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Fully naked women out of updated ‘Playboy’

Veterinarians win human rights case Indo-Canadian veterinarians were subject to more scrutiny than other vets, a tribunal found, as they faced unscheduled inspections that other vets did not. » B.C., 11

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NEW YORK — Playboy is about to find out how many people really do read it for the articles.

The magazine that helped usher in the sexual revolution in the 1950s and ’60s by bringing nudity into living rooms — or at least sock drawers — all over America announced Tuesday that it will no longer run photos of completely naked women.

Playboy has seen an extreme drop in circulation over the past few decades, falling victim to some of the very forces it helped set in motion. Porn in full colour and high-definition video is now all over the Internet.

“You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passe at this juncture,” Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders told The New York Times.

Starting in March, Playboy will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer be fully nude. It will become more like Esquire and other magazines with PG-13type pictures.

Playboy has not yet decided whether it will still have a centrefold, according to the Times.

The change represents a major shift for the magazine, which broke new ground when Hugh Hefner created it and featured

In this 2007 photo, ‘Playboy’ founder Hugh Hefner signs copies of the ‘Playboy Calendar and Playboy Cover To Cover: The 50’s’ DVD box set in Los Angeles. ‘Playboy’ will no longer publish photos of nude women as part of a redesign of the decades-old magazine, according to a news report on Monday. [IAN WEST/PA VIA AP]

Marilyn Monroe on its debut cover in 1953. It marks the latest step away from depictions of full nudity, which were banned from the magazine’s website in August 2014.

The magazine said its website audience soared with that move, averaging a fourfold increase in monthly unique visitors.

“The political and sexual climate of 1953 . . . bears almost

no resemblance to today,” Flanders said. “We are more free to express ourselves politically, sexually and culturally today, and that’s in large part thanks to Hef’s heroic mission to expand those freedoms.”

Playboy editor Cory Jones recently contacted Hefner about dropping nude photos from the print edition and he agreed, the Times reported.

Playboy’s print circulation, measured at 5.6 million in the 1975, is now about 800,000, according to Alliance for Audited Media, the newspaper reported.

The shift from nudity will be accompanied by other changes in the magazine, including a slightly larger size and a heavier, higher quality of paper meant to give the magazine a more collectible feel.

CRIME

Cops ID suspected shooter in deaths of Quebec woman, U.S. man on hiking trail PAUL ELIAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors on Tuesday identified the alleged triggerman among the three transients charged with the shooting deaths of a Canadian backpacker and a yoga instructor in Northern California last week.

A criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Marin County Superior Court charges Morrison Haze Lampley, 23, with pulling the trigger of a stolen Smith & Wesson handgun in both killings while the trio robbed their alleged victims.

Lampley and his two travelling companions are all charged with multiple murders with special

circumstances that include lying in wait for their victims, making them eligible for the death penalty. Lampley, Sean Michael Angold, 24, and Lila Scott Alligood, 18, are scheduled to make their first court appearances Wednesday. They have not been appointed lawyers.

The three are charged with killing Canadian backpacker Audrey Carey, 23, whose body was found shot in the head in Golden Gate Park on Oct. 3.

Carey had just embarked on a backpacking trip and had camped in Golden Gate Park during the popular Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival in the park.

The trio is also charged with

killing tantric yoga instructor Steve Carter, 67, on Oct. 5.

Carter’s body and his wounded dog were found near a popular hiking trail in Marin County, about 32 kilometres north of San Francisco. San Francisco Police commander Toney Chaplin said both victims and Carter’s dog were shot with the same handgun, which was reported stolen om Oct. 1 from an unlocked car in San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf neighbourhood.

Carter’s dog is expected to survive. All three are also charged with animal cruelty, though the criminal complaint alleged that Lampley pulled the trigger.

Marin County Sheriff’s

Lt. Doug Pittman said the three suspects have “no fixed address.”

They were arrested outside a Portland, Oregon soup kitchen on Wednesday. Investigators and the criminal complaint say they were found in possession of the stolen gun, Carter’s Volkswagen station wagon and Carey’s tent, sleeping bag, day pack and other possessions, including her passport and airline tickets.

The Marin County District Attorney Edward Berberian said a decision on whether to pursue the death penalty will be made later. He said the office will conduct a “detailed review process” before deciding whether to ask a jury and judge to sentence a murder defendant to death.

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POLITICS

EDUCATION

Green Party leader May visits Nanaimo, pans TPP trade deal

Parent groups receive $270,000

Politician was joined via Skype by co-leader of New Zealand’s Green Party SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

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Green Party leader Elizabeth May repeated her stance against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in Nanaimo Tuesday, alongside her trade critic and candidate for the area Paul Manly.

The event had a twist though; both Canadian politicians were joined by the co-leader of the New Zealand Green Party by Skype, whose party also opposes the TPP. May, who has made several stops in the riding since the outset of the federal election campaign, condemned the deal, lambasting the five-year negotiation process as secretive and harmful to Canadian interests.

“Very few Canadians have any idea what’s in the TPP,” she said.

The TPP was signed earlier this month by negotiators for 12 nations, including Canada, New Zealand, the U.S., Mexico, Singapore, Vietnam and others. The sweeping trade document must be approved by every member government, but the TPP has also become an election issue in Canada, where the Greens hope their opposition to the deal will translate into votes. May said proponents of the TPP say it promises Canada a share of $28.5 trillion in total trade, but said $20 trillion on that is already included under existing trade agreements.

In return, she said governments will find themselves at risk of lawsuits from corporations that oppose policies that could undermine their profits.

Manly also voiced concern.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May held a press conference in Nanaimo Tuesday with Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidate Paul Manly. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

“What is most disturbing about these trade agreement, and this one in particular, is that it’s being done in secret,” said Manly. “And it doesn’t involve members of Parliament, and it doesn’t involve governments in the way that it should. It involves corporations, who are getting the largest say in this.”

Canadian Greens share opposition to the deal along with Green parties in New Zealand and other countries.

New Zealand Green Party co-leader and MP James Shaw said he was concerned the TPP could undermine his country’s single-buyer public pharmaceutical program.

Manly offered similar concerns the deal could interfere with B.C.’s right to limit raw log exports.

May touted Manly’s chances to win the Nanaimo riding during a Q&A session after the presentation, calling him “the best-positioned” and most

credible choice to represent constituents’ concerns in parliament.

“As soon as people realize that the strategic vote is Green, there won’t be a problem,” May said.

“The majority of people in Nanaimo-Ladysmith love the idea of voting Green.”

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Parent advisory groups in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District will get provincial grants worth more than $270,000 to enhance the student experience through extracurricular activities.

A total of $270,740 was allocated, in grants to cover such costs as sporting equipment, musical instruments, playground equipment and field trips.

It benefits 36 Parental Advisory Councils in the school district.

“A complete education goes beyond just what is taught in a classroom. Students also learn life skills such as teamwork through sports activities and hands-on understanding of history from visits to museums or culturally significant sites,” said Michelle Stillwell, MLA for Parksville-Qualicum.

“This funding will give parent groups the opportunity to help enhance their children’s education by increasing access to extracurricular opportunities for all students.”

The parent-run councils help ensure access to activities for a well-rounded education.

PACs receive $20 per student, while district PACs get $2,500.

The funds must remain under management and control of those that receive them.

Funds cannot be used for, or transferred to, curricular purposes or to schools or school districts or their activities or programs.

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Porn in the classroom?

Experts say discussion should be dealt with through curriculum

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s it time for our classrooms to teach our children what pornography is?

Some sex education experts say the answer is yes.

In a time when kids are more likely to be exposed to illicit images through a computer screen than on a magazine page, there is a growing call for the matter to be dealt with explicitly in B.C.’s school curriculum.

One person in support of the Spencer change is Anderson Dr. Jason WinReporting ters, a Vancouver-based sex therapist who thinks the topic should be broached with students in an educational capacity “simply because they’re going to encounter it anyway.”

Winters, also a guest lecturer at the University of British Columbia, said it is important to equip young people with an accurate, neutral understanding of what pornography is, whether they encounter it accidentally or out of curiosity.

“If there’s nothing to contextualize that or balance it out, they’re going to be making a lot of assumptions,” he said. “If kids just see that and that becomes their blueprint (for what sex is) … it sets them up for disappointment, surprise, frustration and concern.”

The Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district does not have its own policies or guidelines for the discussion of pornography. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

Kerri Isham, a sex educator with a background in Internet safety who has taught children from kindergarten to Grade 10, said boys will typically encounter online porn at age 11, while girls will be around 12 or 13.

Like Winters, she also wants pornography dealt with in a classroom setting, due to the often degrading and explicit nature of online content.

She said students need to understand early on in their lives that what they may be seeing in hardcore pornography are depictions of violence and demeaning behaviour.

Isham also said she is concerned about the long-term impact of pornography on children.

“Definitely I think it’s going to affect relationships,” she said.

Isham is brought in by parent advisory councils to host workshops for interested parents and kids in a classroom setting.

She said she currently discusses pornography when teaching a sex education class in the context of ‘healthy relationships.’

But she noted the issue is a sensitive one among some parents, who do not want the topic broached with their children.

“I still have parents that are in complete denial that their kids are accessing online pornography,” she said.

She suggested there is also reluctance on the part of school districts to tackle the subject.

“If the PAC didn’t bring me in, I probably wouldn’t be in schools.”

The province recently updated its sex education curriculum for

kindergarten to Grade 9 students, with proposed changes to the Grade 10 to 12 curriculum.

The revised curriculum has been praised by both the province and teachers and includes new references to sexuality and sexual identity.

But the curriculum does not specifically mention pornography or graphic online content.

When asked if pornography will be introduced as a specific topic in the curriculum, the B.C. Ministry of Education responded in an email.

“Our revised curriculum creates space and flexibility for teachers and students to explore topics of importance and relevance to local classrooms and communities,” it stated through a spokesman.

The curriculum “is written at a level that creates space and flexibility for teachers and students to explore topics of importance and relevance to local classrooms and communities, the result of which makes it much easier to address these types of topics where appropriate,” the email adds.

“There are multiple points within our Physical and Health Education curriculum where the topic may be addressed.”

But Glen Hansman, a vice-president of the B.C. Teachers Federation, said there is a danger that the open-ended approach to education to pornography could lead to “a hit-and-miss approach around the province.”

Hansman said that some school districts could face opposition in the community for discussing pornography with students, “or there’s just a vacuum and because there’s no support, they might just avoid it,” he said.

He said teachers also need support in the form of training, adding some may feel uncomfortable talking about the subject with students.

In any case, Hansman said the issue is not going away in an increasingly web-centred world.

“It’s not the world it was 10 or 15 years ago,” he said.

Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district spokesman Dale Burgos said the district works within the curriculum of set by the Ministry of Education, but said the district does not have its own policies or guidelines for the discussion of pornography.

Burgos said the emphasis when delivering sex education is “making healthy choices.”

He said classes and schools also have the option of bringing in outside sex educators.

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‘Dogpatch’ vessel owners told to leave CRAIG SPENCE LADYSMITH CHRONICLE

The Town of Ladysmith’s bylaw enforcement officer, accompanied by RCMP, distributed notices last week to boat owners moored in ‘Dogpatch’ telling them they have until mid-November to weigh anchor and leave.

Asked about the notices, Mayor Aaron Stone confirmed live-aboards in the Dogpatch have been served notice.

“They would have to move on,” he said.

“The zoning bylaw says they would have a seven day maximum stay.”

The only areas where boats can be moored longer within the Town of Ladysmith’s boundaries, other than privately owned piers, are designated marinas. The boat owners are being given an extension to Nov. 15 so they can make alternative plans. Stone said the municipality is prepared to “assist them with whatever opportunities may be out there.”

Asked what the Town of Ladysmith will do if the boat owners, some of whom have been moored in Water Lot 651 for years, do not obey the municipal notice, Stone said, “After that we will look at whatever options may be open to us.”

He said the bylaw has to be applied ‘without prejudice’ to all boat owners moored in Ladysmith’s Harbour.

Stone said Ladysmith has been prompted to take action because of some ‘dangerous’ incidents that have occurred in Dogpatch recently.

On July 18 a boat moored next to the derelict Viki Lyne II burned and sank. Police suspect arson. Then in late August a boat sank just off Slack Point, with accusations that the sinking was deliberate. Next day another boat burned to the waterline in Dogpatch.

“We’ve had some dangerous incidents down there and we cannot do nothing,” Stone said.

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KAIT’S CORNER Vancouver Island

Corn maze offers unique tradition, experience Kait Burgan Reporting

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t’s not very often that I look forward to walking around a bunch of dead and slowly rotting vegetable stalks, looking for food that I have no intention of eating.

But come mid- to late-October, I look forward to it very much . . . almost as much as raiding my kids trick or treat loot bags after they’ve crashed from the annual sugar overdose.

I’m not big on tradition. Not the commercialized ones at least. Not the ones being sold to us as activities that are supposed to bring meaning and depth to our family interaction. For Christmas this year, I’m opting for experiences instead of things. Mother’s Day is just another day, probably one invented by Hallmark. I’m still trying to figure out how chocolate got to be such a focal point of Easter and I don’t see how a bunch of roses on Valentine’s Day is going to cultivate true and meaningful love.

After talking with Murray McNab however, from McNab’s Corn Maze, I’m a bigger fan than ever when it comes to the tradition of corn mazes and pumpkin patches.

“Have you heard of the 5, 2, 1, 0 thing?” Murray asks. It’s dinner time on Thanksgiving. Murray is on speaker phone in my car. He tells me he’s having a beer around a fire and there’s a turkey in the oven at home. I assume he’s still at the farm, wrapping up from a busy weekend. I’m thankful he’s taking the time to chat with me on a holiday Monday. Murray is one of six siblings who run McNab’s Corn Maze and Produce Farm. He’s responsible for the maze part. If you’ve ever been there, you’ve probably seen him driving the hay laden wagon to and from the pumpkin patch.

“The Wife” Murray is referring to is his wife, Dr. Betty Bartleman, a Nanaimo-based Pediatrician. She’s committed to the Live 5-2-1-0 initiative to reduce childhood obesity. The initiative suggests five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, a maximum of two hours of screen time, one hour of

Pumpkins are ready at McNab’s Corn Maze on Yellow Point Road. Below, the maze is always popular among families as autumn rolls around.

active play and zerosugar-sweetened drinks per day. Time at the at the corn maze gets the kids away from the screen and if running around lost in a maze of dirt isn’t active play, I’m not sure what is. I’d go so far as counting the clean up afterwards should also be considered active play. Dr. Bartleman has vowed to stop selling pop and chips at the farm in 2016.

The corn maze at McNab’s is seven acres and every year, Murray carves a pattern into the corn that can only been seen from above. You could say it’s tradition within a tradition. This year, in honour of his first grandchild, visitors will be wondering around paths that make up images of baby things; a stroller, a baby bottle, a rattle - a tribute to another generation of

happy, healthy traditions on Vancouver Island.

McNab’s anticipates welcoming up to 10,000 visitors to the farm this season.

They planted over 20,000 pumpkin plants and are hosting the first ever Haunted House from Oct. 21-31. Entry will be by donation with all proceeds going to BC Children’s Hospital. The farm is located at 4613 Yellow Point Rd. On Oct. 31, all the proceeds from the corn maze, hay rides and pumpkins will also be donated to the BC Children’s Hospital. There will be fireworks too. www.mcnabscornmaze. » Kait Burgan is television

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RDN

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Directors at the Regional District of Nanaimo were set to vote Tuesday night on a process to get voter approval for raising and distributing $10,000 annually to support local search and rescue services.

The RDN voted in June to support the creation of a new District 69 Search and Rescue Service for Parksville, Qualicum Beach and must rural areas within the RDN,

including Nanoose, Coombs and Deep Bay. The proposed funding raised by a fee imposed on residents in the area will be contributed to local groups that conduct search and rescue operations in the area.

RDN officials have proposed an alternative approval process to get voter approval for the ongoing funding service. Under the process, 10 per cent of the eligible voting population must complete and

send in a response form in opposition to defeat the initiative.

According to the RDN, there are more than 36,800 electors in the proposed service area, meaning approximately 3,680 must send in forms in order for the service to be quashed. If fewer than that number return forms, the initiative passes.

A recommendation from RDN staff set a proposed deadline of Feb. 25 for opponents of the proposal to respond.

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OUR VIEW

Young people need guidance, context on pornography

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n 1964, Potter Stewart, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, famously wrote that “hard-core pornography” was hard to define, but that “I know it when I see it.”

Back then, said pornography was a little harder to obtain than it is today.

Thanks to the Internet, pretty much anything and everything is only a click away. This means parents must be extremely vigilant when it comes to monitoring the computer time of their young children.

It also means that, in 2015, the notion of discussing pornography in our classrooms is more realistic than ever before.

It’s certainly a topic that is a non-starter for many, and an uncomfortable one for many others. At the very least, it’s worthy of debate.

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Discussing the matter openly in an educational forum would provide some context for young people to think about it more critically.

As we report today, there is a growing call among sex education experts to ensure the classroom is a place the subject is broached with students.

Dr. Jason Winters, a Vancouver-based sex therapist, believes it should be addressed in an educational capacity because children are “going to encounter it anyway.” This was true generations ago when it may have meant boys casting furtive

glances at Playboy magazine (which interestingly is now discontinuing nudity in its print edition), and it’s even more true in the age of the Internet.

This isn’t about advocating for porn usage, it’s about dealing with the reality of today. Discussing the matter openly in an educational forum would provide some context for young people to think about it more critically and be better-equipped to process the information they may uncover at any age. Because what they can access online is far more explicit than that of previous generations, it becomes even more important to provide that context.

Kerri Isham also favours dealing with the issue of pornography in a classroom setting. She is a sex educator with a background in Internet

safety who says boys will typically encounter online porn at age 11, while girls will be around 12 or 13.

She said she currently discusses pornography when teaching a sexed class in the context of ‘healthy relationships.’

Obviously, it is a controversial issue for parents who do not wish the topic even be broached with their children.

This remains understandable. School districts have also been reticent to tackle the subject.

The Nanaimo-Ladysmith district does not have its own policies or guidelines for the discussion of pornography. Recently updated (and widely praised) provincial guidelines regarding sex education do not specifically mention pornography or graphic online content. Instead, “flexibility for teachers” allows

the exploration of topics “where appropriate.”

This simply creates a situation where inconsistency could reign supreme.

In the end, it is much more than a morality issue. The single-most important resource in any child’s life in dealing with this topic should be their parents or guardians. They can set up the framework for frank discussion and the aforementioned strict monitoring of Internet usage.

But allowing the issue to become a classroom topic allows all youngsters the chance to better understand the world around them, however unpleasant it may be at times. » We want to hear from you.

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» YOUR LETTERS // EMAIL: YOURLETTERS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM It’s not OK for anyone to vandalize election signs It seems that, in the politics of Nanaimo, we are living through a torrent of disrespect.

If the torrent appears to have receded at city hall, it is now in full flow in the vandalism of federal election signs.

Like many others, I am disgusted by the criminal sign destruction, which is particularly focused on the signs of the Conservative candidate, destruction that seems to have become acceptable behaviour for some people in this federal election campaign.

I can disagree with the views of some of the candidates in this election, but I am grateful for their willingness to participate in the country’s business, and I respect them for putting their names on the ballot, and on public signs.

It is not OK for anyone to destroy or vandalize our candidates’ property, and it is to be hoped that the individual who thought that destroying signs in Ladysmith was something to celebrate on social media gets to pay the price for his 10 minutes of “fame.”

Mike Hunter Nanaimo

Vote for who you think is the best candidate Five reasons to vote strategically, that is, for someone who isn’t the best choice to dump someone worse.

5. It always feels better to vote for a winner. Thus voters will be less likely to burn police cars and throw rocks through windows on election night.

4. Strategic voting leads to the much-easier to understand two-party system. We can become more like the Americans.

3. Pollsters know better than most people who to vote for, so it’s always better to let them guide our decisions.

2. Emotional concepts like what’s best for Canada are less valid than the calm reasoning needed in selecting leadership. Rob Ford, take note.

1. My vote should not be wasted.

Eh? Let’s all just vote for the best candidate and see what happens.

Jim Erkiletian Nanaimo

Big miscalculation by pollsters could happen There is a huge dichotomy between the reality of the media and the reality of the streets surrounding this election.

Read the newspapers and you would think that the CPC and the NDP are still in the race.

Go into the streets, listen to the conversations; and one can hear and see the winds of change.

On Southern Vancouver Island (where I live) the support for the Green Party (and the Liberals where they still have candidates) is obvious and buzzing, while the CPC and the NDP are moving down faster than an elevator with a broken cable.

The excitement and prospect of a massive change is obvious on the streets.

I am reminded of elections long past where massive change happened ( Trudeaumania, Diefenbaker sweep, Mulroney’s exit, etc.) — the energy on the streets is the same.

