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CHERYL ROSSIStaff writer

When Barj and Rita Dhahan heard in Novemberabout disabled students arriving with emptystomachs at John Oliver secondary school,they decided to fund the life skills class’s

breakfast program for the next three and a half years.“We both looked at each other and I said, you know

Rita, this is our school, we went here. I think we should do

something,” Barj Dhahan said.And when JO principal Tim McGeer made a presentation

to the Fraserview Rotary Club, to which Dhahan belongs,about the Sunset school’s extensive literacy programs,they acted again by leading fellow John Oliver alumni topledge raising $100,000 for the school’s Wonder of Read-ing Legacy Fund.

The Kerrisdale couple and JO graduates presentedcheques totalling $22,500 at the Sunset school Mondaymorning, ahead of Family Literacy Day Jan. 27. Much ofthe money came from the Dhahans and their family mem-bers, with contributions from other former students.

John Oliver secondary, along with 23 community part-ners, held a massive literacy event in September to launchits Wonder of Reading campaign.

JO grads repay school with gift of reading

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SANDRA THOMASStaff writer

The B.C. SupremeCourt has tempo-rarily halted theattempted evic-

tions of six community cen-tre associations by the Van-couver Park Board.

In a decision brought downJan. 17, B.C. Supreme Courtjustice Gregory Bowdenruled Hastings, Kensington,Kerrisdale, Killarney, RileyPark Hillcrest and Sunsetcommunity centre asso-ciations can stay put until acourt case is heard later thisyear or in 2015.

The Vision Vancouver-dominated park boardserved the six associationswith eviction notices last fallafter the group launchedseveral legal proceedings inB.C. Supreme Court regard-ing an interim joint operat-ing agreement.

The associations launchedthe first lawsuit in Septem-ber, asking for an injunctionagainst what was initiallythe forced use of the One-Card, a universal access passthat eliminates the need forindividual community cen-tre memberships. According

to the provincial SocietiesAct, the associations musthave a membership list toqualify as a non-profit so-ciety. The park board alsowanted to centralize pro-grams and services at com-munity centres across thecity, which the associationssay isn’t practical. As well,the board wants to cre-ate a new financial model,which when first proposedwould have seen all of theassociations pooling theirrevenues and that moneybeing diverted to “have not”community centres. A newfinancial model has yet tobe decided and negotiationsare ongoing in cementing apermanent joint operatingagreement.

The associations then ac-cused the park board of al-leged violations of their jointoperating agreements andfiled for damages, whichwas followed by evictionnotices from the park board.The third court proceedingwas a successful request foran injunction to temporarilylift the eviction notices untilthe court case regarding thejoint operating agreementcan be decided.

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Apparently, the provincial govern-ment isn’t getting its mail or emailfrom the City of Vancouver.

How else to explain the government nowrequesting feedback on its so-called plan tointroduce new campaign finance rules forcivic elections?

And, the government implored, give ussomething by Jan. 31, 2014!

What the ..?As regular readers will know, the call

from city council to get the big money outof civic politics goes back almost a decade.In fact, all three mainstream parties — Vi-sion Vancouver, the NPA and COPE — oncesigned a tri-party agreement in an effort tostop the multi-million dollar campaigns.

I’ve lost track of how many times councilthen dutifully sent a letter, email — whatev-er — to the provincial government request-ing a new set of campaign finance rules.

I’ve been told that council cannot simplychange the rules in Vancouver. As well, nopoliticians appear to be taking up formermunicipal affairs minister Ida Chong’s sug-gestion of a handshake deal between partiesto stop the spending race.

Regardless of such a suggestion, ministerafter minister — Chong, Bill Bennett andnow Coralee Oakes — have clearly said theyaren’t interested in changing the rules onlyfor Vancouver.

Which is kind of odd, since I would guesselectoral reform is not exactly on the agen-da of, say, Mayor Ted Lewis in the village of

Zeballos on Vancouver Island.But here we go again.Yet another motion drafted by Vision Van-

couver Coun. Andrea Reimer was scheduledto go before city council Jan. 21; I swear Icould hear her heave a heavy sigh in havingto do this again.

As Reimer pointed out, council has sentformal requests to the government for cam-paign finance changes in 2005, 2009, 2010,2012 and in 2013 via a motion endorsednearly unanimously by the Union of B.C.Municipalities.

“The funds used to campaign for electedoffice in Vancouver have grown 175 per centin eight years [that] Vancouver has waitedfor provincial action on this issue, with theunprecedented case in the 2011 Vancouvermunicipal election of $960,000 donated toone electoral organization from a single cor-poration and more than $5.2 million spentby all parties,” her motion reads.

That $960,000, by the way, came fromdeveloper Robert Macdonald and went tothe NPA. Reimer, for the record, did not to-tal up the amount of money her party hasreceived from developers, many of whomdo regular business with the city.

Anyway, in case council’s earlier dispatch-es got lost in the mail, Reimer posted a longlist of recommendations agreed upon inMarch 2010 by council that outlines what itwants changed.

The biggies here are a ban on union andcorporate donations, impose spending lim-its and have all donations and expenses forcandidates disclosed on a continuous basisat six-month intervals.

The election is in November.And Oakes has already indicated spend-

ing limits won’t be in place for the cam-paigns, which again are expected to see mil-lions of dollars spent.

And that, of course, means none of theI’m-on-a-low-budget independent candi-dates will get elected.

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MIKEHOWELLStaff Writer

The city’s director of transporta-tion believes implementation ofa massive $6 million public rentalbicycle system in Vancouver will

likely not roll out until next year.Jerry Dobrovolny said negotiations have

been slow with Alta Bicycle Share of Port-land to set up the system, which involves150 stations and 1,500 bicycles, that wassupposed to launch in the spring.

“I don’t think that’s realistic now,” Dobro-volny told the Courier Tuesday. “We’re stillhopeful that we can see something in 2015.”

Dobrovolny spoke to the Courier the dayafter news broke that the company workingwith Alta to supply the stations, bicycles, ahelmet service and information systems inVancouver is in financial trouble.

PBSC Urban Solutions, or Bixi, announcedMonday that it filed a notice of intention toseek protection under the Bankruptcy andInsolvency Act related to its Montreal bikeshare system and growing debt.

The Montreal company, which has notbeen able to repay more than $40 millionin loans from the City of Montreal, said ina statement on its website the move is beingdone to restructure its business and financ-es. The statement did not comment on theproposed Vancouver system.

Though Bixi would be the supplier in

Vancouver, Alta Bicycle Share would own,finance and operate the system and providecustomer service. Alta also has to secure cor-porate sponsorship and donation contracts.

“Really, the ball is in [Alta’s] court,” Dobro-volny said. “We’ve made progress but it’s beenmuch slower than we had hoped for. If for somereason it was suddenly to pick up pace and —boom — it was done, that would be great.”

