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Amid bear hugs, smiles and tears, the family of a Syrian boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach earlier this year repeated one message when they landed at the Vancouver airport on Monday: thank you.

Mohammed Kurdi, his wife and their five children arrived in Canada as refugees, sponsored by his sister, Tima Kurdi, who has become an international spokeswoman for people fleeing the war-torn nation.

“Thank you Canada! Thank you Canada!” the family chanted in English after being greeted by about two dozen family, friends and supporters.

Speaking through his sister, who translated from Arabic, Mohammed Kurdi also thanked Canadians and the government.

“I’m happy! Very happy!” he said in English to a crowd of reporters.

His 14-year-old son Shergo clutched a stuffed dog and a paper Canadian flag as he said through his aunt that he was looking forward to going back to school and starting a new life.

Tima Kurdi wiped away tears as she greeted her relatives at the airport’s arrival gates.

The reunion comes at the end of a difficult year for the family.

Tima and Mohammed’s threeyear-old nephew, Alan Kurdi, drowned along with his fiveyear-old brother and their mother while crossing the waters between Turkey and Greece in September.

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Tima Kurdi, left, embraces her brother Mohammad Kurdi and his five-month-old son Sherwan Kurdi at Vancouver International Airport on Monday. Tima Kurdi’s other brother Abdullah, whose young sons and wife died when their boat capsized, abandoned his attempt to emigrate. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

down in the surf sparked international sorrow and momentum to help Syrian refugees.

Alan’s father, Abdullah Kurdi, decided to attempt the treacherous trip after his brother Mohammed’s original refugee application was rejected by the Canadian government because it did not have the necessary documentation.

An official with Citizenship and Immigration Canada invited Tima Kurdi to re-apply for Mohammed and his family in mid-October, as the government was no longer asking for difficult-to-obtain United Nations documents.

Mohammed Kurdi has been in Germany since leaving his family in Turkey seven months ago to find work. He had not

met his five-month-old son, Sherwan, who was born in July, but the family reunited in Frankfurt before flying to Canada.

“It was a feeling he cannot express. It was really emotional,” Tima Kurdi said, translating for her brother as he spoke of holding the little boy for the first time.

Among the supporters at the airport was Fin Donnelly, MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam, who Tima Kurdi turned to for help in March, desperate to help her family get to Canada.

Seeing Mohammed Kurdi and his family finally walk on Canadian soil is “bittersweet,” Donnelly said, explaining that he had been working with Tima Kurdi to submit applications for

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“It’s always unfortunate that it takes tragedy to mobilize the global community, but certainly in this case, that’s what happened,” he said.

“But we have Mohammed and his family here today. It’s a very celebratory day for Canada and for Tima and her family.”

The Kurdis are among 25,000 Syrian refugees the Canadian government has pledged to welcome by the end of February.

Immigration Minister John McCallum said last week the government will likely not meet its target of having 10,000 of them on Canadian soil by Jan. 1.

The federal website that updates progress listed 2,413 refugees as having arrived in Canada by Dec. 26.

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With Christmas over and done, shoppers ventured into stores and malls on Boxing Day in an annual rite of passage: beating the rest of the crowd and scoring sweet deals on merchandise.

Boxing Day passed Saturday, but the oft-dubbed ‘Boxing Week’ is still in full swing. But while signs advertising ‘blowout’ deals are everywhere, retailers and shoppers offer mixed experiences of the shopping event, which has origins dating back to the 1830s.

For Cheryl Baudin, the trek out to Woodgrove Centre Monday was worth it.

“Actually, I think it’s been pretty good,” she said, adding that service and the sales have been decent.

Baudin said that shoppers and retailers alike have benefited from the traditional Boxing Day sales

being spread out over several days, rather than the one day after Christmas. The extended time allows stores more opportunity to reach shoppers, and is less daunting to people looking for lastminute deals, she said.

“I think a lot of people would avoid the stores if it was just one day,” said Baudin.

Ane-Marie Bennett and her husband Tom also ventured out into the malls Monday to run errands, but confess to being “shopped out” after Christmas.

“We’re not really Boxing Day people, I don’t like all the crowds,”she said, adding they prefer to instead support local merchants in the downtown.

Elsie Prill, 93, ventures out to the mall regularly but says she does not bother with Boxing Day. “I have everything we want, don’t I,” she said.

Either way, data suggests Boxing Day remains the biggest shopping day for Canadians.

Alice Berube, a kiosk manager at Woodgrove, said her business benefits from the busy crowds, although she said large electronic and clothing stores tend to be the main beneficiaries of the Boxing Day frenzy.

One manager at a Nanaimo-based electronics store, who declined to give his name, said “The volume (of customers) definitely did increase and the traffic was very high” on Boxing Day. He said there was still a steady stream of shoppers as of Monday, “but it’s slowing down a little” as people ease back into the regular work week.

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he holidays, when not packed with visitors and shopping, is supposed to be a time of fun and relaxation.

In the off-chance that you have time to pick up a book, we decided to ask local literary experts, retailers and advocates to list off their top holiday reading for the season. The results are a mix of funny, said, nostalgic and new.

We decided to ask local literary experts what their favourite holiday season books are and why. Here are the responses.

“We all have our favourite Christmas books and Spencer when I checked with staff Anderson the really traditional ones Reporting came up such as The Night Before Christmas, Vinyl Café’s Dave Cooks the Turkey, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and A Christmas Carol which of course are all precious and have stood the test of time,” said Michele Hillier, executive director of Literacy Central Vancouver Island.

Hillier also said staff also recommended Gift of the Magi, One Frosty Christmas, by Parksville author Laura Hesse and Silent Night: The Story of the World War 1 Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub. “(This) always tugs at my heart strings as it is a testament of peace and humanity amidst a time of horror and violence, and a reminder to all of us why we celebrate this holiday, and the importance of peace and goodwill.”

We turned to an academic source as well.

“If you ever wondered how the worst kids ever might celebrate Christmas, Barbara Robinson’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a must-read,” said Daniel Burgoyne, chairman of Vancouver Island’s English department.

“And while one can never go wrong with A Christmas Carol at this time of year, if it’s real-

Alex Burgoyne-King, 11, and his father, Daniel Burgoyne, hold a copy of 1Q84 in their home on Monday. Burgoyne recommended the novel. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

“We all have our favourite Christmas books and when I checked with staff the really traditional ones came up . . . .”

Michele Hillier, Literacy Central Vancouver Island

ly the ghosts that intrigue you, take a look at David Mitchell’s latest, Slade House. The more adventurous at heart might like The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (yes, it’s a thriller) or a murder mystery series such as Arnaldur Indridason’s Reykjavik series (Jar City is the first).

Burgoyne also suggested award-winning literary fare like Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries, Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time-Being, or All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr.

“If you wish you were travelling, Michael

Booth offers an escape to Scandinavia in The Almost Nearly Perfect People,” said Burgoyne.

“Or, if you really want to get away, slip into the three-volume alternate universe of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.

“For those who want to stay at home, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel has a local connection with an island here in B.C. And, finally, consider picking up Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal.”

Erin Krock has worked at Chapters and its parent company Indigo for the past decade and said she loves to delve into holiday reading.

“The favourite I go to is not one that would be considered a traditional Christmas novel, nor one that inspires thoughts of seasonal cheer The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen,” she said.

“It’s an unusual Christmas story, but still captures the not so talked about essence of it - that good or bad, we must face the truths of the last

year. That we are forced to reflect on the person we are and what we’ve done (if anything) to move forward and grow. The Corrections always made me feel that, regardless of what I did or didn’t achieve, I’m none the worse than the hapless (and mostly unsympathetic) characters in Jonathan Franzen’s story.”

Justin Unrau, a public services librarian at Vancouver Island Regional Library, offers another unconventional choice.

“My favourite holiday novel isn’t quite about Christmas, but about Hogswatch,” he said.

“The book is called Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. It’s set in Discworld, which is a fantasy world with gods and magic but so many incompetent bureaucracies it’s almost realer than real. The Hogfather is the Discworld analogue to Santa Claus, but in this story something has happened to him so Death has to take over his Hogswatch Eve duties (while Death’s granddaughter Susan solves the mystery).

“What I love about this book is not only the jokes about the Grim Reaper trying to be jolly and cute, but the whole idea that believing in the Hogfather, or Santa Claus, or any other fiction, is one of the most important things people can do. It’s a book about high idealism along with assassins and flying pigs.”

Sometimes, a favourite book comes down to a childhood memory.

“When my children were small my mother gave us a picture book version of Truman Capote’s story A Christmas Memory,” said Frieda Douglas, owner of Salamander Books in Ladysmith. “It is his memory of a childhood tradition that he and his aunt shared. I love the story.”

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Birder David MacKenzie climbed Mount Benson to count birds in the area.

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Dry summer sees annual bird count numbers come up short ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

The extraordinarily dry summer on Vancouver Island may be a contributing factor to the low number of finches counted in the mid-Island region on Sunday.

Rhys Harrison, a spokesman for the annual Christmas bird count that was held on Dec. 28, said there were fewer house and purple finches counted in the area this year compared to 2014. He said the lower numbers may be due to the drought, which impacted the food and other aspects of their lives, and the dry conditions may have adverse effects on many other species as well. But Harrison said the

final analysis won’t be determined until all the data from this year’s bird count are tabulated within the next few weeks.

“We counted about 20,000 birds, representing about 108 species, this year,” he said. “The numbers this year are quite a bit lower from 2014, but that has more to do with the weather than the actual number of birds. The weather was bad on Sunday with a rough ocean, so we weren’t able to do a count from the water where most of the birds are usually spotted.”

Harrison said the high number of volunteers this year, approximately 120, beat the record for participation in the region.

The 116th annual bird count, put on by The National Audubon Society and Bird Studies Canada, has been a yearly tradition in Nanaimo for close to 50 years.

Volunteers cover every corner of the city, parts of Gabriola Island and the Mudge Islands, as well as Cedar and other areas immediately south of Nanaimo for birds to count. Those involved can spend anywhere from an hour to a full day on the count and can either do so at their own residence feeder or on a field team.

A mechanical problem on a BC Ferries vessel led to a slew of cancelled sailings between the Nanaimo Duke Point terminal and Tsawwassen on Monday.

Six sailings were cancelled on the Duke to Tsawwassen routes following a busy weekend of holiday sailings.

Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall said repairs were underway to fix the seal on one of the propellers of the Queen of Alberni, which was servicing the Duke Point run.

The Queen of New Westminster was brought in to service the run for an 8:15 p.m. sailing to Tsawwassen and a 10:45 p.m. sailing to Nanaimo.

The traffic from the cancelled sailings appeared to spill over onto the Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay route, which had two car waits just before 2 p.m.

Monday. Earlier sailings were also sold out, including the 12:50 p.m. sailing.

Ferry travel was also busy elsewhere on the Vancouver side of the route, where a two-sailing wait was also in effect.

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route. Marshall said Monday it was too soon to say if traffic on the Departure Bay terminal would be affected today or the rest of the week by mechanical problems on the Duke Point route.

She said divers were making repairs to the Queen of Alberni’s propeller in the Tsawwassen terminal and that repairs were expected to be complete by Tuesday.

“Obviously, we’ve got heavy traffic today,” she said.

Since Boxing Day fell on a weekend this year, many travellers were still returning home Monday. But Marshall said the busiest day of the holidays fell on Sunday.

The increased traffic was expected and the ferry corporation has added approximately 150 sailings over the season to accommodate demand.

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Father Karam Alraban said parish members have “generously” donated $13,900. The money will help cover the costs of daily life for the refugee family, including clothing, food and rent for one year in Parksville.

Alraban said the process is expected to take about six months.

He said the Catholic church, which has an 800-family membership, has warmly embraced the idea of sponsoring a refugee family.

For Alraban, the project hits close to home.

“I am an example of being a refugee,” he said.

Alraban was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and ordained as a priest in 2011 in the Syriac Catholic Rite. He was targeted in Iraq and fled to Canada in 2014. He received convention refugee status in Canada and was incarnated into the diocese of Victoria.

He said he “understands” what it’s like to not be able to pray in your church and to be treated like a fourth class citizen in society.

“There is a long-standing history of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East,” he said. “They are facing violence and the are victims . . . There is no country in the Middle East that will accept them.”

Alraban called this “a grand opportun-

ity” to make a difference in the lives of people with no prospects and little hope.

He has formed an eight-member refuge sponsorship committee.

“Together the members of the committee have extensive and related experience in the areas of law, government relations, finance, office procedures, teaching, medicine, and public relations,” he said.

“Our committee cannot achieve success without the participation of the entire parish... This mission will include everyone in Ascension parish, and I have been assured that the committee will turn to the members and groups of the parish for help in related activities when the need arises.”

The Church of Ascension will operate as a constituent group under the umbrella of the ‘sponsorship agreement holder’ relationship the Anglican diocese has with the federal government.

Committee members attended a training session hosted by the Anglican diocese in Victoria in mid-November and early December. They will continue to attend training events as they occur.

Alraban said this fundraising project started in the parish and will stay within the parish, meaning there will not be public fundraising events.

However, he said if people want to contribute to the refugee sponsorship efforts they can come to the parish to offer support.

“Anyone who wants to help refugees is most welcomed,” he said. “It’s not just the case of our parish, it’s a case of humanity.”

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At the bare minimum, Courtenay-Alberni NDP MP Gord Johns hopes the federal government will put a hold on the impending closure of the Comox Coast Guard station.

Johns, with North Island-Powell River NDP MP Rachel Blaney, is urging government to consider re-opening the Tofino marine communications and traffic services centre in Ucluelet, closed in April.

“We would have no marine traffic services control in our riding,” Johns said. “There’s a huge sense of urgency because we’re talking about a timeline of three months from now.

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Comox Mayor Paul Ives agrees local knowledge is a “powerful thing,” noting the importance of having a functional station in a pivotal area.

“Given the traffic that’s going up and down here, I think it’s important that we maintain that presence here.”

When the federal Conservatives were in power, the plan for B.C. was to centralize the major coastal stations in Prince Rupert and Victoria.

The rationale was efficiency, in terms of software development and better technology. One stations — Kitsilano in Vancouver — closed in 2013 is scheduled to re-open.

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According to the federation, Victoria council “lurched from one mistake to another.”

