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It was never necessarily Joe Egan’s plan to become a guitar maker. Growing up in the paper-mill town of Fort Francis, Ont., he fell
into music as an early escape. A musician in a “spazzy jazz
metal” band called Tugnut, after five years on the road touring he realized he wanted to take a dif-ferent path.
Still a music lover, he wanted to stay in the business, and decided to build himself a few guitars that he liked. It turned out that building guitars was a delicate and challenging task he thor-oughly enjoyed.
Now 32, he runs a workshop on an idyllic horse farm in Cassidy, the tidy lines of tools and guitar molds on the wall a testament to his focused, disciplined approach to the craft.
It’s a business not typically associated with youth; those at the top of their game and whose guitars are in high demand often have at least 30 years’ experi-ence. However, Egan is slowly
building a name for himself, and has a steady base of customers extending into the U.S. now com-ing back for second guitars.
This is due in part not only to the long hours of dedication he has invested but his outside-the-box inclin-ation to do something different.
“My stuff’s not that radical but it’s . . . not so much a tribute to trad-itional styles, it’s a little branch out,” said Egan, who builds and bends every part of the instru-ment by hand rather than use any machines.
“There’s easier ways to go about building, quick-er paths — easier sells — but I want to be fully engaged on every single build.”
He pulls a case out and shows a guitar with a body shape that is enough unlike a guitar that it almost appears to be a different instrument.
Built for a client in New York,
it’s a custom seven-string acous-tic guitar that features fanned frets, which were first intro-duced by builder Ralph Novak in the 1980s.
“We’re working with different scale lengths with every single string,” he said. “It’s seven-string. I mean, they’re out there, but when you start doing something like this there’s no documen-tation. You can’t look up what your favourite builder did. I’m not say-ing it’s recreating the wheel, but when you venture out from the standard stuff you’re on your own.”
One thing Egan has also experimented with
recently is different sized sound holes and how that affects tone.
As with any deviation from the norm, there is always a risk the instrument will “blow up,” said Egan.
“We always say, with hand-
made instruments, it’s walking that line between overbuilt and underbuilt, having it on the verge of explosion,” he said, and with every build there are hun-dreds of pounds of pressure and tension involved. “We get down to fractions of a millimetre. And fractions of a millimetre across the whole top can change the whole box.”
Egan has been going hard for about three and a half years in his current location, and though he plans to be in the business for the long haul, it’s important that he continues to love his work.
He said his focus now is on building collaborative relation-ships with musicians so they can meet in the middle with their ideas.
“When you see people using your guitars, man, that’s what it’s all about,” he said with a smile.
Julie.Chadwick @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4238
CITY
Dams issue back before council
Making musicLocal guitar-maker Joe Egan is relatively new to the industry, but his ‘out there’ style
is beginning to catch on as his clientele grows into the United States
JulieChadwickReporting
Joe Egan slowly building his brand in a unique industry
SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
Nanaimo council will vote Monday on approving the mem-bership and terms of reference for a special select committee to oversee work at the lower Col-liery dam.
The select committee is also tasked with preparing a concep-tual plan for the middle Colliery dam.
The committee was called for aspart of motion passed by council last week authorizing the city to submit design and construction plan information to the province to build an auxiliary spillway on the lower dam to ensure the dam can withstand a severe flood.
The project is controversial to some park users and even some members of council.
The motion passed by council Monday calls for an independent investigation on “problems and issues” that have arisen in rela-tion to the project.
The committee will be made up of members of the controversial former technical committee set up by the city in 2013 to develop and recommend remediation options for the dams.
The ‘controversial’ part of the committee was that the meetings were not open to the public and its membership was not fully disclosed.
Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay said he does not believe that will be the case this time around.
“I believe it’s council’s inten-tion to have those meetings in the open,” he said, “with ques-tions (from the public).”
McKay said he is aware of three people eager take part on the committee, which will include representatives from Snuney-muxw First Nation and the cit-izens’ group Colliery Dams Park Preservation Society.
Another group, the Dams Dir-ect Action Group, has pledged it will take part in civil disobedi-ence in the park to prevent installation of the lower dam auxiliary spillway.
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MONDAY, JULY 27
6:40 p.m. Weekly bingo. Doors open at 4:45 p.m. Loonies pot, G-ball, bonanza, and 50/50 draw. Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre, 9824 willow St. Everyone welcome, every Monday.
7-9 p.m. Island Counselling offers women’s support and wellness group. Every Monday, by donation, register at 250-754-9988. Starts when filled — lim-ited spaces. Not a drop in, must register at 250-754-9988.
TUESDAY, JULY 28
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Irwin Street work parties. An opportunity to visit the community garden, for hands-on volun-teering, tours and field trips and work-shops. Children and families welcome. 256 Needham St.
7 p.m. Genevieve Rainey, Nick Begg, Mark Bunt at The Dinghy Dock Pub. Tickets are $20 in advance which includes return ferry, from the artists, The Dinghy Dock Pub, or online at ticketzone.com.
FRIDAY, JULY 31
4-6 p.m. Bastion Waterfront Farmers Market. Great selection of farmers, growers, bakers, crafters and so many more vendors. Enjoy live music and local products on Nanaimo’s original farmers market every Friday right next to the Bastion.
SATURDAY, AUG. 1
8:30 a.m. to noon Qualicum Beach Farmers Market. For fresh fruits, vege-tables, berries, plants, cut flowers, fresh baked goods, jams, jellies, fish, chicken and pork, and a range of local crafts. Every week until Dec. 19, 2015 except Dec 27, and Jan. 3, 2015. Memorial and Veterans Way, Qualicum Beach.
9-11:30 a.m. Summer Art Camps 2015,
to connect with professional artists, learn new techniques, develop skills and have fun making art. Art Lab 150 Commercial St. Register at ireg.nanaimo.ca or call 250-756-5200. Quote registration code 135964. $100, art supplies included. Instructor: Carole Brooke.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Parksville Orange Bridge 716 E. Island Highwy, in Parksville. A public market with a wide variety of tal-ented vendors. A lively event with parrots from the Coombs Parrot Refuge and live jazz by Bela Varga; and local buskers.
10:30 a.m. to noon Summer Saturday Studios. Exploratory, hands-on work-shops for ages 5-11, inspired by the Nanaimo Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Spirit Gum. Call 250-754-1750 to register.
Cost: $12 per child ($18 for two siblings) Art Lab at Nanaimo Art Gallery, 150 Commercial St.
Noon to 5 p.m. Pet Pantry means free pet food for low-income pet owners, hosted by Island Veterinary Hospital. Aug. 1 deadline to get a coupon for the Aug. 6 event. Must have photo I.D. to qualify for a bag of pet food. SPCA shel-ter 2200 Labieux Rd.
1-4 p.m. Summer Art Camps 2015 to connect with professional artists, learn new techniques, develop your skills, and have fun making art. Art Lab 150 Com-mercial St., Register at ireg.nanaimo.ca or call 250-756-5200 (Registration Code: 135966) $100: All art supplies included. Instructor: Carole Brooke.
SUNDAY, AUG.2
7 a.m. Gates open for Van Isle Show and Shine at Parksville Community Beach Park The Van Isle Shriners’ 26th - more than 250 vintage and classic cars, food vendors and more. Free event. Show entry fee $20 that morning. www.vanisle-shrinersshowandshine.com.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cedar Farmers Market. Next to the fields of the Crow and Gate pub field. A new parking lot has just been added. 2313 Yellow Point Rd, Cedar.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gabriola Sunday Market every Sunday through August at Silva Bay vendors from the Island and Nanaimo and region get together to sell their local goods. Local organic produce, handy crafts and much more. Live music.
1:30 to 4 p.m. Lantzville Farmers Market. Top local foods, products and services. Premiere vendors, fair prices, diverse selection, good quality and a one-of-a-kind atmosphere. St. Phillips Church parking lot, 7113 Lantzville Rd.
MONDAY, AUG. 3
6:40 p.m. Weekly bingo. Doors open at 4:45 p.m. Loonies pot, G-ball, bonanza, and 50/50 draw. Chemainus Seniors Drop-in Centre, 9824 willow St. Everyone welcome, every Monday.
7-9 p.m. Island Counselling offers women’s support and wellness group. Every Monday, by donation, register at 250-754-9988. Starts when filled — lim-ited spaces. Not a drop in, must register at 250-754-9988.
TUESDAY, AUG. 4
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Irwin Street work parties. An opportunity to visit the community garden, for hands-on volunteering, tours and field trips and workshops. Children and families welcome. 256 Needham St.
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HEALTH
WHY NANAIMO?A look at why people choose to make the Harbour City home
Business grows into impressive enterprise
During the late 1970s, a large cheese manu-facturing company in
Nanaimo was embroiled in a labour dispute. Entrepreneur George Thomson saw that as an opportunity to launch Paradise Island Foods. It started out as a home business, Thomson would buy cheese in bulk, chop it and distribute it to local business. In 2003 Thomson passed his business to his sons, Kevin and Len. The family run business has evolved into a 37,000 square-foot manufacturing and warehousing facility with a fleet of semi-trail-ers and a nationwide distribution network. A few years ago the brothers purchased Bothwell Cheese, which is based out of Winnipeg. Len is the president of Paradise Island Cheese and Kevin is the president of Both-well Cheese.
Why did you decide to keep Paradise Island Foods in Nanaimo?
It would make sense for us to be positioned in Vancouver, but we’ve chosen Nanaimo. This is home for all of our team, our employees, this is home and always will be.
Kevin is the president and CEO of Bothwell Cheese but Kevin still resides in Nanaimo. Kevin commutes, he’s in Winnipeg every two weeks but his family, home, culture, everything is here in Nanaimo, we have no desire to move. We very much enjoy it here, we love Vancouver Island, we love what’s to offer recrea-tionally and love the people here.
What challenges have you faced?
One of the attributes of Van-couver Island many years ago was that there was a lot of
independent business. We’ve seen over the years a lot of the independent businesses have been purchased. Vancouver Island for the longest time was the independent market of Can-ada and still very much is. What has happened over time is the independents have somewhat been reduced as large corpora-tions come on the Island.
That has impacted our busi-ness in that there’s not as many independents as there used to be. What we have done is grown our business, now more than
50 per cent of our business is off Vancouver Island, and yes, we stay here.
What are your future plans for the business?
We want to continue to grow our brand and specifically what separates our brand from the national brand. Our advantage is we don’t use any modified milk ingredients or any other fillers.
What advice do you have to entrepreneurs just starting out?
My recommendation is to take
their vision, put it into a solid business plan and find your point of difference to the rest of the market and focus on that. Sweat equity is a big part of how we got to where we have gotten to. It’s a solid plan.
And don’t be afraid to ask for advice. Over the years we’ve gotten a lot of good advice and we’ve heeded it, whether it’s customers, whether it’s vend-ors or even if it’s contracted professionally.
Seek advice.If you could make one change
to Nanaimo, what would it be?I would like to see Nanaimo
promoted more and see more tourism here. There’s so much to offer, so much for people to see.
Nanaimo should be more of a destination rather than a place to pass through.
Vancouver Island on the whole, from the lakes to the mountains to the trails. There’s so much here.
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Paradise Islands Food president Len Thomson says he has no plans on moving the business headquarters out of Nanaimo. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]
Drake R. Britt was sentenced to 14 days of jail for failing to comply with a probation order.
Gordon C. Brooks was handed a $500 fine and a one-year driving prohibition for driving while prohibited.
Stephan A. Fromow received an 18-day jail sentence and a one-year probation order for theft.
Jody C. Hughes was sentenced to 30 days in jail for failing to comply with a probation order.
Kevin P. Lackie was sentenced to 42 days in jail for mischief relating to property.
Walter L. Little received 15 months in jail and a lifetime pro-hibition on owning firearms for robbery.
Michael D. Marleau was hand-ed a $500 fine, a 21-day intermit-tent jail sentence and a two-year driving prohibition for driving while prohibited.
David W. Mosher was sen-tenced to one day in jail for tak-ing a vehicle or vessel of being found inside of a vehicle or ves-sel without the owner’s consent.
Gemma R. Ridley had a condi-
tional sentence order suspended and was instead sentenced to 30 days in jail for possession of property obtained by crime.
Devon F.W. Rogers was handed a $500 fine and a one-year driving prohibition for driving while prohibited.
Jordan D. Plamondon received a one-year driving prohibition and 14 months’ jail, plus a separ-
ate one-year driving prohibition under the motor vehicle act, for dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, aircraft or vessel.
Ryan L. Brackenbury received 13 days in jail for possession of property obtained by crime.
Jason P. Klughart received one day in jail for failing to comply with a probation order.
Stem cell donor aims to inspireDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
After giving the stem cells that helped cure an Ottawa man of leukemia, Nanaimo’s Mike Hog-man wants to inspire others to do the same.
In February 2009, while attending Vancouver Island University, Hogman followed a Facebook link to Canadian Blood Service’s OneMatch stem cell network.
He filled in the information and when the kit arrived in the mail, he swabbed his mouth and sent
the swabs away away, thinking little more of it.
Then in August, CBS called to say his stem cells appear to be a close match for a recipient.
After several layers of screen-ings it turned out he was a match.
In December, he travelled to Vancouver and spent several hours connected to a machine that sweeps stem cells from his blood taken from one arm before returning it to a vein in his other arm.
It was more than a year later
that he learned his donation had saved the life of 44-year-old Huw William, a karate champion, hus-band and father of three.
“He called me, right out of the blue,” Hogman said.
“He survived. He’s healthy and kicking — running triathlons.
“It’s been pretty cool.”In April 2011, he travelled to
Ottawa to meet Huw and his family. The story received wide-spread media attention.
Hogman has come to realize the immense power of that sim-ple act and now he encourages
others to give up the 10 minutes or so it takes to register, knowing it has the potential to save a life.
“There’s lots of people (who) don’t know about OneMatch,” Hogman said.
Many people assume giving stems cells will involve the trad-itional, painful “punch” method used to extract cells from bone marrow. Today the punch meth-od is only used when the recipi-ent is seriously ill.
“It isn’t as invasive as people like to think.”
Registry in OneMatch means
inclusion in a global database, but a donor’s personal informa-tion remains private. Only gen-etic markers are used.
“We’re not taking their DNA at all.”
Healthy males are the best source of stem cells.
Men aged 17 to 35 are needed to take part in the next swab drive, Tuesday at the Beban Park Social Centre (2300 Bowen Rd).
COURT NEWSCompiled by Daily News
Surprise. Child care is going to be an issue in the fast-ap-proaching federal election
campaign. Last year, Thomas Mulcair
announced an NDP government would partner with provinces to create a million daycare spaces across the country and would cap the cost at $15 daily.
It’s an audacious plan, anath-ema to conservatives big C and small.
But it’s resonating with Can-adian families facing patchwork availability and costs typically above $1,000 per month per child.
The NDP’s big play caused both the Conservatives and the Liberals to increase their focus on parents and children, and now all three parties have
so-called plans. Which is best?The Conservatives recently
announced Universal Child Care Benefit, which will see parents get either $60 or $160 per child monthly, depending on age.
This is a modern version of the family allowance program.
The UCCB is not progressive. It goes to all parents. If you’re
a store clerk you get it. If you’re CEO of a hospital,
you get it. How much will it help? As details emerge, it looks like not much.
The UCCB is taxable, so an Ontario parent receiving an additional $720 in monthly income will pay about $225 back in taxes.
Now consider that the Con-servatives eliminated the existing child tax credit of $2,255 when they introduced the UCCB. Check with your tax person for your specifics. But many experts say the UCCB will result in only about $160 in new income over a year — a whop-ping $13.18 a month.
The chief benefit of the NDP plan is that it actually is a strategy.
In Quebec, a similar effort allowed 70,000 women to work
who couldn’t afford to previous-ly. That’s why, Mulcair argues, this is an economic plan as well as a child care plan.
More affordable care, more parents working, more income and spending, more taxes to the treasury. The biggest hole in the NDP plan? Cost.
Quebec is struggling with its system and may have to index the cost based household income. Mulcair says the federal plan would start out costing about $290 million but that would escalate to $5 billion eight years in. Can Ottawa really afford it?
The Liberal plan would cost an incremental $2 billion.
The Canada Child Benefit would not be taxable but it would be scaled so wealthy
families would receive less while low income parents would receive more. That makes this plan the most progressive.
Affluent Canadian families can afford child care. Governments should be helping families who struggle.
