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Left: Canyon Heights students walk to school on Freedom Friday, a grassroots event that encourages parents and kids to walk or bike to school instead of driving. Right: City of North Vancouver Coun. Linda Buchanan joins city staff members for a bike-to-council event. Both are examples of a shift in the way the North Shore is thinking about active transportation. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD/CINDY GOODMAN

How getting from Point A to Point B under our own steam is making a comeback

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Movement afoot

On a sleepy Friday morning in late April, a small revolution takes place outside Canyon Heights elementary.

At first, there’s just the occasional SUV sidling up to the school, dropping kids off and then beelining to the Lions Gate Bridge.

Then, as 8:30 a.m. approaches, most of the vehicles are gone and it starts to look more like a parade. Hundreds of kids and parents, on foot and on bike, are streaming down Handsworth Road and Highland Boulevard. It’s got a festival-like atmosphere. There’s a DJ blasting the Proclaimers’ hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” and some of the kids dance the Running Man. District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton and Coun. Mathew Bond are there, mingling with the parents. The principal gives the crowd a pep talk and thanks everyone who came to school under their own steam.

When the first bell rings, the party’s over and, whether they like it or not, the kids head inside to learn. Studies have found the ones who walked and biked will likely outperform their classmates who got a ride in the back of a car.

The Freedom Friday event tends to cause a spike in the number of kids who walk or bike to school. The event was put on by North Shore Safe Routes Advocates, a parent group that’s been front and centre in highlighting for local governments what they could be doing to make the commute to school a whole lot friendlier.

The number of people who use active transportation – getting around without the use of a car – has been on a steady decline for decades, which is manifesting itself in some pretty regrettable ways.

ParticipAction’s 2015 report card on children’s physical activity gave Canada’s kids a D-minus for the third consecutive year.

Fifty-eight per cent of today’s parents walked to school when they were kids. Only 28 per cent of their kids walk today.

And a 2015 study by the Provincial Health Services Authority estimated physical inactivity and excess weight were costing the province

$3.6 billion in direct and indirect health care, disability and premature death costs.

But the tide may be beginning to turn, as grassroots initiatives like Freedom Friday, or a host of other similar themed events begin to spread. It’s part of a growing movement that’s getting more people to embrace active transportation.

Oddly, the school districts themselves have had a hand in contributing to the decline, as they have set up speciality academies, French Immersion, and international baccalaureate schools, said Carol Sartor, a safe route advocate and school travel planner with HASTe. “No longer do we have our neighbourhood school,” she said. “What happens is those schools are no longer in perceived walking distance. ... Parents then drive their kids to these schools so they can get the education their parents have chosen for them.”

And because the school district allows parents to pick and choose where their kids will go to class, they often opt for ones that have more to do with their commute than what the school offers, Sartor said.

But even more important in the decline of kids on foot has been the nagging but totally unfounded perception that it’s not safe for kids to walk.

“Something happened along the way where ‘stranger danger’ took over,” Sartor said.

The RCMP estimate the odds of a child being abducted by a stranger are about one in 14 million.

“It’s more likely they’ll get hit by lightning – three times – than be abducted,” Sartor said.

Recently there was a “stranger danger” incident near Canyon Heights that caused a panic, which spread virally on the social media pages of parents in the area. It turned out to be an innocent misunderstanding.

“In our minds, we think it’s a dangerous world but really it’s the safest that it’s ever been,” Sartor said.

More than keeping the kids in the car, Sartor worries it’s having more damaging impacts on their emotional and mental health.

“Our fear, we pass on to our kids. We see a

lot of anxiety happening,” she said. “You’re telling them that their neighbourhood isn’t safe.”

Good habits, much like bad ones, tend to form early. With that in mind, the North Vancouver school district offers resources to parents on how they too can co-ordinate Freedom Friday-like events or any other measure that will get more kids and parents to embrace active transportation.

“Our hope is, if you get those people young enough, you can set those lifestyle choices so we won’t have to be changing bad habits because that’s much more difficult. If we can get kids walking and being able to get around, then our future will be a lot brighter for commuting and it will reduce the congestion that we have within the North Shore,” Sartor said.

While much of HASTe and Safe Routes Advocates’ work is focused on kids, the exact same principles apply to adults. If we can break some old car-centric habits, we’ll likely have a higher quality of life, author and urbanist Charles Montgomery argues. It’s the entire thesis of his 2013 book Happy City.

“We know from our work that when people walk or bike or even take the bus, they report being happier with their entire lives,” he said.

Montgomery is giving a talk on the subject at Kay Meek Centre on June 21. It’s an area that’s ripe for hearing the message because as a municipality, the District of West Vancouver has its work cut out for it, he said.

“It’s a real shame. In my opinion, it’s more than just a health concern, it’s a human rights concern because everybody should have the right to move freely through the city and in some places in West Van, you can’t. Why? Because the pedestrian infrastructure isn’t great. Some of the streets on slopes don’t even have sidewalks. Cars are moving quickly and the crossing infrastructure isn’t good enough,” he said.

But even in West Van, where changes are most resisted by community members, Sartor said, things are starting to turn around. Two parent groups have arisen in Eagle Harbour and Westmount to lobby for safer school routes.

Lead the Way, a group of West Bay elementary

parents, formed after an incident last year in which a driver hit and seriously injured a dog as she and her young handler were crossing in a marked crosswalk.

In response, the school arranged for bright yellow flags to be placed at the crosswalk for students to hold and wave as they cross Mathers Avenue. There is a contingent in the active transportation world, however, who view this as a misstep because it puts the onus on the pedestrian to be seen, rather than on the driver who ought to be responsible for making sure the crosswalk is clear before proceeding.

“Blaming the victim is how it gets looked at,” Sartor said, although she is grateful for any improvement that is offered. “Getting infrastructure changed takes time but right now we’re in a crisis situation.”

