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OTTAWA — They were supposed to be looking out onto the world, but the three federal party leaders debating foreign policy had their eyes firmly fixed closer to home.

The policy mechanics of trade negotiations, climate change, immigration and refugee measures and security legislation gave way Monday to a spirited battle of emotions and values aimed at loosening up votes in a seemingly endless election campaign that’s still too close to call.

For Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, the debate before a crowd of nearly 3,000 at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall was all about ensuring Canadian security — of person and of economy.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair wanted to make it a question of Canadian values — the ones that built a country of immigrants.

And Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau played to nostalgia and emotion, invoking the ghost of his prime minister father and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“Let me say very clearly, I am incredibly proud to be Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s son,” said Trudeau, before citing the Charter, multiculturalism and bilingualism as inheritances the country can take pride in.

Trudeau added that the evening was emotional because it marked the 15th anniversary of Pierre Trudeau’s death. “And I know he wouldn’t want us to be fighting the battles of the past; he’d want us squarely focused on the future and how we’re going to respond to Canadians’ needs, and that’s what we’re doing tonight.”

The sentiment might not change a vote at the United Nations, but Liberals likely hope it swings a few more voters their way — especially in seat-rich Ontario.

Trudeau wasn’t the only leader playing to the bleachers.

Harper stoutly defended his government’s policies to date on accepting Syrian refugees.

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“We haven’t opened the floodgates,” he said. “Some European countries just started letting everybody in and now they’re trying to reverse those policies.”

The debate, the fourth of five during the extraordinarily long, 78-day election campaign, was also remarkable for the capacity crowd of close to 3,000 paying — and occasionally partisan — patrons.

A battle over federal stewardship of the economy was supposed to be this election’s defining issue, but emotive “values” questions have increasingly dominated the discourse.

Those values have been attached to the country’s place in the world: Canada’s handling of an international Syrian refugee crisis; the place of minority religious face coverings at citizenship ceremonies; and rescinding Canadian citizenship from convicted terrorists who hold dual citizenship.

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applause when he named nearby Ireland Park in Toronto, where he said 38,000 Irish arrived in 1847 fleeing the potato famine. They arrived to a city of 20,000 citizens.

Harper, meanwhile, took both Trudeau and Mulcair to task for over their stated aim of ending the Canadian bombing mission against Islamic militants in Syria, known as ISIS. Mulcair had an opportunity for his own two-front offensive, blasting both Harper’s Conservatives and the Liberals who preceded them in office for not giving Canada a comprehensive policy to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.

Harper responded that his government has been consistent in stating any international protocol requires all countries to sign on and that he’s “very optimistic” the world will reach an historic accord in December when international negotiations take place in Paris.

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An accidental disclosure of personal student information has led to an apology from the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district.

Local students were given forms with personal information, including their names, addresses, date of birth, sibling and parent information and emergency contacts earlier this month to bring home to parents for

them to verify and to ensure the information was correct and up to date.

The information was to be used in the Ministry of Education’s new MyEducation B.C. System which tracks each student’s data.

Superintendent John Blain said in a letter to parents that some of the forms were not accurate and, in some cases, personal student data was given to the wrong students.

He said the errors occurred during

the printing process and the district’s information systems department, along with the Ministry of Education, quickly identified and solved the problem. “We were able to retrieve the majority of the forms, and we instructed schools that did not distribute the forms to delay the circulation until further notice,� he said. “We have instructed every school to follow the new printing procedures

and we are confident that this will prevent any future breaches.�

Blain said the district is “taking the incident seriously.� It will instruct and train its staff on the proper printing procedures for any forms that contain confidential data, and they have also been reminded to double check all forms before being sent home. “On behalf of the district, I give you my sincerest apologies for this incident,� he said.

This is not the first time the district has had problems with its student information systems. The province and the district worked briefly with the B.C. Enterprise Student Information System before it was scrapped in 2011 due to technical problems, as well as security breaches of students’ personal information.

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Police investigate after video shows driver mowing down sign

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A video of a person mowing down a roadside election sign with a vehicle will be investigated by Ladysmith RCMP. The video on Facebook — posted Sept. 26 and shot from inside a righthand drive vehicle — already has more than 10,000 views. It shows a driver plowing into a large sign once before circling around for a second run. Traffic can be seen driving past on the highway during the incident, which occurred just south of Ladysmith near the south Davis Road intersection with the Island Highway. “It was appalling,� said Mark MacDonald, Conservative Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidate, whose sign was destroyed in the video.

Destruction of an election sign falls under the Criminal Code. “If there’s any way they can be identified, that would be a criminal offence — mischief,� said Supt. Mark Fisher of the Nanaimo RCMP. “The challenge would be identifying who it is.�

Fisher said he would forward the video on to the Ladysmith RCMP detachment.

Candidates from other camps say it’s not OK and call for cool heads so voters can focus on campaign issues, not signs.

Chantal O’Neill, Nanaimo-Ladysmith NDP campaign manager, called the driving “ridiculous.� “How does someone get away with something like that?� she asked.

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A screen capture from a video of someone driving over a campaign sign on the Island Highway south of Ladysmith.

Ilan Goldenblatt, campaign manager for Green Party candidate Paul Manly, said he was “pretty appalled� to see the driver intentionally destroy someone’s sign. “That is completely unacceptable behaviour, we’ve made it very clear to our supporters,� Goldenblatt said.

Green Party signs have had the candidate’s picture cut from them.

Goldenblatt said it has cost “more or less $700,� and hundreds of hours of volunteer time to repair and replace vandalized signs.

Liberal signs have been cut too, “and the money comes from the community,� said Susan Stevenson, campaign manager for candidate Tim Tessier.

MacDonald said his team put signs up on Gabriola Island “and they lasted an hour and a half, and they were all stolen. You can’t find them.�

He said it has cost “thousands of dollars,� of campaign donations,

“and my signs are getting mutilated, broken, pushed over and stolen.�

Goldenblatt said when Green Party signs are removed crews rush to replace them, but often another party has replaced occupied the “valuable real estate� with their own sign. He said it “drags things down in the mud,� but signs are a necessary evil of elections. “The most important signs are the ones on private property,�

Goldenblatt said. “It sends a message (owners) are committed enough to fly the flag.�

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Artist helps solve crimes Sketches assist witnesses and victims with visual descriptions of assailants

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ne of the most challenging aspects of Const. Jill Swann’s job as a forensic artist is not just getting the features of a suspect right, but also the criticism she sometimes faces when the sketch is released to the public.

Her job is defined as being an assistant for a witness or victim in their attempt to accurately capture their visual description of an assailant.

What many people don’t realize about this Julie task is that when Chadwick the witness tells Reporting her it’s done, that she’s captured the likeness of the person, she has to stop drawing.

“This is witness-driven. I’m not the boss of the drawing, they are,” said Swann.

“When they say ‘stop, that’s it, that’s the person, that’s all we’re going to get, I can’t give you any more,’ then we have to stop even if it’s not a perfect picture.

“I’ve had ones where I look at it and I go, ‘Oh, I just want time to fix it up, this picture looks like Eddie Munster.

This person is out of proportion.’ I’ve had drawings where I look at them and go, ‘This is not anatomically correct.’

“But that’s what the witness saw and if the witness says stop, that’s the hardest part for an artist because you’re used to finishing the drawing.”

When that sketch is then shared by the media, comments as to its artistic merit can be hurtful and difficult to take, said Swann.

But that comes with the territory in this very specialized career.

Always a creative person, Swann attended the University of Manitoba, where she received a degree in fine arts.

However, it became clear that financial opportunities for full-time artists were slim. In 1996 she decided to follow in the footsteps of her father, grandfather and great-grandfather (and later, her brother and sister)

Forensic artist Const. Jill Swann. [DAILY NEWS]

“I’ve had ones where I look at it and I go, ‘Oh, I just want time to fix it up, this picture looks like Eddie Munster.

This person is out of proportion.’”

Const. Jill Swann, forensic artist

and join the police force.

Art took a backseat as she took her first RCMP job in Parksville, but when a coworker noticed her sketches and doodles lying around the office, she suggested Swann consider formal training to become a police sketch artist.

With less than a year’s RCMP service, Swann was swept up into an intensive three-week FBI course at the Quantico military base in Virginia, where she trained with some of North America’s finest forensic sketch artists.

“It was the coolest thing ever, because you’re thinking of Jodie Foster and all these movies you’ve seen, and there’s real FBI agents and Hogan’s Alley and all that stuff,” she said. “They had sketch artists come in and speak about high-profile cases. One was the Susan Smith

case, where she accused a black man of killing her two babies and it was later found that she had driven the car into the lake and drowned them.

So he was called in to do the sketch of this mysterious suspect and he talked about that experience.”

From that moment on, Swann felt certain this was what she wanted to pursue.

“If I was already nibbling on the hook, that sunk the hook,” she said with a laugh.

One essential difference between the sketch artists in the U.S. and those in Canada is that the Canadian ones are all trained police officers, added Swann. She believes makes it even more effective as an investigative tool. During the process of interviewing a witness, they may draw out additional details.

“They’re trained investigators as well, and trained at interviewing victims of crime,” said Const. Gary O’Brien, spokesman for the Nanaimo RCMP. “Because of their artistic skills, they also, through their interviewing skills, have the ability to draw the information out of the victims and assist them with identifying what they believe the suspect looks like.

So they’re not just artists, they’re police officers. That’s key. It’s extremely helpful.”

Part of Swann’s job is weeding out any potential deception.

“I’ve drawn someone that doesn’t exist,” she said. “I had one where it was a report of a robbery and it was a female complainant who said she was the victim.

“So I sat down and did the drawing and essentially the woman described my coworker, who she had a crush on.”

However false drawings are by no means the majority of the cases.

On average, Swann, who works for the Island District General Investigation section, gets requests for sketches two or three times a week for cases all over the Island, and occasionally on the mainland.

There are no exact statistics on how often police sketches have directly led to arrests, but generally there are about 200 requests for the service province-wide per year, and forensic artists also assist in missing person cases and help the B.C. Coroner’s Service with recreating facial likenesses of victims.

“It doesn’t have to be a high-profile case, it can be a simple assault or a

theft, it can be anything. One particular case in which it was extremely helpful was with the young girl who was attacked when she stopped to help herd some kittens across the street down on Akenhead Road,” said O’Brien.

“We used a forensic sketch and as a result of that sketch the public provided some key information to assist us in furthering the investigation, which ultimately led to the arrest of the person responsible.”

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Creating sketches broken down into puzzle pieces To begin a session, forensic police artist Const. Jill Swann asks her subjects to close his or her eyes and take her through what happened. She asks them to describe what they saw, from the beginning, and to mention anything sensory, not just the visuals but also sounds and smells.

Though some sketch artists use a computer, she prefers paper and pencil because it’s simple and readily available. It’s also accessible if the witness wants to sketch something to help further describe it.

When she begins to draw, Swann tries to narrow in on a particular visual detail and build the picture from there.

“I get an overview of what happened, and then I ask them, ‘When you turned around and saw this face, or when you looked up and saw this face, what was the first thing you noticed?’ It might be anything from a furrowed brow or creases in the face or a chiseled jaw. There’s always something about a person’s face that stands out,” she said.

It’s broken down into pieces of a puzzle, sometimes aided by a book she has of different types of features. If they’re working on the eyes, they can look at hundreds of examples of everything from close-set eyes to wide, bulging, sagging or sleepy eyes.

This helps narrow it down, said Swann.

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CANADA VOTES!

Candidates share position on raw log exports

A fact we cannot ignore is that logs can be exported and earn a much higher price than selling them to local mills.

The PFL suggests they can only afford to sell logs domestically because the foreign marketplace prices are high enough to allow them to sell logs to local mills at reduced rates.

Log exports generate $1.3 billion in annual input, including $192 million in government revenue, and roughly 4,000 well paying jobs on Vancouver Island alone.

This sector is a substantial cornerstone of the island’s economy.

Can we and should we harvest more logs for domestic use? Absolutely, as we need to ensure the continued success of Coastland and Harmac, for example, and potentially other manufacturers who could produce value-added products that could be sold at home and abroad, and create local jobs.

as beautiful and with as much natural capital as Canada. From our freshwater to our oceans, from our mountains to our Prairies — our economy benefits from our abundant resources, but also from our ecosystems that filter our air or absorb flood waters. If this beauty and long-term economic benefits are to last, we must be vigilant in protecting what we have today. It is each generation’s responsibility to leave a cleaner, healthier environment to subsequent generations. Stephen Harper is failing in that obligation.

Canada’s natural resource sectors can be world leaders in innovation and sustainability — and the federal government can help.

We will invest $200 million more annually to create sector-specific strategies that support innovation and clean technologies in the forestry, fisheries, mining, energy, and agricultural sectors. These strategies will be developed in collaboration with the private sector, government, and research institutions, with the objective of producing real innovations that can be deployed in our natural resources sectors, commercialized, brought to scale, and exported.

We are committed to grow the economy and create jobs while protecting out environment and natural resources.

It is essential we find the right strategy regarding raw log exports that produces the right solutions for generations to come.

Tim Tessier, Liberal

Sheila Malcolmson, NDP

mith. The NDP will work to process our resources here at home — no more “rip and ship.”

We know the Conservative agenda is not working. On Vancouver Island and the coastal region, we lost 68 forestry mills and 6,800 wood and forestry jobs between 2001 and 2013.

NDP House Leader Peter Julian and I visited the Harmac Mill recently to talk with workers and mill owners about our plan to get the most value and the most sustainable jobs from the same level of harvesting, part of our long-term strategy to build a clean economy.

The NDP will implement an Innovation Tax Credit of $40 million annually that will encourage forest product manufacturers and sawmills to invest in machinery and equipment and keep their companies competitive. We will lower the small business tax by 20 per cent to help new, innovative value-added businesses develop and expand. Our strategy also includes forestry research and the development of new products such as high-value-added biomaterials made from wood fibres and biomass energy to replace petroleum products.

It all starts with changing the priorities and the narrow, unbalanced economic policies coming from the Conservatives.

We can do that by defeating the Harper Conservatives in Nanaimo-Ladysmith and electing an NDP national government that works to reduce raw log exports and makes creating good jobs a priority again in our communities.

I am committed to establish a local task force within 90 days of being elected MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith with stakeholders and experts to discuss and develop best practices solutions and bring this message to Ottawa.

We are blessed to live in a country

New Democrats are committed to reducing raw log exports.

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Canada heads to the polls on Oct. 19.

During the federal election campaign, the Daily News will offer a series of profiles, issue pieces and more to help readers with their voting decision.

Today marks the fifth in a series of questions posed to local candidates.

Their responses (candidates listed in reverse alphabetical order) are listed below.

Today’s question: What is your position on raw log exports?

Paul Manly, Green

The Green Party of Canada believes that we should be getting maximum value for Canadian resources and that government should be creating the conditions for local, value added, forest products businesses that will create long-lasting jobs for workers here.

Increases in raw log exports have been devastating for the B.C. economy, but our hands have been tied by the flawed softwood lumber agreement with the U.S. and other trade agreements.

Trade agreements and investment treaties containing investor-state dispute settlement clauses are making this situation even worse, because they allow corporations to sue governments for the loss of potential profits.

The Canada-China FIPA and the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement are two examples.

Both of those countries import raw logs from Canada and these agreements would allow Chinese and Korean corporations to seek financial damages if we increase limits on raw log exports.

The Trans Pacific Partnership could also have negative consequences for

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forestry jobs on Vancouver Island and in B.C. According to a leaked memo from Canada’s Foreign Affairs department, the TPP could lead to the removal of forestry tariffs in B.C., taking away or limiting our control of raw log exports.

The Green Party is the only party opposed to anti-democratic trade agreements that limit our ability to make economic decisions in the public interest.

As your Green MP, I will fight to eliminate raw log exports, fight against unfair trade deals and push to have the flawed softwood lumber agreement re-negotiated.

Mark MacDonald, Conservative The Private Forest Landowners association makes the point that there actually isn’t a shortage of logs for Vancouver Island mills, per se. There is a shortage of subsidized, lower-than-market value logs extracted from our forests. This is a situation that I am anxious to look at in the longer term.

The B.C. coast is unique in the ways logs are directed and this is recognized by the creation of a joint Federal/Provincial Log Export Advisory Panel, which oversees the export of logs from the B.C. coast. It includes former Port Alberni mayor Ken McRae.

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Election sign vandals only get the attention of the police

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hey are a blight on the landscape and serve no real purpose.

Campaign workers can spend far more time repairing them than they do erecting them.

It’s time to get rid of election signs once and for all.

At the very least, the ones that litter our roadsides.

You’ve seen them all, big and small.

Giant smiling faces and rows of the same name, over and over.

Every election, municipal, provincial or federal, up go the signs. And shortly thereafter, dullards knock them down, cut holes in the middle, black out teeth . . . the usual mindless vandalism.

“It’s time to get rid of election signs once and for all.”

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And every election, media outlets dutifully point out the problem.

Again, it’s time to end the silliness.

As if destroying a sign, or more than one sign, will effect the outcome of the Oct. 19 federal election.

Given the mindless vandalism entailed in knocking over election signs, we can safely conclude the perpetrators are thinking along one of two lines: Either that they want to damage the chance of one candidate or increase the chances of one they

favour, or that they’re just out for mindless kicks and don’t even care about politics.

If it’s the former, the stupidity of their efforts is hard to distinguish from the latter.

And at this point their motives don’t really matter now since vandalizing election signs is a criminal act.

Witness the moron seen on YouTube mowing over a sign in Ladysmith. Said person should be made an example of, if only to deter others from trying to one-up the stupidity. You’re not making a political statement, you’re just making a fool out of yourself.

Sadly, there are fools out there of all political stripes. So if one sees

“their” party’s sign on the ground, maybe they retaliate by defacing another.

And around and around we go.

It’s 2015. Information is readily available regarding any candidate.

It seems that politicians put up signs not because it helps them get elected — they probably don’t work for a tinker’s damn — but because that’s what we’ve always done.

While people should always be free to put signs indicating their political preferences on their own yard or private property, everything else should be off-limits.

For sure the vandalism needs to stop and people doing it caught and prosecuted.

But maybe the easier solution, in this age of the Internet and social media, is to simply do away with election signs altogether, so that one day we can reminisce nostalgically to the young folk, “I remember when I was your age seeing election signs all over during elections.

In the meantime, someone out there needs to catch up with what it means to be able to vote — the real democratic statement is made when we express our political preferences at the ballot box, not through vandalism. » We want to hear from you.

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Harper not saying how women should dress Re: ‘Comment raises issues on freedom of choice’ (Your Letters, Daily News, Sept. 26) The writer of the referenced letter has managed to take a simple statement by Conservative leader Stephen Harper about what he would “never tell his daughter she must do,” and, with a lot of innuendo, distorted it to a question of his allowing her “freedom of choice” and right to religious expression.

I don’t think Harper’s statement was necessary to support his stance that faces shouldn’t be hidden while swearing an oath of allegiance to our country. Most Canadians agree with that. But he has never expressed opinions on how women, Muslim or otherwise, should dress on other occasions.

They can wear bags on their heads if they feel so inclined (or are Maple Leaf hockey fans).

I think it shows disrespect to Harper’s daughter to suggest she might “decide to follow the Islamic faith.”

And why would she want to “renew” her oath of citizenship, when she was born a Canadian?

Jim Corder Nanaimo

To deny social equality is to deny democracy One of your letter writers makes some very all encompassing remarks about socialists. He accuses all socialists of hating the rich. Hate is a very harsh word and most people do not hate without justification or provocation.

As for socialists being after your money, you have more to fear from the Harper government, the corporate systems and the rich themselves, who not only want your money but are getting it whether you like it or not.

Most socialists do not need or want your money. They are just trying to

assure that the extremely rich carry their fair share of the tax burden.