My sense is that (at least on Vancouver Island) this energy and buzz forecasts a major Green Party breakthrough.

I think we have another major pollster miscalculation about to happen.

Exciting times ahead.

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COMMUNITY

Habitat for Humanity unveils biggest project JULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS

On Tuesday, Habitat for Humanity Mid-Vancouver Island broke ground on a new housing development, their biggest project yet in Nanaimo.

The first two families have been chosen for the Meadow Hill development, located at 2360 Extension Rd. Partner families are selected according to a number of criteria, including an ability to pay for the Habitat mortgage — which is interest-free — and work off a 500-hour “sweat equity” payment of volunteer work in lieu of a down-payment, something Habitat describes as “a hand up, not a handout.”

Once completed, the Meadow Hill development will provide six homes for Mid-Island families.

“This reminds me of an old-fashioned barn-raising,” said Mayor Bill McKay, who addressed the small crown of supporters gathered in the sunshine at the construction site.

“Do you remember when farmers and all the neighbours would come out to help and they would build a barn over the course of a weekend?

Because that’s what it was all about — helping your neighbours. We’re struggling today with increased land prices, and with trying to figure out how to create, on a sustainable basis, affordable housing for families just like this.”

The city granted a $32,000 fee reduction to the project, among other donors. The next two families to partner with the organization are the Denbys, who have four children, and the Bacon-Pearces, who have three children.

The Meadow Hill development marks the first time they can offer their unique opportunity for home

Habitat for Humanity executive director Teresa Ludvigson, left, stands with the Bacon Pearce and Denby family on Tuesday. The family will be receiving the keys to the new Habitat for Humanity home. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

ownership to larger families, said Teresa Ludvigson, Executive Director of HFHMVI. “For the partner families . . . it’s the same as it would be for any home purchase plan except they have no down-payment and no interest, it’s

always geared towards their income,” said Ludvigson. “I wish when I was a single parent that I knew about Habitat for Humanity.”

For the Denbys, their new home will be a welcome respite from renting.

BUSINESS

Nanaimo company to display technology at trade fair in Cuba DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

The Nanaimo company that produces electricity from waste is gearing up to go global.

Cedar Road Bioenergy owns and operates the Nanaimo Bioenergy Centre, a 1.3-megawatt electrical power plant at the Nanaimo Regional Landfill.

There, waste is converted biologically into methane, stored in a large dome-shaped facility and converted to electrical energy sold to BC Hydro.

It’s unique in the world, and Nov. 2 to 7 it will be shown off at a world trade fair of green technology in Havana.

It’s a big step for the company.

“There’s quite a bit of interest,” said Paul Liddy, director general for the parent company, Calgary-based Suncurrent Group.

More than 150,000 delegates are expected at the event, an exciting opportunity to recover more energy

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from waste, or “expanding capacity,” as Liddy says.

The parent company has been doing renewable energy systems for 20 years in Canada, creating a new sector with considerable growth potential.

Canada has policies and regulations that support clean energy, but “they don’t in emerging markets, so they have no capacity to do this — they

have no one there that can do it,” Liddy said.

Environmental benefits flow from convincing more cities and countries to turn greenhouse gases into energy.

Suncurrent SA de CV based in Merida, Yucatan, is the company’s Mexican subsidiary partner set up to market the Cedar Road biogas platform in the Caribbean Basin.

The Cedar facility was commissioned partly as a demonstration project in 2010. It uses anaerobic digestion from waste supplied by the RDN to create biogas.

Cedar Road is the innovation partner with Suncurrent SA at the Havana Fair.

Cedar Road will also host a “capacity building” workshop there, Nov. 5.

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“Our oldest son is 16 and he’s probably gone to nine different schools because we’ve had to move so much,” said Lisa Denby. “Now we’re home-schooling but we’re looking forward to having somewhere where we can just stay put.”

So far, HFHMVI have housed 14 families in the mid-Vancouver Island region.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Black Press ◆ PORT ALICE

Official confident that mill will reopen in 2016 Warren Beatty, vice president of human resources at the Neucel Specialty Cellulose Pulp Mill, gave a short update at the economic development open house in the Village of Port Alice (see related story, Page 9).

Beatty said he has been with the company for three years and owns a home in Port Alice.

“I have a dog in the fight as well,” he said.

Beatty explained the mill is currently in a production curtailment — not “closed.”

That curtailment was caused by the exchange rate on the Canadian dollar, the price the company can sell its product for and the price of oil.

Beatty said Neucel has had engineers out at the mill looking at which things need to be repaired, replaced and upgraded in order to “reduce our fixed costs. We have to be cost competitive.”

Beatty is confident the mill will reopen in the spring of 2016.

“There’s a lot of work to be done so

that we are a reliable, long-term asset to our shareholders and the village.”

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Man dies after being thrown from pickup A 55-year-old Sooke area man died when he was thrown from his pickup truck after it veered off West Coast Road on Friday night.

Sooke RCMP and Shirley Fire Department responded to the single-vehicle accident at 8:15 p.m. near Sheringham Point Road.

The driver was the lone occupant in the vehicle.

Early investigation suggests the man tried to correct his steering, and lost control, veered into the ditch and was thrown out of the vehicle.

Exact cause of the accident is under investigation, though alcohol may be a factor, said RCMP. The name of the deceased man is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

“There’s a lot of work to be done so that we are a reliable, long-term asset to our shareholders and the village.”

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QUALICUM BEACH

Town days away from going into free fall Central Island community set to get everybody’s adrenaline rushing with Island Fever Skydive Festival CANDACE WU PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

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here are few moments in life that truly take your breath away.

Skydiving is certainly one of them.

I stopped by Skydive Vancouver Island last week to write a piece about the upcoming Island Fever Skydive Festival slated for Oct. 16-18 in Qualicum Beach which is expected to attract 70 to 80 professional skydivers from all over the country, including Canadian champions and world record holders.

Owner Gord Gauvin said the “boogie” (as it’s known to skydiving insiders) is open to the public and offers a great opportunity for first-time skydivers, experienced adrenaline seekers and/or those who just want to watch people parachute out of planes. Then, Gauvin asked me if I’d like to try it.

I hadn’t planned on diving out of a plane at 10,000 feet that afternoon, but I figured why not — I could write it off as research.

So, Gauvin strapped me up and loaded me into a small Cessna aircraft with experienced skydiver Dennis Harker who has completed more than 2,450 jumps in his lifetime.

Up we went.

“You know, I’m surprisingly not even that nervous,” I told Harker as we ascended to 10,000 feet over breathtaking Vancouver Island.

Just as the words came out of my

Candace Wu and professional skydiver Dennis Harker take an impromptu skydive last Tuesday afternoon over beautiful Parksville Qualicum Beach in anticipation of the upcoming Island Fever Skydive Festival Oct. 16-18. [DENNIS HARKER]

mouth, our pilot seemingly melodramatically flung the door open and I felt a rush of cold air wash over my face as the gut-wrenching nerves inevitably kicked in.

If my face wasn’t paralyzed with fear I may have asked to back-out last minute, but the next thing I knew I was tumbling out of the plane in free fall.

It was the most liberating 41

seconds of my life.

Though I will admit it felt a lot longer than 41 seconds and I caught myself wondering if something had gone wrong with the parachute and I was destined to be our next news story. I’m happy to report that was not the case.

There’s something to be said about the fleeting moments in time where you are purely living in the present.

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It doesn’t happen often, but it happens — and it puts everything else in perspective. If you’ve ever wanted to skydive, just do it.

In fact, Island Fever Skydive Festival would be a great time.

On Friday, Oct.16 Gauvin said the shop will be orchestrating a canopy camp from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for experienced skydivers. Registration is required.

On Saturday, the Parksville Qualicum Beach Aero Club will host a pancake breakfast at Skydive Vancouver Island (located at the Qualicum Beach Airport) from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and a barbecue from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Gauvin said it will be a great opportunity for people who want to take their first jump as they will be using a Caravan plane that carries up to 15 skydivers as well as their smaller Cessna plane. This means multiple people can jump at once, or one after another.

It will be prime-time for spectators too, who Gauvin said are encouraged to bring lawn chairs to their site as organizers are setting up a viewing space near the landing area. With dozens of experienced skydivers signed up, it is sure to be a memorable show.

Tandem skydives will be offered for $325, as well as observation rides for $50.

Meanwhile, Pedego Bikes will be on location renting out their electric bikes for $15. They will have an ongoing tour looping around Qualicum Beach and co-owner Julie Edwards said cyclists will be able to watch skydivers all along the trail.

Jumps start every morning at 9 a.m. and the last load will leave around 6:30 p.m.

For more information call Skydive Vancouver Island at 250-580-JUMP (5867) or visit www.skydivevancouverisland.com.

COWICHAN-MALAHAT-LANGFORD

North-Island town reduced to NDP has slim lead over one store after grocery closure Tories in south riding NORTH ISLAND GAZETTE

Port McNeill is about to become a one grocery store town.

The Super Valu grocery store in the north Island community is permanently closing its doors Nov. 5.

That closure is going to put 15 people out of work and relocate access to the nearest President’s Choice products about a 200-kilometre drive away in Campbell River.

“It’s unfortunate,” said Port McNeill Mayor Shirley Ackland, who only heard from the owner, Loblaws, about the looming closure a couple of weeks ago.

“They didn’t come to the community,” Ackland added. “I find that to be problematic.”

Ackland added she has hopes that another grocery store might take its place; the community has had two grocers going back decades.

Employees were given eight weeks notice and severance packages, according to Loblaws.

“The store has been unprofitable for a number of years and we don’t

“We expect to experience a significant decrease in donated food. How much this will affect our program remains to be seen.”

Andy Cornell, Port Hardy Food Bank

expect it to turn around,” said spokesperson Catherine Thomas.

“It wasn’t an easy decision.”

The closure will have consequences outside of Port McNeill, also hitting the shelves in the Port Hardy Harvest Food Bank.

Despite Super Valu’s small size, the grocer was a major donor to the Food Bank, along with its neighbour, the IGA. The donations are worth “in the six figures annually,” said Andy Cornell, the food bank’s manager.

“With the impending closure of Super Valu, we expect to experience a significant decrease in donated food,” Cornell said in an email.

“How much this will affect our programs remains to be seen, but clearly it is not a positive development.”

And some people’s palates and wallets will be left hurting from the loss of the President’s Choice brand, said local insurance broker Diane Forsberg, who has had two of her kids work at the supermarket.

Leaving the store last month, Forsberg explained that Super Valu stocked bulk products she couldn’t get elsewhere. And her taste buds have grown fond of President’s Choice.

“It just tastes better than Kraft,” she said.

“Besides the kids losing their jobs, it’s going to be a blow.”

One consolation is that Port McNeill’s IGA, which stands just across the parking lot from Super Valu, expects to start hiring as it takes over some of its old competitor’s business.

“Once they actually close down and we start getting busier, we definitely will be,” said Jordan Wills, IGA’s owner and manager.

SARAH SIMPSON COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

The latest opinion poll has the NDP in the lead in the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding with just over a week to go until election day.

The telephone survey of 400 adult residents within the riding was funded by the Dogwood Initiative and One Cowichan and conducted by Insights West from Oct. 1 to Oct 5.

While 26 per cent of respondents said they were still undecided, another 26 per cent said it was their intention to vote for the NDP. The Conservative Party ranked second with 21 per cent of the intended vote, the Greens third with 14 per cent and the Liberals fourth with 10 per cent.

The data has been statistically weighted according to Canadian census figures for age, gender and region. Results are considered accurate to within 4.9 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

So while accurate, it’s still hard to know what will happen once the ballots are counted on Oct. 19.

“Voter turnout will make all the difference for these campaigns,” One Cowichan spokesman Matt Price said. “Will voters who state a preference actually get out to cast a ballot?

That could shift these numbers around.”

One Cowichan has been knocking on doors in an attempt to convince more people to vote. The citizens group is on track to put in 28 canvass shifts resulting in about 1,250 conversations. They have set up a station at Vancouver Island University’s Cowichan campus in an attempt to increase the student vote and have been active on Facebook and with members of Cowichan Tribes as well.

“Overall, we feel we are making a difference, especially when one of our canvassers comes upon the door of someone who seems like a reluctant voter and is able to connect about issues he/she cares about to translate that into a commitment to vote,” Price said. “The proof will be in the pudding though,” he added.

“With a close race, voter turnout will really matter.”

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Birth control pitched as capital’s deer solution PAMELA ROTH VICTORIA NEWS

The Urban Wildlife Stewardship Society believes it has the solution to deal with the Victoria region’s deer problem — birth control.

Speaking at an Esquimalt council meeting Monday night, society president and retired biologist Bryan Gates proposed a pilot project that would trap female deer, then inject them with SpayVac — a contraceptive vaccine that’s proven effective in deer and can be used to control populations.

Gates has no idea how many deer

are living in Esquimalt, but said the problem is widespread throughout Greater Victoria. Deer started showing up in communities about 10 years ago, found food and had no predators so they stayed. Now, the females have established themselves.

“The females particularly, once they come and find a spot, they tend to stay in that spot. They don’t move any more than two, three or four blocks,” said Gates, adding the bucks will wander around together after fawning season in early June.

When those fawns are born, they grow up and have fawns within a

reasonable distance of where they were born.

“We know the SpayVac can and does work and can reduce the number of fawns born each year. Eventually if you treat enough, it causes the populations to decline.”

UWSS, launched in April, is comprised of deer scientists, educators and managers with extensive senior public service experience. The group has already approached Oak Bay with its project and has been contacted by other jurisdictions, including Esquimalt. Last February, Oak Bay faced major criticism over the cull of

11 deer as part of a $250,000 Capital Regional District pilot program for deer management. Members of the society wanted to offer alternatives other than killing the animals.

“There were a lot of people that were very upset and a number of people who were very delighted with it of course because they don’t want the deer eating their garden,” said Gates. “We formed to say, can we do it a different way? We know that SpayVac was available and we thought we can try it and see what happens.”

The society is currently waiting

on permits from the federal and provincial government to begin the pilot project. Gates said the province requires an inventory of deer first.

The deer would be trapped and given numbered ear tags to help with monitoring.

Council asked staff to bring back a report of what a pilot project might look like in Esquimalt. » We want to hear from you.

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DENMAN AND HORNBY ISLANDS

Critical eyes lambaste new cable ferry test runs MICHAEL BRIONES COMOX VALLEY ECHO

The trial runs of the new cable ferry Baynes Sound Connector have been anything but smooth sailing according to a Hornby Island resident.

Since being delivered at the Buckley Bay BC Ferries terminal in late August, the ferry has been closely monitored by residents on Denman and Hornby Island.

It’s not in service yet but it already has drawn criticisms from people who had opposed cable ferry when BC Ferries was drawing its plans to replace the current Buckley Bay to Denman Island ferry, the Quinitsa.

Peter Kimmerly, who has more than 40 years experience at sea, said it’s not a viable project and for him, “It is an embarrassment of engineering.”

Kimmerly is a former master of the world’s largest icebreaker the Terry Fox and for 12 years was the senior master of the Quinitsa.

In an interview with CHEK News, Kimmerly said the new cable ferry is struggling to reach the required speed.

“They have agreed to produce a speed of 8.5 knots and they’re only producing a speed of 6.5 knots,” said Kimmerly, who has a team of engineers and lawyers behind him.

The problem, Kimmerly explained,

The new Baynes Sound Connector cable ferry is undergoing sea trials at Buckley Bay. [MICHAEL BRIONES]

is the weight of the three cables used for the ferry, at 15 tonnes each, are too heavy.

“The problem is the act of lifting those wires from over 200 feet creates or consumes an awful lot of energy and it absorbs the energy that should be usable to propel the ferry

forward,” said Kimmerly.

Kimmerly pointed out that BC Ferries’ objective was to make the run more fuel-efficient and he says that will not be attainable.

“The cable ferry is consuming 2.5 times the fuel Quinitsa is at 6.5 knots and the big argument for this

project was that fuel savings were going to be a great big benefit and it’s not proving to be so,” Kimmerly said.

Other critics say at 6.5 knots the ferry would not be able to keep its current schedule, something BC Ferries has said it would.

“The first day I was really amazed at how slowly they were coming across, you know you could walk faster, and then I thought it was just to check, you know, everything being conservative, but now I haven’t seen it go any faster,” said Denman resident Michael Rapati, who has been watching the trial runs with interest.

The cable ferry is still owned by its maker, Seaspan Shipyards.

“Sea trials are a key component of any vessel delivery and are ongoing as we work with BC Ferries to ensure a rigorous testing process,” said Seaspan President Brian Carter.

BC Ferries is also in no hurry to take ownership of the cable ferry.

It will only do so when the builder meets its contractual obligation.

“Because BC Ferries has committed to the residents of Denman and Hornby Islands that the cable ferry will provide the same level of service as the MV Quinitsa, we will take the necessary time to ensure the Baynes Sound Connector meets BC Ferries’ high safety and operational standards prior to putting the vessel into service,” said BC Ferries’ manager of public affairs Darin Guenette.

“We are not in a rush to get the cable ferry into service, and the existing vessel will continue to provide service for our customers.”

PORT ALICE

SALT SPRING ISLAND

Economic recovery plan pitched to save dwindling community as closure continues

Body found on creek bank by fisherman

KATHY O’REILLY-TAYLOR NORTH ISLAND GAZETTE

About 60 people packed the Port Alice community centre boardroom last month to help formulate an economic development plan to jumpstart the stricken community.

The number may not seem like a lot on the surface, but it was standing room only for the town and marked more than 10 per cent of the dwindling town’s population.

“I’m in shock by how many people are actually here,” said Mayor Jan Allen to the crowd, which eventually voted to name the economic development plan “Port of Potential.”

The Sept. 29 open house was chaired by William Trousdale and Colleen Hamilton from EcoPlan International, which has been hired to develop an economic development strategy in the wake of the Neucel Specialty Cellulose Pulp Mill’s indefinite halting of operations.

“I don’t know if any of you’ve heard, but the mill closed,” said Trousdale, to laughter from the room.

Originally announced as a sixmonth shutdown in February, the now open-ended Neucel curtailment has been a big blow to Port Alice.

The mill provides 75 per cent of the village’s tax base and more than 50 per cent of the direct local jobs.

The population of Port Alice has been shrinking since 1981. During

“This isn’t the only community that’s been through a major closure. This is about what the village should do regardless (of what happens at the mill).”

William Trousdale, EcoPlan International

the last census in 2011 there were 805 full-time residents in Port Alice.

Estimates now place the population at about 500, said Hamilton.

The average age of people living in the community is also creeping up.

Port Alice has lost about 70 per cent of its students, going from 250 in 1995; to 124 students in 2004; to 35 for this school year.

Of the 591 residences in Port Alice, 217 are not the owners’ primary residence. Ten single-family homes are currently for sale with an average price of $180,000. Average sale prices have declined steadily since about 2006.

Trousdale called the downtime an opportunity.

“This isn’t the only community that’s been through a major closure,” he said.

EcoPlan has been in Port Alice for about six weeks.

Through conversations with residents they have learned that people would like to see a sports bar, restaurants, a call centre, a kayak rental and guiding company, more B&Bs, IT services, a coffee shop, hiking tours, a taxi service, auto repair shops, tailors, property management companies, music and dance classes, and health-related businesses such as registered massage therapists and acupuncturists.

There is also a lot of interest in a medicinal marijuana facility.

Those who attended the open house were asked to consider two futures for Port Alice — one where the mill reopens and one where it doesn’t.

“This is about what the village should do regardless” of what happens at the mill, said Trousdale.

Even if the pulp mill does reopen, the community appears to still be facing change. The 100-year-old mill needs equipment upgrades.

If those happen, there will be 320 to 360 employees — down from about 400. It is likely 50 to 75 per cent of the mill workers would live outside of Port Alice, and there would continue to be market-driven curtailments.

If the mill is shuttered, the blow to the tax base would mean severe cuts to services. It is unclear if the RCMP, health centre and post office would survive.

Trousdale and Hamilton had the

group participate in the discussion by using a device which recorded their responses to questions.

The majority of people in the room were between the ages of 35-64.

Fifty-two per cent said the were very committed to Port Alice and were staying no matter what.

Tourism promotion was controversial issue during initial conversations, said Trousdale, who was shocked when 69 per cent of the audience responded that they would like to see their community “as open as Telegraph Cove to tourists.”

People seemed also in favour of trying to attract retirees (51 per cent) and being open to second home owners (58 per cent).

Trousdale told the Gazette things are going “great. Fantastic. We’ve talked to over 40 people in the community. We’ve done surveys and this is just the initial step.”

A draft plan is expected to be ready in about a month and a half.

EcoPlan, based in Vancouver, is a multi-disciplinary firm of planners, urban designers, decision analysts and economic development specialists.

It has worked with governments, First Nations, the private sector, and non-profit organizations to develop and implement smart solutions to the planning challenges they face.

