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SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo RCMP have once again put a focus on preven-tion for its policing priorities for this

year and the next, with manage-ment of social disorders, youth intervention and early detection of impaired drivers being listed as key measures.

However, Supt. Mark Fisher, officer in charge of the Nanaimo RCMP, told city council Monday he will likely have to “redeploy” some officers from doing some of that work to handle more “reactive” police work, such as investigating property crime, for budget reasons.

The priorities cited by the RCMP are part of an ongoing five-year plan to reduce crime in the region.

Also included as main goals are managing prolific offenders, addressing violence in relation-ships, drug enforcement and a crackdown of other unsafe driv-ing habits like distracted driving.

Some of the priorities appear to have paid dividends. Impaired driving, for example, has steadily declined in recent years, includ-ing an 11 per cent drop in the lat-ter part of 2013.

Fisher also said the RCMP wants to keep its focus on using resources like a regular bike patrol to address problems like graffiti and public intoxication, as well as handling people in public spaces who may be deal-ing with mental health problems or other disorders — a bundle of issues lumped into the ‘social disorders’ category.

Fisher said tackling those problems are important for “the perception of safety in the community.”

“It’s something that’s very noticeable for people,” Fisher said. “It affects their sense of safety in the community.”

The RCMP also assigns a hand-ful of police officers to act as school liaisons within the school district and has worked with

Vancouver Island University social work students to hold after-school programs for at-risk youth. Fisher, who attended some sessions, said the results have been positive.

The RCMP had requested three additional police officers this year, but those positions were scrapped in city budget cuts.

Fisher said he will work within the budget city council gives

him, adding: “The priorities remain the same.”

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Budget will have 1% tax increase‘The lowest increase . . . in more than 10 years,’ fi nance director Brian Clemens said Monday nightSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

City council has approved three readings of both the 2015 budget and tax rates for this year, leav-ing final adoption of the bylaws as the only remaining step.

The budget would implement a tax increase of one per cent across the city.

“The lowest increase . . . in more than 10 years,” finance dir-ector Brian Clemens said Mon-day night. It would also freeze service levels.

The 8-1 decision follows months of debate over the financial plan for the city.

Council approved budget reduc-tions of $744,000 in January to trim down a proposed 1.8 per cent increase to just one per cent, as proposed by Mayor Bill McKay. The cuts included axing three RCMP positions for savings of $326,000 and other measures.

The revised budget came back before council in February, but city representatives were unable to agree on whether to accept the

trimmed budget or pursue fur-ther cuts to lower property taxes by a further two per cent, as pro-posed by Coun. Jim Kipp. Both proposals failed in 4-4 tie votes.

On Monday, only Coun. Bill Bestwick voted against the budget. But few city officials were pleased by the outcome.

Coun. Ian Thorpe, who had voted with McKay, and council-lors Wendy Pratt and Diane Brennan to approve the budget in February, did so again. But Thorpe said he was “disappoint-

ed” by the cuts, adding he was concerned abut deferring costs.

“It just seems to me we are snowplowing costs as we go for-ward,” he said.

Brennan offered her “reluctant support,” calling the budget reductions “extreme” and “short-sighted.” Coun. Jerry Hong also said he was reluctant to support the bylaws, but for a different reason.

“I would liked to have seen a zero per cent tax increase,” said Hong.

Coun. Gord Fuller said though council did a good job by reducing the budget, he believes an upcoming core review will help with further cuts.



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TUESDAY, APRIL 21

10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Irwin Street work parties, at the Irwin Street Garden return. Bring gloves and hand tools if you have them. 256 Needham St. Also Sun-days 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

7-8:30 p.m. Planning Your Final Wishes, a free four part series for end-of-life plan-ning Tuesday evenings, April 14 to May 5. Simmar Madaan: of with Island Law. Brechin United Church, 1998 Este-van Rd.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

3-6 p.m. Island Roots Farmers Market. Support local growers, producers and artisans year-round. Pleasant Valley Hall, 6100 Dumont Rd.

7 p.m. Eastbound Train with Robin Mills, The Distributors, at The Dinghy Dock Pub, 8 Pirates Lane, Protection Island, Tickets $20 from artists, the pub or at ticketzone.com.

8 p.m. Nanaimo Theatre Group launch of Bus Stop, a comedic drama set in a Kansas snowstorm, at the Bailey Studio, 2373 Rosstown Rd. Tickets $18 and $20 at, nanaimotheatregroup.com or 250-758-7224. Runs nightly through May 9, Sunday matinees 2 p.m.

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

5-9 p.m. The Nanaimo Flea Market, 1630 East Wellington, Royal Canadian Legion Hall.

8 p.m. Kevin Mitchell, Paul Mitchell at the Longwood Brew Pub, 5775 Turner Rd.

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 7 p.m. Shriners Variety Show 2015 includes magic, illusions, juggling acts, comedy, and more. A portion of all proceeds benefit many Shrine activities. Port Theatre, all seats $20.

7:30 p.m. Bethlehem Alive Friday Even-ing Gala Live Music Mocktails Doors and Silent Auction tickets $40 at

250-740-0333. Bethlehem Retreat Centre, 2371 Arbot Rd.

SATURDAY, APRIL 25

10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lecture: Global Warming, Climate Policy and the Price of Bread: Dr. Thomas Pedersen, Parksville Community Centre, Garry Oak/Arbutus Room, 132 East Jensen Ave. $10.

10 a.m to 4 p.m. Annual Spring Plant Sale at Milner Gardens, discounts on heritage trees, shrubs and perennials. 2179 West Island Highway, Qualicum Beach. Admission: $5.25, students $3.15. For more information [email protected], 250-752-6153 or https://www2.viu.ca/milnergardens.

7 p.m. The Port Theatre presents Harry Manx ‘Mysticssippi’ blues man Harry Manx. Pre-show chat 6:45 p.m. in Har-mac Room. $40, members $36, students $15, eyeGo, $5.

10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lecture Global Warming, Climate Policy and the Price

of Bread: Multiple Threads But Just One Tapestry by Dr. Thomas Pedersen, , Garry Oak/Arbutus Room in the Parksville Community Centre, 132 East Jensen Ave. $10 at the door.

SUNDAY, APRIL 26

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hamilton Marsh Tour. Explore the interesting plants and ani-mals with the Friends of French Creek. District Lot 25, Qualicum Beach. For information: Robin Rivers [email protected], 1-866-288-7878.

11 a.m.- to 4 p.m. Nanaimo Record Show. Record dealers from around Vancouver Island converge in Nanaimo. Thousands of LPs and more. Entry $2, Royal Canadian Legion #10, 129 Harewood Rd.

2:30 p.m. Nanaimo Concert Band Spring Concert: includes classical, big band, marches, show tunes and more. All seats $14.

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Pot afi cionados gather to celebrate the causeJULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS

It’s perhaps fitting that the hist-ory of yesterday’s celebration of marijuana culture has somewhat hazy origins.

April 20, or 420 as it is common-ly known, has for decades been the appointed day for marijuana activists and enthusiasts alike to gather together.

A variety of theories have been floated over the years regard-ing the choice of that date. One theory claims it goes back to the 1970s when a group of teenagers in Marin County, Calif., would meet up at 4:20 p.m. after school to pass the joint and then go roaming in search of a fabled abandoned pot field in the adja-cent hills.

Over the years it has been seen as an opportunity to smoke mari-juana in the relative safety of a crowd and to raise awareness around the illegality of its use.

On Vancouver Island, cele-brations have been a bit more low-key over the years, and yes-terday a group of about 50 people gathered on the grass outside the Vancouver Island Military Museum to partake smoke pot and enjoy the sun.

“I’ve never been to events here, I’ve always typically gone to Vancouver,” said Richard Payne, a local marijuana activist who runs the Pot Hole Cafe.

“This year I thought I’d support it locally, and maybe if we can show how good it is, next year we can talk to the mayor about doing a nice event.”

With five established medical marijuana dispensaries in town in addition to a multi-million dollar medical cannabis produc-tion facility, there is a shifting attitude among some to both the economic and medicinal poten-tial of marijuana.

There are mixed feelings on whether 420 events hinder or

help the cause, however.“I think 420 meetings like this

actually set the medical mari-juana movement back,” said Patrick Bush, assistant manager at The Smoke Zone. “Name one other prescription drug that people get together in large groups to take at the same time.”

It serves to emphasize the rec-reational aspect of marijuana over its medicinal use, he said.

Ben Hinton, manager at Trees Dispensary on Bowen Road, dis-agrees somewhat.

“There’s two sides to it, they’ve proven that down in Colorado and Washington,” said Hinton.

“It sets back the medical aspect of it, but it promotes the general use and the awareness of it, which I think is a good thing.”

Hinton feels that awareness is key because though attitudes are changing, there are still a lot of misconceptions around about marijuana.

This year, crowds swelled to an estimated 25,000 outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in a city that is becoming known as the “Amsterdam” of North America.

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Erika MacKenzie sparks up a joint at Nanaimo’s 420 gathering on the grass near the waterfront. The gathering was kept undisclosed until hours before the event and then announced on a Go Green Nanaimo Facebook page. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]

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Janitorial cuts will hurt schools, say support staffROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Cutting custodial staff in local schools could have serious con-sequences for local schools, says Jeff Virtanen, a caretaker at Dover Bay Secondary School.

In a recent presentation to the board in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district, Virtanen said he wants trustees to understand the important roles that custodial and maintenance workers play in schools as they consider areas to cut.

The district is currently grap-pling with a $4-million shortfall as it prepares its budget for 2015/16.

Virtanen said the importance of cleanliness in the schools can’t be underestimated.

“I keep hearing about mak-ing cuts outside the classroom and I understand that concept,” he said. “But guess who isn’t outside the classroom? The custodians who are inside the classrooms washing floors, cleaning counter tops and desks

and taking out the garbage. Our custodians are making sure our students and teachers have a clean and healthy environment to learn in.”

Cuts to administration and spending on facilities are being suggested as the board tries to balance its budget for 2015/16.

With approximately 90 per cent of the district’s annual budget earmarked for salaries and wages for its employees, cuts to staff are considered inevitable.

Virtanen told the board that

custodial staff are the first line of security in the district’s schools, and are instrumental in helping the district maintain rev-enue streams from gym rentals when schools are not in session.

He also referred to a consult-ant’s report that stated the district needed to hire four more caretakers just to keep up with provincial averages.

Board chairman Steve Rae said he recognized that the con-cerns expressed by Virtanen are “valid.”

“We need all the information that can be gathered before any final decisions are made, and we’re expecting budget recom-mendations from staff within a month,” said the school board chairman.

“We only have a few areas left to cut from and we’re committed to keeping cuts as far from the classrooms as possible.”


District has large secondary classesOnly 11 school districts in the province have more students in their classrooms than Nanaimo-Ladysmith

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The Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district still has some of the largest secondary classes in the province, according to a recent report released by the province.

While class sizes for kindergart-en to Grade 7 in Nanaimo-Lady-smith are very close to provincial averages in 2014-15, only 11 of the 60 school districts in B.C. have larger secondary classes than the local district, according to the

report, called Overview of Class Size and Composition in B.C. Public Schools 2014-15.

The Ministry of Education concluded in the report that the average number of students per class remains near historical lows and well below the max-imum size allowed in provincial legislation.

As well, the ministry stated that the data shows a trend for less students with special needs in the province’s classrooms as a result of recent initiatives

towards grouping students with similar learning needs.

But Mike Ball, president of the Nanaimo District Teachers’ Association, said the govern-ment’s view that it is adequately funding school districts and keeping class sizes and compos-itions down doesn’t bear out in Nanaimo-Ladysmith, which is facing a $4-million shortfall in 2015-16.

Ball said class sizes and com-positions in Nanaimo-Ladysmith still don’t provide for “good

learning environments” and aren’t meeting the needs of students.

“This government’s promise to put children first is disingenu-ous,” he said.

“The teachers’ efforts to try and meet their students’ needs is becoming close to intolerable.”

The report states that the aver-age class sizes across B.C. this year are 19.5 students for kinder-garten, 21.5 students for Grades 1-3, 25.6 students for Grades 4-7 and 23.2 students for Grades 8-12.

In Nanaimo-Ladysmith, the average class size for kindergart-en this year is 19.6 students, 21.5 for Grade 1-3, 26.4 for Grades 4-7 and 24.1 for Grades 8-12, accord-ing to the report.

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O n Monday, we ran a pair of interesting stor-ies regarding “life” in

Nanaimo.First, statistics from Island

Health have confirmed that life expectancy in Nanaimo is lower than both the Vancouver Island and provincial average.

Second, Nanaimo ranked 21 out of 36 B.C. cities for the best places to find and maintain good jobs in the province, according to a report by the BC Business magazine.

The average life expectancy of men in Nanaimo is 78.5 years, compared to women at 83.

The Island Health average for men is slightly below 80, with the provincial average slightly above. For women, overall life expectancy sits at 84, and

slightly higher for the provincial average.

If you want to live a bit longer, apparently, head to Qualicum, where men live on average to age 80 and women to 85.5.

Dr. Paul Hasselback, medical health officer for the central Island, said the lower numbers for Nanaimo remain a mystery in terms of nailing down a par-ticular cause or number of caus-es to come to a conclusion.