The federation cited a number of projects which landed council on the naughty list, including the Johnson Street Bridge, the cost of which is looming closer to the $100 million mark; partnering in the Seaterra project, in which the city spent money after the sewage project was killed; spending money on an interactive musical railing installed in Bastion Square parkade stairwells; and purchasing the building that houses the Victoria Visitors Centre in the Inner Harbour for $8 million from the province.

“All of these blunders distract from the real issues facing Victoria: homelessness and downtown shops going out of business,” said CTF B.C. director Jordan Bateman.

Others on the naughty list include Surrey city council, Premier Christy Clark and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.

On the federation’s nice list are Mayors Derek Corrigan, Michael Smith and Nicole Read for standing up for taxpayers in the TransLink sales tax debate, and the B.C. Legislature, after they began posting MLA expense receipts.

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Johns says the role of marine traffic control is to “pluck out that mayday call: “If we miss a call, that’s a life lost at sea.”

Regarding the fatal October sinking of a whale-watching boat off Tofino, Johns said he has heard rumours the Prince Rupert station could not identify the exact point of the sinking.

“It really comes down to local knowledge.”

He and Blaney both spoke about the issue in the House of Commons, and have discussed the planned closure with Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo. They also compared the economy and vessel traffic in B.C. with marine safety.

“The economy has got ahead and supports for marine safety have been cut.”

In the 1990s when the federal Liberals decreased B.C. Coast Guard stations from 10 to five, Johns said

government undertook a public consultation process.

“This time the Conservatives didn’t do that. It was driven on budgets,” he said.

“It’s local knowledge that saves lives. So we urged the minister to focus on local knowledge as the basis for marine safety. Supports for local Coast Guard lifeboat stations, support for marine traffic control, support for equipment and training for coastal communities…We know the minister has difficult decisions to make, but we also know the economy has far outpaced marine safety.

They’re inter-connected.

“Eventually you’re going to have an accident on the marine highway from a trade.”

And coastal British Columbians are going to be pointing the finger at government for not re-investing in marine safety.”

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Story of nosediving loonie is neither black nor white H ave you ever noticed how language colours discussion about the state of the Canadian dollar?

When it’s high, as it was not that long ago compared to the U.S. dollar, it’s called “strong.” If it is moving in an upward trend it’s “gaining ground.”

Traditional news coverage about the dollar’s journeys is like sports stories — someone winning, someone losing.

When the dollar is low, as it is now, it’s “taking a beating.” It’s “falling through the floor.” Its prospects are dim.

But the reality is much different.

A low dollar is certainly bad for some things and people. It’s bad for people who have to pay for goods and

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Our beleaguered manufacturing sector is only now regaining some momentum, and the low dollar is a needed catalyst to sustain that trend.

services in U.S. dollars. If you’re a snowbird who winters in Florida or a vacationer heading to Las Vegas or other U.S. destinations, it stinks. At its current level, lowest in a decade or so, it’s putting a crimp in vacation plans and will hurt the winter economies in some sunny locations. How could it not when $1,000 Canadian buys you only $700 American?

That puts a big hole in vacation spending.

Consumers could feel the sting, too. Anything imported from the U.S. or other markets with stronger currency could end up costing more, if it isn’t already. That includes food imported from the U.S. Inconvenient as that is, not holidaying is hardly a life-changing threat. Another major outcome of a low dollar is more serious.

The higher American dollar, especially with the interest rate increase announced by the Fed last week, means investors are more likely to choose U.S. investments because they can get a better rate of return.

Strength attracts strength and right now the U.S. economy is outpacing and outmuscling ours — and

yes, that’s a deliberate sports-sounding comparison because it applies in the case of the two economies overall.

Ours is fragile, to say the least.

Low oil prices continue to hurt, in part because our economy overall is too invested in natural resources, especially oil. That was a strategic decision by the previous government, and we’re now paying the price for having too many eggs in the resource basket.

But let’s not forget the low dollar also has positive attributes. The main one is it makes Canadian manufactured goods more affordable and attractive.

American dollars go a long way with ours at around 72 cents. Our beleaguered manufacturing sector is

only now regaining some momentum, and the low dollar is a needed catalyst to sustain that trend. It’s also a gift to exporters and domestic tourism operators who should see their businesses pick up with customers finding the low dollar offers more value than in the past.

It’s not all good. But the low dollar isn’t always the bad news story it sounds like. We need balanced reporting, not sports metaphors, when it comes to economic reporting.

urban poverty that was unprecedented. Novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot chronicle the widespread degradation, child labour, crime, disease, legal injustices and extraordinary disparity between the rich and poor.

That Luddism coincided with the rise of Imperialism manifest in the Pax Brittanica is no coincidence.

It took several decades after the Luddites were suppressed by military force before the pre-Marxist labour movement was to initiate reforms that would lead to technology being used as a means to share wealth and create the middle class, as opposed to enriching the one per cent.

Two-hundred years after the original Luddites, the challenge of ‘technics’ (the term coined by Lewis Mumford to include the impacts and ideology of technology as well as its processes) remains. Technologies have no inherent ethical structure and no memory. Humans must apply a moral code to processes like artificial intelligence.

In all things we must question; we must doubt and debate until we are satisfied on a balance of probabilities — and in some cases beyond reasonable doubt — that emerging technologies are safe, beneficial and ethical.

Thinking of the type seen at the ITIF is outdated. While the Internet at its surface now resembles a tawdry late-night “infomercial,” beneath lurks an unprecedented revolution as identified by author Paul Mason: Information is becoming the new currency and capitalism is at its end.

Re-regulation of business and industry, along with nationalization in some areas, will be key components in the post-capitalist world.

We need the Ned Ludd Awards for those who still put technology before compassion, profits before people and industry before ethics.

The ITIF would surely be among the first nominees.

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hut out this year again.

Not from the National Newspaper or Jack Webster Awards. Not from the Nobel Prize for Literature.

I failed to be nominated for this year’s Luddite Awards.

The Washington, D.C.,-based Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (which describes itself as a “think tank” but appears to be no more than a lobby group for the technology industry) released its annual Luddite Award nominations before Christmas.

That they named Elon Musk and Steven Hawking as part of their No. 1 nomination says a lot about what this group is up to — pure public relations. Musk and Hawking are named as part of a movement that promotes the idea of “an artificial intelligence apocalypse.”

As with political attack ads, this sort of derision and distortion is designed to delegitimize a credible view before it can gain traction. I wonder if the ITIF thinks we should stop reading Isaac Asimov, who in 1942 formed the now widely accepted Three Laws of Robotics.

The original Luddites of the early

1800s took their name from Ned Ludd, a weaver who made stockings by hand, and who is said to have broken stocking-making machines in factories after he lost his livelihood at the end of the 18th century.

Evidence about Ludd is scant beyond his occupation and that he may have been mentally challenged.

The eponymous movement, which was not shy about using violence (their legacy is probably closer to insurrectionary anarchism), is only part of a much larger context. In 1773 enclosure legislation had ended a widespread way of agrarian life that was centuries-old. By the early decades of the 19th century, masses of displaced rural inhabitants (sheep took their place on the land — wool was a more profitable use) were swelling urban centres.

Emerging technologies of the day were used almost exclusively by nascent classical liberal capitalists to exploit labour for greater profits, not to improve living conditions.

Millions were forced into a level of

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Man sues to claim $50M jackpot Provincial lottery agency taken to court; notice of claim says winning ticket may have been tossed out VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man is taking the province’s lottery agency to court, saying he is the rightful winner of a $50-million jackpot handed out earlier this month.

George Wilson-Tagoe filed a notice of civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court, saying that he purchased the winning Lotto Max ticket from a gas

station on his way to work on March 11, 2014. He said he scanned the ticket, noticed an unusual pattern, and then lost it, possibly throwing it in the trash with old tickets.

“I looked everywhere for the ticket.

Couldn’t find it,” he is quoted in the court documents.

Wilson-Tagoe said he called the B.C. Lottery Corporation and told them what happened.

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Group does not reflect community: S. Korea envoy

Medical Services Plan premiums, electric bills and auto insurance up

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VANCOUVER — South Korea’s top diplomat to Western Canada is encouraging Vancouver’s Korean-Canadian community to take action against a handful of “problematic people” involved in a bitter legal battle over the leadership of a Lower Mainland cultural group.

Consul General Kie Cheon Lee is speaking out about a long-standing power struggle over who leads the Korean Society of B.C. for Fraternity and Culture, and said the dispute reflects poorly — and unfairly — on the community as a whole.

“About 15 to 20 problematic Korean Canadians are damaging the reputation of the entire Korean-Canadian community,” said Lee. The society oversees programs for its members, such as English lessons and computer classes, and also hosts social events and sports lessons at its community centre near the Downtown Eastside.

Over the years, more than a dozen members of the civic association have volleyed a litany of competing lawsuits against one another, with accusations ranging from libel to embezzlement to fraud.

Allegations contained in the series of lawsuits have not been proven in court.

The Canadian Press reported late last month about the society’s legal wranglings. Since then, Lee said he has broached the topic three times while speaking at events throughout Metro Vancouver.

Korean Canadians feel ashamed about the story reaching mainstream media because it shines a spotlight on divisiveness in the community, he said.

As a representative of the Korean government, he stressed that the responsibility to bring about change doesn’t fall to him but rather to the local community members.

The allegations contained in the lawsuit have not been proven in court Angela Koulyras, a spokeswoman for BCLC, said she could not comment on the specifics of the case, but that the agency will be filing a defence against the allegations.

The agency awarded the massive prize to Friedrich Mayrhofer on

Dec. 15, nearly two years after the March 2014 draw.

Mayrhofer said earlier this month that the delay in coming forward was due to his family being private and concerned they wouldn’t be able to handle the money.

He could not be immediately reached about the legal action against the lottery corporation.

The BCLC received 739 inquir-

ies about the winning ticket and reviewed every claim thoroughly before handing over the $50-million prize to the people verified as the rightful ticket owners, Koulyras said.

“Throughout this process BCLC was guided by maintaining the integrity of the lottery system, which we uphold by ensuring prizes are paid to the right people,” she said.

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edical Services Plan premiums, electricity bills and vehicle insurance rates are up in 2016, reviving criticism of the B.C. government’s constant boast about keeping taxes low.

MSP premiums rise from $144 to $150 as of Jan. 1, for a family of three earning more than $30,000 a year.

For a single person in the same income group, the rate goes from $72 to $75, with lower rates for lower incomes down to $22,000 a year, where premiums drop to zero.

B.C. is now the only province in Canada with a health care fee, and it has risen about 40 per cent since 2010. Premier Christy Clark has defended the fee as a signal to citizens about the enormous cost of providing health care.

BC Hydro rates have been politically dictated since Clark and Energy Minister Bill Bennett intervened to cap rate increases in 2013.

Hydro rates jumped six per cent after the 2013 election, and are capped at no more than four per cent for 2015 and 2016, after which Bennett has promised to return rate-setting authority to the independent B.C. Utilities Commission.

Insurance Corporation of B.C. basic vehicle insurance went up by 5.5 per cent on Nov. 1, an increase still subject to review by the BCUC. That works out to an increase of $3.70 per month added for the average driver.

ICBC had proposed the maximum 6.7 per cent increase to cover increasing costs of personal injury claims and fraud, but the province gave it permission for a one-time

ICBC rates are up 5.5 per cent, with the corporation citing increased injury claim costs as part of the reason.

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transfer of $450 million from its optional insurance business to subsidize the basic rate.

In a year-end interview, NDP leader John Horgan stopped short of promising to eliminate MSP premiums, but he called it a “regressive tax” that would be part of a broad review of B.C. taxation fairness if he wins the 2017 election.

The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation says people who benefit from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promised middle-class tax cut will see most of those savings eaten up by provincial and municipal tax increases.

Trudeau vowed to reduce the federal income tax bracket between $45,282 and $90,563 from 22 per cent to 20.5 per cent, and increase the rate for income over $200,000 from 29 to 33 per cent.

The change would provide up to $2,000 in tax relief for middle-income earners, with dual-income households benefiting most, CTF federal director Aaron Wudrick says.

Municipal taxes are expected to increase across the province in 2016, with local councils preparing to set budgets for the new fiscal year that starts April 1. Port Alberni has pro-

posed a seven per cent increase, and the CTF says it hasn’t found any B.C. municipalities yet that propose to freeze or lower property tax rates.

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Cleveland cop who shot boy, 12, won’t face charges

Conviction for urging student’s suicide is reversed

Black youngster was killed while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun MARK GILLISPIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A grand jury Monday declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was shot while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun.

In explaining the decision, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said it was “indisputable” that the boy was drawing the pistol from his waistband when he was gunned down. McGinty said Tamir was trying to either hand the weapon over to police or show them it wasn’t real, but the officer and his partner had no way of knowing that.

“Simply put, given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police,” McGinty said. He said patrolman Timothy Loehmann was justified in opening fire: “He had reason to fear for his life.”

Tamir’s family condemned the decision but echoed the prosecutor in urging those disappointed to express themselves “peacefully and democratically.” Barricades were set up outside a Cleveland courthouse in case of protests, and about two dozen people gathered in the cold rain at the recreation centre where Tamir was shot, some holding signs with photos of the boy and others killed by police in the U.S. A grainy surveillance-camera video of the boy’s November 2014 shooting provoked outrage nationally, and

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Demonstrators block Public Square in Cleveland during a protest in November 2014 over the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. [AP PHOTO]

together with other killings of black people by police in places such as Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City, it helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement.

There was no immediate comment from Loehmann or his partner, who was not charged either.

Tamir was gunned down by Loehmann within two seconds of the officer’s police cruiser skidding to a stop near the boy. Loehmann and his white training partner, Frank Garmback, were responding to a 911 call about a “guy” waving a gun and pointing it at people.

Tamir was carrying a borrowed airsoft gun that looks like an actual firearm but shoots nonlethal plastic pellets. It was missing the orange tip that is supposed to show that it is not a real weapon. The grand jury had been hearing evidence and testimony since mid-October.

In detailing the decision not to bring charges, McGinty said police radio personnel contributed to the tragedy by failing to pass along the “all-important fact” that the 911 caller said the gunman was probably a youngster and the gun probably wasn’t real.

Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Meyer said it was “extremely difficult” to tell the difference between the pellet gun and a real one. And he said Tamir was big for his age — 5-foot-7 and 175 pounds, with a men’s XL jacket and size-36 pants — and could have easily passed for someone much older.