They have been in business for 15 years.

GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD

Salt Spring RCMP report they are investigating after a man’s body was discovered near Fulford Creek on Saturday, Oct. 10.

The area near the old Fulford Inn where the man’s body was located remains behind police tape while Salt Spring RCMP, the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crimes Unit and the BC Coroners Service conduct their investigations.

“Given that the man’s cause of death is not yet known, we are not yet able to confirm whether foul play was involved,” Sgt. George Jenkins stated in a RCMP press release.

“While there are several unanswered questions which remain, we have found no evidence to suggest that the safety of island residents is negatively impacted by this discovery.”

According to a press release, a recreational fisherman reported finding the body of an adult male in the creek waters at approximately 6:15 p.m. on Saturday. Salt Spring RCMP attended and located the body on the south bank of the creek.

Based on the evidence, a preliminary identification of the deceased has been made. His next of kin have been notified, however, his identity will not be released pending additional work by the Coroners Service.

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FIRST NATIONS

Report calls for chief commissioner THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Members of a group that oversees treaties in British Columbia say they’re guiding more First Nations than ever through the process, but the provincial government must appoint a new leader to guide them forward.

The B.C. Treaty Commission released its annual report Tuesday, showing that 65 First Nations — 52 per cent of all First Nations in the province — have completed treaties or are moving toward that goal.

“This really highlights the success of the process in British Columbia,” said acting chief commissioner Celeste Haldane of the commission that was established 22 years ago.

Four First Nations have signed preliminary agreements in the past fiscal year, including the Tsimshian First Nations, which includes the Kitselas and Kitsumkalum nations, the Wuikinuxv Nation and the Te’mexw Treaty Association.

Haldane said the commission has focused on several issues this year while working with an independent

firm to determine the socio-economic impacts of treaties on First Nations.

The study has been ongoing for three years and involves interviews of First Nations, including some that have completed treaties, others that are in final negotiations and some that have not participated in the process.

“Some of the analysis is that clearly there are significant positive economic benefits when a nation is out from under the Indian Act and implementing their own governance

moving forward,” Haldane said.

The commission has also been working on how to resolve overlapping land claims and is looking at possibly creating an expert panel to help deal with disputes.

“First Nations are best poised to resolve these issues amongst themselves with the support and the dedication of the treaty commission,” Haldane said.

But having a dedicated leader will be key to the group’s future work, said commissioner Jerry Lampert.

“We’re very troubled by the fact

that we have not seen progress in appointing a chief commissioner,” he said.

Former Liberal cabinet minister George Abbott was set to succeed then-chief commissioner Sophie Pierre on April 1, but Premier Christy Clark and her cabinet cancelled Abbott’s appointment.

Clark said in March that she wanted the treaty process to go in a different direction.

“I don’t understand B.C.’s rationale for not wanting to appoint a chief commissioner,” Lampert said.

MAPLE RIDGE

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Indo-Canadian veterinarian wins his decade-long human rights case

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A Maple Ridge veterinarian, after winning a decade-long human rights case, says justice has finally been done.

Thirteen Indo-Canadian veterinarians who were offering low cost services were subject to “systemic discrimination” by the B.C. Veterinary Medical Association between 2002 and 2006, a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled.

One of the complainants, Dr. Bhupinder Johar of the Haney Animal Hospital, won $30,000 in damages in the case. But it’s not about money, he said – he spent almost 10 times that amount in legal fees.

“This money is peanuts,” said Johar. “We were relieved to have justice. That’s what we were saying – that they were discriminating against us – that we were right.”

Johar ran afoul of the vets professional association by offering spay and neutering at discounted rates of $50 or $60, he said.

As part of the discrimination, the Indo-Canadian veterinarians were subject to more scrutiny than other vets, the tribunal found, as they faced unscheduled inspections that other vets did not. They also had to take rigorous language proficiency tests, which were more difficult than those of other professional groups, and the tribunal found “largely unattainable,” said tribunal member Judy Parrack.

“Race-based stereotypes played a role in BCVMA’s dealings with the complainants, including negative generalized views about the credibility and ethics of Indo-Canadians in relation to their veterinary practices.

Persons of influence in the BCVMA held such views, and the BCVMA knew this or ought reasonably to have known this, but largely ignored and condoned the expression of such views,” wrote Parrack.

Dr. Bhupinder Johar won $30,000 in damages in the case. [TIM FITZGERALD/MAPLE RIDGE NEWS]

Johar learned about the ruling on Friday. The judge’s decision took three years, and is spelled out in a document almost 500 pages long.

Johar said the treatment by the association “hugely affected my business,” because his customers would read on the association website that he “had done something wrong.” Some of his customers were contacted directly about complaints, without him being advised, which also affected perception of his services.

“I was lucky to survive,” he said.

“I was having some sleepless nights.

You can imagine the stress.”

His award of $30,000 was one of the higher compensation orders.

Johar said he came to Canada in 1999, as a qualified veterinarian, trained in India.

Over a four-year period, he passed the exams that would allow him to practise in B.C., including an eighthour computerized exam and several practical exams. He came to Maple Ridge in 2003.

He expected veterinarians to be respectful and professional in their dealings.

But almost immediately his advertising of discounted spay and neutering triggered complaints from colleagues.

“Within three days of opening I got my first complaint. That’s the welcome I received.”

The affected vets started a group called “B.C. Veterinarians for Justice” and started their human rights complaint.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University students arrived for the fall semester to find new gender-inclusive washrooms on all four campuses.

Nine men’s and women’s washrooms in high-traffic areas at the university’s Cloverdale, Surrey, Langley and Richmond campuses were identified for conversion to gender-inclusive, wheelchair-accessible facilities. The conversion involved replacing signage, modifying sink and counter heights, and adding grab bars, shelves and hooks.

Seven washrooms are single-stall private facilities, while two have multiple stalls.

“KPU has a long history of being a proudly open-access institution, and this is an extension of that philosophy, that commitment and that pledge,” said Dr. Alan Davis, president and vice-chancellor of KPU. The need for gender-inclusive washrooms was identified by the president’s diversity and equity committee, which was formed in 2012 with support from the student group Pride Kwantlen and the recommendations of an internal strategic planning initiative.

“Everyone deserves a comfortable, accessible public washroom facility,” said Dr. Diane Naugler, director of the president’s diversity and equity committee at KPU and associate dean in the Faculty of Arts.

“I’m proud of our committee and how the university is creating a gender-inclusive environment.”

Naugler added that the changes are an important step toward more comprehensive support of trans-gendered and gender-non-conforming students and staff in the KPU community.

The president’s diversity and equity committee will continue in its role to provide leadership in the advancement of inclusivity and diversity at KPU.

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Lawyer says killer dad used as a political pawn The lawyer for a British Columbia man found not criminally responsible for killing his children says Stephen Harper is wrongly using his client as a pawn in the final days of the federal election campaign.

Rishi Gill, who represents Allan Schoenborn, expressed concerns to a B.C. Supreme Court judge about a radio advertisement that aired last week in which the Conservative leader describes the man as a criminal.

Gill referenced the contradictory ad as he told the court that the fact the prime minister has commented in an election shows the unique importance of the case.

Gill briefly appeared to schedule a hearing where he’ll oppose the Crown’s attempt to use a new Conservative law that could indefinitely lock up the mentally ill father.

Allan Schoenborn has been held in a psychiatric hospital for treatment related to the April, 2008 killings of his 10-year-old daughter and eight and five-year-old sons at their Merritt, B.C., home.

In the radio ad released last Thursday, Harper states that public safety is the Conservative party’s primary concern — but mental health experts responded by saying that treatment, and not imprisonment, is the key.

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Blame game starts as softwood deal expires Officials on both sides of the border are blaming each other for the failure to renegotiate a softwood lumber agreement between Canada and the United States before it expired Monday.

American industry groups have long claimed Canada subsidizes its lumber production and the trade agreement regulated Canadian softwood exports to the United States.

The 2006 agreement ended five years of court battles and returned $4 billion in duties collected by the United States that had been imposed on Canadian producers, with more than half — $2.4 billion — returned to British Columbia companies.

U.S. Lumber Coalition spokesman Zoltan van Heynigen says Canada continues to stay away from the table, but B.C. Premier Christy Clark says it is the Americans that have refused to negotiate despite two years of a requests.

Clark has said the importance of a renewed lumber deal will be her first topic of discussion with the new prime minister following next week’s federal election.

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Oily mallards undergoing care after being rescued from pond TRACY HOLMES PEACE ARCH NEWS

More than a dozen oily mallards are undergoing care in Burnaby after being rescued from a polluted South Surrey pond this week.

Janelle VanderBeek, care co-ordinator at the Wildlife Rescue Association, said 15 of the ducks are being treated and cleaned — including five confirmed males and five confirmed females — and three more are the focus of an ongoing rescue effort.

“These animals won’t survive without care and without being cleaned,” VanderBeek said.

The association was alerted to contamination at the pond – located on property in the 18800-block of 8 Avenue – on Tuesday (Oct. 6), by officials at Hazelmere RV Park and Campground who had reported a sheen on the water that had been there for four or five days.

A WRA volunteer sent that day to scope out the extent of the problem saw two ducks that had been impacted by the pollution, but was unable to catch them, VanderBeek said.

Wednesday, two volunteers dispatched to the scene caught three affected ducks and it was estimated at that time that five more of the 18 known to call the area home were also affected.

But on a return visit Thursday, one staff member and three volunteers rounded up 12 more ducks.

After stabilizing them, cleaning got underway Friday. With 10 to 12 people on the task, five ducks were cleaned by 3 p.m. and VanderBeek

One of 15 mallards rescued from a contaminated South Surrey pond this week is carefully cleaned at the Wildlife Rescue Association, while another (photo courtesy CTV News) is examined. [WRA/PAUL STEEVES PHOTO]

expected at least another three would be cleaned by day’s end.

She said the contaminant has not been conclusively identified, but is believed to be oil-based paint.

It’s also believed the substance was intentionally dumped in the pond.

VanderBeek said for the ducks covered in it, “it’s like wearing a wet blanket.” Without help, they are at risk of hypothermia and death.

While it’s “looking good” for most of the rescued ducks, VanderBeek described the situation as “so sad and

so unnecessary.”

And with no one liable “at this point in time,” full cost of the cleaning and treating – estimated at $35 per duck, per day, and expected to reach between $7,000 and $10,000 – falls to the association, which relies heavily on donations to operate.

“We’re hoping the public will be able to support us,” she said, noting donations can be made online at www.wildliferescue.ca or by phone, at 604-526-7275.

The ducks will remain in care until

they are fully recovered and the pond has been cleaned; the latter process reportedly got underway Thursday.

“Once it’s fully cleaned and once they are fully waterproofed, we’ll be letting them go in the same spot.”

Noting the facility routinely receives two or three animals a day from the Surrey area, VanderBeek said there is also a need for transport volunteers in this area who can help out when the need arises.

Those interested may also call 604-526-7275.

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Cop accused in leak to go on trial in May

Underground coal mine project granted environmental permit

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A trial date has been set for an Abbotsford Police officer accused, among other things, of leaking information to a drug dealer so that person could avoid arrest.

Christopher Nicholson is slated to begin his trial on May 9 in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

Nicholson, who first began working with the Abbotsford Police Department in 2005, was charged in May 2013 with six counts of obstructing justice, three counts of breach of trust and one count of conspiracy to traffic a controlled substance.

He remains on suspension without pay from his job as the case proceeds through the courts.

In addition to allegedly leaking information, Nicholson is accused of providing false information to other officers, who used the details to obtain search warrants for drugs in private residences.

He is also alleged to have conspired with an informant to have drugs delivered to a residence and have other police officers execute a search warrant soon after.

The APD asked the Vancouver Police Department to conduct an investigation after two APD members informed an inspector of Nicholson’s alleged misconduct in July 2012.

The VPD began an eight-month investigation in September of that year.

In February 2015, the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner announced it was looking into 148 allegations of misconduct against Nicholson and 16 other APD officers.

A number of the accusations related to the “integrity of statements sworn or affirmed before judicial officers in which authorizations for search warrants were obtained,” the OPCC said at the time.

Further information has not been released.

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A Chinese company’s underground metallurgical coal mine has received its B.C. environmental assessment certificate, with a plan to increase employment of B.C. workers over the 25-year life of the mine.

HD Mining International’s Murray River project near Tumbler Ridge would be the first in Canada to use “long-wall” mining, a highly automated process using rotary shears running along a track to extract coal from seams too deep for open-pit mining. The project was subject to a bitter court battle during its exploration phase, after HD brought in 200 temporary foreign workers to collect a bulk sample to test the viability of the deposit.

A Federal Court judge dismissed claims by two unions in 2013 that HD had not made sufficient efforts to recruit Canadians. At the time, HD chairman Penggui Yan called the lawsuit a “politically motivated attack by big labour” to make the foreign work-

er program a provincial and federal election issue.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett said the mine still requires permits, but it has cleared the “biggest hurdle” and is working with the province’s newly established major mines permitting office. Bennett said Murray River represents a chance to establish a new industry in B.C. Metallurgical coal would be sent by rail to Prince Rupert for export to Asia.

“If they decide to build their mine, and it looks like there’s a good chance that they’re going to, they will train Canadians to work in the mine and ultimately you’ll have over 700 Canadian people working in that underground coal mine operation,” Bennett said.

NDP energy and mines critic Norm Macdonald said the project is too reliant on foreign workers for too long.

“These should be projects that provide employment for Canadians first, and particularly for a community that has so many mines shut down,” Macdonald said.

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TORONTO — The trial of a Toronto police officer charged in connection with the shooting death of a teenager on a streetcar two years ago has been delayed until next week.

The postponement in Const. James Forcillo’s case comes because his defence lawyers and Crown prosecutors need to make legal arguments on certain matters to the judge presiding over the case, outside the presence of the jury.

Forcillo is charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder in the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

Yatim was shot and killed on an empty streetcar on July 27, 2013 — an incident captured on surveillance and cellphone video on which nine shots can be heard following shouted commands to drop a knife.

The teenager’s parents and his younger sister were at the courthouse on Tuesday, as were Forcillo’s wife and some of his supporters.

Opening statements in Forcillo’s trial — expected on Tuesday — are now anticipated next Tuesday or Wednesday.

His lawyer has said his client is eager to tell his side of the story at trial.

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Fahmy says he was betrayed and abandoned by Stephen Harper Journalist freed from Egypt jail says the PM turned the issue over to low-level staffers COLIN PERKEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Freed journalist Mohamed Fahmy lashed out at Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday, accusing him of washing his hands of his case when intervention with the highest levels of the Egyptian government was most needed.

Speaking at a news conference in Toronto, Fahmy said he initially refused to believe Harper was not bringing his full weight to bear on Egyptian authorities.

“While you here citizens in Canada and around the world clearly understood the urgency of the situation we faced in prison in Egypt, the Harper government did not,” Fahmy said.

“Sitting in that prison cell, it was difficult not to feel betrayed and abandoned by Prime Minister Harper.”

Instead of taking action to lean on the Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Fahmy said Harper turned the case over to lower-level members of his government who simply didn’t have the power to help.

FAHMY

Fahmy, 41, was the Cairo bureau chief for Al-Jazeera English when he was arrested in Egypt in 2013 with two colleagues.

He was ultimately convicted of terror-related charges and sentenced to three years in prison in a widely condemned retrial this year for airing what a court described as “false news” and coverage biased in favour of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.

Fahmy, who finally arrived in Toronto on Sunday after el-Sisi

pardoned him, met Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on Monday evening and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair on Tuesday to talk about issues of media freedom.

Both opposition leaders had tried to help during his long ordeal and the meetings, he said, were not to be taken as a political endorsement for the Oct. 19 election.

“I’m a journalist; I cannot endorse anyone,” he said after meeting Mulcair. “One of the things I was concerned about in my own case was the magnitude of the overlap between journalism and politics and I don’t want this to be repeated.”

Still, he expressed gratitude to the NDP leader and party for their support.

“You do know who I am not voting for. That’s for sure.”

At his earlier news conference, Fahmy did say that members of the Conservative government had been unwilling to talk to him or his lawyers during his long ordeal.

“There are no words to describe when you are wrongfully convicted

and sitting in a cold cell infested with insects nurturing a broken shoulder,” Fahmy said.

“But when you’re there, your only hope is that your prime minister will do everything in his power to get you out of there.”

A senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, has said Harper did indeed speak with Egypt’s president and sent several letters on Fahmy’s behalf.

Fahmy said if that happened, he was “thankful” but he said Harper should have been “more transparent” about making such a call. There’s little doubt Canada’s stance was “very mild.”

He also accused former foreign affairs minister John Baird of prolonging his incarceration when he said Canada would not prosecute Fahmy if Egypt kicked him out.

He also drew attention to other journalists who remain in prison for simply doing their jobs and he blasted Al-Jazeera — he is suing the network — for failures and distortions he said led to his imprisonment.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ MONTREAL

Judge OKs $450M fund for Lac-Megantic victims A Quebec judge has given his final approval regarding the terms of the $450-million settlement fund for victims and creditors of the Lac-Megantic rail disaster.

Superior Court Justice Gaetan Dumas signed off today on the final agreement between victims, creditors and about 25 companies accused of responsibility in the train derailment that killed 47 people on July 6, 2013.

Canadian Pacific Railway, the only company accused in the case to have not offered money, had requested that changes be made to the final version of the fund.

The railway sought leave to appeal the settlement fund but dropped its motions after learning all sides agreed to change some of the language of the terms.

◆ TORONTO

Girl Guides of Canada to accept transgender girls Conservative Leader Stephen Harper reacts as pizza store owner Dino Ari lays a pile of cash on the counter to illustrate the cost of proposed Liberal tax hikes during a campaign event in Toronto on Tuesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Harper slaps down cash in bid to stall Liberal surge Prime minister plays role of game show host again at a partisan rally in Toronto riding BRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is literally putting cash on the table in an effort to halt the momentum of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in the closing days of the federal election campaign.

With just five days of campaigning left before Canadians go to the polls next Monday, the Conservatives have twice staged low-tech stunts designed to illustrate how much they say Liberal tax changes will cost voters as Harper attempts to pick apart the Liberal platform.

The prime minister played the role of game show host again Tuesday at a partisan rally in west-end Toronto, calling out Liberal tax increases as a pizza store owner counted bills onto a table to the backdrop of a loudly ringing cash register.

“The tax hikes the Liberals talk about, they are not just numbers in a pamphlet,” said Harper, without jacket or tie and with his blue shirt sleeves rolled up.

“They are real dollars and I want to show you again today what the payroll tax hikes look like.”

Conservative party videographers took tight shots as pizza store owner Dino Ari laid bills on a table

“Mr. Trudeau in this campaign has spent more time going after the NDP than he’s spent going after Stephen Harper, I challenge Mr. Trudeau to start taking on Stephen Harper.”

Tom Mulcair, NDP leader

to repeated “ka-chings” from a cash register.

“Hand it over, Dino,” Harper coached. “I hope you counted that carefully.”

The Conservatives staged a similar display on the Thanksgiving weekend and the stunt appears destined for party advertising in the final moments of this extraordinary 78-day campaign, the longest in modern Canadian history.

All three major party leaders were in the greater Toronto area on Tuesday morning as polls continue to suggest an electorate in flux and swathes of seat-rich Ontario up for grabs.

There’s also compelling evidence of a motivated electorate.

An estimated 1.2 million voters cast ballots in advance polls Monday, according to Elections Canada, bringing the four-day holiday weekend total to more than 3.6 million ballots cast. That’s an increase of 71 per cent over advance ballots in the 2011 election, when only three days of advance polls were held.

Antipathy to Harper’s Conservatives appears to be the only unifying element among the various challengers to the throne.

“I got into politics because I disagreed deeply with the vision that Stephen Harper has for this country and there is no circumstances in which I could either support him or even stand back and allow him to be prime minister,” Trudeau said when asked about a potential minority Conservative government.

The Liberal leader, who ventured into an NDP-held riding in Toronto, appears to be trying to peel off voters from both the New Democrats and Tories, while hoping to win over strategic voters who might see an incumbent NDP MP as the best vehicle for removing Harper from office.

“You do have a choice — multiple

choices,” Trudeau said. “I won’t pretend that you don’t.

“To suggest otherwise would be arrogant and an insult to your intelligence, so I’m not asking you to look at the polls. I’m asking you to look at our platform.”

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair spoke to a rally in Oshawa, Ont., just east of Toronto.

He continued to maintain that New Democrats are only a few dozen seats short of unseating the Conservatives — notwithstanding that every party starts with zero seats when Parliament is dissolved and a new general election campaign begins.

“Mr. Trudeau in this campaign has spent more time going after the NDP than he’s spent going after Stephen Harper,” Mulcair charged. “I challenge Mr. Trudeau to start taking on Stephen Harper.”