With all their wealth, they have far too many tax shelters plus the fact that a goodly part of their wealth is stored in foreign banks to avoid paying taxes. When have the rich ever been taxed more than they can afford? Never.

When have the working poor ever been taxed more than they can afford? Always.

Politicians love to use the word “democracy,” which is defined in the dictionary as “to rule by the people and social equality for all.”

To deny social equality is to deny democracy. Socialists are very compassionate and dedicated to defend social equality. Do these haters of socialism fully realize how much they would lose if it didn’t exist?

There would be no social services, no Medicare, no pensions, no government handouts or grants, no funding of public services, everything would be privatized. Not just the poor would suffer.

Many of the extremely rich are very

greedy, otherwise they wouldn’t be rich, while many of the poor would be quite thankful to just have the necessities of life. It takes compassion to fight for the rights of the less fortunate.

Socialists do care.

John A. Martin Nanaimo

There are other issues, not just council decorum How is it that intelligent people are putting so much energy into insisting on decorum at council meetings and not so much into why we are spending millions of dollars, with incomplete and faulty information, to prepare for a 34,000-year event? Or why our mayor has refused to represent the will of council?

Or why the provincial Dams Safety Branch is insisting that we spend millions with incomplete and faulty information?

I think polite and respectful behav-

iour is important for working together as a team, but come on, where is the outrage over other more important issues?

I would support any petition suggesting respectful behaviour is a good thing, but I am so disappointed in those who rail against disrespectful behaviour but not behaviour and issues deserving far more attention.

I say yes to respectful communication, I say yes to working together to represent citizens best interest; but I also say yes to insisting on accountability from our governing body.

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Aboriginal friendship centre celebrates 50th

Run for the Cure set for Beban Park on Oct. 4 DAILY NEWS

The CIBC Run for the Cure event will be held at Beban Park on Oct. 4.

The annual fundraiser in Nanaimo, the city’s largest single-day event dedicated to raising money to help fight breast cancer, has participants choose between a one-kilometre or a five-kilometre walk or run.

With approximately one in nine Canadian women diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes, the need to continue raising funds for new research in the areas of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care is considered vitally important.

“The CIBC Run for the Cure is an inspiring day where our community comes together to support the breast-cancer cause, and those impact-

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Grace Elliott-Nielsen has seen her fair share of changes in her more than 30 years of involvement with the Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre.

On Wednesday the organization celebrate 50 years of service in Nanaimo with a feast, celebration and open house from 2 to 4 p.m. at all six locations.

From its beginnings as the Tillicum Haus in a home on Needham Street and the basement of a renovated church, to its growth into a powerhouse institute with almost 90 staff operating 58 programs, Tillicum has remained true to its goal of providing a range of services to the city’s aboriginal residents.

Perhaps the most constant feature of the organization is change itself, as it has morphed over the years to best serve the needs of the community at any given time.

Established in 1965 under the guidance and advocacy of Snuneymuxw elders like Ellen White and Josephine Good, Tillicum Lelum was incorporated in 1968.

“It was aboriginal students who lived in remote areas. Most of their schools only went to Grade 7, so there were a lot of young people coming in to the community to board out to go to school. They didn’t really have anything to do, some were starting to get into trouble but some were just desperately lonely,” said Elliott-Nielsen.

“So it started as a coffee drop-in centre with cultural activities.”

The primary question then and now, was “what are the needs of the community?” added Elliott-Nielsen, who got involved with the organization in 1973 through her association with the Intertribal dancers. “I always said, every five years, if you haven’t increased or changed your programs you’re not

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Grace Elliott-Nielsen, executive director of the Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre, looks over some archive materials gathered to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]

really addressing the needs.”

They began to look at areas where the community most needed help, from substance abuse to health, nutrition, sexual abuse, housing and education. A primary guideline that threaded through all areas was a focus on indigenous teachings.

One of the most prominent initiatives to emerge from Tillicum Lelum was the Building Better Babies program, which was one of the first programs in B.C. to address pre- and postnatal nutrition and wellness, and became a model for the province.

“The last I heard, and this was a couple of years ago, there were 688 programs that were modeled after our program,” Elliott-Nielsen said. Many organizations serving non-indigenous clients also subsequently took up Tillicum Lelum’s lead.

Another highlight of the organization’s long history was the recent construction of the Salish Lelum Youth and Elders housing development on Tenth Street.

“I guess I’m most proud of the fact that we’ve been able to have a lot of like-minded or supportive people to work together to develop holistic programs to develop in areas that never seemed to really be addressed before,” said Elliot-Nielsen.

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ed by the disease,” said Susan Flint, a spokeswoman for the event.

“On Run Day, we see this amazing support, whether it’s for a breast-cancer survivor, someone going through treatment or even participating in memory of someone. We are all there to create a future without breast cancer.”

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis among Canadian women over the age of 20 and the second leading cause of cancer among women.

In 2015, an estimated 25,000 Canadian women, and 220 Canadian men, will be diagnosed with breast cancer.

Last year’s event in Nanaimo raised more than $119,000 for the cause.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 4 in Beban Park, and the walk/run begins at 10 a.m.

Facilities Plan Update Public Forums Including Proposed School Closures The Board of Education is currently consulting parents, students and the public about its Facilities Plan Update. During the next several weeks, the Board will be holding public forums to discuss the proposals in the plan. The format of these forums has been designed to encourage dialogue and discussion. At each meeting, there will be a short introductory session; a presentation; a facilitatorled discussion group on topics of importance to each community; and a short closing session.

The meetings scheduled for school zones are as follows: South Zone - Cedar Area Elementary Schools Tuesday, October 6: 7 to 9 p.m. – North Cedar Intermediate Discussion group topics will include the amalgamation of North Cedar Intermediate and Woodbank Primary schools, with the proposed closure of one of the two schools in June 2016.

North Zone - Rutherford Elementary Thursday, October 8: 7 to 9 p.m. – Rutherford Elementary Discussion group topics will include the proposed closure of Rutherford Elementary in June 2017, as well as the future plans to relocate the district’s Skills for Life Program.

Tuesday, October 13: 7 to 9 p.m. - Frank J. Ney Elementary Discussion group topics will include the construction of a new wing at Frank J. Ney Elementary as well as the relocation of students from Rutherford Elementary to Frank J. Ney, McGirr and Randerson Ridge elementary schools.

Central Zone - Woodlands Secondary Tuesday, October 20: 7 to 9 p.m. – Woodlands Secondary Discussion group topics include the proposed closure of Woodlands Secondary in June 2016, with the relocation of students into Wellington Secondary and Nanaimo District Secondary schools.

District Programs Tuesday, October 27: 7 to 9 p.m. - Nanaimo District Secondary Discussion group topics will include the relocation of district programs as well as the relocation of the Learn@Home programs (K-7 and 8-12).

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

In addition, at any time during the consultation process, individuals and groups can submit written input to the Board of Education by email to consultation@sd68.bc.ca, fax 250 741-5309, or mail to the Board of Education, 395 Wakesiah Avenue, Nanaimo, BC V9R 3K6 by Sunday, November 15, 2015.

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Tour de Rock riders cycle down the Island Team of 21 cyclists made a variety of stops in Nanaimo on Sunday; Eastmure accepts special challenge AARON HINKS DAILY NEWS

Tour de Rock riders spent two busy days in Nanaimo before heading to Chemainus and Ladysmith Monday evening.

The team, made up of 21 riders, arrived at Inn on Long Lake Sunday evening and made stops at Cabela’s, Aspengrove School, Coast Capital, the RCMP detachment and Maffeo-Sutton Park.

Riders and the public gathered in the park to watch media rider Hilary Eastmure shave her head, the first woman on the team to accept the challenge. Eastmure said she was inspired to accept the challenge by her junior rider and cancer survivor Natalie Prowse, 11, who had her head shaved last year.

“I thought, she’s 11 and if she can do it than I can do it too. You can only do the tour once as a rider, this is the only time I’m ever going to shave my head and it’s for such an amazing cause,” Eastmure said.

Each rider is paired with a junior rider, a junior rider is someone who has beat cancer or is currently fighting the disease.

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Tour de Rock rider Hilary Eastmure has her head shaved on Monday at Maffeo-Sutton Park in Nanaimo. Eastmure said she was inspired by junior rider and cancer survivor Natalie Prowse, 11, who had her own head shaved last year. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS PHOTOS]

“When we’re struggling we think about our junior riders and think about the friends we’ve lost from cancer, that’s what keeps us going.”

The team is on its 10th day of the 14-day journey. The voyage is riddled with stops at different schools and public gatherings. The amount of support the riders receive is overwhelming, Eastmure said.

“We knew that the schools were going to be amazing but just the people that we meet along the way who are so excited to see us and so supportive. Just the stories that people share about kids they have lost from cancer, family members.

It’s heartbreaking but at the same time there is so much hope out there,” Eastmure said.

Eastmure and RCMP Const. Mihai Ilioi are both representing Nanaimo on the team.

Ilioi said the team is in great physical condition and has experienced both rain and sun on the journey.

“Even though it’s cold, you feel the warmth from the community,” Ilioi said.

FEASTIVAL 2015

BC Ferries extends pilot project for reservations BC Ferries is extending a pilot program that allows for foot-passenger reservations for customers travelling from Tsawwassen to any island serviced on the Tsawwassen-Southern Gulf Islands route until March 31.

Walk-on passengers will continue to have the opportunity to guarantee boarding on sailings to Salt Spring, Galiano, Saturna, Pender and Mayne islands.

“More than 4,300 customers made reservations during the initial period (of the pilot program) from May 1 to Sept. 7,” said Corrine Storey, vice president of customer services for BC Ferries.

VIRL branches closed temporarily on Oct. 13 All branches of the Vancouver Island Regional Library will be closed on Oct. 13 to allow time for the libraries to introduce a new catalogue to customers and staff.

The downtime is needed as a part of a software upgrade and to transition customer records to the new catalogue. The new catalogue will replace previous software, and includes features designed to make digital resources, such as eBooks, simpler and easier to find and access.

Customers are also advised the catalogue will be temporarily unavailable from Oct. 11 at 5 p.m. to Oct. 14 at 10 a.m.

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Man pleads guilty to childporn possession

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The longest stretch the team has ridden was a 140-kilometre ride from Port McNeill to Sayward. The team will end its 1,100-kilometre journey at Centennial Square in Victoria on Friday.

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Above, food trucks line up at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre during the Feastival event on Saturday. Below left, Joanna Bach shares a bite with her son, Hunter, 2. Below right, Angela Nodwell, of Pirate Chips, dishes out clam chowder.

[AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS PHOTOS]

A 45-year-old man pleaded guilty on Monday in Nanaimo Supreme Court to three counts of sexual-related offences involving children.

Sean James Athey entered guilty pleas on one count of possession of child pornography, one count of making or publishing child pornography and one count of sexual interference of a person under 16.

Three more charges remain outstanding on the same file, including invitation to sexual touching to a person under 16, sexual exploitation and sexual assault.

Crown prosecutor Basil McCormack and Athey’s lawyer Jordan Watt submitted an agreed-upon statement of facts to Justice Robin Baird, which was filed as an exhibit and not read aloud in court.

Both lawyers consented in court to seek a pre-sentence report on Athey alongside a psychiatric assessment.

Athey’s next court appearance is set for Nov. 16.

McCormack said outside of court that the charges currently without pleas will likely be stayed at the disposition and sentencing date. He declined further comment on the case until sentencing.

No date has been set for sentencing on the case, but McCormack told Baird that sentencing will likely take a day.

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Parents get chance to talk school closures ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Public consultation meetings on the possible closure of a number of schools in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district begin on Oct. 6.

Earlier this month, the school board gave tentative approval to a new facilities plan that recommended a number of school closures and consolidations as cost-saving measures intended to deal with decreasing enrolment in the district.

The new plan recommends the closure of Rutherford Elementary School in June, 2017, and the closure of Woodlands Secondary School in June 2016. The plan also calls for either the closure of Woodbank Primary School or North Cedar Intermediate School in June 2016, with the students from one school amalgamated with the other in the fall of 2016.

As part of the process, the district is required to have a mandatory 60-day

public consultation period — which began on Sept. 16 — and hold meetings with the impacted communities.

The first of those meetings will be held on Oct. 6 at North Cedar Intermediate School to discuss the future plans for NCIS and Woodbank Primary School.

Another meeting will be held at Rutherford on Oct. 8 to discuss its possible closure, followed by a meeting at Frank J Ney Elementary School on Oct. 13 to talk about the

plans for that school, Randerson Ridge and McGirr elementary schools if Rutherford school closes.

A meeting is scheduled for Oct. 20 at Woodlands Secondary School, followed by another at Nanaimo District Secondary School on Oct. 27 to discuss the future of the district’s Learn@home program.

Each of the consultation meetings will begin at 7 p.m.

District spokesman Dale Burgos said a special board meeting will be

held at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre at 6 p.m. on Nov. 4 and people are invited to give presentations to the board on the facilities plan.

“We will also launch our online survey (which will be found at www. sd68.bc.ca) on the facilities plan on Oct. 5,” Burgos said.

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WHY YOU NEED AN ENDURING POWER OF ATTORNEY

Veteran NDP MP Libby Davies, left, and Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidate Sheila Malcolmson visited with senior citizens Monday at the Grand Hotel. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

NDP say health care will be priority if elected DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

New Democrats pledged to seniors they would put health care first as the next federal government.

Libby Davies, the outgoing Vancouver-East MP and NDP House Leader, talked health care with seniors at an afternoon tea at the Grand Hotel Monday. One senior asked if New Democrats would go after tax cheats with offshore bank accounts to help fund health care improvements.

NDP Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidate Sheila Malcolmson said the tax rate is now below the G-7 average, and “we can raise it just a couple points and not affect competitiveness” to offset costs of better coverage.

Afterward, Davies met with Nanaimo media, where she outlined some NDP priorities for health care.

“I would say the number one issue is seniors care,” Davies said. “And the whole issue of drug coverage.”

The New Democrats spent the past four years consulting with the public to produce the report Health Care: Now it’s Time.

“We feel very proud of it. I think it’s

definitely resonating with people,” Davies said.

That report would serve as a guide for an NDP government health-care policy, she said, noting health care is a provincial, not a federal responsibly.

But Ottawa pays a large share of the cost through transfer payments to the provinces.

One finding of the report was a shortage of acute-care beds, where there isn’t enough support in the community to stay at home, she said.

Asked what direction her party would steer health care, she said the NDP is “not advocating a unilateral approach,” but would push for agreements with provincial governments that set priorities for a variety of important initiatives.

By the me you reach late middle age, you are at higher risk of strokes, demen a, Alzheimer’s and other incapacita ng illnesses. These sad events can occur quite suddenly, out of the blue.

If something like this happens to you, ques ons may arise about whether you’re s ll mentally fit to put paperwork in place authorizing others to act in your place. There may not be enough me to make such arrangements, or it may be too late. And these mental capacity issues can lead to bi er disputes among family members.

In one recent case, two sides of a family were pi ed against each other in a heated court ba le. One group of siblings argued their mom had lost her ability to make independent decisions by a certain date due to rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s disease. The other fac on put material before the court sugges ng otherwise. The court heard that what distressed the mom most was the two groups’ figh ng.

What should you do to protect yourself and avoid these problems?

The law presumes that an adult person is capable of making independent decisions about their financial affairs. The law also presumes that you’re capable of making or changing an “enduring power of a orney.” This is true unless the contrary is demonstrated. (Similar rules are in place for health care decisions and representa on agreements).

So it’s best that you think about whom you would wish to act in your place well before anyone can suggest you’re no longer fit to make that choice. The way to express your choice, so far as your financial affairs (not your health care) is concerned, is through a document called an “enduring power of a orney.”

With a power of a orney, you can appoint someone you trust as your agent or “a orney” to act for you in financial ma ers. But a standard power of a orney ends if you become mentally incapable.

Not so for an enduring power of a orney, which must specifically state that your a orney’s power is to con nue despite such mental incapacity.

This makes an enduring power of a orney very useful. It allows your a orney to make financial decisions for you, perhaps only once you’re no longer able to – without someone (maybe not who you would pick) having to go to court to be appointed as “commi ee.” That’s an expensive and me-consuming process, which would otherwise have to be undertaken. (A representa on agreement for health decisions also avoids the commi ee court process.)

As we all know, abuses are some mes commi ed by the very people who are supposed to protect your interests, especially if you are vulnerable or elderly. There are rules to help prevent that. Some spell out tests for determining your capacity to sign these estate planning documents, set requirements on who must witness and sign them, and say that except for your spouse, parent or children, paid health care workers can’t act as your a orney (or representa ve).

You should plan ahead and take ac on. Your lawyer can explain available op ons and ensure all rules and requirements are followed.

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Candidate resigns after views surface

Police halt search for suspect following stolen car investigation

KATHERINE ENGQVIST GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE

After announcing her decision Monday to step down as the Liberal Party of Canada’s federal candidate in Cowichan-Malahat-Langford, Maria Manna sounded rather upbeat.

“I’m really OK with it,” the Bear Mountain resident said, having issued a resignation statement on her Facebook page – the very vehicle on which she posted what became her controversial views on 9-11 and the fall of the World Trade Center towers.

Manna commented in 2013 on the social media website about the attacks. She called the official story that planes hitting the twin towers caused them to collapse a “lie,” and said she believed a different truth.

The posts resurfaced and were picked up by several media organizations over the weekend, causing some controversy.

Manna would not confirm whether those comments were directly related to her resignation, but when asked whether she felt pressure to step down, she said she did not. She would not comment further on the matter, saying her resignation statement adequately summed up her response.

In her Facebook post early Monday afternoon, Manna said that after stepping back and reflecting on recent events she had decided to resign. She expressed her support for the Liberal party and did not wish her opinions and comments to detract from their goals.

She went on to apologize to anyone she may have offended and said she would devote herself to her music and humanitarian work.

The Liberal Party of Canada emailed a terse statement to the Gazette confirming Manna’s resignation. When asked to expand on the matter, a party spokesperson refused to elaborate past the comments made in the release.

That email also announced that Luke Krayenhoff would replace Manna as the Liberal candidate in the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding.

RCMP report driver may have tried to hit officers; one other suspect arrested KATHERINE ENGQVIST GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE

Police suspended search efforts Friday in Langford after a fruitless four-hour manhunt for a suspect who may have attempted to hit officers with a stolen vehicle.

Residents displaced by the search were allowed to return to their homes, while police presence remained in the area for the duration of the evening. At approximately noon, West Shore RCMP officers attempted to stop a vehicle on Finlayson Arm Road near Falcon Heights in Langford in relation to a stolen vehicle investigation. The vehicle drove away a short distance and crashed. One suspect was arrested without incident at the crash site, while the alleged driver ran away.

The situation escalated to include a significant police response with multiple local and regional RCMP units assisting including an RCMP helicopter, police dog units, an emergency response team and numerous uniformed officers.

Preliminary RCMP reports suggest the remaining suspect attempted to hit officers with the vehicle he was driving before it crashed.

Details of interactions between

An officer diverts traffic away from crossing the bridge at the entrance to Goldstream Park. [ARNOLD LIM/BLACK PRESS]

police and the suspects at the scene are still being confirmed at press time. But it is believed an officer discharged their firearm.

A firearm, believed to be stolen, was also seized.

There are no known injuries to anyone involved in this incident.

Officers with the West Shore RCMP’s Crime Reduction Unit are conducting an investigation into a vehicle stolen from the Sooke area earlier on Friday that is believed to be connected with this incident.

Police asked anyone in the area of Finlayson Arm Road and Falcon

Heights to remain indoors and report any suspicious activity to 911 immediately.

The suspect is described as a white man in his late 20s to early 30s, standing at about five foot eight with a thin build and wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt.

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Poor air quality levels recorded in Courtenay DEBRA MARTIN COMOX VALLEY ECHO

Courtenay has an air quality issue, but nobody seems to know why.

