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ISLAND HISTORY Newcastle has a unique story and a bright future

Celestine Aleck, an interpreter for the Snuneymuxw First Nation on Newcastle Island, stands in front of an old sandstone cutter that once made pulp stones for paper mills across North America. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]

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ewcastle Island has been drawing people to its shores for thousands of years, and the attraction hasn’t lessened to this day.

Along with its spectacular natural beauty, the 336-hectare marine park located in the Nanaimo harbour boasts a rich history for both First Nations and Europeans.

Hidden middens offer mute evidence of the long relationship the Snuneymuxw First Nation had with the island, which was a spiritual place that also offered many types of traditional medicines in its many plants and trees that the native people used for healing.

After coal was discovered in this area in 1849, Newcastle Island also hosted many commercial enterprises, including

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1955 City of Nanaimo purchases the island.

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a fish-salting operation, a shipyard, coal mining and a sandstone quarry that was in operation for more than 60 years.

Plans are currently underway to develop a business plan for Newcastle island — co-managed by the SFN, the City of Nanaimo

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and the province — that is expected to roll out in three phases over seven years.

Celestine Aleck is an interpreter for the SFN on the island who has been offering tours of Newcastle during the summer months for the past nine years.

She said she learned much of the native history of the island from her great-grandmother.

“Before Europeans arrived, there were a series of longhouses built from Departure Bay to where Port Place Mall exists today,” Aleck said.

“When family members would die, the rest of the family would come to the island so they could mourn in a quiet, spiritual place and fix their minds and bodies. There was only one family allowed to live on the island at a time to keep the beaches clear and prevent over harvesting of the medicinal plants.”

Among the many stories Aleck has of Newcastle is the legend

that a box of gold and other valuables is buried somewhere on the island.

She said the story is that in the years after coal was first discovered in the Nanaimo area, two Snuneymuxw men were returning to Nanaimo from Vancouver in a war canoe when a number of white men, who carried a small wooden chest that they closely guarded, asked for a lift.

Aleck said the men soon began fighting among themselves which ended up with all of them overboard and drowned.

The Snuneymuxw men returned to Nanaimo and opened the box to see what the fight was all about and found it loaded with gold and valuables.

Aleck said they were afraid they would be blamed for the deaths of the white men and also feared the incident meant the box was bad luck, so they decided to bury it on Newcastle Island, according to the legend.

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The peaceful and spiritual nature of the island that was maintained by the First Nation for millennia quickly ended with the arrival of the Europeans, who saw the value of the island’s many resources.

Coal was plentiful in Nanaimo as well as Newcastle island and the inevitable mines were dug and excavated for the valuable material.

The island’s sandstone quarries were also quickly utilized and the sandstone mined there was used to build such landmark buildings as Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, the U.S. Mint in San Francisco and the B.C. Penitentiary in New Westminster.

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Rescind new legislation: Trustees Board chairman calls Bill 11 a ‘scare tactic’ to distract public from the education under-funding issue ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Trustees in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district want new legislation that has been recently introduced in the School Act by the province rescinded.

The board has voted to write a letter to the Ministry of Education expressing their concerns with Bill 11 and the new abilities it gives the province to over-ride its decisions.

Board chairman Steve Rae said Bill 11 is merely a “scare tactic” by the province so the public will be distracted by the fact that the government is under funding B.C.’s school districts, and has been for years.

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“The government is getting tremendous push back from across the province since it introduced this legislation in March,” Rae said.

“It’s widely being seen as a bullying tactic. We believe they’re telling us that if they don’t like what we’re doing, then they have the authority to change it. Many other school boards across the province are sending the same type of letters in response to this legislation.”

Among other amendments, Bill 11, also known as the Education Statutes Amendment Act, will give boards with “clear authority” to enter into shared service or alternative service delivery agreements with other boards or public sector entities as a costsaving measure, according to a government press release.

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and benefits, the changes also provide the Minister (Peter Fassbender) with the authority to require boards to participate in specific service delivery arrangements,” the release states.

Fassbender said the amendment will help school districts reduce overhead costs.

“Taxpayers expect their dollars to be used wisely and that every available dollar is going to help children in the classroom,” he said. “With 60 school districts, there are many opportunities for shared services. These amendments will give districts and the ministry additional tools to turn these opportunities into ongoing savings.”

Rae said school boards recall the message when the Cowichan Valley school board was fired and a trustee appointed after the board failed to submit a balanced budget, as is mandatory under the School Act, in 2012.

“This is about the province looking to add to those powers,” he said.

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VICC performance defended by GM SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Council voted Monday to send correspondence to the province asking that an order calling for the city to complete remediation work on the lower Colliery dam this year be amended to include a third option. [DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO]

Council wants province to OK third dams overtopping option SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Total consulting and technical analysis work at Nanaimo’s Colliery dams could approach the $3 million mark in the coming months.

City council voted unanimously Monday to send correspondence to the B.C. water comptroller requesting that an order calling for the city to complete remediation work on the lower Colliery dam this year be amended to include a third overtopping option proposed by Coun. Jim Kipp earlier this month.

The motion passed 8-0 after a lengthy and sometimes agitated debate. Coun. Diane Brennan was absent.

The request for an amendment would also give the city until June 1 — a one-month extension from the current deadline — to

choose a remediation option and would also give the city until June 22 to submit design and construction plans for the option proposed by Kipp.

City council also voted Monday to authorize city staff to spend up to $400,000 to start that design and technical work that city staff say would be needed to convince provincial officials to accept Kipp’s overtopping option as a possible remediation option.

The city has already spent $2.35 million on engineering and studies on the structures so far.

Kipp’s proposal, which is based off a proposal from U.S.-based firm GeoStabilization International, would involve reinforcing the embankment of the lower dam with metal anchors and concrete, as well as elements including raised spillway walls and concrete berms to retrofit

the dam to be better able to handle an extreme flood.

The method is estimated to cost $2 million for work on the lower dam — far less than the $3 million to $6 million to build an auxiliary spillway or the $8.1 million to construct a new labyrinth spillway.

However, it is uncertain whether the province will accept the method as acceptable, since it has not been used in dam remediation in the province.

City manager Ted Swabey said it is not a guarantee the province will accept the city’s request to amend the order. If the water comptroller does not agree, “we will have our back against the wall for sure,” he said.

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Vancouver Island Conference Centre general manager Denise Tacon told Nanaimo councillors Monday night that the cityowned facility has maintained “a consistent level of delegates over the past three years,” but remains “an underdog” compared to other B.C. markets.

The conference centre receives a municipal operating subsidy each year, which was slightly more than $1 million in 2014.

There has been some disappointment among city residents and officials that occupancy rates at the facility were lower than originally projected.

Tacon highlighted positive trends on Monday, saying that “strong repeat loyalty” is the VICC’s customer base, and pointed to high satisfaction rates from customers in the high nineties. Delegate days are expected to see an increase this year to 20,423 from 19,895, although the number is lower than markets like Victoria, which is anticipating 105,000 delegate days.

Tacon said the city’s limited supply of 800 hotel rooms puts it at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting conferences and “invalidates” comparisons to facilities elsewhere. VICC also has fewer square feet than competing facilities in Victoria and Penticton, she said.

Tacon also said negative media coverage has played a role. She showed council a set of graphs which showed ‘negative’ versus ‘positive’ media coverage.

“We opened in 2008 and apart from the year of 2012, the negative content supersedes the posi-

“We’re always watching those numbers. And if we could change it, we would.”

Denise Tacon, VICC general manager

tive — as high as 75 per cent in some years,” she said.

“And in the public forum (that) has cost us and in the end, benefits no one.”

Coun. Bill Bestwick asked Tacon how much she thought the Leadercast controversy from had affected business.

“I think it absolutely affected morale, it absolutely affected the optics to Nanaimo, but we persevered and continued on because or business is to manage and deliver events,” Tacon said.

“Is this a new way that we justify poor performance?” asked Coun. Gord Fuller, referring to the statistics on negative media coverage.

“I don’t know that we have delivered poor performance by any regard,” Tacon said. “. . . I can say that we have done everything we possibly can, daily, weekly, monthly, annually, very cost efficient. We’re always watching those numbers. And if we could change it, we would.”

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‘Elementary’ TV show includes robot from Nanaimo firm SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

A Nanaimo robotics company recently had one of its metallic creations on set for an episode of the hit TV series Elementary, a modern-day portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and his trusty partner Watson.

The robot in question is called the Versatrax 150 Crawler, a mobile robot on caterpillars that

can navigate pipes and other tight spots. The robot was scripted to help the detectives examine a supposedly haunted house, according to Nanaimo Business News.

“In broad strokes, it goes to places where you couldn’t go or shouldn’t go,” said Jeff Christopherson, a technical salesman for Inuktun Services Ltd., the Harbour City-based company

that manufactures the model.

