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Mayor Gregor Rob-ertson is creatinga task force tocurb what he hasdescribed as a growing men-tal health crisis one that aleading doctor compared tothe HIV/AIDS epidemic thecity experienced in the 1990s.Robertson said at city coun-

cils public meeting Tuesdaythat he expected his taskforce on mental health andaddictions to be staffed andhave its rst meeting beforethe end of the year.We need to have urgent

action taken here, said themayor, who heard a presenta-tion from Dr. William Honerat the meeting that outlinedthe state of mental illness inVancouver.Honer is the head of the

University of B.C.s depart-ment of psychiatry and thescientic director of the B.C.Mental Health and Addic-tions Research Institute.He, too, used the term cri-

sis to describe the growingproblem of people going un-treated for severe mental ill-

ness. Honer said the crisis isof a similar magnitude to theHIV/AIDS epidemic.Its a different kind of

problem than weve ever ex-perienced, said Honer, whoworked at the now-closedRiverview Hospital in Co-quitlam that, at its peak, washome to 6,000 mentally illpatients. Patients there withchronic schizophrenia didnthave substance abuse disor-ders they were not physi-cally ill at the same time.Were dealingwith a differentkind of problem now and Ithink its of comparable mag-nitude and importance to ourcity as was the HIV/AIDS cri-sis.Honer based his assess-

ment by referring to recentreports he and his colleaguesproduced. One study exam-ined tenants living in single-room occupancy hotels in theDowntown Eastside.Researchers found that of

293 tenants who participatedin the study, almost three-quarterswerementally ill andnearly half had a neurologicaldisorder such as a head injuryor stroke.

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Bevan Thomaswasworking on an assignment fora graphic novel as literature course at a MainStreet coffee shop in 2009 when the conversa-tion at a nearby table drew his attention.[They] were talking about comics and Dr. Who and

story ideas and fantasy stories, action movies and vari-ous things I really enjoy, he said.The conversationalists were members of the Cloud-

scape Comics Society and Thomas learned anyone could

attend their weekly meetings. He returned to the coffeeshop the following week.A freelance technical writer and Sunset resident,

Thomas was keen to pen comics but he needed an artist.At Cloudscape he met a woman fresh out of an animationprogram and they collaborated. Our artistic relationshipended up working out so well we did a few other projectstogether and actually, now Im dating her, Thomas said.So that was denitely a very fortuitousmeetup.College art instructor and cartoonist Jeff Ellis started

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Theres nothing remarkable aboutthe design of the community po-licing ofce tucked in behind thefront entrance of the Ross StreetTemples resource centre and library.Its a small room, with tables and chairs.But its location is signicant: It is believed to

be theonlypoliceofceof itskindattachedtoareligiousbuilding inCanada,according to Insp.SteveRai of theVancouver PoliceDepartment.It was a natural t because it is the centre

of a lot of things, said Rai, whose brotherRoger, also a VPD ofcer, was instrumental ingetting the ofce open in2008adjacent to thetemple at 8000Ross St. in South Vancouver.Rai acknowledged there was a small seg-

ment of the congregation that didnt wantthe ofce on the grounds of the temple. But,he said, the executive of the Khalsa DiwanSociety, which operates the temple, agreedthe ofce would benet the community.Kashmir Dhaliwal, past president of the

society, said the ofce has provided a vital

link that previously didnt exist. Having vol-unteers and police ofcers who can speakPunjabi and understand South Asian cul-ture has put community members at easewhen requiring the services of the police.Thats a big help because most of our se-

niors dont speakEnglish, saidDhaliwal in aninterview from inside a room at the temple.Peopleunderstand that police arent hereha-rassing anybody but they are here to help us.Hesaidmanypeople in thecommunitywont

travel toapolicestationif theyhavequestionsor

concerns about an issue.Having theofceadja-cent to the temple andopenonSundays duringthebusiestdayofworship is convenient.The ofce serves as a satellite space to

the South Vancouver policing centre at41st and Victoria, which is staffed by twoofcers. Two patrol ofcers who speakPunjabi also liaise with temple members.When the VPD announced the opening ofthe ofce in July 2008, the department saidit would focus on domestic violence, inci-dents related to alcohol and gang violence

all signicant issues in the community.The purpose of the ofce is to make com-

munitymembersunderstandandaccept theirresponsibility in stoppingandgetting involvedineducatingeachotherof thenegative impactof theabovementioned issues,Sgt.RogerRaisaid in a statement on the day of the ofcesopening. They can be accountable and pro-vide leadership to eachother and the youngermembers of the community.So, have the police seen any progress?While Insp. Steve Rai didnt have statistics

to measure decreases or increases with do-mestic violence and the other issues, he toldthe story of a father who reached out to theofce and was put in touch with police.The parent was worried his son was in-

volved with gangs.We interjected and tried to put him on a

different path, he said, noting the male wason theperipheryof agroup involved inviolentassaults. So that kid probably would havecontinued on the path with these other kidsandmost likely ended up in gangs and drugs.The parents would not have known and youmight have another hardcore gangster veyears down the road.For Dhaliwal, the other benet the ofce

has given youngmembers of the communityis amore positive image of police ofcers. Infact, he said, two former volunteers at theofce are now in uniform.

