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Officials upbeat after dams talks Province consulted on changing order to allow for more time and about a ‘third’ remediation option SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
Nanaimo council is expected to vote Monday to write to B.C. water comptroller Glen Davidson to seek an amendment to an order to complete remediation work on the lower dams by October. Mayor Bill McKay and councillors Jim Kipp and Bill Bestwick and city staff met with Davidson on Wednesday to discuss changing the order to allow for more time and to include a ‘third’ remediation option proposed by
Kipp, which involves reinforcing the embankment of the dams with concrete, plus include beautification measures and other park improvements. Kipp’s proposal has not yet been approved by the B.C. dam safety section as a viable option to address what engineers have identified as safety concerns with dams, specifically insufficient flood capacity. The province has indicated it will support either replacing the existing spillway with a larger labyrinth
spillway or building a large auxiliary spillway on the dam. The labyrinth spillway option is estimated to cost $8.1 million, while an auxiliary spillway would cost between $3 million and $6 million. City officials sounded upbeat about the meeting with Davidson, who they said listened and asked for their request in writing so that it could be reviewed. “The comptroller was receptive to the city’s request . . . and we look forward to a positive
response from him as early as next week,” said McKay in a statement. McKay did not return calls for further comment Thursday. However, pursuing Kipp’s option will require further study to determine if it is an acceptable option for the province. That means further costs to the city. Another factor is an impending deadline for the city to submit an appeal to Davidson’s order, as directed by city council earlier this month. The city’s solicitor
has also been “unable to obtain the necessary technical information” to obtain a stay on the water comptroller’s order, a recent city report says. Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255 » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
» Education Gruesome photo twist to Saskatchewan murders A relative of a woman and three children murdered this week in Saskatchewan said their killer took pictures of the bodies and sent copies to the children’s biological father before taking his own life. » Nation & World, A11
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edar Secondary School will be reopened as a high school in September of 2016. Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district trustees decided in a 6-3 vote on Wednesday night to reopen the school, which was closed in June of 2014, and was in the process of being converted into an elementary school as the district attempted to deal with ongoing declining enrolment and cost pressures. The new school board stopped work on the $2.6-million conversion project shortly after November’s municipal election. Trustees sought more public input into what taxpayers wanted to do with the facility, as well as other areas of the controversial long-range facilities plan. Nanaimo-Ladysmith Board chairman Steve Rae said trustees also decided to give staff until June 30 to revise the district’s facilities plan to take in the fact that CSS will now convert back to a high school. The board also decided to provide a bus service for Cedar students heading to Ladysmith Secondary School next year. “We know there still needs to be school closures and consolidations in the district to deal with over capacity,” Rae said. “Staff will now prepare new plans, make recommendations and the board will make decisions as we move forward.” More than $500,000 from the $2 million allotted from the
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district’s annual facilities grants for 2014-16 had already been committed to convert CSS into an elementary school before work stopped. A staff report released in January indicated it would cost the district at least $470,000 to convert the facility back to a high school. Rae and other board members disputed those numbers at the time. Rae said the board expects staff will provide up-to-date numbers of the costs now that a final deci-
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sion has been made, but added that not a lot of the interior work had been completed before work concluded. Rae, Natasha Bob, Scott Kimler, Stephanie Higginson, Noah Routley and Jeff Solomon voted to reopen the school. Jamie Brennan, Tania Brzovic and Bill Robinson were opposed. Robinson, a member of the old board, concluded that at the time that closing CSS was the best move for the district. “I haven’t changed my mind on
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that, but now it’s time to move on,” he said. “I believe this is a strong board that fought hard for Cedar, but I believe it is committed to the whole district.” Robert.Barron@nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234 » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
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7-8:30 p.m. Planning Your Final Wishes, a free four-part series for end-of-life planning, Tuesday evenings, April 14 to May 5. Ron Whyte: funeral director, Sally Bullas: church minister. Brechin United Church, 1998 Estevan Rd.
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Domestic violence unit formed Haven Society and RCMP working together to better tackle social problem in Nanaimo area SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
After years of working together to prevent domestic violence and help victims, the Haven Society and the RCMP have set up an integrated domestic violence unit to better tackle the problem. The domestic violence unit, called a DVU for short, is one of just seven in the province. The province announced last year it would provide $1 million to help fund the new units as part of a program to curb domestic violence, which can include everything from assault to sexual assault to harassment to homicide. Work to establish the DVU in Nanaimo has been a work-inprogress for years and the results of a close working relationship between Haven and the RCMP. Haven, RCMP and representatives from the justice system formed the Community Coordination of Domestic Safety in 2010, which identified the need for a specialized response unit. The DVU includes a domestic violence investigator appointed by the RCMP, as well as a team of community victims services workers from Haven. The unit is based in Haven’s main office on Labieux Road and functions as something of a nerve centre for responding to complaints of domestic abuse. The DVU was put together last year, but was fully realized in the new year. A formal community launch is being planned for early June. A greater emphasis has been placed on dealing with domestic abuse issues in the city in recent years. Nanaimo RCMP Supt. Mark Fisher recently listed the DVU as one of the key local partnerships police were taking part in to reduce domestic violence, which has been identified as a
Sally Fendick, left, co-ordinator of community victims’ services at the Haven Society, and executive director Anne Taylor in front of Haven’s offices in Nanaimo. [SPENCER ANDERSON/DAILY NEWS]
top police priority this year. Haven executive director Anne Taylor said the close working relationship within the DVU helps address a common challenge of coordinating a response to victims of abuse in the home. “It’s been a really communitydriven initiative and it’s really been a huge collaboration in the community,” she said.
Unlike RCMP investigators and police victim support services, Haven’s community victims services play a more supportive role in terms of providing options to victims before they contact police to report a crime. Workers in the program can also help with safety planning and directing a person to further resources.
Sally Fendick, co-ordinator of Haven’s community victim services, said the new DVU model marks “more community accountability.” “So there’s a way of looking at a family in danger, that we’re all sharing the load, supporting each other and doing our best,” she said. Fendick said that closer work-
ing relationship is getting better results, faster. Fendick and her team handle approximately 250 files on any given month. For serious cases, the DVU is brought in to help. Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255
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Man arrested in connection to seven fires
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The City of Nanaimo is once again using the month of May to promote its fight against the creep of invasive plants in the municipality — this time focused on English ivy, which has brought down some trees in city parks. The city has held ‘Invasive Plants Month’ three years in a row to raise awareness of the impact invasive plants can have on native vegetation in parks and other green spaces. Rob Lawrance, environmental planner with the city, said the issue is not a new one. “Frankly, there’s hundreds (of types of invasive plants) in the community and they’ve been here for many, many years,” he said. He said small populations of the plants are not a big concern. “If you have a manageable piece of ivy, great,” he said, noting some people like the look of the plant in their backyards. However, if they spread it city parks, it can degrade the ecology of an area by squeezing out local vegetation.
Environmental planner, Rob Lawrance, shows off a 30-pound chunk of ivy that was removed from a tree in Bowen Park. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]
“Some parks are in great shape to be honest,” said Lawrance. He said the areas of most concern include Neck Point, Piper’s Lagoon and “any riparian area.” The city is turning to residents for help. On April 25, the public is invited to take part in a Broombusters work party at Northfield
Park from 10:00 am to noon to remove the invasive species known as Scotch broom. Other events include Broombusters work parties at the Nanaimo Ice Centre on May 3 and Oceanview Park May 16. An English Ivy work party in Bowen Park is et for May 22.
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Nanaimo RCMP has arrested a 54-year-old suspect in connection with seven fires in the city starting at 6:30 a.m. Thursday and has recommended charges. Police says the string of fires began when a tree was lit on fire on the grounds of a Days Inn on Nicol Street. Other fires were started in an apparently random way along Nicol Street, police say. The suspect was arrested at 9:50 a.m. near the Port Place mall. Police also believe the suspect was involved in a separate incident where a male entered a business on Victoria Road and threatened employees with a knife. The fires caused “minimal” property damage and no one was injured. The man was held in custody is expected to appear in provincial court today. » We want to hear from you. Send comments on stories to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
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or some it’s a tragic reality. The knock at the door in the middle of the night, a sombre-faced police officer bearing the worst news a parent can hear. Most of us will never know that moment, the feeling even before the officer finishes speaking that life — the life that remains — will never be the same. We, all of us, adults and youths, have to do as much as possible to prevent this scenario — known in police parlance as the NOK, notification of next of kin, from playing out again and again. Like every city in the world where young people have access to vehicles, Nanaimo has seen its share of tragedies in which the lives of teenagers have ended in horrendous accidents.
Every year at this time the school district, ICBC, the RCMP and other first responders do not warn, cajole or threaten students about the risks, because we know that doesn’t work. They do their best to remind young people that there is always a choicepoint that precedes any negative outcome. Most young people will hear that and remember, some may not. We can only hope, for that small number who miss it, that circumstances do not come together in such a way that not recalling this lesson leads to a life-ending or -altering scenario. To maximize the effectiveness of this message, high school students are given first-hand accounts of the impact of making that poor choice.
On Thursday students at Nanaimo District Secondary School heard from Greg Drew. His is a scenario at least as heartbreaking as the officer at the door in the middle of the night telling stunned pyjamaclad parents that their teenage son or daughter has just been killed in an accident. Drew was at the scene where his 17-year-old son Jason had wrapped his car around a tree in Fort Langley. He spent 90 minutes with Jason as fire crews extricated him, telling his son that he would be OK. Only that’s not what happened. Jason died in hospital two days later. Listen carefully to what Drew has to say: “The message I want to get to these kids is that while many
young people don’t think their actions impact other people, the reality is that they actually impact a lot of other people. “I’m trying to stress to them not to allow themselves to get into high-risk situations with anyone. The reception I usually get with the kids I talk to is pretty awesome.” Drew leads us back to that choicepoint, where sometimes we miss how one decision will have significant impact on others. We may think that driving really fast in the middle of the night involves no one but us. But the story Drew tells proves otherwise. Education and enforcement remain important tools in the effort to prevent such tragedies happening. As important as
those things may be in setting safety boundaries for all of us, not just youths, an equally important tool is modelling appropriate behaviour. Teenagers lacking in life experience must often rely on imitating adults as they struggle to make life choices. It’s up to all of us to live the lessons we want our young people to learn, otherwise hypocrisy breeds cynicism and rebellion against the intended message. This isn’t just about safety, it’s about the value of human life. As the old radio spots used to say, “drive carefully, the next life you save may be your own.” » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this editorial to letters@nanaimodailynews.com.
