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OTTAWA — The leaders of Canada’s First Nations swaddled Justin Trudeau in a ceremonial blanket Tuesday as they embraced the newly elected prime minister’s commitment to what he called a “sacred obligation” to the country’s Aboriginal Peoples.

Trudeau didn’t show up empty-handed, either.

The Liberal government will lift a long-standing two per cent cap on federal funding for First Nations communities, he told the Assembly of First Nations gathering — that, despite mounting economic and political pressure on the federal pocketbook.

He said the Liberals would also provide additional money for long-awaited education reforms to be led by First Nations communities themselves, another long-standing sticking point with the previous Conservative government.

And he repeated one of the most anticipated promises of the 2015 campaign: to investigate the tragedy of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Three of his cabinet lieutenants kicked off the first consultative phase of what will be a federal inquiry next year.

“I promise you that I will be your partner in the years to come, and hope that you will be mine,” Trudeau said.

The removal of the funding cap, which was imposed originally to keep transfer payments in line with inflation, has been at the top of the First Nations wish list for years.

Critics say it has long since fallen out of step with a growing aboriginal population across the country.

An elder stands beside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after he was presented with a blanket at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Gatineau on Tuesday.

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“As you know, that limit has been in place for nearly 20 years,” Trudeau said of the cap, which he said would disappear in the government’s first budget.

“It hasn’t kept up with the demographic realities of your communities, nor the actual costs of program delivery.”

At one point during Trudeau’s appearance, he was wrapped in a ceremonial blanket, to the delight of the crowd. An AFN spokesman

described the blanket as a gift meant to convey respect and protect the prime minister from harm.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who has spent the government’s first days in the hot seat during question period, was asked Tuesday how much the removal of the cap would cost.

He would only say that the details would be in next spring’s federal budget.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Cabinet secrecy claim is overused, federal information watchdog fears JIM BRONSKILL THE CANADIAN PRESS

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OTTAWA — Federal agencies are declaring records to be cabinet secrets more often — placing them completely out of public reach and giving the information watchdog reason to believe the stamp of confidentiality is being overused.

In her latest annual report, information commissioner Suzanne Legault says institutions invoked the cabinet secrecy provision of the Access to Information Act more than 3,100 times in 2013-14.

It represented a 49-per-cent increase from 2012-13, which followed a 15-per-cent jump the previous year, says the report tabled Tuesday.

The access law allows people who pay $5 to request a variety of records held by federal agen-

“Hopefully this is something that we can review with the current administration.”

Suzanne Legault, privacy commissioner

cies — from correspondence and briefing notes to audits and hospitality receipts.

However, cabinet records, with few exceptions, are excluded from the act in recognition of the need to protect the deliberations of ministers. It means Legault, an ombudsman for users of the access law, cannot even review such records when a requester complains about a denial.

There is insufficient scrutiny

of the government’s increasing reliance on the cabinet secrecy provision, Legault said in an interview.

“The only thing I can report on is that I’ve seen this increase in the use of it. I can’t explain it — I cannot see the records. I really can’t say whether it’s properly applied or not,” she said.

“The increase to me is significant enough that I have serious concerns that it is being overused, but I can’t verify it.”

Many requesters know they will encounter this hurdle and therefore self-censor their applications to speed things along, Legault said. People asked institutions more than 1,700 times from April 2013 to May 2015 to avoid processing records containing cabinet confidences — a trend Legault called “very disquieting.”

“Hopefully this is something that we can review with the current administration.”

Legault has called for changes to the access law that would more narrowly define cabinet records and end the government’s ability to shield them from her investigations.

“I’m hoping that there will be movement in amending the legislation,” Legault said.

“I strongly believe that that is absolutely required, that we don’t have the right balance between the public’s right to know and the government’s legitimate secrecy.”

Legault had cautious words of praise for the Liberal government, citing the unprecedented disclosure of ministerial mandate letters — Justin Trudeau’s marching orders to his cabinet — as a positive sign.

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‘We never hear the downside’ Counsellor says all areas of marijuana issue should be discussed

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arijuana is going to be legalized.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech from the throne, read Friday by Gov. General David Johnston, said the Liberal government would introduce legislation that will “legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana.”

But before you run to the nearest dispensary and buy a dimebag of their finest ganja, maybe it’s time to step back and evaluAaron ate the downside Hinks of the drug.

Reporting It’s not hard to find research that highlights the positive, medicinal effects of marijuana.

And it’s not hard to find studies the reveal the damaging short and long-term effects of heavy use.

Some pro-pot advocates will argue that marijuana doesn’t have any addictive properties, that it’s a nearly harmless drug.

Lorne Hildebrand, executive director of Edgewood Treatment Centre, has a message for those who only want to read one-side of the argument.

“Not everybody who smokes pot will become a marijuana addict.

But there’s a limited percentage of people that will smoke this stuff and become addicted to it. What we have been really upset about is all we really hear are the fluffy positive things. We never hear the downside. I keep hearing people say pot is harmless, it’s not going to hurt anybody,” said Hildebrand. “The fact of the matter is we treat people for serious marijuana addiction at Edgewood all of the time.

“If we’re going to have a discussion about this stuff, for heavens sake, let’s have an honest one.”

Hildebrand said addiction counsellors at Edgewood find the overwhelming hype for legalization troubling.

HILDEBRAND

“There are people that aren’t going to abuse it, they aren’t going to have a hard time with it. But there are a certain percentage of people that are genetically susceptible to the disease of addiction. They can get addicted to marijuana,” he said.

To identify a substance abuse problem, whether it be opiates, cocaine, or alcohol, Edgewood counsellors use a questionnaire tool titled CAGE. The questions that are asked are: Have you ever felt the need to cut back or has someone tried to get you to cut back? Have you ever found that you’re annoyed at someone because they’re telling you to cut back? Have you ever felt guilty or has someone made you feel guilty about the amount of use? Do you use when you don’t intend to or use all the time, to the point where it feels uncontrollable?

“If you have some of those going on, three of the four or even two of the four, you need to be questioning yourself. If all four of those are going on then you need to be seen by an addictions professional, be assessed and see if there’s a problem,” Hildebrand said.

When Hildebrand started at Edgewood 20 years ago alcohol was the substance of choice for individuals who used only one substance.

Now, more frequently that drug has been marijuana.

Legalization is a complex issue that pot advocates are trying to make simple, Hildebrand said. Advocates, growers and producers, are so gung-ho about legalization that they’re swamping the information market with one side of the story.

“It’s not this wonderful great natural weed that everyone can get healthy by and it will solve every problem. It’s not this evil thing that everybody will turn into an addict.

But there are certainly issues we need to be talking about when we legalize it,” Hildebrand said.

One such issue is parenting.

It is documented and a well known fact that alcohol abuse can lead to neglectful parenting. Alcohol abuse can break parental structure and routine and cause parents to become less in tune with their children’s needs.

“There’s no question that marijuana can do exactly the same thing. I’ve seen families break up because somebody was a marijuana addict and not engaging with their family. Stoned all the time and not engaging with their children. That’s a horrible way to live,” Hildebrand said. “We’ve done interventions in families where the wife or the husband said to the marijuana-dependant person that you either stop or I’m done, we break up and I leave.”

Hildebrand has a concern that edibles are marketed to a younger consumer. Studies indicate that the developing brain is the most vulnerable to any type of psychoactive substance.

“Firstly I’m glad that someone isn’t smoking it but the part that I don’t like is edibles make it an even broader reach. They are aimed at kids more. I think we need to be careful of this. This is just people trying to make money from selling a drug. That’s all it is,” he said.

Edibles also make it easier to hide from a police officer if you’re driving while high, he claimed. If you smoked it, the smell may be an indicator for the police.

Despite the above concerns, Edgewood isn’t doing anything special to prepare for the proposed legalization. The reason being, Hildebrand said, is that it’s practically legalized in parts of Canada already.

“Police won’t bust you for small amounts, doctors will give away medical marijuana licenses in some cases in a drop of the hat. For other cases they’re more careful about

it. For all intents and purposes it really is legalized anyways. It’s not really for us about how we prepare for it, it’s already here. We’re already seeing a change, we can deal with someone who is dependant on marijuana. We know how to treat it, we know what the right steps are. I’m guessing that it will just be more of that.”

Hildebrand says he’s trying to pick the middle of the road when it comes to legalization.

“I think what I’m trying to say about this, I’m not saying marijuana is bad. I’m saying for some people, it’s bad, for others it’s not.

But let’s have that discussion. I’m all for stopping organized crime and all for more

tax revenue to pay for better services.

But I’m not for making something legal that’s going to create more problems for those folks who could be dependent.”

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Some cannabis retailers limit their stock DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo medical cannabis retailers remain open after last week’s RCMP bust, but some are now limiting stock on hand to control losses in case of another raid.

On Dec. 1 police raided three of 10 Nanaimo pot dispensaries, seized marijuana and cash and arrested everyone inside.

Phoenix Pain Management now keeps a small quantity of the drug on site.

“We have about 10 per cent of what

we would normally have in stock,” said Matt O’Donnell, community advocate with Phoenix.

Phoenix on Wallace Street and two other dispensaries, Trees on Bowen Road and Nature’s Source Society on Front Street, were raided Dec. 1.

Police said they had received complaints, including from a woman who claimed a dispensary sold pot to her 15-year-old granddaughter.

Dispensaries deny the charge.

RCMP could not be reached for comment. The Nanaimo detachment recently said no further comment

is forthcoming during an active investigation.

Despite arrest fears, retailers say they have a duty to sick people get relief from the drug.

“We’re here and available to our members. At the same time, we don’t want to poke the bear,” O’Donnell said. “We’re being very respectful.

They have guns and handcuffs.”

Seven were arrested at Phoenix last week. All but one were given promise-to-appear notices, meaning police will recommend charges to the federal Crown.

Those arrested have to show up for fingerprinting in three to four months, and have been given conditions not to use cannabis in the interim. At Phoenix, police “only got about two ounces of cannabis” and “about $175,” O’Donnell said.

The Nanaimo raids weren’t isolated.

Two weeks ago Mission RCMP used search warrants on a marijuana dispensary in the community of Deroche, and the owners were arrested and released, pending charges.

Mounties also raided a Sunshine

Coast dispensary and another Fraser Valley storefront last week. Five pot shops in the Okanagan were serve notice of possible actions to come.

No raids have occurred in communities with bylaws to regulate dispensaries, including Port Alberni, which is under RCMP jurisdiction.

O’Donnell speaks to city council on dispensary regulation at next week’s council meeting.

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BUSINESS NOTES News from the Nanaimo and area business community

Esthetics business opens doors in Nanaimo Robert Barron

to give back to their community and have worked hard to help out and raise these funds,” said spokeswoman Shannon Galley.

Reporting

BBB warning The Better Business Bureau on Vancouver Island is warning wouldbe travellers to use extreme caution when booking an “owner operated” vacation rental property.

BBB was recently contacted by a consumer from Calgary that had been ripped off after booking a condo in Victoria for a vacation. A little over 24 hours before planning to travel to Victoria, the owner of the vacation rental cancelled the booking, failed to refund the pre-paid deposit and stopped responding to the customer’s emails and phone calls.

“Travellers who are thinking of renting a house or condo instead of staying in a hotel or resort need to consider whether it is a genuine and legal opportunity,” said Rosalind Scott, president and CEO of the BBB, Vancouver Island.

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ali Esthetics has recently opened its doors at 2900 Norwell Dr in Nanaimo.

The business offers a variety of body treatment services, from simple manicures and pedicures to complete spa treatments, for its customers.

Co-owner Michelle Walsh said Mali Esthetics started with Jentri Esthetics, a Nanaimo company that was in operation for 26 years on the corner of Mostar Road and Metral Drive before it closed earlier this year.

Walsh said she was a staff member at Jentri Esthetics when its owner decided to leave the business, and she took the opportunity to take it over and move it to its new location.

“It’s much more centrally located and has a more welcoming atmosphere,” she said.

“Another couple, Victoria Bates and Sheldon McGill, have just bought into the business as partners as well.”

Luscious Me Commercial Street’s Luscious Me Clothing, Lingerie and Shoe Company will soon be changing its name.

Owner Cindy Cameron said she

From left, Michelle Walsh, Sheldon McGill, Brandi MacDonald, and Victoria Bates, all of Mali Esthetics, have recently opened a new salon on 2900 Norwell Dr. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

intends to change the name to simply Luscious Me Clothing.

“The term lingerie is in the name of the business so a lot of people think that it’s a sex shop,” Cameron said.

“In fact, lingerie is just a small section of the store so I’m trying to get away from that stereotype.”

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Odds and ends • Naturopath Dr. Karen Fraser and her staff have moved to the Long Lake Chiropractic Centre in Nanaimo.

• Mane Mortgage is now open at 301 Franklyn St. in Nanaimo.

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Radio news director resigns over ad-sale flap SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Broadcaster Sean Eckford said he was faced with a choice: keep his job, or stand by his journalism ethics. He chose the latter.

The former longtime news director for Vista Radio’s Nanaimo/Sechelt and Duncan stations resigned after clashing with management over an alleged plan to allow radio reporters under his watch to volunteer to sell ads.

Eckford said he heard through a colleague that managers throughout

“All I wanted was to be able to say no.”

Sean Eckford, broadcaster

the radio chain were asking nonsales staff to help out during a oneday ad sales blitz. Commission would be paid as an incentive. It became clear that reporters would not be forced to sell ads and that it would be done strictly on a voluntary basis.

However, Eckford said he objected to reporters being asked to sell ads,

even on a non-compulsory basis. He called the move “incompatible” with journalistic ethics and said it could compromise credibility.

Eckford said he contacted Vista’s national news director Wendy Gray and regional manager Allison Mandzuk to address his concerns.

“I simply just wanted to say, ‘please exempt my newsroom from this,’” he said. “All I wanted was to be able to say no.”

Eckford said he was told that the issue was not up for discussion and that there was no ethical issue.

Eckford said he could have continued with his job at the station, adding there was never pressure from management to “agree or get out.”

But he said he found himself at an “impasse” with management, “and I felt that I couldn’t work at a place where this sort of thing was considered acceptable, even if voluntary and even (for) one day.”

However, Eckford said he decided to tender his resignation. His last day at Vista was last Friday, and he left the station with little fanfare.

But Eckford had sought guidance from a closed journalists’ Facebook group before making the decision, and it soon became known in media circles why he had quit.

His decision was “gutsy as hell,” said Dana Bass, the B.C. and Yukon representative and chairwoman for the Canadian Association of Journalists. Bass said Eckford’s concerns were valid.

Mandzuk did not return requests for comment Monday or Tuesday, and calls to other Vista managers went unanswered.

REAL ESTATE

Housing sales rise on Island during month of November DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Island housing sales strengthened in November.

Home sales rose compared to last year’s numbers in every market north of the Malahat except Comox Valley, where sales were unchanged from last year.

Nanaimo showed the most activity, with 108 units sold last month, a 30-per cent increase.

“It’s just people selling their houses and wanting to move somewhere,” said Kaye Broens, a Nanaimo sales agent and a Vancouver Island Real Estate Board director.

As sales pick up, average selling prices are up too, in every market except Comox Valley, down two per cent, and Port Alberni-west, where selling prices were flat from last November.

Average selling prices climbed 15 per cent to $336,000 in Campbell River, 12 per cent in Cowichan Valley, to $350,000, and six per cent in Nanaimo to $403,000. Six per cent is also the average increase for the region. Broens said a tighter supply reflects the sales increase.

“We’re running low on inventory.

We’re down 17 per cent from one year ago in inventory – it’s basic supply and demand,” Broens said

In November, 351 home sales closed through the industry’s proprietary Multiple Listing Service, up from 299 in 2014.

That equates to a 17-per cent increase over last year’s figures.

BC Real Estate Association chief economist Cameron Muir predicts the trend to continue into 2016.

“The housing market won’t dramatically wane because sales don’t typically hit historically high levels and then flat-line, but we do expect to see some reductions,” Muir said.

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Shoppers nab suspected crook DAILY NEWS

Quick-thinking shoppers stopped a suspected thief from fleeing the Woodgrove Mall on Monday.

Police say a man, wearing a motorcycle helmet, walked into Paris Jewellers at approximately 8:25 p.m. and smashed display cases containing gold chains. He stuffed the merchandise into a duffel bag and an employee attempted to stop him.

After a struggle, the suspect managed to break free and ran to

the exit. The suspect was tackled a second time by a customer but was able to break free again.

The suspect rounded a corner and headed towards the door before being tripped by a woman shopper.

A man jumped on the downed suspect and with the aid of several others they were able to hold him until police arrived.

“We are often reminded after incidents like these, our community is filled with good people willing to do whatever it takes to correct a

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“Fortunately the stolen goods were returned and no one was injured in the ordeal. We are also sure there will be lots of tales told over the following days on how this all played out and came to a successful conclusion.”

Craig Edward Truckle, 30, of Nanaimo, appeared in provincial court Thursday.

He is charged with theft over $5,000 and commit an indictable offence while wearing a mask.

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EDITORIAL

Panel must seek to make real changes to the Senate

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rime Minister Justin Trudeau has a formidable job on his hands as he attempts to bring some accountability to Canada’s most troublesome and intransigent institution: the Senate.

Trudeau’s plan is to establish an independent advisory panel, which will consider potential nominees based on their history of leadership, achievement, ethical behaviour, and a perspective “that is clearly independent and non-partisan.” Individuals could even nominate themselves. The panel selects a shortlist of suitable nominees. Then, the prime minister will choose from that shortlist his recommendations for the Governor General who actually makes the appointments.

Trudeau’s plan is a praiseworthy attempt to navigate this rough ter-

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rain. But the Senate is still a big, heavy stone with a sword stuck in it, and our prime minister, as charismatic as he is, is still no King Arthur. His plan solves very few of the Senate’s many problems. In fact, over time, it may become a problem all its own.

Trudeau promised during the election campaign to reform the Senate.

This promise played well with voters after the highly publicized scandals involving Conservative appointees.

But the Senate, created in 1867 when Canada was born, cannot be reformed just because the prime minister of the day says so. It is weighed down by its own historical baggage.

The rules for changing it are so exacting that true reform is nearly impossible. And so, in 2015, the

upper chamber is still profoundly undemocratic.

For example, British Columbia has only six senators, as do Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. But New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have 10 each. Ontario and Quebec each have 24.

This is because there weren’t many people in Canada’s West in the mid-19th century. Times have changed, but the rules haven’t. And so New Brunswick has one senator per 75,000 people, while B.C. has one per 771,000.

That’s only one way in which the Senate fails. Plenty of people think it should be elected. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, with his Western background and Reform Party roots, considered Senate reform a key goal.

He was able to appoint four senators who were actually elected, because the province of Alberta held elections, and Harper then had the winners appointed.

But Alberta was the only province that did this. By the end of his term, his goals out of reach, Harper had stopped appointing senators at all and there were 22 vacancies in the 105-seat chamber.

He was waiting for the premiers to give their agreement to reform or abolish the Senate. And then he ran out of time.

With the big changes seemingly impossible to effect, Trudeau’s “reform” plan could be mere window dressing, which he hopes will reduce the partisan nature of appointments.

But unless the prime minister and his panel are very careful to avoid

becoming a cosy club, he will fail in even this modest goal. The panel must make its search truly broad, and seek people with a variety of experiences. A dairy farmer, a homemaker or a tool-and-die maker must be on an equal footing with academics and CEOs. People with conservative or socialist world views must be seen to be equally qualified to the Red Tory or Liberal governing elite. It will be a tall order. And it barely scratches the surface of that increasingly elusive promise of real change.

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» YOUR LETTERS // EMAIL: YOURLETTERS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM Treat self and others well to enjoy festive season I am sending this message today as a reminder that we are heading into a time of year that often causes old hurts to surface.

It is very common for men to chose to isolate and not ask for help. I am asking you to consider reaching out to local organizations such as churches, mental health, etc. for their support.

This is also a time of year where holiday cheer is shared. I would invite you to consider the impacts of excessive alcohol and food on your health and well being. I would invite you to connect with family and friends and to enjoy the special moments near a warm fire — sharing stories, etc.

Please remember that how you treat yourself is how you treat others.

So be gentle and look for the simple joyful moments.

Take care of yourself. All the best of the season. Here’s to a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2016.

Grant M. Waldman West Coast Men’s Support Society Duncan

Children of B.C. deserve hope for better future Once again Christmas is upon us and once again we are encouraged to contribute to charities that provide Christmas hampers, gifts, etc. to “those less fortunate.”

What they actually mean is people living in poverty.

Given the emphasis is on children at Christmas, let’s look at why kids are poor and why so many live below the poverty line in B.C. It’s easy, their parents are poor.