As part of the deal, the City of Vancouverhas to provide a one-time $6 million invest-ment toward the purchase of the equipmentto run the system.

In an email statement to the CourierTuesday, Alta said it only received the news

Monday of Bixi’s troubles and was not in aposition to discuss alternate suppliers.

“We are working closely with the PBSC’ssubordinate suppliers and are confident thatwe will be able to meet our 2014 launches,”said Mia Birk, vice-president of Alta.

As well, Birk said, the company continues towork on a solution to B.C.’s mandatory helmetlaw. Alta’s CEO Michael Jones told the Courierin June 2012 that solution would likely involvehelmets sold in vending machines.

“Vancouver’s system has a number of com-plexities that have created a slower rollout,including the reliance on sponsorship moniesand the need for a helmet solution,” Birk said.

Mayor Gregor Robertson said in state-ment Monday that Vancouver’s system isnot dead because of Bixi’s troubles.

“Bixi isnottheprimarypartnerinVancouver’splannedbikeshareprogram,andVancouverhasalways refused to offer any of the loan guaran-tees or obligations that have created significantrisk to taxpayers in other cities,” Robertson said.

The mayor said the system will only launch “ifand when the city is fully satisfied that all part-ners involvedcanmoveforwardwithoperationsthat are successful and fiscally responsible.”

NPA Coun. George Affleck said news ofBixi’s financial troubles, along with otherlosses in cities such as Toronto, is enoughfor him to request staff to no longer pursuea system for Vancouver.

“I just don’t think we should be investing insomethingthat’ssorisky,”saidAffleck,acknowl-edging Bixi is not the only bike supplier in theworld. “But at the end of the day, using up morecity resources at city hall and our time to focuson something that appears to be the impossibledream — it’s just not viable at this time.”

Bixi has also run into financial trouble inToronto, Chicago and New York City, whereit supplies bikes and infrastructure for thepublic bike share systems.

Alta’s website noted Bixi was named oneof Time magazine’s top 50 innovations of2008 and a global leader in bike share sys-tems. The company’s bikes and stations arealso used in London, Washington D.C., Bos-ton, Minneapolis and Ottawa.

City’s bike share dream hits dead end

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Bixi bikes in better days on display in Vancouver June 2012.

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Adopting the Downtown Eastsideand Marpole plans, bringing thePearson-Dogwood lands policystatement before council, pre-

senting the urban structure plan for GreatNorthern Way where the Emily Carr Univer-sity of Art and Design will move, handlingapplications for two health care facilities —including a contentious one proposed forCasa Mia, and dealing with the OakridgeCentre rezoning application are amongBrian Jackson’s priorities for 2014.

Jackson, the city’s manager of planning anddevelopment, listed his goals during a sit-downwith the Courier earlier this month at city hall.

Only a few weeks into the new year, onegoal is already moving forward as the Pear-son-Dogwood policy statement goes beforecouncil Jan. 22.

But the Coalition of Vancouver Neigh-bourhoods, which represents 23 communi-ty groups, has raised concerns about the re-lease of the policy statement. The coalitionissued a press release Monday complainingthe lengthy document was posted onlineonly six days before council is slated to dis-cuss it, which doesn’t give residents enoughtime to digest it.

Vancouver Coastal Health owns the 25-acrePearson-Dogwood site, located at West 59thAvenue between Heather and Cambie streets.It envisions a mixed-use development, whichfeatures healthcare housing and related ser-vices, housing, community amenities andpark space. The policy statement is meant toguide redevelopment of the property for den-sity and building height. If council approves it,VCH can file a rezoning application.

“The release of this report with so littletime for the public to study it and its impli-cations is in line with a series of such de-layed publications,” the coalition wrote inthe release. It considers it an ongoing prob-lem, citing other examples such as the WestEnd Community Plan being issued 10 daysbefore a hearing and the Transportation2040 policy being approved shortly afterbeing posted.

Whether city hall addresses the coalition’scomplaint remains to be seen, but its cri-tique kicks off what will almost certainly beanother tumultuous year for planning anddevelopment in Vancouver.

“We’ve got an ambitious planning agendafor 2014 and recognizing that it is an electionyear, I won’t be surprised by anything thathappens,” Jackson told the Courier Jan. 6.“And my job is to bring forward the best possi-ble applications and developments for councilto consider and let them make a decision.”

Jackson anticipates the Downtown Eastsideplan and the proposed Oakridge developmentwill attract the most attention this year.

While the Oakridge redevelopment pro-posal has proved controversial over on densityand tower height concerns, Jackson believesthe project, if approved, will be transforma-tive in a positive way. He cites the public ben-efits included such as a civic centre, 11-acreroof-top park and affordable housing.

“So I think the total of what we’ve beenable to achieve with Oakridge will help cre-ate a compete community,” he said.

Jackson also said he’s pleased aboutprogress since the affordable housing planwas passed at the end of 2012, which in-cluded as many as 20 affordable housing

pilot projects. One has been approved — aco-housing project on East 33rd Avenueand another, called Beulah Garden, is in theworks, Jackson said. The project on EastFourth is for 57 units of affordable seniorshousing. “They already have a seniors hous-ing project there, so they’re just expandingacross the street,” Jackson said.

Thirteen other projects are in the pre-ap-plication, the serious enquiry or the initial in-quiry stage, including the second co-housingproposal that’s in the pre-application stage.

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Six years after police launcheda ticketing blitz that targetedDowntown Eastside residentsfor such offences as jaywalking,

Mayor Gregor Robertson has acceptedwhat critics have said all along aboutthe practice: Police went overboard.

Robertson, who doubles as chairper-son of the Vancouver Police Board, ac-knowledged the criticism last Thursdayafter a police board meeting attendedby the Pivot Legal Society and the Van-couver Area Network of Drug Users.

Leaders of both organizations urgedthe police board to create a policy thatwill ensure a blitz will not be repeatedin the Downtown Eastside, which sawan average of 83 tickets per month is-sued in 2008.

The board rejected the request basedon fewer tickets now being issued and theaddition of crosswalks, countdown timersat intersections and improved lighting.The city also lowered the speed limit to 30km/h along a stretch of East Hastings.

“The police board recognized thatthe VPD has modified their approachdramatically from that ticketing blitz,recognizing that was overboard,” Rob-ertson said after the meeting.

As the Courier reported last week, apolice report said an average of 17 jay-

walking tickets per month were issuedin the Downtown Eastside in 2013.

That average further dropped to nineper month in the last half of 2013. In2007, police handed out an average of39 tickets per month, 20 in 2009, 23 in2010, 35 in 2011 and 22 in 2012.

