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PARIS — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Europe to tell the world that the fight against climate change starts at home.

Trudeau wrapped up a week-long run of European summitry — his second in less than 30 days since being sworn into office — with an address to the leaders’ plenary on the opening day of a UN-sponsored climate conference.

French President Francois Hollande, the host of the 21st climate conference, and other leaders painted the climate battle in existential terms for humankind, explicitly linking security issues and global warming in this terror-scarred city.

Trudeau focused on his own backyard.

“Indigenous peoples have known for thousands of years how to care for our planet,” he said. “The rest of us have a lot to learn.

And no time to waste.”

Trudeau said national governments like his own also have a lot they can learn from cities, and from the provincial premiers who’ve accompanied him to these talks.

More than 150 countries are represented at the conference, known as COP21, and more than 180 jurisdictions made emissions-cutting pledges in advance of two weeks of final negotiations that formally began Monday.

Hollande, whose national capital was stricken earlier this month by its second deadly terror attack in 2015, portrayed the task of climate negotiators in vividly dire terms.

“I’m not choosing between the fight against terror and the fight against global climate change,” he said in his opening address after delegates observed a moment of silence for terrorism victims in France, Lebanon, Iraq, Tunisia and Mali.

“Because we must leave our children more than a planet free of terrorism . . . . We must leave them a viable planet.”

Hollande said climate disruption spawns conflict as clouds bring storms.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria at the start of a session on carbon pricing at the United Nations climate change summit on Monday in Le Bourget, France. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

“Essentially what is at stake with this climate conference is peace,” said the French president.

The conference site, a sprawling airfield outside Paris, was a remarkable scene. More than one hundred country leaders and several thousand official delegates and journalists converged in the City of Lights just three weeks after terrorists killed 130 people in seven co-ordinated attacks on Nov. 13.

U.S. President Barack Obama called the gathering “an act of defiance.”

“What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshalling our best efforts to save it,” he told the morning plenary.

Trudeau had been asked last week about the nexus of climate and terror after UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon raised the link at a news conference in Malta during a Commonwealth summit.

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have figured in every conversation he’s had with other world leaders, whether at the G20 in Turkey, the Asia-Pacific leaders summit in Manila, or last week in Malta — but added, “I don’t see a direct link there.”

At a news conference Monday on the conference site, Trudeau said the three-month election campaign this fall that propelled his Liberals to power showed him that Canadians are ready to pitch in on fighting climate change.

“But they want to know that what they’re doing fits into a bigger picture,” said Trudeau. “Because there is no point in bending over backwards if your neighbour or your government is not also doing its part to ensure that we all have the maximum impact together.”

Trudeau, who has acknowledged that past governments — including Liberals — have failed to meet emission-cutting targets, said there “can be no laggards.”

“Every single one of us can and should be much more conscious of the ways we can act to reduce our carbon footprint.”

Before returning to Ottawa on Monday night, and this week’s return of a new Parliament, the prime minister met with the premiers of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec in one last display of the group effort Canada intends to make on climate change.

It was the last of Trudeau’s frenetic networking, which included sitting down with the presidents of the European Union and European Commission, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — where he accepted an invitation to visit Israel — and a brief address to an event hosted by the World Bank.

Trudeau announced in Malta that Canada will contribute $2.65 billion over five years to a climate adaptation and mitigation fund, and on Monday he added a pledge of $300 million to clean technology innovation as part of a 20-country project headlined

by Hollande, Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

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It’s not what you remember AIDS treatment has come a long way, public awareness has not

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hen NBA star Earvin “Magic” Johnson revealed that he was HIV positive, the perception was that it was a death sentence.

Twenty-four years have passed and Johnson, now aged 56, is living life to the fullest. He’s a businessman, TV personality and HIV activist.

The disease was in the spotlight Aaron again Hinks last Reporting month when Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen announced he too has HIV. Sheen has been living with the disease for years. He says he turned to drugs, was fearful of public reaction, and spent millions keeping it secret.

Even though it’s clear HIV hasn’t gone away, stigma, misconceptions and discrimination force the disease to live in the shadows.

Island Health reported 261 HIV-positive patients currently in the central Island. In 2014 there were 10 new cases identified in the region.

“When I was told I was HIV-positive, I looked at my doctor and thought I was going to die,” said Valerie Nicholson, 60.

“I didn’t hear anything else afterwards.”

Nicholson, who was born in Nanaimo, has been living with the disease for the past 10 years. She now lives in Vancouver, is the chairwoman of the Positive Living B.C. board, and has been making it her life’s work to educate people.

Nicholson contracted HIV from her boyfriend at the time.

“ I think the biggest thing that we live with is the stigma and discrimination.”

Valerie Nicholson, AIDS advocate

They were tested, but a clerical error falsely indicated he was HIV negative.

When he later discovered he was HIV positive, Nicholson, being uneducated about HIV transmission, assumed she had automatically contracted the disease and didn’t bother getting herself tested.

She realized afterwards that if she had got tested and protected herself, she may not have contracted the disease.

“I got really angry. I got into heavy drug use because I just didn’t know how to deal with it. Then I thought ‘the creator made me positive for a reason: I’m going to turn this around and make sure no one else goes through what I went through,’ and that’s what I do today.”

Nicholson is a board member for AIDS Vancouver and the Red Road AIDS Network and is working with researchers on up to seven independent projects.

She has experienced the stigma relating to HIV first- and second-hand.

“I don’t know what people think but a doctor jumped back from a HIV-positive patient when she found out. She doublegloved. She’s a doctor in Vancouver. This happened this year. That should never, ever happen,” Nicholson said.

“I went to get dental work done and I could hear them whispering ‘I don’t want to work on her, she’s HIV positive.’

That is just horrible.”

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Becker said HIV is starting to be viewed as a chronic disease because it can be managed so well the virus isn’t able to replicate and grow.

“In the beginning it was quite a toxic and difficult regime to follow. And today, for most people, it’s a much simpler regime to follow and for some it’s one pill a day. We have people that have been living with HIV for 30 years or longer here,” Becker said.

For the organization’s prevention and management program they visit schools and talk to youth. But they also go into high-risk communities.

Becker echoed Nicholson in that the myths and stigmas today are the same as they were decades ago. “(Some people think) these blood-born diseases are easily transmitted by casual contact and that’s not so. They’re bloodborn diseases and they’re not transmitted other than that,” Becker said.

Although Nicholson has an extensive list of goals to achieve, she says family is first and is thankful she has a granddaughter who keeps her grounded.

“I’m loving life,” Nicholson said.

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HIV treatment has been rapidly evolving. Even a comparison to 10 years ago shows dramatic changes.

“I know people that have been on 90 pills a day, had to take them on time.

They would set their alarm clocks. The medication we have now I’m down to one pill a day, which is a combination of two pills in one,” Nicholson said.

When Nicholson began treatment she was uneducated on how the process worked.

She didn’t know she could have her medication changed. Her first pill was called Atripla, and one of the symptoms was nightmares.

“I had vivid nightmares for four years.

I would actually phone people and ask them what the heck they were doing in this situation, or looking for them in hospitals because I was sure I dropped them off there,” she said.

She has switched medication and hasn’t had nightmares since.

AIDS Vancouver Island-Nanaimo works with clients located in central Vancouver Island. The organization has a positive wellness program, an education program and a harm-reduction program.

“We’re different than a regular private medical clinic or emergency room or a specialist office. We’re low-barrier, which means we don’t get too caught up if people are late for appointments or missing appointments. We try to meet people where they are at. We try to be accessible as we can for our clients and provide as much care as we can when we’re here,” said Dana Becker, who has been with the organization for the past 20 years.

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Nicholson went through much trial and error before finding a medication that works for her body. Every individual living with HIV has to take a unique cocktail of drugs tailored to their body and DNA. The biggest challenge she faces is that she needs to get blood work done every three months and has to see a lot of doctors.

“Which is OK because you get into a routine. I think the biggest thing that we live with is the stigma and discrimination. With the lack of education in our community and really knowing how HIV is transmitted, some people have a lot of fear. Even with some health care providers we’re facing stigma and discrimination,” she said.

Aside from providing education, Nicholson is working towards the decriminalization of disclosure. If a HIV-positive person doesn’t disclose and he or she has sex without wearing a condom, they could be charged with aggravated sexual assault and be labeled as a sex offender for the rest of their life.

The problem is, Nicholson said, is that it’s hard to prove whether or not disclosure happened before the sex.

“We have to protect ourselves. I may disclose to someone and tell him, but if he gets angry with me two months down the road, a year down the road, he could use my HIV as a weapon against me. That’s one of my biggest fights right now,” she said.

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The province has relaxed liquor laws to allow drinking without meals in restaurants and some bar owners are unhappy with the change.

In B.C., liquor licences are divided into two categories: liquor-primary, for bars and food-primary, for restaurants that are able to serve liquor.

Changes brought in last week allow patrons of food-primary establishments to order an alcoholic beverage without ordering food.

Andrew Pedersen, part-owner of Nanaimo’s Landlubber pub says it creates unfair competition. “We pay as a liquor primary establishment owner and pay a higher fee for business licence annually,�

Pedersen said. “Not only do they pay significantly less for annual fees — we’re talking maybe $1,000, which is a big deal for a small business owner — they don’t have to adhere to the same rules as we do.�

Local restaurants are happy with changes introduced last week in B.C. liquor laws. Bars not so much. [FILE]

Restaurateurs welcome the change but don’t predict a surge in drinking. “It’s been that way in Europe forever, we’re just catching up,� said Pete Maltesen, BC Restaurant & Foodservices Association Upper Island Board chairman. “But I really feel strongly the pri-

mary reason you’re in business is to serve food. It shouldn’t be to sell liquor.�

As to bar owners: “They’re in business to sell booze, not food, and if you look at every bar everywhere, they’ve become restaurants, so it’s a two-way street.�

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But “I could see for somebody with just one licence thinking they might lose customers to a restaurant,� said McPhail.

The serving industry association acknowledges concern among bar owners, but sees the change as part of a necessary revision of liquor regulations. “I think this is really about sensible modernization in the liquor industry,� said Jeff Guignard, executive director, BC Alliance of Beverage Licensees.

The rules require restaurateurs’ receipts to still come mainly from food sales, or “you’ll be subject to fines,� Guignard said.

The changes took effect on Tuesday.

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Ladysmith RCMP are asking for help to locate a 35-year-old woman missing since Nov. 19.

Destiny Raye Williams is believed to have been going to Nanaimo from Ladysmith when she went WILLIAMS missing.

Her family says it’s out of character for her be out of contact. Williams is white with long brown hair, blue eyes, 5’10� and 130 lbs. She has a prominent tattoo on her right shoulder.

Police say they are concerned for Williams well being and ask anyone with information to contact the Ladysmith RCMP at 250-245-2215.

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District considers office move to Harewood ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

The Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district is exploring the possibility of relocating its board and administrative offices to the Harewood Elementary School site.

The offices, collectively known as the District Administration Centre, are currently located on the property of the Nanaimo District Secondary School.

School board chairman Steve Rae said district staff have been directed to prepare a feasibility study on the idea by the end of the school year.

“This is all very preliminary at this stage, and we’re just trying to determine if the idea is worth pursuing,” he said. “We need to know the costs and the viability of the move before any decisions are made.”

The district has also decided to issue a request for proposals for the

demolition of Harewood school, which closed in 2004 as part of the efforts by the school board to deal with declining enrolment and increased costs.

The approximately $589,000 project to demolish the decrepit 100 year-old school is the second-highest priority on the district’s latest five-year capital plan that was recently submitted to the Ministry of Education.

District spokesman Dale Burgos said

Nanaimo-Ladysmith has already set aside the funding for the demolition, but it’s possible the ministry could be asked to help cover some of the costs.

The district has already established a committee to study and make recommendations for the future use of the 14.1 hectares of its real estate that contains the Nanaimo District Secondary School.

The site also contains district machine shops, school bus depot,

Serauxmen Stadium and the Rotary Bowl.

The district plans to demolish both Woodlands Secondary School and NDSS and build a new high school on the NDSS site, but it has still to be determined what the long-range plans are for the rest of the property.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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Art project hangs dirty laundry of spousal abuse in city out on the line for all to see

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It’s estimated the Nanaimo RCMP respond to at least one call a day directly related to domestic assaults.

Christine Gross, the resource development manager for Nanaimo’s Haven Society, said those statistics are, unfortunately, on par with communities across the province.

She said much of the violence goes on hidden behind closed doors, so the Nanaimo Women’s Action Group and the Nanaimo branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women have launched the Clothesline Project, an interactive visual art project, in the city.

Gross said the Haven Society and a number of other agencies in Nanaimo are participating in the project, in which clotheslines are set up on site and people are invited to hang T-shirts, tea towels or any other piece of cloth with messages about violence against women.

“It’s a visual representation of airing out the dirty laundry around violence against women,” she said.

“We all know someone who has experienced this, but the issue is not talked about widely. We already have about 15 articles of clothing with messages on them on our clothesline, and we still have plenty of clothespins left.”

Gross said the Haven Society and the Nanaimo Family Life Association currently have the clotheslines up until the end of the project on Dec. 10, and Vancouver Island University and a number of other organizations in the city are also expected to participate soon.

Christine Gross hangs a T-shirt protesting violence in front of the Haven Society Monday morning. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

She said the clothesline project against domestic violence is part of the 16 days of activities that the United Nations has set aside to combat gender-based violence.

“The Clothesline Project is not a new idea, but it’s first time we had it here in Nanaimo,” Gross said. “People are invited to bring in their own clothes with messages, but we have t-shirts

and markets on site if needed.”

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Operation Red Nose is back getting Nanaimo residents home safely over the holiday season.

Forty-three people called Operation Red Nose Nanaimo for a ride home this past weekend, which saw the launch of the 20th season of the service in Nanaimo.

Thirty-five volunteers got people and their vehicles home from bars and parties for the price of a donation to the service.

“This is tremendous milestone and we are thrilled to have many of our long time volunteers and community sponsors here to celebrate with us,” said Ursula Weiss, Operation Red Nose co-ordinator Drivers who know they’ve had enough to drink to put them over the line use the service by calling at 250-755-6969, then a while later a volunteer will arrive to drive them home in their own vehicle.

Donations go to PacifcSport.

The non-profit organization has been working to support sport participation on the Island since 1995, through a variety of means, ranging from community sport day camps to high-performance athlete development.

The service continues Friday and Saturdays through the month, excluding Christmas and Boxing Day. (Dec. 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 and 31.)

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CHARITY

Mid-Island residents urged to give in to new frenzy of Giving Tuesday SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

After the financial frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, local charities are hoping consumers will open their wallets today for ‘Giving Tuesday.’

Like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday is a transplant to Canada from the U.S., and

marks its third year in Canada.

It is intended to be a day of giving to local organizations and non-profits, including here in Nanaimo for the second year in a row.

The Nanaimo Foundation and the United Way of Central and Northern Vancouver Island are spearheading the local effort for the second year in a row.

For the first time ever, the local effort also includes a texting application. For the entire month of December, residents can text ‘COMMUNITY’ to 20222 on their mobile to donate $5, $10, $20 or $25.

All donations gathered through this method will be split evenly among local groups. A list can be found at www.GivingTuesday.ca.

Laurie Bienert, development officer for the Nanaimo Foundation, said the texting method is a chance to reach out to a younger pool of donors.

“We’re excited to see how much that brings in,” she said.

Bienert said many residents also choose to donate items and other non-monetary gifts to local charities,

adding there is an effort this year to better track how and where donations are made.

Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay has also issued a proclamation declaring Dec. 1 as ‘Giving Tuesday.’

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OUR VIEW

It’s World AIDS Day, get all the facts about HIV/AIDS T oday is World Aids Day. After Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday (also today), we tend to get a little overwhelmed with issues, causes and promotions.

But we cannot let fatigue or apathy set in over HIV and AIDS. The stakes are just too high.

HIV and AIDS have been with us since the 1980s. It didn’t take long for what was once thought of as a “gay disease” or “the gay plague” to lose the misnomer of “gay.”

The human immunodeficiency virus does not discriminate. Sadly, people still do. Too many of us allow our ignorance to overcome common sense when faced with someone who is HIV positive.

Daily News reporter Aaron Hinks spoke with Valerie Nicholson, who is

chairwoman of Positive Living B.C., a board member with AIDS Vancouver and HIV positive.

Here’s what Nicholson relates: “I don’t know what people think but a doctor jumped back from a HIV-positive patient when she found out. She double-gloved. She’s a doctor in Vancouver. This happened this year. That should never, ever happen,” Nicholson said.

“I went to get dental work done and I could hear them whispering ‘I don’t want to work on her, she’s HIV positive.’ That is just horrible.”

HIV is not — repeat not — passed on through casual contact. As if those with HIV don’t have enough to worry about. Becoming a social pariah is unnecessary and heartless because it is based on ignorance, misinformation or both.

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Here’s the reality: HIV is a blood-born contaminant. It is impossible to get HIV from shaking someone’s hand, a toilet seat (don’t laugh, that one is still out there), kissing or hugging.

Nicholson says she encounters discrimination regularly.

“I think the biggest thing that we live with is the stigma and discrimination. With the lack of education in our community and really knowing how HIV is transmitted, some people have a lot of fear. Even with some health care providers we’re facing stigma and discrimination.”

Another prevalent myth about HIV/AIDS is that it’s a death sentence.

As pointed out in our piece today on Page 3, former NBA star Earvin “Magic” Johnson has been living with HIV/AIDS for 24 years.

He remains active in business and working in the interests of those with HIV. With the right medication and regular medical supervision, Nicholson too is healthy and working hard for those with HIV/AIDS and on HIV/AIDs education.

The condition is now no longer a death sentence, and as a result has for some time receded from view, but it remains an illness ravaging countries without strong health care infrastructure and affordable access to the latest medications.

Education around HIV/AIDS then is two-pronged. Aside from dispelling myths and lies about the condition, prevention is the other vital aspect of education. The key here is threefold: Condoms, clean needles and testing.

It is argued that everyone, regardless of risk, should be tested, and it’s

is a good step that all blood work now includes routine HIV screening.

By keeping the condition in the shadows through ignorance and misinformation, prevention becomes more difficult.

People will be less likely to realize they are at risk and therefore take precautions and be tested.

HIV transmission is actually fairly easy to prevent. It’s probably a bigger challenge to end the discrimination and stigma.

World AIDS Day gives us time to reflect that HIV/AIDs is not an issue of gay men or drug addicts.

We all have a responsibility to get the facts and not be afraid.

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Theory amounts to pay the piper, get your tune Re: ‘Island is hardly at top of the federal priority list’ (Your Letters, Daily News, Nov. 28) So I am to believe that if former federal Conservative candidate Mark MacDonald and former Prime Minister Stephen Harper ran the ridings on the Island, folks would get preferred federal funding?

This is Christmas for me.

Now MacDonald, an also-ran who lost, is setting out to create every stumbling block for Canada’s new leader. But I do get a good picture of how that (political) world operates: Pay the piper and get your tune.

That said, I suggest that all the NDP on the Island cross the floor and join the Liberals.

The federal funding would be overwhelming!

Neil Saunders Nanaimo

MP federal funding idea points back to candidate Re: ‘Island is hardly at top of the federal priority list’ (Your Letters, Daily News, Nov. 28) Mark MacDonald seems to think it is foolish to elect MPs to sit in the Opposition because inevitably we will be punished by the governing party.

But if everyone thought like that, we would elect only government MPs and there would be no Opposition.

Is that the kind of government we want?

MacDonald believes that the voters of Nanaimo-Ladysmith made a mistake once again in electing an Opposition member.

If he really believes that, why didn’t he swing his support to (Liberal candidate) Tim Tessier when it became clear that the contest was between Tessier and Malcomson?

If we have made a mistake in electing an opposition member, I think MacDonald should accept his share of the blame.

