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OTTAWA — Canada’s transport minister quietly wrote to the heads of every major airline in the country earlier this year to try and stamp out a practice where parents were being seated separately from their children on flights.

In the March letter, Lisa Raitt called the issue one “where logic should prevail” and encouraged the airlines to ensure parents were seated with their young children whenever possible.

She asked the airlines to come up with some way to eliminate such incidents, provide “greater predictability” to parents and “minimize the challenges that parents face when they embark on air travel with children.”

A briefing note accompanying the letter suggests the missive wasn’t intended to signal that the federal government was going to legislate an end to the practice by airlines, but to promote what Raitt’s officials called “an industry-led solution to avoid such situations.”

Still, Transport Canada officials wrote in the briefing note that they were “exploring opportunities to address this issue and input from air carriers would be useful in that regard.”

A copy of the letter and briefing note were obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. There are no federal rules requiring parents to be seated next to their children on flights, nor is it a guarantee under airline policy that a parent or guardian will automatically get a seat next to children under age 12.

In dismissing a complaint against six airlines, the Canadian Transport Agency ruled late last year that ticketing rules that don’t guarantee adjoining seats for parents and

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt in Richmond in July. Raitt quietly wrote to the heads of every major airline in the country earlier this year to try and stamp out a practice where parents were being seated separately from their children on flights. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

their children were neither unreasonable nor discriminatory.

The problem may be a result of how passengers can select their seats.

Some airlines charge a seat-selection fee on lower-fare tickets at the time of purchase — a practice “typical of an industry where margins are thin” and carriers are looking for extra revenue without raising ticket prices, the briefing note says.

Some passengers may not pay the fee, instead hoping to pick their seats when they check in, putting them in competition with other passengers in the “first-come, firstserved” race for seats, the note says.

Air Canada, Porter, WestJet and Sunwing all said their existing policies have worked

well to limit the number of times parents are seated separately from their children.

“The airlines try to accommodate parents and children when embarking, but that entirely depends on other passengers’ willingness to accommodate the parents and children,” said John McKenna, president and CEO of the Air Transport Association of Canada, which represents many smaller carriers.

“Not very many people are willing to give up either an aisle or window seat for a middle seat.”

McKenna said there was a “regulatory or legislative solution” to the issue. Parents, he said, should either book as early as possible when there are more seats available on a flight, or pay a seat-selection fee.

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Outgoing CEO lands job with IT security firm “I needed someone with a similar personality to mine with a business head.”

SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

A Nanaimo-based IT security company has snagged outgoing Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation head Sasha Angus as its new CEO. Hyas Inc. founder and chief technology officer Chris Davis made the move official in a press release issued Tuesday.

Angus had announced in July he was stepping down from his post at the NEDC so that he could be closer to his family in Victoria, where his wife is a tenured professor at the University of Victoria. His last day at the NEDC is today.

Angus’s announced departure came as Davis was searching for a CEO for his tech startup, which boasts clients like Google and Facebook.

Chris Davis, Hyas Inc. founder

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Davis said he wanted a candidate with international business experience but a local grounding.

Angus fit the bill, beating out another candidate in New York.

“It happened pretty quickly,” said Davis, who had previous met NEDC CEO for coffee a handful of times to discuss local broadband development and other issues. The two bumped into each other after Angus announced he was leaving the NEDC. “I said, ‘I’ve been looking for a new CEO,’ and he said, ‘Oh really?’” Davis said.

Davis said Angus’ experience in helping to broker large deals plus his mix of public and private sector work, were deciding factors.

Before joining the NEDC, Angus worked as a chief of staff to Alberta’s minister of economic development and also worked for two capital investment firms.

Davis hopes to eventually grow the company from nine to 100 employees and offer “enterprise-grade” information security products to small and mid-sized businesses.

“I needed someone with a similar personality to mine with a business head,” Davis said.

Angus said he was persuaded to join after meeting company staff “and

getting to know Chris over several months.”

He also had support from his wife to take on the new job, which was a key factor in his decision.

Angus said he plans on working remotely from Victoria most of the week and said he is excited to lead the startup company.

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Erasing past mistakes Options available for people who regret getting particular body ink

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manda MacIntosh was barely 17 when she walked into a tattoo store, at a time when art on the lower back was a regular trend.

Her politeness was her downfall.

“The tattoo artist put the stencilled design on my back. I was shocked at how large it was,” said MacIntosh.

“Being more of a shy youth, and having a whole tattoo shop staring at me waiting for my approval was Ross just a little to Armour much pressure Reporting for a quiet girl like myself.

“I felt bad for wanting to make adjustments which would possibly in my mind upset the artist or make the artist irritated.”

She went under the needle and it proved to be a life-changing experience.

Today, MacIntosh is the owner and main operator of Almost Famous Laser Corp, a tattoo removal clinic on Nanaimo’s Northfield Road catering to people with ink they regret.

Tattoos are hardly the mark of danger or deviance they were just a few generations ago. Instead, they are widely available and accepted — to the point that Justin Trudeau can openly sport one on his shoulder.

Twenty years of mainstream inking has made them as much fashion accessory, as any kind of bold statement.

According to a 2010 American study done by the Pew Centre, 23 per cent of the more than 2,000 people surveyed had a tattoo. The number rose to 38 per cent among those between the ages of 18 and 29 years old.

With all those tattoos, there’s bound to be some dissatisfied customers. A 2014 British survey

Amanda MacIntosh, owners of Almost Famous Laser Corp., specializes in tattoo removal. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

“I realized after my first session that the image I had in mind of a nice, dainty masterpiece wasn’t quite what I was going to get.”

Amanda McIntosh, business owner

conducted by the beauty retailer Escentual.com said one in six participants hated their tattoos and wanted them removed.

The 17-year-old MacIntosh fit that profile.

“I lived with my tattoo until after graduation. I decided I wanted a tattoo that I could be proud of. The immediate alternative that I knew

of was to get a tattoo cover-up.”

That decision sparked a long, painstaking process. MacIntosh entered into a series of five tattoo sessions which eventually resulted in a piece of art which would cover 75 per cent of her back — a far cry from the small lower tailbone mark she had originally drawn up in her head.

“I realized after my first session, that the image I had in my mind of a nice, dainty masterpiece wasn’t quite what I was going to get,” she said. “I didn’t understand until I saw the direction my tattoo was going with covering the original pattern. I learned in that moment that whichever image you cover your original with is going to have to be bigger and much darker in order to cover.”

Tattoo artist Cory Farrell, who works at Relegation Tattoo on Nanaimo’s Turner Road, said pretty much anything goes in terms of artwork these days and a customer shouldn’t expect any kind of screening process before the inking begins.

“A tattoo can be anything, absolutely anything you want,” said Farrell.

“People are pretty good about tattoos. They want a piece of art now, not just the old skull and crossbow.

Once you break it down, it’s not like there’s anything harder than the others.”

Farrell said pain comes with the experience and he doesn’t warn customers of that ahead of time, nor of any other regret aspect that might come about later on.

“You should know all that, you’re coming to get a tattoo,” he said.

Farrell has heard a variety of stories behind reasons for getting a tattoo.

“Some people like to put a whole bunch of meaning behind their tattoos, like memorial tattoos, but for the most part it’s just ‘we want to get a tattoo and we want to get a nice piece of artwork.’”

But if the love of the artwork fades, or the circumstances behind the story change, there are options.

According to a CBC report, market research company, IBISWorld, estimates the tattoo removal industry is now worth $75.5 million in the U.S., up 500 per cent from a decade earlier.

MacIntosh said life at Almost Famous Laser Corp — where pigment is removed using lasers — is a busy one.

The price of a small tattoo removal, of up to three inches, is $199 for three sessions. A medium tattoo removal is $299 and a large tattoo $350.

“The way I always advise clients when they come in to enquire about tattoo removal, my first question would be whether they’re looking to fade it out for a cover up or whether they’re looking to completely remove it. If they say

they want to completely remove the tattoo, you start off by letting the client know it’s a very long process.”

MacIntosh says a complete removal can take more than a year and all removal sessions are six to eight weeks apart “because you have to allow the body time to break down the little ink particles that you’re just had fragmented into little bits.”

She says coloured tattoos require more treatment than black.

“The age of the tattoo also plays a big factor. An older tattoo, a lot of the time, it will remove like butter quite well because our body has already had a chance to eat away at the little ink particles.

“As the tattoo fades, I like to add a little more wait time between sessions because the longer you wait, the more your tattoo will respond.”

MacIntosh said the removal process has a snapping sensation and feels like baking grease flying at you.

She insists every tattoo is different in terms of the length of time it will take to be removed.

“You could have one on your arm, one on your leg that you got on the same day, and one will respond better. It’s how your body metabolizes the ink and holds it. Also, one thing that will change how many treatments you’ll need, is if the tattoo artist went over the area too many times.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF Daily News ◆ COURTS

Two people face charges following drug seizure Charges have been laid against two Nanaimo people after a stash of fentanyl and other drugs was seized in central Nanaimo.

Jay Paul Guzina, 38, and Misty Nickol Potzkai, 31, both of Nanaimo, face two counts each of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

The charges stem from seizures of cocaine and the powerful synthetic opiate fentanyl during a joint Nanaimo RCMP operation between drugs and property crime investigators.

Guzina and Potzkai are scheduled to appear in Provincial Court in Nanaimo on Nov. 17.

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Flag person injured after being hit by car A flag person was struck by a car at a construction site on the corner of Park Avenue and Ninth Street on Sept. 23.

Nanaimo RCMP constable Kate Mooney said the woman’s right leg was slightly injured and she was transported to the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and released the same day.

Mooney said people at the scene of the incident managed to write down the licence plate number of the car.

“We went to the driver’s residence and he said he wasn’t aware that he had struck the flag woman,” she said.

“He will be charged with the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and will appear in court at a later date.”

COMMUNITY

‘Exciting time’ of growth as centre celebrates 50th year ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Since it first began operations in Nanaimo in 1965, the Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre has seen tremendous growth.

The centre has blossomed from a coffee drop-in centre to an agency providing a multitude of services to those in need in the city, including educational and training programs, health and counselling services, career counselling and cultural and recreational programs.

While Tillicum Lelum’s primary goal is to improve the quality of life for aboriginal people living in an urban environment, Tammie Wylie, a member of the centre’s management team, said Tillicum Lelum is open to anybody who requires its services.

“We offer programs that range from prenatal to elderly care and everything in between,” Wylie said.

“Yet we are often unknown and unnoticed in the city.”

Tillicum Lelum celebrated its 50th anniversary Wednesday with activities and entertainment at Beban Park in the morning, followed by tours of its many locations spread throughout Nanaimo in the afternoon.

Grace Elliott-Nielson, executive director of the centre, said it’s an “exciting time” to share 50 years of service to the community.

“We’ve come a long way and have grown over the decades into a large

Paul Lacerte, executive director of the British Columbia Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, shares a hug with Lise Haddock Wednesday at the Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre’s 50th anniversary celebrations. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

centre with 58 programs and more than 80 staff members,” she said.

“We have been a model for many programs addressing the needs of thousands of babies, children, youth, elders and families.”

Wylie said the centre’s vision for the future is to consolidate all its programs in one location, instead of its current status of being spread out over seven locations in Nanaimo.

She said the 10-year plan is a $26-million project that would move all the programs to property the centre owns on Tenth Street.

Wylie said fundraising for the project has already begun, but she anticipates it will take up to a decade to complete.

She said there has been a growing openness in society to reconciliation with First Nations since the centre

first opened its doors.

“But we still have a long way to go,” Wylie said.

“It’s said that it takes seven generations to make meaningful change, but we’re going in the right direction.”

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ELECTION 2015

EDUCATION

Residents should check out all information before voting day

Secondary school parents unhappy with bus service plan

SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Voters who do not receive voter information cards in the mail this week should check with Elections Canada to make sure they are registered to vote, according to Elections Canada.

The information cards tell voters where they can cast their ballot on election day, Oct. 19. Unlike in provincial elections, where residents can cast a ballot at any polling station — even outside the riding they live in — each voter in the federal election is assigned a specific polling station.

Elections Canada spokeswoman Dorothy Sitek said it will be important for voters who do not receive their information cards to check to see if and where they are registered to vote.

That is especially true in an election as there are new ridings with newly drawn boundaries.

In some cases, there are big changes. Such is the case with Nanaimo-Ladysmith, one of several new ridings on Vancouver Island.

But, “In some cases the ridings have changed very minimally,� said Sitek.

For example, a polling station a voter may have used in the past may no longer be assigned to them.

Also, in some cases, due to the changes, some candidates running again may not be available to those who voted for them in the past. “You can’t assume that they are running in the same riding,� Sitek said.

Sitek said residents can use Elections Canada’s online tool to find out if and where they are registered to vote.

For those who are not registered to vote, that can be done online until Oct. 13 at 6 p.m., or at the riding’s local Elections Canada office by the same deadline.

Residents can also register by mail

by Oct. 13 or even at the polling station on election day. However, if the latter option is taken, a person must be prepared to provide proof of their identity and address with approved identification documents.

be for one year only, with the expectation that most of the students taking the bus will attend CSS next year.

School board chairman Steve Rae said the motion put forward on the bus issue last year called for just one year of service, and that motion still stands. “If people have concerns, let us know and we’ll look at all possible options,� he said. “But there would be significant costs to keeping the bus service.�

ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Katie Bowell wants to know why the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district is discontinuing bus service between the Cedar area and John Barsby Secondary School next year.

