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Vancouver Persian retailer fights Trump travel ban with poetry

When Amir Hosh brought his father Ayoub tradition of roasting nuts and drying fruit to Vancouver in 2009 with Ayoub Dried Fruits and Nuts, he says he wanted to east and west, bringing an artisanal Persian tradition and revamping it for the city that had embraced his family as new immigrants.

As a new Canadian, he says he wanted to bring a craft and an industry to Canada and to the culture. celebrate the Persian New Year on March 21, Hosh did something he never done before. He quietly hung a poem in the window of three of his locations. The father of Hermes birkin bags fake a five month old baby girl, Hosh said his family is facing a new reality.

not sugarcoat it, said Hosh. south, the anti immigrant sentiment for Middle Easterners is at a high. Many people in my family have been affected by (Donald) Trump travel ban. Hosh family came to Canada as immigrants, he said he is also deeply affected by the negativity directed toward refugees: hurts when you hear some of the stuff. It emotional. poem is part lyric ode, part replica hermes handbags outlet protest and part celebration of Canadian culture. It begins with an expression of remembrance, celebrating his homeland, long, hot days of my childhood/sitting among the figs. poem is also an ode to Canada, where on his first days here he experienced and ice hockey/in the same day, diversity, safety and connection.

The poem is also a protest against the sharp shift to the right south of the border, warm welcomes/are now replaced with shakedowns, shadowy fears and the promise of a wall.

He said he had an outpouring of support from customers and the community. wanted to express my gratitude to say we really love being here and I will do my personal best to build an honest business, pay imitiaton hermes bag taxes, create full time jobs and enrich the culture. shops, filled with the aroma of nuts roasted on site, are a far cry from the bulk bin section of your local health food store, with chandeliers and silver trays, and elevated experience. Hosh said he wanted to make the dried fruit and nut experience something like visiting a bakery or a bread shop, where buying fresh, warm bread becomes part of a cherished daily ritual.

The stores have been a success and Hosh now has five locations across the Lower Mainland and he grateful for the community support. love this country as well as the one we came from, said Hosh. like having two mothers, a birthmother and an adopted mother. says he had a little help writing the poem, but the feelings behind it are all his: continue to remind ourselves to be grateful here/happy for what we have a culture of caring and sharing. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.

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Vancouver photographer John McGinnis reveals amazing portfolio

In the late 1940s or early jazz great Louis Armstrong tried to book brown hermes belt replica a room at the Hotel Vancouver, but was rebuffed because he was black.

A young Province photographer named John McGinnis was there to get a photo of Armstrong, and couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"They went in the Vancouver Hotel and this guy came over to the (desk clerk) and said, 'Get that (bleep) out of here. We don't book blacks, are you nuts?' recalls McGinnis, 85.

this kid, to his credit, was so embarrassed he quietly said, 'Mr. Armstrong, come outside, I think I can get a place for you across the street'."

Armstrong and his entourage moved over to the Devonshire. While Armstrong was waiting for his handlers to secure a room, McGinnis approached him and asked if he could take his photo.

Armstrong said sure, sat down on his bags and started playing his trumpet. And McGinnis captured the scene, complete with Armstrong's handlers trying to book a room in the background.

When the Sun and Province held a photo exhibition at Presentation House Gallery in 2012 I went looking for the shot, but it wasn't in the Armstrong file. Its whereabouts remained a mystery until radio legend Red Robinson asked if I wanted to have lunch with an old Province photographer who had some great photos from the '40s and '50s.

McGinnis brought along a self published book he had made for his family, entitled I Shot The Queen And Thousands More. Lo and behold, there was the missing Armstrong photo, along with all sorts of wonderful shots of Vancouver decades ago.

In the early 1950s McGinnis clambered up atop the Hotel Vancouver and took some marvelous photos of workers replica Hermes belt france cleaning the roof. He photographed BC Electric ripping up the streetcar tracks on Granville, and documented six row houses along Georgia Street, where the Queen Elizabeth Theatre is today. The Vancouver post office is going up in the background, which dates it to 1956 or of his photos are of sports figures or entertainers, such as Bill Haley backstage in 1954 at Vancouver first rock and roll show. McGinnis got good access because he co promoted the show with his friend, DJ Jack Cullen.