One potential reason for the numbers is a higher number of deaths in the Nanaimo-Lady-smith area, compared to the rest of the Island, are caused by severe injury and motor vehicle accidents. That’s something that surely bears greater investiga-tion from our authorities – and serves as a sombre reminder to

be careful on the roads. Also coming under scrutiny

was Nanaimo’s “jobs” ranking.The report was based on a num-

ber of criteria, including the aver-age household income of each community, unemployment rates and population growth.

According to the report, the average household income in Nanaimo is $73,800, the popula-tion growth is 4.4 per cent and the unemployment rate is 9.24 per cent. The “top” city in the report is Fort St. John, which has an average household income of $109,700, a population growth of 6.3 per cent and an unemploy-ment rate of 5.9 per cent.

Vancouver ranked 10th, while Victoria came in at 16.

Now, this wasn’t a “where would you rather live?” report.

Most people would probably choose our mild winters over Fort St. John given the chance.

And Sasha Angus, CEO of the Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation, said he questions some of the figures in the report, including Nanaimo’s unemploy-ment rate, which was at 5.5 per cent in 2013, according to a NEDC report released in November.

Angus also said the report didn’t take into account a num-ber of other factors that favour Nanaimo over other cities in the province, including the cost of living.

“There’s no doubt that aver-age household income in cities like Vancouver is higher than Nanaimo’s, but they are far more expensive to live in,” Angus said.

“Housing prices are a lot more

affordable in Nanaimo than cities like Vancouver and Victoria as well. I think these numbers (in the report) have to be taken in context.”

He’s right. Nanaimo’s housing prices remain (relatively) affordable. The city’s beauty and recreation opportunities remain unparalleled. We have a top-flight university.

It remains a remarkable place to live, work and play. But retaining our best and brightest young people with good-paying jobs remains dif-ficult at times.

Regardless of the criteria, a place like Nanaimo should surely rank higher than 21st in the province. It’s a reminder work remains to be done.

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Given the choice, we’d rather live in Nanaimo

When it comes to faith and fact, we might turn to tolerance as we seek out answers

No doubt Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney is a man who understands hard

work. Becoming a chiropractor, having a successful practice and being elected three successive times to Parliament is a tribute to him and he should rightly be proud of those accomplishments.

When it comes to hard work though, Lunney’s biggest task may now be in front him. His task is no less than reversing or revising certain philosophical principles enunciated in the 13th century by “The Angelic Doctor,” Thomas Aquinas.

The Summa Theologica by Aqui-nas — still studied, still relevant, and still relied upon by theolo-gians 750 years later — is the basic treatise on how faith, revelation and spiritual experience co-exist with a world of logic, reason, phil-osophy and science.

Lunney has since March of this year said publicly that evolution is not a fact. Well, that may hinge on one’s definition of a fact. Evolu-tion remains, he asserts, a theory and an unproven one at that.

In a technical sense, perhaps Lunney is correct that evolution remains a theory. But numerous facts, validated as logical, reason-able, certain and sound by sci-ence, demonstrate the theory as accurate.

Geology and paleontology are just two disciplines that prove to us that all existence has evolved over millions of years.

Creationist opposition to evo-lution is not new. In fact, it was settled in 1925 at the “Scopes Mon-key trial,” where the illegality of teaching evolution in Tennessee was before the court.

One of the finest American law-yers of the day, Clarence Darrow, decimated the creationist argu-ments of William Jennings Bryan.

But, as with the Shroud of Turin,

there are those who will ignore the scientific findings and prefer divine interpretation.

The Shroud of Turin is proven to have originated around the time of Aquinas in the 13th cen-tury, but some still insist it is the authentic image of Christ.

I won’t even try to examine how Aquinas took the works of Aristotle and coupled theology with reason and logic. Let’s just say that for seven centuries it has worked and allowed Christianity and such developments as the invention of print, the Renais-sance, the industrial and scientific revolutions and — so far — the digital age to co-exist.

Aside from Lunney questioning the theory of evolution, he hits on an important issue as he asserts his defence: the emergence of trolls and excessive and vitriolic attacks via the Internet directed more at him than his views.

This goes beyond more than rightly questioning Lunney for promoting a religious position as a member of Parliament.

We should be at least as dis-turbed at such attacks as Lunney’s faith-based dismissal of evolution as a proven theory.

The diminishment of respect, the substitution of vilification for discourse and the aggressive insistence that failing to conform with convention is not some great evil but the great evil of our day

cloud an important issue: how to continue to balance revealed reli-gion and spiritual experience with science, logic and reason.

Many of those criticizing Lun-ney are doing exactly what they accuse him of doing: Being unreasonable, failing to examine their premises, ignoring logic and remaining entrenched in their biased views.

If the centuries-old tension balancing spiritual experience and scientific truth is going to be uncoupled, it’s not going to be because those who advocate creationism will overwhelm science.

Creationist arguments, as we have known since at least 1925, are far too weak for that to happen.

So, our concern need not be that creationism poses a threat to sci-ence. Faith and science have bal-anced each other through some parlous moments human history.

The greater risk is the opposite, the potential catastrophe of the negation of faith and religious experience through science.

I would rather tolerate creation-ists, deists and other such odd or even disagreeable views than see science become the unquestioned — and unquestionable — master of our lives.

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The diminishment of respect, the substitution of vilification for discourse and the aggressive insistence that failing to conform with convention is not some great evil but the great evil of our day cloud an important issue.

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New fi re truck worth $550K for district will stall rise in premiumsDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

The Municipal District of Lan-tzville recently took delivery of a shiny new fire truck that cost taxpayers $550,000.

The municipal district took delivery of the new truck April 1.

That means fire insurance pre-miums should remain the same.

Whipps isn’t totally convinced the cost was necessary.

“I’m a taxpayer here too,” Whipps said. “I don’t want to spend money I don’t have to.”

The truck was purchased to meet the standards of the Fire Underwriters Survey, a national organization that assesses muni-cipalities’ fire protection ratings.

Lantzville was recently rated seventh, three from the bottom on a one-to-10 scale, for oper-ation, ability and efficiency by the FUS.

The rating takes into account a number of factors, including firefighting equipment.

That rating information is used by insurance companies to set insurance premiums.

Whipps said the agency deter-mined some equipment is con-sidered too old, even though it’s been routinely serviced and is in top running condition.

So a 25-year-old truck will be retired, not because there is any-thing wrong with it, but because of the agency rating.

“It’s too old,” Whipps said. “By the end of this year we’d be look-ing at a deficiency.”

Yet, that same aging equipment is well suited for some of the challenges LFR faces.

Most of Upper Lantzville is without fire hydrants attached to a municipal water system.

In that situation, large tank-ers equipped with high-powered pumps are needed to control fires.

The 1,000-gallon truck being retired carries 3,785 litres.

With that truck, and a second vehicle, firefighters can deliver water 2.5 kilometres to Upper Lantzville, continuously for 35 minutes.

The new, 900-gallon truck has nearly the same capacity, so protection levels for unserviced

areas remains about the same — at a cost to taxpayers of $550,000.

”It’s always: ‘Do you want to pay more in insurance or do you want to pay more in taxes?’”

Whipps said.

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Lantzville Fire Rescue chief Tom Whipps stands with the new fire truck. It keeps district property owners’ insurance rates in check, at a cost of $550,000 to taxpayers. [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]

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Habour Air says it is now carbon neutralDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Harbour Air Seaplanes says its passengers helped capture landfill gas in Nanaimo and con-serve the coastal Great Bear rain forests.

Those are some B.C. projects funded with a 50-cent fee on every flight ticket, so Harbour Air can be carbon neutral.

Eight years ago Harbour Air started buying carbon offsets with the fee, to reduce the com-pany’s carbon footprint.

As of this Earth Day, Wednes-day, the company says it has bought enough carbon offsets to take approximately 12,600 cars off the road.

“Basically we recognized something needed to be done in terms of offsetting travel,” said Vanessa Johnson, Harbour Air marketing co-ordinator.

Recognizing “greenhouse emis-sions associated with flight is quite substantial,” the company looked for ways to reduce that impact.

With Offsetters Climate Solu-tions, changes have been made to heating, cooling and lighting ground transportation, employee business travel. commuting and paper use.

Harbour Air says it’s now the only airline in North America that offsets 100 per cent of cor-porate emissions — close to 60,000 tonnes of carbon, to date.

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Canada Revenue Agency warns of fraudsters working by phone, email

The Canada Revenue Agency is warning the public to beware of telephone calls or emails that claim to be from the CRA but are from criminals seeking personal information.

The CRA said in a news release that these are “phishing” and other fraudulent scams that could result in identity and financial theft.

People should be especially aware of phishing scams asking for information such as credit card, bank account, and passport numbers, according to the release.

“The CRA would never ask for this type of information,” the release states.

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◆ SURREY

Mayor issues plea to end shooting in gang war

The mayor of Surrey has implored those shooting at each another to stop before more people are killed.

Mayor Linda Hepner’s com-ments on Monday came after police named 22-year-old Arun Bains as the victim in a shooting on the weekend.

Mounties say Bains was known to be connected to the street-level drug trade and became the first person to lose his life after almost two dozen shootings in six weeks.

At a news conference Monday, RCMP announced they have launched a public tip line seek-ing information.

“This is about the continued lack of information being shared by those criminals involved in this violence,” said assistant commissioner Dan Malo.

◆ VANCOUVER

Group challenges Site C dam approval in court

A group of landowners in northeastern B.C. says the prov-incial government broke the law in approving the controversial Site C dam.

The Peace Valley Landowners Association has told B.C. Supreme Court that the province ignored a joint review panel’s recommendations for the pro-posed megaproject.

The association wants the court to quash an environmental assessment certificate that B.C. issued for the dam last fall, argu-ing the province failed to follow the assessment process.

The case is the first of seven legal challenges against the prov-incial and federal governments from various groups opposed to Site C.

An estimated 5,500 hectares of land would be flooded by the dam’s construction.

◆ VANCOUVER

Man says he needs more support after attack

A Vancouver resident who was slashed in the head during a knife attack that led to a man being killed by police says he’s afraid for his life and hasn’t been provided any victim support.

Kathiye Elmi has scars from two incidents during which he alleges he was stabbed around his eye and into his head between April 8 and 9.

The incident ended with the suspect, a Somali man, being shot dead.

The founder of a local Black advocacy group, Jean Hakiz-imana says he has contacted city and provincial authorities, but no one has provided any support.

Vancouver police spokesman Sgt. Randy Fincham says a person’s race, background and criminal history would not play a factor in a serious investigation.

◆ KAMLOOPS

Thieves bust through concrete for computers

Police are investigating a heist at a computer store in Kamloops that could have been scripted straight from a Hollywood film.

Staff at the Simply Computing store in the Sahali Centre Mall arrived Saturday to find a pile of debris in a back storage room.

Store manager Regan Hayes said no alarm was sounded because the thieves broke in through the mall’s concrete ceiling.

About 50 iPads and 38 comput-ers were stolen. The value of the items is estimated to be between $50,000 and $100,000.

Once inside they drilled through the concrete floor and then into the drywall of Simply Computing’s ceiling.

Hayes said the thieves did not gain access to the secure room where they keep customers’ com-puters that are in for repairs.

B.C. woman wins $175K environmental prize

DIRK MEISSNER THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA — A woman who led a fight against a proposed open-pit copper and gold mine in Brit-ish Columbia has won the North American prize in the world’s largest international contest for grassroots environmental activism.

Marilyn Baptiste, 45, will pocket US$175,000 at a ceremony tonight at San Francisco’s opera house. She will join five other recipients from Kenya, Myanmar, Scotland, Haiti and Honduras at a cere-mony attended by more than 3,000 people.

Baptiste is an elected councillor and former chief of the 400-mem-ber Xeni Gwet’in First Nations, located about 200 kilometres west of Williams Lake.

The Goldman Environmental Foundation says Baptiste was chosen because of her work in leading the battle against the Prosperity Mine which would have destroyed Fish Lake, a source of spiritual identity and livelihood for First Nations in the south Chilcotin area.

Goldman Prizes are presented annually to people it classifies as environmental heroes from each of the world’s six inhabited continental regions. The awards recognize grassroots activists working against all odds to pro-tect the environment and their communities.

“I was like wanting to hang up the phone and say, ‘No, I don’t want this,”’ said Baptiste in an interview from San Francisco.

“But when I look at the fight and the process ahead of us and all the work we have ahead of us, this kind of an award is

something that will help us move forward and will help us gain more allies and more public international education.”

Previous Canadian winners include the former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations Matthew Coon Come and now-deceased B.C. environmental activist Colleen McCrory.

Baptiste is credited with con-tributing to two federal environ-mental review decisions reject-ing plans by Vancouver-based Taseko Mines Ltd., to proceed with its Prosperity mine pro-posals. The B.C. government’s environmental assessment agency had granted approval for the mine.

The B.C. Supreme Court denied Taseko’s request to end the blockade, which included Baptiste and members of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, of which the Xeni Gwit’in are members.

“Everybody figured we could never win,” she said.

Last October, the B.C. govern-ment pardoned six Tsilhqot’in chiefs who were hanged 150 years ago for their part in what became known as the Chilcotin War of 1864. Attempts by B.C.’s colonial government to build roads from the coast through Tsilhqot’in territory to the gold fields of the Cariboo were met with aboriginal resistance. Twenty non-aboriginals died.

