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Turkey, Russia tensions rise after jet shot down

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MOSCOW — Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on Tuesday that it said ignored repeated warnings and crossed into its airspace from Syria, killing at least one of the two pilots in a long-feared escalation in tensions between Russia and NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced what he called a “stab in the back” and warned of “significant consequences.”

The shoot down — the first time in half a century that a NATO member has downed a Russian plane — prompted an emergency meeting of the alliance.

The incident highlighted the chaotic complexity of Syria’s civil war, where multiple groups with clashing alliances are fighting on the ground and the sky is crowded with aircraft bombing various targets.

“As we have repeatedly made clear we stand in solidarity with Turkey and support the territorial integrity of our NATO ally, Turkey,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference after the meeting of the alliance’s decision-making North Atlantic Council, called at Turkey’s request.

The pilots of the downed Su-24 ejected, but one was killed by Syrian rebel fire from the ground as he parachuted to Earth, said the Russian general staff, insisting the Russian jet had been in Syrian airspace at the time.

One of two helicopters sent to the crash site to search for survivors was also hit by rebel fire, killing one serviceman and forcing the chopper to make an emergency landing, the military said.

Stoltenberg urged “calm and de-escalation” and renewed contacts between Moscow and Ankara. Russia has long been at odds with NATO, which it accuses of encroaching on Russia’s borders, as well as with Turkey’s determination to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, a longtime Moscow ally.

In Washington, President Barack Obama said Turkey “has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

He said the incident underscored the “ongoing problem” with Russia’s military operations in Syria, where the Russians have been targeting groups near the Turkish border. Calling Russia an “outlier” in the global fight against the Islamic State group, Obama said that if Moscow were to concentrate its airstrikes on IS targets, mistakes “would be less likely to occur.”

On Sept. 30, Russia began a campaign of massive airstrikes in Syria, which it says are aimed at destroying fighters of the Islamic State group but which Western critics contend are bolstering Assad’s forces.

Before Tuesday’s incident, Russia and the West appeared to be moving toward an understanding of their common strategic goal of eradicating IS, which gained momentum after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, as well as the Oct. 31 bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai desert. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Turkey said its fighter pilots acted after two Russian Su-24 bombers ignored numerous

warnings that they were nearing and then entering Turkish airspace. In a letter to the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Turkey said the Russian warplanes violated its airspace “to a depth of 1.36 miles and 1.15 miles . . . for 17 seconds” just after 9:24 a.m.

A visibly angry Putin denounced what he called a “stab in the back by the terrorists’ accomplices” and warned of “significant consequences” for Russian-Turkish relations. Hours later Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cancelled a planned visit to Turkey on Wednesday.

Russia “will never tolerate such atrocities as happened today and we hope that the international community will find the strength to join forces and fight this evil,” Putin said.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu insisted his country had the right to take “all kinds of measures” against border violations, and called on the international community to work toward “extinguishing the fire that is burning in Syria.”

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Obama pledges solidarity with France JULIE PACE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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WASHINGTON — In a show of Western solidarity, President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande vowed Tuesday to escalate airstrikes against the Islamic State and bolster intelligence sharing following the deadly attacks in Paris.

They called on Russia to join the international efforts, but only if Moscow ends its support for Syria’s embattled president.

“Russia is the outlier,” Obama said during a joint White House news conference with Hollande. =Obama said Russian co-operation in the fight against the Islamic State would be “enormously helpful.” But he insisted a

partnership is impossible as long as Russia stands by Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is blamed by the U.S. for plunging his country into chaos and creating the vacuum that allowed the Islamic State group to strengthen.

“We hope that they refocus their attention on what is the most substantial threat, and that they serve as a constructive partner,” Obama said of Russia.

Hollande concurred, saying France wants to work alongside Russia, but only if President Vladimir Putin “fully commits” to supporting a political transition in Syria.

Hollande’s alignment with Obama was notable, given that he was expected to urge the U.S. president to put aside some of his

differences with Russia to build a new coalition to fight the extremists.

Obama and Hollande pledged to increase airstrikes against extremist targets, take back Islamic State-controlled territory in Iraq and Syria, and focus more on disrupting the terrorists’ financial networks. However, Hollande joined Obama in refusing to intervene militarily on the ground in Iraq and Syria, saying that is a role for local forces.

Shortly after their meeting, a French official in Washington said French warplanes had struck an Islamic State command centre located west of the Iraqi city of Mosul.

The U.S. has deployed more than 3,000 troops to Iraq to train and assist security forces there.

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Safety concerns have Nanaimo Albertan identified reassessing trash pickup plans as man killed while crossing highway

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Nanaimo’s high WorkSafeBC premiums are set to come under scrutiny after city council ordered a report examining injuries and injury rates across all city departments.

Injuries among garbage collectors have cost the city $429,000 over a three-year period.

Council voted unanimously to support a motion from Coun. Jim Kipp to have staff prepare the report, which will also look at the number of injuries to city workers across all departments, as well as details and examples of injuries sustained.

The move comes after city staff reported earlier this year that the city pays $0.60 more — or approximately 30 per cent — than the base rate of $2 per every $100 in payroll that all local governments pay to WorkSafeBC. Staff presented the information to council as part of a pitch to fully automate the city’s garbage fleet, citing the potential to drastically reduce or eliminate high injury rates among its refuse collectors.

According to the city, the premiums were higher “because our claims are significantly higher compared to

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Nanaimo garbage crews comprise just one per cent of city staff, but represent 17 per cent of its lost time costs. [AARON HINKS/FILE]

the 61 organizations (municipalities and Cities in B.C.) that make up the grouping.”

“Whilst this rating represents the claims made by all city staff, the sanitation department is subject to disproportionately high injury rates when compared to the city as a whole,” an October report states.

“For example, refuse collectors represent just one per cent of the city’s staff and yet they are subject to 13 per cent of the city’s lost time injuries and 17 per cent of lost time costs.”

However, it isn’t just sanitation.

The city’s public works staff and firefighters are the city’s highest injury group,” said Andrew Brooks, health and safety manager at the city.

Brooks said the city will pay an extra $0.76 surcharge on the base rate for 2016 due to a higher number of injuries among employees. He said the estimated extra cost for the city is $341,000.

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The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died after he was struck by a vehicle crossing the highway north of Woodgrove Centre in Nanaimo on Friday.

Patrick Stephen Harty, 28, of Lloydminster, Alta., was struck by a vehicle while walking across the Nanaimo Parkway at approximately 3 a.m. Harty was pronounced dead at the scene.

A wooded, undeveloped property in the area, bordered by the northbound and southbound lanes is known to be where homeless people camp out, but Nanaimo RCMP said the man was not homeless.

Const. Gary O’Brien said he is “not sure why he was out there at that time of day.”

The vehicle, a Nissan Sentra, was sent for a mechanical inspection after the crash, a procedure O’Brien said is routine after a fatal crash.

The results of the inspection will be included in the final investigation.

The northbound lanes of the highway were closed and traffic re-routed

“(I’m) not sure why he was out there at that time of day.”

Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP

through Lantzville until just before 9 a.m.

The Parksville man driving the vehicle performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the injured man, while his female passenger phoned 911 and stayed on the phone until emergency personnel responded, about eight minutes later.

Both the driver and passenger “were traumatized,” O’Brien said, and are now getting assistance from RCMP victim services at the Oceanside detachment.

The BC Coroners Service and RCMP Traffic Services continue to investigate this death.

Harty’s family has been notified of his death.

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The price of opposition?

Despite warnings to the contrary, there is no clear evidence ridings are punished — deliberately or otherwise — for voting in opposition MPs

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onservative candidate Mark MacDonald stood up from the long table where he and his rivals from the Liberals, NDP and Greens were seated. He brought the microphone to his lips.

It was Oct. 14, a few days before the federal election, at an all-candidates debate organized by the Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce.

MacDonald had just been asked if it was Conservative Party policy to serve only ridings that are represented by Spencer Tory MPs. Anderson The pointed Reporting question came in response to one of the central pitches of MacDonald’s campaign: that Nanaimo had for years elected representatives on the opposition persuasion and lost out.

MacDonald argued that Nanaimo needed a direct line to a re-elected Stephen Harper administration to ensure its share of federal funding and support.

“That’s a dangerous message to send. It’s a very cynical message, frankly. ” Aaron Wudrick, Canadian Taxpayers

MacDonald replied, no, it was not Conservative policy to only favour Conservative ridings.

But then he continued.

“Even provincially, the ridings on the Island that vote for the B.C. Liberals are the ones that are more prosperous ones,” he said.

“And that’s part of the system; is you need to get somebody in there that knows which arm to twist to find the funding.”

He referred efforts he made to secure a then-recent Conservative pledge to fund a private foot passenger ferry service between Nanaimo and Vancouver.

“It took me 18 months; I lost track of the number of people I talked to,” MacDonald said.

“It’s a lot of hard work … You need to know the right people to talk to and you need to know how to make deals,” he ended to a mix of applause and booing.

In any case, MacDonald never got the chance to put his theory into practice. The NDP swept all but one riding on Vancouver Island, and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals earned an impressive majority victory, ending nine years of Tory rule.

But the question still begs to be answered: Are opposition-held ridings destined to get the short end of the stick for federal funding?

Turns out that no one keeps track.

According to the Ministry of Finance, no such compiled list exists.

The Parliamentary Budget Office was also unable to confirm the data was tracked at an electoral district level.

“Should it be, probably, maybe that’s something we should take a look at,” said Scott Cameron, an analyst at the PBO. “It doesn’t nearly dominate the conversation here as it does . . . in the U.S.” The topic is not completely foreign to the Canadian political landscape.

The Globe and Mail reported this year that ridings held by Conservative MPs received on average 48 per cent more from a $150-million infrastructure fund for community centres and arenas.

By contrast, the CBC reported last year that NDP-held ridings were more likely to receive more

funding from FedNor, the federal government’s economic development agency for Northern Ontario.

Other news organizations have compiled lists attempting to show how federal funds are dispersed, but none included a specific analysis of how it breaks down per riding. A list of transfer payments on the Public Works and Government Services Canada website is extensive, but it is not broken down at a riding level either.

But an obvious pattern has yet to emerge. A connection between federal spending and electoral district representation — if it exists — remains largely unproven.

Groups like the Canadian Taxpayers’ Association say that should change. Aaron Wudrick, federal director for the CTA, said a full riding-by-riding breakdown of federal spending should be available “for the simple reason” that ambiguity can allow politicians to make claims that a vote for them can guarantee more funding for a riding.

“That’s a dangerous message to send. It’s a very cynical message, frankly,” said Wudrick. “I do think it’s probably likely that yes, if you have a government MP, the odds of (your riding) getting money or special perks is probably higher.”

But what if compiling the data leads to a hyper-focus on government spending at a local level, rather than national priorities?

“I think when we talk about transparency, there’s an opportunity to explain,” Wudrick said.

“I don’t think putting the information out there is a problem.”

Former Nanaimo-Cowichan MP Jean Crowder, a longtime New Democrat representative for the area, said the riding “always did really well” in its applications for funding for projects, despite her opposition status.

Crowder said she found the assertion that government MPs are better positioned to deliver funding to their riding “offensive, because it suggests pork barrel politics” rather than approval of projects based on their merits.

But Crowder also admitted that it does get difficult to track how money is spent across ridings, adding her own office kept a spread sheet of funding announcements for her riding.

“It wasn’t perfect, but it gave us a handle on that,” she said.

Wudrick would like to see that information made available to the public on a riding-by-riding basis, but he’s not surprised it hasn’t been done.

“I had my research colleague do some checking and I don’t think we have done any work on this ourselves.

“It is a huge undertaking and frankly requires consistent access to information that is hard to come by.”

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Council investigates leaks in hiring process SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo city council is conducting its own investigation of an alleged leak of in-camera information regarding the hiring of interim city manager Tracy Samra.

Samra confirmed Tuesday the internal process was taking place.

Posts recently emerged on local social media pages claiming that council had voted to hire Samra without interviewing approximately

20 other candidates.

Coun. Gord Fuller, the designated council spokesman on the issue, later confirmed that council had indeed not interviewed candidates for the position after it became evident that a majority on council supported Samra’s candidacy.

Fuller added it would have taken weeks to interview all the candidates, during which time the city would have been without a lead administrator.

He also promised council would embark on a more “robust” process to find a permanent replacement.

Some residents expressed frustration that information on the hiring process had apparently leaked out to the public.

Mayor Bill McKay said he expects the investigation to take the form of “frank” in-camera discussions among council members, adding council could rise and report in about a week’s time.

McKay declined to specifically discuss the investigation or reasons behind it.

“There’s been charges in the community and council is going to investigate among themselves as to what part anybody may have played in that,” he said.

In-camera, or ‘closed,’ meetings are held in a number of circumstances, including when a council is dealing with a personnel issue, potential litigation, or a topic which could be

damaging to the municipality if discussed publicly.

McKay said the leaking of in-camera information is not an issue specific to Nanaimo, adding municipalities across the province deal with the issue.

“I think it’s been a problem in every community,” he said.

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TOFINO/UCLUELET

Neighbours shaken by stabbing incident

Fatality in two-vehicle crash

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Three people remain in hospital after a triple-stabbing Wednesday night in a home along the 1000 block of Ormonde Road in Qualicum Beach.

According to Oceanside RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman, it was a “family-involved incident.” All three people were said to have life-threatening injuries, but no update on their condition was provided by police.

Ormonde Road is in Qualicum Beach’s usually quiet Chartwell subdivision.

Cam Evans, who lives along Chartwell Boulevard, just off Ormonde Road where the incident occurred, said he started hearing sirens around 7:30 p.m. while out for a walk with his dog.

“It’s very unusual to hear that many sirens flying by at that time,” Evans said, describing Chartwell as a “quiet, residential area with mostly retirees.”

Kathleen Davies has lived in Chartwell for more than 10 years and said the community is shaken up.

“I think it’s tragic,” she said. “I didn’t know the people (involved in the incident) personally but I have friends who do . . . and they thought they were really nice people.”

“It’s shocking,” she said. “Everyone

feels it’s just a real tragedy.”

By Saturday morning the police tape cordoning off the Ormonde Road home was removed, but the streets often filled with dog walkers and cyclists remained unusually empty.

A news release said Mounties were called to the scene at 7:19 p.m. responding to a 911 call for assistance.

The caller indicated “multiple assaults with a weapon” were occurring inside the residence.

Police arrived at 7:25 p.m. and found three adults in the home suffering from “serious injuries.”

According to the release, an alleged 46-year-old suspect who sustained what are believed to be self-inflicted injuries was one of the people found inside. Police said the suspect was arrested and taken into custody prior to being transported from the scene by ambulance under police guard.

The other two injured people, a 72-year-old woman and 76-year-old man, were rushed to hospital for medical treatment.

Police said one person was airlifted to the Lower Mainland, while the other two people were airlifted to Victoria. In keeping with protocols any time where a serious injury occurred, the Oceanside RCMP notified the Independent Investigations Office of B.C.

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Emergency crews responded to a fatal collision on the Pacific Rim Highway around 4:30 p.m. on Monday. [ANDREW BAILEY]

A fatal two-vehicle-collision occurred on the Pacific Rim Highway near the West Coast Junction on Monday afternoon.

Sgt. Jeff Swann of the Ucluelet RCMP said that a man driving a pickup truck collided with a motorhome and died in the ensuing flames.

The man was reportedly driving erratically and passing cars while traveling south from Tofino towards Ucluelet.

“He crossed the centre line and struck the motorhome head on,” Swann said.

Swann said bystanders were unable to free the man from his truck after the crash.

“Several people tried to get him out but he was trapped in the vehicle,” he said. “Both vehicles caught fire and both were destroyed by fire . . . . It was pretty quick, within a minute the flames had already started.”

He said the motorhome’s two passengers escaped the scene relatively unharmed and are currently receiving treatment at the Tofino General Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The deceased man’s identity is not yet known.

Both lanes of the highway had been expected to remain closed until at least 9 p.m. But an alternate route was been set up through logging roads to help travelers get in and out of Tofino.

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Retrial on for cop who shot unarmed man SARAH SIMPSON COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

Const. David Pompeo leaves Duncan court during his original trial, which wrapped with his sentencing in December of 2013. Pompeo has been granted a new trial for the 2009 shooting of an unarmed Chemainus man. [BLACK PRESS FILE PHOTO]

A subpoenaed witness was dismissed until a later date and everyone but Const. David Pompeo and lawyers were asked to leave the courtroom Monday morning, the first day of the former North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP officer’s retrial in the 2009 shooting of unarmed William Gillespie in Chemainus.

