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U.S. dentist won’t face charges for killing lionFARAI MUTSAKA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe is no longer pressing for the extradition of James Walter Palmer, an American dentist who killed a well-known lion called Cecil, a Cab-inet minister said Monday.

Palmer can now safely return to Zimbabwe as a “tourist” because he had not broken the southern African country’s hunting laws, Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri told reporters in Harare on Monday. Zimbabwe’s police and the National Prosecuting Authority had cleared Palmer of wrongdoing, she said.

Through an adviser, Palmer declined comment.

Palmer was identified as the man who killed Cecil in a bow hunt. Cecil, a resi-dent of Hwange National park in western Zimbabwe, was well-known to tourists and researchers for his distinctive black mane.

Muchinguri-Kashiri had said in July that Zimbabwean police and prosecutors would work to get Palmer returned to Zimbabwe to face poaching charges.

On Monday, she told reporters in Harare that Palmer can now safely return to Zim-babwe as a “tourist” because he had not broken this wildlife-rich southern African country’s hunting laws.

“He is free to come, not for hunting, but as a tourist,” Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri told reporters. “It turned out that Palmer came to Zimbabwe because all the papers were in order.”

Palmer was the subject of extradition talk in Zimbabwe and a target of protests in the United States, particularly in Minnesota,

where he has a dental practice, after he was identified as the man who killed Cecil the lion in a bow hunt. Cecil roamed in Hwange National Park in western Zimbabwe.

Messages left Monday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which was handling a U.S. investigation into Palmer, were not

immediately returned.Theo Bronkhorst, a Zimbabwean profes-

sional hunter who was a guide for Palmer, returned to court last week on charges of allowing an illegal hunt. His lawyer PerpetuaDube argued that the charges are too vague and should be dropped.

In this Sept. 8 file photo, dentist Walter Palmer is seen outside his office in Bloomington, Minn.

A Zimbabwe cabinet minister said Monday that the country is no longer pressing for Palmer’s

extradition following the hunting and killing a well-known lion known as Cecil. [AP PHOTO}

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Mohamed Fahmy, let out of Egyptian prison last month, now back in CanadaTHE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A Canadian jour-nalist who was released from prison in Egypt last month has returned home, marking the end of his nearly two-year ordeal in a case that raised questions about Egypt’s commitment to free speech.

Mohamed Fahmy, a former Al-Jazeera journalist detained on terror-related charges, arrived in Toronto on Sunday.

“This is what I’ve been waiting for,” Fahmy said Monday.

“I felt humbled and safe seeing the kind and heartfelt vibes from the police officers and security at the airport who were extreme-ly hospitable and recognized my face despite my attempts to keep my arrival quiet. It was mind-boggling that the cab

driver, passengers on the flight and strangers recognized me in the airport and knew the details of my story. I felt lots of warmth and love.”

He expressed similar feelings in a series of tweets in which he thanked those who supported him.

“Happy Thanksgiving Canada! Walking the streets of Toronto with my wife is a truly liberating feeling! We feel safe, free, & at home! #Love”

Fahmy was arrested in 2013 with two Al-Jazeera English colleagues. He was sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial this year for airing what a court described as “false news” and coverage biased in favour of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.

The case was widely con-

demned. He and his Egyptian co-defendant, Baher Moham-med, received a presidential pardon last month. The other colleague, Australian Peter Greste, was released a year before Fahmy after Australia’s prime minister intervened.

Prime Minister Stephen Harp-er has been criticized by Fahmy and others for not doing enough to get the journalist back to Canada. Fahmy said he made sure to come back to Canada amid the campaign because he feels it his responsibility to start a debate on the issue.

Fahmy said Harper’s “hyper conservative approach directly damaged and delayed my chan-ces for freedom.” He said former Foreign Minister John Baird damaged his case when he said during a press conference in

Egypt that Canada would not prosecute Fahmy should he be turned over to Canada, some-thing Fahmy called a diplomatic faux pas. He said he would have more to say about it at a press conference in Toronto today.

Fahmy left Cairo last week after learning his name had been removed from a no-fly list. He stopped first in London, where he was to meet with his high-profile lawyer Amal Clooney.

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Mulcair brings his message to NanaimoDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Tom Mulcair delivered a rousing mes-sage to Nanaimo supporters on Sunday.

The federal New Democrat Party leader’s speech was punctuated by vocal applause and sign waving by more than 350 followers at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre Sunday morning.

It was a stop on an Island-wide tour in the last week of Canada’s longest federal election since 1872.

The main message, similar to that delivered in Victoria the previous day, was to stay focus on the task to stop Stephen Harper’s Conservatives from getting another term of office.

The 380-seat room was filled to over-flowing, and those in attendance were clearly there to support the NDP leader.

“Are you ready to bring change?” Mul-cair asked the crowd, to a vocal and uni-form replay in favour of the challenge.

“Are you ready to defeat every single Conservative right here on Vancouver Island?”

The applause got even louder.For the most part, Mulcair’s speech

stuck closely to script. One notable deviation was to emphasize that his pos-ition against a trade deal with 11 other Pacific Rim countries had support from U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Rod-ham Clinton.

An agreement in principle was reached Oct. 5 on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Clinton recently said could cost American jobs.

Mulcair expressed a similar view for Harper’s “secret” trade agreement, cit-ing manufacturing jobs, lower wages and higher drug prices.

“I will fight for a better deal for Can-adians,” Mulcair said.

He said the forestry and technology sectors are among B.C. industries where “serious concerns” are raised from the trade agreement.

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When many Canadian cities were first established, their dedicated bureaucrats set out to draft an important book of regulations to make sure

the community operated within proper stan-dards of decorum. The result included some

bylaws that many modern citizens might consider questionable.

The City of Nanaimo was no exception.

In the late 1800s Nanaimo had a laundry list of rules that would probably be deemed totally unacceptable in 2015.

As it turns out, Nanaimo was quite the police state when it came to bread in 1898.

The 1898 ‘Regulation of Sale of Bread’ bylaw stat-ed that all bread offered for sale in the city, no

matter shape, form or fashion, had to be in loaves of one-pound-and-a-quarter, or in two pounds. Bread was to be sold at a rate per pound.

If you were thought to be selling low qual-ity bread, the chief of police had lawful rights to come in, inspect the bread and seize any that is of — as the bylaw described — “bad quality.”

A city speed limit of 50 km/h seems fair today, but that would be considered excep-tionally fast if you were travelling through the city in 1888.

The city’s 1888 Street Bylaw says that no person shall ride or drive through public streets at a pace exceeding six miles per hour. If you got caught speeding, you could get nailed with a $5 ticket.

To understand how much inflation has changed the value of our dollar, $5 in 1914 is the equivalent of $106 in today’s currency, according to the Bank of Canada website.

Nanaimo’s street bylaw also included stiff rules for driving over a bridge. When cross-ing a bridge the operator of vehicle or horse must move slower than the pace of an aver-age walk. If caught going faster than a walk, the culprit could be on the hook for a $10 fine or be locked up in the common jail for up to four days.

These bylaws were put into place not long after the first vehicle was invented in 1885. Horses were the primary method of trans-portation, and, just like vehicles, there were rules when parking your horse.

The street bylaw says if you were to leave your horse in a public place it needed to be securely tied to a post. If your horse wasn’t properly tied down, you could face up to four days in the clink, or a $2 fine.

In the late 1880s you could do certain things only on certain days. Plan on going to the bar or getting your hair cut on a Sunday? Forget it.

Referred to as Lord’s Day in the old bylaw drafts, the sale of any ‘intoxicating liquors’ were prohibited on Sunday.

To add to that, if you owned a pub you were required to keep an unobstructed view into your establishment’s windows and you were prohibited from lighting the interior of your bar on any Sunday.

It was unlawful for barbershops to open on Sundays. If caught cutting hair on a Sunday, you could be fined up to $25.

Taking a dip in the popular swimming holes was a popular activity in the 1800s, much as it is today. But nowadays there are far fewer regulations on what’s considered appropriate swim attire.

The Public Morals Amendment Bylaw of 1895 says it was illegal to swim in the

Nanaimo Harbour or Millstream from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. without a ‘proper bathing dress covering the body from the neck to the knees.’

In that same bylaw there’s a section dedi-cated to the prohibition of pornography.

“No person shall sell or offer to sell any indecent or lewd book, paper, pictures, plate, or drawing,” the bylaw explains. It states that any type of lewd play or performance is not allowed within the city.

Also in that bylaw, under the section ‘Swearing or Immorality’ the bylaw says no person should use profane swearing, obscene, blasphemous or grossly insulting language on any public street or place.

The fine for breaking the bathing suit law or swearing in public could be as high as $50, which is more than $1,100 in today’s currency

Despite the ridiculousness of some of these bylaws, we can certainly cut the councillors and mayor some slack, considering how they were selected for office.

Nanaimo was incorporated as a city in 1874. The 1879 municipal election bylaw says that mayor and council nominees were to meet with the public at the Nanaimo court house on the day of election.

When everyone was gathered, the mayor and councillors were selected by a simple show of hands.

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DAILY NEWS

Canada heads to the polls on Oct. 19. During the federal election campaign, the Daily News will offer a series of profiles, issue pieces and more to help readers with their voting decision. Today marks the final in a series of questions posed to local candidates. Their responses (candidates listed alphabetically) are listed below.

Today’s question: What action should be taken to address climate change?

Mark MacDonald, ConservativeUnder the strong leadership of Prime

Minister Stephen Harper, the Conserv-atives have reduced greenhouse gas emissions – and they’ve done so while protecting the Canadian economy and Canadian jobs. It’s a balanced approach that works.

Our Conservative government is proud of its record on the environ-ment, and will continue to implement a responsible sector-by-sector regula-tory approach that is aligned with our major economic competitors – like the United States – to ensure Canada’s economic competitiveness is protected. Here are the facts:

• In 2013, Canada’s GHG emissions were 3.1 per cent lower than in 2005, while the economy grew by 12.9 per cent over the same time period.

• In 2012, Canada was the first major coal user to ban the construc-tion of traditional coal-fired electricity generation. Coal is the largest source of GHG in the world.

• Canada represents less than two per cent of global carbon emis-sions. By comparison, the U.S. coal sector produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all of Canada.

Prime Minister Harper is the only one who will guard us from a high tax, high debt, carbon-pricing agenda pre-ferred by some that will threaten jobs and raise the cost of everything.

Canada is envied as one of the very best countries to live in throughout the world. That is in no small part due to this governments’ ability to balance critical issues for the betterment of all, including leading-edge environmental standards and the prime minister’s economic policies, which allowed us to emerge relatively unscathed from the 2008 recession.

Sheila Malcolmson, NDPAs Islands Trust Council Chair, I

worked hard to move climate change and protecting vulnerable ecosystems to the top of the agenda here in

Nanaimo-Ladysmith.That is why I’m proud to be running

for the NDP, which is committed to urgent climate change actions. Tom Mulcair, as prime minister, will per-sonally attend the Paris conference and commit Canada to greenhouse gas reductions of 34 per cent below 1990 levels by 2025.

An NDP government will meet our climate targets by redirecting fossil fuel subsidies to renewable energy, making polluters pay with a coun-try-wide cap-and-trade carbon pricing system, and by investing in public transit and conservation retrofits of homes. We will create a $4.5 billion “Green Bond” program to provide safe investments in clean energy and tech-nology and retrofitting our industries.

These clear, achievable plans will result in sustainable economic development and high-quality jobs that will be here to support families for generations.

We also know that Stephen Harper’s failed record on climate change and the environment has left Canadians and municipalities at risk. The NDP will support communities in the face of a changing climate by investing in better flood mitigation infrastructure, seismic upgrades for schools, emer-gency planning, and equipment and training for first responders.

The Harper Conservatives have

ignored climate change science and clean technology opportunities that could boost our local economy here in Nanaimo-Ladysmith. That is why the best action we can take on cli-mate change is to defeat the Harper Conservatives.

The NDP will do that.

Paul Manly, Green PartyThe Green Party is the only federal

political party with a serious, compre-hensive set of policies to tackle climate change.

Our first action after the election will be to take the lead in co-ordinating a national climate change plan and bring it to the Paris global climate change negotiations in December. We will push for strong reductions in Canadian greenhouse gas emissions and firm targets.

Greens will put a price on carbon through a carbon fee and dividend system that will reduce the carbon emissions leading to climate change by taking money away from the polluters with a fee, while putting money direct-ly in your pocket with a dividend.

The Green Party will stop any further development of pipelines for export-ing raw bitumen from the Alberta oil sands, including the Energy East and Kinder Morgan projects. We would remove the billions in subsidies to fos-sil fuel industries and use that money

to develop renewable energy sources and create clean, green, well-paid jobs here at home.

Phasing out the use of coal is essen-tial to stop runaway climate change, not only here but overseas. An east-west energy grid would help Alberta eliminate coal-fired electrical generation. B.C. is under pressure to increase the number of coal anchor-ages and terminals for shipping U.S. coal to China. Five such anchor-ages have been proposed off the shores of Gabriola Island. As your Green MP, I will fight against this expansion.

Our climate change platform is available at greenparty.ca/solving-climate-crisis

Tim Tessier, LiberalLiberals understand that the environ-

ment and creating a more sustainable future are among the most pressing challenges we face as Canadians. Action against climate change is a key inter-generational responsibil-ity that we owe to our children and grandchildren.

The Conservatives have embarrassed Canada on the international stage regarding climate change negotiations. In the absence of federal leadership on this file, it is provinces and cities that have made Canada’s most innovative attempts to tackle climate change.

While many of our provinces and territories have already introduced their own initiatives, history shows that Canada works best when all orders of government work together to solve problems that matter to. A future Liberal government will take this approach to fight climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This means provincial and territorial governments will have the flexibility to design their own policies to meet these commitments, including their own carbon pricing policies. We will provide targeted federal funding to help achieve these goals; in the same way the federal government supports health care in Canada. Further, a Lib-eral government would welcome prov-incial and territorial leaders to attend the Paris climate conference, and within 90 days, hold a First Ministers meeting to work together on a frame-work for combating climate change. Central to this would be the creation of national emissions-reduction targets.

Liberals are serious about engaging in an open and innovative partnership with the provinces and territories, as we work together to fulfill our environ-mental responsibilities. That’s real change!

Vote Liberal.

CANADA VOTES!

MacDONALD MALCOLMSON

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EDUCATION

Private schools see record enrolmentROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

With 380 students from kinder-garten to Grade 12, the Nanaimo Christian School is seeing record enrolment this year.

The number of students at the school, one private schools operating in the region, has increased signifi-cantly from approximately 300 just a few years ago.

Lantzville’s private Aspengrove School has also seen growth with 292 students enrolled this year, up from approximately 250 last year.

A report released last week by the Fraser Institute states that private school enrolment across Canada is up by almost 17 per cent from a dec-ade ago, while public school enrol-ment has decreased eight per cent.

The growing popularity of private schools is even more pronounced in B.C., which has seen their enrol-ments increase by more than 24 per cent over the past 10 years, accord-ing to the Fraser Institute. The final numbers have yet to be established, but the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district has approximately 13,500 students registered this year.

That’s a significant drop from the approximately 16,000 students enrolled in local public schools a dec-ade ago. While the loss of students in the public system is largely due to demographic and societal changes, the growing popularity of private schools plays a part.

Donna Ferris, the admissions offi-cer at Nanaimo Christian School, said part of the attraction at the school is the individualized educa-tional plans that are established for each of its students.

She said in many of the public schools, the programs are not geared toward individual students, but are designed for groups.

Private schools receive between 30 and 50 per cent of the funding each student would receive in the public system from the government, which is currently $8,603 per stu-dent, to help cover operational costs.

The schools rely on tuition, ran-ging from $6,000 to $12,000 per year in the Nanaimo schools, for the rest of their day-to-day costs.

In 2007, because of program cut-backs and school closures to deal with funding challenges, the local school board at the time called for an end to government funding of independent schools.

Stephanie Higginson, a trustee in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district, said if the funds that are currently being directed to private schools were spent on the public system, the public schools may see some of the students return.

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Cruise ship industry is focus of event at VICC

A free speakers event on growing the cruise ship sector in central Van-couver Island is happens Oct. 29.

The event is being presented by Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay and the Bernie Dumas, president and CEO of the Nanaimo Port Authority.

It will feature six speakers with insights into the local cruise indus-try. The panel will include Donna Spalding of the Cruise Line Inter-

national Association, Richard Lewis of Destination B.C., Leslie Anderson of Tourism Nanaimo, Dumas and others. The event will take place alongside the Vancouver Island Eco-nomic Alliance conference.

The speakers event takes place at the Vancouver Island Conference

Centre from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Those planning to attend are asked

to RSVP in advance by Oct. 22 to Nanaimo Port Authority by calling 250-753-4146 ext. 251 or by emailing [email protected].

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As Canadians we are known worldwide for our manners.

But rile us up, and you’ll feel our wrath, even if it’s in

the politest terms.If you hadn’t heard of Harold Rey-

nolds before the holiday weekend, you may know him now.

Reynolds felt the polite (for the most part) scorn of thousands of Canadians on Sunday.

Ol’ Harold, known as much for his penchant for saying daft things on TV as a Major League Baseball colour analyst as he was for his time as a second-baseman for the Seattle Mar-iners, stuck his foot in his mouth, big-time.

During Game 3 of the American League Division Series playoffs between the host Texas Rangers and Canada’s own Toronto Blue Jays, Rey-

nolds observed a foul ball going into the stands, and took it as a shining opportunity to display his knowledge of all things Canadian.

He said this: “We we’re talking about foul balls in the stands up in Toronto and because there’s not a lot of people who grew up playing baseball in Canada, they’re not used to catching a lot of balls hit into the stands.”

Sheer brilliance. Now, we’ve come to accept the fact

a few of our neighbours to the south don’t know a heck of a lot about our country. We all live in igloos, hunt moose, say ‘oot’ and ‘aboot’ and a double-double isn’t a pair of back-to-back two-base hits.

For the most part, it’s shrugged off. But there is something about the

power of sport that can bring us together. Even during an election run where we can’t agree on any-thing, nobody questions our sporting abilities.

You’d think Reynolds would know better, having actually played profes-sional baseball as a minor leaguer in Calgary. But he went there anyway.

The reaction, particularly on social media, was immediate and often hilarious.

Headlines like “Harold Reynolds does the unthinkable, makes an entire country angry” broke out like wildfire. People noted things like Babe Ruth his first professional home run in Canada, and that Jackie Robinson played (and was welcomed) in Montreal before his MLB debut.

People from all walks of Canadian life rose in unison to blast Reynolds for his silly statement.

The funniest response came from B.C.’s own Larry Walker, the former hockey goalie from Maple Ridge who went on to a Hall of Fame-calibre

baseball career, which included a National League MVP award.

Walker, via Twitter, said “I won 7 gold gloves. I think part of winning them was because I could catch.”

In the end, it was more of a funny situation than anything else.

Reynolds, a butterfingers himself who led the AL in errors from 1987-90, was almost “Canadian” on Mon-day, offering an apology and learning that messing with Canadians is never a good option. He’ll get a chance to hear from Canadian fans in person on Wednesday, when the Blue Jays host Game 5 of the ALDS.

We trust they’ll be as polite as possible.

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Just one word to keep in mind come election day

Vote!

Edwin Turner Nanaimo

Honest politicians hard to fi nd, but they exist

In many cases it’s getting quite difficult to find the right candidate or party to vote for.

If you were brought up to respect honesty, integrity and sincerity, and are looking for an honest person to vote for, then you really have your work cut out for you.

This ridiculously extended election campaign forced upon the public is obviously turning too many politicians into “monkey see monkey do.”

Then comes the “one-upmanship” not unlike a group of amateurs learn-ing to play poker: “You bet 20 million on child poverty, I’ll see that bet and raise you 10; you bet 10 thousand refugees, I’ll see that bet and raise you five.”

How could normally intelligent people condone the corruption going on in the senate where one-third of their members are undergoing investigation?

It would appear that they didn’t give it “a sober second thought” before they started cheating on their expense accounts.

I think some of you had better start giving it “a sober second thought” as to why this trial was postponed until after the election, or why the senate still exists.

Or while you’re at it, how about a very serious “sober second thought” as to whether you want a crooked government or an honest one.

If you can’t trust the senate, then how can you trust the person who appointed them, or his motives for doing so?

Yes, an honest politician is getting harder to find, but there are still

plenty out there, and well worth your effort to find.

John A. MartinNanaimo

TPP critics need to take closer look at the deal

Re: ‘Increased global trade a problem, not a solution’ and ‘TPP deal will only make rich richer, poor poorer’ (Your letters, Daily News, Oct. 9)

These frenzied attacks on free trade could have one wondering what else could be blamed on the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement. The writers might as well have included the Syr-ian refugee crisis, Russia’s foray into

the Ukraine and Syria and the Blue Jays’ losses. Or are those all blamed on other Conservative policies?

In an uncommon lapse into com-mon sense, Justin Trudeau indicated he would study the pact before uttering an opinion. But who knows what that could mean? NDP leader Tom Mulcair rejected it outright, probably due to fear of losing pam-pered union support.

The opposition parties whined about the “secrecy” of the deal. Perhaps they should be reading newspapers instead of trolling the Internet for past sins they can smear each other with.

The headline of one letter claimed the deal would make the “poor poor-er.” How does one square that with lower prices for dairy and poultry products among others?

I have confidence in our chief negotiator, Kirsten Hillman, and her negotiating team, to get us as much if not more than they have to give up. Canada is a trading nation and rational thought needs to be given to this deal before flailing at it with left-wing ideology.

Jim CorderNanaimo

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Becoming SustainableFacilities Plan Update Public Forums Including Proposed School Closures

For more information, visit the Facilities Plan Update section on the district website www.sd68.bc.ca.

The Board of Education is currently consulting parents, students and the public about its Facilities Plan Update. The Board has been holding public forums to discuss the proposals in the plan. The format of these forums has been designed to encourage dialogue and discussion. At each meeting, there is a short introductory session; a presentation; a facilitator-led discussion group on topics of importance to each community; an opportunity for community comments and a short closing session.