In a statement, Tamir’s family said it was “saddened and disappointed by this outcome — but not surprised.”

It accused the prosecutor of “abusing and manipulating the grand jury process to orchestrate a vote against indictment.”

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Trudeau has said Canada will remain a participant in the fight against the militants but how and in what capacity remains unclear.

Another key issue will be the future of the Trans Pacific Partnership deal; Canada agreed to the landmark trade package during the election but it still needs to be ratified and Trudeau has not set a timeline for when that will happen.

It will be the first White House state dinner in 19 years for a Canadian leader.

en their bilateral relationship.

Heyman said it is also intended to advance co-operation on issues such as energy and climate change, security and the economic relationship.

The meeting will come just ahead of the end of the parliamentary mandate for Canada’s participation in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria.

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OTTAWA — U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have set a date for their first meeting in Washington.

Trudeau and his wife are to be welcomed by the Obamas for an official visit and state dinner at the White House on March 10.

Obama and Trudeau met on the sidelines of the APEC summit in the Philippines in November and Obama had mentioned then he had hoped to have the Trudeaus to the White House in the new year.

U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman announced the date in a statement Monday, saying the visit is an opportunity for the two countries to deep-

MINNEAPOLIS — A former Minnesota nurse who admitted to going online and encouraging people to kill themselves didn’t give specific instructions to a Carleton University student, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday in overturning his conviction.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals said there wasn’t enough evidence to convict William Melchert-Dinkel of attempting to assist the suicide of 18-year-old Nadia Kajouji, of Brampton, Ont., who jumped into the freezing Rideau River in 2008.

However, the court upheld his conviction on the higher charge of assisting the suicide of a British man, saying he gave 32-year-old Mark Drybrough, of Coventry, England, detailed instructions on how to hang himself.

Melchert-Dinkel, obsessed with suicide and death, trolled chat rooms dedicated to suicide methods posing as a female.

He sought out his victims, entering into a suicide pact with Kajouji and trying to get her to hang herself while he watched via webcam.

During trial, he acknowledged participating in online chats about suicide with up to 20 people and entering into fake suicide pacts with about 10, five of whom he believed killed themselves.

The defence argued that the online activities were protected speech, the victims were predisposed to suicide and Melchert-Dinkel’s comments were not a factor in their deaths.

Melchert-Dinkel was initially charged with encouraging Kajouji’s death but the trial judge ruled state prosecutors failed to prove his assistance was a direct cause of her suicide and found him guilty of the lesser charged of attempting to help her to end her life.

The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed Melchert-Dinkel’s original convictions last year. The justices declared that a state law banning someone from “encouraging” or “advising” suicide was unconstitutional, but upheld part of the law making it a crime to “assist” in a suicide.

Melchert-Dinkel served nearly six months in jail after his 2014 conviction and remains on 10 years of probation. While he told police he did it “for the thrill of the chase,” he apologized at his sentencing and said he had repented.

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Man shot by cops after approaching with gun Police in Edmonton have shot and wounded a man they say was armed and approached officers who were responding to a 911 call.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, which investigates police shootings, is now handling the case. The agency says in a news release that police were called to the scene early Sunday in the city’s west end in response to a man who was threatening to shoot himself.

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Canada-wide arrest warrants have been issued for a young man and woman charged in what the RCMP describe as an “extremely violent” murder in Moncton, N.B. Eighteen-year-old Tyler Noel and 20-year-old Marissa Shephard, both of the Moncton area, face charges of first-degree murder and arson in the Dec. 17 death of Baylee Wylie.

The 18-year-old man’s body was discovered by firefighters after a fire at a triplex on Sumac Street.

“The murder of Baylee Wylie was extremely violent,” Sgt. Andre Pepin said in a news release. “These two should be considered dangerous and not be approached.”

Pepin added that anyone helping the pair evade police could also be charged.

Environment Canada issued winter storm and freezing rain warnings for large swaths of Ontario and southern Quebec after an unseasonably warm December.

The agency says an intense low pressure system that originated in Texas was expected to roll into the Windsor area Monday afternoon, bringing freezing rain, ice pellets and strong winds before changing to rain Monday night.

The storm was to hit Sault Ste. Marie hard with upwards of 35 centimetres of snow Monday night.

It says the system will move across the province where it will turn into snow in eastern Ontario and southern Quebec where it could also dump between 20 to 35 centimetres of snow by this afternoon.

A Toronto police officer has been taken to hospital after he was bitten by a sick raccoon.

Police received a call at 12:18 p.m.

Monday from a store owner for a raccoon that “appeared to be in distress and possibly blind,” hanging around a downtown store, said Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook.

She said two officers tried to corral the raccoon, which is when one officer was bitten in the hand.

The officer was taken to hospital to be treated for a minor injury, Douglas-Cook said, but is otherwise fine.

There has also been an outbreak in distemper in raccoons in southwestern Ontario, according to the ministry. That illness is also fatal and presents similar symptoms as rabies, but is not transferable to humans.

Family, friends and former teammates attended a funeral service today for Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Dickie Moore.

Moore was described as a humble and loyal family man who was generous with his time and money.

Former Canadiens stars Guy Lafleur, Serge Savard and Yvan Cournoyer were in attendance.

Moore died in Montreal on Dec. 19 at the age of 84.

The Hockey Hall of Famer played his first 12 seasons with the Canadiens. He won the Stanley Cup with Montreal on six occasions, including five in a row in the late 1950s.

After his hockey days, Moore settled into the business world. His construction equipment rental company became a big success.

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OTTAWA — As he watches his former colleagues go all out to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees by the end of this year, the civil servant who helped run Canada’s last major refugee resettlement program says he’s concerned that politics is getting in the way of policy.

Gerry Van Kessel says he’s frustrated by the game he feels the Liberal government is playing by constantly affixing and changing targets for their Syrian refugee program.

“There is an element of make believe in all this that keeps the focus on the make believe and not the substance,” he said in an interview.

“And to what purpose? That’s the thing — they are doing something that the public approves of. And yet the public focus is not going to be on what they are doing but on the manipulation around it.”

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“There is an element of make believe in all this that keeps the focus on the make believe and not the substance.”

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Van Kessel said as soon as he, and other former immigration officials, saw the government’s Syrian plan, they knew bringing over more than three times that number of people in just four months couldn’t be done.

What’s happened since has been nothing but politics, he said.

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The “immediately” was later defined as the end of the year. But since the Liberals have been sworn into power on Nov. 4, things keep changing.

According to the immigration department, as of Dec. 26, 2,413 had arrived. A further 1,452 were scheduled to arrive on flights on Dec. 27 and Dec. 28. How many will arrive in the final three days of the year is unclear. Nine government flights currently appear on the schedule.

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Progress was slowed by snipers, booby traps and the militants’ destruction of bridges SINAN SALAHEDDIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes drove Islamic State militants out of the centre of Ramadi on Monday and seized the main government complex there, according to military officials, who said insurgents are still dug into pockets of the city west of Baghdad.

Ramadi, the provincial capital of the sprawling Anbar province, fell to IS in May, marking a major setback for Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led campaign. Ramadi and nearby Fallujah, which is controlled by IS, saw some of the heaviest fighting of the eightyear U.S. intervention in Iraq.

In recent months Iraqi forces launched several offensives to retake Ramadi, but all had stalled. Iraqi troops began advancing into some parts of the city, located about 130 kilometres west of Baghdad, earlier this month.

But their progress was slowed by snipers, booby traps and the militants’ destruction of bridges leading into the city centre.

The heavy fighting and limited access to front-lines made it difficult to follow the troops’ progress, and Iraqi officials issued a string of some-

Iraqi security forces enter the government complex in central Ramadi, 115 kilometers west of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

times contradictory statements.

Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Belawi told The Associated Press that IS militants stopped firing from inside the government complex at around 8 a.m. Monday and said troops were encircling it as engineering teams cleared booby traps.

A few hours later, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool announced in a televised statement that Ramadi had been “fully liberated.”

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retaken the government complex and that parts of the city remained under IS control. He said IS fighters still control 30 per cent of Ramadi and that government forces do not fully control many districts from which IS fighters have retreated.

“The troops only entered the government complex,” al-Mahlawi told The Associated Press. “We can’t say that Ramadi is fully liberated. There are still neighbourhoods under their control and there are still pockets of resistance.”

Iraqi state TV showed troops, some waving Iraqi flags and others brandishing machine-guns, chanting and dancing inside what it described as the government complex. Soldiers could be seen slaughtering sheep in celebration near heavily damaged buildings.

Col. Steve Warren, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, told AP that “today’s success is a proud moment for Iraq.”

The recapture of the government complex should lift the morale of Iraqi forces, who were badly shaken by the fall of the city in May, which came despite months of U.S.-led airstrikes and advances against IS elsewhere in the country.

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Mohamed Fahmy said he initially refused to give up his Egyptian citizenship when it was suggested to him as a way of speeding up his release.

But he eventually relented late last year after receiving reassurance that he could reapply for it at a later date, he said.

Even so, it took almost a year — and a presidential pardon — before he was freed.

Fahmy, who now lives in Vancouver, said Monday that he is seeking to recover his dual citizenship as a “matter of principle.”

“I kind of feel that it was unnecessary for me to renounce my citizenship to get out of prison,” he said. “I’ve spoken to Egyptian officials and my lawyers have and we don’t have a clear answer on why this happened.”

“So now I would like to claim it back,” he said.

“I will continue to fight for it as long as it takes and at any cost.”

He also said he plans to go back to Egypt one day and report from there, and feels he shouldn’t need a visa to do so.

Fahmy was arrested in 2013 with two Al-Jazeera English colleagues on terror-related charges.

He was sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial this year for airing what a court described as “false news” and coverage biased in favour of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.

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GARLAND, Texas — The storm system that spawned tornadoes in Texas over the weekend brought winter storm woes to the Midwest on Monday, worsening flooding already blamed for more than a dozen deaths and prompting hundreds of flight cancellations.

At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in the tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area Saturday and caused substantial damage.

That, plus the flooding in Missouri and Illinois, was the latest in a succession of severe weather events across the U.S. that have led to at least 45 deaths in less than a week.

A range of precipitation was forecast Monday for the country’s midsection, including heavy snow, ice and blustery winds in parts of 11 states and heavy rain in already-waterlogged parts of Missouri and Arkansas.

The system caused nearly 900 flights to be cancelled — more than a third of which were at Chicago’s two main airports — and 500 to be delayed, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.

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One group, with more than 100 rebels and family members, crossed from Syria into Lebanon in buses and ambulances, and then took off from Beirut airport for Turkey. The other group, residents of two insurgent-besieged Shiite villages in northern Syria, was evacuated first to Turkey in similar vehicles.

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Canadians dump Danes 6-1, take on Swiss today JOHN CHIDLEY-HILL THE CANADIAN PRESS

HELSINKI — Mitch Marner took off his sandal, held it up like a microphone and joined the reporters interviewing teammate Dylan Strome.

Strome laughed and swatted away his friend’s shoe before continuing to answer questions about Canada’s forward lines after a 6-1 victory over Denmark on Monday in the preliminary round of the world junior hockey championship.

It’s obvious that Canada’s junior team has loosened up on and off the ice after a disappointing 4-2 loss to the United States on Saturday to open the tournament.

“I think our line was having fun, for sure. I think the whole team was too,” said Marner, who was paired with Brayden Point and John Quenneville for the first time at the international event. “It’s nice going out and doing that especially after the USA game. It’s nice to get the confidence back in the room. We’ve got to make sure we come back tomorrow and make sure we’re ready to play.”

Canadian head coach Dave Lowry said after the opening loss that his players needed to stop overthinking plays and shoot more often. They delivered Monday by firing 58 shots on Denmark’s goalie Mathias Seldrup, more than twice as many as Canada had against the Americans.

“We just wanted to get more pucks to the net,” said Marner. “I think that was the problem in our first game we didn’t get enough pucks to the net.

We really focused on trying to get bodies in front of the goalies.

“Every goalie in this tournament is great when they see the puck so we just got to get bodies in front of them and make sure we get pucks there.”

Marner and Strome had a goal and an assist each for Canada (1-1), while Anthony Beauvillier, John Quenneville, Matt Barzal and Lawson Crouse also scored at Helsinki Ice Hall.

“We like winning,” said Marner, who was selected fourth overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in last summer’s NHL draft. “Everyone played really well tonight, we had great depth, everyone got a point on our team almost. Any line can score on our team.”

Mason McDonald faced 11 shots in total — none in the third period — only allowing a goal on a deflection off the skate of Danish forward Alexander True.

“I can’t remember when I faced that little,” said McDonald, who said he worked hard to stay focused in the third period. “It had to be peewee or something.”

It was likely McDonald’s last start of the preliminary round. It’s expected that he will give way to Mackenzie Blackwood on Tuesday at 10 a.m. when the Canadians face Switzerland (0-2).

Los Angeles Kings centre Trevor Lewis celebrates a goal that beat Vancouver Canucks goalie Jacob Markstrom during the second period of a game in Vancouver on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Kings embarrass Canucks 5-0 in Vancouver BEN KUZMA THE PROVINCE

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e knew it would be a heavy game and Willie Desjardins had to do some heavy thinking Monday.

Maybe too much thinking.

The Los Angeles Kings came as advertised and the response from the Vancouver Canucks’ coach was to replace the big-bodied Adam Cracknell with the slight-framed Linden Vey. On the weight scale it made little sense, but with Henrik Sedin playing through injury and not able to take draws, the thinking was Vey could help in that matter — especially on the power play where he got a belated Christmas present by being the net-front presence on the first unit.

Or, maybe Desjardins thought Vey might give him something in the circle and some offence by playing against his former NHL club and his former AHL linemates in Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson.

Toffoli answered the challenge with a hat-trick effort Monday.

Whatever the Vey rationale, it didn’t work. In a sobering 5-0 loss at Rogers Arena where Jonathan Quick posted his third shutout of the season, the Canucks lost Sven Baertschi to an upper-body injury in the second period.

They also lost ground to the pursuing pack in the Pacific Division and looked lost again on the power play with a funk that has now stretched to 0-for-17 in the last eight games.