The unexpected voir dire was to deal with applications put forward by both the Crown and the defence that both agree could alter the course of

the new trial. The remainder of the day was spent tackling procedural work.

The judge’s decision on the voir dire submission wasn’t available until after press time Tuesday.

Pompeo was found guilty of aggravated assault in February 2013 in connection to an incident where Gillespie was shot in the neck in his driveway, after being pulled over on suspicion of driving while prohibited.

He was sentenced in December of that year to two years probation and 240 hours of community service.

The Crown had been seeking two years in jail.

A civil suit has also been settled since the conclusion of the first trial, details of which are unknown.

In August 2014, Pompeo won an appeal for a new trial. The appeal judges ruled Judge Josiah Wood erred in excluding the evidence of an expert witness who said the use of lethal force was in accordance with police protocols and training and so the shooting was necessary.

The new trial is expected to wrap up in mid December.

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EDITORIAL

PM should not be rushed to approve TPP trade deal I t took seven years of closed-door negotiations to hammer out the Trans Pacific Partnership, the largest free trade and investment agreement in Canadian history. The 6,000-page text landed on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s desk one day after he was sworn in.

It would be unreasonable to expect the newly elected Liberal government to rubber-stamp the massive deal without examining the details carefully, weighing the pros and cons, giving MPs an opportunity to review and debate the historic pact, and securing parliamentary approval.

That’s what Trudeau pledged during the election campaign and it’s the right way to make major national decisions.

The prime minister has signaled that his government supports free

trade in principle and welcomes improved access to markets of the other 11 Pacific Rim countries involved in the partnership. But that does not necessarily mean accepting all the details agreed to by Stephen Harper’s government.

Some are of them are quite controversial: letting more dairy products into Canada, lowering the Canadian content threshold for imported vehicles, and reducing Canada’s protection for its eggs and poultry.

“Canadians deserve to know what impacts this agreement will have on different industry across the country,” Trudeau said when the draft deal was announced in October. “We will hold a full and open public debate.”

He stood his ground politely but firmly last week at the APEC summit in Manila, refusing to be cajoled

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into a premature commitment. U.S. President Barack Obama, who hopes to make the TPP part of his political legacy, confidently predicted Canada would endorse the agreement.

“We are both soon to be signatories to the TPP agreement,” he said after his first formal meeting with Trudeau.

The prime minister merely said that “we’re going to fulfill our obligations,” affirming that he remains resolutely pro-trade.

None of the 12 prospective members of the partnership has signed the agreement yet. When nations become signatories, they have two years to decide whether to ratify the agreement. The TPP needs the ratification of states representing 85 per cent of the GDP of the group to come into force.

That gives Canada plenty of time — as long as mid-2018 — to make up its mind.

Obama’s timetable, however, is considerably more compressed. His last day as president will be Jan. 20, 2017.

He would like to leave knowing the TPP is a done deal. A categorical Yes from America’s cross-border neighbour and largest trading partner would help.

The president chose his words carefully in Manila, saying he understood that Trudeau needs time to consult Canadians. His tone was friendly. But his clock is ticking.

That won’t be the only source of pressure. The Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the voice of big business, has long been an eager proponent of the deal, which would open up a $28-trillion market to Canadian

exporters. The Conservatives want to see the deal signed early in the New Year.

But the TPP has an array of opponents: dairy farmers, auto parts manufacturers, organized labour, environmentalists, the New Democrats, the Greens and veteran anti-free-trade activists. Canadians are divided, many admitting they don’t know enough about this complex deal to make an informed judgment.

Trudeau read the nation’s mood well. He outlined a sensible course of action. There is no need to speed up the timetable or truncate the plan.

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Many similarities seen between some faiths In an ongoing effort to come together with our Muslim brethren, it should be recognized that the Muslim faith considers Jesus Christ as a great prophet.

There are probably a lot more similarities than differences between us we’d enjoy getting to know.

Liz Stonard Port Alberni

Keep in mind Canadians also in need of housing As a compassionate Canadian, like many I feel we can accept refugees but feel the rush to fulfill a political promise at a cost to the taxpayer at $1 billion creates security and health concerns.

To use our military bases for housing also concerns me.

When I look around my country and see the condition of some of the housing on the First Nations reserves and the number of homeless people walking the streets of our cities and sleeping on the streets, I wonder where our priorities are and if this is more about politics and votes.

If the Liberal party can spend the taxpayers dollars on resettling refugees, surely our own people should be first priority It is time for them to invest in rental properties in Vancouver and Toronto by encouraging developers with tax breaks.

The country once had a program like this called the M.U.R.B (Multiple Unit Rental Buildings) which allowed developers to write off some costs over a 10-year period that created a boom in affordable rental housing.

Being our brothers keepers should begin at home.

Gardo D. Gurr Nanaimo

Transparency applies to this government as well On Nov. 15, while cruising comfortably at 30,000 feet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assured us that the arrival of 25,000 refugees over a six-week period poses no safety concern to Canadians. He has “been speaking with our national security team to ensure that everything is being done to keep people safe.”

Yet on Nov. 17, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which bears initial responsibility for screening refugees said this: “The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which registers asy-

lum seekers and is supposed to be working with Canada on its resettlement program, said Tuesday that it remained largely in the dark about Ottawa’s plans.”

Was it not just a month ago that we were promised a new era of transparency?

Furthermore the same article went on to say, “The officials did not want to be identified because diplomats and immigration officers have been told by Ottawa not to speak about the matter, with all requests referred to the government.”

Will we hear cries from the CBC and those who just a month ago were complaining about the previous

government, or are we to assume that muzzling of civil servants is sometimes acceptable, depending on which government is in power.

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NEDC selects new CEO to replace Angus ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

success in Calgary. Since his time with the CED, Hankins has operated a successful international business consulting company, servicing companies seeking new markets both in Canada and abroad.

Hankins said he has visited Nanaimo in preparation for his new job and was given a tour of the city.

He was impressed with what he saw.

“Nanaimo has some great infrastructure assets already in place, including an airport that is just 15 minutes from downtown, two ferry routes and terminals and a cruise ship terminal, although I understand the cruise ship terminal

is experiencing some challenges,” Hankins said from his Alberta home Tuesday.

“I’m very excited to play my part in Nanaimo. I was attracted to this position as the board and team of NEDC have a real can-do attitude, and the city and the Regional District of Nanaimo has such a great energy and envious quality of life.”

Hankins will move to the city after Christmas. He starts work on Jan. 4.

The NEDC was formed in 2011 with a mandate to focus on business development in the city. It is funded with $1.4 million of taxpayers’ money per year to help run marketing,

economic development and tourism functions in Nanaimo.

Andre Sullivan, chairman of the NEDC, said an extensive search using an outside recruiting firm was conducted to find a new CEO. He said Hankins stood out as an exceptional candidate with extensive economic development and private sector experience.

“We interviewed people from Nova Scotia to B.C. and are happy that we found a candidate of John’s calibre.”

New NEDC CEO John Hankins comes to Nanaimo from Calgary.

John Hankins has been chosen from approximately 60 applicants from across the country to be the new CEO of the Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation.

He will replace Sasha Angus, who was CEO of the corporation for three years before he stepped down to work in the private sector earlier this fall.

Hankins spent five years, from 2007 to 2012, as vice president of Calgary Economic Development, a non-profit organization that works with business, government and community partners to achieve economic

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Fresh Thread finds some fresh space

Nanaimo man busted for growing pot in Tahsis Nootka Sound RCMP arrested a Nanaimo man after finding marijuana in his vehicle, which lead to the discovery of a marijuana grow op in Tahsis.

Police say Mario Kurtakis, 29, is a suspect of an on-going drug investigation and was pulled over early Wednesday morning as he was leaving Tahsis.

Police found a ‘significant amount’ of cannabis in his vehicle and say the man resisted arrested and attempted to flee.

Police claim the marijuana was packaged and prepared for distribution.

RCMP got a search warrant after the traffic stop and found a marijuana grow operation at 452 Alpine View Road in Tahsis. Nootka Sound RCMP had assistance from the Campbell River RCMP forensic identification section in dismantling the grow op.

Kurtakis has been charged with production of a controlled substance, possession for the purpose of trafficking, resist arrest, escape lawful custody, and flight from peace officer.

He was released from custody with a future court appearance scheduled for April 15.

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YLA Fresh Thread men’s store has expanded its operations on Commercial Street.

Owner Leon Drzewiecki said that after just a year and a half in business, NYLA Fresh Thread is doing so well that he decided to lease the empty unit next door, which was an accessory store, and double his floor space.

He said that, as a carpenter by trade, he has spent the last three months working on the addition, which opened last week.

“We’ve built up a lot of awareness of our store since we opened so we’ve become pretty busy,” Drzewiecki said.

“The new space will allow us to showcase our products much better, and have better flow for our customers.”

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Accounting firms merge

Nanaimo poppy fund thief gets five months

The Nanaimo accounting firm J.A. Smith & Associates Inc. has been merged with Smythe LLP. J.A. Smith & Associates, led by Joyce A. Smith, has served Nanaimo with a wide range of services for 25 years.

Smith said she and her associates are looking forward to working under the name Smythe LLP. The Vancouver-based Smythe LLP is a full service accounting firm recognized for exceptional work in the areas

A 49-year-old man arrested for stealing poppy donations in Nanaimo has been sentenced to five months in jail for four counts of theft.

Anthony Britt was sentenced in provincial court on Tuesday but has been in custody since his arrest on Nov. 10, after he had stolen poppy donations for a fourth time, police said.

Leading up to his arrest, Nanaimo RCMP had released a surveillance video of Britt leaving a store after stealing poppy donations, which was posted across social media.

“The public was incensed and soon, Mr. Britt was enemy number one,” said Nanaimo RCMP spokesman Const. Gary O’Brien.

“It didn’t take long for his name to surface as the “Poppy thief” and shortly thereafter he was behind bars.”

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Leon Drzewiecki, owner of NYLA Fresh Thread men’s store, at 206 Commercial Street, has opened a new expansion to his store. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

of assurance, taxation, valuation, insolvency and business advisory services.

Their new location in Nanaimo, which officially opened under its new name on Nov. 1, is the firm’s fifth.

Neighbourly shopping The Yellow Pages’ “Shop The Neighbourhood” initiative is coming to Nanaimo for the first time on Nov. 28.

Up to 75 businesses in the downtown core are participating in the free national initiative created to remind Canadians that shopping local makes a difference.

The event is being held in partnership with the Downtown Nanaimo Business Improvement Association and will feature exclusive deals and promotions from local businesses to help residents rediscover all that their neighbourhood has to offer.

Deadline looms The deadline for nominations is approaching for the annual Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards, on Jan. 21 at the Coast Bastion Hotel.

Nominations for the awards must be received by Dec. 15.

The awards ceremony recognizes the top companies from all over Vancouver Island in 17 different categories, including in automotive, construction, health, trades and business of the year.

“Someone might want to nominate a business they believe is worthy of consideration for these awards, and all they need to do is email or call the Business Examiner, and the business will be contacted,” said Mark MacDonald of the Business Examiner, which co-ordinates the event.

The Business Examiner can be contacted at www.businessexaminer.ca.

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Nanaimo lawyer Sandra Dick has been appointed as a master of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

A master of the Supreme Court of B.C.

resides in civil chambers and registrar hearings, and makes decisions about pre-trial motions and procedural orders.

Thirteen Supreme Court masters sit in Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, Kamloops, Kelowna and Nanaimo.

A graduate of the UBC law school, Dick is a partner at Nanaimo’s Heath Law LLP, where she practises in the area of family law and has experience in estate administration, conveyancing and personal injury litigation.

In addition to supporting youth athletics and the performing arts in her community, Dick is also a governor of the Law Foundation of B.C. and former president of the Nanaimo City Bar Association. She begins on Jan. 1.

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Search and rescue team rescues lone hiker AUREN RUVINSKY PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

A woman from the Lower Mainland was a capable hiker with good gear, but may not have known the area enough, suggested Arrowsmith Search and Rescue search manager Gordon Yelland.

“She had amazingly good gear, she

was in good shape, she hikes on the mainland, she just didn’t have the right maps and enough detail for this area,” he said of a rescue call they received at 2:15 p.m. Sunday.

Luckily she had a fully charged cell phone and she called for help early, he said, pointing out it is a common mistake for people to wait, not wanting to bother emergency services, thinking

they can find their own way out.

“She realized she was a bit lost, or overextended and called,” he said.

He was able to talk to the lone hiker, somewhere on the Wesley Ridge Traverse above Cameron Lake. The weather was clear and beautiful but cold.

They were able to pinpoint her location from her cellphone and a

special search and rescue app and quickly determined that it would take two to three hours just to get to her over land, by which time it would be dark, so they called in a helicopter which picked up two ASAR members and was able to land within a few hundred meters of her.

The woman was back at the ASAR hall in Coombs in no time and

was driven back to her car with no injuries. About 20 ASAR volunteers responded in all and were stood down by 4 p.m.

“She did most things right, including having a cellphone and calling right away,” said ASAR spokesperson Barry Blair, who suggested the main lesson was to ensure you have and understand accurate maps.

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food insecurity Qualicum author argues that food banks are more of a symptom than a solution CANDACE WU PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

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ust off the Island Highway connecting Parksville to Qualicum sits the Salvation Army food bank, housed in an unassuming, old building tucked behind a quaint sushi joint and aromatic German bakery.

Every month, this relatively small operation hands out food to approximately 400 households.

Around Christmas time, that number is likely to double.

According to Food Banks Canada’s annual Hunger Count, food bank use in B.C. has skyrocketed by 28.1 per cent since the 2008 recession. Just this past year alone it rose by 2.8 per cent. Alarmingly, more than 30 per cent of food bank users are children.

As food banks continue to flourish, food insecurity — the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods — is also on the rise.

And according to Qualicum Beach author and emeritus professor Graham Riches, food banks may just be the driving force behind food insecurity.

“Without people really realizing it we’ve moved from a system of income security or income transfers and social security to a system of food transfers and food aid which is what you would expect in the Third World, but not in Canada,” Riches said.

“The longer we have food charity and people supporting it and not asking critical questions about it we’re not going to find ways to ensure people are not hungry.”

The former UBC School of Social Work director said he has dedicated his life to researching food insecurity. He published a book earlier this year, First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right to Food? where he argues food banks are an inadequate, ineffective, unethical response to hunger — and they’re shifting the burden of responsibility from government to society.

“Why are we having food bank drives? Yes, because people are hungry, or food insecure, but it’s not because there’s not enough food. It’s because people can’t access food,” he said, noting we live in a country with a well developed social safety net, arguably “the bread basket” of the world.

“It’s a problem of low wages, it’s a problem of underemployment, it’s a problem of inadequate social assistance benefits, and it’s a problem that if you live in the states as we do today where it’s all about minimum government and lower taxes, it’s about pushing these problems down onto municipalities, down to the lowest level.”

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he first food bank in Canada opened in Edmonton in 1981.

It was supposed to be a short-term response to the recession of the time.

“We imported (the idea of) food banks from the United States and what has happened over the years is we have socially constructed the issue of hunger as a matter for charity and not as a human rights issue or a matter for government,” Riches said.

According to Simon Robinson’s Who banks on food banks in Canada, a 2014 discussion paper published by Put Food In The Budget, 200 million pounds of food is distributed by food banks in Canada every year, but that only meets nine per cent of the food needs of those who receive it.

Robinson’s research finds the monthly financial value of food received by recipients is $24.50, while a person would need $266 to purchase healthy, nutritious food.

“Food banks are dependent upon the generosity of our communities and often the sorts of things that get purchased and given to food banks aren’t the most nutritious,” said Island Health community health officer Dr. Paul Hasselback.

“Most food banks are familiar with the issues of quality in conjunction with quantity and are doing the best they can in an environment where

Thirty five-year-old Nicholas Dumais sits out front Qualicum Foods Saturday afternoon in late October asking people for spare change or food. [CANDACE WU]

they are dependent on the charitable generosity of community and they do a damn good job for what they have to work with.”

Riches said 60 per cent of people who use food banks are the “working poor,” meaning they have jobs or part-time jobs but aren’t earning enough to put food on the table.

Meanwhile, he said, only one in four food insecure Canadians will even use a food bank because of embarrassment, shame and stigma — adding it’s “morally wrong” to subject people to use food banks.

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n First World Hunger Revisited Riches describes food banks as “degrading programmes to be used as a last resort . . . The ineffectiveness of charitable food banks is masked by their high degree of public legitimacy.”

