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Premiers want to shed bad environmental rap

Environment Canada predicts overnight lows in the –4 Celsius range across much of the Island, and homeless shelters will only get busier » News, Page 5

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Belgium under heavy security Security measures after the Nov. 13 massacre in Paris have virtually shut down the Belgian capital, with the subway, many shops and schools shut on Monday » Nation&World, Page 12

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OTTAWA — The advent of new leadership in Ottawa and Alberta will allow Canada to shed its international reputation as an environmental pariah, premiers asserted Monday as they arrived for their first formal meeting with a prime minister in nearly seven years.

Premiers praised Justin Trudeau’s willingness to take national leadership on the climate change file at next week’s United Nations climate summit in Paris.

And they applauded Alberta Premier Rachel Notley for unveiling Sunday a climate strategy that includes a hard cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the oilsands, which have been labelled “dirty oil” by international critics, including U.S. President Barack Obama, and have become a symbol of Canada’s alleged environmental neglect.

Premier Christy Clark said the international focus on the oilsands has obscured measures provinces have been taking to combat climate change, including B.C.’s carbon tax which she labelled the best in the world.

“We have had a black eye for a long time on environmental issues and we have not deserved it,” she said. “But now we’re getting a chance to show the world really what we’ve been doing all these years and I think they’ll be a little bit surprised.”

The first minister’s meeting is not expected to produce any new national target for reducing emissions or policies for achieving it. It is aimed more at demonstrating a new tone in the run-up to the Paris summit.

Within 90 days of the summit, Trudeau has promised to hold another first ministers conference to hammer out a national climate strategy.

At that point, the prime minister will have to mediate conflicting demands from premiers over how to disperse the billions he’s promised in federal funding to help provinces reduce their carbon footprint.

But the potential for a squabble over money didn’t dampen premiers’ enthusiasm Monday for finally having a federal partner in the fight against climate change.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomes Premier Christy Clark to the First Ministers meeting at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Under former prime minister Stephen Harper, Clark said Canada tended to “talk about economic growth more than the environment on the international stage.”

She predicted Trudeau will do a good job in Paris of emphasizing the country’s environmental stewardship.

“We’re really lifting the curtain on Canada’s success to show the world and we can only do that if we have a strong voice on the international stage. And that is a big change for us,” she said.

Having Alberta, the primary oil-producing province, on side in the fight against climate change “is going to tell the world that we really are doing a lot,” Clark added. “It’s really going to make a difference.”

Notley’s plan includes imposition of a carbon tax and phasing out coal-fired power plants.

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Paris presents an opportunity to “rebrand” Canada.

“Our country needs a serious effort in rebranding on this theme of climate change and energy,” he said.

“Not only are we an important producer of oil . . . but we’re also the third largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world.”

With Alberta’s new plan added to measures already taken to curb carbon emissions in B.C., Ontario and Quebec, Couillard added that almost 80 per cent of Canadians are now living in jurisdictions that have imposed a price on carbon.

“Nobody knows that in the world,” he said.

“It has to be known, it has to be said, it has to be repeated.”

Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair welcomed the Trudeau government’s new tone on climate change but warned that words have to be backed by real action.

Conservative environment critic Ed Fast urged the Liberals to make sure Canada’s economic interests are not hurt by ambition on climate change.

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OTTAWA — The planned announcement today of how Canada will take in thousands of Syrian refugees will drive local, national and international efforts into high gear, a program that will extend far beyond the Liberals’ self-imposed end-of-year deadline.

Syrians have been steadily arriving in Canada for months and some of them will count against the Liberal promise to resettle 25,000 people by Dec. 31, a milestone the government is expected to say Tuesday it is unlikely to meet.

But what many are watching for alongside that is how the mass influx will be handled and who is going to pay for it.

On top of the logistical costs of getting that many people into Canada are the millions more it is going to require to look after their housing, health, education and integration requirements.

The costs are not entirely unknown; the Immigration department tells private sponsors, for example, that one person would cost a minimum of around $20,000 for the first 12 months to just cover basic needs.

A dozen Canadian Forces personnel have already been deployed to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to assist, while at the same time military planners got to work surveying available space on bases for housing, planes for transport and other potential support.

The unveiling of the plan today will mean switching the military to operational mode through a series of official orders expected to be issued in the coming days.

The price tag on the Liberal program has been pegged at as much as $1.2 billion over the next six years, according to a document obtained last week by The Canadian Press.

Initially, the plan had been that Syrians coming to Canada were to receive a temporary residency permit and then be granted permanent residency upon further screening in Canada.

The plan is likely now to see all screening conducted overseas, which will set back efforts to reach the Dec. 31 milestone.

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All in the family November is Adoption Awareness Month in British Columbia

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ydney Nachtigall couldn’t believe how lucky she was when her foster parents in Nanaimo asked her three years ago if she wanted them to adopt her.

Sydney, 15, said it wasn’t a hard decision. She said “yes” almost immediately.

Raised by a single parent with health issues, Sydney had entered the province’s foster-care system two years earlier when her birth father was no Robert longer able to care Barron for her.

The Nachtigalls Reporting were her first foster family.

“When I came here, it was different from what I had expected,” Sydney said from her north-end home.

“Everyone welcomed me with open arms and I didn’t feel afraid or uncomfortable. This is a friendly, loving environment and, on top of everything else, mom is a really good cook.”

“One in three kids waiting for adoption in our province is over the age of 12.

All children deserve a place at the family table. ” Stephanie Cadieux, Minister of Family

November is Adoption Awareness Month in the province. There are more than 1,000 children in B.C. in care waiting for the love, stability and security of an adoptive home and family.

Bev and Wally Nachtigall have raised four of their biological children, have adopted three of their former foster daughters over the years, including Sydney, and they still care for numerous foster children.

Their other two adopted daughters are Tamara, 18, who still lives at home but is to be married next summer, and Rachel, who is 35 and works in Edmonton.

“We chose to foster and then adopt because we love children and wanted to give back,” Bev said.

“Adopting our daughters has been such a gift to our family. There’s a great deal of satisfaction in knowing we’ve helped to improve their lives.”

Wally said it’s hard to believe that the couple’s three adopted daughters aren’t their own biological children.

“We love them as much as we love our own kids,” he said. “We’re starting to get too old now to continue adopting children, but if any other families out there have enough love in their hearts and the means to adopt, then by all means do it.”

Tamara was adopted by the Nachtigall family as a two-year-old foster child.

She said she is well aware of how different her life would be had she not been adopted.

“The opportunities we’ve been given, like good schools, piano, art, horseback riding and other activities, were made possible by our adoptive parents,” she said.

“I don’t know what I would do without them. Their support and the way they raised me has made me who I am today. I’m not sure I would have ended up as well-adjusted without their love and encouragement.”

The Ministry of Children and Family Development is partnering with the Adoptive Families Associ-

ation of B.C. to raise awareness this month about the number of children in care, especially teens, and what regular ordinary British Columbians can do to help find them permanent and loving homes.

During November, B.C. is expanding its 1000FamiliesBC marketing and social media campaign to encourage people to consider adopting one of the more than 350 older children, those over the age of 12, currently seeking permanent homes.

“When people consider adoption, babies and young children often come to mind,” said Stephanie Cadieux, Minister of Children and Family Development.

“But one in three kids waiting for adoption in our province is over the age of 12. All children deserve a place at the family table. This November, 1000FamiliesBC is shining a light on teens seeking the love, stability and guidance of a forever family.”

Many of the children and youth still waiting for adoption are school aged, according to a ministry press release.

They may be siblings who need to stay together, while some may have special placement needs due to difficult early childhood experiences, prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs, learning delays or other

developmental challenges.

Over the past 10 years, an annual average of approximately 270 children have been adopted in British Columbia, and about 42 per cent of adopted children are adopted by their foster family.

Now in its second year, the 1000FamiliesBC campaign is a powerful recruiting tool that raises the profile of ministry adoptions, dispels myths about adoption, and promotes unique and diverse adoptive families and children waiting for adoption through online advertising, tweets and Facebook posts.

To read profiles of adoptive families and children in care seeking homes and to view campaign videos, visit: www.1000familiesbc.com.

To find out more about adoption in B.C., call 1 877 ADOPT-07.

“I was fortunate to grow up in a loving home, surrounded by kids,” Tamara said. “If families are thinking of adopting, then I would encourage them to do it. It will be worth it.”

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NANAIMO

City considers its options in the world of corporate sponsorships SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Sponsorship opportunities have the potential to bring “millions” of dollars into the City of Nanaimo’s accounts, Mayor Bill McKay said.

However, getting to that point will require a full valuation of city assets for marketing purposes as well as a strategy to bring advertisers on board, officials say.

Council was set to receive a presentation on the topic from consultant Brent Barootes, who has advised

the city on the topic in the past.

The basic idea behind sponsorships is to help the city offset costs by bringing in new revenue, rather than upping property taxes or fees.

The city has so far developed a draft sponsorship policy, which lays out some basic guidelines on who will approve sponsorships, as well as what does and does not constitute sponsorship.

For example, the policy states that council will approve sponsorships worth over $49,999, while depart-

ment heads will approve sponsorships ranging from $25,001in value to $49,999.

Designated department officials will approve sponsorships worth less than $25,000, while the communications department will co-ordinate sponsorships across all departments and assist in interpreting the policy.

However, there are still gaps in the policy that need to be filled, and the city also needs a strategy to determine which sponsorship opportun-

ities to pursue, said Suzanne Samborski, senior manager of the culture and heritage department.

McKay said examples could include allowing utility companies the ability to send mail-outs along with tax notices, or audio advertisements during waiting periods on the city switchboard.

Larger opportunities, like naming rights for city buildings, would also be dealt with in a sponsorship strategy.

The city would also likely have to

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All told, that cost could approach $100,000.

But McKay said it could prevent the city from undervaluing its assets in a market other municipalities are exploring. McKay said he was taken aback by the level of interest.

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Issues around climate change will be front-and-centre in the Scenes from the Anthropocene presentation at Vancouver Island University on Nov. 24.

A diverse group of more than 20 VIU arts and humanities faculty, students affiliated with the university’s Awareness of Climate Change Through Education and Research club, and the VIU human rights and international solidarity committee are collaborating on the unique theatre presentation.

Scenes from the Anthropocene is one of more than 100 theatre events occurring worldwide to raise awareness about climate change in the days leading up to COP21, a United Nations international summit on climate change being held in France between Nov. 30 and Dec. 11.

More than 10,000 diplomats, non-governmental organization employees and journalists are expected to participate.

The free public reading at VIU will feature 19 readers from diverse cultural backgrounds.

This cross-faculty, interdisciplinary initiative brings together the arts and sciences at VIU. Readers include students, staff and faculty from VIU’s English department, creative writing, theatre, mathematics and First Nations departments.

As well, VIU elders, alumni and professional actors will be taking part.

They will read scenes, monologues and spoken-word poems from seven different countries written by a variety of international playwrights.

The presentation will be held at the Malaspina Theatre at VIU’s Nanaimo campus, beginning at 4:30 p.m., followed by an information session with climate change experts on hand from VIU’s faculty of science & technology.

For more information, visit http:www.cbilodeau.com/ climate-change-theatre-action.

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A small business information expo, called “ Connecting Business and Government Support,” will be held on Nov. 24 at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre.

Sponsored by the federal office of Small and Medium Enterprises, Pacific Region, the expo is intended to provide a holistic opportunity for businesses to

access government support programs and subject matter experts at one location at no cost.

As well as the expo, there will be three panels discussions — “Selling to Government,” “Access to Financing” and “Pillars of Start-Up” — at the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

To register, or get more information, call the Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce office at 250-756-1191.

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$60-million Duke Point pellet plant on hold Lack of fibre, attention of other large projects issues standing in the way of projected 2015 construction ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

News that TimberWest has postponed the construction of its $60-million pellet plant at Duke Point is raising concerns in Nanaimo.

The company announced during the weekend that it has decided to review its business case for the manufacturing facility before it decides when, or if, the project will proceed.

When TimberWest president and CEO Brian Frank first proposed the project in 2014, the plan was for the construction of the facility to begin this year.

Officials from TimberWest couldn’t be reached for comment Monday, but Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay said that it’s his understanding that the project is still moving forward, but has been just temporarily delayed.

“One major issue is that one of TimberWest’s major partners in this project is currently concentrating its efforts on another large project, and will return its focus on this facility at a later date,” McKay said.

“The deal is still alive.”

Kim Smythe, CEO of the Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce, said another challenge the project faces

to be successful is the ability to bring scrap wood to make the pellets out of the forests cheaply and in a timely manner.

“Apparently, the company needs to resolve that challenge fairly quickly,” Smythe said. “It would certainly hurt the community economically if the project were to be cancelled.”

It has been estimated the facility would produce 200,000 tonnes of pellets per year, made from leftover fibre material sourced from the forestry and manufacturing sectors, including the company’s own forestry operations.

The wood pellets would be used mainly to help supply power generation plants around the globe with fuel.

The Nanaimo area was settled on as a potential site for the facility due to its central location, as well as its access to deep-water ports for shipping.

If it proceeds, the facility is expected to provide 80 short-term construction jobs, plus 60 indirect jobs.

Daily operation of the facility, once complete, would employ 15 people.

Amrit Manhas, the economic development officer for the Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation,

said she was “sad” to hear that the project has been delayed.

But Manhas said TimberWest’s decision to review its business case is likely an effort to ensure that the project will be successful once it is completed.

“We’re certainly looking forward to when the manufacturing facility comes to fruition,” she said.

“It will bring a lot of economic benefits to the community.”

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WEATHER

Island braces for season’s first cold snap DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Laura Lister and other Vancouver Island residents can expect to be scraping a lot of frost off their vehicles his week as the region prepares for its first significant stretch of cold weather. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS FILE]

Nanaimo’s homeless shelters are filling up with people coming in out of the cold.

Environment Canada predicts overnight lows in the –4 Celsius range across much of the Island later this week, and homeless shelters that are already operating near capacity will only get busier.

The cold weather shelter operated

by First Unitarian Fellowship Church downstairs from its place of worship at 595 Townsite Rd. has 24 beds and has been near to capacity since it opened Nov. 1.

“We will have a full house, for sure,” said Joyce Hedges, shelter co-ordinator.

It operates from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. whenever temperatures drop to 4 C with rain or wind, or at 2 C, regardless of weather conditions.

“It’s people from all ages with vulnerabilities,” said Hedges.

Some stubbornly refuse to come inside until it gets biting cold, and that’s expected to be the case this week.

When that happens, shelter staff make do whatever they can to not turn people away, while staying within their capacity limits.

Hedges said in some cases that’s happened, “but we call around to try to find a bed for them.”

It’s a similar case at Samaritan

House. The women’s shelter at 355 Nicol St. has 14 shelter beds and space for two more lying on mats when temperatures drop.

That’s just what staff expect will be the case with this week’s bone-chilling nights.

Women can stay up to 30 days, but if they don’t show up in the evening, they lose their spot. That is something that seldom happens when it’s cold.

“People will come back and keep their beds. They stay indoors,” said Ronell Bosman, Samaritan House program director.

“Everyone’s full, but no one’s being left out in the cold,” said John Horn, city of Nanaimo social planner.

But once they leave the shelters in the morning, many head to the library to stay warm during the day.

“You can’t really throw anyone out of the library, because it’s public,” Horn said.

For skiers, the colder weather brings hope for a good ski season at Mount Washington Alpine Resort.

The resort reported a 20-centimetre base at the higher elevations of the mountain on Monday, with light snow falling.

That could change this week, with colder, clear weather forecast.

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B.C.

Premier says province is ready to take in 3,500 refugees from Syria BLACK PRESS

B.C. has been asked to take in 3,500 refugees from civil war and terrorist attacks in Syria and Iraq and is ready to do so, Premier Christy Clark says.

“The federal government has asked us to welcome 3,500 refugees as part of this, and we’ve said yes, we think we can do that,” Clark said.

“We’ve set a million dollars aside and the federal government has also said they’re going to restore the resettlement funding that was cut not that long ago. We are going to fund their children when they go to school, of course, and support them in finding the counselling services, the housing and general settlement services that they need.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stuck to his election commitment to bring 25,000 refugees into Canada by the end of December. But as logistical issues and security concerns have arisen, the deadline may be altered.

In his mandate letter to Immigration Minister John McCallum, Trudeau said a top priority is to “lead government-wide efforts to resettle

25,000 refugees from Syria in the coming months.”

Clark said the number, timing and security screening of refugee claimants is up to Ottawa.

‘I accept their assurances that they can do a very rigorous screening process for everyone that we’re welcoming into the country in the time that they’ve set out for it,” Clark said.

“Our job in British Columbia is to welcome them, and to make sure that we as communities and a province do everything that we can to make sure that they get the best possible start, so those refugees can start contributing to our society and be a part of our society, because that’s what they want. And that’s what we need.”

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Deal with climate change issue or it will deal with us C limate change is coming front and centre for Island residents and the rest of the world as the United Nations international summit on climate change, COP21, is to be held in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11.

Canada for a decade or so had the sad reputation of being what has been called a “climate pariah.”

Under the Harper Conservatives there was lip service to the idea of addressing the issue, but little in the way of substance.

And perhaps the dissent of many in the Conservative Party, and many conservatives in general, to climate change is informative. Claims that climate change is neither man-made nor as serious as science has revealed

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have become background to arguments that efforts to combat climate change will be destructive to the Canadian economy.

But the prevailing view, and one the Harper Tories were swimming against both at home and globally, is that the impact on the Canadian economy — and much else — will be far greater by not putting in place caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

Here in the Nanaimo region, Vancouver Island University students and faculty are making the point about climate change in a dramatic and literal way — in a theatre presentation.

Scenes from the Anthropocene is one of more than 100 theatre events occurring worldwide to raise aware-

ness about climate change in the days leading up to the Paris summit.

The Anthropocene, for those who may not have heard this scientific term, refers to the age in which humans began to have impact on the Earth’s environment.

The term is a difficult one to grasp since such impacts probably began with the first fire lit by humans and will continue to some extent even if we were able to dial back our carbon production to zero.

Nevertheless, the science — regardless of what climate sceptics may assert — is clear. The Earth is warming at a rate that will, if not halted now, have catastrophic effects on us and our environment.

Some say it’s too late, that the delay caused by individuals and groups who for a decade have shouted down scientific findings of global warming (some of whom we now know were funded by the fossil fuel industry) has tipped us over the edge.

This won’t be easy for Canada or Canadians. We in this cold climate love our fossil fuels. Not only has it heated our homes and fueled our vehicles, fossil fuels have been key to a host of essential products.