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» Your Letters // e-mail: letters@nanaimodailynews.com Animal cruelty a serious issue for this province Re: ‘Tougher laws needed to protect animals’ (Our View, Daily News, April 23) I was pleased to read the Daily News shares the B.C. government’s and the BC SPCA’s concerns about preventing animal cruelty, particularly on the morning of Animal Abuse Prevention Day, in which I welcomed the BC SPCA to the legislature in Victoria. It is heartbreaking to see an animal suffer, regardless of the circumstances and situation. The B.C. government does not tolerate any mistreatment of animals. That’s why we updated the provincial Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act in 2011 to have the toughest penalties in Canada. Charges under B.C.’s Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act can be laid against anyone who causes suffering or distress to an animal in British Columbia, including owners, managers and employees in the agriculture sector. The maximum penalties that can be levied under provincial legislation against a person who is convicted of causing distress to an animal is $75,000 and up to 24 months imprisonment. Judges have those sentencing options available today, just as they have had, since 2011. The B.C. government will continue to work closely with the BC SPCA to increase awareness
and action supporting animal welfare. In fact, Balanced Budget 2015 committed $5 million of B.C. government funding to the BC SPCA to support the replacement or renovation of SPCA facilities in 10 B.C. communities, including in Nanaimo. Animal Welfare is a team effort — it involves animal owners accepting and taking responsibility for their animal’s care, awareness, rescue and enforcement activities by organizations like the BC SPCA, members of the public reporting concerns and sharing information, and the role of the B.C. government — to have laws in place that protect the welfare of all animals in B.C. with the toughest penalties in Canada. Norm Letnick Minister of Agriculture
Party leaders already sounding out voters We’re still a long way from proportional representation, which stresses the importance of individual candidates rather than parties. But, in the meantime, our local press generally keeps an equal playing field for all parties. Perhaps needing a nudge now and again, but that’s about all. The election date has yet to be set, but party leaders have already come calling. Tom Mulcair has been and gone, and last weekend
Elizabeth May held two town hall meetings. Unfortunately, in Canada the number of those who don’t vote far exceeds those who cast a ballot. Only consistently getting out more information will help to change that sad fact. So that’s the nudge. In the interests of democracy, whenever a party holds a town hall meeting here in our Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding, what is said needs to be reported and commented on in our local press. Edwin Turner Nanaimo
Courts must get tough with those who litter I expect that most people would see all the organizations, schools, and individuals involved in neighbourhood, roadside, and beach cleanups on Earth Day as a good thing. They are, of course, to be applauded for their efforts to improve our environment. However, the question that comes to my mind is: “Why are good people, respectful of the environment, seemingly the only ones doing the cleanup?” Furthermore, why are the people causing the litter and throwing the garbage, nowhere to be seen? Despite claims to the contrary, anyone tossing cigarette butts, coffee cups, and worse litter clearly
does not respect their city. So don’t expect any in return. In this ‘no one is held accountable’ era it would be timely to remember that minor offenders of society’s rules were once expected to reimburse their fellow citizens by carrying out tasks to improve the community as part of their sentence. It is time for judges to reinstate litter clean up orders for minor criminal sentencing. I suspect a high proportion of those subject to the ‘justice’ system are the main offenders tossing garbage around our city. It might even deter them from future littering. Similarly, schools need to reactivate neighbourhood litter cleanups by students who seriously break their rules. Their neighbours deserve a long overdue positive break. It is interesting that this is still a social problem with all the digital cameras about. One can only assume enforcement is largely a joke . . . though not a funny one. Gary Korpan Nanaimo Letters must include your hometown and a daytime phone number for verification purposes only. Letters must include your first name (or two initials) and last name. Unsigned letters and letters of more than 350 words will not be accepted. Email to: letters@nanaimodailynews.com.
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t was another successful clean up as the Ladysmith Sportsmen’s Club took on Ladysmith watershed and area garbage clean up. Dave Judson, president of Ladysmith Sportsmen’s Club gives a big thanks to all those who helped, including Ladysmith Search and Rescue, Dave Stalker Excavating, Doug Copp Excavating, Howie Davis , Tim Hortons, Roberts Street Pizza,
Timberwest, the CVRD, Ladysmith Coun. Butch Fradin and TAKE 5. This year’s total was 11 tonnes, four more than last year despite the fact that this is their fourth annual garbage clean up in the same areas. If you want to help, it is not too late. The Ladysmith Community Clean Up which kicked off with Earth Day continues again on Saturday. Volunteers will work between Transfer Beach Boulevard and Oyster Bay Drive. It starts at 9 a.m. Register on facebook.com/LadysmithCommunityCleanUp.
tenance and production employees of Western Forest Products presented a cheque for $2,200 to the Ladysmith Kinsmen to help in the efforts to rebuild the playground at Transfer Beach.
Playground jump On April 15, the main-
Some residents in Saltair are upset a freight vessel YM Rightness has dropped anchor practically in close to shore, spoiling their views but more importantly invading their privacy.
1 Reed” on May 3 at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Anglican Church, Cobble Hill. Artistic director, Ann Mendenhall, pairs with Joanne Cowan to share their joy of music, playing pieces from Beethoven, Brahms, and other greats. Tickets at the door: $20. In advance: $15 at Owl’s Nest Bistro, Chemainus, Salamander Books, Ladysmith; and Chemainus Festival Inn or phone 250-748-8383. www.chemainusclassicalconcerts. ca.
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their support for the art community. In April 2015, Grant and Nixie were the recipients of the well-deserved “Excellence in Culture Award in Nanaimo”. After selling their gallery and home in Cedar/Yellow Point and moving to Nanaimo, reinventing their downtown gallery, MIXTA, in Nanaimo, they are painting again with renewed vigor for a new show that is now open at the Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery until April 26. Check out bartonandleiergallery.com.
Hike for Hospice Hike for Hospice is May 3.
Last year the event raised $33,000 for hospice care for 750 people across Cowichan to support programs such as bereavement support group, or therapeutic touch treatments. Once again Hike for Hospice will follow the trails at Providence Farm with a tasty BBQ and a surprise or two to follow plus incentive prizes for fund-raising efforts. Please register your team at events.cvhs@ shaw.ca or call 1-888-7014242. You can also visit www.cowichanvalleyhospice.org for pledge sheets and online fundraising. » Marina Sacht is editor of TAKE 5 Publications based in downtown Ladysmith. www.take5.ca
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The Town of Ladysmith has been named as one of Canada’s Greenest Employers for the fourth year in succession. The award is part of the Canada’s Top 100 Employers competition out on each year by MediaCorp Canada, with the winners announced on Earth Day. It is designed to recognize earth-friendly initiatives, as well as environmental leadership and awareness. MediaCorp has highlighted the town’s Sustainability Action Plan as one of the reasons for the award. The plan outlines specific goals in order to become
more environmentally friendly and sustainable moving forward through areas such as agriculture, water management and transportation. The town was also commended on its donation of 350 sapling trees which were planted at various schools in the town to celebrate Earth Day. Furthermore, in partnership with the Ladysmith Chamber of Commerce and the Ladysmith Downtown Business Association, the town established the 10 per cent Shift campaign, which encourages more people in the community to shop locally and support local businesses. Ladysmith Mayor Aaron Stone said that the town’s
green reputation “may well be the key” to continued economic growth and prosperity. Stone says “small green changes” can help to cut costs, reduce harmful impact on the environment and improve the quality of life. City manager Ruth Malli says town staff, council and citizens always to work together to build a stronger community. “We are proud to share the 2015 Greenest Employers award with our community,” she said. » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
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Dad shares heartbreaking tale with students ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS
The date of May 11, 2003, is etched in the mind of Greg Drew. It’s the day his 17-year-old son Jason struck a tree at a high speed near his hometown of Fort Langley. Jason died in hospital two days later. Drew said Jason was trapped in the car for 90 minutes while rescuers tried to extricate him from the wreckage. He was on-scene for most of that time talking to his still-conscious son, telling him that he would be OK. Speaking about the accident to students at Nanaimo District Secondary School on Thursday, Drew said drugs and alcohol didn’t play a factor in the crash, but youthful exuberance and high speed did. “The message I want to get to these kids is that while many young people don’t think their
actions impact other people, the reality is that they actually impact a lot of other people,” Drew said after his presentation, while teary-eyed students lined up to hug him. “I’m trying to stress to them not to allow themselves to get into high-risk situations with anyone. The reception I usually get with the kids I talk to is pretty awesome.” Drew is on a tour of high schools across B.C. in the lead up to graduation ceremonies and parties as part of ICBC’s Road Safety Speaker Program. Caroline Robinson, ICBC’s road safety co-ordinator, said the program invites those involved in car crashes involving youths to speak at schools around B.C. “More than 200 young people are injured in crashes around graduation time each year on Vancouver Island, and six are
killed and 1,600 injured in crashes across the province between April and June every year,” Robinson said. Molly Nice, a Grade 11 student at NDSS, said Drew’s story is “heartbreaking.” “My boyfriend always drives safely while I’m in the car, so I’m thankful that I have the right people in my life who don’t drive recklessly,” she said. “A driver crashed into my dad’s car awhile ago and it changed his life so I’m aware of how important it is to drive safely. Mr. Drew’s presentation was touching and my heart goes out to him.” Robert.Barron @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234 Greg Drew stands in front of the car in which his son Jason was killed in a crash in 2003. Drew is on a tour of high schools, speaking to students across the province for ICBC. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]
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An undercover officer described a series of plans proposed by a B.C. man on trial for plotting to blow up the provincial legislature as hokey and harebrained. The officer, who cannot be identified, told John Nuttall’s B.C. Supreme Court trial that the accused appeared nervous as he tabled a slew of ideas, from hijacking a nuclear submarine to firing rockets at the Esquimalt military base. In covert audio played in court, Nuttall is heard telling the officer, who is posing as a high-ranking terrorist, that he wasn’t sure exactly whose idea it ultimately was to plant pressurecooker bombs on the legislature grounds. Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody have pleaded not guilty to four terrorism-related charges stemming from an elaborate police sting operation in 2013.
A Victoria police officer has been charged with forgery and fraud after a criminal investigation into his off-duty activities. The Victoria Police Department says the Crown has approved 13 charges against Const. Leroy Anderson. He faces six counts each of forgery and possession of a forged document, and one count of fraud, although no details of the accusations have been released. The department has issued a statement that says Anderson was suspended without pay in September 2014. Anderson’s employment status is now under review by the Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board.
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VANCOUVER — The federal government is telling the City of Vancouver it does not have the authority to legitimize pot with its proposal to regulate “illegal” medical marijuana dispensaries. Health Minister Rona Ambrose sent a letter to Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson on Thursday saying she was “deeply concerned” by the city’s plans to discuss regulation at an upcoming council meeting. “Marijuana is not an approved drug or medicine, and Health Canada does not endorse its use,”
risks associated with smoking marijuana. She argues “normalizing” pot could mean more than tripling its use by youth. City manager Penny Ballem told reporters on Wednesday that the federal approach had created “greyness and confusion,” forcing the city to intervene. Coun. Kerry Jang the federal government has generally ignored the city’s requests to discuss the problems. “In the city of Vancouver we’ve always taken a public health and harm reduction approach,” he said.
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TISDALE, Sask. — He killed them. And then he took their photos and sent them to their father. A relative of a woman and three children murdered this week in Saskatchewan said their killer took pictures of the bodies and sent copies to the children’s biological father before taking his own life. Tim Funk, a cousin of Latasha Gosling, said Steve O’Shaughnessy was the woman’s boyfriend and that he was emotionally abusive, controlling and jealous. Gosling, 27, was separated from her husband, but not officially divorced, and had been with O’Shaughnessy for the last couple of years, Funk said. The husband often went to visit his three children: Jenika 8, Landen, 7, and Janayah, 4. They had been living most recently
Latasha Gosling and three of her children — Janayah, Jenika and Landen — are shown in an undated, handout photo. Gosling and the children were killed on Wednesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
with Gosling and O’Shaughnessy in a rented mobile home in Tisdale, a town of 3,200 northeast of Saskatoon. The boyfriend “didn’t like it at all” when the husband came
around, Funk said. On Tuesday, the husband received the gruesome photos in a text sent to his cellphone, said Funk. It was the day before the husband’s birthday.