“Food banks are an inadequate response to a very significant social issue and of course the backdrop to it is poverty and inequality,” he said. “It’s uncoordinated charity that’s doing the best it can but it doesn’t actually have the resources to address the problem.”

Riches believes it may need to start with a change in perspective.

“As Canadians, if we continue to believe by always wanting lower taxes we’re somehow going to solve this

problem we are grossly mistaken,” said Riches.

According to Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation senior public affairs officer Sean Leslie, a single person on income assistance receives up to $610 every month.

The last time income assistance was raised was in April, 2007. At that time, Leslie said it was raised by $50.

Before 2007, the last time income assistance was raised was in 1992.

“Prices have gone up, the cost of living has gone up and people can’t survive,” said Riches. “Clearly, government needs to be raising rates.”

Riches said inadequate income is the primary factor in food insecurity.

“The government has this information so why aren’t they using it?

Well, because they don’t have the resources. Well, how could they have the resources when they keep lowering taxes?” he said. “Food is an intensely political matter, it’s not just a social matter.”

While Riches said there is solid evidence that food banks are failing the system, they continue to grow in popularity because people have “a moral imperative” to care for one another.

“We all do our best, but the problem nevertheless continues and actually increases,” he said.

“What I think people in the food bank movement and people who give to food banks need to understand is that while they might be marginally alleviating some peoples’ need at a certain time, it’s not a long-term solution.”

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iches said he would like to see food banks abolished tomorrow.

However, he stopped short of asking people to stop donating.

He said government needs to step up to the plate in order to address food insecurity.

Under international law, Riches argues food insecurity is a government obligation.

“If people donate to food banks they should take it one step further,” he said.

“If you donate then you should be tweeting, or sending a postcard — or whatever people do these days — to (MLA) Michelle Stilwell, (MLA) Scott Fraser, (Premier) Christy Clark and (MP) Gord Johns saying ‘I’ve done my bit today to deal with this problem. Now what are you doing? Because this is a government responsibility, it’s your responsibility, it’s our collective responsibility because everyone is in this together and this is not an appropriate way to address hungry people in our communities.’”

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‘Leviathan’ survivor recalls fateful wave Calgary man is touting Get On Board skatepark project as a way to say thank you to people of Ahousaht DIRK MEISSNER THE CANADIAN PRESS

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wayne Mazereeuw knew lives were at risk after a giant wave hit the Leviathan II and tossed him, his wife and 25 others into the chilling, rolling waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

“As soon as the boat went over, as soon as people started flying into the water, I knew we were in a bad situation,” he said about the tragedy that claimed six lives near Tofino on Oct. 25.

“I knew it was very possible lives were going to be lost that day,” he said from Calgary.

Mazereeuw, 36, said he and his wife, Elisa, 34, were on their first weekend getaway together since the births of their young children when an afternoon whale-watching trip turned deadly.

He said the couple survived the ordeal by clutching a life ring for anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour in the frigid waters before being pulled aboard a water taxi that came to their rescue from the nearby First Nation village of Ahousaht.

Mazereeuw said he went public with his survival ordeal after seeing a story about a fundraising effort to build a skate park for Ahousaht’s at-risk youth.

Mazereeuw said he builds skate parks for a living, and wants to help the village, which only has about two kilometres of paved road.

“I couldn’t believe how perfect an opportunity it was to give back to the community,” he said.

Mazereeuw said the whale watchers were viewing sea lions on the rocks near an area called Plover Reefs about 15 kilometres west of Tofino when the boat capsized.

“I remember looking over to the right side of the boat and seeing a fairly large wave coming but didn’t think a whole lot of it,” he said. “We were on a pretty big boat and would never have expected anything like that.”

Mazereeuw said the wave tipped the boat and it wasn’t until he saw people being flung overboard that he realized the danger of the situation.

“I managed to hang onto the boat for a while as it was going down, but I too was quickly in the water,” he said. “It happened super quick.

After that, I ended up underneath the boat.”

Dwayne Mazereeuw, construction director of New Line Skateparks, in Calgary on Tuesday. Mazereeuw and his wife were rescued from the ‘Leviathan II’ whale watching boat that capsized off Tofino last month. [THE CANADIAN PRESS/MIKE RIDEWOOD]

Mazereeuw said he was able to swim to the surface and saw a man in the water hanging onto a life ring from the vessel.

“I had no idea where my wife was at the time,” he said.

“I heard my name being called. I think it was one of the crew members who was with my wife. She was able to swim over and latch onto the life ring with me.”

Mazereeuw said he and his wife and three others clung to the life ring as waves crashed over their heads. He said the water was coated with oil and diesel from the capsized vessel.

Mazereeuw said the survivors saw a life raft from the boat, but the waves were too rough to

allow them to get near.

He said the sight of a rescue flare fired in the near distance gave the survivors hope that help was on the way.

“After a bit, it didn’t seem too long when we saw the first boat come,” Mazereeuw said. “We were frozen solid, exhausted. They literally had to pull us out of the water.”

He said the Ahousaht residents who launched a rescue effort likely saved numerous lives.

“It could have been a lot worse out there.

They risked their lives to come out and save us.

The waters weren’t calm.”

Mazereeuw said he and his wife have already personally thanked Francis and Michele Camp-

bell, who arrived in their water taxi to pull eight survivors from the water.

Vancouver Island outreach worker Grant Shilling said the Get On Board project to build the skate park can use Mazereeuw’s help and donations from others.

Five Britons died in the sinking: David Thomas, 50, and his 18 year-old son Stephen; Jack Slater, 76, a British national living in Toronto; Katie Taylor, a 29-year-old Briton living in Whistler; and 63-year-old Nigel Hooker of Southampton, England.

Surfers discovered the body of Australian tourist Raveshan Morgan Pillay, 27, last week off Vargas Island.

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British Columbia has made an “embarrassing” argument while defending itself against a lawsuit launched by a man wrongfully jailed nearly 30 years, says a Vancouver lawyer following the case.

Michael McCubbin said on Tuesday the province is acknowledging it “screwed up” by arguing that its failure to disclose important documents to Ivan Henry during his sexual-assault trial in the early 1980s would not have made any difference because the accused opted to represent himself.

“It’s acknowledging a very legitimate miscarriage of justice for which they’re responsible and then relying on a very technical and speculative argument to say that, ’Well, it doesn’t really matter

because he’s too unskilled and simple to have done anything with it even if we had given him the documents,”’ said McCubbin, who sits on the legal-aid action committee of the Trial Lawyers Association of B.C. Henry has sued the province, the federal government and the City of Vancouver after his acquittal on 10 counts of sexual assault in 2010 — about 27 years after he was originally convicted.

On Monday, government lawyer John Hunter told B.C. Supreme Court that Henry’s case may have ended differently had he accepted a publicly funded lawyer. Hunter also said Henry’s lack of legal training meant the province’s failure to pass along potentially damning documents would not have changed the outcome of the case.

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Twenty-four shots fired as Abbotsford police officer takes out wayward cow VIKKI HOPES ABBOTSFORD NEWS

A review is underway by the Abbotsford Police Department after an officer fired 24 shots to kill a cow that was running through city streets on Sunday.

Const. Paul Walker said a review of this nature is standard after police use a firearm or other means of force in the line of duty.

In this case, the review will look into all aspects of the incident, including why so many shots were fired and the circumstances that preceded it. It is not known how many of the shots actually hit the cow.

Walker said police will also look into the various resources — such as veterinarians and farmers — who are available in the community to assist in similar incidents in the future.

He said although the APD has been heavily criticized — on social media and via emails and phone calls — about the shooting, they are confirming that the officer fired two dozen shots from his patrol rifle.

“We want to be upfront and honest about what’s going on. We always have been, and this is no different,” Walker said.

The incident began at about 10:15 a.m. Sunday, when police began receiving calls that a cow was loose in the area of Whatcom and South Parallel roads.

Police who were dispatched to the area followed the cow in their vehicles and tried to corral it, but the animal ran onto Highway 1 and headed west in the eastbound lanes.

It then crossed the freeway and made its way onto DeLair Road, around to the front of the McDonald’s restaurant, and then eventually into the parking lots of several stores in the area.

An Abbotsford Police officer tails a cow on the loose at it proceeds along Sumas Way north of South Fraser Way. The cow was later killed by 24 police bullets. [JOSH VAN KOLL]

Walker said along the way, the cow travelled through yards and businesses, making it difficult for police to contain it, despite numerous attempts in their vehicles and on foot.

He said police tried to contact people who might be able to help — such as cattle companies — but they had difficult reaching anybody because it was a Sunday and businesses were closed.

The animal then ran north along Sumas Way and, as it headed just past South Fraser Way, the decision was made by a supervisor that the animal should be shot.

Walker said this area, which is bordered by a forested section, was chosen because it was away from

businesses and residences. The road was closed off before any shots were fired, he said.

Walker said the cow was put down because of the risk of a driver or pedestrian being injured or killed if there were a collision.

Walker said police do not carry tranquilizer guns, and conservation officers, who do use such equipment, deal with wild animals, not farm creatures.

The SPCA and animal control officers deal only with small animals, such as cats and dogs.

He said with the animal barreling down busy roads and through congested parking lots, officers had to act quickly and do what they felt was best for public safety.

The area was blocked off for about 20 minutes while the cow was moved off the road. A local farmer then transported the animal away.

On Monday, police were still trying to determine who owned the cow.

Walker said the APD typically handles about a dozen calls a year related to cows, horses and other farm animals that have escaped from their property.

In most cases, these incidents occur in rural areas, and there are large spaces available for police or local residents to contain the animal without risk to it or the public.

Walker said Sunday’s incident was a unique circumstance, with the cow making its way into a congested residential and business area.

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Report says doctors need to use database Overdose deaths could be reduced in British Columbia if more doctors used a provincial database to track prescriptions for painkillers, a new report says.

The B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS said in its report that opioids such as oxycodone are increasingly being overprescribed to patients who become addicted to the medication.

It said only 30 per cent of B.C. doctors are enrolled in the PharmaNet program, which allows physicians to see if patients are abusing opioids by getting prescriptions elsewhere. “(That) means that over 70 per cent of B.C. physicians may be writing opioid prescriptions without knowing if the patient in front of them is already prescribed opioids from multiple other practitioners,” the report said.

“This is a very real concern, as evidenced by the case of one B.C. resident who received more than 23,000 pills of oxycodone from more than 50 physicians and 100 pharmacies over five years,” said the report released Tuesday.

“Additionally, practitioners who do not use PharmaNet may be unaware if a patient is receiving medications that pose high risk for overdose if co-prescribed with opioids such as benzodiazopines or methadone.”

From 2005 to 2011, the rate of prescribing strong opioids in the province jumped by almost 50 per cent while dispensing of oxycodone went up by 135 per cent, said the report.

It said those prescribing rates conflict with increasing research that suggests opioids may have limited long-term effectiveness for treating chronic non-cancer pain.

Organized crime groups’ manufacturing of counterfeit opioids, fuel the street market for illicit opioids, and that’s “arguably a direct result of long-standing unsafe physician prescribing practices,” the report said.

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Bigger insurance breaks for good drivers on way

Charges in fatal crash related to police pursuit

Carcasses found, cops denounce trophy hunts

Ex-hospital clerk fined for selling patient data

Teen faces 68 driving, vehicle theft, charges

Drivers with good safety records are going to get a bigger break on their auto insurance from the Saskatchewan government.

The province has approved changes that will increase the safety discount on basic premiums to 25 per cent.

Bad drivers will pay more under the changes to be implemented after the next provincial election slated for next April. Penalties will double to $50 per point for drivers in a penalty zone and there will be increases for at-fault collisions.

Charges have been laid against the survivor of a crash that occurred during a police chase of a suspect vehicle in Winnipeg.

Police have also identified Brandi Melissa Manningway, who was 27, as the driver who died in the crash.

Officers were pursuing a vehicle early Monday morning that they believed had been involved in a commercial robbery.

Matthew Alexander Bartlett, who is 30 and from Winnipeg, faces more than a dozen charges.

Ontario provincial police are denouncing what they call illegal trophy hunting after two deer carcasses were found on the side of a road in a rural community for the second time this week.

Police say a resident found the carcasses — which were missing their heads and fur — around noon Monday. OPP Const. Ed Sanchuk says the carcasses were stuffed inside garbage bags and appear to have been dumped sometime between Friday and Monday.

Former hospital clerk Shaida Bandali has been sentenced to two years’ probation, 300 hours of community service and $45,000 in penalties for handing over the personal information of new mothers to investment dealers peddling education savings plans.

Bandali pleaded guilty in August to one count of unregistered trading.

On top of a $36,000 fine, Bandali must pay a $9,000 victim surcharge that goes toward a provincial fund that assists the victims of crime.

A 17-year-old boy is facing a total of 68 charges alleging vehicle thefts, dangerous driving and driving without a licence.

RCMP say they were called about a theft of a Cadillac SUV and a short time later about gas being stolen in Wetaskiwin on Nov. 19.

Then police got a call about the vehicle smashing through a fence.

Police found the car and saw someone running away. A police service dog tracked the suspect and police arrested him.

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Corruption probe raises federal link JENNIFER DITCHBURN THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The federal sphere may have been excluded from Quebec’s massive corruption inquiry, but the Charbonneau commission’s final report shows federal money would not have been immune.

Over the three years of the commission’s work, Justice France Charbonneau carefully avoided stepping into the realm of federal politics and federal construction contracts — it was not her mandate. Former spokespersons for the Conservative government repeatedly suggested there was no cause for concern on Ottawa’s side.

And yet the voluminous report, detailing collusion in the construction and engineering industries and its financing of political parties, contained glimpses into areas that directly overlap with federal interests.

Money paid out under the Canada-Quebec Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund wound up being subject to political influence by provincial ministers, the report details. A former political aide said that certain projects were evaluated based only on “political criteria,” and government ridings were more likely to be tapped for funding.

A 2009-10 federal audit of that same fund found no serious problems.

An early look at another set of 91 Montreal sewer contracts mentioned during the first months of the commission’s work showed that 15 had received federal funding, ranging from $200,000 to more than $700,000.

There were ample indications that some of the same engineering firms helping to generously finance provincial and municipal politicians in the hopes of securing contracts, were also sending money to federal parties.

The commission explained that engineering firms would help put municipal officials in the same room with provincial ministers, so that they might push for infrastructure funding they needed.

Later, the engineering firms would get

“We’d like to see the federal government take more responsibility.

It’s always responsible for public money — it should be a more active partner.”

Alexandre Boulerice, NDP ethics critic

their backs scratched with lucrative contracts.

The firm Roche told the commission that every year on opening day for the Montreal Expos, it would organize get-togethers between mayors and municipal managers with both federal and provincial ministers.

An engineer from the firm Tecsult testified that he and his wife gave the Parti Quebecois and Quebec Liberal party $20,000 over a five year span, but also that they gave to federal parties.

He said it was necessary in order for the firms to land contracts.

Annie Trepanier, a spokeswoman for Public Works Minister Judy Foote, said the government had no immediate comment while it reviews the report.

NDP ethics critic Alexandre Boulerice said he would like to see the federal government increase the powers of the Competition Bureau of Canada and the Chief Electoral Officer to combat corruption.

The competition bureau has already been involved in investigations led by Quebec’s anti-corruption unit and said it was watching the commission’s proceedings closely.

Boulerice rejected Ottawa’s previous position that the province has control over who gets contracts.

“We’d like to see the federal government take more responsibility,” Boulerice said of Ottawa’s approach. “It’s always responsible for public money — it should be a more active partner.”

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Ottawa wants 25,000 Syria refugees here by February Officials unable to say when mass arrivals will begin or where they’ll go after landing STEPHANIE LEVITZ THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Liberal government revealed Tuesday that its promise to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees will take longer and cost more than originally planned.

Rather than bring that many people in by year’s end, the resettlement process will now be split in two, with 10,000 to arrive by Dec. 31 and the remainder by the end of February.

But specific details of how that will be accomplished are unclear, with government officials unable to say when mass arrivals of refugees will begin, where they’ll go after landing in Toronto or Montreal, whether the military will in fact be called upon to assist or the final cost.

The decision to abandon original year-end deadline to resettle the entire 25,000 was due to nothing more than a need to institute the best possible program, Immigration Minister John McCallum said.

“I’ve heard Canadians across the country say ’yes, you have to do it right and if it takes a little bit longer to do it right than take the extra time’,” he said.

