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PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Hurricane Patricia roared ashore in southwestern Mexico as a Category 5 storm Friday evening, bringing lashing rains, surging seas and cyclonic winds hours after it peaked as one of the strongest storms ever recorded.

There were early reports of some flooding and landslides as the storm moved over inland mountains after nightfall. Television news reports from the coast showed some toppled trees and lampposts and inundated streets. Milenio TV carried footage of cars and buses being swept by floodwaters in the state of Jalisco.

But authorities said there were no immediate reports of fatalities or the kind of major, widespread damage feared earlier in the day when forecasters warned of a potentially “catastrophic” landfall.

“The first reports confirm that the damage has been less than those expected from a hurricane of this magnitude,” President Enrique Pena Nieto said in a taped address late Friday. He added, however, that “we cannot yet let our guard down.”

Indeed, Patricia’s projected path was headed next over a mountainous region dotted with hamlets that are at risk for dangerous mudslides and flash floods, and where communications can be sketchy. It wasn’t clear when emergency crews would be able to fully assess the storm’s impact in those isolated areas.

The storm was expected to weaken rapidly and dissipate Saturday, but it was still capable of soaking the region with heavy rain.

Patricia “continues to advance and continues to be extremely dangerous,” national civil protection co-ordinator Luis Felipe Puente warned via Twitter. “Stay informed and follow recommendations.”

Patricia’s centre made landfall as a monstrous Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 270 km/h, but in a relatively low-populated stretch of the Jalisco state coast near Cuixmala. The nearest significant city, Manzanillo, was about 85 kilometres southeast and outside the zone of the storm’s hurricane-force winds.

By late Friday, Patricia was rapidly losing steam but was still a major hurricane with winds at 215 km/h, the centre reported, or just above the threshold for a Category 4.

Its centre was about 75 kilometres southeast of the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, where rain began to fall harder than it had all day but there was still no sign of strong winds. Streets were deserted except for police patrolling slowly with their emergency lights on.

Brandie Galle, a tourist from Grants Pass, Oregon, said she sheltered with other guests in a ballroom with boarded-up windows at the Hard Rock Hotel in Puerto Vallarta.

Workers let them out to eat in a hotel restaurant after the city was not feeling any major effects from the storm two hours after landfall. There was no visible damage to the building.

Galle said some guests desperate to leave had earlier paid $400 for taxis to drive them the 200 kilometres to the inland city of Guadalajara.

People make final preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Patricia in the Pacific resort city Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Friday. [AP PHOTO]

“The first reports confirm that the damage has been less than those expected from a hurricane of this magnitude.”

Enrique Pena, President of Mexico

Patricia formed suddenly Tuesday as a tropical storm and quickly strengthened to a hurricane. Within 30 hours it had zoomed to a record-beating Category 5 storm, catching many off guard with its rapid growth.

By Friday it was the most powerful hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere, with a central pressure of 880 millibars and maximum sustained winds of 325 km/h, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Patricia’s power while still out at sea was comparable to that of Typhoon Haiyan, which left more than 7,300 dead or missing in the Philippines two years ago, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. More than 4 million people were displaced and over 1 million houses were destroyed or damaged in 44 provinces in the central Visayas region, a large cluster of islands.

Mexican officials declared a state of emergency in dozens of municipalities in Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco states, and ordered schools as many residents stocked up on canned food and other supplies. Authorities opened hundreds of shelters and sent thousands of emergency crews to aid people.

According to the 2010 census, there were more than 7.3 million inhabitants in Jalisco state and more than 255,000 in Puerto Vallarta municipality. There were more than 650,000 in Colima state, and more than

161,000 in Manzanillo.

One of the worst Pacific hurricanes to ever hit Mexico slammed into the same region, in Colima state, in October 1959, killing at least 1,500 people, according to Mexico’s National Center for Disaster Prevention.

The Sokols, a family of five from suburban Detroit, were supposed to fly out of Puerto Vallarta on Friday but ended up hunkering down for hours in a shelter at a university after their flight was cancelled. By night they were back where they began: at their hotel, and no worse for wear.

“It’s amazing it went from the worst in history to just some heavy rain,” Susanna Sokol said, noting that at least the hurricane gave her daughter a birthday to remember.

“It was pretty stressful for a while,” Tom Sokol said. “I felt guilty for taking my kids here.”

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said tens of thousands of American citizens were believed to be vacationing or living in areas likely to be affected by the storm.

The airports in Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo and Tepic were closed Friday, but officials announced an air bridge Saturday to ferry stranded travellers out of areas hit by the storm.

Patricia also threatens Texas with forecasters saying that even after the storm breaks, up its tropical moisture will likely feed heavy rains already soaking the state.

The U.S. National Weather Service said a flash flood watch would be in effect through Sunday morning for Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio.

A coastal flood warning was in effect through Friday night in Corpus Christi.

Galveston was under a coastal flood advisory until Saturday night.

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City manager heads for Maple Ridge post Swabey cites current climate with council as one factor in decision; Howat decides to take Colwood job the factors and council, as a body of course, has to determine how they want to behave and what they want to achieve in their term,” Swabey said.

“And so that’s what I mean, I had to balance that against the community (Maple Ridge) that came to me and said ‘Hey Ted, this is what we’re about and this is what we want to do,’ and I think my values are more aligned with what I saw in that council than I would here,” Swabey said.

“Is it the only factor? No. But you have to weigh it all together.”

Swabey said he has received “a range of reaction” from elected officials when he told them he was accepting a job with Maple Ridge Thursday.

“I’ve received some considerable range of reactions from nothing, to we’re extremely sorry to see you go,” he said.

Howat declined to comment on the reasons for his departure, but said he was excited for the new opportunity.

“I’m going to an awesome community with an awesome council,” he said.

Mayor Bill McKay said he was “surprised and disappointed” when he learned Thursday that Swabey would be leaving the organization.

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anaimo city manager Ted Swabey is resigning to take a new job on the Lower Mainland, citing the current climate at city council as one factor in his decision.

Swabey, who took over as city manager in 2013, will become chief administrative officer for the City of Maple Ridge, the City of Nanaimo announced Friday in a news release.

Ian Howat, Nanaimo’s general manager of corporate services, is also leaving the organization, and will become chief administrative officer at the City of Colwood, in greater Victoria. Howat has worked at the city for 10 years.

Both Swabey’s and Howat’s last day in Nanaimo is Nov. 13.

Until replacements are chosen, Community services general manager Tom Hickey will be the senior-ranking manager at the city.

Swabey has spent most of his working life at the city, starting as at the front counter of the planning department 1989 and steadily working his way up.

He served as community safety and development general manager under former city manager Al Kenning.

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“Council, as a body of course, has to determine how they want to behave and what they want to achieve . . .”

in moving forward with a bunch of initiatives. And that, to me, is exciting,” Swabey said.

“I’m wired that way, I’m a person that likes the issues that result from a community that is looking to move forward and is in high-growth mode.”

Swabey said his departures comes with “a heavy heart and mixed emotions,” adding he was proud of the work the city had done under his watch. But he admitted that the current environment at city council, which some on council and in the community have described as caustic and not functioning properly, played into his decision.

“Yeah, I think you have to weigh all

Ted Swabey, city manager

Swabey said the new job will allow him to work in the Metro Vancouver region.

“It’s a community that is experiencing a high level of growth and it has a mayor and council that are extremely progressive and interested

“It’s going to leave a huge hole in our organization,” he said, adding he has enjoyed working with the senior bureaucrat.

McKay also praised Howat and wished both departing managers well in a press release.

“I think he’ll be a real good fit in that organization,” said McKay of Swabey’s move to Maple Ridge.

The mayor said council will meet on Tuesday to discuss an interim replacement for the city manager, adding council will decide whether to appoint a city staff member to the post temporarily, or to bring in an outside contractor.

As for a finding a permanent replacement, McKay said he favours advertising the position to outside candidates, but said he wants council to have a “broad” discussion on its options, as well as what criteria they want met for a new city manager.

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Complicated job market Tourism, hospitality continue to play dominant role in Nanaimo SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

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anaimo’s job market was recently ranked in the top 50 in the country, but those with knowledge of the local situation paint a more complicated picture of where the Harbour City really sits.

While emphasis is increasing on the tech sector as an employer in the region, tourism and the hospitality sector continue to play a dominant force in the labour market, accordSpencer ing to observers.

Anderson And the CEO Reporting of the Nanaimo Youth Services Centre says young workers in the service industry will increasingly be squeezed by advances in technology that will threaten the availability of low-skill jobs.

Traditional job sectors have been relatively flat compared to where they were a decade ago, bouncing back after the crash of 2008.

According to a new overview from the Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation, Nanaimo’s economy has been kind to the construction sector, with a 24 per cent gain in business counts between 2004 and 2014, growing from 889 to 1,102. But the same data shows a 9.8 per cent decline in construction businesses between 2009 and 2014 in the aftermath of the 2008 recession.

Retail, another major employer in the region, has seen more or less flat growth. It has increased to 826 businesses in 2014 — a 1.7 per cent leap from the total number in 2004.

There are also signs in the NEDC’s figures of an economy that is steadily steering away from its traditional resource roots. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting-geared businesses totaled to 13 last year, an increase from just nine five years before.

The economy has been kind to Nanaimo’s construction sector, with a 24 per cent gain in business counts between 2004 and 2014. [DAILY NEWS]

Overall, the sector has shrunk by a quarter since 2004.

Real estate-focused businesses have also declined by about 10 per cent over a 10-year period, down to 475 in 2014 from 531 in ‘04. However, the number of businesses in this sector did increase from 2009 by a factor of 3.7 per cent.

The biggest winners over the decade may provoke surprise.

The arts, entertainment and recreation sector has boomed during the same 10-year period. Only 49 related businesses had set up shop in the early 2000s.

By last year, that number had more than tripled to reach 182.

Professional scientific and technical service businesses increased in number by 56.7 per cent. Almost 750 businesses had doors open in 2014, an increase approaching 300 new businesses from 10 years prior.

How all this impacts the number of local jobs in the region is not entirely

clear. The most recent employment by sector data from Statistics Canada is from 2011.

However, Nanaimo’s unemployment rate sat at 4.4 per cent in the third quarter of this year, a figure that is significantly lower than the national rate (seven per cent), the province (6.3 per cent) and the north Island (6.6 per cent).

A total of 41,300 people are employed in the city, and 51 per cent of the of the population is employed or actively looking for work.

Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce CEO Kim Smythe said his impression of the economy is one where there is an increasingly larger role for entrepreneurs.

“From my understanding, the job market is strong,” he said. “We don’t have high unemployment locally, but we don’t have a lot of big businesses either. There’s actually been a lot of growth in the entrepreneurial sector.”

There are a lot of small businesses starting up and finding a niche in the marketplace, but “that doesn’t tend to drive a lot of employment,” Smythe added.

In terms of the actual jobs that are on hand, the picture of the economy remains muddy.

John Tait, a wage subsidy job developer at GT Hiring Solutions, which administers unemployment services on behalf of the province in Nanaimo, is tasked with linking employers to new workers in need of on-the-job experience, whose wages the province will partially subsidize.

He says he has seen mixed trends.

For example, demand for drywallers, carpenters and plumbers is up.

“We are seeing a real uptake certain kinds of jobs . . . that we normally don’t see (this time of year),” Tait said.

By contrast, demand for electricians has tapered off substantially.

“We’re having trouble just getting them into apprenticeships,” Tait said.

Tait said he has noticed an increase in demand for subsidized workers.

He said that can generally mean a slower economy, or a loss of workers to other more competitive markets like the Comox Valley, where construction of a new hospital is underway.

He said another possibility is a local economy that is “really, really heating up” and in demand for labour — hence a pick-up in demand for new workers, even those who require training.

“I find when it gets really hot, it’s almost a weird inverse curve,” he said.

For young workers, there will be increasing market pressures in future years, said Steve Arnett, CEO of the Nanaimo Youth Services Association.

He said the retail and hospitality sectors are still a strong magnet for youth without higher education looking to break into the job market.

“For the group of young people that are educated, there are other opportunities beyond that, but it is a highly competitive area,” he said.

Arnett said jobs in accounting, health care, the non-profit sector and other professional services are hard to come by.

He said post-secondary education and training will become increasingly important.

“Particularly in Nanaimo, I think our economy is moving very quickly to a much more knowledge-based economy,” he said.

“If you don’t have Grade 12 . . . you are going to be struggling in the job market in a number of ways,” he said.

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Council rejects recording in-camera meetings DAILY NEWS

Council has voted not to produce audio recordings of in-camera meetings on the advice of city staff.

A staff report suggests that doing so would be require additional software, staff and training to index and review audio recordings of in-camera meetings, which are closed to the

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Document shredding free at Nov. 14 event Document shredding will be offered by donation at Woodgrove Save-onFoods in Nanaimo Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

It’s a fundraiser for Nanaimo and District Crime Stoppers.

Island Document Storage and Shredding will shred documents for a minimum donation of $10.

There will be barbecued burgers and hot dogs available while donors watch their documents shredded.

“These events go a long way in supporting the local Crime Stoppers program,” said Constable Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo and District Crime Stoppers program co-ordinator.

Crime Stoppers receives no government funding and relies solely on donations and fund raising.

Personal document shredding is recommended as a way to reduce the risk of identity theft.

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Half-price sale offered as BC Ferries promotion Travel by ferry will be half-price for vehicles on certain sailings starting in mid-November.

BC Ferries offers 50-per cent discounts on standard vehicle fares on select southern routes during offpeak hours Monday through Thursday and Saturdays Nov. 16-Dec. 19.

The promotion includes the Departure Bay-Horseshoe Bay, Duke Point-Tsawwassen and Nanaimo-Gabriola Island runs.

On most northern routes, the discount is for all sailings Nov. 15-Dec. 20.

The company is testing the waters before rolling out its Fare Flexibility and Digital Experience Initiative in 2017, and “we are gaining valuable information on shifting our pricing structure to offer savings based on time of day travel,” said Mike Corrigan, BC Ferries president and CEO, in a news release.

Preliminary results of promotions done in September and October show it played a part in increased year-over-year traffic volumes, and helped reduce congestion at terminals by encouraging travel on off-peak sailings.

Details on which sailings are affected are available at bcferries.com.

BC Ferries says another pricing promotion is planned for the spring.

public due to the sensitive nature of the topics discussed, which include personnel issues, business dealings and litigation.

However, council also voted yes to a proposal to record videos of meetings held in the Service and Resource Centre boardroom with a basic camcorder option. Most meetings the council meetings, including regular

council and committee of the whole meetings, take place in the Shaw Auditorium in the Vancouver Island Conference Centre.

Recordings of all those meetings are available online thanks to a network of cameras set up in the room.

But the city also holds some meetings in the SARC boardroom, where there are no cameras set up.

The basic camera option will not stream meetings on the Internet, but will allow the public to view meetings later. Total equipment and staffing costs would total $30,500 over five years.

Council rejected more expensive options, including a single, ceiling-mounted camera and microphones that would cost more than

$9,900 in annual costs, plus $37,900 in start-up costs. Over five years, the estimated cost is $87,400.

A more extensive, four-camera system similar to the one in the Shaw Auditorium would mean about $18,700 in operating costs over five years, plus $99,500 to buy and set up the equipment. The estimated fiveyear cost is $193,000.

HISTORY

Canadian soccer star MacKay among those looking forward to Woodlands anniversary ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Ike MacKay is excited about attending Woodlands Secondary School’s 60th anniversary in February.

MacKay, a former soccer star who played in four FIFA World Cup qualification matches with the Canadian team in 1974, taught social studies and physical education at the school in the late 1970s and 1980s.

He said Woodlands is a “terrific school” and he can’t wait to reconnect with some of his old colleagues and to see how the current generation of students is doing at the school, which is widely known for its athletic programs.

“It was a pleasure to teach there and it was an awful lot of fun too,” MacKay said. “It will be a pleasure to see the school again.”

Gunnar Myhrer, a teacher and soccer coach at the school since 1989, is one of the main organizers of the anniversary celebrations, which will be held over two days on Feb. 12-13.

He said that during the school day on Feb. 12, staff and the approximately 500 students who are enrolled in Woodlands this year will play games and participate in other activities to celebrate the school’s anniversary.

In the evening, Myhrer said basketball and volleyball tournaments will be held in the Woodlands gym with the school’s alumni who sign up for the sporting events.

To register, call Myhrer at 250-713-0164.

He said the school will host an

Woodlands Secondary School will celebrate its 60th anniversary in February. Above, the school soon after construction was completed in 1955.

open house on Feb. 13 from noon to 4 p.m.

“We’ll have separate classes set up featuring different themes from materials from Woodland’s archives from the time the school first opened,” Myhrer said.

“One classroom will be full of pictures and other documents and materials related to the 1950s and ’60s, and others will be dedicated to each decade up to the present time.”

Thousands of students have attended Woodlands and many have graduated from there since the school switched from a junior high to a secondary school in 1990.

As well as MacKay, many other prominent entertainers and sports figures have attended and/or graduated from the school over the decades They include the international jazz sensation Diana Krall and Susan Reid, a national field hockey star who

played for the Canadian team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

“The school’s alumni are always organizing reunions for their graduating classes, and we’re hoping those who are planning events this year will also take part in our celebrations as well,” Myhrer said.

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Wanted Ottawa robbery suspect found dead AARON HINKS DAILY NEWS

A 22-year-old man suspected of robbing an Ottawa bank has been found dead in Nanaimo.

The Ottawa Police Service told Nanaimo RCMP that suspect Peter Hoelke had boarded a flight to Nanaimo shortly after the crime, which took place on Oct. 20.

The Nanaimo RCMP were told that

Hoelke may be hiding out in a home located on the 5000-block of Lost Lake Road.

Mounties along with the Vancouver Island Emergency Response Team surrounded the house at approximately 8:30 a.m. Friday.

The team entered the house at approximately 4 p.m. and were unable to find Hoelke.

“We had information that he was

in the house, we had to act on that information if it’s 20 per cent or 100 per cent. We had enough information to believe he was in the house,” said Const. Gary O’Brien.

Police did not reveal the suspect’s connection to the home.

Access to Lost Lake Road was restricted while police searched for Hoelke.

Shortly after 5 p.m. Friday police

found a body near the E&N Trail near Jordan Avenue. The BC Coroner’s office attended and identified the body as Hoelke’s.

Police say foul play is not suspected and his family and the Ottawa Police Service has been notified.

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OUR VIEW

City must look beyond own walls for new top bureaucrat

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t’s an opportunity that cannot be missed again. We learned on Friday that Nanaimo city manager Ted Swabey is leaving his post.

Swabey was appointed to his current post in 2013, after a long career with the city. His last day will be Nov. 13. During his 26 years with the city, he held a variety of portfolios including planning, development, economic development, protective services and community safety.

He leaves to become the new chief administrative officer for the City of Maple Ridge.

What the city should absolutely consider this time around is a chance to significantly alter the dynamic between council and city staff.

When Jerry Berry left the city manager’s post in 2009, Al Kenning was elevated to the post. When Kenning

retired, Swabey was moved into the top job.

This isn’t a swipe in any way at either Kenning or Swabey.

Both may very well have been the absolute best candidates to fill the position and remain deserving of praise for their years of service to the city. But, given the current suggestions of unrest not only among councillors but staff members as well, a chance to hit the reset button and alter any perception of toxicity.

We have pointed out before the need to cast a wide net to see who might be able to bring a fresh perspective to the top job.

City council must mandate an extensive search this time around.

