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OTTAWA — Stephen Harper took the politics of niqabs to a higher level Wednesday, suggesting a re-elected Conservative government would consider legislation banning the Muslim face covering for anyone dealing with — or working for — the federal government.

He opened the door earlier in the week with a CBC television interview, saying niqabs could be nixed in the public service — echoing similar comments last week in the French-language leaders’ debate.

But on Wednesday, the Conservative leader went further, lauding Quebec’s Bill 64, which requires those who wear face coverings to remove them if they want to work in the public sector — or do business with government officials. Although tabled in the National Assembly, the bill has yet to be debated.

He called the Quebec Liberal government’s approach measured and pledged that when it came time for federal legislation, he would follow their lead.

“I believe the Quebec government has been handling this controversial issue in a responsible manner and we will do exactly the same thing in Ottawa,” Harper said during a campaign stop in Saskatoon.

As if to hammer home the point, the Conservatives released online attack ads in French Wednesday, going after Justin Trudeau’s position on the niqab.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper talks with Rebecka Byok during a campaign stop in Saskatoon on Wednesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

A proposed ban on niqabs in the federal civil service would affect an infinitesimally small number of bureaucrats — if any at all. Statistics from 2011 show only 1.8 per cent of 257,000 federal employees are Muslim women and only a small subset of them is likely to wear face coverings.

The Conservatives have already tried to require Muslim women to show their faces at citizenship ceremonies, but those rules are being challenged in the courts.

Harper’s comments on Wednesday make clear he is eyeing additional legislation to require women to unveil every time they want services from the federal government.

Harper insisted his government has been “saying the same thing for several months” on the issue.

While the prime minister may have been consistent in his comments that niqabs are contrary to Canadian values, that doesn’t mean members of his own cabinet are all on the same page about a wider ban.

Asked last spring whether the Conservatives would consider implementing measures similar to those in Quebec, Treasury Board President Tony Clement said the federal opposition to niqabs was limited to citizenship ceremonies.

“That is what the prime minister said and that is a point of

view that one can hold,” Clement said on March 11, 2015.

“That doesn’t mean that you can impose that view in the workplace or in the private sphere.

The one place where I think we have a right and an obligation to stress Canadian values is in the act of obtaining one’s citizenship” Both Trudeau and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair condemned the latest proposal as an attempt to distract voters from serious questions about Conservative management of the economy.

Mulcair said what Harper was doing as “bizarre” and “dangerous” and part of a broader political strategy aimed at getting the Conservatives re-elected by accentuating differences rather than bringing people together.

“Stephen Harper is reminding us every time he does this why he doesn’t deserve to be prime minister,” Mulcair said in Enoch, Alta., as he highlighted his party’s $4.8 billion plan to improve aboriginal education Trudeau, in London, Ont., said Harper’s divide-and-conquer approach “is unworthy of the office he holds and he needs to stop.”

“No election win is worth pitting Canadians against Canadians.”

The niqab debate comes as a Liberal candidate in London blamed divisive politics for the defacing of his election signs with ethnic slurs.

A photo posted online shows the words “ARAB scum” scrawled across one of Khalil Ramal’s signs.

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Vital Signs survey findings surprise some Mayor Bill McKay said he was dismayed by results and questions outcome of Nanaimo Foundation report SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

A new community survey of Nanaimo with less than glowing marks for the city has drawn surprise from some, including the city’s Mayor Bill McKay. However, others say the findings, while not factual, could point to underlying trends in the community.

The Vital Signs report, produced by the Nanaimo Foundation with support from the municipality and the United Way, scored poorly in a variety of categories, which were each assigned letter grades.

The city scored a D+ on the gap between rich and poor, as well as C- marks for both the economy and housing.

The results were based on the average responses from more than 600 respondents to an online survey.

Respondents also gave Nanaimo Cs in the categories of health and wellness and transportation.

The highest grade for the city was an average B- for arts and culture.

McKay said he was dismayed by the results of the survey and questioned the findings.

“I thought they were disappointing inasmuch as we’re far too critical of ourselves,” McKay said.

He said the findings are at odds with those of a separate citizen satis-

John Horn, a social planner with the City of Nanaimo, said survey results indicate areas where city residents would like to see improvement, despite relative satisfaction with their own lives. [DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO]

faction survey conducted in 2013 by polling firm Ipsos Reid, which found that 94 per cent of residents described their quality of life in the city as ‘good’ or ‘very good.’

McKay also said it was important to include a wide cross-section of the community for a more accurate

reading on how residents feel.

“A survey is only as good as the information that’s contributed to it,” he said.

McKay cited poor marks on the economy and transportation as examples.

“I talk to people all the time who

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are hiring,” he said. As for getting around, the mayor said an entire commute across the city only takes 13 minutes.

Andre Sullivan, chairman on the Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation, said the survey results have merit.

“I feel like the community got it pretty right on the gap between rich and poor,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan said Nanaimo has made economic progress. He pointed to rising employment rates, a proportionately large GDP, and promising housing start numbers.

“A ‘C-’ isn’t where I would put us,” he said of the survey’s overall grade for the economy.

However, Sullivan said he city does not fare as well on average incomes, adding that wages have not kept pace – hence the low ranking on the gap between rich and poor.

The survey respondents’ answers may not reflect the full picture of the city, “but they’re picking the right trends,” Sullivan said.

John Horn, a social planner at the City of Nanaimo, worked on the survey. He said the results indicate areas where city residents would like to see improvement, despite relative satisfaction with their own lives.

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Fresh set of challenges Unexpected curveballs can cause stress for university students

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he strains of a drum fade to quiet as the fourth welcoming feast at Vancouver Island University’s Shq’apthut Gathering Place draws to a close.

Like most of the campus, Shq’apthut has been a hive of activity here, as new and returning students begin another school year.

Underneath the bustle of perusing the bookstore racks for textbooks and clinking glasses with new Julie friends at the Chadwick pub, however, Reporting each student carries his or her own private assortment of unique struggles.

For new students it can be especially tough.

Clear challenges like managing finances and tackling life outside of home are high on the list. But

Vancouver Island University first-year student Cassandra Burt has the support she has received from aboriginal student transition advisor Janet Sinclair and staff at the Shq’apthut Gathering Place has been essential. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]

it’s often the unexpected curveballs that can cause new students considerable stress, said Michael Olson, executive director of the Vancouver Island University Student’s Union.

“Textbooks these days cost more than anyone ever expects them to.

We’re in the era of having $300plus textbooks on a regular basis,”

said Olson. “It’s no longer unusual to have a $300 textbook.”

If unexpected, this cost can have a devastating affect on cash-strapped students, he added.

“That’s someone that no one expects when they’re doing their budgeting because you don’t get your textbook lists that early, but

then all of a sudden you’re spending, depending on your program, easily $500 to $700 on textbooks,” he said.

Twenty-year-old Hilary McLoughlin thought she was all set for her first year in the dental hygiene program at VIU. With money saved from a summer spent landscaping, she had carefully made a clear financial budget for the year.

However within her second week of classes, the car she purchased from her sister was stolen from her driveway.

“It just got found yesterday by the ferry, apparently. I went and checked it out and the ignition was stripped so I can’t start it,” said McLoughlin, who didn’t have theft insurance.

“That was really stressful, because I had just taken out my tuition that week and my bank account was not looking good, and then that happened.”

Another issue that contributes to student stress is that tuition is due in mid-September, but loans can

sometimes be late, leaving students in the lurch.

“A lot of people, for the first time, are learning how much groceries cost . . . it’s something I remember from moving out of my parents’ house for the first time. It’s everything from balancing rent, and actually trying to eat well — and not always Kraft Dinner — can be a challenge, because most people have had their parents provide that for them,” said Olson.

“My parents pay for a lot. They pay for my schooling, I have a car that they pay for. I just pay for gas and groceries so I don’t really have a lot of issues,” said Kendra Stoner, 20, whose first two years at Capilano University were paid for via a volleyball scholarship.

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Grocery money was often spent on eating out and partying, she admitted.

Another side of leaving the family nest is the students who are parents themselves.

This introduces an entirely new set of additional challenges, from sleep deprivation to finding time to both attend classes and finish the necessary homework.

Currently upgrading at VIU so she can start a double minor in earth sciences and First Nations studies, Cassandra Burt, 26, also has two toddlers at home, aged two and three.

The support Burt has received from the university, specifically from aboriginal student transition advisor Janet Sinclair and the staff at Shq’apthut, has been essential to her experience as a first-time student.

“They don’t assume that you’re coming here with no kids, and you’re well-rested and have support. They assume we have challenges. And to be told by my advisor that teachers would rather me show up late than miss my class, that was huge,” said Burt, whose daily commute to and from her home on Gabriola Island takes four hours.

The scramble to find childcare can also be stressful, she added.

Burt and her partner, who has a spinal disorder that keeps him at home, had to wait until one child was old enough to attend daycare

Wendy Dennis has managed to balance a busy schedule involving schoolwork and her homelife. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]

before she could start school.

However it’s not always something that can be planned ahead of time.

For Wendy Dennis, who returned to school after a long struggle with addiction, the long-awaited news that her children — taken into care by the Ministry of Children and Families — were returning home came at very short notice.

“They only told me 10 days before I got my kids back, but they’re supposed to give you a month’s notice. So I had to find childcare, and they told me if I couldn’t find it I’d have to drop out of school,” said Dennis, who is upgrading at VIU so she can go into the child and youth care program.

“I was devastated. I cried so hard . . . I know they’re my kids and I should be prepared at any moment to have them, but it was so frustrating.”

She managed to make it work, and says the trick to balancing schoolwork with a two-year-old and a four-year-old at home is to have a good routine in place.

Demand for services typically surges at this time of year, said Olson, and the Student’s Union building often serves as a hub where students can be directed to what exists on-campus.

“Even already we’re seeing people come through our office saying that they’re under the crunch for cash, what kind of resources are available, I need to get a bus pass, I’m already run-

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ning short for groceries, where can I go? And it’s not because they budgeted poorly, it’s because there’s an expectation of timelines that maybe didn’t come into play,” said Olson.

One way they combat this is to provide the financial aid office with approximately $8,000 in grocery store vouchers per year for students in need.

They also contribute $5,000 to an emergency bursary fund, matched by the government. This is not a scholarship but is instead based on financial need.

For Burt, financial aid has come through a new bursary program for aboriginal students, without which she feels certain she would not have been able to attend VIU this year.

Despite the challenges she faces as a first-year student, she said she is filled with gratitude for the opportunities it offers.

In other parts of the world, women like her are not so fortunate, she said.

“As young aboriginal women we are so lucky to be here going to university. There’s no one pounding down the door to drag us out of here,” she said with a smile, looking around the room at the other people in the Gathering Place.

“We’re all here really intentionally.”

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RCMP investigate attempted abduction Ladysmith RCMP are investigating the attempted abduction of a young Ladysmith woman by a middle-aged man.

A 23-year-old woman was walking on Doole Road Sept. 14, at about 1 p.m. when she was offered a ride by a man driving a white or silver, fourdoor vehicle with a black dog inside.

She was about to enter the car when she changed her mind, but the man grabbed her and tried to pull her into his vehicle. She escaped and ran to a nearby home to call police.

The man is white, aged late 30s to early 50s, had short, dirty blond hair, brown or hazel eyes, was clean shaven, and under six feet in height.

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Anti-littering campaign aims to clean up streets A new anti-littering campaign has been launched to clean up City Of Nanaimo streets.

The ‘Keep Nanaimo Clean’ program launches this week, with posters set to appear in bus shelters and on the side of city garbage trucks. The campaign will also spread to radio airwaves later this month.

The city currently sweeps the downtown sidewalks between three and four times a week, with cigarette butts and fast food wrapping being the most common refuse. That’s despite an abundance of litter bins in the downtown core.

Littering can result in a $100 fine under city bylaw.

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Community pledges to use local wood Local government buildings will really be local in the Alberni Valley from now on.

Councillor Jack McLeman made a motion at city council on Monday night that, “Whenever feasible, construction requiring large beams and timber come from McLean Mill and be milled from logs cut in the community forest.”

According to McLeman, using the two city-owned assets whenever possible just makes sense.

“We own the community forest as a city and we own McLean Mill as a heritage site and we did do this at the new water purification plant,” McLeman said.

Timbers for the Bainbridge water treatment plant were milled at McLean Mill, though not logged at the community forest.

“The contractor that built the facility paid the mill . . . we can either give McLean Mill subsidies or we can get lumber from them.”

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New hospital on time and on budget Construction of the new hospital in Courtenay is on time and on budget, North Island Hospitals Project chief officer Tom Sparrow told Courtenay council Monday.

About 67 per cent of workers are local. Sparrow expects at least 650 trades people to be hired later in the year or early next year.

Coun. Manno Theos noted parking strains at the neighbouring college and aquatic centre need to be addressed when construction is completed in 2017.

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FATAL ACCIDENT

Tributes roll in for teen killed in crash on Nanaimo Parkway Zak Andrews, 19, remembered fondly by his Ladysmith family and friends DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

A head-on collision on the Nanaimo Parkway Monday night has left a huge hole in a Ladysmith family.

The BC Coroners Service has identified 19-year-old Zachary Andrews as the man killed when a Suzuki Sidekick driven by a 35-yearold Nanoose man drove through the turning lane at Mostar Road and into the path of his oncoming northbound Mazda RX8.

Andrews, who had recently moved back to the Nanaimo area from a stint in Alberta, was pronounced dead on the scene.

Family and friends sent a lengthy tribute to the Daily News.

“Zak was an amazing son. His life was one big adventure after another.

He was fearless. He loved his family and friends unconditionally with every fibre of his being. Our lives are better for having known him,” said his mother, Denise Tutte.

“When you think of Zak words like ‘goofy’, ‘crazy’, and ‘loving’ come to mind. He always left you with a smile on your face, and always made sure that you knew he loved you. I was lucky to have him as my brother bear,” said sister Jenaya Tutte.

“The greatness of your life isn’t measured on how long you lived or how much money you had. It’s measured on the things you do with the time you get and the life’s you

touch in that amount of time. Zak touched so many lives just by being himself. He may have driven teachers friends and family crazy, but he was somebody you couldn’t help but love. He had such a happy, loving vibe that will remain in our hearts forever. I will miss and love you forever my brother bear,” said sister Jordyn Tutte.

“Zak is loved beyond belief. He was an amazing big brother and our lives will always be missing something now that he’s gone. We will never forget him. Zak had such a huge impact on my life and it’s hard to imagine a world without him, let alone live in one. Zak, thank you for being the greatest gift from God I could ever ask for. I love you forever and always,” said sister Maddy Andrews.

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According to police, the Suzuki entered the Mostar turning lane of the Parkway at about 10:30 p.m. and then continued south into the northbound lanes, crashing head-on Andrews’s Mazda.

The Suzuki driver suffered critical head injuries, was transported to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and was later airlifted to Victoria General Hospital.

The driver’s movements just before the crash led to speculation on social media that his attention was diverted by a cellphone, but

A Facebook shot of Zak Andrews.

Marc McIlveen, an eyewitness, said the man’s phone was in his pocket.

He said over-tiredness may have played a role in the driver being in the wrong lane.

“I’ve driven tired before, and if I had just closed my eyes at that time, either side of the road would look the same,” McIlveen said.

“He wasn’t weaving in and out of traffic. I believe two vehicles avoided

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Premier Christy Clark will be the keynote speaker at the 9th annual ‘State of the Island’ Economic Summit’s main dinner on Oct. 28.

Clark also spoke at the economic summit last year.

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him or passed him before the accident occurred.”

He said Andrews “would not have had much reaction time, at the speeds they were going.”

The crash remains under investigation.

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this year on Oct. 28-29, is an annual gathering of business, community and government leaders intended for delegates to share ideas, ask questions, network, learn about new initiatives and explore opportunities on the Island. It’s expected that up to 600 delegates from all across the Island will be attending the summit, which will be held at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre.

“We are delighted to have Premier Clark joining us,” said Ron Cantelon, chairman of the VIEA.

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Council approves $1.5M in tax exemptions Biggest piece of the tax-break pie gets taken by 52 properties used by approximately 36 non-profit groups SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo city council has approved just under $1.5 million in permissive tax exemptions, a large portion of which is for city-owned lots and buildings.

Council passed three readings of a bylaw to allow for the exemptions, which would come into effect in 2016. Final adoption is required before the exemptions come into law.

An exemption of $285,922 will apply to the Port Theatre, which is municipally-owned but run through

an independent society.