Police Chief Jim Chu wouldn’t saywhether the blitz in 2008 was overboardbut said police continue to seek feedbackfrom the community and “find that rightbalance between what’s appropriate interms of enforcement, yet not comingacross as being too heavy handed. Andtrying to find that right balance — Ithink we’re there right now.”

Added Chu: “We don’t want to giveup the right or authority to conductsome enforcement because in somecircumstances it is appropriate.”

Lawyer Douglas King said he will like-ly launch an appeal to the Office of thePolice Complaint Commissioner overthe board’s lack of interest in a ticketingpolicy.

King has reminded members in sev-eral presentations that a recommenda-tion out of the Missing Women Com-mission of Inquiry was to reduce thenumber of tickets for minor offences.

The concern was residents, particular-ly vulnerable women, would not seek outpolice when in danger for fear of beingarrested for not paying a bylaw ticket.

But a VPD report said it was “a widely

spread misconception” that police offi-cers can arrest someone for unpaid bylawtickets where a warrant does not exist.

Regardless, King said he’s con-cerned another ticketing blitz couldoccur in the Downtown Eastside. Pivotobtained statistics from the police de-partment via the Freedom of Informa-tion Act that revealed 76 per cent of2,699 jaywalking tickets issued in thecity between 2008 and 2012 were topeople in the Downtown Eastside.

Another 17 per cent were issued indowntown while none was handed outin Shaughnessy, Point Grey, Oakridge,Marpole, Killarney and several otherneighbourhoods in the city.

“We want to see something on pa-per,” said King, noting the senior exec-utive at the department will eventuallychange and he’s worried a new regimecould return to unfair ticketing prac-tices. “Think about it in the long term,police chiefs come and go.”

A police report that went before thepolice board showed that 189 pedestri-ans between 2002 and 2012 either diedor were injured in the Downtown East-side after being struck by a vehicle.

The report pointed out a person iseight times more likely to be struck bya vehicle in the Downtown Eastsidethan in the whole of downtown.

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Injunction meansbusiness as usual for nowContinued from page 1

Ainslie Kwan, president of the Killar-ney Community Centre Society, said ina press release: “This decision is a winfor all non-profit community associa-tions across the city, including those notinvolved in this legal action — it meansnot only can we continue providing ourservices and programs in the centres webuilt and have jointly operated for de-cades, but that the park board cannotbully community volunteers when theyaren’t getting their way.”

According to the associations, with theinjunction in place it’s business as usualfor patrons of the six community centresand services and programs will continue asalways.

Based on comments made during variouscourt proceedings in 2013, the associationshope the park board will drop its efforts toevict the six groups.

Last Friday park board chair Niki Shar-ma told the Courier she’s unaware of anypromise to drop the eviction should theassociations win this injunction. On Mon-

day, Sharma added the board hopes the sixwill return to the negotiating table along-side the city’s 12 other community centreassociations.

“Our position has always been we’vewanted to negotiate with those six since thebeginning, even in light of the lawsuit,” saidSharma. “The new joint operating agree-ment is still on the table.”

In response to the decision, Dean Davi-son, legal counsel for the six associations,said, “The court clearly recognized thatthe relationship between these partiesis unique. One party cannot decide arbi-trarily how the two parties should worktogether, nor can one party decide unilat-erally what should happen if the two can-not work together.”

In the past year, NPA commissioner Me-lissa De Genova unsuccessfully put forwardseveral motions calling for community con-sultation on the new joint operating agree-ment with the support of fellow NPAer JohnCoupar.

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Kerrisdale Community Centre is one of the six associations that last Friday won aninjunction against a park board eviction notice. A meeting at the centre last yearregarding a new joint operating agreement between the park board and the associationswas a heated affair.

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Low levels of interest inbooks, reading and lan-guage have been reported inthe Sunset community.

“The educational attain-ment [of] 16 per cent ofthe JO parent populationis about Grade 9,” McGeersaid.

Some homes lack books,the money to buy them orthe understanding thatliteracy is linked to braindevelopment and dropoutrates, he added.

McGeer says teachers atJO have noticed that a sig-nificant percentage of theirstudents are starting Grade8 with Grade 3 or 4 readingskills. They start preschoolwith a deficit that continuesthroughout their education.

“These kids are just assmart, just as able, just asloved as any other kid, theyhaven’t had access or en-

gagement with literature,it’s just that simple,” Mc-Geer said. “The more theyread the more neural con-nections you create, themore language you have,the more neural resilienceyou have. You apply thatto different areas of yourschooling and your life. Themore you read the moreyou dream, the bigger youdream because it just is cre-ating brain capacity.”

Dhahan attended JO forgrades 11 and 12, graduat-ing alongside Rita in 1975.

A commercial propertyowner and Tim Hortons andEsso gas station franchisee,Dhahan recalls three Eng-lish, creative writing andliterature teachers at JohnOliver who inspired his ap-preciation of reading andwriting.

“We’ve been reallyblessed so we feel this is a

small way to give back tothe school that providedme a great education,”Dhahan said. “Not only foreconomic prosperity, butfor wellness and health andthe community’s prosper-ity, we need to ensure thatour kids have equal accessto learning.”

He said his desire to helpcomes from his upbringing.

“I was raised up with theidea that whatever you earn,give a tenth of that to thosewho are in your communi-ty,” he said. “Give whereverthere are needs.”

Dhahan said anyone in-terested in donating toJohn Oliver should call theschool.

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“These kids are just assmart, just as able, justas loved as any other kid,they haven’t had access orengagement with literature,it’s just that simple.”— Principal Tim McGeer

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John Oliver alumni Barj Dhahan and his wife Rita arefunding a breakfast program at the school for disabledstudents for the next three and a half years.

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Your ferry ticket these days islike Russia as described by SirWinston Churchill: “a riddlewrapped in a mystery inside an

enigma.”It jumped 3.5 per cent this week be-

cause of the sudden imposition of a fuelsurcharge, the result of a series of compli-cated factors.

One of them is the price of diesel fuel.Oil prices are a mystery unto themselves,far beyond the comprehension of mostpeople.

Related to that mystery is the pumpprice of gasoline.

And folded into that conundrum is the price of diesel, which seems tofloat at its own level, independent of the price of regular gas. (The retailprice was 25 cents a litre higher than regular at the time of writing.)

Ferries run on marine diesel, which is a separate grade that involvesadditional complexities.

Over the 10 years the ferry system has been running as a stand-aloneentity, a system has evolved to deal with fuel prices.

But it’s just as complicated as the fuel prices themselves.The independent ferry commissioner watchdogs most of B.C. Ferry Ser-

vices’ accounting practices. It is designed to hold the corporation to ac-count over the length of each multi-year performance term.

Part of that process requires the company to estimate its fuel costs sev-eral years into the future. If they overestimate, the legislation requires thecompany to return the amount to users in some fashion.

If they underestimate, the system allows the company to impose a fuelsurcharge to cover the shortage.

