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Toronto cop guilty of attempted murder in streetcar shooting

A teen charged in the shooting stared at the floor in his first court appearance Monday. He spoke softly voice as he was asked if he understood he is not to contact anyone involved. » Nation&World, 12

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TORONTO — A Toronto police officer was found guilty of attempted murder Monday in the shooting death of a troubled teen on an empty streetcar, a verdict the teen’s mother called a first step in changing the way police deal with people in crisis.

After six days of deliberations, an 11-member jury cleared Const. James Forcillo of the more serious charge of second-degree murder in the 2013 death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim, an incident that sparked public protests in the city.

“Sammy was a young man who had his whole future ahead of him,” Yatim’s mother, Sahar Bahadi, said moments after the verdict was read out. “Because of what the police did we lost him forever.”

Forcillo’s lawyer indicated the defence would try to have the proceedings stayed — which would prevent a conviction from being registered — claiming abuse of process.

“We say the abuse of process is Const. Forcillo substantially followed the police training he was given and so if the state gave him that training, they should not be entitled to a conviction in the matter,” Peter Brauti said outside the courthouse. “This is Phase 1 of a long road for us.”

Forcillo, who remains out on bail, showed little emotion as his verdict was delivered, maintaining the same stoic expression he’s held throughout the trial.

Yatim’s mother, who was seated in the front row of the courtroom, later called the verdict an opportunity to change policing.

“For me, it’s the first step. I would now like to be part of the discussion to change the police training policies when dealing with people in crisis so this painful incident does not repeat again,” Bahadi said.

Forcillo’s case will be back in court in midMay, when Brauti will argue for the stay of proceedings.

He will also bring a constitutional challenge to the mandatory minimum sentence

Const. James Forcillo leaves court in Toronto on Monday. Forcillo has been found guilty of attempted murder in the 2013 shooting death of troubled teen Sammy Yatim on an empty streetcar. [ THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Forcillo faces after being found guilty of attempted murder, which is four years in prison. An appeal in the case is also being considered.

“It’s early days still for officer Forcillo, he’s still got a lot of fight ahead of him,” Brauti said.

Brauti added that he believed the outcome of the verdict could have been changed if he had been allowed to present the jury with a “suicide-by-cop” theory, which the judge did not allow at trial.

That theory suggested Yatim was depressed and didn’t comply with police orders because he didn’t care about his own life and was prepared to act in a way that would lead to police actions resulting in his death.

“We thought the suicide by cop was a huge part of our defence,” said Brauti. “We were shocked and disappointed we weren’t allowed

to put that to the jury and I believe it would have had an effect.”

Forcillo, 32, had pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and attempted murder in Yatim’s death, which was captured on cellphone videos that went viral online.

The public outrage over the incident prompted the city’s police chief to launch a review of officers’ use of force and their response to emotionally disturbed people.

Crown prosecutors had argued Forcillo’s actions weren’t necessary or reasonable, while his lawyer called those actions justified and carried out in self-defence.

The jury heard that Yatim had consumed ecstasy at some point before boarding the streetcar. Videos showed him exposing himself and pulling out a small knife, causing panicked passengers to pour out of the vehicle when it came to a stop.

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The 2016 Australian of the Year, former Chief of Army David Morrison, said in his acceptance speech on Monday night that he intended to use his new public profile to campaign for Australia severing its constitutional ties to Britain.

A referendum that would have replaced her with an Australian head of state was soundly defeated in 1999, with the then Prime Minister John Howard campaigning against change. However, support for the so-called Australian Republic Movement, which advocates for an Australian head of state, is growing.

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Paper closes its doors Jan. 29 Longtime publication has enjoyed quite a storied history in Nanaimo

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n Friday, the Nanaimo Daily News will shutter its doors, taking with it a part of this city’s history.

As its masthead proudly proclaims, the Daily News — previously the Daily Free Press — has been published since 1874, making it the second-oldest newspaper on Vancouver Island.

The paper has, like Nanaimo itself, evolved from its early days, but its intent has remained the same: to inform Spencer readers, to hold offiAnderson cials to account and, Reporting after the first two are accomplished, to entertain.

Over the years, the paper has gone through a series of owners. The first among them was George Norris, and Englishman who moved to Nanaimo after working at the Victoria Chronicle and founded the Free Press.

The Daily Free Press cannot lay claim to being the first newspaper in Nanaimo, but it did outlast the competition. The Gazette, a citizen-founded endeavour, folded within a year of opening in 1866.

Norris continued to operate the paper until 1902, after which sons George E. and Will F. Norris took over. The Daily Free Press went through another owner, Thomas Booth, and was then sold to The Nanaimo Daily Free Press Ltd. That company bought the printing facilities of the Nanaimo Daily Herald and printed both papers until the Herald ceased production in 1938.

Since then, the Daily Free Press — renamed to the Daily News amid some protest in 1997 — has remained the newspaper of record in Nanaimo.

Originally a four-page semi-weekly, the newspaper grew into a full-sized broadsheet until moving to a tabloid format last year. The pages have always contained the tumult of world events: two world wars, a great depression, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of a U.S. president and the elections of governments.

But the human drama that has fallen within each page has been mainly local.

The human drama that has fallen within the pages of the ‘Daily Free Press’ and then ‘Daily News’ has been mainly local.

The election of Mark Bate, the city’s first mayor, in 1875. The death of 148 miners in the great mine explosion in 1887. The arrival of the first automobile in Nanaimo in 1906. The destruction of Nanaimo’s Chinatown in a blaze in 1960 to name a few.

For those who have been closely associated with the newspaper over the years, the closure of the Daily News is a blow to the community.

“For Nanaimo to try and move forward without a daily newspaper is bloody tragic in my opinion,” said Pat Murphy, a former sales manager with the Daily News from 1980-84 and from 1988-91.

“It’s just a tragedy and one of the saddest days I can remember.”

Murphy began reading the newspaper at age 11, and said he fears the community will be less well-informed as a result of the closure.

“I guess it’s just the way things are going,” said Murphy.

Longtime city councillor Loyd Sherry delivered copies of the Free Press as a youth in the ’40s and ’50s and recalls that paper carriers who received complaints would lose 25 cents from their cheques.

Sherry was paid between $10 and $14 a month.

“It’s going to be a big disappointment,” said Sherry of the newspaper’s closure.

Sherry said the daily has been counted on to deliver up-to-date reports of council and local government meetings.

“Without a (daily) paper here, all that is going to be missed,” he said.

Merv Unger, another former city councillor, was also city hall reporter for the

Free Press between 1983 and 1988 and was also an editor in the early 1990s.

“Anytime a newspaper shuts down is a major loss for the entire

community,” he said. Like Sherry, Unger said the public dissemination of information will suffer.

Unger also mourned the loss of local reporters and editors.

“I worked with a lot of good people over the years,” he said. “I hate to see them unemployed.”

Nanaimo MLA Leonard Krog has been a subscriber to the newspapers for years.

“It’s essential that a community of this size have a daily paper, for a whole series of reasons,” said Krog.

“To keep the community together, to raise issues, to give people news, to develop a sense of community.

I can’t image this community not having a daily paper.”

Frances Bula, a Vancouver-based journalist and instructor at Langara College’s journalism program, said the traditional newspaper business

model has been under pressure for decades, although readers continue to rely on them as a credible source of information. It is not clear what model will replace newspapers after they disappear.

“That’s the whole issue facing everyone,” Bula said.

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OPINION

The laughter will be the hardest thing to replace Philip Wolf Between the Lines

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’ll miss the laughter.

As most of you have heard by now (and if I’m breaking it to you here, all apologies), the Daily News is closing up shop this Friday, after more than 141 years.

Now, I won’t bore you with an extended discourse on the future of journalism, why a daily newspaper is so important to a community of this size, blah, blah, blah.

Do I believe the current model we have could make a go of it if given the prerequisite time and promotion? Maybe. Do I think the community will be far worse off without this publication? Absolutely.

But I’m woefully biased in this case, and, to quote (for the last time in this space) my favourite philosopher Bertuzzicles, “it is what it is.”

If you are not making money, your doors won’t remain open. Fairly straightforward.

So, on Saturday morning, for the

Nanaimo ‘Daily News’ sports staffers Michael Rhode, left, and Philip Wolf, taking you closer to the action than anyone else could. Back in the day, you could find the dynamic duo on rink boards or even on the side of a bus.

first time in nearly a quarter-century, I’ll wake up knowing I will no longer be working at the Daily News.

That’s more than a little jarring, when you’ve been somewhere for basically half of your life.

It’s also exciting. A chance to determine a new course, all that rah-rah stuff.

But more than anything, there’s a sense of melancholy trying to figure out how I’ll replace the laughter.

I arrived here in 1991 (the old Free Press), a fit, young handsome stallion, eager to make his mark and head off to cover the Montreal Canadiens, or something along those lines. I leave the Daily in 2016 as a (not quite so) fit, (not quite so) young and (still) handsome stallion awaiting a new challenge.

One of the main reasons my short stay turned into an extended one was the laughter. Through it all, this was a remarkably fun place to work.

Not a day went by, even in the darkest times with the most interesting leaders, without a belly laugh of some sort.

You can’t put a price on that.

The people I worked with were simply the best. Not only did they willingly play along with my love for tomfoolery, but took our two golden rules (be on time and have fun) to heart, especially rule number two.

From creating a roller-blading route around the newsroom, latenight football games, endless pranks and a non-stop run of needling, the smiles were always first and foremost.

I hope I can find that again.

Of course, the array of talent that came through this place was also immense. So many of my former colleagues have gone on to truly great things.

Many of my current colleagues will do the same.

The calibre of work that has been done here is remarkably high. Those of you who appreciate that will come to miss it in short order.

I specifically didn’t name any names in this piece because I don’t think it would be fair, and I would inevitably leave someone out.

Just know that if you are out there reading this and happened to be one of the folks I worked with over the years, I appreciate you.

The other group I could not thank enough are you, the people.

I cannot count the amount of amazing people I met thanks to this job.

From shooting the breeze at the rink to constantly getting stopped in the mall (much to the chagrin of my son) to listening to your rants on the phone (even back in my sports days, they always had me deal with the difficult callers), it was always fun.

Nanaimo remains a remarkable community with a bright future (where’s my rink?). I look forward to being part of that future.

The doors close Friday, but I’m always open. Give me a call this week at the number listed below to share a few memories.

Keep the laughter going for a few more days.

See you around, everyone.

And thanks again. » Daily News managing editor Philip Wolf can be reached at 250-729-4240; by email at philip.wolf@nanaimodailynews.com or on Twitter @philipwolf13..

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Workshop offers helpful hints on anger management DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Unchecked anger can damage relationships and harm a workplace environment.

But there is a way to tame the wild beast, and conflict resolution specialist Stacey Holloway will share some tips at the Port Theatre tonight.

Her presentation, Facing Fire: Dealing with Conflict and Anger in our Daily Lives is about how to contain strong emotions before they poison a relationship or a workplace environment.

“Workplaces rely heavily on the ability of people to interact in a co-operative and harmonious fashion,” said Holloway contacted by email.

Businesses suffer when owners and managers fail to properly manage conflicts well, or when they are unable control their own anger or frustration.

“Workplaces rely heavily on the ability of people to interact in a co-operative and harmonious fashion.”

Stacey Hollway, conflict resolution specialist

“One employee who lashes out inappropriately can cause a decline in general morale, can cause friction with colleagues, and may cause enough distraction that productivity declines or safety is compromised.

Dealing effectively with workplace conflict is a useful way to bring important issues to light, open the lines of communication and strengthen relationships.”

For some, it takes willpower and practice to develop the competence to tap into higher thought processes to rein in a temper.

It means an even-handed, logical response to an emotional response, when anger causes the release of powerful fight-or-flight chemicals into the bloodstream, to create an immediate, physical response.

“If you have a hot temper, you may feel like it’s out of your hands and there’s little you can do to tame the beast. But you have more control over your anger than you think,” Holloway said.

“You can learn to express your emotions without hurting others – and when you do, you’ll not only feel better, you’ll also be more likely to get your needs met. Mastering the art of anger management takes work, but the more you practice, the easier it will get. “ It means learning new skills, but it’s not impossible. And knowing them means having universal skills that you and others around you benefit from.

To defuse angry people, Holloway suggests deep breathing exercises to stay relaxed during tense interactions.

“If you feel yourself getting upset, politely take a break from the conversation and go for a walk to calm down.

Communicate respect means showing an interest in resolving the issue or meeting the other person’s needs and concerns.

Listening skills are crucial to defusing anger.

In any attempt to defuse anger, the focus must shift from getting your point across to understanding the other person.

People often continue to be angry because they don’t think they’re being listened to or taken seriously.

“It’s easy to get flustered or upset when you’re confronted with an angry person regardless of whether their anger is justified.”

Expressed anger makes a person feel under attack, which triggers the release of fight-or-flight hormones, “which can lead you to become angry yourself,” she said. “If you don’t know how to respond, you can easily make the situation worse.

“When you respond calmly and with empathy, you can stay in control, and you can defuse the situation in a professional, courteous way.”

This is Holloway’s second Nanaimo speaking engagement.

“We brought her here two years ago with Leadership Vancouver Island,” said organizer Russ Burke.

“We had 600 people who came away saying: ‘I learned something I can use at home, and at work.”

Facing Fire is at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 at porttheatre.com.

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TV stations hope for funds from cable fees DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

CHEK News is back in Ottawa to push again for a share of cable company subscriber fees.

The Island’s independent TV station is at CRTC hearings this week into the future of broadcast communications in Canada.

Rob Germain, news director for CHEK, will make his second appearance in a year Wednesday, to ask again for funding derived from cable fees. Last the CRTC turned down

a similar request. The industry is suffering from declining advertising revenues, and that’s especially tough on small independent stations.

“We are going to the CRTC to ask government for an increase in the support we get to operate our stations,” said Roy McKenzie, CHEK general manager.

He said CHEK is unique in Canada “that is not vertically integrated,” meaning it doesn’t have a national network to draw content from.

While national sales are down 14

per cent across Canada, operational costs are a fixed cost, and stations are increasingly strapped to provide the same level of service.

The Ottawa hearings coincide with the release of Near Term Prospects for Local TV in Canada, a report on the future of the industry by Nordicity and consultant Peter Miller for Friends of Canadian Broadcasting and Unifor, the union representing communication workers.

That report forecasts nearly 3,500 jobs lost in the industry by 2020. On

Monday, Rogers Communications announced 200 job cuts.

“We can’t predict the future, however, right now we are able to keep our business going,” McKenzie said.

CHEK operates as an employee-owned collective, similar to Harmac.

“However, if the continued decline in national sales continues, it will make it very difficult to continue.”

He said the funding is needed to provide local news and information, “things that matter on the Island,”

and “without the service we provide I think we would be letting the public down.”

He hopes viewers agree, and let the CRTC know.

“They can express their interest by going to the CRTC site,” McKenzie said. This shortened link http://bit. ly/1PxN5So leads directions to provide comment to the CRTC. Darrell.Bellaart @Nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4235

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Coming tsunami of elderly patients will put strain on mid-Island residential care facilities

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massive demographic shift is underway on Vancouver Island, a change expected to put unprecedented demand on residential care facilities from an oncoming wave of elderly patients.

While the number of residents aged 75 or older in the Greater Victoria area is expected grow by 90 per cent during the next two decades, even more dramatic increases are anticipated by Island Health north of the Malahat.

By 2034 the number of elderly people in Nanaimo is expected to increase by 95 per cent, far greater than the overall population growth of 30 per cent. In the Alberni Valley and Island west coast communities, residents 75 and older are predicted to double while the region’s total population remains relatively stable. A similar surge in elderly people is expected in communities along the east side of the Island, from Parksville and Qualicum Beach’s 101 per cent increase to the 154 per cent change in Campbell River’s citizens over 75.

The trend is expected to triple in the Island’s north, amid a total population decrease of six per cent.

As people age they tend to rely more on health care, with the most fragile seniors being housed in residential care facilities with 24-hour medical attention. There are currently 5,177 publicly funded residential care spaces on Vancouver Island, an increase from the 4,522 beds available in 2006.

To better meet the growing demand for seniors care, more capacity has been built during the past decade, particularly north of the Victoria area. New facilities built in Duncan, Campbell River, Comox, and two in Nanaimo, created more than 600 additional beds.

But there are still waiting lists for residential care spaces; 24 per cent of patients who were assessed to be placed in a facility waited for more than a month, according to data from Island Health’s 2014-15 fiscal year.

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“There’s not enough funds being allocated. There’s too many to take care of and the program has to say ‘no’ to several.”

offer medical help for patients who can function independently, as options that should be explored more in the future.

“We can be better using subsidized assisted living before we use residential care,” Mackenzie said.

“Most seniors express a desire to live independently, so when they need help their preference is that the help come to them instead of going to a facility.”

The emphasis away from residential care has already begun. A patient’s average stay in a home is currently nine months, while it was three years in 2000, said Mackenzie.

During the past decade the number of subsidized assisted living suites on Vancouver Island has doubled from 528 in 2006 to the current 1,018.

“The amount of time that people are staying in that residential care bed has dropped dramatically,” Mackenzie said. “The percentage of the population that we’re sending to residential care has been reduced.”

But the government isn’t providing sufficient support to keep seniors independent, said City of Port Alberni Coun. Denis Sauve, a member of the municipality’s seniors advisory committee.

Sauve volunteers with the Better At Home program, a provincially funded initiative that helps seniors with day-to-day duties, such as house cleaning, yard work or transportation to appointments. Port Alberni’s Better At Home chapter is struggling to keep up with the

Denis Sauve, Alberni councillor

The B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie noted that in recent years Vancouver Island’s residential care capacity has not kept up with demographic trends. During the past three years the number of residents aged 75 or older increased by eight per cent, but the number of beds went up by less than one per cent.