The remaining meetings scheduled for school zones are:Tuesday, October 13: 7 to 9 p.m. - Frank J. Ney Elementary Discussion group topics will include the proposed construction of a new wing at Frank J. Ney Elementary as well as the proposed relocation of students from Rutherford Elementary to Frank J. Ney, McGirr and Randerson Ridge elemen-tary schools.Central Zone - Woodlands SecondaryTuesday, October 20: 7 to 9 p.m. – Woodlands Secondary Discussion group topics include the proposed closure of Woodlands Secondary in June 2016, with the relocation of students into Wellington Secondary and Nanaimo District Secondary schools and the proposed relocation of specialty academies. District ProgramsTuesday, October 27: 7 to 9 p.m. - Nanaimo District Secondary Discussion group topics will include the proposed relocation of district pro-grams as well as the proposed relocation of the Learn@Home programs (K-7 and 8-12).

The plan proposes significant changes to schools in our district and it is important for the Board of Education to hear parents’ input. We hope that as many parents as possible will attend one of these forums and participate in the discussion groups.

In addition, at any time during the consultation process, individuals and groups can submit written input to the Board of Education by email to [email protected], fax 250 741-5309, or mail to the Board of Education, 395 Wakesiah Avenue, Nanaimo, BC V9R 3K6 by Sunday, November 15, 2015.

ELECTION 2015

Mid-Island also sees delays in advance votingSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Voters turned out in high num-bers across the country for the first three days of advance voting during the holiday weekend, but there were reports of long lines and, in some cases, waits of an hour or more to vote.

The trend played out in Nanaimo-Ladysmith and across Vancouver Island, Elections Canada staff confirmed.

In Nanaimo, some voters reported long lines that stretched out past the doors of polling stations when advanced voting began Friday.

Some residents left without voting because of the wait, observers said.

Turnout continued to be busy during the weekend. At one point, one polling station was closed for a few minutes because the station had run out of ballots. Local Elec-tions Canada workers were kept busy throughout the day taking bal-lots from the main elections office to polling stations across the city to match demand, said Don Oliver, Elections Canada’s returning officer for Nanaimo-Ladysmith.

“We just had to work harder,” Long lines continued Monday,

with a 40-minute wait for at least

one polling station. Some voiced satisfaction online with the process.

“No lineup at all at 7 p.m. yester-day,” said Kathleen Reed on Twitter. “Poll workers were a bit loopy after a long day though.”

“I voted yesterday at Bayview school,” said Sharon Fulton, another Twitter user. “No wait. No hassle. Just voting satisfaction.”

A total of 1.64 million people turned out across the country to advance polls Friday and Saturday, an increase of 34 per cent over the same advance voting days in the 2011 election.

Elections Canada spokeswoman

Dorothy Sitek said Monday she expected preliminary advanced voter turnout results for Sunday to be released later Monday afternoon.

Sitek said the aim is to release results for Monday’s advanced voting today (Tuesday) with full results for each poll-ing station to follow.

Although voter turnout was up on Friday and Saturday compared to 2011, Sitek said an “apples to apples” com-parison of past and previous advanced voter turnout is difficult.

“The important thing to remember is this is the first time we have a fourth day of advance polling,” she said.

Sitek said “it’s impossible to predict” if how many more voters will turn up in advance of election day on Oct. 19. But she noted that “historically, over 80 per cent come out to vote” on election day rather than in advance.

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Liberal candidate Tim Tessier on Friday prepares to vote

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Green Party candidate Paul Manly casts his vote on

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NDP candidate Sheila Malcolmson, top right, cast her

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Conservative candidate Mark MacDonald votes at

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COWICHAN

Valley watering restrictions down to Stage 1SARAH SIMPSON COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

What a difference a few weeks makes.

The Cowichan Valley’s local gov-ernments downgraded watering restrictions from Stage 3 to Stage 2 effective Sept. 18 but until the end of the month, Stage 1 restrictions are in effect.

The change comes due to “signifi-cant increases in water storage at Cowichan Lake, substantial reduc-

tions in water demand from munici-pal water systems and precipitation forecast well into the foreseeable future,” according to a joint press release issued by local governments.

The change applies to residents not just in North Cowichan but everyone in the CVRD including the Town of Lake Cowichan, Cowic-han Tribes, the City of Duncan and Ladysmith as well as those in the electoral areas.

Stage 1 restrictions allow owners

or residents of even-numbered civic addresses to water on even-num-bered days between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. or between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Owners of odd-numbered address-es can water during the same hours on odd-numbered days.

Folks can now wash their cars, boats, driveways and houses as well and garden irrigation permits are being issued where new sod or seed has been planted.

Hand watering of trees, shrubs, flowers, or vegetables is permitted on any day of the week between 6 and 8 a.m. or between 8 and 10 p.m. by use of a hose with a spring-loaded nozzle or by bucket.

The new regulations also allow micro irrigation or drip irrigation systems to be utilized anytime to a maximum of four hours per day.

Commercial enterprises which require water to facilitate normal business activities such as power

washing companies or window washing companies, are permitted unless ordered otherwise by the Dir-ector of Public Works.

“The Cowichan Valley local gov-ernments would like to once again thank all residents and commercial businesses for their water conserv-ation efforts. It did make a differ-ence,” said the release.

For further information, please visit www.NewNormalCowichan.ca your local government website.

Zipline adventure business a wild ride for ownerKATYA SLEPIAN ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

West Coast Wild Adventures all started in Costa Rica for owner Louis Rouleau.

“I have a float plane here and it’s slow to fly in the winter time; days are short, lots of storms, no tours,” said Rouleau, who opened his ziplin-ing adventure business five years ago near Kennedy Lake on Highway 4.

So Rouleau flew down to Costa Rica in hopes of finding more business there during his slow season up here.

“Everybody wanted me, all the resorts did,” he said.

“But when I checked into the legal-ities of it, it wasn’t going to work.”

But when Rouleau was in Costa Rica he stumbled across something else; a zip line.

He’d never been on one before but jumped at the chance to try one in Costa Rica.

“It was the very first zip line I’d ever been on,” Rouleau said.

It was also the first commercial zip line to open anywhere in world—something that inspired Rouleau.

“It was built at Monteverde and it was built by Canadians,” he said.

“So I went on it. I met all these strangers; there were 10 of us on the tour. I didn’t know anybody but we did this zip line together and it was such and amazing bonding experi-ence,” he said.

“All of these strangers, we were so excited and we went for beers after . . . it was such a cool thing.”

The thrill of the ride and the intense feeling of bonding was some-thing Rouleau thought he could rep-licate at home.

“I decided that we could probably do this in Canada because we have trees in Canada, right?”

When he returned home to the

west coast he spent months looking all around western Vancouver Island for a location.

“It was all pretty generic, just trees, and wouldn’t have been really cool.”

It was by chance that he found Haa’uukmin—a tribal park of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation.

“One day I was flying by and the river was just roaring. It was just this amazing white, roaring outrageous river,” he said. “I just thought ‘wow!’”

That river was the Kennedy River, part of the Kennedy Lake watershed that makes up the Tla-o-qui-aht’s Haa’uukmin tribal park. Tribal parks

were created to protect the land and water while also allowing for comple-mentary usage.

So Rouleau got in touch with the Tla-o-qui-aht to figure out how a zip line could fit into their plans.

“I went to a couple of sessions with them so that we could make a pro-posal to the band council,” he said.

The band council said yes, leading to a partnership that would bear fruit for both Rouleau and the Tla-o-qui-aht: and West Coast Wild was born.

When plans were solidified, a suc-cession plan was part of the deal, he said.

“Eventually we would form a com-pany together and they would buy us out.

“Over the next five years, they would take over the company.”

That date for the creation of that company is now two years away, Rou-leau added.

He’s built the Tla-o-qui-aht some-thing amazing, hidden away on the highway between Port Alberni and Ucluelet.

“We’ve been working on it every year,” said Rouleau.

Six zip lines from as long as 220 metres now cover the park, let-

ting visitors zoom over the Kennedy River canyon.

Jumping off the first platform sends you careening through a canyon, dozens of feet above the rushing, roiling river. Many visitors hang on for dear life, but for the more fear-less the sky is the limit for aerobatic moves—all while attached to the sturdy zip line.

Knowledgeable and enthusiastic tour guides Kelly Bedford and Jesse Thompson take guest through the zip lines.

From hooking you up to the zip line to quizzing you about the forest (hint: the answer is always C!), to thanking Brutus (you’ll find out after the first zip line) their passion is easy to see.

It’s a passion that has garnered them the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence for the fifth consecutive year.

“It’s amazing, we’re very proud,” said Rouleau of the win that got them into Trip Advisor’s Hall of Fame.

Below the zip lines, paddleboard tours are offered during the summer months. Above, there’s a helicopter ride that takes you above the tree canopy, around the canyon and all the way down to just feet above the river bed.

And there’s more yet to build. “We’re starting on staff accommoda-tions,” said Rouleau.

“We really want to hire First Nations and a lot of the younger people don’t have driver’s licences.”

A 15-foot hot tub and some on-site food are further off plans as well.

“We want to be able to work the shoulder seasons, the spring and fall, and with this kind of dreary weather if you have a hot tub to settle into then that solves that problem.”

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EDUCATION

SCOTT STANFIELD COMOX VALLEY RECORD

Gord Holden used to teach in classrooms at Lake Trail Second-ary, Courtenay Elementary and at Navigate (powered by NIDES). These days, the Courtenay resident teaches out of a virtual world at home.

Holden is part of a team of teachers trained in the Immersive Technology Program at Heritage Christian Online School, which is taking a 21st century approach to teaching and learning.

The program began about four years ago with one teacher and eight students covering 30 cours-es. It now consists of 10 teachers — one of whom lives in Quebec — and about 160 students who take more than 600 courses.

“The idea of 21st century edu-cation in most people’s mind is taking what normally exists on a piece of paper and putting it on a screen,” Holden said. “To me, that’s really unfortunate. It’s a lack of insight into what’s possible.”

By removing restrictions such as brick and mortar, Holden and the team can immerse home-schooled students in a 3D, inter-active, virtual environment. In a program called WolfQuest, for instance, students discover how to access GPS locators for actual wolves. Another resource is Quest Atlantis.

Classes are taped, edited and available for review. Students receive constant feedback, and can retake a quiz as many times as needed in order to master the material.

“Distance learning can be chal-lenging for kids because they don’t have immediate contact with the teacher,” Holden said.

“This is what the kids do when they’re not at school, so my think-ing was, Why not have them do it for school?”

Holden is not saying every child or youth would “eat this up.” However, he notes some students’ ideal learning situation is to curl up under a tree with a good book.

“There are kids who would love to curl up inside of that book and be a part of it, and that’s what we do with Quest Atlantis. The kids are part of the story. They’re try-ing to save a world called Atlantis, and they have problems that need to be sorted out. These problems all work into our curriculum. Usually there’s a moral, ethical dilemma that’s involved. There are no black and white answers.”

Kamloops resident Carol Thiessen began homeschooling her son Ben at age 13 through Heritage Christian. With two of his core subjects included in the IMT format, she said Ben was able to easily learn.

“He was also encouraged to do his best. Not only has Ben learned language arts and social studies, and how to write good reports, but his self-esteem has improved as well,” said Thiessen, who praised Holden for his “dedi-cation to our special students.”

Compared to the province-wide Foundation Skills Assessment of academic skills, Holden says stu-dents in the IMT program scored 19 per cent higher in literacy.

Another positive, he notes, is the savings that would come with adopting the methodology.

“If we had a virtual campus, it wouldn’t cost $10 million. They wouldn’t have to raise student fees. They wouldn’t have to bor-row money.”

Virtual learning also provides a

safe environment for students to interact and develop social skills.

“We find there’s an amazing response from kids on the autism spectrum,” Holden said. “We have kids who typically start off where, if a stranger comes into the room, they would dive under the nearest table. But before long, they’re actually doing public speaking. It’s just amazing the transforma-tion that takes place.”

He recalls a pair of First Nation girls who at first would not speak to anyone but who became “greet-ers” in the IMT environment.

“The one came running up to me and said, ‘Mr. Holden. I have friends,’ which is three of the most beautiful words a teacher can hear.”

The girl had made 300 friends — in Australia.

“My experience has been that when kids are engaged and motiv-ated, 90 per cent of the struggle is gone. Children are wired to learn, they want to learn. But how do they learn best? They learn best through play.”

Holden was named 2014 ‘Edovator of the Year’ by the Vir-tual Education Journal. The IMT program has been nominated for a prestigious iNACOL award (Inter-national Association for K-12 Online Learning).

Through the Independent School Act, B.C. allows religious education to receive partial funding (half of public school funding).

“In principle, we support virtual learning in all its forms,” says a statement from the Education Ministry. “We tend to do this through raising teacher awareness and supporting professional learn-ing opportunities associated with educational technology.”

Gord Holden uses an Immersive Technology Program to teach elementary and secondary students.

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COWICHAN

Small church does its part to help refugees from war-torn Syria KEVIN ROTHBAUER COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

A small Cowichan Valley church is doing its part to help refugees from Syria.

The Mill Bay Baptist Fellowship is working to bring three refugees — a woman, her nine-year-old son and her mother — to settle in the Cowichan Valley.

The family is currently in Lebanon and are among 100 refugees that the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada are working with the Canadian govern-ment to bring to Canada. The govern-ment is screening the refugees overseas before they come to their new home.

“We’re one of the first four churches to go through the process, so we’re kind of fumbling our way through,” said Tammy Klassen, the pastor of family ministry at Mill Bay Baptist Fellowship.

The 29-year-old woman is a widow who lost her husband in bombings ear-lier in the war. Her mother, who is 58, lost her husband to a heart attack four years ago. The family was chosen by the church from a list of 100 refugees that about 30 churches across Western Can-ada are trying to help.

“You have to pick quick, because they get snatched up quick,” Klassen said.

The church hopes to have the family of Sunni Muslims settled in the Cow-ichan Valley by Christmas. In addition to financial help, they will be providing plenty of other assistance to the trio.

“We’ve been told the mom speaks some English,” Klassen said. “She does have a Grade 12 education. They have both worked in housekeeping, so we’re hoping to line up jobs for them.”

In order to bring the family here, the

church will have to raise $15,000. That’s a lot of money for a congregation that typically has about 60 members each Sunday.

“We’ve already raised about a third of it just through the church,” Klassen said. “We’re doing OK, but there’s a ways to go still.”

Fortunately, there is a large window for the church to raise all the money.

“We’re sponsoring them for a year, and it doesn’t have to be all in our pocket before they arrive,” Klassen noted.

The church’s next public fundraising event is a bottle drive on Oct. 17. They will be collecting bottles at the corner ofButterfield Road and the Trans-Canada Highway from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Other fundraisers will be scheduled in the future as well.

The family they are helping may not share the Mill Bay Baptist Fellowship’s faith, but that doesn’t matter. What matters, says Klassen, is that they are in need.

“We just feel like our call is to help people,” she said. “If the people who need the most help are Sunni Muslim, we’ll help them.”

For more information on how you can help the church help the refugee family, call Tammy Klassen at 250-701-1794 or email [email protected]

Instructor teaching out of virtual world at home

“We’ve already raised a third of it just through the church. We’re doing OK, but there’s a ways to go still.”

Tammy Klassen, pastor

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BUSINESS

Softwood lumber deal to expirePremier says renewed Canada-U.S. agreement is her fi rst topic of discussion with the federal government

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VICTORIA — The softwood lumber agreement between Canada and the United States was set to expire Monday, and British Columbia is sig-nalling that reaffirming lumber trade stability between the two countries must become a top priority of the new government in Ottawa following the federal election.

Premier Christy Clark said the importance of a renewed lumber deal between Canada and the U.S. is her first topic of discussion with the fed-eral government.

“For lumber producers, and the communities throughout (B.C.) that depend on them, we need to avoid an unnecessary trade dispute with our most significant market,” Clark said in a statement at the B.C. legislature.

“When the new federal government is formed later this month, this is the first issue I’ll be raising with the prime minister.”

The 2006 agreement ended five years of court battles and returned

$4 billion of $5 billion in duties col-lected by the U.S. to Canadian produ-cers, with more than half — $2.4 bil-lion — returned to B.C. companies.

Over the past two years B.C. has been working with the federal gov-ernment on an extension or renewal of the softwood lumber agreement, but so far the U.S. has not been will-ing to start talks, Clark said in the legislature last week.

The current agreement includes a provision that keeps the deal in effect for a year after the expiry date and precludes the U.S. from bringing trade action against Canadian soft-wood lumber producers.

“I believe this is an important issue for both Canadian and U.S. producers,” said Susan Yurkovich, B.C. Lumber Trade Council spokes-woman. “We are hopeful that this

would be an issue that would get urgent attention from the new gov-ernment to find out if we can find a way forward.”

The Lumber Trade Council repre-sents the majority of B.C. lumber production companies.

B.C. is Canada’s largest producer of softwood lumber, accounting for 55 per cent of Canada’s lumber exports to the United States, the province’s Forests Ministry said.

The industry creates about 145,000 jobs and about 40 per cent of the province’s rural communities depend on the industry.

The ministry said the value of B.C. lumber exports to the United States is about $3 billion annually. The province’s lumber exports to Asia, particularly China, have increased in recent years, but the U.S. remains

B.C.’s top lumber export market.In 2006, when the softwood

agreement was signed, B.C. lumber exports to the U.S. were valued at $4.3 billion, with lumber exports to China at $82 million. In 2014, B.C. lumber exports to the U.S. were $3 billion and $1.43 billion to China.

“While we believe that another managed trade agreement is possible, we are also actively preparing to defend B.C.’s softwood lumber indus-try against any potential legal chal-lenges brought by the United States, as we have done successfully in the past,” Yurkovich said.

Forests Minister Steve Thomson is leading a forestry trade mission to Japan and China next month in an effort to expand B.C.’s second- and third-largest markets for softwood lumber products.

“For lumber producers, and the communities throughout (B.C.) that depend on them, we need to avoid an unnecessary trade dispute with our most significant market.”

Christy Clark, B.C. premier

JUSTICE

Case of man fatally shot by cops still with watchdog year laterTHE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A year after a British Columbia man was shot by police on Thanksgiving, his family is still waiting to find out what exactly happened.

Peter de Groot was killed on Oct. 13, 2014, after he had a con-frontation with police in Slocan, in southeastern B.C. He fled into the bush near his property, prompting a days-long manhunt.

RCMP alleged de Groot shot at officers before fleeing.

The force told media the 45 year-old man was known to police and should be considered armed and dangerous.

De Groot’s family denied he was a threat, saying he had no history of violence or run-ins with the law.

The case was turned over to B.C.’s police watchdog, which reviews police handling of incidents that result in death or serious injury.

De Groot’s family issued a state-ment Sunday saying they have yet to see any details of the agency’s investigation.

“We are still waiting on any results of the investigation from the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. Our perspective and our position on the matter remains unchanged,” the family said in a statement issued by their lawyer, Don Sorochan.

Sorochan said in an email that the family has not made a decision

on whether or not they will file a lawsuit and that they are waiting on the IIO’s report into all the facts and circumstances of de Groot’s death.

The agency is waiting on reports about some of the elements of the investigation before the chief civilian director decides whether or not any of the officers involved may have committed an offence, IIO spokesman Marten Youssef said in an email.

Firearms analysis of the case is expected within the next two months, he added.

“While we wait for these reports, we never lose sight of those whose lives were changed and who con-tinue to wait,” Youssef said.

The statement from de Groot’s family also thanked everyone who gave them love and support over the past year.

“We would like to remember our brother today for the honourable person that he was and we hope that he rests with the knowledge that he was dearly loved.”

“While we wait for these reports, we never lose sight of those whose lives were changed and who continue to wait.”

Marten Youssef, IIO spokesman

ABBOTSFORD

Quick-thinking restaurant server saves woman choking on toastLAURA RODGERS ABBOTSFORD NEWS

If not for her server’s quick think-ing and first aid training, Rachael Brien isn’t sure whether she’d still be alive today.

She was out for dinner last week at Ricky’s Country Restaurant in Abbotsford with her 20-year-old son. She ordered “breakfast for dinner” — eggs, bacon and toast.

Halfway through her meal, Brien took a bite of toast and began to choke.

“I couldn’t breathe,” she said. “It was so scary.” Her son reflected her look of panic, and yelled for help.

Feeling she was about to pass out, Brien stood up out of her booth, hoping to attract more attention. The next thing Brien knew, her serv-er, Jordan Ketting-Olivier, came up behind her.

He told her he knew first aid, and asked if she could cough it out. She couldn’t. He pounded her back, but she kept choking. He then wrapped his arms around Brien, just below her rib cage, and performed the Heimlich manoeuvre.

“That got the food to pop out,” she recalled.

Ketting-Olivier sat back down with her in the booth, helping her calm down from the crisis. As she finished the rest of her meal, he checked back repeatedly to see how Brien was doing.

When she got up to pay the bill, she told the story to the host – and was told this wasn’t the first time the multi-talented server had saved someone’s life.

“I was telling the gentleman as I was paying the bill, and he said that was the second time this year Jordan has done that for somebody,” she said.

Ketting-Olivier says he has worked at Ricky’s uneventfully for eight years, but a similar incident happened just four months before, when he helped another woman choking on her food in a nearby booth.

He had just renewed his first aid certification the day before, because he’s currently applying to the Abbotsford Police Department.

Brien, for one, would be glad to see him on the force.

“I think he’d make a great police officer,” she said. “He has a very nice demeanour about him, and he stays calm in tough situations.”

Brien brought in a card to thank Ketting-Olivier the next day.

“You can really only thank some-one so many times,” she said.

“He just said, ‘You’re welcome.’ I could tell he didn’t want to be made a fuss of. He was very gracious about it.

