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In some cultures,cutting the wine o

ut of

cooking isakintosawingoffanarm.InI

talian

andFrenchcookery, forinstance,botha

renec-

essary formaking awe-inspiring dishes

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“Wine has always been an essential thin

g to

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usewine.Mostpeople inItalymadethei

rown

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asre-

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Magazine’sannualrestaurantawards.A

ndfor

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go’s pre-game lobster linguine meals fo

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ime,

therewasanexcessinPiedmont.They’d

use it

to tenderize secondcategory cuts of me

at. It

wasanecessity, away of life,” Posteraro

says.

Becausehewasscrawnyasakid,Postera

ro’s

mom fed him raw eggs beaten with for

tified

wines to make himstrong. From her po

int of

view, vermouth and Marsala maske

d the

flavourof theraweggs.Fromthepointo

fview

ofagastronomeinthemaking, itwas lik

ecold

sabayon. His momalso made the kids

a cake

“bathed invermouth,” he says.

“I use lots of wine in my restaurant [C

iop-

pino’sMediterraneanGrill]cooking,”he

says.

“If you take fatty cuts like short-ribs or

pork

cheeks, theaciditymakesit less fatty,mo

reap-

petizingandlighterandtheacidity isa fl

avour

enhancer. With lemon juice, you don’t c

ook it

and you have to addit right at the end. W

ine,

you cook it, it goes inside the fibres and

satu-

rates. It’s unbelievable.”

Warren Geraghty, chef at West restaur

ant,

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devel-

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more

possible to hit thenotes dead-on if y

ou’re

building around thestructure, the nose o

f the

wine.It’spossible tomakeitperfectbyju

stad-

justing, say the pepper, in the dish. And i

f you

nail it on the head, the majority of p

eople

wouldnoticehowthedish justworksbu

t they

won’t be sure why,”he says.

Like Posteraro, Jean-Francis Quagli

a, of

Provence Mediterranean Grill and Pro

vence

Marinaside, grew up with wine and it’s

insep-

arable from cookery. “All my meat dishe

s use

some kind of wine at some point in the

cook-

ing,” he says. “It adds another eleme

nt to

sauces,especiallydemi-glace. Iusewine

inmy

cookingeverydayandIdrinkwineevery

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The era of ro

ck-bottom mo

rtgage

rates ended w

ith a crush of

work for

mortgage bro

kers and ban

k-loan

officers.

It started Mon

day with a flo

od of

homebuyers l

ooking for las

t-minute

approvals to s

neak in under

the wire

before interes

t-rate increas

es went

into effect th

e next mornin

g — sig-

nalled in anno

uncements by R

BC and

TD that they w

ould raise the

ir five-

year posted ra

tes 0.6 of a pe

rcentage

point to 5.85 p

er cent, an 11-

per-cent

jump. Scotiaba

nk, CIBC and B

MO fol-

lowed the mov

es with rate bu

mps of

their own.

There were a

lso calls from

clients

looking to lock

in variable mo

rtgages,

and customer

s exploring op

tions to

refinance at hi

storically low

five-year

rates.“Everyb

ody was in the

ir office with

their heads dow

n the whole tim

e they

were there,” m

ortgage broker

Chris

LeMay said in

an interview a

bout the

environment in

his office at a D

omin-

ion Lending Ce

ntres branch i

n Van-

couver, when

news of the im

pending

rate hike first w

ent out on Mo

nday.

“I was here un

til 7 p.m. waitin

g on

one last client

. Everybody h

ad their

heads down f

or a good eigh

t hours

getting pre-ap

provals, helpin

g people

lock in.”

The immediat

e effect of th

e in-

crease, along w

ith impending

chang-

es to mortgage

-qualification r

ules, will

be to reduce th

e size of mortg

age for

which borrowe

rs will be able t

o qual-

ify, which mar

ket participan

ts antici-

pate will put a

damper on rea

l-estate

prices.“Now t

hat we see th

e first phase

of normalizatio

n [of interest r

ates],

that’s further

going to erode

afford-

ability and tak

e a bite out of

the pur-

chasing powe

r of Metro Van

couver

households,”

Cameron Mu

ir, chief

economist for t

he B.C. Real E

state As-

sociation, said

in an interview

.

The increase c

ame as no sur

prise,

though. For m

onths, specula

tion has

been about n

ot if, but whe

n rates

would be going

up, given sign

s of life

in the national

economy and a

spec-

tacular recove

ry in housing m

arkets,

particularly in

Metro Vanco

uver and

B.C.“Peopl

e know rates a

re going up,”

LeMay said. “T

he Bank of Cana

da said

its overnight r

ate is going up

. People

put it all into o

ne basket and t

hink ev-

erything is goi

ng up.”

In general, Mo

nday signalled

a real-

ization that th

e environment

of ultra-

low rates, whi

ch were usher

ed in to

stimulate the e

conomy at the

start of

the recession in

2008, is endin

g.

Since Decemb

er, however, w

hen

federal Financ

e Minister Jim

Flaherty

noted concern

s over the pos

sibility

of overheating

housing mark

ets and

Bank of Canad

a Governor M

ark Car-

ney expressed

his worries ove

r Cana-

dians’ record d

ebt levels, the p

ressure

has been on to

raise rates and

cool the

economy.

The change in

five-year rate

s will

definitely cool

the ambitions

of buy-

ers, Joe Santos

, president of t

he Mort-

gage Brokers A

ssociation, said

.

He calculated

that a family

with

$100,000 in h

ousehold inco

me, as-

suming they ca

n negotiate a

reason-

able discount to

posted five-ye

ar rates,

would see their

purchasing po

wer re-

duced by about

$40,000.