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Sometimes, you never know who isgoing to show up to a press confer-ence.So it was quite a surprise Mon-day when I saw federal Health MinisterRona Ambrose walk into a room at theHyatt Regency to participate in an an-nouncement regarding the First NationsHealth Authority.When the provincial government is-

sued an advisory last Friday about thepress conference, there was no mentionof Ambroses participation; it wasnt untilMondaymorning that the advisory was up-dated but I didnt look at it.Frankly, I cant recall the last time a

federal health minister visited Vancouver at least, visited Vancouver and attendeda press conference where journos like mecan actually ask questions of the minister.So what to ask her hmmmm how

about why the Harper government wantsto close the Insite supervised injection siteand make it difcult for future applicantsto open a site in other parts of Canada?After a hello and a handshake, I launched

right inDo you plan to visit Insite?Well, not this morning because I have to

get on a plane and go back to Ottawa. ButId be happy to visit it anytime.Why doesnt theHarper governmentwant

more injection sites across the country?The Supreme Court [of Canadas deci-

sion to allow Insite to operate indenitely]does compel the government to ensurethat whenever an application is made fora supervised injection site, that certain pa-

rameters are met. Thats exactly what ourlegislation is about and, as health minister,not only am I compelled but Im obligatedto do that.The federal governments introduction

of the Respect for Communities Act setsout a long list of criteria that an applicantmust meet to get an exemption to operatean injection site.That includes the need for an applicant

to provide information outlining the viewsof police, municipal leaders, public healthofcials and provincial health ministers.The applicant is also required to pro-

vide documentation that shows the sitesexpected impact on crime rates, treat-ment options for drug users, the publichealth reasons for needing such a site andevidence there are resources to sustain thesites operations.What about comments from various Van-

couver leaders, including the mayor, drugresearchers and Dr. Julio Montaner of theB.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS,that accuse the Harper government of notacknowledging the scientic research thatsuggests Insite is doing some good for en-trenched drug users?Im not interested in having a debate

about harm reduction ... the larger debatethat Im trying to have is to put some focus not just on Insite, which is controversialand one small part of the overall harm re-duction but lets also talk about harmelimination. We do need to recognize thatthere are thousands of Canadians acrossthe country that I dont think weve doneenough to reach out to to talk about re-covery and talk about treatment and pre-vention. I want to see us do more of thatand you will see us do more of that.And then, before I could ask about illegal

pot dispensaries operating in Vancouver, herhandlerwhisked her away.Maybe next time.

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Continued from page 1After attending the long-running

Vancouver Comic Jam where partici-pants collaboratively create comics, herecognized the high level of skill in thecity and decided this talent should beshowcased in an anthology.Cloudscape has published seven an-

thologies. Waterlogged: Tales From theSeventh Sea, the hardcover anthologyit published in June, includes a horrorcomic by Nina Matsumoto, a cartoon-ist for The Simpsons comic books whoThomas says is grateful to have a differ-ent outlet for her creativity.Cloudscape has grown from nine con-

tributors tomore than 60men andwom-enaged19to50.Theirartistic styles rangefrom manga to American undergroundcomix with genres running from light-heartedhumour toseriousdrama.Cloudscape welcomes a wide range

of artists. They include prominent in-die cartoonist Colin Upton and new-bies who attend weekly meetings atSouth Memorial Parks eld house onRoss Street near East 41st Ave. to net-work and develop their craft.Cloudscapemoved into theeldhouse

last fall as the artist in residence for threeyears. Thomas, who wore plaid slipperswhile introducing theCourier to the cozyspace Wednesday, said members offercartooningclasses forkidsatSunsetCom-munityCentre,participated in theFamilyFuse event at the Vancouver Art GalleryinMarch, andwill host a free HalloweenParty for families at the eld house thisSaturday from11a.m. to3p.m.Cloudscape isworkingonananthology

calledMegaFauna, its rst youth-targetedcollection that will include stories aboutpeople interacting with animals. Its alsoabout to publish on its website Epic Cana-diana, a Canadian superhero anthologyThomasspearheadedandedited.In the 1940s, the Canadian govern-

ment banned non-essentials from com-ing across the border, which meant nocomics from the U.S. entered the coun-try, according to Thomas. That restric-tion sparked a ve-year boom in theCa-nadian comics industrywith characterssuch as Nelvana of the North, an Arcticdemigoddess who fought Nazis and su-per villains, and Johnny Canuck.Thomas and other cartoonists pay

tribute to and have updated these char-

acters for an online anthology calledEpic Canadiana. Thomas said the origi-nal Nelvana was supposedly an Inuitgoddess but everything was made up,so he reinvented Nelvanas character tobe strongly based in Inuit folklore.He hopes other members will be in-

spired to lead their own projects.We just want to inspire our mem-

bers to go off on their own directionsand to really bring their own passionsand their own ideas and their ownways of approaching the medium intothe organization, then using the orga-nization as a springboard to go off intheir own directions, Thomas said.Cloudscape artist and freelance

graphic designer Ed Appleby producesa podcast for Cloudscapes website.Micah Iwaasa publishes a web comic

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with addiction, he said, not-ing the most prevalent drugswere stimulants such as co-caine and amphetamines

which speed people up.Nearly half of the par-

ticipants in the study werepsychotic, which Honer de-scribed as one of themost se-vere conditions in psychiatry,wherepeople loseconnectionwith reality.Honer said an estimated

5,500 tenants reside in thesingle-room-occupancy ho-tels. When that populationis extrapolated over the nd-ings in the study, Honer con-cludedabout10percentofallvisits to theSt. PaulsHospitalemergency room are tenantsof the hotels.In terms ofmental health,

its quite staggeringa thirdof the visits to St. Pauls, weestimate, are coming from5,500 people, he said.Honer pointed to the suc-

cess the provincial govern-ment, health authorities andother groups achieved whena strategy was devised in the1990s to decrease the num-

ber of HIV/AIDS cases inVancouver.He credited the opening of

theInsitesupervised injectionsite in September 2003 as afacility that helped reducethe spread of infectious dis-eases and overdose deaths.AsDr. JulioMontanerof the

B.C. Centre of Excellence inHIV/AIDS told the Courier inSeptember, 29 injection drugusers in the province werediagnosed with HIV/AIDS in2012 compared to more than400per year prior to1996.Montaner also pointed to

a progressive province-widestrategy to stop the spread ofthe deadly virus, including

access to free antiretroviraltherapy drugs that can re-duceHIV transmission.The gains needed to curb

the mental health crisis arein more supportive housing,treatment and outreach, ac-cording to the mayor, whoseefforts are supported by Po-lice Chief Chu.Mental illness and addic-

tions have been with us formany, many generations andwhat has changed markedlyin recent months and yearsis the access to treatment andhousing and support, Rob-ertson said.

