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Seymour trails closed by CMHC BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Hikers, dog walkers and mountain bikers are being told to stay off some of their favourite Seymour area trails by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.

CHALK STAR Wesley Reid, 4, makes his colourful mark on a makeshift chalkboard set up for the Haunted Harvest Fair hosted by the Sutherland Family of Schools on Sunday. The family-friendly event, which featured a craft fair, games, treats and two haunted houses, was a fun introduction for students from feeder elementary schools Ridgeway, Eastview, Brooksbank and Queensbury to see Sutherland. See photo gallery at nsnews.com. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

After decades of tacitly allowing unfettered access, CMHC staff posted signs at the trailheads around the former Blair Rifle Range last week, warning: “Unauthorized access for recreational or any other activities is strictly prohibited. The owner is not responsible for damage or loss of property or injury.”

The southern end of the property fronts Mount Seymour Parkway but it extends 644 acres north and encompasses hundreds of kilometres of trails, including the North Shore-spanning Baden Powell Trail. The otherwise vacant land has been

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Blue Bus strike looms on Monday JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Buses in West Vancouver won’t be running Monday unless the bus drivers’ union and the municipality reach an 11th hour agreement.

“There will be no busses, period, on Monday,” said Bill Tieleman, speaking on behalf of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 134, which represents unionized bus drivers and mechanics who work for West Vancouver’s Blue Bus system.

The Blue Bus strike had originally been planned as a time-limited action for Friday but that was put on hold after

Union to put brakes on all bus service unless deal is reached

the two sides met briefly for talks on Wednesday afternoon.

Tieleman said the strike is now back on for the full day Monday, unless something changes over the weekend.

He added the union may add other days to the strike next week, but will give the public 24-hours notice.

West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith said he was disappointed in the news.

“A lot of our residents really rely on that bus service,” he

said. “I don’t like to deny them a service they are paying for through their taxes.”

“We’re trying to encourage people to ride transit,” he added. “It makes absolutely no sense.”

Shana Eslamboli, riding a Blue Bus in Ambleside Wednesday, said a bus strike will definitely affect her. “I don’t have a car right now. That’s why I’m on the bus,” she said. “I need the bus to do grocery shopping, banking, everything.”

The union put an overtime ban in place this week, which has resulted in bus cancellations on certain routes this

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U.S. POLITICS: PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

CapU panel ponders prospective presidents Political science students weigh in on Clinton vs. Trump JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

The United States is a world leader Canada shouldn’t follow – at least in regard to the current campaign for the White House.

That seemed to be the consensus at Capilano University where dozens of students hunkered into the school’s performing arts centre to watch performances from U.S. presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The debate – like much of the campaign – was heavy on attacks and light on issues, noted the school’s political studies instructor Tim Schouls, who blasted the affair as a largely unprecedented impoverishment of politics.

“The language of the public good seems to be missing,” he noted.

The debate was illustrative of the tactics needed to win the highest office in the land, Schouls explained.

“All you need to do … is appeal to the middle majority,” he said. “That means they can get away with ignoring the interests of those who are most acutely in need of support from the political system, and that’s exactly what I see happening.”

Both Schouls and Deborah Littman, lead organizer with the Metro Vancouver Alliance, saw Trump as representative of a burgeoning movement.

“He’s symptomatic of a malaise that runs deep within the American political psyche,” Schouls said.

Trump’s ascendancy and the recent Brexit vote display the “anger and frustration” of a widespread inability to influence decisions, according to Littman, who suggested Trump was emblematic of an “anti-authority” faction.

That anti-authoritarian bent could

Political studies instructor Tim Schouls dissects the debate as part of a panel that discusses the implications of the U.S. election following Wednesday’s final presidential dust-up. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH have real consequences on election day, according to Bev Logan, the leader of the Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good in Portland, Ore. “The faction that is most enchanted with Donald Trump is not going to go away,” she said, speaking via Skype from a laptop perched on a music stand.

When pressed by the debate’s moderator about accepting election results, Trump said he would keep people “in suspense.”

It’s “no stretch” to imagine that sort of rhetoric could spark violence, said Logan.

Trump’s concerns about a rigged system have some parallels with Canadian politics, according to Schouls, who recalled Quebec’s 1995 provincial referendum, which could have led to secession. “(Premier Jacques Parizeau) blamed it on money and the ethnic vote,” Schouls said. “But … he submitted to the will of the people.”

Despite a gulf of 2,000 kilometres, the audiences in CapU and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas – which hosted the debate – seemed to have identical outraged

reactions to Trump’s comment that: “nobody has more respect for women than I do.”

For Littman, one of the campaign’s fortunate byproducts is an emphasis on women’s rights. “It has forced a lot of people to confront their own sexism,” she said. “Maybe it takes this extreme and absolutely blatant sexism to uncover … and call out the sexism (under the surface).”

West Vancouver Coun. Mary-Ann Booth agreed, noting the largely toxic campaign has served as a catalyst for discussions about “gender equality and the treatment of women.”

The debate was also illustrative of the importance of critical thinking skills, Booth said.

“I think you know what I’m getting at,” she added, addressing the students in attendance.

Approximately 23 per cent of millennials would rather see the Earth obliterated by a giant meteor than for Clinton or Trump to serve as a president, according to a somewhat tongue-in-cheek poll conducted by University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion.

While there were a few snickers and rolled eyes during the debate, most notably when Clinton sidestepped a Clinton Foundation question and when Trump warned that the right to bear arms “is under such trauma,” the audience largely seemed engaged.

The debate and campaign require serious consideration, noted provincial Green Party leader Andrew Weaver.

“I think we should all look inwards, because this isn’t funny,” he said. “I am really, really sad that the greatest nation in the world – other than Canada, of course – has an inarticulate narcissist as one of the potential presidents.”

No matter who wins, the U.S. and Canada will remain “stalwart allies,” said United States Consul General to Vancouver Lynne Platt.

“The United States and Canada are going to continue to remain wonderful neighbours (and) prosperous partners.”

West Van man jailed for stabbing during parking lot fight JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A West Vancouver man who stabbed an acquaintance multiple times with a steak knife during a parking lot fight has been sentenced to five months in jail.

Francesco Michael Cartocci, 19, was handed the jail sentence Wednesday by Judge Joanne Challenger after Cartocci pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in North Vancouver provincial court.

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Hanna described the fight that started as a verbal argument on the phone Oct. 7, 2015, after the respective girlfriends of Cartocci and stabbing victim Mark Webber exchanged text messages.

Court heard that after Webber threatened on the phone to beat up Cartocci, Cartocci responded by saying “Where are you? Let’s fight.”

The two men agreed to meet in the parking lot of the McDonald’s restaurant at Park Royal South. But the physical fight quickly turned serious.

Cartocci pushed Webber

violently back into an electrical box, said Hanna, resulting in a large gash to his head.

Soon after, Webber realized he’d been stabbed.

Witnesses, including a couple who arrived in the parking lot just as the fight started, described seeing Webber bleeding. “There was a lot of blood streaming from a stab wound,” said Hanna.

A friend of Webber’s who had come to the parking lot fight with him jumped in and wrestled with Cartocci, who responded by biting him, court heard. Eventually

Cartocci got free, dropped the knife and ran away. He later turned himself in to police.

Webber was rushed to Lions Gate Hospital with stab wounds to his chest, back, shoulder and abdomen, including a laceration to his spleen.

He was discharged from hospital after five days.

In court Hanna told the judge that Cartocci’s decision to bring a knife with a fiveinch blade to the fight was an aggravating factor in the case.

“He did use it and inflicted considerable harm on the

victim,” she said.

Defence lawyer Matthew Nathanson said Cartocci brought the knife because he was concerned Webber would bring other people as backup to the fight. “He was not intending to drive to the parking lot to stab someone,” he said.

He added Cartocci was just 18 when the fight happened, has no criminal record and has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which makes him prone to impulsive behaviour.

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described Cartocci as a low risk for violence.

In sentencing Cartocci, Challenger noted he had taken significant steps to turn his life around since the stabbing.

She ordered him to serve two years’ probation following the jail term. Cartocci must obey a curfew for the first year of that. He must also attend counselling as directed by a probation officer, stay away from alcohol and non-prescription drugs and have no contact with the victim or the victim’s family or girlfriend.

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DNV council delves into transportation plan BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The District of North Vancouver is preparing to embark on a major review of its transportation master plan.

District council members met as an informal committee Tuesday afternoon to discuss what should be emphasized in the review, which is to begin in 2017.

Staff’s suggestions included a protected bicycle network, updating the district’s parking policies, a focus on the Main/ Marine transit corridor, better co-ordination of traffic signals and whether the district ought to become a vision zero community – a growing movement among cities vowing to design their streets in such a way that there are zero traffic-related deaths or injuries.

But the informal session quickly turned to an airing of grievances as the morning commute of many councillors had been particularly exasperating with near-simultaneous crashes on the Cut, Stanley Park causeway and Westview overpass.

Coun. Jim Hanson said he faces the prospect of losing staff at his North Vancouver law firm, as their commute from across Burrard Inlet saps their quality of life. Hanson said the plan ought to come with some immediate steps that will alleviate congestion.

“I don’t sense the level of urgency in the plan that I sense in the public,” he said.

“I’m just really frustrated with being a public official witnessing this failure – this systemic failure – of transportation infrastructure, which after all, is a core function of government.”

And, he added, it’s not just the district but also the province and the North Shore’s other municipalities that need to get on board.

“We need to integrate our efforts with the other civic governments of the North Shore, who are contributing to density without in any way contributing to infrastructure, which is overtaxed,” he said.

Coun. Mathew Bond, who is a transportation systems engineer, said his morning commute to Coquitlam took twice as long as it normally would have with a lineup of stop-and-go traffic on Highway 1 stretching 20 kilometres past the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing.

While creating major new infrastructure takes years and billions of dollars, governments can help influence people’s decisions and improve traffic flow, he said, referring to things like incentivizing carpooling or charging drivers for using the roads at peak times.

“People can change their behaviour today if they so choose,” he said. “Doing some small, incremental things over time over the next two, three or five years, will buy us some time to make those major infrastructure investments and do those plans that are going to provide long-term relief.”

But Coun. Lisa Muri questioned whether residents could be persuaded to leave the car at home, especially when their work, errands or family commitments may require them to travel to several neighbourhoods, numerous times in the day.

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Instead, Muri suggested it may be time to pull up the drawbridge on the North Shore. “I envision there’s room for 100 people at the party and there’s 500 in the lineup out the front door and they all want to come into the party.

I just want to say to the 400, ‘You know what? We’re full now. You’re just going to have to wait your turn.’ But we’re not doing that,” she said.

Coun. Robin Hicks rubbished the notion that trying to stop population growth would solve any problems, noting that banishing the North Shore’s service workers to the farther-flung suburbs would only add more cars onto local roads.

“We can’t put up barriers or walls like Trump might try to do. People are just going to come here from everywhere,” he said. “We’ve got to learn to live with the population.”

The district has, in partnership with senior levels of government, a number of transportation projects under way, including the new five-lane Keith Road bridge, which should open this fall, separated bike lanes on Lynn Valley Road scheduled to start this month, Spirit Trail connections, upgrades to Phibbs Exchange and $150 million in rebuilds of the Lower Lynn interchanges.

Coun. Roger Bassam and Mayor Richard Walton were absent from the meeting.

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The District has been very clear with the transit union that it is prepared to provide employees with a settlement comparable to the recent Coast Mountain Bus Company agreement. This includes the same general wage increase as well as these improvements: • seniority accrual on sick leave • an increased shift differential • an increase to training instructor premiums • improvements to training time provisions • an increase to the uniform cleaning allowance.

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The transit union also wants employer-supported long-term disability premiums even though this change could cost the District an additional two per cent each year. This benefit is not offered by Coast Mountain Bus Company.

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jointly owned by CMHC and the province since 1968.

The North Shore Mountain Bike Association and District of North Vancouver Coun.

Mathew Bond, who is also past president of the NSMBA, have been lobbying CMHC for an explanation.

CMHC issued a statement Thursday afternoon.

“The land neighbours parks that are popular with nature and outdoor recreation activity enthusiasts.

However, the land is not a park or a recreation area,” it stated. “At its core, this is a safety issue. In our continuing role as co-owner and manager of the land, and in the interest of advising the community, these signs were installed as an immediate measure.”

The sudden reiteration of a decades-old, unenforced policy is causing a lot of concern for trail users of all kinds and for local businesses, Bond said.

