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OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed British Columbia’s tough drunk-driving law, which imposes heavy fines, penalties and immediate roadside suspensions.

The high court handed down a pair of judgments Friday, a 6-1 decision and a unanimous 7-0 ruling, that uphold key portions of the law.

It ruled the province had the jurisdiction to enact the law in 2010 and that it did not violate the charter protection of the presumption of innocence.

However, a majority of the court said the law violated the charter protection against unlawful search and seizure.

In 2012, B.C. amended the law to deal with that issue, allowing drivers who failed a roadside breath test to ask for a second test and apply for a review of their driving prohibition.

The Supreme Court ruling Friday deals only with the law as it stood in 2010.

Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, writing for the majority, said the roadside screening scheme was “valid provincial legislation” and the presumption of innocence protection was not at play because “the provincial regime does not create an ‘offence.”’

However, Karakatsanis upheld the original trial judge’s finding that the law “as it was constituted from September 2010 to June 2012” violated the charter provisions against unreasonable search and seizure.

Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin dissented on that point, saying there was nothing “constitutionally unreasonable” about the search provisions of the original law.

“The state’s purpose — to prevent death and serious injury on the highway from

The Supreme Court of Canada handed down a pair of judgments Friday, a 6-1 decision and a unanimous 7-0 ruling, that uphold key portions of B.C.’s drinking-driving law.

impaired driving — is important and capable of justifying intrusion into the private sphere of the individual’s bodily substances.”

The province amended the law in 2012 to deal with that issue.

British Columbia’s justice minister said Friday that the immediate roadside prohibition law has saved 260 lives since September 2010 and lauded the top court’s decision.

“It’s a very significant law for us. It’s the toughest in the country and it’s very effective. It’s keeping our highways safe and it’s keeping families from losing loved ones due to drinking drivers,” Suzanne Anton said.

She added that the amended law the prov-

ince introduced in 2012 deals with the fairness issue that the Supreme Court raised.

“I’m confident that the law as it’s currently written satisfies the concerns that they expressed about the older version of the law in the case that came out today.”

Drivers in the case had the support of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, which argued that their right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty was violated by the imposition of automatic penalties.

Another intervener, Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada, supported B.C.’s law, saying it “falls squarely within the province’s legislative competence.”

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Campus lockdown at Ontario university lifted after online threat found baseless PAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS

An online threat compared by police to one made before the deadly shooting in Oregon earlier this month triggered a lockdown on Friday that paralyzed the Waterloo, Ont., campus of Wilfrid Laurier University for several hours.

Campus was shut down at 6 a.m. and students and faculty were told to stay away after administrators were tipped off to the threat overnight by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the university’s president said.

The lockdown was lifted at 11:30 a.m., though the univer-

sity said faculty and staff were not required to come back to work that day.

Police said the threat was made in an anonymous post on the online forum 4chan that used similar wording as a warning made before the Oct. 1 shooting at an Oregon college that left 10 people, including the shooter, dead.

A photo shared on Twitter showed a post that featured an image of a frog holding a gun and read: “Don’t go to laurier science building hall tomorrow. happening thread will be posted in the morning.”

A post that preceded the Oregon shooting read: “Don’t go to school if you are in the north-

west. happening thread will be posted tomorrow morning.”

Police said they are still seeking the person responsible for the threat against Wilfrid Laurier University and there could be legal consequences.

“The initial investigation would indicate that we’re dealing with a posting from outside the country,” Supt. Pat Dietrich said.

He said it’s unclear what the poster’s intentions were, but the effect on the university was significant.

“I think if there’s an offence committed and the person can be located and identified, then there should be a consequence because to do something like

this — and the type of impact it has — for absolutely no reason is just ridiculous,” he said.

The lockdown came during the fall term reading week, meaning fewer students, faculty and staff were on campus.

Students tweeted they were warned by text message shortly after 8 a.m.

“So thankful to be a part of an academic institution where safety is so important. Thanks WLU for the TEXT this morning re: lockdown,” one wrote.

Another said it was “aggravating” not to have more information about what was happening, while others expressed concern for their classmates and colleagues.

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Project aims to honour crew members lost in plane crash Amateur historian wants to install memorial plaque at site near Mount Whymper JULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS

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While the country watches with bated breath as election results pour in Monday, Nanaimo’s council meeting will proceed as normal.

The election may mean a much sparser public gallery, despite a number of hot-button issues set for debate. Two examples include approval of the terms of reference for an investigation into the Colliery dams controversy and putting a contract out for a core review of the city.

McKay said the Community Charter requires that meeting dates are published for the year in advance, long before the election date was called.

He said “not one councillor” has raised concerns that the meeting should be postponed in light of the massive public attention election night will likely command.

“You’re the first person that’s brought it up,” he said.

McKay also said city residents can still watch the council meeting from home on their laptops as they watch election coverage, since all council meetings are streamed online.

However, McKay acknowledged the election will likely be on everyone’s minds, even as they conduct city business.

“I imagine there will be updates throughout the course of the meeting,” he said with a laugh.

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As Remembrance Day approaches, a local amateur historian has made headway with a project to commemorate a local Second World War crash site.

For the last two years, Rod Szasz has worked to raise funds to install a memorial plaque and interpretive board at a site near Mount Whymper at the headwaters of the Nanaimo River where five Royal Canadian Air Force crew members died when their plane slammed into a mountainside and exploded on May 29, 1944.

His idea to honour the crew members has gained traction, and Szasz has applied through the Community War Memorial Programme of Veterans Affairs Canada for support.

Under the programme, up to 50 per cent of the cost of the memorial can be covered.

An interpretive board meant for the public will be installed at the gate of the Island Timberlands property within the Nanaimo watershed, with a plaque then placed at the hard-toaccess crash site.

“There will be an explanation on the aircraft, the air crew, the history of what happened, where it’s located and a bit of background on the history of the Commonwealth air training program to give people a broad historical context of the crash site itself,” said Szasz.

“The commemorative plaque itself will be bronze and affixed at the crash site itself, into the rock.”

The B-25 Mitchell bomber had set off on the morning it crashed, from

Rod Szasz stands with one of the many pieces of plane wreckage near Mount Whymper. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]

the Boundary Bay 5 Operational Training Unit on a routine navigational exercise.

Though two other aircraft completing the same exercise came back without incident, plane No. 345 never returned to base.

It’s unclear exactly what happened prior to the crash, but the remains of aircraft smoldered for five days, and when rescuers finally arrived, all the crew inside had perished.

The rescue effort took more than a month and what body parts could be retrieved were loaded onto two stretchers, and buried in a makeshift grave nearby.

“Their chance of survival as members of RAF Bomber Command on active operations was less than 50 per cent. That many thousands died in training accidents preparing for this great effort is a sacrifice well worth remembering,” said Szasz via email.

“The wreckage and remains lying moldering in the forest are a symbol of something much larger than the City of Nanaimo. They should not be forgotten.”

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Into the home stretch University experts offer thoughts on how election may play out

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UBC political scientist says he believes government is out of the grasp of the NDP, but says the party should sweep all but a few seats on Vancouver Island. Dr. Richard Johnston said the NDP was damaged in part by opposition to the niqab issue in Quebec, where its base is made up of more nationalistic, secular voters.

He said voters on the other side of the issue Spencer migrated to the Anderson Liberals, the Reporting historic home to religious and cultural minorities in the province, and presented a challenge for the NDP, whose western progressive roots prevented the party from siding with Quebecers opposed to the wearing of the garment during citizenship ceremonies.

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“It’s the party of Nanaimo, of the west,” said Johnston.

“Mr. Mulcair has this more complicated dynamic.”

However, Johnston also said the Conservatives have been unable to pick up traction during the campaign.

He said the “big question” of the night will be whether polling has underestimated their support.

He said the Conservatives have suffered from placing a focus on leadership and fitness to lead during the campaign.

“Really, that was an issue about Justin Trudeau,” said Johnston. He added Both Stephen Harper and Mulcair likely anticipated the issue would hurt the younger Liberal leader.

“And I would say it kind of blew up in their faces,” he said.

Vancouver Island University political studies professor Mark Williams said this week one of the deciding factors in the election will be the prime minister’s time in government and who comes out to support him.

“I do think this election is going to be a referendum on the prime minister’s record,” he added.

He said a “fired-up electorate” may make for interesting results both nationally and locally.

Williams said he sees the poten-

tial for Nanaimo-Ladysmith Green Party candidate Paul Manly to make inroads.

The documentary filmmaker has raised about $110,000 in donations and has run a strong campaign.

“I wouldn’t say it’s representative of a broader Green tide rising across the country,” he said.

But Williams said record advance voting numbers bode well for the candidate.

“He’s probably going to benefit somewhat, especially if the (youth) come out to vote.”

Fellow VIU professor Alexander Netherton said he expects and orange sweep of the Island, except for Green leader Elizabeth May’s Saanich-Gulf Islands riding.

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VIU students urge youth to cast ballots

Nanaimo-Ladysmith hopefuls on weekend campaign trail

Get out and vote.

That’s the message to youth in Nanaimo from Year 6 Education students at Vancouver Island University.

The students, all completing their final semester of VIU’s teacher training program, created a website called You Only Vote Once (www.yovo. weebly.com) as part their class ‘community action project.’

“Youth voting is a concern,” said student Dan Callaghan. “There’s apathy and disengagement. Everyone asks ‘how do we get more young people out to vote?’ As beginning teachers, we believe we can make a difference in classrooms. We can create awareness in schools and gets kids primed to vote.”

The group’s website informs people about political parties and local candidates, and provides information about how youth can register to vote.

“There’s been a lot of confusion with changes to the Elections Act and identification requirements,” added Callaghan.

“Our website clearly explains the process.”

Callaghan said the group interviewed all Nanaimo candidates and posted their responses to key questions online, taking great care to remain unbiased and unpartisan.

Student Tara Davis said completing the community action project was a useful learning tool because “it taught us how to implement an

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Just two more days of campaigning to go.

Candidates across the country are in a frenzy to round up and solidify votes in the dying days of Campaign 2015, including in Nanaimo-Ladysmith and ridings across Vancouver Island.

The four main candidates for the riding – Liberal Tim Tessier, New Democrat Sheila Malcolmson, Conservative Mark MacDonald and the Green Party’s Paul Manly – are busy contacting supporters and talking to voters Saturday and Sunday.

The biggest push comes on Monday, when each of the local campaigns will throw their remaining resources behind the get-out-thevote effort until polls close.

The end of the election will no doubt prove to be bittersweet for the candidates, who have each invested countless hours and resources into the longest writ period in modern Canadian history.

MacDonald admits the ordeal has been draining.

“I’m long past exhausted,” he said.

“My legs are shot.”

MacDonald was set to appear with former Tory ministers James Moore and Stockwell Day on Friday, and said he will be kept busy canvassing throughout the weekend.

“There’s so many undecideds,” MacDonald said, adding that about 25 per cent have yet to decide how to park their vote. “Our own numbers are showing that.”

Tessier said Friday he was attending a rally at Vancouver Island University

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and was set to attend a “large volunteer rally” today.

“For the most part, it’s just me out shaking hands and talking to people,” said Tessier.

Tessier said he has been “humbled” by the efforts of volunteers and supporters.

“I feel good,” he said when asked about the campaign. “I feel very, very good.”

Manly will once again be joined in this riding by his party leader and fellow Vancouver Island candidate Elizabeth May. The pair will attend a series of events together from the north to south tip of the riding, where local people will have a chance to meet and talk with them.

Manly said he will spend most of the day Sunday canvassing.

“It’s been an amazing run and I’m ecstatic at how things have come together,” he said.

Malcolmson said her campaign will take nothing for granted in the final hours of the campaign, adding her team of volunteers will be working hard to get out the vote.

“We’re going to be talking to voters right down to the wire,” she said.

Malcolmson said she is not discounting Conservative support in the riding and added she was pleased to get the endorsement of two strategic voting groups.

She said she has also been “impressed” with the level of voter engagement in the riding – even those who have said they will not vote for her.

“I’ve been so encouraged that voters have been engaged,” she said.

“It’s been respectful and constructive.”

Malcolmson will watch results pour in on election night with supporters at the Beban Social Centre’s auditorium.

MacDonald will join his supporters at his campaign headquarters at the Longwood Station centre.

Tessier and Manly will spend election night in downtown Nanaimo.

Manly and his supporters will gather at the Nanaimo Entertainment Centre, while Tessier and his team will be at Mon Petit Choux Cafe Bakery.

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Island votes key to final outcome But he said May’s party has established itself as a political force in the region, regardless of the outcome of Monday’s election.

“On this Island, the Greens are here to stay,” he said.

Netherton also predicted muddy

waters for the country if the Conservatives win a slim plurality of the seats Monday. Both the Liberals and NDP leaders have said they would not allow Stephen Harper to remain as prime minister.

“If that does happen, I don’t think the election’s over on the 19th,” he said, adding a close election may

mean B.C.’s three-way race among the big parties may prove pivotal.

“It may be the first time in Canadian history people wait up to see our votes,” he said.

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inquiry-based approach in our own classrooms.

“As a team, we came up with a question we wanted answered – how to get more youth to vote – then we figured out an action plan to solve it, with guidance from our faculty mentor,” she said.

“This is a practice we can take into our classrooms as new teachers. Kids today don’t want a teacher to stand in front of the room and deliver a lecture. We have to be more creative in the way we teach 21st century learners. Learning needs to be engaging, relevant and technology driven.”

John Phipps, the group’s faculty mentor, said the inquiry based learning approach is part of a new “Breaking Barriers in Education” teaching model adopted by VIU’s Education program almost two years ago for fifth year Bachelor of Education and sixth year post-baccalaurette degree students.

“We’re changing the way we teach new teachers,” he explained.

“We’re using an inquiry-based method because it’s a purposeful way of having students more engaged in learning. It also fits in well with the B.C. government’s new BC Ed Plan which overhauls the kindergarten to grade 12 system.”

Phipps added that community action projects are an important part of the program because they “involve students working collaboratively to make a positive difference within their school or community.”

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A Nanaimo student was handed an eight-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated assault in the repeated stabbing of a 16-yearold girl.

Arshil Azim Parekh was a 19-yearold culinary arts student at Vancouver Island University at the time of the May, 2014 incident.

He phoned the victim, who cannot be identified, and asked her if

she wanted some cake that he had made.

Once she met him on the street outside her home he asked her for a hug and began to stab her with a knife he’d brought to the scene, according to Crown prosecutor Frank Dubenski.

He stabbed her 23 times in the back, upper shoulder and wrist.

Parekh was arrested for attempted murder but pleaded guilty to aggravated assault.

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OUR VIEW

Now it’s your turn: Go and vote to make democracy work

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he message never gets old.

Once again, as we all wait to see whether the pundits, polls and prognosticators are correct, we would all do well to remember that there’s only one poll that counts when it comes to federal election — the one taken today.

Not that every poll and pundit can be correct, since we’ve heard predictions all over the map. A Conservative win. A Liberal win. Some sort of funky coalition.

The real issue remains what it has always been in every election since Confederation: What do we want for Canada’s future?

Until the polls close Monday night, everything is conjecture. Canadians will have the final say.

To that end, we refer back to a point we’ve made numerous times.

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People love to complain. More often than not, the source of those many complaints is “the government.”

Whether it be civic, provincial or federal, people love to complain about the performance of those in government.

And it’s absolutely their right to do so — even if they don’t bother to vote.

But those complaints can ring a little hollow if you are not making use of your very important right to head out to the ballot box.

On Monday, Nanaimo and area residents of voting age have yet another chance to have a significant impact on the lives of themselves and their neighbours.

This responsibility must not be taken lightly. We say this before every major election — pay attention

to what’s happening around you. In each of the with Nanaimo connections, you have a full slate of candidates, eager to represent you, your interests and your cash.

Many claims have been made by every party and each candidate; one party will end this or start that, the other can do such and such so much better and another has what it takes to make an ideal Canada.

This candidate will act on (fill in the blanks) when he or she arrives in Ottawa, that candidate will make change the way we are represented.

It can be confusing and frustrating to sort out the competing claims.

As we have so often implored you, the democratic process works as long as we each play our part in vigorously questioning and getting to know these candidates.

Find out where the candidates in your riding stand on the issues most important to you. Make sure you know what they and their parties have been doing.

Never forget the past when making decisions about the future.

This extra-long campaign is drawing to a close. Information and promises have flowed freely.

In Nanaimo-Ladysmith, candidates include (in alphabetical order): Jack East (Marxist-Leninist), Mark MacDonald (Conservative), Sheila Malcolmson (NDP), Paul Manly (Green Party) and Tim Tessier (Liberals).

In Courtenay-Alberni, the candidates are Barbara Biley (Marxist-Leninist), John Duncan (Conservative), Gord Johns (NDP), Carrie Powell-Davidson (Liberals) and Glenn Sollitt (Green Party).

Again, there is plenty of information out there. It’s not hard to figure out. Vote for who you think has the best ideas and vision.

Turnout for advanced voting was high, so that’s a good sign. The push to get our young people out to the ballot box has been impressive as well, meaning they are helping determine their own futures more than ever.

Again, while everyone has their right to complain, it’s a lot harder to get things done if you don’t have the power of your vote behind it.

Your job is to listen, learn, and, most importantly, get out there on Monday and vote. » We want to hear from you.

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» YOUR LETTERS // EMAIL: YOURLETTERS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM Party economic policies only appear to be similar It’s about money — the huge difference between the Liberals and the NDP: Great ideas, but where’s the economic engine to pay for it?

If you’re taking the time to read this letter, you are definitely well-motivated to achieve and/or maintain your life goals.

Your government should ease or even eliminate as many hurdles as possible.

Your voter homework has probably shown you that the Liberal Party, NDP, and Greens share much of the same environmental, foreign relations, and social policy in common.

However, there is one huge difference . . . the Liberal economic philosophy (and budget). The old adage, “You have to spend money to make money” holds true.

Just as a person might withdraw some of their savings to invest in repairing and improving their home, so should the government allow taxpayers to use some of their tax contribution to improve healthcare, housing, transportation, education, retirement, and the “infrastructure” list goes on.

