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WASHINGTON — The seven-year saga of the Keystone XL pipeline culminated Friday in U.S. President Barack Obama rejecting a project that had become the biggest irritant in Canada-U.S. relations, amid its improbable escalation from an isolated land dispute into a major cross-border environmental struggle.

The pipeline became the fault line in the American battle over climate change as the green movement pressed the president to turn down a permit that would have allowed Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. to ship bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

After years of suspense and a change in government in Canada, Obama called the new prime minister to break the news Friday: the project is being rejected because it’s not in the U.S. national interest.

Obama’s stated rationale wasn’t that Keystone mattered much. In fact he argued that it mattered very little, to the U.S. economy and to global greenhouse-gas emissions. But he said it had become an important symbol — and rejecting it proved the U.S. intends to get serious at the upcoming climate summit in Paris.

According to public statements from both leaders, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed disappointment but vowed not to let the development poison relations between the countries.

Trudeau has promised a more constructive tone on climate change and on the broader relationship than his predecessor Stephen Harper, who cancelled the last North American leaders’ summit in frustration over the pipeline issue.

“We are disappointed by the decision but respect the right of the United States to make the decision,” Trudeau said in a statement.

“The Canada-U.S. relationship is much bigger than any one project and I look forward to a fresh start with President Obama to strengthen our remarkable ties in a spirit of friendship and co-operation.”

The death of the project has an array of consequences on people living near the route, on businesses linked to the oil industry, and on a now-jubilant climate-change movement.

But critics argue that Obama’s logic is built on sand.

His own State Department has repeatedly concluded that this project would be better for the environment than high-emitting trains. That dirtier rail transport is skyrocketing. And Canadian oil exports have continued to rise, even as oilsands opponents worked to block pipelines — first Keystone, and now others within Canada.

Keystone would have handled nearly one-quarter of all the Canadian oil exports to the United States, which would have created thousands of temporary jobs and longer-term resource revenues for American counties along the route.

Sources recently indicated that TransCanada Corp. was weighing a possible NAFTA lawsuit as it braced for a rejection, its storage yards stacked with mounds of unused pipe in a project that has cost the Calgary

Taran Catania, of Washington, smiles during a gathering in front of the White House to celebrate President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday in Washington.

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company billions. Its share price had plummeted 40 per cent since last year with falling oil prices, and dropped another five per cent Friday.

The company said Friday that it was reviewing its options, including filing a new permit. The project will likely become a 2016 U.S. presidential election issue, with Republicans all aligned in favour of it.

“Today, misplaced symbolism was chosen over merit and science — rhetoric won out over reason,” TransCanada president Russ Girling said in a statement.

“We believe KXL is in the best interest of the United States and Canada.”

Unfortunately for them, the man in the Oval Office disagreed.

Obama began his remarks in the White House by dismissing the rhetoric of both sides in the debate — he said the project would neither have been a huge economic boost, nor a climate disaster.

But the Obama administration was tasked with determining whether the project satisfied the national interest. It concluded the effect on job-creation; oil prices; U.S. energy supplies; and perhaps even greenhouse-gas emissions were virtually nil.

But Obama said it mattered — as a signal entering this month’s big climate summit.

“America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change,” Obama said. “And frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. And that’s the biggest risk we face — not acting.”

He continued: “Today, we’re continuing

to lead by example. Because ultimately, if we’re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground.”

Obama certainly didn’t sound like a pipeline opponent a few years ago.

He’d even appeared at a TransCanada pipe yard for an election-year speech in 2012 where he promised to get the southern leg of Keystone XL opened as quickly as possible. Oil began flowing two years in that southern portion, between the U.S. midwest and Gulf Coast refineries.

But Obama’s tone hardened. He even vetoed a bill passed by Congress this year that would have forced him to approve the northern leg.

His change in approach delighted Bill McKibben, an activist who helped organize the first Washington protest against Keystone XL four years ago.

“President Obama is the first world leader to reject a project because of its effect on the climate. That gives him new stature as an environmental leader,” said McKibben, head of the group 350.org.

Alberta’s new NDP premier expressed disappointment in how the president characterized her province’s oil. She said she’d spoken with Trudeau about the importance of securing new export routes, which face opposition.

She also said the rejection proves the need for action on climate change in Paris, to help rehabilitate Alberta oil’s reputation.

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NANAIMO

Float home proposal still very much alive SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

A proposal to build up to 60 float homes and more than 100 boat slips at the Nanaimo Shipyards site is still very much alive despite delays, according to Scott Valliere, developer and owner of Harbour Homes Marina Inc. Valliere said a recent suggestion by Mayor Bill McKay in a letter to the editor that the site has possibilities for manufacturing and electrical-sector development is misleading.

McKay made the comments to dispute a reader’s claim he was trying to promote LNG development on the Island, only that there may be “other” opportunities related to LNG. “I am referring to opportunities for machine shops, fabrication shops, electrical contractors, and, with the possibility of opening a marine ways and fabrication shop at the previous Nanaimo Shipyards site, I would be eager to explore work for the employees of companies in Nanaimo,” he wrote.

McKay said his comments were not to suggest that the float home concept was dead, only that there were possibilities for the site. “(Valliere) himself told me that if he couldn’t get approval for changes (to) the letters patent for float homes, that he will seek to have the shipyard leased,” McKay said.

McKay also cited a blurb in the B.C. Shipping News that said Valliere wants to lease out shipyard facilities while he constructs the float homes.

Valliere said he would seek out other

opportunities for the property if the float home proposal is not viable as McKay had said, but added he has no intention of giving up with the project.

“Right now, I’ve got 178 people on the waiting list for float homes,” he said.

However, Valliere also expressed frustration with delays facing the project.

In order to build the homes on the water lot, Valliere needs a lease with the Nanaimo Port Authority. To

get that, he must secure changes to letters patent which currently do not allow for float homes in the harbour.

Only Transport Canada can authorize the change and First Nations support and approval is also required.

That has yet to happen, Valliere said.

The Port Authority’s Mike Davidson, director of property and environment, said the port authority has given approval-in-principle for the project, but said there was still additional consultation and technical aspects of the project to work out.

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Water treatment plant expected to come in at $1.5 million over budget SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo’s new water treatment plant should be operating my mid-December, but is expected to be over-budget by $1.5 million following delays.

A new report before Nanaimo city council says the project will be fully complete — meaning all contractors will have left the project site — by March.

However, four of the five new plant operators are already training and preparing for the new facility to formally begin operations.

The plant is also already filtering “gloriously clean” water to test various equipment and systems, said Bill Sims, water resources manager for the city.

The $71-million project was originally intended to be finished

by March. However, Sims said late last year that there had been “a few challenges” with the building’s concrete and structural steel work.

Sims said Friday that “one of the biggest hits to the budget” for the project was the provinces switch back from the HST to GST/PST sales tax system, which he said took a bite of about $2 million from the project’s contingency budget.

Nanaimo water resources manager Bill Sims. [DAILY NEWS]

Other minor issues, such as tweaks to accommodate spacing conflicts between pipes and heating ducts, also contributed to cost overruns, but “There’s been no major stumbling blocks in terms of (the) project functioning,” he said.

Sims added that the $1.5-million overrun “is not unexpected on a project this size.”

The city had also ordered cost reductions of $1.7 million into the contract to build the facility.

The new water treatment plant was built in response to new minimum drinking water regulations implemented by the province.

“As far as the city’s concerned, it’s huge,” said Sims of the scope of the project.

The city also completed work on its new No. 1 reservoir and Energy Recovery Centre last spring. That project cost $11.2 million and uses water flows to turn turbines and generate electricity.

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Battling sugar addiction Woman continues recovery from eating disorder developed in childhood

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ng Hinkkala, 39, would tell you that food addiction is not a metaphor, it’s a fact.

Hinkkala is two years into recovering from an eating disorder she developed as a child. For her whole life she’s been using food as a coping strategy to deal with a traumatic event she had when she was younger.

After having “obsessive, horribly disturbing Aaron thoughts on a daily Hinks basis,” she finally Reporting started to seek help, “I’ve done weird stuff, I’ve eaten food out of the garbage before. It’s stuff that nobody wants to talk about. I remember being eight and eating the gum off the seat of

Ang Hinkkala continues her recovery from an eating disorder she developed as a child. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

the school bus. That’s not normal but that’s how far back my eating disorder went,” Hinkkala said.

“I used to steal my mom’s daycare children’s food out of their bags. I used

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to sneak around the pantry, lick the icing off the cake. Because I had a lot of crap happen to me when I was a kid and that’s all I had — sugar that made me feel better.”

Hinkkala’s first step to recovery was to undergo a 65-day treatment program at the Cedars at Cobble Hill treatment centre.

Following her treatment she enlisted the help of Island Integrated Counselling, which linked her up with counsellor Angela Slade.

Slade taught Hinkkala about compulsive eating and binge eating disorders.

Hinkkala then got in contact with councillor Jacqueline Gautier, who she has been seeing for two years.

For additional support, Hinkkala joined a 12-step program in Nanaimo, which has a similar format to the Alcoholic Anonymous programs.

One step of the program is to make a list of eating behaviours.

Writing the behaviours down gave Hinkkala a better grasp of how deep-rooted and serious her food addiction became. The different methods of therapy has helped her determine why she’s addicted and how it all started.

Hinkkala describes her problem as compulsive eating.

“A lot of people think binge eating disorder is just making a massive, gigantic meal for yourself but that’s not the same. A binge is eating and not even realizing what you’re doing. I could eat a donut but my behaviour, my headspace makes it a binge. Not the actual food. If I’m just sitting there stressed out and just eating it, it’s like I didn’t even taste it, it’s like you’re not in your body,” she said.

“I use food to numb out, to mood alter. To change how I’m feeling or to get me all buzzed off. Most of the time it’s to take me out of the moment. If I don’t want to be in the moment, I go and grab a bunch of ice cream.”

Gautier says every client she has worked with has his or her

own unique circumstances, but addiction is commonly linked to a traumatic event, or a string of events that has created fertile ground for addiction.

“This is a coping strategy. When they use, food endorphins are released into the body, feel-good endorphins when we eat certain kinds of food. There are receptors in the brain that are definitely connected. Basically, there’s a temporary sense of satisfaction, or euphoria,” Gautier said.

Studies have been done that link sugar to addiction. Two studies published by the U.S. National Centre for Biotechnology Information investigated this link through tests on rats.

Forty-three rats were given the choice between cocaine or sugar water over the course of a 15-day period.

Forty of the 43 rats preferred the sugar. In a separate study, rats were given a high sugar-water diet, and then had sugar completely removed from their environment. The rats showed withdrawal-like symptoms such as binging the former sugar source and craving.

“They’ve done research with certain kinds of foods, such as high fats and carbs. The same receptors in the brain are engaged as when people use drugs, such as cocaine,” Gautier said.

Gautier said one of the ways to cure an eating disorder is by tapping into the nervous system and calming the person down.

“When we can calm a person’s nervous system down then they’re more open to making changes. When we can restore some of the historic trauma in their lives, change happens more rapidly, that’s been my experience,” Gautier said.

One of the biggest hurdles, Gautier said, is the stigma relating to binge eating disorder. A proper diagnosis for binge eating disorder wasn’t outlined until the latest edition of the DSM5 — the diagnostic statistics manual that all therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists use for diagnosis.

“In the DSM5 they have finally created a diagnosis for binge-eating, an actual diagnosis for binge eating disorder. Up until now it’s only been anorexia or bulimia, or the catch-all category — eating disorder — otherwise not specified,” Gautier said.

Hinkkala said overcoming the initial stigma was one of the hardest parts about seeking help.

“Stigmas keep everybody sick. I was at the place where I wanted to kill myself, I didn’t want to live anymore. I don’t want anybody to feel like that,” Hinkkala said.

“I don’t want people to think that there’s no hope, because there is hope. Even if people

can get the tiniest glimpse of that from me then I’ll be so happy. It’s horrible, there’s the stigma, people are embarrassed and a lot of eating disorders are done in secret.”

Gautier said anorexia seems to steal the limelight when it comes to eating disorders.

“When you look at the glamour, it’s a horrible thing to say, but certain eating disorders are more glamourized than others, lets face it. We heard in the past about anorexics, why? Because they were traditionally models, actors or actresses.

High-profile people getting too thin.

But it’s not very sexy to talk about people that over eat, or bulimics who purge,” Gautier said.

There’s research that supports the addictive behaviours that food can create, but Gautier is hesitant to call it a full-blown addiction.

“It’s not purely an addiction, I think that’s an unjust way of framing it. It’s something that acts like an addiction but I don’t consider it a full addiction. I view it more as a coping strategy.”

A challenge with overcoming a food addiction is that you cannot abstain from food like you can drugs or alcohol. Everyone needs to eat. The most effective way to deal with the problem is by dealing with the trauma.

“I look at an eating disorder as a burning fire and the smoke on top is the eating disorder — binging, purging, starving, all of those,” Hinkkala said. “If you try to blow the smoke away from a raging fire, it doesn’t work. First you need to deal with the fire. For me the fire is trauma.”

After two years of treatment, Hinkkala is at the point where she’s comfortable working with a food nutritionist to learn more about food.

“I am 100 per cent addicted to sugar. But I don’t not eat it, that’s ridiculous. Do I go and buy ice cream for my house? No, because I will sit there and think about it, I don’t want to do that. Maybe down the road I can have ice cream in my house but not right now,” Hinkkala said. *** Island Integrated Counselling, the program that helped Hinkkala find suitable resources, is a charitable organization that links patients with therapists and also helps with the cost of some of the sessions.

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FISHING

Angler wants to spell out proper rules ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

After watching people catching salmon and trout out of the Nanaimo River and breaking the rules for years, local angler Ian Stewart wants to ensure everyone has the knowledge to fish legally.

In a letter, Stewart said he fears if there are too many people catching and killing illegal fish on the Nanaimo River, the authorities will have no choice but to close it to all fishing.

“It would be a wonderful service to the community if there was more effort to educate the public about these regulations on the river,” Stewart said.

In fact, there are several species of salmon and trout swimming in the Nanaimo River at particular times of the year, and there are many rules and regulations governing recreational fishing in the river.

Officials with DFO, who asked not to be identified, said there are a

number of regulations that are general for all waterways on the Island, and there are some specific rules to the Nanaimo River.

Other than the fact that all anglers must obtain fishing licences, one of the most fundamental rules is that barbless-single hooks must be used while fishing at all times.

Anglers should also note that the release of all “wild-origin” trout in the Nanaimo River is mandatory, and only trout that started in a

hatchery can be legally caught.

Trout born in a hatchery can be distinguished from wild-origin trout by the presence of a healed scar in place of the adipose fin.

The Nanaimo River is never open for the fishing of adult coho salmon, and the only coho anglers are allowed to keep are two-year old immature fish, with a limit of one per day when in season.

Chum are the only mature salmon which may be caught in the river, while in season.

All the fishing regulations for Nanaimo River, and the rest of the waterways on Vancouver Island, are published every two years in the Regulations Synopsis booklet.

Copies of the booklet can be found at www.env.gov.bc.ca.

Anglers should become familiar with these regulations before going fishing.

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VIU

Students share variety of cultures at university DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Students from all corners of the world are sharing their culture this week at Vancouver Island University.

Students turned out in large numbers Friday to see others don the dress of their homeland, dance to rhythmic Indian music, or otherwise share their culture at booths set up for he purpose.

“It’s great to showcase our culture, and clear certain myths,” said Uvish Subodh, an MBA student.

“People think of India as a place of snake charmers,” said fellow student Saumya Mishra, from Mumbai. “We need to change that.”

A few steps away, students from Sweden offered slices of Fikabröd, a sweet roll similar to cinnamon buns, with lemonade, since traditional Swedish berry juice is unavailable.

“This is part of Swedish culture,” said Daniela Backlund.

“We want to take the opportunity to be proud of Sweden.”

The annual festival is an opportunity to “celebrate the diversity we have on campus,” said Graham Pike, dean of International Education.

“We have over 2,000 students from more than 80 countries. They come here to study, but we gain a lot from their presence, on campus and in the community.”

Next year a Syrian refugee will be part of the international student community at VIU, with help from a new scholarship fund announced Friday during the lunching festivities, at the launch of World VIU Days.

The fund will support a Syrian student refugee through Vancouver Island University’s local World University Service of Canada committee and its Student Refugee Program.

World VIU Days activities continue through the week and wrap up on Friday.

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Evelina Lamu, left, Daniela Backlund and Main Ek share a tray of fikabröd, a Swedish treat similar to a cinnamon bun.

Theirs was one of several tables set up for International Students Week at VIU. [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]

BUSINESS

Co-owner of Nanaimo-based company earns special award ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Trevor Styan could hardly believe his ears when he was named the emerging entrepreneur of the year in the Pacific region at a recent ceremony held at the Vancouver Conference Centre.

Styan, co-owner of the Nanaimobased Northern Civil Energy Inc., took top honours in his category at the regional EY Entrepreneur Of The Year awards ceremony, which honours outstanding Canadians who have turned their unique business vision into a successful reality.

NCE is a leading engineering, procurement and construction contractor servicing Western Canada.

It currently employs approximately 80 people.

Styan, 28, said he knew he was a

finalist in the emerging entrepreneur of the year category, but it was still a shock to learn that he was the winner.

“It certainly was a good feeling,” he said from his office in south Nanaimo. “There was a lot of other very impressive candidates in the category, so to be recognized for my work with NCE after the business in its current form has only been in operation for four years was great.”

EY, a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, has been hosting the Canadian Entrepreneur Of The Year program for 22 years.

Award finalists are chosen based on their vision, leadership, innovation, financial success, personal integrity, and work in giving back to their communities.

Styan said he believes one reason that he and Northern Civil Energy Inc. were chosen this year was because of the company’s ability to provide almost all the necessary services in their projects without having to bring in numerous sub-contractors.

“It gives us the competitive advantage for now over many of our competitors,” he said.

“It’s been a hard effort over the past four years for all the workers at NCE to build the company, and to be recognized like this is a vindication for all those efforts.” » We want to hear from you.

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The spirit of Nov. 11 is about being able to make choices

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he news filtered in Wednesday: members of the Ladysmith-based Veterans Motorcycle Club were told they weren’t welcome to participate in next week’s Remembrance Day ceremonies.

The reasons were not immediately clear, but the reaction here was strong and powerful: our veterans fought and died to preserve our freedom of speech and our freedom of association.

Regardless of the reasoning, not letting these veterans pay their respects was an affront to everything Remembrance Day stands for.

Two days later, the knee-jerk reaction has been tempered by two essential tools: information and reflection.

And our opinion has changed.

These veterans have not been ordered to stay away; on the contrary, they have been told they are welcome to take part.