Ken Hiebert Ladysmith

‘Tape’ links this school board to past boards Re: ‘School closures are a reality some parents must face’ (Our View, Daily News, Nov. 27) • “Proximity can no longer be a legitimate criteria for keeping under-utilized schools running.”

• “We elected trustees to make hard decisions.”

• “When decisions are made, gracefully accept them as final.”

This is a tape rerun since 2002.

So, here’s what I think based on what’s been going on since 2002.

Closing Nanaimo District Secondary School is a sound and good idea, if there must be a closure.

The school heaves, it rocks, and it rolls.

When trustees do things like get themselves elected to sway votes on the board, go through with multi-million dollar losses to protect a school which should be torn down, close down schools in Ladysmith and Cedar and bunch kids together in ways with overused portables to protect NDSS, people lose confidence utterly in the school board’s credibility and ability.

That this board has just produced the above “tape” links them to all previous boards.

Furthermore, I knew better by Grade 5 than to “gracefully accept” a bad decision as “final.”

As for the paradigm of “final solutions,” something really has to be said here about the entitled, right-wing, paternalist personality of Nanaimo public and private administrations.

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Oil slick coats Victoria’s Gorge waterway The Township of Esquimalt is warning residents to keep their pets out of the Gorge Waterway after a petrochemical oil spill Monday morning.

Township crew noticed the spill in the waterway near Sioux Place and Esquimalt Gorge Park around 9:30 a.m.

Monday.

Booms and absorbent tiles have been deployed to help contain the skill and crews are currently working to track the source of the spill. The substance and volume of the spill material are unknown.

Remediation efforts will continue over the next few days and Wild Arc has been notified in case local birds are affected.

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Cops raid cross-border counterfeit operation RCMP seized over $60,000 in Canadian and U.S. currency, along with instruments used to manufacture counterfeit money, after executing a search warrant at a home in Langford on Nov. 25. This warrant was the result of a 10-month long investigation that took place starting in February.

Deborah Lynne Thomas, 32, has been charged with nine counts of uttering, using or exporting counterfeit money.

Police are also warning local businesses that they may have fallen victim to counterfeit bills and are encouraging them to come forward. West Shore RCMP have partnered with the U.S. Secret Service to confirm details involving the counterfeit U.S. currency.

â—† VICTORIA

Suspect arrested for armed robbery West Shore RCMP’s street crime unit has arrested a Victoria man wanted in Surrey for armed robbery involving a firearm and wearing a disguise.

Sidney Lamont Goossens, 24, was arrested Wednesday and now faces additional charges including possession of heroin and methamphetamine.

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SCOTT STANFIELD COMOX VALLEY RECORD

Saturday’s referendum on a tax to address homelessness in the Comox Valley passed by less than 200 votes.

According to unofficial results, 1,608 residents voted in favour of the tax while 1,426 said no.

The question asked voters if they favour a bylaw to establish a service to provide funds to one or more non-government organizations to deliver services to assist homeless individuals, based on a five-year plan.

The Comox Valley Coalition to End Homelessness will work with non-profits to develop the plan. “The coalition is happy with this positive result for the second time,� said group member Helen Boyd, noting a non-binding question at the last civic election had indicated 71 per cent of voters support at least a $5 annual property tax. “Our five-year plan is already established, and really focuses on providing housing and the necessary supports for people who are homeless. It is not focused on administrators. It is truly providing housing and support services directly to the non-profit agencies that are going to be the leads on the project. So there’s something tangible there that will be presented at the end of the first year.�

One of the coalition’s plans is to develop a support service, multi-purpose room at the Washington Apartments, which BC Housing has purchased. Other first-year goals are to create two new units of transitional housing at Amethyst House — a residential facility for women operated by the Comox Valley Transition Society — and four beds at the Comox Valley Recovery Centre for men. “The plan is always evolving,� Boyd said. “It’s the whole continuum of housing.�

She notes the coalition will continue to advocate at all levels of government and with other sectors. It also meets with BC Housing, which handles provincial funding. “The coalition has done an enormous amount of work off the side of our desk,� Boyd said.

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Courtenay Elementary was one of several voting locations in Saturday’s homelessness referendum. [SCOTT STANFIELD]

“We think we can truly make a difference because many people are on the same page on this. This positive vote is one step that’s going to help us make that difference . . . This small tax will have a big impact.�

At the tax rate of two cents per $1,000 of assessed property value, the owner of a residential property assessed at $300,000 would pay $6 per year.

The amount collected from commercial properties depends on a tax multiplier set by the provincial government. Funding could be available

by March. Participating jurisdictions

are Courtenay, Cumberland, Area A (excluding Denman and Hornby Islands), and Areas B and C. Comox, which has established a $30,000/year fund for the function of addressing homelessness, intends to redirect its money to the regional homelessness service.

Official referendum results will be announced by Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 4 p.m. The CVRD board — which needs to adopt the bylaw to implement the tax — will consider the next steps at its Dec. 15 meeting.

An well-known Campbell River figure is expected be taken off his pole next year.

Logger Mike, a long-time fixture in the community, is showing his age and will likely be replaced after Campbell River council approved a proposal from the Shoreline Arts Society for a new Mike.

Ross Milnthorp, the city’s general manager of parks, recreation and culture, said city staff have been working with Shoreline to develop a plan to replace Logger Mike with a newly carved statue during the 2016 chainsaw carving competition. “Discussions have also been had with the Canada Day Committee regarding integrating the carving of a new Logger Mike with the 2016 Canada Day events and parade,�

Milnthorp said.

The proposal is to take Mike off his pole in Tyee Plaza and transport him to the parking lot at Frank James Park where a replica Mike will be carved. The old and new Mikes would then be paraded through the city on Canada Day, July 1.

Shoreline is proposing that the city could either hold a silent auction for the old Mike, or he could be taken to the Museum to go on a permanent display.

Milnthorp said staff is estimating $25,000 for the entire project, which would involve costs to take down Logger Mike, ship him, secure and insure the carving area, hire a carver, and secure the proper materials.

Council will consider that budget at its 2016 financial planning deliberations which get underway on Dec. 7.

Logger Mike, a yellow cedar statue that pays tribute to the city’s forestry roots, has withstood more than 15 years of weathering.

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Buzzing aircrafts annoy Saanich residents Saanich is looking into an ongoing report of low-flying aircraft that have been particularly bothersome for the residents of Worthington Road in Cordova Bay. Since 2012, Dorothy Pearson of Walema Avenue has gathered a petition of 53 residents from the immediate area who say Vancouver and Victoria harbour-bound aircraft

have been flying too close over their homes, roads and properties.

“Our houses actually shake, especially with (helicopters), it’s very loud,” Pearson said. “It interrupts your speech, and there’s so many during the rush hour times, you can’t have a barbecue in the summer, it affects your quality of life.”

Pearson said about 30 to 40 aircraft come through on a busy day right now and as many as 100 would come

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through during busy summer days over the past three years. She’s lived there since 2001 and recalls hardly any aircraft to speak of prior to September 2012.

Jonathan Bagg, manager of public affairs for Nav Canada, said the regulation of routes is a broad one, and wasn’t able to speak specifically to the Worthington area directly.

“It’s a busy region, (this) part of B.C. has a lot of airports, a lot of

flights, and it’s normal to have aircraft over different areas. Aircraft can fly on different routes.”

However, Bagg did say there’s been no changes to the area since 2007.

Both Bagg and Transport Canada said they’ll look further into the flight paths of the area.

Pearson and a trio of neighbours brought the issue to Saanich council as a delegation on Nov. 16 and were met with a positive response.

Council recognized the issue as similar to one in 2006, in which the Healthy Saanich advisory committee helped a group of citizens from Saanich, Central Saanich and North Saanich to redirect “low flying” float planes and helicopters away from densely populated ares of Saanich and Victoria.

Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell passed a motion to follow the same steps it did in 2006.

Program honours Island family businesses JACOB ZINN SAANICH NEWS

In recognition of family-owned businesses on Vancouver Island, the local chapter of the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise is accepting nominations for its 2016 Family Enterprise of the Year Award.

The annual award by CAFE was started in an effort to honour, celebrate and promote the achievements and contributions of Canadian family businesses. CAFE is Canada’s only national not-for-profit that celebrates and supports family business.

Past Vancouver Island recipients include Country Grocer, Accent Inns, McCall Brothers Funeral Directors, Capital Iron, the Canada Homestay Network, Pacific Sands Resort, Robinson’s Outdoor Store and Monk Office.

“It’s extremely important to recognize the contributions family businesses make to the economy,” said managing director Bernadine Rudichuk, “and the best way we find of doing that is to honour someone locally who has done well as a family business.”

Rudichuk said CAFE places importance on family businesses because they support the local economy through job creation and often give back to their communities.

The recipients of the FEYA from CAFE’s 11 chapters will be entered to win the national Family Enterprise of the Year Award. In 2014, Victoria’s Capital Iron won the national award, making them the first Vancouver Island recipient of the accolade.

“It was amazing — it was the first time it’s happened for us,” said Rudichuk. “It was just great.”

Nominations are being accepted until Dec. 15, with the Vancouver Island celebration gala taking place on Feb. 11 at the Victoria Golf Club.

For more information, visit www. cafecanada.ca/chapters/vancouver-island and fill out the form, or contact Rudichuk at 250-532-2402 or vancouverisland@cafecanada.ca.

Kate Fraser, with her son Orion, 7, is the new Saanich affiliate for Rent the Chicken, a service that offers egg-laying hens on a temporary basis without the commitment of full-time chicken ownership. [JACOB ZINN]

Victoria firm asks ‘why buy the chicken when you can rent the eggs from me?’

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“Why buy when you can rent” is a more common phrase in the real estate market, but in Saanich, it now applies to farm animals — specifically chickens.

Rent the Chicken, a service that offers chickens on a temporary basis, is taking off across North America and has spread to Saanich. Kate Fraser, of Bees Please Farms, is the local affiliate — the first in the Greater Victoria area — and said the service was created for people who want their own farm fresh eggs without the commitment of full-time chicken ownership.

“You’ve heard of the 100-mile diet.

I’ve heard in James Bay, they’re trying for a 100-yard diet — here it is, in your yard,” she said.

Fraser joined the Rent the Chicken program after doing a similar pro-

gram with bees, which rents beehives to people who want to increase pollination, boost the bee population and make their own honey.

“My mom called me and said, ‘Have you seen this Rent the Chicken?’” said Fraser. “I looked it up and I thought, this goes perfectly, this is a great idea.

“The two really go hand in hand.

We’ve had a couple orders where people are getting bees and chickens.

It’s usually the people that care about the same things, like local food, sustainable and organic practices.”

Rent the Chicken offers three sixmonth rental packages, priced at $425, $600 and $1,000 plus PST and GST. The chickens are available from May to October and the packages come with delivery, setup and pickup of contents, two to four egg-laying hens, a chicken coop, food and water dishes, 40 to 80 kilograms of feed, a

care guide and a copy of Lisa Steele’s Fresh Eggs Daily.

In preparation for May, Fraser is building the coops to order, adding that Rent the Chicken has a support line if renters have questions about what to do with their chickens.

“I take the deposit, build everything, I give them a call closer to April and schedule a delivery date,” she said. “I take them the chickens, the coop, the feed, the feeder and a little instruction book, and answer any questions that they have.”

Fraser said concepts like eating local and organic are taking off because people want to know where their food comes from.

“When you can see where it comes from, there’s no guesswork,” she said.

“You know what the chickens ate – it’s just really simple. It’s getting back to simple ways of eating.”

In addition to fresh eggs, Fraser said the chickens come with other benefits such as fertilization, pest control and lawn maintenance.

“We had kind of a bet going: I’d read that you don’t need to mow when you have the chickens, and my husband said, ‘There’s no way they could control the lawn,’” she said. “But it’s true, they kind of nibble across the top and keep it a consistent height, and we have not had a single dandelion in the back.”

While the service is brand new to the area, Fraser said she’s already received a lot of positive feedback about the initiative.

“Some people even just write to me and say, ‘Good on you for doing this, this is wonderful.’”

For more information about Rent the Chicken, visit rentthechicken.com.

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Panel urges one-third hike in B.C. carbon tax TOM FLETCHER BLACK PRESS

Sidney North Saanich RCMP seized weapons, cash and drugs during a raid of a home across the street from an elementary school on Friday. [RCMP]

Drugs, weapons seized near school CARLIE CONNOLLY PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW

Four people were arrested after police found weapons, cash and drugs in a house across the street from Sidney Elementary School.

On Friday, Sidney North Saanich RCMP’s General Investigative Section executed a search warrant for drugs at a home on Seventh Street in Sidney, right across from the elementary School.

Corporal Erin Fraser said there

was no threat to the school or danger to the children — adding that safety might have been in jeopardy because of the proximity of drugs and weapons. There was no danger during the bust itself, she said.

Police found packaged cocaine, drug trafficking paraphernalia, cash and a rifle with a prohibited high capacity magazine and ammunition. A set of brass knuckles with a conductive energy weapon (Taser) incorporated into the design was seized by police as well.

Four people who were inside of the residence were arrested.

They include two females aged 17 and 23 and two males aged 19 and 21.

The males are facing drug possession, drug trafficking and weapons-related charges.

Fraser said the investigation was conducted prior to the search warrant being executed Friday, as police had to gather enough evidence to substantiate the search warrant.

The B.C. government’s climate advisory panel wants to start increasing the province’s carbon tax with a 33 per cent jump in 2018, and says even with higher fuel tax the province won’t meet its current target to reduce greenhouse gases one third by 2020.

The carbon tax has been frozen at $30 a tonne since 2013, a rate that translates to about seven cents a litre on gasoline and similar taxes on diesel, natural gas and other carbon-based fuels.

The government’s advisory team recommends increasing the carbon tax by $10 a tonne each year starting in 2018, with increased rebates for low-income and rural B.C. residents.

Environment Minister Mary Polak released the panel’s recommendations Friday, as the B.C. delegation led by Premier Christy Clark prepares to attend the United Nations climate change meetings in Paris next week.

Polak was skeptical about one of the panel’s recommendations, to cut the provincial sales tax from seven per cent to six and replace the revenues through higher carbon taxes.

“It is one of their recommendations, and so we’ll be looking at it along with the others, but I think at first blush,

the numbers probably don’t work,” Polak said.

The panel, appointed in May with industry and environmental representatives, concluded that the 2020 reduction target isn’t going to be met. It recommends a new target of a 40 per cent reduction by 2030, and says the original target of an 80 per cent cut can still be reached with “aggressive” carbon pricing and expansion of the tax to include industrial emissions.

Polak said she accepts that assessment, and will consult with industry and B.C. residents before setting new policies next spring.

NDP leader John Horgan said the Clark government has frozen the carbon tax and delayed progress on Metro Vancouver transit with a referendum they expected would fail.

“Rather than reduce emissions, they’ve gone up,” Horgan said. “And we’re not even counting liquefied natural gas.”

Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver said the recommendation to resume increases in the carbon tax is “bold,” but the report also shows Clark’s government gave up on the 2020 target that is still in legislation.

“The key thing is that these recommendations are completely incompatible with the government’s LNG plan.”

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How To Combat The Winter Blues Notice of Proposed Disposition of Lands The Regional District of Nanaimo intends on entering into an agreement with the Nanaimo & Area Land Trust Society (NALT) and the Cowichan Community Land Trust Society (CCLT) in the form of a conservation covenant for Mount Benson Regional Park in Electoral Area C. Mount Benson Regional Park is made up of the following parcels of land: PID: 000-010-294, Block 1161, Mountain District, PID: 000-010-286, East 10 Chains of Section 7, Range 3, Mountain District, PID: 000-013-340, Section 7, Range 4, Mountain District, and PID: 000-010-278, Block 787, Mountain District, Except Part Shown Outlined in Red on Plan 2334 RW and Except Part in Plan 28907 and VIP75642 The agreement would grant the two societies a conservation covenant to restrict the use of the Regional Park pursuant to section 219 of the Land Title Act. The covenant would be registered against title to the Park lands and would be in perpetuity. The Regional District also intends to grant a statutory right of way, pursuant to section 218 of the Land Title Act, in favour of each covenant holder as this is necessary for the operation and maintenance of the undertakings of the covenant holders. No consideration will be received by the Regional District for the proposed disposition; however entry into the covenant was a condition of a contribution agreement between NALT and the Regional District related to the Regional District’s purchase of the lands that make up the Park.

Under Section 187 of the Local Government Act, the Regional Board must publish a notice of its intentions to dispose of lands, and disposition includes the placing of a charge such as a covenant, on title. The Regional Board committed to working with NALT and a second lands trust on a Mount Benson Regional Park covenant at the time of park acquisition in 2006. The intention to see the covenant put in place was reiterated in the 2010-2020 Mount Benson Regional Park Management Plan, available at http://www.rdn.bc.ca/cms.asp?wpID=1930.

Inquiries may be directed to Wendy Marshall, Manager of Parks Services, at 250-248-3252 or toll free in BC at 1-888-828-2069, Monday to Friday between the hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

As the colder weather and holiday season approach you may find yourself feeling more stressed and irritable. Whether it be the weather, relationships, or money worries, there are many things bombarding us. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is said to affect up to 21% of Canadians. Here are some easy fixes to help us to feel merrier this time of year.

Your activity level has a significant affect on mood. Unfortunately as the temperature falls, so does our physical activity. 64% of us are inactive in the winter months. Make a commitment of at least 20 minutes of activity per day. If winter sports are not your thing, try selecting an indoor activity you enjoy such as swimming, an exercise class, or a brisk walk.

Your diet also plays a vital role in your mood. Many people go to the carbohydrate rich comfort foods this time of year. Unfortunately these delictable foods spike our blood sugar, leading to feelings of irritability and moodiness. It is essential to add a protein to every meal to help balance mood and keep us feeling full longer. Regardless of your dietary lifestyle, protein cannot only be from meat, but also nuts and seeds, legumes, and dairy to name a few.

Getting a good night sleep also affects our wellbeing. 33% of the population experience insomnia on a regular basis. Many health conditions including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and depression are partially related to disturbed sleep. Reducing not only sweets, but caffeine and alcohol will have a dramatic affect on sleep quality. If you are still having a hard time sleeping, natural sleep aids are a great option without leaving you feeling drowsy. Melatonin, 5-HTP, and L-Theanine can help reduce the time it takes to fall asleep as well as keep you asleep. They are also non habit forming unlike sleeping pills.

Supplements that can help boost your mood include Vitamin D, Omega 3, and a Vitamin B Complex. Vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin, is recommended at at least 2000iu this time of year. When looking for an Omega 3 specifically for mood, choose a fish oil that is higher in EPA, as this is especially helpful to help us feel happy. A Vitamin B complex at 50mg per day is also very helpful for stress. If you find these feelings last the whole year round you might want to consider an anti-stress herbal supplement.

There are many herbal combinations that include adaptogens such as ashwaganda and rhodiola that help how your body reacts to stress. Not only do they help with feelings of anxiety, but also give you energy and help regulate your sleep at night.

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Credit counsellor warns of seasonal debt woes The head of British Columbia’s Credit Counselling Society is offering a word of warning in the lead-up to the holiday shopping season.

President Scott Hannah says holiday expenses should be planned and on budget.

Hannah says the average British Columbian has a non-mortgage debt of $25,000, which includes lines of credit, loans and credit cards.

He says that shouldering that level of debt could spell trouble if mortgage rates increase. Hannah says a rise in debt levels is also happening alongside a decline in spending rates.

He says Canadians are floundering when it comes to managing their savings and meeting other financial goals.

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◆ CRIME

Man arrested after body found in Chase area home The RCMP Southeast District Major Crimes Unit is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a Lee Creek residence in the North Shuswap on Saturday night.

Investigators are treating her death as suspicious and say that the woman could be the victim of a possible shooting.

At 9:46 p.m. on Nov. 28, Chase RCMP responded to reports of shots fired at a residence in Lee Creek, west of Chase.

They found the deceased woman inside the residence when they arrived.

