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OTTAWA — As Justin Trudeau prepares to tackle the politics of legalizing pot as part of his Liberal government’s legislative agenda, industry experts say he will have access to a world-class marijuana framework set up under the Conservative government.
Chuck Rifici, co-founder of Canada’s first publicly traded marijuana manufacturer, says a renowned production and distribution system has already been established under the medicinal umbrella.
Rifici — also a volunteer chief financial officer for the Liberal party’s national board of directors — credits Stephen Harper for the country’s expansive marijuana infrastructure.
“I’m sure it’s not something he would like to have on his resume but I think only a Conservative government could have creat-ed MMPR (Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations),” he said. “I think if another government had been in power the Conserv-ative base would have been up in arms ...
“Obviously the courts have forced them along the way, but they’ve put in a very robust ... system.”
In 2013, the Conservative government announced Health Canada would no longer produce pot for patients — a decision that sparked the creation of commercial industry for medical marijuana.
Trudeau’s Liberals have promised to legalize and regulate the recreational use of marijuana.
“Canada’s current system of marijuana prohibition does not work,” the Liberal elec-tion platform said.
“We will remove marijuana consumption and incidental possession from the Criminal Code and create new, stronger laws to pun-ish more severely those who provide it to minors, those who operate a motor vehicle while under its influence and those who sell it outside of the new regulatory framework.”
The first step in the path to legalization will be to establish a provincial, territorial
and federal task force to hear from public health, substance abuse and public safety experts.
Donald MacPherson, the director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, said Canada is well-positioned to tackle this issue.
There has been a vigorous discussion underway in the academic and public health community for the last decade because many believed legalization was inevitable, he added.
MacPherson says he would like to see the Liberal government to move forward on this undertaking early in its four year term — though “that doesn’t mean rushing it.”
He also says it is important to fund research to monitor and evaluate the regula-tory system once it is up and running.
“I think that’s essential,” he said. “This is new territory with an old substance so it is not going to be earth shattering . . .
Brian Vicente, a Colorado-based lawyer
heavily involved in the U.S. campaign to bring cannabis into a regulated market sys-tem, has been watching Canadian develop-ments closely.
“I think it is a landmark change for Can-ada and I think they’re on the cutting edge of what will be essentially an international movement,” he said.
The Canadian task force is expected to mir-ror what was done in Colorado.
Those discussions were fascinating, Vicente said.
“We really made sure that they were diverse and all stakeholders were at the table including industry folks, including law enforcement, including elected officials, community members.
“It was really the first time in history that we had someone who had grown marijuana sitting in the same room as a sheriff or a law enforcement agent and law enforcement was not trying to arrest them.”
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City looks to fi ll top post on interim basisPrevious managers Berry, Kenning indicate they will not be volunteering their services anytime soonSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
The City of Nanaimo’s human resources department will produce a list of potential candidates Monday to take over from outgoing city manager Ted Swabey, on an interim basis.
An executive committee made up entirely of city council members met this week to decide on the initial steps to finding a permanent city manager to replace Swabey, who is heading to helm city staff in Maple Ridge.
The group decided on a two-phase process, the first of which includes selecting an interim manager from either inside or outside the city hall.
Human resources manager John Van Horn has been tapped to compile a list of possible candidates who could fill Swabey’s shoes until a permanent
successor has been chosen.Van Horn said notices have been
put out at city hall seeking poten-tial applicants. He said he has also accessed a list of potential contractors from the Local Government Manage-
ment Association. Van Horn said he will highlight candidates on LGMA list with chief administrative officer experience, but said he will include all candidates in a list to council.
“The goal is to cast as wide a net as possible, recognizing there’s talent within the organization as well.”
The aim is to have an interim city manager in place by Nov. 13, when Swabey formally leaves his position.
City legislators have still not decided on a process for hiring an interim, let alone permanent, replacement.
And although a job description for the city manager person exists, there has yet to be a discussion among council on whether there should be changes and what criteria should be used to find a permanent replace-ment. Van Horn, who has helped
oversee top job replacements in two other local governments, said he does not expect much disagreement on setting the scope of candidates.
“In my experience, it flows pretty easily because the interest up front is, ‘we want to see as many candidates as possible,’” he said.
Still, Swabey’s departure comes amid a period of general discord on city council. Swabey alluded to the current climate as one factor in his decision two leave. Two former Nanaimo city managers indicated they would not be volunteering their services soon. Swabey’s predeces-sor Al Kenning, now working as an independent consultant, said: “I’m not on the list that I’m aware of,” adding he was happy with his new career.
“I don’t know who they’re going to
get,” Kenning said.Kenning’s predecessor Jerry Berry,
who left the city with a severance package in 2009, said his return to city hall was unlikely. But he added he has received calls about the job open-ing from potential candidates who want to know his view of the city.
“And my view of Nanaimo is it’s a very, very tough job for anybody to take on,” he said.
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really hopeful for the future.I don’t want to have any regrets, I
don’t want to live out of obligation of another person. I don’t want to sacrifice my dreams for someone else. I don’t want to feel weighed down by society’s obligation. I don’t want to get married, have a kid, go to work 9 to 5. If that happens organically then it happens. I just want a sense of freedom.
Claire Bauer, 22I’d like to be able to travel more,
travelling is very important to me. It’s important to me to continue to have strong relationships with my
Last week, the Daily News talked life advice with several Nanaimo seniors. The seniors had different words to share but almost
everything boiled down to happi-ness, kindness, and love.
This week, we talk to a dozen university-aged students and asked them similar questions. Most of the 20-something’s sentiments revolved around living a fulfilling life, one with adventure but also prosperity.
Perhaps Hunter S. Thompson said it best, “life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of
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Plenty of hope for the futureYoung people look to live life of adventure and prosperity
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friends and family. I’m wor-ried about the environment
a lot. I’m very concerned about where we’re going in an economic standpoint, where we’re going in international relations, human rights, animal rights, it’s very easy for things to take a negative turn very quickly.
As for life advice, don’t wait until the next time to do something because you never know if there is going to be a next time.
Ivo Roemer, 22 I want to know that I did some-
thing that was worthwhile, what-ever that means.
Tony Brown, 26Work hard and never give up.
I had a construction job and the economy crashed, and went back to school, I’ve been taking part-time studies, trying to grow up.
I find that it’s now or never for me.
I have a good-paying job and it’s allowing me to go to school, but if I’m going to make something for myself I want to do it now and not let it pass me by.
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Life only going to get better for today’s youthHOPE, From Page 4
James Lattanzio-Battle, 20I don’t want to have any regrets, I
want to do everything I have always wanted to do. I don’t want to be one of the older people and say I definitely should have taken that risk. It might be hard now but the struggle will be worth it, I think. There are a lot of people in the same boat, a lot of us have debt and living on our own for the first time but it’s only going to get better.
Trang Bui, 20I want to be in a place where I feel at
home. It’s important to be surrounded by people you love and people who love you. If you want to do something just do it, life is not going to last forever.
Edward Neaga,18I want to live a happy life and try
to get as much out of it as I can. It’s important to stay proactive and don’t get lazy. If you get too lazy, you will never be able to do what you want effectively.
Brooke Chase, 18I hope to graduate school and
become a teacher and get a job fairly quickly, which isn’t the most realistic expectation in this economy. I would like to be able to afford to own my own house after finishing school and start a family.
I have fears with finding a job espe-cially in B.C. for teachers, I think about it a lot and the most realistic way for me to get a job right now is to move to Alberta and that’s scary.
Tristan Yip, 22You only have a limited amount of time
in university, that’s potentially the most important time of your life because it decides what you’re going to be. I sug-gest students don’t screw around. Study, and get a good education.
Kai Huculak, 24, I want to look back and say I did
things that I wanted to do like travel; live with no regrets is a way to sum it up. I guess in general when I look back, I want my first reaction to be a smile. I want to look back and not think too much about it, I just want to be able to quickly look back and if I smile, it was a good experience. I always say to myself two steps forward one step back, you’re always going to fall back here and there but as long as you’re going forward that one extra step everything is alright. In tough times just tell yourself it will pass. Everything comes and goes at some point. Nothing lasts forever.
Sam Price, 20Put in the hours working on stuff,
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Matt McConnell, 20Make sure you’re ready and don’t
overwhelm yourself. In order to do great things in life you need to be a well-balanced person. You need to manage yourself before you attempt to take on bigger things.
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ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS
It’s not the govern-ment’s job to create jobs, but more to create and nurture the conditions to allow the private sector to thrive and provide employment, Premier Christy Clark said in Nanaimo Wednesday night.
Speaking to delegates at the ninth annual State of the Island Economic Summit, Clark said one of the roles of the gov-ernment in assisting the economy and creating employment is to set tax regimes that the private sector can productively work with, and pointed out that B.C. has the the lowest personal income taxes in Canada.
She said the govern-ment also assists the pri-vate sector by establish-ing trade offices around the world to find new markets for B.C.’s prod-ucts and by providing the infrastructure, like hos-pitals and hydro dams, to allow communities to grow and thrive.
Clark said it’s also part of the government’s mandate to ensure the province’s workforce has the required skills in place to meet the needs of the workforce and to take on the jobs that are available.
“We have made signifi-cant investments into educational facilities like Vancouver Island Uni-versity and their training programs so people can find jobs, start families, buy homes and realize their dreams,” Clark said.
“We have to make sure that all our citizens can fulfill their potential to get the best and highest paying jobs that they can. That’s the job of government.”
Clark said that together, the government and the private sector has built one of the most diverse economies in Canada.
She said that, unlike Alberta which depends heavily on oil revenues, B.C.’s economy is not based on just one com-modity, which allows for more flexibility.
Clark said the ongoing efforts to establish a vibrant LNG industry in B.C. is expected to bring $1 trillion into the econ-omy over 30 years and provide 100,000 jobs.
“Our economy is grow-ing faster than any other province in Canada, and the rest of the world should know that all our products, including LNG, lumber and wine, are the (environmentally) cleanest they can get any-where,” she said.
“Sustainability is important in the provinceand it’s our brand as we fight climate change.”
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Forest industry could increase number of jobsDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
The forest industry employs many people on Vancouver Island but could employ plenty more, with bet-ter access to the timber that grows here.
That message came from CEOs of Island forest companies at the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance summit Wednesday.
While pulp producers grapple with a global decline in newsprint sales, Nanaimo’s Harmac Pacific continues to grow sales by tapping into such specialty markets as toilet tissue and boxboard for packaging, allowing that company to expand and reinvest under its unique owner-operated employee model.
The company’s target is to go to 800,000 tonnes per year from 375,000, “which is really a world-class mill,” CEO Paul Saddler told delegates.
But with 6 million cubic metres of wood harvested annually on private and public Island lands exported it’s “enough to operate five to 10 sawmills, and enough wood chips to more than double Harmac,” Saddler said.
His company was one of five repre-sented at the session exploring the untapped potential of coastal forests.
Together the companies Island operations represent roughly $300 million in sales of lumber and other secondary materials, and hundreds of high-paying jobs.
Company representatives expressed similar concerns – that while the Island is home to vast timber resour-ces, government policies that allow the export of the raw material as logs hamstrings job-producing growth.
Western Forest Products’ $125-mil-lion investment strategy for 2012-’16 calls for higher competitiveness but that depends in part on a “supportive
business environment” from govern-ment, said Don Demens, WFP presi-dent and CEO.
Nanaimo plywood manufacturer Coastland has a strategy that calls for continued growth and expansion, but “our biggest struggle here on the coast is secure access to fibre,” said Clint Parcher, vice-president, fibre supply.
Industry concerns show the need for the province to reinstate the forest minister position, said Ron Cantelon, MLA Parksville-Qualicum MLA and forum co-moderator
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Block Watch captains meet to talk strategyDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
When a showering woman found herself confronted by a drugged man in her home, her landlord knew it was time to get a neighbourhood Block Watch program.
That was several years ago in Town-site, and Eileen Tatton never regrets getting involved in the grassroots, safe-community organization.
Dozens of Block Watch captains from Ladysmith through Parksville met for the 2015 regional Block Watch Meeting at Beban Park Wednesday.
“The woman was terrified,” said Tat-ton. Her downstairs tenant screamed when a man tried to enter her down-stairs suite.
“The guy had his foot in the door, and she was naked, of course,” Tatton said. “She said she felt so vulnerable.”
The man was involved with a drug house in the area near the Chinese cemetery.
Tatton confronted him.
“I said: ‘What are you doing?’ He was stoned and he said he used to live there. He was just a mess.”
It helped motivate her to get involved with Block Watch. Neigh-bours soon began to report goings-on at the drug house to police, city bylaw enforcement and other agencies, and the problem was fixed within three months.
“People have comfort in numbers,” Tatton said.
Nanaimo RCMP encourage neigh-bours to unite under the Block Watch banner, to control theft and other crime, or restore order in specific neighbourhoods. With the confidence to call police, residents soon take back troubled neighbourhoods.
The simple act of calling police, “as simple as it seems can start some-thing,” said Sgt. Donovan Tait of the Nanaimo RCMP.
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Cull of Canada geese pondered by politiciansCANDACE WU PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS
Parksville’s mayor is keen to cull.On the heels of a costly Canada
geese cull in Victoria, the City of Parksville is looking for ways to manage their local population problem.
After a managment strategy three years in the making about “overabundant Canada geese” was presented to the Regional District of Nanaimo board, Parksville Mayor Marc Lefebvre was quick to pledge his support.
“The City of Parksville waits with great anticipation for the cull. We don’t know if yesterday will ever come back,” Lefebvre said earlier this month at the RDN committee of the whole meeting.
“We’ve got geese all over the place. I think the geese suspect we want to do a cull because they’re coming up to city hall.”
However, Lefebvre may be jump-ing the gun.
Guardians of Mid Island Estuaries Society vice president Tim Cler-mont explained the primary object-ive of presenting their strategy to local governments is to put forward their findings and hopefully create a “regional working group” to deal with the geese.
The RDN board passed a motion directing staff to work with Cler-mont’s regional working group to come up with a strategy to reduce the overabundance of Canada geese. The decision will need to be ratified at tonight’s regular RDN meeting.
Asked about a cull, Clermont said “we’re not there yet.”
Right now, he’s focused on creating a working group with representation from mid-Island communities including Parksville, Qualicum Beach and Nanaimo.
“Local governments in differ-ent jurisdictions have to take the lead,” he said. “Somebody has to put forward the permit, or a local management plan, on how to con-trol the geese.”
Meanwhile, media reports from a recent Canada geese cull in Vic-toria say the Capital Regional Dis-trict spent more than $30,000 on a cull this year killing just 43 Canada geese. That equals about $725 per goose.
Clermont said the society is hoping to meet with the CRD in December to find out how the cull became so costly.
Lefebvre said he’s not sure who organized Victoria’s cull, but if one takes place in Parksville he assured it would be “cost-effective” and “humane.”
According to the society’s report, Canada geese have caused “signifi-
can’t” and “long -lasting damage” to mid-Island estuaries.
“Geese have overgrazed mid-Is-land estuarine marshes, and grubbed the roots and rhizomes along channel edges, exposing thick march platform erosion. Built up over millennia, this plat-form has washed away in many areas, channels have become shal-low, and productive habitats have been reduced to gravel.”
The report states mid-Island marsh ecosystems are at risk of extinction.
It said “urban and agricultural areas have also suffered” pointing out the highest geese densities were found in the Parksville Church Road and Parksville Bay/City regions on sites closet to access to freshwater.
“High concentrations of geese may lead to contamination of drinking water… Young children playing in sand may have a greater exposure to goose-borne bacteria, as bacteria persist longer in sand than in water,” states the report.
Canada Geese flock to Parksville Community Park — one of many places
that city officials say is inundated with Canada geese, leading some to call
for a cull. [PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS FILE PHOTO]
PARKSVILLE
Mayor expresses frustration after unsightly property burnsJOHN HARDING PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS
There were no injuries when a house fire lit the night in a Parks-ville neighbourhood last week.
Firefighters were called to the scene at Pym and Soriel at 7:22 p.m. Oct. 21. One person was at home during the fire, called in the emergency and got out safely, said Parksville Volunteer Fire Depart-ment Chief Doug Banks. The chief said the fire is still under investiga-tion but seemed to have started in the garage before involving an RV on the property and the front porch.
The house has been the subject of complaints from neighbours in the past.
“I tried to declare the place a fire hazard because of all the junk,” said neighbour Al Bryans. “It was just
one hell of a mess but we couldn’t get anything done.”
Mayor Marc Lefebvre confirmed the city had received complaints about the residence.
“Yes, I was certainly aware of this,” said the mayor. “I had been to see the neighbours a couple of times.”
Lefebvre said the city had issued an order, in writing, to the owner, “to clean the place up,” after which “there was a fairly decent clean-up undertaken” that was “more or less satisfactory.”
Lefebvre agreed the house was “very unsightly.” He also said although he’s not “technically quali-fied,” he agreed the house could have been a fire hazard. The city will respond to complaints from residents about unsightly properties and, if not enough is done to clean up a property, bring the matter to
council, which can empower staff to send a letter ordering a clean-up within 30 days. If that doesn’t hap-pen, the city can do the work itself and present the bill to the owner.
Lefebvre said there are property rights issues involved and, in some cases, mental health challenges that reach well beyond the purview of city staff.
Chief Banks also said his depart-ment just can’t declare some resi-dence a fire hazard and take unilat-eral action.
“We’re very limited as to what we can do, if anything,” said Banks. “We don’t have that authority.”
“It’s something as a mayor I find extremely frustrating,” said Lefebvre. “The frustration comes from the number of hoops you have to jump through to legally get people to do something.”
Prime minister-designate Jus-tin Trudeau’s pledge to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to
Canada by the end of this year is certainly well-intended. Waves of desperate humanity, fleeing a horrific war, are crying for assistance. And it’s a good number. This country’s paltry resettlement of about 2,500 Syrian refugees so far should be a source of national shame.
But it may not be the right deadline.
A growing chorus of voices is warning that it will be extremely difficult to resettle so many people properly in the two months remain-ing before the end of 2015.
The incoming Liberal govern-ment, and a new immigration min-ister, won’t be sworn in until next week.
The learning curve in grappling with these complex files is sure to be steep, and time is fast running out. Still, as recently as this past weekend Trudeau held to his elec-tion promise of welcoming 25,000 refugees by Dec. 31.
“The commitments I made in that platform, I’m going to keep,” he assured CTV’s Lisa LaFlamme in an interview that aired Saturday. The refugee situation is “something
we’re getting cracking on right away.”
That’s entirely proper. If it’s at all feasible to vet appli-
cations, perform necessary secur-ity checks, and conduct medical reviews for 25,000 people by Tru-deau’s self-imposed year-end dead-line, then every effort should be made to do so.
But if that proves unachievable — even with the best of intentions and most strenuous efforts — the new prime minister would be best advised to let his deadline pass and simply bring in as many people as practical by year-end, with the rest to come later.
It’s more important to resettle these refugees the right way than to do it with excess haste, rushing to meet an arbitrary deadline.
The magnitude of the challenge is enormous, involving the resettle-ment in just two months of 10 times as many Syrian refugees as Canada has accepted since the war erupted.
During the campaign, Trudeau expressed support for sending mil-itary planes carrying security and immigration officials to refugee zones in the Middle East and quick-ly airlifting people out. Canada did something similar to rescue the “boat people” who fled Indochina in the late 1970s. But even that may not be sufficient if newcomers are to be properly assessed.
More than 60,000 Vietnamese refugees were successfully resettled in Canada over the course of about 18 months — almost 3,400 people a month. Putting the Syrian situation
in context, if that monthly rate was tripled it would still fall well shy of meeting Trudeau’s year-end goal.
It may prove too much to hope that the departing government’s disastrous response to the Syrian refugee crisis can be reversed in just two months. What Trudeau can do, even if he misses his deadline, is show Canadians and the world that this country is back as a com-passionate and generous place of refuge for those in desperate need.
Whether 25,000 Syrian refugees arrive here by New Year’s Day or in the months to follow, the important thing is that they come. — CP (TORONTO STAR)
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Iwas shocked when the first images of the capsized whale-watching vessel Levia-
than II off of Tofino were shown on television.
The area on the west side of Vargas Island, where the tragedy that saw the deaths of six tourists occurred last Sunday, has been forever imprinted into my brain. I felt a shudder go up my spine when I rec-ognized it on the news casts.
My nephew Paul and I were caught in an unexpected maelstrom in the exact same area 10 years ago dur-ing a kayak trip that saw both of us knocked into the water by breaking waves and fighting for our lives far from shore.
In early May of 2005, we were kay-aking to an area just north of Ahous Bay on Vargas Island when the ocean conditions changed quickly and we found ourselves facing cresting waves that were more than three metres high before we both ended up in the water clinging desperately to our kayaks.
We were quickly separated by the waves and were unable to get back in our kayaks or manoeuvre ourselves close to shore because of the strong currents.