The company underestimated the price this time around.It wrote the commissioner last month trying to explain the situation.

“Notwithstanding the recent easing of retail gasoline prices at the pump,diesel prices have not abated in the same fashion.”

The letter stated that in the current fiscal year, B.C. Ferries has beenpaying an average of $1.05 a litre for marine diesel. But it had estimat-ed 95 cents a litre, so “the debit balance in the fuel deferral account isgrowing.”

The deferral account was set up to provide some leeway in the calcula-tions, by allowing some time to pass for the fluctuations to balance out.

But the auditor general cast a leery eye on deferral accounts a few yearsago.

The system in place with B.C. Ferries requires the account to balanceout to zero every two years, so it doesn’t run too deeply into the red.

B.C. Ferries said that since March, 2013, the account has swung from acredit of $1.5 million to a debit of $3.5 million. And since it’s currently pay-ing 10 cents a litre more than it budgeted every day, it’s getting worse.

That’s why the Swartz Bay-Tsawwassen car-and-driver fare jumped$2.25 on Friday.

There’s an equally complicated structure for the basic ticket price. Itcaps the average price systemwide at a set amount and requires adjust-ments depending on performance. Performance this year indicates that asmall fare break will be coming before March.

A discount coming after a surcharge is going to confuse people. So B.C.Ferries wants permission to move “excess” revenue into the fuel fund, sothe fares don’t jerk up and down so much. Even if that’s approved, anotherroutine fare hike of four per cent is set for April 1.

So the ins and outs are quite murky, but the trend is pretty clear. Itpoints up, up, up.

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COURIER STORY: “UBC: University Endowment Lands residents push for democracy,” Jan. 17.Charles Menzies: It’s somewhat irrational to incorporate the UEL but not the 20,000 residentsliving in students’ residences and the UNA [University Neighbourhood Association] areas. One getsthe feeling that perhaps the more established well-heeled UEL residents are more interested inpreserving their status quo than in actually seeking democratic local governance.

COURIER PHOTO GALLERY: “UBC: Then and Now,” Jan. 17.Sheldon Goldfarb: There was no Irving K. Barber Centre in 1929. True, the structure pictured nowforms the central core of the centre, but in 1929 it stood alone and was known as the Main Library.The Barber Centre (known to students as Irving) didn’t open until 2008.

COURIER STORY: “UBC: Women’s hockey T-Birds taking flight,” Jan. 16.EnragedCity @EnragedCityVan: Canucks could learn a thing...or two.

COURIER STORY: “Abbotsford ends crusade against the homeless,” Jan. 16.Pete Quily @pqpolitics: About time Jihad finished.

KUDOS & KVETCHES: “Seeing Things,” Jan. 17.Ugabug @MaryPChipman: This is awesome and I bet Frank will appreciate it & start working on thisperceived weakness. ;-)

CLIMATECHANGEDENIERDENOUNCEDTo the editor:Re: “Letter: Olson backwardon science cartoon,” Jan. 17.One disturbing trend amongthosewho denyman-madeclimate change is that theywouldhave us believe they aremoreknowledgeable than the thou-sands of climate scientists whomake a career out of researchingthe issue and that those scientistsare incapable of recording globaltemperatures or accounting forthe complex variables.That, or there is an impenetra-ble conspiracy among scientistsfromdozens of different coun-tries, ethnic origins, cultures,languages and religious andpolitical beliefs to falselymanu-facture the 97 per cent agreementthat greenhouse gasses are theprimary driver of current globalwarming.Letter writer BobHoye hastomake a further incredulousassertion in comparing Galileoto climate-change deniers as ifscepticism itself is a noble out-come. The Vaticanwas not a sci-entific organization. The Churchof Christianity was a primarysocio-political force andGali-leomerely confirmed for themwhat Copernicus had deduced ahundred years prior. The Churchdidn’t appreciate the threat totheir power.

Today the primary socio-politi-cal force is obviously not climatescience, as Hoye asserts, but thefossil fuel sect of the church ofcapitalismwhich, for the samereasons, resists the scientificconclusionswith the same reli-gious tenacity. Some skepticismis healthy. But facedwith such afrightening problemas climatechange, ignoring the best scien-tific evidence ismadness.Note thatHoye claims twoexamples of an authoritarian gov-ernmentwhichhas condemned“government” science, but thenonly provides one. It is nonsensicalto call climate science an “authori-tarian government science” espe-cially under thepolitical conditionswesee inCanada (andmost of theworld) today. Quite the opposite.It is also laughable that Hoye

accuses supporters of the conclu-sions of climate science as beingin it for themoney consideringthe trillions of dollars of fossil fuelprofits at stake.Furthermore, there is no sci-

entific assumption that “only CO2influences climate.” Therefore hisexamples disproving the connec-tion aremeaningless. Climatescientists arewell aware of thehundreds of variables and the ir-regular patterns of warming.Ron van der Eerden,Vancouver

•••Thank you Geoff Olson foryour two recent political car-toons January 8th and 15th!

Both were right on the money.While Mr. Hoye takes a differ-ent view of your cartoons, itwould appear that he has beenspending too much time readingnonsensical, non-peer-revieweddenier postings on the Internet.Mr. Hoye might be interestedto know that from Nov 2012 toDec 2013, of the 2,258 peer-re-viewed climate articles by 9,136authors, only one author reject-ed man-made global warming.He might also like to know thathis fellow professional climatechange-denying friends, whospread the same nonsense, gettheir funding from a networkof secret funds like the DonorTrust — funds that can usuallybe traced back to Big Oil.Mr. Hoye seems to be OKwith the Conservatives wasting$40 million of his tax dollars topromote the tar sands with half-truths and distortions. Yet he isnot OK with the fact that scien-tists who are working hard toprotect people’s health are alsoreceiving his tax dollars. It wouldseem that he supports Harper’smuzzling of scientists, cuttingtheir funding, closing their worldclass lab and destroying theirworld class science library.So, Geoff Olson, please keep

the political cartoons coming.The Harper governmentmust becontinually exposed for their on-going destruction of our country.Bob Loveless,Vancouver

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Quack gets paybackfrom on-the-ball doc

You may have heard of Dr. JohnBrinkley, but probably not. Dr.Morris Fishbein is even less wellknown, but these were two of the

titans of 20th century medicine, one afraud, the other a fraud-hunter.

Brinkley’s story is far more colourful,from which you can quickly deduce thathe was the crook in this tale.

Born in 1885, he started his career sell-ing patent medicines. He then spent sometime studying at a college in Chicago thatspecialized in something called “eclecticmedicine.” He finally simply bought a di-ploma from a shady college in Kansas City and set up his practice.

