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OTTAWA — Plans to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by year’s end could involve assistance from commercial air carriers, at least one of which has already offered space on its planes to the Liberal government.

Air Canada reached out to the new government following the election, offering its services to help ferry people to Canada as they flee the ongoing civil war and other unrest in Syria.

Though the airline can’t fly directly into Syria itself, it could land planes in Istanbul as well as Beirut; an estimated 1 million people in Lebanon have registered with the United Nations as refugees from the conflict.

“Air Canada has offered to co-operate with the federal government to the fullest extent possible in any operation to transport Syrian refugees,” spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said in an email.

“At this point, however, we have only exchanged preliminary information.”

Commercial aircraft are one of a range of options the government is exploring, Immigration Minister John McCallum said Monday as he announced a new cabinet committee specifically tasked with overseeing the resettlement program promised during the election campaign.

Other options include ships and military planes, and the government is also exploring housing refugees in old military bases.

A couple, refugees from Syria, take a photo of themselves after crossing the border from Greece into Macedonia on Saturday. Canada plans to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees before the end of this year and Air Canada has offered to assist. [AP PHOTO]

“Every option is on the table,” McCallum said. “Whatever works, what is cost effective, whatever will get them here safely and quickly.”

Health Minister Jane Philpott is the head of the committee, which also includes McCallum and the ministers of heritage, public safety, foreign affairs, international development, defence and democratic institutions.

McCallum said the government is currently pinpointing refugees in three countries: Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.

United Nations officials in Geneva and in the refugee camps and cities in those coun-

tries are also being consulted.

The selection of the 25,000 would be done in concert with the global refugee agency.

The UN has been actively managing expectations in those areas as word of the Liberal commitment has spread, insisting that only those refugees selected according to a set of criteria will be eligible for resettlement in Canada.

Of the estimated 4 million people formally defined by the UN as refugees from the conflict, the agency has so far only made formal requests to resettlement nations to take in some 130,000.

The previous Conservative government had agreed to take

in 11,300 by 2018 through a mix of government and private sponsorship, but moved that timetable up during the election. Those files are still being processed; as of the first week of October, only 2,563 people had arrived.

Furio De Angelis, the Canadian representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said he hopes Canadian citizens also have a thoughtful response to whatever happens in the coming months.

“With this co-ordinated, cross-government approach, it would be a little bit diminishing if on the 31st of December we are going to do the mathematics that, ’Oh no, it was 19,000, it was 23 (thousand), it was 17,000, it was 15,000,” he said.

The broader point, De Angelis said, is that the Canadian government is stepping up in a major way. He said there is also significance in getting as many refugees to Canada as is feasible by the end of the year.

“We are talking about refugees who, if they are coming before the end of the year, they will be saved from a very, very harsh winter.”

The NDP said Canadians are looking for more detail than just a committee.

“This is the new government’s first test on delivering the change they promised to Canadians,” said NDP MP Jenny Kwan.

“We hope that the next announcement, on how they will achieve this goal, is coming very soon.”

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NANAIMO

UFO sighting over city triggers fascination SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

A series of bright, flashing lights in the sky Monday morning had Nanaimo residents openly — if not jokingly — musing about the possibility of a UFO visit.

Reports of the lights bubbled up throughout the day and were caught on video by onlookers in the Bowen Road area. The video, titled ‘Weird Nanaimo Lights November 9 2015,’ was apparently taken at around 6:30 a.m. and shows a configuration of blinking lights in the sky.

“I thought it was a cellphone tower but . . . it wasn’t,” says a male voice in the video.

“That is weird . . . it’s just steady,” the voice adds, ruling out that the lights could be from a plane.

The same account also posted two more video clips of the blinking lights.

The video, posted by YouTube user Karma Paradox, was viewed 115 times. One commenter suggested the object could be a weather balloon with lights to ensure it was visible to nearby air traffic.

“Either that or ALIENS,” they added.

The explanation may turn out to be less sensational than that.

According to the 106.9 The Wolf radio station, a called told DJ Ron Jones that the lights were in fact from a high-altitude kite he had been flying from Departure Bay Beach.

Radio reporter Ian Holmes was not in the studio when the call was taken and says no one knows much more beyond that.

“All we have is a phone call from this guy,” he said.

NANAIMO

Mayor to now take on duties of city manager SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay is set to take on double-duty of city manager Ted Swabey’s office after the senior bureaucrat leaves city hall Friday.

Swabey is leaving to take over as city manager at the City of Maple Ridge.

Because council has yet to choose a temporary replacement to fill the position, McKay will assume the departing manager’s official duties.

Council will meet Friday to attempt to make a shortlist of candidates to replace Swabey on an interim basis, said John Van Horne, the city’s human resources director.

Van Horne said he hopes to have “marching orders” from elected officials on how to proceed with contacting or arranging interviews with prospective interim replacements.

He said there are between 15 and 20 potential candidates to manage the reins of city hall until a permanent city manager is chosen.

The names come from within the city and also from a list of contractors provided by the Local Government Management Association.

Van Horne declined comment on how people from within city hall had put their names forward.

Initially, Van Horne had estimated that significantly more people might be considered for the role, but said council has since indicated “they want to focus on those with previous city manager or CAO (chief administrative officer) experience.”

But he said the goal is also to proceed

“Sometimes even in making an offer, elected officials want it known that (there is broad support).”

John Van Horne, city HR director

with the selection process “as quickly as possible” without compromising the process.

Van Horne said remaining senior managers will collaborate among themselves to keep day-to-day business running smoothly to ease demands on McKay, who returns from a trade and business trip to China on Wednesday.

“I think staff generally do a good job of that anyway,” he said.

Once an interim city manager is selected, the focus will turn to choosing a permanent replacement. That decision will ultimately be made through a simple majority vote at council.

However, Van Horne said it is likely a candidate take the level of council support they receive into consideration when deciding whether to accept a job offer.

The opposite can be true as well, he said.

“Sometimes even in making an offer, elected officials want it known that (there is broad support),” Van Horne said.

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Twitter user Mason Salmon said there were online comments about the lights that also referenced a man “with some kites.” Salmon said the man was apparently flying kites from Nanaimo cemetery the night before.

Nanaimo Astronomy Society president Chris Boar said he hadn’t seen the blinking lights and couldn’t offer an explanation for what they were.

However, Boar said early morning stargazers can currently catch a glimpse of Mars, Venus and Jupiter, which appear in close alignment with one another.

Those who want to see the video of the lights can watch it on YouTube through by searching the title of the video, ‘Weird Nanaimo Lights November 9 2015.’

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Special thanks for veteran Woman’s family liberated after hiding in barn for three years from Nazis

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aden Webb was astonished when a woman approached him while he was visiting his grandchildren in Ontario three weeks ago.

Webb, a veteran of the Second World War, said the woman asked him if had served in the war and informed him that she and four members of her family were hidden from the Nazis in a barn in France for three years until the war ended.

The lady, named Robert Dino Moyal, said Barron her mother was Reporting captured early in the war and sent to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp.

She credited Canadian forces for liberating the area where her family was hiding at the end of the conflict, and wanted to thank all the Canadian troops who served in the war.

Moyal, who was just six years old when the war began, said she would send Webb a letter to his home in Nanaimo personally thanking him for his efforts fighting against the horrors of fascism.

“I was amazed when just a few days later, I received the letter from this lady,” said Webb, 92, who now has the letter framed and hanging on his wall.

“She said she survived because

Second World War veteran Baden Webb holds a letter of thanks from a woman who hid from the Nazis in a barn in France for three years before Canadian forces liberated the area. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]

Related coverage, Pages 13-24 Canadian troops rescued her family from the farm. There’s only a few thousand of us (veterans of the Second World War) left out of the million Canadians who fought in the war and she wanted to connect with as many of us as she could.”

Webb was 18 years old and a resident of Toronto when the war began and, with his natural abilities to build and fix things, ended up with the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers after he decided to join the army.

He was shipped to England after basic training in 1942 and then went on to Belgium after D-Day. His brigade was responsible for rebuilding bridges the retreating Germans had bombed to prevent Allied forces from advancing.

Webb said he was in northern Germany when the war ended and his brigade of just 5,000 men became responsible for security for a whole section of the northern coast of the defeated country.

“I guessed I must have signed the wrong papers when I joined the army because I served there

until May, 1946, long after the war was over,” he said.

“The whole place was bombed to hell and filled with about two million German soldiers trying to get home, slave labour from all over Europe who were also trying to get back to their homes and thousands of Russian soldiers who were released from German camps.”

Webb said his brigade was also responsible for guarding a number of SS soldiers and guards, with many from the nearby Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, who swore at them all the time and called them “swines.”

“Those SS soldiers were just terrible to the people in the concentration camps,” he said.

“Many (of the inmates) weighed only about 50 pounds when the camps were liberated and some died soon after they were fed. It certainly wasn’t a beautiful thing at all.”

Webb, who earned the rank of corporal in the war, often found himself in charge of night-time patrols of 10 men who would have to deal with Russian soldiers killing Germans, and capturing SS soldiers who dressed in civilian clothes to try to escape.

“Like many young people at the time, I thought volunteering to go to war was a big adventure but it was hell,” he said.

“We were always cold, wet, hungry and we just wanted to go home. I’m glad we won because Hitler had to be stopped, but it was a hell of a price to pay. The best of Canadians from that generation were lost in the war and they should be remembered for what they did.”

Webb began a career repairing mechanical cash registers when he returned to Canada and decided to move to Vancouver Island after he retired in 1983. He said he spent some time visiting local schools to talk about his war experiences when he was younger.

“I certainly didn’t glorify the war for the students in my talks,” Webb said.

“More than 62 million people died in that slaughter. The war had to be fought, but I hope the world doesn’t have to go through anything like that again.”

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Remembrance Day has special meaning for soldiers DAILY NEWS

Ralph Clark was a tail gunner on a Halifax bomber for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and participated in the dangerous bombing of Germany.

He said many of the air men he met in his two years flying with the bombers never survived the war, and their sacrifice should be commemorated on Remembrance Day. “We were young at the time and we never discussed how dangerous our jobs were among ourselves,” Clark said.

“There’s so many memories for me that it’s hard to pin any of them down. A whole generation of Canadians payed the price and it can’t be stressed too much how very important it is for people to remember them.”

••• Bob Moffatt served with the Royal Canadian Armed Forces in Korea for a year during the conflict there in the early 1950s where he served as an adjutant for an army unit fighting North Korean and Chinese forces.

He said he used to attend Remembrance Day services in the commun-

ities he has lived in each year, but these days, he usually watches the ceremonies from his home in Lakeside Gardens retirement home in Nanaimo.

“The people that fought for this country should be remembered for everything they did for Canada,” he said.

“I won’t be heading down to the (Nanaimo) cenotaph on Wednesday, but I will attend the small service they will have here at the home.”

••• Master Corporal Al Mooney, from the Nanaimo squadron of the 39th

Signal Regiment, spent 34 years in the military, mostly in Canada.

He said he is the fourth generation of military men in his family, including his grandfather who was shot twice and gassed twice in the First World War. “I’ve met a lot of people over the years who served in Canada’s military from the First World War to Afghanistan,” Mooney said. “Some were seriously hurt in combat and others didn’t come back. Canada became a nation during the First World War for its efforts and was not seen as a colony anymore. We owe

a lot to those who served and that’s why Remembrance day is important to me.”

••• Bill Brayshaw, 73, served as a preacekeeper with the Queen’s Own Rifles regiment in Cyprus in the early 1960s before completing two tours of duty in Germany.

He said Remembrance Day means a “great deal” to him.

“A lot of good people gave their lives in different countries around the world just to protect us here in Canada and they should be remembered for all they have done,” Brayshaw said.

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EDUCATION

Parents concerned about French classes ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

The possibility that the popular French immersion program at Nanaimo District Secondary School will be transferred to John Barsby Secondary School has some parents concerned about accessibility.

Lori Warwick, chairwoman of the parents advisory council at NDSS, said students come from all across the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district to participate in the dis-

trict’s secondary French immersion program at NDSS. She said many of those students rely on public transit, adding John Barsby is not as accessible by transit as NDSS. Warwick said some families with children French immersion program (offered in a number of elementary schools) are “sitting on the fence” on whether they would send their children to Barsby if the secondary French immersion program is transferred.

“Some families will move their children with the program if they have to, but many others are expressing concerns and the fear is that the number of students registering for (secondary) French immersion in the district will drop significantly if the program is transferred,” she said.

The district is currently seeking public input into its newly updated facilities plan that is calling for a number of school closures and

consolidations, among other recommended changes.

But district spokesman Dale Burgos said the issue of moving the French immersion program to John Barsby is just a discussion point at this time.

He said it’s a fact that John Barsby’s student population is expected to drop to less than 50 per cent capacity next year, and there may be some discussions in the near future about how to fill those empty seats.

Burgos said recommendations on

this and other issues may be made at a school board meeting scheduled for Nov. 24.

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VIU

Drug, alcohol regulations addressed at symposium DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Two pioneers in changing policies on drug and alcohol regulation delivered keynote speakers at a weekend symposium on the subject at Vancouver Island University.

The Alcohol, Tobacco & Drug Use History, Policy and Regulation Symposium was held at VIU’s Nanaimo campus Thursday through Saturday.

Friday’s keynote speaker was retired provincial court judge Allan Gould, who steered the B.C. Liquor Administration Branch through changes to usher in Expo ’86.

On Saturday, it was Philippe Lucas, with Nanaimo-based medical marijuana producer Tilray.

Both spoke about changes to drug regulation past, present or future, both provincially and nationally.

Gould presided over the modernization of B.C. Liquor laws, in anticipation of the World Exhibition in Vancouver.

He oversaw the introduction of micro-brewing in B.C., and a relaxation of liquor regulations some called quaint but others considered backwards.

Gould said government wanted to move more toward privatization to be free of the headaches of regulation, but worried about the loss of tax revenues.

Now, with government stores selling chilled beer and wine, even on Sunday, “private stores have competition from government stores, and I’ll bet there’s been a lot of screaming behind closed doors,” Gould said.

Gould, a lawyer, returned to private practice and was appointed a provincial court judge in Nanaimo in 1995, where “I remarked on more than one occasion in court, if we were ever able to solve all the problems of alcohol in society, we would be able to close most of the courts and throw the judges out of business.”

Lucas outlined the history of medical cannabis in Canada, and discussed Tilray’s “clinical and non-clinical research strategies.” A discussion on legalization under the present government followed.

Lucas said which model of legalization the Liberals will impose ”would be highly speculative, but I think academics agree this is a step in the right direction.”

Asked about the current climate of change to B.C. liquor regulation, Gould said relaxation of the rules “will continue until there is an incident,” and “if something bad happens, politicians will run for cover, would be my guess.”

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EDUCATION

University looks to $75M health, science centre DAILY NEWS

A new $75-million health and science centre at Vancouver Island University is one step closer to reality with provincial funding to help develop a business plan for the project.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark announced a $50,000 investment into the business plan when she attended

the State of the Island Economic Summit in Nanaimo last week.

VIU spokeswoman Tori Klassen said the construction of the facility is part of VIU’s 50-year capital plan and is expected to be built in phases as funding and resources become available.

Klassen said the centre will consolidate existing programs at VIU and will ensure that the university continues to meet requirements for accredit-

ation, and provides industry-relevant and responsive health and science programs in a modern learning environment.

Clark also announced the province will invest another $50,000 toward a business plan for a new automotive, motorcycle and marine repair facility at VIU. The new facility is expected to consolidate and create a new trades centre to meet the growing demand

of the local and mid-island communities for trained individuals in the automotive, motorcycle and marine sectors.

The business plan for the automotive and marine facility is expected to be completed by mid-2016, while the business plan for the health and science centre is expected by spring 2016.

Clark also announced another

$1 million investment in information technology upgrades at VIU that will allow the university to modernize its IT infrastructure.

“We are preparing students for careers in a range of sectors critical to our economy, including LNG,” said Clark. “Investing in new buildings to deliver education and training alongside IT upgrades at VIU is an investment in our future.”

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Kathy O’Toole, with her dog Django, wants to start an online petition to ban the home use of fireworks.

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A Ladysmith dog owner who says her pet was traumatized by daytime fireworks a week before Halloween wants better bylaw enforcement now, and for the province to consider a ban on home use of pyrotechnics.

On the afternoon of Oct. 23, Kathy O’Toole had put Django, her shepherd-collie cross, in the back yard, when a loud explosion happened nearby.

The dog ran from the neighbourhood, near Ladysmith Secondary School, down a hill, where a witness saw it get hit by a car, then the terrified animal continued across the Island Highway to Transfer Beach.

“After four hours somebody found him back up in this area,” O’Toole said.

“He had torn the skin on the pads of his feet from running.”

“He’s still traumatized. I cannot take him for a walk,” O’Toole said.