The NDP plan is new social policy, like medicare was in its day. The Liberal proposal is most progressive as it helps those who need it most, but neither it or the Conservative family allowance program address the lack of quality affordable care.
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Opportunity is there to reform the Senate
With three of the four parties calling for a proportional voting system, and all four calling for Senate reform, it seems we have an opportunity. We could elect a new Senate on Oct. 19 using the Single Transferable Vote rec-ommended by the BC Citizen’s Assembly.
Each province could present a slate of say 20 candidates and the voters could rate them from one to 10. Candidates with 50 per cent or more who poll number one (first choice) votes would become senators.
Candidates with less than 50 per cent of the number one votes would have their number two votes tallied in at a reduced value, and so on until 10 are elected.
Voters may vote for less than 10, but no more. Each province would send 10 senators to Ottawa, for a total of 100, reducing the size to a more manageable number.
This system allows the voter to have their second and third choices considered for office. The end result is a proportional Sen-ate, a sea change from the present dysfunctional system with only Liberals and Conservatives run-ning that body.
More than 95 per cent of dem-ocracies use some form of pro-portional voting. They recognize the valuable input they get from representing all their voters.
Such an opportunity may not come again.
Jim ErkiletianNanaimo
Article ‘seems like’ nothing but propaganda
How pitiful to print in bold head-lines “NDP using mother’s child’s benefits as a fundraising tool,” then to continue by saying “it seems like.”
How about if I say that this arti-cle “seems like” pure propaganda from someone who is running scared of the NDP? This article was not meant to be news, but rather a resort to smear tactics in an unethical bid for votes.
How about “ it seems like” Ste-phen Harper is overstepping the bounds of common decency by using billions of our tax dollars to buy votes?
What about “it seems like” a piti-ful endeavour to squander human lives and billions of tax dollars to fight foreign wars that can’t be won by slaughtering one another.
“It seems like” most everything he does is just a desperate attempt to stay in power.
I was always taught that “good always triumphs over evil.”
“It seems like” that is no longer the case.
“It seems like” evil has infiltrat-ed all governments the world over.
“It seems like” greed is running rampant. I have my preferences, but “it seems like” any govern-ment would be better than what we have been stuck with in Ottawa and British Columbia for what “seems like” an awful long time. “It seems like” there are more horse’s asses in this world than there are horses.
It also “seems like” you probably won’t print this letter anyhow.
John A MartinNanaimo
Community should be welcoming of everyone
So the “elitist” north end of Nanaimo doesn’t want to have “institutions” such as low-income earners and the mentally chal-lenged take up residence in their neighbourhood.
Why not try having these people living as your neighbours? It just may open your minds to more than yourselves. Where is your empathy, or do you just expect the rest of Nanaimo to look after these individuals? Communities are where people live and work, and where people look after each other.
Shame on you “northerners” who will not look after your com-munity’s well-being and are quite happy to download it onto others.
We in the south end of Nanaimo will welcome all Canadians, regardless of their degrees of
intelligence or mental abilities.
Sue SharpNanaimo
‘Big Three’ are not the only choices for voters
I was amused by the editorial cartoon of Friday, July 24, which shows two voters looking dis-gusted as they study a ballot list-ing the names of Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau.
They ask, “Are these my only choices?” Of course not, and how very timely a reminder that the many, many Canadian voters who have lost faith with the “Big Three” parties do indeed have another choice.
A party with an extensive plat-form, a respected and hard-work-ing leader and a surging and dynamic grassroots constituency.
Having held my nose and voted elsewhere in the past, I will be vot-ing Green this year.
K.P. MillerLantzville
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At last, child care on the election agenda“. . . It’s resonating with Canadian families facing patchwork availability and costs typically above $1,000 per month per child.”
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Monday Morning PictorialSnapshots of the mid-Island
Jaime Garcia cheers on his daughter, Deisy, 14, near the finish line. Deisy was the first woman to finish the race.
The iconic bathtub boat makes its way through the streets during the parade Saturday morning.
Lucas Kurt, 12, struggles to keep the drinks balanced during the waiters’ race on Saturday.
Terry Learmouth bails on his boat near the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race finish line. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS PHOTOS]
Nathan Barlow, who finished with the fastest time of 1:15:24, gets interviewed by John Ruttan at the finish line Sunday.
Bathtub weekend a huge success
Footrace decides second, third-place fi nishersAARON HINKS DAILY NEWS
Nathan Barlow has defended his title as the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race champion Sunday for the second consecutive year.
Barlow finished with a time of 1:15:24 and was followed by Justin Lofstrom, Shawn Lamoureux, Cody Drzewiecki and Jaime Garcia.
Barlow has won the title four times and competed in the race for 23 years. Lamoureux and Barlow are good friends and have
always had spectacular finishes in the annual event.
“It was choppy but Shawn and I love this, this is where our boats come alive and to beat us today would have been difficult,” Barlow said. “It’s one of those things with experience. I’m sure my body is getting slower but the experience is going to be hard to beat, and that’s the same with Shawn. We’ve got so many years in it, we just know how to run this stuff.”
Lamoureux got to the beach second, but was beaten in a foot
race to the bell and finished third one millisecond behind Lofstrom.
“In other years I’ve kind of stretched my leg out coming into Departure Bay and I didn’t do that here,” Lamoureux said.
“I actually didn’t realize Justin was so close behind me. If I did I would have got some blood flow to my leg. As soon as I hit the beach my leg was right asleep, I couldn’t put any weight on it, there was a dog fight up the ramp.”
The finish line, which is usually located at Departure Bay, was
moved this year to Maffeo-Sutton Park. The new finish line was located in the shadows of the Frank Ney statue.
“Knowing Frank as well as I did it’s iconic that we finish here,” said race commodore Bill McGuire. “It was a successful year, we had more tubs in this year than we did last year so that’s a good indication that the sport is alive, well, and growing.”
Next year will be the 50th anni-versary for the bathtub race.
McGuire said his team is already planning for the event.
“We’ve got some things up our sleeve and what we hope to do next year is make it a banner year. There is some talk of the old-time tubbers coming back and racing for the 50th year,” said McGuire, who participated in the first-ever bathtub race.
McGuire let out a laugh when asked if he will race next year.
“We’ll see what happens,” he said.
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From left, Justin Lofstrom and Shawn Lamoureux battle their way to ring the bell during the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race.
Brett Johnny, 12, spills a few drinks during the waiters’ race.
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Campaign spending favours ToriesFederal Conservatives’ war chests outstrip rivals, a riding analysis ahead of the 2016 election showsJOAN BRYDEN AND JORDAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — The imminent fed-eral election campaign will see more money splashed around than ever before in Canada and the deep-pocketed Conservatives can claim a decided advan-tage — an edge that increases exponentially if Prime Minister Stephen Harper opts for a longer campaign than usual, new num-ber-crunching shows.
While much as been made of the ruling party’s fundraising prowess at the national level, the biggest impact of an extended campaign will be felt by candi-dates in local riding contests.
An in-depth analysis by The Canadian Press of financing at the grassroots level shows that Conservative candidates’
riding-based war chests are flush with cash, dramatically outpacing their political rivals in efforts to raise and stash away money. A review of the most recent financial statements filed by riding associations to Elections Canada this month show candidates for the NDP,
Liberals, Greens, Bloc Quebecois and other smaller parties simply don’t have the money to compete on a level playing field with Con-servative contenders, whose local war chests are overflowing.
Those 2014 financial reports in each of the country’s 338 constituencies shows that Con-servative electoral district asso-ciations ended the year with net assets totalling more than $19 million — more than the riding associations of the Liberals, New Democrats, Greens and Bloc combined.
Liberal riding associations reported a total of about $8 million in net assets, NDP asso-ciations more than $4.4 million, the Greens at almost $1.2 million and the Bloc at about $410,000.
Under the 2007 fixed-date-elec-tion legislation introduced by
Harper’s government, Canadians will go to the polls on Oct. 19. While the legislation specifies that the campaign must be a minimum of 37 days, it does not specify a maximum length.
That’s important because the new Fair Elections Act provides that for every day beyond the typical five-week campaign, spending limits for national parties and their candidates will increase by one-thirty-seventh, meaning extra days on the cam-paign trail would benefit parties with hefty bank accounts.
That means a party running a full slate of candidates is entitled to spend almost $25 million for a 37-day campaign, with every additional day worth an extra $675,000 to each party’s nation-al spending limit and an extra $2,700 for each candidate who is
entitled to spend an average of about $100,000.
So, if Harper fires the official starting gun in mid-August, as widely speculated, that would boost each party’s spending cap by a whopping $19.6 million and each candidate’s limit by $78,300.
At the national level, the Lib-erals and NDP have upped their fundraising game considerably since the last election but they’re still behind the Conservatives, raising $15 million and $9.5 mil-lion respectively compared to $20.1 million for the Tories, based on Elections Canada financial returns for last year.
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MEDICINE
A variety of the cannabis oil available to customers is shown at the Cannabis Buyers Club, in Victoria on June 11. Canadians who have been prescribed medical marijuana could one day see their insurance company footing the bill, experts predict. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Insurers may soon cover marijuanaALEXANDRA POSADZKI THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — Canadians who have been prescribed medical marijuana could one day see their insurance company footing the bill, experts predict, follow-ing the introduction of new Health Canada rules that allow for the sale of cannabis oils.
Health Canada announced revamped medical marijuana regulations earlier this month after the Supreme Court of Can-ada ruled that users of the drug should be permitted to consume it in other forms, such as oils and edibles, rather than having to smoke dried buds.
“You’re going to see insurance companies slowly start to creep into the sector,” says Khurram Malik, an analyst at Jacob Secur-ities Inc., noting that the new regulations will allow medical marijuana producers to sell gel caps similar to those made from
cod liver oil. That will allow for more precise dosing, Malik says.
“When you’re trying to smoke a plant you have no idea how much you’re consuming, so that makes doctors a little nervous,” he said.
Experts say the changes are a major step towards legitimizing the drug in the eyes of doctors and insurers.
“When something doesn’t look different than other medicines, it becomes much easier for people to get comfortable with the idea that this is, in fact, a possible treatment option for patients,” says Bruce Linton, the chief executive of Smiths Falls, Ont.-based Tweed Marijuana Inc.
However, medical marijuana producers still have one major hurdle to overcome before insur-ers begin routinely funding the drug — cannabis currently doesn’t have a drug identifica-tion number, known as a DIN.
“If it was issued a DIN by
Health Canada, it’s quite likely that the insurance companies would cover it,” says Wendy Hope, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Life and Health Insur-ance Association Inc.
“To obtain a DIN, the new form of medical marijuana would need to go through the full Health Canada approval process like any new drug.”
As it stands, most insurance companies don’t routinely cover medical marijuana. But some insurers, including Manulife, say they will consider making an exception if the employer has specifically requested it for one of its employees.
“It’s up to the employer to ask if they want to have it covered,” says Hope.
Earlier this year, Sun Life agreed to pay for a University of Waterloo’s medical marijuana prescription through his student health plan after the student union went to bat for him.
FLIGHT
Search continues for a missing helicopterTHE CANADIAN PRESS
IQALUIT, Nunavut — Search and rescue officials are still hope-ful a helicopter missing near Baf-fin Island may be found, says a spokesman for Joint Task Force Atlantic.
“There is a lot of ice pans up North, so he may have been able to land there but didn’t have the power to communicate back to us,” said Derek Prescott, a search and rescue navigator on board the Hercules aircraft involved in the search.
“So there is still a chance that we may find him.”
The small Robinson R22 two seater helicopter went missing Saturday afternoon over the Davis Strait while flying from Iqaluit to Nuuk, Greenland.
The pilot, who Prescott said is a Russian citizen, was flying solo.
“He had a GPS that was pro-viding updates, and that’s how
we knew that it seems there was an issue,” Prescott said. “There were no updates coming in.”
In addition to the Hercules aircraft, Prescott said Transport Canada, the Coast Guard, near-by fishing vessels and civilian agency CASARA are aiding in the search. A second Herc and a Cormorant helicopter are also on their way from Nova Scotia’s 14 Wing Greenwood airbase.
Heavy fog and low cloud cover have so far hampered visibility for those searching.
Prescott said the missing pilot may be the same man who is try-ing to become the first person to fly around the Arctic Circle in a small helicopter.
“We don’t want to speculate, but we do believe it is the same person,” Prescott said.
The record-setting hopeful arrived in Iqaluit in a Robinson R22 the day before the search began.
OBITUARY
Former cabinet minister diesTHE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Flora MacDonald, who served as a senior cabinet member in two Conservative federal governments and made a run for the party’s leadership in 1976, died Sunday. She was 89.
MacDonald’s long-time execu-tive assistant Margit Herrman says MacDonald died in Ottawa — the cause of death was not immediately available.
MacDonald was the first woman to hold the foreign affairs portfolio, handling the job in Joe Clark’s short-lived government in 1979 and early 1980.
She headed the department during the Iranian hostage crisis when Canadian diplomats gave shelter to six Americans who escaped capture when their embassy was overrun by student demonstrators. She was among the first to hear that Canada’s ambassador in Iran, Ken Taylor, was hiding the diplomats. Mac-Donald pulled Clark out of the House of Commons to brief him.
Over following weeks, she and Clark worked to manage the carefully guarded secret and handle the rising tensions at home while overseeing plans to spirit them out of Iran.
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WEATHER
Vancouver’s drought brings out the snitchesLAURA KANE THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — On a sunny afternoon in Stanley Park, crick-et players run on parched yellow grass. A majestic fountain in the middle of Lost Lagoon sits dormant. A little girl approaches an inactive splash pad, squealing when its user-activated geysers suddenly gush water.
Vancouver, often admired for its lush greenery and occasional-ly mocked for its torrential rain, has turned a dry, dusty brown as a savage drought sweeps West-ern Canada. And as residents adapt to the harshest water restrictions imposed in 12 years, experts and officials warn it’s time to get used to turning off the taps.
When asked how the province stacks up to other parts of the world in terms of water conserv-ation, University of British Col-umbia watershed management professor Hans Schreier doesn’t mince words.
“We’re terrible,” he says. “We’re terrible, seriously. We are the second biggest water users. We have never worried about water. We have terrible regulations.”
Canada as a whole, not just B.C., is the second-largest water consumer in the world after the United States. Each Canadian uses about 350 litres of water a day, compared to a European who uses about 150 litres.
But British Columbians have long been overusing and under-valuing water, Schreier says. New legislation to replace the 1909 Water Act is finally set to take effect next year and will regulate groundwater for the first time in the province.
“There are going to be more floods and more drought,” he warns. “We should start think-ing about adapting to these conditions.”
This week, Metro Vancouver — a region that includes Van-couver, Surrey and Burnaby — issued Stage 3 water restric-tions for the first time since 2003, requiring residents to quit watering their lawns or face a $250 fine.
Daily consumption dropped swiftly from 1.48 billion litres on Monday to 1.05 billion litres on Friday. Bylaw officers received a torrent of neighbour complaints about running sprinklers, and social media users even adopted a hashtag, #grasshole, to public-ly shame offenders.
But Schreier says these restric-tions should have been imposed earlier in the unusually hot, dry summer. Further, he says Metro Vancouver could be more innov-ative with water-saving technol-ogy and infrastructure.
For example, he says each resi-dent should have a barrel to col-lect rain to water their gardens. He adds that low-flush toilets and so-called “purple pipes” that recycle water from sinks, baths and washing machines should be added to all old houses, not just new ones.
Finally, he says all homes should have smart water meters that measure consumption. The City of Abbotsford already uses such a system, which allows it to easily identify and ticket residents who are violating water restrictions.
Metro Vancouver chair Greg Moore says the region has been monitoring water for a century and this week marks only the second time it has had to impose Stage 3 restrictions.
“We haven’t seen this type of drought and consumption of water in our history,” says Moore, who is also mayor of Port Coquitlam, a suburb east of Vancouver.
While Metro Vancouver has cut its per capita water consumption by 23 per cent over the past 20 years, the region’s population is also very rapidly growing, Moore adds.
“Our overall water usage is up, but luckily we’re using less per person.”
Moore says this week the reser-voirs dropped to 69 per cent cap-acity, levels typically seen at the end of August. The reservoirs have kept up with population growth, he says, but the recent dry spell has created “extra-ordinary conditions.”
An overhead view of Roald Amundsen’s last ship the Maud is shown in a handout photo. The ship will be lifted off the seabed this week in preparation for her final voyage to Norway. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Norwegians plan to fl oatthe Amundsen ship againTHE CANADIAN PRESS
CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut — The tough oaken vessel that took famed explorer Roald Amundsen on his second Arctic voyage is about to rise again.
