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A team of canoeists, led by Pitt Meadows’ own Chris Cooper, is on a three-monthexpedition to Alaska. The trek aims to bring awareness of the life that exists along the B.C. coastline,and awaken people to the need to preserve it. Follow the story online at www.mrtimes.com.
The TIMES is proud to sponsor theSpirit of the Coast Canoe Journey to Alaska…
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Daniel Ruiz took flight on his skateboard in front of the Maple Ridge Leisure Centreas part of Canada Day festivities at Memorial Peace Park on Tuesday.
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Canada Day got off to a running start in Pitt Meadows, with the Athletes In Kind 8k Charity Race that got underway from Spirit Square.
Budding chalkartist KiannaWolstenholmecreated aCanadianflag on thesidewalk atMemorialPeace Parkduring MapleRidge’sCanada Daycelebration.
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Kaelyn Aver, six, and her four-year-old sister Leah showed their patriotismduring Maple Ridge’s Canada Day party at Memorial Peace Park.
Canada Day celebrations in Maple Ridge and PittMeadows were held in near record temperatures.
The heat was on Tuesday as hugecrowds helped ring in Canada’s147th birthday in Maple Ridgeand Pitt Meadows.
July 1 was the hottest dayof the year, with the local tem-perature soaring to 32ºC by 3p.m. according to EnvironmentCanada, however, that didn’tkeep visitors from flocking tocelebrations at Memorial PeacePark and Pitt Meadows SpiritSquare.
The party at Memorial PeacePark featured a variety of livemusic, plenty of kids crafts andactivities, and vendors booths.
Canada Day festivities got off toa rousing start with the Athletes InKind Canada Day 8k Charity Race. A total of 189 runnersset off just after 9 a.m. from Spirit Square.
Running in the men’s 16-19 category, Maple Ridge’sNathan Wadhwani crossed the finish line first with a chiptime of 27:33.
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Amanda Zhao in B.C. in 2002 has had hisprison sentence reduced to seven yearsfrom life imprisonment after a Chinesecourt overturned his murder conviction.Zhao’s body was found near Stave Lake.
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Post-sec discussedLori Graham talks about the need to
leverage local assets and “marry it withtechnology” in order to promote post-secondary education in Maple Ridgeand Pitt Meadows. The North FraserEducation Task Force recently attendeda forum with the Minister of AdvancedEducation Amrik Virk in Maple Ridge.
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Sale benefits surgeryA lemonade stand this Sunday at
the Real Canadian Superstore will helpraise money for Brayden Grozdanich, aseven-year-old with cerebral palsy. Hispal Quinn Callander, also seven, is raisingmoney for Brayden to go to New Jerseyfor expensive surgery. The stand will beset up from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 6.
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Brayden Grozdanich and Quinn Callanderare good buddies.
Lori Graham Is the economic developmentcoordinator for Pitt Meadows.
Contact her [email protected]
Developing IdeasDeveloping Ideasby Lori Graham
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Adam Rayburn is the man behind Adstock, a music festival that had humble beginnings in 2005. Featuring eight bands, the concert will beheld Sunday, July 6 from 1-8 p.m. at Memorial Peace Park.
Adstock returns to MapleRidge with a free show atMemorial Peace Park.by Troy [email protected]
What began as a birthdaybash in Pitt Meadows a decadeago has morphed into the com-munity’s largest outdoor alt-rockfestival.
Adstock, a free outdoor con-cert featuring a buffet of alt-rockand metal bands, takes placethis Sunday, July 6.
Featuring Rebel Spell,Hellbound, Hepcats, The Skinny,Witch of the Waste, BoneDaddies, Slow Erase, VacantEyes, and Treachery, the all-ages event runs 1-8 p.m. at theMemorial Peace Park bandstand.
Now 27 and the drummer withthe four-member band Anion,Adam Rayburn was turning18 in 2005 when he decidedto celebrate the occasion withlive music at his family homein northern Pitt Meadows, nearSwan-e-Set golf course.
“The music festival grew outof it accidentally,” Rayburn said.
“I was turning 18, I just wantedto have some kind of musicallyorientated birthday party.”
