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OTTAWA — Regardless of the direction Stephen Poloz chooses, today’s closely watched decision on the Bank of Canada’s key interest rate will take place in front of an unsightly economic backdrop.

With oil prices in free fall, the global economy weakening and the prospects for Canadian growth dim, the central bank governor will reveal whether he intends to move the trend-setting rate.

It’s a question Poloz has had to face more than once as head of the bank: whether the strong medicine of cutting the already historically low benchmark is a necessary remedy for Canada’s ailing economy.

Poloz dropped the rate twice in 2015 to its current level of 0.5 per cent to help blunt the impact of sliding oil prices. The first of those moves — almost a year ago to the day — was a surprise adjustment that blindsided markets.

This time around, observers are divided on whether he will pull the trigger again — and whether he should.

Desjardins senior economist Jimmy Jean falls into the camp of analysts who expect Poloz to stand pat — and said he believes he’d be wise to do so.

This year, Poloz must once again consider falling oil prices, a weakening dollar and inflation at the lower end of the bank’s oneto two-per-cent target range.

But things have also changed over the last 12 months, Jean said as he explained why he thinks Poloz should avoid using the primary tool in the central bank’s kit.

The new Liberal government has pledged to stimulate the economy with deficit-fuelled infrastructure spending. Last year, the previous government was heading into an election striving to produce a balanced budget.

Jean said he believes those spending plans are sufficiently substantial to keep Poloz on the sidelines. But he doesn’t expect Ottawa’s commitments, which also include

With oil prices in free fall, the global economy weakening and the prospects for Canadian growth dim, central bank Governor Steven Poloz reveals today whether he intends to move the trend-setting rate. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

a revamped child-benefits program and tax-bracket changes, to shield the economy from a rough ride in 2016 and 2017.

“Those policies will help, but we have to face the fact that we’re going to suffer for a while,” Jean said.

“There’s no way to really, fully offset that pain.”

Earlier this month, Poloz spoke of the bumpy road ahead as he warned that the forces uncorked by the oil-price shock “simply must work themselves out.”

Poloz’s comments led some to believe he would leave the rate untouched. But economic conditions, including oil prices, have continued to deteriorate since the speech, only a couple of weeks ago.

In the last week, many analysts have changed their positions and now believe Poloz will cut rates.

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Emanuella Enenajor, senior economist for Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research, is predicting a rate cut of 0.25 per cent and a projection for 2016 real gross domestic product that gets trimmed to 1.5 per cent, from two per cent.

“In our view, this is a shock substantial enough to warrant another easing,” the firm wrote in a note to clients Tuesday that also speculated Poloz may be forced into action a second time this year.

“If energy prices remain persistently low, one rate cut will not likely be enough to stimulate the economy back to a reasonable growth path.”

Experts, including the International Monetary Fund, have downgraded their growth projections for Canada. The IMF dropped its 2017 forecast Tuesday to 2.1 per cent, from 2.4 per cent in October.

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Habit goes up in smoke Annual Weedless Wednesday event aims to get smokers to quit

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ark Roach kept his word.

The Daily News wrote about Roach on Weedless Wednesday last year. At the time he was on his third straight week without a cigarette.

A pack-a-day smoker since age 13, the 58-year-old finally free of the addiction.

There are dozens of ways to quit smoking. Each method seems to have some sort of success. The most beneficial method for Roach was preparation and relying on support.

“This needs to be underscored, it needs Aaron to be in your mind Hinks that this is it. Then Reporting you do it and stick to the plan,” Roach said.

Roach relied on the help from Dr. Derek Poteryko.

“There’s these quit-smoking groups, you have to connect with somebody.

That’s what it really comes down to. I don’t think I could have done it on my own. He just helped me get my mind in the right spot. It’s almost like having an (Alcoholics Anonymous) sponsor I suppose. You need is to find someone or group to have a dialogue with while you’re setting up your quit date.”

He went through a period of stress a short time ago and picked up smoking again.

“I had a few here and a few there. Quite frankly I got scared and thought ‘no I can’t do this’ so I just stopped and that was it.”

Roach said he was a little disappointed because he didn’t notice any significant health changes until four months after he quit.

Dr. Derek Poteryko. On front page is Mark Roach. [DAILY NEWS PHOTOS]

“But the immediate things that were noticeable is the cough goes away almost instantly. I think most people would feel a little more energetic but because I put on weight I was discouraged.”

He has lost some of the extra pounds and is noticing the benefits of quitting.

“My breath is coming back, I can feel the difference. I’ve got a long set of stairs leading up to my apartment and I’m not winded where I was winded before. No question I feel the difference. It’s motivational, it keeps your mind in the right place.”

When he started the process he was taking a drug called Zyban. It helped lessen the nicotine urges.

“There’s a couple different drugs out there but don’t confuse that. It didn’t take away the realization that I wasn’t

smoking. The mental element will be there.”

Roach said he saved approximately $4,000 per year from quitting.

The Nanaimo Integrated Health Network is hosting a free Weedless Wednesday Workshop at Beban Park from 4-6 p.m., today. The workshop will provide the information and tools necessary to kick a tobacco habit.

Poteryko will be at the workshop and will stress the benefits of living smoke-free. He said the best way to improve your health by 80 per cent is to follow the four E’s. The four E’s are exercise, eat healthy, reduce ethanol (alcohol) consumption, and eliminate tobacco.

Eliminating tobacco, he says, is the most important thing you can do for your health.

After one year of being smokefree your risk of heart damage is reduced by 50 per cent.

After 15 years of living smoke free your lungs will be back to normal.

The average smoker lives 10 years less than a non-smoker.

Nicotine gum, patches, inhalers, sprays, medicine and behavioural therapy are a few of the ways that make quitting easier.

E-cigarettes are increasing in popularity.

“It’s harm reduction. As a health care professional I have to say that Health Canada has not approved these products. We still don’t know what the implication is on the oral mucosa and also the lungs.

We don’t really know if it’s safe,” Poteryko said.

Although, you in hail more than 4,000 chemicals, most of them carcinogens, when you smoke a cigarette, Poteryko said.

“In my mind whatever it takes for you to quit smoking is kind of the message here. Your life will be better for it.”

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Media coverage helped to locate the owners of a framed ultrasound photo of an unborn child and other gifts intended for the child’s grandmother.

On Friday, Nanaimo RCMP issued an appeal for help to find owners of what appeared to be lost gifts, found just before Christmas.

Media outlets, including the Daily News, used traditional and social media to get the word out.

“The story was picked up on Facebook the same day I published it,” said Const.

Gary O’Brien of the Nanaimo RCMP. He said the owners of the gifts and the grandmother both contacted him, and arrangements were made to deliver them to the owner in Alberta.

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A special book and ultrasound picture, gifts for the unborn child’s grandmother, were reunited with their owners, after police put out a notice when the items were stolen in a car break-in.

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The gifts were found Dec. 24 by a passerby who saw them roadside on Bush Street.

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BUSINESS NOTES News from the Nanaimo and area business community

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anaimo’s New York Style Pizza on Wallace Street is under new ownership.

Pete Maltesen, the longtime owner of the restaurant, has sold it to Vancouver-based businesswoman Shan Wu. Daisy Lin, the restaurant’s new manager, said Maltesen has agreed to stay on as the head chef.

Lin, who has just graduated from the culinary program at Vancouver Island University, said this is Wu’s first restaurant and she will be visiting Nanaimo at least once a week to monitor operations. “We’ll be changing some things up, including having more appetizers and other options on the menu, and we’re planning some renovations on the inside of the building,� Lin said.

New service centre The ground has been broken for a new BCAA auto service centre in Nanaimo.

Pete Maltesen, right, has sold New York Style Pizza on Wallace Street. Daisy Lin is the new manager. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

The new location, at 6581 Aulds Rd., will be the first BCAA auto service centre on Vancouver Island, and the third in B.C. The centre is to be open in the summer of 2016. “BCAA has been serving Nanaimo residents with award-winning insur-

ance and world-class roadside assistance for 55 years,� said Eric Hopkins, BCAA’s senior vice president. “BCAA’s auto service centres are a natural extension of our automotive expertise and something our members have been asking for.�

The Island Veterinary Hospital on Bowen Road has taken second place in a Canada-wide video contest, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. The company, a leader in medical and pharmaceutical research, held a #PerfectWithoutPain video contest and had 36 submissions from veterinary clinics across Canada showcasing a perfect pain-free day for pets.

The local firm took second place for its submission, titled “Our perfect pain-free day� and won $5,000.

Hospital spokesman Dr. Ken Langelier said the staff decided to participate in the contest as a team-building exercise and to raise awareness that animals feel pain like people, but show it in different ways. “It’s great that we took second place, and the $5,000 will be used to buy special surgical blankets to keep animals warm after operations, and a medical unit to warm intravenous fluids to make our animals in care more comfortable,� Langelier said

Consolidation plans Plans are underway that will see the Scotiabank branch at Nanaimo North

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Town Centre consolidated with the branch in Nored Plaza as of April 15.

Spokeswoman Sheena Findlay said the decision to bring both Scotiabank branches together “wasn’t an easy one.� “Our commitment to the Nanaimo community and our customers remains unchanged,� Findlay said. “We recognize the inconvenience that this may cause for some of our customers, but our first priority is to take care of our customers and our employees and this step was only taken after careful consideration.�

Findlay said the Nored Plaza branch will be open six days a week, with longer hours.

Odds and ends • Jennifer Fox has joined the team at Royal LePage Nanaimo Realty. • Aggressive Timber Falling has moved from Bowen Road to 3018 Ross Rd. • Subhi Imports has opened beside The Soakhouse spa store on Bowen Road. • Istockhomes marketing is now open at 1595 Bowen Rd. Robert.Barron @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234

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Island Health region to get 290 new nurses SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

The B.C. government says it will create 1,643 new nursing positions by the end of March, including 290 in the Island Health region.

Health Minister Terry Lake said the province is working with the BC Nurses’ Union to fill the new positions.

“Over the past year, we have been working closely with nurses to make health care improvements that benefit both patients and staff,” Lake said in a news release.

The BCNU welcomed the news and contributed to a joint statement.

“To nurses who are trying to provide safe patient care while working short in ERs and operating rooms and nurses who cope with overwhelming workloads, this agreement means that relief is on the way,” said union president Gayle Duteil.

Duteil said the BCNU will support the hiring process by providing “a first point of contact” for qualified nurses. The Health Employers Association of BC will also be involved in the recruiting effort.

The hirings are good news for recent graduates, said Carol Stuart, dean of Vancouver Island University’s health and human services faculty. The faculty’s bachelor of science in nursing program produces approximately 70 graduates on any given year.

“From that perspective, I’m very excited about the announcement,” she said. “What that means for our graduates is those currently working in a casual position . . . will now have the opportunity to apply for a fulltime position.”

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However, Stuart said she is concerned the mass hire will “deplete” the pool of casual or full-time nurses that the health case system relies upon to fill vacancies or gaps in the full-time nursing workforce. She said VIU and other Island colleges currently do not have the capacity to fill that vacuum. NDP health critic Judy Darcy was skeptical over the relatively short timeframe of the hirings. Darcy said the government’s 2012 promise to hire more than 2,000 nurses has only resulted in approximately 500 hirings.

“We know that the long waits for hip replacement, knee replacement, you name it, has been due to shortages, including nursing shortages,” Darcy told Black Press legislature reporter and columnist Tom Fletcher. “We’ve been paying incredible overtime. Huge burnout, high injury rates, wait lists, hallway medicine, all of those things are a consequence not having met this promise.”

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Summit aims to create safer Ex-premier Harcourt to receive honorary degree atmosphere for bicyclists DAILY NEWS DAILY NEWS

The 2016 Bike Summit will be held on Saturday at the Beban Park Social Centre.

The event is intended to bring together those interested in cycling to co-ordinate their efforts to bring forward important cycling legislation.

Other goals are to create a safer cycling atmosphere in the city and the regional district, and make Nanaimo a cycling-friendly city.

The summit also provides opportunities for people to learn about the programs, initiatives and events organized by the Greater Nanaimo Cycling Coalition.

The GNCC has been working diligently to roll out its Safe Routes to School Program and the Bike-Friendly Business Program, and encourages businesses to assist their employees to have a choice in the way they commute.

The Summit will also feature a number of videos and presentations, including updates on the E&N Rail Trail, and information

Leo Boon is the co-organizer of the 2016 Bike Summit, set for Saturday at the Beban Park Social Centre. [DAILY NEWS]

sessions on bike-related topics, including proposed changes to the Motor Vehicle Act. “We’ve made significant progress on cycling-related issues in the last few years, but there are still many efforts needed to direct city staff, city council and the provincial government toward more improvements” said Leo Boon, co-organizer of the summit.

“Bringing together a diverse and committed group in one place for an afternoon of learning and discussion really focuses everyone’s energy into the effort to make Nanaimo and B.C. a safer, easier and more desirable place to live and ride,” said Boon.

The 2016 Bike Summit at Beban Park runs from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tentative agreement reached with workers The Vancouver Island Regional Library has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing its workforce.

Details will not be released until ratification of the agreement, which follows a bargaining process that included mediation.

“We were able to come to this agreement after serious and thoughtful discussions on issues that were important to our members, who care deeply about the library and the communities they serve,” said CUPE 401 president Blaine Gurrie.

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Former B.C. Premier Michael Harcourt will receive an honourary Doctorate of Laws degree from Vancouver Island University.

Harcourt is among a number of accomplished people who will be awarded honourary credentials at Vi’s winter convocation ceremonies at the Port Theatre latter this month.

Celebrated B.C. author and poet Patrick Lane will receive an honourary Doctorate of Letters, and PhD candidate Katelin Albert will receive a Distinguished Alumni – Early Achievement Award.

Harcourt is considered as one of Canada’s leading proponents on planning for sustainability, and is a passionate

believer in the power of cities and communities to improve the human condition.

A UBC alumnus, Harcourt served as B.C.’s premier from 1991 to 1996 and Vancouver’s Mayor from 1980 to 1986.

Internationally acclaimed poet Lane is considered by many scholars and critics as one of the finest poets of his generation.

He has also excelled in the genres of fiction and memoir.

Lane’s life work spans more than 50 years, and he is an admired teacher, workshop leader, and supporter of emerging poets across North America.

Albert’s doctoral research focuses on the Human Papillomavirus vaccine, a vaccine designed to prevent certain HPV-related cancers.

CUPE 401 members vote on ratification Jan. 24. The board votes on Jan. 16.

CUPE members provide public library services as library assistants, circulation supervisors, office workers, IT, and drivers at 39 branches in 37 communities throughout Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, the Central Coast, and some northern Gulf Islands.

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RCMP offer tips to help seniors avoid scammers Useful tools to prevent seniors getting scammed will be available at a public session in central Nanaimo Thursday.

Const. Gary O’Brien of the Nanaimo RCMP will explain current phone scams and other techniques con artists use to pry money from people in Scams and Frauds Targeting Seniors.

It’s a free event at the Bowen Park clubhouse.

Scams that will be explained will include those attempted by telephone solicitors, and include lottery, social media and some other online scams currently in vogue.

It’s put on by Nanaimo RCMP in partnership with the City of Nanaimo Parks, Recreation and Culture.

The free presentation starts at 2 p.m. at the Bowen Clubhouse, 500 Bowen Rd.

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It’s time that Canada made spanking children illegal S hould you be allowed to spank your child?

It’s a somewhat loaded question, bound to draw a wide variety of response and spark a spirited debate.

It could also soon become a legal question.

As we reported yesterday, the Liberal government recently indicated it intends to repeal section 43 of the Criminal Code — the so-called “spanking law” that allows parents, and sometimes teachers, to be exempt from prosecution for “reasonable” force used against children.

The change is one of more than 90 recommendations proposed by the final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Canada’s residential school system. In many ways, this is a generational issue.

Baby boomers were raised by parents for whom corporal punishment was unquestioned.

The dreaded ‘strap’ hung on the wall at school, and it wasn’t even the biggest concerns for a youngster who dared misbehave. Many remember their father’s stern warning, “if you get it at school you are going to get it worse at home.” But times change.

In terms of competing pedagogical theories, there is research that shows spanking doesn’t work, can be a form of abuse and sometimes is disguised as out-and-out assault.

“It’s 2016, we don’t believe in violence in this country, and yet, we’re still hitting children,” Kathy Lynn, a parenting speaker, author and certified Canadian family educator, told the Daily News.

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Despite the flaws of helicopter parents who put their children in a cocoon, they are right that spanking has to end.

Even if you don’t agree that spanking (as defined by the code) causes any long-lasting damage to children, you can’t get around the message it sends: that violence is sometimes the appropriate response.

Should anyone be comfortable with that?

One of the biggest arguments against repealing the law comes from parents who believe the government has no business dictating how minor discipline should be doled out.

Is it a step down a slippery slope that includes the ban on sugary soft drinks or religious teachings or violent sports?

In the end, it should come down to a simple notion: don’t hit children.

Yes, there is a difference between a light spanking and an actual beating.

But that shouldn’t matter. Neither should the argument of “well, I got spanked by my parents, and I turned out OK.” We should still not be hitting our children. So how then, to correct our youngsters? Other tools must be in place, so that it doesn’t produce overly passive parenting.