We struggled to survive for almost an hour, unaware of each other’s situation and fearing the worst, before a passing whale-watching boat spotted us and rushed to the rescue.
By the time the people on the boat, — from Tofino’s Weigh West Marine
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Adventure Centre — hauled me out of the water, I was hypothermic, badly bruised all over my body from having my kayak repeatedly crash into me in the rough waters, and almost unconscious.
My nephew Paul was, fortunately, in better shape.
The tour boat captain called ahead to Tofino to have an ambulance ready on the dock, the very same dock that all the ambulances and emergency personnel were seen on this week’s news reports.
I was rushed to the very small clin-ic in Tofino where the medical team quickly wrapped me in warm blan-kets to raise my body temperature.
I was monitored for several hours before they were satisfied that I was sufficiently recovered and was released.
It was a harrowing ordeal and I have often wondered what might have happened if that tour boat, which was running late that day and wasn’t scheduled to be in the area at the time, had not found us.
My heart goes out to the families of those who died in Sunday’s tragedy, as well as those who survived.
Finding yourself unprepared in frigid waters is very frightening and potentially deadly and it’s not some-thing I’d recommend.
The ocean can be very beautiful,
but also very dangerous, and should be treated with the proper respect and caution at all times.
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Soccer team on hiatus after sponsor criticizedNORTH ISLAND GAZETTE
A Comox-based girls soccer team has been suspended from play after complaints one of its players made over the sponsorship of the team by a large fish farm company.
The Vancouver Island Premier League U15 girls Riptide soccer team is on hiatus after goalkeep-er Freyja Reed,14, said she was shocked to discover her team was going to be sponsored by Marine Harvest, one of the largest oper-ators of open-net fish farming in B.C.
The Riptide Steering Committee told players about the suspension in an email. It includes all team training, functions and games.
The email states that a team meeting will be held at a future date.
The team is one of eight playing under the Marine Harvest Riptide banner. It has been issued jerseys, track jackets and rain jackets fea-turing the company logo.
Freyja Reed told her teammates she never intended to hurt them.
“I wish I could have explained it to you before, but I had to speak up against our sponsor … they go against so much that I believe in
and as much as I love my team and want to be with them, I would have never signed up to play for Marine Harvest (I was unaware they would become our sponsor),” she said.
“This is all so very unfortunate. But I need you to know I cannot apologize for standing up for what I believe in.”
Sean Arbour, who is with the Riptide Steering Committee, sent a statement to CBC Monday afternoon explaining the club’s decision.
“We have had to pause our 2001 Girls’ team events due to continued breach of our organization’s code of conduct by the Reed family, and our concern for the privacy and safety of our club’s players, parents, and volunteers,” said Arbour.
“We will be meeting with the Reed family to discuss the matter, and hope to find a solution that may meet the expectations and val-
ues of club and family.”CBC first reported last week that
the Reed family balked at what they described as a “gag order” from the Riptide Steering Committee.
That order bars both Reed and her mother Anissa from voicing their opinions about fish farm-ing with other team parents and ordered them to stop all “sideline chatter” or social media discussing their views of Marine Harvest.
They were told that if they didn’t remove a Facebook page created to oppose the Marine Harvest spon-sorship, Freyja Reed might have to play elsewhere.
The Reeds moved to Comox last year from their home in the remote community of Sointula specifically so Freyja could play Tier 2 soccer.
When Anissa Reed objected to youth teams being branded by a fish farm company, the association told her Freyja could have her fees back and find another club.
Willie Mitchell, an NHL player who was raised in Port McNeill, tweeted his support for Reed.
“The ability to speak up for what we believe in is why we are so priv-ileged to live in N.A. Freyja Reed I will sponsor you!” Mitchell wrote.
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ICBC argues dead cyclist careless in own deathGEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS
British Columbia’s public auto insurer says a cyclist’s own carelessness led him to be run down and killed by an alleged impaired driver on a B.C. highway.
The Insurance Corp. of British Colum-bia responded to a lawsuit filed against it earlier this year by arguing that Ross Chafe may have been cycling under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the May 31 collision.
ICBC’s court document continues with a variety of other claims, including that Chafe’s brakes were possibly faulty and that he might not have been riding legally, staying as close as possible to the road’s shoulder.
“He was operating the said cycle while his ability to drive was impaired by alco-hol, drugs, fatigue, illness or any com-bination thereof,” read the response to civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court on earlier this month.
“He was operating the said cycle with-out proper care and attention or with-out reasonable consideration for others using the highway.”
Chafe was out for a weekend ride with two others along Highway 99 about 50 kilometres north of Whistler when his group was hit by a vehicle alleged to have been driven by Samuel Alec.
Chafe’s wife, Lizanne Bussieres, has launched legal action against Alec, ICBC and the vehicle’s owner, Carmen Ned, for negligence.
Bussieres alleged Ned was aware Alec was impaired and still allowed him to use the vehicle, which she argued wasn’t properly maintained.
Court documents indicate she filed the lawsuit on behalf of herself and her three children, who are 11, 15 and 17 years old.
None of the allegations have been proven in court and neither Ned nor Alec have filed statements of defence.
MARIJUANA
More stoned drivers after law changed
TOM FLETCHER BLACK PRESS
Washington state police are dealing with more drivers impaired by marijuana since its rec-reational use was legal-ized last year, and B.C. is preparing for similar problems as a new federal government prepares to follow suit.
Chief John Batiste of the Washington State Patrol visited Victoria this week to take part in an annual cross-border crime forum. He acknow-ledged that it’s a problem since the state legalized marijuana sales to adults in 2014.
“We are seeing an uptick in incidents on our roadways related to folks driving under the influence of marijuana and drugs in general,” Batiste told reporters after a meeting with B.C. Justice Minister Suzanne Anton.
He explained the state’s new law setting a limit
for marijuana’s active ingredient in blood, sim-ilar to the blood-alcohol limit. But without a road-side testing device, police are relying on training from the State Patrol’s drug recognition expert to make arrests.
What they need now is a roadside testing device that provides evidence of impairment that will hold up in court, Batiste said.
Prime Minister-desig-nate Justin Trudeau made a high-profile promise to legalize marijuana before winning a majority gov-ernment Oct. 19.
In B.C., police can charge drivers if they show signs of impair-ment, whether from drugs or fatigue. In alco-hol use cases, drivers are typically charged with impaired driving and driving with a blood alco-hol content of more than .08 per cent.
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JUSTICE
Senator gets unconditional dischargeBrazeau eager to get back to work after avoiding criminal record on charges of assault and drug possession
JENNIFER DITCHBURN THE CANADIAN PRESS
GATINEAU, Que. — Sen. Patrick Brazeau said Wednesday he’s focused on getting back to the upper cham-ber “as quickly as possible” after a Quebec judge agreed to grant him an unconditional discharge on assault and drug charges.
The decision means Brazeau avoids the prospect of jail time and even a criminal record, despite having pleaded guilty to the charges in September.
“This nightmare, I’ve been living with this for two and a half years and it’s finally over,” Brazeau said outside the courtroom in Gatineau, Que., after the decision came down.
Partway through the trial, Brazeau pleaded to reduced charges of assault and possession of cocaine, while the more serious charge of sexual assault was dropped due to a lack of evidence.
Quebec Court Judge Valmont Beaulieu read a lengthy decision that outlined why he agreed with the joint recommendation of the Crown prosecutor and Brazeau’s lawyer, who urged him to grant a discharge.
The victim did not make a state-ment to the court before the
sentencing.Beaulieu emphasized certain
extenuating circumstances, includ-ing that Brazeau had lived for several
months under the cloud of being accused of sexual assault, and that the victim did not suffer any injuries.
He also noted a Supreme Court
judgment that outlined how a per-son’s public position can subject them to additional media scrutiny and public shame.
“Each time any individual — regardless of colour, creed or any-thing — in this country gets accusa-tions of sexual assault, obviously it’s going to taint that person’s reputa-tion,” Brazeau said.
“Unfortunately, there are situa-tions where people do commit these crimes, but I haven’t.”
Brazeau still faces a criminal trial for fraud and breach of trust arising from his Senate living expenses, scheduled to take place in March 2016. The trial of Sen. Mike Duffy, which involves similar issues, is set to resume next month.
Brazeau was kicked out of the Con-servative caucus after he was charged and put on leave with pay. Months later, he was suspended without pay over the expenses issue along with Duffy and Pamela Wallin, but that suspension was lifted when Parlia-ment was dissolved for the federal election.
Brazeau remains on leave with pay from the upper chamber, and his salary is being clawed back to repay nearly $50,000 in disallowed housing expense claims.
Brazeau, who said he voted Liberal last week, said he intends to sit as an “independent, First Nations” senator.
Senator Patrick Brazeau talks to media as he leaves the Gatineau Courthouse in Gatineau, Quebec, on Wednesday, Oct.
28, 2015. Sen. Patrick Brazeau has been granted an unconditional discharge after pleading guilty to assault and cocaine
charges in September, which means he avoids both jail time and a criminal record. [THE CANADIAN PRESS/SEAN KILPATRICK]
ENERGY
Oil industry expected to begin its slow crawl back next yearLAUREN KRUGEL THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — Canada’s oil indus-try is expected to dive into the red this year, but begin crawling back to profitability in 2016 as cost-cutting efforts pay off, according to a Conference Board report published amid a flurry of discouraging news in the oilpatch.
The Ottawa-based economic think-tank is predicting the oil extraction industry will post a $2.1-billion pre-tax loss in 2015, compared with profits of $6 bil-lion last year.
Revenues are expected to fall by 22 per cent this year, but rebound at an annual average rate of 14 per cent growth between 2016 and 2019.
“While Canadian oil companies have acted swiftly, delaying cap-ital investments, cutting expenses and reducing employment levels, profitability has plummeted,” said the Conference Board’s Michael Burt. “However, these cost-cut-ting efforts should begin to bear fruit next year as the industry is expected to slowly return to prof-
itability, even as oil prices remain low by recent standards.”
U.S. benchmark crude oil prices have spent much of 2015 languishing below the US$50-a-barrel mark — dropping below US$44 a barrel in recent days, around 60 per cent lower than its 2014 high.
The Conference Board out-look comes a day after the NDP government of resource-reliant Alberta delivered its first budget — with a $6.1-billion deficit and a plan to borrow money to cover day-to-day programs.
“The realities of a resource-con-centrated economy knocked down by weak oil prices will thrust Alberta more heavily into the debt markets over the next few years to fund deficits and capital projects while still preserving
government-funded programs and services as well as the Alberta Advantage,” CIBC economists wrote in a report Tuesday follow-ing the budget’s release.
Just as Albertans were chew-ing over the budget numbers, European energy giant Royal Dutch Shell announced its Car-mon Creek oilsands project in northwestern Alberta would be scrapped and it would take a $2-billion charge against its third-quarter earnings as a result.
Shell cited a lack of pipeline access to global markets as one reason why Carmon Creek no longer ranks among its other projects. Meanwhile, oilsands producer MEG Energy on Wed-nesday posted a quarterly net loss of $427.5 million, widening from a net loss of $101.0 million in the same period last year.
Over the past year, the com-pany has trimmed about 30 per cent of its workforce, including employees and contractors. On the bright side, MEG said it’s managed to knock its net operat-ing costs down to $9.10 a barrel, compared with $10.31 last year.
“These cost-cutting efforts should begin to bear fruit next year .”
Michael Burt, industry analyst
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Orphaned bear cubs off to zoo
Two orphaned polar bear cubs from northern Manitoba will have a new home at Win-nipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo.
Wildlife officials say the 11-month-old males needed to be relocated to the zoo’s international polar bear conservation centre because they are too young to live on their own.
Their mother died when she was accidentally hit by a cracker shell someone used to scare her and the cubs away from a building entrance in Churchill.
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◆ TORONTO
Ad competition survives Rogers
The Competition Bureau says it has found no evidence that competition for advertis-ing dollars has been reduced since Rogers Communica-tions got exclusive Canadian rights to National Hockey League games under a land-mark 12-year deal.
The bureau looked at the agreement’s potential effect on advertising rates during games, the price that other companies pay to distribute Rogers’ Sportsnet channels, and the ability of Rogers’ competitors to buy the broad-casting rights to other sports.
The Competition Bureau said it determined advertisers have other ways of reaching the same demographics.
It also concluded the disputes over channel costs can be resolved through the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications and that NHL rights are not a “must-have” for TV providers.
The $5.2-billion deal between Rogers and the NHL was signed in November 2013. Since the collaboration began, Rogers has launched its Gamecentre Live stream-ing app, which it initially offered for free with certain wireless and Internet plans.
Critics had been concerned that the app fell afoul of regulations that prevent the big media companies from making TV content available only on their own service. But Gamecentre Live and its accompanying mobile app are now available to all.
CBC will also broadcast Hockey Night in Canada TV programs over at least the first four years of the agreement.
◆ KINLEY, SASK.
Man killed as second chopper goes down
A Calgary pilot has been killed in a helicopter crash in central Saskatchewan.
RCMP say the 48-year-old man was the only person in the chopper that went down Tuesday evening in a field, about one kilo-metre southeast of the commun-ity of Kinley.
Police also say there were no homes or buildings near the
crash site. The pilot was flying from Calgary to Saskatoon. His name has not been released.
Investigators with the Trans-portation Safety Board of Canada were expected at the scene Wednesday.
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CIVIL WAR
In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, a displaced woman and her children ride in a wooden canoe through a
swamp, as they flee from Kok Island — a trip that costs $20 and many cannot afford — in Unity State, South Sudan.
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Forced cannibalism, blood drinking among Sudan horrorsJASON PATINKIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUBA, South Sudan — Investi-gators discovered atrocities by all sides in South Sudan’s civil war, including testimony of forced can-nibalism and the discovery of mass graves, according to a long-awaited report by the African Union.
The report, released late Tuesday, also accused the forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Din-ka, of recruiting an irregular tribal force before the outbreak of civil war in December 2013.
It also disputes a claim by the government that there was a coup attempt at that time by former Vice-President Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
The report alleged that govern-ment troops carried out organized killings of ethnic Nuer in Juba, the capital. When the violence began,
Machar became a rebel leader.Tens of thousands of people have
died and over 2 million more are displaced by warfare in South Sudan, according to the United Nations, which blamed the violence and the subsequent threat of fam-ine on the young country’s feuding leaders.
The African Union investigators, led by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, found that the conflict began Dec. 15, 2013, when a skirmish broke out between Din-ka and Nuer soldiers in the presi-dential guard following political tension between Kiir and Machar, his onetime deputy who had been fired the previous July.
Hundreds of Nuer men were rounded up and shot, and their mass graves were discovered, according to the report. Perpetra-tors — described as government
forces or their allies — allegedly tortured their victims, sometimes forcing them to jump into bonfires or eat human flesh, witnesses told investigators.
The killings were “an organized military operation that could not have been successful without con-certed efforts from various actors in the military and government cir-cles,” the report said. “Roadblocks or checkpoints were established all around Juba and house-to-house searches were undertaken by sec-urity forces. During this operation male Nuers were targeted, identi-fied, killed on the spot or gathered in one place and killed.”
The investigators found “evidence that some of the people who had been gathered were compelled to eat human flesh, while others were forced to drink human blood belonging to a victim.”
CHILD ABUSE
Dad is more likely to kill his kids than mom is, says a recent study COLIN PERKEL THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — Contrary to popu-lar perception, Canadian dads are more likely to kill their children than moms are, according to an extensive new study that also finds the gender gap appears to be growing.
The research published in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect could help in devising strategies to prevent the horrors of filicide, study author Myrna Dawson said Wednesday.
“People who kill their children tend not to be evil, they tend to be people who are struggling with very real life events,” Dawson, a
University of Guelph sociology pro-fessor, said in an interview. “Social supports can help reduce the num-ber of these cases.”
Dawson, a Canada research chair in criminal justice and public policy, looked at Statistics Canada data from between 1961, when the agency started its annual homicide survey, and 2011, the most recent year for which the information was available. In that time — one of the longest periods for any study of this kind — parents killed at least 1,612 children under 18.
Overall, 57 per cent of the accused child killers were men, although the ratio jumps to 90 per cent for stepfathers, according to
the research.While the study did not attempt
to delve into details of individual homicides, Dawson said the higher incidence of fathers killing chil-dren may simply reflect the fact that men, in general, are more vio-lent than women.
“Another explanation may be that an increasing gender gap in filicid-al mothers and fathers is the result of changes in parenting or child-care responsibilities,” the research states. “It is believed that fathers spend more time with children than in the past, arguably increas-ing their time at risk.”
Dawson said she was surprised by the size of the gender gap.
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TERRORISM
Truth or better rumours the social media solutionJIM BRONSKILL THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — A wildly inaccurate rumour flashed through social media in the panicked aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings because police did not provide information on the suspects for days, a new study has concluded.
Identifying and refuting false-hoods early with clear and strong information is the best way to ensure truth wins out when ter-rorism or war strikes, says the research report prepared for the Canadian government.
If that doesn’t work? Fight a rumour with a sensation-
al counter-rumour.The study on the generation and
debunking of untruths, commis-sioned by Defence Research and Development Canada, was recently completed by Humansystems Inc. of Guelph, Ont.
The findings could influence the Canadian military’s thinking on information-related tactics.
When a gunman killed a soldier at the National War Memorial on Oct. 22, 2014, false reports began circulating in cyberspace about armed accomplices and more
shots ringing out.At least four major rumours
quickly turned up on social media such as Twitter when two brothers detonated pressure cooker bombs a year earlier near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 250.
“Rumours may have propagated to the extent they did because they were believable and helped to make sense of the situation,” the study says.
As a result, the authors say, a rumour that a woman running the marathon was killed before her boyfriend could propose at the finish line was believable because
such proposals are relatively com-mon and it served to make sense of the question, “Who were the victims?”
Similarly, a false suggestion an eight-year-old boy running the marathon was killed helped “put a face to the victims.”
Another rumour incorrectly blamed the bombing on U.S. Navy Seals, though some were present that day and were seen in photographs.
“Believability of a rumour increases when accompanied by attached photos,” the study says, suggesting it lends “hard” evidence of a rumour’s validity.
“In the information vacuum, rumours were generated to make sense of the situation,” the study says.
The authors recommend coun-tering rumours through early efforts from a highly credible source using strong evidence aimed at the right audience.
If that’s not possible or it proves ineffective, a counter-rumour can succeed.
But they note it needs to be just as titillating as the rumour it is trying to eclipse.
JUSTICE
Saudi air force sergeant appeals Las Vegas child rape convictionKEN RITTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A former Saudi Arabian air force sergeant serving a minimum of 35 years in Nevada prison is appealing his convictions on kidnapping, rape and other charges involving a 13-year-old boy at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.
Mazen Alotaibi’s defence attor-neys say in Nevada Supreme Court documents posted Monday that Alotaibi didn’t get a fair trial due to errors by the judge and poor rep-
resentation by a trial lawyer who gambled the jury would believe the sex was consensual.
“We hate to second-guess a col-league,” attorney Vincent Savarese said Wednesday of the appeal he filled with attorney Dominic Gentile. “But, as Mazen Alotaibi’s appellate counsel, we have a job to do.”
Alotaibi’s trial lawyer, Don Chairez, said he did the best he could at trial, and hopes Alotaibi wins his appeal.
“There were things we could have done differently,” Chairez said. “If that’s grounds to have the case overturned, I hope it benefits Mazen.”
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson didn’t immediately respond Wednesday to messages about the appeal.
Savarese said Judge Stefany Miley should have told jurors they could consider a lesser felony charge of statutory sexual seduction that car-ries a one-to-five year sentence.
“Rumours may have propagated to the extent they did because they were believable and helped to make sense of the situation.”
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Sovereignty push never going away in QuebecTHE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL — One thing on which sovereigntists and federalists can agree some 20 years after the 1995 referendum is that the Quebec independence movement — in one form or another — will likely never go away.
Prominent sovereigntists say their side — the Yes side — would have won if the federal government had stayed away and not tried to help the No campaign, particularly regard-ing the controversial Unity Rally in Montreal three days before the Oct. 30, 1995 vote.
Federalists, meanwhile, argue the defeat of the Yes side in 1995 — and in the preceding referendum of 1980
— is due to a stubborn-yet-obvious reality: Canada’s flexible, federal sys-tem works.
“There will continue to be a group of people in Quebec who want to
separate and we need to respect that and understand that,” said former Quebec premier Jean Charest, who was the leader of the federal Progres-sive Conservative Party of Canada in 1995.
“But the country works. There is the government of the day and there may be the leaders of the day but in the end there is our country — the resilience of the country itself.”
Sovereigntist former Quebec premier Bernard Landry, however, says there is an equal-yet-opposite, obvious reality.
Six months before the 1995 vote the Yes side was at 39 per cent in the polls, Landry said, “And a few months later we were at 50 per cent.