By chance, he stumbled onto an insane and insanely profitable scheme— implanting goat testicles into men to cure impotence. In the early 1920s,he turned this into a gigantic business, with a clinic employing numerousdoctors. He charged $750 an operation when a Model T Ford cost $260.

Did his surgery work? Well, no, unless you count the placebo effect.Brinkley broadened his market, advertising his surgery for every medi-

cal issue from flatulence to cancer. He could have bathed in money.Fishbein, born 1889, was an actual doctor, who also studied in Chicago,

though at a more reputable school. Instead of practising, he spent mostof his career as the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Associa-tion, and campaigning for safe medical equipment and against quackery.Quackery like the mighty empire of nuttiness Goat-Gland Brinkley wasbuilding in Kansas.

From the start, the AMAwas opposed to Brinkley.The turn of the centurywas one of the majorturning points for medi-cine — up until the mid-to late-1800s, medicinewas as much art and craftas science, and it wasn’tmuch better than folkremedies. Sometimes,it was worse. By the endof the century, medicinewas growing up, comingto rely on science moreand more and formalizing

itself as a profession.Brinkley had one foot in the old school of the half-trained country doctor and

another in pure fraud. He was everything the AMA hated. Fishbein and his jour-nal railed against Brinkley, and called for his medical licence to be pulled.

Brinkley dodged the first few attempts to stop him practising and heramped up his own promotional efforts. In 1923, he started his own radiostation, featuring music, medical advice (to use his branded medications,naturally), and advertising. He would later switch to a massive transmit-ter in Mexico to reach the entire U.S. southwest.

Finally, in 1930 enough complaints (including claims of wrongful deathand a lot of his former patients turning up sick to see other doctors) con-vinced Kansas to yank his licence. Brinkley upped the ante by running forgovernor, as a write-in candidate. He almost won, splitting the field threeways between himself and the two major party candidates.

Brinkley tried again in 1932 and again came close, but shortly after hemoved on to Texas. He was piling up more cash there in 1938 when Fishbeinexposed Brinkley’s shady credentials and called him a “charlatan” in print.

Brinkley sued. He lost.In 1939, having been openly dubbed a charlatan and a quack by a Texas

jury, Fishbein was deluged in lawsuits claiming numerous medical blunders.He died in 1942, flat broke, facing mail fraud charges, and having al-

ready had multiple heart attacks and one leg amputated.Fishbein would live to the ripe old age of 87. Today, he’s a minor icon

among medical skeptics and a figure of horror among many practitionersof modern quackery.

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Stationed at the very end ofthe parking lot of Nat BaileyStadium was the Soho Roadfood cart. Sarb Mund had

just finished stringing up his lights,twinkling gold against his black cartfrom which he recently ripped out theconventional oven for a tandoor ovenand a whole lot of authenticity — es-pecially if you happen to be from Bir-mingham, England.

“You usually don’t see Indian food,straight-up UK Indian food, at a farm-ers market,” said Mund who is usu-ally found at his downtown location atWest Georgia and Granville.

“It’s a big deal to be leaving our spoton a Saturday, we kinda pride our-selves on being more downtown thanfarmers market. Always wanted to doit but we got a little snobby,” he saidwith a laugh, “We love being aroundother food trucks.”

Last weekend was the third Satur-day of the January Food Truck Festivalwhich is part of the Winter FarmersMarket that runs out of the baseballstadium’s parking lot until April. Fivenew food trucks, including Soho Road,are at the festival each weekend thismonth along with the regulars. Thebest-liked of the bunch, decided bypublic vote, is awarded a regular spotat the summer farmers markets.

“The food trucks like us in the win-ter because it’s not quite as busy on astreet corner on a winter day as it is inthe summer,” said Vancouver FarmersMarket district manager Laura Smitwhile she directed trucks into theirparking spots within feet of each other.“They know if they come here they al-ready have a captive audience.”

The cheery green truck next to SohoRoad did a tour of duty in the 1980sfor Canada Post, was then sold to icecream sellers, and now Christina Cul-ver owns it as a mobile base for Culver

City Salads. Working at the farmersmarket is a perfect fit, said co-workerand sister Sarah Culver, as their marketmenu item, one of the categories votedon by market-goers, features carrotspurchased from organic grower Crisp,a truck-length distance away.

“We had some friends’ boyfriendseat the salad and, at first, they didn’twant the salad because they wantedThai food,” said Sarah, the youngerCulver. “But afterwards they agreedthey’d never had so much flavour intheir mouths.”

The entrepreneurial spirit runs inthe family as the girls’ father, Bruce,owns his own landscaping business.

“Most of all, I like working with mysister,” said Sarah. “Our whole familyis involved. My mom has worked onthe truck, my brother, my brother’sgirlfriend. It’s really a family business.Our dad will drive by in his truck andask, ‘Okay, what do you need fixing?’He’ll pull out his tools, fix whateverneeds to be fixed and then carry on.”

Culver City Salads was the second-favourite truck going into the day,right behind leader Soho Road.

At the other end of the market, the

regulars also had line-ups.Chili Tank’s Steve Forster, whose face

was sometimes obscured by rollingsteam coming from his chili machine— a 1943 mobile soup kitchen onceowned by the Czechoslovakian army— said the best thing about workingthe farmers markets is the people. Herecalled an older fellow who watchedin tears as he doled out chili. Turnsout the man, as a 12-year-old boy, hadbeen separated from his parents dur-ing the Second World War and duringhis six months living with Allied sol-diers had eaten out of a military soupkitchen every day.

“A year and a half later, he was re-united with his parents. He didn’t knowthey had survived,” remembers Forster.“He hadn’t seen one of these machinesin 68 years, he was blown away.”

The people and the mobile foodcommunity were reason enough forMund to quit his job as an accountantin 2011.

“I’ve done the desk job and all that.I made the switch as soon as I got mytruck designation,” he said. “We havea cool day, every day.”

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The city was ex-pected to approvea motion Tuesdaythat will help ex-

pedite the construction ofa new seniors centre forsoutheast Vancouver.

The motion was to askcouncil to commit surplusmoney from the city’s oper-ating budget to resolve thefunding gap remaining on theestimated $7.5 million proj-ect. Vision Vancouver MayorGregor Robertson made theannouncement Sunday.

Two weeks ago, the federalgovernment announced $2.5million towards the project,following the city’s commit-ment of $2.5 million in 2011.In 2009, the park board dedi-cated property adjacent tothe Killarney CommunityCentre for the project and lastyear the province promised$1.3 million, leaving a $1.2million shortfall in funding.

“The City of Vancouver’sstrong budget position allowsus to invest in key priorities forthe community,” said the may-or in a prepared statement.“Surplus funds from Vancou-ver’s operating budget shouldbe used to ensure that this im-portantnewresourceforsouth-east Vancouver seniors is builtas soon as possible, buildingon the $2.5 million investmentcommitted by the city in 2011.”While there are seven seniorscentres located west of CambieStreet, there are none in south-east Vancouver, home to one-third, or 27,000, of the city’sseniors.

