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‘Vendetta’ ruined ex-MP’s career, court hears Lawyer for Blair Wilson tells court political foes behind ‘smear campaign’ JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

The lawyer for a former West Vancouver MP told a B.C. Supreme Court justice that a sensational story published by The Province newspaper was the result of a deliberate smear campaign that ruined the career of “a

capable politician.”

Lawyer Jay Straith told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jane Dardi that family members with a personal “vendetta” and a number of “political operatives” who wanted then-Liberal MP Blair Wilson out of office worked together to feed damaging information to

a Province reporter. The resulting story, Family Exposes MP’s Trail of Debt, published in Oct. 27, 2007, was a “character assassination” that painted Wilson as financially irresponsible and unfit for public office, said Straith.

Following publication of the story, Wilson resigned from the Liberal caucus and sat as an independent.

He was ultimately rejected by the Liberal party and ran for re-election as a

Green Party candidate in West Vancouver, losing that election.

Straith described the article and the events leading up to it as “the deliberate destruction of a man’s reputation, for financial and political gain.”

Straith made his comments Wednesday during opening arguments in a defamation trial in B.C. Supreme Court.

Wilson is suing The

Province newspaper, reporter Elaine O’Connor and Wilson’s father-in-law William Lougheed. Also named in the lawsuit are blogger Steve Janke, who published the contents of an anonymous letter alleging wrongdoing by Wilson in the 2006 federal election campaign; Judi Tyabji, a former B.C. Liberal MLA married to one-time B.C. Liberal leader Gordon Wilson, and Mark Marissen, a Liberal

political strategist and the ex-husband of B.C. Premier Christy Clark.

Wilson has alleged Tyabji and Marissen were among the political players who worked with Lougheed to supply information about him to both The Province and to senior Liberal officials.

“This is not a case where an investigative journalist stumbles across this,” See Wilson’s page 5

North Van hockey team hit hard by dressing room thief JUSTIN BEDDALL newsroom@nsnews.com

BOO! Four-year-old Sabine Fingland displays the scary skeleton face painting she got at the annual Team Clarke Pumpkin Giveaway event Oct. 25 at the real estate office in Edgemont Village. The event features family photos, balloon art, face painting, treats for kids, and pumpkins available by donation to raise money for ALS charities. Motorists are advised to drive slowly and use extra caution on the roads Saturday after dark. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

While a North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association team practised Monday at Harry Jerome rec centre a thief was busy loading their valuables into a hockey bag inside their locker room.

Just minutes after players hit the ice, a late-arriving teammate realized the dressing room had been hit.

Apparently, the thief loaded a goalie equipment bag with the stolen items, which included wallets, smartphones, clothing and car keys.

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SALMON RUN Members of the Seymour Salmonid Society and volunteers captured coho salmon and steelhead trout in the Seymour River and ferried them one by one in backpacks with water bladders up a staircase to a waiting truck at the top of Riverside Drive Thursday for release upstream. So far the group has rescued 50 fish that are blocked from reaching their natural spawning habit by 50,000 cubic metres of granite that came down in the canyon during a massive rockslide last December. See more photos at nsnews.com. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD

WV property owners guilty in British Properties slide case Judge finds couple violated municipal bylaws in dumping truckloads of fill on property JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

West Vancouver property owners who caused a landslide to run into a fishbearing creek after dumping truckloads of fill on their lot without required permits have been found guilty of violating a series of municipal bylaws.

In a decision handed down Oct. 20, North Vancouver provincial court Judge Bryce Dyer found homeowners Mohammadreza Morshedian and Seyedeh Shahrbanoo Janani violated West Vancouver’s watercourse protection bylaw, creeks bylaw and soil deposit and removal bylaw, when they began landscaping work on their property without permits and without a sediment control plan between January and March of 2013.

The municipality took the couple to court to prove illegal landscaping at a British Properties home they owned continued after a stop-work order was issued and eventually led to a landslide and sediment dump into Rodgers Creek.

The couple face a maximum fine of $160,000 on the charges and could also be on the hook for $80,000 the municipality spent cleaning up the spill into the creek.

A date for sentencing has not yet been set.

“We’re extremely pleased at the result,” said Jeff McDonald, spokesman for the District of West Vancouver. “It sends a strong message to property owners. The district bylaws are there for a reason. And they’ll be enforced.”

Following the slide, District of West

The scene of a landslide on Chelsea Close in West Vancouver. Illegal landscaping work led to the slide and a sediment dump into Rodgers Creek. FILE PHOTO KEVIN HILL Vancouver worked quickly to install silt dams in the creek and remove the fill, said McDonald. “The was over 100 truckloads of fill,” said McDonald. “We had to get on it quickly because it’s a sensitive waterway.”

During the trial, which took place over 12 days in North Vancouver provincial court, neighbours of the rental property owned by Morshedian and Janani at 2785 Chelsea Close described their growing concern after watching dump trucks deposit massive amounts of fill on to the property between January and March 2013.

“Every time it would rain, there would be mud flowing on the side of our property,” Sam Schoenauer told the judge.

Schoenauer’s husband Fernando Casses testified he became worried when he noticed some buckling of his own driveway. “It was telling me the huge amount of tonnage was dangerous,” he said.

But Casses said when he tried to talk to his neighbour, Morshedian told him

he knew what he was doing and could do whatever he wanted on his own property.

But the judge didn’t agree.

In his decision, Dyer found Morshedian had been vague and misrepresented both the work he intended to do on the property and the work that was done, both to municipal staff and to the court, said prosecutor Maegen Giltrow following the decision.

Dyer also rejected Morshedian’s arguments that there was no stream at the base of the property or that any material that entered the watercourse had come from another property.

“The judgment paints a picture of someone who is really trying to avoid responsibility,” she said.

The judge also rejected Janani’s argument that she’d never had anything to do with the work on the property because her husband Morshedian had made all the decisions. “The judge rejected that,” said Giltrow. “Owners have a duty to inform themselves about what’s happening on their property.”

The couple are joint owners for four rental properties in West Vancouver.

Derek Creighton, lawyer for Morshedian and Janani, said he believes there are still serious problems with the West Vancouver bylaws his clients were found guilty of violating because those bylaws are vague about how measurements like slope should be calculated. Under existing bylaws, property owners can deposit material up to four feet deep on their land, as long as that property meets certain slope requirements.

Creighton said his clients will not consider whether they want to appeal the decision until after sentencing, likely in December.

Grouse Grind hiker badly injured after 40-metre fall JUSTIN BEDDALL newsroom@nsnews.com

A 60-year-old man suffered serious injuries after falling down a 40-metre gully while hiking the Grouse Grind on Tuesday.

North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks said the hiker was near the threequarter mark of the 2.9-kilometre mountain trail when he tumbled down some steep terrain nearby.

It is unclear what caused the fall.

“He fell and he wasn’t seen again,” said Danks.

BC Ambulance and District of North Vancouver firefighters responded to the call at 3:40 p.m. and NSR waited on standby in case a long-line rescue was necessary.

“Based on the nature of the injuries, being a fall of that distance, we launched an aircraft right away,” said Danks.

When responders reached the victim they realized he was badly injured with possible spinal and chest injuries, along with multiple cuts and contusions.

Firefighters secured the man onto a spinal board and a long-line rescue began. The injured hiker was located on a 45-degree slope in steep brush and Danks said Grouse Mountain and Metro Vancouver staff, DNV firefighters, BC Ambulance members, NSR and hikers all worked together to make it a speedy rescue. The injured man was airlifted out at around 5:15 p.m.

“We’re tight for light at that time,” said Danks. “I think the thing for this guy is he had an excellent multi-agency co-ordinated response. And because of that he was packaged very quickly and extricated back to a waiting BC Ambulance at Capilano Gate SAR station.”

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Wilson’s lawyer denies claims of ‘deathbed loan’ From page 1 said Straith in his opening argument. Straith said it was a part of a deliberate plan to get a “legally unfounded” story about Wilson into the media.

Straith said the case concerns the media’s “responsibility to properly and thoroughly confirm information when serious allegations are made” particularly when “serious accusations are being made against persons involved in public life.”

Those being sued by Wilson have denied that they defamed him.

Straith said Lougheed wanted to get back at his adopted daughter Kelly Wilson and her husband Blair Wilson because of a dispute over the estate of his late wife Norma Lougheed.

Straith said O’Connor met with Lougheed and others, at Lougheed’s home to discuss allegations later included in the story, including the assertion that Blair Wilson owed Lougheed over $2 million.

Straith said that wasn’t true.

Straith added there was no “deathbed loan” made by Norma Lougheed

Outside court on Wednesday, Wilson said he pursued his defamation case against The Province newspaper because it’s the only way he has to redeem his character. PHOTO JANE SEYD to Wilson, as Lougheed claimed in the Province article.

Straith said in court that people including Tyabji and Marissen “interested in causing political damage to Blair Wilson” also got involved in the case.

Straith said Tyabji told O’Connor in a recorded phone conversation she wanted Wilson removed as the sitting MP before an anticipated federal election and replaced with another candidate. An anonymous letter alleging Election Act violations by Blair Wilson was “put together

by political adversaries of Blair Wilson to assist themselves,” said Straith.

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Wilson said what was printed about him was “devastating.”

“It destroyed my career politically and nearly destroyed my family’s entire life,” he said.

Wilson has since moved to Kelowna and owns a commercial apple orchard with his wife.

The trial continues.

general and punitive damages. The defendants named in the case are fighting the defamation claim. About seven lawyers representing various parties were in the courtroom Wednesday.

The case, which was launched over seven years ago, is expected to take a number of weeks.

Outside the court, Wilson said he pursued the case because it’s the only way he has to redeem his character.

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was guilty of Election Act misconduct among senior levels of the Liberal Party.