The best candidate may still be within the current ranks, but anything less than an exhaustive effort

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Dr. Ralph Nilson, an excellent choice to add to Johnston’s significant achievements and bring the institution to another level.

The city would do well to adopt a similar approach.

Interestingly, the city also announced Friday that Ian Howat, general manager of corporate services, will also be leaving his post.

Howat, with the city for a decade, becomes the new chief administration officer for the City of Colwood.

While it could be as simple as two skilled professionals moving onward and upward in their careers, it’s also easy to see envision longtime city employees who grew tired of the work environment and had just had enough.

Swabey told the Daily News “I think my values are more aligned

with what I saw in that council than I would here,” and noted “(Nanaimo) council as a body of course has to determine how they want to behave and what they want to achieve in their term.”

That apparent disconnect between council and staff needs to be addressed immediately.

Hiring someone from within may only perpetuate the potentially combative situation. Do we really want to hear debate about Colliery Dam Park for another decade?

A candidate not immersed in the drama, with an outside perspective and some fresh vision, could be just what the taxpayers need. » We want to hear from you.

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to look into any and all possibilities will be a disservice to the taxpayers.

Once again, how much difference can we expect if the city takes the quickest route, to hire from within, and fails to look beyond Wallace Street?

Surely a position like this, in a remarkable city like this, will attract some visionary talents from across the country. But they need the chance to apply for the job.

There is a difference between stability and stagnation.

We have pointed to Vancouver Island University as a shining example of what can happen when a leadership post becomes open.

Faced with the retirement of the renowned and beloved Rich Johnston, they looked outside the local talent pool and ended up with

have written about violence in relationships before, and I will continue to do so until it is non-existent in our community.

Domestic violence is not just about physical aggression, but includes sexual violence and emotional and financial abuse. These behaviours have a staggering emotional impact on all members of a family exposed to it.

In most cases, women are the target of violence and abuse, but children, seniors and intimate partners can also be victimized.

Children are particularly vulnerable when they witness or are exposed to violence. They are at risk of emotional, behavioural, cognitive, and social problems. Many of these children experience immediate physical and psychological damage, and in some cases, it is life-long.

Some acts of violence are so horrendous, I cannot describe them here. To think that children witness these events, scenes that take an emotional toll even on first responders, makes me sick to my stomach.

Some children end up losing both parents — one is dead, the other is in jail — and this has to stop.

It is not just extreme violence that causes major damage in a family.

Verbal abuse and name-calling, swearing and berating; emotional abuse involving controlling and aggressive behaviour; sexual abuse

including unwanted sexual touching, harassment or intercourse; and financial abuse through which many victims are oppressed financially, living without necessities and unable to sustain independence, also destroy lives.

I belong to the Network to End Violence in Relationships, a network of various agencies who are working to end abuse.

NEVR, which is coordinated by Dr. Balbir Gurm, focuses on Surrey and North Delta and includes rep-

resentation from social agencies and law enforcement, and works with nursing students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Our current students are clearly committed to ending violence in relationships from a public health perspective; they are working on a project to educate bar, restaurant and beauty salon staff about the signs of domestic abuse.

As future nurses, they recognize the serious health and social impact of domestic abuse, and through their passion, education and action, I

know they will make a difference.

On Nov.19, we are gathering with partner agencies and our community to hold a fundraising dinner at the Grand Taj Banquet Hall in Surrey.

The emcee for the event is wellknown television personality Pamela Martin. Tickets can be purchased through the Grand Taj at 604-599-4352. » Jim Cessford is the recently retired police chief of the Delta Police Department.

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Overflow crowd faces off over Nanoose marina CANDACE WU PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

Idyllic Nanoose Bay seems deeply divided over the expansion of Beachcomber Marina.

A public information meeting Tuesday night was punctuated with out-oforder yells and jeers from the crowd, illustrating a community brimming with contention ROGERS and competing ideals.

The Regional District of Nanaimo-hosted meeting was chaired by area director Bob Rogers with representation from RDN planners, specifically about the marina’s zoning amendment application.

With people spilling outside the original room where the meeting was supposed to be hosted, the gathering was relocated last minute to a larger room in Nanoose Place to accom-

“Having a marina that’s well-run, well-looked after and presentable increases the value of the whole area.”

Susan Millar, Mistaken Island resident

modate the overwhelming response from the community — more than 200 people attend.

The proposed changes would add 26 berths to Beachcomber Marina’s 100 mooring slips. RDN regulations require one parking space for every two mooring berths and one space for every two employees meaning the marina would need a total of 63 parking stalls.

Beachcomber owner Ian Barnes put forth the application which would see one portion of the marina ‘downzoned’ from marina designation to standard designation (Water 2 to Water 1), while another area would be ‘upzoned’ from standard designa-

tion to marina designation (Water 1 to Water 2). “There’s more than enough room,” said Barnes. “(The space needed for the marina) is just in the wrong place.”

Barnes has received approval from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Transport Canada to make the changes. However, he still needs a permit from the RDN. Rogers confirmed Tuesday’s meeting was “not a decision-making meeting,” rather an opportunity to invite comments from the public on the proposed changes.

It’s good news for those who claim there’s a major moorage shortage in the area, especially to accommodate boats over 10 metres, and those who see the expansion as an economic opportunity and attraction for Nanoose Bay. But opposition was apparent with many voicing concern over the proposal’s potential to block neighbouring views of the ocean, increased traffic and pollution, and water and drainage issues.

Brian Chatwin, of Nanaimo’s Chatwin Engineering, said the expansion would take away from the value of

Nick Shulson’s waterfront property, which stares directly at the proposed expansion area. Chatwin went on to criticize the marina owner, and subsequently the RDN, for not consulting with neighbouring properties before starting the application process for expansion.

“Is this a policy you’re going to allow? Is this what you call good planning? And doesn’t it set a nasty precedent?” he asked.

Nanaimo’s Cunningham and Rivard Appraisals real estate evaluation consultant Dave Curt echoed Chatwin’s comments, saying it would “dramatically” reduce the value of Shulson’s property.

“A rezoning generally creates value and in this case it creates value for Beachcomber Marina at the expense of the Shulson property and that’s not fair,” said Curt. “I’m a right winger myself and I like to support anything that’s good for business…

But I can’t support this proposal only because it dramatically affects a few landowners.”

But that may not be the only reason he can’t support it.

Beachcomber resident Joe Ringwald pointed out Chatwin and Curt attended the meeting on behalf of their client, Nick Shulson.

“They’re paid to be here,” said Ringwald. “I used to be one of them.”

Ringwald recently moved to Nanoose Bay from the Lower Mainland, admitting the final motivation to move came when Beachcomber Marina owner Barnes called to say a moorage space had opened up.

He said there’s a big shortage for boat owners in the area and is in favour of the project.

Mistaken Island resident Susan Millar said she’s been going to Beachcomber Marina her entire life and every person who moved to the area was aware there was a marina there.

While she noted the expansion may devalue the Shulson’s property, she also pointed out “having a marina that’s well run, well looked after and presentable increases the value of the whole area . . . I see someone who has put a large investment into improving the marina, improving the protection of the boats . . . So I’m in favour.”

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Students are graduating into a different world than the one their parents stepped into two or three decades ago.

To better help them with the transition the Ministry of Education has unveiled a revamped provincial scholarship program.

“The revised program provides more flexibility to recognize well-rounded students who excel beyond the classroom,” says a Ministry of Education release.

It goes on to say the revised scholarships support “a broad range of student achievement and reflects the different pathways students follow to earning their Dogwood Diplomas.”

It also aligns better with the

objectives of B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint, an initiative of the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training to position students to ‘meet labour market priorities’ and land “skilled trades that will soon be in high demand.”

“Our revamped scholarship program is going to better recognize the diversity of our students and their successes — in the classroom, on the field, on the stage and in the community,” said Minister of Education Mike Bernier.

The program increases the dollar value of scholarships, which are offered in four major categories: • B.C. Excellence Scholarship — for students who make a commitment to a particular career path and a demonstration of community involvement/leadership skills;

• Pathway to Teacher Education Scholarship — for academic achievement and commitment to a teaching career; • B.C. Achievement Scholarship — for achievement in Grades 10, 11 and 12 courses required for graduation and top elective courses; and • District Scholarships — with criteria to be determined by local districts.

The district scholarships can reward achievement in a variety of areas including: technical and trades training, fine arts, physical activity, applied skills, international languages, community service and indigenous languages and culture.

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Giving a wake-up call to the homeless Helping transients move on from their nightly city park sleepovers keeps cops busy in the provincial capital PAMELA ROTH VICTORIA NEWS

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t’s 7:30 a.m. on a rainy morning in October when Const. Dan O’Connor and Sgt. Barrie Cockle pull up to Kings Park in Fernwood.

Three tents of various sizes are pitched in the small park that contains a needle disposal hanging on a white fence. A few pieces of garbage are strewn across the patchy grass.

“Hello, the police are here. Time to get up!” says Cockle to the campers.

A few people zip open their tent and peer at the officers standing patiently outside. One woman they know well — she suffers from serious mental health issues that often lead to problems whenever she’s in the park. On this day, however, she’s co-operative.

Cockle isn’t leaving until the homeless have packed up their belongings and moved on for the day.

City bylaws state that people can only shelter in a park between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. That time changes to 7 p.m. in the winter.

Sometimes Cockle has stood at the park for more than two hours waiting for the homeless to pack up and leave. It’s a test of patience for the police and neighbours.

“The people in this neighbourhood are absolutely fed up with this park,” said O’Connor, adding police often respond to drunken disturbances or yelling. Neighbours have also discovered used needles and human feces in their yard.

Two months ago, police would typically see 13 to 14 tents set up at the park, which is located close to homeless services. About a month ago, three truck loads of garbage were removed.

“It’s like pulling teeth. If you don’t stand over them, they are not going to clean up,” said Cockle. “These people we see every day so we get to

Victoria police Sgt. Barrie Cockle shows the mess left behind by a homeless person outside the shelter at Rock Bay Landing in Victoria. [PAMELA ROTH]

know them. They have good days and bad days.”

The park is one of several locations O’Connor and Cockle visit on a daily basis. Beginning at 7 a.m., a team of bylaw officers and police with the focused enforcement team drive around city streets and parks, looking for people camping or sleeping outside businesses.

Many of the people they deal with are suffering from mental health problems or addictions. Some are just down on their luck, struggling with financial problems. Others are notorious criminals selling drugs to survive.

The wake-up calls often take two to three hours to complete. Some people are co-operative, but many are not. Police rely on a lot of persuasion to get the homeless moving each morning. Enforcement is only used as a last resort.

A few weeks ago, a chronic hoarder was charged with mischief. For years, police have been dealing with him strewing his belongings all over private property and city boulevards.

Cockle said hoarding is a common problem among many homeless people, who sometimes push around three or four carts stuffed with belongings and have nowhere to go.

“There’s just no other choice,” said Cockle, noting the man who was recently charged had been given plenty of opportunities to get off the streets, but chose not to take them.

“These people are just trying to make a buck and run their business and they have to deal with this every day. It costs them customers or just detracts from people coming to the downtown.”

According to O’Connor, Victoria police try to help the homeless wherever possible, but many don’t want to go to shelters for various reasons such as fighting with others or anti-social behaviours. Officers

will try to find housing and connect the homeless with outreach workers.

Some people, however, just don’t want to be helped.

“It’s such a complex issue. There isn’t a good solution right now,” said O’Connor, noting the problem is a regional one since services for homeless are all based downtown.

“Police are pushed into this corner a little bit where we have to enforce bylaws, but there’s no solution to where these individuals should go.”

After Kings Park, the officers head to the shelter at Rock Bay Landing where three people are sleeping on the sidewalk underneath green tarps.

“Time to get up,” says Cockle. A young woman huddled under a tarp draped over a bicycle isn’t impressed the police have arrived.

The woman groans. More time passes with little co-operation. Cockle gives another warning, then puts on his gloves and removes the tarp, exposing the unhappy woman to the rain. In a daze, she fumbles around for a few belongings, swears, then storms off into the shelter.

The cardboard she had been sleeping on is left on the ground, along with a few candy bar wrappers, drug paraphernalia and a small bag of crystal meth.

Cockle calls in the garbage man to clean up the mess. The next morning, the officers will do it all over again.

“It’s just something you got to do . . . We’ve become social workers,” said Cockle, who’s been doing the wake up calls since 2007. Some public spaces have gotten better, he said, but the parks are still the same.

“The time we spend doing this could be spent on other things. A lot of times we watch them pack and it’s garbage.

It’s stuff they found, but it’s their personal belongings. It is what it is.”

B.C. GOVERNMENT

SAANICH

Minister cautious on local recall legislation

Motorcyclist dies after crash

TOM FLETCHER BLACK PRESS

Local politicians called on the B.C. government to extend recall legislation to municipal halls and regional districts, after more than a decade of avoiding battles over voters trying to fire elected officials before their terms end.

At their recent annual convention, mayors and councillors also passed resolutions to ban corporate and union donations to local election candidates, and asked for legislation to prevent people from running for office in multiple communities.

Communities Minister Peter Fassbender, new to his job but a veteran of local politics, responded cautiously to the suggestions, particularly the idea of extending recall.

“I think very often recall becomes something where it is seen as a weapon as opposed to something that actually makes a contribution,”

“Very often recall becomes something where it is seen as a weapon.”

Peter Fassbender, Communities minister

Fassbender said in an interview. “And I think before we moved on anything we would want to have a fulsome discussion.”

Delegates to the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention rejected the idea of recall in 1998 and again in 2003.

But a new generation elected to four-year terms supported the idea.

Rookie Telkwa Mayor Darcy Repen sponsored the motion, arguing that the 2011 referendum to reject the harmonized sales tax “empowered the people,” and recall at the provincial level hasn’t encouraged

“rabble rousers advocating for special interests.”

Repen said his friends would have laughed if he had told them he was running for mayor, and if he’s no good at the job, the community shouldn’t have to put up with him for four years.

Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal spoke in favour of the UBCM’s latest call to restrict campaign donations, noting that donations from wealthy developers and unions in the city have now reached into the millions of dollars.

View Royal Mayor David Screech got support for his resolution calling for a ban on running in more than one municipality.

He said the same candidate has repeatedly run for mayor all 13 Victoria-area communities, and “the media was more interested tin him than the legitimate candidates.”

Central Saanich Mayor Ryan Windsor opposed the motion, noting that the perennial candidate got only 91 votes against him.

“We saw what happened in every jurisdiction here,” agreed Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen.

“I think as a practical matter the kinds of people who engage in running in more than one jurisdiction are not candidates that people feel are worthy of support.

They run in more than one jurisdiction to make a statement but are otherwise really not candidates running on anything other than a message of protest.”

Fassbender was also reluctant to take action based on one situation.

“You really want to give some sober thought to it instead of just reacting to someone who is trying to create some controversy,” Fassbender said.

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SAANICH NEWS

The 33-year-old Saanich man who crashed his motorcycle Oct. 4 has died as a result of his injuries.

Saanich Police responded to the crash that occurred at about 2 a.m.

Oct. 4 in the area of Glanford Avenue and Leaside Avenue. The rider was found to have suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Victoria General Hospital, where he was placed in a medically induced coma.

The man died Oct. 14 as a result of his injuries.

“Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the motorcycle rider during this difficult time,” said Sgt. Steve Eassie with the Saanich Police.

Police are not releasing the man’s name and the B.C. Coroners Service will work with police to review the evidence of the collision.

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Man survives tumble off 100-foot backyard cliff SARAH SIMPSON COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

A wife and her cellphone rule can take the credit for promptly alerting authorities after a man fell 100 feet down a steep cliff on their Malahat property Thursday afternoon.

Malahat Volunteer Fire Department Chief Rob Patterson said his crew was notified about 2 p.m. of the incident at the residential property.

After assessing the scene, Patterson had Shawnigan Lake Fire Department’s high angle rescue crew paged out to help, followed up a short time later by Mill Bay Fire Department’s

volunteers as well.

“So we had two other departments come to help get this gentleman back to the top of the cliff,” Patterson said.

“His wife had the rule that if you’re going to go work in the yard, you must carry your cell phone, just in case,” he added. “And sure enough this happened and the phone stayed with him the whole ride down.”

The man had been doing some clearing on his property, when he got tangled up with his dog.

“His dog kind of got around him and jumped up and kind of pushed him off balance and he did the big

100-foot drop,” Patterson explained.

The 63-year-old man came to rest on a little bit of a flat spot but found himself stuck between a tree and the face of a rock.

“He was wedged in there pretty good,” Patterson said.

Despite the steep drop, the man was able to use his mobile phone to call his wife and she in turn called 911 and a neighbour to help direct rescuers to the site.

“Nobody could see him until they got down over the edge,” Patterson said. “It took some time to get rigged up and safely respond over the bank.”

Alert but getting cold, the patient had no immediately life-threatening injuries.

“He may have a broken ankle and a broken shoulder, is what I’m hearing second hand. I don’t know for sure, but he was alert conscious and communicative when he passed by me,” Patterson said.

The man spent about four hours over the bank, lying there wedged, unable to move and in shock, Patterson explained.

All told, a crew of nearly 30 worked to rescue the man.

Later, an ambulance supervisor

ELECTION

Resigned Victoria Liberal candidate takes aim at ‘scandal’ that sunk her PAMELA ROTH VICTORIA NEWS

When questionable comments made on social media about Israel and mosques resurfaced in the final stretch of her election campaign, former Victoria Liberal candidate Cheryl Thomas went into shock.

Her phone started ringing from campaign heads in Ottawa and Vancouver. Feeling pressure from the party, Thomas decided the best thing to do was shut down her campaign and be quiet since support for the Liberals was growing across the country.

It was less than three weeks before election day and passed the deadline to withdraw, leaving the local Liberals unable to get a replacement.

Thomas wanted to defend herself and offer an explanation for the comments she now says were taken out of context, but nationally the party wanted it to be gone within 48 hours. Now that the election is over, Thomas wants to set the record straight.

“It was really frustrating not being able to defend myself, but I am a party person and the party winning was more important than me,” said Thomas, adding her supporters were upset with her decision to stop campaigning, but she didn’t resign.

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“They were upset that I had been targeted the way I was because they knew it was completely unfair.”

During a conversation on Facebook in 2014, Thomas wrote “the oppressed of the Warsaw ghettos and the concentration camps have become the oppressors, keeping the Palestinians who are left in their “homeland” in “ghettoes.” In another post, she said “unfortunately, now the mosques are being used as brainwashing stations, desecrating those holy places.”

In 2013, Thomas wrote Santa Claus “has to be white!!! You can’t have a brown guy with a beard sneaking into your house in the middle of the night! You’d be calling the bomb squad.”

The comments were uncovered by the satirical website, the

True North Times, and quickly made their way into news headlines, creating a nightmare for Thomas.

The comments, she said, were clipped in a way that makes her seem like she has inappropriate opinions to all races — something she finds ironic since she’s spent most of her adult life teaching and coaching ethical behaviour, mutual understanding and conflict resolution.

The comments regarding a brown santa were from a Christmas show with Canadian-comedian Russell Peters, she explained, and the thread starts with “It’s a Russell Peters Christmas on CTV – LOL!!!”

“They used that to paint me as a racist when really Russell Peters uses that humour to point out our own racism,” said Thomas, adding the comments about Palestine were part of a long conversation she had little involvement in.

“It was so badly done. It was terrible journalism. It’s not satire, it’s character assassination.”

After the comments surfaced, Thomas issued an apology on her Facebook page to the Jewish and Muslim communities, and decided not to answer questions from local media. Since she never resigned, many voters

were left confused when they saw her name still on the ballot on election day.

