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The statue of Terry Fox in Ottawa on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Invoking Terry Fox puts Tories on the defensive COLIN PERKEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — An apparently ill-advised Conservative attempt to score some electoral points by invoking one-legged runner Terry Fox has Stephen Harper on the defensive.

Harper, in Winnipeg pushing his party’s job-creation strategy, shrugged off NDP Leader Tom Mulcair’s call for an apology over a campaign event that sparked a backlash from Fox’s family.

On Sunday, the Conservatives promised that if re-elected, they would fund cancer-prevention facilities and match donations for cancer research raised during this year’s Terry Fox Run. James Moore, the former Conservative cabinet minister who made the announcement, described the Fox family as enthusiastically welcoming the program — something the family later denied in a statement.

“In August of this year we received a request from the Terry Fox Institute and the Terry Fox Foundation for the kinds of contributions and matching funds we’re setting up,” Harper said when asked about the controversy.

“We fulfilled that request. I think it’s a great policy.”

In response, the Terry Fox Foundation issued a statement stressing they don’t get involved in politics.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper compares his hat to some blue paint with local candidate Harold Albrecht during a campaign stop at a hardware store in St. Jacobs, Ont., on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

“For the Conservatives to have been playing crass politics without the permission of the family or the foundation, I think it speaks for itself of what they’re willing to do,” Mulcair said in Moncton, N.B. Trudeau also pledged another $380 million for the arts and to reverse $115 million the Conservatives cut from the CBC and boost funding for the public broadcaster.

At his morning campaign

event, Harper said he was confident a re-elected Conservative government would be able to speed up the pace of job creation and aim to create 1.3 million net new jobs by 2020.

“I would say there’s no reason why we can’t have a similar record on that than we have now,” Harper said.

Mulcair promised an NDP government would freeze employment insurance premiums for four years and spend more on

training programs and benefits for young Canadians, so-called precarious workers and new parents.

The Conservatives have pledged to cut EI premiums by 2017 from the current $1.88 per $100 earned to $1.49. The Liberals want to cut premiums to $1.65 per $100.

Mulcair also promised to remove the EI fund from general revenues to keep government hands off any surpluses.

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EDUCATION

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Big changes in the works for Cedar Secondary School

Library board adopts new $33M budget

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Students who will attend Cedar Secondary School when it reopens in September 2016 could see some big changes both inside and outside the building.

The Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district spent $630,000 last summer to remediate and upgrade the outdoor play areas at the school — which had flooding problems for years — when it was in the process of being converted into an elementary school.

Now that a new school board has made the decision to reopen the facility as a high school, facilities staff have developed some possible new uses for the playground area for the older students.

District spokesman Dale Burgos said there were two large areas set aside for elementary play equipment, which were purposely left approximately a third of a metre below grade, from the work last summer.

He said a possible solution would be to fill it with sand which provides an option for a beach volleyball and/

A $33-million operating budget has been adopted by the Vancouver Island Regional Library board for 2016.

The board is required to adopt a balanced budget.

Local governments will contribute $20,372,451, from taxes, for an average tax increase of 3.66 per cent, or $1.68 per capita. The rest of the of $33,062,045 budget comes from fines on overdue materials and other fees, and investment income.

VIRL is B.C,’s fifth-largest library system, serving 430,000 people on the Island, Bella Coola and Haida Gwaii through 39 branch libraries, a virtual branch, and a books-by-mail service.

“It is our goal to balance the pressures of maintaining existing services and evolving business, in order to meet the expectations of our communities with available funding and resources,” said Steve Hurcombe, acting director of finance.

or a beach soccer court at the site.

“The paved area intended for a multi-purpose use for elementary is large enough for a tennis court and fence, which is a possible solution for that space,” Burgos said.

“The designs for the tennis/beach courts have not been completed so we can’t estimate the costs at this time.”

As part of the ongoing approximately $1 million project to prepare the facility itself to be used as a high school again, plans are underway to construct a “super lab” in the school.

Burgos said that instead of having three separate science rooms, the school will have one larger science room with a prep room and two regular classrooms.

“Lab functions will be reserved for the science lab and classroom portions will take place in the classroom side, instead of previous configurations where students sit on stools in the lab for class work,” he said.

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Cedar Secondary School is scheduled to be reopened in 2016. [DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO]

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Door-to-door almost done

Goal for Canada Post is to have everyone picking up own mail by 2019

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ithin the next four years, the daily visit by your mailman to the front porch is expected to become a thing of the distant past.

At the end of 2013, Canada Post outlined plans to wipe out door-to-door delivery and replace it with community mailboxes across the country and Vancouver Island.

The process is already underway throughout the Nanaimo region and the rest of northern Vancouver Island. The corporation was unable to provide the Daily News with figures on how many Islanders still receive doorto-door service.

But the goal is to have everyone picking up their own mail by 2019.

The reason is simple: saving the Crown corporation money. Canada Post Ross recently reported a Armour $31 million loss in revenue Reporting for the second fiscal quarter of 2015. That means the elimination of 6,000 to 8,000 jobs across the country. The loss of those jobs that are one of the reasons people like Nanaimo resident Sarah Miller are against the elimination of door-to-door delivery.

“A lot of people that stay on will also have their hours cut because it’s going to take them less time to do their job,” said Miller. “All of our elderly population and those who have mobility issues will also have a harder time getting their mail.”

Miller also sees the safety and reliability of a community mailbox as questionable, having suffered her own bit of bad luck in a past situation with one.

“I lived in Cedar for a little while and found that with the box service, quite often I was receiving other people’s mail and was not getting my own mail,” she said. “ I’ve never had that experience with the door-to-door mail service. That’s not to say it’s the same in every area but it is definitely something to consider and there is more room for error with the box service.”

Canada Post says it wants to “get back on financial track.” Key points in its revamp have been instigated by a decline in the number of letters and an increase in employee benefit costs. Rather than laying people off, it expects to cut jobs through attrition.

Mailmen delivering door-to-door could be a thing of the past as Canada Post plans to phase out home delivery. [DAILY NEWS]

“All of our elderly population and those who have mobility issues will also have a harder time getting their mail.”

Sarah Miller, Nanaimo resident

“We have 10,000 to 15,000 workers scheduled to retire in the next five years, so we’ll actually be hiring,” said Canada Post spokesperson Anick Losier.

“This is a new design and we’re trying to re-invent ourselves.”

She said people picking up their own mail would aid that process.

Losier confirmed that 5.8 billion letters were delivered across the country in 2006 compared to 3.8 billion last year. She said that trend is accelerating.

Moving 15.7 million homes to community mailbox service will save Canada Post approximately $170 per address every year, she said.

“Over the last 20 years, we did not have any government subsidies and have done it all by paying our own bills,” said Losier.

In August, the Nanaimo division of the CUPW

held a community event at Maffeo-Sutton Park where more than 150 people signed a petition opposing the job eliminations.

“It’s good to know the public supports us,” said Becky Skipsey, president of the Nanaimo Local 786 of the CUPW, in an email.

“Canadians value good quality postal services that return value to our society and ensure everybody has access to their mail and parcels.”

Specific numbers with regards to work reductions in the Nanaimo area have yet to be released by Canada Post but the union confirmed those numbers for other B.C. communities have been announced “range from 35 to 45 per cent with some as high as 50 per cent.”

In contrast to the drop in letter service, Canada Post has seen a sharp increase in parcel deliveries due to more people placing orders online.

The union says parcel delivery is up 75 per cent and therefore there is no need for any elimination process of door-to-door.

“Canada Post continues to be profitable and therefore there is really no reason to move ahead with these cuts. It’s a changing industry but not a dying industry,” said CUPW national president Mike Palecek. “Those 8,000 living wage jobs are the backbone of the Canadian economy.”

Palecek argues door-to-door is still needed as result of Internet shopping and believes the long-term value of mail will decline if the jobs vanish.

He doesn’t see the service eroding and suggests rather than “damaging the post offices” a national postal savings bank system should be set up, similar to those used in Europe.

Palecek says profits from customers using new and increased services at the postal bank, profits from which could then be partly returned to the post office where the bank is situated.

That way, the union president can only see further increases in Canada Post’s own profits year-on-year.

The corporation made just under $200 million last year, but Losier says that was achieved only through the rise in stamp prices as well as healthy investment returns.

Palacek also said the question of cutbacks has been popular on the federal election campaign trail.

The NDP has already said it will restore doorto-door delivery to Canadians who have lost the service since the cuts were announced, if it was to win the federal election in October.

In the meantime, Losier says current employees need not worry about their own job security. She said there’s plenty of work to go around.

Losier used a recent example in the Quebec community of Chicoutimi where workers undertook work from Toronto which was done remotely and admits creativity such as this may become a more regular occurrence in future years.

She also says, Canada Post will try to work with those uncomfortable with the community mailbox scenario and proposed the solutions of larger handle keys or once-a-week door-to-door for those with physical or mobility issues. » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to yourletters@nanaimodailynews.com.

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Resolution would ban specific election donations SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

A resolution before B.C. civic leaders this week would see the province and municipalities follow the federal government in banning corporate and union donations and implementing spending caps.

Delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities conference in Vancouver are set to debate a resolution from North Vancouver to call on the province to make the change.

The resolution, if passed, would not

be binding on the province.

But it opens the door to further debate on the issue and could set the stage for the province to consider tighter restrictions on local government campaign financing.

There are currently no limits to campaign financing for local government elections. One exception is anonymous contributions, which are capped at $50 per individual or organization in civic elections.

In contrast, the federal government has implemented strict campaign

contribution limits, as well as spending limits for each riding.

In Nanaimo-Ladysmith, for example, the maximum amount any candidate can spend is $233,442.97.

And across Canada, individuals can only give up to $1,500 to each party and $1,500 in total to all candidates.

Opposition MLA and justice critic Leonard Krog voiced support for campaign spending and contribution limits and corporate and union donation bans. He said there is growing support for the policy.

“I think it will probably pass,” he said of the UBCM resolution.

Krog said the policy would stymie the spread of American-style campaign financing, “where literally public office is almost for sale to the highest bidder.”

“I think it’s way overdue,” he said.

The non-partisan group IntegrityBC is also pushing for changes to campaign financing by launching a petition calling on the province to implement the policy.

Dermond Travis, executive director

for IntegrityBC, called campaign finance reform “an incredibly central issue.”

He said the current rules allow a handful of wealthy donors the ability to finance a campaign single-handedly. Travis also pointed out that the current rules do not require donors to either live in the province or even be eligible to vote.

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BUSINESS NOTES News and notes from the Nanaimo business community

Fun Fashions has leggings of all types New store with hundreds of offerings holds grand opening on Saturday at Woodgrove Centre in Nanaimo Robert Barron Reporting

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new store almost entirely devoted to selling leggings has opened in Woodgrove Centre.

Fun Fashions, which opened last week, will hold its grand opening on Saturday. Owner Cheryl Sharpe said the store has hundreds of styles of leggings in stock in every size to meet every need.

She said leggings have been becoming increasingly popular and are now a “huge market everywhere.”

Sharpe said that while the majority of her customers are women, men are now starting to use them for rock-wall climbing and other uses so she’s expecting her business to grow exponentially.

Sharpe said her interest in marketing leggings began with her 13-yearold daughter who started wearing them all the time.

“This store is like a huge closet for her,” she said. “We’re all about quality, affordability and having fun while we work at the store and serve our customers.”

Company ranked Canadian Business and PROFIT magazine have ranked Nanaimo’s Real Estate Webmasters as Canada’s 248th fastest growing company in its 27th annual Profit 500 listings.

The listings are considered the definitive ranking of Canada’s fastest-growing companies.

Published in the October issue of Canadian Business and at PROFITguide.com, the PROFIT 500 ranks

Fun Fashions, which sells leggings, has opened in Woodgrove Centre. Saleswoman Kiana Maltby showcases some of the variety of leggings at the store.

[ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]

Canadian businesses by their five-year revenue growth. Real Estate Webmasters Inc. made the 2015 PROFIT 500 list with year-over-year revenue growth of 40 per cent.

Morgan Carey, Real Estate Webmasters CEO, said the company is “honoured” to be on the PROFIT 500 ranking for a third year.

“This achievement reflects the unwavering dedication of our team to becoming the best in our industry,” he said.

“We truly believe that we haven’t

begun to scratch the surface on what Real Estate Webmasters can become and look forward to ranking on the PROFIT 500 for years to come.”

Atleo addresses summit Shawn Atleo, a hereditary chief from the Ahousaht First Nation and a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, will address the ninth annual State of the Island Economic Summit that will be held in Nanaimo on Oct. 28-29.

In 2014, Premier Christy Clark named Atleo to head B.C.’s first Shqwi qwal for Indigenous Dialogue, with his office located at Vancouver Island University. As Shqwi qwal, Atleo is charged with facilitating dialogue between B.C.’s First Nations, government and industry to foster understanding and help build partnerships. Nearing the completion of his first year in this position, Atleo will provide insights from roundtable discussions with industry, government and First Nations leaders

focused on opportunities for mutual benefit in the Island’s evolving society and economy.

“Through his work, Chief Atleo embodies VIU’s purpose; to challenge people to explore complex issues and to work together to find solutions that will build strong, inclusive economies and a resilient society, “ said Ralph Nilson, president of VIU. Robert.Barron @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234

HEALTH

Top doc supports a sugar tax DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

A move to make a sugar tax a federal election issue has support from Nanaimo’s top doctor.

Dr. Paul Hasselback, Central Island medical health officer for Island Health, said the Canadian Diabetes Association’s idea is worth raising during the 2015 election.

Hasselback said while reducing sugar consumption could have a positive impact on health, too little has been said by any party about health-related issues during the election so far.

“Good on the Canadian Diabetes Association for bringing forward an issue we all should be aware of — the connection between consumption of sugary drinks and the development of weight problems and diabetes,”

Hasselback said. “One way all of us can look at ways of improving our health is reducing sugar intake.”

The CDA proposed the tax as part of a list of priorities for the federal parties earlier this month.

“We know that diabetes will cost our health-care system and economy $14 billion in 2015, and $17.5 billion annually by 2025,” said Dr. Jan Hux, CDA chief science officer, in a press release. “Canadians can’t wait any longer. Unless we take action now, diabetes threatens not only more Canadians, but also the viability of our health-care system and our economic prosperity.”

Vancouver Islanders aren’t immune to the costs, which impact federal and provincial budgets to pay for health-care systems.

“Yes, there’s a cost, and that cost is

associated with (obesity) and diabetes and medical complications associated with diabetes, and there is the hypertension aspect of being overweight,” Hasselback said.

The life-shortening effects of high blood pressure are firmly established.

The CDA wants a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages because of the clear connection between high consumption of these drinks and the development of Type 2 diabetes.

A single, regular soft drink serving contains about 10 teaspoons of sugar.

Mexico, France and some regions of the U.S. and Europe have applied taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages to deter consumption.

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Dr. Paul Hasselback hoists his preferred workplace beverage – water – in his office at Island Health. [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]

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MILL SHOOTING MEMORIAL

Viewing platform erected ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

A memorial viewing platform has been constructed in Jack Point Park to honour the memory of two men who were killed in their workplace in Nanaimo last year.

Michael Lunn and Fred McEachern, employees at the Western Forest Products mill in downtown Nanaimo, were shot to death at the mill on April 30, 2014.

Tony Sudar and Earl Kelly, who also worked for WFP, were also injured in the incident. Kevin Douglas Addison, a former employee at the mill, faces two charges of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder with a firearm.

The City of Nanaimo, along with the Snuneymuxw First Nation, Western Forest Products and the United Steel Workers, Local 1-1937, worked

together to complete the platform.

Al Britton, Nanaimo’s manager of park operations, said that after reviewing several sites, it was determined that the point at the north end of Jack Point Park was the most appropriate location as it provides an unobstructed view of Nanaimo, and the mill where the incident happened, from the water.

“We didn’t want to put the memorial at the site of the mill because it wouldn’t be open to the general public,” he said.

“About 90 per cent of the employees who worked at the WFP mill downtown are now working at the company’s mill at Duke Point after the downtown mill closed, so this provides them an opportunity to easily visit the memorial, which is nearby.”

Britton said the project used

materials provided by WFP and city parks crews built the platform and boardwalk with the assistance of a SFN member who recently graduated from the carpentry program at Vancouver Island university.

Britton said the United Steel Workers will provide the dedication plaque on the platform at a later date.

Nanaimo mayor Bill McKay said the opening of the viewing platform is a memorable addition to Jack Point Park.

“It’s a reflective place where friends, families, co-workers and the community can remember two departed members of our community, the lives they lived and the contributions they made,” he said.

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A viewing platform has been constructed in Jack Point Park, honouring the memory of two men killed at the WFP mill in Nanaimo. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]

EDUCATION

New curriculum helps in fight against racism ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Audio interviews with Dick Mah, grandson of Mah Bing Kee, who played a role in Nanaimo’s coal-mining history, are among a new supplement to the province’s curriculum for history courses in public schools.

Multiculturalism Minister Teresa Wat launched the new supplement, called “Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC” for students in Grade 5 and Grade 10 this week.

The online supplement is focused on “historical wrongs” and the contributions of Chinese Canadians to B.C.’s cultural and economic foundation. The recordings of Mah, made in 1983,

recall his grandfather Mah Bing Kee, a successful Chinese merchant in Nanaimo at the beginning of the 20th century when coal was king in the city and Nanaimo was home to hundreds of Chinese coal miners.

Mah Bing Kee built a gathering place for Chinese miners on Hecate Street in 1919 which attracted Chinese miners and their families.

The supplement also includes documents on the coroner’s inquest on the Fitzwilliam mine explosion in 1876, and an audio interview with Charles Tobacco, a miner in the original Cumberland mines, reflecting on the inequality in pay for Chinese miners.

There are also further references to mining in

Nanaimo and the establishment of a number of Chinatowns.

Wat said education is the most important tool in the fight against racism.

“British Columbia has an international reputation for its celebration of diversity, but it also has a dark history of discrimination that is often ignored,” she said.

“Bamboo Shoots will ensure students understand the many cultural and economic contributions early Chinese Canadians made to B.C., shedding light on that dark chapter to ensure it never happens again in our province.”

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COMMUNITY

Swim program provided for children DAILY NEWS

The Canucks Autism Network is looking for people to help young people with autism in its new swim program that will soon be beginning in Nanaimo.

The CAN provides high quality, adapted programs for children, teens and young adults living with autism in B.C.

In response to a high demand for programs in Nanaimo, CAN has decided to provide its swim program for children, aged four to 15, on Friday nights, from 5:30-7 p.m., at the Beban Park Pool.

