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Hundreds of tires slashed overnightBRENT [email protected]

NorthVancouverRCMP are looking forsuspects after someonewent on a vandalismspree resulting in morethan 200 tires slashedovernight and counting.

The suspects appearto have focused theirdestructive energy on

vehicles parked betweenCapilano University andPark &Tilford Centrein the early morningThursday, accordingCpl. Richard De Jong,NorthVancouver RCMPspokesman.

We started gettingcalls round 3:30 a.m. or4 a.m. in regards to tiresbeing slashed. Some carshad four tires slashed,

some had one or two,and were still receivingcalls, De Jong said Westill dont have a naltally.Were well over 140vehicles.That translates towell over 200 tires.

In scope and monetarydamage, its the biggestcase of criminal mischiefDe Jong said he has seenon the North Shore.

Theres nothing of

this magnitude where somany vehicles have beenvictimized, he said.

De Jong said theRCMP have called in extraofcers to help canvasthe neighbourhoodsaffected and review severalsurveillance footage clipstheyve received so far.

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SD44 recording ban challenged

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A NorthVancouver mansays the NorthVancouverschool district is violatingthe Charter of Rights andFreedoms by stoppingresidents from lming orbroadcasting school boardmeetings.

Shane Nelson, whopreviously ran for the schoolboard, has been told twicein two months to turn offhis camera or be kicked outof the meeting.The rsttime in October, he was toldit was because recordingmeetings was a violationof the school boardspolicy that deals withsurveillance cameras.Thesecond time, unspeciedprivacy legislation was thejustication.

Nelson said he wantsthe boards debates to berecorded and available forpublic scrutiny on principle,and video recordingin public is a form ofexpression guaranteed bySection 2 of the charter, hesaid.

Ultimately, the districtshould be lming andlive broadcasting itsmeetings and posting themonline after, just as themunicipalities do, Nelsonsaid.

But recording andbroadcasting meetingsisnt currently addressedin the policy that governsthe board procedures, saidFranci Stratton, boardchairwoman, in an interviewThursday.

This hasnt come up asan issue with anyone in thecommunity in the six yearsIve been on the board.Weve always had a processthat we record meetingminutes and theyre partof the public record, shenoted.

Stratton said meetingstend to draw in childrenwhose parents may notconsent to lming andshe did receive emailedcomplaints about Nelson

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Widerwalkways planned for causeway

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North Shore cyclists andpedestrians will have alittle more elbow roomand a lot more safetywhen traversing theStanley Park Causewayif the province andVancouver Park Boardfollow through onrecently released plans.

The ministry oftransportation andinfrastructure onTuesdaydebuted its designs toseparate northboundand southbound cyclistsonto opposite sides of theroad, along with widersidewalks and a pedestrian-only route.

Under the plans, theeast sidewalk will bewidened by 1.9 metresand be designated fortwo-way pedestrian trafcand northbound cyclists.The west sidewalk willbe widened by a moremodest 0.4 metres and bereserved for southboundcyclists only. Both sideswill be separated from the

road by a 1.4-metre highsafety fence.Widening thesidewalks would meanremoving 14 of StanleyParks hallowed trees.

The plan is beingwarmly received by NorthShore members of thecycling advocacy groupHUB.

Members of the grouphad been lobbying for

safety improvements sinceMay 2013 when a NorthVancouver woman waskilled after she fell from herbike into the path of aWestVancouver transit bus.

Its a pretty creativeway of getting almosteverything we asked for,said Heather Drugge, HUBspokeswoman. Its prettyinteresting, isnt it, because

of the asymmetrical natureof the design. I think overallwere very pleased.

It will take some time forcyclists and pedestrians toacclimate to the new rulesbut engineers did a goodjob of making the designmatch the needs of bothcyclists and pedestrians,Drugge said.

The southbound, westsidewalk tends to havemore conicts as cyclistspick up a lot of speed onthe downhill from the LionsGate Bridge, she said.