But there is a caveat: they have been asked — not ordered, but asked — to leave their motorcycle club patches behind.

And although that may not be enough of a distinction for some, for us the spectre of intolerance and dangerous pride has been replaced by a question of simple respect.

And paying respect is ultimately what Nov. 11 ceremonies are all about.

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ceremonies over the years. We’ve seen organizations like sports teams and service clubs proudly wearing their colours around the cenotaph.

This is how these men and women have chosen to show their respect, and, to the best of our knowledge, most of these gestures were accepted by the Legion.

But apparently that is not always the case. Legion B.C./Yukon Command executive director Inge Kruse made the distinction quite well to the Daily News.

“Let’s say you’re part of a Lions Club and you wear your Lions Club uniform with medals — it’s frankly a bit tacky,” Kruse said. “It’s not that veterans can’t march, that’s ridicu-

lous. It’s that there’s a lot of baggage that goes with motorcycle patches, especially when they are the one-per cent patch.”

To be clear, the VMC is adamant it is not a one-per cent (outlaw) club and there is nothing to suggest otherwise.

But just as clearly there has been some pushback from others who feel the club colours are distracting from the main reason people are gathering — to salute to our vets.

Ultimately, this discussion has become a simple case of being respectful of the rules of the house.

A very crucial point here is that the Legion has not made some kind of heavy-handed edict, rather what it

has done is made a polite request.

It is up to club members to decide what to do with that request and how to present their salute.

Members can pay their respects to our veterans by attending a Remembrance Day ceremony with their patches if that is the statement they wish to make.

They can follow the organizers’ request and attend without their patches. Or they can host a ceremony of their own.

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School board has to stop wasting time and money Many school board trustees’ campaigns promised an open and transparent board, yet their actions since being elected have not fulfilled that promise. The current “consultation” is necessary because the board needs to change the facilities plan after making the ill-fated decision to reopen Cedar Secondary which effectively puts the entire district under further scrutiny.

At the Sept. 9 Education Committee, Supt. John Blain outlined a plan to survey Cedar Secondary catchment students to ascertain their plans for the 2016 -17 school year.

The results were to be presented to the Oct. 7 Education Committee meeting but were withheld from some trustees and the public until the Oct. 28 board meeting agenda was posted.

Survey results project a maximum September 2016 enrolment of 202 students. Of those, 67 are current Grade 7 students who were never polled but are assumed to be heading to Cedar Secondary, not following siblings. Realistically, the enrolment will likely be less than 202.

The capacity of Cedar Secondary is 425, yet a faction of trustees stubbornly continue to believe they can sustain a high school that is less than 50 per cent full. How will they provide equitable education opportunities for students at Cedar? Course selection, timetabling, providing adequate supports and intra-mural and extra-curricular activities all require a critical mass of students.

Even if the school were full, options would be limited by comparison to other high schools.

Over the last decade we have been told “to become financially sustainable, school consolidations and closures are critical to the long-term success of the district.” Why are trustees hell bent to make cuts everywhere in this district except Cedar?

Yes, they may consolidate elementary schools but by re-opening Cedar, they further increased our excess capacity at the secondary level.

With the facts in front of them, does this board have a Plan B? Apparently not. Plan B should be keeping Cedar Secondary closed and upholding the oath trustees took to make educational decisions that are in the best interests of the majority of district students. The board needs to quit wasting further time and money and stop this unnecessary stress for students across our district.

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China trip a reminder to council to watch tax cash There seems to be no rhyme, reason or continuous decision-making philosophy being followed at Nanaimo city hall.

Council voted to throw away transparency, again, by going behind closed doors to discuss the mayor’s

China trip. It was not an employment matter. It was not selecting a bidder for a city contract. It’s simply sending the mayor off with tax money.

And those discussions should have taken place in front of the very taxpayers who’ll be footing the bill.

All but one councillor voted in favour of the bon-voyage party — which the mayor’s been pacing back-and-forth for months to get underway.

I also have to ask whether council has OK’d the mayor to take any tax breaks or other city incentives with him. I haven’t heard. So is this just a trip of what some consider to be handshakes, dinners and strutting your stature?

And many taxpayers believe council should be looking for a city manager from east of Manitoba; one who has no ties whatsoever to the way things keep getting done, or not, here.

But council needs to get its house in order too.

Research things beforehand; know what you’re voting on; make thorough, consistent decisions; if you don’t have all the information before you, you feel you’re asking too many questions, are feeling rushed — put the vote on hold. Council and senior staff need to consistently start watching the spending of our tax dollars.

And they could have started impressing us with keeping the mayor at home.

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Diagnosis became mother’s worst nightmare CANDACE WU PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

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hey say it’s a mother’s worst nightmare.

And Qualicum Beach mom Leanne Davis can say from experience it’s true.

She still remembers the day doctors confirmed her then-13-year-old daughter, Olivia, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia just one week before Christmas, 2013.

“All these doctors we saw over a five-month period kept assuring us they felt it wasn’t cancer, they’d say ‘we’re not quite sure, we’re confused, nothing abnormal is coming back that tells us she has cancer,’ but they were all perplexed,” recalls Leanne.

“They knew something was going on but weren’t quite sure what.”

While health care professionals ran countless tests on Olivia, who was in Grade 8 at Kwalikum Secondary at the time, the young athlete continued playing hockey and going to school until everything abruptly changed.

“On Dec. 18, 2013 the pediatrician called and said ‘we found blast cells and we think Olivia has cancer’. . . my heart dropped,” she said.

“When I got that phone call Olivia was home from school, my husband was away working in Vancouver, my parents who live down the street were over in Vancouver visiting my brother and my oldest daughter was living in Alberta. So I was here, alone.”

The pediatrician told Leanne to bring Olivia down to B.C. Children’s Hospital as soon as possible. There, they took a bone marrow biopsy which found Olivia had 84 per cent leukaemia cells in her bone marrow.

“I just broke down in tears, this kind of primal cry. I’ve never heard myself cry like that. It was just heartbreaking,” said Leanne. “And the next day they started chemo.”

She said the first seven months were intense and the family stayed on the Lower Mainland.

“Everytime you go into a cycle of chemotherapy the nurse comes in and talks to you about the different chemos they’re going to give your child and the possible side effects and possible long-term effects and every single time I cried,” she said, noting the potential side effects included not only nausea and vomiting, but also

Leanne Davis with her daughter Olivia’s beads of courage. Each colour represents a different stage in her journey through cancer. [CANDACE WU/DAILY NEWS]

burning urine, mouth sores, burning eyes, aching joints and aching bones to name a few.

During those dismal days, which Leanne recalls as being a blur, she said there was one “saving grace.”

The Davis family was able to stay at the Ronald McDonald House in Van-

couver, a home away from home for out-of-town families with seriously ill or injured children being treated at B.C. Children’s Hospital.

“It was amazing. It just felt like home,” said Leanne about the facility.

“When my husband and I came

there for the first time on Christmas Eve . . . we just felt at home. That was the first night we had slept in a real bed in a week. We had both squeezed onto a single hospital bed in Olivia’s room for the first week, so having an actual comfortable queensized bed to sleep in, in our own

room and a quiet environment, was just what we needed to refuel.”

Leanne said the RMH was festively decorated that December and volunteers even came to prepare Christmas dinner.

“We met other families, there were quite a few kids with cancer and we got to know them well. It was helpful because we all needed each other through the heartaches of treatments and the fear that takes up residence in the pit of your stomach,” she said.

“In the same respect, it’s really hard because there’s been a lot of kids who have passed away.”

The RMH provides private rooms for families and shared common spaces to socialize with others staying at the facility. The RMH recently opened its doors to a larger house which has 73 guest rooms and can serve 2,500 families each year.

According to RMH, 31 per cent of the families they accommodate are from Vancouver Island.

The house is meant to provide accommodation and access to healthcare for families in need, reduce financial burdens, support sick children, keep families together and help families resume a sense of normalcy during times of tragedy.

“We could gather to watch a movie together, have a cup of tea and chit chat in the kitchen, share a meal. We were all there for each other,” said Leanne. “There was a lot of laughter and also many tears between us.”

The Davis family stayed at the RMH during the first seven months of Olivia’s chemotherapy treatment.

Today, she still undergoes chemotherapy but on a less frequent basis than before, going about once per month. Olivia’s treatment will end after 2.5 years this spring.

While it’s been an uphill battle, Olivia is back in school and playing hockey again. Since her diagnosis, she’s spoken out about her battle with cancer at Tour de Rock functions in Parksville bringing audiences to tears.

Last year, Olivia and her friend, Elle Spicer, started Healing Headwear, making and selling bows and headbands to raise money to give back to the RMH. They ended up raising $2,300.

“Ronald McDonald House was really a saving grace to us and our family will forever be grateful to this amazing organization,” said Leanne.

PORT ALBERNI

Pot dispensary will close doors, claiming city pressure KATYA SLEPIAN ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

WeeMedical marijuana dispensary has announced it will close its doors on Monday following what manager Justin Liu called “extreme pressure from Mayor Mike Ruttan.”

The illegal dispensary opened its doors in a commercial building on Third Avenue less than two weeks ago. The closure comes after landlord Martin Tessler, who lives in Vancouver, received a call from Ruttan

letting him know the dispensary was not welcome.

“He said it’s not welcome in the town and he’s not happy it’s there and he basically rattled on that we could be charged and have our building taken away,” Tessler said.

Port Alberni RCMP Inspector Mac Richards said that a marijuana dispensary, despite being illegal, does not match the criteria of a building that the police would seize. He did add that the investigation was

ongoing and further information could change that decision.

Ruttan defended his decision to call Tessler directly.

“The situation with that dispensary is that it’s an illegal activity, it’s not condoned under the Criminal Code and as such it’s not something that the city of Port Alberni can condone,” said Ruttan.

“As mayor, I can call virtually anyone I want to call whenever I feel the need to, as can any councillor.”

He added that since the dispensary is an illegal activity under the Criminal Code of Canada “it is not something the city of Port Alberni can or cannot approve as it’s not under our jurisdiction.”

Other municipal councils have chosen to regulate dispensaries rather than shut them down.

Port Alberni’s city council has not publicly discussed the opening of WeeMedical in its jurisdiction.

WeeMedical received an “infor-

mational letter” from Port Alberni RCMP Insp. Mac Richards last week stating “if your illegal business practices do not cease, I will consider taking action in the future which may include your business being subject to search and seizure of offence related evidence . . .”

Liu feels that after receiving the letter and his landlord receiving the mayor’s phone call, he has little choice but to close the dispensary’s doors.

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1912 vintage waterfront home is now sold KENDRA WONG VICTORIA NEWS

Driving through the tall gates and up the gravel road of the oceanfront property at 1069 Beach Dr. is like entering another world.

Trees stand tall and lush, and the grass is thick and green. The luxury home is a turn of the century granite mansion at 9,000 square feet stretching along 277 feet of waterfront in Oak Bay. The home was originally built in 1912 by the family who founded Victoria’s Butchart Gardens and sits across the street from the Victoria Golf Club.

It includes six rooms, eight bathrooms, six fireplaces, two kitchens, a drawing and dining room, elevator and library. All but one of the rooms offers views of San Juan Island and Mount Baker. Now, after four years on the market, the multimillion-dollar home has been sold.

It was listed as $8.9 million, but sold for under the asking price — making it one of the most expensive sales in Greater Victoria since 2006.

“It’s the type of property that gives you warm tingly feelings when you’re on it. It’s incredible,” said Donald St. Germain, a realtor with Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, who sold the home.

“It’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen.”

St. Germain has had many prospective buyers, but no takers. With the average city lot roughly 5,000 to 7,000 square feet in size, the roughly 2.9 acres of land is generally out of the average homebuyer’s price range.

“It’s not one of those houses that you move across town for, for work.

People just stand back in awe, it’s huge,” he said.

The property at 1069 Beach Dr. in Oak Bay has been sold for less than the $8.9 million listed price. [PLATINUMHD CANADA PHOTO]

But late last week, St. Germain was able to place a “sold” sign on the front lawn.

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet. I’m happy for my client that the property has sold. I’m just excited it’s actually happened and I put a sold sign up

today,” he said, adding he’s unable to say who the buyers were.

St. Germain said the selling of the luxury home signals an increase in consumer confidence in the Greater Victoria real estate market again.

“The whole real estate industry over the last few years has been going up again,” he said. “I’m hoping we’ll see this into 2016 and beyond.”

According to Realtor.ca, there are two other luxury homes for sale on Beach Drive in Oak Bay. One tuscan

style-home with four bathrooms at just over 4,100 square feet listed for $2.1 million. The other property is more than 10,000 square feet with nine bathrooms, five fireplaces and five bedrooms listed for a cool $5.8 million.

MILL BAY

Rare humpback whale visits to Saanich Inlet thrill onlookers SARAH SIMPSON COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

It’s been a little Mill Bay secret even as summer has turned to fall.

Humpback whales have been frequenting the Saanich Inlet, and while not in droves, they’ve been appearing frequently, giving visitors to the area, particularly those at Mill Bay Marina and Bridgeman’s Bistro, quite a thrill.

“It has become quite a phenomenon for the boating crowd,” said Mill Bay Marina manager Josh McKamey.

“I understand whales used to be common in the (Saanich) Inlet many years ago, but nobody I’ve talked to has heard of this much activity in recent years — and nobody I’ve talked to has ever heard of humpbacks hanging out so close to the marina.”

Whale tales of sailors’ encounters enhance the atmosphere around both the marina and the restaurant.

Mariner Jen MacPherson lives nearby and has witnessed the giant creatures from the deck of her eightmetre power boat — albeit from a respectable distance.

An Oct. 4 encounter saw the MacPherson family witness two humpback whales in the Saanich Inlet. [BRAD MACPHERSON PHOTO]

“I like to stay at a distance because they’re wild mammals and they are feeding,” she said.

“It’s pretty amazing for us here in Mill Bay. It’s pretty neat.”

MacPherson’s boat has been moored at the Mill Bay Marina for the last two years. In that time the creatures have made a comeback.

Humpbacks are baleen whales, and

as such they eat smaller fish and plankton.

MacPherson believes they are in the area feasting on herring and perhaps shrimp or prawns.

“They dive down deep, blow what’s termed a “bubble net”, which confuse the little fish just enough for the whale to scoop up a mouthful to eat,” she said.

MacPherson said it’s because of that that she’s always looking for bubbles when she’s on the water.

“We’ve had several experiences with them and it seems like every time we go out, if we see a cluster of boats out there we know that the whales are there,” she said.

The last time she saw the majestic creatures was Oct. 26. The weather has turned cold and wet so she hasn’t been out on the boat much this last week or so.

One of her favourite encounters was their first experience of the year with the giant mammals, on Sept. 4, with a particularly friendly whale.

“We understand that that whale is featured on YouTube and apparently he’s called Yogi, the friendly one.

“It’s quite the video.”

The video shows the whale sticking close to the whale watching boat for more than just a quick glimpse.

(Search “Youtube: Humpback Whale ‘Yogi’ in Saanich Inlet” to see the 13-minute film.)

“I gather that’s the same one who came to visit us on the fourth of September because it came right up beside the boat. My husband and son laughed at me so hard because it scared me so bad,” she said.

“But when you’ve got a 52-foot whale beside you it’s a pretty exhilarating feeling. It’s a little unnerving because you don’t know where they’re going to come up. But I’ve come to the realization they know exactly where you are. I don’t know if I’d want to be in a kayak out there.”

One boater, John Lichtenwald captured an image of just that scenario.

He told the Huffington Post that photographing a humpback surfacing just metres away from a passing kayaker was “one of the most exhilarating moments” of his life.

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Malahat Nation votes in first woman as chief SARAH SIMPSON COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

For the first time in Malahat Nation history, a woman has been named chief. Caroline Harry emerged victorious Monday after the membership’s votes were counted.

She received 40 of the 85 votes for chief. A 40-year-old mother of six and grandmother of one, with another on the way, Harry has lived in the community all her life.

She said she will be guided by the past as she looks to the future.

“My example is my elders,” said Harry. “I was raised by my grandparents. I believe that our culture and teachings should be the foundation of everything we do as Malahat people. We, as Malahat, need to work together and for each other.”

In addition to being the first female chief, Harry will also be the first chief under the new four-year term.

It replaces the old two-year system.

Joining chief Harry on council are: brothers George Harry Jr. and Matt Harry. They received 45 and 37 votes respectively.

George Harry Jr. is a young Malahat citizen working hard to provide for his growing family. Both he and brother Matt are pursuing their carpentry Red Seal designation.

According to a press release, the brothers have worked on various

Malahat Nation projects including new housing projects and also helped construct the Kwunew Kwasun Cultural Centre.

Former chief Vince Harry, who served as chief for three terms during the 2000s and as a councillor before that rounds out the new council with 41 votes. He’s looking forward to a longer term this time around.

“A four-year term will give us more time,” Vince Harry said. “Two years

isn’t long enough for all the work that needs to be done.”

While all are Harrys, with the exception of the two brothers, they are all from different families within the band.

The chief and council were not available for comment as they were in orientation meetings.

The Malahat band is comprised of close to 300 members, with about half living on Malahat lands.

SAANICH

Fireworks shot into home in high-risk Halloween prank TRAVIS PATERSON SAANICH NEWS

A thoughtless Halloween prank darkened an otherwise happy holiday for a Saanich mom, her young daughter and two visiting friends.

At about 8 p.m. Saturday night Morgan Fankboner was alone in her living room, 20 metres from McKenzie Avenue in the CRD Swanlea housing across from St. Andrew’s high school, when she heard a curious scratching noise from outside the bathroom window.

A firework was then shot into the hallway from the open bathroom window, made a racket, scorched the carpet and darted erratically before it settled in the living room and set the carpet ablaze barely three feet from where she was sitting.

“I was shocked,” said the public health nurse with Island Health. “I nearly picked up the (live firework) at one point before my better judgment told me not to,” she said. “I thought I was going to die as it came flying towards me, thank God all the kids were upstairs.”

The fire was small, but the damage is much greater.

Not only are there two burn points in the carpet (which she assumes CRD housing will expect her to replace) and various scorch marks, but if the firework had been dropped into the window a few minutes earlier it could have landed among the trio of children. Her five-year-old daughter Larkin was watching a movie with a pair of visitors, aged six

Morgan Fankboner and daughter Larkin, 5, were in shock on Halloween when someone launched a lit firework into their house. [TRAVIS PATERSON/NEWS STAFF]

and three, right where the firework ended up burning the carpet.

“I heard it and I was scared,” said Larkin. “I didn’t know what it was.”

Fankboner suspects it was a local

teenage prank. The bathroom window is visible from the sidewalk of McKenzie and it was Halloween.