After four years of negotiation and preparation, a Norwegian team expects to refloat the Maud this week, 85 years after she was scuttled in shallow waters off the coast of Nunavut.
“We’re quite confident,” said Jan Wanggaard, who’s heading the crew hoping to return the last ship of a Norwegian national hero to its homeland.
The Maud was built in 1917 in Vollen for Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole. He also made groundbreaking expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, including the first suc-cessful transit of the Northwest Passage.
Amundsen intended to use the specially strengthened Maud to
drift across the North Pole while frozen into moving sea ice. After two failed attempts, she was sold to the Hudson’s Bay Co. in 1925.
Three years later, the ship sank while moored in shallow water just off Cambridge Bay. Parts of the hull still protrude above the waves.
Since June, Wanggaard and his colleagues have been slip-ping ropes and straps under the Maud’s 40-metre hull. Sometime this week, they’ll attach flotation balloons to the ropes and gently ease the vessel off the seafloor.
The Maud can take it, said Wanggaard.
“This boat was built as one of the strongest ships ever of wood-en construction,” he said. “It was made to take the pressure from the ice.”
Once the Maud is afloat, the team will sink a barge it has brought from Norway and pos-ition it beneath the hull. Flota-tion tanks in the barge will be
reinflated, and the barge will hoist the old vessel right out of the water.
There’s little left to her. Although she originally sported both sails and a then-innovative diesel engine, she was stripped long ago.
The barge, with the Maud strapped on top, will probably spend one more winter in Cam-bridge Bay, drying out and solid-ifying for the long journey back to Norway.
“On the technical side, it’s quite basic,” Wanggaard said.
The politics, however, have been anything but.
The Norwegian efforts initially met resistance from the people of Cambridge Bay, who thought the ship should stay where she was.
Then the Canadian govern-ment would not give the group’s members an export permit, even though they have legal title to the hulk.
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UNITED STATES
Kenya at a crossroad: President JULIE PACE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAIROBI, Kenya — Declaring Kenya at a “crossroads” between promise and peril, President Bar-ack Obama on Sunday pressed the nation of his father’s birth to root out corruption, treat women and minorities as equal citizens, and take responsibility for its future. Closing his historic visit with an address to the Kenyan people, Obama traced the arc of the country’s evolution from colonialism to independence, as well as his own family’s history here. Today, Obama said, young Kenyans are no longer con-strained by the limited options of his grandfather, a cook for the country’s former British rulers, or his father, who left to seek an education in America.
“Because of Kenya’s progress — because of your potential — you can build your future right here, right now,” Obama told the crowd of 4,500 packed into a sports arena in the capital of Nairobi. But he bluntly warned that Kenya must make “tough choices” to bolster its fragile democracy and fast-growing economy. Obama’s visit here, his first as president, captivated a country that views him as a local son. Thick crowds lined the roadways to watch the presiden-tial motorcade speed through the city Sunday, some climbing on rooftops to get a better view. The audience inside the arena chanted his name as he finished his remarks.
The president left Kenya Sun-day afternoon, pausing longer than normal atop the stairs to Air Force One to wave to the crowd, a huge grin on his face. He arrived two hours later in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, where he met with dip-lomats at the U.S. Embassy in the evening. Obama has written emotionally about his first visit to Kenya as a young man nearly 30 years ago.
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Mega armoured vehicle made in Toronto attracts rich and powerfulLIAM CASEY THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — A black tank-like truck cruises downtown Toronto, prompting stunned pedestrians to whip out their smartphones to provide proof of what they’ve seen.
What they’ve seen is the Con-quest Knight XV. It is a rare beast. There are only 17 in the world, sold to the likes of Middle Eastern royalty and a basketball star.
The vehicle starts at $629,000, but most go for several hundred thousand dollars more. It weighs twice as a much as a Hummer and it can stop a bullet from an AK-47.
And it’s made in Toronto. By hand.
It takes about six months to build a Knight XV, and Conquest Vehicles actually machine their own parts out of stainless steel and aluminum.
The opulent armoured Knight XV (which stands for “extreme vehicle”) is a magnet for atten-tion everywhere it rolls. The Canadian Press saw proof on a recent ride through downtown Toronto.
One man, overcome with excitement, drives beside the truck screaming “that is the best f—king truck I’ve ever f—king seen!” as he pumps his fist out the window.
“I thought it was the new Bat-mobile,” another onlooker, Sean Culham, says as the truck sits outside a posh downtown hotel.
That’s the reaction William Maizlin was hoping for when he dreamed up the idea.
Maizlin, the company’s former president, went to a friend (a silent partner, he says) with the idea of building a military-style truck for the consumer market back in 2006. He spent nearly two decades in the military industry, focusing much of his efforts on armour.
They built the first one in King City, north of Toronto, and brought it to a car show in Las Vegas in 2008. That sparked
interest, and Conquest Vehicles was born.
The Knight XV is gargantuan, weighing in at 6,400 kilograms. Each ballistic steel door weighs 160 kilograms, or about the size of two small men.
This truck doesn’t guzzle gas. It inhales it — about 34 litres per 100 kilometres, according to the company.
But the last thing on the minds of Knight XV’s owners is the cost of fuel. The most blinged-out ver-sion costs about the same as the average price of a Toronto home.
“The interior is fully custom-izable,” says Tim Chapman, the president of Conquest Vehicles, on a tour of the warehouse in north Toronto in late June.
There are four trucks in the warehouse at the moment, including a nearly completed redesigned model that is about a half-metre longer and 20 centi-metres wider than the original.
The only one owned in Canada is the company demo truck — most are overseas.
“There is no market in Canada for armoured vehicles,” Maizlin
says on the phone. “And thank God, because Canada is a very safe country, but there are other hot zones in the world where there is a big need for security.”
As Chapman points to the various security measures of the truck — “the tires can get shot and still run for 80 miles” — he talks about the Knight XV that went rogue in Ukraine.
That truck was taken by anti-government protesters. It was later found in the garage of Viktor Yanukovych Jr., son of the former Ukrainian president of the same name, who fled for Russia last year.
Chapman says they sold the truck to a man in Ukraine who may have acted as a broker with the Yanukovych family or simply resold it to them. The truck has been repainted in camouflage colours and is being used in the conflict.
He knows this because those who took it have called Conquest Vehicles asking for parts. He referred them to Ford because the truck is built on an F-550 chassis.
Despite all the truck’s security features, Chapman and Maizlin both say its appeal to many of its drivers is the sheer audacity of its appearance.
Basketball star Dwight Howard bought one, as did the prince of the United Arab Emirates. They’ve even made a few non-ar-moured versions — called the Evade — for clients in countries that don’t allow armoured cars.
Neither Chapman nor Maizlin will name other names because of confidentiality agreements, “which is ironic because they’re buying it for the attention,” Maizlin says.
Both said the clients are all of a similar ilk: rich, flashy and, in some cases, concerned with their own safety.
“They are collectors,” Chapman says. “They want to make an impression, to have something different, and some are worried about their safety.”
That’s why the windows are 3.2 centimetres thick — enough to stop a bullet from an AK-47. And they roll down, apparently a rarity for bulletproof windows.
A Conquest Knight XV parks in downtown Toronto, Friday. The vehicle starts at $629,000, but most go for several hundred thousand dollars more. It weighs twice as a much as a Hummer and it can stop a bullet from an AK-47. And it’s made in Toronto. By hand. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
DEATH
County had long history of tensionMICHAEL GRACZYK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HEMPSTEAD, Texas — The Texas county where a black woman died in jail after a traffic stop by a white state trooper has a long history of racial strife.
Sandra Bland’s death ignited long-simmering passions in Wal-ler County, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) northwest of Hous-ton. Video of the confrontational caused some blacks to raise their guard around law enforce-ment in Waller County and the county seat of Hempstead, once known as “Six Shooter Junction”because of white supremacist violence in the 1800s.
Bland, a 2009 graduate of near-by Prairie View A&M University, had just accepted a job at her alma mater when she was jailed July 10 for assaulting the troop-er who pulled her over for an improper lane change.
Three days later, the 28-year-old woman from the Chicago suburb of Naperville was found hanged in her cell — a suicide, according to a medical examiner. Bland’s relatives and other supporters dispute that finding.
The FBI is leading an investiga-tion. Local officials acknowledge the county’s past, but say it doesn’t reflect the present state of affairs.
“It’s a sad thing,” Michael Wolfe, Hempstead’s mayor since 2004 and the city’s third black mayor since the 1980s, said of Bland’s death and the negative attention it has drawn. “It is not a true reflection of people who live here. It creates a level of animosity that may not be true. The community has changed tremendously.”
District Attorney Elton Mathis acknowledges the county “does and did have a lot of things that went on here that we’re not par-ticularly proud of, as far as racial interaction.”
SPORTSMONDAYMonday, July 27, 2015 || Sports Editor: Scott McKenzie [email protected] || SECTION B
Jason Day beats out David Hearn at the Canadian Open || Page B2
Kyle Busch grabs win at the Brickyard 400There was no celebratory burnout — Kyle Busch has done plenty of those the last few weeks — just another big, fat kiss at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Busch’s triumphant return following a horrible crash the day before the season-opening Daytona 500 continued Sunday with one of the biggest wins of his career. He grabbed an elusive victory at Indy, where Busch won the Brickyard 400 for a weekend sweep.
Marco Dawson wins Senior British OpenAmerican Marco Dawson held off the twin challenge of super stars Bern-hard Langer and Colin Montgomerie over the final nine holes to claim vic-tory in a thrilling climax to the Senior British Open Championship on Sun-day. Dawson finished with a 16-under par total of 264 to claim his second title on the Senior Tour this year after more than 12 years without a victory.“This is unbelievable,” said the Flor-ida-based Dawson.
Flames ink Jooris to a one-year contactThe Calgary Flames have signed for-ward Josh Jooris to a one-year con-tract on Friday. The deal was tweeted by Jooris’ agency, Uptown Sports.Jooris, 25, scored 12 goals and 12 assists in 60 games last season as a rookie with the Flames and was a factor in their first-round playoff series win against the Canucks. The Burlington, Ont., native appeared in nine playoff games for Calgary, but failed to record a point.
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Raiders drop Rams for fi rst winRookie head coach Erdman starts the season on a positive note in a come-from-behind 22-14 victorySCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS
Vancouver Island Raid-ers quarterback Liam O’Brien threw for a touch-
down, ran for another and led a fourth-quarter comeback that saw his team pick up their first win under rookie head coach Jer-ome Erdman in their first game of the 2015 B.C. Football Confer-ence season.
And it came on Saturday at Cal-edonia Park with the defending champion Langley Rams in town. The Raiders won 22-14 to move to 1-0 on the season.
“We beat a very good football team, and I don’t know if many people thought we would,” Erd-man said.
“But (our players) did, and that’s the important part.”
Down 14-12 after the third quar-ter, Raiders linebacker Dexter Shea recovered a Rams fumble at midfield and took it down to the Langley nine-yard line before O’Brien put it in the endzone on second and goal on a naked boot-leg to give his team a five-point lead.
A Matias Bueno field goal then gave the Raiders an eight-point lead, and the Rams never came close to scoring again as the defence stood tall.
“I think we still have a lot of work to do, but overall we did pretty well,” said Raiders defen-sive end Quinton Bowles.
“For a young team, where a lot of the young guys don’t know what junior football’s all about, they stepped up and it was awe-some to see.”
O’Brien, whose other touch-down came in the first quarter on a 23-yard pass to Dustin Rod-
riguez, finished with 18 comple-tions for 208 yards on 32 attempts with no turnovers.
“I thought he managed the game very well, made a couple great throws and led a couple great drives,” Erdman said of his All-Canadian quarterback. “With him, the pressure doesn’t seem to flap him too much, which is exactly what you’re looking for.”
Rodriguez was the Raiders’ top receiver with 89 yards off six receptions.
V.I. runningback Nathan Berg took virtually all his team’s car-ries in the running game, finish-ing with 90 yards on 11 attempts out of the backfield.
“We had a couple of big first downs when we were back in our own end,” Erdman said of his team’s offence, this year run by co-ordinator Todd Hansen.
“They did what they had to do. We put enough points on the board that we won, so I’m very happy.”
Other than two break-downs that led to touchdowns, the defence was solid under Erdman, who runs the unit.
They forced a two-and-out their first time on the field and also forced two fourth-quarter turnovers, with Shea’s fumble recovery and an interception by second-year defensive back Bryce Wallace.
Erdman thought that was the difference in the game — his team didn’t give up the ball once.
“I thought that was very, very, big,” he said.
There was an obvious improve-ment on the Raiders part from the 2014 season to Saturday’s win.
In 2014, the Raiders gave up an average of 56 points per game in three outings against the Rams before holding them to just two scores Saturday.
Bowles, a veteran on defence, said he wasn’t completely happy with his team’s performance on his side of the ball.
“I don’t want any touchdowns against,” he said. “I want a goose-egg every time.
“There were a couple mental mistakes that cost us two touch-downs. So if we cut out those mental mistakes, it’s going to change a whole lot.”
Defensive back Josh Paisley led the Raiders in tackles — six solo along with two assisted tackles, while safety Adam McDonald had four tackles.
Erdman thought the Raiders’ fitness level was also a key fac-tor in the win, especially in the fourth quarter.
“I truly believe that,” he said.“We work them hard, and they
kept going. Maybe I’m a little biased, but I thought we looked like the stronger team toward the end, I really did.
“That’s the money time right there, and I thought we played really well then.”
Next up: WestshoreThe level of competition for the
Raiders changes now, as they hit the road to take on the Wests-hore Rebels on Saturday.
The Rebels, also under a first-year head coach, lost 78-7 in Kelowna on Saturday to the Oka-nagan Sun.
The Raiders return to Nanaimo on Aug. 8 to take on the Sun, a team that beat them four times in 2014.
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Vancouver Island Raiders quarterback Liam O’Brien manages to get off a throw before being hit by the Langley Rams Saturday at Caledonia Park. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]
“We beat a very good football team, and I don’t know if many people thought we would.”Jerome Erdman, head coach
Pirates score first-round playoff sweepSCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS
For the fourth time in the last five years, the Nanaimo Pirates are off to the B.C. Premier Base-ball League’s Final Four.
They made sure of that on Saturday, sweeping the Whalley Chiefs with two wins in the best-of-three-game series.
Pirates manager Doug Rogers said it took “a little concentra-tion” to get the sweep.
“Going in, we knew we held the cards,” Rogers said.
“We had home-field advantage and, at least on paper, we had the better team, but we had to go out there and prove it.”
That’s exactly what they did.In both games at Serauxmen
Stadium, Rogers let his two top pitchers play complete games.
“That’s what you hope to build to, through the course of the year,” Rogers said of building his pitchers’ arm strengths to be able to throw a full game.
“You don’t want to tax any-body’s arm too much.”
Josh Burgmann took the mound in Game 1, giving up just one run in a 2-1 victory.
“Adding a Burgmann obviously helps,” Rogers said. “He gives you a chance to win every game he plays in.”
The lone run Burgmann allowed came when a Chief
on second base scored on an RBI-single, but Burgmann struck out the next batter swinging to end the inning.
He ended the game with eight strikeouts with six hits and a walk in seven innings of work.
The Pirates’ runs came in the first and fifth innings. Catcher Cole Warken scored from second base on an error by Whalley first-baseman Stephen Horner with Zach Diewert at the plate.
The winning run in the fifth was scored on an RBI-double
from Chris Vlaj that scored Shawn Arabsky from second base.
In Game 2, the Pirates won 7-2 with Garrett Goodall pitching a complete game with eight strike-outs, three walks and two hits.
Leading 1-0 after three innings, the Pirates’ offence exploded for six runs in the fourth.
It started with a triple from Burgmann that scored Diewert from first base. Then, a Matt Skingle double sent Burgmann home. Shane Rogers would later
walk to score Skingle from third with the bases loaded before an error sent Aaron Page to home plate. A two-run double from Warken wrapped up the scoring in the inning as it scored Rogers from second base and North Rainey from third. The Pirates gave up their only two runs in the sixth inning.
Now, it’s off to the Final Four at Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park, which starts on Friday in a round-robin format with the top team advancing to the cham-pionship final and a semi-final between the second and third-place teams deciding the other finalist.
