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OTTAWA — The Trudeau government says the federal books inherited from the Conservatives will drive the country billions of dollars deeper in the hole than expected — downgrading, perhaps, the Liberals’ pre-election fiscal vows into aspirational goals.

The government’s gloomy forecasts Friday prompted opposition critics to ask which parts of the platform are the Liberals planning to ditch to meet their promises?

After releasing the update, Finance Minister Bill Morneau maintained the government will fulfil its pledge to balance the books four years from now — before the next election — despite the weaker economic environment and the steeper fiscal obstacles.

To get there, the government will have to contend with an updated fiscal baseline about $6 billion lower per year than the forecasts contained in the Conservatives’ April budget, the fresh Finance Department numbers showed.

For example, the $2.4-billion surplus for 2015-16 — including the $1 billion set aside for contingencies — projected in April by the Tories is now expected to be a $3-billion deficit.

Morneau, however, wasn’t as clear when asked whether the Liberals’ projected annual deficits in the coming years could swell above the $10-billion cap. The party made the promise on their way to victory in last month’s election campaign.

“I think it would be too soon for me to answer your question and to give you specifics,” Morneau told reporters when asked whether the grimmer outlook could increase the party’s annual projected shortfalls above the $10-billion mark.

The Liberals had promised to run annual deficits of just under $10 billion over the next two years with a shortfall of about $5.7 billion in the third year before balancing the books in time for the next election.

Minister of Finance Bill Morneau as he delivered a fiscal update during a news conference in Ottawa on Friday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Morneau said the figures released Friday are a starting point and he insisted the government intends to keep its campaign commitments.

“We aspire to meet all those goals,” said Morneau, a rookie politician who pointed out it was only his 16th day as finance minister.

His department’s latest forecasts do not account for the big-ticket spending promises in the Liberal platform, nor do they factor in the potential benefits the government expects from its plan to roll out stimulus such as infrastructure.

During the election campaign, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals vowed to kick-start the economy and create jobs through tax cuts for the middle-income earners and by pouring billions into infrastructure.

Now in government, the Liberals noted Friday that economic conditions have deteri-

orated since the Tories’ April budget because of higher expenses and lower revenues.

Government officials blamed the more-negative outlook on stubbornly low commodity prices, global uncertainty and the very weak performance by the United States economy to start the year.

“Risks to the Canadian outlook remain tilted to the downside,” the update said, adding that monthly economic growth has picked up again in recent months after a contraction over the first two quarters of 2015, which is considered a technical recession.

In reaction to the updated numbers, Conservative MP Maxime Bernier said the Liberals will likely be forced to adjust their plan — by running bigger-than-expected deficits, cutting programs or hiking taxes.

“What cuts will they have to make from their electoral promises?” Bernier asked.

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Syria refugee plan costs could hit $1.2B STEPHANIE LEVITZ THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — How the Liberal government intends to bring thousands of Syrian refugees to Canada by year’s end will become clear Tuesday with the rollout of the plan for the largest rapid resettlement program in the country’s history.

Federal ministers would not divulge any elements of the proposal Friday or comment on a document obtained by The Canadian Press that suggests the cost of the program could hit $1.2 billion, far more than the $250 million the Liberals budgeted in their platform to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees.

The document lays out costs over the next six years and says $876.7 million would be needed in 2015-2016 alone. Some of that would be covered by $16.6 million

announced by the previous Conservative government during the election and $100 million coming out of an existing pool of funds to respond to international crises.

What’s not clear from the undated document is whether any of those funds are going to help the settlement agencies, provinces or cities which will bear the burden of the longer-term integration of refugees.

Immigration Minister John McCallum said Friday that in recent days he’s spoken to dozens of mayors and the premiers of all 13 provinces and territories. A call with big city mayors is schedule for Monday, the same day Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to meet the premiers.

“In all cases, I have said the same thing.

I have said that, yes, we are determined to bring refugees here quickly, but we are also

determined to do it right in terms of security and in terms of health,” McCallum said.

Among the major concerns is where they are all going to live. While the military plans to temporarily house some and the government is actively seeking other options, the people coming will need permanent homes.

Conservative Immigration critic Michelle Rempel said she hopes the details revealed Tuesday are robust and answer all the questions non-governmental organizations, provinces and Canadians have about how exactly this program is going to run.

NDP Immigration critic Jenny Kwan said the government owes it to Canadians and to the refugees to handle this right.

“We’ll be watching closely to make sure the Liberals stick to their promise to Canadians,” she said in a statement.

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Ketchup on your steak?

Folks have some bizarre uses for the much-ballyhooed condiment

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s a reporter it’s my job to reveal any bias, so here it is: I love ketchup on just about everything.

I see myself as somewhat of a connoisseur, but I do have my limits though. I’ve got a fairly strict ketchup policy in terms of what’s acceptable and what’s unacceptable.

Some of my favourite foods to eat with ketchup include hot dogs, french Aaron fries, corn dogs, Hinks hamburgers, Reporting meatloaf, shepherd’s pie, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausages, hash browns, grilled cheese, and my all time favourite, steak.

That’s right, steak.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the best chef in the world working with the finest cut of beef. I will unapologetically dip that steak into ketchup before every bite.

I receive a lot of flak for it, people consider it weird, or that I’m ruining steak. If dipping my steak into ketchup means I have an unrefined pallet, then so be it.

I know people who mix ketchup with kraft dinner or put it on top of poutine; now that’s where I draw the line. Ketchup doesn’t have any business in any sort of pasta dish and as for poutine, why would you do that to a poutine?

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Man dies after being struck by automobile A 28-year-old Nanaimo man has died after being struck by a vehicle at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Friday.

Police say the man was hit by a car as he was crossing Highway 19,

“I’m not offended by what people put on their food, it’s all preference.”

John Vassilopoulos, restaurant owner

I decided to chat with an experienced steak chef in town to get his take on ketchup. He didn’t agree with my preference for ketchup and steak, but he said he wouldn’t be offended if he saw me gobbling down on the winning combo.

“I’m not offended by what people put on their food, it’s all preference.

I’ve done some weird things in my day before, I’m the kid that would dip his french fries in his milkshake,” said John Vassilopoulos, owner of Bold Knight Restaurant.

“We’ve been doing this for 39 years and very rarely do I have people ask for anything on our steaks here because of the way we season it. I may go through a bottle of HP Sauce, maybe once a month.

The way I’ve been cooking steaks through the years there’s no need for ketchup.”

Vassilopoulos said there isn’t anything unusual he eats with ketchup, but one of his favourites is the golden grilled cheese and ketchup.

I put the call out to my friends, asking them if they add ketchup to anything that could be considered strange.

Even I was repulsed with some of the responses. My friends like to eat their ketchup with corn, cottage cheese, chicken fingers, ham and

just north of the Woodgrove Centre shopping mall.

Police closed the north lanes on both Highway 19 and 19A Friday morning.

A 30-year-old Parksville man was behind the wheel of an older-model Nissan Sentra when the collision occurred. He and a woman passenger stayed at the scene and attempted emergency first-aid until

turkey, mashed potatoes, and ketchup and peanut butter sandwiches.

Gross.

Then you have your ketchup haters, like our sports editor Scott McKenzie and Comox Valley Record editor, Terry Farrell. They both said the only place ketchup belongs is in the trash.

I’m sorry boys, but you’re just not living life to the fullest.

VIU culinary chairwoman and culinary arts instructor Debbie Shore has one of the most experienced palates in Nanaimo. She’s cooked alongside some of Canada’s best European-trained chefs and achieved many firsts in Canada for women chefs. She’s worked in Canada’s most respected hotels and spent a year in Geneva. She leads the VIU culinary program, churning out top professional chefs annually.

“Personally, I think all food put in front of a person should be tasted before adding any condiment or seasoning,” Shore said.

“That said, I like ketchup. No, actually, I love ketchup.”

Take that, ketchup haters.

“My chef that I apprenticed with, the culinary Olympic team captain, loved ketchup. I prefer the Save-onFoods brands over Heinz. It’s a sauce that has a consistent red colour, is good with everything from fries to samosas. It’s useful in a homemade barbeque sauce, cocktail sauce and for making a spicy ginger beef sauce, so I’m a supporter,” she said.

Though she likes it, she wouldn’t make a meal of it considering it’s basically sugar, salt and vinegar with a bit of tomato paste to dissolve into.

first responders arrived.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say alcohol and speed are not considered to be a factor.

The Nissan was towed for a mechanical inspection. The deceased man was wearing dark, non-reflective clothing.

— DAILY NEWS

National Geographic did some digging on ketchup and found the word comes from the Hokkien Chinese word kê-tsiap, which is the name of a sauce derived from fermented fish. Ketchup was first made with mushrooms, mussels, walnuts, oysters or other foods.

Tomatoes weren’t used for ketchup until the early 1800s.

According to the website lifehacker, there are plenty of alternative uses for the sauce.

The website says ketchup makes a good shiner for silverware, can correct green highlights in bleached hair, and of course, is good as fake blood.

When quizzed about ketchup Shore was able to recall an unusual use for the condiment.

“I once had a student who had ‘done some time,’ who fermented it into some sort of alcoholic beverage,” she said.

Ketchup booze? I think I’ll pass.

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Number of families in poverty has ‘worsened’ DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Child poverty indicators are on the rise in Nanaimo, according to a coalition of caregivers and others who share a goal to provide best possible options for children.

The proportion of Nanaimo families in poverty “worsened” by 11.3 per cent, according to the 2015 State of the Child Report for Nanaimo, unveiled Friday by the Greater Nanaimo Early Years Partnership.

The umbrella organization includes 43 agencies that focus on prenatal care to children six and under.

Although 30 per cent of families enjoy annual incomes of $80,000 or more, the proportion earning less than $20,000 rose to 15.7 per cent, from 11.3 per cent, based on census data and information obtained from Statistics Canada and BC Stats.

“A geographic disparity that exists in our communities is highlighted in this report,” said Dr. Paul Hasselback, Island Health chief medical officer for the Central Island.

The report area covers Greater Nanaimo taking in Cedar to Lantzville and Gabriola Island, and comprises a population base of 107,000.

It covers the period 2006 to 2013, but because some data was unavailable, adjustments were made to provide the “best information available,” Hasselback said.

Child poverty exists in every neighbourhood.

But poverty is below the provincial average of 18 per cent in north Nanaimo and Cedar, while south Nanaimo, downtown and Townsite are highest, at around 30 per cent.

The number of families headed by a single parent is up seven per cent.

As income shrinks, housing eats up what’s left: Fifty-two per cent of renters and spend more than 30 per cent on housing.

For homeowners, the ratio is 23 per cent.

The report, released at the Nanaimo Child Development Centre, shows how such agencies are caught in the funding squeeze.

The facility has more than 250 people on its waiting list, with some waiting up to 10 months.

It’s not all bad: The average Nanaimo family income rose 13.3 per cent to $67,417 in 2013, but during that period the cost to feed a family of four rose to $948, a 33 per cent increase from 2007.

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Left to right: Greater Nanaimo Early Years Partnership chairwoman Amber Bruner; Dr. Paul Hasselback, chief medical health officer; Pam McAdam with the Nanaimo Child Development Centre; City of Nanaimo social planner John Horn as a new report on child poverty was released Friday . [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]

COURTS

Child porn suspect dies in Gabriola blaze DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

The man killed in a house fire on Gabriola Island Monday was scheduled to appear in court that day on a child pornography possession charge.

BC Coroners Service has confirmed the body found in a rental house on Keith Drive was that of the tenant, Wayne Barry McFetridge, 64.

He faced a single charge of possession of child pornography.

The Gabriola Fire Department arrived on scene at 5:30 a.m. After the fire was extinguished, the body was found in living space on the second floor.

Cause of the fire has not been determined, which has fuelled speculation in the community arson was involved.

Gabriola fire chief Rick Jackson said he immediately handed the investiga-

tion over to the RCMP and the BC Coroners Service, but he dismisses the arson theory.

“People say all kinds of stupid things here,” Jackson said. “But RCMP went into full-on mode looking into that (and) that’s why they’ve had such an intensive investigation.”

Jackson said there is no evidence to support the arson theory.

“On this island, the popular word is if you haven’t heard a rumour by noon, start one. This guy wasn’t very popular.

He was facing charges.”

Jackson said the man was a smoker “and people say he was an alcoholic, (so) I tend to lean more toward an unfortunate accident.”

In September, McFetridge was charged with one count of possession of child pornography.

FIRST NATIONS

Atleo to head speaker series DAILY NEWS

Healing wounds between Canada’s First Nations and non-First Nations populations is the focus of a series kicking off next week in Nanaimo.

Chief Shawn Atleo will deliver Vancouver Island University’s inaugural presentation of the Indigenous Speakers Series on Nov. 26.

The series is being presented in partnership with The Laurier Institution and hosted by CBC Radio One’s Ideas program.

Its focus is on topics related to reconciliation and engagement with Canada’s indigenous peoples.

Atleo is a hereditary chief of the Ahousaht First Nation, served as VIU’s first chancellor from 2008 to 2014, and was appointed by Premier Christy Clark

to the role of Shqwi qwal for Indigenous Dialogue at VIU. Atleo has also served as Chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Atleo’s talk will be followed by an audience question-and-answer session hosted by CBC Radio.

“We are thrilled to present the inaugural Indigenous Speaker Series event,” said Dr. Ralph Nilson, VIU’s president.

“Delivering this important speakers series exemplifies these values and the importance VIU places on reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations peoples.”

The series, which will be held each year in Nanaimo, was announced in June to mark the release of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Atleo’s presentation begins at 7 p.m. in VIU’s Malaspina Theatre.

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Samra eager for fresh start in role as city’s interim manager

Not every councillor is happy with hiring process

Optimism abounds as preparations begin for challenges as Nanaimo’s top bureaucrat SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

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s the Daily News crew arrived for an interview interim city manager Tracy Samra Friday, she suggested it take place outside city hall to enjoy the fresh air.

The phrase ‘fresh air’ has also been applied to Samra by those hoping the new top bureaucrat will help cool tensions and shepherd change amid a trying political period for the city.

Samra spent much of Friday, her second day on the job, in meetings with senior managers and will continue that work into next week.

She said she has been asking them to outline the challenges they see, as well as opportunities to make progress.

Her work will also include getting to know the organization, which employs several hundred people.

Samra said one of the main challenges outlined by staff is improving communication “and working with mayor and council to clearly articulate what their strategic priorities are. Staff want to know what (council’s) vision is and where we’re going,” she said.

Samra said there is also lot of “optimism” within the civil service, which she said includes a team of younger managers with new ideas.

But atop of every city manager’s list is dealing with council, which in Nanaimo has been described by some of its own members as “not functioning.”

Samra’s predecessor Ted Swabey, who had worked at the city for more than two decades, also left in part due to disagreements with the current council’s priorities. He is set to take over as chief administrative officer of Maple Ridge.