“He kept a level head, he seemed to know what he was doing and, with-out hesitation, he came and helped.

“I was very thankful he was there, or I didn’t know what would’ve hap-pened to me.”

Rachael Brien, who dined at Ricky’s last week, and Jordan Ketting-Olivier, the

server who saved her from choking. [LAURA RODGERS/ABBOTSFORD NEWS]

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It’s bad enough if you’re the vic� m of an assault. But at least, if you’re seriously injured, you can sue for signifi cant compensa� on. Of course, if you’re partly to blame for the alterca� on, that will cut into what you can collect from your assailant.

A recent case dealt with such a situa� on, and shows how serious the health and fi nancial fallout from a physical a� ack can be.

Mark (all names changed), 39 at the � me of trial, was ren� ng a house on Chuck’s blueberry farm, where he lived with his common-law wife and growing family. He’d lived there for four years, but bad blood had developed between Mark and his landlord Chuck in the last couple of years.

Chuck and his family lived in another house on the blueberry farm, near Mark’s rented house. One evening, while drunk, Chuck drove over to Mark’s house carrying a one-metre long metal bar. Before driving over, he called Mark and threatened to hurt or kill him. When he arrived, he struck and broke a window of Mark’s rented house with the metal bar, ripping the curtain. He then parked his truck a bit further away but came back to the rented house, metal bar in hand.

Mark, watching TV with his family at the � me, felt he had to come out of the house to protect his family. He was unarmed and Chuck struck him on the head with the metal bar. The bar had about six inches of fresh blood on it a� erwards.

Mark fell down, but soon a� er was able to get up and pin Chuck down. The police were called and took Chuck away. Chuck was criminally charged with making death threats, assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm. He was convicted and faced a long jail sentence.

Mark fi led a civil lawsuit for compensa� on. His version of events had been accepted in the criminal trial – criminal trials require a higher standard of proof than civil trials. The civil court accepted and also believed Mark’s version of what happened. It decided Chuck was far and away the most to blame for Mark’s injuries. But Mark was also at fault a bit – he would have been safer to stay in the house and call the police, rather than coming out unarmed.

Due to the blow to his head, Mark suff ered hearing problems such as � nnitus (ringing of the ears) and acuisis (over-sensi� ve hearing), balance problems, fa� gue and other health diffi cul� es. His ability to hold a permanent job was gone, probably forever. Admi� edly, Mark had a pre� y checkered past, some criminal convic� ons, a very spo� y work history and li� le educa� on (he never even fi nished Grades 10 or 11, having dropped out of both grades).

Factoring everything in, the court decided Mark should get compensa� on for his non-pecuniary damages (“pain and suff ering”), loss of earning capacity going forward, future care costs and more, totalling about $350,000. Since he was himself partly to blame, this was reduced by 15%, so he got roughly $300,000.

This column has been written by Janice and George Mucalov, LL.B.s with assistance from FABRIS McIVER HORNQUIST & RADCLIFFE. It provides information only and must not be relied on for legal advice. Please contact FABRIS McIVER HORNQUIST & RADCLIFFE for legal advice concerning your particular case. Lawyer Janice Mucalov is an award-winning legal writer. YOU AND THE LAW is a registered trade-mark. © Janice and George Mucalov.

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Snowboarder movie premieres in VancouverTHE CANADIAN PRESS

Mark McMorris wants to show people that his slick snowboard moves are about more than winning medals.

In Motion documents the Canadian snowboarder’s 2014-15 season, in which he competed less so he could take his snowboard into back coun-tries around the world. The movie combines McMorris’s mad skills and media savvy with stunning visuals.

The film premieres Tuesday in Vancouver followed by showings Oct. 16 in Toronto and Oct. 17 in Montreal.

McMorris will accompany his movie to each of those cities, and RedBull.tv will air it Oct. 15. The trailer can be seen on McMorris’s website.

Many Canadians remember the drama of McMorris winning the country’s first medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Competing with a fractured rib suffered at the X Games just weeks earlier, the Regina boarder fell on his first run of the final, but nailed his second to claim bronze.

A five-time X Games champion, McMorris’s desire to launch himself off ramps not made by man took him to the mountains of Switzerland, Japan and closer to home to B.C. to shoot his movie last winter.

“All I’ve ever been to most people is competitive and going for gold and

competing all the time and working on crazy tricks,” McMorris said.

“In snowboarding, a lot of respect comes from learning how to ride the big mountains and doing things naturally. I chose to do about half the events I normally would and film as much as I could in between for this project.”

The 21-year-old credits the mental break he took with helping him win both slopestyle and big air gold in February’s X Games in Aspen, Colo.

McMorris executed a frontside triple cork 1440 and backside triple cork 1620 to win the big air title. For those unfamiliar with those terms, he launched himself several metres in the air to spin like a top three times and land clean.

“With me taking time off — because I really wanted to film and be in the back country — it made for better results this year because I was having such a good time and doing exactly what I wanted to,” he said.

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Rape kit inaccessibility a hurdle to victim justiceTHE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — When Susan Chapelle awoke in a stranger’s home, her head pounding and her clothes on back-wards, she didn’t even consider report-ing her rape.

Chapelle was a young woman when she was drugged and assaulted after going to a man’s house to buy a pet. She felt an immediate rush of shame that stuck with her for two decades.

“I felt horribly guilty for going to his house in the first place, and I felt horribly guilty for drinking a glass of wine,” she recalled. “All I could think was: ’It’s my fault.”’

Now, the Squamish councillor is devoting herself to removing hurdles in the justice system for sexual assault vic-tims. And one of her top priorities is to bring rape kits — forensic exams that collect evidence after an attack — to her small district north of Vancouver.

Many hospitals in Canada still lack trained forensic nurses to administer the kits, sometimes forcing traumatized women to travel long distances or wait for hours. It’s yet another roadblock in a system that already feels hostile to victims, advocates say.

In the Sea-to-Sky corridor that includes Squamish, patients who want a rape kit must travel an hour or more, sometimes in the back of a police car, to Vancouver General Hospital, said Chapelle.

“Somebody who’s been through trauma, the last thing they want is to feel like a criminal and be taken in the back of a police car and then wait to have a rape kit administered in the city,” she said.

Chapelle said she and the Howe Sound Women’s Centre have asked Vancouver Coastal Health to fund a for-ensic nurse position in Squamish, but the health authority lacks the resources from the British Columbia government.

“Vancouver Coastal Health has been very open and receptive,” she said. “The Ministry of Health is not interested in resolving the problem.”

The ministry responded that the authority is “actively engaged” in find-ing a solution. There are 13 health cen-tres in southern B.C. that can adminis-ter kits, while doctors in all 24 northern hospitals can provide the exams, it said in a statement.

Across Canada, rape kit access varies

widely and information can be hard to find. Women are often shocked that not every hospital offers the exams, said Lisa Steacy of the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres.

“It does create another hurdle. Having to ask for something twice is harder than being able to ask for it once,” she said.

Quebec and Ontario run their own forensic exam system, rather than using RCMP kits and labs. Quebec said it has 77 centres that can administer the kits, making it a national leader, while Ontario has at least 35 locations.

In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, only urban hospitals have kits — outside cities, health care staff must call Moun-ties to bring in the equipment. Alberta RCMP also transports kits to hospitals upon request. Access varies, too, in Atlantic provinces, where Newfound-land has 36 sites that can deliver kits and P.E.I. has one. Nova Scotia has been criticized for a lack of resources, but the province said it has three regional teams of specially-trained nurses with plans for two more on the way.

Rape kits differ depending on the type of assault and can include taking fluid samples, swabs and photographs. After advocates balked at the standard RCMP kit, the force is revising it to remove instructions requiring pulled scalp or pubic hair.

Lynn Gifford, co-ordinator of foren-sic nursing services at B.C.’s Fraser Health, said patients are always given the option of not undergoing the exam. She said forensic nurses offer emo-tional support, but also must maintain objectivity because they’re often asked to testify.

She said nurses have to be able to deny accusations of defence lawyers who say, “You spent three hours with this person. You must believe their story. You must have formed a bond.”

In the U.S., an immense backlog of untested rape kits sitting on storage shelves for years has made headlines. Vice President Joe Biden recently announced $80 million in funding to examine nearly 70,000 kits.

A backlog of that magnitude doesn’t appear to exist in Canada. Most prov-inces rely on the RCMP’s three labs in Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa. Mounties wouldn’t say how long testing takes, but said kits are prioritized by case urgency.

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Witchcraft off enders still able to serve as jurorsCOLIN PERKEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — If you ever find your-self facing a jury in Ontario, your innocence or guilt could be decided by jurors with convictions for pre-tending to practise witchcraft or making a false statement under oath.

Alternatively, they could have impersonated a police officer or committed an indecent act and still found their way onto the panel decid-ing your fate.

These offences are among those officially listed for which Ontario residents can have a criminal record and still be eligible for jury duty.

As it is elsewhere in Canada, a Criminal Code conviction is gener-ally a barrier to serving as a juror in Ontario — with the exception of 27 listed offences, according to an eligibility questionnaire sent to all

prospective jurors in the province.In addition, being found guilty of

possessing less than 30 grams of marijuana is the only drug offence that won’t necessarily keep you off a jury for “personal reasons.”

The common thread to these crimes — they also include engaging

in a prize fight, being caught in a brothel, or being nude in a public place — is that they are considered relatively minor “summary” offences that carry maximum penalties of $5,000 in fines and/or six months in jail.

Convictions for more serious indictable offences automatically dis-qualify you from jury duty in Ontario unless you have been pardoned.

Still, some of the listed offences that have no effect on eligibility are straight up head-scratchers.

There’s the arcane offence of trad-ing in lumbering equipment without consent of owner, disturbing a reli-gious worship, or carrying a weapon to a public meeting. Your juror may also have been convicted of failing to keep watch while towing a person on water skis or surfboard, or throwing a stink bomb into a crowd.

Heather Visser, a spokeswoman for Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General, said people with certain kinds of criminal records have been shut out of jury duty since at least 1850.

“Having people serve on a jury who themselves have certain types of criminal convictions could under-mine confidence in the justice sys-tem,” Visser said in an email.

She would not say why having a pretend witchcraft practitioner, vagrant, convicted liar, or someone who makes indecent phone calls serve as a juror might not have that effect.

Like Ontario, each province is responsible for maintaining its jury rolls, and qualification varies from one to the other.

For example, Alberta residents are excluded if they have been convicted

of a criminal offence that carries a maximum sentence of more than one year, while being legally confined to an institution is one of the ineligibil-ity criteria in Saskatchewan.

Residents of British Columbia, on the other hand, need only be charged with a crime that carries a maximum fine of more than $2,000 or at least 12 months imprisonment to be excluded, while Newfoundland exempts anyone charged with an indictable offence or who has been jailed for same — if there was no option to pay a fine.

Eligibility to be a juror does not mean you will serve on one. Apart from provincial rules, the Criminal Code grants prosecutors and lawyers an unfettered right to challenge jurors who have been “sentenced to death” — or to a term of imprison-ment exceeding 12 months.

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Windsor teen asks EU offi cials to aid father detained in U.A.EDIANA MEHTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

A Windsor, Ont., teen whose father has been detained in the United Arab Emirates for more than a year will be raising his case with European Union officials this week.

Marwa Alaradi’s trip to Brussels is the 18-year-old’s latest effort to free her father, who has been languishing behind bars since last August.

Salim Alaradi, a 46-year-old Canadian businessman, has not been charged, hasn’t been able to communicate with his family since March and no explanation has been provided on why he’s being held.

It’s been a difficult experience for Alaradi’s family, who say they’ve been appealing to anyone who may be able to exert influence to win his freedom.

“We’re trying to spread the word around the world and let other countries know about this dark side of the U.A.E.,” his daughter told The Canadian Press. “We’re going spe-cifically to the EU because they have relations with the U.A.E. We want the parliament to know what is going on in those secret prisons.”

Members of Alaradi’s family and human rights advocates are expected to meet with a number of European Union parliamentarians on Tuesday

to discuss what role the EU parlia-ment could play to help resolve cases like Alaradi’s.

Alaradi was born in Libya and immigrated to Canada from the U.A.E. in 1998, living in Vancouver with his family. He decided to return to the U.A.E. in 2007 to run a home appliance business with his brother.

He and his family were on vacation in the U.A.E. when he was abruptly detained by the country’s security services. For two months his family didn’t know if he was dead or alive. They then found out he was being held at an Abu Dhabi prison, though they have never been told why.

Amnesty International has noted that Alaradi was among 10 men of Libyan origin reportedly detained in the U.A.E. at the same time.

Initially, the family didn’t speak

out on the case, hoping it could quietly be resolved. Alaradi’s brother had also been separately detained at the same time but was released four months later. Three other men detained in the same sweep were also released.

But after seven months with no progress, Alaradi’s wife and his five children left the U.A.E., moved in with family members in Windsor, Ont., and began to speaking out about the case this summer.

“It’s hard for me, it’s all new,” Alaradi’s daughter said of her fight to free her father. “I’m trying to spread the word that I need my father.”

The most recent update the family has been able to get on Alaradi came through another detainee, who in a phone call to his family about a month ago said Alaradi’s health was deteriorating. The news has added to the family’s concerns that Alaradi is being mistreated.

While Alaradi’s daughter hopes her trip to Brussels will spur some move-ment on her father’s case, she is also still calling on the Canadian govern-ment to come to her family’s aid.

A spokeswoman with the Depart-ment of Foreign Affairs said consular services are being provided to Alaradi and his family.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

WELLAND, Ont. — Two police officers shot in Ontario’s Niagara region on Saturday evening have been released from hospital and are expected to make a full recovery.

Niagara Regional Police identified the officers as Const. Neal Ridley and Const. Jake Braun, who both work out of the force’s Welland detachment.

Police said the shooting occurred while police responded to a report of an attempted suicide in the village of Fenwick, which is northwest of Welland.

A police news release says when the officers arrived at an apartment com-

plex, a man left his room and fired shots at them.

One of the officers underwent surgery and has since been released from hospital, the other was treated for a gunshot wound to his foot and was also released.

A civilian man was also wounded at the scene, but there was no word on his condition.

The Special Investigations Unit is automatically called in whenever police are involved in a situation that results in death or serious injury.

“I am incredibly proud of the cour-age and professionalism of these officers,” said Niagara police chief Jeffrey McGuire in the news release issued Sunday.

“We’re trying to spread the word around the world and let other countries know about this dark side of the U.A.E.”

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Mascot maker loves his super furry animalsJean-Claude Tremblay’s passion evolved over the years from wearing the costumes into making them

GIUSEPPE VALIANTE THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Jean-Claude Trem-blay’s eyes open wide and his hands become animated as he talks about his mascots, many of which can be recognized by millions of people.

While the thought of spending time inside an oversized animal costume made of thick, plush fabric might be a nightmare for many people, for the president of Creations JCT Inc., it’s been the stuff of his dreams since the ’80s.

“Some people just can’t be in a costume — they’ll suffocate,” says Tremblay, sitting in front of a wall plastered with cartoon sketches in the lunch room of his mascot factory. “In my case, I can live inside there. I feel like I’m home.”

A largely self-taught mascot ani-mator, Tremblay evolved over the years from wearing the costumes to making them.

“You don’t improvise when you’re a mascot,” he says. “You either have it or you don’t.”

Tremblay’s 930-square-metre factory northeast of Montreal is as colourful as the furry beasts it produ-ces and while it’s located in a non-de-script industrial park in Mascouche, its creations are known to millions.

Foam heads, long rolls of fabric and spools of yarn are neatly organized on shelves along the walls — yet there is a sense of a playful silliness that pervades the factory.

A bright-green frog head sits on a shelf to dry, its bulging plastic eyes looking at a rack of larger-than-life vests, T-shirts and parachute pants.

Jean-Claude, 68, and his son, Dom-inic, 42, create between 150 and 200 mascots a year and sell them primar-ily to sports teams in North America, but also in Europe.

The Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Rays, Houston Astros and the Ottawa Senators market their teams with Jean-Claude’s creations, as do hun-

dreds of smaller corporate businesses around the continent.

“The Colts won the Super Bowl with our costume!,” Jean-Claude exclaimed, adding “there are no words” to describe how he felt seeing the odd-looking, cow-like animal on TV at one of the biggest sports games in the world.

But that game was bittersweet for Jean-Claude because it makes him think of the time his championship slipped away.

In 1994 he was animating Youppi!, the ginger-faced, lumberjack-looking mascot for the now-defunct Mont-real Expos. The team was the best in baseball that year and many expected a World Series run before players went on strike, cancelling the rest of the season.

“When we went on strike I looked down at my hand and said, ’’ just lost my ring.’”

Jean-Claude and Youppi! go back a long way.

They met shortly after Jean-Claude was laid off from teaching art to inmates at a maximum-security pris-on north of Montreal in the late ’70s.

Jean-Claude’s brother, who was working for the Expos’ season open-er, landed him a job repairing the original Youppi!, who was created by

the famed Harrison/Erickson com-pany, the people behind some of the Muppet characters.

The Expos bought Youppi! at the time for $35,000, Jean-Claude said, but the costume quickly began to fall apart and the team asked him to fix it and to build a second, cheaper version.

“So I started my business in my basement, 30 years ago, without even knowing it,” he said.

It took him a year to get the sup-plies and to create a new Youppi!, and when the Expos management saw how good he was at animating the mascot for a local radio station they hired him full time.

Over the last 30 years Jean-Claude and Dominic have perfected the art of the mascot.

“Nothing is impossible,” said Dom-inic. “It all depends on cost.”

Jean-Claude and his son have about 30 people they have trained and can call to animate any of their creations.

The animators go through a three-hour tutorial where they learn to never take their head off in front of children or to talk while in costume.

“If a kid gets scared, you shouldn’t tower over them but get down on one knee and look them in the eye,” Dominic says.

Joannie Gagnon works on a mascot being made at Creations JCT in Mascouche,

Que. The company makes mascots for many sports teams and corporations in

North America. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]


ELECTION 2015

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau picks pumpkins with his wife Sophie, daughter Ella-Grace and sons Xavier and Hadrien

on Monday in Gatineau, Que. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Tories, NDP going after front runner Trudeau

MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — There weren’t any whistles, but there were more than a few bells, as the marathon federal election campaign entered its final week Monday.

Stephen Harper launched a game-show style attack — com-plete with clanging cash register — aimed directly at front runner Justin Trudeau during a campaign event in Waterloo, Ont., in an attempt to portray the Liberal lead-er as a threat to the pocketbooks of Canadian families.

Harper was assisted by a local woman — a married mother, with two jobs — who slapped down $20 bills as he rhymed off the various tax credits for families that he said the Liberals would roll back.

The focus on Trudeau, almost to the exclusion of Tom Mulcair, came as the Liberal leader appeared to be gaining momentum in some polls, while they had the New Democrat leader tracking third.

“For some families, that could be a Liberal tax hike of up to $2,000 a year,” Harper said.

“These are real benefits. Only the Conservative party in this election is committed to keeping these dollars where they belong — in the pockets of hard-working Canadians.”

But Trudeau fired back at the Conservative leader, saying he wouldn’t be clawing back any of the boutique tax credits for families that Harper was warning about.

He said it was one more example

of Harper engaging in the politics of fear and telling “untruths” to voters about his platform.

“He is desperate to try and fright-en Canadians away from voting for a vision that is going to put more money in the pockets of nine out of 10 families and cut taxes for the middle class,” Trudeau said.

He said the Conservatives don’t have a record to run on, so they’re resorting to “scare tactics and fear mongering,” which includes “micro-targeting” specific com-munities to pit them against one another.

“We will call out fearful and divisive tactics, wherever they are used but we will stay focused on bringing Canadians together because that’s the job of any lead-er,” Trudeau told a boisterous rally in the Ottawa suburbs.

“I’m going to let my opponents continue to focus on me. I’m stay-ing focused on Canadians.”

Mulcair told his supporters in

Maple Ridge that his party was the only credible choice for beating the Conservatives on Oct. 19. But he was repeatedly forced to deflect questions about his party’s recent slide in polls.

“In 2011, I saw the same poll-sters say we’d be fourth in Quebec, so I don’t pay attention to that,” Mulcair said. “I know the NDP is offering hope — hope to break an old habit that’s been in place for 140 years. When you’re fed up with the Conservatives, you’re forced to go back to the Liberals.”

Now, he said, the Canadians don’t have to choose between one of the “old parties.”

“For the first time in the history of Canada, there is a three-way race.”

Mulcair repeated his assertion that the New Democrats need only 35 more seats to form government while the Liberals need more than 100.

Canadians continued to turn out in large numbers for the Thanks-giving weekend’s advance polls.

Elections Canada estimated that 767,000 people voted on Sunday, which was the third day of advance polls.

That brought the total for the first three days of advance polls to 2.4 million — a 16 per cent increase over the 2,077,000 votes recorded over the three days of advance polls in the 2011 federal general election.

Monday was the fourth and final day of advance polls for this election.

Conservatives launch game-show style attack on Liberals

“We will call out fearful and divisive tactics, wherever they are used but we will stay focused on bringing Canadians together because that’s the job of any leader.”

Justin Trudeau, Liberal leader

WILDLIFE

Sudbury forced to act as ‘nuisance bears’ increase THE CANADIAN PRESS

SUDBURY, Ont. — Residents of Sud-bury, Ont., just can’t bear it anymore.

City officials have set up a committee of experts in an effort to find a solution to an influx of unwelcome black bears, known as “nuisance bears.”

Coun. Al Sizer, a member of the com-mittee, said Monday that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has received 2,200 reports of bear-sight-ings in the city, and police said they’ve received an additional 1,700 bear com-plaints, four times more than the previ-ous summer.

Sizer said Sudbury accounted for nearly half of the province’s complaints about nuisance bears this summer. In fact, reporting nuisance bears is the first option in the phone directory at the Sudbury office of the Ministry.

He said the committee is made up of 10 people, including representatives

from the police force and the ministry, as well as local environmentalists. They even have a member with a PhD in the history of bears.