The O’Tooles didn’t know, when they moved to Ladysmith in April, how widespread the use of fireworks is in the town for weeks before and after Halloween, despite bylaws that restrict their use to 6-12 p.m. on Oct. 31, as well as Jan. 1 and July 1.

“Anyone who comes here from Alberta is just horrified,” O’Toole said.

She sees a provincial ban on the home use of fireworks as “the only way to go.”

She looked into it more deeply and found a majority of municipalities across B.C. passed resolutions to get government to restrict fireworks use.

“At the Union of B.C. Municipalities in 2005 and 2010 the had brought up the issue and they had agreed it should be something taken over by the province, but it hasn’t happened,” O’Toole is now looking into how to start an online petition on the subject.

Mayor Aaron Stone said by email it is “unpleasant to have to endure these issues,” but it’s not a Ladysmith-only problem.

“We have what I feel are good policies in place but we would ask community members to ensure these infractions are reported immediately with as much detail as possible.

“That said, I think it’s fair to reconsider if we wish to implement a full ban on fireworks.”

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COWICHAN

Ceremony to honour First Nations veterans LEXI BAINAS COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

First Nations veterans will be honoured Wednesday, Nov. 11 with a never-before-seen celebration at the Somena Longhouse near Duncan.

“That day is special event, said Marlene Rice, a spokesperson for the event. “George Rice has carved the totem pole and Harold Joe has made the canoe. It all starts at 8 a.m. on Nov. 11 with a cultural

ceremony first, blessing the totem pole and then the warrior canoe that they have made. After that, at 11 a.m. there is going to be the Act of Remembrance at the Somena Longhouse.”

Later in the day, just after lunch, there will be a special remembrance of past First Nations veterans from far and near.

“About 1 o’clock, there will be photos of the veterans carried around

by family members. We’re going to have a little booklet showing who is involved,” she said.

This will be a new event for the Cowichan area and its people.

“It will be the first time that First Nations veterans have ever been acknowledged,” Rice said.

Why are they doing it this year?

“It was that Harold got the idea from a Mainland ceremony. What’s happening is all the families are

coming together with their family member that was in a war. They’ll be from all the different communities.

We have some coming from the U.S., and from all over the Island, on the Mainland. We’re recognizing them for what they have done. It’s a great thing.”

The event is not just for First Nations people.

“After we’re finished blessing the totem pole and the canoe, after that

ceremony, they can come from 11 a.m. to about 2 p.m.,” she said.

The totem pole and warrior canoe will get a place of honour at Vancouver Island University, too.

“They have agreed to house them after that day,” she said.

“But the canoe is going to travel, too.

“Afterwards, if another community wants to do this next year, they can borrow the canoe.”

VICTORIA

Life on a float home agrees with couple from Ontario PAMELA ROTH VICTORIA NEWS

When David Leff opens the patio door of his 1,300 square-foot home, a small boat is floating at his feet, ready for action.

Upstairs, the views of Victoria’s Inner Harbour couldn’t get any better thanks to a wall of windows that encompass the living room and kitchen. On the outside, a pair of kayaks hang on a wall a few steps from the ocean where two seals bob in the water close to shore.

This is life at Fisherman’s Wharf, where Leff has lived with his wife for the past three-and-a-half years.

Sharing a passion for the water, the couple fell in love with the community while visiting from Ottawa and started putting the wheels in motion to find a new home.

“We love it. In terms of lifestyle and community, it’s beyond our expectations,” said Leff, president of the Fisherman’s Wharf Community Association.

“My wife just loves being down on the dock conversing with the tourists. She says she gets to travel all

David Leff and his wife Susan moved from Ontario to Fisherman’s Wharf three-and-a-half years ago. [PAMELA ROTH/VICTORIA NEWS]

over the world through their eyes.”

The last few years have brought significant changes to the community of Fisherman’s Wharf. In the spring of 2014, the float homes were zoned to officially recognize the area as a legal float home community, giving residents confidence to make improvements and additions to their homes, rather than wonder if they’ll

be booted out with nowhere to go.

Zoning the community of 33 float homes and 10 businesses (which mainly consist of food) has also allowed for increased commercial development on the main dock, which caters to more than 150,000 tourists each year.

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VICTORIA

RCMP take knife-wielding man into custody GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE

A 19-year-old man wielding a knife in View Royal has been taken into custody and transported to hospital for medical assessment after police subdued the suspect with a Taser.

West Shore RCMP were called to assist View Royal Fire Rescue with a distraught man at Pheasant Lane

and Helmcken Road in View Royal, just after 4 p.m. Thursday.

The suspect was located in the middle of Pheasant Lane, police said in a release, where officers attempted to check on his well-being. After several attempts at gathering information, the man took out a knife and started walking away from police, ignoring commands to drop the weapon.

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curious about the homes, but nothing beats living on the ocean with the best views in the city.

“You do have to have a certain personality. It’s not for everyone,” said the 55-year-old.

“You have to have sea legs. It’s not like a sailboat where you’re rocking back and forth, but it does move. You get used to it.”

In order to get some privacy from the curious crowds, many of the float homes have bedrooms on the main floor and living space on the second.

The lower you are to the water, the less the homes sway, which Leff noted is better for sleeping.

The population of Fisherman’s Wharf is around 50 people. Many of them are single women or couples, ranging from their early 30s to 70s.

The homes are connected to sewer and water from the city and run on propane that’s delivered to their door. The largest home is around 1,600 square feet and the smallest is around 400.

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“As soon as I stepped in it, I thought that’s it, I have to have one of these,” said Somerville, who eventually left her job in Calgary to live in a 435-square-foot, two bedroom home at Fisherman’s Wharf.

“A lot of people come down there, fall in love and want to live there. It really is a lifestyle that you are purchasing as opposed to just a piece of property.”

Putting her home on the market was an emotional decision for Somerville, who’s mainly doing it for financial reasons so she can spend more time in Alberta with her four children living there.

So far the home has had many inquiries and was recently featured on Cottage Life TV, but Somerville is still waiting for the right offer.

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MISSING WOMEN

Group asks for caution on inquiry Coalition said B.C.’s own missing-women inquiry, which wrapped up in 2012, failed on several counts GEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Canada’s new government should lay the proper groundwork for an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, says a coalition of First Nations and advocacy organizations.

The group wants pre-inquiry consultation with the families of missing and murdered women and related community groups and have them included in establishing the inquiry’s terms of reference and its process

for selecting commissioners. It also wants the government to pay legal costs for family members who wish to be involved.

“We firmly believe that indigenous women’s leadership is critical,” said Fay Blaney, co-chairwoman of the Women’s Memorial March Committee.

“We need indigenous women to be central to the substance and the process of this inquiry. This is about our lives and our safety,” she told a news conference Monday.

As the Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau campaigned on a promise to launch a long-sought inquiry into Canada’s almost 1,200 missing and murdered indigenous women.

The coalition, which consists of more than two dozen groups and individuals, said British Columbia’s own missing-women inquiry, which wrapped up in 2012, failed on several counts.

They say the inquiry led by former B.C. Appeal Court judge Wally Oppal should serve as a cautionary tale.

The coalition came together after various organizations were shut out of that inquiry looking into the actions of police and serial killer Robert Pickton after the DNA of 33 women were found on his pig farm.

Members have continued to meet to pursue justice for murdered and missing women.

Kendra Milne, a spokeswoman for the Vancouver-based women’s legal advocacy organization West Coast LEAF, denounced the scope of B.C.’s probe as too narrow.

She said the inquiry focused only on the criminal aspect of violence after it had already occurred instead of looking at how to prevent it in the first place.

The investigation also neglected to consult the missing women’s families and fell short of implementing many of the final report’s 56 recommendations, she said.

“Take lessons from B.C.’s failures,” Milne advised the new Trudeau government. “Take great care not to repeat these mistakes.”

TOURISM

CRIME

Province rejects bid for daily heli-ski operation near Kokanee Glacier Park

Nearly one shooting a week now in Surrey

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The Ministry of Forests has denied Kootenay Heli-Ski Inc.’s tenure application to operate a daily heli-ski operation on 14,666 acres of crown land in the Selkirk Mountains bordering portions of Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park.

The ministry’s explanation of why the application was disallowed listed a number of factors.

“The strong public opposition received in response to the proposal, impact to the ski-touring and snowmobiling tourism industry in the area and impact on environmental values are the factors taken into consideration,” wrote Sharon Daily, section head for Kootenay Boundary region land authorizations.

The letter also contained some recommendations if Kootenay Heli-Ski wants to reapply.

“Should the proponent wish to pursue a guided adventure tourism activity in this area at a future date, they should engage with local communities and recreational clubs in the area by holding public meetings to understand the concerns and address the issues prior to making an application. Further mitigation measures on environmental values will also be required in a future application.”

The ministry urged the proponent to hold a public meeting, but there wasn’t one.

“A public meeting was suggested to the proponent by ministry staff,” the ministry said.

“Without a meeting, public concerns went unaddressed. The result was that this application was not supported by the local community and recreationalists, which was one factor in the decision.”

According to ministry staff, the

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challenge was determining the actual impact of the proposed application with information only available from the referral agencies and public.

The application was filed in March by proponent Wendell Maki, who also owns Kootenay Valley Helicopters based at the Nelson airport, and was denied on Oct. 27.

Maki said he intends to submit a revised application.

“The application requires some changes and then we’re going to reapply,” Maki said. “When we do resubmit we’ll be addressing all of the concerns that FrontCounter BC had for our application. One of the concerns, after the fact, was they wanted us to consult

with the public or whomever the concerned groups were.

“It’s interesting that another cat skiing operation tenure application was made in the nearby Slocan Valley but nobody seemed to know about that,” he said. That application was denied for environmental reasons, although it faced nowhere near the same public backlash.

Maki also said the ministry never formally required a public meeting.

“At no point during our initial application process was that brought up. We did absolutely everything that was asked of us. We’re burning fossil fuels for recreation, and in Nelson, from what I’ve gathered, the oppos-

ition wasn’t going to be swayed by a public forum. If I didn’t have to, there was no reason for me to go and stand up there and get yelled at for burning gas for fun.”

A freedom of information request for submissions received between March 28 and July 3 resulted in 383 pages containing 258 separate comments regarding the application, which were nearly unanimous in rejecting the idea.

The proponent planned to start the operation based out of Nelson this December, projecting 320 client days for the 2015-16 season. It estimated its full capacity would be 1,300 client days by 2019.

Shots rang out in Newton in the mid-day hours of Sunday as two cars appeared to be shooting at each other.

This incident brings the total number of shootings in Surrey this year to 43 — just about a shooting a week.

Surrey RCMP were called to 72 Avenue and 124 Street on Sunday at a 2:35 p.m. after gunfire was heard.

Witnesses said two vehicles were stopped, while one shot at the other.

One vehicle was described as a dark coloured SUV with an Alberta license plate of K80 469. The second vehicle directly involved was described as a dark coloured Honda. Both vehicles were last seen speeding off westbound on 72nd Avenue.

During the incident two other vehicles, not involved in the incident, were struck by one of the suspect vehicles and sustained minor damage. Fortunately, no one in those vehicles was hurt.

Surrey RCMP, along with Delta Police, made extensive patrols but were unable to locate the two suspect vehicles.

“Regardless of the motive for this incident, violent crime suppression continues to be the top priority for this detachment,” said Cpl. Scotty Schumann.

“We’re appealing to anyone who may know the suspects or have further information, to come forward.”

Anyone with more information is asked to contact the Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502 or Crime Stoppers, if they wish to remain anonymous, at 1-800-222-TIPS or www.solvecrime.ca.

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Court to decide on legality of sex acts with animals NOTE: This story contains explicit content that may offend some readers.

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The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments Monday on whether all sex acts with animals should be considered bestiality — and therefore illegal.

The disturbing case involves a man from British Columbia who was convicted of sexually assaulting his two stepdaughters over the course of a decade. Some of the sex acts involved the family dog. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the sisters, was originally convicted

of eight counts of sexual assault, two counts of child pornography and two counts of bestiality. The man, known only as D.L.W., appealed one of the bestiality convictions, arguing he hadn’t committed the offence because the act itself didn’t involve intercourse. Two of the three B.C. Court of Appeal justices hearing the case agreed with the defence and the charge was dropped.

Because one judge dissented, the Crown was allowed to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.

Animal Justice, an organization that uses the legal system to promote animal rights, was allowed to intervene in the case. D.L.W., who is

serving a 16-year-sentence and his legal team maintain their position at the B.C. Court of Appeal.

The Crown argued, according to its factum filed in court, that the intent of bestiality is any form of sexual activity with an animal, and not limited to intercourse. Before 1955, bestiality was tied in with the old laws against anal sex, which was known as buggery. The law prohibited buggery, “either with a human being or with any other living creature.�

The term bestiality was first introduced in the Criminal Code in 1955, in which both buggery and bestiality were prohibited. Bestiality became a

separate offence in 1987 when Parliament passed a legislative package designed to enhance child sexual abuse laws. The Crown argues that interpreting bestiality as a form of buggery gives the offence as drafted in 1955 an illogical scope as it would criminalize anal penetration between a human and animal, yet the vaginal penetration would be perfectly lawful. The Crown further argues the narrow interpretation of the law “would lead to absurd results,� listing a number of sex acts between children and animals that would not be criminalized by the current bestiality provisions.

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We will continue to honour those who serve and sacrifice

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he creation of the Nanaimo Cenotaph dates to the end of what was once termed “The War to End all Wars” in 1918.

Sadly, those of that era who thought subsequent Remembrance Day events would commemorate a war that brought lasting peace were to have their hopes dashed in 1939.

Residents of Nanaimo, and in cities across Canada, were after 1945 adding more names of the war dead to local their cenotaphs.

More names went up after Canadians fought and died in Korea. And now Afghanistan.

The First World War did not bring peace, and the hopes that world leaders would not allow a repeat of the

bloodbaths like those seen at Ypres, Amiens, the Somme and Arras — all battles where Canadians distinguished themselves and died in large numbers — were dashed.

The Second World, after May 1940, was five years of sustained battle on land, sea and in the air.

The tension between war and peace is as old as human civilization. And while that’s a complicated metaphysical question best left to writers, historians, artists and philosophers, there’s a much more basic reason for the events every Nov. 11: To honour those who without question have either laid down their lives or put their lives in jeopardy to defend and keep Canada free.

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But those who stood at cenotaphs across Canada on Nov. 11, 1945 — many grieving for young men who had in the past five years made the ultimate sacrifice — also had something new to ponder about war.

In August of that year the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan as a way to end the war in the Pacific. Peace now came with horror.

It certainly ended hostilities but ushered in a whole new way of looking at war and peace that was once unthinkable.

With the nuclear club now standing at nine nations, there is the very real possibililty that a Third World War could lead to the near annihilation of the human race.

We have been through the Cold War and regional conflicts in past decades, and the Doomsday Clock has since 2012 has nudged forward from five to three minutes to midnight as terrorism grows, nations are increasingly divided over the Syria crisis and climate change destabilizes global politics.

If war has taken on a different and ominous meaning since 1945, maybe that’s one reason we need more than ever to honour those who have fought for peace. The risks of global war are now just too high.

Men and women in Canada’s armed forces are as committed as those youths who went off to war in 1914 and 1939. And that’s because they

know that Canadians every Nov. 11 honour their role in maintaining the hard-won peace, freedom and democratic traditions that veterans of past years have fought to maintain, uphold and renew.

Our veterans are as important as our serving soldiers. We honour what they have done and are doing to uphold values not just that we cherish but are key to living in a land of equality and opportunity.

If nuclear war is too horrendous to contemplate, then we must rely on those who serve for continued peace. » We want to hear from you.

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Scientists now able to speak about concerns Canadian scientists have had the vise and muzzles removed under the new Liberal government. They are now free to talk publicly about their research and findings.

Under the previous Conservative government they were prohibited from talking or they could lose their jobs. This in a free and “transparent” democracy. Harper was acting like Putin and the KGB. The only reason that makes sense is that Conservatives don’t want any new facts or evidence to challenge their archaic positions. If they fail to modernize they won’t even match the 21 per cent of the vote they got this time on Vancouver Island.

It’s now a beautiful spring day.

R.G. Burnett Nanaimo

Keystone may be back if Republicans win in 2016 The recent announcement by U.S. President Barack Obama saying no to the construction of the Keystone pipeline is not the final decision. The U.S. is having its general election in November 2016, and if the Republicans win government the Keystone pipeline will be built.

Both the new Liberal government in Canada and the Republican Party in the U.S. are wanting to see this project proceed as it would create jobs and when the pipeline is fully operational, it will bring in revenue from royalties and taxes to the governments on both sides of the border.

offered up on Harper and ex-foreign affairs Minister John Baird a few years ago and the right wing press wouldn’t touch it.

Rumours are now swirling that Peter MacKay is considering running for the Tory leadership. Why? I suspect most people’s first reaction to his name are recollections of Belinda Stronach sending him packing and our military flying him to the family fishing hole.

Rona Ambrose as interim Conservative leader, really?