Big changes to residential care are not in Island Health’s plans, said regional communications manager Valerie Wilson.

“It is anticipated there will be modest increases to residential care capacity in communities where need is greatest,” she said.

“The Ministry of Health and Island Health are working at strengthening community primary care and enhancing supports to maintain people in the community as long as possible.”

A shift in how we rely on residential care is needed, said Mackenzie, who believes these facilities sometimes admit patients who could be better served in their homes. The Seniors Advocate sees home support or assisted-living suites, which

growing demand, a challenge Sauve has seen in other Vancouver Island communities that host the program.

“The program is falling short every year of helping seniors...there’s not enough funds being allocated,” he said. “There’s too many to take care of and the program has to say ‘no’ several.”

Meanwhile the West Coast General Hospital is “inundated” with long-term care patients, added Sauve, while those who do find a residential care bed are sometimes forced to move from the community.

“The province right now is not financially stable to subsidize all these beds and the demands — not only in Port Alberni but any town in this province,” he said.

“The province underestimated how big the issue was.”

To better understand the issue, the B.C. Seniors Advocate is currently interviewing residential care patients across the province for an upcoming satisfaction survey. Mackenzie expects to see a preference for getting support at home rather than in a facility. The current maximum amount of home support is 120 hours a month before a patient is deemed suitable for residential care.

“Seniors of today and the seniors of tomorrow are different than the seniors of yesterday,” Mackenzie said. “They don’t want to go to a retirement home and they don’t see it as inevitable, and in fact it’s not inevitable.

“Only 15 per cent of people over 85 are in residential care.”

DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo RCMP quickly arrested a suspect after the Shell station on Bowen Road was robbed at knifepoint by a masked man at 4:30 a.m on Saturday.

Nanaimo RCMP officers and a police services dog were on scene within minutes.

A containment area was quickly established, allowing police dog Boomer and his handler to track the suspect’s movements.

The track led to a nearby apartment building and a suspect was arrested within 13 minutes of the robbery being reported.

A search turned up evidence in the investigation, according to police.

“This was simply excellent work by all responding officers and police dog services to control the scene, gather evidence and locate the suspect in a timely manner,” said Const. Gary O’Brien of the Nanaimo RCMP. A 32-year-old man was remanded in custody on Sunday after a hearing.

Charges of robbery and disguise with intent to commit a crime were recommended by police.

The suspect was scheduled to be in Nanaimo provincial court Monday.

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EDITORIAL

Canada needs to adapt and shift its economic focus W elcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a time when robots, artificial intelligence, 3D manufacturing, smart factories, drones and driverless cars will alter the very fabric of society.

This revolution, already upon us, was the subject of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, where the world’s political and industry leaders discussed how national economies can adjust to the new realities.

Well, it’s not by building an economy on resource extraction, or, in the case of Canada, waiting for the price of oil to rise, that’s for sure.

It’s not that oil, gas, lumber and minerals won’t continue to be important in the intermediate term, but ultimately Canada’s economy

must evolve to serve the opportunities of the new era or be left behind.

In his speech at the economic forum, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed he understands the challenges of the future. He told the forum Canada is much more than its natural resources. It’s a place with a booming high-tech sector, advanced manufacturing, an educated workforce, elite educational facilities and a tolerant society.

In a sense, he was trying to rebrand Canada as the perfect place for companies whose futures depend on the new economy.

Mr. Trudeau made a point of distinguishing his Liberal government from his predecessor, former prime minister Stephen Harper, whom he said was preoccupied with resource

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extraction. While Mr. Harper said selling oil to China was a national priority, Mr. Trudeau spoke in Davos about climate change, technology and the importance of good leadership.

To be fair, Mr. Harper was aware the economy needed to adjust to what he called “major transformations.” And in last fall’s election, he promised to spend $100 million to promote innovation if his Conservative government was re-elected.

Trudeau, however, promised during a Winnipeg campaign stop to spend nearly $1 billion to support the country’s startup and innovation sectors.

There’s been a debate ever since on whether funding should go directly to individual businesses or to support the establishment of so-called tech

hubs, which are places where innovative businesses can share ideas, office space, collaborate and, presumably, invent and make gadgets and technology that can be sold around the world.

The bedrock for the latest technological revolution, moreover, exists in cities, particularly progressive centres with amenities that appeal to young entrepreneurs, such as hip nightspots, rapid transit and cool neighbourhoods. It’s also well-known that the competition for innovative ideas will be fought between cities, rather than between countries, another reason to bolster the country’s municipalities.

Every leap forward in industrial and technological achievement has improved standards of living and

incomes, even if it has come with unwanted side effects, such as global warming and pollution.

The latest revolution is also expected to improve quality of life, but it is unlikely to lift all boats equally. Canada will have to refocus its economic development strategies to capitalize on the increased pace of change. Mr. Trudeau has, at least, shown that he understands what is at stake. Whether he has the leadership qualities to transform Canada is an entirely different question.

— THE CANADIAN PRESS (WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)

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I was quite surprised and saddened with the news that the Nanaimo Daily News was going out of business especially after the great effort you all put into revitalizing the newspaper with such professional initiative. I will truly miss our daily paper, not only for the well chosen news items, but especially the editorials and the letters to the editor.

You have a very capable staff, and I am sure that this closure must be pretty rough on them as it will probably be very difficult even for top notch newspaper people to find employment in a media that is fast becoming a victim of high tech times.

My heart goes out to you all, and I wish you all the best that the future has to offer. I speak with many people each day and without exception they all feel exactly as I do.

Never mind “have a good day,” have a good life. Farewell.

John A. Martin Nanaimo

Closure of paper is big loss to the community It is profoundly sad news to hear of another regional resource getting the axe (Nanaimo Daily News to cease operations Jan. 29).

While my sympathies go out to all those dedicated employees now looking for work, I feel a great loss for our community. How will local residents hear about events to attend and what relevant news is happening?

When the Oceanside Star weekly newspaper in Parksville was terminated last spring, many avid readers and especially letter writers, were shocked to discover that the website was also obliterated. This meant that no longer could anyone access the cache of articles located just a

click away, thereby losing research opportunities and local history itself.

And now with only one paper in our community, many residents say that the remaining paper just isn’t working as hard without the presence of competition.

I sincerely hope that someone with clout, with heart, possesses the wisdom and vision to maintain the valuable Nanaimo Daily News website for the future. What will happen to all of the archived hard copies going back 141 years?

Gord Byers Parksville

Loss of the city’s daily newspaper is a sad day It’s a sad day for Nanaimo and area with the announcement of the end of the Daily News after a 141-plus years. To think our vibrant city will

be represented by a twice-weekly newspaper is, to be quite frank, appalling and embarrassing.

In my opinion it is a step backward, and I for one will sorely miss my daily read.

I would like to personally commend the staff of the Daily News for the many years of great reporting, commentary, editorials, entertainment, announcements, fundraising efforts, and so much more. I’m sure I speak for thousands of folks when I say thank you, and good luck to all of you in the future.

Lorrie Hayden Nanaimo

Residents will miss the paper’s obituary page As a small business person in Nanaimo I was an advertiser in this newspaper for many years and have

a somewhat sentimental attachment. However, my real concern is for those unfortunate Harbour City citizens who will now have difficulty obtaining access to knowing who have left this world and who are still ‘hanging in there.’

The suffering of citizens deprived of reading obituaries could be tantamount in this day and age to that of teenagers being deprived of their cellphones — calamitous!

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Town calls its mill rates ‘competitive’ CRAIG SPENCE LADYSMITH CHRONICLE

This live sea turtle was discovered on Wickaninnish Beach Saturday morning. [ANDREW BAILEY]

El Nino possible cause of exotic turtle, seal found at Long Beach THE CANADIAN PRESS

The head veterinarian at Vancouver’s aquarium says the warm currents of El Nino may be behind the recent strandings of two animals that are rarely seen in Canadian waters.

A green sea turtle was rescued from a beach on Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim National Park on Saturday and a male Guadalupe fur seal was rescued from the same park last Thursday.

Both animals were taken to the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre, where the seal is being treated for starvation and dehydration, while the turtle was hypothermic and has wounds to its shell.

Guadalupe fur seals generally live off of the coast of California and on Mexico’s Guadalupe Island, and are listed as a threatened species in the U.S.

Green sea turtles are listed as endangered world wide and are usually found around Mexico and Hawaii.

The aquarium’s head veterinarian, Dr. Martin Haulena, says he believes this is the first time a fur seal has become stranded in B.C., and that such strandings often increase in El Nino years, where currents and warmer waters drive animals out of their normal range.

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Although Ladysmith’s industrial mill rate is almost double that of any other municipality on the Central Island, at $106.07 per thousand dollars of assessed value, Mayor Aaron Stone and Chief Administrative Officer Ruth Malli say it’s not necessarily out of line, and that the situation is a lot better than it used to be.

“The real story here is that council has made significant progress with reducing the community reliance upon taxation revenues, and specifically industrial taxation,” Malli said.

She pointed out that in ‘previous decades’ the town’s reliance on industry amounted to over a third of its total tax base, a situation which put Ladysmith at serious risk of either having to drastically cut services or increase residential and commercial property taxes should an industry either leave or close down.

“The town met with the industrial tax payers and agreed to a strategy of moving reliance on industrial taxes down one per cent per annum,” she recounted. “This resulted in 12 per cent of tax now coming from industry, compared to 33 per cent previously.”

The actual amount industry pays has remained ‘relatively constant’ over that period, Malli noted.

Figures for 2015, provided by Director of Financial Services Erin Anderson, peg Major Industry’s tax contribution at $970,952. That compares to $1.2 million for tax payers in the Light Industry and Business classes.

There are three rate payers in the Major Industry category: Western Forest Products, Coman-Western Lumber, and Oak Bay Marina Ltd. As a component of Ladysmith’s overall revenues property taxes have to be put into context, too. They accounted for 38 per cent of total revenues (excluding borrowing); that compares to a ‘typical’ ratio of 50 per cent in other B.C. municipalities.

“Ladysmith achieves this by utilizing a user-pay strategy and also doing the work that is required to qualify for and get significant grants to pay for infrastructure,” Malli said.

Mayor Stone also said you can’t just compare mill rates and draw conclusions about who’s offering tax payers the best ‘package’ for the services they receive from a municipality.

Municipalities structure their services and how they are paid for differently. For example, how is waste water treatment managed and paid for?

What are the various classes of property worth in a municipality? What is the value of being within a municipality to an industry or business, and what sort of services are industrial and business ratepayers receiving?

“These are calculations you need to actually analyze,” he said. He has been making a study of the industrial and business tax rates in Ladysmith, compared to surrounding municipalities, and believes Ladysmith has a lot to offer.

“When you start looking at the sum total on business, we’re competitive,” he said.

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QUADRA ISLAND

Multiple ferry runs cancelled by staffing issues KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

Six sailings between Campbell River and Quadra Island were cancelled Monday night as BC Ferries was unable to fill a key staffing position onboard the Powell River Queen.

Darin Guenette, manager of public affairs for BC Ferries, confirmed that the last three round trips of the night had to be cancelled, starting with the 7 p.m. sailing leaving Quadra Island.

“At that point, one of our engineers on board, a licensed, certified position, was unable to continue due to illness and we couldn’t get a replacement,” Guenette said.

Area C Director Jim Abram said it was the second time within about a month that sailings were cancelled due to a staffing shortage.

He said the incident on Monday left people who live on Quadra but work in Campbell River stranded and shop-

pers with cars full of groceries had to leave their food overnight. Abram said while BC Ferries did provide a water taxi, that didn’t help with the vehicles.

“There’s no excuse for this to happen, it’s completely inexcusable on the operations side,” Abram said. “We have, on Quadra Island, at least four recently retired skippers that all keep their certification current and they pay every year to maintain the ability to run the ferry for emergency purposes.”

But Guenette said BC Ferries needed an engineer with an engineer’s certificate – a Transport Canada requirement under BC Ferries’ crewing regulations.

“His position is called a third engineer. With these positions you have to have the same licensing.”

Guenette said it was the same situation in early December – an engineer became ill and sailings had to be cancelled.

“Obviously it’s not ideal, but illness happens,” Guenette said.

“We do our best to find the nearest employee to fill in. It’s unfortunate, certainly, we never want any customers to be inconvenienced when we can’t sail.

“We always try to have the right people on our vessels.”

Abram said some of the staffing challenges could be solved if BC Ferries committed to more local hires.

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CHEMAINUS

Toxic soil dump neighbours add assessments to list of concerns

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LEXI BAINAS COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

A growing group of Shawnigan Lake homeowners is demanding a reduction in their property assessments due to concerns raised about contaminated soil dumping in their watershed.

Vicki Tyner and her husband, Bill Clark, are spearheading the push.

They are not neophytes at tackling BC Assessment. Last year they were able to get 20 per cent reductions in assessments for eight properties because there was a licensed grow-op in their neighbourhood.

Now, in 2016, they are taking on a new problem.

The Citizen spoke to Tyner and Clark on Sunday, Jan. 17 and they outlined their view of the situation.

“We feel that the value of the properties in Shawnigan Lake have gone down just because of what’s going on with the (contaminated soil) dump,” Tyner said.

“A real estate agent told me yesterday that of all the house sales with a realtor from July to December in the Shawnigan Lake area, 27 per cent of those sales were for below the assessed value.”

Tyner has talked to several realtors that are seeing what’s happening in the market on a daily basis and the soil dumping is a prime subject for conversation.

“Almost 100 per cent of the time now, when people are looking at houses in this area, the realtors are asked about the water issues and what’s happening there. And, because it’s in court right now, there’s not a lot to say.”

Although last year’s appeal was suc-

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The fight so far has been long and bitter between Shawnigan Lake residents and owners and operators of a contaminate soil landfill in the watershed.

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cessful, Tyner and Clark are starting from scratch in 2016 with BC Assessment.

“We’re going into this not with those coloured glasses on but it’s about awareness as well. So far I have 125 names of those who have expressed interest in appealing,” Tyner said.

“We feel that when BC Assessment get even 100 more households appealing than they would normally get that’s a bit of a nuisance for them. We are also going to ask for a regional re-assessment for Shawnigan/Area B,” Tyner said.

The court case involving the dumping of contaminated soil at Stebbings Road in the Shawnigan watershed should conclude this week.

“We’re hoping beyond hope that this

permit is going to be pulled. And then there is still the matter of making them get the contaminated soil out.”

After concerns were raised last November about a breach in the containment area, Tyner saw Shawnigan residents rally.

BC Assessment has the option of nipping the appeal in the bud or letting the process play out.

“We’re hoping that they will listen to our case and not send us a letter saying: ‘No, your appeal has been denied,’” Tyner said.

If approved, the group will attend the hearing en masse.

“They told us last year that it was the first time ever that they’ve had to deal with a neighbourhood over a neighbourhood issue. And this is a much bigger neighbourhood issue.”

A new leaf is about to be turned in Chemainus with the February opening of a LEAF Compassion cannabis dispensary at 9750 Chemainus Road – opposite the Chemainus Theatre.

But not everyone is thrilled with the notion of opening a dispensary before it’s legal under Canadian law.

“We are a premium cannabis dispensary and resource centre serving Victoria and Salt Spring Island in beautiful British Columbia,” says the LEAF Compassion website.

LEAF already has two locations, one in Victoria and the other on Saltspring Island. As well as opening a Chemainus outlet, the company is planning to open a dispensary in Port Alberni in March.

A request for an interview with LEAF founder and Executive Director Kyle Cheyne was not returned by press time Monday. The outlet appears to be high end, and adult oriented. A notice on the door says no minors will be permitted on the premises. The website promotes a variety of ‘cannabis concentrates’, including: hashish, waxes, shatter, crumble, honey foam and oils.

It also take an advocacy approach to the use of marijuana products.

“We see a not-so-distant future, in which cannabis creates a booming new industry alongside tens of thousands of jobs for Canadians,” states the web site.

“In the near future we can create hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to put toward building

“As far as I’m aware there has been no attempt to get a business license.”

Jon Lefebure, North Cowichan mayor

schools, public housing and putting an end to hunger in our nation.”

North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure, who is also a resident of Chemainus, said LEAF does not have a business license. “As far as I’m aware there has been no attempt to get a business license from our staff,” he said.

If the municipality had been approached, a business license would not be granted because the sale of cannabis is not legal in Canada, although the Liberal Government elected in October has said it will look into legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana.

“Anyone can put up a sign and start up a business, but not necessarily legally,” he said. Council can only take action once a business is started, and North Cowichan will be considering what to do then.

Asked if this will spur council to begin considering how cannabis dispensaries will be regulated within North Cowichan if and when they are legalized, he said. “Absolutely.” » We want to hear from you.

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Saanich Police are working with police in Victoria to track down a man responsible for numerous indecent acts over the past two months.

Police are investigating reports of a man accused of exposing himself

and making sexually explicit comments to young women at least a dozen times over the past several weeks.

The incidents have occurred mainly at bus stops between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. from Dec. 3 to Jan. 19, with reports along the Shelbourne corridor between Cedar Hill X Road

and Haultain Street and around the Craigflower Road/Gorge Tillicum area.

According to police, the man has either made vulgar, sexually explicit comments to the woman or exposed himself to them. All of the victims are females in their mid teens to early twenties.

Police are advising young women to remain attentive and aware of their surroundings, and to not hesitate to call 911 if they are feeling unsafe.

“Both Saanich Police and the Victoria Police Department are concerned about these incidents,” said Saanich Police acting Sgt. Jereme

Leslie, adding BC Transit is aware of the incidents and is working with police. “Safety of all people in our community is paramount.”