The criticism has also come from outside sources, including Chamber

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Nanaimo interim city manager Tracy Samra at city hall on Friday. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

“The one priority I do have, and I received that from the mayor, is to move forward on the core review.”

Tracy Samra, interim city manager

of Commerce CEO Kim Smythe, who recently took council to task for a confrontational, nasty tone at meetings, repeated failure to make quorum and for a lack of progress on key files.

Samra, the first First Nations person and woman to take on the city

manager role, said she hopes to play a role improving the situation.

“I’m coming in with my eyes wide open,” she said. “I know that there are definite communication and relationship challenges on mayor and council, so I am going to take it step by step, meet with each of the council members and see what I can do to get their trust and respect in this process and help them do what they’re supposed to do.

“It is daunting, because there’s a quagmire that I’m wading into, I’m just hoping using different kinds of techniques and different approaches, maybe we can get out of it and make some movement.”

EDUCATION

District talks demolition of historic old Harewood school DAILY NEWS

The demolition of the closed Harewood Elementary School at the cost of $589,000 is under discussion in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district.

Tearing down the building, which was its 100 years old last year, is the second-highest priority on the district’s latest five-year capital plan recently submitted to the Ministry of Education.

With a lot of asbestos in the old structure, the district has safety issues with the building, said School board chairman Steve Rae. “Nobody is interested in this property while the building is still on it,” he said.

“It’s a significant cost to demolish it and we’ve had some discussions with the ministry on finding the funding for it, but we have had no commitments at this time to help us.”

Harewood Elementary School is the oldest building in the school district. It was built in 1914 but closed in 2004 as part of the efforts by the school board to deal with declining enrolment and increased costs.

Due to its deteriorating condition, the school has been declared not safe for the public to enter and is considered an eyesore by many residents within the community.

For now, Samra will continue getting to know her new vocational home.

“I don’t plan on making any major changes until I’ve had a chance to orient myself, until mayor and council has been clear on what their instructions are for me,” she said.

“The one priority I do have, and I received that from the mayor, is to move forward on the core review, so I’m going to be doing that, but there’s no immediate changes pending.”

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An interim city manager has been chosen and already there is controversy — not over the candidate, but the way the way the appointment was made.

Residents on social media are reacting to an online post from a local businessman that suggests a majority of council voted to appoint and interim manager without interviewing approximately 22 candidates whose names had been submitted or suggested. Some have expressed dismay over the apparent leak of information from the in-camera meeting, where the hiring decision was made.

Others appeared disappointed over a perceived lack of process in selecting a replacement for former city manager Ted Swabey.

“I think all I’m prepared to say was I had some disappointment with the process,” said Coun. Ian Thorpe, who stressed his disappointment was not with the successful candidate, Tracy Samra.

“I did expect the process of hiring to be a little more lengthy . . . and others did not agree with me,” Thorpe said.

But Coun. Gord Fuller said council was faced with a tight deadline.

Swabey’s last day was last Friday, and an interim replacement was needed, he said.

Fuller also said it soon became apparent that Samra was the favoured choice of a majority on council and said conducting interviews for all candidates would have taken at least a couple of weeks.

“It’s not the ideal way to hire someone,” he said. “And I can guarantee that when we hire a permanent city manager that a more robust (process) will be used.”

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EDITORIAL

Long-form census data loss caused much damage H ow much reliable data has been lost since the Harper government killed the census, and what is the cost?

No one, well hardly anyone, likes to do paperwork.

Make it mandatory — as in do it or else — and even fewer of us will do it happily.

And yet a surprising number of Canadians are applauding the return of the long-form census for 2016.

And they should because it’s a very good thing for the country overall, even if the heavy-handed mandatory nature offends many of us.

Why? Because you don’t have to be a statistician or social scientist

to know that bad data equals bad decisions. That’s what Canadian policy-makers at all levels were left with when the Harper government killed the census. The rationale at the time was that it’s too invasive and infringes on our privacy rights.

It may do that, but those relatively minor problems pale in comparison to the benefits of the good data the long-form census has provided in the past and now, thankfully, will provide in the future.

Quite simply, the long-form census is the best tool we have to make evidence-based, people-centric public policy decisions. Canada Pension Plan, employment insurance, Old

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Age Security, public transit, public health investment, education and social services — these are just a few of the areas benefiting from the best possible data. Lack of information means deteriorating data, and inadequate data means bad decisions.

Where will school populations grow? What does demographic data for a certain area mean about health spending? What is the current status of the wage gap between men and women? What do we know about poverty now and in the future in specific areas? Where are labour shortfalls most acute, suggesting those areas need training and education investment?

There is really no credible, logical argument against the benefits of better data.

And yet a sizable percentage of us remain adamantly opposed to the mandatory census, which explains why the Harper government’s decision was unpopular in the academic, science and public policy world, but quite the opposite in the land of broader public opinion.

But the results don’t lie. The response rate for the mandatory long-form census before it was killed was 93.5 per cent.

The current version is shorter, more expensive, goes to more people and was voluntary, yet it could only

boast a 68.6-per-cent response rate when it was last employed in 2011.

The last long-form census was taken in 2006. The new government and Statistics Canada confirm it will happen again in 2016.

Regardless, the sad result of this misplaced decision is all the data we would have had for the decade in between is gone. We don’t get another chance at it. That’s tragic.

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e defeated the ICBC monster.

Well, sort of. The corporation recently asked for a 6.7 per cent increase in basic rates, but after a huge public outcry, dropped that number to 5.5 per cent. It felt kind of like a victory, but why?

Now traffic accidents are down, fatalities are down too, but the corporation feels that it needs to increase the rates, like it did last year, and the year before and the year before that.

Of course, having the province suck more than $1 billion from the company in the past couple of years to throw into the black hole of general revenue hasn’t helped the corporation to make ends meet—other than the $4 billion ICBC has made in profits since the 1990s.

Yes, you heard right: profits. For much of its existence, the public never heard about ICBC profits because the corporation either reduced rates, sent back a “road safety dividend” check, or spent that cash making roads safer. As a matter of fact, between 1996 and 2001, ICBC rates were actually frozen, while the corporation spent hundreds of millions on making roads better throughout the province. And all that worked showed. There was a drop in collision fatalities (13 per cent) and injuries (16 per cent).

That all changed in 2001. With a new government in power that promised tax break after tax break, the revenue had to be made up for somehow—and it was, through ICBC. So now the people of this province pay the second highest rate for coverage in the country without a corresponding increase in service from ICBC. The government just keeps trotting out the canard of “fraudulent and exaggerated claims,” as stated by Transportation Minister Todd Stone, as a reason for the increases.

But finding out the actual numbers of fraudulent and exaggerated claims is pretty much impossible, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

“With the lack of transparency, anyone with an interest kind of wants to see where these cost pressures are coming from, why we’re going to be paying more for auto insurance, it’s difficult to actually look into because the data, it just isn’t there, it’s not provided,” said the bureau’s Celyeste Power in a recent interview on CKNW. There is no question that the increases in the province’s basic auto insurance over the years has been, and will continue to be an additional tax. And this tax is by definition regressive, as it is by far more oner-

ous to the poor and working class than those making six figures or more a year. As an example, if you are making $30,000 a year and barely making ends meet, an increase of even a few dollars will hurt. That is what makes this kind of taxation particularly insidious. As a normal tax, the citizen’s income and ability to pay are taken into account. These increases by ICBC (and other taxes such as the PST or GST) don’t.

Then you have the very nature of the insurance business itself. It’s a fantastic business model. Take money in from a huge swath of the population, with only a very small percentage of that population having to use your service. When that service is used, regardless of how many years a person has been paying into it, expect a rate increase. Oh, and one other thing, this business model has no competition from other companies for its basic product.

Maybe, like some of the provinces that have lower rates than we do, we could pressure the government to scrap ICBC altogether and bring in private insurers who have to compete. After all, competition in the business market is the hallmark of a free market economy.

But the Consumers Association of Canada, after a recent investigation,

deemed private insurers to engage routinely in secret commissions to brokers who steered business their way — basing their recommendations on who payed the best commission rather than who gave the best deal. It also outlined a number of other offenses, along with the practice of only taking the clients that are virtually no risk.

So how about something truly radical. Suppose the province started another tax, based on a person’s ability to pay, that went exclusively to road safety and maintenance and not general revenue? That would at least be more honest. While we are at it, perhaps the province could also stop looting ICBC and get insurance levels to a reasonable level? Taxes, (the non-regressive kind) would have to increase slightly, but we would all be paying less in the long run and have a guaranteed fund for road safety.

Lastly, it is important to remember that when a government promises to reduce taxes, that never, ever means that they are going to be spending less money.

It just means that they will be taking the money from another source—and that source is us.

Brian Coombs is a columnist with the ‘Kootenay Advertiser.’

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Alberni connection to ‘Planet of the Apes’ JACKIE CARMICHAEL ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

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n upcoming Hollywood hit movie has some Port Alberni muscle in it.

Filmed on location in Ucluelet, Hidden Fortress is the latest installation in the Planet of the Apes franchise.

Gordon “Soup” Campbell’s crane had an integral part in the production.

“It gave us about two days of work which we normally wouldn’t have had for my crane and the rigger,” said Campbell.

The task was positioning a semi-trailer and truck in brush alongside the road out by the landfill, he said.

He got a sneak peak at one of the sets, an “abandoned processing plant” meticulously constructed at Wyndansea.

“It was very well done, it looked like it had been there a hundred years,” he said. “They did a really good job on it. It reminded me of some of the old fish camps that used to be dotted up and down the coast.”

Campbell, who also got some work when scenes for Insomnia were filmed in and around Port Alberni, expects to go to the new ape movie

Film commissioner Joan Miller, right, and colleague Tanya Price, in Ucluelet at the conclusion of filming for the latest Planet of the Apes movie, ‘Hidden Fortress.’ [JACKIE CARMICHAEL PHOTO]

when it shows in local theatres.

“It’s not something we get very often around here, making movies, it’s pretty neat,” he said.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars can be infused into a town in a matter of days, an undeniable economic boon, Campbell noted.

“That’s money that’s well received in a small community,” he said.

A long-time contractor in business in the area since 1956, he’s somewhat familiar with the movie industry; a Toronto-based son works as an electrician in the film industry.

As a contractor for the movie, Campbell adhered to the strict non-disclosure policy, as he would for any customer.

“Once they’ve hired you and know

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New high school tops district’s five-year plan ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

The construction of a new $66-million secondary school in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district tops the list on the district’s new five-year capital plan.

But district officials state they are not expecting any funding for the new school, the number-one priority on the approximately $122-million capital plan for 2015-16, any time soon.

School board chairman Steve Rae said district officials met with representatives from the Ministry of Education last week and were told that the main priorities for government funding at this time are projects dealing with safety issues in facilities and maintaining “existing assets.”

Rae said new school projects, like the proposed new facility for 1,800 students that would be built on the Nanaimo District Secondary site, are not currently high on the ministry’s priority list.

A spokesman for the ministry said Thursday that no decisions have yet to be made on any of the province’s school district’s capital plans, but acknowledged that building new schools is not a priority at this time.

“I don’t think we’re any closer to getting this funding,” Rae said Every year, the district is required to submit a list to the ministry of what it considers its priority projects, and they are dealt with according to perceived need and funding that’s available.

In 2008, the district’s new school board at the time decided to scuttle

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an $87-million, government-approved facilities plan that included building a new high school.

The plan included the closure of both the aging Nanaimo District and Woodlands secondary schools in 2012, and the construction of a new high school on the Woodlands site that would have been completed by now.

The last time the district received funding from the ministry for a new school was in 2001 when Cinnabar Elementary School was constructed at a cost of $3.7 million.

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who you are, maybe they’ll be back and you can do something else for them,” he said.

Like some 35 carpenters and 15 production assistants, Campbell didn’t confide that he was building sets for the movie; he was sworn to secrecy.

Island North film commissioner Joan Miller said the film production now heads to the lower mainland for studio filming, but the after-effect lingers in local economic impact.

“In order to support local communities when they do a film, they try to purchase locally,” Miller said.

On the West Coast, that means a trickle-over-Sutton Pass effect for heavy equipment and car rental businesses in Port Alberni, she said.

Miller said she can’t say enough about support from local municipal officials, the airport and the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District.

“They’re getting great feedback from production crews here, that kind of word-of-mouth goes a long way,” she said.

“This is a film-friendly community, they’re always co-operative,” Miller said.

A non-profit agency that doesn’t charge for its services, Island North Film Commission works with all the

on-the-ground logistics to facilitate film production here – with one question in mind.

“How can we as a region make this a win-win for both the production company and the community?” she asked.

In order to attract films out of Hollywood, even out of the Lower Mainland, there are advantages to be represented: everything from Vancouver Island’s 22,000 square miles of spectacular scenery – much of it unimpeded by traces of civilization – to free parking.

“We’re competitive . . . we want them to come to our region, and spend all their per diem while they’re here,” Miller said.

Federal and provincial parks, once somewhat aloof to the film industry, have realized that Hollywood can bring them what they need: free publicity with location shoots that will lure a second wave to visit.

“People are more and more making decisions on where to travel based on what they’ve seen on the big screen,” said Miller.

There were, earlier this month, more than six documentary crews on the ground on Vancouver Island, including several BBC documentaries.

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City council votes to alter food truck restrictions SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo city council has voted to loosen up restrictions on food truck vendors, although some on council signalled a desire for the policy changes to go further.

Council unanimously backed the proposed changes in principle Monday night, which will for the first time allow vendors to operate on certain locations on city streets and city-owned parking lots.

The changes, backed by local business groups, will also increase the number of park locations where food trucks and trailers can operate and proposes a simpler process for acquiring a license to operate the mobile eateries. The licence would also be transferable across various locations across the city.

The policy shift comes after more than a year of research and consultation with food vendors and groups like the Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce.

Chamber CEO Kim Smythe has represented the local industry during talks.

Changes to food truck restrictions in Nanaimo will allow for vendors to operate in more locations throughout the city.

Currently, food truck operators cannot operate on city streets or parking lots. They are restricted to a handful of park locations and must attain a special parks licence use agreement in addition to a business licence.

Under the new rules, only one licence is needed for each vendor.

The city is also proposing a system

when licensed vendors can reserve parking lot or park locations in advance, or show up to claim street locations on a first-come, first serve basis.

However, the proposed new system also came under criticism.

Only five new street locations are proposed for food trucks close to downtown, including two on

Albert Street, one on Church Street, another on Front Street near the court house and a final location on Wallace Street by City Hall. Two more locations are proposed for the hospital area and Duke Point.

Only one vendor would be able to occupy each location at a time.

The policy also effectively locks food trucks outside of the downtown

core because of a proposed 25-metre ‘buffer’ from downtown restaurants.

Coun. Gord Fuller said the proposals had positive elements, but indicated the proposed locations and restrictions were a concern.