I sure hope the newly re-constituted Conservatives will muster credibility, long overdue.

Joe Sawchuk Duncan

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New Conservative Party must find credibility

Profiteering in oil sector harms the consumer

Recently Brian Mulroney offered up on the Conservatives election loss.

Why? This man, clearly best forgotten,

We hear questions every day as to what rhyme or reason is there to why the oil companies raise gasoline prices so indiscriminately, yet lower

them with such obvious reluctance.

I don’t think many Canadians are aware of just what a schmozzle the oil companies have been allowed to make of the oil industry. Are you aware that Canada produces 3.5 million barrels of oil per day, but imports 700,000 barrels per day from the U.S.?

Our provinces, from Ontario eastwards, currently import a little more than 60 per cent of their oil needs from overseas. Canada exports twothirds of its oil to the U.S., while half of the oil used in Canada is imported from other countries. Western oil is self sufficient, supplying its own oil before exporting the rest, but Eastern Canada relies on imported oil despite the fact that some provinces are oil producers.

There are several offshore drilling operations in Newfoundland and Labrador, but none of this oil is actually used in Canada, it is shipped overseas. They say this is the most profitable way to handle the oil industry.

Profitable for whom? Definitely not the consumer.

The same question could be asked about fruits. Why are our fruit stands so heavily laden with many imported foreign fruits that grow in abundance right under our noses?

When industry talks about “more profitable” bear in mind they don’t mean for you.

When profits soar, we the consumers are stuck with the tab. There used to be a law against excessive profiteering.

My my, could it have been deleted by accident, no one has seen it for years.

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JUSTICE

Fahmy feared losing his citizenship with Tory law MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — As he languished in an Egyptian prison, Mohamed Fahmy feared he might lose his Canadian citizenship under a controversial and recently enacted law, the since-freed journalist said Monday.

While behind bars, Fahmy read the former Conservative government’s new law, which allows for the revocation of citizenship of someone convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage.

“It hit right home with me because it surfaced during my imprisonment, and I was a candidate,” Fahmy said in an interview Monday prior to a speaking engagement at Carleton University in Ottawa.

“I panicked and I asked the ambassador to bring me the literature — the bill — and I read it in prison. I was worried.”

Fahmy, 41, was freed in September after spending more than 400 days behind bars on terrorism charges in Egypt after a court case that was the subject of broad international criticism.

Fahmy also said he will soon present the Liberal government with a proposed charter of rights on how to deal with citizens imprisoned abroad. He’s working on it with Amnesty International and his lawyers.

The new charter stresses something that didn’t happen in his case — direct leader-to-leader intervention to put pressure on a foreign government to force a Canadian prisoner’s release.

Fahmy has accused former prime minister Stephen Harper and his government of not doing enough to win his release by betraying him and leaving him to languish in a dirty cell.

“The core thing that’s important about this is the importance of leader-to-leader intervention as soon as the arrest happens,” Fahmy explained.

“The chance for a president abroad to intervene and deport a Canadian citizen could happen between the time of arrest and the time the case is referred to court.”

It can also mean the difference between life and death, or elevate the

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Supplier says F-35 Canada deal not dead ROSS MAROWITS THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — A supplier on the F-35 stealth jet fighter isn’t yet willing to accept the death of a Canadian order for the costly airplane despite the election promises of the federal Liberals.

Heroux-Devtek CEO Gilles Labbe said Monday he’s still hoping for a favourable decision given the age of the existing CF-18 fighters.

“We’ll see what the government wants to do exactly,” he said during a conference call about the landing gear maker’s second-quarter results. “They have to buy jet fight-

ers. It’s clear our CF-18s are not in good shape and they cannot last forever.”

During the election campaign, Justin Trudeau’s party said it would not purchase the fighter and instead launch “an open and transparent competition” to replace the existing aircraft with lower-price options the Liberals said better match Canada’s defence needs.

Labbe said Canada’s aerospace industry has profited from its association with the F-35, receiving more work than has been invested so far by Canada.

A 2013 report projected that businesses in this country could land as much as $9.9 billion in contracts to construct and sustain parts for the Lockheed Martin-built stealth fighter.

The former Conservative government announced plans in 2010 to buy 65 radar-evading jets for $16 billion over 20 years. After the auditor general and parliamentary budget officer said the figure did not include operations and sustainable costs, it ordered independent evaluations. At least one estimated the full 42-year cost of ownership would be $44.6 billion.

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conditions for a prisoner while they remain behind bars, he said.

“When you get this sort of attention, you could get better treatment in prison . . . you could get more food. In a case like mine, you could have gotten better medical treatment rather than end up with a permanent disability in my arm.”

Fahmy has lost full mobility in one shoulder because of an injury that went untreated after his arrest.

Fahmy has said his plight was compounded by the fact Harper assigned his case to lower-level ministers, instead of taking an active role like former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott did to win the release of one of their nationals arrested with him.

Unnamed Conservatives have said that Harper did speak to el-Sissi, and sent him several letters.

Fahmy and two colleagues were arrested in Egypt in 2013 and eventually convicted of terror-related charges.

They were sentenced to three years in prison after a trial that received widespread international condemnation.

Fahmy, who was the Cairo bureau chief for Al-Jazeera English, was convicted of spreading what a court described as “false news” and coverage biased in favour of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood. Fahmy vehemently denied the charges.

Fahmy and his wife have settled in Vancouver, where he plans to teach journalism.

“It was not just fighting for my freedom, but freedom of expression and the meaning of human rights,” he said.

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“Maybe you’ve heard from your neighbours?” the smooth-talking salesman says when you answer the doorbell. “We’ve got a special on just this week, half the usual price to install a brand new water heater for you – and it’s more energy-eĸcient too.”

He tells you lots of your neighbours have taken advantage of this special deal, so you decide to sign up too.

But when you check the paperwork later, you discover it’s not such a good deal aŌer all – and frankly, you don’t even really need a new water heater.

But you signed the contract, and two days have now gone by. Is there anything you can sƟll do?

If a door-to-door salesman talks you into buying a product (like a water heater, vacuum cleaner, siding or guƩers) or a service (a mulƟ-year natural gas or electricity purchase contract for example) – whether legit or an outright scam – you’re not alone.

Every day, people fall for the slick, high-pressure sales techniques of persistent salesmen and sign up for products or services they don’t need or want. Elderly neighbourhoods are oŌen targeted for such sales, as the elderly are easier prey for door-to-door sales and oŌen too polite to refuse or interrupt the sales pitch.

The problem is so rampant in some communiƟes that bylaws have been passed banning all door-to-door solicitaƟon. Some people protect themselves by adopƟng a Įrm rule of refusing all door-to-door sale pitches.

If you do welcome a door-to-door salesperson into your apartment or home, you should check their credenƟals and note them down carefully. Insist on a day or two to think about things before signing anything.

Then talk about your proposed purchase with friends and family and get their advice, or do some comparison shopping.

But even if you sign on the spot, there’s good news. You sƟll have a ten-day period aŌerward to cancel the contract and get your deposit money back – no quesƟons asked. You simply have to send wriƩen noƟce of cancellaƟon to the seller.

This ten-day “cooling-oī ” period for direct sales, away from the seller’s permanent place of business, is meant to allow you enough Ɵme for sober second thoughts, away from the high pressure pitchmen who got you to sign up right away. This right of cancellaƟon should be clearly spelled out in the document itself.

All this and much more is laid out in our provincial Business PracƟces and Consumer ProtecƟon Act. There are other protecƟons as well. For example, there’s a two-year maximum limit on long term contracts like energy purchase contracts – you can’t be on the hook for longer than that.

If you’re faced with a tricky situaƟon (like the product or service you bought isn’t working properly or hasn’t been delivered as promised), or even if you’re sƟll within the ten-day cooling-oī period and want to properly cancel, don’t hesitate to contact your lawyer for help geƫng out of the Ɵght spot you’re in. This arƟcle only highlights a few aspects of this law. If you feel you are being taken advantage of or treated unfairly in a consumer transacƟon, legal remedies may be available, depending on your parƟcular situaƟon.

This column has been written by Janice and George Mucalov, LL.B.s with assistance from FABRIS McIVER HORNQUIST & RADCLIFFE. It provides information only and must not be relied on for legal advice. Please contact FABRIS McIVER HORNQUIST & RADCLIFFE for legal advice concerning your particular case. Lawyer Janice Mucalov is an award-winning legal writer. YOU AND THE LAW is a registered trade-mark. © Janice and George Mucalov.

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Montreal can dump sewage with conditions GIUSEPPE VALIANTE THE CANADIAN PRESS

Montreal can begin dumping eight billion litres of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River if certain risk-mitigating conditions are met, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Monday, calling the situation “less than ideal� but the best solution to the city’s waste water crisis.

Before the city can dump the sewage into the river it needed to create an emergency plan for unintended problems, keep a close watch on the discharge and deploy measures to clean up effected areas, McKenna said during a media conference call from Paris.

The city must also upgrade its monitoring of the river’s water quality before, during and after the discharge and give that data to the Environment Department.

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“Whenever (Montreal) meets the conditions, then they have the ability to conduct the discharge, but they must meet those conditions first,�

McKenna said.

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said late Monday that work will proceed as planned, hinting it could even start this week.

McKenna’s decision brings an end to the often bitter back-and-forth sniping between Coderre and the previous Conservative government over the project.

Coderre openly accused the previous government of being anti-science and using the city’s sewage crisis as political fodder during the recent federal election campaign.

The mayor has said the dump is necessary because the city must temporarily close a large sewer that feeds sewage to a treatment facility and alternative solutions would be too costly.

The city plans to relocate a snow chute and conduct critical work on aging sewage infrastructure.

Coderre’s announcement in early October that the city “had no choice� but to release the sewage prompted former Conservative environment minister Leona Aglukkaq to suspend

the project and order an independent scientific review.

The results of that review, released Friday, noted the discharge would have a limited impact on fish reproduction if done before the winter and monitored properly.

The scientists concluded fall is the best time to dump the sewage because doing so in other seasons could disrupt fish-spawning cycles.

Moreover, the independent panel noted that Montreal’s sewer system is aging and a failure to upgrade the infrastructure could cause a rupture and an unplanned discharge of sewage during fish-spawning months.

McKenna’s final condition is that Montreal take part in a comprehensive review of the events leading to the incident and said she was confident the city could meet her conditions and complete the discharge before a Dec. 5 deadline.

Canadian DND plane held by Iraq in October THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Defence Department says a CC-130 Hercules — flying to Erbil, Iraq, in support of Operation Impact — was held by authorities at Baghdad International Airport for several days late last month.

Department of National Defence spokeswoman Dominique Tessier said Monday that the plane was held due to an issue with customs documentation with respect to its cargo.

Tessier said the Canadian Armed Forces and Department of Foreign Affairs worked with Iraqi authorities to resolve the situation and the aircraft returned to Kuwait.

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Wearing a poppy honours our fallen soldiers DAILY NEWS

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hen Remembrance Day approaches, British Columbians and people all around the globe wear a red felt poppy as a symbol of remembrance for those who gave their lives in the defence of freedom and to show respect to our veterans.

This year, Remembrance Day is especially poignant, as 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start

of the First World War and the 75th anniversary of the start of the Second World War. As time passes and fewer veterans are with us, it becomes increasingly important to show that we remember their sacrifice. It’s also a time to show respect for those who continue to fight in wars around the world.

Canadians have a long-standing tradition of donning a red poppy during the remembrance period from the last Friday in October until the end of the day on

Nov. 11. The poppy is the symbol of remembrance, and when you wear a poppy, you honour the war dead and help veterans.

Following the shooting in Ottawa of a Canadian military reservist and the fatal hit-and-run of a veteran in Quebec, some Canadians have been requesting to wear a poppy before the campaign launches on Oct. 31.

Legions welcome them to show their support early, with many branches having poppies available

Remembering a Canadian Hero F/L Jack Neil Royal Canadian Air Force Spitfire Pilot Enlisted in Vancouver September 26, 1940 Earned his wings June 22, 1941 Shot down and taken as a POW August 23, 1944 February 1, 1945 - Weston Airman of Honor Distinguished Flying Cross Repatriated to the UK May 14, 1945 Released from the military September 21, 1945

On 5 November 1942 he was forced to bale out north of Gael Station when glycol fumes filled his cockpit, choking and blinding him. His aircraft plunged from 18,000 to 2,000 feet before he recovered his senses, baling out at 300 feet. Next day, 6 November, while co-operating with anti-aircraft guns, his oil pressure dropped and he turned for base, however his engine packed up five miles short and he force-landed.

for those who stop by. However, donations cannot be accepted until the campaign officially begins on Oct. 31.

Since 1921, the Royal Canadian Legion’s Poppy Campaign has helped provide direct assistance for ex-service people in financial distress, as well as funding for medical appliances and research, home services, care facilities and numerous other purposes.

To quote Angus Stanfield, president of the Legion in B.C. and Yukon “When people wear the Poppy in November, it is a universal symbol of respect. What people often don’t realize is that while we are indeed recognizing veterans from long ago battles who fought and gave their lives, there are others who need to see us wear it -— modern-day veterans.

“They are here and so are their families, and they are deserving of our respect. We wear the poppy for them with even more determination, because they continue to make sacrifices day in and day out.”

Is there “poppy etiquette”?

• The poppy should always be fastened on clothing on the wearer’s lefthand side, close the heart. This is also true when the weather is poor and outer garments are necessary. Poppies should not be fastened on hats or other objects.

• Questions have been raised as to the appropriateness of using a Canada flag pin or other similar fastener in the center of the poppy. While it is the opinion of the Legion that the poppy, the sacred symbol of remembrance, should not be defaced in any way, the Legion does recognize that it is better to wear a poppy with a Canadian flag in the centre than not to wear one at all.

• While the poppy is normally removed at the end of the day on

Nov. 11, many people now place their poppy at the base of the cenotaph at the end of the Remembrance Day ceremony as a sign of respect to veterans.

The history of the poppy as an emblem of fallen soldiers: • During the Napoleonic Wars, the poppy drew attention as the flower that bloomed over the graves of fallen soldiers.

• In the 20th century, the poppy again was widely noticed after soils in France and Belgium became rich in lime from rubble during the First World War. • In 1915, John McCrae, a doctor serving with the Canadian Forces Artillery, wrote about this phenomenon in his famous poem, In Flanders Fields.

• In 1920, Madame Anna Guérin of France visited the United States and met Moina Michael, an American woman who wore a poppy year-round to remember the war dead after reading McCrae’s poem. Madame Guérin then sold handmade poppies around Armistice Day to raise money for poor children in war-torn areas of Europe.

• In 1921, the British Legion adopted the poppy as a symbol of remembrance and sold poppies as part of its British Poppy Day Appeal, which raised money for poor and disabled veterans.

• The same year, Guérin visited Canada and convinced the Great War Veterans Association (predecessor to the Canadian Legion) to adopt the poppy as a symbol of remembrance to aid in fundraising.

• Today, the Poppy Campaign is one of the Royal Canadian Legion’s most important programs with 18 million poppies and 70,000 wreaths, crosses and sprays being distributed across Canada and overseas annually.

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Vancouver Island Military Museum president Roger Bird talks to a crowd gathered during the unveiling of the Veterans Wall of Honour. [DAILY NEWS]

Military museum open for Remembrance Day SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

The Vancouver Island Military Museum’s doors will be wide open following Remembrance Day ceremonies Wednesday.

The museum is offering free admission from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. to showcase local and national war memorabilia and artifacts.

Museum president Roger Bird said a special exhibit has been set up in recognition of the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers, a civilian force comprised largely of First Nations people who would act as “eyes and ears on the coast” during the Second World War, Bird said.

Bird said the museum is also displaying a wide range of weaponry used in the first and second world wars, including Canadiana and German guns.

“People are quite interested in that because people don’t know much about it,” Bird said.

The museum will also include ‘trench art’ from the First World War onwards; art, knick-knacks and memorabilia made by troops while ensconced in deep warfare.

The museum will also have its ‘Wall of Honour’ on display at the front of the building, an area set up where those who want to pay tribute to veterans — both living and dead — can do so by purchasing a granite plaque marking years of military service

for each veteran that will then be displayed.

Bird said the museum has installed a total 226 plaques so far and aims to complete a second section of the wall by adding 38 more. It will keep expanding from there, he said.

“As long as there’s demand out there, we’ll keep putting them up,” he said.

The museum also houses exhibits showing real-life letters written to home from troops from Nanaimo to their families and friends.

One famous example is correspondence between Raymond Collishaw, a Harewood resident cited as Canada’s most famous airman, and his friend, Capt. Arthur Leighton.

There is also an exhibit to honour Raymond Good, a sailor from the Snuneymuxw First Nation whose ashes were interred aboard the Canadian warship HMCS Saskatchewan.

This year marks the fourth year the military museum has been open for Remembrance Day at its new location at 100 Cameron Ave. The museum’s new downtown home has made it a destination for visitors pouring into Nanaimo’s harbour during the summer months.