Baptiste said her fight against the mines has roots in that war.

“When we talk about the war leaders of 1864, they stopped a road crew from coming in on the southwest side of the territory,” she said. “They were after gold then, and now with this fight they are after gold in the south-eastern side. The story is the same. It’s just hundreds of years later.”

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Marilyn Baptiste on the Xeni Gwet’in First Nation, Nemiah Valley. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

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◆ HALIFAX

U.K. sailors get bail for alleged sexual assault

Four members of the Brit-ish navy charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm were granted bail Monday on a number of conditions including that they reside at a Halifax mil-itary base until their next court appearance.

A provincial court judge ordered Simon Radford, Joshua Finbow, Craig Stoner and Darren Smalley to be released from cus-tody to CFB Stadacona, provide a $3,000 cash surety, not contact the alleged victim and return to court May 27.

Michael O’Sullivan, the naval and air adviser to the British High Commission, quickly drove the men away in a white sport utility vehicle.

◆ TORONTO

One dead, one injured after house explodes

An explosion has killed one per-son, injured another and levelled a house in northeastern Toronto.

Paramedics say a man was pulled from the rubble of the house following the Monday afternoon blast and pronounced dead on the scene.

Toronto EMS duty officer Danny Antonopoulos says another person from an adjacent house has been treated for minor hand injuries.

Toronto fire Capt. Adrian Rat-ushniak says there is a natural gas leak in the area and the street has been closed to traffic.

Firefighters are combing through the debris as they search for people who may have been hurt in the explosion.

◆ OTTAWA

Terror fi ght hampers other fi les, says Mountie

Shifting hundreds of RCMP officers to counter-terrorism duty has hurt the national police force’s efforts to fight organized crime and espionage, a senior Mountie says.

The resource challenge is “negatively impacting” the force’s ability to do everything it’s expected to do, says Mike Cabana, deputy RCMP commis-sioner for federal policing.

Concerns about the threat of homegrown extremism have prompted the RCMP to move more than 600 officers to the ter-rorism file from organized crime cases and other areas.

The NDP and Liberal public safety critics have said the Moun-ties are being stretched too thin.

◆ OTTAWA

Journalist on trial in Egypt to get passport

In an abrupt reversal of its position, the federal government announced Monday that it was prepared to issue a passport to a Canadian journalist on trial in Egypt on widely denounced ter-ror charges.

“That’s the best news ever,” Mohamed Fahmy said when reached in Cairo, adding that he was not then aware of the development.

Despite filling out the neces-sary paperwork to obtain a new passport, the government had been refusing to give him a new one, citing his bail conditions.

On Monday, however, Citizen-ship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander revealed that the situation had changed.

◆ TORONTO

New chief is fi rst black offi cer to lead force

A 32-year veteran of the Toronto police force became the first black man named to its top job on Monday but said his race doesn’t mean he can magically repair the enduring strains with people of colour in the city.

“Being black is fantastic (but) it doesn’t give me super powers,” chief-designate Mark Saunders joked at a news conference.

Saunders, 52, succeeds Chief Bill Blair, who retires this week after the city opted against renewing his second five-year contract.

Saunders takes over at a time of tension over “carding” — a police practice of stop-ping people on the street for questioning.

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EUROPE

EU leadersstruggle to respond to migrant tragediesCOLLEEN BARRY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MILAN — Shaken by the feared drowning of as many as 900 people in the latest Medi-terranean tragedy, European leaders struggled Monday for an adequate response in the face of unremitting migrant flows and continued instability in Libya that has given free rein to human traffickers.

Even as the search continued for victims of the weekend dis-aster, coast guard ships rushed to respond to new distress calls on the high seas — two off Libya and a third boat that ran aground near Greece.

Decrying what he called an “escalation in these death voya-ges,” Italian Premier Matteo Renzi urged Europe to put the focus on preventing more boats from leaving Libya, the source of 90 per cent of migrant traffic to Italy.

“We are facing an organized criminal activity that is mak-ing lots of money, but above all ruining many lives,” Renzi said at a joint news conference with Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat. He compared their activ-ity to that of slave traders of cen-turies past, “unscrupulous men who traded human lives.”

The European Union foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, said this weekend’s appalling human toll — which, if verified, would be the deadliest migrant tragedy ever — had “finally” fully awakened the European Union to the evils of human trafficking.

The EU has been under increas-ing criticism for lagging in its response to the crisis, with two shipwrecks believed to have taken the lives of as many as 1,300 migrants in the past week. Some 400 people are believed to have drowned in another capsiz-ing on April 13.

Stopping the traffickers will be a key item on the agenda when EU leaders meet in an emergency summit Thursday in Brussels, along with a proposal to double spending on sea patrols off Europe’s southern border. The 10-point plan includes a proposal to take “civil-military” action modeled on Europe’s anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia, to capture and destroy boats used by traffickers.

Muscat, the Maltese prime min-ister, called the latest tragedy “a game-changer,” and said that “if Europe doesn’t work together, history will judge it very badly.”

The International Organiza-tion for Migration earlier said its Rome office had received a distress call from three boats in need of help. The group says the caller reported 300 people on his sinking boat, with about 20 fatal-ities. No details were available about the other boats or their location, and it was not clear if they were the same rescues to which Renzi referred.

Video showed migrants cling-ing to pieces of wreckage and rescuers helping them ashore.

Election campaign starts with budgetBRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The symbolism of Finance Minister Joe Oliver don-ning a pair of Tory blue sneakers Monday for the traditional new-budget-shoes photo opportunity shouldn’t be lost on anyone.

A federal election date may yet be six months away, but today’s promised delivery of the Harper government’s first balanced spending blueprint in eight years means the Conservatives are already off and running.

In fact, the well-orchestrated march to the 2015 general elec-tion began more than a year ago, when the government presented a 2014 budget that, it turns out, could have reasonably showed a surplus — but held off the big reveal until Canadians were closer to the ballot box.

The parliamentary budget office last week predicted 2014-15 will come in $3.4 billion in the black — a possible jump start on those “New Balance” runners Oliver slipped on at a Toronto shoe store.

The long march continued last Halloween at a campaign-style event in Vaughan, Ont., where Prime Minister Stephen Harper rolled out a five-year, $27-billion

package of improvements to family benefits and targeted tax cuts — a sort of rolling campaign barrage timed to light up the fireworks in July when families receive their first retroactive benefit cheques.

The simple electoral arithmetic of tax breaks and benefit boosts was on display Monday in the House of Commons.

“In my riding of Oak Ridges-Markham, (constituents) get up every morning, they get to work and what they want their govern-ment to do is put more money back in their pockets to invest in their priorities,” said Paul Calandra, Harper’s parliament-ary secretary, who holds one of the coveted 905 area code ridings around Toronto.

Between today’s budget launch and those well-timed, mid-sum-mer family cheques there will be an orgy of government self-pro-motion, with $7.5 million already earmarked for “economic action plan” advertising.

These large set pieces of the Conservative re-election campaign will be augmented Tuesday with a host of smaller measures aimed up shoring up perceived weaknesses and bol-stering perceived strengths.

Help for seniors — a key Con-servative voting demographic that’s growing as the baby boom-ers pass 65 — is also expected through changes to registered retirement income fund rules and a long-promised doubling of the $5,500 annual limit on tax-free savings accounts.

There will be cash for national security, a big government selling point in this season of domestic terror attacks and over-seas military missions.

Elly Alboim, a principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group and former adviser to former Liberal finance minister Paul Martin, said the Conservative fiscal framework laid out in the budget will fetter the opposition parties.

“By eliminating two (percent-age) points off the GST and then giving away other tax room, they have made the framework impervious to policy,” said Alboim.

Don Drummond, a former Finance Canada official and bank economist who is currently a visiting scholar at Queen’s Uni-versity’s School of Policy Stud-ies, said the government may be “kind of hanging on the edge” of surpluses for several years, but that’s not a bad political position.

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Duffy’s cousin paid for web workJENNIFER DITCHBURN THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — One of Mike Duffy’s first cousins in Prince Edward Island was paid after sending him scanned copies of news articles from the local papers, the suspended senator’s trial heard today.

David McCabe’s testimony kicked off the third week of Duffy’s trial on 31 charges of breach of trust, fraud and bribery.

A number of the charges relate to a $65,000 contract paid to Duffy’s friend Gerald Donohue in Ottawa; some of that money appears to have been doled out to other recipients, beyond the scru-tiny of Senate officials.

McCabe and Duffy’s mothers were sisters. He recalled know-ing the senator as a teen.

“Back in high school, Mike

spinned the records so I’d see him at dances and stuff like that,” McCabe said via video link from Charlottetown.

The court heard that even before Duffy became a senator, McCabe would send him items of interest from the papers, includ-ing photos and articles about young relatives and their sports accomplishments.

McCabe, a furniture upholster-er by trade, said he also scanned articles about political issues. He said he never expected to be paid.

He received a $500 cheque from Donohue’s company and told Crown attorney Jason Neubauer

that at first he had no idea who it was from or what it was for.

Defence lawyer Donald Bayne tried to demonstrate that McCabe provided a legitimate service, even if he only did about half an hour of work a week.

The Senate’s 2008 resource guide says that senators may not hire family members as staff, but the description does not extend to cousins.

The Senate’s Conflict of Inter-est Code prohibits senators from furthering the private interests of family members, but it also does not include cousins in the definition.

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Years ago the family cat, usually aloof, suddenly decided to spend time on my father-in-law’s lap

months before he died of pancreatic can-cer. Why? Another family reports in a Toronto newspaper that their cat began a vigil on a loved one’s lap just before he died. So what did the cat know that wasn’t taught to me at medical school?

The New England Journal of Medicine surprised doctors several years ago by pub-lishing a photo of Oscar, the cat. This male feline had become famous for his uncanny ability to predict death.

Oscar did not have a noble background. Rather, he had been saved as a young kitten, by staff members of a geriatric nursing center. They bailed him out of an animal shelter. Little did they know he was headed for celebrity.

It wasn’t too long before staff members noted that Oscar had a knack for knowing when a patient was about to die. Nurses at Steere House Nursing Center, in Provi-dence R.I., reported that Oscar “would snap to attention” when he sensed the end was near for a patient.

It was like an army drill. His routine rare-ly varied. He would arrive at the patient’s bedside four hours before death occurred and curl up alongside the patient. Often he would be purring, paying attention to the patient’s breathing, while family members gathered and the priest administered last rights. Then when death finally came he would quietly leave the room.

During that time, while I was visiting Rhode Island, I got first-hand reports about Oscar. When I asked nursing staff, “What’s his track record?”, they told me Oscar had not missed a diagnosis in 25 deaths.

What a great batting average! Luckily, he had limited his death vigil to elderly patients in a terminal care facility. But Oscar could scare you to death if, aware of his diagnostic skills, you were scheduled for surgery in a few hours, and Oscar sud-denly took a fancy to your bed. Any one in his right mind would go home.

The big question is how does Oscar, who didn’t graduate Summa Cum Laude from Medical School, know so much about approaching death? Doctors I talked to at Steere House didn’t have an answer. But they had several theories.

Some personnel believe that Oscar, and cats in general, are sensitive to the human world and great observers of human routine. They contend he watches the increased activity that occurs in a patient’s room prior to death. One doctor said, “He most likely enjoys the warm blankets placed around a patient at that time.” Others believe it’s a lack of movement that attracts Oscar as the dying patient in bed becomes quiet.

I question that theory. Oscar, like other animals, lives in a world of scents rather than sight. His vision is 10 times less than humans but his sense of smell is 14 times stronger. So when he cuddles up to a patient he has 200 million odour cells com-pared to our mere five million. I talked to several specialists who believe that certain chemicals are released when a patient is dying, and Oscar detects the odour.

I’m sure the secret will die with Oscar. But Oscar’s uncanny ability to detect the time of death took my thoughts back dec-ades ago when I was hotel doctor at The Manoir Richelieu in La Mal Baie, Quebec.

A 90-year-old Baptist minister from Texas was a guest of the hotel along with his two daughters. He suddenly became ill due to a heart condition and refused to go to the local hospital.

He claimed if he was going to die he would prefer to do so looking over the St Lawrence River. At one point he became so close to death I relieved his nurses. I’d wait by his side until he died.

But he did not die. And in a few days, much to our surprise, walked out of the hotel to return to Texas.

Oscar, where were you when I needed you? You could have saved a young doctor lot of embarrassment.

For the dying, the cat is in

Dr. W. Gifford-JonesThe Doctor Game

Study has tips on how to get children to take pillsLINDSEY TANNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Many sick kids can’t or won’t swallow pills — and that can make them sicker. But there may be some pretty simple ways to help the medicine go down, a new study says.

Dr. Kathleen Bradford and colleagues at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill reviewed research on pill-swallowing techniques. Sev-eral seemed to help, including flavoured swallowing spray, a special pill cup and just prac-tice with a regular cup and fake pills or candy.

Here’s more about pill-swallowing:

HARD TO SWALLOWSwallowing medicine is hard

for at least one in 10 kids, Bradford said. Taste, pill size, fear and discomfort are among the reasons.