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AskMohammedLab-luabouthalalmeatand hell wave hisarms and raise hisvoicewith excitement.Halal meat is delicious and

no germs inside the animalbecause we hang it, when youslaughter it, it is hanging allthe disease comes out, saidLablu.OriginallyfromBangladesh,

the 52-year-old has ownedthe halal meat store Noor Ja-han on Fraser Street for sevenyears. Its a small shop with adisplay case lled with freshhalal chicken, goat, lamb, vealand beef, and it is a sign of anincreasinglypopular fooditeminVancouver.Lablu sells fresh halal meat

bought from a supplier inLangley and frozen halal meatfrom New Zealand as well asotherhalal grocery items in co-lourful boxes that line the storeshelves. Sales have increasedand he is condent it is thequality of themeat rather thanits religious signicance that isresponsible.

To be considered halal,which literally translatedmeans permissible by Islam,the animal has to have beenslaughtered following certainguidelines found in the Mus-lim holy book theQuran. Theanimalmustbekilledbyhand,with a sharp knife across thethroat by a mature Muslimmanwhile thenameofAllahisinvoked. (Though not permit-ted to slaughter the animal,womenare allowed to skin it.)The animal is then hung andthebloodcompletelydrained.There are at least nine ha-

lal meat shops in the southSunset area making it a go-tolocation for halal meat for the

over 13,000Muslimswho, ac-cording to the 2011 StatisticsCanada National HouseholdSurvey, live inVancouver.The traditional mainstream

grocer on Fraser Street, BuyLow Foods, started selling ha-lal meat two years ago. It sellshalalNewZealand lamb, freshor frozen, and a selection ofpre-made frozenhalal dishes.Meat manager Dale John-

son has been with the com-pany for seven years and saidat rst he had to discount hishalal products because peopledidnt know itwas available athis store. Now, the productsare selling well and sales havedoubled in the last year.

The specialized productcomes at a premium. Thefresh chicken is $16.93 whilethe non-halal chicken is alittle over a dollar cheaper at$15.39.Johnson said theoldermem-

bers of the community arentswitchingtomainstreamstores.I think it is the younger fami-lies, a lot of them are movinginto the area and driving de-mandfor theproduct,hesaid.Demand for halal meat

stretches beyond the Sunsetcommunity. Most of the other26 Buy Low locations across theLower Mainland also sell halalmeat.Surrey-based meat supplier

NewtonsHi-QualityMeatssellsto grocery stores and restau-rants across the Lower Main-land, including toBuyLowandIGA stores. Company spokes-man Ernie Wettig said while itsells much of its halal productsto Surrey and south Vancouverlocations, it also sells halal al-most everywhere in the LowerMainlandnow.It is denitely good busi-

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The Vancouver parkboard wants thefederal and pro-vincial govern-ments to kick in $2.5 mil-lion to expand the KillarneyCommunity Centre to housea long-promised seniorsfacility.Its been four years since

the board voted unani-mously to have staff look

into building an approxi-mately 10,000-square-footSoutheast Vancouver Se-niors Centre but construc-tion has yet to begin.On Monday, the Vision

Vancouve r-domina tedboard endorsed a motionby vice-chair Aaron Jasperto request additional gov-ernment funding to helpbuild the new centre. Vi-sion Coun. Raymond Louieis expected to introduce amotion in two weeks ask-

ing city council to do thesame.I think it is important

to show the other levels ofgovernment that the mu-nicipal governments andthe residents are all on thesame page and pulling inthe same direction, Jaspersaid on Wednesday.Last April, the provin-

cial government commit-ted $1.3 million to thenew facility located in anethnically diverse region

whose senior populationis growing considerablyfaster than in other partsof the city. Southeast Van-couver is home to roughlyone-third of all seniorsacross the city, or morethan 26,000 residents overage 65.Two years ago, council

approved a $2.5 millioncontribution as part of the2011 capital budget, butthe citys commitment isconditional on receiving

external funding.The province, we are

hoping, will top up, andthe feds to this point havenot made a commitment,said Jasper.The Liberal MLA for the

Killarney area is formerNPA park board commis-sioner and city councillorSuzanne Anton, while Con-servative MP Wai Young isthe neighbourhoods ofcialrepresentative in Ottawa.NPA park board commis-

sioner Melissa De Genovasaid she planned to intro-duce a motion at the samemeeting that would havetried to instead nd thenecessary funding throughcommunity amenity con-tributions (CACs), whichis money provided by prop-erty developers when citycouncil grants developmentrights through rezoning.Once again, Tunnel Vi-

sion has prevailed, shewrote in an email sent tothe Courier. If the motionI put forward had passedI am confident construc-tion would have begunnext year.De Genova added she

is disappointed and sad-dened for the seniors whohave been waiting over adecade for this centre.Jasper disputed the sug-

gestion that the moneycould be found throughCACs and said all availablefunds have already beenspoken for.When she brought

her motion forward, weactually asked our gen-eral manager [MalcolmBromley] at the meetingif there is any CAC moneycurrently available andhe said there isnt, saidJasper. Even if we wereto look beyond the catch-ment area, say to Norquayor Kingsway or the Fraser-lands development, thosemonies have already beenaccounted for in terms ofwhich projects they wouldbe spent on.He added that the city

paying for the project with-out federal help is a possi-bility, although the centrewould likely be on a small-er scale than planned.We can scale it down

and take out elements sothat it can be built for less,but to do right and reallytake in the demographicgrowth and ethnic diver-sity of seniors populationin that part of the city inthe coming years, it willrequire full matching fund-ing by the federal and pro-vincial governments.aeming@vancourier.com