But the evening didn’t end there.

The firework filled the main floor of

COMOX

Air quality report due Tuesday MARY LEE COMOX VALLEY ECHO

Local municipal leaders are about to find out just what the level of air quality over the Comox Valley really is.

Comox Valley Regional District will be presented with the First Air Zone Report by the B.C. Government Ministry of Environment on Tuesday.

The data was collected from 2011 to 2013 from a single monitoring site situated near Courtenay Elementary School and represents

air quality readings for the entire Comox Valley. CVRD partnered with the Ministry for the air quality monitoring station.

The report reveals that Courtenay measured highest among 13 municipalities for fine particulate matter and exceeds the national standards.

The municipalities fall within the Georgia Strait Zone and include Duncan and the Cowichan Valley.

Air zone reports are a commitment under the federal government’s Air Quality Management System to annually report on

the achievement of the Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter.

Particulate matter is the most serious air pollutant and poses a greater threat to human health than ground-level ozone such as smog and carbon monoxide.

According to the Ministry of Environment’s website, it’s the particulates of less than 2.5 microns in diameter that are the main culprit because they are light weight and stay in the air for days or weeks.

the house with smoke and Fankboner said it filtered upstairs where all of the children coughed, especially the visiting child who suffers from asthma.

“Three kids under the age of six . . . had they been downstairs, one of them could have been maimed,” Fankboner said.

Saanich Police responded and have the offending firework in their possession.

Sgt. Steve Eassie said there were less than 10 calls on fireworks during Halloween and many were done by permit.

“Fireworks are not designed to be set off indoors, anywhere, even in close proximity to a home is of concern. This kind of thing can cause traumatic events, it’s stupidity at its best,” said Eassie, adding there was not enough evidence to indicate it’s a targeted event.

“Obviously the person responsible for this is not following through on the fireworks safety course.”

Having Halloween fall on a Saturday met Eassie and Saanich Police expectations as it was definitely busier than a normal Saturday or weeknight Halloween, he said.

Speeding, a motor vehicle incident, an overdose, 12:30 a.m. fireworks at Maplewood and Cedar Hill (outside of the permitted hours) and multiple loud parties were responsible for the majority of the calls.

Fankboner wants to remind locals that fireworks carry a serious potential for harm. If she wasn’t home, her house would have likely caught fire.

Anyone with any information is asked to call Saanich Police at 250-475-4321.

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SAANICH

Teen arrested over threats meant as joke JACOB ZINN SAANICH NEWS

A 15-year-old male student was arrested last week, following a threatening social media post that was meant as a joke.

On Wednesday, Oct. 28, Saanich Police received several calls about a post on a social media group related to a local high school, containing a photo of a weapon and a caption

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First Nations chiefs want affordable ferry system First Nations chiefs from across B.C. have committed to work with coastal governments to lobby the province for a more affordable ferry system.

At the First Nations Summit in Vancouver last month, a resolution was passed that, “First Nations Summit Chiefs in Assembly support and encourage Coastal First Nations to join with the Coastal Ferry Group in seeking occasional meetings with the premier and the Minister of Transportation, other ministers and BC Ferry services Inc. to resolve ferry issues and produce a ferry system which is affordable and effective.”

Jim Abram, chair of the Strathcona Regional District board and a member of the Coastal Regional District Chairs Group which is made up of 13 regional district chairs, said having that resolution pass was a huge victory.

“Really, the most important thing is that we have managed to bring all these non-coastal people into this discussion,” Abram said. “They all understand now it’s a provincial issue. We (the coast) generate 38 per cent of the gross domestic product and that goes into programs that they benefit from.”

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Attack sends Island man to hospital in Victoria A 29-year-old Chemainus man is in critical but stable condition in Victoria General Hospital after what police are calling a targeted attack outside his home Wednesday evening.

The incident occurred about 5:30 p.m. while the man was standing in the driveway of his home, just off the Trans Canada Highway.

Police said at least two unknown attackers assaulted him.

“North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP are in conduct of the investigation at this time and are working diligently toward identifying the suspects,” North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Krista Hobday said. “There is no perceived threat to public safety.”

The man’s mother called 911 and he was tended to by paramedics at the scene before he was transported to Victoria General Hospital.

warning students not to attend school the following day.

Using significant resources, police coordinated with officials from School District 61.

Officers were posted inside and outside the school the next morning to ensure the safety and well-being of students and deter a possible attack.

Investigators identified the youth in

question, who was taken into custody at his home.

“A considerable amount of police resources were committed to this investigation and we are pleased that our investigators were successful in identifying and locating the suspect in this case,” said Insp. Terry Parker in a statement.

“In cases such as this, where there is a perceived threat towards a public

institution, every necessary resource will be used to bring the suspects to justice and to ensure the safety of the public.”

The suspect was released from custody on the condition he not attend the high school in question and refrain from using social media.

Charges of Mischief Under $5000 have been recommended and the information from the investigation

has been forwarded to Crown for approval.

“Investigators have indicated that the suspect never intended to harm anyone, and that the post was simply meant as a ‘joke,’” stated Sgt. Steve Eassie.

“Anyone using social media needs to recognize that they could face criminal sanctions if common sense is not followed.”

CAMPBELL RIVER

Innovative extreme-weather shelter gets attention across North America ALISTAIR TAYLOR CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

Campbell River’s innovative extreme-weather shelter is getting noticed as an innovative and effective way to serve the community’s homeless population.

And now, Campbell River Family Services has hit on an innovative way to fund the operation of the moveable shelter which it now owns after buying it for a dollar from the company that built it.

Paul Mason of CRFS fields calls from all over North America about the converted shipping container which has proven to be a success in providing a safe haven for the community’s street people during bad weather.

“In the last two years in Campbell River, nobody has died on the streets,” Mason said.

This is an accomplishment and it’s thanks to the converted 13-metre shipping container.

For each of the last two winters, from November through March, the container provided warm, secure beds for up to 16 people a night in downtown Campbell River.

The container’s future was in some doubt as the lot on which it was located was involved in a land swap and is being developed. The container qualifies for BC Housing

Doug Johns and Erick Martin, left and centre, help renovate Campbell River’s extreme weather shelter with Paul Mason, right, of Campbell River Family Services. [ALISTAIR TAYLOR/CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR]

support but that is funding only for nights when conditions meet its extreme-weather criteria, i.e., temperatures below zero. The rest of the time, the operation of the shelter is funded by CRFS which seeks donations from the community.

Well, CRFS is on the hook for the shelter even more now because it is now the proud owner of the shelter.

The company that converted it from a shipping container and donated it for use in Campbell River, Shadow Lines Transportation, went a step further this month and sold it to CRFS for a dollar. For legal reasons,

the container has to be sold and not given away.

Mason quipped that when he was called by Shadow Lines and told they were willing to sell it for a dollar, he dug into his pockets and said he thought he had just about enough change to cover it.

Owning the shelter means they can now do with it what they will but it also means money has to be raised to operate it. Each year a Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser is held to generate part of the funds and that will be held in January again this year.

But Mason has hit on a new way of

covering the costs of operating the shelter. CRFS is seeking businesses, groups or individuals who are willing to sponsor a room for a season of use. The cost of operating a room in the shelter which provides two bunk beds and food each day for two people is $6,000 for a season lasting November to March.

“Now that we own it, it’s ours,” Mason said. “Every penny will go to the operation of this shelter.”

The shelter has been undergoing some renovation to get it ready for this winter through the help of $15,000 from the city, businesses donating supplies and programs like the North Vancouver Island Aboriginal Training Society providing the workers (who, in return, get experience and develop skills).

Any organization or business that wants to sponsor a room can contact Mason at 250-287-2421. He is also willing to meet your group and provide a presentation on the shelter.

Mason takes calls from people like the emergency response manager of the County of San Mateo, Calif.

“She wants to chat about the work being done in Campbell River,” Mason said. “It just shows that we’re getting recognition in Campbell River for what we have done for the last two years. We’ve made this thing happen.”

VIEW ROYAL

Bylaw to prevent grocery beer, wine sales DON DESCOTEAU GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE

The ability to sell B.C. wines, beer and other liquor in grocery stores in View Royal has moved a step closer to being effectively nullified.

Following a public hearing Tuesday, council gave third reading to a proposed zoning bylaw amendment that would prevent the sale of spirits and wine in grocery stores and supermarkets.

It is expected to be adopted within the next month.

The amendment also states that no retail store may be licensed to sell beer, wine and liquor if there is an established retailer within 320 metres. Moves made by the provincial government in the past year have been aimed at loosening liquor regulations and allowing grocery retailers to sell wine and spirits.

Thrifty Foods in Admiral’s Walk, the largest current grocery store in the township, is the main retailer affected by the change.

Mayor David Screech said later that the amended bylaw wording was

prompted when the owners of the Four Mile House liquor store, which opened in Admiral’s Walk in June; and the Cascadia liquor store, to be opened in the Eagle Creek Village – voiced concerns over the potential for the provincial change to affect their business.

“Their concern, when they’re making an investment in a store like that . . . was being that the province controls (licensing) completely, down the road if the province decides to expand that (further), what protection would they have?” Screech said.

Coun. Ron Mattson cast the lone dissenting vote in a 4-1 decision on the bylaw amendment. Among other things, he worried that due process wasn’t followed in the matter.

“Nobody from council or staff contacted Thrifty’s (about the proposed change),” he said after the meeting.

“So it came as a surprise to them and they didn’t have an opportunity to voice their concerns. And I don’t think it’s fair to the residents of View Royal who would lose the option of purchasing wine at their local Thrifty Foods.”

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Province disability payment shift praised TOM FLETCHER BLACK PRESS

Parents, advocates for the disabled and even the opposition critic applauded the B.C. government’s move to increase financial independence for people receiving disability assistance payments.

Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell announced that as of Dec. 1, recipients will be able to receive financial gifts and inheritances of up to $100,000 without affecting their monthly payments.

The current lifetime limit is $5,000 per person, after which assistance payments are reduced. Stilwell said the change affects 96,000 people in B.C. who receive disability assistance.

“It’s available to all those individuals, and of course it would depend on their personal situations, their family support, friend support, whether they’re working or not working,” Stilwell said. “And those are definitely changes that we’re trying to encourage as well, to help individuals to get into the workforce,

so they can create opportunities for themselves to earn and to save.”

The government previously raised the earned income exemption so people can earn up to $9,600 a year without reduction of their disability assistance, and has encouraged B.C. businesses to hire disabled people.

James Ho, a member of the minister’s council on employment and accessibility, called the gift and inheritance policy “a quantum leap forward” for disabled people like his son.

Kathy Bromley, a disability advocate whose daughter attends Simon Fraser University, struggled to control her emotions at a ceremony at the B.C. legislature announcing the change Nov. 5.

“Just because Shannon was born with a disability and needs help to brush her teeth and put her coat on . . . she needs to have a good reason to wake up every morning,” Bromley said.

NDP social development critic Michelle Mungall the change is “def-

initely good news” for those who can take advantage of it.

“I know with some of the families that I’ve been working with, people have come forward wanting to help them out, and they haven’t been able to because of the gift rule,” Mungall said.

“But at the end of the day, what we know is that the income assistance rates are very low, they are leaving people in poverty, and we see policies like the maternity leave clawback.”

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Man who rammed cop cars found guilty JENNIFER SALTMAN THE PROVINCE

A Surrey man who rammed his vehicle into two police cars and injured two RCMP officers last year has been found guilty of four criminal charges.

James Burton Weaver, 48, was convicted Wednesday in provincial court in Surrey of two counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and

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Cruelty charge after cat left to die, says SPCA A Salt Spring Island woman has been charged with animal cruelty after an SPCA investigation into the case of a 20-year-old cat.

The society says the tabby named Charlie, was rushed to a veterinarian by a neighbour, but had to be put down.

According to the society, the animal was dehydrated, emaciated, flea ridden and had an eye infection.

Erika Paul, an animal protection officer with the SPCA, says Charlie was so malnourished he scored a one on the body-conditioning score table that goes from one to nine.

Paul notes it’s the responsibility of all pet guardians to ensure their animals have proper medical care at all stages of life.

Dana Pennington will make a first court appearance on Nov. 9 at the Ganges courthouse on Salt Spring Island.

◆ KELOWNA

Coach admits charges linked to Vernon visits The U.S. cross-country ski coach accused of planting a video camera in the hotel room of his female students in Vernon has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court.

Jason Paur, 44, pleaded guilty Monday morning to transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

Paur was a substitute teacher at The Bush School, a private kindergarten-to-Grade 12 school in Seattle, WA., and was also a coach of its boys and girls cross-country ski team.

He was arrested Dec. 10, 2013, at Silver Star Mountain Resort after a video camera was found in the room of female students during a school trip to the ski resort.

He faced charges of secretly viewing or recording nudity or sexual activity, possessing and accessing child pornography, and breaking and entering.

Paur pleaded guilty in Vernon provincial court in January to one count of possession of child pornography and two counts of secretly observing/ recording nudity.

The American indictment alleges Paur previously recorded students during ski trips to Vernon in 2011 and 2012.

two counts of assault with a weapon.

A six-day trial was held in December of last year and May of this year, and during that trial it was not disputed that Weaver committed the offences of which he was accused.

The issue was Weaver’s state of mind at the time.

On Wednesday, defence lawyer David Albert said that a psychiatrist who examined Weaver was unable to

find that he suffered from a mental disorder when he rammed the police cars, meaning that he could not be found not criminally responsible for his actions. Because of that, Albert asked the judge to find his client guilty.

Shortly before 3 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2014, Weaver drove his Ford Explorer through the parking lot of the Surrey RCMP’s Newton dis-

trict office, in the 7200-block 137th Street, and hit a parked police car, which was pushed into another parked police car.

A male officer who was standing between the two police cars was pinned. There was also a female officer sitting in the first vehicle that was struck. The male officer suffered a minor leg injury. The female officer was treated for soft-tissue injuries, a

hematoma on her left shoulder and a torn rotator cuff.

Weaver was not injured and was arrested at the scene. Sentencing was adjourned to allow for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.

Crown prosecutor Winston Sayson said he would also be seeking victim-impact statements from the injured officers and possibly their watch commander.

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New species of mosquito found in B.C. considered to be a health threat JEFF NAGEL BC LOCAL NEWS

An invasive Asian mosquito that can carry diseases such as encephalitis has been detected for the first time in Western Canada, at a site in Metro Vancouver.

SFU biologist Peter Belton was among the researchers who found the Aedes Japonicus mosquito species breeding in water on a tarp in a Maple Ridge backyard.

The closest the species had been detected previously was in southern Washington and Oregon in 2008, and it has been found in Eastern Canada and the U.S. since 1998.

The mosquito is capable of transmitting West Nile virus, three types of encephalitis and Chikungunya, a viral disease that causes fever and severe joint pain mainly in Africa and Asia.

Belton says the mosquito could pose a significant public health hazard in the future if global warming expands the distribution of the diseases it can carry.

“We believe it could be a significant threat to the health of humans and

A new potentially disease-carrying mosquito species not previously found in Western Canada is now believed to be breeding in the Lower Mainland.

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domestic animals and recommend that its population should be monitored,” Belton and other researchers said in their paper published in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

There is no current concern about disease spread from the new species

but that could change, said Scott McMahon, operations manager for Culex Environmental, which monitors mosquitoes in the region for Metro Vancouver.

“West Nile was never in Canada before either,” he said, adding that

could be a cautionary tale for the eventual arrival of a new disease.

“You don’t know how it might be introduced, but we’re one step closer I would say,” McMahon said.

“To have a pathogen and the transmission of it you need the right (mosquito) species and the right pathogen. Now we have one out of two.”

Researchers first identified the Japonicus larvae in July 2014 in a Maple Ridge garden, where more than 200 were counted by early 2015.

An adult female was found feeding 13 kilometres further east in Mission in May. That led the researchers to conclude at least two populations have been established in the Lower Mainland.

SFU researchers and Culex Environmental are continuing to study the insects, hoping to pinpoint their origin through DNA and determine how they are most likely to spread. The mosquito has been known to spread rapidly in other regions it has invaded and often is found breeding in old car tires.

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Rescued kitten sparks emotion world over MONIQUE TAMMINGA LANGLEY TIMES

With his amazing will to live, Cassidy, the ‘miracle kitten,’ has captured the hearts of people all over the world, after his story was featured on Good Morning America, Fox and TV stations across Europe and Japan.

But all the paw-parazzi and fame isn’t going to his head, jokes Shelly Roche of Tiny Kittens Society who has been Cassidy’s mom, nurse, physio and occupational therapist since rescuing him from the brink of death when he was nine weeks old.

“He never gives up, and I think that has resonated with a lot of people,” said Roche.

The video, which Roche made of Cassidy trying out his tiny wheelchair for the first time went viral on

the Internet. It showed the kitten’s determination and spirit.

“People who watched him who use wheelchairs themselves, felt a kinship with Cassidy and some said ‘if he can do it, so can I.’ “Some now keep a picture of Cassidy on their wheelchair,” said Roche.

Born to a feral mom in a cat colony in rural Langley, tiny Cassidy lost his back legs shortly after birth. His dad is someone’s un-neutered pet.

Cassidy, named after Hopalong Cassidy, spent the first weeks of his life fighting to live. By the time he was rescued, he had nearly starved to death and his depleted body had stopped fighting an E. coli infection in both stumps, said Roche. To this day, the trauma of his beginnings still mark his body with white hairs

that cover the top of his fur. Roche said eventually the white will grow out and return to black.

When she rescued him, she rushed him to an emergency veterinarian who told her the tuxedo kitten could not survive and must be euthanized.

Despite the grim prognosis, Roche knew he deserved a chance.

“We wanted to give him a chance to fight and look at him now. I hope when people see Cassidy and how happy he is, it shows that every life has value,” she said.

“There is this notion that cats are throw-aways. I hope to demonstrate they are much more.”

She’d love to have prosthetics for him, but that may not work. She is looking at possible implants but that’s all still unknown.

TinyKittens founder Shelly Roche gives ‘Miracle Kitten’ Cassidy a belly rub.

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◆ MONTREAL

Sewage dump should not wait, say experts There is “little likelihood” Montreal’s plan to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River will have an affect on fish reproduction if it’s done before the winter months and monitored properly, officials with Environment Canada said Friday.

Caroline Blais, a director at the federal agency, said the expert panel hired by the federal government concluded the risks associated with waiting are worse than the city’s plan to dump the sewage immediately into the river.

Blais said the agency, however, has not yet made a final recommendation to Environment Minister Catherine McKenna regarding whether or not to authorize the discharge of the untreated sewage.

McKenna is expected to make a decision by Monday.