Infrastructure is also a difference maker when it comes to cycling and, arguably, we have been on the wrong path for much of the last four decades. According to the 2011 national household survey, only one per cent of Canadian trips were made by bicycle, compared to more than a quarter in the Netherlands. John Forester, an early advocate of “vehicular cycling” in the 1960s and ’70s, firmly believed it was safest to ride mixed with traffic and actively fought against separated bike lanes in the name of safety.

“That philosophy permeated transportation engineering throughout North America and that explains the huge difference that happened between North America and Europe over the last 40 years,” said Kay Teschke, a professor in UBC’s school of population and public health.

While that may work for the real road warriors – the Lycra-clad, type-A personalities with bulging quads – it’s been a barrier to wider demographics.

Teschke recently presented her research on what types of bike routes are most attractive to cyclists, and which ones are least likely to result in injury to North Vancouver district council, which is reviewing its bicycle plan.

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Vision Zero: One death or injury on roads is too many From page 4 40 years ago, there’s safety in separation. On busy streets, physically separated bike lanes are the most likely to draw in new riders and they boast 90 per cent reduction in injury risk compared to a major city street with no bike infrastructure. Painted bike lanes, like the one on Lynn Valley Road, do little to entice riders or protect their safety. On residential streets, the most effective intervention is bike route designation with traffic control bollards at major arteries to prevent vehicles from making “rat runs” on quiet streets with bikes.

“When you start implementing this kind of thing, you start seeing changes in demographics of who cycles city streets to get to destinations. You start seeing women.

You start seeing children,” Teschke said.

While district council was largely receptive to Teschke’s message, there was lingering trepidation about the inevitable political blowback bike lanes bring, something Teschke attempted to allay.

“There’s no question there’s a lot of loud voices against the bike infrastructure but when they’ve done polling, they’ve found the majorities are in favour so most people prefer this kind of thing.”

Montgomery agrees.

“In city after city after city, the story has been the same. People object to bike lanes. Separated bike lanes are brought in and suddenly people use them. They like them and local businesses are finding they do more trade,” he said, pointing to Vancouver as a prime example.

And some of the legislation meant to keep us safe may actually be having a counter-productive effect, Montgomery said.

“Guess what else is unhelpful. Mandatory helmet laws are dangerous. Why? Because they reduce the number of people who actually cycle and this has a greater impact on shortening life years than cyclists’ head injuries,” he said (although he wears a helmet and he advises other people to do the same.)

Most would argue streets are best designed by engineers, but in Montgomery’s opinion, it ought to be psychologists. As noted in Happy

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Dozens of parents and children walk down Handsworth Road on Freedom Friday. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD City, U.K. traffic psychologist Ian Walker conducted a study that found drivers give a wider berth to cyclists who are not wearing helmets, suggesting the sight of a helmet made them generally less careful. To further test the theory, Walker replicated the study wearing a long wig and found drivers gave an average of 14 centimetres more, if they believed the cyclist was a helmetless woman.

Though it’s not a competition, getting around the North Shore on foot or bike is a different experience depending on which municipality you’re in.

“You can tell when you cross a border. You don’t need a sign. I can tell you when I’m riding my bike or when I’m walking, the City of North Vancouver, their pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure is amazing and keeps getting built on,” Sartor said.

For all its praise, the city is still aggressively pursuing safer streets. In April, council voted to become a Vision Zero city, an international movement that aims to reduce deaths and serious injuries on the roads to zero by tailoring cities’ designs, laws and public outreach with safety in mind.

And according to data researched by Coun. Linda Buchanan, who introduced the plan to council, they’ve got a steep hill to climb.

“When you start to look at the data, it is significantly staggering the number of crashes that we witness,” she said noting, from 2009 to 2014, there were more than 41,000

crashes in North Vancouver alone. “And when you put pedestrians and cyclists into that, it’s significantly more.”

From 2013 to 2015, there were 300 serious crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists, two of them fatal.

“Really it’s about addressing vulnerability of people and our pedestrians are the most vulnerable,” she said. “People, regardless of their mode of travel, have responsibilities to ensure their safety and we can do it through education, we can do it through enforcement and we can do it through engineering.”

Following council’s unanimous decision to become a Vision Zero city, staff are expected to report back with an action plan in July.

Though North Van city and district and West Van have shown varying degrees of enthusiasm for encouraging walking and cycling, all three are on the right track when it comes to the big picture, Montgomery said.

“The best thing that any city can do, and that includes the three municipalities on the North Shore, is to build more walkable, connected, mixeduse places – more villages – so that people’s bike rides are short, their walks are short and so these places can support more frequent transit,” he said. “In cities around the world, decision-makers and citizens are waking up to the fact that connected, walkable, mixed-use places are healthier, happier, more fun and good for business.”

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A family of Syrian refugees living in North Vancouver are getting a financial boost from a crowdfunding campaign after their Blueridge home was burgled Wednesday.

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The Abdulhafiz family’s young sons came home from school to find the house ransacked, according to North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong.

Thieves forced open a window and took a black Sony PlayStation, a dark

grey Dell laptop, about $200 cash, and a black suitcase with boys’ clothes, De Jong said.

Police are looking for witnesses.

The crooks also got away with cellphone chargers and medication, according to Angela Duso, community director with the Blueridge Community Association.

“For a family that arrived in this country with nothing but the clothing on their backs, the loss is devastating, not to mention the violation of having their house broken into,” Duso wrote on the community association’s gofundme.com page.

Duso urged Good Samaritans to help the family replace what was stolen and “show them that the world is (mostly) made up of decent people.”

At press time, 29 donors had contributed $2,015 to help the family of five.

The family fled war-ravaged Syria and endured a Beirut refugee camp before their plane landed at Vancouver International Airport on Jan. 15.

The Abdulhafiz family arrived in Canada four years after the bombing of their home in Syria prompted them to flee Damascus on foot.

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Honada Abdulhafiz recalled carrying her youngest son in her arms and sidestepping the bodies of murdered refugees to get to Beirut.

Speaking through a translator, Honada compared the Lebanon refugee camp to a jail.