Before the cha

nge, he said, th

at fam-

ily could quali

fy for a $614,0

00, five-

year mortgage w

ith 35-year amo

rtiza-

tion and a disc

ounted mortg

age rate

of 3.89 per cen

t.

Now, however

, the same fa

mily

would likely fa

ce a discounte

d rate of

4.49 per cent, w

hich reduces th

e max-

imum mortgage

they could qua

lify for

to $574,000.

“It’s obviously

going to make

it more

difficult for p

eople to

qualify for Va

ncouver and

Lower Mainland

purchases, bec

ause

property value

s tend to be hig

her here

than in the re

st of Canada,

” Santos

said.He add

ed that the imp

ending change

to mortgage-qu

alification rule

s intro-

duced by Flahe

rty in January

will also

crimp the hope

s of buyers tryi

ng to get

into variable-

rate mortgage

s, which

are based on

and float with

banks’

prime lending

rates.

Prime, for no

w, rests at a l

ow 2.25

per cent, but a

fter April 19, n

ew rules

state that bo

rrowers with

only the

minimum fiv

e-per-cent do

wnpay-

ment need to

be capable of q

ualify-

ing for a mortg

age with the fi

ve-year

posted mortga

ge rate to get a

variable

mortgage.

That, Santos s

aid, limits that

fam-

ily with $100

,000 in inco

me to a

$480,000 mor

tgage, versus $

647,000

before the cha

nge.

Banks and mo

rtgage broker

s have

seen borrowers

shift away from

those

variable mortg

ages over the p

ast year,

however, in an

ticipation that

the Bank

of Canada wi

ll raise its key

lending

rate, which ha

s a big influen

ce over

bank prime rat

es.

Jared Dryer,

managing bro

ker at

Dreyer Group

mortgage brok

ers, said

among his cu

stomers, abou

t 75 per

cent are opting

to take the cer

tainty of

fixed-rate versu

s variable mort

gages.

A couple of yea

rs ago, when v

ariable-

rate mortgages

could be had w

ith rates

discounted from

the prime rate

by as

much as 0.9 o

f a percentag

e point,

only about 40

per cent were o

pting to

take fixed-rate

mortgages.

That includes M

ike Graham, a

Drey-

er Group clien

t who owns tw

o rental

properties tha

t have variabl

e mort-

gages, but opte

d to lock in a f

ive-year

fixed rate wh

en he bought

his own

home in White

Rock last summ

er.

“The market w

as changing, e

very-

body was talk

ing about the

interest

rates going up,”

said Graham, a

White

Rock realtor. “I

just thought fo

r a prin-

cipal residence

, maybe I’ll ju

st take

some of the ri

sk out and no

t gamble

as much with t

hat one.”

Dreyer added

that borrowe

rs who

hold existing v

ariable-rate m

ortgages

are still in a go

od position, ev

en when

the prime rate

starts to rise

with in-

creases in the

Bank of Canad

a’s key

rate. So he adv

ises them to co

nsider

holding off on l

ocking in.

However, ther

e was a period

in 2008

and 2009 wh

en the variab

le rates

crept up to a p

remium of up t

o a full

percentage po

int above prim

e, and

broker LeMay

has encourag

ed those

clients to lock

into the certa

inty of

fixed rates.

In the big pictu

re, however, th

e bot-

tom line is that

Canada’s bond

market,

jittery about in

flation and the

prospect

of the Bank of

Canada raising

its key

interest rate, i

ncreased its ra

tes.

And since bank

s raise the fun

ds for

long-term mor

tgages in the bo

nd mar-

kets, those are

what set inter

est rates

for loans of five

years or longe

r.

Benjamin Tal,

a senior econo

mist at

CIBC World M

arkets, said it

had be-

come evident

over the past c

ouple of

weeks that lon

g-term mortga

ge rates

would have to

increase as bo

nd mar-

kets reacted t

o inflation rep

orts and

on concerns o

ver the balloo

ning of

government d

ebts, especial

ly in the

United States.

“This is the b

eginning of the

tight-

ening,” Benjam

in Tal, a senio

r econo-

mist at CIBC W

orld Markets sa

id in an

interview. “The

era of extrem

ely low

interest rates i

s over.”

The challenge

for lenders n

ow is

to remind bor

rowers that th

e higher

rates consum

ers are seeing

are still

relatively low

compared wit

h just a

few years ago.

Kevin Lutz, B.C

. regional mort

gage

manager for R

BC, noted tha

t posted

five-year fixed r

ates were 7.19

per cent

two years ago,

and the prime

rate was

5.25 per cent.

“When you pu

t it into perspe

ctive,

we’re still in a

low-interest-

rate en-

vironment, de

spite rates goi

ng up,”

Lutz said. “Th

e big news is th

at we’re

coming off tha

t all-time low.

[But]

consumers hav

e enjoyed low

rates for

quite some tim

e.”

End of an era

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ise marks last o

f rock-bottom lo

ans WEEk

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ers know that e

ven small chan

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ere’s a look at ra

tes since 2001.

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To donate your newspapers during your next vacation, simply call Customer Service at the number below or visit our Subscriber Self Serve online. (See FAQ#1).

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1. Can I Manage My Account Online?

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By Phone: Simply call Customer Service. See below for our phone number. You can update it anytime using our 24-hour automated phone service.

Online: Register for “Subscriber Self Serve” and instantly update your credit card information securely online. See FAQ #1 on how to register.

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By Phone: Call Customer Service during operating hours. See below for phone numbers and hours.

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monday to Friday 5:30 am – 2:00 pm Saturday & Sunday 7:00 am – 12:00 pm (including applicable statutory holidays)

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