More or less, they are born into a family which is poor or becomes poor and the child suffers their entire childhood.

There are those who might suggest they don’t suffer, but let’s get real.

Welfare and disability rates have not gone up in this province since June 2007. The cost of food, housing, dental care, clothing, ICBC rates have all increased each year.

I would suggest the biggest contributor to childhood poverty is the provincial government, which has not seen fit to raise welfare and disability rates or raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

What is really going on? During the period from 2007 to date, annual drilling subsidies to gas producers rose 130 per cent. That’s an increase of $370 million to $850 million.

While kids were being told the premier needed their $14 million a year, she was handing out hundred of millions to gas producers.

Now I don’t want to say I don’t care about gas producers, but I do care about children a whole lot more.

For those who believe these subsidies might have a positive impact on monies coming into the government coffers, not so much. From 2007 to present day, gas royalties dropped from $1.2 billion to $185 million.

That is not a good business model for any government, especially one who is telling kids and the disabled they have to live in poverty.

While corporations received hundreds of millions of dollars, people on disability receive approximately $930 per month, and an adult with a child has to

get by on approximately $1,200 per month.

Children of this province are its future. Lets give them something better for next year, even if it is only hope that there might be change.

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Wood smoke presents major health hazard CRAIG SPENCE LADYSMITH CHRONICLE

Wood smoke is being called a major health hazard in the Cowichan Valley The seasonal image of wood smoke, curling from snow capped chimneys, as a comforting vision of home and hearth is something that has to be corrected as far as Cowichan Valley health officials and air quality advocates are concerned.

Wood smoke is a health hazard that local governments must educate people about and take measures to mitigate. That was the message brought to North Cowichan council

by Vancouver Island Health Authority Medical Health Officer Dr. Paul Hasselback and others.

Noting that Duncan and North Cowichan are among the municipalities whose airborne pollutants exceed standards set by the province, Hasselback said, “It would be nicer to be at the bottom of this list than at the top.”

HASSELBACK

Of particular concern are minute particles contained in wood smoke labelled PM2.5, which stands for ‘particulate matter’ less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter — 100 times thinner than a human hair.

These particles are so small they can pass directly through skin membranes into the human blood stream, causing all kinds of health problems,

including cancer and heart disease.

Because they are so minute, they also remain in the atmosphere much longer than larger particles, and can travel farther.

Hasselback noted that Cowichan Valley children are admitted to hospital due to respiratory diseases at a rate 60 per cent higher here than the provincial average, and that the figures are not coming down here.

“Certainly this is a municipality where a clean air bylaw would be beneficial,” he said.

Jennifer Lawson of the Cowichan Fresh Air Team said, “Wood smoke is like tobacco smoke; there is no safe level for wood smoke.”

Later she added, “Breathing wood smoke is smoking, we need legislative change.”

She called for bylaws that would disallow fire places or wood stoves in new homes, or from being installed in existing homes, and ban outdoor burning.

Senior Environmental Analyst with the Cowichan Valley Regional District Keith Lawrence, who made a similar presentation to the Town of Ladysmith council in October, said wood stoves, fireplaces and open burning account for 76 per cent of the PM2.5 particles in the Cowichan Valley’s atmosphere.

The CVRD will be considering an air shed protection strategy this fall and winter, with the intent to implement it in 2016. Components of a strategy might include: • raising public awareness about the health effects of wood smoke; • providing information about best practices with wood burning devices; • alternatives to back yard burning like pick up or chipping services; • creation of an air shed protection round table to develop work plans and reporting procedures.

Asked if a ban on wood stoves or outdoor burning could be in the offing, he said, “It’s looking at the

incremental progress we can make.”

Coun. Maeve Maguire responding to Lawson’s comment that incidences of cancer in households with wood burning stoves are 25 per cent higher than in other households asked if she was putting her family at risk by having a wood stove.

The greatest comfort Hasselback could offer was the suggestion that a properly installed wood stove would be ‘less of a concern’ than an old, or improperly installed unit.

Commenting on a suggestion that instead of an exchange program swapping old wood stoves for new units, North Cowichan should look at a program that would encourage switch overs to new, clean technologies like heat pumps, Mayor Jon Lefebure said his stance is changing.

“I have come to the point where I agree with Ms. Lawson that I don’t feel good when we exchange an old wood stove for a new wood stove,” he said.

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BCSPCA officials say the result of the City of Duncan’s new animal regulations bylaws is “a new, more humane era for the community,” but at least one animal advocate is saying the new rules go too far.

Bylaw changes include limiting the number of companion animals permitted on a single lot, a prohibition of certain animals, such as wolf-dog hybrids, a section on animal welfare, including provisions related to animal cruelty, and guidelines for animals in public places to name a few. But it’s the section related to the prohibitions on wildlife feeding that

“Cats that are regularly fed in a fixed location will remain in that location and will remain healthy .”

Jean Hamilton, Cowichan Cat Rescue

had Cowichan Cat Rescue trustee Jean Hamilton concerned.

In a letter to the city, Hamilton takes issue with the section dealing with feeding “ownerless cats or cats without identification”.

“Many, if not most, of the homeless cats being fed in the City of Duncan

have already been fixed and vaccinated by CCR and therefore do have identification in the form of a tattoo.

They should therefore not fall within the prohibition against feeding homeless cats,” she said.

Hamilton noted that despite a thriving feral cat population within the city, the reason they haven’t become a problem is that they are being fixed, fed, and monitored by Cat Rescue volunteers.

“Cats that are regularly fed in a fixed location will remain in that location and will remain healthy,” she wrote. “To require people who are presently feeding feral cats, many of whom have done so for many

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Hamilton has offered to work with the city to come up with a solution.

As for the rest of the bylaw package, Hamilton wrote that “the aims of the bylaw are laudable and the vast majority of the provisions appear to be well thought out.”

The complete comprehensive document can be seen at www.duncan.ca.

Two men were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization after a fight outside the Cactus Club Cafe early Sunday.

Police received numerous 911 calls about a disturbance in the parking lot. When Nanaimo RCMP arrived on the scene at approximately 1:30 a.m. they found two injured men, and two groups of men.

They were both taken to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital with head injuries.One man’s injuries were serious enough to be later transported by air to Victoria General Hospital.

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CAMPBELL RIVER

Residents escape injury after fire guts apartment MIKE DAVIES CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

It’s wasn’t a great start to the week for the residents of Ocean View Apartments on 7th Avenue.

At approximately 8:30 a.m. on Monday, Campbell River Fire received a call about a fire in the complex, and upon responding, saw flames coming through the balcony and out the back of an apartment on the second floor, according to Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Doherty.

“Crews made a quick knockdown from the outside and transitioned into the into the interior and into the unit,” Doherty told CTV News.

“We were able to get in there really quick and get a quick knockdown and keep the fire from spreading,” Doherty said, crediting the unit’s proximity to the No. 1 Fire Hall “just minutes away,” for their ability to contain the fire to just the one apartment, although several other units sustained smoke damage.

The two occupants were in the apartment when the fire broke out and tried to put the fire out, Doherty said, “but the fire was too great and they exited the building.”

The alarm system, “operated as it should,” Doherty said, and the rest of the building was evacuated, as well.

No injuries were sustained in the

Fire gutted one apartment on 7th Avenue in Campbell River on Monday morning. Other units sustained smoke damage as well. [MIKE DAVIES/CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR]

fire, but a few residents were treated for smoke inhalation issues, and many are currently displaced.

An information session for those displaced by the fire is being held tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. at the Discovery Inn.

Henry Behrs, who lives in the building, says there have been false alarms in the past, so he, “wasn’t really worried about it,” but when his roommate told him it was an actual fire, and he “heard two explosions,” he knew that’s not what this was.

Shea Roddie, another building resident, also thought it was a false alarm, at first. He says the fire suppression system was being tested last week, so he assumed that’s what the alarm was about — that they were continuing to test the system.

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Caring with Cookies campaign gets big boost with mention on American TV show LEXI BAINAS COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

If you’re trying to get the word out about your project, snagging even one second on a big American TV talk show is like winning the lottery.

Cowichan’s own Stacy Middlemiss felt that way recently when her Caring with Cookies campaign earned a spot in a contest on Live with Kelly and Michael.

And, not only has she already won $500 and a year’s supply of Extra gum, she could also get $20,000 in a combined donation for herself and her favourite charity.

“That would be so cool,” Middlemiss said, “but even without winning it’s wonderful. Total strangers have messaged me today, saying things like, ‘I live on the mainland but I saw it and just had to investigate.’ My brother saw the contest and nominated me. A couple of days later they messaged him and we had to sign a release so they could talk about me and show my picture.

Then, my friend watched it at 6 a.m. this morning and texted me and told me to make sure I watched it.”

Her brother, Todd Cameron, impressed by her annual effort to bake, collect and distribute cookies to the less fortunate on Vancouver Island, wanted to see her get the recognition he thought her generosity deserved.

He saw a chance with Live with

TV talk show celebrities Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan discuss the Caring with Cookies campaign run by the Cowichan Valley’s Stacy Middlemiss.

Kelly and Michael’s Live Acts of Kindness promotion.

“I had entered her for the show’s #liveAOK contest in which they honour and reward acts of kindness,” he said in an email to the Citizen.

“This morning they mentioned Stacy’s hard work and showed her picture. My name was also mentioned as the nominator,” he added, and then posted a link to the Youtube video.

“Can you believe it? I never in

a million years thought I would get this kind of publicity,” said Middlemiss.

She is one of five contestants hoping for the big win.

“On Friday, it was just an announcer gave the runners up. I didn’t think Michael and Kelly were actually going to talk about me themselves. It was so cool.”

She’s been inundated with interest since the spot aired.

“My phone’s been going like crazy with people congratulating me. I’ve

had a couple of people contacting me from radio stations and a paper, wanting to set something up in their communities, asking me questions on how I got started. It’s been so cool. I’ve been starting a chain reaction, with people wanting to do something similar.”

It all began with a few batches of cookies.

“For something so small to have gotten so big is crazy,” she said.

Her own campaign will not be handing out cookies until closer to Christmas but things are already rolling in Valley kitchens with home cooks Valley wide planning to bake for Caring with Cookies.

“It seems like I have had so many new likes on my Facebook page, and lots of people are asking for posters.

We don’t actually start collecting till Dec. 1 and now it seems this year it will be huge.

“It’s fantastic.”

Middlemiss said the interest was stunning.

“I thought it was great being in the paper and on the radio here.

Your article brought in so many people saying what a great idea it was. Honestly, I’m in tears at least once a day.”

To learn even more about Middlemiss and the Caring with Cookies campaign, visit: www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/ community/347201512.html.

“I was just sitting in my apartment, and all of a sudden there was a bang, the fire alarm started going off, and then somebody came and knocked on our door. Luckily, we opened it up.”

When he opened the door and was greeted by a hallway full of smoke, and knew this wasn’t just a test or false alarm.

“It’s pretty scary.” Roddie said.

“I’m thankful that it wasn’t near our apartment and that we’re okay, but I just hope everyone who was inside is okay, as well.”

Doherty said the cause of the fire is still unknown and an RCMP investigation is ongoing, but the fire does not seem to be suspicious in nature.

Traffic was rerouted in all directions at the intersection of Dogwood and 7th while crews worked on the fire and cleanup, and Doherty said many cars on Dogwood Street were seen driving over the crews’ water lines before the street was eventually blocked off.

“It’s extremely dangerous for the firefighters going inside the building,” Doherty said.

“That could cut off their water supply. We’d like to remind the public that when the hydrant lines are across roads, please don’t drive over them.”

CAMPBELL RIVER

$1.8M road improvements now complete CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

The road improvements from the Sayward junction into the town itself are complete, and bicyclists, joggers and all other road users are safer because of it, according to Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone.

Stone was in town recently to announce the beginning of planning for a passing lane “somewhere between Campbell River and the Sayward junction,” but was also celebrating the completion of the widening of Sayward road.

“Increasing cycling safety on Vancouver Island is a significant priority for our government,” Stone said. “I think we can all agree that cycling promotes health and fitness and it helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and traffic congestion.”

The $1.8-million project near Sayward widened the road by 1.2 metres for the entire 11 km section of Sayward Road from the highway into that community, “making it a very safe option now for cyclists,” Stone said.

Approximately 3 km of shoulder widening was also done along Highway 19 as part of the project, “which was part of about 10 km of shoulder widening we’ve been chipping away at over the last number of years,” Stone said.

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VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government is betting on the potential success of technology startups to boost job creation across the province.

Premier Christy Clark announced a $100-million venture capital fund to give early-stage tech entrepreneurs access to money that will help grow their businesses.

She said the money will address the

difficulty entrepreneurs face when trying to bankroll their innovative but untested ideas. “Tech tends not to be guaranteed bets,� Clark told a news conference on Tuesday. “This seed fund is going to be proof that the British Columbia government has faith and confidence in our tech industry. It will allow us to attract a lot of investment from around the world that we hope would match it.�

The BC Tech Fund is the first part of a three-pronged strategy by government to enhance the technology sector’s role in the government’s broad economic plan.

Provincially, the industry already employs 86,000 people, and their wages are 60 per cent higher than B.C.’s industrial average. The sector’s 9,000 companies added $13.9 billion to the gross domestic product in 2013.

It’s forecast to continue growing

faster than the overall economy.

While Vancouver is the province’s largest tech hub, technology is the No. 1 industry in Victoria and already generating more than $1 billion in the Okanagan.

Now, the province says it wants to support entrepreneurs in transforming their startups into medium and large companies that can compete globally.

Technology Minister Amrik Virk said investing in the technology sec-

tor will not reduce the role that natural resources play in the economy. “This is not an either/or equation, this is a symbiotic relationship,� he said. “It’s with tech that we have a cleaner, greener, more effective, more efficient natural resources sector.�

The last major bid to attract innovative companies that would potentially boost the economy was in 2008, with the $90 million BC Renaissance Capital Fund.

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Detective leads child porn investigations VIKKI HOPES ABBOTSFORD NEWS

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he 53-year-old man thought he was communicating with a teenage girl in Abbotsford when he began sending her sexually explicit videos of himself.

He mentioned that he hoped to travel from his home on Prince Edward Island across the country to meet the 14-year-old. The exchange went on through the summer of 2014 and into the fall.

What the man didn’t realize was that he was communicating with Abbotsford Police Department Det. Craig Burridge the entire time.

The investigation resulted in Lorne Thomas Stevens being arrested and later pleading guilty to using a computer to lure a person under the age of 16 into a sexual act.

Stevens was sentenced in July of this year to 18 months in prison.

The case is among the latest in a string of child porn investigations with which Burridge, a detective with the APD major crime unit, has been involved.

Burridge has been with the MCU since 2011, two years after joining the APD following an eight-year stint with the Delta Police Department. He is involved in all types of files, including murder, aggravated assault, armed robberies and arsons.

His work in leading child porn investigations is unique as the only officer in Abbotsford doing so.

The majority of these types of files in the Lower Mainland are handled, or started, by agencies such as the RCMP’s Integrated Child Exploitation Unit or the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre, but those specific to Abbotsford are often handled by the APD. Earlier this year, provincial RCMP reported they had uncovered 1,228 incidents of B.C. residents sharing child pornography, including photos and videos, during a six-month period in 2014.

Det. Craig Burridge is the only officer in the Abbotsford Police Department who leads child pornography investigations.

[VIKKI HOPES/ABBOTSFORD NEWS]

Nationally, police-reported incidents of child pornography or child-prostitution-related offences totalled 2,293 in 2014, according to Statistics Canada.

Burridge said his work initially began as reactive — following up when other agencies notified the APD that a suspected offender was sharing or accessing images of child sexual abuse from Abbotsford.

His first such case took place in 2012, when his supervisor brought him a file and asked if he would be interested in investigating it.

An FBI agent on the U.S. east coast had been posing online as a man who

wanted to involve his daughter in child pornography. The suspect had shared a sexually explicit image with the agent and stated, “Show this to your daughter.”

The exchange was traced to a computer in Abbotsford, and U.S. authorities notified the APD. Burridge became the lead investigator on the case, including writing the application for a search warrant and interviewing the suspect who was arrested.

The task of thoroughly examining the items seized during the execution of the search warrant was assigned to APD Det. Shane Savinkoff, who runs

the digital forensics lab that handles not only child porn files, but all types of cases that involve retrieving technological evidence.

The investigation resulted in Donald Petne, now 51, pleading guilty in June 2013 to charges of possession of child porn, importing or distributing child porn, and counselling an indictable offence not committed. He was sentenced to two years in prison, followed by three years of probation.

Burridge said it was difficult to view the “very detailed, gruesome and horrific” images that were obtained as evidence during the investigation, but having young children of his

own motivated him to keep going, in between his other tasks with the major crime unit.

“It was a new challenge for me.

Getting into policing, I never thought I would get into the position I am now . . . but somebody has to do it. These are the worst people of the worst,” he said.

Burridge said he has not had to take any time off to deal with the traumatic aspects of such work.

“Obviously, what I deal with is quite horrible; however, I recognize that it is a necessary evil that has to be completed in order for those responsible to be discovered and ultimately convicted. It is, in my opinion, much like those who investigate murders — I don’t think they enjoy seeing the horrible ways that people are killed, but they too need to do it to find those responsible.”

Burridge has since taken a series of courses and eventually became qualified to proactively go after people, instead of waiting for other agencies to notify the APD about potential suspects. His first such case was the one involving Stevens.

Since Burridge started his work in child porn investigations in 2012, a total of 14 suspects – all men – have been arrested and charged in Abbotsford. Of those, nine have pleaded guilty and five more are still working their way through the court system.

Burridge said in most cases the men apologize and say they didn’t realize they were victimizing anyone by viewing or sharing images of child sexual abuse, but he points out that they are creating a market for such material to be made.

He said most of the men charged are otherwise seemingly “normal” people whose loved ones find the discovery “confusing and shocking.”

“This isn’t your typical person driving around in a van looking for kids. You never know who’s going to be responsible for this because it’s a dark secret — a very dark secret,” Burridge said.

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Trial of mother charged with murder remains unscheduled

Man pleads guilty to incest charge

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The trial of a South Surrey mother charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of her eight-year-old daughter nearly one year ago is still nowhere near ready to be scheduled, the woman’s lawyer confirmed.

“Not at this point, for sure,” Craig Sicotte said Wednesday at Surrey provincial court.

Lisa Deanne Batstone has been in custody at a psychiatric hospital since her daughter Teagan’s body was discovered in the back of a car in a cul-de-sac just south of Crescent Road last Dec. 10.

Following a court appearance a

week later, at which a “fitness assessment” was ordered for Batstone, Sicotte told reporters that his client’s mental health was “a very serious concern” that cast doubt on whether a trial could proceed.

In January, however, Batstone was deemed fit to stand trial.

Sicotte said this week that he continues to pore over “literally thousands of pages” of disclosure associated with the case, which he described as “so tragic.”

Teagan Batstone was a Grade 3 student at Rosemary Heights Elementary in South Surrey at the time of her death. At a celebration of her life held one week later, she was remembered as “a hugger” with an

“infectious excitement.”

“She lit up our hearts with her smile, her love, her hugs,” White Rock Baptist Church Pastor Ellis André told attendees.

“Not too many people hug me, but I got a hug from Teagan.”

Sicotte told PAN his client’s family continues to be supportive of Batstone. At the same time, Teagan’s paternal family in Ontario has established a national non-profit advocacy organization in response to the youngster’s death. According to the website for Teagan’s Voice, it is focused on “driving policy and procedural change across federal and provincial boundaries to prevent violence against children.”

PENTICTON WESTERN NEWS

Please be advised the following news article contains details that some readers may find offensive.

A man was sentenced to five-and-ahalf years in jail after pleading guilty to one count of incest in September.

The 49-year-old man, who cannot be identified due to a routine publication ban protecting the identity of the victim, was sentenced to an additional six months over the five-year mandatory minimum in Penticton Supreme Court on Dec. 7 for performing sexual acts with his daughter, who was 14 years old at the time of the offence.

The man’s estranged daughter came back into his life in early 2012 and by July of 2012 the two were living in the same residence. By September 2012 the man had engaged

in sexual contact with his daughter, initiating with sexual touching and progressing to intercourse by October 2012. The man would engage in sexual acts with his daughter four to five times per week until December 2012, when the victim had reportedly attempted suicide.

Psychological reports stated that the man had a lack of insight into the offence, with the man saying that the victim initiated much of the initial affection.

Prior to being sentenced the man spoke to the court, stating “I love my daughter with all my heart.”

“She is the most important person to me and I failed her and I hurt her,” the man said. “My hope is that my sentencing is to her satisfaction and will give her peace of mind so she may move forward in life easier.

I hope she can forgive me . . . for her own sake.”

