Vancouver Courier September 8 2016

OPINION POLITICS BEHIND PROVINCE’S REAL ESTATE TAX 10 THEATRE RESTORATION COMEDY HAS CONTEMPORARY TWIST 22 SPORTS UBC BASKETBALL STAR REMEMBERED 41 FEATURE MIND THE GAP MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM STRETCHED 14

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A miniscule number of fines for smoking have been issued at Vancouver parks and beaches

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The politics, risks and clear answers around electronic cigarettes seem to be about as fleeting as the vapour emitted from the devices themselves.

New provincial guidelines introduced last week sought to clear the air and legislation that came into effect Sept. 1 now treats electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, in the same fashion as tobacco: they can’t be sold to anyone under the age of 19 and storefronts must be completely devoid of anything advertising the products.

The Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act was also amended such that e-cigarettes can’t be sold in public buildings and their use is banned on public and private school grounds, in indoor public spaces and workplaces, and in vehicles where those under 16 years of age are present.

The legislation does include an exception for stores selling e-cigarettes to those over the legal age to allow for products to be tested in those shops.

Most enforcement involves advising the business/ property owner of the prohibition and making sure the required signage is posted and all reasonable efforts are being made to prevent smoking on the premises.

The new regulations come into effect in light of stats that suggest vaping is rapidly on the rise. A 2014 study focused on schoolaged kids in Quebec found that 5,000 children had

already tried an electronic cigarette by the time they reached Grade 6. The Canadian Cancer Society study also concluded that one in three high school students, or 142,000 youths, had already tried vaping as well.

Given that surge, the Courier contacted the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Park Board to gauge several points around the new laws: will more bylaw officers be needed, how will the changes affect staffing levels at parks and beaches and how much money will be needed to facilitate any potential staffing or policy changes.

As it turns out, no new staffers will be hired to deal with smokers or vapers, largely because the city introduced similar municipal bylaws in 2014.

City spokesperson Jag Sandhu noted that bylaw officers don’t ticket individual smokers, but rather businesses or property owners.

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e-cigarette legislation remains hazy Enforcement is maintained on a complaint basis and those breaking the city’s smoking/vaping bylaws must be observed by bylaw staff before any enforcement takes place.

The fine for smoking within six metres of doors and air intakes is $250, though Sandhu didn’t provide stats on how many tickets have been issued.

“Most enforcement involves advising the business/property owner of the prohibition and making sure the required signage is posted and all reasonable efforts are being made to prevent smoking on the premises and within six meters of doors and windows air intakes,” Sandhu said in an email to the Courier.

Most of those caught smoking in parks or on beaches get by with a warning. Park board stats supplied to the Courier show 10 tickets have been issued this year, compared to 26 last year and 10 in 2014.

Twenty-five warnings have been issued in 2016 so far, along with 44 last year and 122 in 2014.

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Students are Back to School onTuesday September 6, 2016 For the safety of the children, please drive carefully and obey traffic signs around school grounds.

The following are traffic signs that are typically posted aroundVancouver schools.

“NO STOPPING 8am - 5pm SCHOOL DAYS”

These signs designate the zones where vehicles are not permitted to stop under any circumstances. These zones are kept clear to provide good sight lines for drivers to see students and students to see drivers.

“NO PARKING 8am - 5pm SCHOOL DAYS”

These signs designate the zones for active picking up and dropping off of students.

Do not park and leave the vehicle in these zones.

School Area Signs

This sign is used in advance of school to warn drivers that children may be walking along or crossing the road. On local streets 30 km/hr signs are posted and the speed limit is 30 km/hr from 8am - 5pm on school days.

School Crosswalk Signs

New provincial guidelines around e-cigarettes came into effect Sept. 1, though little will change at the city level when it comes to enforcement. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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A school crosswalk sign indicates where children will be crossing the road. Vehicles must yield to pedestrians at all intersections and crosswalks. Vehicles must remain stopped until children are safely across and on the curb. Please remember children are playful and impulsive and may enter the roadway suddenly.

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School safety patrols direct and help students cross at intersections near schools.

The school safety patrols are given important responsibilities and follow established procedures to help to ensure the safety of students. Please respect the patrol.

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Encourage walking, cycling, or carpooling to school. If you must drive, park a couple of blocks away and walk to the school. Reduce traffic congestion and make school zones safer.

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Thrill of hunt, history (and profit) hooks antique dealers Rebecca Blissett

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He who dies with the most toys isn’t the winner — it’s the antique dealer.

Estate sales are treasure chests for collectors with an eye for the valuable and unique who, yes, are motivated by making a living.

The other part of the hunt, though, is recycling wellmade items and an appreciation for history.

Eva Garthus perched a

domed hat on her left hand.

It was covered in a swirl of orange, green and yellow feathers, and she carefully ran her right hand across it, as if it were a living animal.

It was vintage Christian Dior, likely by house designer Marc Bohan, who, like many others in the fashion world of 1960, was inspired by colours and culture of India and the Far East.

Garthus is a Vancouver appraiser who helped out Main Street’s Magpie Vintage owner Darren Marshall during the weekend’s Ker-

risdale Antiques Fair held at the vintage Kerrisdale Cyclone Taylor Arena. She said she’d take $400 for the piece — a price in step with other similar vintage designer hats offered online.

No matter the obvious craftsmanship of sewing and materials, browsers often ask about authenticity.

“How do I know this is authentic…” Garthus trailed off, as if she had difficulty processing the very idea.

Marshall jumped in.

“How do you not know!

That’s the only way I can

answer that kind of question. People ask, ‘How do you know this isn’t fake?’ I say, ‘How do you not know this isn’t a fake.’”

“I mean, who would do this, it can’t be done by a machine,” added Garthus. “All the feathers have been dyed, it’s all been assembled by hand… And also, its label doesn’t exist anymore — the Dior label has changed with times.”

Garthus bought the hat from an estate sale in West Vancouver where it had belonged to a well-heeled and

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he sold for $800.

“So, that’s what got me started in the business. I was six,” he remembered. “My parents were stunned.”

Now, though, Marshall likes to get the stories that go along with the goods. “I take the time to sit down with the ladies and you know, it’s often buying from people who haven’t passed away. They’re 80. They’re 90. And they want to downsize, they want to unclutter their lives, and get rid of their stuff so their kids don’t have to do it.”

As generations change, so does the antique business.

Heavy Victorian furniture, silver cutlery and gold-trimmed teacup sets don’t sell as well as they used to, according to the antique fair’s producer, Renée Lafontaine.

“What’s selling today is not going to be necessarily what’s selling tomorrow, and the buyers are changing as well,” she said. “The older generation that were buying those really traditional antiques, you know the actual 100-year-old furniture and collectables — those buyers have now retired. They’re downsizing and they’re not buying anymore.”

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well-travelled woman who had died in her 90s. Marshall remembered that sale; he picked up six pristine menu cards from a cruise ship circa 1950. He didn’t pay much more than a couple hundred dollars for the lot, but they sold for $1,200.

“I didn’t know what they were when I bought them, but I knew they were good,” he said. “When you’re in this business, you get that Spidey sense — you just know.”

Marshall’s love of the find was kindled when he was six years old. He went to an auction with his mother who gave him five dollars and a bid paddle. He won a cardboard box that contained Wonder Woman comics, a thrill because it was 1976 and he was in love with the TV show’s star, Linda Carter.

A woman approached him and said she had meant to buy the box but was distracted when it was sold.

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September is Disability Employment Month in B.C. Art appraiser and former store owner Eva Garthus shows off a vintage Christian Dior hat at the 15th annual Kerrisdale Antiques Fair at Kerrisdale Cyclone Taylor Arena this past weekend.

See more photos at vancourier.com. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

Lafontaine runs 21st Century Promotions, which hosts other shows in the city such as the quarterly Retro Designs & Antiques Fair at the Croatian Cultural Centre. She said

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Brad McTavish travelled halfway across the globe, flipped the script by more than a millennium and ended up with a world first.

The Vancouver-based architect headed up the creation of a project in Dubai called The Green Planet, a bio-dome that mimics an equatorial rainforest setting complete with more than 3,000 plants and animals.

The facility opened its doors last week and represents the culmination of three years’ of work by a team of scientists, planners, horticulturists and wildlife experts spanning the globe.

