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Up until last Saturday, Rick Caulfield wasa barber. Paul Cosulich was his customer.For more than 30 years, Cosulich made

the trip at least once a month from hisDunbar home to Kitsilano to have Caul-field cut his hair.Their relationship ended Saturday.At least the barbering part of it did.Caulfield, 71, retired after 47 years of

cutting hair, his first 22 years at Crest Bar-bers onWest Fourth Avenue and the last25 at Kitsilano Barbers, near the Safewaybetween Balsam and Vine.

Cosulich knew the day was coming. Heknew it would be hard to let go. He andCaulfield developed a special bond over theyears, sharing personal stories of family andthe ups and downs of life.So before Saturday came, Cosulich got to

work on a plan. He contacted the barber’swife, Heather, about hosting a luncheon at theRoyal Vancouver Yacht Club. Invite familyand friends, he told her, and we’ll surprise him.Yes, the yacht club.But as the 61-year-old businessman ex-

plained by cellphone while waiting to boarda plane in San Francisco, his motivation forpaying tribute to Caulfield was more aboutfriendship than a financial transaction at afancy lunch spot.Then he told a story...About 20 years ago, Cosulich turned an

old fish pond in his yard into a small swim-

ming pool. Aman he knew as “Graham thepool guy” helped him build it. He came byregularly to ensure the pumpworked and fillthe pool with the necessary chemicals.The two men got to enjoy each other’s

company, yakking about this and that,drinking coffee and puffing on cigarettes. Agood B.S. session is what Cosulich called it.Then one day, Graham’s son Scott arrivedwithout his father.“I said, ‘Where’s your dad?’ And he told

me that unfortunately he died a couple ofweeks ago. It really hit me hard — all of asudden this guy was gone, this guy who waspart of my life.”It wasn’t long after that whenCosulich got

somemore bad news. Aman his family lookedforward to seeing each time they visited a sushirestaurant at 41st andGranville had died.

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Court backsFrenchschoolsCheryl Rossicrossi@vancourier.com

A ruling from the Supreme Court ofCanada last week could see two newelementary schools established forFrench students on the West Side.The court said francophone students

in Vancouver lack access to educationalservices equivalent to those of studentsin English schools, a no-no under Can-ada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.As a lawyer, Joseph Pagé is pleased

the bench unanimously supported par-ents’ approach.“But then when you take off your

gown and you become a parent againit’s embarrassing that parents had to gothrough this process,” he said, notingprovinces know what their responsibili-ties are under the Charter.Pagé, on his own behalf and as a

representative of parents with childrenenrolled in l’école Rose-des-ventskindergarten to Grade 6 school near41st Avenue and Oak, filed a courtpetition in 2010 after two-and-a-halfyears of negotiations with the French-language school board for B.C. andprovincial ministers about the need forbetter school facilities saw no success.The French-language school board forB.C., the Conseil scolaire francophonede la Colombie-Britannique, joined theparents’ case.Three Francophone schools run

in Vancouver. They include l’écoleAnne-Hébert, a kindergarten to Grade6 school in Champlain Heights, l’écoleRose-des-vents, and école secondaireJules-Verne for grades 7 to 12 students,which was constructed next door toRose-des-vents.The Ministry of Education funded

the purchase of the former VancouverSchool Board site for Rose-des-ventsin 2001 because Anne-Hébert wasfull. Rose-des-vents was intended toaccommodate 199 students but accom-modates roughly 350 with the help ofportables.

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Parents win petition

Customers becamefriends through 47 years

FINAL CUT After 47 years of cutting hair in Kitsilano, barber Rick Caulfield, 71, retired last Saturday. He began his career at CrestBarbers on West Fourth Avenue and spent his last 25 years at Kitsilano Barbers, near Balsam Avenue. Staff held a party for him on his last day.PHOTOREBECCA BLISSETT

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The public will have a sayin the city’s proposal to reg-ulate the growing numberof marijuana dispensaries inVancouver after city councildecided Tuesday to sendthe issue to public hearing.The move, which is un-

precedented by a Canadianmunicipal government,came after city managerPenny Ballem outlined a se-ries of regulations to ensurethe city has some controlover the 85 pot shops.Regulations call for an

annual $30,000 licence feefor dispensary operators,criminal record checksand keeping pot shops 300metres from schools andcommunity centres.“At this point, there’s

too many,” said Ballem,who showed a map of thepot shops, most of whichare downtown and east ofCambie Street. “We needto bring this into the bestframework that’s possibleunder the circumstances.”The circumstances are

complex and related to cur-

rent laws that exist in Cana-da where a person can obtainmarijuana for an illness, ifprescribed by a doctor.Tied to the court ruling in

2001 that made possessionpossible for patients is thefederal government’s movein 2013 to have all mari-juana cultivated for medici-nal purposes come from agovernment dispensary anddelivered by mail.While that law is now the

subject of a legal challenge,pot shops in Vancouvercontinue to proliferate,growing from 29 in October2013 to 85 this month.None of the dispensa-

ries are licensed by HealthCanada, endorsed by amedical body or associatedto any legitimate healthservice provider.“Our goal was to actually

regulate these businessesand reduce the risks andimpacts while allowingaccess to people who areusing marijuana for theirspecific purposes,” said Bal-lem, noting the city studiedhow dispensaries operate inColorado andWashingtonState, where residents can

legally purchase marijuanafor recreational use.AlthoughMayor Gregor

Robertson and his Visioncouncillors are on recordas favouring regulation andtaxation of marijuana as astrategy to combat orga-nized crime, the city’s pow-ers are limited to managingland use, business licences

and issues such as hours,noise and location.Councillors used their

time at the microphoneTuesday to ask questionsof Ballem and city staffrather than make politicalspeeches about the needfor such regulations.The mayor warned coun-

cillors the issue was whether

council wanted to refer thematter to public hearing,which is where debatewould occur and informa-tion provided by agenciesincluding health and police.Dr. Patricia Daly of

Vancouver Coastal Healthtold reporters after themeeting that she support-ed council’s move to regu-

late the pot shops. Dalysaid the proposed regula-tions are the best approachto reducing the harms ofmarijuana use, particularlywith young people.“As a prevention physi-

cian, as a physician whobelieves we should base ourdecisions on evidence, weknow that trying to shutthese places down will justdrive distribution of mari-juana back into the illegalmarket,” she said.Supt. Mike Porteous,

who oversees the VancouverPolice Department’s majorcrime section, spoke brieflyto council, saying police dorespond to concerns aboutpot shops, despite com-plaints to council about thelack of enforcement on theillegal operations.“I don’t want council to

be confused to think thatthe police don’t do enforce-ment on these shops,”Porteous said. “If it’s ag-gravated or it’s not in thepublic interest, or there’s alevel of danger or organizedcrime or risk to children, wewill do enforcement.”

Continued on page 4

Public to get say onpot shops

Marijuana activist Robert Moore (far right) and others protested outside city hall Tuesday as citycouncil agreed to hold a public hearing onwhethermarijuana dispensaries should be regulated.PHOTODANTOULGOET

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VPD stays neutralContinued from page 3Porteous told reporters

after the meeting the VPDdidn’t have an officialposition on whether itsupports the city’s moveto regulate the pot shops,although he said “any kindof regulation helps.”“Because it’s completely

theWildWest right now,”he said. “At least we couldsomehowmonitor it, if wehave bylaws. But I under-stand all the political implica-tions, too, and I don’t wantto wademyself into politics.”During her presentation

to council, Ballem, who is atrained hematologist, notedthere are studies that haveshown the health benefitsof marijuana use. She alsopointed out studies haveshown health concerns foryoung people who use thedrug, including memoryloss and “reduced psycho-motor performance.”That is an area federal

Health Minister Rona Am-brose focused on in a lettershe sent to Robertson lastThursday, saying she was“deeply concerned” aboutthe city’s move to regulatepot shops.

“The evidence is clearthat when youth smokemarijuana they haveincreased risks of develop-ing mental health issues,including psychosis andschizophrenia,” Ambrosewrote. “We also know thatregular, long-term mari-juana use in youth can harmconcentration, memory andthe ability to think and tomake decisions, and it canalso produce paranoia andanxiety or nervousness.”Ambrose said Canada’s

drug laws are clear and donot provide municipalitieswith the authority to legiti-mize the commercial sale ofmarijuana, which remainsan illegal substance.“Storefronts and dispen-

saries do not operate with a‘grey zone’, and the law isclear: they are illegal,” thehealth minister concluded.Marijuana activist Neil

Magnuson, who is a mem-ber of the United Canna-bis network, said he sup-ported council’s move tohave the issue hashed outat a public hearing. But,he said, he was opposedto criminal record checks,the $30,000 licensing

fee and the rules relatedto proximity of shops toschools and to each other.“I can’t think of why a

criminal, if he’s done histime, shouldn’t be able toget a job at a dispensary,”Magnuson said. “Whykeep someone from turn-ing their life around andgetting a job in a placethat really does good inour community?”The proposed regulations

will mean some pot shopswill be forced to close, par-ticularly those located within300 metres of schools andcommunity centres.“We will not let one

dispensary get shutdown,” Magnuson said.“If they try that type ofenforcement, we’ll bethere en masse.”The public hearing is

expected to begin some-time at the end of May,or early June. If councilsupports the regulations,it would then open up anapplication process forpotential operators, whowould undergo a detailedreview before being grant-ed a business licence.

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adequate. The library is verysmall, and the classroomsare significantly smaller thanthose in other schools,”states the facts section of theSupreme Court of Canadacase. “Two classrooms haveno windows.”Of 344 students attending

Rose-des-vents in 2012, 293were transported to schoolby bus andmore than two-thirds spent more than 30minutes per bus trip.“By contrast, most

students attending English-language schools in the arealive within one kilometre oftheir schools,” the facts ofthe case state.The section of the Cana-

dian Charter of Rights andFreedoms on minority lan-guage education rights saysCanadian citizens have theright to have their childreneducated in French if theirfirst language is French,they received their own pri-mary education in Canadain French, or they have achild who has received or isreceiving his or her educa-tion in French in Canada.

Where sufficient numbersof eligible children exist,governments must providethe necessary facilities.Mark Power, lawyer for

the Conseil scolaire franco-phone de la Colombie-Bri-tannique, says the CSF hasbeen asking the provincialgovernment to provide twoFrench schools west ofMain

Street since 2009.MainStreet divides the two catch-ment areas for francophonestudents in Vancouver.Power said figures from

the 2011 Census providedto the CSF from Statis-tics Canada reveal therecould be at least two orthree times the number ofstudents enrolled in French

schools west of MainStreet. The CSF wants twokindergarten to Grade 6schools, each with capacityfor 350 students, west ofMain. Power said the firstjudge that ruled on the casea couple of years ago saidthere should be space for500 students west of Main.Pagé says the CSF didn’t

initially back the parents’petition because it didn’tagree on the legal approach.Parents filed a peti-

tion, instead of going totrial, because a petition isspeedier and less costly.But with a petition, the

court doesn’t tell the gov-ernment what to do.“Wewent for the declara-

tion that there’s a lack ofequivalency [with Englishschools] because we wanteda quick resolution,” Pagésaid. “There is a tradition inCanada of governments hon-ouring declarations from theSupremeCourt of Canada.”The provincial govern-

ment could try to justifya Charter infringement atB.C. Supreme Court.“It’s been done before,

but very rarely,” Pagé said.He noted the Supreme

Court of Canada awardedspecial costs to the parentsand CSF.If the B.C. government

doesn’t honour the declara-tion, there’s another rulingto come in for the broadercase the CSF filed in courttwo weeks after the parentsfiled their petition. Nearly 40

schools across the provincewith 5,500 students operateunder the CSF, Pagé said.Power expects a decision

on the second case a yearfrom now.Pagé noted English

schools in some parts of Van-couver run under capacity.“There’s also the option

of getting a school fromthe [Vancouver SchoolBoard], but that’s a politi-cal potato that probablythe minister doesn’t wantto deal with,” he said.Education Minister Peter

Fassbender says the govern-ment will continue to workwith the French schoolboard to meet the needsof francophone students,according to an emailedstatement fromministrycommunications.“We are currently re-

viewing the details of thedecision and the implica-tions, as well as the nextsteps moving forward,”the statement continues.The judgement could

have repercussions for otherprovinces and territories fac-ing similar court challenges.