This has to change, and we need to make these changes before the Anthropocene goes from just impact to being synonymous with destruction of the Earth’s ecosystems, macro and micro.

And perhaps the students at VIU, young people with the most to lose from the impacts of climate change, can inspire all of us as they take to the stage to raise awareness about climate change.

The necessary shift from the age of dependence on fossil fuels will take as much imagination and creativity as any work of art.

We all need to imagine a new way of living that will sustain and enhance all existence, human and otherwise. This won’t be easy, but done right, it will be rewarding. » We want to hear from you.

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Sports are about fairness, ethics, principles Ray Grigg Another View

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reyja Reed’s Oct. 29 dismissal from the U-15 Riptide girl’s soccer team in the Comox Valley was the culmination of complexities arising from the arrival of a new sponsor for the league, Marine Harvest Canada, B.C.’s largest operator of net-pen salmon farms.

So began Freyja’s principled refusal to refrain from making critical comments about the ecological damage caused by salmon farming.

The resulting controversy received repeated local and national media coverage, becoming a public relations disaster for Marine Harvest.

This was not what Marine Harvest intended.

Ian Roberts, its spokesperson, said his corporation’s contributions to community groups “have not, and will not, and will never, direct a recipient’s right to voice their opinions or their ability to speak freely,” adding that “the disagreement with one member’s family is an internal matter between the club and the family.”

Sean Arbour, the chair of the Riptide Steering Committee said that Freyja’s criticism had created a “bad spot” for the players and parents, that required her dismissal. “At the end of the day, it’s all about the kids.”

If only the issue were so simple.

The controversy is now about social justice, with other overtones that invite exploration — exactly what Marine Harvest was trying to avoid by sponsoring the eight Tier-2 teams of the league.

The decision to dismiss Freyja from the team was conveniently made by the Riptide Steering Committee, a move that seemed to absolve Marine Harvest of any direct responsibility.

But the corporation is implicated, at least indirectly. Such corporate sponsorship is intended to seem altruistic and uncontroversial.

But the real objective is to elevate the profile of the corporation as a respectable member of the community — with a subtle but implicit quid pro quo — we will support you, if you support us.

Leveraging community support for the controversial practice of salmon

farming explains why, as the CBC News noted, “the company sponsors more than 100 community organizations on Vancouver Island, including sports for young people.” For its part, Ian Roberts said he believes it’s legitimate for the soccer association to ask parents not to “speak ill” of the club and its policies. (The Reeds were criticizing the practices of the sponsor, not the club.) Furthermore, said Roberts, Marine Harvest “provides youth an opportunity to not only participate in sports but participate at a reasonable cost” — a “cost” that would seem to be the suppression of critical thinking and the forfeiture of free expression.

The CBC News coverage placed this “cost” under the heading of “corporate opportunism.” And Dr. Margot Young, a University of B.C. law professor who specializes in gender

discrimination in sports, concluded that, “(Freyja) is being muzzled.

To say: ‘You give up soccer or you give up free speech’ is outrageous.”

Although, as Dr. Young added, free expression under the Charter does not apply to sport teams or corporations.

But the optics for Marine Harvest are terrible when the ambitions of a talented 14-year-old girl are being thwarted because of a corporation already steeped in environmental controversy.

Sports are about fairness, ethics and principles, qualities that Freyja obviously had in abundance before she got entangled with Marine Harvest. Maybe her standards are too high for any of their teams.

This commentary by Ray Grigg originally appeared in the‘Campbell River Mirror.’

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ACRD signs new deal with unionized staff The Alberni Clayoquot Regional District has approved a new collective agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 118.

The ACRD board approved the agreement in a closed meeting on, Oct. 28 and the CUPE membership ratified it on Wednesday, Nov. 10.

The agreement covers a three-year term from 2015–2018 and includes wage increases of 1.75 per cent annually. The new agreement includes various housekeeping amendments but no changes to employee benefits.

“The agreement presents a fair wage increase for our employees while respecting the need for prudent budgeting,” said ACRD board chair, Josie Osborne. “We are investing in the ACRD’s greatest asset, its employees.”

Stacy Watton, President of CUPE Local 118 said it was a respectful and productive round of bargaining.

“We achieved a fair deal that includes improved recognition of and protection for casual and temporary employees and we look forward to providing great services to the regional district over the term of the agreement.”

◆ SIDNEY

Police seek getaway car driver in armed robbery Central Saanich Police Service are looking for a second suspect in the armed robbery at the Prairie Inn Cold Beer and Wine Store that occurred on Nov. 6.

Police have established there was a getaway vehicle from where the armed robbery took place at Mount Newton Cross Road.

They are seeking information from anyone who may have seen the vehicle, described as a diesel fueled white GMC truck with black box liner and chrome trim.

The second suspect is described as a 5’9 to 5’10 male, seen wearing a dark baseball cap, a black thigh length jacket with a hood, blue jeans and white sneakers.

The primary suspect entered the liquor store with a silver air gun, resembling a handgun, and demanded cash from a young female employee who was working by herself at the time.

After having exhausted other leads, police are turning to the public in the hopes of identifying a man believed to have impersonated a police officer.

The request stems from a “disturbing” incident that happened about 6 p.m. on Sept. 26.

It was then that a Duncan woman was approached in her driveway by a man sporting what looked to be a police uniform: a yellow stripe on the

trousers, shoulder flash on a long sleeved grey shirt, and a gun belt.

He was not wearing body armour, or a name tag and did not have a radio with him but had driven up in a black, four-door car with tinted windows that looked similar to a police vehicle in terms of make and model.

“He drove into her driveway and began to make inquiries as if he was conducting an investigation,” according to a media release issued

by North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Krista Hobday.

Police said the man made inappropriate comments to the homeowner about her appearance and asked her personal questions.

The man left when he was told there were other people inside the home. Hobday said the man’s actions didn’t match police protocol.

“This is not the way we conduct ourselves when making neighbourhood inquiries regarding an ongoing investigation,” said the release, explaining what a real officer would do. “We identify ourselves,

offer our business card to the person we are speaking to, and have a radio and other identifying pieces of equipment.

“We do not know what this man’s intentions were but we fear it may have been to gain access into this woman’s home and harm her,” said Hobday.

The suspect is Caucasian believed to be between the ages of 30 and 40.

He was clean shaven, had short dark hair and stands about six feet tall and weighs at about 230 pounds.

PARKSVILLE

Voters approve water treatment $5.6M borrowing plan approved by a 80 per cent of those who went to the polls JOHN HARDING PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

Mayor Marc Lefebvre said he is “delighted” to see Parksville voters have given the city permission to borrow $5.6 million for the construction of a new water treatment plant.

Eighty per cent of those who cast a ballot in the referendum Saturday were in favour of the borrowing.

Only 18.6 per cent of approximately 9,600 eligible voters cast ballots. ‘Yes’ had 1,437 votes to 357 for the ‘no’ side.

“I made water my first priority when I ran for mayor and that hasn’t changed,” Lefebvre said on Sunday.

“I was told by Island Health that if the referendum didn’t pass we would have to do it anyway — it’s much better to have the mandate.”

Lefebvre said the next step is to develop detailed plans and then issue a request for proposals. He said the earliest a new plant could be up and running would be late 2017.

Island Health has decreed that all surface water (from rivers, for example) must be, by the end of 2016,

Voters head to the polls for the referendum on Saturday in Parksville. [J.R. RARDON]

treated in a fashion that the current system here is not set up to do.

Parksville gets about 50 per cent of its

water from the Englishman River.

Parksville’s share of the $28.3 million water treatment plant is $20.6

million. The cost of the plant and the borrowing will be recouped mostly through an increase in water rates.

Quit your crying!

OAK BAY

Task force will look at how to update names on cenotaph CHRISTINE VANREEUWYK OAK BAY NEWS

A new district task force will explore how to add to Oak Bay’s cenotaph as way to recognize veterans of more recent conflicts.

Coun. Tara Ney, appointed

by Mayor Nils Jensen to lead the group, guesses more than 2,000 people attended the recent Remembrance Day service.

The monument on Beach Drive, built in 1948, honours the 97 Oak Bay men and women who died during the Second World War. Stones with bronze plaques were added more than a decade ago

to honour those lost in the First World War, Korea, and serving in the United Nations Peace Keepers and Canadian Merchant Navy.

Jensen, moved by meeting a young veteran during a Remembrance Day service, seeks to reflect casualties of Canadian Armed Forces operations in more recent years.

“Our committee will consider ways to create a space of remembrance that will have a more wide-reaching relevance for our community,” Ney said. “The space will be responsive to a changing experience of memory, resolution and sacrifice.”

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QUALICUM BEACH

Five-week lockout saves town about $350K AUREN RUVINSKY PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

With the new fire hall opening this year, Qualicum Beach had some big expenses, but the town says it is solid financially, including some wage relief from the labour lockout.

“We’re quite a bit under and we’ve been gaining all year,” Financial Officer John Marsh told town council on Monday.

He said the town has spent $7.8 million of its $10.8 million, 2015 budget.

“That’s 72.7 per cent of the budget even though we’re about 83 per cent of the way though the year.”

They are on track to be around $1 million under budget this year.

He attributed the surplus mostly to the strategic plan’s focus on infrastructure. He said the town has been saving money on operations to pay

for infrastructure.

He said, for example, the town recently moved half a million dollars from operations to capital in their ongoing 2016 budget deliberations.

Marsh was hesitant to give details on the summer’s labour dispute and five-week lockout, pointing out the costs can take a long time to sort out as they receive bills and sort out complications like employees receiving vacation pay during that period.

OCEANSIDE

Adding that it was never one of their considerations, the town saved about $250,000 in wages and $100,000 in other costs associated with work, like fuel and supplies.

The town’s reserves dropped from about $3.7 million to $2.7 million this year, mostly due to $1.5 million going toward the new fire hall over the last couple years. The rest of the $6.6 million fire hall budget came from a $400,000 federal grant and $4.6 mil-

lion in borrowing, which will cost the town $500,000 a year for ten years.

He said the hall cost more than the most often quoted $6.5 million total due to the Green Municipal Fund grant, which required the inclusion of $114,000 worth of solar panels.

The large surplus is important for the town to deal with emergencies and allows them more flexibility for things like large infrastructure projects.

CROFTON

Black market on cedar boughs Firm wants pump to casting pall on holiday season keep river flowing CANDACE WU PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS LEXI BAINAS LAKE COWICHAN GAZETTE

There may be a new black market cropping up just in time for Christmas.

Spider Lake resident Paul Christensen said people have been trespassing onto his property, stripping his cedar trees and leaving piles of rubbish behind.

“It’s blatant disregard for private property,” he said.

The culprits are after cedar boughs, Christensen explains. Cedar boughs are valuable for their fern-like foliage and decorative qualities.

They are often used to make wreaths and garlands sold in grocery stores, and sometimes on the side of the street, during the Christmas season.

He said two of his “No Trespassing” signs were ripped down.

Christensen said there are sustainable ways to prune cedar trees for boughs ensuring regrowth — but whoever stripped his cedars didn’t take that route.

“They limb them all the way up to the top, hack all the branches off and leave the top,” he said. “It’ll take years for this tree to come back.”

Oceanside RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman said a person could face charges of either theft for the removal of property or mischief for the damage of property.

“I’d like to see charges brought forward,” Christensen said, but noted it will be difficult to catch the culprit(s) in action on his expansive 70-acre property.

Spider Lake resident Paul Christensen is hoping to raise awareness about trespassers stealing cedar boughs from private property. Christensen is pictured with a hacked-up cedar tree on his property. [CANDACE WU PHOTO]

“This time of year, this type of thing can be a problem. However, if done properly it will not affect the tree,” said Foreman.

“That said, nobody should enter private property to do anything for profit without permission or a permit.”

If next summer is dry, then Catalyst could be pumping water over the weir from Cowichan Lake to keep the Cowichan River running.

Catalyst’s Crofton pulp mill — which draws its water supply from the river — has applied for a licence to pump water from Cowichan Lake of the weir at the river’s mouth to maintain up to five cubic meters per second of flow in the Cowichan River.

Approximately 30 per cent of this water will be used by Catalyst under its existing water licence, which authorizes water for the pulp and paper facility in Crofton and for domestic use by the village of Crofton, while 70 per cent will be used for conservation purposes to support fish populations in the Cowichan River, according to the application.

Although it might appear to be a reaction solely to last summer’s drought, the move is based on years of observation, according to Harold Norlund, Crofton mill’s vice-president and general manager.

Built in 1957, the weir at Cowichan Lake is there “to hold back more of the spring and summer rains and snow melt and then release it back out during the fall,” he said.

But even though summers were dry in the 1950s, there were snowy winters, too.

“People used to ski at Green Mountain (south of Nanaimo) and Mt. Arrowsmith in Port Alberni

“The lake goes down way faster than it used to. The weir is there but the water won’t last.”

Harold Norlund, Catalyst Crofton

but now it has really changed. You don’t get the snow continuing into the July period and so the lake goes down way faster than it used to. The weir is there but the water won’t last,” he said.

This is not a new problem for the Cowichan Valley but “for the last few years it’s been gut-wrenching looking at it. It’s like [the weather] has shifted a month. It used to be dry from mid-July to early October but now it starts in May.” Low water affects the migration of salmon but its reach goes far beyond that, Norlund said, pointing out that the outfalls from the sewage treatment operations run by Lake Cowichan and the Joint Utilities Board are also affected by the Cowichan River flow in a drought year.

“We have to try and hold enough water to last into Nov. 5. But it’s clear the fall rains don’t seem to come at the right time and you can tell that the river is going to go down. This is not just about if you run out of water, the mill has to shut down until it rains. There’s more to it,” Norlund said

WESTERN VANCOUVER ISLAND

$56M hydro substation uprgrades double the power capacity for west coast of Island ANDREW BAILEY WESTERLY NEWS

BC Hydro has doubled its power supply to the West Coast.

Hydro recently completed a $56 million project to replace two substations that deliver power to its roughly 3,900 West Coast customers.

The Great Central Lake substation

near Port Alberni and Long Beach substation near the West Coast junction were both outdated and running at capacity, according to Hydro spokesperson Karla Louwers.

“For those peak winter months they couldn’t carry more load and wouldn’t be able to meet the growth in the communities,” she said.

“Not only were the previous sub-

stations at capacity but they were also at end-of-life . . . some of the equipment in those stations dated back to 1957.”

Hydro expects the West Coast’s power needs to grow by two per cent annually and the company believes the two new substations will keep the Coast humming for at least 30 more years, according to Louwers.

She said the two new substations carry twice the capacity of their predecessors.

“They’re new substations built to modern standards with new equipment,” she said.

“You’ve got new equipment in your area so your system is going to be more reliable and it also allows for that growth. “There’s an economic

benefit to the communities because there is now room for the communities to grow.”

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DELTA

Lesson to be learned from false conviction GEMMA KARSTENS-SMITH THE CANADIAN PRESS

Police on Saturday investigate a stabbing at Burnsview Secondary School in Delta. [SHANE MACKICHAN]

Teen critical after school yard stabbing KEVIN DIAKIW SURREY NORTH DELTA LEADER

Three young people have been arrested after a stabbing over the weekend at a Delta secondary school.

On Saturday, just after 11 p.m., police were called to Burnsview Secondary after reports of an altercation behind the school in the 7600-block of 112 Street.

When police arrived, they found

an 18-year-old male suffering from significant, multiple stab wounds.

He was taken to hospital in critical condition.

Delta Police officers arrested three male suspects under the age of 18 who were attempting to flee the area.

The suspects are in custody and under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act their names will not be released publicly. They are

facing charges of aggravated assault.

Investigators are confident there is no connection between the fight and the school. The victim and the suspects are known to each other and police say it appears to be an isolated incident — a disagreement between teenagers that unfortunately escalated to an extreme level.

The victim remains in hospital in critical but stable condition.

The case of a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 30 years after representing himself in court should be a cautionary tale for people accused of crimes, says a lawyer for the government of British Columbia.

John Hunter told B.C. Supreme Court that Ivan Henry’s case may have ended differently if the accused had accepted a publicly funded lawyer after he was arrested and charged with 10 counts of sexual assault in 1982.

“You can only do a certain amount when that unwise decision is made,” Hunter said Monday.

“This is a case that demonstrates what can happen when a person accused of serious crimes refuses to accept the assistance of counsel.”

Henry spent 27 years behind bars before he was acquitted in 2010. He is now seeking damages for malicious prosecution and abuse of process over allegations that Crown lawyers didn’t disclose all the evidence in his case.

The City of Vancouver settled with Henry last week for an undisclosed amount and withdrew allegations that he was guilty despite the acquittal.

The provincial and federal governments continue to dispute the compensation claim.

Hunter told court that lawyers must prove that having the undisclosed evidence would have made a difference in Henry being convicted or acquitted.

The documents may not have helped in court because transcripts from the original trial show Henry did not understand the process or how the information could be used to bolster his case, Hunter argued.

The province isn’t arguing that Henry should have had the skills of a trained criminal lawyer, Hunter said.

“Our position is simply that in dispensing with the publicly funded counsel, Mr. Henry took on himself the risks involved.”

There’s only so much that could be done to help someone who refuses legal counsel, and Henry was twice examined by a psychologist to ensure he was fit to stand trial, Hunter said.

“How is a fair trial to be achieved if the accused insists on making decisions that are contrary to his own interests?”

A woman who was a junior prosecutor on the sexual assault case testified that Henry was very disrespectful and threatened witnesses during the trial, both with the questions he asked and the way he spoke.

SURREY

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Man dead, another injured in possible targeted shooting KEVIN DIAKIW SURREY NORTH DELTA LEADER

One man is dead and another injured after a shooting in Surrey on the weekend.

On Saturday, just after midnight, police were called to 152 Street and 66 Avenue after shots were heard in the area.

When police arrived, they found two men in a vehicle suffering from gunshot wounds.

One of them was unresponsive and despite their best efforts, rescue crews could not revive him.

The victim has not been named by police, but the Surrey Field Hockey Club is identifying him as Surinderpal Singh Hehar. He was a man in his 40s and had two young children.

He also worked at Deltaport, according to CTV News, and was shot outside of the family home after being picked up for the graveyard shift by a co-worker.

Residents of the area say they have been rattled by the shooting. ”There’re a lot of kids on this street and it could have happened during the day . . . And it’s also right across from a school,” one resident told CTV News.

“So it’s scary, it’s scary.”

There is an outpouring of shock and

grief on the Surrey Field Hockey Club website for the loss of Hehar.

“It is with profound grief, sorrow, and disbelief, that we announce the passing away of a great friend, a brother, a mentor and member of our club, Surinderpal Singh Hehar, earlier today,” the field hockey club posted on a Facebook memorial. “We, his friends, family members, his hockey fraternity, are all in a state of shock and disbelief at this.”