“When we welcome our newcomer friends with a smile, a smile alone is not sufficient.”

The first group will be made up largely of privately sponsored refugees, whose files, in many cases, have been in the works for months as churches and other community groups moved to assist some of the most vulnerable people fleeing the Syrian civil war.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015

NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ HAITI

Top two finalists in election confirmed The top two finishers in Haiti’s first-round presidential election are government-backed candidate Jovenel Moise and former state construction chief Jude Celestin, officials said Tuesday. They are scheduled to compete in a runoff vote on Dec. 27.

Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council said Moise received 33 per cent of the vote and Celestin received 25 per cent.

The announcement by the nine-member council set off a new wave of protests in Cabaret, where supporters of Moise Jean-Charles, one of the leading candidates from a field of 54, denounced the results.

Protesters also began gathering in the nearby capital of Port-au-Prince.

A reporter with Zenith radio station who was at the protest said one person was injured after apparently being shot by police.

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State of emergency after bus blast kills 12 people

Refugees from Syria and Iraq arrive on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday. Canada’s resettlement process will now be split in two, with 10,000 to arrive by Dec. 31 and the remainder by the end of February. [AP PHOTO]

in by government, Canadian officials are working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to select people from Jordan and Lebanon. They will work with the Turkish government to find suitable candidates from that country.

Priority for government refugees will be given to complete families, women at risk, members of sexual minorities and single men only if they are identified as gay, bisexual or transgender or are travelling as part of a family.

Private sponsors have no restric-

tions on whom they can bring over.

More than 500 officials have been assigned to work on the massive resettlement program.

All health and security screening will take place overseas and will involve multiple assessments and the collection of biometrics.

Under regular immigration screening, a file that has some security concerns is sent for more detailed review, but in this instance, any red flags on the first pass will result in that person’s case being set aside entirely in order to speed the pro-

cess, said Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

“Right from day one, our plan was to be diligent,” Goodale said.

Once screening is complete, refugees will be flown to Toronto and Montreal, largely on chartered aircraft though the military is also on call to provide airlift every 48 hours if necessary. What it would take to engage them in that role is unclear.

From there, they will be spread across 36 different destination cities which already have resettlement programs in place.

Tunisia’s president declared a 30-day state of emergency across the country and imposed an overnight curfew for the capital after an explosion Tuesday struck a bus carrying members of the presidential guard, killing at least 12 people and wounding 20 others.

The government described it as a terrorist attack. The blast on a treelined avenue in the heart of Tunis is a new blow to a country that is seen as a model for the region but has struggled against Islamic extremist violence. Radical gunmen staged two attacks earlier this year that killed 60 people, devastated the tourism industry and rattled this young democracy.

The attack came days after authorities visibly increased the security level in the capital and deployed security forces in high numbers.

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Canada in need of skilled graduates: Bank CEO ANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Canada’s post-secondary institutions are not producing enough graduates with the right skills to drive future economic growth, warns the head of one of the country’s largest banks.

CIBC chief executive Victor Dodig told The Canadian Press in an interview Tuesday that much of the country’s eventual economic success will be generated by entrepreneurs who commercialize new ideas and technologies.

And Dodig wasn’t just talking about innovators focused on the high-tech sector. He pointed out that technological breakthroughs also key to the success of traditional industries

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like manufacturing and natural resources.

But while Dodig credits Canada with boasting a high overall participation rate in post-secondary

education when compared to other industrialized countries, he says the system falls short in the disciplines that will really count down the road.

Canada, he added, lags its international peers in training graduates in areas geared for boosting innovation. Those fields include science, engineering and mathematics.

“We have gaps — we’re not producing the types of skills that industries need,” Dodig said Tuesday before raising the topic again in a speech to business leaders and policy-makers at the Canadian Club of Ottawa.

“A lot of people are overeducated and underqualified for the jobs that are needed.”

His comments come at a time when Canada has struggled amid an uncer-

tain global economy and the sting of low commodity prices, particularly in the energy sector. Other industries, meanwhile, have been slow to pick up the slack.

These factors have had consequences for Canada: the economy contracted in the first two quarters of 2015.

In his speech, Dodig noted that over the last decade 10,500 manufacturing plants have shuttered their doors — or 17 per cent of Canada’s capacity.

He said it’s unrealistic to expect old-time sectors like manufacturing to fully regenerate, nor can Canada continue to rely on a low loonie to bail out the economy as a “single variable to drive growth.”

President reshuffles cabinet over corruption Kenya’s president reshuffled his Cabinet Tuesday to replace five ministers who are being investigated for graft and one who resigned over the weekend after being accused of corruption.

President Uhuru Kenyatta replaced ministers for transport and infrastructure, agriculture, energy and petroleum, and lands and labour, who vacated office in March to allow for the investigation on graft allegations that implicates them. The former Planning and Devolution Minister Anne Waiguru resigned Saturday citing health reasons after she was accused of corruption.

Kenyatta’s nearly three-year-old regime has come under heavy criticism for inaction against graft which American Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec earlier this month described as a crisis.

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U.S. says climate summit won’t lead to binding emissions deal

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ALEXANDER PANETTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

A Belgian police officer patrols the Grand Place in central Brussels on Tuesday. The terror alert in Brussels remains at its highest level. [AP PHOTO]

WASHINGTON — The upcoming Paris climate summit won’t result in a binding target for limiting greenhouse gas emissions below disaster-averting levels, the White House said Tuesday.

But it said the talks starting next week could still be a historic moment in the global fight against climate change, as it described its objectives in a media briefing.

The Obama administration said the summit will be a success if a largerthan-ever number of countries agree to: limit emissions, report on their progress and set up a system that allows increasing rounds of emissions cuts over time to keep temperature growth to 2C. “That’s important and unprecedented progress,” said Paul Bodnar, senior director for climate change at the White House’s National Security Council.

“But (it’s) still above the two-degree threshold the scientific community acknowledges is necessary to avoid the most severe aspects of climate change.”

The UN climate panel says human civilization would suffer catastrophic consequences under a 4C temperature growth that would be caused by business as usual by century’s end.

The panel says it would require emissions cuts of more than 40 per cent by mid-century to achieve a lesser disaster: a 2C temperature increase.

Canada is still far from being on track to meeting the climate targets set by the former Harper government, and the new Liberal government hasn’t announced a target yet.

Canada would need to shave off almost 250 megatonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions to achieve that target. Alberta — by far Canada’s largest emitter — would reduce 50 megatonnes under its new plan.

Other attacks planned by suspect organizer: Official SAMUEL PETREQUIN AND NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — The man believed to have planned the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more had likely planned to carry out another suicide bombing days later in the French capital’s business district, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud and an accomplice are believed to have been planning to attack La Defence on Nov. 18 or 19, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.

Abaaoud was among three people killed during a police raid on an apartment in a northern Paris suburb in the early hours of Nov. 18.

His female cousin, Hasna Ait Boulahcen, died of asphyxia apparently from the explosive vest detonated by a third person, who hasn’t been identified, the prosecutor said. The explosion led to part of the apartment collapsing.

Molins said the unidentified third person is believed to have been the accomplice with whom Abaaoud would have carried out an attack on La Defence, the high-rise district that is headquarters to major companies on the western edge of Paris.

The prosecutor said he “can’t be, and doesn’t want to be more precise” on the details suggesting such an attack had been planned.

Information obtained on Nov. 19 suggested “that the two attackers — Abaaoud and the man we found by his side in the apartment — were planning an attack consisting of blowing themselves up at La Defence either on Wednesday the 18th or Thursday the 19th,” Molins said.

The Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, claimed by the Islamic State group, targeted people enjoying

“(T)wo attackers — Abaaoud and the man we found by his side in the apartment — were planning an attack consisting of blowing themselves up . . . on Wednesday the 18th or Thursday the 19th.”

Francois Molins, French prosecutor

a Friday night out at a packed concert hall, a restaurant terrace, a cafe and a friendly soccer match between France and Germany.

In the hours after the killings, Abaaoud is believed to have returned to the sites of at least some of the attacks, including the Bataclan concert hall, even while special police forces were still there.

“The geolocalization of Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s alleged phone between 22:28 p.m. and 0:28 confirms a presence in the 12th, 11th, and 10th districts, and notably near the Bataclan concert hall,” Molins said. “This allows us to think that Abdelhamid Abaaoud returns to the crime scenes following the attacks on terraces of the cafes and restaurants of the 10th and 11th districts while (special police) were still taking action at the Bataclan.”

On Tuesday, a judge also handed down terrorism-related charges to Jawad Bendaoud, the only person so far in France known to be facing such charges directly linked to the Nov. 13 attacks. He was charged with criminal association and

detention of incendiary or explosive substances linked to a terrorist enterprise.

Bendaoud acknowledged in a television interview giving shelter to two people from Belgium in his home in Saint-Denis but said he didn’t know who they were. The prosecutor differed and said his suspected links with the attackers were being investigated.

The attack has been traced to a network of people with ties to both France and Belgium, where Abaaoud was from. Belgian authorities charged a fifth suspect Tuesday with terror-related offences relating to the Paris attack, while the federal prosecutor’s office issued an international arrest warrant for Mohamed Abrini, who is being tracked by both Belgian and French police. Abrini, who has been described as “armed and dangerous,” was seen with Salah Abdeslam — another top fugitive suspect in the attacks who crossed into Belgium the day after the killings — at a gasoline station in Ressons on the highway to Paris two days before the attacks. An international arrest warrant has also been issued for Abdeslam.

The Belgian capital has remained on the highest level of alert since the weekend for fear of a “serious and imminent threat,” with shops, schools and subways shut. Schools are set to reopen today with parts of the subway system, although the alert level will remain.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told lawmakers on Tuesday that 124 people have been handed preliminary charges since a state of emergency was imposed hours after the attacks, following more than 1,230 searches in which 230 weapons were recovered. He didn’t specify what the charges were or if they were linked to the attacks.

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Albertans mourn MLA killed in traffic accident

Bombardier eyes 2020 before it turns around ROSS MAROWITS THE CANADIAN PRESS

Manmeet Bhullar in third term as member for Calgary Greenway DEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — An Alberta member of the legislature is being remembered by his peers as a mountain of a man, a fierce political debater and a big-hearted champion of children.

White roses, a red prayer book and the provincial flag were placed Tuesday on the desk at which Manmeet Bhullar usually sat in the chamber.

Politicians walked past and paid silent tribute.

Bhullar, 35, was killed Monday on an icy and snowy stretch of the main route between Edmonton and Calgary. He had pulled over to the side of the Queen Elizabeth II Highway to offer help in a vehicle rollover.

An oncoming semi lost control and hit him.

He was in his third term as the member for the Calgary Greenway constituency.

Flags at all Alberta government buildings flew at half-mast on Tuesday and the Ontario legislature held a moment of silence. In Regina, Saskatchewan legislature member Greg

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Ottenbreit offered his condolences.

Bhullar served in three cabinet portfolios — Service Alberta, Human Services and Infrastructure — under the previous Progressive Conservative government.

It was as human services minister in 2014 that he took action following a newspaper’s investigative series revealing that 45 children had died in government care over a 14-year period. Bhullar put through changes allowing names and cases to be made public in the future.

“There are a lot of changes to children in care that he brought about that have made a big difference for many vulnerable kids and their families,” said NDP government house leader Brian Mason. “I think that was his finest moment in terms of his contribution to public life.”

Liberal Leader David Swann agreed.

“He was a champion for children, and the responsibility of government to not only protect children but to make public issues related to their safety.”

Colleagues also remembered Bhullar as a tall, imposing man with a barrel chest and jet-black beard. They recalled razor-sharp debating skills coupled with an unyielding defence of Tory programs and values.

“He was a scary guy when you got him mad,” said Mason. “But he was a passionate guy. He could get really emotional about things that mattered.”

Proceedings at the Alberta legislature were suspended for the day, but were to resume today with tributes to Bhullar.

MONTREAL — Bombardier has warned of another challenging year in 2016 before the transformation it has launched, including cost-cutting efforts and shifts in production to low-cost centres, deliver a financial turnaround by 2020.

“Despite short-term challenges, the potential for Bombardier is great and we are turning the business around,” CEO Alain Bellemare said Tuesday while unveiling the Montreal-based transportation giant’s five-year strategic plan.

Armed with US$2.5 billion in public funding from the Quebec government and the province’s pension manager, Bombardier expects to have sufficient cash — about US$6.5 billion — to deliver its CSeries commercial jet and complete development of its new Global 7000 business jet. Both programs will bolster the company’s overall revenues.

But 2016 will be a year of “transition” as Bombardier cuts production of its luxury Global 5000 business jet and faces costs from ramping up the CSeries, before its focus shifts to growing earnings and generating better free cash flow.

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significant runway for improvement,” Bellemare told institutional analysts during a 4 1/2-hour meeting webcast from New York City.

Bombardier expects overall revenues will grow five to six per cent annually to exceed US$25 billion by 2020, with earning margins more than doubling to between seven and eight per cent.

The company expects to realize hundreds of millions in cost savings by taking advantage of its large size to centralize procurement, reduce the number of suppliers and transfer work on more complex aerospace projects to operations in Mexico and Morocco.

“This plan is achievable and it doesn’t depend on short-term orders,” said chief financial officer John Di Bert.

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CALGARY — A one-time senior editor at Calgary’s largest newspaper says he had concerns with a rebuttal to a column that was critical of a former TV reporter running for office and rejected publishing it.

Two separate interviews with Gord Smiley, former assistant managing editor with the Calgary Herald, were read into the record Tuesday at the defamation trial that pits former NBC war correspondent Arthur Kent against Postmedia, which includes the Calgary Herald, and columnist Don Martin.

Kent is alleging he was defamed during his unsuccessful campaign to win a seat in Calgary for the Pro-

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gressive Conservatives in the 2008 provincial election. He lost the race after a column by Martin ran under the headline “Alberta’s ‘Scud Stud’ a ‘Dud’ on Campaign Trail” — a

reference to the nickname Kent got covering the Gulf War. Kent wrote a rebuttal under the headline “A Tool for Love” that suggested Martin was simply doing the bidding of the Tory party and senior members such as Rod Love.

Smiley said in a 2009 interview with Kent’s legal team that he informed Kent over the phone that the rebuttal wouldn’t run.

“It was my opinion that we weren’t going to publish this column. First of all because it was highly critical of Don Martin and we didn’t want to publish the column because of that reason,” said Smiley.

“And also it made several references, that I was uncomfortable with — against Alan Hallman, Rod Love,

(former premier) Ralph Klein, Lee Richardson — and I didn’t want to publish the column.”

Hallman and Love were later identified by Martin as two of the three anonymous sources he used in his column, which described Kent as a candidate who failed to toe the party line and was difficult to deal with. The article said Kent was not co-operating with the party and a number of key campaign members were threatening to quit.

Court also heard Tuesday from Martin Pelletier, an energy portfolio manager who writes a weekly column for the Financial Post.

He told court that he was shocked by some of the “personal attacks” in the Martin column.

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As John Kerry visits Israel, new spat erupts with U.S. over settlements BRADLEY KLAPPER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — A new spat emerged between Israel and Washington over Jewish settlements on Tuesday, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Israel and the West Bank for the first time in more than a year.

As Kerry set aside his goal of a long-sought peace accord to make way for more modest hopes of an end to two months of deadly violence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the recognition of some existing settlement blocs in exchange for steps to ease tensions with the Palestinians.

In Washington, the State Department quickly rejected any suggestion the U.S. would alter its longstanding opposition to settlements or recognize them as legitimate outside of a peace agreement.

There were no signs that Kerry made headway in easing tensions during his meetings with Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. As Kerry’s plane touched down, a Palestinian motorist rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers, wounding three, before the attacker was shot and wounded, the Israeli military said.

It was the latest in a spate of violence that has sunk the chances of a renewed peace push during the Obama administration’s final year.

Kerry, whose nine-month peace mediation between the parties collapsed in April 2014, reiterated the American goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. But he made no mention of reviving peace talks.

Alongside Netanyahu, Kerry noted Israel’s obligation to defend itself from “attacks in the streets with knives, with scissors, with cars.”

When he met Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, he said the shootings and stabbings were a “challenge to all civilized people.”

Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint on the Israeli side of the border with the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday ahead of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. [AP PHOTO]

None of the leaders themselves offered any encouragement that peace might be possible right now.

“There can be no peace when we have an onslaught of terror, not here, not anywhere else,” Netanyahu said.

The current spike in violence erupted in mid-September over tensions surrounding a sensitive Jerusalem holy site and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Nineteen Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings.