The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 40 years old, five-foot-eight to six-feet tall, average build with a ruddy/pock-marked complexion.

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Programming threatened by federal review JEFF NAGEL BLACK PRESS

A federal review of community access TV could lead to the shut down of Shaw Cable’s channel 4 and end televised broadcasts of city council meetings and other local niche programming.

A two per cent levy on all cable TV bills now goes to community TV pro-

gram development and one option for reform the CRTC is considering is to reallocate that money to local commercial television stations to help them produce more local news.

That scenario could eliminate the community channel altogether, according to Metro Vancouver regional district officials who intend to speak against it at a CRTC hearing Feb. 2.

“Our concern is that in its desire to assist the private sector in dealing with the challenges of a changing marketplace, the CRTC will rob Peter to pay Paul,” Metro states in a draft response to the CRTC. “The community channel is a vital element of the broadcast system and should remain so.”

Redirecting the two per cent com-

munity access levy to commercial stations would amount to a $60 million cash injection nationally for private broadcasters.

Metro has been critical of Shaw Cable in the past, accusing it of gradually cutting away local community-driven access to the channel in favour of its own productions, while the CRTC did nothing to stop that.

“Where we once had thousands of volunteers engaged in community expression we now have less than a hundred,” the Metro paper says.

Shaw Communications is seeking looser rules on how community channels operate and the freedom to explore alternate delivery systems, such as video-on-demand. It opposes redirection of the cable levy.

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Two more men charged in 2009 killing at store Two more men have been charged in the 2009 murder of Kevin LeClair outside a Walnut Grove grocery store.

On Monday, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit announced the arrests and charges.

The two men, one of whom will not be identified, are both charged with first degree murder in the death of LeClair, who was gunned down in the parking lot in front of the IGA on Feb. 6, 2009.

The two men are also charged in the death of Jonathan Barber. Barber was killed in Burnaby and was thought to be an innocent victim of the gang war. A car stereo installer, he was driving a car belonging to a suspected gang member when he was shot to death.

They have also been charged with conspiracy to commit murder of the Bacon brothers and their associates.

The two men arrested recently are among four men now charged in the death of LeClair.

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Officer resigns in wake of criminal convictions A Nelson police officer convicted last year of assaulting a woman while off duty has quit the department.

According to a news release issued today, Const. Drew Turner submitted his resignation to Chief Wayne Holland on Thursday.

The document was forwarded to the police board, which accepted it. However, the police department declined a request to release it publicly.

Turner had been on desk duty since he was charged in November 2014.

After a trial last year, Turner was convicted of using excessive force by punching a drunk woman unconscious while coming to the aid of colleagues who were trying to subdue her. Three fellow officers testified against him.

He was sentenced to 30 days house arrest and a year’s probation. Since completing his house arrest, he has been on paid leave.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016

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An estimated 10 to 20 per cent of auto insurance claims are at least exaggerated if not fraudulent.[ICBC]

Car fraud’s hall of shame ICBC unveils list of some of the top insurance scams seen in B.C. JEFF NAGEL BLACK PRESS

ICBC is vowing to do more to bust auto insurance fraudsters whose scams add an estimated $100 a year to the premiums all other drivers pay.

The public auto insurer released its top “Hall of Shame” fraud claims for 2015 where B.C. residents tried to scam the system last year.

They include: Dish Dodger: A man claimed his crash injuries were so severe he couldn’t help his wife wash the dishes, but investigators later got footage of him lifting a box of heavy floor tiles at his work site. He was fined $1,500 for fraud.

Double Dipper: A Vancouver woman who claimed she couldn’t go back to work because of her crash injuries.

An anonymous tip helped investigators confirm she had worked since

the crash, collecting two paycheques — one from her employer and one from ICBC. Her fraud conviction netted her a one-year driving suspension and $1,750 fine.

Mom Cover-up: A Vancouver island mother claimed her Audi was stolen and crashed and that her sons with access to the car were home. But phone records put one son at the scene of the crash and BC Ferry terminal cameras caught the same son buying a ticket. Both were convicted of giving false statements. The mom was fined $2,300, while the son was fined $1,150 and got a oneyear suspension, plus a 90-day jail term because his licence was already suspended.

Dash Cam Disclosure: A Lower Mainland caught another vehicle sideswiping his on dash cam video and excitedly shared the footage with

ICBC. His claim was denied because the video also showed he wasn’t actually driving, as he’d claimed. An unlicensed driver was behind the wheel.

Electronic Exposure: A Fraser Valley was busted by his own BMW after he claimed the car was stolen and burnt to a crisp in a nearby park. The vehicle’s technology proved the man’s key fob had been used at the time of the incident, contrary to what he claimed.

Bus Blues: A bus hit a parked fire truck while turning in a bus loop.

After all passengers exited and the driver exchanged information with the fire truck driver, another man claimed to have been on board the bus and later sought compensation.

Security camera video showed the man was never on the bus. He was fined and jailed one night for fraud.

Former finance minister Carole Taylor has signed on as an advisor to Premier Christy Clark as the B.C. government examines what to do with the carbon tax Taylor introduced in 2008.

Clark announced the appointment in Vancouver Monday, saying she will call on Taylor’s experience on advancing the province’s greenhouse gas reduction program.

Taylor will work from the premier’s Vancouver office and be paid a nominal one dollar a year.

As a former Vancouver city councillor and advisor to Ottawa, Taylor will also give input on the province’s effort to rein in soaring housing prices in Metro Vancouver, said the premier.

Taylor said she has spoken to Harvard and Stanford Universities in the U.S. on the B.C. carbon tax experience, and is looking forward to providing policy advice to B.C. on where to go from here.

The B.C. tax has been frozen at $30 a tonne since 2013, adding about seven cents to the price of a litre of gasoline with similar increases for natural gas and other heating fuels.

Taylor is the latest of a series of special advisors to Clark, after former Encana CEO Gwyn Morgan and former Canfor and Finning executive Jim Shepard.

Taylor served one term in former premier Gordon Campbell’s cabinet before retiring from politics in late 2008, when she was appointed chair of a new federal government economic advisory panel.

Since leaving B.C. politics, Taylor served on the board of directors of the TD Bank and as chancellor of Simon Fraser University.

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Immersive Media, which has created specialized fully immersive video for the likes of Disney, ABC, American Express, Converse, Turner Broadcasting and Mountain Dew and Mercedes Benz, has been acquired by Hollywood special effects giant Digital Domain Holdings.

It’s the biggest tech sale in the Okanagan since Disney paid $350 million for Club Penguin in 2007. The sale was announced by Tech Vibe Friday.

Immersive Media, founded in 1994, creates 360-degree video with specially made spherical cameras. It has worked on many projects including singer Taylor Swift’s Unstaged.

Conservation officers take down young cougars ERIN KNUTSON HOPE STANDARD

The rogue cougar that has been terrorizing the Kawkawa Lake area was taken down by authorities last Monday night, after a public warning had been issued for Hope residents to be aware of the animal.

The cougar was believed by conservation officer Don Stahl from Chilliwack to be a male teenager looking for an easy source of prey, and had injured and killed a couple of domestic pets.

Lydia Koot from the Hope Mountain Black Bear Committee and Stahl

met up with The Hope Standard to ensure the message got out in an effective and timely manner. Koot placed posted warnings on her site and through Facebook, while placing posters around town.

The first sighting of the cougar happened at 10: 30 a.m. last Wednesday morning on the Kettle Valley Trail, when a woman walking her five month old lab pup ran into a cougar standing in the middle of the path.

With its predatory gaze fixed on the vulnerable and exposed pair, the animal backed away with some assertive encouragement from the

woman, and was considered to be a non-threatening encounter after it was reported to the RCMP and the BC Conservation Officer.

However, over the past couple of days, the cougar took an aggressive and predatory stance with the killing and injuring of pets, and the RCMP were on alert to destroy the animal on sight.

“We can’t safely relocate the animal, and with the killing of a dog and cat already, the animal has become a liability,” said Stahl.“It is better to have a dead cougar than a dead child.”

The public was asked to pay attention to the trees (which cats are often fond of climbing,) to watch their children closely and to keep pets on leashes.

Stahl has a few safety tips if an encounter happens with a cougar: Never turn around and run (only a food source runs,) back away slowly while raising your arms and yelling and screaming at the animal.

Pick up rocks and sticks while being prepared to defend yourself; never, play dead because the cougar considers you a food source unlike a bear. Always fight back.

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CRIME

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STOCKHOLM — A Swedish doctor went on trial on rape and kidnapping charges Monday after admitting to imprisoning a woman in a home-made bunker in what his defence lawyer said was a desperate attempt to find a girlfriend.

Prosecutors said the 38-year-old man had planned the crime for years and may have tried to capture other victims before sedating and abducting the woman during a date in Stockholm.

The victim, who is around 30, didn’t suffer serious physical injuries during her weeklong abduction.

But she was deeply traumatized by the ordeal and stressed about having to face him in court, said her lawyer, Jens Hogstrom.

“She’s having a very hard time right now,” Hogstrom told The Associated Press during a break in the proceedings. “She’s got post-traumatic stress, flashbacks from what happened. She has nightmares.”

The doctor, whose name wasn’t published in Sweden in line with privacy rules, has confessed to almost everything in the indictment, but denies having raped the woman while she was unconscious.

In court documents obtained by the AP, he told investigators he abducted the woman on Sept. 12 in her Stockholm apartment during their second date. Pretending to be an American living in London, he gave her strawberries laced with a sedative and then drove 530 kilometres to his isolated countryside home in southern Sweden, giving her drugs intravenously during the journey to keep her unconscious.

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“I didn’t know what would happen, whether he would torture me, kill me or rape me,” she told investigators. “He just told me he would keep me there for a few years and then release me.”

At one point she tried to attack him with a pair of screws she found in the bunker, but as she was still dazed from the drugs, he easily subdued her and warned her he would shackle her to the bed and feed her only bread if she tried it again, court documents show.

The defendant kept her in the bunker, except for brief occasions when he led her in handcuffs to his home. But on Sept. 18 he took

her to a police station, allegedly to show police that she was fine and staying with him voluntarily.

As soon as police took her aside for questioning, she “broke down” and told them everything, a police report shows.

“There is no simple explanation for this,” defence lawyer Mari Schaub told reporters Monday.

“This is a high-performing person who is unwell psychologically and has been longing for a life partner.”

Police seized dozens of files from the defendant’s computer with information on secret doors, locks and lists of construction material.

One file labeled “Contract” listed “discounts” in years that “guests” could get by performing various sexual acts.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Four of Twitter’s key executives are leaving the company in an exodus that has escalated the uncertainty facing the messaging service as it struggles to broaden its audience and lure back disillusioned investors.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the management shake-up late Sunday after technology news site Re/Code reported the changes earlier in the day.

Dorsey described the departures as voluntary, a characterization that three of the four exiting executives echoed in their own posts.

The upheaval leaves Twitter

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Dorsey is turning over supervision of the human resources and media teams to Twitter’s chief operating officer, Adam Bain, and assigned engineering to the company’s chief technology officer, Adam Messinger. Bain and Messinger will share some of the responsibilities for creating and running Twitter’s various products.

This is the second major fissure in Twitter’s ranks since Dorsey was named the San Francisco com-

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His hiring followed a three-month stint as interim CEO after the resignation of his predecessor, Dick Costolo.

In one of his first moves, Dorsey laid off more than 300 employees, or about eight per cent of Twitter’s workforce, to trim expenses at a company that has never turned a profit since its service started nearly a decade ago.

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Dad prepares to bury son after shooting in La Loche Teen charged in four killings stared at the floor for much of his first court appearance JENNIFER GRAHAM THE CANADIAN PRESS

LA LOCHE, Sask. — The father of one of the victims in a northern Saskatchewan shooting burned logs at the community cemetery Monday to thaw the ground where his son will be buried.

“He was a good kid,” Gerald Moise said as he poured gasoline to ignite a fire that will burn for three days over the grave site.

He remembered his son, Dayne Fontaine, as a 17-year-old who liked to be outdoors in the remote community of La Loche that sits on the edge of a lake and in the heart of the boreal forest.

“He always (went) up north with grandparents hunting and he liked quadding.”

Dayne and his 13-year-old brother, Drayden Fontaine, were found dead in a home on Friday.

A teacher and an aide were shot and killed shortly after at the high school. Seven other people were wounded.

Moise, who is not Drayden’s father, said losing his boy is especially hard as it comes on top of other losses.

“I lost my mother and before I lost my mother, my sister (to) suicide.

Now this.”

He said he’s trying to stay strong for the sake of his two other children.

A teen charged in the shooting stared at the floor for much of his first court appearance Monday.

The tall, thin 17-year-old, wearing an orange jumpsuit, his legs and hands shackled, was brought into a

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Woman gets eight years for trafficking of teen A Calgary woman has been sentenced to eight years for human trafficking after extorting a young woman to become a sex-trade worker.

Amanda Kathleen McGee pleaded guilty Friday to human trafficking, extortion, sexual assault with a weapon, forcible confinement and various prostitution charges.

Court was told police found the 18-year-old victim at the Calgary bus station in January 2014 after relatives asked RCMP to check on her welfare.

The young woman told officers she had been held against her will for several months and was forced to act as a sex-trade worker.

Police believed that the woman arrived in the city in October 2013 for a job and was then befriended by McGee, who offered her a cheap place to live.

◆ HALIFAX

Talks between staff and paper’s owner break off A resident of La Loche, Sask., pays his respects on Saturday to the victims of a Friday school shooting. The shooting left four people dead. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

packed courtroom in Meadow Lake — a community about 350 kilometres south of La Loche.

He spoke in a soft voice as he was asked whether he understood he is not to contact anyone involved.

“There’s to be no phone calls, no letters, no getting messages to any of these people or their families,” said Judge Janet McIvor.

“There’s to be no contact at all.”

The teen, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is to be held in custody until his next court appearance Feb. 22.

He faces four counts of first-de-

gree murder and seven counts of attempted murder.

McIvor placed a publication ban on the names of the injured.

In La Loche, the school’s fate was already being debated after calls from the acting mayor and others that it be torn down and rebuilt.

Donna Johnson with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education said no decision had been made and the wishes of residents will be considered.

Leonard Montgrand, executive director of the La Loche Friendship Centre, said he doesn’t think the

school needs to be torn down.

“It’s not where it happened that’s the underlying root of all this,” said Montgrand, who runs youth intervention and family programs. “It’s why it happened — and it could have happened anywhere.”

Montgrand’s son was in the school during the shooting.

“For him to go back there, it’s going to be hard on him. And ... to relive his memories is probably going to be hard on him also. But do we have the funds? Do we have the capability? Where would the students go . . . in the interim?” he asked.

Talks between striking newsroom employees at Canada’s largest independent daily newspaper and the company broke off Monday, with the union saying no further negotiations have been scheduled.

In a statement, the Halifax Typographical Union said talks between the 61 newsroom employees ended when the Halifax Chronicle Herald insisted it wants senior unionized editors moved to a non-union production centre.

The union says the production centre editors would earn $20,000 to $30,000 less annually after one year at their current rate of pay.

The editorial staff walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Saturday after talks broke down earlier last week, only to have the Herald issue and then rescind 18 layoff notices.

POLITICS

◆ OTTAWA

Pipeline politics dominate return to Parliament

Peter MacKay won’t rule out future political bid

BRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The politics of oil pipelines dominated a raucous return for parliamentarians Monday as the House of Commons resumed sitting under the new Liberal majority.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government sat for a week in December following the October election — long enough for a throne speech outlining government priorities and a bill to set in motion middle-class tax cuts — but the rubber truly hits the road over the next five months as opposition MPs work to impose themselves on the Liberals’ post-election honeymoon.

With plunging world oil prices devastating western Canada’s resource economy, the opposition Conserv-

“The prime minister should stop using the cellphone for selfies with Leo DiCaprio, pick it up and call Denis Coderre and fight for natural resources.”

Rona Ambrose, interim Tory leader

atives have a ready-made issue to bludgeon the new government’s blank economic record.

And when Montreal mayor Denis Coderre, a former Liberal cabinet minister and longtime organizer, fronted a group of Montreal muni-

cipal leaders last week who publicly oppose the proposed Energy East pipeline that would carry Alberta and Saskatchewan bitumen to New Brunswick, the sparks were cast for a good old national unity tire fire.

Rona Ambrose, the interim Conservative leader, held a news conference Monday morning in Ottawa where she lamented the acrid regional rhetoric that’s billowing.

“I don’t want to do anything to foment this debate, because I’m hearing very disturbing things from a mayor of Montreal and then disturbing things from people reacting to that in western Canada,” said Ambrose. “That’s not what our country is about. And this is not a (pipeline) project that should divide the country.”

The Alberta MP sharpened her attacks later in the Commons as the 42nd Parliament got down to business.

Ambrose accused Trudeau of “swanning about Switzerland” with actors and billionaires at the World Economic Forum rather than attending to the country’s ailing economy.

“The prime minister should stop using the cellphone for selfies with Leo DiCaprio, pick it up and call Denis Coderre and fight for natural resources,” said Ambrose, adding almost 100,000 jobs have been lost in the resource sector due to plunging oil prices.

“Does the prime minister understand that his lack of leadership on this issue is creating divisions in the country?”

Former federal Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay has joined the Toronto law firm of Baker and McKenzie, but he’s refusing to rule out a return to politics.

He says going back to practising law was always part of his plan and the opportunity to advise on a range of matters, including government and regulatory enforcement, is too good to pass up.

Following the Conservative defeat in last fall’s election, MacKay’s name was bandied about as a possible successor to former prime minister Stephen Harper.

