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Creative canningExhibit explores a shared rural heritage.

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NEWS: Earthquake reminds residents of risk /A2SCHOOLS: Students tackle marginalized histories /A3COMMUNITY: Targeting the realities of dementia /A5

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Oak Bay’s Luke de Leseleuc remembers the day that launched him into seven years of intense and uncontrollable alcohol abuse.

He was in jail when he was told his three-and-a-half-year-old son had unexpectedly passed away.

“The unfortunate thing was that I was sitting in jail because of my alcoholism,” de Leseleuc said.

The news devastated the father, who turned to alcohol to overcome his grief.

For seven years, he jumped from job to job, drank from morning to night, and

eventually found himself in shelters for a few nights.

“I didn’t care. I got myself into trouble. It was a bad place for me to be,” he said.

After getting back on track and being sober for 11 months, de Leseleuc relapsed. One day, he found himself at the corner of Douglas and Yates streets just steps from throwing himself in front of a bus to end his life when a voice inside his head stopped him.

“I was about four or five steps away from being hit by the bus and on the third step a voice inside my head said ‘the cause of your pain shouldn’t be the cause of some-one else’s pain. If you do this, you’ll affect

the driver (of the bus) and the passengers,’” he said.

De Leseleuc pulled himself back, went to the emergency room and shortly after checked himself into the Together We Can Society, an addictions treatment centre in Vancouver.

He has been sober for 16 months and now works with BeYouPromise.org, a Victo-ria-based organization whose mandate is to educate and raise awareness of the benefits of not misusing drugs or alcohol. De Lese-leuc is the community outreach co-ordina-tor and travels to schools to share his story with students and parents.

This year, BeYouPromise.org launches

Dry Jan, a challenge for Greater Victoria residents to go sober for 31 days. Through-out the month, there will be mini events such as scavenger hunts to keep partici-pants motivated.

The event, which originated in the U.K. is a fundraiser for the Canadian Liver Foun-dation and the Umbrella Society for Addic-tions and Mental Health.

De Leseleuc said the event is particularly important after eight people died of sus-pected overdoses in the region in Decem-ber.

PLEASE SEE: Initiative aims to raise awareness, Page A6

New year’s dipReader David Blacoe shared this unique take on a New Year’s Day dip as a local martial arts group took to the waters of Willow’s Beach with a glorious Mt. Baker in the background. For another view of Mt. Baker from Oak Bay, see Britt Swoveland’s stunning image on page A5.

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Stop, drop and hold on, but don’t call 9-1-1 to ask if it’s an earthquake, says Dave Cockle, Oak Bay’s fire chief and emer-gency program co-ordinator.

“If you think it’s an earthquake, it’s an earthquake. Practice your drop cover and hold on,” said Cockle, also president of the B.C. Earthquake Alliance. “Please do not call 9-1-1 for information. We’re still doing this.”

Residents in Oak Bay and well beyond felt the earth move Dec. 29 when a 4.3 magnitude quake struck at 11:39 p.m., centred about eight kilometres east of Sidney.

“Locally, as well as in the Lower Mainland, they had multiple calls on 9-1-1 asking if it was an earthquake,” Cockle said. “What that does is take up the time of an emergency dispatcher who could be used for an actual emergency. It ties up the lines.”

The shaker was short but created immediate fear among some residents. It did not warrant a tsunami warning.

Size doesn’t matter at the local fire hall. There firefighters go through protocols. They pull the engines out on the apron for an hour or so and the bat-

talion chief investigates whether municipal buildings are safe and worthy.

“It’s part of our operation procedure and emergency pre-paredness plan here at the fire hall,” Cockle said.

On the part of residents, they should plan to source their information on social media, online at Natural Resources Canada,(earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca) or the good old-fashioned radio. That is why a radio is part of every emergency preparedness kit.

