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More than 100 North Vancouver residents remain out of their homes for Christmas following two devastating structure fires.

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The North Shore found itself digging out from a series of heavy snowfalls Tuesday that resulted in limited bus service, large snowdrifts covering most side streets and a warning from police and municipalities not to travel unless absolutely essential.

Environment Canada reported that approximately 25 centimetres of snow fell in areas of North Vancouver overnight Monday into Tuesday morning, with slightly less – about 16 centimetres – reported closer to the water in West Vancouver. That followed the already considerable snowfall that fell Saturday night and Sunday and frigid temperatures that turned compact snow to ice on some streets.

Heavy snow resulted in “considerable delays” on buses Tuesday, with TransLink running limited service in North Vancouver, operating only between Phibbs exchange and Lonsdale Quay.

“Buses are stopping along Main Street at Harbour Avenue and Brooksbank Avenue.

No other buses are operating in North Vancouver city or district,” TransLink stated Tuesday morning.

The snow also resulted in a number of crashes.

One dramatic accident happened Continued on page 4

LIFTOFF Fred and Emmeline St-Laurent enjoy the recent snowfall on the popular sliding hill at Ray Perrault Park in North Vancouver. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

Renters from a 64-unit apartment building including seniors, families with children and many people on low incomes, have been displaced by a fire in their building at 260 12th St. East since Dec. 13.

“What we do know is everybody in the building will need support for an indefinite period of time,” said North Shore Emergency Management director Emily Dicken.

About half of fire-evicted residents are staying with family and friends over the holidays while longer-term plans get sorted out, said Dicken. The rest of residents have been temporarily put up in hotels and motels, including some on the North Shore and others in hotel-style dorm rooms out at UBC. The province has extended temporary emergency help for housing through to Jan. 15 for residents displaced by the fire.

Normally that help is only available for 72-hours following an emergency.

North Vancouver MLA Bowinn Ma, recently appointed minster of emergency management and climate readiness, said City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan asked the province for extra help for residents within hours of the apartment fire.

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Weather drama may not be over yet, meteorologist says Continued from page 1 overnight Monday in the 4100 block of Mountain Highway near Dempsey Road when a TransLink bus driving south hit a sheet of ice around 9:15 p.m. The bus slid into a utility pole, which fell onto a house, said Const. Mansoor Sahak of North Vancouver RCMP. The bus then slid into three parked vehicles, he said, causing one of those vehicles to roll and crash into another house, causing some structural damage. The bus hit a Hydro pole, which also fell into a third house. Finally, the bus hit a tree, which fell into the road.

“There were, surprisingly, no injuries,” he said.

Authorities urged those who didn’t have to travel to stay home.

“The roads are extremely bad.

It doesn’t matter if you have a four-by-four,” said Sahak. “If you don’t need to be out there, don’t take your chances.”

Drivers who didn’t heed that advice contributed to traffic chaos on the Cut early Sunday morning, when numerous vehicles trying to make it up the steep section of Highway 1 found themselves stuck in snow and blocking other traffic, including snow plows.

Weather chaser Brad Atchison posted a video on Twitter driving west on the highway around 7:45 a.m. Sunday from the bottom of the Cut. “There were so many spun-out cars, I lost count,” he said.

Former District of North Vancouver council member Mathew Bond watched the traffic

mayhem on the highway unfold from his apartment overlooking Lynn Creek.

“I could see traffic, especially westbound traffic, was completely stuck,” he said. “Emergency vehicles were stuck in the middle.

No one could move. There were cars, trying to get up the off ramp to Mountain Highway and they were slipping and sliding all over the place.”

Bond jumped on his bike, equipped with winter tires, grabbed a shovel, and headed over to help dig out stranded motorists. Most of the problems were being caused by people without proper tires become stuck and then blocking the highway for others, he said.

On Monday, the roads remained slick, especially on the Fern Street overpass in North Vancouver. One RCMP officer who was attending to a spunout vehicle had her own police vehicle hit by a driver who lost control on the ice, said Sahak.

“She was inside the vehicle with her lights on and was hit by another vehicle,” he said.

Sahak said the officer was checked out at Lions Gate Hospital while the police vehicle had to be towed.

B.C. Ferries cancelled earlymorning sailings on all three of its routes out of West Vancouver’s Horseshoe Bay terminal Tuesday.

Meanwhile, municipal crews were working flat out Tuesday to try to clear priority routes.

Conditions were making that challenging in both the districts of

North and West Vancouver, with residents warned not to expect any snow clearing on local roads and cul-de-sacs until after main roads and arterial routes were dealt with.

Garbage and organics collection were cancelled in both municipalities Tuesday, with residents advised to remove their carts and set them out on the next collection day.

On Tuesday afternoon, BC Hydro crews were still working to restore to about 7,000 customers on the North Shore who were left without power as trees weighed down by snow brought down power lines in the areas of Capilano, Westview and Larson roads, Edgemont and Pemberton Heights. Additional smaller pockets of power outages had been reported in Cedardale and Marine Drive in West Vancouver.

And the weather drama may not be over yet, said Matt Loney, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.

Loney said skies should clear Wednesday and temperatures will dip to a frigid -11 overnight Wednesday.

Later Thursday “is where things are getting quite interesting,” he said, as another Pacific storm is forecast to move over the Lower Mainland, bringing a “messy meteorological medley” of snow flurries, possible freezing rain and – eventually – rain between Dec. 22 and 24.

The upside to all of that?

“There’s at least a chance of a white Christmas,” he said.

More than 24 hours after snow started falling on the North Shore, the Fern Street on ramp to Hwy 1 was covered in ice Dec. 19, resulting numerous vehicles sliding off the road and getting stuck on the Monday morning commute. RCMP block the right hand lanes of the on ramp.

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Slippery conditions made for treacherous commute Tuesday morning in North Vancouver. Here a TransLink bus spins out on snow at the intersection of Main Street and Brooksbank Avenue, Dec. 20. NICK LABA, NSN

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Nephew charged in North Vancouver senior’s murder BRENT RICHTER

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One man has now been charged in the Dec. 13 stabbing death of a North Vancouver woman in the Lower Lonsdale neighbourhood.

The victim is identified in court documents as Dominga Santos, 68.

The Crown has now sworn one charge of second-degree murder against Anthony Santos Del Rosario, a 46-year-old relative from North Vancouver.

“It is believed he is the nephew of the victim,” said Sgt. Timothy Pierotti, IHIT spokesperson. “Unfortunately, it is a very

tragic incident.”

Pierotti could not say what Del Rosario was doing at his aunt’s apartment or what happened in the moments leading up to the stabbing, although he said the suspect is known to police.

“I know that [investigators] are out there speaking to all the neighbours and anybody that knew either party. They’re hoping that we can get some more insight on what could have led to this,” he said.

Police were called to the third-floor apartment at 225 Third St. West around 11 a.m. and found Santos suffering from apparent stab wounds.

“Police and BC Ambulance Service immediately began lifesaving measures, but the woman was later pronounced deceased on scene,” a release from the North Vancouver RCMP stated Dec 13.

North Vancouver RCMP arrested Del Rosario in the apartment and took him into custody.

He and Santos were the only ones there at the time, although Pierotti said it was someone else who called 911.

Del Rosario has been held in custody.

A mandatory publication ban covers everything disclosed during a bail hearing held Wednesday morning, but the accused

is due back in North Vancouver Provincial Court for an appearance on Dec. 21.

People left feeling traumatized by the incident can call the North Vancouver RCMP’s victim services unit, Pierotti said.

“I know that a situation like this can have an effect on an entire community, the building, everyone within North Vancouver,” he said.

IHIT is asking anyone with information about the incident to contact investigators through their tip line 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or email the team at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

“We’re still working to speak to as many people as possible,” Pierotti said.

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No public input required for Senakw services agreement BOB MACKIN / GLACIER MEDIA

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Vancouver city hall will consult area residents in early 2023 on potential transportation changes related to Westbank’s 11-tower development on the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) Sen̓áḵw reserve around the Burrard Bridge.

the Squamish Nation as a separate order of government, as per the city’s 2014 commitment to be a “City of Reconciliation,” and to “take guidance from the Squamish Nation” about the communication and operating protocol for negotiations.

“Throughout the negotiations, the Sen̓áḵw Partnership were clear that they expected both the negotiations and any resulting agreement to be kept strictly confidential.”

Initial negotiations were complete by early July 2021, but the sides kept talking about details for the next year, according to the court papers.

Then-mayor Kennedy Stewart signed the agreement at a May 25 photo op with Squamish Nation council chair Khelsilem. It was kept secret for another two months until it was quietly published on the eve of the B.C. Day long weekend.

“The services agreement was executed on May 25 but made subject to an escrow agreement pending settlement on certain elements of the final legal text of the services agreement,” said the city’s defence statement.

“These elements were settled on July 19 and the services agreement was then released to the public.”

At a Sept. 6 groundbreaking ceremony, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $1.4-billion loan through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. to finance half the units, touting it as the largest loan in the Crown corporation’s history. Westbank CEO Ian Gillespie is a friend of Trudeau and a Liberal Party supporter.

Squamish Nation members agreed to a 50-50 partnership in 2019 with Westbank to build 6,000 units on 4.7 hectares of Kitsilano Reserve 6 regained through court settlements. A consultant’s estimate from 2019 suggested the project could generate as much as $12.7 billion in cashflow for the band and developer.

Since then, Westbank’s share was reduced to 30 per cent and OP Trust, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and Government of Ontario pension fund, now holds 20 per cent. Nch’ḵay̓ ’s chair is former NDP finance minister and current BC Ferries chair Joy MacPhail.

Nch’ḵay̓’s other holdings are the Mosquito Creek Marina, Lynnwood Marina, Capilano RV Park and Squamish Valley Gas Bar.

But the city’s Dec. 12-filed statement of defence against an application for a judicial review of the Sen̓áḵw Services Agreement says there was no legal duty under the Vancouver Charter to seek public feedback on the 120-year deal with the Squamish Nation.

The 250-page agreement spells out how Sen̓áḵw will connect to the city’s water and storm sewers, sidewalks, roads, bike lanes and public transit and who pays for what.

The four-million-square-foot project, which proposes 6,000 residential units and 170,000 square feet of office and commercial space, is subject to federal approval only.

Kits Point Residents Association and two of its directors, Eve Munro and Benjamin Peters, filed for a judicial review on Oct. 5 in B.C. Supreme Court. They want a judge to quash the agreement because the city negotiated and approved it in secret. Residents were not given the opportunity to be heard at an open city council meeting, allegedly violating procedural fairness and natural justice.

The city’s defence statement said the only consultation planned so far is to gather feedback on parking, walking, biking and intersection upgrades planned for Chestnut, Greer and Cypress, in order to “help refine transportation priorities moving forward.”

It also said neighbouring Vanier Park will undergo the standard master planning process, which will include engagement with the public and the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

As for the agreement at the centre of the dispute, the city maintains it acted properly under both the Indian Self-government Enabling Act and the Vancouver Charter. It also claimed the authority to pass resolutions behind closed doors.

“As the final terms of the services agreement continued to be negotiated until July 19, 2022 it is clear that council hold both the July 20, 2021 and the Nov. 2, 2021 meetings in camera,” said the city’s court filing. “Any release of the material considered or the decisions made on July 20, 2021 or Nov. 2, 2021 could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the city if they were known to the Sen̓áḵw Partnership [Squamish Nation’s Nch’ḵay̓ Development Corp. and Westbank] prior to the finalization of the services agreement.”

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The North Vancouver RCMP are asking for the public’s help to dig up some dirt about what happened to an excavator stolen from a local construction site.

this incident, not realizing that a theft was occurring,” said Const. Mansoor Sahak of the North Vancouver RCMP. If you observed anything that may assist the police, or know the whereabouts of the excavator, you are asked to call the North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311 and quote file #22-30678. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

North Vancouver RCMP said the owner of a 2018 John Deere 50G excavator reported Dec. 15 that his excavator worth $50,000 had gone missing from a North Vancouver construction site in the 600 block of Sixth Street East.

According to police, witnesses observed the night before, at about 10:30 p.m., the excavator being loaded onto a flatbed truck, but assumed at the time the machinery was being moved legitimately. The excavator was last seen on the truck heading east in the laneway.

According to police, it’s the third time the property owner has had an excavator stolen in the past four years.

The North Vancouver RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance in providing any information relating to this theft, especially any CCTV, North Vancouver RCMP are looking for help to track or dash cam footage from the area down this John Deere excavator that went missing or reports from witnesses who may from a construction site in North Vancouver on have observed the incident.

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Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart and city manager Peter Steblin are named in a court petition by Metro Vancouver alleging that confidential information was leaked in January to a company that Metro Vancouver was about to sue.

In court papers filed last Friday at BC Supreme Court in Vancouver, Metro Vancouver is seeking an order to preserve evidence about the unauthorized disclosure to Acciona, the Spanish firm hired by Metro Vancouver in 2017 — and then fired in early 2022 — to design and construct the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant to replace the Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The petition states that Metro Vancouver wants to conduct a forensic audit of Acciona’s computer systems and of Anika Calder’s electronic devices.

It is alleged that Calder, a former Acciona employee and Steblin’s daughter, took photos on her personal cell phone from her father’s laptop of a sensitive report that came

before Metro Vancouver directors during a closed meeting in January.

That confidential report, which sought the termination of the Acciona contract, as well as advice on future legal action against the company, was accessed using Stewart’s unique ID and password, the court papers read.

The application states that Calder then passed on Metro Vancouver’s report to her employer, which in March sued the regional authority for wrongful termination of its contract.