So far, the committee has met three times since it was formed last month.

And while nobody in Sudbury has been hurt by bears this year, Sizer said it’s always a risk.

“You don’t know what kind of a day the bear’s having,” Sizer said. “I mean, if it’s having a toothache and it encoun-ters somebody, it may not be real friendly.”

The committee is chalking the inva-sion up to a poor blueberry crop, Maki said. Bears are left with no option but to look for alternate food sources, and human food is all too convenient.

“If you can eliminate the human food sources, then you’re solving some of your problems,” he said.

But Maki isn’t part of the city’s bear committee.


SPACE

Matt Damon in a scene from ‘The Martian.’ [AP PHOTO]

Canadians eyeing Mars trip like water fi ndings

PETER RAKOBOWCHUK THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Members of the space community are excited about NASA’s recent announce-ment that Mars appears to have flowing water, while two Canadians who hope to take a one-way trip to the red planet say it increases the chances of human beings surviv-ing the harsh environment.

Johanna Hindle, a British Col-umbia high-school teacher, is one of six Canadians who remain in the running in the plan by Mars One, a Dutch-based organization, to establish a colony on Mars by 2027.

The Canadians are among 100 finalists from around the world on the Mars One short list. Hindle says they will be whittled down to 24 in September 2016.

In the meantime, the news that Mars has liquid water has brought a smile to her face.

“Definite excitement, because anything that increases the chances of possibilities of human beings being able to find helpful products on Mars is good for us,” Hindle said in an interview.

“Running water is a bit of a hopeful way of putting it. I heard it’s briny sludge, which I thought was a really good description of what’s happening up there.”

But nothing has made her change her mind about taking the no-return trip.

“I know the dangers are unimaginable and the challenges are out of this world, but the opportunity to do this; I’ve yet come across anything that would shake that in me,” she said.

Hindle has also read The Martian and seen the Matt Damon block-

buster movie about an astronaut who is left to fend for himself after his crewmates desert him during a Martian storm.

“My initial reaction was equal parts increasing hope and it also terrified me because of the amount of science I don’t know yet,” she said.

Daniel Benjamin Criger, another Mars One hopeful, says the news of liquid water on Mars makes him feel “pretty good” about the mission.

The native of Hamilton, Ont., is currently studying in Germany and will complete his classes next September “right in time to be selected to be in the final 24.”

He also had a chance to read the Andy Weir-penned The Martian. Criger was inspired by the way the main character was able to impro-vise in order to survive.

“There’s a lot that human engin-eering can do that can’t be done otherwise with the equipment that’s on Mars,” he said from Aachen, Germany.

Criger also compared himself to Damon, who plays astronaut Mark Watney in the movie.

“I like to be surrounded by technology, I like work on little problems and see if I can improve things,” he said.

Criger said if he makes the trip, he will still be able to remain in touch with his family despite a 20-minute delay receiving messa-ges from Earth.

“There have been lots of people in history who have really left everything and I’m not going to have to . . . I live in an era which is dripping with technology.”

The president of the Canadian Space Society also welcomed the liquid-water announcement, say-ing it would, hopefully, allow the success of some future colony or establishment on Mars.

“It’s going to be a good thing obviously, with liquid water there it’s going to be a lot easier to get access to it and a lot easier to do stuff with than if it’s just a big frozen ice ball underneath the North Pole,” Marc Fricker said in an interview.

Scientists confirmed the exist-ence of frozen water on Mars in 2008.

Fricker said he has been a long-time fan of the possible coloniza-tion of Mars, so the liquid-water announcement was encouraging.

“I see that as being substantial. . . we’re not alone,” he said. ”OK, we may be just sharing the galaxy with little microscopic bugs, but at least we’re not alone.“`

Fricker also gave the idea of a one-way mission a nod of approval.

“We’ve done it in the past, maybe not so extreme as going to Mars, but it’s something humanity is ready for,” he said.

“And if these guys succeed, their names will be etched in stone for-ever. We’ll never forget them.”

Six among 100 around world on shortlist to make the trip

New Nepal PM brings in protesters as deputiesBINAJ GURUBACHARYA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s new prime minister appointed two deputy premiers on Monday, including an eth-nic community leader who has rallied hundreds of protesters in blocking fuel and goods shipments from India for weeks and plunged the Himalayan nation into a fuel crisis.

Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli appeared to be reaching out to the protesters by choosing Madhesi group leader Bijaya Gachchedar as one of his deputies, though his Madhesi People’s Rights Forum is not the main Madhesi group involved in the protests. That group, called the United Democratic Madhesi Front, has vowed to continue the protests at the main border crossing through which India sends most of its trade to Nepal. Oli also appointed Hindu nationalist Kamal Thapa as a deputy premier. Thapa’s party has protested the constitution adopted two weeks ago because it wants the secular country to be restored as a Hindu state.

Soon after taking the oath of office, Gachchedar told reporters that he joined the government to help resolve the protests in southern Nepal.

“The issues, differences and demands of the Madhesi and other groups will be resolved by adjusting the states through amendments in the constitution,” Gachchedar said adding the government would get the support of all political parties to make the changes.

Oli was sworn in by President Ram Baran Yadav a day after he was elected in Parliament with support from small-er parties.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday the U.S. “encourages all political stakehold-ers to fully engage in a democratic pro-cess that accommodates the aspirations of all Nepalis.”

Home Ministry spokesman Laxmi Dhakal said there were no problems in most of the border points but was unable to explain why border officials on the Indian side were stopping trucks and then letting some pass.

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A California prosecutor said Monday he has filed murder charges that could lead to the death penalty for three young transients accused of gunning down a backpacker from Quebec and a yoga instructor walking his dog.

The three arrived in California on Monday evening. They were arrested last week in Oregon.

Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian said each suspect is charged with two counts of murder with special circumstances, including lying in wait. The suspects are 24-year-old Sean Michael Angold, 23-year-old Morrison Haze Lampley and 18-year-old Lila Scott Alligood.

— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Instability in Turkey rises after attacks

SUZAN FRASER AND DESMOND BUTLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANKARA, Turkey — The suicide bomb-ings that ripped through a rally promot-ing peace in Turkey’s capital have magni-fied the political uncertainty ahead of a key election Nov. 1 and raised fears that the country may be heading toward an extended period of instability.

The blasts — Turkey’s bloodiest in years — have further polarized the country as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tries again for a ruling majority in parliament. And with political winds blowing against the ruling party, the election could create new power struggles just as the country grapples with more than 2 million refu-gees and tries to avoid being drawn into the chaos in neighbouring Syria and Iraq.

This is a dramatic and dangerous time for the mostly Muslim nation and NATO ally, so often cited as an example of stabil-ity in a tumultuous region.

“We are now facing uncharted waters in terms of deadly violence in Turkey,” wrote Omer Taspinar of the Brookings Insti-tution in Today’s Zaman, an opposition newspaper.

“We are also in uncharted waters in terms of political polarization in the country.”

Turkey has suffered a spiral of violence since July, when a similar suicide bomb-ing killed 33 Turkish and Kurdish activ-ists in a town near the Syrian border, end-ing a cease-fire. Kurdish rebels blamed Turkey’s government, and hundreds have been killed since then in the renewed conflict with security forces.

No one has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s explosions at the Ankara peace rally, which killed at least 97 people and wounded hundreds.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtul-mus said Monday that the two bombers exploded about five kilograms of dynamite each, and that authorities have detained “a large number” of suspects.

Investigators are close to identifying those responsible, and believe they likely infiltrated Turkey from a neighbouring country, he said.

Kurtulmus called for unity and solidar-ity in response to these attacks, which he said were aimed to sow discord and create “deep fissures” within Turkey.

The attack in the heart of the capital — far from the conflicts bleeding over Turkey’s southern borders — is rattling nerves around the nation and beyond.

Amid the turmoil, the Turkish lira is losing value and interest rates are spik-ing, making it more difficult for Turkey to finance its looming short-term debt. Persistent instability also could harm tourism, an important source of revenue and foreign currency.

“These attacks won’t turn Turkey into a Syria,” Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

Davutoglu also denied accusations that Turkey’s growing involvement in the war in Syria will drag the country into the Middle Eastern quagmire.

But Turkey’s government, which is openly hostile to Syrian President Bashar Assad, has struggled to avoid getting pulled into the chaos, and not just because Syrian and Iraqi refugees are flooding across its border.

Government security forces also have fought for decades to put down a rebel-lion in southeast Turkey, home to ethnic Kurds whose lands also straddle Iran, Iraq and Syria.

Since 2012, Turkey’s Kurdish rebels have been engaged in a peace process, and their influence has grown since their kinsman became allies in the U.S.-led coalition’s fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

Government opponents, including a pro-Kurdish party whose members were at the rally, have held the government and Erdogan responsible for the bombings.

The accusations range from failing to take adequate measures to protect the rally, to turning a blind eye on the Islamic State group for too long and even the possibility of having some hand in the attack. Hundreds marched in the capital Monday, chanting “the killer state will be held to account!”

Davutoglu rejected the accusations as “dangerous” and “dastardly.”

Masked militants on Monday during minor clashes with Turkish security forces during a

protest against Saturday’s Ankara bombing attacks. [AP PHOTO]


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◆ STOCKHOLM

Scottish economist wins Nobel economics prize

Scottish economist Angus Deaton has won the Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for “his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sci-ences said Monday.

Deaton, who was born in Edin-burgh in 1945, now works at Princet-on University in the United States.

The academy said the work for which Deaton is now being honoured revolves around three central ques-tions: How do consumers distribute their spending among different goods; how much of society’s income is spent and how much is saved; and how do we best measure and analyze welfare and poverty?

Last year, French economist Jean Tirole won the $975,000 award for his research on market power and regulation.

◆ WASHINGTON

Groups in Islamic State fi ght get U.S. airdrop

U.S. cargo planes dropped small arms ammunition to Arab groups fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.

Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman in Baghdad for the U.S. military command in charge of the anti-IS campaign in Syria and Iraq, said by email that the airdrop was conducted Sunday by U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo planes. He did not identify the Arab groups that received the supplies but said their leaders had been vetted andhave been fighting to remove IS from northern Syria.

The airdrop is in line with a revamped U.S. approach in Syria. TheObama administration announced last week that instead of trying to build a new Syrian rebel force, it will provide equipment, including ammunition, to existing Syria rebel groups who share the U.S. goal of defeating IS.

◆ VATICAN CITY

Reported letter to pope adds twist to meeting

Pope Francis’ divisive meeting on family issues took another odd twist Monday with reports that several conservative cardinals wrote to the pontiff expressing serious concerns about “predetermined results” com-ing out of the meeting — only to have doubts arise over both the con-tent of their letter and the cardinals responsible.

Veteran Vatican journalist Sandro Magister published the letter Monday morning on his L’Espresso blog and listed 13 cardinals who purportedly signed it. He said one of the 13, the Vatican’s Australian financial manager, Cardinal George Pell, had hand-delivered it to Francis on Oct. 5 at the start of the three-week meeting on crafting better pastoral care for Catholic families.

But by Monday afternoon, at least four of the 13 purported signatories said they had never signed such a letter.

Israeli police officers stand guard at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Monday. Israeli police say a Palestinian woman lightly wounded a police officer in

a stabbing attack. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says the officer shot and wounded the woman, whose condition was not immediately known. [AP PHOTO]

Israel PM says Arab lawmakers inciting latest wave of violenceUnrest began with clashes at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site and quickly spread

JOSEF FEDERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — Palestinians carried out three stabbings Monday in Jeru-salem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition, and Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily accused the country’s Arab leaders of helping incite weeks of violence. Two of the attackers, both teenage boys, were killed.

In a fiery speech at parliament, Netanyahu accused Arab parties of “undermining” the country. He called on Israel’s Arab citizens to “kick out the extremists among you.”

Netanyahu spoke on another bloody day, the latest in a month-long wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

In a new setback for efforts to restore calm, the Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., the UN, the European Union and Russia —— postponed a trip to the region. Edgar Vasquez, a spokesman for the State Department’s Bureau of Near East Affairs, said it was at the request of the Israeli government due to the circumstances.

Israeli police reported three sep-arate stabbings across the city, including an assault by two attackers in the east Jerusalem area of Pisgat Zeev. Police said the pair seriously wounded a 20-year-old man before attacking a teenage boy on a bicycle.

The boy was critically wounded before police shot and killed one

of the attackers, while the second was run over by a car. Abdel Nasser Manasra, a relative of Ahmed, 13, and Hassan, 15, said both were cousins. He did not know which had been killed.

Other attacks occurred in Jerusa-lem’s Old City, where a 17-year-old assailant was killed, and outside the national police headquarters. The attacker, identified as a 16-year-old girl, was shot and wounded, while a police officer was lightly hurt.

The unrest began last month with clashes at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Five Israelis have been killed in stabbings, a shooting and a stoning attack on a moving vehicle, while at least 25 Palestinians, including 10 attackers, have been slain. Several Palestinian children, including a two-year-old girl killed with her mother in a Gaza airstrike, have been

among the dead. Hundreds of Pales-tinians have been wounded in clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank.

The stabbings have rattled Israel. The attackers, many of them teen-agers, have had no affiliation with militant groups, and the seemingly random nature of the stabbings has made it difficult to predict or prevent them.

Netanyahu has come under heavy criticism for failing to stop the vio-lence, and an opinion poll this week showed that more than 70 per cent of the public is dissatisfied with his handling of the crisis.

The violence erupted over the Jewish New Year last month, fueled by rumours that Israel was plotting to take over a site holy to both Mus-lims and Jews. The rumours ignited clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian activists who hurled stones and firebombs at them from inside the mosque, and the violence has spread.

Israel has dismissed the rumours as slanderous and repeatedly said there are no plans to alter a longstand-ing status quo at the spot, revered by Jews as the site of the biblical Temples and today home to Islam’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem, including the Old City, from Jordan in the 1967 Mid-east war. Since then, under an agree-ment with Jordan, non-Muslims

have been allowed to visit the hilltop compound, but not pray there. Jor-dan retains custodial rights over the Muslim holy sites.

In his speech, Netanyahu dismissed the Palestinian accusations as a “total lie” and accused the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, the mil-itant group Hamas and Israel’s own Islamic Movement of incitement. He called on President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Palestinian Authority, to condemn the violence.

But Netanyahu also went after Arab lawmakers in the chamber, accusing two of them of supporting the violence against Israelis. “It is unbelievable that an Israeli member of parliament calls for terror attacks against Israelis,” he said.

In a message to the Arab public, he urged them “to kick out the extrem-ists among you,” and said he was committed to coexistence.

Israel’s Arab minority makes up about 20 per cent of the country’s 8 million people. While they have full citizenship rights, they often suffer discrimination in such areas as jobs and housing. Mistrust of Netanyahu remains high following his election day appeal for supporters to go to the polls, warning them that Arabs were voting “in droves.”

Both Netanyahu and Abbas have been unable to contain the violence, and both men have been constrained by outside pressures.

“It is unbelievable that an Israeli member of parliament calls for terror attacks against Israelis.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel PM

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The Blue Jays are headed back to Toronto, alive and most certainly kicking after a second straight win in Texas.

Backed by early Josh Donaldson, Chris Colabello and Kevin Pillar home runs, R.A. Dickey and David Price combined for 7 2/3 innings as Toronto defeated the Texas Rangers 8-4 to tie their American League Div-ision Series at two games apiece.

The rubber match goes Wednesday at the Rogers Centre, with hope of a happy ending for Toronto’s first foray into the playoffs in 22 years.

“The fact we’re going back is every-thing,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “We’ve been good at home all year . . . That’s where we’re best.”

The Jays were 53-28 at home this season and 40-41 on the road. Still the home team has yet to win in this series.

Monday’s victory was almost over-shadowed by Gibbons’ pitching strat-egy, which worked but didn’t seem

that popular. The Jays were leading 7-1 when Price relieved Dickey with two outs and one man on in the fifth.

That meant the 40-year-old knuckleballer was denied a win in his first post-season start. And that Price, Toronto’s ace, won’t start in the deciding game. Instead Marcus Stroman will face Cole Hamels in a rematch of Game 2.

With the season on the line Mon-day, Gibbons was not going to allow anything to go south.

“Probably not a relationship-build-ing move,” he saw wryly of the pitch-ing change.

“But a team win, that’s what I was looking for.”

Dickey, who became the oldest starting pitcher in MLB history to make his post-season debut, was dip-lomatic although he made it clear he wanted to continue.

“Gibby’s the manager and what he says goes. I’m an employee and sometimes you don’t necessarily like what your boss wants you to do. But I respect him.

“So am I disappointed? Sure, I think any competitor should be,” he added. “But at the end of the day, I’ve said this before and I mean it, it’s amazing what you can accom-plish when you don’t care who gets the credit. And we won today and so we’re going back to Toronto with a chance.”

He said it helped that he was yield-ing to a “bazooka” like Price, a fellow

Nashville native who shares the same agent.

“Has there ever been a game where one Cy Young (winner) has handed the ball to another one? That’s kind of cool,” Dickey said.

But asked if he would have been so understanding earlier in his career, Dickey said: “No.”

Gibbons said he made the move to have Price pitch to Shin-Soo Choo.

“One thing I’ve learned over the years is sometimes the best way you win games is don’t let a team get back into it,” he said.

“I know what kind of offence they have,” he added of Texas.

Price dispatched Choo with one pitch to end the inning.

The big left-hander threw 50 pitch-es over three innings, giving up three runs on six hits with two strikeouts. Aaron Sanchez and Roberto Osuna finished it off for the Jays.

Gibbons said the outing meant Price was not in consideration to pitch Wednesday. Price saw it dif-ferently, saying he would be ready — deflecting praise to Dickey while

making a point about his preferred role.

“R.A. threw the ball much better than I did. . . . He threw the ball fantastic and I wish the scorekeeper would just give him a win because he’s the guy that deserves it, not me.

“That’s not the way I want to win games. I definitely want to help this team win in any way possible, but I want to be out there for 27 outs, not three outs, 4 2/3 (innings). Like R.A. said, we want to win, that’s the main goal. That’s what everybody says every single day. Just win today and worry about tomorrow later. That’s what we did today and we did it well.”

The Rangers said they too will be ready.

“There’s no quit in this ball club. No quit in any one of those players in that locker room,” said Texas man-ager Jeff Banister.

“Obviously we would have loved to have done it right here in our house,” he added. “Well, that’s not the case. We’re going to have to go do it in another location, and we’re going to play a baseball game.”

BACK TO T.O.Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher R.A. Dickey is congratulated by teammates after leaving the game against the Texas

Rangers during the fi fth inning in Game 4 of the American League Division Series Monday, in Arlington, Texas. [AP PHOTO]

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Burrett wins Victoria MarathonNanaimo runner entered Saturday’s race, her fi rst ever marathon, to take the B.C. championship race

SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

As Erin Burrett crossed the finish line at the B.C. Championship Victoria Marathon Saturday, the Nanaimo long-distance

runner’s goals began to change.Burrett, who had never run a mara-

thon before Saturday, tracked down defending champion Lioudmila Kort-chaguina to take first place in a time of 2:39:17.

The first-place finish not only secured her $5,000, which helps with training costs, but also the confi-dence that she can successful race in a marathon — now, she wants to attempt to meet the Olympic stan-dard, hopefully before 2020.

“It’s huge,” said Burrett. “It was a very positive experience,

and it’s raised my goals. I have some pretty big goals.”

In Victoria Saturday, Burrett was in second place for nearly all of the 42 kilometres.

Being in her first marathon, she didn’t know what to expect.

“My deep down goal was to go sub-2:40,” Burrett said, “but Victoria is a rolling course, so I wasn’t sure if I would be able to do that in Victoria.

“Thankfully I did.”She realized she was going to win

the whole thing with less than a kilo-metre to go.

“I was able to basically kick in the sprint in the final kilometre and I tracked down the girl in first, who had nothing left and couldn’t respond,” Burrett said. “It really wasn’t until the final 600 metres

until I thought I could actually win it.”

For those who follow the provin-cial distance-running scene, it may have been a surprise to not only see Burrett racing, but to see her coming out on top over experienced marathon runners. However, she and her coach, Matt Clout, had recently noticed she had become more suc-cessful in longer events. So they decided to put her in a marathon.

“We both feel that I’m better that the longer distances,” she said. “I was always better at the half-marathon versus the 5K, so the marathon is the place to go if you want to make it anywhere.

“For worlds and Olympics, it’s the 10K or marathon, there’s nothing really in between.”

Marathons, then, will begin to be

the new normal for the local runner, as she begins to work toward a bid to the Olympics.

She plans to be careful when pick-ing her next races with that in mind.

“For my next marathon, I’m going to choose a faster, flatter course and work toward the Olympic standard, basically. It’s not enough time for 2016, but 2020 could be possible.”

Burrett, who is now on a two-week rest period to end the season, also has her eyes on making the Canadian team that will compete at the next world half-marathon championship, as well as future national marathon teams. She said she likely won’t be racing again until 2016.

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Clippers salvage two points with win in Merritt DAILY NEWS

Suffering two multi-goal losses to start their three-day, three-game Interior road trip Friday and Satur-day, the Nanaimo Clippers salvaged two points on Sunday with a 7-3 win over the Merritt Centennials.

It was a good way for the Clippers to end a weekend that didn’t start so well.

After they were beat 6-2 by the Vernon Vipers on Friday, the Clippers went into the Shaw Centre to play the Salmon Arm Silverbacks and were dealt a similar fate.

For the fourth time in five games, the Clippers spotted their opponents a two-goal lead, and for the second time in a row they were unable to recover.

The Silverbacks outshot Nanaimo 39-33 and beat them 7-4.

Spencer Hewson scored his second goal of the year, while B.C. Hockey league leading goal scorer Matt Hoo-ver found the back of the net twice for the Clippers.

Hoover’s linemate, BCHL lead-ing point-getter Sheldon Rempal, finished with a goal and an assist while Nanaimo goalie Jonathan Reinhart allowed seven goals on 34 shots.

