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Rolf Johansen, 82, recalls being on royal duty in May 1971 to drive Queen Elizabeth II, around Comox as part of Her Majesty’s royal tour of B.C. that year; it’s a moment that remains vivid. » Vancouver Island, 9

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he cat came back.

Everyone’s favourite cantankerous, lasagna-eating feeling makes his return to your Daily News pages today. The return of Garfield (of course that’s him to the right, striking a pose) will be among the things you’ll notice are a little different today.

As mentioned last week by publisher Andrea Rosato-Taylor, our commitment to our readers, advertisers and community dictates we constantly strive to improve.

For 141 years, the Nanaimo Daily News and its predecessor, the Daily Free Press, have been proud to serve as the No. 1 news source in the city and its surrounding areas.

I haven’t been around quite that long, but in a few weeks, I’ll begin my 25th year with your favourite publication. (That’s right, I started when I was 12). I was downtown when we were located at 223 Commercial St. and it was the Free Press when I started.

Before that, I often picked up the paper hoping to see my name after a sporting event when one of my Duncan teams inevitably steamrolled the poor Harbour City types.

So the paper has been part of my life for more than three decades. When you folks call me with your questions, concerns or to tell us how much you like us, it means so much to me on a personal level. Because I’m one of you at heart — a reader.

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I’ve seen all kinds of change, from switching offices to changing banner colours and even having my face on the side of buses (for the record, I’m told ridership skyrocketed during this time). Each time, I’ve been excited by the change because it means we’re moving forward. While I understand that some folks simply don’t like their routines altered, in this case, it was definitely time for an update.

You’ll notice the new streamlined look.

More portable, very easy to read through.

Our goal is to expand our coverage, making use of our new Black Press resources to offer you collective coverage you simply can’t find anywhere else.

In addition to our award-winning news, sports and entertainment coverage in and around the Nanaimo region, you’ll see more in-depth issue pieces (like Julie Chadwick’s excellent story on Pages 4-5 today). More coverage of issues important to Vancouver Island residents, from Victoria to Port Hardy.

More coverage from across B.C. Weekly special features on food and fashion and movies (even a gossip column), expanded sports coverage of teams like the Canucks and Blue Jays. Basically as much as we can squeeze in there on a daily basis.

As I’ve said many times, you folks are a huge part of this, too. Garfield and For Better or Worse are back on the comics pages today, primarily because you indicated in a reader survey that they were your favourites.

Some of your least-favourites will no longer appear. We will always look to improve, for you. To that end, we’ll continue with those surveys during the coming months as well.

If you love something, let me know. If you miss something, let me know.

Your voice matters. » Daily News managing editor Philip Wolf can be reached by phone at 250-729-4240 or via email at philip.wolf@nanaimodailynews.com

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COLLIERY DAMS

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Nanaimo councillor proudly displays ticket earned while protesting work for spillway

RCMP questing for precious ring

SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Work crews continued removing trees in Colliery Dam Park Wednesday with little disruption, following protest that delayed work in the park for several hours Tuesday.

The city has hired a contractor to build an auxiliary spillway on the lower Colliery Dam, following three years of studies, debate and controversy over new safety standards demanded by the province.

Among the protesters were councillors Jim Kipp and Gord Fuller. Kipp received a $167 bylaw offence ticket for refusing to leave the park when asked by bylaw officers.

Kipp voted with the rest of council to proceed with the auxiliary spillway, but later voted against awarding a contract, citing concerns he had with “anecdotal information� on the dam as well as the process leading up to the decision.

Kipp brandished his bylaw ticket outside the work zone Tuesday, praised protesters, and blamed the bureaucracy at both the city and the

Nanaimo Coun. Jim Kipp holds up a $187 bylaw ticket he received for refusing to leave a construction zone near the lower Colliery dam. [SPENCER ANDERSON/DAILY NEWS]

provincial government for the current situation. “I’m totally disheartened with bureaucracy and how this has come about,� he said. “My new mandate in life is busting bureaucracy.�

Mayor Bill McKay and other councilors declined comment on Kipp and Fuller’s involvement in the protest.

Part of the motion approved by council also included an order to “develop terms of reference for an independent investigation and report on the Colliery Dam process,� which McKay said he supports. “I’d like to clear the air and get the facts out there,� McKay said.

Councillors Ian Thorpe and Wendy Pratt expressed reservations about the investigation. “My personal feeling is the sooner this issue is put to rest, the better,�

Thorpe said.

Pratt said she would not have supported an investigation on the Colliery dam process if it were a separate motion. “At that point, I just wanted us to get on with remediation and I was willing to put up with the other (parts) of the motion,� she said.

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Nanaimo RCMP are looking to reunite a valuable ring with its rightful owner after an eight-year absence.

Const. Gary O’Brien outlined the story in a media release Wednesday: “On a summer day eight years ago, a shiny object caught the eye of a male out for his lunch break. “Much to his surprise what he saw on the sidewalk was an expensive looking gold ring encircled with diamonds. Looking up and down nearby streets and not seeing anyone who appeared frantically searching for it, he placed it in his pocket and there it remained. One day last week, after deciding to take some old clothes to the Salvation Army, the male was checking pockets when he pulled out the ring, found years ago. Eight years is a long time but rings are sentimental and this one relatively unique. Our finder is hopeful who ever lost it can stop can finally stop wondering.�

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Twenty-seven and counting Death count climbs as B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest illicit drug crisis takes hold in Nanaimo port network.

But on Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day this year he died from an overdose that involved a powerful synthetic opiate called fentanyl.

Julie *** Chadwick The public has Reporting heard a lot about fentanyl in recent months.

Similar to morphine, the drug has become more prevalent as a cheap additive to a variety of other street drugs like heroin.

Its varying potency and toxicity has caused it to play a significant role in drug overdose deaths during the past

few years, prompting public warnings from both health officials and the RCMP. From the beginning of 2013 to the end of August this year, there have been 156 illicit drug overdose deaths on Vancouver Island. Fentanyl was detected in 47 of them.

The problem is particularly acute in the Hub City: of those 47 deaths, more than half â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 27 to be exact â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were in Nanaimo, according to preliminary B.C. Coronerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Service figures. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 18 fentanyl-related deaths in Nanaimo are second only to Vancouver, which had 29, particularly significant when you consider Nanaimoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population is approximately 84,000 compared to Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 603,500. By comparison, Victoria recorded seven fentanyl-related deaths

since 2012. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a Lower Mainland problem and a few other strange pockets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of which is Nanaimo,â&#x20AC;?

Barb McLintock, spokesperson for the B.C. coroners office, told the Victoria News in August. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We in Nanaimo are carrying a disproportionate number of those deaths in particular,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Paul Hasselback, medical health officer for the central Island region.

The reason why is not yet entirely clear, though it may be due to the drug entering the market in Nanaimo earlier than other locations, perhaps in parallel with what was happening in the Lower Mainland, added Hasselback. *** Robert and Dylan were born twoand-a-half years apart, close as both

friends and brothers.

Their father was a doctor with an affinity for scuba diving who frequently moved the family all over the world when they were children. That bonded them further.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to say why the drug use moved from teenage partying to a more serious problem, said Robert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think factors in our childhood, in our moving around, perhaps our parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; separation, all those things added up to some pain inside,â&#x20AC;? said Robert, 41, who works as a psychiatric nurse.

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He also struggled with depression.

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Nanaimo task force gathers to combat city’s fentanyl problem

Fentanyl antidote kits working to prevent overdoses in Alberta

TWENTY-SIX, From page 4 “I think addiction is always really self-medication.

Using drugs may not always be self-medication, but addiction is an attempt to deal with pain — emotional pain.” *** According to Hasselback, historically most overdoses did not involve fentanyl, but other drugs. That is changing locally. He estimates that up to half of the recent overdoses in the Nanaimo area may have involved fentanyl.

“This is the new normal,” he said.

A high proportion of those who have died because of fentanyl are habitual drug users, states an Aug. 11 release from the B.C. Coroner’s Service. But fentanyl is most dangerous to people who have little experience with opiates.

In the past few months, increased attention around the drug may be due to how it has entered the world of non-habitual drug users.

“There are teenagers. It’s coming into the middle class, quite literally, and it’s affecting us more personally. There is a message in there, and it’s a powerful message, because we’ve gone almost two years with an increase in overdose deaths associated with fentanyl with very little attention being brought to the issue,” said Hasselback.

“And not surprisingly, that has now worked its way into a population that didn’t see themselves at risk previously. And now we’re going to have to.”

Also at risk are drug users who have relapsed after a long period of staying clean.

Compared on a gram-to-gram basis with heroin, fentanyl is more potent, so if a person is accustomed to taking heroin in a certain volume the same amount may be enough to cause a fatal overdose, said Hasselback.

“We have made seizures of fentanyl-laced spitballs (crack) and heroin, so we are seeing fentanyl in Nanaimo, mixed into other drugs,” said Sgt. Sheryl Armstrong of the Nanaimo RCMP. This is done to make them cheaper, she added.

Fentanyl is a legal drug frequently used medically to treat pain, for example during surgery or in childbirth or for chronic pain in cancer patients.

However police believe most of the readily available street supply is not coming from hospitals or diverted prescriptions but from Turkey and China, said Armstrong. *** Robert doesn’t believe Dylan had intended to take fentanyl, but that it had possibly been laced in with what he thought was heroin. His brother tended to use alone, he said, and this was the case on the night of his death. He still questions whether Dylan may have survived if another person had been present. *** Seated in a sunny, glass-lined office overlooking the New Hope Centre downtown in August, Hasselback adjourned a meeting of Nanaimo’s special fentanyl task force.

Formed six months ago, it comprises the best the city has to offer in terms of drug treatment and prevention, from front-line mental health, emergency response and addictions workers to representatives from the coroner’s service, Aids Vancouver Island, Nanaimo and Area Resource Services for Families, the RCMP and Island Health.

The task force has begun to address the issue of fatal overdoses by focusing on safe use. One approach is to urge people to never take drugs alone, said Hasselback, likening the concept to that of a designated driver.

Another tool in the task force’s arsenal is the distribution of drug kits to users which contain Naloxone, a safe medication which can actually reverse an overdose from an opioid like fentanyl within minutes.

Naloxone kits distributed in B.C. as part of a program have reversed more than 260 overdoses since 2012, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

Education around safer consumption of drugs is also

Alberta’s provincial health agency says “fentanyl antidote” kits have saved at least four lives since they hit the streets of Calgary earlier this summer.

Alberta Health Services says that in the last 10 weeks, about 100 naloxone kits were given out by the Safeworks program. An awareness campaign, partnering with the Calgary Police Service, was launched just over a month ago to try to curb abuse of the drug.

In the first six months of 2015, 145 people in Alberta died from taking drugs in which fentanyl was detected.

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Sept. 17-Sept. 26, 2015 Authorities are not certain why fentanyl seems to have a larger presence in Nanaimo than virtually any other B.C. community. [CALGARY HERALD]

an issue, said Hasselback, and many people don’t realize that in terms of preventing overdose, it is safer to inhale drugs rather than swallow or inject them.

On a broader level, prevention also needs to take the form of a shift in the social conversation around drug use in the community, argues Hasselback.

“This is a market-driven situation, and what we are getting is a series of tragic outcomes being driven by a market we consider to be illicit, but in reality everyone knows is out there and part of our society,” he said.

“Continuing to treat it as an illicit substance actually contributes to the tragic outcomes of overdoses, rather than looking at a more regulated approach. What are we trying to achieve by labeling a drug as ‘illegal’? Fentanyl itself is a legal drug.”

The solution may be found in a less

restrictive approach where substances that are being commonly used need to be discussed openly, much in the same manner as alcohol and cannabis, he said.

“If we’re not willing to acknowledge we have an issue out there and have a conversation, we’re not going to make it any better. And it won’t go away on its own,” he said. *** For Robert, who has had to take time off work to deal with Dylan’s death, healing will ultimately take time.

“It’s devastating. It’s a word that is used a lot for death, but he’s — he was my best friend. Very much so,” he said.

“I lived with him for quite a lot of my adulthood. We were just very, very close.

“I feel like a piece of me is gone.”

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Curbing log exports would make more wood available to local manufacturers and create more jobs under a New Democrats government, election campaigners said outside the Harmac Pacific mill Wednesday.

Working with the province to curb log exports is part of a multi-pronged NDP plan to inject new life into forestry announced by NDP House Leader Peter Julian. He and NDP Nanaimo-Ladysmith federal election candidate Sheila Malcolmson unveiled the plan outside the Nanaimo pulp mill.

The NDP plan would get more people working in the B.C. forest industry, Julian said. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen 2,000 forestry jobs vanish in his Burnaby-New Westminster riding, while the Island has lost â&#x20AC;&#x153;around 7,000 jobs.â&#x20AC;? He said an NDP government â&#x20AC;&#x153;will work with the provincial governments to reduce the export of raw logs.â&#x20AC;?

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dealing with is affordable fibre, so any announcement to do with a lower proportion of raw logs shipped overseas is good for us,â&#x20AC;? Harmac president Levi Sampson said.

B.C. softwood producers say a glut of logs grown on B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crown lands artificially drives log prices down, forcing them to export in order to get a fair return on planting, growing and manufacturing costs. They say reducing exports will kill logging jobs, but Julian said government will create many more jobs with the same amount harvested.

Russ Cameron, Independent Wood Processors Association president, said his members will definitely welcome the NDP plan.

Cameron said members are â&#x20AC;&#x153;really scaredâ&#x20AC;? about the loss of British Columbian control over log exports under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement now in negotiation among Canada and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. Negotiations are needed for a new Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement. The current agreement expires in October.

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Canadian astronaut to speak in Nanaimo

All open fires allowed in Coastal fire region

ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s upcoming visit to Nanaimo will bring a vision of leadership to the city many can learn from, according to the event’s sponsors.

Hadfield, the first Canadian commander of the International Space HADFIELD Station, will speak at the Port Theatre at a sold-out event on Oct. 20.

The event is being sponsored by the Nanaimo Daily News, Coastal Com-

munity Credit Union, Nanaimo Port Authority, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation, Newcastle Nissan and the MNP accounting firm.

Adrian Legin, president and CEO of the Coastal Community Credit Union, said helping to bring “interesting and inspiring thought leaders” to the Island is something the credit union is passionate about.

“Amazing things can happen when people are inspired by the lives and work of others, which is why we’re committed to offering these kinds of opportunities,” Legin said.

Bernie Dumas, president of the Nanaimo Port Authority, said Nanaimo needs a person of “Hadfield’s stature” to speak positively about leadership in the community.

“The port authority has always had a focus on helping out with community activities,” Dumas said.

“There has been a lot of negativity in the city lately so Chris is the right kind of guy for people to listen to.”

Ralph Nilson, president of VIU, said the university is proud to have the opportunity to have an “outstanding leader” like Chris Hadfield speak to the community.

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Sasha Angus, CEO of NEDC, said Hadfield’s visit provides local youth the opportunity to “dream big.”

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“We do lots of things, but we never look for praise for them,” he said.

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Jaclyn Koning, cousin of Kristy Morrey, speaks on behalf of the deceased Port Alberni resident’s family during a press conference in the city’s RCMP detachment. Seated is Chuck McDonald, Officer in Charge of the RCMP’s E Division Serious Crime Unit. [ERIC PLUMMER/ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES]

Murder suspect needs a lawyer MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

The man accused of murdering Kristy Morrey nine years ago in Port Alberni made his first appearance in provincial court on Wednesday morning.

Larry Sinclair Darling, 51, was brought into the Port Alberni provincial courtroom while in custody.

He was arrested on Friday in Surrey and charged with first-degree murder.

