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CMCH says overbuilding on the rise in some real estate markets

Milos Raonic is the second Canadian singles player to reach the Australian Open semifinals. The other is Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., who did it in 2014. » Sports, 24

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TORONTO — Overbuilding is on the rise in the Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina and Ottawa real estate markets, according to the latest report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The housing agency says it uses two main factors to gauge overbuilding: the rental market vacancy rate and the inventory of completed, unsold units per 10,000 people.

“Overbuilding provides an indication of the possible excess supply that could exist in a market,” Bob Dugan, CMHC’s chief economist, said during a conference call Wednesday.

“In some cases, a correction in house prices may be required in order to ensure that excess supply is absorbed so that balance in the market can be restored.”

Evidence of overbuilding increased from weak to moderate in Calgary and Ottawa during the past quarter, and from moderate to strong in Saskatoon and Regina.

CMHC says it is also keeping a close eye on Toronto, where it expects that signs of overbuilding could begin to emerge in the condo market. Currently, overbuilding in Toronto is not yet above the problematic threshold, Dugan said.

Construction workers build new homes in a development in Ottawa in July. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says evidence of overbuilding has grown in certain real estate markets. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

“But we’re watching it because we’re conscious of the fact that the pipeline of units that are under construction is relatively high,” he added.

“That’s come down a little bit recently but it’s still elevated by historical standards. So our concern is that as some of these units under construction get completed, they could push that inventory of completed, unsold (units) higher.”

Overall, the Toronto real estate market shows strong overall evidence of risk due to the presence of two other factors: price acceleration and overvaluation.

Other markets with strong overall evidence of risk include Calgary, Saskatoon and Regina.

Meanwhile, Vancouver held steady as showing only weak evidence of risky conditions, with moderate levels of overvaluation detected.

That’s despite a slew of headlines in recent months calling attention to soaring prices in the city that have pushed many potential buyers out of the market.

“When we’re looking at the ability of people to get into home ownership, it’s important to remember that Vancouver is a

very broad market,” said Carol Frketich, CMHC’s B.C. regional economist.

The rapid price growth in the region is being driven primarily by the single detached home segment of the market, Frketich said, while noting that prices in the rest of the market — such as condos and townhouses — are much lower.

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Film buff does it all for love Owner of Nanaimo’s last movie-rental store makes good on his vow

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he last man standing.

Clinton Thornley clearly predicted his future.

Thornley owns Film Buff Video, which has been operating in the South Gate Plaza since 2003.

“I’m in the (Daily News) about five years ago where I vowed to be the last man standing. It was in the back of my mind the entire time. I thought I better actually be the last man standing because I’m on record saying I would be.”

Film Buff Video is now, officially, Aaron the last video Hinks rental store in Reporting Nanaimo.

Thornley’s house is what one would expect of a true film buff. His front door opens into his living room, which is big enough to sit more than 10 people. A huge flat-screen TV is flanked by stacks of DVDs. The walls of his house are covered with high-quality movie posters from the best motion pictures. Beyond his living room a narrow staircase opens to the basement, which is reminiscent of a movie rental store from 1999.

The walls are covered with VHS cassettes. Everywhere you look, VHS. Thornley says he has about 5,000 VHS movies. He custom-built shelving units to stack the cassettes on his walls. He’s looking to sell them, and not because he doesn’t want them anymore. Its because he thinks it won’t be long before he needs the space for his store’s collection of DVDs. His lease at Film Buff Video expires this year, and he doesn’t see a bright future.

“I will keep going month-to-month and I will sign another lease if I want to keep it going. The problem is, (my landlord) wants me to sign

“It wasn’t about making money. It was about making enough money to keep doing it because I love movies.”

Clinton Thornley, FIlm Buff Video owner

Piles of DVDs are stacked on top of VHS cassettes at Clinton Thornley’s house. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

a three-year lease. Do I trust this industry to last three more years?

No,” Thornley said.

Thornley is up front about his business and its financial standings. He hasn’t given himself a salary in the past four years, but has two part-time employees working for him.

“I never thought of it as my store.

To me it’s a community store. I just get the thrill of decorating it and selecting what’s on the shelf. It’s really the people’s store.”

Jerry Jervais has rented from Film Buff Video since 2005. Though there are plenty of ways to watch movies, including pirating them online, he

likes to do it the old-fashioned way.

Not because it’s more ethical, but because he counts on Thornley.

“I’ve come to know Clinton quite a bit. He’s a character. He’s got a personality to this place. It’s like a club. There’s an educational aspect to films. You can have a discussion about films which is part of the experience that’s here,” Jervais said.

This September will mark Thornley’s 10th consecutive trip to the Toronto International Film Festival.

Name a movie star and Thornley likely has a story about brushing shoulders with him.

Hanging on the walls in his shop

are photographs he’s taken of the biggest celebrities; Johnny Depp, Patrick Stewart, Jennifer Aniston, and Ellen Page are a few.

This passion, and only this passion, is what kept Film Buff Video alive.

“It wasn’t about making money. It was about making enough money to keep doing it because I love movies.

That separates me from every video rental store ever. They were all into it for the money,” Thornley said.

Thornley has kept the same price since the day he opened. At the height of movie rental he was pressured by friends to charge more, but never did. The deal is simple, $4 for a

new release and it includes a bag of popcorn.

In 2008 the store was bursting at its seams. Business was never better.

“I was worried about that, I didn’t want to have a commercial store, I always wanted a film club.”

With the onslaught of Shaw On Demand, Netflix, and especially illegal downloading, the profits started to dwindle in 2012.

“Why aren’t they doing more to tackle piracy? You’ll see a swing back if they start doing caps on bandwidth usage, you’ll see a swing back. But by then there won’t be any video stores left.”

Van-Isle Video is the last of Thornley’s competitors to halt video rentals. That store remains temporarily open, but is no longer renting, just selling off its stock.

When Thornley decides to call it quits, he won’t be selling his inventory. He’s going take it home and add it to his personal collection.

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Panel to discuss problem of drug overdoses in city

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Sheila Malcolmson wants to see more inter-regional bus services offered in the mid-Vancouver Island area, among other initiatives in her riding.

Malcolmson, elected as the NDP MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith in the Oct. 19 federal election, was chosen by her party to give the 10-minute address to the Throne Speech on Tuesday.

She said she is “relieved� that the new Liberal government has reiterated its commitment to infrastructure, and suggested that an inter-regional public transit between Nanaimo and Ladysmith would be an example of

a “win-win-win� investment, benefiting the local economy, environment and community. “Our riding MALCOLMSON has a transit gap between its two largest communities so that transit riders can’t get from Nanaimo to Ladysmith, just 20 minutes away,�

Malcolmson said in the House of Commons. “That’s bad for the environment, employment and business. Better yet, supporting transit into my neighbouring MP’s riding of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford would connect Vancouver Island Univer-

sity’s two burgeoning campuses.�

Malcolmson said that last year, NDP MPs representing ferry-reliant communities asked that BC Ferries be allowed to apply for infrastructure funding. “That could take the pressure off ferry riders already paying more than their fair share, and reeling from a decade of colossal price hikes from the provincial government,� she said. “Ferries are our coastal highways, and fare-shock has cost coastal economies dearly. As the progressive opposition, New Democrats will keep pushing the Liberals to keep their promises on infrastructure investments in public transit.�

Malcolmson said she has three First

Nations in her riding, along with many Metis and other indigenous community members, and she wants to move forward with “healing the damaged relationship� with aboriginal people.

She said she wants an inquiry held into the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, and the implementation of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee of Canada. “These commitments were common-cause for the NDP and Liberals in the election campaign,� Malcolmson said. “But with no timelines or details in the Liberal throne speech, it’s hard to pin good intentions down.�

Island Health has issued two drug overdose alerts in the last two weeks, and now community partners in Nanaimo are pulling together to host an important public forum on drug overdose and substance use.

A panel of representatives from Island Health’s Harm Reduction Unit, RCMP’s community program, and Vancouver Island University will provide critical information about the dangerous drugs that have recently made their way to Nanaimo, giving rise to a 350 per cent increase in drug overdoses since the middle of December.

The forum will take place at VIU’s Nanaimo campus today in Building 355, Room 203, at 7 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session. “It’s a chance for the public to learn about overdose risks in Nanaimo and what people can do to save themselves and people they care about,� says Dr. Carrie Chassels, executive director of student affairs at VIU. — DAILY NEWS

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Concerns raised that process will lead to cutting jobs in city SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo city council has approved a project charter for the city’s core review process, which is set to wrap up on May 13.

Work on the review, designated by council as its most important priority, is already underway.

Internal consultation with city staff — including with CUPE 401, the union that represents hundreds of city employees, and the local IAFF 905 firefighters’ union — kicked off formally Wednesday with a presentation at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre in the afternoon. A separate meeting was held with staff members at the city’s Beban Park work yard in the morning.

Interim city manager Tracy Samra said interviews have already been done with council, union representatives and city directors, adding that the city’s approximately 60 department managers have received questions for next week.

The charter lays out key areas of city administration, operations and spending that will fall under close scrutiny during the review, including the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, the Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation, the bylaw and parking department and tax exemptions and grants.

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Other areas to fall under the review sanitation, police support and operations.

One of the main stated objectives of the review is to find “cost savings,” “increased efficiencies,” and “capturing opportunities for significant improvement in services or resourcing.”

But the review has stoked some concern that the outcome of the review will mean recommendations to cut jobs at city hall.

CUPE 401 vice-president Laurence Amy said his union’s members had previously argued against having the city conduct a core review, but said his members are protected by a labour contract with the city that prevents the city from contracting out services.

“They were very clear today that they will be consulting with our employees . . .” said Amy said of he Wednesday meeting, adding the union wants to avoid potential labour strife with the city.

“That’s what we’re trying to avoid for sure,” he said.

IAFF 905 president Mike Rispin said the city’s fire department is not listed as a priority under the review, but said he considers the fire department to be “pretty lean” already.

“Either way it wouldn’t matter to us,” he said.

Samra said the review isn’t about “slashing or burning” positions, adding the review will be assessing how the city delivers programs and how it can make better use of money.

“That questions is asked over and over and over,” Samra said of layoff concerns.

“And the answer we give is we’re going to honour the collective agreement.”

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Brian Lennox is behind the new curriculum that has been developed for students in B.C. But the longtime teacher and coach in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district said that after 15 years of Liberal government and labour strife, the province’s teachers are wary of the way the government plans to move forward with the new program.

“I understand that the new curriculum is meant to meet the needs of today’s students,” Lennox said.

“But money is always front and centre for this government, and I wonder whether the money will be there for the resources needed for this change.”

The district will be holding a “curriculum in-service day” on Friday in which all the district’s staff will explore the newly redesigned curriculum.

The learning focus of the day will be to examine the underpinnings and rationale for the shifts in the curriculum redesign, which will focus on the core competencies for K-12.

The government kicked off a threeyear transition to the new curriculum in schools across the province in September, starting with students in kindergarten to Grade 9.

Students will continue to learn the basics like reading, writing and arithmetic, but the new curriculum will also focus on collaboration, critical thinking and communication skills to better prepare them for college, university and the work force.

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The Ministry of Education has stated that the plan is to allow students to learn about the core subjects while doing projects related to their interests, whatever that may be.

The curriculum will be fully implemented in all schools in the fall of 2016, and the entire K-12 curriculum will be phased in by the 2017-18 school year.

Mike Ball, president of the Nanaimo District Teachers’ Association, said the new curriculum was developed with the assistance of teachers.

But he acknowledged that there are some concerns around the amount of resources available to back it up once it is implemented.

“Is it perfect? No,” he said.

“But most teachers are in agreement that it is a step in the right direction, as long as its properly resourced.”

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EDUCATION

VIU grad to receive special award at convocation DAILY NEWS

Never underestimate the power of a small university with dedicated faculty to change students’ lives.

Just ask Vancouver Island University graduate Katelin Albert.

Albert grew up in Powell River and came to VIU in 2003 to play soccer for the women’s varsity team. At first, she didn’t know what she wanted to do, wasn’t a top student, and had never heard of graduate school. However, she was curious and outgoing and soon began to pursue her interests in psychology and sociology.

The combination of VIU’s small class sizes, personal attention, patient professors and undergraduate research opportunities, coupled with her own natural inquisitiveness, helped Albert blossom. “VIU changed my life,� said Albert, who will be receiving VIU’s 2016 Distinguished Alumni Early Achievement Award at the convocation ceremony today (Jan. 28). “I am beyond honoured and humbled to receive this award.�

Albert completed a double major in psychology and sociology with distinction at VIU in 2008, then a master’s degree in sociology at the University of Victoria. She is currently a fifth-year PhD candidate in Canada’s top-ranked department of sociology at the University of Toronto.

Vancouver Island University graduate Katelin Albert.

Albert has garnered provincial, national and international acclaim for her scholarship and is well on her way to becoming a university professor. In January, she will begin teaching a fourth-year undergraduate level course she developed titled, “Gender, Health, and Medicine.� “Katelin’s path through graduate school has left her former professors in awe,� said VIU sociology professor, Dr. Linda Derksen.

“She has progressed rapidly through her PhD program, attends national and international conferences where she meets and speaks to leaders in her field. Some have invited her to work with them on a wide variety of projects. It’s truly remarkable for someone at her stage to garner this kind of attention.�

In September 2014, Albert’s first solo authored publication was published in the Canadian Journal of

Sociology, titled, “Erasing the social from social science: The intellectual costs of boundary-work and the Canadian Institute of Health Research.� “Within 24 hours of the paper being posted on the journal’s website, Katelin was receiving emails from scholars across Canada saying that her paper was a ‘must read’ for the year,� said Derksen. “This attention for a student’s first solo authored paper is, in our experience, unprecedented.�

Albert also received international attention for a second solo-authored publication in The American Sociologist titled, “Towards a New Normal: Emergent Elites and Feminist Scholarship.� “This was an invited critique of a very prominent, senior scholar’s latest book,� said Derksen. “The author of the book later said that Katelin had posed the ‘toughest’ critique of his work.�

Albert credits VIU and its professors with providing a solid foundation for her success. “Looking back, going to VIU was the best thing that ever happened to me,� she said. “I wouldn’t have succeeded at a bigger school. I would have fallen through the cracks . . . .