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What really stood out, aside from Radim Vrbata shooting from every possible angle with six shots through two periods, was the lack of an early offensive push. The Canucks were outshot 16-5 at one point in the first period and that set the tone because they had no answer in transition, in the face-off circle or on the boards where they lost battles that led to two goals. And if Baertschi, who had three goals in his last five games, is lost for any length of time after finding his confidence and the front of the net, the ‘O’ hole is only going to get deeper.

WHAT THIS MEANS: Alex Biega was going to be a good story when recalled Dec. 1. On his fourth-consecutive one-year contract, playing with a bulldog mentality was going to get the Harvard grad in the lineup with injuries to Chris Tanev (ankle), Luca Sbisa (hand) and Dan Hamhuis (face).

It’s also getting him noticed for all the right reasons and when the wounded return, Biega will require waivers to be re-assigned to the Utica Comets. However, Biega is giving the Canucks everything they could hope for.

On Monday, his early outlet pass to Henrik Sedin led to Brayden McNabb elbowing the Canucks captain to the head.

Biega responded by going after the blueliner.

He then drew an offensive-zone penalty, broke up a 2-on-1 break and blocked two shots in the first period.

And in a heavy game where Yannick Weber and Matt Bartkowski would lose board battles that directly led to goals, management may have to take a hard look at what to do with the 27-year-old Biega once the Canucks get healthier on the back end.

He has more than held his own.

WHAT WE LEARNED: It takes a lot to sideline Henrik.

Whether it’s his hip-flexor, groin or back, he didn’t sit out Monday and it shouldn’t be surprising.

He could even finally sit between shifts, unlike Saturday.

“It has happened before — it’s not a big deal,” he said.

“It’s more on the ice, like not being able to take faceoffs the way I want to.”

Sedin wore a splint to play through a wrist injury when cross-checked in the ribs on Jan.16, 2014.

He laboured through the ailments, but left a Jan. 21 game to end his games-played streak at 679.

IN A WORD: TWITCHY: Bo Horvat had a slight hesitation and could have buried his first goal in 26 games. He also fed Sven Baertschi on a 2-on-1 break instead of shooting from a prime scoring area.

PUNCHY: Andrey Pedan is 6-foot5 and 213 pounds. Jordan Nolan is 6-foot-3, 219 pounds. A little extra reach did Pedan a lot of good in his unanimous victory over the Kings’ enforcer.

ITCHY: Brandon Prust was ready with a nod of the head before a faceoff to make McNabb pay for a questionable, should-be-reviewed hit to the head on Henrik.

ADVANCED STATS 59: Distance in feet that a second-period point shot by McNabb eluded Jacob Markstrom through a maze to the glove side to make it 3-0.

10:19: First-period minutes for Alex Edler, who would log 18:10 through 40 minutes, and buckle under the pressure to contain the Kings’ strong north-south game.

-43: The combined even-strength Corsi for the third line that struggled in every matchup. Chris Higgins was a minus-16 after two periods while Jared McCann was a minus-14 and Derek Dorsett minus-13.

0: Number of face-offs won by winger Jannik Hansen through two periods with Henrik ailing enough to not take draws. The Canucks won just 31 per cent through 40 minutes.

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Habs ship Kassian to Edmonton for Scrivens The Montreal Canadiens traded forward Zack Kassian to the Edmonton Oilers on Monday in exchange for goaltender Ben Scrivens.

Scrivens, 29, posted a 2-6-1 record with AHL Bakersfield this season. He had a 3.47 goals-against average and .893 save percentage. In 129 career NHL regular-season games, Scrivens has a 42-56-17 mark with a 2.90 GAA and .905 save percentage.

Kassian, 24, was acquired by the Canadiens last summer but did not play in a regular-season game for Montreal. He was cleared to play in mid-December after spending more than two months in a substance abuse program. Kassian then cleared waivers and was assigned to AHL St. John’s. The physical winger has 35 goals and 31 assists in 198 career NHL regular-season games.

Also Monday, the Oilers recalled goaltender Eetu Laurikainen from HPK of the Finnish Elite League and assigned him to Bakersfield.

SHIRES

T-Men bring Shires home amid series of changes SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

The Nanaimo Timbermen will enter the 2016 season a much changed lacrosse team after two trades over Christmas.

The Timbermen, eager to get out of the Western Lacrosse Association basement for the first time since 2012, dealt a third-round 2016 draft pick to the Coquitlam Adanacs for former local Junior A star Corey Shires.

They also sent last year’s second overall draft pick, Eli McLaughlin, and their upcoming No. 1 overall draft pick ,to the Burnaby Lakers in exchange for Victoria native Casey Jackson and Burnaby’s third, 10th, and 17th overall picks in the 2016 draft as well as their third-round pick in 2017.

Shires is the second Nanaimo product to be brought back to the Timbermen this offseason, as they also traded for Colton Clark last month from the New Westminster Salmonbellies.

Shires was unexpectedly drafted last season by the Adanacs, but didn’t make an impact in Coquitlam where he posted four assists in five games.

He averaged 4.86 points per game in 2014, his final year of Junior A lacrosse.

McLaughlin played 12 games with the Timbermen last season, coming to Nanaimo after playing his rookie campaign with the National Lacrosse League’s Colorado Mammoth.

He scored 15 goals with 19 assists and was second on the Timbermen in points per game behind Cody Bremner.

Jackson is expected to make an immediate impact with the Timbermen — his career high in points overall came in 2010 with the Victoria Junior Shamrocks when he added 88 points. As a 25-year-old last season Jackson played five games with 10 points in 2015.

The 2016 WLA draft, held in February, will be headlined by Coquitlam Junior A stars Cole Shafer and Chris Cloutier, as well as Evan Messenger of the Delta Islanders.

Graduating Nanaimo Junior A star Brett Hawrys will also be available at the draft, where the Timbermen will own three of the top 10 picks.

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◆ BUFFALO Brooke Henderson poses for a photo at the Smiths Falls Golf Club on Monday. Henderson has won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as The Canadian Press 2015 female athlete of the year. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Evander Kane says he’s innocent in sex crime

Brooke Henderson is Canada’s female athlete of the year winner

Buffalo Sabres forward Evander Kane was calm and brief in saying he looks forward to having his name cleared in connection with a sex crime allegation.

“I just want to say I’ve done nothing wrong,” Kane said Monday morning following Buffalo’s pre-game skate before hosting the Washington Capitals. “I respect the legal process.

And unfortunately at this time, there’s not much more I can talk about.”

Kane spoke for about 30 seconds in front of a large gathering of reporters in a corner of the Sabres locker room. He did not take any questions in his first comments since The Buffalo News reported that Buffalo police were investigating a claim made against the player.

The alleged incident occurred early Sunday at a downtown hotel, where Kane is living, after he and the Sabres returned to Buffalo following a 6-3 win at Boston. Police issued a statement that was limited to saying that no report or charges had been filed.

GREGORY STRONG THE CANADIAN PRESS

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ed-eye flights, pre-tournament qualifiers and lastminute travel plans were often the norm for golfer Brooke Henderson in her first season as a professional.

At the start of the year, she hoped to post some decent results and use her rookie campaign as a learning experience. Henderson did much more than that in 2015 — she became the first Canadian to win on the LPGA Tour in more than a decade and rocketed into the top 20 in the world rankings.

Not bad for someone who just celebrated her 18th birthday a few months ago. Henderson capped her impressive season Monday by winning the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as The Canadian Press female athlete of the year. She picked up 21 votes (37 per cent) in the annual survey of editors and broadcasters from across the country.

“I’m hoping this is just the start of a pretty long career, and one where I can chase after some bigger dreams and goals that I’ve set for myself,” Henderson said. “Really I think that there are no limits and I think anything is possible. My 2015 year proves that it’s true — that anything is possible.”

Soccer player Kadeisha Buchanan was well back in second place in the voting with 10 votes (17 per cent).

Tennis player Eugenie Bouchard won the award the last two years.

Henderson is the first golfer to capture the honour since Lorie Kane in 2000. Kane was also the last

“It was just a miracle year really.“ Brooke Henderson, golfer

Canadian to win on the Tour until Henderson blew away the field at the Cambia Portland Classic in August to end Canada’s 14-year victory drought.

The youngster from Smiths Falls, Ont., needed to play in a qualifier just to enter the tournament field that week. She showed she belonged by finishing with a whopping eightshot victory.

“A couple days I was playing there and I was thinking back to when I would just kind of daydream when I was little,” she said. “I was looking at my putt on the green and I could see the hole and the ball and I could see the fans around the green. They were kind of blurred and it was just exactly how I pictured it when I was little. I was like, ’Wow, you know what, this is my dream.”’

Henderson, who also posted fifthplace ties at two major events last season, was granted immediate LPGA Tour membership by commissioner Mike Whan after the win.

“The LPGA Tour win — that was really the pinnacle of the season,” she said. “It was when I was playing my best and I was able to secure my LPGA Tour card and get my first LPGA Tour victory. (The year) as a whole was a result of a lot of hard work and it was just something where everything came together and I thank God for that.

“It was just a miracle year really.”

Henderson will be able to play a full Tour schedule next year and make her plans well ahead of time.

Gone are the days of needing sponsor invitations or travelling overnight to make it to the course in time for morning qualification rounds.

“I wanted to play against the best in the world,” she said. “Most of the times when I was doing that, I wasn’t a member and I didn’t really have anywhere else to play. I was trying to make my way onto the Tour and trying to make my mark. It was something that I knew I had to do and it was exciting to know that I could have a chance to do something amazing.”

Henderson finished the season ranked 18th in the world — a jump of over 200 positions from a year ago — with over US$100,000 in official LPGA earnings and more than $700,000 in combined earnings as a pro.

“Already a top-flight golfer at such a young age,” said Red Deer Advocate sports editor Greg Meachem. “Proved she can compete — and be successful — against the best of the best in a global sport.”

Canadian women’s team coach Tristan Mullally, who has worked with Henderson since she was 14, said she’s a remarkably steady ball striker with the accuracy to be consistent on different types of golf courses.

“When you combine those two, that makes for a pretty potent recipe,” Mullally said.

Henderson hopes to start strong early in the 2016 season with a goal of cracking the top 10 in the world rankings.

◆ CALGARY

Flames winger named as NHL’s star of the month Calgary Flames left-winger Johnny Gaudreau was named NHL first star of the week on Monday.

He led all players with five goals in two games last week. Gaudreau had a hat trick in a 4-1 win over Winnipeg on Dec. 22 and scored two goals in a 5-3 win over Edmonton last Sunday.

Dallas Stars goaltender Antti Niemi was the second star and Toronto Maple Leafs centre Tyler Bozak took the third star.

Niemi went 2-0-1 last week with a 1.02 goals-against average and .966 save percentage.

Bozak had four goals and an assist over three games.

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Cardinals don’t plan to rest their starters JOSE M. ROMERO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEMPE, Ariz. — For head coach Bruce Arians and the Arizona Cardinals, Week 17 might as well be Week 1.

In other words, Arians doesn’t plan to rest any top players for Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Seattle Seahawks at home.

The Cardinals have already clinched the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs and a first-round bye. But the top seed is still at stake.

If the Carolina Panthers lose Sunday to Tampa Bay, the Cardinals, by virtue of a better conference record, can secure the No. 1 spot and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, as long as they beat Seattle.

Arizona (13-2) has won nine straight games and has already clinched the NFC West title with the most wins in a season in franchise history. Now the Cardinals want to play hard to the finish.

“I don’t think you get anything out of resting guys, especially playing a team that’s in our division and we haven’t beaten them at home in a couple of years,” Arians said Monday. “We don’t want to start a precedent now.”

Defensive tackle Calais Campbell said everything is “flowing right now” for the Cardinals.

“Got a lot of momentum going our way, and every time you go out there and you’re playing good football like we are, you want to keep it going,” Campbell said.

“And it’s a division game. Seattle’s definitely a rivalry game, a game that we look forward to playing each and every year. I definitely circled that game on the calendar.”

The Cardinals haven’t beaten the Seahawks at home since the 2012 season. Seattle has won the past two division championships and gone on to the Super Bowl both times.

Arians said players approached him after Sunday’s 38-8 win over the Green Bay Packers and made it clear how they want to approach this week’s game. He wasn’t surprised by what he was told.

“They said, ‘Look, we want to win this.’ I said, ‘Of course we do,”’ Arians said. “They all feel the same way.”

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Impactful injuries leave top teams without key players As teams like Bengals, Seahawks prep for playoffs, the missing loom large DAVE CAMPBELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ndy Dalton was thriving, producing by far the best season of his five-year NFL career.

The Cincinnati Bengals were cruising, putting themselves in prime position to finally register that first win in the playoffs since the 1990 post-season.

Then came the game against Pittsburgh on Dec. 13, the interception Dalton threw in the first quarter and his fateful contribution to the tackle that stopped Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitt.

Dalton’s thumb on his throwing hand was broken.

The Bengals and their Super Bowl goal were still intact, but with major collateral damage.

“We’ll go week to week,” coach Marvin Lewis said the day after Dalton was hurt, summing up the situation as a typical NFL coach would. “I think that’s about as good an outcome right now as we could expect.”

The Bengals were able to clinch the AFC North title on Sunday thanks to a loss by the Steelers, but without the “Red Rifle” the dynamic of their championship chase has changed, and not for the better. Dalton has flopped in the playoffs in each of his first four years, but he’s the franchise quarterback, not A.J. McCarron.

He’s still third in the league in passer rating, having been intercepted only seven times in the 13 games he played in.

With the first-round bye still in play, the Bengals have held on to the hope that extra healing time for Dalton will bring him back at full strength for the stretch run.

But there’s no guarantee.

With this wildly unpredictable sport in a wildly unpredictable season, alas, guarantees are next to nonexistent.

There’s hardly a bigger reason for that than injuries, that familiar lament in a league with participants too big, strong and fast to avoid them in such a violent game. From Cincinnati in the AFC to two-time defending

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton and Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning talk prior to a game on Monday in Denver. [AP PHOTO]

NFC champion Seattle, there are teams heading toward the playoffs whose title bid has taken a hit because of the loss of some important players. Then there are the star-crossed clubs such as Baltimore and Dallas who couldn’t even get going, at least partially due to the untimely absences of key cogs in their schemes.