The plan was to set up a stageon the deck of the home and“have people jam,” Rayburnrecalled.
“It wasn’t a ‘show’ by anystretch,” he added.
Rayburn’s dad fretted aboutthe June 6 party being crashed,so he had his son draft up someinvitations and send them outto a set number ofinvitees.
The originalparty was dubbedAdstock ’05, asa lark. Using thefirst two lettersof his first name,and adding “stock” to it was acheeky homage to the world-famous Woodstock festival.
Adstock, in its currentform, has nothing to do withRayburn’s birthday. In the yearsthat followed the first event, ithas been held on a day that wasmost convenient for the show.
“The thinking is that we wantto hold it close enough to the[end of the] school year, becauseit is a youth-orientated festival,”Rayburn said.
Maple Ridge-based Treacherywill be playing their first show.As well, Vacant Eyes consists of“a couple of guys who went toGaribaldi [Secondary],” Rayburnsaid.
Sounds of punk, metal, andska will blast from the loud-speakers during the day.
The first four bands willhave half-hour sets, threemore (Hellbound Hepcats fromToronto, The Skinny from
Montreal, andWitch of theWaste) will playfor 45 minutesand the finalgroup, RebelSpell, is slatedto be on stage
for an hour.The festival does not allow
alcohol and drugs, but that canbe hard to police. But this hasnever been a huge problem inthe past, Rayburn stressed.
“Realistically from my per-spective, we hope [visitors] willrespect the event,” he said. “It’snot going to be a big party puke-fest – nothing like that.”
For more info, go to www.facebook.com/adstockmaple-ridgesociety.
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Alt-rock festival turns 10
“...it is a youth-oriented festival.”Adam Rayburn
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SummerschoolcancelledBCTF said mediationwouldn’t be “productive.”
by Maria [email protected]
Summer school will nottake place in the MapleRidge-Pitt Meadows schooldistrict.
Senior school districtstaff made the decision onWednesday afternoon inlight of a Labour RelationsBoard (LRB) essential servicesorder.
The LRB order stated thatsummer school would berestricted to students whofailed Grade 10, 11, and 12classes and who couldn’ttake the class in the followingschool year.
Because of the “narrow-ness” of the order, summerschool would not go ahead,said acting superintendentLaurie Meston in a letter toparents.
“We will be working withaffected students individuallyto minimize the impact of thiscancellation and develop aplan for the fall,” she added.
Teachers were on strikefor two weeks at the end ofthe school year as the B.C.Teachers Federation and theB.C. Public School Employers’Association tried to hammerout a contract for them.
On Wednesday, the BCTFand BCPSEA made a jointannouncement that the twosides had agreed on a medi-ator, Justice Kelleher of theB.C. Supreme Court, but thatafter exploratory talks, it wasconcluded that mediationwouldn’t be needed.
The BCTF’s president JimIker released a statementlater on Wednesday, sayingmediation wouldn’t be “pro-ductive,” and that the govern-ment was trying to impose“unworkable preconditions.”
“The preconditions wouldhave predetermined the out-come,” Iker stated.
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Police are asking for informationabout a “brazen robbery” onCanada Day.
Ridge Meadows RCMP are inves-tigating an armed robbery that tookplace July 1 at the MeadowtownCentre Superstore.
Police were called at about11:45 p.m. on Canada Day to theSuperstore located in Pitt Meadows.
A lone man had directed twofemale employees into an office thatcontained the store’s safe.
After getting the employees toopen the safe, he ran off with anunknown amount of money.
“This brazen robbery has certainlyalarmed and traumatized the two
victim employees of the store,” saidRidge Meadows RCMPCpl. Alanna Dunlop.“Investigators believethe robbery occurred justbefore 11:30 p.m.”
The suspect isdescribed as a man inhis 40s.
He is about five feet,seven inches tall and hasa heavy build, Dunlopexplained.
She added that hewas wearing an orangehoodie, blue jeans, andlight blue running shoeswith silver lines.
“It is believed the suspect got ontoa mountain bike and rode off eastthrough the parking lot,” Dunlop
said. “Police are asking for anyonewho has any informationregarding this incident tocall police.”