"It was like a nuthouse," said McGinnis. In 1956, McGinnis and Cullen were charged for allowing unescorted fans under 18 to attend a "rock and roll dance" at the Kerrisdale Arena. But they got off because their lawyer successfully argued they hadn't actually sold the tickets.

"The auditorium sold the tickets, because they were getting a percentage and they wanted control of what was comin' and goin'," McGinnis says with a laugh. "They suggested we'd been dishonest, so it serves them right."

McGinnis is one of the best storytellers you'll ever come across. He talks in a fantastic '40s slang, like a character from a Dashiell Hammett novel.

A good example is McGinnis describing his parents as "great friends of Joe Louis." This is his way of saying they fought all the time.

McGinnis had a rough childhood. When he was eight or nine, McGinnis and his four siblings were placed in foster homes.

"We were picked up by the Catholic Children's Aid," he said. "They snapped us up on the street, on our way home. And that was the last we ever saw of the homestead."

He would live in 13 foster homes before he "took off" at 15. He would visit his mother from time to time, usually sneaking off when nobody knew.

"(One time) I was with a boy in Westminster, I was going into Vancouver to see my mother," he said.

"He was down in the basement. I was getting ready to leave, and he was playing with matches. I said, 'Ron what are you doin'?'

"He says, hermes black belt knockoff 'I don't like it here, I'm going to burn the house down.' I said, 'Don't be so stupid.' So fake hermes belt price I went to see my mother and when I came home that night the house was burned down."

McGinnis first appearance in a newspaper was in 1940, when he and a friend were plucked out of the Kivan Boys Club and taken downtown to pose with British movie star Madeleine Carroll.

"The funny thing is, neither one of us could afford to see a bloody movie," he said. "How could I be gaga over her? I'd never seen her!"

In his teens he got a job as an office boy at The Province, and was transferred to the photo department. He started off mixing chemicals in the darkroom, and soon picked up a camera himself.

Newspaper people used to drink a lot in the late '40s.

"At the Vancouver Province they had certain guys who loved their booze," he said.

"They had a separate room with chesterfields and stuff in it called the Snake Room. When these guys got on a tear, they'd throw them in there and lock them in. No kidding, honest to God."

He worked for the Province from 1946 to the Calgary Albertan in 1951 2 and at the Vancouver News Herald from 1953 it folded in 1957. He did indeed shoot the Queen during the 1951 Royal Tour, as well as Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum on the set of the movie River of No Return near Banff.

He got a little bit of everything in his archive amazing action shots from the Calgary Stampede in 1951 and a shocking but beautiful photo of squatters shacks in False Creek in 1949, a wonderful picture of some guys rafting down an Aldergrove street during the Fraser River flood in 1948. He took them for the next day paper, and in most cases they haven been seen since. But decades later, his stylish photos have become historic documents.
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Vandon DeVere Johnson Obituary

Johnson, Vandon DeVere passed away on September 3, 2016 at Clearwater Lake with loved ones by his side from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm after years of circulation problems. Van was born March 17, 1936 to Aili and Harold Johnson. Raised with his brother, replica hermes handbags outlet Daryl, in south Minneapolis, Van graduated from Southwest High School and enjoyed significant time with family in Willmar. He spent time in the navy, and then imitiaton hermes bag attended Embry Riddle for aviation mechanics. Van married Barbara Johnson in 1959 and raised two children, Harold (Kandy) of Annandale and Heidi fashion cheap hermes handbags (Jerry) of Savage in Bloomington and on Clearwater, also helping raise cousin Van Mackie (Paula) of Annandale. He began a 41 year career in aviation mechanics with North Central Airlines, followed by Republic and then Northwest, also earning his Private Pilot's license the same day as Harold in 1980. He later divorced, but was on the friendliest of terms with Barb until her death in 2007. Van loved to snowmobile, hunt, fish, sauna and travel, and enjoyed many great years on Mille Lacs and during winters in Destin, FL. A devoted fan of hockey, soccer, dance, snowmobile racing, lacrosse, speed swimming, baseball, Boy Scouting and all things Notre Dame, Van will be missed beyond words by his six grandchildren: Mackenzie (22), Lexi (20), Reygan (18), Ian (15), Carson (13) and Colin (12). Join us for a visitation/celebration of life Thursday from 4 8pm at the Cremation Society, 7110 France Ave S, Edina, and a happy hour toast on Friday replica birkin handbags from 4 7pm at Van's favorite, Valley Lounge, 3385 Sibley Memorial highway, Eagan.