Gutu Sidhu wrote: “Sorry to hear about the loss, our deepest thoughts and prayers for the family. He was s great guy on and off the field and u will be missed by all of us. May your soul rest in peace.”

The second shooting victim remains in hospital being treated for his injuries, which are not considered life-threatening.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is now investigating.

Investigators believe this to be a targeted shooting, however they say at this point there is no indication the shooting has any connection with any other gun-related investigations in Surrey.

“I want to reassure the public that their safety is of paramount concern,” said IHIT Sgt. Stephanie Ashton.

PARKS SERVICES DEPARTMENT- VEHICLE PURCHASE– 2015 Request for Proposal The Regional District of Nanaimo is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with corporate operations. Accordingly, the RDN is seeking to purchase One (1) Current Model/Year Full-Sized Half-Ton, Extra Cab, Four-Wheel Drive, Pickup Truck – 2015 for use at the Parks Services Department. Dealers are strongly encouraged to provide information on alternative fuel vehicles in order to highlight products that could be made available to meet objectives of this Request for Proposal. A copy of the proposal document can be obtained from the Transportation Services Department by calling 250390-6565 or toll free 1-877-607-4111.

Submissions clearly marked “RDN - One (1) Current Model/Year Full-Sized Half-Ton, Extra Cab, Four-Wheel Drive, Pickup Truck – 2015” will be accepted at the Regional District of Nanaimo, Main Reception desk, located on the 2nd Floor, 6300 Hammond Bay Road, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6N2, until 4:00 pm, December 4, 2015.

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MINING

Mount Polley mine future in question Operation waiting for provincial permit as water level in tailing storage pit inches closer to full capacity MONICA LAMB-YORSKI WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

Mount Polley Mine may be forced to cease operations soon as its temporary tailings storage pit nears capacity and the company awaits approval on a possible water discharge plan.

Imperial Metals vice-president of operations Steve Robertson said he has not seen a measurement of the

Springer Pit level this week, but by last week there were only 6.5 metres left before the water level reaches the critical mark of 1030 metres — the maximum level allowed by the current permit the mine holds.

The mine has been waiting for Ministry of Environment approval of the discharge plan since submitting it in July.

“At 1,030 it is expected to infiltrate.

It’s forcing us into a position where

we are going to be out of compliance with our permit,” Robertson said.

A final decision on the water discharge permit is expected by the end of the month, said a spokesperson with the Ministry of Environment Wednesday.

“An application for short-term discharge — no more than two years — of treated mine effluent to Quesnel Lake has gone through a public consultation and is under

review by the ministry and other agencies,” the ministry said.

For Mayor Walt Cobb and city council the ministry’s time line is not good enough.

On Wednesday Cobb sent a letter to Premier Christy Clark saying unless the permit is issued immediately, the mine will experience another breach.

“Due to heavy snowfall, the water is rising at a significantly accelerated level; should the water discharge per-

mit not be granted immediately, our region will suffer another environmental disaster.”

Further delay, Cobb said, will be catastrophic — environmentally, economically and socially.

“The blame will be solely with the Ministry of Environment,” Cobb said.

There are 300 plus people employed directly at the mine, and the spinoffs would impact a total of 1,000 to 1,500 people Cobb said.

POLITICS

A Conservative forecast for B.C. Tory leader Dan Brooks says his party wants to compete for power in 2017 TOM FLETCHER BLACK PRESS

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.C. Conservative leader Dan Brooks stopped in Victoria last week on a tour of the province to prepare the party for the next election. Here are excerpts from his conversation with Black Press.

TF: There was a rumour that you’re in Victoria to join the B.C. Liberal Party.

DB: I don’t know where that started. It’s false. I’ve never talked to a Liberal about anything of that nature, ever.

TF: I only bring it up because the eternal question is whether your party and your efforts can only help the NDP. DB: On the contrary, I think what we’re doing is critical to the health of B.C.’s political system. We need Conservatives in that legislature. It’s more important now than ever before. This is the opportunity to make wholesale change in B.C. It’s always been the lesser of two evils, the NDP and the Liberals. With a Conservative alternative, this is a chance to change the whole province.

TF: What’s the first thing you would change?

DB: Let’s strengthen our democracy right off the bat by banning corporate and union donations. That would take a lot of the power out of the hands of big unions and big corporations and their influence in the ministers’ offices. Let’s catch up with the rest of the world and modern democracies that do it too, including the federal government.

TF: Are you recruiting candidates?

We’re up to 87 constituencies for the 2017 election. Can you field candidates in all of them?

DB: We are recruiting candidates, and we’re in the process of finding people who are going to help us build

a better province, and help us win that election in 2017. I’m touring the province to listen to British Columbians so we can develop a platform that really speaks to what they want to see in the next government, and with the platform and candidates in place, we’re going to be prepared well in advance.

TF: We have an independent in the legislature right now. Have you spoken with Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington, and do you see her as a small-C conservative?

DB: I would see her that way, and she’s welcome to talk to me and join our movement. I’ve never spoken to her, though.

TF: Are you running in your home constituency of Nechako Lakes [held

by B.C. Liberal Aboriginal Relations Minister John Rustad], and do you still see the party’s best chances in the North and the Interior?

DB: Absolutely. Those northern communities are very conservative.

I was born and raised in Vanderhoof, and I know the Nechako Lakes area intimately. It votes Conservative federally, it wants to vote Conservative provincially, and I will give it that option in 2017.

And that is where we are going to win seats, for sure, but we can win seats in every region of this province with the right candidates and the right platform.

TF: The B.C. Liberals have a big push on for industrial development, particularly in the North. Do you support what they’re doing there?

DB: I support some aspects of what they’re doing. The liquefied natural gas dream, if it ever comes to fruition, I think is a good thing for B.C. I support pursuing that dream.

But the B.C. Liberals have really neglected northern communities, and the reason is you’ve got communities that are in decline. You’ve

B.C. Conservative leader Dan Brooks is on a tour of the province. [TOM FLETCHER]

got population declines, schools closing.

You’ve got a timber supply that’s in crisis, and they’re a decade behind in dealing with that crisis. They’ve been solely focused on LNG and they’ve excluded all the other economic opportunities in northern B.C. And that’s the problem with the B.C. Liberals up there.

We’ve got to get a new economic vision for the North, for the Interior, that’s going to see a diverse economy, secondary value-added manufacturing, that looks at how we’re going to sustain communities long term, and not just a one-off, one project that’s going to result in short-term employment for construction and then a couple of people in operations.

TF: Speaking of construction, the NDP has come out with their energy plan. They still seem to be running against the Site C dam on the Peace River, even though work is under-

way. What’s your take on Site C and the NDP’s energy plan?

DB: I think that ship has sailed, and Site C is a done deal, whether you agree with it or not. And I have some reservations about it. One thing they’re not making more of in B.C. is land, and the loss of that farmland is a pretty big blow.

I also think they have neglected to look at the natural gas power generation option, particularly in the North, but that’s what happened and it’s going ahead now. Reversing that decision now I think would be very foolish.

TF: Gas-fired generation is how Fort Nelson runs, and always has.

You would consider more of that?

DB: I would consider more of that as our energy needs increase. When I think of Site C, the first thing that comes to mind is cost overruns, $8 billion, how soon is that going to be $16 billion? The B.C. Liberals do

not have a track record of staying on budget.

TF: Energy Minister Bill Bennett has gone out on a limb, predicting that they’re going to keep this one on budget.

DB: (Laughs) We’ll see.

TF: What else would you like to see in B.C.?

DB: We need alternatives in B.C. politics. The B.C. Conservative Party is the best hope for British Columbia to make real, substantive change, economically, politically and I believe even socially.

These old recycled ideas from the NDP and the B.C. Liberals are going nowhere. The B.C. Liberals have really poisoned the well, so to speak, with this open government and triple deleting and all those scandals. They’ve overstayed their welcome. People are looking around for alternatives, and they don’t trust the NDP.

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Homeless shelter to be open longer after death The death of a regular user of a homeless shelter on the Sunshine Coast has prompted some quick action from B.C. Housing.

A member of the region’s homeless advisory committee, Kelly Foley, says extra funding for the operation was provided late last week.

The shelter is now open every night until the end of March, instead of opening only during extreme weather

conditions. Foley says the man, in his 50s, was found dead in a park in Gibsons just over a week ago, and pressure for increased funding began to build late last week.

She says the outpouring of support has been overwhelming and she is pleased at the response from B.C. Housing.

Concerned residents raised $3,300 for the Sunshine Coast shelter in three days, but the organizer of the online campaign says, thanks to the new funding, her drive has ended and the cash will be forwarded to the shelter operators.

◆ PRINCE RUPERT

City reels as Canfisco ends cannery operation

Also, there will be some impact on the general workforce, because we’ll still be doing unloading and dressing of the salmon, but that doesn’t take as many people as putting it into the cans as well,” Rob Morley, Canfisco vice-president of production and corporate development, said on Thursday.

“The more senior people will still be called into work to do all those operations and some of the junior people will not get as much work. At this time of year, essentially everyone’ “s laid off for most of the winter and they wouldn’t normally be coming back

Prince Rupert is reeling after the Canadian Fishing Corporation announced it will be shutting down its salmon canning operations at its Oceanside plant.

“I can’t give you an exact number [on the number of jobs lost]. Most of the jobs that would be directly impacted would be the ones for people in our trades maintenance group, who are involved in maintaining and operating the canning equipment itself.

until some time early in the new year,” he added.

The company blamed low returns on salmon in the area over the past few years for the cutbacks.

◆ VERNON

Snow on its way in the north Okanagan A snowfall warning is in effect for the North Okanagan.

Environment Canada reports that 10 to 20 centimetres of snow is expected starting Monday.

VANCOUVER

YOU AND THE LAW®

DON'T SETTLE TOO SOON IF HURT IN A CAR CRASH

Former University of British Columbia students Glynnis Kirchmeier, right, and Caitlin Cunningham at the university in Vancouver on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

UBC students take sex assault issue to human rights tribunal GEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

A former University of British Columbia graduate student plans to go the province’s human rights tribunal over what she calls the school’s broken and dysfunctional system for reporting and processing alleged cases of sexual assault and harassment.

Glynnis Kirchmeier told reporters gathered at the school’s Vancouver campus on Sunday that she had approached school administrators in January 2014 after observing instances of alleged sexual misconduct by a fellow student dating back to 2011 The university failed to act on her complaints until recently, she said, when the head of the school issued a statement apologizing to the women involved.

“UBC’s chance to do the right thing is over,” said Kirchmeier, adding that sorry was no longer enough.

She said the university told her the student accused of sexual misconduct is no longer at UBC, though she didn’t known whether he was expelled or dropped out.

Kirchmeier said she intends to file her human-rights complaint by the end of the year and that it was still uncertain how many complainants would be involved.

In a statement, Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Martha Piper applauded the courage of the women who came forward and she apologized that they felt let down by the university.

“I appreciate the light the women have shone on this issue, and I want to make a pledge,” wrote Piper. “We will

be reviewing the steps that were taken in these cases to determine how they might have been handled more effectively and expeditiously.”

One such case involved Caitlin Cunningham, who was present on Sunday to recount her “extraordinarily difficult” experience when she complained to the university about personally experiencing sexual assault.

“I think I’ve been more traumatized by the process of reporting than I was traumatized by the incident of assault,” said Cunningham, who graduated in 2014. “The system is broken. It’s in all ways broken. I don’t think there’s any other way to put it.”

Cunningham, who spoke at a Sunday news conference, described feeling betrayed by UBC, adding that poor communication on the school’s part about what was going on with her complaint “significantly compounded my distress.”

Associate Vice-President of Equity and Inclusion Sara-Jane Finlay says the school intends to formally examine how it deals with sexual-assault complaints by investigating specifically how the school failed the women who lodged complaints over this particular individual.

“I hear them. I get it. We need to do something,” said Finlay when asked how she felt about alleged sexual-assault victims feeling betrayed and disappointed by the university’s inaction.

The independent investigation would look into the university’s response to allegations of harassment and sexual assault. Finlay didn’t specify when such a study would be launched nor who would lead it.

If you’ve been injured in a car crash and, in short order, ICBC comes through with an oīer to seƩle, don’t be too quick to accept.

Typically, ICBC is not only your insurer but also insures the driver who caused your injuries.

So naturally ICBC aims to keep seƩlement payments down.

Lawyers for car crash vicƟms report that ICBC oŌen tries to seƩle personal injury claims by making seƩlement oīers very early on. This may appeal at Įrst blush – you can use the money, and you may feel it lets you put the car crash behind you so you can get on with your life as before.

But in order to seƩle your claim, you’ll have to sign a release. You may think that it’s just a standard document, and sign on the doƩed line to get the money. Maybe you won’t even bother to read it – aŌer all it’s just a bunch of legalese, right? But once you sign the release, and whether you read it or not, it usually means no more money. If you later experience health problems stemming from the car crash that weren’t fully apparent when you signed, you’ll have an uphill baƩle to try and overcome the release.

And in real life, oŌen the full extent of accident injuries cannot be known right away. You need to be paƟent, to be sure all symptoms and problems have shown up and have fully resolved (or to determine if some are chronic). And you need solid medical back-up on that before you seƩle.

There are other reasons for not seƩling too soon.

It’s not unusual for the iniƟal seƩlement oīer to be a single, all-in number that isn’t broken down into what factors ICBC used to arrive at that Įgure. And if you ask, ICBC may or may not be prepared to explain or give a break-down.

But it’s criƟcal that you understand what your claim is worth – what factors a court would take into account when assessing “damages” (proper compensaƟon) and what’s a fair amount for each factor or element of compensaƟon.

It’s best if you talk to an experienced personal injury lawyer as early as possible postaccident. Your lawyer is only on one side – yours. He or she can help you with your ICBC claims reporƟng (which you must make soon aŌer the crash), alert you to potenƟal traps and piƞalls there, make you aware of Ɵme lines and Ɵme limits for your claim, arrange appropriate medical help and evaluaƟons, and negoƟate a fair seƩlement or Įght your case in court.

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Belgium on high alert over ‘imminent’ terrorist threat Increased security in wake of the massacre in Paris has virtually shut down Brussels RAF CASERT AND ELAINE GANLEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BRUSSELS — Citing a “serious and imminent” threat of attack, Belgium’s prime minister announced Monday that Brussels will remain at the highest alert level for at least another week, maintaining security measures that have severely disrupted normal life in the capital.

In France, police said an explosive vest without a detonator was found by a street cleaner in a pile of rubble in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge and was being analyzed by investigators. A police official said the vest contained bolts and the same type of explosives as those used in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that claimed 130 lives and left hundreds wounded.

The device was found Monday in the same area where a cellphone belonging to fugitive suspect Salah Abdeslam was pinpointed by geolocalization on the day of the Paris attacks, two police officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Brussels, which houses the headquarters of the European Union and NATO, faced a “serious and imminent” threat that required keeping the city at the highest alert level, while the rest of the country would stay at the second-highest level. Belgium’s crisis centre said the alert level would only change if a significant breakthrough warranted it.

The increased security measures in the wake of the Nov. 13 massacre in Paris have virtually shut down the Belgian capital, with the subway system, many shops and schools remaining shut on Monday.

Michel said that despite the continued high alert level, schools would reopen on Wednesday, with parts of the subway system beginning to operate the same day.

He did not say when the system would be completely online again.

NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ ST. JOHN’S, N.L.

Two-pronged attack in debate targets Liberals Newfoundland and Labrador’s Liberal leader defended his policies Monday night as the leaders of the other major political parties accused him of lacking substantive ideas to improve the province’s economy.

As the perceived frontrunner in the campaign, Dwight Ball’s promise to eliminate a sales tax increase that was brought in by the Progressive Conservative government was one of the areas that came under attack in the debate broadcast by CBC. Conservative Leader Paul Davis, whose party has been in power for 12 years, told Ball he is only promising to create plans to deal with the economy.

NDP Leader Earle McCurdy echoed that criticism, saying Ball is promising economic diversification but he hasn’t explained how he would achieve that goal.

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Fourth person charged after body found in cart

Members of the Belgian army accompany police as they patrol near the Grand Place in central Brussels on Monday. Three days of the highest terror alert and unprecedented measures have closed down the city’s subways, schools and main stores and created a very different atmosphere. [AP PHOTO]

“We are very alert and call for caution.

The potential targets remain the same; shopping centres and shopping streets and public transport.”

Charles Michel, President of Belgium

“We are very alert and call for caution,” Michel said. “The potential targets remain the same; shopping centres and shopping streets and public transport.”

“We want to return to a normal way of life as quickly as possible,” he added.

The unprecedented security measures come as authorities hunt for one or more suspected extremists, including Abdeslam.

Belgian authorities have not announced any details of their investigation into potential attacks nor

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have they released any information about four suspects who have been arrested and charged with terrorism-related offences. These include one suspect who was arrested as part of a sweep that saw 21 people detained since Sunday night. Fifteen have since been released.

Earlier Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron said during a visit to Paris that he would seek parliamentary approval for the U.K. to join the airstrikes being carried out by the U.S., France, Russia and other nations in the region against the Islamic State extremists in Syria.

Cameron and French President Francois Hollande paid a visit to the Bataclan concert hall, which saw the worst of the carnage. Seeking a unified strategy on Syria, Hollande meets Tuesday with President Barack Obama and with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, before travelling to Moscow on Thursday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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it had launched its first airstrikes from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, bombing IS targets in the Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Mosul in a seven-hour operation. The ministry said four Rafale fighter jets were sent from the carrier Monday afternoon.

France has already carried out strikes against IS targets in Syria.

Britain has been carrying out airstrikes in Iraq, and Cameron has long wanted an expanded mandate to include targets in Syria. But his government had been reluctant to suggest a parliamentary vote until it could be certain of winning it.

A series of raids in Belgium began late Sunday, capping a tense weekend that saw hundreds of troops patrolling streets.

Frank Foley, a terrorism expert and lecturer in war studies at King’s College London, said it was difficult to know if the operations were justified because authorities have provided so few details. The measures could even be counterproductive if they last too long, he said.

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Hutterites in shock after boy dies farm forklift accident An Alberta Hutterite colony is planning the funeral of a boy, 10, who was killed while driving a forklift on the weekend.

Mike Stahl, the boy’s grandfather, says the death has been a shock to the Lougheed colony southeast of Edmonton.

RCMP have said the boy had serious injuries and died at the scene.

A fourth person is facing charges after a woman’s body was found in a shopping cart in an Edmonton alley.