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VARIOUSLOCATIONSDiwali, one of the biggestcelebrations on the Indo-Canadian calendar, kicks offnext week throughout thecity. The upcoming holiday also known as the festi-val of lights marks LordRamas victory over the de-mon Ravana, and the Hindugods subsequent home-coming after years of exile.Diwas, or small oil lights orcandles, are lit as a symbolof the triumph of light overdarkness, or of good overevil, andreworks galore arealso set off in celebration.People celebrate the multi-day holiday in differentwaysbut generally speaking it in-volves spending time with

loved ones, celebrating withdance, music and storytell-ing, rangoli designs, mehndihand-painting and, not un-likeHalloween, eating lots ofsweets.The South Asian Family

Association are putting onfree preparation workshopsat Sunset Community Cen-tre (6810 Main St.) Sundayfrom noon to 3 p.m. withpakora-making, card-mak-ing, sari-wrapping demos,diya decorating workshops,mehndi demos, chai-mak-ing, and classical SouthAsian dance demos. Othercommunity workshops arebeing put on at theWest EndCommunity Centre (870Denman St.) Nov. 1 from4 to 6 p.m., Renfrew ParkCommunity Centre (929East 22nd Ave.) Nov. 2 from10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,South Vancouver Neighbor-hood House (6470 VictoriaDr.) Nov. 4 from noon to3 p.m., and ThunderbirdCommunity Centre (2311Cassiar St.) Nov. 8 from 8p.m. to 11 p.m.The citywide Diwali Fest

celebrates its 10th anniver-sary this year and is spreadout Oct. 29 to Nov. 8. High-lights include the IndiGlam

Fashion Social Tuesdaynight at Scotiabank DanceCentre (677 Davie St.), freefood and dance at the mainbranch of the VancouverPublic Library on Wednes-day, and Diwali Downtownnext Saturday (Nov. 2) atthe Roundhouse Communi-ty Centre (181 RoundhouseMews) from 3 to 8 p.m. Visitdiwalifest.ca for more infor-mation.

EAST SIDESOMEWHEREThe reports of the death

of the Parade of Lost Soulshave been greatly exag-gerated. After more thana quarter century hostingthe sprawling, community-driven festival inspired byDia de Muertos (Day of theDead), the Public DreamsSociety are handing over thereigns to the creative soulsof Dusty Flowerpot Cabaretto carry the hugely popularEast Van festival. Keepingwith tradition, the Oct. 26evening events locationwillbe announced at the strokeof midnight the night beforeat publicdreams.org and viasocial media. Post-paradefestivities co-produced bythe hard-working party-planners of the Work LessParty will take place at theHanger (577GreatNorthernWay) featuring performanc-es by C.R. Avery, The Tailor,Briden, DJ Prom, ManhaiandMatty from Life.

GRANVILLEISLANDTheVancouver InternationalWriters Festival wraps upthis Sunday, with tickets stillavailable for a number ofevents taking place mostlyon Granville Island. Up-close-and-personal encoun-

ters with best-selling heavy-weights such as MargaretAtwood, Douglas CouplandandWill Self have long sincesold out but there are stilltickets available for talksby notorious Drunk Momauthor Jowita Bydlowska,

renowned Quebecois play-wright Michel Tremblay,Canadian comedy icon Co-lin Mochrie, investigativejournalists Eric Schlosserand Alan Weisman, and lotsmore. Formore information,visit writersfest.bc.ca.

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Sumitra Quiring performsa dance called BharataNataym at a Diwali lastyear at the Roundhouse.

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Thirty years ago this month PaulineMarois became the rst cabinetminister in Canadian history to givebirth while in ofce. It would be al-most 15 years later, in the fall of 1997, thatthe Parti Qubcoisministerwould usher in apackage of child-friendly programs includingwhat would be revolutionary in Canada a$7-a-day childcareprogram.Pauline Marois is now the rst female pre-

mier elected in Quebec. And according to aseries on childcare running this week in TheGlobe and Mail, while her $7-a-day programis still suffering growing pains, children arethriving and it is politically bulletproof; likehealthcare and public education, its a universal program, much loved andavailable to all regardless of income.Sowhat about B.C.?Well, in 2001Christy Clark became the secondwoman

inCanadianhistory togivebirthwhile sittingasacabinetminister. LikeMarois,she toowent on tobecomeherprovinces rst elected femalepremier.Unlike Marois, though, she has expressed no interest in pushing forward

with a similar childcare plan, a plan being promoted by the Early ChildhoodEducators of B.C. in partnership with the Coalition of Child Care Advocates ofB.C. Theywant$10-a-day childcare.Clark told the Globe two things in response. One: the province cant afford

theplan. (Quebec is sinking just over$2billionayear into their program.)Andtwo: Its hard to marshal wide-scale political support because the parentswho need childcare are mostly parents with children under 6, and once peo-ples children get into school, its easy for people to forget how difcult thoseyears are.As farasaffordabilitygoes,Nobel laureateJamesHeckmanis justoneecono-

mistwhohasobserved thatwhile childcare is expensive, like education, it paysfor itself down the road.As for political support and details of the plan I would direct you to

theCoalitionofChildCareAdvocateswebsite. They claim support from21citycouncils across theprovince and twodozen school boards.As for the premiers assertion about how easy it is for people to forget how

difcult those years were, put up your hand if you cant remember the panic,the inconvenience and the signicant cost related to your experiences.Howdoyou forget registering fordaycare themoment the stick turnsblueor

being left on awaiting list for yearswhile you juggled your schedule, thenpay-ing almost asmuch for childcare if notmore that youarepaying for housing?Ofcourseeveryone is left togureout theirownchildcare strategyandsome

are more fortunate than others. Clark, you may recall, was able to return toworkasa cabinetminister aidedby the fact she coulduse theofcenext tohersin the legislature as anursery.Child Care Coalition member Sharon Gregson reminded me that former