Bowell, who lives in Cedar, said many secondary students in the area who chose to go to John Barsby last year when Cedar Secondary School closed, including her daughter, are “settled and happy� and may want to remain at the school. “They are caught in the middle of many decisions that will affect their future,� she said. “My hope is that the school district will reconsider busing our children to their chosen school if the need is there.�

Bowell is among a number of parents from the Cedar area who are taking exception to plans by the dis-

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CSS, which closed in the spring of 2014, is scheduled to reopen in September 2016, and the district plans to cancel bus service from Cedar to the two other secondary schools.

The school board decided earlier this year that the bus service would

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Man hospitalized after rare reaction to his new medicine SARAH SIMPSON COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

A young couple’s life turned upside down in early September, when husband Andrew Blount contracted a serious illness as a side effect of taking a new medication.

“It’s very rare. The hospital rarely sees it. Stevens Johnson syndrome isn’t necessarily very rare but this severity of it is,” explained his wife Teresa.

Blount, 31, has Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, known at TEN, a more severe variant of Stevens Johnson syndrome.

A rare and devastating side effect of a newly prescribed medication, TEN causes the top layer of skin to separate from the other layers, causing severe blisters inside and out and leaving the patient prone to infection.

It’s treated similarly to severe burns and can be unbearably painful.

Andrew has been in hospital since Sept. 10 with no end in sight.

“It just came on so quickly,” Teresa said. “Oddly enough they had two in Royal Jubilee in at the same time, Andrew and another, with the same thing,” she said, noting the same type of medication did not cause both cases.

Blount had gone to his doctor with what he thought was pinkeye on Sept. 9. Less than 24 hours later, he was admitted to Cowichan District Hospital with his eyes nearly swollen shut.

Cowichan computer pro Andrew Blount, left, is currently in Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria.

“That Thursday evening when he was in the hospital, I think it was the internal medicine doctor, he figured it was a reaction to the medication. Right from that evening they pretty much figured it out. But it spread so fast,” Teresa said.

On Sept. 13 Blount was transferred to Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria.

Teresa had taken two weeks off work to spend them at her husband’s bedside but had to return to work some shifts this week.

She had been commuting daily

to see her husband but hasn’t been able to recently as she’s been sick.

“If I have anything as small as a sore throat I can’t go up,” she said.

Infection is a serious risk and could lead to potentially fatal consequences.

“You have to gown up and everything before you go in and see him,” Teresa said.

Blount, a one-time Black Tie award nominee for his exceptional customer service while working in the London Drugs

computer department, has been hooked up to a ventilator for weeks and is now being fed by a tube.

“He can kind of move his body around a little bit and nod yes or not, or squeeze your hand but he’s not speaking or anything.

They have him sedated and on a bunch of pain medication,” Teresa explained.

Andrew is a computer pro, owning and operating Cowichan Technology.

The family maxed out their credit cards paying their staff before closing the small business’s doors after he got sick.

With a mortgage to pay, Teresa is on her own while Andrew fights to recover.

A gofundme campaign has been set up to help this Duncan family.

“It kind of blew up over night,” Teresa said of the page, which aims to raise $20,000 to help the family now that Blount can’t work and his wife is taking as much time away as she can to be at his beside.

It’s believed Blount will recover, but it’s a very long road ahead.

“Definitely,” Teresa said.

“The doctors have told us that he’ll be in ICU for at least a couple more weeks and then he’ll transfer to the plastics ward in the same hospital for rehab and whatnot, and he could be there for a few months at least — and that’s if everything goes the way it should be and there are no infections or anything.”

SOUTH ISLAND

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Buttons the therapy pooch put down after attack by larger dog ERIC ZIMMER MAPLE RIDGE-PITT MEADOWS TIMES

Buttons, the Shih Tzu-Lhasa Apso cross, would have been seven years old next month.

However, instead of getting ready to mark the little therapy dog’s birthday, his owners are grieving his loss and saying goodbye after a tragic incident Monday.

On that sunny morning, as they have done numerous times before, Pitt Meadows retirees John and Yvonne McDonald — who are also members of St. John’s Therapy Dogs program — took Buttons for a walk.

They decided to stop for a coffee at the McDonald’s restaurant on Harris Road and Lougheed Highway around 11 a.m.

That’s when things quickly took a turn for the worse.

John opted to stay on the outdoor patio with Buttons, while Yvonne went inside to order their drinks.

“All of a sudden, I heard screaming outside,” Yvonne said.

Another dog, which was sitting on the patio with its owners, had

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charged Buttons and clamped its jaws down around the little dog’s stomach, she said.

“It was horrendous,” John said.

The dog’s owners had a muzzle with them, but had taken it off, and untied the dog to allow it to get a drink of water and didn’t put the muzzle back on, John said.

“The minute it saw Buttons, it rushed Buttons — who of course went straight into a submissive position, and it took us about five minute to finally get this dog off him.”

At that point, John said the large dog’s owners put the muzzle back on him and walked away with the dog.

The rest of John and Yvonne’s day was spent at an emergency animal clinic. Buttons was found to have a broken leg in two places, which could have meant amputation.

Further assessment also showed puncture marks from the big dog’s teeth went right through to Buttons’ stomach, meaning surgery would be required but offered no guarantees.

Therefore, the decision was made Monday night to put Buttons down.

For the McDonald’s, the price of Buttons’ potential surgery was simply too prohibitive, said John.

Since the incident, one of the owners has contacted the McDonalds and has taken responsibility for untying and unmuzzling the dog, offering to pay the vet bills.

“Both my wife and I are seniors and my daughter told us ‘there’s no way you can spend $14,000 to have a dog fixed, Dad.’ But it’s a case of what they’re willing to do and what they actually do might be two different things,” John said.

“(Buttons) died of massive internal injuries,” said Yvonne. “He was a very much loved dog. He volunteered at the Pitt Meadows Library, Ridge Meadows Hospital, and Willow Manor. He especially loved kids.”

John said his biggest fear is that this attack took place in a public seating area, and it “could have been a child.”

John and Yvonne have contacted the RCMP and bylaws department in Pitt Meadows.

The large dog (noted as a bullmastiff by the city and an American Staffordshire terrier by Ridge Meadows RCMP) is known to city bylaw enforcement, and been deemed dangerous under the city bylaw, said chief administrative officer Kim Grout.

This designation comes with “a long list of requirements that relates to confinement of the dog, behaviour training and assessment, publicly posting on the property that the dog is dangerous and so on,” she said.

The dog’s owners appear very remorseful and have been very compliant, Grout said.

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VANCOUVER — Multiple legal challenges aimed at overturning the federal government’s approval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline will be heard starting today.

The challenges are expected to put the government’s environmental approval process and its responsibility to consult with aboriginal groups in the spotlight. Eight First Nations, four environmental organizations and one labour union launched the legal actions, which will be heard at the Federal Court of Appeal over six days in Vancouver. Their arguments include that the federal panel that reviewed the project failed to adequately consider threats to wildlife and oceans and excluded key issues of concern for First Nations.

The government accepted the panel’s recommendations with more than 200 conditions and in June 2014 approved the $7-billion project which would carry bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to B.C.’s coast. Canada’s Attorney General, Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership and the National Energy Board are named as respondents to the challenges.

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Double-murder case could set precedent DALE BOYD PENTICTON WESTERN NEWS

A legal precedent could be set in the sentencing recommendations of the man found guilty of double murder in Princeton.

The sentencing of John Ike Koopmans, 52, who was convicted in April for the murders of Robert Keith Wharton and Rosemary Fox as well as the attempted murder of Bradley Martin, will conclude on Oct. 6.

There was a 15-year disparity between the sentencing recommendations that Crown prosecutor Frank

Dubenski and defence counsel Don Skogstad put before Justice Miriam Maisonville on Sept. 25. Dubenski said his suggested sentence of life without the eligibility of parole for 30 years is backed by recent legislation, Bill C-48, making it the first recommendation of this nature in B.C. according to Dubenski.

The act, also known as the Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murderers Act, amended the Criminal Code when it was passed by the House of Commons on February 2011. It

aims to enable judges to use parole ineligibility periods as instruments off denunciation, allowing them to keep multiple murderers in custody for longer periods of time serving sentences consecutively and lengthening parole eligibility periods.

The sentencing recommendations in the bill were first used in 2013 in the case of Travis Baumgartner, who pleaded guilty to the murders of his fellow armoured car guards in a 2012 Edmonton robbery.

However, unlike prior cases that have used this legislation, Koopmans

has not pleaded guilty and maintains his innocence.

“The majority of the cases up to this point have involved guilty pleas and some joint submissions after guilty pleas so there’s been some negotiation in the resolution of the matters,” Dubenski said. “This seems to be the first case, at least here in B.C., where there’s been no joint submission. The judge told us the case that she’s doing in the lower mainland is a joint submission, so we’ll see.”

Koopmans’ defence counsel put

forward a recommendation for a 17.5-year sentence, less time served.

“We do not deal with it because we’re angry and we want vengeance.

We want to exact punishment, but we want to do so in the framework of the law,” Skogstad said.

Koopmans’ application for a mistrial on the count of attempted murder was denied on Sept. 24. The application was submitted due to the fact that the jury in the eight-week trial was not given options to convict Koopmans for lesser charges on that count.

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Report says employees snoop inappropriately in patient records JEFF NAGEL BC LOCAL NEWS

Too many health authority employees inappropriately snoop in patient records and some deliberately disclose sensitive information via social media or cellphones.

That’s one of the most serious types of breaches flagged by B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham in a new report on how the province’s health authorities guard against privacy breaches.

The report cites “cases of snooping where staff members access records of VIP or other patients out of curiosity or for malicious intent.”

It uncovered four cases in 2013 of staff posting photos of patients to Facebook or Instagram, and three cases of doctors or nurses taking photos.

Another nurse commented on a patient’s health information on Facebook.

“The OIPC has serious concern regarding health authority staff deliberately disclosing the sensitive personal information of patients through their own mobile devices and on social media,” the report said.

The report doesn’t break down the number or frequency of incidents between B.C.’s health regions.

Denham’s office has received 200 privacy breach complaints over 10 years from health authorities but suspects that’s just one per cent of the actual number of incidents.

Misdirected faxes were the single most common type of privacy breach identified.

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Half of health authorities reported problems with home care workers leaving patient records unsecured in their cars against policy.

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Happiness, harmony in the school district remains far off

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erhaps one day, the endless back-and-forth between members of the public and the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district will cease and there will be happiness, harmony and a new high school for everyone.

Just don’t expect it to happen anytime soon. The latest flap has to do with (surprise!) the controversial decision to close Cedar Secondary School in 2014.

Following that move, children in the area were either bused to John Barsby Secondary in Nanaimo, or had to find their own way to attend Ladysmith Secondary.

Fast forward to today. A decision from a newly elected scoreboard

“It’s been long proven in this district that the squeaky wheel gets the most grease.”

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reversed the call on the CSS closure.

Unfortunately, this appears to leave students in the Cedar once again in a state of flux.

Parent Katie Bowell told the Daily News she wants to know why the district is discontinuing bus service between the Cedar area and Barsby next year.

And the endless circle continues.

Bowell, who lives in Cedar, said many secondary students in the area

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grease. But no district will ever have enough money to keep everyone happy, no matter how many facilities plans are reversed or new trustees voted in. We’ve said many times we can appreciate the efforts of those parents, fighting things like school closures on behalf of their children.

Wonderful from a democracy standpoint, since that’s how the system works.

The school board decided earlier this year that the bus service to Barsby would be for one year only, with the expectation that most of the students taking the bus will attend CSS next year.

School board chairman Steve Rae said if people have concerns, they can

voice them, and trustees will look at all possible options. The new group has proven that it’s willing to listen.

But only so much can be done.

“There would be significant costs to keeping the bus service,” said Rae. And therein lies the rub. It all comes down to economics. It always does. Eventually, the district will come up with a plan that makes the tough decisions and, if we’re lucky, results in a new, ministry-approved high school.

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who chose to go to Barsby last year when CSS closed, including her daughter, are “settled and happy” and may want to remain at the school.

Why wouldn’t they? Stability is a huge factor for children of all ages.

When you have children attending Grade 11 in one school, then graduating from another (not by choice), that’s a problem.

When you have children starting Grade 8 at one school, then getting bounced to another, then having to choose all over again a year later, that’s more than a problem.

The parents are quite right to stand up for their children. If anything, it’s been long proven in this district that the squeaky wheel gets the most

Rick Jeffries Guest column

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oday’s land use balance is result of intensive, collaborative process The Commission of Resources and Environment Vancouver Island land use planning process that took place in the early 1990s was a comprehensive, multi stakeholder planning process.

It resulted in the government enacting the 2000 Vancouver Island Higher Level Plan Order that achieved a hard won balance between environment, economic and social outcomes for land use in the region.

Back in those days, I was one of the many stakeholders who sat at the planning table working towards a plan that would specify a new way of managing Vancouver Island lands and forests.

I personally led the negotiations on behalf of small forestry-related business. My fellow stakeholders included others such as Bill Routley, MLA for the riding that includes the Walbran Valley, and Saul Arbess who represented the ENGO’s. We were at it for three intense years of interest-based negotiations.

The Vancouver Island Land Use Plan increased the area of Vancouver Island’s parks and conservation areas to over 18 per cent and far beyond the Bruntland Report’s recommended 12 per cent.

This included the expansion of the Carmanah Pacific Park to include the lower Walbran to form the new Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park. In total, this amounted to the addition

An employee of the The Teal-Jones Group in Surrey. [RICH LAM PHOTO]

of 12,843 hectares of undisturbed natural forest in the Walbran.

Other critical areas were protected by the government to complete a representative system of parks across Vancouver Island as an integral part of the land use plan.

There was no mistake here but reasoned and ecologically based decisions.

Importantly, the VILUP Higher Level Plan Order designated that 2,600 hectares along the east side of the Walbran Valley as a Special Management Zone which meant it was to be sensitively managed.