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AVancouver real estatedeveloper on the Chinesegovernment’s 100most-wanted white collar fugi-tives list claimed in courtdocuments that the chargesagainst him are based on un-founded and false informa-tion gained through torture.On April 23, the Chinese

government published alist of people wanted forprosecution under Opera-tion Skynet, the next phasein the country’s burgeoninganti-graft campaign. Of the100 most-wanted, 26 arebelieved to be in Canada.Michael Mo Yeung

Ching, who the Chinesegovernment claims wasformerly known as ChengMuyang from Changzhoucity in Jiangsu province,is wanted for misappro-priation of public funds,embezzlement, transfer andconcealment of illegallyacquired goods, accord-ing to an April 2001 arrestwarrant. He is accused ofembezzling, along with anunnamed accomplice, CNY3,700,000 (C$714,000)that was intended as pay-ment for goods in June1996. Chinese authoritiesalso accuse him of takingadvantage of his positionas a director of a companyto misappropriate CNY4,500,000 (C$868,000)earlier in 1996.In April 2012, Ching filed

a statement of claim for$1.75 million in damagesplus costs in the FederalCourt of Canada against theAttorney General of Cana-da, Minister of Citizenshipand Immigration and KashiMattu, a member of theImmigration Appeal Divi-sion of the Immigration andRefugee Board.Ching, a permanent resi-

dent of Canada since 1996,claimed he applied in 2001and 2004 for citizenship, but“was kept in the dark withrespect to his application”and withdrew his applicationin 2009. The court docu-ments said he later found outthat China Interpol issued awarrant for his arrest in 2001“on completely unfoundedand false charges of em-bezzlement” after gaininginformation by torture fromChinese nationals FuyouWang andGuoben Su,“who allegedly had real es-tate ‘business dealings’ withthe plaintiff in China.” InJuly 2002, Ching’s filing said,Wang and Su were convictedand unlawfully imprisonedin China.The statement of claim

did not mention Ching’salias, but the Nov. 14, 1969birthdate matches the Inter-pol alert seeking the arrestof ChengMuyang. Ching’swife, Heung Kei Sung, andtwo of his children becameCanadian citizens in 2004,according to the courtdocuments.ANov. 23, 2001

document titled “FugitiveWanted for Prosecution”lists Ching’s father as Ching(sic)Wei Gao andmother as

Zhang PeiWen. ChengWeiGao was the CommunistParty boss in Hebei provinceand later Provincial People’sCongress chair, but expelledfor corruption in 2003. Areport from the state newsagency Xinhua quoted bythe South ChinaMorning Postin August 2003 claimed thefather arranged favours forthe son.The statement of claim

said that Ching learned theChinese Ministry of PublicSecurity was in contact withthe RCMP’s liaison officerin Beijing between 2001and 2004 and that Chinesepolice wrote Dec. 22, 2004to the RCMP, asking it toprevent Ching from acquir-ing Canadian citizenship.Ching, who runs the

Mo Yeung InternationalEnterprise Group realestate development com-pany in Richmond, did notrespond for comment. Hisassistant, Amy Venhuizen,declined to put a reporter indirect contact with Ching.Ching’s company websiteMYIEGroup.com displayeda “website under mainte-nance” message this week.MYIE was behind the Col-lection 45 condo building inMount Pleasant, is develop-ing the International TradeCentre in Richmond and isa partner with Intracorp inRiver Park Place near theRichmond Olympic Oval.Ching’s lawyer David

Matas applied to FederalCourt for a judicial reviewof Ching’s November 2014refugee claim denial. It willbe heard June 23 in Win-nipeg.Matas cautioned that the

anti-corruption campaignunder Xi Jinping, China’sNovember 2012-appointedpresident, is more aboutXi cementing his authoritythan bringing integrity togovernment.

“The Communist Partycontrols the country, it doesit behind closed doors. Theissue of choice around whichthe power struggle revolvesis corruption,”Matas said.“There is no system of law,there are courts and thereis legislation, but the partycontrols the courts and thelegislature, and the courtsdon’t control the party.There is no way, other thanthis power struggle, of deal-ing with corruption issues.”Matas said the Canadian

government tends to takeallegations of corruptionfrom the government ofChina “at face value, asif this is somehow realrather than a political pawngame.” Canada and Chinado not have an extradi-tion treaty, but Canada’sambassador to China, GuySaint-Jacques, said late lastyear that the countries wereclose to a deal on returningpeople on the lam from cor-ruption charges.“The whole notion of

dealing with corruptionbehind closed doors, it’s an-tithetical to what the battleagainst corruption shouldbe,” Matas said.Ching and his wife were

listed as co-tenants ofa house near West 51stand Oak in Vancouver’sOakridge neighbourhood,now valued at $3.387million.Since Dec. 3, 2014, only

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Despite employee com-plaints of bullying, mis-management, low moraleand high turnover in theprovince’s civilian policewatchdog, the B.C. govern-ment’s human resourcesbranch will not release theresults of its investigationinto the Independent Inves-tigations Office.And now a second inves-

tigation has been orderedafter complaints aboutanother IIO director.The first formal investi-

gation was ordered by thePublic Service Agency, thehuman resources arm ofthe B.C. government, afterseveral employee com-plaints about bullying andharassment by chief civiliandirector Richard Rosenthal.Labour lawyer Chris

Sullivan has been hired toconduct the investigation,which includes interviewswith current and formerIIO employees and seniormanagement.But that report will be

kept secret.“This is a personnel

issue, and we are limitedin what we can say due toprivacy considerations,”said a spokesman in theMinistry of Finance. “Assuch, any investigation re-port would be consideredconfidential and wouldnot be publicly released.”There is no deadline for

the report to be completed.TheMinistry of Finance

refused to confirm the exis-tence of the second PublicService Agency investiga-tion, but IIO staff havebeen told about it. In thetwo and a half years sincethe Independent Investiga-tions Office was formed toinvestigate police-involved

deaths or serious injuries,it has been the subject ofthree employee surveys,two external reviews andtwo formal investigations bythe Public Service Agency.A human resources reviewwas conducted last year bylabour-relations consultantTony Belcher, in responseto complaints from FredLeibel and Robin Stutt, twoformer investigators whowere fired by Rosenthal in2014. Belcher’s report wasgiven to deputy attorneygeneral Richard Fyfe.The government is refus-

ing to release the Belcherreport following a Freedomof Information request bythe Times Colonist. Theresponse cited privacy con-cerns and provisions thatprotect policy advice to apublic body or minister.Even the senior informa-

tion and privacy analyst han-dling the request was unableto obtain a copy of the reportto consider redactions.Leibel, a former inves-

tigator, has also been de-nied access to the Belcherreport. He said he hasnever been advised of theresults of his complaint.“The obvious ques-

tion is what happened tothe Belcher report? DidBelcher substantiate ourcomplaints, unsubstantiateour complaints?” Leibel

said. “That’s the part thatconfounds me. It seems tome they’re stalling at everyturn, putting whatever ob-stacles they can throw upto not deal with the issue.As a complainant, I havethe right to know.”Leibel is asking the

information and privacycommissioner to reviewthe decision.The IIO was created as

a mechanism for transpar-ency in police-involveddeaths after the Braid-wood inquiry, whichprobed the flawed RCMPinvestigation into the fatalTasering of Polish immi-grant Robert Dziekanski.One of the IIO’s values

is transparency throughpublic reporting. But theoffice has been plagued byinternal problems, result-ing in 22 of its 50 employ-ees quitting or being firedin the last two years.Rosenthal has said every

new organization experienc-es high employee turnoverand growing pains.NDP justice critic Mike

Farnworth said the inves-tigation into Rosenthalshould be released to in-crease public confidence.“I think they need to

be more open in terms ofwhat their findings were …so that people have confi-dence,” Farnworth said.

Resultsofpolicewatchdogreport beingkept secret

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Theweek in num6ers...

4Outof five, thenumberofB.C. Court of Appeal judgeswhooverturned legislationregarding teachers’ rightstobargain class sizeand

composition.

22Outof 50, thenumberof

employeesof the IndependentInvestigationsOfficewhohavequit orbeen fired since thepolicewatchdoggroupwascreated twoyears ago.

2Atminimum, thenumberofmediaoutletswhousedCouriervideo footageof themayor recitingpoetry ina

Flames jerseywithout seekingpermission.

300Inmetres, theminimumdistanceaway frompublicschools thatmarijuana

dispensarieswouldhave tobelocatedaccording toproposed

newcivic regulations. .

714In thousandsofdollars, theamountofmoneyChineseimmigrant andCanadianpermanent residentMichaelMoYeungChing is accusedofembezzling fromChina.

42Thepercentageof first-timehomebuyers inVancouverwhoreceive financial assistance

fromparentsorother relatives,according toa report from

BMO.

GeoffOlsonColumnistmwiseguise@yahoo.com

Are you happy? Now there’s a loadedquestion. But for many Vancouverites it’snot so much a conversation starter as aZen koan.Vancouver has been a frequent winner

and runner-up in The Economist’s annualrankings of the world’s “most liveablecities.”It’s also renowned as a place where

strangers avoid conversing and newcom-ers go friendless for months. Vancouver’sresidents are least satisfied with their livesthan residents of any other metropolitanareas in Canada, according to a newstudy from Statistics Canada. Torontocame in a close second in dissatisfaction.On a 0-10 scale of “very dissatisfied”

to “very satisfied,” Vancouver netted thelowest score in surveys, at 7.808. Thehighest score went to Saguenay, Que-bec, at 8.245. But considering this dinkyspread at the high end of the satisfac-tion scale, is this ratcheting “First Worldproblems” into newsworthy predica-ments?For comparison’s sake, I’d like to see

stats from Baltimore, Maryland andPyongyang, North Korea.That said, I recently visited Montreal

— which netted 7.976 in the StatsCanstudy — and the city’s residents seemedquite a bit friendlier than Vancouveritesin my thoroughly biased, unscientificencounters. That apparent friendlinessmay have some bearing on reported levelsof satisfaction.That rubbery, subjective state, “hap-

piness” remains notoriously difficult topin down. In her 2009 book Bright-Sided:How the Relentless Promotion of PositiveThinking Has Undermined America, U.S.journalist Barbara Ehrenreich inter-viewed a leader in the field of positivepsychology, Professor Martin Seligman.The author inquired about Seligman’s“happiness equation,” a simple sumwith a few variables. Her question wouldhave been a no-brainer for any first-yearphysics student: “What are the units ofmeasurement?” She received no satisfac-tory answer.In any case, Canadians’ popular ideas

of pleasure and reward have long beentangled up with those of our neighbours;in particular, “the right to life, libertyand the pursuit of happiness” enshrinedin the American Declaration of Indepen-dence as “inalienable rights” granted by

the Creator to all American citizens.For decades, economists, business

gurus, self-help authors, motivationalspeakers have sold the “pursuit of happi-ness” as relentless self-advancement serv-ing the common good. Yet the classicaleconomist’s “self-interested maximizerof utility” — otherwise known as “Homoeconomicus” — is more like a notepaddoodle of a psychopath than a fleshed-out portrait of a healthy human being.The reimagining of self as shopper has

not delivered on the promise of hap-piness, because personal well-being isultimately dependent on the well-beingof others, with factors that lie outside themarket’s range. As for Vancouver itself, acity populated by the winners and losersin a global Monopoly game — with ashrinking demographic on the sidelines— is not conducive to collective happi-ness, however we define the h-word.“I think a lot of the unhappiness [in

Vancouver] comes from the lack of af-fordability, how much one has to work topay that cost of living, and how the city isunder siege by development,” writes a lo-cal urban expert by email. This scenicallyspectacular city has fashioned itself into aMecca for tourism and the global real es-tate investment market. In the process ithas also become a colder, more alienatingplace, with shrinking habitation optionsfor local cultural creatives who couldtruly make it “world class.”“I do not write this in a spirit of sour-

ness or personal disappointment of anykind, nor do I have any romantic attach-ment to suffering as a source of insight orvirtue,” writes journalist Barbara Ehren-reich in Bright-Sided.“I would like to see more smiles, more

laughter, more hugs, more happinessand, better yet, joy. In my own vision ofutopia, there is not only more comfort,and security for everyone — better jobs,health care, and so forth — there are alsomore parties, festivities, and opportuni-ties for dancing in the streets. Once ourbasic material needs are met — in myutopia, anyway — life becomes a per-petual celebration in which everyone hasa talent to contribute. But we cannot levi-tate ourselves into that blessed conditionby wishing it. We need to brace ourselvesfor a struggle against terrifying obstacles,both of our own making and imposed bythe natural world. And the first step isto recover from the mass delusion that ispositive thinking.”