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Whether in times of war or peace, we are ever grateful for these brave souls who put themselves in harm’s way for the greater good of all Canadians.

This year, with continuing turmoil worldwide, the need becomes even more apparent to keep November 11 aside for current & future generations to remember and appreciate their courage and sacrifices made in the name of freedom.

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Remembrance Day itinerary packed at various Island sites AARON HINKS DAILY NEWS

Legions in Nanaimo, Lantzville, Ladysmith, Parksville and Comox each have a jam-packed itinerary with food and entertainment for this year’s Remembrance Day. Branch 256 on 1630 East Wellington Rd. will start the day with breakfast in the hall from 7 to 8:30 a.m. followed by a brief service in the branch starting at 9:15 a.m.

Veterans from both city branches will be involved in the annual parade beginning at St Paul’s Anglican Church and march to the downtown cenotaph for the eleventh hour service. Following the service, Branch 10 at 129 Harewood Rd. will serve soup, sandwiches and

snacks starting at 11:45 a.m.. Musician Frank Hannah will keep guests entertained from 1 to 5 p.m. and the band Big Daddy will keep the music flowing from 6-10 p.m.

Branch 256 will be giving out free beef on a bun from noon to 2 p.m. and will host music and dancing in the hall from lunch to 9 p.m.

Branch 257, in Lantzville, will serve soup at 11:30 a.m. and hot dogs will be provided to children at Costin Hall. Musical groups Sweet Adelines Singing Group and Howie James Band will be playing through the evening and a roast beef dinner will be served at 4:30 p.m.

The Comox march will begin at 10:40 near the Comox Avenue and Nordin Street intersection. After

the ceremony children and adults are invited to the legion for hot dogs and hot chocolate.

The Parksville Legion is inviting guests to their hall for a catered lunch by Save-on-Foods, music will be provided by Mount Arrowsmith Pipe and Drum and then followed

by Big Band at 3 p.m.. Children partaking in the ceremony are invited to the Salvation Army Church for hot dogs and hot chocolate.

The Ladysmith Legion, Branch 210, will have sandwiches, snacks and refreshments in its hall shortly after the 11 a.m. cenotaph service.

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Grandmother kept codebreaking a secret JUSTIN BEDDALL BLACK PRESS

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athleen Wood can keep a secret — a profound, history-altering secret that’s often credited with shortening the Second World War. But she couldn’t tell anyone — not her parents, her best friend, or even her young Canadian husband — about her secret life as a codebreaker.

She was sworn to secrecy.

Decades later, as the true story behind the clandestine British military operation used to crack encrypted German military codes became public with a 1979 movie titled A Man Called Intrepid and later in a novel titled Enigma in 1995, she finally revealed her classified role in the war to her family.

It happened unexpectedly one day as two of her adult children sat in the living room of her Abbotsford home with stunned expressions.

“We were discussing it and discussing how amazing it was that the Royal Navy was able to keep their possession of the (German’s) Enigma machine and codes a secret,” writes daughter Sharon Raine, who was with her brother Craig Wood at the time.

“And then my mum said, ‘Well, I guess it’s OK to tell you about it now . . . I guess it’s not a secret anymore. They told us we were not allowed to tell anyone ... that is what I did in the war. I worked at Bletchley Park.’”

Sharon recalls saying, “‘You’re kidding!’ And then she told us about her experiences there. We were all amazed.”

For Kathleen it was a relief to finally be able to tell her story.

Kathleen Wood (nee Hall) was one of about 12,000 codebreakers — most of them women — recruited by the British during the Second World War to painstakingly decode intercepted messages delivered by sophisticated German cypher machines between Nazi military commanders.

Kathleen Wood, above and inset, with a medal for her service at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. [TYLER OLSEN/ABBOTSFORD NEWS]

The clandestine hub of codebreakers was located on the grounds of Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, northeast of London.

Kathleen grew up in Feltham, Middlesex, about 21 kilometres west of central London, and after the start of the war she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service — known as WRENS — in 1943.

Because she had strong typing and short-hand skills, along with an ability to recognize German words, she was recruited for special assignment at Bletchley Park.

Once seconded, she was sworn to secrecy and given cover stories to tell her friends and family. If anyone enquired about her efforts during the war, she would reply “cleaning guns” or “clerical work,” recalls Kathleen, 91, with a grin, as she sits at the living room table of her Sumas Mountain home.

Sharon recalls her mother telling her about a fellow WRENS recruit asking nervously, “Do you think we’ll be shot if we slip up?”

Kathleen, dressed today in a turquoise leather jacket with a poppy on the lapel, smiles widely.

While working at Bletchley Park, Kathleen and the other WRENS were bused in from Wavendon House each day and greeted by armed guards who checked ID badges before they could gain entry to the small huts that dotted the grounds of the park.

Inside each hut, 25 or so women clacked away on typewriters as they listened to enemy messages while trying to break codes. The feverish din of the typewriters was deafening.

“Bang, bang, bang,” she said.

During the eight-hour shifts, they were not permitted to leave the huts or speak with those working in adjacent buildings.

Hour after hour was spent “typing gibberish” so there was a tremendous feeling of satisfaction when a message was decoded that gave valuable intel.

Fuelled by tea and tenacity, she remembers the overall mood at Bletchley as being one of resoluteness.

“Get the job done. Get those Germans. I wasn’t scared because I knew we would win.”

She didn’t need added incentive to do that. Her beloved homeland

was under siege and her own neighbourhood had been targeted by Germain air raids.

She recalls a time a year before she joined WRENS that she was walking with her cousin in her neighbourhood when a Luftwaffe aircraft suddenly dive-bombed from overhead. The plane was so close she could see the outline of the pilot.

They retreated to a basement cellar of her house and emerged unscathed.

Another time after she’d joined WRENS, she narrowly escaped a firebomb attack while returning from the mess hall.

But not all was dire for Kathleen during the war. While attending a party at her cousin’s house she met a handsome young Canadian Flying Officer named Hugh Wood (pictured with her in photo above).

They soon married and when he was granted a medical discharge in 1944, she prepared to follow him to Canada.

Her superiors at Bletchley Park sternly tried to dissuade her from leaving, but she refused.

Kathleen’s transatlantic journey to Canada was delayed when the merchant ship she was scheduled to travel

aboard was sunk.

Later she left aboard another vessel that had to navigate the U-boat-infested waters of the Atlantic and one night shortly after they departed she was awoken by the sound of depth charges being discharged “Oh, we’ve had it,” Kathleen thought.

After evading the U-boats, the ship was greeted by stormy winter seas, but after a treacherous two-week transatlantic journey she arrived safely at the port in Halifax.

She then took the train to Vancouver, where Hugh was waiting for her. They eventually settled in Abbotsford in the late 1950s. Hugh became a teacher while Kathleen focused on raising their four children.

She leaves the interview for a moment to go down the hall to retrieve a wall hanging.

She unfurls it. It’s a drawing of Bletchley Park with a white goose standing in the foreground.

Underneath is a famous quote from Winston Churchill about the tight-lipped codebreakers who helped end the Second World War. It reads: “My Geese that Laid the Golden Egg But Never Cackled.”

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Legion branches see membership on the rise DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Membership numbers are on the upswing for the local Royal Canadian Legion branches in Nanaimo.

Branch No. 10 (129 Harewood Rd.) has seen its membership cross the 500 mark, a goal the branch was fast approaching last year, and which was itself a huge increase from the previous year’s total of 356.

Branch No. 256 (1630 East Wellington

Rd.) also reported gains, with its membership at better than 450 signed-up members.

Increased membership is welcome news for Legions, which saw a steady decline of membership through attrition over the past several decades.

New, more relaxed membership requirements have helped to drive those numbers up.

Legions not only in Nanaimo but across Canada saw a decline in member-

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ship in recent decades, as veterans age and their numbers decline.

That has not only reduced income from dues, it’s affected the Legion volunteer pool for events and activities.

That trend was turned around locally when the rules were relaxed so members no longer have to be a veteran, or related to one, to join.

Affiliate members aren’t necessarily former military or related to a veteran, but people who “want to belong to the organization and respect the organization,” said Isabel McEwan, Branch No. 256 membership chairwoman.

“They used to have a lot of parameters you had to go through to get into the Legion,” said Bill Brayshaw, Branch No. 10 poppy campaign chairman.

“Now people can get signed in and see what goes on, and eventually they want to become a member.”

The initial rapid increase is now levelling off some, but the trend is still upward.

Where last year No. 10 counted roughly 500 paid members, “I think we’re around 530” this year, Brayshaw said.

At Branch No. 256, “we have between 450 and 500 members,” McEwan said.

“There’s between 50 and 60 new members this year.”

She said the average ages is 55-plus, and a lot of the new members are new arrivals to Nanaimo, interested in meeting locals and becoming part of the community.

She expects the final count to be

higher at year-end, because Dec. 31 is when membership dues must be paid for the new year.

Membership costs $50 a year.

The Legion is more than just a place for veterans to grab a beer and unwind. Mid-Island branches host dances, music jams, fundraisers and meat draws, and work to improve veterans’ lives.

Local branches have raised money for sports clubs and the Nanaimo Hospital Foundation, among other community causes.

To find out more, call Branch No. 10 in south Nanaimo, at 250-753-4442 or in central Nanaimo call Branch No. 256 at 250-754-8128.

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A photo sequence of Canadian veteran Aaron Bedard during the course of his Afghanistan tour, from the first day, left, to his final day, right.

Battle memories and scars are Remembering and present every day for soldiers Supporting Our Veterans GREG LAYCHAK CHILLIWACK TIMES

Remembrance Day only comes once a year, but for someone who has been in armed conflict, the memories and scars from battle are present every day. In fact, for some former soldiers the solemn time of reflection can be a painful reminder of the sacrifice they made for Canada.

“November marks darker days, daylight savings,” says Aaron Bedard, an advisor on Veteran Affairs Canada’s Service Excellence Committee. “November 11 triggers memories and is a stressful challenge through the Christmas season—it is the bottom of the year for those of us who struggle to manage PTSD.” Bedard is a veteran himself who is known for his role in an Equitas Society lawsuit against the Canadian government that intends to overturn the New Veterans Charter (the case is in abeyance for one year awaiting the new government transition).

The Chilliwack resident stayed to complete his tour in Afghanistan in 2006, hiding serious head and spinal injuries he’d sustained after his vehicle struck an anti-tank mine in the third month of his tour.

That was just 19 days after the New Veterans Charter was enacted.

Now Bedard is an advocate for changing and improving the system available to Canadian veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition he lives with as a result of three months of continuous combat operations during his tour.

The retired corporal sees a lot of problems with the way the system treats those with PTSD starting with the lump sum payments vets receive in place of a monthly pen-

sion—a change that came with the New Veterans Charter.

And the services available to treat those with the lasting mental effects of war are a disconnected hodgepodge, ranging in quality and scattered around the country according to Bedard.

“PTSD has become a business,” he said. “It’s not controlled or regulated. There’s no accountability.”

The privatization of mental health, as Bedard calls it, has led to some profiteering among PTSD service dog businesses, for example.

Veterans and first responders can also find themselves in mixed company when seeking inpatient facility treatment, lumped together with gang members and drug dealers, he said. Police officers seeking treatment might find themselves beside the very people they fight to keep off the streets.

And for an Afghanistan veteran, there is also irony: “We went over to hunt down opium dealers at the source,” Bedard said.

This is because the only inpatient facilities available for PTSD are addiction focused, with patients treated for substance addictions resulting from self-medication.

A 30- to 90-day veteran specific program that focuses on PTSD treatment is needed, he adds.

“Factoring in veterans, police, corrections, fire services and paramedics, a facility running 100 people a month would never catch up to the demand,” Bedard said.

“There are likely over 50,000 individuals in Canada who would benefit from a PTSD facility.”

Bedard has worked with clinical services program director Dr. Geoff Thompson of Sunshine Coast Health Centre to develop such

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Currently most available programs are short weekend-style retreats lasting a few days and veterans often wait months to be sent to other programs funded by Veteran Affairs, Bedard adds.

“When a veteran has broken down enough to admit he needs help, which he is trained to never admit, he or she is definitely at the end of their rope,” he said. “The response of action must be immediate.”

The slow response times create a window where suicide is highly likely, according to Bedard’s experience.

But there is hope, he said. During their campaign, the recently elected Liberal government had promised to put $20 million toward two dedicated PTSD facilities.

Bedard said veteran advocates hoped new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would name Harjit Sajjan the next Minister of Veteran affairs.

Sajjan was, however, appointed Minister of National Defence on Wednesday. Sajjan, who served in an intelligence gathering capacity in Afghanistan, has also been through the VAC claim process.

Early this year, Bedard and Sajjan discussed the need for a government funded inpatient facility for veterans and first responders.

Bedard would also like to see a mentoring program allowing veterans to connect, so those struggling with PTSD could get help from peers who are better coping with the illness. Heading to Ottawa at the end of November, Bedard will attend the second gathering of the Service Excellence Committee and present at the annual Veterans Affairs Stakeholder Summit.

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Doctor publishes memoir ‘No Return Ticket’ VERNON MORNING STAR

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t was the summer of 1939. Some people feared war was inevitable.

Others could never have imagined how their lives and the world would change over the years to come.

Nicholas Rety was a school boy in Budapest, Hungary. His thoughts were on studies, sports and the pleasures of summer camp at Lake Balaton. He writes about his experiences and those of other civilians who endured the German, then the Russian occupations of

their city and Communist government when the war ended, in his newly published book, No Return Ticket.

“The 1930s Depression hit Hungary as hard as it hit Canada but our family got by,” said Rety, who was born in 1930. His father worked for the telephone system and his mother was a Morse code transcriber for telegrams. They heard by radio and people talking about what was happening in Germany.

Rety remembers hearing Hitler’s speeches on the radio and sensing the anger and hatred although he did not understand German and was too young at the time to understand politics.

“People knew that Hitler was intent on war because he was trying out new weapons in the Spanish Civil War. That caused a lot of anxiety in Europe,” he said.

Hungary, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, had been on the German side in the First World War. The Paris peace treaties of 1919 left Hungary an independent country but took away 60 per cent of its former territory and access to the Adriatic Sea. In 1939, Hungary took the German side because of the promise of restoration of the lost territory and Hungarians served with the German army.

For the first years of the war, things went on more or less as normal in Hungary. Rety remembers when he first became aware of the reality of war, although he knew that Hungarian soldiers had been annihilated in the Russian campaign.

“I was 13. It was 1943 and the Allies were advancing up Italy.

They bombed Monte Casino Abbey, which was Benedictine, and our school was run by Benedictine monks. It brought home to us that there were bad things coming. I heard that at camp at Lake Balaton. Every Hungarian has a soft spot for the lake as a place of warm beaches and endless joy,” he said.

Dr. Nicholas Rety as a young boy.

“We lived in an apartment building with a number of Jews and they were our friends. Then in March of 1944, they were gone overnight.

We were told the Jews were being resettled. There was no way to find out what was happening. Radio and newspapers were censored. Jews and anyone against the regime were being deported. Many Hungarian Jews did not believe it when they first heard about the Holocaust until survivors came back and told what happened.”

By this time, the Germans knew that many Hungarians did not want to fight their war anymore but there was still an element in Hungary which sympathized with the Nazis.

Rety will never forget March 19, 1944.

“I woke up that morning. Our apartment faced west and I could see and hear the Junker 52 planes coming. Within a few hours, there were Germans everywhere in the city. The Germans had bombed the city before but blamed it on the Allies. After the German occupation, the city was bombed by the Allies constantly, the U.S. by day and the Russians by night. Our apartment building was hit, leaving us with no windows. By Dec. 24, 1944, the city was ringed by Russians shelling us constantly.”

People sought safety in air raid shelters which were really only old cellars, and offered no protection

from direct hits. Martial law and a curfew meant that anyone on the streets after 5 p.m. was shot with no questions asked.

“I saw my first Russian Jan. 14, 1945. Until the Russians came, the city was functioning minimally. People attempted to carry on until it became impossible. School stopped then. Much of the city was destroyed and the bridges across the Danube between Buda and Pest were blown up. People became isolated because it was dangerous to be on the street at any time of day. The Russians were fighting the Germans street by street, house by house. I had a mortar explode 20 feet from me one day when I went out to get water.

“In a way, to a young person, it was quite exciting. It was adventure. We had little entertainment and we became used to it. You sat under a few air raids and died inwardly a few times and you were still there. It’s not that you become brave but you become fatalistic.

The bullet that you hear will not hit you. It has gone past you.”

There were food shortages, with people hoarding what they had and those who had more selling it at high prices. Many people traded priceless family jewelry for a few beans.

The siege ended but the Russians stayed on. When the war in Europe ended May 8, 1945, the Russians stayed on as the occupying force and started to enforce a Communist regime.

Rety went back to school: “I guess they thought Benedictines are not going to educate good Communists.”