City council agreed last week to refer the matter over to the regional district because

“airsheds have no boundaries,” according to CAO David Allan.

The air quality issue came to light in a letter from the provincial environment ministry advising the city that fine particulate levels had exceeded the national air quality targets for the past three years.

The province has recently completed air quality reports for a number of B.C. regions, including what it calls the “Georgia Strait air zone.”

This was in response to the Air Quality Management System approved by Canada’s ministers of environment in October 2012.

The new Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards have set benchmarks to monitor fine particulate and ground level ozone to provide a uniform level of protection for human health and the environment across the country.

The Courtenay data collected between 2011 and 2013 shows that the fine particulate standard of 28 micrograms per cubic metre was exceeded here with a level of 32.

The annual average fine particulate reading was 10.3 in Courtenay compared to the national standard of 10.

“At this time, we have not identi-

“The exceedance of the (standards) highlights the need for additional action in Courtenay and the Comox Valley, and the ministry will assist in these endeavours.”

Lori Halls, assistant deputy minister

fied specific sources in your community,” wrote Lori Halls, assistant deputy minister of the Environmental Protection Division. “We are aware that woodsmoke is an issue in the Comox Valley and other parts of the province. Possible responses may be to enhance woodstove exchange programs for your community, or improve compliance with regulations such as the Open Burning Smoke Control Regulation.

“The exceedance of the (standards) highlights the need for additional action in Courtenay and the Comox Valley, and the ministry will assist in these endeavours.”

Allan told council that he had experience with a similar issue in his previous job at Golden.

He said a study conducted there was able to indicate the percentage of particulate from woodstoves and other sources, which was helpful in mitigation efforts.

“We’re sort of in an inversion area,” he said, adding that’s why it would be helpful to refer the matter to the regional district for further discussion.

“I think we need to have a better handle on the origins,” he said.

The only air monitoring station in the Valley is in the city.

The provincial environment ministry indicated that there are plans to form an air quality working group in the Comox Valley as a step toward the development of a local air quality plan.

“Health Canada is currently conducting a study in Courtenay to look at the daily variations in PM2.5 (fine particulate) due to wood smoke and to compare these findings to health date,” said the report.

Duncan was the only other community in the Georgia Strait regional air quality report to have the same problems as Courtenay.

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Drug trafficker has sentence reduced TOM ZYTARUK SURREY NOW

A young drug trafficker who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2011 killing of 20-year-old Branson Kerick Rendell Sanders has had 98 days shaved off of his prison sentence.

Brandon Shiu Nandan’s new sentence, determined by the Court of

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Crash in the fog claims life of Alberta woman

An early morning crash on Highway 1 in southeastern B.C. has claimed the life of an Alberta woman.

Police say they were called on Monday to a report of a crash about 35 kilometres east of Revelstoke.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Kurt Grabinsky says a vehicle went down an embankment, hitting several trees along the way.

The male driver climbed out and flagged down a passing vehicle for help.

The woman — whose name and hometown hasn’t been released — died in the crash.

Grabinsky says it was very foggy at the time of the crash, but it’s not known if that was a factor in the accident.

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Government, teachers work out lesson plan The B.C. government is rolling out a $1-million plan to educate the teachers on the new provincial curriculum.

Education Minister Mike Bernier announced the funding for the phased-in curriculum that highlights collaboration and critical thinking by students while focusing on the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.

Bernier says the Kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum will be fully implemented by the 2017-2018 school year. Schools have the option this year of starting to implement the new curriculum up to Grade 9.

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Appeal for British Columbia, is five years and 71 days in prison instead of five years and 169 days.

Justice Elizabeth Bennett noted Nandan had been given one day’s credit for each day he’d spent in pre-sentence custody but, in keeping with a ruling last year by the Supreme Court of Canada, he is entitled to one and a half days for

each day served. Justices Nicole Garson and John Savage concurred.

Earlier, Shakib Abdiriz Shakib, who also pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Sanders’s death, had 133 days shaved off of his prison sentence.

In that case, Court of Appeal Justice Mary Newbury reduced Shakib’s sentence to four years and 332 days after the Crown did not oppose him

being granted a day and a half credit for every day he served prior to sentencing.

Justices Peter Lowry and Edward Chaisson concurred.

Shakib and Nandan were originally charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.

Sanders had been attacked with a machete at the Nandan family’s

house in the 18000-block of 55th Avenue in Cloverdale, over a dispute involving drugs.

Nandan’s parents had been in Edmonton at the time.

Nandan and Shakib were both 19 at the time.

Sanders’s badly burned body was found in a forested area of Robert Burnaby Park on Dec. 2, 2011.

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Driver who ‘panicked’ says he prays daily for women he knocked down ALEX BROWNE PEACE ARCH NEWS

In an emotion-choked voice, a tearful driver told the court at his sentencing hearing Friday that he prays “every day” for the two women joggers he knocked down at a South Surrey intersection in 2012.

“I want their full recovery so that they can (regain) health and happiness,” Barry Christiansen said.

The 56-year-old, a former executive with Envision Financial, was scheduled to learn Monday what sentence he will receive on two charges of “failing to stop at an accident scene involving bodily harm,” after entering a guilty plea before Judge James Sutherland at Surrey Provincial Court.

Running partners Nola Carlson and Shelley Lammers were both present at the hearing, which comes nearly 34 months after the incident, which took place at the intersection of 32 Avenue and 152 Street around 7:40 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2012.

In a statement of fact agreed upon by both Crown counsel Michael Fortino and Christensen’s lawyer, Emmet Duncan, the court was told that Lammers and Carlson were hit

by Christiansen’s white BMW SUV as they crossed 152 St. on a marked crosswalk with a signal to cross.

It was dark and raining at the time of the accident, the statement con-

Accident victims Shelley Lammers and Nola Carlson reflect on testimony at the sentencing hearing of driver Barry Christiansen at Surrey Provincial Court on Friday. [ALEX BROWNE PHOTO]

firmed. But both women, who had been running at the tail end of their regular running group, were wearing clothing with reflective strips and headlamps.

Lammers suffered severe head injuries (including traumatic brain injuries and bleeding in the brain), broken ribs, a collapsed lung and back fractures, while Carlson suffered broken cheekbones, facial lacerations and bruising.

Both had to be airlifted to Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster.

The case has drawn sustained public and media scrutiny since police released a traffic camera video that showed the impact, and shortly afterward a figure, identified in court as Christiansen, approach the two victims, lean over them, then rapidly leave the camera frame.

The charges hinge on the fact that while Christiansen actually lingered at the scene, he did not attempt to offer assistance to the two women, and did not identify himself as the driver of the vehicle to RCMP officers investigating the incident.

He ultimately left — “panicked,” Duncan said — while police pursued early reports that the women had been struck by a black car.

Christiansen has not been charged with driving offences as a result of the incident, and Duncan said he was later told by police that if he had remained at the scene he might have received only a fine and points against his licence.

The guilty plea put a halt to a scheduled nine-day trial for which both women, who have filed victim-impact statements chronicling an extremely difficult recovery period, expressed relief outside court.

“But I don’t know why it all had to take so long,” Lammers said.

Lammers’ impact statement said she has suffered memory loss, inability to concentrate, chronic depression and thoughts of suicide since the accident.

“I’m relieved the driver has taken some responsibility for what has happened,” Carlson said. “I hope this is a message to all drivers (in a similar situation) to assist victims in a timely fashion.”

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Man handed 10 years in jail for weapons offences SURREY NORTH DELTA LEADER

It was April 2012 when police searched a Surrey apartment and found ammunition and 14 firearms, including pistols, rifles and an Uzi sub-machine gun, inside a living room ottoman.

Dean Wiwchar and Phillip Juan Ley, who lived elsewhere but were

the only occupants of the apartment, were both charged with numerous firearms offences. Ley pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of firearms and was sentenced.

Wiwchar, 30, was convicted in June on nine counts and was sentenced earlier this week in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

The restricted firearms found in

the Surrey apartment included: a Sig Sauer, Colt, Ruger and Norinco pistol and a .44 Magnum handgun. the prohibited firearms included: an H & K semi-automatic pistol, a .38 calibre pistol, an Uzi sub-machine gun, a Romanian rifle, and a Taurus pistol.

Police also found two more firearms in his Vancouver apartment a month later.

In the Sept. 21 sentencing decision, Justice Gregory Bowden called the weapons offences “grave,” ruling Wiwchar should spend 10 years in jail.

Crown had recommended a 13- to 15-year sentence for the firearms convictions, while Wiwchar’s lawyer suggested seven years was appropriate.

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Controversy rages over recycling plan JEFF NAGEL BLACK PRESS

Neighbours gathered outside of the residence of convicted sex offender James Conway on Sept. 13 for the second rally to protest his presence on Joanita Place. [VIKKI HOPES PHOTO]

Police department warns against further acts of vigilante justice VIKKI HOPES ABBOTSFORD NEWS

The Abbotsford Police Department is warning the public against committing further acts of vigilantism after the residence of a convicted child sex offender was intentionally flooded early Saturday morning, causing the ceiling to collapse.

Const. Ian MacDonald said police received a report at around 2 a.m. about the flooding of the home on Joanita Place in the Bradner area of northwest Abbotsford.

The house is occupied by sex offender James Conway — whose presence in the neighbourhood was the subject of two previous protest rallies — as well as another offender and their caregiver.

All three were in the home at the time of this morning’s incident, but nobody was injured.

MacDonald said when police arrived, they discovered that someone had unscrewed some lights on the exterior of the property and had run a hose from the roof into the attic.

Police estimate that the water had

been running for about two hours, leading the ceiling to collapse.

MacDonald said the incident is the most serious in a string of mischief-type crimes that have been committed on the property since Conway moved there at the beginning of August.

He said other incidents include a water valve being encased in concrete, a gate at the home being padlocked, rocks thrown at the residence, threatening letters attached to the gate, and “borderline threats” being yelled as people drive by.

MacDonald said security cameras are in place on the property, and the footage will be reviewed for evidence.

The person responsible for the flooding could face a potential charge of mischief over $5,000 and other offences, he added.

MacDonald said police will now install their own cameras in the neighbourhood in hopes of deterring further such activity.

He said such behaviour by residents is “disappointing” because it ties up police resources when the

reports have to be investigated.

During the most recent rally held in the neighbourhood, Mayor Henry Braun informed residents that city staff believed that Conway’s residence was being used outside of its permitted zoning designation for agricultural and residential uses, and the occupants were being asked to leave.

However, Braun said it could take some time to resolve the issue.

MacDonald said police understand the concerns of neighbours, but urged citizens to wait for that matter to proceed.

“We’re asking everybody to be engaged in that process as reasonable people. Clearly, what we have here is more in the vigilante (realm),” he said.

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Municipal leaders have called on the province to crack down on businesses, including B.C.’s newspaper industry, that have so far refused to pay to support the year-old producer-pay recycling system run by Multi Material B.C. The resolution from Comox passed Thursday at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention noted 400 businesses still aren’t paying their share to MMBC — as required by the province’s recycling regulation – to help recover the paper and printed packaging they generate.

Local politicians argued MMBC might be able to expand service to more communities if it receives what it’s owed from the non-compliant businesses.

MMBC managing director Allen Langdon said it’s unfair to the stewardship agency’s paying members that other businesses won’t contribute, even though MMBC is collecting and processing their newsprint and recyclables.

“Some producers haven’t paid one nickel yet to meet their obligations under the regulation,” Langdon said.

“The newspapers are a large component of the outstanding business.”

He wouldn’t give an estimate of the lost revenue.

MMBC provides service to about three-quarters of the province and Langdon confirmed that could rise in

the future to take in other communities that initially opted out but now wish to join.

Newspaper industry representatives have resisted the system, saying it would cost B.C. newspapers $6 million a year. They argue newspapers should not count as “packaging” in the first place and that newsprint was already heavily recycled before MMBC launched.

Newspaper reps previously suggested the industry might launch its own rival system to retrieve and recycle newsprint.

The MMBC member businesses paying the bulk of the recycling system costs are large retailers and multinational consumer product corporations. The recycling system was mandated by the provincial government to ensure the businesses responsible and not local municipalities pay the cost of recycling paper and packaging.

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A woman was sent to hospital Sunday night after being pulled from a clothing donation bin at the Meadowtown Centre in Pitt Meadows.

Emergency responders were called to the scene at approximately 10:45 p.m., where they discovered a woman who had become trapped in a clothing donation bin.

As Pitt Meadows firefighters worked to extract the woman, it became clear

she was suffering from life-threatening injuries.

“Once she got halfway in, the door got stuck on her,” said Brad Perrie, assistant fire chief in Pitt Meadows.

“The crews used the Jaws of Life to extricate her,” added Perrie.

The bin itself was destroyed in the rescue effort, and will cost approximately $1,000 to replace, said Pavel Lalev, a manager at GreenInspirationBC, the company which distributes the collection bins.

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Edmonton police are linking the downturn in the oilpatch to a spike in crime.

Chief Rod Knecht said officers have responded to 9,000 more calls for service this year, compared to the same time in 2014.

Violent crime is up 12 per cent, property crime 18 per cent and the number of 911 emergency calls is up by almost 14 per cent.

Knecht said the calls for service are not all serious crimes, but added this “significant” jump means that sometimes his officers take longer to respond.

“When oil is up, we are busy, and when oil is down, we are really busy,” Knecht said Monday.

Knecht said it was almost like someone threw a switch last November. That’s when the price of oil tumbled to below US$70 a barrel after the OPEC cartel declined to cut oil production.

“We saw a (crime) spike occur then and it has continued on since then.

You can say the crime rate is linked, to a certain degree, to the price of oil.”

To deal with the increase in calls, Knecht is asking the City of Edmonton for 80 more officers and support staff.

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Canadian entrepreneur enters hands-free hoverboard market as patent war rages ROSS MAROWITS THE CANADIAN PRESS

A Canadian entrepreneur is stepping into a fierce global patent war as he begins to sell a hands-free “hoverboard” he believes will revolutionize urban transportation.

Darren Pereira’s Huuver company has begun to sell online its brand of self-balancing electric boards called Uuboard (the first two vowels of both names have umlauts). A Toronto dealership is in the works.

The colourful units that travel up to about 10 km/h have motors that are propelled by movements detected from sensors near the feet.

“I think it’s going to change the way we move,” Pereira said in an interview from Toronto.

Two gyroscopes are so sensitive they detect small shifts in balance.

Lean forward and the device moves forward. Lean back and it reverses.

Move to the right and it turns that way.

The technology — described by some as mini-Segways without the poles — has drawn the ire of the New Hampshire-based company that first introduced its self-balancing personal vehicle in 2001.

The subsidiary of China’s Ninebot technology last week filed suit in Delaware for patent infringement

Darren Pereira, whose company Huuver has begun to sell its Uuboard brand of self-balancing electric boards online. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

against Inventist Inc., a Washington state company that sells transportation devices, including Hovertrax and Solowheel.

Ninebot said its second-generation units, launched in 2006, included patented LeanStar technology.

Inventist, however, said it has

its own patents for “a two-wheel, self-balancing vehicle with independently movable foot placement sections.”

It filed suit against Ninebot in China, and last June against Soibatian Corporation for their product, the IO Hawk. Billionaire Dallas

Mavericks owner Mark Cuban then partnered with Inventist’s founder, adding firepower to the effort to go after alleged copycats.

Pereira, however, says the legal battles won’t deter him from pursuing this business opportunity.

“They could go after me but I’m about pushing public transportation,” he said.

Several Chinese factories pump out thousands of units a day under various names including Oxboard, Cyboard, Future Foot, Monorover, Airboard, Freego, Esway and Overoad.

The Uuboard sells for $949 and comes with a one-year warranty, but rival products are available for between about $600 and US$1,800.

Huuver’s Chinese supplier, Cube Electronics Tech, said on its website they can be purchased directly for up to US$200.

While the various models look alike and carry similar features, Pereira said they’re not identical. Some are a little slower, sluggish and less durable, he said.

Pereira said the Uuboard can work uDespite its US$1,800 price tag, the IO Hawk has had trouble keeping up with demand since it entered the U.S. market in February and attracted the attention of celebrities and athletes.

HEALTH

Nunavut coroner calls suicide in the territory a public health crisis THE CANADIAN PRESS

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut’s chief coroner supports the verdict of a fatality inquest jury that found suicide should be declared a public health emergency in the territory.

An official acknowledgment that Nunavut’s suicide rate is a crisis might be the way to break a logjam in the territory’s ability to implement major parts of its suicide prevention strategy, Padma Suramala said Monday.

“We came to know through the inquest there was an issue to implement the suicide action plan,” she said. “They were lacking only in funding.”

The jury also said Nunavut should create a ministry exclusively devoted to suicide prevention.

The territory’s health minister refused to say how the government will respond.

“I have to work with my cabinet colleagues,” said Paul Okalik. “I will be taking all the recommendations to cabinet.”

Suramala called the inquest in early 2014 after a record number of people in Nunavut had killed themselves the previous year. The total number of deaths reached 45 — a number that included an 11-year-old child — and brought

“A considerable amount of effort has been put in to develop Nunavut’s suicide prevention strategy. We know it was lacking in the implementation.”

Padma Suramala, coroner

the territory’s suicide rate to 13 1/2 times the national average.

Few in the territory are unaffected. Almost everyone knows someone who has committed suicide.

The territory is replete with tragedy, including one case in which a grandmother who was distraught over the suicide of her granddaughter killed herself.

Late Friday, the jury returned a verdict re-emphazing 41 of the 42 recommendations in Nunavut’s 2010 suicide prevention plan. It added another 10 recommendations from the territorial government that were made during the inquest.

But none of them will prevent a single death unless they are put into play — and that takes resources, said Suramala.

“A considerable amount of effort has been put in to develop Nunavut’s suicide prevention strategy,” she said.

“We know it was lacking in the implementation.”

Declaring a public health emergency might qualify the territory for federal programs, she said.

Jack Hicks, a researcher who has done important studies on suicide in Nunavut, said the territory has vbeen dragging its feet.

“There’s an accepted basket of things you’re supposed to do,” said Hicks, who pointed to jurisdictions such as Quebec where teen suicide has been cut in half over a decade.

“Nunavut has not done the usual stuff. Suicide alertness and intervention training is barely alive in Nunavut.”

Hicks noted that a recent letter from Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna spelling out the territory’s election priorities contained no mention of mental-health issues.

But Okalik said progress has been made.

All Nunavut communities now have mental health nurses, he said, and new mental-health facilities have opened with more to follow.

“We are providing resources and attending to this matter as a government,” Okalik said.

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Ontario, Quebec watch TPP agriculture details JULIEN ARSENAULT AND JENNIFER DITCHBURN THE CANADIAN PRESS

Police investigate the scene after a fatal accident north of Toronto on Sunday. A 29-year-old man faces 18 impaireddriving charges after three young children and their grandfather died in the crash. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

‘Nightmare’ for parents as children die in crash Charges of impaired driving causing death against man, 29 THE CANADIAN PRESS

VAUGHAN, Ont. — The parents of three young children who died in a crash involving an alleged drunk driver north of Toronto said Monday they are in shock and called it their “worst nightmare.”

The children’s mother, Jennifer Neville-Lake, who also lost her father in the crash, told Toronto television station CP24 the news hasn’t fully sunk in yet.

“It’s like the worst nightmare, as a daughter, as a parent, to have to go through and just know it was caused by someone’s stupidity . . . It just kills me,” she said.

Daniel Neville-Lake, 9, his brother Harrison, 5, and sister Milly, 2, died after the crash that took place Sunday afternoon in Vaughan, Ont. Jennifer Neville-Lake said her father often took care of the children because she and her husband both work full time.

Daniel was devoted to dance, having taken ballet for several years, and went to Cubs meetings every week, his mother said. He loved to play strategy games, she said.