“I think it’s important that whoever is in charge at CMHC realizes the importance that these trails have for our community. Outdoor recreation is part of the North Shore identity. It’s part of our lifestyle. It’s who we are.

It’s why a lot of people live here. It’s the reason a lot of our businesses choose to locate and stay here,” he said, referring to outdoor gear and apparel manufacturers and retailers. “You can probably name dozens of businesses

A trail user saunters past a freshly posted sign warning hikers and mountain bikers to keep off some popular North Vancouver trails on CMHC land. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD that operate here, hundreds of employees, millions of dollars in economic activity.”

Mountain bikers are mourning the loss.

“People are unhappy but that’s the current situation – a general anxiety over losing a trail network,” said Rachid Nayel, vice-president of the NSMBA. “From the volume of emails that we’ve received, I would imagine they’re fairly popular.”

In the meantime, the NSMBA is urging its members to not ride or build trails on the land.

“We’re advising people to respect the signage,” Nayel said, although he added it will be up to individuals to comply.

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Neighbours around Seymour Heights, Blueridge, Parkgate and Windsor Park are also not pleased, said nearby resident Kevin Grayston.

“I just think that overall the North Shore trails and mountains are a great resource and we want to encourage people to be out there and getting fit and taking advantage of the great outdoors. This puts a bit of a crimp in it,” he said.

CMHC staff met with District of North Vancouver staff in June and toured the

site but the sudden closures caught the district off guard, Bond said.

The district actively manages its land and trails to mitigate risk and liability, he added, something he hopes CMHC will be open to as well.

CMHC’s statement doesn’t address what will happen over the long term with the land, which was last assessed at $57 million, but the Crown corporation is pledging to consult locally.

“CMHC recognizes the concerns raised as a result of this updated signage. Currently, steps are being taken to engage with interested parties, including the province and the local municipality, with a view to considering options for future use and ensuring a co-ordinated approach to managing and monitoring the use of the property,” it read.

CMHC’s official mandate is “to promote housing affordability and choice, to facilitate access to, and competition and efficiency in the provision of housing finance, to protect the availability of adequate funding for housing at low cost, and generally contribute to the well-being of the housing sector in the national economy.”

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he wheels on the Blue Bus won’t be going round and round Monday unless the union representing its drivers and mechanics and the District of West Vancouver reach a deal over the weekend.

We can’t say much about who’s right and who’s wrong because, typical of the intricacies in labour disputes, you can talk to both sides and still come away with no clear idea of what the issues are.

Sticking points appear to be about benefits rather than wages. But benefits in the public sector can make up a substantial part of compensation. Any way you slice it, it comes down to money in the end.

The 100 per cent strike vote handed to the union by its members at the end of the summer was a strong indication that all was not well in the transit department.

So was a recent employee survey in which transit workers consistently rated their job satisfaction lower than other employees at West Van town hall.

One question that repeatedly comes up when mulling the situation is why West Vancouver has its own bus system, in contrast to most other municipalities.

The answer appears to be that it always has. And if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Although a protracted strike would certainly change that impression.

If the strike goes ahead, it will be an inconvenience to many. Those hurt most will be students, seniors, commuters and anyone without a good alternative for getting around. For others, the solution will simply be to hop in the car, and join the lineup of folks waiting their turn to get over one of the North Shore’s gridlocked traffic bottlenecks. That would quickly show how a loss for transit and bus riders is a loss for everyone.

Persecution by paperwork at hands of IRS bullies

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hat is WRONG with those people?

I was speaking – in very rare CAPITAL LETTERS – of the Americans. But large issues call for large letters.

About the U.S. presidential campaign? Good guess.

But not so. Nor about the Iraq or Libyan invasions, or waterboarding – torture, a lingering unpunished crime – or the dangerous economic imbalance between the one per cent (some analyses say one-tenth of one per cent) with grotesquely fabulous wealth and a disenchanted American class who once had good jobs and hope.

After that list, the issue I have in mind may seem a trifle. Not to its victims. It is the relentless pursuit by the U.S. Internal Revenue

This Just In Trevor Lautens Service of its own citizens abroad – more particularly, in Canada, including in our own North Shore communities. That’s what makes it a local issue.

The word fascism was fired at “Amerika” by the hippy-dippy real and playMarxists of the unlamented Sixties. Absurd. But this stuff is near enough to the

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spirit of fascism and Sovietstyle repression for the undersigned.

No barbed-wire camps, no gulag, no street beatings, but the IRS was empowered by a 2014 change in U.S. tax law to force banks everywhere to disclose the account information of American citizens living abroad.

And note well: The Canada Revenue Agency cooperated, giving the IRS the names of 155,000 American citizens holding accounts in this country, as Jeff Lee reported recently in the Vancouver Sun. The law’s apparent intention was to expose rich, tax-ducking sleazebags stashing huge assets abroad. Good. Do it. Well deserved. And doubtless applauded by people at any level who conscientiously

declare their income, certainly including the well-off.

No hate-the-rich animus here. Only look at the community benefits bestowed by the wealthy, both individuals and corporations, right down to small local businesses that underwrite kids’ sports and such.

But the IRS net’s mesh is so fine that it catches innocent financial minnows, some not even aware – like those who haven’t lived in the U.S. since infancy – that they were violating an outrageous new tax procedure shared by exactly one other country on earth: Eritrea.

“They’re terrorizing people,” a North Shore resident, living in Canada for decades, bluntly said.

The IRS bullies furthermore are demanding back taxes. Yes, retroactive to the law’s enactment.

There’s more. Given the complexity at best of complying with tax laws – including very much concerning our CRA – the IRS requirements have spawned hugely profitable work, thousands of dollars a year in many cases, for a raft of lawyers and accountants in Canada.

“It’s persecution by paperwork,” said the U.S. citizen quoted above.

It might seem to simple minds that the obvious course is to toss American citizenship. But you don’t wriggle out of Uncle Sam’s clutch that easily.

Reporter Lee quotes the case of Susan Wood, who came to Canada with her parents as a child and never worked or voted in the U.S. She paid Calgary tax lawyer Alex Marino $12,000 to renounce citizenship.

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(Marino’s firm recently held a free seminar to guide others.)

To be fair, the complexities are unbelievable, a mare’s nest even to experts in U.S. tax law. One victim on the North Shore put through the mill had to sign many dozens of papers: “They were threatening us with practically confiscation.” As for those who share title on American property with others: More tangles, more billable hours for lawyers, advisers and accountants.

And hear this: Canada’s registered education savings plans and tax-free savings accounts don’t cut it as tax shelters with the IRS. They’re taxable. We’re not as far from repressive regimes and arbitrary rule

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How would a bus strike impact you?

When the wheels on the bus stop going round and round, regular transit user’s schedules also grind to a halt. Students and seniors especially rely on public transit to get them where they’re going, be it school or medical appointments. West Vancouver Blue Bus riders are bracing for a full-scale strike set to begin today. In 2001, a Lower Mainland transit strike lasted more than four months and left many people stranded. We asked transit riders in Ambleside: How would a bus strike impact you? Weigh in at nsnews.com.

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Homeless but not alone Joanne Martin Sechelt

“It would bugger everything up. Buses are our lives.”

Natasha Merrick North Vancouver

“There is no other way to get around. You can’t afford a cab.”

As the first storm of autumn ripped into the North Shore last weekend, my gratitude for a sturdy roof and hearth of home turned to thoughts of those in our community struggling to stay dry, warm and safe.

“Sleeping rough” is the euphemism used to describe the more extreme end of our homelessness continuum - or as songwriter Neil Young put it, “people sleeping with their shoes on.”

Homelessness looks different in each community. On the North Shore, it’s often called “hidden homelessness”.

You can walk by a homeless person on Lonsdale and not even know it.

Brodie Zylstra North Vancouver

“I guess it wouldn’t be too bad. I would just get a ride.”

Raman Rodde West Vancouver

“Well, that would suck. That’s my main way to go back home.”

Maurice King West Vancouver

“I would have to take a taxi to work. ... Transit should be an essential service.”

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Kudos to CRTC for slashing broadband network access fees Dear Editor: Hats off to Jean-Pierre Blais who, as chairman of the CRTC, has taken a first step in his courageous stand against the giants of the telecommunications industry for their greedy and arrogant conduct.

Their reluctance to share their broadband networks with smaller companies at reasonable

rates is the primary cause for the high cost of home Internet services today. I well remember, arriving in Canada in the 1950s, when it cost a half day’s pay to make a phone call home to my parents overseas because B.C. Tel monopolized the market and it wasn’t until 30 years later they were forced to allow competition in long-distance

telephone service. The same is true with the Internet today.

We, as consumers, need to let the CRTC know that we are not happy with the status quo and that we support Mr. Blais in his endeavour to lower the outrageously high cost of Internet services today.

Ivor Bennett West Vancouver

Heartfelt thanks for helping hand

Dear Editor: A big heartfelt thank-you to the people who checked in on me and helped me up after falling between uneven ground near the bus stop at

Marine and Fell Avenue on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at about 6:15 p.m. Also thanks to the man who assisted me in getting to the walk-in clinic OK. It is so nice to know that

there are people who care and who are willing to help when a hand is needed. Thank you all so very much!

Elly Stornebrink North Vancouver

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The Sewells, a popular family and operators of a marina that has given Horseshoe Bay residents

and visitors a stunning experience of Howe Sound for 75 years, won unanimous council approval of a development of 159 condo units in six buildings ranging from three to 11 storeys.

The Sewells deserve it.

They’ve earned it. I just wish they – or any other developer – wouldn’t do it.

Stand at Bay and Nelson streets. The buildings will obscure a gorgeous sweep of mountainside scenery.

But how can anyone complain in good conscience?

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But increasingly, it’s hidden in plain sight: Seniors sleeping in their cars behind Capilano Mall. Four hundred “turnaways” each month from the Lookout Society’s Emergency Shelter on 2nd Street West. The lean-to’s and scattered belongings hidden in the deep brush of our urban forests. Beneath bridges. In entry ways.

Stigma hurts What makes the sting of homelessness even worse is the stigma of homelessness: persistent… unspoken… perhaps even subconscious - that somehow it’s the person’s own fault.

Tell that to the homeless former CEO who mortgaged his North Van house in a vain effort to save his company… rented a basement suite until the owner sold… took ill… then had no place to go after surgery.

Or the Capilano University student who bused each day from shelters in the Downtown Eastside while managing to keep her secret from fellow students, Or the confused senior who would forget to pay her rent and was served an eviction notice which placed her on a rental blacklist.

These are not fictional examples.

Challenge never greater The true measure of the health of any community is how it responds to the needs of its most vulnerable. Perhaps on that score North Vancouver is doing well on a relative basis if the forty-four separate organizations listed as members of the North Shore Homelessness Task Force is an indication.

But among these groups, with winter 2016/17 approaching, there is consensus that the challenge has never been greater.

Nanette Taylor, Executive Director of Hollyburn Family Services says staff at the North Shore social agency have

seen an increase in homeless seniors, youth and entire families squeezed by the shrinking pool of affordable belowmarket rental housing.

Hollyburn operates two transitional “safe houses” on the North Shore – one for seniors, the other for youth between the ages of 13 and 18. And it’s one of North Vancouver’s first applicants to a new federal program called Innovative Solutions to Homelessness.

The program is an initial attempt by our federal government to incent and support local, grassroots solutions to some of the hydra-headed dilemmas facing our homeless.

Hollyburn, for example, is applying to ensure its programs for homeless youth and seniors can prevent homelessness before it occurs. The agency’s preventative measures currently support more than 100 seniors a year to stay in their rental homes. Sometimes it’s as simple as working with the senior and landlord to ensure the rent cheque is written and received each month.

According to Hollyburn’s Taylor, the Innovative Solutions to Homelessness program is a welcome initiative: “Hollyburn Family Services applauds the federal government for recognizing the need for preventative services and dedicating funding to it. We’re hopeful the program will provide the flexibility to support youth and seniors in ways that are most appropriate for our local community.”

Rallying cry To make even modest headway in the battle against local homelessness is going to take more than ingenuity and dedication from the network of extraordinary individuals, agencies and church groups on the North Shore’s front lines.

It’s going to take a renewed commitment from all levels of government, the business community and, above all, each of us individually.

Let’s not accept what we see happening with homelessness in North Vancouver as the “new normal.”

Let’s choose to make the battle against homelessness a rallying point that makes our community stronger.

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NEWSBRIEFS K9 UNIT NABS B&E SUSPECTS Two men are facing charges after an alleged daytime break-in at a home on the 1800-block of 21st Street in West Vancouver.