Israeli fire has killed 89 Palestinians.

Israel says 57 of these were attackers, while the rest died in clashes with security forces.

In addition, Ezra Schwartz, an 18-year-old from Kerry’s home state of Massachusetts, was killed in a West Bank shooting last week. Kerry mentioned Schwartz twice by name.

The larger vision of a two-state solution has been the centerpiece of American foreign policy in the

Middle East for decades. Given the level of violence, Kerry acknowledged ahead of his trip that ambitions would be scaled back, saying he would be seeking steps “that could calm things down a bit.”

Israel says the outburst of violence is the result of incitement by Palestinian political and religious leaders.

The Palestinians say it is the result of nearly half a century of Israeli occupation and frustration over repeated failures in peace efforts and a lack of hope for gaining independence.

An Israeli official said Netanyahu complained to Kerry about alleged Palestinian incitement and said any confidence-building gestures for the Palestinians would first require calm.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing closed meetings, said that in return for such steps, including approval of building permits for Palestinian projects, Netanyahu

demanded international recognition of major Israeli settlement blocs in the West Bank that Israel hopes to keep under a future peace deal.

In the West Bank, Kerry said the situation for Palestinians is “very dire” and assured them the U.S. wants to “help contribute to calm and to restore people’s confidence in the ability of a two-state solution to still be viable.”

Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said Abbas called on Israel to commit to the two-state solution and provided Kerry with evidence that Israel is “destroying” that goal through continued settlement construction.

Before Tuesday, Kerry had visited Israel and the Palestinian territories only once since the latest peace process collapsed, in July 2014. He met with the two leaders last month, in Europe and in Jordan, in an earlier attempt to halt the current round of fighting.

CHINTA PUXLEY THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — A child poverty report card says an increasing number of children live in poverty in Canada, but no where is the problem more desperate than in Manitoba.

The report released Tuesday by social justice coalition Campaign 2000 says almost one in five children across the country lives below the poverty line. That number is one in three in Manitoba.

Sid Frankel, one of the report’s authors and a social work professor at the University of Manitoba, said what began as a crisis in the early 1990s has become a “chronic nightmare.” More children are slipping into poverty despite a provincial strategy introduced in 2009.

Their parents tend to have low-paying, precarious jobs and don’t get enough tax breaks to lift them out of poverty, he said.

“Manitoba children are at a kind of double jeopardy.”

The report says child poverty has increased since the House of Commons made the first of three pledges to eliminate it in 1989. The national poverty rate has jumped by 20 per cent since then, but has increased by 26 per cent in Manitoba.

The report also says 40 per cent of indigenous children in Canada live in poverty and one in seven users of homeless shelters is a child.

Poor kids often go hungry, live in inadequate housing and don’t have school or sports supplies, Frankel said. Study after study has shown living in poverty affects health quality, he added.

“We think this is pretty serious.”

The report suggests the Manitoba and federal governments should aim to cut child poverty rates in half within five years. Campaign 2000 is also calling on governments to provide more well-paying, steady jobs while increasing affordable housing.

Its report also calls for a national child-care program and an immediate boost in minimum wages across the country to $15.53 an hour.

Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said the report only looks at income and not how far that income can go.

“How much you pay for something in Brussels is quite different than how much you pay for something in Winnipeg,” he said. “But whatever measure we have, we want people to be living less in poverty.”

The federal Liberals have pledged to do much of what is called for in the report, including changing employment insurance rules to make it easier to qualify for support, expanding parental leave programs and providing a higher child benefit to needy families.

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nce the first salvo was fired, once the word “abuse” appeared in front-page stories alongside John Furlong’s name, the public face of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics couldn’t win.

That is how the game works. The idea of an heroic figure with feet of clay always makes for a sensational story.

It’s only when the story turns out to be untrue that it gets awkward.

“Oops, sorry!” doesn’t quite cover it. Or the accounts of the story’s unraveling run “on Page 6,” as Furlong said Monday, in a 90-minute conversation with The Vancouver Sun, his first extended sit-down interview in three years.

The public moves on to the next victim, but the asterisk, Furlong well knows, may always linger.

“When this happened, you know . . . I have a huge Rolodex, and a lot of people in my corner. And the corner just emptied out,” Furlong said.

“A lot of people stayed, but a lot of people just went away, and I think it’s partially because they don’t know what to do, what to say. ‘How are you feeling?’ They know how you’re feeling. And so it became quite lonely.

“I used to exercise, fanatically, every day, and the desire to do that just evaporated. I didn’t want to be around people. It was embarrassing, humiliating. So I would get up at 4 in the morning and go walk the seawall, and then do it again at 10 at night, when it was dark.”

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he 65-year-old, Irish-born chief executive of the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee said he has begun to emerge from “the darkness” of allegations, brought forth in 2012 by a journalist/activist, Laura Robinson, that he physically and mentally abused students at an aboriginal school in Burns Lake, B.C., while teaching there as a member of an Irish Catholic mission in 1969.

One by one, the allegations, which had first appeared in the Georgia Straight newspaper, fell apart when tested by the courts, and the final act in Robinson’s obsessive three-year campaign against Furlong ended Sept. 18 when Madam Justice C.A. Wedge of the Supreme Court of B.C. dismissed a defamation suit Robinson brought against the man she had sought to bring down.

“Ms. Robinson’s publications concerning Mr. Furlong cannot be fairly characterized as the reporting of other persons’ allegations against him,” the judge wrote. “Rather, the publications constitute an attack by Ms. Robinson on Mr. Furlong’s character, conduct and credibility.”

“One fella phoned me and said, ‘If that’s what the judge wrote, you can imagine what she was thinking.’”

Furlong said.

Robinson had proceeded with the

defamation suit even after Furlong withdrew his own, against her.

That he decided not to pursue the reporter for damages, given the enormous financial and emotional cost of defending himself against potentially ruinous allegations, is among the more surprising aspects of his ordeal.

“I honestly thought about it, and just decided I don’t have it in me,” he said. “I didn’t want to spend another minute on it.

“I would have hoped with all three cases gone that everybody would have seen this is not going anywhere, and just let it go and hope everybody learned something. And my family can recover and she can go away and think about something else.

“And of course, her reaction was, ‘I’m going to press on.’”

Furlong said that in the beginning, he had thought Robinson’s story was so obviously untrue, no newspaper would publish it.

“I thought this would end in three days. And I was so wrong, and it got worse and worse. And the other thing I realized was that the more you respond to it, the worse it gets,” he said.

“You want to respond, and you see your children struggling, and so you

do and then what was contained is suddenly five times bigger.”

His son John had told him a story of being in a lecture theatre at university when a young woman next to him introduced herself and asked him his name. When he said “John Furlong” the woman Googled the name and turned her screen toward him and showed him a picture of John Furlong Sr. “At least you’re not this guy,” she said.

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urlong recalled being accosted while walking down Granville Street to a Vancouver Whitecaps game (he is executive chair of the soccer club).

“A fellow passed me and he called my name out and I kind of froze a little bit. Before it would have been, ‘Can I have my picture taken with you?’”

But he knew this wasn’t one of those encounters.

“I turned and I said yes, and he started walking beside me and screaming at me, what a terrible human being I was, and ‘I hope you get everything you have coming to you.’ And I sat down on a bench and I was shaking, and I just went home.

And every time I went out, I was always waiting for something, not quite at that level, but something.”

Three years’ worth of legal fees, lost income from speaking engagements cancelled by nervous organizations … the cost to Furlong was considerable. Would he put a number on it?

“I won’t, but it was too much. An outrageous amount,” he said.

“When the Games ended, I can’t imagine there were too many people busier than me. Speaking engagements, and then it just died. And that was retirement planning for me.

“So all of that fell apart, and then my confidence went. Then I thought, I don’t even want to do it now. It was always sitting there on my shoulder, waiting to jump out.

“Well, it was a lot of money, and some people helped (with the costs) but you know, financially is one thing but the human cost … I’d rather be penniless and respected than rich and reviled.”

The human cost included the harassment of his children and, indirectly, the death of his wife Deborah in an auto accident in Ireland, where the couple had retreated to escape constant reminders of how opinion had turned against a man who had been hailed as a hero after the success of the Olympics.

“I’ve always looked at things through the lens of ‘We’ve all got to be accountable for mistakes we’ve made, things we’ve done,’ but at the same time, no one’s alone in these things,” said Furlong.

“Families get destroyed, people get brought into it. So it’s always bothered me how easy it is to advance something like this.”

The court case, especially the judge’s ruling on Robinson’s defamation bid, has brought some measure of closure, Furlong said, though he

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still reflects on the damage done.

The genesis of Robinson’s campaign was the fact that in the post-Olympic book “Patriot Hearts,” Furlong’s first visit to Canada to teach at Burns Lake and Prince George was never mentioned.

“If I’d known that someone would go into the book and tear it apart like that … I’d have written right down to what I had for breakfast when I was four years old,” he said. “But it’s easy to say that after the fact. I think the most disappointing thing was this idea that it was a secret.

“So on the outside, it looks like somebody said something bad about me and we’re fighting about it, but in reality, it was an absolute mess that everyone was living with and I was in counseling and therapy, and the feelings you have to get through are huge,” he said.

“At the end of the day, you have to at some point say: what is the good? The good for me is you can get through it. There’s a way to, and a way not to, and I think I’ve been through all of it, every part of it.”

He has already made two speeches since returning to a form of public life, in Winnipeg and Lausanne, Switzerland.

“The reaction to what I had to say was good, and it feels better so your confidence grows, you know. Nobody threw anything, no buns,” he joked.

He will speak Wednesday at the Vancouver Board of Trade - the topic is adversity — and admits he is quite nervous about it.

“I’m not sure I’m fully out of it yet, but I’m certainly feeling better.

I mean it’s different than it used to be,” he said.

“For a very long time, I just tried to stay out of the way. Do what you have to do, but no more than that. I’m not wearing my dark glasses as much as I used to. “ . . . I think that what’s happened to me, I can at least give someone confidence that the truth is your friend. You have to believe that in the end it will be OK. If you haven’t that, I don’t know what you have.

“Well, anyway, its done and hopefully this time next year I’ll be able to look back and say this was all for the best.”

He laughed.

“But I don’t think so.”

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Reimer leaves Leafs’ practice with an injury The Maple Leafs may have to go back to Jonathan Bernier in net, and not by design.

James Reimer, who has started 11 of the past 12 games for Toronto, left halfway through Tuesday’s 45-minute practice with an undisclosed injury. He was able to skate to the bench on his own and after speaking to trainers, decided to leave the ice for good.

The Maple Leafs are off until Saturday’s home game against Washington.

“He left the ice, I didn’t check,” head coach Mike Babcock said after practice. “We have a while to our next game, I don’t know if he over-reacted, under-reacted, I don’t know nothing about it.”

◆ COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Washington, Gonzaga will renew past rivalry Thousands of miles from their respective home campuses, No. 10 Gonzaga and Washington are getting together again for the first time in nearly a decade. And a year earlier than was originally planned.

“As I’ve always said when we played Gonzaga, we’re getting ready to play a very good opponent. An opponent that’s one of the most successful programs in the country over the years,” Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said. “They’ve been battle-tested, so we know we have a tough road ahead of us.”

Gonzaga and Washington meet in the opening game of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas on Wednesday, a breakfast time matchup for fans back home who have waited nine years to see the two schools meet on the court.

◆ NBA

Raptors send prospect to development league The Toronto Raptors have assigned guard Delon Wright to Raptors 905 of the NBA Development League.

Wright has appeared in four games with the Raptors this season, totalling four rebounds in 10 minutes of action. He was selected 20th overall

by Toronto in the 2015 NBA draft.

◆ NFL

Seahawks add Bryce Brown for extra depth The Seattle Seahawks waived defensive tackle A.J. Francis on Tuesday and re-signed running back Bryce Brown for additional depth in the backfield.

The Seahawks also placed linebacker Nick Moody on injured reserve and signed wide receiver B.J. Daniels from the practice squad. Moody was hurt in Sunday’s win over San Francisco. Brown is in his second stint with the Seahawks, but could be active for the first time this season with Marshawn Lynch not expected to play on Sunday against Pittsburgh.

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NHL

Coach’s challenge to struggling Canucks: ‘Get two per cent better’ Jason Botchford The Province

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enerally, you should take the good stories when you can get them with this season’s Vancouver Canucks.

The Sedins have been a great one.

The defence and goaltending? Not so much.

For 10 straight games, the Canucks have surrendered at least three goals. During the slide, in which the Canucks have earned just six of a possible 20 points, Vancouver ranks seventh in unblocked shot-attemptsagainst-per-game at even strength.

That’s actually pretty good for this group, and encouraging.

What is not, however, are the scoring chances they’ve been surrendering.

The Canucks’ scoring chance differential during the past 10 is 44.5 per cent. Only three NHL teams have been out-chanced by a wider margin this month.

In these 10 games, War-On-Ice figures indicate the Canucks have given up 206 even-strength scoring chances. That is alarming.

As Ryan Miller said during the Canucks’ recent road trip, it’s not easy being a goalie. He said the only time

New Jersey Devils forward Jordin Tootoo, right, checks Vancouver Canucks defenceman Matt Bartkowski in Vancouver on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

it gets easier is when the team in front of the goalie plays well at 5-on-5 defence.

That has not been the Canucks lately. But worse than the even-strength play for this team has been the special teams.

It’s an issue head coach Willie Desjardins hit on Tuesday. Asked about the recent run of goals against, he pointed at the Canucks’ penalty-killing, which has been beaten for 11 PK goals in 10 games (25-for-36).

In the previous 10-game block, it gave up just two.

“Early, our penalty-killing was so

good it made our goals-against look better than what it was,” Desjardins said. “Now, our penalty-killing is more normal, and it’s starting to come back.”

Desjardins then suggested it almost felt like the league started passing the Canucks by.

“The league gets better,” Desjardins said. “I think the league has picked up and I don’t know that we’ve picked up quite as much as we need to, to stay with it.”

The Canucks met about all of this again Tuesday before heading out for a four-game road trip. Again, the

tone was positive.

“We’ve been close,” Desjardins said.

“Probably closer than any team in the league.

“The problem is, close doesn’t do it for you. We have to get better.”

He then suggested he asked his players to get two per cent better.

“If they get two per cent better, we win those games,” Desjardins said.

It doesn’t get any easier for the Canucks. They play a good Minnesota Wild team Wednesday, a surging Dallas Stars team Friday, the desperate Anaheim Ducks Monday and, finally the solid, improving L.A. Kings on Tuesday.

Really, their easiest shot for some points was Sunday, but they blew that game to the New Jersey Devils.

“We knew we had to get points out of that New Jersey game,” Desjardins said. “We knew our schedule.

We knew that’s the easiest time to get points, it was that game. But we didn’t get them. What does that mean? Well, you have to find points on the road. Those buildings are tough buildings. Just because you play your best, doesn’t mean you get points.

“It’s like playoff hockey for us. We recognize that. Our urgency level has to be higher.

“I think the guys know this.”

We’ll see.

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NBA

Warriors become first team ever to start 16-0 JANIE MCCAULEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND, Calif. — The defending champion Golden State Warriors set the record for best start in NBA history at 16-0, as Stephen Curry had 24 points and nine assists in a 111-77 rout of the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.

With their coach sidelined, the Warriors surpassed the 15-0 starts by the Washington Capitols of 1948-49 and 1993-94 Houston Rockets.

Confetti streamed down when the final buzzer sounded and Golden State’s players barely celebrated.

Kobe Bryant shot 1 of 14 for just four points, matching the worst-shooting performance of his career in a game where he had at least one basket. The Lakers dropped to 2-12 with the second-worst record in the NBA. Draymond Green added 18 points, seven rebounds and five assists as the Warriors extended their franchise-record home winning streak to 27 games with coach Steve Kerr watching from behind the scenes while recovering from complications following two back surgeries.

Interim Luke Walton is leading the way, and it might have been a little

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sweeter to set the record against the Lakers franchise he helped win two titles. Golden State became the sixth team in NBA history to win 20 consecutive regular-season games, a streak dating to last season. The Suns have the next shot at stopping this incredible start when the Warriors visit Phoenix on Friday night.

Curry only had to play 30 minutes, taking a seat for good with 6.5 seconds remaining in the third to huge cheers from a sellout crowd of 19,596 that was really closer to 20,000 with all the standing-room only tickets sold.

Bryant went 1 for 7 from threepoint range in 25 minutes as Los

Angeles lost its fourth in a row and eighth in nine.