In May, Acciona notified Metro’s legal team that it had Metro’s confidential report in its possession and at least four other Acciona employees had seen it.

When Acciona didn’t co-operate in a joint investigation with Metro on disclosure, the regional authority launched the petition to save the evidence and to stop all recipients from reproducing or making further copies of Metro’s confidential document.

In an affidavit signed last Thursday, Jerry Dobrovolny, Metro’s commissioner and chief administrative officer, stated that Stewart — who, at the time, chaired Metro’s liquid waste committee that was overseeing the NSWWTP project

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The real Santa’s helpers

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hether it’s icy roads or inflation, it can feel like a slog to prepare for Christmas.

So when the time finally comes, we hope your home is filled with warmth and the highest ideals that Dec. 25 represents – generosity, togetherness, peace, gratitude and goodwill.

It’s been a challenging year for many but it is at this time when it’s more important than ever to remember the advice Bing Crosby sang to us: “Count your blessings instead of sheep.”

It isn’t hard to find folks who could use some of that warmth and those ideals now.

They’re the people struggling in our own towns. They’re in Ukraine.

Charities that support those in need and work to make our community a better place do their hardest work at Christmastime, fundraising for the year ahead. We hope, in your rush to shop for presents under the

tree, you haven’t forgotten to share some of the blessings your home enjoys with them.

It’s not too late to be one of Santa’s most important helpers. Pick one, two or three local non-profits and come bearing gifts.

They know how to make every contribution count.

Whether it’s helping our wildlife, sending urgently needed supplies overseas, rescuing people from the mountains, or even finding new homes for pets abandoned in Afghanistan, over the last year, we’ve brought you dozens of stories about folks on the North Shore who volunteer and donate. They know better than anyone that it’s truly better to give than to receive.

It’s humbling to live and work among them. They represent the spirit of the season and inspire us all year round.

In the year ahead, be the person you want Santa to believe you are, every day.

And a Merry Christmas to us all.

Housing stock alone won’t help West Van retain workers KIRK LAPOINTE

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If you were given the task of launching a shopping mall today, it’s doubtful you’d select Caulfeild Village as first choice for the site.

On paper, at least, it makes little sense.

Terrible public transit access. No highrises nearby for walk-up traffic. No houses within eyesight. Not even an easy trek for the cyclist. It’s tucked away near an offramp from the Upper Levels highway amid winding roads stitching together single-family detached homes.

Yet there it is, surviving in seeming isolation, a testament to West Vancouver’s proud dependence on the vehicle. Convenience has become it. The parking lot is mostly full most of the time, there for what the plaza calls when you Google it “a practical group of stores”– anchor tenants in Safeway, a Pharmasave, a Signature BC Liquor Store, Subway and BMO, medical, dental, optometry and veterinary clinics, then smaller and more convivial outlets for dry cleaning, fish, meat, men’s and women’s clothing, sushi, coffee, mortgages, framing and spa treatment.

They’re the stop-by stores and shops.

It can be argued that for four decades the actual community of the mall has been orchestrated by Pastameli, a meeting place as much as an eating place. It has been the Cheer’s of Caulfeild, where everybody (eventually) knows your name. Ask about its clientele and you’d learn that about 85 per cent are regulars.

Suddenly last month, it shockingly shuttered.

Colin and Kim Taylor had nurtured Pastameli through a decade recently punctuated by the pandemic restrictions, the tragic passing of its chef, and labour shortages that saddled them with unworldly hours. Think 16-hour days – a “nightmare,” Colin says.

Over the years they had treated their employees to summer camping trips and helped them find housing. “It was a family,” they both say. When they could not reconcile their deal with the Warrington PCI Management, they decided it was time to move on. New operators will move in early in 2023 to confront the same challenges.

“Small business is hard,” Kim says.

“The real story is housing,” Colin adds.

Indeed, the lack of affordable housing to supply accessible labour is a real story for

West Vancouver’s restaurants, as it is for all of our merchants. The housing scarcity that impedes the emergence of locally available labour, and the fruitless quest for solutions, provides West Vancouver with arguably its most significant socio-economic challenge.

The district is not unique in this regard, but our statistics are some of the most harrowing. Three-quarters of the people who work here don’t live here, and only about one in 10 of our municipal staff does.

Given their scale, smaller businesses have little wiggle room to pay above-market wages, so reduced operating hours are the new normal. The pandemic and the recent spurt of inflation only amplified the problem, as did the inertia of recent councils to approve developments to attract and retain workers.

No politician would like to concede the problem is too large, because no politician wants to give off the whiff of hopelessness.

But it is worth considering if it’s too late to address the condition with housing stock alone.

When an Airbnb room can fetch three figures a night, when rents consume oversized portions of wages, when construction costs

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and land values mean only large buildings can yield even meagre numbers of rather tiny residential units many years into the future, are we too far gone in the game to make a material shorter-term difference?

At the very least, we need to examine different municipal incentives. We need to recognize, too, that workers have found more space beyond what West Vancouver can provide their families – most aren’t going to live here in these circumstances, but they need more help to be here for work.

It was noteworthy that the Isetta Café Bistro on Marine Drive provided its staff with Compass cards when it opened this year.

Council ought to explore further short-term steps: perhaps that staff in our important service sector be given free public transit, even vehicle allowances, to work here. The cost would hit property owners because the district depends mainly on that revenue stream. Regardless, whatever we are doing isn’t working in a prosperous community that can’t afford not to retain the out-of-towners to serve the in-towners.

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Why I remain a climate optimist

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Dear Editor:

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Shahin Nabi, an ear, nose and throat specialist who has been my surgeon for several years. His compassion, care and genuine attitude put him at the very top of a long list of physicians and surgeons I have had over my 70 years.

Despite the recent trends of virtual “cold” medicine, he continues to offer amazing in-person visits that focus on the patient and the exceptional care he offers.

Dear Editor:

Doron Levy North Vancouver

I am a person with a physical disability.

On Nov. 3, I was accompanied by my mother, who is a senior herself, to visit [internal medicine specialist] Dr. Kevin McLeod’s office on West 16th Street. It was drizzling that morning and so the pavement was wet.

My mother had tripped over and fallen on the ground, I also fell.

Both of us immediately yelled for help and there were a number of passersby who came to our rescue. They helped us get up and escorted us to sit on a bench nearby.

One of them, after learning of our destination, rushed up to the clinic and asked one of the staff there to come and see if any assistance could be given. An employee of the clinic came to the scene and guided us to the clinic.

My mother was in excruciating pain and the employee gave her a patch for her finger, which was bleeding. While I went into one of the clinic’s rooms to pick up a medical monitor, another staff member wrote a request for my mother to have an emergency X-ray at a nearby clinic. The X-ray revealed that my mother had broken her left collarbone, and we went to Lions Gate Hospital ER at once.

Both of us want to convey our gratitude to all those who gave us assistance on that fateful morning, most of whom we do not know their names nor had met personally.

Our grateful thanks are extended to the staff of the clinic, as my mother is not their patient

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but they still provided help. All of them were our guardian angels, and their gracious help that day confirms our belief that our decision to settle in this compassionate city is the right one.

Hin Lee North Vancouver

BRIDGE INCIDENTS TURN RESIDENTIAL STREETS INTO PARKING LOTS

Dear Editor:

Another Friday afternoon traffic incident(s) on the Second Narrows Bridge displayed a reoccurring theme on the North Shore: gridlock.

As a local resident whose residential street becomes a gridlocked parking lot, situations like this should be considered a public safety emergency. For the hour-plus delay, my thoughts went to: a mother with a choking child, or any medical emergency and an ambulance and fire crew being delayed in assisting, a house on fire, a criminal situation -- all of which would result in a long delay in response, lending itself to a greater harm and or further injury.

This has occurred at least five times in 2022, map apps directing vehicles to flood residential roads to avoid backed up arteries.

I left my residence and moved three blocks in 45 minutes with those attempting to turn around and retreat also blocked with residential parking. Fire department vehicles, paramedics, and police would all be blocked/ delayed while confused and pressured drivers would seek to clear the path. I will not even go on about the environmental impact of hundreds of vehicles that sit idling in the clogged roadways for these long delays.

Its long overdue to action (not discuss) another crossing. It just needs to happen. All levels of government need to be actioning this now, today, with all contributing. No more development till developers contribute to another crossing. We appear to be people and vehicle saturated on the shore and public safety needs to have some priority.

Rene Bernklau North Vancouver

Hope is one of the traditional themes of the holiday season.

unprecedented speeds - of course, follow-through is key.

The critical importance of hope for all humankind is something I think about often - particularly through the prism of what is the most central challenge of our age - climate change.

• As science - and extreme weather events - become ever more clear and present, public commitment to climate action has become the norm in Canada, such that I think it unlikely any political party lacking a credible climate plan can be elected at the federal level.

The scale and potential impacts of the climate crisis are daunting - and can be overwhelming. But when hopelessness becomes an overarching emotion, the resulting apathy and paralysis can make the situation even more difficult and threatening.

“Climate doom is the new climate denial,” it’s been said, because both lead to inaction.

Harvard University’s Mary Franck writes, “Climate optimism isn’t about denying what we can see with our own eyes or ignoring our grief for what we’ve lost. It’s understanding that we know how to prevent things from getting worse and that we’re making progress.”

Promise and progress I firmly believe that there are available pathways for limiting climate and biodiversity damage.

The critical question is our level of collective commitment to travelling down these paths as rapidly as science demands.

I do see important progress. This progress sustains me and acts as a counterbalance to being overcome by the immensity of the gap between where we are and what we need to achieve.

In the spirit of the season, what follows are just a few of the many reasons why I personally remain very hopeful about the fight against climate change. Perhaps they might help fuel your optimism as well: • Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, economic growth has been very much tied to increasing carbon emissions. The historic link between rising prosperity and carbon emissions has, recently, been broken. Some 33 countries in recent years have seen a major decoupling of emissions from economic growth.

• There is an increasingly serious focus on the part of world leaders to taking urgent climate action.

Today, more than 90 percent of the world’s GDP and over 80 percent of global emissions are now governed by net-zero pledges of various kinds, each promising to embark upon massive decarbonization at historically

• We are seeing an exponential growth in recent years of ever cheaper and more effective renewable and non-emitting sources of energy. Wind and solar now make up 75% of global electricity capacity growth, while coal has fallen to just 4%, according to BloombergNEF Research.

• The energy transition presents unbounded economic opportunity.

A recent report published by the International Energy Agency found that more people are now employed in clean energy than fossil fuel-related industries. Work by others, such as Clean Energy Canada, points to significant job creation and economic growth if we seize the economic opportunities available in the transition to a low-carbon future.

• Indigenous communities, cities and towns are taking energy and climate issues into their own hands and demonstrating real leadership.

• The energy crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine is dramatically accelerating the switch to clean energy – particularly in western Europe.

• Brazil’s new president has promised to save the Amazon and has formed an alliance of nations that are home to the largest rainforests to prevent deforestation.

• And perhaps most of all, my sense of hope remains vital and alive because climate activism is thriving around the world - and it is our youth (very much including my youngest daughter) who are at the forefront.

There are very tangible reasons to be hopeful about climate change as 2022 comes to a close. Let us use that hope to redouble our efforts to address the climate crisis and to ensure a successful transition to a prosperous low-carbon future.

With that, I want to wish all North Vancouverites a very happy – and reflective – Holiday Season.

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Continued from page 7 affidavit.

The legal report noted it “is highly likely that Metro Vancouver will be headed to litigation as it relates to this project.

Confidentiality continues to be of the utmost importance.”

However, “portions of the Confidential Closed Meeting Report had been provided to Acciona by the daughter of Peter Steblin, the City of Coquitlam’s city manager. Peter Steblin had obtained access to the Confidential Closed Meeting Report using Director Stewart’s Metro ID and Password.”

Dobrovolny further stated that Metro’s IT director, Brent Krezan, found that Stewart’s login details were used to obtain the confidential report four times: twice on Jan. 18 and twice on Jan. 19.

Acciona was officially fired from the project on Jan. 20.

“Under no circumstances was Mr. Steblin authorized by or on behalf of [Metro Vancouver] to disclose the Confidential Closed Meeting Report to any person whatsoever, let alone his daughter as an employee of Acciona,” Dobrovolny stated in the affidavit.

Dobrovolny also noted that, like all Metro directors, Stewart had signed an oath of office before a judge to keep documents confidential until they are released to the public.

None of the allegations has been proven in court.

The Tri-City News reached out to Stewart last Friday when the court papers were filed.

On Monday, Stewart said he was “unable to comment” on Metro’s allegations.

“I truly wish I could comment, and correct inaccuracies, but as this is a legal proceeding, I am prevented from doing so,” he texted later to the Tri-City News.

At the Dec. 5 city council meeting, Stewart told council he would be making good on a promise to his wife to cut back on his regional roles in his last term. (He advanced his name to be on two regional committees in 2023; however, Metro did not select him for any committee other than the Mayors committee).

Last month, Steblin also announced he would be retiring early in the new year.

According to the 2021 Statement of Financial Information, Steblin earned $356,991 in 2020 while Stewart took in $183,365 (and claimed $13,074 in expenses) for his civic duties.

Kathleen Vincent, Coquitlam’s communications manager, said there is no date set for Steblin’s retirement, and “because this involves third parties and active litigation, no city officials will be granting interviews nor commenting on this matter.

“We are co-operating with the parties involved to support the best interests of the city and the community we serve.”

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‘MENTOR FIGURE’

Remember Michel Segur of West Van’s iconic Chez Michel ANDY PREST

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One year ago, Michel Segur was given only a few days to live.

