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ust one week after hosting a packed town hall meeting to discuss the medical marijuana dispensary planned for Deep Cove, District of North Vancouver council voted on the dis-

pensary’s fate late Tuesday night. In a unanimous decision, council decided to

support its new bylaw preventing the sale and distribution of marijuana anywhere in the dis-trict “except by persons authorized under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, Medical Marihuana Access Regulations and any other applicable legislation.”

The proposed dispensary was to be run by the Re-Leaf Society, a registered non-profit society formed by Deep Cove resident Ken Starr. The dispensary would not have operated under fed-eral jurisdiction, no dispensary does, so the dis-trict’s bylaw has closed the door on Starr’s plans. Final adoption of the bylaw is scheduled for June 27.

Much of Tuesday’s special council meeting was spent discussing the perceived ineffectiveness – documented in much of the literature submitted to council by dispensary supporters last week – of the federal medicinal marijuana program. Judgments of, and suggestions for, the allegedly failing system, however, are an issue for Ottawa, said each member of council. The question facing North Vancouver is land use.

“I’m rather disappointed in the federal gov-ernment for not helping more but it is a fed-eral decision,” said Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn. “Everyone on council can appreciate the pain and suffering of people who were here last week. But politics is all local and people want us to ensure land is used appropriately.”

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turbed by threats of political retribution [from last week’s meeting]... It’s never the way of get-ting the support of council.”

The threats Nixon alluded to came from Jacob Hunter, policy director of the medicinal mari-juana advocacy group the Beyond Prohibition Foundation. In a phone interview with The Outlook last week, Kirk Tousaw, lawyer for Re-Leaf and member of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation, said his group would be prepared to continue advocating for dispensaries in the dis-trict if the bylaw was passed.

After the meeting Starr told reporters he had a scheduled meeting with Tousaw on June 22 to discuss his organization’s next steps. Starr would not confirm whether he had any plans of taking legal action against the district. Starr did say he was surprised how “unsupportive” council was on the issue, citing again the need for such an operation. His research, he added, showed the majority of medicinal marijuana users in the dis-trict live between the Deep Cove and Lonsdale areas.

“I’m not comfortable going into Vancouver to open. I wanted to do it here,” said Starr.

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In contrast to council’s assertions that Starr had never approached district hall about his intentions, Starr said he had called a number of times since last summer to discuss required zon-ings.

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The music has stopped and the elastic exer-cise cords are stored away. Participants of Friday afternoon’s Keep Well seniors’

fitness class are giving themselves a round of applause which echoes through the Gleneagles Community Centre’s gym. As they wind down over tea and coffee, the chatter starts.

Since last summer, when the HST was intro-duced, it’s been the focus of some of the con-versations. Vitamin prices are up, Lois Nemrava says. She also noticed the tax when she had to replace her stove and freezer.

The HST usually comes up when people talk about groceries, Lenny Dries notes. Although Dries agrees with Nemrava that many seniors are feeling the weight of the tax, she questions how the government will get the needed cash if the HST is scrapped.

“They have to get it somewhere,” she says. There are so many wealthy people in B.C. that

it would make more sense to introduce a tax targeting them rather than one that hits seniors and low income households, Pamela Pasowysty answers. She tries to help out with the cost of her grandchildren’s courses and athletic pro-grams. Since the HST took effect, those expenses

have risen sharply, Pasowysty says, noting dining out has been crossed off her list of activities.

West Vancouver resident John Rawsthorne has sat down to calculate how much the new tax is costing him. When all the numbers were crunched, Rawsthorne was shocked by the figure. He estimates that he and his wife will pay $1,000 to $1,500 in HST per year. The big-ticket items were on bills for financial services — with no pension, Rawsthorne relies on his investments — and garden maintenance.

Rawsthorne’s estimate is not too far off what the Union of British Columbia Municipalities predicted. In 2009, the union said the HST would shift $1.9 billion in taxes annually to indi-vidual taxpayers. This equalled an average tax increase of $800 per person, per year.

Rawsthorne believes the people most affected by the tax are seniors.

However, when Rawsthorne receives his ref-erendum package he plans to vote to keep the tax. It’s a tough decision, he says. Although he believes it is better for the province, Rawsthorne wishes the government was more transparent about the way the tax was implemented and its implications on different sectors of the commu-nity.

