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Election sign vandal caught in act Teachable moment arises when candidate surprises pen wielder

JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

As moments on the political campaign trail go, it was awkward.

There was the candidate, Conservative John Weston, heading to catch the Langdale ferry back to West Vancouver in a car covered

in campaign logos. And there was a man, standing before one of Weston’s large roadside election signs with his arm outstretched, a pen in his hand.

“He had just drawn a moustache on the face,” said Weston.

“I did a U-turn and came right up behind him. He

VOTE 2015 turned around and there I was.”

The two men eyed each other. “There was a priceless moment,” said Weston. “He looked at me and said, ‘I am so embarrassed.’”

“He knew it was wrong,” Weston added. The man asked what he could do to make amends.

“I said, “You could start by cleaning up the sign,’” said Weston.

Later the man phoned and left a message, apologizing for what he’d done. “It was a great message. He confessed what he did was wrong,” said Weston. “He said he felt like a Grade 8 student caught in

the act.”

The 55-year-old man who defaced Weston’s sign – who only agreed to speak if his name was not used – told the North Shore News he isn’t affiliated with any political party, but was angry that day after watching Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a rerun of the economic debate. And having too many beers.

“I’m a minimum-wage guy,” he said. “My emotions

got the better of me.”

“People make bad decisions when they’ve had a couple of beers.”

“It was instant karma,” he said, adding he gives credit to Weston for not making a scene or calling the police.

Weston said he’s had a number of his signs vandalized during the election, a complaint that’s See Signs page 3

Four face charges connected to N. Van homicide JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

WHEELFUN Naomi Grigg and Chris Neima dance on wheels at the Institute Park tennis courts in LynnValley on Sunday, Sept. 27, as part of the annual Trolley Dances tour, presented by North Vancouver Community Arts Council.Ticket-holding guests were transported by trolley to four secret locations where they were treated to live performances that explored artistry and athleticism. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

Four men facing charges in connection with a kidnapping and homicide case in North Vancouver are expected to make an appearance in court this afternoon.

The four were arrested on a quiet street in Lynn Valley in the early hours of the morning Sept. 29, after police discovered a man’s body there. Police have yet to confirm the body was found inside a white Bentley or in another car that was the focus of investigation Tuesday.

Tianyi Zhang, 23, and Casey Hiscoe, 21, have both been charged with kidnapping a man named Peng Sun with the intent of holding him for ransom See All page 5

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Signs bolster name recognition From page 1 shared by North Vancouver Conservative candidate Andrew Saxton.

“It seems as though it’s worse this election than in others,” said Saxton.

“Incumbents are the bigger targets.”

North Vancouver resident David Kutcher said he got so mad about the sign vandalism he recently filed a complaint with the North Vancouver RCMP. Kutcher, who said he isn’t a member of any political party, said he’s seen Conservative signs vandalized in Lynn Valley and Upper Lonsdale neighbourhoods. In some cases, the signs have been spray-painted orange – a colour Kutcher thinks is suspicious, because of its association with the NDP. In others, “people have cut the names out of the Conservative party candidate,” he said.

But supporters of other parties say they’ve also had their signs targeted.

Blair Foulkes, a volunteer with Liberal candidate Terry Beech’s campaign in Burnaby North-Seymour, said this week he discovered large signs of all candidates except the Conservative had been trashed and tossed into the bushes along Mount Seymour Parkway. “All three of the other candidates’ signs had been completely destroyed,” he said, adding, “Someone had taken a knife and cut out the middle of the signs.”

Greg Harder, the chairman of Weston’s campaign sign committee, says he thinks at least some

THE BURNABY BOARD OF TRADE will host a special all-party, all-riding, all-candidates meet-and-greet Monday, Oct. 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Firefighters Banquet Hall, 6515 Bonsor Ave., Burnaby.

THE DOGWOOD INITIATIVE and the B.C. Sustainable Energy Association will host a town hall meeting of North Vancouver candidates on the topic of “Energy, Economics and the Environment: Our Future,” Monday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church, 1044 St. Georges Ave., North Vancouver. nvandebate.eventbrite.ca

“It seems as though it’s worse this election than in others,” said Conservative candidate Andrew Saxton about sign vandalism like this on Keith Road in North Vancouver. PHOTO KEVIN HILL of the sign vandalism is politically driven.

“These signs are constructed of eight different pieces of wood and 16 screws. They smash 'em to smithereens,” he said. “I’ll end up with eight pieces of wood lying on the ground.”

Election signs are important to bolster name recognition and show public support, he said.

“As fast as they pull them down, we’ll put them back up,” he said.

Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, the West Vancouver Liberal candidate, said she’s also been the target of some sign vandalism although she added, “It’s not been that bad.”

Election sign spray-painted on Kirkstone Road.

“It’s the first time I’ve had my face on a sign,” she said, adding that’s helpful

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when she’s out doorknocking.

“We’ve had a little bit of

felt pen…You’ve got to be a good sport about it.”

Richard Johnston, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia, said there’s been relatively little research on the role of signs in election campaigns.

Because election signs cost money and require a team of supporters to erect and maintain them, having signs up reinforces the message the candidate is credible, he said.

“I’ve always got the sense the point of signs is simply to implant the name in voters’ minds,” he said. Once voters are in the ballot box, “it helps to have seen the name a lot.”

Candidates told: election signs ‘not the Bowen way’ JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign.

Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind.”

Except, apparently, on Bowen Island, where locals have an unwritten rule that election signs are just not done.

Green Party candidate Ken Melamed, who is running in the West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast – Sea to Sky Country riding, admits he was somewhat surprised to find out about the island tradition.

Melamed, who was previously involved in municipal politics as mayor of Whistler, said he was speaking with some of his Bowen organizers this

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summer and mentioned that he’d get them a supply of lawn signs. That’s when he was told, “We don’t do signs.”

Alison Morse, a longtime municipal councillor on Bowen Island, said the decision to ditch election signs on the island was one candidates themselves came up with during the first municipal election on the island in 1999. “We all sat around and had a little bit of a chat,” she said.

“Somebody said, ‘Do we really want to clutter up the landscape with election signs?’”

Since then, the tradition of not putting up election signs – either on public or private property – has continued and spread to include provincial and federal elections. Instead,

candidates all put their signs up at one main intersection near to the ferry dock, said Morse.

The no-sign policy isn’t official or written down anywhere, she added. If anyone does put up an election sign, “usually there will be a phone call made by someone,” she said, reminding them of the nosign rule.

Most candidates don’t bother attempting that, she added. “Are you sending a message that you don’t care what the community’s traditions are?”

Most people on Bowen view election signs as both an eyesore and a “waste of money,” she said. “It’s not the Bowen way.”

A few people have questioned the unwritten policy. In a comment posted

online on the issue, island resident Chris Corrigan said the small group that decided there shouldn’t be signs is being “elitist and exclusionary” and giving an advantage to candidates who are already well-known in the community. “Without newcomers being able to get their name out there, you only know who you’ve heard about,” he wrote.

Melamed said the no-sign rule does create a challenge for lesser-known candidates.

“We’re a party in emergence,” he said. “We often don’t show up on the pundit panels in major media. It’s an additional challenge for a smaller party.”

The Greens have got around the issue by producing dashboard signs instead, said Melamed, which Bowen residents can

place on their car dashboard when heading to the ferry.

Most candidates also still produce brochures and do election advertisements, said Morse.

Dorothy Sitek, a spokeswoman for Elections Canada, said while municipalities can limit the size of signs and put restrictions on their placement, they can’t outright ban them.

“It’s part of the election process,” she said.

Residents also can’t be banned from putting election signs on the property where they live, she said.

Melamed said he’s never been told that signs are banned. But the message is clear to whomever risks putting them up. “Prepare to receive the displeasure of your neighbours.”

CAPILANO STUDENTS’ UNION will host an all-candidates forum for the Burnaby North-Seymour riding on Wednesday, Oct. 7 from noon to 1 p.m. at Capilano University, Cedar Lecture Theatre, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver.

NORTH VANCOUVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will host a Meet the Candidates event Wednesday, Oct. 7, 5-7 p.m., at North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St. Registration required.

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Former ski club coach caught with child porn 31-year-old N.Van man charged with possession and distribution

JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A man who has worked coaching children at a local ski club has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.

Marlowe Northcott, 31, was charged with the offences Aug. 1, after he allegedly downloaded child pornography over

a computer file-sharing network in July and made those files available for others to upload.

None of the charges have been proven in court.

According to information contained in a police search warrant application, authorities were alerted this summer after an investigator monitoring file-sharing networks for child pornography noted the Internet provider address of

seizing his computer.