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Allen GarrColumnistagarr@vancourier.com

The battle lines being drawn overVancouver’s plans to regulate pot dis-pensaries should seem familiar. The lasttime we saw two sides forming in thisexact configuration was the tussle overVancouver’s supervised drug injectionsite, Insite.Recall that the city, under former

NPA mayor Philip Owen, first led thecharge. The province backed the projectarguing that it was a matter of healthcare and therefore under the province’sjurisdiction.When Ottawa was run by the Liberals

and former Prime Minister Paul Martin,Insite was granted a certificate throughHealth Canada that allowed it to haveillegal drugs on the premises. VancouverCoastal Health Authority was a partnerin the project.When Stephen Harper’s Tories took

over, things changed dramatically.Harper’s crowd tried to shut down Insiteonly to be forced by the Supreme Courtto allow the facility to continue as it hasbeen to this day.The Vancouver cops, who could

bust anyone on their way to Insite andin possession of illegal drugs, took theposition that it was in the best interest ofthe community and maintaining publicorder to devote their efforts elsewhere.This time around the issue is not her-

oin; it is marijuana, a drug that has hadits own history of political vilification.In the early years of the last century,

both booze and pot were prohibitedsouth of the border. The prohibition onalcohol consumption was lifted in theface of a massive increase in organizedcrime profiting from the illegal produc-tion, importation and distribution.Marijuana, which was considered a

drug used by the marginalized — Afri-can Americans, Mexicans, jazz musi-cians and artists — continued to geta bad rap thanks in part to the liquorlobby.The pitch to keep it illegal was

focused in warnings about the risk atwhich it put our children.A 1936 propaganda film with the

original title Tell your Children even-tually evolved into a cult classic calledReefer Madness. It was, according toIMDb’s plot summary, a cautionary tale“that features a fictionalized and highlyexaggerated take on the use of marijua-

na. A trio of drug dealers leads innocentteenagers to become addicted to reefercigarettes by holding wild parties withjazz music.”It didn’t work. By the ’60s, marijuana

became the drug of choice (along with apsychedelic buffet from peyote to LSD)by another group of outsiders, the hippies.Subsequently, it found increasing

use for its medical benefits in reducingnausea, particularly among first cancerpatients undergoing chemotherapy andthe AIDS patients enduring a whole raftof drugs in the struggle to stay alive.The first “Compassion Club,” a loca-

tion for people who benefit from smok-ing pot, opened in Vancouver in 1997.It was the federal Liberals under Jean

Chretien who, having been pushed byan Ontario Court of Appeal decisionin 2001, granted permits for folks withmedical needs to grow their own pot orhave others grow it for them. From thenuntil 2014, the number of permits grewfrom 100 to 40,000.And then along came Harper.In 2013, the old permit system was

tossed out. If you wanted pot, you need-ed a doctor’s certificate and you had toorder the drug online from a federallycertified grower.That decision was challenged in court

and there is currently an injunctionagainst the decision to cancel the oldsystem of permits.But — blame Harper — since that

2013 decision, the number of pot shopsin Vancouver has exploded. It has be-come, as Vancouver Police head of themajor crimes unit and the drug squad,Supt. Mike Porteous, sees it, “the wildwest.”So once again, lining up to support

the regulation of distribution of thisdrug, we have the cops, the city, theregional health authority, and, mostrecently, the provincial government.Opposed are the feds in the person of

Health Minister Rona Ambrose with ascript straight out of Reefer Madness. Fly-ing in the face of evidence to the con-trary which shows liberalization of potlaws has led to a declining use amongstyouth in other countries including Hol-land, she posits that “normalizing mari-juana could mean more than tripling itsuse by youth.”It may not be evidence-based but it is

political red meat for the Tory base aswe head into a federal election this year.

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April 30, 1994: A pass fromdefenceman Jeff Brown put Canucks star Pavel Bureon a breakaway he finishedby scoringonCalgary Flames goalieMike Vernonat 2:20of the secondovertimeperiod to clinch theWesternConferencequarter-final fourgames to three for Vancouverwith a 4-3win. Itmarked theCanucks’ third straightwin inOTas the teamovercamea3-1 series leadby the Flames,whobowedoutin the first round for the fourth time in a row.GregAdams forced suddendeathbybeating Vernonwith 3:37 remaining in regulation timeafter taking apass fromBure anddriving to thenet from the corner untouched. Vernonwent downandpokecheckedhim, but thepuckwent upandover his pad.

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If youdon’t build it, theywon’t comeRe: “Developers tout tiny condos as

solution for first-time buyers,” onlineonly.I am 57 years old and I was born and

raised in Vancouver. I hate what ourcity has become and it’s only gettingworse by the day. I want to know who isbenefitting from the population growthin Vancouver. The city seems to be do-ing all it can to encourage overpopula-tion, congestion, line-ups, waits at lights,while at the same time bragging abouthow “green” we are. The green factorwill never keep up with the ever-growingpopulation.They say “If you build, they will

come.” Well, why don’t we try: “Stopbuilding, and they won’t come.” Whatam I missing? Why do we need morepeople in Vancouver? Is our goal to be-come the most densely populated city inthe world? My, what an honour!They say if more people live here,

more jobs will be created. Huh? Ifwe didn’t have so many people, wewouldn’t need so many jobs. Whatabout quality of life for those of usalready here? And please don’t tell meimproved transit is going to reduce con-gestion. Try selling a 450 sq. ft. condoin Vancouver that doesn’t have a parkingstall and tell me how many people aregoing to line up for that unit.I work near YVR. As it is, I often wait

two light cycles at Cambie and Marine.I can only imagine what that stretch ofMarine Drive is going to be like whenthousands of people move into thoseugly, sun-blocking monstrosities at thatcorner, not to mention those who willvisit the retail space on the ground level.And what about how the city has al-

lowed the once beautiful Cambie Streetto become a row of shoebox, soullesscondos? Cambie Street has always beenmy favorite street to drive north/south inVancouver. It is now hardly better thanOak or Granville, and since the start ofthe Canada Line there has been nothingbut disruption.Who is allowing this and who is ben-

efitting from it? I feel the city is reapingshort-term rewards at the cost of long-term stress and a huge drop in quality oflife for the residents of Vancouver. Whois looking ten years ahead to see howthis ridiculous growth is going to affectthe mental and physical health of theresidents here, and the inevitable impacton our health care system and lost workdays due to stress? This is not progress.It is greed.

Debra Jackson, Vancouver

ONLINE COMMENTSSkating the issueRe: “Skateboarders rally to prevent

Mount Pleasant skate park demolition,”online only.The Courier should look up in its ar-

chives articles from 2006, when progres-sive neighbours banded together with theskate community to save the China Creekskate park from being demolished by thepark board of the day. It is sad to see,almost 10 years later, the exact same ste-reotyped-based arguments being made toget the Mount Pleasant park demolished,thinly disguised as noise complaints.I hope the park board of 2015 can

broaden their minds and follow theboard mandate (“nurture, maintain, anddevelop Vancouver’s urban parks”) inthe same way the board of 2006 did.

G. Kosh, via Comments section• • •

“Why spend […] taxpayers’ moneybuilding an environment for kids tospend time living actively and healthy,allwhile staying out of trouble skateboard-ing if you’re going to turn around threeyears down the road and tear it down?!”Game, set, match.

Jack, via Comments section• • •

The neighbours have been putting upwith the noise for years with no supportfrom the park board. This is the only waythey’ve been able to bring any attentionto the issue. The politicians who messedthis up by lying and not planning aheadneed to be held accountable and soundbarriers which were promised three yearsago need to be finally put in place.

Ian Boothby, via Comments section

Floatingan idea forB.C.FerriesRe: “Complaining about B.C. Ferries’

fares could hurt tourism, says CEO,”online only.I strongly advocate for reduced

off-season rates. Those would help toincrease ridership and give those of uswho live on the Island and use B.C.Ferries as our highway to get to work thebreak we deserve. Last year, I spent over$4,000 on B.C. Ferries, and didn’t somuch as receive a free coffee.

Brenda Jones, via Facebook• • •

Imagine if all the bridges and tunnels inthe Lower Mainland were contracted outand the contractor was told “do whateveryou have to and make them profitable.We will give you a token amount ofmoney but at the end of the year give mea whack of money before you pay your-self. If the bridges need to be replaced, goanywhere in the world and get them builtand we will guarantee the loans.” Imag-ine what the bridge tolls would be.

Matlow, via Comments section

Charles and Diana launch Expo 86May 2, 1986:Prince Charles andPrincess Diana officially open the 1986WorldExposition on Transportation andCommunication, better knownas Expo 86,at the north end of False Creek. Eight years in themaking andwith a total of 54participating countries, the secondWorld’s Fair held in Canada runs until Oct. 13.A total of 22million people visited the event, whichwas declared a success despitea deficit of $311million. Expo 86 is generally considered the turning point forVancouver changing froma sleepy backwater to an aspiringworld-class city.

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 THE VANCOUVER COURIER A11

Formany Vancouverites, practices such as tai chi are an example of how spirituality ismore about themind andbody than about theological verities. PHOTODANTOULGOET

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PACIFIC SPIRIT

Pat JohnsonPacificSpiritPJ@gmail.com

In the ’90s sitcom Rose-anne, son DJ comes to hisparents with the question“What religion are we?”Dad Dan says, “Well,

my family’s Pentecostalon my mom’s side, Baptiston my dad’s side. Yourmom’s mom was Lutheranand her dad was Jewish.”“So what do we be-

lieve?” DJ asks. The par-ents shift awkwardly.“Well,” mom Roseanne

begins, “We believe inbeing good. So basicallywe’re good people.”“Yes,” says Dan. “But

we’re not practising.”Confusing family stories

like this are probably thenew normal in Canada,according to a recent studyfrom the Angus Reid Insti-tute, which suggests a largeswath of Canadians — 44per cent — are neither in-clined to embrace religionnor inclined to reject it, butdefine themselves as some-where in between. Thisgroup is the plurality in ev-ery region, age and gender.Of respondents, another30 per cent said they areinclined to embrace reli-gion and an almost parallel26 per cent said they areinclined to reject it.There are some fascinat-

ing and bizarre findings inthe study.Among the large number

of religiously ambivalent, 87per cent continue to identifywith a religious tradition.Even among the 26 per centwho reject religion, a major-ity continues to identifywith a religious tradition. Inother words, perhaps, “Thechurch we don’t attendis United (or Catholic, orwhatever our grandparentssubscribed to).”Curious too is that almost

three in four of the reli-giously ambivalent respon-dents do not believe that thegrowth of atheism has beena good thing for Canada. Soeven as we move away fromreligion, we don’t necessarilythink atheism is a positivealternative.In the category of most

contradictory, I wouldparticularly like to havea beer with the seven percent who reject religionbut want a religious fu-neral. I guess most of ussometimes hedge bets.Millions of Canadians

reject or are simply ambiv-

alent to religion, but clingstrongly to certain aspects,like feeling a personalconnection with God andpraying privately or sayinggrace at the table.While the report has a

lot of fascinating new nug-gets, it also confirms theanecdotal evidence thatSBNR — spiritual but notreligious — has become athing. But what does thateven mean?Obviously, it means

different things to differ-ent people. There mayhave been a mythologicaltime when Canada wasa country of Protestants,Catholics and a few Jews.Since the 1960s, there hasbeen a tremendous influxof people of different tradi-tions. In more recent years,it seems we have refractedinto possibly millions ofspiritual perspectives.