“Today, the polls say sovereignty is
at 40 per cent support. The idea of Quebec independence is extremely powerful and logical. If sovereignty comes back in the news and we have a good campaign I think Quebec will have its place at the United Nations.”
What new flashpoint could trigger a resurgence of support for sovereignty is anyone’s guess, but events leading up to the last referendum were due to several specific failures, explains John Parisella, chief of staff to two Quebec premiers and a strategic adviser to the No campaign.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau failed to get Quebec’s signature on the constitution in 1982, which led to another failure by prime minister Brian Mulroney years later to pass the Meech Lake Accord, which was
a series of proposals to assuage Que-bec’s frustrations with the federalist system.
The country tried once more and failed in 1992 to pass another ser-ies of constitutional amendments regarding the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.
“The failure to renew the constitu-tion and to bring about change cre-ated a sense of pessimism that helped the Yes camp,” Parisella said.
In the end the No side won — but just barely.
After almost 94 per cent of eligible citizens cast a ballot that fateful day in 1995, the country came within about one percentage point from being broken apart.
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◆ MANCHESTER, N.H.
Clinton wants closer look at death penalty
Hillary Rodham Clinton is question-ing the application of the death penalty, though she says she still supports the measure in certain circumstances.
She says the federal government has to take a “hard look” at the punishment, which she says has been “too frequently applied” and often in an indiscriminant manner.
The leading Democratic primary can-didate does not favour abolishing the measure altogether but she says its use should be “very limited and rare.”
Clinton is in the midst of a two-day campaign swing through New Hamp-shire, wooing voters in the early pri-mary state.
◆ WASHINGTON
Army blimp drifts loose across American skies
The Pentagon says U.S. fighter jets are tracking an unmanned army sur-veillance blimp that tore loose from its ground tether in Maryland and is drift-ing north over Pennsylvania.
Details are sketchy, but a statement from the North American Aerospace Defence Command in Colorado says the blimp detached from its station at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, at about 12:20 p.m. EDT.
Two F-16 fighter jets from the Atlantic City Air National Guard Base in New Jersey are monitoring the craft.
FAA officials are working with the military to ensure air traffic safety in the area.
The aircraft is known as a Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defence Elevated Netted Sensor System and can be used as part of a missile defence system.
It’s not immediately clear how the blimp came loose.
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Georgia toddler dead after accidentally shooting self
A two-year-old U.S. boy has died after police say he accidently shot himself
with a gun his father left on a bed.Local news outlets report the shooting
happened Tuesday night at a home in the state of Georgia. Acworth police spokeswoman Youlanda Leverette says the child’s father and four-year-old brother were also at the home when police received the emergency call.
Leverette says the handgun was left on the bed.
Leverette says it is not known if the child was playing with the gun, but he somehow was able to grab it and shoot himself. Authorities say the child’s mother was not home when the shoot-ing happened.
No charges have been filed, though the investigation is ongoing.
◆ LONDON
Murder investigation opens after teen killed
Police have started a murder inves-tigation after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death at a school in the northern Scottish city of Aberdeen.
The student died in a local hospital Wednesday after the attack at Cults Academy.
Police detained another 16-year-old boy after the stabbing in the city 885 kilometres north of London and said there will be an added police presence in the area “for the foreseeable future.”
Police did not name the victim or the teenager who was detained.
The academy has scored highly in a ranking of Scottish schools based on exam results.
◆ WASHINGTON
Rechargeable batteries OK on planes despite fi re fears
A U.N. aviation panel has rejected a ban on rechargeable battery shipments on passenger airliners, despite evidence they can cause unstoppable, in-flight fires.
Two aviation officials told The Asso-ciated Press the International Civil Aviation Organization panel voted 10 to 7 against a ban. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak about the vote publicly.
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Trial underway for dad in daughter’s death
A trial has begun in Toronto for a father charged in the death of his daughter, whose charred body was found in a burning suitcase 21 years ago.
Everton Biddersingh has been charged with first-de-gree murder in the death of 17-year-old Melonie Bid-dersingh. He has pleaded not guilty.
Melonie’s body was found in a burning suitcase in an industrial area north of Toronto in 1994, but her iden-tity remained a mystery for years until police got a tip that gave them a break in the case.
That tip allowed them to identify the body after visiting the girl’s biological mother in Jamaica and obtaining a DNA sample.
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Elaine Biddersingh’s trial is set to begin in April 2016. Crown lawyer Anna Tenhouse says Melonie was treated like a slave, beaten, starved and emotionally abused. — THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Israel’s leader condemns Arab for ‘provocative’ holy site visitTIA GOLDENBERG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel’s prime minister lashed out at an Arab lawmaker Wed-nesday for flouting a directive and visiting the sensitive Jerusa-lem holy site that is at the heart of the recent round of unrest, as the five-week long outbreak of violence that has plagued the region continued.
A Palestinian was shot after the Israeli military said he attempted to stab a soldier in the West Bank. His condition was not immediately known. In a separate incident, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli woman.
The visit by legislator Basel Ghattas, a Christian Arab, to the hilltop compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims at the Noble Sanctuary defied instructions by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that all ministers and lawmakers — regardless of reli-gion — avoid visiting the holy site during the tense time.
Netanyahu issued a special televised statement to condemn Ghattas’ move.
“I assure you (Ghattas) did not do it in order to pray, he did it solely for the purpose of provo-cation, only to inflame the situ-ation,” Netanyahu said, adding that police removed him from the site.
Ghattas said he does not recog-nize Netanyahu’s authority.
The ban on lawmakers was part
of a slew of measures Israel has used to try to lower tensions and halt near-daily, seemingly spon-taneous attacks.
The violence began in mid-September in Jerusalem, fueled by Palestinian fears that Israel was plotting to take over the holy site. Israel has adamant-ly denied any changes to long-standing arrangements at the site that permit Jews to visit but not pray, but Palestinians point to growing numbers of Jewish visitors, backed by some senior Israeli officials, who seek prayer rights and an expanded Jewish presence on the mount.
Attacks and unrest quickly
spread deeper into Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Israel has deployed hundreds of soldiers in cities across the country to back up thousands of police officers. It has set up checkpoints and concrete barriers in Arab areas of east Jerusalem, where many of the attackers are from.
Eleven Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings, while 55 Palestinians, including 35 labeled by Israel as attackers, have been killed by Israeli fire. The others have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces.
The Jerusalem site, holy to both Jews and Arabs, has been
quiet of late. Last week, for the first time since the violence began, Israel lifted age restric-tions for young Muslim men who wanted to pray there.
Israel says the age restrictions are a security measure, since most of the people who clash with police are young Palestin-ian males.
In recent days the violence has mainly struck in the West Bank. On Wednesday, the military said a Palestinian drew a knife at an army post in the West Bank city of Hebron and tried to stab a sol-dier. Forces shot the Palestinian. His condition was not immedi-ately known.
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Nanaimo’s Crimson Coast Dance brings a soulful blend of dance and music to the
stage that will offer an unusual and beautiful look at the world.
The show, Sunya by Sinha Danse, comes to the Port Theatre on Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. It will give the audience a unique cultural meeting of two artists who use their respective Indi-an-Armenian and Iranian traditions to express their current experience living in North America.
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cultures — including the North American culture that choreographer Indo-Armenian dancer Roger Sinha and Iranian-born gatherer of musical pearls Kiya Tabassian adopted — something completely unique and positive emerges. This is what migra-tion is about in Sunya, a space where the clash of cultures creates some-thing totally new and beautiful.
But do not expect a narrative piece describing immigration, Sinha says. “The work is more abstract and poet-ic. Nor is this traditional Indian dan-cing nor traditional Persian music, the feel is very contemporary.
“What is challenging is that there is no story here and people will often have to read their own perceptions into the piece. Some people might come away with a different interpret-ation of the migratory experience.”
It is, Sinha adds, a very dynamic work featuring four dancers with music by the Constantinople Ensem-ble with Kiya and Ziya Tabassian on setar and tombak plus Pierre-Yves Martel on viola da gamba.
“The dancers move about often very vigorously and dynamically. The musicians do not sit still playing for the dancers. They too get up and
move about among the dancers and are part of the choreography. The piece is very much about starting from a beginning point. Often, when one migrates from one country to another they have to start at zero . . . thus (the title) Sunya meaning zero, the beginning or a new beginning.”
In addition to the performance, on Nov. 7 there will be a dance class and a music class open to interested learners.
“I mix contemporary dance and Indian dance. The students will learn how to use their fingers, hands and arms in a way that feels like they are
talking a language. There is a great deal of detail in the movements and I also use rhythmical movements of the feet striking the floor. But the counts are very different than 2/4 or 4/4. We count often in 5, 7, 9,” Sinha explains.
Dance class participants should have at least an intermediate dance training in contemporary or ballet.
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Mandolin-driven string band make stridesAARON HINKS DAILY NEWS
As their classmates hit the books, North of Here will be hitting the road on reading week to tour their new album.
The four-piece folk band will be at the Buzz Coffee House on Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
The friends first met, and started to play music together at an Edmon-ton-area high school. Their relation-ship carried on after class and are now all attending the University of Alberta.
“This is the first year that there’s a fall reading week at U of A, so we’re using it not to do any homework, we’re heading on the road,” said bass player Luke Jensen.
Jensen shares the stage with man-dolin player Ian St. Arnaud, guitar-ist Caleb Sinn and drummer Will Holowaychuk.
What sets this group apart from most indie folk groups is the mando-lin. There’s no banjo, but it’s some-thing the group intends to incorpor-ate in the future.
“A lot of our songs are driven off the melodies that he comes up with on the mandolin. It creates more risk-based songs is one way of put-ting it. It’s a high instrument and cuts very well. It allows a lot of mel-ody coming through the voices and
a counter melody coming from the mandolin. They kind of play off each other,” Jensen.
The band plans to release its secondalbum, Make Hay While the Sun Shines, on Nov. 6.
It’ll mark the band’s first time play-ing a West Coast show. It has played plenty in Alberta, but has yet to bringits instruments to B.C.
The group is influenced by artists such as Oh Hellos, Tallest Man on Earth, and Dan Mangan.
Folk music has morphed over the years and Jensen believes we’re at theforefront of another folk transition.
“It’s funny because there’s lots of parallel lines. In the ‘60s you had Dylan coming out and playing real folk music, and then the progression of it moving to folk rock. There’s that similar progression back in 2010. You had the Mumford and Sons era where they were back to folk; all acoustic, stomping, clapping, now it’s been morphed into more of an indie folk where there’s electronic influences with acoustic instruments and more electrification of acoustic sounds,” Jensen said.
“It’s like folk only lasts for so long before it develops and moves.”
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The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in Amer-ican lives.
But the Vancouver Island One-Act The-atre Festival is getting a second chance after being cancelled last fall for the first time in 10 years.
“I thought maybe it had run its course — that this was it,” said Margaret Jen-kins, who has directed the festival since original founder Peter Bendz died after the inaugural event in 2005. “Last year some of our regular groups found it hard to get an extra play into their regular schedules. And the schools started out on strike, so we lost the kids.“
The 2015 festival resumes Nov. 5-8 at Village Theatre.
Six theatre groups from five commun-ities — including Kwalicum Secondary School — will perform seven short plays over the course of the four days.
With community theatre groups strapped for both cash and time, there is no guarantee this festival signals a permanent return of the event, said Jenkins.
“We’d had entries the year before (2013) from the likes of Victoria and Nanaimo, and they were as keen as ever last year,” said Geoff Jenkins, Margaret’s husband and a festival coordinator. “But it proved hard to fit everyone into a cal-endar, date-wise.”
The Echo players, for example, will wrap up a four-week run of the sold-out comedy Calendar Girls Oct. 30, then begin work on their annual Christmas play, Merry Christmas, George Bailey!, set to run Dec. 17-31.
“It can be hard to slot in a one-act play,” said Doug Toombs, publicity volunteer.
“We’re building the set for the festival the day after we take down the Calendar Girls set,”Geoff Jenkins added.
Victoria and Nanaimo will again miss the festival, made up of plays of less than an hour in length. But the host Echo Players will take the stage twice, and will be joined by Campbell River’s River City Players, Port Alberni’s Portal Players, the
Courtenay Little Theater, the Gabriola Players Society and Kwalicum Secondary School, under a new director.
“The festival is dedicated to encour-aging local talent,” said Toombs. “We’re especially trying to encourage young people through the schools.”
The festival will feature two show each on Thursday, Friday and Saturday even-ing. The final play will run as a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, followed by the awards presentation.
The awards include Best Play, which is accompanied by a perpetual trophy presented by title sponsor Thrifty Foods, Best Director and Best Original Script. The rest of the awards — Best Female Actor in a Lead Role, Best Male Actor in a Lead Role, Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role — recognize individual performance.
“The focus is on the acting,” said Toombs. “These plays are meant to have minimal sets. We don’t want groups bringing in a bunch of furniture and such.”
The jurors tasked with selecting the winners in this year’s festival are Genie Award-winning actress Nicola Cavendish (The Grocer’s Wife, The Sleep Room) and director Robb Mowbray of Nanaimo’s Theatre One, former winner of the Best Director Award at the North Island Zone Theatre Festival.
The pair offer each theatre group a brief, public critique immediately after each performance, and a more in-depth private critique at the end of each even-ing. Work on establishing this year’s festival lineup, local sponsors and jurors began even as the 2014 event was being cancelled, said Jenkins.
“We work the phones and emails all year round,” said Geoff Jenkins. “Mar-garet works very hard on it. It’s her baby, and she doesn’t want to lose it.”
Tickets are $12 and $10 for seniors and students. A three-day pass is $30/$27, and a full four-day festival pass is $40/$36. For more information call 250-752-3522 or [email protected].
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30 FRIDAY
Allison Crowe
7:30 p.m. at the Port Theatre. Crowe performs
with her new band featuring Billie Woods
(guitar, voice), Celine Greb (cello, voice); and
Dave Baird (bass). The combo bridges vital
originals with fresh interpretations of classics
by Gary O’Driscoll, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen
and Joni Mitchell. Tickets $29, students and
seniors $24.
31 SATURDAY
Johnny Inappropriate
9 p.m. , at The Well Pub. No cover.
Dave Gogo Halloween
Rock the Halloween! Nanaimo’s favourite
bluesman provides the soundtrack for a how-
lin’ good time at SimonHolt on Applecross Rd.
For reservations call 250-933-3338.
The Pack A.D.
Doors at 8 p.m. at The Cambie. Fierce duo
long celebrated on the fringes of Canada’s
endlessly fruitful indie-rock scene as a feral
live act non pareil. With Moths & Locusts,
Awkward a/c and Teenage Tiger live at The
Cambie. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the
door.
Femmes Fatales
At The Queens.
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Nanaimo Blues Society Blues Jam
4-8 p.m. every week at the Queen’s hotel in
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UPCOMING/ONGOING
Nanaimo Concert Band Fall Concert
Nov. 8 at 2:30 p.m. Join the Nanaimo Concert
Band for their Annual Fall Concert. This nation-
al award winning band performs a wide ran-
ging musical repertoire including classical, big
band, marches show tune and more! It is the
oldest continuously performing concert band
in Canada. Tickets: $13.50.
The Dan Brubeck Quartet
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Dan Brubeck Quartet will be touring Vancou-
ver Island for their new CD release concerts.
Benefit for the Nanaimo Conservatory of
Music. $30 ticket reservations are available by
credit card now by phone at (250) 933-3338,
and at Simon Holt Restaurant.
||| ON STAGE/SCREEN
Keats
Oct. 31 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 1 at 1:30 p.m. at
at Kismet Theatre Academy, 55 Victoria Rd.
Western Edge Theatre is delighted to wel-
come Caleb Williamson back to Nanaimo
in his passionate one-person play about
passionate poet John Keats. Tickets $17 for
adults and $12 for students and seniors.
The Three Musketeers
8 p.m. Until Oct. 31 at the Bailey Studio on
Rosstown Rd. This classic swashbuckling
tale of honour is set in 1625 in France
Lorne Elliott
Nov. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the Port Theatre. Can-
adian humourist, storyteller, musician, play-
wright and former CBC host Elliott performs
a one-man show of comedy and music.
Suitable for all audiences. Tickets $40, $36
members, $15 students.
Sunya by Sinha Danse
Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. at The Port Theatre. Drawing
inspiration from ancient Istanbul, a trailblazing
city illuminating East and West, the CONSTAN-
TINOPLE ensemble founded in 2001 by Kiya
and Ziya Tabassian (setar and tombak) and
joined later by Pierre-Yves Martel (viola da
gamba), is built on fruitful encounters.
Tickets $35, groups of 4+: $30 each. call the
Ticket Centre 250-754-8550 To purchase
season tickets for all Crimson Coast Dance
performances please visit www.crimsoncoast-
dance.org.
Emerging Voices reading of Two-Thirds
Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Harbour City Theatre,
25 Victoria Rd. Suggested donation $10. By
Julie McIsaac. Presented by TheatreOne.
Directed by TheatreOne Artistic Associate/
Dramaturge Nicolle Nattrass, and starring
professional actors Erin Ormond, Ming
Hudson, and Matthew Payne, this original
Canadian play offers audiences equal doses
of quirky comedy and moving drama.
||| EXHIBITS
A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in
Dialogue with Emily Carr’
Feature exhibition at the Nanaimo Museum
from now until November 21. A Terrible
Beauty invites you to contemplate the
impact humans can have on natural
landscapes. Organized and circulated by
the Vancouver Art Gallery. Hosted by the
Nanaimo Museum in partnership with
Nanaimo Art Gallery.
Silva: O Horizon
At the Nanaimo Art Gallery on Commer-
cial St. until Nov. 21. A contemporary art
project that follows a thematic path from
the microcosms of the forest floor, to the
quantifying and processing of lumber, to
the global distribution of forestry products.
consists of two exhibitions (O Horizon and
Booming Grounds), a publication (The Mill),
and a series of public events. For more infor-
mation visit www.nanaimoartgallery.com.
||| LITERARY
Life under the Nazis, Life under Com-
munist rule, life in the ‘Golden West’
Nov. 7, 10 a.m. to noon. Speaker and author
Giselle Roeder will read from her book ‘We
Don’t Talk About That’ at the Vancouver Island
University, Building 250. Free Parking on Q-lot
near by. Fee $10 at door. Also on Nov. 14, 2 - 3
p.m. at the Gabriola Island Library.
Monthly Poetry Reading
‘The Living Room’ free event for new, emer-
ging and established poets to share their
work. Listeners welcome. To be held Thursday
of each month in room B at Harbourfront
library, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. 250-753-1154.
||| COMMUNITY
Downtown Halloween Howl
11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Oct. 31, downtown. Crafts,
stories, treats for monsters of all ages. Be
ready to also haunt all the great adult
parties downtown after dark, including the
Queen’s and Koncept Halloween bashes,
where the best tricked out party goers
could win $500 in cash.
Friday Art Nights
5 - 9 p.m. at the Bee’s Knees Cafe. An even-
ing of art and live music featuring a different
local artist on the first Friday of each month.
Culture FUNDamentals
Nov. 5, 4 to 6 p.m. at the Nanaimo Museum
(100 Museum Way). An opportunity for
primarily arts, culture and heritage non-profit
groups to meet financial institutions to dis-
cover local funding opportunities; and make
important community connections. Intro-
ductory remarks provided by the Nanaimo
Foundation. Phone: 250-755-4483, email:
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The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in Amer-ican lives.
But the Vancouver Island One-Act The-atre Festival is getting a second chance after being cancelled last fall for the first time in 10 years.
“I thought maybe it had run its course — that this was it,” said Margaret Jen-kins, who has directed the festival since original founder Peter Bendz died after the inaugural event in 2005. “Last year some of our regular groups found it hard to get an extra play into their regular schedules. And the schools started out on strike, so we lost the kids.“
The 2015 festival resumes Nov. 5-8 at Village Theatre.
Six theatre groups from five commun-ities — including Kwalicum Secondary School — will perform seven short plays over the course of the four days.
With community theatre groups strapped for both cash and time, there is no guarantee this festival signals a permanent return of the event, said Jenkins.
“We’d had entries the year before (2013) from the likes of Victoria and Nanaimo, and they were as keen as ever last year,” said Geoff Jenkins, Margaret’s husband and a festival coordinator. “But it proved hard to fit everyone into a cal-endar, date-wise.”
The Echo players, for example, will wrap up a four-week run of the sold-out comedy Calendar Girls Oct. 30, then begin work on their annual Christmas play, Merry Christmas, George Bailey!, set to run Dec. 17-31.
“It can be hard to slot in a one-act play,” said Doug Toombs, publicity volunteer.
“We’re building the set for the festival the day after we take down the Calendar Girls set,”Geoff Jenkins added.