“This particular project is a game changer for Dubai because it’s not merely just an attraction — it’s a factual, science-based education facility that [Dubai] has never done before,” McTavish told the Courier.

Structured as an origamistyled glass building, The Green Planet features a tropical rainforest setting with the flora and fauna to back it up: South American toucans, crocodile lizards, porcupines, stingrays, arapaima and more.

The bio-dome is anchored by the presence of the world’s largest indoor, man-made and life-sustaining tree. Growing to upwards of 70 metres, the kapok tree fully represents the circle of life: it starts life in a flooded river where fish plant its seeds and its various layers become home for different species of butterflies, toucans, chimpanzees and monkeys.

Strangler figs then grow at its base, enveloping the tree and eventually taking it over entirely.

“For The Green Planet, the one iconic element that everyone could relate was the story of the kapok tree and how that is the totem

The Green Planet bio-dome, which opened in Dubai last week, is anchored by a 70 metre-tall kapok tree.

of the tropical rainforest,” McTavish said. “The species that inhabit its various layers tell the story on the rain forest and they really are the sentinels of the rain forest.”

The Green Planet also includes 15 educational programs across five topics and three age groups. It’s meant to give residents of Dubai a glimpse into life in their area more than a millennia ago: it was a tropical rainforest at that time, which is why it is now known for its oilproducing capacity.

McTavish’s firm was first approached by Meraas, a Dubai-based holding company, to take on the project three years ago and was given a $65-million funding envelope to make it happen. Meraas is the sheik of Dubai’s personal development company in charge of entertainment, leisure and education facilities.

“When I realized who Meraas was, I said, ‘OK, yes. I will be there,’” said McTavish, whose firm has also overseen local projects including the Robson Square ice rink and Terry Fox Plaza.

Replicating a tropical rainforest in a region used to temperatures exceeding 50 C didn’t come without

its challenges: the group had four weeks to present an initial concept design and the three-year turnaround was going to be tight. McTavish’s firm reached out to scientific experts across North America to get it done and was back in the Middle Eastern country within a month to hammer out the specifics.

“I went back to Dubai and was sitting there in the middle of July,” McTavish recalled. “They came to me and said, ‘This is where we would like you to build the facility.’ It was 52 C. We were standing there and thought, ‘OK, this is going to be a real interesting mission.’”

Fast forward to last week, and thousands reportedly took in The Green Planet’s opening. Two-hour lineups in 47 C weather served as proof that he and his team had done good.

“Watching people’s faces light up is perfect,” he said.

“It’s quite overwhelming, when you come from sand, sun and 40-plus weather and you come into this lush rain forest, it’s a very rewarding experience.”

More info on the Green Planet can be found online at thegreenplanetdubai.com/en. @JohnKurucz

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Clark government’s foreign buyer tax a matter of too much too late

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return to the city five weeks after Christy Clark’s 15 per cent tax on real estate sales to foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver went into effect to find a once buoyant market in serious decline.

The populace of buyers and sellers has been consumed by a certain fear and loathing driven by the premier’s clearly knee-jerk act.

It is not that Clark has done too little too late to deal with foreign buyers.

She has, with her tax, done too much too late… It is clear, given the rush with which it was introduced, that Clark had no idea what impact it would have on anything except, she hoped, her political future.

For months, if not years, Clark and Finance Minister Mike de Jong refused to do anything about the impact foreign buyers were having on housing affordability. They argued that they didn’t want to tamper with people’s retirement nest egg wrapped up in the value of their homes.

They were ideologically loath to interfere with the marketplace.

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re-election possibilities, de Jong committed to gathering data — six months’ worth we’re told — to see what impact if any offshore buyers were having.

In the end, after a couple of weeks, and with David Eby on the opposition NDP benches leading the charge that would hinder a Liberal victory in the approaching election, Clark tossed concerns about retirement nest eggs and laissez-faire markets aside. Instead she hoped to hobble Eby and his party by announcing this new tax — to say nothing of raking a few bucks into the provincial treasury.

What you should know is that even before Clark imposed the tax, the heat was coming out of the market. For months, sales have been declining to what the Vancouver Real Estate Board in a release last Friday called “more historically normal activity.”

Now, with their first assessment since the tax was implemented, they report sales in August were down by 26 per cent from the previous year.

Buyers and sellers are so far standing pat — staring each other down while benchmark prices are “virtually unchanged.”

And here is a not uncommon tale: An acquaintance of mine tells me that literally hours before Clark made her tax announcement, a person confirmed a deal to buy his East Side condo. That person was planning on selling their suburban townhouse to eliminate a lengthy commute time getting to work.

The closing date for the deal was Oct. 1. The buyer put down a $35,000 deposit.

My friend, like many in his position, fully expects that deal will now fall through. That person in the burbs is apparently getting zero interest in their townhouse. At best they will be forced to accept a low-ball offer and stretch themselves even further, if that is possible, to buy the East Side condo. It is

either that or give up the $35,000.

It is not that Clark has done too little too late to deal with foreign buyers. She has, with her tax, done too much too late. And according to the Real Estate Board’s report, “It’ll take some months before we can really understand the impact of the new tax.”

It is clear, given the rush with which it was introduced, that Clark had no idea what impact it would have on anything except, she hoped, her political future.

But there is nothing in her actions that will make houses significantly more affordable. If you can’t afford a $3-million house in Kitsilano, it is unlikely that you would consider a 10 or even 20 per cent drop in price a bargain.

And let’s not forget the background to this: a real estate industry that for more than a decade under the provincial Liberals had been self-regulating, that allowed a number of unscrupulous agents and

agencies to profit mightily by “shadow flipping,” that regularly failed to report foreign purchases by concealing the buyers’ country of origin and that failed to report money transfers to the federal body monitoring money laundering.

Meanwhile the provincial oversight agency for the industry was being strangled by vacancies in their ranks by government caps on salaries. That point was made by the province’s auditor general Carol Bellringer at the same time Clark was announcing her new tax.

Bellringer said: “It’s like having a smoke detector in your house, but not buying the batteries.”

It is a point B.C.’s Superintendent of Real Estate Carolyn Rogers said she had been making for the past three years.

But then there was no election on the horizon. @allengarr

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Aaron Zacharias, Vancouver ••• I feel sorry for letter writer Bruce Levens.

He does his anti-God rant and in it quotes Albert Einstein not realizing old Albert believed in God 100 per cent. Bruce is one of those guys who says give me a sign, then I will believe. Bruce wants to draw God out into the open, something even Jesus didn’t do.

Any fool can believe given proof, the trick is to believe through faith and faith alone. Somewhere in the Catholic Church there is a long list of miracles going back centuries, maybe Bruce thinks these can all be dismissed. I’m Protestant and I believe Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus. I don’t see how anyone could go from rounding up Christians and taking them to Jerusalem for punishment only to become the main torch-bearer for Jesus. Paul fought the good fight and finished the race despite running into countless Bruce Levens types along the way.

Bob McCance, Vancouver ••• Mr. Levens, I’m praying for you!

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The power of an anti-prayer letter Re: “Pulling the plug on the power of prayer,” Letters, Sept. 1.

I find letter writer Bruce Levens’ tone to be quite angry and vitriolic which begs the question of why he would protest so much about a process so innocent and personal as prayer. People of faith are not particularly interested in having our claims backed by scientific evidence for the simple reason that they are two very different entities that respond and appeal to very distinct facets of the human personality. Not everything needs to nor ought to be validated by scientific inquiry, especially matters of faith, love, mercy and justice. As I said these are very different entities, apples and oranges.

My experience of prayer, because I am a person who prays regularly and frequently, suggests something quite different from Mr. Levens’ claim that “prayer distracts from seeking practical, proven scientific approaches to problem solving and creates irrational expectations about God’s intervention.” When I am in prayer I become calm and centred and more aware of the practical measures that I need to take to resolve or address a situation. The two practices, in my experience, prayer and pragmatism, work together, hand-in-glove.

They are both/and, rather than either/or.

True, there are those who abuse prayer and try to use it as a substitute for taking responsible action, but these are generally the exceptions. It is also helpful to know that when people of faith try to use prayer as an excuse for not taking practical action that this is often a symptom of underlying emotional and psychological issues and sometimes a session with a therapist and appropriate medications become God’s chosen instrument of healing.