The homeowner, who was away at the time, alerted police when her alarm system was tripped and sent surveillance images of the suspects to her smartphone just before 2 p.m. Monday.

The suspects sped off in a waiting van. Officers cordoned off the area and found

the vehicle abandoned a few blocks away. Investigators called in their K9 unit, which took about 30 minutes to sniff out the suspects in a wooded ravine alongside a creek in the 2800-block of Mathers Avenue.

Forty-six-year-old Jose Molano Lopez of Scarborough, Ont. and 33-year-old Sergio Eder Oritz Gonzales of no fixed address are both charged with breaking and entering. They’re due in court on Nov. 2.

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DIVER WHO DIED IN WEST VANCOUVER IDENTIFIED The woman who died while scuba diving in West Vancouver last week has been identified as Michelle Leah Norman.

The 44-year-old Surrey woman was taking a deepwater specialty diving class off Whytecliff Park Oct. 9 when she went into medical distress.

Norman was about 40 metres below the surface in an area known as “the cut”

on her second dive of the day just after noon, when another diver in the group noticed there was a problem, according to police. Fellow divers helped her to the surface and performed CPR but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

B.C. Coroners Service is still investigating the exact cause of death.

Emergency crews have been called to Whytecliff Park and nearby waters for diving accidents a number of times in recent years.

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COPS CALL FOR UNWANTED GUNS Police are again reminding the public of an opportunity to unload any unwanted

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So far, West Vancouver police have collected 22 rifles, shotguns and pistols and more than 1,300 rounds of ammo.

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BID TIME Former North Vancouver MP Andrew Saxton officially joined the race to succeed Stephen Harper as leader of the Conservative Party Tuesday at the Pinnacle Hotel. One of two B.C. contenders, Saxton has touted his record of fiscal prudence and talked about “keeping Canada great.” PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

First strike in 100 years for West Van’s Blue Bus system From page 1 week. The municipality has been posting a list of impacted bus routes on its website.

Mediated talks between the municipality and transit union broke down a week ago when a mediator booked out of talks because the two sides were too far apart.

The union received a 100 per cent strike vote from its members at the end of August.

Each side blamed the other for the breakdown in

talks, including the session on Wednesday.

Both sides reportedly came to the meeting with identical positions to those they had during previous bargaining sessions. “The meeting ended without a resolution,” said Jeff McDonald, spokesman for the municipality.

So far, the two sides haven’t even been able to agree on what they disagree about.

Tieleman characterized the dispute as involving concessions to benefits being sought by the municipality.

McDonald said that isn’t true.

“If the union believes there are concessions and the district doesn’t believe there are, then there’s a significant problem between the two sides,” said Tieleman.

The District of West Vancouver operates the local Blue Bus system under contract to TransLink, as part of a historical agreement between the parties.

Busses in other parts of the Lower Mainland are operated by the Coast Mountain Bus Co.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Kevin Hill Chad Warren Charity Challenge The sixth annual Chad Warren Charity Challenge Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament was held Sept.

27-Oct. 1 at West Vancouver’s Hollyburn Country Club. The event brings together the North Shore tennis community to honour the life of the late Chad Warren, an open-level tennis player and high performance coach who died in 2009 at age 34 after battling multiple myeloma. The tournament is organized by his friends, family and colleagues and continues his interest in raising $1 million to help find a cure for myeloma through the Hematology Research Program. This year’s event was capped off with a player reception and awards evening Oct. 1 (shown here), which saw all those involved come together to celebrate their achievements on the court as well as in helping raise more than $750,000 in the past few years toward Warren’s goal. chads1million.com

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ARTEMIS GALLERY 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Tuesday-Sunday, from noon to 5 p.m. 778-2339805 artemisgallery.ca Deep Cove to Haida Gwaii — Paintings From a Year Outside: Oil paintings by Maria Josenhans all created outdoors are on display until Oct. 23.

ARTS IN VIEW ON LONSDALE BlueShore Financial, 1250 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver.

Now Showing: Andrew McTaggart’s and Sara Morison’s works inspired by the ocean are on display until Nov. 30.

BRUSHSTROKES GALLERY 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. WednesdaySunday, from noon to 6 p.m. nsartists.ca Drawn to Water: A fine art sale of over 60 paintings by 29 artists runs until Nov. 6.

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MIXED MEDIA BUILDING BLOCKS New text-based works from Ben Skinner and sculptures by Alexander Caldwell are now on view at Winsor Gallery (258 East First Ave., Vancouver ) through Nov. 19. PHOTOS SUPPLIED ENDS WITH INES, BEN SKINNER, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS (2016) AND RED LOOP, ALEX CALDWELL, ENAMEL ON STAINLESS STEEL (2013)

nvartscouncil.ca Flight Path/Taking Flight: An installation by Rachael Ashe showcasing 500-600 hand cut paper wings that pays homage to the nightly commute of thousands of crows across the Vancouver skyline runs from until Jan. 9.

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Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Call for Artists: The North Vancouver Community Arts Council seeks visual artists to participate in the Art Rental Programme and will hold jury days for new work Sunday, Oct. 23 or Nov. 6. Artwork can be dropped off 9:30-11:30 a.m. and picked up 3-4 p.m.

Mechanical Wonders — Imagining the Future: Five artists display illustration, cartoon, 3D “bots” and suspended assemblage that blend traditional and digital technology until Nov. 12. Artist demo: Saturday, Nov. 5, 2-3:30 p.m.

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Vancouver. 604-929-5744 deepcoveheritage.com The Archives Come Alive: View many of the archives and browse photos online Thursday, Nov. 3 at 11 a.m.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. TuesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Bending Boundaries: An exhibition that explores the elemental connection between print and paint features the works of Heather Aston and Carol McQuaid until Nov. 6.

Meet the artists: Saturday, Oct. 22, 2-3 p.m. Print demo: Sunday, Oct. 23, 2-4 p.m.

GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. WednesdaySaturday, noon-5 p.m. Adult admission by donation/ children free. 604-998-8563 info@smithfoundation.ca NORTH VANCOUVER ARCHIVES AT THE COMMUNITY HISTORY CENTRE 3203 Institute Rd., North Vancouver. Tuesday-Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. 604-9903700 nvma.ca Steppin’ Out: Street photography of Foncie Pulice

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WORLD OF FADO Portuguese fado vocalist Mariza returns to Vancouver for a concert at The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. A superstar in the fado world, Marisa dos Reis Nunes, born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, moved with her family to Lisbon at age three and grew up listening to fado musicians in Lisbon’s historic quarters of Mouraria and Alfama. The Grammy-nominated singer will perform works inspired by her life experience from her latest album, Mundo. In a Pre-Show Talk at 7:15 p.m. at UBC’s Royal Bank Cinema. playwright Elaine Avila, currently in a three-year residency with Playwright’s Theatre Centre, will discuss the importance of fado music, her own Portuguese/Azorean heritage, and her newest work Lost in Fado. For details visit chancentre.com.

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NORTH VANCOUVER MUSEUM AT PRESENTATION HOUSE 209 West Fourth St., North Vancouver. Thursday-Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 604-9875612 nvma.ca Water’s Edge — The Changing Shore: An interactive exhibit that examines the significance of North Vancouver’s waterfront from historical, geographical and personal perspective runs until April 2017.

The North Vancouver Story: Experience an ongoing exhibit defining life in North Vancouver.

PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

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presentationhousegallery.org Screens and Thresholds: An exhibition that considers the possibilities and anxieties of visualizing cultural knowledge that highlights the potential for transformation runs until Dec. 4.

RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Bits of Colour: Lea Abubo shows her ceramic pottery and Eva Kawczynski presents giclee prints of colourful abstract compositions until Oct. 23.

Illuminations and Illustrations in Colour: Clay artist Pene Hollingworth shows her newest pots and jewelry and Svitlana Gerasymchuk presents embroidered images in traditional Ukrainian folk style from Oct. 23 to Dec. 4.

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Stories for Children: Colourful blown-glass balloons by Hope Forstenzer hang from the gallery’s ceiling, each balloon sandblasted with an image depicting the darkest characters from children’s stories and legends from Oct. 26 to Nov. 19. Reception and Halloween costume party: Sunday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m. Artist talk: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2 p.m.

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Notice of Road Closure and Property CLICKDisposition TO EDIT MASTER TITLE 200 Block Orwell Street What: Public input opportunity regarding the closure of

approximately 381 square metres of municipal road allowance consisting of a portion of lane along the 200 Block of Orwell Street.

When: 7 pm, Monday, October 24, 2016.

Where: Council Chambers, District of North Vancouver Municipal Hall, 355 West Queens Road, North Vancouver, BC.

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What changes?

Bylaw 8202 proposes to close portions of dedicated municipal road allowance. If Bylaw 8202 is adopted, the District intends to dispose of the land to Adera Equities Inc. for consolidation with their adjacent lots. In exchange the District will receive the appraised market value of $1,600,000.00 and a new easement for access to the District’s adjacent future affordable housing development and installation of necessary public utility infrastructure. The road closure is subject to separate public processes for rezoning the adjacent Adera properties to a multifamily development and a possible OCP amendment.

FRIENDLY REMINDER Marge Zieroth organizes books for the Friends of the North Vancouver District Public Library annual Big Book Sale at the main branch in Lynn Valley, Oct. 21 – 23. Books, CDs and DVDs are all available Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 12:30 to 2 p.m. Sunday’s special “Power Hours” from 2 to 4 p.m. will feature a $10 admission and allow participants to take out all they can carry. For more information visit nvdpl.ca. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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When can I speak?

If you are affected by this proposed closure, please join us for the Regular Council Meeting to be held on Monday, October 24, 2016 at 7 pm at the North Vancouver District Hall.

Need more info?

The bylaw and staff reports are available for review online at www.dnv.org/road_closures or at the Municipal Clerks Office.

Office hours are Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.

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Ryan P. Malcolm, Manager, Real Estate and Properties at 604-990-2264 or malcolmr@dnv.org

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Joe Trio, a piano trio that puts their own spin on classics performs Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $28/$25/$21.

Farewell Show: The Nylons a cappella group perform a final show Thursday, Nov. 3, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Tickets: $45.50/$39.50.

Gypsy Romance: The Lions Gate Youth Orchestra joins Lions Gate Sinfonia for a concert Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $39/$35/$18/$12.

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Cabaret Series: Martin Harley and Daniel Kimbro perform roots and blues Oct. 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $35.

A Journey in Eastern and Western Music: The Iranian Women’s Cultural Society performs Persian and American folk and classical songs, English songs from Broadway musicals, Spanish tango songs, Italian Neapolitan songs and opera arias Saturday, Oct. 22 at 8 p.m.

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Old buddies put their friendship to the test

Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon finds the comic side of darkness ! Ages of the Moon, produced by Lonesome Moon Productions, Oct. 27-Nov. 6, at North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre.

Show times: weekdays 8 p.m.; Saturdays 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sundays 1 p.m. Tickets: $20/$30. phtheatre.org/show/ ages-of-the-moon ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

Ages of the Moon, a work opening next week at Presentation House Theatre by Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Sam Shepard, argues that time is a liar.

“(It) reminds us that the past is mostly vague, subjective, self-serving interpretation – that we create stories and myths to substantiate our illusions of who we are and of a reliable safe world,” says the play’s director, John Cooper.

In the last 35 years the local theatre veteran has directed more than 130 productions at theatres across Canada, many of which were mounted at the Arts Club and Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Companies.

The Vancouver resident goes on to explain that the production further suggests that this stands in strong opposition to the truth of an ever-changing, unreliable and therefore frightening existence.

“We fight change, especially that change which brings discomfort. We desperately fight to keep things as we think they are, and render ourselves ridiculous – and comic – in the process. Hopefully we finally surrender to what is true in this moment. This is what I see born out in the story of

Jon Bryden and Alec Willows star in Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon at Presentation House Theatre. the play. I think that the play does not address who we want to become, but rather how foolish we appear in our fearful resistance to who we have become,” he says.

Ages of the Moon opens Oct. 27 at the North Vancouver theatre and will complete its run Nov. 6. The action centres around two old friends, played

by Jon Bryden in the role of Ames and Alec Willows as Byron, reunited by mutual desperation on the eve of a lunar eclipse.

“Over the course of the action we learn that within the

old friendship are rivalries and petty jealousies and old resentments. All the things that they’re operating on as true are based in fiction. There’s a reason why they haven’t hung out for the last 20 years,” says Cooper.

