…Singer Katie MacColl reports a gratifying start to sales for her Songs for Sanctuary two-song cassette, recorded to raise funds to help Vancouver’s Sanctuary Foundation establish second-stage transitional housing for battered women. (Second-stage housing provides shelter for women past the usual one-month stay allotted them in typical transition houses, often an insufficient amount of time to deal with the many challenges faced by women who have decided to leave an abusive spouse.) “We’ve pretty much sold out our first 500,” MacColl says, “and we’re just waiting for the next pressing.” She says the cassette, with the Steve Mitchell-penned songs “Back Off” and “Light Burning Low” performed by the Katie MacColl Band and the Festive Eddies, has been made available at information tables set up at various local malls, with the next sale happening at the Guildford Town Centre May 14-16…