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OTTAWA — The campaign firestorm over women who wear the niqab flared up in Stephen Harper’s face Friday as his Liberal and NDP adversaries tried to turn the Conservative leader’s wedge issue against him with a single word: abortion.

As predicted, the hot-button question of whether to allow the Islamic face covering during citizenship ceremonies made for a pivotal exchange during the French leaders’ debate, the last face-to-face clash of the 2015 campaign.

But it quickly veered into a heated exchange about women’s rights — everything from abortion to gender equality to the number of female candidates.

“You have a lot of nerve to come here talking about Quebec values and defending women — you have more men in you caucus who are anti-abortion than there are women wearing the niqab in Quebec,” Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau told Harper.

“Since you’re talking about personal values, are you going to tell us here, tonight, for the first time, whether you are pro-choice or pro-life?”

Harper’s reply: “My position for ten years has been I don’t intend to re-open this debate.”

And then: “Mr. Trudeau, you talk about divisions. The only divisions here are between the NDP and the Liberals with the rest of the population. Almost all public opinion is in favour of a policy of taking the oath of citizenship without a (face) covering.”

Tom Mulcair, whose Quebec base of support has been taking the brunt of the impact of the Conservative and Bloc Quebecois support for the niqab ban, chimed in.

“You’re playing a dangerous game,” Mulcair charged.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper in Kleinburg, Ont., on Tuesday. In Friday’s French leaders’ debate Harper would not answer when asked by Liberal leader Justin Trudeau whether his stand on abortion was pro-choice or pro-life; instead saying, ‘My position for ten years has been I don’t intend to re-open this debate.’ [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Still the presumed front-runner in the province, Mulcair spent much of the debate reassuring his large francophone audience, hoping to plug what appear to be growing leaks in the NDP vessel’s made-in-Quebec hull.

Mulcair said Friday while he understands the niqab an emotional issue for many people, he supports the existing rule that states anyone seeking citizenship must uncover their face to identify themselves before swearing the oath.

He also tried to shield his position behind court decisions that have ruled against a ban on face coverings during the ceremonies.

“It’s no longer a question of what we like or dislike,” he said. “It also puts me ill at ease.”

The event, which was considerably calmer than the first French-language debate eight days earlier, touched on a wide range of subjects — from the environment to foreign policy, from firearms registration to the state of the economy.

Later in the contest, Mulcair criticized Harper for Canada’s military role in the Middle East, telling him: “you’ve never met a war you didn’t like.”

Mulcair also battled with Trudeau for voting in support of Conservative budgets.

“Mr. Trudeau, in my family, we’ve always said that actions speak louder than words,” Mulcair said. “I’m going to tell you that you’re talking about Harper budgets, you supported by voting in favour of, numerous Harper budgets.”

RELIGION

Vatican turns tables in Kim Davis affair NICOLE WINFIELD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican turned the tables on the Kim Davis affair Friday: Not only did it distance Pope Francis from her claims that he endorsed her stand on same-sex marriage, it said the only “real audience” Francis had in Washington was with a small group that included a gay couple.

The revelations, doled out during the course of the day, put a new twist on Francis’ encounter with Davis after she and her lawyers insisted that her invitation to meet the pope on Sept. 24 amounted to an affirmation of her cause.

The Davis case has sharply divided the United States, and news of Francis’ meeting with the

“The only real audience granted by the pope at the nunciature was with one of his former students and his family.”

Rev. Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman

Kentucky clerk, who went to jail after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had upended his six-day U.S. tour. During the visit, Francis had tried to steer clear of such hot-button issues, only to see the Davis affair dominate the post-trip news cycle.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, sought

to give the Vatican’s take of events in a statement early Friday, saying Francis had met with “several dozen” people at the Vatican’s embassy before leaving Washington for New York.

Davis was among them and had a “brief meeting,” he said.

Lombardi said such meetings are common during papal trips and are due to the pope’s “kindness and availability.”

“The pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis, and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects,” Lombardi said.

“The only real audience granted by the pope at the nunciature was with one of his former students and his family,” Lombardi added.

Earlier this week, Davis said the pope met with her and her husband and thanked her for her courage and encouraged her to “stay strong.”

While the pope sought during his U.S. visit to avoid hot-button culture war issues, an openly gay TV personality, Mo Rocca, was a lector at the pope’s Mass at Madison Square Garden, a decision that would have been made by the New York Archdiocese.

As for the Davis meeting, an assistant to Lombardi, the Rev. Thomas Rosica, said the pope would have been given a list of people who were invited to bid him farewell as he departed Washington, but was unaware of the details of the Kentucky clerk’s case or any possible implications of the meeting.

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Core review longer, pricier than expected Consultant says project could take up to a year to complete and should cost more than $200,000 estimate SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

The terms of a core review of the City of Nanaimo are expected to be approved this month, but the cost and time needed to complete the project will likely exceed previous estimates, a consultant on the project warns.

Consultant Roshan Danesh was hired to help the city draft the outline for the review, but warned in a memorandum to the steering committee that the project would not

wrap up until well into next year and would be more expensive.

“While there has been some public discussion of an estimate of around $200,000, it is my understanding that this number was not based on an actual analysis of the cost of work that might be done,” he said.

“It is my expectation based on the scope of the RFP that the $200,000 is a low figure.”

Danesh also said the previously-estimated completion time of four to six months was likely too short, add-

ing an eight- to 12-month timeframe was more realistic.

A draft request for proposals for an outside firm to conduct a review of the city’s operations was ratified by the project’s steering committee, made up exclusively by the entire city council.

The document will go to city council later this month, where it will almost certainly be given the green light.

A core review — an in-depth look at the city’s finances, services and

programs — was designated as the top priority by council at the beginning of this year, along with a provision for a freeze on service levels at the city until the process is complete.

But the city has been working on developing terms of reference for a review since May and progress on the project has been slow.

Mayor Bill McKay said the city is ready to go “full steam ahead” on the project once a contract has been awarded, which he said would hap-

pen closer to the end of the year.

McKay said bids received on the project would provide clarity on the scope of the project.

“I think what we’ll find at the end of the day is people are going to give timelines and budgets and we’ll go from there,” he said.

The draft RFP is scheduled to come before council on Oct. 19.

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VIU opens doors to showcase more than 120 opportunities ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Annabelle Johnnie, a Grade 6 student from Bayview Elementary School, wants to be a “world-famous” chef when she grows up.

Annabelle, at Vancouver Island University’s open house on Friday along with her classmates, said she loves to bake and cook and is interested in attending the university’s highly regarded culinary arts program when she graduates from secondary school.

“I’m having a really great time today and am learning a lot,” said Annabelle as she took a tour of VIU’s Museum of Natural History.

Hundreds of people attended VIU’s third-annual open house on the Nanaimo campus Friday that highlighted the more than 120 trades and academic programs offered at the post-secondary facility.

There were campus tours, which included the International Centre for Sturgeon Studies, interactive projects in the carpentry and heavy-duty mechanics departments and demonstrations of medical procedures from student nurses.

There was also a VIU Expo, in which 48 different departments, faculties and programs displayed information, answered questions and got people involved in fun activities.

Adrieanna Yeung was at the Expo checking on information for further studies at VIU for her son, Darien.

“The visitors have a chance to explore the campus.”

Tina McComb, VIU director of enrolment

She said Darien, who is just 18, is graduating this year with a Bachelor of Science degree from the university and is looking to continue his education at VIU next year.

Yeung said Darien, who was busy in classes Friday, graduated from VIU’s high school at the age of 14, and has had a “wonderful” education at the university so far.

“Darien really loves VIU and has always had great relationships with his professors and the other students here,” Yeung said.

“He’s really interested in seeing what else he can do here and I’m collecting information for him while he’s in class.”

Tina McComb, VIU’s director of enrolment management, said more than 400 people attended last year’s open house and it appeared this year’s event would attract similar crowds.

“We like to invite the community in for these open houses because it gives us the opportunity to showcase the programs we offer and the visitors have a chance to explore the campus,” she said.

Fraser and Annabelle Johnnie, students from Bayview Elementary School, checked out the exhibits at the Natural History Museum at Vancouver Island University during the university’s open house on Friday. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]

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Stomping drug houses

Nanaimo becoming B.C. model on the handling of nuisance properties

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hen Ladysmith officials reached the end of their rope on controlling nuisance properties this summer, they turned to Nanaimo for ideas.

They weren’t the first.

A number of B.C. cities have approached Nanaimo for advice on how to clean up drug houses and nuisance properties, thanks to a groundbreaking city bylaw developed Darrell nearly 10 years Bellaart ago that is being Reporting held up as a model for other communities.

Nanaimo city staff were getting overwhelmed with complaints about drug houses in various neighbourhoods and needed a unique solution.

“The mayor and council were getting all kinds of calls, it was frustrating everyone,” said recently retired city bylaws manager Randy Churchill. “Neighbourhoods were getting concerned and wanted change.”

Ted Swabey, then a senior city planner, directed staff members to pool ideas to find a solution.

“We wanted a different model,” Churchill said.

“We had good experience at that time dealing with (marijuana) grow-ops. Now the problem was drug houses.

“We looked at it legally, and drafted a bylaw based on the authority we had, tackling it from a nuisance perspective, not a crime perspective.”

Ultimately, the goal is eviction.

Randy Churchill, recently retired as head of Nanaimo city bylaws, said the success of the city’s drug house strategy arose out of a team effort that included various departments and agencies. [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]

“It was frustrating everyone.

Neighbourhoods were getting concerned and wanted change.”

Randy Churchill, retired bylaws manager

The solution was to force owners to be responsible for any problems on their properties — putting the onus for dealing with bad tenants on landlords using a carrot-andstick approach.

City staff knew many landlords were afraid to face problem tenants. And that is where the “carrot” comes in.

The city started a process where it approaches the homeowner about the problem, asks the landlord to do something about it, and backs them up with access to resources, including sending staff to accompany them when confronting troublesome tenants.

“We tell them: ‘You have powers under the Residential Tenancy Act. You need to take control of your property. We’re here to support you in dealing with it,’” Churchill said.

Often a single meeting between police, the owner and the tenants ends the problem. Sometimes landlords are unco-operative. Then city staff has to play hardball.

The “stick,” in this case, is a bylaw that hits landlords directly

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in the pocketbook any time police or city staff is required to deal with their alcoholand drug-fueled tenants.

The property gets placed on the nuisance property list, and, if city council approves it, the owner is liable for all enforcement costs.

Costs add up quickly for any visits bylaw officers, police, firefighters, public works personnel, building inspectors and other staff and agencies make to nuisance properties.

As landlords started to understand how ignoring the problem costs them money, fewer properties went before council.

The number of “target” nuisance properties — those involving drug houses — ranged between 27 and 50 in the years immediately before the bylaw was introduced.

Thirty-six properties went before council in 2007, 38 the following year and the number has been 27 or fewer ever since.

Churchill said the best measure of success is the shorter time it takes to end problems in neighbourhoods.

Where criminal charges were once needed to close a drug house, now the city bylaws department can end the problem in a few months, he said.

It’s not a panacea; residents still get impatient waiting for drug houses to be closed. But the solution has earned kudos from affected neighbourhoods.

Drug houses can be frightening to neighbours, who have to deal with noise at all hours, the impact of the sex trade, violence between drug users and even intimidation when neighbours speak out about the problem.

“Neighbours are concerned, fearful and frustrated that there doesn’t appear to be any fast

resolution to the problem,” said Douglas Hardie, president of the South End Neighbourhood Association. “(The process) does take time, and it is frustrating,” Hardie said.

But he and his neighbours appreciate that the city “found a way, in conjunction with RCMP and other departments, to act.”

The program was showcased at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, and it’s brought councillors and staff members from Lower Mainland cities and elsewhere to find out how Nanaimo controls a difficult problem.

The town of Ladysmith is ready to tap into Nanaimo’s experience.

“There’s a couple trouble houses that are a decade old in our community that have a significant effect on our community,” said Ladysmith Mayor Aaron Stone.

“The challenges are not only enforcement but costs associated with reducing neighbourhood impact.”

Churchill, who retired late last month, takes pride in the program’s successes, which he says was a team effort, with strong support “partners” in other departments and agencies.

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• Oceanview is a one billion dollar project, with an average of 1,000 jobs (direct and indirect) per year during buildout.

• The Development Cost Charges (DCC’s) amount to $2.3 million per year, totalling $37.28 million by 2031.

• Over the next 16 years, the development will generate over $80 million in property taxes, plus $11 million per year thereafter.

• Oceanview is; - Tourist oriented, will add huge demand for local goods and services.

- There are plans for an Athletic Academy in golf, hockey, basketball, and soccer to attract athletes from Western Canada.

- Schools in Cedar area could remain open.

• Oceanview will help diversify Harmac’s financial ability by; - If they work with our First Nations people they could become a water utility, and sell water to Oceanview and others.

- The sewage plant they have could also become a utility that Oceanview would buy services from.

- If they allow Phoenix Way to be changed into a public road from its current private road status, their land values would increase substantially and they would be able to develop their property to a larger scope than they have now.

- Oceanview’s population base and tourist attractions will provide a strong economy base for Harmac.

• The City of Nanaimo needs Oceanview to make it a tourist attraction for their cruises, create jobs to keep our young people home, and above all, relieve the tax burden that the citizens of Nanaimo face.

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EDITORIAL

Lopsided population numbers are a worrisome trend

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ere’s something not as inevitable as death and taxes, but that we could see rolling our way, maybe more the way Christmas does. That would be the StatsCan report on the number of seniors in the country.

The next question — back to the Christmas analogy — is easy. Are we ready?

The latest population figures from Statistics Canada, as released this week, show that seniors make up a larger proportion — at 16.1 per cent — than do children under the age of 15 — which comprise 16.0 per cent. These are figures as of this past July 1.

The implications of such a lopsided population, with a high proportion of seniors, need to be front and centre in all social planning.

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That demographic is only bound to become more pronounced in the coming years, thanks to a persisting low birth rate in the country and the increasing longevity of elderly people.

The same set of statistics report that the population growth rate for

Canadians over the age of 65 was 3.5 per cent, compared to the overall national average of 0.9 per cent.

Again, crossing this threshold should not come as a surprise to anyone.

But where it becomes worrisome is when the country’s politicians and policy shapers don’t appear to take the shift in stride.

The implications of such a lopsided population, with a high proportion of seniors, need to be front and centre in all social planning. This is especially urgent on Vancouver Island, with its large population of seniors.

When provincial budgets address health care, they need to be planning for that rapidly rising curve in

coming years. This includes not only the growing need for conventional medical care, but also for what’s been described as a tsunami in the number of people with dementia. A health department today can put off planning for that, but that only doubles the urgency tomorrow.

Of those seniors who make up the stats, many of them are still in early-, to mid-, to late-60s.

These older baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1955) are still in good health, many of them continuing to work and contributing significantly to the tax base. That too will change relatively soon.

All told, StatsCan is projecting that Canadians over the age of 65 will

make up a fifth of the national population by 2024. Based on our current population of 35,851,800, that’s well over seven million people.

We’d be preaching to the choir to advise the provincial governments about the need to increase population — with higher immigration numbers the one obvious option.

That’s a strategy that between the provincial and federal governments has to be a priority.

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Record number of voters needed in this election If polls accurately predicted results, we wouldn’t need to hold elections.

But this time around in the newly created riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith there’s a polling twist, a “déjà vu” version.

The NDP has been handing out pamphlets using “back then” 2011 polling results to indicate a “right now” two-party race between the NDP and Conservatives.

Is the NDP trying to take advantage of “Harper must go” feelings to steer potential Green and/or Liberal votes their way? Difficult to say. No Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidates ran in 2011 because “back then” this riding didn’t exist.

So who’s leading whom? Considering the importance of first time voters.

Whatever the result, hopefully this election attracts a record number of voters who send a Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidate to Ottawa who will be an effective spokesperson for this riding, not merely a mouthpiece for whatever party they represent.

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World Animal Day is a celebration of all life World Animal Day celebrates animal life in all its forms. Oct. 4 was chosen in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, and was established in 1931 to call attention to the plight of endangered species.

Unfortunately, after decades of concern for animals expressed by individuals and animal rights groups, we find that the plight of our sentient fellow beings is more intense than ever. Not only are many species becoming endangered and extinct, but the treatment of animals used in medical and cosmetic research and in the meat and dairy industries has become increasingly cruel and

immoral. Thus, Mahatma Gandhi referred to vivisection as the darkest of humanity’s dark sins. Yet, the torture of animals in physical and emotional terms continues.

In factory farms where thousands of animals are crammed together in filthy cages where they can barely stand up and never see the light of day, the situation is not only immoral, it is criminal, (cruelty is a crime), and unsustainable.

In Canada 700 million animals are raised and killed for food each year (8.5 billion in the U.S.). Most animals are mutilated shortly after birth and remain in intense pain throughout their short lives, the young are torn from their mothers and are crammed

in narrow uncomfortable stalls without love or comfort.

Since 98 per cent of our meat and most of our dairy comes from factory farms, animal suffering is endless.

Not only is humanity responsible for such extreme cruelty to animals, but it also shows little consideration for the health of our planet and for future generations. The meat and dairy industries are known as the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.

These industries use much of the increasingly scarce fresh water and pollute surface waterways and aquifers, creating disease and death.