Straith said one of the people who helped gather material to use against Wilson was “the campaign manager of Blair Wilson’s political opponent.”

Straith said Wilson was eventually cleared by Elections Canada of all but two minor issues and Lougheed later largely dropped claims of money being owed by Wilson.

But the damage was already done.

“These damages are not just the loss of his salary and pension as a member of Parliament.

This is a direct attack on the privacy of persons in public life and on the democratic process,” said Straith.

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ow that election euphoria is fading, “trick or treat” is a question many voters will likely be asking themselves.

Whether they voted for incoming Liberal government or not, the question is legitimate. Politicians have a habit of morphing during elections. Control freaks take out the sweater and become men of the people. Angry partisans become kinder, gentler versions of themselves. We’ve yet to see whether prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau will prove to be one of these shape-shifters or not.

The letter from a Sunshine Coast mother to Trudeau that recently went viral illustrates some of those very real morningafter hopes and fears.

Luckily for voters, the scariest fright nights have already come and gone. Spooks like the jihad under the bed or the monster behind the niqab have already been trotted

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out and found to be just not as scary as advertised.

Now the dust has settled, everyone will soon be coming to the new governmentin-waiting with a treat bag – advocates for marijuana legalization, Senate reformers, right-to-die activists and environmentalists have wasted little time lining up at the figurative front door.

Items the North Shore hopes to find in its candy stash in fairly short order include a large chunk of cash for the new Lions Gate sewage treatment plant. Assistance with bigticket transportation items would also be welcome in the bottom of the treat bag.

Apprehension about change is normal.

For now we’re willing to wait and give Trudeau and his team the benefit of the doubt. But we’ll be looking carefully to see if what we saw is what we get, or whether there’s another face behind the campaign mask.

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Woodfibre rubber-stamped but not approved Dear Editor: It really comes as no surprise that the provincial government has rubberstamped the environmental assessment for Woodfibre LNG. This is one of their pet projects, and the B.C. Liberals’ election promise was to develop an LNG industry for B.C., whatever the cost. They have continued to push this pipe dream, despite plummeting gas prices and increasing pressure from LNG companies to slash taxes and weaken regulations in an attempt to make the industry viable.

This approval simply highlights a conflict of interest: how can the public have faith in the integrity of the BC Environmental Assessment process when the ministers approving

these projects (one of which is Rich Coleman, the Minister of Natural Gas Development) also have a mandate to develop LNG export facilities? Quite simply, we don’t.

An article published in BC Business earlier this year notes that “our environmental assessment process is, according to critics, the weakest and most confusing it has been in decades — thanks to abrupt changes in our environmental laws and deep budget cuts to government regulatory agencies.”

This has not been an open and transparent process, and meaningful community engagement has been limited by short windows for public input, incomplete studies provided

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by the proponents, and poor advertising of open house events. Thanks to My Sea to Sky’s efforts to get people involved, the public comment period for Woodfibre LNG in March generated a record number of public comments.

Has this overwhelming community opposition been adequately scrutinized by the ministers granting this EA approval, or are the B.C.

Liberals ignoring public input, as well as deleting emails?

The good news is that while Woodfibre LNG has their rubber-stamped approval from the province, they still need approval from the federal government.

Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau has acknowledged that “even though (it is) governments

that grant permits, ultimately it’s only communities that grant permission.”

So far, community opposition has been loud and clear, with Powell River, Lions Bay, Gibsons, West Vancouver, Bowen Island and Squamish all signalling strong opposition to Woodfibre LNG through resolutions. My Sea to Sky has partnered with 20 other or-

ganizations that oppose this project, and volunteers have gathered 4,400 signatures (and counting) to the Howe Sound Declaration, stating opposition to the project.

There is no social licence for this project in Howe Sound.

A rubber stamp isn’t going to change that.

Tracey Saxby Co-founder, My Sea to Sky

Election coverage had positive impact on getting out the vote Dear Editor: A quick note of congratulations on North Shore News’ election coverage and push for voter engagement.

Not sure what made a difference, perhaps a synergy of efforts (and politics of

course!), but voter turnout in the North Shore speaks to positive voter engagement.

My reading of North Shore News coverage was that it was extensive and balanced and no doubt that had a positive impact.

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pieces — I’d like to see more faces representative of the diversity of North Shore residents next time.

And the extent to which citizens participate in democratic life between elections is as important as whether they vote. I look

forward to North Shore News’ continuing reporting on citizen engagement between now and the next election.

Murray Mollard Executive director, North Shore Community Resources Society

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A letter to Justin’s local Liberal posse

The first sign that things are going to be different around here: A woman known as Casandra Effe, calling herself “an average West Coast, middle-class mom voter” posts a letter on Facebook to newly elected prime minister Justin Trudeau. (You can read it at nsnews.com.)

It’s the sort of thing you’d expect from your mom if mom was intelligent, thoughtful and a passionate advocate for democratic reform. It was especially meaningful to all those people who held their noses and voted “strategically,” to heave Stephen Harper, not because they loved Trudeau 2.0.

As Casandra wrote to Justin: “Get real about your win. Accept it with humility and modesty, and treat your fellow left politicians with respect and gratitude, for it is their supporters who got you here with your sweeping majority, and not your own.”

An eloquent variation on the classic mom message:

Paul Sullivan

The North Side Don’t get too big for your britches, sonny. It went viral, shared 45,000 times and counting. That wasn’t so unusual; any selfrespecting cat video could do the same. What was unusual is that he answered.

“Your honesty and frank words have resonated across the country,” he wrote, “and I take them to heart.” He went on to say he’s a little busy picking a cabinet right now but he’ll get right on it. He even encouraged her to send another top 10 “somewhere down the road.”

Which gives me an idea.

My name is Paul Esse,

and I’m an average West Coast middle-class dad columnist, and here’s my own Top 10 list for the posse of Liberals elected Oct. 19. Pam GoldsmithJones, Jonathan Wilkinson and Terry Beech, you know who you are.

1) Keep it green. Casandra sums it up beautifully: “… consider moderation, balance, and sustainable practices, instead of debating the validity of the ‘climate change’ phrase.”

2) Keep it affordable.

Maybe the horse has already left the barn on this one. The average price of a residential property in North Vancouver is $809,950. This would be viewed with alarm by any sane person, but it was hardly a campaign issue.

3) Keep it clean. Or as Casandra puts it: “Please don’t be bought.” I think the three new MPs are ethically exemplary … now. The real trick is to continue to work for the people, not just a few people with money and power.

4) Keep it moving. All this

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talk about infrastructure gets me excited (I know, get a life). It probably doesn’t mean rapid transit on the North Shore, at least not in my lifetime.

But why not make it possible to get over Burrard Inlet in a timely fashion? Is that too much to ask?

5) Keep it kind. It’s hard to believe, but there are more than 200 homeless people on the North Shore.

Maybe not so hard to believe when the average price of a residence is $809,950. These people need a place to live, folks, now, before it gets any colder.

6) Keep it sane. The Harper government’s hostility to science and reason is one of the main reasons I voted strategically. How about a pledge right now to commit to the principle that environmental assessments must be scientifically, not politically grounded, and while they’re at it, bow to the overwhelming evidence that the world is 4.5 billion

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7) Keep it multicultural: As Justin Trudeau says: A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. Let’s remember that includes First Nations to newly arrived refugees from some place that addresses multiculturalism with the death penalty.

8) Keep it free. Fix Bill C-51 now. And while you’re at it, stomp out S-7, the Barbaric Cultural Practices Act (and the odious tip line). We should be able to protect ourselves against terrorists without becoming terrorists.

9) Keep it clear: or as Casandra says, “no political mumbo jumbo say-nothing jibber jabber.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Also clear in the “transparent” sense. No more dirty little secrets, as in who paid off whom for what?

10) Keep it democratic.

Vote for proportional representation so everyone’s vote counts.

Even if it is for someone else. p.sullivan@breakthroughpr.com

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of keys to steal a SUV parked nearby that one of the players had borrowed from his mother to drive to practice.

Lawrence Smyth, president of North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association, said all teams have been warned following the incident.

“We are warning our teams about being diligent at all facilities we work with, we work with three (home ice) facilities as well as visiting arenas,” he said. “As much as you might think that there is security or the dressing room is in sight it happens, unfortunately.”

Smyth said this isn’t the first time thieves have targeted dressing rooms.

“I would say it’s not unique to this facility,” he said. “I think it happens all over. I think it’s based on opportunity, complacency, and people just thinking that it’s fine. Unfortunately, you don’t tend to react until something like this happens.”

Smyth said the team that was robbed on Monday is not leaving anything valuable in the dressing room anymore.

The RCMP is investigating the theft.

“There were a lot of thefts,” said North Van RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Richard De Jong.

“There were eight victims.

Everything you could imagine – all the phones and house keys, they just took whatever was in the locker room.”

One of the stolen phones was pinged and shown to be located in downtown Vancouver, De Jong said.

“We quickly alerted VPD; they did a search of an intersection that had like 200 people so they checked a few people. The credit cards were used as well around midnight (to purchase gas) downtown.

So we know that whoever

did this beelined right to downtown.”

The stolen vehicle was abandoned and located Thursday morning in Vancouver.

Currently there’s video surveillance in and around the lobby of the rink and the team rooms at Harry Jerome rec centre, said Anne Rodgers of the North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commission.

“Teams are also advised to bring their own locks for team rooms, and that something that’s clearly communicated by our rental booking staff,” she added.

Rodgers said the facility’s maintenance staff are also always moving throughout the building

and watching for any suspicious behaviour.

Since the theft earlier this week, Rodgers said the rec commission has put up additional signage reminding the public to lock up their valuables and report suspicious activity to staff. Additional staff are also doing extra walkthroughs.