This program is important for families living with autism.

Currently, CAN doesn’t have enough staff in

Nanaimo to support the program and are at risk of cancelling it.

CAN needs individuals who have experience working with people with autism, have the ability to support a beginner swimmer and have relevant post-secondary education.

Individuals must apply to canucksautism.ca/jobs by the end of September.

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OUR VIEW

Maybe a sugar tax will add common sense to our diets

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ou would never dream of cradling a bottle of tequila in your child’s left hand, a smoldering, fat cigar in her right, and sitting her down to savour the fumes wafting from the tailpipe of a running Chevrolet.

Why aren’t you thinking twice before handing her an ice-cold bottle of pop?

This week’s call from the Canadian Diabetes Association for a sugar tax is a terrific idea, one that our politicians need to endorse.

Sugary drinks may be the single most under-appreciated health threat facing Vancouver Islanders.

The links between high sugar consumption, obesity and diabetes are

well-known. The societal costs to families are incalculable, but the outof-pocket burden on our health care system is easily tallied. According to the CDA, it will amount to $14 billion this year alone.

It’s simply common sense for some of the cost to be shouldered at the root of the problem.

Incessant burning of gasoline wreaks havoc with the environment, which in turn does the same to people’s respiratory systems.

Alcohol takes a terrible toll on livers and on the families forced to struggle with the ramifications of addiction. The link between cigarettes and cancer and a bucketful of respiratory ailments is well-founded.

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Perhaps because we don’t want a nanny state, perhaps because we treasure freedom of choice, perhaps because we simply think life is better fueled by a judicious bit of tobacco, alcohol or gasoline we haven’t banned any of these noxious pleasures. But we haven’t ignored them either.

Each has been the focus of widespread attempts to educate or even shame those who overuse and abuse.

Each has been subjected to surcharges and levies aimed at recouping some of the cost it adds to our health care bills.

The same needs to be done for sugary drinks.

Pointed advertising campaigns

need to target those who make a case of soft drinks a part of their weekly routine. Moms and dads need to be warned right at the store about the amount of empty calories that slushy drinks or jumbo-size sodas pump into their child’s system.

Meanwhile, adding a sugar tax will create a new funding source for the treatment of diabetes and ailments related to obesity. It may also encourage people to shop for cheaper — and preferably healthier — alternatives to quench their thirst.

By offering your child certain cans of pop, you are effectively spoonfeeding her 10 to 12 teaspoons of sugar with no other nutritional value whatsoever.

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Chico Maki: Former Blackhawk has brought back priceless memories

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If you saw your neighbours feeding their kids sugar by the spoonful, you’d probably be on the phone to social services. But for some reason not everyone is getting the message.

We aren’t trying to demonize pop.

We’re not saying never indulge yourself or your kids. The issue is that it should be a treat, not a regular dietary staple.

If your kid is thirsty, give him or her a drink of water.

Then call up your MP and urge them to do some sweet talking about a sugar tax.

Between the Lines

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t was your basic brief on the sports wire.

For me, it was so much more.

Late last month, I spotted this: “Ron ‘Chico’ Maki, a member of the Chicago Blackhawks 1961 Stanley Cup champions, has died. He was 76.”

You never get used to people dying, but unfortunately, as you get older, it tends to happen more and more to people you know, or are familiar with.

In this case, I felt a big part of my childhood pass along with Chico (side note — more than 40 years after I first became aware of him, I just found out his name was ‘Ron’).

It’s a tale I shared with many of you about eight years ago, but feel compelled to honour Mr. Maki by sharing it again . . . .

Chico Maki caused me more grief as a six-yearold than my little sister and crabby neighbour combined.

He was as elusive as a spy, as sought-after as a priceless diamond. I hated him.

You see, Chico Maki was all that stood between a hockey-mad Grade 1 student and his first-ever complete set of hockey cards.

Day after day. Pack after pack. Chore after chore to get money for said packs. Dozens of repellent yet delicious stick of rock-hard gum chewed.

Nothing.

No trades either — nobody had Chico Maki.

Then one day, it happened. I rode my bike to the corner store (remember those?). Grabbed the usual two packs, and rushed outside to open them.

No luck in pack number one. I was going to be one short of the set forever. But then, it happened.

In the second pack, buried below my 10th (though still treasured) Guy Lafleur. . . it was him!

I’ll never forget the crooked smile in the cheesy portrait photo (that’s his card accompanying this story; shout out to my pals at O Pee Chee). The slicked-down hair. It was Chico Maki! To this day, I remember the little cartoon on the back (guy on crutches with “had injuries in 1971-72”).

I sped home and pulled out my checklist, the one

covered in red ink, except for one spot.

I carefully filled it in (I can see today’s card collectors recoiling in horror) and sat back to admire my handiwork. The feeling of satisfaction still resonates all these years later.

That feeling of satisfaction will always resonate, but there is now a little melancholy after hearing Chico is no longer with us.

Those of us of a certain age can surely immediately recall the joy those hockey cards brought us.

This was before the age of keeping them pristine behind plastic. They went in the spokes of our bicycles, were flipped and bent and, in my case, tacked to the wall.

The only other ‘collectible’ old-time name that brought me as much joy as that initial Chico Maki find was Fern Rivard. Anyone remember him? He was a goalie who had a few stints with the Minnesota North Stars.

I don’t think I ever saw him play (I had never seen him without his mask until I looked him up a few minutes ago) but he was the very last blank spot in one of those old sticker albums that were filled with the mini-packs my Mum bought me from the old Super-Valu in Duncan. I must have gone through a zillion packs of those before finally, a Fern Rivard to complete the set!

Doubling up on my melancholy, I learned Mr. Rivard passed away in 1993.

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Pepper spray used in pizza shop holdup DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

A man who police say used pepper spray to try to rob a downtown Nanaimo pizzeria left the shop empty-handed. A suspect is in police custody after a failed robbery attempt of Cousin Nick’s pizza, at 21 Front St.

at approximately 1 a.m. Saturday.

A man with a can of bear spray entered the store with his shirt pulled over his face and demanded the clerk hand over money and the cash register. That’s when he noticed the clerk, who also owns the store, was also holding a large pizza knife.

The man suddenly let loose with a burst of bear spray, then ran out the front door empty handed. Police responded within minutes, and a man fitting the description given was arrested a short distance away.

Several customers hit by the pepper spray did not require hospitalization.

Police do not believe the attack was related to other similar, unsolved recent robberies.

“Those files remain open and are being actively investigated,” said Const. Gary O’Brien of the Nanaimo RCMP. Patrick John Desroche, 21, is in

custody and faces several robbery-related charges, including assault with a weapon. His next court date is Sept. 29.

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Communication is the key to a good marriage, say couple after 65 years

Program will turn graffiti into murals PAMELA ROTH VICTORIA NEWS

ERIC PLUMMER AV TIMES

Johanna and John Newfield were reminded why they’ve called the Alberni Valley home for over 70 years during a recent trip to the Fall Fair.

John, 88, was feeling the effects of the 27 Celsius temperature during the fair’s opening day on Sept. 10.

The gravel surface near the exit gate made matters worse for the walker the senior was using.

“All of a sudden, there was no use in me trying to hold myself,” says John, who brought his wife down with him. “I started falling and she was on the right side of me. She tried to hold me.”

When the two fell Johanna harmed her forehead and wrist, which became numb. But help was immediately at hand from the surrounding fall fair visitors and two first aid attendants, who remained with the couple until John recovered enough to drive home.

“It was beautiful to know that people cared,” recalls Johanna.

Like just about everything over the course of their lives in the Alberni Valley, Johanna and John endured the recent incident at the Fall Fair together. On Wednesday, the Newfields marked 65 years of marriage, a legacy that was entirely spent in the Valley — except for a stint of less than a year on Alberta’s oilfields in the early 1950s.

It didn’t take long for the tight couple realize that moving from one wildcat drill site to the next was not worth the troubles.

“We were wildcatting at the time, and she was pregnant,” says John.

“Wildcatting is no life for a family,” adds Johanna.

The Newfields moved back to the Alberni Valley, where had they

On Wednesday, John and Johanna Newfield marked 65 years of marriage, a legacy that has been entirely spent in the Alberni Valley. [ERIC PLUMMER/AV TIMES]

married in 1950. Over the following decade they had six children (one died shortly after birth), who bred a dozen grandchildren that have so far resulted in 23 great-grandchildren.

Looking out the window from the bright kitchen in his South Port home, John reflects on his feelings towards Alberni.

“It’s nice and quiet,” John says. “A lot of people are considerate. If something’s wrong, they’re right there.”

John first came to the Valley in 1945 with his family after growing up on a farm in Morris, Manitoba. A lingering Manitoba connection lured him back to the prairies alone, but John soon hitchhiked to the Island to rejoin his family again in Alberni.

“I went back to Winnipeg and things didn’t work out,” says John.

“You know what girls do.”

Johanna’s roots in the Valley stretch back to when she moved from New Westminster with family at the age of four. She recalls attending Alberni Elementary when sidewalks were composed of raised planks.

Spaces were in between the boards, a feature the young lady used to gain sympathy from passersby. Johanna told the strangers she lost her money in the cracks, and would often be granted change she could spend at the old Roxy Theatre.

“I would sit there and look at the crack, pretend that I’m crying,” she said.

Besides raising a growing family the couple used to run JS Trucking, a transportation business that operated from 1962 to 2009.

While they admit “ups and downs” together, the couple firmly believe in open communication.

“Before you go to bed, if you’ve had something that’s been bothering you between you, get it solved before you go to bed so that you can feel better,” John said.

“Of course, we’ve got the Lord in our hearts, that’s one of biggest main things that we’re together.

You’ve always got to remember to say sorry for anything that you did wrong before you go to sleep,” adds Johanna.

Surrey cops may soon be able to administer overdose drug KEVIN DIAKIW SURREY NORTH DELTA LEADER

Soon, police may be able to administer a life-saving drug to people who are overdosing on opiates.

Surrey RCMP are working with Fraser Health and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control to train police officers on how to deliver injections

of Naloxone, known as an opioid antagonist. Naloxone can be used to rescue people from overdosing on opiates, such as heroin, Oxycodone and Fentanyl.

In recent months, there have been several overdoses of Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opiate which dealers are adding to heroin.

Fatalities have been avoided with the use of paramedic administered Nalaxone. When an overdose is called in, it’s often described as a person acting in a suspicious, sometimes violent, manner.

For safety, police go in first, while medical crews take up a position a safe distance away.

Because they are often the first responder, Surrey RCMP are now proposing training for officers.

The details of the arrangement are still being finalized, and police say more information will be shared if the Letter of Agreement is signed and Surrey RCMP officers being authorized to carry Naloxone kits.

The City of Victoria is getting set to launch a new program that will turn a number of graffiti hot spots into murals.

The program, slated to be launched later this month, will match professional artists with youth interested in public art, then create murals in six locations throughout Victoria and surrounding neighbourhoods.

“It’s a form of trying to prevent some of the tagging, but it’s also to get people who are interested in street art an opportunity to work with a professional artist to do some beautification,” said Gary Pemberton, downtown programs liaison with the City of Victoria.

“Graffiti is just ongoing. It’s like the mail. It never stops. It keeps happening every night.”

Graffiti has been an ongoing problem in Victoria for a number of years.

The subculture in the city dates back to the mid eighties when almost every alley in the downtown core was heavily tagged with large pieces.

Today, Pemberton said there’s about 10 to 15 active vandals, ranging in age from 12 to 40, who create the bulk of the vandalism. They tag all types of infrastructure, from power poles and mail boxes, to walls and etching glass.

Every week, the Downtown Victoria Business Association removes an average of 100 tags that come in all shapes and sizes within their downtown boundaries. Most tags at street level in the downtown core are removed within 24 hours, but city staff are seeing a rise in larger tags high up on rooftops, which take more time to remove.

Now that school is back in session, Pemberton expects to see an increase in graffiti vandalism not only on school property, but also in the surrounding neighbourhoods.

Getting in front of the problem and prosecuting a vandal is difficult since the crimes usually take place in the middle of the night. The city often relies on video from businesses to help catch vandals in the act.

A 17-year-old charged with more than 30 counts of mischief relating to graffiti was recently handed a $1,200 fine and one-year probation after pleading guilty to six counts.

Pemberton believes the teen was responsible for more than 300 tags in his career in Victoria alone.

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Life-like mannequin helps doctors learn Can be programmed to behave in different ways with vital signs that respond to treatments, interventions Julie is a regular 19-year-old. But she recently fell while playing soccer and broke her right leg, requiring her to have surgery to repair the fracture.

She’s healthy. But in her medical history, her mother had an abnormal reaction to an anaesthetic, which is why doctors kept Julie awake under spinal anaesthetic.

The surgery has gone well up until half an hour in.

“How are you doing, Julie?” asks Dr. Stan Vuksic, the anaesthesiologist.

“I’m not feeling too well,” she responds and starts to blink rapidly.

Suddenly, her blood pressure drops and she has an unusual, but not unheard of heart rhythm. Doctors respond with usual treatment procedures. But while treating it, she goes into a different heart rhythm, with doctors having to call for additional help and use a defibrillator to shock her heart back into a normal rhythm.

Julie is not real, in fact, she’s a mannequin, but the simulation is real.

Dr. Duncan Jacks (left) and Dr. Stan Vuksic check in on Julie, a state-of-the-art mannequin, that coughs, moans and reacts to treatments.

[KENDRA WONG/VICTORIA NEWS]

The demonstration was part of the opening of the Centre for Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Learning at Royal Jubilee Hospital last Thursday.

The $2.9-million centre is a partnership between Island Health, the University of Victoria and the

University of B.C.’s Faculty of Medicine. It will provide more than 500 medical, nursing, midwifery and health professionals with medical scenarios they are likely to encounter when treating patients.

The state-of-the-art mannequins, which are wireless and have ultra-

PORT ALBERNI

Crime among biggest concerns for residents throughout Alberni Valley ERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Port Alberni residents were given a chilling reminder of the dangers on the community’s streets when news broke of the death of Carlene Jack last July. The 19-year-old was found bleeding at Fifth Avenue and Bute Street in the early morning hours of July 15, later succumbing to her injuries in the hospital.

The incident led to the arrest of 18-year-old Autumn Dawn Desjarlais and an ongoing second-degree murder case.

For several years, crime has been among the community’s most prevalent concerns. With 149 incidents per 1,000 residents, Port Alberni’s crime rate is double British Columbia’s average.

Although the total number of illegal incidents have declined over the last decade, the frequency of serious crimes remains a major concern.

With the federal election approaching, four candidates in the Courtenay-Alberni riding were asked what is needed to reduce Port Alberni’s crime trend. The following are excerpts from written answers provided by the candidates.

Some candidates pointed to the effects of the community’s shortage of work opportunities, including the Conservative Party’s John Duncan, who currently represents

Vancouver Island North as a Member of Parliament.

“Crime and unemployment are related and the best solution to reduce crime is to have people working,” said Duncan, adding that gains are emerging with Alberni’s business confidence ratings.

“Rather than focusing on crime the community is focusing on moving forward progressively, which will have the added effect of crime reduction.”

Liberal candidate Carrie Powell-Davidson noted similarities Port Alberni has with Prince Rupert, Terrace and Williams Lake, which also have high crime rates.

“Wherever you find an economically depressed community, you’re going to find crime,” she said, noting that measures are already being taken in Port Alberni to remove youth from the cycle of offending.

“The Liberal plan to legalize marijuana will lower crime rates and free up police resources,” she said.

Legalizing marijuana is also among the Green Party’s plans to cut down on crime in Port Alberni, as is increasing physical fitness and investing more in community health, said candidate Glen Sollitt. He also pledges to review the Young Offenders Act. “Youth should not be treated as hardened criminals,” he said, add-

ing that the Green Party will repeal mandatory minimum sentencing laws created over previous Conservative terms in Ottawa.

“Violent offenders must face more serious consequences, in setting bail, in sentencing, and in parole terms,” Sollitt said.

Duncan defended the Conservatives’ stance on crime.

“We have a strong record on making our communities safer by getting tough on crime and we know the difference between criminals and law-abiding citizens, which is why we eliminated the wasteful and inefficient long-gun registry,” he said in reference to 2012 legislation that ended the required registration of non-restricted firearms.

NDP candidate Gord John criticized how the Conservatives have handled crime.

“They talk tough about crime but there has been little more than empty promises over the past decade, other than an increase in prison construction,” he said.

Johns emphasized the need for more police officers to be hired in Port Alberni, which the NDP pledge to bring through “ongoing” federal funding.

“The need to ensure public safety on the streets of cities like Port Alberni is of critical importance to families, businesses and visitors,” he said.

sound technology, simulate human patients and range in age and body type from newborn to adult. Each has a name, a medical and social history, and life-like features including blinking eyes, a beating heart, working lungs and a voice that responds to treatments. It can cough and moan as well.

Mannequins will be programmed to behave in different ways with vital signs that respond to treatments and interventions.

Students will enter an operating room with the same equipment and tools they would normally, including anaesthetics and gases that mannequins can detect and respond to.

In the past, the two universities have used mannequins as part of the curriculum, but none are as advanced as these.

Valarie Kuehne, UVic’s vice-president academic and provost, said the program will help students be more prepared in the real world and enhance patient safety. “(The mannequins) have the capacity to respond. So as the simulation is

ongoing, the patient can do better or worse depending on what the actions are taken by the multi-disciplinary team,” Kuehne said.

“It provides an opportunity for all the disciplines that are engaged in the simulation to debrief afterward and actually learn from the steps that were taken and not taken and how they could improve this in a real situation should they find it in their work.”

Taj Baidwan, executive vice-president and chief medical officer with Island Health, said the simulation teaches students to work together as a team.

“We need to work in teams, we can’t do it on our own and the strength of that is really brought out in the simulation, especially if it starts at the beginning of your training,” he said, adding hospitals around the world are increasingly using simulations are learning tools. “It’s no longer about learners being classical learners that we thought of. Now it’s about learning throughout your career and learning from your mistakes.”

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ENVIRONMENT

‘Monster’ El Nino slated for coast THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA — The “monster” El Nino weather system expected to hit Canada’s West Coast later this fall and winter could lead to higher tides, flooding and erosion in low-lying coastal areas, says a professor at the University of Victoria.

Ian Walker’s warning comes out of

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Man going to prison for sexually assaulting teen

A man who gained the trust of a family in Prince George before sexually assaulting a teenage boy has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Malcolm Llewellyn pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault in an out-oftown hotel room.