An adult male was taken into police custody following his arrest at the residence Saturday night. He remains in custody at this time, pending a court appearance.

Investigators still have not been able to locate the victim’s family members to advise them of her death. As such, her name has not been released. The BC Coroners Service is now also involved with the case.

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Paramedics attend to a videographer who had been assaulted with bear spray while filming a homeless camp in Abbotsford in October. {ABBOTSFORD NEWS]

Abbotsford woman charged with bear spraying reporter VIKKI HOPES ABBOTSFORD NEWS

An Abbotsford woman who was previously charged for bear-spraying a local videographer has had another charge added in relation to an incident that preceded that attack.

Christina Violet Bentley, 39, was charged on Nov. 17 with uttering threats.

Bentley was first charged on Oct. 22 with assault with a weapon.

This was the day after cameraman Kevin MacDonald, who does freelance work for several media outlets

including the Abbotsford News, was bear-sprayed while filming the homeless camp on Gladys Avenue.

MacDonald had been hired by CTV News to film the site as part of their piece on the B.C. Supreme Court decision which ruled that the homeless can camp overnight in parks.

MacDonald had situated himself near the Mennonite Central Committee building across from the camp.

Several minutes later, an angry woman crossed the street and came toward him, yelling that he couldn’t film her.

She was carrying a can of bear spray, which she then sprayed on him.

MacDonald was treated by paramedics at the scene, but suffered the effects of the bear spray for several days.

A few minutes before MacDonald was attacked, Abbotsford News reporter Laura Rodgers had also been at the scene. The same woman allegedly threatened to break Rodgers’ camera and to bear-spray her, but Rodgers quickly departed before any assault occurred.

Bentley’s next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 21.

A Langley man who killed someone in a road-rage hit-and-run will be granted statutory release in January, even though he is considered a moderate risk to reoffend and continues to have anger-management issues.

Brent Donald Parent, 47, is serving a 5 1/2-year sentence for criminal negligence causing death, dangerous driving and leaving the scene of an accident in connection with the death of 21-year-old Silas O’Brien.

In the early hours of March 13, 2008, O’Brien and two friends were driving to the airport and tried to pass Parent’s pickup on 16th Avenue in Langley, but Parent forced them off the road and into a ditch.

The young men got out of their overturned truck and were standing on the side of the road when Parent returned a few minutes later. The men shouted and waved at Parent, who swerved toward them and ended up hitting and killing O’Brien.

Parent heard the impact, but said at trial that he thought someone had thrown a rock or kicked his truck and said he had no idea he’d hit anyone until the next day.

Parent’s driving record is comprised of 64 infractions and was described in court as “egregious.” He also has a criminal history with convictions for cultivating a narcotic and mischief.

Charges of failing to comply with a probation order, uttering threats and assault were stayed.

The incident that resulted in the threatening charge took place in 2009.

Parent was sent to prison in May 2012. His statutory release date is Jan. 10. Statutory release is automatically granted most offenders after they have served two-thirds of their sentence.

◆ HEALTH

Walkable communities key to better health Metro Vancouver residents living in the region’s most walkable neighbourhoods are about a third less likely to be overweight or obese than those living in the region’s more car-dependent areas.

Those findings come out of a study conducted by researcher Salman Klar of the Fraser Health Authority and presented at this week’s World Diabetes Congress in Vancouver.

Klar says living in walkable areas significantly lowers the odds of being obese, which is a major risk factor for Type 2 diabetes. His research explores the relationship between body mass index and neighbourhood walkability.

Dr. Jat Sandhu of Vancouver Coastal Health says municipal planners would do well to keep these findings in mind when designing healthy neighbourhoods.

Data for the study came from a self-reported survey conducted primarily online between 2013 and 2014. It targeted British Columbians 18 and older.

JUSTICE

Ankle bracelets on the way for high-risk cons JEFF NAGEL BLACK PRESS

Ankle bracelets to electronically monitor high-risk offenders after their release from prison will soon be in use in B.C. The move comes more than a year after the arrest of paroled rapist Raymond Caissie in the murder of Surrey high school student Sereena Vermeersch.

At the time, Justice Minister Suzanne Anton acknowledged the monitoring of high-risk offenders needed to be improved. The Crown did not request electronic monitoring of Caissie.

In July, the province selected UK-based provider Buddi Ltd. to provide new monitoring devices to track released offenders and ensure they

Ankle bracelet for electronic monitoring produced by UK firm Buddi Ltd. [BUDDI.CO.UK]

don’t violate release conditions.

A justice ministry spokesperson said Buddi will now conduct staff

training and equipment testing.

The hybrid radio frequency/GPS system has better tracking and

reporting capabilities, including an ability to program in no-go zones and map an offender’s travels.

An alarm sounds at the central monitoring site if the offender enters a restricted area, and vibration alerts on the ankle bracelet remind the offender to comply.

According to Buddi, supervisors can use the data on offender movements to help them alter their behaviour to reduce the likelihood of reoffending. The real-time location data may also help police quickly rule out monitored offenders as suspects in a new crime.

The old ankle bracelet system could only verify that an offender was home. B.C. Corrections expects to begin using the new devices in mid-December.

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Growing tent city raises neighbourhood concerns PAMELA ROTH VICTORIA NEWS

Neighbours living next to a growing homeless camp that’s blossomed outside the Victoria courthouse are fed up dealing with thefts, dirty needles and damage to their property.

For the past 17 years, Don Allen has lived in his Fairfield apartment across the street from the courthouse on Burdett Avenue. He describes the last six months as horrifying.

According to Allen, usually four to five tents are set up in the green space at any given time. That number has now grown to about 20 in the last few weeks and so has crime in the surrounding neighbourhood.

Working as the building manager, Allen sees and hears it all.

The back of the apartment building was recently broken into with three bikes stolen, and someone damaged

his truck when they tried to break inside. On another occasion, a man was home reading the newspaper when he heard someone outside cutting his window screen.

Yelling and screaming is also a common occurrence during the evening hours and neighbours often find themselves picking up used needles on their property. One person found a needle in their vehicle tire, resulting in a flat.

So far Allen has had to install window bars inside a couple suites and received two notices from tenants wanting to move elsewhere.

“They’ve had enough. It’s unreal.

It’s just non-stop,” said Allen. “We used to go away every weekend to our trailer up Island, but now we’re scared to leave. They are always looking in our windows. They come around at night.”

Allen sees police at the camp on a regular basis and has reported the problems at his building. But according to the city and police, the green space is owned by the province, therefore it’s considered private property and city bylaws don’t apply.

The City of Victoria has a bylaw that states people can only shelter in a park between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m., but since the property is owned by the province, police can’t remove the campers without a request.

“If there was an assault in the park, we would attend and deal with it just like any other private property. But specifically regarding the tenting and them staying there, it’s the property owner that would be the one to place a complaint with us,” said Victoria police spokesperson Const. Matt Rutherford, adding police do monitor the space.

With no police forcing campers to pack up and leave every morning, the green space is becoming popular among the homeless community.

On Tuesday morning, more than 20 tents were set up along the tree line.

Steven L’heureux is among the people staying there. L’heureux is currently waiting for housing and sleeps in a number of parks throughout the city.

He said the campers recently held a meeting to lay down some rules such as cleaning up, no fighting, yelling or screaming so they don’t disturb neighbours.

“If there’s anybody that’s going to cause any trouble, the whole group is going to band together and say move on, get out,” L’heureux said.

A B.C. government spokesperson responded to the Victoria News in a

written statement, saying: “The B.C. Government recognizes the importance of keeping the Victoria courthouse property clear and ensuring safe access by the public.

We continue to work closely with the Victoria Police Department and the City of Victoria to find a long-term solution.”

Mel Wright lives in a condo near the courthouse. He feels like there is a lack of interest in finding a solution.

If no action is taken soon, he fears the park could have as many as 40 to 50 tents, potentially resulting more problems for those who live nearby.

“Every time there’s a few more tents, something happens,” Allen said.

“Eventually somebody is going to get hurt. There is so many people pissed off they ain’t going to take much more.”

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World leaders begin talks to broker climate agreement This round seeks to produce a deal that would require all countries to take action KARL RITTER AND SYLVIE CORBET THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LE BOURGET, France — With dramatic vows to save future generations from an overheated planet, the largest gathering ever of world leaders began two weeks of talks Monday aimed at producing the most far-reaching pact yet to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and avert environmental havoc.

“We should ask what will we say to our grandchildren if we fail,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said as the UN climate summit opened under heavy security on the outskirts of Paris, just two weeks after the extremist attacks that left 130 people dead.

“Instead of making excuses tomorrow, let’s take action today.”

Even before the gathering, more than 180 countries pledged to cut or curb their emissions.

But scientific analyses show that much bigger reductions would be needed to limit man-made warming of the Earth to 2 C over pre-industrial times, the internationally agreed-upon goal.

The biggest issue facing the 151 heads of state and government at the summit is who should bear most of the burden of closing that gap: wealthy Western nations that have polluted the most historically, or developing countries like China and India that are now the biggest and third-biggest emitters of greenhouse gases?

“Addressing climate change should not deny the legitimate needs of developing countries to reduce poverty and improve living stan-

◆ WELLAND, ONT.

Suspect in Alberta killing arrested in Ontario city Niagara regional police say a man wanted in an Edmonton homicide has been arrested in Welland, Ont. Police say they began investigating Monday after receiving information that a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant was hiding somewhere in Niagara Region.

Investigators say Shayne Fry was arrested late Monday morning in Welland.

Fry was wanted on a second-degree murder warrant in connection with a homicide which occurred on April 6 in Edmonton.

Two other people already face charges in the fatal shooting of Trevor Keith Deleeuw.

Police say Fry will be held in custody pending his return to Edmonton.

Part of former uranium mine to be cleaned up

Oxfam activists wear masks from left, of French President Francois Hollande, Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. President Barack Obama, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as they stage a protest ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference on Saturday. [AP PHOTO]

dards,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping told the conference.

The last major climate agreement, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, required only rich countries to cut emissions, and the U.S. never signed on. Since then, global temperatures and sea levels have continued to rise, and the Earth has seen an extraordinary run of extreme weather, including severe droughts and storms.

This new round of talks seeks to produce an agreement that would require all countries, rich and poor, to take action.

While the specifics have yet to be worked out, the pact is meant to chart a path toward reduced reliance

on coal, oil and gas and expanded use of renewable energy such as wind and solar power.

The negotiations will focus on whether emissions targets should be binding or voluntary and how to verify that countries are hitting their targets. Another big issue will be how to provide the finance and technology that developing countries will need to reduce their emissions and cope with the effects of rising seas, intensifying heat waves and floods.

“The future of the people of the world, the future of our planet, is in your hands,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told negotiators in his opening remarks. “We cannot afford

indecision, half measures or merely gradual approaches. Our goal must be a transformation.”

China and India say they want the agreement to clearly reflect that industrialized nations bear the biggest responsibility for the problem.

President Barack Obama offered assurances that the U.S. isn’t trying to shirk its duty.

“I’ve come here personally, as the leader of the world’s largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it,” Obama told the conference.

Mom of five among three dead in rural home EDSON, Alta. — Friends and family have identified a woman who recently started a new job at a fast-food restaurant as one of three people killed in a rural Alberta home.

Mounties say the bodies of a man, a woman and a teenage girl — all with “obvious trauma” — were found in a house near Edson on Sunday.

Sylvia Standing said Monday that her goddaughter Roxanne Ruth Berube was 36, had five children and was a good mother.

Insp. Gibson Glavin said the deaths were not a murder-suicide.

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one out there, or some people, who did this and we have not arrested them yet,” he said.

RCMP major crimes investigators and other Mounties were speaking with people in the area west of Edmonton looking for leads and clues, he said.

Police found the bodies after responding to a call from someone outside the home.

Glavin said police don’t believe anyone else is at risk, but urged people to be careful.

“We do urge the public to be cautious, to be aware of people or circumstances that cause them to believe that they have some know-

ledge or some connection with this homicide investigation,” he said.

Glavin would not say at a news conference in Edmonton what the relationship was between the dead other than that they all lived in the house.

The investigation is not ruling out any suspects and officers would like to speak to anyone who may have information about what happened, he said.

Autopsies had yet to be performed.

A co-worker at an Edson McDonald’s who didn’t want to be named described Berube as a good worker and a nice person.

Berube’s Facebook page has photos of five children in a snow-filled

field. A post on Oct. 23 said one of the photos was taken two years ago and “my family has gotten bigger since this picture. My boyfriend (I can’t wait for you guys to meet him and his family) and I have 10 kids between us and 2 grand babies.”

Edson Mayor Greg Pasychny said people in the oil and gas town were heartened by assurances from the RCMP that the public is not at risk.

But he said people are still disturbed and worried about the killings.

“Any time you have an incident like this, especially with three people, it kind of sends chills through the community,” he said.

The Saskatchewan Research Council is searching for contractors to clean up a tailings site at an abandoned uranium mine in the north of the province.

The Gunnar Legacy Uranium Mine was decommissioned in 1964 with little to no cleanup.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission approved the council’s plan Friday to clean up the tailings site.

Joe Muldoon, vice-president of environment for the research council, says the plan includes preventing water from picking up a lot of contaminants as it runs through the site.

He says the tailings site will be covered and vegetation will be grown on it, then the site will be monitored over several years.

Muldoon says it will likely take three to four years to clean up the site.

◆ LEVIS, QUE.

Quebec shipyard gets OK for $587M navy deal After putting the project on hold, the federal government announced Monday the Chantier Davie Shipyard in Quebec will be granted the solesource contract to provide a temporary supply ship for the navy.

Procurement Minister Judy Foote said the contract, which is valued at up to $587 million, will be given to the shipyard to upgrade a civilian tanker to act as military replenishment ship while the navy’s long-delayed, joint support ships are built.

“After amassing the facts and carefully deliberating, the Government of Canada determined that proceeding with (Davie) is the most viable course of action to provide the navy’s (temporary) at-sea oil replenishment capacity,” she said in a statement.

The minister said the government will “undertake a review of the process” for sole-source contracts for military procurement.

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Mexico cops find burned van of missing men MARK STEVENSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Sinaloa said Monday that the burned-out vehicle found with two charred bodies inside was registered in the name of one of two missing Australians.

Sinaloa state Attorney General Marco Antonio Higuera said the vehicle’s serial number matches one registered in Edmonton to Adam Coleman.

Officials said earlier that identification had been complicated because much of the van’s paint had burned off and its license plates were missing.

Coleman and Dean Lucas were travelling from Edmonton to Mexico and failed to arrive as planned on Nov. 21 in the city of Guadalajara.

Guadalupe Martinez, a spokesman for Higuera’s office, said the bodies were so badly burned that only tests like DNA or dental records could identify them. He said those tests were being carried out.

Higuera said the two got off a ferry from the Baja California peninsula at Topolobampo, Sinaloa, at about 10:30 p.m. on the night of Nov. 20.

They apparently began driving immediately, but didn’t get far.

The van and the bodies were found a day later in a rural area of Novolato, about 160 kilometres south of Topolobampo, after police received

Mexican authorities inspect a burned out van suspected to be driven by Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman, traveling from Edmonton and scheduled to arrive on Nov. 21 in the city of Guadalajara but failed to appear. [AP PHOTO]

a citizen’s report on the abandoned vehicle.

Higuera said “they may have camped out on the way to Guadalajara.”

Sinaloa is a drug gang-plagued state that is home to the cartel of the same name.

Lucas’ partner, Josie Cox, said she’d received a text message the night of Nov. 20, and she said Coleman

had planned to meet his girlfriend, Andrea Gomez, in Guadalajara, on Nov. 21.

“Adam wanted to get to Guadalajara as soon as possible,” Cox said.

“I presume that from when they got off the ferry to Guadalajara, it was an unfortunate time . . . and they maybe pulled in to sleep or something.”

Family members will travel to Mexico within days to assist Mexican

police and Australian consular officials. A GoFundMe page has received donations from almost 230 people since it was established late on Sunday.

“My brother’s family is overwhelmed by the response,” Coleman’s aunt Jane Cattermole said on Monday.

“Now they can bring Adam home,” she added.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the government is working closely with Mexican law enforcement.

“But our thoughts are with the families and friends of those two men who have been missing for some time, but I do hold very grave concerns for their fate,” Bishop told Nine Network television in Canberra, Australia.

Coleman’s mother, Zena Cattermole, wrote on her Facebook page: “Our son’s life has left us, but they will be with us forever in our hearts.”

In 2014, another tourist was killed along Mexico’s scenic but dangerous Pacific coast.

Harry Devert, a 33-year-old stock trader from Pelham, New York, vanished while heading on his motorcycle to Brazil for the World Cup. His decomposed remains were found along with his motorcycle months later much further south on the coast, near the resort of Zihuatanejo.

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Broadcaster pulls attack ad by Tories STEVE LAMBERT THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — An attack ad by Manitoba’s Opposition Progressive Conservatives has been pulled from Global Television in a copyright dispute that one expert says is part of a growing battle between media outlets and political parties.

The ad criticizes severance packages the NDP government gave to seven advisers who parted ways with Premier Greg Selinger in the wake of a leadership crisis last year.

The 30-second spot is based almost entirely on Global News footage of the premier walking away from two reporters who were asking him questions.

Global has stopped airing the ads and has sent a letter to the Tories, demanding the ad be removed from other television channels as well as online sites such as YouTube and Facebook.

“Our video was used in the ad without permission,” Ron Waksman, director of editorial standards and practices for Global News, said in a written statement Monday.

“We have taken steps to remove this ad from our airwaves, which is consistent with our long-standing policy not to provide Global News content for use in any third-party political advertising.”

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New Canadian renounces oath to Queen, pledges loyalty to Canada DIANA MEHTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A Toronto man publicly recanted “the royalty part” of the mandatory Oath of Allegiance to the Queen moments after becoming a Canadian citizen on Monday, choosing to pledge his “true” loyalty only to Canada and its people.

Dror Bar-Natan, a math professor from Israel, says the monarchy is a symbol of inequality and calls the portion of the oath dealing with it “repulsive.”

But he believes strongly in the rest of the pledge that deals with citizens’ responsibilities.

“I’m definitely proud to be a Canadian,” the 49-year-old said after the ceremony. “It’s a wonderful country, a truly wonderful country, with one small iota that I disagree with.”

Bar-Natan was one of three longtime permanent residents who challenged

the constitutionality of making citizenship conditional on the pledge to the Queen, her heirs and successors.

Bar-Natan explained that his actions on Monday were fully in line with the court’s findings.

“For a long time I was held back from taking citizenship because of the allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors part of the oath. I never felt comfortable with that,” he said. “I hope this paves the way for others.”

At a citizenship ceremony in east Toronto, Bar-Natan first swore the oath along with some 80 others and then, while being handed his citizenship certificate, told the citizenship judge of his intent to disavow the portion of the oath pledging allegiance to the Queen.

He formally recanted that part of the oath following the ceremony and handed the judge a letter explaining his decision.

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As his brother Tamim sleeps on a yellow and red mattress on the floor and another brother, Saif, is tucked in next to his father, Mohammad plays with a laminated plastic certificate, oblivious to the value it holds for his family.

His parents, however, keep a close eye on it. To them, it represents their best hope of getting out of Jordan and to Canada — proof from the United Nations of their official status as refugees of the Syrian war.

Mohammad’s father, Mjdi, has been watching for months as thousands of his fellow former countrymen have fled Jordan and other countries in search of better lives.

“They are risking their lives through the sea to reach Europe,” he says. “But I get my chance from a phone call.”

The Mnaahe family have been in the UN database since the winter of 2013, when Mjdi, now 32, sent his wife and their two older sons away from their home village in the province of Daar’a because fighting between the Syrian regime and opposition forces was intensifying.

He’d meant to join them as soon as they were settled in Irbid, a town among those hosting some of the estimated 680,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan.

But a few weeks after they left, there was very heavy shelling and a building nearby was hit, covering him in shrapnel and soot.