Harrison — nicknamed Harry — was a bilateral hand amputee and was often sick, Jennifer Neville-Lake said. He also had a developmental delay, she said.

“Harry was just so happy. He loved beauty, loved to dance, loved long flowing hair and dresses and pink and My Little Pony,” she said.

Milly, she said, was “feisty” and loved to play outside.

The two youngest siblings died together in hospital, holding hands, as their grandmother — who was driving the van and suffered serious injuries — sang to them over the phone, Neville-Lake said.

“She didn’t know that my dad had

“It’s like the worst nightmare, as a daughter, as a parent, to have to go through and just know it was caused by someone’s stupidity.”

Jennifer Neville-Lake, parent

died,” she said. “She was driving and was pinned in the car and was screaming the kids’ names and she couldn’t . . .there was no answer.

“At first she thought it was her hearing but it wasn’t until I called her from Sick Kids and I said, ‘Mommy the babies are dying, I need you to sing to them please,’ so she did, she sang to each of them, and then she found out about my dad.”

Police said all were travelling in the same vehicle when their car was struck by another car. Fire officials said they were T-boned by the other car. A third vehicle was also involved in the crash but its two occupants were not injured.

A 29-year-old man was charged with a dozen impaired-driving offences and appeared briefly in court Monday.

Marco Muzzo of King Township, Ont., also faces six charges related to the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

He is due in court for a bail hearing Friday. Crown attorney Brian McCallion said he will be contesting Muzzo’s release.

Muzzo’s lawyer Rudi Covre would only say that his client is struggling.

“I’m sure you can appreciate that

this is a very tough time for him,” he said outside the courthouse after the hearing.

“It’s a difficult period in his life right now. We’re going to have to get through it.”

The two boys were students at St. Joachim Elementary School in Brampton, Ont. — Daniel was in Grade 4 and Harrison in senior kindergarten, according to the school board.

Grief counsellors are at the Catholic school and Tuesday’s mass will be dedicated to the siblings, spokesman Bruce Campbell said. A memory table has also been set up in the foyer for students to share their feelings and recollections, he said.

“It’s obviously a shock,” he said.

Meanwhile, hundreds of people moved by the tragedy sought to help the family by donating to an online fundraiser in their name. By mid-afternoon Monday, more than $60,000 had been raised through the GoFundMe campaign.

Many expressed their condolences on the site.

“Such a sad story. I taught one of the boys a few years back in daycare and can’t imagine this happening to such a wonderful, loving family,” one woman wrote.

“I pray that this family can deal with this most horrific event. The loss of your father and all three of your children is absolutely heart-wrenching. My condolences xo,” said another.

MADD Canada said there are somewhere between 1,250 and 1,500 deaths related to impaired driving in Canada each year.

Andrew Murie, the organization’s CEO, said both the federal and provincial governments need to increase penalties for impaired drivers.

OTTAWA — Ontario and Quebec’s agriculture ministers are worried about the details of any Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and are heading to Atlanta to shadow their federal counterpart this week.

They’ll be accompanied by representatives from the Canadian dairy industry.

It’s a gesture designed to remind federal Trade Minister Ed Fast of a federal-provincial promise made this summer to “preserve the integrity of the supply management system.”

Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis said there’s concern that Canada is facing undue pressure from other countries and that without the presence of the provinces and industry, the negotiators could give up too much.

“We want the minister, who left the federal campaign to go down there, to feel that this is a big deal, that all of the Canadian jurisdictions want to remind him of the agreement in Charlottetown,” said Paradis, referring to federal-provincial meetings.

Negotiators for the 12 countries involved are into the final stages of hashing out an agreement, which would include some sort of concession

from Canada on access to the dairy market.

Trade ministers are to meet in Atlanta towards the end of the week. Fast was one of the first to announce he would attend.

A loosening of the “country of origin” rules around how much of a car built in Canada could come from someplace else is another point to be agreed upon.

Harper conceded at a campaign debate earlier this month that the auto industry might not be pleased with the TPP deal.

Another contentious issue is intellectual property and the length of time a pharmaceutical company can keep data about a drug confidential and out of the hands of generic producers.

Canada’s sets a threshold of eight years for the drug industry, while the United States wants it to be 12.

With many other national standards even shorter than Canada’s, there is a belief Canada won’t need to make any adjustment.

The TPP situation is an unusual one — the country is in the midst of an election campaign, but negotiators have had to plow ahead, lest the TPP train leave the station without Canada aboard.

The Conservatives appear poised to use any deal sealed on the TPP to their advantage on the campaign trail.

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ENERGY

Canada feels impact as Shell ices Arctic drilling LAUREN KRUGEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to scrap plans to explore for oil off Alaska’s coast is sending a discouraging signal to those who want to see Canada’s Arctic offshore resources developed.

Shell drilled a well in the Chukchi Sea this summer that indicated the presence of oil and gas, but said Monday the results weren’t good enough to warrant further exploration for the “foreseeable future.”

“Shell continues to see important exploration potential in the basin and the area is likely to ultimately be of strategic importance to Alaska and the U.S. However, this is a clearly disappointing exploration outcome for this part of the basin,” said Marvin Odum, who directs Shell’s upstream Americas business.

The company said its decision to walk away from Alaska is based on the disappointing results of the well, along with high costs and a “challenging and unpredictable” U.S. regulatory environment.

In all, Shell has spent upwards US$7 billion on Arctic exploration.

A successful program in the Chukchi Sea would have helped along development of resources in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of the Northwest Territories — an even more challenging operating environ-

In this July 30 photo, the Royal Dutch Shell PLC icebreaker ‘Fennica’ on its way to Alaska as protesters hang from the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Ore. Shell will cease exploration in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast following disappointing results from an exploratory well backed by billions in investment and years of work. [AP PHOTO]

ment than Alaska, said energy consultant Doug Matthews.

“The loss for Canada is we really could have learned something from the Shell operation about how to better operate in the Arctic waters,” he said.

The National Energy Board, which has authority over the Arctic offshore

but next to no experience in that region to draw from, could have learned from the U.S. regulatory approach.

“This would have been a very good laboratory for our purposes and that’s gone,” Matthews said.

The probability that Canadian Beaufort resources will one day be

exploited was already looking dicey.

In June, Imperial Oil and its partners deferred exploration in the Beaufort and asked for a seven-year extension to their licence, which expires in 2020. Chevron Canada said in December that it had put its plans in the region on ice indefinitely.

Both cited the National Energy

Board’s requirement that companies show they can kill a ruptured oil well in the Arctic offshore in the same season it’s drilled — a difficult and costly proposition in a region that’s covered in ice for much of the year.

Shell’s decision is welcome news for environmental groups. After the U.S. government gave the green light to the company’s exploration plans in May, opponents mounted massive protests aimed at stopping drilling equipment stored in Seattle from moving north.

Shell did not cite the environmental opposition as a factor in its decision, but Greenpeace Arctic campaigner Diego Creimer said it was clear it played a role.

“What happened today can be an inspiration,” he said. “People campaigning, people protesting definitely had an effect because they were really undermining (Shell’s) social licence to operate in the Arctic.”

Shell’s Arctic experience is a lesson for companies pursuing expensive and risky projects elsewhere in the world, added Anthony Hobley, CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London-based think-tank.

“I think they had underestimated the concern and the backlash from civil society about drilling in the Arctic. They clearly had not anticipated the strength of that reaction,” he said.

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Obama, Putin disagree on views about Syria, Ukraine Discussions on peacekeeping, climate change and global poverty also on the table JULIE PACE AND VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

With a stony-faced handshake, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday began their first formal meeting in more than two years, a discussion expected to lay bare their deep differences over the chaos in Syria.

The meeting came hours after the leaders outlined their contrasting visions for Syria’s future in dueling speeches at the United Nations General Assembly summit. Obama urged a political transition to replace embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, while Putin warned it would be a mistake to abandon the current government.

Obama and Putin were also expected to discuss the crisis in Ukraine during their evening meeting at UN headquarters.

Ahead of their talks, Obama said he was open to working with Russia, as well as Iran, to bring Syria’s civil war to an end. He called for a “managed transition” that would result in the ouster of Assad, whose forces have clashed with rebels for more than four years, creating a vacuum for the Islamic State and other extremist groups.

“We must recognize that there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a return to the prewar status quo,” Obama said.

Putin, however, urged the world to stick with Assad, arguing that his

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ WINNIPEG

Crown seeks four years prison for impaired fatal Prosecutors want a Manitoba man who admitted to driving drunk when he killed a young woman to serve a four-year prison term.

David Deslisle, who is 51, has pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death in the September 2012 crash on Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway that killed 21-year-old Samantha Schlichting.

A passenger in her car was also left with permanent injuries.

Deslisle’s pickup truck drifted into the wrong lane.

Court heard he refused a breathalyzer at the scene of the crash so it’s unclear how much alcohol was in his system.

The judge reserved his decision.

◆ SYDNEY, N.S.

School board bans middle school dances

United States President Barack Obama, right, and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin head into a bilateral meeting Monday at United Nations headquarters. [AP PHOTO]

military is the only viable option for defeating the Islamic State.

“We believe it’s a huge mistake to refuse to co-operate with the Syrian authorities, with the government forces, those who are bravely fighting terror face-to-face,” Putin said during his first appearance at the UN gathering in a decade.

Obama and Putin’s disparate views of the grim situation in Syria left little indication of how the two

countries might work together to end a conflict that has killed more than 250,000 people and resulted in a flood of refugees.

The Syria crisis largely overshadowed the summit’s other discussions on peacekeeping, climate change and global poverty.

French President Francois Hollande backed Obama’s call for Assad’s ouster, saying “nobody can imagine” a political solution in Syria if he is

still in power. Hollande called on countries with influence in Syria, including Gulf nations and Iran, to be engaged in a transition.

Despite Obama’s staunch opposition to Assad remaining in office, the U.S. has struggled to push him from power. Russia has long been a major obstacle, shielding Assad from UN sanctions and continuing to provide the Syrian government with weapons.

A school board on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island has banned school dances for students in grades six to eight, a move that has prompted hundreds of people to sign an online petition demanding the dances be reinstated.

The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board said Monday its administration made the decision after moving from a junior high to middle school grade configuration this school year.

Donnie Holland, acting co-ordinator of school services, said grade six students may not be ready for the social pressures related to relationships that surround dances.

The move has been met with some opposition in the community and has prompted an online petition, which had garnered more than 1,400 signatures by Monday.

◆ WARMAN, SASK.

ENERGY

Alberta premier says cap-and-trade proposal of federal NDP may not work for her province GIUSEPPE VALIANTE THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — A federal cap-andtrade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may not be suitable for Alberta, the province’s NDP premier said Monday, one day after her federal counterpart proposed such a plan on the campaign trail.

Rachel Notley, on the first leg of a business trip to Montreal, New York City and Toronto, told executives and politicians that a national cap-andtrade system “may not be our best road forward.”

She added that Alberta — whose economy is heavily dependent on the greenhouse gas-intensive oilsands — must get its act together to reduce

NOTLEY

emissions or risk having a “solution imposed on us” by the federal government and international resource markets.

On Sunday, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair proposed a national carbon trading system to combat man-made greenhouse gas emissions, which are considered by an overwhelming number of international scientists as the leading cause of climate change.

He said provinces would be allowed to opt out of a national scheme if their efforts are as good as or better, but didn’t provide details.

“We’re not going to replace something that’s working,” Mulcair said.

While Notley didn’t provide specific targets or details about her strategy, she said Alberta will move away from coal-fired plants — which she said account for 55 per cent of the province’s electricity supply — and

look into renewable energy, energy efficiency and some form of carbon pricing.

“We will be looking for a strategy to phase out the use of coal as quickly as we reasonably can,” she said, adding she will “phase in change prudently, as our economy recovers,” in recognition of the fact Alberta is likely to run at least a $5-billion deficit this year because of a drastic drop in oil prices.

Alberta’s opposition party, Wildrose, decried the fact Notley didn’t specifically mention major resource projects involving the oilsands, such as TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline, which the company wants to build through Ontario and Quebec.

RCMP deal with hoofed visitor at Tim Hortons Mounties in the Saskatoon area didn’t let an unexpected visitor get their goat when they were called to a disturbance at a Tim Hortons on the weekend.

RCMP in Warman were called out because a stubborn kid was refusing to leave the coffee shop early Sunday morning.

Employees asked him to leave and walked him outside, but he just turned around and came back through the automated doors.

Two officers, believing the animal was just cold, took him into their police cruiser, but he kicked up a fuss, so they decided to try to find where he came from.

But despite going to every farmhouse in the area, they were unable to locate his home and took the goat to an animal hospital instead.

Police say they are happy to report that the goat has been reunited with his owners after his night on the town.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

More than 500 prisoners escape as chaos deepens The worst violence to hit Central African Republic’s capital in a year further deteriorated Monday as more than 500 inmates escaped from a prison and militia fighters looted the offices of international aid organizations, officials said. The death toll from several days of clashes reached 42 including a teenage boy who was decapitated.

The unrest erupted as transitional President Catherine Samba-Panza was in New York at the UN General Assembly, sparked by the death of a Muslim man whose body was left near a mosque. Muslim militants then attacked a Christian neighbourhood with weekend clashes leaving several dozen people dead.

The jailbreak at Ngaragba took place late Monday, according to people who saw the men fleeing and spoke on condition of anonymity.

◆ BRUSSELS

EU naval operation to go after migrant smugglers

This undated photo provided by NASA and taken by an instrument aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dark, narrow, 100 metre-long streaks, at left, on the surface of Mars that scientists believe were caused by flowing streams of salty water. Researchers said Monday that the latest observations strongly support the longtime theory that salt water in liquid form flows down certain Martian slopes each summer. [NASA PHOTO VIA AP]

Possibility of running water on Mars may alter theory of life on the planet MARCIA DUNN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mars appears to have flowing rivulets of water, at least in the summer, scientists reported Monday in a finding that boosts the odds of life on the red planet.

“Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past,” said Jim Green, director of planetary science for NASA. Scientists in 2008 confirmed the existence of frozen water on Mars.

Now instruments aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have yielded what researchers said is the strongest evidence yet that water in liquid form trickles down certain Martian slopes.

And because liquid water is essential to life, the finding could have major implications for the possibility of microscopic life forms on Earth’s next-door neighbour.

“It suggests that it would be possible for there to be life today on Mars,” NASA’s science mission chief, John Grunsfeld, said at a Washington news conference.

The rivulets — if that’s what they are, since the evidence for their existence is indirect — are about 12 to 15 feet wide and 300 feet or more long, scientists said.

They apparently consist of wet soil, not standing water.

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“It suggests that it would be possible for there to be life today on Mars.”

John Grunsfeld, NASA science mission chief

The water is believed to contain certain salts — not ordinary table salt, but magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate and sodium perchlorate. Like road salt used to melt ice and snow on Earth, such compounds can prevent water from freezing at extremely low temperatures.

That would explain how water could exist in liquid form on Mars, which has an average temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius.

In addition to supporting life, the presence of liquid water could make things easier for astronauts visiting or living on Mars. Water could be used for drinking and for creating oxygen and rocket fuel. NASA’s goal is to send humans there in the 2030s.

Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars exploration program, said the only definitive way for now to determine whether there’s life on Mars is to collect rocks and soil for analysis on Earth, something a U.S. lander set for liftoff in 2020 will do.

“Water is one of the most precious

resources necessary for a human mission to the red planet,” Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House science, space and technology committee, said in a statement. “The more evidence we find of it, the more encouraged I am for future Mars missions.”

Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona at Tucson, a scientist on the project, said he, for one, believes the possibility of life on Mars to be “very high.”

The source of the briny water is a mystery. Scientists said it could be melting ice, an underground aquifer, water vapour from the thin Martian atmosphere, or some combination.

The evidence of flowing water consists largely of dark, narrow streaks on the surface that tend to appear and grow during the warmest Martian months and fade the rest of the year. The streaks are in places where the temperature is as low as minus 23 Celsius.

They were spotted by the Mars orbiter’s high-resolution, telescopic camera, and another on-board instrument detected the chemical signature of salt compounds combined with water.

McEwen said that there appears to be a “significant volume” of water, speculating it could fill many Olympic swimming pools, but that it is spread thin.

Present-day Mars is nothing like ancient Mars. Three billion years ago, our most Earthlike neighbour had a huge ocean, but something radical happened, and exactly what remains a mystery.

The notion of water and life on Mars has been irresistible to earthlings for generations.

In 1877, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli spied what he called “canali” on Mars — Italian for “channels” — but the word was mistranslated as “canals” in English, causing imaginations to run wild. In the early 1900s, amateur astronomer Percival Lowell claimed to have spotted irrigation canals and theorized they were built by Martians.

In 2008, NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars and confirmed the long-suspected presence of ice in the soil. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the planet since 2006.

The latest findings were published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The lead author, Lujendra Ojha, a doctoral candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology, first noticed the streaks on Mars in 2010. Ojha and colleagues speculated at the time that they were seeing flowing water.

For NASA, at least, the timing couldn’t be better. This Friday, the NASA-approved movie The Martian has its premiere.

The European Union on Monday announced that it will be able to go after suspected migrant trafficking and smuggling vessels in the international waters of the Mediterranean as of next week.

Monday’s EU statement said Operation Sophia will allow naval personnel of EU nations “to board, search, seize and divert vessels suspected of being used for human smuggling or trafficking on the high seas, in line with international law” as of Oct. 7.

In reaction to the tens of thousands of people crossing the Mediterranean and the thousands of lives lost, the EU set up an operation that initially centred on saving those drifting on the high seas and would later also include directly targeting smuggling and trafficking operations.

EU states now committed enough ships, helicopters and other military equipment to start the operation.

◆ KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

Taliban capture first urban area since 2001 The Taliban captured the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday in a multi-pronged attack involving hundreds of fighters, the first time the insurgents have seized a major urban area since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.

The fast-moving assault took military and intelligence agencies by surprise as the insurgents descended on the city, one of Afghanistan’s richest and the target of repeated Taliban offensives as the militants spread their fight across the country following the withdrawal last year of U.S. and NATO combat troops.

The city is a strategic prize for the Taliban and its capture, however short-lived, is sure to be used as a propaganda victory. This year’s fight has severely tested Afghan forces, who lack air power and must rely on the United States for selective airstrikes, and suffer huge casualties and low morale.

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CANADA’S

ONLY HOPE? Price, Habs are best hope to end Canada’s Cup drought STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

W

ith individual accolades all around him at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas, Carey Price’s mind was still on the Stanley Cup that had eluded him and his teammates.

“I’d trade all four of these in for that one,” the star Montreal Canadiens goaltender said. “We have a lot of very good parts in Montreal and a very good hockey team. We’re gaining experience and I’m very, very happy and very excited about our future.”

Price is the biggest reason to be excited about the Canadiens’ present and future. The reigning Hart and Vezina Trophy-winner is only one player, but his presence makes Montreal the most likely team to end Canada’s Cup drought that currently sits at 21 seasons.

Oddsmakers give eight NHL teams better odds than the Habs (18-1), but they have the most realistic shot of any Canadian-based team. The Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets are 28-1, the Edmonton Oilers 33-1, Ottawa Senators 40-1, Vancouver Canucks 66-1 and Toronto Maple Leafs 100-1, according to the online

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If the Habs are going to lift the Cup for the first time since 1993, they’ll need to do more to support a goaltender who is playing at the level of two-time Conn Smythe Trophy-winner Patrick Roy. Price led the league with 44 wins, a 1.96 goals-against average and .933 save percentage, but skaters have to score more and be better, too.

“We’re fortunate to have him, and obviously as players we want to help him out a little bit more than we did last year,” centre Tomas Plekanec said.

“A big part was Pricey, which is

one thing that obviously we want to get better at and play better in front of him.”