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IMMIGRATION

Canada ready to welcome thousands of Syria refugees Temporary processing centres have been set up at Toronto and Montreal airports PAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Canadians are preparing to welcome thousands of Syrian refugees in the coming weeks even as the exact dates of the government-arranged flights remain a mystery.

Temporary processing centres have been set up to handle the waves of newcomers at Toronto’s Pearson airport and Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport and officials say both facilities will be ready in time for the first arrivals, some of whom could come within days.

By the time the refugees leave the airports, they’ll have received permanent residency, a social insurance number and information on working in Canada, as well as a boxed meal and translators on hand to help as needed, federal officials say.

Weary parents and restless children will be able to recover from their travels — parents in rows of seating, kids in a play area equipped with stuffed animals and other toys.

The goal is to make refugees’ first experiences in their new country warm and welcoming, said Heidi Jurisic, the Greater Toronto Area director for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

The whole process should take about three hours for those arriving on a small flight, Jurisic said.

Privately sponsored refugees will then be taken to the families awaiting them, while those sponsored by the government will be brought to temporary accommodations.

NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ HALIFAX

Donair becomes official food of city after vote The donair is the official food of Halifax, N.S. The decision was made by regional council in a close 8-7 vote Tuesday, with Mayor Mike Savage casting the deciding vote.

The vote followed a rousing online and public debate prompted by the original motion tabled by councillor Linda Mosher in October.

Savage says although naming the donair the city’s official food wasn’t a big issue for him, he decided to vote in favour.

He says in the end it was a fun thing and there are many people in the city who do like donairs.

Donairs are wraps that are closely related to the Greek gyro.

They feature finely ground beef, mixed with bread crumbs and spices topped off with a sweet sauce.

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Man with knife dies after being shot with Taser

Syrian refugees wait at Marka Airport in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday to complete their migration procedures to Canada, which has announced that it will take around 25,000 Syrians from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. [AP PHOTO]

“We will ensure that after their first arrival that we have transportation available and that we assist them to where they are going to be going next in their journey in Canada, but we want to make sure that their first arrival in Canada is one where they feel very welcome,” she said.

Many Canadians have rallied to help the incoming refugees, but those eager to greet them on arrival would do better to channel their energy into other efforts, she said.

“We’ve been overwhelmed by the

outpouring of support and generosity of Canadians that want to do everything they can to be welcoming but . . . we aren’t going to be having external organizations and others coming into the terminal in order to provide services,” she said.

William Swing, director general of the International Organization for Migration, said a lot of the success of the Canadian program is going to depend on what happens for refugees after they arrive in Canada. Usually, the IOM carries out sessions abroad

for refugees to prepare them for life in Canada, but the way this program is being structured, all that work is going to happen when they arrive.

But he said he is not concerned about the switch.

“It’s Canada, not some other country, Canada has long experience in integration,” he said.

Swing said the federal government has already been active in talking to provincial and local governments and will need to keep those lines of communication open.

An agency that investigates police says it is looking into the death of a man in Edmonton after he was shocked with a Taser.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says officers were called to the home of the 49-year-old on Monday night.

It says the man was agitated and armed with a knife.

Police fired the Taser and, after a struggle, he was taken into custody.

The man went into medical distress while still in the home and officers preformed first aid until an ambulance arrived.

He was pronounced dead in hospital.

An autopsy is to be conducted to determine the cause of death.

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Girl, 9, dies while skiing; lost control and hit tree

BANK OF CANADA

Negative interest rates now possible, Poloz says ANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — For the first time, the Bank of Canada says it would consider nudging its trend-setting interest rate below zero if the country ever absorbed a severe economic blow like the 2008 financial crisis.

In a speech Tuesday, governor Stephen Poloz announced an updated framework of unconventional instruments the bank could wield to deal with the unlikely event of another shock.

Among the new possibilities: a negative key interest rate.

Central banks around the world have turned to unconventional monetary policy, including below-zero benchmarks.

For example, Poloz noted that the European Central Bank and Swiss

POLOZ

National Bank adopted negative rates after the crisis. Financial markets, he added, were able to adjust and continue with their operations in that new environment.

The Bank of Canada has learned from experiences like these abroad

and is confident Canadian markets could also handle a sub-zero situation.

The announcement comes at a time when the Canadian economy has struggled to re-emerge following the steep slide in commodity prices.

But Poloz stressed that the fact he listed new unconventional monetary measures Tuesday should in no way be taken as a sign the bank is about to use any of them. He reiterated his confidence that recovery is well underway in Canada.

Still, the list of potential unconventional options needed an update, he said.

“We’re making sure that our tool kit is up to date,” Poloz said in Toronto, where he addressed the Empire Club of Canada.

“We see no reason to be contem-

plating these measures.”

The Bank of Canada first produced a framework of unconventional measures in 2009, which featured options such as forward guidance and large-scale asset purchases, also known as quantitative easing.

In 2009, the bank used a form of forward guidance, which gives a heads up to markets on interest-rate movements, when it committed to keep the key rate unchanged for a year as long as there was no change in the inflation outlook.

On Tuesday, Poloz announced another new unconventional measure added to the arsenal: funding for credit.

The tool would ensure economically important sectors had continued access to funding even when the credit supply was impaired, he said.

A nine-year-old girl has died after crashing on a ski hill west of Calgary.

Alpine Alberta says it’s believed the child lost control and hit a tree off a main trail at the Nakiska ski resort on Sunday.

She was found unconscious and taken to hospital, where she later died.

The alpine group says the child was a member of a ski team and had been with the team at the time of the accident.

A statement from Alpine Alberta says it’s stunned by the death.

It says thoughts and prayers are with the child’s family, friends, coaches and teammates.

Alpine Alberta did not give an age or gender, but Emergency Medical Services said the child was a nineyear-old girl.

“Skiing is a sport that brings us great joy . . . Sadly, our sport is not without some inherent dangers,” the ski group said.

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Duffy says his Senate seat was to boost Harper

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Cuba, U.S. begin talks on confiscated property

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OTTAWA — Sen. Mike Duffy says former prime minister Stephen Harper appointed him and other previously non-partisan people to the Senate to help the Conservative party’s image and attract voters.

“What they were trying to do was put people in the Senate who would, in effect, provide third-party validation of Stephen Harper as someone Canadians can trust,” Duffy told Ontario Justice Charles Vaillancourt, noting that in 2008, many voters were still unsure about Harper.

It was the first time Duffy has spoken publicly since he stood briefly to plead “not guilty” to the 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery back when the trial started in April.

The 69-year-old is much thinner now and so is the crowd in the courtroom, much of the excitement around the affair having evaporated with the October electoral defeat of the Conservative government.

Duffy has maintained that he was railroaded by Harper’s staff into repaying the claims, when he never thought he had done anything wrong.

“Nothing in my life . . . has been simple or straightforward,” Duffy told his defence lawyer, Donald Bayne, at one point.

Duffy recounted a meeting with Harper in December 2008, when the prime minister asked him if he would sit in the Senate for Prince Edward Island.

Duffy suggested he represent Ontario instead, because that’s where he lived most of the time.

“I said, going in for P.E.I. would not be popular,” said Duffy. “I’m from P.E.I., but many people will complain I’m not of P.E.I.” But Duffy said Harper “was bound and determined it was going to be P.E.I.,” and was satisfied that the cottage the TV host owned in the province made him qualified to represent the island in the Senate.

When an academic began suggesting in the media that Duffy was not qualified because he wasn’t actually “resident” in the province, Duffy said the PMO and the Senate leadership assured him he had nothing to worry about.

That constitutional qualification is not being challenged at the trial, but Duffy has hinted that he was told he might lose his seat if he didn’t go along with the PMO’s face-saving plan to have Wright repay his expenses.

In other words, he was not bribing anyone to pay back his expenses, as the Crown suggests, but the operatives were threatening him.

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Without mentioning GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump by name, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the top Republican in the Senate, said on Tuesday that comments about restricting Muslim travel to the United States were ‘completely and totally inconsistent with American values.’ [AP PHOTO]

World reacts to Trump’s anti-Muslim comments PM Justin Trudeau says Canadians have rejected politics of fear ALEXANDER PANETTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s eye-popping proposal to ban Muslim travel to the United States prompted a flood of commentary from abroad Tuesday, including from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Unlike the spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron, who called Trump’s religion-based border controls unhelpful and wrong, Trudeau avoided referring to Trump by name.

When asked about political developments to the south, Trudeau and some of his ministers said they didn’t want to interfere in a foreign election — but chided Muslim-bashing politics all the same.

“Canadians are very aware of my feelings on this,” Trudeau said in remarks echoed by a number of cabinet ministers, including Melanie Joly, Stephane Dion and John McCallum.

“And they, by the way, sided pretty clearly against the politics of fear and division in our election here.”

It was far softer than the condemnation that rained down upon Trump within his own country — even from quarters not generally inclined to weigh in on a Republican primary discussion.

The Republicans’ top figure in Congress, Paul Ryan, said he’d break his no-interference rule to castigate comments he called antithetical to American values and to conservative principles.

But the White House demanded deeper repudiation.

A spokesman for President Barack Obama insisted that Republicans pledge to oppose Trump should he become the nominee — a significant step farther than any have taken.

“It’s morally reprehensible. It runs counter to the Constitution. And it has consequences for our national security.”

Josh Earnest, White House spokesman

“What Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president,” said Obama spokesman Josh Earnest. “And any Republican who’s too fearful of the Republican base to admit it has no business serving as president either . . . .

“It’s morally reprehensible. It runs counter to the Constitution. And it has consequences for our national security.”

The tone of U.S. media coverage also appears to have shifted.

News organizations have frequently derided Trump as a buffoonish sideshow in the serious process of picking a president. They’re suddenly comparing him to things far more sinister than a clown.

That change was illustrated on the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News: “The New Furor,” was its lead headline under an unflatteringly timed photo of Trump with an extended arm.

An interviewer on MSNBC told him: “There’s a number of Americans you’re really scaring right now, including me.”

Another interviewer on CNN put it more bluntly: “Leaders from your own party (are) saying this is un-American and extreme and that it makes you a fascist. How do you respond?”

This was the day after Trump read out a statement on his new policy to

a partisan crowd. He received cheers throughout a caustic speech where he railed against the media in the back of the room as “absolute scum.”

The Huffington Post announced its own policy change. Trump was no longer to be treated as a joke.

The website had covered Trump in its entertainment section since the summer.

Now the primaries are less than two months away. Trump remains in first place in the Republican polls.

And he’s supplemented his promise to deport 11 million mostly Hispanic illegal migrants with a policy aimed at Muslims.

It would be the United States’ first culture-based entry ban in approximately seven decades, since the repeal of Asian-exclusion laws.

The comic relief is over, the site founder declared. “(Trump’s campaign has) morphed into something else: an ugly and dangerous force in American politics,” Arianna Huffington wrote in a post. “So we will no longer be covering his campaign in Entertainment . . . The ‘can you believe he said that?’ novelty has curdled and congealed into something repellent and threatening.”

Like an inflatable punching bag, though, Trump has repeatedly bounced back from controversy and defied the disdain of opinion elites.

He brushed off the concerns of interviewers Tuesday.

When pressed about how his plan would work — American passports do not have a religious affiliation stamped on them — Trump explained that border guards would ask a question.

“They would say, ‘Are you Muslim?”’ Trump told MSNBC. If travellers answer yes, he said, they’d be banned.

Cuba and the United States have begun trying to resolve billions in dollars in claims for the confiscation of American properties by the island’s socialist government.

Cuba in turn is demanding more than $100 billion in damages for the half-century old U.S. trade embargo on the island.

Resolution of the issues is seen as fundamental to the reestablishment of trade between the countries. A U.S. commission has certified nearly 6,000 claims against Cuba by American and U.S. firms whose property was taken after Cuba’s 1959 revolution.

The claims are worth as much as $8 billion. U.S. court rulings against Cuba add another $2 billion.

The State Department said Tuesday’s nearly daylong meeting served as a forum to exchange information.

The sides agreed to meet again within four months.

◆ SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

Governor makes fiscal measures law in crisis Puerto Rico’s governor signed five bills into law Tuesday aimed at helping reverse an economic crisis as he prepared for a last-minute push to allow the U.S. territory access to bankruptcy.

Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla made the announcement before flying to Washington to meet with several Republican lawmakers and other officials in anticipation that Congress could decide Friday whether to grant Puerto Rico’s public agencies access to Chapter 9 bankruptcy provisions.

“We are showing the world that we are serious about our plan,” he said of the laws he signed, including one that would create a fiscal control board long sought by nervous bondholders.

“I don’t have words that allow me to illustrate the seriousness of the situation.”

◆ RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

Scuffle as impeachment commission is formed Brazilian lawmakers have scuffled on the floor of the legislature, pushing and shoving as they tried to block voting for the formation of a commission that will determine if impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff to a vote in the full house.

Speaker Eduardo Cunha is Rousseff’s sworn enemy — and he allowed impeachment proceedings to be introduced into the lower house.

Cunha on Tuesday wouldn’t allow deputies to speak before the secret balloting to create the impeachment commission.

That set off a ruckus, with members of Rousseff’s Workers’ Party physically blocking the vote for nearly half an hour.

The voting eventually resumed — yet some parties pulled out of participating, effectively blocking the formation of the impeach commission.

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Tory patronage called abuse of process

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OTTAWA — The Liberals say the Harper government was guilty of “abuse of process” when it went on a patronage binge on the eve of the election, making or renewing appointments for federal positions that didn’t need to be filled until weeks or even months after the Conservatives were defeated.

Dominic LeBlanc, the new Liberal government’s House leader, has sent letters to 33 people who received plum jobs in federal agencies or Crown corporations during the dying days of Stephen Harper’s Conservative regime.

He’s asking them to voluntarily resign.

LeBlanc says that’s not a judgment on any of the individuals who received appointments; it’s a judgment on what the new government considers the

This image, posted online on Sunday by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, shows Syrians inspecting a damaged building in the aftermath of an airstrike. [MILITANT PHOTO VIA AP]

Russia launches more Syria strikes VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW — Russia has unleashed another barrage of airstrikes against targets in Syria, including the first combat launch of a new cruise missile from a Russian submarine in the Mediterranean Sea, the country’s defence minister said Tuesday.

The Kalibr cruise missiles launched by the Rostov-on-Don submarine successfully hit the designated targets in Raqqa, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin.

The submarine was in a submerged position during the launch, he added.

Putin noted that the new cruise missile can be equipped with both conventional and nuclear warheads, adding he hopes that the latter “will never be needed.”

Shoigu said Tu-22 bombers flying from their base in Russia also took part in the latest raids, performing 60 combat sorties in the last three days.

He said the targets destroyed in the latest wave of Russian airstrikes included a munitions depot, a factory manufacturing mortar rounds and oil facilities belonging to “terrorists.”

Shoigu said the Russian military had informed Israel and the United States about the airstrikes before launching them. A U.S. defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, confirmed that Russia notified the U.S. in advance.

The U.S. official said at least 10 cruise missiles were launched from Russian surface ships in the Caspian Sea and at least one missile was fired by a Russian submarine in the eastern Mediterranean.

Russia has carried out its air campaign in Syria since Sept. 30, using warplanes at an air base in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia, as well as navy ships and long-range bombers flying from their bases in Russia. While Moscow said its action has been focused on the Islamic State group, the U.S. and its allies have

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criticized Moscow for also striking moderate rebel groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Shoigu told Putin that Syrian army forces had overtaken the area near the border with Turkey where a Turkish jet shot down a Russian warplane on Nov 24. He showed Putin the plane’s flight recorder, which he said Syrian and Russian troops had recovered from the crash site.

Putin ordered the flight recorder to be studied in the presence of foreign experts, adding that the data will show the plane’s flight path.

Moscow’s relations with Ankara have been badly strained over the downing.

Turkey said it shot down the aircraft after it violated Turkey’s airspace for 17 seconds despite repeated warnings.

Russia has insisted the warplane had stayed in Syria’s airspace, and responded by deploying long-range air defence missiles at its air base in Syria and introducing a slew of economic sanctions against Turkey.

“We had treated Turkey not only as a friendly country, but as an ally in the fight against terrorism, and we couldn’t expect such a mean, treacherous stab in the back,” Putin said.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed Turkey’s complaint about a sailor on a Russian navy vessel pictured on its deck with a portable air-defence missile while the ship was cruising across the Bosporus.

Turkey denounced the incident as a provocation and summoned the Russian ambassador to protest.

Zakharova responded Tuesday by saying the Russian crew had the right to protect its vessel and insisted that the action didn’t contradict the Montreux Convention, which sets international rules for using the Turkish straits.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry also voiced concern Tuesday about the reported bombing of a Syrian army camp without addressing the U.S. claim that Russia was responsible for the bombing.

illegitimate manner in which the appointments were made.

He says the process was improper because it the appointments were not made transparently and were not subject to parliamentary scrutiny.

LeBlanc is confident that most, if not all of the 33, will voluntarily step aside.

He’s not saying whether the government will rescind the appointments of anyone who refuses to go quietly.

“We thought that those (appointments) constituted an abuse of process by a previous government and we’ve asked 33 individuals to consider doing the right thing in our judgment in declining to accept those appointments,” LeBlanc said Tuesday.

“If they want to submit their candidacies in a more open and transparent process, we would of course be happy to look at them.”

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ASIA

Beijing smog closes schools; cars banned Problem persists despite government’s priority of cleaning up pollution left from years of economic growth IAN MADER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Some residents took a smog holiday away from Beijing on Tuesday as the Chinese capital launched restrictions under its first red alert for pollution, closing schools, suspending factories and keeping half the vehicles off the streets.

Although Beijing has in recent years seen smog at much worse levels than Tuesday’s, the latest bout of pollution was the first to trigger a red alert under a two-year-old system that requires a forecast at the outset of at least 72 hours of consecutive high pollution.

The capital’s hazardous smog has persisted despite the Chinese government’s stated priority of cleaning up the legacy of pollution left from years of full-tilt economic growth.

Most of the smog is blamed on coalfired power plants, along with vehicle emissions, construction and factory work.

“This is modern life for Beijing people. We wanted to develop, and now we pay the price,” Beijing office worker Cao Yong said during a break from work.

A grey soupy haze subsumed Beijing’s unique landmarks, convenience stores sold air-filtering masks

A division of

A woman wearing a mask to protect herself from pollutants walks past office buildings shrouded with pollution haze in Beijing on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

at brisk rates and health-food stores promoted pear juice as a traditional Chinese tonic for the lungs.

“And air purifiers at home are a must,” Beijing resident Sun Yuanyuan said at a downtown Beijing juice shop.

Under restrictions in effect Tuesday through Thursday, schools were urged to close voluntarily unless they had good air filtration. However, Beijing’s education commission later followed up with a separate order for schools to close during the three-

day alert. Some residents grumbled about the inconvenience, and a few international schools sought permission to reopen Wednesday.

A slew of Beijingers said via social media they planned to escape the gloom. They needed to travel relatively far, however, because nearly all of China’s northeast was affected, and many cities — including nearby Shijiazhuang — were even worse than Beijing.

After hearing of the school closings late Monday, Beijing mother Jiang Xia booked tickets for a 3,200 kilometre flight to the relatively clean southwestern city of Kunming for herself and her eight-year-old daughter who she said suffers nosebleeds in the smog. She said from Kunming that they hectically packed before dawn Tuesday for their flight.

“But when we arrived in Kunming and breathed in this clean, fresh air, I was very glad I made this move — a very wise decision,” Jiang said.

Readings of PM2.5 particles climbed above 300 micrograms per cubic meter in some parts of the city Tuesday and were expected to continue rising before improving Thursday. The World Health Organization designates the safe level for the tiny, poisonous particles at 25.

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Factory suspensions and several other restrictions will seek to reduce the dust and other particulate matter in the city of 22.5 million people.

Use of a car is restricted to every other day depending on its license plate, and officials planned to deploy extra subway trains and buses to compensate.

Some businesses closed and others said employees could work from home for the duration.

A Beijing resident who gave his only his surname, Du, said he was taking advantage of a lack of crowds near the capital’s ancient Forbidden City to stroll and take unique photographs.

“I like this kind of haziness.

“It gives a blurry feeling and makes you feel like you’re in a dream,” Du said.

While the capital’s air improved in the first 10 months of the year compared with the same period last year, it has suffered two recent prolonged bouts of severe smog, which is typically worse in the winter and which last time sent PM 2.5 level as high as 976 in some locations.

A red alert requires a forecast of 72 straight hours of pollution levels of 300 or higher on the city’s air quality index.