Blaming religious faith for the world’s wars and conflicts has long been a favourite whipping boy for fundamentalist atheists. The worst conflicts of the 20th century have been caused by the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, all ideological atheists, collectively responsible for the systematic slaughter of hundreds of millions of human lives. As for the Islamic fundamentalists of the 21st century, the vast majority of Muslims disavow and condemn their nefarious and murderous actions as being completely incompatible with the Qur’an. People of faith will generally admit that the teachings of their religions have often been abused and cherry-picked as an excuse for maintaining power and killing, harming and exploiting those who get in the way of tyrants and despots. This has

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moments constitute seedbed of the soul “I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer,” Rilke writes.

In an era of rampant selfpromotion, when we’re expected to “brand” ourselves by curating our social media profiles, such open-ended advice goes well beyond “likes” and emoticons.

“Don’t be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law.

And those who live the mystery falsely and badly (and they are very many) lose it only for themselves and nevertheless pass it on like a

sealed letter, without knowing it,” Rilke adds.

These words echo the tempo of a vanished era, when people’s lives were in tune with the rising and setting sun rather than the megahertz cycles of the microchip. Written communications required time to compose and mail, with days to weeks between sending and receipt. There were no fast responses to knocked-off questions, no instant expertise with cascading comments on Twitter and Facebook. Trolls were limited to children’s fairy tales.

Letters carried a tacit assumption of privacy. So friends, lovers and family members laboured over their missives to reflect their inner lives. Words on paper were an extended form of touch.

I set the book aside on the sand, leaned back and adjusted my hat. The sun’s image fractured into gleaming shards on the waves. I thought back to the words

of that stand-up poet, Louis C.K. As a guest on Conan a few years back, he remarked on what smart phones have taken away. “It’s the ability to just sit there like this,” he said while twiddling his thumbs and looked absently around him. “That’s being a person, right?”

It’s those solitary moments, when there’s not a heck of a lot is going on, that constitute the seedbed of the soul. That’s “being a person,” without ersatz connection to dozens of “friends” you’ve never so much as shared a meal with.

There’s plenty of great things about the digital age; no need to number them here. But all things have a dual nature, and that obviously extends to consumer technology. The options for aimless distraction were few in Rilke’s time, which may have meant more boredom but also more free time to think and feel. The telegraph was relatively new, radio was still in the future and television was even fur-

ther on the horizon. Back in the analogue age, the greatest bandwidth and fastest interactivity wasn’t found in gadgets, but in the human beings next to you.

I gathered up the book and the rest of my stuff, but my phone was nowhere to be found. Annoyed, I

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Cameron Russell’s descent into depression began when he was eight. His parents would often find him sobbing hysterically, unwilling to leave his room.

Russell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder years later, and found it wasn’t easy to find a psychiatrist in Vancouver willing to take on new patients. As his symptoms progressed, so did a series of futile attempts to secure long-term psychiatric treatment in a system, which over the years, has been forced to do less with less.

“I was bouncing around from counsellor to psychologist to psychiatrist trying to find the best mixture of therapies to work for me,” Russell said. “I tried a lot of doctors and therapists to figure out how to best manage my symptoms.”

His pursuit in vain, Russell once went six months without any treatment — a wait time that’s fairly typical when seeking psychiatric care for mild to moderate mental disorders in Vancouver.

“The thing about mental health issues is that it’s not clear what works and what doesn’t. It requires constant refinement, which obviously requires follow-up visits and those are difficult to get,” he said.

Lengthy wait times for specialist care are a distinguishing characteristic of Canada’s health care system, but the unavailability of timely psychiatric treatment in B.C. is particularly alarming.

A 2011 study published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry showed only a

Cameron Russell is one of many frustrated mental health patients who have taken to Reddit, a community-oriented news website, to discuss the gaping hole in B.C.’s mental health system where securing long-term psychiatric treatment can take several months.

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In any given year, one in five Canadians is affected by a mental health or addiction problem, yet the system appears to cater mainly to extreme conditions — a reality many patients learn the hard way.

Two years ago, Sarah Hager started having panic attacks at work. Hager, 28, had anxiety as a child but decided to go to a doctor when the episodes began interfering with her ability to do her job.

Hager went to a walk-in clinic in Vancouver where she was immediately prescribed antidepressants and

sent on her way — without h a referral to a psychiatrist or n any information about how “ y she could further access w treatment, if needed.

“The doctor was suz per busy. He had like five o minutes to see me. I told him ‘I’m having anxiety and t I researched this medicine. m t Could you prescribe it to me?’ He said ‘yes,’ wrote me p the prescription and that was t pretty much it,” Hager said.

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in B.C.’s mental health system Hager and Russell are just two of many frustrated mental health patients who have taken to Reddit, a community-oriented news website, to discuss the gaping hole in B.C.’s mental health system and reveal tips on how to fast-track psychiatric care in the city.

The variety of viewpoints on the forum has one common takeaway — intake and priority are determined by the severity of the illness and the threat a patient poses to themselves or others.

Some Redditors suggest exaggerating existing symptoms in order to get an immediate referral to a psychiatrist. For instance, a person with mild depression is advised to lie about experiencing suicidal tendencies when being assessed by a nurse.

“I’ve heard people advocate for that, but I wouldn’t do it because you can get hospitalized and that’s never good,” Russell said.

“There’s a possibility that you get overly medicated, which can turn you into a zombie.”

To fully grasp the breadth of this problem, it’s important to understand why so many people facing debilitating mental illnesses in the province are falling through the cracks.

A 2014 City of Vancouver report states 130,000 British Columbians and 20,400 people in Vancouver are living with serious mental health issues and addiction.

Jonny Morris, senior director of public policy, research and planning at the Canadian Mental Health Association’s B.C. division, said cuts to B.C.’s mental

health services can explain present barriers to psychiatric treatment.

“The demand for specialist services unfortunately outstrips the supply. There aren’t enough resources to meet the complex needs of people living with mental illness or addiction here in B.C.,” Morris said.

He said long wait times for specialist services are a given in a mental health system that does not focus on early intervention.

“The system, which is quite oriented toward crisis care, arguably gets to the point where it can only serve the most ill because those folks are in the pipeline. It can never get to people further up the stream — who also need help.”

A 2009 study by Doctors of BC (formerly British Columbia Medical Association) revealed 83 per cent of patients diagnosed with a mental disorder in B.C. were only treated by their family physician.

Another survey showed the wait time from a family physician referral to psychiatric treatment exceeds five months. Such findings may explain why family doctors are less inclined to refer their patients for psychiatric treatment.

To compound matters, there is a critical shortage of family doctors in the province. According to Statistics Canada, 200,000 British Columbians who want a family doctor cannot find one — that’s up from 176,000 in 2010.

“The government had set a target to reach but it hasn’t been able to reach it.

They are, however, looking at other means to make pri-

mary care more accessible,” Morris said. “A stronger primary care system helps people before they need specialist care.”

Morris said nurses and staff in emergency departments often find themselves overwhelmed by the influx of patients seeking psychiatric help in the emergency room — a consequence of the primary care shortage in the city.

Emergency departments at VGH and St. Paul’s Hospital together saw 16,562 mental health and substance misuse visits in 2015 — an increase of 75 per cent since 2009, according to statistics provided by Providence Health Care.

To take pressure off the emergency department, Vancouver Coastal Health opened an Access and Assessment Centre (ACC) it hopes will lead to a reduction of around 4,000 visits a year to the VGH emergency department.

George Scotton, manager of the AAC, said the centre was set up to eliminate complications that crop up when patients try to access psychiatric treatment in the emergency department.

Mental health patients waiting their turn in the ER are often bumped off the list because of lifethreatening emergencies that burst in. Waiting for hours in an over-stimulating environment like the emergency room, Scotton said, can cause a patient’s symptoms to escalate.

“The way we have structured it before is we didn’t have an urgent care centre. Everyone had to come through the same door. With the Access and

Assessment Centre, we’ve created that second door,” Scotton said.

Scotton explained the centre is well-equipped to care for all mental health patients, regardless of how serious their symptoms are. Clients can be referred to a psychiatrist within minutes of being assessed by a nurse or social worker who determines the need for psychiatric evaluation.