This included the area known as “the bite.” Specifically, this area was

designated as available for harvesting but was prescribed to be managed as a focal area for old seral forest retention with emphasis on riparian areas and recreational access management.

Factors such as biodiversity, wildlife, fish, recreation, water, timber, cultural heritage and more were all listed as key considerations on how the forests in this area would be harvested. In this manner the important values in the Upper Walbran can be managed while providing economic value and jobs.

Twenty years later, I work as a CEO representing B.C.’s coastal forest industry, B.C. is known worldwide

as a leader in sustainable forest management.

Over 3.5 million hectares of B.C.’s coastal public forests are held in parks and conservancies.

Undisturbed, parks such as the Carmanah-Walbran are not available for harvest.

A robust integrated planning framework is in place that addresses the many different values found across the landscape.

The framework accommodates new and better information and public review requirements. First Nations are required to be consulted and accommodated.

Meantime, we have a coastal forest industry that is sustainable and is characterized by a mosaic of natural and managed forests distributed across the ecoregions of coastal B.C. Investments have been made, and jobs created, in forestry and manufacturing, because of the unprecedented pact that secured a balance of social, environmental and economic values on Vancouver Island.

Now I see that there’s been calls by some of my colleagues in the CORE process to revisit the policies that were put in place to protect areas including the Walbran.

The forest management plans that Teal Jones is moving forward with today are exactly as provided for by the VILUP and contemplated in the CORE process.

New developments will always arise, and the Vancouver Island Land Use Plan has provided a good, solid balance for sustainable forest management in our province that’s been celebrated around the world ever since. » Rick Jeffery is president and CEO of Coast Forest Products Association.

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Communities join call for more local regulation over medical pot outlets

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With medical marijuana dispensaries continuing to open in defiance of federal law, more B.C. communities have joined the call for local authority to regulate what are often little more than retail pot stores.

Lower Mainland communities found majority support at last week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention to bypass legal wrangling over medical marijuana access, as a court challenge continues against the Conservative government’s strict controls on growing and selling it legally.

Maple Ridge Coun. Corisa Bell said other cities are facing the same issues as Vancouver, where about 100 dispensaries have opened in a free-for all with street-level marketing to young people. Vancouver ignored instructions from federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose to use authorized sources of medical marijuana, and adopted a licensing system last spring to keep

pot shops away from schools, community centres and each other.

Vancouver set a licence fee of $30,000 for dispensaries and $1,000 for non-profit “compassion clubs,” with Victoria preparing to follow suit.

But other communities don’t have the same revolutionary zeal.

Esquimalt Coun. Susan Low, whose community banned the pipe-headed mascot “Bongy” from hawking wares of a marijuana paraphernalia store in 2013, said she isn’t qualified to regulate medical pot. The Lower Mainland proposal also doesn’t prevent a patchwork of different rules in adjoining communities, Low said.

Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart said the latest resolution seems intended to stick to municipal authority over location and zoning, but it doesn’t say so explicitly, and the UBCM loses credibility when it wanders outside its mandate.

Port Alberni Coun. Jack McLe-

man said he supports the twoyear-old UBCM endorsement of legalizing pot, although his drug of choice for pain is Scotch whisky. He said his council has been approached about medical dispensaries, and invited applications, but no one followed through.

“Just legalize the junk,” McLeman said. “Don’t tell me it’s your aspirin.”

Maple Ridge Coun. Craig Speirs drew laughter from delegates when he said there was “some consternation” when his city’s first dispensary opened, “but it’s proved to have a calming effect on the neighbourhood.”

The motion to support municipal control over pot stores passed in a show of hands, with about one third of those attending opposed. » We want to hear from you.

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Brad Bennett has served on several private and public boards, including the boards of University of British Columbia and Kelowna General Hospital.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett — who’s no relation — told the legislature on Wednesday that chairman of BC Hydro isn’t a paid position and that Brad Bennett is volunteering his services.

Brad Bennett’s father served as B.C.’s premier and his grandfather, W.A.C Bennett, created BC Hydro when he lead the province in the 1960s.

He takes over the position from Stephen Bellringer whose term expires Sept. 30.

Clark says it will take someone of Bennett’s abilities to follow Bellringer, who guided Hydro through a period of renewal with projects such as the start of the massive Site C dam construction on the Peace River.

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Finance Minister defends their right to conduct official business during the election “When there’s a matter of importance or urgency for the government to deal with in the national interest then it’s appropriate for us to do that. And this is certainly one of those cases.”

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OTTAWA — Panda bears and Joe Oliver — two things rarely seen thus far on the 2015 campaign trail — made unexpected appearances Wednesday that left political observers scratching their heads.

The finance minister surfaced in his hotly contested Toronto riding of Eglinton-Lawrence to crow about the latest GDP numbers: a paltry 0.3 per cent growth in July, leaving some to wonder why he’d even bothered.

“Our low-tax plan for jobs and growth is working,” Oliver boasted.

Sneered Unifor economist Jim Stanford: “Claiming ’victory’ because GDP is growing again after a recession is a bit like commenting on how good it feels to stop beating your head against the wall.”

And the pandas? News out of Toronto that one of the two rare beasts on loan from China is pregnant with twins prompted a punchy Conservative war room to promise to double Canada’s panda population by next year.

OLIVER Joe Oliver, finance minister

“The prime minister also noted that his low-tax, balanced-budget plan to protect Canada’s economy would ensure a consistent supply of bamboo and other treats,” the party’s news release wryly noted.

One symptom, perhaps, of Canada’s unduly long 11-week campaign.

Here’s another: the business of government has to carry on, even when that business includes nailing down sprawling, 12-country Pacific Rim trade deals, which is why Trade Minister Ed Fast was in Atlanta instead of his B.C. riding.

“Canada is prepared to negotiate, to stay here until we have a deal,” Fast said. “We believe we are on track to do so.”

The fact the deal could be born in the throes of an election campaign had both Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair crying foul, saying the rules require opposition parties to be consulted.

Fast and Oliver both shrugged off that suggestion.

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“When there’s a matter of importance or urgency for the government to deal with in the national interest, then it’s appropriate for us to do that,” Oliver said. “And this is certainly one of those cases.”

Trudeau has “not been approached by anyone in government on the Trans-Pacific Partnership” — indicative, he said, of the Harper government’s control-freak approach to the flow of information.

Mulcair said he is “very worried” about what Prime Minister Stephen Harper is willing to put on the table.

The focus on the TPP has knocked last week’s hot-button election issue — niqabs at citizenship ceremonies — to the back burner.

The Liberals and the NDP have accused the Conservatives of using an issue that affects few people to divide voters and instill fear.

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The COC received a complaint last Friday about Aubut and has retained Francois Rolland, former Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, to head up an independent investigation.

“Mr. Marcel Aubut has learned of allegations concerning remarks he allegedly made to a colleague,” said Aubut in a statement.

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Western officials question Russian airstrikes in Syria NATALIYA VASILYEVA AND JIM HEINTZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW — Russia launched airstrikes Wednesday in Syria, sharply escalating Moscow’s role in the conflict but also raising questions about whether its intent is fighting Islamic State militants or protecting longtime ally, President Bashar Assad.

President Vladimir Putin called it a pre-emptive strike against the militants, and the Russian Defence Ministry said its warplanes targeted and destroyed eight positions belonging to extremists from the IS group, also known as ISIL or ISIS. It did not give specific locations.

But French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers in Paris: “Curiously, they didn’t hit Islamic State. I will let you draw a certain number of conclusions yourselves.”

U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter also said the Russians appeared to have targeted areas that did not include Islamic State militants and complained Moscow did not use formal channels to give advance notice of its airstrikes to Washington, which is conducting its

“If they (militants) succeed in Syria, they will return to their home country, and they will come to Russia, too.”

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He said the Russians should not be supporting the Assad government and their military moves are “doomed to fail.”

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington was prepared to welcome Russian military action in Syria as long as it is directed against IS and other al-Qaida affiliates, but would have “grave concerns” if it conducted strikes against other groups.

The U.S. and Russia both agree on the need to fight the Islamic State but not about what to do with Assad.

The Syrian civil war, which grew out of an uprising against Assad, has killed more than 250,000 people since March 2011 and sent

millions of refugees fleeing to other countries in the Middle East and Europe.

Russia’s first airstrikes in Syria came after Putin met Monday with President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, where they discussed Moscow’s military buildup in the country.

Obama had said the U.S. and Russia could work together on a political transition, but only if the result was Assad’s departure.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Russians’ new action “calls into question their strategy, because when President Putin and President Obama had the opportunity to meet at the UN earlier this week, much of their discussion was focused on the need for a political transition inside Syria.”

Putin, who is Assad’s most powerful backer, justified the airstrikes as a move to not only stabilize Syria, but also help stifle global terrorism.

“If they (militants) succeed in Syria, they will return to their home country, and they will come to Russia, too,” Putin said at a government session.

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Purse snatcher gets surprise: Quebec teachers off the job to Only four Sea Kings due to Woman, 79, fights off assailant protest lagging contract talks retire despite send-off party A Winnipeg senior says a thief chose the wrong person to rob.

Phyllis Jolly had just visited a bank to pick up money and was shopping in the West End Tuesday morning.

Around 11:20 a.m., the 79-year-old was crossing the street when she said a woman grabbed her purse, which had $250 cash inside. But Jolly didn’t let go, and says she fought as the woman tried to steal her purse, grabbing her hair.

Jolly says three men and one woman who drove by in a truck came to her aid and called police.

She said three police cars showed up and her attacker was arrested.

Nearly one-third of Quebec’s public school students had the day off Wednesday as their teachers went on strike to protest lagging contract talks with the provincial government.

The French-language teachers demonstrated outside schools before making their way to Montreal for a rally to decry what they call a decline in working conditions and the quality of education offered to students.

Union officials say there has been no progress despite 70 meetings and they blame the province and school administrators for wanting to increase class sizes, thus putting a huge burden on teachers while significantly reducing student services.

Only four of the air force’s venerable CH-124 Sea King helicopters are due to be written off between now and the end of next March, despite last June’s splashy retirement party for the five decade-old workhorses.

The Conservative government held a media event at the military air base in Shearwater, N.S., that included Diane Finley — public works minister at the time — declaring she was “delighted to begin putting these workhorses out to pasture.”

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act indicate — as do several defence sources — that it won’t be as smooth a transition to retirement as the politicians would like.

Maria Mitousis in Winnipeg on Wednesday.

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A Winnipeg lawyer who lost her right hand when a letter bomb exploded in her office said she doesn’t replay the ordeal in her head and doesn’t have time for self-pity.

Maria Mitousis spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday when she thanked all the police officers, paramedics and health professionals who have helped her since she was injured last July.

“These things happen — tragedy happens, crazy things happen,” she said. “I don’t think, ‘Why me?”’

As officials lauded her bravery and courage, Mitousis said she wasn’t sure minutes after the blast whether she would survive, but her colleagues and first responders made her feel safe.

“The first moments, when you’re alone, it’s confusing. I was confused. I didn’t know what had happened,” she said, her voice wavering.

“After it happened, everyone was there. They immediately took control. Our articling student, I could hear her on the phone with the ambulance and I was so comforted by that.”

Mitousis lost her right hand and bears scars on her face from the letter bomb that was contained in a seemingly harmless package sent to her office. She met many of the people who came to her aid for the first time Wednesday.

Guido Amsel was charged with attempted murder after three letter bombs were sent to his former wife’s workplace and the offices of lawyers who had represented him and his wife in their divorce.

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Study links asthma with gut bacteria

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Effort to nix citizenship Defrocked Arctic priest on terrorism challenged admits more sex abuse

Cop pleads not guilty in streetcar shooting

An Ottawa man serving time for terrorism offences is asking a court to halt the federal government’s attempt to strip him of Canadian citizenship.

In an application to the Federal Court of Canada, Misbahuddin Ahmed says the government is relying on unconstitutional provisions to revoke his citizenship.

He is just the latest to challenge the new law, which allows the government to take Canadian citizenship away from someone convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage — as long as they hold citizenship in another country.

A Toronto police officer charged in the shooting death of a teenager on a streetcar two years ago has pleaded not guilty in the case.

Const. James Forcillo is charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder in the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim.

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

Forcillo, free on bail, has been working at Toronto Crimestoppers in an administrative role.

A defrocked Arctic priest already jailed for the sexual abuse of Inuit children is awaiting further sentencing on another four charges.

Eric Dejaeger is to be sentenced Oct. 22 after pleading guilty in Iqaluit on Tuesday to crimes in Edmonton and Grande Cache, Alta.

They include indecent assault and gross indecency.

Dejaeger, who is 68, lived in Edmonton from 1974 to 1978, when he was studying to be a priest. He is already serving a 19-year sentence for 32 sex offences against Inuit children between 1978 and 1982.

Dr. Stuart Turvey in the lab in Vancouver. Turvey is coauthor of a new study that suggests not having enough of certain ‘good’ intestinal germs early in life may increase babies’ risk of developing asthma. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

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TORONTO — Canadian researchers have discovered that babies at high risk of developing asthma may have low levels of four types of bacteria in their gastrointestinal tracts — and replacing those microbes might prevent the disease.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that clogs the airways with mucous, causing an affected person to cough, wheeze and have difficulty breathing. The disease kills roughly 250 Canadians each year, about 20 of them children.

The condition arises when the immune system — which develops early in life through interactions with bacteria and other microbes in the gut — goes awry and attacks lung and airway tissues, causing them to overreact to allergens like pet dander and other environmental triggers.

A research team led by University of British Columbia scientists identified four bacteria that appear to be involved with the development of asthma when deficient in numbers.