Large amounts of hormones and 80 per cent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. are for animals. No wonder

that superbugs are a severe problem, let alone the prion protein.

Where are the role models for our children, where are the seeds of kindness to be planted in a moral and responsible society?

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Potters unhappy with changes at studio Recreation managers say moves were necessary to deal with financial costs associated with programs JULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo’s hobby potters are all fired up about a series of recent changes implemented at a community pottery studio that they say compromises their use of the space.

The initial changes took place in March of this year, when recreation services management implemented a new fee structure, adjusted their drop-in hours and restricted potters from bringing in their own clay or taking pottery projects home to work on them.

Potters say these changes have destroyed what was once a vibrant community space, while recreation managers have argued the changes were necessary to address the significant financial deficit that the program was running.

Participant Terry Easterbrook said the primary change for her is that she is no longer allowed to take pottery projects home or bring them in from home. She also finds it inconvenient that she is required to buy clay from the studio rather than utilizing her own clay.

“It’s just a lot harder to be creative, because you can’t take stuff home, if you want to carve something or do something like a coloured applique with under-glazes,” she said. “Not everybody lives in a place where you can have a kiln and can fire your own stuff. They’re either in a house where they can’t

Maranne Ives, Instructor and room technician at the Bowen Complex Pottery Studio, prepares clay for an upcoming class.

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do it or in an apartment, so the only place they can do it is at Bowen Park.”

Potters are now asked to buy clay from the studio itself, at a price which includes glazes and firing, said Liz Williams, recreation services manager for the city.

“To fire is quite expensive because that’s actual staff time, and our prices in the studio didn’t accom-

modate the firing. We also can’t control what clay they’re using and clay can have contaminants in it,” said Williams.

These difficulties have caused the drop-in numbers to decline, claims Easterbrook.

“I didn’t know a lot of people so I went to the pottery studio to meet other people. You used to have to wait your turn for a wheel, it was

that busy. Now you’d lucky if two wheels are being used instead of eight,” said Easterbrook, who has a therapeutic recreation degree and moved to Nanaimo from Surrey two years ago, where she said studio members were instead encouraged to use the facility at all hours and often with very little supervision, provided they were experienced potters.

“There’s not the camaraderie any more. There used to be a whole bunch of us that always met on Thursday. More of us are buying our own wheels and finding alternative places to go. It’s almost like they’re trying to kill the program,” said Easterbrook.

There is no intention to close the program, and in fact the changes were meant to bring the program’s finances in line to prevent that from happening, said Williams.

“Our endgame is to keep the room open, and if it continues to run at this dramatic deficit, I didn’t want to see us having to close the room,” she said.

During the summer there are typically 30 children’s summer camps that come through the studio. This year there was reportedly only one.

This year the price for summer pottery camps jumped from $4 per child to $12.

Maranne Ives, instructor and room technician at the Bowen Complex Pottery Studio, declined to comment for the article.

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Nastiness of the political game has become a little tiresome

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omewhere out there exists an old photo of yours truly, dancing sans shirt, on a speaker at the old Blu’s Nightclub in Nanaimo.

I have no idea two decades later who is in possession of this image.

But I thought of it the other day when someone asked me if I had ever considered running for political office. Thankfully, most of my silly behaviour took place before the advent of the Internet. If it had existed, I’m sure that image would make an appearance. In this case, I’d be kind of proud, since I was a tad more buff than I am now.

There’s also images of me, in full poofy-shirted purple glory, lip-synching ‘Purple Rain’ after being talked into entering a contest. Again, shame factor low, since I rocked the house and was all kinds of awesome.

But, like everyone else, there’s things you’d like to keep to yourself.

I once tenderly included ‘Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You’ by Glenn Medeiros on a mix tape to present to a young lady.

After a few pops, I would occasion-

ally sit down at someone’s piano and tap out the first part of Richard Marx’s ‘Right Here Waiting.’

I know, I know.

People could also probably speak to the time, at Drinkwater Elementary, when I rigged up the water fountain to shoot water all over the student paintings directly above on the wall.

Bad to the bone.

Today, everything’s pretty much out there. This is amazing and useful, and spectacularly sad all at once.

Nothing is secret anymore. It’s a grand time of oversharing an exchanging information. It’s also a lessgrand time to express extreme vitriol.

I learned early in life that you can have measured debates about most anything with people. But when it comes to politics and religious, a small portion of those aforementioned folks lose their mind if you don’t share their exact beliefs.

When I was a kid, two of my neighbours were good buddies. Lived next door to each other for a few years, golfed together, the whole bit.

Then an election year rolled along and signs from competing parties appeared, very close together, on each of their lawns.

This led to a full-on scrap, on the lawn, in front of a bunch of wideeyed youngsters. It just struck me as so silly. I absolutely respect the passion behind someone’s personal

beliefs. I don’t understand why it makes anyone so angry because someone else happens to have a differing viewpoint.

That tunnel vision is especially apparent during election time. I’ve had bitter calls from people of every political stripe.

One angry fellow called in, asking if I was aware of (candidate bringing in party bigwig the night before).

Why indeed I was, I replied in my most pleasant tone. I was then met with a torrent of sourness, berating us for not covering the event. When he finally took a breath, I mentioned that we were there, and a story could be found on Page X. Said fellow, still foul, admitted he hadn’t read the paper. He merely saw a social media post that we had not covered the event, and called to give me a piece of his closed mind. Then quickly hung up.

Another party had a series of events scattered through one day. We covered one and mentioned the others.

That wasn’t enough for certain supporters, who thought we should have been at every one, from morning to night.

One day, we’re a left-wing rag. The next day, we’re a right-wing rag. (I am currently singing both of those in the voice of Michigan J. Frog; shout out to anyone who enjoys that reference).

One of the current federal election candidates used to work here, so of course to some, we must simply be dribbling lackeys, pumping those particular tires. Yet supporters of that party accuse us of just the opposite. It’s a bizarre phenomenon.

Everyone thinks you’re against them.

Here’s the deal: I’m personally fine with whichever candidates wins, because the people will have spoken.

Across the various levels, I have cast ballots for three of the big four parties involved this time, and may still complete the career voting grand slam. I’ve got no dog in this fight, and that’s the way I like it.

I look at each election and group of candidates differently and objectively, not from any rigid perspective.

Of course, this riles up the lifelong (insert party here) types.

But the nastiness is tiresome.

Politics has always been, and will always be, a dirty game. Anyone who puts their name forward must have elephant-thick skin, because people are vicious. I’m not talking about the legitimate watchdogs, who are an absolutely integral part of the process.

Their contributions are enormous.

But the trolls, whose sole goal is to draw attention to themselves, are tiresome.

Everyone has the absolute right to express themselves, but does no one have a filter anymore? A very quick

Twitter search (just going back an hour or two) of the names of each of the federal party leaders found an array of interesting thoughts.

A very tiny sample: Justin Trudeau: “nothing more than a flip-flopper”; “He’s never had a real job”; “liberal (bad word)”; “Are you high Justin? ???”

Stephen Harper: “Do u really want a Prime Minister INCITING HATE?!”; “Spookiest halloween twitter name: Stephen Harper”; “i hate stephen harper so much if he gets another term i’m (bad word) moving out of the country.”

Thomas Mulcair: “is it just me or does Mulcair look like an evangelist in this pic”; “Time for a stylist! Lose the creepy factor if u want to win.”

Elizabeth May: “what the hell is an Elizabeth May?”; “U r worst than @ ThomasMulcair”; “Maybe u got the idea from @ElizabethMay while having a few?”

And on and on and on. A deeper search found much, much worse.

I’m not naive enough to think it’s ever going to change, because negativity apparently gets results. But a little more respect all around would be a refreshing change. » Daily News managing editor Philip Wolf can be reached at 250-729-4240 or philip.wolf@nanaimodailynews.com

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Family devastated by vandalism of memorial KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

What was supposed to be a sentimental family unveiling of a memorial bench turned into a traumatic experience for an 87-year-old widower on Tuesday.

The family of Ken Parker went for the first time to visit the Greenwood Cemetery graveside of his late wife, Elaine, and discovered four handprints in the fresh cement surrounding the bench. They appear to be those of an adult and child.

“It was supposed to be a special moment for our family, but it was terrible,” said Ken’s granddaughter, Tanya Parker.

After Elaine’s passing in March, the bench was something Ken immedi-

ately wanted to purchase to honour his late wife.

“He is older and wanted a place to sit out there to be with her,” Parker said.

“It was a must from the get-go.”

Parker’s sister started the process of acquiring the bench, and after six months and many phone calls, it was installed. The couple had been married nearly 70 years and the act of mischief added to his grief, Parker said. “He has been hurt enough and this happy moment was stripped away.

It was crushing. They were the perfect couple and she was completely blind.”

The cement was not completely dry by the time the family went to view the memorial, so it was surrounded by orange cones and fencing.

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the cones and lift the fencing to get under,” Parker said.

Parker’s father tried to repair the damage by buffing it, but the imprints were still clearly visible.

“When he saw the look on my papa’s face, he got to his knees and tried to fix it,” she said.

When Parker’s friend, a city employee, found out, he immediately offered to make the repairs, so she is hoping to return with her family this week.

“I just want to take papa there and make him smile,” said Parker.

She hopes her family’s experience will make people realize the cemetery is a place for respect and not for play.

“I honestly don’t think they did it to intentionally hurt a grieving family,” Parker said.

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The sign gleams white in the early morning sunshine in front of a slender tree near a Duncan-area school playground.

“In memory of Great-Great Grandma Hubbard, October 1914-April 2014. May this tree last as long as she did. Love Judy, Ron, Amanda, Jaye, Yanisa, Ashton, Brin, etc.”

The tree is neatly sawed off, maybe two feet off the ground.

It was a distressing morning for staff and students at École Mt. Prevost Elementary, Wednesday. They arrived at school to see a dozen of the trees that had been planted when the new playground went in this summer chopped down.

Principal Lise Pagé confirmed the destruction.

“Eight trees were sawed down.

It is very sad for the children,” Pagé said, adding the school district’s operations department was quickly called to clean up the mess. “It was really upsetting for all of the students.”

Pagé said the school is working closely with the school’s Parent Advisory Council to come up with a solution.

“We don’t know yet what we’ll do with those trees,” she said. “They mean a lot to the students.”

Witness Kyle Hughes said he and a friend saw the alleged lumberjack.

“I was hanging out there with a friend last night at the playground just sitting there talking and some guy walked over towards one of the trees and I heard cutting noise,” Hughes said Wednesday. “So I yelled over to where he was, asking him what he was doing, and he said cutting an [expletive] tree

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and then threatened me with his hand saw.”

Hughes and his friend left the area and called police.

North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Krista Hobday said police aren’t sure whether it’s somebody with a

grudge against the school or PAC, or if it’s more of a mental health situation.

“We’re unsure if there’s any mental health issues involved though he did do what we consider to be the very unusual in turning to threaten the com-

plainant with a saw,” she said. “It was quite dark so we were unable to locate him,” Hobday said, noting that despite rumours, the suspect’s age is unknown.

“He’s kind of unpredictable. If you know him, come and let us know as opposed to approaching him,” Hobday added.

Buckerfields CEO Kelvin McCulloch has since offered to replace the trees for the school.

“We’re very pleased to do it. It’s not a huge cost, but it’s a huge issue, I think,” he said.

McCulloch said when he heard about what happened he knew he needed to act fast so that the school children could receive good news quickly after learning about the incident.

“So they don’t have to worry about it,” he explained. “They’re going to get new trees.”

But that’s not all.

“I said to them we should think about doing something maybe a little different and a little better so that the whole memory has changed of the event,” he said.

“If we just put it back it doesn’t really erase that event at all.”

He said he’s left it up to the PAC to decide what they might like.

“I think what happened is appalling and it’s easily within our means to make that right,” he said.

It was a senseless act of vandalism but there are heroes in the community too, according to École Mt. Prevost PAC president Amber Marsh.

“It’s so frustrating to put so much work, heart and soul into a project to have it so senselessly vandalized,” she said. “We’re all reeling, but we live in such an amazing community. Buckerfields will be replacing all of our trees and restoring the playground and our spirit.”

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Coulson Aircrane president honoured as top entrepreneur ERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Sketch of the suspect in an unsolved sexual assault in Harewood in May.

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Police release sketch of sex assault suspect Nanaimo RCMP have released composite sketches of suspects in an unsolved sexual assault in Harewood in May. On May 6, a Wednesday, between 3:30-6 a.m., a 37-year-old woman from Nanaimo was sexually assaulted by two unidentified men.

The woman was approached by two men in a condo complex on Ninth Street who invited her for drinks.

She walked with them to a grassy area between Ninth Street and the Nanaimo Parkway.

After a short time the men became aggressive and she was violently sexually assaulted and injured.

The suspects left the area and the woman made her way home. She called RCMP later that day and an investigation began.

Police spoke to area residents and did a forensic examination of the scene.

One suspects is described as white, mid- to late-30s between five foot five and five foot seven.

He had shoulder-length hair and wore a black long-sleeve shirt and red shoes.

The other man is aboriginal, taller than five foot seven, with a heavier build, circular tattoo on the back of his calf.

He wearing shorts and a white T-shirt.

Anyone with information should contact the Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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Arrest made in July 11 robbery of city pizzeria An arrest has been made in the robbery of a central Nanaimo pizzeria.

A man was picked up by Nanaimo RCMP Thursday in connection with the July 11 robbery of the Domino’s Pizza outlet on Norwell Drive.

In recent weeks members of the Nanaimo detachment’s general investigation section have focused on this crime, which led to the arrest of a 34 year old Nanaimo man.

He was held in custody but had not yet been officially charged as of press time.

A search warrant was used to search the man’s house, where police say a pellet gun was seized.

The name of the 34-year-old man is being withheld until charges are sworn.

Wayne Coulson’s interest in aircraft was sparked in 1984 when his family’s company bought its first helicopter. The Coulson Group of Companies has a logging history dating back to the 1930s, but 31 years after acquiring that forestry helicopter aviation has grown to encompass a large part of the corporation’s activities.

“We then purchased our first Sikorsky S-61 in 1986,” wrote Coulson in an email to the Times. “We excelled there in helicopter logging, fire fighting, offshore oil and gas, (as well as) transport of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan working worldwide.”

As president and CEO of Coulson Aircrane, the Alberni-bred businessman was recognized by his peers in the aircraft industry with an entrepreneur of the year award from the B.C. Aviation Council in September.

Coulson Aircrane employs 30 people at the Alberni Valley Regional Airport, where the company is currently focussing on manufacturing eight sets of Sikorsky helicopter sand filters for a customer operating with the U.S. Military in South Africa.

The company also converts Hercules C-130 airplanes with water and retardant tanks for firefighting contracts. Maintenance on these planes is being done in San Bernardino, California and Singapore, while Coulson plans to equip a C-130

Wayne Coulson, President and CEO of Coulson Aircrane, was recognized by the B.C. Aviation Council in September with an entrepreneur of the year award. He is pictured with the company’s Hawaii Mars water bomber on Sproat Lake.

with a 16,600-litre tank in Edmonton later this month in time for a forest firefighting contract in Australia that begins in late November.

“At the present time minimal work can be done to the C-130 in Port, so we will be moving teams to Edmonton in October,” Coulson said. “Our long-term plan is to install a structure at the airport that the C-130 will fit in and do maintenance at home.”

With the absence of a global positioning system and a shorter runway than most commercial airports, the Alberni aviation company is limited with what’s currently available at the airport near Sproat Lake. Large government grants have yet to support the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District’s $7.5-million plan to upgrade the airport, but Coulson is confident the expansion project will benefit the

Valley’s economy. This summer the ACRD passed a bylaw that allow’s the airport project to be funded by loans and property taxes.

“There is no doubt in our minds that the airport will grow the Port Alberni economy,” said Coulson.

“While everyone loves certainty in business we live with very little, and it is up to us to create opportunities to prosper.”

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Cougar sightings keep kids inside, officers on guard OAK BAY NEWS

Multiple unconfirmed cougar sightings have students kept inside and police and conservation officers on the lookout in south Oak Bay. The first sighting was reported to police from the area of Brighton and Monterey avenues, said Kent Thom, deputy chief of Oak Bay Police Department.

“These are all coming in independently,” Thom said. “We’ve contacted the conservation office and they’re going to be searching the area. . . . We have to be diligent getting the word out there, but a professional hasn’t spotted an actual cougar yet.”

Other calls stretch out into the Linkleas Road area, but all are in south Oak Bay. “We’ve got some of the schools in the area notified and they’re keeping their kids in,” Thom said.

In a letter fanout to parents, administrators at Monterey outlined a safety plan in place for students.

“Oak Bay Police recently introduced a new drill this year called ‘hold and secure’, which is suitable for situations such as this one,” principal Ken Andrews wrote to parents.

COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS TO DOWNTOWN NANAIMO BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION NANAIMO YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL The City of Nanaimo is now accepting applications for appointments by Council to fill vacancies on the Downtown Nanaimo Business Improvement Association Board and the Nanaimo Youth Advisory Council. Citizens who are interested in volunteering their time are invited to obtain a “Council Appointment Application Form” in person at the Legislative Services Department or print one from the City’s website: www.nanaimo.ca/goto/CAAF The current membership terms are noted below, and may be revised subject to Core Services Review implementation. Additional information may be obtained by contacting the applicable staff member noted on the list.