Even Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe is predicting a swift end to Conservative rule in the event the Tories can’t eke out a majority in the newly expanded 338-seat House of Commons.

“Stephen Harper will not be prime minister even if he finishes with the most seats in a minority Parliament,” Duceppe said during a campaign stop in Granby, Que.

Transgender children wanting to take part in girl guide programs across the country are officially welcome to join in.

Girl Guides of Canada says it’s developed a set of guidelines designed to respect and accommodate all children identifying as female.

Chief Commissioner Pamela Rice says the document will help leaders respect the wishes of anyone identifying as transgender and answer questions from those who don’t.

The policies cover a variety of topics from washroom use to privacy during camping trips, and apply across the entire 5 to 18 age range the organization serves.

The child’s individual comfort level always takes centre stage, she said, adding that the guidelines address a variety of issues that leaders could encounter.

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Amanda Lang leaves CBC for a new position CBC’s senior business correspondent Amanda Lang is leaving the public broadcaster.

Lang is pursuing “a new opportunity outside the CBC in television,” Editor-in-Chief Jennifer McGuire announced in a memo to staff on Tuesday morning. She wrote that Lang plans to “devote more time to her writing” with a book expected next year.

Lang joined the CBC in 2009 as one half of The Lang & O’Leary Exchange, which was renamed The Exchange with Amanda Lang after Kevin O’Leary left the show.

Lang was also part of the team bringing business news to The National.

“Amanda’s two decades of experience as a business reporter furthered our commitment to quality business coverage,” McGuire said.

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Ontario will nix pension bid if Liberals elected Experts behind abusive CIA tactics in lawsuit KEITH LESLIE THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says she would drop the idea of a provincial pension plan if Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau becomes the next prime minister.

Wynne says she couldn’t convince the Harper government to enhance the Canada Pension Plan, so her government introduced an Ontario Retirement Pension Plan that would mirror the CPP, essentially doubling deductions and benefits.

She says if Trudeau wins the Oct. 19 federal election and is willing to improve the CPP, that would be “the solution” to her concerns about people not having enough money to live on when they retire.

“We have an opportunity to elect a prime minister who understands that working with the provinces and territories is in the best interests of the country.”

Kathleen Wynne, Ontario premier

Trudeau has been campaigning on a promise to expand the CPP and to return the age of eligibility for old age security to 65 from 67.

The Ontario pension plan, scheduled to begin Jan. 1, 2017, will require mandatory contributions of 1.9 per cent of pay from employers and a matching amount from workers at any company that does not offer a pension.

Wynne is campaigning with federal Liberal candidates in the Toronto area today, and says she’s not worried her attacks on Stephen Harper’s Conservatives will make it hard to work with them if they’re re-elected.

The Liberal premier says Ontario had “a little bit of a challenge working with Stephen Harper” long before the election campaign began in early August.

Wynne, who has been the most vocal premier in the federal cam-

paign, said the provinces need a government that will work with them on climate change, infrastructure, retirement security and the Syrian refugee crisis.

“I will work with whomever is the prime minister, but I really believe that in this country, at this moment, we have an opportunity to elect a prime minister who understands that working with the provinces and territories is in the best interests of the country,” she said.

Ontario voters historically have supported different parties in government at the federal and provincial levels, but Wynne said she’s not worried about campaigning herself out of a job in the next provincial election.

EASTERN EUROPE

Investigators claim missile took down Malaysian jet over Ukraine The 15-month Dutch investigation blames a Soviet-made surface-to-air Buk missile JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG AND MIKE CORDER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands — The missile shot skyward from war-ravaged eastern Ukraine.

With deadly accuracy more than six miles up, it detonated just in front of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner, sending hundreds of jagged steel shards ripping through its aluminum skin at up to 5,600 mph and shearing the cockpit from the rest of the plane.

The two pilots and purser in the cockpit died instantly, and the Boeing 777 disintegrated and fell to earth, killing the rest of the 298 men, women and children aboard Flight 17 on July 17, 2014, Dutch investigators said Tuesday in a long-awaited report.

Some of the victims may have been conscious for 60 to 90 seconds, the Dutch Safety Board said, but they probably were not fully aware of what was happening in the oxygen-starved, freezing chaos. The tornado-like airflow surging through the doomed jet as it came apart was powerful enough to tear off people’s clothes and leave naked corpses amid the fields of sunflowers.

The 15-month Dutch investigation blamed a Soviet-made surface-to-air Buk missile for downing the Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur flight, but it did not explicitly say who had fired it. It identified an area of 320 square kilometres where it said the launch must have taken place, and all of the land was in the hands of pro-Russian separatists fighting Ukrainian forces at the time of the disaster, according to daily maps of fighting released by the Ukrainian National Security Council.

The safety board also found that the tragedy wouldn’t have happened if the airspace of eastern Ukraine

Journalists take images of part of the reconstructed forward section of the fuselage after the presentation of the Dutch Safety Board’s final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board. [AP PHOTO]

had been totally closed to passenger planes as fighting raged below.

“Our investigation showed that all parties regarded the conflict in eastern part of Ukraine from a military perspective. Nobody gave any thought of a possible threat to civil aviation,” Safety Board chairman Tjibbe Joustra said in releasing the report at a military base in the southern Netherlands.

He spoke in front of the partially reassembled red, white and blue Malaysian jetliner, much of the left side of its mangled fuselage front riddled with shrapnel holes.

Russian officials were prompt to dismiss the Dutch report, with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov calling it an obvious “attempt to make a biased conclusion, in essence to carry out a political order.”

Earlier Tuesday, the Buk’s manufacturer presented its own report trying to clear the separatists, and Russia itself, of any involvement.

The Russian state-controlled consortium Almaz-Antey said it conducted experiments, including one in which a Buk missile was detonated near the nose of an airplane similar to a 777, and it contended they contradicted the conclusion that a Buk missile of the kind used by the Russians destroyed Flight 17.

Almaz-Antey had earlier suggested that it could have been a model of Buk that is no longer in service with the Russian military but is part of Ukraine’s arsenal.

It said the experiments also rebutted claims the missile was fired from Snizhne, a village that was under rebel control.

An Associated Press reporter saw a Buk missile system in that vicinity on the same day.

Despite the moves by Moscow, Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands called on Russia to fully co-operate with a separate criminal investigation that Dutch prosecutors are conducting into the downing of the plane, in which 196 Dutch nationals died.

The Netherlands has headed the international investigation into the disaster because most victims were Dutch. Ukraine, in whose airspace the incident occurred, agreed to let the Netherlands take the lead.

Dutch investigators said the missile detonated less than a metre from the plane, to the left side of the cockpit, sending the shrapnel into the plane at speeds of up to 9,000 kph.

ERIC TUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday sued two former Air Force psychologists who designed a CIA program that used harsh interrogation techniques to elicit intelligence from suspected terrorists, saying the pair endorsed and taught torture tactics under the guise of science.

The lawsuit comes 10 months after the release of a damning Senate report that said the interrogation techniques had inflicted pain on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond the legal limits and did not yield lifesaving intelligence.

The suit accuses the psychologists, James E. Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, of developing an interrogation program that relied on beatings, sleep deprivation, starvation, waterboarding and other methods that caused physical and psychological suffering on prisoners in CIA custody.

Henry Schuelke III, a lawyer who has represented the pair in the past, said Tuesday that he was not yet involved in the case and did not have any comment.

The suit was filed in federal court in Washington state on behalf of three former CIA prisoners. One, Gul Rahman, was interrogated in a dungeon-like Afghanistan prison called the Salt Pit, subjected to isolation, darkness and extreme cold water, and was later found dead of hypothermia.

The other two men, Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, were held in CIA prisons but were never charged with any crimes and are now free.

The lawsuit was brought under the Alien Tort Statute, which allows non-citizens to sue in U.S. courts over human-rights violations. A 2010 Associated Press report, citing former U.S. officials, said the CIA had promised to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for the psychologists if the program ran into trouble.

“They claimed that their program was scientifically based, safe and proven, when in fact it was none of those things. The program was unlawful and its methods barbaric,” Steven Watt, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Human Rights Program, said in a statement.

CIA officials grew concerned by 2003 that the psychologists had a potential financial and ethical conflict of interest since they were being paid both to design interrogation techniques and assess their effectiveness, the lawsuit says. In its response to the Senate report, the CIA acknowledged that the conflict “raised concern and prompted deliberation.”

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Search for victims of mudslide called off

Woman loses bid to sue nephew, 12, for injuries

Man convicted in police shooting to be executed

Probe of 2014 symbolic Catalan poll protested

Leak of private letter to pope is denounced

Guatemalan authorities on Tuesday called off the search for victims buried under a massive landslide that killed at least 280 people near the Central American nation’s capital.

The National Disaster Reduction Commission decided it was time to end the search and rescue operation, while work to stabilize and recover the disaster zone will continue, agency chief Alejandro Maldonado said.

He said 70 people are listed as missing. The number has fluctuated in the nearly two weeks since the disaster as bodies were found and missing people were accounted for. Some 50 unidentified human remains will be subjected to DNA testing.

“The people are aware that the necessary time has been given to searching for cadavers,” said Williams Mancilla, minister of national defence and a member of the disaster commission’s board.

A Connecticut jury on Tuesday rejected a woman’s bid to sue her 12-year-old nephew for injuries she says she suffered from his exuberant greeting at his birthday party four years ago.

New York City resident Jennifer Connell claimed the Westport boy acted unreasonably when he jumped into her arms at his 8th-birthday party, causing her to fall and break her wrist. She sued in Bridgeport Superior Court for $127,000.

The Connecticut Post reports that the six-member jury found that the boy was not liable. The newspaper reported that she ignored shouted requests for comment as she passed reporters outside the courthouse.

Connell, a 54-year-old human resources manager, had testified that she loves her nephew but thinks he should be held accountable. She said when the child jumped she tumbled to the ground as she tried to catch him.

Licho Escamilla is slated tonight to become the 24th convicted killer put to death this year in the United States.

The 19-year-old was already wanted in Dallas in the fatal shooting of a neighbour when he got involved in a brawl outside a club, pulled out a 9-mm semi-automatic handgun and opened fire on police as they tried to break up the fight.

Escamilla’s bullets twice struck Christopher Kevin James, one of four uniformed Dallas officers working off-duty security that night in 2001.

Escamilla then calmly walked up to James and pumped three more shots into the back of his head before running and exchanging shots with other officers, witnesses said.

Testimony showed Escamilla bragged to emergency medical technicians who were treating his wounds that he had killed an officer and injured another and that he’d be out of jail in 48 hours.

Thousands of pro-Catalan independence supporters on Tuesday protested the start of a Spanish court investigation into the regional government’s symbolic referendum on secession from Spain last year.

New Barcelona mayor Ada Colau headed the demonstration, reading a statement backing Catalonia’s demand for the right to self-determination. The rally came after a regional official and a former regional deputy president were questioned over their suspected roles in holding the poll.

Catalonia’s regional leader Artur Mas is also under investigation and is scheduled to testify Thursday.

Spain’s constitutional Court suspended the Nov. 9, 2014, referendum but Catalonia held it anyway, calling it an informal effort.

Prosecutors accuse Mas of grave disobedience, abuse of public funds, prevarication, usurping powers and obstructing justice.

The Vatican spokesman on Tuesday denounced the leak of a private letter to Pope Francis by conservative cardinals complaining about the way his big family meeting is being run.

But he reminded those responsible that the meeting procedures are set and they’re duty-bound to stick with them.

Spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi sought to end discussion about the latest controversy to roil Francis’ synod on the family after an Italian journalist published the letter Monday and named 13 cardinals who purportedly signed it. Four of those said they never signed it.

The letter warned if the synod muddied church teaching about marriage, the Catholic Church risked going the way of “liberal” Protestant churches which, according to the letter, had collapsed because they had abandoned “key elements of Christian belief and practice in the name of pastoral adaptation.”

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WINNIPEG — Five months before she was brutally beaten to death in the rough North End Winnipeg neighbourhood, Selena Keeper was denied a protection order against her former boyfriend — the same man now accused of killing her.

The 20-year-old spoke by phone May 19 to a justice of the peace based in Brandon, Man., and alleged in a soft, matter-of-fact voice that she had been hit, kicked and beaten regularly by Ray William Everett.

Everett, 20, was charged last week with second-degree murder when Keeper died after an assault outside a home.

In a recording of the May 19 hearing, Keeper tells justice of the peace Debra Motuz that she was regularly beaten during a two-year relationship with Everett, even while she was pregnant with the couple’s child.

“He would always kick me to the corners and try and kick my tummy. He would punch me. It was like an everyday routine.”

The couple broke up in 2014, but Everett continued to seek her out, Keeper said. Last December, when the two were drinking together, she was assaulted and police were called, she said.

“I just remember waking up in the hospital with four stitches on my nose — a fractured nose, a bruised face and a concussion.”

Keeper’s decision to seek a protection order was promoted by an encounter April 9 in which she told the hearing Everett “slapped me across the face.”

Keeper filed a sworn affidavit to support her testimony, but none of the allegations was proven in court.

She also said she was concerned Everett had access to weapons because he belonged to a street gang.

Motuz rejected the application for a protection order, which would have prevented the man from contacting Keeper in any way.

She was found in critical condition outside a home last Thursday morning. Police said she had been assaulted repeatedly inside the residence and witnesses had attempted to intervene to no avail.

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Panda on loan from China gives birth to two cubs at Toronto Zoo

Province won’t be able end ER waits by 2017

Public will receive any updates through videos and photographs via social media LIAM CASEY AND PAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A panda on loan from China gave birth to two cubs Tuesday morning, but the Toronto Zoo says the public won’t be able to see them for a few months as they face a critical time for their survival.

The cubs — the first weighs just under 188 grams and the second 115 grams — were born between 3:30 and 3:45 a.m., and “are doing very well,” said zoo spokeswoman Jennifer Tracey.

The zoo has no immediate plans to show or even name the cubs.

“They’re so small and so vulnerable at this age we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves,” said Tracey.

Their mother, Er Shun — who is on loan from China along with a male panda named Da Mao — is showing “excellent maternal instincts,” she said.

“Er Shun has been an amazing mom today. For a first-time mom she is doing really, really well.”

The first 30 days of life are critical, Tracey said.

The zoo has been swapping the cubs between their mother’s care and an incubator set up in a quarantined room next to the panda’s maternity ward, which is closed to the public.

Chris Dutton, the zoo’s head of veterinary services, previously said allowing Er Shun to care for two cubs at a time would likely lead to the death of one due to neglect.

There are two keepers from China in town to help with the cubs’ neonatal care.

Tracey said the zoo has the capability to broadcast live from the mater-

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In this photo provided by the Toronto Zoo, two baby pandas are shown after they were born on Tuesday.

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nity ward, but hasn’t made any plans to do so yet. In the meantime, she said, the public will receive updates through videos and photographs via social media.

Giant pandas are born blind and the cubs are pink with short, thin white fur. The cubs are about 1/900th of the size of their mother, making them among the smallest newborn mammals compared to their mother.

Sperm from three different donors — Da Mao and two pandas in China — was used during the one-day fertility window back on May 14, and it’s unclear whether the cubs are twins.

“At this time zoo staff do not know the sex of the cubs and have not confirmed which panda is the father. It may be several months before we are able to determine the sex and paternity of the cubs,” the zoo said.

Zoo staff began conducting regular ultrasounds on Er Shun and announced the pregnancy in late September.

The zoo said it’s the first time giant pandas have been born in Canada.

Two cubs were born in Washington’s National Zoo in August and one cub died four days later. The zoo said the cubs’ mother didn’t take to the cub-swapping.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Alberta climate panel seeks public comment, is inundated with hundreds of presentations IAN BICKIS THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Alberta’s climate change advisory panel asked — and energy companies, trade associations, unions, think tanks and every-day Albertans answered.

The panel received close to 500 submissions following their request for public comment on what the government should consider when drafting its climate change policy.

Everyone from climate-change skeptics to diehard greens represented.

Suggestions from those in favour of stronger action on climate change included switching all traffic lights to roundabouts, banning motorized lawn mowers and leaf blowers and giving nuclear power a chance.

“A carbon price is the single most effective way to change the investment and operating decisions that drive real emissions reductions.”

Suncor submission

The most common requests, however, centred around more government funding for research, a faster phaseout of coal-fired power plants, more renewables and a price on carbon emissions.

“Please, Please, Please find a way to

establish a ’SIGNIFICANT’ price on fossil carbon emissions in Alberta!,” suggested someone named Robert, whose full name was blocked out, as they were on many of the submissions.

Environmental groups made a variety of suggestions on what that carbon price should be, with the Pembina Institute recommending a $40 per tonne price next year, rising $10 a tonne every year for the first 10 years, while the Suzuki Foundation suggested a more modest $30 price, increasing by $10 a year for five years before a review.

Those advocating for a carbon price have allies in some oilsands companies, with Cenovus Energy, Shell, and Suncor among those supporting a

widespread tax on carbon.

“A carbon price is the single most effective way to change the investment and operating decisions that drive real emissions reductions,” Suncor said in its submission.

Other oilsands players like Nexen and Husky Energy instead expressed support for a continuation of the current specified gas emitter regulations Husky said Alberta shouldn’t impose any more penalties until its competitors adopt an equivalent price on carbon.

Possibly the most common comment, however, amounted to expressions of gratitude for being invited to give input by the province’s first NDP government.

REGINA — Saskatchewan Health Minister Dustin Duncan says the government will not meet its promise of eliminating emergency room wait times by 2017.

“To get to zero by 2017 isn’t going to happen,” Duncan told reporters Tuesday at the legislature.

“That doesn’t mean we’re abandoning or walking away from the goal to see significant reductions in wait times in the emergency departments, with the ultimate goal of still seeing a zero wait ED.” Duncan could not give a new timeline.

The health minister says it’s a complex system that involves fixing more than problems in emergency departments.

“Emergency department waits are really, in a lot of ways, the canary in the coal mine.

“It, for us I think as a system, indicates that there are challenges kind of upstream and downstream of the emergency departments,” said Duncan.

Premier Brad Wall announced the ER wait-time target in 2012.

The premier told the legislature Tuesday that progress is being made.

“We’ll not back away from emergency room objectives that we have, goals that we have, and we’ll back up the goals with more resources as we’ve done in this year’s budget,” said Wall.

The government says it’s putting $4.7 million into the wait time initiatives and a team of patients, physicians and health regions is looking at ways to shorten emergency room wait times.

The comments came after the Opposition NDP accused the Saskatchewan government of quietly backing away from its promise.

NDP Leader Cam Broten says the decision was just a few lines in the Ministry of Health’s annual report.

The line says achieving zero waits in emergency departments by 2017 “may not be feasible due to the magnitude and complexity of the patient flow challenge.”

“Instead of being open about that, instead of being up front with Saskatchewan people, this walking away from the commitment is buried in an annual report,” said Broten.

Broten says there have been terrible consequences because of long ER waits. He points to the case a 45-year-old man who went to a Swift Current hospital with chest pains.

Michael Line died after waiting 3 1/2 hours.

The Cypress Hills Health Region is now looking into the circumstances of his death.

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Insurgents shell Russian embassy in Syria Attack came as hundreds of people were gathered outside to thank Moscow for its military intervention ALBERT AJI AND BASSEM MROUE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Russian Embassy in Damascus was shelled Tuesday as pro-government demonstrators gathered outside, and Syria’s largest insurgent coalition announced an offensive to counter Moscow’s airstrikes that have injected new fury in the conflict.

Al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, meanwhile, released an audio message purportedly from its leader urging Muslims in the former Soviet Union to attack Russian civilians if Russia targets civilians in Syria.

The developments underscored the complications brought about by Russia’s military intervention in Syria, which is fueling an already brutal conflict with a multitude of radical groups.

No one was hurt in the embassy shelling, officials said, and it was not the first time the compound has been hit during the civil war. The attack came as hundreds of people were gathered outside to thank Moscow for its military intervention.

An Associated Press reporter who was outside the embassy when the first shell slammed into the compound in central Damascus saw smoke billowing from inside. As people ran away, another shell hit the area, landing about 200 metres from the compound.

It was not clear if the attack had targeted the rally.

“This is obviously a terrorist act intended to probably frighten supporters of the war against terror,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Insurgents have vowed to fight back after Moscow began its airstrikes in Syria on Sept. 30. Russia has been one of the strongest supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad since the start of the uprising in 2011.

The civil war has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced half of

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrians holding photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian flags, during a protest to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria, in front of the Russian embassy in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday. [SANA VIA AP]

Syria’s prewar population of 23 million.

On Tuesday, the Army of Conquest, a coalition that includes several powerful rebel factions as well as the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, announced its counteroffensive against government forces.

“We call upon all holy warriors who are besieged in Hama to ignite all the fronts and then merge with Muslims who are approaching,” a statement said.