The robot can traverse pipes or go into areas where there is contamination or other unsafe conditions. It can also deliver a ‘payload’ in the form of a camera or a laser scan.

However, despite its onscreen credentials, it appears the fate that befalls so many TV extras and small parts also befell the Versatrax.

“The interesting part is the robot ended up on the cutting room floor,” said Christopherson.

“All we got was a little bit of the controller in the shot,” he said.

“It was very anti-climactic.”

Nonetheless, the TV gig is another small piece of exposure for the manufacturer, which has also had its products featured on several other shows, including a science quiz show in Quebec.

The company was also included in a recent stop in Nanaimo by federal Industry Minister James Moore.

Moore made a brief tour of the company’s facility and examined some of the technology produced there.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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» Editorial

More fairness needed for Order of Canada

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t’s meant for Canadians who have “enriched the lives of others and made a difference to this country.”

But there’s a nagging sense that the Order of Canada hasn’t been awarded as fairly as it should.

Ottawa is promising to correct that with money in last week’s federal budget dedicated to reforms, including boosting representation from “under-represented sectors.” In principle, it’s a worthy objective. But details are sketchy.

Given the hyper-partisan nature of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, there’s room for concern that this could result in more Tory bagmen and assorted party spear-carriers

“It may be especially important in an age of instant recognition and communication.”

David Johnston, Governor General

inducted into the order. That would be a travesty.

More than 6,000 people have been invested into the Order of Canada since its inception in the Centennial year of 1967.

The time is right for a new national conversation on who should be recognized.

According to Governor General David Johnston, Canada’s official honours need to reach a broader cross-section of people than they do now.

And he’s right.

“It may be especially important in an age of instant recognition and communication,” Johnston told The Canadian Press last week.

It would help the public better “understand those people who, over a period of time, have made remarkable contributions to the leadership of our country.”

Johnston welcomed the government’s commitment to spend $13.4 million over five years to bring about change and expressed particular concern about gender and regional representation.

For every woman nominated for the Order of Canada, his office says, the names of three men are put forward.

Furthermore, an analysis by the Ottawa Citizen in 2011 found that people living in the Atlantic region were inducted into the Order at a far higher rate, per capita, than people in the West.

And artists, authors and entertainers were being handed a steadily increasing share of the honour.

Perhaps it’s all well-deserved, with people in Atlantic Canada simply doing a better job of making a difference to the country. Or there could be bias at work.

A serious look the award process, including the criteria for eligibility and selection, should settle the question and clear the way for reform.

Particular effort should be

made to keep the system free of partisan considerations. And strong emphasis should be put on recognizing people from all walks of life who volunteer to assist others, not just the famous and the powerful.

For almost 50 years many of the country’s brightest, best and most accomplished have been honoured through the Order of Canada.

Making the process more balanced and open to a wider array of achievers should further burnish this most treasured of awards.

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James Lunney Opinion

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here have been many opinions expressed about my decision to step out of the Conservative Party of Canada caucus to push back on a despicable, unscientific and intolerant attack on political figures with a Christian world-view. So far, it has brought out the good, the bad and the ugly in an otherwise tolerant Canadian society normally known for embracing and respecting diversity. Residents may be assured that I am on the job. My two (Island) offices are open and serving constituents daily. I have direct access to ministers of the Crown far beyond those of any opposition member.

After 15 years of relationship, my views are known to the largest caucus of B.C. MPs and to those at the cabinet table.

The past year has seen unprecedented attempts to diminish, discredit and suppress a Christian worldview in law, medicine and academia; most recently, the Supreme Court of Canada ruling which seems to reinterpret Charter-defined fundamental rights of freedom of religion and conscience as freedom from religion.

When self-described militant atheist Ian Capstick stated on national TV that he is going after churches’ charitable tax-exempt status, churches should probably take him at his word. Who is funding this campaign to replace a Christian worldview with a godless atheist worldview? Does the former NDP strategist and communications director speak for NDP leader Thomas Mulcair?

I am glad that studies at the University of Manitoba left me with a firm grasp of the importance of managing assumptions in the quest of science. It was my fascination with the human body that led me to pursue knowledge of physiology, biochemistry and cell biology.

Speaking of assumptions, what I find particularly irksome is patronizing drivel from commentators like Paul Walton (NDN April 21) who glibly bypass my science argument to accuse me of a “faith-based dismissal of evolution as a proven theory.”

According to Walton, the science was settled in 1925! Now there’s a whopper of an assumption.

On the contrary, Mr. Walton, science affirms my faith; and I will use science to defend my beliefs.

A Christian worldview is not one iota less scientific than a godless Evolutionism worldview!

It is the rapidly expanding world of molecular biology and cell biology that has outstripped any rational defence of the origin

of life or the simplest cell ever coming into being by random or undirected natural processes.

The late Nobel laureate (and atheist) Francis Crick gave up trying to calculate the probability of life ever emerging by random events.

Even at NASA’s estimate of 14 billion years, the universe is infinitely too young! One cannot prove or disprove the existence of God with scientific method. Science is agnostic; there is room for people of all faith or no faith to contribute.

How wrong and how long science can be wrong is something I have experience with. Toronto’s Robert Salter, probably Canada’s best known orthopedic surgeon, overturned centuries of misdirected treatment of joint injuries.

His research demonstrated the immense harm standard immobilization was doing to injured joints.

Centuries is a long time to be wrong!

For 10 years, I put information in front of Health Canada officials about a vexing problem causing thousands of premature deaths across Canada; C. difficile deaths in Nanaimo, deaths in Burnaby, a thousand deaths a year in Montreal alone, at its peak.

I put warnings in my contact newsletter about the relationship to stomach acid reducing drugs called PPIs. I pushed it to the prime minister’s office and finally to a new

Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network.

DSEN reported back in 2011 that there was indeed a strong association in a dose response fashion and a class effect; risk of contracting C diff is elevated by 40-275 per cent for patients on PPIs. When Health Canada seemed prepared to ignore even the (unpublished) findings of DSEN, I held three press conferences in Ottawa to highlight 25 years of misdirected science. The media gave it a pass.

The issue was eventually taken up by the CMA journal in November 2014, and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterologists has now flagged the overuse of these medicines as a priority concern.

The media inflated a few words challenging the tenets of evolutionism to a leading national news story but failed to cover scientific evidence that will save hundreds of lives and hundreds of millions in healthcare expenditures every year in Canada.

I have done my job as an MP standing up for the lives of my constituents and all Canadians.

Has the media done theirs?

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EDUCATION

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Unique event helps high school students plan out their futures

Pants are yanked down in theft

Living Professional Library allows youngsters to talk with local business people ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Cole Virtanen learned a lot about becoming an entrepreneur and opening a business during the Living Professional Library event at John Barsby Secondary School Virtanen, a Grade 12 student at the school, said he spoke to a number of the 24 Island business people who agreed to participate in the inaugural event in the city’s high schools. He said he developed some good ideas for how he wants to proceed with his plans to open his own gym and provide sports therapy to clients.

“They were very helpful and many even offered to keep in touch with me and offer advice after I graduate,” he said.

VIRTANEN

“I’ll definitely take advantage of that.”

Sponsored by the NanaimoLadysmith school district, Young Professionals of Nanaimo and other business groups, the main purpose of the Living Professional Library last week was to break down stereotypes for

young people of the professional community and the realities that could possibly lay ahead.

Students were given the opportunity to speak to informally speak to people in the business community to learn about careers that interest them and what’s involved in achieving success. The 24 business people who participated ranges from eye doctors to radio personalities.

Richard Leighton, owner of Arbutus Music in Nanaimo, said a lot of the students he talked to during the day were very interested in the music industry and many wanted to hear stories about rock and roll.

“But many were interested in being entrepreneurs and what it takes to open and operate your

own business,” he said.

“I told them that while many people apply for jobs, there are others like me who create their own jobs. My advice was to find a hole in the business community and fill it themselves.”

School trustee Bill Robinson, one of the organizers of the event, said he’s delighted with the students’ embrace of the opportunity to talk to business people one-on-one.

“This is an opportunity for them to make connections and maybe set up some mentorships and other opportunities for themselves,” he said.

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FROM THE FRONT

LADYSMITH

More public consultation is planned

Festival of Lights moving to all LED

NEWCASTLE, From Page A1

Sandstone cutters were also used to create pulp stones on the island that were shipped and used in paper mills across North America. In 1931, the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company purchased the island and operated it as a pleasure resort, building a dance pavilion — now the visitor center — a teahouse, picnic areas, change houses, a soccer field and a wading pool.

An old ship was also tied to the dock at Mark Bay and served as a floating hotel.

Newcastle Island became very popular for company picnics and Sunday outings, with ships from Vancouver bringing as many as 1,500 people at a time until the Second World War saw a dramatic decrease in visitors to the island.