The police investigationis being led by the RidgeMeadows RCMP SeriousCrime Unit.
Anyone with any infor-mation is asked to callRidge Meadows RCMP at604-463-6251.
Those who wish toremain anonymous cancall Crime Stoppers at1-800-222-8477 or leavea tip online at www.solvecrime.ca.
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That’s one of the recommendationsbeing implemented from a provincialroad safety and speed review that mayraise a few eyebrows.
After assessing more than 9,000kilometres of B.C. highways over thepast year, the province will “adjust” thespeed limit for about 1,300 km. Thatwill include bringing in a new overallmaximum speed of 120 km/h, as wellas trying out “variable speed zones”along sections of the Trans-Canada,Coquihalla, and Sea-to-Sky Highways.
Other changes stemming from thereview include redefining “winter tires”and cutting a month off their season(ending March 31, instead of April 30).
New regulations and enforcementprovisions for “keep right except topass” will please those who are frustrat-ed by slow drivers – and those who feelno one else is ever going fast enough.
While many of the changes – likethose aimed at reducing crashes involv-ing wildlife – make good sense and willbe welcomed universally, some leave usscratching our heads.
For instance, at a time when Germanauthorities have re-opened debate overthe prospects of setting speed lim-its on their famous Autobahn – withproponents citing studies indicating itwould reduce serious crashes – the ideaof raising speed limits in B.C. seemscounter-intuitive. If the goal is to reduceaccidents caused by frustrated drivers,a better solution might be to increaseenforcement to get those frustrated driv-ers off the road.
And we’re not sure how a newrequirement for drivers with more thanfive vehicles backed behind them topull over will work during rush hour.
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The cat ran in with lightningspeed when the fireworks startedat 10 p.m. on Canada Day. Shewas not impressed. And I thinka lot of the neighbourhood dogsagreed with her – they don’t likeloud noises that sound like theymight hurt someone.
The neighbourhood cats anddogs are lucky they live in Canada,though – not because of the uni-versal health care or generallytidier streets, since health carehasn’t been extended to pets yet (just wait!!)and the cats and dogs are usually the culprits ofany mess found on our streets – but if they weresouth of the border, they’d have to endure evenlouder and more extended fireworks – to cele-brate the American day of national patriotism,the Fourth of July.
Americans love their fireworks.When I was a teenager, my family spent a lot
of time in Washington State, and the fireworksdidn’t just go off on the Fourth of July – it wasa month-long pyrotechnic celebration of theirindependence.
We Canadians are just a bit more civilizedabout fireworks, restricting it to about 20 min-utes on our national day of patriotism.
But celebrations in the old country are muchmore staid.
The few years I spent in Finland as an adulttaught me about paying your respects on nation-al holidays.
On All-Saints Day, you visit your dead relativesat the cemetery.
On Christmas Eve, you visit your dead relativesat the cemetery.
During the rest of the year, you visit your deadrelatives at the cemetery at least once a month.
Every 10 years or so, you pay a honkin’ big billto have the cemetery plots maintained by muni-cipal gardeners.
But on Dec. 6, on Finland’s Day ofIndependence, there are no loud fireworks going
off or people having picnics in thepark listening to Finnish countryand western bands or having wife-carrying contests – yes, that is anational sport in Finland, google itif you don’t believe me.
It might be partly because halfthe country is plunged into dark-ness for two months, and the otherhalf gets between one and fivehours of light per day in December.
But it might be partly becauseindependence came at a personal
cost to many Finnish people.The Finnish government declared its independ-
ence on Dec. 6, 1917, after being traded backand forth between Sweden and Russia for a fewhundred years.
But Finland’s declaration of independencewas followed by a bitter internal war whichhas many names, depending on who’s talkingabout it: veljessota – “the fraternal war”– theRed-White war, the civil war, and the war offreedom.
Casualties were in the thousands, and the wardivided families – until the country really hadto unite and fight as one nation after the SovietUnion attacked its eastern frontier in 1939.
So maybe our independence day celebra-tions reflect our history: Americans with theirheroic fight against the oppressive British rule,Canadians with our slow and relatively painlessshuffle towards greater and greater autonomyfrom Mother Britain, and Finland, celebratingquietly with its bitter memories of brother fight-ing against brother to figure out what it means tobe a Finn.