Before the shelling, the demonstrators had gathered outside the embassy carrying posters showing

Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and waving the flags of both countries.

Some held placards that read: “Thanks Russia” and “Syria and Russia are together to fight terrorism.”

“President Putin’s stances were absolutely positive for Syria,” said 39-year-old civil servant Nizar Maqsoud.

“All the West stood against us.

Only Russia backed us. ... We are all here to thank Russia and President Putin,” said Osama Salal, an 18-yearold student.

The Russian airstrikes have been a

source of hope for Assad’s supporters, many of whom had lost faith in his ability to regain momentum in the civil war after losing huge parts of the country in recent years.

The Russian airstrikes have allowed Syrian government forces to launch a multipronged ground assault.

Moscow insists it is mainly targeting the Islamic State group and other “terrorists,” but the ground-and-air offensive is being waged in areas controlled by U.S.-backed rebels and other insurgents, including the Nusra Front.

Backed by concentrated Russian

airstrikes, Syria’s ground offensive continued for a seventh day in central and northwestern regions, killing dozens of insurgents, according to Syrian state media. Troops captured the villages of Lahaya and Mansoura in the central province of Hama, the SANA news agency reported.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said its warplanes have intensified their attacks, carrying out 88 sorties targeting 86 sites in Raqqa, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo provinces — a marked rise from the number reported in previous days.

GLOBAL CREDIT CRISIS

Ex-Irish bank chief charged with fraud, forgery THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — Court documents unsealed Tuesday show that Ireland hopes to prosecute the disgraced former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank for 33 counts of fraud, forgery and other crimes if he is extradited from Boston to Dublin.

The disclosure, reflecting six years of Irish police and corporate fraud investigations into David Drumm, came days after his arrest in his luxury Massachusetts home and hours ahead of his appearance in a Boston court to face an extradition warrant.

If returned to Ireland and convicted of the most serious charges, the warrant said Drumm, 48, could face “an

unlimited term of imprisonment.”

Anglo was the failed institution at the heart of Ireland’s 2008-13 financial crisis. It was the most aggressive lender during Ireland’s decade-long construction boom, gambling borrowed tens of billions on continued runaway growth in property values at home and abroad. When the 2008 global credit crunch exposed Anglo’s fragile finances, the Irish government introduced a state-backed guarantee on Anglo debts in a failed bid to reassure investors.

By early 2009, the government nationalized Anglo and its toxic property portfolio at an ultimate estimated cost to Irish taxpayers of $34 billion — a bill so large it over-

whelmed Ireland’s ability to finance itself and led to a humiliating 2010 bailout.

Ireland dissolved Anglo in 2011 and still is trying to sell many of the half-built property assets funded by the bank.

Drumm and his wife fled to the United States in 2009, bought a 4,000-square-foot, $2 million home in the upscale Boston suburb of Wellesley, then filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection in a bid to avoid repaying $9.7 million in Anglo personal loans. Drumm argued the home was his wife’s, not his.

In January, a Boston judge, Frank Bailey, rejected Drumm’s bankruptcy case in scathing terms, citing the

banker’s efforts to conceal millions in assets and testimony riddled with what he called “outright lies.”

Drumm’s appeal of that ruling accuses the judge of bias and his legal team of incompetence.

In the Irish warrant published Tuesday, Drumm faces a string of charges: — Making false or misleading disclosures to Anglo shareholders that concealed the existence of the bank’s single biggest investor and the extent of that holding.

— Organizing illegal loans to help other elite bank clients secretly buy Anglo shares in a failed 2008 bid to bolster the bank’s collapsing stock value.

— Forgery and falsification of loan agreement letters designed to provide a bogus front for those share purchases totalling $513.6 million.

— Conspiracy to defraud shareholders by negotiating a series of deceptive deposits involving rapid back-and-forth transfers with other colluding Irish banks. Anglo used these 2008 manoeuvres to add nearly $10 billion in make-believe corporate deposits to its earnings statements.

Most of the charges carry maximum penalties of five to 10 years imprisonment each, but the warrant says a conviction for conspiring to defraud shareholders “carries a maximum sentence of an unlimited term of imprisonment.”

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CARIBBEAN

Haiti says UN failing nation in cholera outbreak DAVID MCFADDEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Palestinian men on Monday sit under a poster showing Mohammed Ali, 19, in Shafat refugee camp in Jerusalem. Ali was killed after he stabbed an Israeli policeman on Saturday near Old City’s Damascus Gate. The Arabic on the poster reads: ‘The one who has responded to God’s call defending the sacred Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem and Arab dignity. Sleep well, martyr of the homeland. We are from God and we are turning back to him.’ [AP PHOTO]

‘Aggressive steps’ to be taken by Israel as wave of violence continues JOSEF FEDERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday said he would take a series of “aggressive steps” to halt a wave of violence in Israeli cities after two attacks in Jerusalem left three Israelis dead. Three Palestinians, including two attackers, were also killed.

The attacks in Jerusalem, including a deadly shooting and knifing spree on a bus and a violent hacking attack caught on video, escalated the month-long unrest and raised the pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take action. The government has been unable to stop the violence, carried out mostly by young Palestinians unaffiliated with known militant groups and apparently acting on their own.

“Today we will decide on a series of additional aggressive steps in our war against terrorists and inciters,” Netanyahu said in a speech to parliament. “We will use, and not hesitate to use, all means at our disposal to restore calm.”

Netanyahu left a meeting of top security officials to deliver the speech, and quickly returned. Deliberations continued into the evening.

Channel 2 TV said measures under consideration include a deployment of Israeli soldiers in the streets of Jerusalem to assist police, surround-

“We will use, and not hesitate to use, all means at our disposal to restore calm.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel PM

ing Palestinian neighbourhoods in the eastern part of the city with troops, stepping up demolitions of attackers’ homes, and stripping the families of attackers of their residence rights. No decisions were immediately made.

The violence erupted last month over the Jewish New Year, fueled by rumours that Israel was plotting to take over Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. While Israel says the rumours are unfounded, clashes have quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Eight Israelis have died in a string of stabbings, shootings and the stoning of a car, while 29 Palestinians — including 12 identified by Israel as attackers — have been killed. In new bloodshed, a 27-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead in a protest in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. The Israeli military said he was hurling a firebomb at a car.

The attacks have caused a sense of panic across Israel and raised fears that the region is on the cusp of a

new round of heavy violence.

The violence also comes at a time when prospects for negotiating an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appear nil and appears to have been fueled by a deep sense of frustration among Palestinians, who believe that all paths to gaining independence and ending nearly half a century of Israeli occupation have been blocked.

In Tuesday’s violence, a pair of Palestinian men boarded a bus and began shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant rammed a car into a bus stop, then got out of his vehicle and began hacking bystanders with a long knife.

The near-simultaneous attacks, along with two stabbings in the central Israeli city of Raanana, marked the most serious outbreak of violence since the current round of tensions erupted.

In the bus attack, police said a 60-year-old man was killed, and a second person who was wounded later died. One of the attackers was shot dead and the second attacker was subdued by a crowd.

Israeli police released footage showing the second attack, in which the Palestinian man rammed his car into pedestrians, then got out and hacked at them with a machete-like weapon. One person was killed, and the attacker was shot. Police said the attacker, who worked for Israel’s

largest telecommunications group Bezeq and used his company car in the attack, later died of his wounds.

Such videos have played an important role in the unrest, with each side interpreting the images in drastically different ways.

On Tuesday, Palestinian social media was alight with a video of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who was run over after stabbing and critically wounding an Israeli boy the same age. The video did not show the original attack, and only showed the boy writhing on the ground as a crowd of people cursed at him and called for him to be killed. The boy survived and was treated at an Israeli hospital.

Other amateur videos of shootings have popped up in which Palestinians say suspects were needlessly gunned down.

Netanyahu has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Islamic leaders of incitement and spreading lies. “I tell the Palestinian Authority, do not turn murderers into heroes,” he said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has spoken out against violence, but he is deeply unpopular with his public due to the failure of peace talks and lack of hope for finding a diplomatic solution to the conflict. He also cannot be seen as abandoning what the Palestinians view as their defence of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Five years after a cholera epidemic started a deadly march across this poor Caribbean country, international and Haitian human rights activists asserted Tuesday that the UN is failing to provide justice for the many Haitians who have died or been sickened.

Since October 2010, cholera has killed roughly 9,000 Haitians and sickened hundreds of thousands more. Scientific papers have suggested there is evidence to show that UN peacekeepers from Nepal inadvertently brought cholera to Haiti after human waste was dumped in the country’s biggest river at that time, some 10 months after an earthquake devastated much of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.

Amnesty International said Tuesday that the UN should properly investigate the ongoing epidemic’s impact and provide a plan to help victims who lost loved ones or who fell ill themselves after the disease raged through the country’s waterways and rapidly spread to all 10 administrative departments.

“The UN must not just wash its hands of the human suffering and pain that it has caused. Setting up general health programs and sanitation campaigns is important but not enough,” Amnesty said in a Tuesday statement.

On the grounds of a prominent human rights law firm in Port-auPrince, similar calls were made by lawyers and a few dozen victims of the deadly epidemic.

“I was very close to death after drinking infected water from the river near my home. It is not right that so many people died and were in such pain,” said 85-year-old Jean Saint Luc, who was sickened in Haiti’s Artibonite department in 2011 but recovered after eight days.

For years, the UN has declined to comment on lawsuits seeking compensation on behalf of Haitian cholera victims who blame peacekeepers for the epidemic. It has repeatedly said it is committed to eradicating the disease from Haiti alongside the nation’s government. A few years ago, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a $2.2-billion initiative to eradicate cholera from the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but the program has not attracted sufficient foreign donors.

A U.S. judge ruled this year that the UN is immune from a lawsuit seeking compensation. In dismissing the case, U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken noted that the UN’s charter provides broad legal immunity and it hadn’t waived it.

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NO ROOM FOR DOUBT Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman reacts after striking out Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton during Game 2 American League Division Series baseball action in Toronto on Friday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Jays’ Stroman ready for Game 5 start against Rangers JOHN CHIDLEY-HILL THE CANADIAN PRESS

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here’s no room for doubt in Marcus Stroman’s mind.

The 24-year-old will start for the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday in Game 5 of the American League Division Series against the Texas Rangers. Stroman, who missed the majority of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, is very sure of himself headed in to the biggest game of his young career.

“I would say I’m confident. Some people may call it cocky. It is what it is,” said the five-foot-eight Stroman on Tuesday afternoon.

“It’s something that my dad kind of raised me with, a huge chip on my shoulder. I’m not scared to say that, I’m extremely confident. That’s something that I pride myself on, that’s the reason I’m at where I’m at.

“Something my father kind of raised me on. He always told me I’m going to be the smallest guy in the room so I have to be the most confi-

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dent and that’s something that I kind of pitch with today.”

That self-confidence has not gone unnoticed by his teammates in Toronto.

Manager John Gibbons loves Stroman’s attitude and is pleased to put the pitcher in the decisive game of the best-of-five ALDS. “His parents did a tremendous job with him,” said Gibbons. “He’s smart,

intelligent, he’s got everything going.

But he’s cocky. He’s one of those guys, you know, you think OK, he believes he can do it but let’s see it.”

Stroman exceeded all expectations and returned to the Blue Jays’ starting rotation in early September after injuring his knee at spring training.

He won all four games he started in September with 18 strikeouts and a 1.67 earned-run average. He was solid in his only post-season start, giving up four runs — three earned — and striking out five over seven innings of work in Toronto’s 6-4, 14-inning loss in Game 2.

He said that being put in this kind of situation, with the Blue Jays’ season on the line, is exactly what he used to motivate himself during his rehabilitation process at Duke University in North Carolina.

“Obviously it’s a perfect situation that kind of played out in my head,” said Stroman at a news conference in the bowels of Rogers Centre.

“And it’s happening, and I mean, I get the chills even just thinking about being in the position that I am

now, just coming from where I came.

“I’m so ready and just thankful for everybody in my corner who’s helped me along the way.”

Blue Jays first baseman Chris Colabello, who befriended Stroman in the minor leagues, loves the energy the young pitcher brings to the mound.

“Stro just exudes greatness, confidence, belief, whatever word you want to use to describe him, he’s all of that,” said Colabello. “Watching him pitch brings energy to the fans, brings energy to us. He is who he is for a reason.”

Left-hander Cole Hamels gets the start for Texas on Thursday and is the opposite of Stroman in terms of experience. The 2008 World Series MVP has started in 14 post-season games with a 7-4 record, 83 strikeouts and a 3.08 ERA. Thursday will be Stroman’s second career post-season start.

“His record and resume kind of speaks for itself,” said Stroman of Hamels. “He’s special, he’s an elite talent, he’s done it in the playoffs.

He’s proven and he’s nasty, he’s got some unbelievable stuff as a lefty.

So it’s going to be a battle the whole game for us.

“Our guys are going to have to step in the box, and really grind out some tough at-bats. And I’m going to have to do everything in my power to keep their lineups in check.”

Gibbons said ace David Price is “not here to be abused” and that he wouldn’t count on the star lefty being available for Game 5 at Rogers Centre. Price, who was Toronto’s Game 1 starter, was used as a reliever in Game 4’s 8-4 victory on Monday, coming in after knuckleballer R.A. Dickey pitched 4 2/3 innings.

Without Price, Aaron Loup would be the only left-hander available out of the bullpen. Loup, however, is away from the Blue Jays right now as he attends to a personal matter.

“It’s a family matter, it’s a delicate thing for us to even talk about it,” said general manager Alex Anthopoulos.

“We’re there to support him with whatever he needs.”

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Miller shuts out Kings as Canucks win 3-0 Vancouver goalie picks up his 35th career shutout, Jake Virtanen makes NHL debut in victory in Los Angeles IAIN MACINTYRE VANCOUVER SUN

LOS ANGELES — And on the seventh day, the Vancouver Canucks won again.

All you need to know about the first seven days of the Canucks’ National Hockey League season is this: Tuesday’s 3-0 win against the Los Angeles Kings pushed them seven points clear of the 2014 Stanley Cup winners.

The Canucks are 3-0-1, the Kings 0-3-0. That’s a pretty good head start, especially since Vancouver’s other opening-week wins were also against Pacific Division rivals, the Anaheim Ducks and Calgary Flames.

Playing less than 24 hours after beating the Ducks 2-1 in a shootout in Orange County, the Canucks outskated and outplayed the struggling Kings, who have been outscored 12-2 in their three losses, all at the Staples Center.

Los Angeles hadn’t played since Friday, but could barely keep up to Vancouver in the decisive second period.

Canuck goalie Ryan Miller continued his brilliant start to the season with a 15-save shutout.

The Canucks opened up a tight game by scoring twice in the second, but could have doubled their goal total with sharper execution. Vancouver dominated the Kings in the period, outskating them, outshooting them 14-4 and building momentum with a series of Los Angeles penalties.

With only six goals in parts of five

Vancouver Canucks right wing Adam Cracknell , left, congratulates Derek Dorsett for scoring an empty net goal during the third period of an NHL game against the Los Angeles Kings in Los Angeles, Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

NHL seasons, Adam Cracknell made it two goals in two nights by opening scoring at 5:13 of the second period.

The fourth-liner’s one-timer from a terrific centring pass by Brandon Prust rattled through the pads of Kings’ goalie Jonathan Quick.

Alex Edler’s screened 60-foot bomb went post-and-in to make it 2-0 at 13:23.

But the Canucks could/should have had more. An 80-second 5-on-3 power play went nowhere. Radim Vrbata missed Brandon Sutter with a pass on a 2-on-1, and Sutter missed Jake Virtanen with a pass 2-on-0. At least Jannik Hansen got a shot on net on his partial breakaway late in the period.

Still, lack of finish in a game you’re

leading is a nice problem to have. It’s way down the list of problems the Kings appear to have.

Even when bestowed three straight power plays in the first half of the third period, the Kings didn’t look threatening. The only score was Canuck Derek Dorsett’s empty-netter.

The most eventful moment of the opening 20 minutes is that Virtanen,

the Abbotsford teenager, showed up to play them. The Canucks’ 2014 first-round pick made his NHL debut after sitting out the first three games.

The rookie skated on a line with Sutter, playing his natural centre position for the first time as a Canuck, and Dorsett.

To get Virtanen in, Canuck coach Willie Desjardins took another 19-year-old out, scratching centre Jared McCann. This forced Desjardins to move Sutter back to centre after the team’s marquee summer acquisition spent the first three games as an effective right winger beside Hank and Danny Sedin.

“It was a hard choice because I really like him with the Sedins,” Desjardins said before the game.

“I think they’ve played well together. He complements them in a lot of different ways, and we’ll see that combination again. But I just think, coming into this game, we needed to make that change and we’ll see how it goes.”

Virtanen made his presence felt, literally, with early hits against Matt Greene, Tanner Pearson and Drew Doughty.

The Canucks’ team made its presence felt, too.

ICE CHIPS — The Canucks chartered home after the game and do not play again until the St. Louis Blues visit Rogers Arena on Friday.

That opens a five-game homestand.

Vancouver is 3-0 on the road.

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Suspension of Clippers’ goalie is far too long Scott McKenzie Scott’s Thoughts

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hanks to the wonders of the Internet, we in Nanaimo had a chance to review for ourselves what the B.C. Hockey League warranted was a six-game suspension for Clippers back-up goalie Jakob Walter Friday night in Vernon.

And, upon further review, the BCHL might want to give that one another shot.

The incident, which can be seen on hockeytube.net, sees Walter flick his stick up at Vernon Vipers forward Riley Brandt as Brandt was on top of the Nanaimo crease, catching him in the teeth. Brandt went down, got up and skated away.

On the spot, it was called a fourminute double minor for high-sticking on the 16-year-old rookie goaltender. A solid call, the punishment fit the crime.

But another six games for that is completely unwarranted, especially if

Nanaimo Clippers goalie Jakob Walter gets into his stance during a B.C. Hockey League game in September at Frank Crane Arena. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

the league is hoping to be consistent in its rulings.

Take the earlier suspension of Nanaimo defenceman Sean Buchanan. Attempting to fend off Powell River Kings forward Tristan Mullin from the Clippers goal, Buchanan let his hands get up too high and cross-

checked Mullin in the face on Sept. 19 in Nanaimo.

It was a gruesome sequence, and Mullin was lucky to come out relatively unscathed and didn’t miss a game.

Buchanan was kicked out of the game (the incident was in the second

period), and suspended three games, which was also warranted.

That’s all fine and good, but no one in their right mind could tell you Walter’s high-sticking penalty on Brandt was worth twice as many games as Buchanan’s cross-check to Mullin’s face.

The only possible explanation for the massive suspension is that, because he’s a back-up goalie, the number of games needed to be inflated to actually affect Walter’s playing time. It would be akin to a professional baseball pitcher being suspended five games instead of two, just to make sure the suspension did anything at all.

In baseball, it’s rare to see a pitcher get into more than one-in-five games, but no one knew the Clippers plans for Walter were past Friday — and he was needed the following night when starter Jonathan Reinhart was forced to leave the game with an injury.

Coupled with the facts that Brandt played the next night, and Walter wasn’t even handed a game misconduct for the incident, the league simply went too far with this call.

Especially when you consider one of the game’s officials was standing

about five feet away from the point of contact and didn’t feel it was enough to even kick Walter out of the game.

Let’s hope it wasn’t the league attempting to make a statement a week after the NHL decided to suspend Raffi Torres a record 41 games.

The ‘direct blow to the head’ Walter was suspended for was much different than the one Torres inflicted in a pre-season game.

Let’s be clear, head contact needs to be removed from hockey in order to keep the game as safe as possible and to help the game bring in more young players.

But take a look at the video.

This was not a flying bodycheck to the head that left a player concussed or unconscious, it was a wave of a stick that required some dental work to fix up on a player who was back playing the next day.

Was it a careless act by Walter?

Sure, but the four-minute penalty would have sufficed — or maybe a game or two, just to send a message. » Scott McKenzie is the sports editor at the Nanaimo Daily News. To offer comments on this column or to submit a story idea, send an email to: scott.mckenzie@nanaimodailynews.com.

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Canada draws 1-1 with Ghana in D.C.

Playoff berth secured, shorthanded Whitecaps prepare to visit FC Dallas

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WASHINGTON — Marcel De Jong scored on a long-range strike in the first half as Canada drew 1-1 with Ghana on Tuesday night in an international friendly. De Jong found the back of the net in the 29th minute, beating Ghana goalkeeper Razak Brimah.

Ghan’s Albert Adomah would answer back before the end of the first half, getting a shot past Canadian ’keeper Kyriakos Stamatopoulos in the 44th minute.

Junior Hoilett was one of six players making their debut for Canada at RFK Stadium.