“So, it’s not where I’ve been focused of late. My focus has been to return to the private sector and the practice of law, to make that career transition and all of that has been predicated on putting my family first.”

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SEX CRIMES

TRADE

Graham James, ex-hockey coach, allowed day parole

Canada to sign TPP, ratification unclear ANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS

SIDHARTHA BANERJEE THE CANADIAN PRESS

LAVAL, Que. — Graham James, the disgraced former junior hockey coach who sexually abused several players under his watch more than two decades ago, was granted day parole Monday.

James, 62, appeared before the National Parole Board at a federal prison in Laval, Que., where the ruling was handed down after a fourhour hearing.

He is currently serving a seven-year sentence for sexually assaulting players he coached in the late 1980s and early ’90s with the Swift Current Broncos of the Western Hockey League.

James, who was seeking full parole, has been convicted of sexually assaulting six of his former players hundreds of times during that period.

Parole board member Suzanne Chartrand said James may have remorse, but lacks the necessary empathy. She noted that his victims continue to live with severe consequences of his actions.

“We think you need to increase your empathy,” Chartrand told him.

“We cannot say it’s heartfelt, we cannot say it comes from deep inside.”

James pleaded guilty last June to more charges involving a player who described him as his tormentor and his demon. He received a two-year sentence on top of a five-year term from 2013 that James had almost finished serving on similar charges against former player Todd Holt and his cousin, retired Calgary Flames star Theo Fleury.

James was initially sentenced to two years in 2012 before a Manitoba appeals court increased that sentence to five years.

During Monday’s hearing, James appeared to question the number of sexual assaults he was accused of,

Graham James arrives at court for sentencing in Winnipeg on March 20, 2012.

James, a former junior hockey coach who sexually abused players, has been granted day parole. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

saying the WHL teams he coached would not have been that successful with such a high number. “(But) I did enough things wrong and I offer no excuses,” he said, adding therapy during his first prison stint taught him how wrong he was.

“Whatever excuses I had were taken out of me.”

James has faced sex charges three times involving players he coached.

He was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty in 1997 to sex offences against Sheldon Kennedy and two others, serving about 18 months before being paroled.

Kennedy played for the Broncos at the time of the assaults and went on to play in the National Hockey League.

James sought and received a pardon for those offences in 2007.

Kennedy, who didn’t attend the parole hearing, said the publicity around the appearance continues at least to shine a light on the issue of the sexual abuse of children.

“Has he changed? I guess that’s the question. He said he’s trying and he can’t change what he’s attracted to,” he told The Canadian Press. “To me that’s not words of somebody who’s really committed to change or remorseful.”

Fleury tweeted his reaction on Monday to the parole decision.

“By granting day parole the Canadian justice system just kept more victims of rape silent and feeling more shame today!!!!!,” he said.

James qualified for day parole last August and is eligible for full parole as of next month. He fell short on full parole, with the board ruling it was premature.

OTTAWA — Canada plans to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact next week, but that procedural step doesn’t necessarily mean ratifying the controversial agreement is a done deal, the federal government said Monday.

International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland stressed that the government’s signature on the 12-country treaty essentially means Canada can keep its spot at the bargaining table.

Freeland said she intends to join trade ministers from the TPP’s partner countries at a signing event Feb. 4 in Auckland, New Zealand.

“Just as it is too soon to endorse the TPP, it is also too soon to close the door,” Freeland wrote Monday in an open letter posted on her department’s website.

“Signing does not equal ratifying....

Signing is simply a technical step in the process, allowing the TPP text to be tabled in Parliament for consideration and debate before any final decision is made.”

Only a majority vote in the House of Commons would bind Canada to the deal, said Freeland. She has also requested a thorough, transparent study of the agreement by parliamentary committee.

In recent weeks, Freeland conducted public consultations on the wide-ranging accord, which — if ratified — would also set new international rules for sectors beyond trade. Those other areas include intellectual property, which worries some experts.

“We’ve been hearing a variety of views,” Freeland said after question period Monday. “Some people strongly critical, some voices strongly supportive.”

The minister has already indicated the massive accord, which includes major economies such as the United States and Japan, cannot be renegotiated.

FREELAND

It remains unclear whether the government would attempt to carve out side accords to help address concerns. Some legal experts have urged the government to do so.

Asked whether the government could push for side deals, Freeland responded by saying it wouldn’t be very wise for her to answer such “hypotheticals.”

“As you know, there are a number of side letters already (in the TPP) and one of the things that we will be listening to people about is, you know, what (are) their concerns.”

Each country has up to two years to consider ratification before making a final decision.

She has said that while Liberals are strong supporters of trade, she’s also noted that they didn’t negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The former Conservative government announced an agreement-in-principle on the pact in October during the federal election campaign.

New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair warned Monday the TPP would kill thousands of Canadian jobs, weaken its supply managed dairy and poultry sector, hurt the auto industry and put innovators at a competitive disadvantage.

The Canadian auto-workers’ union, Unifor, has called the deal disastrous, warning it threatens some 20,000 manufacturing jobs in Canada.

MEDIA

Guelph loses paper as print media battered COLIN PERKEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — One of the country’s oldest dailies, the Guelph Mercury, will cease publishing its print editions this week, the latest casualty of the deep malaise in Canada’s newspaper industry, its publisher announced Monday.

The closure will throw 23 full-time and three part-time employees out of work, including eight in the newsroom. The southwestern Ontario newspaper, which dates to 1867, will print its last edition on Friday.

Publisher Donna Luelo expressed regret, but said shuttering the print edition was the only viable option. A regional digital team would continue to put out a web version.

“This is a sad day for Guelph, not just the wonderful people who work here.”

Tony Saxon, ‘Mercury’ sports reporter

“The steep decline in classified and national advertising revenues has made it difficult for the printed copy of the daily newspaper to remain profitable,” Luelo said in a statement.

“There is nothing the talented team at the Guelph Mercury could have done differently to affect the outcome.”

Across Canada and North America, newspapers have struggled to stay, or

become, profitable as free websites have eaten into traditional classified and advertising revenues, while readers have moved to online news sites.

The Mercury’s circulation in the city of about 115,000 people had fallen to below 9,000 home-delivery subscribers, Luelo said.

In an email, Luelo said the decision would have no impact on the nearby Waterloo Region Record daily, where she’s also publisher.

Ontario’s education minister called the closure of the newspaper a “huge loss” for Guelph.

“The Guelph Mercury has been the paper of record in Guelph and surrounding area for my entire life,” said Liz Sandals, who represents the area in the legislature.

Montreal’s La Presse, also one of the country’s oldest and largest newspapers, announced the end of its weekday print product last fall in favour of a tablet edition launched in 2013 at a cost of $40 million. La Presse still prints a Saturday paper.

Just last week, money-losing Postmedia announced it was cutting 90 jobs as it merged newsrooms in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa. Also, the 141-year-old Nanaimo Daily News announced it would stop publishing.

The Mercury, owned by Torstar Corporation’s Metroland Media Group, was owned by Thomson Newspaper Corp. from 1947 until 1995, when Hollinger Inc. took over.

Ownership moved in 1998 to Sun

Media before Torstar Corporation took over that same year.

“This is a sad day for Guelph, not just the wonderful people who work here,” Mercury sports reporter Tony Saxon said in a tweet.

The Mercury said its real estate publication, called Guelph and District Homes, and its lifestyle magazine Guelph Life would continue as a printed product.

Metroland’s president could not be reached for comment. However, the company said it would deliver news and “unique local content” through its twice-weekly Guelph Tribune.

In a related development Monday, Rogers said it would be cutting 200 jobs in TV, radio, publishing and administration.

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CRIME

Man killed by cops after bus driver nearly shot BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — A near miss involving a transit driver set off a tense confrontation between a shooter in a wheelchair and police officers that led to the gunman’s death.

Police warned residents in the northwest Calgary neighbourhood of Huntington Hills to stay indoors and in their basements on Sunday afternoon following news of a shooter.

Officers in a police helicopter flying over the area used a bullhorn to reinforce the message.

“The service received a 911 call that a Calgary transit bus driver reported a shot fired into the bus that narrowly missed the driver,” police Chief Roger Chaffin said at a Monday news conference.

“Several attempts were made to resolve the situation peacefully; however, the suspect exited the residence and the situation escalated.”

Roger Chaffin, Calgary police chief

“It’s believed that there were five passengers inside that bus, but fortunately no one was injured.”

Bullets being shot from a home also hit a number of surrounding residences.

More than a dozen officers, including members of the tactical team,

surrounded the home before the gunman was shot and killed.

“Numerous shots were fired indiscriminately from the resident. Area residents were advised to stay inside and seek shelter,” said Chaffin.

“Officers set up containment while shots continued to be fired from the home,” he said.“Several attempts were made to resolve the situation peacefully; however, the suspect exited the residence and the situation escalated resulting in the discharge of a service firearm . . . and killing the suspect.”

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, which reviews police shootings, is investigating.

A news release said the man, who was 53, was in a wheelchair and left the home through the back door.

He was armed with a handgun and engaged in a direct confrontation with police, ASIRT said.

It said immediate medical assistance was provided but he was declared dead at the scene. The handgun was recovered. No one else was in the home during the standoff.

An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday.

Chaffin said details about the man, the number of shots fired and the shooting itself won’t be released until the investigation is complete.

The chief said there had been a number of visits to the home in the past, but they were non-criminal in nature and didn’t involve “this level of violence.”

The attack was not related to any gang activity and appears to be

“unique to this particular person,” he said.

The officers involved in the shooting are receiving support from their peers and psychological services, he added.

Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann said the man shot was David McQueen and that he was suffering from a serious mental illness.

Swann said McQueen contacted his constituency office many, many times.

“He was always polite, though he was certainly agitated and paranoid of all government. David was also angry. Angry with the injury which all but paralyzed him, angry with a system he felt failed him, and angry with those who represented that system,” Swann said in a statement.

WEATHER

TRANSPORTATION

After big snowstorm, residents of U.S. east coast face a tough week

WestJet flights to and from Alberta cut back

Crews raced all day Sunday to clear streets and sidewalks devoid of their usual bustle MICHAEL R. SISAK AND VERENA DOBNIK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — U.S. East Coast residents clobbered by the weekend blizzard trudged into the workweek Monday amid slippery roads, spotty transit service and mounds of snow that buried cars and blocked sidewalks after some cities got an entire winter’s snow in two days.

For others, the weekend extended into Monday because of closed schools and government offices. The storm dropped snow from the Gulf Coast to New England, with near-record snowfalls tallied from Washington, D.C. to New York City. At least 37 people have died as a result of the storm; the deaths occurred in car accidents, from carbon monoxide poisoning, and from heart attacks while shovelling snow.

In Brooklyn, only one teacher at the Bedford-Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School was called out, despite more than 60 centimetres of snow in New York City.

“A lot of teachers are taking the train instead of driving,” said Wanda Morales, director of operations at the school, as she stood outside while maintenance workers spread salt and parents dropped off their children.

Amtrak operated a reduced number of trains on all its routes, serving many people who couldn’t get around otherwise, spokesman Marc Magliari said. Bus and rail service was to be limited into Monday.

Flying remained particularly messy after airlines cancelled nearly 12,000 weekend flights and hundreds more Monday. Airports resumed limited service in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia and in the Washington area. But delays reverberated around

LAUREN KRUGEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

Brian Mitchell, with his dog Molly, shovels snow outside his home in Towson, Md., on Monday. East coast residents continued to dig themselves out after a massive weekend snowstorm. [AP PHOTO]

the country, with more than 2,500 flights delayed or cancelled Monday.

Airports resumed limited service in New York City, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, which said it got an entire winter’s snow in two days. In the Washington area, Reagan National Airport tweeted that it saw its first flights Monday, and Dulles International Airport expected to resume flights late in the day The snow began Friday, and the last flakes fell just before midnight Saturday. In its aftermath, crews raced all day Sunday to clear streets and sidewalks devoid of their usual bustle.

But one day wasn’t enough to clear many roads.

Cars parked in neighbourhoods were encased in snow, some of it pushed from the streets by plows.

Sidewalk entrances were blocked by mounds of snow.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio encouraged people to leave their plowed-in cars all week. Some didn’t have a choice; plows clearing streets buried cars under a mound of ice and snow.

Broadway reopened after going dark at the last minute during the snowstorm, but museums remained closed in Washington, and the U.S. House of Representatives postponed votes until February, citing the storm’s impact on travel.

Overall snowfall of 68 centimetres in Central Park made it New York’s second biggest winter storm since records began in 1869, and Saturday’s 67.6 centimetres made for a single-day record in the city.

Washington’s records were less clear. The official three-day total of 45 centimetres measured at Reagan National Airport was impossibly short of accumulations recorded elsewhere in the city. An official total of 56.9 centimetres landed at the National Zoo, for example.

The zoo remained closed through Monday but a video of its giant panda Tian Tian making snow angels got more than 54 million views.

CALGARY — Fewer WestJet planes will be flying in and out Alberta’s two biggest cities as weakness in the energy sector puts a damper on demand.

As of March, the airline said it will be reducing service between Calgary and Edmonton. Several more routes to and from those two cities are either being cancelled or scaled back.

“We look at our service based on supply and demand,” WestJet vice-president Richard Bartrem said Monday.

“With the downturn in the economy, we’re seeing less demand for travel to and from the energy markets and into areas across Canada.

We’ve decided that we would move some of that capacity into markets where we’re seeing less of that impact so that we’re actually using the fleet as effectively as possible while minimizing the effect on the guest.”

WestJet will remove flights between Calgary and Terrace and Prince George. Direct flights between Edmonton and Nanaimo and Kamloops are also being cancelled.

Bartrem said customers can still fly between those destinations by changing planes elsewhere.

As well, WestJet is reducing the number of flights between Calgary and Brandon, Man., and Fort McMurray, Alta. And there be fewer flights between the provincial capital and Abbotsford, and Grande Prairie, Alta.

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TERRORISM

Police in EU warn more attacks are being planned by IS militants Grisly recording shows Paris attackers making threats of fresh bloodshed in Europe LORI HINNANT AND JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — Europe’s top police agency issued a stark warning Monday: Islamic State extremists will keep attempting lethal attacks on soft targets in Europe as the militant group increasingly goes global.

Some 2 1/2 months after suicide bombers and gunmen killed 130 people in Paris, the Europol agency said, “there is every reason to expect that IS, IS-inspired terrorists or another religiously inspired terrorist group will undertake a terrorist attack somewhere in Europe again, but particularly in France, intended to cause mass casualties among the civilian population.”

The sobering conclusions reached by experts from the European Union’s chief agency for law enforcement co-operation and EU member states make clear that many, perhaps virtually all in Europe, may be at risk.

“Without reliable intelligence on the intentions, activities and contacts and travels of known terrorists it is nearly impossible to exactly predict when and where the next terrorist attack will take place, and what form it will take,” the Europol report said.

Hours before the report was issued, a new video was released by the Islamic State group celebrating the killers who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in the French capital — while also threatening fresh bloodshed.

The grisly recording ends with one militant holding a severed head,

Prosecutors want Pistorius appeal nixed THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JOHANNESBURG — South African prosecutors have asked the nation’s highest court to reject a bid by Oscar Pistorius’ lawyers to appeal the double-amputee runner’s murder conviction, a spokesman said Monday.

The National Prosecuting Authority filed papers with the constitutional Court arguing that Pistorius’ appeal was not valid, said Luvuyo Mfaku, a prosecution spokesman.

Lawyers for Pistorius, who killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home in 2013, had appealed to the constitutional Court, saying another court erred when it overturned a manslaughter conviction and declared the Olympic athlete guilty of murder.

His legal team claim the Supreme Court of Appeal ignored his vulnerability as a person with a disability.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

’Borgata Babes’ casino case won’t be reviewed New Jersey’s highest court says an Atlantic City casino can regulate how much its cocktail waitresses weigh.

The Press of Atlantic City reports the state Supreme Court on Thursday denied the Borgata Babes’ request to review the case.

An appeals court in September had upheld a 2013 ruling that the Borgata casino’s personal appearance standards are lawful. The court said that an element of performance and a public appearance component were part of the described Borgata Babe position.

The casino has fired two Borgata Babes over the years for violating the policy, which prohibits servers from gaining or losing more than 7 per cent of their body weight.

The casino’s attorney says it’s pleased with the decision.

◆ YAOUNDE, CAMEROON

Four suicide attackers kill at least 35 people A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall after gunmen attacked the venue in Paris in November. Video released Sunday by the Islamic State shows the extremists who carried out the attacks committing atrocities in IS-controlled territory while plotting the slaughter in the French capital. [AP PHOTO]

footage of British Prime Minister David Cameron giving a speech, and an IS warning that whoever stands with the unbelievers “will be a target for our swords.”

The 17-minute video, released Sunday, shows the extent of the planning that went into the multiple attacks in Paris, which French authorities have said from the beginning were planned in Syria.

All nine men seen in the video died in the Paris attacks or their aftermath.

All but two of the attackers were from Belgium and France and spoke

fluent French. The two others — identified by their noms de guerre as Iraqis — spoke in Arabic.

Seven of the militants, including a 20-year-old who was the youngest of the group, were shown standing behind bound captives, described as “apostates,” who were either beheaded or shot.

“Soon on the Champs-Elysees,” says Samy Amimour, who was raised in a Paris suburb, as he holds a captive’s head aloft.

Expert reviews conducted by Europol on Nov. 29 and Dec. 1 concluded that the Islamic State “is preparing

more terrorist attacks,” including copycats of the so-called Mumbai method of co-ordinated bombings and shootings by multiple teams of assailants that claimed 164 lives in India’s financial capital in November 2008.