And the east side ismore suited to a sharedpath, Drugge added.

Not only is the eastside very wide, the cyclistsare not moving veryquickly because its uphill.If everybody behaves, thissystem should work, shesaid. Whenever you enterinto social engineeringtheres always going to besome non-compliance.But the non-compliers areprobably going to be one-offs.

The provinces engineersalso came forward with aconcept that will create theleast amount of grief forenvironmentalists, manyof whom are also cyclists,Drugge said.

Other options thatcame up would haveremoved so many trees onthe other west side that thewhole thing never wouldhave gone through, shesaid.

TheVancouver ParkBoard must still voteon whether to allow theprovince to go ahead withthe work, but based on theconversation Drugge hadwith park board membersonTuesday, she is optimisticthat will happen this spring.They seem to think this wasan excellent compromiseposition, she said.

The ministry oftransportation andinfrastructure and thepark board are bothasking for public feedbackon the plan at gov.bc.ca/stanleyparkcauseway.

Stanley Parksafety planpopular withcyclists


a Business ImprovementArea, which will add anadditional levy on theirtax bills to be spent onprojects meant to fostermore commerce in thearea.

Not forgotten was thelanguishing Harry JeromeRecreation Centre, whichMussatto pledged councilwould be dealing withearly in the new year.

Residents can also lookforward to a completedSpirit Trail spanning thecitys entire east-westborder as well expansionsof the Green Necklace,both part of the mayorsgoal to coax people out oftheir vehicles.

On the matter,Mussatto said the city willbe actively pursuing moretransit as a referendum on

TransLink expansion andfunding looms.

Effective immediately,councils top priority is toimprove bus and SeaBusservices on the NorthShore. We will work withTransLink to ensure a

third SeaBus is a realityand focus on improvingthe SeaBus area, he said.

Mussatto also statedhis policy preferences forthe perennial affordablehousing problem onthe North Shore, whichinclude protectingexisting rental housingand ensuring a range ofhousing options.

This council wantsto make it easier forfamilies to stay in NorthVancouver and we willcontinue to work hard tomake home ownershipand rent more affordable.During the next fouryears we will assistresidents by streamliningthe process for coachhouses, secondary suitesand the city will activelyseek purpose-built rentalhousing.

Those were issues

of contention in thenow stalled OfcialCommunity Plan, whichMussatto also addressed.

We are committed toadopting a new OCP assoon as possible, he said.

On the matter of NorthVancouver school districtlands, Mussatto said hesupports the preservationof open space at LucasCentre and Cloverley.

While elds there mayneed improvement, whichwe will support, I will notsupport any revision tothe zoning of these landsunless absolutely necessaryin this term of council,he said.

Mussatto is joined atthe council table by rst-time Coun. Holly Backand returning incumbentsDon Bell, Craig Keating,Linda Buchanan, PamBookham and Rod Clark.

Transit a top priority

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If you loved theWeegies,as I tenderly call theWestVancouver Citizensfor Good Government,youmay adore theWestVancouver HousingAssociation.

TheWVHA is a new kidon the development block.Literally. It has a storefrontin Dundarave.Two well-placed,mystiedWestVantown hall personages agreedwith the undersigned that,as of last week, theyd neverseen it open.Nor did it havea website. Or any Google-able reference.

AgentTj3s8 adevelopment sceptic, sotake the opinion with alarge grain of NaCl saystheWVHA consists ofthe worst real estateheavies, the most powerfuldevelopers and salespeople.Meaning the best, biggest,most successful, by positiveinterpretation.

And why is theWVHA

springing into life now?Because next monthWestVan council begins seriousdebate on an updated ofcialcommunity plan, which willtake many months to pass.

In that time gap, sogoes the cynical view ofAgentTj3s8, the real estatebusiness will put foot tothe oor to rush town halldevelopment approvalsbefore a possibly morestringent OCP is passed.

Pretty much like the self-interest of all of us when ourdollar is at stake.