◆ HALIFAX

Axed cabinet minister surprised he was sacked A former Nova Scotia cabinet minister says he unintentionally misstated when he was made aware of a parliamentary privilege that he contends prevented him from appearing in court for the trial of a woman accused of assaulting him.

Andrew Younger’s failure to appear at the trial led a provincial court judge in Halifax to drop the charge in the case earlier this week.

Premier Stephen McNeil announced Thursday night that Younger was relieved of his cabinet duties and was also kicked out of the Liberal caucus.

At Thursday’s news conference about his failure to appear in court for the matter involving Tara Gault, Younger said he was not trying to avoid testifying in the case.

◆ TORONTO

Referrals for sex change surgery to be expanded Ontario wants to make it easier for transgender people to get a medical referral for sex reassignment surgery, but they will still have to leave the province for the procedures.

Currently, only the Gender Identity Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto can refer a patient for sex reassignment surgery, which is covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.

Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced proposed changes Friday that would allow qualified healthcare providers anywhere in Ontario to refer transgender patients for surgery. Exactly who should be trained will be worked out after the government’s 45-day period for public comment on the new regulation.

Hoskins said every Ontarian has the right to be who they are, and the health-care system should reflect that vision.

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Egyptian soldiers guard the entrance to the Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport in south Sinai, Egypt, on Friday. The sign has a picture of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and a slogan in Arabic which reads, ‘Long Live Egypt.’ [AP PHOTO]

Russia holds Egypt flights over security Move deals sharp blow to tourism sectors in both countries JIM HEINTZ AND MERRIT KENNEDY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW — In an abrupt turnaround, Russia on Friday suspended all passenger flights to Egypt after days of resisting U.S. and British suggestions that a bomb may have brought down a Russian plane in the Sinai Peninsula a week ago.

The move dealt a sharp blow to both countries’ tourism sectors amid fears about security in Egypt.

Russia’s federal aviation agency said airlines would be allowed to send empty planes to bring home travellers, but it was unclear when the Russians in Egypt, estimated to number at least 40,000, would be able to return home as planned from the Red Sea resorts including Sharm el-Sheikh.

Within hours of the Oct. 31 crash of the Metrojet Airbus 321-200 that killed all 224 aboard — mostly Russians — a faction of the Islamic State militant group claimed to have downed it in retaliation for Moscow’s airstrikes that began a month earlier against fighters in Syria. The claim was initially dismissed on the grounds that the IS affiliate in Egypt’s troubled Sinai region didn’t have missiles capable of hitting high-flying planes.

British and U.S. officials, guided primarily by intelligence intercepts and satellite imagery, suggested a bomb might have been aboard the aircraft. The Russians and Egyptians called that premature, saying the investigation had not concluded.

France 2 TV, citing an investigator who had access to one of the Metro-

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jet plane’s flight recorders, reported that “the sound of an explosion can be distinctly heard during the flight.”

France’s BEA accident investigation agency said it could not confirm the report.

After Britain suspended its flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh, Prime Minister David Cameron said it was “more likely than not” that the cause was a bomb. President Barack Obama also said the U.S. was taking “very seriously” the possibility that a bomb brought down the plane in the Sinai, where Egyptian forces have been battling an Islamic insurgency for years.

As the suspicions grew, Russia appeared unwilling to countenance the possibility, and Egyptian officials played down terrorism as a cause of the crash, with President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi calling the IS claim “propaganda” designed to embarrass his government.

But on Friday, the head of Russian intelligence, Alexander Bortnikov, recommended a suspension of all flights to Egypt “until we determine the real reasons of what happened,”

and President Vladimir Putin quickly agreed.

The flight suspension order would last until “a proper level of aviation security is in place,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, denying it will run until the investigation was finished. He added that it “definitely doesn’t mean” Russia regards terrorism as the main theory.

Putin and el-Sissi spoke by telephone a few hours after the suspension was announced, and they agreed to co-operate further in order to “confirm the overall effectiveness of the security measures taken by Egyptian authorities at the airports of the country,” the Kremlin said in a statement.

The U.S. Homeland Security Department announced new procedures that will include expanded security screening of items put on commercial jets, airport assessments and offers of security assistance for certain international airports. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the new protocols apply to fewer than 10 overseas airports in “the region in which the Sinai Peninsula is located.”

There was chaos, confusion and frustration at the Sharm el-Sheikh airport as Britain struggled to bring home some 20,000 of its nationals stranded since London halted its flights earlier in the week.

In the morning, Egyptians carried out expanded security checks as dozens of buses ferrying British and Russian tourists waited outside the airport, the line stretching up to a kilometre as police inspected each vehicle.

CALGARY — The University of Calgary will face an independent review over concerns about corporate influence at the institution.

“Questions have been raised regarding the creation and operation of the Centre for Corporate Sustainability, and the potential infringement of academic freedom of those involved,” Mark Starratt of the university’s board of governors said in a release Friday.

“We believe that academic freedom is a fundamental value of all universities. We’ve been listening and are taking action.”

The school’s board of governors initiated the review following reports that alleged Enbridge interfered at the University’s Centre for Corporate Sustainability after the company provided a donation.

Enbridge had promised the university $2.25 million over 10 years for the centre, but its name is now off the centre and its donation has been cut by $1 million.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers has said the former chairman of the centre claims he was fired after raising concerns about Enbridge’s influence.

Another allegedly left over the university’s failure to defend academic freedom.

The board hasn’t yet said who will conduct the review.

Board chairwoman Bonnie DuPont, a former Enbridge executive, will not take part. University president Elizabeth Cannon has also recused herself.

This week, Cannon also stepped down from her paid position as a director of the Enbridge Income Fund.

Cannon has said that when funds come from the private sector, there is a written agreement set out with expectations, but the university makes decisions on day-to-day operations and staffing.

She has acknowledged concerns were expressed in emails to the former dean of the university’s Haskayne School of Business. No formal complaints were made, she said.

Cannon has said the emails from 2011 and 2012 prove there could have been a better job done communicating with staff and more transparency on the decision when it came to corporate sponsorships.

Her involvement with the Enbridge Income Fund began six years before she was named university president and was approved by the university’s board, the release said.

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BlackBerry’s first Android device, Priv, will be test of firm’s survival Has 5.4-inch screen, 18-megapixel camera, a dual-touch screen, slider keyboard option DAVID FRIEND THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — With BlackBerry’s latest smartphone now on store shelves, the question turns to whether consumers will be convinced to carry it in their pockets.

The Waterloo, Ont.-based technology company is reaching for mainstream audiences for the first time in years with the BlackBerry Priv smartphone.

The device runs the Android operating system, instead of BlackBerry’s own operating software, a first for the company.

But it could also be the last if the Priv doesn’t sell.

Chief executive John Chen has said BlackBerry’s hardware division needs to become profitable before the end of its fiscal year on Feb. 29, or the company may stop making phones and focus mainly on growing sales of its security software.

By his calculations, BlackBerry needs to sell five million phones in the current fiscal year to break even, and with the company about halfway through its financial year, it still needs to sell roughly three million phones.

Most of those sales will have to come from the Priv device, since BlackBerry’s Passport and Classic are considered antiquated in the ever-evolving technology market.

The Priv is sleek and modern, with its 5.4-inch screen, 18-megapixel camera and a dual-touch screen and slider keyboard option.

But it also comes with a hefty price tag of $899 at BlackBerry’s Canadian web store without a carrier contract, making it the most expensive

Evacuation at CBC over military shell THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — The CBC building in downtown Toronto was briefly evacuated Friday afternoon after a military artifact was found.

Toronto police Const. Victor Kwong said they were called just after 1:30 p.m. to investigate a military shell that was donated to the broadcaster’s archive.

Police and military bomb technicians were called in and determined the shell was inert. People were allowed back into the building around 3 p.m. and nearby roads were to reopen shortly afterward.

The CBC apologized for any disruption in its coverage as a result of the evacuation, which forced the company to broadcast from Ottawa instead.

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Different messages from top finishers in election The top finisher in last month’s first-round presidential voting already refers to himself as Haiti’s leader while the No. 2 vote-getter is contesting preliminary results he says were tainted by fraud and don’t reflect the will of voters.

There was a sharp contrast in tone and message Friday between government-backed candidate Jovenel Moise and former state construction chief Jude Celestin. A preliminary tally released by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council put them at the top of the 54-candidate field, setting up a late December runoff between the two.

On Friday, throngs of Celestin’s supporters marched through neighbourhoods of the capital, criticizing electoral authorities. When the crowd grew to roughly 2,000 people, police fired water cannons and tear gas to disperse them.

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Fears of bloodbath after death of son of activist The Blackberry Priv is shown in Toronto, on Oct. 30. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Android phone on the market.

“This is a buttoned-up device that seems more at home in the boardroom than it would at the bar or pool hall,” said Ramon Llamas, research manager of mobile phones at IDC Canada, a market research firm.

“If you were a Blackberry user in the past, absolutely there’s stuff to like here.”

Making an Android phone resolves one of the biggest criticisms levelled against BlackBerry — a lack of apps that left it behind its competitors in an era where customers increasingly use their phones to stream movies and upload photos.

Traders appeared to be optimistic about the prospects of the new

device, sending BlackBerry’s stock up 6.5 per cent to close at $10.65 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Availability for the BlackBerry Priv rolls out Friday from Rogers, Bell and Telus. Both Wind Mobile and Sasktel will begin carrying the phone on Monday, said a BlackBerry spokesman.

Over the coming weeks, the BlackBerry Priv will be front-andcentre at Canadian carriers with a featured role in holiday marketing campaigns, which wasn’t the case last year for the BlackBerry Passport, a phone aimed squarely at business users.

Some of BlackBerry’s advertising will emphasize the phone’s height-

ened privacy features, which includes an app called DTEK that monitors how your phone is being monitored by third parties.

“We feel like we’ve got an opportunity to make people aware,” said Ron Louks, president of devices and emerging Solutions at BlackBerry.

“We’ve got a good opportunity to convert old BlackBerry users, who may have switched to other operating systems but loved the keyboard, to come back to BlackBerry.”

Advance orders for the Priv have been higher than figures for its recent Passport, Classic and Leap devices, the company has said, though it hasn’t provided presales figures.

The son of a human rights activist in Burundi was killed after being arrested Friday, a witness said, as international concern grew that a bloodbath might be imminent in the central African country.

Lily Mbonima said his brother Welly Fleury Nzitonda was killed because of their father’s work.

Nzitonda’s death is part of an unremitting wave of killings in Burundi that has prompted international outcry and warnings that Burundi could be on edge of a violent upheaval.

The UN secretary-general condemned Friday’s killing and said he is alarmed by the escalating violence in Burundi. Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman said Ban also condemns public statements that appear to be aimed at inciting violence, calling them “reprehensible and dangerous.”

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Federal civil servants give Trudeau and cabinet a rock-star reception

Germany to give Syrians protection, not asylum

BRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Hundreds of usually buttoned-down federal civil servants gave Justin Trudeau and other members of his cabinet a rock-star reception Friday at the Lester B. Pearson building in downtown Ottawa.

The bizarre spectacle came as the Liberals held a cabinet orientation session at the fortress-like foreign affairs building on Sussex Drive.

Confused reporters arriving for a media scrum with Global Affairs Minister Stephane Dion were greeted by a massive, buzzing throng of federal employees inside the secure zone of the building’s foyer.

The buzz from the female-dominated crowd soon made it clear they

were on hand for a sighting of the prime minister, although any recognizable cabinet member would do.

When Harjit Singh Sajjan, the new defence minister, quickly strode through the lobby as one of the first to leave the orientation session upstairs, wild hoots and applause followed him out the door.

Dion was applauded when he arrived to speak to the media, and his answers to questions from journalists were uniformly cheered as well.

When one reporter asked about five female cabinet members who are listed as lower-level parliamentary secretaries in orders-in-council documents, the watching civil servants loudly groaned in dismay — an echo of the kind of partisan excesses

towards the media witnessed during the recent election campaign.

Trudeau finally arrived following Dion’s press scrum, causing pandemonium.

In a routine that’s become familiar in the three weeks since his Liberals won a surprise majority mandate on Oct. 19, Trudeau waded into the crowds wearing a huge grin and clutching hands.

Conservatives have long complained of Liberal sympathies in the federal civil service but the Harper government’s penchant for picking fights — on everything from scientific advice to collective bargaining — appears to have pushed the normally reserved bureaucracy past the point of caring about partisan optics.

Germany’s interior minister said Friday he wants to give many Syrians arriving in the country a form of protection that falls short of full asylum and wouldn’t allow them to bring relatives to Germany for two years.

The proposal by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere appeared to catch at least part of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition by surprise and created new confusion over the government’s crisis response.

On Thursday, Merkel and her coalition partners agreed that people with “subsidiary protection” shouldn’t be able to bring relatives to Germany for two years.

Germany has seen more arrivals than any other EU country. Authorities registered 181,000 asylum-seekers entering Germany in October, bringing the figure for 2015 so far to 758,000. Syrians are the largest single group arriving.

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Four injured, another 13 said to be missing CRISTIANA MESQUITA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MARIANA, Brazil — The flood of mud came without a warning. The only hint that the roughly 600 residents of Bento Rodrigues had that a sea of viscous, clay-red mud was about to flow into their village with the destructive power of lava was a deafening clap.

The sound of two dams bursting Thursday afternoon at the Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil’s central Minas Gerais state sent residents running for the hills, and, miraculously, most appear to have survived.

Only two people were confirmed to have been killed in the accident, which sent some 62 million cubic meters of water and iron ore leftovers flooding into the village, which is located some seven kilometres downhill from the mine, officials said Friday. Four were injured and another 13 were missing.

Still, officials warned that those numbers could rise. Only about 100 of the nearly 600 people thought to live in the area have been officially accounted for.

The cause of the accident was not known, but a seismology lab at the University of Brasilia reported that several small tremors were registered in the area hours ahead of the disaster, according to O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper.

A spokesman with the U.S. Geological Survey, John Bellini, said the agency, which monitors seismic activity worldwide, had not located any earthquakes in the region on Thursday, noting that they would generally not receive data on any event smaller than a 4.2 magnitude quake. Still, he stressed that it would generally take a quake larger than 4.5 magnitude to damage a dam.

Hundreds of survivors were taking shelter Friday in a gym in the nearby city of Mariana, as donations of food, clothing and mattresses poured in.

Many of the survivors had injuries to their feet, sustained after they fled their houses barefoot and trekked through the devastated terrain and then onto scorching asphalt.

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As rescue workers evacuated remaining survivors, the mining company’s president worked to dispel fears that the mud contained toxins that could contaminate the land and area rivers. Ricardo Vescovi also insisted that Brazilian law does not require any emergency alarm for dam failures and that the authorities had approved the company’s emergency response plan.

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HERE WE GO Biggest Caps game at B.C. Place in 32 years on Sunday GORDON MCINTYRE THE PROVINCE

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generation has passed since 28-year-old defender Bob Lenarduzzi stood in awe inside B.C. Place in 1983, trying to fathom the 60,342 fans attending the first event the new stadium hosted, a Vancouver Whitecaps/Seattle Sounders soccer game.

“For me especially, being from here, growing up in East Vancouver, to play in front of that many people in the city I grew up in was very, very special,” Lenarduzzi, now president of Vancouver Whitecaps FC, said this week.

Maybe the only thing that ever topped that day soccer-wise in Vancouver was the downtown parade after the Caps won the 1979 North American Soccer League championship, the Soccer Bowl.

Lenarduzzi wondered if anyone

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would show up — 100,000 did.

“But that was lightning in a bottle, as wonderful as it was for us in Vancouver,” he said. “From a parade in front of 100,000 people in 1979 to the NASL being gone in five years, that was almost incomprehensible.”

There have been many ups and

downs for professional soccer in Vancouver since.

But the biggest Caps B.C. Place game in 32 years will go ahead Sunday, Vancouver hosting its first playoff game since the Caps joined Major League Soccer five years ago.

It will be very close to being a sellout in an enlarged lower bowl that will hold 27,000, up by about 6,500 seats from the usual configuration for Caps games.

Consider also, Vancouver was overwhelmingly successful hosting some of the FIFA women’s World Cup, including the gold-medal game, this summer and the FIFA Under-20 women’s Cup last year.

In two weeks, B.C. Place will host a FIFA men’s Cup regional qualifying game against Honduras. Canada Soccer expects to have 20,000 to 25,000 in attendance at that game.

And not to get too far ahead, but should the Caps and Seattle meet in

the next round of the MLS playoffs, the crowd, buttressed by legions of Emerald City Supporters, could conceivably come close to equalling the attendance at that September 1983 B.C. Place coming-out party.

You could make the case Metro Vancouver is Canada’s Soccer City.

“British Columbia and Vancouver has always been a hot bed for soccer,” Victor Montagliani, a Burnaby native and president of Canada Soccer, said Thursday.

Montagliani was announcing the economic impact from the women’s and Under-20 women’s Cups: A spinoff of $118.8 million provincewide and of $82.9 million in Vancouver.

The city’s investment in the Cup was $1.5 million.

“It’s hard to quantify, but the World Cup really built up social capital,” Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs said.

“But we got an outstanding return, no matter how you look at it.”

Canada Soccer’s next logical step is to bid on the men’s Cup and Vancouver would be a big part of any pitch.

The next available Cup is the 2026 tournament and it’s sort of due to be held in North America for the first time since 1994.

FIFA is currently occupied with numerous corruption allegations after controversial decisions to award the next two men’s Cups to Russia and Qatar. Once the smoke clears, Canada will be ready to bid, Montagliani said.

“We’ve hosted every other World Cup and been successful at every one we’ve hosted,” he said.

“We’ll see how any changes play out at FIFA, but all things being equal … I think our next project as a country would be the men’s World Cup.” GordMcIntyre@theprovince.com Twitter.com/gordmcintyre

Not giving up first goal as important as scoring it for Vancouver JIM MORRIS THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Scoring the first goal is important in any soccer game.

Who scores first will take on even more significance when the Vancouver Whitecaps host the Portland Timbers in the second leg of the Major League Soccer Western Conference semifinal at BC Place Stadium on Sunday. The teams battled to a 0-0 draw in last week’s opening match of

the two-game, aggregate-goal playoff. With away goals serving as the tiebreaker, Portland can advance into the conference final with a draw of 1-1 or higher.

If Portland should take an early lead, the Whitecaps would have to score twice to keep their MLS championship aspirations alive.

Goals haven’t come easy for the Whitecaps. They scored seven times during their final seven games of the season, but three of those came

in a 3-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo. That was the final game of the season and Houston was already eliminated from the playoffs.

Midfielder Russell Teibert said the Whitecaps must show patience no matter how Sunday unfolds.