“That’s where we want people to go for information,” Cockle said. “This is your opportunity right now to look at what you have in your kit. How old is your water? Rotate the water; rotate the food,” he said. “It’s a gen-tle reminder that we do live in earthquake country.”

Be ready, prepare the home by identifying and remedying hazards, create a disaster plan

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Supplies in the home should include a first aid kit and medica-tion; battery-powered or hand-crank radio; flashlight and extra batteries; whistle; cellphone and charger; cash in small bills; a local map and family emergency plan; three days worth of food and water; garbage bags; dust masks and seasonal clothing.

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Students create museum for the marginalizedLansdowne classes learn about some of the darker chapters in Canadian history Jacob ZinnBlack Press

Students at Lansdowne middle school received a real eye opener when they were tasked with making a museum for marginalized groups.

Two Grade 7 classes learned a lot about women’s rights, First Nations residential schools, Japanese internment camps, the Chinese head tax, the Acadian expulsion and LGBTQ issues as they developed exhibits for their museum, held at the school in December. Teacher Kerry Quinn got the idea for the nine-week project after reading through the Truth and Reconciliation report this past summer for her own personal knowledge and awareness as a Canadian.

“I started to think about how I hadn’t learned about residential schools until I was at UVic,” she said. “I thought, that’s a long time that I was living in this country and not knowing this really dark, important chapter of our history.

“I felt really convicted all of a sudden because I realized I’d never taught my students about it, and I started to feel that I have a huge responsibility to tell those stories.”

Quinn discussed her idea with fellow teacher Catherine Beaulac, and together they developed the museum project among their Grade 7 social studies classes.

For six weeks, the students studied different topics about oppression through

class research and presentations from guest speakers. Some of the topics, such as the treatment of First Nations in residential schools, caught the students off guard.

“I think a lot of them were really surprised because they weren’t the proud parts of Canadian history we often talk about,” said Quinn, noting students were taken aback knowing the last residential school closed in 1996, not even 20 years ago.

After the six weeks, the classes visited the Royal BC Museum, where they learned about curation, artifacts and behind-the-scenes components of running a museum. The students later split up into groups and selected a topic, spending about three weeks putting together their exhibits. Many of the students constructed dioramas, posters, interactive games and multimedia displays using tablets and smartphones.

Quinn said the students responded well to the museum project, adding she hopes to continue teaching it to future classes.

“They seemed really interested and really engaged,” she said of the students. “In another year, we’d like to include more groups, especially now with what’s happening in current events, thinking about Canada’s response to refugees.”

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Grade 7 students at Lansdowne middle school spent nine weeks researching and building exhibits about residential schools, women’s rights, Japanese internment camps, the Acadian expulsion, the Chinese head tax and LGBTQ issues, then presented them in a two-day showing at the school.

Police stop holiday trio of impaired drivers

Oak Bay Police spotted a motorcycle with no lights, no license plate and a driver with no helmet late on Christmas Day. The motorcycle, east-bound on Cadboro Bay Road, approached a drinking driv-ing check stop at Eastdowne Road and when officers spoke with the driver, a strong odour of liquor was detected on his breath. A subsequent roadside breath test produced a fail reading resulting in an immediate 90-day roadside driving prohibition. The motorcycle was

also impounded for 30 days. During a Boxing Day impaired check-point

at Beach Drive and Goodwin Street, police smelled liquor on a driver’s breath and a subsequent roadside breath test resulted

in a 24-hour driving prohibi-tion. A sober person inside the vehicle drove it home.

On Dec. 27, police noticed a pick-up truck speeding in the area of Oak Bay High School

around 1 a.m. The truck turned onto Cran-more Road and failed to stop at the four-way stop at Hampshire Road. Police pulled the vehicle over and after smelling liquor on

the breath of the driver provided a roadside breath test. After a fail reading, the driver was issued a 90-day roadside driving pro-hibition and a 30-day impoundment of the pick-up.

Copper creates smoke smellAcrid smoke alerted police to a potent

and potentially dangerous use of a barbecue shortly before 3 a.m. on Dec. 22.