O’Shaughnessy “sent them to him as a birthday gift.” Funk said the husband called Mounties, who found the bodies early Wednesday in the mobile home. RCMP have confirmed that officers received a call from a family member around supper-time Tuesday, saying the woman and children hadn’t been heard from all day and couldn’t be reached. Officers obtained a search warrant for the trailer and found the four, but have not said how they were killed. The manager of the mobile home park said he was called by police that night to bring over a spare key. He saw the children’s distraught father there. Officers tracked a suspect to a home 130 kilometres away in Prince Albert. Police said the man had taken a six-month-old baby with him from the trailer. He then killed himself, but the infant was
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TORONTO — Ontario’s path back into the black won’t include slashing and burning as the Liberal government believes it can eliminate its $10.9-billion deficit with a scalpel rather than a hatchet — a penny a beer bottle the only new tax to be introduced. The $131.9-billion budget introduced Thursday by Finance Minister Charles Sousa pledges to balance the books through a combination of targeted savings and a dependence on a steady economic growth. It contains no major cuts and no new personal or corporate tax increases, which is what many experts predicted.
unharmed. Funk said the baby is Gosling’s youngest child and O’Shaughnessy was the father. Funk has set up a page on the fundraising website gofundme. com to collect money for funerals and build a trust fund for the infant. It had topped $41,000 by Thursday afternoon. Funk struggles to talk about what his family is going through. “None of it makes any sense.” He describes Gosling as a proud mother who took her kids to swimming and dance lessons. Her sister, Laura Gross, wrote on Facebook about how the three kids would jump on a trampoline and play on swings outside their grandparents’ home. Local hotel owner Patricia Olson felt sick when she heard the news. She said everywhere she went Wednesday, normally outgoing and friendly residents were reserved and quiet. “There wasn’t a place or a person without tears.”
Ontario’s economy is expected to grow by 2.7 per cent this year, boosted by the low Canadian dollar, the recovering U.S. economy and lower oil prices, Sousa said. But he insisted the deficit elimination is not relying too heavily on external factors. “It’s about controlling our spending and being very pragmatic in the things we do,” he said. “We did not control spending by slashing and burning, as some would do. We did it by closely examining programs.” But in the budget itself the government notes that unexpected changes in global economic conditions could lead to changes in its overall fiscal forecast.
The deficit will drop to $8.5 billion in 2015-16, falling further to $4.8 billion in 2016-17 before returning to balance the following year, the budget forecasts. Spending in major sectors such as health, education, children’s and social services and justice is projected to see minor increases, and cuts of 5.5 per cent in other sectors leave average program spending growth more or less stagnant until 2017-18. Ontario is still grappling with its own debt, projected to be $298.9 billion in 2015-16. Debt interest payments of $11.4 billion alone account for nearly nine per cent of this budget, though that’s lower than the government projected in the previous budget.
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‘Age of Ultron’ is excess Avengers Film ups emotionality and complexity, adding up to a full but not satisfying meal of franchise building Avengers: Age of Ultron JAKE COYLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STARRING: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner Director: Joss Whedon RATING: Restricted RUNNING TIME: 141 minutes PLAYING AT: Avalon Cinemas
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t will surely stand as one of the most peculiar and possibly ironic entries in a director’s filmography that in between Joss Whedon’s two Avengers films there reads Much Ado About Nothing: a low-budget, blackand-white Shakespeare adaption sandwiched between two of the most gargantuan blockbusters ever made. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Whedon (and Marvel’s) sequel to the third highest grossing film of all-time, there is definitely aplenty ado-ing. Too much, certainly, but then again, we come to the Avengers for their clowncar excess of superheros, their colorful coterie of capes. What binds Whedon’s spectacles with his Shakespeare are the quips, which sail in iambic pentameter in one and zigzag between explosions in the others. The original 2012 Avengers (which featured the rarest of superhero movie insults: “mewling quim”) should have had more of them, and there’s even less room in the massive — and massively overstuffed — Age of Ultron for Whedon’s dry, self-referential wit. As a sequel, Age of Ultron could have amped up the brio. But it pushes further into emotionality and complexity, adding up to a full but not particularly satisfying meal of franchise building, and leaving only a bread-crumb trail of Whedon’s banter to follow through the rubble. The action starts predictably with the Avengers, now assembled, assaulting a remote HYDRA base in the fictional, vaguely Eastern European snowy republic of Sokovia. They are a weaving force: Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, Chris Evans’s Captain America, Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow and Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye.
Chris Evans as Captain America/Steve Rogers, in the new film, ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron,’ playing at the Avalon in Nanaimo. [AP PHOTO]
Their powers are as various (supernatural, technological, mythological, lab experiments gone wrong) as their flaws (Iron Man’s narcissism, the Hulk’s rage, the Black Widow’s regrets). Downey’s glib Tony Stark/Iron Man is the lead-singer equivalent of this super group and, I suspect, the one Whedon likes writing the most for. “I’ve had a long day,” he sighs. “Eugene O’Neill long.” What Age of Ultron has going for it, as such references prove, is a sense of fun, a lack of selfseriousness that persists even when things start going kablooey — something not always evident in other faux-serious superhero films. (I’m looking at you, Man of Steel.) In Sokovia, they encounter the duplicitous twins Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen). She can, with a crimson-colored magic, read minds, and he’s lightning quick.
They, however, aren’t the movie’s real villains: That’s the titular Ultron, an artificial intelligence that the Scarlet Witch slyly leads Stark to create, birthing not the global protection system he hopes, but a maniacal Frankenstein born, thankfully, with some of his creator’s drollness. Ultron (James Spader) builds himself a muscular metallic body and with the supposed cause of world peace, begins amassing a robot army to rid the planet of human (and Avenger) life. Spader plays Ultron too similar to other mechanical monsters to equal Tom Hiddleston’s great Loki, the nemesis of the last Avengers film. But Spader’s jocular menace adds plenty. He wickedly hums Pinocchio melodies: “There are no strings on me.” But the drama of Age of Ultron lies only partly in the battle with Ultron, which skips around the globe, to Seoul and South Africa,
due to only slightly logical pursuits of rare metals and a tissuegenerating invention. The film is really focused on the fraying dysfunction of the Avengers and their existential quandaries as proficient killers now untethered from the dismantled S.H.I.E.L.D. agency. Most successful are the tender scenes between Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner/Hulk and Johansson’s former Russian spy. She’s something like his LSD trip guide, soothing Ruffalo’s enraged “big guy” with her soft voice, petting his hand until he shrinks back to Banner and the green dissipates. There’s not a wrong note in the cast; just about anything with the likes of Spader, Ruffalo, Johansson, Hemsworth and Downey can’t help but entertain. But the dive into the vulnerability of the Avengers doesn’t add much depth (is the home life of an arrow slinger named Hawkeye important?) and saps the film’s zip.
All the character arcs — the Avengers, the bad guys and the new characters — are simply too much to tackle, even for a master juggler like Whedon. Paul Bettany, previously the voice of Iron Man’s computer, J.A.R.V.I.S., arrives late as the Vision, a preternaturally poised floating hero resembling a red Powder. The movie’s hefty machinery — the action sequences, the sequel baiting — suck up much of the movie’s oxygen, and the mammoth action scenes have a way of crushing the smaller moments. Better is when the Avengers are just sitting around, musing about the physics governing Thor’s heavy hammer. In the march forward of the Marvel juggernaut (the next Avengers movies are set for 2018 and 2019), Age of Ultron feels like a movie trying to stay light on its feet but gets swallowed up by a larger power: The Franchise.
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Little Boy is guilty of trying too hard. Had it just focused on a youngster’s heartbreaking efforts to get his father home from the war, it would have been a touching tale. Sadly, that story gets bogged down by overly sentimental plot
lines such as the bitter bigotry and hatred shown towards Japanese living in the United States during the Second World War, a son’s guilt at not being able to serve his country, never ending bullying, misguided attempts to woo a possible war widow and the importance of faith. Hidden in all that clutter is a sweet faith-based story. You just have to patiently wade your way through all the rest to find it. The “Little Boy” at the heart of the story is Pepper (Jakob Salvati), an eight-year-old who isn’t growing at the same rate of other youngsters. School is tough, but Pepper can always find solace with his father, James (Michael Rapaport), a
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The deep messages are presented through very grounded performances by Emily Watson as Pepper’s mom, Ted Levine as the town’s primary bigot, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as the Japanese man who must face the town’s hatred and David Henrie as a son dealing with consuming guilt. A wide-eyed Jakob shows solid acting skills as he tries to make his way through the emotional confusion surrounding him. Then the director flips the movie with outlandish sequences, such as Pepper thinking he moved a mountain using faith or his nickname being tied to the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Even the pristine design
of the small coastal city looks more like the kind of fantasy world Anderson loves so much. Having Kevin James play the doctor is a casting that’s offbeat enough to take away from the seriousness of the story. Toss in the doctor’s kid being a bully that looks like he just left the set of The Little Rascals and those performances add to the more quirky side of the film. The cinema schizophrenia distracts from the solid core elements of faith, family and friendship. It’s not enough distraction to cripple the film, but if the movie makers had more faith in their story it would have created a product that moved mountains of moviegoers.
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Nanaimo Junior A Timbermen defender Johnnie Grais, left, and goaltender Jerryd Jensen eye down an opponent during an exhibition game last weekend at Nanaimo Ice Centre. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]
Junior A Timbermen open season Sunday in Coquitlam It’s the young, first-year players who are showing the leadership ahead of the Nanaimo Timbermen’s season-opener on Sunday on the road against the Coquitlam Adanacs, said rookie head coach Kyle Couling. The Timbermen, like most — if not all — B.C. Junior A Lacrosse teams, are suffering from a lack of high-end players who are still away at their respective U.S. college field lacrosse programs. Nanaimo’s top returning scorers, Brett Hawrys and Dane Sorensen, have yet to arrive in the Harbour City. Nor has top defender Jeremy Roe, as the Duncannative is still at Concordia University Wisconsin. The NCAA season is just finishing up its schedule this week, however the top teams could still be playing until May 2. “It’s not just us,” said Couling, a former player in the National Lacrosse League. “The top players are playing collegiate lacrosse in the States on scholarship. “Good on them, but it definitely hurts the first couple weeks and it definitely impacts everybody’s programs here.” In the meantime, the Timbermen will count on their young players early in the
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Brendan Taylor ready for his next step Hometown Nanaimo Clippers captain, two-year leading scorer now moves on to NCAA, Union College SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS
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t their season-ending awards banquet Wednesday night, the Nanaimo Clippers handed Brendan Taylor the top scorer award for the second straight year. But unlike last year’s banquet, Taylor knew it was his last in his hometown — his four-year Junior A hockey career is now complete. “It was a pretty sad night for me,” Taylor said, “not being able to be here again next year.” Taylor, who turned 20 earlier this month, has one year of junior hockey left to use. After four years of playing for his hometown Clippers, however, he is moving on to become a studentathlete at Union College to play for the 2014 NCAA Div. I national champion Dutchmen. As captain of the Clippers, Taylor led his team to within two wins of a B.C. Hockey League championship. He would rather be still playing in pursuit of a Western Canadian Championship, and his team’s goal of an RBC Cup national title, but he is proud of what he accomplished in his career in Nanaimo. “I’m very happy with it,” Taylor said. “Over the four years I’ve been here, the team and the organization has come a pretty long way. “This was the best team we’ve had in the four years I’ve been here, and I’m super proud of what we did this year.” For the second year in a row, Taylor was his team’s leading scorer with 59 points in 2014-15. It was only a four-point improvement on the previous season, but he shouldered more responsibility this season as the team’s captain. He also played on a Nanaimo team that carried much more depth than they did in previous seasons as head coach Mike Vandekamp largely rolled four lines, giving most players equal ice time. In the BCHL finals against the Penticton Vees, it looked as
Nanaimo Clippers’ 2014-15 captain Brendan Taylor lines up for a faceoff during his final B.C. Hockey League game last week at Frank Crane Arena. Taylor, a local product, will now play for Union College. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]
“Even though we didn’t get the championship, we were still really close and it was something to be proud of.“ Brendan Taylor
though Taylor would finish is career in Nanaimo with a Fred Page Cup. The Clippers won their first two games in Penticton, returning with a 2-0 lead. The Vees, though, had other ideas and won four straight, including the series-winner in overtime. “I just think that we kind of did the same thing we did in the first two series,” Taylor said, referencing the seven-game tilts they won over the Alberni valley Bulldogs and Powell River Kings en route to the Island championship. “We let off the pedal and let
teams come back in, and we did that again. We couldn’t find a way to kick them when they were down and it ended up hurting us. “Even though we didn’t get the championship, we were really close and it was something to be proud of.” Now, everything changes. After enjoying the luxury of living with his parents during his junior hockey career, Taylor now enters the Union dorms in the Upstate New York city of Schenectady. It will be a new experience for Taylor, but one he’s looking forward to. “I’m 20 years old now and I’ve been living at home my whole life,” he said, “so I’m looking forward to moving away and getting my life started and start my schooling.” Taylor won’t be completely alone in his travels, however. Joining him with the Dutchmen as a freshman next season will be his Clippers teammate Cole Maier, who was already commit-
ted to Union before coming to Nanaimo for a one-and-done season last summer. Taylor was part of the reason Maier joined the Clippers. “Before he came here, he got in touch with me because we were both committed to Union,” Taylor said. “We were both going there, so I told him about Mike and our organization. “He ended up coming here and we’ve become friends, so I’m really looking forward to going there with one of my good friends.” But Taylor and Maier won’t be the veteran players they were in Nanaimo last season. Instead, they’ll be rookies making a name for themselves as Union shoots for another national championship. “I think it’s going to be a change for me,” Taylor said. “It’s going to be faster with bigger, older guys so I’m going to try to be ready for that. “I’m going to skate a lot in the summer and try to get bigger and stronger and just be as prepared as I can for the next level.”