Talk to them, connect with them in a meaningful and honest way — and then listen as you expect them to listen to you. Remain calm and focus on positive behaviour instead.

It’s not easy and may be uncomfortable, but it’s exceedingly more effective than hitting.

It’s easy to suspect that a lot of spanking happens because a parent either lost his or her temper, or was too lazy to find other options.

Anything that discourages either of the above should be welcomed.

A recent poll by Global News with more than 14,500 responses had 58.8 per cent in support of making spanking illegal, while 41.2 per cent opposed that view.

With each passing year the numbers in the “make it illegal” camp will continue to grow.

Why? Simply because it’s time. It’s 2016. We should not be hitting our children.

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ur lives are centred on the use of the automobile. It has provided us with many benefits, including a freedom of mobility that is unparallelled in civilization’s history. But, there has been an urban design ‘cost’. Our cities are significantly different than they were prior to the 1940s. In less than 80 years, we have transformed how and where we live from walkable, condensed communities to sprawling urban societies that roll across the land.

With that massive change in urban form and structure has come some undesired outcomes. We are less healthy: partly because we drive more and walk less. We have less sense of community: partly because we are more mobile. We have moved much of our shopping away from the downtown: partly because new forms of shopping have adapted better to the automobile. We have expanded our roads often at the expense of the pedestrian: partly to move our cars (and ourselves) faster. We are spending more of our tax dollars on roads and sewer and water infrastructure: partly because we have spread out and require expansive infrastructure investments to support low density scattered development.

All of those experiences have generated new conversations about the need to reinvest in high quality denser development, including infilling vacant and underused sites to

make use of existing infrastructure; investing in downtown revitalization to promote alternative shopping and living experiences; and redesigning roads and streets to better accommodate pedestrians and reduce the conflict that often occurs between cars and people.

There are some interesting urban design trends in Nanaimo that speak to those emerging changes.

In terms of new infill development, that are making use of existing infrastructure, there are excellent examples of attractive row housing at Crescent View Drive off Dufferin Crescent and a compelling mix of office/residential at Pacific Station on Metral Drive near Mostar. Port Place Mall has added an interesting streetscape to complement the mall.

All of those initiatives are slowly but surely adding texture and efficiency to the city while making use of existing road and in-ground infrastructure capacity. Such projects add to the vitality of Nanaimo, ensure development is more cost effective and provide a texture to the urban fabric that enriches neighbourhoods.

There has also been some interesting street activity taking place in and near the downtown that is proving to

be of interest. One is the temporary ‘parklet’ that was constructed by the Downtown Nanaimo Business Improvement Association this past summer. It took up two parking spots on Commercial Street where it was used as seating for 2 Chefs Restaurant and other nearby businesses.

As Daniel and Tammy of 2 Chefs noted “the parklet was hardly ever empty and was full of happy customers and happy families.” They pointed out that, during the parklet’s installation, their sales figures were up and they added staff to accommodate the increase in customers.

While an example of a more European type of use of Commercial Street, the parklet has shown that there is a need and interest in Nanaimo for a few strategically located public spaces that are designed for people rather than just cars.

Another interesting conversation that is being held relates to Terminal/ Nicol Avenue and the potential to make the street edge more pedestrian friendly without compromising traffic volume and movement times.

Darren Moss, on behalf of the DNBIA, has been leading a group of citizens and business owners who are interested in seeking public feed-

back on the potential to modify the current unfriendly pedestrian tone of Terminal and Nicol.

That group has provided options for consideration, including wider sidewalks with planting, treed medians in some locations and more centre turning lanes. While each of those actions seems minor, in total they will create a very different sense to Terminal and Nicol; one that is more inviting to pedestrians. As well, the ‘softened’ entrance to and through the downtown will very likely be more attractive to visitors and citizens alike.

Drivers will have a sense of a street that is part of the city fabric rather than simply a means of getting from A to B. Nanaimo is changing for the better: one development and infrastructure decision at a time.

Framed by good urban design, those individual incremental actions are providing a solid basis for a Nanaimo that is becoming known for its high quality urban environment.

David Witty is Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at Vancouver Island University, registered professional planner and member of Inspire Nanaimo.

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Victim, 80, had lobbied for road safety upgrades in area JOHN HARDING AND CANDACE WU PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

Police said Monday they believe they have identified the vehicle and driver from a hit-and-run incident that claimed the life of an 80-year-old French Creek woman on Wednesday.

Oceanside RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman had just finished speaking with the major crimes unit when contacted on Monday afternoon.

“They believe they have found the vehicle and person responsible,” said Foreman. He said the driver identified by major crimes “has been extremely co-operative” and “there is pretty reasonable doubt the (driver) even knew it happened.”

Foreman said forensic evidence gathered from the vehicle — a delivery vehicle of some sort — has been sent to the lab. Foreman said police are not likely to make any decisions on recommending charges against the driver, or not, until that evidence is processed, which could take as long as a month.

Foreman also said he did not want to identify the specific vehicle for fear of “vigilanteism” and he also said there was no evidence of speed, reckless driving or alcohol being a factor in this case.

According to a news release issued by Oceanside RCMP Thursday morning, at approximately 3 p.m. Wednesday a woman was found lying on the side of the road on Roberton Boulevard, near Lakes Boulevard in French Creek (Morningstar area).

Neighbours identified the victim as Gwen Chisholm.

Police said she was discovered a short distance from her home by a passerby.

Paramedics were called and she was transported by B.C. Ambulance to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. She died at approximately 11 p.m. as a result of the serious head trauma sustained.

Friends and neighbours of Chisholm say they’re both devastated and frustrated — especially because the victim was intimately involved in a movement calling for safer streets just months before her death.

Chisholm was the third person to a sign a petition ultimately garnering 169 signatures in November.

The petition read: “There is a most urgent need to improve safety for walkers and bikers in our community with the installation of a proper sidewalk, speed bumps on the road or very visible road markings indicating a slow speed and to watch for pedestrians and bikers.”

It was sent to MLA Michelle Stilwell, Regional District of Nanaimo director Joe Stanhope

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Police are warning parents to monitor their children’s online activity and to take this opportunity to discuss the danger of online communication with strangers, after convicted sex offender, Aaron Craig, was arrested in Colwood on Monday.

The Victoria Police Department issued a statement last week, warning that Craig posed a significant risk of harm to young women and girls.

They asked for the public’s help in locating Craig, 28, who was wanted on an outstanding warrant for breaching the conditions of his bail.

The local police detachment received a report from a citizen who had spotted Craig at roughly 10:40 a.m. on Monday,

walking on a trail near Wishart Road in Colwood.

West Shore RCMP and a Victoria Police Department dog handler located and arrested Craig in a parking lot at the corner of Sooke and Ledsham roads in Colwood shortly after receiving the tip.

Craig has been convicted of the sexual interference of a person under 16 and of communicating via computer to lure a child under 16.

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and Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure operations manager Johnathan Tillie, along with a letter explaining “the reason for this petition is your lack of concern in providing adequate measures to control the speed of vehicle traffic on the S curve of Roberton Boulevard . . . we will most definitely have a serious injury or worse, a fatality.”

Barb Svarich, a resident in the area and president of the Saint Andrews Lane Strata, said the message fell on deaf ears.

“Because it’s considered a highway you can’t have speed bumps, crosswalks, flashing lights or this is what I’ve been told by (the ministry) that this is considered a highway,” she said.

“How can this be considered a highway when we’re a residential area?”

Svarich said Roberton Boulevard is a winding road with blind spots and no sidewalk, noting there have been a handful of incidents in the past few years related to road safety and speeding vehicles.

However, Foreman said speeding has not been identified by police as an issue on Roberton Boulevard.

“Like many areas in Oceanside, Roberton has generated several complaints to the RDN and police regarding speeding,” said Foreman.

“Our traffic section has spent a lot of time on Roberton and has never identified a speeding problem. In the particular area where the lady very unfortunately was struck and killed, it is a narrow windy road.”

Foreman said police do not classify roads as dangerous, instead they look to ICBC for direction.

“Previous crashes or issues would have ICBC alert us that it is a ‘high crash location,’” he said. “Roberton has never been classed as such.”

Chisholm’s death has reignited the grief struck community in the fight for pedestrian safety.

“A beloved woman has died because of this,” Karen Michalek said. “Gwen was so loved in this community . . . She was such a wonderful neighbour and friend.

So warm and friendly. First and foremost, she was a lady. She never had a bad word to say about anyone.”

Svarich said she will be sending out letters to politicians this week demanding action.

“We are going to fight for changes that will protect all people, all cyclists and even motorists,” she said.

“I’d like to see a commitment that a sidewalk will be installed.

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PORT ALBERNI

New marine observatory to gather data KATYA SLEPIAN ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

Port Alberni residents might soon know a lot more about the waters of the Alberni Inlet thanks to proposed new ocean monitoring equipment from Ocean Networks Canada.

The organization already has projects running out of Port Alberni, business analyst Teron Moore said.

“Ocean Networks Canada already runs a large research infrastructure that’s based out of Port Alberni and runs 800 kilometres out from the Port Alberni Inlet out to the west coast off shore,” he said. “We run scientific instruments and we gather data and do science and research.”

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information that’s closer to shore.

Ocean Networks Canada, based out of the University of Victoria, runs the Neptune Observatory on Mallory Drive in Port Alberni.

“It’s a fibre-optic cable that runs from Port Alberni through the Alberni Inlet and through an 800-kilometre loop. It covers all kind of interesting ocean ecosystems, measuring all kinds of parameters from salinity, temperature, depth of the ocean, seismic movements, tsunamis and more,” Moore said of the existing infrastructure.

Ocean Networks has instruments both at the surface and on the bottom of the ocean and even on BC Ferries and they’re looking to add more.

“These smaller pieces of infrastructure we’re calling ‘community observatories’ and these are going in all up and down the B.C. coast,” Moore said. Plans are already underway to install them in Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Hartley Bay, Campbell River

and Tofino — and Port Alberni could join that list.

“These are very small pieces of infrastructure that will be put in closer to the shoreline to measure some of the shore-based parameters that we’re very interested in,” he said. That data could be applied to improve marine safety, environmental monitoring and seismic safety, including developing an earthquake warning system that gives more advanced warning than what’s currently possible.

“Some of those instruments will be hydrophones, which will listen to the acoustics in the water, water quality properties like temperature and salinity to try and get a baseline idea of what is the normal state of the water and how that changes as things like climate change and

industrial activity change.”

The shore-based equipment will allow researchers to get up close and personal with marine life.

“We’ll have underwater video cameras to look and interact and engage with that underwater ecosystem in a way that doesn’t typically get done without that visual interaction.”

All of the information gathered both in the Alberni Inlet and all around the ocean is open to everyone, Moore said.

“All of the data that comes in on our instruments is available to researchers globally via a data management system call Oceans 2.0,” said Moore.

Ocean Networks will hold a community engagement session later this month to hear what the community thinks is the best location for the new community observatory.

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Victoria Shipyards buzz with action

Electric bus aimed at cruise ship industry

PAMELA ROTH VICTORIA NEWS

In a perfect world, the dry dock at the Victoria Shipyards would always be full and Joe O’Rourke could run 800 staff per day.

But after 30 years of working in the shipyard industry, O’Rourke knows that’s never going to happen.

O’Rourke, however, is happy with the amount of work that’s come in to the shipyard (owned by North Vancouver’s Seaspan ULC) ever since he arrived from Portland, Oregon 10 months ago to take the reins as general manager.

He’s also bidding on a lot more commercial work, specifically aiming at markets in the United States due to the low Canadian dollar.

“I feel confident that Victoria Shipyards are going to continue to grow, albeit on a cycle. Some years are down versus others just because there’s only so much in that market you can grab,” said O’Rourke, noting the first six months of the year are busy, but after that the workload is fairly light.

“We’re trying to fill the gaps as much as possible.”

Six years ago, a lack of contracts dropped the number of workers significantly, but one year it reached as high as 1,200. O’Rourke expects to have 550 to 600 direct people working on vessels in the future.

Much of the stable work is due to the frigate and submarine program with the Royal Canadian Navy, which has provided a consistent source of revenue for the past five years with contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

According to O’Rourke, the navy work (under prime contractor Lockheed Martin Canada) involves modernization (with new combat systems) and expansion. There is never a day that employees don’t have some job they’re working on that takes at least 100 trades people.

The shipyards rarely, if ever, fall below 300 people.

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The cruise ship ‘Ruby Princess’ fills the Esquimalt Graving Dock as she undergoes a 10-day refit by Victoria Shipyards.

During the refit 350 workers will be employed. [VICTORIA NEWS]

“You want to take a vessel and make enough improvements and bring it up to a standard that’s going to extend its life out,” said O’Rourke, adding there are many changes with sensor and weapon systems.

“You have to upgrade to whatever the new equipment that comes in.”

During the peak of the program, 485 workers were employed, but that number now hovers around 350.

After 11 months, work on the fifth frigate — the HMCS Regina, will be completed this spring. After that, O’Rourke said the shipyards will continue to do work off and on for the navy thanks to a contract that runs through 2018.

The HMCS Corner Brook submarine is also now on the yard and will be brought up to date with the

latest systems during the next two years.

“It (work) won’t be as high as it was before, but it’s still going to be very substantial and more substantial than it was prior to the modernization program,” said O’Rourke, noting the shipyard is like a glorified gas station with a repair function.

“It (the shipyard) is not a factory that processes things. To some end your work load is determined by what’s available, by what the customer will give you. You can go and seek more markets, but there are periods where nobody has repair needs so you train your organization that it’s ready to go down to 350 people or max back up to 1,000.”

The large graving dock at the shipyards can hold three small vessels or

one large cruise ship — a lucrative industry the company has also managed to tap into.

In December, the Ruby Princess was pulled into the dry dock with a refit contract worth around $5 million that employed about 330 people at its peak. Putting in 10 to 12 hour shifts every day, workers had 10 days to complete the task of installing two giant emission scrubbers and replacing bow thrusters.

The Ruby Princess was the third cruise ship to have scrubbers installed in the Victoria Shipyards.

Two more cruise ships are scheduled for work in April and May, and another two are booked in the fall of 2017. The shipyards also do general commercial work with B.C. Ferries, tow ships, fishing vessels and barges.

In an effort to reduce noise and emissions from the diesel buses shuffling cruise ship passengers through the James Bay neighbourhood, the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority will be introducing an electric double decker bus this season.

Beginning in April, the bus will be used as part of a one-year pilot project that will evaluate the feasibility of electric bus transportation for the cruise tourism industry compared to conventional diesel buses.

During a typical week of the cruise season, 15 to 20 buses pick up passengers at Ogden Point for excursions to Craigdarroch Castle, Buchart Gardens or downtown. On the weekend, that number spikes to 50 to 60 buses coming and going through the James Bay neighbourhood.

For GVHA CEO Ian Robertson, having a working terminal that’s accessed through a neighbourhood has provided a number of challenges throughout the years.

“We recognize there will always be an impact and the cruise business is going to grow. Having said that, we also recognize there are aspects we can take to mitigate the impact,” said Robertson, noting the manufacturer approached the harbour authority about testing the bus.

Another initiative is working more closely with the cruise lines to promote the walkability of Ogden Point to downtown. Of the approximate 533,000 passengers that came into Victoria last year, 25 per cent walked from the terminal — a number Robertson said could be higher.

Victoria’s cruise tourism industry contributes more than $100 million annually to the regional economy.

The GVHA plans to make Victoria the most desired port on the West Coast, and a port home for one ship by 2020.

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Protest plea: stop pipeline process now LAURA KANE THE CANADIAN PRESS

DEVELOPMENT OF A PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN Pest Management Plan: BC Hydro Facilities 2016-2021

The use of pesticides is intended within the area to which the Pest Management Plan (PMP) applies.

The purpose of the proposed PMP is to control vegetation at BC Hydro facilities to maintain safe and reliable operations which support the delivery of electricity to our customers. This plan applies to all areas of British Columbia where BC Hydro has operational or planned facilities such as electrical substations, generation switchyards, generating sites, communication sites, storage sites, administrative buildings, or land owned or leased for future facilities.

First Nations and environmentalists called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stop a National Energy Board review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion as hearings on the proposal began Tuesday.

Opponents of Kinder Morgan’s US$5.4 billion plan to triple the current capacity of the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline held a rally outside the hearings in Burnaby, B.C. Speakers demanded Trudeau immediately stop the hearings and overhaul the review process.

“This is a fundamentally flawed process,” said Carleen Thomas of North Vancouver’s Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

“The voices of Canadian citizens are not being respected or heard, and this is wrong.”

The hearings will last for 10 days in B.C. and will wrap up in Calgary next month. Local municipalities, environmental groups, First Nations and residents who live along the pipeline are set to deliver final arguments.

The National Energy Board streamlined the review process to meet time limits set by the previous Conservative government. Interveners are not allowed to cross-examine Kinder Morgan representatives and instead had to send in written questions.

The company answered a portion of those questions.

Karen Campbell, a lawyer with Ecojustice, said the process is “incredibly broken,” noting that the review does not consider the potential impacts of the project on climate change.