In 1955, Nanaimoites voted more than 60 per cent in favour of purchasing the island for a park and in 1959, by a vote of more than 85 per cent, it was sold to the province for $1 on the condition that it become a provincial park.

The establishment of the three-party management team to run the day-to-day affairs of the island in 2007 was the first of its kind in B.C., and now the partners are seeking public input into what people want to see in the park in coming years.

Among options that were recently presented at an open house for the first phases of the business plan is the construction of a cultural interpretive centre, more sporting events on the island, more interpretative walks, historical presentations and more food vendors.

More public consultations will be held as the business plan progresses.

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ROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS

The Ladysmith Festival of Lights has a vision of every one of its 275,000 plus bulbs being LED. But like a lot of other things, it’s just going to take more dollars to get there.

Festival of Lights has been steadily inserting a few extra LED bulbs into its various displays around town every year for the past five years.

Last year, all of city hall was LED as well a number of lights on the fences close to Aggie Hall.

But with a regular box of four incandescent lights costing 47 cents compared to a dollar for the same amount of LED ones, this year’s festival fundraising drive is going to be as crucial as ever.

“The goal is to get as many LED lights as possible but the bottom line is dollars,” said Duck Paterson, council liaison for the festival.

“We’re hoping to get a few more grants. The first

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Festival of Lights has already met with BC Hydro with regards to grants and Paterson says he’s hopeful something may arise from that avenue.

Back in March, Festival of Lights elected its new board with Jonathan Zeiler replacing outgoing president Cliff Fisher, who had sat on the board for 10 years.

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DAILY NEWS

RCMP are looking for details after a man pulled a woman’s pants down in attempt to rob her of her purse last Friday.

The 20-year-old woman was walking close to Foster Street and Bruce Avenue. at 4 p.m. when the man, wearing a black balaclava, tapped her on the shoulder and then tried to steal the purse.

During a struggle, the man then pulled the woman’s pants down but she was able to pull them back up and push the suspect to the ground, exposing his face from the balaclava.

The man then ran off towards Bruce Avenue. and Third Street with the woman in pursuit.

A resident nearby was alerted to the situation by his son and then came to the female’s aid.

The Good Samaritan then drove her around the area to try and find the man but they were unable to do so.

A police dog also attended the scene after the woman reported the incident but could also not locate the suspect.

RCMP have described the man as white, approximately five feet 11 inches, 140 pounds with long dirty blonde hair pulled back in a five-inch pony tail.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345.

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◆ COQUITLAM

Teen given conditional sentence in sexting case

Suspected thief busted after chase in BMW

A Victoria teenager convicted on child pornography charges for sexting pictures of another girl has been handed a conditional discharge.

The teen was convicted last year of possessing and distributing child pornography after texting out explicit photos of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend.

The court imposed a six-month sentence with conditions that include she write a letter of apology to the victim and keep the peace, which will lead to an absolute discharge and no criminal record if she complies.

In a statement read out to the court she apologized for her actions. The teen ended up changing schools because of the stigma attached to her conviction, but she has since graduated and now has a full-time job.

RCMP have arrested a man suspected of stealing a new BMW sport utility vehicle from a Coquitlam, B.C., garage after taking the keys from a home while the owners slept.

Police say the vehicle stolen last Sunday was monitored by an RCMP helicopter that provided updates to officers on the ground as it travelled through New Westminster, Surrey and Burnaby.

Mounties say they attempted to stop the 2015 BMW X3 in New Westminster but the car sped away and was involved in a minor crash.

Officers say the driver ran away after the collision, and numerous items including mail, jewelry and power tools suspected to be stolen from Coquitlam and Maple Ridge were found inside the SUV.

Victoria terror bomb plot laid out in video, jurors told GEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A jury sat riveted in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday watching video of a short, hooded figure hiding a package in the flower bushes near the legislature buildings in the early hours of July 1, 2013.

The video appeared to show the culmination of a months-long RCMP sting that led to the arrest of two British Columbians who are accused of plotting to use pressure-cooker bombs with the intent to maim and kill countless people in the provincial capital.

Accused terrorist Amanda Korody can be seen in the video walking briskly onto the deserted legislature grounds, in her arms is a dark, nondescript package. Moments later she stands away from some bushes and then quickly leaves, her black-gloved hands are now empty.

Korody and her husband John Nuttall have pleaded not guilty to four terrorism-related charges.

NUTTALL

Covert video taken the day before the alleged bombings shows Nuttall, sporting a straw hat, and Korody — who has removed her traditional Muslim head covering — meandering across the grounds alongside the key undercover officer involved in the operation.

Nuttall and Korody believe the officer is an Arab businessman with links to organized terrorist groups.

The legislature grounds are

shown teeming with an earlyevening crowd, with families pushing strollers, tourists milling about and young people kicking around a soccer ball. Fences and stages had been set up in anticipation of the following day’s Canada Day festivities.

Earlier on Monday, the court heard from an undercover officer who posed as a high-ranking terrorist whom Nuttall asked for a supply of C4 plastic explosives.

“Please will you help me fight,” Nuttall is heard pleading with the officer in an audio recording.

The officer had rebuked him a short time earlier for wasting his time with a poorly conceived plan.

“I need to fight these (infidels),” replies Nuttall. “We really, really need your help. I’m begging you.”

On cross-examination, the officer testified that he was surprised at how nervous Nuttall appeared and described the plan of the accused as “just a mishmash of ideas.”

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VICTORIA — First Nations from Vancouver Island to Haida Gwaii and along coastal B.C. have signed a marine-use partnership with the provincial government that aims to act as a guide for environmental, economic and stewardship issues along more than 100,000 kilometres of coastline.

The Marine Planning Partnership involving 18 First Nations has been in the works for more than a decade, but missing from

Monday’s celebration was the federal government even though it had taken part in past talks.

The federal government has jurisdiction over ocean waters, which makes it the major player in the issues of shipping, including the potential for more oil tankers navigating the coast, and fisheries, which involves the management and protection of stocks.

The plan maps out four regional marine areas along the coast, including Haida Gwaii, the North Coast, Central Coast

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It sets out an eco-based management system that aims to ensure stewardship, environmental and economic decisions are reached by working together with minimal conflict.

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Ex-Aghan mission chief is new DND top soldier A former combat commander who has led operations at home and overseas has been appointed to the country’s top military job.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Jason Kenney say Lt.-Gen. Jonathan Vance will be the next chief of defence staff, replacing the soon-to-retire Gen. Tom Lawson.

Vance twice led the army’s task force in Kandahar during the Afghan war.

Lawson, a former fighter pilot, announced earlier this year that he would step down after twoand-a-half years in the job.

Vance has also served in other key posts, including head of the strategic joint staff, the military’s nerve centre in Ottawa.

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Shattered villages in Nepal plead for help

Tories set to spend $13.5M on budget ad blitz BRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS

◆ OTTAWA

Former T.O. top cop joins Liberals as new recruit Justin Trudeau is backing up his latest star recruit — newly retired Toronto police chief Bill Blair — with promises that a Liberal government would beef up support for first responders.

The Liberal leader said Monday that he’d create a public safety officer compensation benefit of $300,000 to support the families of firefighters, paramedics or police officers killed or permanently injured in the line of duty.

He also said he’d reinstate federal funding for four heavy urban search and rescue teams, which was cut by the Harper government.

And he’d create a national action plan on post-traumatic stress disorder.

◆ MONTREAL

Taxi bureau seizes 40 vehicles of UberX drivers The City of Montreal’s taxi bureau is cracking down on ridesharing service UberX and has seized 40 vehicles from drivers in recent weeks, prompting the company to say it will fight back in court.

UberX is a service offered as part of Uber’s car-sharing smartphone app that links clients to drivers in privately owned vehicles, without a taxi licence, to provide rides at prices lower than typical cab fares.

UberX launched in several Canadian cities in 2014 and is currently present in Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax. It has shuttered in Calgary and Vancouver.

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Mayor’s driver had $900 cash from pot, trial told The arrest of then-mayor Rob Ford’s driver and a dry cleaner followed months of intense police surveillance that involved officers, aerial spotting, electronic tracking and even a camera mounted on a street pole, an Ontario court heard Monday.

In the end, police nabbed Alexander (Sandro) Lisi carrying $900 in cash they say was used by an undercover cop to buy about 220 grams of marijuana, and a fake pop can containing 6.4 grams they said belonged to Lisi.

Det.-Const. Daryl Bell testified that his professional standards team became involved in tailing Lisi in June 2013 because they believed he had swapped drugs for the return of the mayor’s cellphone earlier that year.

A Nepalese family collects belongings from their home destroyed in Saturday’s earthquake, in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on Monday. [AP PHOTO]

Rescue workers still struggling to reach mountain villages KATY DAIGLE AND BINAJ GURUBACHARYA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KATHMANDU, Nepal — As the death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake climbed past 4,000, aid workers and officials in remote, shattered villages near the epicenter pleaded Monday for food, shelter and medicine.