“In the short time that we’ve been open, we’ve seen a 30 per cent reduction in the number in visits to the emergency department for mental health clients,” he said.

While it’s true more psychiatrists and facilities like the AAC can address the shortfall in services and help more patients in Vancouver receive the care they need, research points out that access to treatment is greatly affected by how heath care professionals run their practice.

A 2014 study published in the journal Open Medicine found that in areas with higher supply, psychiatrists saw fewer patients while their peers in low-supply, non-urban regions had more patients.

Researchers said the study, which aimed to question the scope and patterns of psychiatrists’ practice, proved more psychiatrists won’t fix a flawed system — accountability and other models of treatment can make timely treatment more accessible to patients.

Advocates for early intervention in psychiatric treatment believe the severity of a mental illness can be significantly reduced, and perhaps even evaded, if treatment is started swiftly and suitably.

The need for early diagnosis and intervention, Morris said, is pressing.

“We need get to people before stage four. There are lots of people dealing with mental health issues and

they absolutely need to be able to access the system,” Morris said.

“We should be able to get to people and provide resources at stage one.” @RumanaDsouza

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When Mari Omori was about four years old, she saw something that even an adult would find frightening. She was headed into the backyard — a fenced area without outside access — when she saw a man facing her in the window. He was transparent — she could see through him — and he had only black sockets where his eyes should be.

She ran back upstairs and her parents investigated, but found nothing.

Now, she says, she realizes that was her first memory of having intuitive abilities, to experience spirits and receive messages from beyond the physical world. At the same time, Omori says, the trauma of the incident probably blinded her to seeing spirits visually.

“I think that fear really shut down my physical ability to see spirits,” she says. “Now I do see them, but I see them in my mind’s eye. I see flashes of people.”

This is not a unique gift, Omori says. Everyone has spirit guides and there are methods to quieting our minds so that we can receive messages from them, a series of practices she offers at psychic development workshops out of HeartQuest Holistic Wellness on Commercial Drive.

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“Intuitive reading is basically whatever I receive intuitively… something that feels like it’s outside of myself,” she explains.

“We all have spirit guides and those spirit guides used to be human, here on this earth, and they were just very evolved beings that, when they crossed over, they were spiritually evolved enough to be spirit guides.”

It is often through meditation you’ll see visions.

I do guided meditations where everybody’s spirit guides will present them with something and later on there will be a time when we share or talk about it.

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Omori receives messages from them, she says, and can help other people do the same.

“How they communicate with me is that they send me images, words or feelings. Sometimes they give me a sense of smell.”

Omori might describe a scent of perfume to a client and the client might recognize that as a sign of a particular individual.

“It’s almost like Pictionary,” she says with a laugh. “They send you images and you have to decipher it and deliver that message.”

She also uses divination techniques, using gem stones, among other tools.

“Each stone has its own lines and specks and dots and you just look through it and allow images to pop out for you,” she says. Like a crystal ball, tea leaves or even clouds, these are just tools through which a reader who is open to receiving messages might do so.

“You need to soften your eyes. You can’t look at it with your physical eye or you’re thinking about it too much and you’re letting your physi-

cal eye try to make sense of everything,” Omori says. “You just need to soften your eyes and let your eyes slowly draw out any images or feelings or thoughts that might come through the tea leaves or through the gemstone.

The spirit guides are trying to deliver the messages through the gemstone or through the tea leaves and then the reader, the intuitive reader, does their best to read them and give the message to the client.”

She offers a few caveats.

No psychic medium is 100 per cent accurate, she says.

“At the end of the day, we’re human and no human is perfect so we just do our best to deliver the message.”

And if a person gets news that makes them uncomfortable or frightened, they can change things.

“It’s not set in stone.

Everything is a choice. We create our own future,” Omori says. “If someone receives something in a reading that they don’t like or they’re not comfortable with, they do have the power to manifest and change that future.”

Is she ever afraid that she might arouse something unknown that she doesn’t want to face or can’t control, I ask. Fear, she says, is rooted in the unknown.

“When you don’t know anything, you fear it,” she says. “I set the intention that only good spirits can come through.” Through meditation that includes surrounding herself in white and gold light, she says she keeps negative energies away.

Likewise, she uses First Nations-rooted techniques like smudging, with a feather fan she makes herself.

“You burn dried white sage, which is great for clearing negative energy and it’s great for just clearing it on yourself or around your space or around an object that you feel can use a bit of energy-cleansing or an energy refresh,” says Omori, who also performs reiki, which she describes as a Japanese energy healing modality in which the practitioner “channels healing energy and flows it out from their hands and gives it to the receiver.”

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and clouds is another easy entry point, she says. “I’m really nature-based, so I do things like aeromancy, where you do divination through the clouds, and try to get messages from the spirit through the cloud formations.”

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The theme of this year’s event is “Celebrating B.C.’s Bounty.” Over 20 agriculture and conservation related organizations will be on site to engage people about how Delta food is grown and harvested, and how our farming community supports wildlife conservation. The 2016 event will also be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Ellis Farms!

“Day at the Farm” is jam packed with fun activities for the whole family. In addition to the ever popular farmerled hay wagon tours and B.C. Dairy Association milking

shows, visitors can look forward to a sheep shearing demo, rope-making demo, a mini-live auction, wildlife conservation displays and a Ducks Unlimited Canada minitheatre in the Ellis barn. BC Fresh is once again hosting a Potato Dig, which provides people with an incredible opportunity to harvest their own fresh potatoes straight from the field.

The B.C. Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation will be on site with their team of student chefs to prepare gourmet fare for visitors.

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donate local product for families to try. Visitors always leave with a better idea of how their food is produced, the faces behind the farms, and how farmers contribute to wildlife conservation.”

In addition to all the festivities taking place, live music and local food trucks will also be present to round out the day.

A live Ring of Fire Cash and Carter Tribute show, starring Tony Barton and Tracy Neff will take place at 1:30pm.

Admission is free or by donation. Be sure to bring nonperishable items for the food bank. Bring a batch of scones using local produce to enter the “homemade scone contest,” to be judged by a professional chef at the show stage at noon.

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age apartment prices fell eight per cent from $573,759 to $528,808 and the average price of attached homes dropped more than seven per cent to $730,189 from $798,529. The total number of listed properties for sale in Metro Vancouver declined almost 22 per cent since this time last year, and dropped almost two per cent from July of this year.

In its release, the REBGV characterized the declines as “Metro Vancouver home sales return to normal,” and used the housing price index benchmark to cast the price drop in a more positive light.

The benchmark price for a home in the region fell by an even $1,000 to $1,577,300, for a drop of a fraction of a percentage point.

Average prices are the mean transaction price for all detached homes. Benchmark prices equate sales prices for equivalent homes, taking into consideration the location, number of bedrooms, yard size and other significant differences.

According to Morrison, there continues to be an imbalance between supply and demand in most communities. This has caused average sale prices to plummet while benchmark prices remain relatively stable.

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Average detached home prices in Metro Vancouver fell dramatically in August in the largest monthly price drop in the region’s recent history, according to numbers released Friday by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV).

The average detached home price fell almost $300,000 — more than 16 per cent — dropping to $1,470,265 from $1,764,682.

“Sales have been trending downward in Metro Vancouver for a few months,” said REBGV president Dan Morrison in a press release.

“The new foreign buyer tax appears to have added to this trend by reducing foreign buyer activity and causing some uncertainty amongst local home buyers and sellers.”

August’s housing sales in the region were 3.5 per cent below the month’s 10-year sales average. New listings during the month totalled 4,293 in August compared to 5,241 in July, a drop of 18 per cent.

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DINNER IN BLACK: Vancouver artists George Vergette and Graeme Berglund brought back their DIY party due to popular demand. Billed as the no-chic alternative to the posh Dîner en Blanc, Ce Soir Noir returned for its sophomore staging at Crab Park. Unlike last year’s event which was staged the same night as Dîner en Blanc, the free Downtown Eastside gathering was held two weeks after the Paris-inspired spectacle that drew 6,000 partygoers. A much smaller crowd, dressed in black, convened for the informal, family-friendly picnic. Armed with their own food, blankets and a non-perishable food item for Backpack Buddies, a meal program for hungry school children in the Downtown Eastside, revellers staked out their spot for the counter-culture clambake.