In the end, Thomas finished third behind the NDP and Green Party with 8,482 votes. If she had won, it would have been up to the party whether they would let her sit in caucus.

Thomas, a business consultant who teaches at the University of Victoria, worked in Iran for eight years, running a MBA program for a university and consulting with major companies.

Now that the dust has settled, she wants to regain her credibility since she still works in the Middle East.

Pulling out of a campaign is a decision Thomas now regrets.

She wishes she had talked more with her team, who she believes would have pushed back and told her to soldier on.

Thomas also believes the timing of the comments was politically motivated. On the day they surfaced, there were three major events in Jewish centres across Canada.

“It’s a shame. It shows how dirty politics are now . . .We were looking really good and it was really a NDP-Liberal race,” said Thomas, noting it would have been a hard slog to unseat NDP incumbent Murray Rankin.

Escaped Island convict captured in Surrey A man who escaped custody from a Victoria-area jail earlier this month has been arrested.

Tyler Fong, who has links to the mid-Island, was apprehended just before 4 p.m. Wednesday in Surrey.

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briefed Patterson on the patient’s condition.

“He was improving dramatically and doing much better so he was going for some (tests),” Patterson said.

Initially he was going to be airlifted out but because of the time it took to extract the man, he was instead stabilized and taken via ambulance to hospital in Victoria.

Patterson said it could have been much worse.

“It was quite a cliff,” he said. “He’s a very lucky guy. He should go buy a lottery ticket.”

Fong, an inmate from the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre, escaped from custody while receiving medical treatment at Victoria General Hospital in View Royal on Oct. 4.

After an 18-day manhunt West Shore RCMP learned of Fong’s whereabouts and coordinated a

response with the Surrey RCMP detachment, including the Auto Crime Unit.

Fong was arrested after a brief foot pursuit. Neither Fong or any officers involved in the chase were injured.

Fong is now facing additional Criminal Code charges relating to his escape. These new charges

include escaping lawful custody, assaulting a peace officer, two counts of mischief, theft of a vehicle and dangerous operation of a vehicle.

He was incarcerated after being convicted earlier this year on a string of property crime charges stemming from incidents in the Ladysmith and Nanaimo areas.

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POLITICS

Clark now tells staff to save emails Directive comes after Information and Privacy Commissioner identified major information failures DIRK MEISSNER THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier Christy Clark ordered her cabinet ministers and all political staff Friday to save their emails after a stinging report criticized the government’s access to information practices.

Clark’s directive comes after Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said she identified major information failures in the premier’s office and two of her government ministries.

“I thought, we thought, that everything was being done properly,” Clark said in a telephone interview

from Merritt. “There’s been really no change in the way things have been done for a decade. We welcome the commissioner’s report.”

In July 2011, Clark posted a YouTube video message about her commitment to open government to British Columbians.

“To me open government is about a different way of communicating,” she said. “It’s about using all the tools at our disposal to connect the public to government in new and meaningful ways.”

Clark noted B.C. was the first province in Canada to launch an open data website, opening the government’s data to the public.

Denham’s report released Thursday highlighted negligent searches for records, failure to keep adequate email records, a failure to document searches and the wilful destruction of records in response to freedom of information requests.

“What I have said to staff today: all political staff and all ministers, I have directed that none of them delete any emails they have sent, starting today,” Clark said.

She said she expected her government members to do their utmost to follow the regulations of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Clark’s directive remains in effect

until former B.C. privacy commissioner David Loukidelis advises the government on addressing the 11 recommendations in Denham’s report. Loukidelis, a former B.C. deputy attorney general, was called in by the Liberal government in response to Denham’s report released on Thursday.

“We’re going to use that information to update everything that we do and make sure we are meeting not just (Denham’s) expectations but really meeting the public’s expectations,” Clark said.

Opposition NDP John Horgan said Clark admitted the Liberals have been breaking B.C.’s freedom of

COURTS

Government bureaucrat gets jail sentence for possessing child porn GREG NESTEROFF NELSON STAR

The former chief financial officer of the Central Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary regional districts is serving a 191⁄2-month jail sentence after admitting to possession and distribution of child pornography.

Grant Roeland, 59, was arrested at his home in Warfield on Sept. 20, 2013 after Trail RCMP received a tip from the B.C. child exploitation unit. Police seized two laptops and two hard drives that contained 508 images and 428 videos that met the definition of child pornography.

Roeland was charged with six offences and released on bail. However, on Jan. 8, 2015, he was arrested again on a breach of recognizance for possessing computer equipment. He didn’t seek release and has remained in custody since.

Although he initially elected trial by judge, Roeland pled guilty on April 2 to one count of possession of child porn and another of possession for the purpose of transmission. He also acknowledged violating his bail conditions.

At the time of the offences, the first count carried a minimum sentence of six months in jail and a maximum of five years while the second count had a minimum of one year and maximum of 10 years. Crown counsel sought a prison sentence of two years less a day, while the defence asked for 15 to 18 months.

In passing sentence in Rossland Provincial Court on June 11, Judge Richard Hewson said Roeland was born and raised on a dairy farm in Manitoba and has two daughters with his now-ex-wife of 32 years. He was

Grant Roeland, seen here while employed by the Regional District of Central Kootenay as its chief financial officer, is serving jail time after admitting to child pornography offences. [GREG NESTEROFF]

chief financial officer of the Regional District of Central Kootenay in Nelson from March 2007 until March 2013 when he accepted the same position with the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary in Trail.

RDCK chief administrator Stuart Horn said they learned of Roeland’s arrest shortly after it happened and searched his work computers but found nothing inappropriate. The RDKB didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Hewson said at the time of Roeland’s arrest, he had been in an online chat room with an undercover police officer. He used a peer-to-peer

network where people share pornographic images by exchanging passwords that allow them to access each other’s folders. Roeland provided his password to 150 users.

During the sentence hearing, the courtroom was temporarily closed to the public so the judge could view what the Crown and defence agreed was a “representative sample” of the images and videos found on Roeland’s computers. They included boys and girls who appeared younger than five and none who appeared older than 12.

“The children in the videos and images are anonymous,” Hewson

said. “I don’t know their names, but I’m sure they each have one. They exist somewhere in the world. They either know or will know when they’re older that images of their abuse are being shared by people who enjoy their suffering. Child pornography is not a victimless crime.”

A psychologist’s report found Roeland is a low to moderate to risk to reoffend in possessing child pornography but a low risk for direct sexual offences against children or others.

Court heard that while Roeland violated his bail conditions by having a computer, he didn’t use it to access child porn.

The judge said he considered the fact Roeland had no prior criminal record, pled guilty, apologized in court, and wasn’t involved in producing child porn as mitigating circumstances. But he weighed that against the age of the children involved, the size of Roeland’s collection, which was “readily and easily distributed,” and the “scenes of depravity” it contained.

“Given that he decided to forego counselling, and the lack of any indication that he understands why this crime is treated so seriously, his guilty plea and apology cannot be given great weight as an indication of remorse or evidence of insight,” Hewson said.

Roeland was placed on three years probation and isn’t allowed to be alone with anyone under 16 without a probation officer’s permission.

He was further ordered to provide a DNA sample, placed on the national sex offender registry for 20 years, and is banned from accessing the Internet for 10 years.

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“I’m concerned the government doesn’t seem to understand that this information does not belong to them,” he said. “It’s not about them looking good or bad.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ FORT ST. JOHN

Vernon father and son dead in plane crash A father and son from Vernon are the victims of an airplane crash near Fort St. John.

Pilot Brad Chapman, 56, and passenger Florian Chapman, 26, died when the Cessna 207 they were in crashed on takeoff from an unpaved airstrip at the Chapman Sand and Gravel site in Taylor Oct. 17.

The plane was registered to Calgary-based Chapman Corporate Air Services of Calgary and the pit is owned by Vernon’s L.B. Chapman Construction.

◆ VERNON

Former cop to appeal child porn conviction A former British Columbia RCMP officer will appeal his conviction and sentence for possessing child pornography.

The lawyer for Ryan Hampton has confirmed the appeal, but Jason Tarnow says he will not be representing the former member of the Vernon detachment.

Hampton was sentenced in September to ten-and-a-half months plus a day in jail but only spent one day behind bars based on pre-custody detention and time already served.

On his release, he was transferred to Alberta to face unrelated charges in that province.

Hampton remains on two years probation and can’t work or volunteer with any children under the age of 16.

The 37-year-old father of five resigned from the RCMP in 2013, shortly after he was charged when his estranged wife, also a Mountie in Vernon, reported she had found a flash drive containing child pornography.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ HALIFAX

Man accused in murder of student denied bail A 23-year-old man charged with murdering a fellow student at Dalhousie University in Halifax is returning to prison after a judge denied his bail application.

Judge Jamie Campbell ruled Friday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court that William Sandeson will remain in custody.

Sandeson is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Taylor Samson, and has been in court since Wednesday attempting to gain his release on bail.

The accused was enrolled in medical school at Dalhousie prior to being charged Aug. 20, four days after Samson was reported missing in Halifax.

Samson’s mother Linda Boutilier said outside court that she remains frustrated her son’s body hasn’t been recovered.

A publication ban has been placed on evidence presented during the hearing.

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Guns found hidden at university, man charged Pall bearers carry the three coffins of Catie Bott, who was 13, and her twin 11-year-old siblings, Jana and Dara in Red Deer, Alta., on Friday. The girls suffocated when they became buried in the back of a truck filled with canola on a farm near Withrow, Alta. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Three sisters suffocated by mass of canola laid to rest Parents say they are leaning on their faith to get them through loss of daughters THE CANADIAN PRESS

RED DEER, Alta. — Eleven-yearold Jana Bott was the quietest of the three sisters, an artistic girl who painted sunsets, sewed her own nightgown, decorated cakes and went most places clutching a pet rabbit named Marbles.

Her twin sister, Dara, was a tomboy who tore around on a quad in her family’s farmyard, her helmet plastered with mud. She played with insects, shot a bow and arrow, and collected stuffed cats.

The oldest girl, 13-year-old Catie, was vibrant with an infectious grin.

She wrote songs, made up plays and loved to read books and ride horses.

A funeral for the Alberta sisters was held in Red Deer on Friday, 11 days after they were buried in a truckload of canola on their parents’ farm near the village of Withrow.

RCMP said the girls had been playing in the truck and suffocated before they could be pulled out.

Brian Allan, a pastor at Withrow

“How is it possible that suddenly they could be swept away from us the way they were? There are some things that are a mystery to us and will be until we get to the other side.”

Brian Allan, Withrow Gospel Mission Pastor

Gospel Mission and a friend of the Bott family, told hundreds of people who gathered for the service that it’s difficult to understand the deaths.

“Why, why why?” he said. “How is it possible that suddenly they could be swept away from us the way they were?

“There are some things that are a mystery to us and will be until we get to the other side.”

Photos and home movies showed the three blond girls dressed up for church, pulling fish out of a lake and driving a combine on the farm.

Several musicians played throughout the service.

Five of the girls’ female cousins, wearing crocheted headbands in the sisters’ favourite colours — purple for Jana, blue for Dara and green for Catie — took turns on stage describing the trio and how they loved farm life.

The girls’ parents, Roger and Bonita Bott, have said they don’t regret raising and involving their children on the farm. They also have a younger son, Caleb.

Allan said friends and neighbouring farmers pitched in to finish the family’s harvest the day after the accident.

The small community is a closeknit one, he said, and everyone in it is hurting.

Some of the first responders who rushed to scene to try to revive the girls knew them as family friends or

from a nearby school they used to attend.

A few years ago, the Bott children started home schooling.

The girls were kind, mature and responsible children taken from the world too soon, said Allan.

After they died, he woke up without the same trivial worries he’d had before, he said.

Their deaths have put things in perspective.

“Who cares if the Blue Jays win or not? Who cares if the price of oil drops through the basement? ...

Nothing else matters, because our three girls were taken.”

He and others in the church believe the girls are dancing in heaven, and everyone will see them again, he said.

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A student is facing charges after guns were found in a ceiling at the University of Calgary.

Police say electrical contractors working at the university on Aug. 27 found a box containing two unloaded .45 calibre semi-automatic pistols in a false ceiling in the Earth Sciences building.

Campus security and Calgary police were notified.

Police say a person of interest was identified early in the investigation.

The person of interest and others were monitored and it was determined that the risk to students and staff was minimal.

A 25-year-old man from Calgary is facing charges of unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possession of a weapon obtained by crime, and one count of possessing a firearm knowing serial number altered, defaced or removed.

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Provinces swap dates to host Canada Games The government of Newfoundland and Labrador says the province will host the Canada Summer Games in 2025 instead of 2021.

Minister of Seniors, Wellness and Social Development Clyde Jackman says the switch will allow more time to determine the required infrastructure needs for the games.

The switch in the rotation with Ontario will now see that province host the summer games in 2021.

Ontario Minister of Sport Michael Coteau says the move allows his province to capitalize on its experience of hosting the 2015 PanAm Games and to take advantage of the facilities constructed for that event.

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Ontario smelter investigated for toxic runoff dating to 1963 IAN BICKIS THE CANADIAN PRESS

Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau and wife Sophie Gregoire on Parliament hill Thursday at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Renos may delay move

by Trudeau to 24 Sussex MELANIE MARQUIS THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau will announce soon whether he and his family will delay their move into 24 Sussex Drive, a residence that is in pressing need of major renovations.

“We’re going to take the next couple of days to make some decisions,” Liberal spokeswoman Kate Purchase said Friday.

The official residence for sitting Canadian prime ministers is where Trudeau and his brothers grew up when their father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, held the job.

Justin Trudeau’s mother, Margaret Sinclair, told the CBC on Friday her son would not be moving immediately into 24 Sussex Drive.

“Twenty-four Sussex is in need — has been in need since I was there 40 years ago — of major infrastructure repair, and it simply hasn’t been done,” she said. “They’ll live somewhere else while — not decor, not fancy stuff — just plumbing and roofs and all the things that keep a house standing are repaired.”

A report from the auditor general’s office in 2008 pegged the cost of renovating the building at $10 million.

“The most recent work of an exten-

Environment Canada is investigating Vale SA’s Sudbury, Ont., smelting operations for allegedly leaking toxic runoff into local waterways since at least 1963.

The allegations are contained in a warrant the government agency used to seize documents, computers and related materials from Vale’s Sudbury offices on Oct. 8 as part of its investigation into potential violations of the Fisheries Act. In the warrant, Environment Canada accuses the company of allowing “acutely lethal” seepage from the smelter waste piles into water frequented by fish, and of

knowing about the leakage for years. The warrant contains allegations not proven in court.

The accusations indicate the seepage started well before Vale took control of the smelter when it acquired Inco Ltd. in 2006 for US$17.6 billion.

The Environment Canada investigation was triggered after a Sudbury resident noticed a “foamy, lime-green coloured substance in a creek” in October 2012. The federal agency’s officers followed the seepage back to Vale’s Copper Cliff smelter slag storage area, the document says.

It says the slag storage area is a massive, 200-hectare waste dump

in active use since 1929, with more than 115 million tonnes of smelter waste.

Gordon Moore, who drafted the warrant and was one of the Environment Canada enforcement officers who responded to the 2012 incident, said in the document that at the time he found light greenish-coloured water flowing from the smelter waste heaps onto a Sudbury Catholic District School Board property and then into the city’s storm drains.

Vale is quoted in the warrants as disputing that Nolin’s Creek is fish-bearing, and says the runoff would be diluted by the time it reaches Junction Creek.

sive nature carried out at 24 Sussex Drive dates back to when it was purchased by the government, over 50 years ago,” the report said.

“It is therefore not surprising to note that a number of the residence’s systems are reaching the end of their useful lives, are in poor condition, and will have to be replaced in the near future.”

The report went on to mention various shortcomings, including cracked windows and caulking; noisy and inefficient air-conditioning units; a deficient plumbing system; and an electrical system that operated at nearly maximum capacity and couldn’t meet increases in demand or new operational requirements.

Trudeau and his family have been renting a home for about the last two years in the well-to-do Ottawa neighbourhood of Rockcliffe. But the house has been sold.

Built between 1866 and 1868, 24 Sussex Drive became public property in 1943. The government had extensive renovation work done on it between 1949 and 1951 to make it an official residence.

The 1,000 square-metre residence has three storeys and 34 rooms and is located on a two-hectare property overlooking the Ottawa River.

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Group says Canada owes $4B for climate cash BRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Canada’s “fair share” in the global effort to combat climate change includes slashing greenhouse gas emissions by one third over the next decade and sending $4 billion a year to help poorer countries, Climate Action Network Canada said Friday.

The startling appeal comes out of a meeting of developing countries this week in Bonn, Germany, ahead of a United Nations climate summit later this year in Paris.

Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau is promising a “strong position for Canada” and has invited all the premiers to the UN climate summit COP21 scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in Paris. But the lead-up

“While we prefer grants and worry about loans adding debt to developing country loads, I think we can be somewhat open about how this could occur.”

Louise Comeau, Climate Action Network

negotiations among almost 200 international partners suggest there is still a long way to go in hammering out a global consensus on the path forward.

Pre-summit negotiations wrapped up in Germany on Friday amid

acrimony over proposed changes to climate financing models agreed to at the last major climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009. There’s a new draft text for Paris, but negotiators now say it will take political will from national leaders or their ministers to bridge the remaining gaps.

The G77 plus China, a bloc of 134 developing nations, was incensed over the climate financing proposals and talk of sidelining “loss and damage” provisions from the main Paris agreement.

“It’s a matter of life and death, so we’re dead serious about it,” said Joyce Mxakato-Diseko, the chairwoman of the G77 and South Africa’s climate envoy, noting climate change “poses an existential risk” to many developing nations.

Recent hurricanes that hit the Philippines and Dominica set those countries back “decades,” Mxakato-Diseko said at a news conference in Bonn on Thursday.

While debate persists about the links between hurricanes and climate change, a study released last May in the journal Nature found that wind speeds in tropical cyclones increased from 1984 to 2012, although there were slightly fewer storms than scientists would expect had ocean and land temperatures not increased.

“In a year with greater ocean warmth,” the study found, atmospheric changes linked to climate change have been “thought to inhibit overall tropical cyclone occurrences but lead to greater intensities.”

American meteorologists are warn-

ing of a “potentially catastrophic landfall” as hurricane Patricia slams into southwestern Mexico late Friday, including tourist meccas Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta.

Under previous international agreements, Canada has provided $1.2 billion in total to support climate change action in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. Three quarters of that funding was in the form of loans, however, and Louise Comeau of Climate Action Network Canada says new funding ideally should not burden developing countries.

“While we prefer grants and worry about loans adding debt to developing country loads, I think we can be somewhat open about how this could occur,” Comeau said in an email.

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Gordon Lightfoot honoured with statue in hometown of Orillia, Ont.

Alberta names new envoy to head its U.S. office

‘Why me?’ was first question when singer learned of four-metre-high bronze tribute VICTORIA AHEARN THE CANADIAN PRESS

ORILLIA, Ont. — On a crisp autumn day with his hit “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” playing in the background, a humble Gordon Lightfoot reflected on his roots in Orillia, Ont., as a lakefront sculpture of the singer-songwriter was unveiled before hundreds of fans.

“When I found out they were working on it, I thought, ‘Why me?

What have I done that is so great that I should deserve to have a statue, a very artistic work done?”’ said Lightfoot, 76, in an interview shortly before the unveiling, which was also attended by his wife and daughter and the mayor.