The Benedictine monks somehow arranged for Rety to get a scholarship to finish his studies at a school in England and in 1947 he left hurriedly, not seeing his family again for 31 years.

“It was a difficult thing but I won the lottery of life with that move.”

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The Canadian Press spoke with veterans across the country to ask what Remembrance Day means to them. Here are their reflections on Nov. 11:

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hen David Seager left the British army all he wanted to do was forget the Second World War. Seager, now 91, moved to Canada and he says it took several decades before he was able to openly talk about his experiences during the campaign against the Japanese in Burma.

For Seager, opening up about his military experience was a gradual process that began in 1987 in Merrickville, Ont., when a neighbour who had served as a nurse during the Allied campaign in Africa asked him to join her in the town’s Remembrance Day parade.

“She wore her medals and said, ’Why don’t you wear yours?’ ” As a consequence of his friend’s encouragement, Seager says he gradually developed an interest in telling his own story to the point where he regularly gives presentations to school-aged children in Halifax, where he now lives.

He’s had 26 speaking engagements in elementary, junior and senior high schools since 2002.

“The feedback from the kids has encouraged me to keep on doing it,” he says. “As a result, things come back to you which you have forgotten.”

Seager says Remembrance Day itself has also been key in keeping his memories alive.

“That’s always been a critical day for me, an emotional day,” he says. “I lost a lot of friends, relatives and buddies in the army during the war.”

On Nov. 11, Seager says he wears a regimental blazer and his medals, and observes quietly at home with his wife Helene because they are “both getting older.”

Although people can now watch war

almost in real time, Seager says there are things modern technology can’t convey and that he can’t forget.

“The thing about watching television or about listening to stories on wars is that there’s no smell. One of the things which still lives with me is the smell.”

••• John Melbourne says Remembrance Day isn’t just about those who died in Canada’s wars.

The retired Royal Canadian Air Force search-and-rescue pilot, who finished his military career as a flight lieutenant, joined the military in the 1950s after growing up during the Second World War. The Calgary-based Melbourne, who turns 80 later this month, says Remembrance Day is about comrades lost.

“I’m referred to as a Cold War Warrior and of course we did lose a lot of Air Force people especially in those days and people we lost in peacekeeping missions,” Melbourne said.

“It hits home because I have lost personal friends over the years — not necessarily in combat but flying and they were part of the military. They lost their lives and knew what they were facing — we all did.”

Melbourne is heartened by the renewed interest from younger Canadians. He said Canada’s participation in Afghanistan has brought the meaning of loss home to many new Canadians. But Melbourne, who was the honorary colonel of the 410 Tactical Fighter Operational Training Squadron in Cold Lake, Alta., is saddened by the diminished numbers of Second World War veterans.

“They’ve lived through very horrific times and as a human being you try to block that out from your memory. At this time of year some of the stories start coming out,” he said.

“They don’t get up and brag about what they did. They were there. They had to do it. It was a job and that’s all there was to it.”

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For Sgt. Al Stapleton, Remembrance Day brings back memories of the Second World War, but at age 95 he feels lucky to be able to remember.

“I first went to England in 1939 and we were stationed just south of London,” recalls Stapleton. “Finally due to politics we went to Italy for the campaign there, I went personally from Malta to Sicily and the campaign there was pretty rigorous, to say the least.”

Stapleton served throughout Italy and Holland, then found himself back in England when Germany surrendered.

“It’s sort of a blank in your total life,” said the Toronto resident. “It does nothing to provide you with living after you come back from a war.”

Remembrance Day is important for the continuation of the military, so the next generation wants to serve and sees what it takes, he said.

“The military depends upon volunteers in our country,” Stapleton said.

“There’s no draft here like other countries and to keep that going it requires a recognition of veterans. It came to me when I visited Holland, where the people turned out en masse to shake your hand. They remembered and the mothers were holding up their children so that the child could touch the hand of a veteran. They remembered.”

••• An image of a dark-trimmed telegram comes to Jack Purdie’s mind when he thinks back to the Second World War. The 90-year-old veteran remembers working as a telegraph messenger in Edmonton as a teenager during part of

the war. He would occasionally be tasked with delivering a telegram with a black border.

“In that case we were told, ’Just give it and leave,”’ he said. “’This telegram is telling somebody that a member of their family has died.”’

It wasn’t long before Purdie joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was 17 years old.

Though he never saw active combat, Purdie trained as a tail gunner and travelled to and from Europe by sea during the war.

He remembers being in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, en route back to Canada, when the Allies declared victory.

“We had a great celebration,” he said.

“They gave me an orange and a bottle of beer and I was able to trade my bottle of beer for a second orange because oranges were very scarce in Britain.”

These days, the retired Baptist minister spends Remembrance Day reciting Flanders Fields at a ceremony organized in his retirement home in Vancouver.

But leading up to Nov. 11 Purdie visits elementary schools in the area to talk about his experience in the military.

“I like to talk to the kids about what a hero is,” he said. “I like to ... help them to realize that heroes come in all sizes.”

As for the most powerful element of the Remembrance Day celebration: the Last Post, he said.

“It’s a sad, sad bugle call,” said Purdie.

“I’m still silenced as I hear that.”

He said when he joined the military he wanted to give his life for Canada but that ultimately it wasn’t needed.

“I’m so grateful that I’ve been allowed to go on and live.”

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Pension problem for military spouses will now be reviewed THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The federal department in charge of retirement benefits has quietly been reviewing its protocols amid concerns that military spouses were wrongfully being rejected for old age security payments.

That review has been ongoing since at least June after reports emerged of at least one military spouse being asked for myriad documentation, including mortgage payments and high school graduation records, to prove her eligibility for the OAS. Her husband, a veteran, was reportedly easily approved for the pension payments.

Speaking points and background material provided to then-employment minister Pierre Poilievre in early June suggest the department should have approved the woman’s application for OAS and that other military spouses applying for benefits should seamlessly receive them as well.

The department doesn’t know how widespread the issue is — Service Canada doesn’t track specific information on military spouses — but only about one in 10 OAS applicants doesn’t receive

a pension payment in the first month of entitlement.

A person has to have resided in Canada for a prescribed number of years before they qualify for payments.

Federal rules say that a person qualifying for old age security must have lived in Canada for at least 10 years if they never lived abroad. That number goes up to 20 years if that person has lived and worked overseas after turning 18.

In certain cases, that time outside the country can be considered as time at home in Canada.

Among those cases are military members and spouses who are deployed abroad.

“Spouses who accompany military personnel may also be deemed a resident of Canada for the period of their absence,” said government spokeswoman Amelie Caron. “These periods count toward both eligibility and the amount of the OAS pension.”

Still, the department said, military spouses have to prove their eligibility by providing proper documentation, which can include passport stamps, customs declarations, airline or train tickets, or a letter from an employer attesting to the employment abroad.

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CROSSWORD IN THE MONEY ACROSS 1 What cops call crooks 6 __ up (admit the truth) 10 Pitch a tent 14 Poker player’s quitting comment 15 Sugar cube 16 Untruthful one 17 Pageant crown 18 Neck of the woods 19 Prefix meaning “against” 20 Have quick success 22 Flower stalk 23 Gender 24 “Sure, I’m game!”

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29 Close friends 32 Mediocre writers 36 Long, long time 37 Epic tale 38 Hush-hush 39 Become successful gradually 42 Maui or Sicily 43 Rational 44 Give a new hue to 45 Not at all lenient 46 Fizzy drink 47 Authentic 48 Ancient legend 50 Golf peg 52 Wise mentor 55 Have quick success 61 Starting from 62 Wicked 63 Response to “Not so!”

64 Bit of foliage 65 Diner’s directory 66 Requirements 67 Sleeves cover them 68 Historic periods 69 Chess and checkers

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30 Improve, as wine 31 Cowboy’s rope 33 Inelegant 34 Nairobi’s nation 35 Alloy in girders 37 Little fella 38 Piano piece 40 Winter headgear 41 Fleeting craze 46 React to the cold 47 Obstacle for Moses 49 Unifying idea 51 Looking at 52 Festive event 53 Software buyer 54 Wander 56 Fey of 30 Rock 57 Besides 58 News article 59 Took a bus or train 60 Mix, as a salad

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7 p.m. Joceylyn Alice with special guests at The Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cres., Tickets $10, $15.

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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.

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 THURSDAY, NOV. 12 8 p.m. Longwood Brew Pub presents Brandon Stone, Kat, 5775 Turner Rd., Nanaimo.

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 Ivana Ho and choreographer Sharman Byrd. Tickets: $33 or $59, students $18, Eyego $5 available at www.porttheatre.com.

SUNDAY, NOV. 15 8 p.m. The Elwins with Mr. Goshness at The Queen’s 34 Victoria Cres. Advance tickets $10 , $15 door at Lucid, The Dog’s Ear, Desire Tattoo, The Queens or ticketzone.com.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 7 p.m. Jake“the Snake” Roberts, hosted by comedian Matt Billon at The Queens 34 Victoria Cres., Tickets are $30, $35 at the

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7:30 p.m. Double Juno Award winner Dan Mangan at the Port Theatre125 Front St. Doors: 6:30p.m. All seats $29.50. Tickets at porttheatre.com or 250-754-8550.

7:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Symphony presents the celtic ten or so. After-party at the Grand Cru restaurant whiskey bar (ticket required). Tickets: $38 or $67.50, Students $18, at www.porttheatre.com.

THURSDAY, NOV. 19 THURSDAY, NOV. 26 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Crafters fun fair. Nanaimo Harbour City Seniors, Bowen Complex, 500 Bowen Rd. FRIDAY, NOV 20 12-4 p.m. Bastion Waterfront Farmers Market

7 p.m. Intimate Acoustic Performance with Daniel Wesley, with special guests at The Dinghy Dock Pub 8 Pirates Lane, Protection Island.

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CROSSWORD CROOKED QUARTET ACROSS 1 Thin cookie 6 Figure of speech 11 Henson of the Muppets 14 Still in the game 15 Actress Swinton 16 End of MIT’s URL 17 Vault specialist 19 Drenched 20 Docking locale 21 British brews 22 Peek at the answers 24 Quite a few 26 Con game decoys 27 Chaperone 30 Least vivid 32 Warning signal 33 Shady retreat 34 Move like a bunny 37 Cast a ballot 38 Winter weather 39 Pitchfork part 40 Recede 41 Eat well 42 Section 43 Except when 45 Mickelson or McIlroy 46 Fearful 48 Work hard 49 Starboard side 50 “This is fun!”

52 High in quality 56 Under the weather 57 Wild West outlaw 60 Bering or Adriatic 61 National bird 62 Plant life 63 Go wrong 64 Resided 65 Serves brunch to

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NEW YORK — Caitlyn Jenner, one of the most talked about women in the world, accepted a Glamour woman of the year award on Monday, telling an admiring crowd that she believes she was put on Earth to tell her story and make a difference in the world.

Jenner, one of a group of honorees that included actress Reese Witherspoon, dancer Misty Copeland and designer Victoria Beckham, also said

that, in case anyone was wondering, “I’m very happy to be living on the other side.”

She said that before she had come out as a woman, she stayed home most of the time. “Now,” she said to cheers, “I actually like going out, and being myself.”

Jenner described her journey to becoming a woman, and spoke of how she sat down with her children to discuss her plans to go public. She said she had realized that that perhaps “this is why God put me on this

earth, to tell my story . . . and make a difference in the world.”

Jenner is not the first transgender woman to be a Glamour Woman of the Year; last year, actress Laverne Cox was honoured. Still, Jenner’s inclusion sparked some backlash on social media. “We prefer to focus on the positive,” Jenner said through a spokesman ahead of the announcement.

Cindi Leive, Glamour’s editor-inchief, told The Associated Press that criticism of Jenner’s inclusion “cer-

tainly gives you an appreciation for the hostility to the trans community that still exists out there.”

The annual ceremony at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan mixes high-wattage celebrities with lesser known names, and this year, the award winners include five women touched by the South Carolina church massacre — Alana Simmons, Nadine Collier, Bethane Middleton-Brown, Felicia Sanders and Polly Sheppard — and lauded in the aftermath as “The Peacemakers of Charleston.”

Witherspoon described her quest to give more actresses leading roles in films — “not the wife or the girlfriend, but the lead,” she said.

Among the achievements of some of this year’s other honorees: Beckham gained fame as a Spice Girl, but has since become a highly respected fashion designer.

The U.S. women’s soccer team handily defeated Japan to win the 2015 World Cup in July, and was recently welcomed at the White House by President Barack Obama.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You might be stubborn and want to have your way. However, someone else is determined to run the show.

Go off and enjoy those in your life, or get into a different project. Allow this person to have his or her way -and the extra work! Tonight: Agree to established plans.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) All work and no play isn’t healthy, but today you might not have a choice.

Stick to your vision when making a decision about a key project. Will it deliver the results you desire? If not, is this idea worth pursuing? Only you can decide. Tonight: Know when to relax and let go.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your energy seems to soar. You’ll need it to dive into your work, an artistic project or something that allows you to create and manifest. Otherwise, the frustration you experience could backfire and cause a problem. Tonight: Add more spice to your life.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You can’t complain about people not appreciating your ideas if you are not sharing them. Start being more open about what you desire. Once you start opening up, you’ll get feedback that is likely to encourage you. You might try being authentic more often. Tonight: Out and about.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)You could be exhausted by everything that is occurring. However, you can deflect any negativity or energy that feels off. Use caution with your finances. You might be drawn to a situation and feel compelled to handle it. Tonight: Take care of yourself first.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Your natural style encourages agreement where there otherwise would be uproar. Stay on top of a situation that is a high priority. Only you can create what you really want here.

Someone else can try, but he or she won’t be as successful. Tonight: Go along with the moment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You might want to slow down before you take a leap of faith.

Consider the pros and cons of your decisions. Adrenaline runs high as you consider a new path. You are likely to head in that direction sooner rather than later. Tonight: Share exciting news with a trusted pal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Once others get that you aren’t going to change your direction,

they will want to join you. You can’t blame them for wanting to have their ideas acknowledged, though.

Your determination is clear. Sharing your vision will be important.

Tonight: Hang out.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Be willing to take a stand and let others decide whether to join you. You know that what you are doing has financial implications.

You might wonder what others think. Be OK with any feedback or criticism you get. Tonight: A must appearance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Investigate other ways of viewing a problem or situation. You recognize how unique each person’s vision is. Much of what we see and say emerges from our backgrounds.

Do your best to detach and take in the whole picture. You might be surprised! Tonight: Share with a loved one.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Nov. 7) This year your imagination feeds your creativity to such an extent that others often are dumbfounded by your ideas and solutions. Sometimes you could be a bit self-absorbed. Be aware of this tendency.

If you are single, others respond to your charisma. You will have several suitors to choose from. You won’t want to settle until you feel you have met someone who lights your fire. If you are attached, the two of you often have a great time together. However, with your tendency to be me-oriented this year, you must be aware of your significant other more often. Make more time for him or her. A fellow SCORPIO might be difficult to relate to.

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Foreign minister says country is ’not in flames’ “Burundi is not in flames,” its foreign minister said Monday, dismissing international concerns that his country is at risk of a Rwanda-like genocide. But reports of killings by police continued, and France circulated a UN Security Council draft resolution threatening sanctions.

Foreign Minister Alain Aime Nyamitwe addressed the council as top UN officials and human rights groups urged action against what witnesses call a deadly government crackdown on opposition members.

“All possible influence must be brought to bear to halt what may be an imminent catastrophe,” said UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.

Burundian security forces are conducting door-to-door searches in volatile neighbourhoods seen as opposition strongholds.

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Unrest at immigration detention centre Australian police were trying to restore order on Tuesday at a remote detention centre for asylum seekers in the Indian Ocean, after detainees staged a protest and lit a series of small fires throughout the compound.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said federal police reinforcements had arrived at the detention centre on the Australian territory of Christmas Island and an operation was under way to wrest back control of the facility from protesting detainees.

Staffers were re-entering the facility and police had settled several areas of the compound, Dutton said.

“The government’s not going to cower in the face of the activities of some of these criminals,” Dutton told reporters in the nation’s capital, Canberra.

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‘Rolling Stone’ sued for $25M over rape article The University of Virginia fraternity that was the focus of a debunked Rolling Stone article about a gang rape filed a $25 million lawsuit against the magazine Monday, saying the piece made the frat and its members “the object of an avalanche of condemnation worldwide.”

The complaint, filed in Charlottesville Circuit Court, also names the story’s writer, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, as a defendant.

It is the third filed in response to the November 2014 article entitled “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA.” Three individual fraternity members and recent graduates are suing for at least $225,000 each, and a university associate dean who claims she was portrayed as the “chief villain” is suing the magazine for more than $7.5 million.

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President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

Obama, Netanyahu minimize differences First time that leaders had met face-to-face in more than a year JULIE PACE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Minimizing sharp differences, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed their commitment to seeking elusive Middle East peace on Monday, though prospects for an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians appear ever further out of reach.