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Talks feature governance rights question THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Two First Nations waging a court battle to overturn approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline project say federal officials refused to discuss their claim of decision-making power over ancestral lands.

Lawyer Cheryl Sharvit said the Nadleh Whut’en and Nak’azdli are not declaring the right to veto resource projects on traditional terri-

tories in the Central Interior.

But she said the bands’ asserted authority to govern their lands should have at least been considered by the Crown during consultations on the $7-billion proposal by Calgary-based Enbridge.

“The scale of the potential harm from Northern Gateway in their territory is unprecedented. They have never faced a risk this great from their perspective from a single project,” Sharvit said.

She said the Crown’s refusal to first negotiate with the Nadleh and Nak’azdli “does serious damage to the goal of reconciliation and protection of aboriginal rights.”

The Crown excluded the issue from the talks because it decided the question of control over First Nations’ territories would be better dealt with in the treaty process, Sharvit said.

Eight aboriginal bands are in the Federal Court of Appeal in Vancouver

to argue Canada violated its legal duty to consult with and accommodate First Nations before approving Northern Gateway. More than 200 conditions were attached.

The 1,200-kilometre twin pipeline would carry diluted bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to the coastal district of Kitimat, where tankers would ship it overseas.

The court is considering a total of 18 legal challenges during the hearing, which is set to conclude Oct. 8.

Its outcome could have far-reaching implications for aboriginal authority over oil and gas projects.

Many First Nations in B.C. have not signed treaties and have unresolved land claims.

But they argue a landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling in June 2014 giving the Tsilhqot’in Nation title to its territory means Ottawa must seek consent from First Nations to approve developments on their lands.

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Rogers said he had expanded to four stores, with the other two located in Nanaimo, but he felt that he had lost the “personal touch” of being there to help deal with customer, so he cut back to his current two locations.

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VANCOUVER — Loading a high-definition movie online can take about eight minutes using your current Telus Internet, but that time will soon drop to six seconds when the company installs a new fibre-optic network across Vancouver.

The communications giant announced the five-year plan for the

upgrade to infrastructure on Friday, an enhancement Telus executives say will bring faster downloads, seamless video streaming and the ability for consumers and businesses alike to use new technologies.

“We are connecting our city to the fastest and most reliable Internet services available anywhere,” said Telus President and CEO Darren Entwistle.

“Once complete, our fibre build will

have an unprecedented impact on our city, transforming the way we live, the way we work, the way we socialize and the way that we raise our families in a digital world.”

Some of the copper cables that currently provide Internet to homes and businesses in Vancouver have been in use for 30 years, said Tony Geheran, president of broadband networks for Telus.

“Now, with the demands of high speed Internet and bandwidth, we’ve really reached the edge of what you can pass over copper,” he explained.

The new fibre-optic network will provide home Internet speeds of 150 megabits per second. An average customer uses between six and 15 megabits now, but in a highly connected world, people are getting less tolerant of slow connections, Geheran said.

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“People can see their own usage in the home, the amount of devices they have is going to necessitate greater and faster speeds.”

Telus already has fibre-optic networks in 22 B.C. communities, including Port Coquitlam, Oliver and Salmon Arm. The infrastructure is also being installed in Edmonton, and several other communities across Alberta and Quebec.

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Effectiveness of flu vaccine put in question JEFF NAGEL BC LOCAL NEWS

Sarbjit Bains (not shown) has been sentence to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years for the deaths of, from left, Delta’s Amritpal Saran, and New Westminster’s Jill Lyons and Karen Nabors. [SURREY NORTH DELTA LEADER]

Surrey man gets mandatory life sentence after trio of murders SHEILA REYNOLDS SURREY NORTH DELTA LEADER

A Surrey man who killed three people in three separate attacks in 2013 has received a mandatory life sentence and can’t apply for parole for at least 18 years.

Sarbjit Bains pleaded guilty in April to killing Delta’s Amritpal Saran, 29, and two woman from New Westminster – Jill Lyons, 45 and Karen Nabors, 48.

On Wednesday (Sept. 30), Bains was handed the life sentence in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.

Justice Miriam Maisonville set his parole eligibility at 18 years, meaning he is not allowed to apply for release before 2033.

At that time, it would be up to the Parole Board of Canada whether or

not to grant any type of release from prison.

The court heard that on the night Saran was killed in February 2013, he, Bains and Bains’ girlfriend, Evelina Urbaniak, were partying together, drinking and doing drugs.

While details are limited, lawyers submitted an agreed statement saying Bains and Saran kept partying after Urbaniak went to bed. Bains left to go to the bathroom and when he returned, found Saran naked in Urbaniak’s bedroom and “snapped.”

He choked Saran to death and he and Urbaniak later disposed of the body on Colebrook Road.

It was about six months later, in August 2013, that Lyons was found dead in an apartment complex in New Westminster. Thirteen days later, the body of Nabors was discov-

ered in the same building.

During sentencing, it was revealed Bains had planned to rob both women – who advertised online as escorts – but ended up killing both.

Nabors and Lyons were friends with one another and both had children.

Bains was arrested and charged with all three murders in January 2014. In the spring of this year, he pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Lyons and Nabors and to the lesser charge of manslaughter in Saran’s death.

Second-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence. A 10-year sentence for the manslaughter conviction will be served concurrently.

Bains’s sentence also includes a lifetime mandatory firearms prohibition.

Family and friends of all three victims either read or submitted statements at Bains’ sentencing hearing in September, during which they expressed their sadness and anger at the senseless loss of their loved ones.

“My house was warm until you took my son away,” Saran’s mom Jatinder told Bains.

Nabors’ son submitted a victim impact statement that read, in part, “It hurts so much that she is gone.

You have no idea.”

Sherri Hickman, Lyons’ mother, said she lost all belief in the goodness of the human race when her daughter was murdered.

Urbaniak pleaded guilty earlier this year to interfering with a dead body in connection to Saran’s death and received a two-year conditional sentence plus three years probation.

There are signs the flu season may hit B.C. early and hard and public health officials are warning they expect the flu vaccine to again be less effective than they’d like.

The most dangerous influenza type for vulnerable people is the H3N2 strain that was dominant in last year’s severe flu season.

But because of a genetic mismatch, the vaccine provided last year was useless in warding off H3N2, according to B.C. Centre for Disease Control epidemiologist Dr. Danuta Skowronski.

That component of the vaccine was replaced on orders of the World Health Organization, but preliminary evidence suggests the new version will still not be a good match against H3N2, falling well short of the 60 to 70 per cent protection rates against other flu strains in most years.

“I believe it’s going to be better than last year — in other words I don’t think it’s going to be zero — but by how much, I can’t say,” Skowronski said.

She said there’s good reason to hope it may be 40 to 60 per cent effective overall, adding she continues to recommend the vaccine, particularly for those more vulnerable.

“If you are a high-risk person, especially with heart and lung conditions or elderly, even if you’re looking at vaccine protection of 30, 40 or 50 per cent, you’re still better off than if you’re unvaccinated.”

Flu vaccine will be widely available

by November and may be offered sooner than that in high-risk settings like residential care homes.

Epidemiologists had expected H3N2 would be less prevalent this year, with more of a mix of H1N1 and influenza B strains also in circulation, making the mismatch less of a worry.

But Skowronski noted there have already been two H3N2 outbreaks in long-term care homes in B.C.’s Vancouver Coastal health region – one in the summer and another in late September.

“To have had outbreak activity already in the summer is very unusual,” she said.

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Probe into Canadian Olympic boss expanded The Canadian Olympic Committee says it is expanding its investigations to examine any complaints that are brought to its attention with regard to the conduct of its president, Marcel Aubut.

The committee said in a statement today it is looking for an independent third party to lead the process and that it is encouraging anyone who has concerns to contact the organization.

Aubut temporarily stepped aside as president of the committee and chairman of the Canadian Olympic Foundation late Wednesday after a sexual harassment allegation came to light.

The COC has already appointed Francois Rolland, a former chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court, to investigate that complaint. The allegations have not been proven and a COC spokesman says that probe will continue.

Since then, more complaints against Aubut have surfaced in the media.

◆ KINGSTON, ONT.

Man accused of damage to various election signs Flood waters enveloped this neighbourhood in the Strathmere section of Upper Township N.J. on Friday. Despite forecasts showing the impending Hurricane Joaquin may move out to sea and not directly strike New Jersey, crews along the shore were nonetheless taking precautions against flooding from a wind and rainstorm that preceded Joaquin and that was causing some flooding in southern New Jersey on Friday. [AP PHOTO]

Hurricane Joaquin batters Bahamas; hunt on for ship U.S. East Coast will experience dangerous surf and rip currents through the weekend BEN FOX THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ELEUTHERA, Bahamas — Hurricane Joaquin destroyed houses, uprooted trees and unleashed heavy flooding as it hurled torrents of rain across the Bahamas on Friday, and the U.S. Coast Guard said it was searching for a cargo ship with 33 people aboard that went missing during the storm.

The Coast Guard said the 224-metre ship named El Faro had taken on water and was listing at 15 degrees near Crooked Island, one of the islands most battered by the hurricane. Officials said the crew includes 31 U. S. citizens and two from Poland.

Officials said they hadn’t been able to re-establish communication with the vessel, which was travelling from Jacksonville, Florida, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Coast Guard said the crew earlier reported it had been able to contain the flooding.

Fedor said there were nine-metre

waves in the area, and that heavy winds could have destroyed the ship’s communications equipment. The ship went missing when Joaquin was a Category 4 storm. The hurricane has since lost strength and become a Category 3 storm.

As the search continued, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Joaquin’s threat to the U.S. East Coast was fading as new forecasts showed it likely to curve out into the Atlantic while moving north and weakening in coming days.

But the slow-moving storm continued to batter parts of the Bahamas, cutting communication to several islands, most of them lightly populated. There had been no reports of fatalities or injuries, said Capt. Stephen Russell, the director of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency.

Officials were investigating reports of shelters being damaged and flooded, as well as two boats with a total of five people that remained missing.

About 85 per cent of homes in one settlement of a couple dozen houses on Crooked Island were destroyed, said Marvin Hanna, an Acklins representative. He said he has had no communication with Acklins since late Thursday morning.

“At that time, vehicles were floating around and the water level was up to the windows of some homes,” he said.

Residents reached by relatives said they were “trapped in their homes, and reported feeling as if their structures were caving in,” Russell said.

“It’s too dangerous to go outside because the flood waters are so high, so we ask that persons stay inside and try to go into the most secure place of their home.”

Power also was knocked out to several islands, and Leslie Miller, executive chairman of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation, said the company “is in no position to do much” to restore electricity. “All the airports are flooded,” he said.

Schools, businesses and government offices were closed as the slow-moving storm roared through the island chain.

The storm was expected to continue north, with some weakening expected on Saturday as if follows a projected path farther from the U.S. East Coast than originally predicted.

Rick Knabb, director of the Center, said Joaquin is expected to pass well offshore from the eastern seaboard.

“We no longer have any models forecasting the hurricane to come into the East Coast,” he said. “But we are still going to have some bad weather.”

The entire East Coast will experience dangerous surf and rip currents through the weekend, he said.

The Hurricane Center said parts of the Bahamas could see storm surge raising sea levels as much as four metres) above normal, with 31 to 46 centimetres of rain falling in the central Bahamas.

An eastern Ontario man has been charged with mischief after allegedly damaging federal election signs belonging to different parties.

Kingston, Ont., police say early Friday morning officers saw a man kicking and throwing an election sign.

They say the man told police he blamed one politician for having an agenda against him.

Police say the officer pointed out that the damaged signs behind the man belonged to another federal party.

The suspect allegedly said he didn’t care, and police say he indicated he had damaged other signs, and refused a suggestion by the officer to set the signs back up.

Police say he then began damaging more signs at which point he was arrested and charged.

◆ TORONTO

Four lion cubs born at zoo ’appear healthy,’ It just got a little more crowded in the Toronto Zoo’s lion habitat.

The zoo says in a Facebook post that the white lion Makali gave birth last weekend to four cubs, fathered by another white lion, Fintan.

It says Makali and her cubs are feeding and appear healthy, but the first 30 days are critical.

During that time, it says the cubs, who were born Saturday night and early Sunday morning, will be kept out of the public’s sight in the habitat’s maternity den.

Staff will monitor them and provide updates on their progress.

The zoo says it will announce “naming details” once the cubs are older.

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VW offers incentives for Canadians after scandal THE CANADIAN PRESS

While Canadian dairy farmers are concerned about the impact of Trans-Pacific trade talks, negotiators are near to concluding part of the deal focused on auto parts. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Negotiators close in on auto deal in TPP talks More parts from cheaper, foreign sources would be allowed ALEXANDER PANETTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

ATLANTA — Negotiators are closing in on a major 12-country trade agreement after clearing a logjam on automobiles, with the possibility of a Trans-Pacific Partnership deal being announced as early as Saturday.

Details have filtered out to stakeholders gathered in Atlanta for negotiations and multiple groups described having heard the broad outlines of a Canada-U.S.-MexicoJapan agreement on autos.

The agreement would likely allow significantly more car parts from cheaper foreign suppliers than under the North American Free Trade Agreement, but would be more multi-layered than the old NAFTA standard.

International Trade Minister Ed Fast confirmed he was optimistic the issue could be solved. But he said talks were still underway, and would not confirm figures and percentages. “We are making good progress in trying to conclude those negotiations,� Fast told Canadian reporters Friday.

“There’s still some work left to be done.

But we’re optimistic that issue can be solved and we’ll have an outcome that will support our Canadian auto sector and ensure its long-term viability in Canada.�

Ed Fast, trade minister

“There’s still some work left to be done. But we’re optimistic that issue can be solved and we’ll have an outcome that will support our Canadian auto sector and ensure its long-term viability in Canada.�

It now appears that the final hurdle to a deal, from a Canadian standpoint, is one of the country’s sectors most-sheltered from foreign competition: dairy.

Only 10 per cent of what Canadians consume is produced outside the country, and the government is involved in a

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tug-of-war over what percentage to add. “There’s still lots of work to be done,� Fast said of the dairy talks.

The Canadian government faces domestic pressure at the Atlanta meeting: representatives from dairy-producing provinces, who are not at the negotiating table.

They are there pushing against any opening to foreign milk and cheese.

Fast says he’s met with 20 Canadian stakeholder groups, and has met with those provincial ministers in Atlanta.

Canada isn’t the only country with domestic pressure: the U.S. side has received a public letter from influential lawmakers urging it to walk away unless it can secure certain gains for American businesses.

One official from the biggest U.S. business lobby present at the talks, however, said it’s urgent to get a deal now — because she said failure in Atlanta could permanently doom the decade-long initiative.

Canada’s election is only the first of several over the coming year that could play havoc with attempts to ratify a deal.

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TORONTO — Volkswagen Canada is offering incentives to attract customers and offset lost sales since its parent company admitted last month that it cheated on government emission tests on diesel-engine models.

Until Nov. 2, Volkswagen says it is offering a choice of lower finance rates, lower lease rates and cash incentives on select vehicles. “The incentives were implemented to support our customers and dealers during the period in which our TDI diesel sales remain suspended pending resolution of the recent EPA Notice (from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency),� VW Canada’s spokesman said in an email.

The TDI diesel engines were available on a variety of Volkswagen models that accounted for nearly 22 per cent of VW Canada’s sales before Sept. 22, when the company told dealers to stop selling the models in question. “That figure is now lower, as all sales

since have been of gasoline powered cars,� Volkswagen Canada said Friday.

Overall company sales were 5,128 in September, down 19.6 per cent from 6,381 in the same month a year ago down almost 25 per cent from the 6,826 vehicles it sold in August.

As of Oct. 1, VW Canada’s choice of incentives include finance interest rates as low as zero per cent for up to 84 months, depending on the model.

Alternatively, customers can opt for lease rates as low as 0.9 per cent for up to 48 months, depending on the model, or up to $6,000 cash back.

On top of those options, VW is offering up to an additional $1,500 in bonus cash.

The company declined to comment on a memo that was sent to its dealers. According to the Globe and Mail, the memo by Volkswagen Canada president Maria Stenstrom said: “The scale of these programs is unprecedented for Volkswagen in Canada, but necessary and appropriate given the circumstances.�

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Raw milk crusader has farm raided once more Various agencies swarm property northwest of Toronto DIANA MEHTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

Michael Schmidt, raw milk crusader

other items, weekly to members of the farming co-operative from a location in Maple, Ont. In that case, York Region’s director of health protection said a “raw milk investigation” was underway.

Schmidt’s farming collective currently produces raw milk products that are distributed to its members.

He has maintained that he believes

the operation is within the law.

“I was never hiding what we were doing,” he said. “I was always of the opinion that we need to sit down with the government to establish a regular scheme that allows people to have their own cows and that they get uninterrupted the milk from their own cows.”

Schmidt has fought for his cause for years.

The Ontario government maintains the unprocessed milk poses a significant risk to public health, but Schmidt insists there’s no evidence anyone has ever fallen ill from his milk, and he and his supporters argue raw milk offers health benefits.