Vision Vancouver Coun.Raymond Louie, a longtimesupporter of the centre, saidhe’s pleased the project willfinally move forward.

“I’ve been working withLorna [Gibbs] and others fromthe southeast part of the cityfor more than a decade nowand I’m delighted we’ll finallybe able to provide this servicethese seniors so need,” Louietold the Courier Monday. “Thiscomes after such efforts fromthese seniors.”

Louie said the next step isto finalize the city’s accountsfor 2013, but he’s confidentthere will be at least $2.5 mil-lion surplus that can be real-located. The city then must

sign a funding agreementwith the federal government.

“But subsequent to thatwe need to go through arobust design process withthe community,” said Louie.“We need to determine ex-actly what it will look like.”

Louie hopes the projectcan be completed as origi-nally planned to include afull kitchen and elevator ina 10,000-square foot facil-ity, while staying within theinitial $7.5 million budget.

“But of course if thereare other funders out there

who want to contribute, thatwould give me a higher levelof confidence,” said Louie.“Because there have likelybeen some cost escalations.”

The mayor’s announcementcame two days after the B.C.Supreme Court approved atemporary injunction to blockthe attempted eviction of sixcommunity centre associa-tions, including Killarney, bythe Vision Vancouver-domi-nated park board. As well, Sat-urday was the first day of thecontroversial closure of PointGrey Road to commuter traffic

to make way for a bike lane.The timing of the an-

nouncement was not lost onAinslie Kwan, president of theKillarney Community CentreSociety. “The society hopesthat the mayor’s motion isnot simply a knee-jerk reac-tion to quell recent bad pressresulting from the SupremeCourt ruling against the Vi-sion-dominated park board,”said Kwan in an email. “Thatit represents a true and last-ing commitment to bettersupporting seniors.”

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1 Local indie-folk artistMELISSA BANDURA, a.k.a. FAMILIARWILD, brings her violin, etherealvocals, pop sensibilities and lush orchestral arrangements to Kozmic Zoo (53 West Broadway) Jan.23, 8 p.m. She’ll share the stage with Harmony Trowbridge, which is a delightful sounding name ifthere ever was one. Tickets $8 at the door. Info at thekozmikzoo.wordpress.com.

2 Don’t think twice, it’s alright as the Biltmore Cabaret hosts an evening of local musiciansmumbling their way through the tunes of BOB DYLAN, Jan. 22, 8 p.m. Performers include RollaOlak, Skye Wallace, Bob Sumner of the Sumner Brothers, Colin Cowan, Heard in the Mountains,Lydia Hol, the Oceanographers, Steven Beddall and Missy Cross, and Terence Jack. Tickets $6.

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4 BFA acting alumna KATHLEEN DUBORG takes up the directing reigns in THEATRE UBC’sproduction of Anton Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL. The tragicomic tangle of romance, intrigue andunrequited love runs Jan. 13 to Feb. 8 at the TELUS Studio Theatre in the Chan Centre for thePerforming Arts. For tickets and details, call 604-822-2678 or go to theatre.ubc.ca.

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EXILE ON LAME STREET

On a day that will go down in infamy and for-ever be known as Salt and Pepper Monday, thisweek fiery Vancouver Canucks coach John Tor-torella was suspended 15 days by NHL brassfor arguably the most exciting five minutes ofCanucks hockey this season. Unfortunately theincident took place off ice and involved Tor-torella losing his cool and attempting to bargehis way into the Calgary Flames’ dressing roomto give Calgary coach Bob Hartley a piece of hismind for sending his goon squad out on the iceat the beginning of the game and triggering aline brawl seconds after the puck dropped.

The 15-day suspension means we won’thave Tortorella’s manther-like aura vibrat-ing behind the Canucks’ bench for six wholegames. That’s at least 360 minutes we won’tbe warmed by the glistening embers of hiscoal-black eyes as he yells profanities at therefs. His dusty stubble will become a distantmemory like Zack Kassian’s hairline or DavidBooth’s last crossbow kill. And worst of all,

no more of that rascally smile, resembling acruel marmot ensnared in a leg-hold trap butdetermined to chew his way to freedom.

Truth be told, no other Canucks bench bossbesides sharp-dressed, provocative gum-chew-er Alain Vigneault has been as easy on the eyesas T-dawg. And frankly, assistant coaches MikeSullivan and Glen Gulutzan, both of whom willbe covering for Tortorella during the interim,don’t exactly make our goal crease slushy. Wedon’t even know what that means.

So what will Torts being doing on his two-week exile? Tanning his taut and limberbod in the Florida sun until it’s baked likea golden Fig Newton? Going deep into thewoods of the Pacific Northwest, à la Rambo,where he mounts a campaign of retributionagainst his oppressors while yelling, “Noth-ing is over! Nothing! You just don’t turn itoff! It wasn’t my war! You asked me, I didn’task you! And I did what I had to do to win!But somebody wouldn’t let us win!”? Orwill he be working behind the scenes like amysterious but sexy puppet master, cloakedin the darkness of night and his bespokecharcoal grey suits, tailored to the exactmeasurements of his compact Drakkar Noir-scented frame that refuses to quit. Deepbreath. Only 13 more days to go.

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If anyone can make power-mad, dissolute Angelo lookrepentant at the end of Shakespeare’s Measure forMeasure, it’s Simon Webb. Woebegone, eyes averted,he speaks the lines, “Immediate sentence then, and

sequent death/Is all the grace I beg” with such sincerity,Webb does tug a little on the heartstrings. Thin as a rapierin a black velvet suit, his Angelo persuades us to consider:“Who sins most?” Does Isabella use her monstrous virtue totempt him and if she does, can Angelo be blamed for takingthe bait? It’s a meaty role and Webb serves it up splendidly.

But Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare’s so-called“problem plays” with elements of comedy — mostly deliv-ered by the simple-minded constable Elbow (Michael Fera)and ridiculously hypocritical Lucio (Peter Anderson) — off-set by the threat of tragedy: the impending execution of poorClaudio (Jeff Gladstone), convicted for impregnating Juliet(Pippa Johnstone) before marriage. The balance is tricky.

The problems I have with this play are these: the Duke(Ted Cole), not wanting to do the dirty work himself, turnsthe cleanup of Vienna over to his deputy Angelo. Later inthe play, he plays the cruelest game of cat-and-mouse withgrief-stricken Isabella. He’s not a nice guy.

And then there’s Isabella (Julie McIsaac), who’s so pro-tective of her chastity that she won’t submit to the licentiousAngelo to save her brother’s life. Fair enough. But she’s OKwith persuading Mariana (Katharine Venour) to sacrificeher chastity to entrap Angelo. And then, after being cruellytoyed with by the Duke, Isabella whips off her wimple andfalls into his arms. Huh?