Rogers said this year’s edition of the Pirates is completely dif-ferent from their previous years of going to the Final Four.
“The previous four times it was really heavy with pitching and defence and our hitting was timely,” he said. “This year, our hitting is massive and it’s been what’s carrying us through most days. It’s a scary proposition because playoffs is all about pitching and defence. . . .The Final Four is a lot of fun. The pressure increases, but this is why you play.”
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T-Men fall in fi nal home game, 9-6 DAILY NEWS
The Nanaimo Timbermen lost their final chance to win at home in the 2015 Western Lacrosse Association season with a 9-6 defeat at the hands of the Bur-naby Lakers.
The Timbermen have one game left to be played on Saturday on the road against the Coquitlam Adanacs as they try to pick up their fourth win of the season, one that would better 2014’s win total.
Against the third-place Lakers on Saturday at Frank Crane Arena, the last-place Timbermen were able to stay in the game throughout the night.
Being outscored 3-1 in the second period, however, sealed their fate. Timbermen sopho-more Mac Johnston led the team in scoring with a goal and two assists while Doug Langlois scored twice and Cody Bremner, Hugh Weir and Ryan Sage each had two-point nights.
The Timbermen will finish in last place for the third straight year, and will also own the first voerall WLA draft pick in 2016.
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Nanaimo Pirates second-baseman Chris Vlaj scoops a grounder during B.C. Premier Baseball league playoffs at Serauxmen Stadium against the Whalley Chiefs. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]
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Jason Day takes Canadian Open titleCanada’s David Hearn, 54-hole leader, shoots even par to fi nish in third place behind Bubba WatsonSTEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS
OAKVILLE, Ont. — David Hearn couldn’t beat 61 years of pres-sure, and he couldn’t beat Jason Day at the RBC Canadian Open.
Trying to be the first Canadian to win the event since Pat Fletch-er in 1954, Hearn shot an even-par round and couldn’t keep up with the Aussie on Sunday. Day birdied the final three holes to win the Canadian Open at 17 under, as Hearn finished two shots back in third place.
“It was one focused mind-set the whole day today to do some-thing really special and win the tournament,” Hearn said. “It hasn’t been done in a long time, and I felt like I had the ability to do it today.
“I gave it my all. I didn’t quite have my best game.”
Hearn missed a handful of birdie putts so close that had the masses of fans lining Glen Abbey Golf Club letting out exasperated groans. Had he made even one of them, it would have changed his entire outlook on the 18th hole and given him a good chance.
The Brantford, Ont., native blamed not picking up enough birdies for falling short. During a weekend in which his tee shots were errant, Hearn’s putting got him to the final round but couldn’t get him over the hump.
“There was so many putts that he hit that should’ve fell in,” said
playing partner Bubba Watson, who finished second at 16 under. “I don’t know how they stayed out.”
Day, who shot 4-under 68 Sun-day, won the tournament with clutch birdie putts on his final three holes. Making his final putt from 21 feet on the 18th hole forced Hearn and Watson to need eagles just to tie for a playoff.
Day yelled so loud before the ball went in that he thought he threw his throat out. After tying for fourth at the British Open,
the Aussie was beaming after his fourth PGA Tour victory.
“This must feel like what Tiger did for so many times, and it feels good,” Day said. “I’m going to try to do as much as I can and keep it the same and try and win.”
Part of his joy was the recep-tion he received from Canadian fans, despite not being the home-country favourite.
“I’ve never felt so much at home, and I’m not even from Canada,” Day said. “I’m looking forward to coming back and
defending the title here next year because I know that when I get here next year it’s going to be the same. It’s great to feel like a Can-adian for a week.”
As Hearn left his post-tour-nament news conference, he quipped that next year will be the 62nd for questions about Fletcher, whose place in Can-adian Open history is as the sym-bol of the nation’s homegrown drought.
Like Mike Weir in 2004, Hearn led going into the final round, and like Weir he didn’t get it done. Raving about the ovations he received all over the course, Hearn also conceded that the pressure was heavy on his shoulders.
“This one was pretty intense,” Hearn said. “I think every Can-adian wants to see it so bad and we want to do it so bad that it does make it hard.”
Hearn birdied his first two holes before faltering with bogeys on holes 3 and 7. Missing putts by mere centimetres on 8 and 9 didn’t help.
After another bogey on 12, Hearn got a stroke back with a birdie on 13 but couldn’t make up any more.
Meanwhile, Day found some of his best golf of the week on the back nine. Watson birdied five of his final six holes to make a charge but couldn’t eagle 18.
Hearn finished third because
of those shots by Day and his own mistakes. Maybe he wasn’t aggressive enough, he wondered, but he insisted he’ll remember “only good things” from this Canadian Open.
“I’m real proud of the way I played, and I’m really proud to be Canadian today,” Hearn said. “It was a pretty special day with all of the fans and the support that I had from beginning to finish.”
Hearn was not only gunning for history but his first PGA Tour victory. The 36-year-old lost in a playoff at the Greenbrier Classic in early July.
But he knew this was a special opportunity to go for it in Can-ada with so many fans watching on the course and at home.
“I never experienced anything like that before,” Hearn said. “I may never experience any-thing like that again. I hope I am, actually, in that situation again and I get that feeling again soon.”
Hearn believes a Canadian will win the Canadian Open at some point soon. Fourth-place finisher Jim Furyk agrees.
“It’s a matter of time,” said Furyk, who finished at 14 under. “There are so many good Can-adian players. I feel bad Mike Weir never won this golf tour-nament. But Graham DeLaet, David, there are a bunch of fine young players, so I’m sure it’s going to happen.”
Jason Day celebrates sinking a birdie putt on the 18th during the final round at the Canadian Open in Oakville, Ont., on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
PAN AM GAMES
Push for Olympics beginsPAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — First came apathy, then dread. But by the time the Pan American Games wrapped up Sunday, Toronto had been won over by the excitement of the international competition with some calling for the city to make a pitch for the Olympics.
Cheering fans packed the stands over the 16 days of competition, Canadian athletes reached new heights on home soil, and widespread fears that the city would grind to a standstill never fully materialized.
In the months leading up to the Games, critics had raised concerns over conges-tion and spending, and questioned wheth-er residents would embrace the largest multi-sport competition ever held on Can-adian soil. A story in the New York Times even chided Toronto for its lukewarm reception.
A few bumps early on — a case of chick-enpox in the Mexican delegation, defec-tions from the Cuban camp, and transpor-tation delays for commuters and media — faded as enthusiasm for the Games spiked along with Canada’s medal count.
With only a few hours of competition left, Canadian athletes had racked up 77 gold medals — a new national record for the Pan Am Games — and were second to the U.S. in the overall medal stand-ings. More than 80 Pan Am records were broken over the course of the Games.
Despite a sluggish start, tickets sales picked up after the Games began, and organizers say 1,050,000 were sold overall. Some 120 events, including the July 10 opening ceremony, were sold out.
Demand prompted organizers to release an additional 100,000 tickets, bringing the total available for the Pan Am Games to 1.3 million. Another 200,000 are available for the Parapan Am Games, which begin Aug. 7. Saad Rafi, CEO of the Games organizing committee, said the Games
exceed his expectations.“Every athlete will tell you that com-
peting at these Games was different than any other experience they’ve had,” he said. “To me, it was just inspiring to see so many people walking around our city with their flag, dressed in red and wear-ing the Maple Leaf or dressed in any of the other colour of the other 40 nations.”
Adam van Koeverden, who won the bronze medal in men’s 1,000-metre kayak, said he noticed a shift in Toronto as the Games went on.
“I think Toronto got behind it in a really big way. My feeling is Toronto was com-plaining and whining a little bit before . . . but the thing that drowns out com-plaining and whining more than anythingis cheering. Before any Games, there’s always that feeling of apprehension, ’What are we doing?’ and that’s really been proven wrong,” he said.
The Pan Am Games have revived talk of a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Both the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee have called for Toronto to make a pitch, but the city’s mayor has said he won’t make a decision until after the Games.
John Tory said this week officials need to examine the benefits and costs involved in a bid and in hosting the Olym-pics before deciding whether to proceed.
COC president Marcel Aubut said Sun-day his office will “lead and advocate for Toronto’s candidacy for the 2024 Olympic Games.”
“I will work closely with the City of Toronto,” said Aubut. “Nothing can be done without the mayor, without the city. You need a mayor to start the process.”
The Pan Ams paved the way for an Olympic bid, said Aubut.
“This is the momentum we needed to talk seriously about this,” he said.
The deadline for cities to register their interest with the International Olympic Committee is Sept. 15.
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With 217 medals, Canada well past its goalLORI EWING THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — From Day 1 of the Pan American Games, Curt Harnett says he knew Canadian athletes “were in it to win it.”
By the final day, Canada’s chef de mission and his team of 717-strong were basking in the most successful Pan Am per-formance in Canadian history.
“One podium performance quickly followed another, en route to our Top 2 place in the medals table,” Harnett said Sun-day at the Canadian team’s clos-ing news conference. “Like a par-ent, I could not be more proud, with each and every athlete on Team Canada. You delivered.”
Canada set an ambitious goal of finishing second in the medal standings, and brought the team to do it. From swimmer Ryan Cochrane, to decathlete Damian Warner, to kayaker Adam van Koeverden, Canada fielded not only its largest ever team, but arguably strongest, for Toronto. It was a who’s who of athletes who will shine on sport’s big-gest stage at next summer’s Rio Olympics.
Canada’s women’s kayak team of Michelle Russell, Emilie Fournel, KC Fraser and Hannah Vaughan kicked off the record run with gold in the K-4 500 on the morning of Day 1, in the first event of the Games.
And by the time the women’s baseball team capped Canada’s run to the podium with a sil-ver medal, the host nation had amassed 217 medals, 78 gold, 69 silver, and 70 bronze.
The mighty Americans will take home 265 — 103 gold, 81 sil-ver and 81 bronze. Brazil finished a distant third with 141 medals.
Not everyone brought their top athletes to Toronto. The Amer-icans fielded squads of mainly B-team athletes. Jamaica was missing its best sprinters, like superstar Usain Bolt.
Canada, meanwhile, topped its previous best of 197 medals when Winnipeg hosted the Games in 1999. Canada passed that mark with two days to go.
Along the way, Canadian stars were born, such as Kia Nurse, the 19-year-old who led Canada’s women’s basketball team to its first ever gold medal. Nurse was chosen to carry Canada’s flag in to the closing ceremonies.
There was sprint phenom Andre De Grasse, won both the 100 and 200 metres, shattering his own Canadian record in the 200. The 20-year-old would have captured a third gold had the 4x100-metre relay not been dis-qualified for a lane violation.
Ellie Black leapt and tumbled to five medals in artistic gymnas-tics, as Canada’s most decorated athlete at the Games.
Whitney McClintock in water-skiing, Jasmin Glaesser in cycling, and swimmer Santo Condorelli each won four medals apiece.
Canada’s men’s softball team kept a firm grasp on gold, win-ning No. 8 in a row. No other country has ever won the tournament.
“At this Pan Am Games, top 2, I told you it was an ambitious objective, the way we like them. We like ambitious,” said Can-adian Olympic Committee presi-dent Marcel Aubut.
“I told you also that I had incredible faith in this great, great Canadian team.”
Canada’s total gold medals col-lected four years ago in Guadala-jara was 30. This Canadian team blew by that mark on just Day 5 here. Canada surpassed the 119 total medals from Guadalajara on Day 8.
Canada took a much smaller team to Mexico, mainly because the Games fell so late in the com-petitive season.
And Canada wasn’t the home team.
Aubut said the COC doubled its funding for athletes and sports compared to previous Pan Ams. The federal government provided an extra $3 million to Own The Podium for these Games to assist athletes with medal potential across all sports, not just Olym-pic and Paralympic sports.
Harnett, who pedalled to three Olympic medals for Canada, said his time as chef de mission is his favourite sports experience.
Whitecaps beat San Jose 3-1Three-goal outburst for Vancouver was its fi rst since May 9 against PhiladelphiaJOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — The floodgates finally opened for the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Mauro Rosales, Kendall Waston and Octavio Rivero scored Sun-day as the Whitecaps took advan-tage of their chances in cruising past the San Jose Earthquakes 3-1.
The three-goal outburst was the first for Vancouver since a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Union on May 9 and a welcome sight for head coach Carl Rob-inson, who has had to answer a lot of questions about his team’s lack of finish.
“It’s fine lines, this game,” he said. “We took our chances today. Still probably didn’t take enough chances. We could have put the game to bed a lot earlier, but we’ll take the three points and move on.”
The Whitecaps (11-8-3) improved to 5-4-1 at home and now sit second in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference after the clubs around them in the crowded standings dropped points this weekend.
“We were the better team and it showed,” said Vancouver defend-er Christian Dean, who started in place of the suspended Jordan Harvey. “We needed the win, especially at home.”
Quincy Amarikwa scored a late consolation goal for San Jose (7-9-4), which has lost four straight in the league.
“There’s a lot of aspects to be pleased with in the game today — scoring goals is one,” said Rob-inson, whose team also snapped
an 0-2-1 slide. “But there’s a lot of aspects we need to improve on as well. It really, really annoyed me, the last-minute goal.”
Rosales’ first goal in a Vancou-ver uniform came in the fifth minute after some great work from Kekuta Manneh split open San Jose’s defence. The speedy winger raced through midfield before the ball found its way to Rosales, who calmly stroked a shot past goalkeeper David Bingham.
The Whitecaps doubled their lead in the 32nd minute, with Rosales turning provider on a corner kick that Waston headed in for his first goal of the season
and Vancouver’s first off a cor-ner in 2015.
“We know that the set pieces are very important for us,” said Waston. “Now the door is open so I hope more goals can come.”
Rivero — who started the sea-son with five goals in his first six MLS games, but had just two since — finally got his eighth of the campaign on a penalty in the 56th minute after being brought down in the San Jose box.
“We’ve been very close to getting three, four goals (in a match), but we just haven’t had the composure to finish off chan-ces,” said Vancouver defender Pa-Modou Kah. “This game was
really important for us to get the belief that we don’t always need to win games by 1-0.”
Whitecaps captain Pedro Morales subbed on in the 68th minute to roaring cheers at B.C. Place Stadium after missing the last five games with a calf injury and showed some of his usual flair in midfield.
The Earthquakes didn’t have a shot on target until the 76th minute, but came on late and finally got one past David Ousted when Amarikwa blasted a shot home in 90th minute, his third goal in as many games since being acquired from the Chicago Fire.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC’s Kendall Beitashour, centre, celebrates his goal against the San Jose Earthquakes during the first half of MLS soccer action in Vancouver on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Zach Collaros runs the ball against the Saskatchewan Roughriders during first half CFL action in Regina on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Roughriders still winless after 31-21 loss to TicatsCRAIG SLATER THE CANADIAN PRESS
The injuries and the losses con-tinue to mount for the Saskatch-ewan Roughriders.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats erased a fourth-quarter deficit and pulled off another win on the road — a 31-21 triumph on Sunday at Mosaic Stadium — to keep the Riders winless to start the 2015 CFL season.
The Riders dropped to 0-5 with the loss, their fourth straight on home field, and when they look ahead to Week 6 they may very well be without quarterback Kevin Glenn, who replaced start-er Darian Durant after a sea-son-ending injury in Week 1.
“The only thing we can do is continue to work hard,” said Rid-ers receiver Rob Bagg. “We want to win more than anybody who is critiquing and looking in from the outside. We’re not trying to
lose intentionally. We have put in a lot of time and effort and it’s frustrating to not get the results you want. You can either quit or you can keep working.”
An 0-4 start to the season looked to be behind the Riders as they held a lead to open the fourth quarter. That’s when their fortunes took another turn for the worse.
Jeff Mathews’ one-yard touch-down plunge put the Tiger-Cats ahead for good, and when the Riders looked to their offence to give them a come-from-behind victory, they saw their starting quarterback nursing an injury.
With rookie quarterback Brett Smith filling in for Glenn, Sas-katchewan couldn’t create any momentum, let alone a come-back to snap their losing skid.
Kicker Justin Medlock booted his fifth field goal of the game to give the Tiger-Cats an insurance
score late and help the team improve to 2-2.
“We brought Kevin in here because we knew that if any-thing happened to Darian (Durant we would have a true starting quarterback, a winning starting quarterback and Grey Cup starting quarterback,” head coach Corey Chamblin explained. “So to have that hap-pen it’s always a blow, especially when you have a chance to win a game.”