Last August, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear Schmidt’s appeal of an earlier decision which meant his 2011 convictions on 13 charges under the Health Protection and Promotion Act and the Milk Act that saw him fined $9,150 stayed in place.

Ontario does not ban the consumption of raw milk and farmers are allowed to drink the milk produced by their own cows.

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An Ontario farmer who has long fought for the right to sell unpasteurized milk said public health officials raided his farm northwest of Toronto on Friday but left after members of his farming collective gathered to express their outrage.

Michael Schmidt said about 20 officials from Ontario’s ministries of agriculture, natural resources and finance, as well as local police, arrived at his farm in Durham, Ont., at 10:30 a.m. Officials started removing equipment and computers when members of the collective showed up, he said.

“There was a complete standoff,” Schmidt said. “Finally the farmshare members negotiated a deal that everything stays here, and they’re leaving.”

The action on Schmidt’s farm came just days after public health officials in York Region obtained a warrant and seized raw milk products from a van belonging to the farming collective. The van distributes raw milk products, among

“I was always of the opinion that we need to sit down with the government to establish a regular scheme that allows people to have their own cows and that they get uninterrupted the milk from their own cows.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday. [AP PHOTO]

France tells Putin Russia can only strike IS targets NATALIYA VASILYEVA AND SYLVIE CORBET THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — With Russian warplanes bombing Syria for a third day, French President Francois Holland told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that Moscow’s airstrikes must be confined to attacking Islamic State militants, not other rebels opposing the Damascus government.

Hollande used a meeting on Ukraine to address Western concerns that Russia’s airstrikes would serve to strengthen Syrian President Bashar Assad by targeting rebels — perhaps including some aligned with the U.S. — rather than hitting IS fighters it has promised to attack.

Allies in a U.S.-led coalition that is conducting its own air campaign in Syria called on Russia to cease attacks on the Syrian opposition and to focus on fighting the Islamic State group. A joint statement by France, Turkey, the U.S. Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Britain expressed concern that Russia’s actions will “only fuel more extremism and radicalization.”

The Russian Defence Ministry released images showing that its jets hit an Islamic State-held area near its de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria on Thursday. It said there were 14 new missions Friday, including targets in Idlib and Hama provinces.

Hollande said he told Putin that only one of Russia’s strikes in three days hit at the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, ISIS and Daesh. The other strikes, Hollande added, were on areas controlled by the opposition.

“Russia has always been involved in Syria. Since the beginning, Russia has supported the regime of Bashar Assad and furnished him weapons, even if it goes further now,” Hollande said. “But what I told Mr. Putin is that the strikes must concern Daesh, and only Daesh.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who also attended the meeting with Putin, added that the leaders “said very clearly that Daesh was the enemy that we needed to fight.”

“ Since the beginning, Russia has supported the regime of Bashar Assad and furnished him weapons.”

Francois Hollande, French president

“We also said that we needed a political solution for Syria that should take into consideration the opposition’s interests and that opposition has always had our support,” she added.

In Washington, President Barack Obama said Russia’s military campaign fails to distinguish between terrorist groups and moderate rebel forces with a legitimate interest in a negotiated end to the civil war. He called Russia’s military involvement, including airstrikes, a self-defeating exercise that will move the Syrian conflict further away from a solution.

Obama also said that Syria would not turn into a “proxy war” between the United States and Russia.

Putin left the Paris meeting without comment — and without appearing alongside the French and German leaders.

His spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the leaders “talked at length about Syrian affairs,” and the Russian leader briefed Hollande about how the Russian operation is going. Putin reiterated Russia’s commitment to co-ordinate its airstrikes “with the interested parties,” Peskov added.

On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected suggestions that the airstrikes were meant to shore up support for Syria, Moscow’s main ally in the Middle East. He insisted Russia was targeting the same groups as the U.S.-led coalition: IS, the al-Qaidalinked Nusra Front and other groups.

Since Russia’s airstrikes began Wednesday, the warplanes appeared to be bombing central and northwestern Syria, strategic regions that are the gateway to Assad’s strongholds in the capital of Damascus and the coast.

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Migrant crisis a leftist conspiracy: Hungary PM “When they hear the Croatian prime minister, I ask Hungarians not to hear a Croatian man but an envoy of the Socialist International who is supposed to attack Hungary.”

PABLO GORONDI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s prime minister lambasted his Croatian counterpart Friday, accusing him of being the envoy of a global left-wing organization with the job of attacking Hungary — some the strongest statements yet in neighbourhood disputes caused by the migrant crisis.

Meanwhile, officials in the Czech Republic said they were willing to send more than 100 police and soldiers to help Hungary defend its European Union borders, which could include the border with Croatia. That could create the awkward situation of EU members guarding the borders of a fellow member country with troops.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the parties in the Socialist International, which includes Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic’s Social Democratic Party, support migration, think the wave of migrants reaching Europe is

Victor Orban, Hungary prime minister

Migrants and refugees line up to board a train towards Serbia on Friday. The Red Cross says vulnerable migrants in the Balkans are facing increasingly difficult conditions with the arrival of heavy rains and cold weather. [AP PHOTO]

a “good thing” and their leaders “are following the orders not so much of their people as of the Socialist International.”

Orban said on state radio that “we don’t consider what the Croatian prime minister says to be the opinion

of the Croatian people.”

“When they hear the Croatian prime minister, I ask Hungarians not to hear a Croatian man but an envoy of the Socialist International who is supposed to attack Hungary,” Orban continued, adding that he had

refrained from criticizing Milanovic until now in the interest of the longterm relationship between their countries.

Politicians from the two countries have been trading barbs since Hungary’s decision on Sept. 15 to close its border with Serbia with a high fence protected by razor wire, police and soldiers.

Hungary’s foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, last month called Milan-

ovic’s handling of the migrant crisis “pathetic,” while Milanovic said Hungary’s border fences were a disgrace.

Thousands of migrants a day are streaming into Hungary from Croatia, through which they were forced to detour because of the fence. They are searching for clear paths toward Germany and other destinations in the European Union.

Hungarian officials say they are close to completing a fence on the Croatian border as well.

Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said Friday the matter of Czech help with border control in Hungary would be discussed Oct. 8 at a meeting with his counterparts from Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

Chovanec said the soldiers could be deployed within two weeks, while the Polish interior ministry said a helicopter and crew from the Polish Border Guard could be sent to help Hungary.

EU member Croatia is not a Schengen country while Serbia is a candidate for EU membership.

ALBERTA

Fund tech to fix emissions, say oil firms

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CALGARY — The oil and gas industry wants investment in emissions-busting technology to play a big role in Alberta’s climate change strategy.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has made its submission to the five-member panel working on a broad plan to reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions.

“If we want to find the balance between increasing investment and production of energy here in Alberta and more responsible performance on the climate side, it’ll be technology that bridges both those two imperatives,” CAPP president Tim McMillan said in an interview.

Alberta should set a target for technology investment over the next 10 years and invest funds from its soonto-be-hiked carbon levy to develop and deploy those technologies, the group said.

In June, the left-leaning NDP government announced the carbon price for large industrial emitters that exceed their allotment — now at $15 a tonne — would be rising to $20 a tonne next year and to $30 a tonne in 2017.

Between that change, and an increase in the corporate tax rate from 10 per cent to 12 per cent, CAPP has estimated the industry faces $800 million in higher cost over two years.

The climate change panel, headed by University of Alberta economist Andrew Leach, is tackling the province’s wider climate strategy, focusing not just on oil and gas, but on aspects like transportation and power, too.

McMillan said British Columbia’s Infrastructure Royalty Credit Program serves as a good model. Under that program, companies can receive up to a 50 per cent credit for the cost of building roads or pipelines in underdeveloped areas of the province, which can be used against royalties.

CAPP also wants more power generation to come from natural gas, a cleaner-burning fuel than coal, and to export it to countries like China.

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Obama won’t sign temporary spending bill “We’re not going back there.”

ANDREW TAYLOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Friday he won’t sign another temporary government funding bill after the current one expires Dec. 11, insisting that congressional Republicans and Democrats work out a long-term budget deal with the White House.

Obama said such a deal should lift a freeze on the budgets of both the Pentagon and domestic agencies.

Speaking at a White House news conference, he said he “won’t sign another shortsighted spending bill” and asserted that the U.S. can’t cut its way to prosperity.

On the so-called debt limit, which needs to be raised above the current

Barack Obama, U.S. president

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$18.1 trillion cap by early November, Obama said he won’t repeat a 2011 negotiation over companion spending cuts that brought the nation to

the brink of a first-ever default on its obligations.

“We’re not going back there,” he said.

Neither position was new or surprising, but the president’s statements came after Capitol Hill was roiled by the resignation of House Speaker John Boehner. He decided to leave Congress after a revolt among tea party forces who wanted him to use a temporary spending bill to force Obama to take away Planned Parenthood’s federal funding.

The same conservatives generally opposed lifting tight caps on spending set by the 2011 budget deal.

Talks on spending were just beginning and were expected to focus on finding long-term cuts elsewhere in the budget to permit higher spending on the day-to-day operations of government agencies. Agreement will be difficult, in large part because of a lack of politically easy spending cuts and disagreement over how to use any money from the cuts.

Four years ago Obama agreed to spending cuts in exchange for getting a $2.1-trillion debt limit increase through Congress. Since then he has twice refused to negotiate over the debt-ceiling issue and Congress has lifted the debt limit

both times with sweeping support from Democrats.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew informed Congress on Thursday that it needs to act by Nov. 5, earlier than most on Capitol Hill had thought.

The issue probably will need to be dealt with before Boehner leaves at the end of the October.

Obama said that Boehner’s resignation, which has sparked GOP infighting in a handful of House leadership races, complicates the situation. But Boehner says he would like to clean out Congress’ barn of as much unfinished business as possible and he may have more leeway now that he doesn’t have to worry about tea party lawmakers demanding his scalp.

OREGON KILLINGS

Ex-army gunman studied mass shootings Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer wore flak jacket, brought at least six guns and five ammunition magazines JEFF BARNARD AND MARTHA MENDOZA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROSEBURG, Ore. — The 26-yearold gunman who opened fire in a community college English class, killing nine, was an Army boot camp dropout who studied mass shooters before becoming one himself.

A day after the rampage in an Oregon timber town, authorities said Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer, who died during a shootout with police, wore a flak jacket and brought at least six guns and five ammunition magazines to the school. Investigators found another seven guns at the apartment he shared with his mother.

The weapons had all been purchased legally over the past three years, some by him, others by relatives, said Celinez Nunez, assistant field agent for the Seattle division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Those who knew the shooter described a deeply troubled loner.

At a different apartment complex where Harper-Mercer and his mother lived in Southern California, neighbours remembered a quiet and odd young man who rode a red bike everywhere.

Reina Webb, 19, said the man’s mother was friendly and often chatted with neighbours, but Harper-Mercer kept to himself. She said she occasionally heard him having temper tantrums in his apartment.

“He was kind of like a child so that’s why his tantrums would be like kind of weird. He’s a grown man. He shouldn’t be having a tantrum like a kid. That’s why I thought there was something — something was up,” she said.

Harper-Mercer’s social media profiles suggested he was fascinated by the Irish Republican Army, frustrated by traditional organized religion and that he tracked other mass shootings. In one post, he appeared

Celinez Nunez, assistant special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, discusses the weapons used in a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College, during a news conference on Friday. At right is Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin. [AP PHOTO]

“He was kind of like a child so that’s why his tantrums would be like kind of weird.

He’s a grown man. He shouldn’t be having a tantrum like a kid.

That’s why I thought there was something — something was up.”

Reina Webb, gunman’s neighbour

to urge readers to watch the online footage of Vester Flanagan shooting two former colleagues live on TV in August in Virginia, noting “the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.”

He may have even posted a warning. A message on 4chan — a forum

where racist and misogynistic comments are frequent — warned of an impending attack, but it’s unclear if it came from Harper-Mercer.

“Some of you guys are alright.

Don’t go to school tomorrow if you are in the northwest,” an anonymous poster wrote a day before the shootings.

On Thursday morning, he walked into Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College and began firing, shooting a teacher and students, many repeatedly. Survivors described a classroom of carnage, and one said he ordered students to state their religion before shooting them.

Students in a classroom next door heard several shots, one right after the other, and their teacher told them to leave.

“We began to run,” student Hannah Miles said. “A lot of my classmates were going every which way.

We started to run to the centre of

campus. And I turned around, and I saw students pouring out of the building.”

An aunt of an Army veteran hit by several bullets said he tried to stop the gunman from entering the classroom.

Wanda Mintz said her 30-year-old nephew, Chris Mintz, a student at the college, fell to the floor and asked the shooter to stop. But, she said, he shot Mintz again and went inside.

Portland Fire and Rescue Lt. Rich Chatman, who is serving as a spokesman for the criminal investigation, said investigators were still processing the crime scene.

“As you can imagine, there is a tremendous amount of information and evidence for them to sort through,” he said. “We have a very large team of investigators and forensic teams trying to process all of the information.”

Chatman said several hundred investigators are involved, ranging

from federal agencies such as the FBI and ATF to state, county and city law enforcement.

Several years ago, Harper-Mercer moved to Winchester, Oregon, from Torrance, California, with his mother, a nurse named Laurel Harper. His father, Ian Mercer, originally from the United Kingdom, told reporters outside his Tarzana, California, home, “I’m just as shocked as anybody at what happened.”

At school in Oregon, “he was a typical Roseburg kid, kind of nerdy, kind of out there. Just himself,” said Alex Frier, a stage manager at the college who said Harper-Mercer built sets for theatre performances last semester.

A neighbour, Bronte Harte, said Harper-Mercer “seemed really unfriendly” and would “sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light.”

Harte said a woman she believed to be Mercer’s mother also lived upstairs and was “crying her eyes out” Thursday.

The Army said Harper-Mercer flunked out of basic training in 2008.

Army spokesman Lt. Col. Ben Garrett said Harper-Mercer was in the military for a little over a month at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, but was discharged for failing to meet the minimum standards.

In Washington, President Barack Obama lamented the government’s inability to pass stricter gun laws even after attacks like the one in Oregon.

At a news conference Friday at the White House, Obama said he plans to keep talking about the issue and “will politicize it” because inaction is itself a political decision the U.S. is making.

He said it’s impossible to identify mentally ill people likely to perpetrate mass shootings ahead of time.

The only thing the U.S. can do, he explained, is ensure they don’t have an arsenal available “when something in them snaps.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ BOGOTA, COLUMBIA

Military assault kills crafty cocaine warlord A years-long manhunt for a ruthless cocaine warlord who ruled a remote rural fiefdom with an armed band and generous bribes has ended with a military raid that killed the man officials called Colombia’s second most-wanted criminal.

Victor Navarro, a 39-year-old better known by the alias “Megateo,” long dominated the historically lawless Catatumbo region that hugs Venezuela. It is where he was killed Thursday night in a ground and air attack, authorities said.

A thickly built man of medium height, Navarro was notorious for his garish jewelry. He wore a big gold ring on each hand — one encrusted with diamonds, the other emeralds.

In one photo police obtained in a raid, a golden pistol hangs from a necklace.

◆ BERLIN

U.S. wingsuit flyer dies in crash in the Swiss Alps American adventurer Johnny Strange, who scaled the tallest peaks on every continent before he was 18, died in a wingsuit crash in the Alps, Swiss police reported Friday.

Strange, 23, crashed shortly after jumping Thursday from Mount Gitschen in central Switzerland, police spokesman Gusti Planzer told The Associated Press.

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the experienced jumper to crash, but Planzer said there were strong winds on the mountain.

Strange had complained about the weather Monday when he discussed his plans with the hosts of Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM’s Kevin and Bean Show.

Strange, from Malibu, Calif., became the youngest person to scale the tallest peaks on each of the world’s seven continents when he conquered the last one, Mount Everest, at age 17.

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter defies calls for him to quit immediately ‘Respectfully disagrees’ with demands from Budweiser, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Visa ROB HARRIS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ZURICH — Sepp Blatter defied calls from FIFA sponsors Budweiser, CocaCola, McDonald’s and Visa on Friday to quit immediately as president of world soccer’s governing body rather than clinging on until the emergency election in February.

The interventions from the long-standing sponsors come a week after the 79-year-old Blatter was placed under criminal investigation

by Swiss authorities for alleged financial wrongdoing at FIFA, which he has led since 1998.

The 79-year-old Blatter “respectfully disagrees” with the sponsors’ demands, the president’s lawyer, Richard Cullen, said in a statement. “(He) believes firmly that his leaving office now would not be in the best interest of FIFA nor would it advance the process of reform and therefore, he will not resign,” Cullen said.

Coca-Cola, which has advertised in stadiums at every World Cup since 1950, was the first of the sponsors on Friday to demand Blatter resign.

“For the benefit of the game, The Coca-Cola Company is calling for FIFA President Joseph Blatter to step down immediately so that a credible and sustainable reform process can begin in earnest,” Coca-Cola said in a statement. “Every day that passes, the image and reputation of FIFA continues to tarnish. FIFA needs comprehensive and urgent reform, and that can only be accomplished through a truly independent approach.”

That call was echoed by McDonald’s, which has been a World Cup sponsor since 1994.