“The federal government needs to step up and it needs to stop this flawed process right now,” she said.

“It’s not too late.”

Trudeau promised on the campaign trail in June to engage in a “new open process” for all pipelines and in August said it would apply to existing pipelines.

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has also written Trudeau, asking him to put the review on hold while the government implements the promised changes.

Kai Nagata with environmental group Dogwood Initiative said if the process continues without changes, then the Liberal government will have broken its election promise.

“The clock is ticking,” he said. “There’s an irony in letting this unfold while promising real change and promising to overhaul the process.”

Karen Mahon of ForestEthics Advocacy said of the 55 interveners set to make arguments at the Burnaby hearings, 50 oppose the project.

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The proposed methods for applying herbicides include: soil applied techniques (backpack sprayer, powerhose or fixed boom sprayer), cut surface, basal bark, backpack foliar, mechanized foliar (fixed nozzle, boom directed nozzle, wick sprayer), and injection (hack and squirt, lance or syringe) techniques.

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The proposed duration of the PMP is from April 2016 to April 2021.

Vegetation incompatible with the operation of the power system will be controlled using: physical (manual brushing, girdling, hand-pulling, hedge trimming, mowing, pruning, weed trimming or tree removal), cultural (gravel/hard surfacing, planting ground cover), biological (release of parasitic insects to control noxious and invasive plants) or chemical (herbicide application) techniques, or any combination of these methods.

The active ingredients and trade names of the herbicides proposed for use under this plan include:

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diuron – Karmex, Diurex 80 WDG or equivalent flumioxazin – Payload or equivalent glyphosate – Vantage, Vision or equivalent imazapyr – Arsenal Powerline or equivalent indaziflam – Esplanade or equivalent metsulfuron-methyl – Escort or equivalent picloram – Tordon 22k, Tordon 101 or equivalent

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Adjuvant products may also be combined on occasion with a herbicide to improve its effectiveness, such as: nonylphenoxy polyethoxy ethanol – Agral 90, paraffinic oils – Gateway, octadec-9-enoic acid as methyl and ethyl esters – Hasten NT, or siloxylated polyether – Xiameter or equivalents.

A draft copy of the proposed PMP is available at bchydro.com/pestplanforfacilities.

Alternatively, it is available in person at 6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby; 1401 Kalamalka Lake Road, Vernon; 18475 128 Street, Surrey; 400 Madsen Road, Nanaimo; 3333 22 Avenue, Prince George.

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Police have arrested a suspect in a recent bank robbery in Guildford in which the bad guy dressed up as a woman.

The robbery happened on Dec. 29, in the 15100-block of 101 Avenue. The robber ran away and no staff were injured.

After the robbery, the Surrey RCMP released surveillance camera footage from the bank, hoping someone might be able to identify him.

That footage showed an Asian man wearing a patterned dress, white woollen sweater, blonde long curly wig and a pink toque.

Police are recommending robbery charges be laid against a 39-year-old Surrey man. His name has not yet been released.

BC Hydro, the applicant for the proposed PMP, is located at 6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby, B.C., V3N 4X8.

Please contact Tom Wells, Vegetation Program Manager, at 604 516 8943 or thomas.wells@bchydro.com for more information.

A person wishing to contribute information about a proposed treatment site, relevant to the development of the pest management plan, may send copies of the information to the applicant at the above address within 30 days of the publication notice.

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Alberta angels found in the Okanagan ALISTAIR WATERS KELOWNA CAPITAL NEWS

Five months after helping to save the lives of a Florida couple involved in a horrific motorcycle accident on a lonely stretch of road in rural Wyoming, Kelowna’s Craig Monley and his wife Elaine Methot have been reunited with the man and woman they helped.

Following a lengthy search by the Florida couple, Jeff and Jeri Hamilton, to find the “angels” who saved their lives, Monley and Methot connected with the Hamiltons by phone earlier this month.

“There was an immediate affinity,” said Monley adding the Hamiltons wanted to personally thank the Canadian couple.

The Hamiltons had been told by police they believed the couple who helped them were from Alberta, and, as a result, Monley and Methot— whose names were not known to the Hamiltons — were dubbed the “Alberta Angels.”

In August 2015, Monley and Methot were heading home from visiting his ill mother in Denver.

As they drove their motorhome along the undulating road traversing the open Wyoming plain, they saw a motorcycle heading toward them on the crest of the hill ahead.

There were two riders on board.

Suddenly the motorcycle swerved and crashed, with both riders being thrown off, one into the ditch and the other into the path of the flying bike. It was later discovered the cause was a blown back tire.

Monley who had extensive firstaid training during his working years with the Boys and Girls Club, immediately pulled over, grabbed his first aid kit and with his wife ran to help.

“The initial reaction is, ‘Are we seeing what we think we are seeing?,”

said Monley. “Then it’s: ‘Oh, my God. Are they dead?’ There were pieces flying everywhere.”

Both the Hamiltons were very badly injured, with Jeri losing flesh from her arm and her knees as well as an assortment of other injuries.

Jeff was also in bad shape, with severe facial injuries, as well as damage to his shoulder and ribs.

The Kelowna couple administered first aid and what other assistance they could, giving the Hamiltons water, soothing them as they were conscious throughout, assuring them help was coming and, at one point, even using Monley’s golf umbrella to help shelter the injured pair from the blistering sun while they waited for medics to arrive.

They last saw the Hamiltons being loaded into an ambulance.

And that appeared to be that.

But a friend heard through another friend the Florida couple was looking for the Canadians who helped them. The mutual friend remembered Monley and Methot saying they helped a couple in a motorcycle crash in Wyoming this past summer and passed on the information.

Monley, who is also a motorcycle rider, said the two couples talked for nearly two hours Saturday night and plan to meet up, in person, at the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, S.D., later this year.

For the Hamiltons, the long road back to health is far from over. Jeff is still recovering and Jeri has more surgeries to have her arm basically reconstructed.

But they owe their lives to the Kelowna couple and wanted so badly to find them and express their gratitude in person. For Monley, the pay off is that the Hamiltons are alive today.

“For me, that’s what really counts,” he said.

Kirsten Brazier prepares for takeoff with a young passenger during a previous The Sky’s No Limit – Girls Fly Too. Brazier has set up a gofundme page to help out with this year’s event. [SCOTT LOUGH]

Pilot’s passion is to see women take to the skies MONIQUE TAMMINGA LANGLEY TIMES

Langley resident Kirsten Brazier’s goal for the New Year is a lofty one.

She aims to make sure 2,500 females fly for the first time.

Last year, Brazier’s “The Sky’s No Limit — Girls Fly Too” event at Abbotsford International Airport, saw 1,700 females take their first flights.

“It’s my passion to inspire more females to get into the aviation world. This work is so important, for the past few years I have set aside my own professional flying career in order to bring these special

events to thousands with the end goal of improving gender diversity in aviation, aerospace, marine and defence,” said Brazier.

She has started a gofundme account under GirlsFly2 to help cover the costs associated with organizing such a large-scale event.

More than 15,000 people are expected to descend on the Abbotsford International Airport on March 12 and 13 for the free Girls Fly Too event, the world’s largest aviation outreach show of its kind. She holds three world records for the event.

For two days, 10 helicopters will

take first-time fliers up in the sky.

The hope, said Brazier, is to get females excited about careers in aviation.

“This year is even bigger and better.

I’ve invited the navy this year, the bomb disposal unit will bring a robot and a bomb suit, RCMP tactical team will be there too,” she said.

“The event takes on a hands-on approach to capture the attention of a missing female demographic,” she points out.

There are only around 1,300 female professional pilots in Canada, as compared to 23,000 male pilots.

The driver of the Mustang then fled the scene on foot, but was caught a short distance away. A passenger in the vehicle remained on scene.

think about important investments in places like Surrey and in places across the country that can enable people just to get moving again.”

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Prison inmates learn trades while behind bars

While some hoped Canada’s new finance minister would officially commit dollars to the city’s proposed LRT line while visiting Surrey last weekend, that didn’t happen.

“We’ve made important commitments in transit,” said Bill Morneau during a Surrey Board of Trade breakfast on Jan. 16 at Aria Banquet & Convention Centre.

“We’ve committed to spending an additional $20 billion over the next decade in transit. That means we’ll need to

A pilot program in Kamloops has graduated six provincial prison inmates, qualifying them to work as construction labourers when they are released.

Students learn skills such as operating and maintaining small tools, scaffolding, reading blueprints, surveying, operating a mini-excavator and traffic control.

They also receive level one first aid and construction safety training certification during a six-week course.

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City stands behind its deer cull program Cranbrook city council officially acknowledged that an urban deer cull was carried out, with 20 deer being captured and euthanized over the last six weeks.

In a release issued Jan. 18, the city said a permit was obtained in October and valid until the end of January.

“I am very pleased with the results of this program to manage and control our urban deer situation,” said Mayor Lee Pratt, in the press release. “I know some people do not agree with our program, but in the interest of the protection of citizens’ property and the safety of our residents it had to be done.”

It’s the first public acknowledgement

of a cull since the B.C. Deer Protection Society and the Animal Alliance of Canada accused the city of approving and conducting a cull behind closed doors.

The B.C. Deer Protection Society posted video of a deer caught in a clover trap before being shot twice by a bolt gun.

Photographs of two other fawns caught in a collapsed clover trap were also posted on their website.

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Man charged after teen hit while riding a scooter A 20-year-old man has been charged with several offences in relation to an Abbotsford incident last September in which a teen riding a scooter was struck by a suspected impaired driver who fled the scene.

Jakob Warren Andrist Betsworth made his first appearance in Abbotsford provincial court yesterday (Thursday) on charges of impaired driving, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, two counts of failing to stop at the scene of an accident, and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm.

The collision took place Sept. 26 at about 12:30 a.m.

A 13-year-old boy on a scooter was with a group of friends were in the crosswalk, when a Mustang attempted to stop at a red light and skidded through the intersection.

The vehicle crashed into a southbound Dodge truck, driven by a 17-yearold girl, and then veered toward the group of teens. All were able to jump out of the way, except for the boy on the scooter. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

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Postmedia newsrooms to be merged, 90 staff laid off No job losses at two Vancouver papers but the company will offer buyout packages ALEKSANDRA SAGAN THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Postmedia is cutting approximately 90 jobs and merging newsrooms in four cities as Canada’s largest newspaper chain steps up plans to slash costs in the midst of mounting revenue losses.

The company has two newspapers in each of the Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver markets.

Now those city papers will share a newsroom, although they’ll continue putting out different publications.

Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey said the decline in print advertising revenue since the Sun Media acquisition drove the changes.

“The business model has been disrupted,” Godfrey said.

“Our goal was trying to keep the newsrooms separate at the time, but with the continuation of the decline, we thought the important thing was to keep the newspapers open and we figured out this was the best way to do it.”

The two Calgary newspapers — the Calgary Sun and Calgary Herald — will share one editor, as will the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun, Godfrey said.

He said the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun will also have one editor, adding that the company is looking for someone to fill that role.

In all, about 90 staff have been laid off. Phyllise Gelfand, the company’s vice-president of communications, said those layoffs include about 35 people in Edmonton, 25 in Calgary and 12 in Ottawa.

A man looks at newspaper boxes containing the ‘Vancouver Sun’ and the ‘Vancouver Province’ in the city on Tuesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Gelfand said there were no job losses in Vancouver but the company will offer buyout packages in the coming days. The two Ottawa papers will also offer buyouts, which could result in another 50 employees leaving the company, she said.

Paul Morse, president of Unifor Local 87-M — representing some of the Ottawa employees who were let go — accused Postmedia of breaking its promise to continue operating two independent newspapers in each of those four markets.

The federal Competition Bureau approved Postmedia’s purchase of Sun Media’s English-language newspapers and digital properties last

spring. The bureau said the deal was unlikely to substantially lessen or prevent competition.

Postmedia executives planned to keep the newsrooms of each outlet separate, Godfrey said at the time, but were considering merging other departments.

“Clearly that’s gone right out the window today,” Morse said.

Postmedia says the move won’t have an impact on editorial freedom, but will simply reduce some duplication between what the newsrooms produced.

“A small rewrite desk and an editorial team will ensure that, you know, the right voice and content gets to

the right product and platform,” said Gelfand.

In a statement, the Communications Workers of America union’s Canadian chapter called on the federal government to intervene with “legislation or regulations to limit concentration of media ownership.”

John Pecman, the head of the Competition Bureau, has a year from when the transaction finalized to bring an application to the tribunal to challenge the decision. That deadline passes in March.

However, it’s unlikely it will be challenged, said Phil Norris, a spokesman for the bureau.

“These types of business decisions

by Postmedia . . . are generally not cause for us to re-examine the transaction.”

Postmedia is not obliged to consult with the bureau if they decide to close newspapers, he added. However, Godfrey said he notified the bureau prior to Tuesday’s announcement.

Ottawa Sun columnist Sue Sherring, who kept her job, was in tears as she spoke publicly in Ottawa.

“It’s happening everywhere (in the business),” she said. “It’s not fun.”

The cuts come less than a week after Postmedia announced it was stepping up its efforts to reduces costs to overcome continued losses in advertising, print circulation and digital media revenue.

The company is now aiming for cost reductions of $80 million by mid-2017 — up from its previous goal of $50 million in cuts by the end of 2017.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Tories ‘booby-trapped’ Iran relations: Expert MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The former Conservative government “booby-trapped” Canada’s international relations with a pair of laws that are preventing the Liberals from lifting sanctions on Iran, says a former Canadian military analyst and Middle East expert.

Thomas Juneau, a University of Ottawa expert on Iran who spent 11 years at the Department of National Defence, cited the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and the listing of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism as obstacles to the government’s ability to lift sanctions.

In 2012, the Tories passed the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, which allowed victims of terrorism to

“That complicates the issue of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Iran and lifting additional sanctions.”

Thomas Juneau, expert on Iran

sue countries that are listed as supporters of terrorism.

Meanwhile, Canada has yet to lift sanctions against Iran in return for its verified compliance with the last weekend’s nuclear agreement with the United States and five other major powers.

“The Conservatives booby-trapped the issue of relations with Iran,” Juneau said Tuesday.

The two laws are also affecting the Liberal government’s promise to re-open its embassy in Tehran and restart diplomatic relations with Iran, which the Conservatives severed in 2012, he added.

“That complicates the issue of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Iran and lifting additional sanctions, because Iran, as a result of a legislative process ... is a state sponsor of terrorism in Canada,” Juneau said.

“And that complicates issues right now. My understanding right now is the government is struggling to figure out how do we deal with that.”

Juneau said there are likely legal steps the government can take to deal with obstacles, but they could take time.

Global Affairs Canada would not respond to the specific concerns raised by Juneau, but did explain that it is still reviewing its sanctions relief on Iran because of concerns over that country’s recent ballistic missile tests.

Marie-Anne Coninsx, the European Union ambassador to Canada, said Tuesday that “all sanctions which are related to the nuclear file” have been lifted by the 28-country bloc.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the deal a breakthrough for “quiet diplomacy.”

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016

NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ WHITEHORSE

Mine announces layoffs as copper prices slump Declining copper prices are forcing Yukon’s only hard-rock mine to curtail operations and layoff dozens of workers, says a senior manager.

The Minto Mine, owned by Capstone Mining Corp., is located about 240 kilometres north of Whitehorse and is an open-pit and underground copper operation, producing goldand-silver byproducts.

Mine manager Ron Light said Tuesday the company plans to stop underground mining at the end of March and will halt open-pit mining in August.

He said about 40 contract miners who work underground and are employed by Dumas Mine Contracting will be affected.

The company’s website said 282 people, including contract employees, work at the mine.

The Minto Mine is the only producing hard rock mine in the Yukon.

The Wolverine Mine, 282 kilometres northeast of Whitehorse, suspended operations a year ago.

◆ LETHBRIDGE, ALTA.

Death of woman, 78, in own home a homicide Police in southern Alberta have ruled the death of a 78-year-old woman in her own home a homicide.

Family members who went to check on her when she couldn’t be reached found the body of Irene Carter in her Lethbridge residence on Sunday.

Police said an autopsy indicates the senior died after being stabbed.

“We don’t have any specific evidence to suggest that there’s an ongoing risk or threat to neighbours or the general public,” police spokeswoman Kristen Harding said Tuesday.

“Part of the investigation right now is working to determine a timeline of Mrs. Carter’s activities prior to her death.”

Officers have canvassed the neighbourhood and are interviewing the woman’s relatives and friends, Harding said.

◆ VEGREVILLE, ALTA

Man arrested after tires on RCMP cars slashed An RCMP detachment east of Edmonton has been going through a lot of tires.

Mounties say they have arrested a man after the tires of four police cruisers were slashed at the Vegreville detachment earlier this month.

Jason Larry Kotowich, who is 35, has been charged with three counts of mischief under $5,000, resisting arrest and breaching a probation order.

Police say he is in custody, has been denied bail and is to appear in provincial court on Feb. 1.

Last April a cruiser had its tires slashed at the detachment.

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NDP, Mulcair look to future at caucus retreat KRISTY KIRKUP THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTEBELLO, Que. — Tom Mulcair gained a reputation as a fierce competitor in the House of Commons, but when he appeared in the first televised leaders debate in the last election campaign, he seemed far less confident; even his smile appeared to be strained.

What was going on behind-the-scenes?

Was the federal NDP leader, largely considered to be the front runner, encouraged to be himself?

These questions, as well as other structural reviews, are being discussed as the NDP and its leader attempt to plot a path forward now that the party has been reduced to third party status — down to 44 MPs

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from 95 when the campaign began.

As he looks back on what happened, Mulcair, 61, seems ready to identify some areas for improvement.

“The preparations for those debates was an excellent example of some-

thing that came up short,” Mulcair said in a wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press on Tuesday at the NDP’s caucus retreat in Montebello, Que. This realization has been challenging on a personal level, he noted.

“It is frustrating because you want to be a good candidate on top of being a good leader. So you listen to the advice of people you respect and sometimes the result is not there,” Mulcair said.

“But no matter what, the person making that decision is me. I have to learn, the party has to learn, the structures have to be refined.”

Mulcair, who is resolved to stay at the helm of the New Democrats, has spent the past three months in meetings across the country to look

at what worked and what didn’t during the punishing election campaign — the longest in modern Canadian history.

His political future will be put to the test in Edmonton in April, where he will need more than 50 per cent support from delegates at the party’s convention to carry on in his role.

Mulcair said he plans to stay on as long as he is convinced the NDP can form a government and put its ideas into action.

But while he seems ready to confront some painful lessons from the campaign, he is far from apologetic about the party’s core messages.

“Despite the ups and downs of that campaign, despite the sometimes unvarnished truth that came out about very specific aspects of the

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campaign ... I think that there’s nothing structural in our offer, there’s nothing about our ability to move this forward that will stop us from forming the government in the future,” he said.

Nathan Cullen, a B.C. NDP MP who ran against Mulcair during the 2012 leadership bid following the death of former leader Jack Layton, said he has full confidence in his party’s frontman.

“We need an articulate voice in Quebec and outside of Quebec,” Cullen said after the leader delivered an address to caucus Tuesday morning.

“We need somebody who is able to take on a government — forcefully with intelligence. We need somebody who has their convictions. I just watched that guy give a speech.”

POLITICS

RCMP puppy dies before it can be No details as Brazeau focus of training on social media operated Helo was the more vocal and bouncy of the two pups that captured many hearts MICHAEL TUTTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

HALIFAX — An RCMP plan to document the lives of two German shepherd puppies during their training has ended sadly for one of the canine recruits.

The Halifax division announced Tuesday one of the pups — Helo — has died after ingesting rope and rocks.

Const. Mark Skinner says the accident occurred as the puppy pursued his natural tendency to chew on objects.

Helo was the more vocal and bouncy of the two pups that captured many hearts when they appeared before the media four weeks ago as examples of the training program.

Skinner says when Helo ate the rope and rocks it caused scarring of his intestines, and the damage couldn’t be repaired despite three surgical procedures.

“Anyone who has had a puppy knows that puppies can put a lot of things in their mouths. That’s how they explore and grow as a dog,” said Skinner.

“It’s just unfortunate that these items caused him such an issue.”

He said as a dog owner himself, the incident has made him all the more aware of the importance of carefully monitoring what objects a puppy might have access to.

Helo was born on Oct. 4 at the RCMP dog training centre in Innisfail, Alta., and came to live in Bible Hill, N.S., with the goal of being accepted into police service dog training.

Skinner said trainers attempt to spend as much time as possible with the dogs, but it’s impossible to watch them constantly.

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RCMP Const. Tim Reid and his dog Helo are seen at the Nova Scotia RCMP HQ in Dartmouth, N.S., on Dec. 18. The Halifax division of the RCMP announced Tuesday that Helo died after eating rope and rocks. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

During the media launch of the two puppies on Dec. 18, the RCMP officers training them said the dogs live at their homes.

Const. Tim Reid, Helo’s trainer, had said that every two weeks he and the puppy took part in a six- to eighthour training day that included a heavy focus on tracking skills.

In a few more months, had Helo lived, a fully trained dog handler would have assessed the dog’s progress.

Reid said Helo was the sixth puppy

he’d trained and that only one had graduated to become a police dog.

One of the others died of a heart attack, another returned to Innisfail to breed and two others were sold as pets.

Reid had said there are about 80 people like himself across the country who are in training to make it into the RCMP dog handler program in central Alberta.

An RCMP news release said Reid was saddened by the loss, and noted that condolences can be shared on

the force’s Facebook page in Nova Scotia and on Twitter using the hashtag RIPHelo.

The force sent its thanks to the Truro Veterinary Hospital and the University of Prince Edward Island Atlantic Veterinary College for care and support provided to the dog.

Skinner said that since the dogs gained such a high profile, he felt a news release should be issued on the death.

“It would be inappropriate to not do so,” he said.

HULL, Que. — Sen. Patrick Brazeau was in critical but stable condition in a Quebec hospital on Tuesday after successful surgery, says a spokesperson for the health-care institution.

Brazeau, 41, was admitted to hospital in Hull early Tuesday morning, according to a brief statement issued by the western Quebec centre.

“Mr. Brazeau’s condition is considered critical but stable,” the statement said. “His life is not in danger.”

There were no details on the type of surgery he underwent.

Provincial police officers went to a residence in Mayo, Que., late Monday night to support ambulance technicians, said police spokesman Marc Tessier. He added there is no criminal investigation.

It is still unclear what happened to Brazeau or if anyone else was present in the home when he was taken to hospital.

Brazeau was granted an unconditional discharge last October despite having pleaded guilty to reduced charges of assault and possession of cocaine. A more serious charge of sexual assault was dropped due to a lack of evidence.

Brazeau still faces a criminal trial for fraud and breach of trust arising from his Senate living expenses, scheduled to take place in March 2016.

He was kicked out of the Conservative caucus after he was charged and put on leave with pay.

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As some cities take a break, Syrian aid continues

Canada not shut out of military talks: Minister

STEPHANIE LEVITZ THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — As some cities take a breather from resettling government-assisted Syrian refugees, others say their doors are open — if the federal government asks and also offers to pay.

While the home communities for refugees with private sponsors is dictated by where those sponsors are, refugees whose costs are covered entirely by the federal government are sent to just 36 cities.

Not included is Victoria — the lone provincial capital that isn’t an official reception centre for government-assisted refugees. The only Syrians arriving there as part of the Liberals’ Syrian program are those whose costs are split between the government and private sponsors, as well as those coming thanks to private sponsors alone.

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said she told the federal immigration minister even before the Liberal program was unveiled that her city was interested in taking in Syrians but is still waiting.

“We are ready. The church, the school board, the credit union, private donors, private families, we’re ready,” she said.

The reason Victoria isn’t on the list dates back to the late 1980s when the federal government got out of the business of providing direct support to the refugees it was resettling and began contracting out to local agencies.

In British Columbia, the city with the highest number of those was Metro Vancouver so that’s where government-assisted refugees all go to this day.

But looking at some of the other cities on the list — like Medicine Hat., Alta., or Moose Jaw. Sask., — raises the question of why Victoria isn’t there now.

“We are bigger than a lot of the centres that settle (them) now,” said Jean McRae, the director of Victoria’s Intercultural Association. “We’d have to rebuild the capacity but we’re totally capable of doing that.”

Of the 25,000 Syrians set to arrive by the end of next month, the Liberals have said 15,000 would be government-assisted. A further 10,000 government-assisted are to arrive by the end of this year.

But right now, Vancouver has asked the federal government to temporarily halt sending new government-assisted refugees their way as they work through a housing shortage. Ottawa has also made the same request.

In Ontario, there are six cities that serve as destination points for government-assisted Syrian refugees.

Nations at today’s meeting have stake in actions in north Africa MURRAY BREWSTER THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Canada again finds itself on the outside looking in when it comes to a gathering of countries fighting militants in the Middle East, something the new defence minister is trying to shrug off in the face of opposition criticism.

There are meetings all the time to discuss threats around the world, Harjit Sajjan insisted Tuesday, but he stopped short of explaining exactly why Canada isn’t invited to this week’s meeting in Paris.

Counterparts from France, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Australia and the Netherlands will gather Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter to discuss the ongoing fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Defence sources and at least one defence analyst say there may be more to the fact the Trudeau government was excluded than the domestic political outrage suggests.

If you look at the list of countries invited to today’s meeting, they are the ones with a direct stake in what’s going in north Africa, said retired diplomat Eric Morse.

“It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Libya came out of that pot in Paris,” Morse said. “We’re in such a state of doubt in terms of our foreign policy that (the allies) don’t think it’s wise or useful to invite us to consider asking us to be part of a new initiative.”

When asked about the meeting, Sajjan played down the non-invitation.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, right, and Transport Minister Marc Garneau at a cabinet retreat in New Brunswick on Monday. Sajjan rejects the claims that Canada has been shut out of a meeting of nations fighting the Islamic State.

[THE CANADIAN PRESS]

“These meetings are about getting updated on what’s happening on the ground, and I’ve been very fortunate very recently being back in the region to get a first-hand look at what’s going on, and talk to the actual commanders on the ground,” he said in New Brunswick.

Sajjan, who last week publicly acknowledged he wasn’t going to attend the meeting, also suggested that the agenda is much broader than the current situation in Syria and Iraq.

“The planning has been going on for some time now, so this is not just one meeting for the planning of the steps.”

Sajjan said he is already scheduled to gather with his counterparts for meetings in Brussels in two weeks.

The Conservative opposition wasn’t buying it, portraying the exclusion as a deliberate snub.

“When you are not a full partner, you don’t get invited to the table,” interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose said in Winnipeg.

Ontario bridge that links west, east could reopen by end of February TORONTO — Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation hopes to have two lanes of a failed bridge on a section of the Trans-Canada Highway open to traffic by the end of February.

However, engineers still don’t know what caused the steel decking on the newly-built Nipigon River Bridge to lift about 60 centimetres on Jan. 10, forcing a 24-hour shutdown that severed the Trans-Canada Highway link between the east and west.

“Our focus at the Ministry of Transportation is to get both lanes of traffic open safely and as quickly as we possibly can, and at the same time work with all the labs and all of the partners involved in designing and constructing this bridge to get to the root of the problem,” said Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca.

NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ ERBIL, IRAQ

Report says Kurd forces destroying Arab villages Iraqi Kurdish forces are deliberately destroying Arab villages under their control, according to an Amnesty International report released Wednesday. The human rights group said these actions could amount to war crimes.

Kurdish forces, the report says, bulldozed, blew up and burned down thousands of homes in Arab villages recaptured from the Islamic State group.

“The forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification may amount to war crimes,” said Donatella Rovera of Amnesty International in a statement.

In the fight against IS, the United States has closely supported Iraq’s Kurdish forces also known as the Peshmerga with airstrikes, intelligence sharing and training programs.

◆ GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

INFRASTRUCTURE

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“We are taking into account at this point a number of possible factors, but we haven’t ruled anything out.”

Steve Del Duca, Ontario Minister of Transportation

“We are taking into account at this point a number of possible factors, but we haven’t ruled anything out.”

Cars and most trucks must wait about five minutes to cross the bridge on the one lane that was reopened last week after engineers used huge concrete blocks to lower part of the decking back to a passable level.

Engineers are looking at a number of options to open the second lane on the bridge, added Del Duca.

“Each of the options is essentially looking at a different connection method and also location to effectively connect the bridge deck back down to the foundation,” he said.

Engineers will consider “numerous factors” that may have caused the failure of the first-ever cable-stayed bridge built in Ontario, which had only been open two months when the deck lifted, said Gerry Chaput, assistant deputy minister of transportation.

Two independent labs are expected to finish a visual inspection this week of the bolts on the bridge, but it’s not clear how long it will take for full testing, which will include a chemical analysis of the bolts and a determination of the nature of the failure.

Money-losing sugar factory finally closed A state-owned sugar factory in Guyana that had operated at a loss for years has been ordered shut down as the government seeks to scale back support for one of the country’s leading industries.

The factory in Wales could only continue to operate with significant investment that would make little financial sense given the outlook for the industry in Guyana and throughout the world, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder said late Monday.

Holder said the decision came as part of a broader review of the industry that concluded that better-performing factories, known locally as estates, were subsidizing the rest and that the sector overall was in “dire” shape, requiring at least $60 million from the government this year alone.

The closure of the factory west of the capital leaves five remaining sugar factories in Guyana.

◆ UNITED NATIONS

Council visit to Burundi to push end to violence France’s UN ambassador says Security Council members are going to Burundi later this week with three goals — to try to break the cycle of violence and prevent ethnic attacks from erupting and to promote peace talks and respect for human rights.

Francois Delattre said Tuesday that the council’s second visit to the central African nation in nine months will demonstrate its concern about escalating violence and human rights abuses.

France, the United States and Angola are leading the 15-member council delegation that will be in Burundi on Thursday and Friday.

President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek re-election last April touched off street protests that led to a failed coup in May and a rebellion that has left the country on the brink of civil war.

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Call to boycott Oscars over lack of diversity forces stars to take sides

Ottawa to end sale of partially approved pesticides

Rev. Al Sharpton to lead campaign encouraging people not to watch Feb. 28 telecast JAKE COYL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Growing calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over the lack of diversity among this year’s Oscar nominees are forcing stars to choose sides and threatening to throw the movie industry’s biggest night of the year into turmoil.

The backlash over the second straight year of all-white acting nominees is puts heavy pressure on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to diversify its overwhelmingly white male membership.

The furor grew on Tuesday when the Rev. Al Sharpton said he would lead a campaign encouraging people not to watch the Feb. 28 telecast. On Monday, Spike Lee, this year’s Oscar honouree for lifetime achievement, and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they will boycott the ceremony in protest.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who has led efforts to diversify the academy, responded late Monday evening with a forceful statement saying that those previous measures weren’t enough.

Isaacs, the academy’s first African American president, said that “it’s time for big changes” and that she will review membership recruiting to bring about “much-need diversity” in the academy’s ranks.

At a Los Angeles gala honouring Boone Isaacs on Monday night, actor David Oyelowo — who was famously snubbed last year for his performance as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma — expressed frustration with the academy.

Jada Pinkett-Smith at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Magic Mike XXL’ in June.

Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars’ second straight year of mostly white nominees. [INVISION/AP]

“This institution doesn’t reflect its president and it doesn’t reflect this room,” Oyelowo said. “I am an academy member and it doesn’t reflect me and it doesn’t reflect this nation.”

Other stars began weighing in.

George Clooney, in comments to Variety, said that after earlier progress by the industry, “you feel like we’re moving in the wrong direction.”

He noted that movies like Creed, Straight Outta Compton, Beasts of No Nation and Concussion may have deserved more attention from the academy.

“But honestly, there should be more opportunity than that,” Cloon-

ey said. “There should be 20 or 30 or 40 films of the quality that people would consider for the Oscars.

By the way, we’re talking about African Americans. For Hispanics, it’s even worse. We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.”

A 2012 Los Angeles Times study found that the academy was 94 per cent white and 77 per cent male.

UCLA’s latest annual Hollywood Diversity Report concluded that women and minorities are substantially underrepresented in front of and behind the camera, even while audiences show a strong desire for films with diverse casts.

Hispanics and African Americans go to the movies more often than whites do. UCLA surveyed film and TV executives and found that 96 per cent are white.

In his comments Monday, Lee said the Oscars’ problems ultimately reside with “the gate keepers” who have the power to green-light projects.

Isaacs enlisted Chris Rock, who famously called Hollywood “a white industry” a year ago, as host of this year’s ceremony. The backlash all but ensures Rock’s opening monologue will, for many, be the most anticipated event of the show.

Last year’s broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, was also boycotted by some viewers because of the all-white slate of acting nominees. Ratings dipped to a six-year low for ABC. Some on Tuesday put pressure on Rock to join the boycott. The rapper 50 Cent urged on Instagram: “Chris, please do not do the Oscars awards.

You mean a lot man, don’t do it.”

A representative for Rock didn’t immediately respond to an email.

Just how much more Boone Isaacs can do to promote diversity at the academy, where membership is for life, remains to be seen. In November, she launched a five-year initiative to encourage more diversity in Hollywood, called A2020.

But Boone Isaacs noted there is some precedent for more drastic steps. In the late ’60s, for example, academy president Gregory Peck tried to inject more youth by stripping many older members no longer working in the industry of the right to vote.

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OTTAWA — The federal government is responding to calls from environmental activists over conditionally approved pesticides, saying it will end the rare practice of allowing the use of pesticides that aren’t fully approved for sale.

Health Minister Jane Philpott says conditional registrations of the chemicals will no longer be granted, effective June 1.

Two separate House of Commons committees and Canada’s environment commissioner had called on the government to end the practice of allowing some pesticides to be used while the products undergo a more rigorous scientific evaluation.

Under conditional registrations, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency has allowed pesticide manufacturers to provide information on a product after it had been approved.

Such registrations are currently granted when a scientific review determines that a pesticide poses an acceptable risk to people and the environment, but more information is needed.

But unlike full registrations, conditional registrations don’t undergo public consultation before the pesticides are put into use.

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NEW YORK — The Islamic State group has acknowledged the death of the masked militant known as “Jihadi John,” who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages, the SITE Intelligence Group reported Tuesday.

SITE, which monitors terrorist activity, reported that IS published a “eulogizing profile” of Jihadi John in its English-language magazine Dabiq on Tuesday.

Jihadi John had been identified by the U.S. military as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British citizen.

“His harshness towards the kuffar (disbelievers) was manifested through deeds that enraged all the nations, religions, and factions of kufr, the entire world bearing witness to this,” the Dabiq article said, according to a translation provided by SITE. In the gruesome videos, a tall masked figure clad in black and speaking in a British accent typically began with a political rant taunting the West and a kneeling hostage clad in an orange prison-style jumpsuit before him, then ended it holding an oversize knife in his hand with the headless victim lying before him.

Emwazi has been described by a former hostage as a psychopath who enjoyed threatening his Western captives.

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Three former Red Army terrorists suspected in botched robberies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before speaking at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit in Altoona, Iowa, on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

Palin endorses Trump campaign Polarizing figures join forces to turn up heat ALEXANDER PANETTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

WASHINGTON — One of the most polarizing figures in American politics has helped obliterate any lingering chance that Donald Trump might recede to the background before the presidential nomination voting starts in two weeks.

The endorsement of the realityTV-star-turned-politician by a politician-turned-reality-TV-star, Sarah Palin, was just one of several developments celebrated by the Trump camp Tuesday.

Trump not only won the support of the Tea party star. He also buttered up corn farmers in Iowa. He got what amounted to a de-factor endorsement from the governor of the earliest-voting state. He even got the backing of John Wayne’s daughter.

“I am greatly honoured to receive Sarah’s endorsement,” Trump said in a statement, calling the ex-vice-presidential candidate’s support one of the most sought-after in the Republican race.

“She is a friend, and a high quality person whom I have great respect for.

I am proud to have her support.”

The alliance of two such political celebrities all but ensures that Trump will continue to receive the bulk of attention heading into the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, drowning out the competition including his chief rival, Sen. Ted Cruz.

At face value, the Iowa vote is relatively insignificant. It’s been far likelier in the past to pick a Republican nomination loser like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, than crown the eventual winner. It awards a small number of convention delegates.

But it would represent a huge burst of momentum for Trump. He’s already dominating polls in the second-voting state, New Hampshire. A win in Iowa, followed by another in New Hampshire, would give him a huge advantage

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entering a series of southern primaries.

He’s now beaten out his neck-and-neck Iowa rival, Cruz, for Palin’s affection.

While derided as a gaffe-prone dimwit by late-night comedians and the mainstream media, Palin has used her standing within the party to draw attention to conservative causes and candidates.

One of her former pet causes — ironically — was Cruz. She campaigned for the firebrand right-winger in his successful 2012 outsider bid for a senate seat.

Some of Cruz’s aides grumbled that she’d betrayed conservative principles by backing a celebrity Manhattanite whose political positions have shifted with the prevailing populist winds.

But Cruz was gracious about it.

“I love (Palin),” the Canadian-born senator tweeted. “Without her support, I wouldn’t be in the Senate. Regardless of what she does in 2016, I will always be a big fan.”

He was less laudatory of the Iowa governor Tuesday. Terry Branstad said he wanted to see Cruz defeated. The reason: The Texas conservative opposes federal support for ethanol fuel.

“Ted Cruz is ahead right now,” Branstad said, according to the Des Moines Register. “He’s heavily financed by Big Oil . . . (He) hasn’t supported renewable fuels, and I think it would be a big mistake for Iowa to support him.”

BERLIN — Three former members of the disbanded leftist militant group Red Army Faction have been linked to two botched armoured car robberies after spending years in hiding, in what German authorities said Tuesday may have been attempts to continue financing their life underground.

Public broadcaster NDR first reported Monday that DNA matching that of Daniela Klette, Ernst-Volker Wilhelm Staub and Burkhard Garweg was found in a getaway car used in a failed robbery June 6 in Stuhr, near the northern city of Bremen.

During the robbery three masked assailants armed with automatic rifles and an anti-tank weapon blocked an armoured car in a supermarket parking lot, then one opened fire on the vehicle but they were unable to get inside.

Prosecutors in nearby Verden confirmed that they believe the trio was involved in the failed heist and are investigating them for attempted murder and attempted serious robbery. Prosecutors said there is no indication the attack had a “terrorist background.”

“Rather, it must be assumed that the crime was meant to finance a life underground,” Verden prosecutors said in a statement.

The trio is also suspected of attempting a similar robbery on Dec. 28 in the central German city of Wolfsburg. That too failed.

The Red Army Faction was founded in 1970 and is sometimes known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, after two of its most prominent members, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. The group carried out numerous assassinations, kidnappings, bombings and robberies to further its political beliefs leading the West German government to classify it as a terrorist organization.

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Video shows Burkina-Faso terror attacks RCMP officers dispatched to the country to help local authorities identify six murdered Quebec residents LUDIVINE LANIEPCE AND BABA AHMED THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Three jihadis can be seen on video standing next to burning cars a little more than an hour after an assault began on a hotel and cafe in Burkina Faso’s capital, raising new questions Tuesday about why it took so long for security forces to find and kill the militants blamed for at least 30 deaths.

The video shot by The Associated Press shows one man wearing a tunic and turban, carrying what appears to be a Kalashnikov rifle around 8:45 p.m., a little over an hour after they first attacked the Cappuccino Cafe. A second armed man can be seen wearing a large vest, and they are later joined by a third man with a pale scarf on his head. Explosions can be heard in the distance.

RCMP officers were dispatched on Monday to Burkina Faso to help local authorities after more than two dozen people — including six Canadians — were killed in the attack.

Six Quebecers on a humanitarian mission were killed. Four of the dead were from the same family: Yves Carrier, his wife Gladys Chamberland, their adult son Charlelie Carrier and Yves’ adult daughter, Maude Carrier.

A Canadian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says the Mounties will assist officials with victim identification and paperwork so the bodies of Canadian victims can be returned home.

On Tuesday, authorities in Burkina Faso also released new details on how they ultimately killed the three men who were part of the North Africa branch of al-Qaida, working in con-

A soldier stand guards outside the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Saturday.

nection with Algerian jihadi Moktar Belmoktar and his forces. Officials acknowledged though that it was more than four hours after the attack began before security forces tried to enter the hotel.

In the darkness of night and panic amid gunfire, some witnesses late Friday mistakenly identified at least two of the jihadis as women, and some even said they believed there was a fourth attacker. Burkina Faso’s Security Minister Simon Compaore said Tuesday that several people have been detained and questioned but he

declined to give further details, citing the ongoing investigation.

In a statement published by SITE Intelligence Group, though, al-Qaida identified three “mujahedeen brothers” as the ones responsible: Al-Battar al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Buqali al-Ansari and Ahmed al-Fulani al-Ansari.

Some of the victims openly expressed frustration Tuesday that it had taken authorities so long to find the attackers. Allassane Baguian, an American who was attending a meeting on the fourth floor of the hotel

[AP PHOTO]

at the time of attack, was shot in the leg four times and another bullet just skimmed his head.

“No one was prepared for these attacks,” he said. “So we were under gunfire from 7:45 p.m. until 3 a.m.

It’s God who saved us because these people had the time to carry out their crime,” he said. “That three people could challenge a country, it’s incomprehensible.”

Witnesses said the assault began around 7:30 p.m. Friday as dozens of people gathered for dinner and drinks at the Cappuccino Cafe

and its terrace. The attackers then ambushed the Splendid Hotel next door.

Natacha Ble, a 23-year-old waitress from Ivory Coast who had only been working for a few weeks at the restaurant Taxi Brousse across the street, said she saw the three men coming but never imagined they were jihadis, saying they looked more like traditional herders from the Peul ethnic group in their tunics than Islamic militants.

“I started wondering what these Peul herders were coming to do in a place like this?” she recalled. “Then one of them headed toward the Cappuccino restaurant and began opening fire.”

Within 30 minutes the president of Burkina Faso had asked the French ambassador for help, according to a French official who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media. It would be four more hours, though, before French special forces arrived at the scene to help flush out the attackers and Burkina Faso’s military was awaiting their help.

The security forces initially thought that the attack on the cafe was meant to divert them from the hotel as the main target, said a Burkinabe security official, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists. In the end, none of the 30 people who were killed were at the hotel.

Around 1 a.m., about 50 security forces including the French, Burkinabe and an American tried to enter the hotel but were fired upon and one French special forces member took a bullet in the leg.

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Relief economic news from China isn’t worse JOE MCDONALD AND PAUL WISEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING — The slowdown of China’s once-sizzling economy has fueled anxiety over its impact on the rest of the world. Yet when Beijing reported Tuesday that its economy grew last year at the slowest pace in a quarter-century, the reaction seemed to be mainly relief it wasn’t worse.

Economists welcomed details in the report suggesting that the world’s second-biggest economy is progressing in a difficult and complex transition — away from a reliance on manufacturing and investment in real estate and factories and toward services and consumer spending.

Stocks rose Tuesday in Asia and Europe. By midday, the Dow Jones industrial average was up modestly.

“Things are OK,” said Fotios Raptis, senior economist at TD Economics.

“There’s not an outright collapse going on in China.”

“Official data do not point to a hard landing in the fourth quarter of 2015, but they provide little reason to stop worrying about China’s drag on the global economy either.”

Bill Adams, economist

Beijing reported that economic growth fell in 2015 for a fifth straight year — to 6.9 per cent , down from 7.3 per cent in 2014 and the slowest rate since 1990.

For the October-December quarter, growth inched down to 6.8 per cent, the weakest quarterly expansion in six years.

The deceleration is at least partially deliberate as the ruling Communist Party aims to manage the economy’s transition to a structure that will almost certainly deliver slower growth.

Tuesday’s report contained signs of progress. Services businesses accounted for a record 50.5 per cent of China’s economic activity last year, the first time its share has exceeded 50 per cent.

Charles Collyns, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance, sees considerable potential for more growth in China’s service sector. In more developed economies, services account for perhaps 75 per cent of economic activity. China’s services have been held back by regulations and policies that favour inefficient state-owned service companies in such businesses as telecommunications and finance.

Services grew 8.3 per cent last year, outpacing the traditional drivers of

economic growth — manufacturing and construction — which together grew six per cent.

Overall growth was in line with private-sector forecasts and the ruling Communist Party’s official target of about seven per cent for the year.

“Official data do not point to a hard landing in the fourth quarter of 2015, but they provide little reason to stop worrying about China’s drag on the global economy either,” said economist Bill Adams of PNC Financial Services Group in a report.

Investors were relieved that more pessimistic forecasts about fourth-quarter growth were wrong and expect Beijing to continue rolling out stimulus measures to prevent a hard landing.

Beijing has responded to ebbing growth by cutting interest rates six times since November 2014 and launching measures to help exporters and other industries. But economists note that China still relies on

state-led construction spending and other investment.

Full-year 2015 growth was the lowest since sanctions imposed on Beijing after its crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement caused growth to plummet to 3.8 per cent in 1990.

The October-December growth figure was the slowest quarterly expansion since the global financial crisis, when growth slumped to 6.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2009.

“The international situation remains complex,” Wang Bao’an, commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics, said at a news conference. “Restructuring and upgrading is in an uphill stage. Comprehensively deepening reform is a daunting task.”

Growth in investment in factories, housing and other fixed assets, a key economic driver, weakened to 12 per cent in 2015, down 2.9 percentage points from the previous year.

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AHL tough guy will play in the All-Star THE CANADIAN PRESS

New York Rangers center J.T. Miller, right, reacts after scoring against Vancouver Canucks goalie Ryan Miller and centre Bo Horvat in overtime of an NHL game on Tuesday in New York. The Rangers won 3-2. [AP PHOTO]

Rangers’ Miller beats Canucks’ Miller in OT BEN KUZMA THE PROVINCE

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illie Desjardins put it in proper perspective before the puck was dropped Tuesday.

“If you have too many pucks coming at your net, bad things are going to happen — eventually,” said the Vancouver Canucks coach.

How prophetic. How scary.

After surrendering at least 40 shots in their previous three outings, the Canucks didn’t heed the advice and if not for another stunning showing

by Ryan Miller — who heard five pucks clang off the iron en route to a remarkable 44 saves in regulation — they wouldn’t have escaped Madison Square Garden with a point in a 3-2 loss, moving the club to 2-1-1 on this six-game road trip after J.T. Miller wrapped an overtime effort home.

However, the conversation begins and ends with Ryan Miller.

The Canucks, especially the wideeyed rookies, looked in awe of playing for the first time in the Big Apple amid big expectations in a high-tempo test. Jared McCann tried to replace the injured Henrik Sedin and Ben Hutton tried to not look rattled.

Even the more experienced Emerson Etem looked hard-pressed to do anything against his former club.

But it was all Miller, all the time.

For a guy who vowed to get back in the battle after missing eight games with a groin injury and returning Thursday in Washington, he has raised the performance bar.

It got to the point where it seemed

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like the Rangers needed a gun to blast a puck past Miller, or at least some slight of hand.

They got it when Keith Yandle put a perfect corner feed right on the tape of Mats Zuccarrello in the crease for a perfect re-direct. It took that because Miller was at his best when under siege in the third period.

A play where it appeared that Viktor Stalberg was going to tuck a rebound between Miller and the post was negated. He had six shots. So did Rick Nash. The Canucks starter made the initial save and then move smartly to the left post and got a glove on the rebound as Stalberg was about to raise his stick in celebration.

It came after Miller had stopped J.T. Miller, who got behind Hutton, and after Jesper Fast had a shorthanded chance.

WHAT THIS MEANS: There was a time when Sven Baertschi needed GPS to find the front of the net.

He came to the Canucks as a pro-

ject, a one-dimensional winger who wanted pucks put on a platter and he would fire them from the perimeter where nobody scores.

Gaining the trust of Desjardins meant being as good without the puck as with it. Now you see Baertschi get a scoring chance from the slot and break up a play at the other end. And when Bo Horvat bulled his way past Dan Boyle and swept around the net to feed Baertschi on the doorstep for the opening goal, the finish said as much as the foray.

Baertschi was where he needed to be to flip the feed home. He then went to the net again and nearly roofed a backhand chance.

A willingness to get better was evident when he scored in three consecutive games last month. He’s 23 and a restricted free agent who can be qualified at just $1 million US for next season. Pretty good investment for a second-line winger.

IN A WORD: RELIEF: Alex Burrows, nursing a sore hand from a blocked shot Sunday, got to the net and converted an Emerson Etem feed for his first goal in 25 games.

RECOVERY: Ben Hutton got caught behind his own net on a J.T. Miller scoring chance in the slot, then cooly led the rush for a scoring chance. No panic.

RE-VISITING: Ryan Miller heard another familiar sound when Keith Yandle rang the first shot of the game off the post. John Tavares did the same Sunday.

WHAT WE LEARNED: A three-headed monster led to Brandon Prust playing against his former club and rookie Jake Virtanen sitting out Tuesday.

The initial plan was to play Virtanen, but when Alex Burrows took a puck off the hand Sunday, he had to get through a Monday practice and then x-rays for the green light.

If he couldn’t go, both Prust and Virtanen would have been in Tuesday.

The Canucks decided to play the motivational card with Prust, who pressed hard to play, but Virtanen is expected to play Thursday in Boston.

How will that go over?

ADVANCED STATS 2: Glorious saves by Ryan Miler early in the third period as the Rangers pressed for the equalizer. First on J.T. Miller and then Jesper Fast shorthanded.

43: The number of shots the Rangers needed to get a second puck past Miller, when Mats Zuccarrello tipped a perfect corner feed by Keith Yandle home.

-6: Even strength Corsi for Jared McCann after two period in filling in on the first line for the injured Henrik Sedin.

Had a Corsi For of 8 and Corsi Against of 14.

12: Distance in feet from where Sven Baertschi scored the opening goal and from where he almost scored on a backhand. Big difference in his game.

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NEW YORK — John Scott’s improbable road to the NHL all-star game took another twist Tuesday, with the league confirming he will keep his elected role as Pacific Division captain despite a trade and a demotion.

The journeyman tough guy was chosen to lead the Pacific team at the showcase tournament by a fan vote, but last week he was traded out of the division as part of a deal between Arizona and Montreal. The Canadiens promptly assigned him to the American Hockey League’s St. John’s IceCaps, making his eligibility for the all-star festivities on Jan. 30-31 in Nashville unclear.

Though the NHL did not publicly comment on the issue until Tuesday, there was some debate as to whether the league would allow a lumbering, six-foot-eight fighter with 11 career points to play in a 3-on-3 tournament designed to showcase speed and skill.

Fans angry about the prospect of Scott not being allowed to play in the game took to social media over the weekend, creating a FreeJohnScott hashtag.

The NHL says Scott’s move to a different division and his minor league assignment “created a unique circumstance that required review.”

Scott told the Arizona Republic when voting began that he didn’t want to be voted into the all-star game.

“It would be cool, but I definitely don’t deserve it at this point,” he said. “You never know. There’s still some time left.

“I could turn it on.”

But later he warmed to the idea, printing T-shirts he planned to give to Pacific Division teammates that read: “Thanks for believing in me.

Love always, The Captain.” Those shirts were sold online for charity after the trade.

Now back in the all-star plans, Scott says he’s “looking forward to enjoying a fun and unique experience.”

The other all-star captains are Florida’s Jaromir Jagr (Atlantic), Washington’s Alex Ovechkin (Metropolitan) and Chicago’s Patrick Kane (Central).

The NHL will likely change the way fan voting for the game works going forward, as this isn’t the first attempt to use the system to turn a journeyman into an all-star.

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Sanchez hopes to return as Blue Jays’ starter

Former Steelers star Antwaan Randle El: ‘If I could go back, I wouldn’t (play football)’

GREGORY STRONG THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Blue Jays pitchers Aaron Sanchez and Marcus Stroman are using the mantra “Nine Every Five” to help push them through their workouts together this off-season.

The big question now is whether Sanchez will get the opportunity to pitch nine innings every five days like his teammate.

Team brass has yet to announce whether Sanchez will be moved out of the bullpen after a successful stint as a setup man last season. Sanchez said Tuesday that he’d like another opportunity to start and Stroman completely agreed.

“Starter, 100 per cent. Everything we’ve done this year was for that,” Stroman said. “We didn’t work out twice a day for two months for him to be a reliever. He’s 100 per cent ready to go out there and go seven, eight, nine innings every five days.”

Sanchez was starting to find his form as a starter last season before a strained back muscle sent him to the disabled list. When he returned, he was used out of the bullpen and became a reliable setup man for closer Roberto Osuna over the second half.

The Blue Jays went on to win the East Division title and came two wins away from reaching the World Series.

The Toronto rotation will have a different look this season after the departures of Mark Buehrle and ace David Price. Stroman, Marco Estrada and R.A. Dickey are back, Jesse Chavez was acquired in the off-season, J.A. Happ signed for a second stint in Toronto and Drew Hutchison could also be in the mix.

It remains unclear whether Sanchez will be stretched out to compete for a spot or remain in a bullpen that features Osuna, Brett Cecil and the newly acquired Drew Storen. The 23-year-old right-hander said he’ll do what’s best for the team, but is hoping he’ll be in the rotation.

“I think my mindset right when we finished last season was to get in shape to start,” Sanchez said. “That’s what I’ve done my entire minor-league career and I want to prove to people here that I can do it. It was unfortunate that the injury happened when it did last year because I felt like I was coming into my own.

“But you can’t really stop an injury and hopefully there’s no more issues there. I’m excited and ready to go.”

Sanchez made 11 starts over his 41 appearances last season. He had a 7-6 record and 3.22 earned-run average to go with 61 strikeouts and 44 walks.

Stroman and Sanchez have been working out together most recently in Florida and the results have been noticeable. The six-foot-four Sanchez has bulked up to 215 pounds.

“I’ve gained about 25 pounds from the time I started to now, so that’s a plus,” he said at a Rogers Centre availability as part of the team’s Winter Tour.

“That’s what my goal was going into the off-season.”

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en years after he threw one of the most celebrated passes in Steelers history, Antwaan Randle El has trouble walking down

stairs.

“I have to come down sideways sometimes, depending on the day,” Randle El, 36, said. “Going up is easier actually than coming down.”

Randle El was an electric athlete, versatile enough to run a route on one play and throw a beautiful spiral on the next, as he did in Super Bowl XL when he found Hines Ward for a 43-yard touchdown on a wide-receiver reverse pass. That his body has begun to betray him before his 40th birthday is hard to fathom. The crazy thing is that Randle El can feel his mind slipping, too.

“I ask my wife things over and over again, and she’s like, ‘I just told you that,’” Randle El said. “I’ll ask her three times the night before and get up in the morning and forget. Stuff like that.

“I try to chalk it up as I’m busy, I’m doing a lot, but I have to be on my knees praying about it, asking God to allow me to not have these issues and live a long life. I want to see my kids raised up. I want to see my grandkids.”

Randle El didn’t hesitate when asked if he regrets playing football.

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antwaan Randle El (82) celebrates during Super Bowl XLV. [TNS]

“If I could go back, I wouldn’t,” he said. “I would play baseball. I got drafted by the Cubs in the 14th round, but I didn’t play baseball because of my parents. They made me go to school.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love the game of football. But right now, I could still be playing baseball.”

Randle El’s early retirement from football in 2010 allowed him to more

quickly move into a second stanza in which he could use his immense faith to help others.

Three years ago, he helped found a Christian high school in Ashburn, Va., called Virginia Academy.

He has served as the school’s athletic director, and, through his El Foundation, five underprivileged students are now on scholarship there.

When the school started, Randle El

wanted it to have a football program.

They funded it for two years before he decided it was too expensive and dropped the sport. I t was not a popular decision, as Virginia Academy lost about 15 students because of it.

Knowing what he does about the game, Randle El can easily justify dropping the sport at the high-school level because of the liability alone.

“The kids are getting bigger and faster, so the concussions, the severe spinal cord injuries, are only going to get worse,” he said.

“It’s a tough pill to swallow because I love the game of football. But I tell parents, you can have the right helmet, the perfect pads on, and still end up with a paraplegic kid.

“There’s no correcting it. There’s no helmet that’s going to correct it.

There’s no teaching that’s going to correct it. It just comes down to it’s a physically violent game.

“Football players are in a car wreck every week.”

Randle El knows how much power the game of football still has over American society. He knows every year the NFL just piles up more and more money.

But he also knows the winds are changing.

What he’s about to say … he knows it sounds off the wall.

“Right now,” he said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if football isn’t around in 20, 25 years.”

Seahawks’ offseason to focus on offensive line TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks’ off-season priorities were obvious in previous years.

Getting extensions done for key stars like Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas, Russell Wilson and Bobby Wagner — some of those taking a little longer than expected — were clearly a key. Adding depth in specific areas like the defensive line was a priority one year, while other seasons it’s been going after one specific player.

This off-season is far broader for the Seahawks. There is no overarching, glaring need for a team that has reached at least the divisional round of the NFC playoffs in four straight seasons and played in Super Bowls twice during that span, with one exception. Pete Carroll acknowledged questions on the offensive line need to be answered before next season.

“I don’t think we’ve nailed it yet,” Carroll said. “I think this needs to be a really competitive spot again, and we’re going to work really hard to build it up. For the course of the season, we weren’t consistent enough.”

Seattle’s offensive line could see the biggest makeover because of contract situations. Starting left tackle Russell Okung and starting right guard J.R. Sweezy are unrestricted free agents.

Center Patrick Lewis, who moved into the starting role just before mid-

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll speaks during a news conference in Renton, Wash. on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

season, and versatile backup Alvin Bailey are restricted free agents.

Issues with Seattle’s offensive line were partly to blame for the Seahawks’ 2-4 start and that’s not something Carroll wants to repeat.

“I think that’s a real area of focus again so we’ll be talking about it.

We’ve got a couple unrestricted guys there. We’re going to have to deal with how that works out. There’s just stuff we’re going to have to work through,” Carroll said. “But we are young and we are athletic and we do like our guys.”

Aside from the offensive line, the Seahawks’ biggest free agent questions are on the defensive side, where they could end up trying to fill three

or four starting spots.

Seattle had the best run defence in the NFL this season, giving up 81.5 yards per game on the ground.

Two key parts of that success were defensive tackles Brandon Mebane and Ahtyba Rubin, both of whom are unrestricted free agents. Carroll raved about both players throughout the season, but money will ultimately determine whether either returns.

Mebane just turned 31 and made $5.5 million in base salary this season. Rubin, in his first year with Seattle, made $1.35 million in base salary and would appear in line for a raise.

Seattle must also decide what to do with outside linebacker Bruce

Irvin after declining to pick up his fifth-year option last spring. Irvin has gone from being strictly a pass rusher as a rookie in 2012 to a versatile linebacker with the ability to rush off the edge and also play on the line of scrimmage and help in the run game. Irvin said that in his exit conversations with Carroll and general manager John Schneider he was asked if he’d take less money to return. That’s a possibility in theory, but the reality is that this may be Irvin’s best shot at a big contract.

“I want to be here. That’s as simple as it is,” Irvin said. “I understand the business side of it, but if I happen to be somewhere else I will always have a genuine appreciation for (Schneider) and (Carroll) for sticking their neck out there and taking me when everybody said I was a reach and had a lot of baggage.”

Seattle’s other defensive decision is at cornerback opposite Sherman and whether Jeremy Lane returns.

The team can move forward with DeShawn Shead or the Seahawks can look elsewhere. Seattle has shown it prefers cornerbacks who have come up in its system like Lane and Shead.

The most recent example of that was the midseason release of veteran Cary Williams.

Lane is an unrestricted free agent while Shead is an exclusive rights free agent, which all but assures his return.

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World’s best golfers envy parts of others’ games DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

J

immy Walker does not like to talk about another player’s game when they are in the same group except for when “Good shot� is warranted. So he had to hold his tongue last summer while playing with Justin Rose. “He drove it so good, on a rope. I was like . . . wow,� Walker said. “I waited two days and I said, ‘Justin, I don’t give out compliments very often, but I’ve never seen anyone drive the golf ball as good as you did the last two days.�’ Rose appreciated the kind words, but it was his response — “I wish I could putt like you� — that got Walker to thinking. “We all have something out here that somebody else wants,� Walker said. “You watch somebody and think, ‘I wish I could do that.’ You admire things about people out here.

And there are people out here that I’m sure admire things about my game.�

A small sampling showed there might be some truth to that.

No one has everything, and if he does, then not for very long. And no one is ever satisfied with any aspect of his game. But do the world’s best at least recognize what they do well, and that someone else might want it? “They definitely don’t want my short putter,� Adam Scott said with a laugh.

The long putter is not what made him the first Australian to win a green jacket. It’s not why he rose to No. 1 in the world a year later. “I think I’m a good driver of the

Jimmy Walker hits his ball out of a greenside bunker during the second round of the Sony Open golf tournament on Friday in Honolulu. [AP PHOTO]

golf ball,� Scott said. “Someone must want to take my driver.�

Scott has seen some good golf in his 15 years as a pro. He played a practice round with Tiger Woods before the 2000 U.S. Open that made Scott wonder if he should remain an amateur. He was paired with Ernie Els when the Big Easy shot 60 at

Royal Melbourne in 2004, which Scott still considers the greatest round he ever saw.

But when asked if he could have something from another player, he went with Phil Mickelson’s short game. “There are a few guys that have outstanding areas of their games,

but Phil’s short game over all the years I’ve been out here stands out unbelievably,� he said.

Players do pay attention.

Luke Donald and Steve Stricker were in the same group Friday at the Sony Open. Both shot 65.

Donald, a former world No. 1, figured that someone would like to have his short game and bunker play. What he wants is what he can’t have, much as he has tried. Donald would love to hit the ball 320 yards.

He chased distance once in his career and it led to a wrist injury that ultimately kept him out of the 2008 Ryder Cup. Stricker, meanwhile, has long been regarded as one of the best putters in golf, so it would seem obvious what another player would want from him.

Think back to Doral in 2013, when Woods sought his help for 45 minutes on the putting green on Wednesday and then won by two shots over Stricker.

Or maybe not. “I’ll say my wedge game,� Stricker said.

Not putting? He paused. “Or my putting,� he added with a smile. “I’ve been putting so badly the last year that I haven’t given myself enough credit for it.�

As for what he would want from someone else, Stricker leaned on fresh memories. “You know, I was watching Luke Donald today and I was thinking, ‘Man, is he good out of the bunker.’ And he’s a good wedge player,�

Stricker said.

Brandt Snedeker also felt that most of his peers wouldn’t mind having

his putting. The way he sees it, he hits more putts that have a chance to go in, or he has fewer putts that don’t have a chance. So if he goes a round or two without making many, he’s doesn’t let it bother him because “I know they’re going to eventually go in.�

Here’s what will drive some players crazy — Snedeker really doesn’t practice it all that much. “Why would I practice something I’m great at?� he said with a grin. “I practice what I’m terrible at, which is hitting it off the tee and my iron play.�

Kevin Kisner, who always had a good short game and finally figured out how to hit the ball on the club face, was one of the few players who believes he has something that doesn’t involve a club in his hand. “My head,� he said. “I’ve always been a confident guy. “I know when I’m doing the things I can do that I can play with anybody.�

It would seem there is one thing on which everyone can agree: No one has everything.

Or do they?

Scott was asked what he would take from Woods during that practice round in Las Vegas before Woods went to Pebble Beach and won the U.S. Open by 15 shots. “Everything,� he said. “It’s still the best I’ve ever seen in one package.

Every aspect of the game, he did better than anyone.�

Woods, meanwhile, undoubtedly would love to take something from Scott and dozens of other players.

Their health.

TENNIS

Nadal falls in first round at Aussie Open JOHN PYE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MELBOURNE, Australia — For five sets and nearly five hours, two chiseled Spanish left-handers went head-to-head again at the Australian Open.

It wasn’t a semifinal this time, though, and It didn’t end nearly as well for Rafael Nadal, who lost 7-6 (6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 to Fernando Verdasco and was eliminated in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament for only the second time in a career that has netted him 14 major titles.

Nadal won his only Australian title in 2009 after overcoming Verdasco in a 5-hour, 14-minute semifinal, a match that still ranks among the classics at Melbourne Park.

This time, Verdasco rallied from a 2-1 deficit to win the last two sets, and came from a break down in the fifth to win in 4:41 and reach the second round. Nadal’s only previous first-round exit in a Grand Slam was at Wimbledon in 2013, when he lost in straight sets to No. 135-ranked Steve Darcis of Belgium.

NADAL

“It’s a hard and painful loss,� the fifth-seeded Nadal said. “He was playing amazing in the last set . . . more aggressive than me. He took more risks than me, and he won. Probably he deserved.�

No. 2 Simona Halep and seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams also went out in the first round on Tuesday, when a series of upsets took some focus off a match-fixing controversy that had overshadowed the first day of the season’s first major.

Halep, the 2014 French Open finalist, lost 6-4, 6-3 to Zhang Shuai, giving the No. 133-ranked

Chinese qualifier her first win at a Grand Slam after 14 losses. “It’s OK. I don’t want to make this match like dramatic,� said Halep, who refused to blame an Achilles tendon problem for contributing to her third first-round loss in five years at Melbourne Park.

Verdasco went for everything on his ground strokes, ripping 90 winners against only 37 for Nadal as he worked to the extremes to unsettle his former No. 1-ranked rival. “To win against Rafa here coming from two sets down is unbelievable,� the No. 45-ranked Verdasco said. “I think I played unbelievable — the fifth set from the break that he made me, I just started hitting winners. I don’t know how, just, you know I was closing the eyes and everything was coming in and I keep doing it and I was doing well.�

Stan Wawrinka, who beat Nadal in the 2014 Australian final, and four-time runner-up Andy Murray advanced, along with No. 8 David Ferrer, No. 10 John Isner, no. 13 Milos Raonic and Lleyton Hewitt, the two-time

major winner who is playing his 20th and last Australian Open tournament before retiring.

French Open champion Wawrinka was leading 7-6 (2), 6-3 when his opponent Dmitry Tursonov retired with what appeared to be an upper leg injury.

After beating Halep, Zhang burst into tears when asked about breaking the drought. “I think in my life, it’s the best tennis,� she said. “To win against a top-two player, I’m so happy, so excited.�

Williams lost 6-4, 6-2 to Johanna Konta, her eighth first-round loss at a major.

No. 3 Garbine Muguruza and No. 7 Angelique Kerber advanced along with two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azerenka, who closed play on centre court with a 6-0, 6-0 rout of Alison Van Uytvanck.

No. 2-ranked Murray, who opened with a 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 win over Alexander Zverev, answered questions about reports, published by the BBC and Buzzfeed News, that match-fixing had gone unchecked in tennis.

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6KRWV RQ JRDO E\ Toronto 12 14 9—35 Philadelphia 13 8 12—33 *RDO — Toronto: Reimer (W, 8-7-4).

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Attendance — 19,319 at Philadelphia.

)LUVW 3HULRG 1. Vancouver, Baertschi 8 (Horvat) 9:02 3HQDOWLHV — None.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 2. N.Y. Rangers, Stepan 9 (Nash, Kreider) 4:18 3. Vancouver, Burrows 6 (Etem, Vey) 16:11 3HQDOW\ — Biega Vcr (cross-checking) 8:43.

7KLUG 3HULRG 4. N.Y. Rangers, Zuccarello 17 (Yandle, Nash) 11:46 3HQDOW\ — Nash NYR (slashing) 0:59.

2YHUWLPH 5. N.Y. Rangers, Miller 10 (McDonagh, Stepan) 3:54 3HQDOWLHV — None.

6KRWV RQ JRDO E\ Vancouver 11 6 2 1—20 N.Y. Rangers 17 13 16 3—49 *RDO — Vancouver: Miller (L, 11-12-7).

N.Y. Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 21-12-4).

3RZHU SOD\V JRDOV FKDQFHV — Vancouver: 0-1; N.Y. Rangers: 0-1.

Attendance — 18,006 at New York, N.Y.

0$3/( /($)6 )/<(56 )LUVW 3HULRG 1. Philadelphia, Read 7 (Medvedev, Couturier) 11:06 (pp) 2. Toronto, Polak 1 (Boyes, Holland) 13:19 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Phaneuf Tor, B. Schenn Pha Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ /XSXO 7RU KRRNLQJ

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7KLUG 3HULRG 7. Edmonton, Draisaitl 11 (Hall, Kassian) 2:10 8. Edmonton, Pakarinen 4, 4:29 9. Tampa Bay, Boyle 9 (Coburn, Brown) 7:42 (sh) 10. Tampa Bay, Killorn 8 (Kucherov) 19:33 (en) 3HQDOW\ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Condra TB (high-sticking) 6:02.

6KRWV RQ JRDO E\ Edmonton 11 5 10â&#x20AC;&#x201D;26 Tampa Bay 10 11 10â&#x20AC;&#x201D;31 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Edmonton: Nilsson (L, 10-11-2).

Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy (W, 7-4-0). 3RZHU SOD\V JRDOV FKDQFHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Edmonton: 0-4; Tampa Bay: 0-2.

Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,092 at Tampa, Fla.

&$3,7$/6 %/8( -$&.(76 )LUVW 3HULRG 1. Columbus, Rychel 1 (Karlsson, Bourque) 9:30 2. Washington, Backstrom 14 (Oshie, Ovechkin) 12:15 3. Washington, Chimera 13 (Johansson) 15:52 3HQDOW\ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Backstrom Wash (interference) 3:02.

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Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 12,291 at Columbus, Ohio.

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Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 21,288 at Montreal.

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6KRWV RQ JRDO E\ Chicago 10 12 5â&#x20AC;&#x201D;27 Nashville 12 11 16â&#x20AC;&#x201D;39 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chicago: Crawford (W, 27-10-2).

Nashville: Rinne (L, 16-15-7). 3RZHU SOD\V JRDOV FKDQFHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chicago: 0-2; Nashville: 0-3.

Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 17,122 at Nashville, Tenn.

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)LUVW 3HULRG 1. Ottawa, McCormick 2 (Ceci, Neil) 11:12 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 2. Ottawa, Ryan 15 (Zibanejad, Karlsson) 4:08 (pp) 3. San Jose, Hertl 8 (Thornton, Burns) 4:16 3HQDOW\ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ward SJ (tripping) 3:57.

7KLUG 3HULRG 4. San Jose, Couture 2 (Ward, Vlasic) 2:47 5. San Jose, Nieto 6 (Donskoi, Tierney) 7:54 6. Ottawa, Smith 9, 14:29 (sh, penalty shot) 3HQDOW\ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Karlsson Ott (holding) 12:45.

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6KRWV RQ JRDO E\ Ottawa 5 8 3 1â&#x20AC;&#x201D;17 San Jose 11 9 96â&#x20AC;&#x201D;35 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ottawa: Anderson (W, 19-13-4).

San Jose: Stalock (SOL, 3-5-1). 3RZHU SOD\V JRDOV FKDQFHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ottawa: 1-1; San Jose: 0-2.

Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 16,619 at San Jose, Calif.

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Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def.

Dmitry Tursunov, Russia, 7-6 (2), 6-3, retired.

Rafael Nadal (5), Spain, lost to Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

David Ferrer (8), Spain, def. Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.

John Isner (10), United States, def.

Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, 6-3, 7-6 (7), 6-3.

Kevin Andeson (11), South Africa, lost to Rajeev Ram, United States, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 6-3, 3-0, retired.

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Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

Feliciano Lopez (18), Spain, def.

Daniel Evans, Britain, 6-1, 6-0, 6-4.

Fabio Fognini (20), Italy, lost to Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (7), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (1).

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Taylor Fritz, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 0-6, 6-3, 6-4.

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Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, 6-0, 6-4.

Angelique Kerber (7), Germany, def.

Misaki Doi, Japan, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 6-3.

Venus Williams (8), United States, lost to Johanna Konta, Britain, 6-4, 6-2.

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Victoria Duval, United States, 6-2, 6-3.

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Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-3, 6-3.

Ana Ivanovic (20), Serbia, def. Tammi Patterson, Australia, 6-2, 6-3.

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Maddison Inglis, Australia, 6-3, 6-0.

Irina-Camelia Begu (29), Romania, lost to Johanna Larsson, Sweden, 6-3, 6-2.

Sabine Lisicki (30), Germany, def. Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4.

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Lightning beat Oilers 6-4 for their sixth straight victory MARK DIDTLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TAMPA, Fla. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brian Boyle scored a go-ahead, short-handed goal in the third period and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-4 Tuesday night for a season-high six-game winning streak.

The Lightning also got goals from Nikita Nesterov, Nikita Kucherov, Ondrej Palat, Vladislav Namestnikov and Alex Killorn.

Tampa Bay will host Chicago

Thursday night in the Blackhawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first game in Tampa since beating the Lightning in last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stanley Cup Final.

Zack Kassian, Mark Letestu, Leon Draisaitl and Iiro Pakarinen scored for Edmonton.

The Oilers said centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, hurt blocking a shot in Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-2 win at Florida, will miss six to eight weeks with a hand injury. Edmonton right wing Nail Yakupov needed help skating

off the ice 5 minutes into Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, but returned later in the period.

Boyle gave Tampa Bay a 5-4 lead when he beat goalie Anders Nilsson to the puck and scored from the left circle at 7:42 of the third. Killorn added an empty-netter.

After Draisailt scored during a two-on-one breakaway at 2:10 of the third, Pakarinen got Edmonton even at 4 when he beat Andrei Vasilevskiy from the right circle 2:19 later.

Namestnikov extended the Lightning lead to 4-2 at 17:12 of the second when he reached from the behind net with his stick and knocked in the puck after Palatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left circle shot went high into the air off Nilsson and behind the goalie.

Palat gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 lead at 6:09 of the second. Namestnikov set up the goal with a backhand pass while falling to the ice.

Kucherov put the Lightning up 2-1 with 3:03 to go in the first on his

19th goal this season that extended his point streak to six games.

Letestu made it 2-2 on a short-handed goal with 33.3 seconds left in the first.

After Nesterov opened the scoring at 3:57 of the first, Kassian tied it just 88 seconds later.

NOTE: Edmonton placed Nugent-Hopkins on injured reserve and recalled C Rob Klinkhammer from Bakersfield of the AHL.

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6-8 p.m. Nanaimo Family Life presents Youth group for adolescents dealing with Anxiety, Depression 1070 Town site Road. For information, ˇ www.nflabc.org or call 250-754-3331.

THURSDAY, JAN. 21 7 p.m. Tora Leigh and more Live At Longwood A free live concert series every Thursday at Longwood Brew Pub 5775 Turner Rd., Nanaimo.

7 p.m. Ladysmith Comedy Night with: Sophie Buddle, Amber Harper Young , Darryl Shaw and more at The Music Hall Food Co.18 Roberts St., Ladysmith. Tickets $15 at the door.

7-9 p.m. Divorce Recovery Program, 13-week course at First Baptist Church 1650 Waddington Rd. Nanaimo. This is a free program, $20 workbook available. More information, call 250-753-0241. Every Wednesday through March.

THURSDAY, JAN. 21 8 p.m. Tora Leigh at The Longwood Brew Pub, 5775 Turner Rd., Nanaimo BC 8 p.m. Ladysmith Comedy Night with Sophie Buddle with Amber Harper-Young, Darryl

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7 & 9 p.m. Old City Laugh Lounge (two shows) starring Sophie Buddle with Amber Harper-Young, Tim Kerfoot & Darryl Shaw at The Old City Station Pub 150 Skinner St., Nanaimo. Tickets $10 per show at The Old City Station Pub.

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FRIDAY, JAN. 22 1:30 p.m First Open Heart Society meets at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 4235 Departure Bay Rd., Nanaimo. Guest speaker is Bob Uden, physical exercise leader from Heart Matters. For information phone Elaine at 250-753-1915.

7:30-10 p.m. Black-Lister-McRae Trio,jazz-improv,at Nanaimo Conservatory, 375 Selby St., Nanaimo. Tickets $20 general, $10 students advance tickets at Fascinating Rhythm, 51 Commercial St. 250-716-9997.

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10 a.m. Bastion City Wanderers Volkssport Club invites you to a 6-km or 10-km walk in Cedar at Cable Bay. Meet in the parking lot at the end of Nicola Road. Registration at 9:45 a.m. For information, call Ethel at 250-756-9796.

7-10 p.m. Dave Hart performs at Minnoz Restaurant, Coast Bastion Hotel. Prime rib featured and wine tastings courtesy Mark Anthony.

No cover. Information:: 250-824-0167.

7 p.m. Vancouver Island Pro Wrestling presents: pro wrestling Departure Bay Activity Centre with another action packed night full of high flying, hard hitting, Bell 7 p.m. Tickets

7:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Symphony music and visual arts. Pre-concert talk 6:30 p.m.

Tickets $18-$59, eyego $5 at www.Porttheatre.

Com. 250-754-8550.

9 p.m. Glen Foster Group hosts a CD Release Event at The Vault Cafe. Age 19-plus. Cover charge $5

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your creativity continues to dominate, but you’ll communicate your thoughts more incisively. Conversations could go in many different directions. You will find out what works for you in no time. Be willing to go through the process. Tonight: Pretend that it is the weekend.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Others make demands that might distract you from some thoughts about finances. You need to deal with these money issues, but honor a need for a change of pace. An element of unpredictability runs through work. Tonight: Balance your checkbook before you head out.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You see past the obvious, but you aren’t always ready to share these thoughts. As a result, others find you to be most unpredictable and capable of doing anything.

This perspective should give you an indication of how you project yourself. Tonight: Ready for some adventure?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could be more demanding than you realize. On some level, a close friend or associate might feel drained by your initial reaction. You seem to be concerned with some matters involving your finances that you are not ready to discuss.

Tonight: Not to be found.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Others seek you out. At the present moment, you seem to prefer the company of many people all at once. Could

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it be possible that you are trying to avoid a situation or conversation? It is going to happen sooner or later, but play it your way. Tonight: Where people are.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Others often look to you for leadership. You know when you have had enough and want to head in a different direction. How you handle a demanding situation could change radically in a few days. Know that there will be reactions you’ll need to deal with. Tonight: Till the wee hours.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your ability to think fast and come up with several novel ideas emerges. Your understanding of others’ predicaments will add to your mental resilience. Expressing a consideration for others is the type of thinking that creates mutual respect. Tonight: Say “yes.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Work with individuals rather than a group of people. You could be confused about what to do and when. Listen to your inner voice if you feel iffy about verbalizing a problem. Timing could make a big difference.

Honor your instincts. Tonight: Downtime with a loved one.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’ll hear a lot of information all at once. You could be surprised by how overwhelming it is. Detach, and listen to what is offered and nothing more. You will be able to become more responsive soon.

Tonight: An opportunity appears that seems too good to be true.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Security, both emotionally and financially, becomes more important to you in the next few weeks.

You could find that an element of unpredictability surrounds you, especially when you’re out and about. Reach out to someone at a distance. Tonight: Stick to your usual routine.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You feel energized, though you also might feel scattered. Don’t worry — you will bounce back quickly. You could be surprised by what someone says or does. You won’t be able to suppress your reaction. Remain nurturing with a loved one. Tonight: Go for what you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might need some downtime. You could be doing a lot of processing in your mind. Be ready to take a risk if it feels comfortable, but don’t lost sight of the financial implications involved. You’d be wise to exercise caution. Tonight: Happy to be close to home.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Jan. 20) This year you become more aware of others and their needs. You have become more sensitive and caring.

Your inner circle grows as a result.

You also experience many more options and opportunities. If you are single, you might meet someone in your day-to-day travels. The person you meet could have the same issues as you, but he or she will manifest them in a very different way. You can learn from each other if you respect your differences. If you are attached, the two of you act like new lovers. Clearly, you enjoy each other’s company.

GEMINI is always full of ideas.

BORN TODAY Bill Maher (1956), multi-instrumentalist Questlove (1971), musician Paul Stanley (1952)

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POLITICS

Feds, provinces agree on bulk-buy drug deal DIRK MEISSNER THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA — The federal government joined the provinces and territories on Tuesday in a program to buy drugs in bulk, a sign of a thaw in relations over the national health agenda.

Health Minister Jane Philpott said drug plans administered by the federal government will unite with the provincial and territorial pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance to negotiate lower prices on brand name and generic drugs. Ottawa didn’t join the alliance when it was formed five years ago.

Prof. Michael Prince, a University of Victoria health policy expert, said Ottawa’s decision to get involved in the plan strengthens the program.

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“The federal government is the fifth or sixth of the largest health-care providers in the country,” he said.

“It’s a major health-care provider and player in its own right and bringing

the government of Canada to the table is going to be very helpful.”

Ottawa’s change in position on the drug program was announced on the eve of a meeting of the country’s health ministers that takes place on Wednesday and Thursday in Vancouver and is expected to discuss everything from the treatment of chronic diseases to funding formulas The new tone between Ottawa and the provinces and territories is also expected at the meetings after a decade of testy relations when Stephen Harper was prime minister.

“For the last 10 years, and I don’t need to get partisan about this, we had a prime minister who chose not to engage very actively on these inter-governmental files,” said Prince.

“He (Harper) was more interested in law and order and criminal justice.

That’s where his priorities were.”

Prince said by resuming meetings on health care, the federal government “will reactivate and re-energize federal-provincial relations on health issues in a way we haven’t seen for over a decade in this country.”

In a statement after the drug program announcement, Philpott said combining the negotiating power of the federal, provincial and territorial governments achieves greater savings for all publicly funded drug programs, increases access to drug-treatment options and improves the consistency of pricing across Canada.

Federal health plans provide drug benefits to First Nations and Inuit,

the RCMP, the Canadian Forces, veterans, federal inmates and refugee protection claimants, totalling $630 million in drug-related spending in 2014.

The pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance has completed more than 89 negotiations on brand-name drugs and price reductions on 14 generic drugs, producing a savings of more than $490 million annually.

B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake said the federal government’s participation greatly enhances the strength and purchasing power of the alliance.

“That’s what we want,” he said.

“The more the merrier. They have a number of drug plans they can bring on board and increase our bargaining power significantly.”

SYRIA

Besieged residents sell off gold for food Extremists have blockaded government-held areas of Deir el-Zour for over a year; many are slowly starving ZEINA KARAM AND PHILIP ISSA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — In Syria’s eastern city of Deir el-Zour, supplies are running so short that desperate residents are selling their gold, valuables and even their homes for food or an exit permit allowing them to escape a siege by both government troops and Islamic State militants.

The extremists have blockaded government-held areas of the city for over a year, and some of its 200,000 residents are slowly starving — while troops and militias supporting President Bashar Assad exploit their suffering.

While international attention was focused recently on Madaya — a rebel-held town surrounded by pro-Assad troops near the capital of Damascus — the United Nations and aid agencies say another catastrophe is unfolding in Deir el-Zour.

The civil war has transformed a once oil-rich city into a place where even something as simple as making tea is a struggle, according to residents who have fled, because of severe shortages of food, water and fuel.

Many people live on bread and water — and there are long waits for both. Taps are shut off for days at a time, and the water that flows out for only a few hours is brackish. The city hasn’t had electricity for over 10 months, with little fuel available for generators and water pumps.

The UN warned last week that living conditions have deteriorated significantly in Deir el-Zour. Students are frequently absent from school because of malnutrition.

The only remaining civilian hospital needs drugs and other supplies, as well as staff.

Unverified reports cited up to 20 malnutrition deaths, the UN said in its report. But Ali al-Rahbi, spokesman for the Justice for Life Observ-

This picture released on July 13, 2015 by the Rased News Network shows Islamic State militants firing weapons during a battle against Syrian government forces in Deir el-Zour province. [RASED NEWS NETWORK VIA AP]

atory for Deir el-Zour, said his group documented 27 deaths.

The Islamic State group surrounds Deir el-Zour and won’t let people and supplies in by land; the Syrian government, which controls part of the city and its airport, won’t allow supplies to be brought in by air or let its people out.

The city, about 450 kilometres northeast of Damascus, is divided roughly along the Euphrates River, with the Islamic State group on the eastern side and the Syrian government on the western side, although IS controls some territory on the western bank as well.

Deir el-Zour is the largest of about 15 besieged communities in Syria, cutting off about 400,000 people from aid. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said both the Syrian government and the rebels are committing war crimes by deliberately starv-

ing civilians. Reports of starvation in Madaya prompted an international outcry, and two aid convoys last week delivered humanitarian aid to civilians there.

So far, no such aid is forthcoming to Deir el-Zour.

The city recently has been the focus of renewed efforts by Islamic State militants to retake it. An offensive over the weekend captured new areas from government forces, killing over 250 troops and civilians, and capturing hundreds.

The offensive “is putting thousands of people in the line of fire,” said UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq. How the city came to be under such a punishing siege from both sides only makes sense in the perverse circumstances of Syria’s civil war, now in its fifth year.

Deir el-Zour lies near the Iraqi border, deep in Islamic State territory,

but the government has been able to defend its military airport on the outskirts, allowing it to maintain its city’s fortifications. It also controls four large neighbourhoods that are home to many internally displaced people, including women and children.

Because the airport is so close to the front line, only helicopters have been able to land there since September, the UN’s Haq said.

The government troops in the city are regularly reinforced and supported by Russian and Syrian air power. Rather than fight them, the IS militants imposed a blockade in January 2015.

Residents say the siege grew worse in March when the government stopped anyone from leaving Deir el-Zour without permission.

IS has prevented people from entering government-held areas, but

a few months ago, it began allowing people to leave for other IS-held areas, although it subjected them to interrogation and harassment — and in some cases, it confiscated their documents.

The extremists then closed that window, banning anyone from leaving.

Residents say the government has its own reasons for maintaining the siege-within-a-siege and carefully controlling the flow of goods and people through the military airport: The residents have effectively become human shields against an IS attack.

In addition, the government can extract money from them by raising the price of food or taking huge bribes in return for permits to leave.

Many residents wonder if an IS takeover would bring much-needed supplies of food.

Last week, Russia dropped 22 metric tons of relief supplies into Deir el-Zour, but activists said government-affiliated vehicles immediately moved in. Alhamad said security forces collected all the supplies to sell them at the market for the prices they wanted.

A resident who identified himself as Bahaa said he lost more than 14 kilograms during 11 months in the city and escaped in November to Gazientep in southern Turkey weighing only 55 kilograms.

“My health now is much better than it was, but I’m still suffering psychologically. A lot,” he said by phone.

The man, who did not give his real name because he feared for reprisals against relatives left behind, said he paid 250,000 Syrian pounds (over $600) in bribes to receive permission to fly out.

It was too expensive to bring his whole family.

“We sold our gold” to raise the money for the bribes, he said. “Other families have sold their homes.”

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Wine and cheese offer up an eternally compatible combo Lynette Burns The Lucky Gourmet

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n eternal classic food and beverage combination has, and will always be, cheese and wine. Done right, it is heaven in your mouth, done wrong, it can be the clash of the Titans.

As you already know, cheeses vary greatly in flavour, texture, fat and moisture content. Wines also vary in acidity, sweetness, body and structure and with a few basic guidelines, you can create a match made in heaven.

Paula Maddison from Gabriola Island is so passionate about making cheese that she teaches numerous classes on the subject. We are not only fortunate that she is a local that uses the demonstration kitchen at Lucky’s Liquor Store at Country Club Mall in Nanaimo to teach, but this also works out quite well since the staff are also very passionate about wine. This way, the guests enjoy the magic of trying their own cheese paired with the perfect wine.

Paula’s next ‘edutainment’ evening is Jan. 26, wherein she will teach the art of fondue and how to make Gruyere at home.

Here is how you too can perfectly pair mouthwatering wine and cheese combinations.

Cheese lies along a continuum from fresh through hard–aged.

Young cheese is moist and creamy. As cheese ages the moisture evaporates, leaving behind fat and protein.

Wine and cheese make for a perfect pairing.

Fats and proteins are a perfect vehicle for flavour. Age concentrates flavour, and depending on the method of aging, can impart nutty, pungent, earthy and funky tastes and smells to the cheese.

Likewise wine starts out young and

fresh with lively aromas and bright flavours and, as wine ages, it develops notes of earth, toast, minerals, umami, and more.

With this bit of knowledge under our belts we can see that young cheese should pair well with juicy,

fresh and fruity wines. Some examples would be; dry rose’s, crisp whites like Sauvignon Blanc, lively Pinot Noirs or almost anything sparkling.

Young cheeses include Chevre, Mozzarella, Brie and Bucheron.

Older cheese tastes better with older wines. Bolder, more complex wines will not be overpowered by a complex cheese Try Zinfandel or Cabernet Sauvignon with mature cheeses like Asiago, Aged Cheddar, Manchego and Comte.

Softer reds like Shiraz and Malbec pair well with the mid range aged cheese like Gruyere, Havarti and young Cheddar.

As with any guidelines there will always be exceptions. In this case stinky cheese needs to be paired with a demure wine. This way the wine will not compete but rather compliment. For example one would pair a potent chunk of Morbier with a fresh and fruity Gewurztraminer.

Blue cheese is altogether another exception, best paired with Port, sherry or dessert wines.

There are a couple of wines that will partner broadly with a wide range of cheese. The noble Reisling has a perfect balance of acidity, sweetness and mineral backbone to compliment or contrast most cheese.

Sparkling wines also work well.

Their ample acidity and toasty aromas compliment cheeses from fresh through aged.

Pairing wine and cheese by flavour intensity, keeping in mind those exceptions, will bring about a taste experience that has been lauded through the ages. » Lynette Burns is the managing leader for Lucky’s Liquor store in Nanaimo.

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FOOD

Poor weather will keep produce prices high THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Canadians can expect high prices for produce to last at least several more weeks as a result of the weak loonie and weather issues in crop-growing areas, one of the country’s largest grocery chains said Monday.

In addition to the adverse impact of the lower Canadian dollar, flooding caused by El-Nino have contributed to supply shortages and price increases on produce from California and Mexico, said Claude Tessier, president of Sobeys Quebec.

“From what we hear the situation is going to be for the next three weeks and then we’ll see how things evolve (along) the west coast,” Tessier said after Sobey’s CEO Marc Poulin spoke to the Canadian Club.

“We’re not seeing a blowback in terms of purchasing. For sure the consumer in general is more cautious about the prices and it’s been like that for a couple of years.”

Claude Tessier, Sobeys Quebec president

The company, which also operates banners such as IGA, Safeway and FreshCo, is struggling to deal with the worst situation in 30 years by trying to import fresh food from other growing areas such as Florida,

Morocco and Spain, Tessier said.

Cauliflower and grapes have been harder to access, with just 20 per cent of the normal delivery of some goods being shipped to stores, he said.

Restaurants that feature cauliflower have had to adjust by raising prices or using alternatives like squash since the cost for a case of the cruciferous vegetable has more than doubled to as much as $60.

Sobey’s is also turning more to local suppliers for items like potatoes, carrots and onions.

Since the challenges only accelerated after the holiday season, it’s not yet clear if consumers are substituting by buying cheaper alternatives.

“We’re not seeing a blowback in terms of purchasing,” Tessier said.

“For sure the consumer in general

is more cautious about the prices and it’s been like that for a couple of years.”

Meanwhile, the price of other food is also rising, according to the University of Guelph’s Food Institute.

It has said meat rose five per cent last year and is expected to increase up to 4.5 per cent in 2016; fish and seafood could rise by up to three per cent, and dairy, eggs and grains could see a two per cent increase.

Fruit and vegetable prices could increase up to 4.5 per cent for some items this year after having risen between 9.1 and 10.1 per cent last year.

Prices are even higher in northern and remote communities, making it even harder for poorer Canadians to healthy diets.

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Eileen Bennewith Nutrition Notes

When children plan the menu

W

ho is responsible for food selection in your family? In many households, it is the children who seem to be in charge.

This starts when children tell their parents that they do not like a certain food. Instead of offering that food again, it is crossed off the family dinner list. One by one, healthy foods come off the list. Before long, meal planning becomes a nightmare.

Parents call me when their child will only eat wieners and macaroni.

When asked why the child is only given wieners and macaroni, it is because they won’t eat anything else. Unfortunately, the child would be better off not eating any food for a few days than to keep giving the unhealthy foods.

Watching what other children eat will influence food choices for children. Parents notice that their children will eat fruit, vegetables and even fish at daycare but they would not eat them at home. When this is the case, the issue is not about food preference anymore. It is about control.

From a very early age, children like to be in control. Parents want the food on the table to be in the child.

Some parents will offer only foods that they know the child will eat.

Soon the child will not like those foods either. They will eat fewer and fewer foods because they know that the parent will go to any length to offer something that they will eat.

A child needs to try a food at least twenty times before they know whether they like it or not. If you only offer what they like, you deprive them of the opportunity to learn to like other foods. For toddlers, if they dislike the food at 10 a.m. they will like it again by noon.

It is the parents’ job to offer healthy foods to their child. Once you have done that, it is the child’s job to eat or not to eat that food. Do not feel guilty if they do not eat, it is not your job to get them to eat. Once you have put the food in front of them, your job is finished.

Once children learn that the parent is in charge of what is served, and they have a choice to eat or not to eat, children relax and enjoy their meals. Children actually like to have limits set for them and they like to know what to expect at mealtime.

This is why they often eat so well at daycare.

Parents! It is time for you to take back control of the menu. You decide what healthy foods to serve to your family. You will be surprised how well children eat when you limit their choice to what the family is having. » Eileen Bennewith is a registered dietitian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at eileen.bennewith@viha.ca.

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RECIPE

Easy to enjoy a microwaved mug muffin MELISSA D’ARABIAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

I’m not sure how it happened, but the microwave mug muffin is suddenly an Internet sensation.

I’m a believer in making muffins in large batches and freezing, so I admit I’ve only taken interest in the individually-made microwave version recently.

My kids love to eat anything from a cup (ever since my moth-

er-in-law gifted our entire family personalized photo mugs), so I decided to give it a go. Turns out, mug muffins are a perfect warming treat for our family’s “fun Friday” breakfast! Try my coconut-cinnamon roll muffin this week. And by the way, if you mix 1/4 cup of unsweetened dark cocoa powder into the batter and leave out the cinnamon, the results will be dessert-worthy.

I make the batter in a small

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And here’s a bonus: You can save time by making the batter in advance and leaving it overnight in the refrigerator.

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I like to use a mix of almond flour or coconut flour to add filling fibre, protein and satisfying fat, plus just a little regular flour (either all-purpose flour or any gluten-free 1-for-1 substitute) for a fluffy texture.

Note that coconut flour absorbs a lot of liquid, so you may have to add extra liquid depending on how much coconut flour you use. But somehow eating a muffin with a spoon makes the recipe more forgiving, so feel free to branch out and make this your own.

COCONUT-CINNAMON ROLL MICROWAVE MUG MUFFIN Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 2 2 tablespoons almond flour (meal) 1 tablespoon coconut flour 2 tablespoons quinoa flour (or other gluten-free substitute or all-purpose flour) 2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar, plus 1 teaspoon 3/4 teaspoon baking powder Pinch kosher salt 1 egg 1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted (or neutral oil) 1/4 cup plain low-fat Greek yogurt 1/4 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 teaspoons low-fat cream cheese Cinnamon, to garnish In a medium bowl, whisk together the almond flour, coconut flour, quinoa flour, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the egg,

Coconut cinnamon roll microwave mug muffins are a perfect warming treat for a family breakfast. [AP PHOTO]

oil, yogurt, milk and vanilla, then whisk until well mixed.

Coat two eight-ounce mugs with cooking spray. Spoon a heaping tablespoon of batter into each mug. Top each with one teaspoon of the cream cheese and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Divide the remaining batter among the 2 mugs.

Sprinkle with cinnamon and the remaining teaspoon of brown sugar. One at a time, microwave on high for about one minute 15 seconds, or until the muffin is dry on top (timing will vary by microwave). Let cool a few minutes before eating.

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NEW YORK — A study by the University of Maryland touting the benefits of a small company’s chocolate milk is raising concerns about the potential conflicts-of-interest that can arise when food makers collaborate with schools on such efforts.

Late last month, the university fired off a press release declaring that a preliminary study showed that Fifth Quarter Fresh’s milk helped improve the cognitive and motor functions of high school football players, even after suffering concussions. The announcement raised red flags because the details of the full study were not made available.

The focus on a specific product also seemed to underscore the problems that can arise with research involving commercial entities. Although collaborations with food and beverage makers are not unusual in the academic world, some health advocates say they come with inherent conflicts-of-interest that can contribute to public confusion about

nutrition. Now, the University of Maryland says it is launching a review into the release of the preliminary results and distancing itself from the press release.

Pat O’Shea, vice-president of research at the University of Maryland, said in a phone interview Thursday that people should not rely on the results conveyed in the release, since they haven’t been through the proper scientific review.

“We value our reputation and we value the advice we give to the public, and I believe this is not characteristic of what a leading, respected university should do,” he said.

O’Shea said the review’s goal is not to determine the validity of the study results, but why they were published without proper vetting.

The study about Fifth Quarter Fresh was funded through a university program intended to boost Maryland’s economy by connecting local businesses with researchers. The Maryland Industrial Partnerships’ studies are subject to the same standards as the university’s other research, the school said.

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Who exactly is defending Bill Cosby?

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHILADELPHIA — At his only criminal court appearance to date, aging TV icon Bill Cosby stumbled past a scrum of photographers while two lawyers held him up on either side, walking him into a suburban Philadelphia courtroom.

The attorneys hired to defend Cosby in the sex-assault case are a study in contrasts: — Outsider Monique Pressley, a lawyer-turnedTV legal analyst with side jobs as a pastor, motivational speaker and radio host, who got a taste of the limelight as a law student, posing a question about race in the O.J. Simpson trial on CNN’s Larry King Live.

— Insider Brian McMonagle, a revered local criminal lawyer whose past clients include mobsters, rappers, athletes and — in a case with some parallels to Cosby’s — the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia during the searing priest-pedophile scandal.

“He takes a very, very aggressive posture, but does it in a diplomatic and smooth fashion. It’s almost like an iron fist in a velvet glove. He is a strong advocate for his client, but can break tension with a quip or a joke,” said fellow Philadelphia criminal lawyer William J. Brennan.

“Mr. Cosby is lucky to have him.”

McMonagle, 57, is expected to lead the defence arguments inside the courtroom when Cosby, 78, returns to court Feb. 2 in a crucial bid to have the case dismissed.

He will attack the 12-year delay to file charges, the use of Cosby’s deposition from accuser Andrea Constand’s civil case, and the government’s plan to call other accusers to show a pattern of behaviour.

But Pressley will be the lawyer people see on TV in their living rooms.

Pressley, 45, was plucked from relative obscurity to lead the sprawling flock of lawyers Cosby has deployed to fight sex-assault and defamation battles in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and California, involving some of the dozens of women who accuse him of drugging

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and molesting them. After stints as both a prosecutor and public defender in Washington, D.C., she was doing TV commentary on the case when she impressed someone in the Cosby camp last fall.

“She’s got his confidence,” said celebrity defence lawyer Mark Geragos. “Obviously, you can’t diminish the fact that you would want a female on the defence team. You’re going to have female after female coming up and accusing him. ... And race is always a subtext in the criminal justice system.”

Pressley, who is black, could boost Cosby’s battered standing in the black community. McMonagle, who is white, may play to jurors in mostly white Montgomery County.

Pressley has taken to the airwaves to blast accusers who come forward decades later to “persecute” someone. And she dismissed an FBI study that found only a tiny fraction of rape accusations are proved false.

“How many people of influence and means have been the victims of extortion attempts? How many women — and men — have been willing to offer up their bodies on a casting couch?” she asked in a Huffington Post Live interview that earned raves for her poise under fire.

Constand, now 42, went to police in 2005 to report that Cosby had drugged and violated her a year earlier at his home near Philadelphia. Cosby called the contact consensual.

McMonagle will argue that a former prosecutor made a deal that Cosby would never be prosecuted and could therefore testify, without invoking his right not to incriminate himself, in Constand’s later civil suit.

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Don’t worry if your sweethearts are a bit flabby Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: I read your column every day, and I’ve been finding myself feeling sorrier and sorrier for women in their 40s and 50s. So many letters are about men who can’t anymore and women who don’t

want to anymore. The message seems to be that sex has to end the minute a woman hits menopause. And that’s absolutely not true!

Last week, I had lunch with two women who have been my friends since high school. We are all in our early 70s, and every one of us agreed: Sex has been better in the last 15 years than ever before. We’re not working now, so we can stay in bed and cuddle for hours if we want.

There are no kids at home, so we can “take a nap” with our honeys without the slightest embarrassment.

Come on, women! So our bodies don’t look as awesome as they used

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If two people love each other, they should still enjoy giving and taking pleasure. And, take it from us three women, you’ll look years younger with that glow in your cheeks and that sparkle in your eyes.

— Three Sexy Old Broads in Vermont Dear Vermont: Whatever they are putting in the water up there, you ought to bottle it. Bless you for pointing out that loving someone makes the effort worthwhile.

Dear Annie: You must know that for every letter that you get, you only hear half of the story. I read the letter

from “Wife on the Outside,” who said her husband talks to his mother negatively about her. I hope that my wife reads that and follows your advice to go to counselling.

I am a loving husband and father, and tired of accusations of disloyalty.

I love my wife. When my mother asks me how she’s doing and my answer is, “She is very unhappy,” I am not being disloyal. I am being truthful. But my wife doesn’t like it.

My wife drinks a lot of wine in the evening. When she is no longer sober, she becomes nasty to the point where she is unbearable. She refused to go for counselling, so I went alone.

My counsellor recommended that I attend Al-Anon, and I plan to go back soon. My wife does not consider herself an alcoholic. If there is any way you can help convince her to get counselling, I would be very grateful.

— Suffering Husband Dear Suffering: Your wife didn’t write to us, and we are unlikely to convince her of anything, since she is unwilling to admit she has a problem.

If you need to talk to someone, go back to your counsellor. Second, we hope you will return to Al-Anon meetings and learn the limits of what you can do in this situation and how you can help yourself cope.

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