During the time it takes to replenish those withdrawn savings, those people will be considered “in deficit.”

But the increased value of their home offsets that, and in the meantime, they have distributed their withdrawn savings among the repair-persons (and their suppliers, their grocers, clothing stores, hardware stores, etc).

Those persons, in turn, spend that infusion of new income on the aforesaid, Thus, that original ‘deficit’ money disperses itself throughout the local (and eventually national) economy, just by flowing laterally before trickling upward to the supplier CEO’s.

This rise in income level of all persons has the effect of creating more tax revenue to put back into the taxpayer “savings account.”

Imagine the jobs that such an infrastructure investment will create . . . an economy based on the middle class, for a change.

And that is the major difference between the parties. And that is why my husband and I both switched from NDP to Liberal.

Helen Shaw Lantzville

We must act together, not against each other The main objective of most people in this election is to get rid of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.

In order to do that, however, we must act together, not against each other.

In Saanich-Gulf Islands, that means voting for Elizabeth May and the Green Party. In Nanaimo-Ladysmith, it means voting for Sheila Malcolmson and the NDP. Taking the results of the 2011 election and applying them to the new

Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding, the NDP had 45 per cent of the vote, the Conservatives had 40 per cent of the vote, and the Greens and the Liberals each had seven per cent.

Even if the Liberals or the Greens succeeded in tripling their vote, that would not be sufficient to win the riding.

What it might do, however, is to take enough of the anti-Harper votes to let the Conservative get in.

Fraser Wilson Nanaimo

NDP here in a tight race; but not with the Tories The local NDP campaign’s latest email to potential supporters begins “Election Day is Monday, Oct. 19 and Sheila Malcolmson and the NDP are in a tight race with the Conservatives here in Nanaimo-Ladysmith.”

This is taking a page out of the national leaders’ strategy of dealing

with the burgeoning Green Party support by pretending it doesn’t exist.

Don’t mention their names and maybe voters won’t notice them.

The NDP know very well who they are in a tight race with in Nanaimo-Ladysmith, and it isn’t the Conservatives.

Anyone who’s attended candidates’ meetings, been out on the streets or just plain talking to friends and others knows where the energy is.

Not acknowledging him is just plain rude.

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Reality-based police training for media members PAMELA ROTH VICTORIA NEWS

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ith my eyes closed, I’m guided into a room by Victoria police Const. Kristin Greffard and told to lie down on the floor.

She puts baby oil on my hands that’s meant to simulate blood. On this day I’m Constable Roth and I’ve been cut during a knife fight with a criminal.

When I ask you to turn around, open your eyes and address the threat in front of you,” says Greffard.

Standing nearly on top of me is a large man armed with a butcher knife. I tell him to back away, but he doesn’t listen, only threatening to hurt me instead.

It’s a difficult situation. There’s no time to ponder what to do. My first response is to get up and run away, but I’m a police officer so I have to protect myself and the public from this dangerous man.

Instead of getting up, I freeze and smile at the man, hoping he’ll go away.

Greffard calls a brief time out to remind me of the options I have available on my belt — a gun, pepper spray and baton.

Still on my back, I kick the man in the leg, then push myself across the floor, fumbling with my holster to retrieve my pistol.

It’s difficult to communicate with the man while trying to grab my gun.

My heart is pounding. Eventually I shoot him in the leg and he falls to the ground.

“When we have somebody that’s coming at us with a knife, everybody is going to feel some degree of fear in that scenario and how they react to that and deal with it may be different from one person to the next,” said Greffard after the scenario.

“It all comes down to our threat perceptions, and if we choose a level of force we have to be able to articulate that lower levels of force were deemed ineffective or inappropriate, and high levels of force were justified.”

The scenario is one of five that members of the media went through as part of reality-based training for

‘Victoria News’ editor Pamela Roth takes part in the Victoria Police Department’s Reality Based Training in Crisis Incident De-escalation. Roth deals with a distraught man (Const. Craig Barker) on a bus. Behind her is CTV reporter Scott Cunningham, who was also taking part in the training. At left is trainer Sergeant Greg Holmes, who was observing the exercise. [DON DENTON/VICTORIA NEWS]

“I’m going to do everything I can in terms of training to prepare myself and the other officers to make sure they can get home safely at the end of the night .”

Const. Kristin Geffard, Victoria police

all members of the Victoria Police Department.

Using officers as actors trained to demonstrate certain behaviours, the scenarios are made as real as possible to enforce an officer’s fundamental skills and any deficiencies that may arise. Each scenario is based on real

events that have happened in the department or other police agencies, along with trends officers are noticing such as more edged weapons on the street.

“We want to prepare officers so that in case they are presented with that, they’re not going to go into that fight or flight mode and fight because we don’t have the option of flight,” said Greffard.

“At the end of the day, I really like going home to my son, so I’m going to do everything I can in terms of training to prepare myself and the other officers to make sure they get home safely at the end of the night.”

In another scenario outside, I’m briefed about a situation that arose on a tourist bus.

The bus was on its way from the Craigdorroch Castle to the Butchard

Gardens when a passenger became erratic, causing the driver to pull over and evacuate the bus.

The driver tells me and my partner (Scott Cunningham from CTV News) more about the man I see pacing back and forth on the bus. He’s average size, in his early thirties, and talking fearfully about the demons he sees outside.

On the bus, we introduce ourselves as police officers that are here to help. Cunningham takes the lead and approaches the frightened man who’s out of his mind, trying to negotiate with him to come off the bus.

“What can we do to help you?”

Cunningham asks calmly.

“It’s not safe! Get off the bus!” the man shouts, as he hops anxiously from seat to seat. I’m taken back by his strange demeanour, unsure of

what to say or do.

The man pulls a knife when Cunningham gets too close. The situation is tense.

Cunningham grabs his pistol and I take out pepper spray when Sgt. Greg Holmes calls a time out to remind us of the techniques used to communicate with someone in a crisis and establish a connection.

“You want to connect with that person. That’s what they need. They are having the worst day of their life,” said Holmes after the scenario.

“Communication is what solves an issue and having patience and taking time to do that. When you guys started talking and humanized yourself and built that trust and learned what was going on with him, it was easily resolved. He came off the bus and that’s the kind of outcome we want.”

COWICHAN

Public consultation planned regarding hospital site SARAH SIMPSON COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

Public consultation is on the horizon with regard to the new Cowichan District hospital site in North Cowichan. In August the Cowichan Valley Regional Hospital District board announced three properties on Bell McKinnon Road had been selected to potentially house the new Cowichan District Hospital but much work needs to be done before shovels go anywhere near the dirt.

Recently-retired CVRD senior staffer Tom Anderson was hired to help take a leadership role in moving the rezoning of the new hospital forward with the municipality of North Cow-

ichan. The Hospital District is paying his wages.

“I’ve tried to create a zone that will allow for future expansion to a number of various uses that may not be understood at the present time,” Anderson said. Hospital and related uses, care facilities, supporting services like coffee shops, medical related education and training facilities and more could be permitted at the site.

“Right now the application is in front of the planners and will be reviewed,” Anderson said.

He has told the municipality one of the first public consultation steps he’d like to see is a neighbourhood public information meeting.

“I’m getting the feeling that there’s a lot of very positive vibes going right now with this new hospital but I think it’s really important that the neighbourhood have a chance to express their issues, concerns positive and negative without the hindrance of people from all over the area coming to express their support,” Anderson said. A general public meeting would follow at a later date.

Anderson said to stay tuned for dates and times.

“I’m sort of going to take my lead from the planners at North Cowichan as to when we’ll be able to work that into their system so that they’re able to attend the public information

meetings to explain the process to the public and we can provide any other technical and other information that we may have on the hospital site,” he said.

Anderson is also working on a website that will have continually updated information as it becomes available.

The CVRHD has been saving for a new hospital for years. To date the CVRHD has put $22.6 million in a reserve fund in order to ensure the funds are there to pay for its 40 per cent share of the new hospital.

Island Health spokesperson Kellie Hudson said in late August that her group is pleased to have the CVRDH

on board as a “keen and active” partner in the eventual renewal of Cowichan’s hospital.

“While it is important to note that this is a long-term strategy, and a new hospital for the Cowichan Valley does not have approval or funding at this point in time, we are grateful for the CVRHD’s enthusiasm and its ongoing support of this and other health care related projects,” Hudson said. » We want to hear from you.

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CAMPBELL RIVER

Environmental protection high on list for dam project MIKE DAVIES CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

Young entrepreneurs Roseanne and Jan Korteland before starting their pitch to the investors on Dragon’s Den. [COURTESY DRAGON’S DEN]

Couple hopes to paint a successful future in the Den LEXI BAINAS COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

Duncan-based Country Chic Paint is appearing on the CBC show Dragon’s Den on Oct. 28 at 8 p.m.

For its owners, imaginative entrepreneurs Roseanne and Jan Korteland, who moved to Canada from the Netherlands in 2008, it’s another exciting development in a whirlwind of publicity for their company.

Almost four years ago they started Zin Frames, a company offering custom-made shabby-chic frames for sale.

But, they soon gravitated to the world of paint and, in the 22 months since the launch of Country Chic Paint, the pair have turned the brand into a fashionable go-to with fans across the continent who love its combination of highend, user-friendly products and exceptional customer service.

“We are so grateful for all the support we’ve received from our wonderful staff, retailers, customers, and fans,” Roseanne Korteland said.

She was snatching a rocking chair moment with the couple’s new baby.

“We have two other children, too, so it’s busy around here,” she laughed.

Zin Frames really opened the door to Country Chic Paint, she said.

“We started offering the frames unpainted and then people asked us for paint and from one thing came another. Before we knew it we started selling paint.”

Then came a big surprise.

“By the third month or so we were featured by a very well-known blog-

“We are so grateful for all the support we’ve received from our wonderful staff, retailers, customers, and fans.”

Rosenne Korteland, business owner

ger with, at the time, about 400,000 followers. It gave us a big boost for sure. We didn’t know what had happened because all of a sudden our phone didn’t stop ringing. Then we found where it came from. We hadn’t even solicited that. It was quite exciting,” Korteland said.

Now, they’re getting even more attention.

This is not their first attempt at Dragon’s Den, though. They first tried with Zin Frames a couple of years back.

“But we thought we should try again; it would be really good publicity to go on the show, but what we really wanted was to have an investor join us. Not for the money necessarily but for their wealth of knowledge.

That was the main goal: to find someone who would help with strategic advice, not day-to-day things.”

So, they pitched to the famous TV show on April 14 in Toronto.

“It’s been six months now. Time goes so fast. It was an experience!

They tell you when you come down those stairs (the Dragons) will look at you with really serious expressions.

They are told to do that.

“It seems very intimidating when you look them in the eye for the first time but that goes away in the first few seconds. They are really very friendly,” she said.

However, that’s where she had to stop talking about the episode till the curtain lifts officially on Oct. 28.

Convincing the program’s team that you are worthy of even getting on the show is a big hurdle, she said.

“There are only 170 people who get to go to Toronto to be filmed; it is not very many when you consider the number of auditions they do.”

Country Chic Paint’s office is located in downtown Duncan in the Canada Building and their warehouse is located on Boys Road.

They sell widely.

“We never really set out to sell to only Canada or to Canada and the U.S.,” she said.

“But, with the Internet nowadays, it’s a market you can easily approach.

We have a distribution centre in Indiana to expedite our shipments in the U.S. It’s a lot faster for them to get their products.”

Dragon’s Den itself was created to help talented Canadian entrepreneurs to realize their aspirations in the business world.

Aspiring up-and-comers with big dreams and big goals — including several from the Cowichan Valley in past seasons — enter the den with their business pitches ready in hopes of earning the investment and expertise of a Canadian business guru. The results can be exhilarating, unnerving and, of course, great entertainment.

While they certainly are making a ruckus up at the John Hart Dam Project, they are also trying to minimize their environmental impact in whatever ways they can, according to spokesman for the project, Stephen Watson “BC Hydro has really high standards when it comes to our relationship with the environment,” said Watson, adding they try to instill in their workers a love and respect for the natural world around them even while working on huge mega projects like John Hart.

One example of that is their “I Saved a Frog!” sticker program.

Despite fencing the site in an attempt to prevent the provincially protected red-legged frog from being impacted by the project, every now and then one manages to find its way onto the site.

“One of those little fellows made it all the way down the service tunnel somehow,” Watson laughed. “That’s a 300 metre trip. He’s got some kind of story to tell his buddies.”

That particular frog — one of three red legged frogs found on site and relocated in September — was saved by environmental monitor Chris Beers and released back into the wild.

Anyone who finds and recovers a

red-legged frog on site and returns it back to its natural environment gets a special sticker for their hard hat.

“They’re very coveted,” Watson says.

“Everyone takes a great deal of pride in being a part of this place, and that’s another way we can support that mindset.”

That mindset resulted in another pleasant surprise in September, as well.

“Because of the awareness we’re fostering through our environmental initiatives, people are on the lookout for things, which is how we found that praying mantis,” Watson said. “They don’t generally show up this far north, so it was really something.”

They thought it was such a special find, they reported it to the Royal B.C. Museum.

They have also been seeing success in limiting what they call “bat incidents.”

Bats have posed a problem in the past. When they get into the tunnels they can be injured or killed by ventilation fans.

“We obviously don’t want them in there, not just for us, but for them, as well,” Watson says.

“Thankfully, the grating we’ve put in the ventilation seems to have taken care of that problem and we haven’t had any more issues.”

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Otters lure labradoodles, attack in deep water A woman whose labradoodles were swimming off Transfer Beach in Ladysmith Sept. 21, said her pets were lured into deep water then attacked by a group of otters.

Her dogs were swimming close to shore, when they spotted what their owner took to be seals farther out.

They paddled toward the creatures, which lured them out further.

Then suddenly otters turned. Both dogs were attacked by this group of otters when they dived down and came up underneath them, she said.

One of the dogs was seriously bitten twice — in the belly and hind leg. “ “It was an extremely traumatic event,” she said.

◆ TOFINO

Mountie leaps out of the way of drunk driver A Tofino police officer narrowly dodged a swerving vehicle during a recent road-stop.

The officer was dealing with the driver of another vehicle when police attempted to flag down an incoming pickup truck, according to Cpl. The-

rese Cochlin of the Tofino RCMP. “Instead of stopping, the truck accelerated and swerved around the police vehicle and directly at the officer,” Cochlin said. “The officer jumped out of the way and the truck hit the side mirror of the police vehicle before stopping.”

The driver of the swerving vehicle was detained and police reported she was drunk. She was issued a 90-day driving prohibition and her vehicle was impounded for 30 days.

◆ OAK BAY

Police investigate after urban deer shooting Oak Bay Police are investigating after a deer on Wednesday.

Police were told a white van that was seen driving around the Uplands area around 7:30 p.m. where a few deer gathered on the boulevard.

The resident heard “pop, pop, pop” sounds similar to a .22-calibre rifle and saw the deer scatter, police say.

The resident said a large buck ran into the backyard where it appeared injured, but when they went to check on it a short time later, it was gone.

Police found obvious signs of blood loss from the deer, but no animal.

The van was described as a 1990s, white minivan with black trim.

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Retired Surrey fire captain Randy Piticco is having one of his best weeks in a long time since being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

That’s because his wife, Marilyn Piticco, founder of Langley Community Support Groups Society (formerly the Stroke Recovery Group), threw him a surprise birthday party like no other — one that warmed his heart and hers.

On the Piticcos’ wedding anniversary in July, they were given the devastating news that Randy’s cancer had metastasized.

In the midst of intense chemotherapy, Marilyn knew he would be too sick to have a birthday party, but she wanted to do something to celebrate the love of her life’s 61st birthday.

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knocking on doors, talking with neighbours she and Randy got to know well over the years. She asked them if they could join her on her lawn at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4 to sing Happy Birthday to Randy. She texted and called family, friends and his firefighting family to invite them, too.

One of the neighbours she invited was Meghan Glipps, a 22-year-old BCIT broadcasting graduate who grew up with the Piticcos as neighbours.

She decided not only would she come over to sing her heart out to Randy, she would document the whole birthday on film and give them a copy. “We had no idea that she would do such a thing for us and she stayed up till 3 a.m. that night working on it so she could surprise us with it,� said Marilyn. “Words cannot express what

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In the video, Marilyn brings Randy outside to see more than 50 friends, family and neighbours in his front yard, holding balloons, signs, cards and a cake, while singing to him. Many stuck around after to sneak in a hug and a have word with the fire captain. “I was going to watch football all day,� Randy says on the video. “This is so much better.�

Numerous Surrey firefighters arrived in full uniform, pulling up in a fire engine. The kids got to play on the engine for a while,

HOUSTON

Pair banned from owning animals ALICIA BRIDGES SMITHERS INTERIOR NEWS

A Houston mother and daughter have been banned from owning animals for 20 years under individual sentences handed down to them in the Smithers Provincial Court today.

Karin Adams, aged 43, and her 22-year-old daughter Catherine were sentenced for animal cruelty and neglect offences relating to animals seized from their property by the BCSPCA on Aug. 28, 2014.

Emaciation, poor living conditions, parasite infestation, lack of food, water

and medical treatment were among the conditions affecting some of the dogs and horses in their care.

Karin was sentenced to two years of probation, in addition to the 15 days jail time she had already served. Catherine received a six-month conditional sentence to be served in the residence of a family member, followed by three year probation order.

Each was ordered to undergo counselling, ordered to pay back $5,456 in veterinary costs to the BCSPCA and restricted from working with animals during their probation.

while Randy pulled up a chair and took it all in. “Randy has had the best week this past week, probably in the last five months. He is touched by everyone being interested in his story and especially with the messages from as far away as Ottawa and U.S.,� said Marilyn. “People he doesn’t know saying thank you for his service and calling him a hero. He is my hero, that is for sure.�

Through it all, Pittico continues to lead her stroke recovery group every week. She has dedicated more than 20 years to helping stroke patients recover in Langley. “It helps me to keep some things in our life the same with so many other things changing so much,� she said.

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MAPLE RIDGE

Man who molested preschoolers up for parole JENNIFER SALTMAN THE PROVINCE

A man who molested young girls at his wife’s Maple Ridge daycare, and has been described as having little insight into his offending, has been granted statutory release from prison.