Here’s a glance at some of the teams most stung by injuries in the NFL this year: COWBOYS COLLAPSE When quarterback Tony Romo went down in the second game of the season, Dallas essentially did, too. The broken collarbone kept him out for two months and was reinjured on Thanksgiving Day, rendering the NFC East race moot for the Cowboys even with their competitors failing to take control of the diluted division.

Dez Bryant was hurt in the opener, a broken foot taking the dangerous wide receiver out of the mix. Then Lance Dunbar hurt his knee in Week 4, removing the change-of-pace running back from the game plan while they were still trying to figure out how to replace departed free agent DeMarco Murray.

GROUNDED SEAHAWKS Seattle has dodged the debilitating effect of star players getting hurt as well as any team, behind the brilliance of quarterback Russell Wilson.

With running back Marshawn Lynch recovering from an abdominal injury since mid-November and rookie replacement Thomas Rawls done for the season because of a badly damaged ankle, the Seahawks are left for now with Fred Jackson and Christine Michael.

Lynch, the fulcrum of the team that won a championship two years ago and nearly repeated, could be back for the playoffs, but still carries an uncertain status.

This suddenly soaring aerial attack, plus that star-studded defence, could be good enough to get Seattle back to the Super Bowl. But without Lynch and his power-running clone Rawls, that path will be a little less smooth.

ROUGHED-UP RAVENS As with the Cowboys, another expected contender for the playoffs, the Baltimore Ravens, sent frustrated fans flocking to mockdraft websites for hints on which prospects will be the first-round

picks in the spring. Linebacker Terrell Suggs tore his Achilles tendon in the opener, setting the tone for a season in which they lost their starting quarterback (Joe Flacco), featured running back (Justin Forsett) and best wide receiver (Steve Smith).

QB-CHALLENGED COLTS Indianapolis is another team on track for an earlier-than-expected winter vacation.

Quarterback Andrew Luck, who played in every game in his first three seasons while leading the Colts to 11-5 records and spots in the playoffs, hurt a shoulder, a kidney and an abdominal muscle.

Backups Matt Hasselbeck and Charlie Whitehurst have since incurred injuries, too.

TOUGH-LUCK TITANS Tennessee had the second pick in the draft this year, selecting quarterback Marcus Mariota who played up to his lofty selection in a solid rookie season. But then he sprained each knee, missing the last three games, as the Titans lost all three while being outscored 64-19.

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Marshawn Lynch could return before playoffs begin TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. — Coming off one of their ugliest performances of the season, the Seattle Seahawks needed a little good news.

They may be getting it with the potential return of running back Marshawn Lynch.

Coach Pete Carroll indicated

Monday that Lynch could rejoin the team later this week.

It’s the first sign of optimism that Lynch could be a factor for the Seahawks once the post-season arrives. But Carroll cautioned that the team would have to see how Lynch is doing in person before deciding whether he will play in the regular-season

finale this week at Arizona or in the wild-card round of the NFC playoffs.

“We have to see him playing football and see if everything translates. He’s always come back in really good shape, and been fast and strong and had his endurance and all that,” Carroll said. “We’re kind of hoping that’s

the same when the time comes.”

Lynch has been out since undergoing abdominal surgery Nov. 25 to repair an injury related to a sports hernia.

Lynch played through the injury in Seattle’s Week 10 loss to Arizona, then sat out the following week against San Francisco before undergoing surgery.

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Attendance — 19,289 at Calgary.

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Attendance — 5,891 at Helsinki.

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New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

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San Diego at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

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Oakland at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 4:25 p.m.

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

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Miami at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Atlanta at Houston, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Denver, 9 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Brooklyn at Orlando, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Golden State at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 10 p.m.

NBA SCORING LEADERS Curry, GS Harden, Hou Durant, OkC James, Cle Westbrook, OkC Cousins, Sac George, Ind Lillard, Por Davis, NO GrifďŹ n, LAC DeRozan, Tor Anthony, NY

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PTS 893 910 666 696 791 551 718 712 637 697 704 656

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Broncos clinch playoff spot with OT win over Bengals ARNIE STAPLETON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — DeMarcus Ware came up with the big play he’s been looking for ever since missing a month with a bad back, and it put the Denver Broncos into the playoffs.

Ware beat AJ McCarron to a fumbled snap in overtime, sending the Broncos into the post-season with a 20-17 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday night.

Ware’s recovery followed a 37-yard

field goal by Brandon McManus, whose shanked 45-yarder at the end of regulation made necessary the extra drama.

The Broncos (11-4) overcame a 14-0 first-half deficit in clinching their fifth consecutive playoff berth and denying the Bengals (11-4) their first road win on a Monday night since 1990. “There’s an old saying: ’It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,�’ Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler

said. “And this team finished great tonight.�

Cincinnati also blew a chance to earn a bye in the playoffs.

Denver can earn the top seed in the AFC with a win over San Diego and a loss by New England at Miami next weekend.

Denver, which was in danger of becoming the first team since the 1970 merger to miss the playoffs after starting 10-2, snapped a twogame skid with its third overtime win

of the season. McManus has missed a kick in five consecutive games, and this one wasn’t even close. It sailed wide left — missing the protective netting — to the astonishment of 74,511 fans even though the flags atop the goal posts revealed a complete lack of wind.

The relieved Bengals called tails and the coin landed heads.

Unlike Patriots coach Bill Belichick a day earlier, Broncos coach Gary Kubiak chose to receive, and Denver

drove 60 yards in 13 plays. Both Emmanuel Sanders and Owen Daniels limped off during the drive.

Osweiler, making his sixth straight start in place of Peyton Manning, also banged an elbow in the frenetic final minutes but stayed in.

McManus then redeemed himself by splitting the uprights from 37 yards out five minutes into the extra period.

Then, it was up to the league’s best defence to seal the deal.

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Mammoth crossword puzzle 2015 clues (part 1) ACROSS 1 Movie of Von Trapp family turned 50 (3,5,2,5) 9 Football controversy of the year (11) 15 First Triple Crown winner since 1978 (8,7) 23 A short laugh (2) 25 Symbol for chemical element chlorine (2) 26 Paris-based mag attacked (7,5) 29 Late-night sketch show turned 40 (8,5,4) 30 Mr. Spock actor passed away (7,5) 31 Wanderer (5) 32 Canada’s largest city; abbr. (2) 33 The Peach State; abbr. (2) 35 Current version of this board game is 80 (8) 36 Baseball equipment (3) 38 Released from S. African jail 25 yrs ago (6,7) 40 Game show turned 40 (5,2,7) 43 Co. predicting 3D-printer sneakers (4) 45 A supreme being (3) 46 Remote control; abbr. (2) 48 Member of an upper house; abbr. (3) 52 Cry loudly (3) 54 Conglomerate that sold finance arm (2) 57 New chamber suspected in this king’s tomb (3) 60 A highly volcanic moon of Jupiter (2) 67 Kate and William’s new princess (9) 68 Spacecraft that reached Pluto (3,8) 72 This crisis intensified in Europe (11) 76 Superbowl’s halftime act (4,5) 81 Legendary baseball catcher passed at 90 (4,5) 83 One of his paintings sold for $179 million (7) 86 Highest earning basketballer (6,5) 87 UN adopts resolution 2199 to combat this (9) 89 A computer’s ‘address’ (2) 91 A volunteer org. for young people; abbr. (3) 93 A tiny metric unit of volume (2) 94 Counterintelligence; abbr. (2) 96 Raggedy __ turned 100 (3) 97 An Adobe visual software package; abbr.

(2) 98 High, deep ball in tennis (3) 100 Justin __ hit the U.S. legal drinking age (6) 102 Amusement park opened 60 yrs ago (10) 105 Chicago team won its 6th Stanley Cup (10) 108 Country whose maple leaf flag turned 50 (6) 109 Infomercials, for example (3) 110 Cameron __ married Benji Madden (4) 111 Delight (5) 113 Miranda’s ex (5) 115 Julio’s son, who turned 39 (initials) (2) 116 Perform or complete an action (2) 117 Potassium hydroxide (3) 118 Relative of a gator (4) 120 Ridiculously (7) 123 Sew up (4) 125 Sets of medical symptoms (9) 129 Encounter (4) 132 Give the cold shoulder (6) 134 A prefix meaning two (2) 135 U.K. character, Mr. __, debuted 25 yrs ago (4) 138 Small American state (2) 141 A preposition, referring to location (2) 142 Persia, today (4) 143 Hairless (4) 144 Nicaraguan prez turned 70 (6) 145 Chowed down (3) 147 Organ for breathing (4) 150 Colors or shades (4) 152 Soccer star turned 40 (7) 156 __ Campbell got Oscar nom. for best song (4) 157 Lie in wait (4) 158 __-la-la (3)

159 Wages (8) 161 Water found on this planet (4) 163 Animal den (4) 165 Belonging to them (5) 166 Worked the soil (4) 167 Speak or converse (4) 168 Emmy’s best reality series (3,5) 169 A woman’s leg (3) 171 Origin of an idea (4) 173 Follow closely (4) 175 Earned run average; abbr. (3) 176 Sheep cries (4) 177 Low-__ diet (4) 178 Before, in poetry (3) 182 Floral necklace (3) 184 Trot or canter (4) 186 Atmosphere (4) 188 Pepper’s partner (4) 189 Dog’s sound (4) 190 He released summer hit Cheerleader (3) 194 Presentation, esp. on stage (11) 197 Drop from the eye (4) 199 Legal wrong (4) 201 Designed for flight (4) 202 Sister-in-law; abbr. (3) 203 Doled out (11) 206 A preposition, indicating a position (2) 207 Assist (3) 208 N.Y.C. clock setting (3) 210 Hammer or screwdriver (4) 212 Public processions (7) 214 Lass (4) 215 Dried legume, in Indian cooking (3) 216 Electric fish (3) 217 Negative response (2) 219 Gov’t agency with another anti-tobacco campaign (3) 221 Name of deadly Mar. cyclone (3) 222 Stated (4) 224 City that hosted Expo 2015 (5) 225 Wedding ring (4) 226 Auction action (3) 228 A layer or thickness of a material (3) 230 Sweeping story (4) 231 Container for ashes (3) 233 Radio host Rick __ turned 65 (4) 235 Silent, or tight-lipped (3) 236 A piece of music (4) 237 Automobile (3) 238 __ Schumer: comedy’s new ‘it’ girl (3) 239 U.S. re-established diplomacy here (4) 240 Johnny Depp did this for a second time (3) 241 U.S. beat this country in women’s World Cup (5) 243 Without a date (4) 245 Piece of cloth, symbolizing a country (4) 246 Uninterested (5) 247 Hibernation site (3) 248 Ill-mannered (4) 249 Diner sandwich (3) 250 Movie released about this service dog (3) 251 There are 1.6 million of these in Google Play (4) 252 Dock (4) 253 Scoundrel (3) 254 Wild blue yonder (3) 255 A minor planet was named after __ Pitt (4) 256 High card (3) 257 Pig pen (3) 259 Part of the mouth (4) 261 Twins, queens and kings (4) 263 A parent-teacher group (3) 264 Metal singer __ Zombie turned 50 (3) 265 Indian bread (4) 266 B&B (3) 267 Promise to pay (3) 268 Depend on (4) 269 Low card (3)

271 Hit (4) 273 A large ornamental fish (3) 274 Pen filler (3) 275 Grizzly (4) 276 A light run (3) 278 African antelope (3) 279 Millinery (4) 280 Fleece (5) 282 Soil (4) 284 Birthday (3) 286 Rule out (3) 287 Part of the psyche, said Freud (2) 290 Average (3) 292 City cleaning its Olympic waters (3) 293 __ Bunny first appeared 75 yrs ago (4) 294 Announced her bid for prez (7) 296 Bull’s-eye hitter (4) 298 A U.S. intelligence group (3) 300 Carried out (3) 302 Replaced answering machine; abbr. (2) 303 Independent (4-7) 305 Citrus fruit (4) 306 French reality show singing star (4) 307 A circular band of metal (4) 309 Apple or cherry baked items (4) 311 Education award (11) 313 Genetic fingerprint (3) 314 Floats with the waves (4) 315 Celeb chef Bobby __ divorced (4) 317 Helgenberger joined Dome show (4) 319 Trudge (4) 321 Chinese principle (3) 325 Soaked (3) 326 Shark movie released 40 yrs ago (4) 327 She & Timberlake had a son (4) 328 To relax in a mindless way (3) 330 Alek Skarlatos became one (4) 332 Grease (4) 334 Not amateur (3) 339 Installments of a TV series (8) 341 Dogs and cats (4) 342 Vista (4) 343 UN said it was int’l year of these (5) 345 Expected golf scores (4) 347 Popular Easter Egg dye co. (4) 349 Postulated series of events (8) 351 Anger (3) 352 Luxurious (4) 353 Fifty percent (4) 354 Old-fashioned women’s head coverings (7) 356 Broad valley (4) 358 __ Peaks debuted 25 yrs ago (4) 360 To sunbathe (3) 361 Almost (6) 362 The rise and fall of a voice (4) 363 Quiet street (4) 364 Opposite of NW (2) 365 He, in French (2) 367 __ of the Flies turned 51 (4) 369 Essential (4) 371 Circuits (6) 372 Beatles hit released 50 yrs ago (4) 373 __ Winslet turned 40 (4) 374 Canvas cover (4) 377 Goad (4) 379 French cheese (4) 381 Execute perfectly (4) 383 Death notice (4) 385 Won Grammy for Tony Bennett duet (4) 386 Actor __ Perry turned 49 (4) 387 Addiction support group turned 80 (2) 388 At the end of a pencil (6) 391 Spoon-bender Geller (3) 393 Fizzy drink (4) 395 Relax (4) 397 His engagement to Charlize Theron ended (4) 399 Network with second highest no. of viewers (3)