PADDLE PLEASER: In 2006, Mark Starkey created Kayak for a Cure in his grandmother’s honour after she had been diagnosed with leukemia. The first year saw a handful of paddlers hit the waters off Jericho Beach, raising a modest $1,000 to fund cancer research and support cancer patients, survivors and their families. Over the years, the volunteer-run, non-profit organization has held similar paddles in Victoria, B.C., Mississauga, Ont. and other North American cities, generating more than $300,000 for cancer-related charities. Continuing the fight against cancer, Starkey, and his new bride Whitney Stanford, along with fellow kayakers of all levels, converged once again for the eleventh staging in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.

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Cale Dougans and his daughter Brooklyn hit the waters off Jericho for the annual Kayak for a Cure fundraiser.

Kayak enthusiasts Chelsea Ker, Casandra Parto and Jelyssa Madrid enjoyed a day on the waters in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Graeme Berglund and George Vergette’s sophomore edition of Ce Soir Noir drew several hundred revellers to Crab Park for the informal, family-friendly picnic.

Emily-Anne King and Joanne Griffiths’ Backpack Buddies program, an initiative to keep school kids from going hungry over the weekend, benefited from Ce Soir Noir.

Brenna Egan and Althea Bernardo attended Ce Soir Noir in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside after learning about it on social media.

Market manager Julia Zado and executive director Tabitha McLoughlin marked the Coquitlam Farmers Market’s 20th anniversary by staging a special long table dinner at Colony Farm Regional Park.

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Sept. 8 to 14, 2016 1. The Vancouver Fringe Festival returns to Granville Island and venues across the city for 10 days of organized chaos, shameless pamphleteering and DIY theatre, including The After After Party. It all goes down Sept. 8 to 18. Details at vancouverfringe.com. Look for reviews in next week’s paper and at vancourier.com.

2. The ninth annual Accordion Noir Festival spreads its loving arms around town Sept. 8 to 11 for a celebration of all things squeezebox related.

Performers include France’s Nefertiti in the Kitchen, Texas outfit Pinata Protest, funny women Duo Finelli and Amsterdam’s Jet Black Pearl, among others. Details at accordionnoirfest.com.

3. Testing the threshold for how many festivals Vancouver can host in one week, the 26th annual Vancouver International Flamenco Festival strums, stomps and snaps its way into this city’s heart Sept. 10 to 20 with performances from locals Toque Flamenco, Calgary’s Rosanna Terracciano, Mercedes Amaya Company (Mexico/ Spain), ¡ARTE! Flamenco and others. Details at vancouverflamencofestival.org.

4. The sprawling 46-piece Plastic Acid Orchestra teams up East Van singer-songwriter Veda Hille and her band for a programme honouring three Canadian female artists in song: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Emily Carr and Hille herself.

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Arts & Entertainment THEATRE REVIEW

Beaux’ Stratagem gives 18th century shenanigans modern twist Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

Not a fan of Restoration Comedy? Don’t worry, this United Players’ production of George Farquhar’s 1707 comedy is an adaptation that has been tweaked by two of

the best — first by American playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town, Skin Of Our Teeth) and later by another American, Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo).

In 1939, Wilder began his adaptation of The

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Beaux’ Stratagem’s brilliant but dated, too-long script, lost heart and gave it up; he died in 1975, leaving it half-finished. In 2004, at the request of Wilder’s literary executor, Ludwig was asked to read Wilder’s unfinished adaptation and to consider finishing it.

With some cuts and some new ideas, Ludwig’s The Beaux’ Stratagem opened in 2006 in Washington, DC to great reviews: “Delicious,” “Perfectly enchanting,” “A delightful romp.”

Kathleen Duborg directs a cast of 13 and opens the show with a series of very funny freezes, setting the comic tone for the show right away. This adapted Beaux’ Stratagem has a decided and delightful feminist twist with the most interesting character arguably Mrs. Kate Sullen (Jessica Wagstaff).

The beaux in question — Jack Archer (Gregory Radzimowski) and Tom Aimwell (Darcy Stobbbe) — have squandered their money in London and, posing as master and servant, turn up in

Jessica Wagstaff and Gregory Radzimowski star in the United Players’ production of The Beaux’ Stratagem.

the small village of Lichfield where they hope to find a beautiful, rich woman for the “master” to marry. The spoils are to be shared 50/50.

There’s no shortage of women in Lichfield.

Dorinda (effervescent Olivia Sara Grace), daughter of Lady Bountiful (Elizabeth McLaughlin) is young, pretty and has a large dowry; Mrs. Sullen is beautiful and

rich but already married to the drunkard Mr. Sullen (Michael Wild); and Cherry (Madelyn Osborne), the innkeeper’s daughter, is pretty but poor.

Cherry and her father, Boniface (Andre Fex) are in cahoots with highwaymen, chief of which is Gloss (David Newham), a wonderfully devious character who is both

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clergyman and highwayman. Newham dishes out Gloss’s hypocrisy with flair.

This is the stuff of comedy-cum-farce with characters hiding behind doors and concealing themselves under tables. Not only do we know Archer and Aimwell aren’t master and servant but all the other characters have guessed it, too. A huge reveal is coming but when and how?

Although Archer and Aimwell are ostensibly the main characters, it’s Wagstaff’s Mrs. Sullen that captivated me and brought this 18th century comedy rushing headlong into the present. Wagstaff is beautifully costumed in a blue, lace-trimmed gown

by Amira Routledge and, although her character is unhappily married, Wagstaff maintains a charming, mischievous demeanour.

Best of all, Wagstaff makes Mrs. Sullen sexy in a decidedly 21st century way.

Farquhar, Wilder and Ludwig have fun with all the issues: class disparity, hypocrisy, love, money, medicine and marriage while dropping some of the wittiest lines in comedy.

It’s all very modern and meta-theatrical. Archer, for example, says at one point, “If this were a play, we’d be nearing the climax,” and he suggests, after Act 1, that we should “come back for Act 2.” The fourth wall vanishes as characters step forward to deliver monologues. As Wilder said, his adaptation introduced “lots that Farquhar never thought of, and whole new twists in the plot.” Ludwig then contemporized some of the language and the humour.

Comedy is not as easy as it looks, and this production — seen on the night after opening — suffers now and again from trying too hard to be funny. The script is funny, the situation is hilarious — just let it unfold. That being said, Wild is wildly funny as a drunk, Wagstaff and Grace are wonderful at wielding swords, and Lady Bountiful, a would-be healer, is certifiably crazy when she talks of employing the bone saw. Doubtless, Farquhar would approve of all the shenanigans.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

The Beaux’ Stratagem is at Jericho Arts Centre until Sept. 25. For tickets, call 604-224-8007 or go to unitedplayers.com.

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Marrow tackles personal demons at Fringe fest Resounding Scream Theatre presents work by playwright Veronique West

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For emerging Vancouver playwright Veronique West, who is passionate about changing audiences’ perceptions through socially engaged theatre, storytelling is an important means of offering visceral access to people’s inner worlds.

“I think that experience is a really powerful tool for changing people’s perceptions… That’s definitely something that calls me to writing — how can I give people a window into something they might not experience in their everyday lives and show them how they might think about it in a new way or make them question their existing beliefs about it,” West says.

Her latest dramatic work, Marrow, presented by Resounding Scream Theatre in collaboration with Alley Theatre, as part of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival, runs Sept. 9 to 18, at Havana Theatre. West found inspiration from both her personal survival from anorexia as well as her fascination with witchcraft trials in early modern Europe.

“I struggled with anorexia about four years ago,” says West, now 23. “Marrow partly came out of a desire of mine to try to understand what had happened to me, why I struggled with the illness that I struggled with and what the causes were.”

Eventually she came to feel like there was some kind of connection between her struggle with anorexia and her interest in witchcraft. Trying to understand what exactly that connection was is what ultimately led her to the play.

“On a personal level, I’m

really drawn to contradictions. So when something has an inherent contradiction in it, that really intrigues me.