All the professors at VIU are so dedicated to teaching, and students get one-on-one attention. There is no other opportunity like that.�

Albert said her former VIU professors, especially Dr. Linda Derksen and psychology professor Dr. Brad Piekkola, “must have seen a diamond in the rough. They were so dedicated to my success.�

As a teaching assistant for sociology classes at the University of Victoria, and then in the department of sociology at University of Toronto, Albert is aware of the enormous advantage of VIU’s small and diverse classes. In Toronto, she was a teaching assistant for a first year sociology course, which teaches 1,500 students at one time. The class is so large that it is held in Convocation Hall. “The class would have filled Nanaimo’s Port Theatre,� she said. “Because of the sheer numbers of students at larger schools, it’s difficult for undergrad students to get to know their professors.� “I have lots of friends with kids going to university. At the end of day, a lot of big schools are hard to navigate as a 17-year-old. I see them get overwhelmed. For me, as a young student, VIU was much more manageable. Professors will notice if you’re absent and ask if you are okay.

I always felt very supported academically, personally, and emotionally at VIU. The professors really helped me believe in myself and my academic abilities. I hope I can do the same for students when I am a professor.�

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A Nanaimo man faces 10 charges, ranging from bomb-making through identity theft and drug peddling, in connection with a three-month investigation by the B.C. anti-gang task force.

Hamzah Subhan Khan, 25, was arrested and charged with a variety of offences, following months of work with Crown counsel spent by Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. agents.

Khan faces a total of 10 counts following an investigation launched in January 2015, which led to the use of a search warrant to gather evidence in March.

The force “has been working with provincial Crown counsel and charges have now been laid,� said Jordan McLellan, spokesman for the force, in a press release.

Charges range from participating in the “design and purchase of an explosive substance� through using malware (computer viruses) in the commission of crimes, the illegal possession and sale of credit card data and other charges related to identity theft, and three drug-related charges.

Khan appeared briefly in Nanaimo provincial court Wednesday, where he was granted bail. He is scheduled to appear in court again March 16.

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Caregivers will learn strategies to care for someone with dementia and to take care of their own health, to ensure they are prepared to continue to provide care for their family members. “We provide practical techniques and strategies that caregivers can begin using immediately,� said Jane Hope, Alzheimer Society of B.C. support and education coordinator for Central Island.

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The Vancouver Island Emergency Response Team was summoned to a townhouse complex on Chesterfield Road in Duncan on Saturday morning after a man started firing his gun in the complex.

“The Emergency Response Team was called after the subject refused to surrender to police and barricaded himself in his home,” North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Krista Hobday said. “Once ERT was on site, negotiations continued and approximately 30 minutes later the man gave himself up.

Witness James (Burger) Smith said he happened to be in the area when the situation occurred.

“The cops were getting everybody out for their safety,” Smith related, adding that the people in the unit next to the suspects were the last ones out.

Smith said he didn’t see the suspect apprehended because bystanders were told to clear the area, but he had been concerned for his own safety.

“I was kind of standing behind cars in case something happened,” he said.

From Smith’s perspective, things ended as well as they could.

“Nobody got shot,” he said “Nobody got hurt.”

Charges are pending regarding the firearm, Hobday confirmed.

Saturday’s incident was the second

Police cleared people out of the area after a man fired shots and entered into a standoff with police. [JAMES (BURGER) SMITH]

time in two days that North Cowichan/ Duncan RCMP were called to a situation involving a weapon.

On Friday, a call came in about a man with a knife at the Island Savings Centre, and several police members responded to the incident.

“The investigation revealed a male with apparent mental health issues,” Hobday said. “The subject was apprehended under the Mental Health Act and taken to Cowichan District Hospital for an assessment.”

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Transit service poised to go on strike as early as Monday JAMES GOLDIE COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

Cowichan Valley Transit Workers are poised to go on strike next week depending on the outcome of two final days of negotiations with their employer, First Canada, which provides transit services around the Cowichan Valley and to the City of Victoria.

Stu Shields, national representative for Unifor, the union representing the workers, said the employees have been without a contract since March 2015, although hard bargaining has only been going for the past two months. The union has voted 100 per cent in favour of a strike unless First Canada takes its current demands off the table.

“We were perfectly ready to issue our strike notice last week but based on the talks we said we’ll withhold doing that . . . because in good faith we think we might be able to strike a deal this week,” said Shields. “We’re hopeful that when we get together Thursday there will be a framework for a deal, in which case we won’t serve 72 hours.”

A strike would affect all routes within the Cowichan Valley as well as the commuter bus to Victoria.

The union is looking for a settlement that mirrors the agreement reached between BC Transit and the City of Victoria last August. Shields said while

they are not seeking the same dollars per hour as Victoria, but they do want the same raise percentages and premiums that Victoria achieved.

“We can tweak all that so it fits within the scope of their budget. But if [First Canada] think they’re getting a cheaper settlement than Victoria got then get ready to be taken out,” said Shields.

The union is demanding a 5.95 per cent pay raise over five years plus $1 extra per hour because they are willing to accept a step wage grid for new hires, whereby it takes four years for new drivers to reach the full wage. (Currently new hires move immediately to the full wage after their training.)

According to Shields the current wage rate for drivers in the Cowichan Valley is “just shy of $25 an hour.”

In an email to the Citizen, BC Transit media and public relations advisor Mike Russell said: “We contract out the operations services to private operating companies who manage and hire their own services. As such, the labour dispute is between our service contractor for the area, First Canada, and their unionized employees.”

First Canada could not be reached for comment by press time.

If strike notice is issued by the union, bus service in the Cowichan Valley could shut down as early as Monday.

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Catalyst Paper says it will “vigorously defend itself” against a pair of civil claims filed against the company by the Halalt First Nation last Friday.

The claims relate to Catalyst’s Crofton Mill. The first alleges that Catalyst has illegally trespassed on and caused damage to the Halalt’s traditional territories and fisheries since the mill began operation in 1957. In that claim, the band is seeking $2 billion and an injunction stopping the mill from conducting operations that interfere with the Halalt’s claimed land rights.

The second claim was filed by the Halalt along with business partners Sunvault Energy Inc. and Aboriginal Power Corp., and alleges that Catalyst disclosed confidential information about a proposed anaerobic digester facility in breach of a confidentiality agreement.

The Halalt and their partners are seeking, among other things, $100 million and an injunction preventing Catalyst from constructing, owning or operating an anaerobic digester facility.

According to Halalt First Nation director of operations, the civil suits were a last resort after previous attempts to work with Catalyst.

“Legal action was not our first course of action,” Eli Enns said. “We were put in a position where there were not any options left to the community.”

The mill, Enns said, was built on Halalt grave sites nearly six decades ago.

“In addition to the desecration of sacred sites, the mill has been polluting the environment for 60 years,” he added, citing a 2015 report from the Vancouver Sun that called Catalyst one of the biggest polluters in B.C. “The impact has been devastating to our traditional fishery and the environmental security, not just of the Halalt, but for the rest of the community,” Enns said.

The Halalt First Nation has filed two civil lawsuits against the Catalyst mill in Crofton. [CITIZEN]

The civil action has been a long time coming for several reasons, Enns said.

“Sixty years ago, we were just coming out of the dark ages of the Indian Act after the 1951 overhaul,” he said.

“The community wasn’t really equipped to seek justice with regards to the impact of industrial activities like Catalyst.”

In more recent years, the Halalt did reach out, but those negotiations “became frustrated,” according to Enns.

“We did attempt to create partnerships with Catalyst, the highest priority being the health of the ecosystem,” he said.

There is still hope that the situation can be resolved out of court.

“We’d love to be able to solve this in an agreeable way,” Enns said.

“That was the intention of the Halalt from the beginning. We want to see the ecosystem and the environment around the mill restored to the way it was previously.”

The Halalt don’t think it is too late to repair the alleged damage to the environment.

“We would like to think that there have been enough advances in technology that we can have the best of both worlds,” Enns said. “If we don’t deal with it, we are leaving our children to deal with the same problem.”

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Conservation officers investigate slaughter of two Roosevelt elk COMOX VALLEY RECORD

The Conservation Officer Service is seeking the public’s assistance in two separate cases involving the illegal harvest of elk.

The first incident occurred early in the morning on Jan. 10 sometime between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. A large bull elk was illegally killed in a cut block off the Duncan Bay Mainline just south of Jackpot Main which is located between the Forbidden Plateau Rd and Strathcona Parkway, north of Courtenay.

The antlers of the elk were originally left with the carcass, however sometime between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. they were removed.

A two-wheel drive, metallic blue, extended cab Chevrolet pickup, believed to be 1990-1996 body type was observed

in the area the morning the elk was killed. The truck also had a grey or lighter blue coloured eight-to-10-inch stripe along the bottom of the body.

The COS is looking to identify and speak with the owner and occupants of the truck.

The second incident occurred on Jan. 23 sometime before 11 a.m. on Highway 19 approximately five kilometres north of Roberts Lake, between Campbell River and Sayward.

The COS received a report of a cow elk that had been killed and was laying in a cut block approximately a hundred metres from the highway.

When the CO attended only the rear quarters had been removed and the rest of the cow elk was wasted.

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We would also like to thank the following businesses, organizations, and individual donors who contributed to our Childcare Centre Capital Campaign, Recreation Centre Capital Campaign, Summer Camp Program, Youth Safe House Program, Sweat Lodge Program, Youth Group & Salish Lelum Housing. Throughout the year we have had several different fundraisers and will continue to fundraise until our Goal of $26,000,000 is raised.

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Police shooting exposes holes in use-of-force policy R obert Dziekanski, the Polish man killed with police Tasers at Vancouver’s airport, should be alive. So should Paul Boyd, a mentally challenged man killed when Vancouver police fired multiple shots into his body, including a fatal shot while he was on the ground, near death.

Indigenous leader J.J. Harper was minding his own business when he was shot and killed on the streets of Winnipeg by a police officer. He should be alive, too. And there are more examples.

In each case, homicide charges were not laid because police said they acted in self-defence.

They believed they were at risk of injury or death if they did not use extreme force.

Police latitude in determining reasonable force is far beyond what a civilian could claim in court, although theoretically everyone has the same right of self-defence.

The case of Sammy Yatim, 18, might have been just another one of those unfortunate police killings except for the fact the shooter, Const. James Forcillo, was charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder.

Criminal charges against police in such cases are rare. Even rarer was Const. Forcillo’s conviction for attempted murder, which relates to a second volley of bullets that hit the victim when he was dead or near death.

The jury decided he was justified in firing the first volley because

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It’s a sad day when a daily newspaper in a city of 85,000 people cannot survive. Good journalism is vanishing. Just not in print, but TV too. And, there’s only a smidgeon of news people left in radio stations than there used to be.

Twitter and Facebook may be fast, but it’s unchecked ‘info-mation.’

There’s no editor to fact-check.

Ages ago, I got my start writing and taking photographs for the Free Press (the Daily’s predecessor) and the weekly Nanaimo Times — both now relegated to the history books and my scrapbook.

It’s sad that the careers of so many good reporters, editors, anchors and photographers are being slashed across our country, no-doubt exciting politicians and public relations types. They’ll now have more chances to spin their one-sided promotional lies. The public and taxpayers are so much worse off.

In Nanaimo, government spins the bull too. However, there have been editors here like Philip Wolf, who relentlessly went after that empty “white elephant” called the conference centre; highlighting the $72.5 million in wasted tax dollars it cost to build and the continuing costs to keep it alive.

I’m still waiting for all those widget salesmen conventions you wrote about Philip — to bail us out. Or “sandwiches,” to make those newspaper editorial board-city higher-up meetings go better!

I fondly remember the old “Freep” (which we’d call it) at 223 Commercial St., where you’d walk into the newsroom, see over a dozen people banging on typewriter keys and hear the clanging of the teletype machines.

It was a “local” newsroom in action — with the likes of Frank Phillips, Bruce Lantz, Walter Cordery and Mark Kaarremaa working to deadline.

he believed his life or someone else’s might be at risk from the knife-wielding deranged suspect, or at least there was a reasonable doubt he intentionally killed Mr. Yatim.

The defence says it will apply to have the proceedings stayed because of an abuse of process, which would disentitle the Crown to a conviction.

Basically, Forcillo says it’s an outrage to convict him of an offence for following the police training he was given by the state. If that fails, the case will be appealed.

Police unions across Canada have warned the charges and conviction set a dangerous precedent.

Canada is not the United States, where police shootings are a daily occurrence, many of them seemingly without any justification.

There now will be a void for the letter-to-the-editor writers. Those of us who countered with our view of how we think things really are.

Some tax-grabbing types will surely be happy there’ll be less space for us to publish our wares, but rest assured, we’ll find other ways to get our viewpoints out.

It’s gut-wrenching to see a newspaper, spanning three different centuries, has to be buried because there’s apparently not enough bucks in such a good-sized city like ours to sustain it — especially when we need inquisitive journalism to watch out for us. I’ll miss you Daily News/Free Press. You have now become part of Nanaimo’s history — which you helped write for 141 years.

Kevan Shaw Nanaimo

With no paper, who will fight for the little guy?

Who will there be to fight for us, the little guy, now that the

And what is often forgotten in Canada are the cases where police showed extreme restraint. One of the best local examples was the case of Vince Li, who used a knife to behead another man on a bus during a psychotic episode.

RCMP arrested Mr. Li after a five-hour standoff, but there has been little attention to that part of the story, or others like it.

Contrary to the impression created by popular culture, most police officers are terrified when forced to confront an armed suspect, or someone bigger and stronger.

Numerous studies have shown survival stress causes a range of debilitating physiological responses, including tunnel vision, impaired hearing and diminished judgment

Daily News is leaving? This paper went to bat for me, for my freedom of speech, when the city tried to get me arrested for holding up signs at council meetings.

To this day trough feeders line up out front for free tax money.

We need an opposition, people like me with signs and newspapers to keep this city accountable for being afforded the privilege of using our money.

I, one of many, am sorry to see this daily paper perish.

Randy Stearman Nanaimo

‘Daily News’ covered all the big issues in the city However disingenuous or self serving this letter might appear, I will miss the Nanaimo Daily News.