“I get torn between the desire to have trans-parency and the realities of politics,” he says.

Seniors weigh in on a tax that some say hits them the hardest

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circuit to the glitzy, feature film world of the City of Angels.

But, he says, the British Columbia acting world is some-thing special. The community is tight-knit and out-of-town actors love coming to B.C. Most importantly, it’s a good place to make a living.

“By mid-July there are between 12 and 15 episodic shows scheduled to come to Vancouver,” he says. “And the industry is down everywhere, Hollywood is quiet. So, we’re doing quite well.”

The province’s film industry has been a leading proponent of the HST. Since its introduc-tion, the industry says there’s been a 20 per cent bump in jobs – translating into 24,000 new gigs.

Peter Leitch, president of the North Shore and Mammoth studios and chair-man of the Motion Picture Product Industry Association, says film and television productions “rent a bit of everything.” Furniture, wardrobe, cars and lumber, for instance, are just a snap-shot of the multitude of the potential products

needed on set. Dissolving the previous tax system has meant substantial savings on products the industry buys or rents because PST is no longer charged.

Leitch says there are six or seven productions happening at the studios at any given time.

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Fending off the negative impact of a strong Canadian dollar, adds Leitch, has also been a strength of the HST. In the past, a lower Canadian currency has been a draw for international productions to come to Canada. But with a near-par, or above-par dollar, other incentives need to be in place to attract important out-side business. Currently, B.C.’s main competition is New York, Ontario, New Mexico and Louisiana.

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Jack Jung still remembers opening the doors to his family’s first restaurant in 1962.

Back in those days The Mountaineer, a 46-seat diner with a soda fountain, was a bit of an institution in Edgemont Village.

“You remember that movie Grease?” he asks with a chuckle. “Well, we were living it.”

In the past 49 years, Jung has seen a lot of changes in the restaurant business. “Everyone’s trying to find ways to make their business more efficient,” he explains. “To cut costs.”

More recently, he’s had to deal with the intro-duction of B.C.’s harmonized sales tax — which meant his customers have been saddled with an extra seven per cent tax on top of their bills.

But despite the new levy, Jung says he hasn’t seen a decline at his current restaurant and catering company, Cheers.

“I think that’s partly because we offer value to our customers,” says Jung, whose diner still has a $5 breakfast. “Price is only one component of it. If you have good value, you get the business.”

But Jung, it seems, is one of the few restau-rateurs who isn’t calling for an overhaul of the HST. In a recent survey by the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, 87 per cent of respondents reported a drop in sales since HST took effect last Canada Day, with an average decrease of 15 per cent when compared to the previous year.

In the same survey, 68 per cent of B.C. restau-rant owners pledged to vote against the tax.

Toni Mangiliman, owner of North Vancouver’s Fiesta Filipino, is one owner who will be voting yes in the referendum to “extinguish the HST.”

“I think we should scrap it,” he says. “When people ask me, I give them my honest opinion. I think we’re already taxed enough.”

In an article last June, Mangiliman told The

Outlook he was worried the new tax would hurt his small Lower Lonsdale business. A year later, he says those fears have come to fruition.

“I’ve definitely felt it,” he says. “In my demo-graphic, people are on a budget and they notice those small changes. It’s enough to keep them from eating out.”

But it’s not just family restaurants that are feeling the pinch. In West Vancouver, Doug Grisdale, one of the owners of Mangia e Bevi, says business has remained at a standstill since HST came into play. “I wouldn’t say we’ve seen a drop in business, but it may have slowed down business growth,” Grisdale says.

Those sentiments are reinforced by statistics currently being touted by the CRFA, that assert between July 2010 and January 2011 restaurant sales in B.C. were flat, while sales across the rest of Canada were up 1.7 per cent.

“It’s hard to imagine where we might have been without things like the HST or the new drinking and driving penalties,” says Grisdale.

Kim Van Sickel, owner of the Dundarave Fish Market, agrees that it’s more than just the HST that’s hurting local restaurants.

In the past year, the West Van business own-ers says it’s been getting tougher and tougher for those in her industry to turn a profit.

The HST made it more expensive for people to eat out, she says, while tougher impaired driv-ing legislation made people afraid to drink. Then, the province rubbed salt in those wound by announcing a minimum wage hike in March.