He left the village the very next day, taking a car to the Jordanian

“They are risking their lives through the sea to reach Europe. But I get my chance from a phone call.”

Mjdi Mnaahe, refugee

border, where he was detained overnight — possibly for no other reason than the border guard didn’t like his beard, he says.

He’s since shaved it off, one of many changes his family’s been through since they’ve become refugees — including the arrival of their third son.

But gone is his job as a private taxi driver because in Jordan he can’t get a driver’s license. Also gone are most of his family’s possessions as they left with little more than their clothes. Their apartment is sparse; carpets from the UN’s refugee agency comprise part of the furniture.

When they arrived, he says, they were given some advice from neighbours who’d been in Jordan as refugees for years: buy new things. He said no, there was no point. They were just going to be there a few months and had no money, so they bought a few used items.

Two years later and they still have very little money, and nowbroken belongings they can’t afford to fix.

“We feel lost,” he says. “There is no future here.”

When word begin to spread through Syrian refugees in this town that Canada was going to be taking in many thousands — and quickly — he says something told

him he might be among them.

And then, two weeks ago, the call came. Would they be interested in moving to Canada, the UN asked him, possibly as early as the end of the year?

He said yes, and last week, was among 900 people called to the UN’s office building in Amman to have his file reviewed for possible submission to the Canadian government program.

He was there eight hours, he says — case number 698 — and after two 15-minute interviews, was told to await another call.

That one came too — on Dec. 10, his entire family will go to the new Canadian processing centre at a Jordanian military exhibition facility to fill out more paperwork, have their fingerprints and other biometric information taken, be interviewed by Canadian officials, and get a medical check or an appointment for a future one.

Once all that’s done, they’ll wait again.

Canada is now reviewing thousands of cases being handed over from the UN to select 15,000 Syrian refugees whose settlement and other costs will be directly absorbed by taxpayers.

A further 10,000 will be admitted via the private sponsorship system, the full 25,000 expected to be in Canada by the end of February.

Mjdi’s wife Wezzam, 26, is largely silent as her husband tells their story, often fingering the sleeve of the blue sweater she wears underneath a long black robe.

She’s asked how she feels about a move to Canada. What her husband says is best for them is what she thinks is best, she says. Having the boys learn English and grow up with a better education — “it will be good.”

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NATO looks to Canada for its MidEast policies

Pope urges peace in visit to Africa mosque

MURRAY BREWSTER THE CANADIAN PRESS

BRUSSELS — Stephane Dion hasn’t even arrived yet in Brussels, but a lineup is already forming to meet Canada’s new foreign affairs minister.

Canadian staff at NATO headquarters are fielding requests from alliance members keen to size up the new Liberal government’s point man on the evolving confrontation with Russia and the growing influence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Libya.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Dion will meet foreign ministers from the 28 NATO member countries. Several of them are eager to take stock of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to end Canada’s participation in the bombing campaign against extremists in Iraq and Syria and refocus military effort on training local forces.

While NATO is not formally involved in the 62-country, U.S.-led coalition against ISIL, its members see Canada’s plans as important.

One of Dion’s most important tasks will be to reassure allies that the country remains stalwart, especially in light of the terror attacks in Paris and the security lockdown in Brussels.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, as well as the American and British permanent representatives to the alliance, are underscoring growing concern about ISIL domination of ungoverned territory along the Libyan coast, mostly in Sirte.

“NATO is stepping up its efforts to deal with the challenges from the south,” Stoltenberg said Monday, noting that the alliance’s 40,000 strong rapid reaction force — originally conceived as a bulwark against Russian expansion in the east — could easily be deployed to face ISIL-back threats in the south.

Surveillance is rising with the stationing of drones in Sicily, he said.

The Islamic State presence in Libya is not new, but it is swelling and the fear it could be used as a springboard to launch Paris-style attacks in Europe is growing. NATO finds itself in an ironic position because it was the alliance’s air campaign in 2011 that unseated dictator Moammar Gadhafi and helped create the instability on which ISIL feeds.

Pope Francis made a historic visit to the last remaining Muslim neighbourhood in Central African Republic’s capital Monday, a move that almost immediately opened up a part of the divided city troubled for months by violence between Muslim and Christian militias.

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Moments after he left, hundreds of Muslims who had essentially been barricaded inside by armed Christians burst into what had been a no-man’s land only a day earlier. Some jubilant residents even followed the pope into the city centre shouting, “The war is over!”

— a hopeful sign for potential reunification.

The bold visit by the pope, who travelled into the most volatile part of Bangui in his open-air pope-

mobile, underscored his message of faith over fear. He was not without heavy security, though, including armed peacekeepers in the central mosque’s minarets high above the crowds.

At the Central Mosque, Pope Francis removed his shoes, bowed his head and stood silently at the mihrab, or area of the mosque that faces Mecca.

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Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, will join the NATO discussion on Tuesday as that organization also comes to grips with the threat.

Particularly significant for Canada, there will be a review of what alliance countries are contributing and are prepared to further contribute to the U.S.-led coalition.

Doug Lute, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, said he expects to see strong support from all allies who are contributing and military efforts will be “sustained and maybe even expanded.”

Concern about fallout from the downing of a Russian fighter which crossed the Turkish border from Syrian airspace last week has also gripped the meeting. Stoltenberg said the alliance’s independent data backs Turkey’s version of events. Moscow has repeatedly denied that its warplane crossed the border.

Stoltenberg appealed for both sides to de-escalate the crisis and said Russia should be targeting “our common enemy” in the Islamic State, rather than focusing its bombing campaign on opponents of the Syrian regime.

A resurgent Russia and its proxy war in Ukraine were to be the subject of discussion at dinner Tuesday.

Adam Thomson, Britain’s ambassador to NATO, said the world has changed dramatically in the last 12 months.

“What NATO is evolving to meet is totally new and so the way in which the alliance meets these threats is going to have to be totally new,” he said.

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CALGARY — A former television journalist suing for defamation over an article critical of his campaign for a seat in the Alberta legislature faced questions Monday about one of his key witnesses.

Arthur Kent represented himself when he settled a case out of court last year against campaign worker Kristine Robidoux. Robidoux, who leaked material to columnist Don Martin for his article, then filed a statutory declaration in court for Kent’s side revealing what happened.

A lawyer for the defendants — Postmedia and Martin — asked Monday if there was a deal made to have Robidoux file the declaration.

Kent invoked lawyer-client privilege on that line of questioning.

“As a self-represented litigant I was entitled to the same zone of privacy in preparing witnesses for trial as are lawyers acting . . . for your clients,” Kent told Postmedia lawyer Brent Mescall.

“That was a matter covered by privilege.”

Kent became known as the “Scud Stud” for his live reports for NBC during the Gulf War in the 1990s.

Martin’s column, labelled the “Scud Stud A Dud,” criticized Kent as an ego-driven, out-of-control star candidate for the Progressive Conservatives in the 2008 Alberta election.

Robidoux has already testified that she shared private emails with Martin that included complaints about Kent between the Tory campaign chairman and party brass. But when she saw the article she immediately regretted her decision and became physically ill, she said.

In her statutory declaration, Robidoux, who is a lawyer herself, said she was approached in July 2009

by Martin, who told her he was not going to be able to keep her identity a secret because Kent had launched a defamation case.

She said she met with Martin and his lawyers and was asked to consent to having her identity released.

Mescall asked Kent if he was involved in that declaration.

“No. It was sworn by Ms. Robidoux because I believe in the spring of this year she had become deeply offended by the attempts of Don Martin to spread lies about her,” Kent replied.

“I think, if you’re asking me that question, she was offended by Mr. Martin’s behaviour, felt under attack.

She felt her reputation was being subjected to a collateral attack and she wanted the truth to be known and it’s her statutory declaration ” Lawyers representing Postmedia and Martin expect their defence to take two weeks.

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Mark Oldenburg packs a pair of pillows into a box for shipment to a customer on Monday at an Amazon warehouse in DuPont, Wash. Shoppers went online Monday to snap up ‘Cyber Monday’ deals and the day was expected to be the biggest online shopping day ever. [AP PHOTO]

Cyber Monday expected to bring in $3B in sales Research firm comScore expects online sales to rise 14 per cent MAE ANDERSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Shoppers traded bricks for clicks on Monday, flocking online to snap up “Cyber Monday” deals on everything from cashmere sweaters to Star Wars toys.

Now that shoppers are online all the time anyway, the 10-year-old shopping holiday has lost some of its lustre as online sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday pick up.

But enough shoppers have been trained to look for “Cyber Monday” specific sales to ensure the holiday will still mean big bucks for retailers.

It’s too early for sales figures, but Monday is still expected to be the biggest online shopping day ever, likely racking up more than $3 billion in sales, according to comScore.

Adobe, which tracks 200 million visitors to 4,500 retail websites, said $490 million had been spent online as of 10 a.m. in New York on Monday, the latest data available.

That’s 14 per cent higher than a year ago.

“A lot of people wait to see if deals are better on Cyber Monday,” said Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru.

New Yorker Anna Osgoodby was one of the many online shoppers who spread her purchases throughout the holiday shopping weekend. On Black Friday, she took advantage of a 35 per cent sale at online accessories retailer ashandwillow.com, buying earrings, a necklace and bracelet.

Then she bought earrings and clutches on Monday during its 40 per cent off sale.

“That extra five per cent convinced me to buy a few more,” she said.

Some hot sellers were in scarce supply by early afternoon on Monday.

“Consumers are recognizing the Internet is the place to go for a deal any time, any day.”

Gene Alvarez, VP of Gartner research

At Target, a Swagway hoverboard was sold out by early afternoon. The electronic transportation gadget had been $100 off at $399. Drones and some Star Wars toys were hard to find as well.

“There are certain hot products, hover boards seem to be a phenomenon, they’re selling out everywhere,” said Scot Wingo, chairman of ChannelAdvisor, which provides e-commerce services to retailers.

Adobe found 15 out of 100 product views returned an out-of-stock message as of 10 a.m., two-and-a-half times the normal rate.

And there were a few brief outages at sites like Neiman Marcus and Target and online payments company PayPal reported a brief interruption in service.

Retailers have been touting online deals since the beginning of November. And they no longer wait for Monday to roll out Cyber Monday deals, either. Amazon started “Lighting Deals” on Saturday and Walmart beginning all of its Cyber offers on 8 p.m. on Sunday.

“It’s no longer about one day, but a season of digital deals,” said Matthew Shay, president of retail trade group The National Retail Federation.

That seems to have taken a toll on brick-and-mortar shopping.

Frenzied crowds seemed to be a thing of the past on Black Friday —

the busy shopping day after Thanksgiving — and sales fell to $10.4 billion this year, down from $11.6 billion in 2014, according to preliminary figures from research firm ShopperTrak.

“Consumers are recognizing the Internet is the place to go for a deal any time, any day,” said Gene Alvarez, managing vice-president of research firm Gartner.

“I personally skip Black Friday just to shop Cyber Monday,” said Mark Flores, a parks and recreation director from Lynwood, Calif.

But this year, he started online shopping on Black Friday, buying five pairs of Sorel and Uggs shoes for gifts and eight Chromecasts that were two for $50 instead of $35 off. He planned to shop on Cyber Monday too, but did not find compelling deals. “Nothing standing out so far,” he said midmorning on Monday.

Research firm comScore expects online sales to rise 14 per cent to $70.06 billion During the November and December shopping period, slowing slightly from last year’s 15 per cent rise. Online sales make up 10 per cent of overall retail sales, but that increases to 15 per cent during the holidays as online shoppers snap up Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, according to research firm Forrester.

The name “Cyber Monday” was coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation’s online arm, called Shop. org, to encourage people to shop online. The name was also a nod to online shopping being done at work where faster connections made it easier to browse. Now, even with broadband access, Cyber Monday continues to be a day when retailers pull out big promotions.

Kid’s technology maker VTech says the personal information of about 5 million of its customers and their children may have been stolen by hackers.

The Hong Kong-based company disclosed the breach of a customer database late last week, but didn’t say until Monday how many people could be affected.

The news comes just as the holiday shopping season is kicking into gear and kid’s smartwatches and tablets made by companies such as VTech are expected to be high on children’s wish lists. VTech’s Kidizoom Smartwatch is predicted to be a top seller this holiday season, while its InnoTab tablets have been popular in the past.

Compromised information in the VTech breach includes the names, birthdates and genders of child users.

It also includes adult user information including names, email addresses, passwords, secret questions and answers for password retrieval, IP addresses, mailing addresses and download histories.

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Putin meets with Obama to discuss Syria crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he and President Barack Obama have a shared understanding on how to move toward a political settlement in Syria, but added that incidents like the recent downing of a Russian warplane by a Turkish fighter jet stymie broader co-operation against extremism.

Putin and Obama had a half-hour meeting on the sidelines of a climate summit near Paris, and the Russian leader told reporters they discussed efforts to compile a list of extremist groups and another one of members of legitimate political opposition.

Putin said “we have an understanding how we should proceed if we talk about a political settlement. We need to work on a new (Syrian) constitution, new elections and the control over their outcome.”

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France carries out further airstrikes in Iraq France says it has carried out five airstrikes in northern Iraq as part of stepped-up military operations against Islamic State militants.

The army tweeted Monday that the French military carried out strikes Saturday and Sunday on targets in Ramadi, Fallujah, Sinjar and Mosul.

The action took place with ground support from the Iraqi army and forms part of Operation Chammal, which began in September 2014 in Iraq and was extended to Syria in September 2015. It is limited to airstrikes and French President Francois Hollande has said that ground troops will not be used.

France’s parliament voted last week to step up the strikes against IS in the wake of the Paris attacks that IS claimed, which left 130 dead and hundreds more injured.

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CORNER BROOK, N.L. — The Liberals earned a hefty majority win in Monday’s provincial election in Newfoundland and Labrador, ending 12 years of Progressive Conservative rule after a low-key campaign that tapped into voters’ desire for change.

Buoyed by Liberal victories in every one of Atlantic Canada’s 32 federal ridings on Oct. 19, provincial Liberal Leader Dwight Ball repeatedly invoked Justin Trudeau’s winning strategy, saying, “People of our province want politics of hope, of change.”

Once Ball assumes power, every province east of Manitoba will be governed

by Liberals, and there won’t be any governments — federal or provincial — using the Conservative brand.

The premier-designate was introspective when asked about his party’s win Monday, citing his late father as a sure source of inspiration in the days ahead.

“He would say, ’Dwight, stay grounded and if you can do anything to contribute ... to people who are less fortunate, people who struggle in life, will you do that?”’ Ball told reporters gathered at his campaign headquarters inside a Corner Brook hotel.

“That’s the kind of work ethic you can expect from me in the next four years.”

The Liberals won 31 of the legislature’s 40 seats, the Tories seven and the NDP two.

Ball, a 58-year-old former pharmacist and entrepreneur, has said he plans to forge close links with Trudeau’s Liberals, ending an era dominated by confrontation between the province and Ottawa.

During the 25-day provincial election campaign, Ball never wavered from a safe, front-runner strategy that included a politically popular pledge to kill a Tory

plan to increase government revenue by raising the harmonized sales tax from 13 to 15 per cent on Jan. 1.

Elected as Tory leader only 13 months ago, Premier Paul Davis told voters the election was about leadership and warned about what he called a Liberal hidden agenda that included massive cuts to government spending and public service jobs to deal with a projected $1-billion deficit.

Davis, a 54-year-old former police officer, won his riding of Topsail-Paradise.

Speaking to party supporters in the St. John’s area, Davis said he plans to help rebuild his party in the years ahead.

“I commit to you tonight that the Progressive Conservative party of Newfoundland and Labrador will be ready in 2019,” he said. “We will be ready to fight another day ... I will lead our steps to rebuild our great party.”

NDP Leader Earle McCurdy, a 65-yearold former union leader who won the party’s leadership race last year, failed to win a seat.

During the campaign, he took aim at the Liberal promise to find $400 million in savings, saying the only way they can achieve that is by cutting government jobs, which Ball has denied.

The New Democrats held on to two seats in St. John’s. They had three when the campaign started.

“None of us chose to be part of this party because it represented an easy way to get power,” McCurdy told supporters in his St. John’s district. “We chose to answer the call because we believe in a more equal and fair and . . . just society.”

The Conservative party’s popularity seemed unassailable during Danny Williams’ tenure as premier between 2003 and 2010, when a growing offshore energy sector helped increase government spending from $5 billion to $7 billion.

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CHAMPS UBC Thunderbirds linebacker Dylan Chapdelaine, of Nanaimo, celebrates after his interception against the Montreal Carabins during the first half of the Vanier Cup on Saturday in Quebec City. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

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ong before they were locking arms with their teammates as kicker Quinn van Gylswyk kicked a lastsecond field goal to win the Vanier Cup on Saturday in Quebec City, Dylan Chapdelaine and Marshall Cook were looking for a place to play football.

They had long been standouts at John Barsby Community School and at Caledonia Park with the Vancouver Island Raiders, but when their junior careers were coming to an end, their futures were up in the air.

Then, Blake Nill came calling.

He recruited them to play for a fledgling UBC Thunderbirds program in which he had been hired to turn around.

He trusted them, they trusted him, and both sides delivered They won UBC’s first national football championship since 1997, completing an improbable run with a 26-23 win over the Montreal Carabins on Saturday, shocking the nation.

“It was unbelievable,” said Cook, a wide receiver with the Thunderbids

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and a former All-Canadian receiver with the Raiders, “especially the way that we ended it, that we were able to pull this together.”

Although no one predicted UBC would even get out of their conference, much less get to the championship game after going 2-6 last season, Cook said as the season went on they were beginning to believe they were a championship-calibre team.

“Going back to walking onto campus in August, I would say shocked,” he said. “Knowing what program I was coming into and with the coaching staff they had put in place with

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coach Nill specifically, the resume he’s already had with a Vanier Cup and the games he’s been in, from the beginning of the year you kind of saw more and more as time went on that we were building up as a team and that there was potentially a chance that we could do this.”

The Thunderbirds upset Nill’s former team, the No. 1-ranked Calgary Dinos, in the Hardy Cup before rolling through the St. Francis-Xavier X-Men in the national semifinal to

get to the Vanier Cup. One of the highlights of the first half was an interception by Chapdelaine, something Cook has seen numerous times in Nanaimo.

Cook was watching the Montreal receivers’ routes from the sidelines when he saw the possibility of a pick.

“I saw where Dylan was on the field and then saw the ball come out with him being in perfect position,” he said. “More than anything, it was a great feeling and it was nice to see a teammate like that, a kid that I’ve been around for a long time, make a big play in a big game like that.”

That was in the first half, when the Thunderbirds had built a 16-0 lead over Montreal.

But the Carabins were able to roar back and the game was eventually tied at 23. Montreal had the ball late in the fourth quarter but turned it over with an interception giving UBC a chance to win it on the final drive.

Van Gylswyk, a former Westshore Rebels kicker in the B.C. Football Conference, held the game on his boot with a chance to win it with a second left on the clock.

“It was one of the coolest feelings

I’ve had, with all of us taking a knee, locking arms and waiting for that field goal to go through the uprights,” Cook said. “When it did, we had some fun.”

Chapdelaine ended the game with four solo tackles and two assisted tackles to go along with his interception. Both Nanaimo players are eligible to return to UBC next season, adding to a cast of returning players that should see the Thunderbirds as a favourite to repeat in 2016.

They had their first official team meeting Monday to discuss the offseason.

“The biggest thing going forward is just continuity throughout the offseason and focusing on getting bigger, faster and stronger,” Cook said.

“And being able to hopefully have the coaches bring in some guys who can help replace some of the guys we’re losing or who are moving on, and being able to put us in a position to not skip a beat going into next year.”

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Canucks stifled by Ducks in 4-1 loss Anaheim goalie John Gibson made just 25 saves to get the third shutout of his career sion on what to do with Virtanen.