Scoring first “is crucial, but it’s not the end all of the game,” he said.

“We’ve proven we can come back in games. We’ve done it before and we will do it again. It would be nice to score the first goal.

“It would be nice to score a goal.”

The Whitecaps failed to connect on a couple early chances against the Timbers at Providence Park. Portland seemed to have the momentum later in the game and the Whitecaps needed a great save by goaltender David Ousted and a shot off the goal post to escape with the draw.

Defender Steven Beitashour said prevention can be as important as scoring.

“You don’t want to give up the first

goal,” he said. “I think that might be bigger than getting the first goal.

You don’t want to give up the first goal because then you are chasing two.

“Also, after you get that goal, you’ve got to continue and not just think it’s over. I think the most important thing is starting off right and playing the entire 90 minutes.”

The Whitecaps finished second in the Western Conference with a 16-13-5 record.

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Lions veteran QB Lulay gets start in season finale against Calgary B.C. quarterback gets the nod from Tedford ahead of playoff game against Stamps MONTE STEWART THE CANADIAN PRESS

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VANCOUVER — Travis Lulay did not expect to come back from a knee injury this way.

The veteran B.C. quarterback will start his first game since Sept. 3 on Saturday as the Lions (7-10) host the Stampeders (13-4) in the CFL regular-season finale for both teams before they meet again in the West Division semifinal Nov. 15 in Calgary.

Lulay, whose return was once viewed as critical to the team’s success, is getting the nod as coach Jeff Tedford rests promising rookie Jonathon Jennings in advance of the more important playoff tilt.

But even with his future uncertain, Lulay is excited about the chance.

“I look at this as a really great opportunity to tune up and be ready if called upon in the playoffs,” Lulay said Friday after the Lions’ walkthrough at B.C. Place Stadium.

Lulay, chosen the CFL’s most outstanding player in 2011 when the Lions won the Grey Cup, has not played since coming off the sixgame injured list Sept. 29. Initially, Lulay served as a backup because he was still not fully healthy, and Tedford kept him there after Jennings thrived.

But Lulay, who missed most of 2014 with a shoulder injury and is slated to become a free agent in February, refused to dwell on his reduced status.

“The focus (was) to get healthy, to get back,” said Lulay. “Once that happened, yeah, the role changed a little bit. But it doesn’t change my approach. It doesn’t change anything about my commitment to helping

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this football team win.”

Jennings, a 23-year-old Columbus, Ohio native who played collegiately at Saginaw Valley State in Michigan, started the season as B.C.’s No. 3 signal-caller. But he was elevated to No. 1 after Lulay was hurt in Montreal and backup John Beck suffered a damaged pectoral muscle in Calgary on Sept. 18.

Lulay will try to help the Lions, who have won two straight games, carry some momentum into the post-season.

“This game doesn’t mean anything in the standings in terms of the playoffs coming up,” said Lulay. “What it can do is give us an extra boost going into the playoffs.”

In another notable move, Lions kicker Anthony Fera will make his CFL debut after spending the season on the practice roster.

“It means a lot that the coaches put their trust in me to go out there,” said Fera. “I’ve been working my butt off all season for this moment, so I’m just trying to stay relaxed and go out and do my thing.”

Fera will stand in for struggling fellow rookie Richie Leone, who leads the league in punting with a 49.5yard average but has gone 30-for-39 on field-goal attempts and 27-for-38 on converts. “(Leone’s) got a lot of potential, a lot of ability,” said Tedford. “But it felt like it was good to get him to

take a step back this week, work on things in practice and evaluate (Fera) to see what he can do.”

Tedford and Calgary coach John Hufnagel are making several lineup changes in a bid to keep key players healthy and avoid revealing any post-season strategies. Calgary starting quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell will also get a rest as veteran backup Drew Tate makes his first start of the season.

Meanwhile, B.C. running back Andrew Harris and Stampeders counterpart Jerome Messam will battle for the CFL rushing crown. Harris, who is looking for his inaugural league rushing title, ranks first with 997-yards.

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Ryan Miller ready for his return to Buffalo IAIN MACINTYRE VANCOUVER SUN

VANCOUVER — Please don’t take this the wrong way, Vancouver, but Ryan Miller sees similarities between you and Buffalo.

Sure, and Detroit is just like Vancouver, too, because people live here and people once lived in Detroit.

What the Vancouver Canucks’ Miller sees is his National Hockey League team evolving and building an identity the way the Buffalo Sabres did during the early years of the goaltender’s nine seasons in upstate New York.

Miller reflected on this before travelling Thursday with the Canucks to Buffalo, where he will finally play Saturday for the first time since leaving the Sabres in a March 2014 trade to the St. Louis Blues. One of the final pieces bartered by the Sabres, who chose the demolition method

of rebuilding, Miller missed playing with the Canucks in Buffalo last Feb. 26 because he sprained his knee two games before against the New York Islanders.

“I thought I was pretty ready (to leave Buffalo) but it was a little harder than I thought it would be,” Miller said. “People talk about ‘you’re paid to do a job and you’re a professional, so just go do your job.’ For me and a core group of guys in Buffalo, it was about something we were building, and we really bought into the idea that we were entrusted with something and were trying to bring it to a certain place. It was hard to let that go.

“Having to shift gears and show up as somebody else’s property in St. Louis was a little strange. Like I said, you’re a professional and paid to do a job.

“But you play so many years in a

certain place, having to make that shift is tough.

“The nice thing about coming to Vancouver is I feel like I’m kind of in that same space I was in Buffalo.

We’re building something here, an identity. There’s an idea that we have to learn to play a certain way to be successful, and there’s great satisfaction when you start seeing results from that. There will be ups and downs. But having gone through this in Buffalo, there could be a tremendous upside when you get the confidence to go along with the buy-in.”

Miller has both the confidence and buy-in. Having discovered a balance between technique and instinct, Miller is playing his best goal since winning the Vezina Trophy with the Sabres in 2010. His base statistics after Wednesday’s 3-2 home loss against the Pittsburgh Penguins, a 2.14 goals-against average and .923

save rate, are comparable to the career-best 2.22 and .929 he posted in 2009-10. In his second season since joining the Canucks as a free agent after his disastrous time as a rental player in St. Louis, Miller has become a team leader. He is ready for his return to Buffalo.

“The first couple of years after the (2004-05) lockout when we went to the conference finals, I just think the feeling around the team was pretty special,” Miller, 35, said of the Sabres. “It wasn’t that we were the best team in the league; it was that we kind of grew together and learned how to play the right way together.

“We set goals for ourselves. We knew we’d have to beat certain teams to make the playoffs, and knew we’d have to play a certain way to win in the playoffs. We learned how to do that and it carried us to a game away from the Stanley Cup Final.”

ORLANDO, Fla. — With several early season matchups against playoff-calibre teams, the Orlando Magic have been flirting with posting a signature win.

They finally got one, at the expense of one of the league’s hottest teams.

Tobias Harris had 20 points, including what turned out to be the decisive free throw, and the Magic handed the Toronto Raptors their first loss of the season, 92-87 on Friday night.

Victor Oladipo added 18 points, and reserve C.J. Watson had 12 as the Magic snapped an 11-game losing streak to the Raptors.

“That’s what we have to do,” Magic coach Scott Skiles said. “When a team might not have their ’A’ game, and we’re doing something to affect their game, we need to take advantage of it.”

Trailing 88-86 after Harris’ free throw, Toronto had a chance to take the lead but Jonas Valanciunas was forced to put up an awkward runner that rolled off the rim, and was rebounded by Orlando.

The Magic played without starting centre Nik Vucevic, who sat with a bone bruise in his right knee.

The loss ended what had been a franchise-best 5-0 start for Toronto.

DeMar DeRozan led the Raptors with 23 points, while Cory Joseph had 19, and Kyle Lowry added 17.

Entering Friday it had been hard to spot a weakness in the Raptors’ play this season.

They showed plenty on the offensive end against the Magic.

Toronto struggled shooting the ball all game, finishing 30 of 86 from the field.

But they were able to erase what had been a nine-point halftime deficit just 1:36 into the third quarter.

Toronto hit eight of their first 10 shots during a 19-4 run to start the third, taking a 55-49 lead on a threepoint play by Lowry.

The Magic started the quarter 2 for 6 from the field with three turnovers, prompting Skiles to pull all five starters. The move worked, with the reserves keeping Orlando within striking distance heading into the fourth quarter.

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Shea, Virtanen named as CJFL All-Canadians Football season is over for Dexter Shea and Cole Virtanen, but the awards keep coming in — the Vancouver Island Raiders defensive stars and John Barsby Bulldogs alumni were named as Canadian Junior Football League All-Canadians this week.

Shea, a third-year middle linebacker with the Raiders was also named as a B.C. Football Conference all-star as well as the conference’s top linebacker. He finished the year with 42 tackles, nine assists, two sacks, three pass knockdowns, a forced fumble and two fumble recoveries.

Virtanen was the BCFC’s defensive rookie of the year at safety, and was also named to the conference all-star team. He had 31 tackles, eight assists, six pass knockdowns, a fumble recovery, five interceptions including one for a touchdown.

Both are eligible to return next season. The Raiders lost in the BCFC championship game to the Okanagan Sun, who take on the Saskatoon Hilltops today in Saskatoon.

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Mariners sign two top high school prospects The Vancouver Island University Mariners women’s volleyball team got a boost this week with the signing of two of the top high school prospects in B.C. Sadie Wilson, a six-foot power hitter from Prince of Wales Secondary School, and six-foot-one Riverside Secondary School power hitter Amanda Matsui have both committed to play at VIU. “The league has gotten very strong over the past few years,” said Mariners head coach Shane Hyde, “but I can tell you that these two players will give us an opportunity to get back to the dominant play that the Mariners are used to.

“I was grinning from ear to ear when I received the news that Sadie had decided to play at VIU then 30 minutes later I got the news that Amanda was a Mariner, too, so it was a great night.”

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Nanaimo athletes compete in Portugal The Nanaimo Gymnastics Club had an early start to its competition season with a number of athletes attending their first international competition, the Loulé World Cup 2015 — Trampoline & Tumbling event in Portugal on Oct. 30-31.

Gymnasts Blake Mould and Adin Brenner attended the event along with their coach, Megan Conway, in what was their first ever international competition.

Brenner finished sixth in tumbling, 19th in trampoline and 5th in the double-mini event. Mould was 16th in trampoline and 14th in the double-mini event. They also competed in the team competition in double-mini event and finished with a a bronze medal.

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Clippers smoked 6-1 in Trail Nanaimo squad begins three-day, three-game road trip with loss to Smoke Eaters SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

Three-day, three-game road trips are always going to be difficult in the B.C. Hockey League.

But for the Nanaimo Clippers, they have been especially daunting.

The Clippers, who lost the first game of their last three-in-three trip 6-2 against the Vernon Vipers, didn’t fare much better Friday night to start off another road trip.

In the first game of their secondthree-in-three of the season, the Clippers fell 6-1 to the Trail Smoke Eaters — their second loss in a row.

The Smoke Eaters opened scoring six minutes into the game when a mad scramble ended with Trail forward Jake Kauppila tipped in a point shot from Harlan Orr. Later in the first period while attempting to kill a penalty, the Clippers were trapped in transition with three forwards and one defenceman on the ice. The situation led to Trail forward Ross Armour beating Nanaimo goalie Jonathan Reinhart to put the Smoke Eaters up 2-0. The goal came directly after a failed Clippers two-on-one opportunity.

The Clippers outshot Trail 18-15 in the first period, but couldn’t put the puck in the net.

In the second period, a point shot got past Reinhart again as the Smoke Eaters went up 3-0, forcing Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp

Nanaimo Clippers right wing Charley Borek, right, battles for a loose puck with Trail Smoke Eaters defenceman Cooper Sande during a B.C. Hockey League game Friday night in Trail. [GARY DORLAND/FOR THE DAILY NEWS]

to replace his starting goalie with 16-year-old back-up Jakob Walter. It was Walter’s first action since being handed a six-game suspension Oct. 9 in Vernon.

But he didn’t have any better luck than his counterpart, as Armour scored his second of the game to put Trail up 4-0 midway through the middle frame.

Corey Renwick then dropped the gloves with Nii Noi Tetteh in an attempt to spark the Clippers, but it didn’t do much as Smoke Eaters forward Nick Halloran broke in alone on Walter to give his team 5-0 lead.

Clippers forward Nolan Aibel then accidentally tipped a puck into his own net, putting Trail up 6-0. Harlan Orr got credit for the goal.

Clippers captain Devin Brosseau was able to stop the bleeding with seven minutes to play in the second period, cutting the Trail lead to five goals.

The second period ended with the Smoke Eaters up 6-1 despite the Clippers outshooting them 33-29.

There was no scoring in the third period, and the Clippers ended up outshooting Trail 28-35.

The Clippers won’t have much time to lick their wounds, as they’re back at it tonight against a Penticton Vees team that is ranked No. 1 in the country and on an 18-game winning streak.

Tonight’s game features the top four scorers in the BCHL with Penticton’s Tyson Jost and Scott Cinway first and second in the scoring race and Nanaimo’s Sheldon Rempal third and fourth.

It’s also a rematch of last season’s Fred Page Cup final series that saw the Vees overcome a 2-0 deficit to beat the Clippers in six games.

The Clippers finish the road trip on Sunday against the West Kelowna Warriors, but play another game away from home on Tuesday against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.

Their next home game is Friday night against the Bulldogs.

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Barsby looks impressive as ever heading into finale Scott McKenzie Scott’s Thoughts

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hen looking at the high school football powerhouse John Barsby Bulldogs as they prepare to play their regular season finale today, it’s hard not to be impressed by their victories this season, and the margin they’ve been coming by as of late.

But looking even further, it’s almost as important to look at their losses to show just how impressive this program is right now, as the No. 2-ranked team in B.C. Varsity AA football.

Sure, the two-time defending champions have lost twice this year — two more than anyone ever expects from this program nowadays.

One loss came against the Mt. Douglas Rams, who were at the time the No. 1 team in Varsity AAA. The other at the hands of the current AA top-ranked team, the G.W. Graham Grizzlies.

The lone loss they had last year was against the Argyle Pipers, a team that moved up to the AAA level this season and were still beat by the Bull-

John Barsby Bulldogs wide receiver Alex Bonnetplume, left, looks for room to run after making a pass while Carson Graham Eagles defensive back Wyatt Gilson attempts to make a tackle during a high school footbal game Oct. 23 at Merle Logan Field. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

dogs. And don’t be surprised if the Bulldogs see those Grizzlies again, even though it would likely come at B.C. Place.

If they do, they’ll be a much different team — Barsby head coach Rob Stevenson hadn’t yet whipped out his patented double-wing offence, something that has torched opposing defences en route to a 3-0 record in conference play, 6-2 overall.

They haven’t played a team with a losing record, and won’t this season.

It’s amazing, really, to see what this year’s group has accomplished this year after looking at what they lost from a season ago.

This year’s team had to replace a starting quarterback, their three top runningbacks, their top receiver and a defensive secondary that featured an all-star safety and the provincial player of the year at linebacker.

But that’s high school football.

You don’t complain, you re-load, and you move on. Next man up, as

they say. So the Bulldogs this year have relied on two Grade 11 runningbacks, Matt Cooley and Justis MacKay-Topley, who have far surpassed expectations in combining for 1,125 combined yards in just seven games with 12 touchdowns.

Defensive end Doyle Sosnowski is now second in the province in sacks, and has basically come out of nowhere to become one of the most feared linemen in high school football. Parker Bowles, a three-year starter at middle linebacker is back from a hand injury and the defence as a whole is coming off a game in which they allowed just six points from a Holy Cross Crusaders team that in its previous two games posted more than 100.

When they hit the road to play their regular season finale today in the Border Battle against Parksville’s Ballenas Whalers, they’ll be a heavy favourite to win.

The way things are going, that won’t change when they host a playoff game a week from now.

But if you’ve been watching this program grow, you’re used to that. » Scott McKenzie is the sports editor at the Nanaimo Daily News. To offer comments on this column or to submit a story idea, send an email to: scott.mckenzie@nanaimodailynews.com.

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Hall of Fame class has plenty in common Former Montreal, Detroit head coach Scotty Bowman had his hand on the careers on many of this year’s inductees teammates, know that.”

This is one of many Hall of Fame induction weekends involving players Bowman coached. Still, he was touched by what Lidstrom, Housley and Fedorov had to say.

“It’s pretty humbling because when you’re coaching and you have players, you don’t think way ahead, like a day like today,” Bowman said. “You’re just trying to get them to play at their best and trying to win some games.”

Bowman won more games (1,244) and Stanley Cups (nine) than any other coach and has his name on the trophy a total of 14 times. It’s only fitting that he’s so linked to this class.

Karmanos won the Stanley Cup as owner of the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006, and Hay did so as a player with the Chicago Blackhawks in 1961 before going on to a long career as an executive.

Pronger won the Cup with the Anaheim Ducks in 2007 to go along with Canadian gold medals at the 1997 world junior championships, 2004 world championships and 2010 and 2014 Olympics.

Housley was part of the 1996 U.S. World Cup-champion team, and Ruggiero won gold with the U.S. at the 2002 Olympics.

Kicking off his first induction weekend as chairman of the Hall of Fame, Lanny McDonald said the class of 2015 included “four dominant defencemen, one forward who could play defence and two builders who dedicated their lives to bettering the game we all love.”

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ockey Hall of Famer Steve Shutt won the Stanley Cup five times under Scotty Bowman and famously said that players on the Montreal Canadiens hated the legendary coach 364 days a year, and on the 365th they got their championship rings.

Sitting in the Great Hall on the weekend of his induction, Sergei Fedorov revealed Bowman’s softer side. When Fedorov was having problems in the early days of his relationship with tennis star Anna Kournikova, the legendary coach released him from the team to deal with his personal troubles.

“I really, truly figured out who Scotty Bowman was,” Fedorov said. “After that I played even harder for him.”

Bowman’s influence on the Hall of Fame class of 2015 was significant, from Fedorov and Detroit Red Wings teammate Nicklas Lidstrom to high-scoring defenceman Phil Housley, whom he drafted with the Buffalo Sabres in 1982.

After inductees Lidstrom, Fedorov, Housley, Chris Pronger, Angela Ruggiero, Bill Hay and Peter Karmanos Jr. got their rings at a ceremony Friday, a question-and-answer session turned the spotlight on Bowman’s coaching.

While the 82-year-old sat quietly in the back of the room, his former players raved about him.