After touching down in Canada, Honada expressed modest hopes for the future.

“To be able to sleep safely, for the kids to be able to go to school and get an education, to be able to eat and live a simple life,” she said.

The family acclimatized to their new lives fairly smoothly, according to Cynthia Bunbury, who belongs to a refugee sponsorship group consisting of several North Shore churches.

“They are all enjoying good health, making new friends and participating in all sorts of community events,” she wrote in an email.

The parents have both had health issues, but are attending English classes and “living well,” according to Bunbury.

The youngest and oldest child are getting assistance with their developmental disabilities, and the middle child is “learning English by leaps and bounds,” according to Bunbury.

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Boys Club walk-a-thon raises funds for Syrian refugees Sentinel students join in raising $6K for relief effort CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

About 25 boys from Sentinel secondary school walked alongside dozens of other male students from across the Lower Mainland on June 1 to raise money for Syrian refugees in Europe.

Presented by the Boys Club Network, the walk-athon began in Ambleside Park and followed the West Vancouver Seawall to 22nd Street before returning to the start point. The five-kilometre route was designed

to represent the distance Syrian refugees travel by boat from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesvos.

The 200-plus walkers who participated raised an estimated $6,000 for the Radcliffe Foundation Refugee Crisis Fund. Those funds were to be matched by philanthropist and West Vancouver resident Frank Giustra, a founding patron of the Boys Club Network, who inspired members of the Sentinel chapter to organize the event after a talk he gave.

Now with a number of chapters in B.C., the Boys Club Network launched a decade ago at East Vancouver’s Templeton secondary as a positive mentorship program for at-risk youth.

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in their lives. They’re kids that are disenfranchised from school simply because they’re often having to fight battles daily, tooth and nail, just for the basic necessities of life and existence,” says Sentinel principal Michael Finch, who helped found his high school’s chapter in 2011. “You come to the North Shore and we still have a population of students that can be disengaged, can be somewhat disenfranchised from school,” he adds.

At Sentinel, the club’s mandate is to provide a safe, respectful, and nurturing space for youth to gather and share their stories.

“It gives them a home base to feel connected and safe and accepted amongst their peers,” Finch says.

In its first year, the Sentinel club had fewer than 10 members, but has since expanded to more than 40 boys who regularly get involved in a range of leadership opportunities and community outreach work.

The program also invites male guest speakers to come share their stories and insight with the teens.

“We’re always looking for other men in a variety of roles that are interested and willing to come and participate in that,” Finch says.

Former lawyer found in contempt of court A former North Vancouver lawyer has been found in contempt of court for practising law contrary to an injunction order.

Michael Helfrich, also known as Marvin Helfrich, is a former lawyer from Oregon who admitted to appearing as an advocate in court, negotiating a settlement in a lawsuit, drafting documents for a bankruptcy and giving legal advice contrary to a previous court injunction.

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Helfrich has also been ordered not to provide legal advice regardless of whether or not he charges a fee for his services. He must also complete 100 hours of community work service.

According to the Law Society, Helfrich previously resigned from the Oregon State Bar in the face of discipline proceedings, and is prohibited from practising law.

The previous injunction against him was issued by a B.C. Supreme Court justice in 2013 after Helfrich represented himself as a lawyer in good standing and offered to provide a wide array of legal services to a number of people for a fee.

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e applaud Premier Christy Clark for working with the Green Party to mandate sexual assault policies at universities. But perhaps just as significant was her decision to publicly talk about an attempted sexual assault she suffered as a child.

She will likely face criticism – such is the fate of many sexual assault victims – but we hope her statement helps erode the shame that is acute among victims of sex crimes.

Too often, victims do not talk about sexual violence, even to those close to them.

As adults, both women and men who’ve experienced sexual violence understand all too well the culture of victim-blaming that still flourishes. Children, the most vulnerable victims, internalize these messages and also learn to keep quiet.

Many times, the cases that receive

public attention – such as the feather-light sentence recently given to a Stanford University student convicted of raping an unconscious woman – just reinforce those messages.

As a society we are still quick to assume there must be something wrong with the victim, that they somehow brought the attack upon themselves.

But when people in positions of power give voice to the experience of victims – such as Clark, NDP MLA Kathy Corrigan and Green Party leader Andrew Weaver have all done – those damaging assumptions are questioned.

Their personal stories force us to accept that such attacks happen to many people. We commend Clark and the other political leaders who came forward for being part of the solution to let victims, past and future, know there is no shame in speaking out.

The night is dark, and full of crackers “The night is dark, and full of terrors.”

So says one of the characters on the popular television program Game of Thrones.

The same character also gives birth to an adult-sized shadow demon that crawls out of her womb and floats straight to an enemy camp to murder a rival. So, you know … grain of salt.

I have, however, come to understand a new kind of night terror now that I’m a parent. I cherish my sleep – now more than ever, given how often it is stolen from me – but the thing about sleep is that you are not awake. And if you’re not awake, you can’t see or hear things that are going on around you. Sorry if I’m getting too technical here for some readers – Trump supporters, for example – but the point is that as a parent you spend all your waking hours making sure that your

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Laugh All You Want Andy Prest young children are safe.

When you are sleeping, however, you don’t know what they are doing. As long as your children are quiet, they could basically do whatever they want every night during your deep sleep hours and you’ll never know it.

One night a couple of years ago I awoke to find my elder son, then just three years old, calmly sitting on

the couch in our living room eating a box of crackers.

I shuffled him off to bed, chuckling at his toddler audacity. It wasn’t until the next morning that I found the extent of his midnight roaming. On my iPhone there were dozens of photos taken around the house, mostly just fuzzy dark shots of the floor.

There were a few things that amazed me about this discovery: 1) I didn’t know he could reach my iPhone perched on a high ledge 2) I didn’t know he knew how to use my iPhone 3) His photography skills were already better than mine.