In this 2007 file photo Sepp Blatter, left, president of FIFA, listens to the now disgraced Jack Warner, chairman of the tournament, during a news conference as part of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Toronto. FIFA said on Tuesday that Warner will be banned for life from soccer related activities. Blatter is refusing calls to step down. [AP PHOTO]

“The events of recent weeks have continued to diminish the reputation of FIFA and public confidence in its leadership,” the fast food giant said in a statement.

“We believe it would be in the best interest of the game for FIFA President Sepp Blatter to step down immediately so that the reform process can proceed with the credibility that is needed.”

A further blow came from Visa, which has a FIFA deal through the 2022 World Cup. “We believe no meaningful reform can be made under FIFA’s existing leadership,” Visa said. “And given the events of last week, it’s clear it

would be in the best interest of FIFA and the sport for Sepp Blatter to step down immediately.”

The fourth statement was delivered by brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev, whose Budweiser branding has appeared on hoardings in World Cup stadiums since 1986 and the current deal runs until 2022.

“It would be appropriate for Mr. Blatter to step down as we believe his continued presence to be an obstacle in the reform process,” the beer maker said in a statement.

Blatter’s own position has been weakened as lawyers oversee key decisions at scandal-battered FIFA and he waits to hear whether he

will be suspended by the ethics committee.

English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke called the strong intervention from sponsors “a game changer” that should prevent Blatter from staying until the Feb. 26 election.

“It doesn’t matter what Mr. Blatter says now, if the people who pay for FIFA want a change they will get a change,” Dyke said. “What is important is that it isn’t just about Mr. Blatter standing down, it’s about making sure there is a comprehensive and effective reform programme.

“So for those of us who want fundamental change this is good news.”

◆ GUATEMALA CITY

Nine dead in mudslide; hunt on for more victims A rain-sodden hillside hundreds of feet tall collapsed onto a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Guatemala’s capital, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens more missing.

Rescue workers used shovels and backhoes in a desperate effort to reach survivors Friday, pulling one man alive from the rubble of his collapsed home more than 15 hours after the landslide hit late Thursday.

The hill that towers over the village of Cambray, about 15 kilometres east of Guatemala City, partly collapsed onto a 60-metre stretch of the hamlet just before midnight, burying an estimated 68 homes.

At its centre, the landslide buried houses under a layer of rocks and earth as much as 15 metres deep.

Raul Rodas, an assistant village mayor, said about 150 families had lived in the area where the mudslide occurred, but didn’t know how many might be trapped.

HEALTH

Groups want Alberta to increase tobacco tax JOHN COTTER THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — A coalition of health groups is calling on Alberta’s NDP government to raise the tax on cigarettes by $1 per pack.

Campaign for a Smoke-Free Alberta says such an increase in the government’s budget later this month would help deter young people from lighting up.

Dan Holinda, executive director of the Canadian Cancer Society in Alberta, said cigarettes are already too affordable in the province and the new increase in the minimum wage will make it even easier for young people to buy tobacco.

“The minimum-wage increase should be coupled with a tobacco tax increase to ensure that youth smoking rates don’t rise,” he said.

“We are not opposed to the increase

“The Notley government has a huge opportunity to significantly reduce youth smoking with the most powerful weapon available — a tobacco tax increase.”

Leigh Allard, Lung Association of Alberta

in the minimum wage, but a corresponding tobacco tax increase is needed to ensure that tobacco doesn’t become even more affordable.”

The coalition estimates such a tax hike on cigarettes and other tobacco products could generate $180 million the government could use for wellness programs.

Alberta’s minimum wage increased on Thursday to $11.20 an hour from $10.20. The government plans to raise the rate to $15 an hour by 2018.

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said the province will look at all options to reduce tobacco use where it makes sense.

“We are grateful for this advice and take it seriously, but it would be inappropriate to comment on taxation matters before the budget is released this fall,” she said in an email.

The Canadian Youth Smoking, Tobacco and Drug Survey indicated there are an estimated 39,000 tobacco users in Grades 6 to 12 in Alberta.

Alberta has the ninth-lowest tax rate on cigarettes in the provinces and territories.

Leigh Allard, president of the Lung Association of Alberta, said the prov-

ince has fallen behind when it comes to tobacco taxes.

“The Notley government has a huge opportunity to significantly reduce youth smoking with the most powerful weapon available — a tobacco tax increase,” she said.

The coalition said it wants Alberta to dedicate $20 million of any new tobacco tax revenue toward programs aimed at reducing youth smoking.

Last March, Alberta’s former Progressive Conservative government raised the tax on a pack of 20 cigarettes by 50 cents to $4.50 a pack.

Imperial Tobacco Canada, which calls itself the market leader in tobacco sales, said it told the NDP government a few weeks ago that another tax increase in Alberta would be ineffective and encourage some smokers to buy illegal cigarettes.

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COURTS

Alleged drunk driver in case that left four dead to get bail hearing Oct. 19 PAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS

NEWMARKET, Ont. — An accused drunk driver involved in a Toronto-area crash that claimed the lives of three children and their grandfather has been remanded in custody until his bail hearing on Oct. 19.

Marco Muzzo, 29, was in handcuffs when he entered the courtroom wearing jeans and a black shortsleeved shirt overtop a white one. He glanced at his fiancee — whom he was scheduled to marry on Oct. 17 — but did not speak during the hearing.

His mother Dawn Muzzo and other family members were accompanied inside the Newmarket, Ont., courthouse by men who appeared to be security guards, and were escorted out by police officers who cleared a path to the family’s cars.

A woman shouted “Justice!” at the family as they got into their vehicles.

Outside the courthouse, Muzzo’s high-powered defence lawyer, Brian Greenspan, said his client wants to express his condolences to the family of the victims following the crash in Vaughan, Ont., on Sunday.

“Marco is, first of all, devastated by the horrific loss of life and has

Mother of three Brigid Duggan, with 18-month daughter Claire, on Friday holds a sign to show solidarity with the Neville-Lake family, outside the courthouse in Newmarket, Ont., where a court hearing took place for Marco Muzzo, the accused in an impaired-driving case which killed a man and his three grandchildren on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

expressed to me on numerous occasions his condolences and sympathy to the family. This is obviously a tragic situation,” he said.

Greenspan said it was “premature”

to discuss how his client would plead and would not comment on where Muzzo was before the Sunday crash, saying only that the information would come out in court.

Muzzo, of King Township, Ont., is facing a dozen impaired-driving offences and six charges related to the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle after he allegedly smashed into the family’s minivan on Sunday afternoon.

Candlelight vigils were held Thursday for Daniel Neville-Lake, 9, his brother Harrison, 5, their sister Milly, 2, and the kids’ 65-year-old grandfather who died following the crash.

The Muzzo family owns the construction company Marel Contractors and is worth nearly $1.8 billion, according to Canadian Business magazine.

A spokeswoman for the local MADD chapter who went to the courthouse as a show of support for the Neville-Lake family said it was unfortunate that it took a tragedy to draw attention to the dangers of drunk driving.

“My heart aches for the family... we just want to show support for the victims,” Kathy Mitchell said. “It’s a tragedy.”

Greenspan said the date of the bail hearing — which coincides with the federal election — is purely coincidental.

Missouri man granted stay of execution THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. LOUIS — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday spared the life of a death row inmate four days before the scheduled execution, saying he did so after “significant consideration” of the circumstances but without explaining further.

The death sentence for Kimber Edwards, who had been scheduled to die Tuesday for the contract killing of his ex-wife in suburban St. Louis in 2000, was commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Nixon said in a statement that he remains convinced that evidence supports Edwards’ first-degree murder conviction.

“At the same time, however, I am using my authority under the Missouri Constitution to commute Edwards’ sentence to life without the possibility of parole,” the Democratic governor said. “This is a step not taken lightly, and only after significant consideration of the totality of the circumstances. With this decision, Kimber Edwards will remain in prison for the remainder of his life for this murder.”

In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Edwards said he was coerced into confessing when police threatened to charge the woman he married after divorcing Cantrell and take away their children.

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Canucks want to show that last season was no fluke JOSH CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

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he Vancouver Canucks want to prove last year wasn’t a fluke.

Not expected to be a playoff team by many observers after one disastrous campaign under John Tortorella, Vancouver finished a surprising second in the Pacific Division in 2014-15 with 101 points before losing out in the first round to the Calgary Flames in a tight six-game series.

That step forward aside, there’s a similar negative feeling surrounding the Canucks heading into this season — a sentiment that, not surprisingly, isn’t shared inside the locker-room.

“No one gives us credit and no one thinks we’re going to make the playoffs,” veteran winger Chris Higgins said recently.

“Staying together as a team and just worrying about ourselves and not what’s being talked about our team is going to be key.”

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Despite last season’s success, the Canucks are a franchise of two minds — wanting to compete for a playoff spot while also bringing younger players into the fold to compliment a veteran core led by Henrik and Daniel Sedin.

General manager Jim Benning added forwards Brandon Sutter and

Brandon Prust in the off-season with an eye towards physicality and speed while saying goodbye to forwards Zack Kassian and Nick Bonino, defenceman Kevin Bieksa and goalie Eddie Lack.

“Last year when I watched our team, I felt like we were a little bit in between,’’ said Benning. “We weren’t fast enough to get in on the forecheck and we didn’t spend enough time in the other team’s end.’’

Head coach Willie Desjardins said he’s especially excited to have Sutter, who signed a five-year extension with the Canucks after coming over in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins, in the fold as his likely No. 2 centre.

“He’s a player that wins. He finds ways to win,’’ said Desjardins.

“He’s not super flashy. He’s not a guy that you rave about offensively, but he’s a guy you can win games with.’’

Bo Horvat should have an increased role in his second year, likely cen-

tring the third line and getting time on the power play. Vancouver could also to keep one or both of its 2014 first-round picks, Jake Virtanen and Jared McCann, for at least nine-game auditions before having to decide whether or not to send them back to junior.

Brendan Gaunce, a 2012 first rounder, has also made a strong case at training camp to be a part of Desjardins’ plans when the season starts Oct. 7 in Calgary, while Sven Baertschi looks to be locked into a spot up front.

“When you hear people talking about us getting younger and looking at that as a negative, I think it’s a positive for us,’’ said Henrik Sedin. “(There’s) a lot of excitement. A lot of players have upside.’’

Ryan Miller is back as the Canucks’ No. 1 goalie after missing most of the second half of last season with a knee injury.

Jacob Markstrom will serve as the backup following a strong campaign

in the AHL that convinced the Canucks they could afford to part with Lack.

Meanwhile on defence, Matt Bartkowski was signed in free agency to add some speed to a unit that still includes Dan Hamhuis, Alexander Edler, Christopher Tanev, Luca Sbisa and Yannick Weber.

And while Benning said he believes he’s improved his roster, the same can be said for many of Vancouver’s closest rivals.

Calgary added forward Michael Frolik and defenceman Dougie Hamilton, the Los Angeles Kings acquired forward Milan Lucic and will be rested and restless after missing the playoffs last season, while the Edmonton Oilers grabbed generational talent Connor McDavid with the first pick in the draft.

“I think our team is better now than it was last year,’’ said Benning.

“But we’re dealing with all the other teams in our division getting better, too.’’

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BCHL

Bulldogs sneak out of Argyle with 7-6 victory

Clippers beat Coquitlam 4-2

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Last season, the Barsby Bulldogs only loss came at the hands of the Argyle Pipers.

Barsby head coach Rob Stevenson elected not to kick extra points on two occasions that day, his team failed to score the two-point conversions both times, and they lost by one point.

Stevenson didn’t make that mistake on Friday afternoon as the Bulldogs scored a touchdown, kicked the extra point and returned to Nanaimo with a 7-6 win.

“I can’t say enough about the tenacity of both football teams,” Stevenson said after the game.

“It’s almost like it was a tie.

Because last year they beat us by a point, this year we beat them by a point, so we’ll call it a two-year tie.”

A scoreless tie in the third quarter, Grade 11 Barsby runningback Matt Cooley scored on a three-yard touchdown run and the extra point was kicked by Cory Fletcher.

The Pipers didn’t go away, marching down the field and scoring with two seconds left on the clock in the fourth quarter.

This time, they elected to go for the two-point conversion to win it right there, but they were stuffed by the Barsby defence, who escaped with a one-point win.

Linebacker Justis Mackay-Topley led the Bulldogs defence with nine tackles, while cornerback Austin Olson and Fletcher both had seven tackles. Fletcher added a sack.

Defensive lineman Jaydon Easterbrook also had two sacks, and Doyle Sosnowski had six tackles and a sack.

“Team defence was superb,” said Stevenson, noting the Bulldogs without defensive co-ordinator Larry Cooper who didn’t make the trip due to an illness.

“We ran into a little adversity, and I thought organizationally we followed through with our mantra of ‘next man up.’”

The Bulldogs are ranked as the No. 4 Varsity AA high school football team in the province, tied with the Ballenas Whalers for that honour, and were coming off losses to the No. 1 G.W. Graham Grizzlies and the Mt. Douglas Rams, ranked No. 1 in Varsity AAA football.

Next up for the Bulldogs, 2-2 on the season is their annual Ray Kocher Classic game Friday with the Nanaimo Islanders on Friday at Merle Logan Field at 7 p.m., the first league game of the season for both teams.

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Rempal scores late goal as Nanaimo picks up its first consecutive wins of the year SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

For the second straight game Friday, the Nanaimo Clippers spotted their opponent a two-goal lead. And for the second straight night, they mounted a comeback.

Friday’s comeback, a 4-2 win over the Coquitlam Express, led to their first consecutive win of the B.C. Hockey League season eight games into it, two days after beating the Alberni Valley Bulldogs 7-4 in Nanaimo. “(Coquitlam) started with a 2-0 lead here in our rink, and we don’t allow that,” said Clippers captain Devin Brosseau, who assisted on the game-tying goal by Matt Hoover and the insurance goal by Sheldon Rempal. “Emotions were high and heated, but it worked out for us and we’re happy about that.”

The Clippers were heavily outshooting the Express, who beat them 4-2 at the BCHL Showcase last weekend, but were unable to solve Coquitlam goalie Lawson Fenton until a late second-period powerplay when they got a fortunate bounce.

A missed shot rebounded off the end glass right onto the stick of Nanaimo defenceman Yanni Kaldis, who knocked it into the wide open cage behind Fenton.

Hoover tipped in a point shot from Will Reilly a minute later to tie the game, and the Clippers took over in the third. Defenceman Ed Hookensen scored the winner, sneaking in a wrist shot from the top of the circle early in the third period.

“Going down two goals can’t be the trend,” said Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp. “. . . (but) we’ve shown some pretty good maturity in those situations. We’re not losing track of the fact that we’re doing

Nanaimo Clippers forward Zach Court, left, skates around Coquitlam Express forward Colton Kerfoot in a B.C. Hockey League game Friday at Frank Crane Arena. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

some pretty good things and playing all right.”

Late in the third, Brosseau had a clean look at the net but had his stick knocked out of his hands.

On a delayed penalty right after, however, Rempal found the puck, deked around Fenton and slid it across the goal line. The goal was his seventh of the year, and his league-leading 16th point.

Hoover also got into the top three in BCHL scoring, finishing with a

goal and two assists. He now has 15 points.

“It’s nice to get some confidence building,” said Vandekamp of winning two in a row. “We’ve gotten a lot of scoring from a certain three people (Rempal, Hoover and Brosseau), so it was nice to see that spread out a little bit tonight.

Tonight was probably the first time in a while that we felt like our third and fourth lines generated some good energy for us.

“We’re really pushing for those guys to feel more comfortable. I think last game, our bench was a lot shorter than it was tonight.”

The Clippers, now 5-3-0-0 on the season, take on the Vernon Vipers tonight in Nanaimo at 6 p.m. for the first game of a home-and-home series between the two teams.

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Raiders won’t disrespect Valley Huskers SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

The Vancouver Island Raiders can finish their season at 7-3 with a win over the winless Valley Huskers today in Chilliwack in the final game on their regular season schedule.

With a home playoff game awaiting them on two weeks, however, the Raiders aren’t taking the Huskers lightly.

On the BCFC Coaches Show, V.I. head coach Jerome Erdman said he won’t be resting any of his players despite being overwhelming favourites to win in Chilliwack — they beat Valley 53-0 on Aug. 29 in Nanaimo.

“We’re treating this like any other game,” Erdman said. “To (rest players) would disrespect Valley, which we certainly do not want to do.”

The Huskers have been depleted by injuries this season, and outscored a combined 493-78 through nine games.

However, Valley defensive lineman

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Travis Dietrich has returned from injury and will have some motivation of his own — he’s two sacks shy of a Huskers record.

“They’re battlers,” Erdman said.

“They’ve got nothing to lose. It’s their last game, their last chance for a victory, so we expect them to go all out.

“And they’ve got some very good football players on their team and

the coaching staff I think have done a great job of keeping them together and keeping them battling. We are certainly not taking them lightly.”

Raiders quarterback Liam O’Brien, the reigning All-Canadian, will likely need a big day to keep that title.

He’s currently second in the conference in passing yards, with 1,876, however he did miss one game due to injury and has also been taken out in blowout wins.

O’Brien is also third in the BCFC in touchdown passes with 16.

A big game from V.I. receiver Dustin Rodriguez could also see him it the 1,000-yard mark for the season — he’s 175 away from being the second player in the league to do so this season. Kamloops Broncos star Derek Yachison as already eclipsed that mark. Erdman wants his team to improve on what they did last week, when they went into Langley to beat the defending champion Rams last week to secure second

place in the six-team league.