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NHL Playoffs - Round 1 All series best-of-seven Yesterday’s results (Game 4) Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2 (OT) (Series tied 2-2) Also yesterday (Games 5) Nashville 5, Chicago 2 (Chicago leads series 3-2) Vancouver 2, Calgary 1 (Calgary leads series 3-2) Washington 5, NY Islanders 1 (Washington leads series 3-2) Today’s schedule (Games 5) Minnesota at St. Louis Ottawa at Montreal Winnipeg at Anaheim Pittsburgh at NY Rangers Saturday, April 25 (Games 6) Nashville at Chicago Vancouver at Calgary Detroit at Tampa Bay Washington at NY Islanders Sunday, April 26 (Games 6) St. Louis at Minnesota Montreal at Ottawa NY Rangers at Pittsburgh Monday, April 27 (Games 6) Tampa Bay at Detroit Monday, April 27 (Games 7) Calgary at Vancouver Chicago at Nashville NY Islanders at Washington Tuesday, April 28 (Games 7) Ottawa at Montreal Winnipeg at Anaheim Pittsburgh at NY Rangers Wednesday, April 29 (Games 7) Minnesota at St. Louis Detroit at Tampa Bay Yesterday at Rogers Arena
Canucks 2, Flames 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Jones (2) (Stajan) 2:40 Penalties: Ronalds Kenins Van (High-sticking T.J. Brodie) 3:46; Sam Bennett Cgy (High-sticking Yannick Weber) 16:22 Second Period 2. Vancouver, Nick Bonino (1) (Vrbata, Edler) 13:31 Penalties: Michael Ferland Cgy (Roughing Derek Dorsett) 6:34 Third Period 3. Vancouver, Daniel Sedin (2) (Hamhuis, Henrik Sedin) 1:47 Penalties: Dan Hamhuis Van (Puck over Glass) 8:09; Henrik Sedin Van (Hooking Johnny Gaudreau) 14:11 Shots on goal 1 2 3 T Calgary 8 8 5 21 Vancouver 17 17 9 43 Goaltending summary: Calgary: Jonas Hiller (0/0); Vancouver: Ryan Miller (0/0) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Calgary: 0 of 3, Vancouver: 0 of 2 Att: 18,870 (100.3% of capacity)
Predators 5, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Richards (1) (Seabrook, Bickell) 13:27 2. Nashville, Forsberg (2) 14:42 Penalties: Ellis Nsh (Tripping Patrick Sharp) 3:06, Neal Nsh (Holding Brent Seabrook) 18:31 Second Period No scoring Penalties: Seabrook Chi (Slashing Matt Cullen) 9:02 Third Period 3. Nashville, Neal (2) (Stalberg) 0:47 4. Nashville, Wilson (5) (Ribeiro, Jones) 3:02 (PP) 5. Nashville, Forsberg (3) (Neal, Fisher) 3:14
Predators 5, Blackhawks 2 (Cont’d) Third Period 6. Chicago, Versteeg (1) (Richards, Kane) 14:52 7. Nashville, Forsberg (4) 19:49 (PP) Penalties: Rozsival Chi (Interference of Matt Cullen) 2:30, Shaw Chi (Goalkeeper Interference Pekka Rinne) 6:47, Shaw Chi (Roughing Seth Jones) 17:55, Hossa Chi (Slashing Viktor Stalberg) 17:55, Gaustad Nsh (Roughing Andrew Shaw) 17:55, Jones Nsh (Roughing Andrew Shaw) 17:55 Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd T Chicago 13 7 10 30 Nashville 10 11 8 29 Goaltending summary: Chicago: Darling (24/28), Nashville: Rinne (28/30) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Chicago: 0 of 2, Nashville: 2 of 3 Att: 17,238
Lightning 3, Red Wings 2 (OT) First Period No scoring Penalties: Smith Det (Roughing) 1:14, Callahan Tb (Roughing) 1:14, Smith Det (High-sticking) 5:41, Drouin Tb (Tripping) 17:19 Second Period 1. Detroit, Nyquist (1) (Zetterberg, Abdelkader) 5:42 2. Detroit, Andersson (1) (Sheahan, Jurco) 14:24 Penalties: Zetterberg Det (Interference) 1:09, Paquette Tb (Tripping) 6:32, Bishop Tb (Holding (Served by Jason Garrison)) 7:53, Smith Det (Cross checking) 15:22, Zetterberg Det (Hooking) 19:12 Third Period 3. Tampa Bay, Johnson (3) (Stralman) 14:34 4. Tampa Bay, Palat (1) (Garrison, Johnson) 15:51 Penalties: Bishop Tb (Tripping (Served by Ryan Callahan)) 4:43, Glendening Det (Roughing (Served by Landon Ferraro)) 12:32, Hedman Tb (Roughing) 12:32 First Overtime 5. Tampa Bay, Johnson (4) (Palat, Hedman) 2:25 Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd OT T Tampa Bay 8 14 6 1 29 Detroit 8 10 6 0 24 Goaltending summary: Tampa Bay: Bishop (22/24), Detroit: Mrazek (26/29) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Tampa Bay: 0 of 4, Detroit: 0 of 4 Att: 20,027
Capitals 5, Islanders 1 First Period 1. New York, Bailey (2) (Tavares, Leddy) 5:48 2. Washington, Kuznetsov (1) (Alzner, Johansson) 9:05 Penalties: Lee Nyi, Wilson Wsh (Fighting) 5:22 Second Period 3. Washington, Alzner (2) (Beagle, Brouwer) 10:31 Penalties: Kuznetsov Wsh (Highsticking) 12:25, Halak Nyi (Tripping) 20:00 Third Period 4. Washington, Laich (1) (Chimera, Beagle) 2:42 5. Washington, Kuznetsov (2) (Ward, Niskanen) 6:19 6. Washington, Chimera (2) (Kuznetsov, Johansson) 9:00 Penalties: Clutterbuck Nyi (Slashing) 4:13, Clutterbuck Nyi (Slashing) 11:42, Orpik Wsh (Interference) 16:58 Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd T New York 8 8 7 23 Washington 10 18 13 41 Goaltending summary: New York: Halak (30/35), Neuvirth (6/6), Washington: Holtby (22/23) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): New York: 0 of 2, Washington: 0 of 3 Att: 18,506
Vancouver Canucks winger Daniel Sedin, left, celebrates his goal against the Calgary Flames with his twin brother Henrik in Vancouver Thursday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Western Hockey League Playoffs All series best-of- seven *=if necessary Eastern Conference Final Calgary vs. Brandon Western Conference Final Kelowna vs. Portland Today’s schedule (Games 1) Calgary at Brandon, 5:30 p.m. Portland at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. Saturday, April 25 (Games 2) Calgary at Brandon, 5:30 p.m. Portland at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 (Games 3) Brandon at Calgary, 6 p.m. Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 29 (Games 4) Brandon at Calgary, 6 p.m. Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m.
IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship April 16-26, Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland Final round-robin standings Group B GP W L Pts GF-A Canada 4 4 0 12 21-11 Finland 4 3 1 9 14-6 Czech Rep 3 1 2 3 7-10 Switzerland 3 1 2 2 5-9 Latvia 4 0 4 1 10-21 Group A GP W L Pts GF-A Russia 4 4 0 12 20-7 USA 4 3 1 9 30-8 Slovakia 4 2 2 5 9-18 Sweden 4 1 3 3 16-17 Germany 4 0 4 1 5-30 Yesterday’s results Relegation game Latvia 5. Germany 3 Quarterfinals USA 7, Czech Republic 2 Canada 5, Sweden 3 Finland 3, Slovakia 0 Switzerland 5, Russia 0 Today’s schedule Relegation game Latvia vs. Germany, 9 a.m. Saturday, April 25, Semifinals Canada vs. USA, 6 a.m. Finland vs. Switzerland, 10 a.m. Sunday, April 26 Relegation game, 3 a.m. Bronze medal, 6 a.m. Gold medal 10 a.m. Yesterday at Zug, Switzerland
Canada 5, Sweden 3 First Period 1. Canada, Jansen Harkins (Ethan Bear) 5:11 2. Canada, Mitchell Stephens (Graham Knott, Mathew Barzal) 6:07 3. Sweden, Lucas Carlsson (Sebastian Ohlsson, Linus Olund) 7:11 (PP) 4. Canada, Deven Sideroff (Jansen Harkins, Nicolas Roy) 19:26 Penalties: Sideroff Can (Slashing) 6:31; Asplund Swe (Holding) 16:56 Second Period 5. Sweden, Joel Eriksson (Carl Grundstrom) 2:51 (SH) 6. Canada, Mitchell Stephens (Graham Knott, Mathew Barzal) 17:23 Penalties: Asplund Swe (Boarding) 1:25; Sideroff Can (Tripping) 6:23; Kylington Swe (Delay of Game) 19:44 Third Period 7. Sweden, Carl Grundstrom 15:34 (EN own goal) 8. Canada, Graham Knott (Mitchell Stephens, Jeremy Roy) 15:56 (PP) Penalties: Grundstrom Swe (HighSticking) 6:47; Carlsson Swe (Holding the Stick) 7:13; Benson Can (Hooking) 12:52; Grundstrom Swe (Roughing) 15:34 Shots on goal 1 2 3 T Sweden 17 10 7 34 Canadaa 13 13 12 38 Goaltending summary: Sweden: Felix Sandstrom (29/34); Canada: Zachary Sawchenko (24/26) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Sweden: 1 of 4, Canada: 1 of 6 Att: N/A
Western Canada Cup Junior A championship Casman Centre, Fort McMurray, Alberta Teams BCHL, Penticton Vees Saskatchewan JHL: Melfort Mustangs Manitoba JHL: Portage Terriers Alberta JHL: Spruce Grove Saints Hosts: Fort McMurray Oil Barons Round Robin standings Team GP W L T Pts GF-A Fort McMurray 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 Melfort 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 Penticton 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 Spruce Grove 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 Portage 0 0 0 0 0 0-0
Canucks win 2-1, escape elimination
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Sunday, April 26 Melfort vs. Portage Fort McMurray vs. Penticton
VANCOUVER — Daniel Sedin scored early in the third period Thursday as the Vancouver Canucks avoided elimination with a 2-1 victory over the Calgary Flames in Game 5 of their Western Conference quarter-final. The Flames still lead the best-of-seven series 3-2, with Game 6 set for Saturday in Calgary. Nick Bonino had the other goal for Vancouver, which got 19 saves from Ryan Miller. David Jones replied for Calgary, while Jonas Hiller stopped 41 shots. The Canucks snapped a 1-1 tie 1:47 into the third after the Flames iced the puck. Vancouver put out its top line for the offensive zone faceoff and made Calgary pay as Daniel Sedin shovelled home a Dan Hamhuis rebound through Hiller’s pads for his second goal of the series. Vancouver had to kill off a Calgary power play midway through the period when Hamhuis was whistled for firing the puck over the glass, including a big stop from Miller on Joe Colborne from the slot. The Flames had another man advantage with under six minutes to go when Henrik Sedin went off for hooking, but didn’t get a single shot on target against Miller, who was making his first start of the series after replacing Eddie Lack in Game 4. Down 1-0 after the first period, Vancouver tied the game with 6:29 left in the second after a good cycle down low when Bonino took a pass from Radim Vrbata and ripped a shot under the crossbar from the faceoff dot for his first of the playoffs. Calgary could have taken a 2-0 lead earlier in the period, but Colborne hit the post a minute in before Mason Raymond saw the puck roll off his stick on a clear breakaway. The Flames went up 1-0 just 2:40 into the first period when Jones jumped on a turnover by Alexander Edler and fired shortside on Miller for his second goal of the series.