The result can be missed doses of prescribed medicine and worsening of symptoms it’s meant to treat.

SOME TESTED TECHNIQUESResearch is scant; five stud-

ies published since 1986 were reviewed. A technique used in two studies started with tiny dummy pills, moving up to regular-sized tablets. Children were taught to sit up straight, place the pill on the tongue and swallow with water.

A special pill cup helped in a different study. One model has a spout for the pill, releasing it when the water is sipped. But most kids learned using a regular cup, with practice.

In the other studies: swallow-ing with the head in different positions including chin-up or turned to one side worked for some; as did throat spray to

mask the icky flavour and help pills glide down.

GRAIN OF SALTWhile each of the methods

studied helped some kids, the studies were generally small and had limitations, includ-ing lack of follow-up to see if benefits lasted long after the studies ended. Bradford said swallowing methods should be

tested in larger, more rigorous research. Her study was pub-lished Monday in Pediatrics.

WHY NOT CRUSHCrushing pills into food isn’t

generally advised — particu-larly for extended-release medicine because crushing can release a higher-than-intended dose all at once. Also, some pills’ medicine flavour

can’t be disguised, Bradford said.

MAKE IT FUNMaking pill-taking fun

instead of punitive is helpful, Bradford said.

At her hospital, kids are encouraged to think of tongues as water slides, and swallowing a pill gives it a ride into the stomach.

Though research is scant, different positions and sprays may help some

Many sick kids can’t or won’t swallow pills — and that can make them sicker. But there may be some pretty simple ways to help the medicine go down, a new study says. [METRO CREATIVE SERVICES]

ETHNICITY

Breast cancer in South Asian women often diagnosed at a later stage: StudySHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Women of South Asian descent are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer in its later stages com-pared to the general popula-tion, while women of Chinese ethnicity tend to be diagnosed when the disease is at an early stage, an Ontario study has found.

Given that Canadians have equal access to health services, the findings suggest programs to promote screening and early diagnosis among South Asian women should take into account cultural factors that may be roadblocks to seeking timely care, the researchers say.

“There’s an education issue,” said medical oncologist Dr. Ophira Ginsburg, a scientist at the Women’s College Research Institute in Toronto, which led the study.

“If you’re from a country where there is no preventive care in general, you go to the doctor if you’re very ill . . . . You may never have met some-body who’s survived cancer, (so) a pervasive belief that can-cer is a death sentence would not be surprising.”

In South Asian countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, breast cancer and cancer in general are often taboo subjects. There is also often a sense of fatalism associated with the disease, said Ginsburg, who has also worked in Bangladesh.

The study, published Monday in the journal Current Oncol-ogy, used the Ontario cancer registry to identify more than 41,000 Ontario women diagnosed with breast cancer between 2005 and 2010. Of those, 1,304 were of Chinese descent and 705 were South Asian.

Researchers found South

Asian women were more likely be diagnosed when their breast cancer had already spread to lymph nodes or to other parts of the body — called stage II to stage IV malignancies — which can carry a worse prognosis.

In a previous study, the research team asked women from South Asian commun-ities in Ontario what factors prevented them from seeking care.

One reason given was a cultural sense of collectiv-ism, Ginsburg said, “that a woman’s value is more about assisting in the family’s prosperity and development and health and well-being, as opposed to ‘It’s about me and I deserve it,’ which is more of a North American or Western mindset.”

“We’re starting to look at these factors that the women from the communities are speaking about and finding

better ways to enhance our health messaging, including to the men in the family,” she said.

In an accompanying editor-ial, Dr. Aisha Lofters of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto says the study has identified a health inequity among South Asian women that must be addressed in both Ontario and across Canada.

Canadians of South Asian descent are the largest visible minority in the country, fol-lowed by those of Chinese eth-nicity. In 2013, 20 per cent of permanent residents who had immigrated to Canada came from a South Asian country.

“The authors have described a health inequality in stage at breast cancer diagnosis for South Asian women in Ontario — an inequality that certainly has the potential to be unnecessary and avoidable, unfair and unjust,” Lofters writes.

SOCCER

Nanaimo teams lose in provincialsSenior men’s team defeated by Delta Lions, while women give up three in three minutes in 4-1 lossROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo United’s season is officially over after both of the club’s senior teams lost out in the first round of the provincial cham-pionships on the weekend.

The men were in the Low-er Mainland on Saturday and came out on the wrong side of a 1-0 scoreline against the Delta Lions, who were the top seed from the Fraser Valley.

The women lost 4-1 to

the North Shore Impact at Caledonia Park on Sunday despite a free-kick goal from captain Andrea Strevel.

Daragh Fitzgerald was involved in both games, playing 90 minutes in central midfield for the men before taking up his coaching duties the follow-ing day with the women’s team.

Fitzgerald said then men put in their best perform-ance of the season against

the Lions and were “on top for long spells.”

A long ball over the top of Nanaimo’s defence mid-way through the first half would result in a cutback goal for the Lions which sealed the game.

The women were 1-0 at halftime against the Impact, despite dominat-ing possession, but then conceded three goals inside three minutes early into the second half.

One of those goals was

straight from a corner and 4-0 proved too big a mountain to climb despite Strevel’s strike.

“We were looking good and those three goals just knocked the wind out of us,” said Fitzgerald. “It wasn’t to be, but I think both teams would agree that the scoreline was extremely harsh.”

Ross.armour@ nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4230

United’s Stephanie Thompson takes control of the ball at Caledonia Park. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

HOCKEY

Nanaimo’s Lang off to WHL Eastern Conference fi nalsROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS

A Nanaimo right wing is one step closer to win-ning the Western Hockey League’s Ed Chynoweth Cup.

Chase Lang and the Cal-gary Hitmen will face the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Eastern Conference finals which begin on Fri-day in Manitoba.

The Hitmen finished off the Medicine Hat Tigers in five this past Friday to advance to the finals but Lang said it was a tough series, one in which his team needed overtime three times to get over the line.

“It was tough coming off the Kootenay series

before that, which went to seven games, but I thought we battled back well and really came together in the games that went to over-time,” he said.

Despite a 4-1 series win, Lang only played “a game and a half” against Medi-cine Hat after spraining his ankle in Game 2.

Lang had a goal and two assists in a 3-1 Game 1 vic-tory against the Tigers on April 10 before coming off injured next time out two days later.

He says he hopes to be back for the start of the series against the Wheat Kings but admits he faces a race against time to do so.

“I should be back for that.

I took a week off (after Game 2) but I’m back in practice now and it’s feel-ing good. I should be back doing full contact stuff later in the week.”

The Hitmen went 1-2-1 during the regular season against the Wheat Kings and Lang and his team-mates are bracing them-selves for another close series.

“They’re more of an offensive team but if we can keep them in their zone, limit the turnovers and play a more simple game, that should keep them off the scoreboard.”

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Sedin twins looking to capitalizeCanucks head into Game 4 against the Calgary Flames tonight aiming to reignite their power playLAURENCE HEINEN THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — When the Vancou-ver Canucks beat the Calgary Flames 4-1 last Friday, their power play clicked and their top line scored.

Neither of those things hap-pened during losses in Games 1 and 3 to the Flames and now the Canucks find themselves facing a 2-1 deficit in their Western Conference quarter-final series. Game 4 goes Tuesday at the Sco-tiabank Saddledome.

“The second game at home

our power play was really good,” Canucks forward Daniel Sedin said Monday.

“Last game we had a few chan-ces, but not good enough,” he added. “In a game like that on the road, you need your power play to step up.”

Sedin scored his lone goal of the series when he converted a feed from his brother Henrik at 2:56 of the first period in Friday’s win at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena.

The Canucks went up 2-0 on a power-play goal by Chris Higgins

and cruised to victory.The Canucks have had 10 chan-

ces with the man advantage so far in the series, but have only the goal by Higgins to show for their efforts.

“It needs to be better,” stressed Vancouver coach Willie Desjar-dins. “It’s not that we haven’t had some chances, we just have to get it going.”

Both Sedin brothers agreed with their coach’s assessment.

“It seems like we can get some looks, but it’s about scoring,” said Henrik, who managed just

one shot on net during Sunday’s 4-2 setback. “I thought we had some early chances where we had some chances to score, but we didn’t capitalize.”

Added Daniel: “We have a plan of what we want to do. We have to execute, that’s the bottom line — crisp passes, quicker passes. We’re almost there. I think we’re close. I think our breakouts are fine. We just have to move the puck faster and get the shots.”

The Canucks received some good news Monday as forward Alexandre Burrows, who plays

on Vancouver’s top line with the Sedins, will not be suspended due to an instigator penalty he received Sunday after an inci-dent with Calgary defenceman Kris Russell.

Daniel said he and his brother are looking forward to hav-ing Burrows back on their line Tuesday.


NHL PLAYOFFS

Ducks rally past Jets for 5-4 win in OT; Anaheim now lead series 3-0STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — Fired up for the first NHL playoff game in town in 19 years, Winnipeg Jets fans booed Corey Perry off the ice in warm-ups and cheered every icing call against the Anaheim Ducks. They went silent when the Ducks scored.

The waves of emotion ebbed and flowed throughout 60 min-utes of hockey. The raucous “whiteout crowd” left on a down note after Anaheim’s Rickard Rakell scored in overtime to beat the Jets 5-4 Monday night at MTS Centre and take a stranglehold with a 3-0 series lead.

For the third straight game, Winnipeg blew a third-period lead and in the process became the first team in NHL history to lose the first three of a series when leading at the second inter-mission each time, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

“More of the same,” said Jets forward Blake Wheeler. “We lead the whole damn series and we’re down 0-3.”

Winnipeg faces elimination in Game 4 Wednesday night.

“We’ve got a mountain to climb and we’re looking forward to the challenge,” said Jets forward Bryan Little.

Noise levels were off the charts for a crowd that had waited since 1996 for a Stanley Cup playoff game. With fans across the con-tinent watching in amazement and envy, it was exactly the kind of atmosphere everyone antici-pated given the drought, and then some.

“That’s as good a building as I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice. “We had good jump and good legs because of it.”

The arena went quiet when

Cam Fowler scored to tie it late in the first and on goals by Perry, Jakob Silfverberg and then Ryan Kesler’s that tied it again in the waning minutes of regulation. Fans chanted “Go Jets Go” when Rakell ended it. Frederik Ander-sen stopped 31 shots in net for the Ducks.

On the other side, the place just about shook when the Jets scored: Lee Stempniak’s goal to open things, Tyler Myers’s power-play goal, and Wheeler’s

and Little’s each of which gave Winnipeg the lead. Saves by Ondrej Pavelec — 26 in total — drew chants of “Pavy, Pavy” throughout the night, but it wasn’t enough.

The waves of noise started during warm-ups. Messages like “The wait is finally over” and “The storm is coming” flashed on the video screens before the game started and helped rile fans up into a frenzy.

“We certainly fed off the

energy,” said Stempniak. “It was a special night for us

in terms of the fans and their energy.”

After going 0 for 7 on the power play in the first two games, the Jets got one at 6:40 of the second when Myers’s shot hit off Ana-heim’s Simon Despres and went in. At the 9:37 mark, Wheeler put back a loose puck to give the Jets the lead and looked to the rafters following his first point of the series.

Winnipeg Jets’ Lee Stempniak (20), Adam Lowry (17) and Jacob Trouba (8) celebrate after Stempniak scored against the Anaheim Ducks during the first period of game three NHL playoff hockey action in Winnipeg on Monday. [CP PHOTO]

NBA

Raptors’ Williams wins Sixth Man AwardLORI EWING THE CANADIAN PRESS

Toronto Raptors guard Lou Wil-liams has won the NBA’s Sixth Man Award as the league’s best reserve player.

Williams averaged a career-high 15.5 points in his 10th NBA season, helping Toronto win a franchise-record 49 games.

Williams earned 78 first-place votes and 502 total points from a panel of 130 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada.

“It’s great. He deserves it. We

played with the best sixth man in the league and he deserves it,” DeMar DeRozan said. “The way he really impacted the game when he came in, he really helped us win a lot of big games. He finished a lot of games and helped us pull a lot of games out. . . It was amazing to me to be able to be out there with him and see the things he was able to do in the short amount of time he was out there.”

“So I’m happy for him and con-gratulations to him.”

Isaiah Thomas of the Boston

Celtics finished second with 324 points (33 first-place votes), and two-time winner Jamal Crawford of the Los Angeles Clippers was third with 131 points (eight first-place votes).

Raptors GM Masai Ujiri took a chance on Williams, acquiring him in a trade with the Atlanta Hawks. Williams was on the mend from a torn ACL, and was coming off one of the worst sea-sons of his career.

“I’m just excited about Lou, a guy who comes back from his injury, worked hard, dedicated

himself to getting his body right, nobody kind of knew what he was going to bring to the table once he was signed, whether it was damaged goods or what-ever,” said Raptors coach Dwane Casey. “He’s proved to everybody that he’s the old Lou Williams.”

Williams came off the bench in all 80 of his appearances and averaged 25.2 minutes a game. He led or tied for the team lead in scoring 18 times, second most in the league for a reserve.

The Raptors went 14-4 in those games.