“We did a pretty good job of stopping their big-play weapons, Erdman said. “They’ve got some real talent on offence. We gave up some yards, but we stopped the home run ball, and our offence was moving the ball.”

Erdman also said his team didn’t hold anything back in Langley, despite likely having to face them one more time in the playoffs.

“We went in their like we wanted to win,” he said. “Home field advantage is really big to us and important to our fan base, so we didn’t hold anything back.”

Kickoff between the Raiders and Huskers today is at 2 p.m. at Chilliwack’s Exhibition Stadium.

Playoff match-ups have not been announced, but the semifinal games will be on Oct. 17 and 18.

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Next two weeks critical for Lions Saskatchewan comes to Vancouver today as B.C. plays first of two straight at home JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions know the next two games will go a long way in defining their season.

Starting with this weekend’s visit by the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the Lions play consecutive home dates critical to not only the CFL’s West Division playoff race, but also in fending off a potential crossover berth from the East.

“You don’t want your destiny to be controlled by other teams,” said B.C. quarterback Jonathon Jennings.

“We’re up for the challenge.”

The Lions (4-8), with a tenuous hold on third in the West, have lost three straight and five of their last six heading into Saturday’s tilt against Roughriders (2-11) before the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (4-9) visit B.C. Place Stadium on Oct. 10.

“If we want to be in the playoffs then absolutely this is a must-win,” said Lions running back Andrew Harris.

“The teams we’re playing the next two weeks are behind us. If they win they could be right next to us.”

On top of that, the CFL’s crossover rule states that if the fourth-place team in one division finishes the regular season with a better record than the third-place team in the other division, that team earns the playoff berth. That means the Montreal Alouettes (5-8) are also in the mix as the fourth-place team in the East despite falling 39-17 to the

B.C. Lions quarterback Travis Lulay passes against the Montreal Alouettes during a CFL game in Vancouver on Aug. 20. The Lions announced Tuesday that Lulay has been removed from the team’s six-game injured list, enabling him to practise this week. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Ottawa Redblacks on Thursday.

“We understand the scenario right now,” said Lions defensive back Ryan Phillips. “We don’t have that many games left, or do overs or extra chances. We have six games left. We play a few at home against Western opponents we need beat, teams that are trying to take our place and jump us.

“We need to go and turn this thing around. If we want to get on

a playoff run we have to build some momentum.”

The Lions lost 29-23 on Saturday in Edmonton against the Eskimos in Jennings’ first professional start with both Travis Lulay (knee) and John Beck (pectoral muscle) out injured.

The 23-year-old pivot will get the call again this week after going 18-of-30 passing for 281 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.

“Just getting more experience, things are starting to feel a little bit more comfortable,” said Jennings.

“I’m just learning on the fly. I was excited about throwing my first couple touchdowns, but obviously we have to get better as a team.”

Two of the Lions’ four wins this season have come against the Roughriders, but a lot has changed since the teams last met on July 17.

Saskatchewan, which has lost seven games by four points or less, fired head coach Corey Chamblin after an 0-9 start and replaced him on an interim basis with Bob Dyce, who is 2-2 since taking over.

“I know what Saskatchewan’s record is, but they’re a much better football team than that,” said Lions head coach Jeff Tedford. “They’ve played so many close games.”

The Roughriders picked up their second win of the season last weekend against the Alouettes to keep their flickering playoff hopes alive, something Dyce said he isn’t playing much attention to at the moment.

“All I know is that as long as we win we have a chance. That’s what we focus on,” Dyce told reporters in Regina. “We can’t control anything outside of that. We have to handle our business on the field.”

Notes: Lulay returned to practice on Tuesday with a brace on his left knee and said he hopes to be available soon. ... The Roughriders visit the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Oct. 9.

MLS

Whitecaps look to get back on track tonight JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

The Vancouver Whitecaps had to scrap and claw right down to the wire to make the playoffs in 2014.

They’re in a more comfortable position this season, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a similar sense of urgency with four games to go on the schedule.

Coming off back-to-back home losses in Major League Soccer, the Whitecaps head into Saturday’s road tilt against the San Jose Earthquakes sitting two points back of the Los Angeles Galaxy for top spot in both the overall standings and the Western Conference.

Perhaps more importantly, a number of teams are nipping at Vancouver’s heels in the race for a top-2 finish in the West and a bye to the conference semifinals.

“It is different (compared) to last year, but it’s just as important,” Whitecaps defender Jordan Harvey said. “We just need to get back on form.”

Goals have been hard to come by in recent weeks after a relative deluge of 13 in four league games between July 26 and Aug. 15, including a 3-1 home win over San Jose. Vancouver (15-12-3) scored just once — on a

Vancouver Whitecap Octavio Rivero, right, uses his head to redirect a pass on goal as New York City FC’s RJ Allen defends during an MLS game in Vancouver on Sept. 26. [THE CANADIAN PRESS}

penalty kick — in those consecutive losses at B.C. Place Stadium to the Seattle Sounders and New York City FC, paying a hefty price for a number of wasted chances.

“We need to score goals. The game’s about scoring goals,” said Whitecaps head coach Carl Robinson.

“One goal in two league games is not good enough.”

Sandwiched between those results

was a 3-0 defeat in CONCACAF Champions League play in Seattle, making the drought even more ominous.

“We know we’ve got the guys up front with the quality to score,” said Whitecaps goalkeeper David Ousted.

“We just need to keep getting in position and creating the chances.”

Robinson set a target this spring of scoring 25 more goals than the 41

his team bagged last season. With four games to go, Vancouver has 42 so far in 2015 — an improvement, but not nearly what the coach had envisioned.

Still, he likes what he’s seen overall.

“We know where we are,” said Robinson, whose team can clinch a playoff spot with a win this weekend.

“If you would have said at the start of the season we’d be in this position (in the standings) people would have snapped their hand off.”

History isn’t on the Whitecaps’ side heading into Saturday’s game. The visiting team has never won in the all-time series between the clubs, with Vancouver holding a 0-2-4 record in San Jose, including a 1-0 loss in April.

The Earthquakes (12-12-7) are on the outside looking in when it comes to the playoffs at the moment in the ultra-competitive West, but could creep to within two points of the Whitecaps with a victory, although Vancouver does have a game in hand.

“They’re fighting for their lives, as we are,” said Robinson. “Everyone’s fighting to get points at this crucial moment of the season. It should be a very exciting game, one we’re looking forward to.”

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SPORTS BRIEFS The Associated Press ◆ GOLF

PGA players vote Spieth as ‘15 player of the year Jordan Spieth was voted PGA Tour player of the year Friday, giving him a sweep of all the significant awards.

The PGA Tour does not disclose how many votes Spieth received from the players, though the 22-year-old Texan removed any suspense last week with his four-shot victory in the Tour Championship to win the Fed Ex Cup. Spieth had five wins this year, including the Masters and U.S. Open.

He is the youngest player since Tiger Woods (21) to win the Jack Nicklaus Award as player of the year.

Spieth also won the Arnold Palmer Award by topping the money list with a record $12 million, and the Vardon Trophy for having the lowest adjusted scoring average.

“You don’t recognize it, I guess, as the year goes on, and when you kind of look at it and review you can see exactly what we’ve done,” Spieth said. “It’s an honour . . . because it was our MVP of our league. And it’s voted on by the players. And for them to recognize the hard work that we’ve put in and what we’ve been able to do with it is truly special, and I thank all the players I look up to.”

◆ MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

Cormier awaits UFC light heavyweight title defence Daniel Cormier is learning it was never the chase for the UFC light heavyweight championship that motivated him.

It was something much simpler.

“I used to think this was the motivation,” Cormier said, looking to his left at the title at UFC 192 Media Day on Thursday. “I really did. Until I got it and nothing changed. Because at the bottom of it, there’s still competition.

That’s what I’m here for.”

That’s what’s driving the champion ahead of his first title defence against Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 192 on Saturday at the Toyota Center in Houston.

◆ NASCAR

Kenseth on the pole at Dover, rain ends qualifying For a driver on the brink of championship elimination, Kevin Harvick might have the biggest target at Dover.

The mission is clear: Knock out Harvick, knock out a champion.

“Everyone in this Chase knows they are the biggest threat for the championship,” four-time champ Jeff Gordon said. “If they get eliminated then that takes the biggest threat out of it.

“Kevin and that team are going to be working hard and all the other teams are going to be working hard to win this race and potentially eliminate one of the biggest threats.”

Harvick and his team have been doing a pretty good job of taking themselves out of the running in their title defence.

Time may have run out on the No. 4 Chevrolet. The third race in NASCAR’s playoffs is a crucial one — the bottom four drivers out of the 16 in the field are cut and gone from the title picture.

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MLB

Seahawks’ RB Rawls ready to go if needed

Jays win in 8-4 Tulo’s return Toronto shortstop Troy Tulowitzki comes back from injury with two hits

TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. — Funny thing about Seattle Seahawks rookie running back Thomas Rawls. He’s not much of a fan of watching football.

He loves to play the game. And he’ll sit in meeting rooms and watch the intricacies of game film.

But when it comes to viewing games in his free time, Rawls would rather be watching something else.

“I never had a favourite team growing up. I barely watched football growing up. I still don’t watch it to this day,” Rawls said. “I watch a lot of film and stuff like that but growing up I never really watched football like that. I know it’s kind of weird.”

While Rawls may not watch much football as a fan, he could have a large share of the attenRAWLS tion on Monday night when the Seahawks host Detroit. With starting running back Marshawn Lynch bothered by a hamstring injury that will likely make him a gametime decision, the responsibility of being the primary ball carrier for the Seahawks fall to Rawls.

Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Thursday there was no new information regarding Lynch’s hamstring that he injured late in the first half of the Seahawks’ 26-0 win over Chicago last Sunday. Lynch had an MRI earlier this week.

“I know he wants to play and is determined to try and do that,” Carroll said.

“We’ll just see how it goes. It may go all the way to game time.”

“If he is questioning it, it’s a severe injury because you know he wants to be out there and contribute just as bad as anybody,” added Fred Jackson, who was also teammates with Lynch in Buffalo.

“We’ll take it day-to-day and see how it goes and if we get him out there, if we’re fortunate enough to have him on Monday, it makes us better as a team. If not, we have to pick up the slack.”

If Lynch is unable to play, the Seahawks got a glimpse last week of what Rawls can do as a replacement. Rawls became the first Seattle running back other than Lynch to rush for 100 yards since Robert Turbin late in the 2012 season. Rawls finished with 104 yards on 16 carries, 98 of those yards coming in the second half.

MARK DIDTLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Troy Tulowitzki played as if a late-season injury is behind him.

Tulowitzki doubled and singled in his return to the Toronto lineup after missing three weeks with injuries, and the AL East champion Blue Jays rallied past the Tampa Bay Rays 8-4 Friday night.

“Big relief he’s back out there,” Toronto centre fielder Kevin Pillar said. “Doesn’t seem like he’s missed a beat.”

Tulowitzki went 2 for 5 and scored a run. Earlier in the day, the star shortstop homered and doubled twice in a simulated game against Toronto minor league pitchers at Tropicana Field.

“It’s awesome,” Tulowitzki said.

“To be back out there on the field is always special.”

Tulowitzki hadn’t played since Sept. 12, when he cracked his scapula and bruised muscles in his upper back after colliding with Pillar in the outfield during a game against the New York Yankees.

“I’m going to feel it,” Tulowitzki said. “It’s going to be somewhat sore because of what happened. But it didn’t prevent me from playing. Overall it was a good day.”

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons plans to give Tulowitzki off Saturday night and then have him play in Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Rays.

“He looked good to me,” Gibbons said.

Edwin Encarnacion and Russell Martin homered for the Blue

Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Ryan Goins, left, forces out Tampa Bay Ray Brandon Guyer at second base and relays the throw to first in time to turn a double play on Evan Longoria during the first inning of a baseball game Friday in St. Petersburg, Fla. [AP PHOTO]

Jays, who are tied with Kansas City in the race for the AL’s best record and home-field advantage throughout the post-season.

Mark Buehrle (15-7) gave up four runs and six hits in 6 2-3 innings. He is two innings away from reaching 200 for the 15th consecutive season.

It hasn’t been ruled out that Buehrle could pitch again) Sunday.

Tampa Bay starter Erasmo Ramirez allowed four runs and 10 hits over 5 1-3 innings. Enny

Romero (0-2) took the loss.

Pillar had an RBI double and Ryan Goins hit a two-run triple in a four-run sixth as Toronto went up 5-4.

Encarnacion hit his 38th homer, a solo shot, before Martin made it 8-4 with his two-run drive during the seventh.

Encarnacion, Josh Donaldson (41) and Jose Bautista (40) tied the team record — set by Jose Canseco (46), Carlos Delgado (38) and Shawn Green (35) in 1998 — for most homers by a

trio in one season.

Mikie Mahtook hit a three-run homer off Buehrle to complete a four-run fifth that gave the Rays a 4-1 lead.

The rookie has hit three of his eight career homers off the Toronto left-hander.

“It’s just one of those things where, I guess, I’m seeing it pretty well,” Mahtook said.

Pillar also took an extra-base hit away in the seventh from Luke Maile with a full-extension diving catch.

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The Toronto Raptors and their passionate fans will kick off the NBA’s Canada Series of preseason games in Vancouver on Sunday against Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clippers.

In some ways, that will just be the undercard.

The league has scheduled four preseason games in Canada this year, the largest slate a games in the short four-year history of a series aimed at growing the game the hockey-mad country.

Playing a headlining role in the festivities this year is Minnesota Timberwolves star Andrew Wiggins, a Toronto-born sensation who has captivated the Canadian masses like no other player since Vince Carter was dunking all over the league with the Raptors more than a decade ago.

The Timberwolves will play the Bulls in Winnipeg on Oct. 10 and the Raptors in Ottawa on Oct. 14. The series concludes when the Raptors play the Washington Wizards in Montreal on Oct. 23. All four games are expected to sell out, and they serve as precursors to the All-Star game being played in Toronto in February, the first time the league has held its midseason showcase outside of the United States.

“This is just a big year for the NBA in Canada,” said Dan MacKenzie, the vice-president and managing director of NBA Canada.

It’s no coincidence that Wiggins will play a prominent role this time around. He has generated national attention since he was a 14-year-old and TSN put every one of the games during his lone season at Kansas on national television. He

was chosen No. 1 overall last year by the Cleveland Cavaliers, traded before training camp to Minnesota in a deal that netted the Cavs All-Star forward Kevin Love and was the runaway winner of the rookie of the year award in his first season with the Timberwolves.

“He is going to do a lot for the future growth of our fan base in Canada,” MacKenzie said.

Wiggins’ rise to stardom has coincided with a boom for the NBA in Canada.

Last year a record 12 NBA players from Canada were on opening-night rosters, a number that could jump by one or two this season. Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, who signed with his hometown Raptors just before training camp, were back-toback No. 1 overall picks in 2013 and 2014.

Television viewership of NBA

games in the country is up 54 per cent since the 2012-13 season, including 76 per cent on national sports network TSN. And the league has seen its sponsorship agreements with Canadian businesses expand robustly with six new marketing partnerships over the last year and a half. MacKenzie attributes the growth of the game’s popularity in part to Wiggins, but also to the influx of immigrants from China, the Philippines and India, where basketball is very popular.

Wiggins is fresh off of a standout performance with the Canadian national team at the FIBA Americas tournament, and knows all too well what this event means to the people back home.

“It means a lot. I get to go back to my country and play in front of people I grew up around,” Wiggins said.

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MOVES BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Announced contract of bench coach Mark Parent will not be renewed.

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NEW ENGLAND â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Waived-injured G Ryan Groy.

SAN DIEGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Terminated QB Brad Sorensen from practice squad. Signed DB Carrington Byndom from practice squad.

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CALGARY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Assigned C Garnet Hathaway & D Kenney Morrison, Jakub Nakladal, Patrick Sieloff & Tyler Wotherspoon to Stockton (AHL). Waived C Drew Shore.

CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reassigned D Erik Gustafsson & Ville Pokka & Fs Marko Dano, Ryan Hartman, Vincent Hinostroza, Brandon Mashinter, Dennis Rasmussen & Garret Ross to Rockford (AHL).

DALLAS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Loaned Cs Jason Dickinson & Radek Faksa & LW Remi Elie to Texas (AHL).

N.Y. RANGERS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Waived D Raphael Diaz and F Jayson Megna. Reassigned D Troy Donnay and Samuel Noreau from Hartford (AHL) to Greenville (ECHL).

ST. LOUIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Assigned F Jordan Caron and G Pheonix Copley to Chicago (AHL).

Zetterberg breaks tie, Red Wings beat Maple Leafs 4-2 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Henrik Zetterberg broke a tie at 3:57 of the third period and the Detroit Red Wings went on to a 4-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs in an exhibition game Friday night, spoiling Mike Babcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return to Detroit.

Babcock left the Red Wings after last season to coach the Maple Leafs.

He spent 10 seasons in Detroit, leading the Red Wings to the 2008 Stanley Cup title.

Justin Abdelkader, Drew Miller

and Brad Richards also scored for Detroit, and Jimmy Howard made 31 saves.