Monday, April 27 Spruce Grove vs. Melfort Tuesday, April 28 Penticton vs. Portage AJHL vs. Fort McMurray Wednesday, April 29 Melfort vs. Penticton Thursday, April 30 Portage vs. AJHL Fort McMurray vs. Melfort Saturday, May 2 Semifinals Sunday, May 3 Finals
American Hockey League Calder Cup playoffs All series best-of-five Yesterday’s results (Games 1) Manchester 5, Portland 2 Oklahoma City 5, San Antonio 2 Today’s schedule (Games 1) Hershey at Worcester, 4 p.m. Syracuse at W-B/Scranton, 4:05 p.m. Rockford at Texas, 4:30 p.m. Also today (Game 2) Utica at Chicago, 4 p.m. (Utica leads series 1-0) Saturday, April 25 Grand Rapids at Toronto, noon Portland at Manchester, 4 p.m. Hershey at Worcester, 4 p.m. Providence at Hartford, 4 p.m. (Hartford leads series 1-0) Syracuse at W-B/Scranton, 4:05 p.m. San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. Rockford at Texas, 5 p.m. Sunday, April 26 Grand Rapids at Toronto, noon Manchester at Portland, 2 p.m. Hartford at Providence, 4:05 p.m. Monday, April 27 No games scheduled Tuesday, April 28 (Game 4*) Hartford at Providence, 4 p.m.
GOLF Tour rankings (as of April 20)
PGA Tour This week’s tournament Zurich Classic of New Orleans, April 23-26 TPC Louisiana, Avondale, Louisiana. Par 72, 7,520 yards. Purse:: $6,900,000. 2014 winner: Seung-yul Noh. Leaderboard - Round 1 Golfer Par R1 R2 R3 T1 Boo Weekley -8 64 T1 Brendon de Jonge -8 64 T3 David Hearn -7 65 T3 Sean O’Hair -7 65 T5 Daniel Berger -6 66 T5 Erik Compton -6 66 T5 Brian Davis -6 66 T5 Mark Hubbard -6 66 T5 Greg Owen -6 66 T10 Ben Crane -5 67 T10 K.J. Choi -5 67 T10 Jason Day -5 67 T10 Dustin Johnson -5 67 T10 Derek Ernst -5 67 T10 Chris Stroud -5 67 T10 Blayne Barber -5 67 T10 Carlos Ortiz -5 67 T10 Chad Campbell -5 67 T10 Chesson Hadley -5 67 T10 Hudson Swafford -5 67 T10 Jhonattan Vegas -5 67 Canadian golfers T50 Nick Taylor -2 70 T75 Roger Sloan -1 71 T75 Adam Hadwin -1 71 T130 Mike Weir +2 74
LPGA Tour This week’s tournament Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic, April 23-26 Lake Merced Golf Club, Daly City, California, par 72, 6,925 yards. Purse: $2,000,000. 2014 winner: Lydia Ko Leaderboard - Round 1 Golfer Par R1 R2 R3 1 Lydia Ko -5 67 T2 Ha Na Jang -4 68 T2 Juli Inkster -4 68 T2 P.K. Kongkraphan -4 68 T5 Morgan Pressel -3 69 T5 Caroline Hedwall -3 69 T5 Stacy Lewis -3 69 T5 Na Yeon Choi -3 69 T9 Brooke Henderson Smiths Falls, Ont. -2 70 T9 Tiffany Joh -2 70 T9 Pornanong Phatlum -2 70 T9 Andrea Lee -2 70 T9 Yueer Cindy Feng -2 70 T9 Julieta Granada -2 70 T9 Chella Choi -2 70 T9 Moriya Jutanugarn -2 70 T9 Anna Nordqvist -2 70 T9 Shanshan Feng -2 70 T19 Sakura Yokomine -1 71 Eight other golfers tied at 19th Other Canadians T55 Sue Kim +2 74 T122 Alena Sharp +6 73
Champions Tour This week’s tournament Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf, April 24-26 (54 holes). Top of the Rock Golf Course, Ridgedale, Missouri. Par 71, 7,036 yards. Purse: $2,800,000. Tournament begins today
Web.com Tour This week’s tournament WNB Golf Classic, April 23-26 This tournament has been canceled.
European Tour This week’s tournament Volvo China Open, April 22-25 Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club, Shanghai, China. Par 72, 7,300 yards. Purse: $2,135,580. 2014 champion: Alexander Levy. Leaderboard - Round 1 Golfer Par R1 R2 R3 T1 Michael Hendry -4 68 T1 Bradley Dredge -4 68 T1 David Howell -4 68 T4 Julien Quesne -3 69 T4 Alexander Levy -3 69 T4 Marcus Fraser -3 69 T7 Peter Uihlein -2 70 T7 Benjamin Hebert -2 70 T7 Oliver Wilson -2 70 T7 Johan Carlsson -2 70 T7 Craig Lee -2 70 T7 Shiv Kapur -2 70 T7 Il-hwan Park -2 70 T7 Thomas Pieters -2 70 T15 Jerome L Casanova -1 71 T15 Mikko Korhonen -1 71 T15 Scott Hend -1 71 T15 Ryan Carter -1 71 T15 Haotong Li -1 71 T15 Scott Strange -1 71 T15 Shao-cai He -1 71 T15 Rhein Gibson -1 71 T15 Matteo Manassero -1 71 T15 Kiradech Aphibarnrat -1 71
TENNIS ATP Barcelona Open Barcelona, Spain. Surface: Clay Purse: €1,993,230 (1 euro=CDN$1.33) Doubles - Quarterfinals Alexander Peya, Austria, and Bruno Soares (4), Brazil, def. Albert Montanes, Spain, and Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-3, 6-2. Jamie Murray, Britain, and John Peers, Australia, def. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, and Max Mirnyi, Belarus, 6-4, 5-7, 10-8. Singles - Round 3 Kei Nishikori (1), Japan, def. Santiago Giraldo (15), Colombia, 6-2, 6-1. Fabio Fognini (13), Italy, def. Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, 6-4, 7-6 (6). David Ferrer (3), Spain, def. Elias Ymer, Sweden, 6-3, 6-4. Pablo Andujar, Spain, def. Feliciano Lopez (5), Spain, 6-3, 6-4. Roberto Bautista Agut (7), Spain, def. Pablo Cuevas (10), Uruguay, 7-6 (5), 6-2. Tommy Robredo (9), Spain, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain, 6-2, 6-2. Philipp Kohlschreiber (12), Germany, def. Benoit Paire, France, 6-4, 7-6 (6). Martin Klizan (14), Slovakia, def. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, 6-4, 6-3. BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy Bucharest, Romania. Surface: Clay. Purse: €439,405. Singles - Round 2 Gilles Simon (1), France, def. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, 7-5, 6-4. Gael Monfils (2), France, def. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 6-1, 6-2. Simone Bolelli (8), Italy, def. Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austria, 6-4, 6-4. Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain, def. Nikola Mektic, Croatia, 7-5, 6-2. Doubles - Quarterfinals Marius Copil, Romania, and Adrian Ungur, Romania, def. Rohan Bopanna, India, and Florin Mergea (2), Romania, 6-4, 7-6 (6). Nicholas Monroe, United States, and Artem Sitak, New Zealand, def. Raven Klaasen, South Africa, and Lukas Rosol (3), Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-2. Colin Fleming, Britain, and Jonathan Marray, Britain, def. Treat Huey, Philippines, and Scott Lipsky (4), United States, 2-6, 6-3, 10-8. Simone Bolelli, Italy, and Steve Darcis, Belgium, def. Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, and Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 7-5, 7-5.
Tennis (Cont’d)
Rays 2, Red Sox 1
BASKETBALL
ab r h bi ab r h bi Betts CF 3 0 0 0 DeJesus DH 3 0 0 0 Pedroia 2B 4 0 0 0 Souza Jr. RF 4 0 0 0 Ortiz DH 4 0 0 0 Cabrera SS 3 0 1 0 Sandoval 3B 4 1 1 0 Longoria 3B 4 1 1 0 Napoli 1B 4 0 0 0 Jennings LF 4 0 0 0 Nava RF 3 0 0 1 Dykstra 1B 3 0 1 0 Craig LF 4 0 1 0 Beckham PR 0 1 0 0 Bogaerts SS 2 0 1 0 Forsythe 2B 3 0 1 1 Leon C 1 0 0 0 Kiermaier CF 4 0 1 0 Ramirez PH 1 0 0 0 Rivera C 3011 Hanigan C 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 6 2 Totals 30 1 3 1
NBA
Boston Tampa Bay
Today’s schedule (Games 3) Houston at Dallas, 4:00 p.m. (Houston leads series 2-0) Toronto at Washington, 5:00 p.m. (Washington leads series 2-0) L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. (Series tied 1-1)
Boston
WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany. Surface: Clay. Purse: $731,000 Singles - Round 2 Simona Halep (2), Romania, def. Garbine Muguruza, Spain, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. Singles - Round 2 Angelique Kerber, Germany, def. Maria Sharapova (1), Russia, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1. Madison Brengle, United States, def. Petra Kvitova (3), Czech Republic, 6-3, 7-6 (2). Caroline Wozniacki (4), Denmark, def. Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, 7-6 (5), 6-1. Ekaterina Makarova (6), Russia, def. Marina Melnikova, Russia, 6-2, 6-3. Carla Suarez Navarro (8), Spain, def. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, 6-4, 7-6 (1). Caroline Garcia, France, def. Carina Witthoeft, Germany, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Sara Errani, Italy, def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-1. Doubles - Quarterfinals Caroline Garcia, France, and Katarina Srebotnik (2), Slovenia, def. Chin-Wei Chan, Taiwan, and Chen Liang, China, 6-1, 6-0. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova (3), Czech Republic, def. Janette Husarova, Slovakia, and Paula Kania, Poland, 6-1, 6-3.