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RCMP officers suspended in N.B. over conduct allegations KEVIN BISSETT THE CANADIAN PRESS

This file picture, released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Oct. 11, claims to show the launching of an Emad long-range ballistic surface-tosurface missile at an undisclosed location. [IRANIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY VIA AP]

Iran tests ballistic missile, says U.S. BRADLEY KLAPPER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Iran tested a ballistic missile last month, a U.S. official said Tuesday, describing the second such test since the nuclear agreement in July.

The State Department said it was conducting a “serious review” of such reports.

The test occurred Nov. 21, according to the official, coming after an Oct. 10 test that Iran confirmed at the time.

The official said other undeclared tests occurred earlier than that, but declined to elaborate. The official wasn’t authorized to speak on the matter and demanded anonymity.

Ballistic missiles are especially sensitive with Iran because they could provide the delivery system for a nuclear warhead. As part of nuclear negotiations with world powers, Iran accepted an eight-year extension of a UN ban on its ballistic missile program.

The November test was first reported

by Fox News, which said a mid-range missile with a range of 1,930 kilometres was launched from a known site near the Gulf of Oman.

The test may reflect an effort by Iranian hardliners to derail the nuclear pact, coming on top of the recent arrests of an American citizen and U.S. resident and reports that Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian was sentenced to an unspecified prison term following an espionage conviction.

According to the official, the U.S. assesses that hardliners opposing the nuclear deal struck by Iran’s moderate President Hassan Rouhani may be trying to provoke the United States into authorizing new sanctions against Iran and raising tensions between Washington and Tehran.

Top Iranian officials have vowed to respond to any new forms of economic pressure from the West.

State Department spokesman John Kirby refused to confirm the test.

“We’re conducting a serious review of this reported incident,” Kirby told reporters. He added, “If the reports are confirmed and if there is a violation of any relevant UN Security Council resolution, then we’re going to take the appropriations actions.”

He stressed that ballistic missile activity wasn’t a violation of the July deal that imposed more than a decade of restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in potential relief from international sanctions.

He said the U.S. would monitor Tehran for “destabilizing” behaviour, and that is “why we have a robust military presence in the region, and it’s why we still have and will remain capable of having unilateral sanctions.”

After the October test, President Barack Obama noted that Iran has often violated missile prohibitions. He said the U.S. would make clear to Iran that there are costs for bad behaviour, but stressed that the issue was separate from nuclear arms control.

On Nov. 24, the U.S., Britain and France pressed Iran for a formal explanation at the United Nations.

In Washington, the administration is still studying a possible response of its own.

Officials with knowledge of the process said the Iranian individuals and organizations involved with the test are already penalized under American sanctions law, and said the government was still identifying potential targets.

Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, criticized the Obama administration’s lack of response to Iran’s “repeated ballistic missile tests.”

Iran, he said Tuesday, “knows neither this administration nor the UN Security Council is likely to take any action.”

WOODSTOCK, N.B. — The top Mountie in New Brunswick says the suspension of four RCMP members from the Woodstock area while they are investigated for allegations of discreditable conduct is troubling for the force.

“I’m probably puzzled as much as you are and saying to myself, how could this happen where I have four police officers in one detachment suspended?” Assistant Commissioner Roger Brown told a news conference Tuesday in Fredericton.

Brown said he can’t get into specifics about the allegations while the four are under investigation, but he did say they are not drug related.

The Mounties say they’re acting on information that resulted in three suspensions in early November.

A fourth member from the area was suspended Tuesday.

“It’s very embarrassing for me as a commanding officer to be before you and tell you that I’ve had to suspend four of our own. ” Roger Brown, Assistant Commissioner

In addition to the investigation under the RCMP’s code of conduct, the Mounties’ major crime unit will determine whether there is any criminality related to the allegations. Brown said the Kennebecasis Regional Police Force is providing independent oversight of the investigation.

The initial information came to light as the result of a separate investigation and there were several incidents that resulted in the suspensions, Brown said.

All four members of the RCMP have been suspended with pay but Brown said he is pursuing suspension without pay in two of the cases.

He said it’s significant to have four members suspended from a detachment of 20 officers.

“It’s very embarrassing for me as a commanding officer to be before you and tell you that I’ve had to suspend four of our own. These members now have to account for their actions,” he said.

Brown said he doesn’t know if there could be more officers suspended and will let the investigations run their course and take as long as necessary.

“When I get to the bottom of this I will make the appropriate decisions that have to be made moving forward, up to and including, if warranted, that these individuals are no longer members of the (Royal Canadian) Mounted Police,” Brown said.

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Participants attend a panel at the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised business leaders in Paris for taking action against climate change but urged them to do more to help decision-makers reach the 2-degree target. [AP PHOTO]

UN chief issues gloomy warning if deal not achieved at conference UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says ‘clock is ticking toward climate catastrophe’ KARL RITTER AND ANGELA CHARLTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LE BOURGET, France — The United Nations secretary-general called for a clean energy revolution to avoid a “climate catastrophe” as talks on a global warming pact entered their final week Monday with crunch issues on money and burden-sharing yet to be resolved.

One of them, however, appeared to be untangling as the European Union softened its insistence that countries’ targets to limit carbon pollution need to be legally binding, something U.S. negotiators reject because of opposition in the Republican-controlled Congress.

“We need the United States on board and we have to find a solution,” EU Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told reporters on the sidelines of the conference. “We understand the concerns they have because of the political situation they have in the Congress.”

Many Republicans question climate change and oppose emissions limits out of concern that it would hurt U.S. industry and jobs.

Upon arrival in France, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that even without binding targets the deal could change the way world business thinks about energy.

“I have absolute confidence in the ability of capital to move where the signal of the marketplace says ‘go’ after Paris,” he said.

“Your work here this week can help eradicate poverty, spark a clean energy revolution and provide jobs, opportunities and hope for tomorrow.”

Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary-General

Foreign and environment ministers joined the talks after lower-level negotiators who met last week delivered a draft agreement with multiple options left open.

Warning that “the clock is ticking toward climate catastrophe,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told ministers the world expects more from them than “half-measures.”

“Your work here this week can help eradicate poverty, spark a clean energy revolution and provide jobs, opportunities and hope for tomorrow,” he said.

Touching on the sensitive issue of who should do what, Ban said wealthy nations must agree to lead, while “developing countries need to assume increasing responsibility in line with their capabilities.”

The Paris conference is the 21st time world governments have met to seek a joint solution to climate change — and is aiming at the most ambitious, long-lasting accord yet.

The talks are focused on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, primarily by shifting from oil, coal and gas to cleaner sources of energy.

Fossil fuels still meet about 80 per cent of the world’s energy demand, though the share of renewable energy including hydro, solar and wind power is growing, particularly in electricity generation.

India and other major developing countries insist on their right to use some fossil fuels to advance their economies — just like Western nations have done since the Industrial Revolution. They argue the West therefore is historically responsible for raising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

“India is here to ensure that rich countries pay back their debt for overdraft that they have drawn on the carbon space,” Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said.

The Paris agreement would be the first to ask all countries to rein in their emissions; earlier pacts only required wealthy nations to do so.

How to define countries’ evolving responsibilities as their economies grow is the biggest challenge in the Paris talks.

Another major issue is helping the poorest and most vulnerable countries cope with dangerous warming effects, from rising seas to intensifying droughts and heat waves. The U.S. and other developed countries

say it’s time that the most advanced developing countries pitch in.

Many of them, including China, have done so but they want any Paris deal to clearly state that their contributions would be voluntary, rather than something that should be expected of them.

China, the world’s biggest carbon polluter, has domestic reasons to act. On Monday, Beijing issued its first ever red alert for smog, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic.

While smog is a different environmental problem, much of it is blamed on coal-fired power plants and vehicle emissions, which also are key sources of carbon emissions.

Meanwhile, a surprising new study suggested global carbon dioxide emissions may be dropping ever so slightly this year.

The unexpected dip could either be a temporary blip or true hope that the world is about to turn the corner on carbon pollution as climate talks continue in Paris, said the authors of a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said those findings had not made an impact on the negotiations.

“People are pretty focused on the business at hand,” he said.

More than 180 countries have already presented national pledges for reining in carbon emissions after 2020, when the Paris deal would take effect.

LONDON — The decision by a London-based mining company to shed 85,000 jobs is the sign of a global industry in crisis, with conglomerates reassessing their huge operations to cope with a drop in demand from Chinese factories for metals and other raw materials.

Anglo American said Tuesday it will shed some 63 per cent of its workforce in a radical restructuring meant to cope with tumbling commodity prices. It will streamline its global business from some 55 mines to around 20.

CEO Mark Cutifani said the drop in commodity prices requires “bolder action,” even though the company has delivered on performance and previous business restructuring objectives. He pledged to provide more details later.

The dividend was suspended for the second half of 2015 and 2016. Investors reacted with dismay. The company’s share price fell 11 per cent to 327.30 pence.

Mining companies around the world are facing tough times as economic growth slows in China, whose manufacturers’ need for raw materials has driven a years-long boom in mining in countries like Australia and Brazil.

China accounts for as much as 40 per cent to 50 per cent of global commodity demand, according to consultants PwC. Its economic growth is forecast to drop below seven per cent a year from double digits in recent years — and commodity prices are tracking it lower.

“Mining companies are feeling the wrath of the collapse in commodity prices,” said Gianna Bern, who teaches finance at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and expects others across the industry to also either cut or suspend their dividends to cope.

“Companies are weathering some very tough economic times.”

As Anglo American moves to rationalize its business, it will reduce its assets by 60 per cent. It will consolidate from six to three businesses. The company will also move its London office to “co-locate” with DeBeers, its majority-owned diamonds business by 2017.

Some $3.7 billion of cost and productivity improvements are underway and set to be completed by 2017.

Cutifani also confirmed Anglo will sell the phosphates and niobium businesses during 2016.

“We will set out the detail of the future portfolio in February, with the aim of delivering a resilient Anglo American and a step change in the transformation of the company,” he said.

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Court denies bid to end dictator’s genocide trial

UN adviser warns that Burundi risks civil war

Teacher dies in protest after bus catches fire

Man arrested for theft of mom’s traditional stew

Authorities in Venezuela say the opposition coalition won a key two-thirds majority in the National Assembly in legislative voting.

The National Electoral Council has published on its website the final tally of results from Sunday’s elections showing that two previously undecided races had broken in favour of the opposition, giving them 112 out of 167 seats in the incoming National Assembly. The ruling socialist party and its allies got 55 seats.

The supermajority gives the opposition a strong hand in trying to wrest power from President Nicolas Maduro after 17 years of socialist rule. It now has the potential votes to sack Supreme Court justices, initiate a referendum to revoke Maduro’s mandate.

Guatemala’s constitutional Court has denied an appeal by lawyers for Efrain Rios Montt that sought to have the ex-dictator’s trial for genocide and crimes against humanity called off.

Tuesday’s ruling confirms a Jan. 11 date for the special proceeding, which is to take place behind closed doors.

Rios Montt is accused of responsibility for the killings of 1,771 indigenous Ixil people by troops during his 1982-83 regime.

He was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to 80 years. But the conviction was thrown out and a new trial ordered.

Rios Montt has since been declared unfit for a regular trial due to dementia.

The UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide says there is a serious risk that if violence in Burundi isn’t stopped there could be a civil war — and after that, “everything is possible.”

Adama Dieng said he is using the occasion of the first international day to commemorate victims of genocide on Wednesday to call on Burundi’s government and opposition to end the violence and negotiate a political solution to avoid further bloodshed.

Dieng says he is also calling on Burundi’s neighbours, including Rwanda and Tanzania, which has seen a large influx of Burundians fleeing the violence, to help.

President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek a third term has triggered months of violence.

One demonstrator is dead after protesting teachers and their supporters tried to crash a flaming bus through police lines in southern Mexico.

The teachers are protesting mandatory teacher evaluations introduced under a 2013 education reform.

The federal police said Tuesday that about 3,300 teachers and their supporters blocked a highway in southern Chiapas state.

Police said some of the protesters loaded a bus with gasoline bombs and tried to drive it into police lines, but the bombs ignited early, forcing the bus out of control.

The bus ran over and killed a protester and injured three officers. None of those injuries are life-threatening.

Police say an Albuquerque man wanted his mother’s traditional New Mexican stew so much he broke into her home and stole it.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that 23-year-old Jonathan Ray was arrested recently after he ignored his mother’s orders to stay away from her posole and ran off with the holiday dish.

According to a criminal complaint, Ray sent his mom a text message saying he wanted some of her posole but she told him no.

The complaint says the mother later found her gate and garage broken and a pot of the posole missing.

Ray was arrested on a residential burglary charge. Court records didn’t list an attorney for Ray.

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CALGARY — An expert on media coverage and politics says there is no doubt in his mind that “Scud Stud” Arthur Kent was a rogue candidate during the 2008 Alberta election.

Greg Elmer, a professor of radio and television arts at Ryerson, was asked to write a report on behalf of Postmedia, the National Post and former columnist Don Martin accused in a defamation lawsuit filed by Kent.

Kent is suing over a column headlined “‘Scud Stud’ a ‘Dud’ on the Election Trail,” which portrayed him as an egocentric celebrity candidate who had created disarray within his own campaign be speaking out KENT against his Progressive Conservative party.

Martin used unnamed party sources for the article and has acknowledged he didn’t contact the former television war correspondent directly for comment.

Elmer testified Tuesday that candidates who speak out against party leadership or policies are few and far between.

“A rogue candidate is rare in Canadian politics,” Elmer said. “The press is always on the lookout for individuals who divert from that central message. They are often ones that generate movements behind them to oust leaders, to push parties in different ideological or public positions and they’re also interested in seeing how the leadership of these parties react to these kind of things.”

Elmer said the scrutiny gets even more intense if the rogue happens to be a star candidate.

He noted Kent, who was known for his time reporting on the first Gulf War for NBC, had no hesitation speaking to the media or publicly questioning the Tories’ plans for a royalty review.

“I think its fairly obvious Mr. Kent frequently offered comments to the press and repeated those comments criticizing the party.”

Kent’s lawyer questioned the methodology used in obtaining the data, noting that it didn’t track variations of the column that might have existed.

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CP Rail drops gloves as takeover bid rejected ROSS MAROWITS THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Canadian Pacific Railway has dropped the gloves in its battle to acquire Norfolk Southern after the U.S. railway immediately rejected a revised takeover offer.

The Calgary-based company enlisted the help of activist U.S. investor Bill Ackman to challenge the qualifications of Norfolk Southern CEO James Squires and opened the door to launching a hostile bid if the board of the Virginia company continues to oppose negotiations.

“We are going to work and do everything at our disposal to get this to the shareholders and get a resolution to it,” Canadian Pacific chief executive Hunter Harrison said Tuesday during a conference call. “If that calls for a proxy, so be it.”

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friendly deal, Canadian Pacific is now adopting the playbook successfully led by Ackman in 2012 to overhaul Canadian Pacific, the country’s second-largest railway.

Ackman, a large shareholder in Canadian Pacific, said Norfolk Southern’s opposition is the same response he faced when he moved to replace Canadian Pacific’s old guard.

They denigrated Harrison’s plan to

improve efficiency as “unrealistic and unachievable,” but under his leadership, costs were lowered ahead of schedule, Ackman said.

Harrison can bring about the same turnaround for Norfolk Southern, ultimately resulting in a merged company that would become North America’s largest railway, Ackman said.

“What I like about 71-year-old CEOs is they’re motivated to get things done promptly,” Ackman said of Harrison during the call.

Canadian Pacific said in a letter to Norfolk Southern’s CEO that under the amended bid, his company’s shareholders would own 47 per cent of the newly merged company, up from 41 per cent.

The revised deal would see Norfolk Southern shareholders receive $32.86 in cash and 0.451 shares of

stock in the combined company — a bid Canadian Pacific characterized as a “substantially more financially attractive offer.”

The offer put forth last month would have seen Norfolk Southern shareholders receive $46.72 in cash and 0.348 shares in the new railroad.

Although the revised offer contains less cash and more equity than the one put forward a month ago, shareholders would receive them in May instead of the end of 2017.

Canadian Pacific said it believes the total value of the stock and cash offer to Norfolk Southern shareholders will be worth US$125 to US$140 per share in May when one of the railways, likely Canadian Pacific, is put into a voting trust and shares of the new company begin to trade in Toronto and New York.

Harrison would quit and sever all

financial ties with Canadian Pacific to run Norfolk Southern until 2018 or 2019, when Canadian Pacific chief operating officer Keith Creel would take over to run the merged company.

The two companies would merge in the fall of 2017 after the U.S. regulator gives its approval. If the merger isn’t sanctioned, the voting trust would end and the two companies would cut ties, with Harrison remaining at the helm of Norfolk Southern.

Canadian Pacific said the revised bid would ease any regulatory concerns over the proposed merger, but Norfolk Southern released an opinion from two former STB chairmen who believe the regulator would not approve any voting trust structure because it wouldn’t be in the public interest.

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Bill proposes workers’ compensation benefits, health and safety rules for farm workers DEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Alberta’s NDP government has served notice it is limiting debate in the legislature on a contentious farm safety bill.

Government house leader Brian Mason gave the required one day’s notice Tuesday to limit debate on each of the final three stages of discussion on Bill 6.

Opposition members have been talking long into the night to try to stall the bill and give farmers time to voice their opposition.

Earlier Tuesday, Mason said the opposition has a right to filibuster, but the work of the government still has to get done.

“I’ve been in opposition. I know the game,” he said.

“They try to slow things down, so the government has to invoke closure and then they point to the government and say, ’Look, the government is being very undemocratic and they don’t want debate.’

“The people of Alberta expect us to be here and do our job and get the business of the house done.”

Farmers have organized convoys and protest rallies since the bill was introduced three weeks ago. They have shown up by the hundreds at public consultation sessions to berate cabinet ministers.

The bill proposes workers’ compensation benefits and health and safety rules for paid workers on farms.

Producers say that would bury their operations in red tape and hurt their ability to pass on their way of life to their children.

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean, speaking at length on the bill Tues-

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day morning, said a filibuster is necessary.

“The only power we have in this place as opposition is the power to speak,” he said. “The only opportunity we have is to stand up ... to speak to the bill, to try to slow the process down so that farmers and ranchers can have their say — because they have not had their say.”

Jean said the government has limited consultation with farmers, so it follows it would limit it in the legislature.

The closure motion came after another loud, vitriolic question period. Both sides of the house shouted,

pointed and banged on their desks.

Some farm families looked on from the gallery.

The Wildrose all but shouted down NDP backbencher Cam Westhead during his statement supporting the bill. Later, as tempers flared, Mason called out the opposition as “goons” and “gangsters.” He later apologized.

The proposed legislation calls for all paid farm workers to be covered under occupational health and safety rules starting Jan. 1 and to receive workers’ compensation benefits if injured.

Farmers say they weren’t consulted and are demanding the government

pull the bill to allow for more talks.

The Opposition Wildrose and Progressive Conservatives have taken up that fight and say lack of consultation shows disrespect to farmers.

The NDP is putting forward amendments this week to make it clear that the bill does not cover family members or volunteers who help out on a farm.

Details — including specifics on occupational health and safety rules, employment standards and labour rights — are to be crafted over the coming year and farmers are to be involved every step of the way, Premier Rachel Notley has said.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals will take the next few months to negotiate with provinces over a new national child benefit after advocates raised concerns the government’s plan could end up hurting those receiving provincial help.

Advocates have worried that any increase in benefits from the federal government could have negative effects on those receiving social assistance through provinces or municipalities, such as child care or housing subsidies.

Those subsidies are income tested, meaning the more a family earns, the less they receive in subsidies. The Liberals want to give more money to low-income earners through a new child benefit, but some provinces and cities may see the richer benefit as additional income and roll back subsidies to needy families.

Such issues are part of the reason the new child benefit, which the Liberals made a key plank in their campaign platform to woo families, won’t come into effect until July 1, said Families Minister Jean-Yves Duclos.

Until July 1, the government will continue paying out the universal child care benefit, which is worth $160 per month for every child under six and $60 per month for every child six to 17.

Duclos said the details of the new benefit will be unveiled when the Liberals table their first budget.

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Perspective came with age for Bertuzzi Back in Vancouver, former Canucks star recalls his career and how quickly it seemed to pass him by SPORTS INSIDE Today’s issue Ed Willes The Province

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n his rookie season with the New York Islanders, Todd Bertuzzi would often catch a ride to practice with Isles veteran Derek King.

King was then in his 10th season on Long Island, and standing on the 16th tee of his pro career. Like Bertuzzi, King had been a first-round draft pick and tabbed as a future star. Unlike Bertuzzi, he had a sense of perspective about the game and its fleeting nature, a perspective he chose to share one day.

“We’re driving along and he says, ‘Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy every day,’” Bertuzzi says. “‘It goes by so quickly and it’s gone before you know it.’