So on Dec. 6, most Finns will light two can-dles and place them at their windows, maybewalk quietly through their dark neighbourhoodsto see their neighbours’ candles.
Then they turn on the TV and watch thePresident’s Independence Day Reception andcheck out what the Finnish glitterati is wearing– kind of like the Finnish Oscars.
Opinion
Independence reflects history
Haney Inkslingerby Maria Rantanen
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Dear Editor,This is a letter from an uneducated
man. My wife, sister, and I immigrated toCanada in 1956, my sister to Alberta andourselves to B.C.
We raised three kids, most ofthe credit must go to my wife.All three became school teach-ers in school district 42, in myhumble opinion, a very nobleprofession.
Next to the parent and religioncomes another important personin the child’s life: the teacher.
All three really enjoy their professionand love the kids they teach. My young-est son has been teaching for 28 years,my daughter 12, and my eldest for 25years, so imagine all the children theyhave taught and guided over the years.
I can guarantee, if you get one of ourkids teaching, you get the best.
We really hurt when we hear all the
negative talk, especially during the strike.Their hours are not nine to three, andthey are paid for nine months work, not12 with the summer off.
Our three spend more onstudents than Mother’s Day orFather’s Day, which we support.
I was raised in SpurgeonsOrphanage in the U.K., and inthe 1940s, it was teach, then getthe kids out to work full-time atthe age of 15.
I give full support to our three,because they have earned our
full respect. Only two are now in SchoolDistrict 42, as the eldest is teaching inNorth Vancouver.
So, kids, learn and enjoy your educa-tion, because without it, you could finishup like me – 12 jobs over the years – andmake sure you pick something you reallyenjoy!
Doug Mitchell, Maple Ridge
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Editor
Dear Editor,If a teenager was to take a bottle of
water from a store without paying,the police and parents would be calledimmediately.
So too, if a single mother on welfarestole a litre of milk for her kids when themoney ran out.
I get that, it’s theft.What I don’t get is why it’s acceptable
for some adults to walk away with a $900shopping cart, using it as their personal
grocery carrier back to the subdivision.Theft is theft.And personally, I’d rather absorb the
cost of that litre of milk on my next gro-cery bill than the cost of that shoppingcart.
Judy Johnston, Pitt Meadows
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Dear Editor,Thanks to the TIMES for
reporting from the PMSSpicket line. All too often,we only hear each side’sofficial “representative”story, and not the perspec-tives of the people at thefront of the classroom.
I was interviewed byTIMES reporter MariaRantanen, and discussedthe “race to the bottom”due to policies introducedin the early 2000s.
“Class size and com-position” as a bargain-ing buzz-word is slowlybecoming a media cliché.
The reason it is import-ant for teachers to havefirm language is simplemath. A raise of six percent coupled with anincrease in class size bythe same six per cent is no
raise for us, and no bar-gain for our students.
Claims that “class sizes”have negligible effects onclassrooms are incredible.
Secondary school classnumbers set what coursescan be run: students andclasses are shuffled to bal-ance student needs andteacher competencies.
Specialty courses aresubject to petty politics.Specialty teachers need toattract students to theirclasses, and incur favourwith those in charge ofshuffling students.
That means succumbingto the pull of the path ofleast resistance. Relaxedstandards, neglecting lessobvious demands, anddepreciating the value ofthe course creep into thepractice by everyone.
Personally, I don’t blameEducation Minister PeterFassbender or PremierChristy Clark for this mess.They must answer to theirpolitical masters.
Expectations towardspublic education frominfluential groups like theFraser Institute and theBCTF – the BC TaxpayerFederation – are to blame.
My BCTF (BC TeachersFederation), my union,and I have struggled withthe illegal and damagingstrategies in public educa-tion and our knowledgeeconomy for the past 13years.
Recently, I was inKelowna for a weddingcelebration. Inevitably,up came the question ofwhere B.C. “is going to getthe money to pay for theteachers’ court wins.”