Fittingly next up, gloomyretail news: Baracos +Brand is closing a qualitymens store that wouldhave attracted well-heeledresidents of GrosvenorAmbleside, steps downBellevue, had it held on for afew years.

Christine Baracos andlateWestVan councillorJohn Clark co-owned thestore under the smartlynamedTheMensroom. Itssuccessors closure supportsMayor Michael Smithscase that manyAmblesidebusinesses are sufferingnear-death experiences, andGrosvenor is a major steptoward rejuvenation.

So Smith (andGrosvenor) must welcomethe reborn Shell stationacross Marine Drive, long an

inglorious mudhole entranceto Ambleside that hardlyenhances sales of condos which,Agent p49scR, anew agent whose accuracyis untested and is only onthe apprentice list, declaresare projected to start at$1.6 million and, for thetwo penthouse-type terracehomes, will be north of $15million each.

MichaelWard, seniorvice-president and generalmanager of GrosvenorAmericas, responds: Pricelists are not somethingwe distribute, but ratherwe provide those that areinterested in purchasingspecic residential unitswith the individual pricingfor that unit.GrosvenorAmblesides presentationcentre will be completed inFebruary,Ward adds.

As Constant Readerknows,my only journalistic

fault is an abiding kindness.So Ive been musing aboutmy words, last time atbat, about Coun. CraigCamerons pain that councilduties were costing him he has to take time offfrom what we might call realwork.Hes right.

Most present councillorsare either retired orarent principal or solebreadwinners.

Exceptions are Cameron,a government lawyer whohas lost income due tocouncil demands, andnewcomer Christine Cassidy,a nancial adviser, whomay nd herself in thesame nancial boat ametaphorical leaky 12-footrowboat. Councillors arepaid about $30,000 a yearfor running a municipalitywhere top staff get up toseven or eight times as much.

So vote-topping Cameronisnt whining.Hes just moreopen than others about the

sacricial realities of councilservice in 2014.

I allow myself one sports

comment per year.This is it:My deep distrust of contactsports football and, yes,hockey, about which I havea puckish sense of humour deepened last weekend.

Hamilton,my hometown (only 51 years awayfrom it, seems like 52),crushed favoured Calgarywith a touchdown in thelast 35 seconds of the GreyCup game but for aninterference call that wipedout Brandon Banks classic90-yard run to the end zone.And left Calgarys 20-16lead intact. Frommy seatin Section 444, the refereeinstantly resembled theman who aint got rhythm,nobodys with him, hes theloneliest man in town (thatsIrving Berlin, kiddies).

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Trevor LautensThis Just In

Camera shyNorthVancouver school board isnishing its term with an F intransparency.In the last two meetings, residents

have come hoping to record the boardsdebate. Not seeing a policy to rigidlytell them what to do, the board told theresidents to turn their cameras off or bekicked out.This was the wrong decision.The board and its administrator

seem to be forgetting another policycalled the Charter of Rights andFreedoms, which is the supreme lawof the land.The Supreme Court ofCanada has deliberately interpreted ourfundamental right to expression in avery broad, far-reaching way, includingfor the use of cameras in public places.Of course there are justiable limits

when safety or personal information isconcerned, but elected ofcials have

zero expectation of privacy while theyreengaged in ofcial debate.As a society, we actively encourage

citizens to be engaged with theirgovernments, to scrutinize their debatesand question their decisions.Whether the school board intended

it or not, this has the effect of reducingtransparency and possibly running afoulof the charter.All of this, however, is losing sight

of the forest for the trees. Of courseanyone should be able to record boardmeetings but it should be somethingactively done by the school district.The technology required to record andlivestream a meeting exists in mostanyones pocket. Most municipalitieshave been doing this for years. Its thesingle biggest step our school districtscould take to reach out to citizens whohave a right to know.

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Despite the promises youhear chanted on BurnabyMountain, there is noway the oil industry willbe out of our lives in ourlifetime.