According to information contained in the search warrant application, Northcott had a web page and was active on various publicly viewable social media accounts, describing himself on one of them as being “fond of cycling, skiing, biking and most everything else outdoorsy.

I have also been known to do clever things with my computer.”

Information online described Northcott’s involvement in running bike

someone who had downloaded 25 suspicious files.

Police investigators examined the files and determined the majority were child pornography, including depictions of sexual acts between children under 10 years old and between adults and prepubescent children.

Police got a court order to trace the IP address to an account held by Northcott at his home in North Vancouver.

On July 31, they executed a search warrant at his home,

‘All hell broke loose,’ says neighbour From page 1 between Sept. 27 and Sept.

29 in North Vancouver.

Police have yet to confirm the identity of the homicide victim found dead Tuesday.

Zhang, Hiscoe and two other men – 20-year-old Dylan Green and 18-yearold Jacob Gorelik – have also been charged with interfering with a dead body in connection to the case.

So far, none of the men has been charged with killing the man found dead at the scene Tuesday, although further charges are possible, said Sgt. Stephanie Ashton, media spokeswoman for the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.

Ashton said it’s also too soon to tell if police anticipate any other arrests in the case. “There are other people they were interested in speaking with in relation

to the incident,” she said.

Aston said police converged on the 900-block of Wellington Drive around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning in response to an active investigation involving multiple jurisdictions across the Lower Mainland.

Aston said police believe the killing was targeted.

Details about how the man died have not been released.

On Tuesday morning, police blocked off the 900-block of Wellington and removed at least two cars from the scene, including a white Bentley and a newer model Chevrolet Malibu.

Investigators appeared to be focusing both on the back seat and trunk of the Bentley, which was earlier covered in a tarp.

Zohreh Saddighi, who lives across the street, said she noticed the white

Bentley parked on the street in the two or three days before Tuesday’s incident. Saddighi said she noticed the vehicle because it was unusual for the neighbourhood.

Another couple who live on the street said at 3 a.m. “all hell broke loose,” with about 10 police cars with officers in riot gear and guns arriving on the street. “There was a lot of yelling,” said the woman, who declined to

give her name. The man said he later saw two men being handcuffed and led to police cruisers. The man added he had also recently noticed the Bentley as a new vehicle parked on the street.

The couple said detectives who spoke to them assured them the incident was not directly tied to their neighbourhood.

“They said it didn’t start here. It ended here,” said the woman.

camps for children and his coaching of kids aged six to 12 for the Mount Seymour Ski Club. Those accounts have now been taken down.

Contacted by the North Shore News, Rob Terry, president of the ski club, said he wasn’t aware of the charges until contacted by the newspaper. “Obviously we’re quite concerned about this whole thing.”

Northcott has been released on bail conditions that ban him from having

contact with anyone under age 16 or being around any recreation centre where children 16 or younger are likely to be. Northcott is also banned from accessing the Internet, except for work purposes, under his bail conditions.

Northcott’s defence lawyer did not return phone calls.

Northcott has not yet made a first appearance in court or entered a plea to the charges.

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f you noticed a lot of orange around the North Shore on Wednesday, it wasn’t because the leaves are changing.

Sept. 30 marked Orange Shirt Day, a tribute to survivors of residential schools.

Like many, it caught us off guard but the campaign is in its infancy. It started in Williams Lake in 2013, inspired by the bright orange shirt that was taken away from local activist Phyllis Webstad on her first day in residential school. Much like how the nowfamous Pink Shirt Day began with a single act of solidarity in defence of a boy who was bullied for wearing pink, we hope to see Orange Shirt Day catch on.

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It’s too late to take back the wrongs that were done but it’s not too late to correct our own ignorance and, in Webstad’s words, treat Sept. 30 as an “opportunity for First Nations, local governments, schools and communities to come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope for generations of children to come.”

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Columnist close, but off the mark on key issues Dear Editor: (Columnist) Keith Baldrey thinks the economy is key in this election (Economy Emerging As Defining Electoral Issue, Sept. 25), but the participants at the recent Democracy Café at the North Vancouver

City Library disagreed.

Attendees, from Grade 7 to frail seniors, didn’t even mention the economy.

Some of the most impassioned speeches of the morning were in favour of the NDP’s daycare policy, but the need for electoral reform was a close second.

The millennials, who were shocked to hear how much daycare costs, couldn’t really make it their primary concern but were sure that the winner-take-all electoral system was a major factor in their low turnout on election days. They didn’t have fairvote.ca on their resource

information pages, but were glad to know about it.

The environment and health care were other critical concerns. One can certainly argue that the environment, daycare and health care are economic issues, but I’m not sure the word was even mentioned.

Baldrey is probably not available for the next Democracy Café, which will have a different focus, but someone from the North Shore News should certainly look in on these fascinating exercises in public education.

We are fortunate to

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All of the staff I was in contact with remained cheerful, pleasant and professional, which is amazing given the level of

stress. Health-care workers want to give the best of care but are hampered on all sides.

It is time to update our health-care system. There has to be a fair way to get all available beds open and staffed.

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How about a walk on Marine . . . Stroll?

Some mornings before I open my eyes I pretend that when I do I’ll wake up in Paris on an atmospheric side street on the Left Bank, just a brief jog from the Jardin du Luxembourg.

I guess there’s some guy on the Left Bank imagining that he’ll wake up in an apartment on the Capilano River in North Vancouver because that’s the way we are.

But it’s hard not to love Paris, non?

The streets are teeming with life: vendors, buskers, sidewalk cafes, throngs of strollers, and in the summer, a number of instant beaches along the cobblestones of the Seine, complete with sand.

In contrast, it’s not so easy to love North Vancouver, eh? There are pockets of charm and street life — Lower Lonsdale, Deep Cove, Edgemont Village — but you can’t help get the feeling that it’s not built to linger.

Streets feel empty and inhospitable. Maybe that’s

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The North Side because they really want to be freeways when they grow up, or at least major arteries.

In Paris, it’s the journey that counts. Often, you find yourself waylaid at a café or patisserie and forget about the destination altogether. Where was I going? Do I care?

Where am I going with this? Well, recently I was introduced to another way to roll, or perhaps amble is a better word.

It’s called Happy Cities, and it’s the brainchild of Vancouver author Charles Montgomery, who believes that the way we design

buildings, neighbourhoods and cities has a profound effect on health and happiness. In fact, that’s a direct quote from the Happy City website.

It’s Montgomery’s contention, backed by research, that a happy city is a walkable city.

Right now, we have the opposite. We’ve talked ourselves into building North Vancouver for cars, not people, and so most of our interactions take place in these hermetically sealed chariots with horns.

And we’re more likely to get (and give) the finger than a friendly wave.

On the other, er, hand, the more people interact in an ambulatory way, the greater the level of trust, and ultimately, happiness.

So Happy City encourages a human-level streetscape where you’d like to interact instead of being grudgingly forced to do so.

Cue the cafes, fountains and park benches.

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But it’s not all megaprojects.

For example, Marten Sims, the senior design and engagement specialist (whatever that is) for Happy City, set up a rope swing on a tree in his front yard and now kids (and grown-ups in touch with their inner kid) stop and hang out, on, and by the swing.

It’s a human-scale diversion that provides a focal point for an otherwise boring street.

Paris is full of such things: fountains, historical plaques, spontaneous

gardens, rows of benches, public art, as well as sidewalk cafes.

In North Vancouver, these amenities are confined to isolated villages or effectively buried in the bowels of public parks. Parks are nice, but unless you’re running or walking a dog how often do you go there?

Take Marine Drive.

Please. It’s in the middle of a radical transformation. Condos are getting built, people are moving in, but the current vibe is that the district is messing up what used to be a great thoroughfare.

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No More Trained Seals in Ottawa Andrew Saxton voted on 567 separate occasions during Stephen Harper’s first majority government. Only once did he vote against his party – 99.824% of the time, he toed the party line.

And the one time the Conservative Member of Parliament for North Vancouver did step “out of line”, on September 26, 2012, he did so along with his boss Stephen Harper and nearly 70 other Conservatives. They were opposing a government-sponsored motion that would have re-opened the abortion debate.

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Millions of Canadians who elected good people to be their communities’ voice in Ottawa have watched those same people become Stephen Harper’s voice in their communities.

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The enforcement of party discipline in Parliament by all parties – including my own - has dramatically diminished the ability of MPs’ to be reliable, vibrant, two-way links between citizens and government.

A report released this month by Samara, a non-profit think-tank devoted to promoting democracy and citizen engagement, says many Canadians think Parliament is a discredited institution where MPs have no real power.

Their research suggests that only half of Canadians are satisfied with the way our democracy is working – a 20-point drop in less than 10 years.