He also finished 1 for 14 last season against San Antonio, according to STATS. Klay Thompson had 11 points but missed his first seven shots and, as has been the case in a handful of these wins, the Warriors took a few minutes to get rolling — and then they were off and running.

Golden State missed five of its first six shots before Curry’s three-pointer from the left wing at 8:28. The Warriors knocked down five of their first 12 from long range to build a 27-9 lead with 1:41 left in the opening period.

J-RICH HONORED Former Warriors shooting guard Jason Richardson couldn’t believe the fortunate timing: Golden State honoured him Tuesday and he got to be at Oracle Arena to see his old team make history.

He received a framed jersey from Adonal Foyle in a presentation after the first quarter.

“Even though I didn’t retire a Warrior, you guys make me feel like a Warrior for life,” he told the crowd.

Richardson, part of the 2007 “We Believe” team that reached the

second round of the playoffs after ending a 12-year drought, has been a big supporter of Green, who took a similar path from Saginaw, Michigan, to Michigan State to Golden State. Green wears Richardson’s No. 23.

“I think Draymond shocked everybody besides himself,” said Richardson, Golden State’s first-round pick taken fifth overall in the 2001 draft.

SCOTT REMEMBERS Los Angeles coach Byron Scott was part of his share of special teams with the Lakers, too. He recalls when they were winning nearly every night.

“I think once it’s all over, you look back and realize how much fun it was,” Scott said. “One thing Riles (Pat Riley) wouldn’t let us do is live on what we did the last night.”

TIP-INS The Lakers were outscored 35-17 in the third and have lost eight of 11 at Oracle. . . . Chasing a loose ball in the first, Bryant slid right into the courtside area by owner Joe Lacob, who gave him a safe sign. ... Nick Young borrowed ex-Warriors guard Gilbert Arenas’ black and gold shoes.

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SOCCER

HOCKEY

Krista Whittaker ends career at UBC with national championship

Tom Renney should check his priorities

Nanaimo defender was playing her final university game in the CIS final against TWU

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nly a few select athletes can say they left their sport on top.

Nanaimo’s Krista Whittaker is one of those few.

Although it hasn’t quite set it in.

“It hasn’t really yet,” said Whittaker, a Nanaimo District Secondary School graduate who won a CIS women’s soccer national championship 10 days ago with the UBC Thunderbirds in her final university game. “Maybe it will when we get our rings.”

Five years ago, Whittaker graduated high school in her hometown of Nanaimo and joined the Thunderbirds as a freshman defender.

She has since grown with the program, one that went through four different head coaches in the last four years. They had been good, but not great in her career there. But in the 2015 season something clicked.

“We had a new coach this year, and that really helped,” Whittaker said.

And as a fifth-year senior heading into the national championship tournament, Whittaker knew each game could be her last.

Up against the Trinity Western Spartans in the gold-medal game, the Thunderbirds shut down their opponents and racked up a 3-0 lead.

The clock ticked down, and gradually Whittaker began to realize her career at UBC was going to end with a national championship.

“In the last 10 minutes time was winding down and we kind of all knew it was going to happen,” she said. “I remember giving my leftback a little smirk and a smile.”

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UBC Thunderbirds senior defender Krista Whittaker celebrates with the CIS national women’s soccer championship trophy at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver on Nov. 15. [RICH LAM/UBC ATHLETICS]

When the clock struck zero, it was pure elation. Whittaker was interviewed on the field shortly after.

“Oh my gosh, I can’t even put it into words,” she told the Vancouver Sun. “I don’t know if I’m supposed to yell, if I’m going to cry . . .”

Whittaker was later named as an all-star of the tournament.

Now, she can look back on the memories she made with her teammates, especially those she went to battle with for the last five years.

There was a point when, in the team’s dressing room, the hit Adele song Hello came on the stereo. It became the Thunderbirds’ signature song so to speak, and Whittaker said she would always remember her time at UBC whenever she hears it in the future.

Her future is now what she will be focusing on, as she will graduate in May with a kinesiology degree from UBC before moving back to Nanaimo to begin a career in that field.

“I’ve got a lot of free time now,” she said. “It’s been relaxing.”

Soccer, though, won’t be in her near future as the last five years of playing it at the university level have been more than enough.

“I’m going to hang up my boots for a while and maybe put my attention into some other sports,” she said.

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Bantam Clippers win gold at Delta tournament DAILY NEWS

A weekend off from league play sent the Nanaimo Bantam Tier 1 Clippers to the Lower Mainland, and they returned to Nanaimo with gold medals.

Playing in South Delta’s Tim Jardine Bantam AAA Showcase tournament from Nov. 12 to 15, the Clippers went undefeated through six games with overtime wins over Hollyburn (Vancouver) in the semifinal and Chilliwack in the gold medal game to take the tournament championship.

Nanaimo forward Ethan Jones led the Clippers in scoring with eight goals and eight assists in six games, second overall in the tournament.

Chase Heslop was fourth in tournament scoring with five goals and eight assists, while Josh Zary scored seven times with four assists.

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Bantam Tier 1 Clippers, back from, from left, Alex Bloedorn, Josh Parkin, Josh Zary, Trey Boylan, Ethan Jones, Thomas Fridriksson, Justin Sexton, Liam Moody, and front row, from left, coach Mike Sexton, Griffen Barr, Tyler Gustafson, Ryan Paproski, Chase Heslop, Brendan Rogers, Tosh Paziuk, Aaron Marsh, coach Mitch Heslop and goalies Carson Savage and Chase Landa won the Tim Jardine Memorial Tournament in Delta Nov. 15. [SUBMITTED]

ast week a story made the rounds on Tom Renney’s big tasks ahead of him in his first full year as president and CEO of hockey’s national governing bodies.

They’re simply tasks, really.

Win gold at the World Under-20 Championship, do the same at the World Cup of Hockey, get NHL players into the next Olympics and win gold there too.

Pick the players to do so, and the support staff around them, and don’t mess it up or we’ll have your head.

Here’s the problem: You, me, my girlfriend, your husband could all pick a gold-medal winning team of NHLers by grabbing the top names of the league’s scoring list, grab Mike Babcock to volunteer his time as coach and, poof! an appearance in a championship game at the very least.

There are hundreds of people in this country who could do the same with our top junior players, too.

My point is that while gold medals are unquestionably important to the fabric of Canada and its hockey fans, Hockey Canada doesn’t really need to spend much time on them.

What’s vitally more important in this climate is the decline in registration at the early years of the game.

According to Hockey Canada’s own numbers, there are 49,697 fewer players registered in pre-novice hockey last season than there were in midget.

Something needs to change in hockey in this country’s hockey landscape, and it needs to start from the top.

Who cares if the Canadians win gold at the World Juniors this year if the next Connor McDavid isn’t registered to play minor hockey?

Hockey’s got its issues — and its detractors — maybe more than any sport in the country.

The elitism of the game has to be stopped.

Hockey academies that charge upwards of $15,000 per year for paid coaches no question tempered enthusiasm around registration when less well off parents realize they simply can’t afford to give their children the best opportunities.

The safety of the game isn’t helping either, although no sport is immune to that — heading a soccer ball can be just as dangerous as being the victim of an illegal bodycheck to the head in hockey.

Regardless of what the problems are, the importantace of solving them at the grassroots level right now is far greater than winning championships at the highest. » 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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Hamilton QB unsure of what his future holds

CFL

Grey Cup teams land in Winnipeg Redblacks, Eskimos arrive ahead of Sunday’s championship game at Investors Group Field

CAROL PHILLIPS THE CANADIAN PRESS

HAMILTON — The Hamilton TigerCats could still be without starting quarterback Zach Collaros when next season begins.

Collaros, who suffered a season-ending knee injury last September, was still on crutches Tuesday as players cleaned out their lockers at Tim Hortons Field.

He wasn’t sure whether he’ll be ready to go when the new campaign begins in June.

“I’m not sure of a timeline to be honest with you,” Collaros said.

“I’d like to be back as soon as possible. At the same time, I’m not going to rush and get hurt again. I’m going to do everything that I can and work as hard as I can to be back as soon as possible.”

Collaros tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee after taking a hit in the second quarter of a Sept. 19 game against Edmonton.

Both he and head coach Kent Austin said they would take the advice of medical professionals, with Austin adding that he didn’t want his star pivot to rush back into action.

“We’re going to be smart and we’re going to go according to the people that are the most knowledgeable and make sure that we keep him on track,” said Austin.

“He’s a valuable asset for us and we’re not going to push him back too early.”

Collaros, a 27-year-old native of Steubenville, Ohio, will be staying in southern Ontario to do his rehab.

STEVE LAMBERT THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — Players gearing up for Sunday’s Grey Cup showdown arrived in Winnipeg Tuesday night, planning to enjoy the festivities — but not too much — while they prepare for the big game.

“Yeah, we do curfew,” Ottawa Redblacks coach Rick Campbell told reporters shortly after the team’s plane landed.

“I think there’s a balance you can strike of being able to participate and see some things without being in full party mode”.

Players didn’t seem bothered by the idea of a nightly curfew — 11 p.m. in Ottawa’s case.

“I don’t mind because I’m going to be in my bed,” said Redblacks fullback Patrick Lavoie.

“We know what we have to do.”

Ottawa quarterback Henry Burris is gunning for his third Grey Cup ring.

The 40-year-old said the fact the Redblacks are in the championship in the franchise’s second year is a tribute to the way the players and coaches have gelled.

“With all the growing pains we had to go through as an organization, as a team last year, it’s created a group of guys that never say die in that locker room.”

The Eskimos won both regular-season matchups between the two teams, early in the season in July, but they are not taking anything for granted going into Sunday.

Members of the Edmonton Eskimos arrive in Winnipeg on Tuesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

“It was a dogfight,” defensive lineman Odell Willis said.

“Those guys fought hard. It just so happened we were able to make more plays than they did, and we were able to get the W.”

Quarterback Mike Reilly said Ottawa has come a long way.

“They were a very different team when we played them early in the season and so are we,” he said.

“It’s not a coincidence that they’re

in the Grey Cup. They’ve been playing great football and they deserve to be there.

“So we’re going to have to put together a great performance in order to get the win.”

Ottawa coach wants to leave his own mark LISA WALLACE THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Many of Rick Campbell’s childhood memories include the Edmonton Eskimos.

The Ottawa Redblacks head coach was a young boy when he watched his father Hugh — the Eskimos head coach at the time — lead Edmonton to five consecutive Grey Cup victories from 1978-’82.

Now Campbell is looking to make his own mark as a CFL head coach as he guides the Redblacks to their first Grey Cup appearance.

Perhaps fittingly, the Redblacks will play Edmonton on Sunday in Winnipeg. Campbell, who spent almost a decade on the Eskimos’ coaching staff earlier in his career, is doing his best to downplay the connection and instead keep the focus on the big game.

“I’m just really trying to live in the moment and making sure we get our football team ready to play,” Campbell said Tuesday before the team departed for Winnipeg.

“I obviously do have a history with Edmonton with me working there and my family.

“I also got used to it as I’ve

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played against Edmonton over the years when I worked in different cities.”

Campbell made his CFL coaching debut with the Eskimos in 1999 as a defensive backs/special teams co-ordinator. He spent six seasons in the role before being promoted to defensive co-ordinator (2005-’08).

Campbell also worked in various coaching roles with Winnipeg (2009), Calgary (2010), Edmonton (2011) Calgary again (2012-’13), before heading to Ottawa last year for the Redblacks’ debut season. When the 44-year-old native of Spokane, Wash., originally interviewed for the Redblacks’ coaching position, part of the appeal was his

desire to build something from the ground up.

“I wanted to come here to be a part of something new,” he said.

“It wasn’t about me putting my name on the franchise, but it was about all of us putting our name on a new franchise in a new city. I had observed Ottawa from the outside and just had a really strong suspicion this could be a really great thing to be a part of.

“We’re trying to make this a place where we have high expectations and we want to be a winning program over the years.”

In many ways Campbell, the East nominee for the CFL coach of the year award, has already surpassed expectations by taking his team to the Grey Cup after winning just two games last year.

The elder Campbell, meanwhile, will not be in Winnipeg for the Grey Cup. He’ll be cheering the Redblacks on from San Diego, but has provided some advice for his son.

“He told me we’ve got to do the things that got you there,” said Campbell.

“It’s a bigger stage, but as far as how you win football games doesn’t change. You’ve got to

make sure you do the right things and get prepared and do all those things and keep your head about you.

“Do the things to win football games.”

This will be his first Grey Cup appearance as a head coach.

While his focus is on the game, he admits that he plans to enjoy the experience as well.

“I think you can definitely work hard and do all the things that you need to do and at the same time be there and be a part of the experiences that go on during the Grey Cup week,” he said.

Campbell is not the only one with ties to the Eskimos. Redblacks offensive co-ordinator Jason Maas had two stints with the Eskimos as quarterback and spent a total of eight seasons with the organization.

“I’m not going to shy away from saying it’s special,” said Maas.

“I’m just excited to be a part of this journey with Ottawa. I’ve got a lot of friends over there and a lot of people I care about are from Edmonton and they’re excited about it as well, but I just want to come out of it on the better end on Sunday.”

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

Boston at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at NY Islanders, 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.

6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 1:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 7 p.m.

NY Islanders at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Ottawa at Arizona, 10 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 10 p.m.

Calgary at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Chicago at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

SENATORS 7, STARS 4

SCORING LEADERS

First Period 1. Ottawa, Ryan 8 (unassisted) 7:10.

2. Ottawa, Michalek 5 (Pageau, Stone) 18:49.

3HQDOW\—Spezza Dal (interference) 15:46.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. Dallas, Sharp 8 (Eakin, Klingberg) 7:04.

4. Ottawa, Stone 4 (unassisted) 12:33.

5. Ottawa, Hoffman 7 (Stone, Karlsson) 17:41 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Borowiecki Ott (goalie interference) 2:44; Janmark Dal (holding) 15:47.

Third Period 6. Ottawa, Pageau 5 (Lazar) 4:07 (sh).

7. Dallas, Ja. Benn 15 (Jo. Benn) 6:07 (sh).

8. Dallas, Seguin 12 (Ja. Benn) 8:04.

9. Ottawa, Pageau 6 (Chiasson) 10:31.

10. Dallas, Ja. Benn 16 (Sharp) 16:48.

11. Ottawa, Hoffman 8, 18:18 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — Neil Ott (slashing) 2:09; Eakin Dal (holding) 5:45.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Ottawa 6 6 7 —19 Dallas 11 12 11 —34 *RDO — Ottawa: Anderson (W, 9-4-3); Dallas: Niemi (L, 8-4-0).

3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Ottawa: 1-3; Dallas: 0-2. $WWHQGDQFH — 18,532 at Dallas.

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GP W L Red Deer 24 16 8 Calgary 26 15 10 Lethbridge 23 14 9 Edmonton 25 8 14 Medicine Hat 21 7 11 Kootenay 24 6 16

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Regina at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

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.

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Saskatoon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Regina at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Moose Jaw at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION Penticton Salmon Arm West Kelowna Vernon Trail Merritt

GP W L 26 24 2 25 16 6 25 14 9 27 13 13 25 10 15 28 8 18

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ISLAND DIVISION GP W L Nanaimo 27 16 10 Cowichan Vally 25 13 8 Powell River 25 14 10 Victoria 28 10 15 Alberni Valley 25 10 13

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

GREY CUP

FINAL MONEY LEADERS

AMERICAN LEAGUE

$W :LQQLSHJ 6XQGD\ V JDPH Ottawa vs. Edmonton, 6 p.m.