Morrey was found dead in her Beaver Creek home on Aug. 20, 2006.

She was 28.

Darling stood expressionless in the prisoner’s box and faced Judge Brian Klaver, who asked him if he had a lawyer.

“No,” Darling answered. “I was talk-

Because of the severity of the charge, the provincial court has no jurisdiction to conduct Darling’s bail hearing, Judge Klaver said.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Insp. Chuck McDonald, of the RCMP’s serious crime unit, stated that investigators are continuing their efforts in preparation for an upcoming trial.

Details of the case are not being released. The serious crime unit was asked to support the investigation beginning in 2013, McDonald told gathered media.

“The entire time we have family, friends, and in the case an entire community not only mourning the loss, but also searching for answers,” McDonald stated.

ing to duty counsel, or whatever.” Klaver then directed the accused to leave the courtroom and called a recess.

Family and friends of the victim also attended court. They did not speak to the media. Duty counsel for the day, lawyer John Bennie, told the AV Times he could not represent Darling because he knows the extended family of the victim, which would create a conflict of interest.

After a short break Darling was brought back into the courtroom.

Klaver advised him to retain a lawyer and adjourned the case to Oct. 14 in Port Alberni. Darling will remain in custody by consent, at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre (Wilkinson Road) in Victoria.

A newly-released legal opinion backs Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay in an ongoing council dispute regarding the mayor’s powers under the Community Charter.

But Coun. Gord Fuller says he puts no stock in the opinion and may pursue his own court action to appeal McKay’s rulings on meeting decorum.

At issue is the interpretation of section 132 and 133 of the Community Charter.

McKay has cited section 133 as giving him power to remove members of the public from council meetings for holding up protest signs during council meetings, citing complaints from other residents and deteriorating meeting decorum.

The section gives the presiding officer of the council meetings the right to expel a member of the public for acting “improperly.”

At a recent council meeting, Fuller challenged McKay under section 132, which allows a councillor to appeal a mayor’s decision on order and points of order at a meeting. McKay responded that the two sections did not apply to each other and denied the appeal.

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Fuller dismissed the opinion and pledged a court challenge if McKay rejects further appeals on his rulings.

“I would pursue it and I know I could get the funds,” Fuller said, referring to crowd sourcing.

McKay declined comment on Fuller’s statements, but said he would keep his stance on signs at public meetings — at least until council sets clearer standards defining proper conduct.

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Rolf Johansen can still remember the week he chauffeured the Queen around.

While the 82-year-old may not be as nimble as he was back then, his memory is still sharp and he recalls the moment like it was yesterday.

It was May, 1971 and Queen Elizabeth II was on a royal tour of British Columbia to celebrate the centennial of the province’s entry into Confederation.

Johansen, a master corporal, was tasked by an Air Force Officer with driving the Queen around upon her arrival at the Comox Harbour.

“She arrived on the (royal yacht) Britannia and I picked her up and we went everywhere,” recalls Johansen, a native of Norway who moved to Canada in 1950. “It was a Rolls Royce silver convertible and I wasn’t allowed to put gas in it or wash it and every night after I parked it, it was under armed guard.”

A guard also sat beside Johansen in the passenger seat with a gun tucked neatly under his arm.

“If I took my hands off the steering wheel, he probably would have shot me,” Johansen said.

To commemorate the experience, Johansen has framed photographs that were sent to him from Buckingham Palace chronicling the adventure — one photo even shows Johansen chauffeuring the Queen down Cliffe Avenue in Courtenay.

Johansen shared the photos Wednesday during a ceremony at Campbell River City Hall to celebrate Elizabeth II as the longest reigning monarch at more than 63 years and seven months, or 23,226 days.

She surpasses her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, who formerly held that distinction.

At 89, Elizabeth II has sat on the throne for six decades. As the oldest of two sisters, she became queen in 1952 at the age of 25 following the death of her father, King George VI. At Wednesday’s ceremony at Campbell River City Hall, Freeman and former Mayor Mary Ashley had high praise for Queen Elizabeth.

“If I took my hands off the steering wheel, he probably would have shot me.”

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“As a figure of unity she denies herself the expression of personal opinions in favour of listening to what we have to say,” said Ashley, who is a recipient of one of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medals given out in 2012. “She is a Mother of our Confederation and constant companion in the ups and downs of our nation’s life. ‘I am no fair weather friend,’ she once observed while visiting Canada.”

And it was during one of those visits to Canada that Johansen got a glimpse into who the Queen really is.

“Oh, she’s beautiful,” Johansen said.

“She’s perfectly nice.

“I wasn’t allowed to speak to her but she spoke to me. She saw my kids – my four sons – outside waving and she waved back at them and complimented me on my kids being nice,” Johansen says.

“She gave me one of those painted eggs, the ones the Hungarians make, and she said ‘give it to your boys’. Well, I kept it. I wasn’t giving it to them. I still have it.”

Coincidentally, Mayor Andy Adams said he too was involved in the Queen’s 1971 visit to Vancouver Island.

“In 1971 when the Queen was visiting Victoria I was in my Boy Scouts uniform,” Adams said. “There was a barricade of Scouts as the Queen went in to the Royal BC Museum.”

Ashley also recounted her brush with royalty. As a Girl Guide in Vancouver she was part of the Honour Guard when Queen Elizabeth visited as a princess in 1951.

Ashley said that experience made Wednesday’s commemoration all the more special for her.

She said she was honoured to pay tribute to a monarch who inspires by example.

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Time to put the tiresome bickering aside and get to work

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o much for our hope that Nanaimo council would be able to put its differences behind it after the chainsaws began firing around the Colliery dams.

Instead of focusing on working together on some of the many projects needed to make this a better community, some councillors spent their week being ticketed for blockading council-approved projects, or threatening lawsuits against city hall.

Does this really contribute to the democratic well-being of the community?

The battlegrounds are tiresome even to new area residents: the decision to rework the Colliery Dam, and the way the city has handled the pro-

tests that followed.

When you step back and look at it, at some point it became very clear that the province was going to make sure the dam was going to be reworked.

It was at that point that council needed to accept reality and move on.

And with that ugly battle in the rear-view mirror, the logical assumption would be the protests that have continually disrupted council meetings for months would eventually run out of steam.

Unfortunately, for reasons only known to some politicians themselves, the battle continues.

The question of what is going to

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happen to the dam is decided. All the sign-waving in the world won’t change that.

The deal is done. Nothing is going to change. Even the protesters agree.

So why does it continue?

A cynic would suggest councillors Kipp and Fuller are pandering to the voters.

An idealist would say they are just standing up for what they believe in and representing the people who voted for them.

When is the pragmatist going to kick the cynic and the idealist to the curb, grab council by the scruff of the neck and get on with the business of running the city?

At some point councillors need to

ask themselves: “am I able to put my ego aside and do what is best for my community?”

City hall is not the Legislature. It is not about a governing party that does what it wants with an opposition tasked at pouncing at every policy flaw, real or perceived.

Instead it is about a team of eight that hammers out policy through constructive debate and then puts its differences aside to implement said policy together, even when said policy is not to their personal satisfaction.

This grandstanding does nothing for anybody.

Maybe those voters who got out to vote last November got exactly what

they asked for: a shakeup.

Maybe they wanted people who aren’t there to build, but to knock some heads while knocking down doors. Maybe.

But we’re more inclined to think that the vast majority of Nanaimo citizens want a city running with purpose and efficiency.

We’re wondering when our council is going to put the grand gestures aside and make that their focus.

Stop spending all your time getting in each other’s way and start getting something done. » We want to hear from you.

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Rich oil countries should find homes for Syrians I believe that all the Syrian refugees should be accepted by the rich Middle Eastern oil countries because of similar climates, languages and religions, etc.

This crisis should not be a disaster for Europe, as all the problems began in the Middle East, and should stay there.

Ralph Forshaw Nanaimo

Canadians need to rally for all refugees Canadians need you to take action now on the Syrian refugee problem.

Writing on behalf of the Nanaimo chapter of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, we ask that you do the right and humanitarian thing; send consular officers to the United Nations refugee camps in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.

The inhabitants in these camps are overwhelmingly women and children who need our help and must be brought to Canada immediately.

This group must be at least 10,000 refugees over and above our existing commitments.

Canada has facilitated urgent rescues in the past in Chile (1973) and Vietnam (1979) when we airlifted 50,000 refugees. We must trust that the Immigration Department can handle the job, simplify the paper work and just do it as they have in the past. The RCMP and security services will again do their jobs as we saw with the Uganda and Kosovo rescue missions.

With the exception of the First Nations people, we are a country of immigrants and refugees. As well as public support, we see mayors of our cities and premiers of our provinces taking a stand on this refugee issue.

Recently, the European Commission proposed 160,000 refugees to each of the EU countries and Australia has committed to resettling 12,000 refu-

gees in addition to the 13,000 already promised.

Bombing ISIS which contributes to the destabilization of Syria is not the answer to the refugee situation. As Prime Minister of Canada, Canadians expect that you, together with the leaders of the other three parties, will develop an immediate rescue plan.

Dyane Brown, President Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Nanaimo Branch

Dams never a threat, affair an opportunity lost (With the) work at Colliery Dams Park, it is time for some somber reflection. We have had many ups

and downs over the last three years.

Having ensured that the entire park would avoid being destroyed in one fell swoop is a major accomplishment. However, long-term impact and planning remains in question.

This will play out over time. Like many others, I had hoped for a firm change in direction regarding priorities in the city. Dam safety guidelines allowed us a glorious opportunity: “Society does not have infinite resources to spend on managing risks and often the resource spent inefficiently in one area is the same resource that is missing in another area where investment could be more beneficial” (p. 5) I firmly believe that most people who have paid attention to this long drawn-out affair are very aware that the Colliery dams are not now, nor

were ever, the threat to our citizens that they were originally made out to be. The majority of our council came to this same conclusion but were not allowed an opportunity to resolve the issue in a more sensible manner.

This was an opportunity lost as it will continue to reflect on further decisions.

Jeff Solomon Nanaimo

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Woman struck, injured by car to begin first MADD chapter in Comox Valley late last week she will receive one more surgery on her leg to attempt to alleviate some of the constant pain.

Wells adds it will also help to lower the possibility of arthritis because there are parts of Molly’s leg which are not sitting properly.

“There is so much metal in her leg that winters are hard because the metal freezes and it gets really cold, but she walks without a limp. It’s amazing because we weren’t even sure at one point if she was even going to have a leg.”

Last Friday, Burton, along with her sister, cousin and family held a toast to recognize the anniversary, but rather than recall memories from the accident, they toasted to how much bone has grown, says Wells.

“It’s hard sometimes not to put all of the energy into anger.

Sometimes Molly succumbs to it, but she gets out of it. She’s just so determined.”

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It’s been two years since Molly Burton was hit and severely injured during a walk home from Courtenay along Comox (Dyke) Road.

“We’re trying to be positive while life is stalled,” explains Leslie Wells, Molly’s mother, over coffee a few days following the anniversary of her daughter’s accident.

On Sept. 11, 2013, Burton suffered injuries to her lower right leg and right arm when a driver struck her after the car he was driving hit a concrete barrier, careened across the road and sent her screaming for help for four hours as she was stuck in blackberry bushes off the side of the road.

A 17-year-old convicted of hit and run in the case admitted in court that he had been drinking before getting behind the wheel.

Burton has had nine surgeries

Molly Burton has had nine surgeries for a shattered right tibia, ankle, humerus and tricep.

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for a shattered right tibia, ankle, humerus and tricep.

“I’m always in pain,” she notes.

“There are days when it’s low enough that I can ignore it . . .

I can walk for a little while. Just recently I got out to do a walk without my wheelchair. On a good day I go for 25 minutes — I do try and walk everyday.”

She has just received word

Wells recalls shortly after Molly’s accident, she was really angry and frustrated, and wanted to do something constructive.

“I contacted Mothers Against Drunk Driving because I had all this energy and I wanted to do something. We were invited to the National Conference for Victims of Impaired Driving (hosted

by MADD).

“There were a lot of people to talk with there and it was really nice to connect with other people.”

Burton adds the April conference was helpful, and credits MADD’s victim services program.

“Their whole organization really helped. I couldn’t have gotten through it without them.”

Norm Prince, community leader for MADD Canada, said there has never been a MADD chapter in the Comox Valley, but Prince says there will always be a need.

He said the goal for the Valley’s chapter is to educate and develop a presence in the community.

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The museum welcomes almost one million visitors every year and another two million online.

In a visitor survey conducted in August, 56 per cent said the museum was a factor in their decision to come to Victoria.

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Second-degree murder laid in death of 23-year-old Courtenay resident The 41-year-old man facing second-degree murder charges relating to the death of 23-year-old Courtenay resident Kevin Burns will make his next appearance Oct. 1.

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A news release from the city states its comprehensive Level 4 watering ban will remain in place until Oct. 1.

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Mountie misconduct trial delayed SHEILA REYNOLDS SURREY NORTH DELTA LEADER

The trial for four RCMP officers facing charges for alleged misconduct during the Surrey Six murder investigation has been postponed again.

Derek Brassington, Paul Johnston, Dave Attew and Danny Michaud were

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charged with several charges each in 2011, including obstruction of justice, fraud, and compromising the safety of a witness.

An investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police alleged serious misconduct by the officers during the investigation of the 2007 gangland murder of six men in Surrey.

Their trial was to begin Monday in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, but was adjourned until September 2016.

The delay marks the most recent of many in the trial, which was initially scheduled to begin in 2013.

Brassington, Johnston and Attew are no longer with the RCMP, while Michaud is suspended.

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◆ KAMLOOPS

11-year sentence angers mom of murder victim

The mother of a college student who was murdered in Kelowna more than two decades ago is angry that the teen’s killer was handed an 11-year sentence.

With credit for time already served awaiting trial, Neil Snelson has just one year and nine months left on his sentence.

Snelson was convicted in June of the for the 1993 death of 19-year-old Jennifer Cusworth, the second time he was found guilty of manslaughter in the same case.

The victim’s mother, Jean Cusworth, says it’s unbelievable that a judge sided with the defence on a shorter sentence after saying the Crown failed to prove her daughter was sexually assaulted.

The Crown was seeking a 15-year sentence for Snelson, but the defence said a 10- to 12-year term would be more appropriate.

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U.S. problems could hike Canadian gas prices Gasoline prices have been down over the summer thanks to a plunge in oil prices, but a senior analyst at the consumer website gasbuddy.com warns a change is on the way. Dan McTeague predicts motorists from Thunder Bay to British Columbia will be paying more when gas prices jump as much as five to seven cents a litre.

Off-duty cop investigated in accident that killed boy, 4 DALE BOYD PENTICTON WESTERN NEWS

The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. and Penticton RCMP are investigating after an off-duty RCMP officer allegedly struck and killed a four-year-old crossing a road in the Penticton region.

Around 5 p.m. Tuesday the off-duty officer driving his or her personal vehicle is said to have struck the boy who was reportedly crossing the intersection with his family.

The IIO is investigating the incident and further resources, including extra investigators and someone to assist the family, are arriving Wednesday morning from Surrey.

“At this point in time we are calling for witnesses who may have seen anything. This is a busy intersection at approximately 5 p.m. yesterday,” said Ralph Krenz, spokesperson for the IIO. “I think there are people out there who might have seen something that we are not aware of, or haven’t spoken to,” Krenz said.

The IIO is asking anyone who may have witnessed anything relating to the incident to contact their witness reporting line at 1-855-466-8477.

The IIO said they could not comment on the particulars.