MLB
American League East W L Boston 9 7 NY Yankees 9 7 Toronto 9 7 Tampa Bay 8 8 Baltimore 7 9 Central W L Kansas City 12 4 Detroit 11 5 Chicago Sox 6 9 Minnesota 6 9 Cleveland 5 9 West W L Houston 8 7 Oakland 8 9 LA Angels 7 9 Seattle 6 9 Texas 6 9 National League East W L NY Mets 13 3 Atlanta 8 7 Washington 7 9 Miami 5 11 Philadelphia 5 11 Central W L St. Louis 10 4 Chicago Cubs 8 7 Cincinnati 8 8 Pittsburgh 8 8 Milwaukee 3 13 West W L LA Dodgers 9 6 San Diego 10 7 Colorado 9 7 Arizona 8 7 San Francisco 7 10
PCT .563 .563 .563 .500 .438 PCT .750 .688 .400 .400 .357 PCT .533 .471 .438 .400 .400
GB 1.0 2.0 GB 0.5 5.5 5.0 5.5 GB 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.0
Strk L2 W3 W3 W2 L4 Strk W1 L3 L1 W1 L1 Strk L1 L1 W1 W1 L1
PCT .813 .533 .438 .313 .313 PCT .714 .533 .500 .500 .188 PCT .600 .588 .563 .533 .412
GB 4.5 6.0 8.0 8.0 GB 2.5 3.0 3.0 8.0 GB 0.5 1.0 3.0
Strk W11 L3 L2 W2 L2 Strk W2 L2 L1 W2 W1 Strk L3 L2 W2 W1 W3
Yesterday’s results Pittsburgh 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Miami 9, Philadelphia 1 NY Yankees 2, Detroit 1 NY Mets 6, Atlanta 3 Milwaukee 4, Cincinnati 2 Colorado 2, San Diego 1 San Francisco 3, LA Dodgers 2 (10 inn) St. Louis 4, Washington 1 LA Angels 2, Oakland 0 Toronto 7, Baltimore 6 Tampa Bay 2, Boston 1 Kansas City 3, Chicago Sox 2 (13 inn) Today’s schedule Atlanta at Philadelphia, 4:05 PM Wood (1-0) vs. Harang (2-1) Boston at Baltimore, 4:05 PM Porcello (1-2) vs. Gonzalez (2-1) NY Mets at NY Yankees, 4:05 PM deGrom (2-1) vs. Pineda (2-0) Cleveland at Detroit, 4:08 PM Salazar (1-0) vs. Greene (3-0) Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 4:10 PM Lester (0-2) vs. Leake (0-1) Toronto at Tampa Bay, 4:10 PM Dickey (0-1) vs. Andriese (0-1) Washington at Florida, 4:10 PM Zimmermann (1-2) vs. Latos (0-3) Kansas City at Chicago Sox, 5:10 PM Duffy (1-0) vs. Quintana (1-1) St. Louis at Milwaukee, 5:10 PM Martinez (1-0) vs. Garza (1-2) San Francisco at Colorado, 5:40 PM Heston (2-1) vs. Butler (1-1) Pittsburgh at Arizona, 6:40 PM Cole (2-0) vs. Collmenter (1-2) Houston at Oakland, 7:05 PM Keuchel (2-0) vs. Kazmir (2-0) Texas at LA Angels, 7:05 PM Lewis (1-1) vs. Richards (0-1) LA Dodgers at San Diego, 7:10 PM Greinke (2-0) vs. Cashner (1-2) Minnesota at Seattle, 7:10 PM Hughes (0-3) vs. Hernandez (2-0) Saturday April 25 Cleveland at Detroit, 10:08 a.m. Bauer (2-0) vs. Simon (3-0) Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 10:10 a.m. Arrieta (2-1) vs. DeSclafani (2-0) Kansas City at Chicago Sox, 11:10 a.m. Volquez (2-1) vs. Danks (0-2) Houston at Oakland, 1:05 PM Feldman (1-2) vs. Graveman (1-1) NY Mets at NY Yankees, 1:05 PM Harvey (3-0) vs. Sabathia (0-3) Washington at Florida, 1:10 PM Strasburg (1-1) vs. Koehler (1-2) Toronto at Tampa Bay, 3:10 PM Norris (1-1) vs. TBD Atlanta at Philadelphia, 4:05 PM Miller (2-0) vs. Buchanan (0-3) Boston at Baltimore, 4:05 PM Masterson (2-0) vs. Chen (0-1) St. Louis at Milwaukee, 4:10 PM Wainwright (2-1) vs. Peralta (0-2) Pittsburgh at Arizona, 5:10 PM Burnett (0-1) vs. De La Rosa (2-1) San Francisco at Colorado, 5:10 PM Hudson (0-2) vs. De La Rosa (0-1) LA Dodgers at San Diego, 5:40 PM McCarthy (2-0) vs. Despaigne (2-0) Texas at LA Angels, 6:05 PM
Blue Jays, 7 Orioles 6 Baltimore
Toronto
ab r h bi ab r h bi Lough LF 3 0 1 0 Reyes SS 4000 Paredes 2B 4 0 0 0 Travis 2B 3 1 1 1 Jones CF 4 2 2 0 Donaldson 3B4 2 2 2 Davis 1B 4 0 0 0 Enca’cion DH 4 0 0 0 Young RF 4 1 2 0 Smoak 1B 1 1 0 0 Snider DH 4 1 1 2 Martin C 3111 Machado 3B 4 2 2 4 Pompey CF 4 0 0 0 Cabrera SS 3 0 0 0 Valencia LF 3 2 1 1 Pearce PH 1 0 0 0 Pillar RF 3022 Lavarnway C 4 0 0 0 Totals 29 7 7 7 Totals 35 6 8 6
Baltimore Toronto
000 001 104 6 003 310 00x 7
2B: BAL Jones, Ad (5, Hutchison); TOR Valencia, D (3, Tillman), Pillar (4, Tillman), Donaldson (6, Tillman), Martin, R (2, Brach), Travis (5, Britton). HR: BAL Machado, M 2 (3, 6th inning off Hutchison, 0 on, 0 out; 9th inning off Castro, M, 2 on, 1 out); TOR Donaldson (4, 3rd inning off Tillman, 1 on, 2 out). S: TOR Reyes. Team LOB: BAL 3; TOR 7. Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO C Tillman (L, 2-2) 4.1 5 7 7 5 3 B Brach 1.2 1 0 0 2 4 R Hunter 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 Z Britton 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO A Hutchison (W, 2-0) 8.0 4 2 2 0 7 L Hendriks 0.1 3 3 3 0 1 M Castro 0.2 1 1 1 0 1 HBP: Lough (by Hutchison). Time: 2:36. Att: 18,581.
010 000 000 1 010 000 001 2
SB: BOS Betts (5, 2nd base off Odorizzi/ Rivera, Re). 2B: BOS Sandoval (2, Odorizzi); TB Longoria (5, Buchholz). Team Lob: BOS 6; TB 9. E: TB Dykstra (2, missed catch). Boston IP H R ER BB SO C Buchholz 6.0 2 1 1 3 10 A Ogando 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 J Tazawa 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 A Varvaro (L, 0-1) 0.1 3 1 1 0 0 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO J Odorizzi 6.2 3 1 1 3 3 B Gomes 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 K Jepsen 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 B Boxberger (W, 2-1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 HBP: Dykstra (by Buchholz). Time: 3:00. Att: 13,834.
Yankees 2, Tigers 1 NY Yankees
BASEBALL
Tampa Bay
Detroit
ab r h bi ab r h bi Ellsbury CF 2 2 1 0 Gose CF 4110 Gardner LF 3 0 0 0 Kinsler 2B 4 0 0 0 Beltran DH 3 0 0 0 Cabrera 1B 3 0 0 0 McCann C 4 0 0 1 Martinez DH 3 0 0 1 Headley 3B 3 0 0 0 Martinez RF 4 0 2 0 Young RF 4 0 1 0 Cespedes LF 2 0 0 0 Jones 1B 3 0 0 0 Avila C 2000 Petit 2B 1 0 1 0 McCann C 1 0 0 0 Drew 2B-SS 3 0 0 0 Cast’lanos 3B 3 0 0 0 Gregorius SS 1 0 0 0 Perez SS 3000 Teixeira 1B 2 0 0 0 Totals 29 1 3 1 Totals 29 2 3 1
NY Yankees 000 001 010 2 Detroit 100 000 000 1 SB: NYY Gregorius (2, 2nd base off Sanchez, An/Avila), Ellsbury (4, 2nd base off Sanchez, An/Avila). 2B: NYY Ellsbury (2, Gorzelanny), Petit, G (2, Chamberlain); DET Gose (3, Tanaka, M), Martinez, J 2 (4, Tanaka, M, Tanaka, M). S: NYY Gardner, B. Team Lob: NYY 7; DET 4. NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SO M Tanaka 6.1 3 1 1 2 6 J Wilson 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 D Betances (W, 3-0) 1.1 0 0 0 0 2 A Miller 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO A Sanchez 6.1 1 1 1 4 8 T Gorzelanny (L, 0-1) 1.2 1 1 1 2 2 J Chamberlain 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 Time: 3:02. Att: 27,754.
Angels 2, Athletics 0 Oakland
LA Angels
Fuld CF Zobrist PH Canha LF Vogt C Butler DH Davis 1B Reddick RF Lawrie 3B Sogard 2B Semien SS Totals
ab r h bi ab r h bi 4 0 0 0 Calhoun RF 4 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 Trout CF 3000 4 0 0 0 Pujols 1B 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 Freese 3B 2 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 Aybar SS 3 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 Joyce LF 3000 3 0 1 0 Cowgill LF 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 Cron DH 3000 4 0 2 0 Butera C 3100 4 0 2 0 Giavotella 2B 2 0 0 0 35 0 8 0 Totals 25 2 1 2
Oakland 000 000 000 0 LA Angels 002 000 00x 2 SB: LAA Trout (4, 2nd base off Chavez, J/Vogt). 2B: OAK Semien (4, Tropeano). HR: LAA Calhoun (3, 3rd inning off Chavez, J, 1 on, 1 out). S: LAA Giavotella. Team Lob: OAK 10; LAA 3. E: OAK Lawrie (1, throw). Oakland IP H R ER BB SO J Chavez (L, 0-1) 6.0 1 2 1 3 4 D Otero 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 T Clippard 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 LA Angels IP H R ER BB SO N Tropeano (W, 1-0) 6.0 5 0 0 1 5 N Salas 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 J Smith 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 H Street 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 Time: 2:20. Att: 24,304.
Cardinals 4, Nationals 1 St. Louis
Washington
ab r h bi ab r h bi Carpenter 3B 4 1 2 0 Span CF 3011 Heyward RF 4 1 2 0 Desmond SS 4 0 1 0 Holliday LF 3 1 1 0 Harper RF 3 0 1 0 Adams 1B 3 0 1 1 Zim’man 1B 4 0 1 0 Reynolds 1B 1 1 1 1 Robinson LF 3 0 0 0 Peralta SS 4 0 1 0 Escobar 3B 4 0 1 0 Wong 2B 4 0 0 0 Lobaton C 4 0 0 0 Jay CF 3 0 0 0 Espinosa 2B 4 1 1 0 Cruz C 4 0 1 0 Scherzer P 2 0 0 0 Wacha P 3 0 0 0 Moore PH 1 0 0 0 Walden P 0 0 0 0 Thornton P 0 0 0 0 Anna PH 1 0 0 0 Barrett P 0 0 0 0 Rosenthal P 0 0 0 0 Roark P 0000 Totals 34 4 9 2 Totals 32 1 6 1
St. Louis 100 001 020 4 Washington 000 010 000 1 2B: STL Carpenter, M (8, Scherzer), Reynolds, Ma (3, Barrett), Peralta (5, Barrett); WSH Espinosa (2, Wacha), Desmond (6, Walden). GIDP: STL Heyward, Cruz, T; WSH Escobar, Y, Zimmerman. Team Lob: STL 5; WSH 7. DP: STL 2 (Peralta-Adams, M, Peralta-Wong-Reynolds, Ma); WSH 2 (Espinosa-Desmond-Zimmerman, Escobar, Y-Espinosa-Zimmerman). E: STL Adams, M (3, missed catch); WSH Barrett (1, throw). St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO M Wacha (W, 3-0) 7.0 5 1 1 2 6 J Walden 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 T Rosenthal 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 Washington IP H R ER BB SO M Scherzer (L, 1-2) 7.0 6 2 2 0 4 M Thornton 0.2 1 1 1 0 0 A Barrett 0.1 2 1 1 0 1 T Roark 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 HBP: Holliday (by Scherzer). Time: 2:31. Att: 26,990.