For instance with Marrow, when I was reading about the witchcraft trials in early modern Europe, one thing that really interested me is that witches were perceived as both powerful, because they were dangerous, but also as powerless because they gave up their bodies and souls to the devil… Similarly with eating disorders, I think a lot of women who suffer from eating disorders are these incredibly driven, independent, intelligent women, but the illness they suffer from, it enslaves them to something that a lot of us would consider pretty trivial and pretty superficial, which is the pursuit of thinness.

That contradiction, for me, I think is really interesting,” she says.

Marrow’s plot is focused on the relationship between two estranged sisters: Morgan, a grad student researching witchcraft trials with passionate beliefs about gender politics, persecution and power dynamics, and Maura, who is recovering from bulimia.

“The play begins when they’re reunited and it shows how they challenge each other’s beliefs,” says West.

Marrow has been in development for four years.

It started initially as an independent project and further worked on as part of a master class at the Arts Club Theatre Company as well as with the Wet Ink Collective, a local artistdriven initiative dedicated to creating, developing and presenting new plays by female playwrights or those that feature female protagonists.

Playwright Veronique West drew inspiration from her personal experiences with anorexia and her fascination with witchcraft trials in early modern Europe for her latest work, Marrow.

Eventually West’s script found its way into the hands of Marisa Emma Smith, artistic producer of Alley Theatre, an award-winning non-profit theatre company that produces socially-relevant plays.

“She started giving me feedback and we formed a relationship. We realized we had similar artistic interests so we decided to work together,” says West, who was brought on as an apprentice playwright and producer with the company.

After hosting some workshops and a public

reading, a plan was made to finally present the play.

Alley Theatre decided to associate produce Marrow and mentor both West and emerging Vancouver-based independent theatre company, Resounding Scream Theatre, in producing it.

“Being able to work with them under the mentorship of a more established company like Alley Theatre has been really valuable, that partnership between emerging and established,” says West.

This marks West’s second appearance at the

Fringe Festival, as she previously presented Intrusion there in 2012. The work went on to win Tarragon Theatre’s 20/20 Playwriting Competition.

“It was a really great learning experience because it was the first show that I worked on self-producing and I bring a lot of that knowledge in this time,” she says.

In the lead-up to the festival, West says she is experiencing the usual amount of opening night jitters, common among many playwrights.

“We’re big perfectionists

and so a work never quite feels ready to go up when it goes up and there’s always things you see in it that you feel like should have more development or could be improved on, but you kind of have to embrace that now is the time. At the same time though I think one thing that has been really inspiring for me is that I have a fantastic team of actors and director and designers that I’m working with. Seeing how they respond to the work and the parts of the work that they personally connect with in their own lives has been really inspiring for sure,” she says.

In addition to creating and producing her own plays, for the last year West has served as a dramaturgy assistant at the Arts Club.

She mainly assists with the development of new plays and is currently doing production dramaturgy for a play in their upcoming season, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.

West will also be featured in an upcoming documentary by the Looking Glass Foundation, which supports people suffering from eating disorders, centred around their Something’s Gotta Give campaign.

She is continuing to partner with the organization, having first raised funds for Looking Glass through a staged reading of Marrow and plans to donate proceeds from a preview performance set for Sept. 3.

Marrow runs Sept. 9 to 18 at Havana Theatre as part of the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Details at vancouverfringe.com.

Nearly a third of Vancouver industrial space snagged by film crews Lights! Camera! Lease action! Studios put industrial property in focus

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Movie and TV producers have seized 28.9 per cent of all the industrial space leased in Metro Vancouver in the past year, often outbidding traditional tenants to become the dominant player in a tight market.

The unprecedented demand from the billion-dollar B.C. film industry, which has

leased 1.5 million square feet since mid-2015, has helped to drive the Metro industrial vacancy rate to a Canada low of 1.5 per cent, according to Sean Bagan, an industrial specialist with Colliers International in Vancouver.

“They have completely changed our industry,” Bagan said, due to film producers’ demand for short leases and a willingness to pay abovemarket rates, which “had

previously never happened.”

Industrial tenants traditionally sign three-, five- or 10-year lease agreements, but Bagan said film shoots need studio space for only about six months. As a result, TV and film companies are paying full lease rates and up to $1 per square foot above that, and even signing two-year agreements to secure the space. They then either hold the site for a second shoot or

attempt to sublease the space to another film company.

The film producers are scrambling for high ceiling heights in no-column open warehouses of at least 40,000 square feet with enough bay space to turn big trucks — the same type of modern buildings sought by the next biggest industrial tenants: retail/wholesale distributors and logistics/transport companies.

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Planning for the Future of Northeast False Creek

The Vancouver Park Board wants to hear from you about what’s important when it comes to park use by people and dogs, including safety, maintenance, environment, location and design of dog off-leash areas.

Public Launch Event During our outreach last year on the future of the viaducts, we heard initial ideas, interests and opportunities for the future of the area. We now have the opportunity to create a vibrant, inviting waterfront district with a beautiful destination park.

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Share Your Thoughts on Temporary Pathway Options for the Arbutus Greenway The Arbutus Greenway is a future north-south transportation corridor that will connect False Creek to the Fraser River.

In the short term, the City of Vancouver is building a temporary pathway that everyone can enjoy. We’re looking at several different

Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 6 – 9 pm St. James Community Square, 3214 West 10th Avenue Saturday, October 1,2016, 10 am – 1 pm Langara Golf Course Clubhouse, 6706 Alberta Street You can also register for small group meetings by October 5 or take the online questionnaire between September 8 and October 14 at:

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To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to add two new districts proposed by the Joyce-Collingwood Station Precinct Plan. Accordingly, some properties within the Plan area would be rezoned to RM-7AN to allow for duplexes/townhouses and to RM-9BN to allow for apartments. These zoning changes would help implement the Plan by allowing for more housing in close proximity to rapid transit.

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Continued from page 27 There is five million square feet of new industrial planned or under construction in Metro Vancouver, but Bagan doubts industrial developers, even those known for speculative plays, would purpose-build for the film industry. Landlords would not want to deal with continual rollovers, and Bagan noted that there is skepticism that the B.C. film industry will remain as active, even by next year.

The caution is understandable. B.C. film production values increased to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2014-15 compared with $1.1 billion in the previous fiscal year, with the incentive being fed by a lower Canadian dollar and a near doubling of provincial tax credits to the film industry to $493 million.

Because they are refundable tax credits, film companies receive the credit even when they pay little or no tax to government. The largesse is considered a key component in attracting film productions. The latest provincial budget, however, laid out plans to “limit the growth of film tax credits” across 201617 through to 2018-19.

However, film studios appear more confident in the future of B.C.’s movie industry than are industrial developers.

Vancouver-based Ironwood Studios has leased 177,000 square feet of space, gutting a warehouse and building seven stages, two workshops, office space and storage for its studio on Southeast Marine Drive near Fraser Street in Vancouver. In June, Ironwood also leased more than 40,000 square feet of industrial space in New Westminster, where it plans to sublet studios and office space to companies involved in the production of movies, TV shows and commercials.

Meanwhile, Hollywood studio Skydance Media has leased the former Pacific Press printing plant in Surrey and is converting it to studio space. Skydance, based out of Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, and whose films include Star Trek Beyond and World War Z, is renovating the 220,000-square-foot industrial site into a five-stage sound studio for its film and television productions. For other film producers, the hunt remains intense for Vancouver studio space, according to Mary Jo Beirnes, location manager for the TV series The Magicians, an NBC/Universal TV production being partly shot in a Vancouver warehouse on Southwest Marine Drive.

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Secret Garden hoping for visit from Prince William and Kate If you fancy a cuppa with a little pomp and circumstance, order the high tea take-away from the Secret Garden Tea Company in Kerrisdale.

After all, if it’s good enough for Camilla Parker-Bowles — she particularly liked their lemon tarts — it’s good enough for Will and Kate.

The Duchess of Cornwall even took her leftover goodies on the flight home after enjoying the Secret Garden’s high tea in 2009, at

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“Camilla had miniature croissants with roast turkey and homemade cranberry relish, mini scones with Devonshire cream and our signature lemon tarts with hand-pressed shortbread crust,” says Kathy Wyder, who started the Secret Garden Tea Company 21 years ago. Co-owner and sister-in-law Erin Wyder came on board in 1999.