The Riders broke a 14-14 half-time tie when Smith, the Riders’ quarterback in short-yardage situations, scored on a one-yard run on the team’s opening pos-session of the second half.
But it was all Hamilton from there. Medlock kicked a pair of field goals to bring the visitors to within a point before Mathews scored to put his team ahead for good.
Mexico wins Gold Cup fi nal 3-1 over JamaicaRACHEL COHEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA — Andres Guardado scored again, with no penalty kick needed this time, and his teammates final-ly managed some goals, too.
Mexico ensured the final wouldn’t come down to any calls in the final minutes with a 3-1 victory over upstart Jamaica for the CONCACAF
Gold Cup title Sunday.Guardado had his fourth goal
of the knockout rounds, and Jesus Corona and Oribe Peral-ta also scored as El Tri won its seventh Gold Cup.
It was a convincing perform-ance for coach Miguel Herrera and his team after some shaky play and contentious moments in the previous two games.
Jamaica had made a rousing
run to the final, stunning the U.S. in the semis to become the first Caribbean nation to reach the Gold Cup’s championship match.
And the Reggae Boyz looked as though they belonged in the opening minutes, keeping the pressure on Mexico with sever-al promising scoring chances but never putting a shot on goal.
Froome wins at Tour de FranceJOHN LEICESTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — All for one, one for all, and all bathed in yellow.
Arms over each other’s shoul-ders, linked together in a long line of happiness, Tour de France winner Chris Froome and his teammates pedaled slowly over the finish line, soaking up the applause Sunday on the Champs-Elysees.
Three weeks of furious racing, of beating back both a tenacious Colombian, Nairo Quintana, and doping suspicions that are Lance Armstrong’s poisonous legacy to cycling, were over.
Time for the winner’s speech.“The Maillot Jaune is special,
very special,” Froome said, using the yellow jersey’s French name.
“I understand its history, good and bad,” he said. “I will always respect it.”
The Tour is still French. But British riders have won three of the last four: Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and now two for Froome, following his first win in 2013. That puts Britain equal with the United States, with three from Greg LeMond — and minus sev-en stripped from Armstrong.
Under suitably British weather, on rain-slickened roads, Froome took it easy on the last Stage 21, his work done having grimly resisted Quintana’s late assault on his hard-won Tour lead the previous day on the final Alpine ascent. The tired 160 riders — of 198 who started — didn’t bother racing for much of the largely flat 110-kilometre (68-mile) ram-ble from Sevres, in the French capital’s southwest.
To minimize risk of crashes, Tour organizers stopped the clock early, on the first of 10 laps up and down the Champs-Elysees’ cobblestones.
That locked in Froome’s lead to guarantee victory. He smiled broadly as he pedaled past flag-waving spectators. He still had to ride the laps to complete the full race distance of 3,354 kilometres (2,084 miles).
But knowing the title was his, he didn’t have to panic when a paper bag got stuck in his back wheel. He simply stopped and changed bikes. He also had time to raise a glass of Champagne in the saddle and stop to put on a raincoat under the iconic yellow jersey.
English Premier LeagueFA Community ShieldSunday, Aug 2Chelsea vs. Arsenal, 7 a.m.
Saturday, Aug 8Man United v Tottenham, 4:45 a.m.Bournemouth v Aston Villa, 7 a.m.Everton v Watford, 7 a.m.Leicester v Sunderland, 7 a.m.Norwich v Crystal Palace, 7 a.m.Chelsea v Swansea, 9 a.m.
Sunday, Aug. 9Arsenal v West Ham, 5:30 a.m.Newcastle v Southampton, 5:30 a.m.Stoke v Liverpool, 8 a.m.
FOOTBALLCFL
West W L T Pts PF PAEdmonton 3 1 0 6 112 58Calgary 3 2 0 6 112 126BC Lions 2 2 0 4 102 113Winnipeg 2 3 0 4 109 169Saskatchewan 0 5 0 0 143 162
East W L T Pts PF PAToronto 3 1 0 6 118 103Ottawa 3 2 0 6 105 127Hamilton 2 2 0 4 119 88Montreal 2 2 0 4 87 69
Week 5 resultsYesterday’s resultHamilton 31, Saskatchewan 21
Saturday’s resultEdmonton 32, Winnipeg 3
Friday’s resultsOttawa 29, Calgary 26 (OT)Toronto 30, BC Lions 27
Week 6 schedule (with odds by Oddsshark)
Home team in CAPSFavourite Line (O/U) UnderdogThursday, July 30, 5:30 p.m.WINNIPEG 2 (n/a) BC Lions
Friday, July 31Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 1Montreal at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 3Toronto at Hamilton, 4 p.m.
Yesterday at Mosaic Stadium
Roughriders 00, Ticats 00Hamilton 7 7 3 14 31Saskatchewan 3 11 7 0 21
First QuarterSaskatchewan FG Paul McCallum 29, 7:17Hamilton TD Jasper Collins 42 pass form Zach Collaros (Justin Medlock convert) 8:58Second QuarterHam FG Medlock 43, 0:44Sask FG McCallum 41, 5:40Ham Single Medlock 39, 9:49Ham FG Medlock 22, 13:40Sask TD Rob Bagg 19 pass from Kevin Glenn. (2pt conversion pass Bagg from Glenn) 14:47
Third QuarterSask TD Brett Smith 1 run (McCallum convert) 3:59Ham FG Medlock 49, 7:24Fourth QuarterHam FG Medlock 25, 0:59Ham TD Jeff Mathews 1 run (2pt Bakari Grant pass from Collaros) 8:15Ham FG Medlock 39, 13:19
Team Statistics Ham SaskFirst downs 22 22 Rushing 9 3 Passing 11 16 Penalty 2 3Rushes-Yards 24-168 15-84Passing Yards 284 267Return Yards 93 106Comp-Att-Int 19-28-0 24-38-1Sacks 1 3Punts-Average 1-43 5-46.8Fumbles Lost 0-0 1-0Penalties - Yards 14-91 11-90
Individual StatisticsPASSING—Ham: Z.Collaros 19-28, 284 yards, 1 TD, 0 Int4Sask: K.Glenn 22-33, 255 yards, 1 TD, 1 Int; B.Smith 2-4, 12 yards; W.Dressler 0-1
RUSHING—Ham: C.Gable 20-135Sask: A.Allen 5-37; J.Messam 5-23
RECEIVING—Ham: B.Grant 5-52; A.Fantuz 4-68Sask: W.Dressler 6-74; C.Getzlaf 4-40; J.Messam 4-34
Attendance: 31,683
Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium
Eskimos 32, Blue Bombers 3Winnipeg 3 0 0 0 3Edmonton 1 3 14 14 32
First QuarterEdmonton Single Grant Shaw punt 46, 9:39Winnipeg FG Lirim Hajrullahu 11, 13:37Second QuarterEdm FG Shaw 35, 4:56
Third QuarterEdm TD Jordan Lynch 3 run (Shaw convert) 8:12Edm TD Adarius Bowman 25 pass from James Franklin (Shaw conver) 12:49Fourth QuarterEdm TD Kenny Stafford 15 pass from Franklin (Shaw convert) 6:17Edm TD Bowman 12 pass from Franklin (Shaw convert) 10:10
Team Statistics Wpg EdmFirst downs 15 19 Rushing 4 3 Passing 9 13 Penalty 2 3Rushes-Yards 17-100 20-101Passing Yards 152 279Return Yards 131 220Comp-Att-Int 16-36-2 22-33-0Sacks 4 2Punts 13 10Punts-Average 46.7 41Fumbles Lost 0-0 2-1Penalties - Yards 18-170 9-101Time of Possession 31:04 28:56
Individual StatisticsPASSING—Wpg: B Brohm 9-19, 71 yards, 0 TD, 2 Int; D Willy 7-17, 81 yards, 0 TD, 0 IntEdm: M Nichols 17-25, 196 yards, 0 TD, 0 Int; J Franklin 5-8, 83 yards, 3 TD, 0 Int
RUSHING—Wpg: C Marshall 7-55; D Willy 2-20; P Cotton 6-17; B Brohm 2-8Edm: S Bell 12-95; J Lynch 3-7; J Franklin 1-3; M Nichols 1-1; K Stafford 1-(-2); K Lawrence 2-(-3)
RECEIVING—Wpg: J Feoli-Gudino 4-29; C Denmark 4-15; D Adams 3-32; R Kohlert 2-41; N Moore 1-19; P Cotton 1-10; C Marshall 1-6Edm: K Stafford 6-79; W Miles 5-47; A Bowman 3-43; S Bell 2-33; N Coehoorn 2-12; C McCarty 1-26; K Lawrence 1-22; C Watson 1-11; D Bailey 1-6
Punt returns—Wpg: T Stoudermire 5-16, 3.2 averageEdm: K Lawrence 9-137, 15.2 average
Kick returns—Wpg: T Stoudermire 5-99; J Feoli-Gudino 1-16Edm: K Lawrence 2-37
Attendance: 27,895
B.C. Football Conference W L Pts PF PAVan Island 1 0 2 22 14Kamloops 0 0 0 0 0Westshore 0 0 0 0 0Valley 0 0 0 0 0Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0Langley 0 1 0 14 22
Week 1Saturday, July 25Vancouver Island Raiders 22, Langley Rams 14Westshore Rebels at Okanagan Sun, 7 p.m.Kamloops Broncos at Valley Huskers, 7 p.m.
Week 2Saturday, Aug. 1Okanagan Sun at Valley Huskers, 7 p.m.Vancouver Island Raiders at Westshore Rebels, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 2Langley Rams at Kamloops Broncos, 7 p.m.
Week 3Saturday, Aug. 8Okanagan Sun at Vancouver Island Raiders, 4 p.m.Valley Huskers at Langley Rams, 7 p.m.Westshore Rebels at Kamloops Broncos, 7 p.m.
BASEBALLMLB - Results and standings
Yesterday’s resultsBaltimore 5, Tampa Bay 2Chicago Sox 2, Cleveland 1NY Mets 3, LA Dodgers 2 (10 innings)Pittsburgh 3, Washington 1Kansas City 5, Houston 1NY Yankees 7, Minnesota 2Atlanta 3, St. Louis 2Philadelphia 11, Chicago Cubs 5LA Angels 13, Texas 7San Francisco 4, Oakland 3Colorado 17, Cincinnati 7San Diego 3, Miami 2Arizona 3, Milwaukee 0Seattle 6, Toronto 5 (10 innings)Boston 11, Detroit 1
Saturday’s resultsDetroit 5, Boston 1San Francisco 2, Oakland 1Philadelphia 5, Chicago Cubs 0Toronto 8, Seattle 6Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 1Washington 9, Pittsburgh 3Chicago Sox 10, Cleveland 3Kansas City 2, Houston 1NY Mets 15, LA Dodgers 2NY Yankees 8, Minnesota 5St. Louis 1, Atlanta 0Cincinnati 5, Colorado 2Arizona 2, Milwaukee 0San Diego 3, Miami 1Texas 7, LA Angels 6
Today’s schedule with probable pitchersAtlanta at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Wood (7-6) vs. Gausman (1-2)Kansas City at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Volquez (9-5) vs. Anderson (2-1)Chi. White Sox at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Danks (5-8) vs. Kelly (2-6)Detroit at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Sanchez (10-7) vs. Karns (5-5)N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Nova (2-3) vs. Harrison (1-1)Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m. De La Rosa (6-4) vs. Hendricks (4-5)Cincinnati at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. Iglesias (1-2) vs. Lynn (7-5)Arizona at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Ray (3-5) vs. Montgomery (4-4)Milwaukee at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. Lohse (5-11) vs. Heston (10-5)
Tuesday, July 28 (Early games)Atlanta at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Teheran (6-5) vs. Jimenez (7-5)Philadelphia at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Morgan (1-2) vs. Doubront (1-0)Washington at Miami, 4:10 p.m. Zimmermann (8-5) vs. Fernandez (3-0)
GOLFRBC Canadian Open July 23-26, Glen Abbey Golf Course, Oakville, Ont. Par 72, 7,253 yards. Purse: $5,800,000.
* denotes Canadian golfers
Final leaderboard - full resultsGolfer Par R1 R2 R3R41 Jason Day -17 68 66 69 682 Bubba Watson -16 68 67 68 693 *David Hearn won $394,400 Brantford, Ont. -15 69 64 68 724 Jim Furyk -14 68 69 68 69T5 Tom Hoge -13 70 70 69 66T5 Stewart Cink -13 68 73 68 66T7 *Adam Hadwin won $174,725 Abbotsford, B.C. -12 74 67 67 68T7 Austin Cook -12 68 70 69 69T7 Matt Kuchar -12 69 69 69 69T7 Charley Hoffman -12 71 66 69 70T11 Rory Sabbatini -11 72 69 69 67T11 Daniel Summerhays -11 73 69 68 67T11 James Hahn -11 71 68 69 69T11 Erik Compton -11 66 69 71 71T11 Ricky Barnes -11 68 70 68 71T11 Chad Campbell -11 67 63 75 72T11 Michael Putnam -11 71 65 68 73T18 Cameron Percy -10 72 67 69 70T18 Pat Perez -10 69 69 69 71T18 Johnson Wagner -10 67 66 72 73T18 Brooks Koepka -10 68 68 68 74T22 Tony Finau -9 71 70 73 65T22 Andres Gonzales -9 70 67 74 68T22 Brian Stuard -9 69 72 70 68T22 Jim Herman -9 67 75 69 68T22 Tim Wilkinson -9 72 70 69 68T22 Mark Wilson -9 70 68 72 69T22 Sam Saunders -9 70 69 71 69T22 Scott Langley -9 69 71 69 70T22 Jonas Blixt -9 69 69 69 72T22 Ollie Schniederjans -9 71 69 66 73T22 Emiliano Grillo -9 64 72 69 74T22 Camilo Villegas -9 69 69 67 74T34 *Adam Svensson -8 69 73 67 71T34 William McGirt -8 67 69 75 69T34 Justin Leonard -8 72 66 73 69T34 Andres Romero -8 68 73 70 69T34 Nick Watney -8 73 66 70 71T34 Tyrone van Aswegen -8 66 75 68 71T34 Brian Harman -8 65 67 76 72T41 Ryan Palmer -7 71 71 72 67T41 Chez Reavie -7 69 67 76 69T41 J.J. Spaun -7 67 72 73 69T41 Alex Cejka -7 72 70 70 69T41 Vaughn Taylor -7 65 71 74 71T41 J.J. Henry -7 72 67 71 71T41 Chad Collins -7 70 70 69 72T48 Scott Verplank -6 72 70 72 68T48 Colt Knost -6 68 69 75 70T48 Ben Crane -6 73 67 70 72T48 Jeff Overton -6 72 68 69 73T48 Jhonattan Vegas -6 71 70 68 73T48 Derek Fathauer -6 72 70 67 73T48 Roberto Castro -6 69 72 67 74T48 Alex Prugh -6 67 70 69 76T56 *Nick Taylor -5 70 72 71 70T56 D.A. Points -5 69 72 71 71T58 Steve Wheatcroft -4 66 72 75 71T58 Andrew Svoboda -4 72 70 69 73T58 Eric Axley -4 67 68 75 74T58 Scott Pinckney -4 68 68 73 75T58 Brian Davis -4 69 73 67 75T63 Angel Cabrera -3 73 69 72 71T63 Andrew Putnam -3 69 71 73 72T63 Carlos Ortiz -3 71 69 72 73T63 Steve Stricker -3 69 72 71 73T63 Martin Flores -3 68 74 70 73T63 Tim Clark -3 72 67 72 74T63 Hunter Mahan -3 68 72 70 75T70 Tom Gillis -2 73 68 73 72T70 Zac Blair -2 69 70 71 76T72 Chesson Hadley -1 67 74 73 73T72 Hudson Swafford -1 71 68 69 79T74 Luke Donald E 72 70 72 74T74 Heath Slocum E 68 74 70 76T76 Retief Goosen +1 69 71 74 75T76 K.J. Choi +1 69 72 73 75T76 Brendon de Jonge +1 71 66 76 76
Canada (MacKenzie Tour)No tournament last week. This week:ATB Financial Classic, July 30-Aug. 2Links of Glen Eagles, Calgary. Par: 72, 7,019 yards. Purse: $175,000. 2014 champion: Brock Mackenzie
LPGAMeijer LPGA Classic, July 23-26Blythefield Country Club, Belmont, Michigan. Par 72, 6,859 yards. Purse: $1,800,000. 2014 champion: Mirim Lee
Final leaderboardGolfer Par R1 R2 R3R41 Lexi Thompson -18 69 64 68 65T2 Gerina Piller -17 69 65 69 64T2 Lizette Salas -17 64 69 64 70T4 So Yeon Ryu -15 70 68 65 66T4 Kris Tamulis -15 66 68 67 686 Brittany Lang -14 69 69 66 667 Brittany Lincicome -12 70 68 65 69T8 Amy Anderson -11 68 70 69 66T8 Alison Lee -11 67 66 70 70T8 Xiyu Lin -11 71 70 66 66T8 Hee Young Park -11 70 69 65 69T12 Q Baek -10 66 68 70 70T12 Jaye Marie Green -10 65 69 73 67T12 Ilhee Lee -10 66 71 70 6715 Juli Inkster -9 69 71 70 65T16 Julieta Granada -8 71 68 68 69T16 Wei-Ling Hsu -8 65 69 71 71T16 Cristie Kerr -8 73 65 70 68T16 Caroline Masson -8 69 69 65 73T16 Sarah Jane Smith -8 68 70 71 67Canadian resultT27 Alena Sharp -6 68 70 72 68
Champions TourThe Senior Open Championship, July 23-26Sunningdale Golf Club, Berkshire, England. Par 70, 6,627 yards. Purse: $2,100,000. 2014 champion: Bernhard Langer
Final leaderboardGolfer Par R1 R2 R3R41 Marco Dawson -16 65 67 68 642 Bernhard Langer -15 65 68 68 643 Colin Montgomerie -13 67 67 66 674 Miguel A Jimenez -11 65 69 68 67T5 Woody Austin -8 69 67 70 66T5 Fred Couples -8 68 66 69 69T7 Jeff Maggert -7 71 67 66 69T7 Philip Walton -7 71 67 65 70T9 Peter Fowler -6 69 65 68 72T9 Jeff Sluman -6 65 69 70 70T9 Esteban Toledo -6 73 68 68 65T12 Bart Bryant -5 65 70 70 70T12 Barry Lane -5 68 70 68 69T12 Peter Senior -5 69 67 70 69T15 Brian Henninger -4 66 73 67 70T15 Duffy Waldorf -4 69 68 69 70T15 Tom Watson -4 67 72 66 71T15 Lian-Wei Zhang -4 65 71 72 68Canadian resultsT22 Stephen Ames -2 69 67 69 73T67 Rod Spittle +7 69 73 73 72
Web.com TourNo tournaments this week.Utah Championship, July 30-Aug. 2Golf Club at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah. Par 72, 7,714 yards. Purse: $650,000.