Andrea Marie Berg, who was 42, was discovered dead on June 16 in the alley in the area of 124 Street and north of 113 Avenue.

Witnesses who found Berg said her legs, arms and mouth had been taped and her face was bloody.

An autopsy showed she died of blunt force trauma.

Carrie Goldien Jones, who is 34, is charged with second-degree murder.

Sophie Isabelle Frenchman, who is 48, and 36-year-old Lana Jane Pelletier are also charged with second-degree murder, while 50-year-old John Charles Kisil is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder.

Berg’s friends have said she struggled with addiction.

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Suspect granted bail in case of threats to Arabs A man has been granted bail after being charged in connection with a YouTube video in which someone wearing a Joker mask says one Arab would be murdered in Quebec every week.

Jesse Pelletier, 24, appeared in a Montreal courtroom this afternoon and was freed on various conditions.

He had been detained since last Wednesday on charges of uttering threats, possession of a false weapon, public incitement of hatred and hoax regarding terrorist activities.

The person in the video was wearing a Joker mask and could be seen brandishing what looked like a pistol as he made the threats and spoke about the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead.

His lawyer reiterated Monday the video was “a bad joke.”

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House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer, left, shakes hands with Const. Samearn Son in the House of Commons last December. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Commons officer recalls being shot JIM BRONSKILL THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — A House of Commons security officer who was shot in the leg when a gunman stormed Parliament Hill says he thought he would die that day.

Const. Samearn Son was one of 20 parliamentary security officers and Mounties honoured Monday at RCMP headquarters for their bravery on Oct. 22 of last year.

In his first public account of the dramatic events, Son said he caught sight of rifle-toting Michael Zehaf Bibeau — who had just shot and killed a sentry at the National War Memorial — through the glass of the Centre Block doors.

Son instinctively reached for his pistol, which he only wore as a concealed weapon when working plainclothes duty.

But that day he was in uniform inside Parliament’s main building and did not have a sidearm.

Son decided to “square up” and try to block Zehaf Bibeau from shooting fellow officers.

“I could die running or I could die buying my partners some time,” he said Monday.

Son believes his life may have been saved by the heavy west door under the Peace Tower that Zehaf Bibeau had to pull open, which meant the attacker’s rifle was facing down.

The officer says he yelled “Gun! Gun! Gun!” before lunging and hearing a bang as Zehaf Bibeau fired his Winchester.

“I thought it was lights out,” said Son, 38, who was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and came to Canada as a young boy. “I was super-grateful that I was still standing on my two feet.”

The gunman continued up the stairs toward the Hall of Honour and only later did Son roll up his pant leg and notice a hole in his sock.

“I saw blood on my boots,” said Son, who recovered after two months of rehabilitation.

A visibly moved RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson told a hushed audience it’s “difficult to understand what happened” on Oct. 22, but one thing is clear: officers worked together to stop a man “with murder in his heart.”

House of Commons security officer Const. Charles Thom was at the top of the Centre Block stairs, working plainclothes protective duty for Stephen Harper, prime minister at the time, who was attending party caucus.

Thom says he heard Son’s shouts, turned to his left and shot Zehaf Bibeau once in the chest, only to see him continue running down the hall, much to the officer’s amazement.

“I was very surprised,” said Thom, 49.

He subsequently heard reports — which turned out to be false — of 13 more attackers on the roof of the Centre Block, a terrorist at the parliamentary visitors’ centre and a sniper atop the Langevin Block across the street.

“So we had to be prepared for everything.”

Thom has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and has not returned to his job, nor does he expect to.

“I have zero interest in going back to work,” he said. “It’s not very fun. You get these fog-like episodes, a lot of anger.

The attack on Parliament Hill actually lasted only 90 seconds for Thom, but he says it seemed like a lifetime.

“It was a day from hell, Oct. 22.”

The RCMP was responsible for the grounds of the parliamentary precinct at the time, while House of Commons and Senate security forces had jurisdiction inside the Parliament Buildings.

Several of those honoured, including RCMP Const. Curtis Barrett — believed to have fired many of the final shots that took Zehaf Bibeau down — did not wish to be interviewed.

RCMP officer Patricia Flood, a constable stationed on the Hill that day, still finds it hard to talk about.

“I’d rather not get into the details of it,” she said. “It was a difficult day for me.”

Flood bristles when she hears criticism in the media about the security services’ performance during the violent incident.

“You do take it personally,” she said, clutching the plaque she received Monday. “Because we were the ones who responded that day.”

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Witness calls column ‘hatchet job’ BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — A friend and campaign worker of former TV journalist Arthur Kent says he believes a column written by Don Martin during the 2008 Alberta election campaign was a “hatchet job.”

Kent is suing Postmedia, the National Post and Martin alleging that he was defamed during his unsuccessful campaign to win a seat in Calgary for the Progressive Conservatives.

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

The article used unnamed sources that described Kent as a lone ranger who failed to toe

KENT

the party line and was difficult to deal with. They said Kent was not co-operating with the party and a number of key campaign members were threatening to quit, including the finance chairman.

Len Grant, a longtime TV journalist himself who volunteered on the Kent campaign, testified Mon-

day there were no problems until the Martin column ran.

“I was taken aback. I felt there was a great deal of licence being taken by Don Martin. It’s either a news item or it’s an opinion piece.

I don’t think you can have both,” said Grant, who retired from journalism in 2000.

“This is a very one-sided piece, very vindictive. I thought it was a hatchet job.”

The Martin article had no comment from Kent in it.

Postmedia denies Kent’s accusations and argues it was practising responsible journalism. The company has emphasized the media’s role in informing voters about candidates’ policies and actions.

Stephen Doolan, Kent’s financial agent on the campaign, testified he was immediately concerned after reading the Martin article.

Sen. Mike Duffy, makes his way to the courthouse in Ottawa last week.

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Duffy pal testifies to odd contracts Gerald Donohue oversaw various payments JENNIFER DITCHBURN THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Was Gerald Donohue an unqualified consultant who made roughly $20,000 for using Google, talking to Sen. Mike Duffy on the phone and cutting cheques to sub-contractors?

Or was the ailing Ottawa-area man a well-meaning, highly experienced former union and broadcasting executive who was executing legitimate Senate contracts?

Those are the two pictures emerging at Duffy’s fraud, breach of trust and bribery trial, which has waited seven months to hear the details of the unusual Senate contracts with Donohue.

He suffers from failing kidneys, heart failure and diabetes and can only testify for a few hours a day, a few times a week, via video link. This delayed his appearance several times over the course of the trial.

Six of the 31 charges against Duffy are linked to $65,000 in Senate contracts awarded to Donohue between 2009 and 2012.

But there were a few very odd things about the contracts. For one, the money went to two companies owned by Donohue’s wife — he was never an employee of the firms, nor did he ever have cheque signing authority.

More importantly for this trial, Donohue paid out tens of thousands of dollars to service providers who did work for Duffy — such as a makeup artist, speech writers and an intern.

Donohue testified that his company kept between $19,000 and $22,000 — he wasn’t exactly sure of the amount. He said he did some research on the Internet on the aging population for Duffy and would give the senator his opinion on things like website content and the proper length of a speech. He never set foot on Parliament Hill.

Donohue sometimes had only vague

recollections of why he signed cheques to others at Duffy’s behest.

Prosecutor Mark Holmes took Donohue through a series of payments, such as the one made to personal trainer Mike Croskery. He was paid more than $10,000 for consulting services.

“This first invoice that came in was signed or initialled by Duffy instructing me to pay it and that’s the extent of what I remember,” Donohue said.

Was he familiar with Croskery?

“Never met the man, wouldn’t know him if I fell over him,” Donohue responded.

The defence has taken the position that Duffy’s way of handing out Senate contracts might have been unorthodox, but was not criminal — all the firms and individuals involved performed services that were for real Senate business.

Defence lawyer Donald Bayne began his cross-examination of Donohue Monday, first beginning with a long series questions on his health — emphasizing that years of treatments and medication have impacted the man’s memory.

“I’d like to say that my memory issue was not a big issue until I had the kidney (problems), but a lot of what’s transpired in the last two or three years had an affect on me emotionally, which has affected my memory,” Donohue testified.

Bayne then asked Donohue to describe his professional life in detail, from his years as an international representative and regional director with the National Association of Broadcasting Employees and Technicians.

It equated to just shy of 30 years in collective bargaining and arbitration, Bayne noted, before the court adjourned for the day.

The trial is scheduled to resume Wednesday with testimony from independent Liberal Sen. George Furey, who sits on the steering committee of the powerful Senate internal economy committee.

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Vatican trial of two journalists draws scorn of global media watchdogs NICOLE WINFIELD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — Two Italian journalists who wrote books detailing Vatican mismanagement go on trial Tuesday in a Vatican courtroom along with three people accused of leaking them the information in a case that has drawn scorn from media watchdogs around the world.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the OSCE, among others, have all called on the Vatican to drop the charges against Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi. The two reporters face up to eight years in prison if convicted of charges they violated Vatican law by publishing news based on confidential Holy See documents.

In interviews Monday, Nuzzi and Fittipaldi both called the process “Kafka-esque.” With hours to go before the start of trial, neither they nor their lawyers had seen the court file detailing the accusations against them. Nuzzi only spoke for the first time with his Vatican court-appointed lawyer Monday morning. They were indicted Friday.

Even though they technically risk arrest by stepping on Vatican soil

Pope Francis at an audience with the Congregation for Catholic Education in the Vatican on Saturday. [AP PHOTO]

Tuesday, both said they planned to attend the trial — if only to report to the world what transpires. The Vatican is a sovereign state, and by entering Vatican territory, Nuzzi and Fittipaldi could well be detained by Vatican gendarmes given the grave accusations against them. But neither expected the Vatican would take that route, given the diplomatic inci-

dent it would set off with Italy.

“This is a trial against freedom of the press,” Fittipaldi said in an interview at his offices in the headquarters of Rome’s La Repubblica newspaper. “In no other part of the world, at least in the part of the world that considers itself democratic, is there a crime of a scoop, a crime of publishing news.”

If convicted Nuzzi and Fittipaldi face up to eight years in prison. Since they are Italian citizens, any sentence would involve an extradition request.

Both journalists said they believed no Italian judge would extradite them, given freedom of the press is guaranteed by the Italian constitution.

Fittipaldi’s book Avarice, and Nuzzi’s book Merchants in the Temple, both published earlier this month, detail waste and mismanagement in the Vatican administration, the greed of some cardinals and bishops and the resistance Pope Francis is facing in trying to clean it up.

In a statement Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Vatican to drop the charges.

“Journalists should be allowed to carry out their role as watchdog and investigate alleged wrongdoing without fear of repercussions,” said the Nina Ognianova of the CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatovic, echoed the call, saying “journalists must be allowed to report on issues of public interest and to protect their confidential sources.”

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Mali releases photos of slain attackers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAMAKO, Mali — State media broadcast photos Monday of the two slain attackers of a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, appealing for anyone who knew them to come forward with information about the gunmen.

The photos of the two young men were taken after Friday’s rampage at the Radisson Blu hotel in which 19 people were killed, said Capt. Baba Cisse at the Interior Ministry.

The gunmen, who shouted “God is great!” in Arabic as they attacked, were shot to death by security forces following a more than seven-hour siege in the capital of the West African country.

Officials also put out phone numbers, urging people who might have known them to call with information.

The decision to release the photos came a day after the Islamic extremist group that first claimed responsibility for the attack purported to identify the gunmen in an audio recording, according to Al-Akhbar, a Mauritanian news site that often receives messages from Malian extremists.

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Palestinian attacks on Israelis surge ahead of John Kerry visit

Neil Young says that ‘Canada is back’ after election

Past week has been deadliest of the outbursts since violence began in September ARON HELLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian fatally stabbed an Israeli soldier at a West Bank gas station Monday before he was killed by security forces as two Palestinian teenage girls in Jerusalem attacked a 70-year-old Palestinian, apparently mistaking him for an Israeli, in a new rash of attacks on the eve of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to the region to try and calm two months of deadly violence.

The gas station stabbing took place on the 443 highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which cuts in parts through the West Bank. One of the girls, who both used scissors in a stabbing spree outside a central Jerusalem market, was shot dead while the other was wounded by armed Israelis, according to police.

In other incidents, the Israeli military said another knife-wielding Palestinian was shot dead in the West Bank before he could harm anyone.

Elsewhere, a Palestinian rammed his vehicle into a pedestrian near a West Bank settlement, lightly wounding him. The civilian was evacuated to hospital while the attacker fled the scene. There have been several instances of Palestinians using their cars as weapons by crashing them into Israelis in recent months.

Monday’s attacks are the latest in a wave of violence that began in mid-September over tensions surrounding a sensitive Jerusalem holy site and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The past week has been the deadliest of the outburst thus far. On Sunday, a 21-year-old Israeli woman

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Israeli soldiers stand at the scene of a stabbing attack, at the Hawara checkpoint near of the West Bank city of Nablus, on Monday. The Israeli military said a Palestinian was shot dead as he tried to stab a soldier at the checkpoint. [AP PHOTO]

was stabbed to death by a Palestinian in the West Bank, and last Thursday, five people were killed in stabbing and shooting attacks in the West Bank and Tel Aviv.

Kerry is scheduled to arrive Tuesday to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders and try to calm tensions that show no signs of dissipating. It will mark his first visit to the area in more than a year.

In a visit to the West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to keep up Israel’s tough hand against Palestinian attackers.

“We are going everywhere. We are entering into villages, communities and homes and are carrying out widespread arrests,” said Netanyahu,

who appeared to be wearing a bulky flak jacket under his coat. “The most important tool that we have is the perseverance, courage and determination to fight terrorism.”

In more than two months, 19 Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings, while 89 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire. Of them, 57 are said by Israel to be attackers and the rest were killed in clashes with security forces.

Israel says the violence stems from Palestinian incitement and incendiary videos on social media. Most of the attackers have been young Palestinians in their teens and early 20s.

The Palestinians say the violence is rooted in frustration over nearly a

half century of Israeli occupation and lack of hope for obtaining independence. Palestinians have also accused Israel of using excessive force, saying some attackers could be stopped without being killed.

In the gas station attack, the Israeli — 18-year-old soldier Ziv Mizrahi — was stabbed in the stomach and later died of his wounds, said Eli Bin, the director of the Magen David Adom rescue service. He said the same stabber also lightly wounded two women nearby.

In Jerusalem, near a popular outdoor market, the pair of Palestinian teenagers, aged 16 and 14, caused a panicked scene after one of them stabbed the Palestinian man.

Music icon Neil Young has declared that “Canada is back” now that a Liberal government has taken charge in Ottawa.

“I’m very happy,” said the 70-yearold Canadian who has lived in California for years.

The singer-songwriter was in Vancouver on Monday to debut his high-resolution audio player and online store, under the PonoMusic brand, in Canada.

Young said he’s received many emails and phone calls from Canadian friends revelling in the new government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“Obviously people are delighted with the change that has taken place.

It’s very positive news.”

He wished the newly minted cabinet well on the same day provincial premiers were meeting in Ottawa to discuss a national strategy on climate change, an issue he has also championed.

He said he’s hopeful officials will take different action than the former Conservative government, but then said corporations have more money and power than governments.

“So really, it’s up to the people to take the situation into their own hands,” he said, explaining that consumers have buying power and can change the world through their habits.

“The politicians really don’t have the power to change the world.”

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Vancouver Canucks captain Henrik Sedin, left, moves the puck while being watched by New Jersey Devil John Moore during the first period of an NHL game at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Defensive breakdowns costing Canucks BEN KUZMA THE PROVINCE

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hris Tanev did what he always does. Alex Edler did what he seldom does, and the puck ended up in the wrong net.

When Tanev blocked a shot in the slot Sunday, and Edler slid at the side of the net to prevent a cross-crease pass from leaving Jacob Markstrom with zero support, the trickle-down effect was an unattended Mike Cammalleri staring at nothing but net.

It was the wrong result from all the right intentions by the Vancouver Canucks’ best and most-reliable tandem.

That says something.

This is what happens when you lose five of your last six games to drop to .500, have allowed three or more goals in each of the last 10 outings, and are embarking on a tough road trip that opens Wednesday in Minnesota before stops in Dallas, Anaheim and Los Angeles.

Doubt creeps in. Players stay on the ice too long.

Positioning goes awry through fatigue and fumbling. Support from forwards becomes spotty.

And communication becomes an afterthought.

Teams are wary of all that, and the stretch pass has become the favourite long-bomb weapon to catch the Canucks flat-footed.

Tanev and Edler played 1:05 each on the opening goal Sunday. That’s too much. Tanev had a game-high four blocked shots, but it’s a moot point when the end result is a 3-2 loss to New Jersey.

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scramble but we have been running around a bit and we need to be more calm,” said Tanev.

“That (Cammalleri) goal was a long shift. I blocked a shot and Hank (Henrik Sedin) didn’t know where it was, but we need to be better in our own zone and eliminate long shifts.

“And we need to communicate and get back to basics. We have to know who is going to which guy. When that puck hit me, people were trying to find it rather than communicating. We should all be talking more.

We should be getting sticks in front of the net, and getting pucks off the wall.

“We have a tough four games coming up.

“We’ll find out who we are.”

For all the problems the Canucks are having in trying to find a second scoring line, and getting their special teams in order, the last thing they need is indecision in their own zone.

The Canucks were exposed in the playoffs last spring for being too slow in transition, unable to handle

a heavy forecheck and not physical enough down low.

Now-injured rookie Ben Hutton has helped the transition, and so has newcomer Matt Bartkowski, to improve even-strength effectiveness, but there can’t be fire drills. They can’t be going for the big hit in the neutral zone, or pinching without support.

Willie Desjardins believes the Canucks are good enough on the back end, but a foot injury to the fleet-footed and slick-passing Hutton doesn’t help. Neither does the lack of a physical presence.

The 6-foot-5 Andrey Pedan, 22, was recalled from the AHL’s Utica Comets on Monday. Pedan is probably a good roster option for back-to-back games in Anaheim and Los Angeles, because they present a more physical challenge.

But the focus for now has to be better communication for the current roster, because there’s a lack of it and it’s a problem.

The Canucks rank 21st in the NHL with 2.73 goals allowed per outing.

“It they recognize it, they had better start doing it,” said Desjardins.

“I thought our defensive zone was better (Sunday) than it has been and they (Devils) didn’t generate much on us down low. I still think we give up too much in front of our net, but it’s not just the defence — it’s the forwards, too.

“If you have no pressure on the quarterback, those receivers are going to be open.

“We have to get on their defence, so those long passes aren’t open or they have time for routes to develop. We need a more defence-first mentality.