After a battle against two types of cancer, the first detected in 2010, the second in 2015, he was nearing the end, unable to eat, and reduced to trying to stay comfortable in hospice. But his brother Philippe knew that the fight wasn’t over when Michel, after more than a week He was on seemingly on ice cubes death’s doorfor seven step, asked days, and for some real then on food.

“He was the eighth on ice cubes day, he for seven was eating days, and a turkey then on the sandwich. eighth day, he was eating a BROTHER PHILIPPE SEGUR turkey sandwich,” said Philippe with a chuckle. “Hospital food, and he enjoyed it!”

That passion for life, and for food, are two of the memories that will endure for Philippe after Michel, the founder and longtime owner/operator of West Vancouver’s famed Chez Michel restaurant, passed away last Sunday at the age of 71.

“For me, what he is leaving behind is an example of a will to live and never give up,” said Philippe. “He came home and he lasted another 12 months. At that time he knew there were a few things he really wanted to do.”

That spirit of perseverance and

Michel Segur and his son Julien stand proudly outside West Vancouver’s Chez Michel in 2017. Segur, who died on Dec. 11, opened the iconic North Shore restaurant in 1979. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN a passion for food were already evident early in life for Michel, as chronicled in a wonderful 2015 profile by North Shore News columnist Laura Anderson. As a teenager in France, Michel caught a ride across the country on his way to his first ever job in a kitchen, but the journey took an unexpected turn when the car he was riding in got into a crash, and Michel, as he put it, was “ejected from la voiture.”

The travellers carried on by taxi, and a day after the crash Michel arrived at the restaurant

– “a little stiff and sore” – and got to work.

His impressive culinary career took him across Europe and over to North America before he eventually landed in West Vancouver. Chez Michel, opened in 1979, was actually created by two Michels. Michel Segur designed the kitchen, while business partner Michel Balleger designed the front of house.

As the restaurant flourished, Michel Segur started a family, marrying Sylvie Bienvenue, a nurse at Lions Gate Hospital, in 1985. They

raised their two children, Gabrielle and Julien, in West Vancouver.

In 2000 Michel Segur teamed up with Philippe to open a second restaurant, Le Bistro Chez Michel, on Esplanade in North Vancouver.

Philippe is 15 years younger than Michel, and said working with his older brother was an amazing experience.

“He was a mentor figure for me,” said Philippe. “He was dedicated to his clientele. His work, his restaurant, was his life. He had an amazing respect and dedication to

serving, to wanting to please.”

In a 2017 restaurant review, North Shore News columnist Chris Dagenais described what it was like to watch Michel work a room.

“With confidence and an easygoing comportment he approached tables to see how diners were faring,” he wrote, adding that Michel knew many patrons by name and made a point of checking in on nearly every table in the crowded room.

Le Bistro Chez Michel closed in 2012, but the original Chez Michel in West Vancouver is still going strong today. Michel sold the restaurant last year, working hard through his illness to make sure Chez Michel would be in good hands, that all of his staff were taken care of, and that the restaurant was set up for continued success.

Ensuring the future of Chez Michel was one of the things Michel was fighting for as he battled cancer, but another was even more personal. Gabrielle got married in July of this year, and Michel, who needed a walker to get around, wanted to be there. He made it in style.

“He walked his daughter down the aisle, he did the first dance,” said Philippe. “And he never used the walker.”

A memorial service, open to the public, was scheduled for Tuesday at St. Anthony’s Parish in West Vancouver’s Cedardale neighbourhood.

In lieu of flowers, the family is encouraging donations in Michel’s name to the North Shore Hospice & Palliative Project and the Harvest Project.

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Acciona launched internal investigation Continued from page 12 E-Division declined to confirm whether Mounties are investigating a complaint of criminal breach of trust against Stewart, Steblin or Calder.

Acciona responded to the Tri-City News by providing a statement through its media spokesperson: “When Acciona became aware that confidential information of Metro Vancouver had been circulated by an employee, the company immediately launched an in-depth internal investigation and took the appropriate corrective steps, including the dismissal of that Acciona employee.

“Once the internal investigation was fully completed and verified, it was Acciona who brought the incident to Metro Vancouver’s attention, advising it to launch an investigation of its own. Seven months later, Metro Vancouver has not shared information about how municipal policies govern management of confidential information, whether those policies were followed, and what kind of corrective steps have been taken to address disclosure by civil servants.

“The confidential information had no bearing on Acciona’s planned course of legal action and no links with Acciona’s claim, which is based on Metro Vancouver’s failures in administration of the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant project.

“Acciona operates under strict code of conduct and compliance rules that are

enforced rigorously in all the countries in which the company operates, as demonstrated by the prompt internal action to resolve the matter and notify the third party impacted by this incident.”

Metro Vancouver spokesperson Don Bradley declined to weigh into the legal matter.

But Coquitlam Coun. Craig Hodge, who now takes over the senior Metro board spot for the city (with Coun. Teri Towner filling in Hodge’s former seat), told the Tri-City News on Monday that council is aware of the court case; however, “it doesn’t directly affect the operations of the city because Metro operates independently.”

This spring, Stewart told Hodge that he would be stepping down from his regional duties if he ran for mayor again, “and that was a personal decision that he made….

He asked me if I would be interested to step up and assume a greater role. I said yes.”

Hodge declined to comment on the accusations against Steblin, saying, “We are very fortunate that we have assembled a good team under Peter Steblin. Our general managers are really doing a great job. It’s business as usual to get the city’s work done.”

The next council meeting in Coquitlam is on Jan. 16, 2023.

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JAILED FOR CHILD PORN

Former West Van private school counsellor gets lifetime ban BRENT RICHTER

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A former West Vancouver private school counsellor jailed for possession of child pornography has been banned for life from teaching in British Columbia.

Luke Lawson, who taught at Mulgrave School for almost 20 years, was sentenced to four months in jail in June 2022, after pleading guilty to the charge in North Vancouver provincial court.

Lawson was suspended by the school in September 2020, immediately after he was arrested by the West Vancouver Police Department. Their investigation found he had been using his school computer to view and print photos of naked prepubescent and pubescent girls, and a search of his apartment found a stack of more than 100 images printed out, plus another 17 more arranged into a collage on his fridge.

Lawson had been collecting images from nudism websites and cropping out everything but the young girls. None of the victims were students from Mulgrave, according to the Crown, and none of the images depicted any sexual acts.

Lawson’s accreditation was suspended soon after he was arrested, and he left B.C. to live in Prince Edward Island.

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Following his jail term, Lawson was to serve another 18 months of probation.

On Nov. 15, the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation entered into an agreement with Lawson, declaring that he is to never apply for or expect to receive a certificate of qualification or any other kind of accreditation to teach kids from kindergarten to Grade 12 in B.C. “In determining that a lifetime ban on reapplication is an appropriate consequence, the commission considered the following factors: The conduct was at the serious end of the spectrum, and Lawson failed to act ethically and undermined the credibility of the teaching profession by violating laws that protect children from sexual exploitation,” the decision states.

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‘WISE, PLAYFUL AND PASSIONATE SOUL’

Young person shot by RCMP officer remembered with mural MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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More than 300 people turned out for a memorial service on Saturday to mourn the loss of Dani Cooper, a 27-year-old who was shot and killed by police in North Vancouver last month.

Held at the North Shore Unitarian Church, the Celebration of Life service saw 200 people attend and more than 170 others tune in online to witness friends, family and fellow community members pay their respects.

“The amount of people who have reached out to us with their love and support has been almost overwhelming,” said father Dennis Cooper last week.

As crowds congregated in North Vancouver, fellow mourners in Victoria were paying homage through the creation of a vibrant mural. A beaming portrait of Dani, painted onto the bright blue edifice of local cafe and bakery Wildfire, is accompanied by the words “people in crisis deserve support and dignity” – an ode to Dani’s courage and positivity in the face of adversity.

Dani, who was non-binary and

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also went by the name of Maiken, had been an active part of local activist communities on the North Shore and on Vancouver Island, where they had studied social justice at the University of Victoria.

As a teenager, they attended Seycove Secondary and chaired the B.C. Youth Adult Committee – a youth-led body that provides

recommendations about services and policies for young people – before going on to lead workshops and panel discussions on everything from gender to intergenerational solidarity as an adult.

“Dani was a trans person with a wise, playful, and passionate soul who cared about everyone and everything,” said Cooper,

adding how they unconditionally loved and supported all people in their life, “even when they were going through hard times themselves.”

He said Dani was invested in community and bettering the world around them, “writing and organizing and supporting marginalized groups,” and was particularly vocal about policing not being a solution to poverty and trauma.

On Nov. 12, Dani died following an encounter with police at a Hamber Place residence in North Vancouver. At the time, North Vancouver RCMP said they were called to an incident involving a woman “trying to attack another person with a weapon” in the 3700 block, shortly before receiving a second, separate report of a person trying to break into somebody’s home.

A statement at the time said police believed the same individual was at the centre of both incidents. Attempts to take Dani into custody “were not successful” and a confrontation led to an officer discharging their firearm, police said.

Police later acknowledged that their release used the wrong

gender for Dani and apologized.

Further details of how the situation unfolded remain unknown, and an investigation has been launched by the Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia.

“There has been an outpouring of love, but there has also been a massive outpouring of anger,” said Cooper. “Neither the RCMP nor the Independent Investigations Office have been transparent with our family about what happened, but we know one of the five-plus armed officers present decided that this barely five-foot-tall, 90-pound person was a threat and worthy of lethal force.”

Cooper, who issued his grievances at a police committee meeting last week, said he hopes the outrage felt by the community will work to quicken the investigation into Dani’s death.

A loss that, to family members and their sweeping circle of friends, “still feels like a strange nightmare.”

Mina Kerr-Lazenby is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF MERIT

North Van man recognized for decades of police service MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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Const. Ryan Prox hadn’t always craved a career in the police force – in fact as a youth he dreamed of being a pilot – but now in his 50s looking back on a remarkable career, and with a selection of awards under his belt, the officer is certainly grateful fate had other plans.

On Nov. 29, Prox was presented with the Officer of the Order of Merit of Police Forces, the second highest order that can be bestowed after the Order of Canada, and, at the same ceremony, was awarded the Police Exemplary Service Medal. As only one of 218 individuals invested as an Officer of the Order of Merit, in comparison to 7,212 who have received the Order of Canada, Prox has bagged an achievement few others get to experience.

“It’s really quite touching to be honoured with this,” said Prox, who was raised in North Vancouver and now lives in Deep Cove.

“It’s a reminder that I suppose I have accomplished quite a lot.”

Accomplishing “quite a lot” is putting it mildly for a man whose career has involved positions with the Vancouver Police Department, United Nations, European Union and the International Criminal Court.

Prox’s career first started taking off in

Const. Ryan Prox was presented with the Officer of the Order of Merit of Police Forces in a ceremony on Nov. 29. COURTESY OF RYAN PROX 1995, when his services as an intelligence officer were utilized by the Co-ordinated Law Enforcement Unit – an organization responsible for investigating organized crime in B.C. When CLEU was disbanded in 1998, Prox rebuilt a new agency out of the embers, the Organized Crime Agency,

before transferring to the Vancouver Police Department. He has worked with them ever since, covering homicide, the sex offence unit, beat enforcement unit, counter-terrorism and organized crime.

Occasionally he takes breaks from the VPD for months at a time, not to holiday or indulge in some likely needed R&R,

but to offer his services in developing countries – he’s had tours of duty in West Bank Palestine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Georgia, and, through the ICC, worked to prosecute war crimes in the Hague.

Now with retirement on the horizon, it would be safe to assume that Prox is preparing to kick back and enjoy his successes – but such is not the case.

“I’m probably going to stay for a couple more years to finish up some projects that I have a commitment to, and then there are a few other projects I have going that are artificial intelligence based,” he said.

“We’re working on this mental health early warning system that will identify police officers who are suffering from PTSD. It will use AI-enabled technology to help give an early warning flag for people who are high risk – to help save potential suicides.”

He’s “gone into the geeky world,” he said with a laugh.

Prox, who has a doctorate in artificial intelligence, engineered, designed and implemented the first artificial intelligenceenabled crime forecasting system in Canada.

At the moment we’re only on the cusp of what can be achieved with the human-mimicking tech, he said, and the programs that will arise in the future will “really make a difference” in regards to Continued on page 21

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Work with International Criminal Court saw Prox investigating crimes against humanity Continued from page 20 saving lives within the police force.

Prox’s work, put simply, is not for the faint of heart. During his time with the ICC he was responsible for investigating crimes against humanity, genocide and systematic torture.

He admitted the job can be horrendous, and that even decades of work in policing wasn’t enough to brace him for the “whole different level” of disturbing work that war crime entails. And yet Prox, against all odds, remains consistently jovial. His

passion for his craft is both evident in his speech and through his achievements, and his students – Prox also teaches courses on police studies and intelligence operations at Simon Fraser University – offer evergreen praise on his ability to leave a positive, long-lasting impact on his students.

So what’s the secret to overcoming the threat of negativity, despite working in such a challenging and demanding field? “I have a really good supportive family,” he beamed, crediting his relationship with his

wife and his two daughters, aged 14 and four, with much of his success.

“It’s really hard to have a bad day when you come home to those three. Everything just melts away,” he said.

Prox’s wife was at the celebration in November to witness him pick up the medals that had technically been bestowed on him two years prior, but had been delayed due to the pandemic. There was a standing ovation from all the members and many proud faces in the crowd, yet Prox, despite being delighted with his own hard yards,

attested he’s merely doing his job, just like the countless others around him.