The IS video released Sunday was shot before the men sneaked back into Europe and contains no footage of the attackers during the days of terror that began Nov. 13 and ended only on Nov. 18 with the death of Abdelhamid Abbaoud, who was believed to be the leader of the attack cell.

RELIGION

Pope to make apology in Sweden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has concluded an annual weeklong prayer for Christian unity by making a sweeping apology for Catholic wrongs committed against other Christians and by announcing he will visit Sweden to mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation.

The one-day trip Oct. 31 to the southern city of Lund, where the Lutheran World Federation was founded in 1947, will be the first papal visit to Sweden since Pope John Paul II toured five Scandinavian nations in 1989.

Francis has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors by encouraging efforts to heal the rifts with Anglicans, Lutherans, Orthodox, evangelicals and other Christian denominations. But Francis has also used personal friendships to forge ahead where official dialogue has stalled.

FRANCIS

On Monday, Francis celebrated an annual vespers service to mark the end of a weeklong prayer for Christian unity which this year also falls during Francis’ Holy Year of Mercy.

In his homily, Francis asked forgiveness for the “sin of our divisions” — an appeal he made in June last year during a visit to a small evangelical house of worship in northern Italy.

“As the bishop of Rome and pastor of the Catholic Church, I would like to invoke mercy and forgiveness for the non-evangelical behaviour of Catholics toward Christians of other churches,” he said Monday.

“At the same time, I invite all Catholic brothers and sisters to forgive if today, or in the past, they have suffered offence by other Christians.

“We cannot cancel what has happened, but we don’t want to let the weight of past harm continue to pollute our relations.”

Earlier Monday, the Vatican said Francis’ visit to Sweden will “highlight the important ecumenical developments that have taken place during the past 50 years of dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans.”

Martin Luther’s challenge to the Catholic doctrine of indulgences in 1517 is remembered as the start of the Reformation, from which the Protestant churches originated out of criticism of the Church of Rome led by the pope.

Four suicide bombers attacked a market and town on Monday in Cameroon’s Far North region near the border with Nigeria, killing at least 35 people and wounding 65 others, officials said.

Cameroon officials blamed the Nigeria-based extremist group Boko Haram for the attack, saying the assailants crossed over from Nigeria.

In response, Cameroon soldiers carried out raids into Nigeria from the Cameroonian town of Achigashia, killing at least 17 insurgents, Cameroon’s Minister of Communications Issa Tchiroma Bakary said Monday night.

“The suicide bombers were escorted to Cameroon by Boko Haram fighters,” Bakary said.

Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency has killed about 20,000 people and displaced 2.3 million, according to Amnesty International and the United Nations.

◆ UNITED NATIONS

UN to monitor ceasefire efforts in Colombia The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution to establish a political mission to monitor and verify a future cease-fire in Colombia that would end Latin America’s longest-running guerrilla conflict.

The resolution welcomes the progress in negotiations between Colombia’s government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and notes their joint request last week for a UN monitoring mission.

In a rare move for the often-divided council, all 15 members co-sponsored the resolution.

The request sent a strong signal that a March 23 deadline to wrap up peace talks could be within reach.

“Finally, our continent will have life without conflict,” the country’s foreign minister, Maria Angela Holguin, told reporters. She said her country hopes to meet the March deadline.

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Raonic pulls of the upset, moves to Aussie quarters

Sutter set to make return tonight as Canucks host Penguins

Top Canadian player will face France’s Gael Monfils in Melbourne in next matchup

JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS

M

ilos Raonic has always turned heads with his big serve. Now that he’s improved his play at the net, the Canadian tennis star is even more dangerous.

Raonic advanced to the quarter-finals of the Australian Open for the second straight year, defeating 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-3 Monday in a marathon match lasting three hours and 44 minutes.

The 13th seed from Thornhill, Ont., improved to 8-0 this season and downed a former Australian Open champion for a second time.

He tuned up for the year’s first Grand Slam by defeating 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer in the final of the Brisbane Open.

Raonic attributed his success this season to his improved volleying.

“I think it’s what helped me win in Brisbane,” he said. “It’s what helped me win my first three matches here, is that comfort and confidence of going forward.

“But not even just that. In the off-season I spent a lot of time up at the net. So it’s not just about a confidence, it’s about an understanding of what I need to do, where you go in certain situations, how not only to finish the points, how to defend a little bit better at the net and how to cover and move better to make the opponent think.”

Raonic said he had a lot of time to analyze and tweak his game while dealing with a series of frustrating injuries last season.

He worked in the off-season with coach Riccardo Piatti on getting more comfortable at the net, and said he continues to devote more time to volleying in practice.

“I had time injured and I wasn’t so caught up in playing a lot of matches, travelling from tournament to tournament, when I was sort of sitting there maybe a little bit annoyed with the physical situation I was in, asking myself ‘What can I do to get better?’

“It was something definitely I felt was necessary for me. So I think (coach Carlos Moya) has been sort of taking the tools that me and Riccardo worked on in the winter, and he is sort of telling me, ‘You’re doing well up there. Keep getting yourself up there.”’

Raonic, who lost to the fourth-seeded Wawrinka in their four previous meetings, improved to 18-5 in Melbourne and 47-19 at Grand Slams.

“I’m very happy with the way I played, the way I competed, the way I turned things around after having

Milos Raonic celebrates after defeating Stan Wawrinka in the fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

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the momentum against me going into the fifth” he said.

“At the same time, as happy as I am, my mind’s already on what’s the process for my next challenge.

I’m always looking for ways to get better.”

Raonic was cruising with a lead of two sets to love when his game suddenly derailed.

Wawrinka stormed back to win the third and fourth sets but Raonic was able to close it out in the fifth, finishing the match with 24 aces, 82 winners and five breaks of serve at the showcase Rod Laver Arena.

“I felt very clear in what I needed to do and I believed that I could do it,” Raonic said.

“I was trying to play in rhythm, dictate and control the centre of the court. I was able to carry that through.”

Raonic next faces Gael Monfils, the Frenchman who beat Russian Andrey Kuznetsov 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6

(4). Monfils withdrew from the first matchup between the players at the SAP Open in 2011, but has beaten Raonic twice since.

The two players are a contrast in style.

Monfils plays a flashy, entertaining game while Raonic rarely betrays his emotions and strives for efficiency.

And that is just fine with Raonic.

“I know from when I was a junior I learned in many tough lessons that when I get too emotional for the positive I can start going to a negative too fast,” he said. “That cost me too many matches.

“Do I wish I was more like somebody else?

“No. It just doesn’t fit what works best for me.”

VANCOUVER — Brandon Sutter is going from the press box to centre stage for the Vancouver Canucks.

The 26-year-old will return to the lineup on Tuesday against the Nashville Predators after a 33-game absence due to a sports hernia.

With captain Henrik Sedin out until after the all-star break because of an upper-body injury, Sutter will slot in between Daniel Sedin and Jannik Hansen while also getting time on the first power-play unit.

“Jumping right into the fire,” Sutter said with a smile after Monday’s practice at Rogers Arena.

Sutter suffered the abdominal injury in mid-November, which he thought was initially just a tight groin, and waited about three weeks before going the surgical route.

“I was skating for 20 days trying to get it better, trying to avoid surgery, and it just felt like I was spinning my tires,” he said. “Once we got the surgery going it felt like you’re starting to see the light. Even though that was seven weeks ago, at least you’re working towards something.”

Sutter practised with the Canucks on their recent road trip and will help a club that’s currently thin on experience at centre with Henrik Sedin sidelined.

“We missed him,” said Vancouver head coach Willie Desjardins. “A lot of guys stepped in and played well while he was gone, especially the young guys, but for me it will be great to have him back.”

Sutter should also be a boost for the Canucks in the faceoff circle, where they’re ranked last in the NHL, and on the penalty kill, where they sit 20th.

“He’s a big part of this team,” said Hansen. “We need a right-handed centre, no question about that. His speed, his tenacity, he’ll bring a lot.”

Vancouver acquired Sutter in a trade with Pittsburgh in June before signing him to a five-year deal worth US$21.875 million in August.

He had four goals and four assists in 16 games before the injury, and is eager to help the club after a long layoff that included four- or five-hour rehab sessions with trainers and a lot of time on the couch.

“I’ve got a lot of movies down, a few TV series,” Sutter said of how he spent his days. “A lot of football.”

The Canucks were in a rut when Sutter first got hurt, but have been playing better in recent months and are within shouting distance of a playoff spot at 20-18-11 with one more game before the all-star break.

“Fortunately the guys have done an awesome job,” said Sutter. “I’m not going to say it’s been fun watching them, but it’s been much better than it was.”

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SPORTS BRIEFS News services ◆ NHL

Panthers, Barkov ink contract extension The Florida Panthers rewarded blossoming center Aleksander Barkov with a six-year contract extension through 2022, according to a tweet by Barkov and owner Doug Cifu.

Barkov’s contract is worth $35.4 million. The Panthers locked up young center Nick Bjugstad late last season to a six-year extension worth approximately $24.5 million.

The team is working on an extension for forward Vincent Trocheck as well.

Barkov, 20, the second overall draft pick of 2013, would’ve been a restricted free agent after this season. He centers the top line of Jaromir Jagr and Jonathan Huberdeau.

Barkov has 12 goals and 30 points in 38 games.

◆ MLS

Impact relieved Drogba will be back in Montreal The Montreal Impact are confident that star striker Didier Drogba will return full of enthusiasm, ready to pick up the same torrid scoring pace he set at the end of last season.

But the 37-year-old Drogba was not on hand to give his thoughts on that topic when the Major League Soccer club opened camp Monday at Olympic Stadium. He is to report to camp in Florida in mid-February after a conditioning stint with his personal trainer in Qatar.

Whether he comes back to the Impact willingly, or if he is merely honouring the final year of his contract, only the former Chelsea star can say for sure. He has made no comment on it so far.

“He’s a professional, with the right intentions, but we’ll see when he comes back,” said Impact president and owner Joey Saputo, who seemed no more attuned to the player’s state of mind than the horde of reporters surrounding him at the Olympic Stadium pitch.

◆ NBA

Jason Kidd to return to Milwaukee’s bench Jason Kidd figures that he will have a higher cellphone bill after getting stuck at home while recuperating from hip surgery.

The Milwaukee Bucks coach would reach out to his staff while the team by sending a lot of text messages.

It’s time for Kidd to give those thumbs a rest.

Five weeks after undergoing surgery, Kidd is returning to the bench on Tuesday when the Bucks host the Orlando Magic.

“Unfortunately, the phone bill went up a little bit, but they got the message, and they got the message to the right people,” Kidd said Monday after practice.

Maybe his return will give the team the spark needed to jump back into the playoff race. Entering Monday night, Milwaukee was 19-27, in 13th place in the Eastern Conference, five games behind eighth-place Miami.

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Together a decade, Kubiak and Daniels heading to Super Bowl Broncos head coach, tight end have been through a lot together with previous teams ARNIE STAPLETON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

W

hen Tom Brady took a knee with 33 seconds left in the first half of the AFC championship and turned to trot toward the tunnel, Broncos tight end Owen Daniels wasn’t buying it.

He stood on Denver’s sideline pointing at the New England Patriots until they indeed disappeared into their locker room. Only then did he head off the field, passing his coach along the way.

“I got some comments about that on social media that I looked really confused,” Daniels said Monday while basking in the afterglow of his two-touchdown performance in Denver’s 20-18 dethroning of the defending champs.

Daniels wasn’t confounded, just cautious.

You see, while he was in Baltimore last season, the Ravens came up with a scheme to fool the Steelers in the playoffs. If they had enough time, they were going to take a knee and fake like they were trotting off to their nearby tunnel only to run back to the line of scrimmage, snap the ball while the Steelers were walking off and run for an easy touchdown.

They never got that chance.

But, hey, if anyone else has thought of it, you can bet Bill Belichick has, too.

“New England has always got something up their sleeve,” Daniels said. “. . . So, I was just making sure I was ready to make a tackle.”

It’s that football acumen that led coach Gary Kubiak to vouch for Daniels last spring when he and general manager John Elway mapped out their free agency plans and offered Daniels a three-year, $12 million contract.

Daniels has played for Kubiak his entire NFL career. He spent eight seasons with him in Houston and followed him to Baltimore in

Denver Broncos tight end Owen Daniels celebrates after scoring touchdown against the the New England Patriots on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]

2014 when Kubiak was hired as the Ravens’ offensive co-ordinator following his firing as the Texans’ head coach.

Together, they resurrected their respective careers before coming to Colorado.

Daniels caught 48 passes for 527 yards and four touchdowns in helping the Ravens reach the playoffs, where he scored his first post-season touchdown against New England.

In Denver, Daniels caught 46 passes for 517 yards and three TDs in the regular season. He had TD grabs of 21 and 12 yards Sunday.

“As a coach when you bounce to different places and guys’ names come up, you’ve got to be careful,” Kubiak said. “But there are certain

guys you have no doubt staying up for, saying, ’Put him on your team.’

And he’s one of those guys.”

Daniels brought pedigree to a position where Peyton Manning had lost Julius Thomas and his two dozen TD catches from 2013-14 to free agency.

He immediately received an invitation from Manning to attend his annual passing camp at Duke, where the 39-year-old quarterback picked Daniels’ brain about Kubiak’s offensive philosophy.

Then, Daniels tutored the rest of the offence.

“He didn’t like directly order me to do that, but ... it kind of happened naturally,” Daniels said.

Daniels had a disappointing start in Denver as the Broncos struggled on

offence early on. They were getting used to a new O-line and Manning’s left foot was bothering him. Plus, they had injuries that reduced their ranks at tight end and limited their options.

Then, Elway brought in Vernon Davis from San Francisco just before the trade deadline and everything changed for Daniels and Virgil Green.

While Davis has had problems with drops and caught just 20 passes for 201 yards, his presence really opened things up for the other tight ends.

“It’s been great. Having Vernon here, obviously he’s a super dynamic player who has been playing really well for a long time,” Daniels said.

“Having him around, it’s allowed us to do more two-tight end stuff. To have three guys that are really interchangeable out there, he’s been a great asset for us.”

It’s not just Daniels’ production, but his football instincts that helped the Broncos (14-4) get back to the Super Bowl, where they’ll face the Carolina Panthers (17-1).

Like his heads-up on Brady’s kneel-down.

“We tried to do that to another team,” Daniels said, “so I was kind of alert to that.”

After the game, Daniels searched for Kubiak to soak in the moment.

“Coach Kube and I obviously, we’ve been together 10 years. Those years in Houston were satisfying because we helped take that franchise from where it was and turn it around to make it a winning franchise expecting to win every year,” Daniels said. “That meant a lot and then for us to just kind of be in this moment together. I was looking for Kube after the game. I couldn’t find him until he was on the stage.”

After the trophy presentation, the two embraced.

“We had a little moment,” Daniels said. “I know it means a ton to him to be in this situation.

“It means a lot to me to share that with him.”

Panthers’ linebacker expects to play despite injury STEVE REED THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — All-Pro linebacker Thomas Davis had surgery Monday morning on his broken right forearm, but is expected to play in the Super Bowl on Feb. 7.

“My understanding is if everything goes well it is something he can mostly certainly play with,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said Monday. “So we are excited about that possibility.”

Rivera did not know which forearm bone Davis broke.

He said the 11-year NFL veteran may need to wear a brace on his arm similar to the one worn by New

England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski.

Davis broke his arm in the second quarter of Carolina’s 49-15 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday in the NFC championship. Davis said after the game he fully expected to play in the Super Bowl in about two weeks.

Rivera said if anybody can play through the pain, it would be Davis, who has battled back from three torn ACLs in the same knee to play at an All-Pro level.

“He said (he was going to play) with the same type of sincerity he said to me when he told me he was coming

back from the third ACL,” Rivera said. “There is something about his conviction and I think that’s what makes him who he is today. So I have no doubt that as long as everything continues to heal the way it’s supposed to, he’ll be out there.”

Players were not made available for comment on Monday.

Davis’ wife posted an Instagram photo of her husband wearing a hospital shower cap on Monday and thanked well-wishers.

Davis said after the game Sunday he planned to play in the Super Bowl.

“It hurt. It was painful,” Davis said

Sunday. “At the same time I believe in our training staff and I believe in the process. If it is at all possible I know they are going to get me back and I will do my part to make sure I’m ready.”

Davis was dominant early in the NFC title game recording six tackles, including two for losses. He had several jarring hits that set the tone for the Panthers to build a 17-0 lead.

But he broke his forearm while trying to break up a pass in the second quarter and was taken to the locker room for observations. He returned to the sideline in the second half wearing a sling on his right arm.

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Slumping Stone searches for answers Young Senators star winger can’t help but shake his head, mired in longest pointless streak of his career

Ottawa Senators right wing Mark Stone is knocked to the ice during an NHL game on Friday in Ottawa. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

to play like we did last game the chances will continue to come.�

The Senators host the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday in their last game before the all-star break, and will likely face former teammate Robin Lehner in goal.

Stone said it would feel pretty good to end his pointless streak with a goal against a good friend.

Coming off a 3-0 win over the New York Rangers Sunday afternoon in what can easily be described as the Senators most complete game of late, the team knows it would be ideal to head into the break riding back-toback wins. “(Sunday) we had no passengers, none, that’s what I liked,� Cameron said. “The big difference, for me, was we were moving our feet which gives you energy, which makes it tough on the other team and that’s a big difference for us between good and not so good.�

Craig Anderson will get the start for Ottawa, and says he would enjoy the opportunity to face Lehner.