Figurative artist Timothy Schmalz of St. Jacobs, Ont., created the four-metre-high bronze work called “Golden Leaves - A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot,” which is at Barnfield Point, on the Gordon Lightfoot Trail.

He said he designed it three years ago and got the funding for it — it cost about $500,000 to make — about a year and a half ago.

The sculpture depicts Lightfoot in his 20s sitting on the ground and looking down contemplatively as he plays an acoustic guitar. A wreath of leaves in the shape of a giant maple leaf artistically frames him. Some of the leaves depict scenes from songs on his 1975 album Gord’s Gold.

“I was raised singing in the choir and taking piano lessons, and my parents were good that way and they encouraged me,” said Lightfoot.

“I became a soloist and decided very early on that I wanted to be a performer, by the time I was perhaps eight or 10 years of age here in Orillia, and I’d already made that decision within myself.

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Gordon Lightfoot attends a ceremony unveiling a bronze statue in his honour at Barnfield Point, on the Gordon Lightfoot Trail, in Orillia, Ont., on Friday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

“I could feel it.”

The legendary troubadour said his parents loved Bing Crosby and would play his records, especially at Christmastime.

“I sort of got hooked on that. I said to myself, ’I wonder, is it really possible to succeed as a vocalist or a singer?’ I had never written any songs or anything like that, I was not particularly brilliant with my piano lessons.

“But I learned some stuff that came back to me later on.”

Lightfoot eventually left Orillia to take a music course in the U.S., but he returned and worked as a truck driver before moving to Toronto, where his career began within the

Yorkville folk scene with artists including Joni Mitchell.

With hits including “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown,” Lightfoot went on to win 17 Juno Awards in his career and picked up five Grammy nominations.

“Well, I still haven’t won the Grammy Award either,” he quipped with a laugh. “No, I’m just kidding. I don’t care. This is super special, to have a monument of this kind. And the location here, the Mariposa Folk Festival location, where I do the odd cameo still and performed here five times over the years . . . . It’s very appropriate.”

Asked if he has plans to write or record again, he suggested he

doesn’t, noting his main focus is his family and touring.

“In a funny kind of a way, I really don’t want to, because the responsibilities that I have accumulated for myself and my lifestyle through the years has been quite complicated. I have quite an extensive family and they require a lot of attention. And I’m not really under contract right now, so I’m just sort of taking it easy.

“I was under contract to record companies for 33 years.”

Schmalz, who has created large public monuments and religious sculptures for sites around the world, said he was thrilled to work on a Lightfoot piece.

EDMONTON — Alberta has new representative to the United States.

Gitane De Silva, a professional diplomat, will head up the province’s office in Washington.

Her job will be to promote Alberta’s economic and policy interests in key areas, including energy, environment and agriculture.

De Silva has served as Alberta’s deputy minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations since 2013. She previously worked in Canada’s Foreign Service for more than a decade, specializing in Canada-U.S. relations.

De Silva replaces Rob Merrifield, whose term expired in September.

Her appointment is effective Jan. 1.

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She has also served as director of Canada-U.S. advocacy and mission liaison and director of U.S. transboundary affairs at Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada in Ottawa.

“Ms. De Silva has the skill-set to represent Alberta’s interests in the United States,” Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement.

“Her deep knowledge of our province and her many years of experience working in the United States as a professional diplomat will serve Alberta well.”

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Decreased caucus a big challenge for the NDP New Democrats say they remain optimistic and resolute, even though their dreams of forming government were crushed in Monday’s election.

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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair held a teleconference meeting Friday with his 43 newly elected and re-elected New Democrat MPs. Insiders say he expressed regret that the party lost more than half its caucus in Monday’s vote, which saw the third-party Liberals vault past the NDP and Conservatives to win government.

“I think there’s a great appreciation for stability and (Mulcair’s) courage,” re-elected British Columbia MP Nathan Cullen said following the conference call.

The members of the NDP’s dramatically reduced caucus are “very resolute and optimistic,” he added.

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MONTREAL — Eight Quebec provincial police officers have been suspended with pay amid allegations of assault, sexual misconduct and other abuse against native women, Public Security Minister Lise Theriault said Friday.

Theriault also announced that the probe into the alleged incidents has been transferred to Montreal police amid criticism the provincial force was investigating its own members.

On Thursday, Radio-Canada’s investigative Enquete program broadcast interviews with various women, including one who alleged police officers took her to a remote road in northwestern Quebec and asked her to perform oral sex for $200.

Another told the show that officers allegedly broke her cellphone and threw her footwear into the snow before abandoning her about a kilometre from her house.

Theriault urged other women who have been abused or assaulted to report the incidents.

“It is reprehensible and unacceptable for a police officer to use his power to abuse people who are vulnerable,” said Theriault, who shed tears at her Quebec City news conference.

“If the criminal allegations are founded, those involved will be brought to justice . . .We cannot remain insensitive to these shocking and troubling revelations. We must act.”

Theriault also defended the original decision to not assign the investigation to a force other than the provincial police when her office first heard about the allegations last May. “Provincial police officers who are involved in these types of investigations are experienced men and women and their integrity must not be called into question,” she said.

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involved nine officers, one of whom has died, and include two of a sexual nature. There are also allegations of assault.

“Let’s be very clear on one thing,” he told a news conference. “The type of behaviour that allegedly took place is unacceptable and in no way reflects the values of Quebec provincial police.”

Chief David Kistabish, whose Abitibiwinni community is directly affected by the allegations, said it is imperative that prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau keep his election promise to launch a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women.

“As a father, I am disgusted,” he said of what he heard on the Radio-Canada program. “As an Algonquin, I am hurt, and as a chief, I am shocked.”

“As leader of my community, I will not sit idly by and I won’t be invisible.”

Kistabish was joined at a news conference in Val-d’Or by several people, including a man whose daughter disappeared from Abitibiwinni 17 months ago.

Johnny Wylde gave a heart-rending account of how the entire community misses Sindy Ruperthouse, who was 44 when she was last seen.

“Sindy is energetic and sympathetic and is a smiling and intelligent woman,” he said. “It’s hard to say what happened, where she is, why she disappeared. We have no answers to these questions.”

“We’ve had our daughter, sister, aunt, niece and friend ripped from us. We are no longer the same.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ PRISTINA, KOSOVO

Opposition’s tear gas blocks parliament work Kosovo’s Parliament on Friday suspended its session for the second time in a day when opposition lawmakers protesting the government’s agreements with Serbia and Montenegro threw tear gas canisters in the chamber.

The session was suspended for more than six hours after tear gas canisters were thrown, then resumed briefly until another canister was thrown from opposition lawmakers at the chamber following harsh debates.

Opposition lawmakers also hurled plastic water bottles at the Speaker and Cabinet ministers.

Police said no lawmaker was injured or arrested.

Security guards were forced to enter the chamber to prevent a physical clash among the lawmakers too.

◆ UNITED NATIONS People light candles outside Kronan school in Trollhattan, Sweden, on Friday, following a knife attack on Thursday. Two people were killed when a masked man wielding what looked like a sword stabbed four people at the school. [BJORN LARSSON ROSVALL / TT VIA AP]

Hundreds attend vigil in Sweden as stabbing attacks shock nation Country has seen rise in arson attacks on asylum centres as refugees numbers spike DAVID KEYTON AND MATTI HUUHTANEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TROLLHATTAN, Sweden — Hundreds of people lit candles Friday in the yard of a Swedish school where police said a 21-year-old masked man with a sword and a knife went on a rampage a day earlier, stabbing two to death and seriously wounding two others before being shot by police.

Police described the Thursday attack as a carefully organized, racist hate crime by a young man who methodically selected his victims in Trollhattan’s Kronan school, where most of the students are foreign-born.

The Scandinavian nation of 10 million, known for its welcoming attitude toward migrants, was shocked by the violence in the southern industrial town near Sweden’s second largest city, Goteborg.

“This is a black day for Sweden,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said of the country’s deadliest school attack.

“It is a tragedy that hits the entire country.”

Although violent crime is relatively rare in Sweden, there has been a spate of arson attacks on asylum centres in recent weeks as an influx of refugees has surged. Immigration officials estimate some 190,000 asylum-seekers will arrive this year, second only to Germany in Western Europe.

Nour Shilbaya, an 18-year-old former student at the school, took part in the candlelight vigil.

“Just like in Norway with (Anders Behring) Breivik. People get crazy ideas from the Internet.”

Abdul Asiz Kassim, Somali translator

“I’ve been living here my whole life.

It feels so hard to see all of this happening because it feels like a movie,” she said. “You can’t imagine that it is real.”

Handwritten signs in Swedish, Arabic and Persian stuck on windows and doors urged people to respect those who visited to pay their respects throughout the day.

Police investigator Thord Haraldsson told reporters that school surveillance video showed how the attacker roamed through the school with a sword and a sharp knife, selecting victims who were all “dark-skinned.”

Evidence appears to indicate he acted alone, Haraldsson said, adding that police found “a kind of suicide note” in his apartment. They said the assailant had considered the attack his final act.

The sword’s sheath was found inside a car parked near the school, Haraldsson said.

None of the victims has been identified by authorities, but local media cited relatives as saying those who died were 20-year-old Lavin Eskandar, a mentor at the school,

and Ahmed Hassan, a 15-year-old student.

Before the candlelight vigil, a few hundred people held an anti-racism protest outside the school, some carrying banners with the words “No to racism, no to hatred” and “Why?” “We do not have all the facts yet, but we know innocent people have died. Maybe because of the distorted debate in the society,” Imam Abdi Rizak Wabari said during Friday prayers at a nearby mosque.

Once Sweden’s busiest industrial city, a centre for heavy industries and car production, Trollhattan has been struggling with unemployment for years.

It now has Sweden’s highest jobless rate — 14.1 per cent in 2014 compared to 8 per cent for the whole country. In addition, the city’s rate of people with higher education is 20.9 per cent, below the national average of 25.1 per cent.

“This is a quiet place. A very nice place to live. It is not a racist place,” said Abdul Asiz Kassim, a 37-yearold Somali translator who came to Sweden 23 years ago. “What happened here yesterday . . . nobody can stop.

“Just like in Norway with (Anders Behring) Breivik. People get crazy ideas from the Internet,” Kassim said, referring to the anti-Muslim extremist who killed 77 people in a bombing and gun rampage in Norway in 2011.

Surveillance videos authenticated by police show the assailant posed

for photos with some students before beginning his deadly rampage. Several students thought the attacker was playing a Halloween prank.

Police said he entered the school through a cafe in its lobby that is open to the public. He stabbed two victims, then knocked on two classroom doors and stabbed two more victims.

Mohammed, who declined to give his last name, recalled how a classmate was stabbed when he opened the door to the attacker, whom he described as a man with “a Star Wars mask and a really big sword.”

“We all still thought it was a joke, Halloween and all. But then he lifted his shirt and his intestines were hanging out,” he told The Associated Press. “That’s when it became serious, we all panicked. We all started screaming.”

Panicked students fled the school as police and ambulances rushed in.

Authorities found a dead male teacher and three people seriously wounded — two boys and another male teacher. All the wounded had surgery but one of the students later died.

Hospital officials said that the other wounded student’s condition had improved Friday and was considered stable, while a 41-year-old teacher was in “serious but stable” condition.

Sweden’s last school attack was in 1961, when a 17-year-old opened fire at a school dance in the southwest, wounding seven students, one of whom died later.

UN chief says president position needs change Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday he has established a task force to recommend measures to make the office of the president of the UN General Assembly more transparent and accountable following the arrest of former assembly president John Ashe.

In his first public comments on the scandal since Ashe was arrested Oct. 6, Ban told reporters he was “really shocked and very concerned” at U.S. tax charges against the former GA president, who prosecutors say is linked to bribery allegations involving a Chinese billionaire. Ashe, a former Antiguan foreign minister, has pleaded not guilty and is free on $1 million bail.

The secretary-general ordered an audit on Oct. 8 of two foundations supporting UN activities whose leaders are linked to the bribery case.

◆ LIMA, PERU

Military officer got $10K bribe per cocaine plane A Peruvian army lieutenant arrested for allegedly letting small planes ferry cocaine unhindered out of the world’s No. 1 coca-producing valley was receiving bribes of $10,000 a planeload, the prosecutor said Friday.

Lt. Wilmer Eduardo Delgado Ruiz, 35, is the first Peruvian military officer arrested on drug trafficking charges in at least a decade.

Organized crime prosecutor Irene Mercado said conversations recorded in legally executed wiretaps indicated that he shared with his superiors the bribes he collected.

“That’s what’s understood,” she said. “In the conversations it’s understood that it was for everyone, for the bosses, for everyone.”

The AP report cited police, prosecutors, former military officers, current and former U.S. drug officials and an accused narco pilot who said local military commanders charged $10,000 for each smuggling flight.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ NEW ORLEANS

Military pilots disobeyed orders by flying into fog The pilots of a Black Hawk military helicopter that crashed last March, killing all 11 service members aboard, had disobeyed direct orders by flying into worsening weather, according to an investigation report.

The military said in June the crash was caused when the pilots became disoriented at night off the Florida coast. The training took place as dense fog rolled in from the Gulf of Mexico.

The full report, obtained by The Associated Press late Thursday through a public records request, said the pilots were not authorized to fly in such bad weather and others failed to challenge the over confidence of the lead pilot.

The report was a joint investigation by the Louisiana National Guard and U.S. Special Operations Command.

◆ BENGHAZI, LIBYA

Nine killed by mortars at anti-Islamist protest Islamists fired mortar rounds at an anti-Islamist demonstration in Libya’s second-largest city, Benghazi, on Friday, killing nine civilians and wounding at least 25, security and medical officials said.

The attack on nearly 1,000 protesters was launched from an Islamist-held area in northern Benghazi, Police Col. Fatahillah al-Hassi said.

It was the second deadly attack on an anti-Islamist rally this week, the officials added.

Libya slid into chaos following the 2011 toppling and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The internationally recognized government is confined to the country’s east, while a rival Islamist-led government holds the capital, Tripoli.

Friday’s demonstrators, who included Mayor Omar al-Barasi, were protesting against UN-brokered talks with Islamists and the special UN envoy for Libya.

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Israel lifts restrictions at key Muslim holy site after weeks of violence MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory — Muslim prayers at a major Jerusalem shrine, the epicentre of weeks of unrest, ended peacefully Friday after Israel lifted restrictions on worshippers in an apparent bid to ease tensions.

Meanwhile, violence continued in the West Bank where Palestinians threw a firebomb at an Israeli car, wounding a mother and her two children. An Israeli news site said one of the children, a four-year-old girl, was badly burned.

The decision to allow Muslims of all ages to pray at the site coincided with a diplomatic push by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to restore calm. This includes getting all sides to agree on the ground rules at the Muslim-run shrine and prevent future tensions.

Kerry is meeting over the weekend with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, custodian of the holy site, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after holding talks Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who just returned from talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, said that “despite the anger and the polarization, there is still time to step back from the brink.”

In Vienna, the Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., UN , European Union and Russia— issued a statement calling on Israel and the Palestinian leadership to show “maximum restraint and avoidance of provocative rhetoric and actions.”

Quartet envoys will travel to the region soon.

The Quartet statement was released after a meeting of high-ranking

Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded man during clashes with Israeli soldiers by the Israeli border with Gaza east of Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on Friday. [AP PHOTO]

members on the sidelines of Syria talks. It said calm is needed to “restore confidence and hope in the viability of a negotiated two-state solution” between Israel and the Palestinians, ending “the occupation that began in 1967” and resolving the status of Jerusalem.

The current round of violence erupted in mid-September, with clashes at the Jerusalem shrine, revered by Muslims and Jews, quickly spreading to the rest of the city, as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

On Friday, Palestinians threw a firebomb at a passing Israeli car, wounding a woman and her two children in the West Bank, the Israeli military said. The Haaretz daily said a four-year-old girl sustained burns on 35 per cent of her body while her

sister and mother were lightly wounded.

The attack came after a Palestinian stabbed a soldier in the West Bank and was shot by troops, the military said. The soldier and the Palestinian — a 16-year-old, according to Israeli media reports — were wounded.

Earlier, confrontations erupted on the Israel-Gaza border, with hundreds of Palestinians throwing stones and rolling burning tires toward the border fence, the military said.

Several dozen then rushed toward the fence and tried to damage it, the army said.

Two Palestinians were wounded by army fire, Gaza health officials said.

The military said soldiers initially fired warning shots.

In the past five weeks, 10 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian

attacks, mostly stabbings.

Forty-eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 27 said by Israel to be attackers and the rest in clashes.

Tension around the Jerusalem shrine has been one of the triggers of the current violence.

Israel has repeatedly denied Palestinian allegations that it is trying to change long-standing understandings under which Jews are allowed to visit, but not pray at the shrine.

Israel has accused Palestinian political and religious leaders of lying and inciting to violence.

Palestinians say their fears have been fueled by a rise in visits to the shrine by Jewish activists demanding prayer rights, including senior members of Netanyahu’s coalition government.

◆ BEIJING

China cuts interest rate for sixth time in a year China’s sixth interest-rate cut in a year shows how hard it is to keep the world’s second-biggest economy growing vigorously while attempting one of history’s most audacious economic transformations.

The country’s central bank on Friday announced cuts in benchmark interest rates on loans and deposits.

The moves by the People’s Bank of China are the latest sign that the world’s major central banks remain committed to unusually low rates to try to spur economic growth. This week, the head of the European Central Bank made clear that the ECB is weighing further steps to ease borrowing rates.

China’s deceleration is partly deliberate. Beijing wants to move the country away from an overreliance on exports and often-wasteful investment in housing, factories and infrastructure projects such as roads and high-speed trains.

MIDDLE EAST

Soldier fatally wounded in rescue bid is first U.S. combat death in war on Islamic State ROBERT BURNS AND VIVIAN SALAMA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The U.S. soldier fatally wounded in a hostage rescue mission in Iraq heroically inserted himself into a firefight to defend Kurdish soldiers, even though the plan called for the Kurds to do the fighting, Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.

“This is someone who saw the team that he was advising and assisting coming under attack, and he rushed to help them and made it possible for them to be effective, and in doing that lost his own life,” Carter told a Pentagon news conference.

Carter applauded Army Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, 39, of Roland,

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Oklahoma, who died of his wounds Thursday.

The defence chief gave the most extensive public description yet of what transpired during the

pre-dawn raid on an Islamic State prison compound near the town of Hawija. About 70 people, including at least 20 members of the Iraqi security forces, were freed. It was the first time U.S. troops had become involved in direct ground combat in Iraq since the war against the Islamic State was launched in August 2014, and Wheeler was the first U.S. combat death.

Carter said he expects U.S. forces to be involved in more such raids against Islamic State targets, describing it as part and parcel of what the Pentagon calls a “train, advise and assist” mission in support of Iraqi forces. At one point he said, “It doesn’t represent assuming a combat role” — but later, in noting that it

is difficult to see the full picture of what happened during the Hawija raid, he said: “This is combat. It’s complex.”

After his remarks at the Pentagon, other U.S. officials said the plan for the rescue mission had called for the U.S. special operations troops, who are members of the elite and secretive Delta Force, to stay back from the prison compound and let the Kurds do the fighting. The Americans transported the Kurds to the scene aboard five U.S. helicopters.

U.S. combat troops have rarely, if ever, participated directly in combat against IS fighters on the ground since the U.S. mission began in 2014.

The U.S. has mostly limited its role to training and advising.