Latif Ahmad Tata, 40, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault involving two girls and in August 2013 was sentenced to four years in prison, minus 218 days of credit for time served. He was initially facing 12 charges involving a total of four girls.

According a recent Parole Board of Canada decision, Tata is scheduled to be given statutory release on

Nov. 7, having served two-thirds of his sentence.

Statutory release is automatically granted to most offenders.

A prisoner cannot be detained unless there is a recommendation by the Correctional Service of Canada for detention.

Over a two-year period, Tata sexually assaulted two girls between the ages of two and four by touching them and forcing them to perform oral sex while his wife was out of the house picking up other children.

Tata’s wife ran the home-based Shining Stars Family Childcare, which is no longer in business.

“Your victims will forever be scarred by the trauma you inflicted

on the victims under your care,” the parole board decision reads.

“You violated a position of trust.” A report prepared prior to Tata’s sentencing indicated he appeared not to take responsibility for his actions. According to the parole board decision, nothing has changed. Tata has shown little remorse for his actions, refers to the sexual assaults as “accidents” and blames his offending on alcohol abuse.

Members of his family continue to deny he committed the offences.

“You are described as an egocentric, narcissistic individual, and your offending is characterized as opportunistic and methodical,” the parole

board decision states.

Tata is considered a low-moderate risk to re-offend sexually and his reintegration potential is low, but he told the board that he is committed to conducting himself appropriately and said he would not victimize people in the future.

“You acknowledge that you have caused a terrible amount of pain, fear and betrayal in the lives of your victims, their families and your own family and friends,” the board wrote.

However, because of the nature and gravity of his offences, his lack of acquired skills and limited insight, the board decided that Tata’s risk is not manageable in the community.

To mitigate his risk, the board

placed a residency requirement on his statutory release. Tata has been accepted by three Lower Mainland halfway houses and indicated that a family member is willing to offer him a job as a painter.

While on statutory release, Tata must also abstain from alcohol; not be in, near or around places where children under age 16 are likely to congregate; not be in the presence of children under age 16 unless with a responsible adult; report relationships or friendships with anyone who has a position of responsibility or authority over children under age 16; have no contact with his victims or their families; and not travel to or reside in Maple Ridge.

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Endangered red panda making himself a new home in the Greater Vancouver Zoo

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ALDERGROVE STAR

Arun, the Greater Vancouver Zoo’s male Red Panda, made his way out on Tuesday to explore his new outdoor enclosure at the Aldergrove zoo.

“It was a very exciting time for Arun and we were thrilled with his keen interest of this new home, behaviour and health,” said zoo general manager Jody Henderson.

Arun arrived in June from the Assiniboine Zoo in Winnipeg as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival program.

The SSP program helps the survival of species that are threatened or endangered in the wild by maintaining genetic diversity through managed breeding programs.

The Red Panda is not closely related

Endangered Red Panda has new home at the Greater Vancouver Zoo. [SUBMITTED]

to the Giant Panda and in fact, it is not even a panda at all.

It is believed the Red Panda was

given the name “panda” which derived from the Nepalese words “nigalya ponya” meaning “bamboo

eater.” These little guys are so unique they are in a family classification all of their own called Ailuridae.

Red Pandas are listed as endangered as the population is estimated at less than 10,000 individuals, with a continuing decline of greater than 10 per cent over the next three generations (estimated at 30 years) due to poaching and habitat loss.

It had taken over two years for the Greater Vancouver Zoo to qualify for participation in the SSP for Red Pandas.

Through population management and conservation efforts such as public education, research, reintroduction and field conservation programs that are supported by the SSP program the zoo can assure a sustainable future for animals that are currently being threatened in the wild.

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First Nation takes ski resort to Supreme Court TREVOR CRAWLEY CRANBROOK DAILY TOWNSMAN

The ongoing saga in a dispute between the Ktunaxa Nation and a proposed Jumbo Glacier ski resort is going to the Supreme Court of Canada.

On Oct. 5, 2015, the Ktunaxa Nation filed an application to the SCOC to appeal an earlier decision from the B.C. Court of Appeal that ruled in favour of the provincial government.

That decision found that B.C.’s approval of a Master Development Agreement for the resort in an area known as Qat’muk did not violate the Ktunaxa Nation’s Charter right to freedom of religion.

The Ktunaxa had argued that the MDA did indeed violate their Charter right to freedom of religion as the

area is considered to be of spiritual importance.

The appeal court’s ruling means that the province did not violate the Ktunaxa’s Charter rights, saw no problem with B.C.’s failure to consider those rights and determined that the consultation with the Ktunaxa regarding constitutionally-protected aboriginal rights was reasonable.

“Our appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada addresses whether our freedom of religion right is the same as other Canadians or whether we are still second class citizens whose rights do not even need to be considered,” said Kathryn Teneese, Ktunaxa Nation Council Chair.

“The previous courts have told us that our spiritual practices and beliefs, vital to who we are as Ktunaxa, matter less than a ski hill

and we cannot allow these decisions to stand.”

Teneese invoked the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, noting a report released in June 2015 contains nearly a hundred recommendations to help repair the relationship between First Nations and the rest of Canada.

“Earlier this year, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released it’s report which included over 90 conditions to address the continuing legacy of loss of Aboriginal identity and culture,” added Teneese.

“And yet here we find ourselves again asking a court to acknowledge what we have known for thousands of years. As long as Ktunaxa exist, we will fight this injustice.”

The application seeks leave for the country’s top court to set aside the B.C. Court of Appeal decision to a

panel of three judges, which will decide whether or not the Ktunaxa have the right to a full appeal before the SCOC. The province and the ski resort developer have 30 days to respond to the Ktunaxa court documents.

According to Ktunaxa Nation religious beliefs, Qat’muk — the area around the proposed Jumbo Glacier resort — is where the Grizzly Bear Spirit was born, goes to heal itself, and returns to the spirit world.

For Ktunaxa, Grizzly Bear Spirit is a unique and indispensable source of collective as well as individual guidance, strength, and protection, and a necessary part of many Ktunaxa spiritual practices and beliefs.

Qat’muk’s spiritual importance is deeply connected to its biological significance for living grizzly bears now and in the future.

SHERI REGNIER TRAIL DAILY TIMES

A woman is facing almost seven years in jail after attempting to smuggle 35 kilograms of cocaine over the Waneta border crossing in Trail.

Caitlin Christine Gladdish, 27, of Kelowna, was handed the prison sentence Tuesday in Kelowna Provincial Court after a lengthy investigation by the Canadian Border Services Agency.

Judge James Threlfall said a longer term would have been appropriate, but noted Gladdish plead guilty, showed genuine remorse, had no previous criminal record and is an excellent prospect for rehabilitation.

But Threlfall also said Gladdish knew her car had been modified with a secret compartment and had already used the vehicle to cross the U.S. border five times.

Earlier this year the CBSA released information on the July 2014 offence, which it deemed the single largest cocaine bust in the Kootenays Gladdish was charged with importation of a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking seven months after the cocaine was discovered during a routine vehicle inspection at the Waneta border.

She was not previously known to officers.

“During the primary inspection, the officer conducted routine checks in the vehicle and noticed irregularities when inspecting the traveller’s trunk,” CBSA area chief, Lorne Black, said in February.

“The narcotics were concealed in an after-market compartment, a void created below the trunk area.”

Street value of the drugs is estimated to be about $2 million.

Last year, border guards seized nearly 300 kilograms of cocaine in British Columbia alone, according to CBSA superintendent Brad Britton.

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Accused pornographer claims revenge plot DALE BOYD PENTICTON WESTERN NEWS

An accused child pornographer in Penticton admitted to police investigators that he took photos of young girls sleeping, saying it was not sexual but to get back at their mother.

The trial for a man who cannot be named due to a publication ban protecting the identities of the victims began this week in Penticton Provincial Court.

He is facing charges of possessing, making, distributing and accessing child pornography and voyeurism.

The accused man quickly admitted to police in a recorded statement in 2012 that he took around 200 photos of the nine and four-year-old daughters of his ex-wife while they were sleeping, though he claimed he didn’t “get off” on the photos and was only doing it to hurt his former common-law spouse.

The man failed to explain the links to child pornography websites allegedly emailed from his phone to his own email account, though he told police he looked at the website at work and maintained he performed the acts to hurt his wife at the time.

“I knew she would find it,” the man said in the interview. “I wanted to hurt her.”

The girls were wearing clothes in the photos, however there are multiple close-up photos of the girls crotches.

The photos were allegedly found by the ex-spouse in the man’s email, she subsequently reported the man to police.

Defence counsel James Pennington argued on Wednesday that the key piece of evidence, the video of the man’s statement at the Penticton RCMP detachment in 2012 where

he admits to taking the photos, was a “deliberate ploy to do an end run around the Charter.”

He argued that the interview with the accused conducted by Const. Ryan Harris weeks after the allegations were brought to police three years ago was a form of entrapment, due to the fact that Harris never told the man that what he said in the interview could be used against him.

Harris did tell the man that he was not under arrest, free to leave the interview at any time and free to consult a lawyer. “(The accused) should have been

told whatever you say to me in this interview can be used against you,” Pennington said. “In my submission that was a deliberate tactic on the part of Const. Harris in order to avoid a messy situation of arrest, detention and then all the Charter remedies that flow from that.”

“The court should be concerned if that is going to be a deliberate tactic,” Pennington said.

Pennington submitted that the interview was not to hear the man’s side of the story as Cst. Harris suggested, but to obtain an admission of guilt.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ EDMONTON

Firms charged over 2013 coal tailings pond spill The Alberta Energy Regulator says two companies have been charged over a huge spill from a coal tailings pond that fouled tributaries that feed the Athabasca River.

An estimated 670 million litres of waste water gushed out of a broken earth berm at the Obed Mountain mine near Hinton on Oct. 31, 2013.

Coal Valley Resources Inc. and Sherritt International Corp. face six charges under the Environmental Protection Act, Public Lands Act and Water Act. The companies are to appear in Hinton provincial court on Jan. 20.

An Environment Canada database said shortly afterwards that the spill contained damaging compounds such as arsenic, mercury, cadmium, lead and manganese.

◆ OTTAWA

Muslim women urged to report abusive incidents

Conservative leader Stephen Harper holds up a $50 bill as he illustrates proposed Liberal tax hikes during a campaign event in Quebec City on Friday. Canadians will go to the polls in the federal election Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Leaders position selves for sprint to the electoral finish Polls show Liberals on track to form government, but party is dogged by controversy ALLISON JONES THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Nearly 11 weeks after they ambled out of the starting blocks, Canada’s federal political leaders are positioning themselves for a final two-day sprint with now-familiar refrains on the economy and the middle class.

Polls had suggested Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was enjoying the inside track, but a persistent controversy over the lobbying activities of his now former campaign co-chairman are expected to weigh him down.

Trudeau tried to keep Friday’s focus on his core campaign message of help for the middle class. He visited a seniors’ residence and highlighted Liberal promises on restoring the eligibility for old age security to 65 and increasing the guaranteed income supplement for single, low-income seniors.

But he couldn’t escape the ugly optics of Dan Gagnier and an email that showed the member of Trudeau’s inner circle was advising

“Frankly, there is no other party in this election that is accused of the things the Liberal party and Mr. Gagnier have done.”

Stephen Harper, Conservative leader

an oil pipeline company on how it ought to approach lobbying a new government.

Trudeau tried to use Gagnier’s resignation earlier this week to insist the Liberals are serious about political ethics.

“He acknowledged and assumed the consequences of his actions and stepped down from our campaign,” he said.

His rivals, however, were not about to let it go, using the current controversy to remind voters about past Liberal scandals.

“Frankly, there is no other party

in this election that is accused of the things the Liberal party and Mr. Gagnier have done,” Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said at a campaign stop in Quebec.

“That is for them to answer to. It is the old culture of the sponsorship scandal.”

The Liberals tried to deflect some of the flak by circulating information that indicated NDP strategist Brad Lavigne had himself been registered as a lobbyist in Ontario until just three weeks ago.

The Ontario Lobbyist Registry shows Lavigne was arranging meetings for the Canadian Fuel Association and Just East Energy Ontario as late as three weeks ago.

Lavigne, who works for the lobbying firm Hill and Knowlton, insisted Friday that the information on the Ontario registry is a mistake and that he deregistered in May. He also claimed that the fuel association reference is incorrect and that he only worked for the organization briefly on a short-term contract last year.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair continued his focus on targeting Conservative ridings in the final days of the campaign, as the NDP leader has said the only way to defeat or replace Harper is to win the ridings the Conservatives held at dissolution.

Mulcair took his campaign Friday to Lac-Megantic —Megantic-L’Erable was held by cabinet minister Christian Paradis, but has no incumbent in this election — to highlight the issue of rail safety. The New Democrats would seek to reverse the Conservative-driven trend towards allowing industries with a direct impact on public safety to self-regulate, Mulcair said.

Harper, meanwhile, hammered home his consistent campaign message of low taxes and financial stability to a Quebec audience Friday, telling them the economy is the No. 1 priority.

The province has been a particular focus of Harper’s in the waning days of the election, with the Conservative leader also campaigning in the province Thursday and Saturday.

A series of incidents against Muslim women in Ottawa has prompted the city’s police to issue an appeal to others who may have been victimized to come forward.

In an email this week to members of the Muslim community, Staff-Sgt. David Zackrias urged the reporting of all forms of abuse.

“In recent days, female members of Ottawa’s Muslim community have voiced concerns about safety, following incidents of verbal abuse towards them — by strangers,” Zackrias states.

“If these types of incidents are not reported, little can be done to help other members of the community from also being victimized.”

In one nasty incident, a pair of teens tore the headscarf from a pregnant woman in Montreal, causing her to fall on the ground.

◆ FREDERICTON

Umbrella triggers fears and school lockdown Police say a suspected firearm being carried by a man in Fredericton on Friday that caused schools to be locked down turned out to be an umbrella.

Police released a photo of the umbrella the man they were looking for was carrying and described it on the department’s Facebook page as having a “significant resemblance to a weapon.”

In the picture released by police, the umbrella is shaped like a Samurai sword.

At a news conference, police Chief Leanne Fitch said a 25-year-old man contacted police shortly before noon after seeing photos they had released on social media.

“The gentleman had absolutely no intention whatsoever to cause any type of concern or fear in the community.”

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Toronto Transit may sue Bombardier ROSS MAROWITS THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — The Toronto Transit Commission, accusing Bombardier of “incompetence,” says it may sue the Quebec plane and train maker over the latest delays in delivery of streetcars.

Commission chairman Josh Colle says the board will consider at its Oct. 28 meeting possible legal and financial actions against the company, including a $50-million claim permitted under the contract for late delivery.

He said Bombardier Transportation advised the commission Thursday that it won’t meet a commitment made in July to deliver 23 new streetcars by year-end, including 20 available for service.

Given Bombardier’s failure to meet its past

commitments, Colle said the TTC has no confidence in this latest schedule.

“I am incredibly disappointed to learn that Bombardier, yet again, will not be meeting their commitments to deliver new streetcars to Toronto,” Colle said in a news release.

“The TTC board has lost all faith in Bombardier’s public promises and ability to deliver this order. We will not let Bombardier’s incompetence hold our patient and loyal customers hostage.”

The company now says it will deliver 19 cars by the end of 2015. Sixteen of them will be in service, including the 10 currently in operation.

The original $993-million contract called for 67 of 204 new vehicles ordered by the TTC to be in operation at this time.

Bombardier blamed the delays on produc-

tion issues in Mexico with the crimping of electrical connectors on six streetcars in production. The problem was identified during quality assurance reviews in Thunder Bay, Ont. The 3,000 wire connections in each of the cars will need to be examined and fixed.

“Bombardier obviously regrets that its performance on this particular project has been disappointing to the TTC, but we remain fully committed to continue to support our customer and deliver the streetcars as soon as possible,” said spokesman Marc-Andre Lefebvre.

The company said it plans to extend production hours in the manufacturing sites assigned to the project by adding a third shift per day. Work within the facilities will be reorganized but no workers will be recalled.

Deborah Leonard enters the courtroom for a hearing on Friday in New Hartford, N.Y. [OBSERVER-DISPATCH VIA AP]

Beating victim was going to leave church CAROLYN THOMPSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. — A mother and father whipped their 19-year-old son in church with an electrical cord and what appeared to be a belt during a deadly, all-night spiritual counselling session triggered by his desire to leave the fold, according to witness testimony and police Friday.

Church deacon Daniel Irwin testified that he peered through a doorway window in the sanctuary at one point during the more than 12-hour ordeal at the Word of Life Christian Church, and saw Lucas Leonard bleeding and in apparent agony.

“Lucas was rolling himself back and forth on the floor and making a sustained, monotone moaning,” Irwin said.

Within hours, the young man would be dead — killed by blows inflicted by his parents, sister and fellow church members, authorities said. His mother told police the group took turns hitting him and holding him down, state police investigator Jason Nellis testified.

The testimony came at a court hearing for the victim’s parents, Bruce and Deborah Leonard, on manslaughter charges. At the conclusion of the hearing, a judge ruled there was sufficient evidence to sustain the charges.

The arrests in this upstate New York town of 22,000 people, about 80 kilometres from Syracuse, have thrown a spotlight on Word of Life, a highly regimented and insular church that operated out of a large, red-brick former school that also served as a communal home for several members.

Police Chief Michael Inserra said outside court that members told authorities that Lucas Leonard and his 17-year-old brother, Christopher, were beaten during what began as spiritual counselling Sunday night over Lucas’ desire to leave the church.

A neighbour, James Constantine, also said Lucas had talked about moving on and had mentioned he might join the Army.

Christopher was hospitalized in serious condition, but his health was improving.

Four other church members, including the victims’ 33-year-old sister, Sarah Ferguson, have been charged with assault. Their hearings will be held later. All six defendants have pleaded not guilty.

Lucas Leonard’s mother and father sat silently throughout the proceeding with their heads bowed, his eyes mostly closed, her long, greying hair hanging in her face.