Victoria and Nanaimo will again miss the festival, made up of plays of less than an hour in length. But the host Echo Players will take the stage twice, and will be joined by Campbell River’s River City Players, Port Alberni’s Portal Players, the
Courtenay Little Theater, the Gabriola Players Society and Kwalicum Secondary School, under a new director.
“The festival is dedicated to encour-aging local talent,” said Toombs. “We’re especially trying to encourage young people through the schools.”
The festival will feature two show each on Thursday, Friday and Saturday even-ing. The final play will run as a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, followed by the awards presentation.
The awards include Best Play, which is accompanied by a perpetual trophy presented by title sponsor Thrifty Foods, Best Director and Best Original Script. The rest of the awards — Best Female Actor in a Lead Role, Best Male Actor in a Lead Role, Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role — recognize individual performance.
“The focus is on the acting,” said Toombs. “These plays are meant to have minimal sets. We don’t want groups bringing in a bunch of furniture and such.”
The jurors tasked with selecting the winners in this year’s festival are Genie Award-winning actress Nicola Cavendish (The Grocer’s Wife, The Sleep Room) and director Robb Mowbray of Nanaimo’s Theatre One, former winner of the Best Director Award at the North Island Zone Theatre Festival.
The pair offer each theatre group a brief, public critique immediately after each performance, and a more in-depth private critique at the end of each even-ing. Work on establishing this year’s festival lineup, local sponsors and jurors began even as the 2014 event was being cancelled, said Jenkins.
“We work the phones and emails all year round,” said Geoff Jenkins. “Mar-garet works very hard on it. It’s her baby, and she doesn’t want to lose it.”
Tickets are $12 and $10 for seniors and students. A three-day pass is $30/$27, and a full four-day festival pass is $40/$36. For more information call 250-752-3522 or [email protected].
Village Theatre is at 110 West 2nd. Ave. in Qualicum Beach.
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Allison Crowe
7:30 p.m. at the Port Theatre. Crowe performs
with her new band featuring Billie Woods
(guitar, voice), Celine Greb (cello, voice); and
Dave Baird (bass). The combo bridges vital
originals with fresh interpretations of classics
by Gary O’Driscoll, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen
and Joni Mitchell. Tickets $29, students and
seniors $24.
31 SATURDAY
Johnny Inappropriate
9 p.m. , at The Well Pub. No cover.
Dave Gogo Halloween
Rock the Halloween! Nanaimo’s favourite
bluesman provides the soundtrack for a how-
lin’ good time at SimonHolt on Applecross Rd.
For reservations call 250-933-3338.
The Pack A.D.
Doors at 8 p.m. at The Cambie. Fierce duo
long celebrated on the fringes of Canada’s
endlessly fruitful indie-rock scene as a feral
live act non pareil. With Moths & Locusts,
Awkward a/c and Teenage Tiger live at The
Cambie. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the
door.
Femmes Fatales
At The Queens.
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Nanaimo Blues Society Blues Jam
4-8 p.m. every week at the Queen’s hotel in
Nanaimo. $5 cover, performers free.
UPCOMING/ONGOING
Nanaimo Concert Band Fall Concert
Nov. 8 at 2:30 p.m. Join the Nanaimo Concert
Band for their Annual Fall Concert. This nation-
al award winning band performs a wide ran-
ging musical repertoire including classical, big
band, marches show tune and more! It is the
oldest continuously performing concert band
in Canada. Tickets: $13.50.
The Dan Brubeck Quartet
Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. at Simonholt Restaurant. The
Dan Brubeck Quartet will be touring Vancou-
ver Island for their new CD release concerts.
Benefit for the Nanaimo Conservatory of
Music. $30 ticket reservations are available by
credit card now by phone at (250) 933-3338,
and at Simon Holt Restaurant.
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Keats
Oct. 31 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 1 at 1:30 p.m. at
at Kismet Theatre Academy, 55 Victoria Rd.
Western Edge Theatre is delighted to wel-
come Caleb Williamson back to Nanaimo
in his passionate one-person play about
passionate poet John Keats. Tickets $17 for
adults and $12 for students and seniors.
The Three Musketeers
8 p.m. Until Oct. 31 at the Bailey Studio on
Rosstown Rd. This classic swashbuckling
tale of honour is set in 1625 in France
Lorne Elliott
Nov. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the Port Theatre. Can-
adian humourist, storyteller, musician, play-
wright and former CBC host Elliott performs
a one-man show of comedy and music.
Suitable for all audiences. Tickets $40, $36
members, $15 students.
Sunya by Sinha Danse
Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. at The Port Theatre. Drawing
inspiration from ancient Istanbul, a trailblazing
city illuminating East and West, the CONSTAN-
TINOPLE ensemble founded in 2001 by Kiya
and Ziya Tabassian (setar and tombak) and
joined later by Pierre-Yves Martel (viola da
gamba), is built on fruitful encounters.
Tickets $35, groups of 4+: $30 each. call the
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season tickets for all Crimson Coast Dance
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Emerging Voices reading of Two-Thirds
Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Harbour City Theatre,
25 Victoria Rd. Suggested donation $10. By
Julie McIsaac. Presented by TheatreOne.
Directed by TheatreOne Artistic Associate/
Dramaturge Nicolle Nattrass, and starring
professional actors Erin Ormond, Ming
Hudson, and Matthew Payne, this original
Canadian play offers audiences equal doses
of quirky comedy and moving drama.
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A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in
Dialogue with Emily Carr’
Feature exhibition at the Nanaimo Museum
from now until November 21. A Terrible
Beauty invites you to contemplate the
impact humans can have on natural
landscapes. Organized and circulated by
the Vancouver Art Gallery. Hosted by the
Nanaimo Museum in partnership with
Nanaimo Art Gallery.
Silva: O Horizon
At the Nanaimo Art Gallery on Commer-
cial St. until Nov. 21. A contemporary art
project that follows a thematic path from
the microcosms of the forest floor, to the
quantifying and processing of lumber, to
the global distribution of forestry products.
consists of two exhibitions (O Horizon and
Booming Grounds), a publication (The Mill),
and a series of public events. For more infor-
mation visit www.nanaimoartgallery.com.
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Life under the Nazis, Life under Com-
munist rule, life in the ‘Golden West’
Nov. 7, 10 a.m. to noon. Speaker and author
Giselle Roeder will read from her book ‘We
Don’t Talk About That’ at the Vancouver Island
University, Building 250. Free Parking on Q-lot
near by. Fee $10 at door. Also on Nov. 14, 2 - 3
p.m. at the Gabriola Island Library.
Monthly Poetry Reading
‘The Living Room’ free event for new, emer-
ging and established poets to share their
work. Listeners welcome. To be held Thursday
of each month in room B at Harbourfront
library, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. 250-753-1154.
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Downtown Halloween Howl
11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Oct. 31, downtown. Crafts,
stories, treats for monsters of all ages. Be
ready to also haunt all the great adult
parties downtown after dark, including the
Queen’s and Koncept Halloween bashes,
where the best tricked out party goers
could win $500 in cash.
Friday Art Nights
5 - 9 p.m. at the Bee’s Knees Cafe. An even-
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local artist on the first Friday of each month.
Culture FUNDamentals
Nov. 5, 4 to 6 p.m. at the Nanaimo Museum
(100 Museum Way). An opportunity for
primarily arts, culture and heritage non-profit
groups to meet financial institutions to dis-
cover local funding opportunities; and make
important community connections. Intro-
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The award-winning Nanaimo Con-cert Band is hosting its Fall Concert on Nov. 8 at the Port Theatre.
The band will be presenting a “Con-cert of Remembrance” in honour of veterans on Remembrance Day dur-ing the musical event.
The concert will have something for everyone in the audience, includ-ing orchestral transcriptions, movie and Broadway music, concert march-es and swing.
The band loves playing the music written by the well-known compos-er Alfred Reed and the concert will feature three of his more than 200 works.
Reed’s Victory! march will serve as a tribute to the country’s veterans as Remembrance Day approaches.
Other composers featured at the concert will include Scott Joplin, Herb Alpert, John Williams, Johann Strauss Jr. and Richard Strauss.
As an added bonus, the band, under the baton of John Forbes, is pleased
to welcome piper Gordon Webb who will accompany the musicians in the moving arrangement of Amaz-ing Grace and a medley of Scottish tunes.
As always, the pieces are inter-spersed with short descriptions and the occasional entertaining quip by percussionist and MC Terry Totzky.
The Nanaimo Concert Band is rec-ognized in the musical community as one of the finest such groups in the country.
The band has won numerous awards over the years, has been admired by other community bands with which it has shared musical appearances, and has attracted some of the most experienced music direc-tors in the country.
In 1997 the band was honoured by receiving a Nanaimo cultural award presented for contributing to the promotion of musical excellence.
Tickets for the concert, which begins at 2:30 p.m., are $13.50 each and are available through the Port Theatre Box Office at 250-754-8550.
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Ken Hamm, one of Canada’s foremost interpreters of tradition-al roots and blues music, is back touring, and plays a string of Island dates starting Monday.
The musician gave up Nanaimo in the late 2000s for the quiet life operating a record store with his wife in Forget, Sask.
However with the closure of the shop in September, he decided to hit the road again and will perform in the Harbour City Nov. 8.
“I have lots of new material I will present,” he said. “I have a great many friends on Vancouver Island — fellow artists and musicians.”
Hamm has played guitar most of his life, and professionally since 1972.
Since he started touring solo in 1978, Hamm has won a wide follow-ing for his guitar work and original songs that reflect the rural West Coast life.
It was during one of those tours that he bought the Saskatchewan property where he now lives. After his rent was raised in Nanaimo a few years later, he made the move.
He doesn’t regret the decision.“To tell you the truth, I’m very
happy in Saskatchewan. There’s always great people everywhere you go, and there’s a lot of people here that like what I do.
It’s fitting that he and his wife began running a music store, because growing up in Thunder Bay, Ont., that was where he got his start in music.
The teenaged Hamm listened to old country and blues recordings there, and the proprietor, Inor Nordstrom recognized and encour-aged him.
“I moved into the back room of that store and I soaked up a lot of music,” said Hamm.
Those early experiences helped shape Hamm’s ability to take a song and “put my own personal stamp on it.”
Hamm was awarded a Juno for Best Roots and Traditional CD and has been nominated for Recording of the Year and nominated several times for best acoustic act of the year by the Toronto Blues Society.
Hamm was also nominated three years running as Best Acoustic
Blues Guitarist by Guitar Player magazine and was the Canadian representative to the Festival of Plucked Strings in Morocco.
But beyond the awards and praise, Hamm is best known for his ability to re-arrange and re-shape trad-itional blues and roots music, to make it current and original.
After playing in local bands and performing in coffee houses around Thunder Bay, Hamm began trav-elling the folk circuit performing in venues ranging from house concerts to concert halls to major festivals.
Hamm moved to the West Coast in 1982 where he wrote from his experiences as a tree planter, fisher-man and rural observer.
Hamm has also gained a reputa-tion for teaching guitar finger-pick-ing and slide guitar styles, and is
currently working on a book and instructional video.
Hamm plays Nanaimo on Nov. 8 at 10 Buttertubs Drive. Tickets are $20 at the door or 250-390-4592. The show is 7:30 p.m., doors open at 7.
Other Island tour dates include Nov. 1 at 2 p.m. at the Duncan Showroom, Nov. 4 at St. Michael’s Church Hall in Chemainus, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Hornby Island Community Hal, Nov. 7 on Gabriola Island and Nov. 8 at 1:30 p.m. in Mill Bay (tickets at 250-743-0214).
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Lions fi nd running game at the right timeOff ensive line took responsibility for poor performance but has improved to clear the way for Andrew Harris
JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS
After an especially poor rushing performance earlier this season, B.C. Lions centre Jason Foster personally apologized to
running back Andrew Harris.As the leader of the offensive line,
Foster took full responsibility and promised to do everything in his power to get things right.
“It was terrible, it was pathetic, it was embarrassing, and it starts with me,” Foster said after Wednesday’s rain-soaked practice. “I told him: ‘Andrew, I’m sorry. That will never happen again.”’
Harris rushed for just two yards in an overtime loss to the Edmonton Eskimos on Oct. 17 before the Lions put it all together on the ground in last week’s 40-13 thumping of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, especially late. Harris ran 16 times for 119 yards, including 82 yards in the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach.
“Any time you don’t get touched for five, six yards and you’re able to make someone miss in the open field like we did on a couple of those runs, it definitely makes things a lot easier for a running back,” said Harris.
B.C. had surrendered fourth-quar-ter leads in consecutive losses prior to the Hamilton game, and up 27-13 in the fourth against the Tiger-Cats, Foster brought the offensive line together for a pep talk.
“We knew we had games in the past where we blew it in the fourth quarter and we didn’t run the ball
efficiently or effectively,” said Foster, a native of East Pittsford, Vt., in his first CFL season. “We came to the sideline after a three-and-out and said: ‘We’ve been here before and we know what’s happened. If we’re going to win this game it’s going to be on us.”’
B.C. promptly put together a long drive that culminated in Harris’ 15-yard touchdown before he added another one late.
“It’s all about will — taking your guy and moving him off the ball. If
we do that we’re going to be success-ful,” said Foster. “I’m really happy that (offensive co-ordinator George Cortez) believed in us and we kept running the ball.”
Harris has had rushing totals of 119, 118, 117, 100 and 94 yards for the Lions this season, but has also been stopped in his tracks with totals of two, three and 10. Despite the up-and-down year, Harris leads the CFL in rushing with 987 yards, 161 more than Jerome Messam, who was recently traded from the Saskatch-
ewan Roughriders to the Calgary Stampeders.
“Any player that wants to be an impact player wants to be involved in the offence,” said Harris, a Winnipeg product looking for his first rush-ing title. “I’m definitely that. Being involved is huge for me, and being a rhythm player like I am, you start making plays and make good things happen.”
The Lions’ offensive line, which has also allowed the league’s few-est sacks, will be looking to keep
the running game going when the they visit the Toronto Argonauts on Friday.
B.C. (6-10) is in a battle with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (5-12) and the Montreal Alouettes (6-10) — by way of the crossover rule — for the final playoff spot in the West Division and knows that if the club makes make the post-season the ground attack will be critical, especially in a first-round matchup against the either the Edmonton Eskimos or Calgary Stampeders.
“I’m not familiar with the weather in Alberta in November, but I’m assuming it’s going to be snow or rain or something like that,” said Foster. “Obviously running the ball is going to be huge in situations like that. I think last week really just showed that if we put our minds together as a whole unit, five strong, we can be a pretty good offensive line.”
B.C. Lions runningback Andrew Harris rushes for a touchdown past Hamilton Tiger-Cat Brandon Stewart, left, and
Courtney Stephen, back, during a CFL game in Vancouver on Friday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
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Royals beat Mets 7-1, take 2-0 leadJohnny Cueto pitched two-hitter as Kansas City batters wore down Jacob deGrom
RONALD BLUM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Following the final out, after Johnny Cueto completed his two-hitter, several hundred fans remained in Kauffman Stadium, wanting one more look at the Kansas City Royals.
The next time they see Eric Hos-mer and his teammates may be in a parade.
After smothering the Mets 7-1 Wed-nesday night with Cueto and their pesky offence, the Royals have a 2-0 World Series lead and can capture their first title since 1985 when play resumes at New York’s Citi Field this weekend.
Hosmer thought about Kansas City’s seven-game loss to the Giants in 2014.
“There’s still a lot of work yet to do,” he said. “Last year we took a 2-1 lead in San Francisco and were feel-ing pretty good about ourselves.”
Kansas City wore down Jacob deGrom with persistence and prow-
ess, then pounced. Hosmer hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in a four-run fifth inning that included 14 foul balls.
Nineteen hours after Hosmer’s
sacrifice fly won a 14-inning thriller, Cueto varied his delivery with occa-sional quick pitches and kept the Mets off balance. An excited crowd stood on its feet for long stretches to
cheer on the rainy night. Some fans wore wigs resembling Cueto’s long, dark dreadlocks — including the Royals’ mascot, Slugerrr.
The teams take Thursday off then New York’s Citi Field hosts its first Series game Friday, when rookie Noah Syndergaard starts for the Mets and Yordano Ventura for the Royals.
Forty-one of the 51 teams to take 2-0 leads in best-of-seven World Series have gone on to win the title, including nine straight since Atlanta stumbled against the New York Yan-kees in 1996.
Kansas City had the best contact hitters in the major leagues this season, missing on just 19.7 per cent of swings, according to STATS. The Dodgers and Cubs swung and missed 58 times in deGrom’s first three post-season outings, but he got just three swings and misses against the Royals — his career low.
“We don’t swing and miss,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “We find ways to just keep putting the ball in play until you find holes.”
Of deGrom’s 94 pitches, 23 were fouled off by the Royals.
“I told Jake not everything has to be a strike,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “You’ve got to move it around. You’ve got to change speeds, give them something to look at. If you continue to pound the strike zone, they’re going to put it in play, and that’s what they did.”
Cueto has struggled on the road, where opposing fans taunt him by repeating his name in a sing-song voice. But since the Royals acquired the free-agent-to-be from Cincinnati in July, he’s been Johnny on the spot at Kauffman Stadium.
He pitched two-hit ball over eight innings to win Game 5 of the Div-ision Series against Houston, and Kansas City lined up its Series rota-tion to have Cueto starting Games 2 and 6 at home.
Cueto struck out four and walked three in the low-hit Series complete game by an AL pitcher since Boston’s Jim Lonborg threw a one-hitter against St. Louis in 1967.
Both New York hits were soft sin-gles by Lucas Duda, an infield roller to third that took advantage of the shift in the second inning and an opposite-field RBI single to left in the fourth.
Kansas City Royal Eric Hosmer hits a two-RBI single against the New York Mets
during Game 2 of the World Series Wednesday. [AP PHOTO]
DeROZAN
Raptors win opener over Pacers, 106-99DAN RALPH THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan and the Toronto Raptors started slowly before rallying in the second half for a season-opening win over the Indi-ana Pacers.
DeRozan had 25 points as Toronto rallied from a 16-point deficit to capture a 106-99 home victory over Indiana on Wednesday night. The Raptors improved to 13-8 in home openers and 12-9 in season openers while registering a fifth straight win over the Pacers after sweeping last year’s season series 4-0.
DeRozan scored 18 of his 25 points in the second half as Toronto’s start-ing lineup scored 52 of its 85 points after halftime. The Raptors gave the boisterous Air Canada Centre sellout of 19,800 little to cheer about early but had their fans on their feet in the second half, outscoring the Pacers 69-54.
“That’s the kind of force we have to play with in the first half, at the start of the game,” Toronto head coach Dwane Casey said. “I was pleased with our defence, we got stops when we needed to but again we’ve got to play with force and physicality to start the game.”
Toronto took control in the third, outscoring Indiana 35-23 to turn a 45-37 half-time deficit into a 72-68 advantage heading into the third.
“We picked it up offensively,” DeRozan said. “We were getting stops, we were playing good defence throughout the game. We just hit that spell where we couldn’t execute or get a bucket when we needed to.”
Toronto held Indiana to 37 per cent shooting and was 10-1 last season when opponents show less than 40 per cent from the floor.
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Sara Simovic comes home to lead VIUFormer Wellington star, two-year starter with Lethbridge Pronghorns, will lead Mariners in home opener
SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS
Sara Simovic is back home in Nanaimo after two years playing CIS basketball for the University of Leth-bridge Pronghorns.
Now at Vancouver Island Univer-sity in the PacWest, she’s got high expectations for a Mariners squad with lofty goals.
“I just wanted to come back home,” said Simovic, who started last year as a sophomore at Lethbridge, aver-aging 22 minutes, six points and two assists per game.
“It wasn’t going as well at Leth-bridge so I thought I’d come home and be with my family.”
“I think it will be really good to bring up the intensity in the PacW-est. I’ll try not to sink down to a low-er level, and I’ll play as hard as I can to help my team get really high up.”
The Mariners begin their PacWest schedule Friday at 6 p.m. against the Camosun Chargers at home.
When they do, they’ll have a differ-ent look than they did a year ago, and not just with Simovic running the offence. They will also have fellow Wellington grad Victoria Brown, who transfered from Grant MacEwan University, and new recruits Lanae Adams, who played NCAA Div. 1 basketball last season for the Arkan-sas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions, and Allie Weathersby, a transfer from Washington state’s Highline College.
Add that to returning American
forward Sienna Pollard, the Marin-ers’ leading scorer last season, and they’re looking like a championship contender.
“We lost Jenna Carver, who you can’t really replace, but we’ve added some depth and experience in some girls who played at the CIS level and the Div. I NCAA level, so I’m hoping that we’ll be a little deeper, quicker, and a little more athletic,” said Mar-
iners head coach Bill McWhinnie.“Last year, we relied heavily on
Jenna and Sienna. With Sara Simovic here now, and Lanae Adams here now, and our freshmen a year older, I think we’re a lot deeper than we were last year.”