Not addressed by thestudy, but something thatI’ve pondered is the basicnomenclature aroundthese subjects. Theblanket terms “faith” and“belief” seem problematic,because not all religiousstreams are defined bythese words. For some —most notably, in my expe-rience, liberal Christiansand many adherents ofJudaism — religion is notprimarily about answers,or about having faith orbelief, but about exploringquestions and acknowl-edging what we don’tknow, and can’t know.For others, spirituality ismore about practices ofthe mind and body thanabout theological verities.By a similar token,

the word “belief,” whichimplies religious certainty,seems like a sort of sacri-

lege, the human arrogancethat we could possiblyknow the unknowable.And not only know it, butinsist that our knowledgeis certain and unchal-lengeable. That kind ofcertainty — that “belief”— is rejected by increasingnumbers of Canadians,nowhere more so thanhere on the Wet Coast.Huge numbers of

Vancouverites believe thatthere is something greaterthan ourselves, but recog-nize as futile attempts todefine it. This seems likea respectful approach todivinity or spirituality orwhatever word we use todescribe our relationshipwith the unknown.There is still, of course,

a significant number ofCanadians who believethat their books representthe word of God. These

various scriptures are thefoundations upon whichour ancestors sought tomake sense of the worldaround them — and manypeople still do, some verythoughtfully, some mind-lessly. But according tothis study, a large majorityof us are not convincedthey hold definitiveanswers to our infinitequestions.This and similar studies

seem to suggest a driftaway from religion. Butmaybe that’s not quiteit. Maybe these attitudesrepresent a deepening ofspiritual maturity. In atleast some cases, it may bea sign of unprecedentedspiritual questioning,which is not a rejection oftheology or spirit or ritual,but a more advanced,critical approach to it.Sometimes the greatest

wisdom is demonstratedby those who acknowledgewhat they don’t know.There is enough fod-

der in the Angus Reidstudy itself for a series ofcolumns. But given theevidence that an increas-ing number of Canadiansare SBNR, I thought itwould be cool to see whatthat means to people.By definition, there is

no way I could cover everypermutation of this sort ofindividualized spirituality,so I am choosing a fewthat piqued my curiosity. Ihave already had my mind(and spirit) opened duringmy initial research. I hopeyou will also find in thisexploration something thatresonates.And if you have an idea

for inclusion in this series,shoot me an email.

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Point Grey secondaryschool crowns HeritageVancouver Society’s Top 10most-endangered sites listfor 2015.The school, located at

5350 East Blvd. on theWest Side, was completedin 1929. Townley &Mathe-son, who are known fordesigning city hall, designedit in the Collegiate Gothicstyle, which is uncom-mon in Vancouver. It wasinspired by medieval Gothicarchitecture, according toHeritage Vancouver.Point Grey is one of

many Vancouver schoolsthat’s at risk of severe dam-age in an earthquake. TheVSB is exploring optionsfor the school, which mayinclude a seismic upgrade, apartial rebuild or a completereplacement.Heritage Vancouver

argues the main buildingshould be maintained andupgraded, calling PointGrey “one of the mostdistinctive heritage highschools in Vancouver.”Schools have often ap-

peared on the conservationsociety’s watch list andsome have already beenlost.Javier Campos, Heritage

Vancouver’s president, saidmany items on the list actas poster children for largerissues.“So [Point Grey] is a

poster child for the idea ofall of the schools. It’s notjust Point Grey. It’s the factthat all of those old schoolsare endangered. It’s a longstory of mismanagementof resources and the schoolboard not having moneyfrom the [provincial] govern-ment,” Campos said. “And,compared to Victoria, whichuses their money to upgradeseismically, Vancouver did alot of deferred maintenance.The provincial governmentis not paying for the main-tenance and now it’s moreexpensive to actually keepa school and it’s cheaper totear it down and build a newone.”Not surprisingly St.

Paul’s Hospital landedin second place on thesociety’s endangered list. InApril, Providence HealthCare announced plans toreplace the historic WestEnd hospital with a state-of-the-art building on an18.5-acre site adjacent to

the city’s train station atMain and Terminal.The fear is the Burrard

Street building will be de-molished and the land, as-sessed at $360 million, willbe sold for development.St. Paul’s also landed

on Heritage Vancouver’s2006, 2007, 2012 and 2013endangered sites list.“There are no laws or

policies, or incentives,which compel the main-tenance of institutionalheritage,” the society pointsout. “It is a common tacticto stop maintenance on ex-isting public buildings whena new building is desired.We need only look at ourhistoric schools to see thisongoing lack of mainte-nance... It is hard to makethe case for a new buildingunless you find fault withthe old one, leading to sys-temic deterioration.”The organization main-

tains St. Paul’s could beadapted for office and sup-port services or for uniqueresidential uses as part ofa future redevelopment onthe existing site.The remaining items

on Top 10 list are: heri-tage churches, includingOakridge United (1949),Marine Gardens town-houses, Gastown, CBKVan Norman houses, the100 block East Hastings,Terminal Avenue industrialbuildings, Campbell andHastings Street, and Com-mercial Drive.Stewart Burgess, vice

president of HeritageVancouver, said one of thethemes of the list is unrec-ognized assets, which isrelated to work the societyis doing on the processthat’s underway to update

the city’s heritage register aspart of the Heritage ActionPlan.He said St. Paul’s has no

protection right now, nor dosome church buildings suchas Oakridge United, whichare not just architecturalicons but community assetsand social gathering spaces.CBKNorman houses arebeing “demolished left andright,” along with manycharacter homes in Vancou-ver, with little or no protec-tion, Burgess added.“Main and Terminal —

the industrial buildings,which everyone drives byand looks at and, I think,appreciates them and theirplace in the city, but noone is aware they coulddisappear tomorrow ifplans to develop East FalseCreek go ahead,” he said.“So, I’d say, [the list] istied to our work updatingthe register, trying to getsome of these propertiesonto the register and getthem some protection.”Campos believes the city

is moving forward in its ef-forts to protect heritage.“The heritage action

plan is a huge step forward.We haven’t done anythingabout heritage in 25 years,so we’re dealing with25-year-old ideas abouthow to save buildings,” hesaid. “So I think that’s thebiggest thing that’s hap-pening and I think the citytook a big step forward inimplementing the HeritageAction Plan.”Heritage Vancouver’s

2015 Top 10 EndangeredSites bus tour is from 1 to5 p.m., May 9. For moreinformation and tickets, seeheritagevancouver.org.

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day and he wasn’t there. Mykids were all downheartedthat the friendly man wasgone. So when I heard Rickwas retiring, I’d be damnedif I was going to go throughthat again. I wanted to cel-ebrate our relationship.”So that’s what he did.

Special lunchA few weeks ago, he

picked up Caulfield at thebarber shop in his convert-ible, top down. They droveto the yacht club.Themain floor was

packed. So Cosulich suggest-ed they dine upstairs. Andguess who was up there?“My family, my friends,

the people I work with— allthese people, it was amaz-ing,” said Caulfield, inbetween haircuts on oneof his last days at the shoplast week. “I didn’t think itwould be that upsetting, butit was. People were in tears.”Video taken by one of the

guests captured Cosulich’sspeech. He delivered it fromhis seat at one end of a longtable draped in white linen.Caulfield and his wife wereat the other end. They hadall eaten lunch. Some guestswere finishing their desserts.After telling the story

about Graham and the man

at the sushi restaurant, Co-sulich turned his thoughtsto his barber. He pointedout how Caulfield knew allhis children and even hisdeceased dog’s name.He talked about the tough

times Caulfield enduredwhen he went through adivorce and the challengeof raising two young boys,Steven and Ryan, who arenow adults and were seatedat the same table.Then along came

Heather, he said, a bundleof positive energy he metmore than 20 years ago.She, too, has two sons froma previous marriage, Seanand Chris, who becamestepsons to Caulfield whenhe married their mother 16years ago.Caulfield’s friendly

demeanour, he said, wasa trait he appreciated. Hiseasygoing nature remindedhim of an uncle who hadsince died. By contrast,Cosulich added, he hadrough edges, was opinion-ated and some people usea word to describe him thathe wouldn’t repeat in mixedcompany.“So when I thought

about you retiring,” he toldCaulfield, “I wanted to tellyou that it’s been more thanjust a haircut.”He went on to say how

he doubted he could fill aroom like the one they werein with such caring people

— a similar comment hemade over the phone fromSan Francisco, when hesaid he wished he had a fewless dollars and few moretrue friends.He closed with this.“So I wanted to celebrate

you and our relationshipbecause, as odd as it seems,you’re part of my life andimportant to me. And soI’m going to miss you.”The video panned to

Caulfield, who raised a glass.“I’m going to miss you,

too.”

TravellingmanThe luncheon set the

tone for what would be areflective and emotionalcouple of weeks for Caul-field, who thought moreand more about his career,his life and his customers asretirement day approached.He was still clearly movedby Cosulich’s generosityand friendship during theCourier’s visit.“You know, he’s gone

throughmy whole life withme—my divorce and stressand stuff like that. Usually,it’s the other way around andthe customer tells me aboutthat stuff. But not with Paul.He’s just one of those guys.”Left out of Cosulich’s

speech was how Caulfieldlost his parents, Ethel andJames, when he was 12years old (his father to can-cer, his mother to a heart at-

tack). His brother Jim, whowas 25 at the time, raisedhim until he was old enoughto join the Navy.RayWood, who attended

the luncheon, knew that his-tory. He also knewCaulfieldstarted cutting hair in 1968.That’s becauseWood hasworked with him for 47years. In fact,Wood’s father,Frank, opened a barber shopin Kitsilano in 1946 and gaveCaulfield his first haircut. Hewas three years old.Wood, 70, owns Kitsilano

Barbers and was in the shoplast Friday and Saturday. Sowere barbers Sam Pybus,who has worked with bothmen for 20 years, andNancyPosnikoff, who joined theshop almost four years ago.After close to a half-centu-

ry together, there’s not muchWood andCaulfield don’tknow about each other. Likeany good barber, they knowhow to listen, and whenCaulfield went through hisdivorce andWood’s wifedied last year, they werethere for each other.“He knows all about my

life and I know all abouthis, the good times and thebad,” said Wood, notingthey’ve cut each other’s hairfor 47 years. “You can’twork with someone for 47years and not know abouteach other’s lives. But youknow, we’ve never had anyreal problems between us.”So what’s he think about

his old buddy calling it quits?Caulfield, standing

nearby, answered for him.“He says I can’t go.”

Wood: “I’m in denial, Ican’t believe it.”Caulfield: “They figure

I’m coming back.”Wood: “Oh, he’s com-

ing back for free haircuts,that’s for sure.”Caulfield: “Yeah, I guess

I’ve got to come back andkeep track of these guys.”Pybus overheard the

exchange.“I’ve never seen them

fight. I’ve seen Rick raisehis voice a few timesbecause Ray is a bit of aprocrastinator.”Wood, laughing: “That’s

too late for me to changethat. Once you’re a procras-tinator, you procrastinateabout everything. I’m put-ting off dying, too.”Posknikoff described

Caulfield — who couldpass for someone a lotyounger than 71 — asthe calming influence inthe shop, which has eightfull-time and part-timeemployees. Caulfield isalso the guy who fixes theclippers, the toilet whenit’s not working and thedrains if they’re plugged.He’s got one other

speciality: He’s the shop’sexpert on travelling,especially cruises. At astaff dinner last week,Pybus presented him with

a T-shirt that said “cruisemaster” on the front anda list of his 19 cruises onthe back.With Caulfield retiring,

she jokes that she won’thave to listen to him talkincessantly with customersabout his travels, which willcontinue in his retirement.Europe, Hawaii and NewZealand are on his list.“I work in the corner

next to him and it’s alwaysabout what he’s doingprior to the trip, gettingready for the trip andthen it’s like all about thetrip. Every customer, it’salmost like repetition. Isaid to him one day, ‘Geta tape recorder and put iton, then you won’t have tosay anything.’”Posnikoff added to Py-

bus’ story.“And with every conver-

sation with his customers,there’s always the state-ment: ‘My wife alwayssays, we’re here for a goodtime, not a long time.’”Pybus: “I should have

put that on the T-shirt.”

Another eraThe barber shop is like

most from its era, simplein its decor, with arboritecounters, a linoleum floor,big red barber chairs, a wallof mirrors and editions ofTime andNational Geo-graphic stacked on a smalltable in the waiting area.