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• Ensure that Medicare continues to provide quality care to Canadians of all ages by working co-operatively with the provinces. The federal government must stop slashing funding and re-think its refusal to negotiate a renewed federal-provincial health care accord. Young people should not have to live with steadily deteriorating public health care.

• Work to strengthen retirement income security, not arbitrarily force our children and grandchildren to work to age 67 before they qualify for public pensions that are already lower than those in most developed countries.

• Support affordable housing, public transportation and home care for seniors so we won’t be a burden to our children, and stop cutting existing support for services that allow older Canadians to live independently with dignity.

• Create new affordable childcare spaces so our sons and daughters can fully contribute to Canada’s economy without having to leave their children with their grandparents.

• Fully participate in global efforts to address climate change, not exacerbate the climate change crisis that will face today’s young people if nothing is done now.

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Mayor says sewage plan must get fed OK in a week

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New IS branch claims responsibility for deaths

SIDHARTHA BANERJEE THE CANADIAN PRESS

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre has given federal environment officials one week to approve the city’s plan to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.

In a letter sent Friday to Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, Coderre challenged the interpretation of federal laws the government invoked to suspend the sewage dump that was set to begin this weekend.

The mayor suggested the temporary bypass is legal under the Fisheries Act since it relates to construction or maintenance work.

A spokesman for Aglukkaq tweeted that Coderre was incorrect.

“The proposed sewage dump in the St. Lawrence can’t be authorized under the Fisheries Act or regulations,” Ted Laking wrote.

The city wants to close an interceptor — a large sewer used to feed wastewater to treatment plants — to do maintenance work and relocate a snow chute located underneath the Bonaventure Expressway, which is being converted into an urban boulevard.

This week, Ottawa put the project on hold pending further, independent scientific analysis, saying it could not conclude from the information it had as to whether the untreated wastewater to be released would be acutely toxic.

Coderre described the federal actions as abusive and inappropriate and is calling on the federal government to give the go-ahead by next Friday.

Despite Monday’s federal election, Coderre said bureaucrats and experts can complete the review quickly.

“For now it doesn’t change anything because it’s the same government that’s there and we’re working with bureaucrats,” he said in Quebec City.

“I hope they weren’t waiting for my letter to name an expert. In any case, they’ll name an expert and it can be done quickly.”

Coderre says the delay is in the interest of neither the public nor the environment and called the minister’s intervention “unreasonable.”

He noted the federal Environment Department has been aware of the city’s plan since September 2014 and has been provided with all the documents detailing the repair and maintenance work that is necessary.

“If it is not possible to perform this work during the October-November 2015 window, we will have to delay it for one year,” Coderre noted.

“We consider it is not in the public interest or in the interest of the environment to delay such work for one year.”

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Palestinians burn tires during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank on Friday. Tensions and violence have been mounting in recent weeks, in part fueled by Palestinian fears that Israel is trying to expand its presence at a major Muslim-run shrine in Jerusalem, a claim Israel has denied. [AP PHOTO/MAJDI MOHAMMED]

Four Palestinians killed

by Israel as unrest rises Violence comes as possibility of two-state solution is fading MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH AND KARIN LAUB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory — Stone-throwing protests erupted across the West Bank and Gaza on Friday, and assailants firebombed a site revered by Jews as the tomb of biblical Joseph on a “day of rage” against Israel. Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, including a labourer disguised as a journalist who stabbed an Israeli soldier.

The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting to discuss the escalation, which has been marked by a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks and an Israeli security crackdown. Troops manned roadblocks in Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem, a centre of unrest, and ordered some Palestinian men to lift their shirts to show they were not armed.

The violence comes at a time when a possible partition of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean into two states — Palestine alongside Israel — is fading.

This has left many Palestinians frustrated because all paths to independence appear blocked. The tensions have also been stoked by Palestinian fears that Israel is trying to expand its presence at a major Muslim-run shrine in Jerusalem, a claim Israel has denied.

Taye-Brook Zerihoun, a senior UN official, told the Security Council that Israel’s long rule over the Palestinians and diminishing prospects for achieving a Palestinian state have transformed “long-simmering Palestinian anger into outright rage.” The current crisis cannot be resolved by security measures alone, Zerihoun warned.

Israel’s new UN ambassador, Danny Danon, accused Palestinian Presi-

“This intifada (uprising) will continue in various forms. People are fed up.”

Munadil Hasani, protest organizer

dent Mahmoud Abbas of “dangerous incitement” against Israel with what he called “hate-filled speech,” including claims that Israel is trying to change the status quo at the hilltop Jerusalem compound.

The shrine is revered by Muslims as the spot where Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven and by Jews as the home of their biblical Temples.

Over the past month, eight Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, most of them stabbings.

During the same period, 36 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire — 15 labeled by Israel as attackers, and the others in clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli troops.

Most of the attacks on Israelis were carried out by Palestinians with no known ties to militant groups. Palestinian factions, including Abbas’ Fatah and its rival, the Islamic militant Hamas, have mainly been involved in organizing stone-throwing protests in the West Bank and on the Israel-Gaza border.

On Friday, hundreds joined protests after Muslim noon prayers, after Palestinian factions called for a “day of rage.”

Israeli troops opened fire in several locations, killing three Palestinians, including two in Gaza and a 19-yearold in the town of Beit Furik in the West Bank.

Munadil Hanani, a protest organizer in Beit Furik, said hundreds of Palestinians walked to an Israeli

military post on the outskirts of the town and threw stones at troops who responded with live rounds and rubber-coated steel pellets. “They were very angry and wanted to attack the soldiers,” he said of the stone-throwers, most of them teens.

He said tensions rose in recent days after Israel announced plans to demolish the family homes of several suspects in a shooting ambush earlier this month that killed an Israeli couple who lived in a nearby Jewish settlement.

“This intifada (uprising) will continue in various forms,” Hanani said.

“People are fed up.”

Nearby, in the West Bank city of Nablus, dozens of Palestinians firebombed a site known as Joseph’s Tomb that is revered by some Jews as the burial place of the son of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The predawn attack blackened exterior walls of the stone structure located near the Balata refugee camp and a scene of Israeli-Palestinian clashes in the past.

Abbas condemned the arson as “irresponsible,” ordered an investigation and promised quick repairs.

The Palestinian leader has tried to lower the temperature, telling his security commanders that armed attacks on Israelis hurt Palestinian interests.

However, he has also told his forces not to stop Palestinian stone-throwers heading to confrontations with Israeli troops.

Dore Gold, a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official, said Joseph’s Tomb was targeted “just because it is a place in which Jews pray.” Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli army spokesman, said the attack violates freedom of worship and that the military will “bring the perpetrators of this despicable act to justice.”

A previously unheard of Islamic State group branch with links to Bahrain has purportedly claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting Friday targeting Shiite worshippers in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said in a statement five citizens were killed in the shooting, among them a woman, and nine more people were wounded. The ministry did not immediately confirm the shooter’s identity or offer details about the motives.

In a statement posted online, the purportedly new IS branch calling itself “Bahrain Province” claimed its gunman, named Shuja al-Dosari, used a Kalashnikov rifle to attack Shiites in their place of worship.

This is the third IS branch to appear in the Arabian Peninsula this year.

◆ WASHINGTON

U.S. will talk to N. Korea if it will get rid of nukes President Barack Obama says the U.S. is ready to negotiate with longtime adversary North Korea as it has with Iran but Pyongyang has to be serious about abandoning nuclear weapons.

Obama was speaking after meeting Friday with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who echoed the U.S. leader’s view.

The U.S. leader said Iran had been prepared to have a “serious conversation” about the possibility of giving up the pursuit of nuclear weapons.

He said there’s no indication of that in North Korea’s case.

Obama said at the point where Pyongyang says it’s interested in sanctions relief and improved relations, and is prepared to talk about denuclearization, “it’s fair to say we’ll be right there at the table.”

◆ BERLIN

Germans outraged over reports of spy abuses German lawmakers called on the government Friday to respond to reports that the country’s intelligence agency spied on the United States and other allies.

If true, the allegations reported

by German media this week would undermine Berlin’s professed indignation at claims that the U.S. eavesdropped on targets in Germany, including Chancellor Angela Merkel herself.

Lawmakers from the opposition Greens and Left Party said they would be seeking the release of so-called selectors used by Germany’s BND spy agency for its intelligence gathering.

These are lists of phone numbers, email addresses and other information that help intelligence agencies hunt for important information among the vast stream of phone and data traffic circling the globe.

The U.S. embassy in Berlin and the State Department in Washington declined to comment.

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BRANDON, Man. — Police have arrested a woman for allegedly making up a story that she had been held captive for years in Winnipeg where she was forced into the sex trade and gave birth to a child.

Brandon police said the woman and her seven-year-old daughter arrived in the city in August and sought help from social workers. Police said the woman told staff details of an escape, and officers became involved.

Sgt. Kevin McLeod said social workers believed most of the woman’s story and police worked to verify it.

“When we actually started the investigation, there were a few holes . . . Turns out the story was totally fabricated.”

He said investigators had checked the identities of the woman and girl by reaching out to other police forces and social service agencies across Canada. When officers came up with nothing, they publicly released a photo of the pair.

McLeod said a tip came in Thursday that the woman went by another name. Police then learned that she was from Toronto and had allegedly been involved in a custody dispute when she left the province with her daughter.

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U.S. urges Turkey to uphold due process for Iraqi Kurd journalist Mohammed Rasool was helping reporters navigate dangers and cultural intricacies DESMOND BUTLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — In August, Mohammed Rasool was helping two Western journalists with a dangerous assignment along Turkey’s border with Iraq. Cities in the area had turned into urban warzones amid clashes between supporters of the militant Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, and government authorities.

As a peace process to end decades of violence was breaking down, the area was at the centre of a historic moment that few Western reporters were covering on the ground.

Rasool, a 24-year-old Iraqi Kurd who has worked as a fixer for The Associated Press, was helping the two Vice News reporters navigate the dangers and cultural intricacies.

They covered clashes between the PKK’s youth group and police, and interviewed a 13-year-old girl who had been hit by three bullets.

When the three men returned to the urban centre of Turkey’s Kurdish southeast, they were arrested in front of their hotel. It was Aug. 27.

RASOOL

Eleven days after the arrests, Turkish authorities released and deported the two British journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury. But Rasool remains in a maximum-security prison and Turkish authorities have neither indicted him nor adequately explained why they are holding him. His case is being conducted under a secrecy order, so his lawyers don’t have access to the files against him, they say. Some colleagues and friends have seen

him, but the interactions have been limited.

Turkish prosecutors did not respond to requests for comment on Rasool’s case. But on Wednesday, Huseyin Aksoy, the governor of Diyarbakir province, told AP that the prosecutor had said Rasool was detained not for his journalism, but because there were “suspect documents” found on the hard drive of his computer. He said authorities are investigating whether the documents are criminal. An appeal for Rasool’s release was rejected Saturday, according to lawyers, and no trial date has been set.

On Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner called on Turkey to uphold due process in Rasool’s case.

“We urge Turkish authorities to ensure that their actions vis-a-vis Mr. Rasool’s case uphold universal democratic values, including obviously due process, freedom of expression and access to media and information,” he said. “Media and due process are key elements of every

healthy democracy and in fact are enshrined in Turkey’s constitution, in its OSCE commitments as well as in Turkey’s international human rights obligations. I would just underscore our desire to see Mr. Rasool’s case held up to international legal standards as well as human rights standards.”

Rasool’s detention comes at a time of stepped-up pressure on journalists in Turkey. Since the Kurdish conflict erupted anew in recent months, authorities have imposed curfews and travel bans that restrict journalists’ ability to cover clashes. Apart from Rasool, 23 journalists are in jail, according to Turkey’s Contemporary Journalists’ Association. Most are journalists working for pro-Kurdish media who have been accused of having links to the Kurdish rebels.

The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists has called the crackdown a crisis and said that Rasool’s case, as well as the expulsion last month of Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink, is hampering international coverage of the Kurdish conflict.

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GAMING

Manager apologizes for fatal scaffolding fall DIANA MEHTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A Toronto project manager found guilty in a deadly scaffolding collapse which saw members of his construction crew plummet to the ground told a court Friday that he was sorry for what had happened.

Vadim Kazenelson told his sentencing hearing he would never forget the day when four men died and another was seriously injured while repairing balconies at a Toronto highrise.

“I want to begin by apologizing for the accident on Dec. 24, 2009 and my role at the scene,” he said.

“I am going to live all my life with that pain . . . All the men on the job site, they are good workers and good men. I’m sorry for their families and all those who suffered.”

Kazenelson was found guilty in June on four counts of criminal negligence causing death and one count of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.

The judge presiding over the case found Kazenelson was aware that fall protections were not in place, but still allowed his workers to board a swing stage which collapsed.

Justice Ian MacDonnell indicated Friday that he would be imposing a term of incarceration, but still had to decide how long it might be.

The Crown prosecutor in the case recommended between four to five years in prison, while Kazenelson’s lawyer argued for a sentence of one to two years.

Crown lawyer Rochelle Direnfeld said Kazenelson was in a position of trust and had a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent harm to those he was directing but failed to do so.

“The harm that resulted from Mr. Kazenelson’s conduct was very grave,” said Direnfeld.

Alesandrs Bondarevs, Aleksey Blumberg, Vladamir Korostin and foreman Fayzullo Fazilov fell to their deaths, while Dilshod Marupov survived the fall with fractures to his spine and ribs. The men ranged from 21 to 40 years old and were from Latvia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

Only one worker, who was the sole person properly secured to a lifeline, was left suspended in mid-air until Kazenelson hauled him up onto a balcony, court heard.

Kazenelson’s lawyer argued, however, that not including that day, Kazenelson was always a very safety-conscious worker.

“This is a horrible tragic case, no sentence imposed will bring back the lives lost. Mr. Kazenelson did not want this to occur,” said Lou Strezos.

In this September file photo, an employee in the software development department of DraftKings, a daily fantasy sports company, walks past screens displaying the company’s online system stats in Boston. [AP PHOTO]

Daily fantasy sports sites get Nevada ultimatum State orders companies to get a gambling license or to leave KIMBERLY PIERCEALL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS — Daily fantasy sports sites have been dealt a setback with Nevada regulators ordering them out of the state unless they get a gambling license — a decision that’s likely to be closely watched by other states that allow gambling.

DraftKings and FanDuel — sites that have insisted they aren’t gambling and have promised to make millionaires out of sports fans — both pulled out of Nevada by Thursday evening.

That day’s decision from the Nevada Gaming Control Board allows for daily fantasy sports in the state as long as the operator has or gets a gambling license. No one operating a daily fantasy site has one.

“If you’re licensed in Nevada, you’re good to go,” said A.G. Burnett, chief of the state’s Gaming Control Board. That includes traditional sports books where gamblers generally wager on the outcome of a given game.

The decision comes amid growing backlash by regulators and investigators, including New York’s attorney general, after it was revealed employees often played on competing sites, raising questions about possible insider information being used to win.

Nevada regulators govern the country’s main gambling hub in Las Vegas, and their actions could hold sway with regulators elsewhere.

In less than two weeks, the two high-profile companies in the ever-growing industry had gone from being a seemingly unstoppable, untouchable force to facing intense scrutiny of their business practices and legality from investigators, lawmakers, regulators and

“We understand that the gaming industry is important to Nevada and, for that reason, they are taking this exclusionary approach against the increasingly popular fantasy sports industry.”

Sabina Macias, DraftKings spokeswoman

even their own players.

Thursday night, DraftKings spokeswoman Sabrina Macias emailed a company statement that implied Nevada regulators acted to protect the gambling industry in the state.

“We understand that the gaming industry is important to Nevada and, for that reason, they are taking this exclusionary approach against the increasingly popular fantasy sports industry,” the statement said.

It mentions the company had thousands of customers in Nevada but didn’t provide an exact amount.

FanDuel said it was disappointed regulators decided that only existing casinos in Nevada could offer fantasy sports.

“This decision stymies innovation and ignores the fact that fantasy sports is a skill-based entertainment product loved and played by millions of sports fans,” the statement said. “We are examining all options and will exhaust all efforts to bring the fun, challenge and excitement of fantasy sports back to our Nevada fans.”

Participants on the unregulated sites can compete in games involving professional or college sports, paying an entry fee that goes into a larger pool.

They try to assemble teams that earn the most points based on reallife stats in a given period with a certain percentage of top finishers earning a payout.

Entry fees on DraftKings range from 25 cents to more than $5,000.

Some prizes top $1 million.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board determined that daily fantasy sports, “involves wagering on the collective performance of individuals participating in sporting events,” making it a sports pool and requiring a gambling license in the state.

The decision didn’t appear to affect season-long fantasy sports but the definition could be used to describe those sites, too, that accept wagers or fees to play.

Fantasy sports, both daily and season-long, are barred in five states: Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana and Washington.

The fantasy sports industry has argued the sites provide games of skill and not chance and are therefore protected by the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which carved out a specific exemption allowing fantasy sports.

Daniel Wallach, a sports law expert from Florida, said the board’s decision is not going to “cause an extinction of fantasy sports from Nevada, forevermore.” But it confirmed what Wallach and other observers familiar with the gambling industry have long contended.

“Fantasy is a form of gambling that should be licensed just like sports betting, just like any other form of gambling,” he said.

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Treasure trove of Triassic fossils found in Utah BRADY MCCOMBS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SALT LAKE CITY — Paleontologists have discovered a cliff-side in Utah brimming with fossils that offers a rare glimpse of desert life in western North America early in the age of dinosaurs.

Among the discoveries in what used to be a lake shoreline between giant sand dunes is a new pterosaur that would have been the largest flying reptile of the time. It wielded its ferocious teeth and powerful skull to gobble up small crocodile type creatures as it soared over a desert some 210 million years ago.

“If you saw one of these things coming at you with its jaws open, it would freak you out of your mind,” said Brooks Britt, a Brigham Young University paleontologist who presented preliminary findings this week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference in Dallas.

He and fellow paleontologists plan to publish the findings in scientific journal next year. Eight different animals, most likely new, have been identified at a site discovered in 2009 near Dinosaur National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border.