Hockey Canada has enquired about McCann and Virtanen for its final world junior hockey championship selection camp in December — that roster is expected to be released Tuesday — and if Virtanen is healthy by that time, it might be good for his development in a structured Team Canada environment.

He played at the world’s last year and could play a major role and gain some confidence.

McCann has six goals, is processing the game better than Virtanen, and shouldn’t be going anywhere.

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Anaheim Ducks goalie John Gibson gets his foot out to block a shot by Vancouver Canucks left winger Alex Burrows during a game Monday in Anaheim, Calif. [AP PHOTO]

three goals once and two goals twice.

And without strong goaltending — Ryan Miller was hooked in favour of Jacob Markstrom after allowing four goals on 29 shots with the last goal coming off a Dan Hamhuis turnover — it’s not going to get easier for a 9-9-7 team trying to push for even a wild-card playoff spot.

After a 3-2 win in Minnesota and 3-2 overtime loss in Dallas to open this four-game trip, you wouldn’t think that’s a problem. But it is.

The Canucks are 3-6-7 in one-goal games and have yet to win in overtime.

They have become a one-line team as the top line has accounted for 39 points in the last nine games and Henrik and Daniel Sedin are carrying this club on

their shoulders. Daniel has 16 points (7-9) in that stretch and Henrik 14 points (5-9), so the second-guessing can start about secondary scoring.

WHAT THIS MEANS: When Virtanen took a cross-check from Getzlaf and made an early exit, the long-term effect will depend upon severity of a possible rib injury.

The rookie winger was coming out of his own zone with the puck and was clobbered by the Ducks’ captain at the 10:02 mark of the opening period.

He went down heavily and Getzlaf was called for tripping.

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Injuries don’t help. Either do bumps and bruises of the physical and mental variety. Chris Tanev was lost for the second half of the opening period but returned.

Jake Virtanen was felled by a Ryan Getzlaf cross-check halfway through the first frame and called it a night.

Chris Higgins was rocked along the sideboards by 232-pound rookie winger Nick Ritchie late in the second period and looked woozy when he returned to the bench, but pressed on.

And Jared McCann was crushed into the sideboards in the third period by Ryan Kesler and then rag-dolled by Getzlaf. All that made climbing out of a two-goal hole after two periods more like climbing a mountain in what would prove a telling 4-0 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night.

The Canucks are now 0-8-1 when trailing after two periods this season, so getting to the Ducks was going to mean maintaining a presence at even strength, scoring a power-play goal and not surrendering one.

But when they coughed up an evenstrength goal before two minutes had elapsed and the struggling penalty kill gave up yet another goal, you had to wonder if this is the real read on this team: good enough to be in close games, but not good enough to close them out because they’ve only lost by

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CRUNCHED: Virtanen played just four shifts in the first period for a total of just 1:45 and didn’t return after taking a cross-check in ribs from Getzlaf.

CONFUSED: Ryan Miller talked to the ref after Bo Horvat was knocked into him by Clayton Stoner and a glove save was made on the goal line. The ref ruled the whistle blew.

ADVANCED STATS 73: Percentage of face-offs won by Horvat through two periods (8-for-11) while rookie Jared McCann continued to struggle in the circle at 29-per-cent, going 4-for-14.

-7: Even strength Corsi for Brandon Prust after 40 minutes, Corsi For: 12, Corsi Against: 19.

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Carey Price will miss six weeks The Montreal Canadiens survived one ninegame stretch without star goaltender Carey Price, but now they’ll will be missing him a lot longer.

The Canadiens announced Monday that Price will be out at least six weeks with a lower body injury that he sustained during a 5-1 win over the Rangers in New York last week. He will not require surgery.

Last season’s Hart and Vezina trophy winner is expected to miss at least 16 games, with only a slim chance he could return for the Winter Classic outdoor game Jan. 1 in Boston, if he heals quickly.

“He’s a big part of our team,” said defenceman P.K. Subban. “But if we think we’re going to get any sympathy from the teams we’re going to play in the next six weeks, we’re not.

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McDavid’s rehab is progressing Connor McDavid will have to wait at least another 11 months to play his first NHL game at Air Canada Centre.

He won’t have to wait as many months as feared to get back into game action.

Originally considered out “months” with a broken left clavicle, McDavid said Monday that his rehab is ahead of schedule. This year’s top draft pick who was injured Nov. 3 isn’t skating yet, but he says he’s pain free and hopes to be back sooner than expected.

“Obviously it’s healing well,” McDavid said. “It’s kind of the long run where it feels good and you want to start doing everything, but at the end of the day you’ve still got to let it heal.”

McDavid, considered a generational talent, had five goals and seven assists in his first 13 games with the Oilers.

That kind of start made him a front-runner for the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year.

He was starting to feel comfortable at the pro level when he slammed into the boards in Edmonton against the Philadelphia Flyers and broke his collarbone.

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obe Bryant finally saw what everyone else has seen, finally understood what everyone else had known.

His unbreakable body is broken.

His eternal skills have left him. Fifteen games into his 20th year, it was clear this was going to be his final NBA season whether he accepted it or not.

On Sunday, he accepted it, the invincible Los Angeles Laker finally surrendering to his basketball mortality by officially announcing he would retire at the end of this season, completing a memorable journey by one of the greatest figures in the history of L.A. sports.

Typical of the artistic way in which Bryant has always framed his game, he made the announcement in a poem. In keeping with his transition to the business world, the poem appeared on a website in which he recently made a significant investment, the Players’ Tribune.

In a 52-line ode titled Dear Basketball, Bryant wrote: “This season is all I have left to give. My heart can take the pounding. My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye.”

The theme of the poem is that he is leaving the game he loves. The reality is that he is also leaving a game that no longer loves him. Though the 37-year-old Bryant has hinted since summer that he would choose to make this his final season, it recently became obvious that he had no choice.

The third-leading scorer in NBA history had become the worst shooter in the league. The five-time NBA champion had become a struggling fixture on one of the worst teams in the league.

A former MVP and future Hall of Famer had become the object of sympathy everywhere around the league, with former players and executives openly hoping that he would retire while the memories of his greatness were still fresh.

The final wound may have occurred last week in the Lakers’ blowout defeat to the Golden State Warriors, a game in which the Warriors set an NBA record with their 16th consecutive victory to open a season. With the sports world watching, Bryant made one of 14 shots and scored four points in a 111-77 embarrassment.

Four days later, Bryant informed coach Byron Scott of his retirement plans, and then Sunday afternoon released those plans on the website, officially beginning his farewell tour Sunday night at Staples Center in a game against the Indiana Pacers.

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Van Osch rink qualifies for B.C. championship Nanaimo’s Kesa Van Osch rink has qualified for the 2016 B.C. Women’s Provincial Curling Championship after winning the C Event at the provincial qualifier Sunday in Kelowna.

The Van Osch rink, which also includes Kesa’s younger sisters Kalia at third and Marika at fifth, went 3-2 over the weekend in Kelowna as one of three teams to qualify for provincials, which are held in January in Coquitlam.

Van Osch beat Victoria’s Sarah Wark twice to get to the C Event final, where she beat New Westminster’s Diane Gushulak 7-5 after stealing consecutive doubles in the seventh and eighth lines.

◆ BCHL

Clippers hit the road, hope to keep winning

Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant talks at news conference on why he decided to announce his retirement prior to a game against the Indiana Pacers in Los Angeles on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]

“Finally I just had to accept the fact that I don’t want to do this anymore.“ Kobe Bryant

you note from Bryant upon entering the arena. But the game sadly began as a metaphor for Bryant’s season thus far. The crowd gave him a rousing standing ovation during introductions, then roared when he took his first shot.

It was a 40-footer that clanked off the back of the rim, and everyone sighed. Roar, then sigh. Roar, then sigh. The cycle repeated itself seven times with seven misses, including one air ball, before Bryant finally made his first shot, a layup through two defenders with 3 minutes 35 seconds left in the first period.

The game nearly ended with Bryant awash in glory. He hit two threepoint baskets in the final minutes to push the Lakers to the precipice of a rare victory. Then he threw up a long-shot air ball in the final seconds and the Pacers prevailed, 107-103.

“Finally I just had to accept the fact that I don’t want to do this anymore,” Bryant said during an emotional postgame news conference.

“I’m OK with it. It takes a load off my shoulder and everybody else’s.”

Bryant said he never considered retiring immediately because he has embraced the lessons of his struggles.

“There’s so much beauty in the pain of this thing,” he said.

“It sounds very weird to say that. I appreciate the tough times as much as I appreciate the great times.”

Asked about being a Laker for all of his professional life, Bryant turned sentimental.

“I’m extremely fortunate,” he said.

“How many kids can say growing up, you can play for your favourite team in the world and spend your entire career there?”

Mitch Kupchak, the Lakers’ general manager, was among many who figured the retirement was coming.

“I’m not surprised,” Kupchak said.

“The only surprising thing is that he made the announcement today. My understanding all along was that this was going be his last year.”

His bosses knew it. Everyone knew it. But to hear Bryant making it official was nonetheless unsettling to Southern California sports fans who have joined him on a wild two-decade ride.

There have been championship parades and controversies and, ultimately, the sort of basketball greatness matched locally only by the likes of Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Bryant’s jersey will be going from his back into the Staples Center rafters, and his body will leave the court and be immediately bronzed for a Staples Center statue.

“I was shocked,” coach Scott said upon hearing the news. “And then after I had a chance to kind of think about it, I was sad.”

There would have been more sadness in watching Bryant, whose $25 million-a-year deal expires after this season, attempt to earn another contract.

Now, perhaps for the first time in the career of one of the greatest competitors in any sport, he can relax and enjoy the ride. Maybe, too, fans of opposing teams who have jeered

him can enjoy that ride with him.

“The game will be easier for him now. I think he’ll be able to enjoy the rest of the season,” Kupchak said. “I hope he has more fun and appears less frustrated and gets more appreciation. People will now have to recognize this is his last year and they’re watching one of the all-time greats.”

An outpouring of affection from notoriously tough New York fans during the Lakers’ recent visit to Madison Square Garden felt like the beginning of the farewell tour. The first stop on the now-official tour will be Tuesday in Philadelphia, where Bryant attended high school.

The last stop will be at Staples Center on April 13 against the Utah Jazz, an otherwise meaningless game that will become one of the hottest tickets in Los Angeles sports history.

In the months between those games, here’s hoping Lakers fans will stop complaining about how Bryant is stealing minutes from the team’s younger players and hindering the team’s ability to rebuild. With his retirement imminent and the Lakers’ playoff hopes already dashed, here’s hoping fans will now cheer for Bryant to play as many minutes as his body will allow, understanding that they will never see a player like him again.

Even in his struggles, there is a certain nobility to Bryant attempting to squeeze the final ounces of greatness out of a body whose game has brought so much joy to so many.

“What we want from Kobe is basically his last game to be able to walk off the court, wave to all the fans, and be able to go into the locker room standing up,” Scott said.

That long walk has now begun.

Winners of five straight B.C. Hockey League games, the Nanaimo Clippers head to Colwood tonight to take on the Victoria Grizzlies on the road for the second straight time at The Q Centre.

The Clippers (17-10-0-1) beat the Grizzlies 5-2 on Friday night in their only game of the weekend, with star winger Sheldon Rempal posting two goals and an assist, along with his fifth straight first star award.

It was also the fourth win in as many tries for the Island Division-leading Clippers against the fourth-place Grizzlies this season, and the first away from Frank Crane Arena.

Rempal is now six points clear of his points total from last season’s entirety, and is one point back of Penticton Vees star Tyson Jost for the BCHL scoring lead with 56 points in 28 games.

The Grizzlies are coming off a 4-2 win over the Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Saturday night at home.

◆ VOLLEYBALL

Dover Bay set to host Quad A girls provincials The best high school girls volleyball teams in B.C. will converge in Nanaimo this week for the sport’s Quad A provincial championship tournament.

Hosted by the Dover Bay Dolphins in their gym and at Vancouver Island University, the tournament begins on Thursday and wraps up with the championship match Saturday at VIU. The Dolphins, ranked fourth in B.C.’s most contested high school sport, were last in action last week when they were the runners up at the Vancouver Island championships.

The Dolphins’ first game is on Thursday at 11:35 a.m. in their own gym against the Mt. Boucherie (West Kelowna) Bears at Dover Bay’s gymnasium.

They also play Thursday at 2:15 p.m. in their gym.

The tournament’s entire draw can be found online at: girlsaaaaprovincials2015.doverbay.ca.

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Eskimos built for future success, says Mike Reilly Former B.C. Lions QB was Grey Cup’s most valuable player DAN RALPH THE CANADIAN PRESS

M Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman runs off the field after beating the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday in Seattle. [AP PHOTO]

No simple balance for Seahawks in wins TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. — In the aftermath of one of their wilder victories in recent seasons, there was no simple balance for the Seattle Seahawks.

The Seahawks are above .500 for the first time all season and in position to get back to the post-season for the fourth straight season after Sunday’s 39-30 win over Pittsburgh.

At the same time, the Seahawks spent Monday accepting that tight end Jimmy Graham is done for the season due to a ruptured patellar tendon in his right knee and watched Ben Roethlisberger throw for 456 yards passing, the most ever allowed by a Seahawks defence.

Those factors created a mix of opinions on what to make of the Seahawks performance. But it all came back to Seattle being 6-5 with a chance to control its post-season fate over the final five weeks.

There were plenty of standout moments for Seattle, none bigger than Russell Wilson’s five touchdown passes and three of those going to Doug Baldwin, including his 80-yard catch-and-run TD with 2:01 left that provided Seattle the final cushion it needed. For the past two weeks, Wilson has had most of his success while throwing from the pocket.

Scrambling around to buy time and make throws will always be part of his game, but Wilson has been markedly better in the pocket because of improved offensive line play. Wilson has been sacked four times in the past two weeks, a significant drop from the pace he was on earlier in the season.

“We’ve really tried to feature a fast rhythm and make sure he’s got a chance to get the ball out fast to keep the pressure off the guys up front. All of that has happened,” Carroll said.

But now Wilson won’t have Graham as an option for the rest of the season. Carroll insisted on Monday that Graham should be able to be back for the 2016 season, although an exact timeframe for when surgery will take place and the recovery schedule has not been set.

“I don’t know about the dates for that, but there is plenty of time for him to get back,” Carroll said.

“. . . we’ve expected Jimmy to make some plays and do some special things so it will be a little different.“ Pete Carroll, head coach

Replacing Graham won’t be a simple task, even if his receptions and touchdowns didn’t approach what they were in New Orleans.

Graham was in for 78.4 per cent of Seattle’s offensive snaps, the most of any skill player on the Seahawks offence. He had improved as a blocker in the run game and even when the ball wasn’t coming his way through the air, Graham’s presence was enough of a factor to create matchups to benefit the Seahawks.

A case in point of Graham’s influence was Baldwin’s first touchdown reception on Sunday. With both players lined up to the right of the formation, Graham ran a post route and drew the defensive back to the middle of the field. That left Baldwin uncovered down the seam for the touchdown reception.

“We’ve been growing with him and you expect certain guys to do things and we’ve expected Jimmy to make some plays and do some special things so it will be a little different,” Carroll said. “We’ll just change.”

Just as Seattle expects Luke Willson to step in for Graham, Carroll is equally confident the Seahawks can fix their problems defensively that led to Roethlisberger’s big game through the air.

Pittsburgh nearly abandoned the run all together and attempted just 14 rushes. And Seattle did an adequate job on Martavis Bryant — minus one leaping catch on a deep ball — and Antonio Brown, who was shadowed most of the game by Richard Sherman.

It was the No. 3 receiver — this time Markus Wheaton — that couldn’t be stopped by the Seahawks. Whether through scheme or breakdowns, Wheaton had 201 yards receiving and a touchdown and Seattle never made the needed adjustments.

ike Reilly doesn’t see the Edmonton Eskimos being one-hit wonders.

Edmonton captured its first Grey Cup title in 10 years Sunday with a 26-20 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks at Investors Group Field.

Reilly, the game MVP, believes the Eskimos have the framework in place to win multiple championships.

“We’ll celebrate it, recoup for a couple of months but then the work gets that much harder because we’re not built to do this once,” Reilly said.

“With the GM we have, the coaching staff we have and the players they’ve brought in, we’ve been built to do this multiple times and it’s on us to make sure that happens.”

The road to the Grey Cup hasn’t always been a smooth one for Reilly and the Eskimos. In 2013, the club finished last in the West Division with a 4-14 record before hiring head coach Chris Jones.

In 2013, Edmonton showed marked improvement, finishing second in the conference with a 12-6 record.

But Calgary was a huge thorn in the Eskimos’ side, sweeping the season series 4-0, including a one-sided 43-18 victory in the West Division finale en route to capturing the Grey Cup. But Edmonton exorcised those demons this season, finishing tied with Calgary with a CFL-best 14-4 record but garnering first in the West by virtue of winning the season series 2-1. Then the Eskimos dispatched the defending champions 45-31 in the division final.

“It’s been a process,” Reilly said. “I think through the 4-14 season we learned how not to win, we learned how to lose the close games.

“Last year we learned how to win those close games but we learned how to lose the big games. This year we finally learned how to win the big ones. It’s been a three-year process in my mind and that’s why I say I think we’ve been built for the long haul to do this multiple times.”

But the 2015 campaign was a tale

Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly hoists the Grey Cup after his team’s win over the Ottawa Redblacks in Winnipeg on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

of two seasons for the Eskimos.

Reilly missed most of the first half of the year with a knee injury suffered in the season-opening loss to Toronto. Edmonton weathered the storm, a staunch defence anchoring the club’s 4-3 record until Reilly returned as the starter Sept. 12 against Calgary. Reilly threw for 352 yards and three TDs in a 27-16 victory and the Eskimos never looked back, winning its final 10 games culminating with the Grey Cup title.

So instead of heading into the 2016 season with the hunger of chasing a championship, the Eskimos will have to adopt the mindset of defending champion.

“It (winning Grey Cup) definitely changes things but that’s a position that’s not bad to be in,” Reilly said.

“You can’t win the second and third until you win the first and now we’ve done that.

“We went through the progression and didn’t just get a bunch of quick fixes and bring in a bunch of high-paycheque free agents in order

to just fix it right away. That’s why it’s taken a little bit of time . . . but this is a great league and there’s a lot of other very good football teams in it so certainly we’re going to have our work cut out for us to get ready for next season.”

Edmonton GM Ed Hervey had plenty of work to do this off-season, with kicker Sean Whyte, running back John White, receivers Adarius Bowman and Shamawd Chambers (Grey Cup’s top Canadian), defensive lineman Almondo Sewell, linebacker J.C. Sherritt and defensive back Aaron Grymes all projected to become free agents. And then there’s Jones, who the Saskatchewan Roughriders are reportedly interested in speaking to regarding their vacant head coach/GM positions.

“I’m not going to worry about that (Jones’s status), we just won the Grey Cup and we’re going to celebrate with him,” Reilly said. “This is professional sports, people come and go for sure . . . but in my mind he’s my head coach.”

Ottawa’s Burris gives Eskimos their ‘kudos’ A dream start turned into a disappointing ending for the underdog Ottawa Redblacks at the 103rd Grey Cup on Sunday.

The Redblacks found themselves up 13-0 before the Edmonton offence had taken the field, thanks to an opening TD drive and a fumble recovery on the ensuing kickoff that led to another score. But the Eskimos outscored them 26-7 the rest of the way, scoring the winning touchdown with three minutes 22 seconds remaining for a 26-20 win.

“Kudos to Edmonton. They made plays and we didn’t and that’s the

reason why they won the game,” said downcast Ottawa quarterback Henry Burris.

“We had opportunities there at the end to make play both offensively and defensively,” echoed coach Rick Campbell. “We weren’t able to do that.”

The game-deciding drive came with two huge pass interference penalties.