Thirty other city-owned properties used by other organizations will receive $172,803 in exemptions, while the Nanaimo Museum will received $64,576.

The biggest piece of the tax-break pie gets taken by 52 properties used by approximately 36 non-profit groups, which totals $315,222.

Church properties also benefit from $170,736 in exemptions, spread out across 41 properties in the city.

However, this amount does not include church buildings themselves,

or the land that the buildings are directly situated on. Those parts are already tax exempt under provincial law, in addition to whatever extra lands — such as a parking lot — municipalities decide to shelter from taxes.

Seven community care facilities will also spilt $252,791 in exemptions, while the same number of senior citizen care facilities will get $57,649. A total of 17 parks will receive $163,785 in tax exemptions.

The amounts only include the city’s share of taxes. Municipalities also

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The amount of tax released by the city has remained relatively constant over recent years. Council approved $1.14 million in exemptions in 2009, followed by $1.29 million in 2010, $1.3 million in 2011, $1.34 million in 2012 and $1.4 million in 2013.

The city also routinely adds and removes new properties to the exemption list each year for various reasons.

New entries to this year’s list includes the BC Boys Choir, the

Island Crisis Care Society, Loaves & Fishes Food Bank Foundation, the Mid Island Abilities & Independent Living Society and the Nanaimo Community Gardens Society.

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Toddler escapes injury after explosion in apartment building

Woman killed in motorbike accident

Man sent to hospital with severe burns; police suspect botched drug-processing AARON HINKS DAILY NEWS

COMOX VALLEY ECHO

A 31-year-old man was taken to hospital with severe burns after an explosion in a Pine Ridge Village suite on Rock City Road Tuesday evening.

RCMP are investigating the cause of the explosion, and indicated that it may have been the result of a botched drug processing operation.

A 19-year-old woman was also burned and taken to hospital. A toddler,who was in the suite at the time of the explosion escaped injury.

The explosion took place on the third floor of the first of four buildings at the complex.

A first-floor resident, Andrew, who didn’t provide his last name, says he was coming home from grocery shopping when he heard the explosion at approximately 9:15 p.m.

“There was a boom and glass shattering, one of the apartments had an explosion in it,” Andrew said.

“There was lots of shouting and people outside, obviously the explosion was pretty noticeable. I called the fire department, I thought maybe an oxygen tank blew up or something.”

RCMP said a criminal investigation is underway and the explosion appears to be the result of processing marijuana oil.

There are multiple ways to make marijuana oil, but one process includes the use of the flammable gas butane.

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A Comox Valley woman was killed Tuesday night when her motorcycle collided with two vehicles.

Comox Valley RCMP, BC Ambulance Service and local fire crews responded to the crash in the 4400 block of Highway 19A (old Island Highway) near Royston.

Witnesses on scene provided information to the investigators which indicates the motorcycle, travelling southbound at the time, crossed the centre line and collided with two northbound vehicles.

The woman, a 40-year old Comox Valley resident, sustained significant injuries in the collision and was pronounced dead at the scene.

One of the other involved motorists was suffering from chest pain, from the deployment of the vehicle airbag, and was transported to St. Joseph’s hospital for treatment.

The highway was closed for several hours, and a detour put in place to maintain traffic flow. The Island District RCMP Traffic Analyst/Re-Constructionist attended the crash scene and is continuing a thorough investigation into the cause of this crash.

Any witnesses to this collision who have not yet spoken to police are asked to contact the Comox Valley RCMP at 250-338-1321.

The BC Coroners Service attended the scene. The identity of the deceased will not be released by the RCMP.

Pine Ridge Village on Rock City Road in Nanaimo was the scene of an explosion on Tuesday evening. One man was taken to hospital with severe burns. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

said the building was evacuated for at least an hour before residents were allowed back inside their suites.

“I haven’t been told anything except for what I saw, which is next to nothing. It’s quite concerning considering,” Miller said.

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officer Cpl. Jon Stuart said the RCMP is investigating the possibility of charges.

“Anytime you deal with processing drugs in a residence, particularly dangerous chemicals in a confined space, the result can be disastrous,” Stuart said, adding this type of event

puts the tenants, neighbours, and emergency workers in danger.

The property manager declined to comment.

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Experimental surgery can’t save sea otter Experimental surgery to save an injured Vancouver Island sea otter dubbed “Corky” wasn’t enough to save the animal’s life.

Veterinarians had hoped to keep

Corky alive by removing a kidney and performing a blood transfusion, but the Vancouver Aquarium confirms Corky died early Wednesday morning.

It’s believed he had been hit by a boat and suffered a fractured rib and other injuries before he was rescued in August near Tofino.

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Rescue centre manager Emily Johnson says everyone hoped the otter would beat the odds and pull through.

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LEARN THE SIGNS OF STROKE A police officer shows an illegal gun and silencer seized in an international gun-making and selling bust last year. [MONIQUE TAMMINGA/LANGLEY TIMES]

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A Langley dad once dubbed the ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ of weapons pleaded guilty to dozens of weapons-related charges during in Supreme Court on Monday.

Bradley Michael Friesen’s trial began in New Westminster on Sept. 28, where he was facing 47 firearm and gun trafficking related charges.

His lawyer then indicated that the alleged gun maker would be entering a guilty plea. Friesen, 38, appeared next on Oct. 5. A pre-sentence report has been ordered for later date.

He has been in custody since his arrest last year.

On the morning of July 17, 2014, Friesen was arrested while he was with his five-year-old son at a campground in Osoyoos.

Numerous firearms and illegal firearms-related devices were seized from Friesen’s van at the campground.

Many of the weapons found in the van were stashed underneath a booster seat in which Friesen’s young son was seated, police alleged at a press conference called shortly after his arrest.

Officers from the Tucson, Ariz., office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives called RCMP to tell them they had been investigating Friesen for selling Glock switches, silencers and gun parts via the Internet.

A joint Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. and U.S. investigation began, resulting in investigators conducting surveillance of Friesen.

“It did not take long before he was observed mailing packages of parts and silencers to addresses in Canada, the U.S., and Australia,” said CFSEU-BC’s Sgt. Linsday Houghton at the press conference at RCMP headquarters.

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t’s a legitimate question: If so few of us go to all-candidates meetings, then why hold them at all?

Long have editorials like this one rued the apathy of Canadians when it comes time to vote for candidates at any of our three levels of government. Not attending all-candidates forums is understandable. There are various reasons; not everyone has time and many of us are piqued by the various messages and styles of our politicians. Others don’t care.

That latter category — don’t care — is what we all need to be concerned about. That position, more than Machiavellian politicians, jaded party hacks and power-hungry politicos threatens our democracy.

It’s a short step from “don’t care” about all-candidates meetings to being cavalier on voting day about

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This isn’t about sending someone to Ottawa. This is about democracy. And to make democracy work we all need to participate at a level beyond watching political ads or counting election signs. getting to the polling station — or not. Mid-Island residents have had the opportunity to go to a number of such meetings during this rather lengthy campaign, and more are slated before election day on Oct. 19.

The reasons to attend are qualitative — who the candidates are, how they answer questions, getting their views on various issues. The reasons not to go are quantitative — not enough time, too much election material to think about already, the meetings may be long and held in a cramped, sweltering hall.

But for those who really do care about the future of Canada, quality in this instance will have to trump quantity. There may be other ways to find out about the candidates, but there’s nothing quite like seeing them in the flesh.

Their body language, the way the answer questions and just how they appear in general contribute to a greater knowledge about how we will cast our vote. The experience separates the person from the party.

More than a few voters in past elections who thought they either knew the issues or believed they had their minds made up have been swayed in the opposite direction after seeing and hearing candidates in person.

All-candidates meetings also give us an opportunity to see how a person who wants to sit in Parliament can handle the pressure of having to think for themselves, respond to important issues and how they are mindful of the constituents they want to represent.

If they can’t respond well under the pressure of a small political meeting during an election, such a person is not likely to do well in Ottawa. Or at least they will be no more than a backbencher struggling to navigate the halls power on behalf of the interests of their riding.

Every Canadian wants the strongest candidate possible to represent them in the House of Commons. But we can’t rely on someone else to make that choice for us.

Those who want to have an MP who does more than spout a party line have an opportunity at all-candidates meeting to better discern who is best qualified for the job.

This isn’t about sending someone to Ottawa. This is about democracy.

And to make democracy work we all need to participate at a level beyond watching political ads or counting election signs.

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» YOUR LETTERS // EMAIL: YOURLETTERS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM First-past-the-post vote needs to be questioned I like the Green Party’s policies, leader and local candidate. The party best represents my values as a citizen. So I am very disappointed I can’t in good conscience vote for the Green Party under our first-past-thepost system in the Courtenay-Alberni riding.

The Liberals, NDP and Green platforms all say they will bring legislation forward to create a more democratic system of voting than first-past-the-post if elected.

The Conservative position is they may put it to a referendum.

With the Conservatives, the soonest we can be rid of first-past-the-post would be two elections from now.

Macleans magazine recently ran a report on the loss of up to 60 per cent of scientific data gathered over decades dealing with the environment.

That data was paid for by Canadian tax payers, but because of recent budget cuts and conservative government policy decisions, 12 government libraries have been closed across the country since 2012.

Much of the un-digitized data in the form of books, journals and data sets has actually been thrown into dumpsters, sent to recycling centers and turned into pulp.

The loss of baseline data such as this means our scientific community cannot do basic research. As a country we are now operating blind in a very real sense.

Two polls conducted on behalf of the Dogwood Initiative in the Courtenay–Alberni riding in May and then in September of this year show support for the Conservative candidate on the rise.

The Conservatives are now at 25 per cent and the NDP at 30 per cent.

With a week to go until the election, the Conservatives could win here again.

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‘A Better Nanaimo’ seeks to create a better city Recently there has been an outcry from the citizens of Nanaimo on how city council has been conducting their business concerning issues of respect and decorum. In an effort to help bridge differences between council, a group of Nanaimoites volunteered to create a Facebook group called “A Better Nanaimo.”

The group description in our rules of protocol explains our mission to uphold for all to engage and respect each other with civility and decorum when contributing to our discussions.

We thought our Facebook group could be the start of something new and inspiring where our community of Nanaimo can come together and discuss issues of the day in a friendly, safe and respectful manner we would also like to see in council meetings.

We started “A Better Nanaimo” less than a month ago and have quickly become the leading forum by setting a good example of civil respect and decorum between members, when either agreeing or opposing a viewpoint from one another.

Many contribute to our vibrant discussions on various concerns and benefits our city is focusing on by effectively collaborating and brainstorming together on finding solutions between our members, who also comprise our leaders of Nanaimo, such as Mayor Bill McKay, councillors Wendy Pratt, Diane Brennan,Toursim Nanaimo, Nanaimo Economic Development and Kim

Smythe; CEO of the Nanaimo Chamber. Due to our mission, members are rapidly increasing in order to assist each other and for each other with unique perspectives to consider and evolve from.

We look forward to everyone joining our group as all opinions and input are highly vital and valued in our community to achieve “A Better Nanaimo.”

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Third version of events in girlfriend’s death B.C. man, 24, accused of killing pregnant woman; Supreme Court trial continues in Kamloops THE CANADIAN PRESS

KAMLOOPS— A 24-year-old man accused of murdering his girlfriend has testified he awoke to see her dead on the grass and then fled in panic when he saw a red car approaching.

However, the account Damien Taylor gave a jury is his third version of events since the body of 16-year-old CJ Fowler was found by dog walkers in the Guerin Creek area on Dec. 5, 2012.

B.C. Supreme Court has heard that the pregnant teen had a concrete block on her chest and that her face

and jaw were smashed in.

Taylor is charged with second-degree murder in Fowler’s death.

Her body was discovered hours after the pair had gone to hospital when Fowler complained of chest pains she believed were the result of using crystal meth.

An emergency room doctor has testified that he told Fowler and Taylor that she was pregnant and that they both appeared to welcome the news. Her previous pregnancy, three months earlier, had ended in a miscarriage.

When RCMP in Prince George

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interviewed Taylor, he told them he became separated from Fowler at the hospital early on Dec. 5, 2012, and went to the Greyhound depot, expecting she would join him.

In Kelowna, where he was arrested 13 month later, Taylor told RCMP he killed Fowler by accident. That admission came after hours of questioning and after Fowler’s stepfather — whom Taylor called Poppa — was brought into the interview room.

Taylor also said then that he was trying to “scare her in a funny way” and cut her throat.

“She was bleeding out of her

throat,” he told police.

Taylor also said he used “the boulders that were there” to end her suffering.

However, that account, which Taylor now claims is false, doesn’t fit with the facts of Fowler’s death.

A pathologist has testified she died from asphyxiation, likely from a blow to her face and jaw from a concrete block.

Her throat was not slashed.

“I was forced to make a false confession,” Taylor told court.

He also admitted, after being shown video of the couple outside Royal

Inland Hospital, that he lied to police about leaving without her.

Taylor testified he lied to police because he was worried they would know he was high on crystal meth and would search his backpack for drugs.

He told court that the week before Fowler’s death was consumed by selling and taking drugs, including cocaine, crystal meth and heroin.

When he was first intercepted by police in Prince George, Taylor wasn’t told that his girlfriend was dead until he was in the interview room.

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‘Ruthless killer’ gets Clark holds firm with position two life sentences that mayors must win referendum DALE BOYD PENTICTON WESTERN NEWS

There were feelings of relief for the family of a Princeton murder victim after a “long, torturous haul.”

John Ike Koopmans, 51, received two life sentences and will be ineligible for parole for 22 years after Justice Miriam Maisonville handed down Koopmans’ sentence on Oct. 6 in Penticton Supreme Court.

“We’re ready to move forward,” said Cheri Franklin, sister of Robert Keith Wharton, 43, who was shot and killed on a rural Princeton property March 2013 alongside Rosemary Fox, 32.

Koopmans was found guilty of two counts of second degree murder and the attempted murder of Bradley Martin, 51, by a jury in April.

Franklin, who spoke on behalf of the Wharton family outside the courthouse after the sentence was handed down, said she is “unbelievably happy that it’s over.”

“We can maybe go forward and feel good — I can’t believe the Crown did this, he did it for us and wow. I don’t even know what to say. Such relief, such anxiety just lifted off my shoulders,” Franklin said fighting back tears. “It’s amazing, it’s amazing.”

“The justice system finally worked,” Franklin said. “No possibility of parole for 22 years, he’s going to be an old man.”

Koopmans who wore a brown, collared shirt and black pants at the hearing chose not to address the court. He said nothing through the sentencing proceedings and showed no emotion.

“I’ve known John for quite a long time and he’s never showed any kind of emotion through the whole thing.

There’s not been one bit of emotion from him, so I had no expectations of him saying anything you know. He’s a ruthless killer, what can you say?”

Franklin said.

Facing two life sentences, the decision Justice Maisonville faced was one of parole eligibility. Koopmans’s defence suggested a 17-year period of ineligibility, while Crown put forward two consecutive periods of 15 years, totalling 30 years before he would be eligible for parole. Maisonville included relatively new legislation in her decision, Bill C-48, which amended the Criminal Code in 2011 aiming to enable judges to use parole ineligibility periods as instruments of denunciation.

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Premier Christy Clark is holding firm to her position that Metro Vancouver mayors will have to win a referendum if they want to add a new funding source for TransLink, including any eventual imposition of road pricing.

“I think it’s the right thing to do to ask people,” Clark said after mayors voted last week to urgently study road pricing options, which could someday replace the tolls on just some bridges with per kilometre fees to drive on all major routes.

“It would be a new funding source,” Clark said, noting the province has been able to build schools and hospitals without creating new taxes.

More bridges are expected to be tolled after the Pattullo Bridge and Massey Tunnel are replaced.

When asked if those tolls would be subject to referendum, the premier was non-committal.

“We’re going to have that discussion about that as those projects continue to go ahead,” Clark said.

“But people have choices about whether or not they pay for that new source of funding. If it was a new

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sales tax, which was proposed in the last referendum, no one would have a choice about whether or not they would have paid for that.”

Clark’s comments follow calls last week for her to abandon the continued referendum requirement on grounds it will thwart transit expansion and effective regional planning.

Metro residents voted by a 62 per cent margin against a 0.5 per cent sales tax earlier this year.

Metro mayors have asked TransLink to study mobility pricing options and determine how such a system could be advanced as quickly as possible.

A report to the mayors said mobil-

ity pricing could cut congestion while generating new funding to expand transit.