The Clippers were also forced to utilize emergency call-up goalie Brody Greggain late in the game when Reinhart left the game with an injury.

On the verge of losing their third straight game after going into the Interior on a three-game winning streak, the Clippers stopped the bleeding in Merritt with a four-goal win.

Facing a Merritt team featuring two former Clippers, Ryan Coghlan and Ryan Forbes, the Clippers bucked the trend of falling behind early and got off to a 2-0 lead less than seven min-

utes into the game. The Clippers top line was again dominant, as Rempal, Hoover and Devin Brosseau com-bined for seven points in the win.

Brosseau scored twice and had an assist, while Rempal had two helpers and a goal and Hoover added his 12th goal of the year.

D.J. Petruzzelli also scored his second goal of the year, his first since the season-opener in Powell River, while Charley Borek found the back of the net for his first goal as a Clipper.

Nanaimo defenceman Yanni Kaldis

finished the game with three assists, and the Cornell-bound blueliner is now second in league scoring with 15 points. He trails only Penticton Vees star Dante Fabbro, an expected first-round NHL draft pick this sum-mer, in points from a defenceman.

The Clippers also lost defenceman Kale Bennett in the first period on a hit by Forbes, his former teammate.

Forbes was given a five-minute major for boarding and a game misconduct.

The Clippers are back home this weekend, hosting the expansion

Wenatchee Wild for the first and only time this season on Saturday night before welcoming the Chilliwack Chiefs to Frank Crane Arena on Sun-day at 2 p.m.

Back-up goalie hit with a six-game suspension

The BCHL has suspended 16-year-old Clippers back-up goalie Jakob Walter for a blow to the head that occured during an incident Friday night in Vernon.

Walter was originally penalized

with a high-sticking double-minor after the incident but was slapped with the suspension after the game.

The incident can be viewed online at http://www.hockeytube.net.

He will be eligible to return from the suspension Oct. 30 when the Clippers host the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.

The suspension forced the Clippers to use emergency back-up Brody Greggain, a Kelowna midget AA player, on Saturday when starter Jonathan Reinhart was injured. On Sunday, the Clippers called up Aus-tin Roden, who plays for the South Island Royals of the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League.

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Nanaimo Clippers centre Matt Hoover lines up for a faceoff in a B.C. Hockey League game Sunday against the Merritt

Centennials. [GARY DORLAND/DAILY NEWS]

Weekend wrap-up: Nanaimo Clippers

◆ Weekend scores

Friday: Nanaimo 2 @ Vernon 6

Saturday: Nanaimo 4 @ Salmon Arm 7

Saturday: Nanaimo 7 @ Merritt 2

◆ Overall record: 7-5-0-0

◆ Next: Saturday vs. Wenatchee, 7 p.m.

◆ Team Leaders (Goals, Assists, Points)

1. Sheldon Rempal (9-15-24)

2. Matt Hoover (12-8-20

3. Devin Brosseau (5-14-19)

4. Yanni Kaldis (3-12-15)

5. Corey Renwick (2-6-8)

◆ Island Standings (W-L-T-OTL-Pts)

1. Powell River (8-3-0-0-16)

2. Cowichan Valley (6-2-1-2-15)

3. Nanaimo (7-5-0-0-14)

4. Alberni Valley (4-6-0-0-8)

5. Victoria (1-8-0-2)

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Burrows scores shootout winner as Canucks rally to beat Ducks 2-1Anaheim defenceman Kevin Bieksa was playing his fi rst game against his former team

GREG BEACHAM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Radim Vrbata and Alex Burrows scored in the shootout, and the Vancouver Can-ucks spoiled the Anaheim Ducks’ home opener with a 2-1 victory Mon-day night.

Ryan Miller made 28 saves and Adam Cracknell scored in regulation for Vancouver, which beat the Ducks for just the third time in their last 12 meetings.

Sami Vatanen scored and Frederik Andersen stopped 24 shots for the Ducks, who are winless in the first two games of a season that includes Stanley Cup aspirations.

After the Ducks failed to score on a power play during their first taste of 3-on-3 overtime hockey, Vrbata and Burrows got stuttering, halting shots past Andersen, who stopped Burrows’ shot before watching it trickle under him.

The Ducks lost their home open-er for just the second time in six seasons.

Kevin Bieksa played nearly 24 1/2 minutes in his second game with the Ducks. Anaheim acquired the veteran defenceman from Vancouver last summer after he played 10 years with the Canucks, who drafted him in 2001. Bieksa was reunited with Ryan Kesler, the longtime Vancouver for-ward who moved to Anaheim before last season.

Vancouver improved to 2-0 on the road by winning the new season’s first meeting between the Pacific Division’s top two teams last year. Anaheim won its third straight div-ision title, while Vancouver finished a surprising second before losing in the playoffs’ opening round.

Anaheim was shut out in San Jose

last Saturday in its opener before returning to Honda Center for its first real game on home ice since Game 7 of the Western Conference finals, when Chicago advanced to win the Stanley Cup. The Ducks have lost a Game 7 at home in three straight seasons, but they enter this season among the championship favourites after advancing an extra round into

the post-season every year.Both teams opened at a furious

pace, with end-to-end chances throughout. After a scoreless first period, Vatanen got the Ducks’ first goal of the season when his long, low shot went through Mike Santorelli’s screen.

Cracknell evened it later in the period with a sharp-angled shot that

somehow deflected off Andersen’s shoulder and landed behind the goalie. The journeyman got his first regular-season NHL goal since April 4, 2013, and just the seventh of his 85-game NHL career.

Neither team had many chances in the scoreless third, although Miller used his mask to stop a late redirec-tion by Carl Hagelin.

◆ TAMPA BAY

Stamkos tallies 500th point in win over Bruins

Steven Stamkos scored his 500th career point with a tiebreaking power-play goal that sent the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 6-3 win over the Bruins on Monday afternoon.

Brian Boyle scored two goals, and Ondrej Palat, Jonathan Drouin and Valt-teri Filppula added goals for the Light-ning. Ben Bishop stopped 27 shots.

It was Tampa Bay’s first win in Boston since March 25, 2010. Loui Eriksson had two power-play goals, and David Krejci also had one for Boston, which opened a season with three straight losses for the first time since 1999.

Tuukka Rask made 17 saves for the Bruins. Boston captain Zdeno Chara played his first game after missing most of the preseason with an undisclosed upper body injury.

◆ BUFFALO

Sabres rookie Eichel scores again, unassisted

Rookie star Jack Eichel’s hustling unassisted goal gave Dan Bylsma an eye-catching highlight from his first victory as coach of the Buffalo Sabres.

“That will be one that we will pull out and watch again,” Bylsma said after Buffalo beat Columbus 4-2 on Monday.

Eichel, the former Boston Univer-sity player selected No. 2 overall in the June draft, bodied off Boone Jen-ner in a loose-puck battle, kept the puck in the offensive zone, wheeled to his forehand and ripped a shot over goalie Sergei Bobrovsky to give Buffalo a 3-1 lead at 9:21 of the third period.

“We’ve been harping a lot on back pressure in the middle, and Coach has been on me about working hard for the puck,” Eichel said. “When I came off, he gave me a bump. That’s what he likes to see, working back for the puck and getting rewarded.”

Eichel has two goals this season.

◆ LONG ISLAND

Tavares picks up three points as Isles beat Jets

Though it was only their third game of the season, the New York Islanders felt a great sense of relief on Monday.

John Tavares had a power-play goal and added two assists and the Island-ers beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-2 on Monday afternoon to earn their first victory in Brooklyn.

“I think we’re most excited for our-selves,” said forward Ryan Strome, who opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 19:48 of the first period.

“It’s great for Brooklyn and great for the fans who have been loud and supportive.”

Thomas Greiss made 22 saves and the Islanders sent the Jets to their first loss in three games this season.

The home team came out with pur-pose after losing their opening two games of the season to the defending champion Blackhawks, one in over-time at home and the other in regu-lation in Chicago.

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Vancouver Canucks winger Brandon Prust, centre, and teammates celebrate a goal by Adam Cracknell as Anaheim Ducks

forward Clayton Stoner, foreground, skates toward the bench during the second period of an NHL game, Monday, in

Anaheim, Calif. [AP PHOTO]

Habs’ Condon adds another chapter to his journey STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

Mike Condon was an unwanted goaltender two and a half years ago. Now he’s Carey Price’s backup with the Montreal Canadiens.

Condon’s incredible journey to the NHL took him from Princeton Uni-versity to Wall Street and on a rapid rise through the minor leagues. On Sunday, he made 20 saves to win his first start for the Canadiens, to whom he believes he owes everything.

“I got a lot of good opportunities, and I’m very fortunate for them,” Condon said. “I’m just trying to make the most of the one I have now.”

Condon has made the most of every opportunity over the past several years, especially when it looked like his hockey career was over. When his time at Princeton came to an abrupt end with a first-round playoff sweep

in March 2013, Condon couldn’t latch on with anyone and went about working on his 130-page thesis on post-Cold War arms transfer, “a real snoozer.”

Exploring his options, he even tried a one-day internship on Wall Street.

“It was miserable,” Condon said. “I did the rat race for a day, and I didn’t really like it.”

During spring break, Condon reached out to the ECHL’s Ontario Reign “just on a hope and prayer” and flew from New Jersey to Cali-fornia to play on an amateur tryout. After a couple of goaltenders were injured, he got four starts and allowed just six goals on 99 shots, parlaying that success into a pro-fessional tryout with the American Hockey League’s Houston Aeros.

Injuries with the Minnesota Wild got Condon to Houston, where he won his first three starts and took

part in the playoffs. His career path went from not looking good to fast track.

“When the season ends and no one comes knocking for a tryout or any-thing like that, it’s tough,” Condon said. “My family invested so much time in the game and so much blood and sweat that I was like, ‘It’d be bad if I didn’t go out there and at least give it a try.’ I went out there with a good attitude, an open mind and good things happen.”

In May 2013, the Habs came knock-ing and signed Condon to a two-year contract. His goalie coach at Princet-on, Greg Gardner, appreciates just how thin the difference was between Condon breaking out and never get-ting discovered.

“The way NHL scouting goes, sometimes if you don’t happen to be at the right game at the right moment, you might miss them,”

Gardner said. “Pro hockey’s all about being prepared for opportunities. . . . His path is about proving people wrong, and he just continued to get better.”

Condon starred for the ECHL’s Wheeling Nailers, playing so well and earning so much favour in the organization that the Habs brought him up as a black ace during their playoff run. Last season he started for the AHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs and in training camp unseated Dustin Tokarski as Price’s backup.

During training camp, Condon was so determined to block out distractions that he didn’t have an international phone plan. He’d text his parents every once in a while but took a break from Twitter and wanted to keep his mind focused.

“The mind’s a powerful thing, and the quieter it is, the better you play,” Condon said.


Television broadcaster didn’t mean to upset CanadiansGREGORY STRONG THE CANADIAN PRESS

ARLINGTON, Texas — Television broadcaster Harold Reynolds apolo-gized on Monday and said that he didn’t mean to upset Canadians with a comment he made during Game 3 of the American League Division Series.

After a foul ball by Blue Jays out-fielder Jose Bautista in the fourth inning of Sunday’s 5-1 win over the Texas Rangers, the FOX commenta-tor took a shot at Canada’s baseball ability.

“We were talking about foul balls in the stands up in Toronto, and because there’s not a lot of people that grew up playing baseball in Canada, they’re not used to catching a lot of balls in the stands . . . not many people catching that one, any-way,” Reynolds said.

The Rangers won the first two

games in the best-of-five series at Rogers Centre before the series moved to Globe Life Park for Games 3 and 4.

“Sorry Canada, whole country, if I offended you for that,” Reynolds said Monday in an interview on Sports-net during the pre-game show in Canada.

“I’m well aware of the baseball players that have come out of there.

Dalton Pompey and Russell Martin, who will be catching tonight for the Jays, are from there.

“Joey Votto’s a Canadian. Justin Morneau.”

In the interview Reynolds — who does not have Twitter or other social media accounts — said he was unaware of the controversy until former National League MVP Larry Walker of Maple Ridge called him Monday morning.

“I do the draft every year,” Reynolds said in the televised interview. “I think Canada’s up and coming, par-ticularly in the northwest, Vancouver area. So I’m well versed in that. It was more of a joke and the fact that most people grew up playing hockey in Canada. I didn’t think it was that offensive, so obviously I was taken different.”

Reynolds also spoke with The Can-adian Press ahead of the televised

interview and Toronto’s pivotal game in Arlington, Texas.

“I never ever want to offend people,” he said. “That’s never the nature of my heart, that’s not who I am. So it was never (meant) to be offensive, not at all. That’s it.”

His on-air comment drew the ire of many from north of the border and quickly picked up steam on social media. Walker posted his thoughts on Twitter.

“I won seven gold gloves. I think part of winning them was cause I could catch,” he tweeted from his verified account.

Reynolds said he was surprised at how the comment became such a hot talking point.

“I don’t have much to say about it,” he said.

“I don’t want to inflame this thing. It was just a simple comment that was a joke in the game.”

Baseball Canada also sent out a tweet during Game 3 that included pictures of Walker, Morneau — a first baseman with the Colorado Rockies — and Votto, a Toronto native who plays for the Cincinnati Reds.

“Amazing how we produced three MVPs for a country that doesn’t play a lot of baseball! #TeamC.”

Martin, a Toronto native, and Pompey, from Mississauga, Ont., are the two Canadians on the Blue Jays’ playoff roster.

Reynolds said in the televised interview that both had been teasing him about the remarks before Game 4 and that Walker had thanked him over the phone for the 4,000 new Twitter followers the Canadian got thanks to his tweet.

Reynolds spent 12 seasons in Major League Baseball.

The two-time all-star won three Gold Glove awards.

“. . . because there’s not a lot of people that grew up playing baseball in Canada, they’re not used to catching a lot of balls in the stands.”

Harold Reynolds, FOX Sports

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Kansas City Royals Eric Hosmer (35) and Mike Moustakas (8) celebrate after Hosmer’s two-run home run in the ninth inning

during Game 4 of their American League Division Series against the Houston Astros, Monday in Houston. [AP PHOTO]

Royals force Game 5 with 9-6 winKRISTIE RIEKEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON — Carlos Correa did so many things right for the Houston Astros on Monday.

It was the rookie shortstop’s one mistake, however, that will be the lasting memory of Houston’s 9-6 loss to Kansas City on Monday, sending their AL Division Series to a deciding Game 5.

Correa couldn’t handle a deflected grounder that might have been a double-play ball, helping the Roy-als rally for five runs in the eighth inning.

Correa homered twice, doubled, singled and drove in four runs. Hous-ton took a 6-2 lead into the eighth, but a tough error charged to the 21-year-old keyed the Royals’ come-back to even the matchup at two games apiece.

“I missed it. That’s what happened,” Correa said. “I wish I was perfect. I wish I could do everything perfect, but I’m not. I’m human.”

Game 5 will be back in Kansas City on Wednesday night. Johnny Cueto is set to start for the Royals against Collin McHugh.

“Everyone that watched that game, everybody that was a part of that game knows how difficult it is to feel like that game was closing in our favour and then have it not go our way,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said.

“But it’s big boy sport. We’ll adjust, and we will be ready to play,” he said.

Correa and the rest of the Astros know they must look ahead and not dwell on the tough loss.

“We can’t do anything by beating ourselves up right now,” Correa said. “We have to focus on the next game and try to win it.”

Late in the game, a tweet from the account of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott congratulated the Astros on advan-cing to the AL Championship Series. Abbott later tweeted for his person-al account: “No predictions. Just support.”

The AL champion Royals opened the eighth with five straight singles off relievers Will Harris and Tony Sipp, with RBI hits by Lorenzo Cain and Eric Hosmer making it 6-4 and leaving the bases with no outs.

Kendrys Morales followed with a hard, one-bouncer off Sipp’s glove. The ball took two more hops and got past the top of Correa’s mitt, rolling into centre field as two runs scored to tie it at 6.

“Just a weird spin on the ball and tough play,” Sipp said. “I’m sure it was tougher than it looked. Game of inches, and I barely missed it.”

Cubs take 2-1 lead in NLDSJAY COHEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — The young sluggers of the Chicago Cubs are making them-selves at home in the playoffs.

On a rare off night for Jake Arrieta, the Windy City kids bashed their way to the brink of the NL Championship Series — and a spot in the record book.

Jorge Soler, Kris Bryant and Kyle Schwarber connected as the Cubs set a post-season mark with six home runs and beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-6 on Monday for a 2-1 lead in the NL Division Series. Arrieta struck out nine before departing in the sixth inning, and the bullpen finished the job in the first playoff game at Wrigley Field in seven years.

“To see the ball fly out of the yard as many times as it did was incred-ible,” Arrieta said.

Starlin Castro, Anthony Rizzo and Dexter Fowler also went deep for Chicago, which held a share of the previous post-season record with five homers in Game 1 of the 1984 NLCS

against San Diego.“Pretty impressive,” manager Joe

Maddon said. “You know, I know the wind was blowing out — we’ll con-cede that — but most of them were properly struck. We are definitely capable of that.”

A third straight win for the Cubs on Tuesday afternoon, and the once woebegone franchise will advance to the NLCS for the first time in 12 years. The Cardinals, who led the majors with 100 wins this season, have won at least one playoff series in each of the last four years.

Jason Hammel starts at home in Game 4. John Lackey, who won the opener, pitches for the Cardinals.

“I want to win championships. I want to be on good teams,” Lackey said. “Got a chance here, still, and try to keep it moving.”

Jason Heyward and Stephen Piscot-ty homered for St. Louis, which got to Arrieta for four runs in his worst start in four months. But the Cardin-als were unable to keep the Cubs in the ballpark.

Granderson, Mets beat Dodgers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — With big hits rather than beanballs, the New York Mets wiped out the Los Angeles Dodgers and took control of their testy Div-ision Series.

Curtis Granderson drove in five runs with two doubles off the wall, Travis d’Arnaud and Yoenis Cespedes homered, and New York’s dangerous bats busted loose for a 13-7 victory Monday night that gave the Mets a 2-1 advantage in the best-of-five NL playoff.

Before a bloodthirsty crowd of 44,276 in the first post-season game at Citi Field, the Mets broke their post-season scoring record as New York public enemy Chase Utley watched from the Los Angeles bench.

The NL East champs quickly erased an early three-run deficit and made a winner of a mediocre Matt Harvey in his playoff debut.

Back in the post-season for the first time in nine years, New York can reach the NL Championship Series with another win at home Tuesday night in Game 4.

Trying to save the Dodgers’ season, ace lefty Clayton Kershaw will start on three days’ rest.

Hometown rookie Steven Matz goes for the Mets.

Utley is the subject of scorn in New York after his late takeout slide Saturday night broke the right leg of Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada at Dodger Stadium.

Amid much speculation the Mets would seek revenge, manager Terry Collins said before the game Harvey was told not to.

“This is too big a game. We need to not worry about retaliating,” Collins said.

“We need to worry about winning. . . . We can play angry, but we’ve got to play under control.”


Sarkisian fi red at USC after alcohol problems

GREG BEACHAM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Southern Califor-nia fired Steve Sarkisian on Monday, one day after the troubled football coach was put on leave.

Athletic director Pat Haden made the move one day after determining Sarkisian showed up at school in no condition to lead practice, although Haden refused to reveal specifics about the coach’s condition. Offen-sive co-ordinator Clay Helton was appointed interim coach Sunday.

USC hasn’t elaborated on Sar-kisian’s problems, but the second-year coach had an embarrassing public display in August at a pep rally where he appeared to be intoxicated while giving a speech. Sarkisian later apologized and said he had combined alcohol and medication, but prom-ised not to drink again during the season.

Sarkisian’s unsteady appearance Sunday prompted Haden to make the program’s fourth coaching change in just over two years.

“After careful consideration of what is in the best interest of the univer-sity and our student-athletes, I have made the decision to terminate Steve Sarkisian, effective immediately,” Haden said in a statement.

“I want to add how proud I am of our coaching staff and players and the way they are responding to this difficult situation. Through all of this we remain concerned for Steve and hope that it will give him the opportunity to focus on his personal well-being.”

Helton, Sarkisian’s offensive co-or-dinator, will officially lead his first practice Tuesday as the Trojans (3-2, 1-2 Pac-12) prepare for their annual rivalry game at No. 14 Notre Dame.

Sarkisian went 12-6 at USC, where he started as an assistant coach under Pete Carroll with the pro-gram’s dominant teams of the past decade.

“This is an opportunity for Sark to get right and to get well,” Carroll said Monday. “We’re pulling for him. He’s up against some big challenges and he’s got to go ahead and take care of it. It’s not about coaching now. It’s about his personal life and getting things in order. I know he’s committed to taking the right steps to do that, and it’s hugely important for him.”

Carroll said he had communicated with Sarkisian recently.

“I’ll be there to support him,” Car-roll said. “I knew him before, and (he has) a lot to offer the world. It’s been hard on him, and he’s made it hard on people around him, too. He knows that.

“He’s got to take the steps to take care of business now.”

Sarkisian spent five years as Wash-ington’s head coach until 2013, when he left the Huskies for a reported five-year contract to return to his native Southern California, describ-ing it as “a dream come true to be back in the Trojan family.”

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Late-game comebacks commonCincinnatti’s win over Seattle just one of many come-from-behind wins as of late

BARRY WILNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Wow, what a come-back. Make that comebacks.

You know, the ones in Cincinnati and

Kansas City. In the Meadowlands and Music City. In Baltimore and the ATL.

Six teams either staged huge rallies to win on Sunday or executed timely drives to score the decisive points in a frantic Week 5. Two of the winners, the Bengals and Falcons, remained unbeaten thanks to their clutch work.

Two more, the Giants and Bills, gave themselves winning records — and well-earned pats on the shoul-der pads — by displaying plenty of gumption despite being outplayed.