The political process now repels more citizens than it attracts—particularly

C young Canadians.

The time to stop this is now: Election 2015.

Free votes will be the norm Justin Trudeau has pledged a series of reforms that represent a sweeping change to restore Canadians’ trust in our democracy.

One such reforms commits that a Liberal government will introduce measures to strengthen the role of MP’s and enable them to do their jobs – representing their communities in Parliament and holding government to account.

Free votes, where MPs can serve their constituents, will be the norm.

Liberal MP’s in a government led by Justin Trudeau will only be required to vote with the Cabinet on three different measures: those that implement the Liberal electoral platform; traditional confidence matters such as the Speech from the Throne and significant budgetary measures; and those matters that address the shared values embodied in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Canadians know that Ottawa is broken.

The Liberal Party has a plan to fix it.

A Liberal government will restore Parliament as a place where accountable people, with real mandates, do serious work on behalf of Canadians.

I would not be asking for your support only to go to Ottawa to perform as a trained seal. With the election of a Liberal government, those days will be over.

Jonathan Wilkinson is North Vancouver’s Liberal candidate in the upcoming Federal election. He is a Rhodes Scholar, former cleantech CEO and North Shore soccer coach.

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North Vancouver RCMP asks: what can we do better?

BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

No one likes being told how to do their job but the North Vancouver RCMP are willing to make an exception.

The detachment has launched an online survey aimed at finding out what North Vancouver residents think should be the constabulary’s top (or bottom) priorities.

“It guides our detachment and assists us in making decisions about

where and how to use resources to best serve the needs of our communities,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, said North Vancouver RCMP spokesman.

The survey, which is totally anonymous, asks residents to answer 13 brief questions about their perceptions of public safety and crime rates over the last three years, how well the detachment is doing and asks for suggestions on what it could be doing better.

The RCMP will then cross-reference any

information they receive with statistics compiled by the detachment’s two crime analysts. When the detachment last did the survey in 2012, they found a spike in complaints about property crimes and vagrancy coming in to Lower Lonsdale via the SeaBus. “From there, we struck up our LoLo foot patrol operation which runs about six months of the year where there’s designated patrols, strictly on foot, uniformed members and we’ve seen

a marked decrease in vagrancy and panhandling and increased relationships with businesses,” De Jong said.

Traffic enforcement and speeding are also frequently hot issues, he added.

The survey can be accessed at http:// fluidsurveys.com/s/NVRCMP-Survey/ or through the front page of the North Vancouver RCMP detachment website. It will remain online until Oct. 16.

The survey can be taken in English, French or Farsi.

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INQUIRING REPORTER After responding to a record number of calls this summer, North Shore Rescue is warning the current rate of response may not be sustainable long term without more stable funding.

The team currently has to fundraise about 65 per cent of it annual budget, but with NSR members collectively having donated 4,500 hours in rescue missions alone, and another 15,500 hours for training, there’s not much time left for fundraising.

We hit the streets to ask: Should the province provide more funding for NSR? Tell us what you think. Weigh in at nsnews.com.

-Maria Spitale-Leisk

Valerie Rochlow North Vancouver “Yes, I do. I feel because they don’t charge those who are rescued, they should be compensated. They work so hard.”

Should the province provide more funding for North Shore Rescue?

Jean Brown North Vancouver “I think those people that are irresponsible should pay them back.”

Terry Hiduk North Vancouver “Absolutely. The work they do is not only dangerous, it’s demanding.”

Muriel McNeilly North Vancouver “Yes, I think the government should pay more.

I think (NSR) do an excellent job, and they just give, give, give.”

Janice Hiduk North Vancouver “I do. These people are volunteers, they put in the time above their own commitments, their family, their employment.

They are unsung heroes.”

Donated jacket comes with valuable content Staff at a West Vancouver consignment store got more than they bargained for after discovering something valuable inside a donated jacket.

Now West Vancouver police are looking for the rightful owner of the jacket’s contents, described as having “substantial value.”

The tan-coloured, Diesel brand ladies' jacket was purchased by the store, along with a bundle of other clothing.

Investigators are withholding the description of the valuable property in the hopes that the rightful owner will come forward.

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VIEWPOINT

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Democracy deserves a discussion MURRAY MOLLARD Contributing writer

Other Voices

In the middle of this federal election the state of our democracy may be on your mind.

Perhaps you are like me: you want democracy not only to work but to work well.

After all, there’s a tangible impact on our lives about how well our democracy functions.

Is my daily commute smooth and enjoyable or an exercise in frustration?

How’s childcare working for your family?

Do I have confidence there will be meaningful job opportunities for me when I finish my post-secondary education?

Will I be able to afford to live in my community?

How are we as Canadians represented in world affairs and how do we as a country react to events in other parts of the world?

What’s going on with this crazy weather anyway?

The answers to these questions are all impacted in important ways by how our democracy works.

Living in a democracy, we could of course leave all these questions to those politicians whom we have elected to represent us in government. It is, after all, the job we have given them.

But leaving these questions to the politicians assumes two things. First, we actually voted in an election to choose them. And second, matters of important public policy are best left to elected representatives; once we’ve voted our democratic duty is done.

I say both these assumptions are false.

We know for a fact that voter turnout is on the decline to the point that in the 2011 federal election two out of every five eligible voters in Canada declined to vote.

North Shore voters do a little better on average in turning up to vote than do the rest of Canadians. The North Vancouver electoral district had 66.86 per cent voter turnout in 2011 as compared to 63.29 per

cent in West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast – Sea to Sky Country.

Statistics for younger voters are even more troubling. In 2011, only 38.8 per cent of Canadians aged 18-24 voted, with males in this age group voting less (36.9 per cent) than females (40.9 per cent).

Studies suggest young Canadians who are newcomers vote at a rate less than the young Canadians who were born in Canada, raising questions about how to connect new Canadians to public life.

In sum, we need more people to vote in order for our elected representatives to retain their legitimacy as “representing the people.”

But the second assumption (once we vote, our democratic duty is done) is also wrong.

The strength of our democracy is measured not only by how much we vote but how we engage in democratic life between votes. Indeed, the latter

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is just as important, if not more, than the former to ensuring a robust democratic society.

What can we do to address both of these points (low voter turnout and how we engage in democratic life between elections)? There are lots of possibilities.

Possibilities that we are exploring right now at our Democracy Café workshops.

Democracy Café is an opportunity for all North Shore residents (whether you are younger or older, new to Canada or have lived here all your life) to come together to discuss these and other important issues about how our democracy works.

The Democracy Café is happening at five locations on the North Shore until Oct. 8.

A healthy Canadian democracy depends on your participation. Please join us.

Murray Mollard is the executive director of the North Shore Community Resources Society. NSCR along with North Shore libraries and Parkgate Community Centre are hosting the Democracy Café.

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North Vancouver’s Tetsuro Shigematsu presents the world premiere of his theatre piece, Empire of the Son, at The Cultch Oct. 6-17.

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When Tetsuro Shigematsu’s father’s health began to falter, the result of a diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease a couple of years back, the artist turned to a medium they’d long had in common to bring them together.

Shigematsu, 44, has a background in radio,

having hosted CBC Radio’s The Roundup, and his father, Akira, was a former broadcaster as well, having worked for the BBC and Radio Canada International.

Shigematsu essentially conducted a series of radio interviews, asking his father a variety of questions about his life, inquiring about things like his childhood and why he came to Canada. Not only walking away with a better understanding of his family history, Shigematsu also gained greater insight into and acceptance of the state of his relationship with his father over the years.

“It began as a way for me to record his story for my kids and my nieces and nephews, but the more I began to share it – people of all ages, of all backgrounds

would tell me, ‘Oh my God, this is my story. The accent is different but this is 100 per cent my family. That was really gratifying to me that this story isn’t just my story.

In a sense it’s the story of so many Canadians,” he says.

Shigematsu, a former writer for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and columnist for The Huffington Post among other film, television and online credits, was compelled to use his interviews with his father as the basis for a new performance piece that he wrote and is starring in, entitled Empire of the Son, a Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre production, that’s being presented by The Cultch in its Vancity Culture Lab, Oct. 6-17.

Born in London,

England, Shigematsu describes the work of theatre, telling the personal story of his relationship with his father, who is from Japan, as a “kind of a hybrid,” sitting between traditional categories of academia, theatre and performance in its exploration of the intergenerational conflicts of one immigrant family.

“Separated by a generation but connected by blood, Tetsuro and his father speak different languages and possess different values, but what ultimately keeps them apart is their similarities,” according to The Cultch.