European TourOmega European Masters, July 23-26Crans-sur-Sierre, Crans Montana, Switzerland. Par 70, 6,848 yards. Purse: €2,300,000.
Final leaderboardGolfer Par R1 R2 R3R41 Danny Willett -17 65 62 71 652 Matthew Fitzpatrick -16 69 65 64 663 Tyrrell Hatton -15 65 68 70 624 Pelle Edberg -14 65 72 66 635 Anirban Lahiri -12 67 67 70 646 Sergio Garcia -11 69 70 66 64T7 Florian Fritsch -10 70 66 70 64T7 Raphael Jacquelin -10 68 64 68 709 Rikard Karlberg -9 65 67 74 65T10 Robert Dinwiddie -8 70 68 71 63T10 Kristoffer Broberg -8 68 69 70 65T10 Marcus Kinhult -8 65 66 73 68T10 Richie Ramsay -8 70 66 68 68
AUTO RACINGNASCARThe Jeff Kyle 400 at The Brickyard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Indianapolis Motor Speedway (The Brickyard). 160 laps, 2.5 miles per lap.
Top finishers(Car no. in parentheses)1 (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 178.575 mph.2 (22) Joey Logano, Ford3 (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet4 (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet5 (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota6 (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota7 (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota8 (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet9 (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet10 (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford
Formula OneHungarian Grand PrixHungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary.Track length 4.381 km (2.722 miles), 16 turns
Top finishers1 Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari, 1:46:09.985, 106.140 mph2 Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Red Bull, 1:46:25.7333 Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red Bull, 1:46:35.0694 Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Toro Rosso, 1:46:54.2365 Fernando Alonso, Spain, McLaren, 1:46:59.0646 Lewis Hamilton, England, Mercedes, 1:47:02.0107 Romain Grosjean, France, Lotus, 1:47:08.563
SOCCERGold CupChampionship final, at PhiladelphiaJamaica 1, Mexico 3
MLS
Yesterday’s resultsOrlando 3, NY City FC 5Philadelphia 2, DC United 3San Jose 1, Vancouver 3
Saturday’s resultsToronto 3, Columbus 3Montreal 1, Seattle 0N. England 2, Chicago 2Houston 3, Los Angeles 0Dallas 4, Portland 1
Wednesday, July 29MLS All-Stars vs. Tottenham
Pacific Coast Soccer League
Challenge Cup semifinalsSaturday’s resultsVancouver United 1, Khalsa SC 4Mid Isle Mariners 1, Victoria 2
Yesterday’s championship matchVictoria Highlanders 1(1) Khalsa SC 1(4) Khalsa wins on penalties
CYCLING102nd Tour de France, 3,360 km in 21 stages. Ends Sunday (July 26)
Canadian entries, final results: Svein Tuft (Langley, B.C., Orica GreenEdge)Ryder Hesjedal (Victoria, Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team)
Final standings40 Ryder Hesjedal, 2:04:37159 Svein Tuft, 4:48:08
Sunday’s final Stage 21 (final)Sevres to Paris, 109.5km, laps of the Champs Elysees and a final sprint to the finish line.
Stage results1 Andre Greipel (GER/LOT) 2 hours, 49 minutes, 41 seconds2 Bryan Coquard (FRA/EUC) same time3 Alexander Kristoff (NOR/KAT) s.t.4 Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR/MTN)5 Arnaud Démare (FRA/FDJ)6 Mark Cavendish (GBR/ETI)7 Peter Sagan (SVK/TIN)8 John Degenkolb (GER/GIA)9 Michael Matthews (AUS/ORI)10 Ramunas Navardauskas (LTU/CAN)
Overall standings (final)1 Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) 84 hours, 46 minutes, 14 seconds2 Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) at 1:123 Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) 5:254 Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) 8:365 Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) 9:486 Robert Gesink (NED/LNL) 10:477 Bauke Mollema (NED/TRE) 15:148 Mathias Frank (SUI/IAM) 15:399 Romain Bardet (FRA/ALM) 16:0010 Pierre Rolland (FRA/EUC) 17:30
LACROSSEBC Junior A Lacrosse League
Playoffs - Championship FinalBest-of-7*=if necessaryCoquitlam Adanacs vs. Delta Islanders
Saturday’s result (Game 2)Coquitlam 10, Delta 7
Today, 7:30 p.m. (Game 3)Delta at Coquitlam Coquitlam leads series 2-0
Tuesday July 28, 8 p.m. (Game 4)Coquitlam at Delta
Western Lacrosse AssnWLA Senior A
Standings GP W L T PtsVictoria 17 13 4 0 26New Westminster 17 11 6 0 22Burnaby 16 9 7 0 18Langley 16 8 8 0 16Maple Ridge 16 8 9 0 16Coquitlam 16 6 10 0 12Nanaimo 17 3 14 0 6
Saturday’s resultsBurnaby 9, Nanaimo 6Maple Ridge 9, Coquitlam 7
Tuesday, July 28Maple Ridge at Burnaby, 7:45 p.m.
PAN-AM GAMESToronto, July 10-26The 2019 Pan American Games will be held at Lima, Peru.
Final medal standingsRank/Country Gold Sil Bro Tot1 United States 103 81 81 2652 Canada 78 69 70 2173 Brazil 41 40 60 1414 Cuba 36 27 34 975 Colombia 27 14 31 726 Mexico 22 30 43 957 Argentina 15 29 31 758 Venezuela 8 22 20 509 Ecuador 7 9 16 3210 Guatemala 6 1 3 1011 Chile 5 6 18 2912 Peru 4 4 6 1413 Dominican Rep. 3 11 10 2414 Jamaica 3 4 2 915 Trinidad 3 3 2 816 Bahamas 2 2 2 617 Puerto Rico 1 1 13 1518 Uruguay 1 1 3 519 Saint Lucia 1 0 0 120 Barbados 0 1 2 3 Bolivia 0 1 2 3 El Salvador 0 1 2 3 Paraguay 0 1 2 324 Panama 0 1 1 225 Antigua 0 1 0 1 Grenada 0 1 0 1 Honduras 0 1 0 128 Bermuda 0 0 1 1 Rica Costa Rica 0 0 1 1 StKitts/Nevis 0 0 1 1 StV/Grenadines 0 0 1 1
Canadian results - Saturday, Sunday
AthleticsMen’s High JumpG- Derek Drouin, CanadaS- Mike Mason, CanadaB- Donald Thomas, Bahamas
Women’s 1500mG- Muriel Coneo, ColombiaS- Nicole Sifuentes, CanadaB- Sasha Gollish, Canada
Women’s 4x100m RelayG- United StatesS- JamaicaB- Canada
Women’s 4x400m RelayG- United StatesS- JamaicaB- Canada
Basketball - MenG- BrazilS- CanadaB- United States
Boxing - Women’s FlyG- Mandy Bujold, CanadaS- Marlen Esparza, United States
Women’s Light (57-60kg)G- Caroline Veyre, CanadaS- Dayana Sanchez, Argentina
Baseball - WomenG- United States def. S- Canada
Cycling - Women’s Road RaceG- Jasmin Glaesser, CanadaS- Marlies Mejias, CubaB- Allison Beveridge, Canada
Fencing - Women’s Foil TeamG- CanadaS- United StatesB- Mexico
Field Hockey - MenG- ArgentinaS- CanadaB- Chile
Karate - Women’s +68kgG- Valeria Echever, EcuadorS- Camélie Boisvenue, Canada
Racquetball - Men’s TeamG- Bolivia def. S- Canada
Racquetball - Women’s TeamG- Canada def. S- Ecuador
Softball - WomenG- Canada def. S- United States
Volleyball - MenG- Argentina, S- Brazil, B- Canada
TENNISLast week’s tournaments
ATPClaro Open ColombiaJuly 20-26, Bogota, ColombiaSurface: Outdoor, Hard. Prize Money: $768,915.
Singles - FinalBernard Tomic (2), Australia, def. Adrian Mannarino (3), France, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.
Doubles - FinalEdouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Radek Stepanek (96), Czech Republic, def. Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Michael Venus (3), New Zealand, 7-5, 6-3.
Skistar Swedish OpenJuly 20-26, Bastad, SwedenSurface: Outdoor, Clay. Prize Money: €494,310
Singles - FinalBenoit Paire, France, def. Tommy Robredo (2), Spain, 7-6 (7), 6-3.
Doubles - FinalJeremy Chardy, France, and Lukasz Kubot (2), Poland, def. Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia, and Robert Farah (1), Colombia, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 10-8.
Konzum Croatia Open UmagJuly 20-26, Umag, CroatiaSurface: Outdoor, Clay. Prize Money: €494,310
Singles - FinalDominic Thiem (4), Austria, def. Joao Sousa, Portugal, 6-4, 6-1.
WTANurnberger Gasteinladies 2015July 20-26, Bad Gastein, Austria. Surface: Clay. Prize Money: $226,750
Singles - FinalSamantha Stosur (2), Australia, def. Karin Knapp (3), Italy, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2.
Doubles - FinalDanka Kovinic, Montenegro, and Stephanie Vogt, Liechtenstein, def. Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, and Lucie Hradecka (1), Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-4, 10-3.
Paribas Istanbul CupJuly 20-26, Istanbul, Turkey. Surface: Hard. Prize Money: $226,750
Singles - FinalLesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, def. Urszula Radwanska, Poland, 7-5, 6-1.
Doubles - FinalDaria Gavrilova, Russia, and Elina Svi-tolina, Ukraine, def. Cagla Buyukakcay, Turkey, and Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 5-7, 6-1, 10-4.
B.C. Premier LeagueBCPBL playoffsBest-of-three series
Yesterday’s resultOkanagan 4, Langley 1 (Okanagan wins playoff 2-1)
Saturday’s resultsVictoria Eagles 4, North Delta 0Victoria Eagles 3, North Delta 1 (Victoria Eagles win playoff 2-0)
Nanaimo 2, Whalley 1Nanaimo 7, Whalley 2 (Nanaimo wins playoff 2-0)
North Shore 7, Abbotsford 0North Shore 5, Abbotsford 0 (North Shore wins playoff 2-0)
Langley 5, Okanagan 2Okanagan 1, Langley 0 (Playoff tied 1-1)
BCPBL Provincial ChampionshipFriday, July 31-Monday, Aug. 3Royal Athletic Park, Victoria
Schedule to be announced
West Coast League
Yesterday’s resultsWalla Walla at Victoria, postponed, rainKitsap 5, Cowlitz 0Corvallis 11, Klamath 7Yakima Valley 3, Wenatchee 1Bend at Kelowna, postponed, rainBellingham 9, Medford 4
Saturday’s resultsKitsap at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m.Bellingham at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Corvallis at Klamath, 6:35 p.m.Walla Walla at Victoria, DH, 4 p.m.Bend at Kelowna, postponed, rainYakima Valley 3, Wenatchee 1
Today’s scheduleBellingham at Bend, 6:35 p.m.Walla Walla at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m.Medford at Yakima Valley, 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, July 28Wenatchee at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Cowlitz at Victoria, 6:35 p.m.Walla Walla at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m.Bellingham at Bend, 6:35 p.m.Klamath Falls at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.Medford at Yakima Valley, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday at Safeco Field
Blue Jays 8, Mariners 6Toronto Seattle ab r h bi ab r h biReyes SS 5 0 1 1 Jackson CF 5 1 1 0Donaldson 3B 3 1 1 1 Seager 3B 4 1 2 0Bautista RF 5 1 1 0 Cruz DH 4 1 2 0Enc’acion DH 3 0 0 0 Cano 2B 4 2 1 3Colabello 1B 4 1 1 2 Smith LF 2 0 1 1Martin C 3 2 0 0 Morrison 1B 4 0 0 1Valencia LF 3 1 1 1 Taylor SS 4 0 1 0Carrera PH-LF 2 1 1 2 Sucre C 4 1 1 1Pillar CF 2 0 0 0 Totals 31 6 9 6Travis 2B 3 1 2 1 Totals 33 8 8 8
Toronto 030 001 022 8 Seattle 111 300 000 6
SB: SEA Morrison (6, 2nd base off Hutchison/Martin, R). 2B: TOR Donald-son (25, Nuno), Travis (18, Wilhelmsen), Reyes (17, Wilhelmsen), Bautista (18, Smith, Ca). GIDP: TOR Martin, R. HR: TOR Carrera (2, 8th inning off Rodney, 1 on, 0 out); SEA Sucre (1, 2nd inning off Hutchison, 0 on, 1 out), Cano (10, 4th inning off Hutchison, 2 on, 2 out). Team Lob: TOR 8; SEA 8. DP: SEA 2 (Smith, S-Cano, Beimel-Cano-Morrison). E: TOR Travis (6, fielding); SEA Smith, S (1, throw).
Toronto IP H R ER BB SOA Hutchison 4.0 7 6 5 2 4L Hendriks 2.0 0 0 0 0 2B Cecil 1.0 1 0 0 0 1A Sanchez (W, 6-4) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0R Osuna 1.0 0 0 0 1 1Seattle IP H R ER BB SOJ Happ 1.2 1 3 3 4 1T Wilhelmsen 2.2 2 1 1 0 2F Rodney 1.0 1 2 2 1 0C Smith (L, 1-3) 0.0 2 2 2 2 0J Beimel 1.0 0 0 0 0 1HBP: Pillar (by Happ).
Time: 3:29. Att: 45,027.