My first recollections are stories on amalgamation and the Bathtub riot (witnessed) through the mauling (malling) of the north end; Malaspina College growth, glacial Duke Point

and motor skills. It’s possible Const.

Forcillo believed his life was in danger, even though the video evidence suggests he reacted too quickly and without first trying other alternatives, such as attempting to de-escalate the situation from a safe distance.

The bottom line is Mr. Yatim should not have died, and the tragic case points to a need for police to improve their training and procedures.

There must be a better balance between the police’s right to self-defence and their duty to protect.

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development, forest industry downturns/lumber wars with the U.S., doubling of the number of traffic lights, the Nanaimo Parkway, the Port of Nanaimo Centre, passenger-only ferries, no AM radio stations, no hotel, no rail, no arena, no gas-fired BC Hydro Duke Point plant, no mega Cedar developments, first class water and sewage treatment and yes city councils.

As much as I lived, breathed and worked here, the Daily News did too.

My favourite pieces were by Philip Wolf, who if memory serves, was against the PNC and singly reminded us of the $75,000 re-roof of the Civic Arena prior to demolition and wrote a classic April Fool spoof written under a truly great nom de plume.

A big shout out also goes to Paul Walton.

I can only hope that grass roots journalism doesn’t get replaced with more astro turf offered up from afar.

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Towns to be consulted on ride-hailing service Premier Christy Clark has dispatched Community Minister Peter Fassbender to consult local municipalities and other stakeholders on how the province should respond to ride-hailing services like Uber.

The premier said opinions are divided among civic leaders and others about what to do.

“We’re giving it a lot of thought right now,” she said. “Vancouver city council has voted against allowing Uber in Vancouver. We’ve heard different voices in Surrey talking about yes and no. We certainly know there is a vast diversity of interests.”

◆ SURREY

Woman charged in death of eight-year-old After more than a year, a trial date is to be set for Lisa Batstone, the South Surrey woman charged with killing her eight-year-old daughter in December of 2014.

She will appear at B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster on April 28 at 2 p.m. to start the trial process and set dates.

The move to trial was approved Friday during a brief video appearance at Surrey Provincial Court.

Batstone sat unemotionally as her lawyer, Craig Sicotte, requested the case move to Supreme Court for trial after consultation with Crown counsel, her only audible comment being a loud “thank you” when her appearance ended.

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Council targets rude taxpayers and residents White Rock council is taking steps to address what is described as “abusive” and “disrespectful” behaviour from residents to staff and elected officials.

At Monday’s governance and legislation committee meeting, several changes to the Council and Committee Procedure Bylaw — as well as council’s correspondence policy — were proposed.

Among those changes is the addition under ‘conduct and debate’ addressing decorum during meetings, noting “members of the public are not permitted to interrupt the meeting in any way, including outbursts, shouting out questions/comments, booing and heckling.”

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An Abbotsford woman died last June after overdosing on methylfentanyl she may have believed was heroin. [STOCK PHOTO]

Drug deaths in B.C. are up 27% JEFF NAGEL BC LOCAL NEWS

Illicit drug overdose deaths in B.C. jumped 27 per cent in 2015 and that grim statistic was even worse in the Fraser region, where deadly overdoses soared nearly 50 per cent.

A total of 465 B.C. residents died from illicit drugs last year, almost 100 more than in 2014, according to new statistics from the B.C. Coroners Service.

Fraser recorded the largest number of drug deaths of any B.C. region in 2015 – a total of 166, up from 111 in 2014.

“It’s been particularly severe in the Fraser region,” said coroner service spokesperson Barb McLintock. “That’s really, really large even when you factor in things like increasing population.”

Broken down by municipality, Vancouver still had the most overdose deaths at 118.

But Surrey had 67 drug deaths last year, a jump from 42 in 2014.

Abbotsford had 24 (up from seven) and Maple Ridge had 23 (up from 14.) Other cities with 10 or more drug deaths were Nanaimo, VIctoria, Kelowna, Burnaby, Prince George, Langley, Coquitlam and New Westminster.

December was particularly bad, with 62 deaths recorded province-wide, the largest number in any single month over the past 10 years.

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Air India perjurer’s Duncan connection lingers as residents support families Duncan residents say they are thinking of the families of 331 people who died in the Air India bombings after the only man convicted for his role in the crime was released from prison. Inderjit Singh Reyat was granted statutory release Monday.

Residents in the community say they’re finding it hard to reconcile that someone who played a role in a deadly terrorist act 30 years ago can go back to his family but the relatives of the dead are left to grieve their loss forever.

An estimated 30 per cent of overdose deaths involved fentanyl — either the dangerously potent synthetic opiate by itself or mixed with other drugs — and that proportion has steadily climbed over the past three years.

Because powdered fentanyl is often added to other street drugs and unknowingly ingested, public health officials say it’s been responsible for an unusual number of overdoses in recreational or occasional drug users, rather than long-term injection drug users.

But McLintock said other drugs including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine continue to account for more deaths overall.

“Fentanyl is part of the problem, but it’s far, far, far from being the whole problem.”

McLintock noted there are efforts underway to increase access to life-saving naloxone or Narcan, which can quickly stop an overdose in progress, by having firefighters carry the drug or by offering it over-the-counter without prescription at pharmacies.

“Certainly that form of harm reduction will help but it’s still only good for the opiates,” McLintock cautioned.

“It’s not going to help your crystal meth and your cocaine users because it often doesn’t work on those.”

The provincial overdose death rate is now at its highest level since 1998.

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National Hockey League defenceman Clayton Stoner has pleaded guilty to hunting without a licence in connection to a grizzly bear hunt on British Columbia’s central coast.

Stoner, 30, who plays for the Anaheim Ducks, appeared in an Abbotsford court on Wednesday to face one charge under the provincial Wildlife Act involving the hunt in B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest in May 2013.

His lawyer entered the plea on his behalf.

The Crown dropped four other charges against him, including knowingly making a false statement to obtain a hunting licence, hunting out of season, and unlawfully possessing dead wildlife.

Stoner initially defended his hunting trip with his father, an uncle and a

friend, but a case was mounted against him after an investigation by B.C.’s Conservation Officer Service.

The service announced five charges in September, explaining Stoner did not meet residency requirements for the provincial hunt when he played for the Minnesota Wild.

Stoner applied for his hunting licence in his hometown of Port McNeill, on Vancouver Island, according to court records.

But the address he provided was not his primary residence, which the Wildlife Act stipulates must be in B.C., Det. Sgt. Cynthia Mann said in a statement when the charges were made public.

Mann also said a hunter must be living in the province for six of the 12 months preceding the spring grizzly hunt, which was not the situation in Stoner’s case.

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Police bust pedophile ring in Quebec and Ontario

Dion to travel to Ukraine as Tories renew attacks

Police in Quebec say they have arrested 13 people who allegedly exchanged advice on ways to sexually abuse children without raising suspicion.

The investigation by Quebec provincial police and the RCMP began three years ago.

About 150 officers from different forces took part in raids Wednesday throughout Quebec and in Toronto.

Those arrested are aged between 27 and 74.

“The probe began in April 2013 after we received tips from the public,” said provincial police Sgt. Christine Coulombe.

It was not immediately known how many people were arrested in Toronto.

A Toronto police spokeswoman referred a call for information to Quebec authorities.

Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion is travelling to Ukraine this weekend to express Canada’s support for the eastern European country that lost the Crimean Peninsula to Russia in 2014.

Dion announced the trip in the House of Commons today as he faced a barrage of criticism from Opposition Conservatives about his decision to engage Russia more broadly.

Dion says Canada remains a steadfast friend of Ukraine, but will be open to talking to Russia because it could serve Canada’s needs, including in the Arctic where the two countries have shared interests.

Conservative MP Dean Allison is accusing Dion of getting cosy with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

There are about 1.3 million Canadians of Ukrainian descent, a group that is viewed as an important voting group.

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UofO hockey players decry Senior PQ members call ’salacious’ allegations for support for Peladeau Several members of the University of Ottawa hockey team say a court filing by the school has once again smeared them through “murky and salacious” accusations.

The members are suing the university for purportedly damaging their reputations by suspending the entire hockey program in March 2014 after allegations of sexual assault surfaced.

Two other team players were later charged with sexually assaulting a female student at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont. The university says in a statement of defence that it acted carefully and reasonably in deciding to suspend the hockey program.

In their reply, members of the classaction suit say their action is not about the power of the university to suspend a team.

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A senior member of the Parti Quebecois caucus is denying rumours some in the party have lost confidence in Pierre Karl Peladeau’s leadership.

Opposition house leader Bernard Drainville tells reporters it is time for the caucus to publicly reaffirm its loyalty toward Peladeau.

A former PQ minister as well as an ex-PQ leadership candidate have come out publicly against Peladeau, who has encountered personal and political problems in the past few weeks.

Recent reports alleged Peladeau was involved in tax havens abroad when he was president of media giant Quebecor Inc. — allegations he denies.

The PQ leader is also off work for a second consecutive day today following the announcement of his separation from Julie Snyder less than six months after their high-profile wedding.

Activists told leave wildlife refuge now Details begin to emerge about confrontation, fatal shooting KEITH RIDLER AND TERRENCE PETTY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BURNS, Ore. — A day after eight members of an armed anti-government group were arrested, their jailed leader on Wednesday urged a handful of remaining militants to abandon the Oregon wildlife refuge they have occupied for more than three weeks and where they are now surrounded by federal agents.

After militant leader Ammon Bundy made his first court appearance in Portland on Wednesday, his attorney, Mike Arnold, read this statement from his client: “Please stand down. Go home and hug your families. This fight is now in the courts.”

It was unclear whether the remnant of Bundy’s followers still holed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns was ready to heed his advice.

Meanwhile, details began to emerge about the confrontation Tuesday on a remote highway that resulted in the arrest of Bundy and other leading figures in the group of occupiers, and in the death of militant Robert Finicum.

Bundy followers gave conflicting accounts of how Finicum died.

One said Finicum charged at FBI agents, who then shot him. A member of the Bundy family said Finicum did nothing to provoke the agents.

An Oregon man who says he witnessed the shootout says he heard about a half-dozen shots but didn’t see anyone get hit, and that the shooting happened quickly — over maybe 12 or 15 seconds.

Raymond Doherty told KOIN-TV that he was about 100 feet back and couldn’t see who specifically was shooting.

But, he added, “I saw them shooting at each other.”

Oregon State Police man a roadblock at the intersection of Highways 395 and 20 outside of Burns, Ore., on Wednesday morning. [THE OREGONIAN VIA AP]

There was no immediate way to confirm the accounts. Authorities refused to release any details about the encounter or even to verify that it was Finicum who was killed.

Also on Wednesday, a federal judge in Portland unsealed a criminal complaint that said the armed group had explosives and night-vision goggles and that they were prepared to fight at the refuge or in the nearby town of Burns.

Someone told authorities about the equipment on Jan. 2, when the group took over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, according to the document.

Bundy and the seven others are charged with felony counts of “conspiracy to impede officers of the United States from their official duties through the use of force, intimidation, or threats.”

The criminal complaint stresses that point. It states that the 16 employees at the wildlife refuge “have been prevented from reporting to work because of threats of violence posed by the defendants and others occupying the property.”

Federal law officials and Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward held a news conference on Wednesday in which they called on the rest of the occupiers to go home. There is a huge law enforcement presence in the region, and the FBI has now set up checkpoints outside the refuge.

FBI agent Greg Bretzing said people could leave through checkpoints “where they will be identified.” He did not say whether any of them face arrest. He said negotiators were available to talk if they have “questions or concerns.”

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ENVIRONMENT

Diplomats welcome shift in Canadian policy on Iran

Resource reviews to be changed by feds THE CANADIAN PRESS

MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Some of Canada’s top allies are welcoming the Liberal government’s decision to re-engage with Iran because they say the hardline stance of the previous Conservative government was unhelpful as they pursued their historic nuclear deal.

Western diplomats expressed concern at what they described as the ongoing skepticism the Conservatives showed towards efforts to reach a deal with Iran to curb its ability to build a nuclear weapon.

In a series of recent interviews with The Canadian Press, the senior diplomats said they welcomed the decision of the Liberal government to re-establish diplomatic relations with Iran, which the Conservatives cut in 2012.

But the Conservatives rebutted the criticism, accusing some European countries of being more interested in restarting trade than reining in Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

The international perspective emerges as the Conservative Opposition in the Commons has mounted a sustained attack on the Liberals for essentially reversing the hardline policy towards Iran.

As expected, the Liberals confirmed this week they would follow the European Union, the United States and others in lifting some sanctions against Iran.

The sanctions relief comes after Iran was found to be in compliance with the deal it reached with western powers last summer to curb its ability to use nuclear technology to build a bomb.

In this photo released by official website of the office of Iranian Presidency, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani addresses election officials in Tehran on Jan. 21.

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“They (the Conservatives) were quite skeptical about it, whereas this government has reacted in, I think, in a positive way,” Marie-Anne Coninsx, the EU ambassador to Canada, said in an interview.

“And honestly, I think it is a big success for Europe, for the international community . . . there are a lot of safeguards which are built in, permanent controls.”

Coninsx said EU negotiators kept in regular contact with senior Canadian officials as the talks among the United States, France, Britain, Russia

and China — the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — plus Germany, progressed.

When an agreement was finally reached in July 2015, then-foreign affairs minister Rob Nicholson said Canada appreciated the effort, but would “continue to judge Iran by its actions, not its words.”

That often-repeated position by the Conservatives was not welcomed by the countries that were at the negotiating table, said one Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

OTTAWA — The federal government is revamping the way resource projects are reviewed in Canada — changes that include a requirement to look at upstream greenhouse gas emissions.

The new policy, which the government calls a transition step while it hammers out new permanent rules, will also require more consultation with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.

The changes apply to two contentious pipeline projects that are currently dominating headlines: the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline in B.C. and TransCanada’s Energy East project from Alberta to New Brunswick.

But they’ll also apply to all resource projects, including LNG and mining proposals.

“We believe it is important and, in fact, essential to rebuild Canadians’ trust in our environmental assessment processes,” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna told a news conference Wednesday.

“We need to take into account the views and concerns of Canadians, respect the rights and interests of indigenous peoples and support our natural resources sector.”

Hearings on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain twinning project are almost over and the government is extending the deadline for a decision by four months, pushing it to next December.