CRICKET

Batsman dies after freak accidentTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KOLKATA, India — Indian cricket batsman Ankit Keshri died early Monday, three days after suffering a head injury in a freak accident on the field during a one-day match in the eastern city of Kolkata.

The 20-year-old Keshri was hos-pitalized Friday after colliding with a teammate while trying to catch a ball during the match between the local East Bengal and Bhowanipore teams.

“He was not breathing, so I gave him CPR, only then he

started breathing,” East Bengal teammate Shibsagar Singh said. The players rushed Keshri to the intensive care unit at Kolkata’s AMRI Hospital, but he was later moved to the general admission unit before his family transferred him Sunday to Nightingale Hospital for more specialized treatment.

His father, Raj Keshri, said his son had been talking on Sunday, but still had a fever and nau-sea. “I don’t know why he was transferred to a general bed from ICU,” he said.

Dr. Arpan Chowdhury said

Keshri suffered a heart attack early Monday and died a few hours later.

Keshri was considered an up-and-coming talent on the Indian cricket scene.

The right-hander was captain of the Bengal Under-19 team, and was short-listed for India’s under-19 team for the 2014 Colts World Cup.

Retired cricket star Sachin Ten-dulkar expressed sorrow over the death of Keshri, “a promising career aborted by an unfortunate incident on field,” he said in a Twitter message.

NHL PLAYOFFS

Rangers regain series lead over PenguinsWILL GRAVES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PITTSBURGH — Henrik Lun-dqvist stopped 23 shots and the New York Rangers regained control of their first-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins with a 2-1 win in Game 3 on Tues-day night.

Carl Hagelin and Chris Kreider scored for New York, which dom-inated for two periods then held on late to take a 2-1 series lead.

Game 4 is Wednesday in Pittsburgh.

Patric Hornqvist scored his third career playoff goal for the Penguins, but Pittsburgh couldn’t overcome another slow start. Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves, but the Penguins couldn’t back up their strong play in Game 2.

The Rangers led the NHL in road wins during the regular sea-son and shut down Pittsburgh stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to reclaim home-ice advantage.

Crosby scored twice to end a lengthy drought.

And the Penguins looked — for the better part of three periods anyway — more like the power-house that has dominated the regular season in recent years, not the erratic, injury-riddled enigma it has been for most of the past five months.

New York choked off passing lanes, clamped down on Crosby and Malkin and never let Pitts-burgh get anything resembling offensive flow.

The Rangers overwhelmed the Penguins in the opening minutes and Hagelin gave New York a 1-0 lead at 8:43 following a sloppy line change by the Penguins and a brilliant lead pass from Keith Yandle that split the Pittsburgh defence and let Hagelin break in alone on Fleury.

Kreider doubled New York’s lead 11:07 into the second period when a Marc Staal shot from the point deflected off the end boards and right to Kreider on the doorstep of the net who put it in.

Hornqvist prevented Lundqv-ist from earning his 10th playoff shutout by pounding a rebound into the New York net with 6:48 remaining but the Penguins — who never won a game while trailing after two periods all season — couldn’t make it all the way back.

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GOLFThis week’s events

PGA TourRBC Heritage, April 16-19Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head, South Carolina. Par 71, 7101 yards. Purse: $5,900,000. 2014 champion: Matt Kuchar

Final LeaderboardGolfer Par Winnings1 Jim Furyk -18 $1,062,0002 Kevin Kisner -18 $637,2003 Troy Merritt -16 $401,2004 Brendon Todd -15 $283,2005 Matt Kuchar -14 $236,0006 Sean O’Hair -13 $212,400T7 Louis Oosthuizen -12 $190,275T7 Branden Grace -12 $190,275T9 Morgan Hoffmann -11 $165,200T9 Bo Van Pelt -11 $165,200T11 Blake Adams -10 $129,800T11 Justin Thomas -10 $129,800T11 Jordan Spieth -10 $129,800T11 Brice Garnett -10 $129,800T15 Bryce Molder -9 $100,300T15 Cameron Smith -9 $100,300T15 Luke Donald -9 $100,300T18 John Peterson -8 $69,325T18 Jerry Kelly -8 $69,325T18 Lucas Glover -8 $69,325T18 Matt Every -8 $69,325T18 Jason Kokrak -8 $69,325T18 Russell Knox -8 $69,325T18 Ian Poulter -8 $69,325T18 Brendon de Jonge -8 $69,325From Canada74 Nick Taylor +4 $11,446

LPGA TourLotte Championship, April 15-18Ko Olina Golf Club, Kapolei, Hawaii. Par 72, 6,383 yards.Purse: $1,800,000. 2014 champion: Michelle Wie

Final LeaderboardGolfer Par Winnings1 Sei-Young Kim -z -11 $270,0002 Inbee Park -11 $167,0613 I.K. Kim -9 $121,191T4 Chella Choi -7 $84,605T4 Hyo-Joo Kim -7 $84,6056 Sandra Gal -6 $61,739T7 Shanshan Feng -4 $43,675T7 Cristie Kerr -4 $43,675T7 Mika Miyazato -4 $43,675T7 Jenny Shin -4 $43,675T11 Pornanong Phatlum -3 $33,155T11 Michelle Wie -3 $33,155T13 Minjee Lee -2 $28,232T13 So Yeon Ryu -2 $28,232T13 Alison Walshe -2 $28,232T16 So Young Lee (a) -1 $0T16 Belen Mozo -1 $25,061T18 Paula Creamer E $21,142T18 Tiffany Joh E $21,142T18 Brittany Lang E $21,142T18 Xiyu Lin E $21,142T18 Brittany Lincicome E $21,142T18 Ai Miyazato E $21,142T18 Morgan Pressel E $21,142 z-Won playoff (a)-Amateur

Champions TourGreater Gwinnett Championship, April 17-19 (54 holes), TPC Sugarloaf, Duluth, Georgia. Par 72, 7,259 yards.Purse: $1,800,000. 2014 champion: Miguel Angel Jimenez

Final LeaderboardGolfer Par Winnings1 Olin Browne -12 $270,0002 Bernhard Langer -11 $158,4003 Rocco Mediate -9 $129,600T4 Jesper Parnevik -7 $82,350T4 Stephen Ames Calgary -7 $82,350T4 Mark O’Meara -7 $82,350T4 Tom Pernice Jr -7 $82,350T8 Rod Spittle St. Catherines, Ont. -6 $54,000T8 Tommy Armour III -6 $54,000T10 Joe Durant -5 $39,960T10 Bart Bryant -5 $39,960T10 Miguel A Jimenez -5 $39,960T10 Colin Montgomerie -5 $39,960T10 Esteban Toledo -5 $39,960T15 Tom Byrum -4 $28,800T15 Gary Hallberg -4 $28,800T15 Sandy Lyle -4 $28,800T15 Paul Goydos -4 $28,800T15 Doug Rohrbaugh -4 $28,800Also from CanadaT59 Jim Rutledge +3 $2,880

Web.com TourEl Bosque Mexico Championship, April 16-19, El Bosque Golf Club, Leon. Par 72, 7,701 yards. Purse: $700,000. 2014 champion: Carlos Ortiz

Final LeaderboardGolfer Par Winnings1 Wes Roach -17 $126,000T2 Patton Kizzire -13 $61,600T2 Kevin Tway -13 $61,600T4 Smylie Kaufman -12 $30,800T4 Stephan Jaeger -12 $30,800T6 Luke List -11 $24,325T6 Sung Kang -11 $24,325T8 Andrew Yun -10 $19,600T8 Charlie Wi -10 $19,600T8 Peter Malnati -10 $19,600T8 Jamie Lovemark -10 $19,600T12 Will Wilcox -9 $13,300T12 Yoshio Yamamoto -9 $13,300T12 Casey Wittenberg 9 $13,300T12 Timothy Madigan -9 $13,300T12 Craig Barlow -9 $13,300T12 Matt Fast -9 $13,300From CanadaT50 Brad Fritsch -1 $1,968

European TourShenzhen International, April 16-19Genzon Golf Club, Shenzhen, China. Par 72, 7,145 yards. Purse: $3,000,000.

Final LeaderboardGolfer Par WinningsNote: 1 euro = CDN$1.331 Kiradech Aphibarnrat -z -12 €386,1682 Haotong Li -12 €257,4423 Tommy Fleetwood -11 €145,047T4 Marco Crespi -10 €74,410T4 David Howell -10 €74,410T4 Wen-Yi Huang -10 €74,410T4 Tom Lewis -10 €74,410T4 Julien Quesne -10 €74,410T4 Peter Uihlein -10 €74,410T4 Y.E. Yang -10 €74,410T11 Emiliano Grillo -9 €38,810T11 Wade Ormsby -9 €38,810T11 Richie Ramsay -9 €38,810T11 Anthony Wall -9 €38,810T15 Lucas Bjerregaard -8 €30,187T15 Gregory Bourdy -8 €30,187T15 Ross Fisher -8 €30,187z-Won playoff (a)-Amateur

HOCKEYNHL

Playoffs - Round 1All series best-of-seven

Yesterday’s results (Games 3)NY Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1 (Rangers lead series 2-1)Minnesota 3, St. Louis 0 (Minnesota leads series 2-1)Anaheim 5, Winnipeg 4 (OT) (Anaheim leads series 3-0)

Sunday’s results (Games 3)NY Islanders 2, Washington 1 (OT)Chicago 4, Nashville 2Montreal 2, Ottawa, 1 (OT)Calgary 4, Vancouver 2

Today’s schedule (Game 3)Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4 p.m.(Series tied 1-1)

Also today (Games 4)Washington at NY Islanders, 4:30 p.m. (Islanders lead series 2-1)Nashville at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. (Chicago leads series 2-1)Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m. (Calgary leads series 2-1)

Wednesday, April 22 (Games 4)Montreal at Ottawa, 4 p.m. (Montreal leads series 3-0)NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.St. Louis at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.Anaheim at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 23 (Game 4)Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Thursday, April 23 (Games 5)Chicago at NashvilleCalgary at VancouverNY Islanders at Washington

Friday, April 24 (Games 5)Minnesota at St. LouisOttawa at MontrealWinnipeg at AnaheimPittsburgh at NY Rangers

Recap: Sunday at the Saddledome

Flames 4, Canucks 2First Period1. Calgary, Bollig (1) (Raymond, Brodie) 6:352. Vancouver, Matthias (1) (Bonino, Vrbata) 9:093. Calgary, Brodie (1) (Schlemko, Backlund) 15:02Penalties: Bollig Cgy (Cross checking Derek Dorsett) 16:58

Second PeriodNo scoringPenalties: Jooris Cgy (Goalkeeper Interference Eddie Lack) 5:35, Backlund Cgy (Boarding Dan Hamhuis) 7:58, Edler Van (Interference of Matt Stajan) 8:15, Russell Cgy (Roughing Alex Bur-rows) 15:39, Burrows Van (Roughing Kris Russell) 15:39

Third Period4. Calgary, Bennett (1) (Colborne) 2:145. Calgary, Monahan (1) (Gaudreau, Russell) 14:36 (PP)6. Vancouver, Hansen (1) (Horvat, Kenins) 17:41Penalties: Bieksa Van (Charging Mikael Backlund) 4:34, Engelland Cgy (Roughing) 10:29, Weber Van (Goalkeeper Interference Jonas Hiller) 13:52, Hamhuis Van (Illegal check to the head Sam Bennett) 14:28, Russell Cgy (Fighting Alex Burrows) 18:35, Burrows Van (Fighting Kris Russell) 18:35, Bieksa Van (Fighting Michael Ferland) 18:54, Ferland Cgy (Fighting Kevin Bieksa) 18:54, Sbisa Van (Fighting Deryk Engelland) 20:00, Engelland Cgy (Roughing Luca Sbisa) 20:00

Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd TVancouver 11 6 8 25Calgary 9 4 14 27

Goaltending summary:Vancouver: Lack (24/28), Calgary: Hiller (23/25)

Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Vancouver: 0 of 3, Calgary: 1 of 4

Att: 19,289

Western Hockey League

PlayoffsAll series best-of- seven*=if necessary

Sunday’s resultPortland 3, Everett 2 (Portland wins series 4-1)

Eastern Conference FinalCalgary vs. BrandonWestern Conference FinalKelowna vs. Portland

Friday, April 24 (Games 1)Calgary at Brandon, 5:30 p.m.Portland at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday, April 25 (Games 2)Calgary at Brandon, 5:30 p.m.Portland at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, April 28 (Games 3)Brandon at Calgary, 6 p.m.Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 29 (Games 4)Brandon at Calgary, 6 p.m.Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m.