This will be Lehner’s first appearance at Canadian Tire Centre since being traded to the Sabres in June 2015.

frustrating when you’re struggling, but you just have to work your way out of it.�

Not overly superstitious, Stone says he’s not trying to do anything all that different other than using white tape on his stick these days. Stone broke two sticks in practice Monday

Notes: D Marc Methot was back on the ice for the first time in a week, but remains questionable for Tuesday’s game against the Senators. A decision will be made following the morning skate. D Erik Karlsson was given a maintenance day, but will play Tuesday.

LISA WALLACE THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Mark Stone can’t help but shake his head these days.

The Ottawa Senators winger is mired in the longest pointless streak of his career and is at a loss to understand what’s going wrong. Stone has failed to get a point in his last seven games, and has just one goal and one assist in his last 13.

Senators coach Dave Cameron said the 23-year-old is creating chances and doing everything possible to score, but just can’t seem to catch a break. “I thought the last two games he was as good a player as there was on the ice for either team,� Cameron said. “In this business we talk about resilience and balance and that there’s no guarantees. “You can do everything right and not score whether it’s a good goalie or a post or whatever so don’t concentrate on the result, concentrate on the process and I’ve really liked his process the last two games.�

Stone feels he’s playing well enough, but knows he’s counted on to provide offence and can’t help but feel some pressure. He understands players go through slumps, but living through one personally is frustrating. “Everybody goes through stretches where you can’t miss and then you go through stretches where you can’t score,� Stone said. “Unfortunately right now is one of those times where I just can’t get one in. It’s

and his hopeful the new ones might prove lucky. While Stone’s production seems low he’s not that far off last year’s numbers. After 47 games Stone has 11 goals and 33 points.

Last year at the same time Stone had 12 goals and 28 points, but he excelled down the stretch scoring 14

goals and picking up 22 assists and was one of the Senators best players. “I feel like I’m playing pretty well right now, last couple games especially, I thought I created some pretty good chances not only for myself, but for my teammates,�

Stone said. “If the team can continue

Huberdeau’s puck luck has turned around “He’s always getting chances all year long. He just wasn’t putting them in the back of the net.“

HARVEY FIALKOV SUN SENTINEL

Prior to the Panthers’ threeday, New Year’s break Jaromir Jagr assured reporters that his hard-luck linemate Jonathan Huberdeau would score 20 goals, “next year.�

Jagr, who’s 737 goals is four shy of tying Brett Hull for third all-time, was on to something.

Huberdeau, 22, who has evolved into one of the best passers in the league, notched a goal and an assist to ignite Florida’s four-goal outburst in the second period Saturday to lead the Panthers to a 5-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning and complete the most impressive weekend sweep in franchise history.

By downing the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks on Friday and then ending Tampa Bay’s seven-game winning streak 24 hours later, the Panthers became the first team in 25 years to defeat the previous Cup finalists on consecutive days.

The Calgary Flames knocked off the Boston Bruins on Oct. 20, 1990 and defending champion Edmonton Oilers the next night.

Huberdeau had just four goals

Gerard Gallant, head coach

Florida Panthers left wing Jonathan Huberdeau celebrates a goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday. [AP PHOTO]

in the first 39 games of the season, but has added four more as well as four assists in the past nine games. He has 13 points in the past 13 games to take over the team scoring lead from Jagr with 35 points. “He’s playing great hockey,�

said Panthers coach Gerard Gallant, who coached Huberdeau in juniors. “He’s always getting chances all year long. He just wasn’t putting them in the back of the net.

Even [Saturday] he could have had three or four goals. It’s good

to see him shoot the puck like that. He’s really passionate when he’s around the net. “He’s playing with confidence, is bigger, stronger and just a good player.�

Huberdeau, who led the team with 54 points last season, has learned not to get too down on himself during slumps like he did in 2013-14 when he followed up his Calder Trophy season with a sub-par sophomore season (39 points). “Sometimes it goes in, sometimes it doesn’t,� said Huberdeau, who also leads the team with 26 assists to go with a plus-11 ice rating, second among forwards.

Fortunately for the Panthers, Huberdeau’s puck-luck has changed for the better.

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ATLANTIC DIVISION

)LUVW 3HULRG 1. Montreal, Gallagher 12 (Subban, Petry) 10:39 (pp).

2. Columbus, Atkinson 14 (Dubinsky, Jenner) 14:40.

3HQDOWLHV — Bourque Clb (tripping) 9:17; Tyutin Clb (slashing) 10:14.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. Columbus, Atkinson 15 (Dubinsky, Jenner) 2:52.

4. Montreal, Subban 4 (Markov, Gallagher) 8:36.

3HQDOWLHV — Pacioretty Mtl (slashing) 4:45; Subban Mtl (unsportsmanlike conduct) 8:36; Murray Clb (closing hand on puck) 19:31.

7KLUG 3HULRG 5. Colum, Saad 17 (Falk, Hartnell) 9:06.

6. Columbus, Saad 18 (Wennberg) 18:48 (en).

7. Columbus, Atkinson 16 (Dubinsky, Jenner) 19:35.

3HQDOWLHV — None.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Montreal 12 11 11—34 Columbus 8 11 6—25 *RDO — Montreal: Condon (L, 13-13-4); Colu: Korpisalo (W, 4-5-2). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Mtl: 1-3; Columbus: 0-2. $WWHQGDQFH — 11,927 at Columbus.

Florida Detroit Boston

*3 48 49 48

: / 2/ 6/ *) *$ 3WV +RPH $ZD\ 28 15 4 1 130 107 61 15-7-2-0 13-8-2-1 25 16 5 3 122 124 58 11-10-3-2 14-6-2-1 26 17 4 1 145 125 57 11-12-2-0 15-5-2-1

/DVW 6-3-1-0 6-3-0-1 6-3-1-0

6WUN W-2 W-1 W-2

METROPOLITAN DIVISION

Washington NY Rangers NY Islanders

*3 46 49 47

: / 2/ 6/ *) *$ 3WV +RPH $ZD\ 35 8 2 1 155 100 73 18-3-1-0 17-5-1-1 27 17 3 2 142 129 59 18-5-2-0 9-12-1-2 25 16 3 3 130 118 56 15-8-2-1 10-8-1-2

/DVW 6WUN 7-2-0-1 W-2 6-3-1-0 W-1 5-4-0-1 L-1

WILD CARD

Tampa Bay New Jersey Pittsburgh Montreal Ottawa Carolina Philadelphia Toronto Buffalo Columbus

*3 48 49 47 49 49 50 46 46 49 50

: 26 25 23 24 23 22 20 17 19 18

/ 2/ 6/ *) *$ 3WV +RPH $ZD\ 18 1 3 129 117 56 14-8-0-2 12-10-1-1 19 1 4 114 116 55 11-10-1-2 14-9-0-2 17 4 3 119 120 53 13-7-1-3 10-10-3-0 21 3 1 134 129 52 12-9-2-0 12-12-1-1 20 2 4 137 152 52 12-7-1-3 11-13-1-1 20 7 1 118 135 52 11-9-4-1 11-11-3-0 18 4 4 105 124 48 11-7-2-3 9-11-2-1 20 4 5 113 128 43 7-8-4-3 10-12-0-2 26 1 3 111 134 42 9-15-1-1 10-11-0-2 27 3 2 128 161 41 9-11-3-1 9-16-0-1

/DVW 8-2-0-0 5-5-0-0 5-2-3-0 3-6-1-0 5-5-0-0 6-3-1-0 5-4-0-1 3-5-1-1 4-6-0-0 3-5-1-1

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION

Chicago Dallas St. Louis

*3 52 50 52

: / 2/ 6/ *) *$ 3WV +RPH $ZD\ 33 15 4 0 147 117 70 21-5-1-0 12-10-3-0 31 14 3 2 162 133 67 19-6-0-0 12-8-3-2 28 16 5 3 129 128 64 16-8-3-0 12-8-2-3

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

PACIFIC DIVISION

Los Angeles San Jose Arizona

*3 48 47 48

: / 2/ 6/ *) *$ 3WV +RPH $ZD\ 30 15 1 2 126 109 63 15-8-0-1 15-7-1-1 25 18 3 1 136 128 54 9-12-1-1 16-6-2-0 24 19 4 1 129 141 53 13-9-3-0 11-10-1-1

/DVW 6WUN 5-4-0-1 W-1 7-1-1-1 L-1 6-3-1-0 W-2

*3 49 50 48 49 46 47 48 50

: 23 26 22 20 21 21 21 19

/DVW 2-6-1-1 7-3-0-0 4-5-1-0 5-3-2-0 6-3-0-1 4-5-0-1 3-6-0-1 3-5-1-1

WILD CARD

Minnesota Colorado Nashville Vancouver Anaheim Calgary Winnipeg Edmonton

/ 2/ 6/ *) *$ 3WV +RPH $ZD\ 17 7 2 121 115 55 14-8-2-1 9-9-5-1 21 3 0 138 133 55 12-10-3-0 14-11-0-0 18 7 1 125 129 52 13-7-2-1 9-11-5-0 18 9 2 121 137 51 9-8-4-0 11-10-5-2 18 5 2 95 109 49 14-8-3-1 7-10-2-1 23 1 2 125 144 45 14-9-0-0 7-14-1-2 24 1 2 121 138 45 12-10-1-0 9-14-0-2 26 4 1 122 149 43 13-10-1-0 6-16-3-1

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

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.

New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Chicago at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

Columbus 5 Montreal 2 Columbus at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

NY Rangers 6 Buffalo 3 Toronto at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas 2 Calgary 1 Buffalo at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Arizona 2 Minnesota 1 (SO) Arizona at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Boston 3 Philadelphia 2 Nashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Detroit 4 NY Islanders 2 Colorado at San Jose, 10 p.m.

6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV Carolina 5 Calgary 2 Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Ottawa 3 NY Rangers 0 Philadelphia at Washington, 8 p.m.

Chicago 2 St. Louis 0 Nashville at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.

Los Angeles 3 San Jose 2 (OT) Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, ppd.

6XQGD\ -DQ 7XHVGD\¡V JDPHV All-Star game at Nashville, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Boston, 7 p.m.

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)LUVW 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV — Frolik Cgy (tripping) 0:42.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 1. Dallas, Ja. Benn 28 (Nichushkin, Goligoski) 2:43.

2. Dal, Spezza 17 (Klingberg, Sharp) 4:03.

3HQDOWLHV — Roussel Dal, Engelland Cgy (roughing) 4:38; Nichushkin Dal (high-sticking) 7:22; Jokipakka Dal (holding) 10:58; Spezza Dal (hooking) 15:57.

7KLUG 3HULRG 3. Cal, Colborne 7 (Hudler, Engelland) 1:49.

3HQDOWLHV — Bennett Cgy (tripping) 11:50; Klingberg Dal (interference) 12:36; Eakin Dal (hooking) 19:50.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Calgary 3 12 9—24 Dallas 10 13 7—30 *RDO — Calgary: Ramo (L, 16-16-1); Dallas: Niemi (W, 18-9-5). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Calg: 0-5; Dallas: 0-2. $WWHQGDQFH — 18,532 at Dallas.

)LUVW 3HULRG 1. NYR, McIlrath 2 (Yandle, Brassard) 5:58.

2. Buf, Gionta 6 (Foligno, Bogosian) 16:13.

3HQDOWLHV — Franson Buf (hooking) 1:32; Pysyk Buf (kneeing) 18:47.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. NYR, Stalberg 7 (Hayes, Lindberg) 14:51.

3HQDOWLHV — Franson Buf (hooking) 1:52; Stepan NYR (tripping) 16:37.

7KLUG 3HULRG 4. NYR, Brassard 16 (Fast, Klein) 1:06.

5. Buf, Girgensons 4 (Eichel, Moulson) 4:31.

6. Buffalo, Girgensons 5 (Eichel) 5:44.

7. NYR, Miller 13 (Fast, Brassard) 6:44.

8. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 18 (Stepan, Brassard) 9:23 (pp).

9. NY Rangers, Brassard 17, 19:24 (en).

3HQDOW\ — Legwand Buf (holding) 8:32.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Buffalo 7 8 11 —26 NY Rangers 9 12 12 —33 *RDO — Buf: Johnson (L 12-13-2); NYR: Lundquist (W 23-13-4). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) — Buffalo: 0-1; NYR: 1-4. $WWHQGDQFH — 18,006 at NY Rangers.

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)LUVW 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOW\â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hanzal Ariz (interference) 15:22.

6HFRQG 3HULRG Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Haula Minn (hooking) 9:04.

7KLUG 3HULRG 1. Min, Coyle 13 (Niederreiter, Koivu) 10:20.

2. Ariz, Vermette 8 (Rieder) 18:47 (sh).

3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Granlund Minn (hooking) 12:38; Hanzal Ariz (roughing) 18:36.

2YHUWLPH Âł No Scoring.

3HQDOW\â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Coyle Minn (high-sticking) 1:52.

6KRRWRXW â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Arizona wins 1-0 $UL] Boedker miss, Duclair goal.

0LQ Parise miss, Koivu miss, Coyle miss.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Arizona 4 2 17 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;24 Minnesota 13 11 11 0 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;35 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ariz: Domingue (W, 9-4-3); Minn: Dubnyk (LO, 18-15-5). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Arizona: 0-3; Min: 0-2. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,020 at Minnesota.

6&25,1* /($'(56 Kane, Chi Benn, Dal Seguin, Dal Karlsson, Ott Pavelski, SJ Hall, Edm Kuznetsov, Wash Malkin, Pgh Tarasenko, StL Gaudreau, Cal Panarin, Chi Wheeler, Win Backstrom, Wash D. Sedin, Vcr Bergeron, Bos

G 30 27 25 10 24 18 15 23 25 20 17 13 15 21 18

0RQGD\ V JDPHV QRW LQFOXGHG

A 43 30 28 41 24 30 33 24 21 26 29 32 29 22 25

Pt 73 57 53 51 48 48 48 47 46 46 46 45 44 43 43

%58,16 )/<(56 )LUVW 3HULRG 1. Boston, Bergeron 19 (Spooner, Krejci) 5:04 (pp).

2. Boston, Marchand 20 (Chara, Miller) 17:27 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV Âł 5DIĂ 3KD KROGLQJ

Del Zotto Pha (slashing) 15:47.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. Philadelphia, Simmonds 13 (B. Schenn, Gostisbehere) 3:44 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Marchand Bos (tripping) 0:02; Seidenberg Bos (cross-checking) 3:38; Trotman Bos (interference) 5:00; Hayes Bos (hooking) 10:57; Streit Pha (hooking) 19:36.

7KLUG 3HULRG 4. Philadelphia, Simmonds 14 (Voracek, Del Zotto) 12:08.

5. Bos, Connolly 7 (Chara, Miller) 18:06.

3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Simmonds Pha (high-sticking) 18:22; Krug Bos (tripping) 18:57.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Boston 16 6 9 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;31 Philadelphia 8 15 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;35 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Boston: Rask (W, 17-14-4); Phila: Neuvirth (L, 10-6-2). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Boston: 2-4; Phil: 1-4. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,738 at Philadelphia.

5(' :,1*6 ,6/$1'(56 )LUVW 3HULRG 1. Det, Richards 5 (Datsyuk) 10:57 (pp).

2. NYI, Nelson 19 (Tavares) 16:33.

3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ericsson Det (tripping) 4:41; Nelson NYI (hooking) 10:30; Green Det (interference) 19:26.

6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. Detroit, Abdelkader 14 (Zetterberg, Larkin) 13:29.

4. Detroit, DeKeyser 6, 14:40.

3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None.

7KLUG 3HULRG 5. NYI, Grabovski 7 (Martin, Strait) 15:12.

6. Detroit, Glendening 4 (Helm, Quincey) 19:15 (en).

3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Detroit 7 11 8 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;26 NY Islanders 11 9 9 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;29 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Detroit: Mrazek (W, 18-9-4); NY Islanders: Halak (L, 12-9-4). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Detroit: 1-1; NYI: 0-2. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 12,086 at NY Islanders.

EAST DIVISION *3 3 3 3 3 4

: 2 2 2 1 0

/ 1 1 1 2 4

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

*) *$ *% 36 22 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 38 28 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 36 30 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 33 34 1 25 48 21/2

: 4 1 1 1

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

*) *$ *% 61 48 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 21 21 2 26 28 21/2 25 42 21/2

WEST DIVISION

*3 Colorado 4 Saskatchewan 2 Calgary 3 Vancouver 3

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CONFERENCE FINALS CANADIAN JUNIOR 6XQGD\ V UHVXOWV CHAMPIONSHIPS $)& Âł Denver 20 New England 18

EASTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION Brandon Prince Albert Moose Jaw Regina Saskatoon Swift Current

GP W 47 30 47 26 48 24 48 20 48 17 47 15

L OL 13 2 16 4 17 6 21 3 27 4 27 4

SL 2 1 1 4 0 1

GF GA 180 132 153 148 163 151 150 173 140 198 117 159

Pt 64 57 55 47 38 35

SL 0 2 1 1 1 0

GF GA 207 135 182 141 160 153 129 153 155 191 100 205

Pt 72 65 58 45 42 20

CENTRAL DIVISION Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

GP W 48 36 49 31 48 28 49 19 48 19 48 8

L OL 12 0 15 1 18 1 23 6 25 3 36 4

Everett Seattle Portland Spokane Tri-City

SL 0 3 1 3 2

GF GA 174 132 172 119 176 150 157 153 144 180

Pt 69 63 60 51 41

L OL 14 2 17 3 21 2 19 3 25 2

SL 2 0 0 2 0

GF GA 124 99 144 132 158 150 153 158 152 178

Pt 60 55 52 49 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 W column; team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 pt. in the OTL or SOL columns.