Dubbed FLVR — for Faecalibacterium, Lachnospira, Veillonella and Rothia — these bacteria are typically acquired by babies from the environment. They are among trillions of bugs

that make up the human “microbiome” and are critical for keeping us healthy.

But factors such as being born via a C-section versus vaginal birth, having formula over breastfeeding, and taking bacteria-destroying antibiotics early in life can alter the makeup of so-called good bacteria in the digestive system.

“This research supports the hygiene hypothesis that we’re making our environment too clean,” said co-lead investigator Brett Finlay, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia.

“It shows that gut bacteria play a role in asthma, but it is early in life when the baby’s immune system is being established.”

The researchers, whose findings appeared Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, made that determination after analyzing fecal samples from 319 children enrolled in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development study.

In an accompanying editorial, New York University microbiome specialists Martin Blaser and Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello say the study “provides new pieces of the puzzle.”

“Confirmation and extension of these findings should allow us to develop better approaches to prevention, including restoration of microbiota,” they wrote.

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Secret Service agents sought to discredit U.S. lawmaker Scores of U.S. Secret Service employees improperly accessed the decade-old, unsuccessful job application of a congressman who was investigating scandals inside the agency, a new government report said Wednesday. An assistant director suggested leaking embarrassing information to retaliate against Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House oversight committee.

The actions by the employees could represent criminal violations under the U.S. Privacy

Act, said the report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general, John Roth.

Employees accessed Chaffetz’s 2003 application for a Secret Service job starting 18 minutes after the start of a congressional hearing in March about the latest scandal involving drunken behaviour by senior agents. Some forwarded the information to others.

At least 45 employees viewed the file.

Assistant Director Ed Lowery Lowery, who is in charge of training, told the inspector general he did not direct anyone to release information about Chaffetz and “believed it would have been inappropriate to do so,” the report said. He told Roth the email was “reflecting his stress and his anger.”

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Agreements with Israel no longer binding, says Abbas Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared before world leaders Wednesday that he is no longer bound by agreements signed with Israel, and called on the United Nations to provide international protection for the Palestinian people.

It was Abbas’ most serious warning yet to that he might walk away from engagement with Israel and dissolve the Palestinian Authority, although he stopped short of accompanying his threat with a deadline.

The 80-year-old leader had threatened to drop a “bombshell” in the speech — prompting speculation he would sever ties with Israel over its settlement expansion and other hardline policies.

On Wednesday, he said that Israel’s refusal to commit to agreements signed “render us an authority without real powers.”

“As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.

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Ex-lieutenant governor Opulent monument for friend gets 18-month jail term of Alexander the Great: Expert THE CANADIAN PRESS

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QUEBEC — Calling her behaviour “highly reprehensible” and part of a “culture of deceit,” a judge sentenced former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault to 18 months in prison on Wednesday.

The sentence was handed down six years after Thibault, now 76, was charged with fraud and breach of trust.

The Queen’s former representative left the courtroom in handcuffs in her wheelchair and was then incarcerated.

How long that lasts remains to be seen because Thibault’s lawyer, Marc Labelle, immediately signalled he would seek leave to appeal the sentence and try to have her released from jail pending those proceedings.

Thibault was charged two years after a 2007 report by the federal and provincial auditors general revealed she claimed more than $700,000 in improper expenses when she held the vice-regal post between 1997 and 2007.

Her trial heard the money was spent on gifts, trips, parties, meals and skiing and golf lessons.

Quebec court Judge Carol St-Cyr also ordered Thibault to reimburse $200,000 to Ottawa and $100,000 to Quebec.

He highlighted Thibault’s “culture of deceit” and her mitigated remorse as

THESSALONIKI, Greece — An opulent underground monument in northern Greece that caused a stir when excavated last year may have been a symbolic grave — but not the final resting place of — the closest friend and general of ancient warrior-king Alexander the Great, the excavator claimed Wednesday.

Archaeologist Katerina Peristeri said she believes the vaulted structure, decorated with sculptures and a mosaic floor, “was a funerary monument for Hephaestion.”

The Macedonian nobleman grew up with Alexander and died in Persia in 324 B.C., predeceasing the king by less than a year and driving him into a frenzy of grief during which he ordered a series of monuments to be built for Hephaestion across his newly-won empire.

But Peristeri said there was no evidence Hephaestion was actually buried at the tomb in Amhipolis, east of Thessaloniki, whose excavation grabbed headlines, provoking speculation that it might belong to Alexander himself, who lived from 356-323 B.C. Another archaeologist however, who was not involved in the excavation, rejected her identification as “totally unfounded.” Panayiotis Faklaris, associate professor at the University of Thessaloniki, told the

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“It is important that the public know this behaviour was highly reprehensible,” he said.

“A sentence in the community would not satisfy the legal requirements . . . to maintain the confidence of citizens with regard to public institutions.”

Thibault originally pleaded not guilty but switched pleas last December because, according to Labelle, she came to a better understanding of the evidence and the law.

She testified at the trial she had little to show financially for her time as vice-regal — that a divorce ate into her savings and that she lived on a $30,000 pension.

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“There is no historic or scientific basis” for what Peristeri claimed, he said. “Hephaestion had no connection with Amphipolis.”

The discovery caused controversy from the outset.

Other experts criticized Peristeri for digging too fast and creating unjustified expectations that the tomb was unplundered.

The monument contained twin marble statues of sphinxes and young women, had a painted frieze — parts of which survive — and, according to Peristeri, was topped with a large marble lion now standing a few kilometres away.

Peristeri has offered no explanation of one of the find’s strangest features — that it sheltered at least five skeletons, including an elderly woman and a baby.

She argued Wednesday that fragmentary inscriptions link the monument with Hephaestion, and said an Alexander-era coin found in the monument — which she thinks was filled with earth generations later to protect it from vandals — confirms it was built in 325-300 B.C. When Hephaestion died, Alexander is recorded to have granted him hero’s rites, declared mourning throughout the empire and had him cremated in Babylon at enormous expense.

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Multi-instrumentalist, singer and arranger Guy Mendilow, right brings four musical collaborators together to perform ‘Tales from the Forgotten Kingdom’ at the Port Theatre on Oct. 5. [PHOTO SUBMITTED]

Story of Sephardic Jews often left untold AARON HINKS DAILY NEWS

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uy Mendilow and four expert musicians are using music to tell the stories once cherished by Sephardic jews before the small culture was nearly destroyed in the Second World War. Some of the music stems from an area called Sarajevo, once home to a thriving jewish population, to the Greek mainland and Islands, and Sephardic Jews.

Tales from the Forgotten Kingdom intertwines music and storytelling through Ladino, which is a language that blends archaic Spanish with Arabic, Hebrew and Greek.

Mendilow’s mission is to bring the tales to life by soulfully mixing voice and music.

They are stories most North Americans can indirectly relate to.

“Jews changing identity as they settle is a very interesting metaphor for what many of us go through. Most of us are immigrants from a different country.

The story of leaving home and coming to another and watching as you change in a new home and the new home change in relation to you. It’s not just a story for Sephardic Jews, it’s our story as well,” Mendilow said.

Despite the countless second world war stories, novels and films being released on an annual basis, the story of Sephardic Jews and their struggle

of survival is often left untold.

“They’re very courageous stories and heartbreaking stories that deserve to be known just like any story.”

Mendilow said these are songs that were never intended for the stage. They were songs from home, funerals, weddings. They are songs that were never meant for commercial recording or commercial performance.

“The concert is non-academic, it’s really meant for anyone who is fascinated by the idea of exotic adventure or wants to travel to far off places in distant times. The show itself is based on a lot of research. It’s a 21st century take on old songs and stories.”

The language used to tell the stories is called Ladino, which is a language derived from medieval Spanish with influences from languages such as Aragonese, Astur-Leonese, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, and Mozarabic.

“Very few people speak this language today and no one speaks this language as their own language, that’s for sure. What that means is the audience cannot, for the most part, understand our lyrics. It’s up to the music to take them places,” Mendilow said.

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Local banjo maestro earns folk award nomination DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo musician Nick Hornbuckle is a favourite guest artist on many albums, but his first solo record, ‘12x2 (+/-1’ has earned him his own attention. [YOUTUBE]

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Nanaimo musician Nick Hornbuckle believes good music is the product of a lot of hard work, and it shows in his new album 12x2(+/-1).

Hornbuckle’s first solo record is up for a Canadian Folk Music Award. It highlights his own hand-picked collection of old-time fiddle songs played in his unique two-finger picking style.

Many of the tracks have accompaniment, but Hornbuckle, who engineered the record, took care not to hide the banjo’s subtle voice. It is, after all, a banjo record.

The nomination is welcome news for the transplanted Washingtonian who also plays with John Reischman and the Jaybirds.

“It’s an honour,” Hornbuckle said.

The decision to submit for an award was more an afterthought. He sent it in on the competition deadline, then thought no more of it.

For him, it was about a need to express something musically.

“This started as a way for me to document the kind of music I’ve been working on — old-time fiddle tunes. One of the things I’ve always liked to do, slightly different from what I do with the band.”

Where the Jaybirds play the band’s interpretation of traditional bluegrass “I’m really a huge fan of oldtime fiddle tunes and love to learn how to play them on a banjo.”

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B.C. musicians feature strongly in Folk Award nominations “One thing I have learned over the years . . . if an artist is trying to make a name for themselves, it’s probably not the best thing to (be) an exact copy of someone else.”

Nick Hornbuckle, musician

Musician Nick Hornbuckle first took up the banjo as a pre-teen.

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Not an easy feat, but his record makes it sound effortless, from its rollicking version of “Cumberland Gap” to the folksy, toe-tapping tempo of “Too Young to Marry” through the sense of finality that permeates “Cold Frosty Morning.”

“I try to get exactly what the fiddle is doing and with a similar rhythmic feel. It’s pretty challenging, but I enjoy a challenge. And the goal is to create something that sounds good.”

His interest in recording started in the 1980s, on a four-track recorder when he was with the band Son of Man. He remembers pre-Grunge Seattle as a “really weird” time, recalling the time a recording studio in the north Seattle house where he lived was used to record Alice in Chains’ first album.

“There’s a story, I don’t know how true it is, but they got an advance from a recording company and spent the money on beer,” and the band still needed a place to lay the tracks down.

Hornbuckle’s elegant style is recognizable from all six Jaybirds albums, helping to garner two Juno nominations.

As a key element in the Jaybirds’ sound, Nick’s unique two-finger picking seamlessly bridges the gap between claw-hammer and (Earl) Scruggs style, to make music that incorporates elements of bluegrass and old time, one reviewer said.

In 2005 Hornbuckle sold his Seattle home and moved his family to Nanaimo to work full-time as a musician.

A banjo player since age “11 or 12,” he has always pushed himself to do better, staying home to play scales or work on patterns while his friends went out to have fun.

As he matured, he modeled himself after inspirational players like Scruggs, while working to develop his own unique style.

“One thing I have learned over the years,.. if an artist is trying to make a name for themselves, it’s probably not the best thing to (be) an exact copy of someone else,” Hornbuckle said.

He said good music requires numerous elements: “It has to be good, unique, original, something you can do at a drop of a hat — all those things.”

Originally a three-finger picker, he developed his two-finger style out of necessity from a medical condition that affects his use of one finger.

“I would love to play like everybody else, but I’m glad I don’t. I have this unique thing going on. As my mom would say, I’ve taken lemons and made lemonade.”

His disk 12X2 has appearances

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The Canadian Folk Music Awards is Nov. 6-8 in Edmonton.

This year’s list of nominees include three other local artists: Parksville’s Annie Lou, nominated for Traditional Singer of the Year, for Tried and True, original songs influenced by the haunting flavours of old-time mountain, bluegrass, and traditional country music, (ww. annielou.ca); the Comox Valley band Big Little Lions for A Little Frayed, A Little Torn, for Ensemble of the Year (www.biglittlelions. com) and The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, – includes member Shawn Hall who lives in Nanaimo for A Real Fine Mess, under New/ Emerging Artist of the Year (www. harpoonistaxemurderer.com).

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A First Nations radio show that airs on Nanaimoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CHLY 101.7 has been recognized across the country with a prestigious award.

The Siâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;emâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nu Tsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lhhwulmuhw radio show, which features local First Nationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; music, culture and history on the FM radio station, has been awarded the National Campus and Community Radio Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Neskie Award for Aboriginal Affairs and Culture Programming.

The citation that came with the award said the radio show had a submission that â&#x20AC;&#x153;truly impressed the judges.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They felt it was truly a show for the communities and very important for connecting and continuing traditions in villages . . . Clearly this show means a lot and carries a great importance to the producers,â&#x20AC;? the citation said.

The award was presented in June at the awards gala at the annual National Campus/Community Radio Association convention that took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

But, as no one from the show or radio station was on hand to receive it, the award only arrived

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pleased we can reach out to different First Nations communities and share stories, music and culture.â&#x20AC;?

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The award became part of the journey after being transported across the country with a staff

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Though unintentional, the timing couldn’t be better for the local debut of a musical about folk icon and political activist Pete Seeger.

The Incompleat Folksinger, which runs from October 6 through 10, at Vancouver Island University Malaspina Theatre, comes in advance of an election filled with heated debate over some of the biggest issues of our time.

It also emerges in the midst of a small-time political folk revival.

Songs like “Harperman,” penned

by Ottawa folk singer and migratory bird specialist Tony Turner has inspired national sing-alongs, and last month a gathering of musicians on Gabriola Island performed Chilliwack frontman Bill Henderson’s new political anthem “Take Back This Land.”

