Ipsos-Reid poll for Global News gives Harper’s Conservatives 35 per cent of the decided vote, while Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are at 31 per cent and Thomas Mulcair’s NDP appears to be fading, sitting at just 24 per cent.

That Conservative lead seems to be solidifying, if not increasing. How can this be?

Well, first of all, take a look at who actually votes in this country. As I’ve written here a number of times before, voters tend to be older and, by nature, more conservative in outlook.

Polls often overrepresent the views of younger people — who

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Online polls, it seems to me, likely don’t reflect the views of a great many people who may still feel uncomfortable with the internet and online communications.

In fact, if your sense of where public opinion is based on what’s being said online, you are likely getting a very distorted view of things.

Go to any major media website, and check out the comments (most of them anonymous) posted after political news stories.

Invariably, if they concern federal politics at all, Harper is basically referred to as the devil himself (although that is likely one of the more polite characterizations).

Increasingly, people only listen to or read things that reinforce their opinions.

And so, on something like Facebook for example, people only read what their Facebook friends send their way — friends who likely view the world as they do.

Or people will only read or listen to a media

outlet that has a bias that tilts their way. This is particularly a problem for those who are decidedly left-wing or right-wing — they shut out anything that clashes with their own views or ideology.

And so the people who are most vehemently antiHarper only listen to each other, and therefore only reinforce their view that he is some sort of horrible leader who is about to be deposed. After all, everyone is saying that, so it must be

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The Conservative voter base, which hovers around 40 per cent of the electorate, is fairly loyal and committed.

But there are a fair number of folks who are likely comfortable voting for either the federal Liberals or the NDP, meaning each of those parties can hurt each other through vote splitting (to say nothing of the Green Party adding to that confusion).

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Finally, throw in the fact we have three major political parties at the federal level, and you can see why the Conservatives will likely grow more confident as the October vote grows nearer.

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The trouble, of course, that if you only listen to your limited circle of friends, you’re not getting the full picture. I see many people gleefully say they don’t read or watch so-called “mainstream media” and only consume media that agrees with their viewpoint — as a result, they live in an echo chamber that leads to ignorance and uninformed commentary.

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indigenous to the local area, in an effort to share stories of their traditional land and water.

“We hope anyone on the North Shore that has interest in environmental activism and First Nations activism can come join us and celebrate Zoe’s life,” said Campos.

Participants should wear appropriate gear for winter hiking. Snowshoes will be provided (if required) for Saturday’s hike on Mount Seymour by event sponsor CPAWS. For more information, go online at facebook.com/beyondboarding.

tonnes of wheat.

The increase in wheat exports also prompted Richardson Terminal’s addition of controversial new grain storage silos, which dramatically impacted views of nearby City of North Vancouver neighbours.

Cargill’s expansion does not include any new grain storage silos, said Connie Tamoto, spokeswoman for the company.

According to information provided to Port Metro Vancouver, the project should cut down on noise by reducing rail shunting within the terminal.

Coun. Rod Clark, who has sat on industrial waterfront committees for the city, said he has reason to hope the net effect of the project will be positive for nearby residents.

“I have great respect for Cargill,” he said. “They seem to be good corporate citizens.”

Previously, Cargill completed the first phase of a project aimed

at cutting noise levels coming from the terminal by putting silencers on exhaust fans and dust collectors and installing noise barriers.

Tony Valente, chairman of the City of North Vancouver’s Low Level Road and port area community liaison committee, said it remains to be seen what the cumulative impacts of expansions at Richardson, Cargill and Neptune terminals will be for the community. “That’s what makes a difference in people’s lives,” he said.

Cargill has asked to start work on the new rail track project in March, with a completion date of May 2016.

Port Metro Vancouver is currently reviewing that request and has final authority over the permit.

Cargill plans to hold an open house about the project on Feb. 5 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Pinnacle hotel.

The company is also scheduled to address City of North Vancouver council Feb. 23.

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INQUIRING REPORTER Mild winter weather in Vancouver has put a damper on this year’s ski season on North Shore mountains.

And the latest forecast doesn’t look encouraging: A “Pineapple Express” tropical storm is set to hit the Vancouver area today, and bring with it 40 to 60 millimetres of rain in two days. Up to 90 mm of rain is expected to fall on North Shore mountains. And with Environment Canada forecasting highs of 11 to 12 C and more rain heading into the middle of next week, is this year’s ski season on the local mountains a write-off?

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Dan Stein North Vancouver “Yes.Well, it’s discouraging if you want to put it into words.”

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Jared Zawislak North Vancouver “Yes.The lack of terrain being open in the snowboard parks is disappointing.”

Alexi Liotti North Vancouver “No. I wouldn’t say I’m disappointed because I’ve been able to go up a lot. I’ve been having a good time.”

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Transit upgrades urgently needed From page 6 mayor.

In fact, Mayor Walton cannot properly protect or serve the interests of his constituents without also considering the needs of the region. For example, on the issue of transit, don’t North Vancouver residents travel to the rest of Metro Vancouver?

Don’t they work at or own businesses that depend on the vitality of the region?

Naturally, all elected officials — including Mayor Walton — must balance various interests when making regional decisions.

No elected official sitting on a regional committee is blind to the interests of their own communities.

Rather, they attempt to think broadly and strike an appropriate balance. Every informed voter understands that local officials have to sit on regional committees and strike this balance.

Ms. James appears to favour TransLink being governed by “internationally experienced transportation professionals.”Well, the current board has an extremely broad expertise including North Shore resident and chair Marcella Szel who sits on a federal transportation advisory board. Of course, without the mayors’ council, such a body would be unelected

and unaccountable to all but the province.This would hardly ensure that “the best interests of the constituents the mayor was elected to serve” are better protected.

There is no doubt that the TransLink governance model is less than ideal and that TransLink can stand to improve both financial and operational efficiency and accountability. However, it is misguided to advocate voting against the referendum until the governance system is perfected. A failed referendum will be interpreted as public opposition to spending on transit improvements. It will not improve TransLink governance.

Ms. James and I agree that “we need an efficient, regionwide transit system and that ... a small addition to the sales tax may be the fairest way to provide TransLink with more funding for its $7.5billion plan.”Vancouver is increasingly in gridlock and “transportation professionals” feel that significant transit improvements are urgently needed.The only way to ensure we get these necessary improvements this decade is to ensure that the referendum succeeds.

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Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C. Keith.Baldrey@ globalnews.ca

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Don’t mess Curb bad driving with fines and points with nature From page 6 crosswalks at the bottom of the hills on Bellevue Avenue and 14th Street in Ambleside as vehicles rush down them uncaring about waiting pedestrians. I have never seen police monitoring vehicles at any of these intersections.

This week there was almost an accident at the newest, very large junction on Marine Drive which allows people to cross from Park Royal south to north.

A group of us waited until the walk signal appeared, the man in front of me

stepped off the curb and a car leaving Park Royal South suddenly turned right in front of him, them sped east too quickly for me to read his licence plate.

Downtown Vancouver motorists stop at red lights and pedestrians are given adequate time to cross the roads — the Vancouver police must be doing their jobs. When will the police on the North Shore start issuing our bad drivers tickets leading to fines and points for breaking the law?

Elizabeth Munday West Vancouver

Dear Editor: Bring back extinct species? (Inquiring Reporter, Jan. 16) Where people have introduced species to a controlled environment, it has gone well: chickens, cows, bananas, coffee etc.

In the wild, it often has not: Asian pine beetles in North America, raccoons in Europe, rabbits in Australia or mongooses in Hawaii. If the mammoth comes back, there would be bragging rights for the scientists and countries involved, but if released into the wild, perhaps a problem with poaching.