400 Jewel (3) 401 Unit in Indian numbering system (5) 403 This Friends star got hitched (7) 405 Video sharing site turned 10 (7) 407 Gets up (5) 409 Rapper Dr. __ turned 50 (3) 410 Captain’s journal (3) 411 European Commission; abbr. (2) 416 Home to Nashville; abbr. (2) 417 Action figure __ Joe turned 51 (2) 419 Food container (3) 422 Seattle’s home; abbr. (2) 423 Her name used to be Bruce (7,6) 424 This Doctor Zhivago star died (4,6) 426 This soap opera debuted 50 yrs ago (4,2,3,5) 431 To share a Tweet (2) 433 Where surgeons work (2) 435 This martial arts expert actor turned 75 (5,6) 436 Microsoft founder turned 60 (4,5) 441 Precursor of this fast food giant opened 75 yrs ago (9) 443 Sonny & Cher released this hit 50 yrs ago (1,3,3,4) 444 Free the Children’s youth event: __ Day (2) 445 A person proficient in a sport (7) 447 A support group for compulsive eaters (2) 454 Casual form of hello (2) 461 This world peace-promoting org. turned 70 (2) 467 Drug given before surgery (10) 468 Pillsbury’s mascot turned 50 (8) 469 Rocker __ Stewart turned 70 (3) 470 Desperate (8) 472 Having light-colored locks (4-6) 473 Lithuania’s country code (2) 476 Ballet attire (4) 477 Board game about drawing turned 30 (10) 478 New pre-human species discovered (4,6) 480 He beat Pacquiao (10) 481 Beatles drummer turned 75 (5,5) 483 Symbol for dysprosium (2) 485 The Hawkeye State; abbr. (2) 487 He created first web server 25 yrs ago (3,7-3) 488 This American Idol had a son (6,9) 489 This Hollywood Wives author passed (6,7)

DOWN 1 U.S. Open was played near this Puget Sound city (6) 2 Pre-VEEP, Julia Louis-Dreyfus played her (6) 3 Yellow-flowering Eurasian primroses (6) 4 Used in sewing (6) 5 __ Wilson released three movies this year (4) 6 4th movie released in former-Mel-Gibson franchise (3,3) 7 Mag that put Muhammad Ali on Oct. cover (2) 8 Talk (4) 10 Spookily (6) 11 To deceive (4,2) 12 Ground-dwelling S. American bird (7) 13 Offering something as a guarantee of good faith (archaic) (6) 14 Gave a name to a book (6) 15 Thomas Edison’s middle name (4) 16 __ Sheeran won People’s Choice for best album (2) 17 Wild goats (6) 18 Membrane covering an embryo (6) 19 To remove contaminants (6) 20 East Timor town with a sister city of Madison, WI (6) 21 A metal in the platinum group (6) 22 Nashville actress __ Panettiere got Teen Choice nom. (6) More clues, Page 24

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Mammoth crossword puzzle 2015 clues (part 2) DOWN 24 Make amends (5) 25 Stogie (5) 27 __ Marley would have turned 70 this year (3) 28 Cheerios grain (3) 34 This health org. said rubella was gone from the Americas (3) 37 Strongest (9) 39 Dire fate (4) 41 Judge who didn’t return to Dancing with the Stars (3) 42 Bachelor’s new villain: __ Bailey (3) 44 A proposed space time capsule (3) 47 Spy agency faced lawsuit (3) 49 Yellowfin tuna (3) 50 A deliberate fire (5) 51 Home to La Paz (7) 52 A Caribbean percussion group (5,4) 53 __ Affleck divorced Jen Garner (3) 55 Intelligence exhibited by machines; abbr.

(2) 56 Company; abbr. (2) 57 Poet __ Eliot died 50 yrs ago (2) 58 Seventh note of scale (2) 59 For example; abbr. (2) 61 A mistress (5,5) 62 Emmy’s lead actor __ Hamm (3) 63 Justified (9) 64 The results of cross-breeding plants or cars (7) 65 Actor __ Tyler Ferguson turned 40 (5) 66 A good buddy (3) 69 Drifted (6) 70 Zero gravity simulator; abbr. (3) 71 Important, or nota bene; abbr. (2) 73 Colored glass spheres; toys (7) 74 Not guilty (8) 75 To stretch for something (5) 77 A test or practice (3,3) 78 The __ Yorker turned 90 (3) 79 A standard, or a point of reference (9) 80 These disastrous events spread, due to drought (9) 82 Short word used in similes (2) 84 Crafty (3) 85 Mozart’s L’__ del Cairo (3) 87 Tunisia’s Internet code (2) 88 Horror director who died (3,6) 90 Hawaiian dish (3) 92 Nile Kinnick’s hometown (4) 95 It’s no big deal; abbr. (4) 96 Inquires (4) 97 Much __ About Nothing (3) 99 Flags with slogans (7) 101 Computer-delivered messages (1-4) 103 Lecherous look (4) 104 Comic Hughley goes by these initials (2) 105 Home of the Whopper; abbr. (2) 106 __ Rock released his 10th album (3) 107 Beloved and admired (6) 109 Element no. 33 (7) 112 Cassia trees; natural laxatives (6) 114 Stomach muscle (2) 119 Physically weak (5) 121 Element with atomic no. 70; abbr. (2) 122 Better Call __ debuted (4) 124 Pen point (3) 126 Sweet potato (3) 127 Angers (5) 128 14th letter of alphabet (2) 130 Caribou kin (3) 131 Desire (5) 133 Exchange-traded note; abbr. (3) 136 Huh? (2) 137 Orderly (4) 139 Be in pain (4) 140 Actor __ LaBeouf was arrested again (4) 143 A tulip sprouts from this (4) 144 Metal in rocks (3)

146 Breakfast food (3) 148 An expression that is a pause in speech (2) 149 Diver __ Louganis turned 55 (4) 151 Thailand, once (4) 153 French word for ‘and’ (2) 154 AK ghost town, destroyed by ‘64 tsunami (4) 155 Little Rock’s home; abbr. (2) 156 Bearded animal (4) 157 Shenanigan (4) 158 Definite article (3) 160 A light lunch choice (5) 162 Airplane assignment (4) 164 Run amok (4) 166 Angel’s disk of light (4) 167 Road goo (3) 168 Hackneyed (5) 170 Restroom sign (3) 172 Count calories (4) 174 Roller coaster feature (4) 176 Nightclubs (4) 177 Ring up (4) 178 Dash lengths (3) 179 Barbie’s beau turned 54 (3) 180 Opposite of on (3) 181 American Sniper star turned 40 (7,6) 183 Rocks, to a bartender (3) 185 New Mexico art community (4) 187 A small drink of a spirit (4) 188 Past participle of see (4) 189 Wren or hen (4) 190 Price dropped of this black gold (3) 191 Legendary female jazz singer born 100 yrs ago (6,7) 192 Men’s formal wear (3) 193 Japanese money (3) 194 Holy leader visited U.S. & Cuba (4,7) 195 Mamma __ closed on Broadway (3) 196 Psychic power (3) 198 Highway (4) 200 Quick haircut (4) 201 __ Levine did his 9th season of The Voice (4) 202 Make music via voice (4) 203 Father (3) 204 Number of times a weight is lifted (3) 205 Apprentice star running for prez (6,5) 209 Quentin __ released 8th film (9) 211 Empty promises (4) 213 Former graduate (4) 214 Jets or Sharks, for example (4) 215 One __: the year’s biggest selling group (9) 218 Oscar’s best picture (7) 220 Country legalized same sex marriage in ntl vote (7) 223 Particulars (7) 225 Got on a train (7) 226 Tavern (3) 227 Banned on cross-country flights 25 yrs ago (7) 229 A group of 4 musicians (7) 232 Grammy’s best new artist __ Smith (3) 234 Excessively sentimental (5) 236 Siesta (5) 237 Atlantic fish (3) 242 Short snooze (3) 244 A navigation system (3) 245 Little lie (3) 246 Embargo (3) 258 Second person pronoun (3) 259 Allows (4) 260 __ Stefani split from her husband (4) 262 Slipped (4) 263 Peas grow in this (3) 268 Anger (4) 269 Skinny (4) 270 Pledge (4) 272 Snare (4)

277 Girl (3) 278 Unpleasant person (British term) (3) 279 Low, steady continuous sounds (4) 280 Murder (4) 281 Capacity (4) 283 Excursion (4) 285 Business support systems; abbr. (3) 286 Nothing (3) 288 Morning moisture (3) 289 Roswell sighting (3) 291 Carnival attractions (5) 292 Ribonucleic acid; abbr. (3) 293 Napkins tied around the neck (4) 294 A combustible dark ‘rock’ (4) 295 __ Galloway finished 3rd in Dancing with the Stars (4) 297 Confess (4) 299 Do film work (3) 300 Entrances to rooms (5) 301 Egyptian cobra (3) 302 By way of (3) 304 Industrious insect (3) 305 Highs and __ (4) 306 Multitude (4) 308 Get ready (4) 310 Daytime TV offering (4) 312 Don Johnson’s new character (3) 314 Shower alternative (4) 315 Feudal estate (4) 316 Blood-carrying body part (4) 318 One who completes school (4) 320 Dang (4) 322 This Love Bug actor passed (4,5) 323 Shipwreck discovered 30 yrs ago (7) 324 When water heats up (5) 325 Diminutive (3) 326 To joke around (4) 327 Digestive juice (4) 328 She and Tiger Woods split (4) 329 TV show about high-school singers ended (4) 331 Spoken (4) 333 This NASA probe reached dwarf planet Ceres (4) 335 Halloween month; abbr. (3) 336 Pester (5) 337 A salty, doughy treat (7) 338 Weapon first used on large scale, 100 yrs ago (6,3) 340 Arid (3) 341 __ and paper mill (4) 342 Windmill blade (4) 343 Peter Gabriel’s fifth album (2) 344 Abbreviation of saint or street (2) 346 Untidy person (4) 348 Van Gogh’s mistress (4) 350 Body part Van Gogh sliced off (3) 352 Purple flowering shrub (5) 353 Despise (4) 354 A round, flattish cap (5) 355 Knight’s title (3) 357 Makes a mistake (4) 359 Approaches (5) 362 Table part (3) 363 Body of water (4) 364 Where you find Cape Town; abbr. (2) 366 Uncouth person (4) 368 Fashion icon Christian __ born 110 yrs ago (4) 370 Expire (3) 372 Lunch meat (3) 373 Malay dress: baju __ (6) 374 A martial art: __ chi (3) 375 Conformity to established standards of behavior (9) 376 Common ship prefix (2) 377 Prolongs (9) 378 A medicine (4) 380 Newsroom boss (6) 382 Psychedelic drug (3)

384 U.K. broadcaster that fired Top Gear host (3) 385 Receiving (7) 386 __ and behold (2) 387 Conjunction (3) 389 Indefinite article (2) 390 Stock symbol for a big audit firm (2) 392 Footnote note (4) 394 Dream on (2,2) 396 Turncoat (7) 398 Immediately (3) 402 Reunite with a group (6) 404 Brazilian dance (5) 406 Prefix meaning one (3) 408 As much as needed (6) 412 CNN misidentified __ Reagan (5) 413 This stretchy fabric turned 57 (5) 414 Abominable snowman (4) 415 Question answered with ‘because’ (3) 418 Belonging to me (2) 420 Moves briskly (5) 421 A bowler hat (5) 425 To and __ (3) 427 Competent (4) 428 Middling; nothing special (2-2) 429 Now obsolete video format (3) 430 High-pitched woodwind instrument; abbr. (2) 432 Dynamite (3) 434 __ and flow (3) 436 To exist (2) 437 Calif. city with worst heat wave in a century (2) 438 Opposite of stop (2) 439 Thanks, in baby talk (2) 440 Silence! (2) 441 New hit: Love __ Like You Do (2) 442 A common abbreviation for Germany (2) 444 Measurement side to side (5) 446 Kings of __ worked on seventh album (4) 448 Vienna’s home (7) 449 Rug (6) 450 A video camera that streams into a computer (6) 451 Clothing (6) 452 35th anniversary of this Beatles’ death (6) 453 A reflective surface (6) 455 Sticky (5) 456 Enemies of the Inca (6) 457 Earl Anthony was one (6) 458 A First Nations gathering (6) 459 Italian-style ice cream (6) 460 Greek spirit of forgetfulness (5) 462 Italian sandwich (6) 463 Dreadful (6) 464 __ & Gretel (6) 465 Asian mountain sheep (6) 466 Trims or embellishes decor (6) 471 Take to court (3) 474 U2’s The __ fell off a stage (4) 475 __ Ruth hit his first career home run 100 yrs ago (4) 479 Praiseful poem (3) 482 __ Pacino celebrated 75th birthday (2) 484 State with extensive auto racing history; postal abbr. (2) 486 Rockers __/DC did another world tour (2) Puzzle copyright: Monica Zurowski

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CROSSWORD SOMETHING NEW ACROSS 1 Fail to hit 5 Top of a wave 10 Tiresome one 14 __ spumante wine 15 State-run numbers game 16 Affirm as true 17 Hammer’s target 18 Really annoy 19 Specify 20 Mouths off 22 Swiss mountains 23 Second half of a musical 24 Chopped down 26 Precise 30 Sultan’s wives 34 The one right here 37 Pay by credit card 40 Sailor’s “yes” 41 War and Peace or Ivanhoe 44 Exist 45 Peaceful state 46 Remainder 47 High-schoolers 49 Velocity 51 “How clumsy of me!”

54 Word puzzle with pictures 58 Out of air, as a tire 61 Breeze or gust 65 Well lubricated 66 Three-person bands 67 Pleasant 68 Hourly charge 69 Lends a hand 70 Gawk at 71 Jogging pace 72 Scornful look 73 Garden intruder

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DOWN 1 __ ray (type of fish) 2 Sir __ Newton 3 Clown’s height enhancer 4 Most smooth and lustrous 5 Music staff symbol 6 Lion sound 7 Suffix for kitchen

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8 Secret supply 9 “__ best of my knowledge . . .”

10 Yellow-skin fruit 11 Roundish shape 12 Frolic 13 Sheep females 21 Half a dozen 25 “At what time?”

27 Farmland measure 28 Poker token 29 Mexican meals 31 Four-star review

32 Holes in needles 33 Thaw 34 The one over there 35 Give the job to 36 “That makes sense” 38 Speak hoarsely 39 Great delight 42 Approximately 43 Advertiser’s urging 48 “Maybe a little later” 50 Make a blunder 52 Hiking trails 53 Ambulance sound 55 Light brown 56 Mom’s brother 57 War horse 58 Military outpost 59 Untruthful one 60 Voice above tenor 62 Make angry 63 Deal with difficulties 64 Cold War adversary: Abbr.

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» EVENTS // EMAIL: EVENTS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM TUESDAY, DEC. 29 7:30 p.m.‘Amahl and the Night Visitors,‘ opera at Ecumenical Centre, 6234 Spartan Rd. Tickets: Port Theatre, 250-754-8550 or www.porttheatre.com..