Help poured in after Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 quake, with countries large and small sending medical and rescue teams, aircraft and basic supplies. The small airport in the capital of Kathmandu was congested and chaotic, with some flights forced to turn back early in the day.

Buildings in parts of the city were reduced to rubble, and there were shortages of food, fuel, electricity and shelter. As bodies were recovered, relatives cremated the dead along the Bagmati River, and at least a dozen pyres burned late into the night.

Conditions were far worse in the countryside, with rescue workers still struggling to reach mountain villages two days after the earthquake.

Some roads and trails to the Gorkha district, where the quake was centred, were blocked by landslides — but also by traffic jams that regularly clog the route north of Kathmandu.

“There are people who are not getting food and shelter. I’ve had reports of villages where 70 per cent of the houses have been destroyed,” said Udav Prashad Timalsina, the top official for the Gorkha region.

World Vision aid worker Matt Darvas arrived in the district in the afternoon and said almost no assistance had reached there ahead of him.

Newer concrete buildings were intact, Darvas said, but some villages were reported to be devastated. He cited a “disturbing” report from the village of Singla,

“There are people who are not getting food and shelter. I’ve had reports of villages where 70 per cent of the houses have been destroyed.”

Udav Prashad Timalsina, Top official for Ghorkha region

where up to 75 per cent of the buildings may have collapsed and there has been no contact since Saturday night.

Nepal’s Home Ministry said the country’s death toll had risen to 4,010. Another 61 were killed in neighbouring India, and China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported 25 dead in Tibet. At least 18 of the dead were killed at Mount Everest as the quake unleashed an avalanche that buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers preparing to make their summit attempts.

At least 7,180 people were injured in the quake, police said.

Tens of thousands are estimated to be left homeless.

Rescue workers and medical teams from at least a dozen countries were helping police and army troops in Kathmandu and surrounding areas, said Maj. Gen. Binod Basnyat, a Nepal army spokesman. Contributions came from large countries like India and China — but also from Nepal’s tiny Himalayan neighbour of Bhutan, which dispatched a medical team.

Two teams of U.S. Army Green Beret soldiers happened to be in Nepal when the quake struck, and the 26 Americans — who were training with the Nepalese army — are staying to help with search-and-relief efforts.

The 11-member crew of a C-130 cargo plane that brought them

The Senate is attempting to block the release of a politically sensitive audit it quietly conducted into the residency status of all senators, the Mike Duffy trial heard Monday.

The audit was commissioned some time in late 2012 or early 2013, when the Senate expense scandal first began to unfold.

Duffy’s lawyer Donald Bayne and Crown prosecutor Mark Holmes briefly discussed that a lawyer for the Senate is claiming parliamentary privilege to keep the audit from becoming public.

If Bayne wants to fight in Ontario Superior Court to make the document public, he will have to decide if it’s worth the effort.

also will remain to evacuate any American citizens if needed, said Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman. A second U.S. cargo plane carrying members of a Los Angeles urban search-and-rescue team was due to arrive Tuesday, he said.

Medical and rescue teams from Russia, Japan, France, Switzerland and Singapore were expected in Kathmandu over the coming days, the Nepal army said.

“We are appealing for tents, dry goods, blankets, mattresses, and 80 different medicines that the health department is seeking that we desperately need now,” said Lila Mani Poudyal, Nepal’s chief secretary and rescue coordinator. “We don’t have the helicopters that we need or the expertise to rescue the people trapped.”

Some pharmacies and shops opened Monday, and bakeries began offering fresh bread. Huge lines of people desperate for fuel appeared outside gasoline pumps. At one station, dozens sat waiting on motorcycles.

Power seemed to have been largely restored Monday night, with streetlights blazing on major roads and lights illuminating closed shops. Things looked normal — except for the many tents pitched everywhere, including on traffic circles.

Fearful of strong aftershocks, tens of thousands of families were spending a third night outdoors in parks, open squares and a golf course, bundled against the chilly Himalayan night.

The quake has strained the resources of this impoverished country best known for Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

The economy of Nepal, a nation of 27.8 million people south of the mountain, relies heavily on tourism, principally trekking and climbing.

Schoenborn hearing may figure in Tory crime agenda TAMSYN BURGMANN THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A prosecutor’s rare tactics to block a British Columbia man who murdered his three children from gaining some freedom is laying the groundwork for a possible test of the Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda.

Crown lawyer Wendy Dawson will be gathering an update on the mental state of Allan Schoenborn at the same time as she opposes his limited release being sought by doctors when his annual review resumes on Wednesday.

Schoenborn’s horrific crime was pushed back into the national spotlight when Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the case in 2013 to bolster amendments to the Criminal Code.

Harper promised his legislation would ensure that people too dangerous to be released would no longer be a threat to their victims. The bill passed last year.

Those watching the case believe prosecutors are manoeuvring to seek the bill’s

OTTAWA — The Conservative government has booked $13.5 million for an all-out, coordinated blitz in April and May to advertise its 2015 pre-election budget.

The push, detailed in internal government documents obtained

by The Canadian Press, builds on existing Finance Canada and Canada Revenue Agency campaigns to promote Conservative tax measures both past and proposed — the backbone of the Harper government’s re-election strategy.

“Phase VIII” of a CRA campaign entitled “Tax Relief Measures” comes with a $6-million budget this fiscal year and is described as a “continuation of the 2014-15 ad campaign.”

The ad buy is listed as a bulk purchase of TV for April, a “heavy-up” April TV buy and an “April 2015 NHL (TV)” buy.

Playoff hockey fans will have seen the publicly funded campaign.

“The intention is to encourage taxpayers to claim the tax relief measures to which they may be entitled and file their tax returns online and on time,” says the internal government ad description.

It comes as Finance wages a $7.5-million campaign broadly described in a February document as illustrating how the budget “is on track to positioning Canada for success in the 21st century global economy through a series of measures.”

How will the government illustrate that success? By promoting tax benefits, the internal government campaign description suggests. Two radio ads under the “EAP Jobs and Growth Radio campaign (Winter 2015)” show that the April spots “consist of a similar message as the CRA’s Tax Filing campaign which is currently on air via TV, Internet and print.”

In all, Finance and the tax agency have booked $13.5 million in 2015-16 to promote last week’s federal budget. A federal election must be held by Oct. 19.

A Finance spokesman stressed the $7.5 million is for the whole year, but refused to break out the cost of the current ad campaign.

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“It certainly seems like a much more aggressive approach has been taken,” said Scott Hicks, Schoenborn’s lawyer, referring to the Crown’s strategy. “My guess is that they’re considering it.”

In an unusual step, an expert critical of international guidelines used to assess the degree of Schoenborn’s threat is expected to testify.

Any high-risk application made later to B.C. Supreme Court would rely on data about the person’s current mental condition, his past and expected course of treatment, and opinions of examining experts, said Crown spokesman Neil MacKenzie.

Representatives of the children’s mother have openly decried the tribunal’s process, arguing the hearings, which Schoenborn attends, rip open their healing wounds every year.

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Food blogger takes heat for health science claims

Jail will lower cholesterol Dr. W. Gifford-Jones

Why has Vani Hari become the food revolution figure so many love to hate? researcher who maintains that water crystals turn ugly when exposed to foul language.

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s truth wars go, Vani Hari of the Food Babe blog has produced a doozy.

The former management consultant turned healthy-living activist has a bestselling book and an army of supporters.

And with the help of her fans, she’s led numerous successful online petitions to persuade food industry giants to rid their products of ingredients she deems unacceptable.

What Hari doesn’t have, critics argue, is a background in related sciences or nutrition.

And since starting her Food Babe blog in 2011, she’s made mistakes that have landed her in a feeding frenzy.

“I think she means well, but I wish she would pick more important issues and pay closer attention to the science,” said Marion Nestle, a nutrition, food studies and public health professor at New York University.

Hari certainly isn’t the first food activist without a science background. So why has she become the food revolution figure that so many love to hate?

“Because we’re winning,” Hari said in a recent interview, citing numerous commitments by companies to provide more “clean” and “simple” ingredients, often in response to her campaigns.

he answer from Dr. Steven T Novella, a clinical neurologist and assistant professor

at Yale University’s school of medicine, is more complicated.

The working skeptic — he has a podcast and blogs — is one of Hari’s most vocal foes. “It’s almost like she’s a food terrorist,” he said. “She will target some benign ingredient that has a scary sounding name.

Her criteria is if she can’t pronounce it then it’s scary.”

You bet, said Hari, who thinks a host of chemicals and additives used in the U.S. have

hy do companies cave?

W Subway, for instance, removed azodicarbonamide,

Vani Hari, of cereal in Charlotte, N.C., the former management consultant turned healthy-living activist. [AP PHOTO]

no business being consumed, and notes that many are not allowed or are strictly limited in Europe and elsewhere.