The Secret Garden recently moved from West Boulevard to West 40th Avenue.

Should Prince William and wife Kate Middleton pop by the Secret Garden this month during their royal visit, they’ll be served Buckingham Palace tea and “all of our best selling items,” Kathy says, laughing.

With the exception of bread (Moore’s Bakery in Kerrisdale has a special slicer for tea sandwiches) all baked goods are made from scratch. The tea shop also offers a glutenfree high tea.

Their Buckingham Palace — a blend of several estate teas with Earl Grey (citrusy bergamot and black tea) and jasmine — is second only to Creamy Earl Grey, with a hint of vanilla but no cream.

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Garden’s Secret, a fruity black tea and, you guessed it, a secret ingredient.

Serious tea drinkers have a ritual. Anyone brought up in England, including this writer, knows it’s woe betide anyone who serves tea in a mug. Always milk before tea and there’s a reason for this — scalding tea could crack a delicate teacup. (Although some are appalled that anyone would add milk to tea.) The wrong cup would ruin most cuppas. It has to be thin porcelain with a smooth, white surface inside.

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“I drink Irish breakfast during the day and switch to Earl Grey at night,” says Kathy Wyder. “I watch Midsummer Murders on Netflix and just before they serve tea [in almost every episode] I pause the TV, make a pot of Creamy Earl Grey and drink it with them.”

Meanwhile Erin Wyder sticks to Earl Grey. Like mother, like daughter, Jordan, her 11-year-old, insists on Early Grey with a vanilla bean cookie every day after school.

In celebration of Prince William and wife Kate Middleton’s royal tour of Canada, the Secret Garden is offering high tea to go, either boxed for travel or complete with china rentals for a picnic in the park.

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Kerrisdale Community Centre The centre’s fall brochure outlining programs, services and classes is out and there’s lots going on for families and individuals of all ages.

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Participants will also learn why and how to harvest, dry, clean and store seed.

An ADVANCED SEED SAVING CLASS follows from 3 to 4:30 p.m. In this class the more experienced enthusiasts

Lots going on in family-friendly community will learn about saving seed from plants such as cross pollinators (squash) and biennials brassicas (kale, arugula) especially as they relate to challenges in city gardens. Bring your questions and Croy and Hunter will address your seed saving issues.

These free workshops are open to all ages and abilities, but pre-registration is recommended by calling the centre at 604-257-8100.

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Bancroft shared some of her thoughts on GAB and her personal experiences with the Courier.

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What makes guided autobiography different from other life story writing classes?

GAB was originally designed as a way to combine writing with deep reflection about things that have happened in our lives. Each week we write only two pages about a shared theme such as family, health or what we consider to be our life’s work. Then we share our writing aloud in a small group. Group feedback is

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How do you guide clients to find their own story?

Each theme comes with triggering questions designed to spark memories. Usually one of those questions does it. A scene will pop into the person’s mind. Remembering sensory details such as smells or sounds, brings them further into that scene. Writing experience isn’t necessary, but people come to this with an ingrained sense of beginning, middle and end and we go from there.

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Is it an emotional process?

How do you handle that?

It can be emotional. We laugh a lot in these sessions, but there have been tears when stories are being shared. When this happens, we give the person time to recover and continue.

Someone provides a Kleenex. If the reader can’t continue, I offer to read for them. It’s life, it’s no big deal. So far, I’ve not run into a situation in which I might feel the need to suggest therapy, but that is what I would do if necessary. The GAB process can be therapeutic, but it’s not therapy.

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Have you heard any stories that have surprised or really moved you?

I think this happens every session.

Even though everyone is writing on the same theme, we all have such different experiences. The stories are told in confidence, but some, willingly shared, have been published on my blog.

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At the end of the process, what do your clients end up with?

At the very least, people walk away with several legacy stories they can share with family or friends or perhaps use to contribute to a larger memoir. But additionally, people often leave with new insights about themselves, about things that happened in their past and about what kind of direction they might want to take in the future.

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Any upcoming sessions or workshops we should know about?

I do sessions at my home, in classrooms and online. The GAB Sessions at home are full for this fall, but I do have spaces for people who would like to join a group online. Otherwise, I’ll be leading a couple of workshop series through Simon Fraser University’s 55-plus program in the new year.

For more information on those sessions, drop Bancroft a note at wendy@gabsessions.ca. To check out Bancroft’s blog or to see a video of a GAB session, visit gabsessions.ca.

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roadmap for improvements to quality of care. Their frequent visitors can also take part in the survey.

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Continue tackling a pile of work, and remain free of “new starts” – both to Sept. 21/22.

Relationships are improving, sweetening – Friday begins 395 days of good relationship luck. For more, see my “Luck Forecast” in the Aug. 21 column. However, before you feel the full force of this benevolent breeze, you still have over two weeks of work to tackle – much of it chores neglected until now.

Start no new projects nor relationships before Sept. 22, Libra. You are beginning a whole new year now, but let the days until September 22 be quiescent ones. Rest, ponder, and in general gather your strength and let your subconscious brew its future. By late month, you’ll burst forth and race toward success. Sunday/Monday highlights domestic themes, kids, security, nutrition.

Remember, Taurus, don’t buy anything major nor start any important new projects or relationships before Sept. 22. The general accent continues on romance, beauty, pleasure, creative and speculative risks. All creativity, all romance, is a risk; love is never a risk. All month, you can be drawn to a former flame, or to a frankly sexual bond. Sunday through mid-afternoon Mon., your mind expands with new information or new views.

Remember, Scorpio, no new ventures, relationships nor major purchases before Sept.

22. That said, your happiness seems almost complete now: you have hope, optimism, friends, entertainment and the certainty that you will find love in the years ahead, if you aren’t already attached. The best thing you can do now is hope: it will change your future.

Sunday/Mon.

Remember, Gemini, don’t start any new ventures nor relationships, nor make a big purchase, before Sept. 22. This applies especially to your domestic sphere (e.g., DON’T start renovations, buy furniture, etc.). Sunday through Mon. mid-afternoon (PDT) brings a deep sexual attraction, or a financial nudge.

These will succeed Sunday p.m., not earlier nor Mon. Excellent time for research.

Avoid new projects, purchases and relationships, Sage, until Sept. 22. Though the general accent this month is on your career and social standing, something romantic or adventurous seems to brew a pretty strong “alternate road.” You’re probably best off to enjoy romance, beauty, pleasure, social delights and affection while you can, without building anything on them.

Start nothing new before Sept. 22, Cancer. Mail, messages, calls, paperwork and documents can go astray, so strictly adhere to a system, filing, recording, whatever. Your work remains intense and hard, and your home remains a sweet retreat from all that mad activity. Tell the family how valuable they are. Relationships confront you Sunday through Mon. afternoon. Be diplomatic, cooperative – this will be easy during a happy, loving Sunday p.m.

Avoid new starts, big purchasers, and brand-new relationships, Cap – until Sept. 22. The general accent lies on far travel, legal affairs, higher education, media, philosophy, international affairs, import/export, and all intellectual pursuits. These, especially, need your careful attention AND avoidance of new starts.

Continue to protect your physical health. Cap athletes triumph now: but us ordinary people need to avoid challenging, belligerent people, especially Tuesday.

Continue to chase money, Leo – but remember, no new starts/projects/relationships nor big purchases, before Sept. 22. An old money source might return, and/or you’ll need to pay outstanding bills. You’re kind of in a semi-romantic mood; and the present accent on possessions and sensuality could nudge you into a friendly, polite, easy sexual affair. Whether this is a former flame or a new one, it won’t burn too long, a month to a year perhaps.

Remember, Aquarius, don’t start new projects relationships, nor buy big things (especially machinery) before Sept. 22. If you have investments, they might be bumping around unpredictably. You might want to readjust your portfolio, but DON’T make NEW investments. Your social life looks fine, and you’re favoured in legal, educational, intellectual and love zones. Lie low, rest and contemplate Sun. through Mon.

Remember, Virgo, take no new life paths now, before Sept. 22, nor start significant projects or relationships. A former career role might (have) return (ed). All month, your money/income continues to be good; your home life continues to be rough. You might want to buy a house or land that you desired long ago – this can work out well, but there’s no urgency: many buying opportunities will come for 13 months.