“We’re pleased that each and every one of the players that appeared tonight played with not just honour for the country but they played with a sense of pride and positive play,” Canadian assistant coach Michael Findlay said. “In terms of performance we’re very happy but we can’t be satisfied as we didn’t win the game.”

Canada starts the first leg of a 2018 World Cup qualifier on Nov. 13 in Vancouver against Honduras.

“We had some players who were inserted into key areas of the park, central defence, attack and central midfield and in terms of how they applied themselves and how they played we’re very proud,” said Findlay.

Vancouver captain Pedro Morales is among the walking wounded before road game JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

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ith a playoff spot already secure, the Vancouver Whitecaps want to create some positive energy over the final two games of the regular season.

That could be difficult when head coach Carl Robinson can barely fill out a team sheet.

The Whitecaps (15-12-5) visit FC Dallas (15-10-6) on Wednesday night in the back end of a home-and-home series that saw the clubs play to a scoreless tie at B.C. Place Stadium on Oct. 6. The result was enough to clinch Vancouver’s second straight playoff berth, but a rash of injuries coupled with international call ups means that the Whitecaps travelled to Frisco, Texas, without a full compliment of players.

“Sometimes things are taken out of your hands. There’s only one thing you can do — role your sleeves up and work,” said Robinson. “We’re like that as a group, as a club. We don’t make excuses. We’ve got other players coming in. We’ve got a strong squad, I’ve said that from Day 1. The squad’s really being tested at the moment.”

Among the walking wounded for Vancouver is captain Pedro Morales and fellow midfielders Nicolas Mezquida, Mauro Rosales and Cristian Techera, while a host of others are also nursing various bumps and bruises.

“We’ve got guys hurting, but it’s no excuse at this point in the season,” said Whitecaps goalkeeper David

Vancouver Whitecaps star Pedro Morales celebrates after scoring a goal on a penalty kick during an MLS game against New York City FC in Vancouver on Sept. 26. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Ousted. “The guys coming in for the injured players need to step up and show why they’re here.”

To make matters worse, Kendall Waston was away with Costa Rica for a friendly against the United States on Tuesday, while fellow defender Sam Adekugbe and midfielders Kianz Froese and Marco Bustos were with Canada for a game against Ghana.

Robinson said he didn’t know if any of those four will be available to play for him on Wednesday, while striker

Darren Mattocks was with Jamaica for that country’s friendly in South Korea.

“Without giving too much away, we’ve probably got 16, 17 healthy bodies,” said Robinson.

The Whitecaps are a pedestrian 2-4-2 in Major League Soccer since the middle of August, but still managed to get into the post-season with two games to spare thanks to some stumbles from the teams around them.

“I don’t think we want to coast into the playoffs,” said Vancouver defender Jordan Harvey. “We want to build some momentum. We’re without a doubt going for three points (on Wednesday). Are we disappointed if we get a draw? Probably not, but the goal is to get three points and build momentum.”

The Whitecaps have lost all five visits to Dallas in franchise history, including last season’s playoff defeat at Toyota Stadium.

“We’ve had some trouble there.

My history there with other teams is we’ve won,” added Harvey. “With this team and the talent we have, it’s definitely possible.”

The Whitecaps currently sit third in the Western Conference, a point back of first-place Dallas, which has a game in hand, and the Los Angeles Galaxy, who also have two games remaining. Sporting Kansas City is two points back of Vancouver with a game in hand, while the Seattle Sounders are three points back with two matches to go.

The top two teams in each conference get byes in the first round, while No. 3 hosts No. 6 and No. 4 hosts No. 5 in one-game playoffs, meaning that Vancouver’s main focus is getting into at least one of the first four spots.

“Games at this stage of the season are very tight no matter who they’re between,” said Robinson. “With two games to go we’re in. Now we’ve just got to regroup, refocus, get our minds right and see where we go from here.”

OLYMPIC QUALIFYING

U.S. eliminates Canada from Rio contention THE CANADIAN PRESS

SANDY, Utah — Playing a man down for the second half was too much to handle for Canada’s under-23 soccer team on Tuesday night.

Canadian captain Sam Piette agreed the second yellow card of the game and a subsequent ejection to teammate Giuliano Frano was a turning point in their 2-0 loss to the United States in a CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.

The loss eliminates Canada’s chances of qualifying for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The U.S. will face Colombia in a home-and-away series in March with the winner moving onto Rio. “I won’t talk about the referee and stuff like that but I don’t think they were on our side but we can’t use that as an excuse,” Piette said.

“But it’s tough to go into a game when we have a plan to be defensive-

ly pretty good and compact and wait for the end of the game to try and attack over there and then when you get a man down at halftime it’s tough to follow the plan.”

Frano received the second yellow in the 45th minute after a challenge on American forward Marc Pelosi.

Pelosi got the U.S. on the board in the 69th minute after a corner kick went off a pair of players in front of the net before reaching Pelosi at the top of the 18-yard box. His shot was deflected off Canada’s Jeremy Gagnon-Lapare and into the net.

Jerome Kiesewetter gave the U.S. a two-goal lead in the 84th minute when he was awarded a penalty shot after being taken down in the box by Canadian goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau. Kiesewetter made no mistake — putting his shot into the righthand corner of the net.

“We need these kind of tournaments for our players to grow and gain experience,” Canada’s head

coach Benito Floro said. “Our players have grown both collectively and individually throughout the competition.”

The United States pressured the Canadians for the majority of the match, forcing Canada to play some tough defence.

Crepeau made some big stops in the 61st minute with the Americans pressing, coming out to poke the ball loose from U.S. striker Jordan Morris. Crepeau followed that up in the 81st with another nice save — punching a Pelosi shot over the net.

One of Canada’s better chances in the second half came in the 55th minute when forward Michael Petrasso took on four Americans on the right wing.

Canada’s Olympic drought continues with the loss. The Canadians haven’t reached the Olympics since the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, despite being one win away from making it in 2012.

Canada midfielder Giuliano Frano, right, tackles United States midfielder Marc Pelosi in the first half of a CONCACAF Men’s Olympic qualifying soccer match Tuesday in Salt Lake City. [AP PHOTO]

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Cubs beat Cards, clinch NLDS It was the first time Chicago has ever won a playoff series at Wrigley Field ANDREW SELIGMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — For the Chicago Cubs and their ever-hopeful fans, this bash was a long time in the making.

Kyle Schwarber, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez homered and the young Cubs clinched a post-season series at Wrigley Field for the first time ever, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 Tuesday to win the NL Division Series in four games.

Only once since they last brought home the World Series in 1908 had the Cubs won a playoff series and never before had they finished off the job at their century-plus-old ballpark.

But with a raucous, towel-waving crowd jamming the Friendly Confines, the North Siders gave generations of fans exactly what they wanted.

Closer Hector Rondon struck out Stephen Piscotty on a pitch in the dirt, and catcher Miguel Montero scooped the ball and made the tag to end it. That sent the Cubs streaming out of the dugout to start a wild celebration.

“They deserve it,” Rizzo said in the middle of the party. “Hopefully, this is just a taste of what’s to come.”

Up-and-comers all season, first-year manager Joe Maddon’s bunch of wild-card Cubs had arrived.

The Cubs are headed to the NL Championship Series for the first time since 2003. They beat Atlanta in the NLDS that year, but then lost in seven games to

Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Hector Rondon celebrates after striking out St. Louis Cardinals left fielder Stephen Piscotty to win Game 4 in the National League Division Series, Tuesday in Chicago. [AP PHOTO]

the Marlins. Chicago dropped those final two at home, including the infamous Bartman defeat in Game 6.

Chicago will face the winner of the Los Angeles Dodgers-New York Mets matchup. The Mets took a 2-1 lead into Game 4 Tuesday night.

No team was hotter down the stretch than Chicago, which finished third in the majors with 97 wins after five straight losing seasons.

The Cubs knocked out the two teams that finished ahead of them in the NL Central, beating Pittsburgh in the wild-card game and sending St. Louis

home after it led the majors with 100 wins. The banged-up Cardinals had reached the NLCS in the last four years.

Rizzo’s solo drive to right off losing pitcher Kevin Siegrist in the sixth put Chicago back on top 5-4 after St. Louis scored two in the top half.

As if the fans were roaring at the top of their lungs after that home run, they were really screaming after Schwarber’s monstrous shot leading off the seventh. The ball seemed to disappear, possibly clearing the videoboard in right or hitting the Budweiser sign above it.

The late drives by Rizzo and

Schwarber along with Baez’s three-run homer off John Lackey in the second came after Chicago set a post-season record with six long balls in Monday’s win. And with the ball flying out again, the Cubs won for the 12th time in 13 games.

Cubs starter Jason Hammel allowed two runs and three hits.

He exited after giving up a leadoff walk to Jhonny Peralta in the fourth.

Seven relievers combined to hold the Cardinals to two runs and five hits the rest of the way.

Trevor Cahill picked up the win and Rondon worked the ninth for the save.

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Rangers turn to Cole Hamel for Game 5 STEPHEN HAWKINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers have won their last 11 games started by Cole Hamels.

They needed each of those victories to get this far, and their season will be over without another one Wednesday against Toronto in the decisive Game 5 of the AL Division Series.

“It’s why you go out and get top performers, elite competitors . . . situations exactly like this,” manager Jeff Banister said Tuesday. “That’s a comforting feeling that we’ve got a guy on the mound that’s going to go for us that has been here, has done it, and is quite capable of continuing to do it.”

Hamels, the 2008 World Series MVP, will be pitching in a winner-take-all game for the first time when he goes against Blue Jays right-hander Marcus Stroman in a rematch of Game 2 of the ALDS. The Rangers won 6-4 in 14 innings Friday when both starters pitched seven innings and departed with the score 4-4.

“Who else would you rather have on the mound when you have to win a game than your ace,” catcher Chris Gimenez said. “The fact that he has been there before is really, I think, the biggest confidence boost.”

Hamels, who is 7-4 with a 3.05 ERA in 14 post-season starts, threw a three-hitter against the Los Angeles Angels in the regular season finale to clinch the AL West title. That was his only complete game since he was acquired from Philadelphia on July 31, when he was coming off a no-hitter for the Phillies.

Before the team departed for Canada on Tuesday, Hamels played catch with pitching coach Mike Maddux in the outfield at the Rangers’ ballpark. The pitcher wasn’t made available to speak with reporters.

The Rangers were eight games out of first place after Hamels made his Texas debut Aug. 1, an extra-inning loss. They also lost his second start, but have won his last 11 turns in the rotation — Hamels is 7-0 with a 3.16 ERA in that span.

After opening this ALDS by winning the first two games at Toronto, the Rangers lost twice at home in a 24-hour span. For the Rangers, it is the same situation they faced in the 2010 ALDS when they won two games in Tampa Bay, lost two at home and then went back on the road to win Game 5.

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NEW YORK — Clayton Kershaw finally came through in October, just in time to save the Los Angeles Dodgers from another early exit.

Pitching on short rest with the season on the line, Kershaw shut down the New York Mets for seven innings and Justin Turner delivered a key hit against his former team that sent the Dodgers to a 3-1 victory Tuesday night and forced the NL Division Series to a deciding Game 5.

The series shifts back to Los Angeles on Thursday night, with fellow Dodgers ace Zack Greinke scheduled to start against Jacob deGrom. The winner hosts the wild-card Chicago Cubs in the NL Championship Series opener Saturday.

“Definitely happy to be going back home,” Kershaw said.

“They like us a little better there.”

KERSHAW

With Chase Utley on the bench again, the Dodgers handed hometown Mets rookie Steven Matz his first loss in the major leagues. Kershaw’s one-out single led to a three-run third.

Adrian Gonzalez blooped an RBI single and Turner added a tworun double, providing enough support for the lefty ace.

The reigning NL MVP and three-time Cy Young Award winner snapped a five-start losing streak in the playoffs — the longest in Dodgers history.

“I’m actually really happy for him. I mean, this kid is tremendous. Everything that you’re supposed to be, he is,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said.

“This guy’s an animal, the way he works, represents us, the game of baseball, himself. I mean, he’s really a credit to the game, and so you’re really happy for him to be able to do that tonight.”

After dropping the series opener 3-1 to deGrom, Kershaw was 1-6 with a 4.99 ERA in 12 career post-season games, including nine starts. He lost elimination games each of the past two years, once on three days’ rest.

But this time, Kershaw was just as dominant as he normally is during the regular season.

“There’s no curse or anything,” he said. “Just got to get through the seventh.”

He struck out eight, walked one and yielded only three hits, quieting another revved-up crowd at Citi Field as the night

wore on. Daniel Murphy hit his second solo homer off Kershaw in the series, both coming in the fourth inning. Kenley Jansen got four outs for his second save. With two runners on in the eighth and the count full, he retired Murphy on a fly to right.

The right-hander then worked a 1-2-3 ninth as the Dodgers ended a seven-game losing streak in road playoff games.

“I feel confident with Zack going in Game 5 back home,” Kershaw said. “I really wanted to win tonight, definitely. For a lot of reasons, but obviously most important was just to give Zack a chance.”

Kershaw improved to 1-1 with a 1.89 ERA in a trio of playoff starts on three days’ rest. He has 23 strikeouts in 19 innings during those games. With a $290 million payroll that’s $66 million higher than any other team, the Dodgers are seeking their first pennant since winning the 1988 World Series.

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ATLANTIC DIVISION GP W 4 4 3 3 4 3

L OTL SL GF 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 11 1 0 0 14

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Pts 8 6 6

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METROPOLITAN DIVISION N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia

GP W 4 3 3 1 3 1

L OTL SL GF 1 0 0 13 1 1 0 7 1 1 0 4

GA 10 9 10

Pts 6 3 3

Home 1-1-0-0 1-0-1-0 1-0-0-0

Away 2-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-1-1-0

Last 10 Strk 3-1-0-0 L-1 1-1-1-0 W-1 1-1-1-0 W-1

WILD CARD Florida Ottawa

3 3

2 2

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11 9

3 8

4 4

1-0-0-0 0-1-0-0

1-1-0-0 2-1-0-0 W-1 2-0-0-0 2-1-0-0 L-1

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5 6 5 5 3 5 6 7

8 9 12 10 8 11 13 16

2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0

1-1-0-0 1-2-0-0 0-1-0-1 0-2-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-3-0-0

0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-0-0-0

1-1-0-0 1-2-0-0 0-2-0-1 0-3-0-0 0-3-0-0 0-3-0-0 0-3-0-0 0-3-0-0

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WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Nashville Winnipeg Minnesota

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Buffalo 4 Columbus 2 St. Louis at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Philadelphia 1 Florida 0 Minnesota at Arizona, 10 p.m.

TUESDAY RED WINGS 3, LIGHTNING 1 First Period No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Drouin TBL (holding) 16:12.

Second Period 1. Detroit, Nyquist 1 (Kronwall, Zetterberg) 17:52 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Glendening Det (hooking) 8:07, Carle TBL (tripping) 17:40, Jurco Det (holding) 19:53.

Third Period 2. Detroit, Zetterberg 2 (Larkin, Quincey) 8:25.

3. Tampa Bay, Callahan 2 (Drouin, Stralman) 11:03.

4. Detroit, Quincey 1 (Miller, Richards) 18:12 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — Sheahan Det (high-sticking) 3:02, Hedman TBL (interference) 5:03.

Shots Tampa Bay 7 4 10—21 Detroit 8 8 8—24 *RDO — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 3-1-0).

Detroit: Howard (W, 2-0-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Tampa Bay: 0-3; Detroit: 1-3.

Referees ³ 'DQ 2¡+DOORUDQ .HQGULFN Nicholson. Linesmen — Don Henderson, Scott Driscoll.

Att. — 20,027 at Detroit, Mich..

SHARKS 5, CAPITALS 0 First Period 1. San Jose, Thornton 2 (Burns, Pavelski) 10:54 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Beagle Wash (slashing) 4:34, Orpik Wash (tripping) 10:41, Kuznetsov Wash (hooking) 16:55.

Second Period 2. San Jose, Brown 1 (Tierney, Goodrow) 2:36.

3. San Jose, Hertl 2 (Wingels, Nieto) 7:25.

3HQDOWLHV — Burns SJ (high-sticking) 10:56.

Third Period 4. San Jose, Nieto 1 (unassisted) 18:00 (en).

5. San Jose, Tierney 1 (Goodrow) 19:13 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — Burns SJ (hooking) 0:35, Galiev Wash (holding) 3:31, Chimera Wash (unsportsmanlike conduct) 5:33, Goodrow SJ (holding) 8:34, Burns SJ (slashing) 10:39.

Shots San Jose 17 10 5—32 Washington 8 12 11—31 *RDO — San Jose: Jones (W, 3-0-0).

Washington: Holtby (L, 1-1-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — San Jose: 1-5; Washington: 0-4.

Referees — Tim Peel, TJ Luxmore.

Linesmen — Brian Mach, Andy McElman.

Att. — 18,506 at Washington, District of Columbia.

JETS 4, RANGERS 1 First Period 1. N.Y. Rangers, Zuccarello 3 (Brassard, Nash) 6:45.

2. Winnipeg, Ehlers 1 (Myers, Stafford) 7:31 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Hayes NYR (hooking) 7:23, Scheifele Win (slashing) 17:12, Glass NYR (slashing) 17:12.

Second Period 3. Winnipeg, Little 1 (Trouba) 18:49 (sh).

3HQDOWLHV — Pardy Win (interference) 2:11, Myers Win (cross-checking) 8:51, Perreault Win (tripping) 11:37, Staal NYR (holding) 14:07, Petan Win (hooking) 14:44, Perreault Win (hooking) 17:45.

Third Period

4. Winnipeg, Little 2 (Byfuglien, Wheeler) 10:35 (pp).

5. Winnipeg, Stuart 1 (Lowry) 17:56 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — Lindberg NYR (hooking) 1:53, Brassard NYR (slashing) 9:51, Nash NYR (slashing) 12:57.

Shots Winnipeg 11 8 10—29 N.Y. Rangers 13 20 8—41 *RDO — 3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Winnipeg: 2-5; N.Y. Rangers: 0-5.

Referees — Jean Hebert, Trevor Hanson. Linesmen — Mike Cvik, Tony Sericolo.

Att. — 18,006 at New York, N.Y..

PANTHERS 4, HURRICANES 1 First Period 1. Florida, Bjugstad 2 (Campbell, Pirri) 2:01.

3HQDOWLHV — Faulk Car (holding) 3:23, Campbell Flo (interference) 9:06, Skinner Car (holding) 11:43.

Second Period 2. Carolina, Lindholm 1 (Malone, Faulk) 12:06.

3HQDOWLHV — Bench Car (too many men�)

3:02, Brickley Flo (tripping) 5:40, Brickley Flo (boarding) 14:41, Bolland Flo (tripping) 17:49.

Third Period 3. Florida, Brickley 1 (Kulikov, Mackenzie) 12:18.

4. Florida, Barkov 1 (Jagr, Gudbranson) 13:08.

5. Florida, Jokinen 2 (Smith) 18:13 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — None.

Shots Florida 14 5 11—30 Carolina 7 8 8—23 *RDO — Florida: Montoya (W, 1-0-0).

Carolina: Lack (L, 0-1-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Florida: 0-3; Carolina: 0-4.

Referees — Mark Lemelin, Dan 2¡5RXUNH Linesmen — Scott Cherrey, Mark Shewchyk.

Att. — 10,901 at Raleigh, N.C..

PREDATORS 3, DEVILS 1 First Period 1. Nashville, Josi 1 (Weber, Forsberg) 10:34 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Ruutu NJ (tripping) 9:51.

Second Period No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Ekholm Nash (tripping) 5:23.

Third Period 2. Nashville, Josi 2 (Gaustad, Rinne) 17:21 (en-sh).

3. New Jersey, Palmieri 1 (Greene, Josefson) 18:20 (pp).

4. Nashville, Nystrom 1 (unassisted) 19:08 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — Tootoo NJ (tripping) 7:55, Hodgson Nash (holding) 17:02.

Shots Nashville 8 4 8—20 New Jersey 10 6 7—23 *RDO — Nashville: Rinne (W, 3-0-0). New Jersey: Kinkaid (L, 0-2-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Nashville: 1-2; New Jersey: 1-2.

Referees — Dave Jackson, Kevin Pollock. Linesmen — Steve Barton, Michel Cormier.

Att. — 11,117 at Newark, N.J..

CANADIEN 3, PENGUINS 2 First Period 1. Montreal, Pacioretty 3 (Gallagher, Markov) 5:46.

3HQDOWLHV — Plotnikov Pgh (interference) 9:59, Desharnais Mon (interference) 10:44.

Second Period 2. Pittsburgh, Bennett 1 (unassisted) 5:31.

3. Montreal, Pacioretty 4 (Petry, Beaulieu) 8:45 (pp).

4. Pittsburgh, Letang 1 (Kessel, Malkin) 10:09.

3HQDOWLHV — Bench Pgh (too many men�) 7:46.

