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Snowboarder Maëlle Ricker retires at 36 Olympic champion announces end to historic career ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

Five years later, it’s still nearly impossible to watch Maëlle Ricker’s gold medal run in snowboard cross at the Vancouver Winter Olympics without getting goosebumps, a lump in the throat or even tears in the eyes.

A replay of the dominant run was shown at North Vancouver’s Level 10 Fitness Wednesday morning and Ricker’s assembled friends, family and even media members couldn’t help but smile, laugh and cry as commentator Jamie Campbell belted out his boisterous call that ends with his own voice cracking, “Maëlle Ricker’s Olympic dreams have come truuueeeee!”

A few minutes after the replay ended Ricker, a West Vancouver native and Squamish resident, announced that at age 36 she was retiring from competitive snowboarding.

She’ll hang up her board as one of the most decorated winter sport athletes in Canada and will forever have the distinction of being the first Canadian woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal on home soil.

“It’s with absolute pleasure, and nervousness, that I step away from the start gate and hang up the race jersey today,” she said, her own voice cracking.

West Vancouver native Maëlle Ricker announces her retirement from competitive snowboarding at an event held Wednesday at North Vancouver’s Level 10 Fitness. The four-time Olympian thrilled her hometown fans at Cypress Mountain in 2010 when she won the snowboard cross final to become the first Canadian woman ever to win an Olympic gold medal on home soil. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN “There aren’t enough words, there aren’t enough thankyous, to show my gratitude for being part of the team.”

Thus ended a competitive snowboarding career that spanned more than two decades and included appearances at four Olympic Games in a pair of disciSee Ricker page 3

Parents petition for Argyle replacement JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Parents whose kids will one day head to Argyle secondary are putting pressure on the District of North Vancouver to approve the latest

development plan for a school district property that could provide key funding for replacement of the aging building.

Fed up with a decade of delay, parents whose elementary-school-aged kids live in the Argyle

catchment area have been making their views known through an online petition and are vowing to show up and let council know how they feel.

“I’ve known about this for years and only recently was I made aware this

wasn’t a done deal,” said Erika Gailus Hogan, whose elementary-school-aged kids go to school in Lynn Valley.

Parents are focusing their energies on the See Province page 9

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Council endorses Upper Lands vision Working group’s report envisions Cypress Village as gateway to recreation MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

West Vancouver council has endorsed a laundry list of recommendations that will determine the future of 6,000 acres of public and private property above the highway between the British Properties and Cypress Provincial Park.

On Oct. 28 council members unanimously decided recommendations contained in Part 1 of the Upper Lands Study Review Working Group’s final report be used as a framework for Upper

Lands policies in the OCP, to plan for a future Cypress Village and to develop a recreational strategy.

Chief among the Upper Lands group’s recommendations, of a total 29, calls for the restriction of residential development above the 1,200-foot contour line, the most ecologically sensitive area, and that municipal lands above that point be reserved as dedicated parkland. A related directive recommends any residential development opportunities west of Eagle Creek be transferred to lands east of Eagle Creek.

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Council offered appreciation towards the working group members and their two and a half

years of consultation with stakeholders and the public. The meeting was also a chance for council members to ask questions about the Upper Lands recommendations.

Coun. Nora Gambioli expressed concern with how fast the Cypress Village plan is advancing, saying she has heard from some community members that the project is not a priority.

Gambioli noted there are 15 other major projects in the planning department outside of the Upper Lands. “So, my concern is how staff is going to reconcile this great work that you’ve done with all the other planning work we have to do, and how are we going to prioritize that?” said Gambioli.

Coun. Mary-Ann Booth pointed to the results of a public survey that asked if the 1,200-foot contour line for development restriction should be finite. Booth said 37 per cent of survey respondents voted in favour of an inflexible line, 41 per cent voted against and 22 per cent were undecided. Booth then asked the municipality’s senior community planner David Hawkins where the rationale for the development boundary in the Upper Lands came from, saying “it’s hard to draw conclusions from those numbers.”

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Ricker on retirement: ‘A switch flicked’ From page 1

plines, snowboard cross and halfpipe. In 1996-’97, her rookie season on World Cup snowboard cross circuit, Ricker, still a teenager, hit the podium twice. Since then she’s racked up two X-Games gold medals, two Crystal Globes as the overall World Cup snowboard cross champion, a World Championship gold and of course, Olympic gold in 2010.

Her career, however, is defined as much by devastating low points, and her resilience in coming back from them, as it is by her soaring victories. A knee injury kept her out of the Olympics in her prime, 2002 in Salt Lake, and over the years she would collect so many knee surgeries that she has literally lost count (the total is at or near double digits). At the 2006 Olympics in Turin she was the gold medal favourite but suffered a horrific crash in the championship. She finished fourth and suffered a concussion that has, to this day, wiped the crash clean from her memory.

In 2014 Ricker was intent on defending her Olympic gold medal but she suffered another nasty crash while training in Aspen, Colo., the radius and ulna bones of her left forearm breaking, with the smaller radius bone popping right through her skin. She was due in the Olympic start gate in 19 days.

The night of the accident she was getting prepped for surgery and made a phone call to her father.

“I was a bit teary-eyed and pretty emotional and he said, ‘chin up, grit your teeth, smile and we’ll see you in a few days,’” Ricker remembered Wednesday.

“And that’s exactly what happened.”

By the next morning she was already mapping out a plan to get herself ready to race in Sochi, Russia.

With 16 screws and two plates in her arm she did make it into the Olympic start gate, amazingly finishing fourth in qualifying.

There was no medal on the line in those time trials – Ricker would go on to crash in her first heat, well before the medal rounds – but her performance in Sochi helped define her career as a fierce competitor.

“It wasn’t the crash, but the next few weeks of how we all worked together, Canada Snowboard, the coaches, everybody pulled together to get me out of the gate,” she said. “It allowed me to have one of the most unforgettable time trial runs of my life. One of my greatest accomplishments in my snowboarding career.”

That moment also resonates for Anthony Findlay, the owner of Level 10 Fitness, who has spent thousands of hours working with Ricker over the years getting her body fit for competition. On Wednesday Findlay revealed that Ricker was also racing with broken ribs in Sochi, an injury that made it hard for her to breathe during the race.

Ricker never disclosed that injury to the public.

“She didn’t want another

crutch for people to know about,” said Findlay. “That was kind of her in a nutshell. ... She’s just the toughest athlete in the world. And then she came fourth in her time trial!”

Findlay, whose client list includes players from nearly every league you can name, right up to the NFL and NHL, calls himself lucky for getting to work with Ricker all of these years. He was there with tears in his eyes at the bottom of the course at the 2010 Olympics and he was by Ricker’s side in 2014 as she was lying on the side of a mountain in Aspen with her arm bones broken.

“She’s one of these very unique people that some get the privilege to be able to meet and deal with and get to know what drives them,” he said. “She strikes a chord.

Everything you’d want to achieve or how you’d want to do it, Maëlle has done that. All the examples that you’d want your kids to watch and emulate, she’s done that.”

The location of Ricker’s retirement announcement was fitting given the amount of time she’s spent at Level 10 getting her injurywracked body back into racing shape. She drives down from her home in Squamish nearly every day for morning training sessions.

“It’s a second home, really,” she said. “There are plenty of facilities closer to my house that I could go to but the atmosphere and the passion and the energy that Anthony has brought to the team is just undeniable. I’d

Maëlle Ricker flies down Cypress Mountain on her way to gold during the 2010 Olympics.

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drive 1,000 kilometres a day if I had to to work out with him every day.”

She’ll likely need to continue to make the trip to keep her body functioning – this retirement was not by choice. She hasn’t competed since the 2014 Olympics but Ricker spent this summer preparing for another season.

This August she went to Snowboard Canada’s South American training camp but when she got on snow it was clear that her injuries had finally caught up to her, her right knee ultimately keeping her from performing at her peak.

“This past year has been really tough,” she said.

“Even thinking about it now brings the hairs up on my arms. I really would have loved to be in that start gate in Pyeongchang (at the 2018 Olympics) with our younger generation of team. (But) I

just knew. A switch flicked.”

The switch wasn’t just based on her physical status but also her mental preparation, Ricker said.

“I know what I need to feel and what I need to risk to be in the start gate and on the podium. I just know that I’m not able to get to that point anymore.”

The years of flying down hills, racing side-by-side with other boarders over jumps and around bends have taken nearly all of the cushion out of her right knee, making snowboarding, training, even walking a painful process for Ricker, said Findlay.

“It’s tough to see, knowing her, knowing that she never wants to stop,” he said. “She’d probably keep going, as she said years ago, even if she needed to be bolted together. And that’s kind of what’s happened.”

Ricker will continue to work with Snowboard Canada athletes in a yetto-be-determined role.

Judging by the response to her retirement – praise has been pouring in from her teammates, many of whom were seen in a tearjerking thank-you video shown at her retirement announcement – she’ll be an inspirational mentor no matter what role she takes.

“I’m still looking for a way to give back and be part of the team and still live, dream, eat, breathe snowboarding, day in day out,” Ricker said. “The kind words from my teammates and friends was over the top, it brought tears to my eyes.

It just makes you realize how much of a special environment you’re in, and how fortunate I am to be in the presence of such amazing people.”

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Knowles searched for Tia and put up flyers around the neighbourhood but the disappearance remained a mystery. For the first week, her other cat Toby was frantically running around the house and crying out from the balcony where Knowles suspects Tia jumped or fell from. “They are such good buddies. They snuggle together. They play a lot together. He was really missing him. That really broke my heart to see him as distraught as he was,” Knowles said To comfort herself, Knowles painted a picture in her mind of Tia being taken in and cared for by another family. Then, on Oct. 24 – 23 days since she last saw him – Knowles got

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Joanna Knowles and her four-year-old cat Tia reunited after the kitty somehow became locked in a vacant suite in Knowles’ Lower Lonsdale condo building PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN a shocking call from a new neighbour. “I got a phone call from some woman in the building who was just moving in and he was in her bathtub. I believe the suite had been vacant for a long time,” she said.

Tia was “freaked out” when they discovered him, hissing and spitting. “He lost a lot of weight, obviously.

I would assume he was drinking out of the toilet bowl because there was a very strong smell of cat urine down there,” Knowles said.

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“He was really happy to be home,” she said.

Knowles had Tia checked over by a vet and who gave him a clean bill of health. “It still kind of boggles my mind that he was in such good shape other than the weight loss,” she said.

Knowles said she was impressed by the response from her local community, with upset neighbours out searching for Tia and knocking on doors. “As distraught as I was, I was feeling very well supported.