On the eve of the show’s world premiere, Shigematsu and his family are dealing with the unfortunate passing of Akira, on Sept. 18 at age 84. He’s grateful for the last

few weeks during which his father and mother, Yoshiko, were able to live under the same North Vancouver roof with him and his wife, Bahareh, and their two children, Mika, 12 and Taizo, 8, making a positive impact on all involved.

“I was hoping we’d have a little longer with him,” says Shigematsu.

While the timing of the play’s premiere is obviously less than ideal, at the same time, Shigematsu has been finding it beneficial in helping him grieve and process what’s happened.

It also speaks to the truths he set out to impart in the work. Something Shigematsu hopes audiences will appreciate is how real See Theatre page 22

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BRITANNIA MINE MUSEUM 1 Forbes Way, Britannia Beach. 1-800-896-4044 No Future Without Past: An exhibition with artworks by students and their instructors will run until Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE LOBBY GALLERY 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.

Photo Exhibit: Members of the North Shore Photographic Society will display a variety of work by different members in an ongoing rotating exhibit.

CITY ATRIUM GALLERY 141 West 14th St., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.604-9886844 nvartscouncil.ca Perceptually Uniform: Artist Mark Ollinger shares his sculptural work until Jan. 11.

CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Art Rental Show: Rent or

HOMEMADE MUSIC Singer/songwriter Adam Cohen performs at Centennial Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. as a fundraiser for the North Shore Disability Resource Centre. Cohen, son of iconic Canadian troubadour Leonard Cohen, recorded his latest album, We Go Home, on the island of Hydra in Greece and in Montreal, both locations he considers home. For more information on the concert and to order tickets visit centennialtheatre.com/production/adam-cohen/. PHOTO SUPPLIED buy artwork right off the gallery walls in a salon-style exhibition with over 400 pieces of original artwork created by over 100

local artists until Oct. 3.

Pushing Boundaries: A biennial exhibition highlighting emerging and professional First

Nations’ artists will run from Oct. 9 to Nov. 14. Opening reception: Thursday, Oct. 8, 7-9 p.m.

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

DISTRICT LIBRARY GALLERY 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. nvartscouncil.ca The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of paintings by Lorn Curry titled From Palate to Palette — The Contemporary Food Still Life until Dec. 1. Opening reception: Saturday, Oct. 3, 2-4 p.m.

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BRIGHT LIGHTS

30 Years at Seymour Art Gallery

by Cindy Goodman

Exhibiting artist Janet Wang

Emma and Isabelle Denton Representatives of the Seymour Art Gallery hosted an opening reception for their latest show, 30 Years, Sept. 20. The show highlights 30 of the thousands of artists who have shown their work at the gallery over the last three decades following its launch in 1985. The show will remain on display until Oct. 24. seymourartgallery.com

Artist Arnold Shives and Trevor Carolan

Artist Vjeko Sager and Carole Badgley

Eleanor Hannan with work Defy Death

Luke Parnell with The Violence of Words

Anthea Mallinson with Of Course I Would Jump Up and Play with Her

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ARTS

Exhibit explores impact of drug culture Gordon Smith Gallery hosts Phantoms in the Front Yard

Scene & Unseen Arts Encounter, Saturday, Oct. 3 and Phantoms in the Front Yard: Over the Counter Culture runs Oct. 3 to Dec. 18 at The Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

While most conversations about drugs with youth often occur in a clinical setting – a classroom or a doctor’s office – a North Vancouver art gallery is taking a more avant-garde approach.

Students will be exposed, through art, to the whole spectrum of drug use and its impact on society. Over the Counter Culture, an exhibit opening Saturday at The Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, aims to drive these drug discussions among youth.

Bronze sculptures, multimedia, oil and acrylic on canvas, drawings and

prints depicting each artist’s interpretation of drug culture will be on display. The featured artists belong to Vancouver-based figurative collective Phantoms in the Front Yard which came up with the drug exploration theme.

The artists’ collective explores and interprets the reality that drugs – whether legal, illegal, pharmaceutical, naturopathic, synthetic or cultivated – “have an ever more varied presence on our media, conversations, and society in general.”

“From their use and misuse to their purpose, promise and prominence, they are tied to still wider spectrum of societal issues,” reads the artists’ statement.

Over the Counter Culture makes reference to propaganda posters, contemporary advertising, fictional and technical literature, and historical print and painting styles, See Scene page 20

The 605 Collective will perform at the Gordon Smith Gallery’s Scene & Unseen Arts Encounter on Saturday, Oct. 3 as part of the opening for Phantoms in the Front Yard: Over the Counter Culture. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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Upcoming Meetings Following is a list of North Vancouver District public meetings for this month.

Please note that this list is subject to change and new agenda items/meetings may be added during the month.

Council Meetings: Monday, October 5, 7 pm Monday, October 26, 7 pm

Committee of the Whole:

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ARTS

Ceramic work process full of surprises Karl Stittgen stoneware vessels on view in new exhibit Song of the Earth: sculptured vessels by Karl Stittgen, on display until Oct. 18 at the Ferry Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Meet the artist: Friday, Oct. 2 and Saturday, Oct. 3, noon to 2 p.m.

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

Before Karl Stittgen starts talking about his latest ceramic work, he first recites a passage from Henry James’ 1893 short story The Middle Years.

“We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art,” he quotes.

That saying “is sort of my leitmotif,” Stittgen explains during a phone interview from his Pender Island home. Like many artists, he often has doubts about his own work, but says those doubts only serve to fuel more creation.

A well-known name in the jewelry business,

A well-known name in the jewelry business, Karl Stittgen now works in a much more pliable medium — clay.

Stittgen immigrated to Canada from Germany in 1952 and opened his own jewelry store in West Vancouver in 1954 (Stittgen Fine Jewelry on Bellevue Avenue carries on his tradition). Long retired from precious metals and gemstones, he now works

in a much more pliable medium — clay. Thirty of his sculptural hand-built stoneware vessels are on display at the Ferry Building Gallery until Oct. 18 as part of the Song of the Earth exhibit.

“I do not use the word pots,” Stittgen stresses,

leaving that term for potters who work on a wheel.

“Everything is vessel-based, meaning it has an opening, not necessarily that you stick some flowers in it.”

All his pieces are fired at a very high temperature, around 1,250 degrees Celsius. “High-firing,” as

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the process is called, vitrifies or waterproofs the clay.

“And it does wonderful things to the glazes,” Stittgen adds, explaining the end result is always a bit of a surprise.

Much of his ceramic work exemplifies the wabi sabi esthetic, which, in

Japanese art, celebrates the beauty of imperfection.

“We have no control over it,” Stittgen says of what happens inside the kiln, but adds with a chuckle, “You can also have an accident and nothing works.”

Stittgen has a studio inside his Gulf Island house, which he designed himself based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles of organic architecture.

Named Halcyon Days, he lives there with his wife Nora, who is also an artist.

The untamed landscape surrounding their island oasis is an endless source of artistic inspiration. Tree bark, lichen, seafoam and other elements of nature are reflected in the shape and texture of his pieces. Rather than put a bouquet of pretty flowers inside one of his vessels, he’s more likely to display a few dried branches hanging with moss — if anything at all.

“That sort of goes together with the roughness of the texture of the pottery.”

Stittgen didn’t start working in clay until about 10 years ago. After four decades making and designing his signature organic and architecturally inspired jewelry, and with a number of retail stores under his name, he retired from the business in 1995, See Stittgen page 20

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CALENDAR From page 13 Song of the Earth: Sculptured ceramics by jewelry designer and artist Karl H. Stittgen will be on display until Oct. 18. Meet the artist: Oct. 2 and 3, noon-2 p.m.

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.

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TUNESMITH ON TOUR Tobias Jesso Jr. performs tracks from his critically-acclaimed debut album, Goon, at the Rickshaw Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 3. Born and raised in North Vancouver the Argyle grad’s music has been compared to the likes of old school tunesmiths such as Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson. The new Sia album reportedly includes a song Jesso co-wrote with Adele. For more information visit rickshawtheatre.com. PHOTO SUPPLIED JAMES MARSHALL

Scene & Unseen takes over five floors of gallery

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“to explore the evolving complexities circling the perceptions and uses of drugs in cultures past and present.”

This latest installation and its overarching theme is a good fit for a gallery that focuses on student engagement, and a safe space for teachers and students to open up a dialogue to have those “difficult” conversations about drugs, says Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art executive director Astrid Heyerdahl.

Featured artist Michael Abraham has sculpted a head that spins on top and shows different facial expressions and mental states, as his interpretation of the drug

culture theme.

Another artist, Jeremiah Birnbaum, a police officer, brings a different perspective about the impact of drugs on society, through his expressive charcoal drawings.

Abraham, in fact, was the artist that came up with the Over the Counter Culture theme.