The U.S. and Israeli leaders’ meeting at the White House marked the first time they had talked face-to-face in more than a year. They have long had a frosty relationship, and tensions peaked earlier this year amid Obama’s pursuit of an Iran nuclear deal that Netanyahu vigorously opposed.

Monday’s meeting was an attempt to reset ties for the final year of Obama’s presidency.

In comments to reporters before their private talks, they sidestepped their disagreement on Iran, with Obama calling it a “narrow issue.”

“We don’t have a disagreement on the need to making sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon, and we don’t have a disagreement about us blunting destabilizing activities in Iran that may be taking place,” Obama said. “So we’re going to be looking to make sure we find common ground there.”

Netanyahu didn’t mention the Iran matter at all in his public comments.

But in their two-hour-long private session, Obama and Netanyahu discussed ways to co-operate to ensure Iran lives up to its commitments under the deal, said a senior Obama administration official, who wasn’t

“We have not given up our hope for peace.”

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authorized to comment by name and requested anonymity.

In public, the leaders emphasized areas of shared interest, including negotiations on a new security arrangement and the goal of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, even as the two sides grapple with fresh outbreaks of violence.

Obama said he was focused on “how we can get back on a path toward peace, and how we can make sure that legitimate Palestinian aspirations are met through a political process, even as we make sure that Israel is able to secure itself.”

Netanyahu declared, “We have not given up our hope for peace.” He reaffirmed his support for a two-state solution, though he gave no ground on the Israelis’ longstanding conditions for achieving that outcome.

The prime minister’s statement followed his apparent backtracking during Israeli elections earlier this year.

At the time, U.S. officials said there would be ramifications for a Netanyahu shift on statehood, including potentially easing opposition to Palestinians turning to the UN Security Council to create a state.

On Monday, however, White House officials said Obama focused more on getting Netanyahu to outline ways to keep confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians to a minimum in

the absence of a long-term solution.

“This is certainly an opportunity for Prime Minister Netanyahu to put forward some ideas to move this process toward a two-state solution,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said of the meeting.

Netanyahu was said to be offering a series of confidence-building measures toward the Palestinians, including easing restrictions on communications, water usage and work permits in Israel and on Palestinian development in the West Bank.

However, Israel has given gave preliminary approval for a new settlement project in the West Bank, territory Palestinians are demanding as part of a future state, documents revealed Monday. Most nations, including the U.S., view Israeli settlements there as illegal or illegitimate and hindering efforts for Palestinian statehood.

A new round of violence broke out in the region about two months ago.

Israel has accused Palestinian political and religious leaders of inciting the violence, while Palestinians say it’s due to a lack of hope for gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts.

Obama and Netanyahu also discussed the renewal of a 10-year security agreement that could result in increased U.S. military assistance to Israel. The two leaders agreed Monday that a U.S. team will travel to Israel in early December to start discussions on the agreement, officials said. In the immediate aftermath of the nuclear deal, Netanyahu had refused to discuss the security agreement with the U.S.

AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian police captain opened fire Monday on instructors at an international police training centre in Jordan’s capital, killing at least five people, including two Americans, before being shot dead by security forces.

It was not clear if there was a political motive to the shooting spree, which also wounded six people, including two Americans. But concern has swirled in staunchly pro-Western Jordan over possible revenge attacks by Islamic militants since the country assumed a highlevel role in the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State extremist group, which controls large areas of neighbouring Syria and Iraq.

The unprecedented assault inside a Jordanian security compound also raised questions about the kingdom’s image as an island of relative stability in a turbulent region.

The shooting took place at the Jordan International Police Training Center in Amman, where Jordanian and foreign instructors, including Americans, have trained thousands of police officers from the Palestinian territories and other parts of the Arab world in recent years.

The Jordanian officer opened fire, killing the two Americans and a South African contractor before being shot dead, government spokesman Mohammed Momani said. Two Jordanians were critically wounded and later died, he said.

Momani did not release the assailant’s name, but a former Jordanian parliament member, Suleiman Saed, identified him as his 29-year-old relative, Anwar Abu Zaid, a captain in the police force. He said the assailant’s identity was given to him by a senior official in the Public Security Department.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, said eight people died in the attack, but Momani would only confirm five.

In Washington, President Barack Obama said that “we take this very seriously and will be working closely with the Jordanians to determine exactly what happened.”

While U.S. forces in Afghanistan have come under attack on a number of occasions by local police and troops serving alongside them, in what are known as “green-on-blue” assaults, such attacks are extremely rare in the Middle East.

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Be sure to stay active while your wife is away Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: My wife and I have been together for 10 years and married for two. I still work full time, but my wife took early retirement last spring and now she spends weeks at a time visiting different members of her family.

When she is gone, she rarely answers her phone. I’ve noticed that when she’s away, I sleep and eat

more, rarely socialize and don’t get things done that I should. I believe I’m depressed without her. Sometimes I pretend that I have no partner and don’t care that she’s away. I get through those weeks much better that way.

I believe it would be easier if she called me daily or at least answered my calls, so I don’t feel cut off and alone. She doesn’t understand this.

She says phone calls interfere with her visits. Annie, wouldn’t any normal person understand calling her spouse to touch base once a day?

Is it right for couples to be apart so much? I really want this marriage to work, but it seems rather one-sided.

— Lonely and Depressed in the Midwest.

Dear Lonely: Most couples check in

once a day or at least every other day when they are apart. The fact that your wife doesn’t want to do this for weeks at a time worries us. We know some readers will question whether she is even visiting relatives or doing something altogether different, but we think your wife considers time away from you to be her vacation, and she is reluctant to be reminded otherwise.

When she next returns home, you can ask her about this. You can consider counselling together. But we also recommend that you stay active while she’s away. Find something to do that will keep your mind busy so you are less depressed and lonely.

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Dear Annie: I have three adult granddaughters, and I have been sending them $50 for each of their birthdays and at Christmas. They never thank me, but I know they have cashed the checks. I also send gifts for my great-grandchildren with no acknowledgement.

I am struggling with whether to continue this tradition. I never get a Christmas card or birthday card from them. Also, I had breast cancer and a double mastectomy a few years ago and they never ask how I’m doing.

I feel bad if I don’t send them a gift, but don’t you think this relationship should work both ways?

— Disappointed in Them Dear Disappointed: Many grand-

children think gifts and cards only flow one way. You have to tell them.

But all gifts should be acknowledged in some form, and if your grandchildren don’t do this, it’s time to stop. When they ask why they didn’t get a Christmas gift from Nana this year, simply say you never hear back from them, so you assume they don’t particularly like your presents. That should take care of it.

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NBC may regret widely-panned Teens gets star help on appearance by Trump on ‘SNL’ ‘Project Runway Junior’ LEANNE ITALIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAVID BAUDER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Saturday Night Live earned the expected ratings benefit of an episode hosted by Donald Trump but, given the protests and vicious panning the show received, NBC has to wonder if it was all worthwhile.

From a pure business viewpoint, the Nielsen company said Saturday’s show had its highest rating since January 2012 in the nation’s top 56 markets, all the way back to an episode featuring Charles Barkley and Kelly Clarkson. A viewership estimate taking the nation as a whole into account won’t be available until Thursday.

Latino organizations protested the booking for the same reason that NBC cut ties to its former Celebrity Apprentice host last summer: the presidential candidate’s comments about Mexicans crossing the border into the United States illegally. That led one of the show’s highlights: Larry David shouting “you’re a racist” to Trump, in reference to an advocacy group’s offer of $5,000 to someone who heckled the host.

Trump’s appearance as host despite the corporate decision to back away from him spoke to both the autonomy of Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels and Trump’s proven ability to draw an audience.

Sure, Trump earned ratings, but viewers who tuned in were punished with “a joyless, unfunny show, which ended in a curtain call with Mr. Trump and the cast that played like a hostage video,” wrote critic James Poniewozik of The New York Times.

That conclusion typified a brutal critical response. Both Poniewozik and Time magazine’s Daniel D’Addario pulled out the phrase “anodyne” — fancy word for bland.

“Forget Iowa voters,” D’Addario wrote. “It’s hard to imagine the 90 minutes NBC aired getting much of a reaction out of anyone.”

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on ‘Saturday Night Live.’

Trump’s 90 minutes in the “SNL” spotlight followed weeks of growing anticipation, increasingly sharp criticism and mounting calls for him to be dropped from the show. [AP PHOTO]

“The show’s writers also dropped the ball — or simply never felt like playing to begin with. Who can blame them? They never should have been put in this position.”

Chris White, ‘Paste’ magazine

The “anemic and halfhearted dud” heavily taxed the show’s integrity, wrote Hank Stuever of The Washington Post.

Although it’s not the first time Saturday Night Live has had a political host, several critics expressed alarm at the comedy show’s co-opting a figure it would seem more comfortable satirizing from afar. Some jokes poked fun at Trump and his image, but Trump has said he took advantage of a host’s prerogative to veto material he deemed offensive.

“SNL is more comfortable being

frat brothers with politicians than satirists of them,” wrote Chris White of Paste magazine.

When Vanessa Bayer’s character cracked about not wanting to be in a sketch where the comic conceit was Trump “tweeting” mean comments about the actors, Stuever said it didn’t feel like a joke.

“The show’s writers also dropped the ball — or simply never felt like playing to begin with,” he wrote. “Who can blame them? They never should have been put in this position.”

For Saturday Night Live, it was also a missed opportunity. The show frequently regenerates itself and now has a relatively young cast; this represented a chance to reel in more casual viewers.

Then again, what’s one misfire in the context of a 40-year-old show?

Critics may not be happy, but NBC accountants certainly are, said television analyst Marc Berman.

“It’s not going to hurt the show,” Berman said. “It’s got everybody talking about it again.”

NEW YORK — Tim Gunn said he was apprehensive about participating in a bite-size version of Project Runway featuring teen designers as young as 13.

“I thought,” he recalled in a recent interview, “will I have to soft-pedal my critiques? Is it all going to be watered down? Are they going to be emotional wrecks and very fragile?”

Gunn was pleasantly surprised by the freshman class on Project Runway Junior, which premieres Thursday at 9 p.m. on Lifetime. And yes, he DOES employ his signature catchphrase: “Make it work!”

The mentor, former educator at the Parsons design school and adult wrangler on the long-running Project Runway called the new show’s young contestants lovable, sweet to each other and respectful of the process swirling around them.

That’s saying a lot, considering the age range — 13 to 17 — among the 12 contestants from around the country.

Gunn saw bits of his younger self in them all, as did his co-host, model Hannah Davis, and two of the three judges, Christian Siriano and Kelly Osbourne. Aya Kanai, the executive fashion editor at Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazines, rounds out the judges’ crew.

“These young people . . . are all loners. There’s no one like them who comes home from school and plays with a sewing machine,” Osbourne said.

“They’ve been put in a room of their peers, with kids just like them, for the first time in their life.”

Gunn agreed.

“For the boys on the show, you know they were the picked upon, bullied, odd people out in their schools, and yeah, I was that kid,” he said.

The 62-year-old Gunn recalled his own miserable childhood. Growing up in Washington, D.C., he had a debilitating stutter that went untreated until he was 19.

It was a time in his life when he was “coming to terms with the importance of being a responsible citizen of the world and not fleeing it, which is what I spent almost the first 20 years of my life doing.”

He saw none of that in the kids on the show.

“Compared to the designers on a regular season of ’Runway,’ these teens . . . accept responsibility for their actions,” Gunn said.

“There’s never any factor that comes into their interaction with the judges or with me about why this isn’t going as well as they had wanted it to go, versus regular Runway when there’s nothing but excuses.”

The entire cast got a high-level treat. The Dec. 10 episode will feature a video appearance by first lady Michelle Obama to announce a challenge supporting education for girls.

Bella Thorne is a guest judge for the final challenge.

Siriano, Osbourne and Davis didn’t put in the work room time with the kids like Gunn did and were shocked to learn they, like adult ’Runway’ contestants, had no help, did the work themselves and produced designs quickly, over a tight span of 10 hours for some challenges.

“It’s almost cooler working with kids than adults because they were figuring it all out along the way,” Davis said.

Siriano added: “We were told to give them real criticism like they would get if they were presenting to an editor or to anyone else in the industry.”

Food TV and other networks have spun off adult competitions into kid versions with mixed results.

“I think kids could just be a big flop,” Gunn said. “There has to be some substance.”

Cast through open auditions, the contestants competed for a full scholarship to one of the country’s top design schools, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, and other prizes.

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Wealth may mean easier access to organ transplant

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ORLANDO, Fla. — You can’t buy hearts, kidneys or other organs but money can still help you get one.

Wealthy people are more likely to get on multiple waiting lists and score a transplant, and less likely to die while waiting for one, a new study finds.

The work confirms what many have long suspected — the rich have advantages even in a system designed to steer organs to the sickest patients and those who have waited longest.

Wealthier people can better afford the tests and travel to get on more than one transplant waiting list. The new study shows how much this pays off.

“Multiple-listed patients were more likely to get transplanted and less likely to die,” said Dr. Raymond Givens at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.“It’s a rational thing to do” from an individual patient’s point of view, but it raises fairness questions, and the policy should be reconsidered, he said.

He led the study and gave results Monday at an American Heart Association conference in Orlando.

More than 122,000 Americans are wait-listed for an organ, including more than 100,000 who need kidneys.

As of July, only 18,000 transplants have been done this year.

The United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, the agency that runs the nation’s transplant system under a government contract, assigns organs based on a formula that considers medical urgency, tissue type, distance from the donor, time spent on the waiting list and other factors.

UNOS has considered banning or limiting multiple listings three times, most recently in 2003, said spokesman Joel Newman. But some people think patients should be free to go wherever they want to improve their odds, and UNOS now requires that transplant centres tell them about this option.

“It takes money and knowledge ... travelling can make a huge difference in how quickly you get an organ,” said Robert Veatch, a medical ethicist at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at

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Georgetown University and a longtime member of the UNOS ethics committee who thinks the policy should be changed.

“Steve Jobs is the classic example,” he said. The former Apple chief was on a transplant list in Tennessee and received a new liver at a hospital there in 2009 even though he lived in California. It’s not known if he was on more than one waiting list, however.

Patients on multiple lists often must pay for a new set of tests, which can range from $23,000 for a kidney to $51,000 for a heart, one study estimated, plus be able to get local housing or travel on short notice if an organ becomes available.

An Internet database— the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients — gives average wait times, success rates and other details on every transplant program in the nation. Many people from New York, where organs are scarce, seek a second listing in California, where organs are more plentiful. Steven Taibbi, 62, who lives in Huntington on New York’s Long Island, is on a wait list for a heart at Columbia, but is seeking a second listing in Los Angeles. Taibbi, who once helped head an international charity for organ donation, said: “I’m decimating my retirement account to do this. I’m not a rich guy.”

It can pay off, though. Givens and colleagues studied UNOS records from 2000 to 2013 and found that multiple-listed patients had higher transplant rates, lower death rates while waiting, were wealthier and were more likely to have private insurance.

Highlights: • Multiple listing occurred among two per cent of those seeking a heart, six per cent seeking a liver and 12 per cent seeking a kidney.

• Death rates while waiting for an organ were higher among those on a single list versus multiple ones: 12 per cent versus eight per cent for those seeking a heart; 17 per cent versus 12 per cent for a liver, and 19 per cent versus 11 per cent for a kidney.

• Compared to people on just one list, multiple listers were younger (52 versus 54), more likely to have private insurance (59 per cent versus 51 per cent) and less likely to be covered by Medicaid (six per cent versus 10 per cent).

• Median incomes were higher in zip codes where multiple listers lived: $93,081 versus $67,690 for people on just one list.

• Kidneys are the greatest need: one person is listed at eight transplant centres.

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here is one fundamental rule in surgery, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Why? Because as one of Harvard’s great neurosurgeon once remarked, “There is no such thing as minor surgery, but there are a lot of minor surgeons.” He could have added that minor surgery can also result in needless tragic deaths. And that one major operation can be avoided.

The best adult example is Joan Rivers, the comedian, who allegedly had undergone several cosmetic facelifts and joked about it. But she had one too many and died of cardiac arrest during the operation.

The youngest tragedy is the newborn baby who recently suffered a circumcision, apparently unwanted by his parents. He died from hemorrhage.

For some families the decision for circumcision is important. They believe it should be performed for religious or for medical reasons. But if that’s not the case remember “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.”

One lame argument for circumcision is that it prevents cancer of the penis, an extremely rare problem.

Another reason is that this procedure decreases the number of urinary infections during the first year of life.

But it also decreases the pleasure of sex for the next 75 or more years as the foreskin is loaded with blood vessels and nerves!

There’s also a general belief that foreskin covers only a small surface of the penis, but once removed the skin measures three to five inches in length. That’s about half of the total skin of the penis.