Bystanders and emergency personnel attend to a young person struck and killed in Penticton on Tuesday. [MARK BRETT/PENTICTON WESTERN NEWS]

“This is very preliminary and we don’t have a lot of details at this particular point in time,” Krenz said.

“We’re still trying to identify those key elements obviously those will be the subject of further investigation.”

The investigation was initially started by the RCMP “Where there is a situation involving serious harm or death and it’s the actions of a police officer involved, either on or off duty, police services in this province are required to notify the Independent Investi-

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gations Office,” Krenz said. “Once we’re notified, the IIO has jurisdiction until the Chief Civilian Director decides not to continue on with the investigations.”

Krenz was unable to confirm whether a reported black pick-up truck was related to the incident, however he said the vehicle involved would likely be seized for further analysis.

The IIO said they would provide further information at a press conference at 10:30 a.m.

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Sharps containers will be placed at strategic locations around Mission in an attempt to prevent used needles from being carelessly thrown away or left on the ground.

Four locations – the West Coast Express station, Park Street and Fraser Crescent, the north end of the Mission Library parking lot, and an area near the Mission Museum – have been identified as hot spots for discarded needles and will receive the new containers.

“I think this is a step forward from the standpoint that we are moving towards more control on how needles are distributed,” said Mission Mayor Randy Hawes.

However, he said he does not feel satisfied with harm reduction efforts in the area.

“I an very much opposed to needle distribution where there is no bring back if you will. Needle exchange has to be exactly that,” he said.

He believes addicts should have to bring back the needles they are given, in order to receive new ones.

Hawes said there is a growing problem in Mission of discarded needles turning up in various areas of the community including school grounds.

“I am still not convinced that we are putting enough responsibility on those that are using needles.”

Ferries Commissioner says fares to rise below inflation THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Another man, Sophon Sek, is charged with manslaughter but has yet to be tried.

And Jamie Bacon, co-founder of the notorious Red Scorpions gang, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and one count of first-degree murder.

His trial has also faced delays and is now scheduled for October 2016.

VICTORIA — Coastal travellers will see stable but rising fares when sailing with B.C. Ferries over the next four years.

Ferries Commissioner Gord Macatee has confirmed that fare price increases will be capped at 1.9 per cent per year from 2016 to 2020, as proposed earlier this year.

Macatee outlined his decision for the increase in a report after con-

ducting an independent review of the newest Coastal Ferry Services Contract.

Macatee notes much work has gone into addressing fare affordability and that has resulted in caps below the Bank of Canada’s target inflation rate of two per cent.

In June, B.C. Ferries announced a $30-million jump in net earnings and its president said that would allow fares to stay at or below projected inflation rates.

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Surrey cops face trio of drive-by shootings

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After a quiet summer, gunshots are once again ringing out in Surrey.

Surrey has had three drive-by shootings since Saturday evening. The latest shooting happened near Strawberry elementary school in Newton, shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday.

A 22-year-old man was shot but was expected to survive following what Surrey RCMP Cpl. Scotty Schumann characterized as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;confrontation between two groups associated to two vehiclesâ&#x20AC;? in the 7600-block of 124th Street.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarkable no one else was hit, as the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playground is typically busy at that time of day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outrageous that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening at all,â&#x20AC;? said Surrey school district spokesman Doug Strachan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fortunate.â&#x20AC;?

The school was hit by bullets and police still had it behind yellow crime scene tape, searching for evidence, as children arrived for their classes Wednesday morning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The media cameras that are here are probably attracting more attention than anything else,â&#x20AC;? Strachan noted from the scene. He said the district will send out a letter to parents, with advice on how to deal with their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anxiety, if any.

A house was also hit.

Meantime, Schumann noted the investigation â&#x20AC;&#x153;is in its infancy and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too early to make any connections to other Lower Mainland shootings.â&#x20AC;?

It brings the number of shootings in Surrey and North Delta to 46 since the beginning of March. Police say many of those are related to a dial-a-dope turf war in this area.

The shootings had more or less dropped off in July.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The media cameras that are here are probably attracting more attention than anything else.â&#x20AC;?

Doug Strachan, Surrey school district spokesman

Police also donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if the shootings on Monday and Saturday are linked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not sure,â&#x20AC;? Schumann said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;reason being we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t identified any suspects. Nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shown up at hospital with gunshot wounds.â&#x20AC;?

The Surrey RCMP received several phone calls at about 5:15 p.m Monday about a white Jeep chasing a black Chevrolet Corvette near 132nd Street and 89th Avenue in Whalley. Police flooded the area with patrol cars but have not found the two vehicles. Witnesses told investigators that three or four shots were fired from the Jeep at the Corvette. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evidence was located in the area to support these reports of shoots being fired,â&#x20AC;? said Surrey RCMP Staff Sgt. Blair McColl. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A canvass of the area failed to locate any indications of injuries or damage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No arrests have been made,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The investigation is still in its early stages, but initial indications are that this incident is targeted and that the parties involved likely knew each other.

It is too early to tell if this incident is linked to any other conflicts in Surrey.â&#x20AC;?

The first of these latest drive-by shootings happened in Newton early Saturday evening.

Police ask anyone with information about these shootings to contact the Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502.

Death of tot may be suspicious THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Victoria Police Department is investigating what it believes is the suspicious death of an 18-month-old girl.

Officers were called to a home around 6 a.m. Wednesday to check on the welfare of people inside.

They found a little girl and tried to resuscitate her, but she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be saved. The girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother was taken to hospital, but police havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t revealed her condition.

Police say there is no danger to the public in connection to the death.

The name of the little girl isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being released.

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Family friend accused of killing tot THE CANADIAN PRESS

BLAIRMORE, Alta. — The mother of a two-year-old girl killed in southern Alberta broke down in tears after an old friend of hers was charged with first-degree murder in the case.

Cheyenne Dunbar said she has no idea why someone would want to harm her daughter, Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette.

“She was my baby,” Dunbar told reporters outside the Blairmore RCMP detachment Wednesday morning. “I don’t know why anybody would do this to her.”

RCMP say Derek James Saretzky faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Hailey and her father Terry Blanchette.

“Mr. Saretzky also faces one count of indignity to a human body in relation to Hailey’s death,” Supt. Tony Hamori said.

The girl’s body was found Tuesday

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near Blairmore and her father’s body was discovered in a home in the town on Monday. Hailey was the subject of an Amber Alert that stretched across Western Canada and into the United States.

Blanchette and Dunbar were separated, but Dunbar, who lived in Blairmore but recently moved to Edmonton, said the two maintained

a good relationship and both cared for the girl.

Dunbar, 20, said Saretzky, 22, was an old friend of hers, but they never dated as some reports have suggested. She said both she and police are baffled by the killings.

She said she hadn’t spoken to Saretzky in years and had forgotten about him.

“When I knew him he was a great kid. That is all I know,” she said.

“We were friends, we hung out every once in a while. Me and his friends all hung out. It was fine. There was never any upsetness in the group.

There was never any madness.”

Police have said Saretzky and Blanchette were acquaintances, but Dunbar didn’t know how they knew one another.

The case began to unfold early Monday morning when Hailey’s father was killed in his home and his daughter was taken away in a speed-

ing white van.

An Amber Alert for Hailey was issued and a massive search ensued.

News that Hailey’s body had been found began to circulate Tuesday night at a candlelight vigil meant to lend hope in the search.

As an official with victims services announced the Amber Alert had been cancelled, one young woman crashed into a friend’s arms and sobbed. Others sniffed quietly and wiped away tears. Some just stood in stunned silence.

A group cocooned Hailey’s grandmother in an embrace.

Blanchette has been described by friends and family as a devoted single father.

He worked as a cook in a restaurant and had many criminal convictions between 2010 and 2012 for issues such as failing to appear in court, failing to stop his vehicle, evading police, minor theft and assault.

But after Hailey was born, there were no more court appearances.

Blanchette’s Facebook posts switched from talk of court dates to pictures of him with his baby daughter.

A woman identified as Hailey’s maternal grandmother, Terry-Lynn Dunbar, posted a statement from the family on Facebook Wednesday, thanking people for their support.

“The Dunbar and Blanchette Families will be forever broken,” it read.

“I’m sure you have read all sorts of awful things on social media about our families as well as news broadcasts and radio programs, but just know this: Terry and Cheyenne loved their little girl more than anything in the world.” » We want to hear from you.

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Tories to appeal decision on niqabs to high court STEPHANIE LEVITZ THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Conservatives said Wednesday they want the Supreme Court of Canada to consider the issue of whether face coverings can be banned from citizenship ceremonies This comes in the wake of a Federal Court of Appeal decision that tried to quickly quash that ban so that at least one woman could get the right to vote next month.

But whether Zunera Ishaq will be able to vote on Oct. 19, as the appeal court justices hoped, remained unclear as the government did not say whether it also intends to seek a stay of Tuesday’s decision.

Ishaq, a devout, 29-year-old Muslim woman, had refused to take part in a citizenship ceremony because she would have to show her face, thanks to a rule change implemented by Jason Kenney in 2011 when he was immigration minister.

She challenged the rule in Federal Court and won. The ruling said the policy violated the Citizenship Act, which says candidates for citizenship must be allowed he greatest possible religious freedom when they take the oath.

The government appealed but lost.

The three-judge appeal panel ruled from the bench, saying they wanted to proceed quickly so that Ishaq could become a citizen in time to vote.

In order for her to do that, the Citizenship and Immigration Department must formally invite her to a ceremony. Several are scheduled in Ontario between now and Oct. 19 and one of her lawyers said Wednesday

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there is no reason she couldn’t be added to the list.

The department did not immediately answer questions about whether it would do that, or if the government would seek a stay of the judgment pending the Supreme Court’s decision on whether to hear the case.

“In my view, they either have to give her her citizenship or seek a stay,” said Lorne Waldman, one of Ishaq’s lawyers. “We’re waiting to see what they are planning to do.”

If re-elected, the Conservatives will re-introduce and adopt legislation banning face coverings during citizenship oaths within 100 days, he said.

“When a government tables legislation, it’s more than just desire,” Lebel said. “We have the political belief that this is the way it has to be.”

The niqab ban was inspired in part

by Quebec’s experience with the so-called charter of values, a document introduced by the Parti Quebecois government which banned the display of overtly religious symbols by people in the public sector.

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A police officer stands in the street to direct traffic as people stand in a line for public transportation after an earthquake in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday. A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit off Chile’s northern coast Wednesday night, causing buildings to sway in Santiago, the capital of Chile. [AP PHOTO]

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Quebec makes it easier to legally change genders

Murder trial opens with details of fatal beating

Quebec is making it easier for transgender people to legally change their sex on official documents.

The provincial government two years ago dropped its requirement that transgender people undergo reassignment surgery before changing the sex on their birth certificates.

But it still required that people seeking the change have lived full time as their chosen sex for at least two years and obtain a letter from a medical professional confirming that they are transgender as well as an affidavit.

A policy change published Wednesday says people seeking the change must now swear the chosen sex reflects their identity, that they intend to continue living as that sex and that they do so voluntarily.

They must only obtain a letter from a medical professional if they have already changed the sex on their documents in the past.

High-profile New Brunswick businessman Richard Oland was killed in a violent outburst that resulted in 40 blows to his head and neck, the Crown alleged Wednesday as it opened its murder case against his son.

“The manner and cause of death point to an act committed by a perpetrator who, in a rage, intended to kill Richard Oland but not in a simple senseless act of a strike or two, or three to the head,” Crown attorney P.J. Veniot told a jury in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Saint John.

“Richard Oland suffered no less than 40 blows. The perpetrator for whatever reason or reasons continued way beyond what was required to cause Richard Oland’s death.”

Dennis Oland has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his 69-year-old father, who was found dead in his office in Saint John, N.B., in July 2011.

Quake measuring 8.3 rocks capital of Chile

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People evacuated in low lying areas on coast of the nation

Swiss arrest suspected Canadian bank robber THE CANADIAN PRESS

GENEVA — A man police have described as Canada’s most notorious bank robber — known for his technique of jumping over bank counters during his heists — has been arrested in Geneva.

The 53-year-old suspect — nicknamed “The Vaulter” — was intercepted by plainclothes police while he was driving a compact car

on a Geneva street on Tuesday, and taken into custody without incident, Swiss police said Wednesday.

The French-American citizen, identified by Canadian police as Jeffrey James Shuman, had been sought under an international arrest warrant issued by Canada in connection with 21 bank robberies over the last five years.

The Canadian Bankers Association had offered a $100,000

reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

Geneva police spokesman Jean-Philippe Brandt said the man is being held pending extradition.

Canadian police said the robber first struck in York Region north of Toronto in February 2010 and since then hit banks in Mississauga, Hamilton, Vaughan, Toronto and Ottawa, as well as some in Calgary.

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of injuries, but authorities said some adobe houses collapsed in the inland city of Illapel, about 280 kilometres north of Santiago.

Illapel’s mayor, Denis Cortes, told a local television station that electricity was out in the city. “We are very scared. Our city panicked,” he said.

The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported the quake at a preliminary magnitude of 7.9 but quickly revised the reading upward to 8.3. U.S. officials said the quake struck just offshore in the Pacific at 7:54 p.m. local time and was centred about 228 kilometres north-northwest of Santiago. It said the quake was five kilometres below the surface.

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SANTIAGO, Chile — A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit off Chile’s northern coast Wednesday night, causing buildings to sway in Santiago and other cities and sending people running into the streets.

At least three aftershocks above magnitude-6 and other strong shakes rattled the region as tsunami alarms sounded in the port of Valparaiso in the first major quake since a powerful quake and tsunami killed hundreds in 2010 and levelled part of a southern Chilean city.

Officials ordered people to evacuate low-lying areas along the 3,900 kilometres of Chile’s Pacific shore, from Puerto Aysen in the south to Arica in the north. Cars streamed inland carrying people to higher ground.

There were no immediate reports

ing tsunami in central Chile in 2010 killed more than 500 people, destroyed 220,000 homes, and washed away docks, riverfronts and seaside resorts.

That quake released so much energy, it actually it shortened the Earth’s day by a fraction of a second by changing the planet’s rotation.

The quake had huge ramifications, both political and practical, prompting the Andean nation to improve its alert systems for both quakes and tsunamis.

Chile is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries because just off the coast, the Nazca tectonic plate plunges beneath the South American plate, pushing the towering Andes cordillera to ever-higher altitudes.

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N.S. community mourns officer found dead Halifax Regional Police don’t believe that Catherine Campbell’s suspected homicide is related to her work MICHAEL TUTTON AND ALISON AULD THE CANADIAN PRESS

Truro resident Tara MacIsaac places flowers at a makeshift memorial to slain Nova Scotia police officer Catherine Campbell on the front lawn of the Truro Police Department in Truro, N.S., on Wednesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

to control their emotions. MacNeil hugged each of them after he spoke.

A steady flow of people left gifts and flowers nearby at an impromptu memorial.

Investigators in Halifax said they were interviewing a 27-year-old man

who was taken into custody in connection with Campbell’s homicide.

Supt. Jim Perrin of Halifax Regional Police said they don’t believe Campbell’s death is related to her work.

Police say her body was found in

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The hardest moment of Dave MacNeil’s two-decade police career came early Wednesday morning when he arrived at the family home of one of his patrol officers with devastating news that their missing daughter was dead.

The chief of police in Truro, N.S., said he drove with his deputy and arrived at the home of Dwight and Susan Campbell in Stellarton at about 2 a.m. after the body of Const.

Catherine Campbell had been found near the base of a bridge that crosses Halifax harbour.

Her death is being investigated as a homicide.

“In my 22 years as a police officer this is the most difficult day I’ve had to put in,” MacNeil said outside the department’s headquarters on Wednesday afternoon.