Keith Foreman North Vancouver

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Community members are invited to Poetry Meets Art: An Afternoon of Poetry Inspired by the Artwork, Sunday, Jan. 25 at 2 p.m. The show will remain on display through Feb. 7. seymourartgallery.com

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE

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— A weekly gleaner of Internet sources and other media —

■ D’Angelo — Black Messiah.

D’Angelo and Questlove gig at the Brooklyn Bowl in NewYork City 2013.03.04 showing D’Angelo’s deep connection to the classic sould of Sly Stone, Ohio Players and Curtis Mayfield. https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=BemcaYmWUJc. Despite the hiatus D’Angelo’s new album doesn’t miss a beat.

■ Sleater-Kinney’s No CitiesTo Love is a stellar return to form. SleaterKinney: “A NewWave” - David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=QLwD1to3dZU. ■ Viet Cong — “Continental Shelf” (OfficialVideo): https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=hdMz7BUtOvk Calgary’sViet Cong release their fabulous eponymous debut on Flemish Eye/ See more page 32

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Bedroom farce ■ Centaur Theatre Company and Kay Meek Centre present The Goodnight Bird by Colleen Murphy, Jan. 29 to Feb. 14 at Kay Meek Centre, 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Tickets: $15-50 at kaymeekcentre.com or 604-981-6335.

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When a homeless man unexpectedly lands on the balcony of their new condo, long-married couple Lilly and Morgan Beaumont begin to question their relationship, their routine and their comfortable, albeit dull, lives.

“Both of them are unhappy.They love each other, but they’re unhappy,” says North Shore actress Nicola Cavendish, who plays Lilly in the North American premiere of The Goodnight Bird

by Canadian by playwright Colleen Murphy at Kay Meek Centre.

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“It’s an actor’s treat to land into a script like this,” Cavendish says. “It’s a very rich and very challenging play for all of the three characters.”

The action takes place in the bedroom of a couple in their mid-60s. Lilly, a recently retired schoolteacher, and her husband Morgan (Christopher Hunt), recovering from a heart attack, are shocked one night when a mysterious vagrant named Parker (Graham Cuthbertson) flies off the roof and lands on their balcony.The intruder butts into their home and their personal lives, sparking a dialogue between Lilly and Morgan about things they never realized they were missing.

“It’s not just a play about one night in the bedroom of an affluent couple. It reverberates into all sorts of things which, to be honest, I’m still discovering,” Cavendish says.

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She describes the tone of the first half as a “chaotic comedy” as the characters respond to the absurd situation they have found themselves in. “But it’s got stomach underneath it,” she says.

In the second half, she says, the characters are reminiscent of a “gentle” version of the troubled middle-aged couple George and Martha from Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid ofVirginiaWoolf?

The Goodnight Bird was first staged in 2011 at the Finborough Theatre in London where Murphy was a playwright in residence. Kay Meek Centre and Montreal-based Centaur Theatre Company are co-producing the upcoming presentation in West Vancouver under the direction of Centaur’s Roy Surette, who has worked with Cavendish on a number of occasions, most recently the Arts Club Theatre Company’s production of 4000 Miles last fall.

When Cavendish sent Surette the script for The Goodnight Bird, he knew she would be perfect for the part, he says. And he was also impressed with the play.

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CALENDAR Galleries

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Art Rental Show: Rent or buy artwork right off the gallery walls until Jan. 24.

Rental fees range from $10 to $50 per month.

The Gift Box: Buy local from two display cases dedicated to local artisans who specialize in high quality, handcrafted and unique gift items.

Art Rental Salon: An ongoing art rental programme with a variety of original artwork available ranging from $10 to $40 per month.

ARTEMIS GALLERY 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 778-233-9805 artemisgallery.ca ARTS INVIEW ON LONSDALE BlueShore Financial, 1250 Lonsdale Ave., NorthVancouver.

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

BUCKLAND SOUTHERST GALLERY 2460 Marine Dr.,WestVancouver.

604-922-1915 bucklandsoutherst.com

DISTRICT LIBRARY GALLERY 1277 LynnValley Rd., North Vancouver. nvartscouncil.ca NorthVancouver Community Arts Council will present artwork by Squamish Nation Band member Gigaemi until Feb. 10.

CAROUN ART GALLERY 1403 Bewicke Ave., NorthVancouver.

Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 8 p.m.778-372-0765 caroun.net Classic and Modern Painting Exhibition: Paintings by Fatemeh Javadi will be on display until Jan. 30.

CITY ATRIUM GALLERY 141West 14th St., NorthVancouver.

Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.604988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca NorthVancouver Community Arts Council will present The Flower Series, an art display of clay and textiles byYingYueh Chuang until March 16.Artist talk: Monday, Jan. 26, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Info: cnv.org/flowerseries.

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Nature Re-Imagined: Mixed media works by Eva Francis,Tony Kristopaitis and Tannis Turner will be on display from Jan. 27 to Feb. 15. Opening reception: Tuesday, Jan. 27, 6-8 p.m. Meet the Artists: Saturday, Jan. 31, 2-3 p.m.

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CALENDAR From page 14 GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.WednesdayFriday, noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Adult admission by donation/children free.

604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca Gallery Tours: Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. Registration required.

NORTHVANCOUVER 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 and about their experiences creating new lives and memories will run until March 28.

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NorthVancouver Experience, an ongoing exhibit defining life in North Vancouver.

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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.

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Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. satellitegallery.ca Mainstreeters —Taking Advantage, 1972-1982: An exhibition that brings to light an under-recognized chapter of Vancouver art history will be on view until March 14.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 Foster an Elephant/ Natural Beauty: Paintings of elephants

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Carol Itter work on view

SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Discovery Fire: A juried exhibition that provides exposure to emerging artists on the theme of fire will run until Feb. 7. Poetry meets art: Sunday, Jan. 25, 2 p.m.

Curator’s Talk: Every Thursday at noon there will be a 20-minute curator’s talk with background on the current show in the gallery.

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Carole Itter’s 1979 photographic series, Euclid, documenting musician Al Neil’s tracing of Euclidean geometric theorems in the sand at Cates Park in North Vancouver is part of a new group exhibit, Geometry of Knowing, on view at two Lower Mainland galleries, SFU Gallery and the Audain Gallery over the next few months. For more information on the exhibit visit sfu.ca/galleries/sfugallery/current.html.

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JourneyingWith the Totems: Acrylic painter Andre J. Prevost captures, the majesty of First nations totems and carvings from around the West Coast Jan. 27-Feb. 22.

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WESTVANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St.,West Vancouver.TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7295 westvancouvermuseum.ca Industry, Charity, Faith, Hope: A selection of work produced by Kim Kennedy Austin over the past two decades will be on display until March 7.

YEATS STUDIO & GALLERY 2402 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver.WednesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 778279-8777 craigyeats.com Natures Abstracts: An exhibition featuring works by Deep Cove artist Lyza Del

Tickets: 604-929-9456 or firstimpressionstheatre.com.

Concerts

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver.Tickets: 604-9816335 kaymeekcentre.com Cap Global Roots: Singer/ songwriter Marc Cohn will perform Sunday, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $55/$48/$25.

Crooner Brian Evans will perform with special guest King Martin Saturday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $40/$35/$30/$10.

CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 PurcellWay, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Cap Jazz: A tribute to Brazil with “A” Band and NiteCap Friday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $30/$27.

Cap Classics — Of Blossoms and Beaches: Flutist Brenda Fedoruk, cellist Heather Hay, pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa and soprano Heather Pawsey will perform Friday, Jan. 30, 11:45 a.m.

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Cap Classics — Zarabandeo: Francois Houle on the clarinet and Jane Hayes on the piano will perform jive to Latin rhythms Friday, Feb. 6, 11:45 a.m. Free.