“He feels as though it’s really relevant right now in our community,” says Heyerdahl. “We have heard, unfortunately, about a lot of fentanyl overdoses.

He wanted to address in a different way than the medical community.”

Coinciding with the launch of Over the Counter Culture is a special interactive evening of myriad

art mediums from ballet to poetry to opera enlivening all five floors of the Gordon Smith Gallery, described by Heyerdahl as “the absolute biggest thing we have done to date.”

The inspiration for the Scene & Unseen Arts Encounter started with the cut-out style architecture of the building, explains Heyerdahl, who envisioned ballerinas and other dancers twirling on every floor.

“It’s about transforming this entire building five floors into this arts encounter,” says Heyerdahl, who promises there are some surprises in store, perhaps in the gallery elevator.

The arts interaction for the public, from

origami making to singing workshops, is about taking art to the next level, says Heyerdahl.

Scene & Unseen features live performances and art by 605 Collective, Rup Sidhu, Woodwards Community Singers, Coastal City Ballet, Aeriosa Dance Society and Michael Fraser.

The evening will also mark opera singer Emily Davidson’s return to the ‘stage.’ The 25-year-old, who last sang opera when she was in high school, has been concentrating on her career as a special education aid and custodian with the North Vancouver school district.

Fate is affording Davidson the opportunity

to sing her heart out on Saturday. The school board office where Davidson works is in the same building that houses the Gordon Smith Gallery - that’s how she connected with Heyerdahl.

“I mentioned one day that I sing and then brought it up to her and she asked if I wouldn’t mind singing at this event,” explains Davidson.

While nervous, Davidson said she is excited for the evening during which she will sing three “passionate” songs a cappella: Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt’s “The Highwayman”; “Habanera,” one of the most famous arias from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera Carmen, and “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.”

built his current house, and began looking for a new medium to express his ideas.

He had long appreciated and collected ceramics, so clay was a natural choice.

Back in 1954, he opened a craft store called Creative Hands on Clyde Avenue in West Vancouver and got to know a number of wellknown local ceramic artists.

He also had the chance to visit some Bauhaus potters living in California.

“So naturally, when I had the time, I got myself some clay,” he says.

When he first dug his fingers into the earthy material, he felt like a child with a lump of Play-Doh. “It’s a wonderful material to express what’s in you,” he says. “If you have any sort of ideas in you, you take that clay and right away you can form it.”

The sculpting process was refreshingly quick compared to jewelrymaking.

“To make a piece of jewelry takes days, and that is what I wanted to get away from,” he says.

Though the two art forms are quite dissimilar, Stittgen maintains the same philosophy he always has when it comes to selling his work to clients. “It has to speak to you,” he says. “If it speaks to you, you should have it.”

He signs off with a quote he developed himself and has used since his jewelry days: “If you feel as well as see my work, we share a common thought. If my work speaks to you then we embrace the essence of things.”

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Benefit Concert: The North Shore Disability Resource Centre will present Adam Cohen Saturday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. The Jeff Standfield Band will open. Tickets: $35.

A Play, a Pie and a Pint: Burstin’ with Broadway will perform Wednesday, Oct. 7 at noon. The performance will be followed by a meat or veggie pie and a beverage.

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Piano Extravaganza: Lions Gate Sinfonia will perform with guest pianist Ian Parker Saturday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $39/$35/$18/$12.

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Masterclass: Piano and violin students will perform their repertoire that they will be playing with the Lions Gate Sinfonia on Oct. 10 and be critiqued by concert pianist Ian Parker Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30 p.m. Admission: $15.

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LIVE AND DIRECT Roxanne Potvin is part of an all-star cast of musicians paying tribute to the Rolling Stones’ album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! at Kay Meek Centre tonight and Saturday night at 8 p.m. Led by guitarist Steve Dawson and the Black Hen House Band, the concerts are a co-production with Capilano University as part of this year’s Global Roots series. Both evenings will feature the album in its entirety plus more Stones classics performed by Barney Bentall, Dustin Bentall, Shawn Hall (of The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer), Rich Hope, Craig Northey (of The Odds), Ndidi Onukwulu and other surprise guests. Tonight’s show is sold out but there are still tickets available for the Saturday night concert. For more information visit capilanou.ca/blueshorefinancialcentre/15-Get-Yer-Ya-Ya-s-Out!/. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Theatre production presents a cinematic experience

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everything they’re seeing is.

Empire of the Son is not just another writer-performer doing an autobiographical play, with action based on true stories, etc., he says. Rather, “we made a commitment early on that as far as philosophically, esthetically and as humanly possible we were going to keep this play - it’s actually half way between theatre and performance art - we were trying to keep this piece as real to life and as truthful as possible,” he says.

As a result, the work is continuing to evolve. “This show is like an EKG reading and life is the heartbeat and

that’s how intimately the two are combined. Even now, we’re not sure, the final shape of the show, what it will be,” he says.

Empire of the Son is the first theatrical undertaking Shigematsu has undertaken of this magnitude - seeing him serve as both writer and lead performer - in 20 years.

Back then, he created a work entitled Rising Son, also about his relationship with his father.

“As a result of that I got picked up by This Hour Has 22 Minutes and from there I went on to radio and so forth. And so I kind of got plucked from theatre and into mainstream broadcasting just as a result

of doing this tiny, oneperson show that almost no one saw,” he says.

While revisiting the topic, Empire of the Son is completely different in terms of its material as well as its unique form, intended to deepen the experience of listening.

“One of the things that makes our show unique is that we’re doing a form of live cinema. . . . We are making a movie and screening it at the same time,” says Shigematsu.

To do so, they’re employing the use of miniatures.

“The miniatures are interesting because they’re simultaneously very small,

because they’re just toys, but when they’re projected with our macro lens they’re writ larger than life. So you have this sort of cinematic experience of watching these beautiful images unfold on screen while at the same time listening to a story. We find that the combination together really has the power to transport audiences not only around the world or back in time but deeply into their own memories,” he says.

Shigematsu is grateful for the support of his collaborators on the project, including Donna Yamamoto, artistic producer, Richard Wolfe, director/original concept

dramaturgy, and Heidi Taylor, dramaturge, all of whom have played a role in making Empire of the Son a reality.

“Being able to perform as part of The Cultch’s season, for me it’s like going to the Olympics. It’s just unbelievable,” says Shigematsu.

Out of 12 performances, nine are already sold out.

“That’s how strong the community has responded.

A perennial question for a lot of artistic directors and producers is, ‘How do we attract a more diverse audience? Which is code for, ‘How do we get the Asians into the theatre?’

We’ve always maintained the

answer is simple: people will come when they recognize themselves on stage,” says Shigematsu.

That’s not to say the work doesn’t have a wider appeal across cultural lines.

For example, Shigematsu was encouraged when he heard from a young Italian woman, who, after watching an excerpt from the play, said she saw a lot of her own father in his.

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SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Classical Concert Series: Husband and wife piano duo Scott Meek and Clare Yuan will perform a selection of Slavonic and Hungarian dance music Thursday, Oct. 15, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $20/$15.

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-3200 deepcovestage.com Are You Sure?: A mixture of comedy and suspense Oct. 9, 10, 14-17 and 21-24 at 8 p.m.

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KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Miss Caledonia: A onewoman show that looks at life in the ’50s in rural Caledonia Oct. 6-9 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $50/$39/$25.

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Interviews with father also included in PhD project From page 22

talk about multiculturalism and we pay lip service to these issues of diversity but the fact is when you look at Canadian culture we’re not all represented.

The absence of people of colour is something that I think we’re very aware of.

And I think anyone who is interested in not reproducing social inequality, you have to be mindful of marginalized groups. You can’t help but take note of a lack of gender diversity or other forms of exclusionary practices,” he says.

That interest in showcasing a variety of cultural experiences is among the reasons he’s involved with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, currently serving as artist in residence.

“Most other theatre companies are doing it for perhaps the most noble of reasons, which is they’re doing it for art’s sake.

They’re trying to make a difference in the world by creating something meaningful and expressing that truth beautifully. But the difference for Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre is that in addition to the mission of creating art is that we’re also interested in social justice,” he says.

The audio interviews Shigematsu conducted with his father not only helped inform Empire of the Son, but they’re part of the PhD he’s currently working on as a Vanier scholar at the University of British Columbia, where he also teaches creative writing.

The play is a component

of his PhD, focused on education, creative writing and social justice, which he hopes to complete in about a year.

Shigematsu recalls the conversation he had with Akira, asking for permission to share his stories with the general public. He was overwhelmed by his father’s response when he asked him why he was so willing to give the go-ahead. Akira said it was, “‘because if you share my life with other people then maybe my life will have had some meaning,’” recalls Shigematsu.