Several members of the force who watched MacNeil speak struggled

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a wooded area of Halifax near an overpass that leads to the Macdonald Bridge at about 12:10 a.m. on Wednesday.

Just over an hour later at 1:20 a.m., they say they took a Halifax man into custody for questioning. No charges had been laid by Wednesday evening.

Earlier this week, Campbell’s parents issued a public appeal for information after she didn’t show up for work at the Truro Police Service on Monday.

Perrin said Campbell was last seen at a bar in downtown Halifax early on Friday morning.

Officers arrested the man they were questioning in a car, which has been seized, and were also searching two homes in Halifax, said Perrin.

He said there is nothing in Campbell’s work history that is a factor in their investigation.

“Catherine Campbell did nothing to cause what happened to her. Our focus is what did happen,” Perrin told a news conference.

“I have no details to suggest that her being a police officer had anything to do with what ultimately happened to her.”

Perrin said police believe Campbell knew the man they have in custody.

“What we don’t know is how long they have known each other for, that’s all part of the investigation,” he added.

Campbell’s mother said her daughter loved being a police officer.

“Catherine was a loving person, a dedicated police officer. ... She was conscientious,” Susan Campbell said in a telephone interview.

The young woman was also a volunteer member of the fire department in her hometown of Stellarton for a decade, and her mother said she’d held a variety of jobs in the community before deciding to train as a police officer, finding a job in Truro as soon as she graduated.

Campbell’s brother-in-law, Calvin Garneau, described her as “an exceptional person.”

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AUSTIN, Texas — As the U.S. and Russia reached the brink of nuclear war in 1962, President John F. Kennedy received top-secret intelligence from the CIA that a new warhead launcher was spotted in Cuba.

Amid those grave concerns, the memo ends on a different note. A U.S. agent in Moscow describes “packed houses and enthusiastic applause” during a run of Russian performances by the New York City Ballet.

That report, given to Kennedy a day before the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, is among roughly 19,000 pages of newly declassified CIA documents from the Cold War released Wednesday. Stamped “For the President’s Eyes Only” on some pages, the dossiers were delivered daily by the spy agency to the White House.

Known as the President’s Daily Brief— President Barack Obama is the first to swipe through his on a tablet — they are tightly guarded rundowns of CIA intelligence from around the globe. For the first time, some of the oldest briefs being made public, starting with those written in the 1960s for presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Conspiracy theorists mining for signs of nefarious CIA plots are likely to be disappointed. Many of the briefs remain partially blacked out, and what isn’t won’t rewrite textbooks.

In this Oct. 29, 1962, file photo, President John F. Kennedy in the White House with Gen. David Shoup, left, Marine Corps Commandant, and Adm. George Anderson, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations. [AP PHOTO]

Instead, historians say, the memos reveal the real-time intelligence that shaped pivotal decisions made in the Oval Office after the Bay of Pigs and through Vietnam.

“These are an incomparable window into how a president thinks,” said William Inboden, who worked under President George W. Bush and now leads the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. “When we’re reading these, it’s a mirror image of what the president’s concerns were.”

On Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy awoke in a Fort Worth, Texas, hotel to an intelligence memo that concluded that a Soviet anti-missile paraded in Moscow appeared only designed for use in the atmosphere. In Japan, meanwhile, an election didn’t change the balance of power. At least one page in the

briefing remains classified.

Later that day, after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, the CIA published a second brief. It contained no intelligence but a poem Kennedy was fond of reciting.

“Bullfight critics ranked in rows/ Crowd the enormous plaza full/But only one is there who knows/And he’s the man who fights the bull.”

Even for Johnson, who as vice-president was famously kept out of Kennedy’s inner circle, the CIA briefs would have been an unfamiliar sight until being abruptly elevated to commander in chief, said Mark Updegrove, director of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin. The briefs in the days following Kennedy’s death also say almost nothing about the assassination, except for a how it apparently “acted as a catalyst” in ending a political stalemate in Italy.

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Obama to meet Americans who thwarted train attack the three young Americans who thwarted an attack last month upon a passenger train headed to Paris.

The White House says Obama wants to

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WASHINGTON — The White House says President Obama will meet Thursday with

express his gratitude for their extraordinary bravery. The three subdued a man with ties to radical Islam who boarded the train with a Kalashnikov, a pistol and a box cutter.

KEITH LESLIE THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Organizers of this summer’s Pan Am Games say preliminary figures suggest the Toronto sporting event came in under its estimated $2.5 billion budget, but the final cost won’t be known for up to a year.

“All indications are that there was a surplus, but I can’t tell you how much that is because I haven’t been told a number at this point,” Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne told a news conference on Wednesday. “It hasn’t been finalized.”

Former premier David Peterson, the chair of the WYNNE TO2015 Organizing Committee, said the capital surplus for the Games, which wrapped up in August, was at least $56 million and possibly as much as $66 million.

“Our preliminary, unaudited statements are currently forecasting this modest budget surplus,” he said.

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Keystone Air president Cliff Arlt says the company has learned the aircraft may have been fuelled with jet fuel in error, rather than Avgas, as would have been required for the Navajo.

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OTTAWA — Stephen Harper’s rivals defended the costs of their campaign promises Wednesday and the Conservatives deflected bad news from global analysts in a spurt of lastminute positioning before a leaders debate on the economy.

A panel of NDP candidates, including former Saskatchewan finance minister Andrew Thomson, released the party’s proposed fiscal plan at an Ottawa news conference, forecasting balanced budgets and surpluses in the years to come.

The party, which has never formed government federally, is trying to combat criticism that it is fundamentally ill equipped to manage the economy, as well as ideologically incapable of being business-friendly.

New Democrats say they will pay for platform items such as a national child-care program and more affordable housing through such measures as the elimination of income-splitting plan for families, cuts to fossil fuel subsidies and raising the corporate income tax rate to 17 per cent from 15 per cent.

Harper has not yet released a full

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and former prime minister Jean Chretien in Montreal on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

costing of the Conservative party’s proposal fiscal plan, although each platform announcement comes with an individual price tag. The prime minister has been emphasizing Finance Department figures released Monday showing the federal government booked a $1.9-billion surplus for 2014-15 — a year earlier than projected.

But on Wednesday, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development lowered its estimate for Canada’s economic growth this year to 1.1 per cent — down 0.4 of a percentage point.

The organization blamed lower prices of natural resources for the slip in projected growth in countries that depend on such exports, such as

Canada and Australia. It also downgraded its projections for growth in Canada in 2016.

Moody’s Investors Service also cut its outlook for Canadian Oil Sands Ltd, due to falling oil prices.

Harper, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau all converged on Calgary, where the Globe and Mail-hosted debate is scheduled for Thursday evening.

Trudeau told reporters his promises are all costed within a fiscal framework the party released weeks ago.

That framework includes a proposal to run deficits for the next three years, in order to pay for a $60 billion infrastructure spending plan, but is short on specifics about the costs of various other promises.

“The Liberal party was the first party to put out a complete fiscal framework and our opponents know that very well, they’ve been attacking us every single day,” said Trudeau.

“All of our commitments, every commitment we make and every announcement across this campaign, is not only fully costed, but fits into that detailed framework that we announced weeks ago, before any other party did.”

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Body found at site of wildfire in California THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIDDLETOWN, Calif. — A body was found Wednesday at the site of a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills, while dogs were used to search for a former police reporter and several other people who authorities fear were killed in a separate, fast-moving blaze in northern California.

The unidentified body was found in a home among the ruins of the wildfire burning 60 miles (96 kilometres) southeast of Sacramento in Amador and Calaveras counties.

The death came in addition to an elderly, disabled woman whose body was found Sunday in the ruins of her Lake County home about 100 miles (160 kilometres)north of San Francisco.

Authorities were searching nearby for a 69-year-old Leonard Neft who was reported missing by his family.

His burned-out car was discovered on a route he would have used to escape.

“We have reports of several others that may have perished in the fire.”

Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said during a tour of the disaster zone with state emergency officials.

Neft, who worked for the San Jose Mercury News, last spoke with his family on Saturday.

Setting a Standard of Excellence Congratulations to Garth Busch on His Retirement

MNP congratulates Garth Busch, Regional Managing Partner for the Vancouver Island region, on his retirement, effective September 30. We proudly recognize Garth’s contributions to our clients, our communities, our firm and our profession during his 40 year career in public practice on Vancouver Island and in Saskatchewan.

As Regional Managing Partner for the past six years, Garth has established a culture rooted in teamwork and an unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional client service. Garth’s entrepreneurial approach and strong focus on leadership development has helped our region

achieve significant growth in both revenue and team size. Under his leadership, MNP has grown to become the largest accounting and business consulting firm on the Island.

Garth and his wife Louise plan to retire on the Island and remain active in the local community.

A leader, mentor and friend, we wish Garth all the best and thank him for leading, developing and promoting our people while setting a standard for client service excellence.

Contact Garth Busch, CPA, CA at 250.734.4327 or garth.busch@mnp.ca

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The White House says a 14-year-old Muslim boy was â&#x20AC;&#x153;failedâ&#x20AC;? by his Texas teachers who thought a clock made by the teen was possibly a bomb.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest called the episode involving Ahmed Mohamed a â&#x20AC;&#x153;teachable moment.â&#x20AC;?

Ahmed was invited to participate in an astronomy night the White House is organizing next month with leading scientists.

Earnest says the invitation was offered as a way for Ahmed to â&#x20AC;&#x153;nurture that intellectual curiosity.â&#x20AC;?

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MNP congratulates James Byrne on his appointment to Regional Managing Partner (RMP) for the Vancouver Island region, effective October 1. Born and raised on the Island with a deep appreciation for the way we do business, James is a leader our team is proud to follow.

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As part of the transition, James and his wife Melanie and their three children will be re-locating to Nanaimo from Courtenay. We look forward to the vision, leadership and entrepreneurial spirit James brings to our team, our clients and our communities as we continue to build on a strong foundation of client service excellence.

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L Feastival highlights some of the finest locally-sourced products, ingredients and cooks in the mid-Island like Indian food expert Daksha Narsing. [PHOTO SUBMITTED]

ife has largely been about the variety of spice for Daksha Narsing, an immigrant to B.C. in the 1980s who built a cooking and seasoning business that now reaches into more than 250 stores across Western Canada and continues to grow.

Narsing, who built her home-based business up from the ground up in Williams Lake more than 20 years ago, has just released her fifth cookbook and is slated to appear as a guest chef at the upcoming FEASTIVAL event at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo on Sept. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Her business, Daksha’s Gourmet Spices, sells hand-ground spices and mixes for comforting staples like butter chicken, tandoori and vindaloo.

But the business, like Narsing’s specialized blends of Chai tea, is steeped in decades of tradition. Narsing was born in Africa in the turbulent state of Northern Rhodesia, where she spent the bulk of her childhood. Her formative culinary years came during summer holidays in the village of Gujarat in India, when she would spend weeks with her grandmother, the village herbalist and chiropractor.

Narsing would accompany the older woman to the markets, where she learned to find the best basil, cumin and other spices. Her grandmother would also teach her the art of grinding spices together for a near-infinite range of tastes and aromas.

“She was an amazing woman,” Narsing said. “But my mother (also) taught us really well how to cook and by age 10, I was making full meals for the family.”

Revolution in Northern Rhodesia forced Narsing’s father to move his family out of the troubled state. The family immigrated to England when Narsing was 18.

It was there that she met her future husband Bhaskar, who was on a trip away from his home in Canada. Like herself, Bhaksar had deep family roots in India, but grew up in Africa. It was an old family blend of tea that brought them together and launched what she described as a “whirlwind romance.”

“The first time I met him, I came out and brought him a cup of Chai,” she said.

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Two weeks later, the couple was engaged. Although Bhaksar’s back-

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“As soon as he joined my business, it basically doubled,” she said.

Narsing began offering cooking classes in Williams Lake in the mid-’80s, but

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Fancy being in the audience for a new live jazz album being brought to life in Nanaimo?

If so, the Simonholt restaurant is the place to be on Sept. 23 for a performance which will feature none other than Diana Rossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first tour drummer.

Pete Magadini, who has lived in San Francisco since 1997, says touring with Ross was one of the most memorable periods of his illustrious career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I made her a star and then moved on,â&#x20AC;? Magadini laughed when he spoke of his time with Ross from 1969 to 1971.

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Playing alongside Magadini on the album Outside in the Present is Canadian jazz guitarist Reg Schwager and Canadian bassist Ken Lister.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ken is a fine bassist and Reg is one of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest guitarists. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play an eclectic show, with a bit of Brazilian stuff and acoustic guitar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a show that the people who attend will like and will bring the best out of everything we can do as a trio.â&#x20AC;?

Tickets for the show are $25 for adults and $15 for students and are available at Simonholt, Fascinating Rhythm and Cranky Dog Music in Parksville. It starts at 7:30 p.m.

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“We worked more and harder on this album than we ever have, we put more into it,” said Seran. “One, our skill levels are better, two we know who we are and we know what we like to do.

It’s better just because we’re better versions of ourselves, better song writers as well.”

The music has a healthy mix of Punjabi and English lyrics, voiced over electronic pop baselines and a fiddle as the Irish twist.

“I let the song writing process dictate it, what comes out of my head I just let it come out,” he said.

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New play mixes suspense, mystery Nanaimo’s Mary Fraughton’s ‘Making Tracks’ is the centrepiece of Western Edge’s fifth New Waves festival ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

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estern Edge Theatre is opening its season this year with the suspenseful play Making Tracks, written

by Nanaimo playwright Mary Fraughton.

In the play, a young woman named Nina travels with her boyfriend from Vancouver Island to her childhood home deep in the Yukon woods.

It’s winter, an accident occurs, and Nina finds herself suddenly alone with the ghosts of her family who, as the hours pass, become all too real.

A combination suspense drama and absorbing mystery, Making Tracks is the centrepiece of Western Edge Theatre’s fifth New Waves Festival, a celebration of new writing for theatre.

Fraughton is a graduate of Vancouver Island University’s creative writing program, where the play was developed over a number of years.

Fraughton now divides her time between Vancouver Island and the Yukon, where she lives and writes for much of the year in a remote cabin.

She said while the cabin and woods she grew up in are integrat-

“I expect I’ll either get a lot of praise or criticism from my friends and family but unfortunately I’m not very good at accepting either.”

Mary Fraughton, playwright

ed into the play, the first one she has ever written, most of the story line is fictional.

“I’m really lucky to have met (the play’s artistic producer) Frank Moher while in VIU because he invited people from the Western Edge Theatre to read my play,” Fraughton said.

“I was so happy when they liked it and wanted to make it into a fulllength project.”

Fraughton said she’s a little nervous about the play’s debut and is “not sure” at this time whether she’ll go to see it herself.

“I expect I’ll either get a lot of praise or criticism from my friends and family but unfortunately I’m not very good at accepting either,” she said.

Fraughton describes herself as a “starving artist” who likes to live in the remoteness of the Yukon.

She said she’s in the process of

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writing another play, but is also writing short stories and poems.

Combining video with live action, the Western Edge production of Making Tracks features Whitley Dunn, Neil Gallagher, Aaron Hamilton, Lorna McLellan and Carly Neigum.

It is directed by long-time company member Nicole Busby, with design and video production

by Tim Johnson and the stage management is done by Sydney Howlett.

“Producing new plays is at the heart of what Western Edge does,” said Moher.

“We were founded to present contemporary and cutting-edge theatre, and there’s nothing more cutting-edge than a play that is being brought to the stage for the first time.”

Making Tracks runs for five performances only; on Sept. 25-26, and Oct. 2-3 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee on Oct. 4 at 2 p.m., at Harbour City Theatre, 25 Victoria Rd., Nanaimo.