It notes any move to road pricing should happen before the two new toll bridges are built on the Fraser River, otherwise it could be complex and costly to change deals with P3 bridge operators afterwards.

Despite the new urgency to pursue road pricing, mayors don’t expect the options will be fully fleshed out for months if not years.

Previous estimates have suggested such a system is five to eight years away.

Communities Minister Peter Fassbender, who has responsibility for TransLink, made it clear the referendum requirement also applies to any move to introduce an annual vehicle levy, which is enabled in TransLink legislation but considered a new tax by the province.

He also said a vehicle levy wouldn’t be fair enough to the region’s residents.

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MONTREAL — American actor Randy Quaid has been arrested again and is scheduled to appear before the Immigration and Refugee Board in Montreal on Thursday.

The circumstances behind the arrest — his second in Montreal this year — are unclear, but his wife tweeted late Tuesday that her husband had been detained.

Immigration and Refugee Board spokesman Robert Gervais confirmed that Quaid will have a detention review hearing before a board member on Thursday afternoon.

A Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman was unable to provide any further details.

Quaid and his Canadian wife fled north of the border in 2010, saying they were the victims of persecution.

The couple have sought to stay in Canada and have said they were being hunted by “Hollywood star-whackers,” but their arrival in this country came as they faced a number of legal problems in the United States.

Quaid has been living in Montreal since January 2013 and was released after his most recent arrest. He had to post $10,000 bail and respect a host of other conditions that included checking in with border-agency officials every two weeks.

After arriving in Canada in 2010, the Quaids lived in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa before moving to Montreal. The actor’s bid for permanent residency in Canada was denied in late 2012.

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Lawyers for Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd., the now-defunct company responsible for the derailment that killed 47 people on July 6, 2013, tabled a motion earlier this week to change conditions of the fund.

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All the companies that offered money were to be released from legal liability for the derailment.

CP objected to the fund because it said it wasn’t responsible for the disaster and it wouldn’t be able to properly defend itself if it was taken to court by any of the firms released from legal liability or by other victims and creditors.

MMA’s new motion seeks to clarify CP’s legal obligations if the Canadian

company is taken to court, loses, and is ordered to pay money for the derailment.

The motion “clarifies their rights, should someone pursue legal action and succeed in obtaining a judgment against them,” Adessky said.

“This kind of clarifies certain (monetary) reductions that they are entitled to by virtue of how the (settlement) plan functions.”

CP spokesman Martin Cej said in an email that the railroad “has always supported the immediate payment of compensation to victims by those responsible for the incident.”

“And although CP was not at fault in the derailment . . . the company has been working with the trustee on a solution that protects CP’s interests while allowing compensation to be paid to the victims as soon as possible,” he said.

On July 6, 2013, an unmanned train owned by MMA roared into Lac-Megantic and derailed, with its cargo exploding and decimating part of the downtown core.

MMA didn’t have enough insurance to pay damages to victims and creditors, so it filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Canada. The settlement fund is tied to the bankruptcy proceedings on both sides of the border.

A judge in Canada has already accepted the terms of the fund, while a U.S. judge is expected to rule on the acceptability of the fund Friday.

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Alberta reviews payday loan laws to the protect vulnerable BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Payday loan companies will not be banned under a review of the industry by the Alberta government despite concerns about high interest rates charged by providers.

“The government of Alberta is not going to ban payday lenders,” Service Alberta Minister Deron Bilous said Wednesday.

“We don’t want to drive them underground. We know from talking to organizations that you’re actually doing the opposite of consumer protection if you drive them underground. They’re much more dangerous when they’re illegal.”

The current legislation, which expires June 30, 2016, regulates lenders that offer short-term credit to people who typically borrow smaller sums.

In Alberta, the stores can charge up to $23 of interest for every $100 borrowed, and if people don’t pay back the full amount on time, interest charges can mount

“I think we’re all concerned there is gouging going on and unnecessary profit taking.”

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substantially. Alberta’s rate is the second highest in Canada, only behind Prince Edward Island which allows $25.

Manitoba is the lowest at $17 per $100.

In tough economic times some Alberta families turn to payday loan services to help them deal with financial challenges, Bilous said, adding the review will ensure “vulnerable families aren’t being taken advantage of.”

The minister said there is a need for payday loan companies, but wouldn’t say there are some lenders who take advantage of the less fortunate.

“There are Albertans who get a

short-term loan which turns out to be an ongoing cycle and a revolving door and we want to look at ensuring Albertans have the tools to find short-term loans when they need it to fill that stop-gap, but not to put them onto a perpetual (debt) cycle,” he said.

The review will begin with an online survey and then move to face-to-face meetings with payday loan users, industry members and community organizations that provide support to low-income Albertans.

Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann, who was at the announcement, said a review is necessary.

“I think we’re all concerned there is gouging going on and unnecessary profit taking,” said Swann.

“It’s what we used to call usury and that is why we need to look at this, especially when we’re among the highest in the country.”

Once the review is complete, any draft amendments will be introduced in the Alberta legislature next spring.

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A Canadian former mining executive detained in Bulgaria has been freed after a judge denied Kyrgyzstan’s request to extradite him.

The court ruled Wednesday that Kyrgyzstan had not provided enough legal justification for Bulgaria to hand over Leonard Homeniuk, former CEO of Centerra Gold. Homeniuk has said the allegation are without merit.

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Parents demand answers in death The parents of a young man connected to an alleged mass-murder plot in Halifax say they want answers from police about the night their son died.

Police say James Lee Gamble killed himself in his family’s home in the suburb of Timberlea on Feb. 13 as investigators were unravelling an alleged plot by Gamble and two other people to shoot and kill people at a Halifax mall the next day.

◆ TORONTO

Gastric-bypass linked to suicide A new study has found that bariatric surgery patients who don’t achieve hopedfor weight loss have an increased risk of suicide in the years following the operation.

Gastric-bypass surgery is highly successful for most people, but about one to two per cent of patients have disappointing results — and that can lead to self-harm.

◆ SYDNEY, N.S.

Boy guilty in fatal bus push A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of criminal negligence causing the death of a fellow high school student who was pushed under a bus in Cape Breton.

The teen, shoved Christopher Chafe down an embankment outside Sydney Academy last winter. Court heard the rear wheels of the school bus rolled over Chafe’s head and he was pronounced dead at the scene on Feb. 11.

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KITCHENER, Ont. — The death of a 60-year-old man who was found with an arrow in his chest had police canvassing the streets of a Kitchener, Ont., neighbourhood on Wednesday in search of clues that could shed light on the incident.

Michael Gibbon’s death has rattled the community where he was struck down and police said while they were working to reassure residents, they also continued to urge people to remain vigilant. “Obviously this is a concerning set of circumstances, where a man has been shot with an arrow,� said Staff Sgt. Mike Haffner. “We’re following up on leads, trying to restore some calm into the community.

Waterloo Regional police said they were called to the neighbourhood around 7 a.m. on Monday and found Gibbon lying on the ground outside a home.

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An employee enters the Volkswagen factory site in Wolfsburg, Germany, this week. For Volkswagen, the cost of its cheating on emissions tests in the U.S. is likely to run into the tens of billions of dollars and prematurely end its long-sought status as the world’s biggest carmaker. [AP PHOTO]

Top VW staff probably knew of cheating, say auto experts CEO says investigation has found tampering by a few software developers TOM KRISHER AND MICHAEL BIESECKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT — Auto industry insiders strongly suspect the emissions cheating scandal at Volkswagen is much wider and reaches higher up the corporate ladder than the company is letting on.

Volkswagen’s new CEO, Matthias Mueller, was quoted Wednesday as telling a German newspaper that the investigation so far has found that a few software developers tampered with the pollution controls on some of VW’s diesel engines.

He said top executives would not have gotten involved in the software.

But industry experts and analysts say it’s hard to believe a few

designers acted on their own to blatantly circumvent U.S. emissions tests. “You know that simple software guys would never have the courage or the authority to initiate the cheating,� said retired General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz. “They would want someone senior to sign off on it.�

VW has admitted that 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide have software that turns pollution controls on when the vehicles are being tested on a treadmill-like device and shuts them off when the automobiles are on the road. The trick enables the cars to get better fuel mileage while spewing illegal levels of smog-causing exhaust.

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On Thursday, VW’s top U.S. executive, Michael Horn, is likely to face tough questioning on Capitol Hill about what he knew and when he knew it.

VW said he will testify before Congress that he found out about the cheating software only a few weeks ago.

Experts say others in the company had to know about the cheating because the software controlled devices engineered by other departments. Those departments would surely have seen something amiss during testing of their own equipment.

Also, the cheating lasted for seven or eight years, and dur-

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A VW spokesman in the U.S. wouldn’t comment Wednesday on the analysts’ statements.

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Medical group seeks facts about bombing Doctors Without Borders wants respect for international humanitarian law after 22 killed in airstrike by U.S. JAMEY KEATEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA — Doctors Without Borders called Wednesday for an independent fact-finding mission to investigate a U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people.

The group, which believes Saturday’s airstrike in Kunduz may have been a war crime, appealed to the U.S., Afghanistan and other countries to mobilize a little-known commission to look into the tragedy.

The aid group says it above all wants to ensure respect for international humanitarian law after the most deadly airstrike in its history. A dozen MSF staffers and 10 patients were killed in the hospital airstrike amid fighting between Afghan government forces and Taliban rebels in the northeastern city.

The U.S. military has already vowed to conduct an investigation and says the airstrike was a mistake.

MSF International President Joanne Liu called for an impartial and independent probe into the attack, “particularly given the inconsistencies in the U.S. and Afghan accounts of what happened over recent days.

Jason Cone, U.S. executive director of Doctors Without Borders, on Wednesday in New York calls for an independent, international investigation into the U.S. air strike on a hospital in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people. [AP PHOTO]

“We cannot rely on only internal military investigations by the U.S., NATO and Afghan forces,” she said.

U.S. President Barack Obama telephoned Liu Wednesday and apologized for the attack.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama offered condolences to the group’s staff and pledged a “transparent, thor-

ough and objective accounting of the facts.”

“When the United States makes a mistake, we own up to it, we apologize where appropriate, and we are honest about what transpired,” Earnest said. He described the call as a “heartfelt apology.”

MSF wants to mobilize the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding

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MONTREAL — Canadian restaurants aren’t holding out much hope that the massive new Pacific Rim trade deal will boost the availability of the antibiotic-free chicken their customers are increasingly craving.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal announced Monday will open an additional 2.1 per cent of the Canadian chicken market to imports in addition to the 7.5 per cent existing threshold. (Two per cent of the turkey market, meantime, has been opened up under TPP).

That would add more than 23.5 million kilograms of chicken over five years to the nearly 81 million kilograms of products covered by import controls that came into Canada mainly from the U.S. last year.

“The change is so small we’re highly doubtful it will be a catalyst for farmers here to be more innovative and more responsive to consumer needs,” said Joyce Reynolds, executive vice-president of Restaurants Canada.

She added Canadians’ love of chicken wings will likely trump any demand on a large scale for antibiotic-free chicken coming from abroad.

the additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions, seeking to mobilize the 15-member commission. The Conventions, whose roots date to 1864, lay out rules on the conduct of armed conflict, notably over protecting noncombatants.

For the commission to be mobilized, a single country would have to call for the fact-finding mission, and the U.S. and Afghanistan — which are not signatories — must also give their consent for one to go forward.

MSF says it has had no response yet from any country.

Helen Durham, director of international law and policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the commission could help “clarify the facts surrounding this tragic incident” and said that investigation could complement separate ones by the U.S., NATO and Afghanistan.

Zafar Hashemi, deputy spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, said his government was committed to a full, transparent investigation of the hospital incident and “will fully co-operate with the investigation through appropriate channels agreed upon by our partners” in the NATO Resolute Support mission.

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TPP not likely to aid restaurants in getting antibiotic-free chicken ROSS MAROWITS THE CANADIAN PRESS

Commission, based in the Swiss capital, Bern. It is made up of diplomats, legal experts, doctors and some former military officials from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia. Created after the Gulf War in 1991, the commission has never deployed a fact-finding mission.

Liu said MSF is “working on the assumption of a possible war crime,” but said its real goal is to establish facts about the incident and the chain of command, and clear up the rules of operation for all humanitarian organizations in conflict zones.

The strike “was not just an attack on our hospital, it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated,” she told reporters Wednesday.

The U.S. airstrikes have all but shattered the humanitarian aid response in Kunduz, causing MSF — whose hospital was the primary medical facility in the region — and other aid groups to suspend operations there.

MSF, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization that provides medical aid in conflict zones, is awaiting responses to letters it sent Tuesday to 76 countries that signed Article 90 of

“The change is so small we’re highly doubtful it will be a catalyst for farmers here to be more innovative and more responsive to consumer needs.”

Joyce Reynolds, Executive VP of Restaurants Canada

But Sylvain Charlebois, professor of distribution and food policy at the University of Guelph’s Food Institute, is more optimistic that the new trade deal could spur imports of antibiotic-free chicken and push Canadian suppliers to respond in order to preserve their marketshare.

“Now with this opening, they may not have a choice but to actually comply to market demand,” he said in an interview.

The Chicken Farmers of Canada, representing the country’s 2,700 poultry farmers, says it’s already working to reduce antibiotics and doesn’t believe additional imports will spur more production of antibiotic-free birds.

“What will encourage more antibiotic-free chicken is consumer

demand, and consumer demand is there and it’s coming,” said executive director Mike Dungate.

He added that farmers have banned Class 1 antibiotics, and will eventually eliminate two other classes of drugs that affect human health.

Antibiotic-free chickens currently account for about three per cent of the 1.07 billion kilograms of chicken produced in Canada, Dungate said.

“The farmers want to produce more chicken than the restaurants, the processors and further processors want to buy from farmers.

There’s not a supply issue. We can produce it and we will.”

Dungate said the TPP will hit the industry hard by removing $54 million in annual revenues, the equivalent of 61 chicken farms.

Still, he said, farmers are pleased with the government’s commitment to end “fraudulent import practices.”

Canada is the 17th largest chicken importer in the world, taking in more product than six of the TPP members combined.

The big Canadian appetite for chicken endures as large fast-food restaurant chains like McDonald’s and A&W are making changes in order to respond to the demand for healthier products.

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Israel warns citizens to be on alert as attacks escalate Violence forces PM Benjamin Netanyahu to call off a high-profile visit to Germany TIA GOLDENBERG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — Palestinian assailants carried out a series of stabbings across Israel on Wednesday, jolting an anxious country unnerved by weeks of unrest as clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian demonstrators raged across the West Bank.

The violence forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call off a high-profile visit to Germany and prompted him to tell the nation to be on “alert” for further trouble.

And in another sign of the tensions, Jerusalem’s mayor, Nir Barkat, was seen carrying an assault rifle while visiting an Arab neighbourhood.

The unrest began three weeks ago and has spread from the confines of a sensitive Jerusalem holy site to spots across Israel and the West Bank. In Wednesday’s violence, stabbings occurred outside a crowded mall in central Israel, in a southern Israeli town and in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Israeli forces shot two of the attackers, killing one, while a third was arrested. No Israelis were seriously hurt.

Another Palestinian was wounded when he was shot by police after he attempted to run over an officer at a West Bank checkpoint, police said.

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Islamist terror suspects arrested in Germany German news agency dpa reports that authorities have arrested three terror suspects in the west of the country.

It reported Wednesday that the arrests took place in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

It quoted a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutors office as saying the men travelled to Syria in 2013 and returned to Germany months later.

The unnamed suspects are accused of joining the extremist groups Junud al-Sham and Islamic State.

The federal prosecutors office couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

Hillary Clinton opposes Pacific Rim trade deal

Undercover Israeli police officers and Israeli soldiers detain a wounded Palestinian demonstrator during clashes near Ramallah, West Bank, on Wednesday. [AP PHOTO]

Netanyahu has threatened a tough response to the violence, and Israel has beefed up security in Jerusalem and the West Bank. It also briefly barred non-resident Palestinians from entering the Old City, home to sensitive holy sites. That ban was lifted shortly before Wednesday’s stabbing.

In all, four Israelis have been killed

in stabbings and a roadside shooting in recent days, while five Palestinians, including three attackers, have been killed.

With the attacks spilling into the Israeli heartland, Netanyahu warned Israelis to be on guard.

Adnan Husseini, the top Palestinian official for Jerusalem, called Barkat’s armed appearance “a declaration of

war” on Palestinian residents of the city.