I also didn’t know he could reach my private cracker stash, but I fully respect the late-night salt binge – it’s a proud part of my family heritage dating back to my great great great grandfather, Andrew Redenbacher.

Another time a few

years later I awoke to find my younger son sitting in his crib, casually flipping through a soccer magazine.

He couldn’t read, of course, and he also couldn’t get out of his crib. Or so I thought.

Later that day I was shocked when he launched into a long rant about the deplorable conditions facing the migrant workers building World Cup stadiums in Qatar.

These episodes made it clear to me that late at night my boys are almost always in bed sleeping, but once in a while they’re not. You hear stories about kids who wake up in the middle of the night and wander right out of the house without their parents knowing about it. Luckily that has never happened in my house. I mean, as far as I know. I suppose one of the boys could have slipped out one night and gone for a forest romp with a pack of

wild cougars. If he was quiet enough on the way in, and wiped off his muddy boots, we’d never know until we discovered the dead rabbits stashed under his pillow.

Deep down, though, all parents know the truth. As youngsters, I’m sure nearly all of us got into shenanigans while our parents were fast asleep just down the hall.

Don’t deny it. Even my wife, who could have been the next Mother Teresa if she hadn’t fallen for my sexy charms, has admitted to at least one late-night shimmy out the basement window to meet up with friends. She insists that it was only to go to Wendy’s for ice cream treats.

For the sake of brevity, let’s just say that I also only snuck out once and it was also to go to Wendy’s.

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being a Wendy’s in your hometown when you were growing up.”

“Well, reader,” I might answer. “It might have been McDonald’s. Or maybe it was that brothel down the street – the owner, as I recall, was called Wendy.”

Our parents never seemed to know what was up. Or did they? Now that I’m a parent, I’ve realized that when the battle is sleep versus parenting, sleep often wins.

And really, if you’re asleep there’s nothing you can do.

Because, you know, you’re unconscious.

So I’m at peace with it now. If the boys are silent and don’t wreck anything – most of all themselves – I’ll never know. Ignorance is bliss, eh boys?

Just watch out for those shadow demons. And say hi to Wendy for me. aprest@nsnews.com

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Thank you, Stuart, for saving me from choking Dear Stuart:

I am writing this letter to you in care of the North Shore News in hopes that you read your community paper and see this. I am not sure if you are Stuart or Stewart — all I know is your name is Stuart.

Thank you for your efforts to save my life when I was choking and in need of immediate medical help. While Isak, one of the staff at the theatre did the Heimlich at least three times, it was not until the next two you administered, that I was able to breathe again.

Through both of your concerted efforts I am alive today.

While I have been able to locate and thank Isak (on staff at the Park & Tilford Cineplex Odeon), I have not been able to thank you because I left the movie theatre without your contact information. I, at that time, was very traumatized by the events, shaking and in shock, my vocal cords squeaky, and my terror still overwhelming me. While I did my best to thank you both at the time, it does not feel like it was enough.

Choking on food is terrifying. In an instant, you realize something you have heard about, learned first aid about, and never thought could ever happen to you, is indeed happening to you. My world became very quiet as I realized the danger I was in. While several moviegoers walked by,

unaware of the life threatening situation because I was unable to speak and likely looked like a mad woman, I urgently begged the ticket staff for help.

Isak realized what was going on, and began the Heimlich.

What no one tells you is that the Heimlich is very painful.

While he was doing it, nothing popped out like in the proverbial training ads we see about someone choking. Medical help was shouted for. And you responded to the call. I think you were in the lineup waiting to order popcorn. Suddenly you had your arms around me and performed the Heimlich two more times and somewhere along the line I could breathe again — although nothing that I can remember popped out.

Thank you for saving my life. Thank you for staying with me, as I waited for my husband to come and take me home. Shaking, crying, and barely able to communicate, I apologize for not being more thankful at the time.

I just wanted to go home and pretend none of it happened.

What I learned in days following the choking event was that being someone with osteo, I have fractured ribs on both sides of my rib cage. A constant reminder of my close call with death. They will heal.

Bottom line is I am alive to write this letter to you. I also

learned that I should have gone to the hospital to be checked out when you asked me if I wanted to go, but I could not make a rational decision, all I knew is that I wanted to go to the safety of my own home, my own bed. But for anyone out there who suffers a near brush with death, go to the hospital and get checked out. It is important.

Stuart – thank you for being the kind of man who responds to someone in need.

You were not a bystander, watching events unfold.

Instead, you jumped in and did something. My family would have been planning my funeral had you not gotten involved. I am so thankful that you did.

I am working on an article about this experience. I have no idea what the situation looked like from your viewpoint – and I would be glad to hear about it. Was I turning blue? Were you frightened by the responsibility of trying to save someone’s life? Did you realize that you really did save someone’s life? I thank you.

My family and friends thank you too.

I would love to hear from you. My email is peacelovejoy44@gmail.com should you see this letter, should you have time to respond.

Thank you.

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Minding Edgemont’s growing pains Dear Editor: I am a concerned resident of Edgemont Village, often described as unique.

Firstly, parking has always been a problem and now more traffic.

What will it be like three years from now with relatives visiting the new care home, The Connaught with about 80 units (with some public underground parking), condo development at Edgemont and Ridgewood and more

condos at Connaught and Crescentview? This is a lot of traffic, which will include massive grocery delivery vans to the supermarket and the care home, garbage and green bin trucks, big moving vans and the noise of ambulances visiting the care home at all hours!

In the mornings there are moms and dads delivering their very little people to the play schools in the united church, but first trying to find parking – no drop-offs here!

On a more positive note, Trims Silk Flower shop, a 20-year attraction in the village, has found a new home on Woodbine and in Trims’ previous home on Edgemont there will be a market to help local people buy groceries after removal of the Village Market.

A village “refresher” was planned some time ago but not on a scale like this.

Maybe it’s too late.