People were obviously really understanding that it’s part of your family,” she said.

That goes especially so for the downstairs neighbour who reunited Knowles and Tia. “I’m just so grateful that woman showed up when she did because had she not been moving in, there’s no way I ever would have known. ‘Welcome to the neighbourhood. Sorry your new suite smells like cat urine,’” she added with a laugh. “I’ve actually talked to her several times since. She was amazing.”

BPP outlines its concerns From page 3 public engagement showed a higher level of support for the inflexible line.

Representatives for British Pacific Properties, the single largest private land owner in the study area, outlined their concerns with the recommendations through a letter to the Upper Lands working group.

British Pacific Properties president Geoff Croll referred to specific recommendations as being “too definitive or prescriptive,” adding that because public feedback was not conclusive

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Croll wrote that eliminating the potential for development in the area without more detailed analysis could potentially “short change” the community as well as British Pacific Properties.

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elieving that it had a war-ready population of 20 million citizens in 1749, the government of Sweden conducted the first-ever modern census.

Bluntly, leaders discovered they were short by a factor of 10. The rude awakening prompted the government to invest in public health and stem infant mortality. It was the beginning of sophisticated, evidence-based decision making in government for the benefit of the people.

In its first act of policy-making, the Liberal government announced Thursday that Statistics Canada would reinstate the mandatory long-form census after it was unceremoniously scrapped by the Tories in 2010 in favour of an optional household survey. With 25 per cent fewer respondents, statisticians warned the value of the data collected from the survey was questionable to the point of being, arguably, useless.

Whether it was scrapped to satisfy the

more paranoid, libertarian branches of the party or to confound critics who used data to challenge the Conservatives’ agenda, we’re glad to see our mini-Dark Ages of governing from the hip are over.

People may forget it, but filling out the census is a civic duty on the same level as paying taxes and voting. The root of the word statistics, is in fact, state.

In the meantime, big, expensive decisions are being made and we want to be sure we’re on the right track.

Among the reliable info collected in the census was information on the length of citizens’ commutes – this as we’re moving to spend $140 million redesigning our Highway 1 interchanges and the region struggles with how it will pay for transit improvements.

We hope this move marks the return to evidence-based decisions in Ottawa. When it comes to our time and our money, vague guesses simply won’t cut it.

Some war stories still not popular to share Let’s get this over with: Ontario Premier Kathleen (Queen of Debt) Wynne confabbing with buddy Justin Trudeau is like a railway dispatcher advising the train robbers which car is carrying the gold bullion.

••• Quite rightly, there will be a lot of retrospectives and interviews with the shrinking ranks of veterans as Remembrance Day approaches.

But, pushing a thinning calendar ahead of me, these days I think more about the Second World War’s marks on the non-combatants. Far from the savagery, I wasn’t hurt a lick, but many such people carried something less than a wound and more than a scratch inside, forever unhealed.

Not in any chronological order: I think of a war-evacuated young Englishman, not quite

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adopted but something like that, by the mayor of my hometown (among war’s “borrowed parents,” as some called them). In Canada, years after the war, he got a reporter’s job, the mayor connection not hurting of course, with the local paper. Quiet. Shy. Not the Front Page type. Can’t recall — young reporter myself — ever talking to him. He killed himself.

What was the “why”?

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Ben Wicks was one of those jokey, peppy little Englishmen — almost a bit too much personality squeezed into too small a body. Evacuated beyond German bombing range like thousands of other children, in 1988 Wicks — by then one of Canada’s most popular cartoonists — published an invaluable book of such evacuees’ experiences, No Time to Wave Goodbye. Some “borrowed parents” were touchingly kind. Some were unspeakable sexual monsters, an outrageous assault on the decency the war was fought to protect.

Rotting in Hell would be too good for them, then as now.

Some uncomfortable war truths are buried under forgetfulness and warglorifying movies. When Nazi Germany conquered countries, who worked in their factories producing

war materiel? The conquered, of course. They had little choice. Richard Overy, in The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945 (Viking Penguin), notes that by the end of 1943 about 75,000 Belgian and 109,000 Dutch workers were employed under German arms contracts.

What was euphemistically called “bad shooting,” such as the bombing of Mortsel, Belgium, which killed 926 including 209 children, seriously damaged the Allied air forces’ reputation among people who had previously welcomed bombing of the occupiers.

A Dutch woman seeking compensation wrote a wrenching letter to George VI: “It may seem rather impudent from me, to ask you for help, but I know you are righteous and honest....”

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could only confirm that destruction of her house was “a hazard of war” and “if we started paying for this kind of loss there would be no end to our liability.”

With all the human carnage, this small incident sticks in memory: An American soldier idly shot a farmer’s cow. The suffering animal ran in agonized circles before dying.

Revolting.

Some Canadians on the home front didn’t much put their shoulder to the wheel. There was grumbling about business profiteering, a black market for those in the know, griping about rationing, even that our best-quality food was sent to our soldiers in Britain.

On which latter point, our family has laughed for decades about Mrs. Brown — “an old-country Englishwoman,” to quote my mother — who, hearing a rumour that soap would

be rationed, rushed out and bought boxes of it.

“You have to get it,” she explained with an almost genius level of selfunawareness, “before the hoarders get it.”

You youngsters under 70 will hear the solemn words and music on Remembrance Day, but not so much the ribald wartime songs, or the declarations of some surviving soldiers claiming that the war was the best years of their lives.

A war footnote: In the current furor over razing fine old Shaughnessy houses, it would be timely to recall Ottawa’s wartime diktat suspending all municipal zoning bylaws to allow — force — singlefamily homes to be broken up to accommodate war workers. War over, the egg, scrambled, couldn’t easily be unscrambled.

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Arrogance may bring down B.C. Liberals When the B.C. Liberals scored an upset election victory in 2013, a number of political observers (myself included) wondered at the time if the miracle win would breed arrogance among the victors to the point where they thought they were bulletproof from losing power.

That arrogance has indeed been on display from time to time since then, as the government seems to operate in some kind of self-imposed bubble, far away from the prying or interested eyes of those who don’t drink their Kool-Aid. Political opponents and critics are simply dismissed out of hand or ignored altogether. That is not particularly unusual in our political system, but the B.C. Liberals have taken this attitude to new high heights. But for solid and alarming evidence that this arrogance has taken deep root within the government, look no further than the controversy raging over

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the B.C. Liberals’ wanton disregard for following the law when it comes to making information public where it is warranted.

It’s not just that these folks seem to think they are above the law. No, it goes further than that: they think the particular law in question (which governs freedom of information) really doesn’t matter to the public, and therefore following the rules set down by that law doesn’t really matter much either.

Certainly, the B.C. Liberals may well be correct (however cynically) in gauging the public’s disinterest, although they

may be underestimating things this time around.

While only a tiny fraction of the population even knows about the very concept of freedom of information, most folks will look darkly at a government that is gaining a reputation for improperly hiding things and illegally destroying documents.

However, it’s important to remember that the party seemed bruised and battered by the so-called “quick wins” scandal involving the courting of ethnic voters (aside from avid political watchers, who can recite what that was even about?) going into the last campaign and the scandal ended up mattering not a whit to the electorate.

Scandals rarely defeat governments and the last election outcome appears to have embedded this fact into the brains of many currently running the show.

Contributing to this feeling of invincibility is the B.C. Liberals’ view that their political opponent — the NDP — has hit a stone wall in popularity and can

only win elections through fluky statistical anomalies among voting results.

The current brouhaha over deleting emails may well pass from memory by the time voters head to the polls again 18 months from now, or at least it may not be the deciding question when people mark their ballots.

But that does not excuse the actions of what appears to be a fair number of key political staffers who have, to varying degrees, refused to create written documents or have improperly deleted emails or who have simply subverted the rules regarding the release of government information to the public.

This dismissal of the need to be accountable and provide openness is cavalier at best and sneeringly undemocratic at worst.

The investigation by the province’s independent privacy and information commissioner into this affair was justifiably scathing and harsh in its findings and judgment.

This mentality — that “winning” is all-important — can leave vacant the moral and ethical high ground voters still expect to see occupied by those they vote for. Stephen Harper and his Conservative party learned that lesson in a very painful manner in the recent federal election.

The B.C. Liberals have had a very narrowly focused agenda the past few years.

They have introduced few groundbreaking laws (other than perhaps overhauling the liquor system) and continue to put all their eggs in the liquefied natural gas basket.

Their philosophy rests on a key tenet: that

government should get out of peoples’ faces, and not stick its nose into too many places.

However ironic it would be, then, that this modest approach to governing is elbowed aside by the one activity the government seems to have a rare zeal for: cynically ignoring the law in order to stop the flow of information.

It’s time to shed the arrogance and start following the law.

Otherwise that sense of being bulletproof will one day prove to be delusional.

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

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Province to weigh in on Argyle project this month From page 1 latest development plan being put forward by Wedgewood Developments for an unused plot of land next to Braemar elementary. If the development is approved, Wedgewood will complete the purchase of the land from the school district for $2.4 million, which will provide the final funding towards a $51.5-million replacement of the seismically risky Argyle.

Last year, district council rejected a plan to build seven single-family homes on the land in a 4-3 vote.

Having money in the bank to pay for the school district’s preferred option of replacing Argyle with a brand-new building is one of the issues the province wants the school district to address before signing a project agreement for Argyle.

Argyle has already received approval for a seismic upgrade – at an estimated cost of $37.8 million. But the school district has long argued

that replacing the aging school makes more sense.

A new school would be built to a higher earthquake standard than a seismic upgrade would provide, said John Lewis, schools superintendent. The price is also higher. Currently, a “basic” replacement of the school is pegged at $45.7 million, while the district’s preferred option – which includes classroom space for about 100 more students plus room for a 250-seat performing arts area – has a price tag of $51.5 million.

To make that happen, the school district will have to fund the $13.7-million difference in price.

So far, land sales have provided more than $11 million towards that.

The province has also required the school district to finish paying back a $7.2-million debt owed from replacement projects for Sutherland secondary and Westview elementary. The recent conclusion of a sale for the Ridgeway Annex property will provide enough cash

for repayment of that debt, said Lewis.

Another issue that will have to be addressed is a plan to deal with a culvert from Kilmer Creek that runs underneath the school property. School district staff are still in discussions about that, but initial estimates have pegged the cost – to re-route the creek or put in a bigger pipe – at about $800,000.

Lewis said the school district has been told the Argyle project will be reviewed by the provincial treasury board this month.

If the revised development plan for the Braemar land is rejected, Lewis acknowledges Plan B would likely involve the school district reducing the scope of the Argyle project.