We need to battle. We know the systems but we’ve got to be prepared to battle.”

Pedan was tied for scoring among Comets defencemen with one goal and six assists in his first 15 games.

The Moscow native also has a teamhigh 28 penalty minutes. He was originally drafted by the New York Islanders in the third round of the 2011 draft. Comets coach Travis Green said Pedan was probably 40-per-cent ready for the NHL last season, and is now about 75-80-percent prepared for the bigs.

“He has taken some steps and in his good games, he’s a real solid defender because he closes quick and eliminates guys,” Green said Monday of Pedan, who was acquired last season for Alex Mallet and a third-round pick. “He’s hard to play against and now it’s trying to find that consistency in his game. We’re pushing for him to be that kind of player all the time. That’s his ticket to the NHL. “He’s such a good skater and has a hard shot, but sometimes he wants to do more than he needs to do. Now, it’s how do we get him to that final step?

“That’s a process.”

OF NOTE — Daniel Sedin was named the league’s second star of the week with five goals, including his sixth career hat trick, to eclipse the 900-point plateau. He’s now 104th all-time in NHL scoring; brother Henrik, with 936 points, is 94th all-time.

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VANCOUVER — Bo Horvat readily admits things haven’t gone his way through the first quarter of the season.

Tasked with an increased role in his second year with the Vancouver Canucks, the young centre has just two goals and six assists to go along with a minus-10 rating in 22 games.

Despite the early difficulties, Horvat feels like things are beginning to turn.

“My game’s starting to evolve,” the 20-year-old said recently. “I’m hoping, cross my fingers, but for now I’ve just got to stick with the process.”

Horvat entered his rookie campaign with next to no expectations and steadily improved throughout the year, finishing with 13 goals and 12 assists in 68 games, and was one of the Canucks’ best players in the club’s first-round playoff loss to the Calgary Flames.

The ninth overall pick in 2013 came to training camp this September stronger and faster, hoping to play further up the lineup in a more prominent offensive role while also adding special teams’ duties to his portfolio. But things haven’t gone according to plan for either Horvat or the Canucks, who have struggled out of the gate with an 8-8-6 record, including a recent road trip that saw Vancouver go a dismal 1-4-2.

“For (Horvat) I think it’s just the outside expectations,” said captain Henrik Sedin. “Last year (eight) points after 16, 18 games was really good. Now all of a sudden he’s a year older and everyone thinks he’s going to put up a point a game.”

While he’s far from the only culprit, a penalty kill that finished No. 2 in the NHL last season ranked just 18th heading into Monday and has allowed at least one goal against in nine of the last 10 outings.

“We have high expectations for Bo,” said Canucks head coach Willie Desjardins. “I can’t say I’m disappointed with his play. He’s battled all the time. He hasn’t got the results he wants, but he’s got a great attitude and he’ll get his game back the way he wants it.”

Horvat has moved into the No. 2 centre spot with Brandon Sutter out injured, and had one of his better recent performance in Vancouver’s 6-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday that saw him go head-to-head with Patrick Kane’s line the majority of the night.

“I don’t think it’s a sophomore jinx or whatever you call it,” Horvat said. “It’s just me getting back to the little things I know how to do and eventually things are going to start happening.”

Horvat had another decent outing in Vancouver’s 3-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Sunday and is hoping to carry those positive vibes forward when the Canucks open a tough four-game road trip in Minnesota on Wednesday before travelling to Dallas, Anaheim and Los Angeles.

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

BCHL

Barsby’s reign as champs is over

Scoring race between Jost, Rempal is catching fire

Abbotsford Panthers hand defending champion Bulldogs 50-36 loss in B.C. quarterfinal SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

The run is over.

The John Barsby Bulldogs, the two-time defending Varsity AA football provincial champions, lost 50-36 Saturday at home to the Abbotsford Panthers to end their season in the B.C. quarterfinal.

And if you want to get more specific, they lost to Abbotsford receiver Chase Claypool, a Notre Dame Fighting Irish-bound standout who scored six of his team’s seven touchdowns, including 300 yards of total offence, in the win.

The Panthers now move on to the provincial semifinal, while the Bulldogs will lick their wounds and begin preparation for next season, while many of the seniors played their football games.

“I think we played the best game we ever have,” said senior Barsby defensive end Doyle Sosnowski.

“They had a standout player, and we came up short. It just shows for our Grade 11s this year what they need to do to make it to (B.C. Place).”

The Bulldogs were able to respond to each Abbotsford strike with touchdowns of their own on numerous occassions.

Even down two scores in the third quarter, Barsby scored twice to tie the game 36-36 before Claypool’s athleticism became simply too much for the Bulldogs as he scored his team’s final two touchdowns.

Grade 11 Barsby runningbacks Matt Cooley and Justis MacKayTopley both had two touchdowns each in the loss and will be back next season. They combined for 208 rushing yards in Saturday’s loss.

Senior Barsby quarterback Nathanael Durkan scored a 25-yard rushing touchdown, but he also had the task of playing safety and covering Claypool along with cornerback Austin Olson.

Durkan did have an interception

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John Barsby Bulldogs senior linebacker Parker Bowles walks off the field after his team’s loss to the Abbotsford Panthers on Saturday at Merle Logan Field in the Varsity AA high school football provincial quarterfinal. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

in the game and Olson broke up two key plays on third down.

Claypool said he had respect for the Bulldogs defence.

“They hit hard,” he said. “They get me in the air and it takes a toll on you. They play with heart.”

Barsby head coach Rob Stevenson said Claypool was the best high school player he had ever seen.

“We came up against a pretty special athlete that could make plays up in the air,” Stevenson said. “I think he played his best game of the season this year against us. I looked at every game of their film this season up until now, and I didn’t see him do what he did today.”

The Bulldogs were coming off a 77-0 win against the Moscrop Panthers a weak earlier, and Sosnowski thought that margin got in their heads a little bit too much.

“I think our problem was that we were already thinking about the game after this one and we didn’t stay grounded,” he said.

The Barsby defence forced the Panthers into multiple third-and-long situations, but Abbotsford quarterback John Madigan was able to toss balls up to Claypool and let him make plays in the air. He bailed out the Panthers numerous times.

“He trusted me to go up and get the ball,” Claypool said.

The Bulldogs, now, need to regroup.

With their top two runningbacks and four of five starting offensive linemen returning, the future still looks bright and there’s no question they will be in a good position to threaten for their third provincial title in four years in 2016.

“That’s a testament to the power

of the program the the people who invest their lives into it,” Stevenson said. “These kids aren’t kids now, they’re young men. You’ve got to smile inside when you get to thinking about next year.

“And we’ve got a great group of juniors coming up.”

But not getting to play in the p rovincial semifinal or the championship game at B.C. Place this year isn’t something the Barsby program is used to.

“The finality of it right now feels odd,” Stevenson said. “They’re going to learn that you’re going to get some disappointments in life, but what we preach is that we’re going to bounce.”

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Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Vancouver Island University can go into the Christmas break with the knowledge they’ll return in first place in the PacWest conference.

Up against their stiffest competition this season, the first-place men’s squad rolled through the then-undefeated Quest Kermodes 82-71 Saturday a day after beating the third-place Langara Falcons 102-78.

American transfer John Thompson led the Mariners to the win Saturday in the battle of unbeaten teams, cementing VIU as the No. 1 team in the Canadian

Collegiate Athletic Association’s national rankings.

The VIU women also did their part to move up from their No. 15 ranking after finishing the first semester of league play at 6-1, tied for the conference lead with the Douglas Royals.

The Mariners beat Langara 82-51 Friday and picked up a 65-58 win over the Kermodes Saturday.

“Two good wins to close out the first half of the season,” said VIU head coach Bill McWhinnie. “We are seeing gradual improvement as the season goes on.”

PacWest league play opens up again on Jan. 8 as the Mariners host the CBC Bearcats.

he Nanaimo Clippers have iced some pretty competitive teams in the last few decades.

But it’s been a long time since Nanimo has seen a player post points at the rate right winger Sheldon Rempal is right now.

The 20-year-old Calgary native has scored seven goals in his last three games, including the overtime winner Saturday against the Cowichan Valley Capitals.

That OT goal was also his 53rd point of the season in his 27th game, and it matched his 53-game total of last season.

Right now, he’s simply unstoppable.

But Rempal isn’t on top of the B.C. Hockey League’s scoring race. He’s still a point back in one fewer game from 17-year-old Penticton Vees star Tyson Jost, a projected first-round NHL draft pick this summer.

Jost had a five-point night on Saturday in Coquitlam.

As far as scoring races go, this couldn’t write itself better.

It’s a grizzled veteran coming back for his third and final year of junior hockey anxious to lead his team to a championship against a young superstar who will one day get a look in the pros.

It’s the two best players from the two teams who met in the league final a year ago.

Any way you look at it, it’s pure on-ice talent that is simply too much fun not to marvel at.

Rempal, for his part, is enjoying his time in the spotlight.

“It’s definitely fun to be up there and competing with the other guys around the league,” said Rempal, who was named as the BCHL’s player of the week Monday.

“Obviously you look at it, but you don’t want to think too much of it and get off your game. It’s about winning games here and doing it as a team.”

Rempal and Jost won’t see each other in Nanaimo until their teams meet at Frank Crane on Feb. 5, but you can bet they will be keeping close tabs on each other for the rest of the season as they continue to battle for the title as the best offensive player in the BCHL. For the Clippers, the more Rempal scores the better. They don’t have the depth they had in their Island championship season a year ago, but what they do have is a player who is a threat to score every time he has the puck. That’s not a bad thing. » 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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GREY CUP

Redblacks will get first look at Mike Reilly Ottawa will go into championship game without having seen Edmonton Eskimos’ quarterback all season DAN RALPH THE CANADIAN PRESS

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ike Reilly and the Edmonton Eskimos head into the Grey Cup on quite a roll.

Edmonton chalked up its ninth straight win Sunday with a 45-31 victory over the Calgary Stampeders in the West Division final. That earned the Eskimos a berth in the CFL championship game against the Ottawa Redblacks, who beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35-28 in the East Division title game.

Ottawa comes into the Grey Cup having won five straight but had its trouble this season against Edmonton. The Eskimos swept the season series 2-0, outscoring the Redblacks 69-29 although one victory was by a 46-17 margin and both contests were played in July.

Ottawa will see Reilly on Sunday for the first time this season. Backup Matt Nichols got both previous starts versus the Redblacks as Reilly was sidelined with a knee injury suffered in Edmonton’s season-opening loss to Toronto in Fort McMurray, Alta.

Edmonton weathered the storm during Reilly’s absence, posting a 6-3 record following their starter’s injury. In fact, the Eskimos’ first two wins of the season came in sweeping the home-and-home series with Ottawa.

But Edmonton has been unbeatable since Reilly’s return as the starter in September. That includes two pivotal victories against Calgary that gave the Eskimos the season series and ultimately tops in the West Division after both teams finished with identi-

Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly runs with the ball during first half CFL West Division final football action against the Calgary Stampeders in Edmonton on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

cal league-best 14-4 records.

Reilly has enjoyed another solid CFL season, completing 214-of-329 passes (65 per cent) for 2,449 yards with 15 TDs and 10 interceptions.

Reilly also ran for 324 yards on 66 carries (4.9-yard average) and scored two TDs. Reilly was impressive Sunday versus the defending-champion Stampeders at Commonwealth Stadium.

He completed 31-of-39 passes for 370 yards and three TDs while also running for 30 yards and two touchdowns on seven carries.

Edmonton was pretty good away from Alberta, finishing tied with Calgary for the CFL’s best road record (6-3). The Eskimos and Stampeders also had identical 6-2 records in head-to-head matchups versus East Division competition.

A resurgent Burris, a finalist for the outstanding player award with Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, is a big reason why the Redblacks are in the Grey Cup in just their second season of operation. The 40-year-old quarterback had a CFL-record 481 completions and had a league-best 5,703 yards passing in leading the Redblacks to a 12-6 record after the franchise registered just two victories

in their inaugural 2014 campaign.

It was Burris’s 93-yard TD pass to Greg Ellingson late in the fourth quarter that secured Ottawa it’s victory over Hamilton on Sunday. With Burris under centre, the Redblacks averaged a league-best 386.3 yards per game with Edmonton second at 359.6.

Ottawa also finished the season with four 1,000-yard receivers while Edmonton had two. The Redblacks and Eskimos were also 1-2 in time of possession but each offence will face a stiff test Sunday in Winnipeg.

Ottawa’s defence led the CFL in fewest rushing yards (70.8), total yards (297.6), sacks (62) and tied with Hamilton for most interceptions (26). Edmonton was the league’s stingiest unit (18.9 points per game) and toughest to pass against (245.2 yards) while registering 23 interceptions.

The Grey Cup game also features two of the league’s top coaches in Edmonton’s Chris Jones and Ottawa’s Rick Campbell. Appropriately, both are finalists for the CFL’s coach of the year award.

Edmonton will make its 25th Grey Cup appearance and chase its first win since 2005. Ottawa has a team in the big game for the first time since 1981 when the Rough Riders lost 26-23 to an Eskimos squad coached

by Rick Campbell’s father, Hugh.

Ottawa won nine Grey Cup titles as the Rough Riders before ceasing operations following the ’96 season.

The Ottawa Renegades began play in 2002 but lasted only for four seasons.

The Redblacks came into existence in 2014.

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Stamps prep for coaching change, Hufnagel stays as GM DONNA SPENCER THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Aside from the wins, John Hufnagel’s legacy as head coach of the Calgary Stampeders will be seen on the sidelines of Sunday’s Grey Cup in Winnipeg.

Edmonton Eskimos head coach Chris Jones was Hufnagel’s defensive co-ordinator from 2008 to 2011.

Ottawa Redblacks coach Rick Campbell was Jones’s successor in Calgary in 2012 and 2013. Campbell also coached the Stampeders’ running backs in 2010.

The CFL is sprinkled with men mentored by Hufnagel. He is stepping aside after eight years as head coach of the Stampeders, but will continue as general manager in 2016.

B.C. Lions offensive co-ordinator George Cortez filled the same role for Hufnagel in 2008 and 2009. Cortez was head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2012.

Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive backs coach Tony Missick spent four seasons in that job in Calgary.

Jones, Cortez and Missick won Grey

HUFNAGEL

Cups with Hufnagel.

“You look at all the guys who have coached under Huf, they’re all very good coaches and for good reason because they’ve learned from him how to be professionals, how to handle the role and how to handle your players professionally and with respect,” Stampeder quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell said Monday at McMahon Stadium.

Sunday’s 45-31 loss to Jones and the Eskimos in the West Division final marked the end of Hufnagel’s coaching tenure in Calgary.

His successor is another disciple.

Dave Dickenson, Hufnagel’s offensive co-ordinator for the last five seasons, takes over in 2016.

Hufnagel steps away from the Stampeder sideline with a 102-41-1 regular-season record. This season, the 64-year-old from Coraopolis, Pa., became the second-fastest coach in CFL history to 100 career wins behind Wally Buono.

Hufnagel coached the Stampeders to Grey Cups in 2008 and 2014 and another appearance in 2012, as well as seven appearances in the division final.

The Stampeders played 69 regular-season games under Hufnagel without suffering back-to-back losses, which is a Canadian pro football record.

“I had a blast for eight years,” Hufnagel said. “Especially the last four, the professionalism that the players brought to work each and every week was such a big part of them being able to win a lot of games.

“I’m sure there will be things that I miss, but there’s going to be a lot of things I enjoy in the realm of

the general manager job. I’m still going to be here on game day. The adrenalin flow, I’ll still have on game day. Hopefully I can help prepare the team as best I can sitting in the general manager chair.”

Dickenson did not speak to reporters Monday. A Calgary Stampeder spokesman said the team’s position was Hufnagel is still head coach and GM until after Sunday’s Grey Cup. But Dickenson addressed the Stampeders as head coach for the first time during Monday’s locker cleanout.

Dickenson was given the awkward title of assistant head coach to start the 2014 season, which was an indicator of Calgary’s succession plan.

Hufnagel said the time was right to make the transition.

“Continuity is important,” Hufnagel said.

“Dave is an excellent football coach.

He’s a very smart man, a smart football coach. He just needs to have some good luck, good fortune and hopefully I can help him.”

The Stampeders gave the Roughriders permission to speak to assist-

ant general manager and director of player personnel John Murphy for the ’Riders vacant GM position.

Murphy is under contract in Calgary until Dec. 31. His skills in talent identification and recruitment helped the Stampeders stay deep positionally and resilient enough to win games when hit by significant injuries.

“I think myself and 250,000 other people that live out there are probably interested in that job,” Murphy said. “From a professional standpoint, it’s time to take a look. The Stampeder organization has been great to me.

“I’m not actively pursuing anything. If somebody wants to speak to me about something, they’re more than welcome to contact Huf. I have no reason to be anything but pleased with the position I have other than the latest result.”

Hufnagel said he’ll meet with Dickenson and the rest of the coaches Tuesday to evaluate players and consider free-agent needs for 2016.

The fotball future of running back Jon Cornish is murky.

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Lydia Ko’s dominance is just beginning at 18

‘Greedy’ Warriors not content after one NBA championship

TIM REYNOLDS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NAPLES, Fla. — Lydia Ko had just been handed a $1 million bonus for the second consecutive year, and the first thing she thought about buying with those newfound additional riches was a new phone.

She’s had a bunch. She keeps dropping them.

“My mom doesn’t like it,” Ko said. “Phones are expensive.”

It’s moments like those that serve as the reminder that the New Zealander is only 18. The way she plays, no one believes she’s just a teenager. The LPGA’s rookie of the year from 2014 was the LPGA’s player of the year in 2015, and in golf — or any major U.S. pro sport — there’s never been anyone younger to end a season as the unquestioned best in his or her game.

Ko has 10 wins already, and there’s about 40 tournaments left to play before her teenage years are over.

“I don’t think she’s the age she is,” said Cristie Kerr, who at 38 is more than twice Ko’s age. “She’s such an old soul. It’s hard to believe she’s that young . . .

There’s that saying, ‘Youth is wasted on the young.’

They don’t know what they have until they are my age, right? But she has such a great, easy disposition about her.

“She puts everybody around her at ease. I think she’ll be that way for the rest of her life.”

Tiger Woods was 21 when he won his first PGA player of the year award. Wayne Gretzky was 19 when he won his first NHL MVP. Jim Brown was 21 when he captured NFL MVP honours and neither Major League Baseball nor the NBA has ever had an MVP younger than 22.

Put in that company, she is a phenom among phenoms. Annika Sorenstam, for example, didn’t get her first LPGA Tour win until she was 24.