“I see this as very restrictive, not as flexible,” he said.

Fuller also cited Smythe’s claims that food trucks do not take away customers from restaurants, but rather increase the market size.

“So why make it so restrictive in our downtown core?” Fuller said.

Others voiced similar concerns.

“I think the appetite around the table — no pun intended — is to actually get a little more progressive and not have limitations,” said Coun.

Bill Yoachim.

That appetite may soon be sated.

Council unanimously backed a motion from Coun. Diane Brennan to have city staff review additional location opportunities for food trucks.

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Port Alberni RCMP were called to the rural residence just after 9 a.m. after receiving a report about an incendiary device that had detonated.

“Preliminary investigation indicates that the injured woman located a package in the driveway of the home and brought it inside,” RCMP Inspector Mac Richards said.

“While moving the package, an explosion occurred.”

The package was filled with plastic shopping bags and yet-to-be-determined contents, Richards said.

“The origin of this package and how or why it came to be at this home remain under investigation at this time,” he said.

The woman’s husband, who did not want to be identified, said his wife was airlifted to Victoria.

“She’s going to have hand problems,” he said.

The husband and his father-inlaw were treated at West Coast General Hospital and released.

He did not want to speak with the media any further about what happened. Three officers with the RCMP’s Emergency Disposal Unit arrived on the scene around 4 p.m. to speak with family members and survey the scene, which had been cordoned off for several hours.

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Richards said this is the first time in the three years he has been in Port Alberni that he has had to deal with an incendiary device.

“It’s not a common occurrence.”

Anyone who locates a suspicious item of unknown origin is urged

not to disturb it and to contact police for assistance, he said.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact the Port Alberni RCMP at 250-723-2424 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or online at avcrimestoppers.ca.

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UBC criticized for announcing suspension LAURA KANE THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — The University of British Columbia’s faculty association says the institute should not have publicly revealed that high-profile author Steven Galloway had been suspended over “serious allegations.”

Association president Mark Mac Lean sent a memo to all faculty Friday saying the university released “confidential information” when it announced that Galloway was sus-

pended with pay as chairman of the creative writing program.

“Unfortunately, this confidential information was released to the public by way of the posting of an internal memorandum from the dean of arts, and by various interviews granted to the media by members of the university administration,” the memo stated.

Mac Lean said Galloway had a legal right to privacy regarding matters pertaining to his employment status

and an expectation of procedural fairness, natural justice and that the labour relations processes and practices at the university be followed.

“We deeply regret that unspecified allegations and the fact of his suspension have been made public by the university and we will not be commenting further.”

Dean of arts Gage Averill announced Galloway’s suspension on Wednesday in a memo posted to the university website. He did not dis-

close the nature of the allegations or the number of complainants.

Averill gave several media interviews in which he said the university would soon announce the identity of an external investigator hired to probe the allegations.

On Friday, managing director of public affairs Susan Danard said UBC would release no more information.

“UBC is not doing media interviews at this time or providing further details via the media to maintain the

integrity of an impartial, independent investigation and to protect the rights of all parties involved,” she stated in an email.

Chelsea Rooney, an author and graduate of the creative writing program, said she’s concerned that Mac Lean’s memo will serve to silence people involved in the investigation.

“They will now feel afraid to share information, which is exactly how silence becomes abusive and damaging,” she said.

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Climate change labels on way for gas pumps JEFF NAGEL BC LOCAL NEWS

Climate change warning labels for gas pump handles will come to at least a few gas stations in Metro Vancouver next year.

Council in North Vancouver voted this week to make the labels, still to be designed, a mandatory condition of business licences for the six stations that exist in the city.

The Union of B.C. Municipalities had already voted in September in favour of advocating for provincial legislation requiring all petroleum retailers to display warning labels. But North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto said his council has given up waiting for a co-ordinated approach across B.C. to emerge from UBCM and the province.

“They’re just taking too long,” he said. “This is something that’s not rocket science here. So we’re just taking the lead on it.”

Mussatto hopes other cities in the region follow with their own local rules. He said North Van has legal advice that the nozzle topper labels can be an enforceable condition of the business licensing bylaw, although he acknowledged a court challenge by

A non-profit group proposed these gas pump warning labels but North Vancouver plans to come up with their own to caution drivers about climate change while also making constructive suggestions on cutting emissions.

petroleum companies is a possibility.

Activists who have spearheaded the idea hope that the guilt-inducing labels inspired by those for tobacco

that directly confront drivers as they fuel up will prod more of them to choose lower emission ways to get around.

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The non-profit group Our Horizons has circulated suggested labels with stark imagery of global warming impacts.

One shows dead coral and warns “use of this fuel product contributes to ocean acidification which puts much marine life at risk of extinction.”

Mussatto said North Vancouver will develop its own messaging that tries to strike a constructive tone.

“We don’t want doom and gloom, that doesn’t work,” he said.

“We want to point out that use of fossil fuels contributes to climate change, which is very important, so that will be a message on there.”

But he said there will also be a second message at each pump that gives emission-reduction tips.

Those could include fuel efficiency advice such as keeping tires properly inflated and not carrying excess weight in the vehicle, said Mussatto.

A city report cautions that fear-based negative messages could backfire.

It says other “positive can-do” messages could tell drivers about B.C.’s $5,000 incentive to buy an electrical vehicle, the Scrap-It program’s offer of a transit pass worth $1,360 if you “trade in your clunker”; and that “idling your vehicle for more than 10 seconds wastes more gas than restarting your engine.”

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Guides report slump in number Even the speed limit of steelhead in B.C. Interior rivers could result in a ticket ALICIA BRIDGES SMITHERS INTERIOR NEWS

Fishing guides are reporting a slump in the number of prized steelhead salmon biting in local rivers this year, reflecting a drop observed by scientists counting the number of fish entering the Skeena River to spawn.

According to information from B.C.’s Wildlife Branch, 113.3 of what are called steelhead ‘index points’ were counted at the Skeena River Tyee Test Fishery in 2015.

The Ministry uses a calculation based on that number to estimate the total number of fish entering the river annually.

This year’s estimate was 27,580, which was lower than last year’s number of 31,821, but higher than the estimate of 25,541 in 2013.

Senior fisheries biologist Mark Beere said this year’s numbers were not particularly low in the context of the fishery’s six decade history.

He said numbers in the recent past, since the late 1990s, had been high compared with the years before that, when commercial fishing was more prevalent.

“The big picture is to recognize there were . . . 40 worse years in the past 60 but partly that was because the commercial fishery was so active,” he said.

“Imagine in the past up to 1,200 commercial boats, each packing 1,200 feet of gillnet fishing up to six days a week or even more.

“It truly was a wall, a gauntlet.”

He said commercial fishing levels had since been scaled back due to a dive in sockeye numbers and concerns for weak stocks.

Derek Botchford, who owns Frontier Farwest Lodge, which offers guided steelhead fishing on the Bulkley and Morice Rivers, said he had noticed the fish were not biting as vigorously in 2015 compared with previous years.

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But he said those years were so good that visiting anglers had developed high expectations.

“There’s enough fish where everybody goes out and catches a fish or two a day but it is lower comparatively (to) the past ten years.”

Botchford said he was not alarmed by the drop, guessing it could be attributable to a flood in the region four years ago.

Another fishing guide, Denise Maxwell from Maxwell Steelhead Guides, said the steelhead had been not only fewer but smaller this season.

“There’s a few big ones around but most of them are normal or below normal size so it gets you wondering, what happened to the big fish?” said Maxwell.

“Is it ocean survival or have those fish been caught in somebody’s nets?”

She said the salmon migration passed through several commercial fisheries, including some in international waters.

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Police across B.C. are focusing on drivers travelling too fast for the road conditions this November. Many collisions in the fall and winter are a result of drivers continuing to drive at or above the speed limit when they really need to slow down.

“Speed limits are maximums in ideal conditions and many drivers disregard this when the weather changes. The roads are often wet and slippery and visibility is poor due to fog and rain.

Drivers need to make the necessary adjustments,” says Cpl. Ronda McEwen of BC RCMP Traffic Services.

When road conditions are poor, drivers are expected to adjust their speed to reduce the risk of being involved in a collision. If you are involved in a collision and police are able to determine you were travelling at an unsafe speed for the road conditions you could be issued a violation ticket for speed relative to conditions, a $167 fine which

also carries 3 points; even if you were travelling at the posted speed limit.

From October 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015, police across BC issued over 460 violation tickets to drivers travelling too fast for the road conditions.

“Police are dedicated to improving road safety through a variety of enforcement tactics; please slow down if road conditions are poor,” said Insp. Ronald Russell, Officer in Charge of Enhanced Traffic Services Programs.

Drivers need to slow down and take the time to look before acting. Be prepared for sudden stops and watch for pedestrians at marked and unmarked crosswalks. Police also remind drivers to ensure they have their head and tail lights on and working, most days warrant having your lights on at all times. Check your windshield wipers to ensure they are in good working order. Take the time to defrost your windows so they are all clear before heading out on the road.

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RCMP say charges against Jared Davidson include possession of stolen property and possession of a dangerous weapon. Police say Davidson had been a victim of several targeted home inva-

sions before his arrest last month but he did not co-operate with police.

Mounties say the man was arrested after officers seized drugs, cash, weapons and stolen property from a house in the city east of Vancouver.

Davidson has been released with conditions, including not to possess any mobile communication device, crossbow, prohibited or restricted weapons or ammunition.

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At least 20 dead in Mali as militants attack hotel Extremist group led by former al-Qaida commander claims responsibility BABA AHMED THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAMAKO, Mali — Heavily armed Islamic extremists seized dozens of hostages Friday at a Radisson hotel, but Malian troops, backed by U.S. and French special forces, swarmed in to retake the building and free many of the terrified captives. At least 20 people, including one American, were killed along with two gunmen during the more than seven-hour siege, a Malian military commander said.

An extremist group led by former al-Qaida commander Moktar Belmoktar claimed responsibility for the attack in the former French colony, and many in France saw it as a new assault on their country’s interests a week after the Paris attacks.

While French President Francois Hollande did not link the violence at the Radisson Blu hotel with last week’s bloodshed in Paris, he declared that France would stand by the West African country.

“Once again, terrorists want to make their barbaric presence felt everywhere, where they can kill, where they can massacre. So we should once again show our solidarity with our ally, Mali,” he said.

Gunfire continued throughout the day at the hotel, which is popular with airline crews and other foreigners doing business in the capital of Bamako, but the shooting had stopped after dark.

Officials would not confirm that the entire complex had been secured by nightfall, although the only activity was firefighters carrying bodies to waiting ambulances.

Malian state television said late Friday night that the government had announced a 10-day state of emergency beginning at midnight as well as a three-day period of national mourning beginning Monday.

Army Cmdr. Modibo Nama Traore said late Friday that 20 people had been killed, including an official with Mali’s gendarmerie. In addition, he said five people were

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More VWs may have cheating software THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal widened Friday as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that clandestine software allowing six-cylinder Volkswagen diesel engines to cheat on pollution tests is on more models than originally thought.

The EPA and the California Air Resources Board said the German automaker acknowledged the software is on about 85,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles with three-litre engines going back to the 2009 model year.

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injured including two police officers.

The U.S. State Department said one American was among the dead, though it did not identify the victim out of respect for the family.

Though Traore had earlier said as many as 10 attackers were involved, he said Friday night that there may have been only two gunmen, both of whom were killed. A police officer at the hotel displayed photos of the two dead gunmen, their bodies riddled with bullets.

The siege began when assailants shouting “God is great!” in Arabic burst into the complex and opened fire on the hotel guards, Traore said earlier on Friday. An employee who identified himself as Tamba Diarra said by phone amid the attack that the militants used grenades.

About 170 guests and employees were initially taken hostage, but some apparently escaped or hid in the sprawling, cream-andpink hotel that has 190 rooms and a spa, outdoor pool and ballroom. They included visitors from France, Belgium, Germany, China, India, Canada, Ivory Coast and Turkey.

“It was more like a real terrorist attack,” said UN Mission spokesman Olivier Salgado.

“The intention was clearly to kill, not to necessarily have people being hostage.”

U.S. special forces assisted, said Col. Mark Cheadle of the U.S. Army’s Africa Command.

All the Canadians known to have been in the hotel are safe, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Friday.

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OTTAWA — Senate officials never asked detailed questions about who or what services they were cutting cheques for, relying largely on senators themselves to explain how contracts supported their parliamentary functions, Sen. Mike Duffy’s criminal trial heard Friday.

Former Senate finance clerk Nicole Proulx returned to the stand and was grilled by Duffy’s defence lawyer on whether she asked any questions about contracts Duffy and the Senate signed, or if she was concerned about the practice of contract dates being amended if they were submitted after the work was complete.

There was a policy that contracts couldn’t

be backdated, Donald Bayne noted, yet evidence shows there was what amounted to an “administrative work-around” in place that just saw the date of work being changed so the contracts would conform.

Proulx said the way contracting services were handled was one of many risks Senate officials highlighted previously and several memos were issued to remind senators that contract work could not be done before a contract was signed.

She said she never personally sought to verify what services were actually being provided nor who was providing them, but court later heard that her colleague in the human resources department had raised questions about duties outlined in at least one of Duffy’s contracts.

The system for handling Senate office expenses and contracting was reviewed by independent auditors in 2009-2010 and cautions were raised about existing policies being “outdated, inadequate or non-existent” court heard.

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He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. A key line of his defence is that he did nothing criminal in his handling of expenses and contracts and was playing by admittedly unclear rules.

The trial resumes Monday with more testimony expected from Gerald Donohue, Duffy’s longtime friend.

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OTTAWA — Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose announced the members of her shadow cabinet Friday, including a defeated MP from Atlantic Canada who has been tapped to examine how party support unravelled in Eastern Canada.

Ambrose and the Tories are seeking a way forward now that they are back to official Opposition status.

Scott Armstrong, who lost to Liberal Bill Casey in the Nova Scotia riding of Cumberland-Colchester, will assist with Conservative efforts to rebuild support in the Atlantic provinces.

The Conservatives and New Democrats were shut out on the East Coast when the Liberals swept Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island on Oct. 19.

Armstrong will occasionally travel to Ottawa for shadow cabinet meetings, but he will be based in Atlantic Canada to listen to issues there.

Longtime Conservative MP Lisa Raitt, who will serve as the party’s finance critic, says it’s important to include an East Coast perspective.

“I think it makes a lot of sense to have a voice of Atlantic Canada . . . as part of what we are trying to do,” Raitt said. “You can’t ignore what happened east of Quebec.”

Raitt also said she is looking forward to what the Conservatives can accomplish.

“I think it is exciting,” she said.

“We’re going to do our job. We were asked to do our jobs by Canadians to be official Opposition and we are going to do it.”

In the days ahead, the Tories plan to press the new Liberal government for specifics on its plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees in less than six weeks.