Third Period 5. Montreal, Fleischmann 1 (Desharnais, Weise) 5:20.

3HQDOWLHV — Smith-Pelly Mon (tripping) 7:41.

Shots Montreal 7 12 11—30 Pittsburgh 4 15 14—33 *RDO — Montreal: Price (W, 3-0-0).

Pittsburgh: Fleury (L, 0-3-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Montreal: 1-2; Pittsburgh: 0-2.

Referees — Greg Kimmerly, Brad Watson. Linesmen — Derek Amell, Greg Devorski.

Att. — 18,626 at Pittsburgh, Pa..

DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5 series)

AMERICAN LEAGUE KANSAS CITY VS. HOUSTON (Series tied 2-2) 0RQGD\ V UHVXOW Kansas City 9 Houston 6 :HGQHVGD\ V JDPH Houston (McHugh 19-7) at Kansas City (Cueto 4-7), 8:07 p.m.

TORONTO VS. TEXAS (Series tied 2-2) 0RQGD\ V UHVXOW Toronto 8 Texas 4 Wednesday, Oct. 14 Texas (Gallardo 13-11) at Toronto (Stroman 4-0), 4:07 p.m.

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NORTH

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore

ST. LOUIS VS. CHICAGO (Chicago win 3-1) 7XHVGD\ V UHVXOW Chicago 6 St. Louis 4 0RQGD\ V UHVXOW Chicago 8 St. Louis 6

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EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION

EAST Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal

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WEST x-Edmonton x-Calgary B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

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Second Quarter Pit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FG Boswell 47, 4:24.

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SD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gates 11 pass from Rivers (Lambo kick), 8:02.

Pit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wheaton 72 pass from Vick (Boswell kick), 7:42.

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Pit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bell 1 run (Boswell kick), 0:00.

A â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 67,658 at San Diego.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punts Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

Pit 14 349 27-155 194 5-27 2-62 1-70 13-26-1 3-9 8-40.3 0-0 8-86 26:17

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

SD 24 406 19-52 354 2-5 1-30 1-0 35-48-1 2-11 5-53.4 1-1 7-54 33:43

RUSHING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pittsburgh, Bell 21-111, Vick 1-24, Williams 5-20. San Diego, Gordon 15-42, Woodhead 4-10.

PASSING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pittsburgh, Vick 13-26-2031-1. San Diego, Rivers 35-48-365-2-1.

RECEIVING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pittsburgh, Wheaton 1-72, Miller 3-46, Brown 3-45, Heyward-Bey 2-24, Bell 4-16. San Diego, Gates 9-92, Woodhead 5-66, Allen 6-57, Gordon 7-52, Green 5-50, Floyd 3-48.

MISSED FIELD GOAL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; San Diego, Lambo 60

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CENTRAL DIVISION Calgary Red Deer Lethbridge Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

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B.C. DIVISION

AUTO RACING NASCAR SPRINT CUP

Victoria Kelowna Vancouver Prince George Kamloops

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U.S. DIVISION

POINTS LEADERS 1. Joey Logano, 3048; 2. Kevin Harvick, 3042; 3. Martin Truex Jr., 3041; 4. Denny Hamlin, 3040; 5. Kurt Busch, 3039; 6. Carl Edwards, 3039; 7. Jeff Gordon, 3037; 8. Brad Keselowski, 3035; 9. Ryan Newman, 3029; 10. Kyle Busch, 3025.

11. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 3016; 12. Matt Kenseth, 3003; 13. Jamie McMurray, 2130; 14. Jimmie Johnson, 2092; 15.

Paul Menard, 2083; 16. Clint Bowyer, 2082; 17. Aric Almirola, 801; 18. Kasey Kahne, 771; 19. Kyle Larson, 742; 20. *UHJ %LIĂ H

FORMULA ONE 7KURXJK 2FWREHU 1. Lewis Hamilton, 302 pts; 2.

Sebastian Vettel, 236; 3. Nico Rosberg, 229; 4. Kimi Raikkonen, 123; 5. Valtteri Bottas, 111; 6. Felipe Massa, 109; 7.

Daniil Kvyat, 76; 8. Daniel Ricciardo, 73; 9. Sergio Perez, 54; 10. Romain Grosjean, 44.

11. Nico Hulkenberg, 38; 12. Max Verstappen, 33; 13. Felipe Nasr, 25; 14. Pastor Maldonado, 22; 15. Carlos Sainz Jr., 12; 16. Fernando Alonso, 11; 17. Marcus Ericsson, 9; 18. Jenson Button, 8.

Everett Seattle Tri-City Spokane Portland

GP 5 5 6 7 5

7XHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Regina 6 Medicine Hat 2 Swift Current 4 Edmonton 2 Red Deer at Kamloops Prince Albert at Portland :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Moose Jaw at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Prince Albert at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Moose Jaw at Calgary, 7 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Swift Current at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Regina at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

Prince Albert at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION

GOLF WORLD RANKING 7KURXJK 2FW 1. Jordan Spieth 2. Jason Day 3. Rory McIlroy 4. Bubba Watson 5. Rickie Fowler 6. Henrik Stenson 7. Justin Rose 8. Dustin Johnson 9. Jim Furyk 10. Zach Johnson 11. Sergio Garcia 12. Brooks Koepka 13. Louis Oosthuizen 14. Adam Scott 15. Hideki Matsuyama 16. Matt Kuchar 17. Jimmy Walker 18. Shane Lowry 19. J.B. Holmes 20. Patrick Reed 21. Martin Kaymer 22. Branden Grace 23. Paul Casey 24. Phil Mickelson 25. Danny Willett 26. Billy Horschel 27. Bernd Wiesberger 28. Chris Kirk 29. Bill Haas 30. Brandt Snedeker 31. Robert Streb 32. Thongchai Jaidee 33. Kevin Na 34. Kevin Kisner 35. Charley Hoffman 36. Marc Leishman 37. Danny Lee 38. Ryan Palmer 39. Anirban Lahiri 40. Gary Woodland 41. David Lingmerth 42. Lee Westwood 43. Scott Piercy 44. Daniel Berger 45. Soren Kjeldsen

GP 6 7 7 7 8 7

WESTERN CONFERENCE

POINTS LEADERS

Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco 0RQGD\¡V UHVXOW Pittsburgh 24, San Diego 20 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Chicago 18, Kansas City 17 Green Bay 24, St. Louis 10 Buffalo 14, Tennessee 13 Cincinnati 27, Seattle 24, OT Atlanta 25, Washington 19, OT Tampa Bay 38, Jacksonville 31 Philadelphia 39, New Orleans 17 Cleveland 33, Baltimore 30, OT Arizona 42, Detroit 17 Denver 16, Oakland 10 New England 30, Dallas 6 N.Y. Giants 30, San Francisco 27 Open: Carolina, Miami, Minnesota, N.Y. Jets 7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOW Indianapolis 27, Houston 20

Moose Jaw Brandon Saskatoon Prince Albert Swift Current Regina

652.47 501.28 510.14 378.88 408.56 386.69 368.63 272.83 277.97 266.29 228.26 233.25 211.93 171.01 221.70 220.60 210.48 198.31 194.62 198.38 191.21 189.57 183.53 146.92 176.61 171.54 164.51 160.72 159.30 158.77 151.20 153.95 153.49 151.00 149.76 138.33 146.45 132.77 132.64 126.31 132.68 132.37 108.61 130.50 129.11

Penticton Salmon Arm West Kelowna Vernon Merritt Trail

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L 1 3 3 6 7 6

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L 3 2 5 6 8

T OTL GF GA Pt 0 0 45 23 18 1 2 42 69 15 0 0 48 38 14 0 0 24 41 8 0 2 20 37 4

ISLAND DIVISION GP Powell River 12 Cowichan Valley11 Nanaimo 12 Alberni Valley 10 Victoria 11

W 9 6 7 4 1

MAINLAND DIVISION Langley Wenatchee Chilliwack Coquitlam Prince George Surrey

GP 10 10 12 13 11 11

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L 3 3 4 5 7 8

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:HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Trail at Vernon, 7 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Prince George at Merritt, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee at Powell River, 7 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Surrey at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Penticton, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Powell River at Victoria, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Langley at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ 2FWREHU Wenatchee at Nanaimo, 6 p.m.

Langley at Penticton, 6 p.m.

Chilliwack at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Powell River at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Prince George at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.

Vernon at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

6XQGD\ 2FWREHU Chilliwack at Nanaimo, 2 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at Victoria, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, October 20 Langley at Surrey, 7 p.m.

NHL

McDavid scores first goal in 4-2 Oilers loss to Dallas THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jason Spezza scored three goals and the Dallas Stars spoiled Connor McDavidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first NHL goal with a 4-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. Spezza made it 3-2 with 4:30 left, moments after Kari Lehtonen stopped Nail Yakupov on a breakaway. Lehtonen made his season debut after backing up Antti Niemi in the first two games. The Stars had 52 shots, their most since Feb. 3, 1990,

in a 7-6 loss to Philadelphia. Spezza finished off the hat trick with an empty-net goal. McDavid, selected No. 1 overall in the June draft, scored in the second period to pull the Oilers even at 2 after they had fallen behind 2-0.

McDavid almost scored Edmontonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first goal when he appeared to tip a shot by defenceman Oscar Klefbom, who got credit for the goal. But McDavid didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to wait much longer, redirecting a long shot by Andrej Sekera past Lehtonen less than

two minutes later midway through the second period.

McDavid struggled in the faceoff circle again, winning just three of nine.

CANADIENS 3, PENGUINS 2 Tomas Fleischmann finished an odd-man rush with his first goal of the season early in the third period and Montreal beat Pittsburgh.

Fleischmann scored off a feed from David Desharnais to help Montreal wrap up its season-opening trip at

4-0-0 and drop Pittsburgh to 0-3-0.

Max Pacioretty scored twice for the Canadiens, and Carey Price finished with 31 saves. Beau Bennett and Kris Letang scored for Pittsburgh. Phil Kessel had up an assist in his home debut with the Penguins, who picked the All-Star forward up over the summer in a blockbuster trade with Toronto.

SHARKS 5, CAPITALS 0 Martin Jones made 31 saves for his

second straight shutout and San Jose took advantage of Alex Ovechkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence from Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lineup.

The Sharks improved to 3-0-0 and have outscored their opponents 12-1.

Jones allowed a goal on the first shot he faced this season, but has blanked opponents for the following 178 minutes, 11 seconds.

Matt Nieto and Chris Tierney each had a goal and an assist, and Joe Thornton, Mike Brown and Tomas Hertl added goals.

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CROSSWORD STAG SOUNDS ACROSS 1 Thailand’s former name 5 Brewer’s oven 9 Cake decorators 14 Norwegian metropolis 15 Résumé, for short 16 Methods 17 Groups with fawns and does 19 Solstice celebrant 20 Zones 21 Walks unsteadily 23 Every single one 24 Sleeveless top 25 Jury selection process 29 Duck calls 34 Company called “Big Blue” 35 Browns in a pan 37 Binge 38 Run leisurely 40 Rug discoloration 42 Toothpaste holder 43 Rude looks 45 Brought to a halt 47 Furious 48 In dreamland 50 Venerable advice column 52 Capital of Italia 54 Up to, for short 55 Kansas’ biggest city 59 Was furious 63 Pakistan neighbor 64 Farm equipment giant 66 Nevertheless 67 Toddler’s boo-boo 68 Be furious 69 Mattress features 70 Sever 71 Swine food

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DOWN 1 Covers with turf 2 “Understood” 3 Actor Baldwin 4 Bricklayer’s cement 5 Sits upon

PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED

6 Shows on TV 7 Benchmark: Abbr.

8 One of the senses 9 Driving force 10 Parka, e.g.

11 Slight advantage 12 Bring up 13 Nine-digit IDs 18 Hangs onto 22 Title for an atty.

24 Covered porch 25 Country home

10/14/1 26 Woodwind instruments 27 Motivate 28 Assign stars to 30 Fitting 31 Cracker bit 32 Skewered fare 33 Shabby 36 Ally (with) 39 Before, in verse 41 Spruced (up) 44 Stories in installments 46 Toweled off 49 Tea container 51 Lets out or takes in 53 Significant 55 State n. of Illinois 56 Bump __ (meet) 57 402, to Caesar 58 Bicyclist’s challenge 59 Knee neighbor 60 Become well 61 Therefore 62 Far from superficial 65 Be indebted to

HI AND LOIS

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» EVENTS // EMAIL: EVENTS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14 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.

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 6:30-8 p.m. Nanaimo Museum Lantern Tours $15, pre-registration required. Email program@nanaimomuseum.ca or call 250753-1821 for details.

SATURDAY, OCT. 17 9 a.m. Bastion City Wanderers Volkssport Club offers five, nine or 12-km. walks at Buttertubs Marsh. Meet in the parking lot off Bowen Road. Registration at 8:45 a.m. For information: 250-756-9796.

SUNDAY, OCT. 18 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cedar Farm Market, Crow and Gate Pub Field 2313 Yellow Point Rd. MONDAY, OCT. 19 7-9 p.m. Nanaimo Art Gallery: ART LAB “OPEN STUDIO.” Open Studio Artists, writers,

poets, collaborators and creatives of all types are invited to interact, find inspiration, and create in a friendly studio setting..

TUESDAY, OCT. 20 6:30-9 p.m. Kimchi Workshop at Costin Hall Kitchen, Lantzville $60 http://stircookingschool.ca/event/kimchi-workshop-2/ WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21 6:30- 7:15 p.m. Brother XII tour. Downtown walking tour. Pre-registration is required 250753-1821, cost is $10.

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HOROSCOPE

by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Deal with a partner or family member directly. You have some day-to-day matters to handle, but that won’t be problem. You might want to add a gym or hot tub to your home, or some other item to improve the quality of your life. Tonight: Enjoy the one you are with.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Defer to others right now. You have the ability to handle whatever you must, but you need to take some time away from your normal role.

Let others appreciate how much you do. Laughter surrounds a child or loved one. Tonight: Act as if you don’t have a care in the world.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You might want to work from home or just stay close to it. You have a lot to do, and you could experience some disruption in your own space.

Can you handle this type of interruption? A partner, roommate or dear friend will be ready to pitch in.

Tonight: Out and about.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your creativity will emerge. Defer to others, and let them make suggestions as well. You’ll find that brainstorming is very stimulating and productive. A friend might be changing right in front of your eyes.

Tonight: Be naughty when coming up with a Halloween costume.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) While others might want to work from home or close to the pad, you will flourish if you do. Why not make your day easier? Use care with your spending. You easily could go over-

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board before you even realize it.

Tonight: Make it easy and order in.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You will express a lot of caring toward a close friend, sibling or associate as well as nearly everyone you come in contact with today. You know and understand the power of positive thinking. A child or loved one might change his or her tune once more. Tonight: Full of fun.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Handle your finances carefully. Don’t allow someone else decide what you can do. Your instincts will guide you, but be careful not to overspend or act in an inappropriate way. Deal with anger and any other feelings head-on. Tonight: Run errands on the way home.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) A meeting could become provocative, and you might keep replaying certain conversations in your mind.

You’ll be able to read between the lines. Decide to approach the situation totally differently, and have a discussion with different words.

Tonight: Put your best foot forward.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Go out of your way to clear up a problem, but first process what is happening in. Know that others might not have the same reaction or be upset by the same situation.

You have reasons for your reaction, but you can choose to let go of the issue. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Say “yes” to a discussion or an impromptu meeting. You like playing to an audience. Know when you have had enough. You quickly and gracefully will move on to a dif-

ferent project or situation. Tonight: The more people around you, the happier you will be.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Stay on top of whatever you are doing.

Touch base with an older friend or family member who can be very difficult and hostile. One-on-one relating adds to the understanding and dimension of various bonds.

Add that personal touch. Tonight: Out till the wee hours.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) A new perspective comes through news you hear. Check the facts before you decide that you want to head in a certain direction. You’ll show an enormous amount of caring when speaking to a loved one. Tonight: Discuss a get-together with someone at a distance.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Oct. 14) This year you seem to be more concerned with your finances than you have in the recent past. You sometimes swallow your feelings without realizing it. You will choose activities that help you forget about the here and now. Be aware of the confusion that sometimes surrounds your days. If you are single, you could meet someone simply by walking to work or going to the bank. Take your time getting to know each other before committing. If you are attached, you and your significant other will opt to make a major purchase this year. Curb a tendency to be overly possessive.

BORN TODAY Singer/songwriter Usher (1978), fashion designer Ralph Lauren (1939), former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890)

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Coach presents his Rugby World Cup squad as Japan’s new sporting heroes

Netherlands falls again, out of finals RAF CASERT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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TOKYO — Eddie Jones saved the highest praise for his Rugby World Cup squad for their homecoming, presenting the Brave Blossoms as “the new sports heroes of Japan.”

Under Jones’ guidance, Japan easily surpassed expectations by winning three pool games in England, kicking it all off with the biggest upset ever, against two-time champion South Africa.

“These are the new sports heroes of Japan,” Jones told a packed news conference at the airport on their arrival home Tuesday.

Officials at World Rugby couldn’t have asked for better exposure of the sport in the country which will host the next World Cup in 2019, the first to be staged in Asia. Japan hadn’t won a Rugby World Cup game in 24 years before leaving for England — its only previous victory against Zimbabwe in 1991.

Jones predicted kids in Japan would now be practicing to kick goals like Ayumu Goromaru, pack down in scrums like Kensuke Hatakeyama, and score tries like winger Yoshikazu Fujita.

“It’s a great credit to the team, they’ve changed Japanese rugby,” national news agency, Kyodo, quoted Jones as saying.

“They played with courage, not only physical courage but mental courage.

“The mental courage is about play-

Japan’s coach, Eddie Jones, talks with his players after the Rugby World Cup Pool B match between USA and Japan at Kingsholm, Gloucester, England, on Sunday. Japan won the match 18-28. [AP PHOTO]

ing the Japanese way. It wouldn’t matter if we went back and played in pink jerseys now. Everybody would recognize the Japanese style of play.

“To finish the tournament ranked ninth in the world, to finish ahead of countries like England, is an absolutely amazing success story.

“But like any success story the next chapter’s so important.”

Jones, who starts his new Super Rugby job in South Africa on Nov. 1, the day after the Rugby World Cup final, said it was crucial for Japan to allow younger players to develop a professional mindset. To be allowed

to be the best they can be.

“I always thought Japanese rugby was underperforming. There are a lot of good players in Japan but unfortunately the rugby culture in Japan is not about performance,” he said.

“From high school, into university, and even in the Top League teams, they don’t train to perform at a high level, they train to be disciplined, they train to be obedient, and therefore they don’t learn the game.”

Jones took over as Japan coach from ex-All Blacks winger John Kirwan in the 2012 season. Before that, he had a long list of coaching appointments, including stints coaching club rugby in Japan, and guiding Australia to the 2003 Rugby World Cup final.

The 55-year-old Australian has a close affinity with Japan — his mother and his wife are Japanese. And before he left England, he hinted he could return to Japan after leading the Stormers.

“It’s always sad when you leave a team that you love,” he said.

That said, he suggested some tough love was needed from rugby administrators in Japan.

“High school, university, and Top League teams need to train rugby players to be rugby players,” he said.

“It’s not just going to happen. It’s going to take a plan, and it’s going to take implementation. And it’s going to be hard . . . because it involves change, and change makes people uncomfortable.”

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Patrick Reed still has a long way to go DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NAPA, Calif. — The Presidents Cup followed the end of a long season for Patrick Reed, and he still has a long way to go.

Reed took up European Tour membership this year, and even with the Presidents Cup counting toward the minimum 13 events he must play, he is four short.

That’s why he is headed back to Asia next week to finish off his schedule.

It starts with the Hong Kong Open.

He also will be in Shanghai for two weeks (HSBC Champions, BMW Masters) ahead of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.

But then he’s still not done. Reed also said he would play the Hero World Challenge that Tiger Woods hosts in the Bahamas and the Franklin Templeton Shootout that Greg Norman hosts in Florida.

“It’s tough,” Reed said. “After I play Tiger’s and Shark Shootout, I’ll be at 35 or 37 weeks of the year I’ll be gone. It’s a lot.”

It might have been easier except that Reed chose to withdraw from two European Tour events — the

BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and the Irish Open — in May when his wife’s cousin died.

Reed is the only American-born player who had his PGA Tour card first and chose to play both tours, and he said he still hasn’t decided whether he would try it next year when the schedule will be even more packed because of the Olympics. But he had no intention of skipping the European Tour events in Asia.

What does he get out of playing both tours?

“Learning how to travel a little bit better, especially with time-zone changes,” Reed said.

“In the States, it’s very easy. But when you’re starting to fly to different countries, it becomes tough.

Even though we had a direct flight here, a 14-hour flight, flying to Hong Kong is a long flight.

“Hong Kong to Malaysia is still a five-hour trip.