He will be on the national sex offender registry for 20 years.

B.C. Supreme Court heard at a Sept. 10 sentencing hearing that Llewellyn gained the confidence of the boy’s family to the point that his parents would allow him to take their son on overnight trips out of the city.

When the boy returned home, he would appear upset but wouldn’t tell anyone why. In March 2014, the teen’s behaviour became particularly troubling after coming home from a trip.

His father contacted police to say something might be wrong.

Llewellyn’s behaviour was described as “very active grooming.”

The Crown sought a three-year sentence while a defence lawyer called for 18 months to two years less a day.

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Searchers may be forced to call off search for man

Searchers are racing against time as they scour the West Vancouver backcountry, hoping to find any sign of a missing man.

West Vancouver Police A/Sgt. Fred Harding says 52-year-old White Rock resident Neville Jewell has now been missing for 10 days.

Rescue efforts didn’t begin until the weekend when an abandoned vehicle in the Cypress Mountain parking lot was traced to Jewell.

Officers determined the inexperienced hiker was carrying few supplies on Sept. 12, when he texted a friend from the rugged Howe Sound Crest Trail between Cypress and Lions Bay, northwest of Vancouver.

North Shore Rescue Team members are continuing search efforts, and Harding says a helicopter equipped with a thermal imaging camera has been called in. He adds some strategic decisions about continuing the search will have to be made soon, because clouds and rain are forecast on Thursday.

part of a larger study by a group of researchers from five countries bordering the Pacific who looked into El Nino and La Nina weather systems.

The study was published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Thirteen researchers from universities and government agencies tried to determine if patterns in coastal change, such as erosion and flooding,

could be connected to major climate cycles, like El Nino and La Nina, across the Pacific.

Walker, a geography professor whose specialties include beach and dune systems, coastal erosion and climate-change impacts, said he contributed data collected from the west coast of Vancouver Island, between Tofino and Ucluelet.

“What makes B.C. kind of distinct in the broader Pacific Basin is that we see coastal erosion and flooding responses for both El Nino and La Nina,” said Walker.

“Now this year is a pretty monster El Nino, probably the largest ever witnessed. We know that in past El Ninos from here to California we’ve seen some of the highest historic

rates of erosion. So we can prepare for that and we’ve seen that signal in our data.”

El Nino is a natural, tropical, ocean temperature phenomenon, in which warm water near the equator in the Pacific moves towards South America’s northern coast and then turns northward, as far as Haida Gwaii and Alaska, said Walker.

JUSTICE

Eagle-poaching charges against pair of men are dropped after nine years PAUL J. HENDERSON CHILLIWACK TIMES

Gary Abbott and Ralph Leon were the last of 11 men first charged in 2006 after a 15-month investigation that lingered in the courts for nine years.

It included a mistrial, a fraud conviction against a senior conservation officer in charge of the investigation, calls from local Sto:lo leaders to drop the case and accusations of unethical and disrespectful behaviour on the part of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service.

Abbott, Leon and nine other men faced a total of 105 charges related to the unlawful possession of dead wildlife, trafficking in dead wildlife and other related offences. Charges stemmed from a BCCOS investigation that began with the discovery of 50 dead eagles in North Vancouver.

The lead investigator, senior conservation officer Rick Grindrod, used undercover operations to attend cultural events such as powwows to, in part, lure First Nations men into illegal activity with dead wildlife, according to George Wool, lawyer for Abbott and Leon.

All the while Grindrod was allegedly stealing money from government accounts using a form of bank fraud known as “kiting.” He was eventually convicted of fraud, fired from the BCCOS and, as of June of this year, through Crown counsel in Chilliwack court, claimed to have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

For years Wool argued the charges should be dropped since the main witness is a convicted fraudster.

“While all this is going on, Grindrod is defrauding the government for a very large amount of money,” Wool told the Times over the phone from his home in 100 Mile House.

“He wasn’t caught by his own administration. He was caught by the bank. . . . They did not do an investigation of all of his transactions (as RCMP and city police forces would do). If they had done that from the very beginning, I wouldn’t be talking to you.”

In a 2005 photo, conservation officers carry eagle remains found along the Dollarton Highway in North Vancouver.

[THE PROVINCE]

A Crown spokesperson, however, said the decision to drop the charges had nothing to do with Grindrod, but rather was related to the “significant time which has elapsed since the prosecutions began.”

“While much of the delay in the case is not attributable to the Crown, the prosecutor with conduct of the case ultimately concluded that continuing the prosecutions was no longer required in the public interest,” Ministry of Justice spokesperson Neil MacKenzie told the Times via email.

MacKenzie said Grindrod’s “impugned activity” had nothing to do with the Abbott/Leon investigation.

“No court dealing with the eagle-related cases has accepted the arguments put forward by defence counsel suggesting that the integrity of the investigations was affected by the involvement of former [Conservation Officer] Grindrod.”

Wool said the investigation started with an undercover scheme to convince certain First Nations individuals that they could pick up dead eagles from the BCCOS and use them to make cultural regalia.

In one instance, Wool said they lured a vulnerable young man with fetal alcohol syndrome to shoot eagles before charging him.

“They lulled the aboriginal population into believing they could just go

and pick up an eagle from conservation,” Wool said.

The case, which wound through the court for more than nine years involved periodic long-term delays.

The parties were back in court in June and that’s when Wool said Crown disclosed to him a series of emails between Grindrod and the Crown that illustrated Charter violations.

“Perhaps the big story is really how the conservation service put out false publicity about First Nations trafficking and poaching eagles. It never happened. Exhibits produced to the media actually came from the BCCOS, for example, a stuffed eagle that was made into a bustle.”

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Experts tangle over legal status of pot shops JEFF NAGEL BLACK PRESS

B.C. civic leaders heard conflicting views Monday on whether Vancouver’s renegade approach to regulating marijuana retail stores — in defiance of federal government opposition — is legally defensible and a viable option for other communities.

Legal experts speaking to a forum on pot regulation at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention agreed the storefront sale of marijuana is illegal in Canada.

But municipal lawyer Francesca Marzari said Vancouver is within its rights to set and enforce civic standards for pot stores that aren’t shut down by police, who in Vancouver don’t consider them a policing priority as long as they don’t sell to youth or have ties to organized crime.

Tonia Winchester, a former Seattle prosecutor who co-chaired Washington’s successful legalization initiative, said Vancouver has been thrust into the position, as her state was, of searching for solutions in the absence of federal leadership as legal rights to medical marijuana expand and legalization advocates push the envelope.

“It’s not clear cut that it’s a federal question only,” Winchester said.

“I do think there is room for municipalities to take action similar to what Vancouver has done and create regulation to support what’s already

Tonia Winchester, a former Seattle prosecutor, says a lack of federal leadership has contributed to the pot shop problems in Vancouver. [BLACK PRESS]

happening in reality – which is there are retail stores springing up all over the place.”

Vancouver has 120 dispensaries now and is currently considering applications for a total of 176, of which 75 are for non-profit compassion clubs.

Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang predicted 15 to 20 will ultimately be licensed.

The city’s onerous multi-step approval process bans pot dispensaries within 300 metres of schools, community centres, daycares or each other.

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The new licensing system also bans the sale of baked or edible marijuana goods, out of fear they could be consumed by children, even though a recent Supreme Court ruling made it legal to possess and make edibles for medical purposes. Outlets that refuse a city order to close face fines of up to $10,000 a day.

Jang said advertising by Vancouver pot stores had become “crazy” with garish signage far beyond what any other business is permitted and scantily clad women and youth hired to promote pot products, including candy, on street corners.

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Charges laid in June attack on cabbie A 22-year-old Surrey man has been charged in the attack and robbery of a taxi cab driver last June.

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Washington State, which legalized recreational marijuana sales in a 2012 referendum, now has 250 licensed producers and 137 retail stores. The state has taken in $64 million in tax on marijuana so far in 2015, Winchester said.

A recent change will allow Washington’s medical marijuana patients to buy from the retail recreational pot stores as well. They also have the option of growing their own – each patient is allowed up to six plants.

Canada’s federal government has tried to outlaw home growing by permitted medical marijuana patients, but it continues pending a court decision.

Other municipalities continue to grapple with where to allow new federally licensed medical marijuana producers, which are to sell only by mail order to doctor-approved patients. Six such producers are already licensed in B.C., including Tilray in Nanaimo, whose application Winchester stickhandled.

Many more are proposed, including nine in Maple Ridge alone, and one on First Nations land near Penticton.

Municipalities continue to worry they will unnecessarily industrialize good agricultural land.

The entire pot regulation landscape could shift again, some panelists suggested, if the federal Conservative government is toppled in the federal election.

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The federal government has threatened to use the RCMP to close dispensaries if the City of Vancouver won’t but Jang said he sees no reason to believe that will happen.

Winchester said Vancouver’s approach could serve as a template for de facto legalization elsewhere but added it may be easier in cities policed by municipal forces rather than the RCMP. She noted U.S. federal authorities have not cracked down on Washington’s retail pot system even though marijuana remains illegal under federal law. But franchise lawyer Tony Wilson cautioned Vancouver’s system remains fraught with risks for both the city and others.

He said marijuana storefronts are breaking the law, regardless of whether they sell pot from illegal grow ops or from licensed medical producers, whose product can only be obtained by mail order.

That puts landlords at risk of their buildings being confiscated under civil forfeiture law, said Wilson, who suggested Vancouver’s steep $30,000 licensing fee might even be seen as proceeds of crime, making the city a “conspirator in illegal drug trafficking.”

Landlords who rent to weed merchants have also had difficulty obtaining insurance, sometimes for the entire building or strip mall, he added.

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but even with the help of a police dog were unable to track the man down.

“Our robbery investigators received a number of tips from the public which aided them in corroborating the identity and the accused in this investigation,” said Surrey RCMP Cpl. Scotty Schumann in a release.

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Conviction upheld by B.C. Court of Appeal in murder of teen girl VIKKI HOPES ABBOTSFORD NEWS

The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of a man who killed 14-year-old Chelsey Acorn of Abbotsford in 2005.

Jesse Blue West, 62, had appealed the January 2013 decision that found him guilty of first-degree murder, as he challenged the admissibility of certain statements made and evidence presented during his trial.

But a three-judge panel agreed that the appeal should be dismissed.

West and his son Dustin Blue Robert Moir, 29, were charged with Acorn’s murder in 2007, and both were convicted at separate trials, receiving automatic life sentences with no

chance of parole for 25 years.

Moir also appealed his conviction, which was overturned in January 2013 by the B.C. Court of Appeal, just nine days after his dad’s conviction. A new trial date has not yet been set.

Moir won a new trial on the basis that the original trial judge erred in some of his instructions to the jury.

Acorn (in photo) was reported missing from an Abbotsford foster home in June 2005. Her remains were found the following April in a shallow grave off the Coquihalla Highway outside of Hope.

She had been buried naked, and an autopsy determined that her skull had been crushed with a large rock sometime in the fall of 2005.

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ANIMAL WELFARE

SPCA seize 57 animals from Surrey property JENNIFER LANG CLOVERDALE REPORTER

Sassy had a rough start in life but likes kind pats and the odd cookie.

Fiona is a personable diamond-inthe-rough who is eager to please and loves to be the centre of attention.

A barn favourite, Lacey is a gentle pinto who is learning to lead, lunge and pick up her feet.

And Kenzie is a golden pony, a 10-year-old riding mare who is quiet and laid-back.

With a little TLC and good homes, they’ll thrive – creating a happier ending to a sad story.

The horses were among the 57 animals – many of them dogs – seized Aug. 11 from a rural property on the Surrey-Langley border. The animals were suffering from severe malnutrition and had been living without proper access to food, water or shelter. The horses were emaciated and suffering from chipped, cracked and overgrown hooves.

But thanks to intensive care that they’ve received during the past month, they’ve recovered from malnutrition and medical issues and are now ready to be adopted into loving new homes.

All 16 horses are part of an upcoming adopt-a-thon in Cloverdale hosted by the BC SPCA’s cruelty investigations department.

“We would love to see them adopted by wonderful new guardians who will ensure that they will live the rest

of their lives free from suffering and pain,” BC SCPA Special Const. Eileen Drever said.

There will also be llamas, ducks, chickens, geese, and a donkey and goat at the adopt-a-thon who are currently in care at the BC SPCA farm and are also looking for new homes.

Gregory is a miniature donkey who is about eight years old, gets along well with others and will make a phenomenal companion.

For a full description of all the animals featured, please visit www. spca.bc.ca/news-and-events/news/ news-surrey-adoptathon.html.

The horses will be available for viewing at the adopt-a-thon.

Applications from those interested will be accepted along with a sealed bid.

The event runs from noon to 4 p.m.

Sept. 26 at the Surrey BC SPCA Education and Adoption Centre at 16748 50 Avenue in Cloverdale.

PRIVACY

Hard drive with personal info for 3.4 million students is lost THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA — The B.C. government says a hard drive containing personal information and student records of 3.4 million residents in British Columbia and Yukon has been lost.

Technology Minister Amrik Virk says the unencrypted data from 1986 to 2009 also includes information about children in care, teacher retirement and graduation dates for cancer survivors.

Virk says the government believes the risk to people is low, but it has launched

a review to determine everything possible is being done to prevent privacy breaches.

The minister says the hard drive also contains decades worth of names, grades, postal codes and personal education numbers.

The Education Ministry discovered the drive was lost when it reviewed records to ensure compliance with data-storage standards.

Virk says residents can call Service B.C. to find out if their information was on the drive.

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The province will study the potential for a fixed link between Metro Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast that could allow motorists to drive to Gibsons and beyond without boarding a ferry.

“Highway access is important for attracting tourism and investment,” Transportation Minister Todd Stone said Friday, adding there’s considerable interest from local residents.

“They really feel like their beautiful part of the province is being hindered somewhat, held back from realizing its full potential.”

Options to be considered include bridges providing a direct route along the coast, as well as punching a new highway from Squamish northwest around Jervis Inlet and then southwest to Powell River. That route would partly follow existing logging roads and replace what is now a journey requiring two ferries.

The costs and benefits of each option are to be assessed and compared to ferry services.

The province will hire consultants to carry out the study, with that work to get underway later this year.

Sunshine Coast advocates of a fixed link assume it would be tolled to recoup the costs.

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Vedo dismisses the long, rugged route around Jervis Inlet as an “impossible” dream.

But he thinks a direct link using a combination of a floating bridge and a submerged floating tunnel will prove viable.

“The ferries cannot compete with the fixed link,” Vedo said.

He argues it would be a boon to tourism and economic development, opening up road access to more industrial land that has become scarce in Metro Vancouver.

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Manhunt ends in arrest of suspect in three homicides Man, 57, was arrested hours after officers were first called to a home in Wilno, Ont. MICHELLE MCQUIGGE AND PAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS

A shooting in a small eastern Ontario community Tuesday morning triggered a manhunt that ended hours later with the arrest of a man police consider a suspect in the deaths of three women.

The 57-year-old man — who authorities have not named pending charges — was arrested by police in Ottawa hours after officers were first called to a home in Wilno, Ont., some 130 kilometres west of the country’s capital.

The day’s events left residents of the small town of about 300 people in shock.

“This is slaughter,” Carl Bromwich, a councillor for the township said of the three deaths being investigated by police. “This is the most unnerving thing that’s happened here in years.”

Bromwich said he spoke to a Wilno resident who told him she had seen a man thought to be the suspect earlier on Tuesday.

“She said, ’oh my god, I saw that man running down the road with a gun,”’ Bromwich said.

Police had initially said the man was being sought in connection with one fatal shooting.

Later in the day, however, police provided details on how events had unfolded.

They said officers were called to a location in Wilno, Ont., just before 9 a.m. and found the body of a woman. As a result of information

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ EDMONTON

Feds sued over alleged failure to protect trout The federal government is facing another lawsuit over its failure to protect endangered species.

“We’re asking for the minister to follow the law,” said Brittany Verbeek of the Alberta Wilderness Association, which filed a lawsuit last week about native cutthroat trout in Federal Court.

In its application, the association points out that populations of native cutthroat trout in Alberta’s southwestern foothills have been declining badly.

Fluker said Federal Court has already rejected the government’s argument in previous cases.

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Jury selection complete at Turcotte murder trial

Police crime scene tape surrounds a house in Wilno, Ont., on Tuesday. Ontario Provincial Police are investigating three fatal shootings in the small community west of Ottawa. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

they received, they then went to another home in the community and found the body of a second woman.

Shortly after 11:10 a.m., police say they found a third woman dead at a home about half an hour away from Wilno.

Several businesses and schools in Wilno were placed on lockdown while the search for the suspect was underway. Extra security measures were also taken on and around Parliament Hill in Ottawa, as police announced the suspect may have headed to the city.

The suspect was arrested around 2:30 p.m. in the community of Kinburn, in western Ottawa.

Sgt. Kristine Rae of the Bancroft detachment of the OPP thanked the public and Ottawa police for their assistance in the case.

“Events like this are not very common and it just shows the teamwork between police services,” she said.

“It took a lot of teamwork, a lot of officers and investigators. We’re just happy that the suspect has been apprehended.”

In Wilno, residents expressed relief

that the suspect was in custody, recalling a flurry of police activity in the town earlier in the day.

Sara Burchat was home alone when police advised her that there was a male suspect on the loose near her property. Burchat said her husband was trying to return to be with her, but had been kept away by road closures as the police investigated the scene.

“The cop was on the other end of the phone saying, ‘you either hide or get out.’ So I had to leave,” Burchat said from the local tavern.

Jury selection is complete at the second trial of a former Quebec cardiologist who is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of his two children.

Seven men and five women will decide Guy Turcotte’s fate at a trial that is expected to last three months and feature about 30 witnesses called by the Crown.

Turcotte pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to the murder charges in the 2009 deaths of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3.

The story riveted Quebecers in 2011 as a lengthy trial heard how the popular doctor in a town north of Montreal came to be charged The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled in 2013 that Turcotte should stand trial again after concluding the trial judge had erred in his directives to the jury.

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Keystone XL project opposed by Hillary Clinton ALEXANDER PANETTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

WASHINGTON — The prospects dimmed for the Keystone XL pipeline ever seeing the light of day, with a significant development Tuesday in the years-long debate over the Canada-to-Texas oil project.

The cause: Hillary Clinton.

The current frontrunner in most U.S. presidential election polls made the long-awaited announcement about where she stands on the project. Her verdict: “I oppose it,” Clinton told a town-hall-style meeting in Iowa.

“I oppose it because I don’t think it’s in the best interest of what we need to do to combat climate change.”