“There are a lot of people dedicated to their work: within my team with the UN, every single one of them is highly committed, and they’ve invested big portions of their livelihood to try and make a difference,” he said.

“I’m not alone in this.”

Mina Kerr-Lazenby is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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‘It’s going to be months and months of repairs if it’s salvageable at all’ Continued from page 1 “I know it’s an incredibly stressful situation,” said Ma. The extension of help from the province “gives people a little bit more room to breathe,” she said.

Fire chief Greg Schalk said the fire started on the first floor, likely in a concealed space behind a wall or in a ceiling. The exact cause hasn’t been determined, but Schalk said it was most likely accidental. The fire caused significant damage to the central core of the building, including damage to the building’s electrical, gas and water services. That means there won’t be any occupancy allowed in the foreseeable future, said Schalk, as property managers, insurance adjusters and restoration companies assess the damage.

Julie Nahanee, whose friends were among the evacuees, said the longer-term situation remains worrying, she said.

“After Jan. 15 is a big question mark,” she said. “The emails I’ve seen said it’s going to be months and months and months of repairs if it’s salvageable at all.”

Dicken said she’s told the residents to start looking for other housing as soon as possible.

Other social agencies like BC Housing are helping with the search, but authorities acknowledge that isn’t going to be easy.

Many of the families living in the building are on low and middle incomes and were paying rents substantially below what is usually available on the North Shore, Ma acknowledged. Realistically, residents usually have better luck

if they’re willing to move off the North Shore, she added.

“Housing on the North Shore is absolutely a challenge,” she said. “Let alone on lower incomes.”

In the coming days, firefighters will be scheduling times when residents can be escorted into the building to retrieve more of their personal possessions.

A fundraising campaign to help the displaced residents is being co-ordinated by St. Andrews United Church. Cash can be dropped off at the church at 1044 St. Georges Ave. in person during office hours Monday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Tuesday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Donations can also be e-transferred to office@st-andrews-united.ca. The church asks

anyone making a donation to indicate that it is for the displaced residents A second fire at Moodyville home subdivided in suites was heavily damaged by fire early Monday morning, putting at least eight more people out.

City fire crews were called to the 600 block of Second Street East around 5 a.m. to find the home already engulfed.

On Monday afternoon, Dicken said they have been making some progress, at least for the shortterm, for eight residents.

“They are going to be receiving supports all the way through the holidays for food, clothing and lodging until Jan. 5, at which time we’ll be working with the province and other community service providers to help them

navigate towards getting a new home,” she said. “But right now, it’s just about taking care of the immediate needs and making sure that they have somewhere safe to land.”

Dicken said people affected by the fire are mostly in their mid-20s to early 30s, living as roommates.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

In both cases, what displaced residents will need most from their neighbours in the community is a place to live, Dicken said.

If there is anyone who has either empty suites or rooms they’d be willing to rent out, they should contact North Shore Emergency Management, she said.

“It’s a housing issue,” she said.

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WILDLIFE WONDER

Beauty bobcat prowls in West Vancouver backyard BRENT RICHTER

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A North Shore News reader has shared a video of a bobcat having a poke around a West Vancouver backyard, Dec. 6.

The video is viewable at nsnews. com/photos-and-videos.

The large cat was spotted outside a Mathers Avenue home on the greenbelt between Taylor Way and the Capilano River.

Bobcats typically keep a low profile,

especially in urban settings, but this is the time of year when they’re most likely to be seen, said conservation officer Simon Gravel.

“With the snow and the cold weather, they’re a bit more active looking for food,” he said.

Bobcats are no threat to the public and there are no recorded instances of one attacking a human in B.C., Gravel said, but they have been known to go after pets.

They can grow up to 11 kilograms (25 pounds).

“We encourage people to always keep their pets inside – small cats, obviously, and always an eye on your dog,” he said.

To keep pets safe, Gravel said they offer the same advice that they do for bears and coyotes – keep your property free of attractants that might draw them in.

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At least one North Vancouver employee who recently received a message like that purporting to be from her boss soon discovered it wasn’t her supervisor who needed the favour.

Instead, it was a scam artist.

Unfortunately, by the time the woman realized she’d been scammed she was out $1,500 in Apple gift cards.

More recently, the North Vancouver RCMP said one of their own civilian employees was targeted in a ruse that they’re describing as the “boss scam.”

In that case the employee was asked in an email to buy Amazon gift cards and supply them with the PIN numbers. Fortunately that employee knew something was fishy and didn’t go ahead with the request.

Const. Mansoor Sahak, spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP, said the “boss scam” is more sophisticated than it appears, which is why people fall for it.

Here’s how it works: First the scammer scours the

Internet for names and emails of a company’s high-ranking supervisors. They’ll also search for job titles, telephone numbers and other important information about the company, to help disguise their request.

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Yahoo or another service, and make Instead confirm a suspicious request an excuse for sending something from through a different email or phone their personal email. Or they could number you trust. spoof a phone number from your Spoof-proof your company’s email. area code and send a text message Work with your IT department to set instead. up security and spam filters on your Sahak said criminals love gift company email. Bosses should set up cards, because there’s nothing an external email warning that will traceable. No legitimate business or add a warning message to the top of government agency will ever insist any emails that come from someone that you pay with a gift card, he outside of your organization. added.

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West Van massage therapist’s licence suspended JANE SEYD

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A West Vancouver massage therapist who took a laissez-faire approach to patient records and clinic cleanliness has been handed a suspension by her regulatory body.

Joanne Argatoff, a registered massage therapist who practiced out of a clinic on Marine Drive, had her licence suspended Nov. 10 by the College of Massage Therapists of B.C. following an undercover investigation by the college earlier this year.

According to the college’s decision, on Aug. 22, an undercover investigator posing as a patient observed that Argatoff’s clinic was dirty and there was a dog present.

In a subsequent visit in September, two college investigators observed that “the reception area was dimly lit, dirty, cluttered and had a strong odour.”

Investigators observed a dog in the area and a kitchen area containing garbage and dirty dishes. Additionally, a friend of Argatoff’s was found to be sleeping in a back room of the clinic.

Argatoff was also “unable to provide treatment records for any of her patients,” according to the college decision.

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According to the decision posted on the college’s website, the suspension was put in place after a disciplinary panel decided it wasn’t satisfied Argatoff would comply with any conditions “that would satisfactorily protect the public.”

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The B.C. Securities Commission has issued more than $1.5 million in administrative fines and repayment orders against three North Shore residents found to have defrauded two victims.

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West Vancouver residents John Sand and Jolyon Charles Christopher Gulston and North Vancouver resident Karol Achs must each pay a $380,000 administrative penalty for lying while convincing two people to invest in a start-up venture, the commission stated Dec. 6 following a disciplinary decision. Sand, Gulston and Achs were found to have committed fraud against two other B.C. residents – understood to be an insurance broker and medical doctor – who believed the trio would use their $600,000 to develop a fuel cell battery product.

Instead, the trio – who purported to operate their nascent battery business in North Vancouver – used more than $360,000 for personal purposes, including cash withdrawals, credit card payments, loan payments to themselves and relatives, cellphone and grocery bills and legal fees with no ties to the proposed venture, according to an Aug. 15 ruling. As such, each of them must also repay the estimated amounts they obtained from their wrongdoing: Achs, $180,000; Sand, $120,000; and Gulston, $100,000.

“The level of seriousness of the fraud here

was significant,” noted the commission’s disciplinary panel Dec. 6. “The dishonesty was intentional and planned and included the creation of false documents and a failure to keep the types of records which would allow the flow of funds to be accurately tracked.

The respondents directly benefited from their misconduct,” added the panel.

Sand, Gulston and Achs have also been found “unfit to act as a registrant, director, officer, or advisor” and are now permanently banned from holding such positions. They are also permanently prohibited from trading or purchasing securities or derivatives, and from other investment market activities, according to the disciplinary decision.

There were no mitigating factors in the decision and no evidence of prior misconduct by any of the respondents, the decision noted. It’s unclear if the trio has the means to pay the fines; most penalties from the commission go unpaid as perpetrators typically have no money or assets in their names, according to the commission. Rather, the lofty fines are intended to act as a deterrent.

The disciplinary panel decided on the fine amounts based on four previous fraud decisions. All four cited cases show unpaid fines on the commission’s sanction payment status list. The commission was granted the power to block a sanctioned individual from renewing their driver’s licence should they not, at minimum, present a repayment plan.

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Federal policymakers are getting a set of fresh voices in conversations surrounding sustainability in the country.

Earlier this week, Natural Resources Canada launched its 12-member youth council, tasked with studying and sharing perspectives on pressing climate and natural resource issues.

The council was revealed at the UN National Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal by North Vancouver MP Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of natural resources. According to a statement, the youth council reaffirms the federal government’s commitment to protecting nature while recognizing the importance of engaging youth on climate and natural resource issues.

One of the council members is Siavash Salamatian, a 20-year-old student from North Van studying political science at UBC. “He would like to use the NRCAN youth council as an opportunity to learn how different orders of government are working together to achieve a green transition in Canada,” the statement reads.

Another member representing B.C. is Lauren Peng, a student at the University of Victoria.

During the council’s one-year mandate, the selected youth will weigh in on policies related to decarbonizing transportation, nature restoration, energy efficiency,

The council was revealed at the UN National Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal last week by North Vancouver MP Jonathan Wilkinson. NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA sustainable jobs as well as Indigenous partnerships and economic reconciliation.

Natural Resources Canada said members will provide their lived and learned perspectives to Wilkinson and senior officials to inform and support policy processes, while gaining valuable experience and learning from their peers.

Young Canadians understand better than anyone the challenges and opportunities ahead of us as we combat climate change and build an inclusive net-zero economy, Wilkinson said.

“These 12 young people are leaders from across Canada who bring a diverse range of experiences and perspectives,” he said. “I look forward to our dialogues on critically important issues facing our country and our world.”

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One of BC Ferries’ original vessels – Queen of Tsawwassen – is earning a notorious reputation these days: rusted marine mystery of Howe Sound.

Nearby residents have observed the 98-metre (320 feet) steel-hulled former car and passenger ferry swinging wide from its mooring in Andy’s Bay, near Mariner’s Rest, off Gambier Island since early November, after being towed down Georgia Strait, according to one resident.

The 5,972-gross-tonnage vessel is moored in close proximity to a glass sponge reef, federally-protected from fishing activities.

Area F director Kate-Louise Stamford, who is also a Gambier Island resident, told Coast Reporter there is “nothing defiAs with earlier nite” about instances of ownership.

“There have derelict ferries certainly been moored in Howe complaints Sound, if they are and I continue not in the way to follow up,” of navigation, she said in a Dec. 13 email. actively leaking, “As with or an immediate earlier danger to people, instances then it can be a of derechallenge to get lict ferries them removed. moored in Howe Sound, AREA F DIRECTOR KATE-LOUISE STAMFORD if they are not in the way of navigation, actively leaking, or an immediate danger to people, then it can be a challenge to get them removed,” said Stamford. She has directed people to report concerns to the Canadian Coast Guard.

In an email to Coast Reporter, the Canadian Coast Guard said it’s aware of the vessel, and confirmed it’s the former

The Inlet Explorer, formerly known as the Queen of Tsawwassen and one of BC Ferries’ two original vessels, is moored off Gambier Island since early November. CONTRIBUTED Queen of Tsawwassen but no recent reports have been received. The Coast Guard has not inspected the vessel, and said it would respond to reports of pollution.

The responsibility of vessels “lies with the registered owner,” said the federal agency, and under the Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act, owners are prohibited from allowing a vessel to become a wreck by failing to maintain it.

Croman Corporation, an aerial services company with a helicopter fleet, based in White City, OR, is listed as the owner on Transport Canada’s vessel registration query system, however, the company said in a Dec. 12 email “it was sold last month,” through Iron Planet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment.

It was kept at Bonwick Island in the Broughton Archipelago, and most inventory was sold within the last three months, according to a Croman spokesperson.

Sales data from Iron Planet show the winning bid for the vessel, now named Inlet Explorer and listed as a barge moored

in Campbell River, was made in September for $180,000. The B.C.-based bidder is unnamed.

Jordan Elliot, president of the joint venture Avix and Marine Recycling Corporation, which is establishing a shipbreaking site at Hillside Industrial Park in Port Mellon, said the company has no connection to the vessel.

Heavy-lift company Helifor, which also operates a fleet of helicopters, is listed by Nauticapedia as the owner from 2012 to 2017. According to BC Ferries’ spokesperson Deborah Marshall, Helifor purchased the vessel in 2008.

In 2013 Inlet Explorer was sighted in Toba Inlet where it was used as part of a logging camp.

A spokesperson with Mirax Lumber Products, which owns Avalon dryland log sort in Port Mellon, said the company is aware of the Inlet Explorer but it was not purchased by the company and isn’t headed for the log sort.

In a sales advertisement supplied to Coast Reporter by Croman, the vessel is promoted as “available for the LNG project,” and has been repurposed as housing

quarters, with 50 state rooms built on the passenger deck, along with common seating areas, washrooms, showers and laundry facilities, as well as a foosball table. It also has a desalination plant and “a contained waste system.”

The vessel must be moved by tugboat because the original engines, while still in place, “are not used,” said the advertisement.

A spokesperson with Woodfibre LNG in Squamish told Coast Reporter the vessel has “no association,” with their project.

Inlet Explorer has a storied history.

It was the first ferry built for the British Columbia Ferry Corporation, alongside sister ship, Queen of Sidney – the two ferries in the corporation’s Sidney Class.