James van Riemsdyk and Mark Arcobello scored for Toronto, and James Reimer stopped 26 shots.

COYOTES FAIL TO SCORE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; AGAIN At Glendale, Arizona, Martin Jones made 18 saves and the San Jose Sharks beat Arizona 3-0, handing the Coyotes their third straight shutout loss.

Arizona lost all six of its preseason

games and was outscored 20-4.

Joe Pavelski scored twice, and Tomas Hertl added a goal.

Mike Smith made 27 saves for Arizona.

BJORKSTRAND LEADS BLUE JACKETS At Buffalo, New York, Oliver Bjorkstrand had two goals and an assist in the Columbus Blue Jacketsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 6-4 victory over the Sabres.

William Karlsson added a goal and two assists, and Lukas Sedlak, Dean Kukan and Markus Hannikainen also

scored, and Curtis McElhinney made 24 saves. The Blue Jackets led 5-0 after the second period.

Jamie McGinn scored twice for Buffalo, Zemgus Girgensons and Evander Kane added goals, and Robin Lehner made 20 saves.

JOSEFSON LIFTS DEVILS PAST FLYERS At Newark, New Jersey, Jacob Josefson scored the tying goal with 3:31 left in regulation and added the only goal in a shootout in the Devilsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.

Jiri Tlusty also scored for New Jersey, and Cory Schneider made 21 saves.

Ryan White and Jakub Voracek scored for Philadelphia. Steve Mason stopped 29 shots.

CAPS DOWN BRUINS IN SHOOTOUT At Washington, T.J. Oshie and Evgeny Kuznetsov scored in a shootout to give the Capitals a 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins.

Alex Ovechkin tied it for Washington with 2:34 left in regulation.

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CROSSWORD SATURDAY STUMPER ACROSS 1 Hindi word for “master” 6 Animals in hieroglyphics 10 Banquet supplies 14 Many a reality series, essentially 16 Target 17 Classified listing 18 People met by Coronado 19 Particle theorized by Einstein 20 Factory form to fill 22 Abe Lincoln’s dad 23 Kid-lit author Berenstain 25 Scene 27 Co.-review collector 30 Common contract-date preceder 33 So much 35 Attic, often 37 Food served with rolls 39 Area with multiple monitors 40 Clubhouse feature 41 Fixed 44 Bad state 45 Ersatz trumpet 47 Coin-making stamp 48 Horticultural hobby 49 Brand name derived from a 2001 . . . line 51 Santa, in the Moore poem 52 Marsupia 55 Go high 59 Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia 61 Unwelcome comment from a salesperson 63 Hardly spotted 64 Cause of teen torpor 65 Villain inspired by Fu Manchu 66 Insist on 67 Faculty

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» EVENTS // EMAIL: EVENTS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.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.

7:30 p.m. Dancers of Damelahamid - Luu

hlotitxw: Spirit Transforming, Malaspina Theatre at VIU SUNDAY, OCT. 4 10 a.m. to 2 pm. Cedar Farmers Market.

Approximately 50 vendors or produce through plants and baked goods. Crow and Gate pub field 2313 Yellowpoint Rd., Cedar

7:30 p.m. Port Theatre Spotlight: Guy Mendilow Ensemble. Adults $35, members $25, students $15, Box Office or www.porttheatre. com.

TUESDAY, OCT. 6 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ladysmith Fall Farmer Market, where local producers sell their goods directly to the public, at 49th Parallel Grocery.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7

THURSDAY, OCT. 8

6:15- 8:15 p.m. Women of Today night at Country Club Centre. Demonstrations, fall fashion previews, complimentary wine tasting, chair massages, silent auction, fun photo booth, entertainment, sweet and savoury samplings and much more. Advance tickets $5 at the info/lottery booth. All proceeds support Haven Society.

8 p.m. Mark Bunt, Christina Lemmon live at the Longwood. The Longwood Brew Pub presents a free, weekly live concert series every Thursday. 5775 Turner Rd.

MONDAY, OCT. 5 6-9 p.m. Japanese Dinner. More than beer learn more about fermentation this October with StirCooking School at Riso Restaurant in Lantzville. $75 per person, or $90 including wine pairing

7 p.m. On The Dock with Brandon Stone, Mike Bauche, Young Plantz at The Dinghy Dock Pub, 8 Pirates Lane, Protection Island.

Advance tickets $20 including return ferry & from the artists, The Dinghy Dock or ticketzone.com

7-9 p.m. Kombucha Workshop at Costin Hall Kitchen, Lantzville $50/ http://stircookingschool.ca/event/kombucha-workshop-3/

FRIDAY, OCT. 9 Noon-4 p.m. Bastion Waterfront Farmers Market moves to fall hours. Next to the Bastion 7:30 p.m. Jamaican roots reggae legend Clinton Fearon performs a solo acoustic concert at The Queen’s, tickets: $15 advance at Port Theatre: 250-754-8550

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21 Our northernmost island 23 One of over 350 around Sable Island 25 Nervous system disease, briefly 26 Twitches 27 Symbol of redness 28 Ascends 29 Bridge (Fr.) 30 Showing signs of wear 31 Life (Fr.) 32 Vancouver Island whale-watching town 35 Thunder ___, Ont. 36 Enjoy Mom’s cooking 37 Fawn’s mother 40 Similar 41 What Mount Blackstrap (near Saskatoon) is made of 44 Tiny rodent 45 Long (for) 46 Symbol of goodness 47 Usher’s offering 48 Ravager of S Ontario in 1954: Hurricane ___ 49 Night before 50 Red Deer’s prov.

51 Expert 52 Playfully bashful 53 Ship of Arctic explorer Franklin 55 Toronto summer hrs.

56 Early documentary on Inuit: “___ of the North” 59 Beer 60 Works by Colville and Carr 61 Wear a long face 62 Pecan 64 Actor Czerny 67 Medics 68 Ready to harvest 69 Takes the cup 70 Ireland 71 It marks the tundra’s edge 73 Nature painters: ___ of Seven 74 Pound sound 75 Author Vanderhaeghe 76 Poem 77 Fake bullets

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Ratings prove Colbert shaking up landscape SCOTT COLLINS LOS ANGELES TIMES

Break out your melodica and do some high kicks: Stephen Colbert’s ratings prove that The Late Show host is already shaking up the latenight TV landscape.

Of course it’s still early, but numbers released Thursday for the first official week of the fall season show that Colbert — who took over the CBS late-night talk show on Sept. 8 — has so far helped CBS reach a larger, more youthful audience since David Letterman retired.

Colbert, 51, has re-energized the show along with his new melodica-playing bandleader Jon Batiste; the pair open shows by dancing together, sometimes with high kicks.

Is this bad news for Colbert’s main rivals, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel? Well, perhaps — but Fallon’s Tonight Show is still No. 1

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in the 11:35 p.m. time slot and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.

Also, Fallon and Kimmel both produce numerous stunts and bits that generate huge traffic online.

Kimmel’s YouTube channel generated 27 million views during pre-

miere week, more than double its total last year.

“Although Fallon’s lead is pretty comfortable, Colbert’s falloff after the typically strong first week isn’t as great as it could have been, and the audience is younger than Letterman’s,” said Brad Adgate, an analyst for ad firm Horizon Media.

“I think the battle will be between Colbert and Kimmel for second place.”

Meanwhile, newcomer host Trevor Noah looks like a worthy ratings successor to Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, although it’s way too soon to make any definitive conclusions.

In the ultra-late slot of 12:35 a.m., there is evidence that two newbies, NBC’s Seth Meyers and CBS’ James Corden, are actually expanding the audience and persuading more people to watch into the wee hours.

Both programs have logged slight upticks. Which is bad news for no one except, perhaps, bosses who need their employees to report to work early the next morning.

The main takeaway from premiere week is that Colbert has helped CBS get younger — always an advantage for youth-obsessed TV executives.

Letterman’s median viewer age was a pretty hoary 60. Colbert has pushed it down to 58.

That may not sound like a lot, but wait. During premiere week, Colbert scored a 0.78 among viewers aged 18 to 49, according to Nielsen. That’s a huge 70 per cent improvement over what Letterman did the same week last year.

Among total viewers, Colbert has dramatically narrowed the gap with Tonight Show. Late Show drew 3.2 million viewers vs. 3.6 million for Fallon. Last year, Tonight had a huge

advantage of more than one million viewers.

Colbert has already had a negative impact on Kimmel. Last year, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live was a clear No. 2 in viewers 18 to 49 and had drawn even with Letterman in total viewers. But now, Colbert has grabbed the runner-up position and is far ahead of ABC in total audience (3.2 million vs. 2.5 million).

And yet — again, it’s early.

Late-night viewing, much like morning TV watching, is habit-based, much more so than prime-time, where lineups are constantly changing. But habits do change.

Take Letterman, who when he took over the CBS show in the 1990s enjoyed many weeks atop the ratings.

But then his rival Jay Leno found his footing on Tonight, rising to No. 1.

Letterman settled into a permanent second position.

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PLANETS OUT OF ALIGNMENT ACROSS 1Get in a trap 8 Diner dishes 15 Long tales 20 One finding something 21 Mishmash 22 Match venue 23 Additional examination [3rd from the sun] 25 McLain of old baseball 26 Sioux tribe members 27 Scene 28 Tranquil 30 — Island (old immigration point) 32 Poker style 33 Eve’s music 36 Sends in, as payment 38 Run things 39 Result of a minor infraction in hockey [8th from the sun] 42 Specks in la Seine 43 Not be well 44 “Sand” actor Estevez 45 Fencing weapons 46 Hall-of-Fame Jets running back [4th from the sun] 49 Launch platforms 51 Italian for “seven” 52 Complacent 54 Projecting crane arm 57 Major fuss 61 Lie in court [5th from the sun] 67 “I’m keeping my eye —!”

68 Work site supervisors 69 Book review?

70 One enlisting GIs [1st from the sun] 73 Milk sugar 75 Where one lives: Abbr.

76 Sty feed 77 Gabrielle of modeling and volleyball 79 Part of AFB 81 Moon rock source [7th from the sun] 88 — gin fizz (cocktail) 91 Ancient Indian emperor called “the Great” 94 Colo. clock setting 95 Whitish gem 96 Unexpected nice thing [6th from the sun] 99 Fight arbiters 100 Comic Berle 101 JFK takeoff guess

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102 Wine-related prefix 103 Don’t dissent 104 “Peter Pan” penner 106 Gen. Robert — 107 Pair 108 “Zip your lip!”

109 “Inherited or acquired” dichotomy [2nd from the sun] 116 Tolerate 117 Like sandals 118 Not shown, as on TV 119 Died down 120 Nonvital body organs 121 People being quizzed DOWN 1 Hobgoblin 2 — -TURN (street sign) 3 “Page Down” user, e.g.

4 Most dapper 5 EIdest Musketeer 6 Some deer 7 Goof up 8 — -gatherum 9 Carnivore’s intake 10 Couture magazine 11 Place 12 Naval acad. grad 13 — Fridays 14 Meeting of Cong.

15 Made blue 16 Tourists’ aids 17 Non-Jewish 18 Funicello of film 19 Declare 24 Home of Elaine, in Arthurian lore 29 Prior to, poetically 30 Actor Dane 31 Lollapalooza 32 Reach by water, in a way 33 Lay waste to 34 Ocean off Ga. and Fla. 35 U.S. architect I.M. — 37 OS part: Abbr.

39 Stunned with a gun 40 Abbr. for those with only one given name 41 Infield fly ball 47 “A Mighty Fortress — God” (hymn) 48 Gain back 50 Gain maturity 52 — Nevada 53 52-Down, e.g.: Abbr.

54 A martial art 55 Fleur-de-lis 56 Gig fraction 57 Wild hog

58 About 59 Y facilities 60 Tyke amuser 62 “Either he goes — go!”

63 Confronted 64 Mrs., in Nice 65 Sprinter, e.g.

66 Extend (out) 68 To and — 71 Ar-tee linkup 72 Not dirty 73 To a smaller degree 74 Not obtuse 78 Badgers’ kin 79 River or lake outing

80 Various 81 Ear-piercing 82 Odessa loc.

83 Emperor exiled to Elba 84 “No deal!”

85 Gap 86 Cozy eatery 87 Additional 88 LP stat 89 “Arabian Nights” hero 90 Skin pigment 92 Beatified Fr. woman 93 Pres. initials 97 Singer DiFranco 98 Keanu of film

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New trial for producer ordered to pay $7.3M NEWARK, N.J. — A judge in New

Jersey has granted a new trial for Lady Gaga’s first producer and former boyfriend, overturning an order that he pay $7.3 million to the Hollywood songwriter who discovered her. U.S. District Court Judge

Jose Linares ordered the new trial for Rob Fusari on Sept. 3, but the ruling wasn’t unsealed until Wednesday.

The judge found that he mistakenly allowed the jury to hear details about an allegation connected to Lady Gaga

and Fusari’s personal relationship and his fiduciary duty to her.

Fusari was ordered to pay Wendy Starland after a trial last year.

Starland had testified that Fusari had asked her to find an edgy, bold,

confident and charismatic performer. She brought back Lady Gaga after spotting her during a New York City performance in 2006.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Clear out calls before making plans. At the same time, you might want to run some errands or handle a personal matter. Once you’re free and clear, you might start acting like a carefree spirit. Enjoy catching up on everyone’s news. Tonight: Be sensitive to a family member.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You might be past the point of patience and ready to act. Go off and take a walk, rather than lose your patience. Once you are centered again, you will gain a substantial insight about the person you are dealing with. Tonight: Let a friend or roommate know how you feel.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Someone who cares about you could have difficulty keeping up with you. How you handle a personal matter might not meet this person’s approval. Consider saying less.

Open up to new possibilities with a partner who seems closed off.

Tonight: Treat a favorite person to a fun time.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Indulging yourself usually translates to you doing something special for someone else. Stop and do something just for you. By the end of the day, the Moon will send you good vibes, extra energy and magnetism.

Tonight: Go for what you want.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You could be in a position of not knowing which way to go. Stop and ask yourself what it is you really want to do and whom you want to do it with. Plan accordingly. Take some

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much-needed personal time. You need to slow down sometimes.

Tonight: Do your thing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Check in with an older relative. This person might be unusually needy. Keep your cool and stick to your schedule, no matter what your plans are.

Accept a last-minute invitation that could take you to a very fun happening. Tonight: Have fun with the people around you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) One-onone relating takes you down a new path that allows you to be more forthright and direct than you have been in a while. You’ll finally understand where someone is coming from. You will enjoy yourself no matter what you do. Tonight: Others need you around.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Be willing to defer to someone else.

One-on-one relating allows you to understand where a dear loved one is coming from. You could be tired of having the same conversation.

Still, listen. Go with an innovative suggestion and witness the reaction. Tonight: Go for a goal.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Others seem more than ready to make plans and invite you along.

Your independent side could become resentful, and you might decide on a solo adventure as a result. Go off on your own, but handle the invitations politely.

Don’t skip out on anyone. Tonight: Say “yes.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Opt for plans on your own. Don’t feel the need to share your day’s itinerary with others. You have some errands to run and your own

agenda for the day. You don’t need to explain yourself. Just go, do and be. Tonight: Make an effort toward a loved one or dear friend.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You might be sorry if you allow yourself the space to be spontaneous and do whatever you want. You can’t orchestrate certain events, especially with a child or loved one.

Let out your inner child, kick back and enjoy yourself. Tonight: In the limelight.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might want to deal with a personal matter first. Some of you just might decide that this is a perfect day to be lazy. Why not embrace it?

Whatever you do, you will want your own space, at least during the daytime. Tonight: Put on your dancing shoes.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Oct. 3) This year you might want to break away often from your normal routine.

When you do, you will gain a very different perspective. You will become more open to different lifestyles, and you even might want to become more knowledgeable about certain matters. If you are single, be discriminating until you really get to know the other person.

If you are attached, the two of you have a similar need to explore different styles. Remember how important this person is to you. Be sure to express how much you value him or her frequently.

CANCER can irritate you beyond belief.

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Canada coach picks new faces for game vs. Ghana

Countries have hopes to make the World Cup quarterfinals, Tonga for the first time FOSTER NIUMATA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Two more teams could secure quarterfinal berths in the Rugby World Cup on Sunday: Ireland, which has done it five times, and Tonga, which has never done it.

Ireland has the relatively easier path, through Italy at the Olympic Stadium.

The Six Nations champion has been impressive in its two big Pool D wins over Canada and Romania, with fan support that has even taken aback the Irish.

Meanwhile, Italy has been twofaced. There was the Italy which overcame a malfunctioning scrum to give France a scrap, then the Italy which barely put away Canada. Italy could yet show another face with the return of talismanic captain and No. 8 Sergio Parisse.

But he hasn’t played since he was injured on Sept. 5 in the narrow warm-up loss to Wales, and needed to have a hematoma in his left calf drained. He didn’t join the squad for his fourth World Cup until Tuesday.

“He fought hard to be back,” Italy coach Jacques Brunel says. “He wants to have a good World Cup. It is important for him, and important for us.

“He probably won’t last the (entire) match, and that is why we have the need for two backrow replacements.”

With Parisse underdone, Italy’s hopes of staying in quarterfinal contention have been undermined by losing almost 200 caps in front-row experience: Stand-in skipper Leonardo Ghiraldini has a thigh injury, and Martin Castrogiovanni has a sciatic nerve problem.