“That’s always stuck with me. I was 21 and I was like, ‘What do you know? You must be old.’ Truth be told, it went by a thousand times faster than I ever thought it would.”

Perspective.

Bertuzzi now has it by the truckload. At 40, just two years removed from the game of his life, he can look back and see all those things that whizzed by; the things he should have appreciated more, the moments he should have savoured.

During his time with the Canucks, the big man didn’t register as a particularly thoughtful or reflective soul, but he sees the world through a different lens now, one shaped by 20 NHL seasons; one shaped by exhilarating highs and crushing lows.

Still, as he said this week, “I’m still here,” and the Bertuzzi who was welcomed back to Vancouver and feted

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along with former linemates Markus Naslund and Brendan Morrison was at peace with what was and what might have been. At 40, he seems so different than — take your pick — the surly, distant, combative star who alternately dazzled and dismayed this market, but for all the things he’s gone through he’s come out the other side, a man in full.

“We were thrown into an arena here and we weren’t used to the notoriety and the fame,” Bertuzzi says. “It hit us hard and it hit us fast.

I thought I was just a hockey player and I didn’t understand the political side of the media. I look back and I wish I would have had a little more help and a little more guidance. I

think it would have made things easier.

“I did what I did and I don’t regret anything. But when you look back you just wish you would have handled a few things differently.”

Todd 2.0, in fact, bears little resemblance to the Bertuzzi of popular imagination in the early aughts.

Then, he seemed to make his grumpiness a point of pride. Then, his personality was diametrically opposed to the joys that he, Naslund and Morrison created on the ice.

It all came to a head, of course, on March 8, 2004, but as much as the Steve Moore incident impacted his life, it didn’t define him.

Now, he delights in coaching his

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son Tag’s AAA-midget team in the Detroit area and mentoring the young players, a role he embraced in Detroit under Mike Babcock.

“Now I understand what it takes,” Bertuzzi says. “Mike Babcock was that tough a coach and that demanding a coach.

“I see a lot of myself in these kids and I’ve been in all the situations. I remember being that rookie and how tough it was with all those veterans.

I’ve been through the slumps. I’ve had the success and the failure.”

Bertuzzi admits he was hesitant about returning to Vancouver, but there was something about a chance to reconnect with Naslund and Morrison, to say nothing of Canucks fans, that outweighed his misgivings.

The experience didn’t disappoint.

The three men hadn’t been together since Bertuzzi was traded to Florida in the summer of 2006, but it didn’t take long to rekindle the friendship.

“You never know if it’s going to be awkward or it’s going to be the same when you haven’t seen someone for a long time,” says Naslund.

“And it definitely felt the same.

“We have a special bond.”

Naslund, who had to referee more than one spat between Bertuzzi and Marc Crawford, was asked about his old linemate’s coaching career.

“I asked him if I could join him for a day and watch him behind the bench, because I still have a tough time figuring that one out,” Naslund says, laughing.

As for Bertuzzi, he says his favourite part of Monday’s celebration occurred in the afternoon, after the trio had fulfilled their various media and team obligations.

The three men repaired to their hotel bar and, in the game’s time-honoured tradition, had a beer; teammates once, teammates for all time.

“It was just the three of us and we started talking,” says Bertuzzi.

“Remember this, remember that.

Remember this night. Remember that goal.

“It just felt right.”

Then again, so did a lot of things this week.

“He wasn’t portrayed as the guy we knew inside the locker room; the guy we were around every day,” Naslund says of Bertuzzi’s public image.

“That hurt me at times. He was a good teammate and he’d do anything for you. He needed to learn that there was responsibility with being a star player.

“But (Monday night’s celebration) was special for all of us, especially Todd. I’m sure he was hesitant to come back because of the way he left the city.

“I think it was great for him to get the real feeling from the fans.”

And for those fans to see something real from Bertuzzi.

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Triple A squads ready to begin Barsby, Woodlands move up a level to join NDSS, Wellington in Mid-Island league SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

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Nanaimo’s high school basketball scene is going to be full of heated rivalry games this season.

As both the Woodlands Eagles and the John Barsby Bulldogs have moved up to the Triple A level in boys’ hoops, the Vancouver Mid-Island league will feature some of the top players in Nanaimo this year.

The league, which began Tuesday night with Barsby falling 53-33 to Parksville’s Ballenas Whalers and the Wellington Wildcats beating Woodlands 93-35, also features the defending Island champion Nanaimo Islanders.

The Dover Bay Dolphins remain the only Nanaimo school playing at the Quad A level.

“We’re excited to get some rivalry games in town again like it it used to be in the past,” said Woodlands coach Franjo Crnkovic.

“We’re excited to play schools like ND and Wellington again, and I know the kids are excited.

“It brings back times like when I was young when we all played against each other locally, not against all the outside teams.”

The cream of the crop this year looks to be NDSS. The Islanders, ranked No. 7 in the province and No. 1 on the Island, are heading into the first year after the Tyus Barfoot era — the three-year star guard who helped revive that program is now playing at the University of Victoria.

“The team’s going to be a lot different from last year,” said NDSS head coach Jacob Thom.

“We’re going to be more team oriented and not rely on one player to score as much as we did last year.”

Six-foot-seven centre Callum Gemma and sharpshooter Max Reed go into their senior years ready to lead the team and Grade 11 forward Anders Cederberg rteurns after starting as a Grade 10.

“We’re just going to have to be more disciplined running our offence, and everybody’s going to have to know their jobs,” Thom said. “It’s going to be a lot more team-focused offensively and defensively.”

The Islanders are in their second season under Thom as head coach, with former Vancouver Island University head coach Mark Simpson also in the fold.

The most veteran group in the league will be housed at Wellington, as the defending North Island champions (and Island runners-up) didn’t play with a single senior on the roster last year.

They did lose German exchange

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student Anton Kamke, who was capable of posting 30 points on any given night, but Hayden Jeffrey looks ready to take over as the Wildcats No. 1 scorer.

Grade 11 forward Alex Staniforth will also step into a bigger role this season — he played for the U17 Team B.C. squad that won gold at the Western Canada Games over the summer.

“Wellington is always a strong team,” said Barsby coach Brian Lennox.

At John Barsby, the Bulldogs are getting an earlier start than usual as plenty of their players are normally finishing up their football seasons.

This year, with the football team being knocked out in the quarterfinal, that’s not much of a problem. But the Bulldogs did lose a lot from last year’s roster.

Their top scorer, Chris DeGoutiere, is now playing at VIU while starting combo guard North Rainey is in the United States on a baseball scholarship.

Mike Wyse, their third-leading scorer from a year ago, will be the player their hopes will rely on this year as the lone returning starter.

“He is our best player,” Lennox said.

“He’s our best shooter, and he’s going to have to be the guy who does it for us.”

Woodlands, with the graduation of star centre Zack MacKay, will turn to his brother, Max, and Jordan Cox to lead the team this year.

Both are seniors who Crnkovic said have been “busting their asses” for the last five years and should be rewarded this season.

“It doesn’t matter what level we’re at, we’re never the favourite at Woodlands,” Crnkovic said, “but we always end up at the end of the year battling as a good team.

“You never know what can happen in March.”

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SPORTS BRIEFS Compiled by Daily News ◆ TRACK & FIELD

Nanaimo club athletes win top provincial awards Nanaimo and District Track and Field Club athletes and coach Al Johnston were honoured Saturday at the B.C. Athletics Annual Awards Banquet held in Richmond.

Midget 15 Athletes of the Year included Marina Andersen (race walk), Madison Heisterman (middle distance), and Jessica Katzberg (throws). Pole vaulter Jason Clare was nominated for the Youth Male Track and Field Athlete of the Year.

Clare, Alyssa Mousseau (middle distance) and Johnston were all recognized for making national teams in the past year.

Sean Miller was named Junior Male Road Runner of the Year.

◆ WRESTLING

Nanaimo club finishes in second at Cougar Classic The Nanaimo Wrestling Club took second place at the Cougar Classic tournament over the weekend in Mill Bay, led by gritty second place finishes by team leaders Ian Tuck and Eric Hovey. Hovey was also awarded hardest working athlete at the intense elite practice held the night before.

Coaches were impressed by the natural ability of some first year wrestlers. Cole Ford took home a silver medal in his division.

Felix Maghakyan dominated his weight class to win gold.

Samuel Colyn wrestled well after coming back to the mat after a time off due to injury. His final bout was against a seasoned wrestler who dominated Colyn last year. Colyn held his own and despite losing the final claimed the silver in his weight class.

Colby Young displayed grit and power against older wrestlers almost pinning a seasoned opponent in the dying seconds of a match. Young earned a third-place finish for his hard work.

On the girls side, Kaylee Cyr, a hardworking Grade 11 student, earned a third place finish.

Spencer Broz, also back from injury, exerted a more aggressive style which helped him earn a second place finish.

Looking ahead veteran wrestlers will be travelling to the prestigious War On The Floor tournament held at Simon Fraser University next week.

The Nanaimo wrestling team was guided to its strong team finish by coach Andrew Tuck.

◆ CHARITY

Frontrunners looks for shoes to donate to needy Nanaimo’s Frontrunners Footwear location is looking for shoes to donate around the community.

Any used running shoes with any life left in them can be donated at the store on Bowen Road.

Donors are asked to clean the shoes before dropping them off.

Staff at Frontrunners will then ensure they get to people in need of shoes.

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Salary cap projected to rise by $3 million STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Carter Turnbull selected for Canada West DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo’s Carter Turnbull will be part of the Canada West team that is set to compete in the World Junior A Challenge, Hockey Canada announced on Tuesday.

Turnbull, a 17-year-old rookie with the B.C. Hockey League’s Powell River Kings and former member of the Junior B Nanaimo Buccaneers, is one of 22 players selected to play for Canada West.

“We had quite the task to go from the 60 players invited to selection camp to this final 22-player roster,” said Canada West head coach Tim Fragle in a release.

“I’m happy with what we saw at camp, and of the welcome we had in Leduc, and I’m confident we have a strong team heading into this year’s World Junior A Challenge. We’ll be ready to compete.”

Turnbull was the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League’s rookie of the year last season and is fourth in scoring with the Kings this season with 10 goals and nine assists in 26 games. Only nine players from the BCHL made the team — none from the Nanaimo Clippers.

Players named to Team Canada West were selected from the CJHL’s five western Junior A leagues: the BCHL, Alberta Junior Hockey League, Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, Manitoba Junior Hockey League and Superior International Junior Hockey League. Players born in 1995 were not eligible.

The WJAC is being held this year in Cobourg and Whitby, Ont. The gold-medal game is scheduled for Dec. 19 at 1 p.m. and will be broadcast by TSN.

Rempal mentioned among CJHL three stars Clippers star Sheldon Rempal, the BCHL player of the week, garnered an honourable mention November’s Canadian Junior Hockey League’s national three stars.

In 10 November games, Rempal posted 12 goals and eight assists. He now leads the CJHL in scoring with 66 points.

His performance also helped the Clippers to get back into the CJHL’s national rankings — they come in at No. 18 on a nine-game winning streak as one of three BCHL teams in the national Top 20.

The Clippers are back home Friday night as they host the Merritt Centennials on Teddy Bear Toss night.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — While the Canadian dollar continues to struggle, NHL revenues are up enough that the salary cap could increase by as much as US$3 million for next season.

The Canadian dollar is currently worth 74 cents U.S., something that hurts the league when some of its most lucrative markets are Canadian.

But commissioner Gary Bettman said speculation and commentary about the declining Canadian dollar is “a little off the mark” as business is still going well.

Board members said the early projection for the 2016-17 salary cap was about $74.5 million, up from $71.4 million. But that depends on several factors, including the Canadian dollar and the Players’ Association using its five per cent escalator.

“When I give a number, they’re all

“Don’t take that to the bank yet because it’s early. “ Gary Bettman, commissioner

soft this time of year, so I don’t want to pinpoint any number,” Bettman said. “Don’t take that to the bank yet because it’s early. It’s only December, we still have a lot more of the season to play and a lot more revenues to collect.”

A year ago the board was given a rough projection of $73 million, but that was contingent on the Canadian dollar being worth 88 cents. It continued to fall.

“It’s not set in stone or concrete so you have to tread carefully,” New Jersey Devils general manager Ray Shero said.

“It’s good news for the league

when it goes up, good news for the players.”

It may not be good news for budget teams, but it’d be welcome for those who spend to the ceiling. Think about the Tampa Bay Lightning with captain Steven Stamkos still unsigned or the Los Angeles Kings, who are working to get a deal done with centre Anze Kopitar.

“The league has been pretty accurate in their estimation of the cap in the coming year,” Lightning GM Steve Yzerman said. “So it does help you plan a little bit and you have a better idea. From the manager’s perspective, the cap going up gives you a little more flexibility to do what you need to do.”

Kings president of business operations Luc Robitaille doesn’t lose sleep over the salary cap.

“You just have to manage within the cap and figure it out,” Robitaille said. “It gives an opportunity to

everyone. At the same time, if you believe in your team, you push it and try to go there. When you have a good team, you have a lot of good players who deserve a good salary.”

The Stanley Cup-champion Chicago Blackhawks could have used more room last summer when they traded Patrick Sharp, Brandon Saad and Johnny Oduya and let Brad Richards leave in free agency.

Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff was with the Blackhawks in 2010 when they had to tear things down the first time.

Cheveldayoff could use as high a cap as reasonably possible with captain Andrew Ladd and all-star defenceman Dustin Byfuglien impending free agents.

“It’s such a soft, fluctuating number,” Cheveldayoff said of the cap projection. “Who knows how different it might be six months from now?”

Medical condition ends career Pittsburgh’s Pascal Dupuis forced to retire after blood clots sidelines him last season THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ascal Dupuis knew his comeback from the blood clots that sidelined him for most of last season would pose a unique set of challenges.

In the end, the risk proved to be too much.

The versatile Pittsburgh Penguins forward retired on Tuesday, coming to the decision after consulting with team doctors and his family.

“It’s all about them,” said the married father of four. “If all this was on me or if I would have taken a selfish approach to this, I would still be playing.”

The 36-year-old had two goals and two assists in 18 games after missing the majority of the 2014-15 season after blood clots were discovered in his lungs.

He took blood thinners to deal with the condition and was following a protocol that monitored his status.

Dupuis experienced a series of small setbacks, including leaving a game against San Jose last week after two periods with chest pain. He was cleared after undergoing a series of tests and played in weekend losses in Los Angeles and Anaheim.

The extended West Coast road trip, however, gave Dupuis time to think. The rigorous series of exams he needed to undergo every time something popped up was more than a nuisance, it was troubling.

“I don’t feel like I should have my body go through this again,” he said.

Dupuis finishes with 190 goals and 219 assists in 871 games with Pittsburgh, Minnesota, the Atlanta Thrashers (now the Winnipeg Jets) and the New York Rangers.

He helped the Penguins to the 2009 Stanley Cup and was one of the most popular players in the dressing room, beloved as much for his quick wit as

In this Nov. 11 file photo, Pittsburgh Penguin Pascal Dupuis skates during the second period of an NHL game against the Montreal Canadiens in Pittsburgh. [AP PHOTO]

his nimble skating and penalty killing prowess.

Penguins’ captain and longtime linemate Sidney Crosby had to gather himself when asked about what Dupuis meant to the club in his nine seasons with Pittsburgh.

“I don’t know if I could get through it, to be honest with you,” Crosby said.

“I’m going to miss him a lot.”

Yet Crosby, like the rest of Dupuis’ teammates, understood. They’d watched him fight back from a torn ACL in his right knee in December 2013 and his slow, deliberate recovery from the blood clots.

That didn’t stop them from holding their breath every time he went down

to block a shot or absorb a hit along the boards.

“It wasn’t always that easy (to watch),” forward Chris Kunitz said.

Penguins team doctor Dharmesh Vyas said the chances Dupuis took while playing along with the side effects of the tests required to monitor him were “not in the best interest of his long-term health.”

While Dupuis admitted it will take some time adjusting to life without the game he’s played since childhood, he expects to be able to live a normal life.

He understood the tenuousness of his situation weighed on family and teammates alike and he stressed he didn’t want to become a distraction.

“Personally, in the off-season I felt he was taking a big risk by trying to play,” general manager Jim Rutherford said. “But he’s very determined.

He wanted to try it. Medically he can’t do it anymore.”

The Penguins will pay Dupuis through the end of the four-year contract he signed before the 2013-14 season. He hopes to remain involved with the franchise in some capacity.

Pittsburgh, which plays Colorado on Wednesday, is off to a sluggish start and sits fifth in the crowded Metropolitan Division.

“My main goal is to try and help this team as much as I can to win the Stanley Cup,” Dupuis said. “But it’s definitely not going to be on the ice.”

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NFC East playoff qualifier won’t apologize, regardless of poor record SCHUYLER DIXON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IRVING, Texas — Players and coaches in the NFC East won’t be apologizing anytime soon for their woeful division having a spot in the playoffs — with a home game, no less.

Neither will Dallas owner and general manager Jerry Jones.

“I’m going to go back to that old saying: it’s an ugly baby, but it’s my baby,” Jones said on his radio show Tuesday, a day after the Cowboys beat Washington to drop the Redskins into a three-way tie with Philadelphia and the New York Giants for the East lead at 5-7.

Dallas, which won the division at 12-4 last season, is one game back despite just two victories in 10 weeks. And the Cowboys (4-8) are headed to Green Bay after finally winning without quarterback Tony Romo — a first in eight tries this season.

“The bottom line is, ’Why not?”’

Jones said. “We can go up there and the defence put together a game like that, a little more confidence in our offence, and here we go. Why not?”

The rest of the NFL might have a different question. Like, why?

“Does it matter?” Eagles tackle Jason Peters countered. “We can win the division and that’s what matters.

If a team was 12-0 and we were 11-1, it’s no different. The records aren’t as good, but it’s all about winning your division.”

The same questions were circulating a year ago about the NFC South.

Carolina recovered from 3-8-1 to win four straight for a 7-8-1 finish before beating Arizona at home in the wildcard round. The Panthers haven’t lost in the regular season since, a winning streak that’s up to 16 games

Washington Redskins receiver DeSean Jackson (11) carries the ball on a kickoff return under pressure from Dallas Cowboys outside linebacker Kyle Wilber in Landover, Md., Monday. Jackson later fumbled the ball. [AP PHOTO]

now. There is one other fairly recent example of a painfully weak division getting a wild-card win from its champion: Seattle in the NFC West in 2010, when the Seahawks rode their rowdy home crowd to a victory over defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans after a 7-9 finish.

“Records aren’t good, but they’re good teams,” coach Jay Gruden said after the Redskins blew a chance to be the division’s only .500 team.

The most important play in Washington’s 19-16 loss fittingly was DeSean Jackson’s poor decision to backtrack more than 20 yards on a punt return to his one in the final two minutes. His fumble led to the only touchdown for Dallas’ 27th-ranked offence.

“There’s a lot of talent on these football teams that we’re playing, I promise you that,” Gruden said.

“It’s exciting down the stretch and that’s the way the NFC East is going to be. Whether we’re 12-0 or 4-12, it doesn’t matter.

“The fact of the matter is we have four games left and everything in our goals is still reachable.”

The Eagles gave up 45 points in consecutive blowouts before getting three touchdowns from the defence and special teams in a 35-28 win over Super Bowl champion New England last weekend. The Cowboys, Giants and Redskins each lost to the Patriots.

The Giants keep giving away fourth-quarter leads with question-

able decisions in game management by coach Tom Coughlin. And the Redskins just can’t keep a good thing going. They had five straight home wins before again failing to win consecutive games for the first time this season.

The Cowboys have the best excuses, with Romo missing seven games with a broken left collarbone and now out for the rest of the regular season at least with another break in that shoulder. All-Pro receiver Dez Bryant sat five games with a broken foot and didn’t look much like himself in the first few weeks back.

Dallas couldn’t find ways to win close games until Monday night, when the Cowboys bounced back from allowing Kirk Cousins’ tying touchdown pass to Jackson in the final minute and got in position for Dan Bailey’s winning 54-yard field goal with nine seconds remaining.

So now the NFC East is the target of tweets like the one Monday that laid out a scenario of a four-way tie among 6-10 teams. Unlikely, of course, but that’s what happens when last-place Dallas has the best division record at 3-2, and yet is the only team that doesn’t control its playoff fate.

Since the Redskins visit the Eagles in Week 16 and the Giants have the Eagles at home on the final weekend of the regular season, all three division leaders don’t have to count on anyone else at the moment.

“It’s crazy, really,” Philadelphia defensive end Vinny Curry said. “I know this doesn’t sound right, but we’re better than our record, way better.

“We just have to go out and play our kind of football.”

It hasn’t been very good football most of this season in the NFC East.