The discoveries include: — A type of a strange-looking reptile with a head like a bird, arms like a mole and a claw on the tip of the tail called a drepanosaur.

This illustration provided by Brigham Young University depicts a pterosaur, which would have been the largest flying reptile of the time 210 million years ago, based on fossils found in 2009 at a site in Dinosaur National Monument near the town of Jensen in northeastern Utah. Its wingspan is about 1.3 metres. [BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY VIA AP]

— Several small crocodile-like creatures with armour on their backs called sphenosuchians.

— Two different types of meat-eating dinosaurs, one related to the coelophysis, a scrawny dinosaur featured in the recent movie, Walking with Dinosaurs.

“It’s a fantastic site,” said Brian

Andres, a University of South Florida paleontologist who heard the presentation this week.

“It’s in a time and a place that we really do not have a good record of.”

The pterosaur discovery is significant because it fills a gap in the fossil record between earlier, smaller

pterosaurs and the giant ones that came later, Andres said.

It is related to another wicked-jawed pterosaur discovered in England: the Dimorphodon.

Each side of its lower jaw had two fangs and 28 teeth. “This thing is built like an aerial predator,” Andres said.

The skull and wing bone found are also noteworthy because they are intact, and not crushed, a rarity for pterosaurs. It is the first known Triassic pterosaur found in North America, other than one unearthed in Greenland, Britt said.

“It is absurdly rare to find delicate, small skeletons from anywhere in time, anywhere in the world,” said Adam Pritchard, a Yale paleontologist not part of the discovery team.

“To have them from the Triassic period, which is the very beginning of the age of reptiles, is really unprecedented, especially in western north America.”

The site was discovered paleontologists Dan Chure of Dinosaur National Monument and George Englemann of the University of Nebraska. Chure said the duo realized right away they had stumbled upon the discovery of their lives.

So far, they’ve found 11,500 bones — and they may be only halfway through getting them all out, he said. The new pterosaur, yet to be named, was found last year by a university student carefully extracting fossils from a 136-kilogram block of sandstone from the site.

“This is the best stuff I’ll ever see in my life,” said Britts, 60, who has been collecting dinosaur fossils for five decades. “It’s like Christmas every day.”

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Hungary shuts migrant flow at Croatian border The Hungarian government says it has shut down its border with Croatia to the free flow of migrants “to protect the citizens of Hungary and Europe.”

Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said early Saturday in the border village of Zakany that several hundred migrants who reached the border minutes before midnight local time would still be allowed to enter Hungary for humanitarian reasons.

Hungary has built a razor-wire fence on the border with Cro-

atia, mirroring a similar barrier finished last month on its border with Serbia. Both fences are meant to prevent migrants from freely entering the country while trying to reach the European Union.

More than 383,000 migrants have entered Hungary in 2015.

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LOS ANGELES — Rescuers threw ladders and tarps across mud up to a metre deep to help hundreds of trapped people from cars that got caught in a roiling river of mud along a major Southern California trucking route, a California Highway Patrol official said Friday in what he and other witnesses described as a chaotic scene.

Amazingly, officials said, no deaths or injuries were reported.

The people rescued from State Route 58, about 50 kilometres east of Bakersfield, were stranded in a powerful storm on Thursday evening. They were rescued about 10 hours after the storm hit and taken to three shelters.

“It was terrifying,” 51-year-old Rhonda Flores of Bakersfield said on Friday.

“It was a raging river mud. I’ve never experienced anything like it, ever.”

Flores said she, her mother and her stepfather were driving back to Bakersfield from her sister’s funeral in Utah when the storm hit out of nowhere.

“It started raining, and it kept raining, the water started to build up and the mud started coming,” Flores said from the church where she, her family and about 150 other people sheltered overnight. “The water’s rushing by, the mud’s rushing by, then pieces of trees started coming by and the water was past our doors.”

Flores said the trio was prepared to jump out of the windows if the water got any higher. Luckily, it subsided.

“I’m feeling blessed that we are here,” she said.

Sgt. Mario Lopez, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol, was at the scene as people were being rescued and said it was sheer chaos.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Lopez said. “The whole side of the hill just came down onto State Route 58 . . . There’s no highway.”

The storms unleashed flash flood and debris flows along the 58, the Interstate 5 and in two small mountainside communities, where at least a dozen homes were reported damaged.

Lopez said it will take days to reopen State Route 58, a kilometres of which is choked with mud nearly a metre deep.

About 200 cars and semi-trucks were trapped in the now-hardened mud, frozen in place at odd angles.

Hundreds of semis were backed up for miles on the freeway Friday because of the closure. Lopez said they would likely eventually be turned around.

Emergency crews were working to dig out head-high mounds of mud from the 58 and Interstate 5, which was also shut down as cars were trapped in the mud Thursday.

The affected section of Interstate 5, one of the state’s major north-south arteries, carries traffic among steep mountains over a pass rising to an elevation of more than 4,100 feet between the Central Valley and metropolitan Los Angeles.

The mud in the northbound lanes of I-5 was soupier than that in the southbound lanes, making it harder to scoop out, California Department of Transportation spokeswoman Lauren Wonder said.

Lake Hughes, a tiny mountainside community in northern Los Angeles County, also was in the path of the storm.

Robert Rocha, a 37-year-old resident, said he was driving home from work when the storm hit, stranding him for three hours before he found a way to get home.

“It was getting pretty hairy out there,” he said. “I’ve never seen it rain that hard in such a short period of time, the hail and wind — it was coming down hard,” he said. “The debris was just intense — chunks of wood and rock flowing everywhere.”

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GAME

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Raiders host Langley Rams in BCFC semifinal today SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

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welve weeks ago, the Vancouver Island Raiders and Langley Rams were preparing to play each other in Nanaimo to open the 201 B.C. Football Conference season.

They’re back today to play again, but this time the stakes are a whole lot higher.

Because at 1 p.m. at Caledonia Park, the two teams will collide in the BCFC semifinal game, with the winners moving on to play for the Cullen Cup and the losers hanging up the pads for the winter.

“Langley is a very good football team,” Raiders first-year head coach Jerome Erdman said on the BCFC coaches show this week.

“They’re very well coached, got great athletes, and I think it’s going to be a great game.”

The Raiders and Rams have met twice this season, with V.I. coming out on top both times.

They won on opening day, beating the defending BCFC champions 22-14 before picking up home-field advantage over the Rams in a 24-18 win in Langley on Sept. 19.

Erdman said he sees “no reason

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why it won’t be” another tight game today in Nanaimo, when the secondplace Raiders (7-3) take on the thirdplace Rams (6-4).

The Rams will be up against a Raiders team that’s defence — easily the most improved unit with the offseason hiring of Erdman — that boasts four conference all-stars: defensive lineman Quinton Bowles, middle linebacker Dexter Shea, cornerback Josh Paisley and rookie safety Cole Virtanen, the BCFC’s rookie of the year.

“They have a very good defence, a great front seven and they’re good at stopping the run,” Rams head coach Jeff Alamolhoda said on the coaches show, “and so we (have) to really be able to open up our playbook a little bit more and see what we can do.”

While they didn’t have any all-stars on offence, reigning All-Canadian quarterback Liam O’Brien will be under centre and his receivers, Dustin Rodriguez and Arthur Fabbro, were some of the most productive at their position in the last three weeks of the season.

“He has an ability to extend plays,” Alamolhoda of O’Brien. “He’s very strong on his feet and breaks a lot of tackles and keeps his eyes down field.

“We really have to try to contain him, but not put ourselves in a position to contain him that we’re vulnerable on the back end.”

The Raiders will likely also get the services of Nathan Berg, their top runningback who spent the second half of the season plagued with injuries.

The Rams aren’t lacking talent, either, with six conference all-stars — two on offence with runningback Nathan Lund and lineman Anthony Daley being named, and four on

defence: linemen Brock Gowanlock and Alex Agnoletto, linebacker Brendan Desjardine, and defensive back John Beckerleg.

The Rams coach said it will be tough for his team to exploit the Raiders’ weaknesses because “they don’t have very many.

“They’ve got big playmakers and they consistently play hard,” he said.

“They play the full 60 minutes of the game. They’re a resilient team that will fight back. We have to find ways to not exploit what they’re not good at, but take advantage of what they’re scheming and providing us.”

Erdman said the Raiders spent the last two weeks keeping in shape, but also getting ready for what will be the first time they host a playoff game since 2013, the last game under former head coach Matt ‘Snoop’ Blokker.

“This week was just getting ready to play a tough Langley team,” Erdman said.

Shea, in his third year with the Raiders, will have his biggest role yet in a playoff game today. As the conference’s top linebacker of the year, his performance will be key in stopping the Rams’ running game. “(We need to) play consistently and

consistently get after them,” he said of playing the Rams for a third time this season “And play our ball — and I would expect nothing less. We don’t change from week to week, we just want to come out as hard as we know we can.”

At safety, Virtanen will be playing his first junior football playoff game.

But he was also named as the game MVP of last season’s Varsity AA high school football provincial championship game with the John Barsby Bulldogs, so he won’t feel out of place.

To win today, Virtanen said it will take “team work and discipline, playing our type of football, and being smart about it.”

In the other BCFC semifinal, the undefeated, first-place Okanagan Sun host the fourth-place Kamloops Broncos in Kelowna.

The Cullen Cup conference championship game will be hosted in Kelowna if the Sun win, and if not it will be played on the home field of either the Raiders or Rams.

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MLB

Jays shut down 5-0 in ALCS opener Royals pitcher Edinson Volquez had his way with Toronto batters in first game of the AL Championship Series DAVE SKRETTA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Toronto’s Troy Tulowitzki noticed something different about Royals starter Edinson Volquez when he dug in for his first at-bat of the American League Championship Series.

Something you could only tell by standing in the batter’s box — or holding a radar gun.

“I think his velocity was a little higher than it normally is,” Tulowitzki said after an 0-for-4 night in a 5-0 Game 1 loss Friday night. “He was hitting his spots. He did a good job.”

Good? Try downright dominant.

Volquez combined with three relievers on a three-hitter and Salvador Perez hit a soaring home run off Toronto starter Marco Estrada.

The Blue Jays’ three hits were their fewest ever in a post-season game.

“Tonight was the Volquez show. He was tremendous,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “He shut down a good-hitting team, I know that.

His ball was ducking and darting everywhere.”

Volquez normally pitches in the low 90s, but his fastball was nipping at 96 mph on Friday night. He didn’t allow a hit until his 56th pitch, when Chris Colabello chopped a single up the middle with two outs in the fourth, snapping a post-season hitless streak of 10 2-3 innings for the Royals — one out shy of matching the record set by the New York Yankees in 1939.

The biggest of the Blue Jays’ big bats made the quietest outs, too.

Jose Bautista went down looking in the fourth inning, while Edward Encarnacion struck out looking in the sixth. Donaldson managed a walk off Volquez but little else, while Tulowitzki — one of the Blue Jays’

Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Troy Tulowitzki can’t come up with the ball on a grounder by Kansas City Royal Ben Zobrist, during the eighth inning in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Friday in Kansas City, Mo. [AP PHOTO]

big deadline acquisitions — had two strikeouts.

“They got Game 1,” Tulowitzki said, “but it’s no time to press the panic button.”

Alcides Escobar and Lorenzo Cain drove in runs off Estrada (1-1), while Eric Hosmer and Kendrys Morales tacked on two more off LaTroy Hawkins to put the game away.

“It’s always great when you can take the lead — you pitch the first

inning, you come back to the dugout and right from the get-go you score some runs,” said Volquez, who had been 0-3 with an 8.76 ERA in three career post-season starts. “It’s less pressure for everybody, I think.”

As if the outcome wasn’t bad enough for Toronto, Encarnacion, the designated hitter, left in the eighth inning to get X-rays on the middle finger of his left hand. The initial report was a strain of the liga-

ment and Encarnacion was listed as day-to-day.

“He’s been battling this thing,” Gibbons said. “We’ll see how it goes.”

The Royals will try to take a 2-0 series lead when they send Yordano Ventura to the mound on Saturday.

Toronto will counter with former Cy Young Award winner David Price.

“Hopefully things change to our favour tomorrow,” Toronto catcher Dioner Navarro said.

The teams entered the best-of-seven series with plenty of history.

To start with, the defending AL champs beat Toronto in the 1985 league championship series, then beat the St. Louis Cardinals for the Royals’ only World Series triumph.

But far more recently were the tense, benches-clearing game that the teams played at Rogers Centre in August.

Volquez (1-1) was right in the thick of things.

The veteran starter kept pitching the Blue Jays inside, finally hitting Josh Donaldson with a fastball. Tensions escalated as the game went on, with Toronto reliever Aaron Sanchez returning the favour by hitting Escobar to trigger the first of two benches-clearing scuffles.

Afterward, Volquez said Donaldson was “crying like a baby” over his inside approach. And to nobody’s surprise, Donaldson was booed lustily by the Kansas City crowd on Friday night. That was the only reason for the packed house to boo, though.

After squandering a scoring chance in the first inning, the Royals jumped ahead in the third. Alex Gordon led off with a double, Escobar sent an RBI double down the right-field line, and Cain’s two-out single helped Kansas City — so accustomed to playing from behind — to a 2-0 lead.

Perez added his third homer of the post-season on the first pitch he saw in the fourth, the cheering of the throaty, flag-waving crowd reaching a crescendo as it passed over the wall.

The Blue Jays never really threatened the lead the rest of the night.

“We were putting some balls in play. We hit some balls at guys.

That’s just the way it goes sometimes,” Colabello said.

NHL

Late comeback bid falls short as Canucks fall to Blues JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Alexander Steen had a goal and an assist Friday as the St. Louis Blues defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-3.

Jori Lehtera, Robert Bortuzzo and Kyle Brodziak also scored for St. Louis (4-1-0), which has won three straight and was playing its second game in as many nights after downing the Oilers 4-2 in Edmonton on Thursday.

Jake Allen stopped 31 shots to get the victory, while Vladimir Tarasenko and Carl Gunnarsson chipped in with two assists each.

Brandon Sutter, with a goal and two assists, Jared McCann and Daniel Sedin replied for Vancouver (3-1-1), which has dropped its only two home games of the young season.

Ryan Miller made 28 saves in taking the loss.

The Canucks came in with a perfect 6-0-0 record against the Blues over

Vancouver Canucks goalie Ryan Miller allows a goal to the St. Louis Blues during an NHL game in Vancouver on Friday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

the last two seasons, and were 9-0-2 in the clubs’ last 11 meetings dating back to January 2012, but were down 3-0 midway through the game.

Steen scored his third of the cam-

paign by finishing off a pretty passing play with Tarasenko and Paul Stastny at 4:52 of the second after Vancouver defenceman Alexander Edler turned the puck over in the neutral zone.

Bortuzzo then stretched the lead to three with his first of the season at 10:01 when he banged a rebound past Miller, who was acquired by the Blues prior to the 2014 trade deadline before signing with the Canucks as a free agent that summer.

Vancouver cut the deficit to 3-1 while killing a penalty at 12:38 when Sutter moved in on a 2-on-1 rush and beat Allen with a low shot for his second.

The Canucks got a four-minute power play when Tarasenko was whistled for high-sticking on Sutter late in the period, but couldn’t do much with the advantage that stretched into the third.

Brodziak scored his first of the season at 16:14 to make it 4-1 before McCann batted his second home 30 seconds later.

Sedin scored his second with 28.8 seconds left on the clock to get the Canucks to within one. He had another late chance in close, but

couldn’t beat Allen. `St. Louis opened the scoring at 7:36 of the first when Lehtera buried his second after Miller overplayed a cross-ice pass from Jaden Schwartz.

Coming off back-to-back road victories against the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings, the Canucks had a chance to grab the lead earlier in the period, but failed to even get a shot off when they broke in on a 4-on-1 rush.

Notes: Stastny left in the second period and did not return . . . Coming into Friday, the Blues had not beaten the Canucks since April 16, 2013 . . .

Vancouver hosts the Oilers on Sunday in the second game of five-game homestand, while St. Louis visits the Winnipeg Jets . . . The Canucks dressed McCann and Jake Virtanen, both 19, marking the first time the team had played two teenagers since Rob Murphy (19) and Trevor Linden (18) suited up on Nov. 13, 1988.

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Bulldogs run all over Windsor in 44-20 win, first conference game

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No. 3-ranked Barsby squad unveiled double-wing offence for the first time this year SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

For the first time in the season, the John Barsby Bulldogs pulled out their patented double-wing offence.

And the Bulldogs, ranked No. 3 in B.C. Varsity AA football, used it to run all over the Windsor Dukes Friday in a 44-20 win at Merle Logan Field in their first game of their conference schedule.

The double-wing offence worked early, and it worked often.

“That was our first time this year playing another team with it, and look at the score,” said Grade 11 Barsby runningback Matt Cooley, who rushed for a game-high 155 yards off seven carries.

“It obviously went well.”

On the first play of the game, Cooley had a long run to put the Bulldogs in scoring position. On the next play, Cory Fletcher punched it in. Cooley ran in the two-point conversion.

Then, after Doyle Sosnoski recovered a fumbled Windsor kickoff return, Barsby quarterback Nathaniel Durkan chucked a 25-yard touchdown pass to Alex Bonnetplume.

Barsby runningback Justis MacKay-Topley scored the next twopoint conversion and all of a sudden the Bulldogs had a 16-0 lead.

“I like that offence,” said Barsby

John Barsby Bulldogs runningback Matt Cooley, left, escapes a Windsor Dukes tackle in a Varsity AA high school football game Friday afternoon at Merle Logan Field. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

head coach Rob Stevenson.

“It’s good to be back on the saddle and score some points — that’s the goal of the game.”

Johnson Nguyen scored three touchdowns on 51 rushing yards in the Barsby win, and their 44 points were the most they have scored this season after starting 2-2 in their non-conference schedule.

They also posted 485 yards of

total team offence. Both Cooley and MacKay-Topley were playing junior varsity football this time last year, but have stepped up at the varsity level this season to be productive players.

“I’ve been putting it a lot of hard work, so I hoped I’d get a lot of carries,” Cooley said.