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On behalf of the President Captain Rod Dunbar M.M and the delegates of the North Shore Veterans’ Council Canada, we would like to show our appreciation to the following organizations and merchants for their continued support over the past years to the City of North Vancouver’s Annual Remembrance Day Parade and service on November 11th each year. With special thanks from Sargent Major (retd) Bob Maley GSM CD Parade Marshal and organizer.

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02. The City of North Vancouver.

03. The District of North Vancouver 04. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (North Vancouver Detachment) 05. RCMP Veterans Association 06. 39 Combat Engineer Regiment 07. The North Vancouver Recreation & Culture 08. 911 Film Cars 09. The Army Navy Air Force Unit #45 10. The North Shore Royal Canadian Legions, (Br. #60, Br. #114 Br. #118) 11. The Two Lions Public House 12. The Narrows Pub 13. The Queens Cross Pub 14. The Black Bear Pub 15. The Raven Pub Deep Cove

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Family displaced after home heavily damaged Apparent carport fire spreads quickly, engulfing house in flames

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A home in the 700 block of North Vancouver’s Blueridge Avenue was heavily damaged by fire

Thursday evening.

Luckily, members of the family who lived there all escaped unharmed.

The fire broke out in the residential neighbourhood around 11 p.m. Thursday

evening.

Neighbours began calling 9-1-1 after they heard crackling sounds and saw flames shooting out of the roof.

When fire crews arrived on scene, the two-storey wooden home was engulfed in flame and heavy smoke, said Assistant Fire Chief Jason De Roy of District of

North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services.

The fire appeared to start in the carport area of the home and spread quickly into the attic space, said De Roy. Two cars parked in the driveway and carport area also caught on fire.

Firefighters fought the blaze from outside, as there was a concern about the structural stability of the house. Crews also used hoses to protect a neighbouring home directly to the west.

Ten firefighters from the City of North Vancouver and District of West Vancouver were called in to help the 18 District of North Vancouver firefighters on the scene.

“It was a stubborn fire and there were hot spots,” said

De Roy. The cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.

Neighbours reported that a man who lived in the home had been welding earlier in the evening.

Those reports were still unconfirmed on Friday afternoon.

De Roy said fire crews did find and move a tank of acetylene away from the fire danger.

But he said it’s “too early to tell” whether any welding activity was connected to the fire.

De Roy said victim services personnel were on scene Thursday assisting the family displaced from their burned home. Neighbouring homes immediately

adjacent to the fire were also evacuated Thursday as a precaution. Those residents were later allowed back in to their houses.

Earlier the same night, residents of about 30 units in a three-storey apartment in the 100 block of 20th Street were also forced to temporarily evacuate their building after a cedar hedge caught fire and flames began to spread to the building’s cedar siding. Damage was minimal, however, and residents were allowed to return to their suites, said City of North Vancouver Fire Chief Dan Pistilli.

Pistilli said it’s possible a discarded cigarette may have caused the hedge to catch fire.

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Capilano University congratulates its 2016 honorary degree recipients The honorary doctorate degree is the highest form of recognition granted by Capilano University.

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Jeri Krogseth has dedicated her life to helping students succeed.

She taught high school, worked as an admissions advisor at Capilano University and led the establishment of the Capilano University Alumni Association fund to offer emergency aid for students. Krogseth has served as volunteer and member of the Capilano University Foundation Board for 30 years. Her work in raising funds for Capilano University’s Sportsplex, library and theatre has benefited the entire North Shore community.

As CEO of the not-for-profit Pacific Asia Travel Association, PATA, Mario Hardy helps nations and businesses develop tourism in responsible, sustainable ways. Hardy was a key supporter of Capilano University’s community-based tourism project in Vietnam. Through the work of more than 100 students and faculty, the project has trained more than 60 local Vietnamese tour guides and has helped hill tribe women establish 40 homestay businesses. Hardy has also contributed to the development of a school for underprivileged children in Cambodia.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath Kay Meek Artist Salon West Vancouver’s Kay Meek Centre held a fundraising Artist Salon May 12, entitled Jay Brazeau and Nicola Cavendish, Tales of Canadian Performance from Stage, Television and Film. The unplugged and uncensored exclusive evening offered attendees a behind the scenes look into the performing lives of the two accomplished actors. Gathering on a beautiful warm spring evening, the 50 lucky attendees snacked on appetizers and sipped cocktails while mingling at the event location, a private home in the Gleneagles area.

Later on, the featured thespians and longtime friends regaled with stories from their careers, interspersed with a few musical ditties along the way. The evening finished with closing remarks by Kay Meek Centre Legacy Council founding member Maggie Pappas.

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North Van students trading up for Fort Mac Canyon Heights kids launch The Eraser Project to help Alberta families in need ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

When the members of Canyon Heights elementary teacher librarian Ian Cunliffe’s Grade 5/6 class heard about the recent raging wildfires that overtook Fort McMurray, they expressed a strong desire to help those affected.

Interested in channelling their enthusiasm, Cunliffe helped his 30 young charges brainstorm unique means of taking action. The idea that ultimately struck their fancy was the One Red Paperclip Project, showcased on an episode of 60 Minutes that he played for them.

Undertaken by Kyle MacDonald, the initiative, inspired by the game bigger and better, saw the Quebec man barter his way up from a red paper clip to a home in Saskatchewan over the course of a year.

“They were stunned that someone could start with something so small and trade their way up.

So we agreed that this would be a really fun way to trade something bigger and better for Fort McMurray,” says Cunliffe.

Three weeks ago the class launched The Eraser Project, starting their trading with a 10 cent eraser. The students began by bartering with other teachers in their

school before venturing out into the wider community, going so far as to contact local businesses and politicians.

A blog, theeraserproject.com, is chronicling their progress, and so far they’re up to $400 worth of printing services from LinxPrint.

“We’re trying to get people to go and check out the blog and make us a trade,” says Cunliffe.

“We’ll keep trading until the end of the school year (June 30), and at that point if we have an item that would be suitable to help a family, we will donate it directly.

Otherwise we will sell the item and give all the proceeds to the (Canadian) Red Cross’ Alberta relief fund,” he adds.