1. Novak Djokovic $21,646,145 2. Roger Federer $8,692,017 3. Andy Murray $8,245,230 4. Stan Wawrinka $6,547,877 5. Rafael Nadal $4,508,888 6. Tomas Berdych $3,755,082 7. David Ferrer $3,622,755 8. Kei Nishikori $3,302,055 9. Richard Gasquet $2,521,835 10. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga $2,213,690 11. John Isner $2,086,682 12. Marin Cilic $2,063,576 13. Kevin Anderson $2,054,052 14. Fabio Fognini $1,836,408 15. Feliciano Lopez $1,542,755 0LORV 5DRQLF

17. Gilles Simon $1,475,856 18. Jack Sock $1,413,560 9DVHN 3RVSLVLO

20. Roberto Bautista Agut $1,275,439 21. Simone Bolelli $1,260,488 22. Bernard Tomic $1,188,195 23. Viktor Troicki $1,179,128 'DYLG *RIĂ€Q

25. Jeremy Chardy $1,143,921 26. Ivo Karlovic $1,125,290 27. Dominic Thiem $1,123,704 28. Andreas Seppi $1,110,625 29. Nicolas Mahut $1,102,008 *DHO 0RQĂ€OV

31. Steve Johnson $1,062,535 32. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez $1,052,342 33. Pablo Cuevas $1,025,986 34. Marcelo Melo $1,022,964 35. Nick Kyrgios $1,022,947 36. Grigor Dimitrov $1,001,679 37. Ivan Dodig $997,612 38. Joao Sousa $919,928 39. Benoit Paire $902,047 40. Jean-Julien Rojer $890,346 41. Horia Tecau $886,584 42. Pierre-Hugues Herbert $833,037 43. Martin Klizan $826,326 44. Lukas Rosol $821,431 45. Adrian Mannarino $820,680 46. Fernando Verdasco $819,607 47. Leonardo Mayer $814,582 48. Gilles Muller $809,786 49. Thomaz Bellucci $780,532 50. Mike Bryan $779,465

CHICAGO — Traded RHP Yency Almonte to Colorado for RHP Tommy Kahnle.

LOS ANGELS — Promoted Bud Black to special assistant to the general manager, Mike Gallego to director of baseball development, Justin Hollander to director of player personnel, Mike LaCassa to director of minor league operations, Steve Martone to assistant general manager, Bobby Scales to special assistant to general manager & Jonathan Strangio to assistant general manager.

SEATTLE — Designated C John Hicks for assignment. Agreed to terms with C Chris Iannetta on a 1-year contract.

TAMPA BAY — Released C J.P. Arencibia.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST

CENTRAL DIVISION

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

EASTERN CONFERENCE

T OL GF GA Pt 2 2 93 59 36 1 2 95 59 35 0 0 102 84 30 1 3 68 96 24 0 2 63 114 16 0 0 54 126 8

:HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO Prince George at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

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

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0RQGD\¡V UHVXOW New England 20 Buffalo 13 7KXUVGD\ V JDPHV Philadelphia at Detroit, 12:30 p.m.

Carolina at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

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

6XQGD\ V JDPHV New Orleans at Houston, 1 p.m.

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.

Monday, Nov. 30 Baltimore at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m.

CIS PLAYOFFS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP VANIER CUP $W 4XHEHF &LW\ 6DWXUGD\ V JDPH Montreal vs. British Columbia, 1 p.m.

NCAA AP TOP 25 SCHEDULE )ULGD\ V JDPHV No. 3 Iowa at Nebraska, 3:30 p.m.

No. 7 Baylor at No. 15 TCU, 7:30 p.m.

No. 16 Navy at No. 21 Houston, noon No. 18 Oregon vs. Oregon State, 4 p.m.

No. 20 Washington State at Washington, 3:30 p.m.

No. 24 Toledo vs. Western Michigan, noon

WORLD RANKINGS (Through Nov. 22)

SINGLES 1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 16585 2. Andy Murray, Britain, 8670 3. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 8265 4. Stan Wawrinka, Switzerland, 6865 5. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 5230 6. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 4620 7. David Ferrer, Spain, 4305 8. Kei Nishikori, Japan, 4235 9. Richard Gasquet, France, 2850 10. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, 2635 11. John Isner, U.S., 2495 12. Kevin Anderson, South Africa, 2475 13. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 2405 0LORV 5DRQLF 7KRUQKLOO 2QW 15. Gilles Simon, France, 2145 'DYLG *RIĂ€Q %HOJLXP 17. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, 1690 18. Bernard Tomic, Australia, 1675 19. Benoit Paire, France, 1633 20. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 1600 21. Fabio Fognini, Italy, 1515 22. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 1487 23. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 1485 *DHO 0RQĂ€OV )UDQFH 9DVHN 3RVSLVLO 9HUQRQ % &

WTA FINAL MONEY LEADERS 1. Serena Williams $10,582,642 2. Simona Halep $4,568,127 3. Garbine Muguruza $4,498,308 4. Agnieszka Radwanska $4,412,293 5. Flavia Pennetta $4,406,005 6. Maria Sharapova $3,949,284 7. Petra Kvitova $3,288,722 8. Lucie Safarova $2,946,261 9. Venus Williams $2,404,419 10. Roberta Vinci $2,309,821 11. Carla Suarez Navarro $2,001,705 12. Timea Bacsinszky $1,963,645 13. Ana Ivanovic $1,898,722 14. Angelique Kerber $1,898,047 15. Martina Hingis $1,756,400 16. Ekaterina Makarova $1,705,438 17. Madison Keys $1,692,686 18. Karolina Pliskova $1,658,155 19. Sania Mirza $1,566,203 20. Belinda Bencic $1,480,572 21. Bethanie Mattek-Sands $1,438,326 22. Kristina Mladenovic $1,426,592 23. Victoria Azarenka $1,369,657 24. Caroline Wozniacki $1,349,338 25. Elina Svitolina $1,316,576 26. Jelena Jankovic $1,314,749 27. Sara Errani $1,295,027 28. Svetlana Kuznetsova $1,136,803 29. Andrea Petkovic $1,084,935 30. Sabine Lisicki $1,005,884

NATIONAL LEAGUE ATLANTA — Agreed to terms with RHPs David Carpenter, Chris Volstad and Madison Younginer; Cs Willians Astudillo, Matt Kennelly, Ryan Lavarnway and Braeden Schlehuber; INFs Reid Brignac DQG &KDVH G¡$UQDXG DQG 2) 0DWW 7XLDsosopo on minor league contracts.

NEW YORK — Agreed to terms with RHP Stolmy Pimental on minor league contract.

WASHINGTON — Named Bobby Henley 3rd base coach.

BASKETBALL NBA OKLAHOMA CITY — Assigned F Josh Huestis to Okla. City (NBADL).

FOOTBALL NFL LEAGUE OFFICE — Suspended Carolina DE Frank Alexander 1 year for violating the Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse for a third time.

ATLANTA — Signed TE D.J. Tialavea to practice squad. Waived TE Marcel Jensen.

BALTIMORE — Waived WR Joseph Morgan. Signed WR Chuck Jacobs from practice squad & WR Chris Matthews to practice squad. Claimed QB Jimmy Clausen off waivers from Chicago. Placed QB Joe Flacco on injured reserve.

BUFFALO — Signed DL Jerel Worthy to the practice squad. Released LB Kevin Reddick from the practice squad.

CAROLINA — Released G Reese Dismukes from the practice squad. Signed DB Ras-I Dowling to the practice squad.

CHICAGO — Signed LB Danny Mason & QB Justin Worley to the practice squad.

HOUSTON — Signed C Dalton Freeman and LB Gerald Rivers to the practice squad. Released QB Zac Dysert from the practice squad.

MIAMI — Claimed LB Quinton Coples off waivers from the N.Y. Jets. Waived CB Zack Bowman.

NEW ORLEANS — Waived LB Jo-Lonn Dunbar. Signed DE Phillip Hunt.

N.Y. JETS — Signed LB Josh Martin IURP ,QGLDQDSROLV¡ SUDFWLFH VTXDG OAKLAND — Waived LB Ray-Ray Armstrong.

PHILADELPHIA — Signed WR Jonathan Krause from the practice squad. Released LB Emmanuel Acho.

SEATTLE — Waived DT A.J. Francis.

Re-signed RB Bryce Brown. Placed LB Nick Moody on injured reserve. Signed WR B.J. Daniels from the practice squad. Placed OT Terry Poole on practice squad/injured reserve. Signed RB DuJuan Harris and WR Tyler Slavin to the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY — Waived DE Lawrence Sidbury. Claimed DE Kourtnei Brown off waivers from Houston.

HOCKEY NHL LEAGUE OFFICE— Announced the resignation of COO John Collins.

ARIZONA — Recalled F Dustin Jeffrey IURP 6SULQJÀHOG $+/ $VVLJQHG * /RXLV Domingue & D Philip Samuelsson to 6SULQJÀHOG SAN JOSE — Signed F Dainius Zubrus to a 1-year contract. Reassigned F Nikolay Goldobin to the Barracuda (AHL).

TAMPA BAY — Recalled D Luke Witkowski from Syracuse (AHL).

LACROSSE NLL LEAGUE OFFICE — Announced the resignation of commissioner George Daniel, effective when a new commissioner is named.

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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.

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Miami at New York, 7:30 p.m.

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Philadelphia at Houston, 8 p.m.

Atlanta at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Denver, 9 p.m.

Golden State at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

SOCCER MLS CONFERENCE FINALS (2-game total-goals series) EASTERN CONFERENCE (Columbus leads 2-0) 6XQGD\ V JDPH Columbus at New York City, noon.

WESTERN CONFERENCE (Portland leads 3-1) 6XQGD\ V JDPH Portland at Dallas, 1 p.m.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE Group E BATE (Belar.) 1 Bayr Levrkusen (Ger.) 1 Barcelona (Spain) 6 Roma (Italy) 1 Group F Arsenal (Eng.) 3 Dinamo Zagreb (Cro.) 0 Byrn Munich (Ger.) 4 Olympiaks (Gre.) 0 Group G Porto (Portugal) 0 Dynamo Kiev (Ukr.) 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv (Isr.) 0 Chelsea (Eng.) 4 Group H Lyon (France) 1 Gent (Belgium) 2 Znit St. Ptrsbrg (Rus.) 2 Valncia (Spn.) 0

SCOTLAND CHAMPIONSHIP Raith Rovers 1 St. Mirren 1

NBA

Paul George scores 40 as Pacers beat Wizards 123-106 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Paul George scored a season-high 40 points and made seven three-pointers, part of a franchise-record 19 by the Indiana Pacers in a 123-106 victory over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night.

C.J. Miles added 32 points, his most since joining the Pacers before the start of last season, as Indiana won for the ninth time in 11 games.

Miles was 8 of 9 from beyond the arc, and George also missed only once from deep.The Pacers finished 73.1 per cent (19 of 26) from threepoint range, crushing their previous season high of 44.4 per cent (12 of 27). Gary Neal scored 23 points off the bench for the Wizards, whose three-game winning streak was snapped.

GRIZZLIES 110, MAVERICKS 96 Mike Conley scored 21 points, Jeff

Green added 19 and seven Memphis players reached double figures in a victory over Dallas. Marc Gasol had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Memphis, which won its fifth in the last six games. Matt Barnes and Mario Chalmers added 14 points apiece, and JaMychal Green contributed 13.

Raymond Felton and J.J. Barea each scored 16 points and tried to pull the Mavericks back into the game in the fourth quarter. Dirk Nowitzki finished with 14 points and

Zaza Pachulia had 13, both also grabbing 10 rebounds. Wesley Matthews had 11 points and Deron Williams finished with 10 as Dallas lost its second straight.

HAWKS 121, CELTICS 97 Paul Millsap scored 25 points, Jeff Teague added 16 and Atlanta beat Boston. Atlanta had dropped four of five and was coming off a loss Saturday at Cleveland in which coach Mike Budenholzer was ejected and subse-

quently fined $25,000 for bumping into referee Ben Taylor.

The Hawks essentially put the game out of reach with an 18-3 run that made it 100-80 with 6:20 remaining on Teague’s three-point play.

Avery Bradley had 15 of his 25 points in the first half for Boston, which has dropped three of four.

Isaiah Thomas scored 14 points as the Celtics, who began the game ranked ninth in opponent scoring, allowed a season high in points.

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» EVENTS // EMAIL: EVENTS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, 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’.

THURSDAY, NOV. 26

SATURDAY, NOV. 28

7 p.m. Daniel Wesley at The Dinghy Dock Pub, Protection Island. Advance tickets $30 include 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 online or across the border. Shop The Neighbourhood will feature exclusive deals at local businesses to encourage local spending.

FRIDAY, NOV. 27 7 p.m. David Bitonti, Brian Hazelbower, Genevieve Rainey at Dinghy Dock Pub, Protection Island. Tickets $20 plus fee includes return ferry.

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.

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.

4:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Symphony Children’s Choir under the direction of Patricia Plumley in Diana Krall Plaza.

7:30 p.m. Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra at

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

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2221 McGarrigle Rd,. Nanaimo.

MONDAY, NOV. 30

8 p.m. Ali Prince At the Dinghy Dock pub 8 Pirates lane. Tickets $30 advance, $35 at the door at Lucid, Desire Tattoo, the Dog’s Ear, the Dinghy Dock pub or at ticketzone.com.

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 and an on-site chair massage.

Free event.

SUNDAY, NOV. 29

TUESDAY, DEC. 1

7-9 p.m. 3D Printing Meetup at Makerspace Nanaimo. Drop in on our public 3D printer meetups and take part in building printers

6::30-7:30 p.m. Dad’s Night Out: Free skate at Oceanside Place Arena, 830 West Island Hwy.., Parksville.

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Tonight: Make time to catch up on news.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Be OK with making some last-minute adjustments. You might decide to hold back on finalizing an idea, especially if finances are involved.

You’ll need to do your own research rather than taking one person’s word. Tonight: Do some early holiday shopping.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) As the day goes on, you’ll find that you become even more excited about tomorrow. The energy might not be about the turkey, but instead about friends popping in that you have not visited with in a while.

Reach out to a loved one who might be depressed. Tonight: All smiles.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Use the morning to the max, when you can accomplish what you want.

In the afternoon, you might need some space to complete a project.

Listen to a child and understand where he or she is coming from.

Remember when you were that age. Tonight: In the thick of things.

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can’t possibly do it all. Meet up with some friends or colleagues in the afternoon for some eggnog and maybe some pre-holiday fun.

Tonight: Be a little wild.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You’ll get a glimpse of how much you must do this morning. Know that there is an element of distraction that surrounds Thanksgiving plans.

You might feel like a fish swimming upstream in the afternoon. Make it easy on yourself. Tonight: Others love having you around.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) A partner pulls in quite close and shares much of what is on his or her mind.

You can’t help but smile as you hear this person’s news. Pitch in with some holiday preparations, especially if you want some downtime later. Tonight: Go out and join some friends.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might be upset about a personal matter in the morning. By the afternoon, your mood will brighten, as you will get to spend quality time with a friend or several friends. A financial problem won’t disappear, but your outlook can make it better. Tonight: As you would like it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Complete what you must, and worry less about other matters. You will have time to handle them soon enough. A friend has news for you, which you might like hearing. You might decide to mix all your friends and loved ones together. Tonight: Defer to others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You might wish for more than what you are receiving from a loved one.

This person might be very busy

at the moment. Chip in and help eliminate any excess work. Your responsiveness and ability to be a good follower will define the day.

Tonight: Know when to head to bed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Handle a domestic issue quickly, that is, if you want to enjoy your next few days. You could feel exhausted until you see your friends or get together with family. Expect to suddenly discover how vibrant you really are.

Tonight: Add a touch of mischief.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might be confused until you have a talk with a loved one. Touch base with someone you think might be alone this holiday season. Be more forthright in your dealings. A family member seems to challenge every decision you make. Tonight: Know when to call it a night.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Nov. 25) This year you are able to make a difference in many different areas of your life. You will be able to see certain aspects, with which you have experienced confusion in the past, much more clearly. You often weigh the pros and cons of various statements, decisions and/or actions. If you are single, you could find someone to be irresistible.

This person might be very different from you, but seems to have similar issues. Respect your differences. If you are attached, the two of you juggle opposing ideas. Your sense of humor delights your significant other and makes him or her laugh.

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he wore at an anti-apartheid protest — among the causes the tennis great and humanitarian championed during his lifetime.

The 16 manuscripts and personal objects are being offered as one lot on Dec. 8 at Christie’s books

and manuscript sale in New York.

It’s expected to sell for $80,000 to $120,000. Ashe was the first African-American to win Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens.

The Richmond, Virginia, native died in 1993.

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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SOCCER

Goals galore as Munich, Barcelona secure top spots Messi scores twice in 6-1 win over Roma in Group E action DANIELLA MATAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jordan Spieth, centre, hits the ball over his head during a clinic for young golfers at the Australian Golf Club in Sydney on Tuesday. Spieth will defend his Australian Open title starting Thursday. [AP PHOTO]

Spieth, Scott differ in opinion on Olympics DENNIS PASSA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SYDNEY, Australia — Jordan Spieth and Adam Scott, the two headliners at this week’s Australian Open, have distinctly different excitement levels over next year’s Rio Olympics golf tournament.

While both agree a team competition would have been nice, Scott says he’ll go if he can fit it into his schedule, and isn’t very enthused. On Tuesday, however, Spieth said count him in unless he’s injured or, by some miracle, the world’s top-ranked golfer fails to qualify.