While on patrol, police smelled smoke in the 2000-block of Oak Bay Avenue. With the assistance of the Oak Bay Fire Depart-ment, the odour was pinpointed to a com-mercial barbecue behind a local business.

It appeared someone was burning the plas-tic off coiled copper cable. Police seized the wire but have not determined who was responsible or where the wire came from.

Technology taken on MiddownePolice are investigating after being called

Dec. 22 around 3 p.m. for a break, enter and theft at a residence in the 3000-block of Middowne Road. A television, an Xbox and two cell phones were among the items taken. The suite was believed to have been left unlocked as no damage or forced entry was discovered.

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Community offers wealth of resources to help meet goals

Six days in to the new year, how have your resolutions fared?

The first few days of sunshine and blue skies likely supported those striving to be more active but staying motivated is tougher once the rains and grey skies descend.

One of the problems with resolutions is how we phrase them to ourselves. Do we set goals doomed to failure, or do we set ourselves up for success?

“I will go to the gym” or “I will lose 25 pounds” or even “I will be more involved in my community” will be hard to achieve without a realistic plan that includes a roadmap to your ultimate goal and a support system to cheer your achievements – and keep you honest.

Of course, people are motivated in different ways, so understanding your own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to reaching your goals is a good place to start.

If imbibing less is among your aims for 2016, an event like this month’s Dry Jan (see story page 1) may offer the motivation and event-driven group support you need to keep you on track.

Engaging a friend or two in the same goal can also help keep your eye on the prize. It’s harder to bail on that walk when you know you’ll be letting someone else down and not only yourself.

The good news is that whatever your goals are for 2016, Oak Bay offers innumerable opportunities to engage, from fitness experts and a plethora of programs, to community groups with interests ranging from local politics and youth sports to nature projects and seniors activities. Virtually all would welcome new members and volunteers, so grab a friend and come along.

And as for getting out and being more active, grey skies or not, well, where else would you want to be?

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I first met Stephen Harper when he was running for the Canadian Alliance leadership in 2002.

Speaking to a group of Fra-ser Valley members concerned that the party had split over the leadership of Stockwell Day, Harper didn’t mince words because a local reporter had showed up on a Sat-urday morning. He explained his pre-diction that no mat-ter who leads the conservative move-ment started by Preston Manning, the national media would work against it.

“The press is owned by big-L liberals and staffed by small-L liberals,” Harper said. “Pres-ton was too cerebral; Stock was not cerebral enough. I’m not sure where I will be, but the media will always be on the other side.”

Harper’s cold war with national media is a theme that runs through his decade as prime minister, peaking in 2015 with the most slanted election coverage I’ve ever witnessed. The celebration continues

over Justin Trudeau’s victory, with the supposedly non-partisan federal bureaucracy cheering along with much of the national media.

Harper’s assess-ment of major news-paper ownership is no longer accu-rate, except for the Toronto Star. But the dying tradition of owners look-ing up from their accounting ledgers to endorse a politi-cal party continued, with the Postmedia chain and the Globe and Mail pointing

out that Trudeau’s rash prom-ises didn’t add up.

Endorsements were a brief interruption in the media assault on Harper’s record. His government’s plan to welcome 10,000 refugees, unveiled way back in January 2015, was portrayed as heartless and feeble, while Trudeau’s 25,000 by Christmas represented the generous character of the true Canada.

As it turns out, the Liber-als have been hard pressed to reach even the 10,000 mark. But they’ve put out a rash new

promise to make it 50,000 at some point in the future, so the media’s new-found mes-sage of sunshine, hope and change continues.

Those modest $10 billion annual deficits that Trudeau promised, and Harper warned against? Borrowing and spending will far exceed that, but we’re assured that’s because they were based on inflated Conservative financial forecasts. In fact, independent private sector forecasts are now the key reference for gov-ernment budgets at the fed-eral and provincial level. None of them predicted the further slump in energy prices that continued through 2015.