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Vancouver rated fifth on quality of life global ranking

Vancouver is tops imitiaton hermes bag in Canada for quality of life with its moderate climate contributing to its high ranking, says an annual survey.

The West Coast city also has retained its fifth place spot globally replica birkin handbags in the 2012 Mercer Quality of Living survey.

Overall, Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world's best quality of living, also keeping its first place ranking, said the survey. Baghdad was last out 221 cities.

The survey said Canada offers some of the best quality of living in the world with Ottawa ranking 14th, Toronto 15th, Montreal 23rd and Calgary 32nd.

"One of the things that Vancouver has going for it that the other cities do not is climate," said Mercer Canada's Eleana Rodriguez. "All four of the other Canadian cities that are on the ranking don't have the kind of climate that Vancouver replica hermes handbags outlet has, so obviously that's a factor to consider."

Canada has five cities ranked in the top 35 cities in the world, she said, adding that Calgary advanced one ranking and Montreal dropped by one ranking.

Consulting firm Mercer looked at 39 factors such as a city's political and social environment and its economic and socio cultural environment.

The firm also looked at medical and health access, education and access to schools, public transportation, recreation, availability of housing and consumer goods, as well as climate.

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In the United States, the top three cities were Honolulu, ranked 28th with the highest quality of living, followed by San Francisco in 29th place and Boston at 35th.
Sep 7 '17 · 0 comments
Victoria's Mack scores lone try as Canada falls to Romania in men's rugby

But it was amid an all too familiar storyline.

A regular refrain from Tests over the past few years was played out as Canada was again competitive against a fellow second tier nation only to lose by a tight margin as world No. 16 Romania defeated the No. 18 Canucks 21 16.

The undersized but replica Hermes belt france dynamic veteran Phil Mack of Victoria, who announced his retirement from rugby sevens following Canada's failure to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics, has returned to the XVs game and the crafty James Bay back came off the bench and scored the Canadian try at 74 minutes after fellow James Bay player and Oak Bay grad Connor Braid had driven the ball Hermes belts replica paris close to the line. Braid converted Mack's try while Gordon McRorie of Calgary slotted through three penalty goals.

DTH van der Merwe of Victoria, a pro with Scarlets, captained Canada on Saturday. Van der Merwe and Matt Evans of Duncan made some stellar open field tackles from the No. 14 and No. 15 backfield slots to help blunt the Romanian attack.

But it wasn't enough as this was the third tight loss to Romania in as many years for Canada, which concludes its November Test window with fake hermes belts whosale a game against No. 14 Hermes belt replica france Samoa on Friday at Stade des Alpes in Grenoble, France.

Meanwhile, Canada defeated Ireland 48 7 in a women's Test match played Saturday in Dublin. Julianne Zussman of Victoria, who plays for the Castaway Wanderers, led Canada with two tries while Andrea Burk of North Vancouver kicked 13 points.
Sep 7 '17 · 0 comments
Vanguardia a Dragons coach no more

The Westports Malaysia Dragons will part ways with head coach Ariel Vanguardia.

The charismatic Vanguardia, who has been with the Dragons since 2010 first as a scout before taking up the coaching job in 2012 will imitation hermes mens belt move back to the Philippines.

it is not all good byes. He will still assist us on a few things . especially on Asean imports for the Asean Basketball League (ABL) and other imports as well. Hermes belt replica france who led the Dragons to their maiden ABL triumph last season when he was also named Coach of the Year, admitted that is hard to leave KL going to miss the team. I forever Hermes belt replica grateful to the Dragons for giving me the chance to grow with the team, said Vanguardia.