“When he told me that I realized that maybe it wasn’t about him giving me the meaning of life but maybe this whole journey was about giving him something that he needed. That just left me speechless.”

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Amanda Spreeuw is hooked on crochet.

“I’ve been doing it since I was 12,” says the Lynn Valley resident, now 29.

Spreeuw makes infinity scarves, boot cuffs, ear warmers and a host of baby items: blankets, booties and hats. A selection of her crochet work is on display and available for sale until January in the Gift Box at CityScape Community Art Space, located at 335 Lonsdale Ave. “It’s perfect because it’s right over Christmas and some of my stuff makes great Christmas presents,” she says.

For the uninitiated, crochet is a handicraft in which a single needle with a small hook at the end is used to draw yarn through intertwined loops.

It differs from knitting in its implements (knitting typically requires the use of two pointed needles) and the type of stitches used.

Though Spreeuw has been meaning to learn how to knit, she harbours a deep affection for the hookedneedle craft her mother taught her as a child.

“I love crochet because you can do really lacy patterns that are a lot harder to achieve with knitting,” she says.

Crocheting is also faster than knitting, so for someone like Spreeuw who enjoys the satisfaction of finishing lots of projects, the speed factor is a draw.

A scarf made from a bulky wool, for example, might take her two to three hours to complete, while a scarf made with a fine wool that follows an intricate pattern could take up to 10 hours.

“I like that I can do it and still interact with people. It’s a lot of muscle memory,” she says, explaining she often works on her crochet projects while watching hockey on TV. Needlework crafts, such as crochet and knitting, are experiencing a revival, Spreeuw says, particularly among younger people inspired by Pinterest and the do-it-yourself movement “I have some friends that like to knit, so we will all get together and have a ‘stitch ’n bitch’ night with some wine and some yarn and it’s good fun.”

Plus, nothing compares to wearing a garment you created with your own two hands.

“There’s a really great sense of pride about wearing something that you’ve made,” Spreeuw says.

For beginners interested in trying crochet, she recommends taking a trip to the local yarn store to learn about all the different fibres available. A great starter project is a “granny square,” which is the basic building block of many larger crochet projects.

In addition to the Gift Box, Spreeuw’s handiwork is available at etsy.com/ca/ shop/Hookedoncrochets.

Lynn Valley resident Amanda Spreeuw models a few of her crochet creations including boot cuffs, a scarf and a shawl. A selection of her crochet work is currently on display in the Gift Box at CityScape Community Art Space in Lower Lonsdale. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

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Space is scary. Pretty much everything can go wrong when you leave terra firma, as history and a whole galaxy of set-inthe-cosmos films can tell you.

The government might have jettisoned manned space travel but clearly the public wants more of it, much more, indicated by a recent spate of high-end space movies. (In fact, didn’t we just see Matt Damon marooned on another planet in another movie, in Interstellar?)

Our appetite for more of that big, dark expanse of deep space should mean that it’s easy, then, to craft a film containing some degree of tension when you set it there. By all means throw in a line or two of dialogue to let the audience relax See Mars page 38

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Musician fights for the right to sing in Iran Rare public concert by women the subject of new documentary No Land’s Song.

(Iran 2014) Directed by Ayat Najafi. For more information visit viff.org.

JOHN GOODMAN jgoodman@nsnews.com

Early on in the new Iranian documentary No Land’s Song musician Sara Najafi, dressed in her best Persepolis black, enters an elevator in the Ministry of Culture in Tehran and slips a hidden microphone into her clothing as she makes her way up to the fifth floor. The next thing we see is a black screen and a paternalistic male voice explaining to her why it is impossible to present a public concert featuring only women singers.

“Forget it! You know they’ll never allow that . . .

Let me be frank: The reason for the regime’s hard line on your project is the regime has

a fundamental problem with female soloists: They don’t want women in music at all!”

– Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance representative Women musicians performing in public has always been a contentious issue in Iran but prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution it was not an uncommon practice. After that date women were restricted to teaching music and performing only in front of female audiences. Singers, such as Parisa who has performed several times in North Vancouver, can tour the world but inside Iran their activity is severely restricted.

Najafi questioned this practice and with her brother Ayat Najafi has made a documentary about their attempt to produce a public concert featuring See Musicians page 36

No Land’s Song is screening several times this week at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

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The Demolisher subverts horror genre Revenge movie goes for ‘a restrained’ approach The Demolisher.

Directed by Gabriel Carrer. Cast Ry Barrett, Tianna Nori, Jessica Vano. For more information visit viff.org.

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Worse than your college roommate, is living with revenge.

The Demolisher is a revenge movie about the toll vengeance takes on self, soul and sanity.

Often still and frequently silent, Gabriel Carrer’s new flick is a subversion of the roaring rampage that typifies cinematic retribution.

The movie starts and something bad happens to The Demolisher’s woman.

That set-up is a staple of revenge movies ranging from Desperado to Death

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the avenger doesn’t leave the woman’s bedside/funeral to step into a training montage.

“We’ve seen that before a million times,” Carrer explains.

The director says he shot a more conventional opening but opted to chop it in favour of a minimalistic approach.

“It does hurt in some ways for people who are used to formulaic, structured films,” he allows.

Instead of revving up for payback, the audience

wallows in the attack’s aftermath with Samantha (Tianna Nori) and her demolishing husband, Bruce (Ry Barrett). It’s a life of pain pills, hospital visits, nightmares and anger, lots of anger.

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His costume is creepy motocross equipment and the type of helmet prison guards slap on when it’s time to quell a riot.

“When Bruce puts on his suit that’s his way of transforming himself,” Carrer explains.

The Demolisher’s “suit of armour” is a layer of protection but the motocross gear is also the uniform of thrillseekers, the director points out.

It took seven months and a parade of security checks to get his hands on the helmet, Carrer reports. The effect is worth the wait.

Without the helmet, Bruce is tormented. With it, he’s a tormentor. He becomes a device that gives beatings; no different from The Shape that donned a white William Shatner mask and stalked Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween.

Speaking to Carrer, the director gets giddy talking about ‘70s horror flicks like Halloween and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

For The Demolisher, Carrer says he wanted to make a movie with “horror film sensibilities” that wasn’t necessarily a horror movie.

“It just evolved into a dream, almost like a nightmare.”

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Carrer stumbled on the composer/producer when he was in his car listening to a remix of a song by The Prodigy.

“I heard the remix and I’m like, who did this song? This is amazing!” he recalls.

Carrer never wrote a full script, but he sent 48 pages detailing the movie’s arc to Nicholls, who turned in an original, synth-based score.

“Sound was really big for this film because of the lack of dialogue and the stillness that’s in it,” Carrer says. “This was a very still movie. . . . There’s some scenes where (the actors) were told not to blink.”

Underlining that stillness is a percussive score that’s a bit reminiscent of the music from The Terminator, brimming with malice but not much melody.

While he was making the movie, Carrer says he usually had a movie playing nearby, always on mute with just the score playing. He hopes movie fans will enjoy his movie the same way.

“You could put this movie on in the background with a really cool score playing,” he says. “If you’re on your computer doing work, just put on The Demolisher.”

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only women soloists.

Currently studying in Los Angeles, Najafi talked to the North Shore News about the making of No Land’s Song prior to its screenings at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

North Shore News: The Iranian regime makes a distinction between women singing solo and in groups.

Why is that?

Sara Najafi: I don’t know.

That was my question too. What is the difference between solo and singing in groups. Nobody answered us. Everybody said, ‘That’s a problem.’ It was a rule of Iran and a rule of Islam.

So I said, ‘Show me in the Koran, where is it in the Koran?’ Nobody could show me. In my opinion I think they are afraid of women.

They don’t want powerful women. They think if a

woman sings on stage after that they will want to take off the hijab. And after that they will want to be president.

The (regime) wants to control everything.

North Shore News: At what age did you first realize there were different rules for men and women in Iran?

Sara Najafi: I knew women couldn’t sing on the stage from when I was studying in music school.

At that time we had other problems. We weren’t allowed to carry our own instruments on the streets.

My instrument was a piano but my best friend played the violin and she couldn’t bring her violin on the street. The police could have arrested her because of that. When I started composing I wanted to have a woman singer.

I knew that women can’t sing on the stage but I

wanted to fight (to change that). I said to myself you have to do it. I went to the Minister of Culture because everything to do with music needs permission in Iran. For example, if you want to release a CD or hold a concert you need permission. I went to the Minister of Culture for permission and they said ‘no you can’t.’ You see how hard it was in the movie.

North Shore News: Several French singers and musicians join you and your Iranian colleagues on stage in Tehran’s Roudaki Hall.