The Habs will have defenceman Jeff Petry for an entire season and should be better by having him on the second pairing behind one of hockey’s most dynamic players in P.K. Subban. They also have a captain for the first time since Brian Gionta left in the summer of 2014, giving left-winger Max Pacioretty the honour. Talented forward Alex Galchenyuk moves to centre in the hopes of sparking his career.

For all the minor changes in Montreal, Price is the constant. And what a constant to have.

“My expectations for him are no different from what they’ve been since I started playing on this team and that’s to remain and be one of the best goaltenders in the world,” Subban said. “He proved that he could be that last year. He’ll have to continue to prove that for our team to win a Stanley Cup.” Immediate Stanley Cup aspirations are hard to find elsewhere across Canada, though the Flames have real expectations on them this season after a surprise run to the playoffs ahead of schedule. With the addition of defenceman Dougie Hamilton, the

return of captain Mark Giordano and the maturation of Sean Monahan, Johnny Gaudreau and Sam Bennett, there’s reason to believe the Flames are a legitimate playoff contender.

“On paper today, if you look at our roster, we do look like a deeper, better team than last year, but we have to, as players, bring that now and prove it on the ice,” Giordano said.

On paper, the Jets aren’t quite as formidable as they were in making their first playoff appearance since returning to Winnipeg. Gone are forwards Michael Frolik and Jim Slater and deadline pickups Lee Stempniak and Jiri Tlusty, and there will be an infusion of youth into the Jets’ lineup.

The Jets were banged up beyond recognition when they were swept in the first round by the Anaheim Ducks. A healthy under coach Paul Maurice could provide better results this season, much like how the Tampa Bay Lightning rebounded following their 2014 first-round sweep.

“I guess I do feel more encouraged by it that you realize we’re not that far off,” said defenceman Jacob Trouba, who played with a broken bone in his left hand.

Adding phenom Connor McDavid, coach Todd McLellan, goaltender

Cam Talbot and defenceman Andrej Sekera should make the Oilers substantially better. Centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said the Oilers are still young but trending away from that label, and new general manager Peter Chiarelli has certain expectations for improvement, even if he’s not willing to share.

“What I can tell you is I believe the margins are very, very thin on making the playoffs,” Chiarelli said.

“There’s a lot of new faces. I’ve got to see it.”

There may not be much to see in Vancouver and Toronto come April, even after the Canucks made the playoffs in their first season under coach Willie Desjardins. Vancouver is a team in “transition,” according to GM Jim Benning, while the Leafs hope they’re on the way back up — eventually — with Mike Babcock behind the bench.

In Ottawa, the expectation is still the playoffs. But the Senators know they can’t wait until mid-season to make a miraculous run like they did a year ago, thanks in large part to goaltender Andrew Hammond.

“What we did is one in a million,” captain Erik Karlsson said.

“I don’t know if we could do it again.”

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Raiders set for home playoff game Crucial 24-18 win over Langley Rams Saturday sets up a conference semifinal game at Caledonia Park The Vancouver Island Raiders hit the road Saturday with the knowledge they had to win to play at home again.

Tied for second place in the B.C. Football Conference at 5-3 with the Langley Rams with a home-playoff date on the line, the Raiders beat the Rams in Langley with a 24-18 win to secure second place and home field advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

The Raiders now go into Chilliwack on Saturday to play the winless, lastplace Valley Huskers in the regular season finale with the knowledge they’ll get to play at least one more game in front of their home fans.

The Raiders, who had beaten the defending BCFC champion Rams in Week 1 in Nanaimo, were down 7-0 Saturday after the first quarter and 10-7 at halftime, but two touchdown runs from Liam O’Brien in the second half gave them a lead they would never relinquish.

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Clippers go 1-1 at Showcase, host ‘Dogs Wednesday

Comox duo Proctor, Xylinas ready to get on the court with the Mariners

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A lack of secondary scoring sent the Nanaimo Clippers home from the B.C. Hockey League Showcase event in Chilliwack with a 1-1 record after a 6-0 win over the Merritt Centennials and a 4-2 loss to the Coquitlam Express.

The Clippers, who have yet to string together consecutive wins or losses this season, sit at 3-3-0-0 and hope to continue that trend Wednesday night when they host the Alberni Valley Bulldogs at 7 p.m. at Frank Crane Arena.

The BCHL Showcase saw all 17 teams play two games each in front of hundreds of college and pro scouts at Chilliwack’s Prospera Centre. Third-year Clippers right winger Sheldon Rempal may have made the best impression of anyone else in the league, finishing his two games with five points and leaving Chilliwack with the league lead in points with 12 in six games.

However, other than the Clippers top line of left winger Devin Brosseau, centre Matt Hoover and Rempal, there have been issues for forwards in finding the back of the net.

Both Rempal and Hoover scored twice in their win over Merritt Friday, while defencemen scored the Clippers’ other two goals. On Saturday, the only two Nanaimo goals were scored by defencemen Yanni Kaldis and Sean Buchanan.

The last time a non-first-line forward scored for the Clippers was three games ago, on Sept. 18 when Spencer Hewson scored on an empty net against the Victoria Grizzlies in a 4-2 Clippers win.

O’Brien also threw a touchdown pass to Arthur Fabbro, who continued his tear with four catches for 144 yards. Receiver Dustin Rodriguez had another for catches for 119 yards while O’Brien finished the day with 255 passing yards after connecting on nine of his 15 attempts.

Rookie safety Cole Virtanen intercepted a Rams pass on his own team’s two-yard line while Alex Eberling had another pick.

Adam McDonald, Nigel Henry and Max Baldam each had five tackles

in the win. Last season, the Raiders, finished 5-5 and lost to the Okanagan Sun 47-16 in Kelowna in the BCFC semifinal, ending their season before then-head coach Brian Ridgeway was fired. Under new head coach Jerome Erdman, the Raiders are on track to finish 7-3, and won’t likely see the Sun (9-0) until the conference championship game, which will be in Kelowna if the Sun make it there.

The Rams are now tied with the Kamloops Broncos for third place, and barring any upsets this weekend

Langley will finish third and face the Raiders in one semifinal while the Broncos will play the Sun in Kelowna.

The BCFC semifinal games are traditionally played two weeks after the regular season ends, which this year would mean the Raiders would host their playoff game on either Oct. 17 or 18. However, the BCFC has yet to release a playoff schedule.

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wo seasons ago, Morgan Proctor and Nic Xylinas were the star players on the Mark Isfeld Ice senior boys basketball team, leading their team to a fourth-place finish at the B.C. High School Triple A basketball championships.

And after Proctor, one year older, sat out for a redshirt year last season, the Comox Valley duo have been reunited as teammates with the defending conference champion Vancouver Island University Mariners.

“It’s definitely a different feel,” said Xylinas, who enters his freshman year at VIU as a guard hoping to get some minutes on a veteran club.

“We’re in different roles,” said Proctor. “We used to be the big dogs in high school.”

The Mariners, who won their alumni game as well as an exhibition game against the Canadian Forces basketball team on the weekend as they prepare for their home opener on Oct. 30, as always have their eyes on getting back to the national tournament after winning silver there last season.

Proctor, who only started playing basketball in Grade 9, didn’t play at all last season with VIU in order to preserve a year of eligibility and to get his game ready for PacWest basketball.

“It was big for me,” the six-footthree Proctor said of spending his redshirt year with the top team in the PacWest last season.

“I got to improve my body and get a little bit stronger, and work on everything that I wasn’t great at. I was always athletic, but never had all the skills, so redshirting was huge for me that way. It wasn’t a hard decision because we had a really strong team, and there probably wouldn’t have been much playing time for me anyway.”

This year, however, Proctor will be expected to get onto the floor and play

Former Mark Isfeld Ice stars Morgan Proctor, left, and Nic Xzylinas are now on the Vancouver Island Mariners men’s basketball team. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

a meaningful basketball game for the first time since the provincial high school championships in 2014.

“I’m expecting to be mainly a role player and a defender, and score here and there when I can,” he said.

Avneet Brar, the Mariners assistant coach, has been working with Proctor since he arrived at VIU with private skill sessions and can see the improvement he’s made.

“Morgan came in as a much slighter guy,” Brar said. “He got in two to three times a week for skill work, probably three to four times up in the weight room and he’s probably gained about 15 to 20 pounds and has put in a lot of progress on his shooting.

“I’ve definitely noticed improvement in his shooting mechanics and the ability to shoot the college three.

“It is a big step out, and he came in as a very athletically gifted guy who was trying to jump as high as he could on his jump shots. We spent a

lot of time trying to reel that in and get him shooting out of rhythm and he’s made tremendous gains terms of his three-point shooting.”

Proctor said since playing in high school, he’s already more comfortable on the court.

“I just wanted to get my shooting better, for sure, and get more comfortable with the ball,” he said. “I’m a lot stronger and a lot more confident now.”

Xylinas, a six-foot guard, comes to VIU not only for his basketball talent but also for his academics — he was awarded the school’s President’s Scholarship after graduating high school at Isfeld.

After the high school basketball season, he was playing in the Vancouver Island all-star game, where VIU head coach Matt Kuzminski was running one of the teams, noticed him and invited him to the Mariners identification camp before offering him a spot

on the team. He had also tried out for the Langar Falcons.

“I was looking at a few other schools, but once VIU made the offer I didn’t consider anywhere else,” Xylinas said. “It was the best case scenario for me.”

It’s been a tough road for freshmen to find playing time with the Mariners, a team consistently ranked in the top 10 nationally.

But Xylinas may get into the lineup in the 2015-16 season if he shows he is ready to play at the collegiate level.

“He came in as a very physically strong guard and we’re just spending time working on his basketball IQ and being able to attack the basket,” Brar said. “He might play some minutes for us, and he’ll be ready for the moment.”

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McCann scores, Canucks win 1-0 JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

Tugboat Cross Hundreds of cyclocross riders converged on Ladysmith’s Transfer Beach Park Sunday to pit themselves against the ups, downs, ins and outs of the Tugboat Cross. The park was zigzagged with a staked out trail that covered just about every square foot of ground, including legs into the Amphitheatre and along the beach. [LADYSMITH CHRONICLE]

VANCOUVER — Jared McCann scored on the power play in the third period and Jacob Markstrom stopped 32 shots Monday as the Vancouver Canucks shut out the Arizona Coyotes 1-0 in pre-season action.

Making a strong bid to stick with the Canucks out of training camp, McCann took the puck off the wall and fired a low shot past Arizona goalie Mike Smith at 8:34 for his first goal and third point of the exhibition schedule.

McCann and fellow 2014 firstround pick Jake Virtanen were given top-six forward roles for the game as the Canucks get long looks at both players with the regular season set to begin Oct. 7 against the Calgary Flames.

A broken foot suffered by veteran winger Chris Higgins in Vancouver’s first exhibition game means there’s at least one spot open up front.

Virtanen skated alongside Daniel and Henrik Sedin on the Canucks’ first line, while McCann started on the wing with Brandon Sutter and Alexandre Burrows before dropping down the lineup before moving back to his natural centre position.

Scoreless through 40 minutes, the Coyotes had a power play to start the third and Markstrom — tabbed to be Vancouver’s No. 2 goalie behind Ryan Miller after fan favourite Eddie Lack was traded in the off-season — had to be sharp on Tobias Rieder’s quick shot from the slot.

Fans cheer alongside Vancouver Canucks rookie Jared McCann as he celebrates his goal against the Arizona Coyotes during the third period of a preseason NHL game in Vancouver on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Canucks forward Adam Cracknell, who scored in overtime in Vancouver’s first pre-season game, then saw his shot on a 2-on-1 stopped by Smith five minutes into the final period before McCann struck on the power play.

Virtanen and McCann are both 19 years old, meaning that they are too young to play in the AHL and would have to be returned to their junior teams if they don’t make the Canucks’ roster. Virtanen had the bigger impact early, delivering a hit on his

first shift before taking a high-sticking penalty that Vancouver killed off.

Markstrom made a nice pad stop on a deflection by Coyotes forward Shane Doan midway through the first, while Canucks defenceman Dan Hamhuis had a good chance at the other end.

Coyotes forward Martin Hanzel moved in on a breakaway early in the second, but Markstrom made a nice glove save, and Smith snagged a Sven Baertschi effort on a 2-on-1 at the other end five minutes later.

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Youngsters force Canucks to make tough choices Brad Ziemer Vancouver Sun

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illie Desjardins said he wanted to have some difficult decisions to make in the final days of the NHL pre-season and it looks like the Vancouver Canucks coach is getting his wish.

The kids are pushing for jobs, leaving some veterans battling for theirs.

The Canucks headed into the final half of their eight-game pre-season schedule Monday night with four youngsters fighting for NHL work.

Forwards Brendan Gaunce, Jared McCann and Jake Virtanen and defenceman Ben Hutton have all made an impression.

“It’s a lot closer now than when camp started,” Desjardins said before the Canucks faced the Arizona Coyotes at Rogers Arena. “There are lots of guys (pushing). Gaunce has had a real good camp. McCann has had a real good camp, Jake has played pretty good and Hutton has played well. All those guys have definitely stepped up.”

Vancouver Canucks winger Brendan Gaunce, right, tries to score on San Jose Sharks goalie Troy Grosenick in Colwood last week. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

It creates an interesting dilemma for the Canucks. How young do they want to get?

Desjardins insisted there are no easy answers. The questions the Canucks must answer about some of these young players are the same ones Desjardins said he faced as a junior coach in Medicine Hat when it came to deciding whether a 16-yearold was ready for the WHL. “I believed you could make guys a little better by bringing them in as a 16-year-old, but you could also ruin them,” Desjardins said. “Do you take the chance of (making) a

guy a two per cent better player over ruining him. That is the question. I remember having (Kris) Russell and (David) Schlemko as 16-year-olds. I kept Russell, I sent Schlemko home.

Russell turned out to be a real good player and so did Schlemko. I think it depends on the individual.”

Desjardins acknowledged that what Bo Horvat did last season has opened the door a crack for some of the young players at this year’s camp.

“Bo did a great job and it helps young guys coming up after Bo because of how well it turned out for him,” Desjardins said.

That is especially true for McCann and Virtanen, who like Horvat last season are both junior-eligible and cannot be sent to the AHL. Like Horvat did a year ago, McCann has demonstrated a good two-way game and is challenging Linden Vey for the fourth-line centre position. On Monday night, Desjardins played McCann on left wing on a line with veterans Alex Burrows and Brandon Sutter.

“I think he has had a real good camp,” Desjardins said of McCann.

“That’s out of position for him and it’s a tough move when you are a young guy. I want to see if there is any flexibility there with him. Can he play wing if he has to?”

McCann said he’ll play anywhere he’s asked if it helps his chances of avoiding being sent back to his junior team in Sault Ste Marie.

“The coaches are giving me every opportunity to prove myself to them,” McCann said Monday. “So I can’t ask for any more ... I feel like every game is a huge confidence-booster for me. I have been very fortunate they have put me in quite a few games.”

McCann acknowledged he has little experience on the wing.

“I haven’t played much wing, but I should be fine,” he said. “I’ve got a good centreman (Sutter), who will help me out quite a bit.”

Virtanen, meanwhile, was scheduled to skate with the Sedin twins on Monday night.

“He had a pretty good game in Calgary,” Desjardins said of Virtanen.

“He skates well, he can play physical, we had a look at (Alex) Grenier there, we have had a look at a different number of guys there. Like I said at the start, we know what Vrbata can do there, we know what Burrows can do there, we know what Hansen can do there. We don’t have to look at those guys. So it’s a good time to look at other guys.”

Soon, the Canucks will have some decisions to make, which Desjardins acknowledged won’t be easy.

“I talked to (GM) Jim (Benning) the other day and I said we have to really try to put our young guys in a spot where they will develop the most,” Desjardins said. “Will they develop the most with us or will they develop in Utica or will they develop the most in junior. We really have to be aware of where we think they will develop the most because in the end that is the most important thing . . . nobody has the perfect vision on that.”

The Canucks assigned six players to Utica on Monday. They included forwards Cole Cassels, Nicklas Jensen, Alex Friesen, Blair Jones and Ludwig Blomstrand, as well as goalie Joe Cannata.

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Jays edge O’s, inch closer to title

American League East division championship is only a few wins away for Toronto DAVID GINSBURG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BALTIMORE — As they charge toward their first AL East title in 22 years, the Toronto Blue Jays are finding new and interesting ways to win.

A team that has hit 223 home runs used a 60-foot dribbler to beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 Monday night.

Toronto’s fifth straight victory, coupled with the Yankees’ loss to Boston, reduced the Blue Jays’ magic number for securing the division crown to two.

After scoring twice in the eighth to pull even, the Blue Jays got the decisive run against Brad Brach (5-3) in the ninth. Dioner Navarro led off with a single and was replaced by pinch-runner Dalton Pompey, who advanced on a single. After a sacrifice moved the runners up, Pompey scored when Justin Smoak hit a slow roller to first and Chris Davis threw wildly to the plate.

“I hit it off my thumbs,” Smoak said. “Looking for a changeup, got a heater. That can happen.”

The Blue Jays did get a home run — from Edwin Encarnacion — but that wasn’t much of a factor in the Blue Jays’ 35th comeback victory of the year.

“We can win any way possible,” Smoak said. “This team is unbelievable. Guys fight to the end.”

Brett Cecil (5-5) pitched one inning and Roberto Osuna got two outs for this 20th save.

Ryan Flaherty hit a three-run homer for the Orioles, who have lost

Toronto Blue Jays Kevin Pillar, left, and Dalton Pompey walk to the dugout after Pompey was safe at the plate for the go ahead run against the Baltimore Orioles in the ninth inning of an MLB game on Monday in Baltimore. [AP PHOTO]

four straight. Toronto starter Marco Estrada, Cecil and Osuna retired the last 17 Baltimore batters in order.

“Part of that is you have to credit the other guy who is on the mound,” Baltimore’s Matt Wieters said. “We’ve had some tough pitchers. Estrada was really pounding the zone. Anytime he wanted to throw a strike, he threw a strike.”

Estrada gave up three runs and four hits in 7 1-3 innings. After allowing Flaherty’s home run in the second,

Estrada retired 18 of the next 19 batters. The only Baltimore baserunner during that span was Wieters, who singled with one out in the fourth.

Down 3-1, the Blue Jays rallied in the eighth against Chris Tillman and All-Star reliever Darren O’Day. Ryan Goins led off with a single and advanced on a groundout before O’Day entered and gave up RBI singles to Ben Revere and Jose Bautista.

The uprising, which didn’t feature a hard-hit ball, was an appropriate

prelude to the ninth.

“We felt good with Darren going in there,” Wieters said. “He had a couple of ground balls that shot through the infield that could have easily have been an inning-ending double play. But they found holes.”

The comeback came after Tillman took a four-hitter into the eighth.

“Tip my hat to my guys,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “They hung around and made a run at it late.”

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Mariners find new GM in Jerry Dipoto TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE — Jerry Dipoto was not out of work for long, jumping at the chance to take over as general manager of another AL West franchise.

Dipoto was hired by the Seattle Mariners on Monday, less than three months after stepping down from the same position with the Los Angeles Angels.

He replaces Jack Zduriencik, who was fired in late August after seven disappointing seasons during which the club failed to end its playoff drought. With the Toronto Blue Jays making the post-season this year, the Mariners now have the longest playoff absence in baseball at 14 years and counting.

“Jerry impressed us at each step of the process,” Mariners team President Kevin Mather said in a statement. “He has a very unique skill set, having been a successful player in the majors, then moving into front offices with steadily increasing responsibilities.”

Dipoto’s job will be to end that playoff drought and continue rebuilding a farm system that had highs and lows during Zduriencik’s tenure.