“Lydia is on a whole other level,” said LPGA veteran Brittany Lincicome. “It’s like an Annika level. To be 18 years old, I was trying to shoot somewhere close to even par when I was 18 years old. Now I’m 30 and she still kicks my butt every year. To be so young and so talented and to be so humble and so sweet, she’s really the whole package.”

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Curry, Golden State have already set a league record with 15-0 start to the season JOSH DUBOW THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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nyone who thought the Golden State Warriors would be content after winning one NBA title was sadly mistaken.

With Stephen Curry hitting three-pointers at a record-setting pace and the rest of his teammates playing with a high level of intensity and focus, the Warriors have tied the NBA record with 15 straight wins to open the season.

Somehow, they have found a way to improve following a season when they won 67 games and rolled through the playoffs without ever being taken to a seventh game.

“We’re trying to win another championship,” forward Draymond Green said. “That’s what we’re fueled by. I think we’ve gotten greedy, but a good greedy.

I think it’s way better to be greedy for success than hungover on success. I think we’re on the right end of the spectrum, which is great.”

The Warriors have a chance to break the record they currently share with the 1948-49 Washington Capitols and 1993-94 Houston Rockets when they host the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.

After downplaying the chase of the record at the start of the season, Golden State has embraced it.

“Now that we’re here and have tied the record, it’s a huge accomplishment,” Curry said.

“You never know if you’ll ever be in this position again.

“We have a great group and to be able to be in position to do something that hasn’t been done in the history of the NBA with all the great teams and all the great players who have played in this

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry waits on the sideline during a game against the Toronto Raptors on Nov. 17. [AP PHOTO]

“You never know if you’ll be in this position ever again.“ Stephen Curry, Warriors

league, that’s special.”

The only team standing in their way is the Lakers, who have the second-worst record in the NBA with just two wins in 13 games.

Lakers coach Byron Scott said the Warriors are the best team he’s seen in a while and star guard Kobe Bryant said stranger things have happened than a team playing as poorly as the Lakers beating one as dominant as the Warriors.

“We might go up there and we might play like gangbusters up

there,” Bryant said Sunday in Los Angeles. “You never know.”

The Warriors have gotten to this point with the help of a late game-tying 3-pointer to force overtime in a home win against Brooklyn, a comeback from 23 points down to beat the Los Angeles Clippers and plenty of blowouts.

They have outscored the opposition by 14.4 points per game, the most at this point of the season since the 1996-97 Chicago Bulls followed up their record 72-win campaign by outscoring their first 15 opponents by 16.5 points on the way to a 14-1 start the following year.

“They’ve just been consistent,” said LeBron James, who lost to Golden State in the finals last season with Cleveland.

“Think the most impressive thing is the way they’ve been

playing at a high level for so long. I think it comes with a lot of health. They’ve been healthy.

They’ve been the most healthy team I’ve ever seen in NBA history and they have great talent.

Those guys all play for one common goal and that’s to win and that’s all that matters.”

Golden State has the depth to overcome whatever injuries the Warriors have had. Starting centre Andrew Bogut missed six games with a concussion, guard Klay Thompson has been dealing with a stiff back that forced him to miss one game and key reserve guards Shaun Livingston and Leandro Barbosa have also missed time.

Golden State has also done all of this without head coach Steve Kerr, who has been sidelined since training camp because of complications from off-season back surgery.

“It would be more impressive if they were doing all this without Steph,” James said. “Then there would be a conversation to talk about.”

Instead, Curry has been a driving force to the success under interim coach Luke Walton.

Curry is on pace for a record-setting 404 3-pointers and his 490 points through 15 games are the eighth most in the league in the past half-century.

Curry and his teammates see no reason to slow down now.

“You want to keep it going and the only way you can do that is by staying sharp, staying focused and bringing effort every night and that’s the mentality that we have,” Curry said. “That’s the reason we’re 15-0. It’s the reason why last year we had a 16-game winning streak.

“We built up a winning mentality and confidence in each other.

We want to bottle that up and ride the wave as long as we can.”

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LeBron James joins exclusive company TOM WITHERS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND — Make room, Big O. LeBron James joined Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson as the only players in NBA history to rank in the Top 25 in points and assists.

With his fifth assist Monday night against Orlando, James pulled into the elite company of Robertson, the legendary “Big O,” who finished with 26,710 points and 9,887 assists. James entered the game needing 21 points to pass Reggie Miller (25,279) for 18th on the career

scoring list. Robertson is 11th.

James reached the milestone with 5:00 left in the second quarter. The Cavaliers’ star drove the lane, jumped and made a quick pass into the corner to Kevin Love, who knocked down a 3-pointer. It moved James past Norm Nixon (6,386) for 25th on the assist list. Before the game, Magic coach Scott Skiles, who holds the NBA record with 30 assists in a game, said James is more like Robertson and Magic Johnson than Michael Jordan, the player with whom he is most often compared.

“Every time there’s a young great player everybody talks about Michael, but to me he’s always been more like a Magic (Johnson) or an Oscar-type player because of his vision,” Skiles said. “That’s what makes it so difficult. If you think you’re going to give him a steady diet of running and double teaming him, he’s going to carve you up.

He’s going to find everybody, find the open man.”

Skiles marvels at how James can take over any game.

“The really great players play at the pace they want to play at in

the game,” Skiles said. “It could be fast for a while. It could be kind of slow for a while. It could be they’re in the post. It could be they run pick and rolls. It’s very, very difficult to get them out of their pace. There are a lot of talented guys that can’t go all the way into that upper echelon because they haven’t quite got that part mastered — but he does.

“He’s going to play the game the way he wants to play it, but his vision certainly sets him apart from a lot of the great players.”

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AVALANCHE 4, JETS 1

ATLANTIC DIVISION

First Period 1. Wpg, Enstrom 1 (Wheeler, Ladd) 13:40.

3HQDOWLHV — Thorburn Wpg, McLeod &RO ÀJKWLQJ &RPHDX &RO FURVV checking) 16:25.

Second Period 2. Colorado, Soderberg 3 (Grigorenko, Beauchemin) 16:43 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — MacKinnon Col (high-sticking) 0:22; Byfuglien Wpg (cross-checking) 15:24; Enstrom Wpg (high-sticking) 19:00.

Third Period 3. Col, McLeod 5 (Redmond, Comeau) 6:45.

4. Col, Duchene 11 (Landeskog, Barrie) 16:11.

5. Colo, Comeau 2 (McLeod) 18:50 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — None.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Colorado 9 7 13 —29 Winnipeg 9 7 5 —21 *RDO — Colo: Varlamov (W, 4-6-1); Wpg: Hutchinson (L, 5-4-1). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Colo: 1-3; Wpg: 0-2.

Attendance — 15,294 at Winnipeg.

Montreal Ottawa Detroit

GP 22 20 21

W 16 10 11

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

GF 78 61 49

GA 50 57 52

Pts Home 34 9-2-1-0 25 5-3-1-3 24 5-5-1-0

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

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

METROPOLITAN DIVISION NY Rangers Washington Pittsburgh

GP 21 20 20

W 16 14 12

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

GF 66 62 45

GA 38 44 46

Pts Home 34 10-1-1-0 29 8-3-1-0 24 7-4-0-0

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

Last 10 Strk 9-1-0-0 W-2 6-3-1-0 W-2 6-4-0-0 L-1

GP 20 21 22 19 21 21 21 20 20 22

W 11 10 10 10 8 8 7 7 6 8

L OL SL 8 0 1 8 2 1 9 1 2 8 1 0 9 3 1 11 1 1 10 1 3 10 2 1 9 4 1 14 0 0

GF 50 59 53 62 55 44 48 40 35 55

GA 50 53 50 56 56 57 58 58 58 71

Pts 23 23 23 21 20 18 18 17 17 16

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

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

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

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GP 21 22 19

W 17 14 11

L OL SL 4 0 0 6 2 0 5 3 0

GF 74 59 57

GA 50 53 51

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GP 21 21 22

W 13 13 8

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GF 59 54 64

GA 51 46 60

Pts Home 26 3-5-0-0 26 7-5-0-0 22 3-4-3-0

Away 10-3-0-0 6-3-0-0 5-4-3-0

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WILD CARD Nashville Chicago Winnipeg Arizona Anaheim Colorado Calgary Edmonton

GP 20 21 22 20 21 21 21 21

W 11 11 10 10 7 8 8 7

L OL SL 6 2 1 8 2 0 10 1 1 9 1 0 10 3 1 12 1 0 12 0 1 13 1 0

GF 53 57 58 55 38 60 50 55

GA 51 55 69 59 55 62 75 64

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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.

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Boston 4 Toronto 3 (SO) St. Louis 2 Buffalo 1 Colorado 4 Winnipeg 1 Los Angeles 3 Florida 1 NY Rangers 3 Nashville 0 Washington 1 Edmonton 0 Philadelphia 3 Carolina 2 (OT) 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV New Jersey 3 Vancouver 2 Carolina 4 Los Angeles 3 San Jose 5 Columbus 3 Montreal 4 NY Islanders 2 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV Ottawa at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

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Nashville at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Montreal at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Columbus at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Ottawa at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.

Chicago at San Jose, 10 p.m. )ULGD\ V JDPHV NY Rangers at Boston, 1 p.m.

Nashville at Philadelphia, 3:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Anaheim, 5 p.m.

Montreal at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

NY Islanders at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Calgary at Arizona, 9 p.m.

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2. Boston, Rinaldo 1 (Seidenberg, Rask) 12:39.

3HQDOWLHV — Connolly Bos (tripping) 4:36; McQuaid Bos (kneeing) 18:12.

Second Period 3. Toronto, Lupul 8 (Bozak, Rielly) 11:54.

4. Toronto, Komarov 7 (van Riemsdyk, Phaneuf) 12:56.

5. Boston, Marchand 10 (Ferraro) 14:40.

6. Toronto, Bozak 4 (Matthias, Parenteau) 16:09.

3HQDOWLHV — Matthias Tor (hooking) 5:54; Hunwick Tor (hooking) 8:52; McQuaid Bos (hooking, roughing) 17:17; Marchand Bos (holding), Parenteau Tor (tripping) 17:59.

Third Period — No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Chara Bos (cross-checking), Trotman Bos (roughing), Kadri Tor (roughing) 10:15; Hunwick Tor (hooking) 17:59.

Overtime — No Scoring.

3HQDOW\ — Bergeron Bos (holding) 3:18.

6KRRWRXW — Boston wins 1-0 Boston: Bergeron miss, Marchand miss, Krejci goal.

Toronto: Holland miss, Parenteau miss, Lupul miss.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Boston 9 8 11 1 —29 Toronto 12 16 10 4 —42 *RDO — Boston: Rask (W, 7-7-1); Toronto: Reimer (LO, 7-3-4). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Bos: 0-3; Toronto: 0-6.

Attendance — 19,609 at Toronto.

First Period — No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Bortuzzo StL, Foligno Buf ÀJKWLQJ *XQQDUVVRQ 6W/ KROG

Second Period 1. Buf, Legwand 1 (unassisted) 16:45.

3HQDOWLHV — Backes StL (slashing) 8:50.

Third Period 2. StL, Brouwer 5 (Shattenkirk, Backes) 5:07.

3. St. Louis, Fabbri 3 (unassisted) 13:26.

3HQDOWLHV — Gunnarsson StL (closing hand on puck) 19:00.

6KRWV RQ JRDO St. Louis 8 7 11 —26 Buffalo 8 9 8 —25 *RDO — St. Louis: Allen (W, 10-4-1); Buffalo: Ullmark (L, 4-4-1). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — StL: 0-0; Buf: 0-3.

Attendance — 17,563 at Buffalo.

CAPITALS 1, OILERS 0 First Period — No Scoring.

3HQDOW\ — Wilson Wash (holding) 15:25.

Second Period — No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Gryba Edm (hooking) 1:53; Gryba Edm (tripping) 6:45; Backstrom Wash (high-sticking) 8:28.

Third Period 1. Wash, Orlov 2 (Wilson, Laich) 13:28.

3HQDOW\—Yakupov Edm (stick hold) 5:21.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Edmonton 13 10 10 —33 Washington 7 8 16 —31 *RDO — Edmonton: Nilsson (L, 4-5-1); Wash: Holtby (W, 12-4-0). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Edm: 0-3; Wash: 0-3.

Attendance — 18,506 at Washington.

KINGS 3, PANTHERS 1 First Period 1. LA, Toffoli 11 (Lucic, Carter) 7:47.

3HQDOWLHV — Howden Fla (high-sticking) 10:32; Mitchell Fla (high-sticking) 13:49; Gaborik LA (tripping) 17:13; Ekblad Fla (hooking) 17:54.

Second Period 2. Fla, Barkov 6 (Jagr, Huberdeau) 5:07 (pp).

3. LA, Martinez 3 (Nolan, Clifford) 17:16.

3HQDOWLHV — Muzzin LA (hooking) 4:47; Muzzin LA (roughing) 11:19; Huberdeau Fla (holding) 17:57.

Third Period 4. Los Angeles, Gaborik 3 (Kopitar) 1:05.

3HQDOWLHV — McNabb LA (hooking) 5:16, Ehrhoff LA (tripping) 11:37.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Los Angeles 18 6 6 —30 Florida 4 14 13 —31 *RDO — Los Angeles: Quick (W, 10-7-0); Florida: Luongo (L, 6-8-3). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — LA: 0-4; Florida: 1-5.

Attendance — 10,997 at Florida.

RANGERS 3, PREDATORS 0 First Period — No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Girardi NYR (interference) 11:07; Yandle NYR (holding) 13:31; Stepan NYR (high-sticking) 16:39.

Second Period 1. NYR, Nash 6 (unassisted) 4:32.

3HQDOWLHV — Nash NYR (tripping) 15:32.

Third Period 2. NYR, Stepan 6 (Staal, Hayes) 4:23.

3. NY Rangers, Hayes 6 (Yandle, Lindberg) 10:38 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Smith Nash (tripping) 0:36; Bourque Nash (tripping) 8:53; Neal Nash (roughing) 10:45; Josi Nash, Miller NYR (roughing) 17:31; Neal Nash (slashing), Ribeiro Nash (misconduct) 18:13.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Nashville 14 11 6 —31 NY Rangers 3 4 12 —19 *RDO — Nash: Rinne (L, 10-5-3); NYR: Lundqvist (W, 12-3-2). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Nash: 0-5; NYR: 1-4.

Attendance — 18,006 at NY Rangers.

FLYERS 3, CANES 2 (OT) First Period — No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Bellemare Pha, Malone Car ÀJKWLQJ 6LPPRQGV 3KD LQWHUIHUence) 12:36.

Second Period 1. Philadelphia, B. Schenn 6 (Voracek, Giroux) 10:20 (pp).

2. Phila, Giroux 7 (Couturier) 15:08 (sh).

3HQDOWLHV — Manning Pha (hooking) 2:56; Jo.Staal Car (slashing) 5:42; Faulk Car (interference) 9:59; Schultz Pha (hooking) 13:44; Bellemare Pha (slashing) 18:06; Versteeg Car (tripping) 18:44.

Third Period 3. Carolina, Rask 6 (Liles, Faulk) 7:58.

4. Car, Pesce 2 (Hainsey, Lindholm) 16:15.

3HQDOWLHV — Giroux Pha (slashing) 0:50.

Overtime 5. Phila, Gostisbehere 2 (Giroux, Voracek) :24 (pp).

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Attendance — 18,636 at Philadelphia.

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CENTRAL DIVISION Red Deer Calgary Lethbridge Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

GP W L 23 16 7 25 14 10 23 14 9 25 8 14 21 7 11 24 6 16

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L Kelowna 23 17 5 Victoria 25 16 7 Prince George 22 12 9 Kamloops 21 10 8 Vancouver 23 5 14

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Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Portland, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPH Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

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T OL GF GA Pt 0 1 104 87 33 1 3 94 118 30 0 1 90 70 29 0 3 74 85 23 1 1 73 97 22

MAINLAND DIVISION GP W L Wenatchee 26 16 6 Chilliwack 25 16 6 Langley 26 15 11 Coquitlam 25 10 11 Prince George 27 7 18 Surrey 25 4 21

EAST DIVISION Ottawa 35 Hamilton 28

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Alberni Valley at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Surrey at Merritt, 7 p.m.

Vernon at Penticton, 7 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV West Kelowna at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Prince George at Langley, 7:15 p.m. )ULGD\ V JDPHV Prince George at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Vernon at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

West Kelowna at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Nanaimo at Victoria, 7 p.m.

Trail at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Merritt at Langley, 7:15 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at Powell River, 7:15 pm

EASTERN CONFERENCE 6XQGD\ V UHVXOW Columbus 2 New York City 0 6XQGD\ 1RY Columbus at New York City, noon.

WEST DIVISION Edmonton 45 Calgary 31

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$W :LQQLSHJ 6XQGD\ 1RY Ottawa vs. Edmonton, 6 p.m.

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Carolina at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

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

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Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

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OAKLAND — Named Gil Patterson minor league pitching co-ordinator, Jim Eppard minor league hitting co-ordinator, Juan Navarrete minor league defensive co-ordinator, Rick Rodriguez pitching coach and Eric Martins hitting coach for Nashville (PCL), Brian McArn hitting coach and Henry Torres strength and conditioning coach for Midland (Texas), Steve Connelly pitching coach, Tommy Everidge hitting coach and Sean Doran strength and conditioning coach for Stockton (Cal), Don Schulze pitching coach, Juan Dilone hitting coach and Matt Rutledge strength and conditioning coach for Beloit (MWL), and Ruben Escalera hitting coach for the Arizona Rookie League team.

SEATTLE — Named Casey Candaele ÀUVW EDVH FRDFK DQG 0LNH +DPSWRQ bullpen coach. Signed C Chris Ianetta to a one-year contract. Designated C John Hicks for assignment.

NATIONAL LEAGUE L.A. — Named Dave Roberts manager.

BASKETBALL NBA LEAGUE OFFICE — Fined Atlanta coach Mike Budenholzer $25,000 for PDNLQJ LQFLGHQWDO FRQWDFW ZLWK JDPH RIÀcial during a Nov. 21 game at Cleveland.

FOOTBALL NFL CHICAGO — Waived QB Jimmy Clausen. Signed QB David Fales from the practice squad. Terminated the practice squad contract of CB Terrance Mitchell.

N.Y. GIANTS — Signed LB James Morris & CB Tramain Jacobs to practice squad.

N.Y. JETS — Waived LB Quinton Coples.

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Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Denver, 9 p.m.

Chicago at Portland, 10 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV New York at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Washington at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 8 p.m.