Cunliffe loves watching the reactions of his students when new trades come in.

“The classroom erupts, which is hilarious because normally I’m a strict disciplinarian. In my class you can hear a pin drop but in this case we celebrate it. The kids are absolutely thrilled,” he says.

What follows is an intense debate about the merits of the possible trade and then it’s put to a vote.

“It’s just a buzz of excitement throughout the room. I’ve never seen kids so eager to get to work on a school project before. It’s just a load of fun,” he says.

Illia Dabbagh, Sophia Filsoofi, Marcella Mahon, Caleb Gray and their Grade 5/6 Canyon Heights classmates launched The Eraser Project, inspired by the bigger and better game, to support victims of the Fort McMurray wildfire. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD When asked why he decided to encourage his students to take on this project, Cunliffe is quick to respond.

“We’re not just raising students, we’re raising people and people

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NV woman awarded for inspiring others Christy Campbell receives Courage to Come Back Award ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

In December 2005, everything changed for Christy Campbell in an instant.

Then 31 and working as a biologist, the Canyon Heights resident suffered a devastating stroke that left her unable to walk, talk or read due to aphasia. However, thanks to

intensive therapy, the support of her husband, Sean Standing, and family and friends, she persevered and has regained her mobility, vocabulary and ability to communicate.

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For her efforts, both personally as well as publicly, the now 41-year-old North Vancouver wife and mother was recently awarded a 2016 Courage To Come Back Award.

The awards are presented annually by Coast Mental Health and are intended to celebrate B.C. residents who have overcome illness or adversity and choose to give back to their communities, as well as inspire others to do the same. Campbell was awarded in the Physical Rehabilitation category, honouring her inspirational achievements in light

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Canyon Heights resident Christy Campbell shows off her Courage to Come Back Award, honouring her journey in the wake of a stroke at age 31 and efforts to help others regain their communication skills. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD of major trauma, requiring extensive physical rehabilitation, and for her efforts to give back.

“It means the world to us,” says Campbell, of the award nod, to her and her husband.

“This is 10 years of our life

after my stroke and dealing with my aphasia and trying to find the best resources that we can.”

Among Cambell’s achievements are co-founding the Sea-to-Sky Aphasia Camp (www.seatoskyaphasiacamp. com), a weekend-long event held annually in September that brings together people with aphasia, their families, and health care students interested in exploring different approaches to aphasia management.

Campbell attended a similar camp in Oregon. Reaping the benefits, she wanted to set up one closer to home and connected with Dr. Barbara Purves, a speech-language pathologist and associate professor in the University of British Columbia School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, to get the B.C. version up and running.

This year marks the seventh edition of the not-forprofit camp, made possible through a variety of partners.

The 2016 camp will be held Sept. 16-18 at Camp Squamish.

Campbell also helped establish UBC’s CampbellPurves Aphasia Education Fund, founded in light of

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Campbell co-founded annual Sea-to-Sky Aphasia Camp From page 14 Purves’ retirement out of an interest in continuing her legacy with the camp.

“She called me and said, ‘I’m OK with it, but your name needs to go on it too.’ … The fund is for either people with aphasia who can’t afford to come to the camp or students that don’t have the money to attend,” says Campbell.

Apart from her work with the camp, Campbell has volunteered with Providence Health Care and the Stroke Recovery Association of B.C. She also volunteers with Columbia Speech and Language Services and was a resource during its development of an intensive aphasia treatment program in Vancouver.

“Previously, British Columbians with aphasia had to travel to Halifax to receive such treatment in Canada,” says Wendy Duke, clinical director of Columbia Speech and Language Services Inc. “With her encouragement and guidance, the program that we have put together (iTAWC or Intensive Treatment for Aphasia in Western Canada, which is a specialty clinic of Columbia Speech and Language Services, Inc.) is now in its sixth year,” adds Duke, who nominated Campbell for her Courage To Come Back Award.

Campbell attended the Halifax program and is pleased that something similar is now offered locally. Both she and her husband plan to volunteer at the upcoming July session (itawc. com), and will address those with aphasia and their caregivers.

Despite having so much on their plates, Campbell and her husband are continuing to look to the future.

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My husband and I are always thinking about the next thing that we could do.”

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about the next thing that we could do,” says Campbell.

“Now I think we’re going to focus on more funding for people with aphasia. The award is lovely but there’s still not enough funds to cover people with aphasia,” she adds.

Apart from her stroke and aphasia advocacy work, Campbell is also a busy mother to an active four-year-old. One of her favourite activities is reading her son, Cameron, bedtime stories.

“I’m still amazed that I can do it but I’m doing it. The funny thing is for Cameron, his vocabulary at four is very, very good. We are now doing sight words so I might slip up with one or two words – usually I switch a word that I know it’s the same meaning but it’s a different word. Now he picks up on that. ‘Mom that’s the wrong word!’” she says proudly.

Campbell was one of six recipients honoured at the 18th annual Courage To Come Back Awards gala dinner, held May 5 at Vancouver Convention Centre West.

The other five winners were awarded in the categories of Medical, Addiction, Social Adversity, Mental Health and Youth. More than 1,500 people were in attendance and more than $1.43 million was raised in support of Coast Mental Health to help those dealing with mental illness.

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That type of thing is life-long learning.

“I would think 20 years

from now they’ll forget the dry bits of math that I taught them but they will remember this moment where they were able to start with an eraser and turn it into something that could help make someone’s life a little better,” he says.

The dedication of his students to help others speaks to the strong community

spirit shared by all those at the North Vancouver elementary.

“I feel very lucky to be at Canyon Heights, which has a really long tradition of creating good global citizens. … There is a spirit at the school of global awareness and contribution so it’s nice to be a part of that,” says Cunliffe.

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Counsellor overcomes injury, finds passion

ROSALIND DUANE rduane@nsnews.com

April 19, 1996, is a day Lisa Roness says she will never remember and never forget.