First Abdul Kanneh was penalized, a 28-yard gain for the Eskimos. Then on the next play, after a successful Edmonton challenge, Brandon Sermons was flagged for a 37-yard Edmonton gain. That brought the ball to the Ottawa 10-yard line. Two

plays later, Jordan Lynch ran in for a one-yard TD. “I just find it heartbreaking to lose a Grey Cup on two . . . PI calls that were very questionable,” said Ottawa kicker Chris Milo.

He said other Redblack players “absolutely” shared his view.

“I think they got the call right on the field, which is why they didn’t call a PI,” he said of the play that was changed after review. “The first one was uncatchable.”

A more diplomatic Campbell declined to be drawn into a debate on the merits of allowing coaches to challenge for a pass interference call.

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OLYMPICS

BOXING

New event gives ski team a good shot at a medal

Title won’t change new champ

DONNA SPENCER THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Canadians often excel in a new event about to be added to an Olympic Games.

The challenge for Canada’s skiers is to turn early success in the nations team competition into a medal.

Shortly after Canada won a world championship silver medal in the team event in February, the International Olympic Committee declared it will be added to the menu at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

“I think we all kind of know we have an opportunity to be competing for a medal and that doesn’t come around very often,” said Toronto slalom skier Philip Brown, who was in on that silver medal in Vail, Colorado.

Head-to-head slalom racing has been around since the World Pro Ski Tour in the 1970s.

A team event debuted at the world alpine championship in 2005, but the format has been revised to make it compact and television-friendly.

Each country chooses two men and two women. Each skier goes headto-head on a short slalom course against a skier of the same gender from another country.

The first skier over the finish line earns a point.

The country with the most points after the four races advances to next round.

The combined time of the fastest man and fastest woman is the tiebreaker if it’s 2-2.

Brown, Calgary’s Trevor Philp, Erin Mielzynski of Collinwood, Ont., and Toronto’s Candace Crawford defeated Germany, Italy and Sweden en route to the final in Vail, where they lost 3-1 to Austria.

Highlights of Canada’s journey to the podium can be seen on YouTube.

The course is so short it takes between 20 and 25 seconds to cover and there are two jumps on it.

A skier in the lead can fall or miss a gate and be disqualified, so the trailing skier can still pull off a victory.

“You have to stay so focused because if someone is ahead of you, you’re not out of the game,” Mielzynski said.

“They could fall or mess up.”

Because the race is a sprint, a powerful, fast start out is the key.

The start gate resembles ski cross in that the skiers launch from a metal chute after a barrier drops.

“The most important thing is not getting out of the start late,” Mielzynski said.

“Phil and Trevor get out early. They are amazing at starts.”

New heavyweight champion Tyson Fury says he’s most charismatic fighter since Ali bothered, it’s up to them.”

Fury polarizes opinion out of the ring, but there’s general agreement — especially after Saturday’s fight — that the guy can box.

Klitschko hadn’t been beaten in nearly 10 years before he was outsmarted by Fury and lost his WBA, IBF and WBO belts in a unanimous decision. The fight wasn’t a classic, but Fury picked holes in Klitschko and made the long-reigning champion look his 39 years. Fury called it a “masterclass.”

“Put your hands together for the eighth wonder of the world,” barked Fury’s father, John, to reporters and photographers at the news conference. “Get up. Get up and bow.

Appreciate what you are seeing, because you haven’t seen anything like this before.”

Tyson Fury, sitting two places away from his father on the top table, laughed out loud.

“I’m not surprised, I’m not overwhelmed, I’ve always said it would happen,” said Fury, who has won all of his 25 professional fights. “I’ve been preaching this for I don’t know how long. For me to go there and bust him like I’ve done, it shows what type of talent I am. Anyone who wants to discredit my performance is pure jealousy.”

The heavyweight division, stagnant for a decade because of the dominance of Klitschko and his older brother Vitali, is suddenly in flux.

And the presence of the erratic Fury makes it lively and unmissable.

STEVE DOUGLAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOLTON, England — Being heavyweight champion of the world hasn’t changed Tyson Fury much, at least judging by the maverick boxer’s journey back to Britain after beating Wladimir Klitschko.

No private jets for British sport’s new big thing. His near-12-hour journey from Germany involved being driven by his pregnant wife to the Netherlands, followed by a ferry over to England.

No champagne breakfasts, either.

He had a bowl of porridge and some fruit on Monday morning before driving in his sandals to a packed-out “Welcome Home” news conference near his home northern town.

“It’s not going to change me.

There’ll be no change in the champ,” Fury, who is of Gypsy heritage and says he’s the most charismatic boxer since Muhammad Ali, told The Associated Press in a suite at the stadium of Bolton soccer club as he tucked into some sandwiches.

“Anybody who can be changed by money, and by achievements, is not a realist,” he said. “I don’t feel different today than I was the day before, the day before.”

Many say he needs to change.

The 27-year-old Fury has blurted out, or tweeted, some controversial comments in recent times. He said before the Klitschko fight that doping should be legalized in all sports to make it “fully fair.” He was fined 3,000 pounds (around $4,500) in

Newly crowned heavyweight world boxing champion Tyson Fury waits to answer questions as he hosts a media day in Bolton, England on Monday.

[AP PHOTO]

2012 for a foul-mouthed rant that included branding two fellow English boxers “gay lovers.” In a recent newspaper interview, the fiercely religious Fury was quoted as saying that among the “things that need to be accomplished (changed) before the devil comes home . . . is homosexuality being legal in countries.”

All that was said when he was largely unknown outside boxing circles.

Before he stunned not just boxing

but the sporting world by beating Klitschko. Does responsibility come with being in the lofty position of heavyweight champion of the world?

Not according to Fury.

“If people don’t like it, change the channel,” said Fury, still sporting a bruise above his right eye from Saturday’s fight. “I won’t be dictated to by anyone. Do I care? Not really.”

Asked if he thought he was a role model to kids, Fury replied: “I’m not

NCAA

UNLV will keep ‘Rebel’ name MICHELLE RINDELS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARSON CITY, Nev. — UNLV is keeping its “Rebels” nickname and “Hey Reb!” mascot in spite of critics who said they should be changed because the imagery harkens to the Confederacy.

Citing newly released historical research that concluded the moniker was not intended as a reference to the Confederacy, the president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas issued a statement Monday saying the school must keep the name and mascot. He said “Rebels” expresses UNLV’s entrepreneurial spirit, and he noted overwhelming support for the term.

“It was coined as our young institution was fighting to establish its own identity, and it has come to represent the very independence and spirit that embodies both UNLV and Southern Nevada,” President Len Jessup wrote in a message to the UNLV community.

“It is clear that ’Rebels’ is

‘HEY REB!’

central to our shared identity and represents the broadest definition of the term.”

Some have called for the name and mascot to be changed, saying the mustachioed, cowboy hat-wearing character appears to be a Confederate soldier.

The university embarked on a formal research effort this summer after Democratic Sen. Harry Reid said regents should re-examine the Rebel nickname — comments made in the aftermath of an allegedly racially motivated mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The mascot also became a flashpoint during an on-cam-

pus demonstration organized in mid-November to show solidarity with protesters at the University of Missouri.

UNLV Chief Diversity Officer Rainier Spencer finalized a 60-page research paper on the topic earlier this month, concluding the Rebel name emerged from southern Nevada students’ frustrations in the 1950s that the Legislature wasn’t investing as much in the south as it was in the University of Nevada, Reno.

“The Rebels nickname is not a Confederate reference, as it predates the first appearance of Confederate symbols, which was April 20, 1955,” wrote Spencer, who is also a vice provost and founder of UNLV’s Afro-American Studies Program.

“Nevada Southern students were already known as Rebels before the application of those symbols; indeed, the symbols were applied because those students already had a non-Confederate Rebels identity, and also because of the north-south geography of the state.”

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Arizona at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Dallas at Calgary, 9 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Toronto at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m.

NY Rangers at NY Islanders, 8 p.m.

Boston at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.

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3HQDOWLHV — Draisaitl Edm (hooking) 5:33; Rielly Tor (delay of game) 12:13.

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3HQDOWLHV — Hendricks Edm (hooking) 2:12; Pouliot Edm (slashing) 10:22; Hunwick Tor (hooking) 19:02.

7KLUG 3HULRG 2. Tor, Kadri 3 (Gardiner, van Riemsdyk) 7:33.

3. Toronto, Komarov 10 (van Riemsdyk) 18:59 (en).

3HQDOW\ — Gardiner Tor (tripping) 15:08.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Edmonton 8 8 8 —24 Toronto 3 13 10 —26 *RDO — Edmonton: Nilsson (L, 5-7-1); Toronto: Sparks (W, 1-0-0). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Edm: 0-3; Tor: 1-3.

Attendance — 19,559 at Toronto.

)LUVW 3HULRG 1. NYR, Zuccarello 11 (Brassard) 1:09 (pp).

2. NY Rangers, Lindberg 9 (Boyle, Yandle) 18:23 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Pesce Car (tripping) 1:04; Boyle NYR (delay of game) 6:54; Lindberg NYR (interference) 12:04; E. Staal Car (hooking) 12:44; Liles Car (interference) 18:11.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. Carolina, Jo. Staal 5 (Nestrasil, Nordstrom) 1:40.

4. NY Rangers, Kreider 4 (Fast) 2:24.

5. NYR, Brassard 7 (Hayes) 15:49.

6. Carol, Rask 8 (Lindholm, Slavin) 17:59.

3HQDOWLHV — Versteeg Car (tripping) 11:25; Hayes NYR (tripping) 13:43.

7KLUG 3HULRG 7. Carol, Terry 3 (Skinner, Hainsey) 8:23.

3HQDOWLHV — Liles Car (cross-checking) 16:11; Zuccarello NYR (tripping) 16:11.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Carolina 10 14 12 —36 NY Rangers 6 8 8 —22 *RDO — Carolina: Ward (L, 7-8-3); NYR: Lundqvist (W, 13-5-2). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Carol: 0-3; NYR: 2-4.

Attendance — 18,006 at NY Rangers.

,6/$1'(56 $9$/$1&+( )LUVW 3HULRG 1. Colo, Comeau 4 (Soderberg) 10:20.

2. NYI, Okposo 6 (Nielsen) 19:58 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Bailey NYI (interference) 10:40; McLeod Col (tripping) 19:04; Landeskog Col (cross-checking) 19:46.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. NYI, Grabovski 4 (Strome, Kulemin) 6:31.

4. Colorado, Iginla 8 (unassisted) 7:12.

3HQDOWLHV — Grabovski NYI (hooking) 2:03; Soderberg Col (tripping) 19:40.

7KLUG 3HULRG 5. NYI, Clutterbuck 6 (Hickey, Zidlicky) 1:52.

6. NYI, Cizikas 4 (unassisted) 8:16.

7. Colo, Holden 1 (Soderberg) 16:26.

8. NYI, Strome 3 (unassisted) 19:12 (en).

3HQDOW\ — Okposo NYI (tripping) 12:41.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Colorado 10 4 14 —28 NY Islanders 7 14 7 —28 *RDO — Colo: Varlamov (L, 5-7-1); NY Islanders: Greiss (W, 7-3-2). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Colo: 0-3; NYI: 1-3.

Attendance — 11,585 at NY Islanders.

SCORING LEADERS

Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Daniel Sedin, Vcr John Klingberg, Dal Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Erik Karlsson, Ott Taylor Hall, Edm Blake Wheeler, Wpg Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Max Pacioretty, Mtl Nathan MacKinnon, Col David Krejci, Bos Tomas Plekanec, Mtl Joe Pavelski, SJ Henrik Sedin, Vcr

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GF GA 87 80 88 68 93 88 74 87 79 101 64 81

Pt 35 32 31 26 23 19

OL 0 0 1 3 2 2

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GF GA 106 74 105 78 86 87 80 96 77 95 55 110

Pt 38 34 34 25 17 14

CENTRAL DIVISION

WILD CARD

Pittsburgh Boston New Jersey Tampa Bay Florida Philadelphia Buffalo Toronto Carolina Columbus

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Red Deer Lethbridge Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

GP W L 27 19 8 26 17 9 28 16 10 28 11 14 23 7 13 27 6 19

B.C. DIVISION GP W L 26 19 6 27 17 8 24 13 9 23 11 9 26 6 16

OL 1 1 1 3 2

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GP W L 25 16 7 27 14 10 23 14 7 23 12 11 27 10 16

OL 2 2 0 0 1

GF GA 104 77 93 62 73 70 83 79 69 102

SL 0 1 2 0 0

Pt 39 36 28 25 16

GF GA 91 69 89 92 62 44 79 70 81 108

Pt 34 31 30 24 21

Note: Division leaders ranked in top 2 positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 pts. & a victory in the W column; team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 pt. in OTL or SOL columns 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOW Everett 5 Spokane 1 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO Kootenay at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Portland at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Portland at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kootenay at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPH Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m. )ULGD\ V JDPHV Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Portland at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Kootenay at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Prince George at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION Penticton Salmon Arm West Kelowna Vernon Trail Merritt

GP W L 28 26 2 27 18 6 28 16 10 30 13 15 27 11 16 30 9 19

T OL GF GA Pt 0 0 124 53 52 2 1 116 73 39 0 2 102 97 34 0 2 134 96 28 0 0 76 114 22 0 2 97 130 20

ISLAND DIVISION GP W L 1DQDLPR

Powell River 27 16 10 Cowichan Vally 28 14 10 Victoria 30 11 16 Alberni Valley 27 10 15

T 0 0 0 0

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PF 347 272 266 225

PA 212 228 257 287

W 6 6 4 2

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PF 249 232 236 203

PA 260 234 299 257

W 9 6 4 2

L 2 5 7 9

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PF 297 266 259 213

PA 193 230 276 310

W 9 6 5 3

L 2 5 6 8

T 0 0 0 0

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PF 252 287 264 244

PA 207 220 280 307

SOUTH Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee

NORTH Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

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

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Kelowna Victoria Prince George Kamloops Vancouver

New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

W 10 6 5 4

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0 1 99 72 33 1 3 101 130 32 0 3 80 92 25 1 1 78 106 22

Washington N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Dallas

W 5 5 4 3

L 6 6 7 8

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PF 241 287 243 204

PA 267 273 274 261

W 11 6 5 4

L 0 5 6 7

T 0 0 0 0

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PF 332 260 248 261

PA 205 234 279 339

W 8 7 5 4

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PF 231 262 231 230

PA 194 215 264 288

W 9 6 4 3

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PF 355 267 186 152

PA 229 222 230 271

SOUTH Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

NORTH Minnesota Green Bay Chicago Detroit

WEST Arizona Seattle St. Louis San Francisco

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOW Baltimore 33 Cleveland 27 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Denver 30 New England 24 (OT) Minnesota 20 Atlanta 10 Houston 24 New Orleans 6 Cincinnati 31 St. Louis 7 Indianapolis 25 Tampa Bay 12 San Diego 31 Jacksonville 25 Kansas City 30 Buffalo 22 Oakland 24 Tennessee 21 N.Y. Jets 38 Miami 20 Seattle 39 Pittsburgh 30 Arizona 19 San Francisco 13 Washington 20 N.Y. Giants 14 7KXUVGD\ V JDPH Green Bay at Detroit Sunday, Dec. 6 Arizona at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Chicago, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Houston at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Miami, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Denver at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at New England, 4:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 7 Dallas at Washington, 8:30 p.m.

MAINLAND DIVISION GP W L Chilliwack 27 18 6 Wenatchee 28 16 8 Langley 29 17 12 Coquitlam 27 11 12 Prince George 30 7 21 Surrey 27 5 22

T OL GF GA Pt 1 2 105 62 39 2 2 98 67 36 0 0 111 89 34 1 3 77 105 26 0 2 67 128 16 0 0 69 140 10

7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO 1DQDLPR at Victoria, 7 p.m.

Trail at West Kelowna, 7 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Vernon at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Penticton, 7 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Coquitlam at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Surrey at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m. )ULGD\ V JDPHV Coquitlam at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

Vernon at Penticton, 7 p.m.

1DQDLPR at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at West Kelowna, 7 pm.

Surrey at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Alberni Valley at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL NCAA $3 723 6&+('8/( 6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV 1R Clemson vs. 1R North Carolina, ACC championship, Charlotte, N.C., 8 p.m.

1R Alabama vs. 1R Florida, SEC championship, Atlanta, 4 p.m.

No. 4 Iowa vs. 1R Michigan State, Big Ten championship, Indianapolis, 8:17 p.m.

No. 7 Stanford vs. 1R Southern Cal, Pac-12 championship, Santa Clara, Calif., 7:45 p.m.

1R Baylor vs. Texas, noon 1R Houston vs. 1R Temple, AAC championship, noon

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)LUVW 4XDUWHU %DO—Clay 82 punt return (Tucker kick), 9:54. %DO—FG Tucker 49, 4:22.

6HFRQG 4XDUWHU &OH—FG Coons 31, 11:27. %DO—Allen 13 pass from Schaub (Tucker kick), 9:58. &OH—Moore 10 pass from McCown (Coons kick), 4:36. &OH—FG Coons 21, :03.

7KLUG 4XDUWHU &OH—Dansby 52 interception return (Coons kick), 12:16. %DO—Aiken 15 pass from Schaub (Tucker kick), 5:30. )RXUWK 4XDUWHU %DO—FG Tucker 35, 9:05. &OH—Benjamin 42 pass from Davis (Coons kick), 1:47. %DO³+LOO ,,, EORFNHG ÀHOG JRDO UHWXUQ (run failed), :00.

Attendance — 64,380 at Cleveland.

TEAM STATISTICS

First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

%DO 16 336 23-104 232 4-112 3-45 0-0 20-34-2 0-0 4-42.8 0-0 7-50 29:30

&OH 21 338 18-63 275 1-12 2-78 2-54 28-48-0 2-14 6-47.2 0-0 2-15 30:30

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 5XVKLQJ—%DOW Allen 12-55, West 7-37, Schaub 3-10, Givens 1-2. &OHY Johnson Jr. 7-27, McCown 2-12, Benjamin 1-10, Crowell 7-7, Davis 1-7.

3DVVLQJ—%DOW Schaub 20-34-2-232. &OHY McCown 21-38-0-212, Davis 7-10-0-77.

5HFHLYLQJ—%DOW Aiken 6-80, Allen 4-29, Butler 3-27, Gillmore 3-20, Juszczyk 2-18, Givens 1-48, Boyle 1-10. &OHY Hartline 8-74, Barnidge 7-91, Benjamin 6-90, Johnson Jr. 5-23, Moore 1-10, Johnson 1-1.

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)LUVW 4XDUWHU NE—Gronkowski 23 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 11:24.

6HFRQG 4XDUWHU NE—Chandler 9 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 10:40.

Den—Hillman 19 run (McManus kick), 2:07. )RXUWK 4XDUWHU NE—Bolden 63 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 14:50.

Den—Anderson 15 run (McManus kick), 12:34.

Den—FG McManus 21, 6:08.

Den—Caldwell 4 pass from Osweiler (McManus kick), 1:09.

NE—FG Gostkowski 47, :00.

2YHUWLPH Den—Anderson 48 run, 12:32.

Attendance — 76,970 at Denver.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

NE 16 301 16-39 262 4-21 0-0 1-0 23-42-0 3-18 10-45.0 1-1 5-47 25:57

Den 23 433 32-179 254 4-24 2-46 0-0 23-42-1 3-16 8-43.4 2-0 6-46 36:31

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 5XVKLQJ—NE: Blount 9-27, Bolden 4-11, White 3-1. Den: Anderson 15-113, Hillman 14-59, Osweiler 2-4, Thompson 1-3.

3DVVLQJ—NE: Brady 23-42-0-280. Den: Osweiler 23-42-1-270.

5HFHLYLQJ—NE: Gronkowski 6-88, Chandler 5-58, Bolden 4-84, LaFell 4-36, White 2-5, Martin 1-8, Cleveland 1-1. Den: Sanders 6-113, Daniels 5-48, Anderson 4-40, V.Davis 2-10, Caldwell 2-8, Thomas 1-36, Fowler 1-8, Latimer 1-7, Hillman 1-0.