I hermes mens belt replica had a meeting with Yakub and team owner Ruben (Gnanalingam) and I stay on as an advisor . to help with imports and with coaching clinics meant to develop local coaches. Dragons, who are preparing to compete in the PBA D League, have appointed national head coach Goh Cheng Huat as caretaker coach.
Sep 7 '17 · 0 comments
Vanguardia looking replica hermes handbags outlet to stay with Dragons after winning ABL title

PETALING JAYA: Head coach Ariel Vanguardia could be parting ways with Westports Malaysia Dragons despite leading them to their first ever Asean Basketball League (ABL) title.

The charismatic Filipino is out of contract at the end of this month and it no secret that he has offers to return to the Philippines.

believe this group of young players, especially the Malaysians, still have fake hermes bag lots of potential for growth. Honestly, I couldn see myself coaching anywhere else.

the decision is up to the team management and I leave it to them to decide, said Vanguardia.

When asked about Vanguardia contract, Dragons general manager Yakub Hussaini said they could only make a decision after reviewing next fashion cheap hermes handbags season programme.

need to speak to the Malaysia Basketball Association (Maba) first because we may enter a partnership with them.

would love to have Ariel back with us for next season ABL (due in October). He also be an asset to the Malaysian imitiaton hermes bag players preparing for next year Kuala Lumpur SEA Games.
Sep 7 '17 · 0 comments
Victoria in urgent need of an architectural renaissance

Can one imagine the thrill of being asked at the age of only 24 to build one of the greatest buildings the world will ever see? That was what happened to Bernini when fake hermes bag Pope Urban VIII presented the young man with the opportunity to design and construct the Vatican.

Most of us, after regaining consciousness, would have declined, or like me, hid under the bed. Thankfully, Bernini did not, and we have what we have in Rome, because after taking a large gulp, he started to design.

I often wonder what prevailing building codes Bernini must have overlooked or dismissed out of hand before inventing or at least bringing to flower the Baroque school of architecture. I once attempted to have a design student construct a petite garden shed that had a lyrical theme and would have bothered no one and brought only pleasure to the eye. A surly public servant claimed that said shed broke several hundred rules and would not be built on his watch.

I have begun to notice that our lovely city has now many wounds of an architectural nature scattered about the place. Let us start with that well known outrage, the library on Broughton Street. One is faced with a wall of uninviting brick from one end of the street to the other. Why did the villagers not riot upon completion? Why were the people responsible not dragged from their comfy offices and made to repent?

Another canker is the CIBC building in the very middle of Victoria. A more unattractive edifice is hard to imagine and yet it looms over us daily. Hermes birkin bags fake I do not lament the nightmares of design that also seem to flower in the suburbs, but in our midst, downtown? Where sensitive chaps gather to write sonnets to their true loves? I say not.

There is something called the Nootka Court that must be included here, a visual calamity at the corner of Humboldt and Douglas staring back at us with a loathsome look in its windows. Where is our native culture when we need it? The building is horrible on so many levels and yet very near to that glowing example of stone and beauty, the Fairmont Empress hotel.

That is my point in all of this we have, unlike friend Bernini, past examples of what we should be aspiring to all around us, wonderful edifices that could remind us of our history.

Instead, it appears that architectural schools turn out dullards of design to go along with our withered building codes, which seem to only pour cold water on individualism and scope.

Perhaps many would think I am too hard on our civil servants, who are, after all, only doing what is expected of them in our modern civilization. However I am always taken aback when I hear those same workers, after their wonderful sabbaticals in Italy, France, Spain, etc., describe the vibrancy of colour and design of daring young architects fitting so splendidly with the old buildings extant. But upon replica birkin handbags their return they fling their berets into back rooms and start rubber stamping the same old dreck. Where is the sense?

We need to be struck dumb by art and buildings; we should be awed by our surroundings, not made vomitous. Every culture will be remembered for its design and I fear that will be the case for us. There might just be an asterisk beside us with a note at the bottom of the page saying: "What were they thinking?"

There is time with leaders who are not frightened by election defeat or loss of pension. In Bernini's time it simply took the direction of a pope who had the grandest scheme of his time, but it was also the time of Da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Renaissance. Never have we needed a renaissance more than now, and a committed leader who could galvanize us imitiaton hermes bag and all who visit us. Build on the past for an exciting future.
Sep 7 '17 · 0 comments
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