Brooklyn at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

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

New Orleans at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

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

GOLF PGA FEDEXCUP LEADERS (Through Nov. 22) 1. Kevin Kisner 2. Russell Knox 3. Justin Thomas 4. Graeme McDowell 5. Smylie Kaufman 6. Kevin Na 7. Jason Bohn 8. Emiliano Grillo 9. Peter Malnati 10. Kevin Chappell 11. Adam Scott 12. Alex Cejka 13. Patrick Rodgers 14. William McGirt 15. Charles Howell III 16. Patton Kizzire 17. Cameron Tringale 18. Brendan Steele 19. Fredrik Jacobson 20. Russell Henley 21. Jhonattan Vegas 22. Jon Curran 23. Tyrone Van Aswegen 24. Brett Stegmaier 25. Chad Campbell 26. Spencer Levin 27. David Toms 28. Jim Herman 29. Daniel Summerhays 30. Scott Brown 31. Tony Finau 'DYLG +HDUQ 1LFN 7D\ORU *UDKDP 'H/DHW $GDP +DGZLQ

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Patriots squeak by Bills, remain undefeated at 10-0 JIMMY GOLEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady called out Rex Ryan and then he beat the Bills — again.

After shouting the name of the Buffalo coach as an audible, Brady led New England to a 20-13 victory over the Bills on Monday night and kept the defending Super Bowl champions on course for their second perfect regular season in nine years.

Brady completed 20 of 39 passes

for 277 yards, hitting James White for a 20-yard score that was the first touchdown of the running back’s career. White added a 6-yard run in the third quarter to give New England (10-0) the lead for good.

Buffalo’s LeSean McCoy ran 20 times for 82 yards and a 27-yard touchdown and caught six passes for 41 yards to surpass 100 yards from scrimmage for the fourth straight game.

The Bills (5-5) snapped a two-game

winning streak and lost to Brady for the 25th time in 28 games.

The game was filled with mistakes, penalties, injuries and turnovers — including two fumbles on a single punt, a rare missed field goal by Stephen Gostkowski and an inadvertent whistle that led to one of many lengthy conferences among the officials.

And New England lost another key player: Danny Amendola, who took over as the Patriots’ No. 1 receiver

because of last week’s injury to Julian Edelman, caught nine passes for 117 yards before leaving with a knee injury of his own in the third quarter.

With the wind chill temperature at 21 degrees at kickoff, both teams struggled on offence, and the Patriots even failed to score in the fourth — the first time they were shut out in a quarter since the first one of the season.

In the third quarter, both teams fumbled on the same punt.

BRADY

Pts Money YTD 888 $1,951,632 876 $2,052,160 699 $1,656,540 690 $1,503,600 640 $1,349,684 631 $1,456,233 560 $1,227,736 534 $1,143,000 376 $900,193 347 $673,676 301 $798,000 298 $648,183 259 $513,248 258 $592,700 233 $461,798 227 $524,067 215 $494,213 213 $479,333 196 $355,970 194 $384,750 192 $344,791 192 $332,047 191 $364,221 187 $456,137 186 $360,008 177 $298,680 170 $391,933 169 $333,302 169 $296,687 168 $332,805 166 $318,187

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CROSSWORD BOTTLED UP ACROSS 1 Plays on words 5 Puts in order 10 Make a trade 14 Sailor’s “Hello!”

15 Do great on a test 16 Remove the rind from 17 Early bird’s prize 18 Makes watertight 19 S&L devices 20 In tidy condition 22 Wave’s high point 23 Kids older than 12 24 Stadium level 25 Provides funding for 28 Becomes angry 31 Social standards 32 Book’s backbone 34 Poet’s “before” 35 Tips of shoes 36 Watchful 37 Novel’s story line 38 Letter before tee 39 Noisy fight 40 Off the leash 41 Hold in esteem 43 Stove’s flame source 44 Nest eggs, for short 45 Hardly any 47 Jeans material 49 Whitish vase material 53 Bylaws, for short 54 Event location 55 Alda of M*A*S*H 56 College grad 57 Racetrack transaction 58 __ Scotia, Canada 59 Sugar amounts: Abbr.

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10 Extra tires 11 Large fruit at a picnic 12 Jacket sleeves 13 Irksome person 21 Uses needle and thread 22 Quote as a source

24 Camper’s shelter 25 Walk inside 26 Lasso loop 27 Putting on formal clothes 28 Young lady 29 Got out of bed 30 Discourage 32 Venetian blind strip 33 Church bench 36 Curved lines 37 Oregon’s largest city 39 Ray of light 40 Breathing organ 42 Light-refracting devices 43 Bread and cake makers 45 Scorch slightly 46 Tipped off, with “in” 47 “Darn it!”

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

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

7 p.m. David Bitonti, Brian Hazelbower, Genevieve Rainey at Dinghy Dock Pub, Protection Island. Tickets $20 plus fee includes return ferry.

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

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’.

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online or across the border. Shop The Neighbourhood will feature exclusive deals at local businesses to encourage local spending.

4:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Symphony Children’s Choir under the direction of Patricia Plumley in Diana Krall Plaza.

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 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.

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.

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.

8 p.m. Ali Prince At the Dinghy Dock pub 8 Pirates lane., Nanaimo, Tickets $30 advance, $35 at the door at Lucid, Desire Tattoo, the Dog’s Ear, the Dinghy Dock pub or at ticketzone.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 28 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.

All day: Downtown Nanaimo merchants mark Shop The Neighbourhood Day between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two shopping days notorious for driving dollars

SUNDAY, NOV. 29 7-9 p.m. 3D Printing Meetup at Makerspace Nanaimo. Drop in on our public 3D printer meetups and take part in building printers for the space, get help with your own printer, or spend time amongst like-minded makers.

2221 McGarrigle Rd,. Nanaimo.

MONDAY, NOV. 30 4 p.m. Halbe Hall Monday Market, 8369 North Island Highway, Black Creek. Wide variety of vendors of fresh produce and baked goods, arts and crafts andan on-site chair massage.

Free event.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Someone might be critical of your actions, but if you take his or her words with humor and understanding, you won’t be offended.

Use your instincts with your finances. Lady Luck will show up when dealing with a routine matter, and you’ll be all smiles. Tonight: Indulge a little.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You could feel pressured by someone at a distance. As a result, you might become unresponsive for a while.

Try not to be so serious with this person right now. Reach out to others who are feeling the same pressure — you’ll be glad you did.

Tonight: Do your own thing!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You might need to heed your own counsel and play it low-key, despite a need to act on a creative idea.

You can take action, but you don’t need to make a public announcement. Avoid having a heavy discussion. Think through a decision. Tonight: Follow your sixth sense.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Zero in on what you want from a loved one. You might be witnessing this person’s transformation, and want to let him or her know how you feel. Remain upbeat, no matter what occurs. Your words could change a situation for the better.

Tonight: Hang with your pals.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Assume the role of leader. You might want to approach a work-related situation quite differently from how many

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others have. This originality makes you highly desirable in projects, as it tends to add to your success.

Tonight: Tap into someone else’s imaginative ideas.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Look at the big picture before making any decisions. You might change your opinion as a result of having more insight. It wouldn’t hurt to confirm what you think you are seeing with a friend in order to get some feedback. Tonight: A serious oneon-one talk pays off.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You could be in a position where you want to change course in a financial matter. Give this idea some hard thought. Recognize that what originally was a good idea might not work for you now. Be graceful in a discussion. Tonight: Connecting with others might be difficult.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You’ll want to make a close friend or associate feel valued. Understand that this person might be surprised by your actions and could have difficulty responding gracefully.

Try not to take his or her response personally. Tonight: Accept an offer without making any comments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You might be saturated with options that you are not comfortable with. A boss is likely to congratulate you on pursuing your present course. You could be in line for a pay raise or promotion. You seem to have difficulty relaxing.

Tonight: Listen to your intuition.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Relate to an authority figure directly. You might want to express

an idea that you believe is helpful, even if you feel less than confident about it. A child or loved one appears to be somewhat difficult and touchy. Tonight: Let go of stress. Be more childlike.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You could be in a position where you have to stay close to home or deal with a family member directly.

Plans might need to be adjusted accordingly. Reach out to a trusted friend or loved one. You will gain a better perspective as a result.

Tonight: Avoid complications.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Don’t hesitate to speak your mind. How you deal with others defines who you are. Be ready to head in a new direction, even if you don’t want to.

Ultimately, you will see the wisdom of letting go of what doesn’t work.

Tonight: At a favorite place with favourite people.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Nov. 24) This year you might be more methodical than you have been in a long time. You are able to organize, create and complete projects without a hitch. This determination is evident in nearly everything you do. If you are single, you will meet potential suitors in your daily travels. Question what you want from a dating situation before getting involved; you will make better choices that way. If you are attached, the two of you tend to work well together when involved in a mutual hobby. You enjoy taking your significant other out on the town. TAURUS can hold you back, but usually he or she has a rational reason for this behaviour.

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ALBERT WILLIAM FREDERICK BENSON It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Albert William Frederick Benson born on June 17, 1939 in Radway, Alberta. He passed away suddenly on November 11, 2015 from complications due to a fall 4 days prior.

Albert leaves behind his loving wife of 53 years, Moira Benson, daughter Sandra (Bill) Shook, sons Ron (Lorrell), Buff (Lisa) and Ray (Contessa) Benson: grandchildren Whitney (Jesse), Ryan (Amanda), Travis (Emma), Martin, Brantley, Emmilly, Omar and Chloe. He also leaves behind a brother-inlaw Bill Ritchie, 4 siblings: George (Betty), Doris Collis, Jim (Anita) and Margaret (Alexander) Gilmour and numerous nieces and nephews. He also leaves behind an honorary sister and brotherin-law, Annette and Gordon Clarke in Australia and a multitude of friends.

Albert moved with his family from Alberta to Cedar in 1948.

They started with growing potatoes and then to a dairy herd.

He was a 4-H member and later a leader of the 4-H Dairy Club in Cedar. He was President of the Vancouver Island Holstein Club and received a 30 year Veteran Breeders Pin from Holstein Canada. He was a milk producer for 52 years. After retiring from milking cows he then purchased a herd of Herefords. His family shipped Holsteins to Japan, Cuba, Korea, Morocco and more recently beef cattle to Kazakhstan.

In his younger years he played hockey, softball, badminton and roller skating. There was an outdoor roller rink in Cedar near the intersection of Cedar and Yellow Point Roads where he met Moira in 1960. He loved to dance and the Polka was his favourite.

He loved his hockey team, the Toronto Maple Leafs and cheered them on from his comfy chair with Aussie the cat at his side.

He could operate or repair any piece of farm machinery but he could not master how to use a can opener or anything that required small fingers.

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WORLD SPORTS The Associated Press ◆ TENNIS

Davis Cup will go ahead in Belgium with security The International Tennis Federation says the Davis Cup final is set to go ahead as planned in Ghent this weekend with increased security measures because of the terror alert in Belgium.

Belgium hosts Britain in the threeday final, starting Friday. Ghent is about 56 kilometres from Brussels, which is on the highest state of alert because of what the Belgian government calls a “serious and imminent” threat.

In a statement, the ITF says it is “taking every necessary step to ensure the safety” of those at the final, implementing additional security measures including a ban on fans carrying bags.

◆ SOCCER

Madrid fully behind its manager, says president Real Madrid president Florentino Perez insisted Monday that the club remains fully behind coach Rafa Benitez despite the humiliating loss to Barcelona this weekend.

Perez pledged his full backing to Benitez in a hastily called news conference, two days after the 4-0 defeat to Barcelona prompted widespread calls for the coach’s resignation.

“We analyzed the situation and I’m here to announce that Real Madrid’s coach has our full and unequivocal support,” Perez said.

“He was the coach that we picked for his professionalism, his trajectory and his experience. He has the capacity to make this squad play up to its potential.”

◆ RUGBY

Blackadder will step down as Crusaders coach Crusaders Super Rugby coach Todd Blackadder says he will step down at the end of the 2016 season after eight years in charge.

A former Crusaders and All Blacks captain, Blackadder took over from Robbie Deans as head coach in 2009.

He has coached the Crusaders to four semifinals and two finals but has yet to add to the franchise’s tally of seven championship titles.

Blackadder said “eight years is a relatively long time in coaching and I feel that the time is right for someone else to take the reins and lead the team in their own direction in the future.”

Chief executive Hamish Riach said Blackadder had played for the Crusaders when the franchise was established in 1996 and had a continuous role with the team since. Riach said “he has a kind of cult hero status around these parts.”

It was the first time Perez spoke publicly since Saturday’s game, when he and Benitez were loudly jeered by the home fans at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

“I understand the disappointment of our fans after what happened,” Perez said.

“But Benitez just started his job and we need to let him do his work.”

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Packers, Colts, Seahawks send along reminders they shouldn’t be dismissed BARRY WILNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ike Dikembe Mutombo waving his finger at anyone so unwise to challenge him in the paint, several NFL teams sent reminders Sunday that they’re still viable in the playoff race.

Green Bay, Seattle and Indianapolis delivered the messages loud and clear.

The most emphatic statement was made by the Packers, on the road against a quality opponent and archrival that had overtaken the Pack in the NFC North. Green Bay physically slammed around the Vikings; it was the Packers’ best performance in more than six weeks.

Green Bay (7-3) had lost its previous three and Minnesota (7-3) had won five in a row.

“We have a lot of veterans around here, so we knew how to approach a game like this,” defensive tackle B.J. Raji said. “We have been so used to being the hunted in the division, and now that we were the hunters it feels good to have come out on top in this one.”

The Packers held Adrian Peterson to 45 yards on the ground and the Vikings to 94 yards rushing in all.

Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater gained 43 of those on frantic scrambles. He also was sacked six times and harassed a whole bunch more.

With the ball, Eddie Lacy re-emerged with 100 yards rushing, Aaron Rodgers was efficient enough despite several dropped passes, and there were no turnovers. Mason Crosby made all five field goal tries.

Point well made by the Packers: We’re still in charge here.

“We’ve been taking it in the chin

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers throws a pass in an NFL game against the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]

“We’ve been taking it in the chin in the last couple weeks, rightfully so . . . “ Aaron Rodgers, Packers

the last couple weeks, rightfully so the last few weeks,” Rodgers said.

“We had a couple real poor performances. This was an important week for us, we stuck together.

“We had some good conversations about what it’s going to take to get this ‘W,’ and be standing here and have this feeling right now which is a great feeling to be back in first and kind of control our own fate from here.”

The Colts are in the same position in the AFC South: tied with Houston

at 5-5, and in control because they have a victory over the Texans and are 3-0 in the division.

Indianapolis’ past two wins were its most impressive of what has been a disappointing 2015. The Colts beat Denver in likely Peyton Manning’s last regular-season visit, went on a bye, then rallied in a big way to take down the Falcons in Atlanta.

The latter win came with Matt Hasselbeck, probably the NFL’s best backup quarterback, moving to 3-0 this season when standing in for an injured Andrew Luck.

“I think we just keep scratching and clawing and doing what we can,” said Hasselbeck, who never envisioned playing such a key role at age 40 on a team that has progressed one step deeper in the playoffs the past three years with Luck.

“These are not perfect circum-

Thomas Rawls will likely start over Lynch TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. — Pete Carroll was going through what stood out about his running back, the willingness to seek out contact and running with a purpose that gives the Seattle Seahawks an identity.

“He makes somebody miss to find somebody to hit, I think,” Carroll said.

For a change, Carroll wasn’t speaking about Marshawn Lynch. He was talking about rookie Thomas Rawls.

And the job of being Seattle’s primary ball carrier could be Rawls’ going forward because of uncertainty about the health of Lynch.

Rawls is expected to make his second straight start Sunday against Pittsburgh. Carroll said Monday it was unlikely Lynch would be able to play because of a lower abdominal injury that kept him out of Seattle’s 29-13 victory over San Francisco on Sunday.

Carroll called Lynch’s injury something that was “legitimately both-

ering him.” Lynch travelled to Philadelphia and was scheduled to meet with Dr. William Meyers on Tuesday to discuss his options, including surgery.

Meyers has performed surgery in the past on the likes of Adrian Peterson and Robinson Cano. Carroll said the visit was an evaluation, but treatment options were open.

“It was to go back there for the evaluation to find out what is next and there are a couple of choices possibly depending on what the doc feels is necessary and then we’ll wait and see what that all means,” Carroll said.

The abdominal injury is the latest problem for Lynch, who missed games earlier this season because of a hamstring injury and has played through back problems in the past.

Lynch popped up on the injury report on Nov. 13, two days before the Seahawks faced Arizona. He played through the discomfort in the loss to the Cardinals but Carroll said the injury got worse as the game

went on. Lynch did not practice last week in the hope he would be able to go against the 49ers.

“When he went out in pregame he just didn’t feel very good,” Carroll said.

Rawls filled in quite well against the 49ers, rushing for 209 yards and a touchdown and also catching a TD pass. It was the second-best rushing day in Seahawks history, trailing only Shaun Alexander’s 266 yards in 2001.

Rawls became the first rookie in league history to have more than 250 yards from scrimmage, one touchdown running and one receiving in the same game. He has three 100yard games, and the 209 yards was the second-best game by any player in the league this season.

“I don’t think my confidence really comes from my game. My confidence comes with practice,” Rawls said after Sunday’s win. “I need the practice. When I go out there, I run like it’s the game. . Any time I get the ball in practice, I try to go the distance with it. It all starts in practice.”

stances, you would love to have your starting quarterback playing. You would love to have a lot of different things.”

What the Colts have is a solid system built by coach Chuck Pagano, and enough depth to overcome some key injuries. They’ll need to be as healthy as possible for the stretch run, but they reminded everyone in their past two games that they’re still around.

Indeed, they get Houston at home and only Pittsburgh on the remaining schedule has a winning record.

Seattle (5-5) is the most dangerous .500 team in the league. Considering that Tampa Bay is the only other 5-5 club in the NFC and Atlanta is fading quickly, the two-time defending conference champion Seahawks certainly bear watching.

It’s highly possible that Sunday’s demolition of San Francisco is the beginning of Seattle’s revival for a second straight season. With Marshawn Lynch ailing, the Seahawks have found a clone in rookie Thomas Rawls. Russell Wilson comes off his best passing game of the season and is using all of his targets. The offensive line has been a problem that still must be solved.

And the defence needs to step up the way it is capable of doing in a closing stretch that features tough opponents in Pittsburgh, Minnesota and NFC West leader Arizona.

But there’s a feeling that these are still the resourceful and ultra-aggressive Seahawks, despite their recent issues.

“We need to find the consistency that gives you a chance to make some noise later on,” coach Pete Carroll said. “We’re OK about starting right now.”