“Scotty, when he came to Detroit, we had a good team, but hadn’t won

Chris Pronger, left to right, Peter Karmanos, Angela Ruggiero, Bill Hay, Nicklas Lidstrom, Phil Housley and Sergei Fedorov pose for a group photograph as they show off their rings following a ring presentation at a ceremony to kick off Hockey Hall of Fame weekend in Toronto on Friday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

any championships since the ’50s,” said Lidstrom, who won the Cup four times, including three under Bowman.

“Having Scotty come and be part of something like that, we realized that we had the chance to become a great team, and I think Scott was the reason that it kind of changed the organization and changed the way we were playing.

“I think he was the mind behind us winning some Stanley Cups.”

Bowman didn’t deliver a Cup to Buffalo, but he helped launch Housley’s Hall of Fame career.

“It was just a privilege for me that

he’s the one who took a chance on me and believed in me,” said Housley, the highest-scoring American defenceman in NHL history. “It’s a good chance for me to say thank you to him, as he’s one of the biggest reasons that I was able get into the Hall.”

Then Fedorov told the story about how Bowman let him leave the team to iron out off-ice issues. He missed a couple of days of practice to see Kournikova in Arizona and met the team in California.

“He wasn’t missing any games, but it made sense,” Bowman said. “I never worried about him, his skating and his conditioning.”

A half-hour later, the highest-scoring Russian who once even played defence for Bowman’s Red Wings, explained that he wanted to everyone to see that Bowman wasn’t just a yeller.

“I just wanted to get across that I thought I’m one of the first guys who Scotty kind of let in, that’s he’s really a nice human and really understood our worries, our problems, because he doesn’t behave like that at all,” Fedorov said.

“I had a problem and he let me take care of it, and I didn’t expect that. He let me off the team, that’s unheard of.

I don’t think so many people, even my

FOOTBALL BRIEFS The Associated Press ◆ CHICAGO

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Bears’ rookie runningback excited to make his first start

Marcus Mariota will make return from injury on Sunday

Broncos say they aren’t overlooking Indianapolis

If Jeremy Langford is a little amped up for the Chicago Bears’ game at San Diego on Monday night, it would not be hard to see why.

Langford said he is “very excited” to make his first start with Matt Forte expected to sit out because of a knee injury.

The rookie running back has some big cleats to fill. But quarterback Jay Cutler says he is ready to go with Langford.

“We have no choice,” Cutler said. “Matt is not coming back. Not this game anyway, I don’t think. We’re going to have to work with the young kid, and like I said, he makes it easy.”

Forte walked to the locker room after he got hit in the right leg by Minnesota’s Harrison Smith following a reception early in the third quarter of Sunday’s loss. He sat out practice Thursday and Friday.

Coach John Fox has said he does not think the injury will require surgery or end Forte’s season. But with his 30th birthday next month and his contract set to expire, there is plenty of speculation that one of the most successful running backs in franchise history could be on his way out.

Forte has only missed five games in eight seasons. But he is approaching an age when running backs tend to slow down.

Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota will return to the starting lineup Sunday to face the New Orleans Saints.

Mariota, who is officially listed as probable, has missed the Titans’ last two games with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee. Mariota’s injury occurred on a hit from Miami’s Olivier Vernon, who was penalized for roughing the passer.

“He’s going to play,” Titans interim coach Mike Mularkey said. “I think each day he has gotten better. To be on the turf (for Friday’s practice) here, which is the same turf he’s going to be on Sunday, it was good to see him move around like he did.”

Mariota will wear a brace to protect the knee, but Mularkey said he isn’t concerned about any issues with his quarterback’s mobility.

“You can’t simulate game speed, but that will show up on Sunday when the adrenaline gets flowing,” Mularkey said.

The Titans will be missing wide receiver Kendall Wright and cornerback Blidi Wreh-Wilson on Sunday. Wright has a sprained MCL in his left knee and Wreh-Wilson has a hamstring injury.

Cornerback Jason McCourty hasn’t practiced this week due to a groin injury and is listed as questionable.

The unbeaten Denver Broncos are expecting the unexpected in Indianapolis.

Trickery on special teams.

Uncertainty with a new Colts offensive co-ordinator.

Desperation from a 3-5 team.

Denver coach Gary Kubiak said the Broncos (7-0) aren’t overlooking or underestimating the Colts, who have played six consecutive games decided by no more than seven points. Andrew Luck ailing? OK. He’s still the guy who beat them in the playoffs in January and just threw for nearly 200 yards and two TDs in the fourth quarter to force overtime at Carolina.

“We anticipate their best,” Kubiak said.

“They’re a great football team. They were in the AFC championship last year. They are in first place in their division. They’ve lost some tough games to some really good football teams this year and going there makes it even more difficult.”

Broncos special teams co-ordinator Joe DeCamillis said the Colts are adept at tomfoolery even though they botched one of the wackiest gadget plays in NFL history last month.

“That one got a lot of publicity because it didn’t work, but they’ve had a lot other ones that did work,” he said.

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W 12 7 7

L OTL SL 2 1 0 4 0 2 6 1 1

GF 55 40 38

GA 27 39 37

Pts Home 25 6-0-1-0 16 2-3-0-2 16 2-3-0-0

Away 6-2-0-0 5-1-0-0 5-3-1-1

Last 10 Strk 7-2-1-0 W-1 5-3-0-2 W-2 4-4-1-1 W-1

L OTL SL 2 1 1 3 0 0 4 0 0

GF 38 40 29

GA 24 29 23

Pts Home 20 6-1-1-0 18 5-2-0-0 18 4-2-0-0

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

Last 10 Strk 6-2-1-1 W-4 8-2-0-0 W-1 9-1-0-0 W-6

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35 32 33 40 31 39 38 39 50 42

17 15 15 13 13 11 10 10 8 7

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

5-3-1-1 4-5-1-0 7-2-0-1 6-3-1-0 3-4-2-1 3-5-2-0 5-5-0-0 4-6-0-0 4-6-0-0 2-6-1-1

METROPOLITAN DIVISION N.Y. Rangers Washington Pittsburgh

GP 13 12 13

W 9 9 9

WILD CARD N.Y. Islanders Detroit New Jersey Boston Florida Philadelphia Carolina Buffalo Columbus Toronto

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7 4 7 5 7 5 6 5 5 5 4 6 5 8 5 8 4 10 2 8

2 1 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 1

1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2

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WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Dallas St. Louis Nashville

GP 14 13 12

W 11 9 8

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

GF 50 36 35

GA 38 31 27

Pts Home 22 5-1-0-0 19 4-1-1-0 18 4-0-1-0

Away 6-2-0-0 5-2-0-0 4-2-1-0

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W 8 6 7

L OTL SL 5 0 0 3 4 0 6 0 0

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GA 28 29 35

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Away 4-1-0-0 4-0-1-0 4-3-0-0

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4 3 6 5 9 9 9 7

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18 16 15 13 10 9 9 8

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

5-3-1-1 5-3-2-0 5-4-1-0 4-5-1-0 5-5-0-0 2-7-1-0 3-6-0-1 3-6-1-0

PACIFIC DIVISION Los Angeles Vancouver San Jose

WILD CARD Winnipeg Minnesota Chicago Arizona Edmonton Colorado Calgary Anaheim

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015

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NHL Montreal Ottawa Tampa Bay

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1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

3-2-1-0 5-1-0-0 6-1-1-0 2-3-0-0 3-5-0-0 2-5-1-0 2-5-0-0 3-2-0-1

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

Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout gets two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets one point in the OTL or SOL columns. )ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Dallas 4 Carolina 1 New Jersey 4 Chicago 2 Detroit 2 Toronto 1 (OT) N.Y. Rangers 2 Colorado 1 Pittsburgh 2 Edmonton 1 Columbus at Anaheim 7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Washington 4 Boston 1 Tampa Bay 4 Buffalo 1 Ottawa 3 Winnipeg 2 (SO) Montreal 4 N.Y. Islanders 1 Nashville 3 Minnesota 2 Calgary 2 Philadelphia 1 (OT) Arizona 4 Colorado 2 Columbus 3 Los Angeles 2 San Jose 5 Florida 2

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Vancouver at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Florida at Los Angeles, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Boston at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Calgary, 10 p.m.

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

6XQGD\¡V JDPHV Dallas at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 8 p.m.

RED WINGS 2, MAPLE LEAFS 1 (OT)

Dallas 13 8 7—28 Carolina 6 13 12—31 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 5-1-0).

Carolina: Lack (L, 1-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Dallas: 0-1; Carolina: 0-0.

Referees — Greg Kimmerly, Marc Joannette. Linesmen — Jonny Murray, Brad Kovachik.

Att. — 10,188 at Raleigh, N.C..

First Period 1. Detroit, Zetterberg 4 (Larkin, Abdelkader) 16:21.

Penalties — Smith Det (hooking) 18:29.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Ericsson Det (high-sticking) 0:16, Nyquist Det (holding) 15:33.

Third Period 2. Toronto, Phaneuf 1 (Bozak, Parenteau) 18:58.

Penalties — Spaling Tor (high-sticking) 0:06, Bozak Tor (high-sticking) 5:04, Winnik Tor (high-sticking) 13:02, Marchenko Det (tripping) 15:53.

Overtime 3. Detroit, Kindl 2 (Pulkkinen, Tatar) 2:17.

Penalties — None.

Shots Detroit 9 3 9 3—24 Toronto 12 8 13 0—33 Goal — Detroit: Mrazek (W, 4-3-0).

Toronto: Reimer (LO, 2-2-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Detroit: 0-3; Toronto: 0-4.

Referees — Francois St. Laurent, Gord Dwyer. Linesmen — Derek Amell, Ryan Galloway.

Att. — 19,680 at Toronto, ON.

STARS 4, HURRICANES 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hainsey Car (high-sticking) 14:59.

Second Period 1. Carolina, Jo. Staal 2 (E. Staal, Hainsey) 3:41.

2. Dallas, Hemsky 2 (Sceviour, Fiddler) 9:46.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 3. Dallas, Sharp 5 (Seguin) 11:15.

4. Dallas, Faksa 1 (Sceviour, Benn) 13:20.

5. Dallas, Demers 4 (unassisted) 19:59 (en).

Penalties — None.

Shots

DEVILS 4, BLACKHAWKS 2 First Period 1. New Jersey, Stempniak 3 (unassisted) 3:48.

2. New Jersey, Palmieri 4 (Zajac) 17:48.

3. New Jersey, Zajac 6 (Severson, Stempniak) 18:14.

Penalties — Garbutt Chi (high-sticking) 7RHZV &KL ÀJKWLQJ +HQULTXH 1- ÀJKWLQJ

Second Period 4. New Jersey, Cammalleri 4 (Severson, Palmieri) 7:28.

5. Chicago, Kane 9 (Gustafsson, Shaw) 18:42.

Penalties — Greene NJ (interference) 4:56, Schlemko NJ (high-sticking) 19:39.

Third Period 6. Chicago, Kero 1 (Panarin, Teravainen) 18:34.

Penalties — Larsson NJ (cross-checking) 5:05, Seabrook Chi (holding) 5:15.

Shots Chicago 8 7 14—29 New Jersey 13 8 5—26 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (L, 6-4-1); Darling (2nd period 2nd period). New Jersey: Schneider (W, 7-3-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Chicago: 0-3; New Jersey: 0-2.

Referees — Chris Lee, TJ Luxmore.

Linesmen — Derek Nansen, Tim Nowak.

Att. — 16,514 at Newark, N.J..

RANGERS 2, AVALANCHE 1 First Period 1. Colorado, MacKinnon 6 (Barrie) 7:13 (pp).

Penalties — Hayes NYR (hooking) 6:44.

Second Period

2. N.Y. Rangers, Stepan 4 (Zuccarello, McDonagh) 12:42 (pp).

3. N.Y. Rangers, Lindberg 7 (McDonagh, Hayes) 13:03.

Penalties — Miller NYR (hooking) 4:34, Street Col (hooking) 11:51, Kreider NYR (tripping) 13:51, Lindberg NYR (tripping) 18:24.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Soderberg Col (hooking) 3:27, Comeau Col (cross-checking) 6:35, Moore NYR (elbowing) 6:35, Klein NYR (delay of game) 14:42.

Shots N.Y. Rangers 11 10 12—33 Colorado 7 9 14—30 Goal — N.Y. Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 7-22). Colorado: Berra (L, 1-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — N.Y. Rangers: 1-2; Colorado: 1-5.

Referees — Jean Hebert, Mike Leggo.

Linesmen — Ryan Gibbons, Vaughan Rody.

Att. — 17,818 at Denver, Col..

PENGUINS 2, OILERS 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Plotnikov Pgh (interference) 2:15, Hall Edm (slashing) 3:04, Hendricks Edm (hooking) 14:48.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Klefbom 2 (Pouliot, Yakupov) :45.

2. Pittsburgh, Sprong 2 (Cullen, Plotnikov) 9:06.

Penalties — Davidson Edm (interference) 11:38.

Third Period 3. Pittsburgh, Kessel 5 (Letang, Crosby) 9:45 (pp).

Penalties — Nilsson Edm (tripping) 9:30, Cole Pgh (delay of game) 15:55.

Shots Pittsburgh 15 11 7—33 Edmonton 5 14 9—28 Goal — Power plays (goal-chances) — Pittsburgh: 1-4; Edmonton: 0-2.

Referees — Tim Peel, Graham Skilliter.

Linesmen — Brian Mach, Kiel Murchison.

Att. — 16,839 at Edmonton, AB.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE d-Atlanta d-Cleveland d-Toronto Detroit Chicago Washington Indiana Milwaukee Miami Charlotte Boston New York Orlando Philadelphia Brooklyn

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L

Pct

GB

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1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 6

.857 .833 .833 .750 .667 .600 .500 .500 .500 .400 .400 .333 .333 .000 .000

— 1 /2 1 /2 1 1 /2 11/2 2 21/2 21/2 21/2 3 3 31/2 1 3 /2 5 51/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE d-Golden State d-Portland d-San Antonio L.A. Clippers Phoenix Utah Oklahoma City Minnesota Memphis Denver Houston Dallas Sacramento L.A. Lakers New Orleans

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

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— 11/2 2 1 2 2 21/2 1 2 /2 21/2 3 3 3 4 4 5

Friday's results Orlando 92 Toronto 87 L.A. Lakers 104 Brooklyn 98 Boston 118 Washington 98 Milwaukee 99 New York 92 Cleveland 108 Philadelphia 102 Atlanta 121 New Orleans 115 Indiana 90 Miami 87 Detroit at Phoenix Denver at Golden State Houston at Sacramento Thursday's results Chicago 104 Oklahoma City 98 Miami 96 Minnesota 84 Charlotte 108 Dallas 94 Utah 96 Denver 84 Portland 115 Memphis 96 Saturday's games Minnesota at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.

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

Memphis at Utah, 9 p.m.

Golden State at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday's games L.A. Lakers at New York, 3:30 p.m.

Indiana at Cleveland, 3:30 p.m.

Toronto at Miami, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Portland, 9 p.m.

WHL

FOOTBALL

EASTERN CONFERENCE

WORLD UNDER-17 CHALLENGE

EAST DIVISION

At Dawson Creek and Fort St. John, B.C.

Prince Albert Brandon Moose Jaw Saskatoon Swift Current Regina

GP W 18 12 17 11 17 9 17 7 17 7 15 7

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 4 1 1 64 54 26 4 0 2 67 46 24 5 2 1 66 52 21 7 3 0 58 69 17 8 2 0 44 51 16 7 1 0 40 52 15

CENTRAL DIVISION Red Deer Lethbridge Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 18 13 5 0 0 70 50 26 16 11 5 0 0 69 50 22 19 9 9 0 1 51 67 19 18 6 9 3 0 47 59 15 14 5 6 2 1 51 57 13 18 4 12 2 0 42 74 10

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W Victoria 19 13 Kelowna 16 11 Prince George 14 8 Kamloops 14 6 Vancouver 15 4

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 5 0 1 62 37 27 5 0 0 62 49 22 6 0 0 39 37 16 8 0 0 46 50 12 8 2 1 43 63 11

U.S. DIVISION Seattle Spokane Portland Everett Tri-City

GP 16 17 14 11 16

W 9 7 7 6 6

L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 6 1 0 56 44 19 7 2 1 48 63 17 7 0 0 41 34 14 4 0 1 24 25 13 9 1 0 49 56 13

z-league title; y-conference title;ddivision leader; x-clinched playoff berth.

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Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION Penticton Salmon Arm West Kelowna Vernon Merritt Trail

GP W L 19 18 1 18 11 4 18 11 5 19 9 9 20 6 13 17 6 11

T OTL GF GA Pt 0 0 84 36 36 2 1 77 51 25 0 2 63 55 24 0 1 102 55 19 0 1 65 91 13 0 0 51 74 12

ISLAND DIVISION C.Valley Nanaimo Powell River Alberni Valley Victoria

GP W L 18 10 5 18 11 7 19 10 9 17 6 9 19 5 12

T OTL GF GA Pt 1 2 70 96 23 0 0 71 54 22 0 0 58 51 20 1 1 40 59 14 0 2 44 61 12

MAINLAND DIVISION Wenatchee Langley Chilliwack Coquitlam Prince George Surrey

GP W L 19 11 5 18 12 6 18 10 5 18 7 8 18 5 12 19 4 15

PLAYOFFS )ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV At Fort St. John, B.C. Placement Game Finland 5 United States 4 (OT) 6HPLÀQDO Russia 3 Canada Red 2 (SO) At Dawson Creek, B.C. Placement Game Czech Republic 4 Canada Black 2 6HPLÀQDO Canada White 2 Sweden 1 7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV

QUARTER-FINALS At Dawson Creek, B.C. Canada Red 3 Canada Black 2 Canada White 4 Finland 2 At Fort St. John, B.C. Sweden 5 United States 4 Russia 6 Czech Republic 1 6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV At Dawson Creek, B.C. Third Place Canada Red vs. Sweden, 5 p.m.

Championship Russia vs. Canada White, 9:30 p.m.

SOCCER MLS PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (two-game, total-goal series)

EASTERN CONFERENCE NEW YORK (1) VS. D.C. (4) (New York leads series 1-0) Sunday's result New York 1 D.C. 0 Sunday's game D.C. at New York, 3 p.m.

COLUMBUS (2) VS. MONTREAL (3) (Montreal leads series 2-1) Sunday's result Montreal 2 Columbus 1 Sunday's game Montreal at Columbus, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE DALLAS (1) VS. SEATTLE (4) (Dallas leads series 2-1) Sunday's result Seattle 2 Dallas 1 Sunday's game Seattle at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

VANCOUVER (2) VS. PORTLAND (3) (Series tied 0-0) Sunday's result Vancouver 0 Portland 0 Sunday's game Portland at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

ENGLAND

)ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Vernon at Alberni Valley Langley at Chilliwack Salmon Arm at Surrey Cowichan Valley at Victoria Merritt at West Kelowna Coquitlam at Wenatchee Prince George at Powell River Nanaimo at Trail 7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Langley 10 Surrey 4 6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Salmon Arm at Langley, 6 p.m.