Musical sendoffonbarber’s last day

PaulWickett workedwith Rick Caulfield for 10 years. He returned to Kitsilano Barbers Saturday to pay tribute to his friend and sing him a song. PHOTOREBECCA BLISSETTCaulfield and RayWood (in chair) worked together for 47 years at two different barber shops in Kitsilano. They’ve cut each other’s hair for the same period of time.Wood’s dad, Frank, gave Caulfield his firsthaircut at three years old. PHOTODANTOULGOET

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The faint sounds of aradio station coupled withthe buzz of clippers andconversation provide theday’s soundtrack, all underbanks of fluorescent lights.What’s unique about

the shop is the large blackand white photographsof old Vancouver on thewalls. There’s a shot ofWest Fourth and Yewfrom 1909, with a cop onhorseback. A photo of theEnglish Bay bathhousehangs next to it. But theone image that gets themost attention is of Kitsi-lano pool, circa 1953.It was taken at a time

when swimming was free,when the pool was largerand lifeguards used lifeboatsto monitor the activity inthe water. The lifeguardin the boat that day, andprominent in the frame, wasCaulfield’s brother, Jim.The 84-year-old retired

law firmmanager droppedinto the shop last Fridaymorning, concealing abottle of Crown Royal (ina box) under his coat. Hepulled out the whiskey andgave it to his brother.“Here, happy retire-

ment,” he said, adding tohis brother’s haul of rum,wine, scotch and otherbooze he received from cus-tomers in the last month.“Thanks, bro.”The elder Caulfield was

there for his last haircut.Well, his last haircut in theshop, anyway; little brotherhas promised to visit him athome to continue cutting hishair. (Their sister, Lillian,who was 19 years older thanRick, died several years ago.)Although Rick joked that

Jim was still his guardian,and he felt guilty about“all the stuff” he put himthrough as a kid, the con-versation was all about daysgone by at Kits pool.

“If you look at the pooltoday, there’s not manypeople in there,” said Jim,who worked nine summersat what was once one of thebiggest salt water pools inthe world. “That’s because itwas free back then and youdidn’t have all these rulesthat you have now. And youwonder why kids are notexercising today. That’s thestory I want you to write.”Rick accompanied Jim

regularly to the pool andlater became a lifeguard.After their parents died,he moved in with Jim inKerrisdale, where onenight when washing disheshe got the message he wasdriving his brother andwife nuts.“So I went and I signed

up in the Navy, and I wasgone,” he said, noting thathe was a sonar technicianfor three years, working outof Nova Scotia.When he left the Navy, he

thought he’d give barber-ing a shot. The idea wasthat it was a job he coulddo anywhere in the world,although he laughs that henever worked outside ofKitsilano and didn’t begintravelling until 1991.What’s kept him on

the job for so long are thecustomers.Cosulich is one them, of

course. And he’s got a bitof tale on how he first metCaulfield. While working ona tugboat years ago in theCaribbean, the first matesnuck up behind him andcut off his ponytail. His hair,he said, resembled actorCarol Burnett’s for a while.“When I came back into

town, I went to a barbershop in Kerrisdale and Ididn’t think much of them,”said Cosulich, whose familyran a tugboat business. “SoI went driving around andfound this barber shop in

Kitsilano. And Rick’s beencutting my hair ever since.”Don’t ask Caulfield how

many customers he has,or how many heads of hairhe’s cut in 47 years. Hun-dreds, thousands probably.He’ll tell you they comefrom all walks of life — highschool principals, labourers,business people, students.They’ve included formerpremier Mike Harcourt,Lululemon founder ChipWilson, Global anchorChris Gailus and retiredB.C. Lion Jamie Taras.Mostly, it’s been regularfolk looking for a good hair-cut at a reasonable price;when he began his careerin 1968, he charged $2.50,now it’s $19.Over the years, he’s seen

the styles go from short tomedium to long to military.When asked which haircuthe prefers doing, he pointedat a customer in Pybus’chair, who was getting aclosed-crop cut.“Those ones,” he said.

“Just shave it off.”He’s had some good

chats over the years withcustomers. But Caulfieldlearned not to talk politicsor religion, saying “stayaway from those twothings and you’ll stay outof trouble.”Talking sports almost

got him in a jackpot 10years ago. One morning,a young guy came in for ahaircut. They got talkingabout the previous night’sVancouver Canucks game.The customer said he wasat the game.“I said they didn’t play

too bad, that they won thegame,” he recalled. “An-other customer over there[in the waiting area] keptlooking over at me andlaughing. The guy left,then my other customercame over and said, ‘Youdidn’t know who that guywas did you?’ I said, ‘No.’He laughed and said,‘Good thing you didn’t sayanything bad about theteam because he playeddefence last night.’”Caulfield can’t remember

the player’s name. But he

knows the names of cus-tomers Tony Gill and BillMiller, both of whom havebeen getting their hair cutfrom Caulfield or Wood formore than 30 years.“It’s just consistent,

reliable and I like Rick’sstories about his travels,”said Gill, a retired engi-neer who used to live inKitsilano but now travelsfrom Fairview Slopes fora haircut. “I do a lot oftravelling, so we have a lotin common that way. I’llmiss him.”Miller, a retired salesper-

son, said the old photo-graphs on the wall remindhim of being a kid. Hepointed out the old fish-and-chip shop at EnglishBay before his turn was upwith Caulfield.“You just get used to

certain people and they’renice people and they do agood job, so you keep com-ing back,” he said. “Rick’sa good guy and he’s alwaysgot a story to tell.”

Last cutMore customers poured

in Saturday, his last day.Staff posted a sign, deco-

rated with balloons, on awall at the front of the shop,congratulating Caulfield onhis 47 years.There was food, cham-

pagne and cake.As the afternoon wore

on, and he finished his lasthaircut —Mark Knight, aseven-year customer hadthe privilege — he cleanedout his drawer and stuffedhis tools of the trade in ablack carrying bag.He placed it in his bar-

ber’s chair.Then his seven-year-old

grandson, Nathan, ran inthe shop with more bal-loons. His wife Heatherwas right behind him, alongwith more family.

Paul Wickett walked in,guitar in hand.The 66-year-old used to

work with Caulfield for 10years. He retired after hegot diagnosed with cancerbut pointed out he playedsoccer that morning.Suzanne Cole, one of the

longtime female custom-ers of the shop, was there,too. She echoed what manysaid before her, saying sheappreciated the family-typeatmosphere and the staff’swelcoming spirit.“That’s why I keep

coming back,” she saidover the sound of poppingchampagne corks. “It’s notpretentious, it’s a comfort-able place, they’re veryeasygoing. We’re all goingto miss Rick.”For Caulfield, who

looked around at his fam-ily and friends as he stoodnext to his barber’s chair,the floor underneath himvisibly worn from standingin one spot all those years,he talked about what itwas like to wake up on theday he would retire.“You get up and say,

‘This is it, this is the lastday.’ And to have all this,with family and friends andthe luncheon, it’s quite away to go out. I didn’t thinkthis many people liked me.”Wickett, guitar in hand,

started strumming thechords to a Trooper song.It was familiar to Caulfieldand his wife, Heather, whoshared that a day nevergoes by without themknowing “how lucky andblessed we are because lifecan change so fast.”Wickett reached the

chorus, and everybodyjoined in.“We’re here for a good

time, not a long time. Sohave a good time. The suncan’t shine every day.”

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Caulfield and his wife, Heather, have beenmarried 16 years. The couplemetmore than 20 years ago and each have two sons frompreviousmarriages. The retiring barber gives hugs to his grandkids on hislast day as a barber at Kitsilano Barbers. He has big plans to spend his retirement travelling, beginningwith a trip to Europe. PHOTOSREBECCA BLISSETT

Paul Cosulichwas a customer of Rick Caulfield’s formore than 30years. A fewweeks ago, he held a surprise luncheon for his barberand friend, telling himhow important hewas in his life.

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Deciding on plantingdates for warm weatherveggies is trickier than usualthis spring due to strangelyunpredictable weather —but sowing runner beansonce May starts is normallya safe bet because theywithstand colder soil thansnap beans.Runner seed is usually

available for pole beansonly. They’re a dual pur-pose crop. You can runthem up a trellis as a deco-rative screen and enjoytheir masses of bright-redflowers. The long, largepods which follow tastegood and freeze well.Snap beans can be plant-

ed starting midMay. Unlikerunner beans, all snap beanpods are stringless. Likeall beans, snap bean plantsneed rich soil and lots ofwater. The heirloom “Ken-tucky Wonder” is usuallyavailable as pole bean seedonly, but “Blue Lake” isavailable in pole or dwarf.Snap beans can also befound with purple or goldenpods. The purple ones turngreen when cooked.It’s useful to mulch all

vegetables to hold mois-ture into the soil duringour hot summers. Butdwarf snap beans defi-nitely need mulch morethan most to avoid mud-splashes on the beans.Zucchini seed can be

sown from mid-May on.Although planting them ona hill of good rich soil is theideal situation for the mostzucchinis possible, lots ofgardeners end up with toomany that got too big whenthey weren’t looking.The crucial points about

growing zucchini are: pro-

tecting young seedlings fromslugs, watering the plantsoften and checking the cropevery day. If (when) you endup with a giant zucchini pickit anyway and compost it. Ifyou allow it to make seed,your supply of young zuc-chinis will cease.Squash seedlings are

just as attractive to slugsas zucchinis are. Thesafest protection of all iscopper wraps or coppertape or popping bottom-less plastic milk cartons orclear plastic juice contain-ers over the baby plants.Squash is grown much

like zucchini on hills ofgood soil or compostheaps. The vining plantscan also be grown up verysturdy trellises.An alternative is grow-

ing in vegetable gardensguiding the squash runnerswith wooden pegs to runover beds where vegetableshave matured and gone.When the squash plant isremoved, garlic or covercrops can go in.Delicata is one of my

favourite squashes: makesmasses of small fruit just bigenough for two people andfreezes well. But heritagesquash is worth trying. Itkeeps much longer than thenewer types and has veryrich flavours. Not perfect,though. Many are ribbed,have tough skins and arequite heavy. A wonder-ful crop for people with acleaver (or a good woodaxe) and strong muscles.Tomatoes are an ideal

crop for containers, andproduction soars if thecontainer is large, at least40 cm across. They needlots of water and goodsoil laced with compost ortomato food and toppedwith mulch. They love thewarmth of a south or westwall and the shelter of aroof overhang.

The indeterminate typescan grow huge and sobushy that tomatoes arehidden and don’t ripen.Head this off at the passby only letting the firsttwo or three suckers grow.Pinch off the rest.Anne Marrison is happy

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This weekend, SpencerLindsay will walk the talk.Lindsay is an assistant

for the annual Jane’s WalksVancouver and a leader forthe walks held in Vancouverand around the world fromMay 1 to 3.“It’s a walking conversa-

tion,” he said. “It’s a way ofcollectively imagining what abetter city would look like.”The walks, which involve

thousands of people in theLower Mainland, honourJane Jacobs by walkingaround their neighbour-hoods. They occur everyspring to celebrate thePennsylvania-born activistwho saw cities in a differentlight. Although she had noformal training as a plan-ner, her ideas about howcities function, evolve andfail, which she wrote aboutin her book The Death andLife of Great AmericanCities, spurred modern dayurbanists and architects toput her philosophies intopractice. She wanted tofoster connection by makingcities more walkable, andfor people to simply knowabout where they live.This year, Vancouver has