Their first voyage took them from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay on June 15, 1960. In the 1970s and early 1980s Queen of Tsawwassen also serviced Route 3, between Horseshoe Bay and Langdale.

And between Saltery Bay and Earls Cove in the late 1990s, according to a Canadian public transportation discussion site.

Laid down in 1959 and completed in 1960 by the Burrard Dry Dock shipbuilding company in North Vancouver, the vessel, which has a car capacity of 138, was kept in use by BC Ferries until 2007.

The Queen of Sidney was retired in 2000 and sits at a shipyard in Mission, B.C. and has been used as a filming location, including for the X-Files television series.

Rising waters in the Fraser River have elevated concerns the Queen of Sidney and other “abandoned” ferries and ships could potentially break free of their moorings.

SCRD director Stamford said “it would be worth BC Ferries revisiting their policy of selling off old ferries without regards to their long-term impact on local communities.”

As for its current location, Transport Canada said it is “not aware of regulations prohibiting anchoring in Andy’s Bay off Gambier Island.”

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According to one of Canada’s top crowd-funding sites, there are some awfully kind and selfless people on the North Shore.

For the second year in a row, North Vancouver has been crowned the most generous community in Canada by the crowd-funding site GoFundMe. The honour was bestowed on the local community in GoFundMe’s year-end report, which named 2022’s Top 10 most Through generous cities in the country. the storms, “Through sickness the storms, and new sickness and new opportunities, opportunities, people’s people’s willingness to willingness to help others continued help others to shine through continued to even the darkest shine through times,” said even the Meghan Weltman, darkest times. spokesperson for GoFundMe. GOFUNDME SPOKESPERSON Four other B.C. MEGHAN WELTMAN cities made it on to the Top 10 most generous list this year: Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria and Nanaimo. Other Canadian cities named were

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That said, a number of notable fundraisers did happen on the North Shore last year.

Medical campaigns topped the list Among them, most recently, the family and friends of rugby player Nick Allen raised more than $267,000 to pay for medical bills and bring Allen home after he was in a serious motor vehicle accident in Bali, Indonesia and suffered a traumatic brain injury. Money raised went to pay overseas medical costs and to bring Allen back to Vancouver. As of Dec. 8, Allen’s family reported that he is back in the Lower Mainland, where he is in hospital facing a long road to recovery.

Other North Shore campaigns for locals suffering unexpected medical diagnoses also raised significant money this year.

Among them, more than $48,000 was raised for teenager and music teacher Tia Skye Harris, who was unexpectedly diagnosed with a brain tumor.

More than $42,000 was also raised to help costs associated with pursuing outof-province cancer treatment for “Soup Meister” Ralf Dauns, who simmered and served boundless bowls of the comforting dish from his Soup Meister business on the ground floor of Lonsdale Quay Market for nearly 27 years. Dauns died Nov. 23.

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Continued from page 32 them, Stephanie Clark raised more than $32,000 to bring members of an extended family from the eastern Ukrainian town of Rubezhone to safety on the North Shore.

“My hope in starting this fundraising campaign is that as a community, as Canadians, we wrap our arms around these kids and their parents to make them feel welcome, supported, and safe. And to give them the financial footing which they can launch from,” Clark wrote on her GoFundMe page. She followed up in June with an update on the family’s progress on the North Shore.

“I wish all new immigrants had the benefit of a generous community like ours,” she said.

In another case, donors raised more than $30,000 to help another Ukrainian family escape from the embattled city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

“Escaping the war is difficult for everyone, but my family’s situation is particularly challenging,” wrote Kseniya Yakovenko.

He described how his grandpa, Genndiy, suffered a massive stroke a few days after the Russian invasion began, leaving him paralyzed on his right side and unable to care for himself or move without considerable assistance “Russia is reducing Kharkiv to rubble, which means my family will soon be homeless. Canada is their best and only option. My father and I, and our

Ukrainian family members, are in a horrible predicament and need your help,” wrote Yakovenko.

Their efforts paid off. In mid-October the family arrived at Vancouver International Airport at the end of a long and perilous journey to begin their new life on the North Shore.

“Thank you, all of you saved our lives,” wrote Yakovenko.

Other campaigns included $12,000 raised

by Swaysǝn, Will George, a grassroots leader and member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, towards a spiritual canoe journey in opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, and campaigns to help a pizza maker who was attacked by a stranger in Lower Lonsdale.

Another campaign raised money to help a family burned out of their home in a blaze in the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) community of Xwemelch’stn (Capilano 5 reserve).

According to the year-end report by GoFundMe, one donation is made to the crowd-funding site every second. It has raised $25 billion since the site was launched. Ireland was deemed the most generous country, for the fourth year in a row.

Freedom Convoy donations not included GoFundMe tactfully didn’t refer in its year-end report to one of its biggest fundraising campaigns of the year: the roughly $10 million raised by supporters

Formerly a professional chef cooking in international hotels, Ralf Dauns opened The Soup Meister in Lonsdale Quay Market nearly 27 years ago. COURTESY OF RENEE ROBERTSON of the Freedom Convoy truckers who occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks in February.

The campaign was eventually suspended for violating the company’s terms of service, with the funds refunded to donors.

Weltman said none of those donations

were included in the most generous community calculations.

After the GoFundMe campaign was shut down, a leaked report showed people who live on the North Shore donated more than $29,000 to that cause through the GiveSendGo platform.

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Locals, you all LOVE to talk about your weather MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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Of all the things I expected to have in common with Vancouverites, as a British newcomer to beautiful B.C., weather sat at the nethermost part of the list, wedged somewhere between our thoughts on tipping and binge drinking.

And yet it is the weather, or rather, our mutual obsessive desire to talk about it whenever and wherever possible, that has me feeling like I never left Blighty at all.

“Nice day outside, isn’t it?” “Bit nippy today!” “Is it raining where you are?” Like involuntary word vomit, starting, filling, or ending a conversation with something weather related is as requisite as getting into an Uber and asking the driver whether he has had a busy shift.

God knows we would all spontaneously combust trying to navigate small talk without the conversational crutch of what’s going on in the sky.

Thankfully though, there is enough to talk about in Vancouver

that such a situation would never occur – and it was something I was made aware of long before I even stepped foot on Canadian soil.

Some friends and family, assuming Canada in its entirety must be like the Eastern Antarctic Plateau, would question just how I was going to manage the snow and the blistering cold. I would apparently have to swathe myself in Lenny Kravitz-style scarves just to tolerate the temperatures, and I’d practically be snowshoeing to work each winter’s morning.

The more educated few would attest Vancouver is balmy compared to its Eastern neighbours, and I would be lucky to see snow outside of the ski hills.

The rain, however, would be ceaseless, people would warn.

There would be months of it.

Lashings of it. An annual Genesis flood so rampant I would forget the beauty of a clear blue sky.

It’s called “Raincouver” for a reason, people would say with a cringe-worthy nudge and wink.

So you can imagine the surprise when I moved to Vancouver in late-August to be met with weeks of summer-like conditions.

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As autumn sidled on in I braced myself for weather befitting of a Brontë novel, but skies stayed clear and temperatures high. The city was parched and its inhabitants were feverish in the heat, more loquacious than ever – only now on the lack of rain rather than the abundance of it.

By the time snowmageddon hit the city in November I was unsure what to believe, taking every

weather-related statement with a hefty pinch of rock salt.

What’s next for the city that never sleets? A hurricane? A tornado? A showering of frogs?

Should anyone need evidence of the impending climate apocalypse, it seemed Vancouver was the place to be.

I was befuddled, but the confusion was mutual – when it came to navigating the weather, we were

all blundering around like expats in an entirely new country. There was comfort, and conversation, to be found in that.

It was Oscar Wilde who said conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative, but it’s unlikely Wilde could have fathomed a world where heat waves and wildfires and atmospheric rivers are commonplace.

When a slight drizzle makes for ice-breaker material, who could possibly resist the urge to wax lyrical about something as scandalous and fresh as a deadly heatwave or a pre-winter blizzard?

There are few topics that are as spicy as the weather lately, and with that I think we can all be let off the hook for resorting to something once regarded as a social faux pas. For those who agree feel free to join me for a chat – I’m the one by the window, holding a 10-per cent tipped beer, waiting to throw up my thoughts on the state of the clouds.

Mina Kerr-Lazenby is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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One North Vancouver teacher is singing the praises of her class after they conceptualized and carried out their own successful charity event – raising over $600 for the North Shore Youth Safe House.

Marta Orellana, a French Immersion Grade 5/6 teacher at École Dorothy Lynas Elementary, was blown away when her altruistic students took it upon themselves to organize a fundraising hot chocolate stand for youths in need.

The group made reindeer hot cocoa bags in class, made announcements and posters to spread awareness of their endeavour, and then sold the festive creations out of their classroom.

They racked up $640 in donations and spent the funds raised on essentials that included new pyjamas, socks, underwear, hats, hygiene products and snacks for the youth shelter, with students’ families also donating gifts to those in need.

“We reached out to our community and the students’ enthusiasm was contagious.

So many businesses jumped on board to be

a part of the giving,” said Orellana.

“The class mobilized and inspired an entire community to support these teens in a tough place. I am so proud of them.”

Orellana said Paul Butler, the director of the Safe House, had provided the students with a wish list but was brought to tears when he picked up the haul of Christmas gifts.

“It was the most heartwarming gift we could have received, giving to others,” she said.

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Canadian and American consumers appear to be weathering high inflation and spending lavishly on gifts so far in the 2022 holiday shopping season.

Black Friday, on Nov. 25, marked a strong start to the holiday shopping season in Canada as sales surged, RBC said yesterday in its RBC Spending Consumer Spending is expected Tracker report. to soften “Spending on in 2023 as electronics is running interest-rate below prior holiday hikes and shopping periods, but inflation cut spending on apparel, further into gifts, books, music, and entertainment is household strong,” the bank said. purchasing “So far, holiday power. jewelry spending is six per cent below 2021 RBC REPORT levels, but previous trends suggest a boost in purchases from last minute shoppers may yet arrive.”

RBC tracks spending in part through credit-card transactions.

It said consumers have started to cut back on spending to stay at hotels but that spending at restaurants remains strong.

“Spending is expected to soften in 2023 as interest-rate hikes and inflation cut further into household purchasing power,”

the report said.

South of the border, the National Retail Federation came to similar conclusions in its report from yesterday.

November retail sales dipped from a surge of early holiday shopping in October, but still saw solid year-over-year growth that marked a strong start to the holiday season, the NRF said.

“Consumers continued to spend on household priorities and holiday gifts for loved ones this November despite continued inflation and rising interest rates,” NRF president and CEO Matthew Shay said.

“Holiday shoppers are demonstrating resilience, and retailers are providing great products and experiences at the right price levels to help stretch household budgets.”

He added that consumers have been shifting back to shopping in physical stores, and that he expects a record number of shoppers to shop for holiday gifts tomorrow and on Sunday – a weekend sometimes called “Super Saturday” weekend because it is the last full weekend before Christmas Day. The U.S. Census Bureau yesterday said overall retail sales in November were down 0.6 per cent from October, but were up 6.5 per cent year over year.

The U.S. Department of Labor earlier this week said annual inflation in the country was 7.1 per cent in November. The most recent Statistics Canada data for inflation north of the border was for October, when year-overyear inflation was 6.9 per cent.

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Bernice “Bunny” Pearce was known for sharing her love of music with countless students across the North Shore.

Now, Pearce’s legacy is being honoured with a perpetual scholarship in her name at Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance!, a summer musical theatre program based in Vancouver. The fund is being donated by Peter and Lisa Hall, whose daughter, actor Natalie Hall, was a student of Pearce’s.

Pearce died Sept. 6 at age 89, surrounded by friends and family.

Gotta Sing program founder and director Perry Ehrlich said the scholarship will go toward two streams: children with financial challenges, and to award excellence.

Ehrlich, whose musicianship blossomed after being a student of Pearce’s as a kid in Saskatchewan, explained that she went beyond instruction in her approach.

“She was developing a rapport with a student, and doing everything to foster their self esteem,” he said.

“I grew up being Jewish and musical in small-town Saskatchewan – that was not easy,” Ehrlich continued. “You know how they say in life, all it takes is one teacher to show an interest and to build in you the belief that you can do it, [that] carries you through life.

That’s who Bunny was for me.”

After they both moved to B.C. coincidentally, the two reconnected years later after Pearce ran into Ehrlich’s daughter at a Kiwanis music festival.

In 2011, Pearce won the inaugural Thank a Teacher Award through the Royal Conservatory of Music, after her entry was submitted by Ehrlich.

In her career, she estimated that she had taught hundreds if not more than a thousand students. Up until suffering a stroke seven years ago, Ehrlich said she was still teaching around 40

Former student Perry Ehrlich at the piano and Bernice “Bunny” Pearce in 2011, when she was awarded the inaugural Thank a Teacher award through the Royal Conservatory of Music. MIKE WAKEFIELD / NSN students a week.

During her three decades on the North Shore, Pearce had a studio in Horseshoe Bay with a waiting room, a piano room and a room full of costumes. “She was into everybody’s lives,” Ehrlich said, describing her as a mother figure or “lovely aunt” to many who studied under her.

“The North Shore was so lucky to have her,” he said.

Ehrlich said that Pearce’s students – many on whom went on to compete at the provincial level – had a different

attitude than many of the “frenemy” relationships found in the musical theatre world.

“Bunny had all of her kids performing music festivals, and they cheered each other on and the kids who won would say to the kids who lost, ‘I didn’t deserve it.’ And the kids who lost would say, ‘Yes, you really deserved it.’”