NDPpremierUjjal Dosanjh introduced a programbased on theQuebecmodelduring his brief administration. She says it was one of the rst things GordonCampbellkilledwhenhebecamepremier in2001andappointedClarkhismin-ister of education.And on the national scene, when Conservative Stephen Harper formed his

rst government in 2006, he took an axe to a national childcare program Lib-eral PrimeMinister PaulMartinwas ready to introduce a year earlier.While other provincial governments, like those in P.E.I. and Ontario, have

provided signicant grants for people to develop comprehensive early childcare andeducationprograms,Clarkhasdonenothingof the sort.In four provinces and two territories, early childcare and learning is being

housed in the ministry of education. Here it is fractured among a number ofministrieswhere funding is still viewedas a subsidy for thepoor.InVancouver, every council in recenthistory regardless of political stripehas

unanimously supportedmore childcare access and donewhat it can to get de-velopers to createmore spaces.Butwithout the province at the tablewith seriousmoney and a plan like the

one being put forward for $10-a-day daycare, the crisis parents face, the limitsbeingplacedonourkidspotentialandtheeconomicdisadvantages for familiesthat resultwill continue.

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COURIER STORY: Federal laws govern Vancouver pot shops, says councillor, Oct. 22Danalarsen @DanaLarsen: Seed bank has been there for over eight years, Dispensary more thanfive years. Both have improved the block considerably.

COURIER STORY: Unmarked Jewish graves identified at Mountain View Cemetery, Oct. 22Vikki Stevenson: What a lovely thing to do to remember people. I recently researched the graves ofmy four paternal great-grandparents and none of them had any sort of grave marker. I was told itwas just too expensive for many people at the time.

COURIER STORY: Lake says VPD, mayor playing politics on mental health, Oct. 22Terry Hall: Penny Ballems presentation should be interesting as, if Im not mistaken, she fired themental health advocate during her tenure as Deputy Health Minister for B.C.JLThomson @nannylula: Absolutely! Where is the mental health advocate @MayorGregor promisedduring his first election..Crys @CrystalsBC: Well DUH! They need politicians help! Where help is needed it becomes politicalnow help them! PLEASE!

COURIER STORY: Matthew Begbie pupils give We Day thumbs up, Oct. 24Jeannie: An amazing teacher engaging in great opportunities with her students. These kids arefortunate!

VANCOUVERDRIVERSNEEDTOCHILLOUTTo the editor:Re: Old complaint about

buses surfaces on VPD web-site, Oct. 16.I enjoyed Mike Howells article

on the past state of bus/autointeraction and admit that as aHandyDART driver its possibleI have a smidgen of bias abouttrafc today.I watch in wonder as the Coast

Mountain drivers calmly andexpertly weave those behemothsthroughout our busy byways withincredibly few incidents permil-lions of annual kilometers. Thecomplaints voiced in 2006 aboutbus drivers perfectly describesmany of todays auto drivers.I have driven or taxied in Hong

Kong, Mexico City, Sao Pauloand Los Angeles and personallyaward Vancouver the worst driv-ers bar none. Why? Utter disre-gard for road rules, other driv-ers, courtesy, safety and sanity.When another driver uses theirturn indicator as an indicatorinstead of a last-second con-rmation, or actually stops at astop sign behind the big whiteline (even when turning right!)or takes their turn in congestion,it surprises me so much I wish Icould thank them, hug them fordriving well, paying attention,forethought and patience for itseldom happens today.Intolerant, quick-to-horn-

honk divers who can honestly

say they have never made onemistake in their driving history?Go ahead and get purple, itsyour heart attack.Vancouver drivers need chill

pills, to read or reread roadrules, give others a little leewayand start to ask themselvescant I give a stranger ve sec-onds of my precious time?.Just ve seconds, people, and

wemight approach a Civil City.Greg Lanyon,Vancouver

BIKEPATHWILLENCOURAGEMORECYCLINGTOKITSTo the editor:Re: Vancouver Bike Path

Critics Ready to Fight, Oct. 18.Should we tear up the Kits

Beach area tennis courts,basketball courts and multiplepaved walking paths? I dontthink so. Theyre a great wayto create a joyful, healthy partof the beach park area. And sois a cycling path. It no longerworks to have everyone walkingand biking together on the paththat currently runs through Kitsarea parks and by the beach sothe park board is separatingthe two, as it has for almost allof our gorgeous seawall tocreate a safer route for all. Asfor danger to playgrounds? Notonly can we see that it workswell to have a path for peoplecycling alongside playgrounds inthe Second Beach Park but its a

fun, environmentally sound wayfor families to safely and activelyget to the playgrounds.As a resident in the Kits Point

area, Id be very happy to seelots more families and otherscycling to the park instead ofdriving endlessly through ourlocal streets looking for a park-ing spot.Lisa Slakov,Vancouver

COMMUNITYCENTREDISPUTEMUSTENDTo the editor:Re: Rebel community centres

mount fresh legal attack on parkboard, Oct 3.This dispute has gone long

enough. The community asso-ciations should back off and letthe elected park board run theVancouver community centres.There should be uniform basicservices and programs com-monly offered in all Vancouvercommunity centres.The community associations

should do volunteer work andgive/solicit donations for extraservices and programs in theirneighbourhood.They should not make the

community centre in theirneighbourhood their own back-yard spa or pool.