BASEBALLMLB

Yesterday’s resultsBoston 7, Baltimore 1Chicago Cubs 5, Pittsburgh 2Detroit 2, NY Yankees 1Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 1Chicago Sox 4, Cleveland 3Kansas City 7, Minnesota 1San Diego 14, Colorado 3Oakland 6, LA Angels 3Houston at Seattle

Sunday’s resultsAtlanta 5, Toronto 2Detroit 9, Chicago Sox 1NY Mets 7, Miami 6NY Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 3Baltimore 8, Boston 3Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 2Washington 4, Philadelphia 1Minnesota 7, Cleveland 2Houston 4, LA Angels 3Kansas City 4, Oakland 2San Diego 5, Chicago Cubs 2Arizona 5, San Francisco 1LA Dodgers 7, Colorado 0Seattle 11, Texas 10St. Louis 2, Cincinnati 1

Today’s scheduleChicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Wood (1-1) vs. Liriano (0-1)St. Louis at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Lynn (1-1) vs. Gonzalez (1-1)Miami at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Haren (1-0) vs. Williams (0-1)Baltimore at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Norris (0-1) vs. Buehrle (2-0)N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 4:08 p.m. Eovaldi (0-0) vs. Price (1-0)Boston at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Miley (0-1) vs. Archer (1-1)Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Cahill (0-1) vs. Niese (1-0)Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Marquis vs. Fiers (0-1)Minnesota at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. Milone (1-0) vs. Vargas (1-0)Cleveland at Chi. White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Bauer (2-0) vs. Danks (0-2)San Diego at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Morrow (0-0) vs. Matzek (1-0)Texas at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. Martinez (2-0) vs Anderson (0-0)Oakland at LA Angels, 7:05 p.m. Pomeranz (1-1) vs. Santiago (1-1)Houston at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. McHugh (2-0) vs. Walker (0-2)LA Dodgers at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. Anderson (1-0) vs. Lincecum (0-1)

B.C. Premier LeagueTeam W L Pct GBAbbotsford 3 0 1.000 -North Delta 2 0 1.000 .5Langley 7 1 0.875 1.5Okanagan 6 2 0.750 .5Vic Eagles 5 3 0.625 .5North Shore 3 2 0.600 1Nanaimo 2 2 0.500 1.5Vic Mariners 1 3 0.250 2.5White Rock 1 5 0.167 3.5Parksville 1 5 0.167 3.5Whalley 1 6 0.143 4Coquitlam 0 3 0.000 3

Sunday’s resultsLangley 6, Coquitlam 3Victoria Eagles 2, North Shore 1Abbotsford 7, Nanaimo 5Okanagan 4, White Rock 2Parksville 4, Victoria Mariners 3Victoria Eagles 7, North Shore 6Okanagan 12, White Rock 4Nanaimo 8, Abbotsford 6Langley 10, Coquitlam 6Victoria Mariners 11, Parksville 6

Today’s scheduleWhite Rock at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.Langley at Whalley, 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 26Abbotsford at Coquitlam, 11 a.m.Whalley at Vic Eagles, noonNorth Delta at Vic Mariners, 1 p.m.Abbotsford at Coquitlam, 1:30 p.m.Okanagan at Nanaimo, 2 p.m.Whalley at Vic Eagles, 2:30 p.m.North Delta at Vic Mariners, 3:30 p.m.Nanaimo at Okanagan, 4:30 p.m.

BASKETBALLNBAPlayoff scheduleNote: 16 teams, all series best-of-seven

Yesterday’s results (Games 2)Chicago 91, Milwaukee 82 (Chicago leads series 2-0)Golden State 97, New Orleans 87 (Golden States leads series 2-0)

Sunday’s results (Games 1)(2) Cleveland 113, (7) Boston 100(1) Atlanta 99, (8) Brooklyn 92(5) Memphis 100, (4) Portland 86(3) L.A. Clippers 107, (6) San Antonio 92

Today’s schedule (Games 2)Boston at Cleveland, 4 p.m. (Cleveland leads series 1-0)Washington at Toronto, 5 p.m. (Washington leads series 1-0)Dallas at Houston, 6:30 p.m. (Houston leads series 1-0)

Wednesday, April 22 (Games 2)Brooklyn at Atlanta, 4 p.m. (Atlanta leads series 1-0)Portland at Memphis, 5 p.m. (Memphis leads series 1-0)San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m. (Clippers lead series 1-0)

TENNISATPMonte-Carlo Rolex Masters Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Surface: Clay Purse: €3,288,530 (€1=CDN$1.33)

Final - SinglesNovak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.

DoublesBob Bryan, United States, and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Simone Bolelli, Italy, and Fabio Fognini, Italy, 7-6 (3), 6-1.

WTACopa ColsanitasBogota, Colombia. Surface: Clay. Purse: $250,000

FinalTeliana Pereira, Brazil, def. Yaroslava Shvedova (5), Kazakhstan, 7-6 (2), 6-1.

AUTO RACINGNASCARFood City 500Sunday, April 19, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee. 500 laps, 266.5 milesLap length: .533 miles

Top finishers, with winnings(Start position in parentheses)1 (1) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, $212,961.2 (28) J. Johnson, Chevy, $170,011.3 (23) Jeff Gordon, Chevy, $160,861.4 (25) R. Stenhouse Jr., Ford, $125,475.5 (18) Ryan Newman, Chevy, $135,275.6 (21) Tony Stewart, Chevy, $131,129.7 (14) Kyle Larson, Chevy, $133,423.8 (15) Justin Allgaier, Chevy, $126,723.9 (26) Danica Patrick, Chevy, $107,365.10 (12) Austin Dillon, Chevy, $136,351.11 (9) Paul Menard, Chevy, $106,340.12 (37) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, $131,773.13 (30) Aric Almirola, Ford, $134,176.14 (10) J. McMurray, Chevy, $126,831.15 (7) Kurt Busch, Chevy, $112,175.16 (13) Dale Jr., Chevy, $112,300.17 (24) Brett Moffitt, Toyota, $124,864.18 (32) David Gilliland, Ford, $120,533.19 (39) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, $121,995.20 (40) Alex Bowman, Chevy, $110,033.

Formula OneGrand Prix of BahrainSunday, April 19, International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain, 5.411 kilometres

Top finishers, with time, com-pleted laps1. Lewis Hamilton, England, Mercedes, 1 hour, 35 minutes, 5.809 seconds, 57 laps2. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari, 1:35:09.189, 573. Nico Rosberg, Germany, Mercedes, 1:35:11.842, 574. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Williams, 1:35:48.766, 575. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari, 1:35:49.798, 576. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red Bull, 1:36:07.560, 577. Romain Grosjean, France, Lotus, 1:36:30.572, 578. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Force India, 1:35:07.373, 569. Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Red Bull, 1:35:14.579, 5610. Felipe Massa, Brazil, Williams, 1:35:20.685, 56

LACROSSEBC Junior A Lacrosse League

Regular seasonFriday, April 24Langley Thunder vs. Port Coquitlam Saints, noon

Saturday, April 25Burnaby Lakers vs. Delta Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday April 26Nanaimo Timbermen vs. Coquitlam Adanacs, 2 p.m.New Westminster Salmonbellies vs. Victoria Shamrocks, 5 p.m.Port Coquitlam Saints vs. Burnaby Lakers, 7 p.m.

National Lacrosse LeagueWest W L GB Pct GF GAy-Edmonton 11 5 - .688 212 155x-Colorado 9 8 2.5 .529 202 205Calgary 6 11 5.5 .353 198 204Vancouver 5 11 6 .313 189 234

East W L GB Pct GF GAx-Toronto 13 4 - .765 220 178x-Rochester 11 5 1.5 .688 179 154Buffalo 8 7 4 .533 179 180Minnesota 5 11 7.5 .313 160 198New England 4 10 7.5 .286 154 185

Friday’s resultsToronto 15, New England 12Colorado 11, Rochester 10

Saturday’s resultsCalgary 10, Minnesota 6Edmonton 13, Colorado 12Rochester 13, Vancouver 9

Saturday, April 25Vancouver at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.New England at Rochester, 4:30 p.m.Edmonton at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 26Buffalo at New England, 3 p.m.

English FA Cup - SemifinalsYesterday’s resultReading 1, Arsenal 2

Yesterday’s resultAston Villa 2, Liverpool 1

FA Cup Final, May 30Aston Villa vs. Arsenal

English Premier LeaguePosition/Club W D L GF GA Pts1 Chelsea 23 7 2 65 26 762 Arsenal 20 6 6 63 32 663 Man United 19 8 6 59 31 654 Man City 19 7 7 67 34 645 Liverpool 17 6 9 47 36 576 Tot Hotspur 17 6 10 53 47 577 Southampton 17 5 11 45 24 568 Swansea 13 8 12 38 42 479 Stoke City 13 7 13 38 41 4610 West Ham 11 10 12 42 42 4311 Crystal Pal 11 9 13 42 45 4212 Everton 10 11 12 41 43 4113 West Brom 9 9 15 32 464 3614 Newcastle 9 8 16 34 540 3515 Aston Villa 8 8 17 24 451 3216 Sunderland 5 14 13 25 483 2917 Hull City 6 10 16 29 456 2818 Leicester 7 7 18 34 517 2819 Q.P. Rangers 7 5 21 38 591 2620 Burnley 5 11 17 26 515 26

Sunday’s resultsManchester City 2, West Ham 0Newcastle 1, Spurs 3

Saturday, April 25Southampton vs. Spurs, 4:45 a.m.Burnley vs. Leicester, 7 a.m.Crystal Palace vs. Hull, 7 a.m.Newcastle vs. Swansea, 7 a.m.QPR vs. West Ham, 7 a.m.Stoke vs. Sunderland, 7 a.m.West Brom vs. Liverpool, 7 a.m.Man City vs. Aston Villa, 9:30 a.m.

SOCCERMLS

Sunday’s resultsNew England 2, Philadelphia 1Portland 1, NY City FC 0

Friday, April 24NY City FC at Chicago, 5 p.m.Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

UEFA Champions League

QuarterfinalsReturn leg (All games at 12:45 p.m.)Today’s scheduleBarcelona vs. Paris St. Germain (Barcelona leads, 3-1)Bayern Munich vs. FC Porto (FC Porto leads, 3-1)

Wednesday, April 22Monaco vs. Juventus (Juventus leads, 1-0)Real Madrid vs. Atletico Madrid (Game 1 tied, 0-0)

Keystone Cup 2015Western Canadian Junior B ChampionshipCold Lake, Alberta

Round Robin - final standingsTeam W L T Pts GF-ACampbell River 4 1 0 8 23-12N Edmonton 3 1 1 7 20-16Saskatoon 3 2 0 6 19-13Thunder Bay 2 2 1 5 16-14Cold Lake 1 3 1 3 15-14Selkirk 0 4 1 1 6-30

Sunday’s finalsBronze medal gameSaskatoon 5, Thunder Bay 4

Gold medalCampbell River 6, North Edmonton 3

Western Canada CupJunior A championshipCasman Centre, Fort McMurray, Alberta

TeamsBCHL, Penticton VeesSaskatchewan JHL: Melfort MustangsManitoba JHL: Portage TerriersAlberta JHL: Spruce Grove SaintsHosts: Fort McMurray Oil Barons

Saturday, April 25Penticton vs. AJHLPortage vs. Fort McMurray

Sunday, April 26Melfort vs. PortageFort McMurray vs. Penticton

Monday, April 27Spruce Grove vs. Melfort

IIHF Ice Hockey U18World ChampionshipApril 16-26, Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland

StandingsGroup B GP W L Pts GF-ACanada 3 3 0 9 18-9Finland 3 3 0 9 12-3Czech Rep 3 1 2 3 7-10Switzerland 3 1 2 2 5-9Latvia 4 0 4 1 10-21

Group A GP W L Pts GF-ARussia 3 3 0 9 13-3USA 3 2 1 6 17-7Slovakia 4 2 2 5 9-18Sweden 3 1 2 3 12-10Germany 3 0 3 0 4-17

Yesterday’s resultsSlovakia 4, Germany 2Switzerland 3, Latvia 2 (OT)

Sunday’s resultsRussia 4,. Slovakia 2Finland 3, Latvia 1United States 6, Sweden 4Canada 3, Czech Republic 2

Saturday’s resultsSweden 7, Germany 1Canada 4, Switzerland 1

Today’s scheduleGermany vs. United States, 5:45 a.m.Finland vs. Canada, 6:45 a.m.Russia vs. Sweden, 9:45 a.m.Switzerland vs. Czech Rep, 10:45 a.m.

Thursday, April 23Quarterfinals (games at 5:45, 7, 9:45 and 11 a.m.)Relegation game, 3:15 a.m.

Friday, April 24Relegation game, 9 a.m.

Saturday, April 25Semifinals, 6 a.m. and 10 a.m.

Sunday, April 26Relegation game, 3 a.m.Bronze medal, 6 a.m.Gold medal 10 a.m.

American Hockey LeagueFinal standings

y-Division champion x-Made playoffs

Sunday’s resultsHartford 2, Bridgeport 1Portland 5, Worcester 4Providence 5, Manchester 1Rochester 5, Adirondack 3Toronto 5, Chicago 2W-B/Scranton 5, Lehigh 1

Calder Cup playoffsAll series best-of-fiveWednesday, April 22 (Games 1)Providence at Hartford, 4 p.m.Utica at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 23 (Games 1)Portland at Manchester, 4 p.m.San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Friday, April 24Hershey at Worcester, 4 p.m.Syracuse at W-B/Scranton, 4:05 p.m.Utica at Chicago, 4 p.m.Rockford at Texas, 4:30 p.m.