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MIDDLE EAST

Russia strikes boost Syria refugee morale Vladimir Putin raised Moscow’s profile this week in the crisis, meeting with Bashar Assad at the Kremlin VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LATAKIA, Syria — Nearly a month of Russian airstrikes in Syria has boosted morale at a refugee camp in a suburb of this coastal city, where residents displaced by the long civil war had words of praise Friday for President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s bombing campaign.

Russia held talks in Vienna with the United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey — staunch foes of Syrian President Bashar Assad — but they remained deeply divided over his future. Secretary of State John Kerry said the countries’ representatives would meet again as early as Oct. 30 to discuss how to end the civil war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin raised Moscow’s profile this week in the Syrian crisis, meeting with Assad at the Kremlin, putting its military muscle on display for journalists, and engaging in diplomatic efforts by discussing a political settlement to the conflict. Russia is Assad’s prime backer, along with Iran.

Kerry said that despite the Russian and Iranian support, the U.S. and allied nations “understand that Assad creates an impossible dynamic for peace” — a situation that “has to be resolved.” But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow’s backing for Assad remains strong despite what he described as “rumours” that the current talks were aimed at eventually easing him from power.

Despite being unable to resolve their differences, Kerry said the Vienna meeting “was constructive and productive and succeeded in

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hand with Syria President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday. Assad has traveled to Moscow in his first known trip abroad since the war broke out in Syria in 2011 to meet his strongest ally. [ALEXEI DRUZHININ, RIA-NOVOSTI, KREMLIN POOL PHOTO VIA AP]

surfacing some ideas, which I am not going to share today, but which I hope have a possibility of changing the dynamic.”

Russia says the airstrikes it began Sept. 30 are targeting the Islamic State group and other extremists in Syria, while the West maintains the campaign is bolstering Assad against his foes.

The bombing runs originating from Hemeimeem air base in Assad’s

coastal stronghold of Latakia province are winning praise for Putin from displaced Syrians who are living in a camp near the provincial capital.

“I hope that with Russian pilots’ help, our military will advance and defeat terrorists so that we could return to our homes,” said Ahmad Attan, a camp resident who served in the Syrian military and was wounded in the fighting.

Another camp resident, Fadila

Mahmud Naasan, said her son served in the army and their family had to flee militant attacks on Assad supporters. She lost her leg because of illness while in a refugee camp.

During a tour arranged by the Russian Defence Ministry, a busload of Moscow-based journalists rolled into the camp next to a sports stadium, drawing shouts of “Putin, thank you!” from the inhabitants.

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CARIBBEAN

Former Haiti president in surprise appearance as campaigning heats up ahead of elections DANICA COTO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a surprise appearance Friday in the streets of Haiti’s capital to show support for one of the top presidential candidates in weekend elections.

Aristide, one of Haiti’s most popular and divisive figures, waved to a crowd while standing in a car next to Maryse Narcisse, leader of the Fanmi Lavalas political party founded by the former president. The two were surrounded by people reaching out to them and taking pictures.

Aristide, who fled Haiti on a U.S. plane in February 2004 after a violent uprising that led to his second ouster, has rarely left his house in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Tabarre since returning to the impoverished country in 2011. He appeared in front of his house last month to urge Haitians to vote for Narcisse, but

“I don’t see enough stability or security.

It’s like you have to be camouflaged to go out and vote. I’m not going.”

Guerrier Jean Kerby, voter

Friday was the first time he went into the streets to support her.

Aristide’s public appearance comes amid growing concerns that violence could disrupt Sunday’s elections.

A local human rights group warned that the country is not fully prepared for the vote despite assurances from the government that it will be an organized and peaceful process.

“We’re in a state of uncertainty,” said Pierre Esperance, general executive secretary of the National Human

Rights Defence Network. “We don’t know if police are going to be providing security . . . All these measures the government is announcing, they said that before Aug. 9, and we all saw what happened on Aug. 9.”

Haiti held the first round of legislative elections in August, but it was marred by delays and disorder, and voting was cancelled in 25 districts because of violence and intimidation.

The country is now holding the first-round presidential vote Sunday along with voting on legislative races and local offices. Candidates had until midnight Friday to campaign, and security forces were preparing for a crowd expected in downtown Port-au-Prince at a Friday night rally for Jude Celestin, one of the leading presidential candidates.

Pre-election violence has flared in recent weeks, with two pregnant women and at least 13 other people being killed in and around the Cite

Soleil slum in Haiti’s capital.

Officials with the National Human Rights Defence Network said police were unresponsive to the violence and said the police chief lacked full control over certain tactical units.

“The voters have lost complete confidence in participating in these elections,” said Edouard Paultre, who runs the Haitian Council of NonState Actors.

Among those voters is 19-year-old student Guerrier Jean Kerby, who said he would not participate in Sunday’s election despite having a favourite candidate he declined to identify.

“I don’t see enough stability or security,” he said. “It’s like you have to be camouflaged to go out and vote.

I’m not going.”

Authorities have said they will deploy 10,000 Haitian police across the country to ensure calm, along with some 2,500 UN soldiers.

of the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. It has remained firmly under government control and has largely been spared the destruction that most of the country has suffered in the conflict that began in 2011.

Putin said Thursday that Assad had told him he is ready to talk with his political foes. Putin also defended Russia’s bombing campaign, saying it would set the stage for peace talks.

Lawyer says booze behind Muslim attack THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A former Indiana University student who police say shouted racial slurs and tried to remove a Muslim woman’s headscarf while attacking her was “highly intoxicated” and did not target the woman because of her religion, the man’s attorney said Friday Defence attorney Katharine Liell said 19-year-old Triceten Bickford was drunk and may have had medical issues when he attacked the woman Oct. 17 as she sat at an outdoor cafe table with her nine-year-old daughter. Liell said Bickford is “horrified” by accounts of that attack and is grateful the 47-year-old woman wasn’t badly hurt.

Bickford has been charged with multiple felony charges.

He was scheduled to appear for an initial hearing Friday in court but Liell waived that hearing on Bickford’s behalf. Not guilty pleas are automatic in Indiana felony cases.

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MLB

Blue Jays’ run comes to an end in Game 6 Down a run with a runner on third in the ninth inning, Toronto unable to score as Royals clinch AL pennant SPORTS INSIDE Today’s issue

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T

he Toronto Blue Jays ran out of playoff lives Friday, exiting the post-season as the Kansas City Royals gutted out a tense 4-3 victory to win the American League Championship series four games to two.

Jose Bautista was a one-man wrecking crew for Toronto in a playoff thriller driving in three runs with a pair of homers included a two-run shot in the eighth inning that tied it at 3-3 when the Jays were down to their last five outs.

But the Royals answered with a run to end Toronto’s season and then held off the Jays in a nail-biting ninth.

“I’m definitely proud of our team,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said.

“It’s been a fun group to be around every day.”

“We’re all disappointed we’re not moving on, that’s baseball,” he added. “We put up our best fight today.”

Kansas City shortstop Alcides Escobar was unanimously selected the ALCS MVP. There was drama aplenty before a

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Toronto Blue Jays pinch runner Dalton Pompey looks away as Kansas City Royals celebrates their 4-3 win in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Friday in Kansas City. [AP PHOTO]

jacked-up Kauffman Stadium crowd of 40,494, including a 45-minute rain delay midway through the eighth.

When the game resumed, Toronto

closer Roberto Osuna was on the mound. The 20-year-old phenom had been lights out most of the season but he walked Lorenzo Cain, who

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came home on Eric Hosmer’s ensuing single for a 4-3 lead. Kendrys Morales singled to put men on first and second.

A double play ended the inning but the damage was done.

Russell Martin singled off closer Wade Davis to open the ninth. Dalton Pompey came on as a pinch-runner and promptly stole second and then third.

Kevin Pillar worked an eight-pitch walk and stole second, removing the double play opportunity as pinch-hitter Dioner Navarro struck out. Davis then struck out Ben Revere, leaving

MVP candidate Josh Donaldson as the Jays’ final out and Bautista on deck.

Donaldson, 0 for 4 on the night, grounded out to third in a tense at-bat to end the evening, leaving men on second and third.

For a while it looked like Bautista might rescue Toronto for a second series.

His three-run homer in the seventh inning of Game 5 — marked with a signature bat flip — proved to be the difference as the Jays defeated the Texas Rangers 6-3 to win the series.

The game was played 22 years to the day that Joe Carter’s walk-off home run against Phillies reliever Mitch Williams gave Toronto its second straight World Series title.

Bautista did his best to channel Carter this night.

His solo blast 428 feet in the fourth cut the Royals’ lead to 2-1. Then, with Toronto down to five outs, he slammed a two-run shot 387 feet that tied the game at 3-3.

There was no bat flip this time. He gently dropped the bat, with more work left to do.

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CFL

Loss came in Jays’ fifth mustwin game of playoffs

Harris, Lions crush Ticats 40-13

From BLUE JAYS, Page 19 It was Toronto’s fifth must-win game of the playoffs and it proved to be one too many for the AL East champions, ending a remarkable season that saw the Jays reload at the trade deadline and dominate after the all-star break.

But they could not dethrone the Royals, who ultimately won with timely hitting from a deep, diverse offence and a better bullpen.

Kansas City claimed its second straight AL pennant — and the fourth in franchise history — while earning a date with the waiting New York Mets in the World Series. The Royals lost the Series in seven games to San Francisco last year.

Ben Zobrist and Mike Moustakas homered for Kansas City. The Royals added an insurance run in the seventh.

Yordano Ventura and Kansas City’s bullpen held Toronto to seven hits.

The Royals had seemed in control after collecting an insurance run in the seventh inning and with its much-vaunted bullpen up and running.

FOX certainly through so.

With Kansas City up 3-1, the broadcaster flashed a graphic during the seventh inning that pre-emptively advertised the Royals playing the Mets on Tuesday in Game 1 of the World Series. The graphic pictured Kansas City’s Hosmer and New York’s Daniel Murphy on opposite sides, with the time of the game in between them.

But Ryan Madson walked Revere to open the eighth and, after Josh Donaldson struck out, Bautista sent the ball deep to left.

It was Bautista’s fourth homer of the playoffs, setting a franchise single post-season.

Bautista also tied a franchise record with his fourth straight playoff game with an RBI. The Jays got Edwin Encarncion to second after the Bautista homer but could not advance him further.

Toronto ace David Price gave up both Kansas City home runs, tying the major-league record for most playoff games allowing two or more homers with four, joining Jaret Wright and Tom Glavine, according to Sportsnet Stats.

Price settled down as the game wore on, putting in a fine shift only to get limited help from his offence.

“I hope that quiets some things down for David, you know what he’s been through this post-season,” Gibbons said.

“And it’s like I said before, he’s having a great career, he’s going to go on to have an even better career, and he stepped up tonight, he really did.”

Jonathan Jennings throws three touchdowns, Andrew Harris runs for two more JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Jonathon Jennings threw three touchdown passes in the first half and Andrew Harris ran in two more late as the B.C. Lions defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 40-13 on Friday night.

With the victory, the Lions (6-10) snapped a two-game slide while maintaining their hold on third in the CFL’s West Division.

Jeff Mathews threw two touchdowns for the Tiger-Cats (10-6), but struggled for long stretches against a stout B.C. defence that created four turnovers, including two interceptions by Ryan Phillips.

The Lions temporarily found themselves outside the playoff picture when the Montreal Alouettes defeated the Toronto Argonauts 34-2 earlier Friday, but came up with a big effort after going just 2-7 over their last nine.

The Alouettes also sit at 6-10 and are battling the Lions and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (5-11) for third place in the West by way of the crossover rule. Montreal must finish with more points than both B.C. and Winnipeg to earn the crossover.

After the Tiger-Cats grabbed an early 6-0 lead on Mathews’ 64-yard catch-and-run hookup with Luke Tasker that was followed up by a blocked extra point, the Lions forced the visitors into conceding a safety

B.C. Lions runningback Andrew Harris rushes for a touchdown past Hamilton Tiger-Cat Brandon Stewart, left, and Courtney Stephen, back, during a CFL game in Vancouver on Friday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

before getting their first big play of the night when Chris Rainey returned a punt 66 yards to Hamilton’s 20. Jennings found Shawn Gore on the next snap to make the score 9-6 after Richie Leone’s convert.

The Lions forced their first turnover later in the quarter on Hamilton’s 10-yard line when defensive

lineman Mic’hael Brooks recovered a Junior Collins fumble after a strip by Zach Minter.

Jennings again struck quickly, finding Emmanuel Arceneaux on the next play to make the score 16-6 with the extra point.

B.C. stretched the lead to 17 early in the second quarter when Jennings

found Bryan Burnham on a 46-yard pass to set up Rainey’s 25-yard circus TD that included a one-handed grab and a leap into the end zone.

Leone’s extra point made it 23-6 and he would add a punt single in the final minute to pad the lead to 18 at the break.

The Lions suffered an embarrassing 52-22 defeat in Hamilton in August and came in having blown late leads the last two weeks, but they didn’t look back after halftime and increased their advantage to 27-6 on a 31-yard Leone field goal to open the third quarter.

Phillips then picked off Mathews midway through the quarter before the Lions stopped the Tiger-Cats, who are fighting for first place in the East, on a third-and-short inside the host’s 40-yard line. But Hamilton defensive back Brandon Stewart intercepted Jennings in Tiger-Cats’ territory to set up Mathews’ 12-yard TD pass to Andy Fantuz that made it 27-13 with the convert.

Neither team could do much on offence from there until the Lions sealed it on a drive midway through the fourth quarter that culminated with Harris’ 15-yard touchdown run with 4:17 left to make the score 33-13 after Leone missed the extra point. Phillips then added his second interception of the night to set up Harris’ eight-yard TD run with under two minutes to go.

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Clippers beat up Capitals 7-2 at Frank Crane SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

Owen Hardy and Adam Pilotte scored their first ever B.C. Hockey league goals, Matt Hoover had a Gordie Howe hat trick, and the Nanaimo Clippers beat the Cowichan Valley Capitals 7-2 Friday night at Frank Crane Arena.

The Clippers, playing their only game in a span of 10 days, were able to throw everything they had at the Caps, who are off to a surprising 8-2-1-2 start.

“When you only have one game, it’s important to win it,” said Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp. “It sets the mood for the rest of the week.”

The Clippers set the mood early against Cowichan, building a 3-0 lead that included 16-year-old Hardy’s first goal with the team.

He took the puck from behind the net, walked out front and shelved it past Cowichan goalie Storm Phaneuf.

“Owen’s been playing really well,” Vandekamp said of the rookie Nanaimo native. “. . . He’s going to be a really good player in the future.

“I think getting that monkey off your back, as a player, can be that confidence booster you need.”

Hoover finished the game with two goals and two assists, and was kicked out of the game after his fight with Cowichan’s Carter Cochrane early

Nanaimo Clippers forward Owen Hardy, left, scored his first ever B.C. Hockey League goal Friday night against the Cowichan Valley Capitals. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

in the third period. Hoover and his linemates Sheldon Rempal and Devin Brosseau combined for eight points on the night, while Zach Court and Sean Buchanan also scored for the Clippers, who have won two straight games.

“The last few games, it’s been starting to come together a little bit where

we’ve been seeing a four-line dynamic,” said Vandekamp. “It’s something we want this team to be about.”

Rempal, with a goal and an assist, remains atop the BCHL scoring race with 30 points in 15 games, tied with Penticton Vees star Scott Conway.

The Clippers are off for the rest of the weekend but are back home for

Game 3 of a five-game home stand Wednesday against the Victoria Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies are currently in last place on the Island with six points.

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SPORTS 21

JUNIOR FOOTBALL

GOLF

Raiders, Sun set for Cullen Cup

Local pros off to Bermuda for national event

Okanagan was the only team to beat V.I. twice this year; coming off 75-7 semifinal win SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

DAILY NEWS

If any B.C. Football Conference team is going to beat the unbeaten Okanagan Sun in 2015, it’s going to have to be the Vancouver Island Raiders.

The two teams, coming off BCFC semifinal wins last week, lock horns Sunday for the Cullen Cup in Kelowna at 1 p.m.

Both took very different ways to get to the championship game — Okanagan scored a 75-7 win over the Kamloops Broncos in their semifinal, while the Raiders squeezed out a 28-27 victory over the defending Langley Rams.

The Sun have won both times the two teams have played, winning 27-3 in Nanaimo and 28-7 in Kelowna.

Jerome Erdman said on the BCFC coaches show that stopping Okanagan’s big plays is the key to slowing down what looks to be an unstoppable team.

“They do an outstanding job of creating big plays, of taking advantage of any turnovers and weaknesses from the other team and they jump on it and make big plays,” he said.

“Our goal is to stop those and make sure that they earn everything that they good.”

Also on the coaches show, Okanagan head coach Shane Beatty said there isn’t much to exploit on the Raiders defence — the Raiders are the only team this season to hold his team below 30 points.

“They’re coached well,” Beatty said

Morningstar golf pros Matt Cella and Kevin Oates will comprise one of 52 teams competing this weekend in Bermuda for the Nike Golf PGA Team Championship of Canada.

One of the world’s most iconic golf courses, The Mid Ocean Club, plays host to the tournament made up of PGA of Canada professionals in a 54-hole national championship that features different team formats for each day — four-ball, foursomes and scramble. Cella and Oates are one of six teams from B.C. qho qualified for the tournament, and the only one from Vancouver Island.

Oates is also the head golf coach of the Vancouver Island University Mariners, while Cella is a former player at VIU who now is a junior development coach for British Columbia Golf. The pair is also also the two most recent nominees for PGA of BC Coach of the Year from the Vancouver Island Zone. Matt in 2015, and myself in 2014.

“We are both very excited about this opportunity,” Oates said in an email.

Teams booked their ticket to Bermuda via PGA of Canada zone qualifiers that were held across the country throughout the summer, and the winning team will take home $12,000 of the $90,000 purse.

Vancouver Island Raiders quarterback Liam O’Brien attempts to fend off Okanagan Sun defenders in a B.C. Junior Football game Aug. 8 at Caledonia Park. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

of the Raiders. “I’m not saying Kamloops wasn’t coached well, but they had kids who gambled a lot. They got away with it for 10 games because they came up and made plays.

“V.I. on the other hand, (they’re a well-coached) team and their kids don’t gamble. They play it safe and their front seven is very aggressive.”

The Raiders are attempting to win their second conference championship in three years, while the Sun

haven’t won one since 2004.

The winner goes on to the Canadian Bowl, this year held on the home field of the Prairie Football Conference champion.

Erdman says he doesn’t intend on changing much from the system that has gotten his team to this point.

“I’m a firm believer that, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” he said.

“We’ve had them playing fairly well all season. We’re going to be true to

form and try to keep doing what we have been doing.”

The Raiders, though, will need to keep quarterback Liam O’Brien healthy, as the Sun have already sacked him 23 times this season.

The game will be streamed live on www.okanagansun.ca.

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Barsby stifles Carson Graham, 34-7 SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

The John Barsby Bulldogs are continuing to improve and sent a message Friday that the two-time defending champions might be coming for another one.

In a game filled with heated emotions, the No. 3 Bulldogs moved to 3-0 in conference play at Merle Logan Field with a 34-7 win over the No. 5 Carson Graham Eagles in a rematch of the 2013 B.C. championship game.

“I thought we played amazing,” said Grade 11 Barsby runningback Justis MacKay-Topley, who rushed for 109 yards and four touchdowns in the win.

“There’s definitely stuff to work on. But as a team, we improved dramatically from last week. I feel like we put it all together today.

It’s a good feeling.”