My response was this:My province expects agreat deal from its teach-ers. We are expected to bespecialists in our fields, tobe pedagogical experts, tohold a minimum of twodegrees, to volunteer ascoaches, to act as surro-gate parents, to advocatefor decreasing inequality…the list goes on.
And now, you want meto do the finance minis-ter’s job too?
Mark Gerard, Maple Ridge
Education labour dispute
Politics creeping into class sizes
Education labour dispute
Teachers withdraw supportDear Editor,
Your correspondent writes, “No support teacher wouldallow a student’s Individual Education Plan to be dis-carded, especially during such a crucial time.” [Studentslosing support in dispute, June 26 Letters, TIMES]
Isn’t that just what they are doing?Like the government, the BCTF claims to care as well,
so then why are their wages and benefits demands sofar out of the ball park? Maybe if they reduce those andconcentrate on class size and issues “for the kids,” theywould be more credible.
Cherryl Katnich, Maple Ridge
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Maggie Coles Lyster rounded acorner during a recent race.
On the FlyOn the Flyby Jeff Weltz
A fly fishing instructor and outdoor writer,Jeff has fished the area since the early 1970s.Contact him at [email protected]
A Maple Ridge woman istaking part in Saturday’sUnderwear Afffair.
by Eric [email protected]
Laurie Botha is all too famil-iar with the devastating effectsthat cancer can have on a fam-ily.
Botha’s mom passed awayfrom the disease at the age ofjust 63 last September.
One loss can be devastat-ing for a family, but the MapleRidge woman explained it’s notthe first time her family hasbeen affected.
“I lost three family membersto cancer,” she explained.
“My grandpa was the first,she said. “He had prostate can-cer for a few years. He wentthrough the treatment whichlengthened his life a bit.”
However, her grandpapassed away from the diseasein 1998, at the age of 74.
And her mother-in-law wastaken by colon cancer, Bothaexplained.
“By the time they figured outwhat was wrong,” she said,“the cancer was so far gonethat they said there was nopoint in chemotherapy or radia-tion, and that they couldn’ttake it out.”
Her mother-in law was 69.And it was shortly after deal-
ing with that that her mom wasdiagnosed.
“To hear that diagnosis wasreally hard,” recalled Botha.
“She did have surgery, andthey were able to remove someof the cancer,” she said, “butbecause her body was so weakat that point, treatment wasn’tan option and it was actuallyher heart that couldn’t take itafter the surgery – the stress on
her body was just too much.”For Botha and many others,
those below-the-belt cancers arethe main reason she will onceagain take part in this year’sUnderwear Affair.
A fundraising and aware-ness initiative of the BC CancerFoundation, the aim of theevent is to bring awareness andhelp fund the research to find acure for the disease that afflictsso many.
This Saturday, July 5, hun-dreds of men and women areexpected to hit the streets ofVancouver to take part in theannual event.
“When my family memberswere diagnosed,” Botha said,“I wished I could do somethingto help.
“I can’t find a cure myself,but this is something I can do.”
The event attracts partici-pants of all ages and athleticabilities, who take part anddress up (or down) and walkfive km, run the 10 km race, orjoin in the Booty Hunt.
As it is a fundraiser, eachperson must raise a minimum
of $300 to participate, with allof the funds raised going to theFoundation.
For Botha, who describesherself as “not particularlyoutgoing,” it can be a bit of atricky endeavour, but she cred-its her friends and family forhelping her make it happen.
“Last year, I had a lot of fam-ily and friends help out,” shesaid, adding, “This year, myhusband made it easy – he justdonated the $300.”
As for the Affair itself, Bothadescribed it as an “awesomecause,” and added that theevent has more meaning whenit’s personal.
She said that, even thougheveryone involved knows thesobering reason behind it, theatmosphere during the event is“like a big party.”
“A lot of people at the eventare actually dealing with itthemselves,” she explained.“it’s like a big family, almost,and everybody has a story.”
For more information aboutthis year’s Underwear Affair,visit www.uncoverthecure.org.
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Maple Ridge resident Laurie Botha (centre) will participate in the Underwear Affair.
Larissa Franklin is off to the Netherlands inAugust.
The Maple Ridge woman has been chosen bySoftball Canada to be part of the senior women’snational team.