Nanaimo at Penticton, 6 p.m.

Prince George at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Vernon at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Coquitlam at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Trail at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

x-Ottawa Hamilton x-Toronto Montreal

GP 17 17 18 17

W 11 10 10 6

L 6 7 8 11

T 0 0 0 0

PF 420 502 438 364

PA 426 347 499 372

Pt 22 20 20 12

GP W L T PF PA Pt x-Edmonton 18 14 4 0 466 341 28 x-Calgary 17 13 4 0 450 339 26 B.C. 17 7 10 0 430 458 14 Winnipeg 18 5 13 0 353 502 10 Saskatchewan 17 2 15 0 400 539 4

1—11 0—21 Tor 25 155 299 23-33 46 0-0 0-0 3 7-48.0 3-35 34:32

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

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Win: Marshall 11-80, Davis 9-34. Tor: Kackert 10-89, Steele 11-54, Shaw 1-11, McPherson 1-1, Isaac 1--5.

Receiving — Win: Moore 4-56, Denmark 3-53, Adams 4-33, Kohlert 2-29, Marshall 4-20, Bastien 1-7. Tor: Spencer 8-123, Bates 5-99, Coombs 3-36, Kackert 4-18, Stala 2-15, Steele 1-8.

Passing — Win: Davis 16-25-169-0-0, Nichols 2-3-29-0-0. Tor: Harris 14-21-2101-1, Ray 9-12-89-1-0.

Att. — 17,511 at Toronto.

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First Quarter Tor — FG J.Palardy 47 4:14 Wpg — FG Castillo 30 15:00 Second Quarter Tor — TD Stala 13 pass from Ray (convert failed) 3:56 Tor — FG J.Palardy 17 10:33 Wpg — Single Castillo 55 12:56 Wpg — FG Castillo 48 15:00 Third Quarter Tor — Single J.Palardy 58 2:41 Wpg — FG Castillo 38 5:48 Tor — TD Stala 2 pass from Harris (J.Palardy convert) 7:14 Tor — Single J.Palardy 65 11:01 Fourth Quarter Wpg — Single Castillo 53 3:45 4 3 9 9 Win 14 114 198 18-28 188 1-23 2-1 4 8-43.5 8-75 25:28

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Friday's results Toronto 21 Winnipeg 11 Saturday, November 7 Hamilton at Ottawa, 4 p.m.

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

Sunday, November 8 Saskatchewan at Montreal, 1 p.m.

Salford City 2 Notts County 0

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St. Louis at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

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Washington at New England, 1 p.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m.

Denver at Indianapolis, 4:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Monday's game Chicago at San Diego, 8:30 p.m.

LATE THURSDAY BENGALS 31, BROWNS 10 Cleveland Cincinnati

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Cle — FG Coons 27, 0:06.

Second Quarter Cin — Eifert 2 pass from Dalton (Nugent kick), 4:34.

Cle — Johnson Jr. 12 pass from Manziel (Coons kick), 0:19.

Third Quarter Cin — FG Nugent 28, 4:05.

Fourth Quarter Cin — Sanu 25 run (Nugent kick), 13:26.

Cin — Eifert 19 pass from Dalton (Nugent kick), 7:43.

A — 65,816 at Cincinnati.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punts Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

Cle 13 213 17-69 144 1-0 2-42 0-0 15-33-0 3-24 6-45.7 0-0 4-28 23:57

Cin 23 371 37-152 219 3-9 1-13 0-0 21-27-0 2-15 3-26.3 0-0 2-20 36:03

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING — Cleveland, Crowell 10-38, Manziel 4-31. Cincinnati, Bernard 13-72, Hill 15-52, Sanu 1-25, Dalton 6-5, McCarron 2--2.

PASSING — Cleveland, Manziel 15-33168-1-0. Cincinnati, Dalton 21-27-234-3-0 RECEIVING — Cleveland, Johnson Jr. 2-38, Barnidge 2-35, Bowe 3-31, Crowell 3-26, Benjamin 3-22, Dray 1-13, Gabriel 1-3. Cincinnati, Jones 5-78, Eifert 5-53, Green 4-53, Sanu 3-25, Bernard 1-14, Burkhead 1-7, Tate 1-4.

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BNP PARIBAS MASTERS At Paris, France Friday's results MEN Singles 4XDUWHUĂ€QDOV Andy Murray (2), Scotland, def.

Richard Gasquet (10), France, 7-6 (9-7), 3-6, 6-3.

David Ferrer (8), Spain, def. John Isne (13), United States, 6-3, 6-7 (6-8), 6-2.

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Tomas Berdych (5), Czech Republic, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (10-8).

Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def.

Rafael Nadal (7), Spain, 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (9-7).

CFL

Argos bid farewell to Rogers Centre after 27 years NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — The CFL season continues for the Toronto Argonauts but their era under the dome is over.

The Argos exited the Rogers Centre on a winning note Friday after 27 seasons at the stadium, defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 21-11 in a meaningless game for both teams.

Toronto’s 2015 season is not yet done but it will play its post-season on the

road. Winnipeg is finished for the year. Next season the Argos will call BMO Field home — and hope that the outdoor lakefront stadium might lure fans back in the same way that Montreal’s move to the more intimate Percival Molson Stadium revitalized interest in that CFL team.

The last CFL game at the Rogers Centre drew an announced attendance of 17,511. Winnipeg coach Mike O’Shea, a longtime Argo player, was

an assistant coach when Toronto won the 2012 Grey Cup. “After playing so many times when it wasn’t full, coming out in front of 50,000 pro-Argos fans was great,� he recalled.

Toronto coach Scott Milanovich recorded his first victory at the Rogers Centre, against Calgary, and was at the helm for the 2012 Cup win. “There’s a lot of good memories for me in this building. So it was a little

sad to see it go, yeah.�

Toronto running back Chad Kackert, the MVP of the 2012 Grey Cup, was also sorry to say goodbye. “I’m going to miss it,� he said. “It’s a special place for me. Some of the best moments of my life have occurred here. It’ll be tough to see it go. But there’s always more memories to be made.� There was some symmetry to the Argos’ home finale coming against Winnipeg. Toronto’s first game at

what was then known as SkyDome was a 17-16 pre-season victory over the Bombers on June 29, 1989.

There was little emotion to the final evening, although the giant scoreboard did flash Rogers Centre memories throughout the game. The switch to BMO Field takes the Argos back to the CNE, where they used to flourish at Exhibition Stadium before taking up residence in 1989 at SkyDome.

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» EVENTS // EMAIL: EVENTS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM SATURDAY, NOV. 7 10 a.m. Bastion City Wanderers Volkssport Club invites you to a 6-km or 11-km walk at Christie Falls, Ladysmith. Meet at the end of Christie Rd in front of red TimberWest gate.

Park on the side of the road. Registration at 9:45 a.m. For information, call Ethel at 250-756-9796.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Annual World Craft Bazaar at Knox United Church, Ethical, exotic gift choices and Fair Trade goods. Lunch available.

Free admission. Co-sponsored by Karios and Knox Church. Pym at Humphrey streets, Parksville. For information call 250-248-0310.

Noon-4 p.m. A variety of carvings of takes place at the Annual Woodcarving Show, at the Seniors Centre, 500 Bowen Rd. Entry $2.

For information, or to show carvings, call Don Olsen, 250-758-6898 or olsen272@telus.net.

saxophonist Patrick Byrne, pianist Frank Huether and drummer Randall Miron at the Crofton Hotel Pub, 1534 Joan Ave. in Crofton.

Admission: $15. Information: 250-324-2245 or http://croftonhotel.ca.

6:30 p.m. Sweets and Songs fundraiser: Evening of food, drinks music and bake sale. All proceeds support Mission Team in CamCam, the Philippines in January. Departure Bay Baptist Church. 3510 Departure Bay Rd. For information: 250-758-9334.

MONDAY, NOV. 9 7:30 p.m. Matthew Good with guest: Scott Helman at the Port Theatre. Tickets $45 at The Port Theatre Box Office, www.porttheatre.com or call 250-754-8550.

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2-5 p.m. Salt Spring Island’s Sky Valley jazz quartet, led by bassist Alan Wardroper with

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ladysmith Fall Farmer Market, at 49th Parallel Grocery.

7 p.m. Joceylyn Alice with special guests at The Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cres., Tickets $10, $15.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11 7-9 p.m. Audition call for Nanaimo Theatre Group’s Love Song at the Bailey Studio, 2373 Rosstown Rd, Nanaimo; male and female actors needed, ages 20-60; for information: 250-758-7246

8 p.m. Longwood Brew Pub presents Brandon Stone, Kat, 5775 Turner Rd., Nanaimo.

7 and 9 p.m. Up to six comedians at Old City Station Pub, 150 Skinner St., Nanaimo. Tickets $10 at The Old City Station Pub. SATURDAY, NOV. 14 1-3 p.m. Home Baking, mystery gifts, raffle, & refreshments. Nanaimo Chapter #43 Order of the Eastern Star Christmas Bazaar, at Brechin United Church Hall. Admission $10. Further information: 250-753-2846.

7:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Symphony presents music and dance. Guest artist ballet or Ivana Ho, chor eographer Sharman Byrd.

Tickets: $33 or $59, students $18, Eyego $5 available at www.porttheatre.com.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Whatever you do, you will do it with all your heart. You most likely will be participating in a special event with a loved one. Others also seek you out. A close friend might not be on the same page as you about a potential trip. Tonight: Take others’ feelings into consideration.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Spend some quality time with a loved one over breakfast or immediately afterward. Your imagination will delight this person. You might have some errands or a special happening to attend to later. You naturally delight others in your own way. Tonight: Be nurturing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Fun surrounds you. Feelings could be quite passionate, no matter what the topic. It seems as though no one feels lukewarm about any one topic. Let out the child within you and enjoy those around you, rather than get uptight. Consider a picnic lunch. Tonight: Add some spice.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Choose to respond to an invitation to talk in the morning. You’ll have the opportunity to reveal your feelings and have a long-overdue conversation. A happy quality evolves around your home. You might decide that staying at home is a worthwhile idea. Tonight: Order in.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Run out for a favourite breakfast treat, and bring it home for others. Do this, and you’ll start the day on the right note. The day only gets better, though there might be a discussion

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about your attitude as of late. Don’t make it a big deal. Tonight: Someone snags your heart.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Use the morning well, as your energy levels remain high and you become unusually expressive of your feelings. You might go overboard in an area where you frequently tend to overindulge and not care about what others have to say. Tonight: Out on the town.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)You might need to handle a personal matter in the morning, after which you will be much more upbeat. You could discover that there is a difficult moment in a discussion with a key person in your life. Decide whether you should pull away.

Tonight: Hang out with your pals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Investigate possibilities more carefully than you have in the past. Be respectful with a sincere offer, even if you decide to nix it. A child or a new friend could be fun to brainstorm with. You will love this person’s imagination. Tonight: Maintain a low profile.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Give up being so serious. You could be raining on others’ parades more than you realize. If you feel excluded, perhaps you need to put yourself in a different situation. You don’t need to make a decision right now. Weigh various ideas. Tonight: Find a friend who makes you laugh.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You might consider spontaneously taking off with a loved one this morning. A change of scenery revitalizes you and anyone fortunate enough to be with you. You will

feel empowered by what is happening around you. Tonight: Others naturally gravitate toward you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) One person pulls in close. Can you handle this type of behaviour? In any case, you will want to reflect on this later in the day. Make it OK to head to a ball game, an art exhibit or some other fun activity by yourself.

Tonight: Weigh the pros and cons of recent events.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Others seem to gather around you this morning. A loved one could become irritated, as he or she wants your company. Be smart, and make time for the special people in your life; don’t take them for granted. The payoff will be worth it.

Tonight: With someone you adore.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Nov. 7) This year you have many friends. One person in particular is unusually lucky for you; keep this person around. You have many high aspirations. You also are acutely aware of what is not working. If you can’t make a situation workable, consider nixing it in the near future. If you are single, use care before committing to any relationship. Someone significant could enter your life. If you are attached, you’ll want more and more time alone together.

Consider going away more for a night or two. These periods will strengthen your bond. LIBRA knows what makes you tick.

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MOVIES

Stallone packs a punch with latest spinoff ‘Creed’ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHILADELPHIA — There’s a scene in Creed where the latest brash boxer who challenges the upstart protege of Rocky Balboa barks, “No one cares about Balboa anymore!”

Yo, through 40 years of Rocky as an underdog, champion, and aging, widowed fighter, fans sure do care.

Dressed in robes, fedora hats and even boxing boots, the costumed enthusiasts chanting “Rocky! Rocky!

Rocky!” on Friday had one more reason to cheer for Philadelphia’s favourite fictional son.

Sylvester Stallone goes one more round as Balboa in the spinoff Creed, and he wants the character to tally even more before he joins Adrian, Apollo and Paulie in that great squared circle in the sky.

“There’s more to go,” Stallone said Friday. “I would like to follow this

“There’s more to go.

I would like to follow this character until eventually he’s an angel.”

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character until eventually he’s an angel.”

The 69-year-old Stallone, writer of the first Rocky that earned 10 Academy Award nominations including best picture, promised more movies based on Balboa and Adonis Creed. Creed is the son of Rocky’s heavyweight rival and beach-running friend, Apollo Creed, and the titular character who coaxed Balboa out of retirement and into a trainer’s role in the movie set for a Nov. 25 release.

Stallone and fellow Creed actors Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson, writer-director Ryan Coogler and producer Irwin Winkler attended a celebration of the movie atop the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps.

Mayor Michael Nutter attended a screening Thursday night and said the movie should win an Academy Award for best picture. The Rocky series spawned six more movies, and all the films shared a common co-star with Stallone — Philadelphia.

“The movie put Philadelphia literally on the map,” Nutter said.

Stallone’s run through the Italian Market and up the museum’s 72 steps in the first movie propped both locations from local landmarks into iconic tourist attractions. A bronze statue of the hard-luck fighter stands at the base of the steps.

Creed opens a more modern Phila-

delphia to a new generation of fans: Johnny Brenda’s, Max’s Steaks, Front Street Gym. All take centre stage in the new flick and so does newer lingo. “Yo!” makes way for “jawn,” a Philly word that can be used to describe anything.

When Los Angeles transplant Creed (Jordan) has his first cheesesteak with love interest Bianca (Thompson), she asks for “some peppers on that jawn.”

“Jawn this, jawn that,” Creed said.

“What’s that?”

Thompson said she spent about two months around Philadelphia to add native authenticity to her character.

“There’s no better way to learn how to be a Philly jawn than just spend a lot of time in some Philly jawns,” she said.

Jordan was immersed for nearly a year in training for a movie that

probably has more fight scenes than any of the first six movies.

“Did I get hurt? I took a few real punches, for sure. Thank Sly for that one,” said Jordan, who trained with fighters Andre Ward and Gabriel Rosado.

“I know, you deserved it,” Stallone said, laughing.

Rocky has become as much a Philadelphia institution as the Liberty Bell and Stallone is always greeted with a frenzy normally reserved for its real-life sports heroes.

“I started skipping rocks in the Schuylkill River over there when I was 12 years old,” said Stallone, who lived Philly as a teen.

“So all you kids in the audience there, if you don’t think you can make it up these steps of life, which is kind of represented here by this museum, don’t you believe that.

Because if I can do it, you can do it.”

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Jim Pasco of the Fraternal Order of Police told the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday that the union has something planned for Tarantino and that “the element of the surprise is the most important element.”

“The time and place will come up and we’ll try to hurt him the only way that seems to mat-

ter to him, and that’s economically,” said Pasco.

He said this event could happen anytime between now and the premiere of The Hateful Eight, on Christmas Day. Numerous police groups have said they’ll boycott the film after Tarantino attended an anti-police brutality rally in October where said he was protesting “murder” and was there

to demonstrate that he’s “on the side of the murdered.”

Appearing on MSBNC on Wednesday, Tarantino said that police, by feuding with him, are obscuring “the fact that the citizenry has lost trust in (police).”

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TORONTO — Veterans Julian de Guzman and Atiba Hutchinson and newcomer Junior Hoilett lead a strong Canadian roster for the first two matches of the penultimate round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying.

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the Honduras debacle. Forward Lucas Cavallini has played just once for Canada — against Ghana — since that game.

Under Floro, Canada is 6-7-9.

That record includes World Cup qualifying aggregate wins over Belize (4-1) and Dominica (6-0).

Canada is one of 12 countries left in CONCACAF qualifying, with three or possibly four teams from North and Central America and the Caribbean advancing to the 2018 tournament in Russia.

In the penultimate round of qualifying, the 12 teams are divided into three pools. Canada, ranked No. 102 in the world, is in Group A with No. 94 El Salvador, No. 95 Honduras and No. 24 Mexico. The top two teams in each round-robin group will advance to the six-team final round of qualifying in the region.

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SHANGHAI — Two par saves in the middle of his round and two birdies at the end put Kevin Kisner in a place he has never been.

And that has nothing to do with his first trip to China.

Kisner put together another bogey-free performance Friday in the HSBC Champions for a 6-under 66 and a two-shot lead over Russell Knox going into the weekend of the World Golf Championship. He was at 14-under 130, the lowest 36-hole score of his career, and he was the 36-hole leader for the first time in his career.

It was more than Kisner expected at Sheshan International, mainly because he didn’t have any expectations.

A sore back kept the 31-yearold American from seeing the golf course until he teed it up in the opening round on Thursday.

He was so lost that walking off the eighth green, he wasn’t sure how to get to the next hole.

None of that seemed to matter. “It’s just golf, man,� Kisner said. “Doesn’t matter if it was here or wherever. Still get the ball in the hole as fast as you can.�

“It’s just golf, man.

It doesn’t matter if it was here or wherever.�

Kevin Kisner, tournament leader

That proved far more difficult Friday than in the opening round, mainly because the still, soft conditions gave way to a strong wind that never relented.

Kisner twice saved par, with a 20-foot putt on the par-3 fourth and a 15-foot putt on the par-4 15th hole.

Only 16 players shot in the 60s on Friday, compared with 41 in the opening round.

Knox started his round with a 40-foot birdie putt that set the tone for the day. He wound up with the low round of the day at 7-under 65, leaving him two shots behind Kisner and with his own tale about being a little unprepared for his first World Golf Championship.

Knox only found out last week in Malaysia that he was in the HSBC Champions when J.B. Holmes withdrew. That was the good news.