Perfect Panthers still league’s top team SIMMI BUTTAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers are rolling along while Tom Brady and the Patriots are surprisingly sliding with four games left in the regular season.

The Panthers moved to 12-0 after rallying past the Saints 41-38 on Sunday and remain on top of the latest AP Pro32 rankings.

The Panthers again received all 12 first-place votes in balloting by 12 media members who regularly cover the league.

The NFC South champions host the reeling Falcons on Sunday.

“The Panthers are the last of the unbeatens at 12-0 in pursuit of the NFL’s only perfect team, the 1972 Miami Dolphins (17-0),” said Rick Gosselin of The Dallas Morning News.

“Don Shula coached those Dolphins. His son Mike is offensive co-ordinator at Carolina.”

NEWTON

The Patriots dropped three spots to fifth after a 35-28 loss to the Eagles at home. They will look to end their two-game slide when they face the Texans on Sunday night in Houston.

“Injuries continue to take a toll, as the Patriots lose back-to-back games for the first time since 2012 and take a major step back in their bid to earn the top seed in the AFC,” Newsday’s Bob Glauber said.

“Some uncharacteristic mistakes burn New England against the Eagles in a rare home loss.”

The Cardinals (No. 2), the Broncos (No. 3) and the Bengals (No. 4) each moved up one spot on Tuesday.

Arizona gets Week 14 started when it hosts Minnesota on Thursday night.

“This team looks ready for the post-season,” ESPN’s Herm Edwards said of the NFC West leaders who are 10-2 on the season.

Denver, which held San Diego to only three points last week, hosts Oakland as it closes in on another AFC West title. Von Miller led the Broncos defence with two sacks in the 17-3 win.

“Asking one player to block Von Miller is a recipe for disaster,” said Ira Kaufman of The Tampa Tribune.

The Bengals are coming off a 37-3 rout of the Browns and can clinch the AFC North with a win over the surging Steelers on Sunday. Pitts-

burgh jumped two spots to No. 8.

“Can make me a believer this week vs. Pittsburgh,” NBC Sports’ Tony Dungy said of the Bengals.

Seattle also moved up a spot to No. 6 after dominating the Vikings, who dropped to No. 10. The Seahawks try to continue their push to the playoffs when they face the Ravens on Sunday.

“Seahawks look scary again,” Fox Sports’ John Czarnecki said.

The Chiefs, who have won six games in a row, are No. 7 in the poll.

The Packers, who remained at No. 9, and Vikings are tied for the top spot in the NFC North. Green Bay needed Aaron Rodgers’ desperation pass to stun the Lions 27-23 on Thursday. It hosts the Cowboys, who despite being 4-8, are only a game out of first place in the mediocre NFC East.

“The Packers needed a miracle finish, but that win in Detroit could save their season,” Edwards said.

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FOOTBALL BRIEFS The Associated Press ◆ GREEN BAY

Packers want to carry on with Lacy after discipline Eddie Lacy has a chance to regain the starting running back job in Green Bay after falling into disfavour last week with coach Mike McCarthy.

“Everything Eddie wants to accomplish is right there in front of him,” McCarthy said before practice on Tuesday.

Lacy didn’t play much in the 27-23 win on Thursday night over Detroit.

He had five carries for four yards, and James Starks replaced him as the starter. ESPN.com has reported that Lacy and third-string running back Alonzo Harris missed curfew the night before the game. Lacy was demoted and Harris was released.

Lacy played only 19 snaps in the come-from-behind victory over Detroit after averaging 19.5 carries in back-to-back 100-yard rushing games.

◆ MINNESOTA

Adrian Peterson lobbies for even more carries Adrian Peterson said the more carries he gets, the more he believes he can help a Minnesota Vikings offence that has struggled to consistently deliver big plays.

He also knows he has to do more with the carries he does get as the Vikings enter the crucial final stretch of the season.

Peterson leads the NFL in rushing but is coming off of an eight-carry day in a 38-7 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. It was his lowest workload of the season and the third-lowest of his career, and the Vikings were completely overwhelmed without their star running back in the mix.

After the game he raised some eyebrows when he said the team was “outcoached,” but Peterson was quick to point out Tuesday that there were at least two plays in the first half that he could have taken for touchdowns had he made the right read.

◆ CHICAGO

Injured Bears’ Bennett will miss rest of season Chicago Bears tight end Martellus Bennett will miss the rest of the season because of a rib injury.

The Bears placed Bennett on injured reserve Tuesday, ending his third season in Chicago and ninth in the NFL. With Bennett out, the Bears signed former Arizona and Cleveland tight end Rob Housler.

They also announced that offensive tackle Tayo Fabuluje has been removed from the reserve/suspended by the commissioner list, but the team has a roster exemption for him.

Chicago (5-7) hosts Washington this weekend. Bennett, the team leader with 53 catches, has been dealing with the rib injury the past few weeks. He missed the win at Green Bay on Thanksgiving and was limited during Chicago’s overtime loss to San Francisco on Sunday.

Bennett was shaken up early in the third quarter against the 49ers when he took a hit to the left side.

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Jones ready to work in CFL-mad Regina JENNIFER GRAHAM THE CANADIAN PRESS

In this April 8 file photo, Lindsey Vonn sits with Tiger Woods and his children Sam and Charlie during the Par 3 contest at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. [AP PHOTO]

Tiger Woods, unsure when he’ll play, dwells on his past with no point in looking further

J

ordan Spieth is used to having an audience on the golf course.

Just not Tiger Woods.

Spieth had just made bogey from the sand on the par-3 fifth hole at Albany Golf Club when he heard from the other side of the ropes, “Don’t worry. You’ll get it back.”

It was hard to ignore because no more than a dozen people were following him at the Hero World Challenge. What startled him was recognizing the voice and looking over to see Woods watching him and Bill Haas from a golf cart during the third round.

“If you had told me four years ago when I was still in college that Tiger would be sitting in a cart watching me play . . . I mean, that was weird,” Spieth said.

A moment later, Spieth added what so many other players are saying, or at least thinking.

“We need him back out here playing.”

He can only watch at the moment, and there is no indication when that might change.

Woods used to speak without giving much information. Now he has no information, and it seemed to speak volumes.

He doesn’t know when his back, which has had three procedures in the same spot over 18 months, will get better. He

Doug Ferguson On The Fringe doesn’t know when he can start doing any exercise beyond walking. He doesn’t know when he can play.

What was rare about his news conference last Tuesday was his willingness to look back instead of forward. He said it has been a great career no matter what happens the rest of the way. The public and his peers can debate his place in history with 79 wins on the PGA Tour, 14 majors and a combined 13 years at No. 1 in the world. And anything else, Woods said, “will be gravy.”

That explains why so many stories read like golfing obituaries. But there was no visible indication from Woods during a week in the Bahamas that this was the end. Subdued in his news conference, he was relaxed the rest of the week.

Woods mingled during a Thursday night party called “India Night,” sharing laughs and stories.

Different about this night is that after about 10 minutes of standing, he quietly retreated to a bench to carry on the conversation while sitting. And when

he got back up, Woods arched his back in a long, slow motion.

So yes, this will be a tedious recovery — if it ever gets started. And in the meantime, there will be a void to fill for those yearning for answers.

Will he ever win again? Will he ever play again? And the way he reflected on his career, does he even care if he plays again?

“He was, it seemed to me, invincible for the longest time,” Haas said.

“And I would say he was so that way that I wouldn’t put it past him to come back and be extremely good again. I don’t know that he’ll ever be where he was because he was so far ahead of everyone else. But he may be No. 1 again. It wouldn’t shock anyone, I don’t think.”

The most fun Woods had all year on the golf course was the Wyndham Championship, where he was two shots behind going into the final round. He closed with a 70, wound up four shots back and tied for 10th.

If or when his health improves, that could be a seminal moment.

Woods brought out record crowds in Greensboro, North Carolina, and it served two purposes — what he did for the tournament, and what the tournament did for him. It was a wholesome reminder of his stardom, and it was needed after the worst two seasons of his career.

And he surely paid attention to the winner, Davis Love III, a 51-year-old who found a way to win after significant surgeries to his ankle and neck.

Woods made it clear that he wants to keep playing, provided his health co-operates.

“I’m far from being done,” he said in the broadcast booth during the final round. “But I have to be patient, which I’m not very good at when it comes to that side of it.”

The real challenge will be his ability to be honest with the state of his back, his game and the competition.

Woods said 10 years ago in the parking lot at Doral that “I’ll definitely quit the game earlier than people think.”

In today’s context, it’s eerie.

Then again, most golfers approaching the prime of their careers think they will always have more control than they really do. More interesting that day was Woods saying there would be no reason for him to play if his best was not good enough.

But how will he ever know?

When do the very best athletes, particularly in a sport like golf, ever think they played their best? It’s an endless pursuit until retirement becomes awkward.

That’s what Woods will have to figure out when he returns.

If he returns.

REGINA — Chris Jones comes from the southern United States, where football is akin to religion.

He sees the same dedication to the sport in his new CFL home.

Jones was introduced Monday as the new head coach, general manager and vice-president of football operations of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, ending weeks of speculation about the Grey Cup-winning coach’s future.

Jones, who led the Edmonton Eskimos to a CFL championship this season, says he’s looking forward to working in Saskatchewan, which boasts a fervent fan base.

“I’m from a little, small place down in Tennessee, town called South Pittsburg . . . and to have this opportunity, I woke up this morning with a smile on my face,” Jones said at a news conference at Mosaic Stadium in Regina.

“Football matters a whole lot down south, and it matters a whole lot here, and that hinged a lot on my decision.”

Jones will have his work cut out for him, inheriting a Roughriders team that struggled mightily last season en route to a league-worst 3-15 record.

Saskatchewan spent half of last season with interim tags on both its head coach and GM after the organization fired coach Corey Chamblin and GM Brendan Taman in September.

Jones wouldn’t speculate on his vision for the Riders’ future.

“I’m not going to sit here and make any bold predictions or anything like that,” he said. “I can you that we’re going to put a really high quality, high character staff together that enjoys being around each other.

We’re going to bring in good people first, that happen to be good football players and we’re just going to go to work.”

He says there are good players on the roster and it’s a matter of adding to an already good product. However, he adds the salary cap “will dictate who can stay and who has to go.”

November 23 - December 17, 2015 Schedules are subject to change without notice.

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NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION Montreal Detroit Ottawa

GP 28 27 27

W 19 15 14

L OTL SL 6 2 1 8 4 0 8 2 3

GF 94 71 86

GA 63 69 81

Pts Home 41 10-3-2-0 34 9-5-3-0 33 7-4-1-3

Away 9-3-0-1 6-3-1-0 7-4-1-0

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

L OTL SL 7 1 2 5 2 0 8 3 2

GF 80 79 78

GA 58 55 67

Pts Home 39 12-4-1-0 38 10-3-1-0 35 10-4-2-0

Away 6-3-0-2 8-2-1-0 5-4-1-2

Last 10 Strk 4-5-0-1 W-1 7-1-2-0 L-1 6-2-1-1 L-1

METROPOLITAN DIVISION NY Rangers Washington NY Islanders

GP 28 25 28

W 18 18 15

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

GP 26 27 26 27 28 27 27 27 27 28

W 14 14 14 13 13 11 11 10 9 11

L OTL SL 9 2 1 10 1 2 10 1 1 10 3 1 12 1 2 11 4 1 13 1 2 13 3 1 13 1 4 16 0 1

GF 85 69 61 69 66 54 65 59 61 66

GA 75 66 62 66 65 74 73 81 74 81

Pts 31 31 30 30 29 27 25 24 23 23

Home 5-7-1-0 6-6-1-2 8-4-0-1 6-5-2-0 6-5-0-1 5-5-2-1 6-8-1-0 6-6-2-1 4-5-1-2 4-7-0-1

Away 9-2-1-1 8-4-0-0 6-6-1-0 7-5-1-1 7-7-1-1 6-6-2-0 5-5-0-2 4-7-1-0 5-8-0-2 7-9-0-0

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Dallas St. Louis Minnesota

GP 27 27 26

W 20 15 14

L OTL SL 5 1 1 8 3 1 7 5 0

GF 93 68 70

GA 70 67 64

Pts Home 42 9-3-0-0 34 7-4-2-0 33 10-3-1-0

Away 11-2-1-1 8-4-1-1 4-4-4-0

Last 10 Strk 7-1-1-1 L-1 4-3-2-1 L-3 4-4-2-0 L-1

PACIFIC DIVISION Los Angeles San Jose Arizona

GP 26 26 27

W L OTL SL 17 8 0 1 14 12 0 0 13 13 1 0

GF 68 70 74

GA 55 68 85

Pts Home 35 11-5-0-0 28 4-8-0-0 27 6-4-0-0

Away 6-3-0-1 10-4-0-0 7-9-1-0

Last 10 Strk 7-2-0-1 W-4 6-4-0-0 L-3 4-6-0-0 L-4

GP 27 27 28 28 28 28 28 26

W 14 14 13 11 9 12 11 10

GF 72 74 76 55 72 77 71 65

GA 71 69 85 68 79 81 82 94

Pts 33 32 28 27 26 25 24 22

Away 6-5-3-0 5-6-3-0 6-9-0-1 3-8-1-0 6-5-4-1 8-9-0-0 4-10-1-0 3-9-1-1

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

WILD CARD Nashville Chicago Winnipeg Anaheim Vancouver Colorado Edmonton Calgary

L OTL SL 8 4 1 9 4 0 13 1 1 12 4 1 11 7 1 15 1 0 15 2 0 14 1 1

Home 8-3-1-1 9-3-1-0 7-4-1-0 8-4-3-1 3-6-3-0 4-6-1-0 7-5-1-0 7-5-0-0

Note: the winning team receives 2 points and a victory in the W column; a team losing in an overtime or shootout gets 1 point in the respective OTL or SOL column.

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Nashville 3 Boston 2 Colorado 2 Minnesota 1 (OT) Buffalo at Vancouver 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Carolina 5 Arizona 4 Chicago 3 Winnipeg 1 New Jersey 4 Florida 2 NY Rangers 4 Ottawa 1 Edmonton 4 Buffalo 2 Anaheim 2 Pittsburgh 1 Los Angeles 3 Tampa Bay 1 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV Los Angeles at Columbus, 7 p.m.

NY Islanders at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Arizona at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Carolina at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

San Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Boston at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 10 p.m.

NY Rangers at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Washington at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Montreal at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Columbus at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Buffalo at Calgary, 9 p.m.

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)LUVW 3HULRG 1. Boston, Miller 2 (Krejci, Beleskey) 4:13.

2. Nashville, Josi 6 (Ribeiro, Weber) 19:35 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Trotman Bos (holding) 13:30; Neal Nash (slashing) 13:54; Marchand Bos, Forsberg Nash (interference) 17:49; Chara Bos (high-sticking) 18:41.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. Boston, Eriksson 10 (Spooner, Bergeron) 10:53 (pp).

4. Nashville, Josi 7 (unassisted) 11:20 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Josi Nash, Marchand Bos ÀJKWLQJ 5DQGHOO %RV 1\VWURP 1DVK ÀJKWLQJ )RUVEHUJ 1DVK WULSping) 6:38; Neal Nash (embellishment) 10:44; Bergeron Bos (hooking) 11:08; Marchand Bos (interference) 13:44; Randell Bos (boarding) 17:26.

7KLUG 3HULRG 5. Nashville, Arvidsson 3 (Hodgson, Weber) 15:04.

3HQDOWLHV — Randell Bos (tripping) 3:34; Connolly Bos (goalie interference) 11:21.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Nashville 12 12 9 —33 Boston 7 4 6 —17 *RDO — Nashville: Hutton (W, 3-1-0); Boston: Gustavsson (L, 5-2-0).

3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Nashville: 2-7; Boston: 1-3.

Referees — Dean Morton, Tim Peel. /LQHVPHQ — Brandon Gawryletz, Steve Barton.

Attendance — 17,565 at Boston.

)LUVW 3HULRG ÂłNo Scoring.

3HQDOW\ — Mitchell Col (tripping) 16:46.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 1. Col, Barrie 3 (Soderberg, Comeau) 4:13.

3HQDOWLHV — Zucker Minn, Iginla Col, Mitchell Col (roughing) 10:50.

7KLUG 3HULRG 2. Min, Parise 8 (Granlund, Pominville) 13:51.

3HQDOWLHV — None.

2YHUWLPH 3. Col, Mitchell 6 (Duchene, Barrie) 3:35.

3HQDOWLHV — None.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Minnesota 4 9 4 2 —19 Colorado 6 4 6 4 —20 *RDO —Minn: Kuemper (L 1-0-3); Colo: Varlamov (W 7-8-1). 3RZHU SOD\V (goalchances) — Minn: 0-2; Colorado: 0-0.

Attendance — 16,589 at Colorado.

Kane, Chi Benn, Dal Seguin, Dal Karlsson, Ott Cammalleri, NJ D. Sedin, Vcr Hall, Edm Wheeler, Win Panarin, Chi Klingberg, Dal Tarasenko, StL Hoffman, Ott Gaudreau, Cal Ryan, Ott Krejci, Bos H. Sedin, Vcr Kuznetsov, Wash Pacioretty, Mon Pavelski, SJ

G 16 18 14 6 11 12 11 9 9 5 15 14 9 9 9 8 8 13 12

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A 26 17 21 26 19 17 17 18 18 22 11 12 17 17 17 18 18 12 13

Pt 42 35 35 32 30 29 28 27 27 27 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 25 25

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)LUVW 3HULRG 1. Buf, Eichel 9 (Gionta, McGinn) 6:58.

2. Edm, Purcell 5 (Hall, Draisaitl) 9:36.

3. Edmonton, Eberle 5 (Nugent-Hopkins) 16:06.

4. Edmonton, Hall 11 (Purcell, Schultz) 18:55 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Hendricks Edm, Girgensons Buf (roughing) 12:03; Gorges Buf (interference) 18:39.

6HFRQG 3HULRG %XIIDOR 2¡5HLOO\ %RJRVLDQ &RODLDcovo) 13:22 (pp).

6. Edmonton, Gazdic 1 (Klefbom, Lander) 17:43.

3HQDOWLHV — Nugent-Hopkins Edm (highsticking) 2:20; Davidson Edm (tripping) 7:37; Gryba Edm (interference) 11:30.

7KLUG 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Hall Edm (boarding) 5:07; Kane Buf, Hall Edm (unsportsmanlike conduct) 11:45.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Buffalo 7 11 16 —34 Edmonton 9 13 6 —28 *RDO — Buffalo: Johnson (L, 7-8-1); Edmonton: Nilsson (W, 8-7-1).

3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Buffalo: 1-4; Edmonton: 1-1.

Attendance — 16,839 at Edmonton.

EAST DIVISION

5$1*(56 6(1$7256 )LUVW 3HULRG 1. NY Rangers, McDonagh 4 (Yandle, Kreider) 8:40 (pp).

2. NY Rangers, Brassard 8 (McDonagh, Nash) 13:47 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Zibanejad Ott (interference) 7:16; Ott Bench (Abusive Language) 13:16.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. Ott, Methot 2 (Prince, Dziurzynski) 6:01.

3HQDOWLHV — Miller NYR (holding) 2:03; Kreider NYR (interference) 14:36.

7KLUG 3HULRG 4. NY Rangers, Brassard 9 (McDonagh, Girardi) 10:08.

5. NY Rangers, Fast 4 (unassisted) 18:29 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — None.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Ottawa 8 13 3 —24 NY Rangers 10 9 12 —31 *RDO — Ottawa: Anderson (L, 12-7-3); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 14-5-3).

3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Ottawa: 0-2; NY Rangers: 2-2.

Attendance — 18,006 at NY Rangers.

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)LUVW 3HULRG 1. Chicago, Hossa 5 (Seabrook, Toews) 17:56.

3HQDOWLHV — Desjardins Chi (tripping) 4:59; Scheifele Wpg (interference) 9:23; Byfuglien Wpg (roughing) 19:28.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 2. Winnipeg, Thorburn 4 (Enstrom) 5:34.

3HQDOWLHV — None.

7KLUG 3HULRG 3. Chi, Teravainen 5 (Keith, Hossa) :21.

4. Chicago, Panarin 9 (Kane, Hjalmarsson) 18:14 (en).

3HQDOWLHV — Garbutt Chi (slashing) 8:10; Little Wpg (hooking) 14:10.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Winnipeg 11 12 8 —31 Chicago 11 9 12 —32 *RDO — Winnipeg: Hutchinson (L, 5-7-1); Chicago: Crawford (W, 12-7-2).

3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-2; Chicago: 0-3.

Attendance — 21,749 at Chicago.

.,1*6 /,*+71,1* )LUVW 3HULRG 1. LA, Andreoff 2 (Shore, Doughty) 12:24.