As for Energy East, the government is extending the project review period by an extra six months and adding three temporary members to the National Energy Board in an effort to do greater public consultation.

“We believe it is important and, in fact, essential to rebuild Canadians’ trust in our environmental assessment processes.”

Catherine McKenna, Environment Minister

TransCanada spokesman Mark Cooper said the company needs time to digest the new rules.

“We support a strong and clear regulatory framework that helps Canadians see our commitment to building and operating oil and gas pipelines in the safest and most environmentally sound way possible,” he said in an emailed statement.

“TransCanada operates in a highly regulated industry. We will continue to work with all levels of government and our regulators to ensure the continued safe and environmentally sound transportation of our natural resources to market.”

A decision on Energy East is not expected before the middle of 2018.

At least one advocate hailed the changes as more evidence of a new consultative, environmentally friendly approach to resource development, but complained that Energy East would be allowed to proceed under the new, transitional process.

“If the transitional process is just for projects under review, it shouldn’t apply to Energy East,” Environmental Defence spokesman Adam Scott said in a statement.

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CRTC’s OK on Oprah gets cabinet support TERRY PEDWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS

The federal Liberal cabinet has sided with the country’s broadcast regulator to allow the Oprah Winfrey Network to continue broadcasting in Canada, a decision that could have far-reaching implications for television stations and content producers struggling to survive an ever-changing media landscape.

The order in council, issued Tuesday, comes as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission holds hearings on the future of local TV. The ruling upheld a 2015 CRTC decision that allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to amend its broadcasting licence so it could keep airing programming from U.S.-based OWN Inc. In the wake of that decision, a group representing Canadian TV producers petitioned the government, accusing the CRTC of abandoning critical safeguards designed to protect independent producers in their dealings with the country’s largest private broadcasters.

Without those so-called “terms of trade” safeguards in place, thousands of jobs are now at risk, warns the Canadian Media Production Association.

“Hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses across the country are put in jeopardy if there is no reversal of this decision,” says association president and CEO Reynolds Mastin.

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Fewer Brazil birth defects related to the Zika virus than first feared But concern remains strong enough to warn pregnant women about travel to region JENNY BARCHFIELD AND MIKE STOBBE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIO DE JANEIRO — New figures released Wednesday by Brazil’s Health Ministry as part of a probe into the Zika virus have found fewer cases of a rare birth defect than first feared.

Researchers have been looking at 4,180 suspected cases of microcephaly reported since October. On Wednesday, officials said they had done more intense analysis on more than 700 of those cases, confirming 270 cases and ruling out 462 others.

But what that means is hard to say, according to some experts. It does not answer whether the tropical Zika virus is causing the babies to have unusually small heads. Nor does it really tell us how big the problem is.

“I don’t think we should lower our alarm over the Zika outbreak,” said Paul Roepe, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Infectious Disease.

Brazilian officials still say they believe there’s a sharp increase in cases of microcephaly and strongly suspect the Zika virus, which first appeared in the country last year, is to blame.

The concern is strong enough that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month warned pregnant women to reconsider visits to areas where Zika is present, and officials in El Salvador, Colombia and Brazil have suggested women stop getting pregnant until the crisis has passed.

Computer win a sign of improving AI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — A computer program has beaten a human champion at the ancient Chinese board game Go, marking a significant advance for development of artificial intelligence.

The program taught itself how to win, and its developers say its learning strategy may someday let computers help solve real-world problems like making medical diagnoses and pursuing scientific research.

The program and its victory are described in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature.

Go, which originated in China more than 2,500 years ago, involves two players who take turns putting markers on a checkerboard-like grid.

The object is to surround more area on the board with the markers than one’s opponent, as well as capturing the opponent’s pieces by surrounding them.

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NEWS IN BRIEF The Associated Press ◆ NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.

Earliest date to shut off U.S. Niagara Falls is 2019 Tourists hoping for a glimpse of a dry Niagara Falls will have to wait until at least 2019.

Regional New York parks chief Mark Thomas says Wednesday that there’s no funding yet for a bridge replacement project that could involve shutting down the water flowing over one section of the falls by building a temporary structure to redirect it.

Thomas says the project could start in 2019 if federal, state or private funding is found right away.

Thomas spoke to reporters before a public hearing on plans to replace two 115-year-old pedestrian bridges near the brink of the falls. The project could leave the American and Bridal Veil Falls dry for up to nine months while water from the Niagara River is diverted over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.

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by Palestinian teenager A municipal worker during an operation to combat the ‘Aedes aegypti’ mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

But the World Health Organization and others have stressed that any link between Zika and the defect remains circumstantial and is not yet proven scientifically. And the new figures were a reminder of just how little is known about the disease and its effects.

The arrival of the mosquito-borne illness in Brazil initially caused little alarm as the virus’ symptoms are generally much milder than those of dengue. Then late last year, after noting what they said was a spike in

the birth defect, Brazilian authorities for the first time asked doctors to report cases of patients in their care.

So there are no solid numbers to compare with the new tally.

In 2014, only about 150 cases were reported in Brazil in a year — a surprisingly small amount for a largest country with nearly 3 million births a year. The United States, with about 4 million births a year, has an estimated 2,500 cases of microcephaly a year, said Margaret Honein, a CDC epidemiologist.

Brazilian health officials have dismissed the idea there might have been a large number of unreported cases previously. But the rate of recorded microcephaly cases was only a fraction of what some experts thought it ought to be.

In establishing a registry, the Health Ministry cast a wide net, including live births, stillborn and miscarried babies, and fetuses shown to have unusually small heads by ultrasound or other diagnostic tests, the ministry said.

A Palestinian teenager stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli man in the West Bank on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a relentless outburst of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attack took place near a gas station in the West Bank settlement of Givat Zeev. She said a 50-year-old man was stabbed and that he was evacuated to a hospital.

The attack is the latest in more than four months of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Some 26 Israelis and one American student have been killed in Palestinian attacks. At least 149 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, 104 of whom are said by Israel to have been attackers. The remainder have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.

GLOBAL WARMING

NEB says future oil prices, pipelines will have little impact on emissions ALEKSANDRA SAGAN THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in Canada will continue to grow over the next 24 years regardless of whether oil prices rise or pipeline projects are built, a report from the National Energy Board says.

“Scenarios like high or low oil and natural gas prices, or whether or not we build pipelines or we build LNG terminals ... are not sufficient to put Canada on a path to declining greenhouse gas emissions,” said board chairman and CEO Peter Watson, who presented the report to the Toronto Region Board of Trade.

The study released Wednesday takes a long-term view of the country’s energy future and expects power consumption to grow by about 20 per cent by 2040.

“What will make a difference in our emissions over time is more consistent, aggressive and targeted greenhouse gas policy frameworks.”

Peter Watson, NEB chairman and CEO

The markets will supply Canada’s demand for energy, and fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are anticipated to increase.

Fluctuating oil prices or possible future development of pipelines don’t necessarily impact this, Watson said.

The report offers a number of projections.

If oil prices remain lower for longer — staying closer to US$55 a barrel in 2020 and only reaching US$80 a barrel by 2040 — production won’t be affected much for the next three to four years, the report said, thanks to momentum created by new oilsands projects or those under construction.

But production would be essentially flat after 2020, plateauing at about 4.8 million barrels daily for the following 20 years.

“What will make a difference in our emissions over time is more consistent, aggressive and targeted greenhouse gas policy frameworks,” Watson said.

Watson said long-term energy projections can be more difficult as Ottawa begins to form policies following the climate change talks in Paris, where it committed to keep global warming below two degrees C.

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Lawmakers OK terminal sedation, not euthanasia France’s Parliament has approved a bill that will let doctors keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes but stops short of legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide.

After years of tense debate over the issue and a long journey through Parliament, the bill was passed by the country’s lower house and Senate Wednesday. The text is the result of a consensus of Socialist and conservative lawmakers.

The new law will allow patients to request “deep, continuous sedation altering consciousness until death” but only when their condition is likely to lead to a quick death.

Doctors will be allowed to stop life-sustaining treatments, including artificial hydration and nutrition.

Sedation and painkillers will be allowed “even if they may shorten the person’s life.”

The bill will also apply to patients who are unable to express their will, following a process that includes consultation with family members.

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U.S. Fed voices concerns on global economy MARTIN CRUTSINGER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve sounded a note of concern Wednesday about how global pressures could affect a slowing U.S. economy, while keeping a key interest rate unchanged.

Six weeks after it raised rates from record lows, the Fed took stock of a more perilous international picture that could alter its plans for further raising rates. Fed officials issued a statement after their latest policy meeting that suggested they might reduce the pace of future rate hikes if market losses and global weakness persist.

But stock investors were disappointed that the Fed did not commit outright to delaying its pace of rate increases. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down about 223 points, or 1.4 per cent. The Dow had been up slightly before the Fed issued its statement.

Sam Stovall, U.S. equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, said investors had been hoping for a “clear signal�

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that the Fed would raise rates more gradually for the rest of 2016 and felt discouraged when they didn’t get it.

Many point to the Fed’s December rate hike as a key factor in the stock market’s tumble in recent weeks.

The move amounted to only a small rise in the Fed’s still-extremely low target rate for overnight bank lending. But it signalled that a seven-year period of near-zero rates was ending and that while borrowing costs wouldn’t be rising fast, they would be headed up.

The Fed’s new statement said it’s

studying “global economic and financial developments and is assessing their implications for the labour market and inflation.� “This is intended to lull us into lower expectations as to when the next move is going to come,� said Patrick O’Keefe, director of economic research at the consulting firm CohnReznick.

Since the Fed raised rates Dec. 16, stocks have plunged, oil prices have skidded and China’s leaders have struggled to manage a slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy.

The Fed’s statement Wednesday noted that U.S. economic growth has also slowed.

Some economists say they now expect just two modest Fed rate increases during 2016, rather than the three or four they had foreseen when the year began. But no one is sure.

The Fed’s signal in December that it would raise rates four times this year “has become less plausible as we’ve gotten a little bit into the year,�

O’Keefe said. “Reality has refused to co-operate.�

In a key change to the statement, the Fed dropped language it had used in December that it was “reasonably confident� that inflation would reach the Fed’s 2 per cent target over the next few years.

By dropping this language, the Fed appeared to signal concern that inflation has fallen further as a result of a further drop in oil prices and a stronger dollar. Chair Janet Yellen and other Fed officials have stressed the importance of higher inflation.

A key inflation gauge has run below the 2 per cent target for more than three years.

The Fed’s policymakers left their benchmark rate unchanged in a

range of 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent.

For seven years until December, they had kept that rate at record lows near zero. “It was very noncommittal,� Asha Bangalore, economist at Northern Trust, said of the Fed’s statement.

Still, the changes the Fed made in describing economic conditions signalled that it might be prepared to slow its credit tightening until it sees more evidence that the markets and the economy are stabilizing.

Tumbling markets so far haven’t shaken consumer confidence. One measurement of confidence climbed for a second month, the Conference Board said this week. Much of the optimism stems from solid job growth: U.S. employers added an average of 284,000 jobs a month in the final quarter of last year. And the unemployment rate remains a low five per cent.

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he very best of the Island will be displayed at the Vancouver Island Short Film Festival next month.

The festival, which is open to international submissions, had 47 entries this year.

The only requirement is that the film be under 12 minutes.

A selection committee, made of volunteers, spent hours viewing all the entries and narrowed it down to 13 films. The final films will be screened at the festival Feb. 12 to 13.

“We pick the selection committee based on their industry experience.

A lot of them will work on their own films or have worked on productions.

They have in-depth knowledge of industry experience. They are selected based on quality of storytelling, narrative and quality of technical aspects of the film and also the time of the film because we have two hours to show them all,” said Karla Duarte, director of VISFF. A few of the selected films are from Vancouver, one is from Malaysia, and about half are from Vancouver Island filmmakers.

“Which just goes to show the quality that we receive, our local film makers are producing high quality production films every year. We see an increase in quality of production, story telling, all that kind of stuff,” Duarte said.

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Brandon James Mason and Carly Neigum in Sweet Dreams Norma Jean. [SUBMITTED]

The films will be displayed Feb. 12 at 7 p.m., Feb. 13 at 2 p.m., and again at 7 p.m.

Musical group Boomshack will perform following the Friday evening showing. After the Saturday afternoon showing there will be a question and answer period with filmmakers. The

award ceremony will follow the Saturday evening showing.

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Nanaimo Arts Council Executive Director Sarah Schmidt said in a media release. “The contest has become an opportunity to celebrate the many writers of all ages who make them their home. Entry deadline is March 21. More information at isfc.ca. ***** Nanaimo’s Poet Laureate is interested in grooming those with the potential for following in her footsteps. To encourage younger poetry voices, Naomi Beth Wakan has joined with the teacher-librarians at Nanaimo high schools to host a High School Poetry competition from students Grades 10 to 12. “We are looking for your poems about Nanaimo — the favourite places you hang out

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More than $2,000 in cash and prizes is again available to Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands writers as the annual Islands Short Fiction Contest returns. Â Co-sponsored by the Nanaimo Arts Council, the Vancouver Island Regional Library, and the Vancouver Island University Department of Creative Writing and Journalism, the contest seeks entries of up to 2,000 words in three categories: Adult (19 and over), Youth (13 to 18), and Junior (12 and under).

The competition drew over 100 entries last year, with winners and finalists hailing from Fanny Bay, Nanaimo, Salt Spring Island, and Victoria, among other communities.

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Tammy Dewar has had her fair share of horrible bosses.

In her 20s and early 30s, the Victoria resident bounced around from job to job, working as a bartender, high school teacher, in community education and training and development, among other things.

However, she kept leaving those jobs after bad experiences with bosses. Whenever she quit, she would feel battered, bruised and let down. “Finally, I realized the only constant in this is me.

So maybe the bosses aren’t bad and that I play a role in this,� said Dewar, adding there were roughly four to five jobs where she struggled with her boss. “We project a lot of ideals onto our bosses and when they don’t live up to that ideal, we feel disappointed and start to hold them accountable to how we feel.�

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The book has been years in the making for Dewar, who has a PhD in adult learning from the University of Calgary, and currently works as a professionally certified executive and team coach. “We can make choices to make our work life better and that forgiveness is a skill that allows you to do that. It’s a daily choice we make about whether we choose to suffer or not,� she said.