25 Jane’sWalks planned,spanning fromCoal Harbourto the Downtown Eastside.Lindsay is leading Know-

ing the Land Beneath OurFeet: An Indigenous Tourof UBC this year. A recentgrad of the Indigenous Com-munity Planning programat the University of B.C.School of Community Plan-ning, Lindsay wanted to con-

nect his walk to the tour healso leads around the UBCcampus which educates stu-dents about theMusqueamNation’s historical presencein the area.“People were really keen

on learning the natural, theindigenous and the settle-ment history of the neigh-bourhood,” said Lindsay,who has a deep interestin communities and citydesign and said that Jacobswas “very influential in the

planning field.”“She changed the way we

look at cities,” he said, not-ing her idea that walkableneighbourhoods improvecommunities is now com-mon sense to planners andarchitects.“In order to develop and

envision what your city isgoing to look like, you can’tget that through architectmodels,” he said. “You re-ally have to walk your city.”Jane’s Walks take place

fromMay 1 to 3 in morethan 100 cities worldwide,with 60 different walksacross the Lower Mainland.For Lindsay, changing theway neighbours interactwith each other is whatJane’s Walks are all about.“I think that’s really part

of Jane Jacobs’ legacy,”he said. “We’re not onlymeeting neighbours, we’renot only learning historicaltidbits, we’re connecting.”LongtimeNorth Surrey

resident Grant Rice took partin a Jane’sWalk last year inNewWestminster. He likedthat the walk revealedNewWest’s old railway.“One of the fellas wore

one of these conductor hatsso that was kind of cool,”said Rice. After talking tothe Jane’s Walks organizerin NewWest, he agreed heshould lead one in his ownneighbourhood near St.Helen’s Park.“There’s a lot of interest-

ing stories and history andI’m hoping that’s how peoplewill join in and share thosestories with us,” said Rice.As well as rallying against

the Kinder Morgan pipe-line, Rice joined others in2006 to preserve the charac-ter of his neighbourhood bystopping the developmentof small vintage houses.Rice thought leading aJane’s Walk would be agood opportunity to showpeople his neighbourhood.On his walk, Rice saidpeople will discuss some ofthe new and old buildingsalong the way to generateideas and input. He likes thehistorical part of the walks,but that it’s also about whojoins.“When people go on

these walks they have dif-ferent things to offer sothere isn’t just one personspeaking,” said Rice. “WhatI’m hoping to do with mywalk is the same sort ofthing where people will joininto the walk and they mayknow some part of the his-tory.” Though Jacobs’ vehe-ment community activismis what has inspired him themost about Jane’s Walks,Rice said when residents

discuss potential develop-ments in the neighbour-hood, people don’t neces-sarily talk about initiatingchange.“It’s not so much about

change I don’t think asit is about having peopleconnect,” he said. “Goingout for a walk with otherpeople and connectingwith other people and hav-ing conversations.”

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NewsNDPaccuse Libsof destroying keydocumentsThe NDP accused the

Liberals April 29 of floutingB.C.’s Freedom of Infor-mation law by withholdingor destroying importantgovernment records.For the second straight

week, the Opposition pro-duced documents that showone senior official denyingthe existence of recordsonly to have another personrelease them.NDP Leader John Hor-

gan, whose party highlightedthree similar cases last week,said the documents paint adisturbing picture of increas-ing government secrecy.“The government talks

about being the most openand transparent governmentin Canada, and yet the evi-dence is completely counterto that,” he said.Horgan said the NDP

was even denied access tothe training manual politi-cal staff use when decidingwhich records to keep andwhich to destroy. “I think

all British Columbiansshould be concerned whentheir government hidesthings from them,” he said.In the latest case, the

NDP asked for emailssent by Premier ChristyClark’s deputy chief ofstaff, Michele Cadario, overtwo three-day periods lastNovember. The requestproduced a few heavily cen-sored emails and little else.A similar request to Clark’schief of staff, Dan Doyle,produced more emails fromCadario for the same period.

“They weren’t transitorynotes talking about lunchplans or dinner plans,”NDP critic Selina Robinsonsaid. “They were proposalsfor providing legal represen-tation for the families of thevictims of the Babine millexplosion. They containedpolicy advice on Site C—records of important policydiscussions.”Robinson demanded to

know why political staff “areeither destroying or hid-

ing important governmentrecords and then claimingthat they just don’t exist.”Citizens’ ServicesMinister

Amrik Virk was unable toshed any light on the issue.He argued that the casemerely shows that someofficials are more efficientat destroying “transitory”emails than others. “Transi-tory records are temporary innature and different peopledomanage them in differentways,” he said.

“The documents thatneed to be kept are kept.That’s my expectation. Thetransitory records — thoseare not records that recordkey decisions and, as such,they’re temporary in natureand they’re managed in adifferent way.”As for the training

materials, Virk said he wasunsure why the Opposi-tion was denied access andwould investigate.

—Lindsay Kines

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Province contributor SusieWall and CauseWeCare founder AndreaHill fronted the founda-tion’s first-ever cocktail party shindig in supportof after school programs for needymoms andtheir children.

Lawson Lundell partnerMichael Leewelcomedformer primeministerKimCampbell to theCanadian Club of Vancouver’s annual Order ofCanada andOrder of British Columbia luncheonheld at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Earls restaurant chefs, from left,Ryan Stone,Phil Gallagher,Brian Skin-ner,Hamid Salimian andDavidWong cooked up $7,000 for the RainierHotel Women’s Recovery Shelter at A Better Life Foundation benefit dinner

HEAVY MEDALS: The Order ofCanada, one of the country’s high-est civilian honours, recognizes anindividual’s outstanding achievement,dedication to community and serviceto the nation. The Canadian Club ofVancouver recently staged its annualOrder of Canada luncheon to celebratethe program’s recent B.C. honourees.For the first time, members were joinedby recipients of the province’s high-est honour of induction, the Orderof British Columbia. More than 150guests — some of the city’s top moversand shakers — filed into the ballroomfor the royal affair. Yours truly presidedover the event, presented by LawsonLundell. Former prime minister KimCampbell, a member of both orders,was the afternoon’s keynote. Amongthe luminaries feted were Order ofCanada recipients Dr. Julio Montanerand Dr. Olav Slaymaker and Order ofB.C. inductees Bob Rennie and LeslieDiamond.

LIFT OFF: New age guru, philoso-pher and author Deepak Chopra head-lined Lift, the Children Foundation’sthird annual gala. The charity’s found-er John Volken welcomed nearly 400guests, who paid up to $2,000 a-ticketto attend the fundraising event withthe spiritual leader. Chopra first signedbooks and held an intimate discussionwith VIPs at an exclusive receptionstaged at the Pan Pacific Hotel beforemaking his way to the main ballroomfor the humanitarian dinner emceed byPamela Martin. A well-heeled crowdgathered to generate funds to assistmore than 10,000 African children in80-plus orphanages become self-suffi-cient through sustainable agriculturalproduction and education.

CARE GIVERS: Cause We CareFoundation is a Vancouver-based char-itable foundation created by women forneedy single mothers and their chil-dren. Founder Andrea Hill hosted theorganization’s inaugural cocktail partyat the Equinox Gallery. Opting to skipthe televised Canucks playoff hockeygame, 300 guests attended the Hawk-sworth-catered affair to learn moreabout the fledgling charity and supportschool programs at inner city schools.

Philanthropist John Volken and his wife,Chawna, hosted Lift the Children Gala beforeopening the doors to an $80-million treatmentfacility in Surrey that bears his name.

PhilanthropistsBobRennie, left, and LorneSegalwere among the latest Order of B.C. recipi-ents feted at the celebration lunch.

Lift the Children director Abdul Ladhawel-comed spiritual leaderDeepak Chopra to theorganization’smarquee fundraiser to providemore than 10,000 African children in 80-plusorphanageswith the necessities of a better life.

Vancouver Restaurant Awards emceeGloriaMacarenko and CaféMedina executive chefJonathan Chovancek celebrated LaurenMote’sBartender of the Year accolade.

Save onMeats ownerMark Brand’s A Better Life Foundation’s latestGreasy SpoonDiner Series benefittedMaijaMcLean, left, andNicoleWheelhouse’s Rainier Hotel WomenRecovery Shelter. Proceeds providedtwomonths ofmeals for women in recovery.

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Vienna—It makes sense,if you think about it, amuseum devoted to globessharing space with oneabout the artificial languageEsperanto. Both exist tobind the world together.The two are in amansion

onHerrengasse, a blocknorth of theHofburg, the oldimperial palace, and a blocksouth of the Café Cen-tral, one of Vienna’s mostsplendid coffee houses. Evenwith this great location, themuseums are seldom busy.A pity, since both have

something to offer. TheGlobe Museum containsthe world’s largest publiccollection of globes, morethan 200, some going backto the 16th century whenmuch of the world was justlearning it was round.There are orbs of the

earth, themoon,Mars, Ve-nus and the heavens. Thereare ones that skip politicalboundaries and instead showtransport routes, tectonicplates or meteorological pat-terns, and others that are me-chanical or inflatable, glowfromwithin or are made ofblack slate so you can chalkup the continents yourself.You learn that in other

eras constellations had dif-ferent names.“During the period of the

Enlightenment,” says theaudio guide, “constellationswere named after mechani-cal devices or technologicaldiscoveries, such as ‘elec-tricity generator’ or ‘bal-loon,’” The InternationalUnion of Astronomy put astop to that in the 1920s,capping the number ofconstellations at 88 andstandardizing their names.There are two rare globes

by 16th century cartogra-pher Gerardus Mercator,who gave us the Mercatorprojection still used today

to plot spherical surfaces onflat maps. A touchscreenlets you overlay the coast-lines as they appear on amodern globe with whereMercator had them in1541, revealing how inac-curate he could be. On theoverlay, the toe of Italy iseast of Greece and Icelandis directly north of itself.The museum’s stron-

gest suit is the beauty of itspresentation — it lets youappreciate these globes asworks of art. Of special noteis a side room reserved fortwo large globes by Vincen-zo Coronelli (1650-1718).On their ornate stands theyare as high as an adult.Coronelli made globes forroyalty — no Europeancourt could be without one.For France’s Louis XIV, hemade two, each a vast 3.84metres in diameter. AfterCoronelli, says the audioguide, “no globe maker wasever to acquire such fame.”Downstairs, the Esperanto

Museum tells a bit of thehistory of the world’s mostsuccessful artificial language,devised in 1887 by LudwikZamenhof of Poland. LeoTolstoy was an early, avidsupporter. On the otherhand, Hitler banned it andStalin had Esperanto speak-ers taken out and shot.Themuseum covers more

than Esperanto. A touch-screen has information (andaural examples) on a dozenother made-up tongues,including Klingon. Solresol isthemost unusual: its basic el-ements are the seven notes ofa musical scale. Combined,theymake sentences that canbe said, sung or played. Doredosolla dolaresi, for example,means “I drink wine.”Sadly, there’s no gift

shop, which would be anatural, you’d think, sell-ing gift globes and Espe-ranto textbooks.For more information, visit

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1. Expect things to get soulful when Israel’sEster Rada comes to town. Drawingcomparisons to Aretha Franklin, ErykaBadu, Lauryn Hill and Jill Scott,Rada andher band blend everything from funk andsoul to R&B and “Ethio-jazz” showcasingthe singer’s Israeli-born Ethiopian heritage.Hear for yourself whenRada performs atthe Imperial, May 2. Tickets and details atchutzpahfestival.com, or call 604-257-5145.

2. First performed three years ago inVancouver, one-woman showDissolvereturns May 5 to 9 at Granville Island’sStudio 1398. Emmellia Gordon starsin the hilarious and heartbreaking tour deforce about the decidedly un-funny topic ofsexual assault.Gordon earned OutstandingActress nods for the role at last year’s JessieAwards. Tickets at vancouverfringe.com.Details at shamelesshussy.com.

3.Waxahatchee’s latestMerge Recordsrelease, Ivy Tripp, is a bruiser of an album—at times tender and pretty, then raggedand rockin’ without missing a beat. The soloproject of Long Island by way of AlabamamusicianKatieCrutchfield,Waxahatcheeplays an early show at the Biltmore,May 2.GIRLPOOL andKnife Pleats open. Ticketsat RedCat, Zulu, Highlife and ticketweb.ca.

4. A hit at last year’s Vancouver Internation-al Fringe Festival, Preggolandwas writtenby and stars Vancouver’s Sonja Bennettas a 35-year old woman whose high schoolfriends have moved onto motherhood whileshe’s still wants to party. Shot in Vancouverand directed by Jacob Tierney, the film alsostars James Caan and Danny Trejo. It opensMay 1 at International Village.