Barry Forward, a school district trustee, says the dynamic isn’t comfortable for anyone.

“It pits neighbourhood against neighbourhood,” he said, and puts pressure on district councillors.

“That’s a tough situation for everybody.”

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area are hoping a scaledback version of the project won’t be necessary.

Gailus Hogan said she understands some residents near Braemar elementary – who raised traffic concerns in an earlier public hearing – aren’t thrilled about development in their neighbourhood. But she adds, “In my view, it’s the same issue that North Vancouver continues to face in terms of density.”

Gailus Hogan said she supports the school district strategy of selling “surplus” lands to pay for capital replacements. “It’s unfortunate that the school district has to take that route but that’s a provincial government funding issue that isn’t going to get resolved any time soon,” she said.

A similar discussion is expected among school trustees when it comes to the next project – a potential replacement of Handsworth secondary, which students in the Braemar area attend. So far that school has also only received funding approval for a seismic upgrade.

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INQUIRING REPORTER

What does Remembrance Day mean to you?

The First and Second World Wars recede from the minds of Canadians with each passing Nov. 11.

The few remaining Second World War veterans gather on Remembrance Day at North Shore cenotaphs in Victoria Park and Memorial Park. As Canadians don a bright red poppy, what are they remembering? Weigh in at nsnews.com.

- Maria Spitale-Leisk Audrey Tooland North Vancouver “I was eight when the (Second World) war finished. I remember the street parties on Victory Day in England.”

Roy Mosdell North Vancouver “Well, I got shot. Yeah.

I was in the peacetime army from 1959 to 1973. I’m thinking about those that have died in the wars.”

Gabriela Lewandowska North Vancouver “I came to Canada 32 years ago on Remembrance Day. And I know we celebrate people who gave their life so we could have a better future.”

Jim Richards West Vancouver “I remember my mother and my father both served in the Second World War. So their sacrifices are for everything we have today.”

Brian Mair North Vancouver “Well, it just means remembering the sacrifices that the people who served in the wars made.”

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Pedestrians need to accept their part of responsibility Dear Editor: As a regular driver on the North Shore and around the Lower Mainland I increasingly experience the majority of pedestrians not looking up or around while in a crosswalk or even when they are jaywalking. Very, very few acknowledge vehicles. The new pedestrian culture is not “stop and look both ways” before entering a crossing or street but simply ignore the fact that they are in a public place where vehicles are everywhere.

Pedestrians are putting

almost all responsibility onto drivers to see them and to stop for them as they talk on their phones, (have their) head down texting or reading their email, wear earphones blocking out essential safety signals, and even read a book, as I recently encountered on a four-lane major road.

Until pedestrians understand that they have a major role to play and to practise safe rules of the road, we will sadly and tragically see more and more injuries and deaths.

Laurie McNeil West Vancouver

Anthem elicits emotions

From page 6

Legal bombs were tossed between Shaughnessy’s oldmoney and landlord-money factions. In the mid-1960s I lived in such a disputed suite — master bedroom, palatial bathroom, 1911 house — steps from the former mansion of tycoon Dal Grauer. For $75 a month!

It’s mystifying that Nov. 11 retains its drawing power. In this repressive secular age, Remembrance Day is unapologetically religious, clearly centred on Christian prayer and hymns.

Somehow the cranks

and professional atheists overlook it.

For many, too, it’s a day that stirs Canada’s suppressed bonds with a small nation that stood alone in darkest 1940, led by the right man for the right hour.

There were damp eyes at a recent Vancouver Symphony concert when conductor Bramwell Tovey, hunched over the piano, movingly played “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,” one of the great unofficial wartime anthems of a land of heroes enough. rtlautens@gmail.com

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CNV endorses active design guidelines

Design ideas that promote physical activity will be used to help guide building projects JUSTIN BEDDALL newsroom@nsnews.com

A building’s design can play a factor in improving the fitness levels of its residents and the amount of social interaction between neighbours.

That’s why the City of North Vancouver has endorsed a set of active design guidelines that will “assist developers in improving the usability and livability of new development projects and enhance residents’ ability to incorporate healthy activity into their regular routines, thereby improving community health.”

The guidelines, among the first in Canada, are to be used in conjunction with the sustainable development guidelines and were influenced by New York’s “pioneering” active design guidelines

The North Vancouver City Library, which opened its doors in 2008, has active design features like a centrally located staircase that invites physical activity among library patrons and staff. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN and a recent Vancouver Foundation study.

The new guidelines were presented during Monday’s council meeting.

A staff summary noted that “each element contains design

criteria that promote opportunities for daily physical activity and social interaction within buildings. That includes: stair designs that encourage daily use, indoor and outdoor common areas that

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naturally invite social interaction and the inclusion of indoor amenity rooms and garden spaces.

“We’ve moved from the stairs being the first thing you encountered in a building to being

tucked into the corner and not necessarily being an inviting and encouraging place to be,” explained presenter Michael van der Laan, a former CNV planning technician who worked on the policy.

CNV staff will use the new guidelines “when providing guidance to future development applicants and in the design of public realm initiatives,” but they wouldn’t impose requirements on building projects, instead only offering ideas and options for consideration, states the report.

Mayor Darrell Mussatto, recalling a recent trip to Norway, noted that he stayed at a five-floor hotel where a set of stairs – not the elevator – was the preferred mode of vertical transportation for guests.

“It was so inviting that I hardly saw anybody take the elevator, they took the stairs. So design is critical. If we give them an incentive to walk up a nice set of (stairs) that looks inviting and warm and active, then they will do that. If you stick it behind a big fire door

that’s hard to open and there are concrete stairs in there and it’s nothing but concrete walls and cinder blocks I don’t think I’d even want to go up those.”

Coun. Linda Buchanan said the active design guidelines fit nicely with the city’s future vision.

“I think it’s an excellent piece of work and certainly goes to looking at how we developed our OCP with our memorandum of understanding with the health authority and really looking a creating the compact, walkable community and really looking at how we are wanting to shift our mobility and so looking at the interior of buildings is just that next step.”

Buchanan added that active design guidelines will also give the city an opportunity to challenge itself when embarking on future capital projects to incorporate the same standards within its own buildings.

“When I look at coming into city hall the staircase is right there. I look at the library and the staircase is right there… so I think they are really important.”

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David Maurice Smith: “To put this image in context it is important to know that for a young Aboriginal girl in Australia the future looks very different to that of her non-Aboriginal counterparts. The socioeconomic divide that exists is very confronting. The girl in this picture is someone I have spent time with and I have photographed her and her family over a period of several years however this is one of the first images I took of her. She was playing with her sisters in an abandoned lot near her guardian’s home on a day when her biological mother had come to visit them. It was a difficult situation as the kids really did not want any part of their mom. There is an intensity in her gaze that really grabs me ... and for me there is a large amount of symbolism found in her connection to the doll she is clutching, a symbol of unattainable standards.”

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Documentary photographer David Maurice Smith’s work with the aboriginal community of Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia, Living in the Shadows, is included in the 2015 Delhi Photo Festival in New Delhi. At left, he describes the image above. PHOTO SUPPLIED DAVID MAURICE SMITH

David Maurice Smith on the front lines of a world in flux

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Intrepid documentary photographer David Maurice Smith travels the globe observing marginalized communities, crosscultural issues and, most recently, the Syrian refugee crisis from behind the lens of his Canon 5D Mark III. Smith, 42, who grew up in West Vancouver and graduated from Collingwood School, is currently based in Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife and young son. Since embarking seriously on the photojournalism path seven years ago Smith has covered everything from a healthcare crisis in Myanmar, to the mass exodus of Syrian refugees into Jordan, to the indigenous, outback

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community of Wilcannia, Australia, languishing under third-world conditions — the latter being a multi-year passion project of his.

An award-winning photographer, Smith’s images have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and on CNN and The

Discovery Channel, among other esteemed media outlets.

The North Shore News caught up with Smith for a Q&A via telephone at 7 a.m. on a recent Saturday, Australian time, a couple weeks after he returned from covering the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe.

North Shore News: Would you say you had an innate interest in storytelling or photography?

David Maurice Smith: I was a very artistic child, but I got kind of involved in athletics when I was a young teen and went down that route for quite awhile, and ended up playing basketball at Simon Fraser (University). I now know that that kind of focus on sports and that hyper-competitive athletic environment, I just got to a point where I realized that it wasn’t what I was suited

for. It wasn’t until after I had finished with sports that I started getting back to more artistic things and started taking pictures.

North Shore News: When did photography become a passion?

David Maurice Smith: The first time I got really grabbed by it and I thought, ‘Wow this is something that speaks to me,’ I went on an overseas trip when I was 21 or 22 and my father bought me a Minolta. He got it at a used camera shop on Granville Street, and a big bag of film — and that was it.

North Shore News: Did you take formal photography courses?

David Maurice Smith: I studied at Langara (College), and I studied at a school, I don’t know if it’s still there to be honest, called Focal Point,

in Kitsilano. I studied darkrooms and the basics of film shooting even though it was kind of at a time when work-wise digital was obviously what everyone was shooting, but I just wanted to learn.

I guess go back to learning the old school stuff. So I was shooting medium format film – it’s just a different process, a very slow process. With that I also studied specific documentary photography classes. But really just getting out and shooting, that’s the way I definitely learned the most. I kind of developed my own sense of what I wanted to do.

North Shore News: Talk about some of your early photography expeditions.

David Maurice Smith: I went and spent a week in Mexico City just by myself

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Galleries

ARTEMIS GALLERY 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 778-233-9805 artemisgallery.ca ARTS IN VIEW ON LONSDALE BlueShore Financial, 1250 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.

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.

CAROUN ART GALLERY 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver. Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 8 p.m.778-372-0765 caroun. net An Annual Art Sale with more than 100 paintings, prints and photographs will take place until Nov. 14.

Figure: A painting exhibition with the works of Fereshteh Shahani Nov. 17-28. Opening reception: Saturday, Nov. 21, 4-8 p.m.

CITY ATRIUM GALLERY 141 West 14th St., North Vancouver. MondayFriday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Perceptually Uniform: Artist Mark Ollinger shares his sculptural work until Jan. 11.

CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, noon5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Pushing Boundaries: A biennial exhibition highlighting emerging and professional First Nations’ artists will run until Nov. 14.

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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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Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of photographs

by David Young and wire sculptures by Frances Solar until Jan. 5.

DISTRICT LIBRARY GALLERY 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. nvartscouncil.ca The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of paintings by Lorn Curry titled From Palate to Palette — The Contemporary Food Still Life until Dec.1.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. TuesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-9257290 ferrybuildinggallery. com Jurors’ Choice: A mixed media exhibition with various artists will run until Nov. 8.