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It’s a stunning shift for a politician who’d previously said she was favourably inclined to it, and the latest example of the ever-strengthening political headwinds it’s encountered.

The announcement puts a severe dent in the plan of pipeline supporters to wait for the next president, should Barack Obama reject it as most expect.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has repeatedly voiced that hope.

He’s suggested that if Obama says no, then a future president will eventually say yes — he’s called the project a “no-brainer” and predicted a future president will grant the necessary border permit.

From the campaign trail, Harper’s staff steered clear of criticizing Clinton. In a statement, a spokesman reaffirmed the project’s merits in creating jobs and continental energy security and avoided mentioning Clinton.

The decision will be controversial with many voters in the centre and on the right. If Clinton was hoping to bury the news on a busy day, it was a spectacularly timed news dump.

Headlines about Clinton’s announcement streaked across TV screens and popped up on smartphones while Pope Francis was being greeted at an airport tarmac during his first U.S. visit.

“Why?” was the reaction of Ohio Gov. John Kasich. “You know why?

Because she runs a campaign where she appears to serve interest groups.”

Even before Tuesday, another Republican candidate, Jeb Bush, had taken to talking about approving the pipeline and improving what he calls battered relations with Canada.

Crews still working to cap natural gas blowout A blowout at a natural gas well in northwestern Alberta was still spewing gas and other chemicals into the air on Tuesday more than 24 hours after the leak began.

“Our priority is bringing the well under control as safely and quickly as possible,” said Jay Averill, spokesman for well owner Encana.

“From first light (Tuesday) morning, we continued to assess the well and are evaluating a range of options to safely bring the well under control.”

The well, located 18 kilometres from the community of Fox Creek, is licensed to produce hydrogen sulphide, a poisonous gas that smells like rotten eggs.

Staff from the regulator were on site with Encana crews to ensure the well was capped as quickly and safely as possible.

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Crown says evidence enough to convict teen SIDHARTHA BANERJEE THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — A Montreal teen was determined to get to Syria and committed an armed robbery on behalf of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to finance his travel, the Crown said during his trial’s closing arguments Tuesday.

The boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, faces two charges: committing a robbery in association with a terrorist organization and planning to leave Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group abroad.

“The evidence you have before you is one that is non-contested,” prosecutor Lyne Decarie told youth court Judge Dominique Wilhelmy.

The accused, now 16, did not take the stand during the trial and there were no other defence witnesses.

Voluminous prosecution evidence suggests the boy’s interest in Syria’s civil unrest began in 2012 and, despite his parents’ best efforts, he became distant and increasingly radicalized.

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SCIENCE

Fossil may change thinking on dinosaurs Northern hadrosaurs found in Alaska would have endured months of winter darkness and probably snow DAN JOLING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Fossils from a unique plant-eating dinosaur found in the high Arctic of Alaska may change how scientists view dinosaur physiology, say Alaska and Florida university researchers.

A paper published Tuesday concluded that fossilized bones found along Alaska’s Colville River were from a distinct species of hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur not connected to hadrosaurs previously identified in Canada and the Lower 48 states.

It’s the fourth species unique to northern Alaska. It supports a theory of Arctic-adapted dinosaurs that lived 69 million years ago in temperatures far cooler than the tropical or equatorial temperatures most people associate with dinosaurs, said Gregory Erickson, professor of biological science at Florida State.

“Basically a lost world of dinosaurs that we didn’t realize existed,” he said.

The northern hadrosaurs would have endured months of winter darkness and probably snow.

“It was certainly not like the Arctic today up there — probably in the 40s (5 to 9 degrees Celsius) was the mean annual temperature,” Erickson said.

Researcher Greg Erickson works in a spot of the Liscomb Bed dig site near Nuiqsut, Alaska. Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have found a third distinct dinosaur species documented on Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope. [AP PHOTO]

“Probably a good analogy is thinking about British Columbia.”

The next step in the research program will be to try to figure out how they survived, he said.

Mark Norell, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, said by email that it was plausible the animals lived in the high Arctic

year-round, just like musk oxen and caribou do now. It’s hard to imagine, he said, that the small, juvenile dinosaurs were physically capable of long-distance seasonal migration.

“Furthermore, the climate was much less harsh in the Late Cretaceous than it is today, making sustainability easier,” he said.

Most of the fossils were found in

the Liscomb Bone Bed more than 480 kilometres northwest of Fairbanks and a little more than 160 kilometre) south of the Arctic Ocean.

The bed is named for geologist Robert Liscomb, who found the first dinosaur bones in Alaska in 1961 while mapping for Shell Oil Co. Liscomb thought they came from mammals. They remained in storage

BUSINESS

Volkswagen owners say automaker betrayed their trust after emissions scandal emerges PETER HENDERSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Some Canadian Volkswagen owners are angry and want answers after the German automaker owned up to an organized deception that helped its diesel models slip past emissions testing in Canada and the United States.

On Friday, the U.S. government ordered the company to recall half a million cars after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said VW was using software to cheat on emissions testing.

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn issued an apology on Saturday, admitting the company had broken the trust of its customers, and on Monday Volkswagen Canada suspended sales of Jetta, Passat and Golf models dating back to 2009.

Audi Canada, owned by Volkswagen, said it would stop selling its diesel-equipped A3. On Tuesday, VW said the issue could affect up to 11 million vehicles worldwide.

Toronto’s Jessica Lancaster owns a 2009 Jetta TDI, one of the affected models, and the holistic nutritionist said the company’s claims about the environmental friendliness of its diesel engines were important to her.

“It’s really unfair to deceive consumers who thought they were making a conscious purchase,” she said.

In this March 12, 2012 file photo, a Volkswagen New Beetle is lifted inside a delivery tower after the company’s annual press conference in Wolfsburg, Germany. [AP PHOTO]

Lancaster says she valued the integrity of Volkswagen, and often preached to her friends about how economical and environmentally friendly the car’s supposedly clean diesel technology was.

Now she’s not even sure if she’ll ever drive the car again, but the scandal has made it that much more difficult for her to get a new vehicle.

“The resale value of it has plummeted, so there’s no option right now for me to even sell the car,” she said.

Lancaster says the company should

compensate her and the other owners for what she said is fraud, and she has joined a national class-action suit from Merchant Law Group LLP against Volkswagen.

Tony Merchant, the lawyer leading the class action, said Volkswagen owners who have spoken with the firm are “furious.”

“They paid a premium price intending to buy vehicles that were better for the environment and now find out their cars are among the dirtiest of polluters,” he said.

The EPA said Volkswagen used a device programmed to detect when the cars were undergoing official emissions testing. The software device then turns off the emissions controls during normal driving situations, allowing the cars to emit more than the legal limit of pollutants.

Some reports suggested the engines could produce between 10 and 40 times the allowable limit of certain toxic emissions.

Volkswagen’s German corporate headquarters has yet to release any information on remedies for owners of the vehicles equipped with the so-called defeat device, but said it had put aside an initial 6.5 billion euros to deal with potential financial penalties related to the scandal.

Volkswagen Canada offered no comment on any recall or compensation when asked on Tuesday.

Environment Canada said Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into the “suspected violation” involving about 100,000 Volkswagen and Audi four-cylinder diesel cars of the model 2009 to 2015 sold in Canada.

“Canadian legislation and regulations prohibit vehicle manufacturers and importers from equipping a vehicle with a defeat device,” it said in a statement.

It did not state the potential severity of any penalties.

for about two decades until someone identified the fossils as dinosaur bones, said Pat Druckenmiller, earth sciences curator at the University of Alaska Museum.

Researchers over the next 25 years excavated and catalogued more than 6,000 hadrosaur bones, far more than any other Alaska dinosaur. Most were from small juveniles estimated to have been about 2.7 metres long and a metre tall at the hips.

“It appears that a herd of young animals was killed suddenly, wiping out mostly one similar-aged population to create this deposit,” Druckenmiller said.

They initially were thought to be Edmontosaurus, a hadrosaur well-known in Canada and the U.S., including Montana and South Dakota. The formal study of the Alaska dinosaur, however, revealed differences in skull and mouth features that made it a different species, Druckenmiller said.

Researchers have dubbed the creature Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis. The name means “ancient grazer” and was chosen by scientists with assistance from speakers of Inupiaq, the language of Alaska Inupiat Eskimos.

The dinosaurs grew up to nine metres long.

Fast targets child welfare in Manitoba THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — The advocate for First Nations children in Manitoba has set up large teepees in the shadow of the legislature and is fasting to draw attention to the province’s “broken” child-welfare system.

Cora Morgan plans to go without food or water, along with five other women, until Thursday. Sitting around a sacred fire, which is to be snuffed at the end of the fast, they want to draw attention to the problems within Child and Family Services and seek spiritual guidance.

“I think there needs to be greater understanding in mainstream society, because I don’t think people are fully aware of what’s going on right now,” Morgan said Tuesday. “Our hope is that we start showing that change is needed.”

Manitoba has more than 10,000 children in care and the vast majority are aboriginal. The province seizes an average of one newborn baby a day.

Child welfare has been under scrutiny for years for housing children in hotels and for allowing some teens to languish in jail because of a shortage of appropriate foster-care spots.

Family Services Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross talked with the group Monday night. The government is bolstering prevention programs to reduce the number of apprehensions, she said.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ ATHENS

Tsakalotos stays on as Greek finance minister Greece’s newly re-elected government has retained Euclid Tsakalotos as finance minister to continue tough negotiations with other eurozone countries on the terms of a large new bailout deal.

The new Cabinet of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was announced late Monday, and included few major changes to ministry posts.

Tsakalotos, 55, led the final stages of talks between the Tsipras government and bailout lenders of the $96 billion bailout, after Athens abandoned a more combative stance toward creditors and agreed to implement new austerity measures.

Tsipras’ U-turn, he was re-elected by a wide margin at a weekend general election, and again formed a coalition government with a small right-wing party, the Independent Greeks.

◆ MIAMI

Guantanamo prisoner returns to Saudi Arabia First lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by President Barack Obama, greets Pope Francis upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

Pope Francis visits U.S. as issues of immigration, inequality arise ‘Slum pope’ expected to urge better care of the environment and caring for the poor NICOLE WINFIELD AND RACHEL ZOLL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis arrived Tuesday on the first visit of his life to the United States, bringing his “church of the poor” to the world’s wealthiest superpower and a country polarized over issues closest to his heart: immigration, social injustice and economic inequality.

According a rare honour to the pontiff, President Barack Obama and his wife and daughters welcomed Francis at the bottom of the stairs on the red-carpeted tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland after the pope’s chartered plane touched down from Cuba. Presidents usually make important visitors come to them at the White House.

Emerging from the plane to boisterous cheers from a crowd of hundreds, the smiling 78-year-old pontiff removed his skullcap in the windy weather and made his way down the steps in his white robes.

He was met by a military honour guard, chanting schoolchildren, politicians, and Roman Catholic clergymen in black robes and brightly coloured sashes of scarlet and purple.

Joe Biden, the nation’s first Catholic vice-president, and his wife were among those who welcomed him.

Eschewing a fancy limousine, the pope climbed into the back of a small charcoal-grey Fiat and promptly

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“There are a lot of things he will say about capitalism and about wealth inequality, but many Americans and politicians have already made up their minds on these issues.”

Mat Schmalz, Religious studies professor

rolled down the windows, enabling the cheering, whooping crowds to see him on his way to the Vatican diplomatic mission in Washington, where he will stay while in the nation’s capital. The choice of car was in keeping with his humble style and his pro-environment, anti-consumerism message.

During his six-day, three-city visit to the U.S., the pope will meet with the president, address Congress, speak at the United Nations in New York and take part in a Vatican-sponsored conference on the family in Philadelphia.

The Argentine known as the “slum pope” for ministering to the downtrodden in his native Buenos Aires is expected to urge America to take better care of the environment and

the poor and return to its founding ideals of religious liberty and open arms toward immigrants.

During the flight, Francis defended himself against conservative criticism of his economic views. He told reporters on the plane that some explanations of his writings may have given the impression he is “a little bit more left-leaning.”

But he said such explanations are wrong: “I am certain that I have never said anything beyond what is in the social doctrine of the church.”

Joking about whether he is truly Catholic, he added, “If I have to recite the Creed, I’m ready.”

He is the fourth pope ever to visit the United States.

Francis’ enormous popularity, propensity for wading into crowds and insistence on using an opensided Jeep rather than a bulletproof popemobile have complicated things for U.S. law enforcement, which has mounted one of the biggest security operations in American history to keep him safe.

The measures are unprecedented for a papal trip and could make it nearly impossible for many ordinary Americans to get anywhere close to Francis. For anyone hoping to get across town when the pope is around, good luck.

For all the attention likely to be paid to Francis’ speeches, including the first address from a pope to Con-

gress, his more personal gestures — visiting with immigrants, prisoners and the homeless — could yield some of the most memorable images of the trip.

“What the pope does in the United States will be more important than what he says,” said Mat Schmalz, a religious studies professor at Holy Cross college in Worcester, Massachusetts. “There are a lot of things he will say about capitalism and about wealth inequality, but many Americans and politicians have already made up their minds on these issues.

What I would look for is a particular gesture, an unscripted act, that will move people.”

U.S. bishops, meanwhile, expect Francis will issue a strong call for immigration reform, a subject that has heated up with hardline anti-immigrant rhetoric from some of the Republican presidential candidates, especially Donald Trump.

Francis, the first Latin American pope, will be sending a powerful message on that front by delivering the vast majority of his speeches in his native Spanish.

Francis’ most eagerly watched speech will be his address Thursday to Congress. Republicans and many conservative Catholics have bristled at his indictment of the excesses of capitalism that he says impoverish people and risk turning the Earth into an “immense pile of filth.”

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who waged a nearly nine-year hunger strike while held at the U.S. base in Cuba has been released.

The Pentagon says Abdul Shalabi has been sent back to his native Saudi Arabia.

The transfer announced Tuesday brings the Guantanamo prisoner population to 114.

The 39-year-old Shalabi will be taking part in a Saudi rehabilitation program for militants.

Shalabi was among the first prisoners brought to Guantanamo in January 2002.

The U.S. military says he was a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden and an associate of other senior figures in al-Qaida.

He protested his indefinite confinement without charge with a hunger strike that he launched in 2006. His lawyer says the military tube-fed him daily to prevent him from starving to death.

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UN says food demand outstripping donations The head of the UN food agency says the overwhelming humanitarian needs caused by crises from Syria, Yemen and Iraq to South Sudan and Africa’s Sahel region are outstripping the generosity of donors.

Ertharin Cousin said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that the World Food Program is not facing “donor fatigue.”

In fact, traditional donors have been more generous, she said, but food needs have escalated because of an increasing number of refugees, people caught in conflicts, and suffering from climate-related events including drought.

Last year, she said, WFP needed $8 billion and received $5.4 billion.

This year, it also needs $8 billion but donors aren’t keeping pace and she predicted the agency will receive less, just close to $5 billion this year.

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GLOBAL POLITICS

IMMIGRATION

Chinese president arrives in Seattle for visit to U.S.

Euro nations remain divided over migrants despite relocation deal

GENE JOHNSON AND PHUONG LE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington state Tuesday for a visit to the U.S. that will include talks on how U.S. and Chinese experts and businesses can collaborate on nuclear energy, smarter electricity use and other clean technologies.

The visit comes a year after Xi and President Barack Obama announced their nations would co-operate to fight climate change.

Xi’s plane landed at Paine Field in Everett, where he was welcomed by a group that included Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, former Washington governor and U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.

In Seattle, supporters turned out to welcome the Chinese president and other dignitaries travelling in his motorcade.

Wendy Hu, a native of Guangdong Province who has lived in Seattle for 20 years, brought her 11-year-old daughter, Anna Ni. “China and the U.S. are good partners now, with Boeing and Microsoft,” Hu said. “I love both countries.”

Hundreds of protesters from the religious group Falun Gong demonstrated outside the federal courthouse, holding banners and banging drums as the motorcade passed.

Falun Gong says its members are persecuted in China.

“It’s about compassion and tolerance,” said Sabrina Chang, 28, who travelled to Seattle with other Falun Gong practitioners for the protest.

Talks in Seattle among a handful of U.S. governors and six of their Chinese counterparts will include improving energy efficiency in buildings, modernizing electrical grids and commercializing renewable energy.

The governors were expected to meet privately with Xi later in the day.

The University of Washington and Tsinghua University in Beijing were expected to sign an agreement to collaborate on research related to clean tech. In addition, TerraPower Inc., an energy company founded by Bill Gates, will be entering an agreement with China National Nuclear Corp. to work together on next-generation nuclear power plant technology.

“These are the largest economies in the world, and we’re the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, so improving co-operation and collaboration is really a necessity,” said Brian Young, Washington state director of economic development for the clean technology sector.

People warm themselves while sitting next to a small fire in front of a reception center in Opatovac, Croatia on Tuesday. Scuffles have broken out between Croatian police and asylum-seekers after they were barred from entering a newly opened reception center meant to register those seeking sanctuary in Europe. [AP PHOTO]

Some countries have reinstated border controls; Hungary has built a razor-wire fence MIKE CORDER AND DANICA KIRKA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BRUSSELS — Deeply divided European Union ministers agreed Tuesday to relocate 120,000 asylum-seekers to ease the strain on Greece and Italy, which are on the front line of the migrant flood.

But a senior European leader conceded the move was only a small step toward resolving one of the worst crises ever faced by the 28-nation bloc.

Four eastern European countries — the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary — voted against the plan, and it’s unclear if they will even implement it. Those nations have resisted accepting the forced resettlement of refugees on their territory.

Slovakia would rather breach the measure “than accept such a dictate,” said Prime Minster Robert Fico.

His Czech counterpart, Bohuslav Sobotka, added: “It’s a bad decision, and the Czech Republic did all it could to block it.”

EU leaders will gather this evening in Brussels to try to adopt a unified approach to the crisis that has seen 477,906 people stream into Europe from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, according to estimates by the UN refugee agency.

Some European countries have reinstated border controls to stem the flood, and Hungary has built a fence topped with razor wire on its frontier with Serbia.

“The refugee crisis can be brought under control, but make no mistake it will take a tremendous amount of effort, it will take a long time, and it will take many steps in many areas.”

Frans Timmermans, EU Commission First Vice President

EU Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans insisted that all member states “respect the outcome” of the relocation plan, which he said showed the bloc is “capable of taking decisions even if, for some member states, these are very difficult decisions.”

But even Timmermans conceded it was only a small step.