Vancouver Kiwanis Jazz Festival: Over 800 students will perform from Feb. 11 to 13, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.There will be free lunchtime concerts at noon featuring NiteCap on Feb. 11, The Hummingbird Brigade, Feb. 12 and ‘A’ Band, Feb. 13.Admission by a suggested donation of $5.

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Fundraising Concert: The Paperboys will perform in support of First Impressions Theatre Friday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m.Admission: $30.

Tickets: 604-929-9456 or firstimpressionstheatre.com.

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

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The Pro Nova Ensemble will perform with students Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m.Admission by donation.

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Nothing straightforward about trilogy Jackie Bateman lets imagination run loose in The Lizzy Trilogy

■ The NorthVancouver City Library Local Author Series is presenting a reading and Q&A with writers Jackie Bateman and Nancy Lee, Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in the program room on the third floor of the library. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for snacks, wine and conversation. Free, but registration required, visit nvcl.ca/read-watch-listen/ author-series.

ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

When she was in her 20s, NorthVancouver writer Jackie Bateman lived in somewhat of a questionable area of Edinburgh, Scotland.

It wasn’t “dodgy,” per se, rather best-described as a “more decrepit side of town,” she recalls.

Bateman was once forced to call the authorities due to

the frightening sounds being emitted from another unit in her apartment complex.

“I remember something kicking off downstairs, and there was a fight and there was banging and swearing,” she says, adding it sounded as if someone was being bashed against a wall due to the degree of screaming.

After police had sorted the violent situation out, they came to check on her. She recalls one officer asking, “‘What are you doing living here?’” to which she replied, “‘This is my flat!What do you mean?’”

Bateman was shocked to learn how “horrific” not only her neighbours were but her neighbourhood in general. “(The officer) said, ‘If you knew who else lived on this street, you wouldn’t live here.’

It really resonated with me, that yeah, you don’t know who’s on your street. I think that’s kind of terrifying,” she says.

The attending officer’s comment made a lasting impression and her resulting realization is a concept Bateman is continuing to explore in her works of fiction.

The married mother of two (she has a son aged nine and a daughter aged six) grew up in Africa, mainly Kenya and Nigeria, before moving to London and Edinburgh, and then Vancouver in 2003. She has released two literary thrillers so far.The first novel, Nondescript Rambunctious, was published in 2011 and won a national First Book Competition in Canada. Its follow, Savour, was released in October 2014 and is the middle book in the three-part The LizzyTrilogy.

Bateman’s series follows suspected serial killer Oliver, a nemesis to his longtime interest, Lizzy.The narrative follows Oliver’s pull for Lizzy and his ongoing battle between a need to protect her and a desire to take her soul.

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Darkness a common theme in stories From page 19 “It’s not a straightforward psychopath killer. I wanted it to be quite emotional and complex,” she says.

Bateman will offer insight into her writingWednesday evening, Jan. 28, as part of the NorthVancouver City Library’s Local Author Series, which is intended

to showcase North Shore as well as Lower Mainland writers, and is a partnership between the library, the NorthVancouver City Library Friends of the Library, and the North ShoreWriters’ Association.

The other featured author at Wednesday’s event is Nancy Lee, author of Dead Girls and last year’s The Age.

Last week, Bateman received yet another feather in her cap, she was awarded second place in the VancouverWriters Fest 2014 Poetry & Short StoryWriting Contest for “The Corners Fade,” a work of short fiction.The story focuses on a woman injured in a snowboarding accident who wakes up to find she suffers

from quadriplegia.

“That stemmed from a horrible nightmare that I had a few years ago,” says Bateman.

She was awarded $350 and “The Corners Fade” was published on the festival’s website, writersfest.bc.ca/ writingcontest. First place in the short fiction category and a $500 prize went to

Kelowna’s Ashley Little for her work, “ScorpionTattoo.”

“It was a really nice boost,” says Bateman.

“I spend all day on my own, either at home or in the (City of NorthVancouver Library) study area, and it is very solitary. It’s lovely to get validation once in a while that what you’re doing is actually kind of working.You can write for weeks and months and you’re on your own, you don’t necessarily have a lot of feedback,” she adds.

Bateman is pleased to see her longheld passion finally coming to fruition, having always been a writer at heart, she says, going back to age seven.

“I’ve got the classic kind of (first) pancake manuscript still in a drawer, my firstever book that never saw the light of day, that I spent a few years on,” she says. “I call that my practice novel. I don’t think I’ll even go back to it.”

She’s continued to write short stories over the years in addition to working on her novel projects, and pursuing some copywriting work.

“I absolutely love it. For me it’s not really a discipline it’s something that I just have to do,” she says of writing.

Bateman didn’t set out to pen a trilogy for her first novel project.

“Some people plan a trilogy and they have it all mapped out. I am not that person,” she says.

She wrote Nondescript Rambunctious over the course of four years and initially thought that would be the end of it.

“I left it fairly open-ended.

I don’t like the happily-everafter endings,” she says.

Bateman was surprised by the response from readers, a number of whom expressed their hope for a sequel.

“One day I sat down and I was ready to start a second book and I thought, ‘I’m going to write something completely different’ and then started writing. . . . and it just all started coming out and then it became the sequel.Then I had an idea of how it would all end finally.”

Bateman is in the final throes of writing the third and final book, Straight Circles, and anticipates its release in 2016.

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The first book in her series focuses on Lizzy’s coming of age as she turns 13.This proves to be a further challenging period as it’s combined with the disappearance of her mother and ostracism by her father.

“That period in your life when you become a teenager, if there’s something else happening, if you’re rejected, or someone disappears or you’re left alone, it’s a great period of anxiety and darkness,” says Bateman.

When crafting the action of her thrillers, she says not much research is required, she only has to stay abreast of daily newspaper and television news headlines.

“It will tell you everything you need to know. Just heinous things happen the world over every day and it’s almost like we’ve become desensitized to them in a way. And what I find quite interesting is, well, they’re just the things that we hear about. A lot of killers, they almost purposefully leave clues behind. . . . they want that notoriety.They’re the ones that get discovered, whereas what’s underneath the surface?Where are all the people that don’t have that narcissism or that feeling of notoriety? All those people, we don’t hear about them . . . and I find that fascinating and horrific.”

Main character Oliver is one such person, operating under the radar, his actions going unnoticed — a compelling possibility she was first introduced to through that fateful experience back in Edinburgh.

While darkness is a common theme in Bateman’s work, it’s in stark contrast to her own personality, which is incredibly positive and upbeat. Readers are often surprised by her bubbly demeanor and conversely, those who know her are, at times, shocked by her subject matter.

“It works both ways. It’s just the imagination and the mind isn’t it? It’s just what comes out of your mind when you start writing.

Nothing really to do with your own personality or your own life,” she says.

Bateman asserts she is writing absolute fiction and will continue on in that vein with her next project, a historical novel set in 1970s Kenya that is already underway.

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Headlining the yearly list of Oscar snubs was David Oyelowo, in a highly competitive Best Actor category, and Jennifer Aniston, in a Best Actress lineup with some definite wiggle room.

The absence of Aniston’s name was a surprise because the Academy loves a transformation, and in Cake they get it twofold.

Onscreen, Aniston goes from red carpet-ready to dowdy

in order to play Claire, a pill-addicted, chronic-pain sufferer. And her career segues from hair messiah and rom-com star to bona fide actress in one fell swoop.

We feel her pain from the very first scene, when a cloyingly I’m-OK-you’reOK therapist (Felicity Huffman) asks members of a chronic-pain self-help group to voice their feelings about Nina (Anna Kendrick), a member who has committed suicide.

Claire feigns annoyance, but she’s more than a little obsessed, visiting the site where the suicide happened and even touring Nina’s home.That visit involves a run-in with the woman’s hunky husband Roy (Sam Worthington), grieving

father of a young son, and the two develop an unlikely, unhealthy relationship.

Claire sees hallucinations of Nina everywhere thanks to the truckloads of meds she pops on a daily basis.