Considering the pressures everybody was under the actual concert seems to have been exquisitely planned and executed. How did the French musicians get involved in the project?

Sara Najafi: When we first started the project we were sure we wouldn’t get permission from the

minister. We decided we needed some foreign musicians because they would have to give them permission. My brother went to France and found a music producer and we also found Emel Mathlouthi on YouTube. (The Tunisian Arab Spring singer) lives in France now and her ideas are very close to mine.

North Shore News: How did people learn about the concert?

Sara Najafi: They didn’t allow us to sell tickets but we had a page on Facebook and a poster. I think our audience was over 400 and (the authorities) couldn’t do anything as the French ambassador came to the concert.

North Shore News: Has your film been shown in Iran?

Sara Najafi: Not yet but it’s my hope.

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ELECTRIC OWL 928 Main St., Vancouver.

604-558-0928 Cap Global Roots: Songwriter Greg Brown will perform folk style music Saturday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. Admission: $33/$30.

Tickets: capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/.

HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Live Music: Jana Seale (pop) will perform Saturday, Oct. 3, 7-9 p.m.

Open Mic Jam every Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.

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

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

THE VILLAGE TAPHOUSE The Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver. 604-9228882. Adam Woodall will perform acoustic music every Thursday, 8-11 p.m.

WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North

CULTURE DAYS Curator Astrid Heyerdahl and guest curator Hilary Letwin speak with painter Robert Young during Culture Days on Sept. 27 at the Gordon Smith Gallery. See more photos at nsnews.com. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD Vancouver.

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

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

p.m. Admission: $28/$254.

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Other events

Mountain Film Festival will present a screening of Reel Rock 10 Friday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $17/$15.

WESTERN FRONT 303 East Eighth Ave., Vancouver. 604-876-9343 Cap Jazz: The Ted Poor Quartet will perform Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 8

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com I’m Not Just an Italian: Comedian Enrico Rennella will perform with guest opening act Catrina Centanni Friday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $45.

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NORTH SHORE UNITARIAN CHURCH 370 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-926-1621 Book Launch: David Cawood will launch his latest book The Secret Sabbatical: The Revolutionary Approach to Recover Your Imagination

9:40; Wed 9:40 p.m.

Hotel Transylvania 2 (G) — Fri, Mon, WedThur 7:20, 9:45; Sat 10:20 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45; Sun 1:45, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45; Tue 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 p.m.

The Martian (PG) — Fri-Thur 6:50 p.m.

The Martian 3D (PG) —

Fri, Mon, Wed-Thur 7:10, 10:10, 10:30; Sat 12:10, 12:30, 3:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10, 10:30; Sun 12:30, 3:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10, 10:30; Tue 4, 7:10, 10:10, 10:30 p.m.; Thur 1 p.m.

Everest 3D (PG) — Fri, Mon,Wed-Thur 7, 10:05; Sat 10:30, 1:10, 4:05, 7, 10:05; Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7,

10:05; Tue 4:20, 7, 10:05 p.m.

Sicario (14A) — Fri, Mon, Wed-Thur 6:50, 9:35; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:35; Tue 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 p.m.; Thur 1 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore — Sat 9:55 a.m.

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Showtimes From page 32 PARK & TILFORD 333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver, 604-985-3911 The Intern (PG) — Fri, Mon, Thur 6:40, 9:40; Sat 10:15 a.m., 1, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Sun 1, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Tue 4:05, 6:40,

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before they resume nailbiting; but director Ridley Scott has created a hero so seemingly unruffled by his predicament, so glib, that much of the wonder of the unknown has dissipated into the ether.

During the Ares III expedition, it’s botanist Mark Watney’s (Damon) job to collect soil samples of the red planet. But when a cataclysmic storm hits the surface the team of astronauts is separated, and Mark is injured then left for dead as the crew – among them Michael Pena, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Kate Mara and captain Jessica Chastain – evacuates.

He comes to, completely alone. Mark’s first order of business is to breathe.

Second is to do a little gory self-surgery that takes as much out of us, the audience, as it does out of him.

Next order of business is to perform a loaves-andfishes miracle with a small stash of potatoes meant for the astronauts’ Thanksgiving dinner. “Mars will come to fear my botany powers,” Mark says. (Thanks to suit cams, dash cams and daily logs Mark is always on.)

Forget that water was just discovered on Mars this week: when Andy Weir’s book was written and the film was made we didn’t know that. Mark sets about creating a greenhouse and an innovative irrigation system – using his own fecal waste, brilliant and yuck at the same time – in a sector of the base. “In your face, Neil Armstrong!”

NASA finally realizes that

Mark didn’t perish in the storm, which creates a tricky public-relations quandary for Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels), director of NASA, and their spin doctor, played by a miscast Kristen Wiig.

“How are we going to sell this to the public?” A starstudded ensemble (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean) debates the best way to keep Mark alive for a planet full of people who want a happy ending; U.S. and China collaborate (always a good thing for the sizeable Chinese movie-going market); and, as usual, genius is found in the young new guy hopped up on too much coffee.

Meanwhile, Mark finds a way to communicate with ground control. All this ingenuity serves a dual purpose: it keeps him alive and it keeps him sane, no mean feat. But we see precious little of the chinks in Mark’s armour until he goes into “pirate” mode towards film’s end. He finally mentions his family, asking that the authorities let them know that he died for something “big and beautiful and greater than me Under Scott’s direction the red, dry planet is varied and lovely. Sure, things get totally ridiculous before the credits roll but before then the science is accessible and the scenarios almostbelievable, thanks to real gizmos like the Pathfinder.

But the film’s greatest asset is Damon, who does a beautiful job. More vulnerability from his character – and less of the running gag about the disco music – would’ve reflected the wonder most of us feel as we gaze at the stars, and made The Martian a masterpiece.

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

The North Shore International Film Series: What We Did on our Holiday will be screened Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m.

Tickets: $11. nvartscouncil. ca/events/north-shoreinternational-film-series SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Songs and Stories: Composer Michael Conway

Baker will share showbiz, film and concert music stories past and present the third Wednesday of every month, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Admission by donation.

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Jazz Talks with Neil Ritchie: Seminars touching on various aspects of jazz from across the decades Tuesday, Oct. 6, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Topic: Benny Goodman/ Artie Shaw.

Artists Confidential: Join Kay Meek executive director Jeanne LeSage for a conversation with members of the cast of Miss Caledonia Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE ROAD

Brendan McAleer

Grinding Gears

Marijuana laws must keep drivers in mind In 2014 the new Infiniti Q50 was named a World Car of the Year finalist. The 2015 model keeps things rolling with excellent power, comfort and price. It is available at Infiniti North Vancouver in the Northshore Auto Mall. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

2015 Infiniti Q50

Strong debut for Q50 One look at the Infiniti Q50 and you know that it is distinctively different from the German and American luxury cars.

Designed to attract BMW 3 Series, MercedesBenz C-Class and Audi A4 fans, the Infiniti Q50 offers a unique Japanese or Asian flavour.

Along with its bold appearance, the Q50 has a sporty interior and cuttingedge technology. After a successful debut last year - the Q50 was named a finalist for 2014 World Car of the Year and earned an Edmunds.com “Top Rated Vehicle” award - it enters 2015 largely unchanged.

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The only addition of note is a new Performance Wheel Package boasting 19-inch RAYS lightweight wheels.

Design

More than just a replacement for the G-Series, the Q50 was a virtually all-new luxury sport sedan last year and set the direction for Infiniti cars in the future.

The Q50 features flowing body panels which give a premium feel to its athletic proportions.

Having the expected fourdoors and rear-wheel drive configuration allows it to compete in the luxury sport sedan market.

Starting with Infiniti’s double-arch front grille, it combines with the LED headlights and daytime running lights to create a strong statement.

The character lines flow over the smooth roofline like a wave and are punctuated by the Crescent-cut C-pillar.

Merging at the rear, the LED taillights complete the look.

Overall, the Infiniti Q50 is eye-catching but it has the potential for going out of style quickly.

Inside, the wraparound dash creates a sporty feel without sacrificing comfort or practicality. Tech savvy people will enjoy Infiniti’s forward-thinking solution and design.

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There’s plenty of speculation about our upcoming federal election, much of it frankly negative.

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Anyway, one of the policies that’s been in the news of late is the Green Party’s idea that marijuana should be legalized and taxed. Here in British Columbia, cannabis exists in a weird hemi-demiSee More page 47

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Count on Infiniti for long distances From page 45

The front seats of the Q50 offer good comfort and there are dual touchscreens within easy reach for the driver. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Performance Carried over from the G-Series, the standard engine in the Q50 is a refined 3.7-litre V-6. Rated at 328 horsepower and 260 foot-pounds of torque, it features the Continuously Variable Valve Timing Control System and Variable Valve Event & Lift.