It will also continue to urge the government to rethink its plan to pull six Canadian CF-18s out of the U.S.-led coalition attacking militant positions in Iraq and Syria.

“Once again, we are calling on the Liberal government to reverse its decision,” Ambrose said in a statement.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he will not backtrack on the plan to pull the CF-18s, but he has promised an increase in the number of ground troops used to train local forces fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Ambrose, who will also serve as critic for the status of women, has also created some new positions, including a critic for matters relating to maternal, child and newborn health. This will be tackled by Alberta MP Mike Lake.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2015

A woman lights a candle at the Place de la Republique in Paris after French artists and cultural figures called for people to mark a week since the start of the Paris attacks with an outpouring of ‘noise and light’ on Friday. [AP PHOTO]

Parisians pay tribute to dead a week after attack City’s mood subdued as many mark seven days since shootings JILL LAWLESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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week after their city was shaken to the core by a bloody series of attacks, Parisians turned out in their thousands Friday to pay tribute to the dead and express defiance at those who would try to challenge the French way of life.

Many placed candles among flowers stacked outside the Paris attack sites, while others held hands and reflected on their city’s losses. Some chose to sing and dance, raising their glasses to the victims who one week earlier had been enjoying a Friday night out when the attackers struck.

With France under a state of emergency, most demonstrations and large gatherings have been banned in Paris since the Nov. 13 attacks. A gathering at France’s oldest mosque to show inter-community solidarity was cancelled Friday because of security fears.

But Parisians spontaneously came together outside the restaurants, cafes and concert hall hit in the attacks — as they have all week — to leave flowers, light candles or hold quiet vigils.

“I’m still reeling, because these are the neighbourhoods where we young people go out a lot, places we know well,” said student Sophie Garcon as she looked at tributes left outside the Le Carillon bar, where gunmen sprayed automatic weapons fire.

In all, 130 people died and more than 350 were injured when gunmen and suicide bombers attacked cafes and restaurants in Paris and the national soccer stadium. The attacks, claimed by the Islamic State group, were the deadliest violence in decades and have left the city profoundly shaken.

“In France, we have a tendency to think that we’re not a country at war because there’s not a war on our territory.

But France is at war elsewhere in the world . . . and now it’s here, in the city of Paris.”

Sophie Garcon, student

The army has deployed 6,500 soldiers to the Paris region to help protect streets, train stations and landmark tourist sites like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum.

“There’s a feeling of insecurity, even though there are police everywhere,” Garcon said. “In France, we have a tendency to think that we’re not a country at war because there’s not a war on our territory.

But France is at war elsewhere in the world . . . and now it’s here, in the city of Paris.”

Khaled and Abdallah Saadi, whose two sisters were killed at the Belle Equipe bar, were among the mourners paying their respects there Friday. Halima and Hodda Saadi were celebrating Halima’s 36th birthday with friends and family when the gunmen struck, killing them and nine other people.

The city’s mood was subdued Friday afternoon, the weather wet and grim.

But French artists and cultural figures urged people to respond to the tragedy with an outpouring of “noise and light.”

Dozens of artists, writers, musicians and other cultural figures, including singer Charles Aznavour, journalist Anne Sinclair and former French Culture Minister Jack Lang, urged people to turn on their lights, light candles and play music at 9:20 p.m., around the time the attacks began on Nov. 13.

In a letter published in the Huffington Post, they said the killers’ attack on “culture and freedom” should unite people of all races, faiths and backgrounds.

They hoped the gesture would show “that culture will continue to shine out and to burnish the light of hope and fraternity.”

That hope was echoed in many of the hand-written signs and notes left outside the attack sites: defiant messages of love, vows that the slaughter will not turn Parisians toward hatred and suspicion.

On the Place de la Republique, which has become a focal point for commemorating the victims, some Parisians joined in a spontaneous dance.

Outside the Bataclan music venue, where 89 people died, one woman played a piano while another sang along.

At Le Carillon, a note posted on the wall by the bar’s owners offered “profound condolences” to those who lost loved ones, thanked people for their support, and urged unity.

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A frightened Manitoba homeowner who killed a suspected late-night intruder with an antique samurai sword has been found guilty of manslaughter.

Mitchell Whitbread, who is 28, went on trial earlier this month in The Pas. He was originally charged with second-degree murder, but jurors heard a week of evidence before returning their verdict last week on the reduced charge. Court heard how John Eyres, who was 31, was drunk when he began banging on the doors of Whitbread’s home.

Whitbread’s lawyer says his client was alone and believed he might have been under attack when he grabbed the weapon and stepped outside.

Whitbread testified in his own defence and that claimed Eyres suddenly lunged at him, which caused the fatal injury.

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Firm must stop drilling under Athabasca River The National Energy Board has ordered a subsidiary of TransCanada to immediately stop drilling under the Athabasca River in northeastern Alberta.

Darin Barter, a spokesman for the federal regulator, says Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. released potentially toxic drilling fluid into the river in four separate incidents over the past month.

The company was working on its McDermott Extension natural gas pipeline project about 75 kilometres northeast of Fort McMurray, Alta., at the time.

In addition to the fluid spill, the NEB says the company also caused river bank erosion.

The watchdog says it’s investigating how much drilling fluid was released as well as the chemical makeup of the substance.

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Tim Hortons shutters New York, Maine stores Turns out not everyone has time for Tim Hortons, especially in the United States.

The coffee and doughnut chain took surprise measures this week when it pulled the plug on some restaurants in New York and Maine as part of a performance review.

The closures sparked plenty of attention from local news outlets, which reported that employees said they were not given any notice and in some cases diners were kicked out of restaurants when the lights were turned off in the middle of the day.

Tim Hortons declined to comment on how the stores were closed and would not say how many locations were affected.

“We are supporting our restaurant owners in their transition and remain excited about the opportunities to expand the iconic Tim Hortons brand in the U.S.,” the company said in an email Friday.

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Trump rivals decry call to register U.S. Muslims JULIE PACE AND JILL COLVIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential rivals rushed Friday to condemn Donald Trump’s support for a government database to track Muslims in the United States, drawing a sharp distinction with the Republican front-runner on a proposal also deemed unconstitutional by legal experts.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called the prospect of a registry “abhorrent.” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said the idea was “unnecessary” and not something Americans would support.

And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has largely avoided criticizing Trump throughout the 2016 campaign, said, “I’m not a fan of government registries of American citizens.”

“The First Amendment protects religious liberty, and I’ve spent the past several decades defending the religious liberty of every American,” Cruz told reporters in Sioux City, Iowa.

The rebukes came after Trump voiced support for a mandatory database for Muslims in the U.S. while campaigning Thursday in Iowa.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall meeting at the Ben Johnson Arena on the Wofford College campus on Friday in Spartanburg, S.C. [AP PHOTO]

registered. In a video posted by the network, Trump said, “They have to be.”

Asked whether Muslims would have to register at mosques, Trump said, “Different places. You sign up at different places. But it’s all about management.”

On Friday, Trump said on Twitter

that he didn’t suggest creating a database but instead was answering a question from a reporter. However, he did not disavow the prospect of a registry on social media or at an event Friday morning.

Trump has also voiced support for closing certain mosques as a way to contain the terror threat in the U.S.

His comments followed the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility, elevating fears in the U.S. and prompting calls for new restrictions on refugees fleeing war-torn Syria.

The U.S. House passed legislation this week essentially barring Syrian

and Iraqi refugees from the United States. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has slotted the bill for possible Senate consideration, though it’s unclear whether the chamber could get enough votes to override a threatened veto by President Barack Obama.

The Republican candidates’ unified criticism of Trump was striking.

His rivals have vacillated in their handling of other inflammatory comments from him, wary of alienating his supporters while increasingly concerned that he’s maintained his grip on the GOP race into the fall.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged all Republican candidates to disavow Trump’s comments. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called Trump’s words “outrageous and bigoted.”

“This is shocking rhetoric,” Clinton wrote on Twitter. “It should be denounced by all seeking to lead this country.”

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Alberta not required to use French for laws KRISTY KIRKUP THE CANADIAN PRESS

Columnist became ‘useful idiot’ in using ‘spurious information’ BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — A journalism ethics expert says an article written about a former television reporter’s election campaign coming off the rails was based on “spurious information” and should never have been published.

Jeffrey Dvorkin, director of the University of Toronto’s journalism program, testified Friday that the article appeared to be a deliberate attempt by columnist Don Martin to publicize his opinion that candidate Arthur Kent “was an election disaster waiting to happen.”

“It doesn’t meet the standards of journalism at any level,” said Dvorkin, a former managing editor and chief journalist at CBC radio and former news ombudsman for National Public Radio in the United States.

“I just think it was mean-spirited and does not have the interests of the public at heart.”

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Kent became known as the “Scud Stud” for his reporting on Iraqi missile strikes for NBC during the Gulf War. The column at issue ran under the headline “Alberta’s ‘Scud Stud’ a ‘Dud’ on Campaign Trail.”

It used unnamed sources to portray Kent as a loose cannon who was difficult for the party to deal with. It also said a number of his key campaign members were threatening to quit.

One of those sources, Kent campaign lawyer Kristine Robidoux, has already testified that she shared private emails with Martin that included complaints between the Tory campaign chairman and party brass about Kent not abiding by the rules.

While she said the resulting article made her “physically ill,” she acknowledged under cross-examination that she was angry at Kent and was considering quitting the campaign because he seemed to be at odds with the PC party and leader Ed Stelmach.

Dvorkin wrote a report on the column at the request of Kent’s legal team and was called by Kent’s side to testify.

He said the use of anonymous sources made the article dubious.

“It was based on spurious information that was fed to him by sources that were unreliable,” Dvorkin said. “What Don Martin did was he became basically a mouthpiece for those opponents of the Arthur Kent campaign.

“He became their useful idiot.”

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says Alberta is not constitutionally required to enact its laws in both English and French.

In a 6-3 split decision, the court ruled that the arguments in favour of bilingual legislation were inconsistent with the historical documents they relied on.

The ruling ends a legal fight that has spanned more than a decade, beginning when Alberta’s Gilles Caron received a traffic ticket in 2003. Caron ended up merging his legal challenge with that of another driver, Pierre Boutet, who was also charged with a traffic offence.

The majority of the Supreme Court found Caron and Boutet’s position would require the court to believe the status of legislative bilingualism in Alberta was fundamentally misunderstood by “virtually everyone” involved in the Commons debate when the province was created.

“The legislative history post-1870 cannot support an inference regarding the 1870 order that is helpful to the appellants,” the court said.

“Furthermore, the provincial judge’s legal conclusion based on these arguments is in error.

“The Trudeau government now should fund the Saskatchewan and Alberta governments to make sure that all the laws are now translated.”

Robert Lepage, Lawyer for appellant

“There is simply no evidence that this joint administration was part of the implementation of a constitutional guarantee. The evidence is, in fact, entirely to the contrary.”

Roger Lepage, a Saskatchewan lawyer who has handled Caron’s case from the start, said he was disappointed with the outcome.

Lepage said he finds it unacceptable that Canada protected the anglophone minority in Quebec but chose not to protect the francophone minority outside Quebec.

He urged the new Liberal government to act.

“The Trudeau government now should fund the Saskatchewan and Alberta governments to make sure that all the laws are now translated.”

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Vancouver Canucks rookie Jake Virtanen, left, and Winnipeg Jet Drew Stafford collide during second period NHL action in Winnipeg on Wednesday.

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eneral manager Jim Benning remains confident the Vancouver Canucks are a better team than the one that has managed just seven wins in the first 20 games of this National Hockey League season.

Benning knows they’ll have to be if they are to remain in the Western Conference playoff race.

The Canucks limped home from a season-long seven-game road trip with a 7-7-6 record. To put that into perspective, the Canucks have not had so few wins after 20 games since the 1997-98 season. The Canucks started 4-13-3 that season under former head coach Mike Keenan and finished the year with just 65 points.

Right now, the Canucks are on pace for just over 80 points and it’s almost certainly going to take something north of 90 to make the playoffs.

While acknowledging he is far from satisfied with his team’s start, Benning said Thursday he remains confident the Canucks can recover from their recent stumbles. Vancouver went 1-4-2 on the seven-game odyssey that concluded with a 4-1 loss Wednesday to the Winnipeg Jets.

“We haven’t had the success recently that we wanted, but I think the attitude of the players is good,” Benning said. “They understand that if we do a couple of things differently, we have a chance to win games. So I think we’re still excited about the season.

“We have got good veteran leader-

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ship and they hold other players in the room accountable. I feel comfortable with everything, but I also know we are going to have to be a little bit better because it’s going to be a tight race in our division all year. We are going to have to start winning games to stay in the race.”

After winning three of their first four games to start the season, the Canucks have only four wins in their last 16 games.

They have lost four straight and seven of their last eight.

Their inability to win close games has cost the Canucks dearly this season. Benning does not know what to make of the team’s well documented struggles in three-on-three overtime, where they have lost six times.

“We lose six points on that threeon-three, and even if we win half of those games, or we win four of those games, then our record is not nearly as bad as it looks,” he said. “But that’s part of the game now, and we

have to figure out how we are going to be successful and win some games in that three-on-three.”

Injuries have forced the Canucks to become even younger than Benning imagined. He said injuries to the likes of Brandon Sutter, Brandon Prust and Luca Sbisa has forced the team to play its youngsters in situations they might not quite be ready for.

“What ends up happening is your younger guys get moved up in the lineup,” Benning said. “Like with Bo Horvat, we wanted to make sure that we develop him properly. We didn’t want to put pressure on him to have to be a second-line centre, and that’s why we acquired Brandon Sutter. And then when we lose a guy like Brandon, it elevates his role in the lineup and his minutes on the specialty teams.

“It puts more pressure on the younger players. It is a fine line that (head coach) Willie (Desjardins) has to manage and try to make sure he doesn’t put these guys in over their head and try to figure out a way where we can develop them.”

Defensively, the Canucks are struggling. Vancouver has surrendered three or more goals in eight consecutive games and goalie Ryan Miller has not been nearly as sharp as he was early in the season.

“You need to manage the puck properly,” Benning said. “I think in some instances we haven’t been focused on managing the puck, getting it out at our blue-line and making sure when we get to their blueline, not losing the puck and getting

it in and chasing after it.

“When things don’t go well and you don’t win, it’s for a lot of different reasons. In some of the games we didn’t manage the puck properly … if we are going to play winning hockey, you can’t make those mistakes.”

Benning said injuries to Sutter and Sbisa have hurt Vancouver’s normally reliable penalty-kill, which was torched for eight goals on the seven-game trip.

Offensively, the Canucks can’t seem to get a big goal when they need it most. Radim Vrbata, who had a teamhigh 31 goals last season, has just three despite being tied for seventh in the NHL with 74 shots on net.

“We miss his goals for sure,” Benning said of Vrbata. “He is getting lots of chances. He has hit posts. He has hit crossbars. He just hasn’t had any luck around the net.”