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

604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca At What Cost? An

exhibition guest curated by Hilary Letwin that explores the theme of environment, and its impact on Canadian artists will run until April 16.

NORTH VANCOUVER MUSEUM 209 West Fourth St., North Vancouver. Open by appointment only. 604990-3700 x8016 North Vancouver Experience, an ongoing exhibit defining life in North Vancouver.

PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 604-986-1351 presentationhousegallery.org BC Almanac(h) C-B: Photographs, film, mixed media works and ephemera that features Almanac artists will run until Nov. 29.

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SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Art Party: A fundraising exhibition to support Seymour Art Gallery with original artwork for sale for $100$300 by 40 established and emerging artists until Nov. 15.

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

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CALENDAR From page 13 SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.

604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Raymond Bradbury and Ellen Bang will display their abstract paintings until Nov. 22.

SPACE EMMARTS STUDIO 305 Mansfield Pl., North Vancouver. Wednesday and Friday, 2-5 p.m. or by appointment. 604-3750694 emmarts.ca First Saturday: Visit mixed media and fibre artist Gabriele Maurus in her workplace Nov. 7 from noon to 5 p.m.

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Celebrating 65 Years: Explore the history of the library until Nov. 22.

CULTURAL FUSION

The Cultch’s Historic Theatre (1895 Venables St.) presents Sunya from Nov. 10-14 as part the 12th annual Diwali Fest celebration of South Asian arts and culture. The production, merging contemporary dance with Persian music and real-time video, features Indo-Armenian dancer and choreographer, Roger Sinha, and Iranian-born Kiya Tabassian, working with four dancers, three musicians, a sound designer and a video artist. For more information visit diwalifest.ca. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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Road Closure, Removal of Highway Dedication and Disposition of Municipal Land BYLAW NO. 4856, 2015 In accordance with Section 40 of the Community Charter, the District of West Vancouver (District) gives notice of its intention to close a portion of District highway adjacent to 1086 23rd Street and remove the dedication of that portion as a highway (Closed Lane). The Closed Lane area is approximately 2,000 square feet (186.2 m2), more or less, and is shown outlined in bold and labeled as Closed Lane in the sketch plan below.

In accordance with Section 26 of the Community Charter, the District of West Vancouver further gives notice of its intention to dispose of the Closed Lane, in fee simple, to 0962243 B.C. Ltd for the purpose of consolidation with its adjacent property at 1086 23rd Street, legally described as Lot A Block 14 District Lot 554 Plan 7027, PID 006-612-181. Consideration for the disposition will be $525,000 plus GST. The bylaw closing the portion of highway and removing its dedication will be considered for adoption by Council at its special meeting to be held at the Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver on November 30, 2015, at 6 p.m. Persons who consider they are affected by the bylaw will be provided an opportunity to make representations to Council at the meeting, or by written submissions addressed to Mayor and Council and delivered to the Municipal Clerk prior to the meeting.

Copies of the proposed bylaw and other related documents may be viewed at the Municipal Hall from November 3 to November 30, 2015 on regular business days (Monday to Friday except for statutory holidays) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. For convenience only, some of the documents may also be available for viewing at westvancouver.ca or in the Reference Department of the West Vancouver Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver BC (call 604-925-7400 for current hours of operation).

Submissions to Council will be included in the public information package for Council’s consideration.

Enquiries? Land and Property Agent, Corporate Services Division District of West Vancouver: 604-925-7067

WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St., West Vancouver. TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7295 westvancouvermuseum.ca Finding a Voice: The art of Norman Tait which includes carvings, jewelry, prints and photographs will be on display until Dec. 5.

Curator’s talk: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2 p.m.

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Concerts CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE

2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604990-7810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Khorshide Now: A concert of Persian classical music Saturday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.

Admission: $35.

CAULFEILD COVE HALL 4773 South Piccadilly Rd., West Vancouver. 604-8127411 caulfeildcovehall.ca Nearly Neil: A Neil Diamond impersonator Saturday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $35.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com The Magic Flute: Sarah Jackson, the principal piccolo player for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Brenda Fedoruk, the principal flutist from Lions Gate Sinfonia will perform with the Capilano Flute Choir Saturday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $39/$35/$18/$12.

Class of ’59: Experience the early years of rock ‘n’ roll with a Buddy Holly, Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis tribute Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $42.50.

Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 3: The West Coast Symphony will perform with guest soloist Tianyu Zhou Sunday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. Admission by donation.

Persian and Turkish Improvisations: Kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor and Turkish baglama player Erdal Erzincan will perform Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $27.50-$52.50 DEEP COVE COFFEE HOUSE Mount Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver.

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BRAZILIAN ROOTS Paris-based master of Brazilian music, acoustic guitarist/ singer-songwriter Márcio Faraco will perform in the samba, bossa nova, baião and choro traditions at the Kay Meek Centre Studio on Nov. 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets $35. For more information visit capilanou.ca/blueshorefinancialcentre/15-Márcio-Faraco/. PHOTO SUPPLIED From page 14

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KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Tickets: 604981-6335 kaymeekcentre. com Assorted Musical Treats: The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra Intermediate and Junior Orchestras will perform Sunday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.

Admission by donation.

Cap Jazz: The Brad Mehldau Trio with pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard will perform Thursday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $55/$48/$25.

Cap Global Roots: Acoustic guitarist/singer/ songwriter Marcio Faraco will perform Nov. 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. Faraco will be joined by bassist Gersen Saeki, percussionist Julio Goncalves and French accordionist Lionel Suarez.

Tickets: $35.

Musically Speaking: An afternoon of tea and classical music with cellist Rachel

GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-998-8563 info@smithfoundation.ca Jazz at the Gallery: A tour of the current exhibit followed by a live performance by Jaclyn Guillou and Company Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7-8 p.m.

Tickets: $10/$7.

HIGHLANDS UNITED CHURCH 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver.

604-980-6071 x23 highlandsunited.org Scottish Music and Dance featuring the Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra, R.S.C.D.S. Vancouver Demonstration Team, Rosie Carver, Michael Viens, Kim Reid, Shot of Scotch and Ceilidh Dance Saturday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m. Admission: $15. Info:

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LYNN VALLEY COMMUNITY ROOM 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver.

Friday Night Live: Lynn Valley United Church will present a weekly series with improv actors playing hosts to musical guests Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Schedule: Nov. 6, Trent Savage (classic rock); Nov. 13, New and PreOwned Improv and Nov. 20, Skip Prest (rock guitarist).

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BRIGHT LIGHTS

Otters annual awards banquet

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Each day I would get on the subway and just ride it to its terminus in one direction and get off and then spend the day there.

And then the next day do the same in a different direction. So essentially I was just shooting street photography but it was kind of at a point early on again where I was just learning to see things and learning my own style and so I wasn’t really locked into issues with my camera yet. Like I understood social issues because of my career I had before (as a social worker), but I didn’t know how to visually demonstrate that yet. It was a process.

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A photograph used in Mother Jones’ coverage of the European crisis shows refugees in Horgoš, Serbia making a break into Hungary through a border fence being constructed between Hungary and Serbia. PHOTO SUPPLIED DAVID MAURICE SMITH

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of being intimidating.

Did that perception hold you back while you were photographing your surroundings?

David Maurice Smith: “I’m used to going places that are might seem fairly intimidating, plus I am a big male and not the likely target. I’m 6-7. I’m pretty good at reading social cues which always helps my photography.

North Shore News: How did you break into photojournalism?

David Maurice Smith: The most important to me was personal stories. The days of getting a job at your local paper and working your way up, those days are pretty much gone. Now so much of what I do is personally driven. Most of the stuff I get is from me directly hustling, contacting people. It’s about finding these issues that you think are important and necessary, and creating work and then finding outlets for that work that

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When I went to Europe in September I didn’t have any secure assignments before I went but I knew that once I got there I would be able to pick stuff up. And I had a week with The Globe and Mail; when I got off the plane they had emailed me.

North Shore News: When did you start covering the Syrian refugee crisis?

David Maurice Smith: It was about a year and a half ago I went to Jordan. It’s a neighbouring country to Syria and a huge number of Syrians – like half the country is displaced. You are talking about 10 to 12 million people. Most of those are still inside the country but millions of them have fled across borders into neighbouring

countries like Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan. So I went to Jordan – there’s one camp in particular there it’s called Za’atari.

North Shore News: Do you go into these areas blindly?

David Maurice Smith: I did legwork, you know.

I contacted people before I went and did as much research as I could, and then I hired a fixer. We rely on fixers a lot in different regions. A fixer is a person who is local, who speaks the language, understands the culture and might act as a driver — they are basically your ears and eyes on the ground. My fixer there (in Jordan), for example, he knows where the ministry offices are to get your paperwork to get into the refugee camps.

North Shore News: What is that process like, getting access to an area overwhelmed with refugees?

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was only a couple of years old. So it went from, ‘OK there’s going to be 20,000, 40,000 people coming across the border, we will set up a camp,’ to a mass exodus. And at its peak they had 150,000 people.

So it’s quite a scene. Bear in mind a lot of them were not poor people before this happened, they are people potentially who had apartments and cars and refrigerators. In Za’atari you only get two days (as a journalist) unless you have a really good hookup with maybe the UNHCR or something like that. But even people on assignment for The New York Times that I know who have gone only got two days, which isn’t much. You can only get in there from 9 (a.m.) until 5 (p.m.) which is depending on the time of year is limiting because you want to get there when the light is good in the morning and stay until the light is good in the afternoon. I spent most of the time when I was in Jordan actually outside of the camps, looking at

North Shore News: What was your experience like in September covering the refugee crisis?

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Hungary was threatening to close its border. The scale of it was very obvious, thousands of people a day moving from one point to the next. Hungary was not welcoming to these people and was not trying to facilitate their movement. There was a lot of drama, there was a lot of confrontation with police.

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Refugees don’t know what to expect From page 21

North Shore News: When did your Instagram numbers (Smith has 41,500 followers) begin to climb?

David Maurice Smith: They jumped significantly while I was in Europe working on the refugee crisis after Instagram featured my feed. Also The Huffington Post featured me as a photographer covering the refugee crisis and I think that had an impact.

North Shore News: Where do you rest for the night?

David Maurice Smith: It always depends. At one point I was staying in Budapest and the situation changed and people started making their way towards the border and I followed.

And I didn’t stay anywhere for five days, I was with them. So one night I slept for about an hour under a tree, the rest of the time I was up for 40 hours straight.

I grabbed a few hours here, a few hours there on a bus or a train, where they were when they were sleeping.