De Jong said it’s important for people to break the habit of bringing valuables to public places.

“Those sorts of valuables should be left in the trunk of your car or left at home.

You are in a public place, this isn’t your home, and you can be the victim of somebody who is going to break into your locker and it’s preventable.”

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INQUIRING REPORTER Halloween is almost upon us and North Shore residents of all ages are already getting into the spooky spirit.

We caught up with a group of tiny trick-or-treaters gathered at North Vancouver City Library’s children’s section yesterday morning for a Halloween-themed story time. The pint-sized ghosts and goblins in costume gathered around the learning tree at the library for an eerie tale, and we asked their parents what their kids were dressed up as.

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Rose, 17 months old North Vancouver “A fairy.”

Jackson, 21 months old North Vancouver “A goon from Goodnight Goon.”

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Eloise, five months old North Vancouver “A fairy.”

Henry, six months old North Vancouver “A bumblebee.”

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VIEWPOINT

National referendum, anyone?

Prime ministerdesignate Justin Trudeau has promised a lot of things — no doubt, many of them popular — but one of those campaign promises may be tricky to pull off and in fact may strike some people as anti-democratic.

While it’s easy to fulfill big spending promises (like that multi-billiondollar infrastructure spending proposal) it is something else entirely to implement a wholesale public policy change, especially one that goes to the heart of democracy.

I’m referring to his stated vow to change the way we elected federal members of Parliament.

It’s all part of his 32-point plan to “restore democracy to Canada” that was first announced last summer.

Some parts of that democracy plan sound plausible and relatively simple to implement: a weekly question period devoted to grilling the prime minister, new spending limits for political parties and a 5050 gender split in cabinet membership, among other things.

However, scrapping the way we determine who actually gets to run this country is a far more serious matter than any of those other proposals. It “THE AMBLESIDE”

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digs directly into the roots of our democracy.

Trudeau has promised to scrap the current system — called firstpast-the-post, or FPTP — within 18 months, after a study by an all-party committee. Presumably, the committee would come up with a voting model based on some form of proportional representation.

A large number of Canadians have already said no to scrapping the FPTP system at the provincial level. British Columbians have voted down proposed changes twice in referendums (2005 and 2009) and so have Ontario voters (2007) and Prince Edward Islanders (2005).

Unfortunately, the new prime minister is not offering to let Canadians decide whether or not

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they want to change how they elect their federal politicians through a national referendum, as those three provinces did.

For anyone to argue that many people voted for Trudeau and his Liberal party in the recent federal election based solely on his vow to scrap our voting method is laughable. The issue was hardly even mentioned during the campaign.

Trudeau is opting to allow politicians (of all people) to come up with a new voting system, a conflict of interest if there ever was one.

For example, the federal NDP took almost 20 per cent of the popular vote in the last election yet won about 13 per cent of the seats. In most elections, the NDP’s seat count percentage runs well behind its popular vote percentage, so the party (and the Greens and, for that matter, the Conservatives) have a vested interest in moving to a form of proportional representation.

To be sure, there are problems with our current system. It does indeed allow a political party to form government with less than 50 per cent of the vote — in fact, that’s almost always the outcome — but

so what? Proportional representation usually delivers the same kind of outcome.

There has been a lot of hand-wringing and screaming that the deposed Harper government never had a true “mandate” from the people because it received less than 40 per cent of the votes in the 2011 federal election.

However, Trudeau received roughly the same percentage support from the voters this time around (39.5 per cent) and I don’t hear the same criticism attached to his win.

Political scientists can put together long lists of both advantages and disadvantages for various forms of proportional representation. They can do the same for our current FPTP system.

How we vote is a complex issue, and an emotional one for many.

Allowing politicians to make arbitrary decisions on how we exercise this most basic democratic right is destined to fail.

Instead, a nationwide vote may be the only way to legitimize any switch to a new system.

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

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BRIGHT LIGHTS

The Art of Norman Tait

by Cindy Goodman

Maria Lenardon, Theresa Lenardon, Janice Chan and Esme Lenardon

Featured artist Norman Tait Representatives of the West Vancouver Museum presented an opening reception for their latest show, Finding a Voice: The Art of Norman Tait, Oct. 13. Organized by the Nisga’a Museum, the show features carvings (masks, bowls, spoons and rattles), jewelry (earrings, bracelets and pendants), prints and photographs of major public art commissions. It marks the second public museum exhibition to focus on Tait, who explores his Nisga’a Nation’s rich cultural heritage through his works. The museum is presenting a curators’ talk in the space Saturday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. The show will remain on display until Dec. 5. westvancouvermuseum.ca

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Cathy Tait, Heather Robinson and Catherine Armanini

Exhibition curator Darrin Martens and Museum of Anthropology curator Carol Mayer

Jeff and Jane Harris

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE

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— A weekly gleaner of Internet sources and other media — The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer play live in the Toronto Star newsroom: http://on.thestar. com/1M29obd Vicky Chow – Steve Reich’s Piano Counterpoint: http://bit.ly/1PQYWtQ (Pianist performs at the Western Front Nov. 6)

The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer (Matthew Rogers and Shawn Hall) have been nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year. The winner will be announced Nov. 8 in Edmonton at a CFMA (folkawards.ca/) gala presentation. PHOTO SUPPLIED LEIGH RIGHTON

Nona Hendrix talks about her grandson Jimi with Jack Webster in 1968: http://bit.ly/1OSCu1C (Jack Webster Awards Dinner set for Nov. 4 at Hyatt Regency) Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim talk shop with Merv Griffin, January 1967: http://bit.ly/1jRvRRZ (Barbarella screening at Pacific Cinémathèque as part of 1960s Halloween Shindig)

More online at nsnews.com/ entertainment @NSNPulse

The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer stay true to their sound

ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

Living the blues

One half of The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer’s Matthew Rogers was living in Montreal when he took in a life-changing performance.

The concert showcased some impressive guitar finger pickers - Ken Hamm and Michael Jerome Brown included - and Rogers walked away inspired on two fronts: first to learn the technique; and second, once he had it down pat, to launch

a blues duo, putting his new skill to use.

Later, when Rogers had moved back to the Lower Mainland and was ready to put phase two into action, he knew just who to call, friend Shawn Hall, who he’d met while recording a radio jingle.

The musicians had become fast friends and continued to play together in different capacities, though never as an official band.

With Hall on board, The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer emerged, its name a reference to Hall and

Rogers’ main instruments, the harmonica and guitar, respectively (they also offer vocals and foot percussion).

The Harpoonist reference was specifically derived from a lyric from Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee” which goes, “I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana.”

Founded eight years ago, the duo went on to release its debut, a self-titled record in 2008, followed by 2011’s Checkered Past and last year’s A Real Fine Mess.

In addition to fans, The

Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer is continuing to amass a growing list of accolades, having been nominated for a 2015 Juno and multiple Maple Blues Awards, as well as a Sirius XM Indies award for Blues Act of the Year in 2013.

“It’s been a steady climb,” says Rogers, who’s currently based in North Vancouver.

“It’s always been fun and there’s never really been any question in our minds that this is something worth pursuing. It’s like being given the golden ticket. Once it

starts rolling you just can’t let go of it. It’s something special when you’re given that opportunity to actually have people hear your music and care,” he says.

Their most recent award nod comes from the Canadian Folk Music Awards and they’ve been nominated for New/ Emerging Artist of the Year for their latest album along with releases from Fortunate Ones, The Young Novelists, The River and the Road See Blues page 30

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CALENDAR Galleries

Arts Council seeks artists to participate in The Anonymous Art Show. Each piece will be priced at $100 and sales will be divided 50/50 between the artist and NVCAC. Submission deadline: Saturday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.

The Gift Box: Buy local from two display cases dedicated to local artisans who specialize in high quality, hand-crafted 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.

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Water: An exhibition showcasing artwork from local artist Anne Griffiths as well as artists from the First Nations will be on display until Dec. 31.

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

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UNDER THE HOOD Pianist Vicky Chow will perform new works from local composers Adam Basanta and Remy Siu at the Western Front (303 East Eighth Ave., Vancouver) Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. as part of an Under the Hood Concert also featuring Andrew Czink and Doug Blackley’s duo Bent in The Spectral Piano Project. For more information on this night of pianistic and electroacoustic exploration visit front.bc.ca/events/88-tuned-bongos-piano-series/. PHOTO SUPPLIED KAITLIN JANE PHOTOGRAPHY 5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Pushing Boundaries:

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Honouring Our V E T E R A N S

Because we are proud of the men and women that are serving our country or served in the past, the North Shore News would like to pay tribute to our military personnel.

Submit a photo of yourself or a loved one who served our country and include a name and a 25 word or less biography to be published in the North Shore News or in our online photo galleries at nsnews.com/galleries in early November.

artists will run until Nov. 14.

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DANCE

Ballet BC explores the roots of emotion

Deep Cove dancer Scott Fowler performing in season premiere ! Ballet BC presents Program 1, Nov. 5 to 7 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 649 Cambie St., Vancouver. Tickets: $30-$90, available online at ticketmaster.ca or by calling 1-855-985-2787.

For more info, visit balletbc.com.

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

Deep Cove resident Scott Fowler is warming up for his fourth season with Ballet BC. The 22-year-old is currently in rehearsals for the company’s 2015/16 opening performance, simply titled Program 1.

Under the artistic leadership of Ballet BC artistic director Emily Molnar, the set features three individual works by three different choreographers.

“To me, it feels like a very full program,” Fowler

says.

Belgian-born Stijn Celis has choreographed an original work for Ballet BC that will be making its world premiere. Vancouverbased male vocal ensemble Chor Leoni will join the dancers on stage for this piece.

“That will be the first time I dance on stage with a choir of men behind me. I’m sure it’s a first for many of us,” Fowler says.