3HQDOWLHV — Muzzin LA (interference) 2:38; Brown TB (holding) 18:26.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 2. Tampa Bay, Boyle 7 (Callahan) :27.

3. Los Angeles, McNabb 1 (Kopitar) :39.

4. Los Angeles, Lucic 10 (Carter, McNabb) 3:47.

3HQDOWLHV — Ehrhoff LA (holding) 4:35; Brown LA (slashing) 5:26; Marchessault TB (roughing), Ehrhoff LA (cross-checking) 11:53; Carter LA (tripping) 12:57; Doughty LA (slashing) 15:29.

7KLUG 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Hedman TB (elbowing) 9:48; Kucherov TB (hooking) 15:56; Shore LA (cross-checking) 18:37; Filppula TB (tripping) 18:53.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Tampa Bay 6 11 8 —25 Los Angeles 8 11 9 —28 *RDO — Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy (L, 2-40); Los Angeles: Quick (W, 14-7-1).

3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Tampa Bay: 0-6; Los Angeles: 0-3.

Attendance — 18,230 at Los Angeles.

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 29 19 10 0 0 117 86 38 29 19 10 0 0 109 83 38 31 18 11 1 1 98 95 38 29 12 14 3 0 82 97 27 27 8 16 2 1 85 113 19 31 6 23 2 0 58 128 14

New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

B.C. DIVISION

WEST

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 29 22 6 1 0 117 82 45 Victoria 29 19 8 1 1 101 64 40 Prince George 28 17 9 1 1 90 80 36 Kamloops 26 12 10 3 1 94 88 28 Vancouver 30 8 18 2 2 85 111 20

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt 27 17 8 2 0 95 78 36 28 15 10 2 1 96 93 33 26 15 9 0 2 66 52 32 27 13 14 0 0 89 84 26 29 11 17 1 0 87 112 23

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 W column; team losing in overtime or shootout receives 1 pt. in OTL or SOL columns 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Calgary 2 Swift Current 1 (SO) Prince Albert 3 Red Deer 1 Prince George 6 Vancouver 5 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO Calgary at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Prince George, 8 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Calgary at Regina, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPH Edmonton at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION Penticton Salmon Arm West Kelowna Vernon Trail Merritt

GP W L 31 28 2 29 18 8 31 17 12 33 14 17 30 13 17 32 10 20

T OTL GF GA Pt 1 0 136 60 57 2 1 121 81 39 0 2 119 114 36 0 2 138 105 30 0 0 84 123 26 0 2 108 141 22

ISLAND DIVISION GP W L 1DQDLPR

Cowichan Vally 31 16 11 Powell River 29 17 11 Victoria 33 12 17 Alberni Valley 30 11 16

T OTL GF GA Pt

1 3 111 139 36 0 1 105 77 35 0 4 86 100 28 2 1 87 115 25

MAINLAND DIVISION Chilliwack Wenatchee Langley Coquitlam Prince George Surrey

GP W L 29 19 6 31 18 9 30 18 12 31 12 14 32 8 22 30 5 25

T OTL GF GA Pt 1 3 115 68 42 2 2 106 73 40 0 0 116 92 36 1 4 94 126 29 0 2 75 137 18 0 0 76 154 10

6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Alberni Valley 5 Coquitlam 4 (OT) Victoria 4 Powell River 1 Cowichan Valley 3 Salmon Arm 2 1DQDLPR Surrey 5 7XHVGD\¡V JDPH $OO WLPHV /RFDO Alberni Valley at Victoria, 7 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Wenatchee at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Vernon, 7 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Chilliwack at Prince George, 7 p.m. )ULGD\ V JDPHV West Kelowna at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Merritt at 1DQDLPR, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.

Coquitlam at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Trail at Powell River, 7:15 p.m.

L 2 5 6 7

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .833 .583 .500 .417

PF 375 295 296 240

PA 247 248 278 300

W 6 6 4 3

L 6 6 8 9

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .500 .500 .333 .250

PF 259 253 275 245

PA 305 264 341 296

W L 10 2 7 5 4 8 2 10

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .833 .583 .333 .167

PF 334 311 272 216

PA 196 240 291 347

W 10 7 5 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .833 .583 .417 .250

PF 269 321 284 247

PA 210 240 314 324

NORTH

WESTERN CONFERENCE

U.S. DIVISION

W 10 7 6 5

SOUTH Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

Seattle Spokane Everett Portland Tri-City

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EAST

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 29 18 8 2 1 93 87 39 Brandon 28 17 8 1 2 102 73 37 Moose Jaw 29 15 9 4 1 103 92 35 Regina 28 14 11 2 1 84 92 31 Saskatoon 28 10 15 3 0 83 117 23 Swift Current 29 8 17 3 1 66 93 20

Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

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L 2 5 7 9

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Washington Dallas

W 5 5 5 4

L 7 7 7 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .417 .417 .417 .333

PF 307 278 257 223

PA 296 302 286 277

W 12 6 6 4

L 0 6 6 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .333

PF 373 271 279 299

PA 243 298 257 380

W 8 8 5 4

L 4 4 7 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .417 .333

PF 289 238 251 253

PA 238 232 290 315

W 10 7 4 4

L 2 5 8 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .833 .583 .333 .333

PF 382 305 189 178

PA 232 229 257 291

SOUTH x-Carolina Tampa Bay Atlanta New Orleans

NORTH Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit

WEST Arizona Seattle St. Louis San Francisco

x â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched division 0RQGD\¡V UHVXOW Dallas 19 Washington 16 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Arizona 27 St. Louis 3 Seattle 38 Minnesota 7 Tennessee 42 Jacksonville 39 San Francisco 26 Chicago 20 (OT) N.Y. Jets 23 N.Y. Giants 20 (OT) Tampa Bay 23 Atlanta 19 Buffalo 30 Houston 21 Miami 15 Baltimore 13 Cincinnati 37 Cleveland 3 Denver 17 San Diego 3 Kansas City 34 Oakland 20 Carolina 41 New Orleans 38 Philadelphia 35 New England 28 Pittsburgh 45 Indianapolis 10

WEEK 14 7KXUVGD\ V JDPH Minnesota at Arizona, 8:25 p.m.

6XQGD\ 'HF Detroit at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 4:05 p.m.

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

New England at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

0RQGD\ 'HF N.Y. Giants at Miami, 8:30 p.m.

NCAA BOWLS (Subject to Change) 6DWXUGD\ 'HF

CELEBRATION BOWL $W $WODQWD NC A&T (9-2) vs. Alcorn St. (9-3), noon

NEW MEXICO BOWL $W $OEXTXHUTXH Arizona (6-6) vs. New Mexico (7-5), 2 p.m. (ESPN)

LAS VEGAS BOWL BYU (9-3) v. Utah (9-3), 3:30 p.m. (ABC)

CAMELIA BOWL $W 0RQWJRPHU\ $OD Ohio (8-4) vs. Appalachian State (9-2), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

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6HFRQG 4XDUWHU 'DOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Bailey 38, 6:31.

Washâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Hopkins 45, :00.

7KLUG 4XDUWHU Washâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Hopkins 36, 10:33.

'DOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Bailey 34, 3:34. )RXUWK 4XDUWHU Washâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Hopkins 46, 14:15.

'DOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Bailey 20, 4:22.

'DOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;McFadden 6 run (Bailey kick), 1:14.

Washâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jackson 28 pass from Cousins (Hopkins kick), :44.

'DOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Bailey 54, :09.

Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 80,444 at Washington.

TEAM STATISTICS 'DO :DVK 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

16 317 24-97 220 3-31 2-70 0-0 16-29-0 1-2 4-41.5 4-3 8-70 27:13

15 266 26-73 193 2-0 5-125 0-0 22-31-0 3-26 6-42.2 2-1 9-73 32:47

,1',9,'8$/ 67$7,67,&6 5XVKLQJâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;'DO McFadden 14-53, Whitehead 2-35, Turbin 6-12, Cassel 2-(minus 3). Wash: Jones 18-49, Morris 6-12, Cousins 1-6, Thompson 1-6.

3DVVLQJâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;'DO Cassel 16-29-0-222.

Wash: Cousins 22-31-0-219.

5HFHLYLQJâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;'DO Witten 5-45, Bryant 3-62, Williams 2-63, Turbin 2-12, Street 1-18, Hanna 1-11, McFadden 1-6, Whitehead 1-5. Wash: Jackson 6-80, Garcon 5-54, Thompson 4-18, Reed 3-33, Crowder 3-29, Jones 1-5.

0LVVHG )LHOG *RDOVâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wash: Hopkins 43 (WR).

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)LUVW 4XDUWHU Indâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Vinatieri 35, 10:19.

3LWâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Boswell 29, 5:27.

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Thompson scores 39 as Warriors improve to 23-0 MICHAEL MAROT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDIANAPOLIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors spent the first three quarters playing as flawlessly as their unbeaten record.

They spent the last 12 minutes Tuesday trying to protect their perfect quest.

On a night Thompson scored a season-high 39 points and reigning MVP Stephen Curry nearly had a triple-double, the Warriors improved

to 23-0 by stopping Indianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s furious fourth-quarter comeback and holding off the Pacers 131-123. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to handle the end of the game better. We had a double-digit lead. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever want to have to win the game twice or even three times,â&#x20AC;? Curry said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You want to make things as easy as possible when you have a night like we did for 36 minutes.â&#x20AC;?

The defending NBA champions have made things look pretty easy in

what has already been a milestone season.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve won 27 straight dating to last spring, tying the 2012-13 Heat for the second-longest streak in NBA history. The 1971-72 Lakers hold the record with 33 wins in a row.

Golden State also has won 13 straight road games, breaking a tie with the 1969-70 Knicks for the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best road start.

Curry, the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading scorer, finished with 29 points,

10 assists, seven rebounds and three three-pointers, tying Rashard Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; NBA record of 87 consecutive road games with at least one basket from beyond the arc.

Thompson went 10 for 16 on threes. He made a splash with his incredible first half when he scored 29 points, made 8 of 10 threes and was the key to a 22-0 run that forced Indiana to play catch-up the rest of the night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was one of those nights where

I got a lot of great looks. Going in I felt great,â&#x20AC;? Thompson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt like I was due for a game like that.â&#x20AC;?

For the Warriors there were only two big concerns.

Thompson rolled his ankle late in the game and said afterward he expected to be bruised for the next couple of days.

Fortunately for Thompson, Golden State doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play again till Friday at Boston. The other: Letting Indiana back into the game.

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31 Touch lightly 34 Frigidaire rival 35 Typical cruise stop 36 Ruination 37 Former name for Hawaii 40 Census data 41 Worked a garden 42 Not moving 43 __ Misérables 44 Charged atoms 45 Sharpshooter Annie 46 Swiss peak 47 Glide on snow 48 Be politically indecisive 56 Quite often 57 Do perfectly 58 Leading the pack 60 Oral history 61 Cry of dismay 62 Volatile liquid, for short 63 Impolite look 64 Mardi Gras day: Abbr.

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27 Christmas candy shapes 28 Boundaries 29 Fire residue 30 Lost traction 31 Group of experts 32 Agassi of tennis 33 Bad-tempered 35 Revered figure 36 Vault venue 38 “Heaven forbid!”

39 Go-between 44 Under the weather 45 Approves of 46 Later than 47 Rural towers 48 Humpty Dumpty’s perch 49 Succulent houseplant 50 Fairway shout 51 Waikiki locale 52 Supreme Court count 53 Group of troops 54 Diminutive suffix 55 Bad-tempered 59 Case for peas

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7 p.m. Christmas Is Coming concert, Craig Bay Choristers at Knox United Church, 345 Pym St., Parksville. Tickets $10 at Knox United Church office. For more information contact colleen.cbchoristers@gmail.com

7 p.m. Open Mic Acoustic night with Dave Marco, every Wednesday at Smoke‘n’Water Restaurant, Pacific Shores Resort, 1-1600 Stroulger Rd., Parksville THURSDAY, DEC. 10 8 p.m. Kat and more at the Longwood Brewpub. Live at Longwood, free live music series every Thursday at the Longwood brew pub.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 12 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nanoose Studio Tour Group Christmas Crawl A variety of art and a leisurely way to finish off your Christmas shopping while supporting local artists. Also on Sunday. www.nanoosestudiotour.com 2 p.m. Enjoy the three part harmonies of the Island Bel Canto Singers who will be caroling

throughout the arts district on Saturday, December 12th starting at 3 p.m. Ken Lavigne Christmas Old Time Radio Roadshow – Knox United Church, 345 Pym St., Parksville. Tickets $32/students $18 at Knox and Mulberry Bush Book Stores.

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7 p.m. Vancouver island Christmas concert tour featuring Be Marie Anderson, at Harbour City Theatre.25 Victoria Rd., Nanaimo, Tickets $14 at Fascinating Rhythm, the Dog’s Ear and Desire Tattoo.

7 p.m. 10 Buttertubs Drive, the Sweet Lowdown roots music trio. Tickets $20 at Fascinating Rhythm, Arbutus Music.

8 p.m. Comedy night at the Lantzville pub with: Vancouver’s Steve McGowan, Jason Lamb, Deanna wood and more, Lantzville pub, 197 Lantzville Rd., Lantzville, Tickets are $15. On sale now at Lucid, the Dog’s Ear, Desire Tattoo, the Lantzville pub or at ticketzone.Com SUNDAY, DEC. 13 2:30 p.m. Holiday Traditions, annual concert

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MONDAY, DEC. 14 4 p.m. Halbe Hall Monday Market, 8369 North Island Highway, Black Creek. Wide variety of vendors of fresh produce and baked goods, arts and crafts andan on-site chair massage.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 15 10 a.m. to noon Drop-in Science Studio at Departure Bay Eco School is a place where kids of all ages can explore a variety of handson activities like our marble wall, keva blocks, wind tunnel, microscopes and more! $4. 3004, Depoarture Bay Rd.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) How you handle a situation could vary from morning to evening. Your preference during the daylight hours is to handle everything you can on a one-on-one level. By later today, you will want to resolve issues through a change in perspective. Tonight: Allow your mind to wander.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Let go of a need to control. A partner or dear loved one will come through with flying colors. One-on-one relating proves to be fruitful. Anger could emerge from out of the blue if you aren’t careful about your expectations. Tonight: Go along with a loved one’s choice.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You are full of energy, but you need to direct it. A meeting could be instrumental in choosing the right direction. A friend might push you in an unexpected way. This person can be difficult at times. Maintain your sense of humor. Tonight: Defer to a friend or loved one.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your imagination continues to flow like an endless fountain. As a result, you could become someone’s muse. A boss would like you to focus a little more on what is happening at the workplace. A child also might want more of your time. Tonight: Be with a loved one.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Your sense of value could prove to be a major factor in the day. Others are likely to learn from you, either by seeing how you value them or by

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observing how you value yourself.

Communication could be confusing later. Tonight: Be with a favorite person.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You’ll wake up with a heightened sense of optimism and well-being, which proves to be your signature for the day. Though you could be facing a hassle, know that everything will turn out well because of your positive attitude and willingness to adjust. Tonight: Head home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You could be stuck between a rock and a hard place. You can’t seem to launch a project, which might become a problem. Try to understand what is holding you back.

Funds could be part of the issue. A discussion becomes possible later in the day. Tonight: Hang out at a favorite haunt.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You’ll feel more together than you have as of late. Decide to take some downtime. You have a tendency to push too hard in order to achieve your desired goals of the moment.

Lie low and kick back, if possible.

Tonight: What seems like a great deal might not be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Resisting a low-energy cycle might not be as difficult as you think with so much happening around you.

Know that someone is observing your potential and your leadership abilities. You’ll like the direction this situation is heading in. Tonight: Finally feeling good!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Use today to go over some past work and make sure that you are heading in your chosen direction. You

could encounter a complication or two; hold off on making any major changes. You might want to go over certain details in your mind.

Tonight: Catch up on news.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You might decide that taking a stronger stance is an important way to go.

However, you could be disappointed with the results you get. Honor a fast change later in the day.

Accept an invitation, even if it is last minute. Tonight: No telling who you could meet when you are out.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Some people can’t seem to get enough quality time with you. However, you might not want to stop whatever you are doing, as you could be having such a good time. If you can handle fitting everything in, you’ll be pleased. Tonight: A last-minute request keeps you busy.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Dec. 9) This year your energy creates a new beginning in at least one area of your life. Other times, you will want to pull back and isolate yourself.

You frequently need some time off.

You could decide to revamp your budget as well. If you are single, meeting someone you are interested in will take time and probably several tries. Don’t get involved in a commitment if you don’t want to be tied to this person. If you are attached, as a couple you alternate between being very visible and vanishing for weekends at a time.

You thrive on those special times together. A fellow SAGITTARIUS is very different from you.

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Eileen Mary Greer (Gallant) Eileen passed away peacefully at home in Cedar BC at the age of 87 on December 5, 2015 surrounded by loving family.

She is survived by children: Geraldine (Ken) Whynot, Dartmouth, NS, Betty (Doug) Dunfield, Cedar, BC, Peter Greer, Pritchard, BC, Nancy (Wayne) Carr, Cedar, BC and Sandra Greer (Greg Serena), Cedar, BC., as well as 9 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Eileen is also survived by sister Inez (Al) Humphreys, Nanaimo, BC, brother Fred (Thalda) Gallant, Summerside, PEI and many nieces, nephews and friends. Besides her parents, Eileen was predeceased by her husband Leslie and grandson Sheldon, siblings: Rita, Irene, Eunice, Arthur, Henry, Rene, Peter and Albert.

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Record-setting Ronaldo says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staying with Real Madrid TALES AZZONI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADRID â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cristiano Ronaldo on Tuesday dismissed rumours that he wants to leave Real Madrid and said coach Rafa Benitez is doing a good job at the club.

Ronaldo spoke after scoring four goals in Madridâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8-0 rout of Malmo, when he became the first player to score 10 goals or more in the group stage of the Champions League. He netted 11 goals in six games, surpassing the nine scored

by Luiz Adriano with Shakhtar Donetsk last season. Ronaldo also scored nine times in the 2013-14 season.

The striker says he is happy and will stay with Real Madrid despite widespread reports that he is negotiating a transfer to Paris Saint-Germain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speculation, it happens every year,â&#x20AC;? Ronaldo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People should be used to this by now. But this club has helped me greatly since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve arrived and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very happy here.â&#x20AC;?

He said his brief sideline meeting with PSG coach Laurent Blanc during a recent match at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean anything. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What happened with Blanc is simple,â&#x20AC;? Ronaldo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If somebody treats you well, you talk to that person. If someone from Chelsea, Manchester or Barcelona is nice to me, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll talk to that person. Obviously, it means nothing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a contract with Real Madrid and I will stay.â&#x20AC;?

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Ronaldo said â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normalâ&#x20AC;? for a club such as Real Madrid â&#x20AC;&#x153;to be criticized when things go wrong,â&#x20AC;? and expressed his support to coach Benitez, who has been constantly jeered by fans at the Bernabeu. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is doing a good job, still adapting to Real Madrid,â&#x20AC;? Ronaldo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You need to give him time. I

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Timbers celebrate their MLS title PORTLAND, Ore. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Timbers and their fans celebrated the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MLS Cup title on Tuesday with a parade through downtown Portland.

Kids blew vuvuzelas, the Timbers Army supportersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; group sang, mascot Timber Joey brought his chain saw and star forward Diego Valeri filmed the festivities with a camera strapped to his head as thousands partied in a steady rain. It is Soccer City USA, after all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is massive! This is unbeliev-

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able,â&#x20AC;? striker Fanendo Adi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen anything like this.â&#x20AC;?

The Timbers defeated the Columbus Crew 2-1 on Sunday in Ohio. Valeri scored 27 seconds into the match for the fastest goal in MLS Cup history.

Rodney Wallace added a quick second goal just seven minutes in and the Timbers held on for their first championship since joining Major League Soccer in 2011. Back in October, there were fears that the Timbers might not make the playoffs let alone make it all the way to the title match.

Man U. crashes out of Champions League THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WOLFSBURG, Germany â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Threetime winner Manchester United crashed out of the Champions League on Tuesday, losing 3-2 to Wolfsburg which advanced to the round of 16 for the first time.

Anthony Martial put United ahead in the 10th before Naldo volleyed in the equalizer in the 14th. Vieirinha regained the lead for Wolfsburg in the 29th, before an own goal by Josuha Guilavogui in the 82nd tied the score.

But two minutes later Naldo scored his second with a header to seal Wolfsburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory and increase pressure on United coach Louis van Gaal.