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A young woman cradles her infant sister at dusk in a photograph from Wilcannia, NSW, Australia, from the Living in the Shadows series. PHOTO SUPPLIED DAVID MAURICE SMITH little organization to this, people don’t know what to expect. Are the police going to arrest us here? Are we going to be put in camps?

North Shore News: Do you ever wear protective gear?

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David Maurice Smith: It was Europe, it’s not a war zone. I always carry a scarf in my bag. I mean it’s the handiest thing to have for a lot of reasons. I know it sounds stupid but you’ll see a lot photojournalists have a scarf. It’s like a Swiss

army knife, you can use it to cover your face if you are sitting in the back of a car or a truck and it’s dusty, you can use it as a tourniquet. I had it wrapped around my face because there was tear gas and pepper spray.

North Shore News: How did you wind up in Australia after leaving B.C. seven years ago?

David Maurice Smith: My wife is originally from there. I think I really just was craving going somewhere new. I wanted to progress my photography and moving to the U.S. to New York it probably would have been a logical step but at that point it wasn’t an option.

North Shore News: Why is Living in the Shadows, a project you have been focused on for six years that documents the lives of the Wilcannia people in

the Australian outback, so fascinating for you?

David Maurice Smith: I’ve always been interested in indigenous issues, indigenous rights, so when I got here I knew it was something I wanted to work on. It’s a community that has struggled a lot and the average life expectancy for men is only 37 years old, and this in a country that has one of the highest living standards in the world. The general attitude towards indigenous people in a lot of areas is very shocking. It’s a desperate situation. What’s happening there is just as dramatic as a lot of the third world countries that I go to. Somalia has a longer male life expectancy than Wilcannia.

North Shore News: What’s your next assignment?

David Maurice Smith: I am currently on assignment for the New York Times shooting a story about a species of penguins under threat of extinction from non-native predators in the Southern part of Australia.

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Charlie Brown the perpetual underdog From page 24 no more diverse than when Charles Schulz introduced its first African-American character, Franklin, in 1968. The adults still speak in muffled trombonese.

There are rotary phones and typewriters. Lucy’s counselling advice hasn’t risen with inflation (it’s still 5 cents). And Charlie Brown is still a loser.

That last point will rankle a whole generation of movie-goers raised on a “we’re all winners” diet. But if you watched “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” over Halloween you were reminded that the show ended with Charlie Brown lugging around a bag full of rocks and Linus never catching even a private glimpse of the Great Pumpkin, both boys the object of ridicule.

Likewise in the film Charlie Brown is allowed a few triumphs but by-andlarge remains the perpetual underdog. The story revolves

around Charlie Brown’s desire to win the heart of the Little Red Haired Girl (never named) by various means, such as writing the world’s best book report or knocking ‘em dead at the school talent show. But large and small triumphs – such as flying a kite or kicking a football – still elude him, and he suffers from a serious lack of self-confidence.

That’s about it, really.

Those vignettes, like cobbled-together comic strips, are interspersed with Snoopy’s literary daydreams: we see the origin of his fight with the Red Baron, and his parallel pursuit of the girl of his dreams, a fellow flying ace named Fifi.

Schroeder performs 20th Century Fox’s intro with his usual piano flourish, and the film opens with a snow day framed by Vince Guaraldi’s “Skating”. The snowy scenes and a line or two from Guaraldi’s “Christmastime Is Here” put The Peanuts Movie squarely in holiday-viewing

contention. (A Meghan Trainor tune stands starkly out of place and time.)

Other than the animation, lush and lovely in some places and pared-down retro in others, the film’s smartest move was casting real kids as the Peanuts characters.

Noah Schnapp is the perfect Charlie Brown, ditto Hadley Belle Miller (Lucy), Alexander Garfin (Linus) and Mariel Sheets as Charlie Brown’s little sister, Sally.

The late Bill Melendez’s voice has been resurrected as Snoopy and Woodstock.

Yes, there will be some explaining about the unfairness of life in the car ride home. And you might hear the term “blockhead” thrown around your house.

But if The Peanuts Movie proves anything, it’s that there is still room for a G-rated film on the big screen. Stop thinking that kids need car chases, girl bands and laser battles to stay entertained. As Charlie Brown himself would say, Good grief.

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Clockwise from left, Moojoes Rain Gear, Billy Would Designs and Maryhelen Story Bags are among the North Shore exhibitors at the 42nd annual Circle Craft Christmas Market, which runs Nov. 11-15 at the Vancouver Convention Centre West. PHOTOS SUPPLIED

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Artisans present their wares

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

It’s an early harbinger of the holiday season.

The annual Circle Craft Christmas Market returns for its 42nd year Nov. 11 to 15 and more than 300 jury-selected artisans from B.C. and beyond will be selling their clothing, pottery, wood and metal work, blown glass, jewelry, toys and more at the Vancouver Convention Centre West.

Next week’s market boasts 50 brand new exhibitors, several of whom hail from the North Shore.

North Vancouver’s Mary Helen McCormick, the designer behind Maryhelen Story Bags,

Fifty new exhibitors participating in this year’s Christmas craft market

uses vintage bark cloth, lace and buttons to create her bags, which feature scenes influenced, in part, by her hometown outside of Regina, Sask.

Also new this year is North Vancouver’s Jack & Cyan (formerly Stirling Studio Prints), which creates home decor and gift items such as cushions and table runners using sun-exposed dye. Artist Jules Stirling designs, dyes, cuts, and sews every item by hand.

Other North Shore artisans making their Circle Craft debuts are

North Vancouver textile designer Lorna Moffat, who makes stitched and collaged bags and accessories for the home using wool, leather and silk, and North Vancouver painter Iori Kok. From West Vancouver, Jackie Frioud will be selling her salt-glazed functional pottery and the authors of Granny Get Your Glue Gun will have their new book on display.

Joining these new talents will be some familiar North Shore faces who have shown their work at past Circle Craft markets.

Returning exhibitors from North Vancouver include Local King Rubber Stamp, Moojoes Rain Gear, Linda Paterson Jewellery and Rain Goose Textiles. Visitors will also be able to browse handcrafted ornaments from North Vancouver’s Kenfolks, apparel and blankets from Dahlia Drive, kiln-fired art glass by P.S. Designs, traditional toys with a modern twist by MiMi, reclaimed wood jewelry and accessories by Billy Would Designs, and hand-cut wood prints by

Reclaimed Print Co. West Vancouver artisans returning for another year at the Christmas market include First Nations jeweller Corrine Hunt, K-O.ME Clothing, chef Ann Kirsebom, and Ratatouille Designs.

The Vancouver Convention Centre West is located at 1055 Canada Place. Market hours are Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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JACKETS FOR JASPER Online jacket sales are now open for North Vancouverbased Jackets for Jasper, which sells Nepali-made down jackets in support of children’s education in Nepal. Visit jacketsforjasper. com or check out Deep Cove Outdoors on Nov. 22 where J4J will be holding a pop-up shop.

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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RED CARPET READY Alicia Forbes models a sequined dress (above) and Myriam Callot wears a floral number by Chinese Laundry (below) at Caliente Fashions’ Private Fall Fling: The Red Carpet Party on Oct. 22 at 1381 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. The event featured champagne shopping, a designer fashion show, prizes, and a live auction. All proceeds went to the West Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society. PHOTOS PAUL MCGRATH

CRAFTERNOON AT THE LIBRARY Learn how to craft ornaments and home decor using upcycled materials like wine corks, cereal boxes, scrap yarn, and old jewelry, at the Christmas Crafternoon at North Vancouver City Library on Saturday, Dec. 5, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

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Notice is hereby given that Council will consider the above mentioned Zoning Amendment Bylaw that would encourage Active Design principles, including supporting social interaction and promoting physical activity in buildings. The proposed zoning changes would: • Increase the maximum permitted amenity room size in some projects; • Expand floor area exclusions for open stairwells to encourage greater use of the stairs; • Exclude a greater number of semi-enclosed spaces, such as balconies and corridors.

All persons who believe they may be affected by the above proposal will be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person and/or by written submission. Written or email submissions should be sent to Jennifer Ficocelli, Deputy City Clerk, at jficocelli@cnv.org or by mail to City Hall.

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Celebrating the work of Norman Tait West Van Museum hosting retrospective ! Finding a Voice: The Art of Norman Tait on now through Dec. 5 at the West Vancouver Museum. Curators’ Talk: Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m. westvancouvermuseum. ca.

ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

“It’s a larger than life moment when things like that happen,” says Micah Tait.

Reached Wednesday by the North Shore News, the 33-year-old son of celebrated B.C. artist Norman Tait refers to an enjoyable situation he’s continually found himself in over the years when visiting certain public spaces with his father.

Norman has carved 39 totem poles over the course of his career, five of which have been raised in the Lower Mainland: at the University of British Columbia, Stanley Park, Capilano Mall and the Native Education Centre.

When visiting his father’s poles, Micah likes to step back and witness the reactions of those passing by, their admiration for such impressive works juxtaposed within the hustle and bustle of Vancouver clearly evident.

“Whenever we go anywhere with dad there’s always a big crowd following us because somebody will hear him explaining something to us, something that happened, or a story of the poles.

The crowd gathers and everyone’s saying, ‘Oh,

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In addition to those in the Lower Mainland, Norman has carved totem

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A retrospective of the 74-year-old artist’s works,

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While strongly interested in tradition, when referencing stories from his Nisga’a Nation heritage, Norman makes them his own, taking the stories and interpreting them for a contemporary audience.

“It’s rooted in tradition, yet he’s also very much challenging traditional approaches to depicting narrative and presenting audiences with what are I think very engaging artworks that do have a strong story to tell,” says Martens.

Despite the longevity of Norman’s career, Finding a Voice, marks only the second public museum exhibition to focus on the artist and his sculptural and two-dimensional works. He’s been featured in shows over the years, but the last exhibition fully focused on him was in November 1977 at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.

“He’s really excited especially as his first solo show was obviously at the beginning of his career and now this one kind of bookends for him,” says Micah.

Further meaningful to the artist is that the show represents a “passing of the torch” as it also features works by Micah, who is learning the Nisga’a traditions under the tutelage of his father.

Micah has one of his own masks on display, as well as three that he collaborated with his father on.

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carry on the tradition in the family,” says Micah.

“When dad started his career, everything was selftaught. He did have help and encouragement from other artists but as far as his style, he just travelled around New York and Chicago, Ontario, Seattle, wherever there was Nisga’a carvings on display and he just studied them. There were obviously old pieces, there had been several years, like a century gap in time, where there weren’t many Nisga’a carvers.