McWhinnie has been around Simovic for years, and he expects big things from the third-year guard when she takes the court Friday.
“She’ll be our primary ball hand-ler,” he said. “She has a scorer’s men-tality and she’s played at a high level her whole life, from provincial teams to playing big games at Wellington and starting for Lethbridge.
“She’ll have the ball in her hands a lot.”
After leaving Lethbridge, Simovic said she didn’t look into other options, other than coming to VIU.
“I could’ve looked into more options, but I thought I just wanted to get home,” she said. “I’m kind of a home body. It’s a lot more refreshing, and I’ll be a lot more stress-free.”
WcWhinnie didn’t have any reser-vations welcoming her into the fold, nor did he with Brown.
“She was looking to move on,” McWhinnie said of Simovic.
“I’ve known her since she was a little girl, so we have a good relation-ship and she wanted to come here.
“Same with (Victoria) Brown, from Grant MacEwan. They wanted to come home. They went and did the CIS thing and thought, (VIU) is not a bad place to be. You can play in front of your family, and play big minutes.”
The Mariners have played two exhibition games, both against CIS opponents.
They lost both times, to 79-65 to the UFV Cascades and 74-67. But Simovic, who was been back home training for the last three summers with men’s hoops assistant coach Avneet Brar, thinks this VIU team will be a contender in the PacWest.
“I think we’re going to be really good this year,” she said. “We were competing with every single team, and come the end of the season, we could even beat some of those teams, so I think we’re going to be really good.”
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Clippers rally to beat Grizzlies in 5-4 thrillerSCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS
The Nanaimo Clippers were down early Wednesday night against the Victoria Grizzlies, and they were down often. They trailed 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3, but a breakaway goal from Zach Court with two seconds to play gave them a 5-4 win and fourth in five games.
“We pulled it out of the hat,” said Clippers head coach MikeVandekamp.
“It wasn’t our best game, but it was still an exciting win, that’s for sure.”
After Sheldon Rempal tied the game at three early in the third period, Nanaimo defenceman Sean Buchanan took a roughing penalty that resulted in the Grizzlies taking their fourth lead of the night.
But with their goalie pulled, Rem-pal dumped the puck into the corner where it was retrieved by Devin Bros-seau, who threw it at the feet of Vic-toria goalie Matthew Galajda before finding its way into the net.
That tied the game with 35 seconds left. Then, Chris Dodero caused a Victoria turnover that send Court in all alone. He was hauled down, but got back to his feet to shelf the game-winner, his fourth goal of the year, just before time expired.
“It’s an example of being never out
of the game,” Vandekamp said. “It’s a good lesson learned both ways — it’s junior hockey. Junior hockey has lots of events like that, that are awfully exciting. You wouldn’t want to bank on that happening every night, but
when you’re in that situation again in the future, (you know) there’s always a way.”
Getting his first win with the Clip-pers was 19-year-old goaltender Evan Johnson, who arrived this week from
the Western Hockey League’s Medi-cine Hat Tigers.
He stopped 20 of the Grizzlies 24 shots in his Nanaimo debut, his first game action since Oct. 10.
“We had an opportunity to look at Evan here, and we’ll probably keep him for a bit and make a decision later,” Vandekamp said.
Vandekamp traded forward Brendan Shane out of province to create a ros-ter spot, but Shane was picked up on waivers by the Chilliwack Chiefs.
Johnson joins original starter Jona-than Reinhart in the Clippers goalie corps, as well as suspended 16-year-old back-up goalie Jakob Walter.
“Hopefully as he gets more com-fortable with our team, he could be a good assett for our team,” Van-dekamp said.
Before Wednesday’s win, the Clip-pers had only played one game in the previous 10 days, but they are now in the midst of three divisional games in four nights.
They now play a home-and-home series with the rival Alberni Valley Bulldogs, with the front half in Nanaimo on Friday night at 7 p.m.
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Nanaimo Clippers forward Zach Court celebrates his game-winning third-period
goal against the Victoria Grizzlies on Wednesday. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]
Bucs dump Wolves 6-3, home tonightDAILY NEWS
Six different goal scorers led the Nanaimo Buccaneers to a 6-3 win over the Westshore Wolves in Col-wood Wednesday night.
Will McNamara, Nolan Richardson, Chad Bell, Billy Walters, Owen Dal-man and Will Koop each scored for Nanaimo, while Bucs goalie Alex Orthstopped 28 shots to pick up the win.
Hobin Zinck and Nick Gomerich also had two-assist nights.
The Bucs went up 4-1 after the first period, with three straight goals com-ing after an early 1-1 tie.
The second period was scoreless, and the Bucs and Wolves traded goals in the third.
The win tied the Bucs with the Campbell River Storm for first place in the Vancouver Island Junior Hock-ey League’s North Division, however the Storm have a game in hand.
The Bucs are back home tonight to take on the division rival Oceanside Generals at 7:15 p.m. at the Nanaimo Ice Centre. The Gens are currently in last place in the North Division and have lost seven straight games.
VIU Mariners point guard Sara Simovic, right, and forward Sienna Pollard practice Tuesday at Vancouver Island University.
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Beeston mum on future of Jays’ GM
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TORONTO — Outgoing Blue Jays president Paul Beeston says he won’t comment on the future of gen-eral manager Alex Anthopoulos because “Alex always likes to keeps his affairs private and I think I have to respect that.”
“At some point in time I may be prepared to talk about it. But I think right now I would say I’ve got nothing to say about it,” Beeston said Wednesday in a radio appearance on Sportsnet 590 The Fan. “I just hope it all works out.”
Anthopoulos, whose deal expires this week, deflected questions about his contract status during his season wrapup news conference Monday.
“That will be addressed at the appropriate time,” Anthopoulos said then. “The appropriate time is not today.”
He will be dealing with new Toronto president Mark Shapiro, who is set to succeed the retiring Beeston.
“There is not anything I’m going to say about Alex other than the fact that his affairs are private,” Beestonsaid.
Beeston did acknowledge that Anthopoulos is “kind of my horse.”
Anthopoulos, then assistant GM, took over after Beeston fired J.P. Ricciardi as general manager in 2009. He helped the Jays to the American League Championship Series this season with a string of high-profile moves at the trade deadline.
“I’ve watched this man grow into the job,” Beeston said.
“It’s very funny that after six years he is kind of like what a player would be — he’s kind of a free agent in some respects. He is in his best years right now. He has learned a lot from his mistakes. We all make mis-takes — some were public, some that aren’t public. He’s learned from that, he doesn’t make the same mis-take twice. And he’s got guts, he’s got everything else.
“So is he irreplaceable? No. But I mean is he some-body you’d want to keep? Sure.
“I mean why wouldn’t you? It’s like wanting to keep any of your star players.
It’s nearly decision time for Desjardins on Jared McCann
Rumour has it the Canucks could send scoring leader Jared McCann back to his junior team so he
dosen’t get “ruined” by playing in the NHL too soon.
In Willie’s World, there is good and real good. There is seldom “bad” and never “really bad” when the Vancouver Canucks coach assesses a game or a player.
In McCann’s world, there is confidence, hope and an emer-ging game where the good far outweighs any bad. And as the rookie centre creeps closer to his 10th regular-season game, which would burn the first year of his entry-level contract — No. 8 is Thursday in Dallas (Sportsnet Vancouver, TSN 1040, 5:30 p.m.) and No. 9 is Friday in Glendale, Ariz. — he says exactly what you expect about extending his NHL stay and not being returned to Sault Ste. Marie of the OHL.
“I don’t even know when Game 9 is — I don’t want to know,” says the 19-year-old McCann. “I’m really not focused on that, and I’m only focused on what I can control. I’m trying to earn his (Desjardins’) respect and I know it’s not going to be an easy decision.”
It’s not. But it has helped shift a retool-on-the-fly season from first gear into overdrive. Rookie Jake Virtanen was always going to be a roster consideration because of his imposing size and ability to skate with the big boys. McCann’s uncanny ability to beat odds, beat injury and health setbacks and beat a path to the net has become talk of the town. And for a club looking to generate a buzz beyond better food options at Rogers Arena and reduced ticket prices, this is a win-win proposition. You can win with youth and fill empty seats.
McCann’s two-goal perform-ance Tuesday and team-leading four goals certainly work in his favour. Desjardins has always lauded the speed, skill and quick release of the club’s 2014 first-round pick, who willingly plays in traffic. He has turned a plod-ding fourth line into one with offensive potential. And with bet-ter play away from the puck and a stronger presence in the face-off circle, the lingering question about the shifty centre listed at six-foot and 179 pounds, is about the durability to handle physical play and mental pressure.
“I’ve got to avoid hits and not put myself in a bad position, and that’s a key thing,” says McCann.
Virtanen has an imposing 6-foot-1, 208-pound frame and hits like a freight train — col-lecting seven of them in the first two periods in the 5-1 win over Montreal. It’s one reason why
Virtanen, 19, is expected to stick with the Canucks and not return to the Calgary Hitmen of the WHL, and why Desjardins is in a bit of a quandary about McCann.
He’ll get a better read on McCann’s readiness in the back-to-back games.
“The biggest worry is down the road and he gets worn down and the league gets hard for him and he loses his confidence,” says Desjardins. “He’s too good. We don’t want him to lose his confidence and just feel he has to dump the puck. We want him to handle it and make plays. He knows where the net is and he’s opportunistic.
“I thought before we should sit him out a bit, so we didn’t rush those nine games, but we wanted to put those guys in tough situa-tions and they played well.”
If Desjardins needs another take, he can get a good one from Brandon Prust.
The fourth-line winger has seen enough of his linemate to believe that McCann could be a keeper.
“He’s improved a lot and even in the last few games,” says Prust. “His confidence is getting back there. Sometimes at the start of the season he didn’t have
it, but he feels confident out there. He’s been impressing me since the start of camp. Great skater, great shot and good vision. Fun to play with.”
Prust rolled but didn’t fracture his left ankle in the second per-iod Tuesday in a cornerboards collision with Montreal’s Brian Flynn and didn’t return. He was having an MRI on Wednesday but did travel with the club.
The Canucks haven’t had much fun in Big D. Their last win in Dallas was March 22, 2012, and they’ve dropped seven straight to the Stars. This sea-son, Dallas is 7-2-0 and leading the Western Conference. Jamie Benn and Tyler Sequin were first and third in league scoring with 15 points (8-7) and 13 points (4-9) respectively after the Stars erased a 3-0 deficit to Anaheim on Tuesday and won 4-3 on home ice.
Desjardins was the club’s asso-ciate coach in 2010-11 to Marc Crawford and to Glen Gulutzan in 2011-12.
“They have a lot of speed and come at you a lot of different ways,” says Desjardins.
Adds winger Alex Burrows: “Probably one of the best offences in the league (third-ranked power play) and they’re playing a better defensive system (fourth-ranked penalty kill) under (coach) Lindy Ruff. It won’t be easy.”
Looks like a good test for the Canucks.
And McCann.
THE GREAT McCANN DEBATE
Keep him in the NHL:1. Speed kills, and he shifts the
fourth line from being one-di-mensional, and has potential to move up lineup.
2. Does things you can’t teach. Puts pucks in good areas, gets to tough areas, has a wicked release.
3. Learns the things you’re try-ing to teach. Better awareness in all zones, better in faceoff circle.
Send him to the OHL:1. He isn’t the biggest cen-
tre and is one big hit away from being injured. Has had a concussion.
2. This isn’t the OHL. The grind of the travel schedule and big division opponents will get to him.
3. Would get major minutes with a good OHL club, good springboard for world junior roster push.NOTES: Desjardins said he won’t “push” Ryan Miller if he’s tired. There’s a chance Richard Bachman, who played eight games for the Stars over three seasons, could start Thursday. Jacob Markstrom is doing on-ice drills but still recovering from a hamstring pull. Dan Ham-huis (lower body) isn’t on the two-game trip and Alex Biega and Brendan Gaunce have been recalled from Utica.
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MLS PLAYOFFSWILD CARDS
(Single-game elimination)Wednesday's resultsD.C. 2 New England 1Seattle 3 Los Angeles 2Thursday's gamesToronto at Montreal, 7 p.m.Kansas City at Portland, 10 p.m.
ENGLANDLEAGUE CUPRound of 16Liverpool 1 Bournemouth 0Manchester City 5 Crystal Palace 1Southampton 2 Aston Villa 1Middlesbrough 0 Manchester United 0
(Middlesbrough advanced 3-1 on p.k.)
ITALYSERIE AAC Milan 1 Chievo 0Atalanta 2 Lazio 1Frosinone 2 Carpi 1Napoli 2 Palermo 0Roma 3 Udinese 1Sassuolo 1 Juventus 0Genoa 3 Torino 3Fiorentina 2 Verona 0
SCOTLANDLEAGUE CUP — Celtic 2 Hearts 1
FOOTBALLCFLEAST GP W L T PF PA Ptx-Hamilton 16 10 6 0 496 335 20x-Ottawa 16 10 6 0 408 420 20x-Toronto 16 9 7 0 392 461 18Montreal 16 6 10 0 342 332 12
WEST GP W L T PF PA Ptx-Edmonton 17 13 4 0 426 319 26x-Calgary 16 12 4 0 408 320 24B.C. 16 6 10 0 403 433 12Winnipeg 17 5 12 0 342 481 10Saskatchewan 16 2 14 0 381 497 4x — clinched playoff berth.Friday's gameB.C. at Toronto, 7 p.m.Saturday's gameSaskatchewan at Calgary, 3 p.m.Sunday's gamesOttawa at Hamilton, 1 p.m.Montreal at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCEEAST W L T Pct PF PANew England 6 0 0 1.000 213 126N.Y. Jets 4 2 0 .667 152 105Miami 3 3 0 .500 147 137Buffalo 3 4 0 .429 176 173
SOUTH W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 3 4 0 .429 147 174Houston 2 5 0 .286 154 199Jacksonville 2 5 0 .286 147 207Tennessee 1 5 0 .167 119 139
NORTH W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 6 0 0 1.000 182 122Pittsburgh 4 3 0 .571 158 131Cleveland 2 5 0 .286 147 182Baltimore 1 5 0 .167 143 162
WEST W L T Pct PF PADenver 6 0 0 1.000 139 102Oakland 3 3 0 .500 144 153Kansas City 2 5 0 .286 150 172San Diego 2 5 0 .286 165 198
NATIONAL CONFERENCEEAST W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 4 3 0 .571 166 156Washington 3 4 0 .429 148 168Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 160 137Dallas 2 4 0 .333 121 158
SOUTH W L T Pct PF PACarolina 6 0 0 1.000 162 110Atlanta 6 1 0 .857 193 150New Orleans 3 4 0 .429 161 185Tampa Bay 2 4 0 .333 140 179
NORTH W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 6 0 0 1.000 164 101Minnesota 4 2 0 .667 124 102Chicago 2 4 0 .333 120 179Detroit 1 6 0 .143 139 200
WEST W L T Pct PF PAArizona 4 2 0 .667 203 115St. Louis 3 3 0 .500 108 119Seattle 3 4 0 .429 154 128San Francisco 2 5 0 .286 103 180Thursday's gameMiami at New England, 8:25 p.m.Sunday's gamesDetroit v. Kans. City at London, 9:30 am.San Francisco at St. Louis, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Arizona at Cleveland, 1 p.m.San Diego at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Seattle at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.Green Bay at Denver, 8:30 p.m.Open: Buff., Jacksonville, Phila., Wash.Monday's gameIndianapolis at Carolina, 8:30 p.m.
NCAAAP TOP 25 SCHEDULEThursday's gamesNo. 5 TCU vs. West Virginia, 7:30 p.m.No. 23 Pittsburgh v. North Carolina, 7 pmSaturday's gamesNo. 3 Clemson at N.C. State, 3:30 p.m.No. 8 Stanford at Washington St., 10:30 pmNo. 9 Not. Dame at No. 21 Temple, 8 pmNo. 10 Iowa vs. Maryland, 3;30 p.m.No. 11 Fla. v. Georgia at Jacksonvil., 3:30 pmNo. 12 Okla. St. at Texas Tech, 3:30 p.m.No. 13 Utah vs. Oregon State, 7 p.m.No. 14 Oklahoma at Kansas, 3:30 p.m.No. 15 Michigan at Minnesota, 7 p.m.No. 16 Memphis vs. Tulane, 7 p.m.No. 17 Florida State vs. Syracuse, noonNo. 18 Houston vs. Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.No. 19 Mississippi at Auburn, noonNo. 22 Duke vs. Miami, 7 p.m.No. 24 UCLA vs. Colorado, 3 p.m.
MLB PLAYOFFSWORLD SERIES
(Best-of-7 series; x — if necessary)
NEW YORK (NL) VS. KANSAS CITY (AL)(Kansas City leads 2-0)
Wednesday's resultKansas City 7 New York 1Tuesday's resultKansas City 5 New York 4 (14 inn.)Friday's gameKansas City at New York (Syndergaard 9-7), 8:07 p.m.Saturday's gameKansas City at New York (Matz 4-0), 8:07 p.m.Sunday's gamex-Kansas City at New York (Harvey 13-8), 8:15 p.m.Tuesday, Nov. 3x-New York (deGrom 14-8) at Kansas City, 8:07 p.m.Wednesday, Nov. 4x-New York (Syndergaard 9-7) at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
ROYALS 7, METS 1New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg.Granderson rf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .125D.Wright 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .182Dan.Murphy 2b 2 1 0 0 2 2 .222Cespedes lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .100Duda 1b 3 0 2 1 0 0 .444
Conforto dh 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000W.Flores ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .000Lagares cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .333Totals 28 1 2 1 3 4Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg.A.Escobar ss 5 1 2 2 0 0 .273Zobrist 2b 5 0 0 0 0 0 .273L.Cain cf 4 0 0 0 1 0 .100Hosmer 1b 4 1 2 2 0 1 .286K.Morales dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .143Moustakas 3b 3 1 2 1 1 0 .444S.Perez c 4 1 1 0 0 0 .300A.Gordon lf 2 2 1 1 2 0 .286Rios rf 3 1 1 0 0 1 .167Orlando rf 0 0 0 1 0 0 .333Totals 34 7 10 7 4 3New York 000 100 000 —1 2 1Kansas City 000 040 03x —7 10 0E—Duda (1). LOB—NY 3, Kansas City 8. 2B—S.Perez (1), A.Gordon (1). 3B—A.Escobar (1). RBIs—Duda (1), A.Escobar 2 (3), Hosmer 2 (4), Moustakas (2), A.Gordon (2), Orlando (1). SF—Orlando.Runners left in scoring position—NY 2
L.Cain). RISP—NY 1 for 4; KC 5 for 12.Runners moved up—Zobrist, K.Morales.
DP—KC 1 (Moustakas, Zobrist, Hosmer).New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERAdeGrom L, 0-1 5 6 4 4 3 2 94 7.20Robles 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 0.00Niese 1 3 3 3 1 1 27 9.00A.Reed 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 6 0.00Gilmartin 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.00Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERACueto W, 1-0 9 2 1 1 3 4 122 1.00Niese pitched to 3 batters in the 8th.Inherited runners-scored—A.Reed 2-2, Gilmartin 1-0.T—2:54. A—40,410 (37,903).
WHLEASTERN CONFERENCEEAST DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA PtPrince Albert 14 11 2 0 1 57 41 23Brandon 14 9 3 0 2 60 38 19Moose Jaw 12 7 3 1 1 47 35 16Saskatoon 12 6 3 3 0 45 48 15Regina 12 6 5 1 0 34 41 13Swift Current 13 5 6 2 0 36 41 12
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA PtLethbridge 12 10 2 0 0 55 32 20Red Deer 14 10 4 0 0 55 39 20Calgary 14 7 6 0 1 35 48 15Medicine Hat 12 5 6 1 0 43 47 11Edmonton 14 3 8 3 0 35 52 9Kootenay 15 3 11 1 0 34 63 7
WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA PtKelowna 13 9 4 0 0 53 43 18Victoria 14 8 5 0 1 42 30 17Prince George 12 6 6 0 0 33 33 12Vancouver 13 4 7 1 1 41 57 10Kamloops 12 4 8 0 0 34 43 8
U.S. DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA PtSeattle 11 8 2 1 0 41 25 17Portland 12 6 6 0 0 38 31 12Everett 9 5 3 0 1 21 22 11Spokane 13 4 7 1 1 32 53 10Tri-City 13 4 8 1 0 42 51 9Note: Division leaders ranked in top 2 positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 pts. & a victory in W col-umn; team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in OTL or SOL columns
Medicine Hat 6 Spokane 2Brandon 3 Everett 2 (SO)Prince Albert 4 Edmonton 0Kamloops 6 Prince George 1Lethbridge 5 Vancouver 2Portland 5 Tri-City 2
Seattle 7 Brandon 2Lethbridge 4 Victoria 3 (SO)
Spokane at Calgary, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.