Some of these prescriptions are legal but most — like the bottles she stashes behind picture frames — are not.

In desperation Claire even convinces her housekeeper Silvana (Adriana Barraza, excellent) to cross the border into Mexico to procure more painkillers.

Silvana is as longsuffering as her employer: Claire’s ill temper has alienated her husband (Chris Messina), her physical therapist (Mamie Gummer), her friends, and everyone else. She works long hours

for little money, drives Claire — who has to lie prone because of the pain — on all sorts of semi-legal jaunts, and has to sit mum while Claire makes questionable life choices. (Like screwing her handyman, in a scene cringe-worthy both for the cliché and the amount of discomfort that it causes.)

Silvana is Claire’s saviour, her only friend in the world, and the film excels when it focuses on the relationship between the women.

(Barraza’s name would’ve been on the Best Supporting list, if I had a golden wand.)

It’s easy to see why Claire would contemplate suicide herself, as her past is slowly revealed.We guess at the sad

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THEATRE

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very quickly. It’s in the course of two scenes in real time,” he explains. “I think our challenge is to keep the absurdity of the action to a little bit of a minimum and to make it really believable.”

Cavendish expects the audience will find much they can relate to in this story.

“I want them to be engaged by it and I want them to see themselves in some of it,” she says.

After its run at Kay Meek Centre, The Goodnight Bird will travel to the Centaur Theatre in Montreal for three weeks.

“It’s always wonderful

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THEATRE Review: Underneath the Lintel

Offbeat play revels in quirky approach ■ UnderneathThe Lintel

by Glen Berger, Pacific Theatre, until Jan. 31. For more information visit pacifictheatre.org.

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Imagine a range of storytellers from lanky, slowly drawling Stuart McLean on one end to lanky, hectic Nathan Schmidt on the other.

Frenzy — or joy — is where playwright Glen Berger attempts to take us in this RosebudTheatre production of Underneath the Lintel in which obsessivecompulsive disorder is taken to an extreme that is sometimes funny, often quirky and for those who, like director Paul F. Muir, think that we are “either running toward God or railing against Him,” possibly inspirational.

Schmidt, referred to in the play as “Librarian,” portrays a fussy, Dutch library worker from Hoofddorp whose job it is to check books back in.

Appalled at the audacity of a borrower who would return a book — Baedeker’sTravel Guide — 113 years overdue (and, worse, dumping it in the overnight bin even when the library was open), the Librarian is determined to find the culprit and collect what will be a sizeable fine.

The book, he discovers in the little pocket in the back (remember those?), was checked out by “A” but A took the book to London, as evidenced by a receipt issued by a Chinese laundry for the cleaning of a pair of trousers.

Off he goes to London where the Librarian discovers the trousers, too tattered to withstand laundering, have never been claimed. Back to the Baedeker’sTravel Guide: in

its pages is a 1912 tram ticket issued in Bonn, Germany.

You guessed it: He’s off again and in Sherlock Holmesian fashion, he discovers in the transit records for March 1912 an incident report on a tram regarding a “smelly, dirty Jew and a mangy dog named Sabrina.”

The journey continues — China, NewYork, Australia, England again, Jerusalem, sort of.The Librarian puts the pieces together and out pops the story of theWandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina) or, if not the houseplant, then Ahasuerus (A?), the mythologicalWandering Jew, forever doomed to travel the world. Leaping lizards have nothing on this Librarian’s ability to leap from one scrap of “evidence” to another.

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Aniston convincing

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Aniston is convincing enough that when I got up out of my seat I did so gingerly, forgetting that she was the one in terrific pain, and not me. Her performance is the essential ingredient that makes the film worth watching even as other elements prove halfbaked.

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duly stored “evidences” are waved in our faces as he pursues the miscreant.

Underneath the Lintel is rich in offbeat ideas, my favourite being the “stamper” that the Librarian, in a fit of bravado, steals from the library upon his “forced retirement” from the library.The stamper is of the old-fashioned kind with the revolving numbers that contains not only all the dates there ever were or will be (by simply revolving the gears) but also, as the Librarian points out, the birthdates of everyone in the theatre. And the dates of our death. Now there’s something to ponder: the stamper as The Grim Reaper.

Schmidt addresses all of us as if this were a one-night, slide-illustrated lecture by the Librarian — no doubt to raise funds for all

that travelling. Schmidt is indefatigable, and, as the Librarian closes in on the mystery, his agitation reaches dizzying heights.

What began as a strange, funny story about a strange, funny Librarian makes an abrupt turn and strives to go deep as the character comes to believe that if the Wandering Jew exists — and is still amongst us — then so does God and he is still amongst us. For believers, his discovery is a given; for non-believers, it’s just odd.

The play may not be the thing here but the performance, direction and production can’t be faulted.

I came close to envying the Librarian’s eventual, excited, optimistic, “I am here.”

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

Coats are investment pieces Dear Mattie: Which style of coat should I get this season?

Chilly in Cypress Dear Chilly: This is my favourite time of year. Almost everything is on sale, especially coats. Now is the time to splurge on one coat, the investment piece, and go cheap with a funky trendy piece. Coats are very much in fashion this season. Look for cosy, functional and classic shapes. The style should feature a sophisticated outer layer with trendy detailing, colour and texture.

I will start with the classics and get trendier as I go along.

Remember, any combination of styles and trends will work as there is such a variety of coats in fashion this season.

Classics include trench coats, peacoats, bomber jackets, parkas and thick-knit cardigans. These are functional coats with clean silhouettes. The colour can be traditional beige, black, brown or navy, but why stop there? These coats have been updated to have a bolder, modern look.

Modern lines create an exaggerated silhouette. The trench can be double breasted and belted to create a fit-and-flare look.

Parkas come in funky colours and prints in addition to solid black or white. Single-breasted wool coats sometimes have large shawl collars and might fall above the hip or sweep the floor. There is a lot of room to take a classic and give it your own style.

Modern looks include military style jackets and coats of varying lengths. Short moto jackets (a motorcycle jacket with flair) have shoulder detailing, lapels and zippers for an updated look. Capes have made a huge comeback, from heavy knits to lightweight wool, with patterns that range from Fair Isle to Navajo blanket.

Texture has also become trendy in coat styling. Shearling

coats are very popular, not to mention warm and cosy. Hairy coats (long faux alpaca) and faux lamb in non-traditional colours are trendy and luxurious. Leather is a great traditional fabric that can be both classic and modern at the same time, making a leather coat a great investment piece.

Unfortunately, textured coats are so in fashion that a plaincoloured wool coat will look a little boring this season.

The trendiest coats incorporate detailing, for example, fur trim in the hood and leather epaulets with a leather belt instead of the matching belt that the jacket came with. Toggles and buttons can be a unique addition. Asymmetrical zips and piping outlining the coat are fashion forward.

Colour is a fun way to update a coat without being too over the top. Bold colour makes a subtle statement compared to the other trends in coats this season. Ivory coats in any style always look fresh and modern. Wool evening coats in pastel shades complement the little black dress. Royal blue and cognac are variations of traditional colours. Plaids, tweeds and herringbone are not only seen in traditional wool jackets, but also in parkas and moto jackets.

A coat can be an investment piece. It can also be an expression of one’s personality. I think you should have at least two coats — one that reflects your personality and another that works with your lifestyle. There are so many trends that you can mix and match styles and still come up with something unique to you.

CARE ITEMS NEEDED The Cinderella Project is seeking donations of personal care supplies.

From Jan. 28 until Feb. 10 residents are invited to drop off unused and unexpired deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, soap, lotion, socks, razors, shaving cream and other personal care items at West Vancouver United Church, 2062 Esquimalt Ave. Started by West Vancouver resident Heather MacKenzie, the Cinderella Project is a charity that provides underprivileged high school graduates with formal attire to wear to their graduation festivities.