Just 24 years old at the time, Roness was training for her first marathon. It was two weeks away.

She had also just been accepted to a university social work program and decided to go out for a celebratory bike ride.

While biking home from a trail ride in the Okanagan, where she lived at the time, she hit a pothole in the road while riding down a hill, was catapulted off her bike, and landed on her head.

She had just bought a new racing helmet four days earlier and believes it saved her life.

Even with the helmet on, Roness still sustained a traumatic brain injury and spent three weeks in a coma.

Her prognosis was bleak, and her parents were told not to expect too much recovery.

When Roness woke up from the coma, her right side was paralyzed and she couldn’t speak.

She spent the next five months in the hospital’s rehab unit. Cognitively she had regressed in some ways to about 12 years old and remembers answering doctors’ questions about the day of the year and her interests as though she was a kid: she wanted to be a ballet dancer when she grew up and the date was 1984.

Five months of intense daily therapy as an in-patient was followed by two years of outpatient treatment learning to walk, talk, acquire basic life skills, and even learn to write left-handed.

“It was sort of like coming out of a fog,” says Roness of her time in rehab.

Although she had to shift her priorities to focus on day-to-day recovery, Roness says she maintained a positive outlook throughout her rehabilitation, noting she had so many goals and things she wanted to accomplish, she knew she had to recover.

Two years after her injury, Roness reapplied to university and was accepted. She completed her social work degree and finished at the top of her class, moving on to the University of Toronto to complete a master’s degree in clinical counselling, and became a registered clinical social worker.

“I was just very determined. Nobody was going to shut down my possibilities or tell me I couldn’t do something,” says Roness.

After many years of hospital social work and then in private practice, Roness relocated to Horseshoe Bay with her husband and two kids four years ago. She took a bit of time off to adjust to the move and is now back in private practise, but this time with a unique approach.

Roness uses a form of outdoor therapy with her clients. After an initial consultation over the phone, she arranges to meet clients on a local trail and they walk and talk for their session.

“This is my outdoor office,” says Roness. “I notice that people open up so much more when you’re outside walking and around nature.”

June is Brain Injury Awareness Month, and Roness is a guest speaker at the Fraser Health Authority’s Brain Injury Awareness event. Her message for anyone who is struggling with life challenges is to never give up and always be looking for new possibilities.

“It’s just so easy to become stuck in our thought patterns,” she says. “Much like our bodies need movement, I think our thought patterns that become stuck need movement as well.”

Caring for North Shore smiles for over 20 years.

Lisa Roness suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was 24 years old. She recovered and went on to complete a master’s degree in clinical counselling. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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“Eligible children” refers to those children who: 1. Are eligible for Autism Programs based on the criteria outlined in the Eligibility for Autism Programs policy, or; 2. Are eligible for the At Home Program, based on the criteria outlined in the Eligibility for At Home Program policy, or; 3. Have a developmental disability, and are: residents of BC, and; under the age of 19

For more information contact either: Kerrilynn Sweeney Manager, The Summit North Shore ConneXions Society Phone: 604.904.0842 Email: kerrilynns@nsconnexions.org Janet Wallace Recreation and Cultural Coordinator North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commission Phone: 604.983.3670 Email: campsupport@nvrc.ca Riva Nelson Access Service Coordinator West Vancouver Phone: 604.925.7279 Email: accessibility@westvancouver.ca

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The pros and cons of property tax deferral Consult with a family member or financial adviser to determine whether it’s best for you It’s property tax time.

Is it time to defer those taxes? Let’s check it out.

The Provincial Property Tax Deferral Program has been around since 1974.

There are actually two PTDs; the Regular Program, aimed at persons aged 55 and older, surviving spouses of any age and the disabled, and one for families with children under 18. Neither program is particularly well known or popular.

The B.C. Seniors Advocate found that only 40 per cent of senior homeowners with household incomes less than $30,000 are aware of the PTD. And while about 36,000 people in B.C. took advantage of

the PTD in 2014, the province has 820,000 seniors and 80 per cent of them own their own homes.

The reason so few seniors choose to defer their property taxes, apart from those who are not aware of the program, is because most seniors abhor debt. It’s a generational thing.

The exceptions: lately there are more seniors taking on debt to help their adult children get into their first home and, because the program isn’t income tested, some high net worth taxpayers are using the deferment as a tax loophole.

Here is how the PTD works. If you qualify, the B.C.

Older And Wiser Tom Carney government will pay your residential property taxes directly to your municipality on your behalf. You repay the loan with interest when you sell the home or sooner if you wish.

Here’s the best part. Right now the current interest rate for the Regular PTD is 0.70 per cent (2.7 per cent for the

Family Deferment Program) and that is simple interest.

What’s the downside to deferring your taxes? If your application isn’t approved and it’s past the property tax due date you will be charged a late payment penalty, you’ll have a restrictive lien registered against your property and there is no guarantee that the interest rate is reviewed every six months.

Those deferred property taxes can add up quickly.

Say you defer 10 years of property taxes starting with an annual property tax value of $5,000 at the current annual interest rate of 0.70 per cent (let’s also factor in an estimated annual property tax growth rate of five per cent). Your total interest payments would be $2,245 and your total tax bill (principal and interest) would be

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Here’s my take: As with any important financial decision you may wish to consult with a family member or a financial adviser to decide if deferring your property taxes is the right program for you.

The PTD does what it is supposed to do – it helps struggling homeowners. Still if you can’t afford to pay your taxes, then maybe it’s time to look at your budget.

On the other hand, if you have another use for those funds other than paying your taxes then it’s hard to find a better deal than the one being offered to you through the PTD.

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Those who defer their taxes for an extended period are betting, whether they know it or not, that their house will be worth more down the road than it is today. That’s possible, but it’s not a bet that I would take.

With less than a month to go before property taxes are due (July 4), we are hearing and reading about how “cash-strapped seniors” are missing the boat by choosing not to defer their property taxes.