The heat for Hari is fairly recent as her presence has grown. She gets nearly five million readers a month.

She also gets death threats.

And she’s banned so many people from her streams that they now have their own page on Facebook.

“I really do believe the attacks on me and this movement is a distraction from the need to reform the food system,” Hari said by phone from Charlotte, North Carolina, where she lives. “My sole purpose is to get people healthier.

Unfortunately, many of the critics out there, their sole pur-

pose is only to criticize.”

Much of the bashing, she said, amounts to “needles in haystacks.” Among errors often cited by detractors are a couple that occurred in her early days. She deleted the posts and later acknowledged the mistakes.

One, from August 2011, had her taking issue with the air on planes being mixed with up to 50 per cent nitrogen.

She failed to consider that the atmosphere is comprised of 78 per cent of the latter.

Another, from July 2012, trashed microwaves as destroying nutrients in food and producing malformed water crystals. The second notion is based on a bizarre theory by a controversial Japanese

a chemical in its bread also found in yoga mats. But it’s also found in plenty of other bread products, and is well-studied and safe, says Novella. He theorizes it’s just easier, to some companies, to make questioned ingredients disappear.

“I think it’s making a returnon-investment kind of evaluation. They figure choice A, explain to the public why this scary sounding chemical is safe or B, just get rid of it,” Novella said.

It was Hari’s railing against “toxic” levels of sugar and a widely used caramel coloring in the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte that helped motivate Yvette d’Entremont in Los Angeles to begin blogging about her at Scibabe.com.

Known as Science Babe (Note, there’s another Science Babe out there), d’Entremont is by far Hari’s most entertaining and trash-talkiest critic.

“She took caramel colour level IV and said that it was in (the government’s) carcinogen class 2B. It sounds horrible, but there’s another thing in the cup that is carcinogen class 2B: the coffee, because of the acrylomide from the roasting process,” d’Entremont said.

“Between her egregious abuse of the word ’toxin’ anytime there’s a chemical she can’t pronounce and asserting that everyone who disagrees with her is a paid shill, it’s hard to pinpoint her biggest sin,” d’Entremont said.

As for sugar in the latte, the average adult would need to down 40 to 50 of them in a sitting to have a toxic dose, counters d’Entremont. “And at that point you would also have a toxic dose of water and caffeine.”

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Promised consultation over doctor-assisted suicide from Ottawa still hasn’t happened JOAN BRYDEN THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Two months after Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised to consult widely on doctor-assisted dying, the federal government has yet to reveal how it intends to canvass Canadians’ views on the emotional issue — much less how it intends to legislate on the subject.

And time is running out.

When the Supreme Court struck down the prohibition on physician-assisted dying last February, it gave the federal government 12 months to craft a new law that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable physical or mental

suffering to seek medical help to end their lives.

With Parliament scheduled to sit just six more weeks before an extended break for the summer and a fall election, the government has only three or four months in which to introduce, debate and pass a new law.

Time is so short that Conservative MP Steven Fletcher suspects the most likely upshot is there will be no new federal law, leaving provinces to fill the vacuum with a patchwork of laws, within the parameters of the top court’s ruling.

“It’s quite possible there will be no federal law,” Fletcher said in an interview.

Indeed, Fletcher, who has championed legalization of medically assisted dying, believes it’s already too late to meet the court-imposed deadline.

“I don’t see where there’s the time to pass legislation between now and Feb. 6 that would deal with this issue. I just don’t see how it can be done.”

The government has already ruled out asking the court for an extension.

Harper’s Conservatives voted two months ago against a Liberal motion that called for creation of a special, multiparty committee that would consult and report back to Parliament by mid-summer

with a proposed framework for a new law.

At the time, the government promised that it would launch its own consultation process.

Bob Dechert, parliamentary secretary to the health minister, argued that consultation by a committee wouldn’t be broad enough to do justice to such a complex, explosive issue.

“In fact, we are suggesting tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Canadians need to be heard on this issue,” he said, promising that “meaningful consultations” via the Internet, public meetings and other means would be launched “very soon.”

The Doctor Game

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enjamin Disraeli, the distinguished British Prime Minister, once ridiculed an opposition member of parliament by saying, “He is distinguished by his ignorance for he only had one idea and that was wrong.”

Today 99 per cent of doctors have one idea that cholesterol-lowering drugs are the be-all-and-end-all to lower blood cholesterol. I believe history will prove them wrong. This week, an old prisoner experiment tells a story, along with a natural remedy to lower blood cholesterol.

Dr John Judkin, formerly Emeritus Professor of Physiology at London University, London, England, made headlines years ago when he reported that a high dietary intake of animal fat and the eating of foods containing cholesterol were not the cause of coronary heart disease. Of course he was ridiculed for such an idea.

But Judkin pointed to a greater correlation between the intake of sucrose (ordinary sugar) and coronary attack. For instance, a study conducted in 15 countries showed that as the population consumed more sugar, there was a dramatic increase in heart attack.

What is more impressive is a prison study carried out by Milton Winitz, a U.S. biochemist, in 1964. Eighteen prisoners, kept behind bars for six months, were provided food that was well regulated. In this controlled environment it was proven that when their diet was high in sugar, blood cholesterol increased and when dietary sugar was decreased there was a huge drop in blood cholesterol. Imagine the screaming and hollering from rights groups if researchers tried this experiment today.

History is on Professor Judkin’s side. One hundred years ago coronary heart attack was a rare event. In fact, so rare that Dr. Dudley White, Harvard’s famous cardiologist, remarked that when a case arrived at the Massachusetts General Hospital, other doctors were alerted so they could witness this disease first-hand.

In the last 100 years there’s been an extraordinary change in North American dietary habits. Now we feed children cereals that are often half sugar. I’ve said facetiously that it would be safer for them to eat the box! We have soft drinks, desserts and prepared foods loaded with sugar. It’s hard to escape what I’ve labeled “the white devil.”

But why does excess sugar cause an increase in blood cholesterol? Once ingested, sugar breaks down into equal amounts of glucose and fructose. Glucose is then used to power the biochemical process that provides energy for daily functions of the body. Fructose, on the other hand, follows a different route, producing acetate that is one of the building blocks needed by the liver to manufacture cholesterol. So the more sugar you eat the greater the production of cholesterol.

You don’t have to be behind bars to lower blood cholesterol. A natural product, Sytrinol, consists of polymethoxylated flavons derived from the peel of citrus fruits.

It includes tocotrienols, powerful antioxidants, from the fruit of the palm tree.

Dr. Michael T. Murray, one of the world’s authorities on natural medicine, says, “The research on Sytrinol is extremely impressive.” This is because multiple studies show that in many cases Sytrinol lowers blood cholesterol by 30 per cent, LDL the bad cholesterol, by 27 per cent and triglycerides, by 34 per cent. These changes may occur within one month.

Sytrinol works by decreasing the oxidation of bad cholesterol, a factor in plaque formation that narrows coronary arteries.

Sytrinol also decreases inflammation of arteries, believed to be associated with heart attack. And by lubricating platelets, the small blood particles responsible for blood clot formation, it curbs the chance of one forming in coronary arteries.

The moral? Having one idea that is wrong is dangerous. It’s also wrong to forget that the first rule of medicine is “to do no harm.”

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Canucks reflect after early exit

King leaves VIU, Mariners add American

Sedin twins insist the core has competitive years left, but expect more youth JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks got an up-close look at what a roster infused with talented youngsters can accomplish during their first-round playoff series with the Calgary Flames.

It’s a formula members of the club’s veteran core would welcome moving forward. The Canucks started the autopsy of their season on Monday following a 7-4 loss in Calgary over the weekend that eliminated Vancouver in six games. The Flames had five rookies — and a total of eight players making playoff debuts — in the lineup against the Canucks, but still dispatched their more experienced opponents. First-year centre Bo Horvat made an impact this season and in the playoffs for Vancouver, but captain Henrik Sedin said he expects more youth in the ranks moving forward, while also stressing that the goal remains the same.

“Getting younger doesn’t mean you’re not going to have a chance to win the Stanley Cup. That’s the furthest thing from the truth,” Sedin said as players met the media for the final time this year.

“You look around and the teams that have won it, they bring up young guys and the young guys make a difference. That’s how you win it.

“Bringing up the young guys, I think that’s the way to go. If they can push and they can make a difference and bring excitement and everything, they’re going to give us a chance.”

The Canucks have a number of young players at varying stages of development in the minors and in junior, including forwards Sven Baertschi, Jake Virtanen, Hunter Shinkaruk, Brendan Gaunce and Nicklas Jensen, along with defencemen Frank Corrado and Adam Clendening. Sedin said he’s

Justin King, the Pacific Western Athletic Conference men’s basketball player of the year, is leaving the Vancouver Island University Mariners after one season, according to head coach Matt Kuzminski.