What about complications? Compared to brain surgery circumcision is a minor procedure normally without bad results. But no surgical procedure, to my knowledge, has been devised, regardless of how minor, that is without some untoward results. The world’s medical journals are full of reports of a variety of surgical mishaps. The vast majority of severe complications are not Acts of God, but due to technical errors made during the procedure.

A primary problem is the incorrect use of the circumcision clamp. In some cases an excessive amount of skin is pulled into the clamp resulting in injury, not only to the shaft of the penis, but also to the urinary tube (urethra) that runs through it. In one case, the traumatic complication resulted in amputation of part of the penis.

Traumatic injuries to the penis and urethra often result in urinary stricture and difficulty passing urine.

Or, the injury may result in a urinary fistula in which urine is discharged through an abnormal opening. These complications are not easy to repair so what starts as a “minor” procedure becomes a major one.

There have been bizarre problems that one would think could never happen. For instance, one newborn screamed with such intensity that his stomach ruptured requiring emergency surgery.

Another died from a bleeding disorder. It’s easy to see how this could occur since blood coagulation studies are not routinely done prior to circumcision.

My reaction to circumcision is that unless it’s needed for religious or other reasons, it’s a barbaric and somewhat sadistic procedure. Yet doctors continue to do circumcisions without giving much thought to unintended consequences.

Some argue that circumcision violates the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

I concur as these helpless newborns have absolutely no say in this matter.

It’s also little wonder they scream in pain.

I question how many males would agree to circumcision later in life if informed of the consequences and performed without anesthesia!

What major surgery can often be avoided?

Today, gallbladder stones are often accidentally discovered during ultrasound tests done for other conditions. Small stones often cause trouble by entering the cystic duct that carries bile to the small intestine. This can result in severe pain and require emergency surgery.

However, large stones cannot escape from the gallbladder and can remain quiescent for a lifetime. The best treatment for these stones is the crematorium.

Have you considered a gift in your will to support a cause that is important to you?

Please contact the VIU Advancement Office by calling 250.740.6216 and we can explore the various options to ensure that your gift intentions are met.

Sometimes economic hardship interferes with a student’s ability to focus on their studies, but with the help of VIU’s generous donors many of us are able to overcome these struggles.

I was extremely grateful to receive the Stan & May Radzik Bursary of $2,000 in January of this year.

The funds helped to take some of the pressure off and I was able to significantly increase my GPA over the spring and summer semesters.

From a grateful student, Alison Burfoot

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Canucks set to meet Torts in Columbus BRAD ZIEMER VANCOUVER SUN

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ohn Tortorella didn’t quite say I told you so, but it was close.

In case you were wondering, Tortorella has noticed that the Vancouver Canucks are suddenly a much younger team and that a couple of members of their core — the one he called stale — are no longer there.

“I said it to you guys when I left, I think that is what needed to happen there,” Tortorella said Monday. “They are in good hands. When you are going that route you need to stay patient because there are going to be some bumps.

“I am not going to lie to you. I have a lot of good friends in that organization. So sure, I keep an eye on it.

I think they are going about it the right way.”

In fact, a couple of his old Vancouver friends dropped by to see him Monday at Nationwide Arena. Henrik and Daniel Sedin, on a team day off, walked over to the rink and spent some time chatting with Tortorella, the new coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Apparently the twins complained they weren’t getting enough ice time from Willie Desjardins (editor’s note: that is a joke).

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“I had a chance to talk with Danny and Henrik in the building here today, which was just fantastic for me,” said Tortorella, who of course was criticized for overworking the Sedins during his one season in Vancouver. “I have so much respect for them and how much I leaned on them there and just a relationship.

When you are gone from this (game) that is what you have, our relationships, and that is a relationship that I treasure and that I am going to keep whether I am in the game or not.

“Right from the get-go with those guys, we connected. I think we have similar philosophies on how you win.

I learned from them. I just have so much respect, not just as players, but as people. That is what impressed me so much. They are just good people.

I wish I could have (visited) a little bit longer, but I had to come and see you (media) guys. We have stayed in touch and it was great to see them face to face.”

Tortorella doesn’t pay quite as much attention to the Canucks as he was earlier this season, when he was doing some TV work for the NHL Network.These days he is focused on the Blue Jackets, who were 0-70 when he replaced the fired Todd Richards on Oct. 21. Under Tortorella, the Blue Jackets are 4-4-0.

He said the fact his next game is against the Canucks does not make it any more significant.

“You know what, no, and that is no disrespect to the Canucks or the area there,” he said. “My whole mindset is we need to win games and it doesn’t matter who comes in here. We have a long way to crawl back . . . We are 0-5 at home and we have to fix this as far as playing in our building. So it just happens to be Vancouver and I know there are a lot of storylines, I’m sure, but not for me.

“I am just worried about this team here and trying to find a way to get a win.”

Columbus centre Ryan Johansen

said Tortorella has made an immediate impact.

“You hear a lot of stories about him, but he has been great with us so far,” said Johansen, a Port Moody native. “He has brought the most out of a lot of players on our team and I think the guys have responded really well to him. He brought in a mindset and identity that he likes and wants us to play and we have been having success. We are are just going to try and keep building and become the team we want to be.”

Tortorella on Monday sounded a lot like he did when he got the Vancouver job in 2013. You know, almost humble. He said he’s thankful for the opportunity and that he hopes to apply some of the lessons he has learned along the way.

“Listen, I am one of the most fortunate guys around to get another opportunity and with a young team,” he said. “There is a lot of teaching and that is part of the game that I enjoy. We have some work to do.

There are so many good coaches out there and for me to get another opportunity, I am blessed. We are jumping in, it’s a good group of guys and we’re going through the process of trying to become a better team each and every day.”

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It would be presumptuous in the extreme to take a snapshot of the events in B.C. Place this weekend and form any lasting conclusions about the state of the B.C. Lions and the state of the Vancouver Whitecaps.

Sports, after all, are cyclical by nature, and the plain fact is this has been a transition year for the Lions and a year of ascendancy for the ‘Caps. The Lions brought in a new coach, a new starting quarterback, and as many as 13 new starters this season, all of which has resulted in a wildly uneven campaign.

The Whitecaps, for their part, have been building to this season for a couple of years, and Sunday’s playoff game with Portland will mark a highwater mark for the MLS team. That’s good for them. It’s also completely independent of what’s happened with the Lions in 2015. But what about 2016 and beyond? That question is far more relevant for the Leos and far more interesting to this market.

On Saturday, the Lions closed out their regular season with a 28-7 loss to the Calgary Stampeders in front of 22,900 fans in a game that had zero meaning in the CFL standings.

The Lions played a loose collection of second-stringers and rookies for most of the game. Travis Lulay played the first three quarters at quarterback before giving way to Greg McGhee.

About the best thing you can say about this one is it took less than three hours to play and nobody got hurt. But if this game was meaningless to the standings, its deeper, more symbolic meaning was hard to miss.

This offseason, Lions’ stalwarts Lulay, Andrew Harris, Manny Arceneaux and Jovan Olafioye are all scheduled to become free agents which, coupled with the Lions’ 7-11 record and all those new starters, underscores the uncertain nature of their future.

This team is at a crossroads. But if that future is uncertain, it’s also a little exciting. The good news, of course, is the emergence of Jonathon Jennings as the team’s starting quarterback, and if that was the only positive development from 2015, the season would still be considered a runaway success. Jennings changes so many things for this franchise.

He gives them a potential star at the game’s most important position.

He gives the team a fresher, more energized look.

He gives it a young star to market.

Throw in a defence which introduced at least three breakout players this season in defensive tackles Mic’hael Brooks and Zach Minter and cornerback Ronnie Yell and will have Adam Bighill and Solomon Elimimian at linebacker next season, and the least you can is the Lions have some pieces in place.

But can they exploit those resources as they’re currently constructed?

There’s the larger issue facing the Leos.

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The Nanaimo Clippers (11-9-0-1) gained only a single point on their three-day, three-game road trip into the B.C. Hockey League’s Interior Division, however that single point came against the BCHL’s top team.

After falling 6-1 to the Trail Smoke Eaters on Friday night, the Clippers took on a Penticton Vees team Saturday that was on an 18-game win streak. It was also a re-match of the 2014-15 BCHL finals the Vees won in Game 6 in Nanaimo.

The Vees came out on top again on Saturday, winning 3-2 in overtime.

Clippers captain Devin Brosseau scored both the Nanaimo goals in the loss.

The Clippers wrapped up the trip with a 7-4 loss against the West Kelowna Warriors on Sunday, their fourth straight loss. Brosseau, Sheldon Rempal, Chris Dodero and Kale Bennett scored in the loss for Nanaimo, and goalie Jonathan Reinhart allowed seven goals on 45 shots.

Rempal left the weekend tied for the league lead in scoring with 41 points in 21 games with Penticton’s Tyson Jost. The Clippers had Monday off but are back at it tonight with a road game against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs. They’re back home on Friday night when they host the Bulldogs at Frank Crane Arena.

For the second time this high school football season, a Varsity AA Western Conference team forfeited their league game to the John Barsby Bulldogs.

The first was to be the regular season opener, when the cross-town rival Nanaimo Islanders decided not to play the B.C. No. 2-ranked Bulldogs.

On Saturday, with the regular season finale and annual “Border Battle” rivarly game with the Ballenas Whalers on tap in Parksville, the Whalers elected not to play Barsby with playoffs around the corner.

The playoff schedule is now set, and the two-time defending provincial champion Bulldogs begin with a home game Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Merle Logan Field against the Moscrop Panthers.

Moscrop finished fourth in the South Conference, while Barsby finished first in the Western Conference.

The winner of that game will go on to face either the Pitt Meadows Marauders or the Abbotsford Panthers.

Abbotsford boasts one of the top players in the country, receiver Chase Claypool, who is already committed to play college football next season for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

In their first years playing CIS football with the UBC Thunderbirds, former Vancouver Island Raiders stars Dylan Chapdelaine and Marshall Cook are off to the Hardy Cup game that crowns the Canada West Conference champions.

They got their with a convincing 52-10 over the defending conference champion Manitoba Bisons on Saturday in Vancouver.

Chapdelaine, the Thunderbirds’ starting linebacker, had two solo tackles and seven assisted tackles (including an assist on a sack) as the second most productive player on the UBC defence.

Cook had one catch for 19 yards in the win. Nanaimo’s Dustin Pederson, playing for the Bisons, had three catches for 30 yards while fellow Raiders alumni Ryan Jones, a kicker, punted 12 times for 411 total yards.

The Thunderbirds, coached by Blake Nill, now move on to play Calgary Dinos. Nill took the Dinos to the Hardy Cup for the last seven years — winning six times before losing to the Bisons last season — and was brought in to take over the Thunderbirds this season.

The winner of the Hardy Cup moves on to play the winner of the Yates Cup in the Uteck Bowl, the national semifinal game.

The nationally top-ranked Vancouver Island University Mariners men’s basketball team moved to 3-0 in PacWest play on the weekend with wins over the Douglas Royals and Capilano Blues.

John Thompson, Josh Ross and Bryson Cox were the top VIU scorers Friday against Douglas, scoring 18, 16 and 15 points, respectively, as the Mariners won 79-71.

Ross led the Mariners in scoring against the Blues on Saturday with 22 points, while Cox and Jason Fortin both had 15 in their 90-74 win.

Ross and Thompson are tied for fifth in PacWest scoring with 18 points per game.

Also on the weekend, the VIU women’s basketball team moved to 2-1 with a 72-50 win over the Royals Friday and a 69-50 loss to the Blues on Saturday. Sienna Pollard was the Mariners’ leading scorer Friday, finishing with 20 points while Lanae Adams posted 17. Pollard also grabbed a team-high nine rebounds.

In the Mariners one-point loss Saturday, Sara Simovic had 20 points and seven rebounds, and Pollard posted a double-double with 19 points and 15 rebounds. Both Mariners teams are again on the road this weekend against the Kwantlen Eagles and Columbia Bible College Bearcats.

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After beating the Vancouver Island Raiders in the B.C. Football Conference’s Cullen Cup championship game 54-0 on Oct. 25, the undefeated Okanagan Sun were finally defeated.

The Sun, who dominated every game in the BCFC season winning each one by an average of 41.8 points per game, lost 38-24 to the Prairie Football Conference Champion Saskatoon Hilltops on Saturday in the Canadian Junior Football League title game.

Next season’s national championship game will be in B.C., hosted by the winner of the Cullen Cup. The Raiders, after finish 7-3 in the regular season and reaching the conference championship game under first-year head coach Jerome Erdman, have plans to host that game and win their first Cullen Cup since 2013.

Next season’s Raiders will be the first team in three years to have the same head coach in consecutive seasons. The Raiders only graduate six players from their 2015 roster, including just one starter on defence and three on offence.

They will also return their starting quarterback, Liam O’Brien, and two All-Canadians on defence — middle linebacker Dexter Shea and safety Cole Virtanen.

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Russians accused of widespread doping Country said to have covered up performance enhancing drug use, could face ban for next Olympic Games “It’s worse than we thought. It may be a residue of the old Soviet Union system.“

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GENEVA — Russia’s status as a sports superpower and its participation in track and field events at next year’s Olympics came under threat Monday after a report accused the Russians of widespread, state-supported doping reminiscent of the darkest days of cheating by the former East Germany.

The findings by a commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency were far more damaging than expected. It means that two of the world’s most popular sports — soccer and track and field — are now mired in scandals that could

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FLINT, Mich. — The owner of the Flint Firebirds junior hockey team apologized Monday for firing his coaching staff over the weekend, saying he made an “irresponsible mistake” and has reinstated the men to their jobs.

According to multiple reports, Nilsen fired head coach John Gruden and assistants Dave Karpa and Petr Jonak because his son — defenceman Hakon Nilsen — was not receiving enough playing time.

As a show of solidarity, each player — including the owner’s son — handed in his jersey and quit, according to reports.

“Today the team’s senior leadership met with the players to apologize and have a very frank discussion about next steps we as team will take to remedy the situation,” Nilsen said.

“Ontario Hockey League commissioner David Branch is in Flint this afternoon meeting with all parties involved. We are fully co-operating with this investigation and will look to the findings to help us to continue to grow as a team.”

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Flint Firebirds players prepare to take the ice before a hockey match against the Oshawa Generals in Flint, Mich., on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]

the reigning Memorial Cup champion Oshawa Generals 4-3 on Sunday, the team was told about the dismissals.

“Last night, after our emotional overtime game against the Oshawa Generals, I made a decision with regards to our coaching staff which was an irresponsible mistake,” Nilsen said in the statement.

The Firebirds are playing their first season in Flint after moving from nearby Plymouth, Mich. Messages left with front-office staff members and

team officials were not immediately returned Monday.

Branch was not available for comment, according to a league spokesman.

Flint improved to 7-9-0-1 after its victory on Sunday.

The Firebirds have 15 points on the season and are in ninth place in the 10-team Western Conference.

Nilsen purchased the club from Peter Karmanos Jr., and the OHL’s board of governors approved the sale and relocation of the team last February.

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told some of them not to co-operate with WADA as part of “direct intimidation and interference by the Russian state” with the lab’s work. Staff at the lab believed their offices were bugged by the FSB. • FSB agents even infiltrated Russia’s anti-doping work at the Sochi Olympics. One witness told the inquiry that “in Sochi, we had some guys pretending to be engineers in the lab, but actually they were from the Federal Security Service.”

• “Widespread inaction” by track and field’s governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, and Russian authorities allowed athletes suspected of doping to continue competing. “The

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Sochi in 2014 and will hold the next World Cup in 2018.

“It’s worse than we thought,” said Dick Pound, an International Olympic Committee veteran who chaired the WADA probe. “It may be a residue of the old Soviet Union system.”

The 323-page report said that in Russia, “acceptance of cheating at all levels is widespread.” Among its findings: • Moscow testing laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov ordered the “intentional and malicious destruction” of 1,417 doping control samples to deny evidence for the investigation.

• FSB agents regularly visited the lab, routinely questioned its staff and

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TORONTO — Retired NBA star Steve Nash is teaming up with the CBC to develop a one-hour drama set at an elite basketball academy.

The B.C.-bred athlete says the proposed series would revolve

around the teens, parents, coaches and administrators at a Toronto-area school, and the unique trials young athletes face as they seek superstardom.

“It’s a really incredible backdrop to create characters and create storylines that are really relevant, authentic and I think exciting for audiences,” said

Nash in a recent call from Los Angeles.

It’s tentatively titled Hardwood, with Nash working behind-the-scenes as an executive producer. The former point guard said he doesn’t expect to appear on camera, but he saw lots of opportunity to invite NBA pals to make cameos.

TORONTO — NHL general managers are expected to review rule changes and discuss the controversial coach and executive compensation policy at their annual November meeting on Tuesday.

For the first time, the league has three-on-three play in overtime and coach’s challenges for goaltender interference and offside plays. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly doesn’t expect any potential changes to those rules to take place right away.