Yesterday’s game (10 innings)
Mariners 6, Blue Jays 5Toronto Seattle ab r h bi ab r h biReyes SS 3 0 1 0 Jackson CF 5 1 2 2Donaldson 3B 4 1 1 2 Seager 3B 4 1 2 0Bautista RF 5 0 0 0 Cruz RF 5 1 2 3Enc’acion DH 3 0 1 0 Cano DH 5 0 1 0Smoak 1B 4 1 1 0 Taylor 2B 4 0 0 0Colabello 1B 1 0 0 0 Miller SS 4 1 2 0Martin C 4 1 1 0 Zunino C 4 1 3 0Carrera LF 3 2 2 2 Totals 31 5 12 5Pillar CF 4 0 1 0 Goins 2B 3 0 0 0 Travis PH-2B 1 0 1 0 Totals 35 5 9 4
Toronto 130 000 100 0 5 Seattle 102 000 200 1 6
2B: TOR Martin, R (17, Walker, T). GIDP: TOR Smoak; SEA Seager, Jackson, A. HR: TOR Donaldson (24, 1st inning off Walker, T, 0 on, 1 out), Carrera (3, 7th inning off Rollins, D, 0 on, 0 out); SEA Jackson, A (5, 1st inning off Buehrle, 0 on, 0 out), Cruz, N (25, 7th inning off Schultz, 1 on, 1 out), Gutierrez, F (3, 10th inning off Loup, 0 on, 1 out). Team Lob: TOR 6; SEA 7. DP: TOR 2 (Smoak-Reyes-Buehrle, Reyes-Goins-Smoak); SEA 2 (Zunino-Taylor, C, Trumbo-Miller, B-Trumbo). E: TOR Donaldson (13, fielding); SEA Taylor, C (4, fielding). PICKOFFS: TOR Buehrle (Seager at 1st base).
Toronto IP H R ER BB SOM Buehrle 5.2 10 3 3 1 3P Schultz 1.1 1 2 2 1 2A Sanchez 1.0 0 0 0 0 2D Tepera 1.0 1 0 0 0 0A Loup (L, 2-5) 0.1 1 1 1 0 0Seattle IP H R ER BB SOT Walker 6.0 6 4 3 3 6D Rollins 1.0 1 1 1 1 0M Lowe 2.0 2 0 0 1 3J Beimel (W, 2-1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Time: 3:05. Att: 35,159.
Mets 3, Dodgers 2 (10 inn)LA Dodgers NY Mets ab r h bi ab r h biPederson CF 5 0 0 0 Grand’son RF 5 1 2 0Kendrick 2B 5 0 0 0 Tejada SS 4 0 0 0Gonzalez 1B 3 1 1 0 Murphy 32B 3 1 1 0Turner 3B 4 0 1 1 Duda 1B 3 0 0 0Grandal C 4 0 1 1 Conforto LF 2 0 0 1Puig RF 4 0 0 0 Nieu’huis CF 3 1 1 0Ethier LF-RF 4 0 1 0 Plawecki C 4 0 1 0Rollins SS 2 0 0 0 deGrom P 2 0 0 1Greinke P 2 0 1 0 Flores PH 1 0 0 0Totals 33 1 5 2 Totals 27 3 5 2
LA Dodgers 000 000 002 0 2 NY Mets 001 001 000 1 3
SB: LAD Rollins (8); NYM Granderson (9). 2B: LAD Gonzalez, A (25, Familia), Turner, Ju (20, Familia); NYM Grander-son (18, Nicasio). GIDP: NYM Johnson, K. S: LAD Van Slyke; NYM Tejada. Team Lob: LAD 6; NYM 9. DP: LAD 2. E: LAD Pederson.
LA Dodgers IP H R ER BB SOD Greinke 7.0 4 2 2 3 3J Howell 1.1 0 0 0 1 2J Nicasio (L, 1-3) 1.0 1 1 1 1 2K Jansen 0.0 1 0 0 0 0NY Mets IP H R ER BB SOJ deGrom 7.2 2 0 0 2 8J Familia 1.1 3 2 2 0 1J Mejia (W, 1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1HBP: Nieuwenhuis (by Greinke).
Time: 3:27. Att: 36,093.
Giants 4, Athletics 3Oakland San Francisco ab r h bi ab r h biBurns CF 4 0 0 0 Pagan CF 4 2 1 0Vogt C 4 0 0 0 Panik 2B 4 0 0 0Zobrist LF-2B 4 1 2 0 Duffy 3B 4 1 2 3Reddick RF 4 1 1 0 Posey C 4 1 4 0Davis 1B 3 1 2 0 Pence RF 3 0 0 0Lawrie 3B 4 0 2 1 Belt 1B 4 0 2 1Sogard 2B 1 0 0 0 Crawford SS 4 0 2 0Butler PH 1 0 1 1 Blanco LF 3 0 0 0Fuld PH 1 0 0 0 Hudson P 2 0 1 0Phegley PH 1 0 0 0 Maxwell LF 2 0 0 0Semien SS 4 0 0 0 Totals 34 4 12 4Canha LF 3 0 1 0 Totals 34 3 9 2
Oakland 010 200 000 3 San Francisco 310 000 00x 4
2B: OAK Reddick (14, Hudson, T), Davis, I (14, Hudson, T); SF Hudson, T (2, Otero), Posey (16, Scribner). GIDP: SF Pence 2. HR: SF Duffy, M (9, 1st inning off Grave-man, 1 on, 1 out). S: SF Lopez, J. Team Lob: OAK 5; SF 9. DP: OAK 2 (Lawrie-Zobrist-Davis, I, Pomeranz-Zobrist-Davis, I). E: OAK Lawrie (19, fielding); SF Crawford, B (10, throw).
Oakland IP H R ER BB SOK Graveman (L, 6-7) 1.1 7 4 4 2 2D Otero 1.2 2 0 0 0 1E Scribner 2.0 1 0 0 0 0T Pomeranz 2.0 1 0 0 0 1E O’Flaherty 1.0 1 0 0 0 0San Francisco IP H R ER BB SOT Hudson (W, 6-8) 5.0 7 3 3 0 1J Affeldt 0.1 1 0 0 0 0G Kontos 1.2 0 0 0 0 2J Lopez 1.0 0 0 0 0 0S Casilla 1.0 1 0 0 1 2
Time: 3:04. Att: 42,034.
Angels 13, Rangers 7Texas LA Angels ab r h bi ab r h biDeShields CF 4 0 1 0 Giavotella 2B 5 1 1 1Martin CF 1 1 1 0 Calhoun RF 5 1 2 0Odor 2B 5 2 2 3 Trout CF 4 3 4 5Beltre 3B 4 1 2 0 Pujols 1B 5 0 1 0Rosales PH 1 0 0 0 Aybar SS 4 0 1 2Fielder DH 3 2 1 0 Cron DH-1B 4 1 2 1Moreland 1B 5 0 2 2 Feath’ton IF 1 1 1 1Andrus SS 5 0 2 1 Perez C 3 2 0 0Rua LF 3 1 1 0 Joyce LF 1 0 0 0Telis C 3 0 0 1 Robertson LF 4 2 2 2Totals 34 7 12 7 Totals 36 11 14 12
Texas 001 100 203 7 LA Angels 100 115 32x 13
SB: LAA Pujols (2, 2nd base off Martinez, N/Telis). 2B: TEX Andrus (17, Heaney), Rua (5, Heaney), Moreland (16, Street); LAA Calhoun (17, Martinez, N), Robertson, Dn (2, Kela), Featherston (3, Rodriguez, W). HR: TEX Odor (8, 9th inning off Street, 1 on, 0 out); LAA Trout 2 (31, 1st inning off Martinez, N, 0 on, 2 out; 6th inning off Patton, 3 on, 1 out), Cron (6, 4th inning off Martinez, N, 0 on, 0 out). S: LAA Perez, C. Team Lob: TEX 9; LAA 8. E: TEX Beltre (8, fielding), Bass (1, throw), Odor (11, throw).
Texas IP H R ER BB SON Martinez (L, 5-6) 5.0 6 4 4 3 5A Bass 0.0 2 3 2 0 0S Freeman 0.1 0 0 0 0 1S Patton 0.2 1 1 1 0 1K Kela 0.2 2 3 2 1 1W Rodriguez 1.1 4 2 2 0 1LA Angels IP H R ER BB SOA Heaney (W, 5-0) 6.0 6 2 2 1 4T Gott 0.2 2 2 0 1 1N Salas 0.1 0 0 0 0 0J Smith 1.0 0 0 0 0 1H Street 1.0 4 3 3 0 1HBP: Fielder (by Heaney).
Time: 3:33. Att: 38,539.
Eastern LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GADC United 38 23 11 7 5 27 22Columbus 31 22 8 7 7 34 33NY Red Bulls 29 19 8 6 5 29 23Toronto 28 19 8 7 4 31 31N. England 28 23 7 9 7 29 35Montreal 24 18 7 8 3 25 27NY City FC 24 21 6 9 6 29 31Orlando 24 21 6 9 6 26 31Philadelphia 22 22 6 12 4 28 37Chicago 19 20 5 11 4 22 30
Western LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GADallas 38 21 11 5 5 32 25Vancouver 36 22 11 8 3 27 22Los Angeles 34 23 9 7 7 36 28Sporting KC 33 19 9 4 6 29 20Seattle 32 22 10 10 2 25 21Portland 32 22 9 8 5 24 28Salt Lake 29 22 7 7 8 23 27Houston 27 21 7 8 6 27 26San Jose 25 20 7 9 4 22 27Colorado 24 20 5 6 9 18 19
American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Yankees 55 42 .567 - W2Toronto 50 50 .500 6.5 L1Baltimore 48 49 .495 7.0 W2Tampa Bay 49 51 .490 7.5 L2Boston 44 55 .444 12.0 W1Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 59 38 .608 - W2Minnesota 52 46 .531 7.5 L2Detroit 48 50 .490 11.5 L1Chicago Sox 46 50 .479 12.5 W4Cleveland 45 52 .464 14.0 L4West W L PCT GB StrkLA Angels 55 43 .561 - W1Houston 55 45 .550 1.0 L2Texas 47 50 .485 7.5 L1Seattle 46 53 .465 9.5 W1Oakland 44 56 .440 12.0 L4
National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkWashington 52 45 .536 - L1NY Mets 51 48 .515 2.0 W2Atlanta 46 52 .469 6.5 W1Miami 41 58 .414 12.0 L3Philadelphia 37 63 .370 16.5 W4Central W L PCT GB StrkSt. Louis 63 35 .643 - L1Pittsburgh 57 41 .582 6.0 W1Chicago Cubs 51 46 .526 11.5 L3Cincinnati 43 53 .448 19.0 L1Milwaukee 43 56 .434 20.5 L2West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 56 44 .560 - L2San Francisco 54 44 .551 1.0 W5San Diego 47 52 .475 8.5 W3Arizona 46 51 .474 8.5 W2Colorado 42 54 .438 12.0 W1
East W L PCT GB StrkKelowna 27 14 .659 - 2WYakima Valley 22 20 .524 5.5 1WWalla Walla 20 21 .488 7 2LWenatchee 19 23 .452 8.5 1LSouth W L PCT GB StrkBend 30 11 .732 - 3LCorvallis 23 19 .548 7.5 2WMedford 19 23 .452 11.5 1LKlamath Falls 9 33 .214 21.5 2LWest W L PCT GB StrkBellingham 27 15 .643 - 1WVictoria 20 21 .488 6.5 2WKitsap 17 25 .405 10 3WCowlitz 17 25 .405 10 5L
SCOREBOARD
Seattle Mariner Franklin Gutierrez gets doused with a bucket of a sports drink by teammates after beating the Toronto Blue Jays in Seattle on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]
B4 | DAILY NEWS | MONDAY, JULY 27, 2015 SPORTS
Blue Jays blow early lead, fall to MarinersJIM HOEHN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — A baserunning blunder that resulted in a triple play came back to haunt the Toronto Blue Jays, who let another opportunity slip away on the road.
Franklin Gutierrez homered with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday to give the Seattle Mariners a 6-5 victory over the Blue Jays, who have not won consecutive road games since June 14.
“It’s disappointing,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of the 3-3 record on the West Coast road trip. “We’re not in a position to do this. Time’s not on our side. We’re chasing some pretty good teams. Frustrating, tough game.”
Gutierrez jumped on an 0-2 pitch from Aaron Loup (2-5) and drove it over the wall in left-centre for his third homer as the Mariners overcame a 5-3 deficit.
“I had two strikes at that moment and obvious-ly you have to try to put the ball in play. I was ready for anything,” said Gutierrez, who missed all of last season with an arthritic condition in his back. “He threw a fastball right there, put a good swing on it and it went out.”
Nelson Cruz brought the Mariners even at 5-5 in the seventh with his 25th home run, a two-run shot to left off Bo Schultz.
Joe Beimel (2-1), who struck out one in one relief inning, picked up the win for the Mariners.
With Toronto leading 4-3, the Mariners turned a triple play in the fourth inning. Ezequiel Carrera drew a leadoff walk and moved to third on Kevin Pillar’s single. Ryan Goings bounced out to first and Pillar was hung up between first and second, and Carrera was stuck between third and home. Both runners ended up at third base and each was tagged out by catcher Mike Zunino.
“There’s no excuses. I think we’ve all played this game long enough, we know what to do in that situation,” Pillar said. “We just didn’t execute.”
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: FUN TO WIN OR LOSE
Par Dealer: South Both vulnerable
NORTH ♠QJ8 ♥753 ♦QJ103 ♣J82
WEST EAST ♠5 ♠97642 ♥64 ♥1082 ♦A98742 ♦5 ♣A964 ♣Q1053
SOUTH ♠AK103 ♥AKQJ9 ♦K6 ♣K7
W N E S 2♣ Pass 2♦* Pass 2♥ Pass 4♥ All Pass * waiting Opening Lead: ♦A
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West continued with a suit preference diamond deuce despite declarer’s
play of the king. Partner would have played the six from the 6-5 doubleton. East ruffed to return the club three but South guessed to play low, N-S +620.
If West begins with the single-ton spade, declarer will draw trump and place the king ofdia-mondsonthetable.West wins and must cash the club ace or he will lose it.
North’s two diamond response was waiting and the subsequent leap to game revealed a smatter-ing of values but denied an ace or a king. South was, therefore, content to play in the major suit game.
3NT declared by South will yield eleven tricks when West leads a diamond or perhaps twelve if he fails to cash the club ace after winning the ace of diamonds. A fourth best club would hold South to ten tricks but the nine-trick game would rarely be reached. If North bids three hearts at his second turn, this action might convince South to launch into Blackwood since partner has promised values that include an ace or a king. In this scenario, South will suffer defeat when West again elects to start with the ace of diamonds and delivers the ruff at trick two. South would have to rebid 2NT over two diamonds for the partnership to have a chance of landing in 3NT. 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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a major change. You might not have everything under control, but you will make a decision involving your routine and what works for you. A friend doesn’t seem to express his or her caring as you do; make that OK. Tonight: Play it easy.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)Your playfulness won’t be able
to be harnessed. Maintain a sense of humor, and be willing to invite others into your fun. Caring will emerge naturally. You and a spe-cial loved one can’t seem to get enough of each other. Share your feelings. Tonight: Live for the moment.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)ou’ll want to speak your mind,
but you suddenly might find yourself unwilling to open up. You could be in a tense situation. You could wonder what would be best to do. Think quickly, and be aware of the possibilities. Con-sider your options. Tonight: Stay close to home.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Ask questions to receive solid
answers. Even if you do not like someone’s response, you will appreciate the clarity you receive from asking. Emphasize better communication. Join a friend to watch a ballgame or to go off to a summer barbecue. Tonight: Hang out.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Slow down, and remember your budget. Not being as clear as you should be about your spending could be a problem. Take some time to revise your budget, and figure out your true limits. For once, let someone else treat. Tonight: Do whatever pleases you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) As the day goes on, you might
feel more and more vivacious. Be careful when dealing with some-one who is an authority figure or who has clout over you. You won’t want to irritate this person. A talk about a potential trip makes it possible. Tonight: Try some-thing new.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Sometimes taking a day off is
the perfect solution, especially for you.
You are a sign that really cares about work, getting the job done and carrying out your responsibilities. Make it OK to take a day to re-energize. You will see the difference. Tonight: Not to be found.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Every so often you have the
opportunity to hang with friends and not worry about your sched-ule. Today easily could be one of those times.
You might need to visit with a loved one whom you care a lot about. Tonight: The party goes on. Enjoy your companions.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)Responsibilities will put you in
a position where you must take action.
Others will respond to your sug-gestions, though you could be in a situation where you’ll be doing more work than you would like. Smile, and remember that this doesn’t happen often. Tonight: Happy at home.
YOUR BIRTHDAY (July 21) This year you open the door to
new adventures and new possi-bilities. You are likely to discover that the area in which you live offers a rich mix of activities and entertainment.