So he was studying the old styles, the traditional characteristics and aspects that differentiate Nisga’a from other styles. . . . That’s always been important for dad in his work and as such that’s something that he’s been passing on to me as well and that’s become one of my main focuses is maintaining the traditional characteristics of the Nisga’a style as well as obviously my own personal twist,” he adds.

Norman’s grandson (and Micah’s nephew), Kris Stewart, 27, has also been studying with Norman (all three often work alongside one another), and has a solo mask in the show.

“He worked so hard to

revive the Nisga’a style and so to be able to keep that life’s work alive within the family was a very proud moment for him,” says Micah.

The genesis of Finding a Voice: The Art of Norman Tait goes back two years when Martens was then director of the Nisga’a Museum in Laxgalts’ap, in northwestern B.C. Martens is currently serving as the chief curator of the Audain Art Museum, a new space set to open in Whistler Jan. 30. “Everything is on schedule and that’s our date that we reveal ourselves to the world and we’re very much looking forward to that. We’ve been holding this so close to our chests now for so long that we really want to show everybody else what we’ve been doing,” says Martens.

Over the course of his career Martens has also served as director/curator of the Burnaby Art Gallery as well as assistant curator and director/curator of the West Vancouver Museum.

During his time at the Nisga’a Museum, he pursued a strong interest in showcasing prominent Nisga’a artists. “Obviously Norman Tait rose right to the top,” he says.

He worked with Norman and his family to develop the exhibition,

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Born in the community of Gingolx in northwestern B.C. in 1941, Norman is currently based in Vancouver. As the Lower Mainland has been his home for many years, it made sense to have the collection of works then travel to be exhibited here. Even more fittingly, Norman maintained a gallery in West Vancouver at one time, the Wilp’s Tsaak Gallery - House of the Mischievous Man, so having the exhibition on the North Shore marks a second homecoming of sorts.

As part of the show, representatives of the West Vancouver Museum are presenting a curators’ talk tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m., featuring a discussion between Martens and Karen Duffek, curator of contemporary visual arts and Pacific Northwest at the UBC Museum of Anthropology.

The Museum of Anthropology is among the exhibition partners, having loaned some works by Norman from its collection to be displayed.

Martens and Duffek plan to discuss aspects of Nisga’a art, how Norman fits into the continuum of great Nisga’a and First Nations artists, take a closer look at some of the works on display, as well as speak to the show’s title, the concept of how an artist works to find their voice.

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Classical Concert Series: Violinist Oleg Pokhanovski and pianist Scott Meek will perform Thursday, Nov. 19, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $20/$15.

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Brothers in Arms: Chor Leoni will perform a Remembrance Day concert Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1-2:30 p.m. Admission: $40/$35/$30/$10.

Theatre CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way,

HIGHLANDS FLING Janice Hamilton (left), Rob Waring, John McKenzie and Kevin Hamilton will be taking part in the Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra’s fundraising“Evening of Scottish Music and Dance”at Highlands United Church on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m.

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Remembering the Air India tragedy Ambitious project based on poetry of Renée Saklikar

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Tickets start at $29; for more information go to TurningPointEnsemble. ca.

KELSEY KLASSEN Contributing Writer

On June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182 disappeared off air traffic control radar near the coast of Ireland with 329 passengers and crew bound for Delhi.

As initial Irish search and rescue efforts turned to the grim task of recovery, news of the Air India disaster was just reaching a small family on Dublin Street in New Westminster, B.C. For them, the fate of an aunt and uncle, and a young son waiting for them at home in India, began unfolding live on television. For the people of Cork, however, the community closest to where the wreckage of the plane now lay scattered across the ocean, the tragedy was unfolding before their very eyes.

“People didn’t really

Poet Renée Saklikar, who lost family in the bombing of Flight 182 in 1985, lends her words to air india (redacted) – a musical theatre experience running Nov. 6-11 at the SFU Goldcorp Centre honouring the 30th anniversary of the disaster. PHOTO SUPPLIED DAN TOULGOET know initially why this had happened,” says Jürgen Simpson, a Dublin-born composer and Air India

researcher. “In many ways the initial response of people here in Ireland was really just a response to experiencing

that degree of loss off the Irish coastline.”

In 1985, the cause was almost unheard of. That

morning, as it traveled through Irish airspace at an altitude of 31,000 feet, Air India Flight 182 was

destroyed by a bomb. All 329 Canadians, Indians, See more page 39

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Americans and Britons on board were killed, including 82 children. Some were killed instantly, others died of hypoxia (lack of oxygen), while still more died of drowning in the sea below.

Entire families were lost in the disaster. And, earlier the same day, a second bomb meant for another Air India flight went off prematurely at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, killing two baggage handlers and bringing the total death toll of the attack to 331.

Flight 182 was the largest mass murder in Canadian history, the first time a jumbo jet had ever been bombed, and the deadliest terror attack involving a plane until the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The bomb’s journey began in the cargo hold of a connecting flight from Vancouver and killed 280 Canadians when it ultimately detonated on the flight out of Montreal. The suspects – Sikh separatists operating in British Columbia – had been under surveillance by Canada’s intelligence agency, CSIS, for months before the flight was downed. Yet the loss of lives and bungled investigation was largely treated as a non-Canadian issue and wiped from the collective consciousness.

It was instead

acknowledged most eloquently in Ireland, where Irish seamen aboard naval ships, merchant ships and fishing trawlers entered shark-infested waters to find what they could, and families from around the world filled the halls of the small county hospitals to identify the 131 bodies that were recovered.

Within the year, the people of Ahakista and Bantry in County Cork would start a grassroots fundraising campaign to build an Air India memorial along their coast.

“I think Ireland was wishing to embrace the tragedy and embrace the people affected by it,” says Simpson, who was just 10 at the time of the bombing.

Cork, in 1985, had never seen that kind of influx of ethnicities says Simpson, and people with brown skin were a rare sight.

“There was a gorgeous quote from one of the newspapers back in 1985,” Simpson recalls, “telling the children that if they see people on the street who look strange, they should bring them flowers.”

For days after, children could reportedly be seen on sidewalks carrying dandelions bound up in tin foil.

Thirty years later, Air India family members still come to the lovingly tended,

A victim of the Air India bombing which killed 329 people on June 23, 1985, is removed from Cork Airport on a stretcher. PHOTO SUPPLIED IRISH TIMES windswept overlook of the Ahakista memorial to mourn their dead and spend time with the people who quietly, gracefully witnessed their grief.

And, over the past seven years, Simpson has been working on commissions to create an artistic response to what happened in this community – what it must have been like to welcome grief-stricken strangers to the furthest edges of Europe.

He says he struggled to find a way to express the full scope of the tragedy, though, until a book arrived in the mail filled with the words of Vancouver poet Renée

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Sarojini Saklikar.

Saklikar was 23 when she lost her aunt Zebunnisa and uncle Umar to the Air India disaster. The couple, both doctors, had been in America for a medical conference and decided to spontaneously visit their relatives in Vancouver for the first time. They then decided to leave early because they missed their young son, placing them on the fatal flight home.

Only her aunt’s body was ever found.

For years afterward, Saklikar says she and her parents avoided talking about the tragedy. She is

still reticent to discuss the morning they heard the news, calling her memories of that day sacred.

Saklikar, who is married to B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix, was born in India but came to Canada with her family when she was just a few months old. After living in a number of cities back east, they ultimately settled in New Westminster, where her father distinguished himself as a United Church minister and school trustee.

It wasn’t until his sudden death in 2002 that Saklikar, by then a lawyer and businesswoman, finally began writing.

“I think with so many people the way they come to writing, sadly, is through trauma,” says Saklikar, now a creative writing instructor at SFU. After her father’s death, she joined a creative writing program and over the next few years began chronicling her life through poetry.

When she reached 1985, though, she couldn’t move forward.

“I was writing essentially a memoir,” she recalls, “and once I got to 1985 that silencing again kicked in. I didn’t want to talk about it, didn’t want to write about it – I just wanted to write around it. And of course the more I tried to write around it, the more I couldn’t write anything.”

Eventually, her desire to write “overpowered everything else”, and she created children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections, published in 2013 by Nightwood Editions. The collection of documentarystyle poems – through painstakingly researched detail and jarringly real and imagined scenarios – paints a devastating portrait of the people whose lives were forever altered by the blast.

As you explore the book, which was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and won the 2014 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, thousands of official documents and memories are rendered into fragments See Words page 40

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of exhibits, courtrooms, living rooms, lives.

Children’s laughter flutters the pages forward and unflinching language forces you to put it down.

There is anger in every use of italics, advocacy in every redacted name – the private ordeal becoming a painful matter of public record. For that reason, her own perspective is largely written out of the book, hinted at only in the narrator, N (for Niece), and the legal overtones of some of the passages. In fact, the only name that does survive in the book is that of Saklikar’s orphaned cousin Irfan, who is now in his 30s with two children of his own.

“You come up against the limitations of art when you deal with a horrific tragedy,” says Saklikar, who last week was named the inaugural poet laureate for Surrey.

“There is that very famous German philosopher, (Theodor) Adorno, who said that after the Holocaust all poetry is obscene. So I think any poet of any merit

has to struggle with that.

But I reject (Adorno) . I think it’s a very good caution against sentiment, but in the end, for me, witnessing is important. This became an act of witness.”

And now, on Nov. 6, Vancouver can share in that act anew; with poems from children of air india making their world premiere at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in an operatic theatre piece entitled air india (redacted).

Just under two years prior, in a moment of pure inspiration, an audience member at one of Saklikar’s readings bought a copy of her book and sent it to Jürgen Simpson in Ireland.

That audience member was Owen Underhill, artistic director and conductor of the Turning Point Ensemble in Vancouver, who had been keeping up with his Irish friend and colleague’s efforts regarding Air India over the years.

Simpson says he knew right away that Saklikar’s text was the final key to capturing the Canadian, Irish and Indian perspectives

before, during, and after the bombing.

“In a really poetic and not explicit way,” adds the Corkborn Creed, “it also conjures up elements of being in the air, being in the water, and the music attempts to ask ‘How do we deal with this tragedy, how do we prevent this?’

“We live in a world today where such acts of terror are unfortunately much more common than they were at the time,” he continues, pointing to Malaysian Airlines Flights 370 and 17, which both went down while the project was underway.

“In a poem at the heart of Renée’s book,” says Creed, “and as a kind of centerpiece to air india (redacted), Renée positions Air India as a continuum of these acts of violence as you move through history.”