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Kevin Foxx is the headline attraction in an upcoming comedy show coming to The Queen’s in Nanaimo. [SUBMITTED]

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The loss of a childhood friend by suicide has prompted local comedian Peter Hudson to do his part to help those suffering from a mental illness.

Hudson has initiated a series of monthly comedy shows in Nanaimo, beginning in February, with partial proceeds going toward the Canadian Mental Health Association.

The first show, which will feature renowned Canadian comedian Kevin Foxx, called the Foxx Sake Comedy Night, will be held at The Queens Hotel on Feb. 5.

From the smash success of his funny and irreverent radio show, The Kevin Foxx Show, on Toronto radio station CFRB, to nightly shows at comedy clubs and corporate stages, Foxx is widely recognized as one of the funniest comics working in North America today.

Foxx’s comedy pursuits have been featured on numerous television programs, including a pilot for Showtime written by the late great Richard Pryor.

He wrote and starred in his own one-hour comedy special on CTV and

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Foxx has appeared at almost every major comedy festival there is, including the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Chicago Comedy Festival, The Global Comedy Festival and many others.

Live, he has shared the stage with Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Beck, Colin James, Brent Butt, and Dave Chappelle to name a few.

Hudson will be host of the show.

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He has worked with the likes of Jon Lovitz, The Broken Lizard group, Jake The Snake Roberts, Nikki Payne, Platinum Blonde and Bif Naked to name a few.

“Hosting these shows is my way of giving back,” Hudson said.

“It’s a real pleasure to have such a high-profile comedian as Kevin Foxx, one of the top comedians in Canada, to be the show’s headliner.”

The show will also feature local comedians Corey Rasmussen and Malcolm Wright, as well as rapper SirReal.

Tickets for the show are $15 each.

Victoria’s already booming film industry is getting a boost with the opening of a new film studio in the downtown core.

Finerty Film Studios launched on Bridge Street last week, offering a much-needed space for visiting and local film productions.

The roughly 2,400-square-foot facility includes a lounge for casting calls, business centre, a hair, makeup and wardrobe room, theatre screening room to screen dailies or watch the final product, and a visual FX stage with a 14-foot by 12-foot cyclorama green screen with rounded walls that allows people to edit background graphics more completely.

Last year was a record-breaking year for Victoria’s film industry with 24 productions coming to Victoria, which brought in an estimated $18 million to the local economy.

Finerty Studio CEO Dustin Finerty and his wife Kelly, hope to capitalize on the low Canadian dollar and the recent boom in Victoria’s film industry.

“The industry has been picking up quite a bit and we’ve both been wanting to get back into it,” said Finerty, who graduated from what used to be the Victoria Motion Picture School. His

wife Kelly did theatre productions when she was in Kamloops.

They saved up enough money to buy a house, but were unable to find the perfect place, so the couple decided to invest their money in their true passion.

After three months of renovations and roughly $50,000, the duo opened the space at 2616 Bridge St. According to Finerty, the space will benefit both producers locally and from abroad.

“Local producers or people who don’t have a lot of money can get in and still do some visual effects, they can still have a space to do casting and have meetings,” he said.

“At the same time, we want to facilitate the larger productions because they’re important and the money they bring in trickles down to everybody as well.”

Kathleen Gilbert, film commissioner with the Vancouver Island South Film and Media Commission, said the facility doesn’t take the place of a much-needed warehouse-sized film studio, but is a step in the right direction.

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B.C. man up for visual effects Oscar A Pitt Meadows man has received his second Oscar nomination in the visual effects category.

Cameron Waldbauer, 41, is on a team of four visual effects artists on the bill for The Revenant.

This is his second nomination in as many years. He was previously nominated for work on X-Men: Days of Future Past last year.

Waldbauer, who works at Objects Inc. in Coquitlam, was involved in the production of this latest Leonardo DiCaprio movie, which is up for a number of other awards, including film of the year.

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It’s not very often Victoria plays host to a Hollywood production company, but when the supernatural horror film, The Boy opens in theatres this month, parts of downtown and Craigdarroch Castle will be thrust onto the big screen.

Produced by Lakeshore Entertainment, the film tells the story of an American nanny named Greta (played

by Lauren Cohan) who takes a job caring for an eight-year-old boy in a remote English village. Much to her surprise, the boy is a life-sized doll that’s cared for as if it was human. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing events leads Greta to believe the doll is really alive.

For Kathleen Gilbert of the Vancouver Island South Film and Media Commission, the film will be particularly exciting since much of it was filmed at Craigdarroch Castle, parts of downtown and a warehouse in Esquimalt.

The whole production generated an estimated $10 million into the local economy.

“That one was really significant in terms of the economy,” said Gilbert, noting Victoria tends to mainly attract television movies.

“Because we don’t have a studio and most feature films want to do studio work, it’s difficult for us to attract a full on Hollywood feature so that was an exception that we were very lucky to land.”

The feature film caps off a record-breaking year for films shot in Victoria. A total of 25 film productions were shot in 2015 — 20 of which Gilbert describes as “fairly large” — pumping more than $18 million into the local economy.

According to Gilbert, some of the biggest projects were The Boy, The Gourmet Detective series and Just in Time for Christmas, starring Eloise Mumford, Michael Stahl-David, Christopher Lloyd and William Shatner. But this is hardly the first time the film industry has taken an interest in what Victoria has to offer.

Prior to last year, 2005 was the city’s

biggest year with 12 productions. Gilbert believes if the city had a studio, it could land more big productions, in turn pumping millions of dollars into the local economy.

As for what draws film producers to Victoria, Gilbert said Craigdarroch and Hatley castles seem to generate a lot of interest, along with Bastion Square, Victoria’s historic downtown and the lighthouse. The commission also receives a lot of requests for small seaside towns and character houses/neighbourhoods.

But the biggest draw is the 45 per cent tax incentives, along with a low Canadian dollar.

“It used to be location driven, but now they say where in the world are the best tax incentives?” said Gilbert, noting the Hallmark Channel and Lifetime are the two biggest customers in terms of television networks.

One of the most exciting projects to land during her five-year career was the Gracepoint television series in January 2014. Produced by Shine America for Fox, the 10-episode series featured several locations from Oak Bay to Sidney during a shoot that lasted more than three months.

It was the largest production yet to grace Greater Victoria and featured a cast with Anna Gunn, Nick Nolte, Jackie Weaver, Michael Pena and Kevin Zegers.

“It took months to land that and a lot of work. We had to do so much research on not just locations, but we had to do it on weather and convince them that our city was film-friendly,” said Gilbert, noting some crew members from various productions have moved to Victoria after filming.

“A lot of producers usually bring family up for a visit on a little mini vacation. I’ve had at least two ask me after a day of scouting if they could look at houses.”

So far 2016 is off to a bit of a slow start, but Gilbert expects it will turn into another busy year.

The film commission is still working to confirm six productions. Two low budget features and four television movies should be completed by the end of April or May.

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anada’s Milos Raonic has made significant changes to his game since the last time he played Andy Murray. It should add an interesting wrinkle to his Australian Open semifinal against the second-seeded Scot.

Raonic reached the final four in Melbourne for the first time Wednesday with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Gael Monfils of France. The 25-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., who made his only other Grand Slam semifinal appearance at Wimbledon in 2014, will take a nine-game winning streak into Friday’s matchup with Murray, who beat Spain’s David Ferrer 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3.

The Canadian already has one of the most impressive power games on the men’s tour. He has made improvements to his volley game of late and it paid off with a title victory at the recent Brisbane International.

Murray, meanwhile, has one of the best return games in the sport and has risen to No. 2 in the world rankings, 12 positions higher than Raonic. They are 4-4 in career head-to-head matches, with Murray winning their last two meetings — in 2015 at Madrid and late 2014 in London.

“As much as I look back on it, even before I went on court today I was paying attention to what he was doing,” Raonic said. “Because far from where we were 14 months ago,

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Milos Raonic celebrates after defeating Gael Monfils in their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday. [AP PHOTO]

we’re both very different and I think improved players from then.

“So I have certain aspects that I would like to manipulate and use my game in, and I’m sure he’s going to try to do a lot of different things too.

I think it’s going to be a race to who can get in the comfort zone of themselves first.”

Raonic is the second Canadian singles player to reach the Australian Open semifinals. The other is

Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., who did it in 2014.

He’s also just the second Canadian to reach a Grand Slam men’s singles semifinal after Robert Powell did it in 1908 at Wimbledon.

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walkover win over the other as well.

“I have a great challenge ahead of me, but I believe I can find a solution,” Raonic said. “I’ll put in a great effort, I can’t wait to make the most of this opportunity.”

With the victory over Monfils, Raonic equalled his personal-best winning streak of nine matches from 2012.

“I was creating a bunch of chances for myself,” Raonic said.

“I made good use of a few of them — I then continued to make the most of those little leads.”

Raonic, who showed little emotion until the final point, completed the victory in just over two hours. Monfils, who had a 14-10 edge in aces, is now 2-2 lifetime against Raonic, with the other loss coming via walkover.

The Canadian took 35 minutes to win the opening set and he suffered his only break of serve in the second set as Monfils pulled even. Raonic

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powered back to take the next two sets for the win.

He said he has worked hard to make strides in several areas of his game.

“I think I know better how to use my ground strokes,” Raonic said.

“But at the same time, because I’m getting to the ball in better position, it’s easier. I don’t feel like I’m getting hustled around the court that much.

I feel like I can find my way back.

“I don’t have to go for big shots on the run. I can sort of neutralize a little bit better.

He also has big plans for 2016 with new coach Carlos Moya.

“There are six monumental moments for this year that I really want to put a lot of the attention to: the four Slams, the Olympics, and Toronto is a big one for me.

“It’s about really making sure that even those weeks, those tournaments, that I’m improving each day.”

Wednesday’s match was played with the roof of the Rod Laver Arena closed after rainstorms passed through Melbourne in the late afternoon. That suited Raonic, who grew up playing the game indoors.

“This was ideal for me,” he said.

“I’m used to this and I thought I played great tennis.

“Playing indoors also gave me some peace of mind.”

Top-seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia and No. 3 Roger Federer of Switzerland will play the other semifinal on Thursday. The final is scheduled for Sunday.

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Daniels, Van Osch rink undefeated at nationals Playing third for the New Westminster-based Sarah Daniels rink, Nanaimo’s Marika Van Osch is a step closer to her first national junior curling championship.

After getting to the final in 2014, Van Osch and the Daniels rink are undefeated through the group stage of the event — the only team to do so.

The Daniels rink now heads into the championship pool. The fourgame partial round robin will run from today through Friday, with their earlier records carried forward.

The first-place teams from the championship rounds will advance directly to Sunday’s gold-medal games, while the second- and thirdplace teams will meet in the semifinals on Saturday.

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Bouchard to skip Fed Cup tie against Belarus The Canadian team won’t have its top player in the lineup for next week’s Fed Cup World Group II firstround tie against Belarus.

Eugenie Bouchard will not be available as she has decided to work on improving her game after missing the last few months of the 2015 season due to a concussion.

“I am disappointed to not play Fed Cup next week in Quebec City,” Bouchard said Wednesday on Twitter.

“Because of my shortened off-season due to my injury, I am still working on getting back into top form and preparing for the rest of the year and to represent my country in the Olympics this summer.

“I always look forward to playing in front of my Canadian fans and wish my teammates the best of luck.”

Bouchard, who reached the Wimbledon final in 2014 and reached a career-high No. 5 in the world rankings later that year, suffered a head injury last September after falling in the locker-room at the U.S. Open.

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Cherry sees bleak future for Canadian playoffs Canada’s seven NHL teams sit outside of the playoffs heading into the all-star break, and Don Cherry doesn’t envision the picture getting much rosier come April.

The famed hockey pundit predicts the Vancouver Canucks will get into the post-season in the Western Conference, while adding that the Montreal Canadiens could sneak in as one of the East’s top eight clubs.

“I think Vancouver will make it and the Canadiens will be knocking on the door,” Cherry said Wednesday.

“At one time we had six (Canadian teams) in. I’d love to see six in, but I don’t think it will happen.”

The Canucks currently sit two points out of the playoffs, while the Winnipeg Jets and Calgary Flames entered Wednesday’s night action eight points out. The Edmonton Oilers are 10 points back.

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’I’m an African-American QB that scares people’: Panthers quarterback STEVE REED THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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anthers quarterback Cam Newton suggested for the first time Wednesday that race may play a factor in why he’s become a lightning rod for public criticism.

“I’m an African-American quarterback that scares people because they haven’t seen nothing that they can compare me to,” said the 6-foot-5, 245-pound Newton.

The No. 1 pick in the 2011 NFL draft out of Auburn, Newton has his share of detractors who either don’t like how he plays, his celebrations or his abundance of self-confidence.

Newton, a leading league MVP candidate putting up record-breaking numbers, said he learned a long time ago that he can’t please everyone.

“People are going to judge, and have opinions on things I don’t have control over,” Newton said.

The stout and speedy Newton is beating teams with his arm and his legs, throwing for 35 touchdowns and running for 10 this season. He has helped lead the Panthers (17-1) to their first Super Bowl since 2003.

Carolina plays the AFC champion Denver Broncos on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara, California.

Newton acknowledged being leery of talking about how others may perceive him.

“I think it’s a trick question,” Newton said. “If I answer it truthfully it’s going to be ’Aw, he’s this or that.’ But I will say it anyway.

“I don’t think people have seen what I am or what I’m trying to do.”

Newton said he hasn’t changed, and has previously responded to his critics.

“I said that prior to me being in this situation,” Newton said of being misunderstood. “But when I said it then it was like, ’Oh he is immature,’ or, ’Oh he’s young and this that and

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton jokes with teammates during practice in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday. [AP PHOTO]

the third.’ I felt a certain type of way then and I feel a certain type of way now — nothing has pretty much changed. They talk about maturity.

They talk about skillset. ... The only thing that has changed (about me) is that we’re winning now.”

Panthers coach Ron Rivera doesn’t believe Newton should have to fight perceptions about race.

“I think he has always strived to have that separation,” Rivera said. “I don’t think he wants to be known as an African-American quarterback; he wants to be known as a quarterback.