Things don’t get any easier for the Canucks, who play back-to-back home games this weekend against the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks and the improved New Jersey Devils before heading out on a four-game road trip.

“Even though our record right now is not where we want it to be, I think once we get healthy we’ll be OK,” Benning said. “I like our team.

When we were healthy to start the year, I thought we were competitive, we played hard, we were physical, and I liked the mix of our team to start the year. Through injuries, we haven’t seen our full team up now for a while.”

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TORONTO — Tom Renney has spent his first year or so as president and CEO of Hockey Canada getting reacquainted with fans’ passion for the sport, and getting acquainted with the odd cup of coffee to keep going.

The longtime coach is still getting used to the trappings of being an executive and thinking on a big-picture scale about the health and the growth of the sport in Canada.

“Historically I’ve been able to look up at the scoreboard at the end of the night and know how well I did,” Renney said Friday ahead of Hockey Canada’s annual winter meeting.

“This is a lot different.

“The results are a little more delayed, I suppose.”

Renney sees some good elements to the first 16 months on the job, but it’s the next several months and years that will be a challenge.

Canada will again host the world junior championships in Toronto and Montreal in 2017, and the question of NHL participation in the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics is looming.

The NHL and NHL Players’ Association hold the strongest cards in discussions with the International Ice Hockey Federation and International Olympic Committee, but Renney will be part of the forces lobbying for it to happen.

“As the national sport organization and kind of the governing body for amateur hockey, at least in Canada, we’re all-in when it comes to the Olympic Games,” Renney said.

“There’s no question the best players from Canada that play the game should be there. I can’t suggest for a second that anything less than that is better.”

Renney comes at it from a unique angle because he coached Canada at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, the last Games before NHL players were allowed to participate.

Back then, he thought the mix-andmatch group of non-NHL players was a “dream team” because he always dreamt of coaching Canada at the Olympics.

In the 21 years since losing to Sweden in the Lillehammer gold-medal game, the 60-year-old has come around on wanting NHL players in the Olympics.

He knows they want to participate.

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Nanaimo takes over first place, will need to win tonight in Duncan to stay in that spot SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

Three weeks ago, the Nanaimo Clippers went into Trail and were handed an unexpected 6-1 loss against a Smoke Eaters team that was, and still is, in the basement of the B.C. Hockey League’s Interior Division.

Clearly, revenge was in order for the Clippers, who cruised to a 7-2 victory of the Smoke Eaters Friday night at Frank Crane Arena to take over first place in the Island Division.

“We had it in the back of our minds that these guys gave us the treatment in Trail,” said Clippers right wing Sheldon Rempal, who had two goals and an assist Friday night to take over the BCHL scoring lead.

“So it was nice to get some revenge on them, and I think we played great tonight.”

The Clippers (15-10-0-1) held the Smoke Eaters without a shot on goal for the first 11 minutes of the game.

Rempal and Corey Renwick scored goals 34 seconds apart, and the Clippers led 3-1 after the first period with a late goal from Matt Hoover.

Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp referenced that near flawless start as the key to his team’s success in the win.

“We were controlling the play,” he said, “and that set us up for a couple goals in the second half of the first period.

“I thought from there we played a pretty good hockey game.”

Hoover finished the night with two goals, Yanni Kaldis had two assists and Renwick, Spencer Hewson and Chris Dodero each had a goal and an assist.

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Nanaimo Clippers centre Corey Renwick, middle celebrates his first-period goal with teammates Chris Dodero, left, and Zach Court Friday night against the Trail Smoke Eaters at Frank Crane Arena. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

“When our habits our better, we tend to get even more goals for,” Vandekamp said.

“Tonight, we played a pretty good team game and when we had some opportunities that were going in.”

Rookie goaltender Jakob Walter stopped 25 of the 27 shots he faced for his second career BCHL win.

The Clippers now move on to play

their third game in four nights tonight in Duncan against a Cowichan Valley Capitals team that on Thursday led the division in winning percentage.

They lost Friday night, 6-2 to the Victoria Grizzlies, but Vandekamp said it’s going to be a big test to beat Cowichan, a team they haven’t seen much of this season.

“It’s a big game for our team,” he said. “Cowichan’s put together a good start to the season and they’ve got a good squad.”

The two teams meet at the Island Savings Centre at 7 p.m.

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Vancouver Island Mariners guard Lanae Adams drives to the basket against the Langara Falcons Friday night at VIU. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

A good night for the Vancouver Island University Mariners wasn’t so for the Langara Falcons Friday night in Nanaimo.

Both the VIU men’s and women’s basketball teams eased past the Falcons in PacWest play with the women winning their game 82-51 before the men ran away with a 102-78 victory.

VIU women’s team leading scorer Sienna Pollard was dominant against Langara, finishing the game with 31 points and 10 rebounds, while point guard Sara Simovic posted 15 points and forward Victoria Brown pulled down seven rebounds.

That win put the Mariners at 5-1 on the season.

On the men’s side, American duo John Thompson and Josh Ross led the Mariners with 22 and 21 points,

respectively, as VIU moved to 6-0 on the season as the No. 1 team in the country.

Guard Bryson Cox posted 18 points, while forwards Curtis Wilson and Jason Fortin finished with 13 each.

Both the VIU basketball teams are back at it today as the host the Quest Kermodes, one of a select few programs in the conference that has been able to compete with the Mariners as of late.

They went into the weekend tied atop the PacWest standings in both men’s and women’s play with one loss on the women’s side and none on the men’s side.

Today’s games begin at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. with the women hitting the floor first before the men take over to wrap up the weekend.

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or the first time in 2015, the streak of two straight Varsity AA high school football provincial titles for the John Barsby Bulldogs is in doubt.

OK, technically it was last week, too, but a 77-0 win over the Moscrop Panthers to open playoffs didn’t exactly spark any feelings of fear in the hearts of the Barsby faithful.

Today, when the No. 2-ranked Bulldogs take on the No. 3 Abbotsford Panthers (1 p.m. at Merle Logan Field), there will be doubt.

Because along with the Panthers, Chase Claypool is coming to town.

The most dynamic high school receiver in the country already committed to play for Notre Dame.

All six feet, five inches and 215 pounds of a kid ranked as the No. 46 prospect in North America by Yahoo! Sports at his position.

The Bulldogs have played tough teams all year — No. 1 G.W. Graham, No. 5 Carson Graham, former No. 1 Vernon Panthers, and a Mt. Douglas Rams team ranked No. 1 in Varsity AAA football.

But that haven’t seen a single player with this much ability.

Claypool has averaged 21.6 yards per touch this season with 1,489 all-purpose yards and 17 touchdowns.

Barsby, though, sports a full team effort that has shut down top players before (see: Brayden Lenius, now at the University of Washington), and plan on doing so again against Abbotsford today.

No one should be underestimating them, either. After a couple tough losses to open the season, they haven’t allowed a touchdown since playing Carson Graham.

The Bulldogs also didn’t do much last week. There defensive starters never had to play more than four consecutive plays, and their starting runningbacks didn’t get any carries.

The linemen had their team in the endzone before anyone could break a sweat. So today, it will likely come down to whether or not the Bulldogs can shut down a player no one has yet. But if we’ve learned anything in the past two years, it’s that a bet against the Bulldogs in the playoffs is a losing wager. » Scott McKenzie is the sports editor at the Nanaimo Daily News. To offer comments on this column or to submit a story idea, send an email to: scott.mckenzie@nanaimodailynews.com.

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CALGARY — Quinn Smith feels he’s had the best of both worlds this CFL season.

The 24-year-old from Toronto felt the glory of recording a sack and also the fun of being on the field to celebrate touchdowns with the Calgary Stampeders.

Smith started at defensive tackle the first 10 games of this season before morphing into the sixth man on the offensive line.

The Concordia University product returned to defence for Calgary’s regular-season finale, only to switch to offence again in the West Division semifinal.

That’s a lot of pages to memorize from the Stampeder playbook.

“My brain has been a bit of a storm this year, but the coaches have been great helping me out and making it a little more simple,” Smith said Friday.

“Defensive line, when you sack the quarterback you get a bit more praise, there’s a little more glory. But offence, you’re on the field for touchdowns so it’s pretty exciting. When you’re on defence and there’s a touchdown scored, it’s not a good thing.

“It’s good to celebrate touchdowns once in awhile.”

Stampeder head coach and general manager John Hufnagel called Smith “a very handy person to have on your roster this year” and now even more given the revamping of Calgary’s offensive line ahead of Sunday’s West Division final against the Edmonton Eskimos.

Injuries to starting centre Pierre Lavertu (hamstring) and left guard Shane Bergman (upper body) in a division semifinal win last Sunday has the Stampeders relying even more on Smith’s versatility.

The winner of Sunday’s tilt between the CFL’s 14-4 teams books a berth in the Grey Cup on Nov. 29. The Eskimos won the season series against the defending Grey Cup champions and thus earned home-field advantage for the division final.

“My brain has been a bit of a storm this year, but the coaches have been great helping me out and making it a little more simple. “ Quinn Smith, Calgary Stampeders

International John Estes, who played both centre and guard at the University of Hawaii, snapped to quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell in practice this week.

Estes has played guard for the Stampeders this season, but not centre yet.

“He puts it right on your chest every time,” Mitchell said.

Spencer Wilson took over in the middle and Smith rotated in when Lavertu limped to the sidelines in the first quarter against the Lions. Defensive tackle Junior Turner was summoned to the offensive line when Bergman exited prior to the half.

Wilson has shifted back to right guard.

Quebec City’s Karl Lavoie has practised for two weeks, but the Stampeders’ firstround draft pick in 2015 appeared in just one game because of a knee injury.

The Stampeders could also activate Calgary’s Paul Swiston or Edmonton’s Gord Hinse from the practice roster.

Defensive end Charleston Hughes practised Thursday with a cast on his broken hand, but was not on the field Friday.

Other injuries this season to guard Brad Erdos and tackles Dan Federkeil and Edwin Harrison contributed to keeping the six-foot-two, 300-pound Smith on the offensive line for seven of Calgary’s last eight games.

Smith played both sides of the ball at Concordia. The way he sees it, flipping back and forth with the Stampeders makes him a more marketable pro player.

“It’s a resume-builder I guess you could say when it comes time to be a free agent or something,” Smith said.

“I’m always going to be playing, which is great.”

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OTTAWA — The five players on the Ottawa Redblacks’ offensive line have enjoyed little fanfare this season, and that is fine with them.

The Redblacks had the rare luxury of starting the same five lineman, Jon Gott, J’Micheal Deane, Nolan MacMillan, Colin Kelly and SirVincent Rogers, all 18 games this season. In comparison the other teams in the league started an average of 9.5 players on the line.

“We’re really lucky I guess,” said offensive line coach Bryan Chiu.

“To play that many games and have the same five guys it doesn’t happen often. I think (head coach Rick) Campbell has done a good job managing practices and keeping our guys healthy.”

That consistency on the line allowed Ottawa to field a potent offence, and the Redblacks will be looking for more of the same when they host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Sunday afternoon in the East Division Final.

The five linemen take pride in having started every game and say they’re more than happy to let quarterbacks Henry Burris and the receivers enjoy the accolades.

“We do the dirty work and we let those guys go out and do what they do which is run around and make plays,” said Rogers. “We’re fine with that. We don’t need to be glorified for what we do. Everybody understands that the only way that you can get it going is if we’re going up front.

As long as everybody understands that we don’t need any glory.”

Burris has had a career year and acknowledges much of the success goes to his linemen for providing him the time and space to do his job.

The Redblacks allowed the fourth fewest sacks, 43, in the league. Last year they allowed 56.

“It’s very rare that you’re able to go through an entire season especially with your entire front five intact throughout the course of the season,” said Burris. “Of course we’re only hoping that it continues to last. To have the front five playing a consistent 18 games together, we had a couple guys miss a play here or there, but the thing is to have those guys play consistently together it brings consistency on the field as far as in our play because we know what the guys up front are capable of and they give me time and give holes to our running back to make things happen down field.”

Remaining healthy has been instrumental to the five’s success, but just as important is the respect and friendship they have for one another.

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UBC Thunderbirds head to Winnipeg for semifinal The rapid rise of the UBC Thunderbirds has even Blake Nill struggling for an explanation.

When the no-nonsense head coach took over the University of British Columbia’s football program last December — a team coming off a 2-6 campaign and without a winning record since 2004 — he was prepared for a painful rebuild.

Fast-forward just 11 months and, much to Nill’s surprise, the Thunderbirds are within a game of the Vanier Cup. “It’s been a season that defies logic, to be honest with you,” he said this week.

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic — IOC President Thomas Bach proposed an overhaul of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s operations Friday, including the creation of independent testing and professional intelligence-gathering units to avoid the kind of scandals that have embroiled Russia and track and field.

In a radical change, Bach also recommended that all doping sanctions be handed down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, rather than by individual sports bodies or WADA. “We are convinced that the adoption of these proposals would lead to a more efficient, more transparent, more streamlined, more cost efficient, more harmonized anti-doping system,” Bach said. “It would better protect the clean athletes and enhance the credibility of sports.”

Bach also said that Russia’s Olympic chief briefed him on “important first steps” that have been taken to reform the country’s anti-doping program following the suspension of its track and field federation.

The Russian committee issued a statement reaffirming its commitment to punish athletes, coaches and officials involved in doping to ensure Russia can return to track and field competition at next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The Russian committee said it

◆ HOCKEY

Guy Boucher returns to coach at Spengler Cup Fired by his Swiss league team, Guy Boucher has all the time in the world to prepare for the next step in his career.

His focus right now is on coaching Canada at the Spengler Cup, but after being released by SC Bern in Switzerland’s National League A, the former Tampa Bay Lightning coach has his sights on returning to the NHL in the not-too-distant future.

“I think now it was really important for me to make it clear that I want to be back, I’m ready to be back,” Boucher said by phone from Switzerland.

“Even more experience, even more ready and that can be at any time, absolutely.”

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach laughs while holding a speech during the 44th European Olympic Committee general assembly in Prague on Friday. [AP PHOTO]

planned to expel former Russian athletics federation president Valentin Balakhnichev from its executive body. Balakhnichev has been accused of participating in a plan to extort money from marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova.

Balakhnichev has also been expelled from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s advisory council on sport and fitness, the ROC said.

Bach spoke in a keynote address at the opening in Prague of the general assembly of the European Olympic

Committees, with Russian officials among the delegates.

A month ago, a summit of Olympic leaders proposed that drug-testing be taken out of the hands of sports organizations, and that WADA should take over testing on a global level to ensure more credibility. WADA leaders agreed this week to study the idea.

They also welcomed Bach’s expanded plans, but reiterated the need to find more funding for an increased role.

BOXING

Cotto, Alvarez title fight may be worth the hefty price tag

October 13 - December 17, 2015 Schedules are subject to change without notice.