With Blue Rodeo’s new anti-Harper protest song “Stealin’ All My Dreams” just hitting the airwaves, a look back at how Seeger influenced both the world of music and social justice seems apt.

Based on a book of the same name that was penned by Seeger, the inspiration for the production came after Seeger’s death.

A big Seeger fan, Ross Desprez, artistic director of The Other Guys theatre company, had discussed the idea with his wife and producer Mary Desprez.

“That same day, a friend of ours phoned up and said ‘I was interested in doing a Pete Seeger show and I’ve been talking to Mark Hellman about it,’ and I said, ‘That’s inter-

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esting because Mary and I just had the exact same conversation.’ So anybody who had been thinking about it had automatically been thinking about Mark to play the part as well,” said Ross.

“There is nobody else, really,” added Mary.

Helman, a local folk virtuoso and Desprez set to work writing the production, which debuted in January at the Metro Theatre in Victoria and features 29 songs, which includes classics like “Where Have all the Flowers Gone” and “If I Had a Hammer.”

“Pete Seeger was a very humble man, he didn’t take credit for anything that he did, he figured songs were meant to be sung and then passed on, he doesn’t lay claim to any of his songs,” said Ross. “I think he got that from his early

days with Woody Guthrie.”

Living in a log cabin he built on the banks of the Hudson River, Ross added that Seeger was a person who walked his talk for all the years of his life.

“He would sing for free all the time, if he thought there was something that needed his attention,” said Ross.

Covering decades of Seeger’s personal and professional life, Ross said they also strived to recreate the participatory atmosphere of the New York folk musician’s concerts, and encourage audience members to sing along.

The Incompleat Folksinger runs Oct. 6 to 10 at Malaspina Theatre, Building 310.

Tickets are $20 in advance from the Port Theatre box office, 250-754-8550, or $20 at the door.

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Ucluelet artist in coin competition LEANNE CLARE FOR THE DAILY NEWS

Laura Timmermans wants every Canadian to hold a campfire in the palm of their hand in 2017.

To make it happen, Canadians simply need to vote for her campfire coin design in the Canadian Mint’s 150th anniversary coin contest.

When the 24-year-old freelance graphic designer decided to enter the competition, she had no idea what to put on the special coin.

After hours of rummaging through the archives and researching past coins, she decided to go with her heart.

“I came back to what I love to do and that’s have campfires. I think most Canadians love them and they have been around since before there was even a country. What better way to celebrate a 150th anniversary than with a campfire?”

says Timmermans.

Timmermans now lives in Nanaimo, but she grew up in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island’s west coast and often went to the beach for a campfire after school or for family celebrations. “It was really a part of the fabric of my life,” she says.

That interweaving of campfires as a part of our rituals and everyday life is something she decided to reflect in her coin. Timmermans believes our common history of sitting around a campfire crosses cultural boundaries and helps promote greater unity. “In the flame of the design, I wanted to suggest different ethnic groups in Canada.

You can see a collage of different cultures,” says Timmermans.

In 1967, the Canadian mint commissioned Alex Colville to create five different designs to celebrate the country’s centennial. In a recent retrospective of the artist’s

work at the National Gallery of Canada, images of Colville’s rabbit, mackerel, bobcat, wolf and Canada goose coins were featured at the beginning of the exhibition.

Timmermans says the prospect of joining Colville as a coin designer and having generations of Canadians enjoying her campfire would be an honour.

“It’s pretty fantastic and an awesome feeling of acceptance. This is a big step up in my art career,” she says.

You won’t get to feel the warm glow of Timmermans’ campfire in your pocket unless you vote for her design. Go to mint.ca before October 9 to vote for the campfire coin. » Leanne Clare is a freelance writer and the Founder of The Campfire Project, a national storytelling project to celebrate Canada’s 150 anniversary. Visit www. campfireproject.ca for more information.

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Performance resurrects old traditions Company Dancers of Damelahamid started in the 1960s in an effort to revive fading Gitxan customs DAILY NEWS

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n upcoming show will resurrect the city of Damelahamid, the first place where, under Gitxsan legend, the first people were placed on Earth.

The Dancers of Damelahamid, a professional dance company based in northern B.C., will present Luu hlotitxw: Spirit Transforming to Malaspina Theatre on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The show, whose title translates to “spirit transforming,” is about about the journey of self-discovery through the lens of Gitxsan music and dance.

The choreographed piece follows the story of a young, anomymous man who is on a journey to find himself.

“Really, it's about aboriginal identity,” said artistic director Margaret Grenier.

“So there's a personal narrative that runs through the piece.”

The production, which debuted in 2012, also incorporates multimedia aspects, including when the protagonist passes through the spirit

‘Luu hlotitxw: Spirit Transforming’ is about a journey of self-discovery seen through the lens of Gitxan music and dance.

world through a stunning animation, emerging on the other side transformed.

Traditional Gitxsan songs and dances were almost lost by the 1960s, in part due to laws by the Canadian government outlawing many of the

practices.

However, the dance company emerged in the 1960s in an effort revive the fading customs.

Once only performed in Gitxsan feast halls, the company has created and choreographed performances for

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Grenier said the presence of traditional music and dance can have a profound impact on a young aboriginal person.

She was surrounded by it growing up.

"For me, it really shaped and strengthened my sense of who I was," she said.

Tickets range from $22.50 to $25 and can be purchased online through Crimson Coast Dance at www.crimsoncoastdance.org.

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Shorter duration is better for hosting in-laws Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: My mother-in-law lives an hour away from us. My husband’s sister, “Dot,” and her husband, “Jeff,” and their married children, periodically come to our house for overnight stays in order to visit Mom. My husband often invites Dot and her family to come for several days at Christmas. We now are lucky enough to have a vacation cabin, and he invited them to stay with us for two weeks.

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Jeff drinks lots of coffee, but never offers to make a pot. Dot means well, but is such a talker that she easily gets sidetracked on her way to help at cleanup time. They do not take us out for a single meal or offer to order pizza. They both speak loudly. Jeff mostly talks about himself and Dot can carry on for hours.

My family gathers at a hotel for the holidays, and we invite my siblings to the cabin for two nights each summer. While my husband welcomes my siblings, I do not enjoy hosting his side. I want to show respect for my in-laws and make my husband happy, but it’s really unpleasant to be around them. I cannot handle two weeks.

I told my husband that we should discuss these invitations before they are extended. His retort is that I

would never agree to host his sister.

Do you have any suggestions?

— Can’t Do It Dear Can’t: All such invitations should be discussed in advance, but then you cannot dismiss all requests to host Dot and Jeff. The compromise is the length of the visit. You would find it more tolerable to host your in-laws if they stayed for a shorter duration — say, three days or less.

Two weeks is too much, especially for guests who refuse to help out. Also, set some guidelines. It is perfectly OK to tell Jeff, “As long as you are having coffee, please make a pot for the rest of us.” It’s also fine to say to either one, “I could use some help in the kitchen,” and “Tonight, it’s your turn to treat us to dinner — you get

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Dear Annie: As a senior citizen, I would like to suggest that stores, including grocery stores, provide some benches throughout their shopping areas. I could shop longer after taking a break. The benches in front, outside the checkout area, are inconvenient.

Also, the scooters offered at some stores often have not been fully charged. They are left in parking lots, and employees need to bring them in to recharge. Customers should plug them in. It only takes a moment.

— Trying to Be Independent

Dear Trying: You make a good point that benches at varying points throughout a store could encourage shoppers to spend more money, and owners might consider that an incentive.

As for plugging in scooters, that relies on the consideration of each individual user. The same applies to those who use regular shopping carts and leave them all over the parking lot.

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CHAMPS Toronto Blue Jay Kevin Pillar reacts as a teammate sprays him with champagne after Toronto clinched the American League East championship on Wednesday Wednesday.

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uckets of champagne were ready, just sitting in the visiting clubhouse at Camden Yards. The Toronto Blue Jays celebrated clinching the American League East on the field but had to wait to complete a doubleheader before popping bottles.

The franchise waited 22 years for this. What were another few hours?

Two months of spectacular baseball culminated in a 15-2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday afternoon, ending decades of frustration for fans and rewarding the Blue Jays’ organization for a remarkable turnaround.

“I wake up every day with a huge grin on my face. I wake up every day and it doesn’t feel real,” pitcher Marcus Stroman said. “Taking the field every day with Josh Donaldson, Troy Tulowitzki, David Price, Mark Buehrle, it’s nuts to me.”

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The Blue Jays were nuts to watch for much of the season but more specifically since July 29, when Tulowitzki joined the lineup amid a flurry of bountiful deadline trades. They’re 42-15 since, surging past the New York Yankees before finally wrapping up the division in the first game of a doubleheader against the Orioles.

“It’s the ultimate right now,” manager John Gibbons said. “It was a big hurdle to get over. It had been so damn long.”

The pennant is Toronto’s first since 1993, when it won its second of backto-back World Series titles. It assures the Blue Jays a spot in the five-game AL Division Series rather than the uncertainty of a one-game wildcard playoff, which they had already clinched last weekend.

“I feel like I can really share with the fans how it feels,” Montreal native Russell Martin said. “I remember ’92, ’93 and if we can just bring that back, that’d be awesome. That would be a dream come true for me.”

Winning the division seemed inevitable in recent days as the Yankees struggled and the Blue Jays kept rolling.

The final victory of that accomplishment came Wednesday with young stud Marcus Stroman on the mound in just his fourth start of the

season following a torn ACL in spring training. Stroman (4-0) was masterful yet again, striking out eight and allowing just one run on five hits in eight innings.

In typical Blue Jays fashion, the most productive lineup in baseball led the way by tormenting opposing pitching. Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Justin Smoak each hit home runs, and every player in the lineup registered a hit, including Ryan Goins, who registered a careerhigh five.

It was the 41st time in 157 games Toronto scored eight or more runs.

Bautista’s blast also got the Blue Jays two hitters with 40-plus home runs (MVP front-runner Josh Donaldson has 41) for the third time in franchise history and first time since 2000.

This monstrous offensive outburst made the clinching game feel like a coronation, in front of Blue Jays fans who chanted “MVP” for Donaldson’s

at-bats and serenaded Anthopoulos with a chorus of “Thank you, Alex.”

After Hawkins got the final out, players celebrated on the same field they watched Baltimore clinch the AL East a year ago.

Their 8-1 loss in the second half of their doubleheader, with no regulars playing, was forgotten almost immediately. The joy in the champagne-soaked clubhouse and on the field was overflowing amid chants of “Bush Party.”

“This is something else,” Dickey said. “I don’t know how other people celebrate, but to celebrate like a family like this is something special.”

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The Nanaimo Buccaneers will look to win their second straight game against a Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League South Division opponent tonight at the Nanaimo Ice Centre.

At 7:15 p.m., the Bucs face off against the South’s top team, the Victoria Cougars, in their third straight game against a non-division opponent.

They were upset last week at home in a 4-3 overtime loss to the lastplace Westshore Wolves before going on the road Friday night to beat the Peninsula Panthers 6-3.

With 10 points and a 4-2-1-1 record through eight games, the Bucs are in second place in the North Division, two points back of the defending champion Campbell River Storm.

Trent Bell and Jordan Levesque lead Nanaimo in scoring with 11 points each, tied for ninth best in the league. The Cougars are led by 19-year-old Cody Hodges, whose 14 points are second best in the VIJHL. After sitting out five games with an upper-body injury, Buccaneers star Will McNamara is back in the lineup and is expected to play tonight against Victoria.

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Down 2-0 in the first period, the Nanaimo Clippers battled back to score five straight goals and eventually beat the Alberni Valley Bulldogs 7-4 Wednesday night at Frank Crane Arena.

It kept the Clippers win one, lose one streak alive as they’ve failed to put together consecutive wins or losses together seven games into the season.

It’s a streak the Clippers hope to end Friday night when they host the Coquitlam Express.

“It was a must,” said Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp, whose team has the exact same record, 4-3, as it did after seven games last season.

“With three games in four days in your own building, you’ve got to have some positives going into practice.

“So we’ll take that record, bury everything that’s behind us and try to have a good game on Friday against Coquitlam.”

With another two goals — one on an empty net — Clippers winger Sheldon Rempal kept himself atop

Spencer Hewson, left, of the Nanaimo Clippers fires a shot on Alberni Valley Bulldogs goalie Carson Schamerhorn Wednesday. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

the B.C. Hockey League scoring race with 14 points in seven games.

But the real show was put on by his linemate, centre Matt Hoover, who scored two goals and an assist en route to being named as the game’s first star.

His first goal of the night was a highlight, as he knocked a puck out of the air, chipped it around a defend-

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er and knocked it into the goal.

It was the Clippers’ third of the goal and gave them a lead they would never give up.

Hoover explained the goal after the game.

“I was thinking to myself, ‘well I’m not going to get to this puck,’ but their guy came across a little too quick so I thought if I could get

around this guy I could chip it over,” Hoover said.

“I did a nice little hop and the goalie just missed it on the poke check and I was fortunate enough to just chip it over his pad, so it was a tough one to get but I’m glad I got it and we could start crawling back from there.”

Devin Brosseau also scored in the win, as did Corey Renwick, who got the opening goal, and Chris Dodero, who had an empty-net goal as time expired.

The Clippers have gotten most of their production from their top line of Rempal, Hoover and Brosseau, this year so Vandekamp said it was nice to see other players chip in.

“Dodero getting that empty net goal was a nice little (way to) bust the bubble for him,” Vandekamp said.

“Even that simple play can get a guy going, because I know he’s been frustrated.”

The Clippers and Express play Friday night at Frank Crane at 7 p.m.

o win any championship, many will tell you, a team needs to peak at the right time — playoff time.

The Vancouver Island Raiders look to be doing just that.