LIONS GATE QUILTERS GUILD meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s and St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, 2641 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. New members welcome. 604-926-7098 or lionsgatequiltersguild.com NORTH SHORE NEEDLE ARTS GUILD meets the second Thursday of the month and offers instruction in embroidery and beading at St. Martin’s Anglican Church hall in North Vancouver.

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THRIFTY CHIC The Thrift Shop at Mount Seymour United Church (1200 Parkgate Ave.) is open Thursdays, 11 a.m.8 p.m. Half price sale on selected goods every week. mtseymourunited.com

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Local ad in running for Super Bowl glory When Pigs Fly vying for one million dollar prize MARIA SPITALE-LEISK ContributingWriter

A West Vancouverraised actor — a top ten finalist in a $1-million Doritos’ Super Bowl ad competition — has already seen a pig fly, so he knows anything is possible.

Brendan Taylor stars in the When Pigs Fly ad entry for Doritos’ Crash the Super Bowl campaign.

He plays a Doritosmunching ranch hand who is being pestered for some chips by a smart-aleck neighbourhood kid.

After employing a little ingenuity, the young boy figures out a way to make a pig fly — by strapping a rocket to its back.

The comedic spot, shot on an Aldergrove farm in October, has garnered 200,000 online views, and is a contender for the top prize: $1-million US and a one-year contract to work on-site at Universal Pictures in Hollywood.

“To be totally honest, I do think our ad is really, really good. It has an element that appeals to all ages, and there is nothing negative about it,” Taylor told the News on Wednesday.

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Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was, of course, used to pull off the flying pig scene. Seasoned actor Taylor talked

about acting opposite an inanimate object.

“They gave us an eyeline to look at, and someone tied a fishing line to my hat, to make it fly off my head. It’s all about timing,” explains Taylor.

But he did perform his own snacking stunts.

“I eventually sort of, kind of, had to spit (the chips) aside, cause it was getting close to lunch and

I was getting full on them,” chuckles Taylor.

When Pigs Fly, which beat out more than 4,900 submissions, was created by twin brothers from Maple Ridge, Graham and Nelson Talbot.

After meeting Taylor through a mutual friend, the Talbots were so impressed by his comedic style they decided to cast him in another commercial

project.

However, Taylor admits he was a late bloomer in the acting arena. He got his first taste for performing at Sentinel secondary.

“I acted through most of (high school), but I was a pretty shy kid who didn’t think I could do it,” recalls Taylor.

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hired an agent, and been pursuing his craft pretty hard for the last four years.

When Taylor is not landing speaking roles in locally shot TV shows, he works in another area of the film industry — set decoration. Most of his handiwork can be seen in the North Van-shot sci-fi TV series Falling Skies.

Taylor, who also has some commercial credits, is typically cast as a young dad. And while the 32year-old has not stepped into that role in real life yet, he certainly knows his way around a change table.

During a callback for a Huggies commercial, Taylor was asked to change a diaper on cue. Lucky for him, a bewildered firsttime dad vibe was exactly what the casting directors were looking for.

On Super Bowl Sunday, Taylor will be glued to the screen at a party with some friends and family.

Should When Pigs Fly soar to victory, Taylor will claim some of the $1-million cheddar.

Asked what he would do with his winnings, Taylor has some prudent plans in mind.

“I wouldn’t do anything hugely drastic, other then set myself up to continue to do what I love — acting — and pay off some debts; maybe take a trip,” says Taylor.

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Built around a fascination with techno dance club tracks the lineup includes Macedonian synth wiz Devojka and Divine Fits’ drummer Sam Brown working in tandem with Boeckner, also known for his involvement with Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs and Divine Fits.

The band made its debut in May, 2014 at Canadian Music Week and has been working on new music ever since. They’ve released an EP and plan to have a full album out later this year. In the meantime Operators have been living on a steady diet of touring.

North Shore News: Checking out who else hails from Lake Cowichan, B.C. it turns out there’s been a couple of NHL hockey players.

Dan Boeckner: And Dawn Coe-Jones, PGA golfer.

North Shore News: And a stuntwoman.

Dan Boeckner: Who? North Shore News: Crystal Dalman. She’s been in The Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men among other things.

Dan Boeckner: No way.

I went to school with her.

I didn’t even know that. I knew she was in movies but I didn’t know what she’d done. That’s awesome.

North Shore News: Also Fritz Perls ended up there.

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Lake Cowichan and set up shop there. What was island life like for you. How did you get into music there?

Dan Boeckner: I got involved into music through my parents. My dad was tangentially involved in the psychedelic music scene in Vancouver because he went to university there. I think he wrote lyrics and roadied for a band called My Indole Ring who were like a heavy psych rock band so he had a really good taste in music. When I was a kid he would play The Beatles. He had pretty tripped out psychedelic records. I remember the first time I really heard insane guitar feedback stuff was a Big Brother and the Holding Company record with Janis Joplin. There’s some pretty intense skronk on that record. I have him to thank for that. Getting older I was really aware that I was pretty out of place in that town. I became friends with this guy named Emmett and I think I have him to thank for my career in music. In Grade 5 or 6

he gave me a cassette that he’d taped for me, one side was Master of Puppets by Metallica and the other side was Gwar’s Scum Dogs of the Universe and I wore that thing out. The Metallica record just blew my mind because up to that point I just knew what was on the radio. It was the first thing that I had that was really mine and then from there I just kind of expanded.

The daughter of the town librarian actually gave me a Pixies tape and that was another big brainbusting moment for me.

And then I started my own band and that was that.

That was the gateway drug: the Metallica tape.

North Shore News: What was the music scene like for your first band Atlas Strategic?

Dan Boeckner: It was difficult. I imagine Victoria as a greenhouse in the middle of a desert. Victoria always felt really isolated.

A lot of touring bands wouldn’t come and play there. We had our fair share

in the post-hardcore scene but more often than not it would get skipped on a tour — especially with American bands and that made everybody feel kind of isolated. I think just geographically, too, being on an island. Now that I’m older and I’ve toured I get it: you’re playing for $100 a night and paying $120 to put your band on a ferry boat. Maybe not a sound economic decision but at the time everybody in the scene felt like we were isolated.

We felt like Vancouver was the cool place, or Seattle, but I think that had a positive effect in that this weird mutated strain of defiance was there in a lot of Victoria acts like Frog Eyes. In all of the projects that Carey (Mercer’s) done there’s this sort of don’t give a f#?kness about what he’s throwing down — like Russian literary references and then speaking in the voice of somebody who’s a Canadian redneck, often in the same song. Victoria

nurtured those kinds of freaks.

The only problem with those scenes is you get into a cycle where you just end up playing to your friends every month and you always end up opening for your friends out of town. There’s only so many options and eventually you have to leave. There’s almost this schism after you leave — people maybe become resentful that certain people become successful and leave. Frog Eyes is a good example of all this stuff that Spencer (Krug’s) done. It’s like a velvet rut but I think it’s an incredibly fertile place to start. It’s a good place to grow your ideas.

North Shore News: Vancouver was the next big city. Why did you go all the way to Montreal? Why the move east?

Dan Boeckner: I’d already lived in Vancouver. I had two periods of my life early on after high school where I lived in Vancouver.

Vancouver in the late ’90s,

early 2000s was just awash in really bad drugs and bad living. I developed kind of a negative stigma towards Vancouver and I needed to leave there.

I’d gone to visit Montreal in the late ’90s just because a lot of my older friends were there, such as Chad Jones who was in this legendary Victoria band M Blanket and eventually went on to do solo records with Contellation. He’d gone to Montreal before anybody else and I always heard from him what an idyllic paradise it was for artists so I went out there on the bus one summer. I think I was there for six weeks total and then went back home but I loved it. Everybody else was moving to Montreal and it just seemed like the thing to do. The girl I was dating also lived in Montreal so that’s always a big motivator.