Relationships continue to dominate; you and another can feel quite indecisive about the future course of your bond. My advice: be patient. Clarity will return soon. Bosses and VIPs are temperamental, so be soft, diplomatic. Avoid starting anything new and significant before Sept. 22 – includes relationships, projects and purchases. Sunday’s happy – so is Monday, but only Sun. yields results. Especially Sun. p.m., when you can repair a relationship and reach joy for both parties.

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UBC basketball star John Dumont succumbs to cancer John Kurucz

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The mechanics of a jump shot or the finer points of posting up are skills that can be taught and honed through years of repetition.

Leadership, grace, humility and desire, however, are intrinsic: you either have them or you don’t.

A former basketball star at the University of B.C., Vancouver College and internationally, John Dumont had all those qualities in spades: on the court, on the job or at home.

His legacy is such that long-standing rivals can take a moment of pause from competition and revere and respect his true command of a sport.

Dumont died Sept. 1 after a year-long battle with an aggressive form of cancer known as sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma. He died one year to the day of his initial diagnosis.

He was 41.

The Courier spoke to Dumont’s friends, family, teammates and coaches one day before his death. Unanimity can be elusive in any walk of life or pursuit, but unanimity and love dominated the memories shared.

“He’s a wonderful father and a wonderful husband — a gentle, caring, bright guy,” said Bob Corbett, who coached Dumont at Vancouver College in the early ’90s. “When I went to see him when he first got sick, he was more worried about how I was doing versus how he was doing. I had to keep pulling the conversation back to how he was doing. Everybody likes John, whether you played with him or against him.

He’s a wonderful man.

John Dumont, shown here during his playing days at UBC in the mid 1990s, died of cancer on Sept. 1. His coaches, teammates, family and friends remember the former T-Bird as one of the most dominant players to take to the court.

This is just a tragedy.”

Dumont’s diagnosis was preceded by frequent nosebleeds, which led him and his family to initially think it was just a case of bad allergies in a particularly bad allergy season.

A biopsy confirmed the presence of cancer and rounds of chemotherapy and surgery followed.

He was moved to a palliative care home prior to his death.

“He is someone who has had a great life and feels very lucky for the life that he’s lived,” said his sister Margot Jagger. “He’s amassed a lot of friends along the way, but

he’s not a flashy guy in any way. He’s humble, but confident. I think most people would say that he’s just a really good guy.”

Those sentiments were illustrated en masse Aug. 20. Scores of people from the basketball community convened on Vancouver College to participate in the John Dumont Classic, a fundraising tournament for John’s family, which featured 800 attendees and 200 participants.

The guys who Dumont went to war against 20 years earlier were all there: from Richmond high, from Kitsilano and from perennial ’90s

powerhouse St. Michael’s University in Victoria.

“There were a number of players out there and people watching that we used to compete against,” said Gerald Cole, Dumont’s life-long friend and teammate. “The basketball community in Vancouver is pretty small and there’s a lot of respect that everyone has for one another. For everyone to come out was a huge sign of respect and support.”

There was also an element of celebrity factor: former under-19 provincial squad teammate and

two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash was also in attendance. Initially unable to attend, Canada’s most celebrated basketball player of all time, made time.

“He was heartbroken to hear the news about John when I told him at the beginning of summer,” Cole said. “The first question he had was ‘What can I do?’ Initially he wasn’t able to come, but he made some adjustments to his schedule so he could be there. I know Steve has incredible respect for John.”

The relationship Dumont and Cole shared stretched over more

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than three decades and transcends huddles, free throws and fast breaks.

They met in Grade 2, at the age of eight, and attended Vancouver College together until graduation.

They both went on to play together at UBC. The pair then played professionally in southeast Asia: Dumont in the Philippines and Cole in Taiwan.

Because Cole grew up in North Van, he would often swing by the Dumont household — 10 minutes away from Vancouver College — to pass the time before 7 p.m. practice.

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Remembering a gentle giant

Continued from page 41 A week hadn’t passed in 33 years where they went without speaking.

“When we were introduced to basketball in Grade 3, that was it — we fell in love with it,” Cole said. “For the rest of our lives up until adulthood, that’s what we did together almost daily. John’s neighbourhood became my second neighbourhood. I spent a lot of time over at his place, and to a large degree his family was my second family.”

Dumont’s acumen on the court is described in almost mythic terms. He played at every level possible: for provincial and national teams, and abroad professionally.

He stood 6’5” and played any position: in Grade 11 he played point guard and switched to the post in his Grade 12 year, a remarkable feat considering the shift in roles, responsibilities and the players he’d have to match up against.

His quiet demeanour off the court belied his relentless attitude on it.

“Once he got on the floor, he was there to win,” Corbett said. “He’s a wonderful man, don’t get me

wrong, but he was there to win and you better be there with him to win, otherwise he wasn’t too happy with you. He was an incredible teammate and in practice he made everyone better.

You either got better or he stomped you, at least in a nice way. He was the guy that brought everybody’s play up. He was so intense, everybody had to be intense at the same time.”

Bruce Enns was at the helm of the T-Bird program from 1985 to 2000 and recruited Dumont out of high school.

Speaking to the Courier from his home in Bremerton, Wash., he remembers Dumont as already being a complete, polished player by the age of 17, a time when most kids are still growing into their bodies and figuring out the intricacies of having to play against men.

“The thing that I really enjoyed was that I could see that he really loved to play,” Enns said. “He was having fun all the time on the court as a high school player and that continued for us. He had talent, he had skill. He was

not only highly effective on the court, but he was a very inspiring guy to be around.

He was an absolute leader.”

Now 72, Enns recalls a night in Calgary early in Dumont’s post-secondary career that spoke to his devotion to victory. Down by a considerable count in the latter stages of the game, Dumont came in to the huddle and said his piece.

“He came into the huddle and said, ‘Coach, we’ll be OK.’ We won the game. It’s because he played everywhere and anywhere.”

Current T-Birds bench boss Kevin Hanson didn’t coach Dumont, but saw him on the court during his playing days.

“John was a very inspirational player. You could tell he was a leader by the way he interacted with his teammates,” he said. “He is a feisty competitor that competed every second when he was on the basketball court.

John has always been passionate about basketball and had a tremendous career.”

Dumont is survived by his wife Trixie and three sons, Cole, Hunter and Jack. @JohnKurucz

John Dumont, centre, alongside his wife and three sons.

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Honda patents 11-speed transmission BRAKING NEWS Brendan McAleer

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While the top end of the market exults in ludicrous displays of power (be it electric or internal combustion), the mainstream manufacturers appear to be working on some clever tricks to improve fuel economy. Honda, for instance, has just patented something mind-boggling: a transmission with 11 speeds.

Do we not already have enough speeds in our automatics these days? After all, Mazda seems able to easily hit their fuel economy figures with just a plain old six-speed.

Still, Honda’s new 11-speed ’box is apparently not just an automatic, but a triple-clutch transmission with the ability to shift both extremely fast and with great efficiency.

How it works is as yet unknown, but it would appear as if the tough new emissions requirements of the future are driving manufacturers to continually innovate. The only trouble is that all this growing complexity must surely lead to worse reliability.

Autonomous vehicle ride sharing by 2021?

Ford, the company that put America on wheels with the Model T, has recently announced an ambitious plan to create a ride-sharing fleet. In partnership with Uber and Lyft, the company plans to release a fleet of full Level 4 autonomous cars into select cities by 2021.

As full-level, four machines, these cars will have no steering wheel, no gas pedal, and no brake — no human controls at all. You’ll summon one on your smartphone, and it’ll whisk you off to your destination.

It sounds like nothing we’ve ever seen before — except for taxicabs, which pretty much currently do the same thing. However, in the autonomously-driven future, you won’t have to actually talk to anyone except on your social media fields, and that’s what’s important, right?

There are, of course, some cities where an autonomous fleet will work better than other places, especially as an intense mapping effort seems to be part of Ford’s plan. Densely built up areas like San Francisco’s Silicon Valley will probably be the first frontier for Ford’s fleet, with a tech-savvy population that won’t find a completely driverless car too weird.

The future, therefore, is still more than a few years away. In the meantime, you’ll still have to call a cab.

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