The clashes erupted during the Jewish new year three weeks ago over tensions at the sacred hilltop compound in Jerusalem revered by Muslims as the spot where Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven and

by Jews as the site of the two Jewish biblical Temples.

Nuclear black market thrives in Eastern Europe CHISINAU, Moldova — In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press has learned. The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium — enough to contaminate several city blocks — and specifically sought a buyer from the Islamic State group.

Criminal organizations, some with ties to the Russian KGB’s successor agency, are driving a thriving black market in nuclear materials in the tiny and impoverished Eastern European country of Moldova, investigators say. The successful busts, however, were undercut by striking shortcomings: Kingpins got away,

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“As long as the smugglers think they can make big money without getting caught, they will keep doing it.”

Constantin Malic, Moldovan police

and those arrested evaded long sentences, sometimes quickly returning to nuclear smuggling, AP found.

Mouldovan police and judicial authorities shared investigative case files with the AP in an effort to spotlight how dangerous the nuclear black market has become. They say the breakdown in co-operation between Russia and the West means that it has become much harder to know whether smugglers are finding ways to move parts of Russia’s vast store of radioactive materials — an unknown quantity of which has

leached into the black market.

“We can expect more of these cases,” said Constantin Malic, a Moldovan police officer who investigated all four cases. “As long as the smugglers think they can make big money without getting caught, they will keep doing it.”

In wiretaps, videotaped arrests, photographs of bomb-grade material, documents and interviews, AP found a troubling vulnerability in the anti-smuggling strategy. From the first known Moldovan case in 2010 to the most recent one in February, a pattern has emerged: Authorities pounce on suspects in the early stages of a deal, giving the ringleaders a chance to escape with their nuclear contraband — an indication that the threat from the nuclear black market in the Balkans is far from under control.

Mouldovan investigators can’t be sure that the suspects who fled didn’t hold on to the bulk of the nuclear materials. Nor do they know wheth-

er the groups, which are pursuing buyers who are enemies of the West, may have succeeded in selling deadly nuclear material to extremists at a time when the Islamic State has made clear its ambition to use weapons of mass destruction.

The FBI declined to comment.

The White House and the U.S. State Department would not comment on the specifics of the cases.

The most serious case began in the spring of 2011, with the investigation of a group led by a shadowy Russian named Alexandr Agheenco, “the colonel” to his cohorts, whom Moldovan authorities believe to be an officer with the Russian FSB, previously known as the KGB. A middle man working for the colonel was recorded arranging the sale of bomb-grade uranium, U-235, and blueprints for a dirty bomb to a man from Sudan, according to several officials. The blueprints were discovered in a raid of the middleman’s home, according to police and court documents.

Hillary Rodham Clinton says she opposes the big Pacific Rim trade accord backed by President Barack Obama.

The Democratic presidential candidate says in an interview with the broadcaster PBS there are too many “unanswered questions” about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. She says, “What I know about it as of today, I am not in favour.”

The free trade deal backed by the administration has been opposed by liberal Democrats and labour unions.

Clinton helped lay the foundation for the deal as Obama’s secretary of state.

She joins Democratic rivals Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, who warn it could lead to lost American jobs.

The pact is central to Obama’s attempt to engage with Asia to offset a rising Chinese influence in the region.

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Search ends after vessel sinks during hurricane The U.S. Coast Guard plans to end its search at sunset for 33 missing crew members from a U.S. cargo ship that sank last week during Hurricane Joaquin, officials announced Wednesday afternoon.

Robert Green, father of missing crew member LaShawn Rivera, said despite the decision, “I think we’re still hopeful. Miracles do happen, and it’s God’s way only. I’m prayerful, hopeful and still optimistic.”

The 790-foot cargo ship sank Thursday off the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm. Officials say the ship’s captain had plans to go around the storm as he headed from Jacksonville, Fla., to Puerto Rico but the El Faro suffered unexplained engine failure that left it unable to avoid the storm.

Federal investigators have said they still hope to recover a data recorder from the ship as search crews continue looking for any survivors.

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Ottawa veterinarian prepares to fix snout of dog from Nicaragua

Desmond Tutu marks 84th birthday by attending anti-corruption lecture South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu marked his 84th birthday on Wednesday with one of his first public appearances since being hospitalized for a persistent infection.

Tutu, a retired Anglican archbishop for Cape Town, has been hospitalized several times since July.

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n Ottawa veterinarian is preparing to fly in a dog from Nicaragua to perform snout-saving surgery.

Graham Thatcher was first tipped to Tyson’s plight on Instagram when a stranger shared a video of the dog’s deep gash and asked for help. The wound is so deep that the beagle mix’s mouth and nasal cavity are visible through the gash. “It’s an animal that’s suffering,� said Thatcher in an interview. “It’s not going to be able to get the care that it needs there, and somebody asked me for help and that’s what we want to do.�

Thatcher said Tyson was wounded accidentally when his owner was clearing brush in the jungle with a machete about a year ago.

He said he worked with Paso Pacifico, an environmental conservation organization that bought the land where Tyson lives with his Nicaraguan family. Thatcher said the company got help from a local vet, who said the dog should be euthanized.

The family, Thatcher and the organization disagreed, and they’ve been working for several months to get the dog’s vaccinations and papers in order to travel to Canada.

Once everything was set, Thatcher’s wife, Andrea White, bought a plane ticket with United Airlines and made arrangements to fly the dog to Houston from Managua in Nicaragua. She was set to leave for Nicaragua last Saturday. “At the very last minute, United Airlines in Nicaragua said ’no, you can’t take this dog,�’ Thatcher said.

The surgery was put on hold after United refused to fly Tyson because the dog’s injury was too severe.

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Soon after, the airline reversed course and a spokesman said they are paying for a flight for either Thatcher or White to fly with the wounded hound to Houston.

United spokesman Charlie Hobart said the company was initially following its own policy against transporting injured animals.

But after some public pressure and consultation with veterinarians and Thatcher, the company decided to allow the dog on board.

He said Air Canada will then fly Tyson from Houston to Ottawa.

Thatcher hopes to have Tyson in Canada in a few weeks, but added that United initially offered to fly him to Nicaragua to perform the surgery there.

“That wouldn’t work. It’s not just going to be one surgery, and we need advanced imaging to make the proper treatment plan to fix this dog, and tools and tricks of the trade that we have here,� Thatcher said. “Down there all we can do is a simple surgery: cut the nose off and the dog would be fine, but we can make him better than fine in Canada.�

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e is a Canadian folk music icon, but these days you’ll be hard pressed to hear a Murray McLauchlan song on Canadian radio stations.

So his coming live performance at the Port Theatre is a rare opportunity.

The man who wrote such Canadian standards as “Farmer’s Song,” “Down by the Henry Moore,” “Whispering Rain” and “Sweeping the Spotlight Away” is probably now more familiar to U.S. listeners than in his home country.

He takes it all in stride.

“The thing is, in Canada we don’t have a particular radio format the have in the U.S. — ‘Americana,’ they call it,” McLauchlan said.

Canadians have the CBC “which is great, they break new acts,” some album rock and alt rock stations, and “the rest of it, most of the music that commercial radio is really siloed music now,” he said.

“And ‘new country’ — to me it sounds like rock of the 70s.”

Yet even as new generations grow up less aware of McLauchlan’s music, his reputation has grown with other songwriters and artists and with listeners around the globe.

Murray McLauchlan started writing songs and performing in his late teens.

Soon he played the Philadelphia Folk Festival and Mariposa, alongside the likes of Jim Croce and John Prine, and major venues in Toronto, New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago.

American folk star Tom Rush had made his “Child’s Song” popular before McLauchlan even recorded his first album.

Always unabashedly passionate about Canada, that love collided with his love of aviation when he made a circumnavigation of the entire country, from Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic, in a Cessna 185 float plane, followed by a film crew.

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Collaborations keep musician busy With a growing fan base in the U.S., McLauchlan continues to diversify his talents into painting and musicals McLAUCHLAN, from Page 20 In 1993, he was appointed to the Order of Canada.

In 1998 his memoir Getting Out of Here Alive offered a well-lit snapshot of the early days of the Toronto music scene and its inhabitants.

At the dawn of the millennium, McLauchlan started work on the stage musical Eddie, about a Sinatraesque singer troubled by his demons and his women.

He also paints. McLauchlan’s works have hung on the walls of EMI and Pamela Wallin and been used to raise money for the Nature Conservancy.

His songs continue to appear in the collections of other artists.

Now with 18 albums to his credit, McLauchlan has 11 Juno awards, RPM “Big Country” awards and Toronto music awards.

His songs have been covered by many other artists as well as being featured in high school text books.

In 2012, McLauchlan released what is regarded his finest album, Human Writes.

“It’s a lot of really good songs,” McLauchlan said.

It gets considerable airplay in the U.K., Ireland, Europe and Australia,

with the hugely popular group Lunch At Allen’s after over a decade of touring and several popular albums.

He continues in development of a stage musical full of original songs written in the manner of the American songbook. His songs continue to be cut by other artists such as the U.S. band Widespread Panic.

McLauchlan is also a painter, an author, an actor, a radio host; he’s also been bestowed an Honourary Doctor of Laws and appointed to The Order of Canada He toured in support of that critically acclaimed album, then took a break, limiting his touring to shows with Lunch At Allen’s, the supergroup he co-founded, whose members also include Ian Thomas, Marc Jordan and Cindy Church.

“No Change in Me” was featured in the musical Needfire, and recorded

by John McDermott, and The Ennis sisters. McLauchlan’s co-write with

“I try to do my very best to make it worthwhile for folks to be there and to perhaps look at things in a new way when they leave.”

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Tom Wilson, “Burned Out Car,” became a duet on the Junkhouse album, featuring Sarah McLachlan and Wilson, and won the best video Juno.

McLauchlan co-wrote “You Should be Havin’ Fun” with Barney Bentall, and “Bad Girl” with Lorraine Segato of Parachute Club.

Now he’s back on the road. As a songwriter, he understands that “it’s not enough to sit in your kitchen and write.”

He recognizes that music is a communicative art and live performance is the test for any new song.

“I try to do my very best to make it worthwhile for folks to be there and to perhaps look at things in a new way when they leave.”

An Evening in Concert with Murray McLauchlan comes to Nanaimo Oct. 17.

He promises a showcase of his best known hits, “and a lot of songs from new albums as well.”

Reserved seating tickets for An Evening in Concert with Murray McLauchlan are $42-$46 (depending on facility fees and service charges), available from box offices listed below.

• Oct. 17 at Nanaimo The Port Theatre (250-754-8550).

Other Island dates: • Oct. 14, Campbell River Tidemark Theatre (Box Office: 250-287-7465 or 1-800-994-0555), • Oct. 15 at Courtenay-Comox Sid Williams Theatre (Ticket Centre: 250-338-2430 Ext 1 or 866-898-8499), • Oct. 16 at Duncan-Cowichan Performing Arts Centre (Cowichan Ticket Centre: 250-748-7529 and • Oct. 18 at Victoria McPherson Playhouse - (250-386-6121 or 888-717-6121).

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Reggae icon pushing 50 years in the business DAVID OWEN RAMA FOR THE DAILY NEWS

Roots reggae legend Clinton Fearon has had the good fortune of living a life devoted to music. A career that has now lasted almost a half century.

On the phone from Seattle, Fearon talks about how his early years growing up in the country created a foundation of positivity, through a connection with nature, that has permeated the majority of his compositions.

“You know, I grew up in the woods man. In the country. In a little district called Mendez, way in the bush.

A simple life. Often time no shirt on. Pick fruit, eat this, eat that. You know, really close to nature.”

A country boy from St. Catherine Jamaica, Fearon moved to the city of Kingston when he was a teenager. A

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His passion for music became Fearon’s guiding light, and like many aspiring musicians from meager circumstances, Fearon would go to work collecting materials to fashion his own instrument.

Regardless of what sounds like an ideal country upbringing, Fearon admits that he made a clear choice to avoid getting involved in the urban crime that has long plagued the city of Kingston.

“I’ve experienced a rough life still.

I remember in Kingston, in the 1970’s, when the politics was hot. No food, youth and youth killing off one another.

“I could have easily gone there too.

Incarceration and so on. But for the love of music, and the love of life, I decided to stick to the music,” he said.

And it was this passion for his guitar that got Fearon noticed in 1969

by Errol Grandisson, a member of the now legendary roots reggae band The Gladiators.

Grandisson had encountered Fearon playing guitar in his yard and convinced the young construction worker to come join the band.

For his role in The Gladiators, Fearon provided vocal harmonies and went on to compose many songs for the group. He also held down the bass duties, which earned the young musician the nickname “Bassie.”

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Power and positivity runs through music FEARON, from Page 22 Fearon would spend eighteen years with The Gladiators, and over time, worked with such reggae heavyweights as Ansel Collins and Sly Dunbar.

After spending almost twenty years establishing a solid foundation in Jamaican reggae music history and touring the world with The Gladiators, Fearon decided to lay down fresh roots in Seattle at the end of The Gladiators 1987 American tour.

Once established in the Pacific Northwest, Fearon first put together a band called The Defenders, which he worked with until 1993, when he then dissolved the group and formed a new backing band called The Boogie Brown Band.

Since that time Fearon has gone on to record eight albums with The Boogie Brown Band, including last year’s dazzling Goodness, a recording that pulsates with social consciousness and Fearon’s contagious optimism.

“There is a goodness inside of us, and when it is working, it is so beautiful,” he said.

In recent years Fearon also decided to adopt a stripped-down sound on the 2005 solo acoustic release Mi An Mi Guitar, and Heart and Soul (2012), a record that revisits some of his old Gladiators compositions in a bare-bones, unplugged style.

Fearon credits the original idea to showcase some of his compositions in an acoustic style to late Vancouver Island reggae promoter Brian Delisle.

“I remember long time ago him said, ‘Clinton, why don’t you take them Gladiators songs that you did and go out there as a lone Gladiator, you know, and even maybe do it acoustic.’”

But it wasn’t until years later, after members of his band also began encouraging the acoustic album concept, did the idea “get thicker and thicker” in Fearon’s mind.

Since the release of Mi An Mi Guitar, Fearon has divided up his touring schedule between appearances at some of Europe’s most prestigious reggae and world music festivals and small intimate acoustic dates in small communities on the west coast.

After a summer on the European festival circuit the Nanaimo Reggae Massive presents Fearon for three intimate performances: Tonight at Moby’s Pub on Salt Spring Island, at The Queens in Nanaimo on Oct. 9 and at the Little Red Church in Comox on Oct. 10.

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Nanaimo: A Pictorial History is the work of local writer J. Douglas Steel, who has produced three other books on the city’s history and his experiences growing up in it.

The latest effort from Steel features hundreds of photos of the city’s churches, streets, landmarks, homes, events and people as they appeared in the 1800s through to now.

Steel compiled the images from family collections, friends and organizations like the Nanaimo Museum, Nanaimo Community Archives and others.

The book took about two years to produce. Steel said he began the project after determining there was not a similar visual history of the city.

“To me, it’s a labour of love,” said Steel, who spent much of his youth with friends in the city’s downtown in the ‘40s and ‘50s.

“Visually, it has changed considerably, especially Commercial Street.”

Much of the book shows parts of the city under construction, as well as features and buildings that are now only memories. But the

Titled ‘The Circus Comes To Town,’ this photo was taken in the late 1800s at Commercial and Wharf Streets. [PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM TEER]

photos also reveal a growing city that has maintained much of its physical history.

Steel said he has no one favourite takeaway image from the collection, but said the exercise of putting the book together revealed a downtown in need of revitalization.

He also said the city has suffered from urban sprawl.

“I don’t like how the town is so spread out now,” he said.

“There’s very few people going to the downtown now.”

Steel said the book is available for purchase at Literacy Central Vancouver Island, Chapters, the Flying Fish in downtown Nanaimo. Those wanting a copy can also call him directly at 250-585-6088.

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LONDON — The London Film Festival opened Wednesday with Suffragette, the story of British women who fought for the right to vote — a milestone on a journey to equality that many believe is still unfinished.

In an echo of the suffragettes’ direct-action tactics, about a dozen protesters from anti-domestic violence group Sisters Uncut got past barriers and lay on the red carpet at the film’s glitzy festival premiere.

The group carried signs saying “Dead Women Can’t Vote,” and said on Twitter they were continuing the suffragettes’ struggle for women’s equality Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep, the gritty early 20th-century drama Suffragette — think blood and sweat, not Downton Abbey — was directed

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by British women about British women who changed the course of history,” said festival director Clare Stewart.