After a 25-0 win to start the year in Vernon, the Bulldogs had since

scored just 13 points after being shut out once and held to single touchdowns in two other games.

With a new offensive scheme succeeding against one of the better teams in the conference, the Bulldogs look to be right on track to keep scoring the way they did Friday.

“All year long, we’ve relied on our defence, and this was a breakout game for our offence,” Stevenson said.

“I thought we were pretty efficient when we had the ball. We were very physical on defence, but there was also some sloppiness with our communication offensively. I think we allowed a couple scores that we don’t usually allow.”

Third-year starting linebacker Parker Bowles returned to the Bulldogs on the win Friday after sitting out with an injury suffered in early September. He finished the game with 10 tackles, second on the team behind Cory Fletcher, who had 13.

Sosnoski also had a big game on defence, picking up three sacks and eight tackles.

The Bulldogs are home next week, on Friday, to the Carson Graham Eagles at 2 p.m. at Mere Logan Field.

DAILY NEWS

For the first time since 1995, a team from south of the border is in the B.C. Hockey League.

And for the first and only time this season, they’ll be playing in Nanaimo — barring any playoff series.

The Nanaimo Clippers host the expansion Wenatchee Wild tonight at 6 p.m. at Frank Crane Arena to kick off a five-game home stand that also sees them play the Chilliwack Chiefs Sunday afternoon.

The Clippers are coming off a 1-2 weekend road trip to the Interior that ended with losses against the Vernon Vipers and Salmon Arm Silverbacks and a 7-3 win over the Merritt Centennials.

The Wild stormed out of the gate this season going undefeated in six games but have since come back down to earth, losing five in a row before winning 2-1 in overtime in Port Alberni Friday night.

Clippers star Sheldon Rempal heads into the weekend as the BCHL’s top scorer with 24 points in 12 games, while linemate Matt Hoover leads the league in goals with 12.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Mariners squeak by Eastern Oregon SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

In their first college basketball exhibition game of the 2015-16, the VIU Mariners welcomed some top competition from the U.S. to help them get ready for PacWest play.

And led by some new faces — Americans Josh Ross, John Thompson and Victoria’s Kaz Kobayashi — the Mariners beat the Eastern Oregon University Mountaineers 107-105 in the first of back-to-back games with EOU. The teams play again at noon today at VIU. “I’m glad we won, but the most important thing we’ll have to try to learn from that was, there were a lot of instances where we weren’t doing our jobs,” said VIU head coach Matt Kuzminski, not overly impressed with his team’s play in the win.

With last year’s PacWest MVP now playing professionally in Australia, the Mariners turned to last year’s sixth man, Chris Parker, to lead the way.

Parker finished with a gamehigh 27 points.

Vancouver Island University Mariners guard John Thompson, left, throws a pass around the back of Eastern Oregon University Mountaineers forward Michael Hillman in a college basketball game Friday at VIU. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

Thompson, his partner at guard, made big plays down the stretch in the game and the two Americans combined for a late steal that sealed the win.

Thompson had 20 points in

the win, while Ross had 24.

Without King, former point guard Kadeem Stewart and local guard Harrison Stupich on the roster, it was a different looking VIU squad but also one

Kuzminski is looking forward to watching grow.

“I’m really excited about the roster this year,” he said. “I think we have a ton of potential.

“But we have a long way to go. We have to get to the point where guys are doing what they’re supposed to do on every single possession. If that doesn’t happen, we won’t be as good as we can be.”

Today, when the Mariners play the Mountaineers again, Kuzminski said he simply wants to see more effort out of his team.

After today’s game, the Mariners continue their run against U.S. competition with two games against the Northwest University Eagles in Washington State.

They will begin their defence of the PacWest conference championship on Oct. 30 when they host the Camosun Chargers at VIU to open the regular season.

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ATLANTIC DIVISION GP W 5 5 4 3 4 3

L OTL SL GF 0 0 0 16 1 0 0 14 1 0 0 14

GA 6 9 5

Pts 10 6 6

Home 1-0-0-0 2-1-0-0 2-0-0-0

Away 4-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 1-1-0-0

Last 10 Strk 5-0-0-0 W-5 3-1-0-0 L-1 3-1-0-0 W-2

METROPOLITAN DIVISION N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia

GP W 5 3 4 2 4 2

L OTL SL GF 2 0 0 13 1 1 0 11 1 1 0 7

GA 13 12 10

Pts 6 5 5

Home 1-1-0-0 2-0-1-0 2-0-0-0

Away 2-1-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-1-1-0

Last 10 Strk 3-2-0-0 L-2 2-1-1-0 W-2 2-1-1-0 W-2

WILD CARD Tampa Bay Ottawa

5 5

3 3

2 2

0 0

0 0

17 16

14 13

6 6

1-1-0-0 0-1-0-0

2-1-0-0 3-2-0-0 L-2 3-1-0-0 3-2-0-0 L-1

Washington Toronto Boston Carolina Pittsburgh Buffalo New Jersey Columbus

3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5

2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0

1 2 3 3 3 3 3 5

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0

9 11 13 10 5 8 6 12

9 15 18 13 8 12 13 26

4 3 2 2 2 2 1 0

2-1-0-0 0-1-0-1 0-3-0-0 0-2-0-0 1-1-0-0 1-2-0-0 0-2-0-1 0-3-0-0

0-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 1-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-2-0-0

2-1-0-0 1-2-0-1 1-3-0-0 1-3-0-0 1-3-0-0 1-3-0-0 0-3-0-1 0-5-0-0

W-1 W-1 W-1 W-1 W-1 L-1 L-4 L-5

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Winnipeg Minnesota Dallas

GP W 5 4 3 3 4 3

L OTL SL GF 1 0 0 18 0 0 0 12 1 0 0 15

GA 9 9 11

Pts 8 6 6

Home 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0

Away 3-1-0-0 2-0-0-0 1-1-0-0

Last 10 Strk 4-1-0-0 W-2 3-0-0-0 W-3 3-1-0-0 W-2

PACIFIC DIVISION San Jose Vancouver Arizona

GP W 4 4 4 3 4 3

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015

MLB PLAYOFFS FOOTBALL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal Detroit Florida

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L OTL SL GF 0 0 0 14 0 1 0 12 1 0 0 13

GA 2 5 6

Pts 8 7 6

Home 1-0-0-0 0-0-1-0 1-1-0-0

Away 3-0-0-0 3-0-0-0 2-0-0-0

Last 10 Strk 4-0-0-0 W-4 3-0-1-0 W-2 3-1-0-0 L-1

WILD CARD St. Louis Nashville

4 4

3 3

1 1

0 0

0 0

13 10

9 6

6 6

1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0

2-1-0-0 3-1-0-0 W-2 1-1-0-0 3-1-0-0 L-1

Chicago Colorado Calgary Anaheim Los Angeles Edmonton

5 3 4 3 3 4

2 1 1 0 0 0

3 2 3 2 3 4

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 0 0

10 12 8 1 2 5

13 14 14 8 12 13

4 2 2 1 0 0

1-1-0-0 1-2-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-1-0-1 0-3-0-0 0-1-0-0

1-2-0-0 0-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-3-0-0

2-3-0-0 1-2-0-0 1-3-0-0 0-2-0-1 0-3-0-0 0-4-0-0

L-2 L-1 L-2 L-3 L-3 L-4

Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in the OTL or SOL columns. )ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Florida 3 Buffalo 2 San Jose 2 New Jersey 1 (SO) St. Louis 4 Edmonton 2 Toronto 6 Columbus 3 Minnesota 4 Arizona 3 Carolina 5 Detroit 3 6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Winnipeg 3 Calgary 1 Dallas at Florida, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Vancouver, Nashville at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Anaheim Toronto at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Los Angeles Detroit at Montreal, 7 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders 4 Nashville 3 Carolina at Washington, 7 p.m.

Washington 4 Chicago 1 San Jose at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh 2 Ottawa 0 Columbus at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Dallas 5 Tampa Bay 3 Boston at Arizona, 10 p.m.

Montreal 3 N.Y. Rangers 0 Edmonton at Calgary, 10 p.m.

FRIDAY JETS 3, FLAMES 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Backlund 1 (Bennett, Frolik) 3:38.

3HQDOWLHV — Giordano Cal (hooking) 8:06, Ehlers Win (roughing) 11:29.

Second Period 2. Winnipeg, Little 3 (Wheeler, Ladd) 8:12.

3HQDOWLHV — Trouba Win (cross-checking) 0:44, Jooris Cal (tripping) 10:35, Jooris Cal (high-sticking) 18:05.

Third Period 3. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 2 (unassisted) 18:32.

4. Winnipeg, Wheeler 3 (Little) 19:07 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — None.

Shots Calgary 11 4 5—20 Winnipeg 8 9 13—30 *RDO — Calgary: Ramo (L, 0-2-0). Winnipeg: Pavelec (W, 2-1-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Calgary: 0-2; Winnipeg: 0-4.

Referees — Francis Charron, Kelly Sutherland. Linesmen — Derek Nansen, Bryan Pancich.

Att. — 15,294 at Winnipeg, MB.

MAPLE LEAFS 6, BLUE JACKETS 3 First Period 1. Columbus, Jenner 3 (Atkinson, Dubinsky) 3:47.

3HQDOWLHV — Bozak Tor (interference) 6:39.

Second Period 2. Toronto, Gardiner 1 (Winnik, Lupul) :29.

3. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 2 (Bozak, Rielly) 7:34.

4. Toronto, Kadri 1 (Matthias, Boyes) 8:52.

5. Columbus, Foligno 1 (Hartnell, Goloubef) 18:02.

3HQDOWLHV — Jenner Clb (tripping) 4:40, Phaneuf Tor (roughing) 14:12, Clarkson Clb (roughing) 14:12, Phaneuf Tor (cross-checking) 14:12, Komarov Tor (tripping) 19:25.

Third Period 6. Columbus, Hartnell 2 (Johansen, Saad) :59 (pp).

7. Toronto, Lupul 2 (Phaneuf, Winnik) 4:00.

8. Toronto, Komarov 1 (Winnik, Rielly) 15:51.

9. Toronto, Komarov 2 (Holland, Grabner) 19:00 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — Spaling Tor (boarding) 13:32.

Shots Toronto 11 15 8—34 Columbus 6 12 9—27 *RDO — Toronto: Reimer (W, 1-0-1).

Columbus: Bobrovsky (L, 0-5-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Toronto: 0-1; Columbus: 1-4.

Referees — Ghislain Hebert, Justin St. Pierre. Linesmen — Shane Heyer, Tim Nowak.

Att. — 13,885 at Columbus, Ohio.

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First Period 1. San Jose, Marleau 3 (Ward, Hertl)

2:01.

3HQDOWLHV — Brown SJ (roughing) 8:58, Tootoo NJ (roughing) 8:58.

Second Period No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Pavelski SJ (hooking) 14:01, Merrill NJ (hooking) 17:54.

Third Period 2. New Jersey, Henrique 2 (Severson, Tootoo) 16:22 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Braun SJ (holding) 1:35, Dillon SJ (delay of game) 2:52, Vlasic SJ (delay of game) 4:36, Bench SJ (too many men�) 15:28.

Overtime No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Burns SJ (tripping) 4:48.

6KRRWRXW — San Jose wins 2-1 6DQ -RVH — Pavelski, goal; Burns, goal.

1HZ -HUVH\ — Henrique, goal; Josefson, miss; Cammalleri, miss.

Shots San Jose 10 13 9 2—34 New Jersey 5 12 11 4—32 *RDO — San Jose: Jones (W, 4-0-0). New Jersey: Schneider (LO, 0-1-1).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — San Jose: 0-1; New Jersey: 1-6.

Referees — Evgeny Romasko, Dan 2¡+DOORUDQ Linesmen — Shandor Alphonso, Brian Murphy.

Att. — 12,464 at Newark, N.J.

HURRICANES 5, RED WINGS 3 First Period 1. Carolina, McGinn 1 (Versteeg) :55.

3HQDOWLHV — Lindholm Car (delay of game) 3:30, Larkin Det (tripping) 8:31, Pulkkinen Det (high-sticking) 18:42.

Second Period 2. Carolina, Faulk 2 (E. Staal, Versteeg) 3:07 (pp).

3. Carolina, E. Staal 2 (Hainsey, McGinn) 6:15.

4. Detroit, Nyquist 2 (Zetterberg) 14:02.

5. Detroit, Sheahan 1 (Tatar, Richards) 15:14.

3HQDOWLHV — Ericsson Det (interference) 2:48.

Third Period 6. Carolina, Versteeg 1 (Skinner, E. Staal) 6:25.

7. Carolina, Terry 1 (Malone, McClement) 13:06.

8. Detroit, Pulkkinen 3 (Larkin) 13:52.

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Shots Carolina 13 13 10—36 Detroit 5 11 4—20 *RDO — Carolina: Ward (W, 1-2-0).

Detroit: Howard (L, 2-1-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Carolina: 1-3; Detroit: 0-2.

Referees — Brad Meier, Mike Leggo.

Linesmen — Derek Amell, Greg Devorski.

Att. — 20,027 at Detroit, Mich..

LATE THURSDAY

AMERICAN LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES KANSAS CITY VS. HOUSTON

(Kansas City wins 3-2) :HGQHVGD\ V UHVXOW Kansas City 7 Houston 2

Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

(Toronto wins 3-2) :HGQHVGD\ V UHVXOW Toronto 6 Texas 3

KANSAS CITY VS. TORONTO .DQVDV &LW\ OHDGV

Friday Kansas City 5 Toronto 0 6DWXUGD\ Toronto (Price 18-5) at Kansas City (Ventura 13-8), 4:07 p.m.

Monday Kansas City (Cueto 4-7) at Toronto (Stroman 4-0), 8:07 p.m.

7XHVGD\ Kansas City at Toronto (Dickey 11-11), 12 p.m.

Wednesday x-Kansas City at Toronto (Estrada 13-8), 12 p.m.

Friday x-Toronto (Price 18-5) at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ x-Toronto (Stroman 4-0) at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

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2B—Escobar 2 (2), Gordon (1), Hosmer (1). HR—Perez (1). SB—Cain (1). S— Goins. SF—Morales.

H R ER BB SO 6 3 3 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 0

L 0 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA 1.000 149 76 .750 95 55 .600 124 105 .250 65 101

W 3 1 1 1

L 2 3 4 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA .600 99 113 .250 102 91 .200 97 135 .200 93 145

W 5 3 2 1

L 0 2 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .600 .400 .200

PF 148 120 118 123

PA 101 95 132 137

W 5 2 2 1

L 0 3 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .400 .400 .200

PF 113 116 107 117

PA 79 134 124 143

NORTH

CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

Toronto IP Estrada L, 0-1 5 1-3 Loup 2-3 Lowe 1 Hawkins 1 Kansas City Volquez W, 1-0 6 Herrera H, 1 1 Madson H, 1 1 Hochevar 1

W 4 3 3 1

SOUTH

TORONTO VS. TEXAS

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

4 0 1 0

5 2 0 0

HBP — Escobar. Umpires—Home, Tony Randazzo; First, Laz Diaz; Second, John Hirschbeck; Third, Hunter Wendelstedt.

T—3:15. A—39,753 (37,903) at Kansas City.

NATIONAL LEAGUE ST. LOUIS VS. CHICAGO

First Period 1. Edmonton, Korpikoski 1 (Purcell) 1:36.

2. St. Louis, Lehtera 1 (Brouwer, Schwartz) 3:14.

3HQDOWLHV — Gunnarsson StL (hooking) 13:37.

Second Period 3. St. Louis, Tarasenko 3 (Bouwmeester, Lehtera) 16:01.

3HQDOWLHV — Hall Edm (tripping) 3:35, Parayko StL (hooking) 9:03, Tarasenko StL (cross-checking) 13:31.

Third Period 4. St. Louis, Stastny 1 (Steen, Pietrangelo) 4:20 (pp).

5. Edmonton, Hall 1 (unassisted) 6:37.

6. St. Louis, Steen 2 (Brouwer, Stastny) 17:51.

3HQDOWLHV — Fayne Edm (holding) 3:09, Bortuzzo StL (holding) 9:18, Upshall StL (tripping) 12:13, Hall Edm (high-sticking) 19:32, Hendricks Edm (cross-checking) 19:56.

Shots St. Louis 7 10 12—29 Edmonton 10 7 9—26 *RDO — St. Louis: Elliott (W, 3-0-0).

Edmonton: Talbot (L, 0-3-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — St. Louis: 1-4; Edmonton: 0-5.

Att. — 16,839 at Edmonton, AB.

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

EAST

New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

DIVISION SERIES

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CFL

EAST

(Best-of-5 series)

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NFL

(Chicago wins 3-1) 7XHVGD\ V UHVXOW Chicago 6 St. Louis 4 LOS ANGELES VS. NEW YORK (New York wins 3-2) 7KXUVGD\ V UHVXOW New York 3 Los Angeles 2

CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES NEW YORK METS VS. CHI CUBS 6DWXUGD\ Chicago Cubs (Lester 11-12) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 13-8), 8:07 p.m.

6XQGD\ Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 22-6) at N.Y. Mets, 8:07 p.m.

7XHVGD\ N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 8-7), 1 p.m.

Wednesday N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 10-7), 1 p.m.

7KXUVGD\ x-N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs (Lester 11-12), 1 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ x-Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 22-6) at N.Y. Mets, 12 p.m.

6XQGD\ x-Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 8-7) at N.Y. Mets, 12 p.m.

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore

WEST Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST N.Y. Giants Dallas Washington Philadelphia

W 3 2 2 2

L 2 3 3 3

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PF 132 101 97 117

PA 109 131 104 103

W 4 5 2 2

L 0 1 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .833 .400 .333

PF 108 183 110 134

PA 71 143 148 164

W 5 2 2 0

L 0 2 3 5

T 0 0 0 0

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W 4 2 2 1

L 1 3 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

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SOUTH Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

NORTH Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit

WEST Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

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New Orleans 31, Atlanta 21

6XQGD\ V JDPH Kansas City at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Miami at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Denver at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Baltimore at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

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

New England at Indianapolis, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Dallas, Oakland, St. Louis, Tampa Bay Monday, Oct. 19 N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m.