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LAS VEGAS — The sting from Mayweather-Pacquiao is still there, which makes anyone who spent $100 to watch that overhyped snoozer think twice about wasting their money on boxing again.

Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez aren’t to blame, but it does force them to have to work harder to sell their own fight.

They get in the ring Saturday night for what is expected to be the biggest pay-per-view fight since 4.4 million households bought into the hype in May for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

While the fight is an attractive one for boxing fans, it won’t match the pay-per-view record set six months ago. But Oscar De La Hoya likes what it brings to the sport, even if it struggles at the box office.

“Mayweather was all about

the business, how many payper-views, how much money was made,” said De La Hoya, who promotes Alvarez. “We’re going back to the roots of boxing where if you fight the best everything follows that. And this is a perfect example of the best fighting the best.”

Fans of Gennady Golovkin would argue that, but Cotto vs.

Alvarez just might be the best matchup of the year in boxing.

Better yet for those contemplating spending $69.95 to watch it at home, it doesn’t figure to lack for action.

This being boxing, of course, even a potentially great fight has its issues.

It was supposed to be for a piece of the middleweight title, but now only Alvarez can leave the ring as a champion if he wins. Cotto was stripped of his 160-pound title this week rather than agree to the demands of the ringmasters at the WBC, who wanted him to

pay a $300,000 sanctioning fee to keep his belt.

That’s on top of the $800,000 that Cotto spent earlier to avoid meeting Golovkin so he could take on Alvarez instead.

“For $1.1 million I can buy any belt I want and be champion of whatever I want in my house,” Cotto said.

“But this fight speaks for itself. I don’t need a belt for this fight.”

It’s probably just as well, because the fight was barely a middleweight bout anyway. The two fighters agreed to meet at a 155-pound catch weight instead of fighting at the class limit of 160 pounds so the fight could get made.

Whatever the weight, the fight at the Mandalay Bay casino is a big one. Triple G will be at ringside, hoping that he will get the winner sometime next year, and unbeaten light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev will also be on hand.

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OILERS 5, DEVILS 1

ATLANTIC DIVISION

First Period 1. Edm, Draisaitl 7 (Hall, Davidson) 6:59.

Penalties — Stempniak NJ (interference) 15:47; Palmieri NJ (hooking) 19:17.

Second Period 2. New Jersey, Palmieri 7 (Schlemko, Zajac) 6:04 (pp).

3. Edmonton, Klefbom 4 (Purcell, Draisaitl) 7:12.

Penalties — Pouliot Edm (interference) 5:41; Lander Edm (holding) 11:46; Gryba Edm (holding) 12:53; Cammalleri NJ (slashing) 15:19; Gionta NJ (crosschecking) 18:54.

Third Period 4. Edmonton, Eberle 3 (Hall) 3:23 (pp).

5. Edm, Letestu 2 (unassisted) 13:18.

6. Edm, Hall 9 (Draisaitl) 17:29 (en).

Penalties — Josefson NJ (hooking) 2:59; Farnham NJ (interference) 4:19; Hendricks Edm (high-sticking) 8:44.

Shots on goal New Jersey 4 12 4 —20 Edmonton 9 5 9 —23 Goal — Power plays (goal-chances) — New Jersey: 1-4; Edmonton: 1-6.

Attendance — at Edmonton.

Montreal Ottawa Detroit

GP 21 19 20

W 15 9 10

L OL SL 4 1 1 5 2 3 8 2 0

GF 74 57 45

GA 48 57 49

Pts Home 32 8-2-1-0 23 4-3-1-3 22 5-5-1-0

Away 7-2-0-1 5-2-1-0 5-3-1-0

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

L OL SL 3 1 1 5 1 0 7 0 0

GF 58 54 44

GA 34 41 43

Pts Home 30 9-1-1-0 25 6-3-1-0 24 7-3-0-0

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

Last 10 Strk 9-1-0-0 L-1 6-3-1-0 L-1 7-3-0-0 W-2

METROPOLITAN DIVISION NY Rangers Washington Pittsburgh

GP 19 18 19

W 14 12 12

WILD CARD NY Islanders New Jersey Tampa Bay Boston Florida Buffalo Toronto Philadelphia Columbus Carolina

GP 20 19 21 18 19 19 20 19 21 19

W L OL SL 10 7 2 1 10 8 0 1 9 9 1 2 9 8 1 0 8 8 2 1 8 9 1 1 7 9 1 3 6 8 4 1 8 13 0 0 6 10 2 1

GF 57 47 48 60 50 43 48 35 52 36

GA 49 48 50 56 48 52 56 54 66 55

Pts 23 21 21 19 19 18 18 17 16 15

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

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

Last 10 Strk 4-5-0-1 L-1 6-4-0-0 L-2 4-5-0-1 W-1 5-5-0-0 W-1 3-5-1-1 L-1 5-3-1-1 L-3 6-2-1-1 W-2 2-5-2-1 L-2 6-4-0-0 W-1 3-4-2-1 L-5

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Dallas St. Louis Nashville

GP 20 20 18

W 16 13 11

L OL SL 4 0 0 6 1 0 4 2 1

GF 71 54 53

GA 50 48 44

Pts Home 32 7-2-0-0 27 6-2-1-0 25 7-1-1-1

Away 9-2-0-0 7-4-0-0 4-3-1-0

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GP 19 19 19

W 12 11 10

L OL SL 7 0 0 8 0 0 8 1 0

GF 48 51 53

GA 41 47 56

Pts Home 24 7-5-0-0 22 3-5-0-0 21 3-4-0-0

Away 5-2-0-0 8-3-0-0 7-4-1-0

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

GP 20 18 20 20 20 21 19 20

W L OL SL 11 7 2 0 10 5 3 0 9 9 1 1 7 7 6 0 7 9 3 1 8 12 0 1 7 11 1 0 7 12 1 0

GF 54 53 54 56 38 50 53 55

GA 49 51 63 54 50 75 54 63

Pts 24 23 20 20 18 17 15 15

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

Last 10 Strk 5-3-2-0 L-1 5-3-2-0 L-3 3-6-0-1 W-1 3-5-2-0 L-4 6-2-2-0 W-1 6-4-0-0 W-2 4-6-0-0 L-2 4-5-1-0 W-1

PACIFIC DIVISION Los Angeles San Jose Arizona

WILD CARD Chicago Minnesota Winnipeg Vancouver Anaheim Calgary Colorado Edmonton

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Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 points & a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in the OTL or SOL columns. )ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Toronto 2 Carolina 1 (SO) Edmonton 5 New Jersey 1 Calgary 2 Chicago 1 (OT) Columbus 4 Nashville 0 Detroit 3 Los Angeles 2 Montreal 5 NY Islanders 3 7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Arizona 3 Montreal 2 Dallas 3 Washington 2 San Jose 1 Philadelphia 0 (OT) St. Louis 3 Buffalo 2 (SO) Ottawa 3 Columbus 0 Tampa Bay 2 NY Rangers 1 Pittsburgh 4 Colorado 3 Anaheim 3 Florida 1 Boston 4 Minnesota 2

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Colorado at Washington, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

NY Rangers at Florida, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Arizona at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 7 p.m.

Detroit at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Buffalo at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

6XQGD\¡V JDPHV Los Angeles at Carolina, 1 p.m.

San Jose at Columbus, 5 p.m.

NY Islanders at Montreal, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

LEAFS 2, CANES 1 (SO)

FLAMES 2, HAWKS 1 (OT)

First Period — No Scoring.

Penalties — Malone Car (roughing) 2:40; Grabner Tor (embellishment), Malone Car (slashing) 11:43; Froese Tor (holding) 18:40; Polak Tor (hooking) 19:14.

Second Period — No Scoring.

Penalty — Lindholm Car (tripping) 19:19.

Third Period 1. Car, Malone 1 (Faulk, Versteeg) 7:47.

2. Toronto, Kadri 2 (Komarov, van Riemsdyk) 16:27 (pp).

Penalties — Matthias Tor, Pesce Car (roughing) 11:58; Lindholm Car (face-off violation) 15:44.

Overtime — No Scoring.

Penalties — Faulk Car (slashing) 2:13.

Shootout — Toronto wins 2-1 Tor — Holland goal, Parenteau miss, Kadri miss, Bozak miss, Lupul goal.

Carolina — Terry miss, Skinner miss, Nash goal, Lindholm miss, Gerbe miss.

Shots on goal Toronto 8 4 8 5—25 Carolina 12 10 9 3—34 Goal — Toronto: Reimer (W, 7-2-3); Carolina: Ward (LO, 5-6-3). Power plays (goal-chances) — Tor: 1-4; Carolina: 0-2.

Attendance — 10,327 at Raleigh, N.C.

First Period 1. Cal, Monahan 7 (Russell, Gaudreau) 15:05.

2. Chicago, Anisimov 8 (Seabrook, Kane) 16:59 (pp).

Penalties — Hamilton Cgy (stick hold) 16:46; Hjalmarsson Chi (closing hand on puck) 17:20; Gaudreau Cgy (hold) 18:17.

Second Period — No Scoring.

Penalties — Seabrook Chi (tripping) 10:04; Frolik Cgy (tripping) 18:31.

Third Period — No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Overtime 3. Calgary, Gaudreau 5 (Hamilton) 1:38.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Chicago 7 8 4 0 —19 Calgary 13 4 14 6 —37 Goal — Chicago: Darling (LO, 2-2-1); Calgary: Ramo (W, 6-7-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Chi: 1-3; Calgary: 0-2.

Attendance — 19,289 at Calgary.

SCORING LEADERS Patrick Kane, Chi Tyler Seguin, Dal Jamie Benn, Dal David Krejci, Bos John Klingberg, Dal Taylor Hall, Edm Blake Wheeler, Wpg Artemi Panarin, Chi Erik Karlsson, Ott

G 13 11 12 8 4 8 8 7 5

Friday's games not included

A Pts 17 30 17 28 15 27 14 22 18 22 13 21 13 21 14 21 16 21

JACKETS 4, PREDATORS 0 First Period 1. Col, Campbell 2 (Rychel, Anderson) 2:35.

2. Col, Johansen 3 (Jenner, Murray) 4:16.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. Col, Jenner 10 (Johansen, Saad) 5:17.

Penalties — Johansen Clb (hooking) 7:53; Calvert Clb (high-sticking) 18:01.

Third Period 4. Columbus, Hartnell 9 (Atkinson, Foligno) 19:10 (en).

Penalties — Rychel Clb (roughing) 2:11; Neal Nash (goalie interference) 9:52.

Shots on goal Nashville Columbus

10 5

17 12—39 7 6—18

Goal — Nashville: Rinne (L, 10-3-3); Col: Bobrovsky (W, 8-9-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Nash: 0-3; Col: 0-1.

Attendance — 13,584 at Columbus.

RED WINGS 3, KINGS 2 First Period 1. Detroit, Tatar 6 (Abdelkader, Zetterberg) 14:10 (pp).

2. LA, Carter 8 (Kopitar, Martinez) 16:21 (sh).

Penalties — Glendening Det (hooking) 2:41; Forbort LA (holding) 12:39; Doughty LA (tripping) 16:09; Gaborik LA (high-sticking) 19:52.

Second Period 3. Detroit, Green 1 (unassisted) 3:45.

4. Det, Larkin 7 (Abdelkader, Zetterberg) 6:08.

5. LA, Carter 9 (Toffoli, Muzzin) 10:43.

Penalties — Abdelkader Det (holding) 0:30; Marchenko Det (holding) 9:15; Gaborik LA (high-sticking) 9:17; Abdelkader Det (stick holding) 12:58.

Third Period — No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Los Angeles Detroit

14 10

15 8—37 9 10—29

Goal — Los Angeles: Enroth (L, 3-1-0); Detroit: Mrazek (W, 6-4-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Los Angeles: 0-4; Detroit: 1-5.

Attendance — 20,027 at Detroit.

CANADIENS 5, ISLANDERS 3 First Period 1. Montreal, Petry 2 (Flynn, Semin) 2:52.

2. NYI, Nelson 7 (Tavares, Okposo) 11:57.

3. Montreal, Fleischmann 6 (Desharnais) 12:32.

4. Montreal, Beaulieu 2 (Galchenyuk, Smith-Pelly) 18:17.

Penalties — Subban Mtl (holding) 15:18.

Second Period 5. NY Islanders, Hamonic 1 (Nielsen, Lee) :39.

6. Montreal, Petry 3 (Beaulieu, Weise) 14:49.

Penalty—Kulemin NYI (interference) 12:49.

Third Period 7. NY Islanders, Nelson 8 (Bailey) 7:25.

8. Montreal, Gallagher 9 (Plekanec) 19:41 (en).

Penalties — Pateryn Mtl (cross-checking) 2:55; Smith-Pelly Mtl, Clutterbuck NYI (roughing) 5:28; Petry Mtl (delay of game) 9:19.

Shots on goal Montreal NY Islanders

11 10

11 6—28 15 11—36

Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 8-2-0); NY Islanders: Halak (L, 5-5-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Montreal: 0-1; NY Islanders: 0-3.

Attendance — 15,171 at Brooklyn, N.Y.

TENNIS At London, England

ROUND ROBIN — SINGLES ILIE NASTASE GROUP Rafael Nadal (5), Spain, def. David Ferrer (7), Spain, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4.

Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def.

Andy Murray (2), Britain, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Standings: x-Nadal 3-0 (sets 6-1), x-Wawrinka 2-1 (4-2), Murray 1-2 (2-4), Ferrer 0-3 (1-6) STAN SMITH GROUP Standings: x-Federer 3-0 (6-1), xDjokovic 2-1 (4-2), Nishikori 1-2 (3-5), Berdych 0-3 (1-6)

GOLF

NBA

WHL

CFL PLAYOFFS

PGA

EASTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

DIVISION FINALS

RSM CLASSIC

Sunday's games

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Cleveland Chicago Atlanta Miami Indiana Detroit Boston Toronto Washington New York Charlotte Orlando Milwaukee Brooklyn Philadelphia

EAST DIVISION GP W L Prince Albert 22 14 5 Brandon 23 14 7 Moose Jaw 22 11 7 Regina 20 10 9 Saskatoon 20 9 8 Swift Current 22 8 12

OL 2 0 3 1 3 2

SL 1 2 1 0 0 0

GF GA 78 67 82 61 79 68 59 70 67 80 57 68

Pt 31 30 26 21 21 18

OL 0 0 0 3 2 2

SL 0 0 1 0 1 0

GF GA 91 64 84 72 66 74 62 79 68 80 49 92

Pt 32 26 25 19 17 12

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L Red Deer 23 16 7 Lethbridge 22 13 9 Calgary 23 12 10 Edmonton 23 8 12 Medicine Hat 20 7 10 Kootenay 23 5 16

B.C. DIVISION GP W L Kelowna 21 15 5 Victoria 23 15 7 Prince George 21 11 9 Kamloops 19 9 8 Vancouver 21 5 12

OL 1 0 1 2 2

SL 0 1 0 0 2

GF GA 84 66 77 48 58 61 68 62 56 84

Pt 31 31 23 20 14

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

GP W L 20 13 6 19 11 7 21 10 8 19 10 9 21 8 12

OL 1 0 2 0 1

SL 0 1 1 0 0

GF GA 73 53 44 39 65 72 66 56 61 78

Pt 27 23 23 20 17

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Everett at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Medicine Hat, 7:30 pm.