Stewart said its selection as the opener signals the London Film Festival’s desire to ask “what can we be doing to break down the barriers for women directors and how can we be ensuring that the debate is front and centre for the film industry?”

In contrast to Cannes, which has been criticized for choosing few works by female filmmakers, 46 of the 240 features in the London lineup are by women, including Deepa Mehta’s Indian-Canadian gangster movie Beeba Boys and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand documentary Brand: A Second Coming.

Stewart said the figure “sounds fantastic when you say it like that.

And then you realize it’s still only 20 per cent of the program.”

Festival organizers have also invited actress Geena Davis, founder of an institute on gender in media, to host a symposium.

And Cate Blanchett — star of two festival entries, the lesbian romance Carol and the journalism drama Truth — will receive the British Film Institute Fellowship, a career honour.

Founded in 1957 to show the best of the year’s world cinema to a British audience, the London Film

Festival has boosted its profile in recent years with bigger movies, more glittering stars and prizes to boost emerging awards-season contenders.

This year’s lineup includes prize-winners from the Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and Venice film festivals, as well as high-profile fall releases including gangster thriller Black Mass, with Johnny Depp, and McCarthy-era drama Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston.

Gala presentations include Nicholas Hytner’s The Lady in the Van, starring Maggie Smith as a redoubtable eccentric; John Crowley’s Irish-American journey Brooklyn; Lenny Abrahamson’s mother-son story Room: and Davis Guggenheim’s documentary He Named Me Malala.

On Oct. 17, a jury led by Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski will award the prize for best film from a list of nominees that includes Cary Fukunaga’s child-soldier saga Beasts of No Nation and Laszlo Nemes’ searing Holocaust drama Son of Saul.

The 59th London Film Festival wraps up Oct. 18 with Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the Apple founder.

These are trying times at the Broadway show Therese Raquin — first a show was interrupted by a man in the audience who threw flowers and now star Keira Knightley has had to withdraw from Wednesday’s performance.

Roundabout Theatre Company said “a minor injury” to Knightley has forced the evening show to be cancelled. The theatre expected her to be ready for tonights night’s show.

Knightley was onstage Oct. 1 when a young man in the mezzanine got up, went to the railing and shouted.

The man was heard to say: “Five seconds is too long to wait for a response!” An usher came and escorted the man back to his seat. When security arrived, the man tossed the flowers on his way out.

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JASON BOTCHFORD THE PROVINCE

CALGARY — Forgive Jim Benning if his hands are a little chafed today.

He must have spent much of Wednesday night rubbing them with satisfaction after the Canucks beat the Flames 5-1.

His deep, and at times unconventional, offseason overhaul left the Canucks faster, smaller, and younger.

So much younger. If you bet that’s how Benning’s Canucks would look in the second year of what is supposed to be the meat-and-potatoes era, you probably have enough to invest in an NHL expansion team.

No one had a feel how these Canucks would work in the regular season. Say this for the first appearance: it left you wanting more. Unless you tire of the Canucks laying a thorough beatdown on their arch-rivals and 2015 playoff nemesis.

It’s just one game, but it is also the regular season opener, which means everyone is going to read far too much into what happened Wednesday.

And why not? The Canucks just got a small payback for what went down in April. Enjoy it. Not all of it

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is going to last. The Canucks are not going to regularly double up teams in shots. Jannik Hansen is not going to score 50.

Brandon Sutter is not going to score 35 playing with the Sedins. Ben Hutton is not putting up 45 assists.

At least, I don’t think so.

What you can take from this one is Sutter could be a better goal scorer than people realize. His goal was a showcase in eye-hand athleticism as he slammed a puck out of the air and into the net. You can believe that if

Hansen and Alex Burrows play a lot together they have the potential to be part of a special third line.

You can also believe, for now, age is just a number for the Sedins. They weren’t as dominant possession-wise as they were in the playoffs but they put goals on the board.

Two of them.

People can continue to belive they are second line players at this point of their careers. Those people can also continue to be wrong.

WHAT THIS MEANS At the risk of getting ahead of things, the Canucks just may have finally found a second power-play unit. Promising as Ben Hutton was in the preseason, he was even better in the first shifts of his NHL career.

On the first man advantage, he did the impossible. He dug the Canucks second power-play unit out from under six feet of soil and made it dangerous.

More remarkably, he did this with Chris Tanev playing the other point.

As far as debuts go, Hutton could have hung up the equipment right there and filed away one of the more intriguing performances we’ve seen

from a young defenceman in a long time. He did do more. Going deep into his own zone, he retrieved a puck and spun elegantly with a pass that hit Jannik Hansen at the other end of the rink.

Hansen scored. Hutton got his first primary assist. And everyone stopped worrying about Frankie Corrado.

WHAT WE LEARNED The Jake Virtanen era will have to wait, but not for long.

Virtanen did sit out the opener and head coach Willie Desjardins said it’s because he didn’t deserve one of the spots. Fair enough. But how long can they keep Virtanen around without playing him? Isn’t it important to get him into the lineup sooner than later?

“I think it’s important. If you don’t get to play it’s hard,” Virtanen said.

“The more you’re out, the harder it gets.”

It’s not like the Canucks could use him. A James Mirtle blog pointed out the Canucks had the smallest team in the league and not be a little.

Fast and a big hitter, Virtanen could be what Vancouver needs in California next week.

IN A WORD FIGHT: Early in the day, Micheal Ferland refused to say who he would be targetting with Kevin Bieksa out of town. Turns out, he was the one with the bullseye. Derek Dorsett fought him off the opening draw.

SICK: The best descriptor for a Daniel Sedin shot in the first. He ripped a knuckling Henrik pass out of the air. Just one problem: the Karri Ramo stick save was even better.

DIRTY: Dougie Hamilton ran Bo Horvat from behind drawing a boarding penalty in the second. Hamilton went high and hard driving Horvat’s head into the boards.

ADVANCED STATS 1.64: This was Brandon Sutter’s even strength goals-scored-per-60 minutes played last year. Of the 249 players who logged 1,000 minutes, that ranked 241st. So much for last year.

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The two teams last played Sept. 18 in Campbell River, with Nanaimo coming out on top 4-1.

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here do they turn when the roar of the crowd and scoring goals leaves them empty?

At the launch Tuesday of a new program called Talk Today partnering the B.C. Hockey League with the Canadian Mental Health Association, it was announced that BCHL players will have easy access to professional help when the chips are down.

Talk Today is a mental-health education program where junior players will have confidential access to counselling and support services in an effort to avert tragic suicides or other breakdowns. Each team will have a representative from the CMHA who will help players get assistance in a confidential manner. According to BCHL commissioner John Grisdale, they want to change the hockey culture and stigma around mental health issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This program is about awareness and needs to take shape,â&#x20AC;? said Grisdale.

Other leagues like the Ontario Hockey League have also worked with the CMHA on a similar initiative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The players need to feel comfortable,â&#x20AC;? Grisdale added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to act on the best interests of the players on and off the ice.â&#x20AC;?

Rob DeClark, chair of the BCHLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s player support program, said they want to end the labelling when a

BCHL commissioner John Grisdale, left, player Myles Mattila, CMHA B.C. executive Bev Gutray and Cowichan Valley Capitals assistant coach Rob DeClark attended the announcement Tuesday in Vancouver. [JASON PAYNE/PNG]

player shows he is vulnerable and having issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will help in reducing the stigma,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each team will have a representative from the CMHA and at any time a player can confidentially access that support, and access it quickly,â&#x20AC;? he said.

A young player, he notes may feel a lot of pressure as he wants to advance his career and maybe even get a hockey scholarship to an American college. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There have been many high-profile cases that have ended tragically,â&#x20AC;?

he said, noting the Vancouver Canucks had to deal with the suicide of Rick Rypien in 2011. Bev Gutray, the CEO of CMHA (B.C.), said the program â&#x20AC;&#x153;is about saving lives.â&#x20AC;?

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Rogers Centre roof may be open for ALDS opener

Toronto ace will be on 11 days of rest when he pitches against Rangers in the ALDS

The Toronto Blue Jays had one of the best home records in the major leagues this season. They have an even better winning percentage when the Rogers Centre roof is open.

The weather might just might allow for the opening of the stadium’s retractable roof for Game 1 of the American League Division Series on Thursday afternoon against the Texas Rangers. The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and a high of 14 degrees Celsius.

NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Asked about his baseball shoe, David Price listed off its attributes like a luxury sports car.

“Custom Jordan. PE 4. PE, pretty sure that stands for players’ edition.

Could be wrong but I think that’s right. It’s my playoff cleat from Michael. So thanks Mike.”

The blue shoe was hard to miss.

First of all it’s a size 13 1/2. And it was holding up an emoji-like picture of Price and his dog Astro on the podium in the bowels of the Rogers Centre.

The six-foot-six 210-pound Blue Jays ace brought props when he met the media Wednesday on the eve of his Game 1 start against the Texas Rangers in the American League Division Series.

“Who’s more excited for the playoffs: You or Astro?” Price was asked straight off the bat.

“Astro, he gets pretty giddy around this time of the year. But me. I mean this is why we play the game. This is why you’re putting in work,” Price replied.

Astro, a French bulldog in real life, and Jordan shoes have been familiar themes on Price’s active social media pipeline. The lanky pitcher love his dog and his kicks.

Price, who has 660,000 followers on Twitter, shared via social media Wednesday that he had an eight-minute phone conversation with actor Charlie Sheen, who has tweeted his support for the Jays.

“What a pleasant surprise...haha my stomach hurts from laughing!! #winning,” tweeted Price.

Price will be pitching on 11 days rest when he faces Rangers righthander Yovani Gallardo. Other than simulated game action, he has not

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Yankees feel downbeat, hopeful after early exit The quartet leaned against the dugout railing with uniformly glum expressions during the ninth inning, Masahiro Tanaka and Dellin Betances crossing their arms, Brett Gardner dangling his over a railing and Chris Young resting his chin on a hand.

The New York Yankees expected better this year than elimination in the AL wild-card game. Many others anticipated worse.

“When the season started, no one thought we would be here,” manager Joe Girardi said after Houston eliminated New York 3-0 on Tuesday night.

In the first year after Derek Jeter’s retirement, the Yankees ended their two-year absence from the post-season but did not reach the Division Series.

They had a seven-game AL East lead in late July but played .500 ball after and finished six games behind Toronto.

Adding closer Andrew Miller, shortstop Didi Gregorius, pitcher Nathan Eovaldi and reliever Justin Wilson helped, but not enough. In the end, the Yankees could not overcome titanic late-season slumps by Jacoby Ellsbury, Brett Gardner, Alex Rodriguez and Brian McCann.

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher David Price laughs during a team workout at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on Wednesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

pitched in a real game since Sept. 26 in Tampa.

“I feel good. The dimensions of the mound and 60 feet six inches doesn’t change, it’s still the same thing,” he said.

Toronto manager John Gibbons says Price was given a choice if he wanted to pitch or rest for the playoffs. Another start might have added to his Cy Young credentials, after all.

“He said ‘I don’t worry about individual awards,”’ Gibbons related.

“Which showed me something too,” he added.

Price (18-5 over the season) has made a difference on and of the pitch since coming over from Detroit at

the trade deadline in late July. He is 9-1 with a 2.30 earned-run average as a Blue Jay. “For a guy who throws so hard, he still locates,” said Gibbons. “That’s really what separates the elite guys from the average guys.”

Away from the field, Price has become a favourite in the Jays’ locker-room.

The 30-year-old is a big kid, in many ways. He has been responsible for some of the toys in the clubhouse, not to mention the everpresent blue robes with the Blue Jays logo and player’s name on them.

“He fit in from Day 1. It was like he had been here for years,” said Gib-

bons. Price, who will become a free agent after the season, says he makes a point of looking after his teammates. And being himself.

“Just don’t change. That’s one of my sayings,” he told reporters.

“Times change but I don’t.

“I don’t care what team I’m on, I want to conduct myself in that locker-room, in the dugout and out there on the field, the way that I always have.

“And I know if I can show my teammates that I’m here for them every single day, especially on the days that I’m not pitching, I know that they will respond to that well and they’ll have my back as well.”

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PITTSBURGH — These Chicago Cubs are supposed to be too young to be here. Or maybe they’re just too good to care.

Jake Arrieta allowed four hits in nine dominant innings and the Cubs rolled to a 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL wild-card game on Wednesday night.

Arrieta struck out 11 without a walk. He also dusted himself off getting plunked by Pittsburgh reliever Tony Watson to send the Cubs to the NL Division Series in St. Louis starting on Friday.

“I’m exhausted. I haven’t felt this way all year,” Arrieta said. “This atmosphere, the energy was unbelievable. Tried to use it to the best of my ability.

They were loud, they were really loud.”

Dexter Fowler homered and scored three times for the Cubs. Kyle Schwarber added a towering two-run shot off Pittsburgh starter Gerrit Cole as Chicago raced to an early lead and let Arrieta do the rest.

The largest crowd ever at PNC Park failed to rattle Arrieta or one of baseball’s youngest teams. First-year manager Joe Maddon’s club played with swagger and confidence and looked right at home while snapping a nine-game playoff losing streak that dated to the 2003 NL Championship Series.

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Jennings’ arm strength, touch fuel sense of rebirth in Lions’ offence HOWARD TSUMURA THE PROVINCE

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onathon Jennings has put up a quarterback rating through his first two CFL starts that is high enough to puncture the dome at B.C. Place.

Yet ask the B.C. Lions who are hauling in the rookie’s passes to dramatic effect, and you get an approval rating that is even higher.

“We believe that on any play we could get the ball,” said a smiling slotback Bryan Burnham earlier this week as the 5-8 Lions prepared to host the 4-10 Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday (7 p.m., TSN, TSN 1410).

“So regardless of what we’re doing, we might be on the back side, running just to run, and then all of a sudden it’s, ‘Hey, I’m getting the ball.’ So everyone is an option.”

Coming off a 19-of-25 passing performance for 364 yards, and four touchdowns against no interceptions in last Saturday’s 46-20 win over the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders, the former NCAA Div. 2 quarterback from Saginaw Valley State has accrued a quarterback rating of 135.8 over his first two CFL starts.

Overall, his rating is still a very respectable 103.4.

Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers, over the first four games of his season, has gone 89-of-123 for 995 yards with 11 touchdowns and no interceptions, good enough to lead the NFL with a passer rating of 125.9. This season, the highest rating among regular CFL starting quarterbacks is Hamilton’s recently injured Zach Collaros at 113.7.

Of course, Jennings’ rating as a starter is based on a very small sample size, and unless he is the CFL’s version of the Second Coming, that number is going to drop. Its inclusion here is simply meant to illustrate how good he has been over his past eight quarters.

And when you start to get inside the numbers by talking to Jennings’ coaches and receivers, it’s no surprise that with that efficiency has come a startling level of understanding. “(Jennings) throws a very catchable football, which is nice,” said

SPIETH

Americans look to extend their win streak at Presidents Cup DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

B.C. Lions quarterback Jonathon Jennings completes a pass to Andrew Harris while under pressure from Saskatchewan Roughrider Alex Hall, left, and John Chick, bottom left, during the first half of a CFL football game in Vancouver on Saturday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

head coach Jeff Tedford, who just happened to recruit Rodgers out of a junior college and coached him with the California Golden Bears in 2003-04.

“Some guys have got cannons and they throw it too hard. But throwing a catchable ball is very important.

Knowing when to put touch on it, whether that is to the backs out of the backfield, or just feathering it over somebody on the second level.”

The latter part of Tedford’s analysis was in response to a question about one of those 19 completions Saturday, a first-and-10 foray from the Riders’ 43-yard line in which Jennings made one of his best throws of the game.

With a pair of Riders converging on him and his feet not even fully set, Jennings squared up and made one of the toughest throws in the book, floating the ball over the linebackers into the second level for a 32-yard completion to Burnham.

The live arm is unmistakable, but

the touch in conjunction with the poise and mobility has got everyone talking.

“It’s still the same system and the same things,” said veteran receiver Manny Arceneaux, who on Saturday physically outperformed his coverage on a sideline catch that he turned into an 82-yard score, and later did the same in the end zone for a fiveyard TD catch.

“But right now the team is executing plays and when you do, it brings about that positivity moving forward.

“The kid is playing some good football, just giving us chances.”

Jennings got the party started Saturday with a 10-yard scoring strike to Shawn Gore, and followed with an 11-yard TD pass to Burnham that had Tedford aflutter.