Tickets cost $22 for adults, $18 for seniors and $12 for students.

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When not writing plays, short stories and poetry, Mary Fraughton likes to spend her time out in the bush in the Yukon.

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Chilliwack singer pens song to encourage voters DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

More than 100 artists, musicians and singers came together on a Gabriola Island beach recently to produce a video designed to inspire people to vote.

“Take Back This Land” is a stirring song written by Chilliwack frontman Bill Henderson, in response to political forces Henderson believes erode democracy in Canada.

Bruce Mason, a writer, has written several articles about the decline of the protest song as a social force since the 1960s, in interviews with musical icons Joan Baez, Buffy St. Marie and Pete Seeger.

“We all agreed mainstream radio weren’t playing them,” said Mason.

At the same time, he noticed a

“unifying issue” in Canada that has inspired a lot of songs recently, which poke fun at, or criticize government.

When Mason, himself a musician, saw a video of Henderson playing the song, he called the Canadian rocker on the phone.

“He was going to go into Bryan Adams’ studio with Chilliwack to record it. I said: ‘We’re going to do it.’”

Henderson gave his blessing and Mason was soon pulling together a group of islanders to make “Take Back this Land Gabriola Style,” played in the same G-flat key Chilliwack uses, to match Henderson’s voice.

In the studio, a total of 65 audio tracks were laid down in for the

vocal portion alone.

Videographer Paul Grignon shot the scene as singers stood on the beach at Drumbeg Park, lip-syncing the words to match the recording.

The video is a who’s who of Gabriola musical artists. It starts with an intro by Kerplunks singer Tina Jones, followed by Kathy McIntyre.

“Gary Fjellgaard happened to be on the island,” so he contributed.

Choral director Gail Lund took part.

“We started building this elaborate vocal rack. Then I put out an email to people on the island to come out to Drumbeg Park.”

Sound engineer Steve Elder knew somebody with a drone, to get the aerial shot for the video, which includes more than 75 people lip-syncing to a portable audio play-

er of the recording, while waving flags.

“It was hilarious,” Mason said. “I’ll take it to my grave — I’ll never forget it,” Mason said.

Henderson, who wrote such hits as “Fly at Night,” “Rain-o” and “Arms of Mary,” was inspired to write a song as an outlet for frustration with governments that fail to respect voters.

He was angered to see government muzzle scientists, block environmentalists from addressing an oil pipeline review, and with the passage of omnibus legislation like Bill C-51.

One day he and his wife, May, decided they’d seen enough, and worked together on the song. ”It’s not just this government, some of this has been going on for a long time, going back to Pierre

Elliott Trudeau, so there is a lot of concern,” Henderson said.

He’s pleased to see other artists cover the song, like Colleen Eccleston, Roy Forbes (Bim), and now the Gabriola version.

“I loved it, especially with the video,” Henderson said.

More than 100 Gabriola Islanders were involved in the production, which had nearly reached 5,000 views on Youtube this week, at http://bit.ly/1QfRdSL. To download and/or stream the Chilliwack recording go to www. chilliwack.bandcamp.com or view the video youtu.be/S5sgOWXsiLU. Darrell.Bellaart @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4235

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Delhi 2 Dublin will be at the Port Theatre on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with The Fugitives.

They’re not here for a long time, but are here for a good time, Seran said.

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FRIDAY

A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr’ Feature exhibition at the Nanaimo Museum from now until November 21. A Terrible Beauty invites you to contemplate the impact humans can have on natural landscapes. Organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Hosted by the Nanaimo Museum in partnership with Nanaimo Art Gallery.

AKON 7 - 10 p.m. All ages show by hip hop artist AKON at Diana Krall Plaza on Commercial St. with special guests: Karl Wolf and BAE. Tickets $55 front section, $45 general admission at Koncept Nightclub, The Queen’s, by phone at 250-754-6751 or online at ticketzone.com.

Blue Moon Marquee 9 p.m. at The Vault, 499 Wallace St. Swing, ragtime and delta blues blend with a scratchy voice and a sense of gypsy freedom. $5 cover.

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Delhi 2 Dublin and The Fugitives 7:30 p.m. at The Port Theatre, 125 Front St. Tickets $35, members/youth $25, students $15 | eyeGO $5 On sale now at The Port Theatre box office, online at porttheatre.com or by calling 250-754-8550

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Mid Life Crisis 9 p.m. at The Well Pub. No cover.

SIRREAL and Tristan Thompson At Teenfest, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Maffeo Sutton Park. Teen talent contest, exhibitors, free makeovers and more. www.teenfest.ca.

Shakespeare by the Sea 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sept. 19 - 21 at Pioneer Waterfront Plaza. Performances of Hamlet and The Tempest. Tickets $25, $20 students/ seniors, at the door. More info: 250.999.2997

Coombs Old Time Fiddle Jamboree 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. The Coombs Old Time Fiddlers, Branch 11 of the BC Association, host this annual Fiddle Jamboree to showcase Canadian Old Time Music. Fiddlers and accompanying musicians from Vancouver Island and beyond gather on stage to present a full afternoon of great traditional music from the many cultures in Canada. $5, free under

Making Tracks Sept. 25, 26, and Oct. 2, 3 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee on Oct. 4 at 2 p.m. At Harbour City Theatre, 25 Victoria Rd. Tickets $22 for Adults, $18 for seniors and $12 for students, at westernedge.org, at 250-816-6459, or and at Catwalk Fashions on Commercial St. Suspense drama by local writer Mary Fraughton.

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Refugee Sponsorship Information Session 7 - 9 p.m. Sept. 21, at Beban Park Community Centre, 2300 Bowen Rd. Hosted by the Immigrant Welcome Centre in Nanaimo, in response to a significant increase in requests for information on refugee sponsorship. Guest speakers include representatives from a sponsorship agreement holder and a refugee sponsorship group.

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Dear Annie: If people go in together to purchase a gift, should only one of the people receive a thank-you note?

I recently attended a bridal shower where four of us pooled our money to purchase an expensive gift. At the shower, we were all asked to address an envelope to make thank-you notes easier for the bride-to-be.

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His falsehood was first reported in a story published Wednesday in The New York Times. Rannazzisi said in a statement that he was in New York City on Sept. 11 but was working in midtown, and that he began telling the story after moving to Los Angeles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why I said this,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was inexcusable. I am truly, truly sorry.â&#x20AC;?

He said he wished that subsequent silence could erase a story told out of immaturity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It only made me more ashamed,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Agdal and Erin Heatherton, a former Victoria’s Secret model, have been hired to promote Tinder’s new feature, Super Like: You swipe up, instead of right, to indicate extra enthusiasm for AGDAL someone.

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Nina’s 23. *** It’s all over, after “several years” for British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor – you loved him in 12 Years a Slave – and Vancouver-born model/actress Sari Mercer, says The Sun, in England.

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We’re still good friends today, but that was one of my worst business decisions.” *** Helen Mirren has a new rule for men: “It annoys me when I see men with an arm slung round their girlfriends’ shoulders.

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“But when I see girls being leaned on, I want to say, ‘Tell him to get his damned arm off your shoulder’.” *** When British rocker/druggie Pete Doherty was dating Kate Moss, he was mentioned fairly often in this space; more recently not so much. In fact I was surprised to learn that he’s still alive, despite his penchant for heroin.

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MOSCOW — Two Russian pranksters say they fooled Elton John into believing that Russian President Vladimir Putin had given him a call.

The British star on Tuesday posted a message on Instagram, thanking Putin for calling him to discuss gay rights in Russia and inviting him for a meeting in Moscow. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the reports, saying that Putin never called John.

Vladimir “Vovan” Krasnov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov told Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda on Wednesday that they had fooled Elton John by calling him on Tuesday and pretending they were Peskov and Putin.

The two men, known for prank-calling Russian and Ukrainian celebrities for television shows, said the audio of the call would be broadcast on a prime-time show later Wednesday.

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SAVING MINOR HOCKEY Nanaimo Atom A Clippers goalie Darian Feser waits to go onto the ice with the rest of his team before their game in January at the Nanaimo Ice Centre. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

Nanaimo’s registration is up despite nationwide slide SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

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anada’s game isn’t available to many Canadians, but hockey’s nationwide slide in registration numbers is being fought off in Nanaimo. According to the Nanaimo Minor Hockey Association’s numbers, 798 players registered to play this season — a 22-player increase from the previous year.

“It’s climbing back up,” said association president Jamie Davis.

While numbers are up from 2014, they remain down from 2012, its highest point in the last decade when numbers it 875 before dropping 96 players between 2013-14.

Davis puts some of the blame for 2014’s lower registration on provincial job action that held students out of classrooms and put a burden on parents’ finances with regards to childcare.

“I think the strike last year had something to do with it, because our initiation numbers — out entry levels — were down,” he said.

While owners of the NHL’s seven Canadian teams’ pockets continue to fill with ticket sales, merchandise and, most importantly, television revenue bringing in record dollars,

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nationwide numbers show most of the people watching hockey on TV don’t have their children on the ice the next morning. And the biggest slide seems to be coming, with more players graduating the system than those entering it.

In B.C. alone, there are 36,722 players registered in minor hockey. There are 6,850 players in midget, many of whom are playing their final years of competitive hockey, while less than half that number — 3,296 are registered in pre-novice hockey.

That gap is even larger nationwide, with 49,697 fewer players registered in pre-novice hockey than there are in midget. There were 482 fewer nov-

ice-age players in 2014 in B.C. than there were in 2012.

Players, and their parents, simply aren’t signing up to play as much as they used to.

“The kids who are in the program stay in the program, I think that’s what those numbers show,” Davis said. “I think it shows that the kids that are starting now, as opposed to the 18-year-olds who are leaving, have different options. There’s lots and lots of options for these kids that weren’t available for kids 10 years ago. And kids want programs where they can excel, where they can get the best experience possible, and we have to compete with that.”

The most common reason Davis hears as to why parents don’t have children in hockey is the price of it.

However he said adult hockey in Nanaimo, which isn’t subsidized and is more expensive to join, is booming.

“So I’m sure for some people (minor hockey) is expensive, but the research that I’ve done and looked at shows one of the reasons that kids don’t get involved in hockey is that there is a large portion of the population that doesn’t think it’s any fun,” Davis said. “They don’t understand how much fun it is.”

Still, one of hockey’s biggest detractors remains the price of the playing. According to a 2014 poll commissioned by Scotiabank, 34 per cent of parents with their children in hockey expect to spend $1,000 on fees, equipment and travel each year.

Nanaimo’s annual registration fees run from $310 to $460, but equipment prices and travel do increase the burden on the pocketbook.

Davis said the NMHA is selling to families that the game is worth the price because it is fun, not that it is going to give a child a future career in the game — although that is never ruled out — and so far it is working.

“We want to emphasize fun,” he said. “The big message for us is that we are about fun. The grassroots of hockey are based in fun. It’s a game, and we have to overcome a lot of bad press sometimes.”

When hockey academies, such as Victoria’s $17,000 per year Pacific Coast Hockey Academy ($22,000 if billeting is required), start to attract players, the game can begin to appear elitist, available only to families who can afford the best coaching. These academies have also brought negative misconceptions to the game, Davis said.

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“When folks hear that when you want to make it to the NHL, you have to go to a hockey academy and it costs you $40,000 a year, that doesn’t help you get kids in at the entry level, and that is one of the misconceptions,” he said, “because you don’t have to go to a hockey academy and spend that kind of money to have fun playing the game.”

There are also assisted-funding programs for families who show the need for it. Jumpstart Canada requires a family of four in Nanaimo to have a maximum $37,950 household annual income (Revenue Canada’s low income cutoff as of 2013) in order to qualify for a maximum of $600 of help per year. KidSport Nanaimo is another option for parents. It assisted 111 children for a total of $21,058.25 in 2014.

KidSport’s maximum grant is $200 — not enough to cover one season of minor hockey for any child, but a helping hand nonetheless.

Combined from the two charities, the NMHA annually takes in approximately $8,000 in assisted funding for registration.

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With the crowd at B.C. Place Stadium still buzzing, Mattocks then had a great chance to make it 2-0 just before halftime only to see his effort from close range go over the crossbar. The victory against the Honduran side moves the Whitecaps (1-0-1) into a tie

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VANCOUVER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kianz Froese scored in the first half Wednesday as the Vancouver Whitecaps defeated C.D. Olympia 1-0 in CONCACAF Champions League play.

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The Vancouver Canucks goaltender took the same offseason approach to ensure that a medial collateral ligament sprain of his right knee suffered in a Feb. 22 crease collision with teammate Jannik Hansen wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be a nagging problem. And while it took the starter five months to fully recover from the ailment, he believes heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in position to succeed after methodically strengthening his body to help shoulder a considerable workload this NHL season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like solving a puzzle,â&#x20AC;? Miller said Wednesday at the annual Jake Milford Charity Invitational golf tournament at Northview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You take yourself out of a good posture and put yourself in this weird Cobra stance to basically build your body back up to break it down again. Coming off an injury, what is your body telling you? You want to compensate through the core and use your other leg, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to constantly correct that. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty good place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They (doctors) clear you at four to six weeks and say youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stable, but when you talk to anybody who has an injury that way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a knee or shoulder â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a four-to-six-month recovery period until you feel yourself again. And that held true. I got to the five-month point and I just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel it. The back part of my knee had some inflammation and I felt it until mid-July and then one day it just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt anymore.

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing. At age 35, Miller is the second-oldest starter this season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Roberto Luongo is 36 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the misconception that because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the physical antithesis of Canucks backup Jacob Markstrom, that he may be prone to re-injuring the knee.

In 45 regular-season games, Miller went 29-15-1 with a 2.53 goals-against average, a .911 save percentage and tied for fourth in the league with six shutouts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an impact sport, and when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hurt, it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been the wear and tear where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve exposed something,â&#x20AC;? stressed Miller. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to avoid the ones that are preventable.â&#x20AC;?

If that continues to be the case, then Miller should be able to play at least 60 regular-season games and nobody will look at the birth certificate of the fifthround 1999 Buffalo Sabres draft pick or the fact he has two more years remaining on his contract at $6 million US annually. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like mentioning this in this market, but when we won the Stanley Cup in Boston (2011), Tim Thomas was 35 years old and nobody ever brought that up,â&#x20AC;? said Canucks general manager Jim Benning, a former Bruins assistant GM. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These guys now are in such good shape that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now seeing players playing longer and goalies and can play when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re 40. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at the age. Ryan has a lot of experience and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of pressure on the goalie here and he settles our team down.â&#x20AC;?

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Scott Ranger gets his Mann Nanaimo teacher captained Victoria to a Senior A championship, now ready to retire SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

Three years ago, Scott Ranger asked for a trade from the Nanaimo Timbermen to the Victoria Shamrocks to win a Mann Cup before his decorated lacrosse career ended.

Ranger finally achieved his goal Friday night as captain of a Shamrocks, who beat the Peterborough Lakers in Game 6 of the national Senior A championship series to win the cup — the first time a team from the west has done so in nine years.

“It was a lot of hard work that finally paid off,” said Ranger, a 32-yearold on-call school teacher born and raised in Nanaimo who had four goals and seven assists in the series against the Lakers.

“It was the battle of my whole career, and to end it off with something like that is pretty special.”

Before the season started, Ranger had retired from his pro career in the National Lacrosse League, but still wanted to win a Mann Cup rather than go his entire career in the Western Lacrosse Association without grasping it.

It was the sole reason he had asked to be traded from his hometown Timbermen to the Shamrocks.