In complete contrast to Isabella’s much-vaunted chastityis Pompey (Emmelia Gordon), a loud and loose bawd inripped stockings and a scarlet, bosom-revealing minidress.

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Sketch and the city

Graphic designerSigrid Albertstarted drawingthe alleys, dump-

sters and old houses in herMount Pleasant neighbour-hood as a stress reductionstrategy in 2010.

“I’m really normally verybusy and I run around andI don’t take time to slowdown, so sitting in the street,looking at something for anhour or two and drawing itwas very meditative and itgave me a good balance tomy frustrating work life atthe time,” she said.

Last winter, Albert spentthree months in Berlin, con-nected with the German

capital’s Urban Sketchersgroup and returned deter-mined to fashion a similarcommunity in Vancouver.

She started the VancouverUrban Sketchers group onMeetup.com last February.The group boasts 467 mem-bers, a portion of whom at-tend weekly drawing sessions.“There’s 35 of us on Saturdaygetting together and it used tobe just 10 or 12 and it keepsgetting bigger,” Albert said.

She says a lot of young stu-dents from Asian countrieshave arrived in Vancouverseeking an artistic activityand joined the group.

Members include profes-sional animators, retirees andpeople who haven’t drawnsince elementary school. “Youjust have to admire their cour-age and then they’re so happywhen they’ve sat there for anhour and they’ve actually donetheir first sketch and they’revery excited,” the 48-year-oldsaid.

Albert loves how this com-mon interest in urban sketch-

ing, which is based on the tra-dition of reportage drawing,links people of different agesand backgrounds. “Thereseems to be this connectionwhen you’re drawing next tosomebody and you’re not nec-essarily talking… It createssome kind of a connection or avibe that is very exhilarating,”she said, adding it can boostthe confidence of artists work-ing in public places to haveother sketchers near them aspart of a critical mass.

“It keeps everybody a bitmotivated when they have toRSVP and make an appoint-ment to go draw,” she added.

Albert not only found com-munity in Vancouver UrbanSketchers but also has beendrawn to sites she’d neverpreviously visited.

“The Burnaby Village Muse-um, I didn’t know there was apioneer village, I had no idea,and there’s an animal farmin North Van that somebodysuggested — I’ve never beenthere,” she said. “I’m expand-ing my own horizons.”

Vancouver Urban Sketchershave put pen, pencil, paint-brush and pastel to paper atthe central library, HastingsRacecourse and at Kits Beach.They typically gather for 10 or15minutesandthenfanoutontheir own or in small groups,later returning to check inwith one another. At the endof a meet-up, the remainingsketchers laytheirsketchbookson the ground and Albert cap-tures their images in a photo.

She’d like to self-publishan online book of Vancou-ver Urban Sketchers andperhaps instigate an exhibi-tion of sketchbooks.

Albert encourages mem-bers to post events on theirmeet-up page. She notes thatas part of the upcoming Van-couver International DanceFestival, dancers will poseat noon at the RoundhouseCommunity Centre fromMarch 12 to 28 and Opus ArtSupplies will lend drawingmaterials free of charge.

She also likes to attend themonthly Dr. Sketchy event atthe Wallflower restaurant onMain Street where attendeesdrink, dine and draw a livemodel, usually a burlesquedancer who discards cloth-ing as the night progresses.

All beginners need is asketchbook with a hard cover,a drawing implement of anyvariety, warm clothes and per-haps an inexpensive foldingcamping stool, Albert says.

“There’s so much to doaround the city if you’re intodrawing.”

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Shakespeare play doesn’t measure upContinued from page 19

The one character wethink we can hang our hopeson is Escalus (Alison Kelly),the embodiment of reasonand mercy but who, in theend, is eager to exact punish-ment on all the malefactors.

It’s a problem play alright.But it’s an interesting pro-

duction under the direction ofyoung Kevin Bennett whoseHamlet and King Lear (at thetiny Havana studio theatre)were brilliant. Here at PacificTheatre he faces similar spaceconstraints that he minimizesbymakinguseofthenorthandsouth stairways. Shizuka Kai’sall-purpose set, which appears

to be constructed of door skinor very thin plywood, featuresthree beautiful “cut-out” chan-deliers. Graham Ockley’s light-ingdesignisuniquebutnoten-tirely successful: with a doubleclap of the hands, any of thecharacters can either light thestage brilliantly or throw it intothe illumination of hundredsof little candles. While thechange in lighting sometimesmakes sense, it often feels ar-bitrary and it’s hard to see theactors’ faces.

This Honest Fishmongersproduction makes effective useof the space and Bennett makessome interesting directorialchoices. With the loss of some

actors well into the rehearsalperiod,openingnighthadsomeshaky moments but, withoutdoubt, these will smooth out;this is a skilled cast.

But here’s the thing: I don’tmuch like this play. Do I careabout Claudio? No. Isabella?I should but I don’t. Angelo?Well, with Webb in the role it’spossible, at the very least, todredge up pity. But it’s hardlyenough to measure up to thebest Shakespeare has to offer.

Note: A longer version ofthis review appears at van-courier.com/entertainment.

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This past Saturday the HockeyCanada and Canadian Para-lympic Committee announcedCanada’s National Sledge Team

roster heading to the Sochi 2014 Paralym-pic Winter Games in Russia this March.

James Gemmell is one of the 17players who made the cut, and it was along hard road to get there.

He was in a car accident in 2004 andlost his right leg above the knee. A for-merly avid hockey player in his home-town of Quesnel, for years after the ac-cident he thought his life in sports wasover. Then one day everything changed.

“I was flipping through channelsand I saw a gold-medal game at theParalympics on TV and ever since thenI have been playing sledge hockey,”said the 34-year old defenceman andproud family man who lives in Delta.

After years of training, Gemmell wasdisappointed not to make the Canadianteam for the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

When he spoke with the Courier priorto the Sochi announcement, he said hehas worked twice as hard since 2010,sometimes spending up to six hours a dayat the gym, for the chance to go make theParalympic team heading to Russia.

“If I get to go, I think there will be nofeeling that will match it, I don’t think,in my life,” Gemmell said prior to Sat-urday’s announcement.

Immediately after the ParalympicCommittee released the roster Gemmelltook to Twitter. “Biggest accomplish-ment in my life, truly honored to repre-sent this great country,” he tweeted.

Gemmell is an example of the purehard work and dedication of Paralym-pic athletes and his passion demon-strates what making it to the Gamesmeans for so many.

But for some Paralympic athletes withmore severe spinal cord injuries, hardwork and dedication aren’t enough.

A small but significant percent-age of Paralympic athletes will likelyfeel forced to “cheat” at the Games for

a competitive advantage. This is thedarker side of the Games and one manymedical experts are trying to combat.