Instantly recognizing the one-onone press coverage from Saskatchewan’s Macho Harris on Burnham, and the fact that Harris never turned his head to spy on Jennings, the rookie executed a perfect back-shoul-

der throw. Burnham played off the leverage of Harris, turning and thus creating the space he needed to make the catch in the end zone.

“He put the ball right where it needed to be on the back shoulder,” said Burnham.

“I was able to take care of the rest. I was happy I got a chance to go make a play.”

With six touchdown passes to five different Lions over his first two starts, and with the possibilities of throwing to running back Andrew Harris out of the backfield, and return ace Chris Rainey on the bubble screen, the Lions’ offence is experiencing a rebirth in the late stages of 2015 season.

“Now everyone feels like they are a part of it and everyone feeds off of each other,” said Burnham. “That just builds our team. It makes us better.”

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Babcock makes first successful coach challenge STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — It didn’t take long for one of the NHL’s new rules to get its first test.

On the opening night of the season, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Mike Babcock initiated the first coach’s challenge in NHL history and was successful in overturning a goal by the Montreal Canadiens.

It looked like Jeff Petry had scored 6:36 into the second period Wednes-

day night, but Babcock challenged it on the grounds that Tomas Plekanec interfered with goaltender Jonathan Bernier. Coach’s challenges are new to the NHL this season and can be made on goals involving goalie interference or offside plays.

Referees Frederik L’Ecuyer and Dan O’Rourke looked at the replay by the penalty box at Air Canada Centre and determined Plekanec made incidental contact with Bernier and therefore it was not a goal. Because he won the

challenge, Babcock would be able to challenge another play later in the game.

As part of the new rule, a coach must have his timeout left in order to challenge a goal.

The league takes over the expanded video review for the final minute of the third period and all of overtime.

Coaches weren’t allowed to try during the pre-season, but Michel Therrien of the Canadiens said his staff was prepared.

“This is something new for everyone, and we’re going to learn through the course of the season,” Therrien said after the morning skate. “We’re ready. We’re anticipating and went through different situations with our staff because a lot of times behind the bench it’s tough to make that call.”

The other new rule is three-onthree play in overtime, replacing four-on-four in an effort to reduce shootouts.

INCHEON, Korea, Republic Of — Comparing the Presidents Cup to the Ryder Cup is like listening to a conversation between a Scot and an American.

The words might be similar, but they sound nothing alike.

The biggest difference with the Presidents Cup is an American team that is filled with smiles, not stress.

And there’s a reason for that. The Americans haven’t lost in these matches since 1998, and the last four have not been particularly close.

They walk taller. They worry less.

Jordan Spieth has played in one of each in his short but already stellar career, and it was hard not to notice the contrast between the two cups.

“It seems there is a bit of a difference in the two teams rooms in the Presidents Cup experience I’ve had and the Ryder Cup last year,” Spieth said Wednesday. “Almost like we put too much emphasis on the Ryder Cup instead of just freeing up to play our own game.”

Ryder Cup practice rounds felt like dress rehearsals. Presidents Cup practice rounds feel like a Tuesday money game on tour.

“We feel like the favourites,” Spieth said. “We’re walking around with cockiness in our step, and often that can bite you if you’re not careful, but we’re aware of that. But the point is, we’re out there smiling because we believe whatever matchup we want to put together, we believe we can beat the other team.”

The Americans, who have won the Ryder Cup only one time in the last 16 years, go after their sixth straight victory in the Presidents Cup when the matches get started Thursday at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea.

Adam Scott, who has yet to play on a winning Presidents Cup team in six previous tries, and Hideki Matsuyama lead off the foursomes session against J.B. Holmes and Bubba Watson, two of the longest hitters in golf.

Spieth and Dustin Johnson are in the anchor match against Marc Leishman and Danny Lee. A lively opening ceremony Wednesday night, which featured South Korean President Park Geun-hye and former President George W. Bush, began with great suspense when a secret box was carried onto the stage.

It was carefully opened to reveal the shiny gold Presidents Cup trophy.

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Seahawks must improve protection to save Wilson

Kevin Durant ready to get back on the court

Seattle’s offensive line has been a major issue early in the 2015 season TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. — There was no question before the regular season began that the Seattle Seahawks’ weakness was going to be on the offensive line.

A quarter of the way through the season that weakness is bordering on crippling, leaving quarterback Russell Wilson scrambling for safety at times and getting hit far more often than the Seahawks would like.

“We have to be more consistent. That’s our key is to be consistent in the run game and pass game and protect (Russell Wilson),” Seattle centre Drew Nowak said. “He can’t be getting hit as much as he is now.”

Last Monday’s 13-10 victory over Detroit could become a tipping point in just how long the Seahawks can last with an offensive line struggling to this level.

Wilson was sacked six times and Detroit recorded 10 quarterback hits. And while the offensive line isn’t completely at fault for all those sacks and hits, Wilson is being left too exposed.

Wilson has been sacked 18 times through four games, tied for the most in the league and on pace for 72 over 16 games.

The last time a quarterback was sacked more than 60 times in a season was Jon Kitna with Detroit in 2006. Only two quarterbacks have ever been sacked more than 70 times: Randall Cunningham in 1986 with Philadelphia and David Carr in 2002 with Houston.

“We’re taking sacks at an alarming rate right now and we can improve it,” Seattle offensive co-ordinator Darrell Bevell said.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson scrambles as he looks to pass in the first half of an NFL game against the Detroit Lions, Monday in Seattle. [AP PHOTO]

“It’s really in a lot of areas. You can’t really pin it on one group, one person.”

Bevell said while the attention is placed mostly on the offensive line, there is responsibility on the receivers to get open and Wilson to get the ball out on time.

“We had some issues again and it wasn’t any one guy, it was stuff happened,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. “And we had to help them more. The reality of it is there is a lot of things that enter into it.”

There won’t be changes on the offensive line this week. An overhaul would be difficult on a short week with the Seahawks

facing another stiff challenge in unbeaten Cincinnati on Sunday and offensive line coach Tom Cable said inconsistency would need to continue in multiple areas for changes to be made.

“This has always been a work in progress and I said when they get it they’re going to be good and that hasn’t changed,” Cable said.

Seattle put itself in this position by missing on some high draft picks and deciding to develop their line through late draft picks and undrafted free agents. Consider that three of the five starting offensive linemen for the Seahawks were either late-round picks or

undrafted, and those three — J.R. Sweezy, Drew Nowak and Garry Gilliam — all switched positions either late in college or once they reached the pros.

Nowak and Sweezy were defensive linemen in college.

Then came the trade in the off-season that brought tight end Jimmy Graham to Seattle and sent centre Max Unger back to New Orleans. Unger was a veteran who knew all the calls and had played enough to recognize various defensive looks. That institutional knowledge was gone after Unger was replaced by Nowak, who had never started a game at centre until Week 1, coupled with Justin Britt moving from right tackle to left guard.

“Every game it’s gotten better, our communication has gotten better inside out,” Britt said.

“I know Drew’s been talking really well, communicating really well, which a centre needs to.

“It’s just to make sure we’re on the same page as a whole.”

NOTES: Carroll said RB Marshawn Lynch’s status won’t be known until later in the week as he continues to recover from a hamstring injury. Lynch went through an extensive running workout before Monday’s game against Detroit. “He did make a lot of progress last week,” Carroll said. . . . DT Brandon Mebane is expected to play against Cincinnati after sitting out last week with a groin injury. . . . CB Marcus Burley will have surgery Thursday after suffering a broken thumb against Detroit.

DeShawn Shead will likely be Seattle’s third cornerback if Burley is out.

Goodell, NFL owners expect future vote on relocation BARRY WILNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell expects owners will vote on franchise relocation to Los Angeles.

When is another matter.

Goodell said Wednesday the owners expressed interest “in wanting to be there, but also recognize we need to find solutions.

Our relocation policy is very important.”

The St. Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers all have designs on moving to LA, which has not had an NFL franchise since 1995, when the Rams and Raiders left. The current timetable calls for submission of applications to relocate in January, when the owners could vote.

There has been speculation that timetable could be moved up to December, when the next owners meeting occurs in Dallas.

But Pittsburgh Steelers President Art Rooney said he doesn’t envision that.

“I don’t think we’ll move up the deadline,” Rooney said. “We have cities that still are putting together their proposals” to keep their teams.

Eric Grubman, the league’s main point man on Los Angeles, added that the NFL is not married to a vote in January, either, and that it could come later, particularly if one of the applicants is in the playoffs.

“Our timeline and planning for at least 12 months has been to enable a January decision,” Grubman said. “But we have

never committed to January.

Today we continued on that path . . . It could be January or it could be later.”

Grubman admitted for a team or two to call LA home next season, the latest it could get approval would probably be March or April.

“If you look at it through what a club has to do if they’re not certain they’re going to Los Angeles, do they put their tickets on sale or not, then January is much much better than March,” he said.

The Rams are proposing a stadium in Inglewood, California, while the Raiders and Chargers have one planned for Carson. Those teams’ owners were excused from a round table session during Wednesday’s fall

meetings, and the other 29 owners voiced their opinions on approving any moves to LA. Goodell said it’s “very positive” to have two alternatives in what he also called “the entertainment capital of the world.”

Neither California team has had success in getting public funding for a new stadium; Goodell noted that has been happening “for decades.” Missouri has come through with a plan for a $1-billion stadium to keep the Rams, but there are delays in that proposal.

Earlier Wednesday, the owners approved more international games through 2025, including ones in places other than England.

Such as quite possibly Mexico, Germany and Canada.

JON KRAWCZYNSKI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — It has been eight months since Kevin Durant played in an NBA game.

It has seemed far longer to the Oklahoma City star who suffered through a grueling process to mend his broken right foot.

“It seems like years ago,” Durant said on Wednesday after the Thunder’s morning shootaround. “I’m here now. Try not to think about the past. I know I learned a lot from that situation and just trying to move forward and continue to have confidence in myself.”

The wait is finally over for one of the NBA’s brightest stars. Durant was set to make his long-awaited return to the court on Wednesday night when the Thunder opened the preseason in Minnesota. He missed 55 games last season and needed three surgeries to repair a dreaded Jones fracture in his foot, an injury that contributed mightily to the Thunder missing the playoffs for the first time in five years.

Given the delicate nature of Durant’s injury, the former MVP spent all summer gradually working his way back.

He didn’t participate in a practice until the Thunder opened camp on Sept. 29, but has reported no issues with his foot during the strenuous training camp workouts.

“He’s been really good,” new Thunder coach Billy Donovan said. “I think he’s been getting back his rhythm, so to speak, scoring the ball. He’s had some incredible flashes.”

Durant last played in an NBA game on Feb. 19 against Dallas. He missed the final 28 games of the season, and guard Russell Westbrook could see the pain that it was causing his teammate to sit on the sideline. Injuries to Durant, Westbrook and Serge Ibaka at different points of last season proved too much for the Thunder to overcome in the powerful Western Conference.

“I know what that feels like to be out for a long period of time and to sit back and be watching your teammates play without going out there and being able to help them,” Westbrook said.

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AL PLAYOFFS WILD CARD Tuesday's result Houston 3 New York 0

DIVISION (Best-of-5 series) KANSAS CITY VS. HOUSTON Thursday's game Houston at Kansas City, 7:37 p.m. (FS1) Friday's game Houston at Kansas City, 3:45 pm. (FS1) Sunday's game Kansas City at Houston, 4:10 pm (MLBN) Monday, Oct. 12 x-Kansas City at Houston, TBA (FOX or FS1) Wednesday, Oct. 14 x-Houston at Kansas City, TBA TORONTO VS. TEXAS Thursday's game Texas (Gallardo 13-11) at Toronto (Price 18-5), 3:37 p.m. (FS1) Friday's game Texas (Hamels 7-1) at Toronto, 12:45 p.m. (MLBN) Sunday's game Toronto at Texas, 8:10 p.m. (FS1) Monday, Oct. 12 x-Toronto at Texas (FOX or FS1) Wednesday, Oct. 14 x-Texas at Toronto (FOX or FS1)

Wednesday's results Montreal 3 Toronto 1 N.Y. Rangers 3 Chicago 2 Vancouver at Calgary San Jose at Los Angeles Thursday's games Winnipeg at Boston, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Carolina at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Friday's games Winnipeg at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Arizona at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Saturday's games Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Montreal at Boston, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Florida, 7 p.m.

Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Washington, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Nashville, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Arizona, 10 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

GP Red Deer 5 Calgary 5 Lethbridge 5 Medicine Hat 5 Edmonton 4 Kootenay 6

Victoria Kelowna Vancouver Prince George Kamloops

CUBS 4, PIRATES 0 Chicago Cubsabr h bi Fowler cf 4 3 3 1 Schwarber rf 3 1 2 3 'HQRUĂ&#x20AC;D UI Bryant lf-3b 3 0 0 0 Rizzo 1b 4 0 0 0 La Stella 3b 2 0 0 0 Jackson ph-lf 2 0 0 0 Castro 2b 4 0 0 0 Montero c 4 0 1 0 Russell ss 4 0 1 0 Arrieta sp 2 0 0 0

Pittsburgh ab Polanco rf 4 Harrison 3b-ss 3 0F&XWFKHQ FI Marte lf 4 Cervelli c 3 Walker 2b 3 Mercer ss 2 Ramirez ph-3b 1 Rodriguez 1b 0 Alvarez ph-1b 3 Cole sp 1 Bastardo p 0 Snider ph 1 Watson p 0 Soria p 0 Morse ph 1 Melancon p 0 Totals 32 4 7 4 Totals 30 Chicago Cubs 102 010 000 Pittsburgh 000 000 000

r h bi 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;4 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;0

Eâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Walker, Russell. LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 5. DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Chicago Cubs 2.

Pittsburgh 2. HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fowler (1); Schwarber (1). SBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fowler (1), Arrieta (1).

Chicago Cubs Arrieta W, 1-0 Pittsburgh Cole L, 0-1 Bastardo Watson Soria Melancon

IP 9 5 1 1 1 1

H R ER BB SO 4 0 0 0 11 6 0 0 0 1

4 0 0 0 0

4 0 0 0 0

1 0 0 1 0

4 2 1 3 0

HBP â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cervelli; Harrison. Arrieta. Umpiresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Home, Jeff Nelson; First, Hunter Wendelstedt; Second, John Hirschbeck; Third, Jim Reynolds.

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:47. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;40,889 (38,362) at Pittsburgh.

WOW

W 5 5 3 1 0

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 1 0 0 24 13 10 2 0 0 34 29 10 2 0 1 25 29 7 2 0 0 6 7 2 5 0 0 12 24 0

GP 5 4 3 3 3

W 3 2 2 1 0

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 2 0 0 16 17 6 1 1 0 17 18 5 1 0 0 6 6 4 1 1 0 11 10 3 3 0 0 7 13 0

Note: Division leaders ranked in top 2 positions per conference regardless of points; team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 pts. & a victory in the W column; team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 pt. in OTL or SOL columns :HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Moose Jaw 8 Vancouver 5 Saskatoon 7 Kootenay 2 Tri-City 4 Kamloops 3 Victoria 4 Spokane 1 7XHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Kelowna 6 Medicine Hat 5 Brandon 8 Vancouver 3 Lethbridge 5 Red Deer 2 Prince Albert 5 Kootenay 3 Spokane 3 Victoria 1 :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV All times Local Vancouver at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Kootenay at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Regina, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

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

Tri-City at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION Penticton Salmon Arm West Kelowna Merritt Vernon Trail

GP 9 9 9 11 10 8

W 8 5 5 5 4 2

L 1 2 3 6 5 6

T OTL GF GA Pt 0 0 37 17 16 2 0 36 22 12 0 1 32 32 11 0 0 42 47 10 0 1 71 32 9 0 0 24 38 4

ISLAND DIVISION GP Powell River 9 Nanaimo 9 Cowichan Valley 8 Alberni Valley 8 Victoria 8

W 7 6 4 2 1

L 2 3 2 6 6

PRE-SEASON :HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Atlanta 98, Cleveland 96 Orlando 100, Miami 97 Oklahoma City 122, Minnesota 99 Houston 109, Dallas 82 Sacramento at Phoenix 7XHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Washington 129, Philadelphia 95 Indiana 115, Detroit 112 Chicago 105, Milwaukee 95 Memphis 92, Houston 89 Denver 96, Dallas 86 Utah 117, L.A. Lakers 114, OT 7KXUVGD\¡V *DPHV Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago vs. Denver at Boulder, CO, 9 p.m.

Golden State at Portland, 10 p.m.