Anyone wanting to apply for a scholarship in the Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! program can send Ehrlich an email to ehrlich@kzellaw.com.

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FA LA LA DATA

Canadians predict a merrier Christmas, happier holidays Saskatchewan and Manitoba (also 49 per cent) and Atlantic Canada (42 per cent).

Canadians who voted for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2021 federal election are the most likely to predict a fun holiday season (60 per cent) than those who supported the Conservative Party of Canada (54 per cent) or the New Democratic Party (NDP) (42 per cent) last year. Canadians of European descent are more likely to expect stressful weeks ahead (31 per cent) than their counterparts of South Asian (27 per cent), East Asian (24 per cent) and Indigenous (21 per cent) origins.

The needle did not move much on a separate question. The proportion of Canadians who prefer “Merry Christmas” as the greeting for the season remains significantly high (64 per cent, up two points since 2021), while just over one in five (21 per cent, up one point) choose “Happy Holidays” and 15 per cent (down three points) are undecided or do not care either way.

While “Merry Christmas” is far from the all-time high of 74 per cent it enjoyed in 2018 it continues to outrank “Happy Holidays” by

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For the past five years, Research Co. and Glacier Media have taken a look at the mental state of Canadians as we approach the holiday season.

In 2018, 57 per cent of Canadians told us that they expected more fun than stress.

The proportion fell to 50 per cent in 2019 and plummeted to an all-time low of 30 per cent in 2020, as COVID-19 limited our ability to travel and be near friends and family.

Last year, with some restrictions and mandates related to the pandemic still in place, 49 per cent of Canadians said they expected a holiday season that would be more fun than stressful. This upward trend continues in 2022, with 52 per cent of Canadians predicting a carefree holiday season.

As always there are some regional nuances. Majorities of Ontarians (56 per cent), Quebecers (54 per cent) and Albertans (51 per cent) are ready to predict a stress-free holiday season.

The proportions are lower in British Columbia (49 per cent),

Majorities of Ontarians, Quebecers and Albertans are ready to predict a stress-free holiday season. KSENIYA OVCHINNIKOVA / MIOMENT / GETTY IMAGES a 3-1 margin. Across the country, fondness for “Merry Christmas” is highest among men (67 per cent), Canadians aged 55 and over (66 per cent) and residents of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (74 per cent) and Alberta (70 per cent).

Canadians who voted for the Conservatives last year are more likely to prefer “Merry Christmas” (78 per cent) than those who cast ballots for the Liberals (62 per cent) and the New Democrats (50 per cent).

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Vancouver NW Hawks score OT win in BCEHL showcase NICK LABA

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After 60 minutes of end-to-end hockey, it took a goal in overtime to secure the win for the Vancouver North West Hawks on Friday.

In the BC Elite Hockey League’s first U18 AAA showcase of the season, the third-place team (13-7-2-0) beat out the top-spot Greater Vancouver Canadians (18-2-1-1) in a morning game at Karen Magnussen Arena in North Vancouver. The Hawks organization draws players from the Sunshine Coast, Sea to Sky, North Shore and North Burnaby.

Caleb Gray scored the first goal, with assists from Dexter Hanna and Cooper Wilson. The second was scored by Owen Brennan, with assists from Rylan Oatman and the team’s top goal-scorer David Yoon. Oatman scored the game-winning goal, with assists from Yoon and Zach Wilcox.

There was also a strong performance from goaltender Joshua Ravensbergen, who was instrumental in the Hawks’ last

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Hawks general manager and U18 AAA head coach Matt Samson said the showcase is a good opportunity for teams from out of town to travel to different communities. It’s also a time for the players to be seen by scouts and coaches from higher levels.

“We hope all our guys are being looked at,” he said, noting that a couple of his players are affiliated, which means they can go off to practice and play with junior A teams.

One player that’s getting significant interest is goalie Ravensbergen, who hasn’t lost a game this season.

“He’s big, he’s athletic. He moves super, super quick,” Samson said, adding that Ravensbergen has a great attitude and work ethic – all qualities scouts look for.

Samson explained that players in his position will decide if they want to play college hockey, in which case they would play in the BC Hockey League.

Otherwise, depending on the

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offers, they could decide to play professionally in the Western Hockey League.

The year isn’t over for the Hawks yet. After returning to practice next week, they’ll have

Christmas off. But on boxing day they ship out to Calgary for the Circle K Classic (formerly the Mac’s tournament), which runs until Jan. 1.

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Top prospect Joshua Ravensbergen is known for his size, speed and work ethic. NICK LABA / NSN

BCEHL teams, and one wildcard, they will join a total of 32 teams in one of the top tournaments for their level of hockey in North America. Samson said Circle K puts on a first-class event, where the players are treated like college and professional athletes.

“There’s lots of scouts there,” Samson said. “These guys get experience, and an opportunity to showcase themselves and play under a pretty big microscope.”

Game action continued through the weekend. GVC answered with a 1-0 win over the Hawks Saturday morning. Cariboo Cougars fell 5-2 to Vancouver North East Chiefs later in the day.

Thompson Blazers bested Valley West Giants 4-3 in an afternoon game. Saturday saw Okanagan Rockets blanked North Island Silvertips 9-0 in an evening game.

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Connor Bedard going for repeat gold at world juniors ANDY PREST

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To the surprise of no one, North Vancouver hockey phenom Connor Bedard was one of the 22 players named to Team Canada last week for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championships scheduled for Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Halifax, N.S., and Moncton, N.B.

The tournament bronze and gold medal games are scheduled for Jan. 5 in Halifax.

Bedard will no doubt be in the spotlight at the tournament as he is widely regarded as the favourite to be the first overall pick in the 2023 NHL entry draft.

The 17-year-old, the first-ever player to earn exceptional status early entry into the Western Hockey League, is running away with the WHL scoring race so far this season, topping the league in goals with 27 and assists with 37, giving him 64 points in 28 games for the Regina Pats as of Dec. 20.

Bedard is one of eight players returning from the Canada squad that won world juniors gold in Edmonton in August, playing some rare summer hockey after the 2022 event was cancelled mid-tournament last December due to COVID-19 concerns.

Bedard scored four goals and four assists for eight points in seven games as Team Canada went on to defeat Finland 3-2 in a thrilling overtime championship final in August.

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Clashing LNG and climate goals cloud Eby’s agenda He is now more than halfway through his “100-day action plan” but it is still not clear how Premier David Eby views the future of B.C.’s growing liquefied natural gas industry.

View From The Ledge Keith Baldrey

The industry got its start under the former BC Liberal government headed by Christy Clark, but the BC NDP embraced it as well when it assumed power in 2017.

While only one project – the mammoth LNG Canada project in Kitimat– is under construction, there are several other projects at various stages of regulatory

approval processes.

Eby has previously pledged not to allow the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure because any expansion would make it difficult, if not impossible, for B.C. to meet its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in 2040 and 2050.

No jurisdiction has come close to meeting any GHG emission reduction targets and there is much skepticism attached to B.C.’s ability to reach future targets (already it is clear it won’t meet the targets set for 2025 and 2030).

Nevertheless, the targets remain in place. So will Eby stand in the way of the LNG industry expanding with the creation of more infrastructure?

The mandate letters he sent to individual cabinet ministers are far from clear on this matter.

Each letter states the premier’s four priority areas are attainable and affordable housing, safer communities, improved health care and a “sustainable, clean, secure and fair economy.”

The LNG acronym is not mentioned in any letter as far as I can tell. While the letters state that fighting climate change and meeting emission targets are important goals, it is unclear where LNG fits within those goals.

There are numerous complications and apparent contradictions in play here.

For example, two projects currently in the regulatory approval process have the strong backing of local First Nations in the northwest.

The Cedar LNG project is being built by the Haisla First Nation, while the KSI Lisims LNG project is a partnership between the Nisga’a First Nation and two LNG companies.

Considering that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which greatly enhances and protects the rights of First Nations to engage in self-run economic activity, is now entrenched in law, would an Eby-led government really shut down two projects being run by First Nations?

Then there is the economic impact.

The LNG Canada project is an $18-billion project and represents the largest private sector investment in B.C.’s history.

It is expected to be in production by 2025, and the company is already planning an expansion.

The importance of natural gas to the government’s current fiscal bottom line cannot be overstated. Natural gas royalties are forecast to approach almost $2.5 billion this fiscal year.

It is early days in the Eby administration, but already he is proving to be unpredictable at the very least. For example, he has given the RCMP more than $250 million to hire more officers, mused about reopening mental health institutions and has pledged to get rid of homeless camps – all moves significantly different from his past positions.

I suspect Eby will find a way to allow the LNG industry to expand while still insisting B.C. can meet its climate change targets even with the expansion. But so far, at least, he has not made things clear one way or another.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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‘SEAL ROCK’

Grebes and golf: The story behind West Van’s newest park

The club’s new owners and membership financed the course’s expansion and upgrades as well as construction of the clubhouse that still stands there today. But by 1958, the members were eager to sell the land so they could finance and build a proper 18-hole course in Richmond.

The West Vancouver council of the day wanted to see Gleneagles stay. After negotiations over the price and a 2,453-248 vote

by West Van residents, Gleneagles became the property of the municipality in 1958, for $350,000.

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At a glance, it’s just a rugged rock jutting out of Howe Sound, about a third of a hectare in size, 350 metres off of Lighthouse Park.

If you squint your eyes from the shoreline you may be able to make out some birds, a Canadian Coast Guard navigational beacon, and not much else.

But West Grebe Islet is critical wildlife habitat, and it’s a marker of changing civil rights in Metro Vancouver. It’s also about to become West Vancouver’s newest park, and receive permanent ecological protection.

Gleneagles golf The story of the islet, and the patriarch of the family who donated it, can’t be fully told without a round of golf.

In 1900, Swedish settler Since there was Peter Larson purchased … antipathy 223 acres of towards Jewish the area now membership known as in private Gleneagles from the golf clubs Crown for throughout the $319. Larson metropolitan established an Vancouver area, orchard and the Jewish farm there. golfers were By 1926, a little more determined than a decade to establish a after the area course of their had been own. connected to WRITER Lower Lonsdale SARAH H. TOBE by the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, a group of investors bought most of the property with plans to build a ninehole golf course and resort and subdivide the remaining land for development of new homes. They paid $75,000.

The course, and later the entire neighbourhood, took its name from a more famous Gleneagles in Scotland.

Memberships at the club sold for $150 in its first year. The first hole-in-one was sunk by Mr. A. T. Finnie, according to a

West Grebe Islet is home to dozens of species of birds and marine mammals in Howe Sound, just off West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park. DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER

front-page story of the West Van News in March of 1928.

Much of the development around the golf course never came to be, and through the Great Depression and Second World War, the course became neglected.

Jewish golfers not welcome But, in 1951, Esmond Lando, a Jewish Vancouver lawyer and entrepreneur, purchased the course with David Sears.

The Journal of the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia recounted in a 2007 article what led Lando and Sears to make the purchase. Between 1941 and 1951, the Jewish population of Vancouver had grown from about 2,800 to 5,700. Golf was exploding in popularity in the postwar years, but Jews found themselves unwelcome on most courses, either by explicit rules at private clubs, or by more informal means.

“Anti-Semitism was an issue then and remains problematic today. It was an era when owning real estate in certain areas

was still prohibited. Although there may not have been legal restrictive covenants, there surely was a bias. High society tacitly excluded Jews from its inner sanctum,” wrote Sarah H. Tobe for the journal.

“Since there was ... antipathy towards Jewish membership in private golf clubs throughout the metropolitan Vancouver area, the Jewish golfers were determined to establish a course of their own.”

Lando and Sears led a syndicate of Jewish golfers and investors to take the risk on purchasing Gleneagles. The club remained open to the public, but for the first time, the local Jewish community had a place to hit the links in peace.

“Gleneagles was open to anyone who met the qualifications of membership, regardless of race, creed or colour, and there were several non-Jewish members in the club,” Tobe wrote. “From what had originally been a defensive move, Jewish golfers were now enjoying comfort levels on their own course without anti-Semitic overtones.”

A Vancouver philanthropist Lando went on to develop the Surrey Golf Course and Delta Golf Course. He founded businesses in aviation, logging and trucking, as well as his own law firm, which still exists today under a different name. He was also a patron of the arts (and an artist himself) and a generous donor to and volunteer for many humanitarian causes. He died in 1987 with a philanthropist’s reputation.

Now, more than 35 years later, his descendants wanted to make another contribution in his name. Among the holdings passed down by Lando was West Grebe Islet.

Lando’s daughter Barbara Schloss remembers her dad coming home sometime in the 1970s and telling them about it.

“He said, ‘I saw this beautiful piece of property. Absolutely gorgeous.’ And he said it has to stay that way forever,” she said. “He had incredible foresight. And I think he knew all about development, and he did not want it to happen there.”

Schloss said it wasn’t until the family had more recent inquiries from people who wanted to buy the islet that they decided to find a better long-term solution.

One of Lando’s sons raised the possibility of donating it under the federal government’s ecological gift program.

The donation comes with a tax receipt for $256,000, a value that was determined by an independent third-party. But West Grebe Islet’s real value is as a cradle of biodiversity.

An environmental gem Birders have recorded 89 different Continued on page 47

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Islet’s light beacon a favourite perch for eagles Continued from page 46 species of birds that either inhabit the islet or make it part of their migratory pattern. The list includes black oyster catchers, turnstones, marbled murrelets and the rather rare harlequin duck. It’s also got one of the highest densities of surf scoters in the region.