Spieth says he considers golf’s return to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 like a major and plans to be among the four-man American team in the 60-man field.

Last week at the Australian Masters, Scott, who is in line for Olympic selection alongside Jason Day in the Australian men’s team, showed little interest in packing his bags for Brazil.

“I’ve been pretty open and outspoken that it’s not really a priority of my scheduling next year, which is based around the majors. And if the Olympics fits in then it does,” Scott said Wednesday. “There is a gap in the schedule there . . . some time off looks quite good actually.”

He also said he felt Olympic organizers should have been “a little more creative than a little 72-hole strokeplay event.”

On Tuesday at The Australian Golf Club, where Spieth shot a finalround, course-record 63 last year to win the Australian Open, he said he’s enthused over being part of an American team.

“Just competing in the Olympics, just walking the opening ceremony,

“There’s a gap in the schedule there . . . the time off looks quite good actually.“ Adam Scott

staying in the village and doing whatever it is, meeting these incredible athletes from around the world, hopefully that’s something I’ll be able to experience next August,” said Spieth, who moved on from his Australian victory last year to win consecutive majors at the Masters and U.S. Open.

Spieth likes to compare those majors with a potential victory at Rio. “Winning a gold medal has got to be up there now in my mind with winning a major championship,” he said. “I’ve been asked the question: a green jacket or a gold medal, or a Wanamaker (Trophy, for winning the PGA Championship) or an Open Championship or a gold medal?

“That’s not fair. I think this year we’re going to approach it as a fifth major and we’re going to prepare like it is and I’m going to go down there and try and take care of business.”

He does share Scott’s disappointment with the fact that no team event will be contested, although it’s possible it could be added for Tokyo in 2020.

“It’s not a team event in golf, I think unfortunately,” Spieth said.

“But it’s going to be very difficult.

You’ve got some great Aussies that will be down there, you’ve got Englishmen, you’ve got your own countrymen that you’re trying to beat.”

There were goals galore in the Champions League on Tuesday as Barcelona and Bayern Munich advanced to the knockout stage and also secured top spot in their groups.

Barcelona had already qualified following BATE Borisov draw with Bayer Leverkusen earlier, but it clinched top spot in Group E in style, hammering Roma 6-1 as Lionel Messi marked his return from injury with two goals.

“It’s tough to get back up to full speed,” said Messi. “I prepared well and trained but it’s not the same as going out on the pitch and lasting 90 minutes.

“I will take it with calm and get my pace back.”

Bayern routed second-placed Olympiakos 4-0, despite playing almost 40 minutes with 10 men, to ensure it will finish top of Group F, while Chelsea won by the same scoreline at 10-man Maccabi Tel Aviv in Group G. Arsenal beat Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 to keep alive its chances of progressing.

The Premier League side needs to beat Olympiakos in its final group match.

Zenit St. Petersburg secured top spot in Group H with a 2-0 win over Valencia.

Here’s a closer look at Tuesday’s games in the Champions League: GROUP E Lionel Messi is back and scoring netting a double in Barcelona’s 6-1 win over Roma that put the titleholders into the knockout round for a 12th consecutive season.

Messi showed no rust in his second appearance since recovering from a left-knee ligament he tore on Sept.

26 and scored Barcelona’s second and fifth goals of the one-sided match.

Luis Suarez opened the scoring at Camp Nou in the 15th minute. Three minutes later Messi scored his first goal from Suarez’s pass.

Suarez and Gerard Pique added more goals before Messi struck again.

Adriano capped the demolition after converting from the rebound following Neymar’s missed penalty.

“Messi is the best and I feel very happy for him for his goals and because he played the entire match,” Suarez said.

Edin Dzeko got Roma’s goal just before the final whistle.

Victory moved the Spanish club on to 13 points at the top of Group E with a game to spare.

Roma was left with five points along with Leverkusen, while BATE has four.

BATE’s Mikhail Gordeichuk’s took the lead in the second minute, only for Admir Mehmedi to equalize in the 68th.

GROUP F It’s all over, at least for Bayern Munich. Pep Guardiola’s team can’t concede, let alone lose, even while

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring his team’s fifth goal during the Group E Champions League soccer match between Barcelona and Roma at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

playing most of the second half with 10 men. Douglas Costa, Robert Lewandowski and Thomas Mueller scored inside the first 20 minutes.

Defender Holger Badstuber was sent off in 53rd minute on his first start after nine months out with a knee injury for downing Ideye Brown. But it was Bayern that went on to score again with Kingsley Coman completing the emphatic win in the 70th.

Bayern now tops the group with 12 points and cannot be dislodged with one match remaining.

“We managed to win the group again, that was our goal,” Guardiola said. “My compliments to the team, we can be pleased.”

Arsenal can still advance to the knoutout stage as second in the group after beating Dinamo Zagreb 3-0. Alexis Sanchez scored twice and set up Mesut Ozil for Arsenal’s first goal.

Arsene Wegner’s side must beat Olympiakos 2-0 or by a one-goal margin of at least 3-2 due to the head-to-head formula used by UEFA to separate teams. Arsenal is third, three points behind Olympiakos with nine.

GROUP G Chelsea remained in the hunt to advance from Group G after easing past 10-man Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-0.

Tel Aviv was reduced to 10 men five minutes before halftime when former Chelsea defender Tal Ben Haim was sent off for a rash challenge on Diego Costa, but it took Chelsea more than half an hour to double its lead, when

Willian curled in a free kick.

Gary Cahill had put the visitors up in the 20th minute. Oscar and substitute Kurt Zouma scored the other goals.

In the only negative point for Chelsea, captain John Terry fell awkwardly in the 75th and was taken off on a stretcher.

Chelsea’s win, and Porto’s loss to Dynamo Kyiv, tied the first two teams on 10 points, two more than Kyiv.

Andriy Yarmolenko and Derlis Gonzalez netted to inflict Porto’s first defeat of the season.

In the final round of group games next month, Chelsea hosts Porto in a likely winner-takes-all match, and Kyiv hosts winless Tel Aviv.

GROUP H Russia striker Artyom Dzyuba scored again as Zenit secured top spot in Group H by beating Valencia 2-0, while Gent maintained its chances of qualifying after winning 2-1 at Lyon thanks to Kalifa Coulibaly’s injury-time winner.

Gent has seven points, one more than Valencia, and can guarantee qualification by beating Zenit at home on Dec. 9. But Lyon’s one point sees it miss out on a Europa League berth.

Dzyuba’s 74th-minute goal, his fifth of the group stage, was a simple finish after a lay-off from Hulk.

Midfielder Oleg Shatov scored the opener.

Valencia finished with 10 men after defender Ruben Vezo was shown a straight red card.

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DELICACY

Iran looks to revive caviar business Fish farm aims to export 30 tons of the luxury item and 2,000 tons of sturgeon meat in the next three years ALI AKBAR DAREINI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GOLDASHT, Iran — On the shores of the Caspian Sea, an ambitious project is underway to produce a pricey delicacy that could boost Iran’s economy as sanctions ease: caviar.

Iran, once the world’s biggest exporter of the luxury food, sold over 40 tons of sturgeon eggs in 2000.

Exports plunged to just one ton last year due to dwindling fish stocks and economic sanctions imposed by world powers in response to Iran’s nuclear program.

After Tehran struck a landmark deal this summer to curb its nuclear ambitions in exchange for lifting sanctions — including those on caviar — some in Iran are now counting on a revival in exports of the exclusive eggs.

“We hope that as a result of the Iranian government’s interaction with the world, the path will be opened for us to export our products abroad and bring in foreign currency earnings. It does not make a difference where we export to, the United

Iranian caviar expert Somayeh Najafzadeh pours caviar into a dish in a research laboratory in the coastal town of Goldasht. [AP PHOTO]

States or Europe,” said Ishaq Islami, manager of the private Ghareh Boron Caviar Fish Farm in the coastal village of Goldasht.

The farm and two nearby facilities are breeding half a million sturgeon

fingerlings a year, filling its pools with water pumped in from the Caspian Sea. Islami began the $100-million project in 2005 but it takes at least 12 years for sturgeon to mature and

produce caviar. About 110,000 are beluga species that produce prized silver-grey eggs, the world’s most expensive caviar.

The fish farm aims to export 30 tons of salt-cured caviar and 2,000 tons of sturgeon meat in three years.

Islami expects to earn $90 million a year based on an average price of $3,000 a kilogram for caviar.

The United States, Europe and Japan have traditionally been Iran’s biggest export markets.

“Our annual projected hard currency earnings in 2018 will be equal to the value of two days of Iran’s crude oil exports,” he said. OPEC member Iran is currently exporting about one million barrels of oil per day, with the price of U.S. benchmark crude trading below $42 a barrel.

Caviar production fits with the Iranian government’s plan to reduce reliance on crude oil revenues and build up a broader range of exports.

As part of the nuclear deal, trade and banking sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear program will be lifted,

and the U.S. will resume imports of certain Iranian products including carpets, pistachios and caviar that were halted in 2010. Other U.S. sanctions unrelated to the nuclear program will remain in place.

“Lifting sanctions, specifically banking restrictions, will facilitate caviar exports and help the industry flourish in Iran,” industry analyst Nasser Oktaei said.

“The U.S. is obviously one of the world’s biggest caviar importers.

Iran caviar exports to the U.S., if materialized, will inject a new blood into the industry and bring in the much-needed hard currency.”

The 80,000-square meter Ghareh Boron farm is one of three facilities run by Islami to raise sturgeon, which are threatened by overfishing, pollution and destruction of spawning sites.

These factors contributed to the vast decline of sturgeon stocks in the Caspian Sea, the source of 90 per cent of the world’s caviar.

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ith the rise in social media, one would think that anything you need to know about raising your children would be just a click away. Unfortunately, along with all the really good information out there is a mess of conflicting, confusing and sometimes even scary information. Who can you connect with that can help you to sort through the confusion.

On Nov. 20, International Day of the Child, a website was launched by the Greater Nanaimo Early Years Partnership. The Greater Nanaimo Early Years Partnership is a diverse group of engaged community partners who are committed to improving the health and development of children ages pre-natal to six in the Greater Nanaimo area.

The GNEYP partnership has over seventy members representing forty five agencies or programs in the Greater Nanaimo Area.

The Greater Nanaimo Early Years Partnership is best known for its Family Magazine which is published

by Black Press with editorial contributions made by the partnership members as well as organizations involved in child development and early learning. This magazine is in its 18th edition.

The vision of GNEYP is to support all families in Greater Nanaimo to create a solid foundation for children in order to reach their full potential in health and development during their early years.

The Greater Nanaimo Early Years Partnership website can be found at www.nanaimoearlyyears.org.

You can also follow them on Facebook under Nanaimo Early Years and on Twitter at @Nanearlyyears.

Families are encouraged to go to the Home Page of the website and click on the red square. This will take you to a page where you will find a number of categories that you can search. Each category tells you what agency or service is available in Greater Nanaimo to support you and your family related to the selected category.

To find out what daily services are available for children and caregivers, The Community Program Schedule is a useful directory for free weekly scheduled programs that benefit parents and kids. If you click on a day of the week it will list all the activities going on in the Greater Nanaimo community with details of where to find them and when they will happen.

The site, www.nanaimoearlyyears. org, is a one-stop-shop for free information and services dedicated to support families and their children through the early years. » Eileen Bennewith is a registered dietitian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at eileen.bennewith@viha.ca.

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Caviar business returns

Iranian fishermen hold a sturgeon for inspection at the Ghareh Boron Caviar Fish Farm in the coastal town of Goldasht. [AP PHOTO]

CAVIAR, from Page 29

Islami has bigger plans for his fish farm. “In addition to exporting female eggs and sturgeon meat, we will also produce oil and cosmetics.

Sturgeon skin can also make good leather. Its intestine can be turned into sutures. Nothing is wasted. We also plan to turn our facility into a tourism attraction where customers will be able to buy the prized caviar and other products,” he said.

Several small-scale sturgeon farms have popped up across Iran in recent years, including one facility in a desert town in central Iran and another in Qom, Iran’s religious capital, all hoping to grab a share of the expected caviar revival.

“Banks didn’t give me loans and even the authorities were opposed to breeding sturgeon in the desert,” said Qom farmer Mohammad Taqi Barkhordari, who filled his pools with salt water pumped from wells.

“It worked. Nothing is impossible if you have will and determination.”

A temporary global ban on wild sturgeon was imposed in 2001 amid fears that the beluga species was facing extinction. Caviar exports are now subject to quotas while the five countries on the Caspian Sea have agreed to extend the ban on commercial fishing to allow wild stocks to replenish.

The farm in Goldasht, one of several communities bearing the name in Iran, sits 310 kilometres north of Tehran. Sturgeon up to two metres long swim lazily in large concrete pools filled with murky sea water, eating food pellets that workers throw in by the handful.

Hasan Habibnejad, the provincial fisheries chief, says the facility has created some 200 jobs.

“We hope this facility will turn into the capital of the world’s caviar,” said Hasan Habibnejad, the provincial fisheries chief.

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Tonight, I was strolling through Facebook and noticed a very disturbing post he had made. It bothered me so much that I went to his page and saw that the previous two hours had been a stream of disturbing comments alluding to hurting others. Nobody had commented or liked any of his posts, so I went back further on his page.

It seems this guy doesn’t have any friends. His page looked like a one-way cry for help. I feel bad for him, but I’m scared to say anything.

Is there a way I could get help for him anonymously? I worry that he may hurt himself or others.

— Not a Friend Dear Not: We suggest you visit this guy’s Facebook page and click the link that says “Report.” It will then be checked out by Facebook personnel who can determine how to handle it, and your name will not be mentioned.

Though a great many folks post things on Facebook to give the impression that their lives are more interesting than they really are, this guy may be using Facebook simply to vent.

Nonetheless, we don’t recommend that you become more involved in what he posts by responding.

Dear Annie: My 20-year-old daughter recently became engaged to her 24-year-old boyfriend. My husband and I are delighted. We like her fiancé very much.

As soon as they set a date, we talked to the groom’s parents about the type

of wedding they had in mind. Surprisingly, they told us that, as parents of the bride, we are responsible for all of the expenses, including the minister’s fee.

They said that was the rule according to the etiquette books. True to their word, they haven’t offered a penny, even though they can afford it.

After “the talk,” we scaled back considerably. We have kept the groom’s parents informed of our plans, so they don’t feel left out. The groom is embarrassed by his parents’ decision not to contribute, but apparently, he either won’t say anything or it hasn’t made any difference.

As the deposit checks go out, my disappointment is increasing. I am trying hard to convince myself that the wedding is a gift to my daughter, and I’m hoping the groom’s parents will give to their son in some other way to make up for this.

— Mother of the Bride in Phoenix Dear Mother: While we agree that the groom’s family seems ungenerous, etiquette says that the groom (not necessarily his parents) is responsible for his share of the wedding costs, although what that entails can vary.

But it includes the officiant’s fee, the rehearsal dinner and the honeymoon, among other things.

These days, most couples pay for their own wedding or split the costs between the bride’s family and the groom’s, and we think this is a much more reasonable arrangement. After all, most brides and grooms hold jobs and live independently of their parents. The good news for you is, if you are covering all of the expenses, you get to make all of the decisions. A lot of brides and their parents would be happy with that arrangement.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.

Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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Film ‘Carol’ leads at Independent Spirit Awards LINDSEY BAHR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — The 1950s-set romance Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara collected the most nominations Tuesday for the 31st Film Independent Spirit Awards.

The Todd Haynes-directed film picked up six nods in categories including best feature, director and lead actress for both Mara and Blanchett.

Beasts of No Nation, a fictional drama about a child soldier, received five nominations including best feature, best cinematog-

raphy and best director for Cary Joji Fukunaga.

Idris Elba also picked up a supporting acting nomination for the film — the first original feature from Netflix.

Oscar hopefuls are sprinkled throughout each category of the awards recognizing achievements in independent film.

In the past, the Spirit Awards have tended to include some eventual Oscar nominees and winners.

This year, many of the Spirit acting categories reflect a less mainstream lineup.

This year’s 362 film submissions

were judged on such guidelines as uniqueness of vision, originality of subject matter, economy of means, and percentage of financing from independent sources.

Nominations are chosen by members of Film Independent, which include critics, filmmakers, actors, festival programmers, past winners and nominees, and members of Film Independent’s board of directors.

Winners will be revealed at a ceremony Feb. 27, airing live on IFC from Santa Monica. The Academy Awards are presented the next day.

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