But first, Franklin and her teammates will com-pete at the General Tire World Cup of Softball,from July 7 to 13, in Irvine, California.
From there, they will make their way tothe Scotiabank Canadian Open FastpitchInternational Championship, running from July15 to 21 in Surrey.
The summer will be capped when the teammakes its way to Haarlem, Netherlands, for theISF Women’s World championships, which takeplace from August 15 to 24.
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July 4: Dancing• Friday Night Dance with Robyn Picardtakes place at The ACT, 11944 Haney Pl.,from 7 to 10 p.m. with a beginner lessonfrom 7 to 8 p.m. and practice dance from8 to 10 p.m. Info: www.ilovetodance.ca orwww.theactmapleridge.org.
July 4: Pub night• Ridge Meadows Hospice Society is hold-ing a beach party-themed pub night atThe Well at Chances Maple Ridge, 22710Lougheed Hwy. Info: 604-463-7722 orwww.ridgemeadowshospicesociety.com.
July 5: Farmers market• Haney Farmers Market holds its annualArt Extravaganza. The market runs from9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Memorial Peace Park.Tom Hammel entertains. Info: www.haneyfarmersmarket.org.
July 5: Fundraiser• Noble Hearts, a fundraiser for the CaringPlace, takes place at Blenz Coffee, #122-22441 Dewdney Trunk Rd., Maple Ridge,from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Donations accepted.
July 6: Music festival• Adstock, Maple Ridge’s alt-rock festivalis at Memorial Peace Park, 1-8 p.m.
July 6: Choir• A mixed choir of 44 members from UralUniversity of Russia will be singing at St.Luke’s church in Maple Ridge at 3 p.m.For tickets, contact at Sammy 604-467-4806 or Nita at 604-467-1011.
July 7: Magician• Magician Andrew Dalziel will be at thePitt Meadows Library from 1:30 to 2:15p.m. with his assistant Rocky the RaccoonN.B. Tickets for this event have all beendistributed but if the weather is good, theevent will take place in Spirit Square andeveryone will be welcome.
July 7 to 11: Vacation Bible School• Seventh Day Adventists hold a VacationBible School for kids aged five to 12. runsfrom 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 21467 DewdneyTrunk Rd., Maple Ridge. Info: Patricia at604-465-3239 or Renee at 604-463-0861.
July 12 & 13: Caribbean Festival• Maple Ridge’s Caribbean Festival takesplace on 224th Street and Memorial PeacePark with two stages and 15 live bands,more than 200 entertainers, and 60 to 70street vendors Info: www.caribbeanfest.ca.
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plasticity you used to see inside the soon-to-be-rattling interior of a WRX.
Even better, the sedan is a little morepractical than it used to be. Trunkspace is up to 340L, and real legroomis up too, meaning adult passengerscan actually squeeze back therewithout issue.
The seats still aren’t quite as heavilybolstered as they were in those first earlycars, but the cloth covering looks like it’llstand up to people who have multiple MECmemberships, and the dials are big enough to beused with your gloves on.
Instrumentation is a mixed bag, with a handy displaybetween the gauges that provides a useful digital speedreadout, and gentle coaching on how much gas you’reusing. The centre-mounted display is a little less easy tonavigate, and the small standard rearview camera is more abonus than a reason to purchase.
Performance:The WRX now gets a new direct-injected, 2.0L flat-four.Huffing plenty of boost through a low-mounted turbo,it out-muscles last year’s WRX by a staggering threehorsepower, for a total of 268hp.
Okay, hang on a minute: that’s not the whole story. TheWRX’s new, smaller four is both considerably more efficientthan the outgoing model, and much punchier as well. Thepeak horsepower improvements are only a mild side benefitcompared to the improved delivery, which now knocks outa stout 258lb/ft from 2000-5200rpm.
Power falls off a little at the top end, but this WRX has aspry responsiveness that even pro-tuned Subies can onlydream about. With the six-speed manual, off the lineholeshots are excellent. With the optional CVT, it’s still veryquick reacting.