If you are single, you easily will meet someone special in your day-to-day travels. The per-son you meet could affect your finances, but for the better. If you are attached, the two of you enjoy going out more often. You frequently can be found sitting together having a discussion or laughing. SCORPIO can be the anchor to your life.BORN TODAY
Actress Sandra Bullock (1964), singer/songwriter Mick Jagger (1943), actor Kevin Spacey (1959).
HOROSCOPEby Jacqueline Bigar
Dear Annie: How do you cope with a friendship where the person stays connected just enough to continually remind you
of how unimportant you are? I have a friend with whom I was
once quite close. We exercised and ran errands
together, and when she was seriously ill, I spent countless hours visiting, reading to her and just being there. I donated to her charities, sang in her choir, and we always had fun together.
But after I was diagnosed with the same illness (now recovered), she visited me only twice and now seems too busy to get together.
That would be bad enough. But the real problem is that she texts me often to say how much she misses me
or to ask for a favor, but apparently never wants to see me.
It’s a sad reminder of how little she is willing to do to maintain the friendship.
We live in a small town and I can’t cut her off without repercussions. Is my only option to simply live with the disappointment?
— Friend in Need Dear Friend: You have another
option: Talk to her about it. Not everyone is good about friendship maintenance. Some people become so busy that they neglect people who are otherwise important to them, and don’t recognize that this behavior is hurtful.
For them, texting becomes a con-venient substitute for face-to-face interactions that require scheduling and organization.
You won’t know whether this is the case unless you ask your friend dir-ectly. We hope she will be completely honest about the reasons for her dis-missive attitude.
At the very least, you will be able to determine how much she cares by how sincerely apologetic she is and whether she does anything to remedy the situation.
After all, what do you have to lose?
Kathy Mitchell & Marcy SugarAnnie’s Mailbox
Not everyone is good with friend maintenance
OBITUARY
Stratford theatre director dies THE CANADIAN PRESS
STRATFORD, Ont. — Hours after hearing about the death of Robin Phillips, Antoni Cimolino went home and opened a card he had been given years earlier from the venerated Stratford Theatre director compli-menting him on his early production of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.
It was a full-circle moment for Cimolino, now himself artistic direc-tor of Ontario’s premier classical the-atre festival, and who credits Phillips with changing his life.
“When I was a kid I watched his production of Love’s Labour’s Lost and ... I left everything to go into the theatre,” said Cimolino. “I basically went into the theatre because of the beauty and the quality of what he put on stage.
Phillips died in his sleep at his
home outside Stratford, Ont., on Sat-urday morning. He was 73.
His hard work, talent and teaching are celebrated for attracting to the stage aficionados and newcomers alike, as well as shaping theatre across Canada and around the world.
“He had a way of making the clas-sics really speak to the time we’re in now; he had a way of making Shake-speare so clear and so compelling,” said Cimolino.
“He taught so many people across the country — actors, directors, designers — about the potential for real beauty in the classics.
“I think he probably brought a lot of people to theatres, and he made those who attended theatres believe in plays and stagecraft in a way they’d never believed it before.”
Phillips was born in England in 1942 and studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic.
BOX OFFICE
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‘Ant-Man’ inches past ‘Pixels’ for first placeDisney, Marvel superhero movie starring comedian Paul Rudd has now raked in more than $106M LINDSEY BAHR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Ant-Man crept past new opener Pixels to claim the top spot at the box office this weekend by an ant-sized margin.
The Disney and Marvel super-hero pic brought in $24.8 million over the weekend, bringing its domestic total to $106.1 million according to Rentrak estimates Sunday.
Pixels, meanwhile, just barely missed first place with a $24 mil-lion debut. While studios always hope for the bragging rights of a No. 1 debut, the real issue here is whether or not the Adam Sand-ler end of the world comedy will make up its $88 million produc-tion budget.
“It’s been a little competitive in the marketplace when you con-sider the extent of the perform-ance of Jurassic and Inside Out,”’ said Sony’s President of World-wide Distribution Rory Bruer.
“To get to where we opened to was quite good.”
Critics were not fond of Pixels, which shows 1980s video arcade game characters attacking Earth, but younger audiences still turned out to theatres — an estimated 62 per cent were under the age of 25.
Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst, said Sand-ler can still attract an audience, but the expensive film has a lot of ground to make up.
“They’re really going to have to count on the international com-ponent. That’s going to be key,” he said.
Overall, the box office is down 3 per cent from the same week-end last year, when Lucy opened particularly strong. Dergarabe-dian said that though some are attempting to link last week’s theatre shootings to any dip in the box office this weekend, “the numbers just don’t bear it out.”
Holdovers Minions and Train-wreck took the third and fourth spots with $22.1 million and $17.3 million, respectively.
Meanwhile, the R-rated boxing drama Southpaw” surpassed expectations and landed a place in the top five with its $16.5 mil-
lion opening.Dergarabedian said that its
performance is likely due to star Jake Gyllenhaal’s enthusi-astic promotion of the film and also the fact that it provides an alternative to the standard sum-mer blockbuster fare.
“Southpaw felt like a really good fall movie,” he said.
Paper Towns, an adaptation of John Green’s coming-of-age novel, opened in sixth place with $12.5 million.
The Fox film only cost $12 million to produce, but con-sidering Green’s fan base and
last year’s massive $48 million debut of The Fault in Our Stars, which Green also wrote, it’s a bit disappointing.
A straight comparison isn’t entirely fair, though. The Fault in Our Stars had a much bigger following and transcended age and gender groups with its story of two teens dying of cancer and falling in love.
Paper Towns is a more narrow and lighthearted high school tale.
According to exit polls, 71 per cent of the Paper Towns audi-ence was female and 78 per cent
were under age 25.Also, Shailene Woodley was
a much bigger name when The Fault in Our Stars came out, whereas Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff are somewhat lesser known.
Woodley’s Divergent associ-ation took the modest film “to another level,” Dergarabedian said.
“I think we have a job ahead of us in the coming weeks to find more of our potential audience who we weren’t able to reach this weekend. But I think we can do that,” said Chris Aronson, Fox’s
domestic distribution president.Estimated ticket sales for Fri-
day through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. Ant-Man, $24.8 million.2. Pixels, $24 million.3. Minions, $22.1 million.4. Trainwreck, $17.3 million.5. Southpaw, $16.5 million.6. Paper Towns, $12.5 million.7. Inside Out, $7.4 million.8. Jurassic World, $6.9 million.9. Mr. Holmes, $2.8 million.10. Terminator Genisys,
$2.4 million.
This photo provided by courtesy of Sony Pictures shows Josh Gad as Ludlow chased by Pac-Man in Columbia Pictures’ ‘Pixels.’ [AP PHOTO]
CAREER CHANGE
Former NFL player enters HollywoodDENNIS WASZAK JR. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Thomas Jones would wake up, crack open a few beers and wonder what was next.
No more practices. No more games.
No more locker-room laughs with his teammates.
Life without football for the former NFL running back was a scary thought.
“I was very depressed, in this weird space,” said Jones, who retired after the 2011 season. “There was this emptiness, almost like you broke up with your girlfriend and then it’s like, what do you do? I had never been much of a drinker, but I was waking up in the morning and drinking Coronas. I needed some-thing to get over it.
“For like eight or nine months, it was a weird, weird time for me.”
Jones was a first-round pick out of the University of Virginia in 2000 and played 12 seasons in the NFL, rushing for 10,591 yards — 24th on the career list — and 68 touchdowns during stops with the Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears, New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs.
During those last few seasons, Jones founded a production company called Independently Major Entertainment, which started out by promoting music artists and later developed a film division.
Still, Jones couldn’t recreate the satisfying feeling of competi-tion that football provided.
“I was used to working out for a reason,” the 36-year-old Jones said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
“I had to really change things around in my life and re-pri-oritize things. It was a tough transition.”
He found his way while work-ing on one of his company’s film projects with veteran actor Clif-ton Powell, who has appeared in several Hollywood hits. Powell saw talent in Jones, and encour-aged him to give acting a serious shot.
“Any time someone like that is in your corner,” Jones said, “it kind of makes it worth your while to try it.”
It was as good a play call as Jones has ever made.
In the three-plus years since he retired, Jones has scored appearances on Showtime’s “Shameless” and IFC’s “Com-edy Bang! Bang!” Then came a breakthrough role on BET’s “Being Mary Jane” as Gabrielle Union’s love interest. His first day on set was eye-opening: He went to wardrobe looking for his clothes, and there was just a robe and sandals waiting for him.
Largely because of his love scenes in “Being Mary Jane,” the chisel-chested Jones has become a hit with female fans— going from gridiron great to Hollywood heartthrob.
“It’s been an experience, man,” Jones said, laughing. “It’s def-initely been flattering. I was always in the public eye, but it was a pretty big transition to go from being seen with a helmet on to being seen with basically no clothes on.”
Next up is a major part in the made-for-TV movie “Runaway Island,” which premieres Satur-
day night on cable network TV One. It stars Lorraine Toussaint from “Orange is the New Black” and is directed by the Oscar-nom-inated Dianne Houston.
“I’m so excited for people to see this,” Jones said. “Diverse cast, all ages. It was perfect.”
He’s also in the upcoming big-screen flick “Straight Outta Compton” about the rap group N.W.A that’s due out next month.
“My character is very intense, very angry,” Jones said. “I just went back to pregame and pulled those emotions from as if we were playing the Patriots in Foxborough.”
Acting has become more than just a hobby for Jones, who has also developed CASTAR, a social networking app for people in the entertainment industry.
He is following in the footsteps of a handful of other NFL stars who became successful actors such as Jim Brown, Fred Wil-liamson, Alex Karras and John Matuszak.
Jones even added his middle initial — Q for Quinn — to his name for his acting credits.
“I’m a full-time actor,” he said. “I’m no longer Thomas Jones, the football player. I’ve spread
my wings, come out of my cocoon. This is who I am now.”
Jones, who largely avoided the spotlight during his playing career, sees plenty of similar-ities between acting and his old career, from reading scripts instead of playbooks to working off emotions. There’s plenty of competition, too, just like his football days.
“I’ve been able to peel back a lot of layers of who I am,” said Jones, who splits his time between Los Angeles and Miami. “Acting has really given me a new outlook on life.”
Jones hopes his successful career change can serve as an example to young players who are aren’t yet planning for their post-football careers — and to former athletes still searching for their next gameplan long after the cheering has stopped.
“I don’t think I could have ever seen this for me a few years ago,” Jones said.
“It’s an amazing thing. I’d tell those guys that life is way bigger than the game. You give a lot of yourself to football, but you need to realize that there’s a lot more to life out here for you than just football.”
Kansas City Chiefs running back Thomas Jones is seen before the start of an NFL football playoff game. The running back-turned-actor is going from gridiron great to Hollywood heartthrob. [AP PHOTO]
ACTING
Model shifts to actress for top new fi lmMICHAEL CIDONI LENNOX THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Cara Dele-vingne wants you to know she didn’t strut directly from the fashion runway onto Hollywood movie sets.
The British model wasn’t hand-picked by studio executives for her lead role in Paper Towns, which opened this weekend.
She won the part after an audi-tion process that included 100 other actresses.
“Cara killed it in the chemistry read. We all knew as soon as she walked in,” co-star Nat Wolff said in a recent interview.
“I killed all the other actresses that went up for the role,” Delev-ingne joked, laughing alongside Wolff.
The 22-year-old may no longer need to be quite so aggressive in Hollywood. She appears in four more films expected to be released this year, including Pan.
She plays DC Comics vil-lain-slash-heroine Enchantress in the dark Suicide Squad, out next summer, then co-stars with Dane DeHaan in director Luc Besson’s big-budget sci-fi film Valerian.
“The whole thing has been a joy ride. This is my dream so I’m kind of following it now,” she said.
“I don’t feel like I’m stopping modeling. It’s just definitely slowing down and so I’m just happy to be doing this.”
In Paper Towns, adapted from John Green’s popular young adult novel, Delevingne plays the enigmatic Margo, who wrangles Wolff’s character into an all-night adventure, then disappears.
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Background check didn’t stop gun purchase by theatre shooterJohn Russell Houser shot 11 people with a handgun in a Louisiana movie theatreRAY HENRY, JAY REEVES AND REBECCA SANTANA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAFAYETTE, La. — John Rus-sell Houser was deeply troubled long before he shot 11 people in a movie theatre in Louisiana, but decades of mental problems didn’t keep him from buying the handgun he used.
Despite public signs of mental illness — most importantly, a Georgia judge’s order commit-ting him to mental health treat-ment against his will as a danger to himself and others in 2008 — Houser was able to walk into an Alabama shop six years later and buy a .40-calibre handgun.
It was the same weapon Hous-er used to kill two people and wound nine others before killing himself at a Thursday showing of Trainwreck. Three people remained hospitalized Saturday.
Court records reviewed by The Associated Press strongly sug-gest Houser should have been reported to the state and federal databases used to keep people with serious mental illnesses from buying firearms, legal experts said.
“It sure does seem like some-thing failed,” said Judge Susan Tate, who presides over a probate court in Georgia and has stud-ied issues relating to weapons and the mentally ill. “I have no idea how he was able to get a firearm.”
Houser never should have been able to buy a gun, said Sheriff Heath Taylor in Russell County, Alabama, whose office denied him a concealed weapons per-mit in 2006 based on arson and domestic violence allegations, even though the victims declined to pursue charges.
No evidence has surfaced of any criminal conviction that would have kept Houser from passing the background check required for many gun purchas-es. Federal law does generally
prohibit the purchase or pos-session of a firearm by anyone who has ever been involuntarily committed for mental health treatment.
That’s what happened to Houser in 2008 after his family accused him of threatening behaviour, warning authorities that he had a history of bipolar disorder and was making omin-ous statements.
His wife removed his guns and the family persuaded a judge to issue a protective order keep-ing him away once he left the hospital.
At that point, court officials should have reported Houser’s involuntary mental commit-ment to the Georgia database that feeds the FBI’s background check system, which provides for a delay of up to three days when
records suggest a buyer may be ineligible.
When Houser tried to buy his gun on Feb. 26, 2014, the system only briefly delayed his pur-chase, according to a federal offi-cial who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. The seller was advised the following day that the sale could proceed.
It was not clear Saturday whether the judge who author-ized authorities to detain Houser in 2008 filed a report with the Georgia Crime Information Center, which keeps about 5,000 records on people who cannot buy guns because they have been judged insane, involuntarily hospitalized or legally depend on someone else to manage their affairs. The judge did not return a phone message seeking com-
ment. Like many states, Georgia has a highly decentralized court system, spread over 159 coun-ties. Experts have long worried that probate judges are not reporting every mental health commitment.
This March, Kellie Houser filed for divorce, saying their relation-ship was irretrievably broken and John Russell Houser’s whereabouts were unknown. He called her the next week, threat-ening her again, she wrote in a court document.
Then she got a call from Hous-er’s mother, saying he had threat-ened to kill himself outside his mother’s retirement community if she didn’t give him money. She wrote that she urged the mother to seek have him hospitalized again. Instead, police said, the woman gave her son $5,000.
David and Sarah Flores, both of Lafayette, stop to view flowers placed by well-wishers outside the Red Arrow Workshop, Sunday in Lafayette, La., to honor the victims of a deadly shooting at a nearby movie theatre. [AP PHOTO]
TRIAL
Boston gangster bids to overturn convictionDENISE LAVOIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — During his 2013 racketeering trial, former Bos-ton crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger called the proceeding a “sham” after he was barred from presenting the centerpiece of his defence: his claim that a federal prosecutor gave him immunity to commit crimes.
Two years later, Bulger is hoping a federal appeals court will overturn his convictions based on what his lawyers call a “constitutional error” that denied Bulger his right to a fair trial.
A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Monday. Bulger won’t be present for the proceedings.
Bulger was convicted of par-ticipating in 11 murders while leading a violent South Boston gang from the 1970s into the 1990s. He fled shortly before he was indicted in 1995 after being tipped off by an FBI agent.
Now 85, Bulger was one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted fugitives for more than 16 years until he was captured in Santa Monica, California, in 2011. He is now serving a life sentence.
Bulger claimed that former Assistant U.S. Attorney JeremiahO’Sullivan, who died in 2009, had given Bulger immunity during the 1980s in return for protecting his life from the mobsters he prosecuted.
But Judge Denise Casper ruled that Bulger could not raise his immunity claim during his trial because he offered no hard evi-dence to support it. The judge also found that O’Sullivan did not have the authority to grant such immunity.