Osweiler set to take over at QB for Broncos ARNIE STAPLETON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Brock Osweiler is preparing for his second consecutive start for the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning is seeking a second opinion on his injured left foot.

Manning flew to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday to meet with renowned foot specialist Dr. Robert Anderson about his torn plantar fascia.

This doesn’t mean he had a setback in his rehab nor does it indicate Manning faces increased odds of a season-ending surgery, coach Gary Kubiak said.

“We shouldn’t read anything into it,” Kubiak said. “It was a decision made on Saturday. It’s taking place today and then we know more tomorrow.”

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If husband values your marriage, he will step up Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: I have been married for 50 years and don’t think I can stand one more day. The man I am married to was once everything to me. Now, as each day passes, I grow more resentful. I like him less and less, almost to the point of hatred.

He has always been a good provider.

He worked while I stayed at home and raised our five children. Back then, I would never have expected him to come home and help around the house. But things are different now. It’s just the two of us and our animals.

We are in our mid-70s, and I am still doing all of the work inside this large five-bedroom house. He refuses to help with anything. He lies on the sofa and channel surfs while I do everything.

There is nothing physically wrong with him. His doctor says he’s in great shape. He shows no sign of mental decline, either. Downsizing to a smaller home is not an option for him. He likes it here. I have told him how I feel time and again, and that I’d like his help around the house, but he just looks at me.

Maybe he wants a divorce and is too cowardly to verbalize it. In any event, I am past the point of caring. I just want out.

— Old and Trapped Dear Trapped: Your husband may not want out. He may simply want to sit on the sofa while you do all the work. And you are doing it, so he sees no reason to change. You have some options: You can stop doing

the cooking, cleaning and laundry for him, letting his clothes pile up and his food remain uncooked; you can look into hiring help; you can get counselling; you can seek legal counsel and leave, with or without a divorce.

If your husband values the marriage, he will step up. If he doesn’t, at least you will know and can plan your future accordingly.

Dear Annie: After reading the letter from “Need Some Relief,” I thought I’d share how our family handles Christmas with four adult children and their spouses, 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren (and an occasional visiting in-law).

Dinner is at our house every year.

Everyone participates by graciously bringing a dish. One son’s family prepares the turkey, with mashed potatoes and gravy. Another brings all the drinks. We prepare stuffing, cranberry sauce and sweet potatoes.

Others bring apple and pumpkin pies. Traditional!

We discuss dishes in advance, so there are no duplicates. It is such fun and each family feels good about sharing. New recipes are exchanged.

We also decided to forego gift-giving and do a $5 Christmas exchange.

We all sit in a circle holding our “special number,” anxiously awaiting our turn to pick the wrapped gift of our choice.

Even the little ones screamed with delight, not at the gift, but because everyone was laughing and clapping.

What a joyous occasion.

Last, but not least, I insist on a group picture with everyone holding up their prized possessions. There is always a huge smile on each face.

Because in the end it is being together that really matters.

— Happy in Florida Dear Happy: Your letter is refreshing. This is what holidays are all about. Or should be.

Adele Mailer, author’s wife, dies at 90 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Adele Morales Mailer, an actress and artist who studied under Lee Strasberg but found unwanted fame as the stabbing victim of her then-husband Norman Mailer, died Sunday at age 90, said her daughter, Danielle Mailer.

The cause was pneumonia, Danielle Mailer said on Monday.

Adele Morales Mailer and Norman Mailer had been married six years when he stabbed her with a penknife after a party in 1960 at their Manhattan apartment. The widely reported incident left her in critical condition, with wounds in her abdomen and back. Norman Mailer was indicted for felonious assault and later received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to third-degree assault.

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Congestive heart failure is related to our lifestyle Dr. W. Gifford-Jones The Doctor Game

“T People pass Pfizer’s world headquarters in New York. Pfizer and Allergan will join in a $160-billion deal to create the world’s largest drugmaker. [AP PHOTO]

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NEW YORK — Pfizer and Allergan are joining in the biggest buyout of the year, a US$160-billion stock deal that will create the world’s largest drugmaker.

It’s also the largest so-called inversion, where an American corporation combines with a company headquartered in a country with a lower corporate tax rate, saving potentially millions each year in U.S. taxes.

Pfizer, which makes the cholesterol fighter Lipitor, will keep its global operational headquarters in New York. But the drugmaker will combine with Botox-maker Allergan as a company that will be called Pfizer Plc. That company would have its legal domicile and principal executive offices in Ireland.

The combination will essentially be Pfizer “but with a lower tax rate,” wrote Bernstein analyst Dr. Tim Anderson. He said he expects a tax rate of about 18 per cent after the deal, which compares to Pfizer’s current rate of 25 per cent.

Several U.S. drugmakers have performed inversions through acquisitions in the past several years, in part to escape higher U.S. corporate tax rates. The list of companies includes Allergan, which still runs much of its

operation out of New Jersey, and the generic drugmaker Mylan.

Last year, Pfizer unsuccessfully tried to buy British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc in a roughly $118-billion deal that would have involved an inversion. Those talks eventually collapsed when the two sides couldn’t agree on a price.

U.S. efforts to limit inversions have so far proven ineffectual.

Last year, the U.S. Treasury Department initiated new regulations designed to curb the financial benefits of inversions. The rules bar certain techniques that companies use to lower their tax bills and tighten ownership requirements.

The issue has become political heading into the presidential election.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn recently said that he was setting up a $150-million super PAC bent on revising U.S. corporate tax law and ending the practice, ratcheting up political pressure even more.

Aside from a lower tax bill, the Allergan acquisition would give Pfizer brand-name medicines for eye conditions, infections and heart disease. They would join Pfizer’s extensive portfolio of vaccines and drugs for cancer, pain, erectile dysfunction and other conditions.

The deal would enable Pfizer, the world’s second-biggest drugmaker by revenue, to surpass Switzerland’s Novartis AG and regain the industry’s top spot.

Pfizer has done three sizable deals since 2000 to boost revenue, and the Allergan offer comes as generic competition to blockbuster drugs like Lipitor is expected to cut Pfizer’s sales by $28 billion from 2010 through next year.

Allergan shareholders will receive 11.3 shares of the combined company for each of their shares, while Pfizer stockholders will get one share of the combined company. The deal is valued at $363.63 per Allergan share.

The Allergan deal is expected to close in the second half of 2016.

Pfizer stock owners will hold an approximately 56 per cent stake in the combined company, while Allergan shareholders will own the remaining 44 per cent.

Pfizer Inc. Chairman and CEO Ian Read will serve in the same roles with the combined company while Allergan Plc. leader Brent Saunders will become president and chief operating officer. All 11 of Pfizer’s directors will serve on the board of the combined business, along with four Allergan directors.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015

he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

Shakespeare wrote this more than 400 years ago. The immortal bard could easily be referring to the epidemic of congestive heart failure in this country.

So what does this disease mean to us, and our health care system?

To find out, I visited the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at the University of Toronto. Dr. Michael McDonald, an expert on CHF, says, “today, if you’re over the age of 65, heart failure is the most common reason for being admitted to hospital.”

It’s prudent to read his remark twice as this diagnosis means a life expectancy as low as 2.1 to five years.

McDonald says CHF can result from a variety of causes such as a birth defect, injured valves due to rheumatic fever, a blood infection that scars valves, hypertension and aging. But the most common cause is a previous heart attack that damages cardiac muscle and weakens the pumping action of the heart.

He adds that the early symptoms of heart failure are sometimes difficult to detect. In some patients there may be unexplained fatigue or a slight cough.

Later, shortness of breath and swelling of ankles. Or the diagnosis may become apparent when an X-ray of the lungs is taken for another reason and it shows an enlarged heart.

So what can be done to increase the length of life when the heart begins to fail? Dr. McDonald stresses that early diagnosis and treatment is essential. Injured muscle cannot be restored. But drugs that decrease the heart rate or take the stress off the failing heart decrease the work load of the heart’s muscle and help to lengthen life.

The use of water pills also eases the disabling symptoms of heart failure.

As well, it pays dividends to follow an exercise routine. The best one is walking, to keep the rest of the body in good shape.

But why is CHF and cardiovascular disease the number one cause of death today? The blunt answer is our questionable lifestyle. Two big problems, the epidemics of obesity and Type 2 diabetes are guilty and they’re getting worse every year. It’s tragic that 95 percent of those with Type 2 diabetes are obese. Sixy-five years ago it was five percent.

Type 2 diabetes is notorious for triggering atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries) which causes hypertension and additional strain on the heart’s muscle. It’s a prime example of the Gifford-Jones Law that one bad trouble leads to another and another.

Unfortunately, it requires draconian measures to correct this trend. But it won’t happen so individuals must fight obesity and Type 2 diabetes as their lives depends on it!

What’s the prognosis for the future?

Along with treating patients with a variety of cardiovascular problems, the PMCC, a world class centre, is engaged in finding new ways to treat the increasing number of patients with CHF. For instance, researchers are using stem cells to grow cardiac muscle to replace those destroyed by coronary attack. They’re also considering ways to remove the heart, repair it, and then replace it in the body.

But repairing or replacing hearts is pricey and demand will exceed supply. Besides, we cannot expect cardiologists and researchers to cure all our medical problems.

There is only one sound solution.

Prevention has, and will always remain, better than cure. This means people must learn to treat their heart with tender loving care. The heart is a machine that beats 2.5 billion times by age 70 without a holiday, an amazing durability.

It’s been said that prudent people practice a sound lifestyle early in life, but fools attempt it only at the end.

Abraham Lincoln once remarked that we have the two best doctors in our body, our left and right legs.

The idea is to use them to keep the body well oiled, while counting calories to fight obesity. Then fewer people will suffer heart failure.

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Putin in Iran for talks on global Syria peace plan

U.S. asks allies for more in Islamic State battle KATHLEEN HENNESSEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Leaders warn against any effort to impose political settlement

the negotiating table the goals they could not achieve by military means in Syria.”

“This must be prevented through wisdom and active interaction,” Khamenei told Putin at the start of their meeting that lasted more than an hour and a half.

Putin’s visit comes as Russia, the United States, France and others are talking about possible joint action against the Islamic State group following the terror attacks in Paris and the downing of a Russian passenger jet in Egypt — both attacks claimed

by IS. Putin’s trip also comes on the heels of agreement on an incomplete peace plan that calls for talks between Syrian President Bashar Assad and his foes.

Moscow and Tehran have been the key backers of Assad throughout his nation’s civil war, which has killed over 250,000 people and turned millions into refugees.

Russia has shielded Syria from international sanctions, and on Sept. 30 it launched an air campaign against the Islamic State group and other insurgents, while Tehran has sent military advisers to shore up Assad.

Putin, on a one-day visit to attend a gas exporting nations’ summit, praised Iran for its support of Russia’s operation in Syria.

“All that has been done in co-ordination with our Iranian partners and without their help it would have been impossible,” he said “While some countries only imitate action in the fight against terrorism, our two countries have shown how to deal with the issue in a serious way,” said Rouhani.

The White House urged allies on Monday to do more in the campaign against the Islamic State, while President Barack Obama faced pressure in return to show the U.S.-led coalition will intensify efforts in response to the Paris attacks, even without a major shift in strategy.

Requests for more counterintelligence, military and humanitarian assistance came a day before French President Francois Hollande was to arrive at the White House to discuss the fight against the extremists believed to be behind the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people. Hollande, who next visits Russian President Vladimir Putin, is expected to seek more co-ordinated military operations that would include both the U.S. and Moscow.

Obama has shown no inclination to rethink the U.S. strategy or significantly expand America’s commitment, despite pressure from Hollande, Republican critics and some members of his own Democratic Party. However, Secretary of State John Kerry said in Abu Dhabi that both he and the president would like to see progress against the Islamic State “go faster.”

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No reports of damage, causalities in 5.5 quake

Government blames 10 groups for unrest

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A new report says 90 per cent of disasters in the last 20 years have been caused by weather-related events — and these disasters are becoming more frequent.

The report entitled The Human Cost of Weather-related Disasters 1995-2015 said flooding alone accounted for 47 per cent of weather-related disasters, affecting 2.9 billion people — 95 per cent of them living in Asia.

Even though cyclones, hurricanes and other storms occurred less frequently, the report said they were the most deadly disasters, killing more than 242,000 people in the last 21 years.

Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller says the company will have technical details on fixing cars fitted with emissions-rigging software to German regulators by month’s end, and most will not need major work.

According to a copy of a speech he gave to company managers at Volkswagen headquarters Monday, Mueller said the Federal Motor Transport Authority has signed off on a software update to fix affected 2-litre diesel motors, and has given the “basic go” to a fix for the 1.6-litre vehicles that will also involve replacing an air filter cartridge and grill. Details are being finalized on a software fix for 1.2-litre motors.

An earthquake rattled central Mexico on Monday, swaying buildings in Mexico City. Some office workers rushed to the streets in the capital.

Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera wrote in his Twitter account that there was no immediate word of damage or casualties.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 5.5 and its epicentre was in the sparsely populated mountains north-east of Acapulco, about 260 kilometres south of Mexico City.

Mexico’s National Seismological Center said it was centred on the southern Pacific Coast, inland from the resort of Acapulco.

Burundi’s government on Monday suspended the licenses of 10 non-governmental organizations over allegations they have been involved in anti-government activities.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said the suspended groups played a role in a failed coup attempt in May against President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose decision to seek a third term sparked violent street protests in the capital, Bujumbura.

Among the suspended groups is the one led by Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, a prominent rights activist who is now exiled in Belgium after surviving an assassination attempt.

Bahrain’s security forces have tortured detainees held in the years following the island nation’s 2011 protests despite a government promise to stop such abuses, according to a new report released Monday.

The Human Rights Watch report on Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, corresponds with accounts of abuse provided by Amnesty International and local activists.

The Human Rights Watch report is based on testimony offered by 14 people, who described being physically assaulted while in police or security service custody. Several quoted in the report said they suffered electric shocks and sexual abuse.

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEHRAN, Iran — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin visited Tehran on Monday for talks with Iranian leaders that focused on the Syrian crisis and an international peace plan intended to end the conflict.

During his meeting with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, both Putin and the top cleric warned against any effort to impose a political settlement on Syria.

“No one from the outside can and should enforce models of government on the Syrian people and determine who should be in charge,” Putin said. “Only the Syrian people should decide that.”

Putin underlined that stance after a later meeting with President Hassan Rouhani. “There is no other way to reach a long-term settlement of the Syrian problem except through political talks,” he said.

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At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said the U.S. may step up efforts supporting strategies believed to be working — airstrikes and train-and-assist missions in Syria and Iraq — but he played down the possibility of any surge of new American resources into the fight.

Separately, the U.S. military said it had destroyed 283 tanker trucks used by IS militants to transport oil from producing fields in eastern Syria to smuggling points, an acceleration of attacks aimed at crippling the group’s oil revenues. The attack by four A-10 attack planes and two AC-130 gunships was carried out Saturday at a site near Deir el-Zour and al-Hasakah but not made public until Monday.

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WASHINGTON — Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestlé SA’s supply chains.

The unusual disclosure comes from Geneva-based Nestlé SA itself, which in an act of self-policing planned to announce the conclusions of its yearlong internal investigation on Monday. The study found virtually all U.S. and European companies buying seafood from Thailand are exposed to the same risks of abuse in their supply chains.

Nestlé SA, among the biggest food companies in the world, launched the investigation in December 2014, after reports from news outlets and nongovernmental organizations tied brutal and largely unregulated working conditions to their shrimp, prawns and Purina brand pet foods.

Its findings echo those of The Associated Press in reports this year on slavery in the seafood industry that have resulted in the rescue of more than 2,000 fishermen.

The labourers come from Thailand’s much poorer neighbours Myanmar and Cambodia. Brokers illegally charge them fees to get jobs, trapping them into working on

Fancy Feast cat food, fish and shrimp feast flavour, a product of Thailand. A report commissioned by Nestlé SA found that impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in the global food giant’s supply chains. [AP PHOTO]

fishing vessels and at ports, mills and seafood farms in Thailand to pay back more money than they can ever earn.

“Sometimes, the net is too heavy and workers get pulled into the water and just disappear. When someone dies, he gets thrown into the water,” one Burmese worker told the non-profit organization Verite commissioned by Nestlé.

“I have been working on this boat for 10 years. I have no savings. I am barely surviving,” said another. “Life is very difficult here.”

Nestlé said it would post the reports online — as well as a detailed yearlong solution strategy throughout 2016 — as part of ongoing efforts to protect workers. It has promised to impose new requirements on all potential suppliers and train boat owners and captains about human rights, possibly with a demonstration vessel and rewards for altering their practices. It also plans to bring in outside auditors and assign a highlevel Nestlé manager to make sure change is underway.

“As we’ve said consistently, forced labour and human rights abuses have no place in our supply chain,” Magdi Batato, Nestlé’s executive vice-president in charge of operations, said in a written statement. “Nestlé believes that by working with suppliers we can make a positive difference to the sourcing of ingredients.”

Nestlé is not a major purchaser of seafood in Southeast Asia but does some business in Thailand, primarily for its Purina brand Fancy Feast cat food.

Boat captains and managers, along with workers, confirmed violence and danger in the Thai seafood sector, a booming industry which exports $7 billion of products a year, although managers said workers sometimes got hurt because they were drunk and fighting. Boat captains rarely checked ages of workers, and Verite found underage workers forced to fish. Workers said they labour without rest, their food and water are minimal, outside contact is cut off, and they are given fake identities to hide that they are working illegally.

Monday’s disclosure is rare. While multinational companies in industries from garments to electronics say they investigate allegations of abuse in their supply chains, they rarely share negative findings.

“It’s unusual and exemplary,” said Mark Lagon, president of the non-profit Freedom House, a Washington-based anti-trafficking organization.

“The propensity of the PR and legal departments of companies is not to ’fess up, not to even say they are carefully looking into a problem for fear that they will get hit with lawsuits,” he said.

In fact, Nestlé is already being sued: In August, pet food buyers filed a class-action lawsuit alleging Fancy Feast cat food was the product of slave labour associated with Thai Union Frozen Products, a major distributor. It’s one of several lawsuits filed in recent months against major U.S. retailers importing seafood from Thailand.

Some of the litigation cites the reports from the AP, which tracked slave-caught fish to the supply chains of giant food sellers, such as Walmart, Sysco and Kroger, and popular brands of canned pet food, such as Fancy Feast, Meow Mix and Iams. It can turn up as calamari at fine restaurants, as imitation crab in a sushi roll or as packages of frozen snapper relabeled with store brands that land on dinner tables. The U.S. companies have all said they strongly condemn labour abuse and are taking steps to prevent it.

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