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CALENDAR From page 31 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.

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

AdamWoodall performs acoustic music everyWednesday, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

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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

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CAPILANO LIBRARY 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. 604-987-4471 x8175 nvdpl.ca Movie Night atYour Library: The HundredFoot Journey will be screened Monday, Jan. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com TheVinyl Cafe Tour: Stuart McLean will present his radio show which will feature two brand new Dave and Morley stories and live music Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m.

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• The expansion will create approximately 3,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs per year for at least 20 years of operation, the majority of which will be in BC. • $4.3 billion in tax revenues will be generated from construction and 20 years of operation.

• BC communities will accrue aggregate property tax increases of approximately $23.2 million per year, rising from $23 million to $46.2 million.

• During construction, workers will spend $382 million on accommodation, meals and personal items in BC communities.

• Every time a tanker docks at Westridge Marine Terminal, it brings $310,000 worth of value to the Metro Vancouver economy.

• The project will unlock access to world markets for our oil, resulting in substantial tax revenues for all Canadians.

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Operators planning to record full album From page 32 the energy?

Dan Boeckner: I’d never experienced anything like that. At that point in my life I’d travelled very little. I went to Japan on a school exchange. My town was twinned with a town in northern Japan (Ohtaki/Date City). I went and did that when I was really young. It’s pretty hilarious because the town in northern Japan was pretty much like a bizarre Japanese version of Cowichan Lake. Small, not close to anything. I was halfway across the world but except for the fact that everybody spoke Japanese and the food was different everything was essentially the same.

Other than that I’d only been to Seattle with a church youth group. I hadn’t done anything really.

I think going to what, at that point in my life, was the closest thing to Europe I’d ever been to. Going to the East Coast where the buildings were made out of brick and it was super hot in the summer and super cold in the winter.

There was a diverse immigrant population in Montreal with all different kinds of food and places to go. There were a lot of cultures I’d never come into contact with before.

It really set something off in my head and when I got back to the West Coast after the first visit it seemed very limiting. That was a big factor.

Also I felt like people were really doing things there. There were people my age who were running a venue or were in bands who were touring America and took their work really seriously and that appealed to me. And they seemed very welcoming too.

There wasn’t this sense of weird mid-size town competition.That made a big impression on me and that sort of bled into the multiple-project nature of all the bands that came out of that scene.

North Shore News: Even today references to you keep all your bands attached to your name:Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, Operators,

Boeckner met Spoon frontman Britt Daniel at a Handsome Furs show in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom. “I was a huge fan of Britt ever since high school,” he says. “I liked Britt’s music since the first seven-inch I heard. He invited me to play on stage with Spoon at Radio City Music Hall in New York. They covered ‘Modern World’ by Wolf Parade and I sang it and then we started talking about putting a band together and that was that.

Dan Boeckner. Is that an accurate statement?

Dan Boeckner: That’s an absolute accurate statement. Some people have one band and it goes through multiple changes and then eventually kind of peters out but I like having work you know. I like doing different projects. I don’t like having a lot of time off.

North Shore News: There’s different sensibilities at work in Divine Fits but everything seems to fit. How is it working with that lineup?

Dan Boeckner: It’s really easy because Britt’s had about 15 years experience writing songs in bands and I’ve had 10, 12. We both have the same impatient nature about writing songs where we just want the song to be a song immediately, so a lot of really brutal decisions get made quickly. Like, ‘Oh this part’s not working, this part is gone, this part doesn’t exist anymore, think of a new part. This vocal isn’t working forget about it, try something else.’ Obviously working with Sam — who’s in Operators as well — Sam is just an amazingly intuitive drummer.You can play him something and he will find the drum beat that is supposed to go with it even if you don’t know what that is.

North Shore News: Is that work process similar in all your bands?

Dan Boeckner: No, it varies from band to band.

Handsome Furs was essentially an autocracy. I programmed all the stuff

and wrote the lyrics and then we performed the songs on stage and they sort of developed but Handsome Furs was sort of an isolated writing process for me. Which at the time felt really good because Wolf Parade had become such a democracy or maybe more like a Marxist collective. I think that’s a better representation of Wolf Parade — it’s a Marxist collective where the songwriting process can occasionally be really slow, you know, where parts are analyzed, ripped up, tried again. We’d beat something into the ground until we decided it didn’t work anymore.

The good thing about the Wolf Parade process working with Spencer is he has a mathematical approach, or at least at the time he did, which was completely alien to the kind of language of music that I would be talking in. So we would just weld these things together like a weird Frankenstein monster of a song. The process for Wolf Parade was this weird kind of alchemy. Divine Fits I think is more of a traditional songwriting thing and Operators moves very quickly too. I will bring in like a basic plate and Dev and Sam will just rip it up and recombine it in to something cool.

North Shore News: How did you meet Devojka?

Dan Boeckner: I met her on tour. She was in a band that opened up for Handsome Furs. A couple of times she opened up for Handsome Furs in Macedonia with her

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North Shore News: There’s a video of you guys performing in the studio at KEXP in Seattle and she’s really working behind a battery of synths and stuff.

Dan Boeckner: Yea, she mans this table.We don’t use computers on stage, we’re not running tracks.

We’re not using Ableton or anything like that.We’re using all hardware and she has to man, at any given time, four different things: bass, drum parts, midrange stuff, transitions — it’s an incredibly complex set-up.

North Shore News: In the KEXP video you mention early Skinny Puppy as a reference for Operators’ sound. Good West Coast

connection there. On tracks like “Ancient,” trance music comes to mind as well where they continue to build in intensity.

Dan Boeckner: That’s been a big influence on me — modern electronic trance stuff like James Holden or Perc, sort of the melted sound, you know the deconstructed trance music.That’s really been a big influence, and early disco and definitely the early industrial stuff like Skinny Puppy for the programming.

There’s a weird alien sound to some of those early Skinny Puppy records like the track “Icebreaker.”

They are working in a more terrifying dark world than I think Operators wants to be in but just the sound palate alone and the disorienting nature of their music is something that is ingrained in me.

North Shore News: EP1 is out now — what’s next for Operators?

Dan Boeckner: We’re going to put out a single in the next couple of weeks.

Just a stand alone track that is one of my favourite songs that we wrote. I think it might be my favourite song that we wrote. It’s called “Ecstasy in My House.”

And then we’re going to be recording some more stuff and putting out a full length this year.

North Shore News: Have you been playing “Ecstasy” live?

Dan Boeckner: We have.

We’ve been on tour with Future Islands and we got to play a couple of shows at Terminal 5 in NewYork which is this great big venue.

Really amazing, I always love playing there. “Ecstasy” is pretty trance heavy and so to get to play that in front of that many people and watch them move around and respond to that song was really great. One of my favourite moments on this last tour.

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CALENDAR party of 15-30 ppl except Friday’s. Monday night Trivia.

AUSTRIAN Jagerhof Restaurant 71 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. | 604-980-4316 Old World Charm - Featuring Alpine Cuisine from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and South Tirol/Northern Italy with an extensive import beer selection.

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BISTRO Hugos, Artisanal Pizzas and Global Tapas www.eagleharbour.ca 5775 Marine Drive, W. Van | 604-281-2111 Join us in front of the fire or outside on our enclosed Nordic-style deck for great global comfort food.

We welcome everyone to try authentic dishes from our unique menu we’ve designed based on our love of travel and living abroad. Live music Thursday & Saturday evenings..

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Blue Eyed Marys www.blueeyedmarys.com 1735 Marine Drive, W.Vancouver | (604) 921-2583 Come enjoy our seasonal unpretentious menu and BC wine list. Lunch 11:30-2:00 Tuesday -Friday Dinner Tuesday-Saturday from 5:00 pm. Early bird special: 3 courses $29, Happy Hour Fridays 5:00-6:30

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Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub 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 craft-brews. Live music, satellite sports, pool table, darts & heated patio.