“That was the whole idea,” Ranger said Wednesday at Kirby’s Source for Sports as he took photographs with young lacrosse players and the trophy. “Unfortunately it took me three years, but we finally got it and now I can look back on it as part of my career.”

With a Mann Cup now acquired, Ranger hasn’t made an official decision on whether or not he will play next year, but is leaning toward retirement.

If he does retire, he will go out

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Kane issues highlight beginning of main camp When training camps open this week around the NHL, Patrick Kane will be on the ice with the Chicago Blackhawks while Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos is moving forward without a new contract.

Kane is set to attend training camp despite the legal issues he’s facing in his hometown of Hamburg, N.Y. Police have started an investigation over an incident that occurred at his house. Kane has not been charged.

Kane is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s at his off-season home near Buffalo, a person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because police have not revealed the nature of their investigation. The decision to allow Kane to be on the ice beginning Friday at the University of Notre Dame belonged to the Blackhawks, not the NHL. How Kane and his teammates handle the subject will overshadow any talk about repeating as Stanley Cup champions. Asked about it last week, Conn Smythe-winning defenceman Duncan Keith said: “I don’t even want to get into anything as far as just not even how I feel about going into camp or anything like that.”

Expect a lot of that in the coming days.

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as captain of a Mann Cup-winning team, although he takes little credit for that.

“Our team had a good leadership group,” he said. “It wasn’t just me, wearing the ‘C.’ “It was some of the guys not wearing letters, too, so it was just typical stuff of getting everybody ready for every battle. Our team had a lot of leaders, so it was an easy job.”

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Ranger’s retirement would also mean he leaves having posted 709 points in 181 WLA games, an average of 3.92 per game.

“It’s not a for-sure decision yet,” he said, “but it’s definitely looking toward retirement now. You can’t finish a career any better than that, so without saying yes, it’s my time.”

Ranger said he will continue to be involved in the game, likely ending

up as a coach at the minor level.

“I’ve got two little kids who want to play lacrosse, and I’ll definitely start coaching now and start giving back to the game that’s given me so much,” he said.

“It’s just what you do.”

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ll hockey eyes in Western Canada this week were focused on Penticton, for two reasons.

One — the Vancouver Canucks hosted their annual Young Stars prospects tournament there, where Connor McDavid and many other of the NHL’s top prospects competed in front of a throng of coaches and scouts in an effort to prime themselves for pro hockey.

Two — and there is no ‘one’ without this — there was enough foresight by those in Penticton to build an arena capable of holding such events.

In Nanaimo, there is a chance one of these shiny new arenas will be built downtown, along with a hotel and commercial space.

The idea is to have a 5,000-seat multiplex, proposed to be built with private money — the single most important part of the enterprise — by developer Brian Martin, who owns the downtown Howard Johnson and

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The idea is also to have a Western Hockey League team set up shop inside the rink, something most who follow major junior hockey believe won’t be a problem if and when shovels go in the ground to build it.

Penticton’s 5,000-seat South Okanagan Events Centre is home to the B.C. Hockey League’s Penticton Vees.

And although a WHL team doesn’t occupy it, the most successful BCHL franchise does. The number of WHL teams in the area could over-saturate the market, anyway, so you can see why the city of just over 32,000 has stuck to having it’s Junior A club as

its arena’s main tenant.

Regardless, we all saw the arena sold out a week ago when McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers prospects were on the ice there against Jake Virtanen and the Canucks.

When Virtanen threw his now infamous check on McDavid, it was shown on nationwide highlight shows, each time also showing the spectacular facility in Penticton.

Nanaimo needs the same thing.

While the Clippers were an elite team in the BCHL last season and look to be again this year — they play their home opener Friday night against the Victoria Grizzlies — they’re playing in an aging building and in a junior hockey market that needs some life injected into it.

The fate of the Clippers notwithstanding, a WHL team with bigger, stronger, faster and more promising young players would provide that life.

That’s not to mention the rest of the advantages of having the complex

— concerts, conferences, indoor circuses, and the like.

We also shouldn’t forget that Nanaimo, at a growing 83,000 and with a surrounding area much adding many more hockey fans, is a large city relative to the ones that already have major junior hockey teams in Canada and in the U.S. The support would be there, and it’s time Nanaimo hockey fans got the chance to provide it to a WHL team in a league that wants a second team on Vancouver Island and has a few teams in financial trouble.

If Penticton can build the rink they have without a WHL tenant, there’s no reason Nanaimo can’t with one all but guaranteed to show up once it’s done. » Scott McKenzie is the sports editor at the Nanaimo Daily News. To offer comments on this column or to submit a story idea, send an email to: scott.mckenzie@nanaimodailynews.com.

The NHL will have concussion spotters at all 30 arenas this season to help teams identify visible signs and symptoms of the injury.

Under the league’s concussion protocol, teams have had spotters at games in the past. But deputy commissioner Bill Daly said some have found it difficult on the road to isolate one person whose sole responsibility is to keep an eye on players who may have suffered a head injury.

The decision to remove a player from a game still resides with team trainers and medical personnel, but now there’s guaranteed to be an extra pair of eyes watching.

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Voynov off to Russia after domestic abuse issues Defenceman Slava Voynov announced Wednesday that he will return home to Russia with his family, leaving the Los Angeles Kings in the wake of his legal troubles on domestic violence charges.

Voynov announced his intentions in a statement through his agent, Rolland Hedges. The two-time Stanley Cup champion apologized to “those in and around the game of hockey who have been affected by my situation.”

“I also wish the players of the LA Kings success in the future,” Voynov said.

The Kings also released a statement announcing they had planned to terminate the final four seasons of Voynov’s contract on Thursday.

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Price, Blue Jays crush Braves 9-1 CHARLES ODUM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA — David Price is emerging as more than Toronto’s ace. The left-hander is showing he can also be the team’s stopper, the pitcher who can be trusted to halt losing streaks.

Price allowed one run in seven innings, Russell Martin hit a homer and drove in four runs, and the Blue Jays beat Shelby Miller and the Atlanta Braves 9-1 on Wednesday night to protect their lead in the AL East. Price (16-5) gave up six hits and had nine strikeouts as he improved to 7-1 since coming to Toronto in a trade with Detroit in late July. Four of the seven wins have followed losses; the latest stopped a two-game skid.

Price said he didn’t know so many of his wins had followed losses, but he embraced the stopper role.

“I’ll be that guy,” Price said after taking the AL lead with his 2.42 ERA. The Blue Jays stayed three games ahead of second-place New York in the division. The Yankees beat the Rays 3-1. Toronto manager John Gibbons said Price made his strong win look easy, even though he struggled with his location at times.

“He did a nice job picking us up after we lost a couple games,” Gibbons said.

“That’s what we brought him over for and he’s been great.”

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher David Price pitches during a Major League Baseball game against the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday in Atlanta. [AP PHOTO]

Toronto had 12 hits as it returned to its customary high-scoring pace after managing only a combined two runs in the two straight losses. Martin hit a two-run double in the fourrun first and added a two-run homer off Ryan Kelly in the ninth.

“It’s the best offence in all of baseball,” Price said.

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Miller (5-15) gave up five runs, four earned, in 3 2-3 innings — his shortest start of the season.

“Just kind of didn’t have anything going for me at all, really,” Miller said. Miller’s streak of 22 winless starts is the longest for any pitcher in a season he was an All-Star. The right-hander has the worst run sup-

port in the majors and has 14 losses since his last win on May 17.

Ben Revere drove in two runs with two hits, including a double in the fifth, for Toronto. The Braves’ run came in the first.

Nick Markakis hit a leadoff double and scored on Freddie Freeman’s fly ball. Christian Bethancourt had three hits.

GOOD AS NEW Toronto 1B Edwin Encarnacion had three hits and two walks in his return after missing two starts with a sore left middle finger.

UNUSUAL 4-6-5 DP Price walked Bethancourt and pinch-hitter Ryan Lavarnway to open the fifth but then had help from an unusual double play. Second baseman Cliff Pennington couldn’t catch a shallow pop fly by Markakis, but his throw to Goins forced Lavarnway at second. Goins threw to third baseman Josh Donaldson, who tagged Bethancourt when he slid past the bag.

TRAINER’S ROOM BLUE JAYS: Gibbons said RHP LaTroy Hawkins was available after being held out with right forearm soreness for four days.

BRAVES: RHP Jason Grilli, recovering from surgery on July 17 to repair his ruptured left Achilles tendon, said he hopes to be ready for spring training.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Argos forced to play on the road due to possible MLB playoff game DAN RALPH THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts are being forced out of their home stadium by baseball’s powerhouse Blue Jays.

The CFL club will play its Oct. 6 home game against the Redblacks in Ottawa because the Blue Jays could be hosting the American League wildcard game that day at Rogers Centre.

And more changes could be coming.

The Argos, whose home schedule has already been heavily impacted by this summer’s Pan American Games, have three more games at Rogers Centre in October. Should the Blue Jays reach the American League Championship Series, the CFL club’s contests Oct. 17 (versus Calgary) and Oct. 23 (versus Montreal) could also be relocated.

Toronto’s home game against the B.C. Lions on Oct. 30 will go ahead as scheduled as will their final game of the regular season on Nov. 6 against Winnipeg. The World Series will finish no later than Nov. 4.

There isn’t any flexibility in the baseball playoff schedule, which is set and controlled by Major League Baseball.

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Playing their second straight game against the Bucs, the Generals will look to put a win on the board after the two teams played to a 3-3 tie Saturday in Parksville.

“We were very pleased with the turnout we had,” Oceanside general manager Rob Gaudreault said.

“We’ve got great fans here in the Oceanside area and it really showed how excited the fans were to see this team in action last weekend. Hopefully we can give them something to be excited about every time we step on the ice and it will keep them coming back every home game we have.”

In their first game Saturday against the Buccaneers, the Generals outshot the Bucs 49-27.

The Generals also played a disciplined game, heading to the penalty kill only once the entire game.

The power play was a different story, where the Generals had five chances with the man advantage, but managed to cash in only once.

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from Bucs forward Trent Bell that sent the Gens reeling early on.

“Yeah, that was tough,” Generals captain Chandler Bruyckere said.

“Giving up those two short-handed goals was something you don’t hope to see when you’re on the power play but it was great to see us keep our heads through it.

“We managed to put it aside and kept on grinding away and we kept the pressure on for the rest of the game.

“There were definitely some nerves out there for us but we settled it down and found the game we wanted to play. We just wanted that win and couldn’t quite get it.”

There has been a noticeable improvement through the pre-season and the first two regular season games from the first year players suiting up for the Generals.

With three 16-year-olds in the lineup, each minute of each game gives them more experience and more confidence as they look to prove themselves throughout the season for the Generals.

“We’ve liked what we’ve seen so far,” Gaudreault said.

“We have five players in total that are in there first season here in the VIJHL, three of those five being 16 year olds.

“So we’ve got some youth in the lineup, which is really great to see. They were all kids playing for a shot on this team and they all played their way on to our roster. It remains to be seen how well they’re going to develop but it’s been good so far.”

The Bucs, with a talented roster returning from last year’s team, are being led early in the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League season

by Trent Bell, who has four goals in four games thus far.

Former Saskatoon Blades forward Nick Gomerich has sat out the last two games for Nanaimo due to a suspension but is expected back in the lineup tonight against the Generals.

The Bucs have also been without injured star winger Will McNamara since the season opener in Campbell River.

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Black Sunday weighs heavily on Harris

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Lynch’s mom merely looking out for her son Pete Carroll thinks Marshawn Lynch’s mom is just looking out for her son.

The Seattle coach brushed aside comments made by Delisa Lynch in a Facebook post criticizing the organization and calling for offensive co-ordinator Darrell Bevell to be fired. Her comments came after her son was stopped on a fourth-and-one run play in overtime in the Seahawks’ 34-31 loss in St. Louis on Sunday.

“I heard. I haven’t seen the actual comments,” Carroll said Wednesday.

“Mom looking after her kid, there ain’t nothing wrong with that.”

Delisa Lynch posted her comments late Monday night. Delisa Lynch wrote that Bevell is the “worst play caller ever,” and that the run play on fourth-and-one against the Rams was called only to justify the fact Seattle did not call a run play from the oneyard line in the Super Bowl.

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n Sunday afternoon, Andrew Harris suffered through the worst day of his six-year CFL

career.

In the run game, he carried the ball four times for three yards and fumbled inside his own five-yard line.

He did catch three balls for 30 yards, but two of the catches came during junk time in the Lions 31-18 loss to Ottawa.

Following the final gun, Harris sprinted off the field, changed without showering, and left B.C. Place without speaking to the media.

A couple of days after the fact, Harris had a chance to process the events from Black Sabbath and fully consider their deeper meeting for him and ◆ DALLAS his team.

His conclusions? He isn’t any hapCowboys prepare for pier but at least he’s willing to talk about it. life without Dez Bryant “100 per cent,” Harris answered Forget for a moment what Dez when asked if his actions on SunBryant’s foot injury means on the day reflected a heightened sense of field for the Dallas Cowboys. frustration.

Think sidelines, where the out“Obviously I feel I’m a key componwardly emotional All-Pro receiver ent of this offence and the success of will be relegated for at least a month, this offence. possibly longer, as he recovers from a “I’ve definitely been, not so much broken right foot. neglected, but almost an afterHis teammates are sure he will still thought the last four weeks. It’s frushave a role, starting with the quarter- trating, especially when you know back who has to figure out how to the product is a losing outcome.” move the Dallas offence without his That’s frustrating for him, the team top target. and, most importantly, the fans who “I think Dez is in a lot of ways the are enduring the most disturbing heartbeat,” Romo said. “He’s got that sequence of games in the Wally emotional level that gets everybody Buono era. going. Him just being around is infec- With injuries to Travis Lulay and tious. It’s a good thing for everybody. Solomon Elimimian, Harris has We need to get him back quick.” become the face of the Lions, and for

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Favre gets his HOF nomination Brett Favre is back in the news — no, he’s not attempting another comeback.

Favre was among the 108 modern-day nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2016 announced Wednesday night.

The NFL’s career leader in nearly every passing category when he retired after the 2010 season and winner of the 1997 Super Bowl with Green Bay, Favre leads a strong list of first-time nominees.

That group includes Terrell Owens, one of the league’s most prolific and dynamic receivers for most of his 15 pro seasons, and Alan Faneca, an elite blocker who made six All-Pro teams at guard in his 13 seasons.

It’s tough for B.C. Lions runningback Andrew Harris to put up any numbers when defences key on him as their only real offensive threat. [FILE PHOTO]

the first six games of this season, he might have been the best player in the CFL. Over that span he averaged 86.5 yards rushing per game, another 48 in the air and was on pace to challenge Mike Pringle’s record of 2,414 yards from scrimmage in a single season.

Uh, Pringle’s record is no longer in jeopardy.

CFL defensive co-ordinators, it seems, can read the stats sheet as well as anyone, and they noticed Harris was the only real threat on the Lions’ offence. Beginning in Hamilton four weeks ago, those learned

coaches made stopping Harris the entire focus of their game plan, and they’ve succeeded, holding the 28-year-old Winnipegger to — yikes!

— an average of 29 rushing yards over his last four outings.

As a result, the Lions offence has dried up like a prune, the team has lost three of its lost four and there is now great unrest in the land. On Friday, they travel to Calgary to take on the Calgary Stampeders who are also the best team in the league.

Things were bad on Sunday. If it’s possible, they might get worse.

“It has to do with the way defences

are playing us,” Harris said of the sharp downturn in his production.

“Teams are really keying on me, shutting me down and forcing other guys to make plays.”

But four carries?