I get that. Why pay your property taxes when, for what amounts to the cost of a couple of pizzas, the provincial government will make a payment for you.

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But regardless of how the vote goes, details would take years to be negotiated and implemented. Also, a relatively small 6.8 per cent of Britain’s work force stands to be affected.

Whatever the potential economic consequences or benefits may be, they will take years to play out so markets are not likely to be dramatically affected in any predictable way in the near term. Investors trying to market-time the effects will have to make a number of correct guesses to profit. If you really think you know what the various outcomes will be, write them down and then check the results in six months. You will probably be surprised.

Today, some market participants fear a Trump victory will wreak havoc on stock prices or a Clinton victory would unleash the banks to do whatever they want and drug prices to tumble. Yet, a victory for either will most likely take years to play out in the markets. Clinton’s ability to reduce pharmaceutical drug prices will be much more difficult in practice, as will Trump’s plan to slash taxes and build a wall for the Mexican government to pay for.

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Free parking is available in unreserved spots at Lots 1 and 8. explorecapilano.ca BOOK LAUNCH Author Eric Jamieson will talk about his book The Native Voice: The Story of How Maisie Hurley and Canada’s First Aboriginal

PET PAUSE HUMAN’S NAME: Devon Samson PET: Hartley, a six-month-old black lab FAVOURITE TREAT: Organic rawhides FAVOURITE ACTIVITY: Meeting her friend Linden and owner Jeff for a morning play at Capilano Dam or Lynn Canyon.

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North Shore players on a roll

Seven NSIHL stars head to world inline hockey tournament ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

Six North Shore teens took off for Italy on Thursday, getting a bit of an early jump on an awesome summer trip.

They aren’t there, however, just to sample some authentic pizza and hit the beach. They’re there to win a world championship as part of Canada’s inline hockey junior national team.

The six players - Liam Kindree, Josh Latta, Austin McQuay, Jake Christiansen, Callahan Brebner and Bayley Tsumura – make up nearly half of the national junior team and all of them got their careers rolling with the North Shore Inline Hockey League.

“I’m really close friends with pretty much all of them.

That’s pretty cool,” Latta told the North Shore News before heading off to Italy, adding that the tournament is all they’ve talked about since they learned that they’d made the team. “Everybody gets to share what they’re excited about. It just makes the whole experience more exciting. … Just talking about it is the best part I think, and knowing that you’re going to have guys there that you know and you’re comfortable with, and guys that you have chemistry with on the floor.”

It’s now time to move from talk into action as the Canadians will open their tournament today with a game against Slovenia in Roana, Italy. In pool play the juniors will also face the Czech Republic – one of the top-ranked teams in the world – and Colombia before moving on to the playoffs.

Jared Eng, another North Shore link, is also making the trip to Italy to play with the senior national team in the world championships beginning June 20.

“It says a lot about our program,” said NSIHL president Jim Pratt about the North Shore contingent that is representing the country. “We’re turning out

Michael Pratt, Clint Colebourn and Liam O’Keeffe get rolling during a high school tournament organized by the North Shore Inline Hockey League. Six junior players and one senior from the NSIHL are headed to Italy this week for the World Championships. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN world-class kids.”

Most of the players took similar paths to the inline championships, starting out as strong ice hockey players before adding the roller game to their repertoire in their teens. Latta said he started ice hockey at age four and it took a bit of time to adjust to wheels when he moved onto the state-of-the-art roller floor at Karen Magnussen Arena.

“I was a pretty awful skater for my first couple of years, but I got the hang of it,” he said. “At first it’s really difficult. You’re stopping on wheels instead of blades.

That’s more difficult. … I’m having a great time playing it now, it’s such a fun sport.”

All six of the North Shore players still compete at high levels in ice hockey, which may give them a “puck sense” advantage at the inline world championships, said Latta. “That’s something that Canada has that’s

unique.”

They’ve all also benefitted from the NSIHL, the largest non-profit inline league in Canada. The league runs co-ed recreational games throughout the spring while also fielding Zulu elite teams that travel to competitions across North America.

“It’s just such a fun league,” said Latta. “You always have guys on your team that you know and you like. Every time you go to the rink it’s a blast.”

Pratt said that the league is pushing 700 in enrollment and hoping to approach 1,000 players in the near future.

League fees start at just $50 for players in the six-10 age groups with girls getting a 50 per cent discount. And as the North Shore stars headed to Italy have shown, the league offers elite players a chance to take their game to the

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Liam Kindree fires a pass during a recent game with the NSIHL’s elite Zulu team. Kindree is one of six NSIHL players on the national junior team. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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sport’s highest levels.

“I’ve always said you’ve got a much better chance of going to represent Canada playing inline hockey than you do ice hockey,” said Pratt.

As for this year’s stars, they’re excited about pulling on the Maple Leaf jersey, many of them, like Latta, playing internationally for the first time.

“The coolest thing about

getting selected to this team is being able to represent Canada,” he said. “I’ve never been outside of North America. I’m just super excited to play against other great players from around the world and play on a scale of this size for inline. … I’m hoping for a great result.

I don’t know exactly how we’re going to line up but I know we’ll have a good team and that we’ll be capable of achieving good things over there.”

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OCT 24 – NOV 22 Spiritual and psychic matters come to the forefront this week, Scorpio. You may be inspired to express yourself in meaningful ways. Or you may provide sage advice to others.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 – DEC 21 Sagittarius, a move or another significant life event is looming on the horizon. Make a list of changes you may need to make and ask an unbiased friend for some advice.

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JUN 22 – JUL 22 Cancer, a fun and productive week is ahead. Make every moment count by sharing experiences with friends or loved ones. Also, focus on some future adventures.

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JAN 21 – FEB 18 Your career is going great right now, Aquarius. Take this opportunity to ask for additional responsibilities or to ask for that well-deserved raise.

FEB 19 – MAR 20 Pisces, plan a trip to someplace distant or exotic.

Find a location on the map that appeals to you and make your adventure come to life.

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