I think that is what drives him, to be able to transcend those boundaries, which I think is great.”

Rivera, who is Hispanic, said he has

battled that notion to some degree himself.

“It really should be about your merits more than anything else,” the coach said. “More about what you have accomplished, what you have done.”

Rivera said some people may simply not like Newton because of his personality.

The All-Pro quarterback plays the game with open enthusiasm, pointing his arms forward after running for a first down, doing the “dab” in the end zone and pretending to rip open his shirt like Superman. He gets his teammates to pose for pictures on the sideline near the end of games when the outcome is no

longer in doubt. None of that bothers Rivera, who said Newton needs to remain true to himself.

“I think some people believe you should be stoic when you play this game,” Rivera said. “But a lot of people disagree and think you should have fun. This is a kid’s game. I know there is a lot of money involved, but at the end of the day it’s about entertainment. If you aren’t enjoying yourself, don’t play the game —it’s that simple.”

Newton’s teammates have their own theories about the anti-Newton uproar.

Panthers cornerback Charles Tillman said it may be because Newton wins in an “unconventional way,” unlike a traditional NFL quarterback, and fans aren’t used to that on Sundays.

“Some people can’t accept that,” Tillman said. “He is setting a precedent as far as for how quarterbacks are now — and how they may become. He’s in a league of his own.

He has created his own category for winning.”

Tillman likens Newton, in some respects, to Tim Tebow.

“People would say, ’Oh Tebow is not a good quarterback,’ but the guy won games and took his team to the playoffs,” Tillman said. “All Tim Tebow did was say that he loved Jesus and he prayed all of the time — and people hated him for that.”

Carolina defensive tackle Dwan Edwards senses the hatred of Newton stems from the QB’s popularity.

“In sports, people want to root against people, whether it’s LeBron (James), Kobe (Bryant) or (Michael) Jordan,” Edwards said. “There are a lot of people who don’t care for them and no matter what they do, it’s ‘Oh that’s the wrong way. That’s not what we’re used to.’

“It’s tough, because people are going to hate you regardless.”

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Raptors poised to break franchise record for consecutive wins LORI EWING THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan was 12 years old the last time the Toronto Raptors roared to a nine-game winning streak, setting a franchise record that stood for 14 years.

The Raptors had lost 13 consecutive games, and star Vince Carter was out with patellar tendinitis. But backed by inspired efforts by Antonio Davis and Keon Clark, they turned it around, winning 12 of 14 down the stretch to claim a playoff spot on the final day of the 2001-02 regular season.

The Raptors are poised to do one better Thursday night. A victory over the New York Knicks would stretch their win streak to a 10.

While streaks and all well and good for fans, coach Dwane Casey said

his team isn’t pausing to celebrate the numbers adding up in the win column.

“We can’t dwell on that, we’ve got to go game for game, quarter for quarter, possession by possession,” Casey said after Wednesday’s practice at the Air Canada Centre. “To get caught up in those wins, you get caught up in the wrong things, and for me as a coach and for our team, it’s good but it’s not the end goal.”

The Raptors could be without allstar point guard Kyle Lowry, who sat out practice with a sore left wrist suffered in the team’s 106-89 victory over Washington the previous night.

The Raptors are just two games behind Cleveland for first place in the Eastern Conference. Their 30-15 record is identical to where they were at this point last season, and it

meant little come playoff time when they were swept in humiliating fashion in the first round by Washington.

Casey has heard the criticisms this season.

“You hear all this, ’Well let’s see what they do in the playoffs,”’ he said.

But with key off-season additions Cory Joseph, Luis Scola, and DeMarre Carroll — who is on the mend from knee surgery, and has yet to show how good he can be at full health — the mood around the team is it’s far better suited for the intensity of playoff basketball.

“Gritty. I think we’re grittier,” Casey said. “Last year we did it all with offence, this year we don’t mind getting gritty, grinding, getting into people, I think that’s a huge difference. We have the ability and the

personnel to play defence, when we have to and I think that’s the biggest difference.”

How many games were won last season on the back of Lou Williams’ long jumpers? Williams was a defensive liability whose play dropped off significantly in the post-season.

The Raptors’ starting centre Jonas Valanciunas said this year’s Raptors are a close-knit bunch.

“Everybody’s happy, everybody’s supporting each other, pulling for each other, so it’s fun to play like that,” he said. “And we’re having fun playing defence the same as we’re having fun to play offence. I think that’s the key.”

Seattle SuperSonics legend Jack Sikma was back in Toronto on Wednesday, working with Valanciunas on his face-up game.

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LeBron calls ‘coach-killer’ criticism unfair TOM WITHERS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — LeBron James disdains the notion he’s a coach killer.

Widely criticized in basketball circles for a perception that he pushed for Cleveland’s front office to fire David Blatt last week, James said the criticism that he undercuts coaches is unfair.

“But what can I do about it?” he said following shootaround on Wednesday as the Cavs prepared to play the Phoenix Suns.

“I’ve never, in my time since I picked up a basketball, ever undermined a coach, ever disrespected a coach,” he said. “You ask any of my little league coaches, my high school coaches, coaches I’ve played for in tournaments, camps, my NBA coaches, I’ve always respected what they wanted to do.”

Blatt was fired Friday midway through his second season despite having them atop the Eastern Conference standings and leading the team to the NBA Finals last season.

Blatt’s dismissal — he’s the third coach fired on a team James has played on — led to some condemnation of the four-time league MVP. On Tuesday, a limited partner with the Heat said during an interview on Israeli radio that James tried to get Erik Spoelstra fired in Miami.

Ranaan Katz later retracted his statement to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Blatt was replaced by Tyronn Lue, his top assistant and a former NBA player who has known James since he was a 17-year-old high school phenom.

For many, Lue’s ascension was the result of James not wanting Blatt around. There was an obvious disconnect between James and Cleveland’s former coach, who was wildly successful in Europe and hired by Cleveland before James decided to return to the Cavaliers as a free agent in 2014.

The James-Blatt relationship was scrutinized during both seasons and when it finally collapsed, the LeBrongot-him-fired narrative gained traction. Although James insists that he didn’t do anything to weaken Blatt’s authority, there were several incidents over the past 18 months that illustrate how he didn’t do his former coach any favours. James usually referred to Blatt simply as “Blatt” and often ignored Blatt during games, preferring to discuss strategy with Lue during timeouts. James also famously changed a play designed by Blatt during the playoffs last season before hitting a game-winning jumper to beat Chicago.

At his hometown PGA event, champion golfer once won the U.S. Open there DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN DIEGO — The best thing about Phil Mickelson playing at Torrey Pines is that it’s his hometown event on the PGA Tour, and he is treated accordingly.

These days, that might be the only thing that appeals to him.

Yes, Mickelson is a three-time winner of what is now called the Farmers Insurance Open. But the last of those three victories was 15 years ago, before Rees Jones got his hands on the South Course at Torrey Pines to bulk it up for the U.S. Open.

Mickelson has had only one close call since then. That was in 2012, when he needed to hole out with a wedge from 72 yards for eagle on the par-5 18th hole to force a playoff. He had his caddie tend the pin. He just missed.

If his recent history on the South Course isn’t bad enough, Mickelson lost out on his bid to redesign the North Course last fall.

Mickelson was so excited about the design last year during the tournament that he eagerly showed his plans during the pro-am. He wanted to bring the esthetics of the canyon into play and make the course more enjoyable for amateurs and a strong test for the pros.

But he fell victim to a quirky decision by the California Fair Political Practices, which said that anyone who worked on preliminary designs could not take part in the design or the construction based on the bid for the contract.

“It’s certainly disappointing for me, but I understand the politics of it all,” he said Wednesday.

“Actually, I don’t understand the politics of it all. It makes no sense. I think it’s terrible business practices, but it’s what we live with here. I’m not bitter about it.

“I just kind of learned to accept that as being one of the sacrifices of living in California.”

Ultimately, the project went to Tom Weiskopf, who is at Torrey Pines this week. Work on the North Course, used for the opening two rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open, will start next week. Weiskopf said he hasn’t talked to Mickelson.

“I was quite surprised that Phil wasn’t chosen, to tell you the truth,” he said. “It made all the sense in the world.”

So now Mickelson is left to play a tournament on one course that has been changed to his dislike, and another course where he had great plans that fizzled in politics.

But it’s still Torrey Pines. It’s still home.

“I’m always excited to be back at Torrey Pines,” he said. “I love the place here, and it’s a special place to me, and I’m excited to compete again.”

This figures to be an early barometer of his 25th year on the PGA

Phil Mickelson grimaces as he watches his tee shot on the 10th hole of the north course at the Torrey Pines Golf Course during the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament, in San Diego, in 2013. [AP PHOTO]

“Actually, I don’t understand the politics of it all. It makes no sense.“ Phil Mickelson

Tour. Mickelson hasn’t won since the 2013 British Open at Muirfield, and he didn’t contend in any tournament since the St. Jude Classic last June.

But after taking nearly four months off and working with a new swing coach, he began 2016 with a bogey-free weekend and a tie for third in the CareerBuilder Challenge.

Whatever happens at Torrey Pines certainly won’t indicate what kind of year he can expect. Even so, this is

an important step given the nature of the courses. The rough on the North Course is thick enough that players couldn’t see their golf balls from a few paces away in some spots.

And the South Course, already a brute, also has ample rough.

“It’s an ideal tournament for me to start driving the ball well because it’s such a demanding ball-striking golf course that it feels great to be able to go there and really put it to the test,” Mickelson said.

The field is plenty strong even with world No. 1 Jordan Spieth playing in the Singapore Open and Rory McIlroy still three weeks away from making his U.S. debut this year. The defending champion is Jason Day, though his week was put in doubt when the PGA champion withdrew from the pro-am with the flu.

Rickie Fowler, who grew up an hour away, travelled the longest to get to Torrey Pines.

He won the Abu Dhabi Championship on Sunday for his fourth victory worldwide in the last eight months, then arrived in San Diego on Monday morning in time to host a junior clinic. Fowler started the year with a fifth-place finish at Kapalua and the victory in Abu Dhabi.

“After having two nice weeks to start the year . . . put me in a mindset of I’m able to be a little bit more aggressive and play a little bit more offensively, instead of trying to just get things going at the beginning of the season,” he said.

“Right now, I’m looking forward to each week and getting back in the hunt and ultimately, to continue to do what I did last week.”

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ATHENS, Greece — IOC President Thomas Bach predicted on Wednesday that the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will “overwhelm� the world, despite Brazil’s deep financial crisis.

Bach, visiting Athens for a sporting awards ceremony, described Brazil as being in a “situation of crisis,� but said the country was on course to stage “an Olympic Games with a great joy of life and a great passion for sport.�

Since being awarded the games in 2009, Brazil has suffered a serious financial downturn and is currently grappling with an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus that has caused international health concerns.

Bach did not refer to either crisis specifically. “It is, as you know, six months before the Olympic Games and it is the most difficult time to prepare for games . . . There is one or the other minor thing to do, and of course it is the same for other countries, and it is the same for the Brazilians,� Bach said.

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VANCOUVER — Matthew Tkachuk is well aware Don Cherry could never pronounce his father’s name, but he’s hoping the famed hockey broadcaster will give it another try.

The son of former NHLer Keith Tkachuk is among 40 draft-eligible players taking part in Thursday’s BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game at the Pacific Coliseum in front of dozens of scouts and executives.

Roberto Luongo, Jaromir Jagr, Dustin Byfuglien and Kevin Bieksa are some of the names

Cherry has butchered time and again on his weekly Coach’s Corner segment over the years, but Tkachuk (pronounced kuh-CHUCK) proved especially difficult. “Hopefully I have a good enough game that (Cherry) can pronounce my name by the end of it,� joked Matthew Tkachuk, who will captain Bobby Orr’s team against Cherry’s squad in the showcase game.

Apart from a few light moments, it’s pretty much all business for a group of players who know they’re under a microscope this week in Vancouver.

“It’s one of the highest-scouted games that you’ll play in your life and you want to make the most of it,� said Tkachuk, a winger with the OHL’s London Knights. “There’s a lot of great players here and you’re playing against your peers.�

Ranked as the No. 1 North American skater by NHL Central Scouting at the season’s midway point, the 18-year-old from St. Louis said he was greatly influenced by seeing his dad play in person towards the tail end of his career. “Just going to the rink as much as I could, seeing the pro atmosphere, the pro midset

was something that really stood out to me,� said Tkachuk, who played for the U.S. at the world junior hockey championship. “How they took their daily routine seriously and how they ate well and how much they trained was huge.�

Sarnia Sting defenceman Jakob Chychrun, who will captain Team Cherry and is the No. 2 North American skater, said it will be important for him to stay in rhythm, despite all the attention. “You don’t change any of your routines, you don’t change any of your rituals,� said the 17-yearold from Boca Raton, Fla.

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6HFRQG 3HULRG 2. Nashville, Weber 12 (Josi, Johansen) 17:37 (pp).

3HQDOWLHV — Cgy Bench (too many men) 6:58; Backlund Cgy (interference) 13:33; Hamilton Cgy (interference) 15:58; Monahan Cgy (high-sticking) 19:05.

Third Period 3. Calgary, Giordano 11 (Gaudreau, Brodie) 5:48.

Penalty —Johansen Nash (slash) 18:30.

6KRWV RQ JRDO Nashville 11 6 7 —24 Calgary 4 7 15 —26 Goal — Nashville: Hutton (W, 5-2-1); Cal: Ramo (L, 16-17-1). 3RZHU SOD\V (goalchances) — Nash: 1-4; Calgary: 0-4. $WWHQGDQFH — 19,289 at Calgary.

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2YHUWLPH 7. Philadelphia, Voracek 8, :38.

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6HFRQG 3HULRG 3. San Jose, Pavelski 25 (Thornton, Marleau) 15:28 (pp).

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6. Colorado, MacKinnon 17 (Tanguay, Johnson) 11:35 (pp).

7. San Jose, Demelo 1 (Hertl) 19:03 (pp).

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3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hutton Vcr (hooking) 1:26; Ekholm Nash (holding) 18:11.

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TAMPA, Fla. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Andrei Vasilevskiy made 30 saves, Steven Stamkos scored his 21st goal and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 1-0 on Wednesday night.