“In and by itself, the decision we took today is not going to solve the refugee crisis,” he said. “The refugee crisis can be brought under control, but make no mistake it will take a tremendous amount of effort, it will take a long time, and it will take many steps in many areas.”

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees urged the EU to quickly set up facilities in Greece, where tens of thousands have arrived after making the hazardous sea crossing from Turkey.

This may be “the last opportunity for a coherent European response,” said Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR. Tuesday’s deal did not set mandatory quotas for each nation — one of the most contentious aspects of the proposed plan. It said that 66,000 asylum-seekers will be relocated from Greece and Italy, and 54,000 more in a year’s time.

Amnesty International’s Europe Director, John Dalhuisen, cautioned that agreed-upon numbers “are still too low, given the immensity of the current crisis.”

“At long last, this is a step in the right direction, but EU leaders need to be looking 10 steps ahead, not one,” he said.

Timmermans said the EU has to do a better job of protecting its borders, registering arriving migrants, quickly returning those ineligible for asylum, and “providing hope and perspective” for those in conflict-torn countries.

“Maybe something will change,” said Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who hoped that his country won’t be obliged to take in more than the 1,785 refugees it has offered to absorb. The Romanian news agency reported the country would have to take an extra 2,475 refugees.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, whose country is absorbing most of those pouring into Europe, said Germany would take more than 30,000 of the 120,000 asylum seekers.

“We are doing this out of solidarity and responsibility, but also in our own interest,” he said. “At the moment, something like 50 per cent of those who are arriving in Greece are coming to Germany. With a quota of 26 per cent, fewer of this group would come.”

De Maiziere said the deal also aims to cut “secondary migration,” in which those seeking asylum move from one European country to another.

“If people are distributed in Europe, then they can’t choose what country they go to. They have to stay in the country they were distributed to,” he said.

Along the migrant trail through the Balkans in southeastern Europe, the crisis continued and drew old foes into a new dispute.

Croatia started letting trucks carrying food from Serbia across the border on Tuesday afternoon, but Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that was not enough, adding that all cargo traffic must be restored Vucic had called an emergency session of all security services, including the military, to discuss the crisis. The two nations have a tense history after fighting each other in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

“This is a scandal of international proportions,” Vucic said. “Croatia has breached all European agreements and directives.”

Croatia was angry by Serbia busing migrants to its border.

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Nutrition Notes

Cook once, eat twice

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Rosé is often an underestimated beverage

Versatility of the rosé pairing is an underappreciated secret Sheila Hockin The Lucky Gourmet

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lthough it pairs beautifully and effortlessly on a hot summer day with a simple green salad, whoever says rosé wine is primarily a ladies’ drink has not tried it with heartier dishes such as pork ribs or steak as we move into autumn.

Rosé gets its pink colour from the wine’s primary handling. The crushed grapes stay in contact with the skins for a few hours to a number

of days, depending on the method used. The longer the skins are in contact with the juice, the more intense the colour and flavour is.

Rosé is not its only name. Rosé is from France, but it is known as Rosato if made in Italy, Rosado if produced in Portugal or Spain.

Complex in colour, rosés can range from a pale almost orangey pink to a vibrant deep pink.

In general, rosés have a distinctive flavour. Hints of white pepper, strawberry and green olive combine with more savoury notes of black current, dried herb, forest floor and dry finish.

Different types of grapes produce different rosé colours and flavours.

Grapes like Grenache and Sangiovese will produce a fruity yet dry rosé with

colours ranging from bright ruby pink to coppers. Served best cold, these rosé varietals pair really well with Greek food.

A great little Vancouver Island rosé is made by Blue Grouse Winery.

Their Quill Rosé is made from 100 per cent Gamay Noir grapes.

It compliments smoked or grilled salmon, thanks to a rhubarb-like acidity balanced with soft strawberry flavours. You’ll be glad to learn that Quill Rosé, at $15.61 a bottle, also represents excellent value.

Further up Island, the rosé from the 40 Knots Vineyard knocks it out of the park. This lush, salmon-coloured rosé is made from both Gamay Noir and Pinot Noir grapes. During the 40 Knots rosé fermentation pro-

cess, the skins are left to rest for 24 hours. Opening a bottle of this pink beauty, you’ll be hit by aromas of strawberry and raspberry, followed by a rich mouth feel and a zesty acidity. This pink wine pairs wonderfully with a big juicy burger or perhaps a Morocco-style roast lamb dinner.

The versatility of rosé pairing is part of its great secret. From the complexity of beef to the delicate flavours of seafood, at any time of the year, a rosé wine can and will most certainly do the trick. » Sheila Hockin is the marketing and events co-ordinator and in-house chef for Lucky’s Liquor store . For more information on products or events call 250585-2275 or visit www.luckysliquor.ca

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Coca-Cola spends $118.6M on health research THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Coca-Cola disclosed Tuesday that it spent $118.6 million on health research and partnerships in the U.S. over the past five years, including funding for a group that was criticized for downplaying the role of sugary drinks in obesity.

The world’s biggest beverage maker had vowed last month to be more transparent about the various health programs and messaging it funds.

The pledge came after a New York Times story detailed the company’s financial support for the Global Energy Balance Network. The story said the group promotes the idea that people are overly fixated on how

much they’re eating, rather than how much they’re exercising. In a video announcing the network, one of the group’s leaders had said the media focuses on “eating too much, eating too much, eating too much — blaming fast food, blaming sugary drinks, and so on.”

Some health and nutrition advocates say it has become common for food companies to try and deflect criticism about their products by talking about the need for more physical activity. Following criticism sparked by the New York Times story, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent said he was disappointed the company’s actions created “more confusion and mistrust” and vowed to be more

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transparent. The maker of Sprite, Dasani and Powerade said its transparency effort will start in the U.S., and expand internationally.

“We understand that our efforts in dealing with the obesity epidemic are not seen as credible, so we must — and want to — do better,” said Sandy Douglas, president of Coca-Cola North America.

On its website, Coca-Cola said it spent $21.8 million on research since 2010. It also spent $96.8 million on “health and well-being partnerships,” including payments to dozens of dietitians and others who share their views with the public.

In March, The Associated Press reported that Coca-Cola had worked

with fitness and nutrition experts who each suggested a mini-Coke or mini-soda as a snack in columns for American Hearth Month in February.

The pieces appeared on nutrition blogs and other sites.

Coca-Cola’s website lets users search its partnerships and research efforts by keyword and year. The organizations it has provided money to include The Obesity Society and the American Diabetes Association.

Yoni Freedhoff, a nutrition and obesity expert at the University of Ottawa, said the disclosures by CocaCola provide a degree of transparency, but said the information doesn’t necessarily capture what Coca-Cola got in return from the organizations.

ith the arrival of fall, everyone is thinking about what to cook for quick and easy dinners at the end of a busy work day. One of the best ways to conquer this nightly battle is to cook once but eat twice. If you plan to cook enough so that there are sure to be leftovers, you can either make a second dinner from the leftovers or you can make a hearty lunch.

Ground beef or “veggie” ground round both can be used in quantity to make several meals. If you cook a large vat of thick vegetable rich spaghetti sauce, this can be used three ways. The obvious first meal is a bowl of whole grain pasta covered with the sauce and topped with grated Parmesan cheese. The next meal is “Sloppy Joes” which is a whole grain bun topped with thick spaghetti sauce.

The third portion of the sauce can be made into homemade chili. Add several tins of your favourite beans like kidney beans, black beans, chick peas or brown beans. Season to taste with chili powder, a few hot peppers or some salsa and the third meal is ready. Spaghetti sauce freezes well so these meals don’t have to be served back to back.

Another good way to serve ground beef is by making a big batch of basic meatloaf recipe. Use half of the recipe to bake individual meat loaves because they cook quickly. While the oven is hot, make a pan of roasted fall vegetables for a delicious harvest meal. Another way to serve the meat loaves is by making gravy with sliced onions, mushrooms and beef stock.

Thicken the gravy, pop in the cooked meatloaves and you have Salisbury steak. The rest of the meatloaf mixture can be made into small meatballs that can be served with a pasta dish like spaghetti and meatballs.

The meatballs can also be cooked into a stroganoff and served over noodles. Kids love mini meatballs in their lunches. Any leftover meatballs can be frozen and added to a lunch for a quick and easy protein food.

Another dinner that can be used for leftovers is roast chicken. You can either pick up a couple of cooked hot chickens from the grocery store or put two chickens in the oven and roast slowly. Serve the chicken as a hot meal with roasted vegetables and gravy. Leftover chicken can be sliced for sandwiches or put in a chicken pot pie with leftover veggies, gravy and a biscuit topping. The bones with some meat clinging to them can be made into chicken soup for yet another wholesome meal.

The possibilities are endless. » Eileen Bennewith is a registered dietitian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at eileen.bennewith@viha.ca.

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BEVERAGES

Skip the line: Starbucks says order ahead Seattle-based coffee chain says mobile app letting people paying in advance soon to be available THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — If you hate standing in line for your Starbucks fix, there’s an app for that.

The Seattle-based coffee chain says its mobile app that lets people order and pay in advance will be available nationally starting Tuesday. That means lattes, breakfast sandwiches and other items you want could theoretically be waiting for you by the time you arrive.

Mobile order-and-pay is still rare, but could become more common as fast-food chains look to keep up with changing expectations. Taco Bell also introduced a mobile app last year that lets people order and pay in advance. If it works well, companies see such services and mobile apps in general as a way to build customer loyalty.

Starbucks Corp. introduced orderand-pay ahead in Portland, Oregon late last year and it has since been expanded to 3,400 of its more than 7,400 company-owned U.S. stores.

On Tuesday, it will roll out the option to the remainder of locations, including those in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco.

Starbucks Chief Digital Officer Adam Brotman explains the basics: Q: Walk me through how the app works.

A: You open your app and in the upper right hand corner, you’re going to be able to click on a new tab

Adam Brotman, Starbucks chief digital officer, talks about the company’s new mobile ordering app at Starbucks Coffee Company’s annual shareholders meeting in Seattle. [AP PHOTO]

that says “Order.” When you click “Order,” you’ll be able to browse and send that order to whichever store you select. The app will tell you the

estimated pickup time.

Then you walk right in and pick up your order.

Q: Can you specify when you want

to pick up your order?

A: (The app) will tell you the estimated pickup time. If it’s too quick, you could place (the order) once you

get closer to the store.

You can pick whatever store you want, and you can check the wait times at various stores.

Q: In general, how much time in advance should people place their orders?

A: Generally, it is around three to five minutes.

It can vary on two different factors — what’s in your order, and how busy the store is.

If there’s a bunch of other mobile orders in front of you, it might stretch your pickup time to 10 minutes. But for the most part, it’s going to be three to five minutes.

Q: Is there anything you can’t order off the app, like packaged food items?

A: You could order everything on the app that you could order in the store. If we run out of something, the app will reflect that. You can customize your order just the way you would in the store.

Q: Is there a separate area where people pick up their orders?

A: You go to the same place you would normally pick up your order.

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RECIPE

Banana bread with chocolate, crystallized ginger for 23 to 27 minutes, or until the muffins spring back when pressed lightly at the centre. Let them sit in the tins on wire racks for 5 minutes, then gently turn them out of the tins and cool them upright on the rack.

Eat warm or at room temperature.

KATIE WORKMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Because I find myself with overripe bananas pretty much every other week, our family eats a lots of banana bread.

The freezer also has become sort of a halfway house for wayward over-ripened bananas. But if you like to cook (and I do) and you hate throwing food away (again, me), then over-ripened bananas are a gift, a gateway ingredient to something delicious.

This particular banana bread came about because I have a big thing for crystallized ginger.

My father’s father introduced me to it when I was a kid.

He adored it, and even though he was born in Brooklyn in 1903, he was somehow attuned to the fact that ginger is a healthy ingredient, which in those days was not something all that widely known outside of Eastern cultures.

Bernie Workman, ahead of his time. He would have loved this bread studded with nuggets of chewy sweet ginger and bits of melty chocolate.

If you use a glass loaf pan versus a metal one you may need a few extra minutes of baking time. This recipe also makes great banana

Banana bread with chocolate and crystalized ginger in Concord, N.H. This dish is from a recipe by Katie Workman. [AP PHOTO]

muffins. Line 12 regular muffin tins with paper liners. Fill them evenly

with the batter, filling them about three-quarters of the way full. Bake

BANANA BREAD WITH CHOCOLATE AND CRYSTALIZED GINGER Start to finish: 1 hour (20 minutes active), plus cooling Servings: 12 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup chopped crystallized ginger 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature 3/4 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large very ripe bananas, peeled and mashed (about 1 cup mashed) 1/2 cup sour cream or plain Greek yogurt Heat the oven to 350 F. Butter or coat with cooking spray a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan.

In a small bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt. Mix in the chocolate and the ginger.

In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.

Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then add the vanilla. Blend in the mashed bananas and sour cream.

Switch to a wooden spoon and add the flour mixture in batches to the wet mixture, mixing just until each addition is incorporated. At the end, the batter should be barely blended (it will be thick).

Transfer the mixture to the prepared loaf pan. Bake until a toothpick or wooden skewer inserted at the centre comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn the loaf out of the pan and finishing cooling upright on the wire rack.

Nutrition information per serving: 290 calories; 110 calories from fat (38 per cent of total calories); 12 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 55 mg cholesterol; 200 mg sodium; 44 g carbohydrate; 2 g fibre; 23 g sugar; 5 g protein.

Katie Workman has written two cookbooks focused on easy, family-friendly cooking, ‘Dinner Solved!’ and ‘The Mom 100 Cookbook.’ She blogs at: http://www.themom100.com

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Brian Williams makes return to airwaves Anchor made no mention of suspension during coverage of arrival of Pope Francis in United States DAVID BAUDER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Brian Williams returned to the airwaves of MSNBC to anchor coverage of the visit of Pope Francis to the United States on Tuesday, his first day back at work following his suspension from NBC News and demotion for misleading viewers about his role in news stories.

Dressed in a suit and blue striped tie, Williams made no mention of his absence.

He anchored the network’s coverage from 3 to 5 p.m. EDT, stationed in a Manhattan studio.

All business at first, Williams seemed to loosen up as his two-hour shift moved along.

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At one point, he was talking with NBC correspondent Anne Thompson, who was on the plane with the pope, after it had landed.

Constant battles make kids nervous Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox

Dear Annie: I took early retirement and moved in with my son and daughter-in-law in order to help care for my five grandkids. At the time, my daughter-in-law was attending college and my son asked me to move in. I help pay the household expenses and also do the daily work around the house.

All my son and his wife do is fight and makeup repeatedly. Their constant battles make the kids nervous. It has been horrible. Sometimes, it turns violent and someone gets hurt. My son constantly bullies the kids, his wife and me. I stand up to him, but my grandchildren are too young to do the same.

My son came home drunk one evening and told me to get out of his house. He has no appreciation for how much I contribute both financially and physically to the care of his home and his children. I love my grandchildren and fear that without my presence, permanent damage will occur. I can find another place to live, but I am concerned about the grandkids.

— Out of Options Dear Options: If your son and his wife are likely to hurt the children or become drunk and abusive, you need to call the police and Child Protective Services to investigate. You can do so anonymously. If the authorities find there is a danger to the children, then the kids will be removed from the

home. If you have already established another place of residence, then it’s possible the children will be placed with you or another relative who can take them in. In the meantime, offer to take the kids as often as your son is willing to let you. It will give the parents time to cool off and de-stress, and allow the grandchildren to be in a more stable environment. Please don’t hesitate to put the children’s welfare first. You may be their last line of defence.

Dear Annie: My son and daughter-in-law were married a year ago. I recently discovered that they have not sent out thank-you cards to any of the guests, many of whom traveled a great distance to attend the wedding.

Is there anything that can be done at his point to make amends?

— Conundrum in Canada Dear Canada: While thank-you notes should be written as soon as possible, it is never too late to make amends.

Your son and his wife should write each one by starting out, “We apologize for the tardiness of this note, but we wanted to let you know how much we appreciated your wedding gift.”

And then they should write something specific about each present they received. Rest assured, the recipients of these notes will be glad to get them, no matter how late.

Many parents decide to take on this responsibility themselves, because their children are not only delinquent, but also unlikely to send any thankyou notes at all. While it is not the parents’ job to do this, we understand those who are mortified that their family and friends have not had their gifts acknowledged and wish to take on the burden themselves. That is entirely up to you.

“Thank you, Anne. Grab your personal belongings,” Williams said.

Williams had opened his broadcast by introducing White House correspondent Chris Jansing, at the airport where the pope arrived, for a report, followed by short interviews with Maria Shriver and Jose Diaz-Balart.

Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd was in the studio with him to discuss the trip’s importance.

Network news divisions had been gearing up for pope coverage, with Lester Holt, George Stephanopoulos and Scott Pelley anchoring special reports on Tuesday’s arrival on NBC, ABC and CBS. But Williams’ return attracted the most notice. Except for an interview

with Matt Lauer on Today, he’d been off the air since his suspension from Nightly News in February. He was caught telling a false story about his coverage of the Iraq War, and lost his “Nightly News” job after an NBC investigation turned up other instances of exaggerating his role.

Although Williams won’t have a regular daily show on MSNBC, he’s expected to anchor during busy news periods a couple of times a week.

The network has ditched its daytime opinion programming in favour of news coverage that emphasizes its ties to NBC News.

His return was timed to coincide with MSNBC’s revamp and to offer some control over his first appearance.

Williams is to anchor coverage of breaking news, which, for the most part is unpredictable. But the pope’s visit has a strict schedule and media outlets have been planning for it for months.

NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said last week that Williams is one of the best in his generation for covering live, breaking news on television.

“I’m confident that he deserves a second chance and I’m confident that Brian is as good at his job as he was last year at this time,” Lack said.

“I think viewers will engage with good work. It’s not going to happen overnight. . . . We’re playing a long game here.”

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Vancouver Whitecap Pa-Modou Kah, left, gets his head on the ball behind Seattle Sounder Brad Evans during an MLS soccer game in Vancouver on Saturday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Whitecaps, Sounders set to tangle in champions league JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

T

he Vancouver Whitecaps want to make sure their trip to Honduras next month is only for pleasure.

The club visits the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday in CONCACAF Champions League action and can wrap up first place in Group F with a victory.

A win for the Sounders (1-1-1) at CenturyLink Field would give Seattle top spot, while a draw means the team to go through to the competition’s quarter-finals would have to be decided when Vancouver (1-0-1) travels to take on C.D. Olympia (1-2-0) in Tegucigalpa on Oct. 22.

The Whitecaps would like nothing more than to render that match meaningless with a victory against

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their Major League Soccer rivals.