It is, after all, a communitycentre.Juan Luna Ibarrizto,Vancouver

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Big issuesbypassed forbromance inAssange filmIn 1988, a bored teenager with astratospheric IQ hacked into Minerva,a system of mainframes maintained byan Australian telecom in Sydney. He re-portedly assumed the name Mendax, fromthe Latin splendide mendax, meaning noblyuntruthful. Over time, the feats of Mendaxbecame legend among a global communityof so-called cypherpunks. He claimed hishacks were about overclocking his skills forthrills, rather than causing real damage.Give a man a mask and hell tell you the

truth, theadultJulianAssangehassaid,quot-ing OscarWilde on secrecy. Supply a whistle-blower with a digital cloak of anonymity anddark secretswill bloom into sunlight, public awareness. In theory, at least.For thepast threeyears, the tensionbetweensecrecyand transparency,ction

and truth, has dogged the exploits of the WikiLeaks founder in the online andofineworlds. As an information-age Rorschach blot, Assange is viewed as any-thing fromafreedom-of-informationninja toanopportunistic cyber-terrorist.The face of his Hollywood version, Benedict Cumberbatch, is spread across

posters for Bill Condons lm, The Fifth Estate. Yet its not the actors face thatopens andcloses thelm,but the faceof theactor playingAssangesWikiLeakslieutenant, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. The German programmer is portrayed asthe cautious voice of reason,while his collaborator is rendered as a narcissisticloose cannon, off onamessianicmission to alienatehis fewapostles.No surprise there. The Fifth Estate is based on two books written by authors

with personal grievances against Assange: Guardian editor Mike Leigh andDomscheit-Berg himself. Beyond these sources, there is plenty of testimonyboth complimentary and condemnatory on the character of the real-worldgure. He had titanium balls, one of his acquaintances told Forbes reporterAndyGreenbergofAssanges refusal tobendto legal threats fromtheChurchofScientology, backwhenhewas systemsadministrator at anAustralian Internetservice provider.For a guy of no xed address to put a chisel to the damof ofcial secrecy, al-

lowingwhistleblower leaks to turn into a global ood, and to convince three ofthe worlds most inuential media organizations to coordinate the release ofredacteddocumentsthats the stuff ofHollywoodlms.Therein lies the problem. Our perceptions of many historical gures are l-

tered throughHollywoods glittermachine, which buzzsawsWalmart-friendlybiographies into soundbite confetti.What sticks toour collective consciousnessare BenKingsleys Gandhi, Daniel Day-Lewiss Lincoln, Robert DeNiros Al Ca-pone, etc.Complexpersonalitiesbecomeconsumable icons, andAssanges big-screendoppelganger is no exception.Its a given that anyone exposing corporate and state crimes (as well as em-

bassy-level chatter) on a global scale would come equipped with a mammothego, if not anOlympic senseof optimism.AndyGreenbergs 2012bookThisMa-chineKills Secrets:HowWikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, andHacktivists Aim toFree theWorlds Information paints Assange as erratic and overbearing, but also brilliantand idealistic.Domscheit-Bergcomesoffas somethingofaquestionmark.But the real scoop isnt about some bottle-blonde Aussies quarrel with a but-

toned-downGermanprogrammer. Its thescoopsthemselves.AsTheFifthEstate it-self notes,WikiLeaks skeletoncrewservedupmorematerial for front-page storiesin three years than theWashingtonPost had in30years. Ananalysis by themaga-zineTheAtlantic...would showthat close tooneoutof every two issuesofTheNewYorkTimes in2011citeadocumentpublishedbyWikiLeaks,observesGreenberg.Far from the glowof the cineplex, the gure convicted for releasing the bulk

of that sourcematerial,Chelsea (Bradley)Manning, sits out a35-year sentencein a Fort Leavenworth prison. NSA leaker Edward Snowden is marooned inRussia. Assange himself is cornered in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.There are plenty of others in similar positions; BarackObamas administrationhasprosecutedmorewhistleblowersunder the1917EspionageAct thanallpre-vious presidents combined.Andyet the callous, laughingvoicesheard in theWikiLeaks-released Collat-

eralMurder videohaveneverbeenpublicly identied. (In2007, aU.S.Apachehelicopter airstrike reportedly killed eightmen, including twoReuters employ-ees. A second Apache struck a van of rescuers, killing three men and wound-ing twochildren.)TheFifthEstate toucheson thosehorric imagesonly briey,however. Thebigger picture of ofcial secrecy versus global transparency takessecondbilling to a tale of a bromance-gone-wrong. Thats showbiz.

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As much fun as Halloween iswith all the pumpkins, hauntedhouses, candy and costumes, itsimportant to remember its also a nightwhen extra safety precautions shouldbe taken.

From picking a well-fitted costume, toeducating children on

candy safety,parents shouldprovide awatchful eyeto keep thefun in trick-or-treating.To help youprepare for a

safe trick-or-

treating experience, the RogersPumpkin Patrol offers thefollowing tips and tricks:

Ensure costumes aresafe. Make sure yourchilds Halloweencostume is madeof flame-resistantmaterials and is wellfitted. Costumes thatdrag on the ground canpose a tripping hazard,which can be aserious dangerif kids fall whilecrossing the street.

Headgear: Masks, hats andother accessories should alsofit your child properly withoutinhibiting their vision. Halloweenmakeup is a safer option.

Make sure your children can beseen. Visibility is a very importantsafety consideration. Flashlightswith fresh batteries, glow sticks andreflective tape are must-haves onHalloween and will enable drivers tosee kids as they go from door-to-door.

Always trick-or-treat in groups.Children should always beaccompanied by an adult when theygo out trick-or-treating. Its a great wayto spend time with family and enjoyeverything the holiday has to offer.