“For me, I can’t focus on the play calling,” Harris said. “I’ve just got to come to work every day, compete and work hard and hope that it turns.”

Head coach Jeff Tedford said he met with Harris earlier in the week and discussed things. The details of that conversation weren’t made public, but Tedford acknowledged the frustration factor in his star running back.

“When you lose a game like that, people aren’t happy,” Teford said.

“The coaches aren’t happy. The players aren’t happy. Then we focus and move on to the next thing.”

But how do you make this better?

That’s the only relevant question and, on Tuesday, both Tedford and offensive co-ordinator George Cortez were leaning on some familiar rationalizations.

The offensive woes are a combination of things. Some times it’s the offensive line. Sometimes it’s the receivers. Sometimes it’s the quarterback. And sometimes it’s Harris. The Lions have had some success. Now they just need to be more consistent.

See, it’s that easy. So why does it look so bloody difficult?

On top of everything else, Harris is poised to become a free agent at the end of this season. Lions GM Wally Buono and Harris’s agent, Dan Vertlieb, exchanged proposals during the Lions’ bye week, but things have since grown quiet.

The Lions’ back was asked if his contractual status weighs on him.

“It’s there,” he says. “I can’t really control it. All I can control is how I feel in my situation.”

And right now, that isn’t the greatest feeling in the world.

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HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sanchez (4); Abreu (29); Olt (1).

Butler (12); Smolinski (5). SFâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lawrie.

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:40. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;15,365 (47,574) at Seattle.

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ThXUVGD\ V JDPHV Âł $OO 7LPHV (DVWHUQ Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 7-6) at Pittsburgh (Morton 9-7), 12:35 p.m.

Miami (Cosart 1-4) at Washington (Roark 4-5), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Estrada 12-8) at Atlanta (Wisler 5-7), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lackey 11-9) at Milwaukee (Nelson 11-12), 8:10 p.m. )ULGD\ V JDPHV St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Fielder Tex LCain KC NCruz Sea Donaldson Tor Hosmer KC JIglesias Det

CUBS 3, PIRATES 2 (12 INN.)

140 128 137 142 141 120

542 68 169 499 95 155 532 82 165 559 109 169 530 87 160 416 44 125

.312 .311 .310 .302 .302 .300

RUNSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Donaldson, Toronto, 109; Bautista, Toronto, 98; Dozier, Minnesota, 96; LCain, Kansas City, 95; Trout, Los Angeles, 90; CDavis, Baltimore, 89; Gardner, New York, 89; MMachado, Baltimore, 89.

RBIsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Donaldson, Toronto, 119; CDavis, Baltimore, 107; Bautista, Toronto, 101; KMorales, Kansas City, 101; Encarnacion, Toronto, 99; Ortiz, Boston, 96; JMartinez, Detroit, 94.

HITSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Altuve, Houston, 177; Bogaerts, Boston, 175; Kinsler, Detroit, 170; Donaldson, Toronto, 169; Fielder, Texas, 169; NCruz, Seattle, 165; MMachado, Baltimore, 164.

HOME RUNSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;NCruz, Seattle, 42; CDavis, Baltimore, 42; Donaldson, Toronto, 38; JMartinez, Detroit, 36; Trout, Los Angeles, 36; Bautista, Toronto, 35; Pujols, Los Angeles, 35.

STOLEN BASESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Altuve, Houston, 37; LCain, Kansas City, 27; Burns, Oakland, 26; JDyson, Kansas City, 25; DeShields, Texas, 23; Gose, Detroit, 20; Betts, Boston, 19; Gardner, New York, 19; Marisnick, Houston, 19; Pillar, Toronto, 19.

PITCHINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Keuchel, Houston, 17-7; FHernandez, Seattle, 17-9; McHugh, Houston, 16-7; Price, Toronto, 15-5; Lewis, Texas, 15-8; Eovaldi, New York, 14-3; Buehrle, Toronto, 14-7.

SAVESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Street, Los Angeles, 35; Boxberger, Tampa Bay, 34; AMiller, New York, 33; Britton, Baltimore, 33; Perkins, Minnesota, 32; ShTolleson, Texas, 32; GHolland, Kansas City, 31.

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Miami IP Conley W, 4-1 7 Dunn 2-3 Morris H, 15 1-3 Barraclough 1 N.Y. Mets Colon L, 14-12 5 2-3 Robles 1 1-3 Clippard 1 Goeddel 2-3 Gilmartin 1-3

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:46. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;25,161 (41,922) at New York.

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L.A. Dodgers San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

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DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Washington 1. Philadelphia 2. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Desmond (26), Escobar (23), Robinson (14). HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ruf (8). Harper (40); Werth (11). Sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gonzalez. SFâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lobaton. :DVKLQJWRQ Gonzalez Rivero Martin 3KLODGHOSKLD Asher Neris De Fratus Ogando Roberts

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Eâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Arrieta, Hughes, Cervelli, Montero.

LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Chicago Cubs 12, Pittsburgh 3.

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Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;31,945 (38,362) at Pittsburgh.

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:08. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;45,906 (56) at Los Angeles.

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Kemp (22).

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:50. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;18,767 (48,519) at Phoenix.

N.L. LEADERS Harper Was DGordon Mia Posey SF YEscobar Was Goldschmidt Ari Pollock Ari Votto Cin LeMahieu Col DPeralta Ari MDuffy SF

G 137 128 136 125 142 140 142 138 135 132

AB R H PCT. 465 108 157 .338 543 75 180 .331 499 70 164 .329 484 69 155 .320 510 90 161 .316 542 98 169 .312 488 89 152 .311 516 78 160 .310 425 55 130 .306 504 69 153 .304

RUNSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Harper, Washington, 108; Pollock, Arizona, 98; Fowler, Chicago, 94; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 90; Votto, Cincinnati, 89; Granderson, New York, 88; Arenado, Colorado, 87.

RBIsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Arenado, Colorado, 111; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 100; Kemp, San Diego, 94; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 93; Bryant, Chicago, 92; Harper, Washington, 90; Posey, San Francisco, 89; Rizzo, Chicago, 89.

HITSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;DGordon, Miami, 180; Pollock, Arizona, 169; Markakis, Atlanta, 166; Posey, San Francisco, 164; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 161; LeMahieu, Colorado, 160; Blackmon, Colorado, 159.

HOME RUNSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Arenado, Colorado, 39; Harper, Washington, 39; CaGonzalez, Colorado, 37; Frazier, Cincinnati, 34; Rizzo, Chicago, 29; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 28; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 27; Stanton, Miami, 27; Votto, Cincinnati, 27.

STOLEN BASESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;BHamilton, Cincinnati, 56; DGordon, Miami, 51; Blackmon, Colorado, 38; Pollock, Arizona, 35; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 26; GPolanco, Pittsburgh, 24; Revere, Philadelphia, 24; Segura, Milwaukee, 24.

PITCHINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Arrieta, Chicago, 19-6; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 18-7; Greinke, Los Angeles, 17-3; Wacha, St. Louis, 16-5; GCole, Pittsburgh, 16-8; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 14-6; BColon, New York, 14-11.

SAVESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Melancon, Pittsburgh, 46; Rosenthal, St. Louis, 44; Familia, New York, 41; Kimbrel, San Diego, 36; FrRodriguez, Milwaukee, 34; Casilla, San Francisco, 33; Jansen, Los Angeles, 31.

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HOCKEY All Times Mountain :HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOW Prince Albert 5 Regina 2 7KXUVGD\¡V JDPH Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Everett at Portland, 4:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Victoria at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV Tri-City at Spokane, 3 p.m.

Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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ISLAND DIVISION Cowichan Valley Powell River Nanaimo Victoria Alberni Valley

GP 2 2 2 1 1

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L 0 0 0 1 2 2

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MAINLAND DIVISION Wenatchee Chilliwack Langley Coquitlam Surrey Prince George

GP 2 1 1 2 2 2

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All Times Local :HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOW Penticton 3 Vernon 2 7XHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Salmon Arm 7 Merritt 5 West Kelowna 8 Trail 3 7KXUVGD\ V JDPHV No Games Scheduled. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Powell River at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Coquitlam at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV Prince George at Langley, 6 p.m.

Powell River at Nanaimo, 6 p.m.

Chilliwack at Vernon, 6 p.m.

Victoria at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Coquitlam at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

Penticton at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

6XQGD\ V JDPHV Powell River at Alberni Valley, 2 p.m.

Wenatchee at Langley, 3 p.m.

Chilliwack at Salmon Arm, 3 p.m.

Prince George at Surrey, 4 p.m.

WEEK 13 EAST DIVISION

EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W 29 13 27 13 29 13 29 12 28 11 25 9 29 8 29 8 29 8 28 7

New England New York D.C. Columbus Toronto Montreal Orlando New York City Philadelphia Chicago

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Pt 46 45 45 44 37 32 32 31 30 27

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W 28 15 27 14 29 13 29 13 27 11 28 11 28 11 28 9 28 9 28 8

Vancouver Dallas Los Angeles Seattle Kansas City Portland San Jose Houston Salt Lake Colorado

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T 3 5 8 3 8 8 6 8 8 10

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Pt 48 47 47 42 41 41 39 35 35 34

:HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV New England 2 New York 1 New York City 2 Toronto 0 Montreal at San Jose )ULGD\¡V JDPH ³ $OO 7LPHV (DVWHUQ Dallas at Kansas City, 7 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV Colorado at Toronto, 2 p.m.

San Jose at New York City, 7 p.m.

Columbus at D.C., 7 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

New England at Montreal, 8 p.m.

Orlando at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m.

6XQGD\ V JDPHV New York at Portland, 5 p.m.

Houston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. :HGQHVGD\ 6HSW Chicago at Montreal, 8 p.m.

Kansas City at Houston, 8:30 p.m. )ULGD\ 6HSW Orlando at New York, 7 p.m.

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE

Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal

Calgary Edmonton B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

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6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV Edmonton at Hamilton, 4 p.m.

Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 9 p.m.

6XQGD\ V JDPH Winnipeg at Montreal, 1 p.m.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST N.Y. Jets Buffalo New England Miami

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SOUTH Tennessee Jacksonville Houston Indianapolis

WEST Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

NATIONAL CONFERENCE Dallas Washington Philadelphia N.Y. Giants

GROUP G Chelsea (England) 4 Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) 0 Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 2 FC Porto (Portugal) 2

Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay New Orleans

GROUP H Gent (Belgium) 1 Lyon (France) 1 Valencia (Spain) 2 Zenit St. Petersburg (Russia) 3

St. Louis Arizona San Francisco Seattle

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6XQGD\ V JDPHV Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Houston at Carolina, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Be aware of your limitations when dealing with someone at a distance. The two of you are not on the same page when you have distance separating you. Others around you might have the expectation that your bond is the same all the time. Tonight: Act on an odd feeling.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your feelings regarding many people seeking you out are likely to emerge. You could feel popular or annoyed, but either way you might need to make an adjustment to your schedule. Opportunities seem to pop up from out of the blue.

Tonight: As you like it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Pace yourself -- you have a lot of ground to cover. Open up to a swift change in someone’s mood. Be willing to jump on an opportunity that suddenly arises. You might notice that a partner starts acting differently.

Find out what is going on. Tonight: Choose something just for you!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might be disappointed by someone in the morning, but you’ll manage to soar right above it later in the day. Your imagination could be a little wild. These flights of fancy will be a fun distraction, but they also might set you up to be let down. Tonight: Out late.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You’ll respond from an authentic point of view, which could create somewhat of a ruckus. Be aware of what you are asking of someone. This person might have a strong reaction. Give the situation low priority if you do not want an argument.

Tonight: Hang out at home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You might not be in touch with your feelings right now. You’ll want to be appreciated by certain people, but be careful about showing off or making more of a particular happening than exists. Be realistic.

Tonight: Let others make it their treat.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might find yourself in a comfortable spot and feel as if you have been in the very same place before.

Use caution with any money agreements made today and in the next few months; they could become burdensome. Tonight: There you are, having a great time!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’ll sense that you are entering a challenging period. Don’t worry -- you have the wherewithal to handle what is coming. Make sure that communication keeps flowing. Don’t allow a disagreement to progress too far today or in the next few weeks. Tonight: Vanish, if you can.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Assess what is happening in a meeting. You might need some

supporters easing your way to continue on the path you have decided to pursue. A loved one’s compassion for you is likely to come through in a big way. Tonight: Make sure you have all your ducks in a row.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)You might need to fill in where others have backed off. You have the strength and the drive to do just that. You could encounter a hassle with a friend that results from a change of plans. Go with the flow, and others will relax soon enough.

Tonight: Allow the leader in you to emerge.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Let your imagination flourish as you hit a problem. You’ll sleuth right through it, as long as you can get past conventional thinking. A boss could be very cold; perhaps he or she feels challenged by your abilities. Move past this person’s attitude. Tonight: Be around great music.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (SEPT. 17): This year you could feel held back at times. You have the energy, luck and knowledge to push any project to success. Someone around you frequently puts you down or makes mincemeat of your ideas. You will need to learn to move past this person’s criticism. If you are single, you could be overwhelmed by the amount of people around you who would like to have more than a friendship. You might want to date for a while.

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With great sadness we announce annou our beloved mother, Yvonne â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lenoreâ&#x20AC;? Barton, after a short illness, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family. Lenore was born in Didsbury, Alberta on Sept. 1, 1927. Being a twin, she and her brother were a bit of a novelty in town. Lenore would relate how her mom would bundle them both up and no matter what the weather; lay them in a large basket. She would then place the basket in the front porch so her babies could take â&#x20AC;&#x153;some airâ&#x20AC;?. Neighbors would come by and take a peek of the twin babies lying in the oversize basket. Lenore moved to the big city of Calgary to work. She decided one weekend to go to a country-dance in Condor. There she met the love of her life, our father Samuel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wesâ&#x20AC;? Barton. Dad got the wanderlust and joined the Merchant Marines. He traveled the world but came back to marry his one true love Lenore. They wed on November 2,1949 in Duncan. After a few moves they settled into a rambling farmhouse in Cedar to raise their 5 children. Their home became a gathering place for the neighborhood. It could be chaotic at times but always fun. Lenore also worked for Eatonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the stockroom for many years. The people she met there became life long friends.

Lenore and Wes loved camping with family. Later she and Wes joined up with the Yoyo Club, a camping group of friends who traveled up and down the Island. She and Wes loved to explore new places, they would jump in the car and see were the road took them that day.

In the winter, mom would knit toques and mittens for newborns and donate them to the Salvation Army. Upon Wesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing in Aug 2008, Lenore moved from Chase River into Long lake Chateau. She lived there until her health declined. She then moved to Stanford Place, Parkville for a short time before her passing. Lenoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life was full of family, friends and laughter, always laughter.

Lenore was predeceased by Wes, her loving husband of 58 yrs.

Her twin brother and sister-in-law Grant and Betty Sundberg and brother-in-law Harry Levick.

Lenore is survived by her children: Michael, Marlene, Wesley (Sue), Bev and David (Terra). Her grandchildren: Colby, Shane (Terri), Aaron and Kristianna. Her great-grandchildren: Sophia, Von and Samuel. Her sister Lois, as well as numerous other family members.

A memorial will be announced at a later date.

We are sad to announce that Arnold has passed away after a long struggle with failing health.

Predeceased by his parents Edwin and Helen Dugan of Peterborough, Ontario, wife, Adele Dugan of Nanaimo, son, Arnold Dugan Jr. (Nikolis) of Chilliwack, brother, John (Jack) Dugan of Toronto, and sister, Dale Haverstock of Hamilton.