“Boosting,” sometimes known asnatural doping, involves self-harm tothe lower part of the body. This is donein order to increase heart rate and im-prove performance capabilities.

Medically known as inducing auto-nomic dysreflexia, it is one of the worstkept secrets of Paralympic sport and hasbeen banned at the Games since 2004.

However, evidence suggests it con-tinues. A survey at the 2008 BeijingParalympics by the International Para-lympic Committee saw 17 per cent ofathletes admit to boosting.

Not all athletes at the Paralympicswould want or need to boost, but forsome it puts them on a level playingfield. The need for the boosting hasto do with the type of injury. Athleteswith injuries high on their spine oftencan’t regulate their blood pressure andheart rate in response to exercise. Es-sentially, they don’t get the strengthboost of a person without injury, orwith an injury lower on the spine.

Applying painful or non-painful stim-ulation below the injury site by clamp-ing off a catheter to allow the bladder toover fill, sitting on tacks, or even break-ing a toe, for example, tricks the bodyinto elevating blood pressure and heartrate and improves performance.

Vancouver’s Brad Zdanivsky, 37,while not involved in Paralympic sports,is an elite rock climber who, in 2005,was the first quadriplegic to reach thesummit of the Stawamus Chief.

His spine was crushed in a car acci-dent in 1994, and since then his heartrate fails to increase as it should whenhe exercises, so he boosts. He is one ofthe few people who will talk candidlyabout how and why he does it.

His chosen method of raising hisheart rate is to administer electricshocks to his testicles.

“If I exercise without doing some-thing like that, I just get dizzy and passout,” he said.

Zdanivsky said boosting is most ef-fective for sports where quick accel-eration is needed.

“Anybody that is doing a speedsport,” he said.

Research shows boosting works.Dr. Yagesh Bhambhani, a professor

in the faculty of rehabilitation medi-cine at the University of Alberta, wason the International Paralympic Com-mittee sports sciences committee forthe Beijing Paralympics. In 1994, hedid a study with 10 wheelchair mara-

thon racers who did a 7.5-kilometrewheelchair race on rollers. For onerace they boosted (some chose toclamp off their catheters, some prickedthemselves with pins) and for one racethey didn’t. In the boosted state, per-formance improved by 10 per cent. Asignificant increase in performance,said Bhambhani.

However, in many incidences, theirblood pressure rose to fairly dangerouslevels.

Boosting is risky — if an athlete’sblood pressure gets or stays too high,it can cause a heart attack, stroke oreven death, which is why it has beenbanned by the IPC for over a decade.

“There is no way of controllingit. You can’t say OK, if I am going toclamp off the catheter for 10 minutes,my blood pressure is going to go up bya certain per cent. Because blood pres-sure is controlled by the autonomicsystem and it is very, very difficult fora person to regulate their blood pres-sure,” said Bhambhani.

“The message should be to try toavoid this under all conditions andcompete safely and on an equitable ba-sis with other athletes. That is wherethe IPC is coming from. Because theyfeel that they have a responsibility, a fi-duciary responsibility, in ensuring thesafety of the athletes.”

The IPC, the governing body for theParalympic Games, sent the Courier astatement about the practice of boosting.

“From the Canadian perspective, weare informing all athletes of the dan-gers and illegalities of the practice andadvising them that random testingwill be conducted by the IPC,” it read.“Every team will be made aware of thespecifics of the testing procedure.”

Zdanivsky finds it unfair that ath-letes who boost are banned from Para-lympic sports.

“You are basically calling the persona cheater for getting back what they al-ready had,” he said.

He believes of the classification sys-tem within the Paralympics needs to bechanged to recognize the different levelsof function among athletes to make theGames fairer and safer for all athletes.

Zdanivsky’s spinal cord doctor, An-drei Krassioukov, is working towardsdoing just that.

Krassioukov is a renowned research-er at International Collaboration OnRepair Discoveries, Vancouver’s spinalcord research centre, and has doneextensive research on boosting. He isalso a UBC professor.

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Top: Rockclimber Brad Zdanivsky, photographed inhis home living room with his pulley weight system forworking out, is familiar with “boosting,” which manyParalympians partake in to enhance performance.Middle: Greg Westlate (12) fights for the puck during2010 Paralympic Games sledge hockey action at UBCThunderbird Arena. Bottom: Zdanivsky climbing theStawamus Chief in Squamish.

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With a team, Krassioukov set up and rana health research clinic at the 2010 Gamesin Vancouver and at the 2012 ParalympicGames in London where athletes were pro-vided educational information on cardio-vascular health. Krassioukov also beganwork with the IPC to design a new cardio-vascular classification system.

He will continue this work at the Gamesin Sochi.

Krassioukov is encouraged by the IPC’sopenness to his work.

“Being allowed to conduct research in theAthletes’ Village is an exciting milestone forme,” Krassioukov said in a 2010 Universityof British Columbia media release.

“It suggests the IPC will consider how dif-ferences in autonomic function create in-equities in performance and fuel the riskypractice of boosting.”

Other experts also find the idea of ath-letes resorting to boosting extremelytroubling.

Edward Nieshoff is an expert in spinalcord injuries and a quadriplegic who saidhe has worked with thousands of injuredpeople over two decades at the Wayne StateUniversity School of Medicine in the U.S.

In a phone interview with the Courier, heexpressed dismay at media reports of quad-riplegic athletes harming themselves.

“When you have a spinal cord injury,presumably your brain is still functioningand I think the vast majority of people withcord injuries, like the general public, wouldnever do something like that,” Nieshoff said

from his office in Detroit.“Boosting is a cry for help, from patients

suffering from an under-recognized andseldom treated symptom of [spinal cordinjury].”

Nieshoff recommends athletes use mido-drine, a medication he studied extensively,which he found safe and effective for ath-letes who need to elevate their blood pres-sure while exercising. The drug is bannedfrom the Paralympics, something Nieshoffand Bhambhani want changed.

Medicine can be traced, while boostingcan’t, so athletes boost, said Bhambhani.They should be able to take the medicinethey need to help them, he added.

Back at Vancouver’s G.F. Strong Rehabili-tation Centre, where Zdanivsky spoke to theCourier over the phone after a workout, hesaid he doesn’t use existing medications toboost his heart rate because it stays in hissystem longer than he needs.

He just wants a quick hit to help him pulla bit harder to get over a large rock or toget up the mountain quicker. With electricshock he can control his blood pressure sim-ply by turning his apparatus on and off. Heunderstands the risks but still says athletesshould be free to boost.

“The issue is that it could kill someone,”he said. “[But] if you want to see the prettyhorse run fast, let them do what they want.I mean you can have really exciting sportsor really boring sports, take your pick.”

The Paralympic Winter Games run March7 to 16, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

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