Giants 3, Dodgers 2 (10 inn) LA Dodgers
San Fran
ab r h bi ab r h bi Turner SS-3B 3 0 0 0 Aoki LF 5000 Peralta P 0 0 0 0 Panik 2B 4120 Baez P 0 0 0 0 Pagan CF 5 1 2 0 Ethier PH 0 0 0 0 Posey C 4010 Nicasio P 0 0 0 0 Belt 1B 3011 Puig RF 4 0 1 0 Maxwell RF 5 0 2 1 Gonzalez 1B 5 1 1 1 McGehee 3B 4 0 1 0 Kendrick 2B 3 0 0 0 Duffy PR-3B 0 1 0 0 Grandal C 4 0 0 0 Crawford SS 3 0 1 1 Crawford LF 4 0 0 0 Vogelsong P 2 0 0 0 Guerrero 3B 3 1 2 1 Affeldt P 0000 Garcia P 0 0 0 0 Sanchez PH 1 0 0 0 Howell P 0 0 0 0 Kontos P 0 0 0 0 Uribe 3B 1 0 1 0 Lopez P 0000 Pederson CF 3 0 1 0 Machi P 0000 Bolsinger P 2 0 0 0 Blanco PH 1 0 0 0 Hatcher P 0 0 0 0 Casilla P 0000 Rollins PH-SS 2 0 0 0 Totals 37 3 10 3 Totals 34 2 6 2
LA Dodgers 011 000 000 0 2 San Fran 000 001 001 1 3 SB: SF Pagan (2, 2nd base off Nicasio/ Grandal). 3B: SF Crawford, B (1, Baez, P). GIDP: LAD Gonzalez, Ad; SF McGehee. HR: LAD Guerrero (4, 2nd inning off Vogelsong, 0 on, 2 out), Gonzalez, Ad (6, 3rd inning off Vogelsong, 0 on, 2 out). S: LAD Pederson. Team Lob: LAD 7; SF 11. DP: LAD (Turner, J-Kendrick, H-Gonzalez, Ad); SF (Panik-Crawford, B-Belt). E: LAD Turner, J (2, throw). LA Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO M Bolsinger 5.2 5 1 1 2 5 D Hatcher 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 Y Garcia 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 J Howell 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 J Peralta 0.1 0 0 0 2 0 P Baez 1.0 2 1 1 0 1 J Nicasio (L, 0-1) 0.1 2 1 1 1 0 San Fran IP H R ER BB SO R Vogelsong 6.0 3 2 2 1 5 J Affeldt 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 G Kontos 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 J Lopez 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 J Machi 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 S Casilla (W, 2-0) 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 HBP: Turner, J (by Vogelsong). Time: 3:23. Att: 41,240.
Playoff schedule Note: 16 teams, all series best-of-seven Yesterday’s results (Games 2) Cleveland 103, Boston 95 (Cleveland leads series 3-0) Chicago 113, Milwaukee 106 (2OT) (Chicago leads series 3-0) Golden State 123 New Orleans 119 (OT) (Golden States leads series 3-0)
Saturday, April 25, 2015 Atlanta at Brooklyn, noon Chicago at Milwaukee, 2:30 p.m. Golden St. at New Orleans, 6:00 p.m. Memphis at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 26, 2015 Cleveland at Boston, 10 a.m. L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 12:30 p.m. Toronto at Washington, 4:00 p.m. Houston at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 27 Game 4 – Atlanta at Brooklyn Game 5 * Milwaukee at Chicago Game 4 – Memphis at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 Game 5 * Boston at Cleveland
HORSE RACING Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, Post time 3:24 p.m. Horse: trainer; jockey odds American Pharoah: Bob Baffert; Victor Espinoza 7-2 Dortmund: Bob Baffert; Martin Garcia 4-1 Carpe Diem: Todd Pletcher; John Velazquez 10-1 Materiality: Todd Pletcher; Javier Castellano 12-1 Mubtaahij: Mike de Kock; Christophe Soumillon 12-1 Upstart: Rick Violette Jr.; Jose Ortiz12-1 Firing Line: Simon Callaghan; Gary Stevens 15-1 Frosted: Kiaran McLaughlin; Joel Rosario 15-1 International Star: Mike Maker; Miguel Mena 15-1 Bolo: Carla Gaines; Rafael Bejarano30-1 Danzig Moon: Mark Casse; Julien Leparoux 30-1 El Kabeir: Trainer; John Terranova II; Calvin Borel 30-1 Far Right: Ron Moquett; Mike Smith 30-1 Itsaknockout: Todd Pletcher; Luis Saez 30-1 Madefromlucky: Todd Pletcher; undecided 30-1 Stanford: Todd Pletcher; Florent Geroux 30-1 Tencendur: George Weaver; Manny Franco 30-1 War Story: Tom Amoss; Joe Talamo30-1 Mr. Z: D. Wayne Lukas; Ramon Vazquez 50-1 Ocho Ocho Ocho: Jim Cassidy; Elvis Trujillo 50-1 Current odds, Bovada.lv
SOCCER
UEFA Champions League Quarterfinals - Return leg Tuesday’s results Barcelona 2, Paris St. Germain 0 (Barcelona wins on aggregate 5-1, advances to semifinals starting May 4) Bayern Munich 6, FC Porto 1 (Bayern wins on aggregate 7-4) Wednesday’s results Monaco 0, Juventus 0 (Juventus wins on aggregate, 1-0) Real Madrid 1, Atletico Madrid 0 (Real Madrid wins on aggregate 1-0) Semifinals Draw today, noon First legs May 5-6 Return legs May 12-13
MLS Eastern League Club PTS GP W L NY Red Bulls 11 5 3 0 DC United 11 6 3 1 N. England 11 7 3 2 Columbus 8 6 2 2 Orlando 8 7 2 3 Chicago 6 5 2 3 NY City FC 6 7 1 3 Philadelphia 6 8 1 4 Toronto 3 5 1 4 Montreal 2 4 0 2 Western League Club PTS GP W L Vancouver 16 8 5 2 Dallas 13 7 4 2 Los Angeles 11 7 3 2 Seattle 10 6 3 2 San Jose 9 7 3 4 Houston 9 7 2 2 Salt Lake 9 6 2 1 Portland 9 7 2 2 Sporting KC 9 7 2 2 Colorado 6 6 1 2 Today’s schedule NY City FC at Chicago, 5 p.m. Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.
T 2 2 2 2 2 0 3 3 0 2
GF GA 9 4 6 5 6 7 8 5 6 8 5 7 5 6 9 13 8 11 2 6
T 1 1 2 1 0 3 3 3 3 3
GF GA 10 7 10 10 8 7 9 5 7 9 6 4 6 5 7 7 7 8 5 5
Saturday, April 25 Philadelphia at Columbus, 4:30 p.m. Salt Lake at New England, 4:30 p.m. Sporting KC at Houston, 5:30 p.m. DC United at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m. Montreal at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 26 Toronto at Orlando, 4 p.m. Portland at Seattle, 6:30 p.m.
English FA Cup FA Cup Final, Saturday, May 30 Aston Villa vs. Arsenal
English Premier League Position/Club 1 Chelsea 2 Arsenal 3 Man United 4 Man City 5 Liverpool 6 Tot Hotspur 7 Southampton 8 Swansea 9 Stoke City 10 West Ham 11 Crystal Pal 12 Everton 13 West Brom 14 Newcastle 15 Aston Villa 16 Sunderland 17 Hull City 18 Leicester 19 Q.P. Rangers 20 Burnley
W D L GF GA Pts 23 7 2 65 26 76 20 6 6 63 32 66 19 8 6 59 31 65 19 7 7 67 34 64 17 6 9 47 36 57 17 6 10 53 47 57 17 5 11 45 24 56 13 8 12 38 42 47 13 7 13 38 41 46 11 10 12 42 42 43 11 9 13 42 45 42 10 11 12 41 43 41 9 9 15 32 464 36 9 8 16 34 540 35 8 8 17 24 451 32 5 14 13 25 483 29 6 10 16 29 456 28 7 7 18 34 517 28 7 5 21 38 591 26 5 11 17 26 515 26
Saturday, April 25 Southampton vs. Spurs, 4:45 a.m. Burnley vs. Leicester, 7 a.m. Crystal Palace vs. Hull, 7 a.m. Newcastle vs. Swansea, 7 a.m. QPR vs. West Ham, 7 a.m. Stoke vs. Sunderland, 7 a.m. West Brom vs. Liverpool, 7 a.m. Man City vs. Aston Villa, 9:30 a.m. Sunday, April 26 Everton vs. Man United, 5:30 a.m. Arsenal vs. Chelsea, 8 a.m.