Teens may want to go withfriends. If so, plan a route and

make them carry a fullycharged smartphone in

case they get separatedfrom the group.

Check Halloweencandy carefully.Treat kids to aHalloween snackbefore they head

out so thatthey are

lesslikelyto eatthe

candy they gatherbefore you havea chance toinspect it.

Teach children never to eat treatsin packages that have been opened,show pinholes or have other damage.And remember, always avoidhomemade treats or fruitunless they are froma family memberor close friend.

Knowwhere tolook forhelp. Teachchildrento find apolice officeror trustedneighbour ifthey are lost orneed help whiletrick-or-treating.

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The VancouverTrolley Companyand Vancouver PoliceMuseum have partneredtogether for a hauntedevening of murderoustales and infamousVancouver ghost stories.

As the night falls andshadows begin to appear,you will be whisked awayby the Trolley, whereyou will see streets andhomes, which seemnormal, but if you lookand listen close enoughyou will hear echoes ofmurders and other truedevastating events.

Your host will tell thegruesome tales oftroubled spirits, howthey met their end, andwhere they now occupytheir time. You will drivethrough eerie locationssuch as Stanley Parkand the winding roads

of Shaughnessy andstop to visit MountainView Cemetery. Plus,the autopsy room ofthe Vancouver PoliceMuseum, where over15,000 autopsies havebeen performed!

A seasonal favourite,this two-and-a-halfhour Haunted TrolleyTour departs evenings(excluding Sundays andMondays) from CanadaPlace at 6:30 pm, 7:30pm, 8:30 pm and 9:30pm; returning to CanadaPlace.

Meghan Neale ofHaunted VancouverTrolley says the touris usually sold outweekends, but theyveadded a 6 pm departurethis Saturday the 24th.There are also seats fornext Tuesday throughThursday includingHalloween night!

The tour is ratedadults only (age 13-plus) and costs $40per person, includingtax. Reservations arerequired, with paymentby credit card overthe phone. Book inadvance, as dates arelimited and we alwayssell out! Neale says.

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As a major bottle depot andrecycling centre, we accept allrefundable beverage containers,including wine, beer and spirits,says Ryder. We pay full depositon all non-alcohol containers aswell.

Got an old eight-track player orBetamax machine lying around?Go Green accepts unwantedelectronics and small appliancesfor free recycling, as well asunlimited amounts of householdpaints and even smoke alarms.

Weve had some funny thingsdropped off, Ryder claims. From50-year-old cans of paint to avintage phone in a wooden box,weve seen it all. But to be sure,call the Recycling Hotline at 604-RECYCLE if you want to knowwhat to do with ammonia or otherhazardous materials we cantaccept, says Ryder.

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Eerie sounds, spookylights and jack-o-lanternsaglowextra effortsat Halloween will keepvisitors coming back forboth tricks and treats.To keep the fun going,however, its important to

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Decorations involvingcandles, such as thosefound in jack-o-lanterns,are responsible forcountless home fires every

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To keep your housefrom being haunted withpotential insurance woes,Wayne Ross, insuranceand claims expert, offers

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Practice fire safety:When setting up spookyelectrical decorationsand lighting, ensure that

electrical outlets are notoverloaded. Considerbattery or solar poweredjack-o-lanterns.

Make sure yourwalkways are safe:Although darkness mayset the Halloween mood,keep walkways well lit andobstruction free to reducethe risk of injury andallow many guests to walkthrough simultaneously.

Check your insurancecoverage: Whilehomeowner policieswill generally cover

you and your propertyduring Halloween, it isa good idea to contactyour insurance broker toensure you have the rightamountof coverageespecially with hundredsof visitors to your home.

Its the responsibility ofhomeowners to makesure their property issafe for visitors duringthe festivities, Rossexplained. By takingsome precautions, you canjoin in the celebrationsand enjoy a safe night offun with your family.

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After nearly a year travelling on a rock star bus from one end of North Americato another, Rob Mickelberry, his wife and three children were ready to re-establishpermanent roots back home in Victoria.

We bought a property while we were on the road, says Rob, then lived in the oldhouse while we sub-divided the lot and built a new home that would be ours.Because Rob wanted the home completed in May 2013 for the long haul,he was determined it would not cost a fortune to run.

By calling in certied energy advisors City Green Solutions early in the design process, Rob was able to build-ina number of renements including an air source heat pump, triple glazing, a heat recovery ventilation systemand extra insulation that resulted in the home achieving a remarkable EnerGuide 88 rating from NaturalResources Canada.

That makes it, says Mike Young of City Green, approximately 59 per cent more energy efcient than if this homehad been built to BC Building Code standards. It will also save Rob an estimated $1,500 to $1,800 a year on hisenergy bills.

Icing on the cake: the high EnerGuide rating also qualied Rob for $2,000 in incentives from the BC HydroPower Smart New Home Program, and hes eligible for the ENERGY STAR Package incentive of $150 per homefor installing qualied energy-efcient lighting and appliances.

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Criteria: Photos must be taken this Halloween season.Email each photo separately, and include daytimephone number. Email to contest@vancourier.com.(Min. 300 kb, max 2 MB les, jpeg or Tiff.)

DEADLINE TO ENTER: TUES. OCT. 29.Winners will be contacted by phone, andtheir photos published on the Couriers website soonafter in the gallery (www.vancourier.com).

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home gardenWinters bone: THE NOVEMBER GARDEN CHECKLISTNovember is an excellent month to getthose last minute garden duties finished.It may be wet but it is still not to coldyet. So, here is a list of things to do thatwill help you get those garden choresout of the way.

Get those bulbs in. Dont forget to adda little organic Bone Meal with eachbulb; as hasnt been over-processedit makes an excellent fertilizer for yourbulbs.