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Arts&EntertainmentKUDOS&KVETCHES

Data dearestYou might think that a

newspaper like the Van-couver Courier is all aboutwords. But we’re also aboutnumbers. Namely, Internetnumbers: web hits, uniquepage views, shares, engage-ment times, retention rates,calorie counts, length, girth.We may have made a few ofthose up.Which is why we’ve been

paying close attention as oflate to what kind of storiesreach themost people onthe Internet. Turns outthere often isn’t any rhymeor reason for what appealsto online readers. This weekwas particularly insightful forits lack of insight. One of ourmost-read stories this weekwas a video of a coyote walk-ing down aMount Pleasantsidewalk in broad daylight.Until Wednesday it was oursecondmost-watched videoon our YouTube site—second only to a video wedid on aMusqueam hip-hopartist a few years ago. Thosetwo videos, however, havebeen eclipsed by our video(widely re-used by other me-dia) that we posted ofMayorGregor Robertson wearing aCalgary Flames jersey whilereading a poemwritten byCalgaryMayor NaheedNenshi after losing a bet onwhich city’s hockey teamwould advance to the secondround of the Stanley Cupplayoffs. Then of course,there’s the ever-popularYear in the Stars horoscopefeature every January, which

regularly makes our annuallist of most read stories onour website.So what can we extrapo-

late from all this data? Ouronline readers are really intocoyotes, and hockey poetry,but only if read aloud bya handsome municipalleader in a Flames jersey.And they are astrologi-cally predisposed to readinghoroscopes. Which prob-ably means most of themare Virgos. Or Mercury isin retrograde again. Damnyou, Mercury in retrograde!All of which is a round-

about way of introducingK&K’s upcoming series:

Poetic horoscopes writtenby a Calgary Flames-lovingcoyote. Here’s a sample:

•••Pisces, the night cloaks youas you build a denfor your pups who pawat your tired teatswith the tenacityof Johnny Gaudreau.

Root, root, root out voleswith your pointy snoutas if it were a pucklanguishing in the corner.

Avoid conservationofficer manas he tries to lure youinto his cage.

And lay offthe neighbourhood cats,those deliciousneighbourhood cats,if you know what’s goodfor you.

But you don’t.Because you are wildWild like the nightthat bathes your caninebones in darkness,Wild like Hiller’s DarthVader goalie helmetWild like Michael Ferlandmowing downthat limping fawnKevin BieskaAhooooooooo!

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Toappealmore to theCourier’s onlineaudience, K&K is launchinganewhoroscopewrittenbyaCalgary Flames-loving coyote.

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In The Avengers: Ageof Ultron, the cinematiccautionary tale flavour-of-the-month is artificialintelligence and its benefits,if any. Tony Stark (RobertDowney Jr) finds out thehard way that when you setup a program built aroundthe credo “peace in ourtime” (with a nod to NevilleChamberlain), the outcomemay well be that it is thehumans who need to beannihilated in the name of apeaceable planet.The gangs all here, re-

united from 2012’sAvengersmovie and engaging in adizzying battle in the for-est at the base of a Hydrastronghold. Thor (ChrisHemsworth) is throwing hismighty hammer around,Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) isthrowing his weight around,Captain America (Chris Ev-ans) is playing deadly Fris-

bee with that shield of his,Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) isletting arrows fly and BlackWidow (Scarlett Johannson)is doing whatever it is shedoes, to deadly effect.With IronMan provid-

ing air support, they finallyclear the stronghold only tofind that Hydra has beendabbling in a little artificialintelligence and a lot ofhuman experimentation, sonow the team has got twodeadly powerful Slavic or-phans (Ashley Olsen, AaronTaylor-Johnson) to contend

with. But at least they’vereturned with Loki’s scep-ter, which is of paramountimportance for reasons I’veforgotten from the last film.Meanwhile, back at

the lab — and every goodsuperhero movie shouldcontain that phrase —Tonyhas been letting his ego getthe best of him again bydabbling in some artificialintelligence work of hisown. He’s already got Jarvis,his nearly omnipotent com-puter program, but after thelights go out Ultron is born,

in a scene as mystifyingas that ulterior dimensionscene in Interstellar.Marvel’s relationship to

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piece of filmmaking: jadedmoviegoers have watchedhumans tear humans apartand robots smash robots tobits, so the next logical stepis to see weightless, space-less computer programsfry each other’s superbrain.

Ultimate fighting is so lastcentury, don’t you know.There’s an IronMan-

Hulk battle, a battle at acocktail party (where StanLee makes his trademarkappearance), the battle inthe castle, a motorcyclechase/battle on a freeway,an Ultron army fight, and abattle on a big ol’ chunk ofland floating in midair. Thisis undoubtedly Marvel’smost combative film yet.There’s barely time for

Captain America to chas-tise his team for their saucylanguage (parents take note:first word of dialogue in thefilm is a naughty one). Orfor a burgeoning romance,long enough to pause thefighting but not somuch thatyou think you’re watchingaNicholas Sparks movie.There’s a welcome respite atone Avenger’s family home-stead, whichmademe longfor simpler times watchingSuperman andUncle Harryout in the barn.The plot is far less

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another non-human cre-ation who appears towardsthe end of the saga (voicedby Paul Bettany). In afilm that’s all CG flash, hespeaks with good old-fash-ioned substance, the onlyone to make sense of it all.The Avengers: Age of Ultron

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Continue to chase money and to seek out bargains,Aries. But keep the lid on spending—you’re likely toofast and loose with money now. Your friendship zonebrightens this week, as affectionate conversations andshort trips spring up. (And remember one thing: you’relucky in romance and creative ventures until mid-August.) decoration or gardening— but act quickly, asMay 18 brings a slow-down and indecision.

Life holds many secrets, and you can discover some valuableones. But there’s a catch: if you do go this route, if you researchor investigate, you’ll probably find “innocent” secrets and otherones that tempt you to invest or to lust. Avoid these. It’s easy totell: if (before May 12) your searching discovers something youcan use for profit or personal satisfaction, it is probably wrongand will turn to bite you. If it just makes you think, “Huh! Neverknew that,” then it’s a good secret.

Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness remainat a yearly high. Start important things, tackle tasks thatformerly intimidated you, see and be seen, impress people,ask favours—they’ll be granted, within reason! However,realize a slow-down and “backward trend”will start inmidMay (technically May 18) somake sure your new projectsare short-term, and can be completed (or at least solidlyplaced on “stage one”) in the twoweeks ahead.

You start this week with vim and vigor, and highcharisma. Start things, but avoid launching anyventure which can’t be completed in 7 to 10days. (May 18 to June 11 bring indecision, secondthoughts, and interminable delays — not a goodatmosphere for a fledgling project. Financial andintimacy-oriented — sexual — ventures will bemost vulnerable to this slowdown.)

Continue to lie low, rest, contemplate and plan. Faceyourself: what have you done right, what wrong, and whathas brought you to your present stage? Your charismais low (notice how people don’t return your phone calls)so stay out of popularity contests and any competitive orhustle-bustle scene. Be spiritual, and charitable towardothers and yourself. Despite all this, some people find youattractive, mostly those younger than you.

Work, work, work – ugh. Well, just plunge in and get it done.However, don’t take on new jobs, and shunwhatmight seemto be creative work. Also, avoid starting a big project thatyou can’t reasonably finish in aweek, for a period of delay,indecision and “wandering steps” looms, fromMay 18 toJune 11. (An old flame or former spousemight re-appeararound that time. If so,maintain an attitude of scepticism.)Protect your health; eat and dress sensibly.

Wishes can come true, Cancer! The days ahead bring a boostin popularity, social delights, flirtation and friendly romance,entertainment, optimismand bright plans for the future.Youmight have a good, clean plan of action, and anotherone that promises a bigger, easier reward, but something’ssubtly wrongwith it. Pick the first goal/plan. Much talk,paperwork arises in administration,management, orgovernment-related zones, thismonth and next.

You’re riding a winning streak, Cap. Romance,beauty, pleasure, creative and speculative ventures,charming kids, sports and games bring you lucknow to late May. Thursday begins a four-week streakof affectionate relations, also, in love, marriage,business, even in dealings with the public. Otherswill be gracious, receptive. Career opportunitiesmight wink at you – wink back!

Be ambitious, but avoid all unsavory methods. Youare so lucky this year that rejection by one source willlead to acceptance by (or your stumbling onto) aneven better source. Unless, that is, you withdraw andbrood; then nothing good comes. Life rewards thosewho live it. Your friends are plentiful and in evidence,a great thing but don’t let them talk you into a longproject that will surely stall within a few weeks.

The accent remains on home, family, garden, nutrition,Mother Nature, security, real estate, foundations andretirement. Takemany naps. As you settle down andcontemplation comes, look at your life, consider who andwhat is growing, andwho/what is stale, has outlived their“stay.” Prune your life, projects and relationships like agarden. Don’t start big new projects (e.g., landscaping,renovations) as a slow-down looms,May 18 to June 11.

You feel mellow and wise. You see the connectionsbetween abstract things, such as law and order, love andmarriage. The accent remains on far travel, intellectualpursuits, law, cultural scenes and rituals, and lifephilosophy. Be a little cautious about plunging into any ofthese things –—a trip abroad, a university entrance, and(especially!) a lawsuit. Realize that a period of indecisionand delay starts soon (technically, May 18, but you’ll seeit earlier) so don’t start big projects now.

It’s a busy time, but not an important one. Dive intophone calls, emails, errands, paperwork, and all thosesmall things. Make a huge list, and go until it’s allcrossed out. (In about a week— technically May 18,but you’ll feel it sooner— a 24-day period will arrivethat can cause real chaos with just the things you’rehandling—mail, calls, paperwork, etc.) A domesticsituation or puzzle might confront you: if so, be patient,let it solve itself (by late June, maybe July).

START NOTHING: 6:49 p.m. Monday to 4:13 a.m. Tuesday, 10:51 a.m. to 11:16 a.m. Thursday, and 1:35 p.m.to 4:22 p.m. Saturday.

PREAMBLE: Mercury retro: In case I forget to mention it in your weekly forecast below, Mercury turns retrograde May18 through June 11, so we all should, even now, focus more on completing projects than on starting big new ones. Ifyou start anything now, make sure it’s something you can complete well before then. (E.g., plant the garden now, butdon’t start extensive renovations.) Every time there’s a Mercury retrograde, I always receive a few panicked emails,telling me that the writer, unemployed, has been offered a job and shouldn’t they take it? Yes, of course, rent hasto be paid and food bought. But think of such a job as temporary, as it will turn out that way, perhaps after somemonths, even after a year or three. If you’re a professional concerned with your career’s future, and you can exist forawhile on savings, it would be better to wait, and return to your job search after June 11.

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Megan Stewartmstewart@vancourier.com

Despite three brokenbones in her right handand a three-week traininghiatus, 100-kilometre worldchampion runner EllieGreenwood will enter theBMO Vancouver Marathonon Sunday. For the pastfive years, she has fit themarathon into her trainingcalendar as a long, weekendouting. She is a two-timewomen’s champion andwon silver last year.The podiummay be out

of reach this year for the36-year-old dual Britishand Canadian citizen. OnMarch 18, Greenwood wasthrown over the handlebarsof her bicycle when a carabruptly cut in front of heron Denman Street.The pain in her hand

was immediate. Her helmetmeant she only had a minorbump on her head. Thedriver will likely be foundfully responsible.“In order to avoid crash-

ing into her, I had to slamon my brakes really hard,”Greenwood wrote in anemail to the Courier. “I dorecall being mid-air butat that point, there was

nothing I could do. It allhappened so fast.”Greenwood lives on the

North Shore without a carand routinely commutes bybike or even by foot.“I cycle very carefully as I

realize that I am the smallerand more vulnerable ofmost road user types,” shesaid. “I have never owneda car so cycle or run to getaround, so am experiencedat cycling as safely as pos-sible in the city.”She suffered multiple

breaks to three bones inher dominant right handand underwent surgeryfor two metal plates andnumerous screws, whichare permanent.She is working with an

occupational therapist andwears a small splint, whichshe’ll keep on for the 44thVancouver marathon.“I have received great

medical care — for whichI am very grateful — aswell as support frommanyfriends, who were key inkeeping me cheerful in theweeks after the incident,”she said.When she claimed gold in

2012, Greenwood finishedthe Vancouver marathon intwo hours, 42.16 minutes, apersonal best. The 42.2-ki-lometre road race is lessthan half the distance she

covered last November inDoha to win the 2014 titleas the fastest ultra-marathonfemale runner in the world.She won in 7:30:48.She will give herself

another week to decide ifshe’ll travel to South Africafor the celebrated Com-rades Marathon, the 90thinstalment of the largest andoldest race of its kind — thekind Greenwood excelsat. (The distance of therace alternates between 87kilometres when competi-tors run “up” from Durbanto Pietermaritzburg. The“down” distance in theother direction is 89 kilo-metres.)Because of the traffic

accident, Greenwood wasforced to sit out for nearlya month, missing “weeks ofkey training” during whichtime she could not evencross-train because the riskof long-term problems froma fall or bump were tooserious.“Even if I do race Com-

rades, I will be well belowoptimal fitness but wouldlike to race it if I can puton a respectable effort,”she said. “I am now simplyworking back to fitness andwill reassess race goals forthe year once I know I havefitness back.”She was not planning to

defender her world ultra-marathon title at the cham-pionship race in the Neth-erlands come September.Her key competition on thecalendar was the LeadvilleTrail 100 Run in August,a 100-mile course throughthe Colorado Rockies alsoknown as “the race acrossthe sky.”Greenwood, known as an

upbeat and friendly pres-ence at trail races and roadcompetitions, is also, “alittle crazy in a good way,”said Lynn Kanuka, the eliteathlete coordinator for theBMO Vancouver Mara-thon. “Howmany otherpeople train for and win100k races?”Kanuka said she expects

Greenwood to recover andcontinue winning. “She isthe toughest gal I know,”Kanuka said. As an eliterunner of her talent andwith the years and yearsof training she’s had, shecan draw on those years ofexperience. Her body hasmuscle memory and so doher cardio vascular systemand her brain. She reallyhas the ability to tap intothat toughness.“To say she’s at her best

is not likely,” Kanuka said,“but I wouldn’t be surprisedif she pulls off a good race.”