LATE THURSDAY SAINTS 31, FALCONS 21 $WODQWD 1HZ 2UOHDQV

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)LUVW 4XDUWHU NO — Ingram 2 run (Hocker kick), 9:44.

NO — Mauti 4 blocked punt return (Hocker kick), 2:06.

6HFRQG 4XDUWHU Atl — White 7 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 14:12.

7KLUG 4XDUWHU NO — FG Hocker 31, 7:19.

NO — Watson 2 pass from Brees (Hocker kick), 2:23. )RXUWK 4XDUWHU Atl — Freeman 25 run (Bryant kick), 13:07.

NO — Ingram 1 run (Hocker kick), 8:02.

Atl — Freeman 13 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 1:29.

A — 73,018 at New Orleans.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punts Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

$WO 23 413 21-150 263 2-21 1-19 0-0 30-44-0 5-32 4-31.0 5-3 7-41 27:30

12 25 385 32-81 304 2-12 0-0 0-0 30-39-0 1-8 4-43.8 0-0 3-15 32:30

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING — Atlanta, Freeman 13-100, Coleman 4-40, Ryan 4-10. New Orleans, Ingram 20-46, Robinson 7-23, Spiller 3-10, Brees 2-2.

PASSING — Atlanta, Ryan 30-44-295-20. New Orleans, Brees 30-39-312-1-0.

RECEIVING — Atlanta, Jones 6-93, Freeman 8-56, Hankerson 4-37, Tamme 3-32, White 3-23, Dimarco 2-18, Toilolo 2-18, Williams 1-11, Ward 1-7. New Orleans, Watson 10-127, Snead 4-55, Cooks 4-41, Hill 3-38, Robinson 2-24, Spiller 4-17, Ingram 3-10.

MISSED FIELD GOAL — New Orleans, Hocker 48

Hamilton Toronto x-Ottawa Montreal

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Pt 18 18 18 10

WEST x-Edmonton x-Calgary B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

GP W L T PF PA Pt 15 11 4 0 365 272 22 15 11 4 0 381 305 22 14 5 9 0 340 394 10 16 5 11 0 322 454 10 15 2 13 0 357 462 4

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Bye: Saskatchewan )ULGD\¡V UHVXOW Ottawa 27 Winnipeg 24 6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Calgary vs. Toronto (at Hamilton), 4 p.m.

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

6XQGD\¡V JDPH Hamilton at Montreal, 1 p.m.

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1. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 195.503 mph.

2. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 195.454.

3. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 194.826.

4. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 194.756.

5. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 194.735.

6. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 194.623.

7. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 194.37.

8. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 194.363.

9. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 194.335.

10. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 194.301.

11. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 194.161.

*UHJ %LIĂ H )RUG 13. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 194.056.

14. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 194.035.

15. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 194.

16. (33) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 193.993.

17. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 193.833.

18. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 193.743.

19. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 193.715.

20. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 193.486.

21. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 193.34.

22. (55) David Ragan, Toyota, 193.313.

23. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 193.036.

24. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 193.036.

25. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 192.342.

26. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 191.795.

27. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 191.714.

28. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 191.707.

29. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 191.435.

30. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 190.995.

31. (9) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 190.766.

32. (7) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 190.59.

33. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 190.04.

34. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 189.527.

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37. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

38. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

39. (35) Cole Whitt, Ford, Owner Points.

40. (23) Jeb Burton, Toyota, Owner Points.

41. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

42. (98) Reed Sorenson, Ford, Owner Points.

43. (32) Will Kimmel, Ford, Owner Points. Failed to Qualify 44. (62) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 185.211.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION Victoria Kelowna Vancouver Prince George Kamloops

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Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Calgary at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Red Deer at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION Penticton West Kelowna Salmon Arm Vernon Merritt Trail

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Vernon at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

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Jones backstops Sharks to 2-1 win over New Jersey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEWARK, N.J. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Martin Jones fell just short of a third consecutive shutout, and then Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns scored in a shootout to lift the San Jose Sharks to a 2-1 victory over the winless New Jersey Devils on Friday night.

Jones stopped 31 shots and came within 3:38 of his third shutout in four games as the Sharks improved to 4-0 under former New Jersey

coach Pete DeBoer. New Jersey is 0-3-1 under new coach John Hynes.

Patrick Marleau scored for the Sharks in the opening minute and the goal stood until Adam Henrique ended Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shutout bid with a tying power-play goal.

Henrique scored for New Jersey on its first shootout attempt, but Jacob Josefson was stopped on the second and Mike Cammalleri missed the net on the third. On his goal, Henrique tipped a shot from the point by

Damon Severson past Jones. It was the first goal Jones had allowed in a franchise-record 234 minutes, 33 seconds.

JETS 3, FLAMES 1 Dustin Byfuglien broke a tie with 1:28 left, and Ondrej Pavelec made 19 saves in Winnipegâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory over Calgary. Byfuglien forced a turnover, took a pass and went around efenseman Dennis Wideman and beat Karri Ramo with a sharp-angle, low shot.

Calgary coach Bob Hartley challenged the goal to see if Byfuglien was offside, but the goal stood.

Blake Wheeler added an empty-net goal with 53 seconds left, the 150th of his career, and leads the Jets with seven points. Bryan Little also had a goal and assist for Winnipeg, The Jets are 4-1-0.

Mikael Backlund scored for Calgary.

MAPLE LEAFS 6, BLUE JACKETS 3 Leo Komarov scored two late goals

and Toronto beat Columbus to give Mike Babcock his first victory as coach of the Maple Leafs.

Joffrey Lupul had a goal and an assist, and Jake Gardiner, James van Riemsdyk, and Nazem Kadri also scored to help Toronto improve to 1-2-1. Daniel Winnik added three assists, and Morgan Rielly had two. and James Reimer finished with 24 saves.

The Maple Leafs played for the first time in six days.

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CROSSWORD SATURDAY STUMPER ACROSS 1 Reduces the lead of 8 Some bridal shop selections 14 They’re often found in trees 16 Moat wall 17 Lost manuscript debated by bardolaters 18 Plumbing nuisance 19 Seatless transport 20 Darwin subject 22 Bigger picture, briefly 23 Mayan calendar symbol 24 Wealth 25 1968 Michener travelogue 27 Game or place with flushes 29 Amman-to-Damascus dir.

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» EVENTS // EMAIL: EVENTS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM SATURDAY, OCT. 17 9 a.m. Bastion City Wanderers Volkssport Club offers five, nine or 12-km. walks at Buttertubs Marsh. Meet in the parking lot off Bowen Road. Registration at 8:45 a.m. For information: 250-756-9796.

SUNDAY, OCT. 18 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cedar Farm Market, Crow and Gate Pub Field 2313 Yellow Point Rd. MONDAY, OCT. 19 7-9 p.m. Nanaimo Art Gallery: ART LAB “OPEN STUDIO.” Open Studio Artists, writers,

poets, collaborators and creatives of all types are invited to interact, find inspiration, and create in a friendly studio setting..

TUESDAY, OCT. 20 6:30-9 p.m. Kimchi Workshop at Costin Hall Kitchen, Lantzville $60 http://stircookingschool.ca/event/kimchi-workshop-2/ WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21 6:30- 7:15 p.m. Brother XII tour. Downtown walking tour. Pre-registration is required 250753-1821, cost is $10.

THURSDAY, OCT. 22

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Nanaimo, 2221 McGarrigle Road, Nanaimo.

8 p.m. BJ Estes, Mercedes Courtoreille live at the Longwood. 5775 Turner Rd. FRIDAY, OCT. 23

7:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Symphony presents music & literature, includes 6:30 pre-concert talk with Pierre Simard. Guest artist: Devon Joiner Tchaikovsky romeo and Juliet De Falla nights in the gardens of Spain Rimsky-K or sakov Scheherazade. Tickets: $33 or $59, students $18, Eyego $5 at www.porttheatre.com.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28

SUNDAY, OCT. 25

THURSDAY, OCT. 29

7- 9 p.m. Drop in on our public 3D printer meetups and take part in building printers for the space, get help with your own printer, or spend time amongst like-minded makers.

This event is open to the public. Makerspace

10-11 a.m. Golden Year seniors savings day at Country Club Centre. Free coffee, tea and a treat ., with live music by Howie James & the Howlettes in the Food Court. Also from 2-3 p.m

7-11 p.m. Dave Hart performs Smoke‘n’ Water Restaurant, at Pacific Shores, Nanoose Bay. Southern barbecue and seafood with complimentary wine/beer tastings. No Cover charge, but reserve early: 250-468-7192 6:30-8 p.m. Nanaimo Museum Lantern Tours $15, pre-registration required. Email program@nanaimomuseum.ca or call 250753-1821 for details.

6:30- 7:15 p.m. Brother XII tour. Downtown walking tour of locations before/ after cult started in Cedar-By-the-Sea in the late 1920s.

Artifacts on exhibit at the museum. Pre-registration is required 250-753-1821, cost is $10.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Keep reaching out to someone whom you would like to get to know better. You could surprise others with your willingness to take off on an adventure. You have a lot of energy, so use it well. You might have a secret admirer. Look around.

Tonight: Opt for different.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Reach out to a dear friend whom you care a lot about. You have been gaining insights when relating to this person, and today will be no different.

One-on-one relating proves to be unusually fulfilling. You have energy and intent when relating to this person. Tonight: Dinner for two.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) If you rein in your need to be the alpha dog, friends will make plans that include you. Although you like to have more control, you’ll delight in the roller coaster ride that they have unintentionally provided. You could have a ball. Tonight: Keep on going.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could be in a situation where you feel the need to change direction.

Know that an unexpected offer or situation might force you in a new direction anyway. You likely will be surprised by an older relative who seems to have forgotten his or her age. Tonight: As you like it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You could be off having a great time, enjoying a special person in your life.

You can’t seem to give this person enough time. Use today to devote your attention to this person. As a

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result, you will see the tension that has existed between you dissolve.

Tonight: Very playful.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You put your best foot forward, no matter what you do or whom you are with. You have a great deal of sensitivity and energy. A conversation reveals a different perspective about a major purchase. You could be surprised by what happens if you negotiate. Tonight: Invite friends over.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Pick up the phone and catch up on news with a friend. You might opt to meet someone for a late lunch and/or a movie. Listen to your sixth sense regarding a loved one. Perhaps you have been making judgments that are not valid. Tonight: Hang out with a favorite person.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Understand that extremes won’t help you with your finances or with an emotional situation. You have been replaying a scenario over and over in your mind, but you haven’t come up with a viable way to proceed. Test out a few ideas on a friend. Tonight: Make it your treat.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You could feel tense, as you know you must make an important appearance with a parent or boss. You will do what is needed, and gracefully at that. Catch up on friends’ news. You could be delighted by what you hear. Make plans that keep you close to home.

Tonight: Be gracious.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Be willing to reach out to someone at a distance. The conversation you have could be unusually mean-

ingful to both of you. Make plans to get together in the near future.

Buy tickets to a concert or a special event. Tonight: Relax in a very different environment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’ll have a choice to make between hanging out with friends and getting together with a special person in your life. Don’t overthink this decision. Allow a little more closeness into your life. Someone might have exciting news to share. Tonight: Choose a favorite stressbuster.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might confuse a friend or partner without intending to. You could be overtired and be delighted to have someone else take the lead. However, you still might not be able to just hang at home and veg, as a project demands your attention.

Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Oct. 17) This year you might be testing your limits more than you realize. You will be unusually prone to taking risks.

Be careful, as you might regret this behavior at a later point. If you are single, you meet people with ease and enjoy many different personality types. Your love of socializing might be a reason not to commit this year, but you likely will meet Mr. or Ms. Right soon afterward. If you are attached, the two of you notice a new intensity and a need to share even more. You appreciate having a strong friendship within a loving relationship.

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Stefani out of ‘The Voice,’ Aguilera is to return “I don’t have any plans for the future.

In fact, my whole thing right now is not thinking about the past or the future and, like, being right here, right this second.”

LEANNE ITALIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Gwen Stefani is leaving The Voice this winter, when Christina Aguilera returns, but she’s not done with the NBC show yet.

She said in an interview Friday she’d love to return. Now about halfway through Season 9, Stefani already misses her show family.

“They’re all so smart, they’re all lovely. They all got my back. I love them,” she said.

As for the rest of her life, she’s trying to live in the here and now and enjoy a few “priceless surprises,” a hashtag she’s taken on for a private concert Saturday night for MasterCard cardholders.

The California native and mom of three oozed joy backstage ahead of the exclusive appearance, so what’s got Stefani so happy?

“Everything. It’s exciting. I’m in New York. Just that alone. . . . I mean, I never went anywhere when I

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was a little girl,” she smiled.

And there’s also the birth of her third child, Apollo, about 19 months ago, and the rest of this season on The Voice.

“I can’t wait to get back on set and do the lives. It’s so fun. It’s the funnest thing I think I’ve ever done, and so inspiring,” Stefani said.

She’s going through a phase, of sorts.

“I don’t have any plans for the future. In fact, my whole thing right now is not thinking about the past or the future and, like, being right here, right this second, because it’s so great right now. It’s such a great, amazing time,” Stefani said.

So if she were a contestant rather than a judge on The Voice, who would she pick as a mentor?

“Impossible to answer, and I will not,” she said.

“But I would say, I know that I’ve worked with Pharrell before and I know what that feels like. I’ve worked with Adam and I know what that feels like. I’ve never worked with Blake so I don’t know what that would be like, but I do know that me and Blake have a lot of similar tastes in people, in voices, which is a shock.”

Stefani’s band, No Doubt, last put out an album in 2012, but she’s recorded solo, made music with Pharrell and joined Eminem on a rap-rock turn, “Kings Never Die,” for the soundtrack of the film Southpaw. She also has put in some writing and studio time on a new solo album but hasn’t announced its timing.

“Kingston (her nine-year-old son) said, ‘Mom you better get a hit,’ so I’m gonna try to do that for him,” she said.

Meantime, she’ll continue to juggle family and music and TV, acknow-

ledging that the latter as far as The Voice is concerned has become less about finding the next superstar and more about helping out young talent.

“How many Michael Jacksons are there in a lifetime, or in generations?

They come along when they come along,” Stefani said.

“It’s just a platform. There’s so many talented people but there has to be magic and things, destiny and fate, and God, and all these things have to happen for a superstar to emerge.”

Would she survive the grueling competition?

“I can’t imagine doing what they do. I couldn’t do it,” she said.

“I mean, the pressure, and then to be having us trying to tell them, ‘OK and then you can do this and you can do that,’ taking in all that information and trying to make it happen on a live TV show. It’s a lot. They do really good.”

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BASEBALL BATTY ACROSS 1 Pennsylvania resort mountains 8 Puts glittery metal strips on 15 Hollywood’s Hawke 20 Small cousin of the flute 21 Patronizes, as a store 22 Bit of poetry 23 Baseballer’s paranormal power?

25 Brown ink 26 Yalies 27 Island group near Fiji 28 Gillette brand 30 Phone no.

31 Posed 32 Baseballer doing roadwork?

37 Drops seen at dawn 38 Be litigious 39 Citadel of a North African city 40 Baseballer with film and TV roles?

47 Bygone ruler 49 Be obligated 50 Dog sounds 51 Catch on film 52 “Amazing!”

53 Narnia lion 55 “Green-eyed monster” 56 Yearly period when a baseballer is gleeful?

60 Strip off 61 Barn bag bit 62 Bow’s shape 63 Soup legume 64 Neophyte 65 Baseballer working as a highway patrol cop?

70 No-hitter king Nolan 74 Serengeti grazer 76 Prefix for “the same” 77 Always, to Keats 78 Paltry 79 What a baseballer plays in a band?

86 Nastase near a net 87 See 57-Down 88 Trailways transport 89 No-frills river vessel 90 Sought morays 91 — laude 92 Pet food brand 94 Two things at a baseballers’ snack bar?

97 Kind of earring or tie 99 College coach Parseghian 100 FBI title: Abbr.

101 Baseballer’s hamper contents?

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113 Huxtable family mom 114 Foot 115-Acrosses 115 Thumb, e.g.

117 Baseballer’s time to shine?

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JAMONT, LOUIS â&#x20AC;&#x153;LAURIEâ&#x20AC;? LAURENT Regimental # 19784

S/Sgt. (Retâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d) Louis Laurent Jamont, Reg. # 19784, known to all as Laurie, was born October 6, 1938, in Rosthern, Saskatchewan. He was the second son of Josie and Louis Jamont, and the big brother to four sisters, and a younger brother.

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At a young age, Laurie decided he wanted to join the RCMP, and in February 1957, boarded a train from his home in Langley to start an adventure that would last a lifetime. He was posted in multiple places in Saskatchewan, then spent a year on the Musical Ride, representing the RCMP and his country, of which he was so proud.

Shortly thereafter, he was posted to the North, spending three years in the Arctic, in Aklavik, Inuvik, and Arctic Red River. After his posting was up, he returned to Saskatchewan, and, on the eve of his brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wedding in 1963, happened to meet a beautiful young nurse, who turned out to be the love of his life. Val and Laurie were married in September 1965, and started their adventure together, soon moving to Ottawa, where he became involved in the Ident Section. He stayed with that section through moves to Moncton, Fredericton, Thompson, Brandon, and Prince George. While in Prince George, he left the Ident section to serve as the Division Representative, a job that brought him much satisfaction, as it enabled him to do something that was his true nature â&#x20AC;&#x201C; helping others. His last transfer took him Nanaimo, where he retired in 1992 as a Staff Sergeant, after 35 years of service. After retirement, he went to work for the Public Guardian and Trustee, utilizing his policing background in another way. He joined the RCMP Veterans Association, and served in many positions on the executive committee, and took great pleasure in being involved. He truly was a Mountie for life.

Laurie built model planes, was an avid reader, and a lover of history and all things Canadian. He was a storyteller, a quick wit, a gardener, a whistler, a carpenter, a blood donor, and in recent years, a stem cell courier for the bone marrow transplant program.

He was a wonderful husband to Val, a loving and devoted father to Ilene and Don, and recently became a completely besotted grandfather to Jack. He celebrated 50 years of marriage earlier this year, surrounded by family and many, many friends. He was so proud of his children, and loved their spouses as if they were his own kids.