Tampa Bay entered the All-Star break by winning eight of its last nine games.

Jonathan Bernier stopped 28 shots for the Maple Leafs, who have lost nine of 10 (1-7-2). Toronto has been

outscored 31-11 during that stretch.

Stamkos put the Lightning up 1-0 at 4:38 of the first with a shot from the left circle during a power play. The Tampa Bay captain can become a free agent July 1 and there has been ongoing speculation about the possibility of the Toronto area native joining the Maple Leafs next season. Bernier kept the Maple Leafs close with several nice saves, including one on Alex Killornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power-play breakaway, as Toronto was outshot

13-0 during the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first 12 1/2 minutes, and 17-6 in the first period Toronto had the final five shots of the first, and Byron Froese hit the crossbar in the final minute.

Vasilevskiy turned aside a breakaway shot by Michael Grabner early in the second. Toronto had seven of the first nine shots during the opening eight minutes of the second.

After Morgan Rielly had a shot go off the crossbar two minutes into the third, Dion Phaneufâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in-close power-

play shot four minutes later was stopped by Vasilevskiy.

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NOTES: Toronto is 0-7-6 in Atlantic Division games this season. . . .

Stamkos stopped a five-game goal drought. . . . Stamkos has 16 goals and 32 points in 27 games against Toronto.

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by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might decide that the ball is not in your court, and you’ll be right. However, those who control the ball favor you. As a result, compliments and acknowledgement in some form, such as a pay raise or promotion, become real possibilities.

Tonight: With a special person.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You’ve been on cruise control for several days. Others have been impressed by your successes. Don’t be surprised by a request that heads in your direction. Clearly, you are very good at what you do and know how to speak to others. Tonight: Take some time off.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Your endurance will bring you many accolades. Accept all compliments with grace. Tap into your resourcefulness or romantic nature in order to help a loved one feel more. Don’t judge what you don’t know or have not experienced. Tonight: Enjoy the good life.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You will try to reach out to someone over and over, and might not succeed in reaching him or her. Knowing when to let go is instrumental to your success. Decide to indulge yourself for a day. Spend time at home or pursuing a hobby. Tonight: Share news with a dear friend.

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person, and it will make all the difference in how he or she feels.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Slow down some. You are likely to discover how many people around you have wanted to spend time with you to share some special news.

The tone of the day is far different from what you had anticipated.

Know that you don’t need to be in control. Tonight: Let the fun begin!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You could be in a very good mood, perhaps even more so than you thought possible. A family member won’t hesitate to treat you as you would like and think you deserve to be treated. What could be a simple gracious act will come back to you in multiples. Tonight: In the limelight.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Your body language indicates that you are sincere. Remember this, and you’ll get the reaction you want.

Others are likely to respond more positively than you could have imagined. Authenticity can’t be replaced, nor can it be disguised.

Tonight: At a favorite haunt.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your penchant for the good life can’t be restrained for long. You often suppress your feelings and go overboard with spending, whether there is a risk involved or not. Recognize the potential damage of this behavior. At least keep the tags and receipts. Tonight: Be calm.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You might be so gracious, soft-spoken and delightful right now that others won’t be able to stay away from

you. Use the moment to move forward with a heartfelt project. If you have been wanting to ask for a raise, the time to do so is now.

Tonight: Out on the town.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You might not be revealing the whole story about a loved one or a potential sweetie. You can’t get powerful feedback if you don’t tell the truth and reveal all the facts. Tell it like it is. The advice you receive will be very dynamic and effective. Tonight: Try out a new spot.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) An encounter with a new acquaintance could affect you more than you might realize. This person could become even more than friends, as long as you are available. The trust that builds between you is likely to happen quickly. Tonight: Out to dinner with a loved one.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Jan. 28) This year you open up to many new ideas that seem unconventional, even to you. Travel or the acquaintance of a foreigner will introduce you to even more cultural differences. You will become more tolerant and less judgmental. If you are single, you could pine for someone yet never let him or her know how you feel. Take a risk, and tell this person. If the feeling is mutual, the two of you could have a blast.

If you are attached, you and your sweetie flourish when left alone to your own devices. The more you get away from the here-and-now, the stronger this bond will become.

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Alan McPhee Auto Insider

E

arly spring sunshine, a winding country road, your significant other in the passenger seat and the wind in your hair: it’s the recipe for a perfect day to end the winter blahs.

But of course, to complete the picture, you need one more thing — the 2016 Mazda MX-5 with the top down.

There simply is nothing else on four wheels that can uplift the spirit like this two-seat roadster.

And it’s been doing it since 1989!

Known as the Miata back then, it filled a vacuum left when the British car industry self-destructed in the early ’70’s. Up to that point, the sports car niche was filled by MGs, Austin-Healeys, Morgans and Triumphs that provided ‘windin-the-face ‘driving, along with bone-jarring suspensions, flimsy side curtains and erector set soft tops. I know: been there, done that. It has always amazed me that no other car company has challenged Mazda’s monopoly in this segment. Well, a few tried. The Honda S 2000 and the Mitsubishi Eclipse hung around for a few years and we know what happened to the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice. It just seems that nobody else has been able to duplicate Mazda’s magic formula.

Now, close to 1 million sales later, the fourth generation MX-5 (no longer officially a Miata) has arrived on the scene with a new look and the complete Mazda SkyActiv treatment.

The new body is slightly shorter and about 100 kg/220 pounds lighter than the previous model thanks to greater use of lightweight aluminum for body panels and structural components.

The styling is a complete change from the previous model. It is more organic with hood, fenders and bodysides all merging together in flowing surfaces to cheat the wind.

Slender pods contain the auto-levelling LED headlights and fog lights, while strings of LED running lights are angled below, flanking the bold, blacked out air intake with

Close to 1 million sales later, the fourth generation MX-5 has arrived on the scene. [ALAN MCPHEE PHOTOS FOR THE DAILY NEWS]

The soft top folds back easily and snaps shut under a hard cover.

three-bar grille. The black frame for the steeply raked windshield and the stylish, eight-spoke, 17-inch gunmetal aluminum rims underline the car’s sporty personality. Everything is understated. What hasn’t changed is the basic raison d’etre of the original Miata, namely to provide a thrilling ride that lifts the spirit and rewards the driver with a sense of complete and effortless control.

The MX-5 is offered in GX (starting at $31,900), GS and GT models. Our tester was the GT finished in Ceramic Metallic with Black Leather interior.

The standard engine is Mazda’s SkyActiv 2.0-litre, DOHC, four-cylinder rated at 155 horsepower and 148 lb-ft. of torque, driving the rear wheels through the SkyActiv, six-

speed Sport Automatic with manual paddle shifters and Drive Selection switch (a six-speed manual is also available). The models with the sixspeed manual also come with a firmer sport suspension and standard Bilstein shocks. Shedding 220 pounds has made this one of the quickest Mazdas ever, posting a 0-100 km/h time of just 6.1 seconds. But performance isn’t just about speed. It has more to do with the lightness and responsiveness of the controls. With its near 50-50 front to rear weight distribution and variable, power assisted rack-and-pinion steering, the MX-5 moves with the agility of a Jack Russell terrier chasing a rabbit.

And it never puts a foot wrong. The

paddle shifters provided quick shifts and were particularly effective on downshifts when you want to help the brakes with some engine compression braking. A simple switch lets you toggle between Normal and Sport modes. In the latter, shifts occur at higher rpm and accelerator tip-in is more immediate. Standard dynamic assists include Dynamic Stability Control, Traction Control and Hill Launch Assist while safety features include Blind Spot Monitoring and Lane Departure Warning.

The cockpit is, well, snug. Getting behind the wheel is like putting on a well-tailored suit. All the gauges, controls and secondary switchgear are close at hand. The heated, Recaro-type bucket seats, upholstered in soft black leather with sporty red double-stitching offer manual adjustments while the tilt leather-wrapped steering wheel has the usual fingertip controls for audio, cruise and Bluetooth connectivity.

The soft top is a jewel. With one hand you can connect and disconnect it using one lever. It folds back easily and snaps shut under a hard cover. And Mazda has eliminated the unpleasant wind-buffeting affect usually associated with roadsters.

The standard mesh Windblocker behind the seats not only prevents buffeting, it also reduces wind noise

so you can carry on a conversation with the top down and get the most from the nine-speaker, Bose sound system that includes AM/FM/CD/MP3 and six months free XM Sirius satellite radio. A seven-inch touch screen atop the centre dash is the hub for your voice-activated Nav system, and Mazda Connect interface.

This is my last Auto Insider report.

After nine years and more than 450 reviews, the journey has come to an end. It has been a pleasure working with the team at the Nanaimo Daily News and the dealers in this community. To them and all the friends of this column, I wish you all the best in the coming years.

Bottom line MAZDA MX-5 GT Type: RWD, 2-seat roadster Engine: SkyActiv, 2.0-litre DOHC, I4 Horsepower: 155 @ 6000 rpm Torque: 148 ft-lb. @ 4600 rpm Fuel economy: 8.90/6.50, city/highway, L/100 km Base price: $39,200 Price as tested: $42,168 Vehicle provided by Harris Mazda

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Toyota stays No. 1 automaker, sells 10.151M vehicles in 2015 Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it sold 10.151 million vehicles in 2015, retaining its status as the world’s top-selling automaker for the fourth straight year.

The sales figure compared with 2015 sales of 9.93 million vehicles for Volkswagen AG and 9.8 million for General Motors.

Toyota, which makes the Prius hybrid, Camry sedan and Lexus luxury models, has forecast sales at 10.114 million vehicles in 2016. Its actual sales in 2015 beat its forecast for sales of 10.098 million vehicles.

Volkswagen AG, which overtook Toyota in

sales in the first half of the year, suffered in the second half from an emissions cheating scandal involving diesel cars.

Auto sales in major markets such as the U.S. and Japan have slowed, while emerging markets that had sustained growth in recent years, such as Thailand and Indonesia, have weakened.

In 2014, Toyota sold 10.23 million vehicles, Volkswagen sold 10.14 million vehicles, and General Motors was third at 9.92 million vehicles.

Detroit-based GM, which makes Cadillacs, Chevrolets, Buicks and Opels, was the top-selling automaker for more than seven decades until being surpassed by Toyota in 2008.

— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Ford blames market conditions, pulls out of Japan, Indonesia Ford Motor Co. is pulling out of Japan and Indonesia, saying that market conditions in each country have made it difficult to grow sales or make sustained profits.

“Japan is the most closed, developed auto economy in the world, with all imported brands accounting for less than 6% of Japan’s annual new car market,” spokesman Neal McCarthy wrote in an email message. The 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement in its current form will not improve Ford’s ability to complete there, he said. Congress could vote on the pact this year.

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Neither market is large for the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker. Last year Ford sold only 6,100 cars and trucks in Indonesia and only 5,000 in Japan, where it has accused the government of protecting domestic brands.

The company in an emailed statement said that the decision was communicated to employees and dealers on Monday. Ford will exit the countries before the end of the year and plans to explain to customers its commitment to servicing cars, providing parts and making warranty repairs.

In Indonesia, Ford has restructured its business there but still has less than one per cent of the market with “no reasonable path to sustained profitability,” he said.

— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Hyundai profits hit five-year low YOUKYUNG LEE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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the aftermath of its diesel emissions cheating scandal will help ease an impasse over collective bargaining at the German automaker’s lone U.S. plant.

But on a visit to Chattanooga last week, new Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller said he hasn’t yet made up his mind about polit-

ically sensitive labour issues at the factory.

“My agenda of course has been heavily dominated by the diesel issue so far,” Mueller told The Associated Press after a speech to workers on the factory floor.

— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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SEOUL, South Korea — Hyundai Motor Co. reported its lowest annual profit in five years after a failure to fully anticipate strong demand for sports utility vehicles in China led to a sales drop in the world’s largest auto market.

The South Korean company said Tuesday its net profit for 2015 was 6.51 trillion won ($5.4 billion), down 15 per cent from 7.6 trillion won in 2014.

For the final quarter of 2015, its net profit was 1.53 trillion won ($1.27 billion), down eight per cent compared with 1.66 trillion won a year earlier. Profit at Hyundai, South Korea’s largest automaker, has dropped for eight quarters in a row.

Hyundai’s sales in China dropped about 30 per cent in June and July over a year earlier on lower demand for its passenger vehicles and the absence of a new sports utility vehicle model. SUVs have become the fastest growing sales category for new passenger vehicles in China.

Passenger cars accounted for nearly three quarters of Hyundai’s annual vehicle sales last year while SUVs accounted for 21 per cent. Its sales also took a hit as Chinese brands clawed back market share from foreign rivals.

Its monthly sales in China turned positive starting in October after the company released the revamped Tucson sports utility vehicle during the second half of the year. Overall, the company sold 1.06 million vehicles in China in 2015, a five per cent decrease from the previous year.

Explaining the fall in fourth quarter profit, Hyundai’s chief financial officer Lee Won-hee said the company had to increase incentives for car buyers in the U.S. market to sell its Avante model.

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36-month term at 0% APR with monthly payments of $217. $1,000 lease bonus cash has been applied in monthly payments shown. $0 down payment, $270 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation: $7,812. 48,000-kilometre allowance; charge of $0.15/km for excess kilometres. PPSA fee, license, insurance, registration, any dealer or other charges, options and applicable taxes are extra. Dealer may sell or lease for less. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Offers end February 1, 2016 and are subject to change or cancellation without notice. Model shown: 2016 Tiguan 2.0T Highline R-Line, $39,993. Vehicle shown for illustration purposes only and may include optional equipment. Visit vwoffers.ca or your Volkswagen dealer for details. “Volkswagen”, the Volkswagen logo, “Tiguan”, “Highline” and “4MOTION” are registered trademarks of Volkswagen AG. © 2016 Volkswagen Canada.