If you havent already done so, applya good organic lawn fertilizer such asGaia Greens Vegetative Blend.

You can also fertilize your trees andshrubs once the leaves have turnedcolour and/or fallen off.

Stop fertilizing your indoor plantssince they use less water and fertilizerdue to the lower light levels.

Delay all unnecessary pruning untillate winter or early spring, just beforebud break. Your plants will heal fasterwhen they are growing the mostvigorously.

Rake up those leaves. I know itseems pointless when there are stillso many leaves left on the tree, butleaving them on the lawn can provedetrimental to it.

For a great mulch for your garden, runover them with the mower first thenspread them over your garden beds.

Now is a good time to clean, repairand sharpen all your gardening tools. Iflooked after properly you will get yearsof use out of them.

Hanging baskets should be emptiedand washed thoroughly with soap andmild bleach solution before being putaway for the winter.

Bob Tuckey is owner/operator of TheNatural Gardener Garden Store at 4376West 10th Ave.; thenatural-gardener.com.

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Bordered by Ontario Street in the west and KnightStreet in the east, Sunset begins at 41st Avenue andcontinues south toward the Fraser River. The neigh-bourhood was once part of the incorporated District ofSouth Vancouver and amalgamated with Vancouver in1929. This southern slope was farmland and clustersof homes and villages, the rst which were establishedin the 1860s.From the Fraser River, it could take a days journey

to reach the Granville Townsite present day Gastown by rowboat or through swamp and uncleared for-est. Westminster Avenue Main Street today waspushed south from Mount Pleasant in 1910. Streetswere named for property owners but many have sincebecome numbered avenues and in 1900, 20 acres westof Fraser Street, then known as North Arm Road, soldfor $2,000.Today, lots on the same land a tenth the size

of one acre are listed as high as $1.4 million.The neighbourhood was home to Vancouverites of Eu-ropeans descent and, increasingly through the centu-ry, residents of Indian and Chinese heritage. The num-ber of Punjabi speakers has increased consistentlyfor decades and in the last 10 years became the mostcommon language in Sunset. More than one in four, or26 per cent of people living in Sunset, spoke Punjabias their rst language compared to less than three percent of the general city population. In 2006, twenty-oneper cent spoke Chinese and 24 per cent spoke English.Vietnamese and Tagalog are each spoken at twice theaverage rate across Vancouver.Businesses, restaurants and services cater to these

communities, particularly along the thoroughfares ofFraser and Main streets, and prominent among themwas the Punjabi Market.Once known for the highest concentration of jew-

elry stores in Canada, the Punjabi Market now countsnumerous empty store fronts and declining trafc.Unlike rising retail property value across the city, as-sessments in this specic pocket declined 15 per centsince last year as businesses relocate to Surrey.

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Customers Bibi Ascencio (l), Annie Tomljanovic, Ale Forastieri and Sandra Has discuss what to buy at RokkoSarees and Fabrics on Fraser Street.

MEGANSTEWARTStaff writer

Jas Khurana inherited a whole-sale fabric business that spansfour decades, four continentsand a sub-continent. He is alsoheir to a reputation hes doing every-thing he can to uphold.One afternoon earlier this month,

the 46-year-old owner of Rokko Sareesand Fabrics at Fraser Street and East46th Avenue was taking calls on twodifferent phones, speaking in Englishand Punjabi, greeting clients by nameand offering tea to a costume designerwho was searching for just that rightshade of uorescent green.

Jas will nd it for me, said AnneNicholson, the owner of Robans De-sign who can churn out 50 skate ordance costumes in a single day withher team. This is the rst place I comefor fabric, said the veteran designer of30 years.Khurana traipsed from the counter

through the stores cavernous 6,500-square-foot showroom with brightgreen bolts in different textures andshades of lime, grass and glowworm.That will work, noddedNicholson.

She took an entire roll.It can get a little busy in here,

said Khurana, who operates the ware-house and clothing store with his wifeSatwant and his older sister Honey.Near the cash register is an aging sign

that states: Prices are fair, xed andfriendly. No bargaining.Khuranas father Sarbjit opened

Rokkos 40 years ago to cater to thesmall but emerging Indian clientelethat was overlooked by other mer-chants. A picture of the distinguishedman hangs in the centre of the store.At that time, the Indian community

was fairly small. He basically wantedto specialize for the Indian commu-nity, said Khurana.The neighbourhood is changing

again, this time as South Asian fami-lies leave Vancouver for the suburbsin search of more affordable housingand the businesses and services theyfrequent slowly follow.

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Continued from previous pageProperty values around the Punjabi

Market on Main Street declined 15 percent since last year, a marked differencefrom other Vancouver neighbourhoods,but Khurana said Fraser Street is faringdifferently.One thing with Main Street clientele,

they were focusing only on one particularclient, where we have more or less diversi-ed, he said. We have Chinese clientele,Filipino, European.The decline of the Punjabi Market, once

the premier South Asian shopping districtin Vancouver, was accelerated in Februarywhen Guru Bazaar left Sunset for Surrey.Khurana knows Guru Bazaar well. It

was one of themain agship stores onMainStreet. They had a big store, a big selectionand a big name. Theywere there for almost35 years.The store was opened and is still run by

Khuranas older brother, Sunny. It launchedin 1977. The public has been shifting out[to Surrey] and that market started to de-velop. My brother had no choice but tochange location.The South Asian population in Surrey

totals more than three times Vancouvers

roughly 32,000 residents, according toStats Canada gures from 2006.Khurana has no plans to leave Fraser

Street.Rokkos has a sterling reputation among

the professional set and wardrobe design-ers working in the citys lm and television

industries. This status developedmore than25 years ago when 21 Jump Street lmed atlocations around the city. Khurana learnedhow to deliver and found out over-promis-ing can be co