“It definitely adds a very intimate relationship with the musicality, and one that you’re always aware of because of the fact that it’s live.”

Performing to live voices, as opposed to a recording, means the dancers will have to be hyper aware of slight timing shifts, Fowler says.

“Energy-wise, I’m sure it’s just going to be amazing, having them See Fowler page 16

Ballet BC dancers Rachel Meyer and Scott Fowler will be the featured performers in Cayetano Soto’s Twenty Eight Thousand Waves. PHOTO SUPPLIED MICHAEL SLOBODIAN

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Fowler apprenticed for two years

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project from behind us through to the audience,” he adds.

Fowler is also excited to be working for the first time with Vancouver-based choreographer Crystal Pite on her work Solo Echo.

Originally developed for Nederlands Dans Theater, the piece explores recurring themes of acceptance and loss and is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand.

Finally, the company will be remounting a work by its resident choreographer Cayetano Soto. Twenty Eight Thousand Waves premiered in 2014.

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Ballet BC dancer Scott Fowler will be featured in Program 1. PHOTO SUPPLIED MICHAEL SLOBODIAN

fact that an oil tanker at sea is hit, on average, 28,000 times a day by waves.

Each of the three

contemporary ballet works is unique, but all have powerful musical scores and convey a strong sense of emotion, Fowler says.

“I feel each piece gets to the root of that emotion in different ways.”

His challenge, as a dancer, is to project all those feelings to the audience through movement.

“It’s a very exciting piece from the inside, and so I’m hoping to give that excitement out,” he says.

This is Ballet BC’s 30th anniversary season and Fowler’s second season as a full company member after having spent two years as an apprentice dancer. Prior to joining the company, he trained at Arts Umbrella under the direction of Artemis Gordon, and attended

summer intensive programs at American Ballet Theatre, The National Ballet School and Jacob’s Pillow.

“I wouldn’t say it’s more work than I thought it would be,” Fowler says of going professional, “but it’s a lot of dedication.”

“I’ve needed to find new ways to bring the physicality that I’m demanded to do,” he adds.

Immediately following next week’s performances at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Fowler and the rest of the Ballet BC company hit the road for shows in Nanaimo, Victoria, Portland and Banff.

“This season is super exciting,” Fowler says.

“We’re doing lots of touring, which I’m happy about.”

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You may not know her name yet, but Brie Larson has been slowly amassing fans for years.

Teens and 20-somethings know her as Envy Adams from Scott Pilgrim, and from 21 Jump Street. Anyone over 30 remembers her as Mark Wahlberg’s collegestudent love interest in The Gambler. Indie film fans believe Larson should’ve got an Oscar nod for 2013’s Short Term 12.

But the actress is about to become a household name thanks to her starring role in Room, based on the gripping best-seller by Emma Donoghue.

“It’s already been slowly taken away from me,” Larson says via telephone, of her relative anonymity.

“It would be really hard if it happened overnight – I never want to lose my

ability to be out in the world.”

Being out in the world is what eludes Ma, who, when we meet her, is raising her five-year-old son Jack in a 12-by-12-foot insulated backyard shed. The tale is told from the perspective of Jack (Jacob Tremblay), so it takes the viewer a while to piece together that mother and son are captives, held by a man they refer to as Old Nick.

Director Lenny Abrahamson remains faithful to Donoghue’s book by letting Jack lead the narrative. Initially all we see of Old Nick is what Jack sees: thin slices from between the slats of the wardrobe in which Ma puts him each night to sleep.

Ma is sexually assaulted repeatedly: the only power she has is her refusal to let Old Nick anywhere near Jack.

But when the man (Sean Bridgers) lets slip that he

has lost his job and may lose his house, Ma knows he will kill them rather than setting them free. She concocts a near-impossible escape plan and tries to undo years of teaching, telling Jacob that there is a world outside Room after all. In that moment, says Larson, “Ma’s sort of asleep but then she remembers her strength.”

Larson refused all offers of other work and spent seven months prepping for the role. With the help of a nutritionist she put on 15 pounds of muscle in order to convey a mother in a state of perpetual readiness to protect her son. She worked with a trauma counsellor – “I was obsessed with getting it right” – and made a diary for three different stages of her character’s life, to better connect with Ma. And, says Larson, “I grew out all my armpit hair, which I’m so bummed you never see!

That was hard!”

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FILM

Room required ways to get out never felt grass, while trying to keep her sanity.

Playing a character like Ma could have been still more gruelling if not for the levity on set: Abrahamson (who directed the quirky Frank, featuring Michael Fassbender wearing a papier-mâché head) would occasionally show up “as a completely different person,” according to Larson. “For a full day he pretended to be the mayor of a small town in Ireland, only interested in getting pictures with the crew!”

Not being sucked “into a very dark place” also required some serious aforethought on Larson’s part. “With a role like this you have to have a plan to go in and a plan to get out.

I love to scuba dive and I found it to be the perfect metaphor: you can’t just strap on tank and get into water – you have to make a plan.”

She stayed in contact with people from her real life – her mom, friends – and her little co-star Jacob “just wouldn’t put up with a bad attitude, wouldn’t put up with me crying,” she laughs. “The big scene where we’re reunited and I’m crying they yelled ‘cut’ and I’ve got snot all over me, and he pushed off of me and said ‘I don’t get it: you just saw me 10 minutes ago.’” And she scheduled a vacation after filming wrapped: “I got on a plane to Hawaii and ate all the carbs you could ever want.”

Larson cites Diane Keaton, Anna Karina, and Gena Rowlands “in anything that Cassavetes

“Larson cites Diane Keaton, Anna Karina, and Gena Rowlands ‘in anything that Cassavetes did’ as inspirations.” did” as inspirations. Her mother, a frustrated dancer, supported any kind of artistic expression her daughter wanted to indulge in: dance lessons, ice skating. “My family didn’t have very much money growing up but I had a mother with a big imagination, she was a real big dreamer,” she says. Larson’s artistic tastes are a result of that encouragement: she released an album when she was 16; on a recent shoot she spent her downtime designing new typefaces; she journals every day.

And she won accolades for her first directing effort, a short film called The Arm that went to Sundance.

“I’ll definitely continue to direct,” she says, “it’s such a valuable part of the creative process. Acting and directing is like the difference between driving a car and being a passenger.

So, being a bit of a multi-potentialite, if she could receive a steady paycheque doing anything, what would it be?

“Personally I wish we lived in world where we didn’t have currency at all, then I wonder who we would all be, really.”

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Photojournalists reclaim Afghanistan Frame by Frame documents media revolution played out in the streets

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CULTURE

Musqueam exhibits tap into tradition Three locations tell the story of the Fraser River gatekeepers

! The city before the city, a series of three exhibitions about Musqueam’s ancient landscape and living culture. On view at the Museum of Vancouver, Musqueam Cultural Centre and Museum of Anthropology (thecitybeforethecity. com).

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UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, the Musqueam First Nation, and the Museum of Vancouver have joined forces to explore the past, present and future of Musqueam First Nations in an ambitious series of exhibitions entitled The city before the city.

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Musqueam community members Gordon Grant and Wade Grant fishing on the Fraser River delta.

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Musqueam share knowledge in exhibits

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really about the Musqueam sharing their knowledge with the rest of us.

Museum of Anthropology and co-curator of the exhibit spoke to the News about the project.

North Shore News: With three different locations The city before the city is quite an extensive presentation. How did it all come together?

Susan Rowley: We had smaller teams that were responsible for each institution and then we all met together to talk about what was happening at all the institutions.

Information was shared back and forth and things like interviews were done for all the institutions to use.

One of the really critical pieces of the exhibit was the Musqueam advisory committee who provided guidance to all of us so we could turn to them for things that were not culturally appropriate to share and things like that.

North Shore News: With this type of presentation and so much information is it difficult to maintain a focus?

Susan Rowley: Yes and

North Shore News: Are there any particular aspects of Musqueam culture that you focus on in your work?

Susan Rowley: My training is as an archeologist so my interests lie in the distant past but the distant past is intimately connected with the contemporary and the future. I don’t draw strict boundaries but I’m also cognizant that there is knowledge that is not for me as an outsider to know.

Browband with spotted frog design from The city before the city. that’s why it was important to have the curatorial teams at each of the institutions, so for example, the cocurator at the Museum of Anthropology, Jordan Wilson and myself spent a lot of time together talking back and forth and then bringing it to the

larger group to hear their perspectives and then bringing it to the advisory committee to hear their perspectives – if we just had everybody around the table the whole time I think it would have been very tricky.

North Shore News: Who

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Susan Rowley: They are the indigenous community of this land. They are the first occupants of this space and they have lived on this land for thousands of years. These exhibits are

North Shore News: Have you worked within specific areas of Musqueam culture?

Susan Rowley: Not in terms of doing excavations myself. In terms of looking after collections and helping to look after collections of belongings that have come from sites within Musqueam territory, yes.

North Shore News: How did the smallpox epidemics of the 18th and 19th centuries affect the Musqueam specifically?

Did one epidemic affect them more than another?

Susan Rowley: The early one (in the late 18th century) is a difficult one to trace because the first smallpox epidemic to hit this area as far as we can tell occurred prior to European contact. We don’t have really good

indicators what the prior to contact community sizes were but there are oral histories that talk about communities that used to exist that were wiped out.

Quite significantly different from what it was (by the mid 19th century).

North Shore News: In that time they must have lost a lot of pre-contact knowledge and resources when entire villages disappeared.

Susan Rowley: Yes, we know this from all over – whenever you have epidemics there’s knowledge that’s lost but cultures aren’t static.