Dipoto was the Angels’ general manager for 3 1/2 years before resigning on July 1 following clashes with manager Mike Scioscia that began the first year they worked together. He’s been working as a consultant for the Boston Red Sox since mid-August. Dipoto will be formally introduced at a news conference on Tuesday.

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Seahawks look ‘cured’ after easy win over Chicago Bears “It’s not smooth yet, it’s now how we want it to be, but it’s a work in progress and we know we have a lot of plays we can get and playmakers out there.”

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SEATTLE — The perfect cure for the Seattle Seahawks’ woes from the first two weeks proved to be the undermanned Chicago Bears.

Even if it took the Seahawks one half to get started.

“It’s not smooth yet, it’s not how we want it to be, but it’s a work in progress, and we know we have a lot of plays we can get and playmakers out there,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.

The Seahawks did what was expected by rolling past the Bears 26-0 on Sunday. The two-time defending NFC champions finally got to come home to their noisy confines and for the first time this season were whole after the return of strong safety Kam Chancellor following a holdout that extended nearly eight weeks.

But it was a newcomer that made the biggest impact. Tyler Lockett was drafted because of his skill as a kick and punt returner. He showed the punt return skills in Week 1, taking a kick back 57 yards for Seattle’s first touchdown of the season.

And he did it again against the Bears, this time on a kickoff return.

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Lockett fielded the second-half kickoff and returned it 105 yards for a TD, the longest return in franchise history. After a sleepy first half, the Seahawks were sparked by Lockett’s return and dominated the final two quarters.

“I just think that we played with a sense of urgency,” Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson said.

Chicago is 0-3 for the first time since 2003 and was shut out for the first time since 2002. The Bears avoided risk with backup Jimmy Clausen starting in place of Jay Cutler (hamstring) and Chicago’s best wide receiver, Alshon Jeffrey (hamstring), also out. That meant short,

safe throws and a meagre offensive performance.

With sacks included, the Bears finished with 48 net yards passing, the second time since 1990 they finished with fewer than 50 net yards through the air.

Chicago punted on all 10 of its possessions. Matt Forte was held to 74 yards on 20 carries, and the Bears finished with just 37 yards in the second half.

Only one Chicago drive finished in Seattle territory, and the Bears ran just three plays on the Seahawks’ half of the field.

“We just couldn’t generate anything,” Chicago coach John Fox said.

Here’s what else stood out from the

Seahawks’ victory: INJURY CONCERNS: Seattle left the win with two injury concerns.

Running back Marshawn Lynch capped a strange day by leaving at halftime with a hamstring injury.

Lynch finished with 14 yards on five carries and spent half of the first quarter in the locker room. Carroll said Lynch could not get loose before the game, but the hamstring was checked and “it’s nothing to be alarmed by.”

Starting defensive tackle Brandon Mebane also suffered a groin injury in the first quarter and did not return.

CLAUSEN CONCERN: Clausen knows if he’s the starter for a few more games the offence has to be more efficient. Clausen was 9 of 17 for 63 yards passing, and while he didn’t commit any turnovers, the Bears also didn’t run a play beyond the Seattle 45.

BACKUP BEAST: A revelation for the Seahawks could be backup running back Thomas Rawls. With Lynch out, Rawls carried the load in the second half, rushing for 98 of his

104 yards after halftime and averaging 6.5 yards per carry. He became the first Seattle running back other than Lynch to top 100 yards since Robert Turbin in 2012.

Rawls was an undrafted rookie out of Central Michigan and had two carries prior to Sunday.

UNDER PRESSURE: The bright spot for Chicago was the pressure it was able to get on Wilson. After going without a sack for two games, the Bears sacked Wilson four times.

Jarvis Jenkins and Pernell McPhee both had two.

RETURN TO SENDER: Lockett didn’t have the only memorable return for the Seahawks.

In the first half, Seattle used a bit of trickery.

Running the same misdirected punt return that St. Louis used against them last season for a touchdown, the Seahawks caught Chicago napping. Instead of Lockett catching the punt near the Chicago sideline, it was Richard Sherman catching it on the sideline in front of the Seattle bench and returning it 64 yards to set up Steven Hauschka’s first field goal.

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Leafs radio broadcasts will be called from studio

The Maple Leafs’ radio broadcast crew may call all 82 games from Toronto this season after the NHL club changed a travel policy over the summer.

Longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Bowen and analyst Jim Ralph call the games for all-sports radio stations Sportsnet 590 The Fan and TSN Radio 1050, who split the coverage in the market. Bowen and Ralph will staff all 41 home games at Air Canada Centre but will not be taking the team charter to the 41 road games.

“We can confirm that we had a change in policy this season in that team charters will be for the team and that there will be no members of the media or our broadcast crew accompanying us on flights,” Maple Leafs media relations director Steve Keogh said in an email.

A Toronto sports media blogger tweeted Sunday that the team was not willing to pay for travel costs, and a story link said the radio crew would call road games from a Toronto studio while watching on television.

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Bennett happy to be in Toronto Former No. 1 draft pick back in his home country with hopes to rejuvenate career NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

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laying for Canada put Anthony Bennett back on track. Now he hopes playing in Canada will keep the good vibe going.

The six-foot-eight 245-pounder spent the summer on national team duty, first at home for the Pan American Games and then in Mexico City at the FIBA Americas Olympic qualifying tournament.

Now Bennett is looking for a fresh start as a Raptor, a homegrown part of We The North.

“Definitely fun now. I feel Team Canada, I was just playing with a bunch of guys that I grew up with,” Bennett said Monday. “I feel like this will have a positive effect too . . .

It’s pretty nice to represent Toronto, finally, here at home in front of family and friends,” he added. “(It’s a) pretty exciting feeling.”

Like Bennett, the Raptors believe Toronto could be the right fit although Bennett will have to play his way up the ladder.

“This is an opportunity. This is a good place for him,” said coach Dwane Casey. “He’s home, he should feel comfortable.”

“He’s a super young man and a young talent,” he added. “He’s only 22 years old and it was a good situation for us to bring him back. Not only because he’s Canadian, because

Anthony Bennett of the Toronto Raptors poses during the the team’s media day in Toronto on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

he’s a very talented young man who needs a good opportunity.”

Added GM Masai Ujiri: “He’s going to have to work, but I think he’s up for the challenge.”

Bennett, taken first overall by Cleveland in the 2013 NBA draft, credits his time with the national team for making basketball fun again.

After stints with the Cavaliers and

Minnesota, he hopes playing in his home town will be more of the same.

“It’s been something I’ve been thinking about growing up, watching Vince Carter play,” he said. “Now I’m back here now. (It’s) surreal but at the same time it’s work. I’m just ready to go all out.”

He battled injuries in both his rookie season with the Cavaliers, and second season with the Minne-

sota Timberwolves, where he landed along with fellow Canadian Andrew Wiggins in the Kevin Love deal.

Bennett averaged 5.2 points and 3.8 rebounds in 57 games for the Timberwolves last season.

“Honestly I feel like Team Canada helped me out a whole lot,” he said.

“Just playing, the confidence, healthy again. Just going out there and playing with a clear mind — I feel like that is what I need to get back to.”

Bennett enjoyed both playing for his country and standing shoulder to shoulder with friends.

He says basketball has always been fun. But it has come with expectations and much scrutiny, given his draft position.

“I don’t need to prove anything,” he said. “Just go out there, just play.

“Once I feel like I think about proving people (wrong), that’s when the game becomes complicated.

“So I’ve just got to keep it as simple as I can.”

Bennett joins fellow Canadian Cory Joseph on the Raptors.

“It’s a great addition,” Joseph said of Bennett. “Obviously one of my good friends.

“I feel like he’s a hard worker, Canada saw how well he did this summer. I feel like there’s a new beginning here. I feel like he’ll do great for us, for the city, for the country. I feel like he’ll revive his NBA career.

“It’s great for him, great for us.”

Phil Jackson doubts this is Kobe Bryant’s final season — though thinks it may be Bryant’s last in Los Angeles.

With Bryant going into the last season of his contract and coming off a couple of injury-shortened seasons, his future will be among the biggest questions around the NBA this season.

“I don’t think it’s his last year,” Jackson said Friday.

“Sounds like it may be his last year as a Laker, but I think that’s kind of what came out of there.”

Spectacular season for Spieth not over yet

◆ MLB

DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nats suspend Papelbon after fight with Harper

ATLANTA — Jordan Spieth took possession of his final two trophies on the deck of a hospitality chalet that overlooked the 18th green at East Lake. He turned to raise them to a crowd gathered below, and camera flashes under a gloomy sky made it feel like a rock concert.

Before long, he could hear the steady chant of “Jordan! Jordan!” from kids next to the clubhouse wanting his autograph.

The majors over, this was all he cared about. A victory in the Tour Championship meant his name on the FedEx Cup trophy, a $10 million bonus, a sweep of all the important awards and no argument on who was the best in golf this year.

“This one,” he said, “I cannot wait to celebrate.”

Make it quick.

The new PGA Tour season for some players begins in 17 days in California, and for Spieth in about six weeks in Shanghai.

He found out during the FedEx Cup playoffs, which he began by missing back-to-back cuts for the first time in his young career, that being billed as the next great thing only lasts until someone else does something better.

Spieth won the Masters and U.S.

Washington Nationals closer Jonathan Papelbon will miss the rest of the season after his dugout fight with teammate Bryce Harper — four games because of a team suspension for that episode and three games because he dropped his appeal of a Major League Baseball ban for throwing at an opponent’s head last week.

Nationals manager Matt Williams said Harper, a leading NL MVP contender, was held out of the starting lineup for Monday’s home finale against Cincinnati for “his part in the altercation” with Papelbon on Sunday.

Harper, though, said after Sunday’s game that he was scheduled to be off Monday.

◆ NHL

Senators sign Fraser to one-year, two-way deal The Ottawa Senators have signed defenceman Mark Fraser to a one-year, two-way contract.

The deal will carry an annual value of $800,000 in the National Hockey League and $125,000 in the American Hockey League.

GOLF

“I don’t know how we sit down and try to improve on it, but we’re going to try. “ Jordan Spieth

Open, the first time someone won back-to-back majors since, well, last year. Rory McIlroy won the British Open and the PGA Championship, with a World Golf Championship in between. Spieth set a PGA Tour record with just over $12 million in earnings, which comes out to $481,218 for each of the 25 tournaments he played. McIlroy, who splits time between the PGA Tour and European Tour, averaged $487,064 in his 17 tour starts last year.

Absolutely, Spieth needs to celebrate a season that was off the charts in so many ways.

But it doesn’t get any easier from here. The reason some players, such as Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler, wanted to wait until the end of the Tour Championship before deciding on PGA Tour player of the year was because of Jason Day. Had he won at East Lake, that would have given Day six wins this year, including a major and three FedEx Cup playoff events against

strong fields. So the way Spieth closed out the season was important on more than just 10 million levels.

Still, it was another reminder not only that Spieth’s season was incredible, but that it will require no less work, no less magic, to do it again.

Not since 1973, with Jack Nicklaus (seven wins) and Tom Weiskopf (five), have two players won at least five PGA Tour events in one season.

Spieth, Day and McIlroy are in a close race for No. 1, and they are just as close in Las Vegas. The Westgate Las Vegas Superbook lists Spieth at 6-1 to win the Masters next year, followed by McIlroy and Day at 7-1. The next best odds fall to Dustin Johnson and Watson at 15-1.

So what does he do for an encore?

“I don’t know how we sit down and try to improve on it, but we’re going to try,” Spieth said.

Spieth became only the 19th player in 120 years to win multiple majors in one season.

Seven players did it more than once, with Nicklaus (five times) and Tiger Woods (four times) leading the way. But only eight players have followed a year of multiple majors by even winning one major. There are no flukes on that list — Woods (three times), Nicklaus (twice), Gene Sarazen (twice), Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Lee

Trevino and Tom Watson.

Expectations will be higher than ever, and maybe they should be.

It’s worth remembering that at this time a year ago, Spieth had one professional victory and had dropped out of contention from the final group at the Masters and The Players Championship. He lost an early lead in his singles match against Graeme McDowell in the Ryder Cup. What doesn’t get enough attention is the way he won the Australian Open late last year, closing with one of the best rounds he ever played.

What also doesn’t get enough attention are two tournaments he lost.

Jimmy Walker should have been able to soak up an easy victory at the Valero Texan Open this year, except that he had to birdie two holes and save par with another putt down the stretch because Spieth ran off four straight birdies. The other was the British Open, where Spieth handled the enormous weight of going for the Grand Slam by missing a playoff by one shot.

He has the Presidents Cup next week, and the HSBC Champions might be little more than a victory lap for a year he won’t forget. He has title defences in Australia and the Bahamas late in the year. And then he gets to start all over.

This leisure sport can be hard work.

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24 SPORTS AMERICAN LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

EAST DIVISION x-Toronto New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay

EAST DIVISION W 91 86 76 76 75

L 65 70 80 80 81

Pct .583 .551 .487 .487 .481

GB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 5 15 15 16

WCGB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 6 6 7

L10 7-3 6-4 4-6 7-3 5-5

Str W-5 L-1 L-4 W-4 L-3

Home 53-28 44-34 42-30 43-38 37-41

Away 38-37 42-36 34-50 33-42 38-40

CENTRAL DIVISION

y-Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit

y-New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia

W 89 80 69 62 59

L 67 76 87 94 97

Pct .571 .513 .442 .397 .378

GB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 9 20 27 30

WCGB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 11 22 29 32

L10 6-4 5-5 6-4 5-5 3-7

Str W-4 W-1 W-5 L-3 W-1

Home 48-30 46-35 41-40 37-38 33-42

Away 41-37 34-41 28-47 25-56 26-55

CENTRAL DIVISION W 90 81 77 73 72

L 66 75 78 83 83

Pct .577 .519 .497 .468 .465

GB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 9 121/2 17 171/2

WCGB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 1 41/2 9 91/2

L10 4-6 6-4 5-5 4-6 5-5

Str L-1 W-3 L-2 L-2 L-2

Home 51-30 46-32 35-39 37-38 38-43

Away 39-36 35-43 42-39 36-45 34-40

WEST DIVISION

Texas Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

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x-St. Louis x-Pittsburgh x-Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

W 99 95 91 66 63

L 58 62 65 90 93

Pct .631 .605 .583 .423 .404

GB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 4 71/2 321/2 351/2

WCGB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 25 28

L10 7-3 8-2 6-4 4-6 1-9

Str W-1 L-2 W-2 W-1 L-9

Home 55-26 50-26 49-32 34-44 34-44

Away 44-32 45-36 42-33 32-46 29-49

W 87 81 75 73 66

L 68 74 81 83 90

Pct .561 .523 .481 .468 .423

GB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 6 121/2 141/2 211/2

WCGB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 91/2 16 18 25

L10 3-7 5-5 6-4 5-5 5-5

Str L-3 W-2 W-1 L-1 W-3

Home 52-26 44-30 35-40 38-40 36-45

Away 35-42 37-44 40-41 35-43 30-45

WEST DIVISION W 84 82 81 74 65

L 71 74 74 82 91

Pct .542 .526 .523 .474 .417

GB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 21/2 3 101/2 191/2

WCGB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 1 /2 8 17

L10 6-4 5-5 8-2 4-6 3-7

Str L-2 W-2 W-5 L-5 L-2

Home 39-35 53-28 47-31 34-41 34-47

Away 45-36 29-46 34-43 40-41 31-44

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOWV 7RURQWR Baltimore 3 Boston 5 N.Y. Yankees 1 Minnesota 4 Cleveland 2 Detroit 7 Texas 4 Oakland at L.A. Angels Houston at Seattle 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV 7RURQWR Tampa Bay 4 Minnesota 7 Detroit 1 San Francisco 5 Oakland 4 L.A. Angels 3 Seattle 2 Houston 4 Texas 2 Kansas City 3 Cleveland 0 N.Y. Yankees 6 Chicago White Sox 1 Boston 2 Baltimore 0 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV Boston (Porcello 8-14) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 12-8), 7:05 p.m.

7RURQWR 6WURPDQ at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 9-11), 7:05 p.m.

Miami (Conley 4-1) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 2-4), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 10-11) at Cleveland (Co.Anderson 6-3), 7:10 p.m.

Detroit (Da.Norris 2-2) at Texas (Hamels 5-1), 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Cueto 3-6) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 10-13), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 1-7) at L.A. Angels (Tropeano 2-2), 10:05 p.m.

Houston (Fiers 2-1) at Seattle (Nuno 1-4), 10:10 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.

7RURQWR at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Miami at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.

Detroit at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Chi. White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

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%DOWLPRUH $% 5 + %, %% 62 $YJ G.Parra cf-rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .215 M.Machado 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .286 C.Davis 1b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .256 Pearce lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .218 b-Paredes ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .276 Clevenger dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 .291 Wieters c 3 1 2 0 0 0 .256 Schoop 2b 3 1 1 0 0 0 .275 Flaherty rf 3 1 1 3 0 1 .215 Lough cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .202 J.Hardy ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .213 7RWDOV

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a-grounded out for Kawasaki in the 8th. b-struck out for Pearce in the 9th.

1-ran for D.Navarro in the 9th.

LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Toronto 6, Baltimore 2. HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Encarnacion (36), off Tillman; Flaherty (9), off Estrada. RBIsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Revere (17), Bautista (111), Encarnacion (106), Smoak (57), Flaherty 3 (31). Sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Goins.

Runners left in scoring positionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tor 2 (Colabello, Revere). RISPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tor 2 for 5; Balt 1 for 1. Runners moved upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Smoak.

GIDPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Encarnacion.

DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Balt 1 (Schoop, J.Hardy, C.Davis).

7RURQWR ,3 + 5 (5 %% 62 13 (5$ Estrada 71/3 4 3 3 1 2 82 3.15 Cecil W, 5-5 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 2.55 Osuna S, 20-22 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 7 2.36 %DOWLPRUH ,3 + 5 (5 %% 62 13 (5$ Tillman 71/3 5 2 2 1 3 104 5.05 2¡'D\ %6 2/3 3 1 1 1 1 20 1.57 Brach L, 5-3 1 2 1 1 0 0 15 2.44

,QKHULWHG UXQQHUV VFRUHGÂł2¡'D\ Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:36. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;19,093 (45,971).

A.L. LEADERS RUNS SCORED 'RQDOGVRQ 7RU %DXWLVWD 7RU Dozier, Min, 101; Trout, LA, 99.

RUNS BATTED IN 'RQDOGVRQ 7RU %DXWLVWD 7RU Davis, Bal, 110; (QFDUQDFLRQ 7RU

SLUGGING PERCENTAGE Trout, LA, .585; 'RQDOGVRQ 7RU Cruz, Sea, .575; Davis, Bal, .543; Ortiz, Bos, .542; (QFDUQDFLRQ 7RU %DXWLVWD 7RU .

HOME RUNS

Davis, Bal, 43; Cruz, Sea, 43; 'RQDOG VRQ 7RU Trout, LA, 40; %DXWLVWD 7RU Pujols, LA, 37; J.Martinez, Det, 37; Ortiz, Bos, 36; (QFDUQDFLRQ 7RU .