King’s spot on the roster, however, has been replaced as the team has received a commitment from American guard Josh Ross, a six-foot-four fourth-year player out of Southeastern (Iowa) Community College.

“I think he’ll be a really good player, a guy who can come in and be an impact guy right away,” Kuzminski said of his newest recruit, adding that he can play either shooting guard, small forward or power forward — much like King did.

“He’ll come in with the potential to be a significant contributor.”

Ross, who also pursued football after high school, posted 15.7 points per game last season in the U.S. junior college circuit after contacting Kuzminski in the fall about joining the Mariners. He is the first confirmed recruit for the Mariners after their conference championship and national silver medal last season and joins a team that loses just three players to graduation or early departures.

Along with King leaving the program, the Mariners will also be without graduated players Harrison Stupich and Eric D’Andrea.

However, Kuzminski said there may be other roster changes due to academic issues.

The Mariners are also hosting an identification camp at VIU on May 9 at 11 a.m.

Vancouver Canucks captain Henrik Sedin pauses for a moment during a news conference at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

banking on some of them being ready to make a difference next season, when he and his twin brother Daniel will be 35.

“I believe they can make a difference right away and that’s why we’re hopeful that we’re going to have a shot in the next couple years, first of all to make the playoffs and then go on a run,” said Henrik Sedin.

“There’s going to be mistakes.

There were mistakes with Bo early on, but when you keep trusting them and believing in them that they can play, they raise their game. Bo did that and if we can get other guys doing that it’s going to go a long way for

us to be competitive.”

The Canucks managed the Sedins’ minutes this season after former head coach John Tortorella nearly ran them into the ground in one playoff-less season.

Daniel Sedin said he’s OK with that trend continuing if it means younger players are contributing.

“We want to be counted on to be the top players on the team, but if we take less ice time, that means the younger guys have come in and played really well,” he said.

“If they do that and that means us playing less and us winning, that’s fine.”

But for all the talk of youth and the future, defenceman Kevin

Bieksa stressed he still believes the veterans Tortorella described as “stale” last season can get the job done after rebounding with 101 points this season.

“I think this core is still capable of big things. If you don’t win the Stanley Cup you’re going to get those questions,” said Bieksa.

“All I know is this core gives us a good chance to win it every single year.”

That core isn’t getting any younger, however, and the ability to retool the roster on the fly with youngsters will probably go a long way in deciding how far the Canucks progress in 2015-’16 and beyond.

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Prior to Game 5 of the Vancouver Canucks series with the Calgary Flames on Thursday night, Nolan Kehoe got his first chance to skate with the pros.

He had been to a few Canucks games before, but this time was different — this time he was on the ice with them.

“It was so cool,” said Nolan, the 12-year-old captain of the Nanaimo Peewee Clippers.

Before each Canucks game, the team sends a B.C. minor hockey player on the ice for the team’s pre-game warm-up and national anthem through a program called Every Kid Matters.

On Wednesday, Nolan’s father, Grahame, received a text message from a colleague asking if his son would be interested in representing his company — Freedom 55 Financial — at Friday night’s game.

“Try and stop us,” Grahame replied.

So Nolan and his father then left Nanaimo for Vancouver, bringing along a Nanaimo Minor Hockey Association jersey to wear on the ice in front of thousands of fans and a national television audience.

The Canucks, though, normally have the young players wear the NHL team’s jersey.

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Twelve-year-old Nanaimo Minor Hockey Association player Nolan Kehoe, far left, stands alongside the Vancouver Canucks during the national anthem before Game 5 of their playoff series Friday night at Rogers Arena. [PHOTO CONTRIBUTED]

“It was just a thrill. It was amazing.“ Nolan Kehoe, minor hockey player

“They had a shirt ready for him, a Canucks shirt with his name and number on it,” Grahame said, “but he had already taken his Nanaimo Minor Hockey shirt with him.

“We explained to the Canucks that Nanaimo Minor Hockey really wanted him to wear that

shirt,” Grahame said.

“At the last minute, he stands up to go onto the ice and the guy in charge saw the shirt and asked why he wasn’t wearing a Canucks jersey. Nolan was kind of flabbergasted. But at the end of the day, it is what it is and at least we got some exposure for Nanaimo Minor Hockey.”

In the hallway leading up to the ice, Nolan also got to chat with Canucks president Trevor Linden, general manager Jim Benning, and even captain Hen-

rik Sedin “for like 10 seconds,” Nolan said.

“The biggest thrill, apart from going on the ice with him, was when Kate Hudson said ‘hi’ to him,” Grahame said, “she was in the tunnel as well.”

The CBC broadcast didn’t catch Nolan skating with the team before the national anthem, as it was still showing the previous game. However, it did show him wearing his Nanaimo jersey during the anthem.

“They had all the flashing lights on me, and you just look out from the tunnel and see all the fans waving their white playoff flags,” Nolan said. “It was just a thrill. It was amazing.”

Grahame added that the team let Nolan skate a few laps on his own, similar to what they would do with a rookie player in his first game, before jumping onto the ice with him. He said it was something he would never forget.

“Especially when he came out, with 20,000 fans roaring and all the white towels waving, I have to admit it brought a tear to my eye just to see that,” he said.

“It was pretty emotional.”

The Canucks won that game 2-1.

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Canucks’ Dan Hamhuis will play for Team Canada Vancouver Canucks defenceman Dan Hamuis will play for Canada at the 2015 IIHF world championship.

Jim Nill, general manager of Canada’s national men’s team, made the announcement on Monday — two days after Hamuis and his Canucks were eliminated from the NHL post-season.

Hamhuis, from Smithers, B.C., will represent Canada for the ninth time in international competition. He most recently helped his country win a gold medal at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

The 32-year-old blue-liner has played in the IIHF world championship on five previous occasions (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013), winning a gold medal in 2007 and silver in 2008 and 2009.

◆ NHL PLAYOFFS

Kuznetsov delivers as Caps eliminate Islanders The precocious Russian forward drafted in the first round by the Washington Capitals finally delivered a breathtaking, winning goal in a Game 7. No, not Alex Ovechkin — Evgeny Kuznetsov.

Skating around every opponent on the ice, Kuznetsov scored the go-ahead goal with 7:18 remaining, and Braden Holtby only needed to make 10 saves Monday night, lifting the Washington Capitals past the New York Islanders 2-1 in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Kuznetsov, a rookie, scored the sort of athletic, breathtaking goal his better-known teammate, Ovechkin, often does, taking the puck from the right boards and heading across the ice before sending a rising shot over sprawling goalie Jaroslav Halak.

◆ NHL PLAYOFFS

Johnson scores twice, Bolts force a Game 7

LORI EWING THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Dwane Casey was wearing the golf-ball sized NBA championship ring Monday morning that he won with the Dallas Mavericks — perhaps as a reminder of happier times.

The Toronto Raptors were swept by the Washington Wizards in the opening round of the playoffs, and the day after their embarrassing 125-94 rout in Game 4, questions swirled around the team in the wake of one of the biggest blunders in franchise history. Of the most pressing questions: the future of coach Casey. Will he back next season?

“No one’s told me any different,” Casey said. “I’ll say this — I’ve never worried about a day of sitting back. I don’t read the blogs or read the comments. But I work my butt off and do my job to be prepared, and our staff did the same thing. I think our staff did a heck of a job this year preparing the players each and every day, film work, on the court. I don’t think our staff has anything to be ashamed of.”

The harsh ending was in stunning contrast to a season that began with so much promise.

After taking Brooklyn to seven games in last year’s playoffs, the Raptors raced out of the gate to lead the Eastern Conference, but the wheels fell off around the February all-star break. They won a franchise-record 49 games, but staggered into the playoffs playing their worst basketball of the season.

“I just felt a sense of complacency among all of us, coaches, myself, ’It’s going to be OK.’ No it’s not going to be OK,” Casey said. “I saw the defence get worse, and we kept preaching about it, talking about it. . .We took our foot off the gas pedal defensively, and continued wanting to score more and score more.

“The mood was guys felt like everything was going to be OK. ’We’re going to be all right. Once we get to the playoffs, we can flip a switch.’ No you can’t, and I think this playoff should be a lesson to all of us, coaches, players, everybody, that you can’t flip a switch to go into the playoffs and be a different team.”

All-star point guard Kyle Lowry was a shell of himself, averaging 12 points a game and spending good chunks on the bench in foul trouble. Lowry has said it took him months to get over last season’s ending — Paul Pierce’s block on his final shot of Game 7.

This one was even worse.

“The way we lost, yeah,” said a glum-looking Lowry.

“Last year we left with a high, at least kind of a high.

This year we’re just disappointed.

“It just sucks, to be honest.”

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Tyler Johnson scored two goals in his latest stellar performance and the Tampa Bay Lightning held on for a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Monday night, forcing a Game 7 in their first-round playoff series.