Victoria at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.Spokane at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Brandon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.Lethbridge at Kamloops, 8 p.m.Vancouver at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.Portland at Everett, 8:35 p.m.
Seattle at Kootenay, 2 p.m.Regina at Moose Jaw, 2 p.m.Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.Lethbridge at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.
BCHLINTERIOR DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtPenticton 16 15 1 0 0 67 31 30Salmon Arm 16 11 3 2 0 72 43 24West Kelowna 16 9 5 0 2 55 50 20Vernon 18 8 9 0 1 97 53 17Merritt 18 6 11 0 1 61 80 13Trail 15 6 9 0 0 48 63 12
ISLAND DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtNanaimo 16 10 6 0 0 66 50 20Powell River 16 10 6 0 0 49 35 20Cowichan Vally 15 8 4 1 2 55 85 19Alberni Valley 15 5 8 1 1 36 54 12Victoria 17 3 12 0 2 38 58 8
MAINLAND DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtWenatchee 17 10 4 2 1 64 42 23Chilliwack 17 9 5 1 2 60 47 21Langley 15 9 6 0 0 52 40 18Coquitlam 17 7 7 1 2 44 64 17Prince George 16 4 11 0 1 35 68 9Surrey 16 4 12 0 0 38 74 8
Nanaimo 5 Victoria 4Salmon Arm 6 Vernon 2Powell River at Cowichan Valley
Wenatchee at Prince George, 7 p.m.Powell River at Victoria, 7 p.m.
Surrey at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.Alberni Valley at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.Merritt at Penticton, 7 p.m.Wenatchee at Prince George, 7 p.m.West Kelowna at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.Trail at Vernon, 7 p.m.Cowichan Valley at Victoria, 7 p.m.Coquitlam at Langley, 7:15 p.m.
Nanaimo at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.Salmon Arm at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.Penticton at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.
MOVESBASEBALLAMERICAN LEAGUECHICAGO — Claimed RHP Jacob Turner off waivers from the Chicago Cubs.
NATIONAL LEAGUEARIZONA — Named Mike Butcher pitching coach.
FOOTBALLNFLCAROLINA — Released C Eric Kush from the practice squad. Signed G Reese Dismukes and LB Nate Askew to the practice squad.CLEVELAND — Signed DB Chance Casey to the practice squad.DENVER — Released DT Marvin Austin.HOUSTON — Waived-injured TE Mike McFarland. Signed QB T.J. Yates. Signed S Kurtis Drummond from practice squad & RB Daryl Richardson to practice squad.JACKSONVILLE — Signed LB Hayes
Waived LB James-Michael Johnson. Released WR Jordan Leslie from practice squad.NEW ENGLAND — Placed LB Rufus Johnson on the reserve/non-football illness list. Claimed S Dewey McDonald off waivers from Indianapolis.NEW ORLEANS — Signed LB Henry Coley to the practice squad.OAKLAND — Signed S Tevin McDonald to the practice squad.ST. LOUIS — Signed DB Christian Bryant.SAN DIEGO — Released C J.D. Walton. Signed LB Joe Mays.TAMPA BAY — Signed WR Adam Humphries from practice squad & WR An-dre Davis, OL Ryan Groy, DT Derrick Lott & LB Julian Stanford to practice squad.TENNESSEE—Signed TE Chase Coffman.
HOCKEYNHLARIZONA — Assigned G Marek Lang-
City (ECHL).CHICAGO — Recalled D Erik Gustafs-son from Rockford (AHL).
TENNISATPVALENCIA OPENAt Valencia, SpainSingles — Second Round
Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, def. Bernard Tomic (3), Australia, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Vasek Pospisil, Vernon, B.C., def. Aljaz Bedene, Britain, 6-3, 6-4.Singles — First Round
Roberto Bautista Agut (7), Spain, def. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-4.
Andrey Rublev, Russia, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain, 6-4, 6-4.
Steve Johnson, U.S., def. Martin Klizan, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-4.
SWISS INDOORSAt Basel, SwitzerlandSingles — Second Round
Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, def. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
Mannarino, France, 6-4, 6-3.Singles — First Round
Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, def. Stan Waw-rinka (2), Switzerland, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4.
Kevin Anderson (4), South Africa, def. Borna Coric, Croatia, 6-3, 6-2.
Marin Cilic (7), Croatia, def. Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland, 6-3, 7-6 (3).
Jack Sock, U.S., def. Denis Kudla, U.S., 6-4, 6-2.
Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4.Doubles — First Round
Daniel Nestor, Toronto, & Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, def. John Isner & Jack Sock, both U.S., 3-6, 6-4, 10-7.
WTABNP PARIBAS CHAMPIONSHIPSAt SingaporeSingles — Round Robin
Garbine Muguruza (2), Spain, def. Angelique Kerber (6), Germany, 6-4, 6-4.
Petra Kvitova (4), Czech Rep., def. Lucie Safarova (8), Czech Rep., 7-5, 7-5.
NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBd-Chicago 2 0 1.000 —d-New York 1 0 1.000 1/2
Detroit 2 0 1.000 —d-Miami 1 0 1.000 1/2
Boston 1 0 1.000 1/2
Toronto 1 0 1.000 1/2
Washington 1 0 1.000 1/2
Cleveland 1 1 .500 1Orlando 0 1 .000 11/2
Indiana 0 1 .000 11/2
Charlotte 0 1 .000 11/2
Atlanta 0 1 .000 11/2
Brooklyn 0 1 .000 11/2
Philadelphia 0 1 .000 11/2
Milwaukee 0 1 .000 11/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBd-Denver 1 0 1.000 —d-Golden State 1 0 1.000 —Oklahoma City 1 0 1.000 —L.A. Clippers 1 0 1.000 —Portland 1 0 1.000 —Dallas 1 0 1.000 —Minnesota 0 0 .000 1/2
L.A. Lakers 0 0 .000 1/2
d-Memphis 0 1 .000 1Phoenix 0 1 .000 1Sacramento 0 1 .000 1Utah 0 1 .000 1San Antonio 0 1 .000 1Houston 0 1 .000 1New Orleans 0 2 .000 11/2
d — division leader.Wednesday's resultsWashington 88 Orlando 87Detroit 92 Utah 87Chicago 115 Brooklyn 100Toronto 106 Indiana 99Boston 112 Philadelphia 95Miami 104 Charlotte 94Cleveland 106 Memphis 76New York 122 Milwaukee 97Oklahoma City 112 San Antonio 106Denver 105 Houston 85Portland 112 New Orleans 94L.A. Clippers 111 Sacramento 104Dallas 111 Phoenix 95Minnesota at L.A. LakersTuesday's resultsGolden State 111 New Orleans 95Detroit 106 Atlanta 94Chicago 97 Cleveland 95Thursday's gamesMemphis at Indiana, 7 p.m.Atlanta at New York, 8 p.m.Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.Friday's gamesUtah at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Oklahoma City at Orlando, 7 p.m.Miami at Cleveland, 7 p.m.Toronto at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.Charlotte at Atlanta, 8 p.m.Brooklyn at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m.Golden State at Houston, 9:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 10 p.m.Portland at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.
BETTING SOCCER
NHLEASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkMontreal 10 9 1 0 0 36 17 18 4-0-0-0 5-1-0-0 9-1-0-0 L-1Tampa Bay 10 5 3 1 1 27 26 12 2-1-0-0 3-2-1-1 5-3-1-1 L-2Florida 9 5 3 1 0 30 18 11 3-1-0-0 2-2-1-0 5-3-1-0 W-2
METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkNY Rangers 10 6 2 1 1 28 20 14 4-1-1-0 2-1-0-1 6-2-1-1 W-1NY Islanders 9 6 2 1 0 31 22 13 4-1-1-0 2-1-0-0 6-2-1-0 W-2Washington 8 6 2 0 0 30 21 12 3-2-0-0 3-0-0-0 6-2-0-0 L-1
WILD CARD GP W L OL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkPhiladelphia 8 4 2 2 0 19 22 10 3-1-1-0 1-1-1-0 4-2-2-0 L-1Pittsburgh 9 5 4 0 0 16 17 10 3-2-0-0 2-2-0-0 5-4-0-0 W-2Ottawa 9 4 3 0 2 29 30 10 1-2-0-2 3-1-0-0 4-3-0-2 W-1Boston 8 4 3 1 0 33 29 9 1-3-1-0 3-0-0-0 4-3-1-0 W-2Detroit 9 4 4 1 0 22 24 9 2-2-0-0 2-2-1-0 4-4-1-0 L-1New Jersey 9 4 4 0 1 21 26 9 1-3-0-1 3-1-0-0 4-4-0-1 L-1Carolina 9 3 6 0 0 17 26 6 0-2-0-0 3-4-0-0 3-6-0-0 W-1Buffalo 9 3 6 0 0 20 29 6 2-4-0-0 1-2-0-0 3-6-0-0 W-1Toronto 8 1 5 0 2 19 28 4 0-2-0-1 1-3-0-1 1-5-0-2 L-4Columbus 10 2 8 0 0 22 41 4 0-4-0-0 2-4-0-0 2-8-0-0 W-2
WESTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkDallas 9 7 2 0 0 31 24 14 3-1-0-0 4-1-0-0 7-2-0-0 W-1Nashville 8 6 1 1 0 25 16 13 4-0-1-0 2-1-0-0 6-1-1-0 L-1Minnesota 9 6 2 1 0 28 25 13 4-0-0-0 2-2-1-0 6-2-1-0 W-1
PACIFIC DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkLos Angeles 9 6 3 0 0 20 18 12 3-3-0-0 3-0-0-0 6-3-0-0 W-6Vancouver 9 4 2 3 0 25 18 11 1-2-3-0 3-0-0-0 4-2-3-0 W-1Arizona 10 5 4 1 0 27 28 11 1-2-0-0 4-2-1-0 5-4-1-0 L-1
WILD CARD GP W L OL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 StrkSt. Louis 9 6 2 1 0 25 20 13 2-0-1-0 4-2-0-0 6-2-1-0 W-1Chicago 9 6 3 0 0 19 16 12 5-1-0-0 1-2-0-0 6-3-0-0 W-4Winnipeg 9 5 3 1 0 29 25 11 2-2-1-0 3-1-0-0 5-3-1-0 L-1San Jose 8 5 3 0 0 23 18 10 2-1-0-0 3-2-0-0 5-3-0-0 W-1Edmonton 10 3 7 0 0 24 31 6 1-3-0-0 2-4-0-0 3-7-0-0 L-3Colorado 8 2 5 1 0 20 25 5 1-3-1-0 1-2-0-0 2-5-1-0 L-4Calgary 10 2 7 0 1 20 40 5 1-4-0-0 1-3-0-1 2-7-0-1 L-3Anaheim 9 1 6 1 1 9 25 4 1-2-0-1 0-4-1-0 1-6-1-1 L-4
Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 points and a victory in the W col-umn; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in the OTL or SOL columns.
Ottawa 5 Calgary 4 (SO)Pittsburgh 3 Washington 1Nashville at San Jose
Vancouver 5 Montreal 1Carolina 3 Detroit 1Los Angeles 4 Winnipeg 1Minnesota 4 Edmonton 3Columbus 3 New Jersey 1Florida 4 Colorado 1St. Louis 2 Tampa Bay 0Dallas 4 Anaheim 3Boston 6 Arizona 0Buffalo 4 Philadelphia 3 (OT)
Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Carolina at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Colorado at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Anaheim at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Chicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.Vancouver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Montreal at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Colorado at Carolina, 7 p.m.Toronto at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Columbus at Washington, 7 p.m.Ottawa at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Boston at Florida, 7:30 p.m.Chicago at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Montreal at Calgary, 9 p.m.Vancouver at Arizona, 10 p.m.
NY Islanders at New Jersey, 1 p.m.San Jose at Dallas, 3 p.m.Nashville at Los Angeles, 4 p.m.Winnipeg at Columbus, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Toronto, 7 p.m.Washington at Florida, 7 p.m.Detroit at Ottawa, 7 p.m.Boston at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.Minnesota at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Calgary at Edmonton, 10 p.m.
NHLFAVOURITE LINE UNDERDOG LINENY ISLANDRS -190 Carolina +175PITTSBURGH OFF Buffalo OFFPHILADELPH. -145 N.Jersey +135TAMPA BAY -190 Colorado +175WINNIPEG -110 Chicago +100ST. LOUIS -165 Anaheim +155DALLAS -145 Vancouver +135Montreal -145 EDMONTN +135
NFLFAVOURIT OPN TODAY O/U UNDRDOGN.ENGLAND 101/2 8 (51) MiamiSundayFAVOURIT OPN TODAY O/U UNDRDOGKansas City 21/2 51/2 (46) DetroitMinnesota 21/2 1 (42) CHICAGOATLANTA 71/2 7 (491/2) T. BayN.ORLEANS 2 3 (481/2) NY GiantsST. LOUIS 6 81/2 (39) San Fran.Arizona 4 41/2 (461/2) CLEVLNDCincinnati 11/2 PK (48) PITSBRGHBALTIMOR 11/2 3 (501/2) San DiegoHOUSTON 41/2 4 (OFF) TennesseNY Jets 3 2 (45) OAKLANDSeattle 51/2 6 (41) DALLASGreen Bay 3 3 (45) DENVERMondayFAVOURIT OPN TODAY O/U UNDRDOGCAROLINA 31/2 7 (46) Indianapol.
Home Teams in CAPITALS.Updated odds available at Pregame.com
SENATORS 5, FLAMES 4 (SO)First Period — No Scoring.Penalties — Jooris Cgy (high-sticking) 4:37; Karlsson Ott (interference) 17:39.Second Period1. Calgary, Hamilton 2 (Hudler, Engelland) 4:15.2. Ottawa, Smith 2 (unassisted) 17:58.3. Ottawa, Ryan 2 (Turris, Methot) 19:46.Penalties — Giordano Cgy (delay of game) 1:42; Neil Ott (slashing) 5:30.Third Period4. Cal, Colborne 2 (Monahan, Hudler) 4:23.5. Cal, Russell 1 (Bennett, Frolik) 5:20.6. Ott, Turris 5 (Stone, Karlsson) 9:51.7. Ottawa, Pageau 3 (Michalek, Chias-son) 10:08.8. Calgary, Bennett 1 (Gaudreau, Wide-man) 12:32 (pp).Penalties — Methot Ott (interference) 1:44; Bollig Cgy (roughing) 6:12; Ryan Ott (goaltender interference) 12:20; Wideman Cgy (hooking) 14:13.Overtime — No Scoring.Penalties — None.Shootout — Ottawa wins 2-1Cal: Colborne goal, Gaudreau miss, Monahan miss. Ott: Ryan miss, Turris goal, Zibanejad goal.Shots on goalCalgary 10 10 16 2 —38Ottawa 4 6 12 1 —23Goal — Calgary: Ortio (LO, 0-1-1); Ot-tawa: Anderson (W, 4-2-1).Power plays (goal-chances) — Cal-gary: 1-4; Ottawa: 0-4.Attendance — 16,923 at Ottawa.
PENGUINS 3, CAPITALS 1First Period — No Scoring.Penalties — Stephenson Wash (elbow-ing) 6:09; Orpik Wash (boarding) 6:24; Alzner Wash (high-sticking) 8:28.Second Period — No Scoring.Penalties — Letang Pgh (slashing) 7:21; Perron Pgh (charging) 10:53; Cole Pgh, Wilson Wash (roughing) 19:39.Third Period1. Wash, Kuznetsov 4 (Alzner) 1:28.2. Pitt, Bennett 2 (Bonino, Maatta) 1:52.3. Pitt, Kessel 4 (Malkin, Perron) 3:49.4. Pitt, Bonino 2 (unassisted) 18:17 (en).Penalty — Cole Pgh (interference) 9:45.Shots on goalPittsburgh 14 4 7 —25Washington 13 14 7 —34Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 5-4-0); Wash: Holtby (L, 5-2-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Pitt: 0-3; Wash: 0-3.Attendance — 18,506 at Washington.
SCORING LEADERS G A PtBenn, Dal 8 7 15Krejci, Bos 7 7 14Seguin, Dal 4 9 13Kane, Chi 5 7 12Pacioretty, Mon 7 4 11Tavares, NYI 5 6 11Wheeler, Win 4 7 11Cammalleri, NJ 3 8 11Kuznetsov, Wash 3 8 11Zetterberg, Det 2 9 11Jagr, Fla 6 4 10Wednesday's games not included
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Love’s double-double sparks Cavs to win over GrizzliesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Kevin Love had 17 points and 13 rebounds, Richard Jefferson had 14 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers built a big early advantage to ruin the Memphis Griz-zlies’ season opener with a 106-76 victory on Wednesday night.
Cleveland capitalized on Memphis’ shooting woes, building a double-digit lead in the first quarter and extending the margin to 32 in the
fourth. The Cavaliers lost their sea-son opener to the Bulls 97-95 on Tuesday night.
LeBron James, Jared Cunningham and Matthew Dellavedova had 12 points each, with James 4 of 13 from the field.
Jefferson was five of six, includ-ing all three 3-point tries, part of Cleveland shooting 45 per cent from beyond the arc.
Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol led the Grizzlies with 12 points apiece.
THUNDER 112, SPURS 106Russell Westbrook had 33 points
and 10 assists to help Billy Donovan win his NBA coaching debut.
Kevin Durant scored 22 points in his first regular-season game since February. He made just 6 of 19 field goals, but hit two critical free throws with 11.5 seconds remaining to put the Thunder in control.
Enes Kanter had 15 points and 16 rebounds off the bench for the Thunder.
Kawhi Leonard scored a career-high 32 points and grabbed eight rebounds for the Spurs. LaMarcus Aldridge had 11 points and five rebounds in his debut with San Antonio after nine years with the Portland Trail Blazers.
HEAT 104, HORNETS 94Chris Bosh scored 21 points in his
first game since getting sick last Feb-ruary, Dwyane Wade added 20 and Miami beat Charlotte in the season
opener for both. Gerald Green scored 19 off the bench and Luol Deng finished with 13 for Miami, which used a 26-6 run in the second quar-ter to take control and beat the Hor-nets for the 14th consecutive time at home. The Heat made 12 of 20 shots from 3-point range, including one from Deng with 38.8 seconds left to help seal the win. Kemba Walker led the Hornets with 19 points, Jeremy Lin scored 17 and Marvin Williams had 10 points and 10 rebounds.
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10-11 a.m. Golden Year seniors savings day
at Country Club Centre. Free coffee, tea and
a treat ., with live music by Howie James &
the Howlettes in the Food Court. Also from
2-3 p.m
8 p.m. Emerald Specks, Honeywell live at
the Longwood. The Longwood Brew Pub
presents a free, weekly live concert series every
Thursday. 5775 Turner Rd.,
FRIDAY, OCT. 30
6:30-8: p.m. Nanaimo Museum Lantern
Tours $15, pre-registration required. Email
[email protected] or call
250-753-1821 for details.
SATURDAY, OCT. 31
4-5 p.m. Halloween Trick or Treating for chil-
dren 12 and under, draws for $25 gift cards,
proceeds to Crime Stoppers Details at nanai-
monorth.com. Nanaimo North Town Centre,
4750 Rutherford Rd
SUNDAY, NOV. 1
2-5 p.m. The Comox Valley’s Herb Alpert &
the Tijuana Brass tribute band, featuring Jake
Masri on trumpet, will perform such classics as
The Lonely Bull at the Crofton Hotel Pub, 1534
Joan Ave. in Crofton. Admission: $10. Informa-
tion: 250-324-2245 or http://croftonhotel.ca.
2:30 p.m. Port Theatre Society presents, com-
edian, storyteller, musician, playwright and
novelist, Lorne Elliott. Adults $35, members/
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MONDAY, NOV. 2
6:40 p.m. Bingo, doors open 4:45 p.m. Every
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9824, Willow St., Chemainus.
TUESDAY, NOV. 3
6:30-7:30 p.m. Dads Night Out free skate in
Parksville. Dads, bring the kids to Oceanside
Place Arena, 826 West Island Hwy. (Wembley
Mall), or a free skate together on the pond.
Phone Regional District of Nanaimo Recrea-
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and swim schedules online at www.rdn.bc.ca/
recreation.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4
10-11 a.m. CC Tiny Tots Play Group at Country
Club Centre, a free weekly drop-in group for
little ones and caregivers. Enjoy play, crafts,
stories and songs with ECE certified educators
from PacifiCare. Activities appropriate for chil-
dren five and younger.