Meanwhile, the Browns and Bears, both already written off in NFL cir-cles as much because of turmoil as lack of talent, fooled the critics with uplifting victories.

Sure, it’s one win for each of those six clubs. But it really is more than that.

“I think for us, it’s just a real clear demonstration of how hard the guys all want to play for one another,” Atlanta’s first year head coach, Dan Quinn, said after a 25-19 overtime decision against Washington.

“I think it shows a lot of the char-acter, and the toughness of the men in the room. I know they want to keep battling for it.”

Ditto in Chicago after an 18-17 win at Kansas City during which the Bears drove 88 and 67 yards for fourth-quarter touchdowns as both their maligned offences and defences came through for the second straight week.

“Right now, that is our identity,” Bears guard Matt Slauson said. “We are a resilient team that’s going to keep on fighting until the end.”

Naturally, that’s what it takes to put together the kind of comebacks those teams did. For some, it might even be a one-off.

But that’s never the way coaches and players approach such stirring victories.

Cleveland (2-3) has made a habit of losing the tight ones, regardless of which side was trying to rally. This time, down by 12 in the third quar-ter before twice blowing leads, the Browns survived 33-30 in overtime.

“You have wins that define things for you — that can define a season

or be a turning point — and we hope that was this for us,” coach Mike Pettine said.

The Giants, now 3-2 and on top of the mediocre NFC East after a last-minute drive and sensational TD catch by Larry Donnell vanquished San Francisco 30-27, have struggled mightily in the final period in four of their outings.

With a bit more composure and better decision-making, they might be undefeated, too. Instead, they were bitten by comebacks by Dallas and Atlanta in the first two weeks.

Yet after putting together their own sizzling return from the dead, they also looked at the win as a building tool. Which it will need to be with

division matchups against Philadel-phia and reeling Dallas upcoming.

“We’ve got a lot of fight. We’ve got a lot of guys that are willing to put in the effort, put in the time, put their bodies on the line for this team and it’s great to see that. It’s comforting and you can build off that,” said run-ning back Shane Vereen, who ought to know after winning a Super Bowl in New England.

Forget Super Bowls, they don’t even make the post-season in Buf-falo, where it’s been 15 years since the Bills were in the playoffs. Rex Ryan brought a new kind of bravado to Western New York, and Sunday’s rally to edge Tennessee 14-13 was all about guts for his undermanned team.

“We found a way to win, so struggle or not, we found a way to win with the guys that we knew we were going to play with,” said quarterback Tyrod Taylor, the engineer of the late turn-around at Tennessee.

Most impressive were the Bengals — again. They haven’t been 5-0 since 1988, when they won the AFC cham-pionship. They erased a 17-point fourth-quarter deficit against two-time defending NFC champ Seattle and sent it to overtime before Mike Nugent’s field goal won it 27-24.

True, nothing the Bengals do in the regular season — not even 16-0 — will prove much if they falter for a fifth straight post-season. Still, to climb out of a 24-3 hole against the Seahawks shows plenty of mettle.

“We overcame a lot of things in this game,” cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick said.

“Down the line, this will be motiv-ation for us that we’ll be able to look back on. We’ve been in this situation, and we’ve overcome it.”

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton, centre right, hugs offensive

co-ordinator Hue Jackson after an NFL game against the Seattle Seahawks on

Sunday in Cincinnati. The Bengals won 27-24. [AP PHOTO]

Argos win third straight, 25-17 over Montreal BILL BEACON THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — The Toronto Argo-nauts have become the road warriors of the Canadian Football League.

Trevor Harris threw touchdown passes to Diontae Spencer and Tori Gurley as the Argonauts stretched their winning run to three games, all away from home, with a 25-17 vic-tory over the Montreal Alouettes on Monday afternoon.

Their win in Ottawa last week was supposed to have been a home game, but they were forced out of the Rog-ers Centre by the Blue Jays playoff run.

Their next game, Saturday against the Calgary Stampeders, may be moved to Tim Horton’s Field in Hamilton.

“Of course, we’d much rather be in the dome than playing at Tim Horton’s, but that’s what it us.,” said coach Scott Milanovich, whose team is 5-4 away from the Rogers Centre. “That’s the hand we’ve been dealt and

we’re going to play to win.”Brandon Whitaker ran in a touch-

down and Justin Palardy kicked a field goal for Toronto (9-5), now tied with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats atop the East Division.

Milanovic feels his team cannot lose more than one of their four remaining regular-season games to take first place in the division and may even have to run the table because the Ticats have the edge in

the season series between them.Tyrell Sutton and B.J. Cunningham

scored TDs and Boris Bede had a field goal for Montreal (5-9), which lost a third game in a row before 21,536 at Percival Molson Stadium.

The Alouettes lost yet another quarterback as Rakeem Cato suffered a suspected concussion on a Thomas Miles sack just ahead of halftime and did not return. That brought in Anthony Boone, the sixth QB they have used this season.

When Boone couldn’t move the ball, Tanner Marsh took over in the fourth quarter.

Coach Jim Popp wasn’t sure yet which quarterback will start Sunday at home against Hamilton.

He said Boone and Marsh “will get all the reps in practice, a lot more than they had this week. For them to come in and play was difficult.”

Cato was good on nine of 12 passes for 72 yards and had a 9-7 lead when he left the game.

Boone was 6-for-12 with an inter-

ception and Marsh was 9-for-14 for 119 yards, a touchdown and a pick.

Harris, who went 16-for-21 for 182 yards, 2 TDs and an interception, led scoring drives when Toronto needed them.

The Argos marched 70 yards on four plays to score on the opening drive of the game, with Spencer hauling in a 20-yard TD pass at 1:49.

Momentum swung on the opening play of the second quarter when Henoc Muamba, playing his first game since signing as a free agent, picked off a Harris pass and brought it to the Toronto 32. Bede kicked a 25-yard field goal.

A shanked Anthony Alix punt gave Montreal the ball on the Argos 21 and, five plays later, Sutton ran in from the three to put the Alouettes ahead 9-7.

Akwasi Owusu-Ansah picked off a Boone pass and ran it 63 yards to the Montreal 41 to set up Palardy’s 36-yard field goal 14:17 into the third quarter.

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Gallinari ready for a big role in Denver

PAT GRAHAM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — Danilo Gallinari wants everyone to know this: His surgically repaired left knee, the one that took three procedures to fix and nearly two seasons to fully trust, no longer bothers him.

The Denver Nuggets forward doesn’t need to be on any sort of minutes restriction. He doesn’t need days off during the season. And he certainly doesn’t need to be coddled.He’s Gallo again, the hard-to-guard Italian playmaker who can knock down the three-pointer just as easily as drive to the hoop or even post up. He believes he will fit in quite nicely into new coach Michael Malone’s system.

“The thing I’m focused on is trying to get (this team) back to the same level that the Nuggets were when I got to Denver, when we were going to the playoffs easy. When we were clinching a playoff one or two weeks before the season was over,” said Gallinari, who was acquired in the 2011 blockbuster deal that sent Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks. “We need to get back to that level.”

Almost seems so long ago, given that the Nuggets have missed the playoffs two straight seasons after consistently making it for nearly a decade.

Gallinari returned last season for the first time since blowing out his knee in a game on April 4, 2013. His minutes were closely monitored early in the season. He never really got completely on track until late last season, when he averaged 20.5 points over the final 10 contests, including a career-high 47 against Dal-las. He’s hoping to carry that kind of confidence this season.

“I’m good to go. I was good to go as soon as the beginning of last year,” Gallinari said. “I was not on the same page with the coach that we had.”

That would be Brian Shaw, who was fired last March after 1 1/2 seasons in charge and going 56-85. Exactly why he wasn’t on the same page with Shaw, well, Gal-linari preferred the past remain the past.

“I’m ready to play the new season,” he said. “We need to win games, and get back to the same level we were before.”

Learning from a legend, Wiggins hopes to grow upLast year’s top pick has been taken under veteran Kevin Garnett’s wing

LORI EWING THE CANADIAN PRESS

The Minnesota Timber-wolves were practising in Toronto, and off to one side, Andrew Wiggins was leaning,

head bent to one side, listening to Kevin Garnett.

It’s become a common sight since Garnett returned to the T’Wolves in February of last season, a mentoring partnership between one of the league’s oldest and greatest players and Wiggins, the game’s future.

“Just in those couple of min-utes, he teaches me and tells me stuff that can help me for the rest of my career,” Wiggins said.

The 20-year-old from Vaughan, Ont., was back home for Minne-sota’s pre-season game against the Toronto Raptors on Mon-day. As of Monday morning, he was attempting to purchase 16 courtside seats for family and friends at the Air Canada Centre.

Both the Raptors and their fans would undoubtedly rather see the reigning NBA rookie of the year in a Toronto jersey, but the young star is in a good place in Minnesota, according to T’Wolves interim head coach Sam Mitchell.

“Our veteran guys have pitched in trying to mentor our young guys and trying to make them understand just how difficult this league is and how hard you have to work, and most import-ant how to prepare for games,” said the former Raptors coach. “We have a nice mix of guys.”

The T’Wolves also signed vet-erans Andre Miller (39) and Tay-shaun Prince (35) in the off-sea-son, and the blend of young and old has made for an “exciting” camp, said Wiggins.

“The vets on our team love to teach, whenever we do some-thing wrong or right, or a good play, they’re always telling us why you should do this, why you should do that. . .,” Wiggins said.

“So it’s been a lot of learning and also been very exciting for young players.”

Raptors coach Dwane Casey, who’s watched Wiggins from afar, said the young star deliv-ered as advertised in his rookie season.

“He’s done exactly what every-one had thought, he’s a talented young man, the game is easy for him, he’s learning to take what the game is giving him offensive-ly, defensively he’s gotten better, using his length, speed and quickness defensively. . .,” Casey said. “He’s right on path to being a great player.”

Casey agreed Wiggins’ rela-

tionship with the 39-year-old Garnett, a 20-year NBA veteran, will be invaluable.

“If he watches KG in practice and listens to what he says, how hard KG practises even at his age is unbelievable,” Casey said. “The way KG talks on defence, all the players can watch and learn from that.”

Wiggins, who’s fresh off playing for Canada at the FIBA Americas Olympic qualifying tournament in Mexico last month, said he’s a lot more comfortable in his second NBA training camp than he was last season.

“I know what to expect, I know what I was good at before, and what I wasn’t good at. Just learn-ed a lot,” he said. “I worked hard this summer, so everything I was good at last year, everything I was bad at, I’m trying to get bet-ter at this year.”

Monday’s game was to feature four Canadians in Wiggins and his brother Nick, signed by the T’Wolves last month, and Toron-

to’s Cory Joseph and Anthony Bennett.

Bennett, the No. 1 draft pick in 2013, played with Wiggins in Minnesota last season, but was waived in September and subse-quently signed by Toronto.

Casey said Bennett’s defence has impressed both the coaching staff and Bennett’s teammates.

“I didn’t know he was as good of a defender as he’s shown since we’ve had him, which is very impressive,” Casey said. “The main thing for him is to relax and play, enjoy the game and get that No. 1 pick necklace off his neck and just play basketball. Have fun.

“Just forget everything else, clean slate, start from scratch and go from there.”

The Raptors and T’Wolves meet again in Ottawa on Wednesday as part of the NBA’s Canada Series, with games in Vancouver, Win-nipeg, Ottawa and Montreal. The Raptors play the Washington Wizards in Montreal on Oct. 23.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Andrew Wiggins, right, talks with veteran Kevin Garnett on the bench

while playing against the Toronto Raptors in Toronto on Wednesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

“The way KG talks on defence, all the players can watch and learn from that. “

Dwane Casey, Toronto head coach

Lowry scores 40 as Raptors win 112-105LORI EWING THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — When Kyle Lowry drilled his sixth three-pointer of the night Monday, he shot a grin at his bench.

The Toronto Raptors point guard, who showed up at train-ing camp significantly more trim and fit, poured in 40 points — a franchise record for the pre-sea-son — to lift the Raptors to a 112-105 victory over the Minne-sota Timberwolves.

“I’ll tell you what, I want him to save some of those, he’s hot

as a firecracker,” said Raptors coach Dwane Casey.

Cory Joseph added 14, Jonas Valanciunas had 13 points, while Luis Scola had 12 and DeMarre Carroll finished with 11 for Toronto (3-1).

Andrew Wiggins, the reigning NBA rookie of the year from Vaughan, Ont., led the T’Wolves (0-3) with 21 points in 18 minutes

Lowry, who was terrific early on last season but struggled down the stretch, worked hard on his body in the off-season,

and the results have been obvious.

“He was unbelievable tonight, he was making everything,” Joseph said. “He could probably have turned backwards and threw it at the rim, it probably would have went in.”

Lowry racked up his points in just 28 minutes, shooting 13-for-18 from the field, 6-for-9 from behind the arc, and hit all eight free throws. Lowry, wearing a Blue Jays jacket in the post-game locker-room, shrugged off his prolific night, saying the rec-

ord meant “not a damn thing.”“I’ve felt pretty comfortable

every game. For me it’s about maintaining, start off well, finish well,” he added. “It’s only pre-season.”

Vince Carter held the previous pre-season record of 38 points.

The game was a homecoming, not just for Wiggins, who pur-chased 16 courtside seats for the game, but for Raptors Joseph and Anthony Bennett — both were playing their first games in Toronto for their hometown team.

NHLEASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkTampa Bay 3 3 0 0 0 13 6 6 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 W-3Montreal 3 3 0 0 0 10 4 6 0-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 W-3Detroit 2 2 0 0 0 8 3 4 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 W-2

METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkN.Y. Rangers 3 3 0 0 0 12 6 6 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 W-3N.Y. Islanders 3 1 1 1 0 7 9 3 1-0-1-0 0-1-0-0 1-1-1-0 W-1Philadelphia 3 1 1 1 0 4 10 3 1-0-0-0 0-1-1-0 1-1-1-0 W-1

WILD CARDOttawa 3 2 1 0 0 9 8 4 0-1-0-0 2-0-0-0 2-1-0-0 L-1Washington 1 1 0 0 0 5 3 2 1-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 W-1

Florida 2 1 1 0 0 7 2 2 1-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 1-1-0-0 L-1Buffalo 3 1 2 0 0 6 9 2 1-2-0-0 0-0-0-0 1-2-0-0 W-1Toronto 3 0 2 0 1 5 12 1 0-1-0-1 0-1-0-0 0-2-0-1 L-3Carolina 2 0 2 0 0 4 6 0 0-1-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-2-0-0 L-2New Jersey 2 0 2 0 0 4 8 0 0-1-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-2-0-0 L-2Pittsburgh 2 0 2 0 0 1 5 0 0-0-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-2-0-0 L-2Columbus 3 0 3 0 0 6 13 0 0-1-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-3-0-0 L-3Boston 3 0 3 0 0 7 16 0 0-3-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-3-0-0 L-3

WESTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkNashville 2 2 0 0 0 4 1 4 2-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 W-2Minnesota 2 2 0 0 0 8 6 4 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 W-2Winnipeg 3 2 1 0 0 11 7 4 0-0-0-0 2-1-0-0 2-1-0-0 L-1

PACIFIC DIVISION GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkSan Jose 2 2 0 0 0 7 1 4 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 W-2Arizona 2 2 0 0 0 6 2 4 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0 W-2Vancouver 2 1 0 1 0 7 4 3 0-0-1-0 1-0-0-0 1-0-1-0 L-1

WILD CARDChicago 3 2 1 0 0 9 6 4 1-1-0-0 1-0-0-0 2-1-0-0 W-2Colorado 2 1 1 0 0 10 8 2 1-1-0-0 0-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 W-1

St. Louis 2 1 1 0 0 5 4 2 1-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 1-1-0-0 L-1Dallas 2 1 1 0 0 6 6 2 1-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 1-1-0-0 L-1Calgary 2 1 1 0 0 4 7 2 0-1-0-0 1-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 W-1Anaheim 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-1-0-0 L-1Edmonton 2 0 2 0 0 1 5 0 0-0-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-2-0-0 L-2Los Angeles 2 0 2 0 0 2 9 0 0-2-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-2-0-0 L-2

Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 points and a victory in the W col-umn; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in the OTL or SOL columns.

N.Y. Islanders 4 Winnipeg 2Tampa Bay 6 Boston 3Buffalo 4 Columbus 2Philadelphia 1 Florida 0Vancouver at Anaheim

Montreal 3 Ottawa 1

Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.San Jose at Washington, 7 p.m.Nashville at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Florida at Carolina, 7 p.m.Montreal at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Edmonton at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 9 p.m.Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Columbus, 7 p.m.Chicago at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.Boston at Colorado, 10 p.m.Arizona at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.

Nashville at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.Chicago at Washington, 7 p.m.Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Buffalo at Florida, 7:30 p.m.St. Louis at Edmonton, 9 p.m.Minnesota at Arizona, 10 p.m.

MONDAYLIGHTNING 6, BRUINS 3First Period1. Boston, Krejci 2 (Krug, Bergeron) 2:59 (pp).2. Boston, Eriksson 1 (Krug, Krejci) 11:02 (pp).3. Tampa Bay, Boyle 1 (Hedman, Namestnikov) 15:42.4. Tampa Bay, Palat 1 (Johnson, Stral-man) 16:51 (pp).

— Carle TBL (hooking) 2:41, Namestnikov TBL (holding) 10:39, Bergeron Bos (goaltender interference) 15:58.Second Period5. Tampa Bay, Boyle 2 (unassisted) 4:48.6. Boston, Eriksson 2 (Krejci, Krug) 12:20 (pp).7. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 2 (Stralman, Johnson) 15:17 (pp).

— Sustr TBL (hooking) 2:44, Krejci Bos (goaltender interference) 6:34, Carle TBL (high-sticking) 11:01, Bergeron Bos (hooking) 14:13.Third Period8. Tampa Bay, Drouin 1 (Condra, Hed-man) 5:38.9. Tampa Bay, Filppula 1 (Killorn, Brown) 15:58.

— Pastrnak Bos (goaltender interference) 12:38.ShotsTampa Bay 9 8 6—23Boston 13 10 7—30

— Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 3-0-0). Boston: Rask (L, 0-3-0).

— Tampa Bay: 2-4; Boston: 3-4.

NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCEEAST W L T Pct PF PANew England 4 0 0 1.000 149 76N.Y. Jets 3 1 0 .750 95 55Buffalo 3 2 0 .600 124 105Miami 1 3 0 .250 65 101

SOUTH W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 3 2 0 .600 99 113Tennessee 1 3 0 .250 102 91Houston 1 4 0 .200 97 135Jacksonville 1 4 0 .200 93 145

NORTH W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 5 0 0 1.000 148 101Pittsburgh 3 2 0 .600 120 95Cleveland 2 3 0 .400 118 132Baltimore 1 4 0 .200 123 137

WEST W L T Pct PF PADenver 5 0 0 1.000 113 79San Diego 2 3 0 .400 116 134Oakland 2 3 0 .400 107 124Kansas City 1 4 0 .200 117 143

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEAST W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 3 2 0 .600 132 109Dallas 2 3 0 .400 101 131Washington 2 3 0 .400 97 104Philadelphia 2 3 0 .400 117 103

SOUTH W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 5 0 0 1.000 162 112Carolina 4 0 0 1.000 108 71Tampa Bay 2 3 0 .400 110 148New Orleans 1 4 0 .200 103 143

NORTH W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 5 0 0 1.000 137 81Minnesota 2 2 0 .500 80 73Chicago 2 3 0 .400 86 142Detroit 0 5 0 .000 83 138

WEST W L T Pct PF PAArizona 4 1 0 .800 190 90St. Louis 2 3 0 .400 84 113Seattle 2 3 0 .400 111 98San Francisco 1 4 0 .200 75 140

Pittsburgh 24, San Diego 20

Chicago 18, Kansas City 17Green Bay 24, St. Louis 10Buffalo 14, Tennessee 13Cincinnati 27, Seattle 24, OTAtlanta 25, Washington 19, OTTampa Bay 38, Jacksonville 31Philadelphia 39, New Orleans 17Cleveland 33, Baltimore 30, OTArizona 42, Detroit 17Denver 16, Oakland 10New England 30, Dallas 6N.Y. Giants 30, San Francisco 27Open: Carolina, Miami, Minnesota, N.Y. Jets

Indianapolis 27, Houston 20

SUNDAYGIANTS 30, 49ERS 27San Francisco 3 3 7 14—27N.Y. Giants 3 10 7 10—30

SF — FG Dawson 43, 11:19.NYG — FG Brown 22, 6:22.

NYG — Vereen 2 pass from Manning (Brown kick), 12:15.NYG — FG Brown 41, 3:57.SF — FG Dawson 22, 1:01.

SF — Boldin 3 pass from Kaepernick (Dawson kick), 8:00.NYG — Beckham Jr. 17 pass from Man-ning (Brown kick), 1:14.

SF — Celek 5 pass from Kaepernick (Dawson kick), 11:49.NYG — FG Brown 24, 4:29.SF — Hyde 2 run (Dawson kick), 1:45.NYG — Donnell 12 pass from Manning (Brown kick), 0:21.A — 78,515 at East Rutherford.

BRONCOS 16, RAIDERS 10Denver 0 3 6 7—16

No scoring

Den — FG McManus 25, 14:19.Oak — Reece 3 pass from Carr (Jan-ikowski kick), 9:37.

Den — FG McManus 20, 11:25.Den — FG McManus 52, 6:29.

Den — Harris Jr. 74 interception return (McManus kick), 6:53.Oak — FG Janikowski 50, 1:40.A — 54,500 at Oakland.

PATRIOTS 30, COWBOYS 6

NE — FG Gostkowski 49, 8:19.Dal — FG Bailey 51, 1:46.

FOOTBALL

HOCKEY

MLB PLAYOFFSDIVISION SERIES

(Best-of-5 series)AMERICAN LEAGUE

KANSAS CITY VS. HOUSTON(Series tied 2-2)

Kansas City 9 Houston 6

Houston 4 Kansas City 2

Houston (McHugh 19-7) at Kansas City (Cueto 4-7), 8:07 p.m.