Cultures are always learning and gaining new knowledge and growing and changing. I think that’s one of the things that (contemporary) society has struggled with when looking at First Nations communities is that they want them to be bounded, they want them to be living in the past as if they lived in 1792.

They don’t understand that in their own culture all you have to do is sit back and go, ‘Oh look at the way my grandparents lived – am I any less English because I don’t live in exactly the same way that they did?’

It’s the same for all the First Nations communities across Canada. You are still as much Musqueam as you would have been 300 years ago. Cultures change.

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From page 13

and Crooked Brothers. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Edmonton, Alta., Nov. 8.

The North Shore native was attracted to music, serving as an important outlet, at a young age. A student at St. Thomas Aquinas, Rogers recalls spending much of his teens jamming with friends in their parents’ basements.

“My parents told me I could be a musician but that I had to go to school,” says Rogers, and so he dutifully enrolled in Capilano University’s jazz studies program.

“It was great and I met a lot of the musicians that I still play with and that are still good friends,” he says.

Rogers started the same year as local powerhouse vocalist and songwriter Dawn Pemberton who is becoming more and more like an honourary third member of The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer as she is continually called upon to join them on stage.

“We love playing with her, we love her as a person, and so it just kind of evolved into that,” says Rogers, who says fellow local singer Jody Peck (Miss Quincy) also joins them at times.

Rogers recalls first meeting Pemberton when they were in high school. Vying for a music scholarship, they ended up

auditioning at the same time.

“She got up and did this awesome gospel thing and I got up and did a few lonely jazz songs on my guitar – She kicked butt and I thought, ‘This woman’s awesome.’ So we became acquainted at that and she got the scholarship and I didn’t,” he says.

Rogers eventually shifted to Capilano’s classical program and then the University of British Columbia where he graduated with a degree in music composition after deciding he wanted to get into film scoring. He remains active in that industry, scoring for a diverse range of film and television projects, and has been nominated for nine Leo Awards and has won three.

These days he’s also active as a music producer and has worked with Steven Drake (The Odds, The Tragically Hip), and Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Basia Bulat).

Fresh off a busy summer performance schedule that included a number of Canadian festivals, Rogers and Hall plan to stick close to home for the next few months. Both have young families, Rogers has a threeyear-old and three-week-old, and Hall’s kids are ages two and four.

However there’s no rest for the weary as they’re already gearing up for their next recording project, aiming to enter the studio in January 2016 with an

anticipated release date in less than a year.

Right now their focus is on songwriting, which has “always been different and it’s always changing,” says Rogers, in terms of their approach.

As they live in different cities, Hall is currently based in Nanaimo, they often write separately, or add bits and pieces to other’s creations.

“We’re trying to write together more and more, actually being in the same room and starting something from afresh so that we both feel connected to the song, but sometimes inspiration just doesn’t work that way,” says Rogers.

While they’re still in the early stages, some common ideas are beginning to form.

“We’re really appreciating the value of space and letting things breathe. I can’t say for sure, but that will probably be a theme of this record.

But who knows, it might just be super, fast noise rock,” he laughs.

The band counts Willie Dixon, Jack White and Danger Mouse among its diverse influences.

“We love the blues and we’re a blues-based band but how to take that to the next level while still keeping it blues is the thing we always aim to do and it’s not always easy. Sometimes it veers out of the blues world a little bit, and that’s fine with us, but we still want to keep this essence that is the blues,” he says.

Shawn Hall and Matthew Rogers are always looking for ways to bring the blues to the next level without losing the source of their sound.

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CALENDAR Lady Larks will perform music that reflects the bravery and sacrifice of wartime and revolution as well as the joy of victory Thursday, Nov. 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $20/$15.

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KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com A Murder is Announced: An Agatha Christie murder mystery Oct. 30 (preview), 31, Nov. 4-7 and 11-14 at 8 p.m. with matinees Nov. 7 and 14 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $22/$20/$15.

Red Rock Diner: A musical that captures the excitement and innocence of Vancouver’s burgeoning rock ‘n’ roll scene in the 1950s Nov. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m.

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Fall for Ballet: Coastal City Ballet will perform excerpts from the classic tutu ballet Paguita as well as three original creations Monday, Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $30/$22/$20.

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FASHION FILE Our regular roundup of fashion and beauty events and activities page 35

If you’re a woman and you don’t have an hourglass figure, it can be difficult to find clothing that fits and flatters.

The same shopping problem is true for men who don’t have the inverted triangle body shape most clothing manufacturers base their designs on.

That’s where Caposhie fits in. Created by Canadian women’s national soccer team goalie Erin McLeod and Vancouver fashion designer Adelle Renaud, the store (pronounced cah-poh-she) was set to open this week at the Village at Park Royal and specializes in clothing designed specifically for different body types.

The brand identifies five body shapes for women: triangle, inverted triangle, rectangle, hourglass and round; and three shapes for men: round, inverted triangle and rectangle.

“You walk in, you find out what your shape is, and then basically we have different fabrics, different designs to flatter the way your shape is and make the most of your shape,” says McLeod, a North Vancouver resident who is an artist and designer in addition to an athlete.

For example, she says, “if you have a round shape, you typically want to add volume to the top of your body and the bottom of your body.”

A blazer with shoulder pads paired with a skirt that is fuller at the bottom might be a good choice for

Erin McLeod, Canadian women’s national soccer team goalie, and designer Adelle Renaud have teamed up to open Caposhie, a new clothing store at the Village at Park Royal. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD a round-figured woman.

Each garment comes with a ribbon that denotes which body shape it is best suited for. If shoppers don’t know their shape, staff members will be equipped with measuring tapes to assist.

“It’s kind of like a personal shopping experience,” says Renaud. “I really love the innovative side of the fashion world, so this retail concept is really less of a shopping boutique and

more of an experience.”

Customers will also be given a card with their body information that they can use to shop online later.

“With the click of a button you can see all the clothing that’s going to fit you that’s in our store,” Renaud says. “What’s on our site versus what’s in our store is always going to be changing and a little bit different.”

Part of Caposhie’s slogan is “own your

shape” and that’s an important message the two founders hope to convey to their customers.

“It’s about actually being proud of your shape and not caring if you’re an hourglass or not, or an inverted triangle or not,” says McLeod.

When McLeod isn’t decked out in soccer gear, she says her dayto-day style reflects her athleticism.

“I want what I do to translate into what I wear.

When I’m on the field, I like feeling in charge and confident and comfortable with who I am,” she explains. Off the field, she wears whatever gives her that same confidence and comfort.

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LOOK Fashion File SALON OPEN HOUSE Discovery Spa and Salon is holding an open house on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2-5 p.m., at 1266 Marine Dr., North Vancouver. Clothing from JK Apparel Ltd., as well as hair products, will be for sale with a percentage of sales going to Hollyburn Family Services Society’s North Shore Youth Safe House.

CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR Saint Thomas Aquinas school will hold its annual fair Sunday, Nov. 1, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at 541 West Keith Rd., North Vancouver. The event will include raffles, prizes, baking, lunch and cheer.

Admission: $2.

HOLIDAY BEAUTY GALA Tickets are on sale now at Shoppers Drug Mart at Park Royal South for the store’s Holiday Beauty Gala event on Saturday, Nov. 7, noon-6 p.m. The event will feature skin consultations and holiday makeovers; $5 from each ticket goes toward the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

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SHIPYARDS CHRISTMAS MARKET will host 70 local vendors selling their wares at the Pipe Shop, 115 Victory Ship Way, North Vancouver, on Friday, Dec. 18, 5-10 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 19, 11 a.m.6 p.m. (with food trucks also); and Sunday, Dec. 20, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. (Santa photos with pets as well).

CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR The Ferry Building Gallery is holding its annual Great Stuff exhibition and sale of crafts, artwork, and distinctive gifts, Nov. 20Dec. 19. Hours: Tuesday to Saturday: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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HATS FOR THE HOMELESS Christine Hambleton, of Made by Me Sewing Studio, and Lisa Finlay work on making fleece hats. The studio is holding a Hats for the Homeless event on Thursday, Nov. 5, 6-9 p.m. People of all ages and abilities are welcome to attend and make hats to be donated to homeless shelters. Materials will be provided. Location: 108-949 West Third St., North Vancouver. Call 604-971-0940 to register or donate fabric. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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and skinny jeans and a cute top and a leather jacket and I feel confident.”

The Caposhie brand is part of McLeod and Renaud’s Noble Motives Collective fashion company, which supports a number of charitable causes through clothing sales. The company’s other brands include Peau De Loup, Renaud’s line of menswear-inspired clothing for

women, and Motive Athletics, McLeod’s new line of fitness-meets-fashion wear. All three Noble Motives Collective brands, in addition to several outside brands, such as Nygard, are available at the new 2,000-squarefoot Park Royal location.

“It’ll be a little bit of everything for everyone,” McLeod says.

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Zombies walk the streets of B.C.’s capital

Victoria just the ticket for those looking for a weekend escape MICHELLE HOPKINS Contributing Writer

Victoria: As most visitors do while visiting B.C.’s capital, my partner Brent and I strolled up and down the waterfront’s main streets checking out the neighbourhood.

Within minutes, coming straight at us were hundreds upon hundreds of bloodied zombies. This ghoulish display of walking, shuffling, moaning and groaning zombies snaked through the streets of downtown Victoria from Centennial Square to the B.C. Legislature grounds, and we were right in the thick of it.

It was quite the sight to behold as I snapped about 100 photos, marvelling at the professional looking make-up artistry of the walking dead.

We were told by one of the Victoria Zombie Walk 2015 marshals that this year attracted more than 2,500 walking dead. Hundreds watched, photographed and enjoyed this flash mob, one of Victoria’s premier Halloween events.