Johnson and Jason Garrison scored in the first period, and Johnson added another goal in the second to give the Lightning a 3-0 lead. Tomas Tatar scored twice for Detroit, but Alex Killorn answered with an unassisted goal with 5:09 remaining, and Cedric Paquette added an empty-netter.

◆ CFL Steve Higgs of the Nanaimo Senior B Timbermen steps around a Valley Rebels defender during a West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association game Sunday at Nanaimo Ice Centre. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

Sr. B Timbermen off to 2-1 start SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

Three games into their season, the Nanaimo Senior B Timbermen are improving every game as top players join the team en route to what they hope will be another President’s Cup season.

The Timbermen have begun the West Coast Senior Lacrosse season with a 2-1 record, dropping their opener on the road on Thursday, 5-3 to the Ladner Pioneers before back-to-back wins at home against the Valley Rebels over the weekend. “ I think we could’ve gotten six points, but some offensive and defensive mistakes in there cost us a game,” said Timbermen general manager Shawn Swanson.

“We got back into form in the next two games, so we’re looking alright.”

In the opening game, the Timbermen were missing returning leading scorer Jon Diplock, who was out of the lineup all weekend, as well as star lefty Ryan Forslund.

Steve Higgs, a returning 30-goal scorer, scored twice in the two-goal loss while goalie Nick Patterson stopped 50 of the Pioneers’ 55 shots in the loss.

“We were missing a few players, but it wasn’t really an excuse,” Swanson said.

“We just weren’t quite ready for Game 1, I guess.”

After a two-goal performance in Ladner, Higgs caught fire on Saturday against the Rebels as he scored four goals and added an assist in the 12-4 Nanaimo win.

Swanson said Higgs’ performance was to be expected.

“He turned it on really well last year,” he said.

“He was our President’s Cup MVP last year, so we’re expect-

Sr. B T-Men Leading scorers 1. Steve Higgs 9G, 5A, 14 Pts. 2. Travis Mickelson 3G, 8A, 11 Pts. 3. Ryan Hanna 2G, 6A, 8 Pts. 4. Ryan Forslund 5G, 2A, 7 Pts. 5. Cody Boon 3G, 4A, 7 Pts. SOURCE: WCSLA

ing him to have a huge year this year.”

Ryan Hanna, held off the scoresheet Thursday in Ladner, had four assists in the Saturday win while Simon Stocks had two goals and two assists and Cody Boon had a goal and three assists.

Patterson had another strong game allowing just four goals on 37 shots.

On Sunday, Forslund was inserted into the Timbermen lineup and the offence improved again as Nanaimo beat Valley 15-4.

Forslund, a former Nanaimo Junior A left-handed sniper, scored five goals in his 2015 debut, along with two assists.

Higgs popped in three more goals and contributed four assists.

Swanson said the addition of Forslund is a “huge” factor in the Timbermen offence, especially playing on the same side of the floor as Higgs.

“Those two guys on the left side, they compliment Diplock on the other side,” he said.

“So having Forslund, Diplock in Higgs in the lineup, we have

arguably the best three guys all on one team that we could have.

Rookie Travis Mickelson had his best game in a Senior B jersey, with seven points off two goals and five assists.

Hanna and Boon also had fourpoint games.

At the top of the standings early in the season, the Timbermen now hit the road for three straight games Their next home game is on May 10 against the always competitive Tri-City Bandits at the Nanaimo Ice Centre.

Swanson said there will be new additions to the lineup, including Diplock, as players begin to trickle back on to the roster.

“We’ll be adding four or five guys, for sure,” he said.

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Toronto Argonauts in talks to sell franchise Toronto Argonauts owner David Braley is in talks with Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment chairman Larry Tanenbaum and Bell Media about purchasing the CFL club, according to reports.

The 73-year-old Braley has been actively searching for a buyer to take over the franchise for some time.

TSN and the Toronto Star say he’s negotiating with Bell and Tanenbaum.

The CFL confirmed on Monday that Braley is in talks to sell the club, but would not confirm who all is involved with the negotiations.

“We’re aware that discussions are currently taking place between owner David Braley and certain interested parties regarding the Toronto Argonauts,” the league said in a press release.

“Out of respect to all parties involved, we are going to allow this process to take its course and we will not be commenting any further while negotiations are ongoing.”

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SCOREBOARD HOCKEY

NHL Playoffs - Round 1 All series best-of-seven Yesterday’s results Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2 (Series tied 3-3) Washington 2, NY Islanders 1 (Washington wins series 4-3) Sunday’s results Minnesota 4, St. Louis 1 (Minnesota wins series 4-2) Montreal 2, Ottawa 0 (Montreal wins series 4-2) Today’s schedule No NHL games scheduled

Western Hockey League Playoffs All series best-of- seven *=if necessary Eastern Conference Final Calgary vs. Brandon (Brandon leads series 2-0) Western Conference Final Kelowna vs. Portland (Series tied 1-1) Today’s schedule (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.

Wednesday, April 29 (Game 7) Detroit at Tampa Bay

Friday, May 1 (Games 5) Portland at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Calgary at Brandon*, 7:30 p.m.

Lightning 5, Red Wings 2

IIHF Ice Hockey U18

First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Johnson (5) (Kucherov, Hedman) 3:47 2. Tampa Bay, Garrison (1) (Kucherov, Stamkos) 11:10 Penalties: Palat Tb (Hooking) 12:23, Sustr Tb (Roughing) 16:58 Second Period 3. Tampa Bay, Johnson (6) (Kucherov, Palat) 9:09 4. Detroit, Tatar (2) (Kronwall) 12:26 (PP) Penalties: Kronwall Det (High-sticking) 2:49, Ericsson Det (Roughing) 3:33, Johnson Tb (Roughing) 3:33, Stamkos Tb (Slashing) 3:33, Callahan Tb (Cross checking) 6:02, Killorn Tb (Roughing) 9:34, Hedman Tb (Slashing) 11:16, Glendening Det (Hooking (Served by Landon Ferraro)) 13:17, Abdelkader Det (Roughing) 20:00, Paquette Tb (Roughing) 20:00 Third Period 5. Detroit, Tatar (3) (Datsyuk) 1:39 6. Tampa Bay, Killorn (2) 14:51 7. Tampa Bay, Paquette (1) 19:03 (PP) Penalties: Stamkos Tb (Goalkeeper Interference) 1:58, Miller Det (Roughing) 16:34, Callahan Tb (Roughing) 16:34, Coburn Tb (Cross checking) 18:46 Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd T Tampa Bay 7 13 8 28 Detroit 9 6 9 24 Goaltending summary: Tampa Bay: Bishop (22/24), Detroit: Mrazek (23/27) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Tampa Bay: 0 of 2, Detroit: 1 of 7 Att: 20,027

Capitals 2, Islanders 1 First Period No scoring Second Period 1. Washington, Ward (1) (Ovechkin, Orpik) 18:35 Third Period 2. New York, Nielsen (1) (Strome, Hickey) 3:13 3. Washington, Kuznetsov (3) (Chimera, Carlson) 12:42 Penalties: Carlson Wsh (Roughing Casey Cizikas) 17:06 Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd T New York 3 4 4 11 Washington 11 10 5 26 Goaltending summary: New York: Halak (24/26), Washington: Holtby (10/11) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): New York: 0 of 1, Washington: 0 of 0 Att: 18,506

Playoff leaders Points: Jonathan Toews, Chicago, and Kevin Shattenkirk, St. Louis: 8 Goals: Vladimir Tarasenko, St. Louis: 6 Plus/Minus: Jakob Silfverberg, Anaheim; David Jones, Calgary; Michael Ferland, Calgary; Matt Stajan, Calgary; Marco Scandella, Minnesota: +5 GAA: Henrik Lundqvist, NY Rangers: 1.54

World Championship Lucerne, Switzerland Sunday’s final day Bronze medal game Canada 5, Switzerland 2 Gold medal game USA 2, Finland 1 (OT)

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 Penticton 2 2 0 0 4 17-3 Portage 2 1 1 0 2 7-6 Melfort 2 1 1 0 2 7-9 Fort McMurray 2 1 1 0 2 3-7 Spruce Grove 2 0 2 0 0 6-15 Yesterday’s results Melfort 4, Spruce Grove 3 (OT) Sunday’s results Portage 6, Melfort 3 Penticton 6, Fort McMurray 0 Today’s schedule Penticton vs. Portage, 1:30 p.m.

Spruce Grove vs. Ft McMurray, 6:30pm Wednesday, April 29 Melfort vs. Penticton, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 30 Portage vs. Spruce Grove, 1:30 p.m.

Fort McMurray vs. Melfort, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 2 Semifinals, 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 3 Finals, 3 p.m.