TORONTO VS. TEXAS(Series tied 2-2)

Toronto 8 Texas 4

Toronto 5 Texas 1Wednesday, Oct. 14

Texas (Gallardo 13-11) at Toronto (Stroman 4-0), 4:07 p.m.NATIONAL LEAGUE

ST. LOUIS VS. CHICAGO(Chicago leads 2-1)

Chicago 8 St. Louis 6

Chicago 6 St. Louis 3

St. Louis at Chicago

LOS ANGELES VS. NEW YORK(New York leads 2-1)

New York 13 Los Angeles 7

Los Angeles 5 New York 2

Los Angeles at New York

MONDAYBLUE JAYS 8, RANGERS 4 Toronto ab r h bi Texas ab r h biRevere lf 4 1 2 0 Deshields cf 5 0 0 0Donaldson 3b 4 2 1 2 Choo rf 4 2 3 0Bautista rf 5 0 1 0 Beltre 3b 4 0 2 0Encarnacion dh 5 1 2 1 Fielder dh 4 1 1 0Colabello 1b 4 2 2 2 Moreland 1b 4 0 0 1Smoak 1b 1 0 0 0 Andrus ss 4 0 2 1Tulowitzki ss 4 0 0 0 Hamilton lf 2 0 0 0Martin c 3 1 1 0 Alberto 3b 0 0 0 0Pillar cf 4 1 3 3 Napoli ph 1 0 0 0Goins 2b 3 0 0 0 Venable lf 0 0 0 0 Stubbs ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Odor 2b 4 1 1 0 Chirinos c 4 0 2 1

Toronto 313 000 100 —8Texas 001 000 120 —4LOB—Texas 6, Toronto 8. DP—Toronto 1. Texas 2. 2B—Martin (2), Colabello (2), Encarnacion (1), Bautista (1), Odor (1). HR—Donaldson (2); Colabello (1); Pillar (1). SB—Revere (2). Toronto IP H R ER BB SODickey 4 2-3 5 1 1 0 3Price W, 1-1 3 6 3 3 0 2Sanchez 1-3 0 0 0 0 1Osuna 1 0 0 0 0 1TexasHolland L, 0-1 2 5 6 6 1 0Lewis 3 3 1 1 3 1Ohlendorf 1 1 0 0 0 2Diekman 1 2 1 1 0 2Dyson 1 1 0 0 0 0Kela 1 0 0 0 1 0D.Holland pitched to 2 batters in the 3rdWP — Dickey. HBP — Martin. T—3:18. A—47,679 (48,114) at Texas.

SUNDAYBLUE JAYS 5, RANGERS 1 Toronto ab r h bi Texas ab r h biRevere lf 5 0 1 0 Deshields cf 4 0 1 0Donaldson 3b 3 1 2 0 Choo rf 4 0 0 0Bautista rf 4 1 1 0 Fielder dh 4 0 0 0Encarnacion dh 2 1 0 0 Moreland 1b 4 0 0 0Colabello 1b 3 0 0 0 Andrus ss 4 1 1 0Smoak 1b 0 0 0 0 Hamilton lf 3 0 2 0Tulowitzki ss 3 1 2 4 Odor 2b 3 0 0 1Navarro c 4 1 1 0 Chirinos c 3 0 0 0Pillar cf 4 0 2 0 Alberto 3b 3 0 1 0Goins 2b 3 0 0 0

Toronto 001 103 000 —5Texas 000 000 100 —1E—Bautista, Deshields. LOB—Texas 4, Toronto 5. DP—Texas 4. 2B—Alberto (1), Navarro (1), Donaldson (1). HR—Tulowit-zki (1). S—Goins. Toronto IP H R ER BB SOEstrada W, 1-0 6 1-3 5 1 1 0 4Loup 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Lowe 1-3 0 0 0 0 1Sanchez 1 0 0 0 0 1Osuna 1 0 0 0 0 0TexasPerez L, 0-1 5 6 4 4 3 2Gonzalez 1 2-3 2 1 1 2 0Ohlendorf 1 1-3 1 0 0 0 0Tolleson 1 0 0 0 0 1M.Perez pitched to 2 batters in the 6thT—3:08. A—50,941 (48,114) at Texas.

WHLRegina 5 Edmonton 3Saskatoon 6 Swift Current 5Everett 5 Prince Albert 2Seattle 3 Portland 2

Edmonton 4 Brandon 3 (SO)Swift Current 4 Vancouver 1Moose Jaw 4 Kootenay 3Red Deer 5 Calgary 4 (SO)Prince George 4 Tri-City 1Victoria 3 Kamloops 1Seattle 3 Prince Albert 2 (SO)Everett 5 Spokane 4 (OT)

Regina at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Swift Current, 7 p.m.Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.Prince Albert at Portland, 8 p.m.

BCHLCowichan Valley 8 Surrey 4Nanaimo 7 Merritt 3Chilliwack 4 Langley 2Prince George 4 Salmon Arm 3Trail 2 Coquitlam 1 (OT)Powell River 6 Wenatchee 0

Prince George 4 Vernon 3Alberni Valley 4 Cowichan Valley 3 (OT)Penticton 5 Chilliwack 1Salmon Arm 7 Nanaimo 4Surrey 2 Victoria 1 (OT)West Kelowna 3 Powell River 0Wenatchee 8 Coquitlam 1

Trail at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Referees — Dave Jackson, Trevor Hanson. Linesmen — Tony Sericolo, Mike Cvik.Att. — 17,565 at Boston, Mass..

ISLANDERS 4, JETS 2First Period1. N.Y. Islanders, Strome 1 (Okposo, Tavares) 19:48 (pp).

— Chiarot Win (holding) 2:30, Scheifele Win (slashing) 8:06, Okposo NYI (slashing) 8:06, De Haan NYI (cross-checking) 9:32, Ehlers Win (interference) 12:50, Chiarot Win (roughing) 16:06, Stuart Win (interference) 19:02.Second Period2. N.Y. Islanders, Nelson 1 (Tavares, Boychuk) 6:46.3. N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 2 (Lee, Zidlicky) 10:45 (pp).4. Winnipeg, Scheifele 3 (Ehlers, Per-reault) 15:41.

— Cizikas NYI (slashing) 3:14, Ladd Win (roughing) 9:22, Nelson NYI (roughing) 9:22, Byfuglien Win (roughing) 9:42, Byfuglien Win (elbowing) 12:23.Third Period5. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 1 (Perreault, Wheeler) 11:52 (pp).6. N.Y. Islanders, Bailey 1 (Nielsen, Okposo) 19:41 (en).

— Bailey NYI (tripping) 11:27.ShotsWinnipeg 6 9 9—24N.Y. Islanders 16 20 8—44

— Winnipeg: Pavelec (L, 1-1-0). N.Y. Islanders: Greiss (W, 1-0-1).

— Win-nipeg: 1-3; N.Y. Islanders: 2-6.Referees — Eric Furlatt, Garrett Rank. Linesmen — Brian Mach, Steve Barton.Att. — 11,183 at Brooklyn, N.Y..

SABRES 4, BLUE JACKETS 2

First PeriodNo Scoring.

— Bourque Clb (holding) 1:07, Murray Clb (hooking) 3:20, Gorges Buf (holding) 8:57.Second Period1. Buffalo, Ristolainen 1 (Foligno, Kane) 2:33 (pp).

— Foligno Clb (hooking) 0:46,

9:09, Foligno Clb (tripping) 14:35.Third Period

5:10 (pp).3. Columbus, Saad 2 (unassisted) 7:30 (pp).4. Buffalo, Eichel 2 (Moulson, McGinn) 9:21.5. Columbus, Hartnell 1 (Johansen, Foligno) 13:13 (pp).

-lainen) 15:47 (pp).

— Foligno Clb (tripping) 4:33, Girgensons Buf (holding) 6:32, Kane Buf (roughing) 12:20, Bourque Clb (cross-checking) 14:36.ShotsColumbus 7 8 9—24Buffalo 7 16 10—33

— Columbus: Bobrovsky (L, 0-3-0). Buffalo: Johnson (W, 1-1-0).

— Colum-bus: 2-3; Buffalo: 3-7.Referees — Jean Hebert, Francois St. Laurent. Linesmen — Brian Murphy, Andy McElman.Att. — 18,075 at Buffalo, N.Y..

FLYERS 1, PANTHERS 0First Period1. Philadelphia, B. Schenn 2 (Gagner, Couturier) 5:57.

1:17, Gudas Phi (roughing) 11:26, Thorn-ton Flo (holding) 13:58, Couturier Phi (interference) 15:52, Petrovic Flo (rough-ing) 19:03, Brickley Flo (roughing) 19:03, Simmonds Phi (roughing) 19:03.Second PeriodNo Scoring.

— White Phi (slashing) 5:53, Gudas Phi (roughing) 13:46, Gudbranson Flo (roughing) 13:46, Petrovic Flo (interference) 14:57, Laughton Phi (hold-ing) 17:38.Third PeriodNo Scoring.

— None.ShotsFlorida 10 7 14—31Philadelphia 10 14 9—33

— Florida: Luongo (L, 1-1-0). Philadelphia: Neuvirth (W, 1-0-0).

— Florida: 0-6; Philadelphia: 0-3.Referees — Brad Watson, Kyle Rehman. Linesmen — Michel Cormier, Jonny Murray.Att. — 19,769 at Philadelphia, Pa..

NE — Brady 1 run (Gostkowski kick), 3:39.NE — FG Gostkowski 57, 0:03.

NE — Lewis 10 pass from Brady (Gost-kowski kick), 9:48.Dal — FG Bailey 23, 1:17.

NE — Edelman 59 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 12:58.NE — FG Gostkowski 34, 4:41.A — 93,054 at Arlington.

BENGALS 27,

Cincinnati 7 0 0 17 3—27

Cin — Eifert 14 pass from Dalton (Nu-gent kick), 11:02.Sea — Kearse 30 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 6:32.

Sea — FG Hauschka 24, 0:00.

Sea — Rawls 69 run (Hauschka kick), 8:38.Sea — Wagner 23 fumble return (Haus-chka kick), 6:41.

Cin — Eifert 10 pass from Dalton (Nu-gent kick), 12:18.Cin — Dalton 5 run (Nugent kick), 3:38.Cin — FG Nugent 31, 0:00.OvertimeCin — FG Nugent 42, 3:36.A — 65,004 at Cincinnati.

BILLS 14, TITANS 13Tennessee 0 3 7 3—13

No scoring

Ten — FG Succop 21, 14:09.

Ten — Andrews 1 run (Succop kick), 6:51.Buf — Taylor 22 run (Carpenter kick), 1:20.

Ten — FG Succop 41, 9:36.Buf — Hogan 2 pass from Taylor (Car-penter kick), 5:25.A — 65,670 at Nashville.

PACKERS 24, RAMS 10Green Bay 14 0 7 3—24

GB — Montgomery 31 pass from Rodg-ers (Crosby kick), 12:09.GB — Rollins 45 interception return (Crosby kick), 0:53.

STL — Austin 5 pass from Foles (Zuer-lein kick), 7:12.STL — FG Zuerlein 42, 1:40.

GB — Jones 65 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 12:41.

GB — FG Crosby 35, 1:03.A — 78,432 at Green Bay.

No scoring

Was — Carrier 7 pass from Cousins (Hopkins kick), 12:12.Atl — FG Bryant 42, 7:07.

Atl — FG Bryant 28, 1:54.

Atl 9:14...Was — Jones 2 run (pass from Cousins to ), 7:59.Was — FG Hopkins 28, 2:38.Atl — Freeman 6 run (Bryant kick), 0:24.Was — FG Hopkins 52, 0:00.OvertimeAtl — Alford 59 interception return 12:15.A — 70,178 at Atlanta.

CARDINALS 42, LIONS 17Arizona 0 28 7 7—42Detroit 7 0 0 10—17

Det — Riddick 6 pass from Stafford (Prater kick), 2:21.

Ari — Fells 14 pass from Palmer (Catan-zaro kick), 14:55.Ari — Johnson 4 run (Catanzaro kick), 10:56.Ari — Johnson 2 run (Catanzaro kick), 3:11.Ari — Brown 18 pass from Palmer (Catanzaro kick), 2:08.

Ari — Fitzgerald 2 pass from Palmer (Catanzaro kick), 6:27.

Det — FG Prater 40, 11:51.Ari — Ellington 63 run (Catanzaro kick), 10:20.Det — Moore 13 pass from Orlovsky (Prater kick), 1:29.A — 60,816 at Detroit.

EAGLES 39, SAINTS 17

NO — Watson 6 pass from Brees (Hocker kick), 3:35.

Phi — Huff 41 pass from Bradford (Sturgis kick), 11:43.Phi — FG Sturgis 39, 0:10.

NO — FG Hocker 21, 11:12.Phi — Mathews 2 run (Sturgis kick), 6:44.Phi — Celek 13 pass from Bradford (Sturgis kick), 6:31.

Phi — FG Sturgis 29, 0:31.

Phi — FG Sturgis 26, 10:11.Phi — FG Sturgis 41, 4:19.Phi — Murray 4 run (Sturgis kick), 3:44.NO — Cooks 14 pass from Brees (Hocker kick), 0:00.A — 69,296 at Philadelphia.

BUCCANEERS 38, JAGUARS 31Tampa Bay 3 17 11 7—38

TB — FG Barth 35, 10:16.

Jac — Hurns 12 pass from Bortles (My-ers kick), 14:20.TB — FG Barth 45, 10:39.TB — Martin 10 pass from Winston (Barth kick), 7:26.TB — Martin 1 run (Barth kick), 2:26.Jac — Robinson 13 pass from Bortles (Myers kick), 0:36.

Jac — FG Myers 31, 10:03.Jac — Yeldon 4 pass from Bortles (My-ers kick), 2:57.TB — FG Barth 47, 0:29.

TB — Martin 1 run (Barth kick), 8:26.Jac — Robinson 5 pass from Bortles (Myers kick), 1:05.A — 58,490 at Tampa.

Bal — Flacco 1 run (Tucker kick), 8:30.Cle — FG Coons 43, 3:11.Bal — Juszczyk 8 pass from Flacco (Tucker kick), 0:16.

Cle — FG Coons 43, 4:05.Cle — FG Coons 37, 0:00.

Bal — Flacco 1 run (Tucker kick), 7:47.Cle — McCown 10 run (Coons kick), 1:06.

Cle — Barnidge 18 pass from McCown (pass from McCown to ), 12:23.Bal — Forsett 1 run (pass from Flacco to ), 5:56.Cle — Crowell 22 pass from McCown (pass from McCown to Hawkins), 3:03.Bal — FG Tucker 23, 0:25.OvertimeCle — FG Coons 32, 6:43.A — 71,046 at Baltimore.

BEARS 18, CHIEFS 17Kansas City 7 10 0 0—17

KC — Wilson 0 fumble return (Santos kick), 8:13.Chi — FG Gould 44, 0:53.

KC — Thomas 19 pass from Smith (Santos kick), 9:57.KC — FG Santos 35, 0:09.

Chi — FG Gould 30, 3:29.

Chi — Wilson 22 pass from Cutler (pass from Cutler to ), 3:05.Chi — Forte 7 pass from Cutler (pass from Cutler to ), 0:18.A — 75,799 at Kansas City.

CFLWEEK 16EAST GP W L T PF PA PtHamilton 14 9 5 0 460 284 18Toronto 14 9 5 0 375 400 18Ottawa 14 8 6 0 354 376 16Montreal 14 5 9 0 297 307 10

WEST GP W L T PF PA Ptx-Edmonton 15 11 4 0 365 272 22x-Calgary 15 11 4 0 381 305 22B.C. 14 5 9 0 340 394 10Winnipeg 15 5 10 0 298 427 10Saskatchewan 15 2 13 0 357 462 4

Toronto 25 Montreal 17

Edmonton 15 Calgary 11Winnipeg 29 B.C. 26

Hamilton 30 Saskatchewan 15

SATURDAYBLUE BOMBERS 29, LIONS 26Win — FG Castillo 13 4:49B.C. — FG Leone 15 12:21

B.C. — TD Collie 19 pass from Jennings (Leone convert) 0:17Win — FG Castillo 31 3:50B.C. — TD Arceneaux 6 pass from Jen-nings (Leone convert) 10:26Win — FG Castillo 36 13:01B.C. — TD Arceneaux 38 pass from Jen-nings (pass from Jennings to Hawkins) 13:41

Win — Wild 20 fumble return (Castillo convert) 2:35Win — FG Castillo 29 7:40B.C. — Safety 12:54

B.C. — Single Leone 57 5:35Win — TD Denmark 16 pass from Nichols (Castillo convert) 13:06Win — FG Marshall 41 15:00

B.C. 3 20 2 1—26Attendance — 19,826 at B.C.


Bell’s late run leads Vick, Steelers over Chargers 24-20BERNIE WILSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN DIEGO — Five seconds left, down by three points and the ball inside the one.

The Pittsburgh Steelers needed a gutsy play against the San Diego Chargers.

They got it for a stunning victory.Le’Veon Bell scored on a wildcat

run as time expired to give Mike Vick and the Steelers a rousing 24-20 vic-tory Monday night.

Bell took the direct snap, ran left and was slowed in traffic before div-ing for the end zone and getting the ball across the line as Donald Butler dragged him down.

“’I got to get it in,” Bell said. “We still had a timeout left. I was think-ing we still have a timeout left, so I’m thinking, ‘OK, maybe if I get stopped, maybe run like 4 seconds off and get a timeout and we could kick a field goal. I wanted to end the game right there. Bell said it was the most

meaningful touchdown of his three-year career. “The game-winner on the last play of the game, that’s what you dream about,” he said.

Tens of thousands of Pittsburgh fans waving Terrible Towels roared as the Steelers improved to 3-2. San Diego dropped to 2-3.

Vick, having an awful game until the fourth quarter, kept the drive alive with a 24-yard scramble up the middle on third-and-6 from the 41 and then a 16-yard pass to Heath

Miller to 1 a play before Bell’s big run. An unnecessary roughness call against San Diego’s Jahleel Addae moved the ball a half-yard closer to the end zone and stopped the clock.

“It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish,” Vick said.

San Diego called a timeout before Pittsburgh ran the gutsy play.

Bell ran 21 times for 111 yards.San Diego rookie Josh Lambo

kicked a go-ahead, 54-yard field goal with 2: 56 left. Vick, making

his second straight start in place of injured Ben Roethlisberger, couldn’t get much going until he and Markus Wheaton hooked up on a 72-yard touchdown on a stop-and-go route to tie it at 17 with 7:42 left.

The Chargers then moved down the field for Lambo’s kick. Eight days earlier, the rookie kicked a 34-yarder as time expired for a 30-27 win over Cleveland. Lambo also was short and left on a 60-yard attempt just before halftime against the Steelers.

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10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mozzarella cheese-making

workshop with Paula Maddison at Costin

Hall Kitchen, Lantzville $65 http://stircooking-

school.ca/event/cheese-making-workshop-

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4-6:30 p.m. Bowen Road farmers market is

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local farm produce, meats, eggs, pasta, bread,

baking, preserves, homemade soap and

nursery plants. Beban Park fairgrounds,

2300 Bowen Rd.

6:30- 7:15 p.m. Brother XII tour. Downtown

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Artifacts on exhibit at the museum. Pre-regis-

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9:30 a.m. until closing, (regular mall hours)

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8 p.m. Clear The Coast, Myc Sharratt live at

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presents a free, weekly live concert series every

Thursday. 5775 Turner Rd.

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10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cedar Farm Market, Crow

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mind. Don’t be overly concerned

if you witness a lack of response.

Others are quietly weighing the

pros and cons. Don’t be surprised if

someone pulls you aside at a later

point to discuss your ideas. Tonight:

Nap, then decide.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You

could be at a point where you can’t

seem to come up with the right

answer. A partner is likely to pitch

in and help you get through a

problematic project. Say thank you

in your own way. This person might

have an attitude, but don’t let it get

to you. Tonight: Return calls.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Make

time for a conversation, even if the

other person is reticent. You could

be overwhelmed by what you hear.

Try to remain supportive and posi-

tive when dealing with this person.

Give more thought to what he or

she shares later in the day. Tonight:

Off to the gym.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Stay

close to home. A conversation

could come up that gives you food

for thought. You might feel as if

you are being pushed in a certain

direction, but need more time to

consider your choices. Don’t forget

to schedule a dentist appointment.

Tonight: Add some spice to the

night.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Make an

effort to break through someone’s

emotional walls. You can be charm-

ing and kind, but unless the other

party wants to open up, it won’t do

any good. Let the issue go if you

can’t break through. Give this per-

son some time and space. Tonight:

Head home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You

sometimes take your innate skills

for granted, and as a result, others

do as well. Take some time to your-

self to recognize what you have to

offer, and refuse to let people take

advantage of you. Tonight: Hang

out with a pal at a favorite place.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Handle

as many important matters as pos-

sible today, as your charisma and

intellect are peaking. You have an

interesting financial predicament

coming in. You need to be more

aware of your spending. Tonight:

Say “yes” to an irresistible offer.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Lie

low and listen more closely when

engaged in conversation, no mat-

ter whom you are dealing with. As

a result, you are likely to discover

what the other party’s priorities

and character traits are. You will

learn a lot. Tonight: Beam in what

you want.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Don’t avoid a get-together. Remain

sure of yourself, as your presence

does make a difference. Be respon-

sive to inquiries, and be willing

to share your thoughts. You have

strong ideas, and you’ll want to use

them to help others. Tonight: Make

it early.

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You stand out when involved with

others. You give perceptive feed-

back, which helps people get past

limited thinking. At the same time,

they don’t feel as if you are talking

down to them. Recognize your lim-

its in this role. Tonight: Where the

crowds are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) If

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tion, step back and do more listen-

ing, and be aware of your reactions.

You might want to figure out when

you first felt these feelings. You are

likely to end up taking on greater

responsibility later in the afternoon.