San Antonio at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Toronto vs. L.A. Lakers at Ontario, CA, 10 p.m.

Langley Wenatchee Coquitlam Chilliwack Surrey Prince George

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L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 1 0 0 21 13 8 1 0 0 14 10 8 2 0 0 21 15 6 2 1 0 18 21 5 2 1 0 9 14 3 5 0 0 13 24 2

U.S. DIVISION

CANADIEN 3, LEAFS 1

First Period 1. N.Y. Rangers, Lindberg 1 (Miller, Stalberg) 1:43.

2. Chicago, Panarin 1 (Kane, Hjalmarsson) 14:24.

3. N.Y. Rangers, Klein 1 (Yandle, Miller) 16:38.

4. N.Y. Rangers, Stepan 1 (Hayes, Kreider) 19:01.

Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Zuccarello NYR (hooking) 6:19.

Second Period 5. Chicago, Teravainen 1 (Hossa, Toews) 6:55.

Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Shaw Chi (roughing) 18:41, Yandle NYR (cross-checking) 18:41.

Shots N.Y. Rangers 11 9 7â&#x20AC;&#x201D;27 Chicago 12 8 14â&#x20AC;&#x201D;34 Goal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; N.Y. Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 1-00). Chicago: Crawford (L, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; N.Y. Rangers: 0-0; Chicago: 0-1.

Referees â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Steve Kozari, Ghislain Hebert. Linesmen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Andy McElman, Mark Shewchyk.

Att. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 22,104 at Chicago, Ill..

ST. LOUIS VS. CHICAGO

W 4 4 3 2 1 1

B.C. DIVISION

Friday's game New York (deGrom 14-8) at Los Angeles, 9:45 p.m.

Saturday's game New York (Syndergaard 9-7) at Los Angeles, 9:07 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12 Los Angeles at New York (Harvey 13-8) Tuesday, Oct. 13 x-Los Angeles at New York Thursday, Oct. 15 x-New York at Los Angeles

(Best-of-5 series)

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 1 0 0 23 23 8 0 1 0 19 12 7 1 0 1 21 9 7 0 3 0 25 18 7 2 1 0 6 13 3 3 0 0 4 14 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE

RANGERS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2

DIVISION

W 4 3 3 2 1 1

GP 8 7 10 9 8 8

W 6 5 5 3 2 1

L 2 1 4 3 6 6

T OTL GF GA Pt 0 0 35 17 14 0 0 35 22 12 1 1 28 59 10 0 0 16 36 4 0 1 15 28 3

T OTL GF GA Pt 0 0 31 22 12 1 0 30 15 11 1 0 29 37 11 1 2 32 30 9 0 0 20 35 4 0 1 13 37 3

:HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Penticton 5 Trail 3 Merritt 2 Salmon Arm 1 7XHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Coquitlam 3 West Kelowna 2 (OT) 7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Alberni Valley at Victoria, 7 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Powell River at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

West Kelowna at Penticton, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Nanaimo at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee at Langley, 7:15 p.m.

Prince George at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

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LOS ANGELES VS. NEW YORK

Wednesday's result Chicago 4 Pittsburgh 0

EASTERN CONFERENCE

EAST DIVISION

GP Prince Albert 5 Moose Jaw 4 Brandon 5 Saskatoon 5 Swift Current 4 Regina 4

Friday's game Chicago at St. Louis, 6:45 p.m.

Saturday's game Chicago at St. Louis, 5:37 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12 St. Louis at Chicago Tuesday, Oct. 13 x-St. Louis at Chicago Thursday, Oct. 15 x-Chicago winner at St. Louis

WILD CARD

FOOTBALL

EAST DIVISION

First Period 1. Montreal, Pacioretty 1 (Subban) 3:09.

Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Smith-Pelly Mon (roughing) 5:11, Komarov Tor (boarding) 5:11, Kadri Tor (interference) 12:17.

Second Period 2. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 1 (Kadri, Phaneuf) :19 (pp).

Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gallagher Mon (goaltender interference) 0:13, Eller Mon (tripping) 8:11.

Third Period 3. Montreal, Galchenyuk 1 (Markov, Subban) 12:02.

4. Montreal, Pacioretty 2 (Subban, Flynn) 19:29 (en).

Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mitchell Mon (interference) 14:17.

Shots Montreal 7 16 7â&#x20AC;&#x201D;30 Toronto 11 16 10â&#x20AC;&#x201D;37 Goal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Montreal: Price (W, 1-0-0).

Toronto: Bernier (L, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Montreal: 0-1; Toronto: 1-3.

Referees Âł )UHGHULFN /¡(FX\HU 'DQ 2¡5RXUNH Linesmen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ryan Galloway, Bryan Pancich.

Att. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,241 at Toronto, ON.

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GP W L T PF PA 13 8 5 0 430 269 13 8 5 0 350 383 14 8 6 0 354 376 13 5 8 0 280 282

Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal

Pt 16 16 16 10

WEST DIVISION GP W L T PF PA Pt x-Calgary 14 11 3 0 370 290 22 x-Edmonton 14 10 4 0 350 261 20 B.C. 13 5 8 0 314 365 10 Winnipeg 14 4 10 0 269 401 8 Saskatchewan 14 2 12 0 342 432 4

x â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched playoff berth.

7XHVGD\¡V UHVXOW Toronto 38 Ottawa 35 )ULGD\¡V JDPH Saskatchewan at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday's games Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at B.C., 10 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12 Toronto at Montreal, 1 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 16 Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 17 Calgary vs. Toronto (site TBD), 4 p.m.

B.C. at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 18 Hamilton at Montreal, 1 p.m.

LATE TUESDAY

13 14

3 10 9â&#x20AC;&#x201D;35 3 7 14â&#x20AC;&#x201D;38

Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 15,011 at Toronto.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Passes made-tried Return yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-Lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

Ott 23 104 250 27-36 153 2-23 1-0 1 7-45.9 17-123 27:50

Tor 25 48 397 32-44 158 1-0 1-1 5 6-43.3 20-161 32:10

Net offence is yards passing, plus yards rushing, minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ott: Johnson 7-55, Powell 7-49. Tor: Harris 3-25, Whitaker 8-18, Spencer 1-3, McPherson 1-2.

Receiving â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ott: Powell 7-56, Ellingson 3-54, Jackson 3-51, Sinopoli 5-35, Williams 3-35, Johnson 3-16, Price 1-5, Lavoie 2--2. Tor: Elliott 3-80, Owens 6-74, Coombs 4-73, Whitaker 11-62, Gurley 2-58, Hazelton 5-51, Spencer 1--1.

Passing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ott: Burris 27-35-250-2-1.

Tor: Harris 32-44-397-5-2.

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

W 3 3 2 1

L 0 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA 1.000 119 70 .750 95 55 .500 110 92 .250 65 101

SOUTH W L T

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

0 0 0 0

.500 .333 .250 .250

72 89 77 62

93 77 108 107

W 4 2 1 1

L 0 2 3 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA 1.000 121 77 .500 96 75 .250 93 104 .250 85 102

W 4 2 2 1

L 0 2 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA 1.000 97 69 .500 97 108 .500 96 110 .250 100 125

WEST Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

Pct PF PA

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FAVOURITE

LINE

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TORONTO

-230

Texas

+210

KC

-137

Houston

+127

GP W L T GF GA

Pt

x-New York

31 16

9 6 55

39

54

D.C.

32 14 12 6 39

40

48

New England

32 13 11 8 45

45

47

U.S. COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Columbus

32 13 11 8 51

53

47

Toronto

31 14 13 4 55

53

46

Montreal

31 12 13 6 44

43

42

FRIDAY L.A.

-200

New York

+185

THURSDAY

Orlando

32 11 13 8 44

54

41

FAVOURITEOPENTODAY O/UUNDERDOG

New York City

32 10 15 7 47

53

37

EAST

HOUSTON 21 S.CAL 17

Philadelphia

32

9 16 7 40

51

34

Chicago

32

8 18 6 42

52

30

Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia

W 2 2 2 1

L 2 2 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA .500 95 101 .500 102 82 .500 78 79 .250 78 86

SOUTH

MARSHALL 71/2 NC State +2

WTA

NFL

W 4 4 1 1

L 0 0 3 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA 1.000 108 71 1.000 137 93 .250 72 117 .250 86 104

NORTH W 4 2 1 0

L 0 2 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA 1.000 113 71 .500 80 73 .250 68 125 .000 66 96

W 3 2 2 1

L 1 2 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA .750 148 73 .500 74 89 .500 87 71 .250 48 110

Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOW Seattle 13 Detroit 10 Thursday's game Indianapolis at Houston Sunday's games Chicago at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Detroit, 4:05 p.m.

Denver at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Giants, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Miami, Minnesota, N.Y. Jets Monday, Oct. 12 Pittsburgh at San Diego, 8:30 p.m.

TENNIS ATP RAKUTEN JAPAN OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

SMU Wash

41/2 1

(561/2) (451/2)

161/2 3 71/2 61/2 7 121/2 151/2 101/2 321/2 7 16 141/2 10 15 10 7 16 231/2 13 301/2 431/2 8 44 31/2 17 3 71/2 9 141/2 141/2 9 8 61/2 31/2 7 21/2 141/2 111/2 16 5 9 21/2 9 12 14 11/2 5 21/2 111/2 3 181/2

(601/2) TEXAS (46) PURDUE (53) E MICH. (591/2) Okla. St (55) Indiana (49) ARMY (46) Tulane (44) Illinois (54) Maryland 1 (36 /2) W.Forest (48) Mia (Ohio) (44) Kent St (56) B.State (59) GA. ST (46) Virginia 1 (49 /2) C.Mich.

(48) Arkansas (57) Wyoming UMass (781/2) (56) Troy 1 (66 /2)N.Mexico St 1 (56 /2) E.Car (771/2) KANSAS 1 (58 /2) Rice (791/2) Wash. St 1 (59 /2) TENN (69) M.TENN. (66) LA-Monroe (541/2) Navy (551/2) Colorado (51) Miami (341/2) N.western 1 (54 /2) GA Tech (72) TexSt. (61) California (38) UCONN (441/2) UTEP (571/2) UTSA 1 (59 /2) COL. ST (39) MISSOURI (61) Oregon St (48) Syracuse (63) KANSAS ST (731/2) Iowa St. (541/2)RUTGERS (49) Wisconsin (541/2) N.Mexico (50) UNLV (471/2) FRES ST (45) SD St (50) S.Carolina

S.Miss V.TECH

At Beijing, China Wednesday, Oct. 7 results WOMEN Singles Second Round Garbine Muguruza (5), Spain, def.

Irina Falconi, United States, 6-2, 6-1.

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, def. Belinda Bencic (11), Switzerland (retired).

Third Round Sara Errani, Italy, def. Andrea Petkovic (13), Germany, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Agnieszka Radwanska (4), Poland, def. Madison Keys (14), United States, 6-3, 0-0 (retired).

Angelique Kerber (10), Germany, def. Caroline Wozniacki (8), Denmark, 6-2, 6-3.

Timea Bacsinszky (12), Switzerland, def. Carla Suarez Navarro (7), Spain, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.

FAVOURITEOPENTODAY O/UUNDERDOG

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TAMPA BAY 31/2 Buffalo 3 BAL 81/2 ATLANTA 8 KC 12 PHA 41/2 GREEN BAY 9 CINCINNATI +2 Arizona 21/2 New England81/2 Denver 61/2 NY GIANTS 7

GP W L T GF GA

Pt

x-Dallas

31 15 10 6 47

38

51

x-Los Angeles

32 14

9 9 53

39

51

x-Vancouver

32 15 12 5 42

34

50

Kansas City

31 13

9 9 46

41

48

Seattle

32 14 13 5 40

34

47

San Jose

32 12 12 8 39

37

44

Portland

31 12 11 8 31

36

44

Houston

32 11 13 8 41

45

41

Salt Lake

31 11 12 8 37

43

41

Colorado

31

38

34

8 13 10 30

:HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV New York 2 Montreal 1 Vancouver 0 Dallas 0 Saturday, Oct. 10 Montreal at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 14 New York at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Dallas, 9 p.m.

Portland at Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m.

Friday, October 16 New York City at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Kansas City at San Jose, 11 p.m.

Saturday, October 17 Columbus at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Montreal at New England, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 18 Chicago at D.C., 2 p.m.

Philadelphia at New York, 3 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 5 p.m.

Portland at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, October 21 Colorado at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

CSL PLAYOFFS QUARTER-FINALS Oct. 9-12 (Dates and times TBA) London (8) at Serbian White Eagles (1) Milton (7) at Tornto Croatia (2) Burlington (6) at York Region (3) Toronto Atomic (5) at Waterloo (4)

(441/2)

Ind

NATIONAL LEAGUE :HGQHVGD\¡V 0DWFK

3 21/2 61/2 7 9 41/2 81/2 3 21/2 81/2 41/2 7

(42) JaX (42) TENN 1 (43 /2) Cleveland (48)Washington (441/2) Chicago (49) N.Orleans (46) St. Louis (43) Seattle (44) DETROIT (491/2) DALLAS (431/2) OAK (43) San Fran

Aldershot Town 0, Forest Green Rovers 3 7XHVGD\¡V 0DWFKHV Altrincham 1, FC Halifax Town 3 Barrow 3, Chester FC 2 Cheltenham Town 1, Braintree Town 1 Grimsby Town 2, Gateshead 1 *XLVHOH\ 0DFFOHVĂ&#x20AC;HOG 7RZQ Kidderminster Harriers 1, Boreham Wood 1

MONDAY

Torquay United 2, Dover Athletic 3

SD 61/2 3 (451/2) Pittsburgh Updated odds available at Pregame.com

Welling United 1, Bromley 2

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THURSDAY

CHINA OPEN

45,680

(72) (56)

SATURDAY

At Tokyo, Japan Wednesday, Oct. 7 results MEN Singles First Round Marin Cilic (6), Croatia, def. Donald Young, United States, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4.

Singles Second Round Kei Nishikori (2), Japan, def. Sam Querrey, United States, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3.

Stan Wawrinka (1), Switzerland, def.

Tatsuma Ito, Japan, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

251/2 161/2

FRIDAY

Oklahoma 13 Minnesota 11/2 Akron 10 W.VA 6 PENN STATE 8 Duke 13 TEMPLE 161/2 IOWA 10 OHIO STATE281/2 B.COLLEGE 91/2 OHIO 171/2 TOLEDO 151/2 N ILLINOIS 14 App. St 18 PGH 8 W MICHIGAN 5 ALABAMA 16 AIR FORCE 231/2 B.GREEN 13 MISS. ST 311/2 MISS. 43 BYU 8 Baylor 38 FAU PK OREGON 201/2 Georgia 2 W KEN 9 TULSA 6 N.DAME 16 ARIZONA ST121/2 FLORIDA ST81/2 MICHIGAN 12 CLEMSON 71/2 LA-LAFAYETTE41/2 UTAH 6 UCF 3 FIU 13 LA Tech 111/2 Boise St 111/2 Florida 31/2 ARIZONA 121/2 S.FLORIDA 5 TCU 61/2 TEXAS TECH111/2 Mich St 17 NEBRASKA 1 NEVADA 6 San Jose St PK Utah State 10 HAWAII +2 LSU 181/2

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WEST

First Quarter Ott â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TD Johnson 2 run (Milo convert) 1:55 Tor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TD Elliott 6 pass from Harris (Palardy convert) 3:32 Tor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TD Gurley 15 pass from Harris (Palardy convert) 10:06 Ott â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FG Milo 20 13:06 Ott â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FG Milo 21 15:00 Second Quarter Tor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FG Palardy 27 11:31 Ott â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FG Milo 46 15:00 Third Quarter Tor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TD Hazelton 16 pass from Harris (Palardy convert) 3:36 Ott â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FG Milo 46 9:20 Ott â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TD Ellingson 33 pass from Burris (Milo convert) 14:04 Fourth Quarter Tor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TD Whitaker 4 pass from Harris (Palardy convert) 3:18 Ott â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Safety 8:02 Ott â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TD Jackson 3 pass from Burris (Milo convert) 12:42 Tor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; TD Owens 10 pass from Harris (Palardy convert) 14:35 Ottawa Toronto

2 1 1 1

NORTH

Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit

ARGONAUTS 38, REDBLACKS 35

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CROSSWORD THROUGH THE YEARS ACROSS 1 The Aeneid, for instance 5 Religious leader 10 Small points 14 Doctor Zhivago heroine 15 Wouk’s minesweeper 16 Legal tender since 1999 17 JFK, in ‘53 20 Wax producer 21 Traveling around, in a way 22 Being litigated 25 Summer hrs. in SF 27 Wines and dines 28 Baseball rookie’s superstition 31 Texter’s qualifier 32 Spot for sandwiches 33 French article 34 Dues, e.g.