The Bulldogs only touchdown against came after an interception was called incomplete, a play the Barsby sideline clearly disagreed with.

Head coach Rob Stevenson said it was a validating experience for his team.

“It shows everybody that it’s

John Barsby Bulldogs runningback Justis MacKay-Topley evades a Carson Graham Eagles tackle Friday in a high school football game at Merle Logan Field. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

unmistakable that you’re doing the right things in practice,” Stevenson said.

“It makes you want to go back and work a little harder so you can do a bit more of a polished job the next time around. That game was very good for team confidence.”

After a scoreless first quarter,

the Bulldogs put two touchdowns on the board, both from MacKay-Topley in the second quarter and went into halftime up 14-7. MacKay-Topley scored his other two touchdowns in the third quarter, and the Bulldogs sealed the win with a touchdown pass from Nathanael Durkan to Alex Bonnetplume, the second

straight game those two hooked up for a major. Both Matt Cooley and Austin Olson ended up with interceptions for the Bulldogs.

“Offensively, we got some good rhythm, particularly in the second half,” Stevenson said.

“We might have broke their will to fight somewhere in the third quarter.”

There was pushing and shoving for most of the game, and Barsby defensive lineman Doyle Sosnowski was kicked in the head while on the ground late in the fourth quarter.

“We encountered some proud kids who maybe didn’t have some filters,” Stevenson said.

“Instead of engaging with them, we did not. One of the lessons of playing football is, there’s a time to be physical . . . and there’s a time to exercise some self control when the play’s over.”

The Bulldogs next play a non-conference game Friday on the road against the Holy Cross Crusaders.

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HOCKEY

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION Montreal Tampa Bay Ottawa

GP 8 8 7

W 8 5 3

L OTL SL 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 2

GF 30 27 23

GA Pts Home 9 16 3-0-0-0 23 11 2-1-0-0 22 8 0-1-0-2

Away 5-0-0-0 3-1-0-1 3-1-0-0

Last 10 Strk 8-0-0-0 W-8 5-2-0-1 W-1 3-2-0-2 L-3

L OTL SL 1 0 0 2 1 0 2 1 0

GF 29 22 24

GA Pts Home 18 12 3-1-0-0 16 11 3-1-1-0 20 9 3-1-1-0

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

Last 10 Strk 6-1-0-0 W-5 5-2-1-0 W-2 4-2-1-0 L-1

METROPOLITAN DIVISION Washington N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders

GP 7 8 7

W 6 5 4

WILD CARD Philadelphia Florida

6

Boston Detroit New Jersey Pittsburgh Carolina Toronto Buffalo Columbus

7 7 7 7 6 6 7 8

3 7

2 3

3 3 3 3 2 1 2 0

1 3

3 3 3 4 4 3 5 8

0 1

1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0

13 16 20 15

7

27 18 16 11 12 13 13 15

7 7 7 6 4 4 4 0

29 19 20 15 17 19 22 37

7

2-1-0-0 1-1-1-0 3-2-1-0 W-1 2-1-0-0 1-2-1-03-3-1-0 L-3 0-3-1-0 2-1-0-0 1-2-0-1 3-2-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-1-0-1 2-3-0-0 0-4-0-0

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

3-3-1-0 3-3-1-0 3-3-0-1 3-4-0-0 2-4-0-0 1-3-0-2 2-5-0-0 0-8-0-0

W-1 L-4 W-3 L-1 W-1 L-2 L-1 L-8

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Dallas Nashville St. Louis

GP 7 7 7

W 6 6 5

L OTL SL 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0

GF 25 24 21

GA 15 14 17

Pts Home 12 2-0-0-0 12 4-0-0-0 10 1-0-0-0

Away 4-1-0-0 2-1-0-0 4-2-0-0

Last 10 Strk 6-1-0-0 W-5 6-1-0-0 W-3 5-2-0-0 L-1

W 4 3 3

L OTL SL 3 0 0 2 2 0 3 1 0

GF 18 18 19

GA Pts Home 16 8 1-1-0-0 14 8 0-2-2-0 18 7 1-2-0-0

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

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

PACIFIC DIVISION San Jose Vancouver Arizona

GP 7 7 7

WILD CARD Minnesota Winnipeg

6

Chicago Los Angeles Edmonton Colorado Calgary Anaheim

7 6 8 6 7 6

4 7

1 4

4 3 3 2 2 1

1 2

3 3 5 3 5 4

0 1

0 0 0 1 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 1

17 17 23 17

9

17 10 19 16 15 6

8 6 6 5 4 3

16 15 24 17 27 17

9

2-0-0-0 2-1-1-0 4-1-1-0 W-1 1-1-1-0 3-1-0-04-2-1-0 L-2 3-1-0-0 2-3-0-0 1-2-0-0 1-2-1-0 1-4-0-0 1-2-0-1

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

4-3-0-0 3-3-0-0 3-5-0-0 2-3-1-0 2-5-0-0 1-4-0-1

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

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 Montreal 7 Buffalo 2 Boston 5 N.Y. Islanders 3 Tampa Bay 4 Winnipeg 3 (OT) Washington 7 Edmonton 4 Calgary 3 Detroit 2 (OT) Carolina at Los Angeles 7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV N.Y. Rangers 4 Arizona 1 Dallas 4 Pittsburgh 1 New Jersey 5 Ottawa 4 (SO) Minnesota 3 Columbus 2 Nashville 5 Anaheim 1 Chicago 3 Florida 2 Washington 3 Vancouver 2 Los Angeles 4 San Jose 1

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First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Coburn 1 (Johnson) 12:17.

2. Winnipeg, Ehlers 2 (Scheifele, Perreault) 16:28.

Penalties — Stafford Win (high-sticking) 0:44, Paquette TBL (roughing) 20:00, Little Win (roughing) 20:00.

Second Period 3. Tampa Bay, Paquette 1 (Condra, Hedman) 7:22.

4. Winnipeg, Stafford 3 (Lowry, Burmistrov) 10:58.

5. Tampa Bay, Namestnikov 3 (Paquette, Hedman) 11:19.

Penalties — Coburn TBL (tripping) 3:12.

Third Period 6. Winnipeg, Wheeler 4 (unassisted) 1:17 (sh).

Penalties — Enstrom Win (holding) 0:40, Hedman TBL (slashing) 12:31, Perreault Win (slashing) 12:31.

Overtime 7. Tampa Bay, Palat 2 (Stamkos, Hedman) :36.

Penalties — None.

Shots Tampa Bay 6 16 7 2—31 Winnipeg 11 8 16 1—36 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 5-2-1).

Winnipeg: Pavelec (LO, 2-2-1).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Tampa Bay: 0-2; Winnipeg: 0-1.

Referees — Brad Meier, Ian Walsh.

Linesmen — Scott Cherrey, Mike Cvik.

Att. — 15,294 at Winnipeg, MB.

CANADIENS 7, SABRES 2 First Period 1. Montreal, Weise 2 (Subban, Fleischmann) 14:35.

Penalties — Semin Mon (slashing) 5:03.

Second Period 2. Montreal, Gallagher 2 (Plekanec,

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Anaheim at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 7 p.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Nashville, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Florida at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Columbus at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Detroit at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

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

6XQGD\¡V JDPHV Minnesota at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

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

Los Angeles at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Second Period 4. Boston, Kemppainen 1 (Spooner) 16:13.

5. Boston, Pastrnak 2 (Eriksson) 18:16.

Penalties — Clutterbuck NYI (boarding) 19:47.

Third Period 6. Boston, Spooner 2 (Kemppainen) 8:09.

7. Boston, Krejci 5 (Eriksson, McQuaid) 17:35 (en).

8. N.Y. Islanders, Hickey 2 (Clutterbuck) 18:07.

Penalties — Boychuk NYI (goaltender interference) 12:28, Bench NYI (Bench) 19:27.

Shots Boston 8 11 7—26 N.Y. Islanders 18 5 3—26 Goal — Boston: Gustavsson (W, 2-0-0).

N.Y. Islanders: Halak (L, 2-1-0).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Boston: 0-3; N.Y. Islanders: 1-2.

Referees — Kelly Sutherland, Kevin Pollock. Linesmen — Shane Heyer, Derek Amell.

Att. — 13,113 at Brooklyn, N.Y..

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First Period 1. Detroit, Nyquist 3 (Zetterberg, Kronwall) 7:38 (pp).

2. Calgary, Giordano 2 (Gaudreau, Hudler) 11:02.

3. Detroit, Smith 1 (Larkin, Pulkkinen) 12:40 (pp).

Penalties — Engelland Cal (holding) 6:57, Giordano Cal (delay of game) +XGOHU &DO ÀJKWLQJ )HUUDUR 'HW ÀJKWLQJ )HUODQG &DO (roughing) 18:31, Ericsson Det (roughing) 18:31, Colborne Cal (cross-checking) 20:00.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Quincey Det (interference) 14:21, Quincey Det (interference) 17:47.

Third Period 4. Calgary, Colborne 1 (Giordano, Hudler) 18:48.

Penalties — Monahan Cal (cross-checking) 3:21, Pulkkinen Det (tripping) 3:56.

Overtime 5. Calgary, Giordano 3 (Gaudreau, Monahan) 3:12.

Penalties — None.

Shots Detroit 13 4 9 3—29 Calgary 8 16 13 3—40 Goal — Detroit: Howard (LO, 2-1-1).

Calgary: Hiller (W, 2-2-0).

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

Referees — Rob Martell, Kyle Rehman.

Linesmen — Steve Barton, Ryan Gibbons.

Att. — 19,158 at Calgary, AB.

CAPITALS 7, OILERS 4

First Period 1. Washington, Kuznetsov 1 (Oshie, Ovechkin) 3:05.

2. Edmonton, Pouliot 1 (Yakupov, Subban) :45.

McDavid) 10:59.

3. Buffalo, Moulson 2 (Reinhart, Franson) 3. Washington, Backstrom 4 (Carlson, 4:49. %XIIDOR 2¡5HLOO\ )UDQVRQ SS Oshie) 12:07 (pp).

4. Edmonton, Klinkhammer 1 (Hall, 5. Montreal, Mitchell 3 (Subban, Markov) Nugent-Hopkins) 15:00.

13:31.

5. Washington, Johansson 2 (Williams, 6. Montreal, Markov 1 (Plekanec) 18:22 Backstrom) 19:39. (pp).

Penalties — Fleischmann Mon (interferPenalties — Orpik Wash (slashing) 6:11, ence) 10:59, Ennis Buf (roughing) 18:18, Ference Edm (roughing) 11:32.

Gorges Buf (interference) 19:11.

Second Period Third Period 6. Edmonton, McDavid 5 (Sekera, 7. Montreal, Gallagher 3 (Pacioretty, Letestu) :36 (pp).

Markov) :27 (pp).

7. Washington, Kuznetsov 2 (Carlson, 8. Montreal, Pacioretty 6 (Markov, Orpik) 6:17.

Plekanec) 11:11.

8. Washington, Burakovsky 2 (Kuznetsov, 9. Montreal, Weise 3 (Markov, DesharOvechkin) 9:26. nais) 15:23.

9. Washington, Williams 1 (Niskanen, Penalties — Subban Mon (tripping) 2:54, Kuznetsov) 11:49.

Franson Buf (roughing) 7:40, Beaulieu 10. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 3 (SlepyMon (holding) 11:33. shev) 14:42.

Shots Penalties — Kuznetsov Wash (hooking) Montreal 11 7 8—26 0:12, McDavid Edm (tripping) 7:23, Orpik Buffalo 11 11 14—36 Wash (tripping) 9:55, Hall Edm (holding) Goal — Montreal: Condon (W, 2-0-0).

11:29, Kuznetsov Wash (interference) Buffalo: Johnson (L, 2-5-0).

16:16.

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Montreal: Third Period 2-3; Buffalo: 1-4.

11. Washington, Kuznetsov 3 (BuraReferees — Francis Charron, Brian kovsky, Carlson) 16:59 (pp).

Pochmara. Linesmen — David Brisebois, Penalties — Wilson Wash (hooking) Steve Miller.

8:21, Beagle Wash (tripping) 10:13, Att. — 18,214 at Buffalo, N.Y. Ference Edm (holding) 16:01.

Shots Washington 10 9 7—26 First Period Edmonton 9 9 5—23 1. Boston, Connolly 2 (Marchand, Goal — Washington: Grubauer (W, 1-0Bergeron) 9:51.

0). Edmonton: Nilsson (L, 1-2-0); Talbot 2. N.Y. Islanders, Bailey 3 (Tavares, (2nd period 2nd period).

Strome) 14:08 (pp).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV — Wash3. N.Y. Islanders, Cizikas 1 (Boychuk, ington: 2-4; Edmonton: 1-6.

Martin) 15:27.

Referees — Dave Jackson, Brad Penalties — Marchand Bos (hooking) Watson. Linesmen — Mark Wheler, Kiel 0F4XDLG %RV ÀJKWLQJ

Murchison.

0DUWLQ 1<, Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ 0LOOHU %RV Att. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 16,839 at Edmonton, AB. (delay of game) 17:45.

BRUINS 5, ISLANDERS 3

WHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP Prince Albert 12 Brandon 10 Moose Jaw 11 Saskatoon 11 Regina 11 Swift Current 12

W 9 7 7 5 6 4

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 2 0 1 51 40 19 1 0 2 50 21 16 2 1 1 47 32 16 3 3 0 40 44 13 5 0 0 33 39 12 6 2 0 33 41 10

CENTRAL DIVISION GP Red Deer 13 Lethbridge 9 Calgary 12 Medicine Hat 10 Edmonton 11 Kootenay 13

W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 9 4 0 0 51 36 18 7 2 0 0 42 24 14 6 5 0 1 31 43 13 4 5 1 0 33 40 9 3 6 2 0 28 39 8 2 10 1 0 26 55 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP Victoria 11 Kelowna 11 Prince George 9 Vancouver 10 Kamloops 10

W 7 7 5 4 3

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 4 0 0 35 24 14 4 0 0 45 41 14 4 0 0 27 21 10 4 1 1 37 46 10 7 0 0 26 38 6

U.S. DIVISION Seattle Tri-City Everett Spokane Portland

GP 8 10 6 10 8

W 6 4 4 3 2

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 1 1 0 31 20 13 5 1 0 33 36 9 2 0 0 17 17 8 5 1 1 28 43 8 6 0 0 21 25 4

)ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Saskatoon 4 Kootenay 3 (OT) Lethbridge 3 Swift Current 2 (OT) Red Deer 3 Medicine Hat 1 Prince Albert 7 Moose Jaw 2 Calgary at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Brandon at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Lethbridge at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Calgary at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

6XQGD\¡V JDPHV Prince George at Vancouver, 3 p.m.

Prince Albert at Regina, 4 p.m.

Brandon at Portland, 6 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION GP W L Penticton 14 13 1 Salmon Arm 13 8 3 Vernon 15 8 6 West Kelowna 14 7 5 Merritt 16 6 10 Trail 14 5 9

T OTL GF GA Pt 0 0 59 28 26 2 0 56 36 18 0 1 93 42 17 0 2 48 46 16 0 0 53 70 12 0 0 43 59 10

ISLAND DIVISION GP W Powell River 15 10 Cowichan Valley13 8 Nanaimo 14 8 Alberni Valley 12 4 Victoria 13 2

L 5 2 6 7 9

T OTL GF GA Pt 0 0 49 32 20 1 2 50 73 19 0 0 54 44 16 0 1 27 47 9 0 2 29 44 6

MAINLAND DIVISION Langley Wenatchee Chilliwack Coquitlam Surrey Prince George

GP 14 14 15 15 13 14

W L 9 5 8 4 7 5 6 6 4 9 3 10

T OTL GF GA Pt 0 0 51 36 18 1 1 46 34 18 1 2 53 45 17 1 2 40 60 15 0 0 33 55 8 0 1 31 64 7

)ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Cowichan Valley at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

Coquitlam at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at Surrey, 7 p.m.

West Kelowna at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Alberni Valley at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

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

Trail at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Alberni Valley at Langley, 6 p.m.

Victoria at Vernon, 6 p.m.

Penticton at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Coquitlam at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Surrey at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

6XQGD\¡V JDPHV Salmon Arm at Merritt, 2 p.m.

Victoria at West Kelowna, 2:30 p.m.

Alberni Valley at Chilliwack, 5 p.m.

Surrey at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, October 28 Powell River at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Thursday, October 29 Wenatchee at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Powell River at Victoria, 7 p.m.

Friday, October 30 Surrey at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

Alberni Valley at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Penticton, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee at Prince George, 7 p.m.

West Kelowna at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

Trail at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at Victoria, 7 p.m.

Coquitlam at Langley, 7:15 p.m.

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MLB PLAYOFFS FOOTBALL

LATE THURSDAY

CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES CFL (Best-of-7 series; x â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if necessary)

AMERICAN LEAGUE

x-Hamilton Ottawa x-Toronto Montreal

KANSAS CITY VS. TORONTO (Kansas City wins 4-2) Friday's results Kansas City 4 Toronto 3 Wednesday's result Toronto 7 Kansas City 1

x-Edmonton x-Calgary B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

NEW YORK VS. CHICAGO (New York wins 4-0) Wednesday's result New York 8 Chicago 3

(Best-of-7 series) Tuesday, Oct. 27: at Kansas City Wed., Oct. 28: at Kansas City Friday, Oct. 30: at New York Saturday, Oct. 31: at New York x-Sunday, Nov. 1: at New York x-Tuesday, Nov. 3: at Kansas City x-Wed., Nov. 4: at Kansas City

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Bautista (2). SBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pompey 2 (2), Pillar (2), Rios (1).

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NORTH Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore

WEST Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Dallas Washington

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

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W 5 4 3 2

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

6XQGD\ V JDPHV New York at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m.

D.C. at Columbus, 5 p.m.

New England at New York City, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Portland, 7 p.m.

Salt Lake at Seattle, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Kansas City, 7 p.m.

Houston at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

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Sea â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lockett 43 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 2:44.

Third Quarter SF â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FG Dawson 35, 1:21.

Fourth Quarter Sea â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FG Hauschka 46, 9:23.

A â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 70,799 at Santa Clara.

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Sea 21 388 41-176 212 5-11 1-20 0-0 18-24-2 5-23 4-46.8 0-0 6-50 38:05

SF 8 142 15-61 81 1-9 4-104 2-0 13-24-0 6-43 9-43.3 1-0 4-33 21:55

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Kansas City ab Escobar ss 4 Zobrist 2b 3 Cain cf 3 Hosmer 1b 4 Morales dh 4 Gore pr-dh 0 Moustakas 3b 4 Perez c 4 Gordon lf 3 Rios rf 3 Orlando pr-rf 0 Totals 32 100 020 000 11x

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Friday's result Montreal 34 Toronto 2 Hamilton at B.C. 6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV Ottawa at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.

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Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m.

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

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Carolina, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Green Bay 0RQGD\ V JDPH Baltimore at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 29 Miami at New England, 8:25 p.m.

RUSHING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Seattle, Lynch 27-122, Rawls 6-32, Wilson 7-20, Jackson 1-2.

San Francisco, Hyde 11-40, Bush 4-21.

PASSING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Seattle, Wilson 18-24-2351-2, Williams 1-1-16-0-0. San Francisco, Kaepernick 13-24-124-0-0.

RECEIVING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Seattle, Lockett 5-79, Kearse 3-64, Jackson 4-33, Graham 2-31 Baldwin 2-19, Rawls 2-9. San Francisco, Davis 4-61, Boldin 3-39, Bush 3-13, Celek 1-8, Patton 1-2, McDonald 1-1.