Eastern ConferenceAtlantic W L OT SL GF GA Ptsy-Manchester 50 17 6 3 241 176 109x-Providence 41 26 7 2 209 185 91x-Worcester 41 29 4 2 224 198 88x-Portland 39 28 7 2 203 190 87St. John’s 32 33 9 2 183 235 75

Northeast W L OT SL GF GA Ptsy-Hartford 43 24 5 4 221 214 95x-Syracuse 41 25 10 0 218 219 92Springfield 38 28 8 2 192 209 86Albany 37 28 5 6 199 201 85Bridgeport 28 40 7 1 213 246 64

East W L OT SL GF GA Ptsy-Hershey 46 22 5 3 218 181 100x-WB/Scranton 45 24 3 4 212 163 97Binghamton 76 34 34 7 0.500 242 1Lehigh 33 35 7 1 194 237 74Norfolk 27 39 6 4 168 219 64

Western ConferenceNorth W L OT SL GF GA Ptsy-Utica 47 20 7 2 219 182 103x-Toronto 40 27 9 0 207 203 89Hamilton 34 29 12 1 201 208 81Adirondack 35 33 6 2 233 240 78Rochester 29 41 5 1 209 251 64

Midwest W L OT SL GF GA Ptsy-Gr’nd Rapids 46 22 6 2 249 185 100x-Rockford 46 23 5 2 222 180 99x-Chicago 40 29 6 1 210 198 87Lake Erie 35 29 8 4 211 240 82Milwaukee 33 28 8 7 206 218 81

West W L OT SL GF GA Ptsy-San Antonio 45 23 7 1 248 222 98x-Texas 40 22 13 1 242 216 94x-Okla City 41 27 5 3 224 212 90Charlotte 31 38 6 1 172 231 69Iowa 23 49 2 2 172 245 50

Tigers 2, Yankees 1NY Yankees Detroit ab r h bi ab r h biEllsbury CF 4 0 1 0 Davis CF 4 1 1 0Gardner LF 4 0 1 0 Kinsler 2B 4 0 2 0Rodriguez DH 4 0 0 0 Cabrera 1B 3 0 0 0Teixeira 1B 4 1 1 1 Martinez DH 2 1 0 0Beltran RF 3 0 0 0 Martinez RF 3 0 1 1McCann C 3 0 1 0 Cespedes LF 3 0 1 1Headley 3B 3 0 2 0 Cast’anos 3B 2 0 1 0Drew 2B 2 0 0 0 Romine 3B 0 0 0 0Gregorius SS 3 0 1 0 McCann C 2 0 0 0Totals 30 1 7 1 Iglesias SS 2 0 1 0 Totals 25 2 7 2

NY Yankees 010 000 000 1 Detroit 000 000 20x 2

SB: NYY Gardner, B (4, 2nd base off Simon/McCann, J). 2B: NYY McCann (2, Simon). GIDP: NYY Drew, Ellsbury; DET Cabrera, M 2, McCann, J. HR: NYY Teix-eira (4, 2nd inning off Simon, 0 on, 0 out). S: NYY Drew; DET McCann, J. Team Lob: NYY 3; DET 3. DP: NYY 3 (Headley-Drew-Teixeira 3); DET 2 (Kinsler-Iglesias-Cabrera, M 2). PICKOFFS: NYY Sabathia (Iglesias at 1st base).

NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SOC Sabathia (L, 0-3) 8.0 7 2 2 3 5Detroit IP H R ER BB SOA Simon (W, 3-0) 7.1 7 1 1 0 7J Chamberlain 0.2 0 0 0 0 0J Soria 1.0 0 0 0 0 0

Time: 2:20. Att: 27,540.

Red Sox 7, Orioles 1Baltimore Boston ab r h bi ab r h biDe Aza LF 2 0 0 0 Betts CF 4 2 1 0Paredes DH 3 0 1 0 Pedroia 2B 3 1 2 1Jones CF 2 0 0 0 Ortiz DH 2 0 0 1Davis 1B 2 0 0 0 Ramirez LF 1 0 0 0Snider RF 3 1 1 0 Craig LF 2 1 1 1Machado 3B 3 0 0 0 Napoli 1B 2 0 0 1Flaherty 2B 3 0 2 1 Victorino RF 3 0 0 0Lavarnway C 3 0 0 0 Holt 3B 2 0 0 0Cabrera SS 3 0 0 0 Bogaerts SS 2 1 0 0Totals 24 1 4 1 Hanigan C 1 2 1 0 Totals 22 7 5 4

Baltimore 010 000 0 1 Boston 104 002 x 7 (Game called after 6.5 innings, rain)

SB: BAL De Aza (2, 2nd base off Masterson/Hanigan); BOS Betts (4, 2nd base off Chen, W/Lavarnway). 2B: BAL Flaherty (2, Masterson), Paredes (2, Masterson); BOS Pedroia (3, Garcia, Ja). 3B: BAL Snider (1, Masterson). GIDP: BAL Cabrera, E; BOS Ortiz, D. S: BOS Pedroia. Team Lob: BAL 5; BOS 7. DP: BAL (Flaherty-Cabrera, E-Davis, C); BOS (Napoli-Bogaerts). E: BAL Lavarnway (1, throw), Chen, W (1, fielding), Machado, M (1, fielding).

Baltimore IP H R ER BB SOW Chen (L, 0-1) 4.1 3 5 0 5 3J Garcia 1.2 2 2 2 1 0Boston IP H R ER BB SOJ Masterson (W, 2-0) 5.0 3 1 1 3 6J Tazawa 1.1 1 0 0 0 1R Ross 0.2 0 0 0 0 0HBP: Hanigan (by Chen, W).

Time: 2:21 (1:42 delay). Att: 36,829.

Reds 6, Brewers 1Cincinnati Milwaukee ab r h bi ab r h biHamilton CF 5 1 1 0 Segura SS 4 0 0 0Votto 1B 4 1 2 2 Lucroy C 3 0 0 0Frazier 3B 4 1 1 0 Maldonado C 1 0 0 0Bruce RF 4 1 1 0 Braun RF 4 1 1 1Byrd LF 4 1 0 0 Lind 1B 3 0 1 0Pena C 1 0 1 1 Davis LF 4 0 0 0Cozart SS 4 1 1 3 Ramirez 3B 3 0 0 0Negron 2B 3 0 0 0 Parra CF 3 0 0 0DeSclafani P 3 0 1 0 Gomez 2B 3 0 1 0Sch’maker PH 1 0 1 0 Peralta P 2 0 0 0Badenhop P 0 0 0 0 Smith P 0 0 0 0Totals 33 6 9 6 Schafer PH 1 0 0 0 Rodriguez P 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 1 3 1

Cincinnati 000 004 200 6 Milwaukee 000 000 001 1

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Reds 6, Brewers 1 (Cont’d)

SB: CIN Frazier (1, 2nd base off Peralta, W/Lucroy). 2B: MIL Lind (5, DeSclafani). 3B: CIN Hamilton, B (1, Peralta, W). GIDP: CIN Frazier. HR: CIN Cozart (2, 6th inning off Peralta, W, 2 on, 2 out), Votto (5, 7th inning off Peralta, W, 1 on, 1 out); MIL Braun (1, 9th inning off Badenhop, 0 on, 1 out). Team Lob: CIN 6; MIL 4. DP: CIN (Pena, B-Votto); MIL (Ramirez, Ar-Lind). E: CIN Frazier (2, throw), Votto (2, missed catch); MIL Lucroy (2, throw).

Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SOA DeSclafani (W, 2-0) 8.0 2 0 0 1 5B Badenhop 1.0 1 1 1 0 2Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SOW Peralta (L, 0-2) 7.0 8 6 6 3 5W Smith 1.0 0 0 0 1 0F Rodriguez 1.0 1 0 0 1 1

Time: 2:23. Att: 26,660.

Rangers 2, Penguins 1First Period1. New York, Hagelin (1) (Girardi, Yandle) 8:43Penalties: Cole Pit (Cross checking) 3:10, Nash Nyr (High-sticking) 13:11

Second Period2. New York, Kreider (1) (Girardi, Staal) 11:07Penalties: Martin Pit (Cross checking) 8:57, McDonagh Nyr (Slashing) 12:16, Kunitz Pit (Cross checking) 12:16, Staal Nyr (Interference) 18:04

Third Period3. Pittsburgh, Hornqvist (1) (Cole, Crosby) 13:12Penalties: Boyle Nyr (Roughing) 16:31, Perron Pit (Roughing) 16:31, Kunitz Pit (Roughing) 20:00

Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd TNew York 7 12 7 26Pittsburgh 3 8 13 24

Goaltending summary:New York: Lundqvist (23/24), Pitts-burgh: Fleury (24/26)

Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):New York: 0 of 2, Pittsburgh: 0 of 2

Att: 18,645

Wild 3, Blues 0First PeriodNo scoringPenalties: Jackman Stl (Cross checking Chris Stewart) 13:41

Second Period1. Minnesota, Pominville (2) (Granlund, Parise) 14:082. Minnesota, Parise (1) (Pominville, Granlund) 16:13Penalties: Steen Stl (Hooking Mikael Granlund) 1:23

Third Period3. Minnesota, Niederreiter (1) 17:58 (PP)Penalties: Ott Stl (Roughing Jared Spurgeon (Served by Dmitrij Jaskin)) 19:02

Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd TSt. Louis 4 6 7 17Minnesota 9 11 4 24

Goaltending summary:St. Louis: Allen (21/23), Minnesota: Dubnyk (17/17)

Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):St. Louis: 0 of 0, Minnesota: 0 of 3

Att: 19,165

Cubs 5, Pirates 2Chicago Cubs Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h biFowler CF 5 0 0 0 Harrison 3B 4 0 0 0Soler RF 5 2 4 0 Polanco RF 4 1 1 0Rizzo 1B 3 1 2 0 Scahill P 0 0 0 0Bryant 3B 4 1 3 3 McCutchen CF 4 0 2 1Montero C 4 0 1 0 Walker 2B 4 0 1 0Castro SS 4 0 2 0 Marte LF 4 1 1 1Coghlan LF 3 0 0 0 Alvarez 1B 4 0 0 0Denorfia LF 1 1 1 0 Cervelli C 3 0 0 0Arrieta P 3 0 0 0 Kang SS 3 0 0 0Castillo PH 1 0 0 0 Burnett P 2 0 0 0Strop P 0 0 0 0 Caminero P 0 0 0 0Rosscup P 0 0 0 0 Bastardo P 0 0 0 0Herrera 2B 4 0 1 1 Lambo PH-RF 1 0 0 0Totals 37 5 14 4 Totals 33 2 5 2

Chicago Cubs 000 010 310 5 Pittsburgh 100 000 001 2

SB: CHC Rizzo (3, 2nd base off Burnett, AJ/Cervelli), Herrera, J (3, 3rd base off Bastardo/Cervelli); PIT Polanco, G (4, 2nd base off Arrieta/Montero, M). 2B: CHC Soler (2, Caminero), Bryant (2, Caminero); PIT Walker (4, Arrieta), Mc-Cutchen (2, Arrieta). GIDP: CHC Bryant, Arrieta. HR: PIT Marte, S (4, 9th inning off Rosscup, 0 on, 2 out). Team Lob: CHC 9; PIT 4. DP: PIT 2 (Harrison, J-Walker-Alvarez, P, Kang-Walker-Alvarez, P).

Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SOJ Arrieta (W, 2-1) 7.0 4 1 1 0 7P Strop 1.0 0 0 0 0 2Z Rosscup 1.0 1 1 1 0 1Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SOA Burnett 6.0 8 1 1 2 1A Caminero (L, 0-1) 1.0 2 3 2 1 1A Bastardo 1.0 2 1 1 0 1R Scahill 1.0 2 0 0 0 0HBP: Rizzo (by Burnett, AJ).

Time: 2:50 (:51 delay). Att: 11,777.

White Sox 4, Indians 3Cleveland Chicago Sox ab r h bi ab r h biKipnis 2B 4 0 0 0 Eaton CF 3 0 1 0Aviles CF 3 1 2 0 Cabrera LF 4 0 1 1Brantley LF 4 0 1 1 Abreu 1B 4 0 1 0Santana 1B 4 0 0 0 LaRoche DH 4 0 0 0Raburn DH 3 1 2 1 Garcia RF 4 1 2 0Sands RF 2 0 0 0 Gillaspie 3B 3 1 1 0Murphy RF 1 0 0 0 Ramirez SS 4 1 1 2Chisenhall 3B 4 0 0 0 Soto C 2 0 0 0Hayes C 4 1 1 1 Shuck PH 1 0 0 0Ramirez SS 4 0 0 0 Flowers C 1 1 1 0Totals 33 3 6 3 Johnson 2B 2 0 1 0 Beckham 2B 2 0 1 1 Totals 34 4 10 4

Cleveland 011 010 000 3 Chicago Sox 000 000 004 4

HR: CLE Raburn (1, 2nd inning off Danks, J, 0 on, 0 out), Hayes (1, 5th inning off Danks, J, 0 on, 0 out). SB: CWS Johnson, Mica (2, 2nd base off Bauer/Hayes).

Cleveland IP H R ER BB SOT Bauer 7.0 4 0 0 2 7N Hagadone 0.2 0 0 0 1 1B Shaw 0.1 0 0 0 0 1C Allen (L, 0-2) 0.1 6 4 4 1 1Chicago Sox IP H R ER BB SOJ Danks 6.0 6 3 3 2 4D Jennings 1.2 0 0 0 1 1S Putnam 0.1 0 0 0 0 0D Robertson (W, 1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2

Time: 2:53. Att: 13,055.