Laurie was many things to many people, but above all he always did what was right, and he was first to step forward when someone needed a hand. He will be sorely missed.

In the wee hours of October 13, 2015, Laurie lost his battle with leukemia. With Val by his side, he slipped away peacefully, having fought the good fight. He is survived by his loving wife Val, his daughter Ilene (Francois Veillette), his son Don (Laura), and his grandson, Jack, along with his sisters Agnes, Margaret, and Yvonne, and his brother Norman, his sister-inlaw Bev, brother-in-law Don, and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Louis and Josie, his brother Ken, and his sister Irma.

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A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. October 22, 2015, at Telfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Home, 595 Townsite Road, Nanaimo. Interment to follow at RCMPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Depot Division.

Special thanks to Dr. Denegri, and the NRGH nurses who worked so closely with Laurie, and the many close friends who came to visit in the hospital. Your time with him meant so much.

Donations in Laurieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory may be made to the Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program of BC, c/o VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation, Suite 190, 855 W 12th Ave, Vancouver V5Z 1M9.

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(nee Dragovitch) December 2, 1928 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; October 7, 2015 Stella was born in London, England and passed away comfortably in the care of the Palliative Unit at Nanaimo Regional Hospital. She is survived and will be deeply missed by her daughter and son-in-law, Pauline and Derrill Prevett of Qualicum Beach, BC, and warmly remembered by other relatives and friends. Stella was predeceased by sister, Violet and brothers Ron and Harry of the United Kingdom.

Coming to Canada in 1955 with her former husband and daughter, Stella did secretarial work and hairdressing in Ontario before moving to British Columbia. In the Comox Valley she worked with the mentally challenged in group homes and woodworking shop then as a House Mother at Queen Margaretâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School in Duncan before retiring and moving to Parksville.

Gifted with her hands and imagination, she created wonderful needle crafts, art, and bead work. Beachcombing, gardening, birds and dogs brought her much enjoyment over the years. She was an enthusiastic watcher of The Shopping Channel and Classic Movies and spent many hours reading and doing jigsaw puzzles in recent years.

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Seahawks expect Marshawn Lynch to play CURTIS CRABTREE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; After missing the last two games with a hamstring strain, Marshawn Lynch is expected to return to the starting lineup for Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game against the Carolina Panthers.

Linebacker Bobby Wagner will be a game-time decision. Lynch did not start against the Chicago Bears in Week 3

due to a calf injury and then exited the game for good in the second quarter after straining his hamstring before halftime. The two games missed were the first games in which Lynch was inactive since being traded to Seattle in 2010.

Lynch participated fully in practice on Thursday and Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He looked really back to full health,â&#x20AC;?

head coach Pete Carroll said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He made it out, looked good and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re counting on him playing.â&#x20AC;?

Wagnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status is much more uncertain.

Wagner suffered a strained pectoral last week against the Cincinnati Bengals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough enough to play with it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the right thing to do to

get him back to health,â&#x20AC;? Carroll said.

With Seattle playing again next Thursday against San Francisco, the quick turnaround is factoring into the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision whether to push Wagner into the lineup this week.

If Wagner canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play, K.J. Wright is expected to move to middle linebacker with Kevin Pierre-Louis replacing Wright at weakside linebacker.

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Young B.C. Lions still need to learn to win ED WILLES THE PROVINCE

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irst, some data. When measured against every conceivable metric, the B.C. Lions are the youngest, most inexperienced team in the CFL. Their average age, 26.59, is the lowest in the league. They have more players born in 1990 or later than other team in the league. This season, 14 of their 24 starters are in their first full CFL season and kicker Richie Leone makes it 15.

So, given all that, maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understandable the Lions have a harder time closing deals than a real-estate salesman in Kabul. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understandable theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve squandered as many leads as they have. Inexperience, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been told ad nauseam, will betray itself when the stakes are highest and this season, the Lions have blown halftime leads in eight of their nine losses while being outscored 134-70 in the fourth quarter.

Surely, that must have something to do with the age thing. Well, it might. But, really, who cares? If this season ends badly, the Lions can trot out their team demographics as part of their season-ticket campaign and sell this market on a glorious future. But right now, with four games left on their schedule and the team in a bare-knuckle fight for a playoff spot, their age isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t relevant. What is relevant is their record, another must-win game in Edmonton on Saturday and the three games left beyond that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is our team,â&#x20AC;? says Travis Lulay, who returns to the lineup this week to back up Jonathon Jennings at quarterback. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of ourselves as a young team. We just look at the facts and where we can improve. Winning is something you have to learn. Those are all things that come with maturity. But we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shrug our shoulders and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the youngest team.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that luxury.â&#x20AC;?

But they do have that 5-9 ledger. This Lions season, as you may be aware, is a confusing amalgam of contradictory and sometimes infuriating trends. For 45 minutes, they look like a Grey Cup contender. In the final quarter they look like the Shreveport Pirates. Some of their wins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Edmonton earlier in the year, Montreal in September â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have been uglier than sin. Most of their losses, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve looked pretty good.

There is an adage in football that says you are what your record says you are and the Lions have to own 5-9.

But there have been positive developments along the way and even if the standings arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly an advertisement for optimism, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sense the Leos could still be on the verge of something this season.

It starts, of course, with Jennings and an offence which has been reborn under the 23-year-old rookie. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to belabour this point. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been paying attention, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen it and if Jennings isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a franchise quarterback in the making, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing a fairly convincing impersonation of one.

On the other side of the ball, the defensive line has finally been sorted out and the unit has a whole is coming off two solid outings. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a semblance of a pass rush. The secondary has been better. Yes, there are issues on special teams but the point is the Lionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; problems arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t insurmountable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re growing up,â&#x20AC;? said head coach Jeff Tedford.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lovely thought. Back on Sept. 13, the Lions were beaten at home by Ottawa and looked to be a broken team. In the four games since, virtually everything around them has changed for the better, even if, sigh, they are still 1-3 in those four games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you overcome letting that feeling drag you down?â&#x20AC;? Lulay asked rhetorically. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the biggest thing is to see those big plays that can change the game.

One of those plays happen differently and we get the result weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for. But until we make those plays, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not good enough.â&#x20AC;?

Is this the week that changes? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find out soon enough. The younger Lions have absorbed three years worth of experience through the teams many ups and downs this season. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned all the lessons theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve needed to learn. Just as there are no atheists in foxholes there are no rookies this time of the year and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now up to the Lions to prove that record isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an accurate reflection of who they are. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just have to finish, find a way to get it done,â&#x20AC;? said Jennings â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should be winning these games.â&#x20AC;?

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DE LA RENTA ON SHOW

A photo provided by the SCAD FASH museum in Atlanta shows a black-and-white gown with a criss-cross design on the back designed by Oscar de la Renta for Sarah Jessica Parker. [AP PHOTO]

Fashion museum honours design legend KATHLEEN FOODY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA — A new museum focusing on international fashion has opened in Atlanta.

The first exhibition at SCAD FASH features more than 80 Oscar de la Renta designs and opened to the public this month on the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design.

The pieces come from the school’s permanent collection and donations from collectors and celebrities who worked with de la Renta before his death in 2014.

De la Renta was a frequent donor to SCAD’s collections and the natural choice for the opening, said Laurie Ann Farrell, executive director of museums and exhibitions and curator of the showing. She hopes visitors whether casual observer or devoted student will learn something about design.

“Everybody selects their clothes

as one way of signifying their identity,” Farrell said. “Even if somebody doesn’t consider themselves a fashion aficionado, I think they can come in and be inspired by what different designers have done through the years.”

The pieces on display in Atlanta until Dec. 31 cover decades of work, from a 1965 black cashmere dress with a white satin collar and waist bow to a silk colour-block gown designed by creative director Peter Copping for fall 2015 and worn at the Emmy awards by actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Student-docents hold iPads with information about each garment as they guide visitors through the 10,000 square-foot space, winding through curved galleries and small rooms featuring a source of inspiration for the designer.

A white, mirrored room contains romantic wedding gowns and a silk-patterned dress inspired by

Marie Antoinette while a nearby platform holds a gathering of black and red flamenco-inspired garments with dramatic ruffles and other flourishes.

De la Renta’s technique and influence is the exhibition’s focus, but the people once inside the garments add to each item’s appeal for visitors.

An embroidered silk gown worn

by Taylor Swift at the 2014 Met Gala stands next to the entryway.

A black and white gown worn by Sarah Jessica Parker at the same event features a large version of de la Renta’s signature embroidered in red near the bottom of the skirt’s cross-hatched train.

A red silk dress covered in delicate ruffles that Beyonce wore in a Vogue magazine photo spread stands alone on a pedestal, surrounded by curved black plastic adding drama for Instagram photos.

In a short hallway holding metallic

ensembles, museum-goers bent to examine the intricate beading and embroidery on Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s custom wedding dress for her 2010 marriage. On the other end of the political spectrum, the exhibit includes a white cashmere coat and dress with delicate beading that former first lady Laura Bush wore for her husband’s 2005 inauguration.

De la Renta received a lifetime achievement award from SCAD in 2001, beginning a relationship with the school. De la Renta donated pieces to SCAD’s permanent collection in the years following the recognition.

Immediately outside the museum doors, SCAD Atlanta’s fashion students have moved into new classrooms and can closely examine or even take apart items from the school’s permanent collection inside a fashion resource library.

Future exhibitions still are being

planned, but SCAD officials said they want to provide a link between fashion and film. Both are key areas of study for students in Atlanta and at the main Savannah campus.

The de la Renta exhibit includes a SCAD alumnae’s documentary on the development of a smaller de la Renta exhibit earlier this year at the museum on the Savannah campus.

The museum gallery opens up to a film salon holding cushioned ottomans and sofas facing a 90-inch screen surrounded by backlit bookshelves. SCAD also plans to hold showings and lectures either connected or not to the clothing exhibits.

“Designers are artists,” Farrell said.

“As a visual experience alone, I think people can walk away with a deeper understanding of how a house evolves over time but maintains that classic elegance.”

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Glacier melt will have big impact Ice fields in B.C.’s Columbia range have been melting at a furious rate, even before this year’s hot summer ALEX COOPER REVELSTOKE TIMES REVIEW

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uedi Beglinger has seen first hand the effects of global warming. Guiding out of the Durrand Glacier chalet for 30 years, he’s watched as the glaciers around his tenure have receded back, in some cases by almost a kilometre.

Where he used to have one ladder to get up a rock face, he now has three. Where it used to require climbing an ice face to reach the glacier, it’s now an easy walk. Hazards exist where none did before.

Where there used to be a glacier, there is now the Empire Lake hut — built last summer on bare rock as the latest addition to Beglinger’s operation.

“If I think about this, I think the planet is losing its balance,” he told me. “Glaciers are not just something up there that looks beautiful, it is a very important part of the existence of this planet.”

I met with Beglinger at the end of his summer guiding season in the Selkirk Mountains north of Revelstoke. As has been reported, this year has been particularly hot, with a warm winter transitioning into an even hotter spring. Record temperatures were set in June when the thermometer neared 40 C in Revelstoke.

What has this meant for the glaciers in the Columbia Mountains?

They’ve been shrinking for more than a century, but how did they hold up to this year’s extraordinary weather?

To answer those questions, I spoke to Brian Menounos and Ben Pelto, two researchers at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Menounos is an associate professor of geography and the Canada Research Chair in Glacier Change. Pelto is his PhD student. They’re part of a team that studies glaciers throughout B.C. In April, Menounos was the co-author of a paper on glacier change that said the Columbia Mountains could lose most of its glaciers by 2100 due to global warming.

I reached the two of them by phone last week, after they had completed their fall survey of the glaciers they monitor.

“The observed mass loss is 2.5 to three times what we’ve observed for the longer term – the 1985 to 2000 average,” Menounos told me.

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research team from the University of Northern British Columbia is studying the melt on four glaciers in the Columbia Basin — the Zillmer, the Nordic, the Conrad and the Kokanee. ~ Google Earth Image Menounos’ team studies four glaciers in the Columbia Mountains as part of a Columbia Basin Trust project to monitor ice loss. They are the Zillmer Glacier near Valemount, the Nordic Glacier northeast of Revelstoke, the Conrad Glacier, in the Purcell Mountains near the Bugaboos, and the Kokanee Glacier near Nelson.

Glaciers act as stores of fresh water that provide melt water well into the summer, when streams could otherwise run dry.

Those four glaciers were chosen based on their elevation, aspect, and corresponding area. They’re considered representative of glaciers throughout the region.

“You also want to get representative glaciers in the north, the mid portion and the south to tease out the relation of glacier change and climates,” said Pelto.

To monitor the glaciers, they visit them twice a year — once in spring to measure the winter snowpack, and again at the end of summer to measure the melt. Poles up to six metres long are driven into the glacier in several places and they’re measured to see how much melt occurred.

They also conduct an aerial LIDAR (light detection and ranging) survey over the glaciers that provides accurate surface elevation representations.

“If you fly over two consecutive Septembers, you can subtract LIDAR elevation models and look at thickness loss,” said Pelto.

Pelto wrote about his spring trip to the Kokanee Glacier on the blog From a Glacier’s Perspective, which is run by his father Mauri Pelto, a glaciologist himself.

It was Ben’s third year studying the glacier since the surveys began in 2013.

The glacier extends from an elevation of 2,800 metres at the summit of Kokanee Peak down to 2,230 metres, where it ends at a lake that was uncovered over the past few decades due to glacier retreat.

On the blog, Pelto noted a few things about the winter season.

First, it was warmer than usual and freezing levels were elevated. Secondly, the winter snowpack at high elevations was normal, but there was a noticeable point where freezing levels stood. While there was snow on the glacier, you could see bare ground not far below where there would normally be snow.

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ith the warm winter, there was a magic elevation line where below that you had rain and above that you had snow, and that’s where the variability came in with the glaciers,” he said.

Finally, data from a nearby snow pillow site run by the B.C. River Forecast Centre showed an early and dramatic melt cause by the very warm spring. Pelto wrote that this winter could be a harbinger of things to come, “where increased winter temperatures lead to a higher snow line, lower snowpack at lower elevations, and near average snowpack at higher elevations.”

When Pelto and his co-researchers returned to the Kokanee Glacier at the end of summer, they found a fairly dramatic loss of ice, estimated at between 1.5 to three metres. To put that into context, Meneunos had done a previous study comparing digital elevation models taken from the space shuttle in February 2000 with images produced by the B.C. government in 1985.

“The average we got for the province is that the glaciers were losing about three-quarters of a metre on average,” he said. “Distributed over

the glacier, that’s about three-quarters of a metre of surface lowering.”

On the more northern glaciers the team studied, the mass loss this summer was closer to the normal — about a metre of ice thickness was lost.

“I think it’s mostly a change in rate in terms of the amount of melt occurring,” said Pelto. “If your average year of late, in the past decade or two, is losing a half metre of ice a year, that’s quite different to losing a metre and a half, or even up to three metres.”

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uedi Beglinger laid out a big map of the Selkirk Mountain Experience tenure on my desk. He pointed to the numerous glaciers in his area and outlined how they all had shrunk. The lower elevation glaciers, like the Ruth Glacier, which was just a thin ice sheet stretching down to 1,800 metres elevation, had receded by almost a kilometre in the 30 years he’d been up there.

For glaciers at higher elevations, the loss wasn’t so dramatic, but they were still losing ice slowly but consistently. He showed me pictures showing big moraines and boulder fields where there used to be ice — the glaciers are now in the far-off distance. In some places, he’s started to track the change by marking rocks in the area.

Beglinger says he notices the changes in his day-to-day operations. He has to be more cautious of rockfall in the summer, and of crevasses in the winter. “You’re going to see ice

avalanches in places you haven’t seen before,” he said.

While difficult to determine, recent glacier melt is attributed to the rise of greenhouse gas emissions. A 2014 paper in the journal Science concluded that anywhere from 45 to 93 per cent of glacier loss from 1991 to 2010 was caused by an increase in human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.

“There’s variability there but the only was you can count for that substantial mass change is greenhouse gases,” said Menounos.

The impact could be substantial.

Menounos’ research is part of a project being conducted by the Columbia Basin Trust. The issue has also been studied by BC Hydro to see how they will have to adapt their operations.

Glaciers act as stores of fresh water that provide melt water well into the summer, when streams could otherwise run dry. There will be less water as a result of glacier melt, but that is expected to be offset by increases in precipitation. However, the timing of stream flows could change substantially.

Then there’s the aesthetic impact.

“One of the reasons I was drawn to British Columbia was to see permanent snow and ice and glaciers on the mountain landscape,” said Menounos. “We’re watching an important component of our heritage rapidly decline.

“I don’t know what you would call Glacier National Park without the glaciers.”

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Google Inc. has made digital copies of tens of millions of books from major research libraries and established a publicly available search function. It planned ultimately to scan over 100 million books, including material from the New York Public Library, Library of Congress and several major universities.

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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan agreed with a judge who concluded that the snippets Google showed customers from its database was a transformative use of the information and thus did not violate copyright laws.

Judge Denny Chin ruled in November 2013 that Google’s digitization of over 20 million books, mostly out-ofprint titles, did not violate copyrights because the Mountain View, Calif.based company only showed short sections of the books in its database.

Chin had said it would be difficult for anyone to read any of the works in their entirety by repeatedly entering different search requests.

In an opinion written by Judge Pierre N. Leval, the appeals court agreed, saying the snippet feature “substantially protects against its serving as an effectively competing substitute for plaintiffs’ books.”

It added: “Snippet view, at best and after a large commitment of manpower, produces discontinuous, tiny fragments, amounting in the aggregate to no more than 16 per cent of a book.

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LOS ANGELES — A Hispanic coalition is condemning NBC’s Saturday Night Live for inviting Donald Trump to host the show.

In a letter sent Thursday to the show’s producer and the CEO of NBC Universal, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda said the network was enabling Trump’s “hateful speech” for ratings.

The group asked NBC to rescind the invitation to the GOP presidential contender, who is to host Saturday Night Live on Nov. 7.

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