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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!

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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.

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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CHINESE Neighbourhood Noodle House www.neighbourhoodnoodlehouse.com 1352 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. | 604-9889885 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.

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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.

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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 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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

PUB The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub www.blackbearpub.com 1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van | 604.990.8880

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an artist’s business Saturday, Jan. 24 from 10 a.m. to noon Fee: $55/$45.

BuildYour Art Business —Website and Blog: Artist Sandrine Pelissier will hold a class on how to present artwork professionally online Saturday, Jan. 31 from 9 a.m. to noon Fee: $75/$60.

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

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

Whiplash will show Jan. 28 and Sunshine on Leith will show Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.Tickets: $11. Info: 604-988-6844 or nvartscouncil.ca/events/northshore-international-film-series.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com The Ultimate Traveller: A series of travel talks accompanied by photographs with world traveller Peter LangerWednesdays, 7-9 p.m.

Schedule: Jan. 28,A journey through Mongolia during the Naadam Festival; Feb. 4, An African safari in magical Kenya; and Feb. 11, Exploring Mexico City and surroundings.

Fee: $15 per session.

LYNNVALLEY LIBRARY 1277 LynnValley Rd., North Vancouver. 604-984-0286 x8144 nvdpl.ca SFU Philosopher’s Cafe: Everyone is welcome to join a discussion with moderator Laurent Dobuzinskis Tuesday, Jan. 27, 7-8:30 p.m.Topic: Is it time for a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)? Info: 778782-8000 or philosopherscafe. net.

NORTHVANCOUVER CITY LIBRARY 120West 14th St., North Vancouver. 604-998-3450 nvcl.ca AuthorVisit: Spend an evening with local authors Nancy Lee and Jackie BatemanWednesday, Jan. 28,

WESTVANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Sunday Movie Matinees: Oscar classic Casablanca will be screened Sunday, Jan. 25, 2-4:30 p.m.

Authors in our Community: Poet Naomi Waken will share her book of memoirs Some Sort of Life, a collection of poems and essays, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 7-8:30 p.m.

Artists Confidential: An informal chat with members of the cast of The Goodnight Bird, the current production at Kay Meek Theatre,Thursday, Feb. 5, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

SFU Philosopher’s Cafe: Everyone is welcome to join a discussion with moderator Randall MacKinnon Friday, Feb. 20 at 10:30 a.m.Topic: Is love the answer? If so, what are the questions? Info: 778-7828000 or philosopherscafe.net.

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

OfftheCuffTop10 Playlist From page 13 Jagjaguwar Records.

■ Ariana Grande, TheWeeknd “Love Me Harder” (Acoustic): https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=DVnz9iyolLA and (Official): https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=g5qU7p7yOY8.

■ Leonard Cohen Live in Dublin https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=nwCAP7YjzVw&lis t=PL969927BE943F8DA0.

Ladies And Gentlemen, Mr Leonard Cohen Donald Brittain 1965.

■ Molly Drake https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=nrmR_F5XgwQ: A SkinToo Few -The Days of Nick Drake (2000).

■ Yo La Tengo playing at the closing night for Easy Street Records’ Queen Anne store in Seattle Jan. 18, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=BH5I3gqkmV8.

■ Herbie Hancock “Oliloqui Valley” from the hard bop classic Empyrean Isles rereleased in January as part of Blue Note Vinyl Initiative: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=LJpFkgiPpEk. ■ Nostalgia 77 (aka Ben Lamdin) new album Monster “Rules”: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=B1dWCFgnmkQ. ■ Operators live at KEPX in Seattle August 4, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=byUffEZQs-c.

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Despite consistently topping sales charts, Honda felt the need to refresh the CR-V only three years after launching its fourth generation. Claimed to be the most significant midcycle refresh in its history, the 2015 CR-V has been improved in many areas to make it even more competitive with the likes of Toyota RAV4, Ford Escape and Nissan Rogue.

revised new styling and improved components throughout.

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Behind the Wheel The CR-V is now available in six trim levels, thanks to the new Touring model that has been added, and all six models feature

Design The 2015 CR-V has a fresh new look that makes it appear more upscale. More chrome, bolder trim designs and larger available wheels reinforce that impression.

Keeping the same basic architecture, the 2015 CRV has a more aggressive front grille that is mirrored conceptually at the rear.

Not wanting to change too much, Honda retained the high taillights and the basic body shape of the vehicle.

The interior doesn’t feature any surprises, but it does boast some nice new enhancements such as a configurable centre console, sliding sunvisors and rear console ventilation ducts.

The highlight of the new package is HondaLink, which allows a smart phone to be connected to the infotainment system (such as through the HDMI cable). Also, a new suite of Honda Sense safety and driver assistance features that are normally only available on higher-end cars See Engine page 42

A stick shift stickler comes clean Almost like clockwork, a similarly outdated technology, articles will appear regularly in various driving publications lamenting the fall of the manual transmission.

Standard? That’s a laugh — while most manufacturers don’t charge extra for the stick shift (yet), it’s a rarity on the order sheet, and a unicorn on the dealer lot.

That latter’s the big one too, in today’s instantgratification culture.

Having finally decided to make the leap for a new car, who wants to wait three months to order the stick shift version when the automatic transmission is right there, offering more flexibility for the street, better fuel economy and quicker performance?

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Though this change isn’t visible, the rear suspension has been redesigned to maximize rear seat room and cargo capacity.

Performance Changes made to the 2015 CRV were not just cosmetic in nature — Honda made some notable improvements in the engine compartment as well.

Honda rebranded its engine technology as Earth Dreams Technology.The new engine is more efficient and has more torque for better driveability all around.

The CR-V still comes equipped with a familiar 2.4-litre inline four-cylinder, but thanks to directinjection and a higher compression ratio, the torque has been increased by 11 per cent to 181 foot-pounds (horsepower remains at 185).

To aid efficiency, the engine is mated to a new continuously variable transmission. Overall, this setup is said to be 16 per cent more efficient than last year’s motor with its five-speed automatic transmission.

The updated suspension, along with the Motion Adaptive Electric Power Steering, contribute to

excellent driving behaviour that is truly pleasant to drive around town and on highways.The CRV’s dynamics are improved further as you move up the trim levels due to wider tires.

Driving the new CR-V feels more peppy thanks to the additional torque and it is also quicker off the line.The horsepower is staying the same but that is perfectly acceptable as this CR-V will still comfortably cruise on the highway, pass other cars when needed and return good fuel economy.

Environment The new interior of the CR-V is modern and functional, while looking more upscale because of the better textured materials.The front seats are supportive and adequately adjustable, and the rear seats provide plenty of room for adults.

Traditionally, the CR-V offers good outward visibility and the new model keeps that advantage.

The large windows and smartly placed pillars allow for an unobstructed view, making it safer and easier to park.

Along with upgrades to the trim and materials, there is a new central display. Standard on EX and above trim models, the seven-

inch touchscreen functions very much like a smart phone or tablet by allowing you to select functions simply by touching the screen.

As mentioned previously, the most interesting feature is HondaLink. Connecting a smart phone opens up features like Aha radio and utilizes the phone’s navigation app.This means that for the cost of a cable, you can have many of the same features found on the highest trim CR-V on the lower models.

All CR-Vs come with a fullcolour multi-information display (that is situated forward and therefore not touch-oriented).

The info provided can be customized using controls on the steering wheel. I did, however, find this dual-display setup a bit overwhelming to use.

As before, the CR-V has the versatility to accommodate a wide range of cargo.The low floor is aided by the available power tailgate to make loading and unloading easy.The easy folddown 60/40 split rear seatbacks fold nearly flat and provide even more cargo space if needed.