Left to mourn his passing are his longtime partner, Marie McVey of Ucluelet; son, Alex Dugan (Jo-Ann); daughters; Lorraine Dugan (Dunn), Catharine Dugan (Grant Brebber), and Christine Busche (Axel); grandsons, David Dugan, Alexander MacPherson, Matthew Engemoen and Christopher Busche; granddaughters, Deanna Dugan (Gordon Jones), Sarah Engemoen and Jessica Busche (Jason Kelman); great grandson, Ethan Dugan; sister, Marion Joscelyne of Mattawan, NJ; and brother, Paul Dugan of Pleasant Lake, Michigan.

Arnold was an avid sportsman, who stood up for causes close to his heart. A former Nanaimo City Alderman he enjoyed the â&#x20AC;&#x153;great outdoorsâ&#x20AC;?. He worked for BC Hydro in Nanaimo as a Lineman and as an Area Forman in Tofino/ Ucluelet where he retired. He spent five years as Harbour Manager in Ucluelet and was a founding member of the Long Beach Golf Club.

He will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved him.

A Celebration of Arnoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Life will be held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 3rd at the Ucluelet Community Hall, 500 Matterson Drive.

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Bridget Mary Newstead With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Bridget Mary Newstead (nee Sweet) of Nanaimo, BC on September 5th, 2015.

Bridget passed with her loving husband at her side where he stood so strongly for the past two difficult years. Her sons and siblings surrounded her with love in her final days. Bridget came to Port Alberni BC from England in 1959 at the age of 22 to scout the way for her parents to come later. She touched many lives in the following years through her giving heart and compassionate soul.

She fostered children, volunteered for Hospice and Victim Services and was deeply involved with the British Club. She loved performing in short plays and dancing with the many friends she came to love so much.

She liked the outdoors and camping as well as the animals on the farm and could often be heard calling the cows in for supper. She was close to her family and will be deeply missed by them and everyone who she touched.

She was predeceased by her parents and eldest grandson William Gallant. (Jim) Survived by her husband David, Sons Jim (Shelley) and Byron (Michelle). Grand children Michael, Nathan, Taylor. Siblings Patricia, Michael and David as well as the many nieces and nephews from both near and far.

A celebration of Bridgetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life will be held from 1-3:30 pm on September 26th 2015 at Nanaimo Yacht Club, 400 Newcastle ave, Nanaimo BC. In lieu of flower please donate to the charity of your choice in her honor.

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Here are some key things to know about the Roman Catholic Church in the United States: BIG NUMBERS: The Catholic Church is by far the largest denomination in the U.S., with more than 68 million parishioners. By comparison, the next-biggest faith group, the Southern Baptist Convention, counts 15.5 million members. About one-quarter of Americans identify as Catholic.

LATINO BOOM: Through immigration and high birth rates, Latinos now make up 38 per cent of the U.S. church. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest diocese, is about 70 per cent Latino; the Archdiocese of Atlanta is 44 per cent. Yet, Latinos arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sticking with the church the way they once did.

More are leaving for evangelical Protestant groups or dropping organized religion altogether.

EX-CATHOLICS: Despite the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large size, it has been posting significant losses. In a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, 9 per cent of Americans said they were raised Catholic but were no longer part of the faith in any way. Another group, often dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;cultural Catholics,â&#x20AC;? identify with the faith but almost never step foot in a church. Since 1977, weekly Mass attendance has dropped from 41 per cent to 24 per cent of adult Catholics. Bishops have taken to running campaigns, such as the Archdiocese of Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Light Is On For You,â&#x20AC;? to persuade Catholics to take part in the sacrament of confession.

GO WEST: The centre of gravity for the church is shifting from the older Catholic strongholds of the Northeast and Midwest to the burgeoning South and West. The Archdiocese of New York, which Francis will visit on this trip, is closing or merging nearly one-third of its parishes. The prominent Archdiocese of Chicago posted the fourth-highest losses of any diocese nationwide over the last decade. Meanwhile, the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in Texas grew the most, adding more than 667,000 parishioners, according to the Center for Applied Research at Georgetown University.

PRIEST SHORTAGE: As in many countries, the U.S. church is suffering from a shortage of priests. In 1965, nearly 59,000 priests served in the church. That number has dropped below 38,000. About 3,500 of the more than 17,000 parishes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a resident priest.

And with 40 per cent of U.S. priests over age 65, dioceses are bracing for a wave of retirements that could leave even more pulpits empty.

ABUSE SCANDAL: The American church is still dealing with the clergy sex abuse scandal, which erupted in 2002 with the case of one pedophile priest

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in the Archdiocese of Boston, then spread nationwide and beyond. Three dioceses â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gallup, New Mexico, Milwaukee, and St. Paul and Minneapolis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are in bankruptcy court, trying to limit payouts to victims and preserve church assets. The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is being prosecuted on charges of failing to protect children. And the Diocese of Honolulu is facing a raft of new claims after lawmakers temporarily lifted time limits on lawsuits. Just this year, Bishop Robert Finn in Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, and Archbishop John Nienstedt in St. Paul and Minneapolis stepped down after improperly handling abuse cases. The overall costs of the crisis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for settlements, attorneys and child safeguards in dioceses â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is in the billions of dollars.

FINANCES: The U.S. Catholic church is one of the wealthiest in the world â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and one of the biggest donors to the Vatican. Yet, individual dioceses and parishes are struggling, in part because Catholics donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t donate at high rates to their parishes, according to the Center for Church Management & Business Ethics at Villanova University. In 2013, nearly one-third of Catholic parishes operated at a loss. Church jobs once filled by volunteers and nuns now require paid staff. Pension plans for clergy are underfunded by tens of millions of dollars and property maintenance costs are rising.

Nearly a third of church buildings across the country are more than 80 years old. The costs of the abuse scandal have added to the strain. A dozen U.S. dioceses sought bankruptcy protection from abuse claims.

CHARITY: The Catholic church, through its nationwide network of charities, schools and hospitals, is one of the largest social service providers in the country.

Catholic Charities USA, a more than $4 billion a year agency, helps the poor and homeless, provides adoption services and resettles immigrants and refugees.

Catholic Relief Services, the bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; international humanitarian arm, is a major force in development and disaster relief overseas. (Both agencies receive significant government grants.) Dioceses also run their own local programs. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which Francis will visit, spends more than $4 million each year on services to the poor, homeless and disabled, while managing about $100 million in government funds for similar work, Archbishop Charles Chaput said.

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Does anyone really need a sport-utility vehicle so fast it can hit speeds close to those seen in Formula One races?

Luxury automaker Bentley is betting that some well-heeled customers will feel that they do.

Its new Bentayga SUV that is on display at the Frankfurt International Motor Show has a top speed of 301 kilometres per hour, not too far behind the speeds that race cars reach.

It accelerates to 100 k/h in 4.1 seconds — speed and power more like a sports car than an offroad vehicle.

Starting at 175,200 euros in Europe and $221,600 in the United States, the Bentayga exemplifies the trend for makers of high-priced vehicles to get into the SUV segment — even if their reputation might be for another kind of car.

That could be highpriced passenger rides in Bentley’s case, or sports cars, such as with Jaguar, which is showing off its first SUV at the Frankfurt show.

Analysts say luxury carmakers are stretching their brand image to offer more types of vehicle and expand sales in the premium segment. That’s where profit margins are highest, while mass market carmakers often struggle to break even.

Mercedes-Benz, already in the SUV game, is offering the GLC, a redone version of its GLK midsize SUV. Maserati, a brand that like Jaguar is best known for its sports cars, is expected to unveil its new Levante SUV in the coming months.

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Federal safety regulators, the insurance industry and a coalition of the world’s largest automakers announced an agreement Friday to make automatic emergency braking a standard feature in future car models sold in the U.S. Such systems, which alert a driver to a potential forward collision and robotically trigger the brakes, have proved successful in reducing crashes, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, but they are typically an expensive option.

“We are entering a new era of vehicle safety, focused on preventing crashes from ever occurring, rather than just protecting occupants when crashes happen,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

“If technologies such as automatic emergency braking are only available as options or on the most expensive models, too few Americans will see the benefits of this new era.”

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the benefits of this new era.”

Ten automakers — Audi, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo — will work with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop a timeline for installing automatic braking as a standard feature in all vehicles they sell.

Those companies accounted for 57 per cent of U.S. auto sales last year. Making the systems standard will be an important step in motor vehicle safety, said Jake Fisher, automotive test director at Consumer Reports.

As the feature finds its way into more vehicles, Consumer Reports will stop recommending cars that lack it, Fisher said.

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industry representatives also urged the remaining car and truck manufacturers to bring automated braking to their vehicles as well.

Mercedes-Benz already offers a standard front-crash-prevention system in its 2015 C-Class, CLA and E-Class sedans.

IIHS, an insurance industry trade group, said its research found that automatic braking systems can reduce insurance injury claims by as much as 35 per cent.

“Most crashes involve driver error.

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What speeds they work at depends on the manufacturer and the systems. Some are effective at preventing crashes at the slower speeds cars drive in traffic while others can work at nearly highway speeds.

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But the chiefs at Jaguar — now under new management — know they have a dubious legacy to overcome. The historically British brand, now owned by Indian giant Tata, had become known for building beautiful machines that never quite ran right, with high maintenance costs and low resale value.

Now the brand is addressing that problem head on, with price cuts, perks and long-term warranties.

“The times of bad cars are over,” said Joe Eberhardt, president and CEO of Jaguar Land Rover North America. “This is the next generation of Jaguar. But we need customer confidence to get there.”

Eberhardt, in interviews during last month’s Monterey Car Week in Monterey, Calif., acknowledged that the Jaguar side of the brand has suffered from lingering consumer doubts.

“We have been perceived as a low-volume, highpriced brand,” the executive said. “Jaguar has the reputation that we build unreliable cars that are expensive to maintain.”

To combat that, Jaguar announced earlier this month an aggressive campaign to convince prospective buyers to give Jaguar another look.

The company has turned expensive options into standard equipment on many models, lowered prices on many vehicles, and added extended warranties, while also introducing two new entry-level vehicles that it hopes will expand its reach to younger, more mainstream consumers.

A 2015 Jaguar XF, for example, will start at $52,895 — nine per cent lower than the comparable 2015 model. A 2016 Jaguar XJ will start at $75,395, about the same as a 2015, but will include as standard a set of options that the company values at $7,000.

All vehicles in the 2016 model year line-up will include five-year and 60,000-mile limited warranties, and free scheduled maintenance for the same period.

The company will also shortly unveil the 2017 XE, which at a starting MSRP of $35,895 will significantly lower the entry point for the brand, and the 2017 F-Pace, a crossover utility vehicle that will expand Jaguar’s reach into a segment it has never occupied.

Jaguar Land Rover — at one time two independent brands, but later united and owned by BMW and by Ford — was acquired by the Indian automotive giant Tata in 2008. The parent company has invested roughly $30 billion into the brand, Eberhardt said, over the last five years.

The company reported that Jaguar sales for August were down three per cent from August of 2014, though sales of the F-type were up 15 per cent for the same period. Jaguar year to date sales for 2015 are off four per cent from 2014, the company said.

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Scion versatility good for low-flying hatchback

The Scion iM offers a lot for a little and adds in a surprising helping of driving pleasure.

SCION, From Page 41 I didn’t know what to expect when I got behind the wheel of the Scion iM but I was in for quite a surprise. For years now, Mazda has pretty well owned — and earned — the “fun to drive” title with its neat handling and responsive vehicles. But as soon as I drove off the lot at Nanaimo Toyota I felt the same kind of driver satisfaction as in a Mazda3.

OK, the iM doesn’t match the power of the Mazda3 or the turbo-engined Ford Focus or VW Golf hatchbacks.

But horsepower isn’t everything. It has more to do with a feeling of “oneness” with the car, a sense that it obeys your commands promptly and effortlessly. The iM is a very nicely balanced hatchback with light and

precise steering, a willing 137 horsepower 1.8-litre DOHC four-cylinder engine, superb brakes and a high level of standard equipment not usually included for this price.

The iM is a mono-spec vehicle (one trim level reduces production costs and enables Toyota to include premium features that would be costly options in other brands).

Making a unique visual statement isn’t easy for a compact hatchback but the iM manages to stand out with its ground-hugging stance and funky nose.

The shallow upper honeycomb grille is integrated with the automatic projector-style Halogen headlights in a single spread-wing unit across the hood while large air scoops flank the lower fascia. The front fender and side skirts are part of the body kit that wraps

Bottom line 2016 SCION iM CVT Type: FWD 5-dr. hatchback Engine: 1.8-litre DOHC I4 Horsepower: 137 @ 6100 rpm Torque: 126 lb-ft. @ 4000 rpm Fuel economy: 8.3/6.3, city/highway L/100 km Base price: $21,165 Price as tested: $23,810 (includes freight, taxes and PDI) Vehicle provided by Nanaimo Toyota

completely around the body while dramatically styled 17-inch, five-spoke alloy rims fill the wheel wells. It’s an aggressive look that gets your attention right away.

The single trim model ($21,165) comes with a standard six-speed manual transmission or an optional seven-speed CVTi-S (continuously variable transmission with intelligent shift and sport mode). Our tester was finished in classic silver metallic with black cloth interior and came with the optional CVT transmission.

All around visibility is very good for a low-flying hatchback and the standard rear view camera takes the worry from backing into tight spaces. The iM’s 137 horses respond promptly to your right foot but don’t expect to be forced back in your seat by the acceleration: 100 km/h shows up in about nine seconds. More importantly, the electric power steering is feather light and direct; when you turn the steering wheel the iM goes where you’re aiming.

This CVT has advanced pump and pulley technology that mimics a conventional transmission much better than most competitive versions and even left in drive, you feel the stepped gear changes as you increase speed and rpm. But for most fun, select sport mode.

Now the gear changes occur at higher rpm and the steering firms up for a much sportier feel. In manual mode you just tip the gearshift forward or back to select gears.

Again, the action is much more like a conventional transmission with quick shifts and much more immediate acceleration when coming out of slow corners. CVTs are getting better all the time but this is the best I’ve experienced so far.

Meanwhile the European spec independent suspension does an excellent job of taming bumps and hollows while keeping you on an even keel through the corners. Dynamic assists include vehicle stability control, traction control and hill start assist.

Four-wheel power-assisted disc brakes with ABS, electronic brake force distribution and brake assist are standard.

Accelerating hard or highway cruising the iM cabin is surprisingly quiet and comfortable. The manually adjustable front bucket seats feature generous thigh and torso bolsters to keep you firmly and safely in place. The leather-wrapped tilt-telescoping steering wheel has a nice heft with thumb ‘notches’ at nine and three for the perfect hand positions and fingertip controls for audio, Bluetooth, trip and cruise functions.

The 60/40-split rear seat can be folded down to increase the 20.8 cu-ft. of cargo space. Fit and finish throughout the cabin is first class with sporty white double stitching for steering wheel, gearshift and sport cloth fabric plus piano black appliques and contrasting white dashboard trim.

The premium standard features include dual zone automatic A/C; multi-information display; seven-inch colour touch screen for your audio controls and rear view backup camera; six-speaker premium Pioneer audio system with AM/FM/Aha radio/advanced voice recognition/integrated Gracenote database and USB port with iPod connectivity.

In addition to the regular power features, the iM comes standard with 17-inch alloy rims; power, heated outside mirrors with integrated turn signals; rear lip spoiler and eight airbags (a driver’s knee bolster and front passenger seat airbag are additional to the usual six airbags).

Toyota built, the Scion iM offers a lot for a little and adds in a surprising helping of driving pleasure. More people should know about it. » Alan McPhee is a Canadian automotive journalist and is former editor of Carguide Magazine. His articles appear each week in this space.

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