Bryden, a longtime friend and collaborator, brought Shepard’s script to Cooper.

Having taken a hiatus from the stage for a number of years, Bryden expressed an interest in making a triumphant return to local theatre and wondered if Cooper may be willing to partner with him for the

project.

“I saw both the comic fun and the merit of the story for public discussion and thought this is a good thing to be involved in,” says Cooper.

Bryden then approached another friend of theirs, Willows, who was also happy to come on board. The trio, as Lonesome Moon Productions, continued to source industry friends to help bring the work to the stage, mainly Arts Club alumni, and are pleased to finally be presenting the work, which Cooper feels sends an important message.

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“I could relate to it as a human being and I can relate to it as a fella. We have a difficult time looking at our personal truth, our emotional truth. We create stories and myths and narratives to make us feel safe and OK and I think that’s separated from our truth, what’s really going on for us. We don’t relinquish these stories and ideas easily, we become rigid about them and of course we often appear quite foolish in the process. Everybody else can see it but we can’t, right?

Usually this becomes quite

uncomfortable until something breaks and we’re forced to accept our truth. There’s a kind of universal process that I’m quite intrigued by. … We’re quite foolish when we deny our truths and argue ourselves further and further into a hole as we become desperate until the vulnerability takes over and we have to actually surrender to the truth of what is.

So it’s that, and the fun of the characters, and the fun of the resistance that I find amusing,” he says.

Cooper is grateful for the talent of his players, bringing first and foremost comedic awareness to their respective roles, as well as a willingness to offer insight from their personal experiences.

“The whole purpose of doing a project like this is to collect a group of people to sit together in a dark room and witness something that may be true for them so they don’t feel alone with it. I think that takes a certain generous sharing on behalf of the actors, a sharing of their own vulnerability,” he says.

“Nobody likes to look the fool, but we’re all capable of such foolishness and trying to protect ourselves. I like that about the piece, it’s quite compassionate that way, it observes the folly but it does so ultimately in a compassionate way. I think it leads us towards intimacy rather than separation. We like to think that if we stay by ourselves and we solve all our problems ourselves that that’s being strong and all it is is creating greater and greater pressure and weakness. Really the answer to solving these things is by being intimate and sharing your truths with somebody else, that’s friendship. Not being right about stuff and proving you’re right. The actors, I think, are making the commitment to those things but I think they’re both really good comedians, which makes the fun part of the struggle engaging and entertaining,” he adds.

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PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-9903474 phtheatre.org Cap Global Roots: Classical guitarist Derek Gripper performs Malian kora music Sunday, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $30/$27.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Classical Concert Series: Violinist Oleg Pokhanovski and pianist Scott Meek perform works by Mozart, Prokofiev and more Thursday, Oct. 27 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

Classical Concert Series: The Lady Larks, a three-part harmony vocal and piano ensemble, present favourite songs and ballads from the First and Second World War eras and beyond Thursday, Nov. 10 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

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

Friday Night Concert: Carmanah performs a blend of folk, funk and reggae Friday, Oct. 21, 7:30-8:45 p.m.

WEST VANCOUVER UNITED CHURCH 2062 Esquimalt Ave., West Vancouver.

Remembrance Day Concert: Chor Leoni performs a concert focusing on poetry Friday, Nov. 11, 1-2:30 p.m. Admission: $40/$35/$30. Tickets: chorleoni.org/concerts-events/ events/warpoet#buy-tickets WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St., West Vancouver.

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ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. 604-990-3474 phtheatre.org Bodacious: A monthly reading series of new plays by and about women the last Saturday of every month at 8 p.m.

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CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: A fast-paced farcical adventure Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $43/$39/$20.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 nvrc.ca/centennial-theatre DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-3200 deepcovestage.com Ten Times Two: The Eternal Courtship: A dramatic comedy

Oct. 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $20/$18.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Arsenic and Old Lace: A farcical black comedy Oct. 28 (preview $15), 29, Nov. 2-5, 9-12 at 8 p.m. with matinees Nov. 5 and 12 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $23/$21.

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: A fastpaced farcical adventure Nov. 2 and 3 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $50/$43/$29/$15.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-9903474 phtheatre.org Walt Whitman’s Secret: A play about the influential poet Wednesdays-Saturdays until Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets: $15-$28.

Ages of the Moon: The story of two old friends reunited by mutual desperation Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. with matinees Saturdays at 2 p.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m. from Oct. 26 to Nov. 6. Tickets: $20-$30.

THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca The Mystery of Irma Vep — A Penny Dreadful: A vampire comedy Oct. 21, 22, 26-29 and Nov. 2-5 at 8 p.m. Admission: $18/$16.

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Flare Path is an odd choice for the Slamming Door Artist Collective, which mounted Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in the fall of 2015 in the same venue with many of the same actors.

Back in 1879 when Ibsen’s play premiered in Copenhagen, critics and scholars predicted that the slamming of the door behind Nora as she walked out on her husband Torvald was a sound that would be heard around the world. Nora’s determination to steer her own course became a rallying cry for the emerging feminist movement.

On the other hand, Flare Path, written by Terence Rattigan, gives us Patricia (Yoshié Bancroft), an actress who makes the conservative, “ethical” decision: she stays with the husband who treats her like a trophy, much the way Torvald treated Nora.

But it’s not quite that simple. Teddy, her husband (played by Curtis Tweedie), is a goof who can’t stop kidding around. He’s also an Royal Air Force flight lieutenant flying dangerous bombing missions over Germany. He’s a hero.

But Patricia is still in love with Peter (Jesse Martyn), an American actor with whom she had an affair before marrying Teddy.

Peter arrives unannounced at the Falcon Hotel

where Teddy, Patricia and several other RAF men and their wives are spending some brief time before the bombing raids resume. Peter has come to take Patricia back to America with him; he “needs” her, he says.

If this play were written today, Patricia would dump both men and strike out on her own. It doesn’t help that in this production Teddy is like a kid (until very late in the play) and Peter’s a cad.

Having chosen this play for whatever reason, director Genevieve Fleming does a fine job of it. She establishes a palpable sense of wartime. The Falcon Hotel is located near an RAF base where planes are taking off and returning with frequency. The flare path, a line of lights set out along the runway to guide the nighttime bombers, also makes the base a target for German raiders. We hear the planes leaving and returning; the women who live in the hotel – the proprietor Mrs. Oakes (Laura Jaye), the maid (Julie Leung) and the Countess (Tamara McCarthy) – all recognize the different types of aircraft and who’s likely to be at the controls. When the squadron leader Swanson (Paul Herbert) orders an impromptu mission, the play quickly gets airborne.

Although the central romance is the Peter-Patricia-Teddy triangle, there is also Dusty (Ashley O’Connell) and Maudie (Melissa Oei), a working class couple with an argumentative yet tender relationship. But it’s McCarthy as the Countess

mid-hands black-bear tionar to grip.

bour Castr whose Castr him Skriczevinsky, who is the FBI, beating heart of Flare Path. his Formerly a barmaid, the the Countess met and married pr the Polish count (Sebastian in Kroon) after his wife and abor children were killed in invasion Poland by the Germans.

Determined to avenge their deaths, the Count came to England and joined forces with the RAF in its efforts to defeat the Luftwaffe. Kroon is careful not to turn the Count into the stereotypical foreigner attempting to master English. He makes it funny but we laugh with the Count not at him.

Marcus Stusek creates a warm and elegant hotel lounge with a huge, opaque rear wall/window out of which the characters can see the air base. Costume designer Chantal Short provides lovely ’40s frocks – especially the red brickcoloured, velvet-trimmed ensemble on McCarthy.

And the hair-dos are perfect: rolled, permed and, no doubt, bobby-pinned.

Lighting and special effects

by Andrew Pye make it impossible not to reflect on what Londoners (and the people of Dresden) experienced during the war.

Large and largely successful, Flare Path is ambitious in its illustration of a bygone period. However, Slamming Door Artist Collective’s earlier production – A Doll’s House — will stay with me far longer than Flare Path. That slamming door just continues to reverberate across the years.

– Jo Ledingham writes for our sister paper the Vancouver Courier.

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HAVANA, CUBA: ERNEST HEMINGWAY SLEPT HERE

U.S. author’s home preserved as a museum

PETER NEVILLE-HADLEY Meridian Writers’Group

Havana – Cuban dictator Fidel Castro approved of Nobel prize-winning author and Cuba resident Ernest Hemingway, though they met only once.

In May 1960 the recently victorious revolutionary won the 10th annual Hemingway Angling Tournament, a deep-sea fishing competition, landing five fish whereas the author himself landed none.

An old black-and-white photo by Castro’s official photographer shows the white-bearded macho author mid-handshake with the black-bearded macho revolutionary, each no doubt trying to demonstrate the firmer grip.

By then most of Cuba’s bourgeoisie had already fled Castro’s regime. Hemingway, whose early support of Castro’s revolution brought him to the attention of the FBI, continued to divide his time between Cuba and the United States, but was prevented from returning in the spring of 1961 by the abortive, American-backed invasion of the island, the

Unchanged since he died in 1961, Ernest Hemingway’s study in his home, Finca Vigía, outside of Havana, in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba. PHOTO SUPPLIED PETER NEVILLE-HADLEY/MERIDIAN WRITERS’ GROUP Bay of Pigs. Plagued by poor health, he committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho later that year, aged 61.

Visitors looking for signs of Hemingway mostly end

up in a couple of Havana bars where he used to drink and where tour groups now savour his favourite cocktails in watery-tasting, overpriced versions. Slick El Floridita,

where he supposedly drank daiquiris, still keeps a seat roped off for him. At downmarket and heavily graffitied hole-in-the-wall La Bodeguita del Medio, where he downed

a daily mojito, any atmosphere is driven out by a five-piece band squeezed into the tiny space.

Real Hemingway is found 12 kilometres away in the

village of San Francisco de Paula, now a Havana suburb, where in 1940 the author purchased Finca Vigía, a lowrise house with substantial grounds, and moved in with his third wife, the novelist and journalist Martha Gellhorn.

It’s best to arrive in one of the classic American cars, all fins and with the suspensions of water beds, that Hemingway might have used himself, and which in embargoed Cuba have long outlived him and continue working as taxis.

After the Bay of Pigs the Cuban state seized the property where Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which brought him both a Pulitzer and the Nobel, and froze it at that particular moment, leaving everything unchanged up to the present day.

There’s no entry to the white-painted house, but clear views through doors and windows left ajar show the chintz and rattan furniture, the record player, book-lined walls and the art he liked to mention owning – a Juan Gris, a Paul Klee, a Picasso. The rest is so predictable to readers

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: CHARCOAL LANE SERVES UP WURUNDJERI FARE

Eatery immersed in Aboriginal culture

PETER NEVILLE-HADLEY Meridian Writers’Group

Melbourne – Charcoal Lane, a restaurant on quiet Gertrude Street, not far north of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the faintly bohemian Fitzroy neighbourhood, is a bright yet cosy, woody space lined with aboriginal art.

Lampshades made from elongated woven eel traps, looking like impractically extended hats for wizards, seem almost to drip from the ceiling.

But the real surprises are on the menu, which, from macadamia and wattle seed crusted wallaby to lemon myrtle tiramisu, is a showcase for Aboriginal ingredients, presented with a European sensibility. Everything is intriguingly familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time.

Head chef Greg Hampton has been using native ingredients in his cooking for over 20 years, at one point returning to college to learn how to cultivate them for himself.

Charcoal Lane’s purpose is not only to introduce local flavours to Australia’s non-native population, but to reintroduce native dining to urbanised

Aboriginals, many of whom have lost touch, quite literally, with their roots.

“It’s genuine modern Australian food – creative native food,” Hampton says.

“Creative” in part because recreating native methods completely would be impractical. “I’m not going to dig a hole in the middle of the restaurant, build a fire and cook a whole kangaroo. So what I’m trying to do is use the basic ingredients and then modernize them with modern cooking techniques, presentation and flavours.”

Charcoal Lane, named after a local meeting place for Aboriginal people (and the title of a song by native songwriter Archie Roach), also has a second purpose, although its has top-shelf service and décor don’t make that immediately evident: it was begun to give Aboriginals and other disadvantaged Australians training in the hospitality industry. Formerly a branch of the Victorian Aboriginal health service, it’s now operated by Mission Australia in conjunction with other nonprofits. It also has backing from commercial sponsors including Accor Hotels. Some of Charcoal Lane’s graduates end up working for the hotel

to visitors.