Features Ranging in price from $25,990 See Overall page 45

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Sometimes automatics are just better From page 41

So, label me a staunch defender of the manual transmission, give me a little H-pattern badge to stick on my lapel and a secret handshake modelled after a 1-2-3 shift and a left leg that gets itchy in the driver’s seat if it has nothing to do. However, I think it’s finally time for an admission. I like manual transmissions, but that makes me a crazy person.

Consider the Hellcat.

Ooh boy, that’s a hefty consideration indeed: 707 horsepower worth of big American bruiser (built in Brampton, eh?), with an elephant-sized engine and doomed back tires. It’s a really neat car, and I’ve driven both the Challenger and Charger versions, with both transmission options

in the two-door.

Here’s the thing about the eight-speed automatic box in the Hellcat — it just works better. Its shifts are imperceptibly quick, its cruising manners impeccable. Then, stomp the throttle on an onramp and the thing dumps four gears in a microsecond as the engine catapults you forward, roaring with primeval fury. This is great fun. Find yourself behind the wheel of one of these things and you’ll likely repeat the procedure until the RCMP show up and tell you to stop.

The six-speed manual, available only in the Challenger, has a ponderous, railway-switch feeling, and can’t be hurried.You ram it home into third and the whole car crabs sideways with the

torque. This too is endless fun — or at least endless fun until Officer Bummer shows up. Drat.

The thing is, the person who buys the automatic Hellcat will have just as good a time as the manual version, and will be faster at the dragstrip and burn less fuel driving to and from it. So why does the automatic have such trouble being perceived as a performance option?

Let’s take another example, Porsche’s PDK dual-clutch gearboxes. If the Hellcat’s are an eightspeed sledgehammer, then these things are a sevenspeed scalpel. There are those that will argue that the PDK is an automated manual, in that it has twin clutches and a more direct engagement, but if you don’t engage the flappy

paddles it’ll happily shift through the gears without input. That’s an auto, in my book.

On the track, a PDKequipped Porsche is simply telepathic in gear selection.

The product of countless hours of engineering, it always seems to be in the right gear, and should you wish to shift yourself, it’s far quicker than the clutch-and-stick dance to accomplish the same thing. Novice drivers can concentrate more on getting around the corners quicker, taking better lines, and generally dusting off compatriots in vehicles equipped with automatics.

You’d never call either gearbox a “slushbox,” so why then does such an epithet exist? I’ll give you another example: the conventional six-speed

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automatic gearbox in the Mazda3 and Mazda CX-5 is better than the standard option. It shifts quicker, it has a very direct engagement, and it gets better economy. If you buy the manual version, you’re being silly. Granted, you’re being my kind of silly, but still.

When the Hydramatic gearboxes first came out in the 1940s and 1950s, things weren’t so rosy. Gear selection was a leisurely affair, well-suited to the long land-liners of the time.

In Europe, where nobody had any money, a stick shift was required to stir up a small-displacement engine just to get anywhere, but in North America we cruised.

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the one an enthusiast would never choose. It’s time to stop the dissent.

A modern automatic transmission in something like a Corvette Z06 is simply the better option.

The fact that the GT3 only comes with a PDK gearbox just makes sense.

There’s no need for Subaru to offer their Forester XT with a six-speed, as they once did in the mid-2000s.

These days, automatic transmissions provide all the responsiveness, economy, and performance you could want.

But. There’s something appealing to the human brain about imperfection.

The reason the standard transmission holds such appeal in the enthusiast

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Overall design isn’t thrilling but CR-V still a great value

From page 42

to $35,790, the CR-V is available in six different trim levels.

Standard equipment includes Bluetooth, heated front seats, multi-angle rearview camera with guidelines, and heated exterior mirrors.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include keyless entry with pushbutton start, leather seating surfaces and steering wheel, dual-zone automatic climate control, front wiper de-icer, LED daytime running lights, blind spot monitoring, autodimming rearview mirror, rain-sensing wipers and a moonroof.

Fuel efficiency numbers (litres/100 kilometres) for the front-wheel drive LX are 8.6 city, 6.9 highway and 7.8 combined. All other models, which are all-wheel drive, return 9.1 city, 7.2 highway and 8.3 combined.

Thumbs up The peppy engine is also more efficient and torquey.

The HondaLink allows you to have many features off your smart phone.

Thumbs down There is very little to

complain about the CRV but its overall design is somewhat boring and it isn’t the sportiest compact SUV on the market.

The bottom line The 2015 Honda CRV fulfils every need and represents an outstanding value and features for the money.

Competitors Toyota RAV4 The RAV4 was among the first to show up on the compact SUV market back in 1997. It is also a marquee vehicle for Toyota and this latest generation maintains high standards. Not resting on its laurels,Toyota recently gave the RAV4 a makeover.

Prices start at $24,005 and there are three models to choose from, each available in FWD or AWD trim.

Ford Escape The Ford Escape has been a best seller in this segment for a few years now. Like most in this class, it received a major overhaul last year.The new package has great styling, good efficiency and nice technology.

See CR-V page 46

There will always be standard-bearers

From page 44

camp isn’t because it’s somehow “manly” to drive one, or even because having the skills to handle the stick shift is something to be bragged about. It’s not even that it gives you something to do.

At some point, autonomous cars are going to provide yet another layer between the car and its driver. The hope is that we will have fewer accidents because the computers will be in charge. Sensible, I suppose, but sad.

Driving a manual transmission requires something of the driver other than to simply sit there and be a passenger.

You have to pay a little more attention.You have to be a bit more involved in the process.

My prediction is that

it will decay from the ends, with high-dollar and cheap machines gradually losing the option until only affordable performance cars like the VW GTI or Subaru WRX still offer a stick. At that point, after even more development work concentrating on improving the transmission that most people buy, the automatic, you’ll have to be crazy to not take the car that’s sitting right there on the lot. The good kind of crazy, sure, but still crazy.

Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and automotive enthusiast. Contact him at mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com.

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MAZDA UNLIMITED is applicable only to 2015 models. All Mazda warranties remain subject to the terms, limitations and restrictions available at mazdaunlimited.ca. †0% APR purchase financing is available on all new 2014/2015 Mazda vehicles. Other terms available and vary by model. Based on a representative agreement using offered pricing of $24,990 for the 2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00) with a financed amount of $25,000, the cost of borrowing for a 48-month term is $0, monthly payment is $521, total finance obligation is $25,000. **Lease offers available on approved credit for new 2015 Mazda3 GX (D4XK65AA00)/2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00)/2015 Mazda6 GX (G4XL65AA00) with a lease APR of 1.49%/0.99%/0.49% and bi-weekly payments of $97/$151/$146 for 48 months, the total lease obligation is $10,089/$15,718/$15,147 including down payment of $0. PPSA and first monthly payment due at lease inception. 20,000 km lease allowance per year, if exceeded, additional 8¢/km applies. 24,000 km leases available. Offered leasing available to retail customers only. Taxes extra. *The starting from price of $16,690/$23,490/$24,790 for 2015 Mazda3 GX (D4XK65AA00)/ 2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00)/2015 Mazda6 GX (G4XL65AA00) includes a cash discount of $1,000/$1,500/$1,500. The selling price adjustment applies to the purchase and is deducted from the negotiated pre-tax price and cannot be combined with subsidized purchase financing or leasing rates. As shown, price for 2015 Mazda3 GT (D4TL65AA00)/2015 CX-5 GT (NXTL85AA00)/2015 Mazda6 GT (G4TL65AA00) is $27,790/$35,490/$34,090. All prices include freight & PDI of $1,695/$1,895 for Mazda3, Mazda6/CX-5. PPSA, licence, insurance, taxes, down payment and other dealer charges are extra and may be required at the time of purchase.

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