“Make no doubt about it, that game in Honduras will be tough,” said Vancouver head coach Carl Robinson.

“It’s a little carrot for us this Wednesday (against Seattle) if we can go and get a result. We know it’s going to be difficult.

“They’re a good team. They’ve got a good, strong squad.”

The Whitecaps saw that first-hand on Saturday when the Sounders beat them 3-0 at B.C. Place Stadium in a game Vancouver could easily have led 3-0 at halftime after blowing a number of opportunities in front of goal.

“There’s always concerns whichever way you look at it after a game,” said Robinson. “ We’re getting chances. We had giltedged chances on Saturday and we didn’t take them. We’ll take responsibility for that.

“I won’t get too beat up about it because we played very well.”

The Whitecaps defeated Olimpia

1-0 last Wednesday at home with a mix of youth and experience, and Vancouver is likely to deploy a similar lineup against the Sounders as it looks for a measure revenge after a disappointing weekend.

“You have to give credit where credit is due. I thought Seattle came in on Saturday and played a very good game,” said veteran Whitecaps forward Robert Earnshaw. “They competed very, very well. They had a lot of energy, and I think it was about quality.

“We were just disappointed in the result rather than the performance.”

Vancouver midfielder Matias Laba — who was suspended for the last two MLS games — played against Olimpia and should start against the Sounders along with Earnshaw as Robinson continues to rotate his

squad with an eye on the league, where the Whitecaps sit tied atop the overall standings. “(Laba) does exactly what it says on the tin. He wins the ball, he gives it,” said Robinson. “He’s so important to us and we have missed him (in MLS).”

The coach did say that rookie defender Tim Parker will play and added that striker Darren Mattocks is also available after missing out last game with a rib injury.

Seattle and Vancouver have met four times this season, with the visiting team winning all three MLS games, while the first Champions League match ended 1-1 at B.C. Place in August.

“We want to go there and try and win,” said Robinson. “We know that we play well at their place.”

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Canucks success depends on the Sedins Just like any other year, Henrik and Daniel need to be productive to take Vancouver back to the playoffs

Ed Willes The Province

H

enrik Sedin sat quietly in his stall while a well-attended media scrum focused its attention on Jake Virtanen.

“Big story, local kid,” the Canucks captain said to the one reporter who seemed more interested in him than the 19-year-old from Abbotsford.

And Tuesday, Virtanen was a big story. The sixth overall pick of the 2014 draft was making his first appearance as a Canuck at Rogers Arena against the San Jose Sharks and the faithful were excited to see him.

Then again, so was Sedin, although he wasn’t as excited when it was pointed out Virtanen had just turned four when Henrik and his twin brother Daniel attended their first Canucks’ training camp.

“Thanks, that makes my day,” he said, before adding.

“I think this is great. That’s why fans should be excited. I’ve never seen anything like this on this team, where you have a lot of young guys that have shown they can play. It’s good for the fans. It’s good for us older players, too.”

So everybody, it seems, is excited about Virtanen and the Canucks’ other youngsters, but before the

San Jose Shark Ben Smith, centre, plays the puck towards the net while being checked by Vancouver Canucks captain Henrik Sedin. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

parade committee convenes, ask yourself a question: What’s the most the Canucks can expect from Virtanen this season? And that’s assuming he makes the team. Ten goals? Fifteen goals?

Dare we say it, 20 goals?

Now ask yourself what that will do for the Canucks’ bottom-line? Virtanen is a blue-chip prospect, but he’s no more capable of determining the

Canucks’ fortunes this season than he is of solving world hunger.

No, that will fall to some familiar faces on the Canucks, which means their big story this season will be the same old story.

“The focus should be on the young guys,” said Daniel.

Fine, but it won’t stay there.

This time of year newshounds tend to get distracted by training camp

Sharks sink Vancouver 4-0 for second straight pre-season loss JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Martin Jones stopped 30 shots as the San Jose Sharks defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in pre-season action Tuesday.

Brent Burns and Tomas Hertl each had a goal and assist, and Paul Martin and Nikolay Goldobin also scored for San Jose, which dropped a 1-0 overtime decision to Vancouver a night earlier in the exhibition opener for both teams in Victoria.

Ryan Miller started and made seven saves for the Canucks before being replaced midway through the second period by Joe Cannata, who finished with 11 stops. Jake Virtanen and Jared McCann made their pre-season debuts for Vancouver. The 2014 first-round picks are among a group of young forwards hoping to crack the lineup out of training camp as the Canucks continue to retool their roster on the fly.

The chances of seeing a rookie stick with the club when the season opens on Oct. 7 in Calgary against the Flames increased when it was announced before the game that veteran winger Chris Higgins suffered a fractured right foot after blocking a shot on Monday.

The Canucks and Sharks went with rosters that mixed youth with experience

on Tuesday at Rogers Arena, with Henrik and Daniel Sedin among the NHL veterans who suited up for Vancouver, while San Jose countered with the likes of Burns, Patrick Marleau and Logan Couture. Martin opened the scoring 2:41 into the first, beating Miller with a shot through traffic after taking a feed from John McCarthy.

The Canucks couldn’t convert on two power plays later in the period, and Burns made it 2-0 with 2:44 left on another shot that found its way through a screen and past Miller.

Jones — a former backup goalie with the Los Angeles Kings who was traded twice this off-season — made a nice stop on McCann’s tipped effort with about eight minutes left in the second before denying another chance with a toe save moments later. San Jose made it 3-0 at 9:25 of the third on the power play when Matt Tennyson’s one-timer from the top of the faceoff circle went off Hertl in front and past Cannata.

Goldobin then scored the Sharks’ fourth of the night on another man advantage at 12:37. Despite the 4-0 score, the Sharks and Canucks played five minutes of 3-on-3 overtime period as NHL teams get accustomed to the new format implemented for this season, but neither team could find the range.

stories involving the life-and-death struggle over the fourth-line centre’s job or the progress of the organization’s bright young things. But when the live ammunition starts to fly, the Canucks will go as far as the Sedins and a couple of other veterans can carry them, and not a step farther.

Last year, for example, the twins dragged the Canucks back towards respectability by returning to the point-a-game neighbourhood (76 for Daniel, 73 for Henrik) after a lost season under John Tortorella. There were other positive developments but, on the ice, the Sedins gave the Canucks a legitimate first line and a legitimate power play (ninth in the league) while taking a ton of pressure off the rest of the lineup.

Off the ice, they also did that Sedin thing, helping to restore order and confidence to a team that appeared to be broken under Tortorella.

So can they deliver the same season again? Well, they turn — yikes! — 35 on Sept. 26, but if they can replicate last year, it goes a long way towards answering the Canucks’ questions.

There are other considerations, most notably the goaltending. But if the twins stay in that 70- to 80-point range, everything else should fall into place.

They don’t see it that way, of course, because it’s never been about them, even when it’s always about them. But, now that they’re the senior members of the firm, they do understand the importance of the standard they set.

As always, they’ve reported in bet-

ter shape than your average triathlete. But it goes much deeper than that. When it’s your 15th training camp, your entitled to take a day off or mail in the odd workout or practice session. But that’s never been the Sedins’ way and if you wonder if that’s important, think about the message it sends to Bo Horvat, to Brendan Gaunce, to Sven Baertschi, to Virtanen, to all the young players who have to learn about being a pro before they learn about playing in the NHL. “You’re responsible,” said Daniel.

“A lot of young guys are fighting for spots. You have to work hard and play the right way for their sake, too.

You can’t go through the motions.

That’s wrong.”

Ronnie Kenins, for example, drew in as the Sedins’ winger on Tuesday night. Four years ago, he was playing the on the Zurich Lions developmental team. Now he’s trying to crack the Canucks’ lineup as a regular and the Sedins will do their best to help the 24-year-old.

“We never come into camp feeling we don’t have to show up,” said Henrik. “It’s not going to work out the way you want the first couple of games, but at least you show up and show you care. When the top guys start dropping off in the gym and at camp, it’s not easy for the young guys to follow.”

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JAYS IN BRIEF The Associated Press

◆ TORONTO

Tulowitzki plays catch for first time since his injury

Blue Jays shortstop Troy Tulowitzki played catch Tuesday for the first time since suffering a broken left shoulder blade 10 days ago, but there’s still no timetable for his return to the lineup.

“The pain has died down and I feel better each and every day,” Tulowitzki said.

Tulowitzki has been sidelined since colliding with teammate Kevin Pillar during the first game of a Sept. 12 doubleheader at Yankee Stadium.

His next steps will be to try making throws on the run and resume hitting.

The five-time All-Star, who throws and bats right-handed, visited a specialist in Boston last week. He rejoined the team Friday and continues to receive treatment from team trainers.

Acquired from Colorado on July 28, Tulowitzki is batting .232 with five homers and 17 RBIs in 39 games since joining Toronto.

Overall this season, he has a .278 average with 17 homers and 70 RBIs.

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‘Edwing’ celebration is for fun, not superstition

From The Edwing to walking the parrot, Blue Jays fans are creative in coming up with names for slugger Edwin Encarnacion’s home run ritual.

Encarnacion, who sticks out his bent right arm and holds it parallel to the ground as he rounds the bases, appreciates the suggestions.

“If they say I’m walking the parrot, then whatever they say, I’ll take it,” he said recently.

The “walking the parrot” meme has become popular online, with Toronto baseball fans doctoring photos of him on the basepaths to add a parrot on his arm.

Sometimes, appropriately, fans Photoshop a blue jay instead.

Encarnacion has been doing the so-called Edwing since April 28, 2012, when he hit a grand slam against Seattle’s Hisashi Iwakuma in Toronto’s 7-0 rout of the Mariners.

He drove in Kelly Johnson, Jose Bautista and Adam Lind with the blast but all his Blue Jays teammates loved how he celebrated the home run.

“When I hit the grand slam I got excited and rounded the bases from the side, turning like an airplane,” said Encarnacion, who has helped the Jays to the top of the American League East this season.

“My teammates liked it and said I should keep doing it so I’ve kept doing it.”

Encarnacion has hit 141 more home runs since then, including 34 so far this season, and walked the parrot each time. He has no plans to change his habit, either.

“If I keep hitting home runs I’m going to keep doing it,” said Encarnacion.

“No superstitions, I just like to do it.”

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Yankees shrink Jays lead with 6-4 win GREGORY STRONG THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Dramatic home runs.

Tension-filled late innings. A sellout crowd treated to high drama.

Blue Jays fans have waited years for meaningful September baseball to be played at Rogers Centre and the crowd of 47,992 was treated to a dandy Tuesday as the Yankees went back and forth with Toronto in a rollicking matchup loaded with playoff-like energy. Greg Bird delivered the knockout blow for New York with a three-run homer in the 10th inning to win 6-4 and put even more sizzle into an American League East division race that is far from over. With Brian McCann and Slade Heathcott aboard, Bird lined a 2-2 pitch from reliever Mark Lowe over the right-field wall for his 10th homer of the season.

Andrew Miller (3-2), who blew the save after giving up a game-tying homer to Dioner Navarro in the ninth, allowed another solo shot to Edwin Encarnacion in the 10th before completing the victory.

New York is now just 2 1/2 games behind the first-place Blue Jays, who have dropped three of four. The rubber match of the three-game series is on tap Wednesday night.

“It’s been a tough grind the last few days,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons.

“In the tight, tied ball games, we’ve struggled.

“Something’s happened and the big hit, the big home run, whatever it is, that’s bit us lately.”

Carlos Beltran gave New York a 3-2

Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar, bottom, steals second base past New York Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

lead with a solo shot in the eighth inning — his 17th homer of the year — before Navarro answered with his fifth blast of the season. The Blue Jays loaded the bases for a second straight frame in the ninth before Miller struck out Josh Donaldson.

Lowe (1-3) entered the 10th inning with a sparkling 1.53 earned-run average but Bird turned on a 2-2

offering to put the Yankees up to stay.

“It was a good pitch,” Lowe said.

“Down and away, bottom of the zone.

He just leaned out and he got it. A great piece of hitting.”

Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Bird has been patient at the plate and it’s paying off. “(The dugout) was probably as

emotional and loud as I’ve seen it this year, which is understandable obviously,” Girardi said. “(Bird) was probably as fired up as I’ve seen him all year too.”

Toronto fell to 8-6 in extra-inning games this season. The Yankees have won six of their last nine and improved to 61-21 when scoring first. Jacoby Ellsbury led off the game with a double and scored when McCann drove a pitch off the wall for a long single. Alex Rodriguez, who reached on a walk, made it 2-0 after a sacrifice fly by Beltran.

The Yankees put two more runners in scoring position before Blue Jays starter Marco Estrada escaped by striking out Chase Headley.

Kevin Pillar put Toronto on the board in the third inning with a solo shot off New York starter Luis Severino. He belted a 2-2 pitch into the second deck for his 11th homer of the year. Donaldson worked a leadoff walk in the fourth inning, moved to second base on a wild pitch and scored on a single by Justin Smoak.

Estrada, meanwhile, settled down after his rocky start. He retired 11 batters in row before issuing a four-pitch walk to Dustin Ackley with one out in the seventh.

Didi Gregorius followed by driving a pitch into right field and Ackley tested Jose Bautista’s arm by going for third base. The throw was high but Donaldson made a nice play to catch the ball, twist backwards and apply the tag. Ackley was called safe by third-base umpire Greg Gibson but Gibbons challenged the call and it was overturned.

Sanchez will share Toronto’s set-up role GREGORY STRONG THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Reliever Aaron Sanchez hasn’t lost his job as the Toronto Blue Jays’ setup man.

He’ll just have some company in the role.

Manager John Gibbons said the young right-hander was told before Tuesday’s game that he may instead be used earlier in the game rather than primarily in his eighth-inning spot.

Veterans Mark Lowe and Brett Cecil will join Sanchez in setting up closer Roberto Osuna in the ninth.

“I’m not worried about Sanchez, (he’s) fine,” Gibbons said.

“He’s done a tremendous job for us this year, last year, that hasn’t changed.”

The 23-year-old right-hander had settled into the setup role nicely over the last couple months, but has struggled of late.

Sanchez relieved David Price on Monday night against the New York Yankees but lasted only two batters — giving up a leadoff walk and a single — before Gibbons pulled him.

Cecil came on and gave up an RBI single before recording three straight strikeouts to get out of the jam.

The Blue Jays won the pivotal game 4-2 to move 3 1/2 games up on the second-place Yankees in the Amer-

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Aaron Sanchez hasn’t lose his job as the team’s setup man, he’ll just have some company. [AP PHOTO]

ican League East.

Gibbons may give Sanchez work in the sixth or seventh inning depending on the matchup and situation.

“You keep throwing him out there,” he said.

“He’s been so good for so long.

“I mean he’s a baby still in the big leagues but he’s had some pretty good success in that role. You pick your spots and give him a little breathing room.

“And a good outing usually sets

guys up, the good ones — that’s all it takes.”

Cecil struggled early in the season when he served as closer before the emergence of Osuna, but he has been tremendous in the second half. Lowe has also been strong, with his 1.53 earned-run average (entering play Tuesday) fourth-best among American League relievers.

Sanchez, who made 11 starts earlier in the year, has a 7-6 mark over 36 appearances with a 3.38 ERA. He has an 8.44 ERA over his last seven appearances and is averaging almost one walk an inning over that stretch.

“If you look at the history of the game, I don’t think anybody who’s ever pitched in this game had a zero ERA,” Gibbons said.

“Guys get hit. You’re facing great hitters on the other side. It’s like when a reliever from another team comes in and faces our lineup, gives up some home runs and stuff, that’s just baseball.

“That’s (been) baseball for 100 years.”

Gibbons remains confident that Sanchez will return to form and be ready to contribute as needed.

“We’ll get him back on track,” he said. “He is very confident but he’s also human. He’s in a little rough patch.”

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Returning Clipper looks for bigger role Brendan Shane took it all in during last season’s playoff run and wants to be a contributor as a veteran SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

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hen the Nanaimo Clippers went on their 23-game run to the sixth game of the B.C. Hockey League finals last season, Brendan Shane wanted to take it all in, knowing his time would come.

Picked up at the trade deadline from the U.S. Hockey League, Shane played in only five of those playoff games, scoring his lone goal against the Chilliwack Chiefs with star winger Jake Jackson sitting out on a onegame suspension.

“I definitely had to be patient and learn the system,” said Shane, a 19-year-old who came to Nanaimo with 69 games of USHL experience before posting six points in 12 regular season games.

“I wanted to see what the veterans were doing. They really helped me out, and I learned a lot from them.”

Last year’s roster was going to be a tough one to crack, especially with a set top-six and veterans abound.

Shane, though, switched to wing from centre this season and scored his team’s first home goal of the season in Friday’s 4-2 win over the Victoria Grizzlies when he finished off a pretty passing play with defenceman Kale Bennett.

“It was nice to get one off my chest and to do it in front of the home crowd,” Shane said of the goal.

Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp is hoping that goal is the first of many to come.

“That’s what we hope to see,” he said. “He’s got all the tools. He skates well and has a bit of a nose for the net.”

The Clippers, along with 16 other BCHL teams, head to Chilliwack this weekend for the league’s showcase event where hundreds of college and pro scouts will have scholarship offers in hand watching over the league’s prospects. It will be Shane’s first experience at the event, and Vandekamp said Shane’s offensive attributes will be visible to them.

“He’s got lots to learn still, particu-

Nanaimo Clippers winger Brendan Shane carries the puck during a B.C. Hockey League game at Frank Crane Arena on Friday night against the Victoria Grizzlies.

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larly with his habits away from the puck, but that’s the same with a lot of guys,” Vandekamp said.

“When he has the puck, he’s really good and he’s got the ability to score.”

Shane, despite having a full-time spot on the nightly roster early in the season, also has reason to be motivated.

For one, he doesn’t yet have a col-

lege scholarship commitment yet — which is the goal of most BCHL players — and for two, there are talented young players coming up behind him looking for more ice time and responsibility.

“I’d obviously like to keep that role,” Shane said of his spot on the team, “but we have a lot of young talent this year on a great team, so it’s going to be really interesting to see

where the year takes us. We have a lot of potential to go a long way.”

The Clippers are 2-2-0-0 through four games to start the season. And because they break their season down to five-game segments as a way of staying motivated, the first one in Chilliwack against former teammate Ryan Forbes and the Merritt Centennials, is a crucial one inside their dressing room.

“I actually couldn’t care less about the showcase,” Vandekamp said. “We just have a really important game for our own segment. We expect to keep our heads above water in every segment, so it should be a nice little early-season test for the boys.”