36 Wisconsin college 38 Take to the cleaners 42 Quirk 44 Fawn over, with “on” 46 Kitchen gadget brand 47 Certain promoted lawyer 50 Trespassing, e.g.

51 Prefix meaning “bad” 52 Stadium divider 53 Herring delicacy 55 Absorbed, as a cost 56 Some AARP benefits 62 Vocal subtlety 63 Cabaret 64 Nothing but 65 Lasting mark 66 Quick cuts 67 Underworld river

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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.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Weekend studio art tour.

Nanoose Bay Studio Tour Group. Guide at Parksville tourist information centre or at www.nanoosestudiotour.com. Through Monday.

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.

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10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mozzarella cheese-making workshop with Paula Maddison at Costin Hall Kitchen, Lantzville $65 http://stircookingschool.ca/event/cheese-making-workshopmozzarella-with-paula-maddison.

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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

10 a.m. to 2 pm. Cedar Farmers Market.

Crow and Gate pub field 2313 Yellowpoint Rd., Cedar.

MONDAY, OCT. 12 Happy Thanksgiving

4-6:30 p.m. Bowen Road farmers market is Nanaimo’s food-oriented market offering fresh local farm produce, meats, eggs, pasta, bread,

baking, preserves, homemade soap and nursery plants. Beban Park fairgrounds, 2300 Bowen Rd. 6:30- 7:15 p.m. Brother XII tour. Downtown walking tour of locations before/ after cult started in Cedar-By-the-Sea in the late 1920s.

Artifacts on exhibit at the museum. Pre-registration is required 250-753-1821, cost is $10.

7-9 p.m. Kombucha Workshop at Costin Hall Kitchen, Lantzville $50/ http://stircookingschool.ca/event/kombucha-workshop-3/ THURSDAY, OCT. 15 9:30 a.m. until closing, (regular mall hours)

Rotary Giant Used Book Sale, proceeds to local charities, schools and Literacy Central Vancouver Island. Nanaimo North Town Centre Through Oct. 25 , 4750 Rutherford Rd. Details at nanaimonorth.com or call 250-758-8111.

8 p.m. Clear The Coast, Myc Sharratt live at the Longwood. The Longwood Brew Pub presents a free, weekly live concert series every Thursday. 5775 Turner Rd. FRIDAY, OCT. 16 Noon-4 p.m. Bastion Waterfront Farmers Market moves to fall hours. Fresh produce, crafts, wine tasting, live music. \Next to the Bastion

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) You nearly always have high energy, and today you have someone cheering you on. This person’s enthusiasm revs up yours. Conceptualize and share ideas. Use the afternoon for organization. Don’t forget to schedule an appointment.

Tonight: Put up your feet and relax.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Stay close to home in the morning. You might have a personal matter you have to deal with. Your playfulness will emerge later in the day, and you’ll want to take the day off. Why not? You might want to consider taking Friday off as well. Tonight: Whatever makes you smile.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Reach out to a neighbor or sibling in the morning. You might want to spend more time at home than usual.

Make that idea OK. If you can work from home, all the better. Relax, and you are likely to gain a better perspective of what is happening.

Tonight: Togetherness is the theme.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Pay bills and deal with money matters first. Communication will increase, and once you start getting calls, you will barely have a second to yourself. Recognize what is happening between you and a close friend who needs your time.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A positive attitude will take you far. Who would be better than you to demonstrate that fact? Even if you experience a difficult moment or two with a child or loved one, you

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You’ll finally hit your stride, but you still might be concerned about a financial matter. Recognize what is happening with your funds, and talk to an expert if need be. Get back to your day and handle a personal matter quickly. Tonight: Choose a favorite pastime.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Slow down. When you move too quickly, you encounter a problem. More information might be forthcoming, or a conversation could color your thinking. Sometimes a slow simmer is the best path to an excellent decision. Tonight: Take some much-needed personal time.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Be aware of what is being offered and why. You could be overwhelmed by everything you have to do.

Recognize your limits, and delegate whatever you can. Establish stronger boundaries as well. Respect your limits rather than push beyond them. Tonight: A must appearance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You might be more closed down than you realize. Your mind is on other matters, and you don’t seem to be aware of the impression you are giving. You usually are able to see past the obvious, but not right now. Take some time to yourself.

Tonight: Out till the wee hours.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) As knowledgeable as you are, you will need to reach out to someone who has more expertise. You are able to see where others are coming from, but you’ll want as many facts as

possible. Trust in your ability to get past a problem. Tonight: Go off to the movies.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You could be too tired to continue as you have been. If you ask for help, you can count on others coming through. You don’t need to carry the burden of having to do everything by yourself. Just ask. Be aware that a friend could be touchy.

Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You won’t want to get into a power struggle. Consider letting go of a personal matter and allowing someone else to handle it. Not only will this person’s approach be different, but it also might change what is happening. Tonight: Buy a token of appreciation to say thank you.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Oct. 8) This year you’ll want to think through problems and get to the bottom of them. You might decide to let go of what no longer works for you. You are experiencing the last year of a 12-year luck cycle. If you are single, you’ll want to carefully check out any person who walk into your life. Someone might not be as authentic as he or she seems to be. If you are attached, you will benefit from establishing some alone time with your sweetie.

You will become closer as a result.

VIRGO often gets fussy and temperamental in his or her own way.

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NEGRIN Marcus Vincent Alexander January 16, 1989 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; October 1, 2015 With broken hearts we share the news of the loss of our beautiful son, brother, grandson, and friend, Marcus. Marcus was born on January 16, 1989 in Nanaimo, BC. He attended Seaview School and Dover Bay High School.

Marcus was a rugby player, rower, volleyball player, International Rotary Exchange Student, volunteer fireman and lifeguard. He was passionate about snowboarding, mountain biking and loved to hike the mountains of Vancouver Island.

However Marcusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; true love was the sea. He worked as a commercial fisherman and was never happier than when he was on the sea.

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Adventures Memories I am a fisherman.

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Our mom passed away in her sleep on September 29 in the Nanaimo Regional Hospital with family by her side. Mom was predeceased by her husband Dick in November 1959. She is survived by her brother, Phil Robertson (Helen) of Qualicum, her sons Gordon of Nanaimo and Ray (Ruth) of Celista, BC and several nieces and nephews.

Mom was born in Cumberland and grew up in Port Alberni, it was here she met and married her husband, Dick. They moved from Port Alberni to Courtenay and then to Nanaimo where they raised their boys.

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A dispiriting 0-0 Major League Soccer draw with FC Dallas gave the Caps 50 points off a 15-12-5 record, keeping them third in the West, one back of the visitors from Texas. But with the playoffs set to open later this month, the frustrating lack of finish â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sounds like a broken record, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is alarming.

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of finishing top two in the West and earning a first-round bye in the playoffs. They are in Dallas next week and Texas has been a virtual wasteland for Vancouver â&#x20AC;&#x201D; zero wins, nine losses combined in Frisco, where FC Dallas plays, and Houston.

To make matters worse for the Caps, who are already missing key attacking midfielders Pedro Morales and Nicolas Mezquida to hamstring pulls, diminutive

winger Cristian Techera had to come off in the 75th minute. He appeared to pull a muscle on a glorious scoring opportunity he wasted.

Sent into the clear by a long diagonal pass from Mauro Rosales, Techeraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first touch squirted the ball away to his right. He then made a lunging shot attempt that went wide and quickly dropped to the turf.

With striker Octavio Rivero

looking like he might never score again and winger Kekuta Manneh on a seven-game scoreless drought, Techera was the only Cap forward capable of finding the back of the net.

It was kind of a strange game between a couple of supposedly fierce rivals. The first half was plodding and there was little of the emotion and nastiness that has marked previous encounters. In fact, there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a single yellow card handed out.

Perhaps, there was just too much at stake.

Both clubs had some decent chances in a second half that had the promise of some goals. But Manneh drilled a shot from distance right at Dallas goalkeeper Jesse Gonzalez and Rosales, set up neatly at the top of the box by Jordan Smith after he outhustled defender Ryan Hollingshead to get to the ball at the touch line, could only get off a weak effort that went well wide. On the other end, goalkeeper David Ousted bailed out the Caps with outstanding saves off Tesho Akindele and David Texeira. And a shot from seven yards out by Capsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; killer Blaz Perez went an inch wide of the far post.

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New Zealand looks to make statement STEVE DOUGLAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEWCASTLE, England â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Wallabies produced the slickest performance of the Rugby World Cup in knocking out host team England. The Springboks regained some of their swagger in big wins over Samoa and Scotland.

Time for the All Blacks to turn up at the party, too.

By the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extremely high standards, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been far from vintage New Zealand in its first three games of the pool stage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; toughing it out against Argentina, failing to flow against Namibia, and error-strewn against Georgia. Three wins and 14 points on the board, sure.

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the pre-tournament tag of huge favourite.

With qualification to the quarterfinals secured and no real difference between finishing first or second, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little riding on Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s night game against Tonga in Newcastle in terms of the pool standings.

But the All Blacks will want to take some sort of momentum into the knockout stage and generate some intensity so they are battle-hardened for a last-eight game against Ireland or France.

Playing down suggestions his team is â&#x20AC;&#x153;undercooked,â&#x20AC;? New Zealand coach Steve Hansen says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no potential for that. We knew we were coming into a pool similar to what we had in 2007 and 2011, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve devised a strategy for that.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked incredibly hard on the training pitch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that may nothave been reflected in the quality of the performance that everyone expects from us but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more a reflection of how hard weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working off the pitch.â&#x20AC;?

Hansen has been blessed with fortune on the injury front in this tournament, with only niggles or minor problems affecting his players. A hip injury picked up by captain Richie McCaw, which will rule him out of the Tonga game, may be of concern, though. McCaw hobbled out of the 43-10 win over Georgia on Friday with what he said were shin and quad injuries. Two months away from his 35th birthday, the iconic flanker is hoping his battered body will

hold up in one last World Cup campaign, just like in the 2011 tournament when he fought on despite a foot injury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we were playing a final, he would be fine,â&#x20AC;? Hansen says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but we are just not prepared to take any risks with anyone thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not 100 per cent.â&#x20AC;?

And Hansen has a message for All Blacks fans: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had plenty of gasps from home before, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re OK with it,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and the people that are anxious about it donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be anxious.â&#x20AC;?

Maâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a Nonu is back from a shoulder injury to take his place at inside centre, and will become the sixth All Black to reach a century of tests. McCaw, one of the other five, continues to be an inspiration to Nonu.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lionel Messi, Neymar, Luis Suarez and James Rodriguez will all be missing when 2018 World Cup qualifying gets underway in South America on Thursday.

Messi is out with a left knee injury picked up on Sept. 26 and is not expected to return for Barcelona until late November. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With Leo you have a player who solves the easy things, and he solves the most difficult ones too,â&#x20AC;? Argentina coach Gerardo

Martino said as he prepared his squad to face Ecuador in Buenos Aires. Argentina heads into qualifying after two near-misses in tournament soccer, having lost the Copa America final against Chile in July, and last year losing to Germany in the

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Famed mile-long dirt track hosts its final car race Sunday New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a car guy at heart, announced in September that the state will spend $50 million to transform the fair into a year-round destination. The idea is to rebrand the fairgrounds as a New York-themed

park, and that means the racetrack and its timeworn grandstand will be replaced by an equestrian park, indoor ice arena and more.

Moody staked his claim to local fame in 1970 when he became the first driver to average 100 mph for one lap on the track’s often unforgiving clay surface (the current track record is an impressive 144.950 mph, set by Billy Pauch in a sprint car in 1994).

“We’d been racing three or four nights prior to that lap. We were exhausted,” Moody recalled. “We just threw a setup at it, and for some reason the car just was unbelievably fast. We broke the track record by two full seconds.”

The lap that brought Moody’s name into local lore came in a 1936 Chevy coupe with a 454 cubic-inch engine, and he’ll be bringing that car back for old time’s sake to show it off before the Syracuse 200 on Sunday, a fitting cap to Super DIRT Week, the Northeast’s annual October dirt-racing extravaganza.

“I’ve always loved that place,” Moody said. “A lot of guys hate it. It’s dangerous coming out of turn two. The back wall moves in from what it should be. You’re going like 150 mph and that wall comes right at yah. And when you wreck there, you wreck really good.”

The Syracuse Mile, which was built as a horse track in 1826, staged its first auto race in 1903, the same year the Milwaukee Mile opened and three years after Timothy Woodruff, lieutenant governor to Theodore Roosevelt, wrote a letter urging the state “to get up an automobile race for the State Fair.”

When the checkered flag waves for the final time, it will be goodbye to one of only six mile-long dirt tracks remaining in the United States, according to local race historian Gary Spaid.

“It’s 112 years of history of auto racing history,” Spaid said.

The Moody Mile leaves quite a legacy, and it’s tinged with gruesome reminders of the dangers of auto racing: “It’s the biggest race of the year,” said Greg Moore, who runs an auto repair shop in suburban Albany, New York and has been making the 150mile trek west for most of the past four decades.

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WASHINGTON — Many Americans buying new cars these days are baffled by a torrent of new safety technology.

Some features will automatically turn a car back into its lane if it begins to drift, or hit the brakes if sensors detect that it’s about to rear-end someone else. There are lane-change and blind-spot monitors, drowsiness alerts and cars that can park themselves. Technologies once limited to high-end models like adaptive cruise control, tire-pressure indicators and rear-view cameras have become more common.

The features hold tremendous potential to reduce deaths and injuries by eliminating collisions or mitigating their severity, safety advocates say.

But there’s one problem: Education on how to use them doesn’t come standard. Bewildered drivers sometimes just turn them off, defeating the safety potential.

“If people don’t understand how that works or what the car is doing, it may startle them or make them uncomfortable,” said Deborah Hers-

This image from video shows Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Senior Research Engineer David Aylor in the driver’s seat with an electronic display on the dashboard for parallel parking assistance at the IIHS Vehicle Research Center in Ruckersville, Va. [AP PHOTO]

man, president of the National Safety Council. “We want to make sure we’re explaining things to people so that the technology that can make them safer is actually taken advantage of.”

The council and the University of Iowa, along with the Department of Transportation, kicked off an education campaign Wednesday to inform drivers on how the safety features work. The effort includes a website, MyCarDoesWhat.org, with video demonstrations, and new public service

announcements designed to raise awareness of the technologies online, at gas pumps around the country, in print and television.

In a survey by the university, a majority of drivers expressed uncertainty about the way many of the safety technologies work. About 40 per cent reported that their vehicles had behaved in unexpected ways. The least understood technology was adaptive cruise control, which can slow or speed up a vehicle in order to main-

tain a constant following distance.

That technology has been available in some models for at least a decade.

The features vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, from model to model and from one options package to another.

Joe Kraemer, 70, a retired accountant from Arlington, Virginia, said the first time he drove his wife’s 2015 E-Series Mercedes he nearly jumped out of his seat. He was beginning to change lanes when suddenly there was a piercing “beep beep beep beep. . . . .”

Now when that happens, his wife tells him: “Relax. It’s just that you have somebody in your blind spot and you’re about to kill us.”

Kraemer’s wife, who has been driving for 50 years, has been back to the dealer twice for hour-long lessons on how to use the car’s features.

“She’s really learning a computer,” he said.

But as the technologies become more available in lower-priced models, dealers may not be willing to spend as much time with drivers as Mercedes has with Kraemer’s wife.

Owner’s manuals are also falling short, safety advocates say. They have

become “documents written by lawyers for lawyers,” said Clarence Ditlow, executive director at the Center for Auto Safety.

“From perhaps a 50-page understandable document 20 years ago, they have gone to a 500-page opus that is intimidating to all but the most studious car buyer,” he said.

Some manufacturers offer CDs or DVDs on how to use safety systems, but “most of the time drivers don’t actually take the time to review them,” said Peter Kissinger, president of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

A study by the foundation of early safety technology adopters found that some drivers believed collision warning systems would brake to stop their vehicles for them, when actually the systems only alert drivers to an impending collision.

It’s still up to the driver to hit the brakes.

“That’s a dangerous scenario,” Kissinger said.

Some collision mitigation systems, increasing in availability, do more than warn, actually applying the brake if the driver doesn’t act quickly enough.

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