If you weren’t already convinced that the Raiders brass made the right decision in bringing in Jerome Erdman to be the head coach and face of the program, his team gave you everything you needed to know about him on Saturday in Langley. The Raiders ferried in, came from behind and beat the defending B.C. Football Conference champion Langley Rams, and ferried home while the Langley head coach was still complaining about penalty flags.

Flags have been flying everywhere this season many times without any rhyme or reason — no question. But the Raiders had no excuses against the Rams, beating them for the second time this season to give Nanaimo football fans one more home game, the home playoff game they haven’t had since 2013.

And after some shoddy performances to start the season, you can see that this team is coming into its own.

The undefeated Okanagan Sun, of course, won’t care. But they were dominant last season and still lost to the Rams in the conference championship game so even in a league where there are few upsets, anything can and will happen come playoff time.

With this Saturday’s road game against the winless Valley Huskers being as close to a sure win as anything in this league, the Raiders are going to finish 7-3 on the season with two losses to the Sun and one on the road against the Kamloops Broncos. After finishing last season 5-5, it’s been a stout defence

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Erdman’s specialty — that’s led the way.

At this point a year ago, the Raiders had given up 299 points.

This year? 195.

And with only the Huskers left on their schedule, that number isn’t likely to climb, the Raiders shut out Valley three weeks ago in Nanaimo.

Erdman has coached these kids up, but he’s also done some of his best work on the recruiting trail.

Getting safety Cole Virtanen to stay home was a home run. Virtanen has five interceptions, the second most in the BCFC, and is the only one to take a pick for a touchdown. He’s also second in defensive points, behind teammate Dexter Shea.

Getting linebacker Isaiah Stevens to come to the Raiders from UBC didn’t hurt, either. And, three of the four players in the Raiders secondary are Erdman recruits, rookies playing a key role for a V.I. team that has the best turnover/takeway margin in the BCFC. With quarterback Liam O’Brien starting to find his rythm in the passing game and receivers Arthur Fabbro and Dustin Rodriguez bailing him out when he needs it, this team is starting to look like the Raiders that fans expect.

They expect championships, too, and two years without one is too long for this city to bare.

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TORONTO — Connor McDavid is already helping the Edmonton Oilers off the ice.

Even before the start of the NHL regular season, the addition of the top draft pick has seen Oilers’ ticket sales climb 131 per cent compared to last year on the secondary market, according to StubHub.com.

McDavid’s arrival has catapulted Edmonton from 16th to sixth-best selling team on the ticket resale website.

“It’s not just Connor McDavid, it’s the idea that he’s the first since Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky to really bring a lot of buzz to the town,” said Jeff Poirier, StubHub Canada country manager. “I think there’s not just renewed hope around that, but there’s also this sort of nostalgic thing going on around Rexall Place and the fact that that’s going to be replaced by Rogers Place.”

Poirier suggested that there could be extra demand for Oilers tickets at the end of the season with the expectation that there would be a special ceremony at Rexall Place, where the classic Edmonton teams of the 1980s and early 1990s won their five Stanley Cups.

McDavid’s impact extends beyond northern Alberta, with the Oilers becoming the seventh-best selling road team in the NHL, joining the ranks of bigger market teams like the Original Six and Pittsburgh Penguins.

“Coming into the season people knew he was going to be there,” said Poirier. “In terms of the NHL, I’m not sure that we’ve seen, at least in recent history, a jump like this due to one player.”

To put McDavid’s impact in context, LeBron James’s return to Cleveland last season saw Cavaliers ticket sales rocket up more than 1,000 per cent.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers sales rose 15 per cent after drafting quarterback Jameis Winston first overall heading into this NFL season.

The Toronto Blue Jays saw a 73-percent spike in secondary-market ticket sales after the acquisition of ace David Price and all-star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki at baseball’s trade deadline.

An increased demand has driven up the cost of Oilers tickets slightly, with the average ticket price on the secondary market rising to US$156 from $152 a year ago, according to SeatGeek.com, a website that aggregates prices on ticket resales.

Calgary Flames tickets have also escalated with an average cost of $120 compared to $117 last season, as have Ottawa Senators seats which are now $92 versus $89.

ook at the box score from Saturday’s 29-23 loss in Edmonton to an Eskimos team boasting the stingiest defence in the CFL and it’s easy to scoff at any notion that the B.C. Lions have rediscovered a semblance of their run game.

Yes, 17 carries for 37 yards are numbers that shout an absolute lack of offensive balance.

Yet as the 4-8 Lions returned to the practice field Tuesday in advance of their first home game in three weeks, Saturday (4 p.m.) against the 2-11 Saskatchewan Roughriders, the man best able to tilt that balance to more of an even keel has declared himself fit enough, and ready to keep moving forward.

“It was a little uncomfortable, but I was able to practise today and it felt OK,” said Lions running back Andrew Harris, three days after being helped off the field late in the first quarter Saturday with what was diagnosed as a rib cartilage injury.

“It’s one of those things where we have six weeks (of regular season) left.

You have to tough it out and grinand-bear the last little bits of bumps and bruises.”

All that said, the offence under rookie quarterback Jonathon Jennings, effective for the first three quarters

B.C. Lions quarterback Travis Lulay hands off the ball to running back Andrew Harris during CFL action in Ottawa on July 4. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Saturday, was never more efficient than on B.C.’s first scoring drive of the game. The reason?

Jennings’ ability to operate the zone-read game in conjunction with Harris’ ability to churn for hard, effective yards. B.C.’s seven-play, 87-yard drive was capped by Jennings’ 25-yard TD pass to Lavelle Hawkins.

Harris was forced from the game on the very next series. Yet it was a promising indication that the Leos have discovered a backfield mix at the skill positions worth further examination.

On first down, it was Harris to the right for eight yards. On second, Harris to the left for another 14.

Suddenly, balance was restored.

With the run-pass threat finally working his team’s favour, Jennings showed the poise Lions head coach Jeff Tedford had talked about, first throwing 21 yards to a wide-open Manny Arceneaux and then 25 yards into the end zone into single coverage to Hawkins.

“You like to stay balanced so your run game can do those types of things, so you don’t have to be one-dimensional,” said Tedford.

From the Lions’ perspective, it was a shame the experiment couldn’t continue the rest of the game.

“It felt good,” said Harris, who a

couple of weeks previous was so frustrated with the team’s lack of a rushing attack that he bolted past reporters after a 31-18 loss to the Ottawa Redblacks at B.C. Place Stadium.

“I felt that we were getting into a groove and rhythm, so it was unfortunate that I got hurt. But it was definitely inspiring to have those two big runs, to get some gaps and get rejuvenated again. Now we want to do the same. Stay healthy and get that running game consistent for 60 minutes.”

Regular starting quarterback Travis Lulay was throwing in practice Tuesday, but Tedford said Jennings would start against Saskatchewan. Harris said the early success on the ground Saturday is a template to build on.

“With Jon being so athletic, it’s definitely going to the zone read,” Harris said of Jennings’ ability to assess his options at the line of scrimmage and find space. “It’s definitely a big threat for us. That’s not to say that Travis or (John) Beck weren’t athletic. Not at all. But Jon can be a threat as a running quarterback and we have to utilize that more.”

The proof will come Saturday.

The Lions are desperately fighting for their playoff lives, and thus Harris’ ability to play through his pain, and the nasty cold he’s trying to shake, are key to snapping the team’s threegame losing streak.

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he talk of the town is a topic of conversation across the country.

It says something that even though Drew Bannister has yet to coach Jared McCann, the new Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds bench boss isn’t surprised that the 19-year-old centre is pushing for a Vancouver Canucks roster spot.

Bannister coached against McCann in the OHL and saw enough of the driven, speedy and skilled first-round pick to suggest that his body of work in the NHL pre-season has him on the track to at least start the season with the Canucks, rather than being returned to the Greyhounds.

“There’s everything there for Jared to have success at the NHL level,” Bannister said Wednesday. “He’s not a prototypical centre coming out of junior who has to learn the position.

He’s doing things pro players are doing, or having a hard time doing.

And there’s a self-awareness about what he can do and where he wants to get to.

“What you see is what you get.”

What the Canucks are seeing is a guy who isn’t blinded by the NHL light, moves extremely well, goes to the tough areas, makes something happen with slick playmaking smarts and gets pucks off his stick in a flash.

It’s not just his two goals and four points in four pre-season games, it’s his ability not to be intimidated by star-studded opposition lineups and to soak up instruction like a sponge.

This isn’t McCann’s Fantasy Camp.

It’s the real thing and playing in the final two pre-season games against

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On Wednesday, he practised on a line with Jannik Hansen and Brendan Gaunce.

“Those games are going to be huge for me,” said McCann. “I’ve had a really good camp and I want to keep it going. I can always get better and I have to play a 200-foot game, and if I do that, I should be fine.”

For a 6-foot, 185-pound centre, the physical task of matching NHL wits will be McCann’s biggest challenge. But he cites Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews as an example of how he thinks he can tailor his game to be good with and without the puck.

And if that isn’t enough, there’s enough bravado and a bit of a chipon-the-shoulder mentality. The London, Ont., native is eager to prove he doesn’t need the family’s construction company as a career option and that a suspected concussion in August at the world junior hockey showcase and mononucleosis last September weren’t going to take him off his planned career track.

McCann didn’t look out of place Tuesday in San Jose, where he scored

once and could easily have had two goals in a 2-1 pre-season loss.

“I was a little star-struck and it was a special moment to be matched up against guys like Joe Thornton — it was a challenge and I thought I did well,” he said. “I’m a competitive person and I want to be the best.”

The possibility of McCann being on the opening-night roster will create a scenario about who might get pushed to the press box or placed on waivers.

However, the Canucks’ hockey operations department and ownership have to understand they can get younger and better at the same time.

You don’t have to sacrifice one for the other.

It’s the same with top prospects like Gaunce, Ben Hutton and Jake Virtanen, who are making this camp memorable for all the right reasons.

Last year, it was all Bo Horvat all the time.

Of course, this could all change and the Canucks could play the veteran card for their opener on Oct. 7 in Calgary. That would be easier if there was a stronger pre-season push by several veterans.

Then again, with more of an experimental approach to this pre-season, it’s hard to know what to make of a 2-3-1 record and just seven goals.

Coach Willie Desjardins knows what he has in his veterans and revolving pre-season right-wingers with Henrik and Daniel Sedin — Ronalds Kenins, Virtanen and Alex Grenier, who was assigned to the Comets on Wednesday — was about assessing

the skill and will levels of prospects.

Desjardins has had reservations about how McCann will handle bigger players in the tough Pacific Division, and that’s a valid concern. But that’s why there’s a heightened level of interest in the final two pre-season games.

“He’s got a little bit of that wolf in his eyes,” Canucks assistant coach Glen Gulutzan said of McCann.

“You like the competitive guys and he’s put himself in a good spot. But it’s going to ramp up the next two games, and when the real bullets start flying, it’s a different game.

“But with McCann, whenever you get that much speed through the neutral zone, you can see how it pushes defencemen back. And the ability to make plays off that has impressed me, too. We’ve been on him about details, and he’s attentive and picks it up.”

Canucks general manager Jim Benning is willing to make roster room for a young player with an NHLready game and McCann’s uncanny hockey sense, speed with the puck and quick release haven’t gone unnoticed. He’s done everything to challenge for a spot.

“When the pace picks up, it doesn’t seem to bother him,” said Benning.

“We want to be competitive and develop as we’re winning. Players who give us the best chance to win — and it doesn’t matter the age — we’re going to have to make those hard decisions.”

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nthony Kim was tired of whispers on the PGA Tour about what was wrong with him and his game, so he found a patch of grass behind a row of trees down from the practice range at Quail Hollow and hit balls for two hours.

This was where he won his first PGA Tour event in 2008, when he was fearless, brash and backed it all up with an exciting brand of golf. He ended that year by demolishing Sergio Garcia in the leadoff singles match at the Ryder Cup, the last time the Americans won.

Kim referred to Quail Hollow as the start of his career. “Hopefully, I can start a new one here,” he said. Two days later, he shot 74 and walked straight to his car, dumped his clubs in the trunk and drove away.

That was 2012, and he hasn’t been back.

“Golf is a fond memory of mine,” Kim said Tuesday, his first interview in three years.

“I’ve been watching more and more. I miss the competition a little bit. Watching these young guys like Jordan Spieth is bringing me back to watch.”

Is it enough to bring him back to play?

Not yet. Maybe not ever.

“Here’s what I’m telling you today,” he said.

“I’m going to step away from the game for a little while and get my body pieced together.

Instead of going from an Achilles injury to try to go 180 mph and not fixing the problem . . . I’ve got so much ground to make up from injuries — rotator cuff, labrum, spinal fusion, hand injury. I’ve had six or seven surgeries in the last three-and-a-half years.”

Asked if it was possible that he played his last round on the PGA Tour at age 26, Kim paused, chuckled and said, “Anything is possible. Isn’t that what the slogan says?”

Paul Azinger, the Ryder Cup captain at Valhalla where Kim emerged as a star, was among those who could not believe that someone with so much talent could be done at such a young age.

“His energy and enthusiasm, his killer instinct, it all converged into him becoming our team leader,” Azinger said.

Kim’s immediate future is a business venture with Dallas-based Quality Metrics Partners that was started with longtime friend and caddie Brodie Flanders and two others, including Mike Knall, a former punter for the Oklahoma Sooners. It provides ancillary service management in the health care industry. Kim said he made a substantial investment, which he made back within months.

His joy comes from a stronger relationship with his mother. Kim spent three weeks with her in South Korea, sees her at least once a month and was headed to his native Los Angeles to sign the papers on a house he just bought for her in Beverly Hills.