Working with a $200,000 budget, air india (redacted) marks the most ambitious work any of the collaborators’ careers to-date, and showcases not only Saklikar’s poetry, but the 16 acclaimed musicians of Turning Point Ensemble

Members of the Turning Point Ensemble join conductor Owen Underhill and singers Alexander Dobson, Daniel Cabena and Zorana Sadiq at a rehearsal for air india (redacted). PHOTO SUPPLIED DAVID COOPER in one.

All three artists joined forces and began working on air india (redacted) alongside Irish theatre and opera director Tom Creed and visual artist John Galvin.

“In a way, it’s a response to a response to a response,” says Creed of the project’s layers. “Renée’s poetry really unlocks a kind of anger; when you read the words on the page there’s a ferocity to

it. It really bears witness to the personal experience of these people, the frustration of sitting in the courtroom with high-tech technology to protect the witnesses, which was more sophisticated than the technology at the airport.”

Using a blend of theatre, voice, poetry and visual projections, air india (redacted) transports the viewer to select moments

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Together they hope to shine a “glimmer of light” on the injustices of the protracted judicial process, which became the most expensive trial in Canadian history, costing nearly $130 million and ending with acquittals in 2005, as well as why some tragedies are deemed “more worthy of attention” than others.

“It took a long time to find a way of doing this that I could feel was appropriate to the complexity of the events,” says Simpson. “It’s impossible to find closure here, so the artistic response is about enabling meditation on these events and finding a balance between their human perspective and the social, legal and ultimately troubling conflicts that caused these events to occur.”

– Kelsey Klassen is Arts and Style editor with The Westender, a sister paper of the North Shore News.

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Flamenco Dancers will perform Friday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.

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

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com A Murder is Announced: An Agatha Christie murder mystery Nov. 6, 7 and 11-14 at 8 p.m. with matinees Nov. 7 and 14 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $22/$20/$15.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. 604990-3474 phtheatre.org Snapshots — A Musical Scrapbook: A couple relives the memories of their past selves captured in snapshots until Nov. 8, Wednesdays-Fridays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 and 8 p.m.

Tickets: $20-$36.

THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca The Mystery Plays: A ghostly Halloween thriller Nov. 6 and 7 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $18/$16.

Dance CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com 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.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Pro Arte’s CatchingAs rt Aspirant Company: Twelve young dancers will take the stage to music by composer Michael Conway Baker Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 15 at 4 p.m.

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

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The Brad Mehldau Trio (featuring the inventive jazz pianist with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard) perform at Kay Meek Centre on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. Mehldau has performed in a trio and as a solo artist since the mid-1990s, working as a sideman for Wayne Shorter and John Scofield, as well as recording with Charlie Haden, Lee Konitz, Renée Fleming and John Mayer. For more information visit capilanou.ca. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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BEAN AROUND THE WORLD COFFEES/BEANS ON LONSDALE 1802 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-985-2326 Live Music every Thursday, 8 p.m.

BLUHOUSE MARKET AND CAFE 4342 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-838-0948 CAFE ORSO 4316 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

CAPILANO GRIND 4840 Capilano Rd., North Vancouver.

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QUEENS CROSS PUB 2989 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. queenscross.com Adam Woodall will

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

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

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

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Eadweard, the story of the godfather of cinema will be screened Wednesday, Nov.

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Crazy Castle will be screened Sunday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. In Farsi with English subtitles. Admission: $12.

Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: Extreme adventure films and

presentations Nov. 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $19/$17. Info: vimff.org.

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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.

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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.

In Person: Meet artist Robert Bateman as he signs copies of his latest book Life Sketches Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

Jhamtse Canada (jhamtsecanada.ca) is hosting a special screening of the award-winning documentary Tashi and the Monk, on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Pipe Shop (just east of Lonsdale Quay) in North Vancouver featuring light refreshments and live entertainment.

The movie starts at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $25 with all proceeds going directly to the Jhamtse Gatsal Children’s Community. They can be purchased online at jhamtsecanada.ca/event/ movie-night-at-the-pipeshop-north-vancouver/.

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top of the list, I checked it off, and that’s why I play the flute and piccolo today,” says Jackson.

But she didn’t become first flute overnight. In fact, she hardly practised and was terrible at it, until the summer she moved away from her friends.

Jackson moved across the country many times while she was growing up. Her flute and band book became her companions until new friends came along.

Jackson soon developed an insatiable appetite for practising, which grew her as a musician and landed her first chair roles among other prestigious orchestra titles.

In 1993 the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra came calling for Jackson who describes the experience and her first professional job as a “huge learning curve.”

“In school you’re taught what to expect, but somehow it’s never quite the same as doing it, kind of like having kids,” she explains.

“The VSO is where I really started loving the piccolo. I was second flute but there is a lot of piccolo playing in that job, even though there is also a piccolo player in the orchestra. I started playing more and more prominent piccolo parts in the orchestra and I loved it.”

The premier piccolo position came available while Jackson was still with the orchestra and she got the job. Described as a half-size flute, the piccolo’s high notes are bright and are distinctive over the entire orchestra.

A decade after joining the VSO, Jackson auditioned for the world-famous Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was a gruelling process for Jackson, who had been on

the audition circuit for many years and in the running for some major orchestras.

She landed a seat with the LA Phil in an unconventional way.

After initially auditioning, Jackson lost the piccolo role to another musician who ended up not working out. So another round of auditions were held.

“I was on the fence about doing it again; after all, if they hadn’t wanted me before why should I go?” says Jackson. “I realize that’s foolish thinking but the rejections from auditions are very difficult.

I had a student that said to me that if I didn’t go to the audition she was going to strap me in the car and drive me down. OK, so I went.”

And the rest as they say is history. Jackson has been floating on a cloud for ten years playing “all those great big piccolo parts” with the 106-member LA Phil. Part of the concert season includes playing at the famed Hollywood Bowl, which Jackson says is a fun experience.

“It’s outdoors so the audience is really casual,” she adds. “This is not light classics, mind you.

We play Shostakovich, Mahler, Beethoven, Adams, etc. Pops is Friday and Saturday, and Sunday is some form of opera.”

Under acclaimed LA Phil music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel, Jackson has learned to play piccolo “a little freer.”

“Gustavo is so full of passion and energy for music,” says Jackson. “I’ve always given a lot of myself when I play, but I think with his encouragement, now I also let go more.

Musicians can sometimes get bogged down in the

“correctness” of playing.

We’re so worried that something may go wrong. I play a little freer now; I just let it go.”

A highlight from her tenure with the LA Phil was when, as part of woodwind quintet, she travelled to Caracas, Venezuela, where the group played concerts, gave masterclasses and taught lessons.

“It really opened my

eyes to the plight of others around the world just to get music lessons,” says Jackson. “They have no money to buy supplies, and they have to travel through very dangerous locations just to get to orchestra rehearsals and lessons, but they do it eagerly.”

The LA Phil is a fulltime 52-week season, but Jackson is coming to North Vancouver on Saturday to

perform as soloist with the Lions Gate Sinfonia – her husband Clyde Mitchell is the musical director – and joined in concert with the 20-member Capilano Flute Choir at Centennial Theatre.

On the program is Bach’s “Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor,” a concerto for two flutes by Telemann, and of course, Mozart’s overture to “The Magic Flute.”

“The audience can expect a flighty foray into the flute and a perfectly perky piece of piccolo playing,” says Jackson.

“While we all expect the flute to be a beautiful sounding instrument, often people expect the piccolo will be shrill sounding.

Not so! It is my life’s quest to show that the piccolo is an absolutely gorgeous instrument.”

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DIAMOND TRIBUTE Just back from an Australian tour, Nearly Neil, Bobby Bruce’s tribute to Neil Diamond, hits the stage at Caulfeild Cove Hall on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. Tickets $35. PHOTO SUPPLIED From page 43

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SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Songs and Stories: Composer Michael Conway Baker will share showbiz, film and concert music stories past and present the third Wednesday of every month, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Admission by donation.

ST. ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH 1044 St. Georges St., North Vancouver. 604985-0408 st-andrewsunited.ca Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan will present a screening of the documentary Frame

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Mothers, Children and Relationships: An author panel featuring Michael Christie and Steena Holmes in a discussion about the various themes integrated within their new novels Saturday, Nov. 14, 2:30-4 p.m.

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The big, fast, fun and friendly Dodge Challenger is a proper muscle car, one of the last true specimens of the breed. It’s got classic retro styling inside and out but commands modern roads with its mere presence. It is available at Destination Chrysler in the Northshore Auto Mall. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

2015 Dodge Challenger

Challenger big, fast, fun

BRENDAN MCALEER Contributing writer

With almost any other vehicle, new would be considered improved.

However, where the Dodge Challenger is concerned, you really hope they don’t change too much about it.

If you think of the current domestic pony-car lineup as being a bit like Riverdale, then the Mustang is Archie, the newly designed

Camaro is Reggie, and the Challenger is Moose. It’s big, it’s not very bright, but dang does it pack a wallop.

The other two rear-drive, V-8-powered machines from the big three have developed into legitimate sports cars, with track-bred specials made as much for tackling corners as for the straightline dash. The Challenger, on the other hand, has a pair of horns for a halo model with the ridiculous 707 horsepower (!) Hellcat, and

is decidedly old school in its purpose.

This is a proper muscle car, the last of its breed, really. My tester came with the 6.4-litre V-8 of the Scat Pack and a manual transmission. It’s big, it’s scarlet, it growls. Basically, it’s the car version of Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Design The Challenger first burst onto the scene several years ago, and of all the

retro-styled machines available at the time, it easily looked the best. Last year’s styling tweaks furrowed the big car’s brows lower over its quad headlights and tucked everything lower.

If you park the new Challenger in the vicinity of one of the originals, you can see where the retro design hasn’t quite captured the sheer aircraft-carrier dimensions of the 1970s version. The problem is mostly the height of the new

one, which detracts from its width, especially out back.

However, drive the Challenger around in modern traffic, and there’s no denying that this thing has presence like few other vehicles. This particular version comes with the protruding snout of the shaker hood, a throwback to when the air-cleaner for a carburettor used to stick right out of the hood. While See Open page 51

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TODAY’S DRIVE

Rotary revival gets gearheads spinning

Often, picking best in show at any of the major auto shows can be a tricky proposition. Not so in Tokyo.

The runaway favourite of the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show of nearly everyone who clapped eyes on it was easily Mazda’s RX Vision concept, a long and languid sports car like a Japanese Aston Martin, stretched out in Soul Red scarlet.

It’s wonderful, and best of all was the news that the car would be powered by (at least in concept form) a new generation of the rotary engine.