The Italians describe this match as their “final,” as do the Tongans of their Pool C match with Argentina in Leicester.

To make the quarterfinals for the first time, Tonga must win and not allow the Pumas any bonus points.

Below the All Blacks, the pool has been a dogfight: Argentina beat Georgia, which beat Tonga. The Pumas and Lelos have an advantage of finishing against Namibia, while Tonga has to play New Zealand. So the Tongans, fielding the oldest World Cup team ever with an average age of 31, have to do it now or likely

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Tonga’s Telusa Veainu, center, gets away from Namibia’s Russel Van Wyk, left, during their Rugby World Cup match at Sandy Park, Exeter, England, Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

wait four more years for their next chance.

“If we win, with a bonus point, it could take us somewhere we have never been before. We could make history here,” captain Nili Latu said.

“It’s an exciting time for us, rather than a pressure time.”

Here’s a look at Sunday’s games: ARGENTINA vs TONGA (0-0 overall, 0-0 in RWC), Leicester Because they are playing the Pumas, centre Siale Piutau says Tonga are taking a wolfpack approach. “We are dying to get out on the field and get our howling on,” he says.

But Tonga has to play smart.

Georgia didn’t last week against Argentina, which led only 14-9 into the second half when Lelos captain Mamuka Gorgodze was sin-binned.

When he came back 10 minutes later, Argentina led 35-9.

Tonga coach Mana Otai says the Pumas have an edge in mental toughness from being exposed to the

All Blacks, Springboks, and Wallabies in the last four Rugby Championship tournaments.

“They are fortunate enough to be competing with the best, year-in, year-out, and you only get better by being exposed to that, making adjustments, and having another opportunity to deliver,” Otai says. “We don’t have that opportunity until a World Cup, every four years.”

He noted “hard times either grind you down or sharpen you up.”

Tonga starts only five days after beating Namibia.

Argentina will have had nine days off. But it is without tighthead Nahuel Tatez Chaparro and utility back Juan Manuel Hernandez, who have hamstring strains. Rising star prop Ramiro Herrera, off the bench in the last two games, comes in and the Pumas are starting a new midfield of Matias Moroni, making his Cup debut, and Jeronimo de la Fuente. They have an understanding, though, in eight games together this year in low-key internationals.

IRELAND vs ITALY (20-4 overall, 1-0 in RWC), Olympic Stadium Ireland isn’t risking centre Jared Payne (bruised foot) and fullback Rob Kearney (muscle strain) and don’t need them. Not with the form Keith Earls and Simon Zebo are in.

Zebo was all flair against Romania at Wembley last weekend, and Earls was an easy man of the match. “(Keith is) electric at the moment in training and on the pitch,” returning flyhalf Jonathan Sexton said. “It’s a case of get the ball in his hands and let him off.”

With the chance to make the quarterfinals, Ireland has picked its strongest available side; 11 changes from the Romania win. The return of the likes of captain Paul O’Connell, Mike Ross, Sean O’Brien, Sexton, and Robbie Henshaw finally, has the side reeking of class and menace.

And with plenty of in-form backs, coach Joe Schmidt could satisfyingly say, “It makes for a fairly attack-minded group.”

Fire away.

GOLF

Jim Furyk forced out of Presidents Cup DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jim Furyk’s season ended earlier than he wanted Friday when he removed himself from the Presidents Cup because of a wrist injury that hasn’t fully healed.

Furyk was replaced by J.B. Holmes on the American team.

“I did everything I could to try to heal it as fast as possible,” Furyk said in a voicemail message. “I tested the

wrist pretty hard yesterday to see how it would respond and it’s not 100 per cent healed. I’m not able to play more than one day in a row and I’m feeling some pain because my wrist needed more time to heal.”

Furyk pulled out of the BMW Championship during the first round because of a deep bone bruise in his left wrist. He sat out the FedEx Cup finale at the Tour Championship last week to try to be ready for the Presidents Cup.

The matches start Thursday in South Korea. Furyk will be there as one of four assistants to U.S. captain Jay Haas.

Haas picked Holmes as the replacements. Holmes finished 12th in the standings.

Holmes, among the longest hitters in golf, went 2-0-1 in the Ryder Cup at Valhalla in 2008. This will be his first Presidents Cup. He lost in a playoff won by Jason Day at Torrey Pines, was runner-up

at the World Golf Championship at Doral and won the Houston Open in a playoff.

“My heart goes out to Jim because I know how much the Presidents Cup means to him,” Holmes said.

“Obviously, he has been a leader for our team for many years and he will be greatly missed. I am, however, very honoured and excited to get the call from captain Haas to make the trip to South Korea to help the U.S. team retain the cup.”

TORONTO — Coach Benito Floro has summoned some new faces and left some familiar ones off the roster for Canada’s Oct. 13 soccer friendly against Ghana.

Midfielders David (Junior) Hoilett of England’s Queens Park Rangers, Fraser Aird of Scotland’s Glasgow Rangers and Marco Bustos of the Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact defender Wandrille Lefevre make their debut with the senior squad at a camp opening Monday in Orlando, Fla. “It is always important to provide an opportunity to new players to be integrated into the team from a tactical and social point of view,” Floro said in a statement. “To be part of future camps and our journey to Russia 2018, it was essential we brought them into our program this month for the Ghana match.”

But the roster is missing several players who were part of the last round of World Cup qualifiers against Belize with midfielders Atiba Hutchinson, Julian De Guzman, Will Johnson and Russell Teibert and forwards Tesho Akindele and Cyle Larin not involved.Johnson is out after surgery to remove two screws from a leg broken in Toronto last season. De Guzman, Canada’s captain, is coming back from injury. Toronto FC midfielder Jonathan Osorio, enjoying a fine MLS season, also continues to be on the outside looking in.

Others like goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau, defender Luca Gasparotto and midfielders Michael Petrasso and Sam Piette are representing Canada at the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.

A Canadian Soccer Association spokesman said Floro is looked to expand and test his player pool. The Spanish coach has picked a total of 53 players for his 2015 camps with 35 of those 26 years or younger.

Ghana is ranked 25th in the world, compared to No. 104 for Canada.

The game, to be played at RFK Stadium, marks the second meeting between the two. Canada won 2-1 in 1985 at the President’s Cup in Seoul.

Floro’s team is preparing for the November start of the fourth round of World Cup qualifying in the CONCACAF region. Canada hosts Honduras on Nov. 13 in Vancouver before playing in El Salvador on Nov. 17.

Manny Aparicio, Lucas Cavallini, Jordan Hamilton, Kianz Froese, and Simon Thomas are making their first appearance this year at a senior camp.

Cavallini, who has turned down several call-ups in the past, plays in Uruguay where he has turned heads with his goal-scoring.

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LURKING TALENT “I could design everything about the shoe, just not the shape of the shoe,” said Morland.

For the Scout X Lurk shoe colours he chose black, grey and turquoise green.

For the boxer briefs, Morland went with a much more adventurous palette, finding that when it comes to underwear, people go for colour.

“Apparently they sold way more of the boxer shorts in the colourful version than they did with just the linework version,” he said.

the shoe

“It’s just a great colour combo, go grab your colour wheel, it works.

It’s just stuff I learned in graphic design, how to work colours together well. Also with a black shoe, a black shoe will sell way more than any other colour.

Your average person that wants a shoe will just grab a black shoe.”

For the print, Morland departed from the usual technicolour of his Lurklandia landscapes and went with grey. “I wanted it to be the absolute opposite of what I paint,” he said.

boxer briefs “But I think it’s a bit different with boxer shorts, I think having this on your foot – you know, a bright, gaudy pattern on your foot – how many people are going to buy that?”

Russ Morland of Electric Umbrella in Nanaimo. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]

Nanaimo artist branches out in fashion world JULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS

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uss Morland is the local powerhouse at the helm of Electric Umbrella, a vibrant tattoo shop and gallery nestled into the Old City Quarter on Wesley Street.

Both an artist and a general proponent of the “low-brow” genre of art, in the last few years he has branched out into fashion, transforming an artist sponsorship with skate shoe company Etnies into a contract to provide art for a limited-edition shoe run.

“They had seen my stuff, and with

the lovely invention of Instagram, a couple of the head honchos could see I was constantly posting stuff and they could see all the new work that was coming out, and I think from there it just clicked, it was that perfect timing where they were like, ‘this guy’s artwork could be good’ for this shoe project that they were doing,” said Morland.

“The shoe project has five different artists, I can’t remember all of them but it’s pretty cool, it’s all limited-edition runs. They’re all over the States but I think I’m the only one from outside the States.”

Around the same time, he formed an artistic collaboration with unique Vancouver-based underwear company MyPakage, providing his signature Lurk artwork to grace the fabric of one of their series of boxer briefs.

“It was about two years ago when the first one came out, and they’ve just been coming out consistently since.” he said.

“I’ve got more coming out with them for spring.”

As a veteran skateboarder, one thing Morland finds inspiring about the skateboard industry is its support of outsider and lowbrow artists to

adorn their T-shirts, pants, skateboards and accessories.

“I think it’s good, it’s almost like this symbiotic relationship, we need it and they need us kind of thing,” he said.

“They guys who own this company both still skateboard. Etnies is one of the only skateboarder-owned companies left, other than actual boards. But as far as shoes go, most of the shoe companies have sold out to bigger conglomerates like Nike or Adidas.”

His decision to work with companies like Etnies and MyPakage was entirely conscious, said Morland.

“You choose companies that you

know are cool and are doing good things for the skateboard community and doing good things for their riders,” he said.

Though he is finding artistic success through clothing, the bread and butter of Morland’s artistic career is still his tattoo business. Both Morland’s Lurk-style art shoe and his custom-artwork boxers can be found in Nanaimo at Island Riders Boardshop, 6404 Metral Dr. Julie.Chadwick @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4238

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‘Ireland’s greatest playwright of his generation’: Brian Friel dies age 86

Janet Jackson comeback album shines THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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DUBLIN — Brian Friel distrusted the reliability of mere facts. Ireland’s greatest playwright of his generation, who died Friday at the age of 86, spent much of his life trying to convey the deeper truths of our existence — of a world filled with compelling fictions constructed by people, families and whole nations.

Friel’s fictional County Donegal universe of Ballybeg — whose name, in Ireland’s native tongue of Gaelic, means “little town” — provided the setting for most of his two dozen plays over five decades in which he sought to explore what he once called “the dark and private places of individual souls.”

In each work, he created worlds of meaning set in distinctive eras: of the imminent 1960s emigrant hoping to leave behind dashed dreams in Philadelphia, Here I Come!; of the mutual incomprehension and growing enmity in the 1830s between Gaelic Ireland and imperialist England in Translations; and of the claustrophobic power of 1930s rural Catholic Ireland in Dancing at Lughnasa.

Lughnasa earned Friel his greatest accolades, including a trio of Tony Awards in 1992. But on those rare occasions when Friel permitted himself to be interviewed, he gently mocked the whole notion of success for a writer.

He insisted that, while interviewers could ask questions, even the easiest ones had no definite answers. He often said that an invented or conflated memory could convey a greater sense of truth than a faithfully recorded snippet of reality.

In his famed 1971 speech for BBC radio titled Self-Portrait, Friel conducted a mock interview with himself and, when asking “When did you know that you were going to become

Playwright Brian Friel sitting in a theatre in Dublin.

a writer?” could only reply: “I have no idea.” His favourite play? “None of them.”

Everyone else in Ireland seemed to have an opinion Friday on their favourite Friel play, moment or insight.

The Irish national broadcaster, RTE, planned to broadcast the 1998 film adaptation of Dancing at Lughnasa starring Meryl Streep in tribute, as well as a radio recording of Philadelphia, Here I Come!

“His mythical stories from Ballybeg reached all corners of the world from Dublin to London to Broadway and onto the silver screen,” said Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who praised Friel as “the consummate Irish storyteller. His work spoke to each of us with humour, emotion and authenticity.”

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Streep paid tribute to Friel as “a tender dramatist, an insightful humanist and a lovely man.” She recalled how Friel during filming in northwest Ireland “introduced the people of Donegal to us as if we were all members of his family and community.”

Liam Neeson, who earned early experience as a Northern Ireland actor performing in Friel’s plays in Belfast in the 1970s, said it “was a joy to say his words and to feel secure in the hands of a master craftsman.”

In New York, the Irish Repertory Theatre mourned the passing of its most frequently featured artist.

“Brian Friel was our hero. He was as generous as he was gifted, and he gave our company life and breath, and golden words,” said artistic director Charlotte Moore and producing

director Ciaran O’Reilly in a joint statement.

Born in 1929 in Northern Ireland, then a Protestant-dominated corner of the United Kingdom, Friel grew up in a firmly Irish nationalist and Catholic community that offered publicly expressed certainty on matters of morality and identity.

He studied for the priesthood, left the seminary to become a schoolteacher for a decade, but found his faith on the stage.

He became a fulltime dramatist after spending his first lengthy time in America while observing the 1963 launch of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn.

He settled with his wife and five children virtually on the Irish border in the northwest Republic of Ireland county of Donegal.

From that remote perch, he sought to challenge prevailing Irish attitudes on faith, politics, culture — often by employing unreliable narrators, multiple perspectives and ambiguous outcomes.

Besides his own work, Friel adapted to Irish themes and settings several classic Russian works by Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev.

He said playwrights always had to worry about being misunderstood or misinterpreted.

“The reason for the worry is that the playwright is never fully his own man,” he said in 1971. “The painter completes his picture, and the public looks at his work on the gallery wall.

The poet or novelist produces his work and through it talks directly to his reader. But the playwright requires interpreters. Without actors and without a performance, his manuscript is a lifeless literary exercise, a kite without wind, a boat waiting for a tide. And the day he completes a script, he has won a battle and takes on a war.”

Janet Jackson, “Unbreakable” (BMG/Rhythm Nation Records) “It was in summer that you left me, the fall and winter never felt so cold, and Lord knows words can never express it, life feels so empty I miss you much,” Janet Jackson sings about her late brother, Michael Jackson.

“Painful tears like never before, we can’t laugh together till we cry, but our love ain’t no material thing, Insha’Allah, see you in the next life,” she continues in her signature soft tone.

“Broken Hearts Heal” is a perfect example of Jackson’s musical prowess: The song’s beat is so feel-good, breezy and bouncy that you must dance, but her lyrics are touching, and in this particular song, heart-wrenching as she highlights her relationship, even as kids doing chores, with the King of Pop. You might cry.

And that’s exactly it: Jackson’s album, Unbreakable, is a reminder that dance music is more than fast, loud electronic beats pounding to the floor. EDM creators and its admirers, take note.

This 17-track set, which has Jackson reuniting with longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, is full of soulful, electro and addictive tracks that will make your head bop or vogue — and make your brain think.

Jackson isn’t always serious, and Unbreakable is a balanced adventure: “Dammn Baby,” which samples a line from her late ’90s hit “I Get Lonely,” has a semi-trap sound that is a winner; Missy Elliott brings the heat on the fun “BURNITUP!”; and “Night” is a house and trance anthem.

The album is a reminder that Jackson is one icon who hasn’t lost a beat. That’s the way real music goes.

ADVICE

Secret content is a form of emotional cheating Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: My wife and I recently married after having been together for 15 years. It is a second marriage for both. Six years ago, I discovered that she had contacted an old friend from high school through Facebook.

She initially didn’t mention it to me, but then finally admitted she was meeting him for lunch to catch up on old times (even though they

barely knew each other back then). I found out this happened three times, though she only told me about two.

We argued about this several times and I believed she had stopped contacting him.

I recently found out that she is still in touch with this man via her cellphone, email and Facebook. His messages to her are just a bit more flirtatious than those of a platonic friend and she seems to enjoy the attention.

Annie, my wife tells me about all of her friends except this one. She never mentions him. I love my wife, but now suspect trouble is brewing.

She is on the computer first thing in the morning and late at night for hours at a time. I do not like this man and she knows it. The fact that

she secretly contacts him makes me feel that she is cheating.

I know he wants to meet her for lunch again. As far as I know, she has not agreed to do so, but if she does, I’m not sure I can handle it. If this is truly a platonic friendship, why is she hiding it from me?

Is this normal? I know she reads your column, so your advice would be appreciated.

— Hurt and Betrayed in So Cal Dear Hurt: If your wife is contacting another man secretly, it is a form of emotional cheating. She may have no intention of doing anything more than flirting, but hiding the conversations from you is upsetting and undermines your trust, making you suspect her motives, all of which

is unhealthy for your marriage.

We understand that the flirting makes her feel young and desirable, but that should be your department, not his. Please communicate these things to your wife. The two of you should clear the air and be honest about what you need from each other.

Dear Annie: I read the letters from “Growing Up Way Too Fast,” and “Mean Mother Award Winner,” about their children’s friends who behaved poorly.

Years ago, when our sons were young, we really enjoyed having our yard as the place where the kids could hang out and play.

But we had house rules and the kids knew them: You can’t put your

hands on the walls; you have to take off your shoes when you enter the house; and no foul language or fighting. Anyone who broke the rules would be banned from our yard for a week.

Now these “kids” are 40 and they call me “Dad” and my wife “Mom.” They tell us that they appreciated those rules.

— Dad 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.

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