Hampton’s kitchen is full not only of emu and wallaby, as well as local lamb and pork, but of assorted leaves, which although from Australian eucalypti produce an astonishing range of familiar scents when torn to release their oils.

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Here everything is stimulating, and its unfamiliarity deserves respect. The challenge, says Hampton, is to get customers to see the food not just as a novelty, and to come back.

If you go: For information on Melbourne go to Visit Victoria’s Melbourne page at visitmelbourne.com.

For information on travel in Australia visit the Tourism Australia website at australia.com.

A Charcoal Lane platter: the presentation is Western, but the ingredients are Australian Aboriginal. The trays include emu fan fillet, coconut-crumbed crocodile, wild boar sausage and aioli with the vesicles of a blood lion (a native citrus).

PHOTO SUPPLIED PETER NEVILLE-HADLEY/MERIDIAN WRITERS’ GROUP

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There are typically four people training back of house, with 10 more out front. Some are here to build on existing qualifications while others hope to start new careers.

Although much of Melbourne stands on land belonging to the Wurundjiri people, trainees come from tribes as far away as Darwin, and a few of the menu ingredients are as unfamiliar to them as they are

The Sounds of Life.

Finca Vigía will be familiar to author’s fans From page 27

of his novels that it almost amounts to cliché: bullfight posters, the heads of a zoo’sworth of African species, alcohol bottles, cartridges and bullets. For Hemingway hierophants, the altar of this shrine is a writing desk that’s a half-moon of hardwood, now topped with books and a prosaic stapler.

The leafy grounds slope away past a tower meant to provide Hemingway a quiet place in which to write, but which he never used, to a cock-fighting ring, a swimming pool where Ava Gardner once swam naked, and the restored Pilar, his deep-sea fishing boat, now high and dry.

If you go: For more information on Finca Vigía and other Hemingway-related sites in Cuba visit the Hemingway Cuba site at hemingwaycuba. com.

For information on Cuba visit the Ministry of Tourism of Cuba website at cubatravel. cu.

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ARTSCALENDAR From page 22 nvrc.ca/centennial-theatre Ballet Rocks: A program with new works to rocking music by the Eagles, Disturbed and more followed by live music with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Friday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $35/$28/$20/$15.

Clubs and pubs

FINCH AND BARLEY 250 East First St., North Vancouver.

Sophie Buddle performs a stand-up comedy show Sunday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m.

HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Live Music: Saturday evenings. Schedule: Oct. 22, 8 p.m., Brian denHertog and Jill Russell (folk/original); and Oct. 29, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Checo Tohomasa (rhythm and blues).

Diwali Festival: A celebration Friday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. (ticketed event).

Open Mic Night every

Thursday 7-9:30 p.m.

RED LION BAR & GRILL 2427 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. 604-926-8838 Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty performs every Friday and Saturday starting at 7 p.m.

WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver.

Music Medley Showcase comes to Waves the first Saturday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604-

985-5646 or musicmedley@ gmail.com.

Other events

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 nvrc.ca/centennial-theatre Reel Rock 11: A climbing and adventure film presented by the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $19/$17/$15. Info: vimff.org.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY

1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. TuesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Artists’ Tools for Show and Tell: An Arts Connection Networking Salon to develop ways to look critically and constructively at your own and other’s work Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon.

Drop-in fee: $10.

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West

Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Opera with Nicolas Krusek: An introduction to opera composer George Frideric Handel Wednesdays until Nov. 16, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Experts in Our Community — The Face Within the Painting: Artist Patrick Bruskiewich discusses the history and biography of Leonardo da Vinci and the mysteries of the Mona Lisa Monday, Oct. 24, 2-3:30 p.m.

— Compiled by Debbie Caldwell

“Creating safe communities means protecting the environment and the people.”

– Dion Arnouse, Emergency Management Consultant, Kinder Morgan Canada

Trans Mountain’s emergency management team has connected with over 100 Aboriginal communities along the BC-Alberta pipeline route. We assess each community’s capacity to respond to a civil emergency, then provide support to upgrade emergency response skills accordingly. The primary objective is to ensure an organized response to a spill. However, as the chances of a spill are low, local residents who are trained well with a safety mindset are equally prepared to respond to a more likely natural event, such as a fire, flood or ice storm. Putting safety first is our number one priority.

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There is a constant focus on community safety, emergency preparedness and environmental protection.

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Emergency preparedness training benefits include skills in dealing with all hazards, including fires, floods and extreme storms.

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To date, 40 Aboriginal communities located along the pipeline and marine corridor in British Columbia and Alberta have signed Mutual Benefit Agreements.

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nsnews.com north shore news FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016

Punkers Against Me! morph into many things

Emotions are genderless for band’s Laura Jane Grace ! Against Me!, Commodore Ballroom, Oct. 25. Tickets $25 from Ticketmaster.

GREGORY ADAMS Contributing writer

When Against Me! guitarist/vocalist Laura Jane Grace answers her cell phone, she reports that although the fall shows her band have been playing in support of new album Shape Shift with Me have been great so far, the tour hasn’t been without its obstacles.

Speaking from a Virginia stop just ahead of soundcheck, she’s been eyeballing the Weather Channel’s hurricane watch on her home state of Florida, where the quartet is due to play next. After discussing the horrific death and devastation Hurricane Matthew put on Haiti, the concerned frontwoman lightens the mood by discussing an injury that took place on the band’s tour with Bad Religion

Against Me! play the Commodore Ballroom Oct. 26 in support of their new album Shape Shift With Me. hours before the first show even started.

“I was putting clothes into a dryer and my whole lower back went into spasms and I collapsed on the ground in pain,” Grace explains. “I couldn’t get back up. I had to call my tour manager, and Atom (Willard, drums) and James (Bowman, guitar)

lifted me up and put me on a road case. This was two hours before set time. Luckily, Bad Religion had a massage therapist with them who immediately went to work on my back. I got through the set. I’m definitely on the mend now.”

Beyond her physical setback, life is going well for

Grace this fall. While she’s been logging on-stage hours and studio time with Against Me! for close to 20 years, this might be the most productive time of her career so far. In addition to issuing the band’s seventh studio full-length in September, she’s about to see publication of Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, a memoir exploring her early life, the rise of Against

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Me!, and her coming out as a transgender woman in 2012.

Grace notes she was lucky enough to have been a longtime journal writer, making the years-long process of putting together the self-reflective autobiography a bit easier. By comparison, coming up with ideas for Shape Shift with Me on the road (while supporting 2013’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues) was a breeze. “(Writing the memoir)

was a really in-depth, arduous process that required a lot of reflection and a lot of looking back. In this weird way, I was using songwriting as the escape from that,” she says, noting that much of the new album touches on her recent experiences of “dating for the first time as an openly trans person,” following the dissolution of her seven-year marriage to Heather Hannoura in 2014.

“In the past, any time I had ever approached any kind of relationship, I always had this secret that I was holding in, this part of myself that I would deny,” she continues. “It’s been a new experience. Thinking about relationships and things about love through a trans lens was something that I was preoccupied with in a lot of ways while writing, because it was really relevant to me. I felt like I had a lot of questions and things to figure out with it.”

As such, Shape Shift with Me morphs through various interpersonal dynamics. The jangling, slamming “12:03” takes a look at long-distance feelings while on the road; “Crash” is a glam-rock ode to a hard-hitting crush; “Rebecca” is a joyful punk-pop piece about keeping things casual; “Norse Truth” is a harshly spat stomp about cutting someone out of your heart.

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DEVELOPER’S EARLY PUBLIC INPUT OPPORTUNITY Seylynn North Shore Development LP will be hosting a meeting to present a development proposal for the area south of Fern Street and east of Mountain Highway.

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Clothing company scores a nice haul

Trailer-based shop up for B.C. business award MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com

Paige Manning and her husband Kaleb conceived Little Bean + Co. on a stormy night during their honeymoon in Tofino.

It was pouring rain and the newlyweds were huddled in their hotel room that looked out at the rolling ocean waves.

They began mapping out their future together, one that included a family business.

The couple’s infant daughter, Finley, was napping near them and would later become the inspiration behind the family venture.

Paige had quit her career job at ICBC’s head office in North Vancouver, shortly after Finley was born two years ago. She wanted to follow her dream and be her own boss, inheriting that entrepreneurial enthusiasm from her parents.

The Lynn Valley family used to run a tanning studio in Lower Lonsdale, “as well as many other ventures my dad took us on,” says Paige.

She and Kaleb toyed with the idea of opening a children’s play centre in North Van, but the high commercial real estate cost quashed that plan.

“It made us want to think outside the box,” says Paige.

An egg-shaped camper caught the couple’s eye, as they scoured the Internet for inventive business ideas. They

Paige Manning in her rolling children’s clothing boutique, Little Bean + Co., in Lynn Canyon Park.

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ended up purchasing the 1975 Boler travel trailer – 10 days after returning home from their honeymoon – and repurposed it to house a children’s mobile clothing boutique.

It was clear the vintage camper needed some TLC – and a modern makeover. “The outside used to be an awful cigarette-colour yellow,” says Paige with a laugh.

It took Paige and her family close to three weeks to painstakingly sand and prep

hair, hazel-eyed Finley on Instagram, attracting the attention of kids clothing designers who would send her their pint-sized apparel.

North Shore brands Little Bean + Co. carries include Good Husbands Apparel, which creates clothing influenced by current pop culture.

Their trademark North Shore neighbourhood shirts are hard to miss.

Monkey and Peanut makes colourful kids belts and is

the trailer for painting. Their labour of love emerged with a fresh, white and teal esthetic – and Little Bean + Co. was born.

The trailer’s interior had been completely gutted and redesigned as a miniature boutique with four hanging racks and four shelves. A cushioned bench was added to make the small-scale shopping experience more comfortable for parents and kids.

When curating the clothing collection, Paige ensures the

adorable items pass the Finley test. In fact, the company is named after Finley, who is affectionately called “Bean” because she looked like a kidney bean in her swaddle.

“A lot of the stuff my daughter has tried and worn and are kind of the style we like,” says Paige, who personally knows a lot of the moms behind the brands.

Before Paige started Little Bean she would post snapshots of photogenic, blond

another North Shore company carried by Little Bean, which loves supporting local business.

Abandoning the brick-andmortar model and embracing the pop-up shop trend has proven successful for Paige.

She’s popped up at markets and events from Squamish to Chilliwack.

“I wanted a mobile aspect that was attractive and not just the typical food truck that you see,” says Paige, explaining how potential customers gravitate towards the teal trailer. The “showpiece” has saved her some money on advertising.

One of Paige’s favourite North Shore pop-ups is The Juicery Co., which collaborates with Little Bean for cross-promotions.

“A lot of people really like that because they get to try something new,” says Paige.

Recently, Paige has been lobbying local municipalities to create more pop-up retail opportunities.

“Five years ago, buying a taco out of a food truck was so absurd and now it’s totally the norm,” says Paige. “So, I don’t doubt that this is the same way mobile vending is going to go.”

Little Bean + Co. is currently nominated for a Small Business B.C. Award, with online voting open until Nov. 30. You can check out the mobile clothing boutique this Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Fall for Local: Pop Up Market at The Pipe Shop in Lower Lonsdale.

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Roots duo kick off Kay Meek Cabaret series Martin Harley and Daniel Kimbro turn things on their head with live off the floor studio recording ! Martin Harley and Daniel Kimbro, Kay Meek Studio Theatre, Tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets: $35 Adult | $120 Table of Four. 19+ event (kaymeekcentre.com).

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Like an undetermined number of children of the postwar era, Martin Harley’s musical career was conceived in the backseat of a car.

He was, as he puts it, “just having an adventure like you do sometimes in your 20s,” living in a Holden station wagon in Australia.

Speaking from his farm in England, Harley recollects on his days as: “a little bit of a lost soul.”

A former art student, he’d toiled in vineyards and worked as a gardener and tree surgeon, doing “pretty much anything anyone would pay me to do.”

Music was a big part of his life, of course, but certainly

not a “sensible way” to make a living.

“I’m not sure I still do consider it a sensible way to making a living,” he reflects with a laugh.

During his Australia adventure, he picked up a 12-string guitar and promptly left it in the backseat.

The pawn shop 12-string warped in the heat.

The instrument was useless – or at least it was useless the way he’d been playing it.

“So I put it across my lap and started tuning it to an open B chord,” he recalls.

Strumming and sliding his hand across the strings as though disciplining an unruly kitten, he heard something new. It was awful, but it had potential.