The capital has long held the title of being the most haunted city in B.C. The grande dame of Victoria herself is said to be haunted. Case in point: the untimely death of the hotel’s chambermaid, Lizzie McGrath, at The Empress in 1909 who died after stepping out of her sixthstorey room to stand on the fire escape that she didn’t realize had been removed for construction.

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So if vampires, ghouls and other paranormal beings are on your bucket list then Victoria is the place to fill it. Even the Inn at Laurel Point, where we stayed for two nights in a harbour view room, was in on the trick or treat action.

Friday afternoon, we were handed tickets to the newest attraction to attempt to scare visitors and residents alike – Horror Escape.

We were teamed up with two other couples and led into a dark room.

Consisting of several rooms, we had 30 minutes to find our way out by following the clues: that’s if you can figure out the clues which was not easy.

Horror Escape is a hybrid of sorts, part haunted house and part maze that challenges you to locate clues and solve riddles to help you unlock the door that will allow you to escape your “prison.” We never made it out of the second room! When one of the co-founders Jeff Roberts pointed out the oh-soobvious clues, I felt better knowing I wasn’t alone in my inability to break out.

However, it’s not all fright and flight in Victoria this fall. The city has a lot to offer visitors at any time of the year. ! Butchart Gardens: Although there were no hauntings or ghosts milling about, the scents and beauty of fall foliage is everywhere in this horticultural wonderland; making it a wonderful place to spend a few hours.

We strolled through the gardens, and met up with a couple from Florida. As we

JO ! Recipe from Inn at Laurel Point executive Meridian chef Takashi (Tak) Ito: LEIPZIG Kabocha (buttercup Squash) Soup Serves 4: they -600 grams Kabocha cubed, Germany “A -100 grams onion, sliced a -100 grams celery, sliced -100 grams Granny Smith German apple, peeled and cubed -50 ‘Thanks I’ve grams fennel, cored garden.’

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Bring to boil and simmer Union–ba for 20 minutes. Remove star Democrat anise, cinnamon stick and (GDR) bay leaf. Blend ingredients after Wall with some stock. Adjust thickness of soup by adding Stasi agents more stock.

“I like serving this soup with about some garnish with acidity but like apple or pumpkin seed six relish or pickled onion.” headquart known If you go: Corner.

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More than 2,500 walking dead took to the streets on Oct. 17 as part of Victoria Zombie Walk 2015. PHOTO SUPPLIED MICHELLE HOPKINS chatted with them, they told us they’ve traveled to several world-class gardens all over the U.S. and had never witnessed such a stunning and unique display.

It’s true. Although late in the season, the dahlias were in full bloom, some hardy roses were still standing and the vibrant reds, fiery oranges and golden hues of the trees and the hidden garden were dazzling at this time of year. It’s hard to

! Fisherman’s Wharf: I’m really surprised that after all these years of visiting Victoria I had never been to this hidden gem. Walking along the boardwalk from the Inn at Laurel Point, we turned a corner and saw a dozen or more colourful, funky floating houses and walk

right into Fisherman’s Wharf.

The floating boardwalk takes you along a neighbourhood of houseboats in an array of brilliant yellow, lime green, barn door red and blue, a hub for kayak and whale watching tours, and several seafood restaurants. We also had front-row seats as a young couple fed fish to a group of resident harbour seals.

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Secrets out on the banal ways of the Stasi

JOHN MASTERS Meridian Writers’ Group

LEIPZIG — A joke they used to tell in East Germany goes like this: “A grandson writes a letter to his West German grandmother: ‘Thanks for the pistol.

I’ve buried it in the garden.’

“Four weeks later he writes again: ‘Dear Grandma, you can send the tulip bulbs now. The Stasi dug up the garden.’”

The Stasi – formally, the Ministry of State Security – were the East German secret police. When the Soviet Union–backed German Democratic Republic (GDR) collapsed in 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the Stasi were dissolved. Their agents managed to destroy about a third of their files, but that still left dossiers on six million citizens.

In Leipzig, the Stasi headquarters was a building known as the Round Corner. It, and its contents, survived more or less intact, and is now a museum whose

exhibition, Stasi: Might and Banality, lays out the bureau’s workings.

The exhibition takes up the first floor of the fourstorey building (the other floors are closed), which has been left in the same drab state as when the secret police were there: tiny offices, dirty linoleum, bare fluorescent lights, everything old and worn.

The Stasi “penetrated into the most private aspects of people’s lives,” says the introduction to the English audio guide, “sowed mistrust among neighbours and violated the most elementary human rights.”

The displays, all in German (so you’ll need the audio guide), illustrate this.

In one room, for example, are a series of sealed glass jars. Inside are cloths impregnated with the scent of suspect citizens. Often the samples were obtained by calling someone in to answer questions, then making them wait while sitting on the absorbent cloth. If “subversive” leaflets were handed out, the Stasi would have specially trained dogs

A file drawer of intercepted mail that was kept, and the battered leather briefcase in which it was brought from the Leipzig post office to Stasi HQ. sniff the printed sheet, then a series of cloths until they barked. Even in the GDR this wasn’t legally admissible evidence, but, says the audio guide, “the Stasi generally found a way of making the result official.”

In another room are the specially made machines to steam open and then reseal people’s mail. Between 1,500 and 2,000 letters a week were taken straight from the Leipzig post office to the Round Corner. The

mail wasn’t just read: the Stasi set up an index to register every sender of a letter in Leipzig and to archive a writing sample from each on a microfiche.

The Leipzig branch also maintained a list of 14,000 people to be put in interment camps or interrogation cells in case of civil unrest. You could make the list for having contacts with Western media or being See Stasi page 40

The Stasi museum in Leipzig has been kept in the same drab state as when the secret police were there: tiny offices, dirty linoleum, bare fluorescent lights, everything old and worn.

November 9 is the 26th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. PHOTOS SUPPLIED JOHN MASTERS/MERIDIAN WRITERS’GROUP

The hit musical of 2014 hits North Van!

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TRAVEL BISTRO Hugos, Artisanal Pizzas and Global Tapas www.hugosvancouver.com 5775 Marine Drive, W. Van | 604-281-2111 Showcase your musical talents Thursday evenings in our beautiful chateau-style room or simply enjoy our reopened heated patio. Global fusion menu inspired by our love of travel, warm atmosphere inspired by our love of the community.

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BRITISH The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar $$ cheshirecheeserestaurant.ca 2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-987-3322 Excellent seafood & British dishes on the waterfront. Dinner specials: Wednesday evenings - Fresh halibut & chips.

Thursday’s Pot Roast. Friday & Saturday- Prime Rib. Sunday - Turkey. Weekends & holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny.

Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

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

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Woon Lee Inn www.woonleeinn.com 604-986-3388 3751 Delbrook Ave., North Vancouver

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

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

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.

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

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Butchart Gardens, 800 Benvenuto Ave. in Brentwood Bay. 20 kilometres south of the Swartz Bay ferry terminal.

Phone: 250-652-7751 or online at butchartgardens. com.

check discoverthepast.com for details. ! Horror Escapes runs all year-round. This 30 minute escape room challenge is located at 523 Broughton St., Victoria.

You can reserve by calling 778-265-7995 or online at horrorescape.com.

! Ghostly Walks is Victoria’s classic ghost tour, exploring the haunted alleys and courtyards of Victoria’s Old Town. Tours start at the Visitor Centre. Special Halloween tours take place nightly from October 19 to 31 at 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Bedford Regency Hotel (1140 Government St.).

No reservations needed.

Call 250-384-6698 or

! Fisherman’s Wharf is a hidden treasure waiting to be discovered. This unique marine destination offers food kiosks, unique shops and eco-tour adventures in the heart of the working harbour. Visit fishermanswharfvictoria. com.

– For more information about what to see and do in Victoria during the fall season, visit tourismvictoria. com.

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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.

a “persistent non-voter.”

When the Stasi vanished in 1990 they had about 90,000 on-book employees, plus nearly 190,000 informers, called IMs. “In most cases it wasn’t material considerations, but political convictions that convinced the IMs to sign up,” we learn. Payment was seldom more than a packet of coffee or a bouquet of flowers. If

you were exceptional, you might also be given a medal.

You couldn’t wear it, of course.

If you go: For more information on the Round Corner (Runde Ecke) visit its website at runde-ecke-leipzig.de.

For more info on travel in Germany go to the German National Tourist Office website at germany.travel.

More stories at culturelocker.com

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

Breakfast, lunch, dinner & late night lounge, 7 days/week. Live music Fridays 8 - 11 pm.

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

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

Free parking.

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Stasi disbanded in 1990

WEST COAST

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PUB The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub www.blackbearpub.com 1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van | 604.990.8880 “Your Favourite North Shore Pub” 18 years running. We do great food, not fast food.

Full Take-Out menu. Reserve your party of 15-30 ppl except Friday’s.

Monday night Trivia.

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Chez Michel www.chezmichelvancouver.com 1373 Marine Drive (2nd flr), W. Van. | 604-926-4913 For over 36 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.

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. Happy Hour Specials Every Day 11am – 6pm!

Satellite sports, pool table, darts & heated patio.

Ghostly Walks explores From Victoria’s haunted past

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CALENDAR From page 31

Live Music every Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

7 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.

JACK LONSDALE’S PUB 1433 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-986-7333 Live Music: Every Friday and Saturday at 9 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.

LYNN VALLEY LEGION 1630 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. 604987-2050 Halloween Costume Bash: Live music with Swayed performing soul to rock ‘n’ roll Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Admission: $20.

NORTH SHORE ALANO CLUB 176 East Second St., North Vancouver.

Halloween Dance: A clean and sober event for adults which will include a costume contest Saturday, Oct. 31 at 9 p.m. Tickets: $8 at the door. Info: 604-2351403.