He said he has not played a full round of golf in nearly 18 months. Physical therapy occupies most of his time.

Kim didn’t entirely disappear, though sightings have been rare and have led to rumours, including one that he was sleeping on the streets of Las Vegas because he was out of money.

He earned just over $12 million in five full seasons on the PGA Tour and says he saved up more money than people realize. The stories and photos on social media over the

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TORONTO — David (Junior) Hoilett has committed to play for Canada.

The 25-year-old midfielder from Brampton, Ont., plays his club soccer for Queens Park Rangers in England’s second tier. But his international future has been a question mark until now.

“I can’t wait to play, put on the Canada jersey for the first time, and help the team achieve better things and progress as a nation,” Hoilett said in a video interview provided by the Canadian Soccer Association.

Hoilett is also eligible to play for Jamaica by virtue of his parents. England was also a possibility by virtue of his time spent there. The speedy winger is expected to join the Canadian national team next week in Florida in advance of an a friendly against Ghana in Washington, D.C. Benito Floro’s team is preparing for the November start of the fourth round of World Cup qualifying in the CONCACAF region. Canada hosts Honduras on Nov. 13 in Vancouver before playing in El Salvador on Nov. 17. Hoilett said he made his decision to join the Canadian fold after meeting with Floro.

“He (Floro) sat down prior to the decision and he was just giving me confidence, telling me to just be out there, be happy, play your game, we already know what you can do and just be comfortable when you are out there,” Hoilett said.

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“If you don’t like the way I live, change the channel.

You’re the one who turned in here.“ Anthony Kim

years painted a wild side to Kim. He doesn’t deny he lived different than most golfers, nor will be apologize.

“If you don’t like the way I live, change the channel. You’re the one who tuned in here,” Kim said. “A lot of the golf public may not appreciate the way I live, which is by my own rules. But I give everyone respect. I’m not rude to anyone. And I treat everyone the same.”

He said he is getting monthly payments from an insurance policy he took out five years ago in case he was injured. But he denied speculation in a magazine story last fall that the policy was a factor that is keeping him from returning to the PGA Tour.

“I paid well into the mid-six figures for the policy,” he said.

“They wouldn’t have paid me every month had I not been to the doctors, showing them all my X-rays, doing all the treatment, the acupuncture, twice a day for physical therapy.”

He also explained his departure from Quail Hollow that day. Kim said he ignored his summons for drug testing when he walked to the parking lot, though he eventually was tested.

“I was mad about how I played. I injured myself again. I ended up coming back and taking the test,” he said. “I’ve never tested

positive for anything since I’ve been on the PGA Tour whenever the drug testing started. Never. And they tested me more than anyone.

“These rumours tainted my reputation,” he said, “and I didn’t have a great one to begin with.”

Kim had no idea he would be gone this long. He played golf with Phil Mickelson at the Madison Club in the California desert. He rented a house in San Diego to prepare for the 2013 season. He said he was up at 5 a.m. every day to train when his Achilles tendon popped. Once he recovered from the leg, he had a herniated disc. And the injuries piled up.

Golf moved on without him. He still has a major medical exemption he can use if he ever returns. Kim would have to earn $613,500 in 16 events to keep his card.

But even Kim can’t say that he will return.

He described his health as a “6” on a scale of 1 to 10 and said he was coping with thoracic outlet syndrome.

He also said he was in the process of moving, hiring a trainer and getting back to full health with hopes of giving golf one last chance.

“What Spieth and (Jason) Day did this year was ridiculous,” he said. “I’m not going to compete with those boys unless I’m healthy.

I’m not playing with 11 clubs. My goal right now for the next year is to get healthy. At this point, I’m happy where I’m at where I’m headed.”

Kim was given a chance to provide his own answer to a question that has been raised plenty over the last two years.

Whatever happened to Anthony Kim? “Ask me in two years,” he said.

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%/8( -$<6 25,2/(6 FIRST GAME 7RURQWR DE U K EL Revere lf 7 1 2 1 Dnldsn 3b 4 1 2 1 Bautist rf 4 1 1 2 Encrnc dh 4 3 2 2 Smoak 1b 6 1 1 2 RuMrtn c 5 2 1 1 Goins ss 5 3 5 1 Pillar cf 5 1 3 0 Barney 2b 5 2 1 1 Lake lf 1 0 0 0 Clevngr c 3 0 2 1 Pearce lf 3 1 1 1 Pareds 3b 1 0 0 0 Flahrty 3b-2b 4 0 0 0 Lough cf 3 0 1 0 7RWDOV

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Eâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;C.Davis (3), Lake (2), M.Machado (21), Jas.Garcia (1). DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Toronto 1, Baltimore 1. LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Toronto 13, Baltimore 6. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Revere (8), Donaldson (41), Ru.Martin (23), Goins (16), Wieters (13), Schoop (15). 3Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Clevenger (2).

HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bautista (40), Encarnacion (37), Smoak (18), Pearce (15). SBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Revere (7), G.Parra (3).

IP Toronto Stroman W,4-0 8 Hawkins 1 %DOWLPRUH M.Gnzlz L,9-12 3 2-3 Jas.Garcia 1 M.Wright 1 1-3 S.Johnson 1 Drake 1 J.Rondon 1-3 Matusz 2-3

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WPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Stroman.

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;3:17. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;0 (45,971).

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Eâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.Perez (4), Al.Ramirez (16), Olt (6).

DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City 1. LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City 6, Chicago 11. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Flowers (12). HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hosmer (18), Moustakas (22), A.Gordon (13), Abreu (30). SBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Saladino (8).

IP Kansas City Volquez 6 Hochevar H,6 1 K.Herrera BS,7-7 1 F.Morales W,4-2 1 W.Davis S,15-16 1 &KLFDJR Quintana 9 Dav.Robertson L,6-51

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WPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;K.Herrera. PBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Flowers.

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;3:13. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;12,818 (40,615).

W L Pct GB WCGB y-Los Angeles 88 69 .561 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; San Francisco 82 75 .522 6 101/2 1 Arizona 77 81 .487 11 /2 16 San Diego 73 84 .465 15 191/2 27 Colorado 66 92 .418 221/2 x â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched playoff berth; y â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched division title.

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

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Atlanta 2 Washington 1 Milwaukee 4 San Diego 3 Chicago Cubs 4 Cincinnati 1 L.A. Dodgers 8 San Francisco 0 St. Louis at Pittsburgh, ppd., rain 7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV N.Y. Mets (Stauffer 0-0) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 2-3), 12:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hammel 9-7) at Cincinnati (Jo.Lamb 1-4), 12:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Bre.Anderson 9-9) at San Francisco (T.Hudson 8-8), 3:45 p.m.

Milwaukee (Jungmann 9-7) at San Diego (Kennedy 8-15), 6:40 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 10-7) at Atlanta (Weber 0-2), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Hale 5-5) at Arizona (Corbin 6-5), 9:40 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Houston at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

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SECOND GAME

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DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Baltimore 2. LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Toronto 4, Balt 4. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Carrera (7), Reimold (5), Schoop 2 (17). HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Barney (1), M.Machado (31), C.Davis 2 (45), Wieters (8). Sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kawasaki.

Toronto Dickey Tepera L,0-2 Hendriks Loup Delabar %DOWLPRUH Gausman W,4-7 Givens

IP 5 1 0 1 1 8 1

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Hendriks pitched to 3 batters in the 7th.

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:23. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;26,330 (45,971).

%/8( -$<6 67$7,67,&6 BATTERS Hague Barney Colabello Revere Travis Donaldson Carrera Encarnacion Pillar Bautista Navarro Goins Martin Tulowitzki Smoak Thole Saunders Pompey Kawasaki Pennington PITCHERS Stroman Lowe Osuna Hawkins Price Hendriks Cecil Tepera Estrada Sanchez Schultz Buehrle Dickey Delabar Jenkins Loup Hutchison Francis

AB R H HR RBI AVG 5 1 2 0 0 .400 9 0 3 0 0 .333 315 51 101 14 53 .321 207 34 65 1 17 .314 217 38 66 8 35 .304 603 121 180 41 122 .299 163 27 45 3 24 .276 513 89 140 36 106 .273 569 74 155 12 54 .272 531 106 134 39 111 .252 169 17 42 5 20 .249 358 48 87 5 42 .243 429 72 102 22 74 .238 155 30 36 5 17 .232 286 43 66 17 57 .231 41 5 9 0 2 .220 31 2 6 0 3 .194 85 15 16 2 6 .188 22 5 4 0 1 .182 67 8 11 2 11 .164 W L SV IP SO ERA 3 0 0 19.0 10 1.89 1 3 1 54.1 60 1.99 1 5 20 68.2 73 2.36 1 0 1 15.0 12 2.40 18 5 0 220.1 225 2.45 5 0 0 64.0 71 2.53 5 5 5 53.0 67 2.55 0 1 1 30.1 21 2.67 13 8 0 174.1 122 3.15 7 6 0 89.2 57 3.31 0 1 1 41.2 31 3.46 14 7 0 191.1 88 3.76 11 11 0 209.1 123 4.00 2 0 1 28.1 30 4.45 0 0 0 2.0 2 4.50 2 5 0 40.0 44 4.73 13 4 0 147.0 127 5.33 1 2 0 18.1 18 6.87

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DE U K EL 4 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

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DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1. LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 4. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;M.Carpenter (44), Heyward (33), M.Adams (9), Wong 2 (28), G.Polanco (34), Ar.Ramirez (31), Stewart (8). 3Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;M.Carpenter (3). HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Heyward (13), T.Cruz (2).

W /RXLV 6 Lyons W,3-1 Siegrist Villanueva 3LWWVEXUJK Morton L,9-9 LaFromboise Blanton Caminero Worley Scahill

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:55. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;34,729 (38,362).

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DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Atl 2. LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wash 7, Atl 6. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rendon (16), M.Taylor (15), Markakis (38). SBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A.Simmons (5). Sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;W.Perez.

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HOCKEY

EAST DIVISION

:HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV New Jersey 4 Philadelphia 2 Detroit 7 Pittsburgh 2 Washington at Carolina Boston at N.Y. Rangers 7XHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Buffalo 4 Toronto 0 San Jose 2 Vancouver 1 Winnipeg 4 Ottawa 3 (OT) Edmonton 4 Arizona 0 Calgary 2 Colorado 0 Pittsburgh 4 Tampa Bay 2 Columbus 5 Nashville 2 St. Louis 4 Dallas 1 Anaheim 2 Los Angeles 1 (OT) 7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Ottawa at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

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

Buffalo at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Colorado at Anaheim, 10 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Columbus at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Boston at Washington, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at Arizona, 10 p.m.

NHL PRE-SEASON

CFL

EAST DIVISION

EAST DIVISION

SPORTS 31

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:12. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;13,860 (49,586).

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Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal

GP W L T PF PA 12 8 4 0 410 246 12 7 5 0 312 348 12 7 5 0 280 321 12 5 7 0 263 243

WEST DIVISION Calgary Edmonton B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

GP W L T PF PA Pt 13 10 3 0 347 270 20 13 9 4 0 326 238 18 12 4 8 0 268 345 8 13 4 9 0 246 377 8 13 2 11 0 322 386 4

WEEK 15 Bye: Toronto 7KXUVGD\¡V JDPH Montreal at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPH Calgary at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Edmonton at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

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

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

W 3 2 2 1

L 0 1 1 2

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PF 56 49 56 89

PA 80 91 60 77

W 3 2 1 0

L 0 1 2 3

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PF 85 76 58 70

PA 56 52 72 84

W 3 2 1 1

L 0 1 2 2

T 0 0 0 0

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PF 74 77 66 79

PA 49 86 83 89

SOUTH Indianapolis Jacksonville Houston Tennessee

NORTH Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore

WEST Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

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Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia

EAST

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PBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Garneau.

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:58. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;18,529 (48,519).

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5 0 3 0 2

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PA 68 50 83 105

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SOUTH Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

NORTH

DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cincinnati 1. LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Chicago 9, Cincinnati 2. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A.Jackson 2 (7), Rizzo (37), St.Castro (21), J.Baez (5), A.Russell (27), Phillips (18), B.Pena (17).

HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;St.Castro (11). SBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A.Russell 2 (4). SFâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Phillips, Bruce 2.

KLFDJR & ,3 Lester W,11-12 8 Ne.Ramirez 1 Cincinnati DeSclafani L,9-13 5 LeCure 2 Cingrani 2-3 Mattheus 1-3 Balester 1

BCHL

EAST

Eâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jos.Reyes (3). LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Colorado 8, Arizona 11. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Arenado (40), Brito (2), Goldschmidt (37), D.Peralta (26).

3Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Morneau (3), Gosselin (1). SFâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; LeMahieu, Gosselin, D.Peralta.

1 0 0 0 0 0

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8 2 2 0 2

DeSclafani pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.

WPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ne.Ramirez, DeSclafani 2.

Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;3:00. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;21,397 (42,319).

Green Bay Minnesota Detroit Chicago

WEST Arizona St. Louis San Francisco Seattle

WEEK 4 7KXUVGD\ V JDPH Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 8:25 p.m.

6XQGD\ V JDPHV N.Y. Jets vs. Miami at London, 9:30 a.m.

Oakland at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 1 p.m.

Houston at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

Green Bay at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.

Open: New England, Tennessee 0RQGD\ V JDPH Detroit at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

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L 2 3 1 4 5

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ISLAND DIVISION GP Powell River 7 Nanaimo 7 Cowichan Vally 5 Victoria 5 Alberni Valley 6

W 5 4 3 1 1

MAINLAND DIVISION Wenatchee Chilliwack Langley Coquitlam Prince George Surrey

GP 5 7 5 6 6 7

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Coquitlam at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Penticton, 7 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at Prince George, 7 pm.