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The routes for the BMOVancouver Marathon andHalf-Marathon. For the first year, relay runners are also racing themarathon in teams of two, three or four runners.

Themaleand femalewin-nersof theBMOVancouverMarathonwill haveextrareason to smileSunday. Thecashprizes for the44than-nual race (both for the42.2kmfull-distanceand21.1kmhalf-distance races) havenearlydoubled since last year.The2014marathonprize

was$3,500.Thisyear it’s$6,000 for first, $2,500 forsec-ondand$1,500 for third.ThefastestCanadiansalsoreceiveabonusof$1,500,upbyathirdover lastyear’swinnings.In addition to these

rewards, there’s twomoreincentive for racers. Anyman who crosses the finishline under two hours, 18

minutes stands to earn anextra $2,000. The women’sbenchmark is 2:37.The second incentive is

historical. Anymanorwomanwhosets a course recordwillpocket $2,000. The fastestman’s timedates to1980whenAustralian runnerGarryHenryburned throughthecourse in2:13:14. Thewomen’s recordof 2:35:50was setbyArgentinianClau-diaCamargo in2007.If two runnersmeet the

incentive time or set a courserecord, only the fastest per-son can claim the reward.In total, a gold medal in

the marathon could alsomean a payday of $11,500.

Cash incentives reward speed

Two-timeBMOVancouverMarathonchampionEllieGreenwoodwill run theSunday racedespite abrokenhand. PHOTOS1&3BYDROZ. PHOTO2BYBMOVANCOUVERMARATHON

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COMMIT TO FIT

DarnelleMooredarnelle@eastsidefitness.ca

These three no budgetworkouts require 30 min-utes or less of your time andzero equipment.To be effective, each

needs to be completed atleast once week. Twice aweek is best.You won’t run amara-

thon, but this routine canhelp balance an existingtraining regime. If you havebeen inactive, this programwill set you on the right trackfor developing healthy habits.

WalkingThat’s it! Just walk. For

30 minutes.The goal is 30 consecu-

tiveminutes, not adding upthree 10-minute segments.This means you might haveto do a few laps, or walkback and forth down yourcondo hallway.Does this seem too simple

to you? Try walking fastenough to be slightly out ofbreath if you tried to speak a

full sentence. Also try mixingit up by walking backwardsand walking sideways.

Resistance trainingDo this on a staircase,

curb, bench or any slightlyraised surface that will bearyour weight. A log, chair,bench, picnic table…Perform each exercise

for one minute. Repeat thiscircuit three times.1. Run or walk up and

down your set of stairs orwhatever you are using(even if it’s just one stair).2. Push ups—with your

hands on the step. For in-creased intensity, you can putyour hands on the groundand your feet on the stair.3. Sit squats — sit on the

bottom step, stand up andsit back down but only letyour bum touch the surfacelightly. Try doing one leg ata time, alternating legs ordoing 30 seconds with oneleg and 30 with the other.4. Step ups — keep one

foot on the surface of thestep, lift the other leg bybending at the knee and lift-ing it into the air above thestep before putting it back

on the ground. Keep goingwith the same leg for 30seconds then switch legs.5. Dips — Sit on the step

with your feet in front ofyou and your hands closeto your hips. Use your armsto push your body off thestep and drop down in frontof it. Bend your elbows tolower your body down, thenlift yourself up but don’trest on the step. Repeat.6. Toe touches — I

call these “twinkle toes”because your toes need onlytouch the surface of the stepvery lightly. Lift your kneeand bring your toe to thetop of the step. Place it backdown and do the same withthe toe of your other foot.Repeat very quickly.7. Plank walk — put

yourself into push upposition on the step. Ratherthan doing push ups, walkyour hands and body back

and forth across the surfaceof the step.

Dynamic StretchingThis basic dynamic

stretch sequence will befamiliar to anyone who hastried yoga. You can do thissequence quickly, slowlyand/or you can hang out ineach part of the sequencefor a few seconds or longerif it feels right. Try doingfive or six cycles of this sunsalutation routine at varyingtempos for a satisfying, fullbody stretch.• Standing tall, distributeyour weight evenly overboth feet.• Stretch your arms out tothe side and overhead, thenfold forward with hands dan-gling toward the floor.• Put your hands on yourshins and straighten yourspine so it is parallel to thefloor.• Put your hands on thefloor (bend your kneesif you have to) and walkyour feet back behind youinto a plank.• Hold for a few seconds,then lower yourself all theway to the floor.

• Palms on the floor,legs strong, gently liftyour chest forward and tryto straighten your armswhile keeping your shoul-ders down and away fromyour ears.• Lower your chest backdown, tuck your toes underyour feet and push your hipsup into the air into a down-ward dog position.• Bend your knees andlook between your hands.Step your feet between yourhands, returning to theforward fold position.• Inhale as you reach yourarms out to the sides andcome back to stand.• Bring your arms all the wayoverhead and then exhale asyou lower your arms backdown to your sides.

Remember to check withyour friendly neighbourhoodfitness provider if you havequestions about these exer-cises. They are simple movesthat need to be done withattention to detail in order tobe effective. Have fun!Darnelle Moore is the co-

founder of Eastside Fitness. Shebelieves fitness is for every body.

Exercising on a shoestring budget

Personal fitness trainer Craig Bearss works out on the exercisecourse at Douglas Park. Some public parks have freeworkoutequipment but you can also use urban features like benches,curbs and stairs towork up a sweat.PHOTODANTOULGOET

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Hot off their thirdconsecutive appearanceat the Canadian collegiatebasketball championshipsthis winter, the LangaraFalcons have signed threeprominent high schoolgraduates.Joining Langara for

the 2015-16 season areVancouver’s Ravi Basraand Gary Minhas, aswell as McMath WildcatAnthony Demch fromRichmond.Basra, a high-scoring,

high-tempo guard from

Windermere, carriedthe Warriors throughto the Lower Mainlandtournament in February.Minhas, an anchor onthe 2013 B.C. championChurchill Bulldogs, is asmart playmaker and tire-less defender.The prospects will have

big shoes to fill as theFalcons core contingentof six five-year playersgraduated this season.

C’s hostpioneering pitcherA roster of hall-of-fame

talent will visit Nat BaileyStadium this summer forthe Vancouver Canadians“superstar series.”Toronto Blue Jays

infielder Tony Fernandezdrops by June 30 to wrapup the C’s first homestand of the season. TheDominican played 17years in the majors andmade four All-Star Gameappearances and twochampionship showings,including the 1993 WorldSeries.Veteran pitcher Tommy

John, now 71, will bringhis surgically enhancedelbow to the Nat on July13. Although his nameis synonymous with thegame-changing surgery,John is also greatly ad-mired for his 288 victoriesamassed over 26 seasons,including eight years withthe New York Yankees.

The C’s promoted himthusly: “His 162 com-plete games, four All-StarGame appearances andoverall longevity on themound make him one ofthe more intriguing per-sonalities in baseball ashe was able to pitch intohis mid-40s after receiv-ing the surgical procedurethat later on would bearhis name.”The Canadians start

their 2015 season on theroad against Salem-Keizerbefore hosting the Hills-boro Hops for a five-gamehome stand beginningJune 26.

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Joining the Langara Falcons in 2015 are, from left, Ravi Basra,Anthony Demch andGaryMinhas.

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FrankO’Brienwieditor@biv.com

Pity the owners ofmultiple homes in MetroVancouver: it is gettingtougher to find conven-tional residential financ-ing once they own morethan five properties in theworld’s second-least af-fordable market.“On Monday, another

major bank pulled back

their policies to only allowfor five rental propertiesmaximum, instead of hav-ing no limit to the numberof rental properties. Themove mirrors what mostmajor banks are currentlydoing right now and leavesvery few options for clientswith multiple rental prop-erties,” Vancouver mort-gage broker Kyle Green ofMortgage Alliance statedin a memo to clients April

21.“It’s getting unbeliev-ably hard to get investorsfinanced, so be preparedto have more limited op-tions if you fall into thefive plus category.”“It wasn’t too long ago

that some of our clientswere able to acquire 70to 90 properties throughmajor banks without toomany issues,” said Greenthis week. “Now, someare forced to take on joint

venture partners or go toprivate lenders.”Green said only two

major lenders, Scotiabankand National, continue tolend on bulk residentialinvestments “at competi-tive rates.”The reason for the

tighter regulations relatesto recent restrictions onCanada Mortgage andHousing Corp. mortgageinsurance for multiple

residential properties,according to Green. Heexplained that residentialmortgages are packagedinto mortgage-backed se-curities that are then soldto investors. Investors,however, insist that all themortgages be covered byinsurance.An option for those

owning more than fiverental properties would beto apply for commercial

financing, which offersboth lower mortgage ratesand no cap on the amountof properties, or to financeproperties with differentlenders.“We have several clients

that hold between 40 to100 individual rental con-do units, and they typicallyspread these out betweena variety of lenders,” saidBryan Dudley of RealtechCapital Group Inc.

Bulkhomebuyers slowedbymortgage rulesHarder to get financing if you own five or more properties

Tyler Ortontorton@biv.com

Parents hoping to enjoytheir empty nests in com-fort may first have to dealwith some financial pleasfrom their kids.Nearly half of first-time

buyers say they expect helpfrom the “bank of momand dad” when it comes topaying for a home, accord-ing to BMO’s 2015 homebuying report.

Real estate observershave said the trend is likelythe highest in Vancouver.In 2014, 30 per cent of

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leased April 23, that numberhas grown to 42 per cent.The study also found 42

per cent of homebuyerslooking to upsize their cur-

rent homes are turning tofamily for assistance.These “upsizers” plan

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per cent deposit. Respon-dents said they expect theirfamilies to cover 20 percent of the average cost.First-time buyers,

meanwhile, have budgeted$313,000 with a 19 percent deposit. They expecttheir families to help with12 per cent of the cost.Exactly half of upsizers

and 40 per cent of first-timebuyers depending on thisassistance said they couldn’tafford a home otherwise.

As of March 2015, anaverage home in B.C.costs $642,000, accord-ing to the report. Ontariowas a distant second at$466,000 and Albertaranked third at $399,000.Pollara surveyed 2,007

Canadian residents betweenFebruary 24 and March5 on behalf of BMO. Thesurvey results are consid-ered accurate within plus-or-minus 2.2 per cent.

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Increasing newhomeowners helpedby familymembersNearly half of first-timebuyers say they expect helpfrom the “bank of momand dad” when it comes topaying for a home.

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Renderings are representational only. Prices subject to change without notice. The developer reserves the right to make changes to the information contained herein. E.&O.E.

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