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Tournament results best in 29 years Fourteen local players earn gold medals as local club hosts 74 athletes from across British Columbia ROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS
The coach of the Nanaimo Junior Badminton Club says tournament results last Saturday were the best he’s seen in 29 years. Seventy four players from as far as Victoria and Maple Ridge in the Lower Mainland were in the Harbour City for the annual tournament hosted by the club, held this year out of McGirr Elementary and Dover Bay Secondary. Twenty five of those were players coached out of the Oliver Woods Community Centre by Andy Henderson, who says the
success of the younger athletes in particular bodes well for the club’s future. Fourteen of the players received an “A Gold” award highlighting them as the top of their respective category. Owen Brown, 9, and Priya Ramash, 14, won A Gold in all three elements; singles, doubles and mixed doubles; Brown in the U10 category and Ramash at U16. Alayna Jankovic, 10, did the same at U12. Jankovic’s younger sister Mikayla, 8, was Brown’s partner in winning A Gold in the U10 mixed doubles and she also
secured the same result in the singles contest. Olivia Khoo and Olivia Phillips, both 9, won A Gold in the U10 girls doubles, as did Manny Lalh, 8, and Jason Dinh, 7, in the boys doubles. That set of results meant that all six of the Nanaimo club’s players at U10 won an A Gold of some sort. Johnson Dinh, 11, won the same in boys singles and mixed doubles in the U12 category. Justin Liu, 12, won A Gold in both boys singles and doubles alongside Lucas Cin, 13, in the U14 category. Tian Gao, 15, also won triple
A Gold in singles, boys doubles and mixed double in the U19 category. Lam Pham, 16, partnered Gao in the boys doubles as did Charlize Huang, 17, in the mixed. The rest of the club’s athletes also won either gold, silver or bronze medals in the A, B, or C division. “We’ve got a lot of great young kids right now and a lot of serious players,” said Henderson. “Sometimes you get kids who just show up to be babysat or they move on to other sports but right now we have a good group that comes to win and they’ve got that competitive spirit in
them. They’re all very good players.” The other Nanaimo players that competed at the tournament were Khushi Brar, Mannat Shienh, Matthew Ye, Jaideep Dhami, Preet Shienh, Muskaam Ria, Liam Khoo, Kim Dinh, Mary Pasado, Kirit Lalh, Albert Zhang. Ross.Armour@nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4230 » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
BASKETBALL
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A Nanaimo businessman has organized a basketball camp and celebrity game that will see a former Harlem Globetrotter come to town. Sean Dupuis has set the dates of May 2-4 for a basketball camp and celebrities game out of Vancouver Island University. Students from Georgia Avenue Elementary, Mountain View Elementary and Fairview Community School have been invited to attend the camp, where a group of 15 will win scholarships to a similar camp that will be put on at some point in late August to early September. Part of the camp will see former Globetrotter Harold ‘Lefty’ Williams bring his exhibition show team the Harlem Dreams to VIU’s gym to take on a group of Nanaimo-select players led by Mayor Bill McKay, who will act as coach of the team. Williams played in 24 countries around the world with the Globetrotters as well as every state in the U.S. and was the only left-handed showman to play and entertain on the team through the years. Money raised from the event will go toward further basketball camps that Dupuis plans to organize, in order to give more young students an opportunity to participate in the game. “The opportunities that there are in hockey just aren’t there
Harold ‘Lefty’ Williams, a former Harlem Globetrotter, will host a basketball camp and celebrity game in Nanaimo May 2. [FILE PHOTO]
in basketball,” said Dupuis, who first had the idea of a camp more than a year ago, but was stopped in his tracks when pursuing a venue due to the school strike. Spurred on by his 13-year-old daughter, an avid basketball fan,
Dupuis was determined to put on an event and came across the idea of using VIU’s gym as the venue. “I called up Lefty and asked him when he was available and he said he would put on a show
with his team,” said Dupuis. “Then VIU told me the weekend the gym would be available so my idea went from a one-day camp, to a three-day camp, to a three-day camp with an exhibition show. Williams now works as a youth pastor in Port Alberni and will also offer some coaching tips and basketball wisdom once he arrives in the Harbour City. “I’m looking forward to it. It’s just all about teaching kids their dreams and helping them to achieve their dreams,” said Williams, who arrived in Port Alberni from New Jersey following his years as a Globetrotter. “The Harlem Dreams are all professional entertainers who play at a high level and aim to bring communities together like Nanaimo.” This is the first camp Dupuis has organized and he has a vision of many more further down the line. “It’s a good opportunity at a relatively inexpensive cost to get out there and enjoy the game and have some fun. “I’ve lived in Nanaimo since 2008 and there’s not really been a full-on family event like this that’s just going to be clean and good fun.” The Harlem Dreams against the Nanaimo All-Stars takes place on Saturday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Ross.Armour@nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4230
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The Western Lacrosse Association is searching for a new commissioner and an assistant commissioner after both men holding those positions abruptly stepped down this week. Casey Cook, who had served the Senior A lacrosse league as commissioner since 2007, announced his departure from his position through his Twitter account, also adding that assistant commissioner Sohen Gill was stepping down, as well. According to the Times Colonist, it came following a league meeting on Saturday in Vancouver in which the board passed a vote (5-2) to move forward with what Victoria Shamrocks’ executive director and vice-president of sales and marketing, Paul German, says was the league’s approval to “move to a modern, responsive website and toward a professional-grade webcast.” The moves come roughly a month before the start of the 2015 WLA season, in which one of the league’s teams will host the Mann Cup national championship series. The season begins May 22 with the Nanaimo Timbermen travelling to take on the Victoria Shamrocks. Sports@nanaimodailynews.com
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ast won the ace to return the spade queen for the king on which dummy parted with a diamond. The king of hearts collected the queen from East and declarer continued by running the ten to the jack. East tapped dummy by playing a third spade but, with clubs breaking 3-3, declarer could surrender a club, ruff a club and return to the table to cash the clubs. The defense had scored three tricks, N-S +170. South could have avoided a trump loser by playing the ace on the second round but a hook was strongly suggested. East was known to hold six or more spades and Restricted Choice considerations certainly pointed to a second round finesse. Should North have advanced to game? Partner’s resolve to bid three hearts surely revealed four hearts and a maximum. This information, combined with the 5-5 pattern, intimates that North should bid game. There are no guarantees but there should be a reasonable chance of bringing home the game bonus. East had wisely subsided despite a promising hand. A spade partscore has a lot of losers. On the surface, he should lose two hearts, two diamonds, two clubs and a trump. The three-level would be too high and could potentially be greeted by a penalty double. Author: Dave Willis - visit his website at www.insidebridge.ca Questions on bridge can be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The New Canadian Bridge c/o Torstar Syndication Services, One Yonge St., Toronto, M5E 1E6.
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Consider having relative intervene in drum dispute Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: My husband died 11 years ago. Our son, “Marcus,” was 6 at the time. His dad was in intensive care for two months, and because of his young age, our son was not allowed to see his father. Before he died, my husband asked his younger brother to keep his drum set until Marcus turned 18. Marcus’ uncles used to call him every year on his birthday, which also is his father’s birthday. But since my husband died, neither has called to wish their nephew a happy birthday. Marcus will be 18 soon. He is into music and wants the drums. I have asked his uncle on several occasions by sending a message on Facebook. I also asked my son’s half-brother (from my husband’s first marriage) to get the drums, and Marcus would pick them up from his house. Nothing has happened. I recently noticed a picture on Facebook of a guy who used to play in a band with my late husband. In the photo, he is playing drums that look suspiciously like the ones that belong to my son.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might feel as if someone is intentionally working against you. This person will do whatever he or she thinks will work. Do yourself a favor and pull away quickly. Review your finances before you engage in an expenditure. Tonight: Keep your distance from a control game. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your desire to have a situation play out the way you want it to could cause a rift. You might not realize how damaging your manipulation can be. Let go, and trust that your thoughts will be evaluated once the power play ceases. Tonight: Indulge a friend or loved one. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Someone could be trying to pull you into a power play. Be smart and refuse to be part of the game. A friend will add an unexpected quality to your day.
OBITUARY
Lois of Sharon, Lois and Bram dies at 78
Marcus has nothing of his father’s. He was not included in any decisions on what to sell or what to keep, or even asked what he’d like to have. He was also given his dad’s El Camino, but my husband put the title in the name of Marcus’ half-brother, who sold it. He didn’t even give my son any of the money from the sale. That was bad enough, but Marcus only really cares about the drums. The entire family knows that my late husband wanted Marcus to have the drums. What should I do? File a lawsuit? How do I honour my late husband’s wishes and give my son this final gift from his dad? – Distraught Mom of a Musician Dear Mom: Is anything in writing? If not, you might need to file a lawsuit, but in order to prove your case, you probably will need other credible witnesses to testify that your husband’s wish was for Marcus to have the drum set. An attorney will let you know if you have a case. But a lawsuit should be a last resort. Please stop asking for personal things on Facebook. Pick up the phone. Call the uncle who supposedly has the drum set. Be nice. Tell him what a wonderful birthday present it would be for Marcus to finally have this memento from his father. Ask when would be convenient to
pick it up and what you can do to facilitate the transfer. Marcus also can call his uncle. These relationships work both ways, and Marcus is old enough now to establish his own contact. And if he is close to his half-brother or another paternal relative, perhaps you or Marcus could get the relative to intercede on his behalf.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
TORONTO — Lois Lilienstein loved children, loved music and loved to perform. Credited with providing the special spark that helped make Sharon, Lois & Bram one of the biggest kids’ acts of the 1980s, Lilienstein was being remembered Thursday as a vivacious performer with a Broadway background and a knack for understanding how to entertain children. Lilienstein died Wednesday of a rare form of cancer. She was 78. “It’s a shock. We’ve been together for 37 years — it’s like a marriage,” longtime collaborator Bram Morrison said Thursday, describing Lilienstein as “full of ideas and energy.” “She came from a different musical place than Sharon and me. Sharon and I came out of the folk music world and she came out of the Broadway world. So it was a very interesting combination and I think that partly explains the success that we had.” Fellow children’s performer Raffi Cavoukian, known simply as Raffi, credited Lilienstein with giving him tips on what songs worked, and songs what didn’t. She had a knack for reaching the youngest audiences, said Cavoukian, who met Lilienstein in the mid-70s through the Toronto folk scene. “She understood that children
Use some of your innate charm and wit, and success will follow. Tonight: Buy a new item for your wardrobe. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might sense that much is going on behind closed doors. Consider breaking past a barrier. If you succeed, communication will excel. Be aware that someone around you has a crush on you. Could you have a secret admirer? Tonight: Let go, and have fun. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You easily could be overwhelmed by what you are hearing and sensing behind the scenes. Someone you look up to might be on the warpath. Know that you can’t stop this person, but you can withdraw your energy from the situation. Tonight: Paint the town red. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) A new friend suddenly could become contrary. You can’t control this person’s mood, but you can control your response to it. A
meeting will allow your inventive mind to flourish. Stay on top of what is needed, but avoid becoming controlling. Tonight: Find a spot with great music. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Listen to news with openness, and attempt to deal with a problem. You might need to take the lead, whether you want to or not. Allow greater give-andtake. Your ability to see past the obvious will help you eliminate what is unnecessary. Tonight: A force to be dealt with. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Reach out to someone at a distance. You could be delighted by the conversation, though you might hear some unexpected news. A loved one could be difficult. Schedule some one-on-one time with this person if you can. Tonight: Flow with the moment. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Deal with individuals rather than groups. You can be more open and get a better grasp on the other party’s thoughts.
A child or new friend could surprise you. If you are single, someone you meet today will have a strong effect on you. Tonight: Head out with friends or co-workers. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Go with the flow, even if a suggestion sounds a little silly. It might be good for you to head into less-predictable situations. A loved one finally will decide to open up rather than resort to making argumentative comments. Tonight: Choose a favorite stressbuster. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Allowing more give-and-take would help you get past an unexpected communication. Understand that others could be a little out of whack and more volatile than usual. Let go of judgments, especially when dealing with a powerful friend. Tonight: Lighten your mood. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Your creativity will emerge
Dear Annie: “Holding My Breath” said she can’t kiss her husband because of his halitosis. I had bad breath for 10 years. I brushed, used mouthwash and saw the dentist regularly. I also had frequent problems with my digestive tract. Finally, after having an endoscopy and a colonoscopy, my gallbladder was found to be functioning at 17 per cent. It was removed, and my bad breath and constant low-level nausea went away immediately. – Alabama Maggie Dear Maggie: Thanks for writing. Readers, please don’t assume these things are unimportant. They can indicate serious medical problems.
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love movement. She was always the one saying: ‘Don’t forget the actions!”’ Cavoukian recalled, also crediting her with introducing him to the song and movements of “The Hokey Pokey.” David Lilienstein said his mother died Wednesday at home in Toronto surrounded by friends and family. After being diagnosed last October, her health took a sudden downturn in recent weeks, he said. “She knew it was happening, she was at peace with it, and she died very peacefully and not in pain,” Lilienstein said Thursday as he recalled a childhood filled with music. Morrison and Sharon Hampson, the other member of the trio, said they noticed a dramatic decline in their friend’s health in recent weeks. They visited every day to hold her hand and listen to music. “We fought like sisters but we loved each other like sisters, too,” said Hampson.
when dealing with an associate who could cause some uproar. A roommate or family member will express his or her caring in a significant way. Your intuition is likely to help you make a choice. Tonight: Your words will make a friend smile. YOUR BIRTHDAY (April 24) This year you often stand up to others’ manipulations. You will start walking away from controlling people. You also will gain a new understanding, which will lead to enhanced communication skills. Your energy remains high. If you are single, you will apply your strong drive to meeting someone. Come late August, a significant person could enter your life. If you are attached, the two of you need to keep talking and accepting each other. You will want to spend some money on a special vacation for the two of you. Make sure you both are on board with this idea. CANCER always seeks you out.
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