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30 7 p.m. Dave Marco, at Smoke‘n’Water Restaurant, Pacific Shores Resort, 1-1600 Stroulger Rd., Parksville.

THURSDAY, DEC. 31 5-8 p.m. Parksville free New Years Eve celebration. Oceanside Place, 830 West Island Highway, Parksville

5-10 p.m. Finale 2015: Nanaimo’s biggest family New Year’s Eve event $32 family, $10 or free two and under. Beban Park, 2300 Bowen Rd., Nanaimo 8 p.m.-midnight New Years Eve Party, includies a five-course dinner and champagne toast. Tickets $89, Smoke ’n’Water Restaurant, 1-1600 Stroulger Rd., Parksville.

FRIDAY, JAN. 1 Noon Parksville polar bear splash. A way to start the year, as a participant, spectator or volunteer. Register onsite at 11:30 am. Free event. Phone RDN, Recreation and Parks 250752-5014. Parksville Community Park, 141 East Island Highway.

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7 p.m. Ladysmith Comedy Night. Music Hall Food Co., 18 Roberts St., Ladysmith. Tickets $15 at the door.

6:30-9 p.m. VectorVest User Group was formed by active stock market investors who use the VectorVest system to identify opportunities in the stock market. Cost is $10. 741 third St., Nanaimo.

SUNDAY, JAN. 3 Noon-4 p.m. Nanaimo Search and Rescue Christmas tree chipping. Country Club Centre Dairy Queen Parking Lot. MONDAY, JAN. 4 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. Free event.

7-9 p.m. Country Idol at the Queen’s. The annual talent search runs Tuesdays through January, with a final show Feb.10. Singers 15 and up complete for $500 and a vocal appearance with George Canyon Feb. 10.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6 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, JAN. 7 6:30 p.m. Parksville Newcomers’monthly meeting in the Parksville Community Centre, 132 Jensen St., Parksville 8:30-11:30 p.m. Nico Rhodes Trio, jazz and classical elements. Vault Coffee House 499 Wallace St. Tickets $15, students $10.

7 p.m. Myc Sharratt, Ali Prince Live At Longwood A free live concert series every Thursday at Longwood Brew Pub, 5775 Turner Rd., Nanaimo.

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HOROSCOPE (DEC. 25)

by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Take charge and follow through, even when the unexpected tosses you into a dynamic situation. Others often head down the same path as you. You could be on top of a problem, but your leadership might be questioned by those behind the scenes. Tonight: Off to the gym.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Reach out to others. You see a matter in a more creative vein and are willing to take action. You might wonder whether a new attitude would help you come to a better understanding with others. A family member wants to share how he or she feels.

Tonight: Fun is happening.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You could be far more tired than you have been in a while, as you have been giving 100 percent to make what you want happen. Someone might be taking a stand, so try to understand why. Allow your imagination to lead the way, and move forward. Tonight: Stay close to home.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Defer to others and let them express their ideas more often. You have a tendency to monopolize the moment. Let people know that you value them. You might believe you are right, but so do they. Try to be more open-minded and receptive.

Tonight: A must appearance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Pace yourself; know what you must do. Understand what is occurring around you and prioritize.

Even when you decide to isolate

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yourself, someone comes shining through with an expression of his or her affection. Tonight: Go with the flow. Don’t swim against the current.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Complete some personal matters that might be on hold. Observe rather than act. Know your limits, and be kind in conversations. Others will respond with greater understanding and a willingness to pitch in.

You will find a resolution to a difficult situation. Tonight: As you like it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You could be overdoing it by using your connections to carry your perspective into predominance.

Consider what is happening, as you suddenly might witness others shutting down. You seem to be pushing them more than you realize. Tonight: Not to be seen.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Take a stand against someone’s pressure to act a certain way. How you express this opinion will make a difference in how far your influence goes. Ask yourself what you want others to get out of your ability to clarify the matter. Tonight: Indulge yourself a little.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your fiery personality will melt barriers more quickly if you add that touch of vulnerability that exists within you. Understand what is happening within your immediate circle of friends. Listen to news, and get to the bottom of a problem.

Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You could be in touch with many different people in the afternoon. You have a vision that will change dra-

matically after you get more feedback. Understand where others are coming from. You will start to understand the validity of all points of view. Tonight: Open doors.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Others seek you out with a lot of ideas and want feedback. On some level, you will feel overwhelmed.

Decide where your interests lie.

Don’t feel so obligated that you feel as if you can’t say “no” to someone.

Tonight: Talk with an important friend or loved one.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Oneon-one relating allows you to see a different perspective; however, you don’t have the luxury of stopping what you are doing in order to have this type of interaction. Wait until you are free of obligations.

Your schedule will lighten up as a result. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.

YOUR BIRTHDAY for (Dec. 29) This year you will turn a situation around because of your endurance and willingness to integrate new information. Others admire these abilities and often listen more carefully to you because of them.

Acceptance and love seem to flow from you. If you are single, others buzz around you with interest. Do not commit until you are good and ready. If you are attached, the two of you will enjoy each other even more than you have in the past. In fact, you often have a party just for the two of you! VIRGO gets under your skin, even if you like the way he or she thinks.

BORN TODAY Actor Jude Law (1972), actor Jon Voight (1938), author Joe Vitale (1953)

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Previous Cryptoquote: MAY YOU RECEIVE THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL: PEACE AND LOVE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD — YOUR PUZZLE FRIENDS

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‘Star Wars’ producer expects it to do ‘very very’ well in China

Justin Bieber manager feared star would die going on tour

The latest Star Wars movie broke the $1 billion mark before fans in China could see it, but producers anticipate The Force Awakens will play “very very well” in the world’s second-biggest film market.

The film opens in China on Jan. 9.

Director J.J. Abrams watched the Chinese premiere in Shanghai with a Chinese audience Sunday night.

Justin Bieber’s manager says he once feared for the Canadian pop sensation’s life.

Scooter Braun told The New York Times in an interview last week that Bieber wanted to go on tour in the midst of a series of incidents in the last couple of years that tarnished his public image.

“I honestly at that time felt, if he toured, he could die,” Braun told the Times.

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Brian Reid MERRICK May 29, 1939 – December 18, 2015 It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Brian Reid Merrick on December 18, 2015. He was taken away far too quickly with a very aggressive form of colon cancer.

Brian was very gifted at many trades but craning was his love. For over 35 years, he was well known and respected in the crane industry. He loved his Peterbilt boom truck and he did what he loved doing completing his final job on December 10th for the City of Parksville, BC. He had a full life and always had a story to tell. He loved yachting, RVing and could dance the night away.

He will be forever missed by his wife of 48 years, Della; son, Darren (wife Debbie) and grandchildren, Kyle and Alanna all of Nanaimo, BC; daughter, Charmaine (husband Gordon) and grandchildren, Mackenzie, Harrison and Wesley all of Olathe, Kansas. He also leaves behind two brothers, Lynn of 100 Mile House, Donald of New Westminster, and sister, Debbie of Port Coquitlam.

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Zemlak, Nicholas

December 10, 1916 – December 21, 2015 Nicholas was released from his pain shortly before midnight on December 21, 2015.

As a young man, he worked the family farm before moving to BC to work in the logging and construction industries.

Retired for many years, he retained a bright mind and sharp wit until the end. Prior to his change of residence, he could always be found with a hammer in his hand, working on his many “projects� around his house (which he built) with his beloved dog, Ricky, by his side. A feisty fellow in his younger days, he mellowed into a dear man in his later years.

He was predeceased by his parents, siblings, former wife, Anne, son, Emil, and stepchildren, Mac and Rose.

Nicholas is survived by his daughter, Marcella; grandchildren, Danielle, Paul, and Dale; great-grandchildren, Jackson and Daelyn; stepson, Nat (Georgia); stepdaughter, Stella; and numerous other grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

Many thanks to the caregivers he depended on so much during his last years. Special thanks to Dr. Barron and the doctors and nurses at NRGH, especially the Palliative Care Unit.

Service will be held at 1:00 PM on December 30, 2015 at Sands Funeral Chapel, 1 Newcastle Avenue, Nanaimo, with a visitation prior.

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Manchester United, Chelsea draw 0-0 Manchester United delivered an improved performance for beleaguered manager Louis van Gaal but couldn’t cure its scoring woes in a 0-0 draw against Chelsea that left his team five points off the Champions League positions on Monday.

Van Gaal raised the prospect of quitting last weekend and this stalemate — United’s sixth 0-0 since Oct. 25 — leaves his position uncertain, with the 20-time English champions now winless in eight games in all competitions.

But there’s no doubt United played for its manager, with Juan Mata and Anthony Martial striking shots against the goal frame in the first half and both Ander Herrera and Wayne Rooney missing close-range chances after the break. “When the players are fighting for me, I stay,� Van Gaal said, “because that is the most important thing and you have seen that today.�

One goal in its last four home matches, though, tells its own story for United, which badly needs a striker in the January transfer window — whether or not Van Gaal is still in charge. “There is not any reason to resign for me,� said Van Gaal, who brought up that possibility after the 2-0 loss — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS at Stoke on Saturday.

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Leonard’s quiet stardom gives blueprint for reserved youngster Andrew Wiggins have lost six of their last seven games to fall to 12-20, guard Eric Bledsoe is out with a knee injury and the heat is on Hornacek to get things right.

“We’re just flat-out losing games and something’s got to change real quick,” forward P.J. Tucker said.

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K

awhi Leonard has quietly risen to stardom in San Antonio, hardly uttering a word as he captured an NBA Finals MVP, Defensive Player of the Year award and a maximum contract extension this summer.

His dynamic play on both ends of the court stands in stark contrast to his whisper-quiet demeanour off of it, thereby challenging the theory a player in the NBA has to be outspoken, brash and vocally assertive to be a true star.

In having the success he has in such short order with all the flair and charm that often accompany a star’s rise, he has provided the blueprint for Minnesota Timberwolves forward Andrew Wiggins, another rising talent with little interest for self-promotion or on-court theatrics.

Wiggins won Rookie of the Year last season and is averaging more than 21 points per game in his second year while also showing signs of becoming a top-tier perimeter defender.

And even though he has been followed by cameras since he was a 14-year-old prodigy growing up in Toronto, Wiggins doesn’t seek out the spotlight. Actually, he much prefers it to be pointed elsewhere.

The similarities in game and personality are so striking that Wolves veteran Kevin Garnett predicted the two would be going toe-to-toe for the next decade.

“Makes the matchup a little more personal,” Garnett said. “Although these two guys are quiet, their games are monstrous. Their games speak volumes. So don’t let the quietness fool you.

“Drew is coming into himself.

San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard, centre, passes the ball as Minnesota Timberwolves guard Andrew Wiggins (22) and centre Karl-Anthony Towns defend on Monday in San Antonio. [AP PHOTO]

Kawhi is coming into himself.

Should be a really, really good matchup for the future.”

Leonard dominated the matchup last week, holding Wiggins to two-for-11 shooting in a Spurs win in Minnesota. The two face each other in San Antonio on Monday.

The Wolves are taking the same approach with Wiggins as the Spurs did with Leonard. They’re not trying to force him to be something he is not.

“Everybody does it differently,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

“You can’t change people. So with Kawhi, because he’s Kawhi, we just talk about communication on defence.

“Everybody, all coaches, moan and

groan about that. Other than that, he can be as quiet as he wants.”

REELING SUNS The Phoenix Suns were the feelgood story in the league two years ago, surprising everyone in coach Jeff Hornacek’s first year on the job with 48 victories. But chemistry issues have clouded the skies in Phoenix for the last two years, and they entered this season with disgruntled forward Markieff Morris expressing a desire to be traded.

Things came to a head last week when Morris was suspended for two games for throwing a towel at Hornacek and the Suns became just the second team this season to lose to the lowly Philadelphia 76ers. They

THINGS TO WATCH • Warriors at Rockets, Thursday: A rematch of the Western Conference finals. Interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff has the Rockets playing better, and he blasted them after a loss to New Orleans on Saturday.

• 76ers at Lakers, Friday: Philadelphia’s first victory this season came at home against Kobe and the Lakers. After they beat Phoenix, could the Sixers win twice in a week?

• Bulls rebound: After Jimmy Butler called out coach Fred Hoiberg, the Bulls beat Oklahoma City on Christmas and went down swinging at Dallas. At 16-12, the sky is hardly falling, and they get three home games this week against Toronto, Indiana and New York.

• Joerger’s job: With the Memphis Grizzlies struggling to keep pace in the West, Dave Joerger could be the next coach to fall victim to an owner looking to shake things up.

• Bucks at Thunder, Tuesday: Milwaukee is the only team to beat Golden State. Oklahoma City is starting to play like a legit challenger in the West, giving the young Bucks another chance to get some attention.

STAT LINE OF THE WEEK: Kobe Bryant, Lakers: 31 points, five assists in a win over Denver. Bryant got off to a brutal start to the season offensively, leading to severe criticism of his approach on a young and rebuilding team. But this was vintage Kobe, right down to the dagger at the end.

BARNES

NBA suspends Matt Barnes after incident with coach THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — The NBA suspended Memphis Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes two games without pay Monday for what the league said was a “physical altercation” with Derek Fisher and for “threatening” the New York Knicks coach in October.

The league investigated the Oct. 3 incident in Redondo Beach, California, between Barnes and Fisher — former teammates with the Los Angeles Lakers from 2010-12.

The Grizzlies had just wrapped up a week of training camp, and a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press in October the incident occurred while Fisher attended a gathering at the home of Barnes’ estranged wife, Gloria Govan.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no details were publicly released.

Redondo Beach police responded to an incident Oct. 3 but disclosed no information on the location or who was involved after finding no basis for criminal charges.

Barnes’ suspension will begin Tuesday night when the Grizzlies host Miami and includes Saturday night’s game at Utah.

The Grizzlies were off Monday after playing back-to-back games over the weekend.

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Snell, Gasol spark late surge as Bulls top Raptors 104-97 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Tony Snell and Pau Gasol each had 22 points, Derrick Rose added 20 and Chicago pulled away late to beat Toronto.