Edmonton at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

6XQGD\¡V JDPH Saskatoon at Calgary, 4 p.m.

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T OL GF GA Pt 0 0 102 43 46 2 1 94 64 33 0 2 81 75 28 0 1 121 79 25 0 0 67 93 20 0 2 84 112 18

ISLAND DIVISION GP W L Cowichan Vally 23 13 7 Nanaimo 25 14 10 Powell River 22 12 10 Victoria 27 9 15 Alberni Valley 22 9 11 GP W L 23 15 5 23 14 5 24 13 11 23 9 10 25 6 17 24 4 20

WEST DIVISION Calgary at Edmonton, 4:30 p.m.

GREY CUP At Winnipeg Sunday, Nov. 29 Hamilton-Ottawa winner vs. CalgaryEdmonton winner, 6 p.m.

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

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L 0 4 4 5

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PA 169 207 184 225

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T 0 0 0 0

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PA 227 211 268 233

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PA 152 191 236 277

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L 2 5 5 7

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SOUTH Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee

NORTH Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

WEST Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia Dallas

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T 0 0 0 0

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PA 253 209 184 214

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SOUTH Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

NORTH Minnesota Green Bay Chicago Detroit

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INTERIOR DIVISION Penticton Salmon Arm West Kelowna Vernon Trail Merritt

EAST DIVISION Hamilton at Ottawa, 1 p.m.

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)ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Powell River at Chilliwack Wenatchee at Coquitlam Trail at Nanaimo Alberni Valley at Salmon Arm Cowichan Valley at Victoria Vernon at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Langley, 7:15 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOW Trail 3 Victoria 2 6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Trail at Langley, 6 p.m.

Wenatchee at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Nanaimo at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Alberni Valley at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.

Powell River at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

Thursday's result Jacksonville 19 Tennessee 13 Sunday's games N.Y. Jets at Houston, 1 p.m.

Denver at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 1 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.

Monday's game Buffalo at New England, 8:30 p.m.

CIS PLAYOFFS NATIONAL SEMIFINALS Saturday's games

MITCHELL BOWL Montreal (RSEQ) at Guelph (OUA), 12:30 p.m.

UTECK BOWL B.C. (Canada West) at St. Francis Xavier (AUS), 4 p.m.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP VANIER CUP At Quebec City Saturday, Nov. 28 Guelph-Montreal winner vs. St. Francis Xavier-British Columbia winner, 1 p.m.

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Canadiens beat Islanders 5-3 in Carey Price’s return THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Jeff Petry had his first two-goal game and the Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Islanders 5-3 on Friday night in goalie Carey Price’s return from a lower-body injury.

Price, the NHL’s reigning MVP and Vezina Trophy winner, missed eight games.

He made 33 saves to help Montreal win for the second time in three

games. Tomas Fleischmann, Nathan Beaulieu and Brendan Gallagher also scored to help the Canadiens improve to 15-4-2. Montreal is tied with Dallas for the NHL lead with 32 points.

Brock Nelson scored twice, and Travis Hamonic added a goal for New York.

BLUE JACKETS 4, PREDATORS 0 Sergei Bobrovsky made 39 saves for his 12th career shutout, and Boone

Jenner and Ryan Johansen each had a goal and an assist in Columbus’ victory over Nashville.

Gregory Campbell and Scott Hartnell also scored to help Columbus win for the fourth time in five games.

Bobrovsky got his sixth win in seven starts. Nashville’s Pekka Rinne surrendered goals on Columbus’ first two shots 1:41 apart, and the Blue Jackets scored three times on their first nine shots.

MAPLE LEAFS 2, HURRICANES 1, SO Joffrey Lupul beat Cam Ward to the glove side in the fifth round of the shootout to lift Toronto past Carolina. Brad Malone scored for the Hurricanes 7:47 into the third period, and Toronto’s Nazem Kadri tied it with 3:33 left. Toronto’s James Reimer stopped 33 shots, and Ward made 24 saves. Toronto has won five of six games, and Carolina has lost five straight.

RED WINGS 3, KINGS 2 Mike Green and Dylan Larkin put Detroit ahead with second-period goals and Petr Mrazek made 35 saves in the Red Wings’ victory over Los Angeles.

Tomas Tatar also scored for the Red Wings, and Justin Abdelkader and Henrik Zetterberg each had two assists.

Jeff Carter scored twice for Los Angeles. The Kings dropped to 5-2 on the road.

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10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Randerson Ridge Christmas Gift and Craft Fair at Dover Bay High School gymnasium, 6135 McGirr Rd., Nanaimo.

SUNDAY, NOV. 22

7:30 p.m.: ‘Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Port Theatre 125 Front Street, Nanaimo.

7 p.m. Daniel Wesley at The Dinghy Dock Pub 8 Pirates Lane, Protection Island. Advance tickets $30 include return ferry, $35 at the door at Lucid, The Dog’s Ear, Desire Tattoo, Dinghy Dock or ticketzone.com.

9-11 a.m. Breakfast with Santa will feature entertainment, a balloon artist, face painting, perfect for your whole family. Tickets are available at Guest Services, $6 for children under 12 and $12 for adults. All proceeds from this event goes to the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. Nanaimo North Town Centre 4750 Rutherford Rd.

4:30-6 p.m.: ‘ Climate Change Theatre Action’.

Contact Nelson Gray at Nelson.Gray@viu.ca.

TUESDAY, NOV. 24

WENESDAY, NOV. 25 10-11 a.m. CC Tiny Tots Play Group at Country Club Centre.

FRIDAY, NOV. 27 7 p.m. Doors open for David Bitonti, Brian Hazelbower, Genevieve Rainey at Dinghy Dock Pub 8 Pirates Lane, Protection Island.

Tickets $20 plus fee includes return ferry.

Noon-1 p.m.: Sexual Health Initiative, titled ‘Dick Loss Prevention, Volume 1, Make Sure

Your Dick Doesn’t Fall Off Before You Die Drunk and Alone’. .

at 372 Bates Drive, Fanny Bay, BC. Please park in the empty lot next to the property. Admission $10. Please register in advance 250-754-1750.

SATURDAY, NOV. 28 All day: Downtown Nanaimo merchants mark Shop The Neighbourhood Day between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two shopping days notorious for driving dollars online or across the border. Shop The Neighbourhood will feature exclusive deals at local businesses to encourage local spending.

2 p.m. A walking tour of George Sawchuk’s Forest Gallery. Sawchuk (1927–2012) was a logger who lost part of a leg in an industrial accident and began working as an artist. Meet

4:30 p.m. Enjoy the delightful children’s voices during a free performance courtesy of the Vancouver Island Symphony Children’s Choir under the direction of Patricia Plumley in Diana Krall Plaza.

7:30 p.m. Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra at Brechin United Church and for also Dec 6, 2:30 p.m. St. Edmund’s Anglican Church in Parksville. Tickets are $20 ($5, students, under 12, free) at the Port Theatre Box Office or at the door. For more information, see www.nanaimochamberorchestra.com

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might feel a bit off as you change gears to weekend mode. In the early morning, someone could describe you as irritable. Don’t worry so much -- you are full of ideas, and you will be able to enjoy yourself far more than you thought possible. Tonight: Carry on.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You could be surprised by everything you hear. When someone says that a matter is confidential, stay mum, even if you don’t agree that the secret is worth keeping. Take time to complete a particular project.

Tonight: Keep your whereabouts hush-hush.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You might feel as if your actions won’t make much of a difference. A loved one will communicate what he or she would like to do, but only after you already have made plans.

Curb your frustration, and use your creativity to find a solution. Tonight: Where the action is.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Reach out to someone at a distance. You tend to accept a lot of responsibility that others won’t. A family member or loved one is hot under the collar and is likely to be difficult.

You can do only so much. Focus on where you can make a difference.

Tonight: Out and being noticed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Speak to people who can help you get past an immediate problem. This type of contact is important. Your perspective could radically change as a result. Brainstorm with people

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whose minds you respect, but who come up with very different ideas.

Tonight: Be near live music.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Oneon-one relating allows you to connect with certain people on a much more intimate level than usual. People reveal more when they feel that they are important and that their feelings are valued.

Family remains a high priority.

Tonight: Out with a special person.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Others could be unusually challenging, which might trigger some anger on your part. You tend to be diplomatic, and as a result, you don’t openly share your feelings. Change what you are doing, and let go of disappointment for now. Tonight: Let someone else run the show.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You have a project on the back burner that you need to work on. You might find that you are sitting on a lot of anger, which seems to emerge at the drop of a hat. Find out why you are feeling this way.

Perhaps you aren’t in sync with what is going on. Tonight: Rent a movie.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your adventurous style encourages you to take strange risks. You might want to say “no” to more wild decisions for now; otherwise, you could hit a snafu eventually. A close friend or loved one will express his or her support. Tonight: Add more spirit to the moment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Stay close to home, knowing that you would like to cocoon for a little while. You might enjoy taking a nap, turning off your cellphone

and letting the outside world exist without you. Everyone will be able to manage. Tonight: Try a new neighborhood hot spot.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’ll speak your mind and get plenty of feedback from a friend. Reach out to a loved one who tends to be somewhat difficult. You might not like what you hear, but you’ll know to take what this person says with a grain of salt. Tonight: Hang out at home.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Before you splurge on a big expense, make sure you really want this item. You could discover that you are simply riding an impulsive wave and will change your mind later. Do some comparison shopping before deciding to move forward. Tonight: Make it your treat.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Nov. 21) This year you often find that you are overtired and perhaps too focused on work. Make a point of letting go more often. You will benefit from having a less stressful schedule.

If you are single, someone who enters your life could be very important to your life’s history. You will find yourself relating to someone who makes you very happy. If you are attached, the two of you have a great time together, but you often need to get away together in order to fully appreciate the bond.

Don’t let the grind of daily life interfere with your relationship! ARIES can be challenging.

BORN TODAY Singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen (1985), actress Marlo Thomas (1937), actress Goldie Hawn (1945)

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Having lost Dad back in picture has bright side Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: My husband and I raised my three children with very little help from their birth father.

He paid no child support and rarely visited them.

Of course, now that the children are adults, Dad is back in the picture.

My children are so hungry for what they feel they missed that they’ve left me behind in the dust. I do understand this on a primitive level, yet it hurts.

I would like people to think about how much care is required to raise a family. That “father” didn’t take you to the doctor, the orthodontist or any

of the other necessary appointments.

He didn’t go to your school activities and conferences or talk to your teachers. He didn’t support you as he should have, emotionally or financially, even when he had the money.

He didn’t have to instill discipline, especially when one of the reasons you acted out was because you felt abandoned by your father. Now you think he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.

— The Ones Left Behind Dear Left Behind: You have a good grasp of your children’s emotional need for their biological father, even though he abandoned them. Try to look on the bright side of this — he may turn out to be helpful and loving now that the kids don’t require so much effort from him. Consider this a benefit for your children. Kids can never have too many people in their lives who love them. And also keep in mind that once the novelty wears off, the kids will likely see Dad more clearly.

Please don’t express hurt or dismay that they long for Dad’s company. Be supportive and understanding. We hope they will come to appreciate you even more than they already do.

Dear Annie: I work in a small department within a larger corporation. One of my co-workers is a rather large gentleman who has very bad body odor. I am a larger gal myself, and I sweat more than others. I know this, so I bathe daily and use antiperspirant.

This co-worker comes into the office smelling this way, so he probably doesn’t shower every morning.

He works with the public, and I can’t help but wonder what kind of an impression he leaves about our department. I am not the only one who has noticed this, but I am not comfortable enough to talk directly to this person. Should our supervisor say something? Please help.

— Suffocating in Saskatchewan Dear Suffocating: Some body odors

are hard to control, so it’s best not to make assumptions. It’s possible that this man bathes daily and wears deodorant and it still isn’t enough. It could be the detergent he washes his clothes in, his shampoo or soap, or even an ineffective deodorant.

Someone needs to talk to this co-worker and suggest that he speak to his doctor. The supervisor is the best one to do this, making it an issue of office professionalism and not personal judgment. We know this is difficult for anyone to do, but frankly, the supervisor would be doing him a huge favour.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook. com/AskAnnies.

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Adele’s new album won’t be streamed THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Fans seeking to listen to Adele’s new album won’t be able to do so on Spotify or Apple Music.

The streaming sites said Thursday that Adele’s 25 will not be available for streaming when it is released on Friday.

“We love and respect Adele, as do her 24 million fans on Spotify,” Spotify said in a statement. “We hope that she will give those fans the opportunity to enjoy 25 on Spotify alongside 19 and 21 very soon.”

It’s unclear if Adele’s album will appear on Spotify or Apple Music in the future. A representative for the British singer declined to comment.

Pulling the highly anticipated album from the streaming platforms will force listeners to buy it digitally and at stores, driving its sales.

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Wawrinka gets by Murray at ATP Finals MATTIAS KAREN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Stan Wawrinka grabbed the last semifinal spot at the ATP World Tour finals by beating Andy Murray 7-6 (4), 6-4 Friday to wrap up the group stage at the season-ending tournament.

Murray led 4-2 in the first-set tiebreaker but then lost the next five points and was broken in the first game of the second to put Wawrinka in control. The French Open champion broke again for a 5-2 lead but needed two attempts to serve out the match.

He saved two break points at 5-4 before converting his second match point when Murray’s backhand went wide.

Wawrinka will play Swiss compatriot Roger Federer on Saturday, while Rafael Nadal faces Novak Djokovic in the other semifinal. Nadal beat David Ferrer 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4 earlier to finish the group stage unbeaten. The early exit gives Murray a bit more extra rest ahead of next weekend’s Davis Cup final against Belgium on clay, but the Briton said that hasn’t been on his mind in London. “I wanted to try and win the tournament,� Murray said. “Obviously you have to try your best right way through to the end. It wasn’t enough.�

Wawrinka served for the first set at 5-3 but Murray broke back after chasing down a volley to hit a passing shot for a winner and force the tiebreaker. But after earning the first mini-break, the Briton made a number of errors to hand the momentum back to Wawrinka. “In the tiebreak, I made bad mistakes

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at the wrong time,� Murray said. “I believe I gave a cheap point away at 4-2.

I missed a forehand on the first ball of the rally. It was a fairly basic shot . . .