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BATTERS Hague Barney Colabello Revere Travis Donaldson Carrera Encarnacion Pillar Bautista Navarro Goins Martin Smoak Tulowitzki Thole Saunders Kawasaki Pompey Pennington PITCHERS Stroman Lowe Osuna Hawkins Price Hendriks Cecil Tepera Estrada Sanchez Schultz Buehrle Dickey Delabar Jenkins Loup Hutchison Francis

AB R H HR RBI AVG 5 1 2 0 0 .400 9 0 3 0 0 .333 311 51 100 14 53 .322 202 33 64 1 16 .317 217 38 66 8 35 .304 599 121 179 41 122 .299 163 27 45 3 24 .276 510 88 139 35 105 .273 565 74 153 12 54 .271 527 106 132 39 110 .250 165 17 41 5 20 .248 355 47 86 5 42 .242 429 72 102 22 74 .238 284 43 66 17 56 .232 155 30 36 5 17 .232 41 5 9 0 2 .220 31 2 6 0 3 .194 21 5 4 0 1 .190 85 14 16 2 6 .188 67 8 11 2 11 .164 W L SV IP SO ERA 3 0 0 19.0 10 1.89 1 3 1 54.1 60 1.99 1 5 19 68.0 72 2.38 1 0 1 15.0 12 2.40 18 5 0 220.1 225 2.45 5 0 0 64.0 71 2.53 4 5 5 52.0 65 2.60 0 1 1 30.1 21 2.67 13 8 0 167.0 120 3.13 7 6 0 89.2 57 3.31 0 1 1 41.2 31 3.46 14 7 0 191.1 88 3.76 11 11 0 209.1 123 4.00 2 0 1 28.1 30 4.45 0 0 0 2.0 2 4.50 2 5 0 40.0 44 4.73 13 4 0 147.0 127 5.33 1 2 0 18.1 18 6.87

0RQGD\ V JDPH QRW LQFOXGHG

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%RVWRQ $% 5 + %, %% 62 $YJ Betts cf 5 0 2 0 0 1 .292 Pedroia 2b 4 0 0 0 1 0 .294 Bogaerts ss 4 1 2 0 0 1 .325 T.Shaw 1b 4 1 3 2 0 1 .280 B.Holt rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .282 Craig dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .135 Swihart c 4 1 1 0 0 1 .269 Marrero 3b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .286 Bradley Jr. lf 2 1 1 2 2 0 .254 7RWDOV

1HZ <RUN $% 5 + %, %% 62 $YJ Ellsbury cf 4 1 1 0 1 0 .262 Gardner lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .260 A.Rodriguez dh 3 0 1 1 0 1 .252 Beltran rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .275 Headley 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .263 Bird 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .250 J.Murphy c 4 0 2 0 0 1 .286 Gregorius ss 3 0 0 0 1 0 .266 Refsnyder 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .259 7RWDOV

%RVWRQ Âł 1HZ <RUN Âł %RVWRQ ,3 + 5 (5 %% 62 13 (5$ E.Rdrigz W, 10-6 6 7 1 1 1 5 97 3.85 1 /3 1 0 0 0 0 7 3.52 Hembree H, 1 No.Ramirez H, 4 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 3 4.15 M.Barnes H, 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 16 5.53 Ross Jr. 1 1 0 0 1 1 23 3.92 1HZ <RUN ,3 + 5 (5 %% 62 13 (5$ Nova L, 6-10 7 7 4 4 2 7 92 4.89 1 /3 1 0 0 0 0 7 5.87 A.Bailey 2 /3 0 0 0 0 2 8 7.81 Capuano 2 Cotham /3 1 1 1 0 0 10 6.00 Pazos 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 0.00 1 /3 1 0 0 0 0 4 4.02 Rumbelow

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:56. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;39,476 (49,638).

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

xâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched playoff berth; y â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched division.

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOWV St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 0 Chicago Cubs 1 Kansas City 0 (11 inn.)

Washington 5 Cincinnati 1 L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Colorado 12 L.A. Dodgers 5 Chicago Cubs 4 Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 12 Washington 5 Miami 9 Atlanta 5 Arizona 4 San Diego 2 Milwaukee 8 St. Louis 4 N.Y. Mets 8 Cincinnati 1 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 14-12) at Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 2-9), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 17-6) at Pittsburgh (Morton 9-8), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Haren 9-9) at Cincinnati (Jos.Smith 0-2), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Roark 4-6) at Atlanta (Wisler 6-8), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Bergman 3-1) at Arizona (Ray 5-12), 9:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Jo.Lopez 0-0) at San Diego (T.Ross 10-11), 10:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 15-7) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 18-8), 10:15 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

LA Dodgers at San Francisco, 10:15 pm.

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INTERLEAGUE

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3LWWVEXUJK $% 5 G.Polanco rf 5 0 J.Harrison 3b 5 0 McCutchen cf 3 0 S.Marte lf 4 0 N.Walker 2b 4 0 Cervelli c 4 0 P.Alvarez 1b 1 0 S.Rodriguez 1b 0 0 Ar.Ramirez ph 1 0 Mercer ss 4 0 Happ p 2 0 Morse ph 0 0 J.Decker pr 0 0 Soria p 0 0 Watson p 0 0 Snider ph 0 0 K.Broxton pr 0 0 Melancon p 0 0 7RWDOV

6W /RXLV

3LWWVEXUJK

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&KLFDJR $% 5 + %, %% 62 $YJ Fowler cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .248 Cahill p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 A.Jackson cf-rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .193 Coghlan lf-1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .248 Bryant 1b-cf-rf-3b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .281 La Stella 3b-2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .254 St.Castro 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .264 Berry pr-cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 M.Montero c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .244 Soler rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .264 Richard p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 H.Rondon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Strop p 0 0 0 0 0 0 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rodney p 0 0 0 0 0 0 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;'HQRUĂ&#x20AC;D SK

A.Russell ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .237 Hendricks p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .051 Schwarber ph-lf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .241 7RWDOV

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No outs when winning run scored.

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Runners left in scoring positionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City 2 (Moustakas, Rios); Chicago 1 (St. Castro). RISPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City 0 for 3; Chicago 0 for 2.

GIDPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.Perez, La Stella.

DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City 1 (Zobrist, A.Escobar, Hosmer); Chicago 1 (St.Castro, A.Russell, Coghlan). .DQVDV &LW\ ,3 + 5 (5 %% 62 13 (5$ Ventura 7 2 0 0 1 6 94 4.20 K.Herrera 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 2.66 Hochevar 1 0 0 0 0 1 16 3.38 Madson 1 1 0 0 0 3 14 2.20 M.Almonte L, 0-2 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 6.23 &KLFDJR ,3 + 5 (5 %% 62 13 (5$ Hendricks 6 2 0 0 2 9 90 4.09 Cahill 2 1 0 0 0 3 22 5.40 1 /3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3.83 Richard 2 /3 1 0 0 0 0 7 1.72 H.Rondon Strop 1 0 0 0 1 1 20 3.00 Rodney W, 2-0 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 0.87

M.Almonte pitched to 1 batter in the 11th.

Umpiresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Home, Phil Cuzzi; First, Tony Randazzo; Second, Gerry Davis; Third, Rob Drake.

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:49. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;40,552 (40,929).

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Eâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jh.Peralta (7), G.Polanco (8).

LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 16. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;G. Polanco (32), N.Walker (32). HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mar. Reynolds (13), off Melancon. RBIsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mar. Reynolds 2 (48). SBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;McCutchen (11).

Runners left in scoring positionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;St. Louis 1 (Jh.Peralta); Pittsburgh 7 (N.Walker 2, G.Polanco 2, P.Alvarez 2, Ar.Ramirez).

RISPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;St. Louis 2 for 3; Pitt 0 for 12.

Runners moved upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Holliday. GIDPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;T. Cruz.

DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;St. Louis 1 (Heyward, Heyward, T.Cruz); Pittsburgh 2 (J.Harrison, N.Walker, P.Alvarez), (G.Polanco, S.Rodriguez).

6W /RXLV ,3 + 5 (5 %% 62 13 (5$ Lynn 5 4 0 0 4 6 96 3.06 2 /3 0 0 0 3 1 24 3.54 Cishek 1 Maness /3 0 0 0 0 0 3 4.33 Siegrist 1 1 0 0 1 0 30 2.11 J.Broxton W, 4-5 1 0 0 0 1 0 12 4.53 Rosnthl S, 48-51 1 1 0 0 1 1 25 2.10 3LWWVEXUJK ,3 + 5 (5 %% 62 13 (5$ Happ 6 1 0 0 0 4 56 2.04 Soria 1 1 0 0 1 2 20 2.19 Watson 1 1 0 0 0 1 12 1.96 Melancon L, 3-2 1 3 3 3 0 2 17 2.29

Inherited runners-scoredâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Maness 3-0.

IBBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;off Lynn (P.Alvarez).

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;3:34. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;30,198 (38,362).

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

FOOTBALL

NHL

SOCCER

CFL

PRE-SEASON

MLS

EAST DIVISION

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOWV N.Y. Rangers 3 Philadelphia 2 (OT) Washington 3 N.Y. Islanders 1 Detroit 3 Boston 1 Montreal 4 Pittsburgh 1 Vancouver 1 Arizona 0 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Los Angeles 2 Colorado 1 (SO) Carolina 2 Ottawa 1 Minnesota 8 Winnipeg 1 Florida 4 Dallas 2 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV Toronto at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Ottawa at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Arizona at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Washington at Carolina, 7 p.m.

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Rogers throws five TDs as Packers beat Chiefs 38-28 GENARO C. ARMAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GREEN BAY, Wis. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Aaron Rodgers dissected another defence on a national stage, building a big enough cushion for the Green Bay Packers to overcome a late rush by Jamaal Charles and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Rodgers threw for 333 yards and five touchdowns, including three to Randall Cobb, and Green Bay beat Kansas City 38-28 on Monday night.

Rodgers led the Packers (3-0) on two successful first-quarter drives that ended with scoring passes to Cobb and rookie Ty Montgomery.

He found James Jones for a 27-yard touchdown reception late in the second quarter for a 17-point lead at the break. Charles rushed for three touchdowns for Kansas City (1-2), which followed its stunning, lastminute loss at home to Denver with a respectable fourth-quarter effort at

raucous Lambeau Field.

Charlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; seven-yard TD with 1:25 left got the Chiefs within 10. But the end result was the same for Kansas City, which lost its second straight.

Rodgers was 24 of 35 in another masterful performance for the MVP quarterback. The Packers controlled the line of scrimmage when it counted and got to Alex Smith for seven sacks. Smith finished 24 of 40 for 290 yards and a touchdown.

Under pressure near his own end zone, Smith also threw an interception to Sam Shields at the Chiefs 19 with about seven minutes left in the third quarter. Shields returned it 15 yards, and on the next play, Rodgers found Cobb for a 4-yard touchdown and a 31-7 lead. Rodgers and Cobb hooked up for another fouryard scoring pass in the fourth. With the score, Rodgers set the franchise record with his fourth career game of

at least five touchdown passes. Kansas City stopped its long streak of no touchdown receptions by a receiver when Jeremy Maclin hauled in a fiveyard TD pass with 56 seconds left in the third quarter to get the Chiefs within 31-14.

It was the first touchdown pass caught by a receiver since Donnie Avery had a 79-yard catch-and-run against the Indianapolis Colts in a wild card game on Jan. 4, 2014.

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25 One playing a part 28 Stats for a QB 31 Walks through mud 35 Front of the lower leg 36 Son of a king 38 Tennis court divider 39 Whatever the weather 42 Metal-bearing rock 43 Aorta, for one 44 Land measure 45 Quizzes 47 Poet’s “before” 48 Evil smile 49 Military missions, for short 51 Feeling blue 52 Fan of secret-plot theories 60 Identical 61 __ acid (protein component) 62 Whitish gemstone 63 Above 64 Guiding principle 65 Seep 66 Camera part 67 Trapshooting sport 68 Was sure about

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THURSDAY, OCT. 1

FRIDAY, OCT. 2

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ladysmith Fall Farmer Market, at 49th Parallel Grocery.

7 p.m. Burn‘N’Mahn performs Dueling Pianos at the Queens Hotel. Tickets $20 plus surcharge at the Queen’s and Port Theatre.

Doors open 6:30.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Vancouver Island University Nanaimo campus open house, Learn about all the programs, events and activities. For information: viu.ca/openhouse. 900 Fifth St. Complimentary parking.

10 a.m. to noon My First Museum Visit.

I-Spy game petroglyph rubbings. Program is drop-in; caregivers must be present. Activities geared to children 3-4 – younger or older siblings welcome. Preregistration is not required and cost is included in regular admission.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30 6-7 p.m. Glen Foster at Lighthouse Bistro Pub

7-9 p.m. Fermentation information session — learn more this October with Stir Cooking School at Costin Hall in Lantzville. $15.

7:30 p.m. Naden Band in concert at the Port Theatre. Tickets $18, call 250-754-8550.

8 p.m. Ali Prince, David Bitonti 8 p.m. live at the Longwood.

Noon-4 p.m. Free clothing givewaway, new hours at Nanaimo Alliance Church, 1609 Meredith Rd. Also on Saturday, 12-3 p.m.

1 p.m. Central Vancouver Island Orchid Society demonstration. Park of weekend-long orchid show. Details at nanaimonorth.com.

Nanaimo North Town Centre, 4750 Rutherford Rd. Runs through Sunday.

Noon-4 p.m. Bastion Waterfront Farmers Market moves to fall hours. Fresh produce, crafts, wine tasting, live music. Next to the Bastion 7-11 p.m. Dave Hart performs Smoke‘n’ Water Restaurant, at Pacific Shores, Nanoose Bay. Southern barbecue and seafood with complimentary wine/beer tastings. No Cover charge, but reserve early 250-468-7192 8 p.m. Fast Romantics with special guests at The Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cres. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 door at The Queens or at ticketzone.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 3 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Drop-offs of wood, brush and yard waste accepted by donation to Nanaimo Child Development Centre, at Pacific Coast Waste Management. Follow signs from Biggs-Jingle Pot Junction past Brannen Lake Campsite to Biggs Pit Road.

9 a.m. The Bastion City Wanderers Volkssport Club invites you to a 6-km or 11-km walk on Harewood Plains. Meet under the power lines on Harewood Mines Road at the Trans Canada Trail sign. Registration starts at 8:45 a.m. For more information, call Ethel at 250-756-9796.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Focus on completion. A money matter could arise from out of the blue and force you to adjust your plans at the last minute. You will be driven to resolve the issue, but you might not have all the facts. Start making inquiries. Tonight: Be conservative with your spending.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Postpone discussions until midafternoon, when you’ll have more of an edge and your creativity is likely to soar. You could make a decision that you originally had not anticipated. Be flexible, and avoid getting stuck in an uncomfortable situation. Tonight: Ever playful.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You could be in a position where you feel as if you simply can’t win. No matter which way you turn, liabilities appear. Rather than act, decide to hold off and see what comes up.

You could be surprised by what occurs if you do. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You will take the lead, even if it means taking on more responsibility.

Observe others’ reactions, and you will see how they feel about this. Be willing to flex and seek out others.

Schedule a doctor’s appointment.

Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Open up to new possibilities that surround a situation you have been fussing over. Take charge, but be careful how much time you spend resolving the issue. You might be resist-

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ant to do what is really needed here. If this is the case, be honest about it. Tonight: As you like it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Keep reaching out to someone at a distance. Be careful with your tone and word choice. You could be more assertive or irritated than you realize. Know that this attitude will work against you. Use your high energy to make a big difference.

Tonight: Ask for feedback.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Defer to others. You might opt to be a recluse and say little for now. Do what you do well and stay out of others’ gossip. The more distance you keep, the better off you will be.

Your imagination will take you to a new level of productivity. Tonight: Catch some zzz’s.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You will be sorry if you are not careful in your financial dealings with others.

It might seem as though someone is on a tear and is unable to be stopped. You might have to join this person in order to stop him or her. Tonight: Hang out with friends and family.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You could be in the position of having to do something differently, but you might not feel as if you want to take the risk. Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. Be willing to drop a defensive stance, and the situation will transform. Tonight: Choose a relaxing activity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Someone will want to distract you, so you’ll have to decide what to do about this person’s intrusion.

Some of you might decide to go off and join him or her, while others

will opt to keep their distance.

Know the ramifications involved in both choices. Tonight: Where the party is!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Be You could be sorry that you got into a situation that seems to be pushing you in a direction you would prefer not to go. You might need to be a bit more stubborn and put your foot down. Be prepared, as you are likely to receive unexpected reactions. Tonight: Mosey on home.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Keep conversations moving, but don’t get in the way of someone else’s stream of consciousness. You will want to know what is being shared by another party. Use your imagination in an awkward conversation.

Tonight: Munchies at a favourite spot.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Sept. 29) This year you open up and take a closer look at your life. Is there anything you would like to change or improve? This is the year to free yourself up, as something better is coming down the path. You are preparing to enter a new love and luck cycle this year. If you are single, be a skeptic and get to know any new person well before you get too involved. If you are attached, the two of you will benefit from spending more time together as a couple. These periods will keep the ties between you warm and loving.

TAURUS loves to be around you.

BORN TODAY Basketball player Kevin Durant (1988), novelist Miguel de Cervantes (1547), singer/actor Gene Autry (1907).

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PEGGY PRANGE December 14, 1939 - September 22, 2015

Peggy is survived by her loving Randy and her children Deborah, Jason, Travis & Sean, as well as numerous grandchildren, too many blessings to list.

She was very grateful for the love expressed by all her friends, family and especially her dancing partners. Peggy loved her life on Vancouver Island. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank you Godâ&#x20AC;?

There will not be a service.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the British Columbia Lung Association.

Proteau M. Merle (nee: Forrest) Merle passed away September 21st at Origins in Nanaimo after a brief battle with brain cancer. She was predeceased by her husband Bill in 1978.

Left to mourn her passing are her brothers Pat (Lyn) Forrest and Harold (Margot) Forrest, sons Larry (Phyllis), Bill (Laurie) and Glenn (Tracey), and grandchildren William, Tommy, Lance and Diana.

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‘Minnows’ are closing the gap in world rugby

RUGBY WORLD CUP

JEROME PUGMIRE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada’s Connor Braid, centre, kicks the ball forward during the Rugby World Cup Pool D match between Italy and Canada at Elland Road, Leeds, England, on Saturday. [AP PHOTO]

Broken jaw rules out Canada’s Connor Braid Replacement summoned in the middle of match against Italy “We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think we were able to (win).“

playing for Swilers Rugby Club midway through the second half against The Dogs in Newfoundland.

“We had just scored a try against The Dogs when one of the facility staff members interrupted the game to get me off the field,” he said on the Rugby Canada website. “At first, my teammates were upset, but then

both teams cheered me on when they found out I was off to England to meet the team.”

Canada, which opened with a 50-7 loss to Ireland in Cardiff, runs up against France on Thursday at Milton Keynes. Canada beat France once, 21 years ago, and has lost all six matches since, including the last at the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand.

“We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think we were able to (win),” coach Kieran Crowley said on Monday.

“We go out there to win games, and we will do that. Obviously France are hot, hot favourites, they deserve to be.”

◆ ITALY

◆ SPAIN

◆ SWITZERLAND

Last-place Carpi fires coach after six matches

Barcelona won’t have Lionel Messi for weeks

FIFA president has done nothing wrong: Lawyers

Last-place Carpi has fired coach Fabrizio Castori six matches into its first Serie A season.

Carpi made the announcement Monday without immediately naming a replacement.

The move comes two days after a 5-1 loss to Roma left Carpi with just two points.

It’s the first firing in Serie A this season. Former Siena, Palermo and Watford coach Giuseppe Sannino is reportedly in line to replace Castori.

Castori took over Carpi in June of last year and led the club to the Serie B title last season, promoting the squad to the top division for the first time in its 106-year history.

Carpi has scored six goals and conceded a league-worst 15.

Without Lionel Messi, it’s time for Neymar to step up on the big stage.

Barcelona will be without Messi for 7 to 8 weeks, starting with Tuesday’s Champions League match against Bayer Leverkusen, after the Argentina forward injured his left knee.

“It’s a shame for football,” Leverkusen sporting director Rudi Voeller said. “You simply like to watch him play.”

The last time Leverkusen played at Barcelona in 2012, Messi scored five goals in a 7-1 victory.

Messi was hurt on Saturday in the 2-1 win over Las Palmas in the Spanish league. Neymar played, but missed a penalty after Luis Suarez had already scored the opening two goals.

Sepp Blatter told his staff he has done “nothing illegal or improper” and has no immediate plans to step down, the FIFA president’s legal team said Monday.