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KREMLIN CUP BY BANK OF MOSCOW

At Moscow, Russia Friday, Oct. 23 results MEN 6LQJOHV 4XDUWHUĂ&#x20AC;QDOV Roberto Bautista Agut (2), Spain, def.

Lucas Pouille, France, 6-4, 6-2.

Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, def. Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, 6-3, 6-2.

Philipp Kohlschreiber (4), Germany, def. Robin Haase, Netherlands, 6-2, 6-4.

Marin Cilic (1), Croatia, def. Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, 6-2, 6-1.

WOMEN 6LQJOHV 6HPLĂ&#x20AC;QDOV Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def.

Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-4.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, def. Darya Kasatkina, Russia, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.

ATP IF STOCKHOLM OPEN

At Stockholm, Sweden Friday, Oct. 23 results MEN 6LQJOHV 4XDUWHUĂ&#x20AC;QDOV Jack Sock (7), United States, def.

Gilles Simon (3), France, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5).

Richard Gasquet (2), France, def.

Jeremy Chardy (6), France, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).

Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def.

Gilles Muller (8), Luxembourg, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-3.

Tomas Berdych (1), Czech Republic, def. Grigor Dimitrov (5), Bulgaria, 7-5, 6-4.

ERSTE BANK OPEN

At Vienna, Austria Friday, Oct. 23 results MEN 6LQJOHV 4XDUWHUĂ&#x20AC;QDOV Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, def. Ivo Karlovic (7), Croatia, 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-5).

Steve Johnson, United States, def.

Kevin Anderson (2), South Africa, 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.

David Ferrer (1), Spain, def. Fabio Fognini (8), Italy, 6-4, 6-2. *DHO 0RQĂ&#x20AC;OV )UDQFH GHI /XNDV Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 6-3.

WTA BGL BNP PARIBAS LUXEM BOURG OPEN

$W /X[HPERXUJ /X[HPERXUJ Friday, Oct. 23 results WOMEN 6LQJOHV 4XDUWHUĂ&#x20AC;QDOV Mona Barthel, Germany, def. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, 6-3, 6-4.

Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, def.

Laura Siegemund, Germany, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.

Misaki Doi, Japan, def. Jelena Jankovic (5), Serbia, 7-6 (7-4), 7-5.

Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, def.

Barbora Strycova (7), Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4.

MLS

Whitecaps hope to clinch home playoff game Sunday JIM MORRIS THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Vancouver Whitecaps head into Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final Major League Soccer regular-season game with a chance to chart a new playoff course.

A loss could send them down a road they have unsuccessfully travelled before.

A positive result against the Houston Dynamo at BC Place Stadium means Vancouver can finish as high

as second in the tightly contested Western Conference. That guarantees the Whitecaps their first home playoff game.

They also can slip as far down as sixth place and be forced to begin the playoffs in a one-game knockout match on the road. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a first,â&#x20AC;? goalkeeper David Ousted said Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew it was going to be this tight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From second to sixth is a big swing.â&#x20AC;?

Vancouver is third in the West with 50 points from a 15-13-5 record. The defending MLS champion L.A. Galaxy are second with 51 points (14-10-9).

FC Dallas leads the conference with 57 points (17-10-6).

A win over Houston would secure Vancouver a top-four spot. To finish second, and get a first-round bye, the Whitecaps need a win or a tie. They also need help from Sporting Kansas City, who hosts L.A., and have Portland (14-11-8, 50 points) and Seattle

(14-13-6, 48 points) lose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now we are trying to hope for that second place,â&#x20AC;? said defender Jordan Harvey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know there are other results that have to happen for that, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s within our grasp. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are in the playoffs, which is a huge accomplishment. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about seeding right and doing the right thing.â&#x20AC;?

Six teams from each of the two MLS conferences reach the playoffs.

The first round has the third-seed-

ed team hosting the sixth seed while the fourth seed hosts the fifth in a single match to determine the conference semifinalists. The conference semifinals and finals are two-game aggregate series.

The MLS final is a single game.

The Whitecaps have made the playoffs twice in franchise history. Both times they were forced to play on the road in one-game knockouts, losing 2-1 to L.A. in 2012 and 2-1 to Dallas last year.

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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.

MONDAY, OCT. 26

6:30- 7:15 p.m. Brother XII tour. Downtown walking tour. Pre-registration is required 250-753-1821, cost is $10.

THURSDAY, OCT. 29

FRIDAY, OCT. 30 6:30-8: p.m. Nanaimo Museum Lantern Tours $15, pre-registration required. Email program@nanaimomuseum.ca or call 250-753-1821 for details.

SUNDAY, OCT. 25 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

TheatreOne’s Fringe Flicks season features four new independent films this autumn at the Avalon Cinema.

TUESDAY, OCT. 27 10 a.m.- Noon Nanaimo Science and Sustainability Society’s Science Studio. Kids are encouraged to explore the many interactive displays and activities at their leisure. Departure Bay Eco School 3004 Departure Bay Rd. nanaimoscience.amie@gmail.com 250-619-2413.

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 8 p.m. Emerald Specks, Honeywell live at the Longwood.

The Longwood Brew Pub presents a free, weekly live concert series every Thursday.

SATURDAY, OCT. 31 4-5 p.m. Halloween Trick or Treating for children 12 and under, draws for $25 gift cards, proceeds to Crime Stoppers Details at nanaimonorth.com. Nanaimo North Town Centre, 4750 Rutherford Rd THURSDAY, NOV. 5 8 p.m. Doors open for GOB, with Boids at

The Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cres. Tickets $20 plus charge in advance, $25 at the door and on sale at Lucid, The Dog’s Ear, Desire Tattoo, The Queen’s or at ticketzone.com.

MONDAY, NOV. 9 7:30 p.m. Matthew Good with guest: Scott Helman play The Port Theatre. Tickets $45 at The Port Theatre Box Office, www.porttheatre. com or call 250-754-8550.

TUESDAY, NOV. 10 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ladysmith Fall Farmer Market, where local producers sell their goods directly to the public, at 49th Parallel Grocery.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) You can sit on your feelings for only so long. Even if you are not aware of them, signs of your distress will emerge from out of the blue. Your hostility could push someone away.

Stop and think about what the true cause of this anger or frustration is.

Tonight: Not to be found.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You’ll want to focus on a long-term goal.

You might have difficulty with a child or someone who might need you at the moment. Your high-voltage energy keeps emerging. Be careful with a new friend, as your temper could emerge. Tonight: Throw a party.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You might want to spend time with an older relative. You will feel good about spending the day with this person. Someone you care about might be overly assertive or determined to have his or her way, should anyone try to tromp on his or her plans. Tonight: In the limelight.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could be overworked and determined to have your way right now.

It might be a good idea for you to plan a mini-getaway, where you can relax and have a great time. A change of scenery helps you gain perspective. Speak your mind.

Tonight: With friends.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You could be exhausted by everything you feel you must get done right now.

A partner could be pushing you very hard to get his or her way. Is it

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worth the struggle to say no? What if you said yes? Be careful about spending. Check out prices carefully. Tonight: Be a friend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Make a point of getting past a problem quickly. Others will make it clear that they want your company.

Don’t fight the inevitable. The more you go along with the crowd, the happier you will be. Let them call the shots today. Tonight: Relish the moment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) One-onone relating takes you down a path that could please you. Remember to honor the initial bond you developed with someone. You could find that you are more irritable than you have been in quite a long time. Take a walk if need be.

Tonight: Keep a secret.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You could be in a situation that you would prefer not to be involved with. You have a great sense of direction when you are in such situations. Just follow your instincts.

Not everything will turn out as you might like, but do you really care?

Tonight: Wild thing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You have a way about you that poses a threat to an older person or relative. A supervisor also could be reactive and cause a problem.

Be indulgent, and remain sure of yourself. You will see how fast the problem works itself out. Tonight: Stay close to home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You have all these ideas of what you think you should or might want to do. Don’t sell yourself short, but be sure to recognize your limits. Be

careful when traveling because you could be accident-prone. If you’re tired, slow down. Tonight: Choose a fun spot to meet a friend.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You could be more in tune with a situation that surrounds your finances than you realize. You might feel drained by an ongoing situation that you can’t seem to get under control. Know when you have had enough, and walk away if need be. Tonight: Know the costs of a decision.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You will achieve what you want to achieve. Though you might have thought you wanted to visit a certain individual, after you hear all of his or her complaining and draining comments, you are likely to change your mind. Join friends at a get-together. Tonight: On top of your game.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Oct. 24) This year you might wonder which way you should proceed. Many of your friends have very strong opinions, and they won’t hesitate to let you know when you have gone too far. Be aware that you will go exactly where you want to be. If you are single, you will meet someone of interest through a friend. You will experience a lot of highs and lows with this person. If you are attached, the two of you act like new lovers more often than not. You might start going away for weekends together and/or re-creating some of your old dates together.

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Oprah pays $43.2 million for stake in Weight Watchers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey, who has publicly struggled with her weight for decades, is going on a diet again. But this time she stands to gain a lot of money from her efforts.

Weight Watchers said this week that it signed a five-year deal with the former talk show host. Winfrey, a co-owner of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, is paying about $43.2 million for a 10 per cent stake in the weight loss company.

The deal is already paying off: Weight Watchers shares doubled after the partnership was announced, earning Winfrey more than $40 million on paper.

Winfrey will use the Weight Watchers mobile app and work with a personal coach, the company said. She has also agreed to let Weight Watchers use her name, image and likeness for its products and services. Additionally, she will make appearances on

the company’s behalf.

“Weight Watchers has given me the tools to begin to make the lasting shift that I and so many of us who are struggling with weight have longed for,” Winfrey said in a statement. “I believe in the program so much I decided to invest in the company and partner in its evolution.”

Weight Watchers is no stranger to celebrities. It has paid singers Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Hudson to promote its plan. But the deal with Winfrey is a shift to focus on overall health and wellness, rather than just dropping pounds.

“We are expanding our purpose from focusing on weight loss alone to more broadly helping people lead a healthier, happier life,” said Weight Watchers President and CEO Jim Chambers said in a statement.

The company has been hurt by the popularity of fitness trackers and other health apps. MyFitnessPal lets users track steps, workouts

and the amount of calories they eat for free on its app. Buying a FitBit tracker unlocks similar free online tools. Weight Watchers charges for its online food tracking, and weekly meetings and weigh ins have been a hallmark of its plan. Its shares had been down 73 per cent for the year through Friday. The company’s earnings have fallen every year since 2011.

To boost its earnings, the company announced $100 million in cost cuts earlier this year.

Winfrey’s weight has yo-yoed over the years, and she’s been very open publicly about her struggles with dieting.

In fact, weight was a frequent subject of her talk show, which ended nearly five years ago after 25 years on the air. In 1988, a thin Winfrey famously walked out on stage wheeling 67 pounds of fat in a wagon, representing the weight she lost. But her weight has fluctuated over time.

Her weight was still an issue as “The

Oprah Winfrey Show” came to an end.

She told the TV interviewer Barbara Walters that one of her goals was to “make peace with the whole weight thing.”

Since then, Winfrey has talked about being uncomfortable with being the subject on the cover of her magazine because of her weight gain.

She now can trade weight loss tips with her best friend, Gayle King. The host of TV news program “CBS This Morning” told her Instagram followers five weeks ago that she joined Weight Watchers. Last week, King indicated in an Instagram post that she had lost more than seven pounds on the plan.

Representative for Winfrey and King did not respond to requests for an interview. Meanwhile, Weight Watchers is hoping to tap into Winfrey’s ability to turn ordinary products into the latest trend.

A stamp of approval from Winfrey during her talk show was powerful.

Books she recommended skyrocketed up bestseller lists and products shown on her holiday gift guide episodes would sometimes sell out.

But it might be harder to get her message across now. “She has less contact with people on a daily basis,” said Craig Garthwaite, an assistant professor of strategy at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. In 2012, for example, Winfrey relaunched her book club, but it doesn’t hold the same power. “Most people don’t know that it exists,” said Garthwaite.

Besides the OWN network, Winfrey reaches fans through O, The Oprah Magazine and Oprah.com. She also has a strong social media following with more than 29 million followers on Twitter, 11 million on Facebook and 4 million on Instagram.

The Weight Watchers endorsement is a departure for Winfrey. Throughout her talk show reign, Winfrey did not make money off endorsements.

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Simon Cowell replaces Stern on ‘America’s Got Talent’ show NEW YORK — Simon Cowell is heading back in front of the cameras as a replacement for Howard Stern as a judge on NBC’s summer-

time series “America’s Got Talent.”

NBC announced Thursday that Cowell, one of the show’s producers and creators of the format, will start next season. The show has remained one of summer’s most popular programs even as ratings for other reality shows have faded.

Cowell’s caustic commentary on Fox’s “Amer-

ican Idol” is what launched him into U.S. stardom. He left “American Idol” after the 2010 season, when it was still one of television’s top shows, and will begin on “America’s Got Talent” shortly after “American Idol” goes off the air for the final time.

“What I love about this show is that it’s open to absolutely anyone,” Cowell said. “America

has some fantastic talent just waiting to be discovered, and I would like that talent to come to our show, including any dogs who can sing.”

Besides Stern, other judges this past season were Howie Mandel, Mel B and Heidi Klum.

NBC has not announced whether the other judges will return.

— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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After all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about Ben Hutton, the Vancouver Canucksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rookie defenceman who always seems to be smiling.

And why shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t he? All the 22-year-old Hutton has done is defy the odds by coming straight out of college â&#x20AC;&#x201D; save four games with the Utica Comets of the AHL late last season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to earn a National Hockey League roster spot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have always been a happy guy,â&#x20AC;? Hutton says with, yes, a big smile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get that a lot from people, that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always smiling.

I tend to smile a lot, apparently.

Actually, when I got my teeth knocked out in junior, they started calling me Smiley. I have had that nickname a few times.

You can definitely tell when I am happy.â&#x20AC;?

Which seems to be just about all the time. His mom and dad, Janet and Jim, say their son has always been a people person who loves life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really with Ben, what you see is what you get,â&#x20AC;? Janet Hutton says over the phone from the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in Prescott, Ont. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no pretence there. If you see him smile, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because he is happy. That is who he is.â&#x20AC;?

Hutton was the surprise of training camp for the Canucks.

Defencemen, even the best ones, normally take some time to develop.

Mattias Ohlund, for example, spent three seasons in the Swedish Elite League before joining the Canucks. Fellow Swede Alex Edler spent a season in Kelowna in major junior and the better part of a year in the minors before earning a roster spot in Vancouver.

More recently, Chris Tanev played parts of three seasons in the AHL before he found a full-time spot on the Vancouver blue-line.

Hutton is just seven games into his NHL career and realizes that anything can happen, but he has shown no signs that he does not belong.

The past few weeks, beginning with last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Young Stars tourney in Penticton, are something of a blur for Hutton. He has found it difficult to process all that has happened so quickly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has been a whirlwind,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coming into camp I just wanted to play my game, obviously I wanted to make the team, but I just wanted to play my game and show them that I could play. At the start I was a little bit like, holy cow, look at this, this is Daniel Sedin, or is it Henrik, you know what I mean?

I was star-struck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then I started practising with them and playing a few games with them and it was like, wow, I

Vancouver Canucks defenceman Ben Hutton is checked into the boards by St. Louis Blues forward Joel Edmundson during tan NHL game in Vancouver on Oct. 16. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Brad Ziemer Vancouver Sun can skate with these guys, I feel pretty good. I got more and more confident and when it came down to the end I was like I really want to make this team.

I was very happy when they told me I was staying. That was probably the biggest my smile has ever been.â&#x20AC;?

Everyone, including his teammates, has been talking about his poise. One of Huttonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strengths has been how composed he remains under pressure. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been adept at handling the oppositionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forecheck and moving the puck out of his own end. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You watch him with the puck and he is so calm under pressure,â&#x20AC;? says Tanev, who possesses that quality himself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He finds outs in our end all the time and he is not just shooting it up the glass or rimming it around the boards. A lot of young guys sort of panic when they get in those situations, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find the centreman or make a move and skate the puck out of the zone. He is very composed and he is always calm. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very impressive.â&#x20AC;?

Asked where their son gets his composure, Jim Hutton quickly quips: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from his dad, not his mom.â&#x20AC;?

Janet does not disagree: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ben has always played that way. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty laid back and he does

get that from his dad. He has never been a person who worries about what is going to happen tomorrow or the next week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His focus is dialed in on today and I think maybe that allows him to just focus on his game.â&#x20AC;?

If his dad takes credit for his poise under pressure, Hutton says his mom deserves credit for his other real strength: his skating.

Hutton has great wheels, another asset that helps him get the puck out of the defensive zone. He looks like a natural on skates, but Hutton jokes that he owes his skating prowess to the patience of his mom, who would not let her young son give up when he could not stay on his feet.

When he was three or four, his mom would take Hutton to the local rink every Monday for public skating.

Initially, it did not go well.

Even with the help of a chair, young Ben had trouble staying upright.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been told he did not take his lack of early success well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t skate and was one of those competitive, almost bratty kids,â&#x20AC;? Hutton says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So when I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t skate I was very frustrated and I came off and threw a massive hissy fit in the locker-room. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mom wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give up and we kept going every Monday, and eventually I learned how to skate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn how to stop properly. My mom told me the story how she was skating around and I was racing one of the other kids and I wanted to tell her I won.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came up behind her, but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to stop and I slipped and took the back of her legs out and she went down and hit her head and apparently she was hurting a bit. I was just skating around saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sorry, Mom, love you, look at me. I can skate.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;?

Hutton was a fifth-round draft choice of the Mike Gillis regime in 2012 and after four seasons of Junior A hockey in Ontario, where he was converted from left wing to defence, he went to the University of Maine.

His dad thinks the three years his son spent at Maine benefited him both on and off the ice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That college experience has helped form him into the guy he is,â&#x20AC;? Jim says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little calmer with the way he handles situations, more mature. He went to college as a young boy and became a man.

Not only on the ice, but also as a person.â&#x20AC;?

The decision to leave Maine a year early this past spring was not an easy one for Hutton. He wanted to complete his business degree â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something he hopes to do online â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but decided it was time to turn pro.

A few months later as a member of the Canucks, Hutton has no doubt that decision was the right one. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now earning an NHL salary of $896,250 US and vows the money wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sure, the moneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great,â&#x20AC;?

Hutton says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But you know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to be there forever.â&#x20AC;?

Hutton hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done anything crazy since getting his first NHL paycheque. With the help of fellow Canucks rookie Jake Virtanen, Hutton just got a car deal with Abbotsford Chrysler and took possession of a new Jeep.

He has spent his spare time doing things like playing golf at the Stanley Park pitch and putt and visiting the Vancouver Aquarium.

One day last week, Virtanen took Hutton on a tour of his hometown of Abbotsford, which included a stop at Virtanenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; house for dinner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My parents loved him,â&#x20AC;? Virtanen says.

Huttonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proud parents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who recently made their first trip to Vancouver to watch Ben play in the Canucksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; home-opener â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are confident success will not spoil their son.

Janet was encouraged recently when Ben demonstrated his frugal side. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has got a pretty good head on his shoulders,â&#x20AC;? Janet says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to ship him some papers and he asked me to also send him his headphones for his Xbox because he went to the store and some new ones were going to be $200 and he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to spend money. And I thought, good for you.â&#x20AC;?

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BIKINI EMPIRE

Monica Rush, right, and Kelsey Rush wear the popular wrap tops from their first collection.