Among those regularly spotted are a mated pair of eagles who nest on the mainland not far away, but come to perch on the Coast Guard’s light beacon.

“That’s their hunting grounds,” said Sally McDermott, co-ordinator of the North Shore Eagle Network. “They’re back and forth twice a day, three times a day.”

And the islet is surrounded by significant eelgrass beds, which provide critical habitat for fish and invertebrates, food for waterfowl, as well as protection against erosion.

And locals have referred to the islet as “Seal Rock” because there always Continued on page 51

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Last month at The Polygon Gallery, Kalaitzis was recognized as Young Entrepreneur of the year at North Vancouver Chamber’s 2022 Business Excellence Awards.

This year’s awards had a “meet the opportunity” theme that acknowledged the challenges posed by a pandemic-affected economy.

Previously, the award-winning mixologist was involved in beverage development for larger brands, while working a full-time bartending job.

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News of donation welcomed by bird watchers

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Continued from page 47 seems to be a colony of the marine mammals enjoying the smorgasbord nearby.

“It’s a pretty important aspect of the marine ecology and of the Howe Sound region in general,” said Matt MacKinnon, district environmental manager for West Vancouver.

Because of its rocky nature, it’s very difficult to land a boat or kayak on the islet, which is mostly good news for You see species the birds, many out there that of which nest there. aren’t as easy With the to find from current zoning the shoreline and regulations, all around it’s unlikely anyVancouver…. It thing could be will be good to built on the islet see it set aside. today; however, the federal rules DISTRICT stipulate the ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER FOR WEST recipient of the VANCOUVER donated lands MATT MACKINNON must retain them for their biodiversity and environmental values in perpetuity, meaning no development of any kind may happen on the islet.

“There’s some major penalties if something like that occurs,” said MacKinnon.

News of its donation is being warmly greeted by birders who like to train their

spotting scopes on the islet.

“I love that place. It’s great,” said Rob Lyske, who has been going bird watching in the area for 20 years. “You see species out there that aren’t as easy to find from the shoreline all around Vancouver.... It will be good to see it set aside.”

As the name might suggest, there is also an East Grebe Islet, which remains privately owned.

Lyske and McDermott both said they would like to see both islets have guaranteed protection.

A legacy in West Vancouver Sometime in the spring of 2023, district staff will go through the process of having West Grebe Islet formally dedicated as park land.

To recognize the contributions of Lando and his family, the district will be installing two plaques – one at the Gleneagles Golf Course and one at a viewpoint where the islet can be seen.

Schloss said her father knew West Grebe Islet was special, but she said he likely had no idea how important it was to the Howe Sound environment. Handing the islet to the district completes a task her father set out to do more than 50 years ago, she added.

“We thought, ‘What a legacy for our father,’” she said. “He really did have something special in his heart for West Vancouver.”

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In B.C., after the heat dome in 2021, it was found that of the 650 who died, the greatest proportion were seniors. Many of those older people had underlying health conditions and poorly ventilated living arrangements. We also know that a major percentage of deaths attributed to COVID19 were older people, especially those who lived in long-term care or had underlying health conditions.

As we have seen reported in the media, natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity across Canada due to climate change. It seems we can expect more heat waves, forest fires (and their attendant smoke issues), drought and heavy rainfall. We may also expect to see more serious side effects of the pandemic such as long COVID, additional virus variants, and a spike in other respiratory diseases. It is with some dismay that I witness the rise in respiratory infections in very young people, and of course seniors with respiratory conditions are also susceptible.

Though information and action around emergency preparedness has improved, there is still a lot to be done to increase resiliency around negative climate impacts, especially for seniors. In the report mentioned earlier, the author recommends the country prepare for disasters at the individual, organizational, community and governmental levels.

On the North Shore, the 18-member Seniors Working Group, who over the two years of the pandemic looked at the serious impacts of COVID-19 on older people, pivoted to looking at the impacts of climate change and emergency preparedness. At the municipal level, North Shore Emergency Management, along with its own efforts to disseminate information and prepare the community for disasters, have supported the SWG’s efforts.

Organizations on the North Shore looked for and received funding for partnership projects to assist seniors in becoming more aware of emergencies and how to prepare. One partnership project is looking

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at providing a program in seniors buildings. A volunteer group within a building would provide information and strategies to prepare residents to deal with a disaster.

Another age-friendly project is looking at building seniors’ resiliency around emergencies by providing information in groups, through friendly phone calls and delivering resource kits directly to seniors of diverse backgrounds.

At the community level, agencies have also increased their efforts to provide supports for older people, such as cooling and water stations, as well as hot meals and shelter in the colder months. Many of the groups have stockpiled fans to give out in the hotter months too.

In terms of the province’s, it was great to hear recently that the new Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness has been established, and that a North Shore MLA has been given the portfolio. Senior’s groups on the North Shore are ready to work with Bowinn Ma as her ministry’s plans unfold.

But as the report I referred to above says, there is much that you as a senior can do to prepare for emergencies.

For example, you can prepare disaster kits and make evacuation plans. The kit should contain supplies such as food, water, clothing, medication, batteries and chargers. It should also have a list of emergency phone contacts including family and friends. If this seems overwhelming, some organizations such as Canadian Red Cross have ready-made disaster kits.

The province’s website on emergency preparedness suggests a “grab and go” kit, which is a bit smaller than a stay-at-home emergency kit but easy to take if you have to leave your home quickly. One of my favourite pieces of advice is to stick an old pair of sneakers under your bed with a flashlight tucked into it. In the event of a disaster, shoes are important protection from debris such as broken glass.

North Shore Emergency Management’s website has advice about emergency plans and safety kits. They organization can also be reached at 778-338-6300.

I think we should hope for the best, but be prepared in the event of an emergency.

Margaret Coates is the co-ordinator of Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society. She has lived on the North Shore for 52 years and has worked for and with seniors for twenty-seven of those years. Ideas for future columns are welcome – email lions_view@telus.net.

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Here are the most popular titles at North Shore libraries NICK LABA

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Libraries bounced back this year, as bookish types returned to their favoured hunting grounds to gather reading materials.

Throughout the pandemic, North Shore libraries saw digital borrowing rise in a time when people were staying closer to home, noted Sarah Felkar, assistant director of West Vancouver Memorial Library.

“E-book and downloadable audiobook circulation grew more than 20 per cent at all three systems,” she said in a statement. “Now, we’re very excited that print circulation across the North Shore has returned to, and in some cases surpassed, 2019 levels.”

In total, the three public library systems circulated more than 2.5 million titles this year, including two million physical items.

No one book topped the charts across all North Shore establishments in 2022, but the most popular titles were Five Little Indians by Michelle Good – the most checked-out adult fiction title at both North Vancouver District Public Library and WVML – and The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, the most checked-out adult fiction title at North Vancouver City Library.

Here are the rest of the most-borrowed picks of the year: Top three titles – adult fiction NVCL 1. The Paris Apartment (Lucy Foley) 2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid) 3. It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover) NVDPL 1. Five Little Indians (Michelle Good) 2. Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr) 3. The Maid (Nita Prose) WVML 1. Five Little Indians (Michelle Good) 2. The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles) 3. Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens) Top three titles – adult nonfiction NVCL 1. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (James Clear) 2. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Brené Brown) 3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Robin Wall Kimmerer) NVDPL 1. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Lori Gottlieb) 2. Freezing Order: a True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath (Bill Browder) 3. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Suzanne Simard)

People fell back on their love of print copies this year. WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY WVML 1. Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath (Bill Browder) 2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Robin Wall Kimmerer) 3. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Suzanne Simard) Top three titles – children’s fiction NVCL 1. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild (Dav Pilkey) 2. The Babysitters Club: Dawn and the Impossible Three (Gale Galligan) 3. Dog Man: Fetch-22 (Dav Pilkey) NVDPL 1. Dog Man: Mothering Heights (Dav Pilkey) 2. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment (Dav Pilkey) 3. Guts (Raina Telgemeier) WVML 1. Big Shot (Jeff Kinney) 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown (Jeff Kinney) 3. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories (Jeff Kinney) Top three titles – teen fiction NVCL 1. Heartstopper V. 1 (Alice Oseman) 2. Heartstopper V. 2 (Alice Oseman) 3. The Summer I Turned Pretty (Jenny Han) NVDPL 1. Borders (Thomas King) 2. Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo) 3. Heartstopper (Alice Oseman) WVML 1. Code of Honour (Alan Gratz) 2. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) 3. The Maze Runner (James Dashner) Top three titles – adult DVDs NVCL 1. House of Gucci 2. Belfast 3. No Time to Die NVDPL 1. No Time to Die 2. Belfast 3. Dune WVML 1. French Exit 2. No Time to Die 3. Dune

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North Van school collects Christmas gifts for women’s shelters MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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One North Vancouver school is championing the gift of giving this Christmas, with more than 70 presents already wrapped, ribboned and ready to be delivered to the Elizabeth Fry Society.

It is the fifth year running that Ecole Boundary Elementary has teamed up with the charity to provide presents for mothers and children living in shelters, with this year’s demand greater than ever Many of these before following families have COVID and the recent level of fled in the inflation. night with “This year is an nothing but extra struggle with the clothes the need being even on their greater than usual. backs Ever since COVID it has quadrupled,” GRADE 6 TEACHER ALEXIS FLETCHER Kirsty Gordon of the Elizabeth Fry Society said.

“The past few months have been especially difficult with everything going up. By providing these gifts for the kids that are truly in need, these students aren’t only helping the child, but they are taking the

Student Freja Klausen and teacher Alexis Fletcher are spearheading Ecole Boundary Elementary’s gift drive for the Elizabeth Fry Society. CONTRIBUTED pressure off the mom at an already stressful time of the year.”

With those in need including mothers of all ages and children ranging from babies to teenagers, gifts span everything from toys to toiletries.

“Many of these families have fled in the

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night with nothing but the clothes on their backs,” said the school’s Grade 6 teacher Alexis Fletcher.

“We talk with the students on what they would have wanted to take with them if they were in that kind of situation, so there are lots of things like Lego and soccer

balls. Many of the younger girls would have asked for art supplies or crafty things, while for the older kids we tend to get gift cards so they can pick their own gift.”

Fletcher said comforting items that are often taken for granted – like warm pyjamas, socks, or simple beauty products for the mothers – are always well received.

Both Fletcher and Gordon said the drive is as beneficial for the gifters as the giftees, with students learning how to think about those less fortunate at this time of year alongside gaining a better understanding of homelessness and the situations that cause it.

“This really makes it real for them that this is a situation that can happen to anyone, you don’t have to do anything wrong in your life to be facing these problems,” said Fletcher.

“It really removes the stigma.”

Eleven-year-old student Freja Klausen enjoyed the gift drive so much in 2022 she has taken on the role of Santa for the second year in a row, helping her school friends carefully procure the right gift for the babies, children, teenagers and mothers in need.

“I love the idea of being able to give back to the community,” she said.

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Winter patio planters, raised beds produce miraculous gifts LAURA MARIE NEUBERT

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This season of gifting and receiving invites reflection, and for me, inspires gratitude.

Our family is uncommonly blessed with many gifts, not the least of which is our garden. There are few essential human virtues, that a garden cannot teach us.

It seems nothing short of miraculous that, in this cold and dark climate, we can grow extraordinarily delicious and nutritious produce straight through the winter. I do it myself, not just under cover of sturdy coldframes, but in patio containers left open to icy cold temperatures, protected by nothing more than the eaves and radiant heat of our rancher, a layer of leaves and straw mulch, and the microbiological magic of living soil kept ‘just’ moist, like week-old chocolate cake.

Our patio planters gift us daily, with radical goodness. It is hard to imagine, much less believe, that the limp, frozen solid leaves of Astro and Adagio arugula, winter purslane, winter romaine, radicchio and winter mesclun will recover, in-situ, once thawed, but they do. Like magic, they return to their beautiful pre-deep-freeze splendour, looking

This December patio planter features miner’s lettuce, winter romaine and Astro arugula. LAURA MARIE NEUBERT more vibrant and happier than before.

When I started winter gardening, I was devastated after the first deep freeze. I was certain that all was lost, and that the seemingly melted piles of dark green leaves were destined for the compost. Not 24 hours later, the dark piles had regained their bright green bounce and re-volumized entirely.

I now know that as long as the soil remains mulched and doesn’t dry out, and we protect greens from crushing snow and hail, we can depend on our winter garden

straight through to spring. It is critical, of course, to plant cold-hardy crops, and to understand that frozen leaves will only regain their integrity if left intact on the plant as they thaw.

Admittedly, I often pick frozen greens – arugula, mustard, beet, rapini, and brassica leaves for use in a stir-fry, soup, or a braise – when I don’t need the greens to perk up before cooking. I cut individual leaves only, working from the bottom up (as with fresh kale, cutting celery, and leaf lettuce), and the mother plants are no worse for

wear when temperatures rise.

I learned this through trial and error one night when unexpected company dropped by, and my delicious lentil and barley soup seemed suddenly, eerily beige.

Holding my flashlight fast with my teeth, I harvested many handfuls of mixed green leaves, then chopped them quickly and covertly, in hopeful desperation. The soup, newly swirled with lovely green, and garnished with chili-infused olive oil and shaved pecorino, was a hit. Of greater significance – newly fortified with just-picked, nutrient-dense goodness.

Saving arugula seeds ourselves, year to year, has without a doubt created a variety more suited to our particular micro-climate.

Winter romaine seems to do better in deeper cold, so we have a second crop growing in a coldframe set further from the kitchen, but within easy reach of visitors.