7:15 p.m. On The Dock Acoustic Series with:
Kendall Patrick & The Headless Bettys, Ali
Prince, Nick & Katelyn, at The Dinghy Dock
Pub, 8 Pirates Lane., Protection Island. Tickets
$20 from the artists, Dinghy Dock Pub or at
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THURSDAY, NOV. 5
2-7 p.m. Mid Island Abilities & Independent
Living Society open house . Support and
communication for people with disabilities at
3999 Victoria Ave. 8 p.m.
Doors open for GOB, with Boids at The
Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cres. Tickets $20 plus
charge in advance, $25 at the door and on
sale at Lucid, The Dog’s Ear, Desire Tattoo, The
Queen’s or at ticketzone.com.
8 p.m. Longwood Brew Pub presents Scott
Brown and Paul Mitchell. Live At Long-
wood, a free live concert series every Thursday
night.
THURSDAY, NOV. 5
8 p.m. Doors open for GOB, with Boids at
The Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cres. Tickets $20 plus
charge in advance, $25 at the door.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’ll
act and feel as if you are more in
your element. Return calls and
catch up on others’ news. You’ll
want to listen for the implications
surrounding someone’s statement.
Your instincts might indicate that
you need more facts. Verify this
information. Tonight: Be available.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
You could be concerned about
someone else’s attitude regarding
money. You might find that this
person is closing down. Have a
discussion with this person. Relax
and let go, if possible. There will be
changes later, but confusion reigns
right now. Tonight: Pay bills first.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You
seem to sense various chaotic
forces around you. Tune in to what
is important to you, and make what
feels like the appropriate decision.
You might feel energized. Others
are likely to notice your charisma
and respond accordingly. Tonight:
Go for what you want.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your
sensitivity could overwhelm you
today, causing your intuition to
become confused. Take a walk and
get some fresh air to clear your
head. Know that you might need to
take a stroll more than once today!
Tonight: Buy a fountain on the way
home. Relax to the sound of water.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You recog-
nize the importance of networking.
Plan on touching base with several
key people, and make lunch plans.
A partner, associate or dear loved
one might only add to the chaos.
Do your best to stay centered.
Tonight: Find your friends, and
make weekend plans.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Tension
builds because you feel as though
you must act a certain way. Is this
based on your judgment, or some-
one else’s? Let go of your need to
please others, and trust in your
abilities. Tonight: Whatever you are
doing, you could be out till the wee
hours.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your
abilities to charm others, see results
and detach will come together.
Still, be careful, as there could be a
backfire. Not everyone understands
you or your personality. Authenti-
city will make a difference. A discus-
sion with an expert will be fascinat-
ing. Tonight: Be spontaneous.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You
could be exhausted by what is hap-
pening with a loved one. You might
feel overwhelmed by all the chan-
ges going on right now. Take your
time, but don’t rely on your feel-
ings; logic is what counts. You will
be in a position where you can’t say
too much. Tonight: Be patient.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Others encourage you to join
them. You might not realize how
distant you are. Consider letting
go and relaxing. You will gain from
the experience if you let go of a
judgment that could be off. Ask
yourself why you have adopted
this protective stance. Tonight: Sort
through offers.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
You can be overly serious without
intending to. You might be focused
on completing a project or getting
through some work or personal
calls. If you note negativity coming
from you, do your best to pull away
before you say or do anything dras-
tic. Tonight: Easy works.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) our
playfulness is renowned. While
others could get locked into a
situation, you will bypass it with
ease. Be careful with your finances,
as they could be out of whack.
Be sure not to sign any financial
agreements or contracts right now.
Tonight: Full of fun and games.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Ten-
sion builds in your personal or
domestic life. No matter what hap-
pens, you will have to come face to
face with the issue. The other party
involved might be touchy, but
eventually he or she will become
caring and understanding. Help
create that moment. Tonight: At
home.
YOUR BIRTHDAY (Oct. 29) This
year you like to relate to others
individually. As a result, you get
to know many people in your
immediate circle better. Your level
of empathy and understanding
increases as well. You will note an
innate awkwardness in yourself.
Learn acceptance and neutrality.
If you are single, you might often
be confused about a romantic
relationship or a potential partner.
You will see only what you want
to see. Proceed with care. If you
are attached, you will spend many
intimate hours with your significant
other. You make a great team, as
long as you feed this bond with
plenty of downtime together.
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Bennett gets more recognitionSeahawks defensive end named player of the week, but he just shrugs it off
TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RENTON, Wash. — Seattle defensive end Michael Bennett received the first player of the week award in his career on Wednesday after notching a career-best 3 1/2 sacks in his last game.
Bennett’s response? Essentially a shrug.
“It feels the same. It’s one of those things you get awarded for somebody noticing you. The only thing that really matters is the win at this point and getting back to where we want to be at,” Bennett said.
While much has been made of Seattle’s struggles early in the season and its attempt to get back to .500 this week before the bye, Bennett is having arguably his most disruptive season with the Seahawks.
Thanks to his 3 1/2 sacks last week against San Francisco, Bennett is tied for the NFL lead with 6 1/2 total sacks through seven weeks along with Cin-cinnati’s Carlos Dunlap and New England’s Chandler Jones. Bennett’s never had double-digit sacks in a season, yet is on pace now to have the most by a Seattle defensive player since Patrick Kerney’s 14 1/2 sacks in 2007.
Bennett likely could have claimed another half-sack, but it
was given to the combo of Bran-don Mebane and David King. As it stood, the 3 1/2 sacks were the second-most by any player in a single game this season.
“I don’t think he changed any-thing, he just had good oppor-tunities and worked with, he and Cliff (Avril) kind of shared some good efforts on the pass rush last week,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. “Cliff flushed a guy and he made the sack, and vice versa. So it was some just good continuity by those guys. But he’s been playing really good football.”
One of the most effective ways for Seattle to get quarterback pressure has been with Bennett and Avril rushing from the same side. In those situations, Bennett lines up as the defen-sive tackle with Avril on the end. Avril said because of how wide Bennett lines up in that position, it often leaves guards having to block like tackles and can open up opportunities for a speed pass rush.
Bennett had one solo sack and shared a sack with Avril against the 49ers when the pair aligned in that formation.
“He makes the guards become tackles and they don’t like space. And for me sometimes the tackle looks to help out on him so it gives me an advantage on a speed rush,” Avril said. “I think it just creates a little bit of a problem for the (offensive) linemen.”
Before the season, Bennett expressed his displeasure with the four-year contract he signed after the 2013 season and his desire to be paid more. Bennett briefly considered holding out from training camp before reporting. While he said he still has issues with his con-tract, those concerns are now secondary.
If there is a concern at this point for Seattle, it might be the amount Bennett is playing. Bennett’s been on the field for nearly 82 per cent of Seattle’s defensive plays after playing more than 84 per cent of the defensive snaps last season for the Seahawks.
Bennett isn’t concerned about being asked to play this much. He’ll get a break soon enough with the Seahawks on their bye after Sunday’s game at Dallas. As long as the Seahawks reach their goal of turning around their slow start and becoming a Super Bowl contender again, the amount of play time won’t matter.
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett (72) reacts after
sacking San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick during a
game in Santa Clara, Calif., on Oct. 22. [AP PHOTO]
Dez Bryant could return this weekendSCHUYLER DIXON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
IRVING, Texas — Dez Bryant could be back in the lineup against Seattle after missing five games with a broken right foot.
If Dallas’ All-Pro receiver does return, it will be alongside a new starting running back in Darren McFadden as the Cowboys try to figure out a way to win without quarterback Tony Romo.
Bryant practiced for the first time in almost seven weeks Wednesday, although he was limited. He was injured in the opener against the Giants, and Romo went down a week later with a broken left collarbone.
The Cowboys (2-4) haven’t won in the four games since, and now get the defending NFC champion Seahawks (3-4) on Sunday before a visit from NFC East rival Philadelphia in con-secutive home games.
Dallas centre Travis Frederick noticed a difference on the prac-tice field in Bryant’s first real work since Sept. 11, two days before the injury. He’s been at practice since the bye two weeks ago, but only for conditioning work on the side.
“He sets a great example,”
Frederick said. “He’s one of those guys. You talk about Jason Witten. And you talk about Tony Romo. He’s one of those guys that sets an example for every-body else throughout the day and throughout the week.”
Bryant’s absence is the longest of his six-year career, surpassing the four games he missed with a broken ankle at the end of his rookie season in 2010. Last year’s NFL leader in touchdown catches wasn’t available in the locker room when it was open to
reporters Wednesday.“I think the other guys have
rallied around really well in his absence,” coach Jason Garrett said. “But to get him back, just on the practice field and certainly once the game starts, will make a big difference to our football team. There’s no ques-tion in my mind about that.”
Matt Cassel will make his second start in place of Romo after Brandon Weeden went 0-3 filling in for the franchise leader in yards passing and touchdown
passes. Cassel had more success throwing downfield to wide receivers than Weeden, although he had three interceptions in a 27-20 loss to the Giants.
“He’s getting to know me and I’m getting to know him, just like all these guys,” said Cassel, who came in a trade with Buf-falo after Romo’s injury. “Every little bit helps because we get into my second week really run-ning the offence.”
McFadden had 29 carries for 152 yards after Joseph Randle left with a back injury following his second carry against New York. It was the most yards for McFadden since he had 171 in 2011 with Oakland, which draft-ed him fourth overall in 2008. The carries were his most since 2012.
Garrett said McFadden would be the starter this week after Randle had that role in the first six games without 2014 NFL rushing champion DeMarco Murray, who went to Philadel-phia in free agency.
“I’ve just been wanting to go out there and show it to every-body on the field, because I know what I can do and I know what I’m capable of doing,” McFadden said.
Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant, left, and quarterback Tony Romo
talk on the sideline during a game on Sept. 27 against the Atlanta
Falcons in Arlington, Texas. [AP PHOTO]
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and store breast milk if necessary.
Flexibility in shifts, longer maternity
leaves or part time situations will also
support a breastfeeding mother.
Breastfed babies are less likely
to become sick, so employers who
support mothers with breastfeeding
actually have less sick time to deal
with. By supporting your employees
to work while they continue to breast-
feed makes sense. Your best employ-
ees will be willing to come back after
maternity leave if they know that the
employer understands why breast-
feeding is important.
VIHA Community Nutritionists,
Public Health Nursing, Vancouver
Island Regional Libraries, and others
are partnering again this year to
provide an event for breastfeeding
families and their friends to attend. In
Nanaimo, the event will take place on
Saturday at the Woodgrove Centre.
The program happens near the play
area adjacent to Toys R Us. Families
are encouraged to arrive just after
10 a.m. so you can register and find
a seat. At 10:30 a.m. our librarian
will provide story time for the older
children. At 11 a.m. “The Latch” will
occur worldwide, and the number of
participants are counted and record-
ed on the Quintessence Foundation
Website. Come out and support our
breastfeeding families as they par-
ticipate to make Nanaimo the site
on Vancouver Island with the most
breastfeeding moms.
Eileen
Bennewith
Nutrition
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A nybody with an interest
in eating locally doesn’t
have to look far on Van-
couver Island as so many
local farmers and food
producers use nature’s bounty from
our land and sea to make yummy,
ready-to-eat vittles.
Take cheese for example; we
have four cheese producers within
100 kilometres of Nanaimo.
Two main producers, Island Pas-
tures Cheese Company and Little
Qualicum Cheeseworks, sell their
cheese at Nanaimo grocery stores.
And to make it taste as local as
humanly possible, all the milk used
in Little Qualicum Cheeseworks’
products comes from their own dairy
farm which, of course, means zero
carbon footprint here!
The lineup of Little Qualicum prod-
ucts is truly impressive; they make
feta, brie, Monterey jack, wine-mar-
bled cheese, fresh curds, tangy blue
cheeses, and my personal favourite,
fromage frais.
Unripened and containing flavour-
ful (human-friendly) fungi/bacteria,
fromage frais is a spreadable, tart
cheese and one you can eat as a
snack blended with garlic and herbs
or on your morning toast with jam
which, I personally, find irresistible.
Island Pastures Cheese Company is
located in Courtney and their cheese
is also available at all Nanaimo Coun-
try Grocer stores.
To achieve their desired standard,
the milk they use also comes from
local farms as well as their own herd
of cows and water buffaloes. With
water buffalo milk, Island Pastures
makes a rich, creamy award winning
brie known as Comox Brie. With
unique earthy tastes, Comox Brie is
so good that it has won numerous
international cheese competitions,
including the gold medal at the 2008
World Cheese Championships.
Try the Comox Brie with a local
Pinot Grigio. The wine’s slight acid-
ity really brings out the best in this
cheese.Within our 100-kilometre radius
we also have The Happy Goat Cheese
Company in Duncan. Available at the
year-round downtown Duncan farm-
ers’ market, this exotic array of arti-
san goat cheeses is worth the drive
to Duncan alone, especially with
hard-to-find choices like Mandolin,
La Mancha, Tallentire and Tomme De
Vallee. The La Mancha is a firm, but-
tery cheese with a sweet goat-milk
finish. Try it with dried fruit and/or
a cold bottle of Longwood Breweries
Steampunk Dunkle. The rich and
malty Dunkle beer compliments the
tangy nutty flavours of La Mancha
perfectly.Salt Spring Island is home to
Moonstruck Cheese, an organic
farmstead cheese-making operation.
The fragrant organic milk from their
herd of pasture-roaming Jersey cows
is transformed into nine different
artisan cheeses with beautiful, com-
plex flavours — including an ash-rip-
ened camembert.
Thankfully, Moonstruck Cheese
can be ordered online if a trip to Salt
Spring Island is a little out of your
way. With so much expert advice sur-
rounding us, why not make your own
cheese? Lucky’s Liquor Gourmet Mezza-
nine is pleased to welcome Paula
Maddison back for another season of
cheese-making classes. For informa-
tion, call 250-585-2275.
Lynette
Burns
The Lucky
Gourmet
Island cheeses some of the best
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» Sheila Hockin is the managing leader
for Lucky’s Liquor store.
BEVERAGES
Coke ends dietitian, MD group sponsorships
CANDICE CHOI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Coca-Cola says it will
not renew its sponsorship of a profes-
sional group for dietitians, bringing
to a halt one of the many outreach
efforts on health by the world’s big-
gest soda maker.
The Atlanta-based company said its
decision was driven by its “budget
realities,” rather than criticism over
such partnerships. It said it will also
not renew current contracts with
the American Academy of Family
Physicians, the American Academy of
Pediatrics and the American College
of Cardiology when they end this
year. The groups were informed of
the decision earlier this summer, the
company said Tuesday.
The maker of Sprite, Dasani and
Powerade has been working to
slash costs as it faces pressure from
investors to improve its financial
performance.
The decision not to renew contracts
with the various groups also comes
as Coca-Cola has come under fire for
its funding of programs and partner-
ships on health matters.
Critics say the company uses such
outreach to try and downplay the
role of sugary drinks in fuelling
obesity, in some cases by shifting the
focus to the need for more physical
activity.Last week, Coca-Cola disclosed that
it spent $118.6 million since 2010 to
fund a wide array of organizations
and experts related to health and
nutrition matters. The disclosure
was part of the company’s pledge to
be more transparent after it faced
criticism following a New York Times
story that detailed its financial sup-
port for a group called the Global
Energy Balance Network.
In a video, one of the network’s
leaders had said the media focuses on
“blaming fast food, blaming sugary
drinks, and so on.” The network
later said that the suggestion that
it promotes the idea that exercise
is more important than diet “vastly
oversimplifies” the issue.
In an emailed statement, Karen
Remley, executive director of the
American Academy of Pediatrics, said
the group has no plans to renew its
relationship with Coca-Cola.
“The AAP board of directors and
CEO, listening carefully to our
members, regularly assesses our
relationships with funders to make
sure our values align,” she said in the
statement. The group said it made its
decision not to renew the contract
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LURKINGTALENT
JULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS
Russ Morland is the local
powerhouse at the helm of
Electric Umbrella, a vibrant
tattoo shop and gallery nestled into
the Old City Quarter on Wesley
Street.Both an artist and a general propon-
ent of the “low-brow” genre of art, in
the last few years he has branched out
into fashion, transforming an artist
sponsorship with skate shoe company
Etnies into a contract to provide art
for a limited-edition shoe run.
“They had seen my stuff, and with
the lovely invention of Instagram,
a couple of the head honchos could
see I was constantly posting stuff
and they could see all the new work
that was coming out, and I think
from there it just clicked, it was that
perfect timing where they were like,
‘this guy’s artwork could be good’
for this shoe project that they were
doing,” said Morland.
“The shoe project has five differ-
ent artists, I can’t remember all of
them but it’s pretty cool, it’s all lim-
ited-edition runs. They’re all over the
States but I think I’m the only one
from outside the States.”
Around the same time, he formed
an artistic collaboration with unique
Vancouver-based underwear com-
pany MyPakage, providing his signa-
ture Lurk artwork to grace the fabric
of one of their series of boxer briefs.
“It was about two years ago when
the first one came out, and they’ve
just been coming out consistently
since.” he said.
“I’ve got more coming out with
them for spring.”
As a veteran skateboarder, one
thing Morland finds inspiring about
the skateboard industry is its support
of outsider and lowbrow artists to
adorn their T-shirts, pants, skate-
boards and accessories.
“I think it’s good, it’s almost like this
symbiotic relationship, we need it and
they need us kind of thing,” he said.
“They guys who own this company
both still skateboard. Etnies is one of
the only skateboarder-owned compan-
ies left, other than actual boards. But
as far as shoes go, most of the shoe
companies have sold out to bigger
conglomerates like Nike or Adidas.”
His decision to work with compan-
ies like Etnies and MyPakage was
entirely conscious, said Morland.
“You choose companies that you
know are cool and are doing good
things for the skateboard community
and doing good things for their rid-
ers,” he said.
Though he is finding artistic suc-
cess through clothing, the bread and
butter of Morland’s artistic career is
still his tattoo business. Both Mor-
land’s Lurk-style art shoe and his
custom-artwork boxers can be found
in Nanaimo at Island Riders Board-
shop, 6404 Metral Dr.
Julie.Chadwick
@nanaimodailynews.com
250-729-4238
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For the boxer briefs,
Morland went with a
much more adventurous
palette, finding that when
it comes to underwear,
people go for colour.
“Apparently they sold
way more of the boxer
shorts in the colourful
version than they did with
just the linework version,”
he said.
“But I think it’s a bit
different with boxer
shorts, I think having this
on your foot – you know,
a bright, gaudy pattern
on your foot – how many
people are going to
buy that?”
boxer briefs
the shoe
“I could design everything about
the shoe, just not the shape of the
shoe,” said Morland.
For the Scout X Lurk shoe
colours he chose black, grey and
turquoise green.
“It’s just a great colour combo,
go grab your colour wheel, it works.
It’s just stuff I learned in graphic
design, how to work colours
together well. Also with a black
shoe, a black shoe will sell way
more than any other colour.
Your average person that wants a
shoe will just grab a black shoe.”
For the print, Morland departed
from the usual technicolour of his
Lurklandia landscapes and went
with grey. “I wanted it to be the
absolute opposite of what I paint,”
he said.
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With one big punch,
Kam Chancellor
showed his import-
ance to the Seattle
Seahawks.
With one little touch, K.J. Wright
provided another Monday night con-
troversy in the same end zone where
the infamous “Fail Mary” took place.
“Now that you look at it, we we’re
fortunate,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll
said.Chancellor knocked the ball free
from Detroit wide receiver Calvin
Johnson at the 1-yard line when it
appeared the Lions were going to
take the lead, and Seattle held on for
a 13-10 win.
With Detroit on the verge of
capping a 91-yard drive with the
go-ahead touchdown with less than
two minutes remaining, Chancellor
came from the side and punched the
ball from Johnson’s arm as he was
being tackled by Earl Thomas.
It bounded into the end zone where
it was guided over the back line by
K.J. Wright for a touchback and
Seattle’s ball at the 20.
But Wright should have been called
for an illegal bat for hitting the
ball out of the end zone, NFL VP of
Officiating Dean Blandino told NFL
Network. The penalty would have
given the ball back to Detroit at the
Seattle 1.No flags were thrown and on the
ensuing possession, Russell Wilson
found Jermaine Kearse for 50 yards
on third down. With Detroit out of
timeouts, the Seahawks (2-2) ran
off the final seconds of their second
straight win.
“The back judge was on the play
and in his judgment he didn’t feel it
was an overt act so he didn’t throw
the flag,” Blandino said. “In looking
at the replays it looked like a bat so
the enforcement would be basically
we would go back to the spot of the
fumble and Detroit would keep the
football.”Wright said he did not know the
rule and was purposely guiding the
ball over the end line.
“That was definitely the thought
process just to get the ball out of
bounds and not try to catch it and
fumble it and hit my foot and the
Lions recover it,” Wright said.
The non-call provided another
memorable Monday night moment in
Seattle. It was three years ago when
replacement officials credited Gold-
en Tate with a disputed touchdown
reception on the final play in nearly
the same spot as Seattle beat Green
Bay.Now it was Tate, playing for Detroit,
on the opposite side of a strange play
in the Emerald City. Detroit (0-4)
is off to its worst start since it also
started 0-4 in 2010.