0LVVHG )LHOG *RDOV—Den: McManus 47 (WR).

MOVES

NBA

BASEBALL

EASTERN CONFERENCE

AMERICAN LEAGUE CLEVELAND INDIANS — Assigned OF Michael Choice outright to Columbus (IL). Agreed to terms with C Anthony Recker on a minor league contract.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jordan Zimmermann on a 5-year contract.

NATIONAL LEAGUE OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Assigned LHP Fernando Abad and OF Craig Gentry outright to Nashville (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Claimed RHP Michael Mariot off waivers from Kansas City.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with C Brayan Pena on a two-year contract.

BASKETBALL NBA LOS ANGELES LAKERS — G Kobe Bryant announced his retirement, effective at the end of the season.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Assigned F Cleananthony Early to Westchester (NBADL).

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Waived F Martell Webster. Signed C Ryan Hollins.

FOOTBALL NFL BUFFALO BILLS — Placed DT Alex Carrington on injured reserve. Released LB A.J. Tarpley.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Waived LB Sean Porter from the PUP list. Released G Dan France from the practice squad.

Signed CB Asa Jackson to the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived RB Trey Williams.

DETROIT LIONS — Placed CB Alex Carter on injured reserve.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed RB Ahmad Bradshaw on injured reserve.

Signed RB Zurlon Tipton.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Fired offensive coordinator Bill Lazor. Named Zac Taylor offensive co-ordinator.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released WR Chris Harper.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released OL Julian Vandervelde. Signed OL %DUUHWW -RQHV IURP &KLFDJR¡V SUDFWLFH squad and CB Mike Lee and LB Brandon Hepburn to the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed TE Jimmy Graham on injured reserve.

Signed DT A.J. Francis from the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived S Kimario McFadden. Signed LB Adarius *ODQWRQ IURP &DUROLQD¡V SUDFWLFH VTXDG WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB Jeremy Harris to the practice squad.

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

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GB — 11/2 2 21/2 21/2 21/2 3 31/2 4 41/2 51/2 51/2 61/2 9 131/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Golden State 19 0 1.000 — San Antonio 14 4 .778 41/2 Oklahoma City 11 7 .611 71/2 Dallas 10 7 .588 8 Memphis 10 8 .556 81/2 L.A. Clippers 9 8 .529 9 Utah 8 8 .500 91/2 Phoenix 8 9 .471 10 Minnesota 8 9 .471 10 Portland 7 10 .412 11 Houston 7 11 .389 111/2 Denver 6 12 .333 121/2 Sacramento 6 12 .333 121/2 New Orleans 4 13 .235 14 L.A. Lakers 2 14 .125 151/2 0RQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Atlanta 106 Oklahoma City 100 Chicago 92 San Antonio 89 Milwaukee 92 Denver 74 Boston 105 Miami 95 Detroit 116 Houston 105 Golden State 106 Utah 103 Dallas at Sacramento Portland at L.A. Clippers 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Phoenix 107 Toronto 102 Charlotte 87 Milwaukee 82 L.A. Clippers 107 Minnesota 99 Memphis 92 Philadelphia 84 Brooklyn 87 Detroit 83 Orlando 110 Boston 91 Houston 116 New York 111 (OT) Indiana 107 L.A. Lakers 103 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV Washington at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Memphis at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 10 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV L.A. Lakers at Washington, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

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

Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

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

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

SOCCER MLS PLAYOFFS CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, Dec. 6 Portland at Columbus, 4 p.m.

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ENGLAND

NHL DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned D Richard Nedomlel from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Assigned D Victor Bartley to Milwaukee (AHL). Reassigned G Juuse Saros to Milwaukee.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled F Jayson Megna from Hartford (AHL).

AHL LEAGUE OFFICE — Suspended Binghamton D Mark Fraser 2 games.

BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Assigned D Nick Pageau to Norfolk (ECHL).

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled D Derek Docken from Toledo (ECHL).

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Returned G Jeff Malcolm to Greenville (ECHL).

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Reassigned G Brandon Whitney and D Garrett Noonan to Cincinnati (ECHL).

ONTARIO REIGN — Returned F Derek Arnold to Manchester (ECHL).

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP Bolton 1 Brentford 1

GREECE SUPER LEAGUE Kalloni 1 PAOK Thessaloniki 3

ITALY SERIE A Sassuolo 1 Fiorentina 1 Napoli 2 Inter Milan 1

NETHERLANDS EERSTE DIVISIE Den Bosch 0 Jong PSV 0 Dordrecht 3 Almere City 1 Eindhoven 1 Emmen 1 Oss 0 RKC Waalwijk 0 Helmond Sport 2 Achilles 29 2 Jong Ajax 1 Sparta 1 MVV 1 Fortuna Sittard 3 NAC Breda 2 Telstar 1 Volendam 1 Go Ahead Eagles 0

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Late blocked field goal leads to TD, Ravens beat Browns TOM WITHERS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND — This season of injury upon injury for the Ravens finally includes a break worth celebrating.

Brent Urban blocked Travis Coons’ field-goal attempt and Will Hill returned it 64 yards for a touchdown as time expired, giving Baltimore a stunning 33-27 win Monday night over the luckless Cleveland Browns, who lost their sixth straight game

along with starting quarterback Josh McCown.

Coons lined up to kick a potential game-winning 51-yard field goal with three seconds to go for the Browns (2-9), but it was deflected by Urban, who was playing his first NFL game after missing the past two seasons with injuries to his knee and right arm. “It’s surreal,� said a beaming Urban, a fourth-round pick in 2014 who missed all last season and tore his

biceps earlier this year. “After being out so long, it’s crazy. I’m almost speechless. It’s just a wonderful feeling.�

Quarterback Matt Schaub, making his first start since 2013, threw two touchdown passes for the Ravens (4-7), who seem to take every game to the wire. All 11 of their games have been decided by less than eight points. “One of the greatest football games you’re probably ever going to see in

terms of excitement,� said Ravens coach John Harbaugh.

McCown injured his collarbone in the fourth quarter and was replaced

by Austin Davis, whose 42-yard TD pass to Travis Benjamin tied it with 1:47 remaining. Benjamin got inside Hill, who spent the waning moments hoping for a chance at redemption. “I was desperate and frustrated at the same time,� Hill said. “I was praying that we could get a block and it bounced my way and I

took it to the end zone.�

The Browns appeared to be in position to pull out a comeback win after cornerback Tramon Williams intercepted Schaub with 50 seconds left at Baltimore’s 46. But as Cleveland attempted to get closer for Coons, Davis wasted valuable time because of a communication issue with the sideline and the QB couldn’t get out of bounds after a scramble, forcing the Browns to call a timeout.

Coons was 18 for 18 this season.

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23 Distributed the cards 24 Mythical tale 26 Stubborn beast 29 Up to, in ads 30 Brings up, as a child 31 Voting group 33 Back of one’s neck 35 Back-in-style fashion 38 Tibetan priests 40 DVR button 41 South Korean capital 42 Major happening 43 Molecule part 45 Leg hinge 46 Cook in a barbecue 48 Unruly crowd 50 Double-curve letter 51 Say yes 53 Quitting phrase in poker 55 School fundraising gp.

56 Roll served at a diner 61 Look mopey 63 Advance of cash 64 Small donkey 65 Humdinger 66 Conclude a plane flight 67 On the up and up 68 Suffix for kitchen 69 “Steady as __ goes” 70 Wear away

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10 Rock on a mountain 11 Sci-fi being 12 Repaired, as a page 14 Be suspicious 20 Acquire 21 Pretty long time

25 One from Athens 26 Competent 27 Croat or Serb 28 Gymnast’s roll 30 Endorse for use 32 Lake boat 34 Hamster or parakeet 36 Regrets 37 Spanish cheers 39 Get to one’s feet 44 Tie up at a dock 47 Moonshine machines 49 Begin to boil 51 Cider fruit 52 Strong ale 53 Very silly 54 More faithful 57 Ark builder 58 Therefore 59 Dry as dust 60 Lavish attention (on) 62 Election Day: Abbr.

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» EVENTS // EMAIL: EVENTS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM TUESDAY, DEC. 1

THURSDAY, DEC. 3

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

6:30 p.m. Parksville Newcomers’Club (www/ parksvillenewcomers.net) will be holding its monthly meeting. Parksville Community Centre, 132 Jensen Ave. E 8 p.m. Cory Friesenhan and more at the Longwood Brewpub. Live at Longwood, free live music series every Thursday at the Longwood brew pub. 5775 Turner Rd., Nanaimo.

5-8:30 p.m. Milner Milner Christmas Magic outdoor light show for the whole family. 2179 West Island Highway, Qualicum Beach, by donation. www.milnergardens. org 250-752-6153. Last entry by 8 p.m. Other dates: Dec. 5 and 6, 11-13 and 16-20.

FRIDAY, DEC. 4

SATURDAY, DEC. 5

5-6 p.m. Light up a Life Community SingAlong welcomes Jona Kristinsson, Sydney Needham, and Marty Steele, who help spread

11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nanaimo Artwalk is in the Old City Quarter and downtown Nanaimo.

Artwalk runs December 5-6 with 30 locations

WEDNESDAY. DEC, 2 7 p.m. Doors open for Jon Mack, BJ Estes, Scott Brown at Dinghy Dock Pub 8 Pirates Lane, Protection Island. Tickets $20 plus fee includes return ferry.

7:30 p.m. Community Carol Festival at St. Andrew’s United Church, 311 Fitzwilliam St., with nine Nanaimo community choirs.

community cheer at the kick off to the Old City Quarter’s Light up a Life campaign that benefits the Haven Society. The sing-along takes place at #102-437 Fitzwilliam St.

and more than 45 artists working in various mediums. For a map, artist bios and more, pick up an Artwalk guide at downtown locations including Nanaimo Art Gallery, or visit http:// nanaimoartwalk.jimdo.com 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Christmas Bazaar and Craft Sale. Crafts, Attic Treasures, Home-Baked Treats, Silent Auction; Hot soup and Chili. Free Admission. Proceeds benefit the Nanoose Library Centre. 2489 Nanoose Road, Nanoose Bay. For more info, contact Mary 250-248-4773 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. St. Mark’s Annual Very Merry Christmas Luncheon and Bake Sale. St. Mark’s Church - 138 Hoylake W., in Qualicum Beach $10.

2-3:15 p.m. A Cappella Plus free concert in Santa’s Workshop Chamber choir under the direction of Patricia Plumley. Vancouver Island Conference Centre, 101 Gordon St. 3 and 7:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Symphony presents music & theatre: A Christmas Carol Tickets: $38 or $67.50, Students $18, Eyego $5 available at porttheatre.com.

5 p.m. Bastion City Wanderers Volkssport Club invites you to a 6-km or 12-km Christmas Light walk in Ladysmith. Meet in the upper parking lot of Ricky’s, Coronation Mall. Registration at 4:45 p.m. For information, call Ethel at 250-756-9796.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) The unexpected presents you with many opportunities. You might discover that a far-out idea can go a long way. You’ll want to test out this idea on others. Confusion surrounds a talk. People might not be as focused as you would like them to be. Tonight: Play devil’s advocate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Stay centered, especially as others seem to be all over the place. You will observe how someone gains ground through a process that seems rather far-fetched to you.

A conversation with an associate allows you to make needed changes. Tonight: Happy at home.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You have pushed beyond the norm.

You might be feeling tired yet inspired. A meeting could be more important than you realize, as you are likely to experience a meeting of the minds with a friend. Brainstorm away. Note what comes up.

Tonight: Hang out with loved ones.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) How you see a situation could change once you talk to a friend or family member. You should expect the unexpected. Confusion surrounds finances. Make no major decisions, no matter how informed you are.

Tonight: Treating yourself well doesn’t mean breaking the bank.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Your energy is high, so be willing to test out your choices. News that comes in from someone at a distance will put a smile on your face. Look at the application of your choices,

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but know that nothing is a given, no matter what you would like to think. Tonight: Out late.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You will relate to a loved one directly and get strong results. You might be surprised by what this person says. Do your best not to internalize these comments, especially as he or she is very likely to change his or her mind. Tonight: Schedule some togetherness time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You’ll verbalize what you think and feel.

On the other hand, you might want to listen more carefully to news that heads your way. A close friend or loved one might be fiery and somewhat unpredictable.

Ride the wave that his or her reaction creates. Tonight: Where the crowds are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You’ll want to rethink a decision; you might not be as comfortable with your position as you would like to be. Don’t make it a big deal. You can make changes and still maintain a strong influence over others.

Act on what you know and feel.

Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Keep reaching out for more information, especially if you see an element of the unpredictable playing a role in a situation. You might feel as if you don’t have enough information. Listen to what a friend or associate has to share. Tonight: Take a leap of faith.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) One-on-one relating might be the source of a shocking piece of information. Proceed with caution, as you could be witness to a skel-

eton walking out of your closet.

Communication with a respected friend will allow more give-andtake. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’ll hear more than your fair share of what is important. Others seem to use you as a sounding board. However, you could have a sudden reaction to what you are hearing that could shock them. Try to explain your rationale clearly. Tonight: Go along with the program.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You could be in a position where you want to do something very differently from how you have in the past. Your ability to explain why seems to be lost; you just feel that you need to head in a certain direction. Trust yourself. Tonight: Run some errands on the way home.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Dec. 1) This year you are open and happy. Others enjoy being around you, and as a result, many doors could open up. Your creativity keeps bursting forward as you deal with different life situations; use it well. If you are single, your romantic life will be like riding a roller coaster. You might not meet Mr. or Ms. Right, but you will have a ball anyway. If you are attached, the two of you will add more romantic moments to your life. Your imagination plays a big role in what occurs. LEO enjoys you, especially when you express your love of adventure.

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With great sadness we announce the passing of Rosemary Frances Heimes on November 26, 2015 She was predeceased by her husband Raymond and her parents Mabel and Gerard Bazinet.

She will be lovingly remembered by her son Kelly Stark and Shawn Young (Barb), grandchildren Zachary, Braden, Michael, Brianna, and Rowen.

She loved to garden, shop, quilt, hunting, fishing, and just sitting in the boat. Her most treasured pastime was spending time with all of her grandchildren. She was a very generous person.

She was an avid member and volunteer at the Legion, Branch 43 in Prince George.

A Graveside service will be held on Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:00 pm at Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens.

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John “Smoky� R Smith Born September 2, 1927 Calgary Ab. Peacefully slipped away November 11, 2015 Arbour Cottage Ladysmith B.C. He was predeceased by Alicia “Johnnie� Smith, his bride of 62 years, the mother of his 4 children, and follower of his dreams, and his daughter Lisa Smith, and brother Milton.

He is survived by his children: Bill Birdsell-Smith, Charleen (John) Dodworth, Nikki (Gary) Patrickson. Grandchildren Jackie ( Steve) Brehaut, Jennifer (Kevin) Smith, Danielle, and Ashley. Great grandchildren Keely, Skylar, Phoenix, Steel, Lyric, Ocean and beloved dog Teddy.

Smoky was a 40 year veteran of the IWA logging from Lyell Island to Sooke BC, as he raised his family on Vancouver Island‌ for the most part. He retired in 1991 to pursue his 2nd passion the sea, for 20 years he lived on or near the water.

His final retirement in 2006 when health forced him to slow down mom and dad relocated to share Nikki and Gary’s home in Nanaimo. Thus began a 10 year adventure of love and laughter, where friends became extended family, along the way. Nikki and Gary would like to thank “Smoky’s Angels�

Michelle Desrochers, Lynn LeGrand, Lynn Chisholm, and Patti Waters, for the smiles and laughter they brought into his life while allowing us much needed rest.

Thanks to the ladies and friends of Nanaimo Travelers Lodge Day Break Program A special thanks to Arbour Cottage A service for Smoky and Johnnie will be held at Sands Funeral Chapel December 5, 2015 1 pm. Celebration of Life to follow.

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Ukrainian Christmas Bazaar Sunday, December 6, 2015, 11am - 3pm.

St. Michael’s Ukrainian Parish Hall 4017 Victoria Avenue (off Norwell Drive), Nanaimo, BC You will ďŹ nd: perogies, borsch, homemade baking, jams, pickles and relish, Ukrainian novelties, cabbage rolls made & sold by Sand’s Kitchen and much more...

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Hosted by the Ukrainian Canadian Cultural Society of Nanaimo and Vesna Ukrainian Dancers.

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Sheila Westwood Sheila Westwood died peacefully in her sleep on November 9, 2015. She had just celebrated her 100th birthday.

Sheila was born Sheila Blackwood Maxwell on September 29, 1915, in Edmonton, Alberta. She served in the WRENS as a decoder during WWII. Sheila moved to Nanaimo after the war with her first husband. She worked for CHUB radio station in the 50s, eventually hosting her own program.

Sheila married Earle Westwood in 1957. He had been mayor of Nanaimo and while a member of the provincial cabinet in Victoria held positions of Minister of Trade and Industry, Minister of Recreation and Conservation, and Minister of Commercial Transport. Sheila was by his side and a great helpmate in his political career both here and later in London, England, when Earle was made Agent General for British Columbia.

On their return to Nanaimo Sheila became an avid golfer and bridge player and enjoyed her many friends.

Sheila is survived and will be greatly missed by her brother Brian Maxwell (Louise); her Stepdaughter Susan Kelly (Jim); her granddaughters Lisa Edwards (Brian), Kirstie Kelly Schipper (Eric), and Kathryn Kelly; and great grandchildren Matthew and Charlie Edwards and Theo, Aiden, and Lily Schipper. She is predeceased by her husband Earle Westwood and sister Maureen Baier.

A remembrance will be held December 12th at 1:00 p.m. at Sands Funeral Home in Nanaimo. In lieu of flowers please donate to the Canadian Cancer Society.

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Neymar makes FIFA Ballon D’Or shortlist THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ZURICH — Neymar made the three-man Ballon D’Or shortlist for the first time on Monday alongside Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi and title holder Cristiano Ronaldo.

The 30-year-old Ronaldo has won two consecutive world player of the year titles since ending Messi’s four-year winning streak and is nominated despite failing to win any trophies with Real Madrid in 2015.

The 23-year-old Neymar, though, won a treble with Messi at Barcelona, ensuring he became the first Brazilian finalist since 2007 winner Kaka.

Neymar has 41 goals across the calendar year for Barcelona — three fewer than the 28-year-old Messi — but one blot is the four-match ban from Brazil games imposed at the Copa America following a red card. The winner is announced at a FIFA gala in Zurich on Jan. 11 when a series of other awards are handed out. Chile’s Jorge Sampaoli is a finalist for men’s coach of the year after winning the Copa America title.

Barcelona’s Luis Enrique, who led his team to the Champions League title, also is a finalist along with Bayern Munich’s Pep Guardiola.

American forward Carli Lloyd is among the finalists for FIFA’s women’s award after scoring a hat trick that led the United States to victory over Japan in the World Cup final. Japan’s Aya Miyama and Germany’s Celia Sasic are the other finalists.

Jill Ellis of the U.S. is a finalist for women’s team coach award along with Mark Sampson.

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Thousands crowd Eden Park for public memorial to Lomu Prime minister showed recorded video tribute for former All Blacks legend THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — World Rugby Chairman Bernard Lapasset led the tributes to Jonah Lomu at a public memorial Monday, saying the former All Blacks winger was a giant whose contribution to the sport “cannot be overstated.�

Thousands of mourners, many wearing replicas of Lomu’s No. 11 jersey, crowded Eden Park for the final public memorial for the rugby great who died Nov. 18 aged 40. A private family burial service will be held in Auckland on Tuesday.

Lapasset, who flew to New Zealand from France, joined Prime Minister John Key and former All Blacks in paying tribute to Lomu’s contribution to rugby and his charity work.

Lapasset described Lomu as “a giant of a man (who) leaves a giant space in world rugby.