The loss, coupled with PSV Eindhovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2-1 home victory over CSKA Moscow, dropped United to third place in Group B, meaning that it will now play in the Europa League. Wolfsburg won the group with 12 points and PSV also advanced with 10 points, two more than United. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The team did an outstanding job,â&#x20AC;? Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you beat a team like Manches-

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ter United, you must have done something right,â&#x20AC;? midfielder Julian Draxler said.

United went ahead after a perfect through ball between two defenders from Juan Mata for Martial, who slotted past Diego Benaglio inside the far post, after Andre Schuerrle had wasted Wolfsburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first chance in the third minute.

Wolfsburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reply came quickly when central defender Naldo volleyed home from a free kick from Ricardo Rodriguez, who limped off a couple of minutes later with a hamstring injury.

Benaglio produced a great reflex save on the line to deny Marouane

Fellaini, who connected with a corner from Daley Blind.

Wolfsburg went ahead again after a spectacular move. Draxler wrong-footed Bastian Schweinsteiger and cut inside to swap passes with Max Kruse. Draxler then played the ball back to Vieirinha, who had the easy job of scoring from close range.

Goalkeeper David De Gea then saved United from an even bigger deficit.

Schweinsteiger slipped and lost possession and Draxler brought Unitedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defence into disarray before De Gea saved his shot.

United, which was missing captain Wayne Rooney, saw left back Matteo Darmian limp off with what looked a hamstring injury.

In the final minute of the first half, Jesse Lingard found the net but the goal was disallowed because Juan Mata had lingered offside and hindered Benaglio.

United attempted more after the break and Benaglio did well to turn aside a volley from Memphis Depay.

Wolfsburg nearly scored in the 64th when De Gea ran far out of the box for no good reason and Schuerrle attempted a lob.

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AFTER Give nutritious DINNER gifts to kids DELIGHT W Nutrition Notes

hen children play, they like to pretend to do what they see the adults in their life modelling

Late-harvest wines please the senses while those floral aromas reminds us of summer gardens.

Late-harvest wines are a great gift Lynette Burns The Lucky Gourmet

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ast column we spoke about the joys and delights of ice wine which confirmed that ice wines are quite lovely but, they do not necessarily outshine their direct competition; the late-harvest dessert wine.

Late harvest wines have a special place in the world of gifting and enjoyment. There is something unusually unique and special about most late-harvest wines.

The grapes have been deliberately infested with a benevolent fungus called botrytis. Sometimes referred to as “Noble Rot,” this grey fungus dehydrates the grape varieties that it infests.

The dehydration of the grapes results in a concentration of flavour and sugar, allowing vintners to create sweet desert wines. Wines made from botrytized grapes almost always have a lovely aroma of honeysuckle, plus a speck of bitterness.

Botrytis does not necessarily occur every year. Wet conditions are required to bring it on and drier weather must follow to allow the fungus to work its magic on the grapes. If drier weather does not follow, the grapes simply rot and fall to the ground. Some viticulturists will inoculate their vines, yet still the weather must dry up or the crop is lost.

According to Hungarian lore, the first deliberate botrytis-infected wines were made in 1571 in the Tokaji province of that country.

Today, internationally acclaimed “Aszu” (botrytized wines) hail from this same region. Not to be ignored, Noble Rot is also used to produce

world-class Sauternes from France.

The best value late-harvest wine comes from Kesoi Szuretelesu in Hungary.

A blend of botrytized and late-harvested Muscat Blanc grapes, this luscious wine shows off with heady fragrances of honeysuckle, peach and the fruit of a quince.

A big punch of pineapple, apricot and honey flavours complete the experience. The 500 ml bottle sells for only $13.87, making it a good choice if you have a large group you wish to treat.

Closer to home we have a late harvest from Fairview Cellars in Oliver.

Made exclusively from botrytized riesling, the floral bouquet of this dessert wine is coupled with a unique hint of petrol that a good Riesling provides. Aromas of lemon sorbet and peaches lead on to a dose of apricot and pear flavour and, at $29.99 for a 375 ml bottle, it makes a really a wonderful gift.

What amazes me most about well-made late-harvest wines, especially those using botrytized grapes, is how the under-lying acidity enhances the complex fruit flavours, which in turn, balances out that hint of bitterness.

The end result is a beverage that pleases the senses while those floral aromas reminds us of summer gardens. The satisfaction of sweet, tart and bitter in your mouth leaves a feeling of utter contentment and makes a perfect after-dinner drink.

At Lucky’s Liquor Store in Country Club Centre, we have a large selection of dessert wines, both Okanagan late-harvest wines, Vancouver Island’s honey and fruit wines and ice wines.

All make splendid Christmas gifts. » Lynette Burns is the managing leader for Lucky’s Liquor store in Nanaimo.

She can be reached at 250-585-2275 or visit www.luckysliquor.ca.

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Ailing students said to have eaten at Chipotle THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Boston College said Tuesday the number of students complaining of gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at a Chipotle this weekend has climbed to 80, up from the 30 it reported the previous day.

The illnesses come as Chipotle’s sales are already being slammed by a multi-state outbreak of E. coli linked to its restaurants.

The company says it thinks the Boston College illnesses are an isolated case of norovirus and unrelated to the E. coli cases.

“All of the evidence we have points

in that direction,” said Chris Arnold, a Chipotle spokesman.

Boston College said it is working with state health officials and that all students who reported symptoms have been tested for both E. Coli and norovirus. It said results will not be available for at least two days.

According to a report from the Boston Inspectional Services department, which is responsible for inspecting the city’s restaurants, an employee at the Chipotle restaurant in Cleveland Circle was sick while working a shift Thursday.

William Christopher, the department’s commissioner, said it was not

immediately known if management at the Chipotle was aware of the employee’s symptoms. He said the restaurant’s permit to operate has been suspended by the city and that a disinfection process has begun.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, infected workers cause about 70 per cent of reported norovirus outbreaks from contaminated food. Each year, norovirus causes 19 million to 21 million illnesses.

The virus can spread from an infected person, contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces, the agency says. It is very

contagious and can spread quickly in places such as daycare centres and cruise ships.

Common symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. The CDC has not yet determined the ingredient responsible for sickening 52 people in the E. coli outbreak, but 47 of the individuals reported eating at a Chipotle before they got ill. The first cases were reported at the end of October in Oregon and Washington, with additional cases later being reported in seven other states.

The most recent illness started Nov. 13.

for them.

The examples we set and the messages they receive early in life stay with them for the rest of their lives.

When choosing Christmas gifts, it is very important to look at the toy or game that is purchased and to think of what message will be received by the child as they play with it.

Food related toys are very common.

Most toddlers and preschoolers like to play at cooking, setting the table or baking.

These are activities they see played out by adults several times each day.

If you are choosing plastic food or play sets, make sure it is a kind of food that is healthy for the child to eat.

Many manufacturers use toys with logos to instill brand loyalty in children from a young age. For example, toy burgers, fries and milkshakes may come with the logo of a certain fast food chain.

An ice cream maker may be labeled with the name of a brand name ice cream chain. Toy donuts and pastries may come with yet another logo.

Do you really want children to play with toy foods that model unhealthy choices?

By playing with these toys, children will encourage you to take them to these places and may also choose those foods later in life. After all, you gave them the toy and taught them the logo.

Baby dolls are another common gift to give at Christmas. The manufacturers of formula and baby food make sure that every doll comes with a bottle and sometimes with certain brands of baby food. We are now teaching parents to breastfeed their babies and to offer foods from the family table.

The baby bottle continues to be the universal symbol of infant feeding; influencing every generation to think that bottle feeding is the best way to feed a baby.

Teach little ones to breastfeed their baby dolls so they will get the message early in life.

Solid foods for dolls can be made at the family table by teaching children to mash some of the foods on their plate.

This Christmas, model healthy choices to children and let them play with toys that teach them how to live well. » Eileen Bennewith is a registered dietitian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at eileen.bennewith@viha.ca.

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RELIGION

Gospel rewrite seeks maximum efficiency But as for harmonizing the gospels, Clarke added, “I think it can be useful” when the purpose is to try to make the text clearer to read and easier to understand.

“It is ambitious,” he said of John’s efforts. “I’d love to see what he does with some of the discrepancies.”

John said he has submitted his version to the Lutherans, Catholics, United Church and other denominations for review. He’s also produced a large hardcover “merged harmony” to make it easier for scholars to examine his method.

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Surrey man with an appetite for efficiency has distilled the four gospels of the New Testament into a 22-per-cent shorter read and predicts his presentation will eventually replace the Good Book as we now know it.

Self-professed efficiency expert Daniel John of Fraser Heights, has produced The Synoptic Gospel: The Story of The Life of Jesus, with scripture taken from the New American Standard Bible. He’s self-publishing it through Smart Publishing Ltd., here in Surrey.

“There’s gotta be a way of knowing what happened to Jesus, faster,” said John, 47, explaining why he tackled this project.

“I was sort of an atheist until I was in my 20s. I had a profound conversion experience, believed that there was a God and read the Bible, and just started seeing — I’m an operations manager and efficiency expert — I just said, ‘This is inefficient.”

His encounter with the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John was a bit frustrating.

“To read one, get to the end, then start reading again, repeat it yourself, and it’s a little bit different, and is this important or is the other one more . . . it was confusion,” he said.

So he set about producing what he considers to be a more readable version and has laboured on his project for six years, poring over the gospels as they have been translated into English, comparing them line by line, and weeding out what he determined to be redundant language.

“I’m basically full-time, seven days a week on this,” he said.

“It’s a lot of fun if you like that kind of thing. I’ve really enjoyed producing every part of this.”

While most wordsmiths dream their labours will lead to some level of success, John’s aspirations are uncommonly ambitious, to say the least.

“You just gotta look 200 years in the future,” he said.

“There won’t be four gospels; no one will ever believe that we had four gospels for 1,600 years. Just the stupidity and inefficiency of it, no one will even believe that such a thing existed. It’ll be a long-forgotten memory.”

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Daniel John says reading the New Testament gospels was a frustrating experience, so he spent six years harmonizing them.

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“There’s gotta be a way of knowing what happened to Jesus, faster.”

Daniel Johns, efficiency expert

“Yes, or something similar to it,” he replied. “See no one is thinking of this because it’s been suppressed by the church because of the prohibition on alternate words of God.” Meaning, he wants his product to replace the actual text of the Bible as we know it?

“Oh yes, absolutely.”

Those are bold words, considering many of the world’s two billion or so Christians worldwide believe the Bible resting on their coffee table — the same one tucked away inside all those hotel room night table — contains the literal, albeit translated into English, word of the Lord.

Some believers might be less than chuffed at John’s take on the gospels.

Skeptical. Horrified, even, by the ideas of anyone fiddling with The Book.

“I’m not really worried about that,” John remarked. “If you’re nervous it’s because of something in your own head. It’s not from anything I’m trying to project on you. I’m not trying to make you nervous. People will react the way they will react. I cannot

guess, and I cannot counter it until it happens. And I know already it’s going to be a division. Some people love it, immediately, and others don’t. Some pastors actually fight me on it and others don’t.

“They say, ‘God wants it this way,’ because it was like that, but they don’t know the history of what it was, that it was actually the Catholics who broke it apart and gave us four.

It’s been like this for so long, how could it have ever been different, how could God not want this, how could he have allowed this to happen? Well, God’s really not worried, the word got out there, just a little garbled, that’s all.”

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ohn cited historical precedent for his project. In about 160 AD, a theologian named Tatian harmonized the four gospels into a single narrative known as the Diatessaron, which served at the standard scripture in Syrian churches for a couple hundred years until the Catholic Church “undid what he did.”

“That guy was branded a heretic by the church,” John said. “It’s a Catholic thing that’s broken it apart and it just creates inefficiency.”

Originally from Toronto, John headed west to study operations management at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

He owns a safety products company in Surrey, selling reflective material

kits for cars, bicycles and Halloween.

“That’s a worthy thing to save people’s lives and my reflective sticker kits have, but it’s nothing compared to helping people to understand the truth of the word of God, you know, to just to be able to read it clearly yourself.”

He considers his publishing efforts to be a calling.

“I have a calling to end nonsense in this world, what the churches teach and the way they go about it by the resources that they have,” John said.

“I’m trying to give the world a pure gospel, so they can understand it.

“I don’t have an agenda, I want people to know what it says.”

Dr. Kent Clarke, a professor of New Testament textual criticism at Trinity Western University in Langley, noted that more “fundamental” Christians might feel that the Bible shouldn’t be redacted. But he also noted the four gospels as presented “aren’t really a legislated thing.”

Each of the gospels emphasize different things, Clarke said. He likened it to four different witness accounts of a traffic crash, for example.

Each account will slightly vary, and different information can be gleaned from each. Clarke also likened reading the four gospels to looking at a diamond.

“Each side you look in has a different element,” he explained. “There is a beauty to that.”

he Synoptic Gospel itself is divided into 360 scenes.

“If you read one scene a day, you’ll get through it in a year.”

“Every church has a different hierarchical structure and a different head office. Between your local church and their head office, there are maybe three, four, five or six layers, in the case of the Catholic church, and I’m trying to get to the top layer obviously. It’s the church that has to have a good review of this to see if it’s, not so much that it’s good or bad, but if any way have I done something to contradict their doctrines, have I put secret things or changed words to make their doctrine of the Trinity or whatever, you know. So that’s what they’re interested in.

“Right now it’s being reviewed by the head, head office level of the Seventh Day Adventists in Maryland, and the Catholics have it at St. Mark’s College — the local Catholics have it at St. Mark’s College. If it gets through St. Mark’s, it’ll be at the Archbishop level of the Diocese of Vancouver. Apparently that diocese can make its own decision as to which books it used. I thought you need permission from the Pope; apparently you don’t.

“But I would still get this to the Pope eventually. If Pope Francis says this is a good book, then 1.5 billion Catholics go, ‘Oh.’” The market John is aiming for is churches, Bible studies, courses and seminars.

“There’s no way I can’t make money off of it,” he said.

“When you add all of Christianity together, there’s two billion people.

This is a product for two billion people. There’s not too many other products in the world that reach two billion people.”

WILDLIFE

Two men fined $13K for hunting deer as it was swimming MARGARET SPEIRS TERRACE STANDARD

Two men charged with injuring a wild animal outside of open hunting season have been fined $13,000.

Andreas Ignaz Handl of Kitimat was ordered to pay a total of $7,000 to the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation, a $1,000 fine, $150 victim fine surcharge and not to approach big game except as

required by employment or in the course of employment for two years after pleading guilty to one charge harassing wildlife with a motor vehicle or device and one charge of hunting big game that was swimming contrary to two sections of the Wildlife Act of B.C. Rodolfo Augusto Martins Lopes, from Portugal, was in Kitimat working at the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter modernization project.

He was ordered to pay $5,000 to the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation and to not approach big game for two years after pleading guilty to harassing wildlife.

On May 14, 2015, Handl, an ocean angling guide, took a group on a chartered fishing trip for a bachelor party on the Douglas Channel near Kitimat.

The boat came upon a mule deer swimming from island to island and

corralled the deer at which time Lopes used a gaff hook — a large fishing hook on a stick used for halibut fishing — to stab the deer in the neck in an attempt to capture it and haul it onto the boat, said conservation officer Ryan Gordon Dec. 2.

The gaff broke and the deer swam to shore with the gaff stuck in its neck and reportedly ran off into the forest, he said.

A video of the incident was posted on Facebook and before it was taken down, several calls had been made to the BC Conservation Office here.

After they were notified, conservation officers didn’t go to the scene so they don’t know if the deer survived, Gordon added.

Conservation officers made a couple of arrests and obtained a search warrant upon which they found the video, said Gordon.

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ADVICE

Neighbours park wherever they desire Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: My nextdoor neighbours and their kids (who are adults) always park in front of my house and don’t leave enough space for my car. The family owns four cars, but there is sufficient space in front of their home and in their driveway. We have a narrow driveway (no garage), but my husband parks there because otherwise, I’m blocking him.

I asked that if they do plan to park in front of my house, then they at least leave enough room for my car. They rarely do, so I have to knock on their door and ask nicely that they move their vehicle. They either ignore me or say, “I’m leaving in 10 minutes,” expecting me to wait.

Last night, when I got home from work, I saw one of their cars smack dab in front of my home. Again, I knocked on the door. They said that they couldn’t move it because it had a flat tire, and that’s where the tow truck dropped it. It wasn’t until I got into my house that I wondered why they had the tow truck put it there to begin with.

This time, I said, “I have always been patient, so I’ll make a deal with you. When your car gets fixed, I’d like you to park it in front of someone else’s house for one week. If they don’t tell you to move it, you can park in front of my house and I’ll never tell you to move it again.” He just stood there and smiled.

Am I wrong to ask them to always move the car?

— At My Wits’ End Dear Wits: You have tried to be a good neighbour, but they are not co-operating.

And you have no guarantee that other neighbours will object to having that car in front of their home, or that the car owners will tell

you the truth about it.

Your problem is, the street does not belong to you, and you have no control over who takes the spot in front of your house. If the neighbours block your driveway, you are entitled to call the police and have them ticketed or towed, and we recommend doing so.

But otherwise, you can only park in another spot or ask your husband to park on the street so you can have the driveway.

Sorry.

Dear Annie: In your answer to “Know Better,” you mentioned that there are ways to verify someone’s photo online — as well as those flowery, romantic statements used on online dating sites.

Please tell me how to do that. I, too, have met a man on a dating website who seems too good to be true.

– Noreen in Nebraska Dear Noreen: Your best bet is to upload a photo to Google Image search.

Some scammers will use pictures of models or other attractive people found online. Google will tell you whether or not that photo has appeared in other places. It is not foolproof, but it can help.

(You also can upload those “flowery, romantic statements” to Google or a similar search site to see whether they are from a piece of poetry or other published material.) Also check out romancescam.com for more information on this type of problem.

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. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www. creators.com.

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Enhance and Contour Lips

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435 Terminal Ave. North 250 754 4466 Hours: Monday to Saturday 9:30am-6:00pm Sunday 10:00am-5:00pm

NYLA Fresh Thread nylafreshthread.com 206 Commercial Street, 250 716 3331 Hours: Mon-Wed 9am-6pm; Thurs-Sat 9am-9pm; Sun 10am-5pm This holiday season give the gift of menswear. Unique holiday gifts and stocking stuffer ideas. See NYLA Fresh Thread first if you are needing some inspiration for that special man in your life.

Nesvog Meats and Sausage Co. Ltd. Now with 2 Locations 2139 B Bowen Road 250 758 3611 Hours: Mon-Sat 9am-6.pm

We are a well-established, dedicated glutenfree bakery, café and deli. Yule Log is our delicious dessert for your Christmas Eve; vanilla soft dough, raspberry jam and chocolate buttercream filling covered with chocolate buttercream and Christmas decoration!

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Natural U Spa naturaluspa.com 103-648 Terminal Ave., 250 591 9333 Make your appointments online 24-7Mon-Wed 9-6; Thurs-Sat 9-9;

Enhance and Reshape Eyebrows

Waterproof leather boots and handbags are also available.

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powerhouseliving.ca 200 Commercial Street, 250 591 7873 Hours: Mon, Tues 10-6; Wed-Sat 10-8; Sun 10-6 At Powerhouse our desire is for everyone to live a vibrant healthy life, where food is a key component. We provide the healthiest, most nutritious and delicious raw food creations for our customers. We take the freshest, natural plant-based foods and create delicious raw vegan energy - the way nature intended.

Crispin Shoes 427C Fitzwilliam Street 250-741-0015 Old City Quarter

Power House Living Foods

Terminal Park 250 753 4248

FREE RANGE TURKEYS from Gabriola.

Order yours today.

Great selection of fresh meats, sausages and great dinner ideas!

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Amethyst Forest #10 - 1925 Bowen Road, 250.585.4922 Hours: Monday to Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm Sunday Closed A place to nourish your mind, body and soul.

Crystals, books, journals, massage on-site and readings by medium.

Thank you for a successful Grand Opening!

Congratulations to Barbara Cooper on winning the grand prize draw.

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Holiday Greetings 2015 THIS SPECIAL FEATURE WILL APPEAR IN PRINT AND ONLINE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015 Merry Christmas to the Wilson Family!

Thanks for being such great neighbors and friends. We’re looking forward to more good times in 2016!

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Welcome Home, Wesley Carter!

We’re so proud and grateful to be spending Christmas with you. Thank you for your service and for a being a wonderful son.

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Happy 1st Christmas to Abby Noonan!

Congratulations, Rick and Barbara. We wish you all a blessed holiday.

Love, Auntie Kelly ________________________ Merry Christmas to the Wilson Family!

Thanks for being such great neighbors and friends. We’re looking forward to more good times in 2016!

Best wish wishes, The Hansons ________________________

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Merry Christmas to the Wilson Family!

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Merry Christmas to the Wilson Family!

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