Surfers wanted quality swimwear JULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS

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s avid surfers, twins Monica and Kelsey Rush felt discouraged by the inferior quality of the swimwear that was available to them and felt certain they could do better.

Emboldened by a do-it-yourself ethos borne from the completion of a cob house with her partner on Gabriola Island two years ago, Kelsey decided to explore this idea as her next project.

She wanted to do more than just aim at the creation of a better-quality, more comfortable bikini; she also wanted to change the world of fashion.

The result is Bikini Empire, a home-based business that has grown from its beginnings on Gabriola Island to become a full-time business

for the sisters, encompassing photo shoots in exotic locales (though she grew up on the West Coast, Monica now lives in the Dominican Republic and surfs every day) and plans for an increased presence in surf shops across the country that will be felt as early as next summer.

A successful Kickstarter campaign, launched and promoted with a video shot and edited by local filmmaker Raymond Knight, has given Bikini Empire the necessary boost to take the business to the next level.

“Both Monica and I are surfers and we found that with all the surf bikini companies, they’re all made in sweatshops, they’re still $150 for a nice bikini and 8,000 women have the same one because it’s these massive companies that dominate the market. So you’re not paying for quality, you’re not paying for ethically pro-

duced goods and you’re not paying for originality, so what exactly am I paying for?” said Kelsey.

“So we thought that we could take everything we didn’t like about the fashion industry and just start fresh.

Small collections, well-thought-out, well-tested, nice fabrics, we pay our workers well.”

They brought in the services of a Vancouver-based company to sew the designs and an award-winning Italian textiles company whose materials are produced entirely with solar power and created the first prototypes.

Every year, they create new designs and re-vamp some of their more popular products.

“One of our main jobs with Bikini Empire is re-educating people about the true cost of fashion and how much our choices really do make a difference. If all of us collectively

said ‘no’ to products that were not environmentally sustainable or made using child labour or made using practices where we just have no idea because they aren’t advertising it because it’s just too awful to even talk about, then those things would disappear from the market very quickly. And it doesn’t take long for the market to respond to people choosing better products,” said Kelsey.

She likened it to the current demand for local farm food, and though the West Coast is just beginning to catch onto the idea in terms of clothing, the East Coast are already about ten years ahead and have a burgeoning market in local, artisan-made clothing.

With $27,000 raised through donations and product pre-orders with the Kickstarter campaign, the

company are currently busy creating their 2016 spring/summer collection, which will be followed by a smaller collection out at Christmas for people going on holidays.

“We got to see exactly what all our customers wanted the most before we even made it, so we have all these amazing pre-orders, like 200 of them, and we can already tell which colours are going to be the best-sellers next summer,” said Kelsey. “So we already know what to make more of. It’s so exciting.”

Locally, their designs are currently available at Lucid and Island Riders, as well as at The Surf in Tofino.

For more information visit www.bikiniempire.ca.

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Gretzky brings his No. 99 collection to Toronto fashion runway LAUREN LA ROSE THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — More than three decades after his rookie season in the NHL, Wayne Gretzky made another major debut — this time on the runway.

The Great One brought his line to the catwalk Thursday night as the No. 99 Wayne Gretzky Collection

staged its inaugural show at Toronto’s World MasterCard Fashion Week.

Gretzky developed the menswear line through an exclusive partnership with Sears Canada.

The Hockey Hall of Famer said that being at ease is essential when it comes to his style choices, and admitted he isn’t one to push the fashion envelope.

“I think I’m not as flashy as some other professional athletes might be,” Gretzky said in an interview Thursday at Sears Canada’s Toronto offices prior to the show.

“I’m more of a basic person as far as blacks and blues and browns sort of go. I think the most important thing we all want to come across when you’re dressed is to be comfort-

able yet stylish. Most importantly, for the regular person coast to coast, you want it to be affordable.”

Gretzky described his wardrobe staples as “pretty much like everybody else,” pointing to his own black V-neck sweater and leather jacket, and citing khakis and jeans as style essentials.

“You still look sharp but yet you’re

comfortable and that’s what people want to have day-to-day.”

There was a striking contrast in the staging of the presentation, as whitehot spotlights followed the models as they walked along a slickened, jet black runway.

Gretzky attended the show but didn’t walk the runway at the conclusion of the presentation.

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POLICING

Rescuing suicidal woman had big impact Nelson police officer has now been honoured twice for the difficult rescue, in which he put himself at risk “I realized you can go in thinking you’re going to correct the problem with law and order, or you can just be a presence in the community. You have to be a good cop one day, a bad cop the next. Do your best to treat her with respect, but then the next day you have to arrest her for stabbing her boyfriend.”

Laing sometimes wonders if he stayed too long in that milieu, and feels it took an emotional toll on him. But he believes those experiences made him the cop he is today.

“I miss it a lot. I had a lot of great relationships down there.”

Exceptional valour in the face of extreme hazard

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very time Const. David Laing drives over the big orange bridge in Nelson he finds himself reflecting on the events of Sept. 14, 2013. That was the afternoon he rescued a suicidal woman from leaping over the railing, his bear hug the only thing keeping her from plunging into Kootenay Lake nearly 20 metres below.

“It’s one of those things you think about too much and for too many reasons,” Laing, 45, said.

“The biggest thing I remember is the loss of control. That really affected me. I don’t drive over the bridge like I used to.”

The Nelson police officer, who spent the first part of his career as a beat cop on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, has now been honoured twice for his rescue — first with a chief constable’s commendation from Wayne Holland in 2014 and now with a Lieutenant Governor’s Award that he will receive in Victoria on Nov. 19.

But that doesn’t mean that day’s events are easy for him to think about.

“It’s one of those mental challenges you have: why did I put myself at such risk?”

The answer: he just had to.

“You would’ve done the same thing.

Anyone would’ve.

“It wasn’t like the movies.”

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he 2013 incident is just one example of the strain being put on the local police force by mental health calls. Police are routinely fielding over 1,000 “emotionally disturbed persons” calls each year, which comes to approximately 18 per cent of their annual call load.

In this case a woman, well-known to Laing and with a history of carrying knives, threatened to harm herself.

“There had been threats in the past, including one she’d already acted on.

I knew this person was very goal-oriented,” said Laing.

While colleagues were searching for her across town in Cottonwood Falls Park, Laing headed out in the direction of the North Shore and spotted her midway across the bridge.

“As soon as I stopped the car she looked at me and made her decision: she was going to go.”

He sprinted after her in pursuit, barely managing to lunge forward and grab ahold of her arms and upper torso. As they grappled Laing

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Const. David Laing will receive a lieutenant governor’s award on Nov. 19 for his 2013 rescue of a suicidal woman on the big orange bridge. [WILL JOHNSON PHOTO]

“It’s one of those things you think about too much and for too many reasons.”

David Laing, Nelson police officer

anchored himself in place with a wedged knee through the railings — a move that would save both of their lives, but also wrench his patella into an agonizing position.

“In Mission Impossible they seem to be able to pull people into helicopters or pull people up with one hand, but the truth was I had no control.”

All he could do was hang there, hoping for back-up to come.

“At some point I realized, you know, I’m not getting back up by myself. A big part of the story that needs to be told is that my feet were off the ground. My only control was my knee. If it wasn’t for the people who came and pulled me back, we might’ve both gone over.”

According to Laing, it was the early years of his career that solidified his worldview. He was 25 when he was

first posted to the Downtown Eastside, and these days he chuckles to think of his naiveté going in.

“I could’ve worked in Kitsilano.

I could’ve worked in South Van. But I chose the Downtown Eastside because I was going to fix that place.

In my mind it was a matter of law and order, these people were being disrespectful and I was going to get that place fixed by tomorrow night.”

That’s not how things worked out.

“At first I’m saying to myself ‘these people aren’t contributing’ but then after my first shift, maybe 12 hours in, I’m blubbering in the back of my police car because the stories I’ve heard from them are unbelievable. I thought ‘how can they live?’”

He was shocked to see the struggles of the aboriginal population and horrified by the human suffering that surrounded him daily. Between 1995 and 2005 there were periods when the area averaged 280 overdoses deaths a year.

“At some points it was an overdose almost every day, just in that little five-block radius of skid row.”

That’s when he mentally changed tack.

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elson Police Chief Wayne Holland nominated Laing for the award, writing that “exceptional bravery, resourcefulness and courage were displayed during this incident.”

In his application Holland wrote “the selfless action of this police officer, who had very few resources available to him throughout the duration of the incident, was instrumental to the successful resolution of a very dangerous situation.”

Holland wrote “it should be noted Cst. Laing has saved the life of at least two other suicidal individuals during his tenure in Nelson.”

The first incident, in 2009, saw Laing volunteer to place himself in the fire department’s ladder truck to negotiate with a distraught man on the bridge. After 90 minutes of negotiation he coaxed the man back to the ground.

The second incident, in 2011, involved successfully wrestling a suicidal and aggressive man off a boat dock near the Prestige.

“The man, who was extremely violent and determined, fought aggressively to prevent Cst. Laing from saving his life.”

According to Holland, Laing’s service shows exceptional valour in the face of extreme hazard.

Laing’s knee eventually healed — though it still aches — but it’s the potential implications of his actions that bother him most.

“It was a selfish thing in some ways,” Laing said. “I knew the person involved and I knew she’d been through an amazing amount of stuff in her life, but I can’t think of my family and still say it was the smartest thing to do.”

He still questions it.

“Why did I hang over a bridge and allow someone else to decide if I live

or die? Why did I give that responsibility to that person at that time?

Then you realize anyone would’ve.

You just would’ve. I made the decision I was going to stop her and I did.”

But when he thinks about his family now, he wonders if he made the right choice.

“Your kids are mad at you a little bit, because people — they don’t mean to be insensitive — they say ‘your Daddy almost died and he was hanging off a bridge.’ My daughter’s very protective and she’s losing her mind. So I’m thinking what if my knee hadn’t caught? What if I slipped?”

That question niggles at him.

“I was at her mercy. She could’ve flailed, grabbed my face or belt. She could’ve made it a lot worse.”

Laing said his main takeaway from this event is simple: we’re not doing enough to help the impoverished and marginalized people in our community.

“Some people don’t get it. If you had one day in their life, you’d be a basket case. These are broken people, but they deserve respect.

The question is how do you give it to someone who is broken? It’s a real mind-bender.”

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e did receive a heartfelt letter of appreciation from the woman he rescued that day.

‘I know people are watching me’ Laing is now an eight-year veteran of the Nelson Police Department, and enjoys small-town life with his wife Jacquie and his children Matéa and Alex.

To operate effectively in a small town, he said, it’s important to treat people with respect.

“Here’s a funny trick: if you treat people with respect and speak to them on their level, they tend to treat you the same way back.”

So rather than yelling at teenagers drinking in Gyro Park, he might instead decide to lecture them on drinking and driving, share stories from his own experience and warn them about the dangers of fentanyl.

“If I come in with that attitude ‘I’m a big man and I’m going to mess up your night’, there’s nowhere to go from there.”

And he likes the feeling of small town accountability.

“I know people are watching me, and watching out for me.

“In Nelson we have a pretty good community.”

B.C. looks to capture carbon dioxide BLACK PRESS

The B.C. government is preparing a regulatory system for carbon dioxide capture and storage facilities, allowing the greenhouse gas to be extracted from raw natural gas and pumped back underground.

Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman says amendments before

the B.C. t allow capture and storage as “a permanent solution for disposing of carbon dioxide” in underground rock formations.

Spectra Energy and the federal government each put up more than $11 million for a carbon pilot project at Spectra’s Fort Nelson gas processing plant, with the province adding $3.4 million.

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‘Back to the Future’ fans mark film’s unique date Brandon Hillock, ‘Back to the Future’ fan

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Arnold Klein, dermatologist to MJ, other stars, dies at age 70 JOHN ANTCZAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Dr. Arnold Klein, dermatologist to the late Michael Jackson and other Hollywood celebrities, has died. He was 70.

Klein, 70, died Thursday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs, according to the Riverside County coroner’s office. The brief press release did not state the cause of death and did not indicate any investigation was underway.

Telephone messages seeking comment were left at listings for Klein’s office, a former attorney and the hospital.

Klein’s roster of patients once included Elizabeth Taylor, Dolly Parton, Carrie Fisher and other celebrities. The Beverly

Hills dermatologist’s specialty was the use of injectable drugs such as Botox to ease wrinkles and sagging skin.

“Put me next to a patient, give me a needle and I’m really happy,” he said in a 2011 interview with The Associated Press.

Klein, who called Jackson “my best friend,” treated him for more than 25 years before the pop star’s drug-related death in 2009.

Asked if he could have done something to save Jackson, Klein said he did not know.

“This tragedy is an example of how the rich and famous can get terrible medical care. It repeats itself and repeats itself.

When people get famous, they get all the ’yes people’ around them,” he said.

‘Back To The Future’ fans, from right, Shannon Burckhard, Kathy Degoutrie and Markus Geiberger during Fillmore’s celebration of the movie franchise on Thursday in Fillmore, Calif. [ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE VENTURA COUNTY STAR VIA AP]

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’80s from the second installment. The band the Flux Capacitors performed on stage in front of city hall, which was festooned with a giant clock for the occasion.

The original stunt team that co-ordinated the hoverboard chase sequence from Back to the Future Part II drew the largest crowd, allowing attendees who paid $200 a ticket to glide across the town’s park on a hoverboard suspended from a crane.

The actors who played nefarious Griff Tannen’s gang members — Ricky Dean Logan, Jason Scott Lee and Darlene Vogel — were also on hand to pose for photographs, sign autographs and provide fans tips on riding a hoverboard for the first time. Vogel’s advice was simple.

“Don’t fall off,” said Vogel, who played Spike in Part II. The actual Hill Valley town square set where the “Back to the Future” trilogy was filmed still exists on the Universal Studios lot. Several fans spent Wednesday touring that filming location as part of the “We’re Going Back” event. The organizers selected Fillmore for Thursday’s festivities because of its resemblance to the exterior town square set and proximity to Los Angeles.

For many in attendance, their passion for Back to the Future won’t wavier just because the future is now the present, according the film’s mythology, anyway.

“It’s iconic,” said Logan, who played Data in Part II. ”I have a 17-year-old daughter and a nine-year-old son now.

They’re fans and their friends are fans like it came out yesterday. I think it’ll just keep going. I don’t think it’ll ever stop. We might be here in another 30 years, but I might be on a wheelchair hoverboard by that point.

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FILLMORE, Calif. — For one day only, a picturesque town about 60 miles north of Los Angeles was transformed into Hill Valley, the fictional hometown of Marty McFly from the Back to the Future franchise.

As part of the five-day “We’re Going Back” fan event celebrating “Back to the Future” Day, the downtown streets of Fillmore, Calif., were blocked off from traffic as fans dressed as characters from the beloved sci-fi film series participated in hoverboard and DeLorean rides.

Back to the Future Day marks the date — Oct. 21, 2015 — that the characters Marty McFly, Emmett “Doc” Brown and Jennifer Parker famously journeyed from 1985 to 2015 in the trilogy’s second installment in 1989.

“Back to the Future to some people may just be a movie, but to me and everyone that’s come here, it’s a religious experience,” said Brandon Hillock, who arrived dressed as a futuristic McFly. “When things are going really crappy, I can turn the movie on and instantly feel better.”

Oliver and Terry Holler, owners of a DeLorean resembling the time-travelling vehicle from the trilogy, provided rides to fans who made a donation to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

However, they weren’t transporting passengers to the past or future. Their DeLorean was retrofitted to ride back and forth on the train rails in the middle of town, similar to the vehicle’s Wild West journey in Back to the Future Part III. “This car has flown in airplanes, been shipped in boats and driven over 600,000 miles — and now she’s a train car,” said Terry. “It took the work of wonderful volunteers, craftsmen and mechanics who understand what it takes to put train wheels on a car.”

Across the tracks, a sign welcoming visitors to Hill Valley was erected in the town’s Central Park, while a beauty salon was made up to look like Roy’s Record Store from the original film. An antique shop’s window was filled with 1980s memorabilia, resembling Cafe

“‘Back to the Future’ to some people may just be a movie, but to me and everyone that’s come here, it’s a religious experience.”

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Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: I’m the baby of seven.

Two siblings died several years ago, and last May, my eldest sister died of pancreatic cancer. In July, I found out that my older brother is losing his battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Two days later, my other brother, “Carl,” was diagnosed with eye cancer that has metastasized to other parts of his body. He is not expected to live through the end of the year.

I am devastated, as is my other sister.

But the reason I’m writing is to help my dying brother not lose his dignity. Carl moved to my state to be closer to my family. He decided against additional treatment and accepted hospice care.

He was weak, but still able to use a walker and get to the bathroom.

Within weeks, Carl became alarmingly weak. I wanted him to stay with me, but he said he didn’t want to burden me any longer. He said his friend was in a nursing home and he thought it was fine for him, too. It broke my heart.

Once there, Carl was constantly reminded to stay in bed and not walk on his own due to the risk of falling. I spoke to the night nurse and explained that Carl would still try to get up to use the bathroom, and I wanted her to check on him.

Her reaction was to tell me that Carl was wearing an adult diaper, so it wasn’t a problem. She didn’t bat an eye or try to assist him. She simply doomed him to a fate that no grown person should have to face until they have no choice.

Telling a man to ignore the call of nature seems so harsh to me. I hate this, and I’m hurting for him and all others who have or will go through this.

Is there anything I can do?

— My Brother’s Keeper

Dear Keeper: We understand your concern and grief. But nursing homes have staff that must deal with multiple residents, many of whom have the same issues as Carl.

Although the night nurse’s attitude was not very compassionate, it is simply not possible for her to get to each room in time to escort every resident to the bathroom.

Accidents are going to happen. Your choices now are: accept the diapers, hire a full-time aide to sit in Carl’s room and assist him, or bring him back to your home with hospice care. These are not easy decisions and they cause pain to everyone.

We are so sorry.

Dear Annie: This is for “W.,” the woman who said her neighbour complains about perfectly reasonable sounds coming from her condo. Please tell her that she can buy soundproofing drywall and have a handyman install it right over her existing drywall. Crown molding can be removed and put back up over the new drywall. It’s really easy.

She should get the type that is 98 percent noise cancelling.

I’ve done this before, and can tell her that she could scream at the top of her lungs and her neighbor will hear nothing.

— M. Dear M.: Thanks for the suggestion, although it seems like a lot of bother for a neighbor who seems to be exceptionally (or irrationally) sensitive to sound.

But the writer may find it worthwhile in order not to be subjected to constant complaints to the police.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.

Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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Harry Potter play set for July in London will be a magic sequel THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — The secret is out — the first-ever Harry Potter play will be a magical sequel.

Producers announced Friday that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will centre on an adult Harry and his son Albus Severus. The two-part stage saga begins where Rowling’s books ended — 19 years after the boy wizard’s epic battle with evil Lord Voldemort.

A synopsis says Harry is now an overworked civil servant in the Ministry of Magic, while his youngest son is struggling “with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted.”

The play will run in two parts, intended to be seen either on the same day or on consecutive days.

It previews from June 7 and opens July 30 at London’s Palace Theatre.

The first play about the bespectacled wizard is based on a new story by Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.

The script is by Thorne, a stage and screen writer whose work includes vampire story Let the Right One In. The director is Tiffany, who helmed the critically lauded war play Black Watch and multiple Tony Award-winning musical Once. Details of the cast have not been announced.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday to buyers who registered online and to the general public on Oct 30.

Tickets for the whole two-part show range from $31 to $200.

Rowling’s seven Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies.