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Total foreign oilpatch ownership unclear OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sales pitch Friday to attract more foreign investment to Canada comes as the government struggles to get a handle on exactly what foreigners own in the country’s crucial oil and gas sector.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press show the Finance Department only had a “rough estimate” last year on foreign ownership in the energy sector — a key destination for investment from abroad.

The February 2015 briefing note, addressed to deputy finance minister Paul Rochon, estimated 40 to 50 per cent of the sector is owned by foreign investors.

“A significant amount of foreign capital was brought into Canada to expand oil and gas production,” said the document, obtained

by The Canadian Press under the Access to

Information Act. “Unfortunately, there are no precise data on the foreign-owned share of the oil and gas sector.”

Statistics Canada says foreign holdings in the TRUDEAU country have increased in recent years in general, including a gain of 5.8 per cent from 2013 to 2014. The total foreign holdings hit $361 billion last year, which the agency said accounts for almost half of all direct investment in Canada.

When asked about the lack of precise information for the oil patch, a spokesman for the Finance Department referred to data collected by Statistics Canada under the Corporations Returns Act. The latest available data is for 2012, showing foreign control over 36.7 per cent of the oil and gas sector.

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Foreign investment has at times been a contentious issue in Canada and the former Conservative government wrestled for years to find a policy mix that would make everyone happy.

The Tories, however, ended up sending mixed signals by blocking the takeover of Potash Corp., and changing the rules for state-owned enterprises after allowing a Chinese-owned company to buy Nexen Energy.

On Friday, Trudeau used the global stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to try and reel in more foreign money to help Canada’s limping economy, which has suffered a big punch from falling commodity and oil prices.

“Our government understands that global trade and foreign investment are key drivers of economic growth and important sources of new jobs,” Trudeau said Friday.

“This will be a key priority for us.”

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Scots celebrate Robbie Burns Haggis takes centre stage during annual festivities honouring famous poet

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reshly ‘caught’ haggis will be the main menu item for a feast Alan Maddock is preparing for friends and family on Sunday.

Monday is the birthday of renowned Scottish poet Robbie Burns, and Maddock, a proud Scotsman, will celebrate it at home in Nanaimo with family and friends.

Maddock said in jest, with a smile, that a haggis is a small furry animal that roams the Scottish highlands.

He said ScotRobert land catches Barron thousands of Reporting them each year and sends them to expatriate Scotsmen abroad to help celebrate Robbie Burns’s birthday, free of charge.

“Nobody ever questions it,” Maddock joked.

Haggis is actually made of sheep’s or calf’s offal mixed with suet, oatmeal, and seasoning and boiled in a bag; traditionally one made from the animal’s stomach.

It’s the traditional Scottish food that has been part of Burns’ birthday celebrations for generations.

That’s likely because one of Burns’s favourite poems is his eight-verse “Address to a Haggis” that was read at many of the poet’s dinners before the serving of the meal.

Burns was born on Jan. 25, 1759, in the small village of Alloway in Ayrshire, on Scotland’s west coast.

Maddock said Burns and his poems are very important to the Scots, especially considering that many of them left the country in the centuries and decades since he was alive.

“There were few newspapers in

“So a traditional Scotsman would never wear underwear underneath his kilt.”

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Scotland in the early days when many Scots decided to emigrate to find better lives for themselves and their children elsewhere,” he said.

“Poems, especially those by Robbie Burns, convey an insight into the Scottish people, so when we began leaving Scotland, the poetry came with us and now Robbie Burns is celebrated around the world on his birthday.”

Maddock’s story is typical of many

of his fellow expatriate countrymen.

He came to Nanaimo in 2002 from Lanark, Scotland, to make a better life for his family, which included his wife Christina, three teenagers, seven dogs and a cat. Maddock said he had no particular reason for choosing Nanaimo, other than the fact that he was advised that Canada’s west coast was the best place to establish himself.

He is now the owner of Caledonia Fire Protection Inc., and the business

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“I was here just two months when I was driving up Fitzwilliam Street and saw a fun sign in front of McLean’s Speciality Foods that said ‘Parking for Scots only, all others will be towed,’” Maddock said.

“That’s when I first met Eric McLean (the longtime owner of the store who is also Scottish).

“As a result of meeting Eric, I began connecting with a lot of other Scottish people in the city.”

For those interested in tasting haggis and getting a feel for what it is to be Scottish, McLean’s Speciality Foods will be hosting its annual “Haggis Extravaganza” that begins at 11:30 a.m. today and on Monday.

Bagpiper Bill Poppy will be on hand and in full kilt on both days, and reservations are required.

Maddock said he has kilt ready to wear this weekend, a garment that he wears at events at least a half dozen times a year.

Asked if Scotsmen actually wear underwear under their kilts, a question that seems to be uppermost in a lot of people’s minds when they see a man wearing the garment, Maddock said the kilt was used in Scotland long before the advent of underwear.

“So a traditional Scotsman would never wear underwear underneath his kilt,” he said.

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The City of Nanaimo will put out a tender for an estimated $1.86 million in infrastructure upgrades in the downtown core, including ageing underground sewer lines and street lighting.

The project includes street lighting upgrades for Skinner Street between Commercial Street and Bastion Street, at an estimated cost of $295,000.

It will also see approximately $972,500 spent to replace water mains and sewer lines along the Cliff Street corridor, as well as improvements like road repaving on Cliff, Skinner and Benson Street.

Benson Street, a short, hilly connector road between Cliff and Skinner, is also due to get a new sidewalk and street lighting upgrades.

City construction manager Steve Ricketts said the project is “certainly a major one” for the downtown, and one of the most significant over the next few years.

“It’s a full utility upgrade and there’ll likely be road reconstruction (needed)” due to the underground utility upgrades, Ricketts said.

The work is expected to take place later this year between April and July.

Ricketts acknowledged the construction will have an impact on local street traffic, including on-street parking.

Skinner Street in particular is a relatively narrow corridor that runs past the court house and several business storefronts.

Ricketts said the city has met with

“Once we get a contractor, we’ll sit down with them and plan out how we do the work.”

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business to inform them of the work and said plans will be put in place to minimize the disruption to court workers and attendees and business.

“Certainly when we do the road improvements along Cliff, things will be better defined,” he said.

“Once we get a contractor, we’ll sit down with them and plan out how we do the work,” Ricketts added.

He also said the city is experienced in these types of projects, pointing to major upgrades along Bowen Road, one of the city’s major corridors, in recent years.

More than $75,000 was budgeted last year for design work for the project.

Most of the project’s costs is being funded through reserves, while approximately $521,000 is being covered by general tax revenue.

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Retirement has never looked so good!

John Winter looked ecstatic when it was announced that Harbour Air won the “Business of the Year” award at the 16th Annual Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards Gala, held in Nanaimo Thursday.

The Harbour Air Group, with offices in Nanaimo and Victoria, is the largest all-seaplane company in the world with over 50 aircraft and a number of subsidiaries.

“We’ve had steady growth since we began Harbour Air 35 years ago,” Winter, the company’s manager in Nanaimo, told the more than 200 people who gathered at the Coast Bastion Inn for the gala.

“But without our customers, we wouldn’t be in business.”

The business excellence awards were founded by the Business Examiner Vancouver Island in 1999, and have become a “can’t miss” date on the calendar of events for many businesses on the Island.

Out of the more than 150 nominations received, judges choose 81 finalists in 17 categories.

“Some truly amazing businesses were honoured at the awards, and deservedly so,” said Mark MacDonald, publisher of the Business Examiner.

Winners of the other categories are; • Small Business of the Year: Industry Hair and Body Care of Campbell River.

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• Agriculture/Aquaculture Business of the Year: Hollie Wood Oysters of Fanny Bay. • Automotive Business of the Year: Associated Tire & Auto of Campbell River.

• Construction/Development Business of the Year: Pheasant Hill Homes Ltd. of Nanaimo.

• Entrepreneur of the Year: Cumberland Brewing Company of Cumberland.

• Forestry/Wood Products Business of the Year: Canadian Bavarian Millwork & Lumber Ltd. of Chemainus.

• Green Business of the Year: Oughtred Coffee & Tea Ltd. of Victoria.

• Health Care Business of the Year: Victoria Eye of Victoria.

• Hospitality/Tourism Business of the Year: Orca Spirit Adventures of Victoria.

• Manufacturing Business of the Year: Revolution 3D Printers of Sidney.

• Professional Business of the Year: Pacific Rim College of Victoria.

• Real Estate Business of the Year: The Dave Team of Port Alberni.

• Retail Business of the Year: Level 10 Eurospa of Courtenay.

• Technology Business of the Year: StarFish Medical of Victoria.

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The City of Parksville will spend almost $50,000 this year killing geese in the Englishman River estuary.

City council voted in favour of the expenditure at a meeting Monday night, a figure that could rise to more than $100,000 over the next few years.

“I’ve been fed up now for 12 years; let’s get rid of them,” said Mayor Marc Lefebvre.

Council approved an expenditure of $35,000 this year and the city will continue with an egg-addling program, which was approved previously with $13,000 of funding.

The $35,000 provided Monday could be repeated for both 2017 and 2018. The city will ask the Regional District of Nanaimo to fund one-third of the program.

“In order to get ahead of the geese, we have to proceed with something drastic, which is a cull, over the next three years,” said the city’s chief administrative officer, Debbie Comis.

So-called humane cull procedures are set by the provincial veterinarian.

“That doesn’t mean it’s pretty,” said Comis.

In June of last year, council adopted in principle the 38 recommendations in a goose management strategy prepared by a group called the Guardians of Mid-island Estuaries Society.

On Monday, council put the city’s name behind cull applications from the Guardians to the provincial and federal governments.

The vote Monday night was not unanimous. Coun.

Al Greir doesn’t seem convinced the Guardians — who will essentially use the city’s money to hire a contractor to kill the geese— are the right people to do the job.

“We have been doing this (working with the Guardians) since 2008 and the estuary gets worse and worse and it’s costing us a lot of money,” said Greir.

The Capital Regional District spent $31,500 to cull a total of 43 geese last year — $725 a goose.

A related recommendation passed Monday by council calls for the city to write the federal environment ministry to request legislative changes to allow the use of the culled geese for human or animal consumption. In her report, Comis suggested those changes won’t likely happen in time for the use of the dead geese in Parksville this year.

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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.

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: ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

acetic acid – Ecoclear, Munger’s Hort Vinegar or equivalent, aminocyclopyrachlor and chlorsulfuron – Truvist or equivalent aminocyclopyrachlor and metsulfuron-methyl – Navius or equivalent aminopyralid – Milestone or equivalent aminopyralid and metsulfuron-methyl – ClearView or equivalent

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aminopyralid, metsulfuron-methyl, and fluroxypyr – Sightline or equivalent aminopyralid, metsulfuron-methyl and triclopyr – Clearview Brush or equivalent Chlorsulfuron – Telar or equivalent Chondrostereum purpureum – Chontrol or equivalent clopyralid – Lontrel, Transline or equivalent or equivalent dicamba – Vanquish, Banvel or equivalent

○ dichlorprop-P and 2,4-D – Estaprop XT or equivalent ○ diflufenzopyr and dicamba – Distinct, Overdrive or equivalent ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

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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picloram and 2,4-D – Aspect or equivalent triclopyr – Garlon products or equivalent Trifluralin – BioBarriere, Treflan or equivalent 2,4-D – LV700 or equivalent

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.

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As a fourth year student in the Child and Youth Care degree program at Vancouver Island University, Sara Marshall has heard the same question more than a few times.

“A lot of people have asked me if I’m going to work in a daycare,” she says.

And while that’s certainly one of the options for graduates, Marshall usually continues her answer with a long list of possible careers for child and youth care workers.

Marshall and her fellow CYC students are looking forward to learning even more about the future career possibilities in the field on Jan. 27, when VIU welcomes back 20 alumni of the program for a ‘meet and greet’ session from 6:30-8:30 pm in Building 180’s first floor lecture hall.

“We’re inviting all current CYC students and the public to come out to meet our alumni and hear about their careers since graduating at VIU,” said CYC professor Teri Derksen.

“The evening will be set up in a ‘speed dating’ format, which will provide quick match-ups of alumni with students and anyone interested in the program. It’s a chance to ask questions and gain some insight from our alumni working in a variety of fields.”

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.

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.

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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Holding key interest rate steady is best for Canada E conomists were split on what the Bank of Canada would do on Wednesday — lower interest rates or stand pat.

The central bank wisely chose the latter option.

Canada’s economy has been battered by continuing low, and still dropping, crude oil and other resource-based commodity prices.

That ongoing drag on the economy, combined with unexpected fourth quarter weakness in the critical U.S. market, led to expectations by some economists the Bank of Canada might try another rate cut in hopes of sparking growth.

That would have been problematic for the central bank, however. With the bank’s overnight rate already down to a mere 0.5 per cent, Govern-

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Many risk factors remain, including the central bank’s assumptions about the global economy, oil prices and the loonie.

or Stephen Poloz and his colleagues only have a few more rate cuts in their arsenal.

So there had to be overwhelming evidence a rate cut was needed.

More worrying would have been the impact of another interest rate cut on the already diminished loonie, which dipped below 69 cents US Wednesday.

In December, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised its federal funds rate target range to 0.25-0.5 per cent and signalled further increases are likely.

That further strengthened the rising U.S. dollar, as higher interest rates south of the border make American currency investments more attractive.

If the Bank of Canada goes in the other direction and cuts interest rates here, that would put even more downward pressure on the loonie.

The Canadian dollar is seen globally as a petro-currency that’s already been reeling due to the fall in oil prices.

The lower Canadian dollar is now helping non-energy commodity exporters, but imports — both for businesses and consumers — have

gotten pricier. Too low a loonie would hurt more than it helps.

The central bank’s statement Wednesday underlined that it expected the global economic recovery to continue this year, highlighted by a strengthening U.S. market and more sustainable Chinese growth path.

The other factor buttressing the bank’s stand-pat approach is the new Liberal government’s plan to increase infrastructure spending by billions of dollars a year.

The central bank pointed out its GDP projections for Canada — 1.5 per cent this year and 2.5 per cent in 2017 — don’t incorporate “the positive impact of fiscal measures expected in the next federal budget.”

With inflation expected to remain under control, even with higher-priced imports due to the lower loonie, the Bank of Canada is clearly hoping Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget — in either February or March — will provide an economic boost that will hopefully make further interest rate cuts unnecessary.

Many risk factors remain, including the central bank’s assumptions about the global economy, oil prices and the loonie. For now, the bank is willing to wait and see.

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nternational Holocaust Memorial Day is on Wednesday.

Every year it falls on the same date, the day that Auschwitz was liberated in 1945. But it is not the same as Yom Ha’Shoah, the commemoration of the Holocaust in Israel since that date moves around.

Yom Ha’Shoah, this year on May 5, is also the Holocaust commemoration date recognized in B.C. So, we get two chances yearly to remember and honour the victims of the worst effort at genocide of the 20th century. Sadly, not the last.

There are the facts that grimly record what in Hebrew is called the Shoa — the camps, the shocking efficiency of killing, the mind-boggling numbers, the soap, the mounds of hair, glasses and clothes; the teeth extracted for gold.

A few Shoa survivors, children then and now very old, still stand as faithful witnesses. They refuse to allow either their testimony or those who died to be forgotten.

A lot has been written about the Shoa, but one account stands out.

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a powerful book and a good starting point to learn more about this disturbing moment in human history.

Much education around the Shoa concerns, to quote Auschwitz

survivor Primo Levi, “man’s inhumanity to man.”

Levi was an Italian chemist whose writings remind us that if it happened once, it can happen again; and that whenever we allow such horrors to go on unopposed, we also participate in that oppression.

So, how did the Shoa happen? The links in that awful chain, starting with anti-Semitism rife in Europe for centuries, to the rabid ravings in Mein Kampf, to the Nuremberg Laws, the Final Solution and finally the smoke rising from the chimneys are well documented.

Psychology provides some insights but no definitive answers.

But there’s a wide gulf between knowing and understanding.

Hannah Arendt in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem tried to understand and explain in the words of a philosopher, historian and journalist.

Her assessment of Eichmann, the top bureaucrat of the Final Solution, but unable to initiate any original ideas of his own, was simply that vapid Nazi ideology filled a vacuum in his dull soul.

It was easier for him to let the Nazi

bromides that guided his thinking and actions go uncontradicted, because doing otherwise would have required intellectual effort.

Thus he organized the killing of millions only because going with the murderous flow was the easiest path.

With a few exceptions, going with the flow seemed to be the state of Germany between 1933 and 1945.

A top Nazi much smarter than Eichmann, Albert Speer, missed being hung by using a variation of the same “little cog in a big machine” argument that Eichmann used at his trial in Jerusalem; Speer said he was kept out of the loop by those who originated this evil.

But Speer, we now know, lied when he said at his trial in Nuremberg that he didn’t know about the Holocaust.

The idea of the “Good Nazi,” as Speer was sometimes called, is an obscene fabrication.

Eichmann and Speer engaged in fantastic levels of self-deception and moral duplicity, as did many in Germany for the 12 years of the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945.

Those Germans who did question and criticize, such as the university

student Sophie Scholl and her brother, faced the death camps or execution. The clerics Martin Niemöller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were also persecuted for speaking out.

Most Germans in the Third Reich lived in fear. Those who did not fear joined the Nazis; but the majority stayed silent while some with incredible courage opposed them.

When we recall the Shoa, those who resisted should also be remembered alongside the murdered.

Those few understood a profound message that is difficult to articulate, but Primo Levi tried: “Never forget that this has happened.

Remember these words.

Engrave them in your hearts, When at home or in the street, When lying down, when getting up.

Repeat them to your children.

Or may your houses be destroyed, May illness strike you down, May your offspring turn their faces from you.” » Paul Walton is the night editor at the ‘Daily News.’ He can be reached at paul.walton@nanaimodailynews.com

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Court case breaks legal ground on harassment City lawyer says boundaries about threats online clearer DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

A judge’s finding of not guilty for a Toronto man of harassment through social media breaks new legal ground without limiting testy exchanges online.

It gives police, lawyers and the courts a clearer idea of the boundaries for what harassment is, says Nanaimo lawyer and MLA Leonard Krog.

“It’s not really so much about Twitter, it’s what constitutes in criminal harassment the threat of violence,” Krog said.

On Friday, Gregory Alan Elliott was found not guilty of using criminal harassment of two women’s right activists in an Ontario Court of Justice. His accusers, Stephanie Guthrie and Heather Reilly, said he repeatedly tormented them through the popular social media.

While the judge noted Elliott’s behaviour was at times insulting and “homophobic,” he was cleared, in part, because his tweets were not considered overtly sexually or physically threatening.

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The case raises issues around free speech.

“I’m a huge supporter of free speech, but where do you draw the line between free speech and behaviour society wants to condemn as criminal?” Krog said. “One person’s freedom is another person’s brutality. There’s no question the facts of this case would point to what I would call absolutely offensive behaviour, but the judge is probably right, it didn’t meet the definition of criminal harassment.”

It’s an interesting case, said

Nanaimo social media expert Reed Botwright.

“It starts to shape up our expectations for behaviour online, as law catches up,” said Botwright, a consultant who maintains Nicely Done Social Media on Facebook.

“We’ve seen the Internet as this wild west, with not a lot of law governing it.”

He said the code for social media is not to say anything you wouldn’t say at a cocktail party.

“There’s always other people who will here it, and you don’t know how it will spread.”

When information moves at the speed of the Internet, social media can ruin reputations instantly.

Botwright pointed to the case of a U.S. public relations official who issued a tweeted deemed racially slurred before an intercontinental flight, and “by the time she landed in South Africa, her career had ended.”

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Membership will decide on Mulcair ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Sheila Malcolmson has no opposition to Tom Mulcair retaining his job as head of the federal NDP Party.

Malcolmson, who was elected as the NDP MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith in November’s federal election, said she also felt a “very strong sense of commitment” from the other 42 NDP MPs at this week’s caucus retreat in Montebello, Que., to keep Mulcair as party leader.

“Tom (Mulcair) indicated that he would continue to stay on as leader if party members still support him,” Malcolmson said.

“But it’s up to the membership to decide.”

The NDP will be holding a convention in April, one is held after

every election, and a leadership review will be part of that.

Malcolmson said the MPs also discussed their plans and strategies for the upcoming sitting of the House of Commons, which is scheduled to begin next week.

She said that she intends to bring forward legislation to deal with abandoned vessels.

“I want to continue the work on this issue that was begun by Jean Crowder (the former NDP MP for Nanaimo-Cowichan),” Malcolmson said.

“The Conservatives voted against it the last time it came to a vote, but the Liberals supported it, so I’m hopeful that we can move forward on dealing with the abandoned vessels.”

Malcolmson said she’s look-

ing forward to representing Nanaimo-Ladysmith in the House of Commons.

She said she “got her feet wet” during the five days the new Parliament sat in December, and she’s eager to dig in again to do the best job she can for her constituents and her country.

“I have been chosen to give the 10-minute address to the Throne Speech on Tuesday, and that will give me an opportunity to talk about my riding, and the NDP’s strong support for jobs and the protection of the environment in Canada.”

Mulcair also said he and his team plan to press the Liberal government to pursue a progressive agenda in Parliament when they return to Ottawa next week.

A neighbourhood library, located at the corner of Pine Street and Campbell Street was set on fire. Police are investigating. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

Community library burned AARON HINKS DAILY NEWS

Carolynne Sacht and her sister Cheryl Ward are reeling after a precious family heirloom, which doubled as a community library, was set on fire.

The neighbourhood library, located near the Pine Street and Campbell Street intersection, held great significance to the family. It was originally a custom built gun cabinet given to their father, Walter, from their mother more than 40 years ago.

After Walter died in 2001 the piece sat dormant for years while the family tried to figure out what to do with it. Eventually, with the help of Ward’s husband, Harry, they decided to turn it into a community library. “(Walter) would have got a kick out of that,” said Harry. “He always had a stack of, didn’t matter, could be National Geographic, all sorts of magazines and books. He loved the old trains and old logging books.”

What’s left now is nothing more but a pile of charred rubble.

Blackened books sit stacked on a wooden bench within arms reach of the library.

At approximately 9 p.m. Wednesday a motorist knocked on Sacht’s door to tell her the community bookcase was on fire.

Sacht said it was raining at the time and she could see the flames several feet in the air.

Harry ran out of the house with a fire extinguisher, he knocked down most of the flames but the damage was already done.

Nanaimo Fire Rescue determined that the origin of the fire is suspicious. The investigation has been turned over to the RCMP. The library has been a well used neighbourhood fixture since Oct. 2014.

“Sometimes there were too many books. We had to store them on the shelf underneath,” Sacht said.

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METCHOSIN

Fire destroys home, blocks commuter traffic ARNOLD LIM GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE

Commuters are once again able to travel between Victoria and its satellite community of Sooke.

The news isn’t so good, however for a resident of Metchosin.

A home on the 4100-block of Sooke Rd., which connects Victoria and Sooke via the Western Communities, has been destroyed completely fol-

lowing an early morning blaze that completely engulfed the building and even set fire to power lines which also went down alongside it.

A single resident and two dogs had escaped the fire, but there was no saving the home.

“The house is a complete destruction,” said Metchosin fire chief Stephanie Dunlop.”(Even) power lines had burned through on the

house and dropped across the road.”

Because there is no fire hydrants or public water along the road, she said they had to truck in their own water and fire departments from Langford and Sooke joined Metchosin to battle the blaze.

“Once we hit it with water it took approximately 30 minutes, but they are still here doing mop up it is going to smoulder in places for a

while. We are making it safe now and most crews were out of here by 8 a.m.,” she said.

“Our appreciation to our mutual aid partners, it was a great team effort.”

She said the call came in at approximately 5:16 a.m. temporarily closing traffic off both ways.

The cause of the blaze is currently unknown.

A firefighter looks on at the remains of a Metchosin home. [ARNOLD LIM]

CAMPBELL RIVER

BAMFIELD

Injection of dam release water turns Elk Falls into mini Niagara

First Nation buys up big chunks of town

MIKE DAVIES CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

Even the weather couldn’t keep away the hundreds of people who made their way up to Elk Falls on Tuesday.

They made the trip to see our natural wonder flowing at 10 times its normal volume as BC Hydro diverted flow from their penstocks at the John Hart Dam and sent them down the canyon instead.

The flow was increased in order to deal with grass and wood debris that collects behind the dam. This debris needs to be removed a few times per year, as it restricts the water flow into the penstocks. Only once per year, however, do they need to reduce flows into the penstocks in order to do the work, diverting the water down the canyon, and producing the spectacular show at the falls.

The public will only get two more chances to see the falls at this kind of velocity.

After the completion of the new generating station, there will no longer be a need to divert the flow to clean the water intake because of the way the new generating station works, so next year and 2018 will be public’s last two chances to see this kind of power flowing over Elk Falls.

BC Hydro is also advising anglers to be cautious around the Campbell River until Feb. 15.

River flows on hydroelectric systems can change whether through planned or unplanned adjustments.

BC Hydro has permanent public warning signage along the river and sirens that initiate once a certain flow rate threshold is reached.

“BC Hydro has the ability in our

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Elk Falls witnessed ten times its normal volume on Tuesday. {CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR]

water licence to adjust operations at our John Hart facility to respond to electric system demands, planned outages within our grid system, and to make the most economic use through market conditions of water stored in our reservoirs,” said BC Hydro

spokesperson, Stephen Watson.

“We ask that fishers that may be in or around the river to be aware of this operational flexibility and to be cautious during this six-week period.

We will try to ramp up the flows in the early morning before daylight.

A property deal involving a local First Nation has renewed hope for the community of Bamfield.

Huu-ay-aht First Nations have purchased 11 parcels along Bamfield Inlet, representing a significant investment in the community.

Hereditary chief Derek Peters said, as head chief, he is proud that his Nation could make such a large investment.

“By purchasing these properties, it will give my tribe more opportunity to play an economic role in the region,” he said. “Outside of our current forestry operations, it’s a good step into tourism.”

The properties include residential lots, businesses, land with cultural significance and land with future development potential, including the Kingfisher Lodge and Marina and the Bamfield Airport.

Huu-ay-aht has been investigating the opportunity the properties offer the Nation and the community of Bamfield since the spring of 2015.

Elected Chief Robert J. Dennis Sr. said the work that the previous government put into this acquisition is greatly appreciated, and he is proud to see it receive support from citizens at their People’s Assembly.

By closing this deal, Huu-ay-aht has made a commitment to Bamfield to continue to build a strong relationship between the small First Nation and the neighbouring community.

Over the years, Bamfield residents have watched as businesses closed

“This will mean jobs and opportunities for Huu-ay-aht.”

Gary Wilson, Huu-ay-aht development

and the properties that once housed them fell into varying levels of disrepair.

By purchasing these properties, Huu-ay-aht First Nations hopes to breathe new life into the area and create a bright future.

“We have many citizens who remember growing up in what is now Bamfield Inlet,” Peters explained. “So to gain some of it back is a step in the right direction.”

“The Bamfield Property acquisition will be a cornerstone to the Nations’ Economic Plan, which will guide us into the future,” said Huu-ay-aht Councillor Trevor Cootes.

Huu-ay-aht takes possession of the properties immediately. Day-to-day operation of the businesses will fall under the responsibility of the Huuay-aht Development Corporation.

CEO Gary Wilson said their main focus will be ensuring there is a smooth transition, while adding Huu-ay-aht’s signature to current businesses.

“We are looking forward to getting ready for the upcoming tourist season,” he said. “This will mean jobs and opportunities for Huu-ay-aht. We will focus on training and capacity building to enable us to participate in tourism and hospitality industry in the region.”

COWICHAN

Conservation service investigates poaching after three Roosevelt elk are killed KEVIN ROTHBAUER COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

The Conservation Officer Service is asking the public for assistance in tracking down elk poachers who have been active in the Cowichan Valley recently.

The COS responded to two separate

elk kills in the area over the last two weeks, with three Roosevelt elk having been killed.

According to Sgt. Scott Norris, the limited hunt ended Jan. 10, and no elk should have been killed since then.

“There is no open hunting season, and no regulated killing should be

going on,” he said.

Last week, a cow and calf elk were found freshly killed on Island Timberlands property in the Glenora area. On Monday, the COS received a report of another cow elk killed near Caycuse.

“All three had their four quarters and backstraps removed,” Norris

said. “They left the heads and the ribcages there.”

All three had been shot with firearms, he added.

The loss of even three elk could have a serious effect on Roosevelt elk herds.

“The unfortunate thing is that when you start getting unregulated

hunting, it has an impact on the population,” Norris said. “They are very sensitive to overhunting. It can have a huge effect, especially since all three were females.”

Anyone with information should contact the RAPP line at 1-877952-7277. All callers can remain anonymous.

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Okanagan officials want muscle against mussels RICHARD ROLKE VERNON MORNING STAR

Residents of the Okanagan region are concerned about zebra mussels spreading to Okanagan and nearby lakes. [DAVE BRITTON/ONTARIO’S INVADING SPECIES AWARENESS PROGRAM]

Ottawa is being pressured to stop the potential invasion of mussels in the Okanagan.

The Okanagan Basin Water Board has written a letter to several ministers in the new Liberal government about the risk of zebra and quagga mussels.

“We want to make them aware of the need for a significant investment (in prevention),” said Juliette Cunningham, an OBWB and Regional District of North Okanagan director.

Since the mussels have taken hold across the U.S. and throughout Manitoba, the OBWB has been concerned they will appear in Kalamalka, Okanagan and other lakes.

“We have to throw a lot of resources into preventing them from moving further west.”

The mussels are native to Europe and they have spread across North America since the 1980s.

These mussels clog water intake pipes, pumps and boat motors.

Genetics versus culture in child custody battle The foster mother of a two-year-old girl fears the toddler will suffer psychological harm if the British Columbia government moves her to Ontario.

The woman, who cannot be named, said she always knew that the Ministry of Children and Family Development had planned to move the girl across the country to live with her older siblings, who she has never met.

But she said the ministry “mishandled” the case and took too long to make the arrangements. In the meantime, the little girl has bonded with the only family she has ever known, she said.

“A bond with a child that you’ve spent night and day with since she was born is very strong. It’s an emotional bond that goes beyond words,” the woman said in an interview Friday.

She and her husband have filed a court petition to stop the ministry from moving the girl. The foster mother is Metis, while the guardians in Ontario are not, raising questions about whether the toddler is better off with biological siblings or with a parent who shares her cultural background.

“When you’re in a family that shares that culture, the culture is able to come in a natural way and be a part of you.

Whereas when you’re in a family that doesn’t share that culture, they may try to expose you to it, but it’s not the same,” said the woman.

She said the girl doesn’t know that adults are in court fighting over her future. She fears that if moved, the toddler will suffer reactive attachment disorder, a lasting condition that makes it hard for people to form long-term emotional bonds.

Juliette Cunningham, North Okanagan regional district director

They also deplete food sources for fish and produce toxins that kill fish and birds and contaminate drinking water.

Among the action being sought from Ottawa is providing training and appropriate resources to border agents to ensure they can inspect and stop mussel infested watercraft from entering Canada.

OBWB also wants full-time seasonal inspection stations at major provincial crossings in Banff and Jasper national parks to protect the Columbia and Fraser River systems and Pacific salmon.

There is also a call for the federal government to become more active

in the Pacific Northwest Economic Region Invasive Species Working Group, which involves U.S. states.

“We can be effective if we combine our resources,” said Cunningham.

Another recommendation is for Ottawa to provide funding to Ontario and Manitoba to contain existing infestations at source waters, while directing funds to Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. for a co-ordinated inspection plan for areas not infested.

“We applaud the government of Canada’s stated commitment to provide much needed infrastructure improvement for Canadian communities,” said Doug Findlater, OBWB chairperson, in the letter.

“While we support this investment, particularly in the area of water supply and quality improvement infrastructure, the cost of necessary future investments in retrofitting and maintenance can be greatly reduced by preventing the spread of invasive zebra and quagga mussels.”

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“We want to make them aware of the need for a significant investment (in prevention).”

“It’s been mishandled and the child should not be the one who suffers. This has never been about us, this has always been about the child.”

She added that the girl’s biological parents live in B.C. and support her staying with the foster parents.

Lawyer Jack Hittrich is asking a B.C. Supreme Court judge for an interim order to keep the girl in the care of the foster parents until a full hearing on their petition can be held later this year.

Hittrich told the judge Friday that moving the girl across the country, and then possibly moving her back if the petition is successful, would harm her emotionally and mentally.

“There’s overwhelming evidence before you that the disruption of the status quo, pending the full hearing of the current petition, is simply not in the best interests of this little girl,” he said.

“Allowing a move to parents she has never met, who are truly strangers to her . . . and then moving her back, if the relief on appeal or the petition is successful, could be even more harmful to her.”

He said he has reports from psychologists who say the girl could suffer reactive attachment disorder, evidence that government lawyers have said is hearsay.

Leah Greathead, representing the Ministry of Children and Family Development, said a judge has already dismissed a similar petition by the foster parents and asking a second judge to rule on the matter is “pure craziness.”

Her co-counsel Tyna Mason told court the ministry has sole guardianship of the child and the decision to move her was made based on her best interests.

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Suspect treated after police officer fires gun Two men, one of them from Surrey, have been charged in connection with a daytime police-involved shooting that took place in a store parking lot in New Westminster Jan. 15.

New Westminster police were initially called for a report of a man causing a disturbance around noon near a Walmart in the Queensborough area.

The man was taken into custody, but then a second incident unfolded involving a different man, and a police officer fired a gun. The second man was taken to hospital, but later released.

Surrey resident Nathan McVannell, 32, has since been charged with aggravated assault, use of a firearm while attempting to commit an indictable offence, theft, resisting arrest, possession of a prohibited firearm and breaching firearms prohibition.

The Independent Investigations Office (IIO), which probes police involved shootings or deaths, is also investigating.

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Avalanche warning issued for most of B.C. Backcountry hikers, skiers and snowmobilers across British Columbia are being warned to take extreme care this weekend.

Avalanche Canada has issued a special public warning that begins today and remains in effect until Monday.

The warning applies to the northwest coast and south coast inland, as well as to the Cariboo, Columbia and Kootenay-Boundary regions, the Purcell range and the Lizard-Flathead area in southeastern B.C. Avalanche experts say a weak layer of snow has been buried under recent heavier snowfalls and the risk is especially pronounced at lower elevations, although hazards also exist at and above the treeline.

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Rocketing assessments successfully appealed A handful of Chilliwack-area commercial property owners shocked by assessed land value increases of as much as 900 per cent may see some reprieve.

The owners of Argyle’s Garden Market couldn’t believe it when they were told

by BC Assessment their property went from a value of $417,000 last year to $1.398 million this year. The land was said to have increased in value from $241,000 to $1.23 million.

Some of the neighbouring commercial properties at the intersection of Yale Road and Highway 9 shot up even more. The Petro-Canada property increased 947 per cent from $364,100 to $3.8 million.

But after the Argyles visited the BC Assessment office in Abbotsford on Tuesday they were pleasantly surprised by the response. The assessors and the Argyles then signed a “recommendation to decrease land value” document to change their 2016 assessment from $1.398 million to $751,000.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016

PHIL MELNYCHUK MAPLE RIDGE NEWS

Else Marie Kristiansen holds one of three pewter hearts that contain her son Steven’s remains. One of the hearts was stolen in a Chilliwack home burglary on Dec. 27. [JESSICA PETERS]

Women’s heart stolen along with remains of dead son JESSICA PETERS CHILLIWACK PROGRESS

Countless valuables were stolen from Else Marie Kristiansen and her son on Dec. 27.

Hunting and fishing equipment, electronics and jewelry, were all snagged by thieves who busted in their front door while they were away. But among the items with hefty price tags were a few things nobody could put a price on.

The thieves stole her heart.

When Kristiansen’s youngest son, Steven, died at age 22 in a car crash, she had his remains divided and placed in three pewter hearts. One was for her, and the other two were for Steven’s older brothers.

They each were placed in small

velvet boxes and closed with a brass clasp. Else kept her heart on a shelf, alongside a hand-carved box filled with Steven’s guitar picks. Also on the shelf was a wicker basket, where she has kept what little change he’d had when he died.

“Anything that he would have touched,” she says, is what she kept close to her. And the pewter heart is something she would hold when she needed to be near him.

The heart fits nicely inside two hands, and has been a source of comfort for the last five and a half years.

The back is sealed with an emblem with his name — Steven Quinn Kristiansen and the logo for the Bakerview Crematorium and Celebration Centre.

Of all the things she would like to have replaced, that pewter heart is the most important.

She is appealing to whoever has this heart, be it the thief or someone else, to please return it.

In the meantime, she’s borrowing one of the two remaining hearts for comfort.

“It’s a keepsake, you sit and hold it when you need to,” she says.

Why anyone would want it is beyond her imagination. She assumes whoever took it assumed it was a jewelry box.

Steven died on his 22nd birthday, alongside his friend Kaleb Jack, in Mission. Steven had graduated from Mission secondary and planned to join the RCMP.

Fire broke out at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre Wednesday night, sending one correctional officer to emergency and causing more than a dozen others to be treated for smoke inhalation.

B.C. Government Employees Union spokesperson Dean Purdy said the fire started about 6 p.m. when two inmates in a segregation cell set a mattress on fire in an attempt to get into the hallway to get at another inmate.

The segregation unit is where inmates go who are being disciplined for violating prison rules who are being charged internally.

“They started a fire by lighting a mattress on fire. All 19 inmates in the segregation unit were evacuated out of their cells into the densely, smokefilled hallway,” Purdy said. “Correctional officers responded to the scene without breathing apparatus.”

Despite that, the guards were able to get control of the inmates, handcuff them and remove them from the segregation unit.

Nineteen of the officers who responded were treated for smoke inhalation, suffering headaches, burning lungs and eyes.

In addition to one guard who was treated in hospital emergency, others were seeing doctors on Thursday.

It’s another example of the violence that correctional officers face daily in the overcrowded prison, said Purdy, repeating his statement that the prison now holds 500 inmates, though it originally was built with capacity of about 254. He didn’t have details yet about injuries to the inmates.

“We know that these type of incidents can happen and that violence is rampant at this jail and the other five maximum-security jails,” in B.C. An auditor’s report from 2015, said Fraser Regional had the highest number of violent incidents in the B.C. Corrections system.

COURTS

CSIS in second bid to close terror trial hearing GEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Canada’s spy agency is back in court asking that information about its involvement in a British Columbia terrorism probe be kept secret from the public.

For the second time in two weeks, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service asked Justice Catherine Bruce of the British Columbia Supreme Court to allow a closed-door hearing into whether the RCMP entrapped a couple found guilty in a terrorist bomb plot.

John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were found guilty of planting pressure-cooker explosives at the

B.C. legislature on Canada Day 2013.

The convictions have been put on hold while their lawyers argue the pair was manipulated by police in an elaborate undercover sting.

This time, a lawyer representing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service argued some of the information is sensitive enough to national security that part of the closed-door proceedings must also exclude both defence and Crown lawyers, with only intelligence agency lawyers and the judge present.

“Submissions would have to be provided on that basis or not at all,” Donaree Nygard told the judge on Thursday.

“The circle of privilege must be maintained. . . . My client is willing to open up the privilege to your ladyship, but no further.”

Addressing the request for an in-camera hearing, Nygard said the courtroom’s public gallery should be closed to spectators and media because even the most well-intentioned lawyers could let slip confidential information.

“You can’t put the cat back in the bag,” she said about the risk of accidental disclosure.

“After it’s been said it’s been said.

It’s been heard by anyone who’s in the courtroom and that can’t be undone.”

The defence argued earlier this month that an alleged human source for Canada’s spy agency may have helped radicalize Nuttall.

CSIS’s argument is that information might be revealed that would risk identifying this alleged human source, which would put both that person and the person’s family in danger.

Lawyer Dan Burnett argued on behalf of six media outlets fighting the in-camera order, including The Canadian Press, that a closed-door hearing was too extreme and trampled on the fundamental principle that the courts should be open to the public.

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Four die in Saskatchewan shooting Solemn Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed deaths from Switzerland, and said others were wounded JENNIFER GRAHAM THE CANADIAN PRESS

LA LOCHE, Sask. — As people in a remote Dene community try to fathom any possible motive for a mass shooting that took the lives of four people and wounded several others Friday, witnesses are recalling a terrifying scene of panic as students fled for their lives.

Noel Desjarlais-Thomas was just returning from lunch at the junior and senior high school in La Loche, Sask., when the shooter opened fire.

In a flash, his friends were running past him, urging him to get out.

“Run, bro, run!” the 16-year-old said his friends shouted.

“There’s a shotgun! There’s a shotgun! They were just yelling to me.

And then I was hearing those shots, too, so of course I started running.”

The teen said it was a blur of partial sights and sounds. He thought he saw one of his friends fall to the ground after being shot, but wasn’t sure.

“You know how it is — something happens, you’ve got to go for your life. I ended up running and I didn’t want to look back.”

Geordie Janvier, 16, was walking in the halls when the shots rang out.

“We were going back to gym class, that’s when I heard the first shot,” he explained. “I looked back. He didn’t see me, that’s why I ran to the gym class, closed the door, and I ran in the dressing room. We stayed there for, like, three hours.”

LGBT Tories want party to change policy THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Tories says now is the time to drop language opposing same-sex marriage from Conservative party policy.

The party’s need to rebuild after the fall election provides an opportunity to get rid of a policy that’s offensive and hurts the party’s chances for growth, a group called LGBTories says and they are asking interim party leader Rona Ambrose for help.

“This policy is a significant obstacle to the acceptance of the Conservative message by voters who would otherwise be attracted to the party’s stance on economic, security, and foreign policy issues,” they wrote in a letter to her made public this week.

Leitch is among those considering a bid for the federal party leadership, a race likely to kick off in earnest at this spring’s Conservative policy convention.

The outside of La Loche Community School on Friday. Five people were killed and two critically injured in a mid-day shooting at the remote northern Saskatchewan school. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Desjarlais-Thomas forwarded to The Canadian Press a screenshot of a chilling exchange that had taken place on social media a short time before the shooting between a young man and his friends.

“Just killed 2 ppl,” wrote the young man. “Bout to shoot ip the school.”

“Why?” asked a friend. “Why?” Kevin Janvier said his 23-year old daughter, Marie, a teacher, was one of the victims.

RCMP told him the gunman is believed to have first shot two of his own siblings before killing Janvier’s daughter. He didn’t know if the shooter personally knew his daughter.

“He shot two of his brothers at his home and made his way to the school,” said Janvier, adding that Marie was his only child. “I’m just so sad.”

RCMP confirmed at a brief news

conference Friday night that the alleged shooter was in custody and they had investigators at both the school and a second location.

Speaking from Davos, Switzerland, a solemn Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had been advised of the situation by the commissioner of the RCMP. “Obviously this is every parent’s worst nightmare,” the prime minister said. “We all grieve with and

stand with the community of La Loche and all of Saskatchewan on this terrible, tragic day.”

Bruce Heyman, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, sent a message of condolence and solidarity.

“We have experienced similar tragedies far too often in the United States and understand all too well the heartache and sadness that result from such a horrific event,” he said.

Canadian tennis superstar Milos Raonic, competing at the Australian Open, dedicated his game victory to the people of La Loche.

“It was a difficult day back home . . . I want to take a moment and give thoughts to that community, the families, the students and the school affected. Today’s victory was for that community and a quick recovery. All of Canada and I’m sure the world is behind you.”

Initially, the indication was five people had been killed but RCMP Chief Supt. Maureen Levy ended up revising that down to four at a news conference late Friday, adding that “a number” of others were injured.

She offered no further details.

“I can’t give any information about their sex or their ages. We are in the early onset of the investigation and we want to ensure the integrity of the investigation.”

Levy said one male was in custody, police had confiscated a firearm and there was no remaining risk to public safety. She said she was not aware of the threatening chat on social media.

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Energy East debate anything but ‘drama free’ LAUREN KRUGEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has said she wants the discussion over pipelines to be “drama free,” but this week it was anything but.

A coalition of Montreal-area mayors came out against the $15.7-billion Energy East Pipeline on Thursday, setting off a bout of cross-Canada sniping between municipal and provincial politicians over a matter that falls within federal jurisdiction.

Notley said it was “short-sighted” for the Montreal Metropolitan Community to oppose Energy East on the grounds its risks outweigh its economic benefit.

Other Western politicians had harsher words on social media.

“I trust Montreal-area mayors will politely return their share of $10B in equalization supported by West,” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall tweeted.

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre retorted with the respective populations of metropolitan Montreal

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versus Saskatchewan: four million compared to 1.13 million.

Meanwhile, Brian Jean, head of Alberta’s Opposition Wildrose Party, blasted Coderre for allowing raw sewage to be dumped into the St. Lawrence River while opposing Energy East on environmental grounds.

The tone between Notley and her Ontario counterpart was much more congenial at a news conference Friday.

Premier Kathleen Wynne praised the climate change initiatives of

Alberta’s NDP government, saying those efforts are making “the national conversation about climate targets and pipelines easier.”

Many of Ontario’s conditions for supporting the pipeline are starting to be addressed, Wynne added.

Energy East, proposed by Calgary-based TransCanada Corp., would take up to 1.1 million barrels a day of Alberta crude as far east as an Irving Oil refinery and export terminal in Saint John, N.B. In Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau encouraged everyone to work together.

“I’m very much in the camp of both premiers Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on eco-ssues for all of us. That’s the focus that I’ve always taken — collaborating, respectful, working together to solve the challenges that are facing all Canadians.”

Trevor McLeod, director of the centre for natural resources policy at the Canada West Foundation, said the sub-national pipeline spat is frustrat-

ing to watch when there are bigger issues to deal with — like the U.S. going from Canada’s biggest customer to its biggest competitor.

“There’s big stuff going on right now and we’re playing this parochial game in Canada about who gets what,” he said. “Are we a country or not? If you can’t get product through the other provinces to global markets, I don’t think we can sustain this notion that we’re going to be a trading nation.”

The debate over pipelines has become the “trickiest national unity issue in Canada” over the past five years or so, said Sean Kheraj, a York University historian focused on Canada’s approach to energy and the environment.

Mount Royal University political scientist Keith Brownsey said Ottawa has the power to declare Energy East a “national project” and approve it over local objections.

“I think there will be a reluctance on the part of Mr. Trudeau — as there was on the part of Mr. Harper — to make those decisions.”

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Man not guilty of harassing woman on Twitter

Much of eastern U.S. hit hard by big snowstorm

PAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A controversial acquittal in what’s believed to be Canada’s first criminal harassment trial involving Twitter is being hailed by some as a victory for freedom of speech and condemned by others as a green light for online attacks.

Murmurs rippled through a packed Toronto courtroom Friday as Gregory Alan Elliott was cleared on all charges stemming from his dealings with two local women’s rights activists, Stephanie Guthrie and Heather Reilly, on the popular social network.

The decision, which focused heavily on the nature of Twitter and freedom of expression, also made waves online, with supporters and opponents weighing in on the verdict’s significance.

“It’s not surprising that it’s controversial and also not surprising that people are taking extreme views,” said Cara Zwibel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

“It’s a significant decision because the judge spent some time grappling with freedom of expression and thinking through how people communicate on Twitter and what the implications of it are or could be, but it’s also very context- and fact-specific and looking specifically at the evidence in this case,” she said.

“So in that sense I think it has somewhat limited value as a precedent because it’s always going to depend on the specific facts and context that we’re talking about.”

Elliott, a graphic designer and father of four, was arrested in November 2012 after months of tweeting back and forth with the activists.

Elliott’s tweets contained nothing of a “violent or sexual nature,” and there was no indication he intended to hurt the women so their fear could not be justified, Knazan said.

In the posts, Elliott was largely explaining himself and furthering his views “however offensive or wrong they may be,” the judge said, while recognizing the language could be “vulgar and sometimes obscene.”

Guthrie and Reilly were unreasonable in expecting Elliott to keep out of Twitter conversations they were involved in simply because they asked him to, nor could the use of hashtags be considered an attempt to contact them directly, he said.

“Once someone creates a hashtag, anyone can use it,” he said. “Everyone has to be able to use it freely; anything less will limit the operation of Twitter in a way that is not consistent with freedom of expression.”

Elliott’s lawyer, Chris Murphy, said outside court that the ruling should be reassuring to all social media users.

Conditions quickly became treacherous along path of storm JESSICA GRESKO AND SETH BORENSTEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A storm that arrived postcard-pretty in the nation’s capital Friday was morphing into a painful, even paralyzing blizzard with gale-force winds pushing heavy snow and coastal flooding.

One in seven Americans could get at least half a foot of snow by Sunday, and Washington could see snowdrifts more than 4 feet high.

The first flakes were lovely, but forecasters warned that much, much more was on its way.

Not that anyone will see the worst of it: Much heavier snow and wind gusts should create blinding whiteout conditions once the storm joins up with a low pressure system off the coast, said Bruce Sullivan, a forecaster at the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

Nearly metre of snowfall is forecast for Washington and Baltimore, and nearly as much for Philadelphia.

New York City’s expected total was upped Friday to a foot or more. But Sullivan said “the winds are going to be the real problem; that’s when we’ll see possible power outages.”

The result could create drifts up to 1.5 metres high, so measuring it for records could be difficult, he said.

By evening, wet, heavy snow was falling in the capital, making downed power lines more likely. And yet as many people remained on the roads, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said: “Find a safe place and stay there.”

Anyone trying to travel risks getting stuck for hours, marooned in odd places, or killed, authorities warned. At least seven people died

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016

NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ CALGARY

Ex-minister wants order on LGBTQ school policies A former Tory education minister says Alberta’s NDP government should order school boards, including the Catholic system, to adopt a policy that protects LGBTQ students if they won’t do it voluntarily.

Thomas Lukaszuk says the government would take some flak, but it would be in the best interest of students.

He says it would be a better move than disbanding school boards that refuse to fall in line.

Education Minister David Eggen has given school boards until the end of March to draft policies that protect these students from discrimination.

Some Catholic leaders and school trustees oppose the idea for religious reasons, arguing all students are already protected.

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Teacher who molested student, 17, gets prison Adrian Lapas scoops snow at the entrance to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Friday in Nashville, Tenn. [AP PHOTO]

in storm-related crashes before the worst of the storm, including Stacy Sherrill, whose car plummeted off an icy road in Tennessee. Her husband survived after climbing for hours up a 90-metre embankment.

“They’re slipping and sliding all over the place,” said Kentucky State Police Trooper Lloyd Cochran — as soon as one wreck was cleared, other cars slammed into each other, causing gridlock for hours on interstate highways.

Conditions quickly became treacherous all along the path of the storm.

Arkansas and Tennessee got 20 centimetres; Kentucky got about a metre, and states across the Deep South grappled with icy, snow-covered roads and power outages. Two tornadoes arrived along with the snow in Mississippi.

The storm could easily cause more than $1 billion in damage, weather service director Louis Uccellini said.

All the ingredients have come together for a massive snowfall: The winds initially picked up warm water from the Gulf of Mexico, and now the storm is taking much more moisture from the warmer-than-usual Gulf Stream as it rotates slowly over mid-Atlantic states, with the District of Columbia in its bulls-eye.

At least meteorologists appear to have gotten this storm right. Predictions converged and millions of people got clear warnings, well in advance.

Blizzard warnings stretched to just north of New York City. Boston and other New England cities should get a less windy winter storm, and much less snow.

A former Winnipeg high school gym teacher has been sentenced to four years in prison for sexually exploiting a female student.

Shane Vanveen, 34, appeared in court Thursday after pleading guilty to crimes involving a 17-year-old girl at a Winnipeg school in 2013.

He was sentenced under a joint recommendation from Crown and defence lawyers.

Prosecutor Debbie Buors told court the community needs to know the victim did nothing wrong, because by law, she could not consent to the relationship.

“These crimes have torn my heart apart and made me feel like the worst father in the world,” the victim’s father said in an impact statement. “I was not able to protect my little girl.”

The victim sat in the front row of the courtroom, beside her parents, but did not provide an impact statement.

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Angelil is remembered as a ‘giant’ THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Rene Angelil was remembered Friday as a loving father, a bon vivant and a man who helped put Quebec culture on the international map.

Angelil’s funeral was held at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica, the same church where he and singer Celine Dion were married in 1994.

The superstar walked to her seat holding the hands of her five-year-old twins Nelson and Eddy as the service began at 3:20 p.m. with a taped rendition of Dion’s version of the appropriately named “Trois heures vingt.”

Patrick Angelil, one of the deceased’s three adult children from two previous marriages, told the service his father treated others the way he wanted to be treated himself.

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“If he couldn’t always be there with us, he never missed a chance to declare his love for us,” he said of the impresario, who died of throat cancer last week at the age of 73.

“All our life, our father told us, ‘I love you.’”

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney described Angelil as a ”terrific gentleman” who will be sorely missed.

“He was a giant, Rene, and together they created the biggest success story in showbiz in Canadian history,” Mulroney said before the service.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is in Davos for the World Economic Summit, was represented by his spouse, Sophie Gregoire.

Others attending included Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Couillard and ex-premiers Bernard Landry and Jean Charest.

Landry said Angelil managed to give Quebec an ”international reputation” over the years. ”Celine, in her category, is the biggest of her time,” he added.

More than 87,000 child booster car seats sold at Canadian Tire stores are being recalled because they fail to meet safety regulations.

The retailer says four models of booster seats made by Transtek Trading Co. Ltd. and sold under the brand names Kukuxumusu and Apramo are being recalled.

The Kukuxumusu units have a manufacture date between February 2013 and September 2015, while the Apramo seats have a manufacture date between September 2013 and September 2015.

All units were sold at Canadian Tire stores across Canada.

The company says there have been no reports of any injuries associated with the seats.

However, it says the recall is being issued out of “an abundance of caution.”

Customers who have purchased the recalled products can return them to any Canadian Tire store for a refund.

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Europe migrant crisis claims more lives as 46 people drown off Greece

Feds say court bid on Senate no longer needed

NICHOLAS PAPHITIS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATHENS, Greece — The death toll in Europe’s migration crisis rose Friday when two overcrowded smuggling boats foundered off Greece and at least 46 people drowned — more than a third of them children — as European officials remained deeply divided on how to handle the influx.

More than 70 people survived, and a large air and sea search-and-rescue effort was underway off the eastern islet of Kalolimnos, the site of the worst accident. It was unclear how many people were aboard the wooden sailboat that sank there in deep water, leaving at least 35 dead.

Coast guard divers were due to descend to the sunken wreck early Saturday, amid fears that more people had been trapped below deck.

At least 800 people have died or vanished in the Aegean Sea since the start of 2015, as a record of more than 1 million refugees and economic migrants entered Europe. About 85 per cent of them crossed to the Greek islands from nearby Turkey, paying large sums to smuggling gangs for berths in unseaworthy boats.

Rights groups said the deaths highlight the need for Europe to provide those desperate to reach the prosperous continent’s shores with a better alternative to smuggling boats.

European policy toward its worst immigration crisis since World War II has diverged wildly so far. Germany — where most are heading — has welcomed those it considers refugees. Other countries, led by Hungary, have blocked or restricted them from entering and resisted plans to share the burden of refugees.

“These deaths highlight both the heartlessness and the futility of the

Dole salads pulled over Listeria fears THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dole is withdrawing packaged salads from Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada and 20 U.S. states due to a Listeria outbreak.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that packaged salads produced at a Dole facility in Ohio are linked to one death in Michigan and the hospitalizations of 12 people in six states.

The outbreak, which dates back to July, is linked to salads sold under the brand names Dole, Fresh Selections, Simple Truth, Marketside, The Little Salad Bar and PC Organics.

On Wednesday, the Public Health Agency of Canada reported that seven people had been hospitalized in a Listeria outbreak in five provinces, but the source had not been identified.

People pass into Macedonia from the northern Greek village of Idomeni on Thursday. Macedonian authorities have reopened their borders to asylumseekers heading north to wealthier European countries. [AP PHOTO]

growing chorus demanding greater restrictions on refugee access to Europe,” said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia program director.

“A manageable crisis has become a moral test that Europe is in danger of failing dismally,” he said.

The UN refugee agency said daily arrivals on the Greek islands have surged to more than 3,000 in the past two days, and it cited refugee testimony that smugglers have recently halved their rates amid deteriorating weather conditions.

“It is tragic that refugees, including families with young children, feel compelled to entrust their lives to unscrupulous smugglers in view of lack of safe and legal ways for refu-

gees to find protection,” said Philippe Leclerc of UNHCR Greece.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Berlin and pledged to continue to work intensively together not only to stem the flow of people but to improve conditions in camps in Turkey and to try to bring about a peace deal in Syria.

“The refugee crisis is not Germany’s crisis, it is not Europe’s crisis, it is not Turkey’s crisis,” Davutoglu said in a news conference with Merkel. “It is a crisis that was born out of the crisis in Syria. If we co-operate, we can bring this crisis under control. If we throw the issue at each other, solving this issue will become more difficult.”

Germany saw an unprecedented 1.1 million asylum-seekers arrive last year, many of them fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Turkey hosts more than 2.2 million Syrian refugees from a nearly fiveyear civil war that has killed a quarter of a million people and displaced half the country. Peace talks are scheduled to begin Sunday in Geneva, although officials say they might be delayed by a few days.

Davutoglu praised Merkel for her open-door stance, saying the steps she took “will go down in history.

The people of Syria will never forget this humanitarian stance.”

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warned that the 28-nation bloc faces big economic risks if its members start putting up walls that restrict borderless travel.

“We are doing studies of that, and it is impressive,” she said, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

But Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who last year built fences on his nation’s borders with Serbia and Croatia, praised Austria for setting a cap this week on the numbers of refugees it will take.

“Common sense has prevailed,” Orban said on state radio, calling the Austrian decision “the most important news of the past months.”

“Europe can’t take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner,” he said, adding that for Hungary, “the best migrant is the migrant who does not come.”

Greek authorities say neighbouring Macedonia has again stopped letting in refugees heading north from Greece, leaving about 750 people stranded on the border.

EUROPE

State of emergency in France over terror threat is extended THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — President Francois Hollande announced on Friday that the French government will ask parliament to approve a three-month renewal of the state of emergency put into place after the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.

It would be the second time the measure has been prolonged.

The president’s office said Hollande cited “the terrorist threat” in asking the government to present a bill at the Feb. 3 Cabinet meeting seeking a three-month extension of the state of emergency. The current state of emergency is to expire Feb. 26.

A state of emergency gives special powers to authorities, making it easi-

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er to place people under house arrest and conduct searches.

Critics contend the measure impinges on personal freedoms to little effect.

In a first, the Council of State, France’s highest administrative court, on Friday annulled one house arrest after the person in question, under guard in December, filed suit.

The Interior Ministry had claimed the man, not named, was linked to radical Islamists and was caught in May taking photos of an apartment where a journalist from Charlie Hebdo —attacked last March — was living under special protection. The man convinced the court his mother lives in the next building and was making a phone call — not taking photographs.

Nearly 400 people had been placed under house arrest through the state of emergency, according to an official breakdown in late December.

JOAN BRYDEN THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is arguing that a court challenge over prolonged vacancies in the Senate is moot now that it has created a new process for appointing non-partisan individuals to the discredited upper house.

But the Vancouver lawyer who launched the challenge, says it’s still important for the courts to determine whether a prime minister can let Senate seats sit empty indefinitely.

Aniz Alani notes that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s newly minted appointment process may yet face lengthy delays.

Moreover, New Democrats and Conservatives maintain Senate vacancies should be allowed to pile up until the chamber is effectively abolished by attrition.

Consequently, Alani says the courts must clarify if the prime minister has absolute discretion to fill Senate vacancies when — or if — he chooses.

Alani is asking the Federal Court to declare that there’s a constitutional obligation to fill vacant Senate seats within a reasonable time.

He launched the case last year when Stephen Harper was prime minister and refused to fill Senate vacancies.

Harper stopped appointing senators in March 2013, when the Senate expenses scandal began engulfing his Conservative government.

As a result, there were 22 vacancies in the upper house when Trudeau’s Liberals won power on Oct. 19. Four more seats are due to fall vacant this spring and summer as senators retire.

As promised by Trudeau, the new Liberal government has created an arm’s-length advisory board to recommend short lists of five non-partisan nominees for each vacancy.

The members of the board were named earlier this week and the government has said it hopes to fill five vacancies early this year, with the remainder to be filled by the end of 2016.

Federal lawyers, who are appealing a Federal Court judge’s refusal to dismiss Alani’s case, are now arguing the matter is moot since the new government has announced its intention to fill all the vacancies.

That means, “there is no longer any live controversy between the parties,” they argued in a letter Friday to the Federal Court of Appeal, which is scheduled to hear the appeal Monday.

The appeal court itself raised the matter earlier this week, advising the parties to come prepared to argue the mootness issue at Monday’s hearing.

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Climate action seen as key to promoting Canadian energy exports, says expert IAN BICKIS THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Strong environmental leadership will help boost Canada’s natural gas exports and could pave the way for future oilsands exports, says a high-profile analyst.

Robert Johnston, CEO of political risk assessment firm Eurasia Group, says Prime Minister Trudeau should promote stricter emissions targets in Asia to boost the potential of liquefied natural gas exports to the region.

“I see actually a very positive opportunity to align what Alberta wants for its gas sector, what Trudeau wants on climate change and what Asian consumers and governments really want,” Johnston said Friday at a Calgary Chamber event.

Coal is still projected to be the fastest-growing

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energy source in Asia, but cleaner-burning natural gas could replace some of that if the right regulations are in place.

“Canada has a role to play in advocating for natural gas a climate solution,” said Johnston.

The switch to natural gas would mean cleaner air for smog-choked Asian cities as well as help with the aim of reducing carbon emissions globally, making it a “quick and easy win” for Canada.

“If Prime Minister Trudeau and Hillary Clinton and EU leaders really want to do something about this, there’s an opportunity to put more gas into the market versus coal.”

Getting a liquefied natural gas exporting project completed would also have the symbolic benefit of showing Canada can still build and permit major infrastructure projects, Johnston added.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A presidential runoff that had already been delayed once and faced deep public skepticism was put on hold indefinitely Friday as Haiti’s leaders sought to negotiate a resolution to what threatens to become a constitutional crisis.

The Provisional Electoral Council decided to postpone Sunday’s vote because there is “too much violence throughout the country,” council president Pierre-Louis Opont said at a news conference. In recent days, a number of election offices across the impoverished nation have been burned and the capital has been rocked by violent opposition protests calling for a halt to the runoff.

The council did not set a new date for the vote. It also did not say whether an interim government would take power after Feb. 7, when President Michel Martelly is required to leave office under the Constitution, or if he would remain until a replacement is elected.

Martelly had been expected to address the issue in a speech to the nation Friday evening, but he cancelled his address without giving a reason.

Martelly’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Government opponents have insisted that the first round of presidential balloting Oct. 25 was marred by massive fraud in favour of the president’s handpicked successor, businessman Jovenel Moise. The runoff was originally supposed to be held Dec. 27, then rescheduled for Sunday.

Jude Celestin, also a businessman and the other candidate in the runoff, said he would boycott the vote, though his name remained on the ballot.

Neither candidate immediately returned messages seeking response to the electoral council’s decision.

Protests have grown increasingly violent in recent days, prompting the council to conclude it was too risky to try to hold the vote. Haiti has only a shaky handle on security even with the

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assistance of troops and police from a UN peacekeeping force that has been in the country since a 2004 uprising ousted then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Electoral Council offices in various towns have been attacked and set on fire in recent days, and election materials in a remote part of the country were hijacked by gunmen, Opont said.

Recent opposition-stoked protests in Port-au-Prince have ramped up the tension with rock-throwing partisans and burning street barricades.

Several thousand demonstrators cheered in celebration Friday after hearing the vote would be postponed.

Groups of mostly young men then proceeded to Petionville, a hillside district that is home to some of Haiti’s wealthiest citizens, where they smashed car windows, set a few vehicles alight and hurled rocks at police.

There has been growing concern that a flawed runoff might push the perennially volatile country of 10 million people to the edge of tumult, rolling back a decade of relative political stability and putting the brakes on foreign investment.

Elections are always a struggle in Haiti. It saw its first genuinely democratic election in 1990, closely followed by a coup d’etat. While there have been no shortage of opposition boycotts since, this is the first time that a presidential candidate is boycotting a runoff after qualifying for it.

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Are playoffs enough of a payoff?

Jim Benning has a plan for the Canucks as they move forward. And a Plan B, C and D ED WILLES THE PROVINCE

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ith the NHL trade deadline some five weeks away, Jim Benning is facing your basic conundrum.

On the one hand, the Vancouver Canucks find themselves in a playoff spot heading into the weekend. True, these things are subject to change on an hourly basis, but it’s been the stated goal of the organization to develop their young players in a competitive environment and the least you can say is the Canucks are succeeding on that front.

As it happens, the Canucks are also just eight points removed from the basement of the Western Conference and, for some, the prospect of winning a ticket in the Auston Matthews’ lottery is a lot more exciting than the prospect of squeaking into the playoffs. The Canucks have assembled some nice young pieces. Throw in a blue-chipper at the top of the draft and, suddenly, the rebuilding plan gains a sharper focus.

So, with the deadline looming, what are Benning’s priorities?

Should he pursue the playoff spot to the exclusion of the plan?

Should he say nuts to the playoffs and move those veterans not named Sedin for draft picks?

Should he do a little of both?

Should he stand pat and let the Canucks’ season play out?

As far as questions go, you have to admit those are beauties. And even if Benning isn’t ready to commit to a course of action, that shouldn’t stop us from starting the conversation.

“I can’t say right now,” the Canucks’ GM said. “I think coming out of the (All-Star break) we’ll be healthy.

We’re getting Henrik (Sedin) and (Brandon) Sutter back after the break and (Dan) Hamhuis right after.

“I want to see what our team looks like when its healthy. From there we’ll see. We have a month between then and the trade deadline and we’ll use that time.”

In other words, the situation is liquid.

“That’s a good word,” Benning said, laughing.

“Liquid. I like that.”

While there is still a crucial final act to be played, the Canucks’ season to date has been a positive development for most and a source of confusion for others.

Benning’s team wasn’t supposed to be relevant in the West. They were supposed to be standing still while teams like Edmonton, Calgary, Arizona, Winnipeg and Colorado roared by them.

Most agreed the best thing for the long-term health of the organization would be a top-five pick to add to their collection of young talent.

They could live with a lost season.

They couldn’t live with the empty promise of a meaningless playoff chase.

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Seahawks GM says Lynch is leaning toward retiring BOB CONDOTTA THE SEATTLE TIMES

Vancouver Canucks left wing Alex Burrows is greeted by teammates after scoring a goal against the New York Rangers on Tuesday in New York. [AP PHOTO]

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But here the Canucks are, sitting in third in the Pacific and that creates some hard decisions between now and the Feb. 29 deadline.

Benning says, on the surface, nothing has changed for his team or the plan but that will be revisited more than once over the next five weeks.

“I’d like to make the playoffs,” he said. “I think it’s a great learning experience for young players. That’s been our goal and I don’t think it’s changed. We’ve said all along we want to be a competitive team while we’re transitioning young players into the lineup.”

And, on the count, this season has been a significant success.

In their win over the Bruins in Boston on Thursday night, the Canucks iced a lineup which featured 10 players who weren’t regulars last season.

Defencemen Matt Bartkowski and Alex Biega are 27, Goalie Jacob Markstrom is 26. The other newcomers are all 24 or under, including a pair of teenagers in Jared McCann and Jake Virtanen.

You can also throw 20-year-old Bo Horvat into that mix.

OK, if there’s one thing we’ve learned about young players, it’s their developmental arc is neither smooth nor predictable. But this season the Canucks have identified half a dozen players who figure to be fixtures in the lineup for the next five to six years — Markstrom, Ben Hutton, Horvat, Sven Baertschi, McCann and Virtanen — and that’s a huge development for any organization.

But does it change anything? Let’s say the Canucks get on a roll in February with Henrik, Sutter and Hamhuis in the lineup.

It’s not out of the realm of possibility, but does that mean they become buyers? Do they move some of their young assets in Utica who’ve been made expendable by the development of others? Will that fetch them a

player who could help them win a round in the playoffs?

Or let’s say they’re just a couple of points out of a playoff spot at the deadline and they can get some meaningful assets for Hamhuis and Radim Vrbata.

Do you make that deal, knowing they’ve hurt their playoff chances for the sake of a second-round draft pick? Or do they stay the course and let Hamhuis and Vrbata walk at the end of the season without any return?

The Canucks have been trying to strike a delicate balance between competitiveness and development since Benning moved into the big office.

If it’s possible, that balance will become even more delicate by the end of February.

“Coming in we had a plan,” Benning said. “These things never happen as fast as some people want, but ownership has been supportive and our fans are smart. They understand what we’re trying to do.”

Today, yes. But let’s talk again in five weeks.

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The question about Marshawn Lynch’s future with the Seattle Seahawks might be one he solves himself, according to general manager John Schneider.

During an appearance on ESPN 710 Seattle radio on Friday, Schneider said of Lynch: “I’m under the impression he is leaning towards retirement.”

That came after Schneider had said the Seahawks “are going to treat him with as much respect as we possibly can here and give him a little leeway to kind of find his way in terms of what he wants to do.”

Lynch has considered retiring in each of the past two offseasons, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if he were to walk away. He also turns 30 in April and is coming off the first season of his career in which he had significant injuries. Lynch missed the last eight games of the regular season after undergoing abdominal/sports hernia surgery.

Schneider made the comment during a roughly 20-minute interview on the “Brock and Salk Show.”

Lynch’s future has been the subject of much debate the latter half of the season. The team could save $6.5 million against the 2016 salary cap by releasing him and the Seahawks have a younger, cheaper alternative in Thomas Rawls. (If Lynch were to retire rather than be released, it would not necessarily change anything in terms of the salary cap.

However, as Pro Football Talk reported, the Seahawks could ask Lynch to repay $5 million in signing bonus money he has received. If that were to happen, that could give the Seahawks some added salary cap relief but likely not until the 2017 season).

Lynch finished the regular season with 417 yards on 111 carries in seven games, averaging 3.8 per attempt, all lows for his career in Seattle. He had 20 yards on six carries in Sunday’s 31-24 divisional playoff loss at Carolina after missing the wild-card playoff win over Minnesota.

Schneider also said he expects tight end Jimmy Graham back in 2016 and said of Graham: “I think people were a little hard on Jimmy. He started going when our offense started going.”

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NFL PLAYOFFS

Broncos would love to use their run game Denver squad wants to keep the ball out of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s hands ARNIE STAPLETON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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fter dropping seven of Peyton Manning’s passes against Pittsburgh, the Denver Broncos wide receivers found themselves running the “gauntlet” drill this week.

They ran from one sideline to the other catching rapid-fire passes from their left and right, a staple of the NFL’s scouting combine every February where prospective pass-catchers show off their good hands.

That wasn’t the only fundamental skill the Broncos worked on as they prepared for Sunday’s AFC championship game against New England.

“I think it will come down to big runs on offence,” Demaryius Thomas said. “We already were talking about that as a group of receivers that we don’t want to just go out there and work on our drops we’ve had. We also want to block in the secondary so the running backs can have running room.

“We can do better than what we’ve been doing. So, we challenge ourselves to go out, make every catch and also block down the field.”

The Broncos know one of the best ways for Manning to win his 17th matchup with Tom Brady is to take pressure off their own QB and keep the Patriots’ passer cooling his cleats on the sideline.

The best way to do that is the grind out yards on the ground.

When these teams played on a snowy Sunday night in November, the Broncos ran for 179 yards, including C.J. Anderson’s 48-yard scamper that won it 30-24 in overtime.

However, 105 of those yards came after Patriots linebacker Dont’a Hightower left with a knee injury.

Hightower is back for the rematch although he’s still bothered by the knee injury and linebacker Jamie Collins has a bad back. Another linebacker, Jerod Mayo, went on IR this

Denver Broncos coach Gary Kubiak, centre, confers with offensive co-ordinator Rick Dennison, left, and quarterback Peyton Manning following practice on Friday at the team’s headquarters in Englewood, Colo. [AP PHOTO]

week with a shoulder injury.

The Broncos had trouble running the ball early in the season, but once their O-line jelled and the running backs adjusted to coach Gary Kubiak’s zone-blocking scheme, things started to come together.

Anderson and Ronnie Hillman combined for a season-best 212 yards against San Diego on Jan. 3 and Anderson had 72 yards and a TD in 15 carries against the Steelers last week. Both New England and Denver have porous offensive lines but are coming off their best performances of the season. Plus, they have quarterbacks who get rid of the ball lickety-split. The Broncos also

have had bouts of big dropped passes this season. In Denver’s win over the Patriots on Nov. 29, Thomas had five drops and his only catch was a leaping 36-yard grab that ignited the Broncos’ go-ahead drive in the closing minutes of regulation.

Thomas had one of Denver’s seven drops last Sunday, miscues that would have resulted in 82 more yards, not even counting yards after the catch.

Thomas said fans are starting to ask him about the dropped passes.

“I just say, ‘We’ll fix it, we’ll be fine.’

That’s all I say. I don’t really have any conversation with them because I get tired of hearing the questions about

the drops,” Thomas said.

The Patriots only had 39 yards rushing in that loss in Denver two months ago. But Brady, more than any other quarterback, has no problem being a one-man show when it comes to moving the ball downfield.

New England rushed for 38 yards on 14 carries in its 27-20 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round. That 2.7-yard average was identical to the Patriots’ output in last year’s Super Bowl, factoring in Brady’s three kneel-downs, when they gained just 15 per cent of their yards on the ground.

The Patriots’ ground game was better than only San Diego’s and

Detroit’s this season, and Denver’s top-ranked defence was third in the league against the run.

That doesn’t mean the Broncos aren’t wary of James White, Steven Jackson or Brandon Bolden.

“You definitely can’t just focus on the pass game the whole time, because if you do and you forget about the run they’ll gash you,” linebacker Brandon Marshall said. “So, it’s a mixture of both. We all know they’re a predominantly passing team. I think they were 30th in the league in rushing. It is what it is.

They’re going to pass the ball, but you’ve got to be ready for the run.”

As do the Patriots.

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NFC championship game features top cornerbacks BOB BAUM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEMPE, Ariz. — Cornerbacks might have the toughest job in the NFL. They are expected to shadow a receiver, who knows where he’s going while the defender doesn’t, and the rules are stacked against them.

Few truly excel at the job. This season, Arizona’s Patrick Peterson and Carolina’s Josh Norman might have been the best, and they will be plying their trade in the biggest game of their careers in Sunday’s NFC championship game. Both made the AP’s All-Pro team, and they are “very” similar,“ Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said.

“They’re different styles of defences,” he said, “but they’re long, they’re fast, they’re athletic and they’re tough.”

Norman has the edge in statistics, but Peterson’s are misleading. He’s shut down some of the best receivers in the league in one-on-one coverage, and quarterbacks simply stopped throwing in his direction.

Peterson has allowed two touchdowns this season — one on broken coverage at Chicago and the other, famously, on Aaron Rodgers’ Hail Mary to Jeff Janis at the end of regulation in Saturday’s overtime victory over Green Bay. Peterson and Carolina’s Cam Newton go back to their SEC days, when Peterson played at LSU and Newton at Auburn.

“You ask yourself what can’t he do,” Newton said. “He’s fast, he’s physical and when the ball is in the air, he’s not thinking to bat it down, he’s thinking

that’s his ball, and you just have to have respect for a guy like that.”

Arizona quarterback Carson Palmer was equally complimentary of Norman.

“He’s got that build that I think everybody’s looking for,” Palmer said, “really long, gets a good extension with his arms, plays with his hands really, really well.

“He’s got top-end speed. He doesn’t go for a deflection; he goes for the football and gets a deflection out of it, or an interception. He comes up in the run game and makes plays. If anybody reminds you of Richard Sherman, I think it’s him.”

Norman had 55 tackles, three forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and four interceptions. All four came in the first four games of the season, and he

returned two of them for touchdowns.

“Josh Norman is a premier cornerback,” the Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald said. “There’s a reason he’s going to be the highest-paid free agent come this off-season. Whatever team he goes to, I hope it’s in the AFC, so we don’t have to deal with him. ... You watch him on tape, there’s nothing that you say, oh he struggles with this or he’s deficient at this. There’s nothing that shows you that.”

Peterson, who had a 100-yard interception return negated by a penalty last weekend, has made the Pro Bowl each of his five NFL seasons. But he had a subpar 2014, when he was a bit overweight and was diagnosed with diabetes. This year, he’s noticeably slimmer and faster.

“Last year definitely wasn’t my best year, and this year it’s just getting back to Patrick Peterson, for the most part,” he said.

“I’ve been All-Pro before. I’ve been recognized as one of the best cornerbacks before, been to five Pro Bowls, so it’s not a shock or surprise that I’m getting my recognition back.”

Just what their exact roles will be on Sunday is something of a mystery.

Peterson usually goes against the opponent’s best receiver. That would be tight end Greg Olsen, and that seems an unlikely matchup, given Arizona’s 3-4 defensive scheme and the way the Cardinals have defended tight ends all season.

And don’t expect Norman to go against Fitzgerald.

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Lowry’s All-Star selection seen as a boost for Raptors DeMar DeRozan could also be added to the roster before the game NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

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n a day when individual excellence was being celebrated, Toronto Raptors coach Dwane Casey was preaching team success.

While praising Kyle Lowry for his second straight trip as a starter to the NBA all-star game, Casey made a point of talking up his point guard’s supporting cast.

DeMar DeRozan, Lowry’s backcourt partner, could be added next week when the lineups for the Feb. 14 game in Toronto are fleshed out by the league’s coaches.

Casey said two possible all-star selections should empower the rest of his squad. “It should give us some confidence to know that those other guys helped them get that,�

Casey said after the Raptors’ shootaround ahead of Friday night’s game with the injury-riddled Miami Heat. “They allowed them to play.

They supported them. They were teammates. They set screens for them. They spaced. They made passes to them. They received passes from them. So without those other guys in the locker-room, they couldn’t have made it. “It takes all 15 guys in the locker-room to do it.�

Lowry agreed. “I wouldn’t be here without my teammates . . . Especially DeMar,� he said. “That man’s an all-star. “At the end of the day, he’s an all-star.�

Casey said he already has and will keep lobbying for DeRozan to make the all-star game.

The Toronto coach praised the 29-year-old Lowry, who came

Kerr to return to Warriors sideline JANIE MCCAULEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND, Calif. — Sure, coach Steve Kerr knocked down a half-court shot in Cleveland earlier this week that pointed to him returning to full strength.

He is returning to the Golden State Warriors’ bench Friday night after a leave of absence dating to the first week of training camp in October as he recovered from complications following two back surgeries.

The defending champion Warriors made the announcement Friday morning that Kerr would coach Golden State against Indiana at Oracle Arena, where the Warriors will try to win their 38th straight regular-season home game to tie the 1985-86 Celtics for third place on the all-time list for such unbeaten streaks. The Warriors went 39-4 in Kerr’s absence.

They are 19-0 at home this season and haven’t lost at Oracle since a 113-111 overtime defeat to Chicago last Jan. 27.

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to Toronto in a 2012 trade from Houston, for his hard work, tenacity and heart. “He wasn’t an all-star when he first got here but he’s made himself into an all-star,� Casey said.

Casey also pointed to Toronto’s improved play in recent years as helping raise Lowry’s profile. “If we’re bottom of the barrel, he’s not an all-star probably,� he said. “No matter how many points you score, there’s a lot of guys below that line that are not allstars . . . There’s a lot of talented players in the NBA but they’re not winners. “I think that’s what differentiates the all-stars versus some of

the guys who are putting up big numbers.�

Lowry will be joined in the Eastern starting lineup by Miami’s Dwyane Wade, Cleveland’s LeBron James, Indiana’s Paul George and New York’s Carmelo Anthony.

The Western starters are the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, Golden State’s Stephen Curry, Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook and San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard.

Vince Carter (2000-04) and Chris Bosh (2007-08) are the only other Raptors all-star starters.

Lowry, who was averaging career highs in points (20.9),

rebounds (5.0) and steals (2.29) going into Friday’s game, thanked the fans for their support. “I love our fans, man ... It’s awesome that they can come together and do something like that,� he said. The late balloting surge elevated Lowry into the starting lineup with 646,441 votes. Wade, named an all-star for the 12th time in 13 seasons, was the top Eastern vote-getter among guards with 941,466.

Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving, whose season has been disrupted by injury, had 580,651 ahead of Chicago’s Jimmy Butler with 564,637 and DeRozan with 444,868.

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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Even after wins, and there were a bunch of them, the Cavaliers didn’t celebrate. Everything was too easy for them, way too easy.

Loaded with talent, they’re lacking chemistry and cohesion.

A championship roster without championship heart.

David Blatt took the fall.

The second-year coach, who guided the Cavs to the NBA Finals in 2015 and had them sitting atop the Eastern Conference standings this season, was shockingly fired on Friday by

general manager David Griffin.

Griffin didn’t think the title-chasing Cavaliers were handling prosperity, expectations or acting like a championship team under Blatt, who was 83-40 in less than two seasons. Griffin saw a team going in the wrong direction. “Sometimes you can win games in this league in the regular season and get worse,� Griffin said at a hastily-arranged new conference at the team’s practice facility. “We were regressing over a period of time. I’m in our locker room a lot, and I knew that there’s just a disconnect

there right now. There’s a lack of spirit and connectedness that I just couldn’t accept. And frankly, halfway through the season, I think we have the time to right the ship. “I know that sounds crazy when we’re sitting with a 30-11 record. I understand that. But we were 30-11 with a schedule that was reasonably easy. And I’m judging a lot more than wins and losses.�

Griffin said he did not consult superstar LeBron James, who never seemed comfortable with Blatt in charge, or any of Cleveland’s other players.

“This is my decision, this is our basketball staff’s decision,� said Griffin, who released Blatt just days after an embarrassing home loss to Golden State. “I’m not taking a poll; my job is to lead a franchise and to lead an organization to where it needs to go. I’m in the locker room. “I’ve done this for a long time and I know what it’s supposed to feel like. I didn’t need to ask questions.�

Griffin did meet with owner Dan Gilbert, who supported the move to fire his third coach in four seasons.

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/DVW 6WUN 8-2-0-0 L-2 3-5-2-0 W-1 5-1-2-2 L-1

*3 46 45 48

: / 2/ 6/ *) *$ 3WV +RPH $ZD\ 29 14 1 2 121 104 61 15-8-0-1 14-6-1-1 24 18 2 1 130 122 51 8-12-0-1 16-6-2-0 20 17 9 2 117 132 51 9-8-4-0 11-9-5-2

/DVW 6WUN 6-3-0-1 L-1 7-2-0-1 W-1 6-2-2-0 W-1

*3 47 49 47 46 45 45 47 49

: 23 25 21 22 20 21 21 19

/DVW 3-6-1-0 7-3-0-0 3-6-1-0 5-3-1-1 6-3-0-1 4-5-0-1 4-5-0-1 4-4-1-1

PACIFIC DIVISION

Los Angeles San Jose Vancouver

WILD CARD

Minnesota Colorado Nashville Arizona Anaheim Calgary Winnipeg Edmonton

/ 2/ 6/ *) *$ 3WV +RPH $ZD\ 16 7 1 117 109 54 14-8-2-0 9-8-5-1 21 3 0 135 132 53 12-10-3-0 13-11-0-0 18 7 1 121 128 50 13-7-2-1 8-11-5-0 19 4 1 124 138 49 12-9-3-0 10-10-1-1 18 5 2 91 106 47 14-8-3-1 6-10-2-1 21 1 2 122 137 45 14-9-0-0 7-12-1-2 23 1 2 120 135 45 12-9-1-0 9-14-0-2 25 4 1 121 145 43 13-9-1-0 6-16-3-1

6WUN W-1 W-3 W-1 L-4 W-1 W-1 L-2 L-2

Note: the winning team is credited with 2 points and a victory in the W column; a team losing in overtime or shootout receives 1 point in the respective OTL or SOL column.

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV )ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Vancouver at Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m.

NY Islanders 5 Ottawa 2 Minnesota at San Jose, 4 p.m.

Florida 4 Chicago 0 Anaheim at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Colorado 2 St. Louis 1 (SO) New Jersey at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

NY Rangers 4 Carolina 1 Columbus at Boston, 7 p.m.

Detroit 3 Buffalo 0 Montreal at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Washington, ppd.

Tampa Bay at Florida, 7 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Philadelphia at NY Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Carolina 1 Toronto 0 (OT) Colorado at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Vancouver 4 Boston 2 Los Angeles at Arizona, 9 p.m.

New Jersey 6 Ottawa 3 Nashville at Edmonton, 10 p.m.

Nashville 4 Winnipeg 1 6XQGD\¡V JDPHV Dallas 3 Edmonton 2 Pittsburgh at Washington, 12:30 p.m.

Calgary 4 Columbus 2 NY Rangers at Ottawa, 3 p.m.

Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia 3 Calgary at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay 2 Chicago 1 St. Louis at Chicago, 7 p.m.

San Jose 3 Arizona 1 Los Angeles at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Minnesota 3 Los Angeles 0

$9$/$1&+( %/8(6 62 5$1*(56 +855,&$1(6 )LUVW 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — McLeod Col (boarding) 4:19; Backes StL (slashing) 14:21.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 1. St. Louis, Steen 15 (Brouwer) 17:57.

3HQDOWLHV — None.

Third Period 2. Colorado, MacKinnon 16 (Duchene, Barrie) 19:06.

3HQDOWLHV — Zadorov Col (holding) 2:44; Shattenkirk StL (tripping) 12:51.

2YHUWLPH Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Elliott StL (tripping) 3:02.

6KRRWRXW — Colorado wins 0-0 6W /RXLV Steen miss, Tarasenko miss, Brouwer miss. &ROR Landeskog goal, MacKinnon miss, Duchene miss.

6KRWV RQ JRDO St. Louis 10 12 10 2 —34 Colorado 8 12 18 4 —42 *RDO — StL: Elliott (LO, 10-5-5); Colo: Varlamov (W, 18-12-3). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — StL: 0-2; Colorado: 0-3. $WWHQGDQFH — 16,366 at Colorado.

SCORING LEADERS Kane, Chi Benn, Dal Seguin, Dal Karlsson, Ott Kuznetsov, Wash Hall, Edm Tarasenko, StL Gaudreau, Cal Panarin, Chi Pavelski, SJ Malkin, Pgh Backstrom, Wash Wheeler, Win

G 30 27 25 9 15 18 25 20 16 22 20 15 13

)ULGD\ V JDPHV QRW LQFOXGHG

A 42 30 28 40 33 29 21 26 29 22 24 29 31

Pt 72 57 53 49 48 47 46 46 45 44 44 44 44

)LUVW 3HULRG 1. NY Rangers, McDonagh 6, 14:01.

2. NYR, Yandle 3 (Lindberg, Hayes) 17:53.

3HQDOWLHV — Nordstrom Car (interference), Nordstrom Car (slashing) 10:51.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. Carolina, Nordstrom 3 (Nestrasil) 3:29.

4. NYR, Miller 11 (Fast, Stepan) 9:41.

5. NY Rangers, Miller 12, 11:51.

3HQDOWLHV — None.

7KLUG 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOW\ — Girardi NYR (slashing) 10:50.

6KRWV RQ JRDO NY Rangers 18 14 1—33 Carolina 9 9 12—30 *RDO — NYR: Lundqvist (W, 22-12-4); Carolina: Lack (L, 7-9-3). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — NYR: 0-1; Carol: 0-1. $WWHQGDQFH — 14,102 at Carolina.

5(' :,1*6 6$%5(6 )LUVW 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Larsson Buf (hooking) 3:42; /DUNLQ 'HW WULSSLQJ 2¡5HLOO\ %XI (interference) 13:33.

6HFRQG 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — None.

Third Period 1. Detroit, Larkin 15 (Glendening, Ericsson) 12:01.

2. Detroit, Zetterberg 9 (Larkin, Abdelkader) 17:08.

3. Det, Glendening 3 (DeKeyser) 19:11 (en).

3HQDOW\ — Foligno Buf (high-stick) 7:19.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Detroit 12 15 18—45 Buffalo 8 9 2—19 *RDO — Detroit: Mrazek (W, 17-9-4); Buffalo: Lehner (L, 0-3-0). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Detroit: 0-4; Buff: 0-1. $WWHQGDQFH — 18,601 at Buffalo.

3$17+(56 +$:.6 )LUVW 3HULRG 1. Florida, Smith 14 (Jokinen) 10:19.

2. Florida, Campbell 3 (Barkov, Huberdeau) 17:18.

3. Florida, Howden 5 (unassisted) 19:57.

3HQDOWLHV — Shaw Chi (hooking) 1:18; Gudbranson Fla (high-sticking) 12:21.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 4. Florida, Ekblad 10 (unassisted) 2:51.

3HQDOWLHV — Seabrook Chi (crosschecking) 10:47; Desjardins Chi, Luongo Fla (roughing) 16:16; Bjugstad Fla (hooking), Desjardins Chi, Petrovic Fla ÀJKWLQJ

7KLUG 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOW\ — Panarin Chi (holding) 12:08.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Chicago 8 7 12—27 Florida 13 10 9—32 *RDO — Chicago: Darling (L, 5-4-2); Florida: Luongo (W, 20-13-4).

3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Chicago: 0-2; Florida: 0-3. $WWHQGDQFH — 19,343 at Florida.

LATE THURSDAY :,/' .,1*6 )LUVW 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Lecavalier LA (hooking), Niederreiter Minn (embellishment) 4:03; Pearson LA (high-sticking) 7:20.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 1. Minnesota, Parise 17 (Vanek, Pominville) 3:12 (pp).

2. Minnesota, Coyle 11 (Scandella) 19:46.

3HQDOW\ — Brown LA (cross-check) 1:38.

Third Period 3. Minnesota, Haula 4 (Koivu, Suter) 5:04 (sh).

3HQDOW\ — Coyle Minn (high-stick) 3:12.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Minnesota 8 12 8—28 Los Angeles 12 7 13—32 *RDO — Minnesota: Kuemper (W, 5-1-4); Los Angeles: Quick (L, 26-11-2).

3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Minnesota: 1-2; Los Angeles: 0-1. $WWHQGDQFH — 18,230 at Los Angeles.

LACROSSE EAST DIVISION *3 3 3 2 3 3

: 2 2 1 1 0

/ 1 1 1 2 3

3FW .667 .667 .500 .333 .000

*) *$ *% 36 22 — 38 28 — 24 24 1/2 33 34 1 19 36 2

: 3 1 1 1

/ 3FW 0 1.000 1 .500 1 .500 2 .333

*) *$ *% 47 43 — 21 21 11/2 20 28 11/2 26 28 2

WEST DIVISION

*3 Colorado 3 Saskatchewan 2 Vancouver 2 Calgary 3

6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado at Vancouver, 10 p.m. )ULGD\ -DQ Georgia at Toronto, 8 p.m.

Colorado at Saskatchewan, 8:30 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ -DQ Buffalo at New England, 7 p.m.

Georgia at Rochester, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016

HOCKEY

NFL PLAYOFFS TENNIS

NBA

WHL

CONFERENCE FINALS ATP-WTA

EASTERN CONFERENCE

6XQGD\ V JDPHV ³ $OO WLPHV (DVWHUQ AFC — New England at Denver, 3:05 p.m.

1)& Âł Arizona at Carolina, 6:40 p.m.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

Cleveland Toronto Atlanta Chicago Indiana Detroit Boston Miami New York Washington Orlando Charlotte Milwaukee Brooklyn Philadelphia

30 28 26 24 23 23 23 23 22 20 20 20 19 11 6

11 15 18 18 19 20 21 21 23 21 22 23 26 33 38

.732 .651 .591 .571 .548 .535 .523 .523 .489 .488 .476 .465 .422 .250 .136

— 3 51/2 61/2 71/2 8 81/2 81/2 10 10 101/2 11 13 201/2 251/2

EAST DIVISION Brandon Prince Albert Moose Jaw Regina Saskatoon Swift Current

GP W 45 28 46 26 46 23 46 19 47 17 45 14

L OL 13 2 15 4 17 5 20 3 26 4 26 4

SL 2 1 1 4 0 1

GF GA 170 130 151 144 155 146 146 167 138 192 110 149

Pt 60 57 52 45 38 33

SL 0 1 1 1 1 0

GF GA 200 132 174 135 153 146 129 150 148 179 93 195

Pt 68 62 56 45 40 19

CENTRAL DIVISION Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

GP W 46 34 47 30 46 27 48 19 45 18 46 8

L OL 12 0 15 1 17 1 22 6 23 3 35 3

B.C. DIVISION GP W Kelowna 45 31 Victoria 47 27 Prince George 46 27 Kamloops 45 22 Vancouver 47 17 GP W 45 28 44 25 45 23 44 20 45 20

SL 0 3 1 3 2

GF GA 166 130 159 118 157 139 152 138 139 166

Pt 65 59 56 51 39

L OL 13 2 16 3 20 2 19 3 23 2

SL 2 0 0 2 0

GF GA 123 95 139 127 149 142 143 151 147 170

Pt 60 53 48 45 42

Note: Division leaders ranked in top 2 positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 pts. & a victory in the W column; team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 pt. in OTL or SOL columns )ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Brandon 3 Prince Albert 0 Edmonton 1 Everett 0 Spokane at Kootenay Moose Jaw at Calgary Swift Current at Red Deer Kamloops at Prince George Seattle at Portland Tri-City at Kelowna Medicine Hat at Vancouver 6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO Prince Albert at Regina, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Everett at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

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

Kootenay at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION Penticton Salmon Arm West Kelowna Vernon Trail Merritt

GP W 43 37 41 24 43 26 44 18 45 19 45 15

L 5 11 15 23 25 26

T OL GF GA Pt 1 0 185 88 75 3 3 167 124 54 0 2 170 145 54 0 3 180 154 39 0 1 137 183 39 1 3 156 195 34

L

18 16 20 22

T OL GF GA Pt

0 2 157 131 50 3 3 145 179 48 0 4 130 120 42 3 3 118 159 36

ISLAND DIVISION GP W 1DQDLPR

Powell River 44 24 Cowichan Vally 43 21 Victoria 43 19 Alberni Valley 43 15

Chilliwack Wenatchee Langley Coquitlam Prince George Surrey

GP W 41 27 42 24 43 24 43 18 45 11 41 6

6XQGD\ -DQ Âł $W $W +RQROXOX Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 7 p.m.

SUPER BOWL 6XQGD\ )HE Âł $W 6DQWD &ODUD &DOLI AFC vs. NFC Champions, 6:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL NCAA BOWLS 6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV

EAST-WEST SHRINE CLASSIC 1)/3$ &2//(*,$7( %2:/

L OL 11 3 15 2 17 1 16 4 25 3

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

352 %2:/

$W 6W 3HWHUVEXUJ )OD East vs. West, 4 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

MAINLAND DIVISION

NLL

New England Rochester Buffalo Georgia Toronto

@NanaimoDaily

L 9 13 17 20 30 33

T OL GF GA Pt 1 4 166 101 59 3 2 140 106 53 1 1 162 139 50 1 4 142 168 41 1 3 105 196 26 2 0 105 210 14

)ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Wenatchee at Coquitlam Salmon Arm at Cowichan Valley Surrey at 1DQDLPR Chilliwack at Penticton Langley at Prince George West Kelowna at Vernon Alberni Valley at Powell River 7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Langley 5 Prince George 4 (OT) Trail 6 Chilliwack 4 6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Surrey at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

1DQDLPR at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Victoria, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Vernon at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

6XQGD\¡V JDPHV Surrey at Powell River, 1:30 p.m.

Salmon Arm at 1DQDLPR, 2 p.m.

Coquitlam at Langley, 3 p.m.

$W &DUVRQ &DOLI National vs. American, 6 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ -DQ

6(1,25 %2:/ $W 0RELOH $OD North vs. South, 2:30 p.m.

FIG. SKATING CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS $W +DOLID[ 1RYD 6FRWLD

WOMEN 6KRUW 3URJUDP 1. Kaetlyn Osmond, N.L., 70.63.

2. Alaine Chartrand, Ontario, 68.81.

3. Gabrielle Daleman, Ontario, 64.44.

4. Veronik Mallet, Quebec, 60.01.

5. Larkyn Austman, B.C., 53.87.

6. Roxanne Rheault, Quebec, 51.34.

7. Eri Nishimura, Ontario, 51.08.

8. Kim DeGuise Leveillee, Que., 50.88.

9. Michelle Long, Ontario, 49.90.

10. Kelsey Wong, B.C., 49.02.

11. Jane Gray, Alberta, 48.01.

12. Selena Zhao, Quebec, 47.76.

13. Emma Cullen, Ontario, 46.76.

14. Justine Belzile, Quebec, 46.73.

ICE DANCE 6KRUW 'DQFH 1. Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje, Ontario, 76.20.

2. Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier, Ont., 70.63.

3. Alexandra Paul & Mitchell Islam, Ontario, 68.30.

4. Elisabeth Paradis & Francois-Xavier Ouellette, Quebec, 63.03.

5. Nicole Orford & Asher Hill, B.C., 61.46.

6. Brianna Delmaestro & Timothy Lum, B.C., 57.60.

7. Andreanne Poulin & Marc-Andre Servant, Quebec, 55.62.

8. Lauren Collins & Shane Firus, Ont., 54.67.

9. Catherine Daigle-Roy & Dominic Barthe, Quebec, 54.09.

10. Carolane Soucisse & Simon Tanguay, Quebec, 53.19.

11. Roxette Howe & Jean Luc Jackson, B.C., 46.31.

12. Jocelyn LeBlanc & Danny Seymour, Ontario, 40.52.

13. Alexa Linden & Addison Voldeng, Saskatchewan, 36.73.

MEN 6KRUW 3URJUDP 1. Patrick Chan, Ontario, 103.58.

2. Liam Firus, B.C., 78.87.

3. Kevin Reynolds, B.C., 77.65.

4. Keegan Messing, Alberta, 77.20.

5. Nam Nguyen, Ontario, 76.04.

6. Nicolas Nadeau, Quebec, 75.22.

7. Elladj Balde, Quebec, 69.02.

8. Bennet Toman, Ontario, 67.90.

9. Roman Sadovsky, Ontario, 64.17.

10. Shaquille Davis, Ontario, 61.81.

11. Anthony Kan, Ontario, 58.18.

12. Christophe Belley, Quebec, 58.17.

13. Daniel-Olivier Boulanger-Trottier, Quebec, 56.96.

14. Mitchell Gordon, B.C., 54.72.

PAIRS 6KRUW 3URJUDP 1. Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford, Quebec, 73.03.

2. Julianne Seguin & Charlie Bilodeau, Quebec, 69.73.

3. Lubov Ilyushechkina & Dylan Moscovitch, Ontario, 69.50.

4. Kirsten Moore-Towers & Michael Marinaro, Ontario, 59.67.

5. Vanessa Grenier & Maxime Deschamps, Quebec, 59.44.

6. Brittany Jones & Josh Reagan, Ontario, 56.12.

7. Shalena Rau & Sebastian Arcieri, Ontario, 53.37.

8. Hayleigh Bell & Rudi Swiegers, Saskatchewan, 41.35.

$8675$/,$1 23(1 $W 0HOERXUQH $XVWUDOLD 0HQ V 6LQJOHV Âł 7KLUG 5RXQG Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Andreas Seppi (28), Italy, 6-1, 7-5, 7-6 (6).

Roger Federer (3), Switz., def. Grigor Dimitrov (27), Bulgaria, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Stan Wawrinka (4), Switz., def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Tomas Berdych (6), Czech., def. Nick Kyrgios (29), Australia, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4.

Kei Nishikori (7), Japan, def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (26), Spn., 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.

David Ferrer (8), Spain, def. Steve Johnson (31), U.S., 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (9), Fra., def. PierreHugues Herbert, Fra., 6-4, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4).

John Isner (10), US, def. Feliciano Lopez (18), Spn., 6-7 (8), 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-4.

Roberto Bautista Agut (24), Spain, def.

Marin Cilic (12), Croatia, 6-4, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

0LORV 5DRQLF 7KRUQKLOO 2QW , def. Viktor Troicki (21), Serb., 6-2, 6-3, 6-4.

Gilles Simon (14), France, def. Federico Delbonis, Argentina, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1.

'DYLG *RIĂ€Q %HOJ GHI 'RPLQLF Thiem (19), Austria, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-5.

0HQ V 'RXEOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG 9DVHN 3RVSLVLO 9HUQRQ % & , and Jack Sock (9), U.S., def. Robin Haase, Netherlands, and Fernando Verdasco, Spain, walkover. :RPHQ V 6LQJOHV Âł 7KLUG 5RXQG Serena Williams (1), U.S., def. Daria Kasatkina, Russia, 6-1, 6-1.

Barbora Strycova, Czech Rep., def.

Garbine Muguruza (3), Spain, 6-3, 6-2.

Agnieszka Radwanska (4), Poland, def. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, 6-4, 6-0.

Maria Sharapova (5), Russia, def.

Lauren Davis, U.S., 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-0.

Angelique Kerber (7), Germany, def.

Madison Brengle, U.S., 6-1, 6-3.

Ekaterina Makarova (21), Russia, def.

Karolina Pliskova (9), Czech., 6-3, 6-2.

Carla Suarez Navarro (10), Spain, def.

Elizaveta Kulichkova, Rus., 6-4, 2-0, ret.

Belinda Bencic (12), Switz., def. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukr., 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, def.

Roberta Vinci (13), Italy, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Victoria Azarenka (14), Belarus, def.

Naomi Osaka, Japan, 6-1, 6-1.

Daria Gavrilova, Australia, def. Kristina Mladenovic (28), France, 6-4, 4-6, 11-9.

Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, def.

Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-4.

Annika Beck, Germany, def. Laura Siegemund, Germany, 6-0, 6-4.

Johanna Konta, Britain, def. Denisa Allertova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-2.

GOLF PGA &$5((5%8,/'(5 &+$//(1*(

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Golden State San Antonio Oklahoma City L.A. Clippers Memphis Dallas Houston Sacramento Utah Portland Denver New Orleans Phoenix Minnesota L.A. Lakers

39 37 33 28 25 25 23 19 19 19 16 15 13 13 9

4 6 12 15 19 20 22 23 24 26 27 27 31 31 35

.907 .860 .733 .651 .568 .556 .511 .452 .442 .422 .372 .357 .295 .295 .205

— 2 7 11 141/2 15 17 191/2 20 21 23 231/2 261/2 261/2 301/2

)ULGD\¡V UHVXOWV Charlotte 120 Orlando 116 (OT) Utah 108 Brooklyn 86 Boston 110 Chicago 101 L.A. Clippers 116 New York 88 Houston 102 Milwaukee 98 Toronto 101 Miami 81 Oklahoma City 109 Dallas 106 Indiana at Golden State San Antonio at L.A. Lakers 7KXUVGD\¡V UHVXOWV New Orleans 115 Detroit 99 Cleveland 115 L.A. Clippers 102 Memphis 102 Denver 101 Sacramento 91 Atlanta 88 San Antonio 117 Phoenix 89 6DWXUGD\¡V JDPHV Utah at Washington, ppd.

Milwaukee at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, ppd.

New York at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Detroit at Denver, 9:30 p.m.

Indiana at Sacramento, 10:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

6XQGD\¡V JDPHV Dallas at Houston, 3:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

MOVES BASEBALL

/D 4XLQWD &DOLI Par 72 6HFRQG 5RXQG Jason Dufner Jamie Lovemark $GDP +DGZLQ Jason Gore Andrew Loupe Anirban Lahiri Bill Haas Angel Cabrera Phil Mickelson Michael Thompson Brian Harman Brendan Steele Ryan Palmer John Huh Francesco Molinari Matt Kuchar Jerry Kelly Colt Knost Charles Howell III Ben Crane Webb Simpson Jeff Overton Rod Pampling *UDKDP 'H/DHW Chris Stroud Scott Pinckney Ricky Barnes Ben Martin Tim Wilkinson Blayne Barber David Lingmerth Aaron Baddeley Freddie Jacobson Luke List Lucas Glover Tony Finau Smylie Kaufman Rory Sabbatini $OVR 1LFN 7D\ORU 'DYLG +HDUQ

WESTERN CONFERENCE

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$0(5,&$1 /($*8(

MINNESOTA — Agreed to terms with RHP Kevin Jepsen on a 1-yr contract.

Claimed LHP Mike Strong from Miami.

Designated LHP Logan Darnell for release or assignment.

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SAN DIEGO — Agreed to terms with INF Alexei Ramirez on a 1-yr contract. Designated OF Rymer Liriano for assignment.

FOOTBALL CFL WINNIPEG — Signed QB Quentin WilOLDPV :5 4XLQF\ 0F'XIÀH

NFL HOUSTON — Named Larry Izzo special teams co-ordinator, Sean Ryan wide receivers coach and Anthony Weaver defensive line coach.

HOCKEY NHL BUFFALO — Placed F Zemgus Girgensons on injured reserve. Recalled F Cal 2¡5HLOO\ IURP 5RFKHVWHU $+/

FLORIDA — Placed D Willie Mitchell on injured reserve. Recalled D Dylan Olsen from Portland (AHL).

NEW JERSEY — Placed D John Moore on injured reserve. Recalled D Seth Helgeson from Albany (AHL). Reassigned LW Ben Johnson to Albany from Adirondack (ECHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned F Jayson Megna to Hartford (AHL).

TENNIS

Big matchups set for Saturday at Australian Open DENNIS PASSA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MELBOURNE, Australia — Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka and Victoria Azarenka aim to continue their quests for a third Grand Slam singles title when they play their thirdround matches Saturday at the Australian Open.

Up-and-comers Milos Raonic, Bernard Tomic and Garbine Muguruza hope to remain in contention for their first.

No. 2-seeded Murray, who won the 2012 U.S. Open and Wimbledon in 2013 but has lost four finals at Melbourne Park, plays Joao Sousa of Portugal. It’s the third time in four years the two have met in Melbourne, and the Scotsman has won both previous encounters in straight sets.

Wawrinka, who added the French Open title last year to his 2014 Australian Open title, takes on unseeded Lukas Rosol. Azarenka, who won

the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013, plays Japanese qualifier Naomi Osaka.

Azarenka is free from injuries for the first time in several years, and is one of the favourites here after winning the Brisbane International title two weeks ago. “I think I’m feeling in the best shape body-wise, spirit-wise, everything-wise,� Azarenka said after her second-round win.

Raonic, a 25-year-old Canadian,

was a quarterfinalist here last year and made the semis at Wimbledon in 2014.

He plays Viktor Troicki, who beat Grigor Dimitrov for the Sydney International title last week. Raonic won the week before in Brisbane, beating Roger Federer. “I think if I can put my game together a little bit cleaner and more efficient than I did today, be a little bit more proficient at the net, I’ll be able to give myself some opportun-

ities,� Raonic said after his secondround win.

Tomic, a 23-year-old Aussie, is playing some of the best tennis of his career after some issues on and off the court slowed his progress.

He’ll play countryman John Millman. Former Wimbledon finalist and 22-year-old Muguruza, seeded third here, plays Barbora Strycova.

Muguruza is attempting to make the fourth round here for the third year in a row.

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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.

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9 p.m. Rocktane play the Well Pub, at the Wellington Hotel, 3956 Victoria Ave. SUNDAY, JAN. 24 2-5 p.m. A straight-ahead jazz quartet led by Nanaimo saxophonist Graham Shonwise, with guitarist Andrew Janusson, bassist Sean Drabitt and drummer Hans Verhoeven, performs a collection of standards, ballads and modern jazz tunes at the Crofton Hotel Pub, 1534 Joan Ave. in Crofton. Admission: $10.

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A Canadian Federation of University Women presentation. St Andrew’s Presbyterian Hall 4235 Departure bay Rd Nanaimo. 250 758- 9298.

TUESDAY, JAN. 26 10 a.m. to noon Nanaimo Museum Toddler Tuesdays. Bring your preschool aged child or grandchild to visit the museum!. Activities are geared towards children 3-4 years old but younger or older siblings are welcome.

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Mmaster stress, improve health and achieve balance. For more information call 250-954 5040 or visit www.freemeditation.ca.

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

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27 12:30-2:30 p.m. Getting to Know Dementia, free Alzheimer Society of B.C. workshop, Alzheimer Resource Centre, 200 - 1585 Bowen Rd., Nanaimo. Pre-registration required. Jane Hope, 250-734-4170, jhope@alzheimerbc.org.

7 p.m. Open Mic Acoustic night with Dave Marco, every Wednesday at Smoke‘n’Water Restaurant, Pacific Shores Resort, 1-1600 Stroulger Rd., Parksville.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) You have a flair for the dramatic.

Today’s Full Moon gives you the opportunity to express this talent.

You could be juggling the needs of loved ones. It seems as if nearly everyone has a complaint about not having enough time with you.

Tonight: Continue your juggling act.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Use the first part of the day to return calls and make plans. You might sense an unusual intensity emerging from others; respond accordingly. Someone at a distance makes an effort toward you.

Be honest -- it warms the cockles of your heart. Tonight: Use your imagination.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Pay your bills and do what you must in the morning. By the afternoon, you could be footloose and fancy free. Get together with friends who have similar interests. Lose yourself in whatever you’re doing, and forget the workweek. Tonight: What would you really like to do?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could be reacting to the Full Moon, as your mood seems to go up and down like a yo-yo. A relationship might need a tranquilizer by the end of the day. Recognize that this period is but a passage. Know that this moment isn’t written in stone.

Tonight: With a favorite person.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You could be out of sorts in the morning.

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decisions later in the day, when your mood becomes more relaxed.

Tonight: Just because someone says he or she is your friend doesn’t make it so.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Race out the door and get your errands done. You could be compared with a fireball in the morning and with a slug in the afternoon. Knowing this in advance, plan your day accordingly. Let someone else entertain you. Don’t take on any more responsibilities. Tonight: Say “yes.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The time has come to deal with a friend, relative or boss. You’ve been trying to avoid this moment, but you’re not that lucky. This conversation even might need to be repeated later. Be patient if you want good results. You do not see eye to eye with this person. Tonight: Party.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Don’t you think you have experienced enough pressure over the past few days? Kick back and let someone else be the leader of the gang for now. You need to get in contact with certain family members and friends. Excuse yourself from making plans. Tonight: Out on the town.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) One-on-one relating highlights the morning. Enjoy a dear loved one who is very special. Even if it’s just taking a walk in the afternoon, you’ll daydream about what could happen between the two of you.

Remember, this is just an assumption. Enjoy. Tonight: Up to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) What stands out about today is that you don’t need to make the

first move. In fact, you should not make the first move. Allow others to express their caring and seek you out. Their efforts are very likely to delight you. Tonight: Go along with a friend’s suggestion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You could be dragging in the morning, but might be full of energy by mid-afternoon. Perhaps you have cleared out an errand or two, and now you feel ready to enjoy yourself. You could be entering a very exciting few days. Tonight: Put on your dancing shoes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The tendrils of romance could sweep through your morning. When you get into a project and/or join some friends, you’ll find your mind drifting to more intimate moments.

Remember where you are, and try to be present. Tonight: You might need to get some extra R and R. YOUR BIRTHDAY (Jan. 23) This year your birthday occurs on a Full Moon. You often are juggling two different sets of interests.

Your unique abilities and insight allow you to identify with different points of view. If you are single, because of your ability to empathize with others, many people feel close to you. Decide what type of relationship works for you best. If you are attached, your new skills will help your relationship evolve in a more sensitive way. LEO makes a great friend.

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Big money shoots turn to Havana for Hollywood locations MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAVANA — The producers of Showtime’s dark comedy House of Lies had $3 million and a mission: shoot the first episode of scripted American television in Cuba in more than half a century.

With less than a week to shoot the entire fifth-season finale on the chaotic streets of central Havana, director Matthew Carnahan told his just-hired Cuban crew that they’d be skipping their full lunch break to make up time the first two days.

“You know what? That’s not going to work,”’ the assistant director responded. “You don’t do a walking lunch here.”

The full lunch breaks got taken.

And the shoot starring Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell wrapped up last week as part of a once-unimaginable surge of interest that could transform communist Cuba into a regular

‘House of Lies’ camera assistant Michael Endler prepares for a shoot in Havana, Cuba, on Jan. 15. [AP PHOTO]

Hollywood location or fade rapidly due to the difficulty of working on the island.

A year after Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama declared detente, the mega-franchise Fast and Furious is awaiting U.S. and Cuban permis-

sion to shoot its eighth instalment in Havana.

There’s talk of a major U.S. car commercial shooting here. Actor Ethan Hawke said he wants to make a film in Cuba. Papa, an Ernest Hemingway biopic approved before

detente was announced, premiered in Havana in December.

Until recently, Hollywood shooting in Cuba would have likely set off outrage among anti-Castro Cuban-Americans who say trade with Cuba feeds repression on the island.

The productions coming to Havana this year say White House staff have explicitly encouraged them as part of Obama’s new warming with Cuba.

Preparing for anger in Miami was never part of the planning.

“It just didn’t factor into it,” Showtime president David Nevins said as he watched the shooting in Old Havana last week. “We’re slowly renewing relations and I think this show and the attitude that you’ll see within the show towards what’s going on with Cuba I think reflects where mainstream America is right now.”

Producers of House of Lies and other productions shot in Cuba said

the 55-year-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba posed the primary obstacle to U.S. entertainment companies’ hopes to turn the island into a tropical backdrop. But particularly Cuban difficulties could also prevent U.S. productions from regularly working on the island.

“There’s a lot of stuff coming here,” Carnahan said. “Whether Cuba becomes a viable location on a regular ongoing basis rather than a novelty is up to both countries.”

The Cuban government demands script approval, only accepting productions that put the country in a good light. Charter flights from the U.S. remain unreliable, although regularly scheduled flights are slated to start soon.

Cuban officials did not respond to requests for comment. But ordinary Cubans watching the “House of Lies” shoot said they were happy to see American entertainers at work in Havana.

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10 Singer Anka 14 May greeting card salutation 19 “C’— la vie” (“That’s life”) 20 Tristan’s love 21 Up to the job 22 Bayer brand 23 Anorak, for Alaska?

25 Set no spending limits?

27 Injury-sorting process 28 Tell a story 30 Drum set?

31 Brit Jones played by Renée Zellweger?

35 “Barbarella” star Jane 37 Suffix similar to -ette 38 Baseball’s Tony La — 39 Frat letters 41 Tenth mo.

43 Actress Tomei 46 Decide to order ravioli?

50 Old comics girl 53 Soap format 54 Baseball’s Pee Wee 55 Place for actor Baldwin’s lawn?

57 Party food provider 59 González in 2000 headlines 60 Lovers’ god 62 “No” vote 63 That miss 66 Agents, in brief 67 Tyke sitting on a fireplace floor?

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74 Iniquity 75 “... for — know” 76 Empathetic comment 77 Suffer humiliation 81 Furnish supplies to Oregon’s capital?

84 Box in a den 87 — borealis 89 Friendly teasing 90 Jet kept in reserve?

92 Hobbled along 93 — -Cat 94 Go higher 95 Set — (decide when to wed) 97 Egg: Prefix 100 Pickling liquid 102 Yeast used to treat illness?

107 Dad’s sister 108 — Bessette-Kennedy

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104 Milk: Prefix 105 Bygone anesthetic 106 $$$ dispenser 107 “Chiquitita” quartet 109 Alamo rival 110 Russo of film 113 Boy toy?

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Zika probed as possible link to nerve condition MARCOS ALEMAN AND JENNY BARCHFIELD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Health officials say they’re trying to determine if an unusual jump in cases of a rare nerve condition sometimes severe enough to cause paralysis is related to the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in at least two Latin American countries.

Fears the illness might be causing thousands of birth defects has led authorities in Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador to take the drastic step of warning women against becoming pregnant. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded its warning for pregnant women thinking of visiting 22 destinations, most in Latin America and the Caribbean.

But concern also has been rising about a potential link to Guillain-Barre syndrome, a nerve disorder than can affect anyone. It causes muscle weakness, tingling in the arms and legs and sometimes temporary paralysis. Most people recover fully, but severe cases that affect muscles used to breathe can be life-threatening.

It’s thought to occur when someone’s immune system overreacts and attacks its own nervous system cells, often after various types of infections.

Researchers have been suspicious of the virus since French Polynesia noted a jump in cases of Guillain-Barre and microcephaly, in which a child is born with a small head, that accompanied a wave of Zika cases, though the populations were far smaller than in the recent outbreaks The World Health Organization said Salvadoran authorities reported 46 cases of Guillain-Barre in just five weeks, from Dec. 1 to Jan. 6. The full-year average for the country is 169 cases. It said that of 22 patients on which there was information, at least 12 patients had experienced a rash-fever illness in the 15 days before developing Guillain-Barre.

Dr. Antonio Bandeira, an infectologist with the Couto Maia Hospital in the northeastern city of Salvador, said that during last year’s rainy season, when a Zika outbreak was at its peak, he had an unusual spate of patients with Guillain-Barre.

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GLOBAL ECONOMY

Weak growth, shaky markets put pressure on world’s central banks U.S. Federal Reserve may rethink its plans to slowly but steadily raise U.S. interest rates PAUL WISEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The world’s central banks are under pressure to do something about slumping economies and panicky stock markets.

The question is, can — or will — they do much that would help?

The head of the European Central Bank signalled this week that there’s “no limit” to how far the ECB would go to restore the health of the continent’s fragile economy.

The Bank of Japan is considering expanding its easy-money policies as soon as next week to fight feeble growth and dangerously low inflation.

And, in the view of many economists, the Federal Reserve may have to rethink its plans to slowly but steadily raise U.S. interest rates. The Fed meets next week.

“Everything is going South,” says former Fed official Joseph Gagnon, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

“I predict (the Fed) will not be raising rates in the next few meetings — and maybe not in the first half of the year.”

So far, the global economy has benefited modestly at best from the cures central banks have offered. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund this month once again downgraded their outlook for the global economy. Like other analysts, they have persistently overestimated the strength of the worldwide recovery from the Great Recession despite the extraordinary efforts of major central banks.

Around the world, stock markets have been pounded for weeks, in large part by fear and uncertainty over a decelerating Chinese economy, the world’s second-biggest and long a vital source of global strength.

NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ DAKAR, SENEGAL

Anti-gay demonstrators in Senegal arrested The head of an anti-gay coalition says police have arrested 11 people in Senegal’s capital during a demonstration against the release of 11 people accused of homosexual acts.

Abdoulaye Barro said Friday about 100 people from a 20-group anti-gay coalition staged the demonstration.

He said police dispersed demonstrators and arrested some because the protest wasn’t authorized.

Residents in Kaolack, about 200 kilometres from Dakar, say police arrested 11 people on Dec. 25 after they attended the celebration of a gay marriage. Protesters Friday called on the government to express outrage for their release some days earlier.

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Runaway cow roped by cops gets new home

A man walks past an electronic stock board at a securities firm in Tokyo on Thursday. [AP PHOTO]

China’s slowdown has hammered the countries that have supplied it with coal, copper and other raw materials. The currencies of those countries have, in turn, tumbled. Oil prices this week hit a 12-year low of $28.15 a barrel before rebounding a bit.

At this week’s ECB’s meeting, President Mario Draghi warned that plunging oil prices heightened the risk that inflation would stay well below the central bank’s two per cent target. He said the ECB was poised to expand its existing stimulus efforts at its next meeting.

The rate the ECB pays banks for deposits is already negative 0.3 per cent. By making banks pay to keep their money at the central bank, it tries to pressure them to use their

money to lend to businesses and consumers instead.

The ECB chose not to expand a $1.6 trillion stimulus program.

Under that program, the ECB buys bonds, thereby pumping money into the financial system. The idea is to lower lending rates and encourage borrowing and spending.

The bond purchases are also supposed to lift prices and raise inflation from dangerously low levels. Too-low inflation can hurt an economy by making debts costlier to repay and by discouraging spending because goods and services are expected to become even less expensive later.

Draghi said it would “be necessary to review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March.”

Other central banks are trying to juice growth, too. The People’s Bank of China has cut interest rates six times since November 2014 to try to cushion the Chinese slowdown.

When the Bank of Japan meets next week, it will face pressure to expand a bond-buying program that’s been meant to keep rates low, lift low inflation and juice the economy.

“The odds of action next week are close to 50-50,” economists at BNP Paribas wrote, “and developments in the market over the next week could make the BOJ feel obliged to ease.”

The Fed is moving in the reverse direction. In December, it raised the short-term rate it controls from record lows, a response to a strengthening job market and low unemployment.

EUROPE

Spanish PM declines offer to form government CIARAN GILES AND BARRY HATTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADRID — Spain’s incumbent conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy turned down an offer Friday by King Felipe VI to try to form a new government following last month’s inconclusive elections but said he would continue to seek support for his candidacy as premier.

More time is needed for negotiations, Rajoy said, but added it didn’t make sense for him to present himself at the moment because the vast majority of deputies were certain to vote against him in Parliament.

“I haven’t given up on anything,” he said after meeting with Felipe at the end of a week of talks between

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the king and party leaders. “I didn’t say ’no’ to my investiture, I conveyed to him (the king) that I didn’t have enough support yet.”

Rajoy’s Popular Party won 123 seats

in the Dec. 20 election, which was more than any other group but not enough to garner a majority in the 350-seat lower house of Parliament.

It was also way below the 186 seats it held following the previous general election in 2011.