“They’re slowing business down, but yet oper-ating costs are going up,” she says. “They’re destroying restaurants.”

Regardless of the referendum’s outcome, Van Sickel says “something has to be done to help the industry because restaurants are hurting big time. We were just tax collectors doing what we were supposed to do, but we’ve paid the price for it, too.”

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It wasn’t just the HST that hurt the restaurant business, says Kim Van Sickel, owner of the Dundarave Fish Market. Tougher drinking and driving penalties and an increase in the minimum wage have hurt, too. Restaurants are paying the price for the province’s actions, she says. Rob Newell photo


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For Doug Smith, owner of North Vancouver’s Smithwerk’s Carpet and Upholstery, the benefits of the HST have

been simple. He’s been able to hire another employee at his family-run business.

“When it was fist introduced, sure, I was a little freaked. I was one of the businesses that was now charging seven per cent more,” Smith told The Outlook. “But I found it didn’t affect my business at all.”

In addition to avoiding any price-influx pit-falls the HST could have ushered in, Smith found himself looking for ways to expand his client base. He had always relied on repeat busi-ness and customers from newspaper ads, but he wanted to capitalize on his web presence.

So for $2,000, about the same amount as a PST tax credit offered under the HST, he hired an Internet search engine consultant. After some tweaks to his website, business soon tripled.

“It’s very busy times, busiest it’s ever been. I’m one small company and I’m hiring, provid-ing jobs. It’s a good feeling, giving someone their start.”

Smith’s business surge aside, the discourse sur-rounding the tax has become one of trust versus need.

After the 2009 election, says West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan, the province found itself saddled with a $3-billion debt. The prov-ince decided to implement the HST and capital-ize on the $1.6 billion “signing bonus” that came along with it.

Sultan admits the tax wasn’t presented prop-erly, and understands there is still “confusion and anger out there” surrounding the tax. But, he says, the government needs the money and if the HST is scrapped, the government will have to tax something else.

If kept, the BC Liberals have promised to drop the rate from 12 to 10 per cent within three years. A one-time $175 payment will be given to families with children younger than 18 and single seniors with incomes less than $40,000 per year.

Senior couples with a combined income less than $40,000 will receive $350.

The HST is a “value added” tax — meaning the tax is imposed solely on consumption — and it’s the federal government that collects it for the province. Sultan says Victoria has eliminated an entire level of bureaucracy, saving about $30 mil-lion in wages.

“This was botched from the get go and we’re still paying the price,” says Sultan.

“Gordon Campbell paid the price for it. But the government needs to raise money to pay for things like health care. We don’t print it; it comes from the taxpayers. There will be a huge

hole for the govern-ment to refill if we re-do this.”

Voters, howev-er, aren’t ready to agree with Sultan. An Angus Reid poll conducted earlier this month shows 56 per cent of British Columbians are in favour of extinguish-ing the tax. Support to keep the tax has seen a dramatic increase over the past 12 months. Last year, only 18 per cent of people said they would vote to keep the HST.

Mario Canseco, vice-president of Angus Reid, says the key factor in the change has been a decrease in the animos-ity towards the government.

“We started with a situation where four out of five people hated this tax. But the anger begins to drop after Campbell left. People wanted a lightning rod,” Canseco told The Outlook.

“But this dramatic a change has been incred-ible. This is not the norm.”

Canseco says an important factor in the loom-ing referendum will be voters’ ability to talk with others about the issue. British Columbians, he says, will have the opportunity to consult fam-ily, friends and others about the benefits and drawbacks of the tax. What began as an issue with two very clearly defined sides, the provin-cial government against the Fight HST camp, has become much more difficult.

“This was very black and white, but it’s much more than that now,” says Canseco.

“We’re seeing ad campaigns from both sides and a lot of information out there to educate people. Even the province’s stickmen ads are sending people to the website to read more.”

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Here in the Lonsdale Barber Shop, Young has enlisted the help of Adeil Fazil to trim and tidy his bushy playoff beard.

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When it comes to Bollywood dancing, Kalpita Desai has all the right moves.

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Growing up in Mumbai, Desai remembers being entranced by the magic of movies — par-ticularly ones that combined traditional Hindi music with North American hip-hop beats.