An advanced hybrid powertrain is also available.

Featuring Infiniti Direct Response Hybrid system with Intelligent Dual Clutch Control, this powertrain combines a 3.5-litre V-6 with a 50 kilowatt electric motor.

Total system output is 360 h.p. and is designed to put performance first, while not sacrificing fuel economy.

Regardless of the powertrain, all Q50s come with a seven-speed electronically controlled automatic transmission with a manual shift mode.

The Q50 is also available in rear-wheel drive and Intelligent All-Wheel Drive with both powertrains.

If you are doing any long distance commuting, the Q50 is a very comfortable car to drive.

Very little wind noise enters the cabin and noise-cancelling software neutralizes engine drone.

The suspension also does a decent job of handling road imperfections.

The Q50 also deals with corners well. It has lots of grip and very little body roll.

Four-time Formula 1

champion Sebastian Vettel helped hone the Q50’s driving characteristics. As a result, one would expect it to be the most fun to drive car in this segment.

Sadly, the Infiniti Q50 is still not as great as the BMW 3 Series or Audi A4 when it comes to the handling feel. The main culprit is its somewhat numb steering character.

The Q50’s standard speed-sensitive steering lacks road feel although Infiniti’s Direct Adaptive Steering steer-by-wire system is available as an option. This allows you alter the weight and response of the steering, improving the feel somewhat.

Infiniti is not alone in this regard, however. Most luxury cars are trading heavy, sporty steering for light and easy (spelled “numb”) feel.

Environment The cabin of the Q50 is also a major departure from the G-Series. Material quality has improved and the luxury appointments are everywhere.

One of those appointments will be appreciated by owners who share driving duties.

Infiniti InTuition system can recognize and adjust seating, climate, audio, navigation and telematic settings for up to four different drivers.

Front seats offer good comfort and the dual touchscreen displays are within easy reach.

The infotainment system may divide

opinions, though. The two screens work in tandem, so the upper screen will show the map or reversing view, while the lower accesses various in-car apps and feels like an iPad Mini to use.

Infiniti moved the B-pillar forward nearly an inch to make entry and exit to the rear seats easier. Knee room for rear passengers is ample thanks to thin front seatbacks.

The raised centre seat and transmission tunnel makes it difficult to accommodate three adults in the rear. However, all compact luxury sedans have this same issue.

On top of its spacious cabin, the Q50 also has a decent trunk space.

Luggage space in base models is 13.5 cubic feet and hybrid models offer 9.4 cubic feet.

Features Starting prices for the standard Q50 range from $37,500 to $48,950. The Q50 Hybrid is priced at $49,500.

Standard equipment includes dual-zone automatic climate control, keyless entry, a rearview camera, cruise control, glass moonroof, SiriusXM Satellite radio, and Bluetooth.

Additional features, available as options or on a higher trim, include heated front seats, a 14-speaker Premium Audio System, sport tuned suspension, solid-magnesium paddle shifters, Around View See Steering page 47

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The standard engine in the Q50 is a refined 3.7-litre V-6 rated at 328 horsepower and 260 foot-pounds of torque.

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TODAY’S DRIVE

Steering a little on the numb side From page 46

Monitor, blind spot monitor, Predictive Forward Collision Warning, and Lane Departure Warning.

Fuel efficiency numbers (litres/100 kilometres) for rear-wheel drive models are 12.0 city and 8.1 highway. All-wheel drive models return 12.5 city and 8.7 highway, while the hybrid sees 8.7 city and 7.5 highway.

Thumbs up The strengths of the Infiniti Q50 are its engine power, interior comfort and reasonable price.

Design is unique and interesting.

Thumbs down While the Q50 is comfortable to commute in, driving enthusiasts will lament the steering feel and lack of a traditional manual transmission.

The bottom line The Infiniti Q50 is an appealing alternative with distinctive styling and a long list of features.

Competitors BMW 3 Series The BMW 3 Series has been the benchmark for entry-level luxury sedans

for almost 30 years. For sport enthusiasts, the BMW offers the most performance oriented option in this segment.

The 3 Series begins at a very buyer-friendly $35,990 and ranges up to $48,990.

Audi A4 The A4 continues to be a leader in this competitive market. Its beautifully refined interior makes efficient use of space making it feel larger than it is. Audi’s attention to detail and efficiency make the A4 an attractive choice.

The new model arriving next year will up the ante

even more.

The base A4 starts at $38,500, the adventurous A4 allroad at $47,300, and the sporty S4 at $55,200.

Mercedes-Benz C-Class The C-Class makes the daily commute a joy, and thanks to its intelligent technologies, traffic jams are no longer a chore.

The Mercedes-Benz offers a surprising level of performance for the money.

The C 300 starts at $43,800, but the top of the range C 63 S starts at $83,700.

The Q50 is a unique and appealing alternative in the luxury sedan class. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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More research needed on driving and marijuana use From page 45

semi de facto legal state already, with the number of pot dispensaries starting to rival the number of Starbucks. Judging from the spread of these places, approximately 97 per cent of the province has, like, glaucoma, man.

According to the Green Party, legalizing and taxing Snoop Dogg’s favourite nightcap would inject some five billion dollars annually into the economy, and would also free up some revenue spent investigating and prosecuting the illegal trade in marijuana.

There’d also be a theoretical decline in gang activity and the crimes associated with it – without the funds generated by illegal bootlegging, criminals would have to turn to other activities.

Maybe they could smuggle Kinder Eggs into the U.S. or something.

It all sounds like a panacea for a sticky-icky issue, a modern-day version of the repeal of prohibition. Marijuana has a number of benefits for pain-management, and with some kind of taxation structure and regulation, consumers would have some idea of what they’re getting.

I’ve never smoked reefer in my life (no, not even that time I suggested traffic safety could be improved if we all started ramming rude people in traffic). No further proof is needed

than the fact that I just referred to marijuana as reefer.

I have, however, just watched part of Cheech and Chong’s 1978 movie Up In Smoke, and am therefore fully qualified to weigh in on the issue.

And what I want to know is, what do we do when people start getting high and driving?

Of course, this already happens, and it probably happens more than we’d like to know. According to the Internet – which contains facts, and only facts – THC affects users in multiple ways depending on their habitual usage and constitution.

If you’re out for a night on the town at a bar, the rule of thumb is that you’re going to have to at least sleep it off. If you’ve just been over at a friend’s house in the afternoon, listening to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, you might figure a couple of hours downtime will clear your system and you’re good to drive. It might be, and it might not be.

According to a recent survey in the U.S., most Americans feel that driving while stoned isn’t a big deal, or at least it’s a much less big deal than drunk driving. The evidence gets a big tricky to judge, but the gut feeling is mostly borne out by the results.

Alcohol is a major factor in crashes, particularly fatal ones, whereas ingestion of cannabis seems to be such

a small factor it’s hard to draw a conclusion.

However, testing has proven that everything you need to be a good driver suffers when you’re under the influence: cognitive function, motor control, tracking, and decision making. People get dumb when they’re stoned, they make bad decisions, and they weave in their lane. It would appear that marijuana’s high tends to slow you down, where drunk drivers take stupid risks, but you’re still far from completely in control.

So, drive sober, which of course you would do anyway. However, while there are systems for the police to use in screening for alcohol intoxicated drivers, there’s not a similarly quick test for marijuana in the system.

There’s no breathalyzer for pot.

This presents a problem for the officer on the scene. Even if a driver is suspected of being impaired, by the time they’re back at the station, undergoing testing, the THC concentrations may be significantly lower. Just as with alcohol, a fieldsobriety measure is needed.

And one exists, sort of. A breathalyzer-like device in the research and development stage can detect recent smoking of marijuana (within one or two hours), and has shown some reasonable accuracy.

While it’s not much use several hours later, it’s at

least a tool in development.

Enforcement aside, driving behaviours will be more affected by the public’s opinion on the issue, and information provided. We are still, after all, dealing with people who drive drunk and don’t get caught. If people’s attitudes towards marijuana use and driving remain lax, then even stepped-up enforcement won’t help. Research is needed to show exactly how dangerous it is, and how users might consume the stuff and be safe by deferring driving for an appropriate level of time.

With several U.S. states effectively legalizing marijuana, it’s possible for Canada’s policy and law enforcement types to see how they’ve gone about solving the practical problems. And let’s be honest, if marijuana was legalized tomorrow, we all might have a better understanding of why the Pontiac Aztek exists.

Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and automotive enthusiast. If you have a suggestion for a column, or would be interested in having your car club featured, please contact him at mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com.

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