Felipe could now call on opposition Socialist party leader Pedro Sanchez.

The Socialists came second in the election with 90 seats and appear to have more chances of mustering support from other groups in Parliament.

The palace said the king will begin fresh talks with party leaders next Wednesday in a bid to find a candidate.

The nominated candidate must win a vote of confidence in Parliament. If

no party leader manages to win Parliament support within two months of the first vote, fresh elections must be called.

For weeks, Rajoy has sought to head a minority government with the support of the Socialists and the centre-right newcomer Ciudadanos, which got 40 seats. But the Socialists have said they intend to vote against him no matter what.

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias said he wants the Socialists, Podemos and the smaller United Left to build a “government of change,” with Cabinet positions allotted in accordance with the results of last December’s election. Iglesias suggested he could be deputy prime minister in a Sanchez-led government.

A cow that was captured by police after fleeing from a New York City slaughterhouse has been taken in by an animal sanctuary and renamed for rock legend Freddie Mercury.

Online video showed the brown and white cow trotting past shops and restaurants on Thursday afternoon.

The founder of the Skylands Animal Sanctuary in Wantage, N.J., Mike Stura, picked up the cow Friday morning in New York and says he’s named the creature after the late lead singer of the band Queen.

The cow was scheduled to be killed on Friday. Instead, Freddie rode through rush-hour traffic in a trailer, then visited a vet, before arriving at a farm.

Stura says Freddie will enjoy “a life of leisure,” being cared for alongside “cow friends.”

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Little information on U.S. student held in N. Korea Officials in North Korea and the U.S. released little information Friday about a university student from Ohio who detained for what the authoritarian nation called a “hostile act.”

Otto Warmbier is the second person from southwest Ohio to be detained in North Korea in less than two years.

A Dayton-area man was held nearly six months in 2014.

North Korea’s state media said the University of Virginia student entered the country under the guise of a tourist and plotted against North Korean unity with “the tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation.”

The date of his arrest for allegedly “perpetrating a hostile act” wasn’t clear, nor were any details of what he did.

A China-based tour company specializing in travel to North Korea, Young Pioneer Tours, confirmed that one of its customers, identified only as “Otto,” had been detained in Pyongyang, the North’s capital, but provided no other details.

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PARIS CHIC Highlights from Thursday’s fall-winter Fashion Week in the French capital

A model wears a creation for Dries Van Noten during his men’s Fall-Winter 2016/2017 fashion collection presented in Paris on Thursday. [AP PHOTO]

Lewis Hamilton shows softer side Formula One driver joins director Xavier Dolan, actor Michael B. Jordan and model Georgia May Jagger THOMAS ADAMSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton showed off his softer side at Louis Vuitton’s menswear show in a pastel silk bomber and shades Thursday. He joined the front row celebrity-pack, which included director Xavier Dolan, actor Michael B. Jordan and model Georgia May Jagger who rocked a black Louis Vuitton bodysuit and assorted choker.

Here are the highlights of Thursday’s fall-winter Paris Fashion Week shows with reports from Dries Van Note, Issey Miyake, Louis Vuitton and Rick Owens.

RICK OWENS DRIPS, PAINTS AND DRAPES Fashion’s wild child Rick Owens rarely disappoints — and his typically wacky show was all about drips, paint and draping.

White bleeding sections on long navy coats and voluminous jeans evoked paint running down a wall — on models with white-painted faces.

One effect resembled bleach that dripped down a brown jumpsuit to produce vivid orange sections.

The silhouettes of the clothes also

possessed a downward movement, cleverly achieved via draping — such a gargantuan, furry grey sleeveless top. A wide cut off-white jacket was beautifully draped from the underarms creating a unique, interesting shape.

Hidden among all this creativity was also a series of surprisingly wearable double-breasted jackets in navy that riffed on military styles — or a standout white boxy jacket that — gasp — looked even elegant.

By the finale of the show, Owens was back to his old tricks — with the piece de resistance being a show-stopping huge blue bubble coat draped in an almost Grecian style.

LOUIS VUITTON CHANNELS PARIS “I was inspired by Paris — old and new,” said Kim Jones of his Louis Vuitton fall-winter show.

The result? A collection that was typically stylish but more subdued than we’ve come to expect from the British designer.

Proceedings began with the dapper suited and coated looks of the Parisian dandy — based on, Jones said, the real-life noble Alexis von Rosen-

berg, who was born in 1922 and famed across Paris for his styles.

Embellished neck chokers complemented battleship grey trenches, fur coats in blue, burgundy, grey and brown as well as some classy tailored suits in soft donkey brown.

Sophisticated takes on the beret speckled the show and were sometimes worn alongside Art Deco jewelry.

The somewhat muted hues of military attire also defined the esthetic — with old-fashioned French navy, battleship grey, military browns providing a safe, masculine edge.

A dalliance with patterns provided the more daring looks: large Art Deco graphic shapes adorning jackets, or flecked paint effects on white pants and coats.

The nicest piece channelled this: a soft white silken jacket with an arty swirling ribbon motif.

ISSEY MIYAKE SUGGESTS A BEACH AND CYCLING SHORTS FOR WINTER The sky (or shore) was the limit for Issey Miyake, which imported a real sandy beach for their fall-winter show.

But this was no beach for summer sunbathing — the theme was “man in the wilderness” and huge overgrown shrubs littered the sand that covered the four sides of the square catwalk.

The weathered, wildness translated into the clothes as a roughness in the materials — such as some voluminous coats and sweaters in burgundy and turquoise made from horse hair thread and wool.

“Thermographic” photos of horses by photographer Kenji Hirasaw then added a colourful lift to a series of print looks — with a standout jacket with bold horse shoes.

But the insistence on bold colour was at times the undoing of the collection. It drowned out some very stylish and saleable suit jackets and bombers that also featured.

A series of psychedelic-coloured cycling shorts also grabbed attention — and might not be the best choice for a prudent winter wardrobe.

DRIES VAN NOTEN’S ART NOUVEAU PEACOCK It was Germany’s answer to Art Nouveau — Jugendstil — that dominated “intellectual” Antwerp design-

er Dries Van Noten’s loose-fitting fall-winter show.

The leitmotif in the clothes was the peacock — the animal so revered in this early-20th century artistic movement. The majestic bird’s colours, silken sheen — and even its showoff beauty were plucked as inspiration in the 53 looks.

It was one element that unified this rather varied fashion display.

Peacock blue and purple adored a beautiful silken double breasted coat.

Elsewhere, in pants navy, orange and purple motifs evoked the swirls in the peacock’s plumage.

There were small references to military styles — such as a double breasted donkey brown coat, with military insignia — but the potential for fierceness associated with this kind of dress was done away with Van Noten’s thoughtful choice of soft fur neck trimmings.

It’s what the program notes characterized as “peacenik.”

As ever, there were several moments of flair — such as a uniform coat that was cut at the waist, abstractedly, to produce a blouson jacket on top and an apron-skirt at the bottom.

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ADVICE

Sex therapy an option to deal with clumsy lover Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: I’ve been with a wonderful gentleman for several years.

Our biggest issue is that he has no idea how to make love.

At the beginning of our relationship, I would try to guide him on

what felt good to me. He was a little clumsy about it and gradually lapsed into thinking a few kisses constituted sufficient foreplay. Meanwhile, I was doing everything for him. After a while, I became resentful of this one-sided sex, since he never touched my body. Now there is no sex at all.

Discussing it is not an option. He gets defensive. Therapy is also not an option. The truth is, I’m pretty satisfied the way we are. So too bad for him as he is simply not aware of why things are this way.

— Not Worth It Dear Not: If you are satisfied with your nonexistent sex life and he isn’t

trying to make it better, so be it.

We hope he has other qualities that make up for his unwillingness and inability to learn how to please his partner. Sometimes, sex therapy can help when talking becomes a source of friction. Your gentleman friend might be more willing to listen to an expert than to you. If you think that is worth pursuing, you can find someone through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists at aasect.org.

Dear Annie: I have a different perspective on the letter from

“Annoyed,” the woman who was upset because couples whom she introduced to her friends became friendly themselves.

I believe that encouraging new friendships is a good practice, not something to be avoided. “Annoyed” seems to be suffering from a case of envy, thinking that friendships can be taken “custody” of, and that she is a victim of rude behaviour when others have a laugh and a nice conversation. Part of your answer – to briefly introduce couples, then say, “Sorry we can’t stay and chat” – is just enabling her jealousy and anti-social attitude. Attempting

to control people is not an act of friendship — A True Friend Dear Friend: You are very generous.

Her problem was not that her friends enjoyed the company of her other friends, but rather that their conversation excluded her. This is rude.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Television has embraced diversity Film industry does not have to look far for inspiration as it continues to be battered by backlash THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — As Hollywood continues to be battered by a backlash to the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations and in the film industry at large, it doesn’t have to look far for inspiration: Just turn on the TV. Where the movies have lagged, television has recently exploded with diversity across the dial. Now, the film industry will be playing catchup to the small screen, where some of the most talented people of colour have turned for greater artistic freedom and the chance to tell more varied stories that don’t require capes or marketability in China.

Many previous Oscar nominees are already there.

Ava DuVernay, director of last year’s best picture-nominee Selma, is currently at work on Queen Sugar, a drama series for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN. John Ridley, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, is in the second season of his acclaimed ABC series, American Crime. Forest Whitaker, who won best actor for 2006’s The Last King of Scotland, is part of a Roots remake for A&E. Two-time Oscar nominee Viola Davis is on Shonda Rhimes’ How to Get Away With Murder for ABC. “TV cares about its audience,” says Davis, who in September became the first African-American to win an Emmy for best actress in a drama.

“TV wants to cater to the demographics of what is America.”

Television is a faster, more nimble medium than film, where movies regularly take years to make; but it also has some structural advantages.

Power in Hollywood is still largely held by the six major studios and a handful of other large production companies. In television, there’s a veritable ocean of opportunity, including cable and streaming networks with deep pockets and a willingness for riskier material.

Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon appears in a scene from ‘Empire.’ As Hollywood continues to be battered by a backlash to the diversity of this year’s Oscar nominees and in the film industry at large, it doesn’t have to look far for inspiration. Where the movies have lagged, television has recently exploded with diversity across the dial. Henson won a Golden Globe award on Jan. 10 for best performance by an actress in a TV drama series. [AP PHOTO]

Though the television landscape was less diverse just a few years ago, it’s — for now — flush with the likes of Lee Daniels’ Empire, Aziz Ansari’s Master of None and Jill Soloway’s Transparent.

“How you fill up the volume is by writing more narratives,” said Davis.

“And the narratives have got to be varied. Everything can’t be the same.

And therefore, it gives people the opportunity to come in and show what they can do.”

To compete in an increasingly crowded media landscape, studios now bankroll fewer films and instead focus on bigger blockbusters that can sell tickets around the globe. It’s

a strategy that has been largely working (2015 set a record of $11.1 billion at the box office), but it has put a stranglehold on distinct voices, of any colour, who find little daylight between hulking franchises.

Whitaker twice found rejection at the studios before raising money independently for 2013’s Fruitvale Station (the breakout debut of director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan, who reteamed for the Oscar-overlooked Creed) and Rick Famuyiwa’s 2015 teen comedy Dope.

“We’re taking a leap on stories that maybe somebody else says they just don’t get,” Whitaker said when releasing “Dope.”

New streaming platforms have provided new avenues for some filmmakers. Spike Lee, who has said he won’t attend the Oscars, found a home for his latest film, the gang violence takedown Chi-Raq, with Amazon. The child soldier drama Beasts of No Nation, which provided the much-praised but un-nominated performance by Idris Elba, came from Netflix.

“We must do a better job of cultivating and recognizing diversity,” Chris Dodd, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, said Wednesday. “The film community is better served when a wider array of voices is celebrated.”

But in today’s homogeneous Hollywood, variety of any kind is hard to come by. Incremental change is often measured in the makeup of franchises.

Two of 2015’s most popular films — Furious 7 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens — grossed more than $1 billion with casts that came closer to reflecting American society and moviegoers than blockbusters of the past did.

After years of white superheroes, Marvel has enlisted Coogler to direct its Black Panther movie.

But Darnel Hunt, head of UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American studies, cautions against viewing gestures of diversity as representations of deeper progress.

“I don’t think most of the public is aware of what goes on behind the scenes and how exclusionary the business really is — particularly if you see people of colour on screen, which you do increasingly see on television,” says Hunt. “But if you look behind the scenes, you don’t see nearly as much diversity.”

Hunt co-authors UCLA’s annual Hollywood Diversity Report and year after year, the results have been damning. Though minorities make up nearly 40 per cent of the U.S. population, they receive only 17 per cent of the lead roles in theatrical films. Hollywood executives are 94 per cent white and almost entirely male.

Though TV has made some strides in front of the camera, its board rooms and writers’ rooms (not to mention late-night TV hosts) remain largely white and male, too.

“We are light years away. The lack of nominations was, to me, almost a perfect reflection of what the industry looks like,” says Hunt. “TV seems more open because they’re making a lot more TV, so there are more opportunities for women and minorities. But not in the key decision-making positions.”

COURTS

Question arises over polygamy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — An effort to decriminalize polygamy by the family from TV show Sister Wives reached its highest level so far this week as federal appeals judges questioned a lawyer for Utah about whether the state needs to ban plural marriages.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver put some of its most pointed questions to Utah’s attorney as it heard arguments on the state’s appeal of a ruling that struck down key parts of a law banning polygamy.

But they also asked how the law hurt Kody Brown and his four wives in a state with a longstanding policy against prosecuting otherwise

law-abiding adults in polygamous marriages.

Judge Nancy Moritz asked state lawyer Parker Douglas why the law is used so rarely if Utah claims it is needed to curb abuses such as underage unions.

“Doesn’t that sort of negate those state interests?” she said.

Prosecutors do not bring charges often, but when they do, the law helps in gathering evidence and strengthening cases against those abuses, Douglas said. Polygamy can be associated with crimes such as sexual assault, statutory rape and exploitation of government benefits, prosecutors have said.

Brown and his wives are urging the court to uphold a ruling that

found key parts of Utah’s bigamy law forbidding cohabitation violated the family’s right to religious freedom.

Bigamy, or holding multiple marriage licenses, is still illegal. Brown has a license for only one of his marriages and says his other unions are spiritual.

The family says its TLC reality show Sister Wives reveals that polygamous unions can be as healthy as monogamous ones and argues that making such marriages a crime violates the right to privacy and freedom of religion.

Utah said the decision could weaken its ability to go after polygamists such as imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who was convicted of assaulting underage girls he considered wives.

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All pricing includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,725, $22 AMVIC, $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Excludes taxes, licensing, PPSA, registration, insurance, variable dealer administration fees, fuel-fill charges up to $100, and down payment (if applicable and unless otherwise specified). Other lease and financing options also available. ĭ0% financing for up to 60 months plus up to $4,000 discount available on select 2015/2016 models. Discount is deducted from the negotiated purchase/lease price before taxes. Certain conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. Representative Financing Example: Financing offer available on approved credit (OAC), on a new 2015 Optima LX AT Sunroof (OP743F) with a selling price of $27,862 is based on monthly payments of $398 for 60 months at 0% with a $0 down payment and first monthly payment due at finance inception. Offer also includes $4,000 discount (loan credit). Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. †“Don’t Pay For 90 Days” on all models (90-day payment deferral) applies to purchase financing offers on all new 2015/2016 models on approved credit. No interest will accrue during the first 60 days of the finance contract. After this period, interest starts to accrue and the purchaser will repay the principal interest monthly over the term of the contract. Offer ends February 1, 2016. &Representative Leasing Example: Lease offer available on approved credit (OAC), on the 2016 Sorento LX 2.4L FWD (SR75AG)/2016 Forte Sedan LX MT (FO741G) with a selling price of $29,342/$17,562 (including $500/$1,300 lease credit discounts) is based on a total number of 130 bi-weekly payments of $135/$66 for 60 months at 1.9%/0%, with $0 security deposit, $1,950/$975 down payment and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation $17,554/$8,622 with the option to purchase at the end of the term for $11,142/$6,665. Lease has 16,000 km/yr allowance (other packages available and $0.12/km for excess kilometres). **$500 Competitive Bonus offer available on the retail purchase/lease of any new 2016 Sportage and 2016 Sorento from participating dealers between January 5 and February 1, 2016 upon proof of current ownership/lease of a select competitive vehicle. Competitive models include specific VW, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Hyundai, Honda, GM, Ford, Jeep and Chrysler vehicles. Some conditions apply. See your dealer or kia.ca for complete details. *Cash Purchase Price for the new 2015 Optima LX AT (OP742F) is $19,995 and includes $1,545 delivery and destination fee, $6 AMVIC fee and $16 tire tax. Includes a cash discount of $6,467. Includes $467 in dealer participation. °Additional discounts available at participating dealers only. Some conditions may apply. See dealers for details. Dealer may sell for less. Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. Cash discounts vary by model and trim and are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. ‡Model shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2016 Sorento SX Turbo AWD (SR75IG)/2015 Optima SX AT Turbo (OP748F)/2016 Forte SX AT (FO748G) is $42,095/$34,895/$26,695. The Bluetooth® wordmark and logo are registered trademarks and are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. The 2015 Optima was awarded the 2015 Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for model year 2015. U.S. models tested. Visit www.iihs.org for full details. The Sorento received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among midsize SUVs in the proprietary J.D. Power 2015 U.S. Initial Quality StudySM. Study based on responses from 84,367 U.S. new-vehicle owners, measuring 244 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of U.S. owners surveyed from February to May 2015. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.

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