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OPINION

Former Clipper returns as goaltending coach

What happens if Wenatchee is just too wild for the BCHL?

Former Nanaimo Clippers goaltender David LeNeveu has returned to the team to coach his former position, the team announced on Tuesday.

LeNeveu, who played for the Clippers during the 2000-01 season before moving on to Cornell University, went on to have a 12-year pro career that included stints in the National Hockey League.

With the Clippers he will be mentoring 19-year-old starter Jonathan Reinhart, who joined the team this year from the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League, and 16-year-old Jakob Walter, who played major midget hockey last season.

fter the Wenatchee Wild played their first B.C. Hockey League games 10 days ago, the league’s biggest fear showed beginnings of coming true in the province’s north.

The Wild ran through a respected BCHL franchise, winning two games over the Spruce Kings by a combined score of 13-1 in their first ever games in the league.

The biggest concern of having an American team play in a British Columbia league?

Easy.

One team playing by different rules than the other 16.

The Washington-based Wild, who

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Scott McKenzie Scott’s Thoughts entered the league this year as the first American team since the Bellingham Blazers left in 1995.

Unlike the 16 B.C.-based teams that are allowed to sign a maximum of six import (American) players, the Wild roster is made up of a maximum four Canadian players and up to four more from outside its “catchment area” of Washington, California, Col-

orado and Missouri.

Now, no one is arguing whether its more beneficial to have more players from Canada or from the U.S. on a team. Some of the league’s top players come from south of the border, others come from the north.

The point is, one team is playing with different rules from the other 16 and, based on future results, the question needs to be will those rules be tinkered with.

The Wild came back down to Earth a little bit in their lone game over the weekend, beating the Langley Rivermen 5-3 in the Lower Mainland to move to 3-0-0-0 on the season.

How long they go undefeated will

certainly be worth paying attention to. As will considered the worth of such a winning streak.

We can’t soon forget the Penticton Vees run in 2011-12 when they went undefeated for 42 games.

The rules weren’t changed for the Vees, and while they’re still a very good team in the BCHL it’s not like they’ve become too good to play in the league.

Quite the opposite, actually. More teams are becoming competitive with the Vees, who are always the top recruiters in the league.

If the Wild are as good as they’ve shown this season, the rest of the league might even benefit.

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EAST DIVISION

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N.Y. Yankees (Nova 6-8) at Toronto (Stroman 2-0), 7:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Smyly 3-2) at Boston (Porcello 8-13), 7:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 8-14) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 10-9), 8:10 p.m.

Seattle (Elias 5-8) at Kansas City (Ventura 12-8), 8:10 p.m.

Texas (Lewis 16-8) at Oakland (Doubront 3-2), 10:05 p.m.

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Chi. White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 pm Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Seattle at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:47. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;21,850 (39,021).

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8 2 0 0 0

0 3 0 1 1

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Atlanta (W.Perez 6-6) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 14-12), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 2-9) at Miami (Conley 4-1), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Z.Davies 1-2) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 7-6), 8:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Finnegan 1-0) at St. Louis (Lynn 11-10), 8:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 9-8) at Colorado (Bergman 3-0), 8:40 p.m.

Arizona (Ch.Anderson 6-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 18-3), 10:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Peavy 7-6) at San Diego (Cashner 6-15), 10:10 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 3:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

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L 11 9 9 13 8 10 12 11 12 11

T 3 5 8 3 8 8 7 8 8 10

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4 0 0 0 0

2 0 0 0 1

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Wednesday's games Chicago at Montreal, 8 p.m.

Kansas City at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Friday's game Orlando at New York, 7 p.m.

ATP

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New Jersey at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

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NY Rangers at Boston, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

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Chicago at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Arizona at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

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Minnesota at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

NY Islanders at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

NY Rangers at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

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x-Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal

MINNESOTA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Recalled OF-1B Max Kepler from Chattanooga (SL).

WINNIPEG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Signed LB Ian Wild and WR Kevin Cone.

NFL DALLAS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Placed QB Tony Romo injured reserve-return. Placed DT Terrell McClain on injured reserve. Signed RB Gus Johnson to the practice squad.

JACKSONVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Placed WR Rashad Greene on injured reserve-return. Resigned WR Bryan Walters. Signed OT Tyrus Thompson & LB Jordan Tripp to practice squad. Released OT Patrick Miller.

TENNESSEE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Signed C-G Dillon Farrell to the practice squad. Waived TE Tevin Westbrook from practice squad..

HOCKEY NHL CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Released Fs Hayden McCool, Radovan Bondra and Roy Radke.

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Saturday's games B.C. at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Sunday's game Montreal at Saskatchewan, 4 p.m.

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Indianapolis at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at New England, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

Chicago at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 28 Kansas City at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.

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AP TOP 25 SCHEDULE Friday's game No. 21 Stanford at Oregon State, 10 p.m.

Saturday's games No. 1 Ohio St. v. Western Mich., 3:30 pm No. 2 Michigan St. v. Central Mich., noon No. 3 Mississippi vs. Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.

No. 3 TCU at Texas Tech, 4:45 p.m.

No. 5 Baylor vs. Rice, 3 p.m.

No. 6 Notre Dame vs. UMass, 3:30 p.m.

No. 7 Georgia vs. Southern U., noon No. 8 LSU at Syracuse, noon No. 9 UCLA at No. 16 Arizona, 8 p.m.

No. 12 Alab. vs. Louisiana-Monroe, 4 pm No. 13 Oregon vs. No. 18 Utah, 8:30 pm.

No. 14 Texas A&M vs. Arkansas, 7 p.m.

No. 17 Northwestern vs. Ball St., 8 pm.

No. 19 USC at Arizona State, 10:30 p.m.

No. 20 Georgia Tech at Duke, noon No. 22 BYU at Michigan, noon No. 22 Wisconsin vs. Hawaii, 8 p.m.

No. 24 Oklahoma St. at Texas, 3:30 pm No. 25 Missouri at Kentucky, 7:30 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION Salmon Arm Penticton Vernon West Kelowna Trail Merritt

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ISLAND DIVISION GP Cowichan Vally 3 Powell River 5 Nanaimo 4 Alberni Valley 3 Victoria 3

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MAINLAND DIVISION Wenatchee Langley Coquitlam Chilliwack Surrey Prince George

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Penticton at Alberni Valley, 4 p.m.

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Surrey at Powell River, 1 p.m.

Nanaimo at Merritt, 4 p.m.

Chilliwack at Penticton, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday's games Trail at Prince George, 10 a.m.

Coquitlam at Nanaimo, 1 p.m.

Vernon at Wenatchee, 3:30 p.m.

West Kelowna at Cowichan Valley, 4 pm.

Victoria at Chilliwack, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday's games Cowichan Valley at Vernon, 10 a.m.

Prince George at Victoria, 1 p.m.

Wenatchee at Trail, 4 p.m.

Langley at West Kelowna, 7:30 p.m.

MOSELLE OPEN At Metz, France 6LQJOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Martin Klizan (6), Slovakia, def. PaulHenri Mathieu, Fra., 6-7 (1), 6-3, 3-2, ret.

Adrian Mannarino (7), France, def.

Vincent Millot, France, 6-2, 7-5.

Fernando Verdasco (8), Spain, def.

Alexander Zverev, Ger., 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-3.

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Aleksandr Nedovyesov, Kazak., 6-1, 7-5.

Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, def. Kenny De Schepper, France, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

Mischa Zverev, Germany, def. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-1.

67 3(7(56%85* 23(1 At St. Petersburg, Russia 6LQJOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Tommy Robredo (5), Spain, def.

Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, def. Benoit Paire (6), France, 6-4, 3-0, retired.

Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def.

Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, def. Alexandre Sidorenko, France, 6-2, 6-4.

WTA GUANGZHOU INT'L OPEN At Guangzhou, China 6LQJOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Simona Halep (1), Romania, def.

Petra Martic, Croatia, 6-4, 6-2.

Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, def. Andrea Petkovic (2), Germany, 6-1, 6-4.

Sara Errani (3), Italy, def. Duan YingYing, China, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

Jelena Jankovic (4), Serbia, def. Elena Vesnina, Russia, 7-6 (3), 6-3.

Svetlana Kuznetsova (5), Russia, def.

Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, 6-4, 7-5.

Monica Niculescu (6), Romania, def. Yulia Putintseva, Kazak., 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-3.

Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, def. Danka Kovinic (7), Montenegro, 6-4, 6-2.

Zheng Saisai (8), China, def. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-2, 6-1.

Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, def.

Wang Yafan, China, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.

Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, 6-1, 6-3.

Zhang Kai-Lin, China, def. Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, 6-3, 6-3.

Urszula Radwanska, Poland, def.

Wang Qiang, China, 6-3, 6-2.

Timea Babos, Hungary, def. Yang Zhaoxuan, China, 6-3, 6-0.

Francesca Schiavone, Italy, def.

Zhang Shuai, China, 6-4, 6-4.

Denisa Allertova, Czech Rep., def.

Anna-Lena Friedsam, Ger., 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def.

Magda Linette, Poland, 6-4, 6-4.

TORAY PAN PACIFIC OPEN At Tokyo 6LQJOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Angelique Kerber (5), Germany, def.

Daria Gavrilova, Russia, 6-2, 6-2.

Carla Suarez Navarro (6), Spain, def.

Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukr., 7-6 (3), 6-2.

Belinda Bencic (8), Switzerland, def.

Xu Yi-Fan, China, 6-0, 6-0.

Sam Stosur, Australia, def. Alison Riske, U.S., 4-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Ana Konjuh, Croatia, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3.

Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, def. Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-0.

Kurumi Nara, Japan, def. Misaki Doi, Japan, 7-6 (1), 6-2.

Madison Brengle, U.S., def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-2, 6-2.

Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, def.

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croa., 6-4, 1-0, ret.

KOREA OPEN $W 6HRXO 6RXWK .RUHD 6LQJOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Irina-Camelia Begu (1), Romania, def.

Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-4.

Sloane Stephens (3), U.S., def. Han Na-Lae, South Korea, 6-1, 6-1.

Varvara Lepchenko (4), U.S., def.

Paula Badosa, Spain, 6-2, 6-3.

Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, def.

Alexandra Dulgheru (6), Rom., 6-3, 6-2.

Johanna Larsson, Sweden, def. Nicole Melichar, U.S., 6-4, 6-2.

Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japan, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, 6-1, 6-2.

Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russia, def.

Heather Watson, Britain, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, def. Irina Falconi, U.S., 6-3, 2-6, 6-0.

Christina McHale, U.S., def. Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 1-2, retired.

Letangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four points lead Penguins over Hurricanes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Phil Kessel scored twice in his Pittsburgh debut and Kris Letang had a goal and three assists to lead the Penguins to a 7-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night.

Nine Penguins recorded at least one point in the win, including Sidney Crosby with a goal and two assists while centring a line with Kessel and Chris Kunitz. Olli Maatta had a goal and an assist and Evgeni

Malkin, Patric Hornqvist and Kunitz all had two assists.

Marc-Andre Fleury allowed three goals on 25 shots in 40 minutes and Matthew Murray stopped all six shots he faced. Justin Faulk, James Wisniewski and Jeff Skinner scored for Carolina.

BOBROVSKY STRONG IN BLUE JACKETSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; WIN In Columbus, Ohio, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped all 24 shots he faced in nearly 40 minutes to lead a Blue

Jackets split-squad to a 3-1 win over a St. Louis Blues split-squad.

Ryan Johansen, Sonny Milano and Gregory Campbell scored for the Blue Jackets. Anton Forsberg stopped 11 of the 12 shots he faced.

Dmitrij Jasken scored St. Louisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lone goal. Starting goaltender Jake Allen made three saves in the first period, and Jordan Binnington stopped 13 shots the rest of the way.

MASON A WALL FOR FLYERS In Philadelphia, Steve Mason had

29 saves to lead the Flyers to a 5-3 win over the New York Rangers.

Shayne Gostisbehere scored twice in the third period and Yevgeni Medvedev, Brayden Schenn and Sam Gagner also scored for the Flyers.

Mat Bodie scored twice for New York, and Oscar Lindberg had one.

Magnus Hellberg made nine saves on 11 shots in 28 1/2 minutes for the Rangers, and Antti Raanta stopped 14 of the 17 shots he faced.

Following the end of regulation, the teams played a scoreless

3-on-3 overtime session.

PASTRNAK DOUBLES UP CAPS In Boston, David Pastrnak scored twice, including the game-winner in overtime as the Bruins beat the Washington Capitals 2-1.

Malcolm Subban, brother of Montreal defencemen P.K. Subban, made 17 saves in nearly 30 minutes.

Zane McIntyre only allowed Nate Schmidtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal while facing 10 shots.

Washington starter Justin Peters stopped all 15 shots he faced.

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Namibia hopes to achieve small steps Lowest-ranked team set to face perennial favourite, top-ranked New Zealand All Blacks at Rugby World Cup

rugby. A lot of our guys are amateurs and look up to these guys as idols.

The experience for all the players — me included, because I’ve not played them — will be great.”

By all accounts, the best-prepared Namibia comes to the Rugby World Cup. There was a hiccup in June when Danie Vermuelen, who coached them for three years to qualification, resigned in a dispute with the national union. Team adviser Phil Davies, the former Wales lock who

played in the first two Cups, took over.

The Namibians have benefited from an upgraded high performance centre, improved player welfare, training with the Springboks, and games organized against higher-ranked Russia, which was beaten twice.

Mindsets have been adjusted.

Namibia turned up at previous World Cups happy to have qualified, not believing they could win. This time, they think they can compete.

“We don’t just want to be punching bags, we want to make a name for ourselves,” said prop Johnny Redelinghuys, who makes a 150-kilometre round trip to training, three times a week.

John Williams, the general manager of the Namibia Rugby Union, said the team could be better if others helped.

“I believe that the African scene isn’t good enough anymore,” Williams said. “We aspire to be better

than what we were, we believe that we can compete against better Tier Two nations.

“We play two to three tests a year, and that’s not enough. Our volume of tests only increases when we come to a World Cup year, because it’s part of our preparation.”

If anything, it’s the amateurs in the squad — the students, brokers, engineers, farmers, managers, one diamond trader, and a dentist — who have inspired the professionals with their commitment.

“It’s definitely about these guys who work eight to five, they’ve offered up so much. They’re incredible,” Burger said.

“They wake up 4, 5 in the morning, start training at 6, have to go to work all day, and come back in the evening, 6 to half 7, which is so challenging. I’m massively impressed with what they put in, and the level they perform at. They’re not just good rugby players but good human beings.

“This is definitely the best Namibian squad I’ve been involved with, hands down.

“The connection between the professional and amateur players has been great, and I have to believe this is our year, the year that we win a match.”

Davies agreed, having overseen nearly 40 trainings at 5 a.m. in the last two months.

Before the team left home, the Namibian president told them to “give the All Blacks hell.”

That would be memorable.

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Nadolo, Kuridrani reunite as cousins

Television officials told to hasten their decisions

Fofana must stop putting Justin Ives finally gets Australian side hopes pressure on himself: Coach his shot against Scotland scrum woes are no more

As youngsters, Nemani Nadolo and Tevita Kuridrani used to head down to the village beach on Fiji’s Coral Coast during the school holidays and mess around with a rugby ball.

Kuridrani, the younger of the cousins by three years, remembers those times fondly.

“He was always big — the biggest in the family,” he recalled on Tuesday about his games with a 13-year-old Nadolo on the beaches of Namatakula. “We were always competing against each other.”

The stage will be very different more than a decade on.

On Wednesday, Nadolo will run out in the white of Fiji and Kuridrani in the green and gold of Australia for a Rugby World Cup match in front of about 70,000 people at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.

“I’ve had a few chats with Nemani earlier in the week,” Kuridrani said.

“Just talking about how proud the family are back home, and for us to be here playing against each other on a big stage.

“Excited.”

How many cameras does it take to spot a try?

Not enough, it seems, at the Rugby World Cup. So global was the criticism of the video replay process over the opening weekend that World Rugby was prompted to make a statement that it was “committed” to reducing the time it took the Television Match Officials to make a decision “while not compromising on accuracy.”

The TMO, in use for 14 years, was supposed to enjoy a cushy ride in this tournament with the debut of HawkEye which, with the host television broadcaster ITV, was tracking play with up to 40 cameras at stadiums.

Hawk-Eye promised it could deliver video for decisions within a few seconds, but the TMOs appear to be overwhelmed with choice.

The first eight matches in the 48-match tournament were interminably delayed by the TMO seeming to dredge through every camera angle, and miss what seemed obvious to armchair viewers.

Dynamic centre Wesley Fofana must stop pressuring himself to live up to his billing as the star of French rugby.

That is the message from France backs coach Patrice Lagisquet ahead of the Rugby World Cup Pool D match against Romania on Wednesday, when Fofana starts his first match of the tournament after recovering from a thigh injury sustained against Scotland in the final warm-up match on Sept. 5.

Fofana, a powerful midfielder with explosive running skills, rose to prominence during the Six Nations two years ago with a headline-grabbing solo try against England, running almost 70 metres and breaking through several tackles. He got another fine try against Scotland, and also crossed against New Zealand at Eden Park in June 2013 to confirm his blossoming reputation. But there have been only three tries since then. After missing France’s opening game — a 32-10 win against Italy last Saturday — he is raring to go and hopeful of adding to his international tally of 11 tries against Romania at London’s Olympic Stadium.

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LONDON — There’s no bravado from Namibia as the lowest-ranked side in the Rugby World Cup prepares to face undisputed No. 1 New Zealand for the first time on Thursday at the Olympic Stadium.

“For us, it’s not a game that we think we can win, but we feel it’s a game where we can do our country proud,” said Pieter Rossouw, the former Springboks winger who joined Namibia in June as their attack coach.

The Namibians, the last team to get underway in the Cup, are on a hiding to nothing. They have qualified for their fifth Cup, and have yet to win a match. The ’best’ loss was by 15 points. That’s why they are concentrating on achieving small steps against the mighty All Blacks, to put them in good stead for their other Pool C games.

At risk of losing heavily, the Namibians have embraced playing New Zealand first up. They think the schedule serves them well: Get their hardest one out of the way first. And, who knows, if they can play well, maybe score a try or two, then they believe that will bolster their already high confidence and earn some traction into the next game against Tonga.

“We’re massively excited,” said Jacques Burger, Namibia’s captain and best-known face. “If we can put up a great performance, we can take a lot of confidence away from that.