Oil is everywhere. Itaffects everything.Theclothes you wear, thecomputer you use, thetelevision you watch, thefood you eat all aretouched by oil at somepoint, either at the creationstage or on their journey tothe consumer.

A recent book byjournalist Rose George,entitled 90 Per Cent ofEverything, documents thatalmost everything you usein life has travelled to yourdestination by containerships, fueled by diesel oil.She spent a year on those

ships, noting that pretty welleverything we buy, we ship.

The little-noticedworld of shipping, and theirreplaceable role it playsin the world, is just oneexample of how deeply oilhas seeped into our dailylives.

Preventing a pipeline, asthose on Burnaby Mountainare hoping to do, maysound noble but it will haveabsolutely no impact on theoil industry. It is too massive,too deeply entrenched inour society for the halting ofa pipelines construction ina tiny corner of the world toconstitute more than a tinyblip in the overall scheme ofthings.

The protest against theKinder Morgan pipelinehas been compared to theClayoquot Sound warof the woods protest inthe 1990s.The two aredecidedly different.Theforestry protest was aboutending clear-cutting loggingof old growth timber, apractice very few peoplehad any personal experience

with. but the pipeline protestis about oil, which toucheseveryone, every single day.

While it was easy totarget the forest industryback then, it is morethan a bit disingenuousfor environmentalists todemonize the oil industry including that whichoperates in the Alberta tarsands while they, likeeveryone else, uses so muchof that industrys product.

There is a refusal bymany of those on BurnabyMountain to acknowledge

this unavoidable fact, andto pretend that there is noinconsistency in advocatingfor eliminating or weakeningan industry while at thesame time relying on thatsame industry for theirlivelihood.

Of course, somedo acknowledge thisinconsistency and sayjust because they drivea car, that doesnt meanthey cant work towardscurbing carbon emissions.Fair enough, but lost inthe chanting and rhetoric

that ows from the KinderMorgan protesters (orEnbridge protesters) is anynotion of realism.

Instead, they projecta romantic vision that issimply unattainable. Oil ishere to stay, until there is nomore of it left.

Another example of thequiet little inconsistencythat exists for so many ofthose who condemn theoil industry, especially theAlberta oil sands, is the

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was opposed becausethe gifts were given fora discrete purpose scholarships and bursaries and not for the schoolscapital campaign forthe construction of newbuildings.

Masuhara agreed.In his ruling, the judge

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the charity under theSociety Act the purposewas for the advancementof education throughscholarships.

Masuhara also notedthat the foundation didnot provide enoughevidence to prove thereis an impossibility orimpracticability for themoney not to be used forthe scholarship program.

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recording withoutpermission in October.

Still, Stratton said theboard will be reviewing itsown policy, which couldlead to cameras in the boardroom, either from citizens orthe school district staff.

We cant circumventthe process which we go toin order to establish policyor to review policy. I thinkweve heard Mr. Nelsonand others and said thisis something we need toconsider and we put it onthe inaugural board meetingagenda, she said. Well ask

for them to expedite it sowe can see where its goingto go in the next couplemonths.

But Nelson stressed heshouldnt need permissionor a policy to be allowed torecord the trustee debatesand post them online anymore than he would needpermission to record andpost what he sees in anyother public space.

I spent a ridiculousamount of time last nightreading over all of thepolicies of the board, all ofthe charter, case law, privacypolicy both (the PersonalInformation Protection

Act and Freedom ofInformation and Protectionof Privacy Act) and myreading of it is theresabsolutely no justication ofit or legal backing or schoolboard policy that preventsrecording of the meetings,he said.

The standard boardmeeting minutes fail toreect the scale and natureof debate before decisionsare made, he said.

How can anybody knowwhat the dissenting opinionis if theres nothing in theminutes about it and theresno video record and theresno media present? he asked.

The B.C. Civil LibertiesAssociation, meanwhile,says some limits on whatis recorded would bejustiable, like if sensitivepersonal information isbeing discussed. But itwould be backwards tostart with a blanket ban onrecording.