“What can you do? You’re not
going to cry about it that’s for sure,”
Detroit coach Jim Caldwell said.
It was an ugly performance by the
home team, filled with offensive mis-
takes and two fourth-quarter fumbles
by Wilson, the second returned 27
yards for a touchdown by Caraun
Reid to pull Detroit to 13-10.
But in the end, Seattle’s defence
came through.
Starting on their nine with 6:23
remaining, the Lions converted a big
third down on Tate’s 22-yard catch-
and-run and reached the Seattle 46
with three minutes left on Ameer
Abdullah’s nine-yard run. Matthew
Stafford then zipped a pass to No. 3
tight end Tim Wright down the seam
for 26 yards to the Seattle 20 with
2:30 remaining, placing it in-between
Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas and
Chancellor.
The Lions reached the Seattle 11
and on third-and-one, Stafford passed
to an open Johnson. As he stretched
for the goal line, Chancellor came
across and knocked the ball free.
“I (saw) a lot of brown ball so I
attacked it, punched it and made a
big play at the end,” Chancellor said.
“When I punched it I (saw) it fly out
and roll. It took forever. The ball was
rolling for a long time.”
Seattle has not allowed an offensive
touchdown in the two games since
Chancellor ended his holdout. It has
forced 18 punts during that stretch.
“Give us an inch and we protected
it,” Thomas said. “It just feels so
good. I think we just need games like
this for us to come together.”
Wilson was forced to be an escape
artist as Seattle’s offensive line con-
tinued to struggle with protection.
Wilson threw for 287 yards and
rushed for another 40 yards, but
was sacked six times. Wilson’s most
memorable play was spinning free
of two near sacks and finding Kearse
for 34 yards in the second quarter,
and then hitting Doug Baldwin on a
24-yard TD on the next play.
“A win is a win but at the same time
we tried to give it to them,” Baldwin
said. “We can’t be doing that.”
PUNCHED
OUTSeattle Seahawks strong safety Kam Chancellor
knocks the ball loose from Detroit Lions wide
receiver Calvin Johnson in an NFL game Monday in
Seattle. [AP PHOTO]
Chancellor’s big play allows Seattle to escape with win
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FOLK FARE Changing times
for folk legend
DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
He is a Canadian folk
music icon, but these
days you’ll be hard
pressed to hear a Mur-
ray McLauchlan song
on Canadian radio stations.
So his coming live perform-
ance at the Port Theatre is a rare
opportunity.
The man who wrote such Canadian
standards as “Farmer’s Song,” “Down
by the Henry Moore,” “Whispering
Rain” and “Sweeping the Spotlight
Away” is probably now more familiar
to U.S. listeners than in his home
country. He takes it all in stride.
“The thing is, in Canada we don’t
have a particular radio format the
have in the U.S. — ‘Americana,’ they
call it,” McLauchlan said.
Canadians have the CBC “which
is great, they break new acts,” some
album rock and alt rock stations,
and “the rest of it, most of the music
that commercial radio is really siloed
music now,” he said.
“And ‘new country’ — to me it
sounds like rock of the 70s.”
Yet even as new generations grow
up less aware of McLauchlan’s music,
his reputation has grown with other
songwriters and artists and with lis-
teners around the globe.
Murray McLauchlan started writing
songs and performing in his late
teens. Soon he played the Philadelphia
Folk Festival and Mariposa, along-
side the likes of Jim Croce and John
Prine, and major venues in Toronto,
New York City, Philadelphia and
Chicago. American folk star Tom Rush had
made his “Child’s Song” popular
before McLauchlan even recorded his
first album.
Always unabashedly passionate
about Canada, that love collided with
his love of aviation when he made a
circumnavigation of the entire coun-
try, from Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic,
in a Cessna 185 float plane, followed
by a film crew.
The resulting television special
Floating over Canada, with Gordon
Lightfoot, Buffy Ste. Marie, Levon
Helm, Edith Butler, and bit parts by
a host of unsuspecting Canadians
became a mainstay of Canada Day
broadcasts for several years until it
eventually found its way onto PBS in
the U.S. In the mid 80’s he found an outlet
as the host of CBC Radio’s top-rated
Swinging on a Star with more than
750,000 weekly listeners for five
years.
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It takes a lot of guts for an offshore
automaker to get into the battle of the
pickups in North America. The Big Three
have dominated this segment since forever
and won’t be losing their grip anytime soon.
But Nissan took on the challenge with the
half-ton, medium duty Titan pickup in 2003.
While the domestics offer a mind-numbing
— and frequently confusing — variety of
sizes, engines, drivetrains, boxes and final
drive ratios, Nissan decided to keep things
simple and understandable by focusing on
what really matters: power, traction, hauling
and towing capability.
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Auto Insider
Truck perfect
for work or play
IIt takes a lot of guts for an offshore
automaker to get into the battle of the
pickups in North America. The Big Three
have dominated this segment since forever
and won’t be losing their grip anytime soon.
But Nissan took on the challenge with the
half-ton, medium duty Titan pickup in 2003.
While the domestics offer a mind-numbing
— and frequently confusing — variety of
sizes, engines, drivetrains, boxes and final
drive ratios, Nissan decided to keep things
simple and understandable by focusing on
what really matters: power, traction, hauling
and towing capability.
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Cutting down on red meat may be healthi
Why is it that so many
things are bad for you
these days? We know
that too much sugar, salt
and calories are a bad combination
for longevity.
Now, the health publication, Nutri-
tion Action, says red meat increases
the risk of several major diseases.
Horrendous news for me as roast
beef and mashed potatoes are my
favourite meal. So how risky is it to
eat meat?
Dr. Walter Willett at Harvard’s
School of Public Health is a top
nutritional guru. He says that
nine per cent of deaths in the Har-
vard study could have been saved
if people ate less red meat daily.
In effect, the consumption of red
meat was related to a higher risk of
cardiovascular disease, stroke, Type 2
diabetes and cancer.
Willett says that the strongest evi-
dence that red meat causes cancer is
colon malignancy. And that the main
culprits are processed red meats like
bacon, sausage, hot dogs and lunch
meats. Moreover, eating meats during
adolescence increases the risk of
breast cancer in premenopausal
women. So far Willett doesn’t know
why this happens. But he points to
an interesting fact. When the atomic
bombs were dropped on Nagasaki
and Hiroshima young breasts were
more likely to develop cancer from
the radiation while women over
40 years of age had virtually no risk
of this disease.
But why is red meat so dangerous?
Willett’s answer is that processed
meats contain preservatives such
as nitrites and nitrosamines and
we know these are carcinogenic in
animals. In addition, red meat contains high
levels of saturated fat.
So what is a meat lover to do? Wil-
lett says you should try to get protein
from other sources such as poultry,
fish, nuts, beans and low fat dairy
products. And the healthiest dairy
food is yogurt because of its effect on
microbes in the intestine.
I found Willett’s remarks on the
environment of particular inter-
est. He points out that cattle emit
large amounts of methane gas, and
according to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, methane’s impact
on climate is 20 times greater than
carbon dioxide’s! In addition, cattle
produce five times more greenhouse
gas than chickens, pigs and hens.
We also know that cattle require
nutrition and it takes huge amounts
of energy to produce fertilizer to
row corn, soy beans and other crops
to feed them. There’s also another
problem. Excess fertilizer can end
up in lakes and rivers leading to low
oxygen dead zones.
Tons of manure can also pollute
our waterways. Finally, antibiotics
used in animals are not good for
any of us as they lead to resistant
bacteria. But Willett also reminds us that
risk comes in a number of different
packages. For instance, he empha-
sizes that other habits such as
smoking, inadequate exercise, trans
fats and a lack of fruit and vegetables
can increase the risk of cancer and
cardiovascular disease. He also
stresses that people who consume
more white bread, rice, potatoes,
sweets and cola drinks have the same
risk of heart attack as those who eat
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China smoking health crisis looms
Tobacco deaths, mostly among men, reached 1M by 2010, and will hit 2M by 2030; quitting sees as solution
DIDI TANG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Research published in the
medical journal The Lan-
cet says one in three of all
the young men in China
are likely to die from
tobacco, but that the number can fall
if the men quit smoking.
The studies, conducted by research-
ers from Oxford University, the Chi-
nese Academy of Medical Sciences
and the Chinese Center for Disease
Control, show that two-thirds of
the young men in China start to
smoke, mostly before age 20, and
that half of those will eventually be
killed by tobacco unless they stop
permanently.
The research, involving two studies
15 years apart and including hun-
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2010 and will hit 2 million by 2030 if
current trends continue.
But researchers say the trends
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deaths is cessation, and if you are a
young man, don’t start,” said co-au-
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Smoking rates have dropped sig-
nificantly among men in developed
countries. In the United States, about
20 per cent of adult men smoke
and 15 per cent of women do, and
cigarette smoking causes about one
of every five deaths, said the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and
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In China, the percentage of smok-
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As more Chinese people start to
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expect the proportion of male deaths
attributed to smoking to increase.
Around the world, tobacco kills up
to half of its users, and more than
five million deaths annually result
from direct tobacco use, according to
the World Health Organization.
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ant source of revenue for the Chinese
government, Beijing’s efforts to
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Also, many people in China find it
difficult to kick the habit in a cul-
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ingrained.
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lot of pressure at work, so I smoke
to alleviate the tension,” Beijing
office worker Wei Bin, 32, said in an
interview.“At the same time our country does
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perhaps worse,” Wei said.
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signs of awareness of the health
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but now I realize it is bad for health
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Dear Annie: An acquaintance recently lost his job, and we invited him and his wife to move into our home on a temporary basis. We all agreed they would live with us until one of them found another profes-sional position.
It’s been only three months, but it’s already uncomfortable. “Sue” and “Bob” do small household chores and pay a minimal amount in rent, but that doesn’t counteract the inter-
ruption they have added to our daily lives. They have taken over the fridge, the cabinets, the laundry room, the living space and the kitchen. We have no private time anymore and cannot trust them to lock doors or turn off the dryer or coffeemaker when they leave the house. They parade around the house seminude, make a lot of noise when we’re sleeping and talk while we are reading or watching TV.
We have discussed these issues and others as they have come up, but it hasn’t helped. We’ve asked them to keep out of our bedrooms and home office, but the other day I found both of them coming out of the office. We do not want to put locks all over. We want to trust them, but it seems unlikely. They have made comments
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can no longer accommodate them. Give them one month to find other arrangements. Bring home boxes so they can pack (and help them along). At the end of the deadline, if they make no attempt to leave, tell them you will put their belongings on the front steps. Then change your locks.
Dear Annie: My husband and son have chronic lung problems. Our son has asthma, and my husband’s lung health has gotten worse over the years. We have never been smokers, but we have tolerated our relatives who are. Lately, however, family gath-erings are proving difficult. Exposure to cigarette smoke can cause my hus-band to have a setback and my son’s asthma to flare up.
I have mentioned that their smokingcauses problems, but they don’t seem to pay attention. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. If I were a smoker, I would feel terrible if I thought I caused someone else to have health problems, but they don’t seem to feel the same. Yet they would be upset if we didn’t attend these functions. Any suggestions?
— Smoked Out
Dear Smoked Out: Your husband and son should not be subjected to cigarette smoke, period. Tell the relatives you love them and would enjoy spending time with them, but your family’s health comes first. Ask if they would smoke outside. Otherwise, sorry, but you won’t be able to come.
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Yes, the cabin is a plush and serene-ly comfortable place to be but there’s a steel fist inside the velvet glove.
For the past several years, we have been inundated with a tsunami of infotainment and safety features to
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This freshly designed mid-size, AWD crossover sports a new, slimmer chrome grill with horizontal slats replacing the previous vertical ones. The new spread-wing look merges seamlessly into the narrow LED auto-matic headlights (that point where you steer and dip automatically for oncoming traffic) with their lower necklace of DRLs (they flash “hello” when you approach with the keyfob in your pocket or purse).
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Our tester was the MKX AWD Reserve model finished in White Platinum Tricoat with Terra Cotta perforated leather by Bridge of Weir, the choice of top luxury vehicles worldwide. Both front buckets are heated and ventilated and offer no less than 22 power contour adjustments (driver) plus under thigh extensions.
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said Tuesday.During a conference
call to discuss the auto-maker’s third-quarter earnings, Mark Fields said Ford has not talked to the billionaire busi-
nessman or made any recent changes to its manufacturing plans.
“Facts are stubborn things, and at Ford we’re proud of the facts,” Fields said. “Unfortu-
nately, we suspect the facts are getting lost in the politics.”
Trump tweeted on Sunday that, because of his constant criticism in the campaign, Ford
had decided to cancel plans to build a plant in Mexico.
“Word is that Ford Motor, because of my constant badgering at packed events, is going to cancel their deal to go to Mexico and stay in U.S.” he wrote.
Trump often says that to discourage U.S. auto-makers from moving their production efforts, he plans to slap a 35 per cent tax on vehicles and auto parts made in Mex-ico if elected president.
But Fields said that Ford’s decision to move heavy truck production from Mexico to Ohio, which Trump was appar-ently referencing in his tweet, was made in 2011. Production began in Ohio in August.
Trump’s tweet appears to have been sparked by a posting on a political blog, which cited an August NBC News article about the manufacturing shift.
Trump’s error was quickly seized on by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of his presidential rivals, who said that he, in fact, deserves credit for Ford’s decision.
“He clearly made a mistake. He was wrong. He tried to say that his
bombast was what got Ford here,” Kasich said at a news conference on Monday, adding that his administration had worked closely with Ford and GM and Honda and Chrysler during his tenure.
“Bombast doesn’t win jobs, and those who use bombast as a way to get things done rarely carry the day,” he added.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks did not directly respond to the error, but said in a state-ment that Trump “con-tinues to emphasize the importance of bringing jobs back to the United States and encouraging corporations to build factories in our coun-try in order to create thousands of jobs for Americans.”
She said that Trump, “was merely using the story of the Ford factory now located in Ohio to reinforce the importance of this issue he discusses often.”
As to Ford’s statement that they have not made changes to plans to expand south of the bor-der, she added, “Trump says, ‘My response is, they should.”’
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FRANKFURT — Volkswagen lost 1.67 billion euros ($1.83 billion) in the third quarter as it set aside 6.7 billion euros to pay for recalling and fixing cars that were rigged to evade U.S. diesel emissions tests.
While the German carmaker warned Wednesday that operating profit this year would be “down significantly,” it indicated that sales would prove resilient.
The company stuck to its predic-tion that unit sales would be on a level with last year’s record 10.14 million. Ordinary shares in Volkswa-gen AG rose 1.8 per cent to 124.00 euros in afternoon trading in Europe.
Volkswagen, based in Wolfsburg, Germany, had already announced the set-asides for the recalls, so market analysts expected the quarterly loss, the company’s first in over a decade. The result was in fact not as bad as analysts’ expectations for a loss of 2.11 billion euros, as compiled by financial data provider FactSet. Sales revenue rose 5.3 per cent to 51.5 billion euros.
Chief Financial Officer Frank Wit-ter said the company had “solid and robust” cash resources to meet the financial impact of the emissions scandal. The cash reserves have been buttressed by three billion euros from the sale of shares in Suzuki.
The cost “is enormous but manage-
able,” he said.Analysts say the impact will likely
be several times larger than the set-asides, including fines, recall and repair costs, and possible lost sales due to damage to the company’s reputation.
The scandal became known on Sept. 18, near the end of the quarter, so any impact on quarterly sales was slight.
Analyst Max Warburton at Sanford C. Bernstein said company officials provided disappointingly scanty information about the size of the financial damage but added that the quarter results “happen to be pretty good.”
“We continue to believe VW’s
long-run earnings power will not be significantly impacted by the diesel crisis — management said on the call that order intake and pricing have not been affected so far,” he wrote in an emailed research note. “Our best guess is VW is now undervalued.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Volkswagen installed software on 482,000 cars from model years 2009-2015 that disabled diesel engine emission controls when the vehicles were not being tested. Up to 11 million cars worldwide have the deceptive software.
The scandal spoiled what would otherwise have been a profitable quarter, with 3.2 billion euros in
earnings excluding interest, taxes and the scandal set-asides. The scandal has cost Volkswagen the position as the biggest automaker in the world by sales, which Toyota has regained.
“The figures show the core strength of the Volkswagen Group on the one hand, while on the other the initial impact of the current situation is becoming clear,” said CEO Matthias Mueller. “We will do everything in our power to win back the trust we have lost.”
Mueller said the company needed to place less emphasis on raw sales numbers and become more open and leaner to help prevent any repeat of the scandal.
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DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union and General Motors Co. have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract, avoid-ing a strike for now.
The UAW said the agreement was reached at 11:43 p.m. Sunday, 16 minutes before the dead-line it had set to either reach an agreement or call a strike at GM’s U.S. plants.
Details of the pro-posed contract weren’t immediately available. The UAW said local union leaders will meet Wednesday in Detroit to vote on the tenta-tive agreement. If they approve it, GM’s U.S. hourly workers will vote on it.
The agreement covers 52,600 U.S. auto workers at 63 GM facilities in the U.S.
UAW President Dennis Williams said the pro-posed deal will provide “long-term, significant wage gains and job security benefits now and in the future.” The union also hinted that this agreement — like a contract passed last week by Fiat Chrysler workers — gradually will eliminate a much-hated two-tier wage system in the plants.
GM said in a statement that the agreement bene-fits employees but still provides flexibility to the
company. The company said it would not com-ment further until the agreement is ratified.
The union told GM on Saturday that it would terminate its contract just before midnight Sunday.
The UAW made a similar strike threat in discussions with Fiat Chrysler, but negotiators also were able to avoid a walkout then.
On Thursday, union members at Fiat Chrysler voted to approve a four-year con-tract that includes pay raises and phases out the two-tier wage system over eight years.
Williams indicated that the union wanted even better deals from GM and Ford Motor Co. because they are more profitable. The UAW hasn’t yet reached a tentative agreement with Ford.
GM reported last week that it earned $1.36 bil-lion in the third quarter, including a record $3.3 billion pretax profit in North America on strong sales of trucks and SUVs. The company overcame $1.5 billion in costs from recalls over deadly igni-tion switches and beat Wall Street profit fore-casts by a wide margin.
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Green, self-driving cars take centre stageTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO — Visions of cars that drive themselves without emitting a bit of pollution while entertaining passengers with online movies and social media are what’s taking centre stage at the Tokyo Motor Show.
Japan, home to the world’s top-selling automaker, has a younger generation disinterested in owning or driving cars. The show is about wooing them back. It’s also about pushing an ambitious government-backed plan that paints Japan as a leader in automated driving technology.
Reporters got a preview look at the exhibition Wednesday, ahead of its opening to the public Oct. 30.
Nissan Motor Co. showed a concept vehicle loaded with laser scanners, a 360 degree camera setup, a radar and computer chips so the car can “think” to deliver autonomous driving. The Japanese automaker called it IDS, which stands for “intelligent driving system.”
Nissan, based in Yokohama, Japan, said it will offer some autonomous driv-ing features by the end of next year in Japan. By 2018, it said vehicles with the technology will be able to conduct lane changes on highways. By 2020, such vehicles will be able to make their way through intersections on regular urban roads.
Nissan officials said they were working hard to make the car smart enough to recognize the difference between a red traffic light and a tail light, learn how to turn on intersections where white lane indicators might be missing and anticipate from body language when a pedestrian might cross a street.
Nissan’s IDS vehicle is also electric,
with a new battery that’s more powerful than the one currently in the auto-maker’s Leaf electric vehicle. Although production and sales plans were still undecided, it can travel a longer dis-tance on a single charge and recharge more quickly.
A major challenge for cars that drive themselves is winning social accept-ance. They would have to share the roads with normal cars with drivers as well as with pedestrians, animals and unexpected objects.
That’s why some automakers at the show are packing the technology into what looks more like a golf cart or scoot-er than a car, such as Honda Motor Co.’s cubicle-like Wander Stand and Wander Walker scooter.
Instead of trying to venture on free-ways and other public roads, these are designed for controlled environments, restricted to shuttling people to pre-de-termined destinations.
At a special section of the show, visitors can try out some of the so-called “smart mobility” devices such as Honda’s seat on a single-wheel as well as small elec-tric vehicles.
Regardless of how zanily futuristic and even dangerous such machines might feel, especially the idea of sharing roads with driverless cars, that era is inevitable simply because artificial intelligence is far better at avoiding accidents than human drivers, said HIS analyst Egil Juliussen. It just might take some time, such as until the 2030s, he said.
Such technology will offer mobility to people who can’t drive or who don’t have cars, and it can also reduce pollution and global warming by delivering efficient driving, he said.
Other automakers, including General Motors, BMW, Mercedes, Toyota and Tes-
la are working on self-driving technology, as are com-panies outside the industry, such as Google and Uber.
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