Wise customers read the fine print: *, ★, 9, †, *, ♦, § The Cold Days Hot Deals Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after January 15, 2016. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,745) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select new 2016 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. ★The Make No Financing Payments for 90 Days offer is available from January 5 – February 1, 2016, and applies to retail customers who finance a new 2015/2016 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram or FIAT vehicle (excludes 2015/2016 Dodge Viper and Alfa Romeo) at a special fixed rate on approved credit up to 96 months through Royal Bank of Canada and TD Auto Finance or up to 90 months through Scotiabank. Monthly/bi-weekly payments will be deferred for 60 days and contracts will be extended accordingly. Interest charges will not accrue during the first 60 days of the contract. After 60 days, interest starts to accrue and the purchaser will repay principal and interest over the term of the contract but not until 90 days after the contract date. Customers will be responsible for any required down payment, license, registration and insurance costs at time of contract. Some conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. 9Up to $2,000 Bonus Cash is available between January 15 and February 1, 2016, on most new 2016 Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and FIAT models excluding the following: 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan CVP, 2016 Journey CVP/SE Plus, 2016 Charger & Challenger SRT Hellcat, 2016 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4x2, 2016 Jeep Compass and Patriot Sport 2-Door CPOS, 2016 Jeep Wrangler Sport 2-Door, 2016 Ram 1500 Regular Cab and FIAT 500 POP. Bonus Cash will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. See your dealer for complete details. †0% purchase financing available on select new 2016 models to qualified customers on approved credit through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Example: 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT with a Purchase Price of $27,790 with a $0 down payment, financed at 0% for 48 months equals 104 bi-weekly payments of $267 with a cost of borrowing of $0 and a total obligation of $27,790. *3.99% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2016 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package/2016 Chrysler 200 LX models through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Examples: 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2016 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package/2016 Chrysler 200 LX with a Purchase Price of $21,998/$20,998/$22,998 (including applicable Consumer Cash Discounts) financed at 3.99% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 416 weekly payments of $62/$59/$65 with a cost of borrowing of $3,706/$3,537/$3,874 and a total obligation of $25,704/$24,535/$26,872. ♦3.49% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Sport through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Example: 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Sport with a Purchase Price of $26,498 financed at 3.49% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 416 weekly payments of $73 with a cost of borrowing of $3,880 and a total obligation of $30,378. §Starting from prices for vehicles shown include Consumer Cash Discounts and do not include upgrades (e.g. paint). Upgrades available for additional cost. ^Based on IHS Automotive: Polk Canadian Vehicles in Operation data as of July 1, 2015 for Crossover Segments as defined by FCA Canada Inc. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of FCA US LLC used under licence by FCA Canada Inc.

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DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler says the worldwide SUV craze is here to stay, and it’s leaning heavily on the Jeep brand to improve its fortunes.

The Italian-American carmaker predicts Jeep sales will nearly double to 2 million worldwide by 2018, fueled by low gas prices and new models.

To keep up, Fiat Chrysler plans to cut production of small cars in the U.S. so it can build more Jeeps.

The world’s seventh-largest carmaker raised its Jeep sales targets Wednesday after releasing disappointing full-year earnings for 2015.

Fiat Chrysler reported 2015 net profit of $409 million, down from 632 million euros a year earlier and lagging analyst expectations.

Fourth-quarter net profit fell 40 per cent to 251 million euros.

Jeep was the bright spot. Fiat Chrysler sold 1.3 million Jeeps worldwide in 2015, up 21 per cent from the previous year.

Without Jeep, Fiat Chrysler’s sales were lacklustre. The company sold 4.6 million vehicles overall, up slightly from 2014.

North American revenue jumped 33 per cent to $76 billion.

Jeep sales rose 25 per cent in the U.S., where Fiat Chrysler says low gas prices are now a “permanent” fixture and more customers are gravitating to SUVs and trucks.

Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said the company wants to find a partner to build small cars like the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 so it can make more Jeeps at its U.S. plants.

Marchionne said Jeep plants in Toledo, Ohio, and Warren, Michigan, are currently running at a pace that is “unsustainable.”

Marchionne didn’t say which U.S. plants could start making more Jeeps.

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Offers available from January 11, 2016 – February 1, 2016. 5 Payments cannot be made on a weekly basis, for advertising purposes only. +Offer is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. (NCESI) and applies to any MY15 Micra/Sentra/Murano and MY16 Versa Note/Rogue/Pathfinder models (each, an “Eligible Model”) leased and registered through Nissan Canada Financial Services Inc., on approved credit, between Jan 11 – Feb 1, 2016 from an authorized Nissan retailer in Canada. Eligible only on leases through NCF with subvented rates. Offer recipient will be entitled to receive a maximum of six (6) service visits (each, a “Service Visit”) for the Eligible Vehicle – where each Service Visit consists of one (1) oil change (using conventional 5W30 motor oil) and one (1) tire rotation service (each, an “Eligible Service”). All Eligible Services will be conducted in strict accordance with the Oil Change and Tire Rotation Plan outline in the Agreement Booklet for the Eligible Vehicle. The service period (“Service Period”) will commence on the purchase or lease transaction date (“Transaction Date”) and will expire on the earlier of: (i) the date on which the maximum number of Service Visits has been reached; (ii) 36 months from the Transaction Date; or (ii) when the Eligible Vehicle has reached 48,000 kilometers. All Eligible Services must be completed during the Service Period, otherwise they will be forfeited. The Offer may be upgraded to use premium oil at the recipient’s expense. The Eligible Services are not designed to meet all requirements and specifications necessary to maintain the Eligible Vehicle. To see the complete list of maintenance necessary, please refer to the Service Maintenance Guide. Any additional services required are not covered by the Offer and are the sole responsibility and cost of the recipient. Offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain offers NCESI reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Additional conditions and limitations apply. Ask your retailer for details. & Representative monthly lease offer based on a new 2016 Rogue S FWD CVT (Y6RG16 AA00)/2016 Rogue SV Special Edition FWD (Y6SG16 AA00)/2016 Pathfinder S 4X2 (5XRG16 AA00).

1.49%/1.49%/2.99% lease APR for a 60/60/60 month term equals monthly payments of $278/$339/$384 with $0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Payments include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $16,708/$20,317/$23,013. *Representative monthly lease offer based on a new 2016 Rogue S FWD CVT (Y6RG16 AA00). 0% lease APR for a 24 month term equals monthly payments of $433 with $0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Payments include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $10,387. ‡$3,250/$5,500/$6,500 NCF standard finance cash (includes bonus cash) available on new 2015 Micra 1.6 SR (S5SG55 AA00/AA10)/(S5SG75 AA00/AA10)/2015 Sentra 1.8 SL (C4LG55 AA00)/2015 Altima 2.5 SL (T4LG15 AAOO)/(T4TG15 NV00)/(T4SG15 NV00) models when financing with NCF at standard rates. VModels shown $37,008/$25,998/$52,708/$18,438 Selling price for a new 2016 Rogue SL AWD Premium (Y6DG16 BK00)/ 2015 Sentra 1.8 SL (C4TG15 AA00)/2016 Pathfinder Platinum (5XEG15 AA00)/2015 Micra 1.6 SR AT (S5SG75 AE10). XPurchase financing price of $9,998 for a 2015 Micra 1.6 S (S5LG55 AA00) is available when financing whith NCF at standard rates. The price includes $1,150 NCF standard finance cash, $650 non-stack cash and $500 bonus cash. Freight and PDE charges, air-conditioning levy ($100) where applicable, manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation (where applicable) are included. License, registration, specific duty on new tires ($15) and insurance are extra. Certain conditions apply. See your dealer or visit Nissan.ca/Loyalty. *X±&VFreight and PDE charges ($1,760/$1,600/$1,760/$1,600) air-conditioning levy ($100) where applicable, applicable fees (all which may vary by region), manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable are included. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Lease offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. ALG is the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation data, www.alg.com. 2016 Rogue recognized as IIHS top safety picks when equipped with Forward Emergency Braking. For more information see www.IIHS.org. ^Ward’s Large Cross Utility Market Segmentation. MY16 Pathfinder vs 2016 and 2015 Large Cross/Utility Class. The Nissan Sentra received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among compact cars in the proprietary J.D. Power 2015 Initial Quality StudySM. Study based on responses from 84,367 new-vehicle owners, measuring 244 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of owners surveyed in February-May 2015. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. ©2016 Nissan Canada Inc. and Nissan Canada Financial Services Inc. a division of Nissan Canada Inc.

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Coumoundouros says people are taken aback by the texture of the dresses, because “it looks like hard leather, but when they touch it, it’s really soft.”

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ON NOW AT YOUR BC GMC DEALERS. BCGMCDEALERS.CA 1-800-GM-DRIVE. GMC is a brand of General Motors of Canada. Offers apply to the lease of a 2016 Terrain SLE-1 AWD (3SA), and purchase or finance of a 2015 Sierra 1500 Double/Crew Cab and Sierra 2500HD. License, insurance, registration, administration fees, dealer fees, PPSA and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offers which may not be combined with other offers, and are subject to change without notice. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in BC GMC Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer order or trade may be required. †† Lease based on a purchase price of $31,010, including $670 Loyalty Cash (tax exclusive) and $500 lease cash for a new eligible 2016 Terrain SLE-1 AWD (3SA). Bi-weekly payment is $182 for 48 months at 0.9% APR, on approved credit to qualified retail customers by GM Financial. Annual kilometre limit of 20,000 km, $0.16 per excess kilometre. $0 down payment and a $0 security deposit is required. Payment may vary depending on down payment or trade. Total obligation is $18,912, plus applicable taxes. Option to purchase at lease end is $12,886. Price and total obligation exclude license, insurance, registration, taxes and optional equipment. Other lease options are available.

Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited-time offer, which may not be combined with other offers. See your dealer for conditions and details. General Motors of Canada Company reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. * Offer valid to eligible retail lessees in Canada who have entered into a lease agreement with GM Financial and accept delivery between January, 5 and February 1, 2016 of a new or demonstrator 2016 model year GMC model excluding GMC Canyon 2SA. General Motors of Canada will pay one month’s lease payment or two biweekly lease payments as defined on the lease agreement (inclusive of taxes). After the first month, lessee will be required to make all remaining scheduled payments over the remaining term of the lease agreement. PPSA/RDPRM is not due. Consumer may be required to pay Dealer Fees. Insurance, licence, and applicable taxes not included. Additional conditions and limitations apply. GM reserves the right to modify or terminate this offer at any time without prior notice. See dealer for details. ^ Offer available to qualified retail customers in Canada for vehicles delivered between January 5 and February 1, 2016. 0% purchase financing offered on approved credit by TD Auto Finance Services, Scotiabank® or RBC Royal Bank for 84 months on select new or demonstrator 2015 GMC Sierra 1500 Double Cab 2WD 1SA / Crew Cab 2WD 1SA and Sierra HD’s 1SA 2WD with gas engine. Participating lenders are subject to change. Rates from other lenders will vary. Down payment, trade and/or security deposit may be required. Monthly payment and cost of borrowing will vary depending on amount borrowed and down payment/trade. Example: $45,000 at 0% APR, the monthly payment is $535.71 for 84 months. Cost of borrowing is $0, total obligation is $45,000. Offer is unconditionally interest-free. Freight, air tax ($100, if applicable) included. License, insurance, registration, PPSA/movable property registry fees, applicable taxes and dealer fees not included. Dealers may sell for less. Limited time offer which may not be combined with certain other offers. GM Canada may modify, extend or terminate offers in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ®Registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia. RBC and Royal Bank are registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. † $12,000 is a combined total credit consisting of $1,000 Loyalty Cash (tax inclusive) and a $11,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for a 2015 Sierra HD gas models (excluding 1SA 4x2), which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $11,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ‡ $10,380 is a combined total credit consisting of a $3,000 manufacturer-to-dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) $5,195 Cash Credit (tax exclusive) available on 2015 GMC Sierra Double Cab 1SA 4WD models, $1,000 Owner Cash (tax inclusive), $750 manufacturer-to-dealer Elevation Package Discount Credit (tax exclusive) for 2015 Sierra 1SA Elevation Edition with 5.3L Engine and a $435 manufacturer-to-dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) on any 2015 GMC Sierra Elevation Double Cab AWD with a 5.3L engine, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $5,630 credit, which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ¥ Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 Sierra or 2016 model year GMC SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between January 5 and February 1, 2016. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on eligible GMC vehicles (except Canyon 2SA, Sierra 1500 and HD); $1,000 credit available on all 2015 and 2016 GMC Sierra models. Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Company to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GM Canada dealer for details. GM Canada reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice.

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LIMITED QUANTITIES

CLEARANCE SALE

CLEARING OUT THE OLD TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW SPRING 2016 ARRIVALS Firm 1320 pocket coil with Cool Action Dual Effects, gel memory foam, and Serta support foam. Reg. $1,398 SAVE

$500

ce i r p t s Lowever!! e

898

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Queen Size Set King Size also on sale Limited Quantities

PLUS DON’T PAY TIL JANUARY SECTIONAL

Available in left or right hand facing chaise. Available in grey, chocolate and red. RReg. $1998

DINETTE SUITE

Reg $2,998

SAVE

$300

LEATHER CHAIR & OTTOMAN BUNK BED In stock in ivory, red, grey, saddle, and chocolate.

Reg. $1998

SAVE

$700

CREDIT

715 Finlayson Street, Victoria 250.388.6663

Sale 598 $

Solid wood Twin over Twin Bunkbed in white, chocolate, and cherry. Mattress not included.

SAVE

$800

$ y l 2,198 n O

DOUBLE SOFA BED

With 6 inch Memory Foam Mattress, made in B.C., choice of fabrics.

Reg. $798

$ e l a S 1,298

DODD’S

Dresser, Mirror, Night Table, Queen Headboard, Footboard & Rails.

Reg. $898

$700

Furnishing the Island Since 1977 Locally Owned and Operated

BEDROOM SUITE Table and 4 chairs.

SAVE

Sale $1,298

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2017OAC

SAVE

$300

Sale $498

DODD’S

Mon., Tues., Wed. & Sat 9:30am-5:30pm Thurs. & Fri. 9:30am - 9:00pm Sun. & Holidays 11am - 5:00 pm

IN-HOME DESIGN SERVICE AVAILABLE

SAVE

Reg. $2,198

$800

Sale $1,398

“We Won’t Be Undersold!”

6421 Applecross Road (behind Ricky’s Restaurant)

Nanaimo 250.390.1125 Mon., Tues., Wed., Sat. 9:30am-5:30pm Thurs. & Fri. 9:30am-9:00pm Sunday & Holidays 11am-5pm