Eastern LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GANY Red Bulls 11 5 3 0 2 9 4DC United 11 6 3 1 2 6 5N. England 11 7 3 2 2 6 7Columbus 8 6 2 2 2 8 5Orlando 8 7 2 3 2 6 8Chicago 6 5 2 3 0 5 7NY City FC 6 7 1 3 3 5 6Philadelphia 6 8 1 4 3 9 13Toronto 3 5 1 4 0 8 11Montreal 2 4 0 2 2 2 6

Western LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GAVancouver 16 8 5 2 1 10 7Dallas 13 7 4 2 1 10 10Los Angeles 11 7 3 2 2 8 7Seattle 10 6 3 2 1 9 5San Jose 9 7 3 4 0 7 9Houston 9 7 2 2 3 6 4Salt Lake 9 6 2 1 3 6 5Portland 9 7 2 2 3 7 7Sporting KC 9 7 2 2 3 7 8Colorado 6 6 1 2 3 5 5

American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkBoston 8 5 .615 - W1Baltimore 7 6 .538 1.0 L1NY Yankees 6 7 .462 2.0 L1Tampa Bay 6 7 .462 2.0 L3Toronto 6 7 .462 2.0 L1Central W L PCT GB StrkDetroit 11 2 .846 - W2Kansas City 10 3 .769 1.0 W2Chicago Sox 5 7 .417 5.5 W1Minnesota 5 8 .385 6.0 L1Cleveland 4 8 .333 6.5 L2West W L PCT GB StrkHouston 6 6 .500 - W2Oakland 7 7 .500 - W1Seattle 5 7 .417 1.0 W2LA Angels 5 8 .385 1.5 L3Texas 5 8 .385 1.5 L2

National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Mets 10 3 .769 - W8Atlanta 8 4 .667 1.5 W1Washington 6 7 .462 4.0 W1Philadelphia 4 9 .308 6.0 L1Miami 3 10 .231 7.0 L4Central W L PCT GB StrkSt. Louis 8 3 .727 - W5Chicago Cubs 7 5 .583 1.5 W1Cincinnati 6 7 .462 3.0 W1Pittsburgh 6 7 .462 3.0 L1Milwaukee 2 11 .154 7.0 L6West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 9 3 .750 - W7San Diego 9 5 .643 1.0 W2Arizona 7 6 .538 2.5 W1Colorado 7 6 .538 2.5 L4San Francisco 4 10 .286 6.0 L1

Ducks 5 Jets 4 (OT)First Period1. Winnipeg, Stempniak (1) (Lowry, Trouba) 9:382. Anaheim, Fowler (1) (Cogliano, Silfverberg) 19:53Penalties: Trouba Wpg (Holding) 15:50, Kesler Ana (Roughing) 18:43, Lowry Wpg (Roughing) 18:43

Second Period3. Anaheim, Perry (3) (Beauchemin, Lindholm) 3:084. Winnipeg, Myers (1) 6:40 (PP)5. Winnipeg, Wheeler (1) (Stafford, Enstrom) 9:376. Anaheim, Silfverberg (2) (Kesler) 16:047. Winnipeg, Little (1) 18:18Penalties: Lindholm Ana (Holding the Stick) 0:31, Byfuglien Wpg (Roughing) 3:08, Byfuglien Wpg (Tripping) 11:16

Third Period8. Anaheim, Kesler (1) (Cogliano, Silfverberg) 17:46Penalties: Vatanen Ana (Delaying Game - Puck over Glass) 18:11

First Overtime9. Anaheim, Rakell (1) (Cogliano, Beauchemin) 5:12

Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd OT TAnaheim 7 13 7 3 30Winnipeg 12 13 9 1 35

Goaltending summary:Anaheim: Andersen (31/35), Winnipeg: Pavelec (26/31)

Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Anaheim: 0 of 3, Winnipeg: 1 of 3

Att: 15,016

SCOREBOARD

Lelisa Desisa, of Ethiopia, crosses the finish line to win the men’s division of the Boston Marathon on Monday in Boston. [AP PHOTO]

B4 | DAILY NEWS | TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015 SPORTS

Desisa wins second Boston MarathonJIMMY GOLEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — Lelisa Desisa won his first Boston Marathon in 2013.

He didn’t have much time to celebrate.A few hours after Desisa broke the tape on

Boylston Street on Patriots’ Day, two bombs near the finish line turned what should be the pinnacle of any distance runner’s career into an afterthought.

Desisa earned his second Boston Marathon title Monday, finishing in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 17 sec-onds to claim a golden olive wreath, the $150,000 first prize and a winner’s medal to replace the one he donated to the city two years ago in mem-ory of the victims.

And this one he plans to enjoy.“This medal, I think, is for me,” Desisa said.Kenya’s Carolina Rotich won the women’s race,

beating Mare Dibaba in a shoulder-to-shoulder sprint down Boylston Street to win by 4 seconds as the world’s most prestigious marathon took a tentative step back toward normal.

Boston Athletic Association spokesman Jack Fleming interrupted the winner’s news confer-ence to place the trophy on the table next to Desisa and 2014 winner Meb Keflezighi and thank them both for helping the race heal.

“In 2013, Lelisa had won and we were sitting in these same chairs. And then soon after, and unfortunately, Lelisa did not get to have the kind of victory celebration that a champion of the Boston Marathon should have,” Fleming said. “Lelisa, we want you to get your due today.”

Desisa was in the leading pack for the entire race, pulling away to beat countryman Yemane Adhane Tsegay by 31 seconds in the first 1-2 fin-ish for Ethiopia in the race’s history. Kenya’s Wil-son Chebet was third, another 34 seconds back.

Dathan Ritzenhein of Rockford, Michigan, was the first American, in seventh.

Keflezighi finished eighth a year after his victory.

DIVERSIONS TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015 | DAILY NEWS | B5

HI AND LOIS

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

SHERMAN’S LAGOON

BLONDIE

BABY BLUES

BC

ARCTIC CIRCLE

CRANKSHAFT

ZITS

ANDY CAPP

WORD FIND

CROSSWORD

CRYPTOQUOTE

BRIDGE

SOLUTION: THE GREAT ACHIEVERS

Questions Dealer: South None vulnerable

NORTH ♠K85 ♥K7 ♦AK82 ♣QJ63

WEST EAST ♠A974 ♠QJ106 ♥43 ♥Q2 ♦Q1053 ♦J76 ♣K95 ♣A1084

SOUTH ♠32 ♥AJ109865 ♦94 ♣72

W N E S 3♥ Pass 4♥ All Pass Opening Lead: ♦3

South won the king and drew trump with the heart king and

ace. He followed with a club but West rose with the king and shot back the spade four. Declarer put up the king and ten tricks were in the bank, N- S +420. West’s spade switch was a good plan which would have presented South with a losing option had he owned the jack of spades. The early play intimated that partner owned the jack of diamonds and thus he needed declarer to hold a 2,7,2,2 distribution for the defense to have a chance of defeating the game. Unfortunately, South had no guess in the spade suit. North rejected any notion of advancing to 3NT fearing that there would be no entry to dummy when the heart suit does not run. The non- vulnerable first seat pre-empt could be based upon a very weak hand and, therefore, North should opt for the major suit game. On this layout, North would emerge with ten tricks when East begins with the queen of spades. North scores seven heart tricks with that suit breaking 2-2. He will be confronted with a perplexing problem after playing king and another heart if East follows with the remaining spot-card. If he misguesses, he will suffer a multi-trick set in the nine-trick game. Author: Dave Willis - visit his website at www.insidebridge.ca Questions on bridge can be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The New Canadian Bridge c/o Torstar Syndication Services, One Yonge St., Toronto, M5E 1E6.

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B6 | DAILY NEWS | TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015 CLASSIFIEDS/SPORTS

SOCCER

Liverpool at a crossroad again after losing to Aston Villa in FA Cup semiROB HARRIS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — While rarely short on bravado or self-confidence these days, Brendan Rodgers did betray a sense of trepidation when taking the Liverpool job.

“It’s the start of a long, hard journey for us,” Rodgers said in a rare televised dressing room team talk before his first game in charge in 2012. “If it was easy it wouldn’t be worth doing . . . you can only trust yourselves.”

How much longer, though, will Liverpool’s owners trust Rodg-ers with the job that turned Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley into such managerial titans in the last century? He seems safe for now, but not since the 1950s has a Liverpool manager — Shankly’s predecessor Phil Taylor — failed to win a trophy in his first three seasons.

Even Kenny Dalglish won a tro-phy — the League Cup — during a stop-gap forlorn 16-month sec-ond spell in charge before mak-ing way for Rodgers in 2012.

Dalglish will always be revered at Anfield for collecting titles as a player and then the coach, including Liverpool’s last topf-light title in 1990. But the 42-year-old Rodgers, who joined after winning admiration at Swansea, is still waiting for his first trophy in management.

Rodgers came close to ending Liverpool’s long wait for the Pre-mier League title last May, but a late-season collapse allowed Manchester City to seize the tro-phy and it’s been downhill since then.

A 2-1 collapse to Aston Villa in the FA Cup semifinals on Sunday ended Rodgers’ last track to a tropy this season. In the glare of a capacity Wembley Stadium and global television audience, it was a day that encapsulated Liver-pool’s season on the slide and the lack of significant progress in the five years since the Bos-ton Red Sox ownership group

rescued the club from financial collapse.

Outwitted by younger and less experienced Villa counterpart Tim Sherwood, Rodgers seemed to be constantly changing forma-tions against a team which in the Premier League is embroiled in a relegation scrap.

Liverpool captain Steven Ger-rard, once the heartbeat of the team, returned from a three-match suspension but seemed as absent as in recent weeks as he struggled to impose himself against the more dynamic Villa players.

The botched handling of Ger-rard’s future has been another misstep by Rodgers and the hier-archy this year. The 34-year-old midfielder will end his lifelong association with Liverpool in May and join the Los Angeles Galaxy.

The arrival at halftime at Wem-bley of Mario Balotelli provided a reminder of the worst decision of the Rodgers era.

The enigmatic Italy striker was signed to replace prolific scorer Luis Suarez in a panic purchase at the end of the summer trans-fer window. Balotelli has been nothing but trouble for Rodgers, who seemed relieved recently that the languid player ruled himself out of matches.

With a solitary Premier League goal to his name, Liverpool will struggle to recoup the $24 million transfer fee. Balotelli was the latest underwhelming signing of the Rodgers era which has seen more than $300 million spent on players.

And the revenue coming into Liverpool will drop next season, with a return to the Champions League looking less likely as the top four in the league drift fur-ther away.

Rodgers’ big achievement last season was securing Liverpool’s return to the European elite after five years. But the team slumped out in the group stage with Rodg-ers criticized for fielding a weak-

ened team in a glamor match at Real Madrid.

And having given into Suarez’s desire last July to join Barcelona for more than $100 million, Rodg-ers might soon have to face up to losing the team’s latest star, Raheem Sterling. After declin-ing a new contract and avoiding committing his future to Liver-pool in a subsequent interview, Sterling is entering the final two years of his deal.

The winger has denied being a “money-grabbing 20-year old” after turning down a weekly pay packet of 100,000 pounds ($150,000).

Former vice captain Jamie Car-ragher pointedly tweeted after Sunday’s game, without naming any players or members of the management: “Big games need big players to do big things. Not many of them at Lfc which make wages demands of some ridicu-lous & the recruitment worse.”

For now, Liverpool is at a cross-road — again.

Liverpool’s captain Steven Gerrard, right, looks on as Aston Villa fans celebrate after the end f the English FA Cup semifinal soccer match between Liverpool and Aston Villa at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]

West Indies to host England againTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada — West Indies captain Denesh Ramdin is counting on restored leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo to play a key role in the second test against England starting at the National Stadium on Tuesday.

Bishoo was recalled for his first test since 2012 as a replacement for left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn, who was dropped after a lacklustre performance in the drawn first match in Antigua.

“He has been bowling really well in the regional tournament and has worked hard since he came back into the camp and I believe he will have a significant part to play in this match,” Ram-din said after team practice Mon-day morning.

“He bowls some beauties so let’s hope we get a lot of beauties in this match.”

Ramdin said the pitch for the match “looks a good one,” but he expected help for the spinners on the fourth and fifth days.

Bishoo, 29, was named Emer-ging Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council in 2011 after an impressive start to his test career.

He lost form, and his place in the team, a year later after 11 tests in which he took 40 wickets.

He was the second leading wicket-taker in the 2014-15 regional Caribbean Professional League with 61 wickets in 10 matches for champions Guyana. He is expected to be the only change in the West Indies XI which battled to a draw on the final day in the first test after being outplayed for most of the match.

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Dear Annie: When I was grow-ing up, the rule was that if you had to cancel an appointment, you would call to let the per-son know that your plans had changed. Now that everyone has cellphones, it seems that the rules have changed.

A couple of friends stood me up on my birthday because my cell-phone was turned off. They said they didn’t come over because I hadn’t called to verify that I was actually going to be there at the appointed time. But we had already made these plans a week before. I thought I only needed to call if I was NOT going to be there. Am I out of touch with how things are done now?

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Doerr wins Pulitzer Prize for fi ctionTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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Digest by Gregory Pardlo has won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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