Then Malaysia to China is not bad, but then China to Dubai is a long trip.

“You get in Monday afternoon and it seems like the weeks become a little shorter and you need to learn the golf course a lot quicker.”

SPIETH’S PUTTING: According to the PGA Tour, Jordan Spieth led six putting categories (some of them are repetitive), including the tradition putts per round and overall putts.

But one statistic remains hard to believe.

Spieth made 27 per cent of his putts between 15 feet and 25 feet.

That’s the highest per cent since the tour began using lasers for its ShotLink scoring system.

MICKELSON’S WEEK: Phil Mickelson wasn’t kidding when he said how much he enjoyed the team events.

He sat out Saturday morning and was on the course early despite the threat of rain. Standing on the tee at the par-3 third hole, Lefty made sure every American player who walked by rubbed his belly for good luck.

On the golf course, he turned in an unbeaten record (3-0-1) for the third time in the Presidents Cup. He also went 4-0-1 at Harding Park in 2009 and 3-0-2 at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in 2005.

At the start of the week, Mickelson bit his tongue when asked if he wondered how many more times he

would play in a Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup. This was his 21st consecutive team.

“Not yet,” he said. “I’m excited about the way the last few months have gone, which makes me very excited for the coming year and coming years.”

When the reporter mentioned it was a negative question, Mickelson seamlessly interrupted by saying, “with a very positive answer.”

Mickelson headed home for what amounts to a three-month break before starting out in 2016. He is No. 5 in the Ryder Cup standings, mainly on the strength of his runner-up finish at the Masters, though the team effectively is decided by 2016 performances.

“I’m certainly looking forward to next year’s Ryder Cup, as well, and I hope that I don’t put the captain in a position where he has to pick me this time,” Mickelson said.

“I hope that I will be able to make it on my own.”

Still, the question leaving South Korea was whether Mickelson did enough to warrant a captain’s pick for the Ryder Cup if he is 30th in the standings as he was for this one?

BRUSSELS — The Dutch charmed the world with their free-flowing Total Football during the 1970s. In 2015, they are just a Total Loss.

With a second straight home defeat, 3-2 to already-qualified Czech Republic, the Netherlands failed to reach the European Championship finals for the first time since 1984. And rubbing salt into that wound, neighbour and perennial rival Belgium moved top of the FIFA rankings and qualified as the Group B winner with a 3-1 victory over Israel.

“Let’s be chauvinists today,” Belgium captain Vincent Kompany said.

“The Dutch have crashed out and we’re No. 1. Let’s just be proud.”

While Belgium stars like Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard are heading up, Dutch veterans like Robin van Persie, Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder are heading in the other direction.

In this topsy-turvy world, be assured of one thing — always count on Italy.

With two goals late in the game, the Azzurri came from behind to beat Norway 2-1, and offer qualification on a plate to Croatia, which went through on a lone Ivan Perisic goal in Malta. The Scandinavians now face the playoffs.

There was no such hardship for third-place Turkey in the Netherlands’ group. It beat Iceland 1-0 to take the automatic qualifying place for Euro 2016 as the best third-place finisher behind the Czech Republic and Iceland.

Joining Norway in Sunday’s playoff draw are Hungary, Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia. The two-legged series will be staged Nov. 12-14 and Nov. 15-17, with the four winners heading to France next year.

Group A The Netherlands’ elimination overshadowed all that happened in the group. Danny Blind’s team slumped to possibly its worse defeat of a dismal qualification campaign on Tuesday, trailing the 10-man Czech Republic 3-0 in Amsterdam before two late goals provided a little consolation to fans who were already pouring out of the Amsterdam Arena.

With Selcuk Inan scoring the late winner in Turkey’s 1-0 victory over Iceland, even a win for the Netherlands would not have earned a playoff berth.

“We have not been good enough,” coach Danny Blind said.

Hapless defending was again the undoing of the Dutch as Pavel Kaderabek opened the scoring and Josef Sural doubled the Czechs’ lead before the break. Even after Marek Suchy was sent off shortly before halftime and with Blind eventually opting for a five-man attack, the Dutch could only manage two strikes in the second half. Robin van Persie scored at both ends — his own goal giving the Czechs a three-goal cushion, before he netted his 50th international goal at the other end to make it 3-2 after Klaas-Jan Huntelaar’s strike.

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Eileen Bennewith Nutrition Notes

Fall is time to eat well

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Island Pinot Noirs very versatile Sheila Hockin The Lucky Gourmet

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ow many times have you been in the tricky situation of wanting to take a bottle of wine to a dinner party — without knowing what’s on the menu?

It happens to me all the time so, I stick with that which pairs with almost anything, a Pinot Noir.

Our local Pinot Noirs are globally renowned. This grape is the most widely planted varietal on the Island as we have ideal growing conditions for the temperamental grape, i.e. warm but not too hot during the summer days, balanced by cool nights with fresh ocean breezes.

Pinot Noir personifies the expression “what grows together goes together,” making it an outstanding choice with locally produced cuisine.

West Coast cuisine runs the gamut

from rich to light fare. Be it succulent local pork or briny fresh shucked oysters, Pinot Noir will pair with any of them.

What makes the Pinot Noir such a versatile wine is its big punch of flavour up front, its red fruit, medium body, and, most importantly, its acidity.

The Pinot Noir aroma of strawberries, raspberries, cherries and black currants lends itself to all salmon dishes and fowl. Meats traditionally served with fruit, like turkey and pork, work as well.

The lighter body of Pinot Noir pairs it perfectly with delicate fish, crab, prawns and all the other offerings from our coastline.

Then there are the smoky, earthy, slightly funky, lingering flavours and aromas in Pinot Noir. That is where the game and red meat pairing come to play.

There’s a science to how the acid in wine and in animal fats complement each other. On the one hand, animal fat reacts on our palate to increase the richness of the wine. The acid in the wine, in turn, cuts the perception

of fatty residue on our tongue.

Pinot Noir can be well paired with a huge array of foods. Here is a pork tenderloin dish custom-tailored to this noble grape. Easy to prepare and inexpensive, this is a dish any hobby cook can make … but it’s so good, your friends will consider you a culinary genius!

Start by cleaning the pork of excess fat and silver skin. Season with salt and pepper.

Heat a sauté pan on medium setting with two tablespoons of olive oil. Sear the tenderloin, turning frequently to get a nice browning on all sides. Put the pan aside, place the seared tenderloin into an oven-proof pan and bake it at 350F until the internal temperature is 145 – 150F, about 20 minutes.

While the tenderloin is baking, pour about ½ cup of your favourite Pinot Noir into the hot sauté pan to loosen all those lovely pan juices.

Add a finely chopped shallot and an entire bottle of blackberry jam. If you don’t care for seeds, simple push the jam through a fine mesh sieve beforehand.

Continue to simmer the sauce until it reduces down to a thickened state.

Add two cups of chicken stock and keep simmering the sauce until it gently reduces down to one cup.

Remove the pork from the oven and rest it several minutes. Slice the pork loin on a slant and place it on top of a bed of mashed sweet potatoes. Drizzle your sauce over the pork.

Serve up your pork on its sweet potato bed, add a crisp green salad and a warm baguette and there you have it, a gourmet meal.

Be sure to have several bottles of Pinot Noir on hand to accompany the meal. My favourite is Cowichan Valley Averill Creek, rich with dark cherry and plum flavours that will complement the blackberry jam.

Priced at only $24.49 it is an exceptional value.

Resident sommelier Gord Johnson is on hand Oct. 22 at Lucky’s Liquor Store to help explore B.C. Pinot Noirs. For information, call 250-729-1505. » Sheila Hockin is the managing leader for Lucky’s Liquor store.

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Coffee chain to deliver to Empire State Building THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Starbucks will start offering delivery within the Empire State Building, giving office workers the option of paying a $2 fee to avoid making a trip to the lobby.

The Seattle-based coffee chain says 12,000 employees who work in the New York City building will be able to place orders on a designated website, and have their food and drinks delivered within a half hour. The orders

will be delivered to a drop-off area, such as the office’s reception desk.

Starbucks says the service is in line with a push to make its offerings increasingly convenient. That includes the company’s recent national rollout of mobile ordering, which allows orders ahead of time so their food and drinks are waiting for them when they arrive at their designated store. By the end of this year, Starbucks also plans to roll out delivery in Seattle in partnership with Postmates.

For the Empire State Building, Starbucks said it is charging a flat $2 delivery fee which is the same whether people order a single latte or five Frappuccinos (orders are capped to 15 items). The website does not yet have an option for tipping, although people might just want to give a couple extra dollars in cash anyway.

“They could, but right now we’re asking our partners to politely decline (tips),” said Haley Drage, a Starbucks spokeswoman.

The delivery service in the Empire State Building will be supported by a space in the back of a Starbucks Express location in the lobby of the Empire State Building. People have to be enrolled in the Starbucks loyalty program to place orders online for the delivery service.

The Empire State Building’s tenants include Shutterstock, Human Rights Watch and Skanska, according to the website of parent company Empire State Realty Trust.

utumn: Time to be Thankful The fall weather has set in and the days are getting shorter. At this time of year, the cold and flu season will get a “grippe” on us unless we learn to take better care of ourselves. Paying attention to the seasonal changes in the world around us will show us what to do.

Traditionally, our ancestors took time to give thanks for the bounty of a good harvest. The way they ate changed from summer salads and light meals to the soups, stews and savory comfort foods of winter. Eating more root vegetables, newly ripened tree fruits, fresh nuts, beans, and whole grains will help to boost your immune system. Go to the farmers market and pick up the dark red, orange and yellow colours of the harvest. These fruits and vegetables are loaded with antioxidant nutrients needed for a healthy winter. It is time to get out your slow cooker and simmer up a good dinner. When you get home at the end of the day you will be greeted by the delicious smells of food, ready to be served.

The shorter days at this time of year are a signal to get more rest. Give thanks for your warm, comfortable bed and take advantage of the darkness to spend more time in it. There is a link between getting enough sleep and being a healthy weight. If you are well rested, you are less likely to reach for sweets to give you an energy boost. You also deal with stress better when you have had a good sleep.

Getting enough rest combined with lower stress levels help to boost your immune system so you are less likely to get sick.

Another excellent immune booster is exercise. Outdoor activities help you to build up an appetite for harvest meals and also make you tired so you get a more restful sleep. Go outdoors and breathe in the cool crisp fall air.

Rake leaves; put the garden to bed or plant a winter garden. Take long walks with the family. This time of year make a point of noticing the amazing sunrises and sunsets which happen at each end of the very short days. Look for the colour changes that signal the earth’s period of rest from all the bustle of a summer of growth.

In the shorter days of fall and winter, take time to pamper yourself. Plan fewer activities away from home and take some time to cook wholesome food. When you slow down you will notice that the world around you is also at rest. It is a good time to be thankful for the quiet comforts of home. » Eileen Bennewith is a registered dietitian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at eileen.bennewith@viha.ca.

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Four varieties of popcorn treats for Halloween SARA MOULTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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t’s that time of year again, when gaggles of little ghosts, goblins and ghouls expect sweet treats.

Whether you are hosting a graveyard’s worth of spooks or need to supply the treats for a classroom party, this year consider ditching candy in favour of an easy treat you can cook up yourself. I’m talking about popcorn. It’s not only tasty, filling and easy to prepare, it’s versatile, too. Make it sweet and it’ll win with the kids. Having an adult party?

Make it savory!

Start from scratch by popping the corn kernels on the stove. Those microwave bags of popcorn from the supermarket? You don’t need them.

Sure they’re convenient, but most of them also are filled with additives, including hydrogenated fat, artificial colours and flavours, and way too much salt.

My recipe for stovetop popcorn cooks up in a jiffy. As in just five minutes start to finish. In fact, the whole process is over so quickly that I urge you to stay near the stove until all the corn is popped.

I’ve also minimized the danger of burning by specifying a pan that’s just the right size, one that allows you to set out the kernels in a single layer.

With the corn popped, you can then go sweet or savory. For adults, there are Parmesan-garlic and blue cheesehot sauce options. (Either version also would also score big on Super Bowl Sunday). For kids, there’s marshmallow popcorn balls (with an optional dash of cinnamon) or double-chocolate popcorn balls.

And neither kid option requires any special candy-making skills. You just melt and mix the ingredients with the popcorn, then shape it into balls after it has cooled, a job the kids might want to help with.

HALLOWEEN POPCORN TREATS FOR THE POPCORN: Start to finish: 5 minutes Makes 11 to 12 cups 3 tablespoons vegetable or grapeseed oil 1/2 cup popcorn kernels Place the oil in a large saucepan at least 8-inches across at the bottom.

Add 3 popcorn kernels, cover and cook over medium-high heat until the kernels pop. This lets you know when the pan is hot enough.

Remove the pan from the heat, add the remaining kernels and return the pan to the burner. Cook the popcorn over medium-high heat, covered,

With the popcorn popped, you can go either sweet or savory when making popcorn treats. [AP PHOTO]

with a tiny gap to let the steam escape, shaking the pan occasionally until the popping noises slow down to once every 3 to 4 seconds. Remove from the heat.

Use the popcorn in one of the following variations: PARMESAN-GARLIC POPCORN 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 2 teaspoons finely minced garlic 1 batch popcorn 1 ounce grated Parmesan cheese Fine salt and ground black pepper In a small saucepan over mediumlow, heat the butter and the garlic until the butter is melted. In a large bowl, toss the popcorn with the butter mixture. Add the cheese, toss, then season with salt and pepper and toss again.

Nutrition information per serving: 100 calories; 70 calories from fat (70 per cent of total calories); 8 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 85 mg sodium; 6 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 0 g sugar; 2 g protein.

SPICY BLUE CHEESE POPCORN

4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 2 ounces crumbled blue cheese 1 tablespoon hot sauce 1 batch popcorn In a small saucepan over mediumlow heat, melt the butter. Add the cheese and hot sauce and stir until the cheese is melted. In a large bowl, toss the popcorn with the cheese mixture.

Nutrition information per serving: 110 calories; 80 calories from fat (73 per cent of total calories); 9 g fat (3.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 15 mg cholesterol; 85 mg sodium; 6 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 0 g sugar; 2 g protein.

MARSHMALLOW POPCORN BALLS Makes 12 balls 1 batch popcorn 6 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 5 cups mini marshmallows 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional) In a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, spread out the popcorn in an even layer.

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In a medium saucepan over low heat, combine the butter and salt and cook until the butter is melted.

Increase the heat to medium, add the marshmallows and cinnamon, if using, and cook until melted, stirring constantly.

Pour the mixture over the popcorn and quickly mix until all the popcorn is well coated. Let the mixture cool slightly.

Oil your hands and form the marshmallow mixture into 12 balls.

Nutrition information per serving: 180 calories; 80 calories from fat (44 per cent of total calories); 10 g fat (4 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 15 mg cholesterol; 60 mg sodium; 23 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 12 g sugar; 1 g protein.

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1 batch popcorn 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips In a 4-quart saucepan over medium-high, combine the sugar, corn syrup, butter, cocoa and salt.

Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

Remove the pan from the heat and add the popcorn.

Stir to coat well. Cool to lukewarm, then stir in the chocolate chips. Oil your hands and form the marshmallow mixture into 12 balls.

Nutrition information per serving: 220 calories; 120 calories from fat (55 per cent of total calories); 13 g fat (6 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 50 mg sodium; 30 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 21 g sugar; 2 g protein.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE POPCORN BALLS Makes 12 balls 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 2 tablespoons cocoa powder (not Dutch processed)

Sara Moulton was executive chef at Gourmet magazine for nearly 25 years, and spent a decade hosting several Food Network shows.

She currently stars in public television’s Sara’s Weeknight Meals and has written three cookbooks, including Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners.

Global hunger still a challenge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAGOS, Nigeria — A new report says famines appear to have vanished and hunger levels are declining but 795 million people don’t get enough to eat.

The 2015 Global Hunger Index published Monday says hunger levels remain serious or alarming in 52 of 117 countries scored, with armed conflicts

that cause refugees the main culprit.

The people most hungry in the world live in sub-Saharan Africa, in Chad, Central African Republic and, surprisingly, in relatively peaceful Zambia, according to the report.

The report is jointly published by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.

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Try baked eggs in sweet pepper sauce MELISSA D’ARABIAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

School, kids, work . . . It’s always something. Whatever the culprit, we are all busy. And on those crazy-busy days, dinner can sneak up on me, and suddenly I find my whole family ravenous. And the busier and more hectic the day, the more likely we are all craving something satisfying and hearty.

And this, my friends, is the perfect storm for making some regrettable food choices. This is when the pizzas get ordered out of desperation, not true desire. I like to save the oncein-a-while foods like greasy Chinese takeout or drive-thru burgers for just that: once in a while. In our house, fast food is for cravings, not convenience.

When we need a tasty dinner fast (so a trip to the supermarket is out of the question), I turn to a trusty protein source: the egg. Eggs remain one of the least expensive proteins around. Yes, you can do scrambled

eggs for dinner (and we do!), but to bump the egg up a notch and get it squarely out of breakfast-for-dinner territory, try these baked eggs in sweet pepper sauce.

Fill a ramekin with about 1/2 cup of sauce or fillings (from cooked meat to tomatoes to salsa and black beans), add the egg and bake for about 8 minutes. Serve with some nice bread you keep in the freezer for just such a culinary emergency, and your fast food becomes a feast.

The sauce for these baked eggs uses healthy fast foods you can keep in your pantry, such as jarred roasted red peppers and simple marinara sauce (just check the labels to avoid added sugars). You can throw the whole thing together in less time than it took you to read this. Really.

peppers, drained 2 tablespoons capers, chopped if large 1/4 cup chopped Kalamata olives 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1 1/4 cups jarred marinara sauce 4 eggs Kosher salt and ground black pepper Baguette, sliced Heat the oven to 350 F. In a small microwave-safe bowl, mix together the red peppers, capers,

BAKED EGGS IN SWEET PEPPER SAUCE Start to finish: 20 minutes Servings: 4 1/2 cup chopped jarred roasted red

Rules about paying for weddings have changed Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: Our 22-year-old son recently asked his girlfriend to marry him. They have been dating for two years. Now he wants us to meet with her parents to talk about the wedding.

The big topic of conversation will likely be finances.

What is the proper way to discuss who pays for what in regards to the wedding? I am not sure how things work these days, and I assume the etiquette has changed over the years. He is our oldest son, and this is our first wedding.

— Parents in Pittsburgh Dear Parents: You are right that things have changed, and generally for the better. It is no longer the rule that the bride’s parents pay for nearly everything. Adult children with decent incomes should be encouraged to pay for their own weddings, perhaps with help from both sets of parents. Some parents give the children a specific amount and let them plan from there.

Decide how much you are willing to spend (and can afford). Tradition says that the bride pays for such things as the invitations, flowers, photographer and reception costs, while the groom covers the rings, the rehearsal dinner, the officiant’s fee and the licence. But we don’t believe you must stick to that.

Some families now split the costs right down the middle. Others split expenses entirely differently, but equitably, e.g., the bride’s family covers the venue and the food and the groom’s covers

the flowers, photographer, liquor and orchestra. The bride’s family may have their own ideas about the size and lavishness of the affair, so we urge you to be as agreeable as possible without going into debt. You can start this conversation by saying, “We are so happy the kids are getting married. What sort of event did you have in mind?”

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Concerned Employee,” whose boss is grieving over his wife and is drinking to excess, bringing the small business to ruin. I have a different suggestion.

“Concerned” must be practically running the business. Given that the employee has extensive knowledge of the place and was planning to start a similar business when the current owner retires, it is time for “Concerned” to step up and offer to take over while there is still something left.

“Concerned” should discuss it with the owner in the kindest of terms -not as a hostile takeover, but rather a compassionate one, and take measures to make sure the family is on board. It might be possible to work out a schedule of payment that allows the owner to retire with dignity.

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— Learned My Lesson Dear Learned: You’ve made an interesting suggestion. We hope the family is willing to consider allowing “Concerned” to buy out the owner.

olives, Italian seasoning and marinara. Heat in the microwave (cover with a paper towel to avoid splattering) on high until warm, about 30 seconds (depending on oven).

Mist four 8-ounce ramekins with cooking spray. Divide the sauce among the ramekins. Use the back of a spoon to make a crater in the sauce at the centre of each ramekin. One at a time, crack each egg into a small bowl, then gently transfer it to the crater in each ramekin. Season with

salt and pepper, then give a quick mist of cooking spray. Set the ramekins on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until the whites are set, but the yolks are still runny, 8 to 10 minutes.

Serve with slices of baguette.

Nutrition information per serving: 240 calories; 80 calories from fat (33 per cent of total calories); 9 g fat (0 g saturated; 2 g trans fats); 215 mg cholesterol; 1020 mg sodium; 29 g carbohydrate; 4 g fibre; 5 g sugar; 12 g protein.

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