Outside of a carefullydrafted, appropriatelytailored policy that governsthe justiable exceptions,we cant think of a reasonwhy you couldnt thesame as you take notes record a public meeting,said MichealVonn, BCCLApolicy director. Its on the

government to justify whythey are not giving moreopen access to their publicmeetings not for thecitizen to justify why theyneed it.

Nelson has agreed toStrattons request thathe not record the Dec.9 meeting because thechildren of the boardmembers will be presentfor the swearing in, but hedoes plan to keep putting

pressure on the board.TheWestVancouver

school district allowscameras in the boardroom as long as the boardchairperson has been madeaware in advance.TheVancouver School Boardallows recording in its boardroom, as long as cameraset-ups are not blocking theview of other attendees orpositioned behind the boardtable.

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How do you prefer your winter weather?INQUIRINGREPORTER

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I like it when its snow anddry, or cold and dry.

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I like the snow on themountain.

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I hate the weather we hadon Saturday. I had to workoutdoors and I was so cold.Rains the best.

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I dont mind the weatherat all when the suns going.

Although snow sweptthrough the LowerMainlandFriday night followed byfrigidwind chills and frostytemperatures, EnvironmentCanada is expecting thenext threemonths to eitherbe average orwarmer thanusual thanks to El Nino, withtheNorth Shore settlingback into the old routineof showers, rain andmoreshowers. But theremight behope for clear and cold fans theWeather Networkslong-term forecast predictscolder temperatures, but notas bad as last year.Whichwould you prefer? Have yoursay at nsnews.com.

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Vancouver Sun sportswriters mocked the illegalblock call. Iain MacIntyredoubted thatTaylor Reedsinfraction inuenced Banksspectacular run: By CFLstandards, deciding the GreyCup on largely innocuouscontact was absolutely pre-dictable. Cam Cole: Thatsnot to say there wasnt a foulon the play.The problem isthat theres a foul, or two, orve, on pretty much everyplay in football.

(Canadas real gridirondrama was Saturday, whenmy school, Hamiltons

McMaster, bowed 20-19to University of MontrealCarabins on a dying-sec-onds blocked eld goal.Two hometown losses in aweekend!) Back to the point:In hockey, as in football, theline between fair and foul isoften so subjective, so arbi-trary penalties commonlyarent called in overtime, frinstance that refs havehuge power to determinewinners and losers.

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pension fund they pay into.The B.C. public sector

pension fund is administeredby the B.C. InvestmentManagement Corp., whichhas more than $100 billionin investments that fundthe pensions for more than500,000 people teachers,professors,MLAs,municipal workers, etc.

Public sector unionssuch as CUPE and theB.C.Teachers Federationhave been at the forefrontwhen it comes to attacking

the oil sands industry.Yettheir members stand tonancially benet from thatvery industry, because ofthe inescapable role oil playsin pretty well everything,including their pensions.

The BCIMCsinvestment holdings include$603 million invested inSuncor, one of the largestoil sands companies.another $409 million iswith Enbridge, while $372million is with CanadianNatural Resources and $284million is parked with ExxonMobil.

All told, the BCIMChas almost $3.6 billioninvested in the oil sandsalone (including, ironically,a small stake in KinderMorgan). Plus another half-billion dollars in companiesassociated with pipelines.Plus hundreds of millions ofdollars in Alberta real estate including a property inFort McMurray, which isGround Zero for the tarsands and the Albertagovernment itself, all ofwhich benet hugely fromthat provinces oil sandsdevelopment.

Want to ght climatechange?

Drive less, y less andbuy less.

But dont for a momentthink that shutting down apipeline is going to have anyimpact whatsoever, otherthan easing some guiltyconsciences of people whowill continue to use the oilindustry just as much asthey did before the protestson Burnaby Mountain.

Keith Baldrey is chief politicalreporter for Global BC.Email:Keith.Baldrey@globalnews

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