“Slide guitar sounds pretty terrible when you first set out on that long journey,” he explains.

He’d jammed with bands, but the sound of that twisted 12-string made him think he’d just stumbled on his career.

“I don’t think I’d ever been

Bassist Daniel Kimbro and slide guitar player Martin Harley perform at Kay Meek Studio Theatre tonight and Saturday.

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paid before that,” he says of his musical career; before quickly adding: “It was a while before I got paid after that.”

He’s released five albums since then with a sixth on the way.

His most recent release is Live at Southern Ground,

recorded with Daniel Kimbro, a bassist he met on a U-Haul at a Crawford, Tenn. music festival.

For the second time, something important happened to Harley in the back of a vehicle.

The plan was to have Kimbro come onstage and

play on “one, maybe two” songs, as Harley remembers.

Jamming on an up-tempo version of “Nobody’s Fault but Mine,” Kimbro and Harley interact like strangers in an elevator, avoiding eye contact while always maintaining acute awareness of the other’s movements.

As soon as Harley shifts his guitar playing, going for a softer sound, Kimbro is there waiting for him, muting his jaunty bass riff into something understated.

“His ability to seemingly read my mind as to where we’re going musically and his incredibly deft skills on the double bass led to us doing a couple more festivals together and then eventually making an album in four hours.”

The album is Live at Southern Ground, which features a little Tom Waits, a host of new material, and the folk ballad “Goodnight Irene.”

While the ballad’s lyrics about drowning in a river could lend itself to an approach drenched in emotion, Harley does something more subtle. He doesn’t sound like he’s expressing sadness, exactly. He sounds sad the way a divorcee sounds sad, like there’s dust in his tear ducts.

The album is meant to capture a slice of Kimbro and Harley’s on-stage spontaneity.

“We wanted to try and bottle that in a studio environment.”

While he’s quick to praise covers like “After Midnight”

by JJ Cale and Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah,” Harley generally eschews musical retreads.

“I don’t see the point,” he says. “If I do play something by someone else I do try to really turn it on its head.”

While Harley acknowledges that all performers claim they can’t wait to get back to whatever city they’re heading to next, he maintains Canadian audiences have proved par- Fr ticularly attentive.

“I find the Canadian audiences just generally listen to music. That sounds like it should be a prerequisite … but there’s plenty of places you go in the world where people don’t listen,” he explains. “I do my job so much better if people pay me the respect and I try to give it back tenfold. People’s attention and their cover charge means a lot.”

Harley’s performance kicks off Kay Meek’s Cabaret series, which continues in November with a show from Montreal Guitar Trio.

DEVELOPER’S INFORMATION SESSION N.J. Keate Home Design Inc. is holding an information session where interested members of the public are invited to learn about our application for a two stories plus cellar, duplex building located at 200 E 18th Street, North Vancouver, B.C.

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Jeff Keate, (M.Arch)

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Date: Tuesday October 25, 2016

Email: jeff@keatedesign.com

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SHOWTIMES CINEPLEX CINEMAS ESPLANADE 200 West Esplanade, North Vancouver 604-983-2762 Kevin Hart: What Now? (14A) — Fri, Mon-Thur 7, 9:25; Sat-Sun 1, 4:30, 7, 9:25 p.m.

The Accountant (14A) — Fri, Mon-Thur 6:30, 9:30; Sat 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Sun 1:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 p.m.

Sully (PG) — Fri, Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:35; Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 p.m.

Ouija: Origin of Evil (14A) — Fri, Mon-Thur 7:15, 9:40;

Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (PG) — Fri, Mon-Thur 6:55, 9:45; Sat-Sun 1:15, 4, 6:55, 9:45 p.m.

Denial (PG) — Fri, Mon-Thur 6:40, 9:20; Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 p.m.

Inferno (PG) — Thur 7, 9:45 p.m.

The Good Dinosaur — Sat 9 a.m.

Inside Out (G) — Sat 9:15 a.m.

The Finest Hours (G) — Sat 9:30 a.m.

Zootopia (G) — Sat 9:45 a.m.

The Jungle Book (PG) — Sat 10 a.m.

Band working their way west

From page 40

“I guess the conclusion I reached is that emotions are genderless,” Grace theorizes.

“All of it is a natural spectrum of how you feel when you go through relationships. That was important to represent on the record. Each song is supposed to capture a phase of that, whether that’s the crush of falling in love, or the breakup and the sorrow.”

As the conversation winds down, Grace is asked if she’s excited to hit the West Coast.

While she spoke at an event in Victoria last month, it’s been over a year since the

band came roaring through Vancouver. For timely reasons, she’s plenty pleased to be coming back to the city.

“Going back to what I mentioned about f!?>ing up my back, I’ve been looking forward to this show because I remember where we parked the bus (last time). Right where you open the door, there was this massage place.

That’s where I’ll be first thing in the morning.”

While the tour may have started on an off-note, Against Me! are working the kinks out one date at a time.

– Gregory Adams writes for our sister paper the Westender.

CINEPLEX ODEON PARK & TILFORD 333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver, 604-985-3911 The Magnificent Seven (14A) — Fri-Sun 9:30, Mon-Thur 9:10 p.m.

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Inside Out (G) — Sat 9:15 a.m.

The Finest Hours (G) — Sat 9:30 a.m.

Zootopia (G) — Sat 9:45 a.m.

The Jungle Book (PG) — Sat 10 a.m.

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanai — Sat 9:55 a.m.

Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance — Sun 12:30 p.m.

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nsnews.com north shore news FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016

REVIEW: AMERICAN PASTORAL

Directorial debut anything but perfection ! American Pastoral.

Directed by and starring Ewan McGregor. Co-starring Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning.

Rating: 6 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

Ewan McGregor is clearly proud of his first directorial effort, American Pastoral, based on Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. Talking about his film during the press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival last month he seemed pleased but exhausted by the experience.

Asked whether he was keen to jump into the director’s chair again, McGregor protested the time away from his family and the dedication it takes to bring a film project to fruition: “You spend 16, 17 months of your life… carrying this precious thing.” Though he didn’t rule out directing again he wasn’t actively seeking it: “I hope the next story will find me” McGregor plays the title role of Seymour “The Swede” Lavov, star high school athlete and a Jew who marries Dawn (Jennifer Connelly), former Miss New Jersey, the epitome of WASP-ishness. Swede takes over his father’s company in the city while cultivating a picture-perfect life in the country, complete with a little white house and dairy cows.

The pastoral idyll is

Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly star in American Pastoral, McGregor’s directorial debut based on the novel by Philip Roth.

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shattered by the arrival of daughter Merry, who is not perfect. She stutters inexplicably. A small thing, in of itself, but a bad omen of things to come. The Swede adores his daughter, but Merry feels in direct competition with her beautiful mother when it comes to securing Daddy’s affections: “kiss me like you kiss mother.” (Well played by young Hannah Nordberg.)

Prosperous post-war

America clashes violently with ‘60s rebellion as Merry (now Dakota Fanning) enters her teens. She spends an increasing amount of time with friends in the city, and occasionally doesn’t come home at all.

Dawn tries to rein her in but Swede relents over and over again. Though he shouldn’t be, he’s surprised to learn that her room is filled with anti-war protest leaflets and propaganda.

How could this happen?

They’re a progressive family, aren’t they? The glove factory Swede took over from his father employs mostly blacks, some of whom Swede considers friends as well as employees. (Uzo Aduba steals at least one scene. The Orange is the New Black actor says she signed on for the film because she was swayed by McGregor’s “energy and his voice.”) But the Vietnam war and selfimmolation of a monk on live

TV scream louder than Swede can: the damage to Merry’s fragile psyche is done.

So when the local post office is bombed, killing a neighbour, Merry goes missing and is the presumed culprit.

Years pass with no word and then a sighting, and contact from a liaison, Rita (Valerie Curry). Rita uses the Swede’s conflicted relationship with his daughter to seduce him, stringing him along with the promise

of information and the chance to see his little girl again.

McGregor can’t quite pull off the cockishness and largerthan-life zeal of a young Swede: he seems already beaten somewhat when we meet him, meaning that his fall into ignominy is less jarring than it should be. Dawn is just as fragile as her daughter, taking an interesting path to recovery after a nervous breakdown, and Connelly gives a nuanced performance.

It’s Fanning who has the most difficult task: she becomes the main character in the film despite being tacitly unlikable, frustratingly oblique about her motivations and abandonment of such a seemingly perfect family.

Fans of Roth’s 1997 novel will lament the loss of the richness in the text, necessitated by the film’s two-hour running time. Absent are the themes of interfaith marriage and class aspirations, only briefly touched on in a scene where Swede’s father (Peter Riegert) objects, but is then won over by a convincing Dawn.

The film is bookended by narration by David Strathairn as Nathan Zuckerman, a writer attending his high school reunion and hearing the remarkable tale of what became of his hometown hero the Swede for the first time.

The character of Nathan is key, as it illustrates the wider lament for the crumbling American dream, and a whole generation’s confusion about how it could’ve all gone so wrong.

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obituaries BREWER, Harold Alfred July 8, 1960 - October 4, 2016 Harold passed away on October 4. He will be missed by his mother Sheila Trumbley; sisters Jean & Karen (Colin) Randall; nieces Kati, Ella, and Claire; and his nephew Jonathan. He also leaves behind many relatives.

BLACKIE, Joan Deceased October 14, 2016. Survived by husband Bill; sister Donna-Jean Stanwood; children Kathy Bizicki, David Bizicki, Greg Bizicki, Cade Austin; grandchildren Brady and Dylan Custaloe; Trevor, Keith, Josie and Zoe Bizicki; son-in-law Pat Costaloe; daughter-in-law Lisa Smith.

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Cliff was born in Shell Lake, Saskatchewan, moving to North Vancouver in the 30’s where he made his home. Eight years ago Cliff married Edith and moved to White Rock.

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October 26, 1923 - September 29, 2016 Cliff is predeceased by his first wife Eileen. Survived by their children: Allen, Cindy (Ib), granddaughter Jenn (Henry), great granddaughter Ariana.

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BOKENFOHR, Linda M. December 19, 1964 − September 16, 2016

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden and unexpected passing of Linda Bokenfohr on September 16, 2016. Linda is survived by her father David Bokenfohr and sister Judy Bokenfohr as well as numerous relatives.

Linda is predeceased by her mother Pauline and her brother Dwight. Linda was originally born and raised in Morinville, Alberta and later made Vancouver her home.

A Celebration of Linda’s Life officiated by Pastor Dave Sattler will be held at North Shore Alliance Church, 201 East 23rd Street, North Vancouver on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 1 PM. Burial will be at a later date in Morinville, Alberta where Linda will be laid to rest with family.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to your local Women’s or homeless Shelters.

ROMAIN, Henry October 12, 2016

Henry was born in Apeldoorn, Holland, May 27, 1931. Welcomed into Heaven on October 12, 2016.

Henry immigrated to Canada in 1950 and married his love, Leola, in 1952. Together they raised 3 children. Henry loved God, his family, his friends, and his church. He enjoyed gardening; collecting clocks; a good joke; telling his life stories. Missing him are Leola; children − Lydia (Bob), Everett (Sandi), Scott (Kathy); 7 grandchildren; 2 great− grandchildren; 2 sisters; nieces, nephews; many friends. A Celebration of his Life will be held on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 2 PM at St. Andrew’s−St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, 2641 Chesterfield Avenue, North Vancouver, Pastor Martin Baxter officiating. If you wish, please make a donation to the North Shore Hospice Society where Henry received loving care.

"Well done, good and faithful servant."

As you share the stories and the memories of how they lived their lives and how very much they meant, may you find comfort...

DOUGLAS, James J. (C.M. LLD) March 26, 1924 − September 24, 2016

Born in Edinburgh in 1924, immigrated to Canada in 1954, Jim forged a successful career in the Canadian book industry where he was highly respected and admired.

Joan and I (Bill) had 30 great years. She lived life to the fullest and had a beaming smile. She was an independant lady. Her beloved dog Rusty will miss her fiercely. She always said to me that she wanted to die before me because she never wanted to deal with my stuff (junk)!

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Harold’s Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, October 29th at 11:00AM at the Salvation Army, 105 West 12th St, in North Vancouver. In lieu of flowers, please drop some coins in the Salvation Army North Vancouver Christmas kettles to help others.