Oh right, the CVT. New for 2015, the WRX is now availablewith an available transmission that seems selected forits likelihood of offending purists. However, it’s actuallypretty good: it might not seem like it makes sense to putsomething as ordinarily economy-minded as a CVT in acar like the WRX, but Subaru has fettled it until it actuallydrives like a performance machine. Flick the adjustablesettings into Sport Sharp and it even gives you eight pre-setspeeds for the paddle-shifters.
But if you don’t want an automatic WRX, nobody’s forcing you to
This car is harder edged,more aggressive, and readyto shred the street
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get one - yet. The six-speed manual is a littlebit vague, with its cable-operated linkage,but it’s an improvement over past WRXgearboxes.
Regrettably, this is quite a rough-riding car, but the result is a huge leap
forward in terms of cornering ability.Subaru seems to have spent their entire
research budget on the new chassis, andit’s a corker. Equipped with a new torque-
vectoring front end that can brake an insidewheel to dial in more bite, the new WRX turns
in like the old car never did. There’s oodles of gripfrom those stick summer-only Dunlops, and the car
grips like a gecko through the corners.
Forget any dreams of Scandinavian flicks through thetwisty stuff – not until the snow starts flying. This new caris a much tighter drive, with good steering, and extremelycomposed dynamics. Anyone anticipating track day workis going to want to look at more aggressive brake pads, butas-is, it’s a very compelling package.
Features:Now starting at just under the 30K mark, the ‘15 WRX isactually fairly well-equipped from standard. A 6-speakerstereo, iPod connectivity, Bluetooth, and that rearviewcamera are all standard.
Moving up to the Sport trim nets you a power seat, sunroof, LEDheadlights and foglights – this will likely be the volume seller.The Sport-tech trim adds in satellite navigation and 9-speakeraudio: while usable, the touchscreen controls for the navi andaudio are a bit to small to navigate easily. If you can live withouta leather interior, better to skip the top-trim.
Fuel economy ratings score well at 9.8L/100kms cityand 7.0L/100kms highway. As these numbers areprovided under the new 2015 five-cycle testing method,they’re actually achievable – naturally, premium fuel isrecommended.
Green Light:Excellent grip; good visibility; improved interior;responsive engine
Stop Sign:Rough ride; interior refinement still only mid-pack; where’sthe hatchback?
The Checkered Flag:A little boring to look at, but goes like a rocket.
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At some point during your middle schooleducation, your math teacher probably told youthat the shortest distance between two pointswas a straight line. They were wrong. It’s aSubaru.
Specifically, it’s this Subaru, the WRX. Since 2002,it’s been dispatching snow, gravel, rain, dirt, mud,and twisty tarmac with aplomb. Kinda makes you
wonder whether our mail wouldn’t get there a heck of a lotfaster if Canada Post bought a fleet of them.
However, since 2002, it’s also been just a bit flobbery.That’s not really an insult, just that Subaru traditionallyset their street-ready rally-rocket up as if it was about tocomplete a gravel stage: a softness to the springs, a bitmore body roll.
Totally redesigned for 2015, this new car is harder edged,more aggressive, and ready to shred the street. It’s morehardcore than ever, but have they kept that utilitarianfriendliness?
Design:Well, at first glance, you’d have to say no. The most majordesign difference of this new WRX isn’t the fancy newcorporate grille or the reworked hood scoop; it’s thesedan-only designation. That’s right, no more wagon.
The WRX wagon (later hatchback) was extremely popularin past variants, splitting sales volume with the sedanright down the middle. It provided a tough, weather-proofalternative to the VW GTI and was loved by young familiesand active folks alike. Sadly, it’s no more.
To its credit, the new WRX looks pretty good, if a bit onthe plain side. Like all WRXs, the little details grow onyou, and despite the flashy, angular sheet metal, those areentirely reasonable 17” alloys tucked under the wheel-arches. Replacement tires won’t break the bank.
LED headlights are now available on mid-level trims, andthe body’s just flared out enough from a standard Imprezato be sporty - a good start.
Environment:Breaking from Subaru tradition somewhat, the inside ofthe new WRX is actually pretty good. Make no mistake, theGermanic competition is still probably slightly ahead in termsof premium feel, but there’s much less of that old econobox
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