My favourite winter green by far is the charming Claytonia perfoliate – also known as winter purslane. Claytonia is a wild green, native to western and coastal North America. Its street name is miner’s lettuce, so-called because California gold rushers ate it to stave off scurvy. Claytonia is high

in vitamins C and A, and provides a noteworthy dose of iron. It has a lovely citrusy flavour, is a wee bit sour, and comes back again and again, after cutting.

A quick pass through the smallest winter garden, cutting small outside leaves from a variety of cold-hardy greens, can deliver a rainbow of essential micro- and macro-nutrients to help perk us up when sunlight hours are low.

By early spring, just when we tire of the bittersweet of winter greens, the plants respond in kind, rewarding our patience and attention by bolting – sending beautiful shoots of nutty, buttery, floral, energetic goodness up toward the sun.

Some we save for seed, but most we harvest and steam or sauté, salting every so slightly, completing the cycle of reciprocity.

This holiday season, I wish you and yours the many blessings of a garden – discipline, peace, health, happiness, patience, wisdom, gratitude, and generosity.

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Too many people feeding wild coyotes, Fur-Bearers says BRENT RICHTER

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And a higher call volume regarding coyotes indicates a higher need for public education, said Lesley Fox, executive director of the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals – better known as the Fur-Bearers.

The group launched an awareness campaign for people on the North Shore and in the Tri-Cities aimed at correcting any human misbehaviour before it results in When you someone offer food or getting hurt or something any wild anithat’s perceived mals getting as a treat, it killed.

The group fundamentally is using tarchanges their geted ads and behaviour, distributing and as a wild door hangers animal that’s that carry the message problematic. people should LESLEY FOX never feed wild coyotes.

It’s hard to know exactly how often that happens, Fox said, but they do receive anecdotes about it frequently.

“Oftentimes, it’s people tattling on their

The Fur-Bearers group is warning North Shore and Tri-Cities residents not to feed wild coyotes. PIERRE LONGNUS / THE IMAGE BANK / GETTY IMAGES neighbours. They know their neighbours are feeding hot dogs to coyotes or sometimes we’ve heard people feed dog food or chicken dog treats,” she said.

Often, it’s out of the misguided belief they are helping animals in need, Fox said.

They’ve also been alerted to people leaving food out for wild animals just so they can bait them in closer to get photos or video for their social media accounts.

Anyone who is aware of that happening should call the B.C. Conservation Officer Service, Fox said.

Under the B.C. Wildlife Act, it is an offence to feed a bear, wolf, cougar or coyote. Earlier in 2022, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service announced it had arrested a West Vancouver man for deliberately doing just that. Charges against the man are still being considered by the Crown.

More importantly, though, it’s in the best interest of the animals to let them survive on natural food sources.

“When you offer food or something that’s perceived as a treat, it fundamentally changes their behaviour, and as a

wild animal that’s problematic,” Fox said.

“It might make a coyote more aggressive.

Potentially, they could nip.... They can cross highways or busy streets thinking that they might be getting a food reward.”

And, Fox noted, wildlife that has been fed is far more likely to end up dead.

“This is just so preventable,” she said.

So far, the campaign has had a very positive response, Fox said, and hundreds of door-hangers have been distributed by North Shore residents who requested them for their own neighbourhoods.

“Most North Shore residents are very aware that they’re living in a rain forest and wildlife is part of that deal,” she said. “I think most people who live on the North Shore enjoy having animals as their neighbours and are just trying to do the right thing.”

Conservation officer Simon Gravel said coyotes are an expected part of the urban landscape and they aren’t necessarily a threat. But, he added, the more people interfere with them, the more likely they are to become a problem.

If a coyote does become aggressive, it’s best to seek shelter, if possible. When that’s not an option, stand your ground, make yourself appear big, and yell or throw sticks, Gravel said.

“We advise you to not run,” he said.

Anyone who spots an issue, either with an aggressive coyote or with someone attempting to feed them, is urged to call the province’s hotline at 1-877-952-7277.

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BONE, Alan Charles September 26, 1935 - December 12, 2022 Our beloved Alan went home to be with the Lord on December 12 surrounded by his family. Alan will be dearly missed by Jean, his wife of 66 years, children Gordon (Nicholas) and Wendy (Darma), granddaughter Amanda (Robbie) and great-grandchildren Hayleigh and Jeffrey. He was predeceased by his parents, Major Charles and Doris Bone, and his brother Eric.

Alan was born in Singapore where his father was serving at the British Army base.

In 1935 the family returned to London and spent WW11 there. Alan attended John Ruskin Grammar School in Croydon from 1943 to 1949, and then studied at Westminister College in London, qualifying as a Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. He met Jean at ballroom dancing classes, and three years later they married and emigrated to Toronto in June 1956. Alan and Jean learned to sail on Lake Ontario, and that became their favourite pastime. In 1962 they moved to Vancouver and bought a 17ft sailboat with cabin and outboard engine.

Gordon and Wendy completed their family and were introduced to sailing at a very early age.

Alan was an excellent provider, never too busy to be a caring and attentive father and grandfather. He led us on many family adventures, and our favourite place became Hornby Island, where we all spent two weeks every summer for many years at a house right on the beach. Alan was also a judo instructor and lightning-fast table tennis player. He was always doing something useful, such as designing and building an extension and deck to the family house on Glenview Crescent. Dad had a workshop in the basement where he built beautiful furniture and a rocking horse for his granddaughter Amanda, which has become a treasured heirloom.

Alan was wonderfully creative and he could take a piece of driftwood, or any wood, and from it would emerge a bird, a fish, a bear or something from nature.

He was a talented artist and one of our favorite works is his portrait of Treka, the family’s beloved Newfoundland dog. Alan was a great lover of music, and at the Lynn Valley Care Centre where he spent his later years, he was famous for his enthusiasm and talent in singalongs. Throughout his life, Alan could often be heard singing a song or whistling a happy tune while working. Alan was handy with a harmonica and a banjo, and with his sense of humour, was always the life of parties and get-togethers with friends.

Dad was a man of great faith and the embodiment of true Christianity, always ready to love and serve God and his fellow humans. During the 70s he served in M2 Christian prison visiting ministry, and befriended several inmates, one at a time, helping them to lead better lives, and some of them stayed in touch with him for several years. He served as an elder of St. Andrew’s and St. Stephen’s Church in North Vancouver until the onset of Alzheimer’s made it impossible to continue. Even in declining health, Alan was cheerful and engaged with the world around him, enjoying the activities at Lynn Valley Care Centre, and even during the pandemic quarantines, he remained amazingly resilient. Even as the disease progressed, his personality shone through, and he could still hum a little song, do a little dance, or make a funny face. His lessons on the value of courage, fortitude and good cheer even during the darkest of times will remain with us always.

Our heartfelt thanks go to the staff of the Lynn Valley Care Centre, for the love and support they showed in their great care of Alan. Our sincere thanks also to Steve Fields for being such a great friend to Alan, playing the ukulele and singing with him or taking him to the pub, and to his wife Lori for helping Jean during this difficult time of transition, and to the friends who are always willing to help her.

There will be a Celebration of Life later in the New Year. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Alzheimer Society of BC or charity of your choice.

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KAYE, Nancy

December 4, 1932 - December 1, 2022 It is with sadness that we announce the passing of our mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Nancy Kaye. Nancy was dearly loved by many, and was affectionately known as “Grammie” to her grandchildren and much of her family. While we find comfort in knowing that she is now reunited with her beloved husband Ralph (who passed in 2018), she will be deeply missed.

Nancy is survived by her children Michael (Lorie), Lisa (Steven) and Randy (Sylvie), eight grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. She also leaves behind her sister Catherine, sister-in-law Elizabeth, her dear childhood friend Joyce, and many friends from Parksville, Vancouver and Sun City West, AZ. Nancy will be lovingly remembered for her stubborn refusal to sit still. At various times she could be found tending roses and dahlias in her garden, busy in the kitchen preparing her legendary soups and muffins, cooking and hosting big family dinners, enjoying her evening swim in the ocean, or organizing and attending social gatherings with her friends. This productive spirit, along with her steadfast belief in the importance of education, led her to pursue a university degree at the age of 39. This was followed by a successful career as a Business Education teacher in West Vancouver at Hillside Secondary and West Van Secondary. In 1990, Nancy and Ralph retired to their home on the beach in Parksville. Nancy and Ralph spent many winters in Sun City West, Arizona, returning each year to spend Christmas with the family at the Whistler cabin.

Nancy was a caring and compassionate person, and loved animals and all creatures big and small.

She was a passionate supporter of animal rescue and the SPCA. Canine visitors to Nancy’s home were guests of honour, and treated to homemade meals, love and attention. At the end of a busy day, Nancy enjoyed watching the eagles, sea lions and beach wildlife from her sunroom overlooking the sea.

The family would like to thank the Comfort Keepers staff that worked with Nancy during her last year, as well as the staff and doctors at the Nanaimo General Hospital. A celebration of Nancy’s life has been scheduled for Saturday, March 11, 1:00pm, at Yates Memorial Services, in Parksville. Those wishing to honour Nancy’s memory may do so by making a donation to the Parksville SPCA.

McGARVEY, Kassandra Tashina Shanice Txits’a-t / Kassie / Sassy Sunrise: November 25, 1991 Sunset: December 8, 2022 It is with great sadness we advise of the passing of our loving relative Kassandra Tashina Shanice McGarvey. Kassie was born to her parents Sandra Jacobs and Kevin McGarvey on November 25, 1991 in Nanaimo, BC and descends from the Jacobs/McGarvey & Wyse/Windsor families. At about 6 months old she fought her first battle with cancer. At that time her family moved home to, Xwélch’tstn, Capilano Indian Reserve No. 5 where she was raised with her cousins and relatives.

Kassie beat cancer two more times, at the age of 6 and again in her early twenties. She was resilient and brave and had a fierce tenacity for life. She attended Capilano Littlest One’s Nursery School, Norgate Elementary, Carson Graham Secondary, Keith Lynn, and Native Education College. Kassie was an incredibly talented artist, she made her own button blanket, loved jewelry making, and drew amazing pictures. At a very young age she had a very strong work ethic, she worked at McDonalds, a pet store, Claire’s and Show Case.

Her favorites were Hedley, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie, Spice Girls, Back Street Boys, and Green Day. More than anything she loved her cousins and was known as ‘Auntie Mom’ to all the babies and ran the best Auntie Day Care for family and relatives.

Kassandra is survived by her loving mother Sandra Jacobs (Rob); father Kevin McGarvey (Leslie); siblings Travis Paitsmauk Jacobs, Raven McGarvey (Karey), Ryan Cramner, Ken McGarvey, Aaron McGarvey; grandparents David and Andrea Jacobs, and Penny McGarvey; aunts and uncles Stewart Jacobs (Sherree), Steven Jacobs (Jenny), Shelley Thomas (George), Kim McGarvey, Karen McGarvey, Kelly McGarvey (Richard) and Curtis McGarvey (Brenda); special elders Lynn Gosnell and Rose Johnston; special aunt Vina Robinson; special siblings Troy Baker, Tyler Jacobs and Shayla Jacobs; and many, many loving relatives and dear friends. A funeral was held on Thursday, December 15th. Online condolences can be found at www.dignitymemorial.com and Live Stream funeral service at: www.funeraweb.tv

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Buzz graduated with his Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Victoria in 1969 and his Masters of Science from the University of British Columbia in 1994. He was a mainstay as a high school teacher for 33 years on the North Shore, teaching math and chemistry to countless students at both Argyle and Carson Graham Secondary Schools. No matter where Buzz went, he would run into someone he’d taught and never failed to remember his students.

Buzz was always the outgoing personality, willing to talk to everyone he met, and always had a good story to tell. He was not only a school teacher but also a proud father and a wonderful teacher to his children of numerous life skills. Buzz enjoyed many things, including skiing at Whistler, golfing with friends at Seymour GCC, completing impossible NYT crosswords, and gardening with Sara. In retirement, Buzz enjoyed travelling and golfing with Sara, and they spent many winters in New Zealand among friends. More recently, Hawaii was a favourite destination, along with trips to Ontario to see his grandson. He will be remembered for his love of his family, his passion for the sciences, and his innate ability to answer Jeopardy questions.

There will be no service as per his request. Please think of Buzz the next time you are playing a round of golf or enjoying a nice glass of wine. The family is grateful to the staff at Lions Gate Hospital for the care he received. In lieu of flowers, donations in Buzz’s name can be made to the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation.

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Warm up with a rich, chocolate beverage Nothing beats sipping a hot, soothing beverage after a day of choosing the perfect Christmas tree or lobbing snowballs in the backyard. Teas, hot toddies, coffees, and mulled ciders certainly can fit the bill, but a mug of rich hot chocolate is a holiday season staple.

Hot chocolate can be whipped up quickly from premade packets, but many such packets are loaded with sugar. Chocolate lovers should have a reliable hot chocolate recipe to lean on when the moment is right. This recipe for “Real Hot Chocolate” from “Chocolate” (Parragon) by the editors of Love Food is sure to please.

Real Hot Chocolate Serves 1 to 2

• 1½ ounces semisweet chocolate, broken into pieces • 1¼ cups milk • Chocolate curls to decorate Place the chocolate in a large, heatproof pitcher. Place the milk in a heavy-bottom saucepan and bring to a boil. Pour about one-quarter of the milk onto the chocolate and leave until the chocolate has softened.

Whisk the milk and chocolate mixture until smooth. Return the remaining milk to the heat and return to a boil, then pour onto the chocolate, whisking constantly.

Pour into warmed mugs or cups and top with the chocolate curls. Serve immediately.

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