0RQGD\¡V UHVXOW Medicine Hat 6 Prince George 4 6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Brandon 4 Regina 0 Victoria 5 Vancouver 1 Lethbridge 3 Edmonton 0 Portland 4 Tri-City 3 )ULGD\ V JDPHV Prince George at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

BCHL L 5 13 16 23 25 26

:((. )ULGD\ V JDPHV Georgia at Toronto, 8 p.m.

Colorado at Saskatchewan, 8:30 p.m.

6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV Buffalo at New England, 7 p.m.

Georgia at Rochester, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

FOOTBALL NCAA BOWLS

TENNIS ATP-WTA $8675$/,$1 23(1 $W 0HOERXUQH $XVWUDOLD 0HQ V 6LQJOHV Âł )RXUWK 5RXQG Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Bernard Tomic (16), Australia, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

0LORV 5DRQLF 7KRUQKLOO 2QW , def. Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-3.

David Ferrer (8), Spain, def. John Isner (10), U.S., 6-4, 6-4, 7-5. *DHO 0RQĂ&#x20AC;OV )UDQFH GHI $QGUH\ Kuznetsov, Russia, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4). :RPHQ V 6LQJOHV Âł )RXUWK 5RXQG Angelique Kerber (7), Germany, def.

Annika Beck, Germany, 6-4, 6-0.

Victoria Azarenka (14), Belarus, def.

Barbora Strycova, Czech Rep., 6-2, 6-4.

Zhang Shuai, China, def. Madison Keys (15), U.S., 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Johanna Konta, Britain, def. Ekaterina Makarova (21), Russia, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6. %R\ V 6LQJOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG Miomir Kecmanovic (2), Serbia, def.

-DFN 0LQJMLH /LQ &DQDGD, 6-1, 6-4. *LUO V 6LQJOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG %LDQFD $QGUHHVFX &DQDGD, def.

Jade Lewis, New Zealand, 6-2, 6-3.

SOCCER A-LEAGUE

T OL GF GA Pt 1 0 196 91 79 4 3 174 136 55 1 2 175 151 55 0 3 186 158 43 0 2 139 186 40 1 3 156 195 34

ISLAND DIVISION GP W 1DQDLPR

Powell River 46 26 Cowichan Vally 45 22 Victoria 44 20 Alberni Valley 45 16

6XQGD\ )HE $W 6DQWD &ODUD &DOLI Denver vs. Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

AUSTRALIA

INTERIOR DIVISION GP W Penticton 45 39 Salmon Arm 44 24 West Kelowna 45 26 Vernon 46 20 Trail 46 19 Merritt 45 15

SUPER BOWL

$W 0RELOH $OD North vs. South, 2:30 p.m.

L OL 11 3 15 2 18 1 18 4 27 3

U.S. DIVISION GP W 46 28 46 26 48 25 46 22 47 20

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

6(1,25 %2:/

B.C. DIVISION GP W Kelowna 47 33 Victoria 49 29 Prince George 49 29 Kamloops 47 22 Vancouver 50 18

1)& Âł Carolina 49 Arizona 15 PRO BOWL

6DWXUGD\ V JDPH

WESTERN CONFERENCE

GP W Chilliwack 43 27 Wenatchee 44 24 Langley 45 25 Coquitlam 45 20 Prince George 46 11 Surrey 44 6

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HOCKEY

L

18 17 20 23

T OL GF GA Pt

0 2 167 134 54 3 3 153 188 50 0 4 134 121 44 3 3 124 164 38

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New England Rochester Buffalo Georgia Toronto

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Melbourne City 3 Wellington 1

ENGLAND /($*8( &+$03,216+,3 Burnley 4 Derby County 1

FRANCE /,*8( Ajaccio 2 Brest 1 Clermont Foot 2 Le Havre 1

GREECE SUPER LEAGUE

T OL GF GA Pt 2 4 170 112 60 3 2 143 111 53 1 2 172 147 53 1 4 150 174 45 1 3 107 201 26 2 0 110 227 14

6XQGD\¡V UHVXOWV Powell River 7 Surrey 2 1DQDLPR Salmon Arm 2 Coquitlam 6 Langley 5 (OT) 7XHVGD\¡V JDPH $OO WLPHV /RFDO Trail at West Kelowna, 7 p.m. :HGQHVGD\¡V JDPHV 1DQDLPR at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Merritt, 7 p.m.

7KXUVGD\¡V JDPH Chilliwack at Prince George, 7 p.m. )ULGD\ V JDPHV West Kelowna at Cowichan Valley, 7 pm.

Victoria at 1DQDLPR, 7 p.m.

Trail at Penticton, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Coquitlam at Powell River, 7:15 p.m.

Langley at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

Iraklis 0 Platanias 0

ITALY 6(5,( % Livorno 1 Como 1

NETHERLANDS ((567( ',9,6,( Achilles 29 3 Fortuna Sittard 0 Jong Ajax 2 NAC Breda 1

PORTUGAL /$ /,*$ Tondela 1 Boavista 2

SCOTLAND &+$03,216+,3 Greenock Morton 0 Rangers 2

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: / Nova Scotia (Fay) 5 0 B.C. (S.Daniels) 4 0 2QWDULR $XOG

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CLEVELAND â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LeBron James scored 25 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers gave Tyronn Lue his first win as head coach with a 114-107 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.

Cleveland lost to Chicago on Saturday, a day after Lue replaced David Blatt, who was fired on Friday.

The Cavaliers struggled with the Timberwolves before going on a

spurt that began late in the third quarter and carried over into the fourth. Cleveland still had to hold off a run by the Timberwolves, who cut a 15-point lead to 94-91 midway through the fourth. Tristan Thompson scored seven straight points and Matthew Dellavedova hit a 3-pointer, giving Cleveland a 104-91.

Minnesota got within four but the Cavaliers put the game away at the foul line.

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12 rebounds and Dellavedova scored 18 points as Cleveland had six players in double figures.

Karl Anthony-Towns led Minnesota with 26 points and 11 rebounds.

Zach LaVine scored 21 points while Andrew Wiggins added 20.

Cleveland built a 90-75 lead early in the fourth quarter, but Minnesota cut it to 94-91 with six minutes to play.

The Cavaliers selected Wiggins with the No. 1 pick in the 2014 draft, but traded him to Minnesota in the deal

that brought Love to Cleveland. Love scored 11 points against his former team. Minnesota forward Kevin Garnett missed the game with a sore right knee.

TIP-INS Timberwolves: G Kevin Martin (sore right wrist) also missed the game. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s averaging 11.3 points in 41 games. . . . F Adreian Payne was assigned to Erie of the NBA Development League. . . . Minnesota hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

won on the road since Dec. 20, a 10085 victory over Brooklyn, a stretch of nine games.

Cavaliers: Lue is still operating under the contract he signed to be an assistant coach before last season and has yet to sign a deal as head coach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still trying to get some things done and it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been signed,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not worried about it.â&#x20AC;? . . .

Lue said former Suns assistant Mike Longabardi will be added to Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your efficiency and graciousness will be tested. You simultaneously could offer your assistance to both a friend and a loved one. You might decide that the facts are being misrepresented. Deal with anger directly, and you will feel better.

Tonight: Out late.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your creativity saves the day. You might see a confusing situation emerge around a friendship. The facts seems to change, depending on who is telling the story. A close loved one easily could lose his or her temper. Tonight: Remain gracious, no matter what happens.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) There is no way around a problem; you must find the right path.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) You’ll make an extraordinary effort to communicate with someone who can be vague and difficult.

Your ability to figure out what’s going on will emerge. Don’t ignore common sense and straight facts.

Tonight: Keep asking questions about what you are seeing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You could see a somewhat deceptive situation evolve. A key person is telling you only what he or she wants you to know. Lie low, if you can, and

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wait for more information. A solution will appear, given some time.

Tonight: Decide if you can afford a new household item.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your energy is at its peak. Focus on key matters that need to be cleared up. You will accomplish a lot of work as a result. A loved one might add a very caring tone to your day.

Be careful with someone you don’t know very well. Tonight: Whatever puts a smile on your face.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You don’t often let others take the lead, but right now you are inclined to do just that. Avoid channeling your disappointment into a shopping spree or some other kind of overindulgence that helps you forget what ails you. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You know what you want. You are willing to fight, cajole or manipulate in order to make a goal possible. Your sense of direction makes it nearly impossible to stop you. A loved one might be feeding you the lines you want to hear, but is not being authentic. Tonight: Be near music.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your performance counts far more now than your ideas and leadership skills do. You might be disappointed that you are not being appreciated. Look at the situation positively. Your instincts are right-on. You have no control over how others think. Tonight: Burn the candle at both ends.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Take an overview and, with newfound detachment, again look at a situation that is affecting your

home life. You could be surprised by how close you are to manifesting a special offer or opportunity. Don’t stop. Go full speed ahead.

Tonight: Brainstorm with a buddy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) One-on-one relating marks your day. For this reason alone, you’ll have a big smile on your face. Your instincts about a relationship and how you project yourself will help you hit a home run. Someone could be angrier than you had thought possible. Tonight: Make nice.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The smart move is to defer to someone else. You might not agree with this person, but you still should listen to what he or she has to say.

Consider the ramifications of heading down your present path. Just because it’s not your way doesn’t mean it’s the wrong way. Tonight: Say “yes.”

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Jan. 26) This year the quality of your interpersonal relationships becomes an even higher priority than it has been in past years. You will fight for what you want, to the point of causing a problem in the long run. Careful. Your leadership skills come to the forefront. If you are single, your charisma speaks for itself. You will have many admirers; which one will you choose? If you are attached, the two of you have a memorable year together.

Your bond not only endures, but it also strengthens. The two of you will plan a special trip or vacation together. VIRGO is fussy, but you understand him or her well.

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Born May 14th 1970 at Ladysmith BC, Demetreos passed away on January 20th, 2016 shortly after 1:00 am.

He was well known in the community as a passionate football coach, caring teacher and dedicated family man.

He was a kind loving husband, father, fundraiser for cancer and possibly the greatest Steelers Football Fan. In addition, he was the president and founder of Ladysmith Minor Football Association. Through his dedicated coaching he had a positive influence on many local youth.

He leaves behind a loving wife Krista, daughters Adaleena 6 & Aianna 4, mother Eonna, father George, brother Christos his wife Deana, their two daughters Alexandria & Tatianna, brother Petros, wife Kalli and their son Georgios, sister Magdalene, husband Dean and their son Robert. Also feeling the great loss are many aunts, uncles and cousins.

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Scotty Hobson, 91, died peacefully on Thursday, January 14 at the Palliative Care Unit at Nanaimo Hospital.

Scotty loved driving, paleontology and history and was deeply interested in science, technology and current affairs.

He loved a good laugh, was a snappy dresser, and an allaround super handyman. A great storyteller, Scotty loved to share his experiences of working on the Alaska Highway. Scotty's quiet, dignified presence will be sharply missed by his family and friends.

Scotty joins Edie, his wife of 69 years, who predeceased him in August 2014 and Bruce, his beloved son-in-law who predeceased him in July 2013. He is survived by his daughters Nancy Lee (Marcel) and Cynthia and his grandchildren Christy, Lee (Janice), Kelsey (Brodie), Drew (Stephanie) and Gillian. Scotty treasured greatgranddaughter Hailey and was delighted to know that two more great-grand babies were on the way.

Donations to the Bruce Chandler Memorial Scholarship (SD 68) or the SPCA are gratefully accepted in Scotty's name.

A Memorial will be held in the Theatre at Origins (6205 Oliver Rd) on January 31 from 2-4 pm.

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Marty was born in Edmundston, New Brunswick March 24th 1920 and passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 9th 2016 at Malaspina Gardens â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nanaimo, BC. Pre-deceased by his wife Margaret Martin in 1994; Parents, Michel and Marie Martin; Brothers, Maurice, Raoul, and John; Sister, Nelida. Survived by Son, Randy (Marie); Daughter, Carolyn (Darryl); Grandchildren, Craig (Alisha), Scott (Andrea), Jeremy, and Shawna (Mike); Great-Grandchildren, Bria and Alena; Brothers, Roland and Gilles; Sister, Gilberte; Niece, Louise (Ron); Nephew, Charlie (Kelly), amongst many more beloved family and friends.

Marty moved to Nanaimo, British Columbia in his 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, he received a job during the construction of Harmac, then once Harmac was open he began a career with the company until retirement. In his free time, Marty loved to play and watch baseball, hockey, and golf. Most importantly, Marty was a loving father and grandfather. He will be remembered by his smile, kind heart, and his many jokes.

With heavy hearts, we say goodbye to a wonderful man who will never be forgotten. We will always love you and miss you dearly.

A memorial service will be held at St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic Church â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9735 Elm St. Chemainus, BC on January 30th at 10:00 am. In lieu of flowers Martyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wishes is for everyone to donate to the heart & stroke foundation.

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American is ranked No. 4 in the world, but wants to crack elusive ‘Big Three’ STEVE DOUGLAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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olf’s new “Big Three” has been around for only a few months, and already there’s talk of the exclusive group being expanded.

Rickie Fowler is back in the conversation after his fourth worldwide victory in the last nine months, over a stellar field at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.

On Monday, the American found himself at a career-high No. 4 in the rankings, with only Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and Rory McIlroy above him. But to merit inclusion in the sport’s golfing elite, Fowler knows he needs to add a major to his increasingly impressive resume.

He gets his first chance at the Masters in April.

“I’d like to jump in and be a part of that crew,” said Fowler, sitting beside the huge Falcon Trophy awarded to the Abu Dhabi champion. “The goal right now with where my game’s at — it’s the best it’s been this early in the season in my career — I’m working on getting ready for Augusta.

“I’d like to have my shot at getting the green jacket there.”

Fowler had never previously won a tournament in the first four months of a year. He’s been a slow starter to seasons — he tied for 66th in Abu Dhabi in 2015, 17 shots behind unheralded French winner Gary Stal — making the Masters even tougher to win.

But this is a different Fowler, who acknowledges that his work

Rickie Fowler poses with the trophy after winning the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]

on the range with celebrated coach Butch Harmon is starting to pay off.

His playoff win at The Players Championship last May started his winning run that has also taken in the Scottish Open and the Deutsche Bank, and made him believe more in himself.

“From The Players on, just being in the situation, contention, Sunday, final round, against the best players in the world and just believing and having the confidence that, hey, if I go hit the shots, I’m winning, no question,” Fowler said.

“It’s nice to have that added confidence now. Really having the belief and knowing that come Sunday when I’m in the

mix, I know I can go get it done.”

That experience likely helped in Abu Dhabi when Alejandro Canizares and Thomas Pieters both came within one shot of Fowler’s final-round lead, which started at two strokes and had grown to four by No. 6. Fowler pulled off some clutch putts and two chip-ins — from a greenside bunker from 30 yards at No. 8 for eagle, and from just off the green at No. 17.

“Being able to do that, you get such an adrenaline rush and such a boost from it, and it’s so rewarding,” said Fowler, who won by one shot from Pieters. “I felt really comfortable in some of those situations.”

In 2014, Fowler finished in the top five in all four majors and his fifth place at the Masters was his best at Augusta.

He said Sunday that, with a rare early-season victory in the bag, all roads now lead to Augusta.

“It’s a great way to start,” Fowler said.

“Nice to have the game where it’s at right now going into the season, instead of trying to work on things and trying to find stuff.

“Right now, I can go and finetune and really build ultimately for Augusta.

“The ultimate goal this year is to go win a major and this is a step in the right direction.”

TENNIS

Officials interview players after match JUSTIN BERGMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MELBOURNE, Australia — Players involved in a mixed doubles match at the Australian Open said Monday they were interviewed by the Tennis Integrity Unit after a newspaper reported it had attracted suspicious betting patterns.

According to The New York Times report, the gambling website Pinnacle Sports said it had received an unusual spike in bets for Lukasz Kubot and Andrea Hlavackova to beat David Marrero and Lara Arruabarrena, causing it to suspend betting before the teams played on Sunday. All play-

ers identified in the newspaper report rejected any possibility of fixing in the match, which was won by Kubot and Hlavackova 6-0, 6-3.

Kubot said Monday that the TIU had asked him and Hlavackova questions about the match, without offering any more details.

He added, though, that he didn’t notice anything unusual on the court, saying “we give 100 per cent of that match” and he believed his opponents “were trying 100 per cent.”

“It’s not very comfortable to think that we didn’t win the match on our terms,” Hlavackova said. “We played our best (yesterday), we did very well and we

won. So it’s a bit not comfortable to be questioned if someone else was not playing 100 per cent or something.”

Marrero and Arruabarrena rejected the allegations in an interview with the Times, with Marrero citing a knee injury for his team’s poor play. They were not available for comment on Monday. The sport has been under intense scrutiny in the wake of reports published by BBC and BuzzFeed News last Monday saying tennis authorities have ignored widespread evidence of match-fixing involving 16 players who had been ranked in the top 50 over the past decade. The media outlets didn’t name any players,

but said half of them would be competing at the Australian Open.

Tennis authorities immediately rejected the assertion they had suppressed evidence of match-fixing or failed to thoroughly investigate suspected cases. The International Tennis Federation declined to comment and the TIU does not address individual cases.

The latest report came as a former top-200 tennis player from Australia, Nick Lindahl, pleaded guilty in a Sydney court to a match-fixing charge after prosecutors say he informed two people he would intentionally lose a match at a lower-tier tournament in 2013 so they could bet against him.

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about the Zika virus risk

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NEW YORK — A rare tropical disease is spreading in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. The mosquito-borne Zika virus usually causes a mild illness but is now suspected in an unusual birth defect and possibly other health issues. Some things to know: WHAT IS ZIKA? The Zika virus was first discovered in monkey in Uganda in 1947; its name comes from the Zika forest where it was first discovered. It is native mainly to tropical Africa, with outbreaks in Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. It showed up in Brazil last years and has since been seen in many Latin American countries and Caribbean islands.