The problem was getting a visa for China, so wife Andrea

came to rescue — twice. First, she filled out all his forms while he played the CIMB Classic and arranged for the meeting with the Chinese consulate in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. Then, she filled in as a caddie for his practice round at Sheshan because Knox’s caddie took an extra day to arrange for his visa. “My wife was a superstar,�

Knox said.

One job apparently was easier than the other. “We got a stand bag from the pro here and played the quickest practice round ever, and she complained heavily for the last nine holes,� he said with a laugh. “But it was nice to run around quickly, so I did get to see the course. My caddie did not, so I told him what we were going to do.�

The top two players on the leaderboard going into the weekend have never won on the PGA Tour, and both know so much can change over the next two days. Even so, Kisner’s solid play has created a little bit of separation.

Branden Grace of South Africa, who opened with a 63, added three birdies through 10 holes until he forced the issue trying to get further ahead and wound

up playing the final eight holes in 2 over. He had to settle for a 71 and was four shots behind.

The buzz came from Li Haotong of China, who spent the afternoon chasing the lead and thrilling the hometown gallery.

A bogey on the final hole gave him a 69, and he joined Patrick Reed (70) at 9-under 135.

Li played the PGA Tour China series last year and had a chance midway through the Web.com Tour season to earn a PGA Tour card until fading.

Playing at home in a World Golf Championship, he enjoyed the moment — especially seeing his name on the leaderboard. “Almost every hole,� Li said with a big smile. “Very cool. Very fun.�

It wasn’t a lot of fun for some of the biggest names.

Jordan Spieth missed a few good opportunities at the turn, and then ran off three straight bogeys and wondered if he would make another par. He salvaged his day with birdies on the final two par 5s for a 72, though he was 10 shots behind. “When I get into the breeze, I hit some shots that I was very shocked with today,� he said. “But I lost a lot of focus there, too.�

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Designer Iris van Herpen talks to visitors about a piece from the Voltage collection at the High Museum’s new exhibit, ‘Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion’ on Thursday in Atlanta. The exhibit, running through May 15, shows the evolution of van Herpen’s design from collections created from 2008 through 2015. [AP PHOTO]

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rawing inspiration from sources including art, architecture, the movement of the human body and science, Iris van Herpen creates cutting-edge fashion using a combination of traditional craftsmanship and innovative technology.

And though van Herpen’s name may not be well-known to the average fashion-loving consumer, fashion-forward singers like Lady Gaga, Bjork and Beyonce have all worn her creations.

“Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion,” a new exhibition opening Saturday at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, features 45 pieces pulled from 15 of the Dutch artist’s collections designed between 2008 and this year.

Organized chronologically, it gives visitors insight into the evolution of the young designer’s career.

Many of the couture pieces look like costumes from a futuristic science fiction movie, with dramatic

“Often my inspiration doesn’t come from something visual.

Often I’m inspired by things that are invisible to us, like magnetic motion or electricity.”

Iris van Herpen, designer

flourishes created from unexpected materials and contrasting textures.

The pieces are displayed on custom mannequins in such a way that visitors can walk around and see them from every angle because they are as much sculpture as clothing, said High curator of decorative arts and design Sarah Schleuning.

Van Herpen, 31, said people sometimes assume she is inspired by technology, but that is not the case.

Rather she sees technology as a tool to help her achieve the physical rep-

resentation of ideas in her head, she said.

“Often my inspiration doesn’t come from something visual,” she said.

“Often I’m inspired by things that are invisible to us, like magnetic motion or electricity.”

Her creative process often includes collaborations with other artists, designers, architects and scientists.

Once she has an idea in her head she experiments to see whether it can best be executed by hand or using more high-tech methods, like 3-D printing.

The first 3-D printed piece she sent down a runway was from a collection called Crystallization in July 2010 and was inspired by the way limestone deposits harden. The cream-coloured polyamide material extends out from the torso in ridged loops, and thin strips of acrylic stick out from the waist of a matching short leather skirt in a way that mimics water squirting out from a fountain.

In the same collection is a water-in-

spired dress. A simple iridescent beige leather sheath with columns of ruffles and draped in metal chains is accented by a giant plastic collar that makes it look as if someone came up and threw a bucket of water on the model and that splash is frozen in time.

One of the most remarkable pieces in the exhibition, which the High recently acquired, is from van Herpen’s spring 2015 collection, Magnetic Motion. It looks like a delicately carved ice sculpture. The structures are so fine and delicate that the technicians at the company that printed it for her initially didn’t think it would be possible to create with a 3-D printer using the transparent resin she wanted.

The result is a stunning short strapless dress that hinges open along one side and snaps onto the model. Like many of the other pieces in the exhibition, it’s hard to imagine how it looks on a human body. Luckily, a video in a side gallery showcases six of her runway shows so visitors

can see the outfits on models and watch the extraordinary way they move.

Made from materials that include woven metal gauze, the metal ribs of children’s umbrellas, leather, laser-cut acrylic, foil, stones, cotton and more, the dresses scream to be touched, and the High is happy to oblige. There are samples of six materials from outfits in the exhibition, including the ice dress and water dress, both of which are made from hard, unforgiving plastic, as well as a rubber material that feels like the skin of a Halloween mask, a fine wire mesh that is surprisingly flexible and a mat of fastened-together umbrella ribs.

The show debuts Saturday at the High, where it ends May 15, and then will travel to the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan (fall 2016), the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas (spring 2017), the Cincinnati Museum of Art in Ohio (fall 2017) and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona (spring 2018).

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Tie-in between retailer, designer draws crowds THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest collaboration between a high-fashion designer and a low-price retailer produced long lines at H&M stores around the world Thursday, while online shoppers complained they couldn’t get on the chain’s website before most items from its new Balmain collection were sold out.

Shoppers waited for hours outside H&M stores in London, Sydney and San Francisco on Thursday, accord-

ing to local news reports, as the chain began selling an assortment of dresses, purses and other items from its collaboration with Balmain, a high-end French fashion house.

By midday Pacific Time, the chain’s website showed more than 65 items in the collection, from a $649 beaded dress to a $34.99 cotton T-shirt, were sold out. Only a “ribbed bandeau top” was still available online, at $24.99 for either black or white versions.

Shoppers vented on social media, including Twitter and Facebook,

where some gushed about the new offerings and others griped that H&M’s website had stalled when they tried to visit. A Twitter account for H&M stores in the United Kingdom offered apologies, saying: “The interest for this launch has exceeded all collaborations and we’re truly sorry for those not being able to shop.”

In an emailed statement, a spokesman for Hennes & Mauritz AB added, “In those markets that have launched the collection the major part of the items are sold out, but there can still

be returns in the following days.”

The Swedish chain had heavily promoted its collaboration with Balmain and its 30-year-old creative director, Olivier Rousteing, whose designs have been worn by wealthy celebrities Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Considered a rising star in the fashion world, Rousteing was recently profiled by The New Yorker magazine and has more than 1.6 million followers on the photo-sharing site Instagram.

Other low-price clothing chains

like Target, the Gap and Kohl’s have had successful partnerships with well-known, upscale designers, producing limited collections of lower-cost items for aspirational shoppers who otherwise might never be able to afford those labels.

While they don’t always sell out, some earlier collaborations have led to similar snafus, with crashed websites and frustrated shoppers. But analysts say the chains and designers still benefit from the resulting publicity and online chatter.

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NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s unorthodox campaign for president will take another unusual step this weekend when he takes a break from typical campaigning to host Saturday Night Live.

The appearance will put the billionaire businessman and reality TV star in rare company: Only eight politicians previously have hosted Saturday Night Live in its entire 40-year-old history.

And only one of those politicians-slash-guest hosts was an active presidential candidate — the Rev. Al Sharpton, who was seeking the Democratic nomination when he hosted in December 2003.

The appearance is the latest example of how Trump — who first guest hosted SNL in 2004 just weeks after the show he helped create, NBC’s The Apprentice, began airing — has been able to capitalize on his celebrity throughout his campaign, which has translated into record ratings for networks on each of the three Republican debates.

Trump has repeatedly bragged

‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member Cecily Strong, left, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in New York. [NBC VIA AP]

about the attention his appearances have been generating, predicting the show will have its highest ratings ever with him at the helm.

Throughout its history, SNL has poked fun at political figures — both via cast impersonations and with guest appearances by the politicians

themselves. It and other late-night television shows also give candidates the chance to show off their less serious sides and connect with a new and generally younger audience than the usual early-state rallies and debate stages.

Sharpton said his whole campaign team had opposed the idea when he was invited to host by SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels, but he decided an appearance could help humanize his persona.

“I was known in America at the time as a civil rights leader and protest leader, and I wanted to show that I could laugh at myself, I had a sense of humour, and be self-effacing, and that I could be comfortable with a broader audience,” he said in an interview, adding that the appearance yielded tangible results, with people bringing it up constantly as he campaigned.

The challenge for Trump, whose invitation has provoked an outcry from groups concerned about what they perceive as an anti-Latino bias by the candidate, would be making a similar connection, Sharpton said.

“We know him as this brash, bom-

bastic, self-important person. But can he laugh at himself? Can he relate to the average guy in a bowling alley?” posed Sharpton. “I think that he has the opportunity or the risk of establishing that tomorrow night.”

In the 2004 host appearance, Trump opened his monologue by joking about his star power: “It’s great to be here at Saturday Night Live, but I’ll be completely honest, it’s even better for Saturday Night Live that I’m here. Nobody’s bigger than me. Nobody’s better than me. I’m a ratings machine.”

Trump echoed those words earlier this week in an appearance on CNN when he said “nobody gets ratings like me.”

He said he initially had been asked to be in a single skit this week, but then Michaels urged him to guest host instead.

NBC has refused to comment on the objections to Trump’s appearance on the show. Earlier this week, SNL released several promotional spots featuring Trump, including one in which he refers to a Republican opponent, Ben Carson, as “a complete and total loser.”

ADVICE

Sister’s negativity may simply have nothing to do with you Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: Even though my older sister and I are in our senior years, I believe that she has never overcome her competitiveness and resentment toward me.

As the other members of our immediate family have sadly passed away, one would think that we would become closer, since we are the only ones left.

However, I believe she is in denial about the problems still between us, so she’s never been able to get beyond them.

I don’t want the relationship we have to end, but sometimes, it is difficult for me to face her negative and bitter feelings toward me. I know she will not change as long as she denies that our sibling rivalry exists. How can I deal with her and maintain a positive relationship?

– Montreal, Quebec Dear Montreal: You are assuming a great deal about your sister’s attitude.

Is it possible she is simply one of those Negative Nellies and it has nothing to do with you?

Some people have downer personalities that are difficult to be around, but to assume her negativity is due to a long-simmering sibling rivalry could be adding meaning where none exists.

Have you asked your sister directly whether she is jealous or competitive?

She may be unaware of it.

Have you let her know that when she

constantly responds with bitterness and negativity that it is difficult to be around her?

She may not realize this is how she comes across, and it may occur with everyone she knows.

Have you asked whether she is happy? She could be depressed and might benefit from seeing her doctor. Approach her with sisterly love and concern, and see whether you can make a difference in her demeanour. We hope so, because a sibling relationship should be cherished.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Waiting for Answers,” whose husband, “Ron,” left their marriage after 14 years for a “vulgar, overweight, heavily tattooed biker chick, who was into drugs and random sex.”

She asked why he would do that.

I understand his thinking. I was in my late 40s and had been married for 22 years when I got divorced and thought I’d enjoy living large.

I enjoyed my freedom for a few years, but it became quickly obvious that my situation wasn’t going to be the wild ride I had imagined. There were plenty of opportunities to date nice women, but I learned that to have more than one serious lady friend at a time was an impossibility.

– Denham Springs, Louisiana Dear Louisiana: Thanks for weighing in. Most readers agreed that “Ron” was looking for a wild kind of freedom that would bring neither pleasure nor satisfaction in the long run. Read on for a couple more:

From Happy He Only Bought A Corvette: I read your letter to my husband of 32 years and asked him.

His answer? Male midlife crisis. It comes in many forms. Don’t take it personally.

From J: You should have told this brain-dead wife to have her husband checked for every STD out there, including HIV. Why would she want him back?

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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Aussie left quite a mark on British Columbia ideas. They’re also hoping to distill the thousands of photos and hours of footage he took in Cuba and complete his documentary.)

Via Skype, Paul and Jill also got to know the friends Nick was with the night he died and decided they needed to see the place their son loved.

“We knew we had to make that journey,” Jill says.

“We had to come and get some answers. We thought ‘We’re doing this trip for Nick.’”

Paul and Jill spent eight weeks in North America, joined at times by their younger son Alastair and his wife, who stayed behind in B.C. for a few more months.

They brought with them half of Nick’s ashes to deposit at places either dear to him or that he wanted to see: atop Idaho Peak, overlooking Slocan Lake; at Lion Mountain, near Juneau, Alaska; in San Francisco, where a beach cleanup was organized in his honour; in Portland, where he fell in love with the parks and streetscaping; and in the Rockies, where Paul and Jill visited Athabasca Glacier, and met the people Nick worked for.

“The company adored him,” Jill says. “They said he was quirkiest, funniest young man.”

Everywhere they went, it seemed, they met someone who knew Nick or knew of him.

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icholas Llewelyn-Smith only lived in Canada for 17 months, but it was long enough to leave a big mark. The young Australian made friends easily and was known far and wide as an environmentalist, entrepreneur, outdoors enthusiast, and artist.

He died accidentally after falling from a trail while camping on Slocan Lake last year, two months shy of his 32nd birthday. On the first anniversary of his death, his parents came to see the area for themselves, meet his friends, and place a permanent memorial in his honour.

Nick grew up in Coffs Harbour, a stunning coastal city in New South Wales, between Sydney and Brisbane, where from childhood he developed a strong social awareness.

“His whole life was based on caring for the environment,” his mother Jill says. “There were no barriers to his concern about our planet.”

At 18, Nick began travelling. Over the next decade he worked on yachts in the U.S., surfed in Costa Rica, was a tour guide in Thailand’s national parks, and spent 31⁄2 months sailing the Pacific. Back home, he studied digital media and worked for a large landscaping firm in Sydney called Garden Makers. He was passionate about permaculture — for both its ecological and social benefits.

He’d bike to work or the beach and wave at people, but rarely did they wave back. The insular, big-city feeling didn’t sit well with him, so he made huge amounts of jam and offered it door-to-door just to connect with his fellow citizens. He also built a community garden in front of his rental property.

“He used to make big pots of chai tea and batches of scones and feed everyone,” his mother says. “Everyone came out of their houses and he created a community there.”

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ill clearly remembers the day Nick told her that, following much research, he was moving to Nelson.

She asked: “Why Nelson and where on earth is it?”

He explained it was a “creative town with music and art and a beautiful soul to it. There seems to be such community spirit. There’s real heart.”

“That fitted him to a tee,” Jill says.

With his father Paul’s help, they packed up his Sydney life, filling a shipping container with antique furniture, hundreds of books, and tubs of tea that Nick mixed, blended, and sold online under the name of Madhatter Tea. Then his next adventure began. In Canada, Nick lived in Nelson as well as Johnsons Landing and Argenta, where he looked after a cottage while the owners were overseas. He tended their garden and sold herbs and vegetables at local markets. He also secured a six-month contract at Athabasca Glacier, where he was a popular bus driver and tour guide.

In the midst of his Canadian sojourn, Nick went to Cuba for three months at the invitation of Roberto Perez-Rivero, a lecturer he met in

Nicholas Llewelyn-Smith died accidentally while camping at Slocan Lake last year.

Australia while studying permaculture. With a bicycle, a couple of friends, and a video camera, Nick toured rooftop gardens and solar energy projects, planning to create a documentary about sustainability programs.

Although he returned to Canada from Cuba, he was set to attend university in Melbourne, where he’d enrolled in an environmental engineering program that “encapsulated everything he was about,” his mother says. “He was keen to get home and get his teeth into that degree.”

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n Aug. 29, 2014, Nick was camping with friends at Bannock Point on Slocan Lake, five kilometres south of Silverton. They spent the day in canoes and paddled to the opposite shore. That night Nick cooked dinner for everyone and they stayed up late playing music around the campfire.

“Who’s up for a walk to the ridge?” he asked.

It was a fateful — and fatal — decision. Although the night wasn’t totally dark and Nick was wearing a headlamp, he slipped on some moss and fell about 75 metres from a bluff. His body was found just after daylight.

RCMP initially considered his death alcohol-related, but the coroner disagreed. The notion still upsets his parents. Nick was neither a heavy drinker nor a risk taker, his mother says.

“The coroner delved into this carefully and interviewed everybody who was there,” she says. “He was comfortable not ordering a toxicology report because it was clear to him alcohol did not play a role.”

Amidst their grief, Paul and Jill (pictured at left) faced the logistical nightmare and incredible expense of bringing their son home.

Nick’s travel insurance ran out when he returned from Cuba. In his diary, amid poetry and artwork, he wrote “Must renew my insurance.”

But he didn’t get around to it.

So his cousin set up an online donation account called Nick’s Voyage Home and $24,000 poured in within days — enough to return his body to Australia, although the process took three weeks, delayed by coroner’s reports and other legalities.

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ick’s parents took some comfort in almost daily Skype sessions with an employee of a local funeral home who coincidentally had been part of the search and rescue team that responded to the tragedy.

Another friend set up a local account that quickly grew to $23,000, which will go to an environmental project in Nick’s name. (The family is still deciding what it will be, although they have no shortage of

n the eve of the first anniversary of his death, they visited Bannock Point with 28 of Nick’s friends.

“These are our kids now,” Jill says.

“We spent a lot of time with them.

They’re healthy, socially aware, wonderful, young people.”

They placed a brass plaque that reads: “Nicholas Ioan LlewellynSmith 1982-2014/Oh my brother, wherever you are, you know I love you/Oh my brother, wherever you are, I am thinking of you.”

A university friend of Nick’s in Melbourne made the marker, while the words come from Australian singer/songwriter Darren Percival, who wrote about his estranged brother.

“Nick heard it and sent it to our other son Alastair, who was in tears because they were so close,” their mother says. At Alastair’s request, the song was played at Nick’s celebration at life.

On the evening that the plaque was placed, a cloud in the sunset grew fiery red. Friends and family thought it looked like Nick riding a bike while wearing a top hat — which is exactly what he did when had his tea business.

Visiting the spot where Nick died gave his parents some consolation.

“We questioned why you’d need to go up at night, but now we have those answers,” Jill says.

“Nick was very spiritual and it was important for him to go and sit under those stars that evening. After being at Bannock Point, we know it’s just the most magical, beautiful, wonderful place.

“There have been some amazing connections in this little place tucked away in the mountains and we’re going home feeling very fulfilled.”

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