And cooking the books before an election isn’t really possible any more, thanks to the establishment of the Parliamentary Budget Office. That was a Harper innovation, along with scheduled elec-tions.

And that Trudeau pledge to raise taxes on the wealthiest Canadians and use the pro-ceeds to finance a tax cut for the middle class? That one didn’t add up either. For one thing, wealthy people have a variety of legal ways to reduce

their taxable income.Here’s an actual front-page

headline from the Globe and Mail, reporting this unfor-tunate fact, well after the election: “The way Liberals gauged response to new tax rate explains gap.” So it was just an understandable over-sight, you see.

Trudeau’s star turn in Paris, where he pronounced that “Canada is back” in the battle to control the world’s weather? The official submis-sion from his bloated delega-tion to the UN climate meet-ings was actually the exist-ing Conservative plan, which includes phasing out coal-fired electricity generation.

Harper generally repre-sented a preference for the individual over the state, a concept that at one time was known as “liberalism.” This was illustrated by his prefer-ence for parents rather than a nanny state to administer child care.

He advocated free trade, small government and low taxes. We’ll see how that leg-acy survives the new govern-ment and its media cheering [email protected]

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Mt. Baker looms large over Oak Bay on a beautiful New Year’s Day, in this image from reader Britt Swoveland.‘Anderson Hill provides an incredible viewpoint from which to enjoy this wintery, ocean scene,’ Swoveland says.‘My family never tires of it.’

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I’m Still Here is at Monterey Wednesday, Jan. 6


The new year starts with Target Theatre offering I’m Still Here, at Monterey Rec.

The research-based drama on living with dementia, writ-ten by Vrenia Ivonoffski and directed by Tony Cain, hits the Oak Bay performance hall Jan. 6.

“Target Theatre is unique in that we do seniors issues within our play. We don’t just go pick up a funny play and do it. That’s our mandate to deal with seniors issues,” said Target Theatre member Mad-eleine Mills.

“It’s still entertainment, and it’s still entertaining, but there has to be a message there that people can go home and think about and learn from.”

The mature drama group started as a seniors’ class in 1976 then transformed into

Target in 1990. The group rehearses at

Langham Theatre and per-forms wherever they’re called to. They’ve performed for staff and family at residences across the region and as far afield as Edmonton and Cal-gary.

“We’ve done about 46 per-formances (of I’m Still Here) at this point,” Mills said.

It became a part of their rep-ertoire in the fall of 2007.

“We first saw the play the year before. The main author happened to be in B.C. and did a workshop with Target,” Mills said.

“The actors who saw it were just thrilled by it. It’s research-based so a lot of what we say as actors in the play comes right out of the research.”

I’m Still Here is a drama that follows the lives of four people touched by Alzheimer’s dis-ease.

The play brings out the pro-found effects of the disease not only on the sufferers, but also their friends and families.

“When we do it for audi-ences they respond to that honesty, they respond to the reality. They’re moved

because they recognize even some of the words from their own lives,” she said.

“It’s got a tremendous pull on the audience.”

Target performs I’m Still Here on Wednesday, Jan. 6 at 11:30 a.m. at the Monterey Recreation Centre.

Tickets are $13.50 for mem-bers and $15.50 for guests and must be purchased in advance at the centre, 1442 Monterey Avenue or over the phone at 250-370-7300.

Visit targettheatre.ca to learn more about the drama organization. [email protected]

Mature theatre troupe Targets dementia with drama

“It’s still entertainment, and it’s still entertaining, but there has to be a message there that people can go home and think about and learn from.

– Madeleine Mills

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Mt. Baker looms large over Oak Bay on a beautiful New Year’s Day, in this image from reader Britt Swoveland.‘Anderson Hill provides an incredible viewpoint from which to enjoy this wintery, ocean scene,’ Swoveland says.‘My family never tires of it.’

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I’m Still Here is at Monterey Wednesday, Jan. 6


The new year starts with Target Theatre offering I’m Still Here, at Monterey Rec.

The research-based drama on living with dementia, writ-ten by Vrenia Ivonoffski and directed by Tony Cain, hits the Oak Bay performance hall Jan. 6.

“Target Theatre is unique in that we do seniors issues within our play. We don’t just go pick up a funny play and do it. That’s our mandate to deal with seniors issues,” said Target Theatre member Mad-eleine Mills.

“It’s still entertainment, and it’s still entertaining, but there has to be a message there that people can go home and think about and learn from.”

The mature drama group started as a seniors’ class in 1976 then transformed into

Target in 1990. The group rehearses at

Langham Theatre and per-forms wherever they’re called to. They’ve performed for staff and family at residences across the region and as far afield as Edmonton and Cal-gary.

“We’ve done about 46 per-formances (of I’m Still Here) at this point,” Mills said.

It became a part of their rep-ertoire in the fall of 2007.

“We first saw the play the year before. The main author happened to be in B.C. and did a workshop with Target,” Mills said.

“The actors who saw it were just thrilled by it. It’s research-based so a lot of what we say as actors in the play comes right out of the research.”

I’m Still Here is a drama that follows the lives of four people touched by Alzheimer’s dis-ease.

The play brings out the pro-found effects of the disease not only on the sufferers, but also their friends and families.

“When we do it for audi-ences they respond to that honesty, they respond to the reality. They’re moved

because they recognize even some of the words from their own lives,” she said.

“It’s got a tremendous pull on the audience.”

Target performs I’m Still Here on Wednesday, Jan. 6 at 11:30 a.m. at the Monterey Recreation Centre.

Tickets are $13.50 for mem-bers and $15.50 for guests and must be purchased in advance at the centre, 1442 Monterey Avenue or over the phone at 250-370-7300.

Visit targettheatre.ca to learn more about the drama organization. [email protected]

Mature theatre troupe Targets dementia with drama

“It’s still entertainment, and it’s still entertaining, but there has to be a message there that people can go home and think about and learn from.

– Madeleine Mills

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Medical Services Plan premiums, electricity bills and vehicle insur-ance rates are up in 2016, reviving criticism of the B.C. government’s constant boast about keeping taxes low.

MSP premiums are up from $144 to $150 as of Jan. 1 for a family of three earning more than $30,000 a year. For a single person in the same income group, the rate goes from $72 to $75, with lower rates for lower incomes down to $22,000 a year, where premiums drop to zero.

B.C. is now the only Canadian province with a health care fee, and it has risen about 40 per cent since 2010. Premier Christy Clark has defended the fee as a signal to citizens about the enormous cost of providing health care.

BC Hydro rates have been politically dictated since Clark and Energy Minister Bill Bennett intervened to cap rate increases in 2013. Hydro rates jumped nine per cent in 2014, followed by annual increases of six, four, 3.5 and three per cent in the 10-year rate plan. Starting with the pro-posed four per cent increase in 2016, the independent B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) is reviewing if rate increases can be lower than what is capped in the rate plan.

Insurance Corporation of B.C. basic vehicle insurance went up by 5.5 per cent on Nov. 1, an increase still subject to review by the BCUC. That works out to an increase of $3.70 per month added for the average driver.

ICBC had proposed a 6.7 per cent increase to cover increasing costs of personal injury claims and fraud, but the province gave it permission for a one-time transfer of $450 million from its optional insurance business to subsidize the basic rate.

In a year-end interview, NDP leader John Horgan stopped short of promising to eliminate MSP premiums, but he called it a “regressive tax” that would be part of a broad review of B.C. taxation fairness if he wins the 2017 election.

The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation says the people who benefit from Prime Minis-ter Justin Trudeau’s promised middle-class tax cut will see

most of those savings eaten up by provincial and municipal tax increases.

Trudeau’s changes would provide up to $2,000 in tax relief for middle-income earners, with dual-income households benefiting most, CTF federal director Aaron Wudrick says.

Municipal taxes are expected to increase across the province in 2016, with local councils pre-paring to set budgets for the new fiscal year that starts April 1. Port Alberni has proposed a seven per cent increase, and the CTF says it hasn’t found any B.C. municipalities yet that pro-pose to freeze or lower property tax rates. With the rapid rise in property prices continuing in parts of the Lower Mainland, the B.C. Assessment Authority sent out 37,000 letters in December, warning single-family homeown-ers to brace for a big jump in their assessed value.

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Joanne Thomson’s installation 300 Mason Jars at Gage Gallery is a nod to her grand-mother, who canned everything from root vegetables to meat – all using a wood stove.

“It’s not an exhibi-tion as much as an installation,” Thomson said.

“It’s going to have the paintings and the jars and some arte-facts and I’ve done a whole lot of canning too.”

Jams, jellies, pickles and salsas will adorn the space alongside free-hanging waterco-lours on the theme of legacy and heritage.

Each painting also includes a short poem. For example, the straw-berry plant (pictured) poem is: “We work so hard; launch young to greener pastures; sometimes forgetting; how good our homes are.”

“When I initially started doing them people assumed I’d taken mason jars and photographed them,” she said with a laugh.

“My grandmother and grandfather have a property near Midway in B.C. … my mother and my aunt grew up on that property.

“A couple years ago I was transcribing stories of my grand-mother and learned

about how hard she worked. She didn’t talk much about her husband at all, he’d been gone many, many years by then,” she said.

What they noticed was a discrepancy of photos. There were none of grandma work-ing, but lots of grandpa at work.

It prompted her to create mason jars filled with plant life and work tools to initiate memories, of the work both genders took on to maintain a life.

Then she painted the images that will hang on the walls of Gage Gallery.

“It’s all well and good for her (grandma) to talk about the canning but who chopped the

wood, killed the meat,” Thomson said.

“This is a little bit about looking at both sides of the contribu-tion … It morphed into more all about me, because it’s my memories about their life, and I’ve canned all my life. It’s all intercon-nected.”

The installation has a number of facets, including a free art-making event Saturday, Jan. 9 from 2 to 5 p.m. where guests can “take the lid off.”

“I’ll be inviting people to put things in mason jars and I’ll have some drawings ready of mason jars and they can draw what’s in it,” Thomson said. “I’ll be inviting them to revisit their

own history.” Visitors can also

bring their own can-ning in to be part of the installation.

“You want to bring other people in and make it their story as well. I get stories from other people about these images that I wouldn’t’ have expected. It’s evoking a memory in them that’s completely different yet related,” Thomson said.

“I’m thinking of it as a shared heritage, this whole idea of preserv-ing food and sharing food.”

300 Mason Jars runs at the Gage Gallery, 2031 Oak Bay Ave. to Jan. 16.

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“You want to bring other people in and make it their story as well. I get stories from other people about these images that I wouldn’t have expected.”

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Monday, Jan. 11Drop in baby time – from 10:30 to 11 a.m. for babies 0 to 15 months and their caregiver. Learn songs, rhymes and fingerplays to use with your baby every day. At the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. No registration required.

SingYourJoy Young Adult Chorus Winter 2016 Season Start-up – The non-auditioned chorus for young adults (16 to 29) from all backgrounds meets from 7 to 9 p.m. at Oak Bay United Church, 1355 Mitchell St. Info: singyourjoy.ca

Tuesday, Jan. 12Drop-in Family Storytime – for young children and their families, 10:30 to 11 a.m. Enjoy fun-filled stories, songs, rhymes, and puppets at the Oak Bay

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Wednesday, Jan. 13 Volkssport – Monday and Wednesday morning walks. Registration at 8:45 a.m.; walk at 9 a.m. For current schedule call Rick, 250-478-7020 or Jan, 250-665-6062.

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