HOW IS IT SPREAD? It is transmitted through bites from the same kind of mosquitoes that can spread other tropical diseases, like dengue fever, chikungunya and yellow fever. It is not known to spread from person to person so it’s not infectious like other germs such as the flu virus. The World Health Organization says it is rapidly spreading in the Americas because it is new to the region, people aren’t immune to it, and the mosquito that carries it is just about everywhere — including along the southern United States.

Canada and Chile are the only places without this mosquito.

ARE THERE SYMPTOMS? Experts think most people infected with Zika virus don’t get sick. And those that do usually develop mild symptoms — fever, rash, joint pain, and red eyes — which usually last no more than a week. There is no specific medicine and there hasn’t been a vaccine developed for it, which is the case for some other tropical illnesses that cause periodic outbreaks.

WHY IS IT A CONCERN NOW? In Brazil, there’s been mounting evidence linking Zika infection in pregnant women to a rare birth defect called microcephaly, in which a newborn’s head is smaller than normal and the brain may not have developed properly. Brazilian health officials last October noticed a spike in cases of microcephaly in tandem

T A health agent from Sao Paulo’s Public health secretary in Brazil shows a soldier an ‘Aedes aegypti’ mosquito larvae, the vector for the Zika virus. [AP PHOTO]

with the Zika outbreak. The connection to Zika is still being investigated, and officials note there are many causes of the condition. Nearly 4,000 cases have been tallied.

Meanwhile, doctors have noted increased reports of a nerve condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome that can cause paralysis. But the link to the Zika virus is not clear; other infections can spark the problem, including dengue fever.

CAN THE SPREAD BE STOPPED? Individuals can protect themselves from mosquito bites by using insect repellents, and wearing long sleeves and long pants — especially during daylight, when the mosquitoes tend to be most active, health officials say.

Eliminating breeding spots and controlling mosquito populations can help prevent the spread of the virus.

HAVE THERE BEEN CASES IN THE NORTH AMERICA? Yes, but in travellers. There have been more than two dozen cases diagnosed in the U.S. since 2007, all travellers who are believed to have caught it overseas. The World Health Organization says the Zika virus is likely to spread to every country in the Americas where the mosquito that carries it can be found: that’s everywhere except for Canada and continental Chile.

The kind of mosquito that spreads Zika is found along the southern

U.S., so experts think it’s likely the pests may end up spreading the virus there. But officials also have said Zika infections probably won’t be a big problem in the U.S. for a number of reasons, including the more common use of air conditioning and door and window screens.

Recent U.S. outbreaks of dengue and chikungunya — carried by the same mosquito — suggest any Zika outbreaks may be relatively small, said Dr. Lyle Petersen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

ARE THERE ANY TRAVEL ADVISORIES? The Public Health Agency of Canada states the following: “It is recommended that pregnant women and those considering becoming pregnant discuss their travel plans with their health care provider to assess their risk and consider postponing travel to areas where the Zika virus is circulating in the Americas. If travel cannot be postponed, then strict mosquito bite prevention measures should be followed to protect themselves against bites.”

In Brazil, most of the mothers who had babies with microcephaly were apparently infected during the first trimester, but there is some evidence the birth defect can occur later in the pregnancy, U.S. health officials say.

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oday millions of North Americans suffer hypertension and 99 per cent are being treated by prescription drugs.

Studies show that nearly 50 per cent discontinue their medication due to side-effects. But tossing away drugs is a hazardous move. This week, a double-barrelled natural remedy that helps to prevent high blood pressure. It can also be helpful to those with hypertension who wish to try managing it first without the use of prescription medication.

It’s been said that “societies get the blood pressure they deserve.” It appears we deserve a lot. It’s estimated that 75 million adult North Americans have hypertension. What is more frightening is that doctors are now seeing this disease in young children who are obese and diabetic.

What causes hypertension? In some cases doctors cannot pin-point the reason. Sir William Osler, one of the world’s great physicians, said it was good to be born with “genetically good rubber.” He was referring to soft, springy arteries less likely to cause hypertension.

But since we cannot choose our parents many people, as they age, develop atherosclerosis (clogged, hardened arteries), the big killer.

Good sense tells us that if water pipes in our homes are clogged, the pressure affects the entire house.

Similarly, the constant pounding from increased blood pressure on all our arteries and organs results in a host of problems, coronary attack, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation of legs.

So what can a double-barrelled approach do to prevent this major killer? Dr. Nathan S Bryan, at the University of Texas, says that for 100 years researchers have known that nitroglycerine eased angina heart pain by increasing the blood supply to the heart’s muscle. But it was a mystery how this happened.

Then researchers discovered the miracle molecule of nitric oxide (NO).

They were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998.

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Early in life we all produce large amounts of NO in the endothelial lining (the innermost lining of blood vessels). This keeps arteries expanded. But after age 40 the production of NO decreases, arteries constrict causing hypertension. This constant pressure injures the endothelium and triggers a chemical and inflammatory reaction that kills one North American every 37 seconds.

A natural remedy, Neo40, is now available. It sends a message to endothelial cells to start producing nitric oxide. Dr. Bryan reports some people take L-arginine to produce NO. But Neo40 is more effective since it contains L–citrulline, vitamin C, beet root and hawthorne.

The prescribed dose is to slowly dissolve one tablet in the mouth twice a day for two weeks, then one daily. This provides a quick start to lowering blood pressure. But it’s a lifetime treatment as once a deficiency occurs the body will never again produce sufficient NO. The next part of the double-barrelled attack involves high doses of vitamin C and lysine. It’s also a lifetime treatment because, unlike animals, humans, due to a genetic mishap, lost the ability to produce this vitamin eons ago. Vitamin C is needed to produce collagen, the glue that holds cells together and its lack sets the stage for atherosclerosis. The addition of lysine, an amino acid, strengthens arteries, decreasing the risk of rupture and stroke. However, unlike Neo40 that dilates arteries, high doses of C can prevent atherosclerosis, and if already present, begins to unclog all arteries.

The dose is 4,000 — 6,000 mg daily of C and 3,000 — 4,000 mg of lysine daily either in capsule or powder form. Dr. Sydney Bush, the English researcher who made this revolutionary discovery, reports it takes six months before the first signs of arterial reversal can be seen. See the dramatic before and after photos at my web site www.docgiff.com It’s tragic that these natural, safe and often effective remedies are not tried first. And they are as close as your Health Food Store. And remember prevention of hypertension is as important as treatment.

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Films explore on-air suicide by journalist Two movies at Sundance Festival look at 1974 incident when a 29-year-old woman killed herself live on TV LINDSEY BAHR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARK CITY, Utah — When two movies are released at about the same time on the same subject, the topic is often something silly and big and spectacle-filled.

But this year at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences find themselves with an unusual double feature. The Festival hosted the premieres of two films exploring the largely forgotten story of Christine Chubbuck, a 29-year-old on-air journalist in Sarasota, Fla., who shot and killed herself during a live broadcast on July 15, 1974.

One, Christine, is a fictionalized, narrative depiction of her life before the suicide starring Rebecca Hall.

The other is an experimental documentary about an actress, indie mainstay Kate Lyn Sheil, preparing to portray Chubbuck called Kate Plays Christine.

“I was kind of shocked that there had never been a movie made about it,” said Kate Plays Christine director Robert Greene.

“It’s the kind of story that makes you think about why you want to know about it. I still haven’t answered that to this day.”

Kate Lyn Sheil in a scene from the documentary film, ‘Kate Plays Christine,’ directed by Robert Greene. [SUNDANCE INSTITUTE VIA AP]

The moments before Chubbuck shot herself have been cited as the inspiration for the 1976 Sidney Lumet film Network and Peter Finch’s mad-as-hell anchor.

On the morning of July 15, a tape from the scene of a local shooting from the night prior didn’t roll. Chubbuck, sitting behind the anchor’s desk, then said, “in keeping

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with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living colour, you are going to see another first — attempted suicide” before taking the gun out of her bag and pulling the trigger.

She’d even left a written news item about her own suicide on the desk.

Christine director Antonio Campos learned about the story when screenwriter Craig Shilowich approached him with a script.

“Craig dug very deep and tried to understand her,” Campos said. “For me, having learned about it through this script made it so much more human.”

Actress Rebecca Hall questioned the utility of telling the story at all but the script convinced her otherwise.

“I do think there’s something quite irresponsible about glorifying something as some sort of macabre act of heroism when actually it’s a tragedy and awful and she shouldn’t have died,” Hall said. “I read the script and thought, ‘Oh, it doesn’t do that. What it does is make a human case. It makes an audience understand mental illness and sympathize with it.”’

Both filmmakers and actresses had to deal with the fact that there is

precious little information available about Chubbuck. They knew that she suffered from depression, that she had to go through a surgery to remove an ovary which would jeopardize her ability to have children, and that she was a virgin. But there aren’t videos online readily available of Chubbuck, and the facts of the story, even in Sarasota, have blurred.

Hall had only one 20-minute taped interview to study, and even that brought up more questions than answers.

Kate Plays Christine operates like a journalistic investigation into the story. They talk to co-workers, townspeople, and even visit the store (now relocated) where Chubbuck purchased the gun.

“The Christine Chubbuck story has always made me stop and take pause and made me think about presumptions I have about women, about myself, about what makes a depressed person go that far. . . . It should make you really think about the people you know in your life and what they’re going through and what you’ve gone through,” said Greene.

“If that’s one result of these two films being made at the same time, that’s just great.”

How this couple arranges their finances is none of your business Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: I’d like to know if this is considered spousal abuse. A young couple become born-again Christians. The husband decides he wants to go back to school to become a minister. He quits his corporate job and moves his family out of state. His wife supports him and the children for four years as best she can. He graduates and “just can’t find the right job.” He volunteers two days a week counselling people.

In the meantime, they are barely getting by. They don’t have enough money to send the kids to college, and they can’t afford their daughter’s wedding. The husband has decided not to get a paying job because he’s doing “God’s work.”

He sleeps late every day and spends hours on the computer writing religious blog posts. His wife works full time and does the cleaning, shopping and all household chores.

I think this is emotional abuse.

What do you think?

— Concerned Relative

Dear Relative: We think this is not your business. When couples make decisions about who brings in the money, it’s between the two of them.

Even if his wife doesn’t like it and is unhappy, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is abusive. Only unequal and frustrating.

Every marriage is different. What is intolerable to you may be manageable for her. We agree it would be worrisome if she feels trapped and unable to change her situation, but you do not indicate that this is the case.

There are scholarships, grants and loans available for state and community colleges, and a wedding can be punch and cake in the backyard.

Please don’t project your feelings onto her. She may think her marriage is perfectly fine. If you are a close family member, talk to her.

Ask how she’s doing. See what the situation is. If you believe counselling is needed, she may be amenable to discussing things with her clergyperson.

And if she gives you the impression that her husband is controlling all the money or her access to family members and friends, please urge her to call the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) at 1-800-799-SAFE.

Dear Annie: What do I say to people who tell me to smile? The reason I don’t like to smile is because my smile is ugly and I look horrible — like I’m making a face.

How do I get them to stop?

— A Daily Reader Dear Reader: Well, you could grimace and then maybe they’d stop asking, but here’s a different suggestion: If you are embarrassed by your smile, see if something can be fixed. Often, it is as simple as seeing a dentist, or practicing in front of a mirror until you can manage something natural. It’s also possible that you think you have a terrible smile when, in fact, no one else is bothered by it.

Folks who are ashamed of or concerned about their smiles are often self-conscious to the point where it interferes with their social life. This puts you at a tremendous disadvantage. There is no shame in making your life better. Please see what can be done.

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Telecoms’ reasons for price hikes in question ALEKSANDRA SAGAN THE CANADIAN PRESS

Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus during the Apple event in San Francisco in September. Most analysts believe Apple surpassed its own record by selling more than 74.5 million iPhones in the final three months of 2015. [AP PHOTO]

Peak iPhone may hit Apple hard Concerns about slowing growth have sent the firm’s stock into a months-long slump BRANDON BAILEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple could soon face one of its biggest challenges to date: Peak iPhone.

Most analysts believe Apple surpassed its own record by selling more than 74.5 million units of its flagship product in the final three months of 2015. But there are signs that iPhone sales in the first three months of 2016 will — for the first time ever — show an abrupt decline from the same period a year earlier.

That could mark a pivotal moment for the Silicon Valley giant. Apple is the world’s biggest company, in terms of stock value, thanks to the iPhone’s surging popularity around the world. In business terms, Apple makes most of its money from iPhone sales.

But concerns about slowing growth have sent the stock into a monthslong slump, fuelling debate about Apple’s future.

The iPhone contributed nearly two-thirds of Apple’s $234 billion in revenue last year. None of the other new products Apple has launched in recent years have emerged as blockbusters. That’s led some critics to suggest Apple has lost its innovative touch, while others say it’s evolving to depend on a broader base of related tech products and services.

One thing is clear, said analyst Angelo Zino at S&P Capital IQ: “Last year was an unprecedented year for

“Apple still has a lot of value, a lot of cash flow, so it’s not to say the company is in trouble. But it’s difficult to say that it’s on the cutting edge.”

Murillo Campello, finance professor

Apple and the iPhone. . . . You’ll never see that type of growth from the iPhone again.”

When CEO Tim Cook reports Tuesday on Apple’s sales for the last three months of 2015, investors will be watching closely for any hints about how Apple’s signature smartphone is faring in the current quarter. Sales usually fall somewhat after the holiday shopping season. But analysts say it appears Apple has cut production orders from key suppliers in recent weeks, suggesting it’s lowered its own forecasts.

Apple hasn’t commented on iPhone sales since last fall, when Cook struck an upbeat tone. In part, Zino and other experts say, the company is suffering from its own success. Apple sold 61 million iPhones in the March quarter of 2015, or 40 per cent more than it did a year earlier. To match that growth rate, Apple would need to sell more than 85 million in the current period. Instead, analysts are

expecting around 55 million.

An estimated 500 million people own iPhones now, which means Apple can rely on a significant number to upgrade each year. But some have put off buying a new model because they didn’t see a strong reason to upgrade.

Despite some new features, “people are feeling like there hasn’t been anything that’s really new” in the latest iPhone models, known as the 6S and 6S Plus, which came out last fall, said market researcher John Feland of Argus Insights.

Apple will likely make significant changes in the next major iPhone release, expected in September, which could fuel another surge in sales. Some tech blogs have reported a new model might even be coming this spring.

The company went through a similar cycle a few years ago, when iPhone sales growth slowed to 7 per cent in the final months of 2013.

The next year, Apple introduced new models with significantly bigger screens. That sent sales skyrocketing, especially in Asia, where consumers had previously flocked to buy bigscreen phones from rival Samsung.

But there may no more equally dramatic changes left to jump-start sales like that again. “Apple really pulled the big lever they had left un-pulled, up to then,” said tech analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research. “That was sort of a one-off event.”

While iPhone sales may be slowing, Apple has launched other products and services tied to the iPhone — from the Apple Watch to the digital payments service known as Apple Pay, the subscription-based Apple Music and “smart home” software that lets users control their lights and appliances with Siri, the voice-enabled digital assistant on the iPhone and iPad. These are designed to make the iPhone itself more useful, while producing a steady stream of new revenue.

None of those new products have sold like the iPhone itself, however.

Sales of the iPad have been declining for two years.

“Apple still has a lot of value, a lot of cash flow, so it’s not to say the company is in trouble. But it’s difficult to say that it’s on the cutting edge,” said Murillo Campello, a finance professor at Cornell University who follows Apple closely.

Others say it’s premature to count Apple among former tech giants, like Hewlett-Packard, that have struggled for relevance as their pace of growth and innovation declined.

Apple is working on a wide range of future products, from streaming video to virtual reality and even self-driving cars, said FBR Capital Markets’ analyst Daniel Ives in a recent note to clients.

“Apple’s often surprised us with what they end up doing,” added Dawson.

TORONTO — People hunting for new cellphone plans can expect to pay a little more each month if they sign up with one of Canada’s biggest three wireless providers — Telus, Rogers and Bell recently announced price hikes while pointing an accusatory finger at the low Canadian dollar.

But some analysts are skeptical, noting the big telecoms tend to have methods to protect themselves from foreign currency fluctuations.

“If the exchange rate is such a big deal, how come we didn’t see lower prices when the dollar went up?” said David Christopher, an OpenMedia spokesman.

New customers signing monthly contracts with Bell, Rogers or Telus now pay $5 more. Each company also lowered savings by between $10 and $15 for customers who already own a device.

Telus raised prices partly because it has to pay more for network components thanks to the weaker loonie, said Emily Harner, a company spokeswoman. She also pointed to the need to spend millions of dollars annually to keep up with customer demand for wireless data.

The other two companies have echoed concerns over the economy.

For months, the loonie has been trading below 80 cents US, and has been hovering around 70 cents in the past few weeks.

The companies could have raised prices to make up for the extra cost of doing business. They pay for nearly all of their infrastructure costs in either U.S. dollars or the euro, said Iain Grant, the managing director of SeaBoard Research, a technology research and strategy consulting company.

But some believe consumers are being hoodwinked into believing the loonie is responsible for higher cellphone plans and suggest, in fact, it’s a desire for higher profits.

“It’s a little suspicious that these big, sophisticated, publicly traded companies that are in the business of, you know, managing their risk and maximizing profit are blaming something that they likely foresaw on a price increase, across the board, in a relatively short amount of time,” said Geoff White, external counsel to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre.

All three companies engage in foreign exchange hedging programs, he said, based on an analysis of their 2014 annual statements and most recent third-quarter reports.

The companies could have opted to lay off workers or accept lower profits until the loonie recovers, Grant added.

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