Snell, back in the rotation because of an injury to Doug McDermott, had 19 points in the final 17 1/2 minutes to spark the Bulls. Aaron Brooks scored 17 points and rookie Bobby Portis added 12 as the Chicago reserves outscored their counterparts 51-27. Kyle Lowry had 28 points and DeMar DeRozan added 19 for Toronto. Jonas Valanciunas had nine points in 20 minutes off the bench after missing 17 games with a broken left hand.

Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson, right, tries to steal the ball from Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan on Monday in Chicago. [AP PHOTO]

PACERS 93, HAWKS 87 Monta Ellis scored 26 points and Indiana snapped Atlanta’s six-game

winning streak. Ellis had 15 points in the first half, and Ian Mahinmi finished with 13 points and nine rebounds.

With the Pacers leading by three, Ellis pulled up for a three-point attempt with 16 seconds to play. The ball bounced off the rim, but Mahinmi was waiting for a tip-in that all but sealed it for Indiana.

MAGIC 104, PELICANS 89 Nik Vucevic scored 28 points and matched his career high with seven assists, leading Orlando over New Orleans.

Evan Fournier had 20 points, Tobias Harris added 14 and Andrew Nicholson scored 13 for the Magic, who used a pair of surges early in the third and fourth quarters to pull away. Anthony Davis led the Pelicans with 20 points and eight rebounds.

Tyreke Evans finished with 16 points and eight assists.

CLIPPERS 108, WIZARDS 91 Chris Paul scored 23 points, reserve Jamal Crawford added 21 and Los Angeles again overcame Blake Griffin’s absence in beating Washington.

DeAndre Jordan had 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Clippers, who got 54 points from substitutes in their third straight win — second since Griffin was ruled out for at least two weeks with a quadriceps strain. Even the six-foot Paul helped make up for the loss of Griffin inside with a rare two-dunk performance.

The Clippers never trailed and led by at least 10 throughout the last three quarters. John Wall had 23 points and 11 assists, and Marcin Gortat added 12 points and 16 rebounds.

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Inuit food supply linked with identity and health

Could a drink a day keep the doctor away?

Dr. W. Gifford-Jones

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Inuit hunter John Goodwin for decades has hunted oogruk, the bearded seal, a marine mammal prized for its meat, oil and hide.

The largest of Alaska’s ice seals uses sea ice to rest and birth pups, and after the long winter, when ice breaks into floes, there’s a window of opportunity for Goodwin to leave his home in Kotzebue and motor his boat between ice panels, shoot seals and butcher them before they migrate north through the Bering Strait.

A hunting season that used to last weeks, however, has shrunk. Ice that formerly froze 1.5-metres thick or more is a fraction of that. Ice disappears quickly, and so do the seals.

“As soon as the sun comes out, it starts melting, or we have a heavy rain,” Goodwin said. “Basically, it’s the rain that deteriorates the ice real quick. We don’t have enough time to hunt.”

The environment is changing and the Inuit, who consider themselves a part of it, want measures taken to protect their culture. A report issued this month by the Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska, which advocates for Inuit coast villages from southwest to north Alaska, calls for policies that protect Inuit traditional food and the Arctic environment that produces it.

“When we say food security, it has to do with the health of all of it,” said Carolina Behe, the organization’s indigenous knowledge and science adviser.

More than 90 per cent of the food purchased with cash in Alaska comes in from elsewhere and a reliable food supply in more urban communities like Anchorage means affordable prices and uninterrupted service on groceries shipped north by barge or jet. For the Inuit, who have survived for thousands of years in one of the harshest climates on Earth, food is the connection between the past and today’s culture, according to the report.

Food is survival and identity. Over millennia, the capturing of caribou or seals, the gathering of salmonberries,

W

Men haul sections of whale skin and blubber, known as muktuk, as a bowhead whale is butchered in a field near Barrow, Alaska. [AP PHOTO]

how they were processed, stored and shared was incorporated into art, storytelling, dance, drumming, education and language.

“Our traditional foods are much more than calories or nutrients; they are a lifeline throughout our culture and reflect the health of the entire Arctic ecosystem,” the report’s authors said.

As changes arose, Inuit leaders began talking at public forums about food. Their concept of secure food differed from the concept held by people in academia and government, who spoke of nutritional value and purchasing power. At a meeting four years ago, Behe recalled, someone asked whether the Inuit were looking forward to increased shipping because it would create more opportunity to move in food.

“Our people were saying the exact opposite: We’re really concerned about these ships because they’re going to disrupt our hunting, the noise is disrupting the animals, the pollutants, and that’s a threat to food security,” Behe said.

The report, assembled through visits to 15 Inuit villages and with 146 listed authors, urges Arctic policy decisions through the lens of food.

Inuit leaders want the baseline data collected on the Arctic ecosystem

using both science and indigenous knowledge, Behe said.

A scientist researching salmon might look first at population dynamics. An elder might taste the water, look at streamside vegetation, check fish scales and gauge the texture of the meat, Behe said.

The report notes the fragmented nature of land, ocean and wildlife management. State officials set hunting seasons. Federal officials oversee harvesting of marine mammals and industrial ocean fisheries.

International agreements are considered in salmon and migratory bird decisions. Sources within the United States and internationally contribute to warming and pollutants affecting the Arctic.

Researchers want a better understanding on how rapid change in the Arctic is affecting natural systems and people. That’s also increasingly important for the Arctic Council, the eight-country forum that promotes co-operation and interaction between Arctic countries, said Fran Ulmer, chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.

People who are causing change in the Arctic from greenhouse gases or pollution, Behe said, must take responsibility for actions affecting the Inuit.

e’ve been told for years that a nutritious apple a day helps to keep the doctor away. But could alcohol have the same result during this holiday season and the New Year?

Or, is alcohol a wolf in sheep’s clothing, detrimental to our well-being?

I recently mentioned during a talk that I believed that alcohol in moderation was the best medicine ever invented. The audience responded with a big applause. But was it justified?

Critics damn alcohol because some people abuse it. I agree when people are killed by drunken drivers. But no one bans cars because some idiots cause needless deaths.

My research on alcohol dates back many years. Why? Because I’ve always enjoyed a moderate drink and wanted to know if it was evil or medicinal.

In 1981, Dr. Arthur Klasky, chief of cardiology at the Kaiser Permanente Center in California, said, “There is no evidence that one or two drinks a day is harmful. There is fairly strong evidence that alcohol may decrease the chance of heart attack.”

Dr. Charles Hennekens at The Harvard Medical School reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that patients who consumed either four ounces of liquor, 12 ounces of wine or 40 ounces of beer or less a day had fewer coronary deaths than non-drinkers.

Another researcher, Dr. Joseph Barboniak from the College of Medicine of Wisconsin, studied the coronary arteries of 2,000 patients. He concluded alcohol helps to clear the rust out of the heart’s arteries.

I like to remember this study.

Researchers collected 100 identical twins with only one major difference.

One twin was a moderate drinker, the other a teetotaler and their health was followed for many years. Finally the project had to be discontinued. Why? Because all the non-drinkers had died!

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There are also more than 20 world studies that show moderate drinkers live longer than teetotalers and those who abuse alcohol. esterol. Possibly more important, alcohol makes blood platelets, tiny particles that are part of the blood coagulation process, more slippery so they’re less likely to form a fatal blood clot.

There are also more than 20 world studies that show moderate drinkers live longer than teetotalers and those who abuse alcohol.

Other researchers disagree. They say the alcohol-coronary relationship is just another gimmick. In effect, it’s similar to theories suggesting that corn oil, brewer’s yeast and garlic are effective preventive measures.

Other critics contend that personality is more important than alcohol consumption.

For instance, relaxed people have fewer heart attacks and they’re also moderate drinkers. On the other hand, type A individuals, who want to conquer the world, are often heavy drinkers.

What about those who have survived a heart attack? If this event destroyed a significant amount of cardiac muscle, then the pumping action of the heart has lost some strength. The last thing needed is the loss of more strength resulting in congestive heart failure.

Studies show too that excessive drinking does damage cardiac muscle.

This is why drinking days should cease. Others suggest that if there are no symptoms of failure, “moderate” drinking is a reasonable option.

Sir William Osler counselled, “Alcohol is for the elderly what milk is for the young.” I say amen to that.

I believe that the “Happy Hour” for seniors would provide more medicinal benefit than a cartload of pills.

So enjoy the holiday season. But never forget the tragedy of excessive indulgence.

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Expect veggies to be big in 2016 Christine Couvelier says root-to-leaf movement will continue with more even creative preparations Increasingly popping up on restaurant menus is toast: “It is certainly a very innovative dish to develop recipes and thoughts around. I’m watching it as the ingredient of the year,” says Couvelier.

“A lot of restaurants I’ve been in in the last six or nine months, they have great toast offerings.”

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Christine Couvelier of Victoria thinks vegetables will take a starring role on plates in 2016. [THE CANADIAN PRESS/CULINARY CONCIERGE]

with gangbusters. There’s so many varieties. It’s easy to grow here in Canada.”

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arrivee predicts the comeback of the Jerusalem artichoke, or sunchoke. The gnarly tuber can be served as a puree and in soup, and its yellow flowers make a colourful addition to the garden.

Couvelier also sees hummus emerging as the new salsa, juice bars as the new coffee shops, and fried chicken being the new pork belly.

Fried chicken, often paired with waf-

fles, can feature different seasonings and be made spicy, sweet, brined or crusted.

High in protein and fibre and low in fat, hummus can be an appetizer, dip, spread or part of a main course.

“It’s recognizable in its original form and accepted, so now people are branching out and they’re eager to try something different,” says Couvelier, who’s had black bean hummus, edamame hummus with roasted red peppers, spicy yellow lentil hummus and, her favourite, a zesty Sriracha carrot hummus.

he’s had pickled anchovies and tomato toast and smoked chicken and walnut Waldorf toast at Steak Bird Provisions in San Francisco.

Purple Pig in Chicago has a menu section called Smears, with toast and toppings including roasted bone marrow, liver pate, or pork neckbone gravy with ricotta.

“It can be any time of day — breakfast, lunch, snacking, appetizer, for dinner. You can share it,” she says of eating toast.

Restaurateurs are also embracing more customer choice.

“We now see the phenomenon of what we call the clockless menu, so ’I want to eat when I want, what I want, where I want 24-7.’ All-day breakfast is huge right now and we’re seeing that creep into the dinner service as well,” says Dooher.

Operators are also deconstructing the plate, then charging for each item separately.

“Everything is about construct your own: construct your own burger, construct your own risotto, construct your own dinner.”

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ther trends that Couvelier predicts will grow next year: — More of the complex flavour combination of sweet and heat.

Consider chilies and honey, Sriracha and maple syrup drizzled over roasted vegetables, honey and wasabi on chicken, jalapeno-infused honey and Sriracha peach jam, Couvelier suggests.

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rend watchers, chefs and foodies alike stand united on vegetables — once lowly or overlooked as a side, they’re being elevated to a starring role.

Christine Couvelier says 2015 has been an amazing year for vegetables and the root-to-leaf movement will continue in 2016 with more creative preparations, from grilling and smoking to roasting and charring.

“We thought seeing whole roasted cauliflowers was a wow on some menus, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” says the Victoria-based Couvelier, whose Culinary Concierge company helps clients around North America keep ahead of market trends.

“I think it’s a continuation on understanding fresh and local and being very innovative and creative in the kitchen,” she says.

“I think a lot of it also is consumers’ understanding the health benefits around that style of eating too.

We’re not saying not to have meat but all in proportion and looking to vegetables to fill a great deal of the plate.”

Couvelier recently noshed on “spectacular” grilled rainbow carrots with creme fraiche and pistachio carrot-top pesto at Vendemmia in Seattle, Wash.

Quebec celebrity chef Ricardo Larrivee has found brussels sprouts on many restaurant menus, including roasted and presented at the table on the stalk with vinegar syrup and grated cheese.

Donna Dooher, president and CEO of Restaurants Canada, says we’ve moved beyond the kale revolution.

“It was kale on everything, kale this and kale that, kale chips. I think squash is going to come back

— Savoury yogurt could go mainstream. Unexpected flavours developed in the kitchens of Blue Hill and Blue Hill Stone Barns, two of New York’s top farm-to-table destinations, include butternut squash, beet, tomato, carrot, sweet potato and parsnip. “When you think of it as an ingredient application it’s brilliant,” says Couvelier. You can make a lower-fat salad dressing, soup or sauce with a flavour boost from the vegetable yogurt.

— Bartenders and mixologists will experiment more with shrubs — and not the green bushes used in landscaping. Shrubs are created when you preserve fruit with vinegar, sugar and water. They allow for new punches, cocktails and spritzes.

— Ice cubes that are carved into shapes or infused with flavoured smoke or alcohol. As the ice melts it doesn’t water down your drink. “But at the same time, it’s giving you a different flavour at different times when you sip the drink, because it would change as the ice melted a little bit. Say you had mint or citrus in the ice cube as well, that would infuse it differently as it started to melt,” says Couvelier.

— New Yorkers have been lining up to buy paper cups of flavourful bone broth from chef Marco Canora, who opened a takeout window at his restaurant Hearth. Because the bones are roasted and cooked longer than with stock, they release protein, minerals and nutrients. “You can put them in soups or stews. You can just drink them. Chefs are putting them on their menus and they can add things to them like coconut milk or beet juice or ginger juice. And just a couple of months ago, bone broth started showing up in the stock section of grocery stores,” Couvelier says.

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control. I would appreciate advice from a disinterested party.

— Sibling Dilemma Dear Sibling: Are you sure you want to do this? The consequences could turn out to be more distressing than worthwhile. An estrangement hurts you, too, and, as you said, will create a rift between all of the siblings. We know Pam deserves your condemnation for acting so uncaring toward her own sister, but have you asked her about it? Did you say, “Pam, I am so disappointed and angry that you cared so little about

Claire that you couldn’t even wish her well”? She needs to know how upset you are and why. She may have some explanation for her callous behaviour, and even though it will hardly be good enough, we hope you will hear her out and maybe even find it in your heart to forgive her.

It’s so much better than holding onto your anger.

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The problem now is that four of us are empty nesters and we vacation together once or twice a year. We have been doing this for more than a decade. But family isn’t only for the good times. If a person cannot care about her sister when she is ill, then I don’t think she should be included when we go on vacations. We always stay in timeshares, which I own. I don’t invite Pam on these vacations, but another sister does. I can’t uninvite her without creating a rift.

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