Jim passed away peacefully in the North Shore Hospice on September 24. He will be sorely missed by his beloved wife, Heather, his family and his friends who all loved him dearly. He was sadly predeceased by his elder son Christopher on May 21. He leaves his daughter Diana, his son Alan, his stepson John Christie (Linda Aylesworth), grandchildren Brandon, Kimberley (Jason King), Tyler, Alec, Ted, and great−grandchildren James, Eva and Charlotte.

A Celebration of Life will be held in the Marine Room at West Vancouver Seniors’ Centre, 695 21st Street. on Sunday, October 30th from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM. All friends respectfully invited. westvancouver.ca/parks−recreation/community− centres/seniors−activity−centre

Cliff worked in the shipyard until going to war in 1943. On return home Cliff apprenticed as a cabinet maker and worked in that field for years. He then built and installed trailers for the start-up of Gold River on Vancouver Island; repaired fire damaged homes working for Saxelby Construction, worked for Murphy Graham Woodworks building Keg Restaurants in Western Canada, and then worked for himself building Toys N Wheels toy stores.

Cliff purchased lakefront property in Osoyoos, where he spent numerous hours towing skiers and entertaining family and friends new and old. Cliff also travelled extensively with his family.

TAYLOR, Barbara Jo (née Anderson) April 12, 1953 - October 13, 2016

Two years ago dementia started to take Cliff’s memories.

We would like to thank the staff at Evergreen Campus of Care for the compassion and dignity they showed Cliff right up to his passing.

A gentle soul, always bright, eternally loving, and forever kind, her light left us peacefully after a long battle with cancer. Barbara is survived by her husband Fred; daughters Laura, Shaundra, Cassandra, and Kristi; and brothers Bill, Bruce, and Jeremy. She is loved and missed by all.

Allen, Cindy and Jenn will be hosting a Celebration of Life in Cliff’s honor in the Spring of 2017. Date to be announced.

The Celebration of Life will be held at Lynn Valley Community Centre this Sunday at 2:30pm. All are welcome to pay their respects.

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The Toyota Highlander, already a strong seller, gets a number of improvements for 2017 that will help it push the old days of the minivan farther and farther into the rearview mirror. It’s not the most nimble option but it’s solidly built, comfortable and quiet with a well laid out cabin, smart storage spaces and easy-to-use controls. PHOTO SUPPLIED

The Highlander stays sharp Like it or not, the minivan is no longer a mainstay of family life. Instead, the three-row crossover has taken its place as the family truckster.

Grinding Gears Brendan McAleer

This is simply the way things evolve: first we had sedans, then we had station wagons, then we had vans, and now we have crossovers.

What’s next? I don’t know – maybe hovercrafts. We shall see.

At the larger end of the scale, before you cross into full-size SUV territory, are machines that seat seven in relative comfort, have the commanding seating position of a proper truck, and have the ground clearance and allwheel drive to deal with some mild off-roading. They are probably a little less practical than a van, but they do offer a feeling of security.

The Highlander is an

excellent specimen of this new breed of kid hauler.

Already a strong seller, it receives a number of improvements for the 2017 model year.

DESIGN Somebody at Toyota’s design department has a thing for grilles. The previous generation car had a large front end already, but this new machine takes things

about as far as they can go.

The lower section of the Highlander’s front is approximately 90 per cent black plastic slats, and that is not an exaggeration.

It’s a strong statement of aggression from a vehicle that makes no claims to be the fastest machine around a racetrack or the most indomitable far off the beaten path.

However, every manufacturer these days thinks we all want

giant Halloween masks glued to our cars, so there you have it.

The rest of the Highlander is relatively unchanged, but still looks handsome. LED headlights and taillights sharpen things up a little, and there are new 18-inch and 19-inch alloys to fill out the wheel wells. Other than that, it’s business as usual.

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The pale blue AMC Pacer that hosted a most excellent performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody” recently sold at auction for $37,400. PHOTO SUPPLIED THOMAS MACHNITZKI/WIKIMEDIA

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Braking News Brendan McAleer provenance. The machinery has been given a thorough going-over, but the rest of the car is as horrible as it was on screen. Which somehow just makes it cooler.

IN GERMANY, THOU SHALT NOT AUTOPILOT YOUR CAR Germany made headlines earlier last week when their government passed a nonbinding agreement to try to eliminate all sales of new internal-combustion engine powered cars by 2030. It’s a shockingly progressive move, but with enough population density and the deep pockets to build the infrastructure required, Germany could lead the EV revolution. As for the autonomous future, German policymakers say: tread more carefully.

Tesla refers to their driver assistance semi-autonomous suite of features as Autopilot.

It’s a great name, and accurately describes what the functions do: they can steer, brake, and pilot the car, assuming the driver is right there to take over in case anything should go wrong.

That’s how autopilot functions in a modern jet aircraft – pilots are still required.

German officials, however, are concerned that people might not understand the subtleties of what Tesla’s driving assists can do for them, and may be inclined to think a technology named “Autopilot” means the driver no longer needs to pay attention. They’ve formally asked Tesla to stop using the term in advertising.

On one hand, it seems a bit fussy to be chasing after nomenclature, especially in advertising. On the other hand, it’s provable that people continually expect more from their cars than is possible, especially as they understand less and less. The advent of anti-lock brakes is one example, with many drivers expecting miracles from their car’s brakes as they follow too closely in the wet.

As autonomous technology evolves, the problem isn’t going to be technological challenges, it’ll be staying

MINI RELEASES PLUG-IN COUNTRYMAN HYBRID Long having leveraged the sporty image of the Mini Coopers of the past to sell ever-larger hatchbacks and crossovers, Mini is finally embracing the future. While there was an electric-only Mini available for leasing some years ago, here’s the more sensible application of electric technology to the BMW-built city car.

The as-yet unnamed Mini will have some basis in lessons learned from the i3 EV. An electric engine with a top speed of 123 kilometres per hour will power the rear wheels, while a 1.5-litre turbocharged three-cylinder will power the fronts. There’s no official word on range yet, but it’s worth noting that the updated i3 can go approximately 180 km.

Add some right-now electric torque to a Mini’s quick steering and traffic-carving short wheelbase, and you’d have a fun-to-drive city car with gasoline range for longer weekend trips. The only real question is: why’d it take them so long?

FUTURISTIC BMW I8 SPYDER COMING IN 2018 Possibly the most futuristic-looking coupe of the last half decade, the BMW i8’s radical shape belies its eco-friendly roots.

It may look like a missile, but it can’t quite keep up with a more conventional 911, at least not yet.

However, it is unmatched in forward-looking style. Now things are getting even better with the announcement of an upcoming convertible model. Based on an updated version of the i8, the Spider will arrive with horsepower levels somewhere about 400 from its twin-drive plug-in hybrid system, and with a considerable bump in range.

It’ll still probably be more of a boulevardier than a track-focused machine, but adding a little style into the plug-in market can’t help but improve sales.

THE RETURN OF THE DELOREAN Buying a classic DeLorean DMC-12 is easier than you think. The car’s (undeservedly) poor reputation for handling and power kept many owners away, yet its movie-icon status meant many of them were preserved. Now, thanks to new

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New DeLorean DMC-12s for sale From page 50

U.S. laws allowing for the small-scale production of vintage replicas, you’ll even be able to buy a new one.

The revitalized DeLorean company is now taking applications from interested parties for an all-new DMC12. The cars will look the same, but a new powertrain is planned, one with a little more gumption than the old PRV V-6, and that also runs a little cleaner. Sadly, it won’t be a garbage-mulching Mr. Fusion.

For people who like

driving, this is what the semiautonomous, plug-in future could hold for the enthusiast. Thanks to the spreading availability of technology like 3D printing and the ability to crowdsource small-scale companies, having a dream car in the garage for the weekend and then commuting via whirring soulless pod looks both possible and appealing.

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

The short-lived DeLorean DMC-12 seemed destined to survive mostly in memory as the Back to the Future car, but changes in U.S. production laws are allowing the company to get those gullwings flying again with all-new cars. PHOTO SUPPLIED WIKIMEDIA

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Roomy interior simple and smart From page 49

The basic shape of the Highlander is relatively unchanged in the 2017 redesign, but it remains a handsome SUV. LED headlights and taillights sharpen things up a little, and new 18-inch and 19-inch alloys fill out the wheel wells. PHOTO SUPPLIED

ENVIRONMENT Like the exterior, Toyota hasn’t meddled much with what was already a pleasing recipe. The Highlander continues to come with smart little features like a dashboard shelf for all your day-to-day necessities, and is a comfortable place to be.

Many manufacturers place a heavy emphasis on style where interiors are concerned, but the Highlander is engineered to support and survive daily use. The storage bin between the seats, for instance, is large enough to count as a studio apartment

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could fit an entire golden retriever in there. Not that I’m suggesting you do so.

Likewise, the middle and rear rows in the Highlander have plenty of room, and 2017 sees more of what the youngsters really want: USB power outlets so they can charge their devices and not look out the window. Adult passengers will find the third row a little cramped, and with it deployed cargo room drops from almost 1,200 litres to less than 400 l.

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they raise their eyes from their smartphones – and the fit and finish are very good.

The Highlander isn’t quite a Lexus, but it does feel like a flagship for the company, with the highest trim Limited variants exceptionally well equipped.

There are some flashier infotainment systems than Toyota’s Entune touchscreen on the market, but there aren’t many that are better, even in the luxury class. It’s simple, well laid out and highly functional. PHOTO SUPPLIED

PERFORMANCE Canadians have two choices when it comes to the Highlander: a powerful V-6 or an efficient hybrid system. In the United States, you can buy a version of this huge crossover powered by a four-cylinder. It must be

pretty miserable to haul all that weight around with such a tiny engine.

For 2017, Toyota has upped its game with a new eight-speed transmission and a 295 horsepower rating for the direct-injection V-6. That’s plenty of power to get the Highlander sprinting down the field, and should be more than enough to pass big rigs on the highway with ease.

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From page 54 power feel greater than it is.

Unlike the Mazda CX-9 or the Honda Pilot, both of which tout lightness as an attribute, the Highlander feels a bit heavy from behind the wheel. Good. While nimble handling that provokes you into carving up the corners is fun in a two-seater sports car, chances are your threekid family won’t love being chucked around in the back.

Instead of speed, the Highlander impresses with quiet poise. The old vehicle was already very smooth, but Toyota has done their typical job here refining the ideal with acoustic glass, tweaks to the suspension damping, and other minor fiddles. As a result, the Highlander is happy to glide along at highway speeds.

Something else too: as part of their efforts to improve the safety of their entire range of cars, Toyota is introducing standard automatic braking to prevent or mitigate collisions (including pedestrian detection), automatic high beams, and lane-departure warning.

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Offers available from October 1-31, 2016. *Fully stackable clearance cash discount of $3,750 will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and is applicable only to customers purchasing, financing or leasing any new 2016 Sentra S MT (C4LG56 AA00). Clearance price of $13,988 on 2016 Sentra S MT (C4LG56 AA00). Prices include all applicable fees and discounts. +Standard rate finance cash discount of $5,000/$6,000 will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and is applicable only to customers financing any 2016 Rogue SL AWD Premium (Y6DG16 BK00)/ 2016 Pathfinder Platinum 4x4 (5XEG16 AA00) through NCF at standard rates. The cash discounts cannot be combined with lease or finance subvented rates or with any other offer. ˆ$14,000 Cash Rebate is applicable on the cash purchase of a 2016 Titan XD Diesel Platinum Reserve (3CPD96 AA00/AA50) which will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. Cash rebate is not combinable with lease and finance offers. **Loyalty Bonus (“Offer”) is available only to eligible customers who, in the 90 days preceding the date of lease/finance of an Eligible New Vehicle (defined below), have leased or financed a 2007 or newer Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Mazda or Hyundai brand vehicle (an “Existing Vehicle”) within past 90-days. Eligibility for the Offer will be determined by Nissan Canada Inc. (“NCI”) in its sole discretion. Proof of current ownership/lease/finance contract will be required. Offer is not transferrable or assignable, except to the current owner’s spouse or a co-owner/co-lease of the existing vehicle (either of whom must reside within the same household as the intended recipient of the offer). Individuals who purchased/leased a vehicle under a business name can qualify for the program provided that the new deal is not a fleet deal and that the individual can provide valid documentation that they are the registered primary owner of the business. If the eligible customer elects to lease or finance a new and previously unregistered model year 2016 Nissan brand vehicle (excluding NV, Fleet and daily rentals) (an “Eligible New Vehicle”) through Nissan Canada Finance Inc. (collectively “NCF”), then he/she will receive a specified amount of NCF Loyalty Bonus, as follows: (i) 2016 Altima ($2,000); (ii) 2016 Micra/Versa Note/Sentra ($500); (iii) 2016 Juke/Rogue ($600); (iv) 2016 Pathfinder ($800); (v) 2016 Titan XD ($1,000). Loyalty Dollars will be applied after taxes. Offer is combinable with other NCF incentives, but is not combinable with the Nissan Loyalty program. Offer valid on vehicles delivered between October 1-31, 2016. Models shown $26,898/ $37,343/$49,193/$76,896 Selling price for a new 2016 Sentra 1.8 SR Premium CVT (C4SG16 RL00)/ Rogue SL AWD Premium (Y6DG16 BK00)/ 2016 Pathfinder Platinum 4x4 (5XEG16 AA00)/ 2016 Titan Platinum Reserve (3CPD96 AA50). Offers include freight and PDE charges ($1,600/ $1,795/$1,795/$1,795) air-conditioning levy ($100), Documentation Fee ($399), Tire Levy ($25), All-weather mats & wheel locks ($228.84) applicable fees, manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. See your dealer or visit Nissan.ca/Loyalty. Visit North Vancouver Nissan or www.northvancouvernissan.ca for more details. Certain conditions apply. ©2016 Nissan Canada Inc.