Blatter was back at FIFA headquarters three days after being interrogated by Swiss investigators at the scandal-battered governing body’s headquarters. Blatter is expected to hand over power in February when an emergency election is held, triggered by the president’s resignation statement four days after being re-elected for a fifth, four-year term in May. But the 79-year-old Blatter does not appear to be planning any sudden exit despite being the subject of a criminal investigation over his management of world soccer.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LEICESTER, England — Inside centre Connor Braid has been withdrawn from Canada’s Rugby World Cup squad after he broke his jaw and was concussed against Italy at the weekend.

Braid was injured in the 14th minute of his first match at his first World Cup on Saturday at Elland Road. Canada lost 23-18.

He was replaced in the squad by sevens player Patrick Parfrey, whose seventh and last test was against Romania in November. Parfrey learned he was summoned while he was

Kieran Crowley, Canada head coach

SOCCER BRIEFS The Associated Press

LONDON — Japan’s incredible win against South Africa and Georgia’s day in the sun against Tonga were more than Rugby World Cup upsets — they highlighted how rugby’s minnows are closing the gap.

Although some of the defeats are still heavy — such as Uruguay’s 65-3 loss to Australia — the mammoth defeats of previous tournaments have yet to materialize.

After 19 matches, almost halfway through the pool stage, there have been only five scores of 50-plus.

In fact, viewers tuning into their television sets at halftime would have been pleasantly surprised: The United States leading Scotland 13-6; Canada up 13-10 against Italy; France only ahead 17-6 against Romania; England labouring against Fiji at 18-8; and Georgia trailing Argentina just 14-9.

Two-time World Cup winner Australia won only 28-13 against a Fijian side crushed 66-0 by Wales at the last World Cup. Fiji and Wales meet on Thursday, and a close score is in store.

“Our captain said to us that we are not here to make up the numbers,” Fiji No. 8 Sakuisa Matadigo said. “We want to be competitive throughout the competition.”

England pulled away late against Fiji, getting two converted tries in the last 10 minutes to win 35-11, and it wasn’t until Romania was reduced to 14 men after half an hour that France squirmed free.

Romania didn’t meet any Tier One teams between the 2011 Cup and this one, then met two (France and Ireland) in four days.

“It was about competing and showing everybody we can compete at this level, and we’ve done that,” Romania coach Lynn Howell said.

The Brave Blossoms gave all of the Tier Two teams hope when they shocked the Springboks 34-32 on day two in the greatest Rugby World Cup upset. Georgia’s earlier 17-10 win against Tonga stoked the embers of their belief, too.

For even New Zealand, the proud owner of three of the five biggest all-time World Cup wins, failed to dispatch Namibia as emphatically as expected, winning 58-14. The gap was a far cry from Australia’s 142-0 rout of Namibia in 2003, when England also thumped Uruguay 111-13.

Four years ago, New Zealand routed Japan 83-7 and 79-15, but it has been harder this time.

Against Namibia last Thursday, the biggest cheer at the packed Olympic Stadium came when Namibia centre Johan Deysel scored a well-taken try.

The Namibians, who have never won a World Cup game, celebrated as if they had.

Thanks to funding from World Rugby, better spent on development, conditioning, and competitions, the Tier Two teams have made scores closer and closer.

Their improved efforts also come from much greater preparation time for the World Cup, a luxury not possible for regular tours, when teams often come together only in the week

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of the first match.

Still, while they are no closer to becoming Cup title contenders, they are no longer speed bumps.

The smaller teams at least hang on in the first half, generally have better discipline than previously, and at times enjoy spells of pressure — although capitalizing on them remains hard.

“We had 59 per cent possession, and so we need to learn how to turn that dominance into points,” Canada coach Kieran Crowley said after a 23-18 loss to Italy on Saturday.

Uruguay camped three times near the Australia line on Sunday, but was never close to crossing it. That match was only Uruguay’s second against a Tier One team since 2003.

Defences crack in the second half, when the superior fitness of the bigger teams really stands out, especially since smaller teams are more affected by shorter turnarounds between games.

“The only thing the Tier Two nations find difficult is the strength of depth,” Howells said.

The Canadians led by 10 points at one stage against the Italians, but when they are not used to the pressure the Tier One teams can apply, then it’s no surprise when they fold.

Canada played only three Tier One teams between the 2011 World Cup and this one, then started with two of them in the first week, and a third, France, on Thursday. A team with part-time professionals can’t be expected to match that intensity, but they’re trying to.

“If we had 23 guys who played 30 or 40 games a year, I don’t think things like that would happen,” Canada captain and No. 8 Tyler Ardron said.

“Eighty minutes is a long time, and it’s too easy to switch off.”

There is also too much disparity in terms of experience.

“We’ve got players out there in key positions who are only having five or six games at 15s in the last three years,” Crowley said.

Scotland led only 12-7 at halftime against Japan, but a five-try blitz produced a resounding 45-10 win.

Much the same happened against the Americans, who ended up losing to the Scots 39-16.

“A lot of these guys don’t play the grind of a professional season with a hard game week in week out,” U.S. coach Mike Tolkin said. “It’s a real challenge.”

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Dr. W. Gifford-Jones The Doctor Game

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In this 2013 file photo, chemotherapy is administered to a cancer patient via intravenous drip. [AP PHOTO]

Study says no chemo for many with breast cancer MARILYNN MARCHIONE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Many women with early-stage breast cancer can skip chemotherapy without hurting their odds of beating the disease — good news from a major study that shows the value of a gene-activity test to gauge each patient’s risk.

The test accurately identified a group of women whose cancers are so likely to respond to hormone-blocking drugs that adding chemo would do little if any good while exposing them to side effects and other health risks. In the study, women who skipped chemo based on the test had less than a 1 per cent chance of cancer recurring far away, such as the liver or lungs, within the next five years.

“You can’t do better than that,” said the study leader, Dr. Joseph Sparano of Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

An independent expert, Dr. Clifford Hudis of New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, agreed.

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chemotherapy could make that number better,” he said. Using the gene test “lets us focus our chemotherapy more on the higher risk patients who do benefit” and spare others the ordeal.

The study was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. Results were published online Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at the European Cancer Congress in Vienna.

The study involved the most common type of breast cancer — early stage, without spread to lymph nodes; hormone-positive, meaning the tumour’s growth is fueled by estrogen or progesterone; and not the type that the drug Herceptin targets. Each year, more than 100,000 women in the United States alone are diagnosed with this.

The usual treatment is surgery followed by years of a hormone-blocking drug. But many women also are urged to have chemo, to help kill any stray cancer cells that may have spread beyond the breast and could seed a new cancer later. Doctors know that most of these women

don’t need chemo but there are no great ways to tell who can safely skip it.

A California company, Genomic Health Inc., has sold a test called Oncotype DX since 2004 to help gauge this risk. The test measures the activity of genes that control cell growth, and others that indicate a likely response to hormone therapy treatment.

Past studies have looked at how women classified as low, intermediate or high risk by the test have fared. The new study is the first to assign women treatments based on their scores and track recurrence rates.

Of the 10,253 women in the study, 16 per cent were classified as low risk, 67 per cent as intermediate and 17 per cent as high risk for recurrence by the test. The high-risk group was given chemotherapy and hormone-blocking drugs. Women in the middle group were randomly assigned to get hormone therapy alone or to add chemo. Results on these groups are not yet ready — the study is continuing.

aced with a medical decision, patients normally allow their doctor to decide on treatment, assuming he or she “always knows best.” But Consumer Report on Health claims that this approach rarely works anymore.

Doctors simply are unable to keep up with the flood of new information on medical therapy. Consequently, some medical decisions must be based on the patient’s priorities, not just the doctor’s. This process might even decrease the cost of medical care.

Often the problem is communication. For instance, a study of 1,057 doctor/ patient visits, including 3,552 clinical decisions, found that only 9 percent provided the patient with enough information to make an informed choice!

So how do you figure out what is best for you? Potential traps are the now common operations of cataract surgery, and knee or hip replacement. Remember, these elective procedures should only be done when the physical condition affects your quality of life by inability to function.

Not when the surgeon says, “I can fit you in.”

It’s also been reported that about one in seven women who have a hysterectomy don’t need the operation. So, ask if there are other procedures such as endometrial ablation that either remove fibroids or remove the lining of the uterus to decrease excessive bleeding.

Be cautious about long-term therapy such as the treatment of hypertension. Rather than submit yourself to a lifetime of prescription drugs, ask how lifestyle changes such as losing weight and exercise can be helpful. Taking a magnesium pill or a powder such as MagSense can relax arteries, decreasing blood pressure.

So does the natural remedy Neo40 which, by increasing the production of nitric oxide, also relaxes arteries, thus decreasing hypertension. In addition, studies show that high doses of vitamin C and lysine will slowly remove atherosclerosis from arteries, a main cause of high blood pressure. Your health food store will inform you of the various choices available.

Screening tests also cost our health care system billions of dollars annually. Some are of questionable benefit and may cause unintended complications. One study showed that 40 per cent of checkups involved tests which were unproven.

For instance, if you don’t have a family history of heart disease or coronary symptoms there’s no need for a stress test.

Some authorities also believe the PSA test to diagnose prostate cancer should never to be done as it causes more complications than it saves lives. And women in their forties should discuss the pros and cons of mammography before agreeing to one.

Every year a large numbers of MRI’s are performed for low back pain. But they are not needed unless the procedure is required for a treatment decision. It’s well known that an MRI may show a disk problem, but it may not be the cause of the pain. Many patients have this abnormality without back pain. Besides, most back pain subsides without any treatment.

Ninety per cent of hernias occur in men but how many require surgery?

For years it’s been standard practice to operate to avoid bowel obstruction. But a study which followed several thousand men for several years discovered that, contrary to medical opinion, only one percent per year suffered from this complication.

Of course you must always ask your doctor, “What happens if I decide against treatment?” For instance, an 80-year-old man with early prostate cancer may live another 15 years without treatment. In the interim he may die of something else. He may also decide that he does not want to take the risk of surgery and end up in diapers.

For women with early breast cancer a “lumpectomy” may be an option rather than complete removal of the breast. Some however, feel more assured if the entire breast is removed. The main point is to be an informed patient so there are no surprises.

Michael Barry, Professor of Medicine at The Harvard Medical School studied 2,600 adults age 40 and older who faced decisions about surgery, medicine and screening tests. He reports that their level of knowledge was low. Many did not even know why they were undergoing a specific procedure.

DISEASE

Gates and UN say that malaria can be eradicated by 2040 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Malaria could be wiped out by 2040, despite the lack of an effective vaccine, previous failed attempts to eradicate the disease and

drug resistance problems, the United Nations and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in a report released on Monday.

Gates and Ray Chambers, the UN secretary-general’s special envoy for

malaria, said getting rid of the parasitic disease could ultimately save 11 million lives and provide $2 trillion in economic benefits. In a statement, Gates described eradication as “the only sustainable solution.” His

foundation has been one of the major donors to malaria control programs.

The report calls for a doubling of the money spent on malaria by 2025 and new ways to control the mosquitoes that spread the disease.

Resistance to many malaria drugs has been detected and more than a third of people at risk have no protective bed nets.

Officials are also still struggling to wipe out guinea worm and polio.

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LIFESTYLE

Youths not getting MD warnings on drugs Less than half U.S. college students surveyed said they’d been counselled by doctors about drugs, alcohol DRINKING STATS Overall, 40 per cent of participants told researchers they’d consumed five or more drinks on at least one occasion and 10 per cent had been drunk at least six times in the past month.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol is linked with nearly 2,000 deaths each year among college students, and many more assaults and date rapes.

LINDSEY TANNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — American government researchers say “deplorably” few college students are warned by doctors about the danger from alcohol and drugs or encouraged to reduce drinking or substance use.

Their survey suggests that most doctors ask college students and other young adults about alcohol or drug use at regularly scheduled visits. But doctors don’t go much beyond that initial question less than half of the time.

The study by National Institutes of Health researchers was published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. Some highlights about the findings: THE SURVEY About 2,100 college students and other young adults across the country were asked in 2012 and 2013 if they’d seen a doctor in the previous year and had been asked and counselled about their drinking, smoking and drug use. Participants had taken part in an earlier government health survey while in high school.

In the new survey, most attended college but about one-third were not students.

DOCTORS & COUNSELLING Most of those surveyed had a recent doctor visit where they were asked about smoking, drinking and

Government researchers say ‘deplorably’ few college students are warned by doctors about dangers from alcohol and drugs or encouraged to cut down or abstain, according to a study published Monday. [AP PHOTO]

substance abuse. Fewer than half the college students said they’d been counselled about risks of those habits. Only one-third of college students who told researchers they’d been drunk at least six times in the previous month said doctors had

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advised them to cut down or stop.

That advice was slightly less common for college students who were frequent smokers or drug users.

Non-students were slightly more likely to get that kind of counselling.

Lead researcher Ralph Hingson

of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism said it’s possible participants didn’t tell doctors the truth about their drinking habits.

Even so, physicians’ lack of advice may send a message that heavy drinking is OK, Hingson said.

WHY NO COUNSELLING? Dr. Tanveer Mir, chair of the American College of Physicians’ Board of Regents, said doctors may assume college students already know about the risks and consequences. Also, physician training often doesn’t emphasize that those problems are preventable and treatable, and physicians may feel that there isn’t enough time in an office visit to address the issue, Mir said. She was not involved in the study.

The researchers said efforts are needed to remove those barriers because studies have shown that screening and brief counselling can reduce alcohol misuse. » We want to hear from you.

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Exam anxiety note Researcher says big-screen TVs from MD is required pose serious threat to child safety THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — Students at Winnipeg’s Red River College who suffer from exam anxiety must now have a note from their doctor to receive accommodation from the school in dealing with tests.

The college says it’s no longer accepting a student’s word if they have psychological trouble handling examinations.

The school says it will still work with students who get uptight about sitting down to write, but officials will need medical documentation to back up claims.

Conor Lloyd, a college spokesman, says Red River started notifying students last spring they would need medical documentation, and so far there have been no complaints.

Red River accommodated about 1,000 students last year — most for physical reasons — but around 376 cited some form of mental health disorder, including more than 100 with a medical diagnosis of anxiety.

As yet, extreme examination anxiety has not been accepted as a separate disorder.

Lloyd said Red River takes a very

proactive approach to offering support to students.

“In addition to providing accommodations to students with diagnosed disabilities, we also provide students with counselling sessions, workshops and weekly three-hour staff tutoring sessions in order to help them succeed in their studies,” he said.

The issue flared into national prominence five years ago, when a University of Manitoba doctoral candidate in mathematics said he suffered from extreme exam anxiety.

Ultimately, the university waived doctoral graduation requirements and awarded the PhD to the student, who twice failed his mandatory comprehensive exam.

That led to an even larger controversy that drew international attention when the U of M disciplined a math professor who questioned the validity of the student’s degree.

John Danakas, the U of M’s communications director, said anxiety problems are entrenched within university policy.

“The U of M recognizes its obligations to provide accommodations to students who have diagnosed medical conditions,” he said.

SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — There’s an often unrecognized hazard lurking in most Canadian homes that poses a potentially deadly threat to young children — the big-screen TV. Those top-heavy, flat-screen televisions can topple over onto children, crush their tiny bodies and in the worst-case scenario, fatally cave in their skulls, researchers say.

“The kids who are at the biggest risk are toddlers, so one- to three-year-olds,” said Dr. Michael Cusimano, a neurosurgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital.

“They’re occurring in older kids as well, but these injuries can be extremely severe in the younger kids — and they can be fatal.”

In a review of 29 studies from seven countries published Tuesday in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, Cusimano and co-author Nadine Parker found that tens of thousands of children have been harmed by falling TVs, an occurrence that is becoming increasingly common.

In the U.S., for instance, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported 19,200 TV-related injuries

from 2008 to 2010, up from 16,500 between 2006 and 2008.

The Toronto researchers determined that about 85 per cent of these injuries occurred in the home and more than three-quarters were not witnessed by a parent or caregiver.

“TVs are often placed on unstable bases, placed on high furniture like dressers, which aren’t designed for TVs, or (are) not properly secured to the wall,” said Cusimano.

“Meanwhile, parents are getting busier and busier and don’t have as much time to supervise children, so it’s not surprising that these injuries are getting reported more often.”

He said accidents often happen when toddlers climb up on a piece of furniture that holds the TV. Somewhat older children may run into the furniture while horsing around and cause the television to fall on them.

“They’re not being secured properly, they’re not being used on the proper furniture,” Cusimano said of big-screen TVs, which have become increasingly larger and less expensive over time.

“I heard of one case where (the family) had it on top of an aquarium, and the TV came down and crushed

the child,” he said. “The child died.”

A 2005 study led by pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. James Drake at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto showed 18 children, aged 12 months to 10 years old, had been treated for a range of injuries due to falling TVs between 1992 and 2005. Sixteen of them had skull fractures.

Some of the children were left with short- and long-term symptoms, from neurological deficits causing severe disability to hearing loss and facial paralysis.

One two-year-old, who was treated at Sick Kids following submission of the study to the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, died after an 81-centimetre TV fell off its stand and fractured the child’s skull.

“It’s often like a crush injury,” Drake said in an interview Monday.

“So it’s not what we would call a high-velocity head injury like you would have in a car accident. This is relatively low-velocity, but the TVs are very heavy, so they sort of crush the skull.

For privacy reasons, the hospital does not reveal the number of deaths, but a spokeswoman said there were “under five.”

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ADVICE

Once broken, trust becomes difficult to regain Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: I am a 20-year-old man who currently lives with my parents. I just started my first year of college.

Both of my parents have prescriptions to Xanax. When I was 15, I took a few from my dad’s bottle.

My parents labelled me a thief and an addict. I knew it was wrong and haven’t done it since.

I thought we had moved on from that incident, but my mother called me at work and asked whether I had taken 60 of her Xanax. I had no idea what she was talking about and said

I hadn’t touched her pills.

She insisted that I stole them and sold them, and wouldn’t hear anything other than an admission of guilt.

I honestly have no idea what happened to her pills, but I feel terrible that my mother believes I stole from her. No matter how many times I proclaim my innocence, they assume I’m guilty. What else can I say?

— Guilty by Accusation Dear Guilty: Nothing, really. You said you didn’t do it, and unless evidence surfaces that someone else took the pills (or they were misplaced), your parents will think you are the guilty party.

We suggest you sincerely apologize for giving them cause to mistrust you because of your past behaviour.

But understand that it may not

convince them of your innocence.

Once trust is broken, it is difficult to regain. It will take a great deal of time for your parents to see you as a responsible, trustworthy person.

Consider this a goal for the long haul.

It’s worth it.

Dear Annie: Many years ago, you published my piece, “Hold Fast the Summer,” that I wrote when my son went off to college. Now a third grandchild is going off to college.

Could you print it again for all the parents who are sending kids to places of higher learning?

— Mary W. Abel Dear Mary Abel: With pleasure.

Here it is: “Hold Fast the Summer” by Mary W. Abel Hold fast the summer. It is the

beauty of the day and all it contains.

The laughter and work and finally the sleep. The quiet.

Oh September, do not put your weight upon my mind.

For I know he will be going.

This son of mine who is now a man — he must go.

Time will lace my thoughts with joyous years.

The walls will echo his “Hello.”

His caring will be around each corner.

His tears will be tucked into our memory book.

Life calls him beyond our reach — to different walls.

New faces, shiny halls, shy smiles, many places.

Greater learning — he must go.

But wait, before he leaves, be sure he knows you love him.

Hide the lump in your throat as

you hug him.

He will soon be home again — but he will be different.

The little boy will have disappeared.

How I wished I could take September and shake it, for it came too soon.

I must look to the beauty of each new day, and silently give thanks.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators. com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

Visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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