MURDER MYSTERY Alison Jopson and Irene Reynolds are featured performers in Theatre West Van’s production of A Murder is Announced. The Agatha Christie murder mystery opens Saturday, Oct. 31 and runs on selected dates through Nov. 14. For more information visit kaymeekcentre.com or call 604-981-6335. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

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

RED LION BAR &

GRILL 2427 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. 604-926-8838 Laura Crema, jazz vocalist will perform Saturday, Nov. 7 at 7:30

p.m.

Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty will perform every Friday and Saturday starting at 7 p.m.

RUSTY GULL 175 East First St., North Vancouver.

Live Music Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Mostly Marley will perform every

Sunday, 7 p.m.

SAILOR HAGAR’S BREW PUB 235 West First St., North Vancouver. 604-984-3087

WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North 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.

Singer/songwriter Murray Swail will be featured Nov. 7 and will perform all original songs. Free. Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604-9855646.

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Photographer speaking via Skype after screening of Frame by Frame

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Under Taliban rule, taking a photo was a crime until 2001 when the ban was lifted and a photography revolution was born.

Set in a modern Afghanistan “bursting with color and character,” Frame

by Frame is done in cinema vérité style and features intimate interviews, powerful photojournalism and neverbefore-seen archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime.

Lauryn Oates, who grew up in West Vancouver, manages education projects in Afghanistan and has promoted the rights of Afghan women since 1996.

She will be facilitating a screening of Frame by Frame next week in North Vancouver.

“I know the people depicted in the film, and they really deserve the profile because they are absolutely heroic and not recognized enough in the West,” says Oates, via email from Kabul.

“I hope people will see another side of Afghanistan, one where bright, dedicated

journalists, photographers and other professionals are struggling to rebuild their country. In particular, the gains in the media sector in Afghanistan have been huge and media is such a pillar of democracy.”

When Oates arrived back in Kabul this summer she found a pretty tense atmosphere.

“Security is at an all-time low for sure, at least in the time I’ve been coming here (since 2003),” explains Oates. “Our mobility is greatly reduced and we face a lot of new threats.

More aid workers have been killed, injured or kidnapped in Afghanistan than in any other country in the world.

So it’s a very complex security environment and you have to be hyper vigilant while working here.”

On the other hand, says Oates, so much change has occurred in Afghanistan over the last decade, that there is great reward in sticking it out there, “to be able to watch things get better and see the society moving forward.”

The North Vancouver screening of Frame by Frame will be followed by a Q&A via Skype with Massoud Hossaini, the first Afghan to win a Pulitzer Prize and who is featured along with his wife in the film.

“His work is well known and highly respected both within the Afghan media sector, but also among photojournalists the world over,” said Oates.

Tarique Qayumi, an Afghan-Canadian filmmaker and producer on the movie The Gift, will also be hand during the Q&A. Proceeds from the screening will benefit the Fanoos/Lantern Fund for Teacher Training in Afghanistan, which pays for 1,000 Afghan teachers to become certified every year, along with equipping their schools with science labs and libraries.

“In my view, education should be the priority for Afghanistan’s reconstruction,” says Oates.

“Improving the quality of teaching and learning is the best antidote to war that exists.”

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Trees are a significant cause of power interruptions. Contact between trees and power lines can also create a severe danger.

Over the next few months we will be pruning and removing trees in the Pemberton area.

Boundaries: North:

Darcy

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Trees are pruned using the best arboriculture (tree care) practices. Skilled workers employed by BC Hydro are trained in both electrical safety and tree care. Only correct and proper techniques are used to eliminate any safety hazards.

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THEATRE

The Dining Room serves up a bygone era

! The Dining Room is at PAL (Performing Arts Lodge) Studio Theatre until Nov. 8. For tickets call 604-363-5734 or go to brownpapertickets.com.

JO LEDINGHAM Contributing Writer

Six actors play the lives of 50 characters in PAL Theatre’s production of The Dining Room. days. While The Dining Room feels very American with accents from a variety of U.S. cities and references to American events, the Canadian dining room has seen a similar decline.

In a mosaic of overlapping vignettes, Chelsea Haberlin deftly directs six performers playing a multitude of roles.

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“If only the walls could talk.”

On a tour of heritage homes at least one person is bound to say it. In A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room, which premiered in New York in 1982, the playwright focuses not on the walls but on a dining room — the room that, early on, was used in the U.S. by white, upper-middleclass families for all the meals with daddy at one end, mommy at the other and the fidgety kids in between. Often, in these families, there was a maid of few words: “Yes, ma’am” and “Yes, sir” and maybe a “coloured” cook or nanny – much loved by the children.

The room, with its highly polished dining room table and chairs with a buffet or credenza nearby, gradually devolved into a special occasion room when the bone china, the silverware and the crystal were brought out, cherished, used, lovingly washed by hand and put away until Easter, Thanksgiving, New Year’s or Christmas.

The play is a eulogy of sorts, not only for the dining room but also for bygone

The focal point of Glenn MacDonald’s set is an ornate oval dining room table, six chairs, chandelier and handsome sideboard.

Lighting designer John Webber leaves the periphery of this centrepiece more or less in shadow so the various vignettes appear as if in memory.

The play is generally billed as a comedy – and there’s lots of gentle humour in it – but it’s really more of a nostalgic medley – a meal made up of appetizers.

A father (John Prowse) instructs his son (Alen Dominguez) on how to get along: “Half of life is meeting other people.”

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“What’s the other half?” the boy innocently asks, earning his father’s ire. A mother (Anna Hagan) tries to persuade her daughter (Kate Dion-Richard) to attend dancing school rather than see a play with her notorious Aunt Martha.

Aggie, the maid (Adele Noronha) tells Michael (Dominguez) she doesn’t

want to be a maid any longer, and he offers to be, “More careful when I pee” if she’ll stay. A brash young architect tries to persuade the new buyer of the house (Keith Martin Gordey) to turn the dining room into a waiting room and office.

This scene — and some others — reveals that all was not always happy around that table: arguments, betrayals, disappointments and frequent insensitivity to the “help.”

It’s a bittersweet snapshot but what provides the greatest pleasure is the transformative skill of the performers. Anna Hagan, for example, is a giddy little birthday girl in one scene, an unfaithful middle-aged woman; an elderly woman who, at a dinner party, forgets where she is and who these people — her family — are, and a waddling, pregnant Irish maid. All of the performers cross the age barrier easily — sometimes cavorting as little kids, sometimes as troubled or silly adolescents or, in one case, a grown daughter with two kids who wants to come back home to live. The play, like Our Town, is a terrific vehicle for performance.

Presented by Western Gold Theatre, the dining room and its beautiful old furniture could be headed for the museum. The memories linger – mostly lovingly – on. Let’s raise a glass – Waterford crystal, of course – to the dining room.

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Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-9257290 ferrybuildinggallery. com Women Artists Through History: Trace the rise of women artists from the Renaissance to present day Monday, Nov. 2 and 9, 7-9 p.m. Fee: $15 drop-in.

Celebrating French Impressionism: An exploration of impressionism and post-impressionist paintings Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7-9 p.m. Fee: $15 drop-in.

Living Legends of Art: A seminar on some of the most important living legends of art with art dealer Paul Erik Becker Tuesday, Nov. 3, 7-9 p.m. $15.

GRIFFIN ART PROJECT GALLERY 1174 Welch Ave., North Vancouver.

FANS Tribute to the Arts: A celebration of the arts on the North Shore honouring musician Gene Ramsbottom and painter Cori Creed Friday, Nov. 6, 7-10 p.m. Admission: $30 each or two for $50. Tickets: nsfans.ca.

INDIGO BOOKS 1025 Marine Dr., North Vancouver.

Crime Time Trio: Mystery writers Allan J. Emerson, Cathy Ace and Donald J. Hauka will be signing copies of their books Saturday, Nov. 7, 1-3 p.m.

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FOLK ICON Mark Hellman stars as folk icon Pete Seeger in The Other Guys Theatre production of The Incompleat Folksinger by Pete Seeger Nov. 4 to 14 at the Firehall Arts Centre (firehallartscentre.ca/). PHOTO SUPPLIED Vancouver. 604-998-3450 nvcl.ca Culture is No Excuse for Abuse: The documentary Honor Diaries will be screened Thursday, Nov. 5, 7-8:30 p.m. followed by a Q and A session led by human rights activist Lauryn Oates.

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

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The North Shore International Film Series: Coming Home will be screened Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $11. nvartscouncil.ca/events/ north-shore-internationalfilm-series.

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Jem and the Holograms (G) — Fri, Mon, Wed 7; Sat-Sun, Tue 4:10, 7 p.m.

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension 3D (14A) — Fri, Mon, Wed-Thur 7:10, 10; SatSun 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 10; Tue 4:40, 7:10, 10 p.m.

Steve Jobs (PG) — Fri, Mon, Wed-Thur 6:50, 9:45; Sat 9:15 a.m., 1, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; Sun 1, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; Tue 4, 6:50, 9:45 p.m.

Our Brand is Crisis (PG) — Fri, Mon, Wed-Thur 6:45, 9:30; Sat 10 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30; Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30; Tue 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 p.m.

Thur 1 p.m.

Spectre — Thur 7, 10:15 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhauser — Sat 9 a.m.

Pal Joey — Sun 12:55 p.m. $20/$15. Tickets: framebyframevancouver. eventbrite.ca. Proceeds will benefit the Fanoos/Lantern Fund for teacher training in Afghanistan.

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Rover Discovery; this new model, however, shares the same all-aluminium architecture as the top-ofthe-line Range Rover. As a result, the new Sport is 800 pounds lighter despite growing a bit bigger.

Even though it has the same bones as its big brother, the Sport looks more like its smaller sibling, the Range Rover Evoque.

Overall, it looks slick, yet rugged and easily identifiable as a Land Rover.