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STANDARD ALL WHEEL DRIVE. The Highlander’s comfortable interior is designed to survive daily use, including useful features such as a massive storage bin between the seats. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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GREEN LIGHT Solid heft; well laid out cabin; comfortable and quiet.

STOP SIGN Too much grille; less nimble than competition.

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It’s also relatively quick, thanks to a revvy V-6 and lower curb weight than the Highlander. However, the Toyota’s infotainment and cabin layout win points for being simpler and more practical. mcaleer.nsnews@gmail.com

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Offers available from October 1-31, 2016. *Fully stackable clearance cash discount of $3,750 / $6,000 will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and is applicable only to customers purchasing, financing or leasing any new 2016 Sentra S MT (C4LG56 AA00) / Juke SL AWD (N5X16 AA00). Clearance price of $13,988 on 2016 Sentra S MT (C4LG56 AA00). Prices include all applicable fees and discounts. +Standard rate finance cash discount of $5,000/$6,000 will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and is applicable only to customers financing any 2016 Rogue SL AWD Premium (Y6DG16 BK00)/ 2016 Pathfinder Platinum 4x4 (5XEG16 AA00) through NCF at standard rates. The cash discounts cannot be combined with lease or finance subvented rates or with any other offer. ˆ$14,000 Cash Rebate is applicable on the cash purchase of a 2016 Titan XD Diesel Platinum Reserve (3CPD96 AA00/AA50) which will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. Cash rebate is not combinable with lease and finance offers. **Loyalty Bonus (“Offer”) is available only to eligible customers who, in the 90 days preceding the date of lease/finance of an Eligible New Vehicle (defined below), have leased or financed a 2007 or newer Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Mazda or Hyundai brand vehicle (an “Existing Vehicle”) within past 90-days. Eligibility for the Offer will be determined by Nissan Canada Inc. (“NCI”) in its sole discretion. Proof of current ownership/lease/finance contract will be required. Offer is not transferrable or assignable, except to the current owner’s spouse or a co-owner/co-lease of the existing vehicle (either of whom must reside within the same household as the intended recipient of the offer). Individuals who purchased/leased a vehicle under a business name can qualify for the program provided that the new deal is not a fleet deal and that the individual can provide valid documentation that they are the registered primary owner of the business. If the eligible customer elects to lease or finance a new and previously unregistered model year 2016 Nissan brand vehicle (excluding NV, Fleet and daily rentals) (an “Eligible New Vehicle”) through Nissan Canada Finance Inc. (collectively “NCF”), then he/she will receive a specified amount of NCF Loyalty Bonus, as follows: (i) 2016 Altima ($2,000); (ii) 2016 Micra/Versa Note/Sentra ($500); (iii) 2016 Juke/Rogue ($600); (iv) 2016 Pathfinder ($800); (v) 2016 Titan XD ($1,000). Loyalty Dollars will be applied after taxes. Offer is combinable with other NCF incentives, but is not combinable with the Nissan Loyalty program. Offer valid on vehicles delivered between October 1-31, 2016. Models shown $26,898/$30,728/ $37,343/$49,193/$76,895 Selling price for a new 2016 Sentra 1.8 SR Premium CVT (C4SG16 RL00)/ 2016 Juke Nismo AWD (N5ZT16 AE00) / 2016 Rogue SL AWD Premium (Y6DG16 BK00)/ 2016 Pathfinder Platinum 4x4 (5XEG16 AA00)/ 2016 Titan Platinum Reserve (3CPD96 AA50). Offers include freight and PDE charges ($1,600/$1,750 / $1,795/$1,795/$1,795) air-conditioning levy ($100), applicable fees, manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. See your dealer or visit Nissan.ca/Loyalty. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. Certain conditions apply. ©2016 Nissan Canada Inc.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016

Pedestrian safety

Winter months can be deadly for pedestrians The days are getting shorter, which is bad news for pedestrians.

ICBC recently launched a safety campaign with the British Columbia government and police to urge pedestrians and drivers to stay safe as crashes involving pedestrians spike at this time of year.

According to stats released by ICBC, an average of 59 pedestrians are killed and 2,300 injured in crashes every year in B.C., with almost half of these fatalities – 46 per cent – occurring between October and January.

“Fall brings less daylight and weather changes including rain and fog, which means visibility can be poor this time of year,” Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone stated in a release. “Drivers need to be especially cautious at intersections and look out for pedestrians. As pedestrians, it’s critical we do what we can to be seen by drivers.”

Pedestrians can help stay safe by making eye contact, wearing bright and reflective clothing, and staying focused on the road. ICBC will be distributing reflectors and safety tips through community policing volunteers across the province in areas with high volumes of pedestrian

traffic.

“One in five people killed in car crashes are pedestrians,” stated Mike Morris, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General.

“Pedestrians need to watch for drivers turning left at intersections, as they may be focused on oncoming traffic.

Remove your headphones and leave your phone alone while crossing the road.”

Through ICBC’s road improvement program, more than 100 pedestrian and cyclist related projects were completed last year including crosswalks, sidewalks, countdown timers and pedestrian activated flashing crosswalks.

About 70 per cent of pedestrian crashes happen at intersections. The intersection safety camera program, a partnership between ICBC, the B.C. government and police since 1999, has cameras set up at 140 of the highest-risk intersections in 26 communities across the province. It’s one of the many enforcement, education and awareness tactics used to improve pedestrian safety.

“Drivers involved in crashes with pedestrians are often distracted or fail to yield the right of way,” said Chief Constable Neil Dubord, chairman of the B.C.

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RCMP list six high-risk streets This week North Vancouver RCMP Traffic Services began a three month educational awareness campaign to help change the public’s behavior at intersections, including a list of the most dangerous streets for pedestrians.

Records from 2011 to 2015 indicate that Marine Drive and Hanes Avenue had seven pedestrian related injuries each while Lonsdale Avenue, 15th Street, Chesterfield Avenue and 3rd Street each registered four pedestrian injuries.

Both motorist and pedestrian behaviour must change, especially at controlled intersections, according to the RCMP. The odds of a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle increase dramatically from October to December. This is due to a number of contributing factors such as the change in weather (increased rain, fog, snow etc. creates slippery road surfaces and causes poorer visibility), less daylight hours, and the reality that pedestrians do not wear any reflective clothing to make themselves more visible to drivers.

RCMP also reminded pedestrians to obey traffic signals at crosswalks – the “countdown clock” indicates that it is time to clear the intersection, not time to start walking.

“We all have a role to play to ensure our A pedestrian steps lively at a North Vancouver intersection. Nearly 50 per cent of all pedestrian fatalities in roadways and crosswalks remain safe for British Columbia occur between October and January, according to ICBC. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH both motorists and pedestrians, Sgt. Bryce pedestrians, including the following offences which in North Vancouver handing out educational Petersen of North Vancouver RCMP Traffic Services carry fines of more than $100: Disobey pedestrian awareness pamphlets to all violators prior to the stated in a release. “For pedestrians, obeying the control device (walk – don’t walk), $109; fail to obey enforcement initiative of this project. ‘walk – don’t walk’ signals will greatly enhance their traffic control device (red-green-amber), $121; fail to The BC Motor Vehicle Act clearly lists several safety.” use crosswalk, $109. offences related to the duties of vehicles and Traffic officers will be at various intersections

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016

Put the phone down before crossing From page 58 Association of Chiefs of Police Traffic Safety Committee.

“These behaviours are not only against the law, they’re simply unacceptable.

Pedestrians can help reduce their risk of being struck by obeying traffic signals in intersections and only crossing at designated crosswalks. Wearing reflective clothing and not being distracted by your cellphone may also be helpful in reducing your risk. Preventing these collisions is a shared responsibility. Please do your part to keep everyone safe on our roadways.”

This year’s pedestrian safety campaign will feature radio advertising aimed at drivers and transit advertising aimed at pedestrians in the highest pedestrian crash areas of the province, along with online advertising.

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8. Weekly lease offers available through Toyota Financial Services (TFS) on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 60 month leases of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. Down payment and first weekly payment due at lease inception and next weekly payment due approximately 7 days later and weekly thereafter throughout the term. 9. Aeroplan miles: Earn up to 5000 Aeroplan miles. Miles offer valid on vehicles purchased/leased, registered and delivered between October 01 and October 31, 2016. Customers must be an Aeroplan Member prior to the completion of the transaction. Offer subject to change without notice. Some conditions apply. See Toyota.ca/aeroplan or your Dealer for details. ®Aeroplan and the Aeroplan logo are registered trademarks of Aimia Canada Inc. Visit your Toyota Dealer or www.getyourtoyota.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less. Each specific model may not be available at each dealer at all times; factory order or dealer trade may be necessary

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$

4,000

^

2016 IS

ON SELECT MODELS

2016 RX

LEASE APR

1.9

%*

40 MONTHS

BI-WEEKLY LEASE PAYMENT

DELIVERY CREDIT

$

$

249

*

DOWN PAYMENT YMENT $3,100*

2 000 ,

^

PAYMENT INCLUDES $2,000^ DELIVERY DELIVER CREDIT.

2016

NX 200t PREMIUM E PACKAGE F SPORT Series 1 shown*

Offers end October 31st.

Northshore Auto Mall 845 Automall Drive, North Vancouver, BC

604-982-0033

www.jimpattisonlexus.com

D01130

^$4,000/$3,000/$2,000 Delivery Credit is available on the purchase/lease of new 2016 Lexus RX 450h models only/2016 IS 350 AWD models only/2016 NX 200t sfx ‘B’ only, and will be deducted from the negotiated purchase/lease price after taxes. Ð $3,000 Cash Purchase Incentive on new 2016 Lexus IS 350 AWD sfx ‘G’ models may not be combined with special lease and finance rates offered through Lexus Financial Services as part of a low rate interest program. All advertised lease and finance rates are special rates. Incentive offers take place at the time of delivery. See your Lexus Dealer for whether tax applies before or after the application of Cash Purchase Incentives. ^Ð$6000 total Cash Purchase Credits available on 2016 Lexus IS 350 AWD sfx ‘G’ models and consists of: (i) Ð$3000 Cash Purchase Incentive; and (ii) ^$3000 Delivery Credit. *Lease offers provided through Lexus Financial Services, on approved credit. *Representative lease example based on a 2016 NX 200t sfx ‘B’/2016 NX 200t sfx ‘F’ on a 40 month term at an annual rate of 1.9%/1.9% (3.33% effective rate taking into account the foregone $1,500 cash purchase incentive on this model) and MSRP of $48,169/$51,269. Bi-weekly lease payment is $249/$279 with $3,100/$3,120 down payment or equivalent trade in, $0 security deposit and first bi-weekly lease payment due at lease inception. Total of 86 bi-weekly lease payments required during the lease term. Total lease obligation is $24,720/$27,318. 60,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.20/km for excess kilometres. MSRPs include freight and PDI ($2,045), Dealer fees (up to $395), AC charge ($100), Tire charge ($25), and filters. License, insurance, registration (if applicable), and taxes are extra. Fees may vary by Dealer.

Lexus Dealers are free to set their own prices. Limited time offers only apply to retail customers at participating Lexus Dealers. Dealer order/trade may be required (but may not be available in certain circumstances). Offers are subject to change or cancellation without notice. Offers expire at month’s end unless extended or revised. See your Lexus Dealer for complete details.

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