“I just love it. It’s like two worlds coming together. A global fusion,” she says, enthusiasti-cally.

Desai danced and performed as much as she could throughout her school years. In col-lege, she won a prestigious dance competition between India’s top post-secondary institutions.

“After that, I never looked back,” she says. “I just kept grabbing all the opportunities I could along the way.”

Five years ago, Desai moved to Canada to pur-sue her MBA at Vancouver Island University. After graduating, she moved to Surrey, but was later drawn to the North Shore because of its natural surroundings and proximity to esteemed Bollywood dance instructor Shiamak Davar.

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dream when she performs on-stage with some of India’s brightest movie stars at the glamourous Indian Film Academy Awards in Toronto.

The North Vancouver resident earned the opportunity to perform at the “Bollywood Oscars” after winning a nationwide dance com-petition hosted by CIBC earlier this month.

“At first I was really nervous. I kept asking myself, ‘Is this real?’” she says, during a lunch breach from her day job at BC Hydro. “Now I’m just really excited. I realized, ‘Oh my God, I’m living my dream.’”

Saturday marks the first time the glitzy awards have been held in North America. The televised broadcast is expected to attract up to 700 million viewers worldwide.

On Sunday (June 19), Desai flew to Toronto to begin a hectic training schedule with Davar, the show’s choreographer. In order to prepare for her five or six dance numbers, she’ll attend full-day rehearsals every day this week.

“Your memory has to be very good. You have to learn the lines to every song, and whatever the song says you have to portray in your facial expressions,” she says. “It’s going to be a lot of work and a lot of stress of learning songs as fast as possible, but I can’t wait.”

The awards ceremony airs live this Saturday, June 25, at 5 p.m. Pacific from Toronto’s Rogers Centre. For more info visit www.iifa.com.

Up to 700 million viewers from around the world will be tuned in this weekend as Kalpita Desai performs at the “Bollywood Oscars” in Toronto

It’s one thing to have a great band and some great songs. But how do you get an

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veterans, including North Vancouver’s Angela Harris, will be at the Vancouver Island Music Business Conference from June 22 to 26 in

Courtenay. They’ll talk about the business side of making music, with special focus on SOCAN, FACTOR, publish-ers, copyright, record deals and radio playlists.

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Kalpita Desai grew up in India dancing to Bollywood film soundtracks. This weekend, the North Van resident will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform at the Indian Film Academy Awards — better known as the “Bollywood Oscars” — in Toronto.Submitted photo

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some of Vancouver’s best known restaurants) and a live performance by Canada’s own Barenaked Ladies who rocked the house till midnight. Some of the North Shore’s famous faces walked the red carpet alongside the city’s beautiful people who all came out to support this very worthwhile cause.

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Ladies for their performance.D Sexy social gals Traci Myles, left, and Carla Temple get a chance to talk about cars, stars and Carla’s impressive former life as a Canadian bodybuilding champion. E CTV news anchor and North Vancouverite Mike Killeen is all smiles as he gets a chance to cuddle up to his beautiful wife Jill, left, and talented West Vancouver estate lawyer Nicole Garton-Jones. F Former Canucks hero and North Shore resident Dave Babych, seen here with wife Diana, was among the VIPs at the party. G BMW sales executive Dave Griffiths, left, congratulates dealer owner Brian Jessel on another fantastic gala fundraising night.

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mothers which will be the basis of a professional show created for Presentation House Theatre in 2012.

Anyone can submit their stories, but nine sto-ries, representing the cultural mosaic of North Vancouver, will be chosen and fashioned togeth-er into a play that will tell the broad story of where we come from.

Organizers are primarily interested in collect-ing women’s history so that means just telling the facts of what happened without judgement. Your mother doesn’t need to be famous, or even great; her story doesn’t need to be dramatic. It’s about how ordinary women from around the world have coped, what they’ve had to contend with and how they lived their lives.

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This project is open to women living in North Vancouver city or district. You can write and submit your story at any time to www.mymothersstory.org. Your story will be marked as being part of the North Vancouver campaign and will be posted on www.mymothersstory.org. It will also be included as an entry for the produc-tion My Mother’s Story: North Vancouver.

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North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce Governors’ Gala, presented by Neptune Terminals, is on Thursday, June 23 at

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