Both the front and rear receive more contemporary styling that better lines up to the sport suffix. The blacked-out pillars give it a sleek appearance and the spoiler topping the hatch hints at its potential.

The interior boasts premium materials and a

tasteful design – it is simple and elegant and designers did a good job of blending modern technology with oldworld class.

The Range Rover Sport comes as well equipped as any car costing more than $75,000. It can also be further tailored to perfectly suit your individual tastes.

Performance As most would expect, the Range Rover Sport has a commanding view over the road and other motorists.

Despite its bulk, rear and side visibility are good thanks to the large windows.

Unlike the standard Range Rover, driving the Sport feels more sedan-like, thanks to the way the front See Range page 50

Mazda revives rotary engine A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Mazda brings back the rotary engine This week, your humble correspondent actually happens to be on the ground in Toyko, cheek-by-jowl with other sweaty correspondents all struggling to get a single unobstructed photograph of the new RX-7.

Sorry, not the new RX-7, the new RX-Vision concept. After years of denying they were working on a rotary-powered machine, Mazda pulled the wraps off a long-nosed sport coupe; yes, those are concept looks, but it’s pretty close to production ready.

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Range Rover Sport commands the road From page 49

seats hug and how the ride feels smooth and refined.

While being tall, the Range Rover Sport is very quiet on the move, with very little wind or road noise entering the cabin. Further aiding in that regard is the standard air suspension, which soaks up road imperfections. The setup is a little firmer than in the big Range Rover, but the Sport always remains very composed.

It never loses that composure even when it’s off-road or faced with rough weather. The standard 4-wheel drive includes a low-range gearbox and locked differential. These are controlled by Land Rover’s Terrain Response 2 system

that allows the driver to choose the optimal power distribution for the given situation. It even comes with an Auto mode, which will determine the ideal settings itself to help novice drivers exploit the Range Rover Sport’s capability.

Most Range Rover Sport owners will spend the majority of time on the paved road. In that regard, the Sport corners with little body roll and V-8 equipped models come with a torquevectoring system that sends more power to the rear outside wheels to further stabilize the ride. Ultimately though, it still can’t quite match the outright handling ability of the Porsche Cayenne.

The Range Rover Sport is surprisingly agile

around town. Despite its heft, steering is light and responsive, although the road feedback is minimal and somewhat artificial.

It’s this level of overall refinement that sets Land Rover apart from the rest.

The available engines consist of one V-6 and two V-8s. All are gasoline powered as the diesel-electric hybrid popular in Europe is not available in North America.

Most Range Rover Sports here will be powered by a new supercharged 3.0-litre V-6 engine; it has been lightened to improve performance and efficiency and produces 340 horsepower and 332 footpounds of torque.

See Surprisingly page 52

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Self-drivers and fancy fuel cells star at Tokyo show From page 49

be used to rebirth Mazda’s flagship car? Well, we’ll have to wait and see.

Besides mentioning that

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Porsche releases Macan GTS In less fanciful news, Porsche pulled the wrap off another designation for their hot-selling Macan crossover.

You could have seen this coming a mile away: there’s the Macan S, the Macan Turbo, and between them now is the Macan GTS. The Macan GTS gets a mild horsepower bump over the base S model (all Macans are turbocharged, though only one is called the Turbo. Don’t think about it too hard, Porsche wouldn’t like that). The adjustable air-ride suspension is a little lower than in the Turbo model, and the styling is a little more aggressive.

Basically, it’s a few percentage points quicker and meaner than the base model for several thousand dollars more. If there isn’t a Macan Turbo S in a few years, I’ll eat my lederhosen.

Nissan IDS promises an autonomous future Aside from dreamy sportscars and naked profiteering, Tokyo’s main theme was the coming of the autonomous vehicle. Over at Nissan, things took shape in the form of the IDS concept, a sharply angled vehicle that might as well be called the 2020 Nissan Leaf.

With a 60 kWh battery providing theoretically twice the range of next year’s Leaf, the IDS could be the way forward. As for how it’ll be progressing forward, it might be handling that all by itself.

Flip a switch and the steering wheel for the IDS

disappears into the dash, leaving a touchpad in its place. Nissan promises driving by choice, not by necessity, meaning you can let the car handle the traffic jam coming off the North Shore, or zip up the Sea to Sky yourself.

Don’t expect this stuff tomorrow, but do expect incremental improvements to the way cruise control works, and further driver aids to help with safety.

Nissan calls their suite of self-driving tech “intelligent driving,” and considering how little of that you see from human drivers, it can’t come soon enough.

Pair of Subaru concepts point the way forward Subaru also trumpeted a next-gen version of their Eyesight camera-based technology, plumping for at least semi-autonomous driving within five years.

Add automatic lane change into the already existing automatic cruise control, and make your commute just that much easier.

But it’s what’s coming sooner that’s of real interest.

With the new Impreza due out next year, Subaru’s fivedoor concept is a glimpse in the short-range crystal ball.

Like all Subaru concepts, the new Impreza is pretty futuristic, but you can expect the production version to be far tamer.

Still, a little more pizazz can’t hurt, especially in the interior.

Also interesting was the Viziv concept, a burly looking thing slightly larger

than the Forester. Never mind the wacky sliding rear doors: a longer version of this is bound to be the next Tribeca. Subaru needs a seven seater in the lineup for sales growth, and one with a 2.0-litre turbocharged boxer engine would be just non-SUV enough to appeal to folks outgrowing their Forester.

Lexus LF-FC makes the fuel cell cool Buying a fuel cell vehicle is a bit tricky, as you’re really buying into a different type of infrastructure. The technology is sound, but you can’t just fill up wherever you want – at least not yet.

Toyota thinks it’s found the way forward though, and with their LF-FC, they’re also showing us a glimpse of the new LS range-topping sedan.

With rear-wheel drive, and in-wheel electric motors completing for all-wheeldrive, the LF concept is enormously complicated, but so too is the current LS600h. Building these for specific markets where hydrogen fuelling stations are present might actually work.

But for the rest of North America, this style might be what the new standard LS looks like. Maybe it’s Stockholm syndrome, but the hyper-futuristic look actually works here.

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

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Surprisingly fast and supremely comfortable From page 50

The next step in performance is a supercharged 5.0-litre V-8, which creates 510 h.p. and 461 foot-pounds of torque to haul the Range Rover Sport to 100 kilometres per hour in just 5.3 seconds.

But if that’s still not enough, check out the new SVR model. Its tuned supercharged 5.0-litre V-8 puts out 550 h.p. and will rocket to 100 km/h in less than five seconds.

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Rear seat passengers will appreciate the added legroom and space, thanks to the Range Rover Sport’s wide stance. The passengers are therefore quite comfortable when carrying three in the back, and thanks to the flat floor and sculpted centre console, the middle passenger won’t have to fight for foot space.

If you need to carry more passengers, new this year is an optional 5+2 seating package. This adds a powered third row with two additional seats. However, it is barely big enough to accommodate a small child, entry and exit is awkward, and you lose the spare.

While the Sport doesn’t have the handy split tailgate of the larger Range Rover, the power liftgate and flat cargo floor make loading and unloading items easy.

The 27.7 cubic feet of cargo space behind the second row is about as good as you can get in a sporty SUV. With the 60/40 split rear seats folded, it opens up a maximum 62.2 cubic feet of cargo volume.

If there is a complaint about the Range Rover Sport’s interior, it would be its infotainment system.

It feels a bit old, has a low screen resolution and slow response times.

Features Ranging in price from $75,490 to $124,990, the Range Rover Sport proves that historic luxury comes at a cost.

Standard equipment includes passive keyless entry, heated front and rear seats, heated steering wheel, two-zone climate control, heated windshield with heated washer jets, rain-sensing wipers, heated power exterior mirrors, xenon headlights, front and rear camera, parking aids, intelligent start/stop system, and an eight-inch touchscreen.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include memory seats, sliding panoramic roof, adaptive headlights, automatic high beams, three-zone climate control, auto dimming interior mirror, surround camera system, and blind spot monitoring.

Fuel efficiency numbers (litres/100 kilometres) for V-6 models are 14.0 city,

10.5 highway and 12.4 combined. The standard V-8 returns 16.6 city, 12.3 highway and 14.7 combined, whereas the tuned V-8 sees 17.3 city, 12.2 highway and 15.0 combined.

Thumbs up The Range Rover Sport stands apart from the crowd.

It’s luxurious interior and comfortable suspension make it the most relaxing sport SUV to travel in.

Thumbs down Range Rover exclusivity comes at a price, and the expense continues throughout ownership as the Sport is not the most efficient on the market.

And, while this is an all-new model, Land Rover doesn’t boast a sterling reliability record.

The bottom line The Range Rover Sport is surprisingly fast and agile, supremely comfortable and can take you wherever you desire to explore.

Competitors Audi Q7 The Q7 is an imposing SUV. It boasts a high driving position providing a commanding view of the road. However, its bulk can be an issue in tight spaces.

The Q7’s $59,200 base price makes it an economical choice in this segment. An all new model is slated for debut in early 2016.

BMW X5 The BMW X5 is a nice looking SUV inside and out and offers a level of refinement that rivals many vehicles priced much higher.

The previous generation X5 didn’t garner the highest reliability ratings, and since a lot of that model has been carried over to this one, questions will be raised.

The X5 comes in three models with prices starting at $62,990 and ranging up to $76,590.

Porsche Cayenne If you want amazing performance, yet need something practical, the Porsche Cayenne has a model to suit your needs. The Cayenne was the pioneer of the sport crossover segment and shows no signs of slowing down.

The Cayenne Turbo is certainly not the most affordable people mover and ranges in price from $67,400 all the way up to $178,100.

editor@automotivepress.com

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