Tonight: Not to be stopped.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You

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by how much someone else wants

to do for you. Relate to this person

on a one-on-one level to draw

him or her out more. Be willing to

make calls and run some important

errands later in the day. Tonight:

Use your instincts well.

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relative, friend or neighbor out of

his or her irritable mood. You will

notice that many people around

you hold on to a lot of tension. Your

ability to make an impression and

help others change might be lim-

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If you are single, you attract others

like a light draws a firefly. Enjoy

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the two of you might become a

lot more sociable than in the past,

but still need downtime together

in order to have your relationship

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Our mom passed away in her sleep on September 29 in the Nanaimo Regional Hospital with family by her side. Mom was predeceased by her husband Dick in November 1959. She is survived by her brother, Phil Robertson (Helen) of Qualicum, her sons Gordon of Nanaimo and Ray (Ruth) of Celista, BC and several nieces and nephews.

Mom was born in Cumberland and grew up in Port Alberni, it was here she met and married her husband, Dick. They moved from Port Alberni to Courtenay and then to Nanaimo where they raised their boys.

on Wheels’ program, she was also a life member of the Nanaimo Lawn Bowling Club; she spent many happy hours on the green enjoying the competition and the comradery of her favourite sport.

Thank you to Mom’s two very good friend Mona and Pat for all the support they provided her over the years. Thank you also to the staff on 6 West at Nanaimo Regional Hospital.

A Celebration of Life will be held on October 23, 2015 which would have been her ninety fourth birthday. The memorial will be held at the Lawn Bowling Clubhouse in Bowen Park, Nanaimo from 1:00 to 3:00.

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SOCCER

RUGBY WORLD CUP

Russia returns to Euro Championship, Slovakia makes it in for the fi rst time TALES AZZONI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADRID — Russia is returning to the European Championship for the fourth straight time, while Slovakia will be playing in the tournament for the first time as an independent nation.

Russia qualified for next year’s tournament in France with a 2-0 win over Montenegro in Moscow on Mon-day, securing second place in Group G behind group winner Austria. Slovakia defeated Luxembourg 4-2 to finish second to Spain in Group C, guaranteeing its first finals’ appear-ance since it played as a member of the Czechoslovakia in 1992.

Ukraine, Slovenia and Sweden will have to try to qualify through the playoffs.

The top two teams from the nine groups qualify automatically. The best third-placed team also advan-ces, while the other eight meet in a playoff.

Hungary and Turkey are fighting for the final automatic spot as a third-place team. Turkey can qualify by beating Iceland and having Kaz-akhstan defeating Latvia.

England wrapped up its qualifi-cation campaign with a 3-0 win at Lithuania, finishing with the best record in qualifying with 10 straight wins.

Here’s a look at the Euro 2016 qualifiers on Monday:

GROUP CSlovakia’s historic qualification for

Euro 2016 came thanks to a 4-2 win at Luxembourg, which secured the team second place in the group.

Slovakia hadn’t scored in three games but ended the goal drought in a six-minute span in the first half with goals by Marek Hamsik, Adam Nemec and Robert Mak. Luxembourg made it interesting with second-half goals by Mario Mutsch and Lars Gerson, but Hamsik sealed Slovakia’s victory in injury time at the Josy Barthel Stadium in Luxembourg.

Spain, which had already qualified

in advance, finished qualifying first with a 1-0 win at Ukraine, which will have to play in the playoffs.

Ukraine played well and had a series of scoring chances against in Kyiv, but it was stopped by a remarkable performance by Spain goalkeeper David De Gea.

“Ukraine played well but David de Gea was brilliant too,” Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque said. “Ukraine (has) a personality that not a lot of sides have and I wish them all the best in the playoffs.”

Spain, the defending European champions, finished with 27 points from 10 matches, while Slovakia ended with 22 points and Ukraine had 19.

GROUP EEngland will travel to France with-

out a single blemish against its quali-fication campaign.

Goals from Ross Barkley and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, either side of keeper Giedrius Arlauskis’ own goal,

sealed a 3-0 win in Vilnius.Victory meant that Roy Hodgson’s

side becomes only the six team ever to advance to the finals with a 100 per cent record still intact.

“To get ten wins out of ten is never easy in these qualifying groups so we’ve got to be satisfied with it and take a bit of pride in it,” head coach Roy Hodgson said.

Elsewhere, second-placed Switzer-land beat Estonia 1-0 after an own goal from defender Ragnar Klavan in fourth minute of second-half stop-page time.

That meant the Swiss finished with 21 points, nine adrift of England but five ahead of third-placed Slovenia.

Slovenia will face a playoff after ending its campaign with a 2-0 away win to San Marino after second-half goals from Botjan Cesar and substi-tute Nejc Pecnik.

GROUP GRussia qualified with a 2-0 win over

Montenegro and will be making its

fourth consecutive appearance at the European championships.

Veteran defender Oleg Kuzmin and striker Alexander Kokorin scored both Russian goals in the space of five first-half minutes to ensure Rus-sia the second automatic qualifying place in the group behind Austria, which had already qualified.

Qualification caps a dramatic turn-around under new coach Leonid Slutsky, who took charge of the team in August with the 2018 World Cup host struggling to qualify. The team has since won all four of its games following Slutsky’s appointment.

“We coped with the task in front of us. Today’s game was fairly difficult because the last match is tricky,” Slutsky said. “You can’t let yourself relax for a second.”

Austria completed its unbeaten qualifying campaign with a straight-forward 3-0 win over Liechtenstein, while Sweden beat Moldova 2-0 to finish third in the group and enter next month’s playoffs.

Slovakia’s Marek Hamsik celebrates after scoring during a Group C Euro 2016 qualifying soccer match between

Luxembourg and Slovakia at the Josy Barthel stadium in Luxembourg on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

Italy’s coach sends his players a messageANDREW DAMPF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME — Mario Balotelli was named in the team of the tournament at the last European Championship.

Three goals, including a semi-final brace against Germany secured Italy’s place in the final.

However, the AC Milan forward has been warned that he will have to “work much harder” if he is to make the squad for the upcoming tourna-ment in France in June.

“I’m going to take note of the group that got us here,” Italy coach Antonio Conte said Monday, two days after the Azzurri qualified with a win in Azerbaijan.

“Whoever wants to join in will have to deserve it twice as much, and will have to work much harder to take the place of those that are here.”

Balotelli, who is on loan at AC Milan after a miserable season at Liverpool, has scored one goal in four appearances in Serie A since his return to the Rossoneri.

Another striker, Giuseppe Rossi also risks being omitted from Conte’s final 23-man squad.

Rossi is gradually returning to full fitness at Fiorentina after more sur-gery on his troublesome right knee last year.

In the pair’s absence, Conte has taken a liking to Brazilian-born Eder and Graziano Pelle of Southampton, with Stephan El Shaarawy also in the mix.

After scoring just one goal in the Premier League last season, Balotelli scored a majestic free kick against Udinese last month to end a sev-en-month scoring drought.

The Euros, it should be noted, were the stage on which Balotelli performed best, scoring both goals in Italy’s 2-1 semifinal win over Ger-many in 2012.

JEROME PUGMIRE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

To Sonny Bill Williams, the All Blacks’ stunning loss to France in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Rugby World Cup is ancient history.

It doesn’t scar him.It barely registers with him.“I didn’t even watch the game, I

was playing rugby league then,” Wil-liams said on Monday. “I just remem-ber a week after when I flew back into New Zealand, it was a pretty sad time.”

Williams, who came off the bench to score the fifth of New Zealand’s seven tries in the 47-9 win against

Tonga last Friday, wants a longer crack at the French on Saturday, when they meet in the quarterfinals in Cardiff once again.

He barely had time to make an impression in the 2011 World Cup final, replacing Ma’a Nonu at inside centre with a few minutes remain-ing as the All Blacks held on to beat France 8-7 in a nerve-shredding finale.

The Tricolors looked short of ideas against Ireland on Sunday, losing 24-9 to slip to second place in Pool D and into a quarterfinal with New Zealand, rather than Argentina.

Four years ago, France also lost its last pool game to Tonga 19-14, but somehow turned things around to reach the final and almost topple New Zealand in its own back yard.

The eccentricity has gone in the current side, but so has the flair. Coach Philippe Saint-Andre’s side favours brawn over invention.

It’s all very un-French.“They are very physical, and they

defended very strongly (against Ire-land),” New Zealand assistant coach Ian Foster said.

“They are a proud nation who have done extremely well at World Cups. We are under no illusions how tough

it will be, and we saw against Ireland that they are prepared to put their bodies in the line.”

Although Foster insists “France have got a ‘A game’ that is very, very dangerous,” that was rarely seen against Ireland.

But in a corner of Williams’ mind, there is a nagging doubt that Saint-Andre might have enough in reserve to stage another upset.

In a way, Williams probably wouldn’t be playing on Saturday without him.

Their paths crossed previously at French side Toulon, where Williams had a stint from 2008-10 —

before he was an All Black.“He was an awesome coach and he

really brought out the best in me. He helped me kick-start my ambitions to go back to New Zealand and have a crack at the All Blacks’ jersey,” Wil-liams said.

“He just said, ’Make sure you are there for the set plays and back your instinct.’

“Then I started playing some pretty good footie.

“I think he knows each individ-ual in his side and knows their strengths,” Williams added.

“Hopefully it doesn’t work this weekend.”

No psychological scars for Williams from the All Blacks


Cutting down on red meat may be healthier

Why is it that so many things are bad for you these days? We know that too much sugar, salt

and calories are a bad combination for longevity.

Now, the health publication, Nutri-tion Action, says red meat increases the risk of several major diseases. Horrendous news for me as roast beef and mashed potatoes are my favourite meal. So how risky is it to eat meat?

Dr. Walter Willett at Harvard’s School of Public Health is a top nutritional guru. He says that nine per cent of deaths in the Har-vard study could have been saved

if people ate less red meat daily. In effect, the consumption of red meat was related to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and cancer.

Willett says that the strongest evi-dence that red meat causes cancer is colon malignancy. And that the main culprits are processed red meats like bacon, sausage, hot dogs and lunch meats.

Moreover, eating meats during adolescence increases the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women. So far Willett doesn’t know why this happens. But he points to an interesting fact. When the atomic bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima young breasts were more likely to develop cancer from the radiation while women over 40 years of age had virtually no risk of this disease.

But why is red meat so dangerous? Willett’s answer is that processed

meats contain preservatives such as nitrites and nitrosamines and we know these are carcinogenic in animals.

In addition, red meat contains high levels of saturated fat.

So what is a meat lover to do? Wil-lett says you should try to get protein from other sources such as poultry, fish, nuts, beans and low fat dairy products. And the healthiest dairy food is yogurt because of its effect on microbes in the intestine.

I found Willett’s remarks on the environment of particular inter-est. He points out that cattle emit large amounts of methane gas, and according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, methane’s impact on climate is 20 times greater than carbon dioxide’s! In addition, cattle produce five times more greenhouse gas than chickens, pigs and hens.

We also know that cattle require nutrition and it takes huge amounts

of energy to produce fertilizer to row corn, soy beans and other crops to feed them. There’s also another problem. Excess fertilizer can end up in lakes and rivers leading to low oxygen dead zones.

Tons of manure can also pollute our waterways. Finally, antibiotics used in animals are not good for any of us as they lead to resistant bacteria.

But Willett also reminds us that risk comes in a number of different packages. For instance, he empha-sizes that other habits such as smoking, inadequate exercise, trans fats and a lack of fruit and vegetables can increase the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease. He also stresses that people who consume more white bread, rice, potatoes, sweets and cola drinks have the same risk of heart attack as those who eat red meat. And that obesity is another huge risk factor.

It appears this dietary message is getting through to North Americans. Since 1975 Canadians are consuming half the amount of meat and double the amount of poultry.

In the U.S. the Federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has urged people to eat less red and processed meat and to make sure it’s lean.

This must make ranchers and meat processors reach for Prozac!

So what will I do? Hell will freeze over before I turn down prime rib and mashed potatoes when I see them listed on the menu. But I admit that in our home we now eat more fish, poultry, fresh fruit and vegetables.

It all gets back to moderation, realizing that it’s highly unlikely that only an occasional meal of steak is going to shorten one’s life.

See website www.docgiff.com.

Dr. W. Gifford-Jones

The Doctor Game

PUBLIC POLICY

China smoking health crisis loomsTobacco deaths, mostly among men, reached 1M by 2010, and will hit 2M by 2030; quitting sees as solution

DIDI TANG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Research published in the medical journal The Lan-cet says one in three of all the young men in China are likely to die from

tobacco, but that the number can fall if the men quit smoking.

The studies, conducted by research-ers from Oxford University, the Chi-nese Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese Center for Disease Control, show that two-thirds of the young men in China start to smoke, mostly before age 20, and that half of those will eventually be killed by tobacco unless they stop permanently.

The research, involving two studies 15 years apart and including hun-dreds of thousands of people, says the number of tobacco deaths, mostly among men, reached 1 million by 2010 and will hit 2 million by 2030 if current trends continue.

But researchers say the trends could be stemmed if the smokers quit.

“The key to avoid this huge wave of deaths is cessation, and if you are a young man, don’t start,” said co-au-thor Richard Peto, from the Univer-sity of Oxford.

Smoking rates have dropped sig-nificantly among men in developed countries. In the United States, about 20 per cent of adult men smoke and 15 per cent of women do, and cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In China, the percentage of smok-ers among Chinese men has been on

the rise in recent decades as ciga-rettes have become easily available.

As more Chinese people start to puff at younger ages, researchers expect the proportion of male deaths attributed to smoking to increase.

Around the world, tobacco kills up to half of its users, and more than five million deaths annually result from direct tobacco use, according to the World Health Organization.

However, with tobacco an import-ant source of revenue for the Chinese

government, Beijing’s efforts to control tobacco use have in the past been compromised.

Also, many people in China find it difficult to kick the habit in a cul-ture where smoking has become so ingrained.

“It is difficult, because there is a lot of pressure at work, so I smoke to alleviate the tension,” Beijing office worker Wei Bin, 32, said in an interview.

“At the same time our country does

not provide good support for people who want to quit. I have tried elec-tronic cigarettes, but I think that is perhaps worse,” Wei said.

Some people are showing growing signs of awareness of the health risks.

“Three years ago, I used to smoke, but now I realize it is bad for health and also the environment, so I quit,” office worker Ma Huiwei, 35, said in downtown Beijing.

The research published in The Lan-

cet shows that the number of young men smoking in China has increased, and the percentage of all male deaths in China that can be attributed to smoking is rising, while younger generations of Chinese women have become less likely to smoke com-pared to those born in the 1930s.

Yet, researchers also worry that this downward trend among Chinese women might be reversed as other studies have shown more young women taking up smoking recently.

Men smoke outside of an office building in Beijing on Saturday. Research published in the medical journal ‘The Lancet’ says one in three of all the young men in China

are likely to die from tobacco-related illnesses, but that the number can fall if the men quit smoking. [AP PHOTO]

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Ungrateful daughter causes problems for parents

Dear Annie: My wife and I are in our early 70s and have two daugh-ters. The younger one lives nearby, is married and has a two-year-old. The older one, “Deirdre,” is divorced from a verbally and emotionally abusive husband.

We had warned Deirdre against marrying this man because they seemed incompatible, but we were supportive when she insisted she loved him. They moved 4,000 kilo-

metres away, and we travelled as often as possible to see her and show that we cared. When she called at 3 a.m., crying and begging me to talk to her husband, I travelled alone to comply.

We suggested they seek counsel-ling, which they did, but it didn’t help. When Deirdre filed for divorce, we paid for her lawyer. When her ex left her high and dry, we paid for a new car so she could get to work and drive her daughter to school.

We pay their airfare to come here for summers and holidays.

Annie, we are on a fixed income and it takes a lot of sacrificing to pay for all of these expenses. When we visit, my wife cooks and helps our granddaughter with her homework, while I clean house and take her to and from school. Meanwhile, she has become just as confrontational as her

mother. The girl never says thank you, is not affectionate toward us and has no respect for our authority.

Recently, Deirdre became angry when our granddaughter called her at work in tears over a broken necklace.

We were partly blamed for the inci-dent and we flew back home upset and are currently not on speaking terms with Deirdre. I recently sent her a birthday card with a check, tell-ing her that I will always love her. I don’t want to sever relations, but this relationship negatively affects my wife and I wonder whether there is a better solution.

– Up the Creek Without a Paddle

Dear Creek: Yes. Let go. Deirdre is difficult and her life with an abuser didn’t help. Her daughter is a com-bination of her parents, so you can-

not expect sweetness and light from the girl. What you can do is accept them as they are. You are equating your financial sacrifices with your treatment, but it won’t always match up. Do what you feel comfortable doing, but without expecting an emotional reward. Deirdre and her daughter could benefit from coun-seling, and you can suggest it, but again, keep your expectations in check. It will save you a lot of grief in the long run.

Dear Annie: Today, Oct. 13, is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Metastatic breast cancer is can-cer that has spread from the breast to other organs in the body, most commonly the bones, liver, lungs or brain. Unfortunately, most of us diag-nosed with MBC will eventually die from the disease.

Additional research and treatment development will help a great many patients in the future. Please urge your readers to get informed.

— New YorkDear New York: Thank you for

the timely reminder. Anyone who is interested in more information can contact the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network at mbcn.org or the National Cancer Institute at cancer.gov. We’ll be thinking of you.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Cre-ators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Her-mosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

Kathy Mitchell & Marcy SugarAnnie’s Mailbox

ADVICE

MOVIES

‘Pan’ lacks Neverland magic at the box offi ce, but ‘The Martian’ soarsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Pan produced no Neverland magic at the box office.

The fantasy, which cost an esti-mated $150 million to produce, earned $15.5 million in its opening weekend, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday making it one of the worst bombs of the year. Early tracking did not look promising for the Joe Wright-directed film but still predicted that Pan would open at least in the $20 million range.

The PG-rated epic, sold as a Peter Pan origin story and a lavish visual feast, has had a bumpy ride from the beginning, starting when actress Rooney Mara, who is white, was cast as Tiger Lily, who is historically Native American.

The film, starring Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund, also had been pushed from July to October. It has not been well-received by critics.

Pan now ranks among 2015’s big-gest flops, including Fantastic Four and Tomorrowland. International earnings don’t look promising either. The film brought in a weak $20.5 million. For comparison, The Martian earned $58.1 million.

He also believes competition in the family market from the Hallow-een-themed animated feature Hotel Transylvania 2 hurt Pan.

“Family films always have an audi-ence, but that audience is extremely fickle and hard to please, just like the kids who go to these movies,” Dergarabedian said. “You just never know what’s going to resonate.”

Sony’s high-wire spectacle The Walk also stumbled in its first week-end in wide release, after debuting on IMAX screens last week. The tale of Philippe Petit’s tight-rope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center earned $3.7 million this

weekend, bringing its total to $6.4 million. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars.

Not all was bleak at the box office, though. Ridley Scott’s space adven-ture The Martian earned a solid $37 million in its second week in theatres, nabbing the top spot once more. Its domestic total now stands at $108.7 million.

Hotel Transylvania 2 took second place in its third weekend with $20.3 million, bumping its total to $116.8 million. “Pan” came in at No. 3.

Nancy Meyers’ workplace comedy The Intern earned $8.7 million, and the border thriller Sicario brought in $7.4 million, rounding out the top five.

Outside the top 10, Steve Jobs,

the biopic of the late Apple CEO directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, opened in four the-atres in New York and Los Angeles to a powerful $520,942. Its $130,000 per-theatre average ranks as the best of the year and should bode well for the film’s expansion across the next two weeks.

“This is a movie everyone’s talking about, and now they’re going to be talking about it even more,” Dergara-bedian said.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Can-adian theatres, according to Rentrak.

Where available, the latest inter-national numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures for the U.S. were to be released Monday.

1. The Martian, $37 million ($58.1 million international).

2. Hotel Transylvania 2, $20.3 mil-lion ($22.7 million international).

3. Pan, $15.5 million ($20.5 million international).

4. The Intern, $8.7 million ($14.8 million international).

5. Sicario, $7.4 million ($6.4 mil-lion international).

6. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, $5.3 million ($16 million international).

7. The Walk, $3.7 million ($5.2 mil-lion international).

8. Black Mass, $3.1 million ($2.6 million international).

9. Everest, $3 million ($8.1 million international).

10. The Visit, $2.4 million ($2.6 million international).

Levi Miller, right, and Hugh Jackman in a scene from the film, ‘Pan.’

MOVIES

Silver screen disasters that cost a bundle THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Pan walked the plank this weekend and it didn’t go well. Warner Bros.’ $150 million live-action Peter Pan origin story captured a dismal $15.5 million from North American theatres, and its inter-national prospects don’t look much more promising. The film earned only $20.5 million from 52 markets.

In honour of the rare, fascinating spectacle of the box office bomb, here are some of Hollywood’s most infam-ous financial catastrophes.

HEAVEN’S GATE (1980)It might not come close to matching

some of the epic losses on the list, but director Michael Cimino’s West-ern starring Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken is one of cinema’s most famous flops. The $44 million film made only $3.5 mil-lion domestically.

TOWN & COUNTRY (2001)Somehow this no-frills Warren Beat-

ty, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn romantic comedy cost $90 million to produce, and earned $10.3 million worldwide. Suddenly Beatty’s 1987 “Ishtar” embarrassment didn’t look so bad.

HOW DO YOU KNOW (2010)Having not learned any lessons from

“Town & Country’s” out of control budget, writer-director James L. Brooks made this romantic triangle comedy, starring Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd, for $120 million. It went on to gross only $48.7 million.

CUTTHROAT ISLAND (1995)Geena Davis starred alongside Mat-

thew Modine in this pirate adventure, directed by her then-husband Renny Harlin, as a woman seeking buried treasure and vengeance. The $98 million MGM film made only $10 million domestically and for years was considered the biggest money-loser ever.

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