I made one other error at the end of the set as well. Obviously, that was an important point in the match.�

In the early match, neither player had much at stake as Nadal had already clinched first place in the group and Ferrer had been eliminated, but the two baseline sluggers still went at it relentlessly for more than 2 1/2 hours in a match full of heavy hitting and long rallies.

Nadal earned the decisive break to go up 5-4 in the third set — having previously wasted five break points in a marathon first game of the decider — and sealed victory with a backhand volley winner. It was Nadal’s third straight win in London but that kind of grueling encounter probably wasn’t the best preparation for a match against Djokovic.

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Madrid set to clash with Barcelona TALES AZZONI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADRID — Rafa Benitez promises Real Madrid will come out attacking in the first clasico of the season against Barcelona on Saturday.

With all his top strikers available after injuries and off-the-field problems, the coach said on Friday that Madrid will not relinquish its offensive style just because it’s facing Barcelona. “The team’s characteristic is to attack, to score goals, and to always be near the opponent’s goal,� Benitez said. “And that’s what we will have to do.�

He said nothing will change even if Lionel Messi returns to the Barcelona squad following a long injury layoff. “Madrid is always trying to attack ... no matter who the opponent is,�

Benitez said. “We don’t worry too much about our rival. We have to do what we are used to doing.�

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said Messi may be able to play but won’t be fully fit for the match at the Santiago Bernabeu. “It’s obvious that he won’t be at 100 per cent physically,� said Enrique, adding that a decision

“Barcelona (isn’t) going to change their playing style and neither will we.�

Gareth Bale, Real Madrid

on whether the Argentine star will play likely won’t be made until closer to the game. “I will talk to him today (Friday) and I’ll likely talk to him again tomorrow. It’s the player who ultimately can tell you how he feels, if he’s confident or not. I do know that he has been waiting for this for a long time.�

Messi tore a ligament in his left knee nearly two months ago and has missed nine matches since then.

Enrique said midfielder Ivan Rakitic has recovered from a muscle injury and will be available on Saturday, although it wasn’t clear if the Croat would start.

Benitez did not announce Madrid’s lineup, but said Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, and Gareth Bale will be available.

Bale and Benzema have been injured, and Benzema has also been dealing with a sex tape con-

troversy that led him to being briefly detained in France two weeks ago.

Benitez also said playmaker James Rodriguez was ready to play despite coming off two full games with Colombia. It’s only the second time this season that Benitez will have all of his players available for a game. He said Madrid should be considered the “favourite� because it’s at full strength and playing at home. Despite pledging an offensive team on Saturday, Benitez didn’t say whether he planned on using Rodriguez instead of defensive midfielder Casemiro, who has been the starter recently. He emphatically dismissed rumours of a meeting organized by the players to demand a more offensive style, and defended himself by pointing to the team’s numbers this season.

Real Madrid goes into the game with the Spanish league’s best attack with 26 goals, one more than Barcelona. “Barcelona (isn’t) going to change their playing style and neither will we,� Bale said. “I’m certain you’ll see an attacking game from both teams, and it makes sense that the team that scores a lot of goals will win.�

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Exhibit explores a legendary look Jacqueline De Ribes, born to aristocratic parents in 1929, was a unique figure in fashion in the 20th century JOCELYN NOVECK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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hen the latest exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute opens this week, celebrating the style of French fashion figure Jacqueline de Ribes, an important guest will be missing: The 86-year-old de Ribes herself.

In the wake of the horrific Paris terror attacks, “she felt it would be unseemly to celebrate,” said the exhibit’s curator, Harold Koda.

Despite cancelling her trip, however, de Ribes noted in a statement that she hopes the show “will represent the joy associated with the freedom of creation.”

De Ribes, born to aristocratic parents in 1929, was a unique figure in fashion for much of the 20th century, beginning in her ’20s when she was already landing on best-dressed lists. She was famously photographed by Richard Avedon and termed a “swan” by Truman Capote.

Not content to simply wear the designs of others, she often had dressmakers make her own designs for her, and in the 1980s she came to New York and launched her own design business, despite the perception that aristocrats like her (she’s a countess) didn’t get involved in commerce.

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n a walk through the exhibit earlier this week, Koda explained that it was hard to find early dresses that de Ribes wore, because she gave clothes to charity through the 1960s.

Luckily for the museum, she kept many of her clothes from 1975 onward — both her haute couture gowns, and her own designs.

Still, Koda said, “It was hard to convince her to do the show, because there’s a side of her that wanted to keep things private.” Koda convinced her, though, by proposing that the show focus on her creative arc, from a little girl who made costumes, to the haute couture client who always had changes made to garments she bought, to the eventual designer she became.

“She was always making things,” Koda said.

“Jacqueline De Ribes: The Art of Style” is composed of items from her personal collection, half designed by others — like Yves Saint Laurent, Emanuel Ungaro and Valentino — and half of her own design.

After passing by a giant black-and-white Avedon portrait of de Ribes, in profile with a long black braid, visitors will spot a photo of de Ribes and her sister, as little girls, dressed in fringed hula skirts that Jacqueline made from shredded potato sacks.

A daywear section shows de Ribes was an early devotee of the current concept of “mixing high and low,” combining elegant pieces with sporty streetwear, and also mixing designers — some 20 years before it became the norm. She was an aficionado of down winter coats, and there’s a Norma Kamali “sleeping bag coat” on display, in a pinkish red, worn over de Ribes’ self-designed light pink sweater dress and brown sable hat.

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earby, in the cocktail section, there’s a sparkly summer evening dress by Saint Laurent from 1969 — short, with fringes, beads, pearls and sequins.

It’s one of the few items that de Ribes did not change at all — however, she pairs it here with a dramatic “motoring veil,” meant to keep dust out of one’s face. “She remembered that she had it somewhere,” Koda said. “She remembers everything.”

A set of ruffled, Grecian-style gowns in three different colours — orange and two shades of

Dresses worn by French style and fashion icon Jacqueline de Ribes are displayed at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit, Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style, opened on Thursday. [AP PHOTO]

blue — shows she was nothing if not practical.

“Saint Laurent was closing the couture atelier, and so she got a call asking if she wanted anything. She finds her favourite dress from 1983 and has it done in two other colours,” Koda said.

De Ribes’ own designs — except for her elaborate costumes for balls, and the like — are simple. “She likes ornament,” Koda said, “but the best description was in Women’s Wear Daily: ’Spare ribs.’ A kind of simplicity.

She loves drama, but in the end she’s very disciplined.”

The show also features a set of casual photos, several showing de Ribes engaging in sports. A photo of her waterskiing on one ski caught the curator’s eye. “Jacqueline,” Koda recalls telling her.

“I’m surprised that you’re wearing a turban in that photo!”

“Harold,” she told him. “I had no intention of falling in!”

Koda also said de Ribes feared the show might not have universal appeal. “Will young girls be interested?” he said she asked him. “Does anyone want to be elegant, rather than sexy?”

She might as well have looked back at one of her own quotes, one that’s written on a wall at the exhibit: “I totally disagree with Christian Dior, who once said that one could never look sexy and be elegant at the same time,” the quote reads.

“It is just more difficult, that’s all.”

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Personal Ink helps women with healing Vancouver Island artist is among a select group inking mastectomy tattoos onto breast cancer survivors J.R. RARDON PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

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t the home studio of Errington tattoo artist Samantha “Sam” Rae, a plump bumblebee hovered silently over a vibrant daisy set in a wash of background colour.

Then Tracy Young closed the shawl covering her reconstructed chest and the view disappeared.

Young, a 52-year-old breast cancer survivor from Victoria, traveled to Errington in October to take part in the third annual P.Ink (Personal Ink) Day, a program that links patients of mastectomies with qualified tattoo artists to turn ravaged flesh into works of art.

Costs are largely covered through donations gathered by the Personal Ink organization through its website at p-ink.org.

“I wanted to be part of a network of amazing artists who come from a heart-centric place to help the healing process for breast cancer survivors,” said Rae, who inked Young’s chest at her Sam R Tattoo Studio while participating in P.Ink Day for the second time.

P.Ink Day began in 2013 with 10 artists in New York City matched with

Tattoo artist Samantha Rae, left, transformed breast cancer survivor Tracy Young of Victoria with a mastectomy tattoo in Rae’s Errington home studio on P.Ink Day in October. [J.R. RARDON]

10 mastectomy patients. It has grown to 45 artists in 13 North American locations enlisted to ink mastectomy tattoos on 48 survivors this year.

Rae, 34, has one of just two registered P.Ink Day sites in Canada. The other is in Calgary, where Rae’s mentor, Stacie-Rae Weir of Calgary, works.

Weir is a breast cancer survivor who now serves an artist advisor for the organization.

“I didn’t know about it until I worked with (Weir),” Rae said. “I started working with her three years ago, right when this was on the upswing.”

The organization has grown slowly, and that is by design, said Rae. Each artist must serve an apprenticeship before being certified as a P.Ink Day artist.

“I’m suited to apply my method to

sensitive skin,” Rae said. “And I can certainly apply that sensitivity to this work.”

The day was documented in Rae’s studio by a photographer, a videographer and a social media coordinator who uploaded images to Personal Ink’s website, Pinterest and Facebook pages.

Terri Welsh of Courtenay, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2013 and who underwent a mastectomy in November of that year, served as the social media co-ordinator. Just like the artists, mastectomy patients must apply in advance to receive a P.Ink Day tattoo, and Welsh hopes to be Rae’s subject in next year’s event.

“It’s a process,” said Welsh. “I was seeking something creative for myself after my own mastectomy. It was too late for me to apply for this year, but I wanted to come and be involved.”

I hadn’t made a decision on what to do, but today, after seeing Tracy, I made the decision,” Welsh added as she broke into tears.

Young also said she was sold on the tattoo — her first — after meeting with Rae for a consultation last spring.

The Victoria wife and mother was diagnosed five years ago and underwent a double mastectomy and

chemotherapy sessions before being declared cancer-free, she said.

“I started thinking about (a tattoo) about two years ago, and a year ago I started seriously looking for a tattoo artist who would work with mastectomy victims,” said Young, who was unaware of the P.Ink Day program at the time.

“When I came and saw Sam, I knew she was the exact right person.”

During their first meeting in April, the women discussed Young’s design, the flower-and-bee motif that covers both of her reconstructed breasts.

“I wanted something organic, something gentle and soft,” said Young.

“The daisy, to me, is a super strong and resilient, yet gentle flower. I view the daisies as my family and friends.

“The bee is an amazing creature who can do so much they aren’t supposed to do — they aren’t supposed to be able to fly, but they do — and they bring us life. The bee is the person I want to be.”

P.Ink Day — which is held over the second weekend of October — matches a single artist with a single survivor at each location.

But mastectomy patients may sign up for tattoos the rest of the year at p-ink.org, where donors may also contribute to help fund the program.

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Project Resolve CEO Spencer Fraser, left, at Davie Shipbuilding, in Levis, Que., on Oct. 13. Defence sources say that the Liberal government is uncomfortable with the sole-source nature of the arrangement. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Navy supply ship plan put on hold Liberals uncomfortable with sole-source deal MURRAY BREWSTER THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Liberal government has hit the pause button on a plan to acquire a temporary supply ship for the navy — a decision that has shocked the shipbuilding industry and prompted stiff opposition from Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard.

Defence sources told The Canadian Press that Justin Trudeau’s government is uncomfortable with the sole-source nature of the arrangement and the way the Conservatives handled the arrangement with Project Resolve, a subsidiary of Levis, Que.-based Chantier Davie shipyard.

The company’s plan is to upgrade a civilian tanker to act as military replenishment ship while the navy’s long-delayed, joint support ships are built.

In order to get the deal going last spring, the Harper government quietly made an unprecedented change to the cabinet regulations governing solesource purchases.

Documents obtained by The Canadian

Press last summer revealed a line was added to contracting regulations in June. It gives the cabinet authority to award a deal to a single company if there are urgent “operational reasons” and it fulfills an interim requirement.

The letter of intent signed with Project Resolve and the planned contract were put before the federal Treasury Board but defence sources say the plan puts the Liberals in a political jam.

For years the Liberals have demanded open competitions in military procurement, but the first program they’re asked to approve is a sole-source arrangement that required a special cabinet fix.

Industry officials said the contract was expected to be worth $400 million, but defence sources insisted it could be higher.

Couillard said putting the breaks on the project is unacceptable.

Work is ready to start in the shipyard, 250 people have been hired, and another 400 are on standby, the premier told reporters in Ottawa.

Hotel will cater to canine clientele THE CANADIAN PRESS

WHITEHORSE — From its large lobby to rooms with doors leading to a private yard for each guest, the newest hotel in Whitehorse offers everything you’d expect in comfortable accommodation.

But this one is literally for the dogs.

Peter Harms, a teacher at Hidden Valley Elementary School, is set to open the 12-room hotel next month.

It will include a large common yard with space for pooches to run around and socialize at the yet-to-be named facility. Harms hosted his first guests last weekend.

Twenty students from the school’s Huskies basketball team had a sleepover there after convincing him to let them be the first ones to stay at the hotel.

In one case, six students crowded into the space, marvelling at the heated floors beneath their sleeping bags.

Harms heard of dog hotels from his sister a couple of years ago after she had to book weeks in advance to have her pet stay at a Calgary facility while she was away.

“There’s no more dog-intense place than Whitehorse,” he said, adding the hotel will eventually offer 26 rooms and a space for grooming or training.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2015

NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ WARSAW , POLAND

Backlash against new ruling party Poland’s new conservative ruling party faced strong criticism Friday for rushing through legislation that allows it to stack the nation’s top court with its supporters.

The legislation, passed late Thursday, comes at the end of a politically eventful week in which the ruling Law and Justice party and President Andrzej Duda took decisive steps to strengthen their own power and weaken political rivals.

“As of today, Poland is no longer a law-abiding democracy,” said Andrzej Zoll, a former head of the constitutional Tribunal who protested the actions regarding the court.

◆ NEW YORK

Israel spy out of jail after 30 years Jonathan Pollard was released from prison Friday after 30 years for spying for Israel, and his lawyers immediately went to court to challenge tough parole conditions seemingly designed to ensure he doesn’t spill any U.S. military secrets he might have left.

The 61-year-old former Navy intelligence analyst was set free in the middle of the night from a medium-security federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, after being paroled from a life sentence that had turned him into a continual source of tension between the U.S. and Israel.

◆ CAPE CANAVERAL

Photos document a day on Pluto NASA’s newest Pluto pictures depict an entire day on the dwarf planet.

The space agency released a series of 10 close-ups of the frosty, faraway world Friday, representing one full rotation, or Pluto day. A Pluto day is equivalent to 6.4 Earth days.

The New Horizons spacecraft snapped the pictures as it zoomed past Pluto in an unprecedented flyby in July.

A similar series of shots were taken of Pluto’s jumbo moon, Charon. But the Pluto pictures stand out much more because of the orb’s distinct heart-shaped region.

New Horizons is now headed to a new target.