He will forever be a big part of rugby’s story.�

Key recorded a video tribute in Paris, where he is attending the world climate conference, saying Lomu made a real difference in people’s lives. “He proved that you can come from anywhere in New Zealand in any background and make it to the top,� Key said.

One of the most moving tributes came from pupils of Lomu’s

Nadene Lomu, widow of Jonah Lomu, releases a dove at the public memorial for the former All Black at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

former school, Favona Primary in South Auckland, who wrote and performed a tribute song.

The pupils sang of Lomu as “No. 11, our friend in heaven.�

The memorial opened with a traditional haka and powhiri, or welcome, performed by indigenous Maori representatives of Auckland’s Ngati Whatua people.

Lomu’s coffin was then carried into the stadium by pallbearers including former All Blacks

Michael Jones, Frank Bunce, Joeli Vidiri and Jerome Kaino, as well as New Zealand rugby league player Manu Vatuvei.

The coffin was followed by Lomu’s wife Nadene, who wore a woven skirt which is a traditional Tongan symbol of respect and mourning, and by Lomu’s sons Brayley, 6, and Dhyreille, 5.

Mourners watched a video montage of high points in Lomu’s rugby career, including

a tribute paid to Lomu by British singer Elton John during his recent concert tour to New Zealand.

Former All Blacks coach John Hart spoke on behalf of Lomu’s wife and children, thanking mourners and expressing gratitude for the tributes that had poured in from around the world. Hart recounted Lomu’s almost 20-year struggle with the debilitating kidney illness nephrotic syndrome which eventually forced his retirement and is thought to have contributed to his death.

Lomu first became aware of the illness in 1995, but kept it secret from the public and from teammates until he was forced to undergo regular dialysis treatments. Hart said Lomu’s illness meant he played all of his career at only 80 per cent capacity. “It’s frightening to think what he could have done on the field had he not played with such a huge medical handbrake,� he said. “He overcame tremendous hurdles throughout his life but never, ever complained. He was a fighter until the very end.�

Lomu, who underwent a kidney transplant in 2004, played 63 tests for New Zealand and Hart described him as rugby’s “first superstar� who “left his huge footprint around the world.�

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Matt Jones pulls off win at Aussie Open DENNIS PASSA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SYDNEY, Australia — Matt Jones talked about the “stress and anxious moments� during his final round at the Australian Open on Sunday.

He wasn’t exaggerating.

Jones overcame a bogey, double-bogey and triple-bogey on the front nine Sunday to escape with a one-stroke victory in the 100th Australian Open after shooting a 2-over 73.

Jones, who led defending champion Jordan Spieth by three strokes to begin the day, finished with a 72-hole total of 8-under 276.

Adam Scott, who shot 65 on The Australian Golf Club course Sunday, and Spieth, who had a 71 and missed an eagle attempt on the 18th that could have forced a playoff, were tied for second.

Australian veteran Rod Pampling, who had a course-record 61, was fourth, two strokes

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behind Jones.

Jones, Pampling, Scott and Spieth were frequently tied for the lead over the final hour, but a birdie on the 16th put the Australian a stroke clear.

Jones’ round included holing a bunker shot on the 12th hole for par. There was even drama at the end for the Australian, who dropped his club after hitting his third shot on the par-5 18th, thinking it had gone in the water.

The ball landed safely on the green, however, and after being too cautious with his first putt, he holed a three-footer for par that nearly lipped out.

Amazingly, he never fell out of the lead, or a share of the lead, all day. “I got the job done, but there was a lot of stress and anxious moments,� Jones said. “A lip-in putt on the last to get the win. “That bunker shot on 12 was probably the biggest thing because I knew I had some birdies left.�

Jones double-bogeyed the par-3 second hole when it took him two shots to get out of a bunker, then triple-bogeyed the ninth when his approach shot from the rough went into the middle of a lake. He made the turn in 4-over 39 and was tied with Pampling for the lead, with Scott and Spieth one behind.

That he did, shooting 2-under 34 on the back nine, while Scott and Spieth came up short in

their attempts to overtake him.

Spieth was impressed with Jones’ resilience. “I just told him that was one of the best-fought wins I’ve ever seen, to come through what he did on 2, 9 and then that par he made on 12,� Spieth said. “Twelve was by far the tipping point in the round. “We’re the ones who had the most holes remaining so we control it, and for him to go back to whatever he was, one or two up on me at the time there, was really kind of a game changer.�

Scott, who trailed Jones by nine strokes at the start of the day, stayed tied for the lead when he made a 15-foot putt for par on the 17th, then pulled back into a tie with Jones when he birdied the last — before Jones’ clinching birdie. “I left myself with a little bit of work to do there on 17, but anytime you want to put yourself in a position to win, you’ve got to make some putts,� Scott said.

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CHICAGO — Rob Garofalo was devastated. He’d built his medical and research career on helping young AIDS patients. Then he learned that he, too, was HIV-positive. The news came after he’d already survived kidney cancer and a breakup with his longtime partner.

Try as he might, the doctor could not heal himself, at least not emotionally.

“I couldn’t afford myself the same compassion that I’d spent a career teaching other people to have,” says Garofalo, who heads the adolescent medicine division at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

At first, he told almost no one about his HIV status — not even his own elderly mother, who sensed that her son was struggling mightily during a Christmas visit in 2010.

“You can tell me that everything is OK, but it’s not,” she said, cupping her hands around her son’s face at the end of his trip to his native New Jersey.

Garofalo recalls crying on much of the flight home to Chicago in a catharsis that led him to an unexpected decision, one that helped him in ways no human could and ultimately led him to a new role in the HIV community.

He got a dog. It was a little Yorkshire terrier he named Fred. And everything changed.

“I had this little bundle of, like, pure joy,” Garofalo says. “He made me re-engage with the world.”

The doctor, who’s helped save many an AIDS patient, knows it sounds a little crazy that the companionship and simple needs of a pet could help him cope with his disease and pull him out of depression.

“But I’m not exaggerating when I say that he saved my life,” says Garofalo, who’d considered suicide after his HIV diagnosis.

His journey back to life started with simple things. He had to leave the apartment where he’d isolated himself to buy food for Fred. He had to talk to the many people who wanted to stop and pet the little dog. Garofalo also found comfort

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Dr. Rob Garofalo poses for a portrait with his dog, a Yorkshire terrier named Fred, in Chicago. [JESSE FREIDIN VIA AP]

when he’d awaken with one of his frequent night terrors and have Fred to snuggle.

Eventually, Garofalo sought counselling and told his mother and friends about his HIV status. As his energy level grew, he also started a charity using Fred’s image to raise money for programs that help HIV-positive teens.

He continued to share his story, even with strangers on Fred’s charity website. And Garofalo began to realize that he was far from the only person with HIV — or any number of other diseases — who’d been helped by a dog. And in that human-canine bond, he saw new purpose and an opportunity to grow his charity’s reach.

He began a project called “When

Dogs Heal,” with the help of a dog photographer named Jesse Freidin and a Chicago-based writer named Zach Stafford.

It tells the stories of HIV-positive people and their dogs in an exhibit launched in Chicago on Tuesday, which was World AIDS Day, and also in New York City on Thursday.

Participants whose images are in the show include a young mother from Los Angeles who was born with HIV, a Chicago man who tested positive after he was gang raped, a nd an HIV-positive man in San Francisco who quit dealing drugs so he could provide a more stable life for himself and his newly adopted dog.

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t’s been said Einstein’s E=mc2 (energy=mass x C speed of light squared) is the world’s most important scientific equation.

Unfortunately it created the atomic bomb that killed thousands the Second World War. But I believe my equation EP = a2 (extra pounds = atherosclerosis squared) is the world’s important medical equation.

Regrettably, it’s killing more millions every year than E=mc2.

Think again if you believe this is exaggerated.

Consider human obesity. Nothing, including the thousands of books on weight loss and diet, has been able to stop the epidemic of obesity which gets worse world-wide every year.

Nor does anyone have the solution to the problem of increasing numbers of people developing Type 2 diabetes. The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that one in 13 North Americans have diabetes. And one in four over the age of 65 suffer from this disease.

Then there are an estimated 14 million people in North America who don’t even know they have diabetes. And millions more have prediabetes, just one step away from diabetes and its complications. All these figures increase every year.

So how does this combination kill?

It’s because EP (extra pounds) = a2 (atherosclerosis), causes the rust that collects in all of our arteries as we age. We have known for years that people who are obese or have diabetes or both always develop more of this deadly rust that is composed of fatty deposits and cholesterol.

The deadly trio of obesity, diabetes and heart attack will eventually bring our health care system to its knees. Years ago this scenario was rare. More people died from infection. Now, since we live longer, the Gifford-Jones law has a major effect on longevity with the development of degenerative diseases. Gifford-Jones law states that one disease often leads to another, and another. The best example is that obesity leads to

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Type 2 diabetes and 50 per cent of diabetics die of a heart attack due to atherosclerosis.

The problem isn’t complicated. If all the toilets in the country stopped flushing due to plugged pipes, civilization as we know it would quickly end. If the organs of our body lack oxygenated blood due to plugged arteries, our own lives on this planet end.

It’s been said that you can whip a tired horse only so long before it drops. Extra pounds similarly put tremendous stress on the pancreas.

It eventually collapses and stops producing insulin.

When I graduated from The Harvard Medical School 65 years ago, only five per cent of people had Type 2 diabetes and 95 per cent was due to genetics.

Now, 95 per cent develop Type 2 diabetes (better called lifestyle diabetes) due to obesity. And obese children usually become obese adults.

This means they face the increased risk of blindness, kidney failure, leg amputation and heart attack.

Atherosclerosis is therefore the ultimate destroyer, gradually decreasing the amount of oxygenated blood and other nutrients that are necessary for all organs. Just as a car cannot run without gas the pancreas and other organs falter without oxygen.

So what is going to happen in the future? The answer is that EP=a2 will continue to kill more than Einstein’s equation.

The blunt truth is that only draconian measures by government and citizens will stem the epidemic of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Hell will freeze over before that happens.

But there is a simple, natural way to put a dent in the progress of the nation’s number one killer, heart attack. Research shows that high concentrations of vitamin C and lysine can reverse atherosclerosis.

It’s a revolutionary discovery that deserves the Nobel Prize.

But it’s a national tragedy that this research is collecting dust and is being ignored by the medical establishment, particularly cardiologists who should be aware of it.

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Meryl Streep, Bono, Clooney, Kardashian, are part of all-star campaign on ‘Jimmy Kimmel’

Pope rejects condom and AIDS question

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NEW YORK — Would you like to spend quality time with George Clooney as he showers you with compliments?

How about walk a red carpet with Meryl Streep or visit the set of Game of Thrones?

They are all possible: Bono is a launching an all-star campaign featuring “once-in-a-lifetime experiences” that can be won after donating at least $10 to his organization (RED), which raises funds to fight AIDS. The campaign kicked off Tuesday to coincide with World AIDS Day. And Bono isn’t just the face for the movement: The U2 frontman will go on a bike ride with one donor — a year after he was seriously injured in a bike accident in New York’s Central Park that forced him into surgery.

“I’m not sure that was as funny to my band as it was to me,” Bono said.

“But I think we’re going to have fun and yeah, we’ll go visit the scene of the crime.”

Jimmy Kimmel is dedicating his Tuesday late-night show to the campaign. He and Olivia Wilde will host (SHOPATHON), a tongue-in-check play off of home shopping, and the special episode will feature celebrity guests like Tom Brady, who is offering one donor a chance to learn how to pass a football, and Shaquille O’Neal, who will take a photo with a winner for his or her 2016 holiday card.

And Kimmel is offering himself up, too: He is willing to give someone’s kid “the talk.”

“There’s no age limit — if you have a 45-year-old kid, I’ll explain it to him, too, as long as the parents are OK with it. I’m happy to do the job,” said Kimmel, who appears in a promo video for the campaign with Scarlett Johansson and Barry Manilow.

Pope Francis has dismissed a question about whether condoms can be condoned in the fight against AIDS by saying there are more important issues confronting the world, like malnutrition, environmental exploitation and the lack of safe drinking water.

Francis was asked about the church’s opposition to condoms while returning Monday to Rome from Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic. Africa in general and Kenya and Uganda in particular have been hard hit by the AIDS epidemic, and the Catholic Church has faced criticism that its position has contributed to the problem.

Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, earned the wrath of health care professionals, gay rights activists and the UN by saying on a visit to Africa that condoms weren’t the answer to fighting HIV and can actually make it worse.

Francis has made scant reference to AIDS in his speeches this past week.

He did, however, visit with HIV-infected children at a Uganda hospital and kissed each one, listened to moving testimony from a girl born with the virus and thanked the church’s health care workers for caring for those infected.

A clearly irked Francis criticized the question directed at him during his in-flight press conference about whether the church should change its position on condoms to limit HIV’s spread. He said it “seems too small, partial,” when there are bigger issues confronting humanity.

“I don’t like getting into questions or reflections that are so technical when people die because they don’t have water or food or housing.”

He said when those problems are taken care of, questions like condoms and AIDS can be addressed.

Irish rock star Bono is a launching an all-star campaign featuring ‘once-in-a-lifetime experiences’ that can be won after donating at least $10 to his organization (RED), which raises funds to fight AIDS. The campaign kicks off today to coincide with World AIDS Day. [AP PHOTO/FILE]

Other “experiences” that can be earned after donating on Omaze.com/RED include a contour makeover with Kim Kardashian; a portrait painting by James Franco; or attending a University of Texas at Austin football game with alum Matthew McConaughey. Entries close on Jan. 21.

“Even though red is the colour of emergency, there’s a sort of optimism about the whole campaign and a kind of defiant humour.

We have always had that, but the (SHOPATHON) will really take it to another new level,” Bono said.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will match every dollar raised up to $20 million. R&B singer The Weeknd is offering fans a chance to hang backstage at a concert; there is a one-day “wellness break” with Snoop Dogg in Colorado; and Ryan Seacrest will let someone announce the No. 1 song on his radio show.

“When you see how much work Bono does personally to fight AIDS, it’s almost embarrassing, it’s the least we can do or anyone can do to help,” Kimmel said.“Also, it’s Christmas season, you have to figure out what to buy. It’s almost like my

Oprah’s favourite things list.

Bono won’t appear on the special episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” which airs on ABC and tapes in Hollywood. Instead, he will be in New York celebrating the 10-year anniversary of (RED) at Carnegie Hall with Vice-President Joe Biden, the Edge, Stephen Colbert, Miley Cyrus, Trevor Noah and others.

“It’s a big day, World AID Days. It’s crucial this year. This is the most crucial year,” Bono said. “We can feel people going, ‘Oh yeah, that AIDS thing is done now,’ and we’re like, ‘No! It’s not!”’

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Photos show those with HIV and their dogs DOGS, from Page 29 “I would be in bed and not want to get up, but this little doggy was whining, licking my neck and needed to get outside. I had to get up,” says Lynnea Garbutt, the young mom. She says her wirehaired fox terrier, Coconut, eventually helped her muster the courage to leave an abusive relationship and also prepared her to care for her daughter, who recently turned 1. The child is not HIV-positive thanks to medical interventions that can now prevent the spread of the virus from mother to infant.

Though many participants’ stories have difficult elements, Freidin, the photographer, said the exhibit also shows “something joyful.”

Daniel Cardenas, an HIV-positive Chicagoan who’ll appear in the upcoming exhibit with his dog, Loki, certainly sees that in his dog.

“He’s really a symbol for me,” Cardenas says, “a symbol of hope, of promise, of a future.”

Hope is a relatively new chapter in the AIDS fight. In decades past, doctors, including Garofalo, were desperate to save people with HIV. Now, with new, less-complicated treatments, many people are living healthy, productive lives with the AIDS virus.

Stigma is still an issue, however.

Even a matter of months ago, and although he’d gone public with his HIV status, Garofalo did not want to talk about how he suspects he contracted the virus because he doesn’t want to inadvertently imply that people who’ve gotten the virus through drug use or consensual sex deserve to be shamed.

“I wasn’t perfect. I could’ve gotten it another way. The truth is, I was a mess even back then.”

Rob Garofalo, medical researcher and HIV positive

He was sexually assaulted in November 2009 during a trip to Washington, D.C., and although he’s not entirely sure he got the virus then, it fits with the timing of his diagnosis.

“I wasn’t perfect. I could’ve gotten it another way,” says Garofalo, who concedes that his sometimes self-destructive downward spiral had begun much earlier, when he was diagnosed with renal cell cancer a decade ago, just after he’d turned 40. “The truth is, I was a mess even back then,” he says.

Having recently turned 50, and with all he’s been through, he says he’s grown a lot — and now sees his HIV patients in a much less academic manner.

“Now I approach it in a very different way because it comes from my soul,” he says.

Even amid his personal distress, he says he somehow managed to keep his career on track. He now heads the Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention at Lurie Children’s Hospital.

“Rob is a hero,” says the Rev. Stan Sloan, CEO of Chicago House, an organization that provides homeless services to HIV-positive people and others. “And Fred has been a critical part of that.”

An HIV-positive teen in Los Angeles recently wrote Garofalo a letter to thank him and his Fred-inspired charity for providing money so he could buy a much-needed pair of shoes.

“The initiative you started because of a dream, a prayer and a dog has blessed me,” the teen wrote.

Garofalo says he owes it all to Fred, whose portrait with his owner will appear in the exhibit. It is an impact his mom saw take hold almost immediately when her son visited with Fred in the spring of 2010, after that Christmas visit. Even now, Garofalo gets emotional when he tells the story of coming downstairs to find his mother cradling the dog.

“My mom was telling him that he was a miracle,” Garofalo says, his eyes reddening, “because he had brought her son back.”

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This man is unreliable financially and emotionally; you need to break all ties Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: I am a 51-year-old attractive professional, divorced twice and currently engaged to a 58-year-old man who also is twice divorced.

We met online and hit it off pretty quickly. He has a magnetic personality, and sex is great between us. He moved in, and I am supporting him financially until he gets his businesses in order.

He has had four DUIs and recently spent some time in jail.

I have stood by him through this.

He has always been upfront that he likes to view porn a lot and wants to experiment sexually. This doesn’t bother me. But he posted an ad online asking another woman to join us for

sex. While we may fantasize about this in the bedroom, he wants to make it real and this makes me uncomfortable.

But he gets angry if I say so. (He also doesn’t like when I mention the money issues between us.)

I have been through a lot over the past few years, including getting out of an abusive marriage.

I also have a young daughter at home.

Am I being unreasonable about a threesome or should I rethink this situation?

— Confused Dear Confused: This guy is unreliable financially and emotionally. He wants you to support him while he indulges himself.

His sexual interests do not coincide with yours. He is manipulating and pushing you to do something you don’t want to do.

Worse, when you express yourself, he becomes angry.

Based on your history, you might not recognize an unhealthy relationship, so please allow us to point it out: This guy is not partner material. He is not

going to be a helpful influence on you or your daughter and there is great potential for abuse.

The sex may be great, but it’s not enough to make up for his shortcomings.

We urge you to get away from this guy altogether.

Dear Annie: I am writing in response to “Lonely for Life,” the teenager who had few friends and was concerned about being “antisocial.”

I, too, had social anxiety for most of my life. In my 30s, I decided I just couldn’t continue that way.

I started off simply by walking down the hall at work, looking people in the eyes and saying, “Good morning.”

It was very difficult in the beginning, but became easier.

Then I took further small steps in making social contact with others.

It took a number of years to reach an acceptable (to me) level of comfort in social situations. I am in my 60s now and have been teaching for a nonprofit for the past 20 years.

Who would have thought I would ever be comfortable standing up in front of others and teaching?

I have even spoken at a national conference.

“Lonely for Life” should take slow steps and try to get outside her comfort zone a little each day. It doesn’t happen overnight, but if it can happen for me, then I think “Lonely” can do it, too.

— No Longer a Wallflower Dear No Longer: Thank you for your words of encouragement.

We cannot remake the world so it suits us.

Each of us must make the incremental adjustments to ourselves that will make our lives better.

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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