Dubbed the Skyactiv-R, it would take Mazda’s highcompression and clever injection technology from its workhorse reciprocating engines, and apply the technology to the muchmissed rotary.

If you’re like me, you immediately thought, “Great! Sooo, when’s that going on sale, then?” Well, not soon I’m afraid.

While the concept was indeed swoon-worthy, details were so limited as to be absent. Yes, this thing’s supposed to be rear-wheel drive, but apart from that and the nebulous rotary engine, that’s all we know.

And also, while it’s pretty hot for a concept, this is absolutely not what a rotary-engined car should look like.

The nose, for instance, is far too long. One of the chief characteristics of a rotary engine is its compact size when compared to a conventional reciprocating engine, so there’s no need for an extra-long bonnet. If anything, Mazda’s concept

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looks a bit like a reborn version of the Toyota 2000GT from the 1960s.

A straight-six or a V-8 would make far more sense powering this thing.

And there’s the problem. Sure, a minority subset of gearheads would love to see a return of the rotary engine, but would anybody else care? If this technology is so great, why does Mazda seem to be the only one interested in it?

Is the company’s apparent obsession with the funny little triangle motor simply a stubborn refusal to let go of a technology that has outlived its time?

If you go hunting through history, there are certainly red flags to be raised. The first rotary engines were designed by a German engineer named Felix Wankel, who would lend his name to the motor: hence, Wankel Rotary Engine.

It took ol’ Felix some 30 years to go from patent to working prototype, but his complex design would pretty much die there. It was truly a rotary engine, with the both the rotor and its housing spinning freely – this created better

balancing and allowed for higher r.p.m. Even so, in 1957, it made just 21 horsepower.

A second engineer, one Hanns Dieter Paschke, came up with a simpler, fixed-housing design.

Wankel would say, “You have turned my race horse into a plough mare,” but that’s a bit unfair. After all, Paschke’s version didn’t require a complete engine teardown every time you had to change the sparkplugs.

This fixed rotor design would be the eventual modern version, and the way it works is somewhat odd. In a standard reciprocating engine, the power-stroke drives the piston downwards and turns the crank; it’s not unlike pedalling a bicycle, in which an up-and-down motion is transmitted into rotary motion.

In a rotary engine, the piston is replaced by a triangular metal piece that zips around in an oblong combustion chamber, transmitting its spinning motion directly to the crankshaft by a ringed gear.

It’s an elegant solution in theory, and does away with connecting rods and the like. It is simple, and compact, and just the kind of thing you’d imagine would appeal to a German engineer. However, there are one or two problems.

Defunct manufacturer NSU embraced the rotary, working both in partnership and competition with Mazda to bring the first rotarypowered car to market.

NSU got there first with

the Wankel Spider (a great name for the car), and then the Ro80, a rotary-powered luxury car.

Wow! Wait, where’s all that smoke coming from?

Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks to the rotary engine is its reliance on proper seals. Each point of the triangle undergoes enormous stress during combustion, and if your apex seals aren’t properly hardened: kaboom. Most of the Ro80’s engines went bust, and soon after the company folded.

Eventually they were acquired and became part of Audi.

Mazda, on the other hand, spent a little more time getting things right.

Led by an engineer called Kenichi Yamamoto, a team of 47 engineers worked tirelessly to figure out how to get the rotary to spin without consuming itself.

Many inside Mazda thought the rotary division was wasting both time and money. However, with a breakthrough in shaping the apex seal to resist chattering and vibration worked, and the Cosmo Sport was born. It was Mazda’s first real sportscar, and a symbol of what the company could do.

From there, the firstgeneration RX-7 arrived and began taking the racetracks by storm. As a racing engine, the rotary works well as its balance and ability to rev freely can be used to keep it in the powerband. If you look up footage from Westwood racing circuit in the 1970s, you can see RX-7s just scorching past heavier

Open throttle is pure theatre From page 50

not adding any extra power, this shakes around every time you jab the throttle – a nice piece of theatre in a car designed to put a grin on your face.

Environment While nominally a fourseater, the Challenger’s rear buckets are a tad on the small side. Getting a child seat fitted was a bit of a squeeze, even with those refrigerator-long doors.

However, there’s a very good reason why you should go out of your way to put a kid seat in here – and more on that later.

The rest of the Challenger’s interior benefitted from the same upgrades its four-door Charger cousin received last year. The overall look manages to be both as retro as the exterior, yet at the same time very functional for the modern age.

The seats have a surprising amount of lateral bolstering, and with a red suede finish, you won’t slide around in them much.

There’s far more space in here than you’d get in a Corvette, but despite the large size of the Challenger’s exterior, the interior volume isn’t particularly vast.

Chrysler’s Uconnect

system remains one of the easiest infotainment systems to use, particularly the voice command system. This latter allows you to be a bit lazy about how you enter commands, so tuning to a radio station doesn’t require speaking the exact pass phrase.

However, if you’d prefer not to use touchscreen or voice commands, then the Challenger comes with some good old fashioned goodies like actual knobs for tuning and volume. And never mind the radio and stereo performance, because there’s 6.4 litres of V-8 orchestra just ahead.

Performance Some folks will miss the pistol-grip shifter of the previous manual transmission, but those who opt for the automatic will get a great muscle car experience. Now fitted with an eight-speed auto, the Challenger actually gets decent highway mileage in all its trims, and even the fire-breathing Hellcat can have its thirst reined in if See Crank page 52

machinery with bigger displacements.

The pinnacle came with the third-generation RX-7, known among enthusiasts as the FD. If the Ferrari F40 is my favourite dream car, then the FD is the dream machine you could make a reality. It’s pretty, fast, lively, agile, and (unfortunately) somewhat explosive.

The FD’s sequential twin-turbocharging gave it a short shelf life, especially among those owners who were maybe a little careless with maintenance. It wasn’t an easy car to own or drive, but that just added to the legend. It remains probably the best of the sports cars to come out of Japan during the heady period of the 1990s.

The RX-8 that followed it was something else; it’s still a pretty good car, especially in the handling department, but the 2+2 layout and low torque weren’t everyone’s cup of tea. Add in high fuel and oil consumption and Mazda’s last production rotary engined car faded out with a whimper.

In an age when a juggernaut like VW turns to software cheating to get their cars to pass emissions testing, do we really believe the rotary engine might return? If so, how’s it going to get around its old problems of reliability and a thirst for fuel. When it’s racing, the rotary makes

great sense; on the street, it’s often like trying to turn that race horse into a plough mare again.

However, there is perhaps an idea, though one that might not appeal to every Mazda rotary fan. Consider the BMW i8: nominally powered by a turbocharged threecylinder engine, it uses electric engines and plug-in power to give a sports car performance that’s futuristic and easy on the environment.

As a range-extender, the rotary engine is perfect: it’s compact, it works best at a constant r.p.m., and it can even be mounted flat.

So, imagine that gorgeous shape fitted with the powertrain out of a rear-drive Tesla, but lightened up as much as Mazda can, and with a compact rotary engine fitted so that the range is effectively doubled. Or, use electric motors like the KERS systems used in Le Mans racing to make up for the rotary’s lack of low-end torque. Maybe we’ll need all that room under the nose after all.

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

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TODAY’S DRIVE

Crank the ’70s rock and burn some rubber From page 51

you’re gently cruising.

However, that’s not why you buy a car like this, and anyway, this one’s got the stick. No slickshifting close-ratio gearbox, this six-speed manual is like a railway switch, or possibly the type of lever used to move girders around. It feels industrial-grade.

While slightly overshadowed by the supercharged insanity of the Hellcat, the normally aspirated Challengers are all still plenty fierce. If you like the rumble, then the 5.7-litre option is a great entry-level way to go; if you prefer a more fully loaded musclecar experience, then the full SRT392 package gives you a host of luxury features to go with a bigger engine.

Alternatively, you can go with this Scat Pack variant, which might be the sweet spot in the range. It adds the largest 485 h.p. 6.4-litre Hemi V-8, upgraded wheels, tires and brakes, and you even get a few old-school SuperBee badges.

Driving this big horse hard takes absolutely no finesse whatsoever. The Mustang and the Camaro prefer the backroad waltz, and they’re set up to appeal to the type of driver who regularly throws a helmet in the trunk for track day practice. The Challenger is for the dude or dudette who always faintly smells of burnt rubber, and who has the satellite radio permanently glued to 1970s rock.

It actually corners surprisingly well, thanks to the sheer grip of sticky rubber – while rapid transitions can upset the Challenger, sweeping constant-radius turns are a strength.

The real strength, however, is flicking the traction control to sport mode and getting on the throttle a little early out of the turn. Clifford, as it turns out, just loves to wag his tail, and with that land yacht wheelbase, he

navigation, those matte finish 20inch alloys, and some performance upgrades to the interior.

Official fuel economy figures for the largest 6.4-litre V-8 are 10.4 litres/100 kilometres on the highway for manual-equipped cars, and 16.8 l/100 km in the city.

That ain’t great, but it’s not exactly supposed to be a fuel-sipper of a machine. While the fun of the manual has to be recommended, I’ll point out that the automatic loses little of the experience, and has a couple of extra-tall top gears for maximum highway cruising efficiency.

Green light V-8 power; V-8 rumble; V-8 everything; classic looks inside and out; solid infotainment.

Low-slung quad headlights are part of the Challenger’s inside and out retro styling. does so in a friendly manner.

The Shaker hood wobbles away, and the engine roars, and the gearshift goes *clonk* into third, and the nose lifts like a passenger aircraft approaching liftoff. Best of all, all these antics happen at relatively approachable speeds, so while the ‘Stang and

the Camaro squabble it out over Nürburgring lap times, the Challenger is just about having fun.

And, with a kid seat in the back, all this noise and rumbling really lights up a little face, even when you’re taking it suitably easy.

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Wheels, and it doesn’t care how old you actually are: it’s for the kid in all of us.

Features My Scat Pack tester started off at $46,995 and then climbed to a little more than $56K with the addition of premium sound,

Stop sign Not as roomy on the inside as you’d think; so-so visibility; could use slightly bigger brakes.

The checkered flag Big, friendly, fast, and fun.

Competition Chevrolet Camaro ($30,845) The new Mustang’s been out for a year or so, and while the automatic transmission is a bit of a bummer, the 5.0-litre and stick-shift version makes a great pairing. However, if you heard the rumbling on the horizon, the new Camaro is about to change the rules.

Now based on the lighter Alpha platform (shared with the sharp-handling Cadillac ATS), the new V-8-powered Camaro SS is a genuine rocket. Testing results are showing figures just tenths of a second off those of the current Corvette. Muscle and poise? Sounds like an athlete is on the way. mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

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