“These rules are the way they’re going to be at least for the balance of the season,” Daly said Monday.

“I don’t think there’s been any unintended consequences for the rules. And I think they’ve operated as we’ve expected they’d operate.”

A year ago at this meeting, GMs got rid of the dry scrape of the ice surface before overtime, which was designed to create more offence in overtime and cut down on shootouts. As Ken Holland of the Detroit Red Wings put it, the dry scrape turned out to be a “buzz kill” that stopped the momentum of games, so it was removed almost immediately.

One area of debate is whether referees and linesmen should decide coach’s challenges in consultation with the situation room in Toronto or whether the league should have that power as it does on the puck crossing the goal line. Currently, officials watch replays on a tablet device at the penalty box.

“I’m fine with the format. I like it,” Minnesota Wild GM Chuck Fletcher said.

“For the most part I think it’s been great.

“I think we’ve corrected some wrongs on the ice, the officials have been able to make the better call.”

In the first 214 games of the season, coaches challenged 32 plays.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP 16 14 16

W 13 7 7

L OL SL 2 1 0 4 1 2 7 1 1

GF 59 42 38

GA 29 42 38

Pts Home 27 7-0-1-0 17 2-3-0-2 16 2-3-0-0

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

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

L OL SL 2 1 1 3 0 0 5 0 0

GF 42 43 31

GA 25 31 28

Pts Home 22 6-1-1-0 20 6-2-0-0 18 4-2-0-0

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

Last 10 Strk 7-1-1-1 W-5 8-2-0-0 W-2 8-2-0-0 L-1

METROPOLITAN DIVISION NY Rangers Washington Pittsburgh

GP 14 13 14

W 10 10 9

GP 14 15 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 15

W L OL SL 8 5 0 1 7 5 2 1 7 6 1 0 7 6 1 0 5 6 2 1 5 6 3 0 6 8 0 0 6 8 0 0 2 8 1 3 4 11 0 0

GF 37 40 47 33 37 28 30 32 29 35

GA 36 37 45 36 35 39 40 41 45 54

Pts 17 17 15 15 13 13 12 12 8 8

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

Away 4-2-0-0 2-2-0-1 6-2-0-0 4-2-1-0 2-4-1-1 2-4-2-0 4-4-0-0 2-3-0-0 1-4-0-2 4-6-0-0

Last 10 Strk 8-2-0-0 W-2 4-4-1-1 L-2 6-3-1-0 W-1 4-5-1-0 L-1 2-5-2-1 L-5 3-5-2-0 W-1 5-5-0-0 W-1 5-5-0-0 W-1 1-6-1-2 L-3 4-6-0-0 L-1

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Dallas St. Louis Minnesota

GP 15 14 13

W 12 10 8

L OL SL 3 0 0 3 1 0 3 2 0

GF 54 40 38

GA 39 31 35

Pts Home 24 5-1-0-0 21 4-1-1-0 18 6-1-0-0

Away 7-2-0-0 6-2-0-0 2-2-2-0

Last 10 Strk 8-2-0-0 W-3 7-2-1-0 W-2 5-3-2-0 W-1

PACIFIC DIVISION Los Angeles Vancouver Arizona

GP 14 15 14

W 9 6 7

L OL SL 5 0 0 4 5 0 6 1 0

GF 35 43 39

GA 29 36 41

Pts Home 18 5-4-0-0 17 2-3-3-0 15 2-4-0-0

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

Last 10 Strk 8-2-0-0 W-1 3-3-4-0 L-3 4-5-1-0 W-1

WILD CARD Nashville Winnipeg Chicago San Jose Anaheim Calgary Edmonton Colorado

GP 13 15 15 14 15 15 15 14

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Pts 18 18 17 14 13 11 10 9

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

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

Last 10 Strk 5-3-2-0 L-1 4-4-1-1 L-2 6-3-1-0 W-1 3-7-0-0 L-1 4-4-2-0 L-1 4-5-0-1 W-2 4-6-0-0 L-2 2-7-1-0 L-2

Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 points & a victory in W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in the OTL or SOL columns.

NY Islanders at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOW Arizona at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Arizona 4 Anaheim 3 (OT) :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Montreal at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas 4 Detroit 1 Edmonton at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Chicago 4 Edmonton 2 7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV New Jersey 4 Vancouver 3 (OT) St. Louis at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.

Boston 2 NY Islanders 1 Minnesota at Carolina, 7 p.m.

7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV St. Louis at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Boston, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Carolina at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.

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

Calgary at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Nashville, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

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

Ottawa at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Toronto at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

NY Islanders at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

SCORING LEADERS Kane, Chi Seguin, Dal Benn, Dal Krejci, Bos Wheeler, Win Gaudreau, Cal Hall, Edm Ovechkin, Wash Carter, LA Plekanec, Mon MacKinnon, Col Kuznetsov, Wash Zetterberg, Det Panarin, Chi Klingberg, Dal Pacioretty, Mon Gallagher, Mon Desharnais, Mon Cammalleri, NJ Bergeron, Bos Stone, Ott Subban, Mon Markov, Mon Toffoli, LA Pavelski, SJ Turris, Ott Steen, StL Tarasenko, StL Little, Win 2¡5HLOO\ %XI Ward, SJ Sharp, Dal McDavid, Edm Nugent-Hopkins, Edm Palmieri, NJ Spezza, Dal Eriksson, Bos Seabrook, Chi Koivu, Minn Carlson, Wash Stempniak, NJ Hanzal, Ari

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4. Arizona, Domi 6 (Jeffrey, Boedker) 15:57.

5. Arizona, Domi 7 (unassisted) 19:52.

3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Manson Ana (high-sticking) 2:13; Stoner Ana (high-sticking) 11:31.

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6KRWV RQ JRDO Arizona 6 12 9 2â&#x20AC;&#x201D;29 Anaheim 6 11 18 1â&#x20AC;&#x201D;36 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Arizona: Lindback (W, 2-2-0); Anaheim: Andersen (LO, 3-5-3).

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE

SANDERSON FARMS CHAMPIONSHIP

EAST DIVISION

EAST DIVISION Prince Albert Brandon Moose Jaw Saskatoon Swift Current Regina

GP W 19 12 18 11 18 10 18 8 18 8 16 7

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CENTRAL DIVISION

WILD CARD New Jersey NY Islanders Boston Detroit Florida Philadelphia Carolina Buffalo Toronto Columbus

SPORTS 35

FOOTBALL

NHL Montreal Ottawa Tampa Bay

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GP W L Red Deer 19 13 6 Lethbridge 17 12 5 Calgary 20 9 10 Edmonton 19 7 9 Medicine Hat 15 5 7 Kootenay 19 4 13

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

Seattle Spokane Everett Portland Tri-City

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Pt 29 26 17 16 11

OL 1 2 0 0 1

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Vancouver at Kelowna, 3:05 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. )ULGD\ V JDPHV Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Tri-City at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Swift Current at Portland, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

SCORING LEADERS Brayden Point, MJ Dryden Hunt, MJ Tyson Baillie, Kel Brayden Burke, Let Jonathon Martin, SC Reid Gardiner, P.A. Ivan Nikolishin, RD Luke Philp, Koo Mathew Barzal, Sea

G 16 15 13 5 16 12 11 11 4

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T OL GF GA Pt 0 0 87 38 38 2 1 84 59 29 0 2 71 63 26 0 1 112 70 21 0 0 60 77 16 0 1 71 95 15

ISLAND DIVISION GP W L Cowichan Vally 20 11 6 1DQDLPR

Powell River 20 11 9 Alberni Valley 19 8 9 Victoria 21 7 12

T OL GF GA Pt 1 2 77 101 25

0 0 64 53 22 1 1 50 65 18 0 2 53 65 16

L 6 8 8 12

T 0 0 0 0

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PA 454 391 499 402

Pt 24 20 20 12

WEST DIVISION y-Edmonton x-Calgary x-B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

GP W L T PF PA Pt 18 14 4 0 466 341 28 18 14 4 0 478 346 28 18 7 11 0 437 486 14 18 5 13 0 353 502 10 18 3 15 0 430 563 6

T OL GF GA Pt 2 1 77 49 29 1 2 75 52 27 0 0 77 56 24 1 2 51 78 17 0 2 46 90 12 0 0 51 103 8

6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV West Kelowna 7 1DQDLPR Victoria 7 Prince George 3 Vernon 4 Surrey 3 Chilliwack 4 Salmon Arm 1 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO 1DQDLPR at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Powell River, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Trail, 7:30 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Chilliwack at Surrey, 2 p.m.

Coquitlam at Langley, 3 p.m.

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$YJ 16.6 14.0 13.8 15.1 12.5 15.5 14.0 12.1 14.6 12.3 12.0

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/ 49 69 84 82 62 53 64 63 51 55 41

68 79 64 79 41 46

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: 5 4 3 2

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SOUTH

Carolina Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay

NORTH

Minnesota Green Bay Chicago Detroit

WEST

Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOW Chicago 22 San Diego 19 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV San Francisco 17 Atlanta 16 Minnesota 21 St. Louis 18 (OT) New England 27 Washington 10 Philadelphia 33 Dallas 27 (OT) Tennessee 34 New Orleans 28 (OT) Indianapolis 27 Denver 24 N.Y. Jets 28 Jacksonville 23 Pittsburgh 38 Oakland 35 Carolina 37 Green Bay 29 N.Y. Giants 32 Tampa Bay 18 Buffalo 33 Miami 17 7KXUVGD\ V JDPH Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 8:25 p.m.

6XQGD\ 1RY Detroit at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Washington, 1 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

NCAA AP TOP 25 SCHEDULE

3DVV 5816 4796 4924 4902 5148 4850 4059 4504 4165

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FINAL STATISTICS

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/ 0 3 4 5

WEST

WEST DIVISION B.C. at Calgary, 4:30 p.m.

$WW 87 93 88 76 89 69 76 86 71 84 86

59 70 76 61 70 58

Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee

Denver Oakland Kansas City San Diego

EAST DIVISION Toronto at Hamilton, 1 p.m.

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SOUTH

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6XQGD\ 1RY

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EAST

New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

NORTH

x â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched playoff berth y â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched division 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOW Saskatchewan 30 Montreal 24 (OT)

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W 12 10 10 6

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GP 18 18 18 18

PLAYOFFS

B.C. DIVISION GP W L Victoria 20 14 5 Kelowna 18 13 5 Prince George 16 8 7 Kamloops 16 8 8 Vancouver 17 4 10

y-Ottawa x-Hamilton x-Toronto Montreal

6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV 1R Clemson at Syracuse, 3:30 p.m.

1R Ohio State at Illinois, noon 1R Ala. at 1R Mississppi St., 3:30 pm 1R Baylor vs. 1R Okla., 8 p.m.

1R Oklahoma St. at Iowa St., 3:30 pm.

1R Not.Dame v. Wake Forest, 3:30 pm 1R Stanford vs. Oregon, 7:30 p.m.

1R Iowa vs. Minnesota, 8 p.m.

1R LSU vs. Arkansas, 7:15 p.m.

1R Utah at Arizona, 10 p.m.

1R Florida at South Carolina, noon 1R TCU vs. Kansas, noon 1R Michigan St. vs. Maryland, noon 1R Michigan at Indiana, 3:30 p.m.

1R Hou. vs. 1R Memphis, 7 p.m.

1R North Carolina v. Miami, 3:30 pm.

1R UCLA v. Washington St., 10:45 pm 1R Florida St. vs. N.C. St., 12:30 pm.

1R Temple at South Florida, 7 p.m.

1R Navy vs. SMU, 3:30 p.m.

1R Northwestern vs. Purdue, noon

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ST. LOUIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Signed WR Wes Welker.

TAMPA BAY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Activated OT Demar Dotson from the injured reserve-return list. Waived CB Tim Jennings.

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Cutler TD lifts Bears to 22-19 victory over Chargers BERNIE WILSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN DIEGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jay Cutler and company are used to close games.

This time, Zach Miller went up and grabbed a win for the Chicago Bears.

Miller made a one-handed catch on a 25-yard touchdown pass from Cutler with 3:19 to go, and the Bears beat the staggering San Diego Chargers 22-19 on Monday.

Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s TD reception and a 2-point conversion run by rookie Jeremy

Langford, subbing for the injured Matt Forte, gave the Bears (3-5) their first lead of the night. Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last five games have been decided by three points or less, including consecutive losses to Minnesota and Detroit before the trip to San Diego.

Cutler, who had an interception returned for a touchdown and lost a fumble, kept attacking San Diegoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s depleted secondary, completing 27 of 40 passes for 345 yards.

He calmly led the Bears on the

winning 10-play, 80-yard drive after the Chargers opened a 19-14 lead on rookie Josh Lamboâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 22-yard field goal. Two plays before the TD throw to Miller, Cutler was hit and still completed a 12-yard pass to Alshon Jeffery on third-and-6.

The Bears scored 15 points in the fourth quarter.

Cutlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two TD passes broke the franchise record, giving him 139 with the Bears. He had been tied with Hall of Famer Sid Luckman.

San Diego (2-7) lost its fifth straight game for its longest skid since dropping six straight in 2011.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the longest losing streak in coach Mike McCoyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three seasons.

San Diegoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Philip Rivers was 26 of 42 for 280 yards. It was the first time in six games that he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t throw for more than 300.

The Bears had a rough first half, but the Chargers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put them away. Cutler lost a fumble on a sack and then made an off-the-mark

throw to Jeffery, which second-year cornerback Jason Verrett intercepted and returned 68 yards for a 13-0 lead.

The Chargers suffered even more injuries.

Verrett hurt his groin one play after his pick-six and came out, but remained on the sideline. Cornerback Patrick Robinson left with a neck injury. Wide receiver Malcom Floyd, who is playing his last season, injured his left shoulder while diving trying to make a catch.

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MLS PLAYOFFS

Portland Timbers FC Fanendo Adi (9) celebrates his goal against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC during a playoff game in Vancouver on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

A painful lesson for the Whitecaps, and their fans

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hey came early: the face painters, the flag wavers, the believers — over 27,000 of them — and when you come for a party, you don’t allow yourself to think the night might not turn out exactly how you envisioned it.

No, but others might entertain dark thoughts. For the many who invested in the Vancouver Whitecaps, this was about something simple and direct, something visceral which draws us to our games. For five years they’d waited for this moment, suffered through losses big and small and this was supposed to be the payoff.

On Sunday, the Caps supporters came to be transformed. And, in the end, they were denied the moment they so desperately wanted.

“We’re so happy (the fans) came out,” goalie David Ousted said, shortly after a 2-0 loss to the Portland Timbers ended the Whitecaps’ season. “We had fantastic fans all year and this is what we want as an organization, 27,000 here every time. This is a step in the right direction but it’s a step short of where we wanted to go.”

As for the deeper meaning of the loss, that might take a while to sort out.

“It’s hard to bring that up now,” said defender Jordan Harvey. “We’re just disappointed. The final whistle went a couple of minutes ago. Give us a week and we’ll be able to answer that.”

And even then the answers won’t come easy.

The biggest game in the Caps MLS history delivered in atmosphere, in excitement; delivered in so many ways.

It just failed in its main purpose, delivering a win this team could share with its following.

The details of the loss were easy enough to identify. The Whitecaps’ Kekuta Manneh, who’d been electric in the early stages of the match, left the game with an injury in the 25th minute and seemed to take a lot of his team’s initiative with him. Five minutes later, the Timbers counted the crucial away goal when Fanendo Adi converted Diego Valeri’s pass after some amateurish defending by the Whitecaps.

And for the next 60 minutes the second leg of the Western Conference semifinal played out with the dreary predictability of a Russian novel.

Ed Willes The Province “We went for it,” said Harvey. “Starting in training this week, in warm up, we were sharp, man. We were ready for this game. Then they scored a goal and we were pushing for it.

“It was a great finish by Adi. Great players make great plays. Unfortunately we didn’t make one.”

Oh, they tried.

The Caps produced a couple of half-chances. They pressed. But you didn’t have to look too hard to identify the better team on this night, even if that team spent most of the second half rolling around the carpet at B.C. Place like a dog rolls in the snow.

And the second Timbers’ goal in the dying seconds only reinforced their domination on this night.

“Over 120 minutes we weren’t good enough,” said Ousted, neatly summing up the main story in eight words.

The Whitecaps performance, in fact, exposed the holes in this team.

Yes, they are young and athletic. Yes, there is depth. But they’re also missing quality, the fine edge which might have produced chances when the Timbers went into their defensive shell; the fine edge which separates the best MLS teams from the rest of the pack.

That, at least, is the job for next season and in its five years, this organization has gotten most things right. But they also failed their first big test.

There will be other nights for this team; nights when the believers will be transformed and this pain will be forgotten.

But right now there is the only the dying dream.

“They’re disappointed today but I’m really proud of them,” said head coach Carl Robinson. “Disappointed, yes.

We missed an opportunity but we’re a young group of players and we’ll learn from it.”

And we already know it’s a painful lesson.

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