“The All Blacks at the Olympic Stadium is incredible for Namibian

New Zealand’s Conrad Smith is tackled by Argentina’s Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe during their Rugby World Cup Pool C match between Argentina and New Zealand at Wembley stadium in London on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]

RUGBY IN BRIEF The Associated Press

Japan lock Justin Ives is not afraid to admit he “completely lost the plot” after the shock win against South Africa at the Rugby World Cup — and he didn’t even play in it.

Now the 31-year-old Ives, who was born in New Zealand, gets his chance against Scotland on Wednesday, after watching Saturday’s high drama from the stands. He’s been waiting long enough. Four years, in fact.

He qualified for Japan on residency in 2011, but in his eighth test that year, the last warm-up for the Cup in New Zealand, he tore ligaments, and had to withdraw from the Cup squad because of the second serious knee injury of his career.

“I’ve been waiting longer than most people,” said Ives, who has 30 test caps. “The sacrifices that so many people have made: My wife, family, and friends, the guys who were there for me four years ago when I got injured. They all encouraged me to come back, so I’m super excited.”

Although not quite as excited as he was after Japan’s 34-32 win against the Springboks in Bristol.

It’s a tag that’s been thrown at Australia’s rugby team for years. Silky behind the scrum. Brittle in it.

Nearly a year into the tenure of coach Michael Cheika, the Wallabies are hoping those days are over heading into their first match of the Rugby World Cup. Cheika made improving Australia’s scrummaging one of his priorities after replacing Ewen McKenzie in October. He saw the Australian eight get pushed around against England — yet again — in their November international last year, and acknowledged his players’ technique and strategy needed to change. “Perhaps we are too honest,” he said.

To rectify the problem, Cheika changed personnel. Benn Robinson and Ben Alexander, Australia’s two most experienced props, were ditched ahead of the World Cup, and younger players such as Scott Sio and Toby Smith were summoned.

And in what could prove to be a masterstroke, Cheika also hired former Argentina hooker Mario Ledesma as a so-called “scrum doctor.”

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52 Elapse quickly 54 Declines to answer 61 Act without words 62 “That’s interesting” 63 Sounded like a Jersey 65 Paradise Lost setting 66 Naval commando 67 Masters stumble 68 Took one’s turn 69 Works on roofs, say 70 Made off with

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» EVENTS // EMAIL: EVENTS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23 1 p.m. The Nanaimo Quilters’Guild monthly meeting at Nanaimo Curling Club (upstairs), 106 Wall St. Second meeting is at 7 p.m. Full business meeting, membership renewals and workshop registrations. Guests are welcome. www.islandquilters.ca for information.

4-6:30 p.m. Bowen Road farmers market.

Beban Park fairgrounds, 2300 Bowen Rd. 7-8:30 p.m. Learn West Coast Square Dancing. Amalgam-Eighters Square Dance Club launches a 12-week fall season of lessons. Pleasant Valley School Activity Room. For information, call Diane 250-390-1899.

7-9 p.m. Island Counseling offers Stop Chasing your Mind, small, safe confidential group to manage anxiety, fears, phobias. Wednesdays or Thursdays, by donation, register at 250-7549988. Starts when filled – limited spaces. Not a drop in, must register at 250-754-9988.

Includes massage, healing touch, reflexology silent auction and more Tickets $25 at www.mid-island.cmha.bc.ca or Gwen at 250.244.4042.

THURSDAY SEPT. 24

8 p.m. Bud Marcy’s 60th Birthday Rockin Blues Party, for two-time Canada Country Music Award winning artist Kevin (Bud) Marcy. A celebration of more than four decades of entertaining, with his muscial friends, including Ashley Pants, Christopher Tate, Lindsay Martell, Ian Perry and Bill Smith. By donation ($10 suggested).

6-9 p.m. Wine, Women & Chocolate fundraiser for the Canadian Mental Health Association Mid Island at the Nanaimo Curling Club.

7:30 p.m. Delhi 2 Dublin and the Fugitives, Port theatre. Ticket information: www.porttheatre.com.

7-9 p.m. Experience West Coast Square Dancing. Open house, with the Amalgam-Eighters Club, Costin Hall in Lantzville. All welcome. Call 250-390-1899 for information.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cedar Farmers Market. Next to the fields of the Crow and Gate pub field, 2313 Yellow Point Rd, Cedar.

of the public for a meal and an evening of fellowship. Kiwanis Village, 1233 Kiwanis Cresc. Free skate every Sunday noon, Frank Crane Arena.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 22

1:30 to 4 p.m. Lantzville Farmers Market.

St. Phillips 2-5 p.m. McRae’s Jazz Conglomerate at the Crofton Hotel Pub, 1534 Joan Ave., Crofton.

Admission: $10. Information: 250-3242245;http://croftonhotel.ca/entertainment.

MONDAY, SEPT. 21 6:30 p.m. Nanaimo Lions invite members

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ladysmith Fall Farmer Market, at 49th Parallel Grocery.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23 7-8:30 p.m. Learn West Coast Square Dancing. Amalgam-Eighters Square Dance Club laucnes a 12-week fall season of lessons. Pleasant Valley School Activity Room. For information, call Diane 250-390-1899.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the next few weeks, others might challenge you more often. Know that you will need to make an adjustment. This trend begins today; however, as a result of your playful, innovative personality emerging, not much will bother you. Tonight: Find a friend and make plans.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You’ll continue focusing on getting a project done. What you are likely to find is that, in certain areas, you will need to assume total responsibility in order to have the details work out as you would like. A family member could need some of your time. Tonight: Order in.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Oneon-one relating will take you to a new level of understanding with a loved one. Your imagination could be stimulated by what occurs; how you direct this energy is your call. You’ll make your interactions more interesting. Tonight: Visit over dinner.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Deferring to others will make your life easier, but at a certain point, you will want to become more involved than you have been. You might feel pressured by an outside connection, but you must focus on a personal matter. Tonight: Make time for a one-on-one chat..

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Understanding evolves to a new level with a friend or loved one. Return calls, and don’t hesitate to speak your mind. You have the ability to

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get past problems with unusual ease, so much so that you might not even notice a bump in the road. Tonight: In the limelight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Be aware of the costs of going along with a friend’s idea. You could feel pressured by your family or immediate circle to join them instead. Understand that you’ll need to sort through your plans with your friend before reaching a decision. Tonight: Time for some exercise.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You feel energized and able to connect with others in a more direct manner. A friend might push you hard to get what he or she wants. Allow your ingenuity to emerge, and you are likely to find a solution. Encourage more spontaneity in your life.

Tonight: Flirt the night away!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Stay close to home, knowing that you have a lot to think about. You might feel a bit too restricted financially.

You could opt to spend some quiet time at home, where you feel you can relax and consider your options more carefully. Tonight: Have a favourite meal.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Friends might be more instrumental than you realize as they seem to guide your plans and directions. You would see a friendship develop into a lot more if you relax about what is happening. Make calls and be responsive to others.

Tonight: Hang out.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Be aware of what a demand will cost you both emotionally and financially. You might try to take shortcuts,

but that could drain you financially.

Curb a possessiveness that emerges. Try to root out the cause, so you can heal this vulnerability.

Tonight: Treat a friend to dinner.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You have a lot of different feelings to deal with. You could be taken aback by a friend and what he or she decides to share. You’ll recognize how hurt this person might be. A loved one seeks you out.

There is no way you can avoid this person. Tonight: As you like it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might be more vulnerable than you realize. Your judgment could be off, no matter how you look at a personal matter. Try to postpone any decision- making until tomorrow or later. Recognize that you seem to be out of sorts. Tonight: Not to be found.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (SEPT. 23): This year you will take a hard look at what doesn’t work in your life. You have to tweak and make what you want work through an adjustment.

You need to rid your life of what is holding you back. In the next 12 months, you will want and need more personal time to reflect on what you want. If you are single, use caution with people you meet.

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LONDON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chelsea striker Diego Costa was banned for three matches on Tuesday after a charge of violent conduct during his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2-0 win over Arsenal at Stamford Bridge was upheld by a disciplinary panel.

Costa had denied an English Football Association charge over Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incident, not seen by referee Mike Dean, in which he appeared to raise his hands to Gunners defender Laurent Koscielny.

But the FA issued a statement Tuesday, saying its â&#x20AC;&#x153;charge against Diego Costa for violent conduct not seen by the match officials but caught on video has been found proven following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Chelsea forward will, therefore, serve the standard penalty of a threematch suspension with immediate effect.â&#x20AC;?

The decision met with a prompt reaction from Costaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s club.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are extremely disappointed with the FA Regulatory Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to suspend Diego Costa,â&#x20AC;? Chelsea said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will await their written reasons before commenting further.â&#x20AC;?

Earlier on Tuesday, Arsenal defender Gabriel Paulista won an appeal against his red card for confronting Costa after the initial incident during the weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s showcase match in the Premier League.

However, Gabriel still faces a separate charge of improper conduct for his reaction after being shown the red card

by Dean on the stroke of halftime. The Brazilian failed to immediately leave the pitch and then tried to confront Costa before being restrained by his teammates.

Both clubs still face an outstanding charge of failing to control their players during the ill-tempered match, which Arsenal finished with nine men. Midfielder Santi Cazorla was sent off for the visitors in the second half.

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ITALIAN ROUNDUP

Man City eases to 4-1 victory Sunderland in League Cup play

Balotelli ends slump with curled free kick for AC Milan

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LONDON — Manchester City bounced back from its shock Premier League loss to West Ham at the weekend by scoring four goals in the first 36 minutes to beat Sunderland 4-1 in the League Cup third round on Tuesday.

Sergio Aguero fired home a ninthminute penalty to give City the lead and Kevin De Bruyne made it 2-0 in the 25th by finishing off a swift counter-attack.

Vito Mannone conceded an unfortunate own goal eight minutes later after Raheem Sterling’s effort struck the woodwork and rebounded into the net off the keeper’s back.

Sterling got on the scoresheet three minutes later, while Sunderland grabbed a second-half consolation goal through Ola Toivonen.

Second-tier Hull claimed a Premier League scalp as David Meyler’s firsthalf effort sunk 2013 winners Swansea 1-0 at the KC Stadium.

The visitors had dominated the early exchanges with Eder hitting the woodwork and Gylfi Sigurdsson having a shot cleared off the line before Meyler fired home from close range.

Rudy Gestede headed a 62nd minute winner as Aston Villa edged home 1-0 in a tight Midlands derby with Birmingham at Villa Park.

Birmingham made the better start,

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Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling celebrates his goal during the English League Cup third round soccer match between Sunderland and Manchester City at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England, Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

but Tim Sherwood turned the tide by introducing Jordan Ayew and Jack Grealish at halftime and Gestede powered home the winner just past the hour mark. Everton survived a scare as it came from behind to beat Reading 2-1 at the Madejski Stadium.

Nick Blackman gave Reading the

halftime advantage, but Ross Barkley equalized in the 62nd minute and the Premier League side won it 11 minutes later when Gerard Deulofeu crashed home a long-range free kick.

A 33rd minute effort from Peter Crouch proved enough for Stoke to beat Fulham 1-0 at Craven Cottage,

while Premier League newcomer Bournemouth beat Preston 3-2 in a penalty shootout after the match had finished 2-2 after extra time. Middlesbrough cruised to a 3-0 win over Wolves at the Riverside Stadium with two goals from Albert Adomah and one for Diego Fabbrini.

FRENCH ROUNDUP

Ibrahimovic, Di Maria and Pastore score as PSG beats Guingamp to move four points clear SAMUEL PETREQUIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Paris Saint-Germain stars Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Angel Di Maria scored their first league goals this season as Paris Saint-Germain provisionally moved four points clear at the top of the French league with a 3-0 win over Guingamp on Tuesday.

After Javier Pastore put the hosts ahead with a neat finish in the 18th minute, Di Maria opened his account in the 76th as he took advantage of a mistake from goalkeeper Jonas Lossl to score from the rebound. Di Maria, who joined from Manchester United this summer, found the net from close range after Lossl failed to clear Ibrahimovic’s powerful shot.

Ibrahimovic, who had been criticized for his lack of impact in PSG’s previous matches, redoubled his efforts throughout the evening at the Parc des Princes. He was rewarded with a goal seven minutes from time — his 107th with PSG since joining in 2012 — scoring with a simple toepoke from Di Maria’s assist.

Ibrahimovic missed the chance to add more lustre to the win when Lossl dived to stop his penalty after Younousse Sankhare was booked for

PSG’s Angel Di Maria celebrates after scoring during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Guingamp, at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

a foul on Edinson Cavani in the box in the 87th minute.

The Sweden international was the man of the match, showing his class in the 20th minute with a superb left-footed chip from the edge of the box that ended just wide of the

far post. He also fed Pastore for the opening goal, when the Argentina midfielder found a way between five Guingamp players to fire into the bottom right corner.

In the final year of his contract, Ibrahimovic is targeting PSG’s club

scoring record held by former Portugal striker Pedro Pauleta, who netted 109 in 211 games from 2003-08.

After two consecutive draws that allowed PSG’s rivals to reduce the gap with the defending champions, Laurent Blanc’s team moved clear of second-place Rennes and Saint-Etienne.

Guingamp slumped to a fifth straight loss and is eight points behind the leaders.

Rennes travels to Ajaccio on Wednesday while Saint-Etienne plays at Troyes.

Earlier, Reims extended its unbeaten run in the league to four matches with a dour 0-0 draw at Angers. Both teams have 12 points from seven matches, with fourth-place Reims standing one spot above Angers on goal difference.

After an insipid first half, Angers created the best chances in the final 20 minutes but Reims keeper Johny Placide made two decisive saves.

Jordan Siebtacheu almost grabbed the three points for the visitors against the run of the play in additional time with a left-foot shot at the near post that goalie Ludovic Butelle kept out with his foot.

ROME — Mario Balotelli broke out of his seven-month scoring slump with a beautiful free kick and AC Milan held on for a 3-2 win over Udinese in Serie A on Tuesday.

Starting for the first time since rejoining Milan on loan after a dismal season at Liverpool, Balotelli curled the ball into the top corner after five minutes.

The temperamental striker let out a rare celebratory smile as he was mobbed by his teammates.

Asked about the rare smile, since he usually shows no emotion after scoring, Balotelli said: “I’m always the same. In the changing room and in life I’m a completely different person from the one described for years (by others).

“Little by little I’m knocking the weight off my shoulders, because over the last few years between Italy and England too much has been said of me, but I’ve remained silent,” Balotelli added.

“I’m behaving well in the changing room and I have good relationships with my teammates.”

Having scored only one goal in the Premier League last season, Balotelli is looking to revive his career and regain his place in Italy’s squad for next year’s European Championship.

“He showed that the real Balotelli is back and that he knows how to deal with being provoked,” new Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic said. “He was perfect.

“We all know about his skills and today he was the best player on the pitch — both for his play and for his behaviour.”

“He made the difference,” added Mihajlovic, a free kick specialist himself as a player. “But he’s got to continue like this because it’s just the start. ... Compliments to (Milan vice-president Adriano) Galliani because he got a strong player at zero cost.”

Giacomo Bonaventura doubled the lead five minutes after Balotelli’s opener and Cristian Zapata added another for the visitors in first-half added time.

Emmanuel Badu and Duvan Zapata scored for Udinese early in the second half.

“We conceded two stupid goals but we fought until the end, so compliments to my teammates,” Balotelli said.

A yellow card later in the first half appeared to slow him down.

“I’m still happy with my performance,” Balotelli said, adding that he’s getting used to defenders attempting to provoke him.

“Well either they get a yellow or my legs but they don’t see the ball.”

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Rally planned for deaf university student SUE BAILEY THE CANADIAN PRESS

ST. JOHNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S, N.L. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Supporters of a hearing-impaired history major who says he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accommodated at Memorial University of Newfoundland will today rally to demand change.

They say an apology from university president Gary Kachanoski and a promised review of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s admitted mishandling of the headline-making case arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough.

Leah Robertson, the student

unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of advocacy, said the university bungled a case that highlights accessibility gaps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of support amongst the student body to definitely pressure the university to help make concrete commitments to ensure that there are more resources and the services are grown for students with disabilities.â&#x20AC;?

An invitation to the lunch-hour rally on the St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus posted by the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; union urges supporters: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Show your sup-

port. Show your outrage.â&#x20AC;?

The event was planned as Kachanoski also expressed concern that the professor at the centre of the controversy â&#x20AC;&#x153;has been publicly vilified and even threatened with harm.â&#x20AC;?

Third-year student William Sears has filed a complaint with the Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission over a history professorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal earlier this month to wear an assistive hearing device, citing religious beliefs.

The FM transmitter helps Sears

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BOSTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The longtime girlfriend and fugitive companion of Boston mobster James â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whiteyâ&#x20AC;? Bulger was indicted Tuesday on a charge she refused to testify about whether other people helped him during his 16 years on the run.

Catherine Greig, 64, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of criminal contempt.

Greig is already serving an eightyear sentence for conspiracy to

harbour a fugitive, identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud.

The indictment alleges that from December 2014 through Tuesday, Greig disobeyed an order from U.S. District Judge Denise Casper to testify before a grand jury in an investigation into â&#x20AC;&#x153;third parties who assisted and harbouredâ&#x20AC;? Bulger while he was a fugitive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catherine Greig has yet again failed to do the right thing,â&#x20AC;? said Joseph Bonavolonta, acting special agent in charge of the FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boston

division. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her refusal to testify has hindered the FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to seek justice for the victims of his crimes.â&#x20AC;?

Bulger fled Boston just before being indicted in early 1995 and remained a fugitive until he was captured in Santa Monica, California, in 2011.

She had been living with Bulger in a rent-controlled apartment.

Bulger, now 86, was convicted in 2013 of participating in 11 murders and is serving life in prison. Bulgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life of crime and his role as an FBI informant are depicted in Black

Mass, a film released last week starring Johnny Depp as Bulger.

When Greig was sentenced for helping Bulger, her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, called Bulger the â&#x20AC;&#x153;love of her lifeâ&#x20AC;? and said she had no regrets.

After she was indicted on the new charge Tuesday, Reddington accused prosecutors of being vindictive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is obviously a vindictive move on the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part,â&#x20AC;? Reddington said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other than living with Mr. Bulger for that number of years, she

has done nothing wrong in her life at all. . . . This is just harassment and she is not going to co-operate with them.â&#x20AC;?

Bulger first fled Boston with Teresa Stanley, who heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been romantically involved with since the 1960s. The FBI has said Bulger dated her most of the time he was seeing Stanley.

After about two months on the run, Bulger returned to Boston, dropped Stanley off and picked up Greig, who remained by his side for more than 16 years until their capture.