Wenatchee at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at Langley, 7:15 p.m.

Vernon at Powell River, 7:15 p.m.

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Alberni Valley at Powell River, 5 p.m.

Vernon at Nanaimo, 6 p.m.

Langley at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Trail at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.

6XQGD\ V JDPHV Vernon at Victoria, 2 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at Langley, 3 p.m.

Merritt at Surrey, 4 p.m.

MOVES BASEBALL $0(5,&$1 /($*8( L.A. ANGELS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Selected contract of LHP Jo-Jo Reyes from Salt Lake (PCL). Designated INF Grant Green for assignment.

FOOTBALL

SHENZHEN OPEN At Shenzhen, China 6LQJOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG Tomas Berdych (1), Czech Rep., def.

Austin Krajicek, U.S., 7-5, 6-3.

Tommy Robredo (3), Spain, def. Hiroki Moriya, Japan, 7-5, 6-3.

Jiri Vesely (6), Czech Rep., def. Zhang Zhizhen, China, 6-2, 6-3.

Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Victor E. Burgos (8), Dominican Rep., 6-0, 4-0, retired.

MALAYSIAN OPEN $W .XDOD /XPSXU 0DOD\VLD 6LQJOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Mischa Zverev, Germany, def. Rajeev Ram, U.S., 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-3.

Joao Sousa, Portugal, def. Michal Przysiezny, Poland, 6-2, 6-2.

6LQJOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG Ivo Karlovic (3), Croatia, def. Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.

Benjamin Becker, Germany, def. Jeremy Chardy (6), France, 5-7, 6-1, 7-5.

Nick Kyrgios (7), Australia, def.

Tatsuma Ito, Japan, 6-3, 6-2.

'RXEOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Philipp Oswald, Austria, & $GLO 6KDPDVGLQ 3LFNHULQJ 2QW , def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, & Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

TASHKENT OPEN $W 7DVKNHQW 8]EHNLVWDQ 6LQJOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG Annika Beck (1), Germany, def. Jana Cepelova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-4.

Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Carina Witthoeft (2), Germany, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Johanna Larsson (4), Sweden, def. Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistan, 6-2, 6-2.

Kateryna Kozlova, Ukr., def. Katerina Siniakova (5), Czech Rep., 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Anna-Lena Friedsam, Ger., def. Margarita Gasparyan (6), Russia, 6-3, 6-4.

Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, def. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-3.

Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, def. Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazak., 6-4, 7-6 (4).

Nao Hibino, Japan, def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, walkover.

'21*)(1* 02725 :8+$1 OPEN At Wuhan, China 6LQJOHV Âł 7KLUG 5RXQG Johanna Konta, Britain, def. Simona Halep (1), Romania, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.

Roberta Vinci (15), Italy, def. Petra Kvitova (3), Czech Rep., 7-6 (3), 6-2.

Garbine Muguruza (5), Spain, def. Ana Ivanovic (9), Serbia, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0.

Angelique Kerber (6), Germany, def.

Camila Giorgi, Italy, 6-2, 6-4.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Claim your power, and ask for what you want. Don’t be surprised if you have to repeat a conversation you have had already. Make sure your budget is right-on as you eye a financial change. Understand what you can and can’t do. Tonight: Make dinner your treat.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You could feel a little out of it for a good part of the day. Take some time off if you can. You will come back feeling revitalized as a result. Give yourself what your body craves. You need a break from the hectic pace every once in a while. Tonight: Tell it like it is.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could be in a position where you would prefer to handle a personal matter directly. Conversations occur more easily in the morning, especially in a meeting. You might decide to withdraw by late afternoon. Take some downtime.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Take charge of a personal matter that could be bothering you. You might have to handle another situation first in order to get the results you would like. Schedule a meeting in

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might want to get a second opinion before making a decision that involves education, travel or your in-laws. Pressure builds, as you’ll have a lot to do. Be more direct with an associate; he or she needs to know where you are coming from. Tonight: At a favorite place.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You might want to understand what all the hype is about. Walk in someone else’s shoes to understand his or her attitude. You could be surprised by what you discover as a result.

Make calls to someone from whom you often get feedback. Tonight: Where there is great music.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might not want to go along with a domineering friend’s plans. In the long run, this decision will make your life much easier. Listen to what someone else has to share.

Don’t hesitate to question the basis of this person’s opinions. Tonight: Make plans for the weekend.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You might want to evaluate what is happening with a project or hobby that involves several people.

You could feel as if this endeavor is moving like molasses. Consider what needs to take place, and understand the role you have to play. Tonight: With a loved one.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You might be far more assertive than you have been in a while.

Consider your options more openly. You’ll feel better when you let go

of some of the tension in your life.

A child or loved one clearly delights in having you closer. Tonight: Work out first, then decide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Consider an option that up to now has been unavailable. A conversation with a boss or family member will put a smile on your face. How you deal with a personal matter could change for the better, if you would just relax. Tonight: Lighten up the moment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You could be more out of sync than you realize. Understand what is happening around you before you take action. Someone you care about might be demanding, and he or she seems to want much more from you. Tonight: Cocoon at home, if need be.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Oct. 1) This year you will be driven to work through some difficult situations or issues. You have a strong intuitive sense for how to make a situation work. Let go of what no longer works in your life. In the year following your next birthday, an interesting development will occur.

If you are single, carefully check out anyone you meet. People could be emotionally unavailable or have other issues that you need to know about. If you are attached, plan on more downtime together.

Make sure these times keep your relationship healthy. GEMINI helps you understand someone very different.

BORN TODAY Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1924), baseball player Matt Cain (1984), actress Julie Andrews (1935)

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Gloria Patricia OLSON(nee McNeil) November 8, 1954 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; September 25, 2015 The moment that you died my heart was torn in two one side filled with heartache the other side died with you.

I often lie awake at night when the world is fast asleep, and take a walk down memory lane with tears upon my cheeks.

Remembering you is easy I do it every day but missing you is heartache that never goes away.

I hold you tightly within my heart and there you will remain until the joyous day arrives that we will meet again.

It is with deep sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Gloria with her family by her side. Survived by husband David of 43 years. Deeply loved mother to Denise (David) and Jaime (Brad) and her little dog Mya. Grandmother to Kelsa, Adel, Brynn, Andrew and Ethan. Survived by her brothers Dan McNeil (Sandy), Wayne (Carol), nephews Dan and Jim and nieces Tammy (Craig), and Wendy. Pre-deceased by brother Bill Jr. and parents Bill and Christine McNeil.

Heartfelt thanks to all of those who knew and loved Gloria, and supported the family through this extremely difficult time.

A celebration of Gloriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life will be held at the Qualicum First Nationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; band hall on Sunday October 4th at 1 pm.

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Left to mourn her passing are her brothers Pat (Lyn) Forrest and Harold (Margot) Forrest, sons Larry (Phyllis), Bill (Laurie) and Glenn (Tracey), and grandchildren William, Tommy, Lance and Diana.

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She also leaves behind good friends from her neighbourhood, from her years working at ICBC and travelling partners from the many cruises she enjoyed.

We hope whatever comes after this, Merle has sharp needles, full bird feeders and an endless tank full of gas.

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MADRID â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed the 500-goal mark and Real Madrid hailed him as the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all-time leading scorer on Wednesday, while Manchester United and Manchester City rebounded from opening losses to remain in contention in the Champions League.Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus also won their matches in the European competition and remain in a good position after two rounds of group stage matches. Ronaldo scored his 500th and 501st goals in Sweden, passing Raulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mark of 323 goals according to the Spanish club, which counts a goal that has officially been awarded to Pepe. UEFA said the players are still level at 323. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very happy,â&#x20AC;? Ronaldo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First of all because the team won. But I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lie to you. I really wanted to beat Raulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record.â&#x20AC;? Ronaldo said Raul had sent him a message of congratulations. The Portuguese forward took his Champions League record tally to 82 goals, five more than Lionel Messi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are happy with Cristiano Ronaldoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals,â&#x20AC;? defender Alvaro Arbeloa said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredible what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing. He is a legend in Real Madrid. It seems there is no limit to what he can do.â&#x20AC;?

Here is a look at Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Champions League matches: â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Group A Ronaldo ensured Real Madrid kept its share of the Group A lead, along with Paris Saint-Germain.

The Portugal forward scored in the 29th and 90th minutes against Malmo, which played with 10 men from the 78th as left back Yoshimar Yotun was sent off with a second yellow card.

Swedish police said 20 Madrid supporters were detained for disorderly conduct before the match.

PSG eased to a 3-0 win at Shakhtar after defender Serge Aurier scored a goal and set up another.

The Ivory Coast right back headed in PSGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opener in the seventh minute and served up a corner kick for David Luiz to make it 2-0 in the 23rd. PSG sealed victory when Zlatan Ibrahimovic unleashed a shot that ricocheted off Shakhtar captain Darijo Srna and flew into the net as an own goal in the 90th. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Group B All four Group B teams are now level on three points after Manchester United defeated Wolfsburg 2-1 in England and CSKA Moscow edged PSV Eindhoven 3-2

at home. Juan Mata scored one goal and set up another as United rallied to win its first group match. Daniel Caligiuri put Wolfsburg ahead after four minutes, but Mata won and converted a penalty to equalize before halftime and Chris Smalling slotted the ball past Diego Benaglio to seal the win in the 53rd.

In Russia, Seydou Doumbia scored twice as CSKA held off a second-half comeback by PSV. CSKA led 3-0 at halftime but PSV bounced back with two goals from Maxime Lestienne and had chances to level the score late. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Group C Benfica moved into a comfortable position atop Group C with the surprise 2-1 win at Atletico Madrid, opening a threepoint advantage after two matches.

Benfica has six points and Atletico has three, while Galatasaray and Astana, which drew 2-2 in Kazakhstan earlier Wednesday, have one point each.

Atletico Madrid went ahead with Angel Correa in the 23rd, but Argentine midfielder Nicolas Gaitan equalized in the 36th and Goncalo Guedes put the Portuguese champions ahead in the 51st. Brazilian World Cup veteran goalkeeper Julio Cesar played well to keep the hosts from recovering. There were three own goals in the match in Kazakhstan, including Astanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 89th-minute equalizer. It was the first game in the main stages of the Champions League to be held in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, which has been considered part of Europe for football purposes since 2002. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Group D Juventus and Manchester City cast aside their domestic woes to pick up important wins in the Champions League on Wednesday. Juventus stayed ahead in Group D by defeating Sevilla 2-0 in Italy, while Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first victory came at Borussia Moenchengladbach. Alvaro Morata equaled a Juventus club record by scoring in a fifth successive Champions League match to put last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s runner-up three points clear atop the group. Simone Zaza sealed the victory in the end.

Manchester City moved level with Sevilla after Sergio Aguero scored a last-minute penalty to help the Premier League side snatch a dramatic 2-1 victory in Germany. Aguero was fouled by United States defender Fabian Johnson in the 89th and sent â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Gladbach keeper Yann Sommer the wrong way to secure the win. Moenchengladbach was playing European Cup football at home for the first time in 37 years.

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LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Tesla Motors launched its all-electric Model X crossover Tuesday night, delivering cars to six customers — well, five, if you subtract the one Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk is keeping for himself — but the glitzy event left key questions about the car unanswered.

Potential buyers still don’t know what Tesla is charging for the car.

Tesla has only released pricing for the Model X Signature, the series’ specially badged, fully loaded cars.

They start at $132,000.

Musk has said the regular X will start at about $5,000 more than a comparably equipped Tesla Model S electric sports sedan, but there’s no public price sheet.

The base model of the all-wheeldrive Model S starts at $76,200

before a $7,500 federal tax credit for electric cars and California’s $2,500 rebate.

That would put the starting price of a Model X around $81,200. But there’s no information about which features might be standard on the X that are optional on the current S. So a comparison of base models could be higher.

It also could be that Tesla is still so far away from putting the model into meaningful production and sales that Musk doesn’t yet know what the price will ultimately be, said Mark Spiegel, a hedge fund manager for Stanphyl Capital Partners who is shorting Tesla’s stock, a bet that pays off if Tesla shares fall.

Tesla stock was up 2 cents to $246.67 in midsession trading Wednesday.

The automaker’s website doesn’t reveal much about the vehicle.

Customers can place an order for a Model X — as long as they deposit $5,000 — but can’t configure a car or get a final price.

Tesla says it would deliver cars ordered now in the second half of 2016, but declined to provide any further details on its manufacturing schedule or the timing of more deliveries.

“We are not sharing any additional information on deliveries,” said Tesla spokeswoman Khobi Brooklyn.

Analysts say one of the car’s signature features — falcon doors that open upward instead of outward — could either be a huge selling point or an Achilles’ heel, depending on how well they work. The doors contain sensors to monitor sur-

roundings and avoid contact with obstacles around the car.

Don’t expect to hear anything critical from the first owners. Musk got car No. 1, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Tesla board member Steve Jurvetson received the second X. There’s still little information on how quickly the Palo Alto, Calif., car company can ramp up production at its Fremont, Calif., factory, where both the Model X and S are produced.

Tesla will make about 50,000 cars this year, mostly Model S sedans. It needs to start producing the Model X crossovers in much greater numbers than by the handful if it is to meet its stated goal of manufacturing 85,000 to 90,000 Model X and S vehicles next year.

Tesla did reveal some Model X specs at Tuesday’s launch event near the Fremont, Calif., factory.

The sound system in the X contains 17 speakers.

It is the first electric vehicle with a 5,000-pound towing capacity.

One version of the crossover will be able to go 155 miles per hour and reach 60 mph in 3.2 seconds.

It will be able to travel 250 miles between charges.

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