American Hockey League Calder Cup playoffs - Round 1 All series best-of-five Yesterday’s results No games scheduled Sunday’s results Toronto 5, Grand Rapids 2 (Toronto leads series 2-0) Portland 3, Manchester 2 (Series tied 1-1) Providence 2, Hartford 1 (3OT) (Providence leads series 2-1) Today’s schedule (Game 4) Hartford at Providence, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 29 (Games 3) Worcester at Hershey, 4 p.m.

Chicago at Utica, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Grand Rapids, 4 p.m.

W-B/Scranton at Syracuse, 4 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 5 p.m.

Texas at Rockford, 5 p.m.

Seattle Mariners slugger Robinson Cano, left, is congratulated by a teammate during a game on Monday in Arlington, Texas. [AP PHOTO]

Walker leads M’s to 3-1 win over Rangers STEPHEN HAWKINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARLINGTON, Texas — Taijuan Walker pitched seven solid innings, Nelson Cruz had an RBI single against his former team and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 3-1 in a raindelayed series opener Monday night.

Walker (1-2) struck out five and allowed only an unearned run.

The Rangers, on the same day they reacquired 2010 AL MVP and five-time All-Star slugger Josh Hamilton in a trade with the Los Angeles Angels, missed a chance to win consecutive games for the first time this season. Texas is the only AL team without consecutive victories.

After rain delayed the start of the game for 55 minutes, Yovani Gallardo (2-3) walked the first two batters.

There was a fielder’s choice grounder before Cruz put Seattle ahead to stay with his single through the right side of the infield. That was the majors-best 21st RBI for Cruz, who played in Texas from 2006-13.

Walker had a 2-0 lead before throwing a pitch.

Another run scored on shortstop Elvis Andrus’ throwing error.

Fernando Rodney worked the ninth for his fifth save in six chances.

Gallardo allowed three runs and three hits with three walks and five strikeouts in six innings. He threw 101 pitches, 35 in the first inning.

Texas scored in a strange fourth. Carlos Peguero had a leadoff walk, but had to avoid being hit by Prince Fielder’s grounder before getting retired on the fielder’s choice. Adrian Beltre followed with a single, but he was out after getting hit on the base path by the grounder by Mitch Moreland, who was credited with a single.

Fielder was sent back to second base, but then scored on a throwing error by shortstop Brad Miller. Seattle led 3-1 after Justin Ruggiano drew a two-out walk in the fifth, stole a base and scored on Seth Smith’s single.

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Last week’s tournament results

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Playoff schedule Note: 16 teams, all series best-of-seven Yesterday’s results Brooklyn 120, Atlanta 115 (Series tied 2-2) Milwaukee 94, Chicago 88 (Chicago leads series 3-2) Portland 99, Memphis 92 (Memphis leads series 3-1) Sunday’s results (Games 4) Cleveland 101 Boston 93 (Cleveland wins series 4-0) L.A. Clippers 114, San Antonio 105 (Series tied 2-2) Washington 125, Toronto 94 (Washington wins series 4-0) Dallas 121, Houston 109 (Houston leads series 3-1)

Barcelona Open Barcelona, Spain. Surface: Clay Purse: €1,993,230 (1 euro=CDN$1.33) Singles - Final Kei Nishikori (1), Japan, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 6-4, 6-4.

Doubles-Final Marin Draganja, Croatia, and Henri Kontinen, Finland, def. Jamie Murray, Britain, and John Peers, Australia, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 11-9.

Last 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. Final Leaderboard, with winnings Golfer Par Winnings 1 Justin Rose -22 $1,242,000 2 Cameron Tringale -21 $745,200 3 Boo Weekley -20 $469,200 T4 Jim Herman -19 $303,600 T4 Jason Day -19 $303,600 T6 David Hearn Brampton, Ont. -18 $239,775 T6 Daniel Berger -18 $239,775 T8 Blayne Barber -17 $193,200 T8 Chesson Hadley -17 $193,200 T8 Chad Campbell -17 $193,200 T8 Meen Whee Kim -17 $193,200 T12 Steve Wheatcroft -16 $115,920 T12 Jason Gore -16 $115,920 T12 George McNeill -16 $115,920 T12 Sean O’Hair -16 $115,920 T12 Erik Compton -16 $115,920 T12 Steven Bowditch -16 $115,920 T12 Justin Thomas -16 $115,920 T12 Scott Pinckney -16 $115,920 T12 D.A. Points -16 $115,920 T12 Hudson Swafford -16 $115,920 Other Canadian golfers T48 Nick Taylor -10 $16,991 T70 Roger Sloan E $13,731 Failed to make cut (-3) Adam Hadwin -2 Mike Weir +4

LPGA Tour Last 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 Final Leaderboard, with winnings Golfer Par Winnings 1* Lydia Ko -8 $300,000 2 Morgan Pressel -8 $182,956 3 Brooke M. Henderson Smiths Falls, Ont -7 $132,721 4 Min Seo Kwak -6 $102,670 5 Shanshan Feng -5 $82,638 T6 Ha Na Jang -4 $57,930 T6 Amy Yang -4 $57,930 T6 Stacy Lewis -4 $57,930 T9 Mirim Lee -3 $42,571 T9 Sei-Young Kim -3 $42,571 T11 Na Yeon Choi -2 $36,310 T11 Sakura Yokomine -2 $36,310 T13 P.K. Kongkraphan -1 $31,853 T13 Sandra Gal -1 $31,853 T15 Gerina Piller E $27,512 T15 Juli Inkster E $27,512 T15 Moriya Jutanugarn E $27,512 T18 Cristie Kerr +1 $21,874 T18 Q Baek +1 $21,874 T18 Hyo-Joo Kim +1 $21,874 T18 Minjee Lee +1 $21,874 T18 Inbee Park +1 $21,874 T18 Yueer Cindy Feng +1 $21,874 T18 Julieta Granada +1 $21,874 T18 Tiffany Joh +1 $21,874 Also from Canada T58 Sue Kim +5 $5,209

Champions Tour Last 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.

Final Leaderboard, with winnings Golfer ParWinnings 1 Andrade\Durant -19 $460,000 2 Woosnam, Lyle -16 $260,000 T3 Calcavecchia\Lowery -15 $182,500 T3 Roberts\Wiebe -15 $182,500 T5 Chapman\Cochran -14 $93,000 T5 Gilder\Wadkins -14 $93,000 T5 Lehman\Sluman -14 $93,000 T5 Pavin\Waldorf -14 $93,000 T5 Sindelar/Cook -14 $93,000 T10 Armour III\Parnevik -13 $64,000 T10 Forsman\Reid -13 $64,000 T10 Janzen\Mediate -13 $64,000 T10 Morgan/Kite -13 $64,000 14 Pernice Jr\Tway -12 $54,000 T15 Brooks\Huston -11 $46,333 T15 M’gomerie\O’Meara-11 $46,333 T15 Sutton/Mize -11 $46,333 T18 Blake\Frost -10 $36,250 T18 Goydos\Sutherland -10 $36,250 T18 Jenkins\Daley -10 $36,250 T18 North\Watson -10 $36,250

Web.com Tour Last week’s tournament WNB Golf Classic, April 23-26 This tournament was canceled.

European Tour Last 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.

Final Leaderboard, with winnings (NOTE: 1 euro=CDN$1.33) Golfer Par Winnings 1 A Shun Wu -9 €498,095 2 David Howell -8 €332,063 T3 Emiliano Grillo -7 €154,411 T3 Alexander Levy -7 €154,411 T3 Prom Meesawat -7 €154,411 6 Haotong Li -6 €104,601 7 Richie Ramsay -5 €89,658 T8 Byeong-Hun An -4 €59,324 T8 Magnus A. Carlsson -4 €59,324 T8 Tyrrell Hatton -4 €59,324 T8 Julien Quesne -4 €59,324 T8 Peter Uihlein -4 €59,324 T8 Romain Wattel -4 €59,324 T14 Seve Benson -3 €43,036 T14 Lucas Bjerregaard -3 €43,036 T14 Bradley Dredge -3 €43,036 T14 Mark Foster -3 €43,036 T18 Richard Green -2 €34,481 T18 Benjamin Hebert -2 €34,481 T18 Mikko Ilonen -2 €34,481 T18 Matteo Manassero -2 €34,481 T18 James Morrison -2 €34,481 T18 Renato Paratore -2 €34,481 T18 Il-hwan Park -2 €34,481 T18 Thomas Pieters -2 €34,481 This week’s events

PGA Tour This week’s tournament WGC-Cadillac Match Play, April 29-May 3 TPC Harding Park, San Francisco, California. Par 72, 7,169 yards. Purse: $9,250,000. 2014 champion: Jason Day

LPGA Tour This week’s tournament Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout, April 30-May 3 Las Colinas Country Club, Irving, Texas.

Par 71, 6,809 yards. Purse: $1,300,000.

2014 champion: Stacy Lewis.

Web.com Tour This week’s tournament United Leasing Championship, April 30-May 3 Victoria National Golf Club, Newburgh, Indiana. Par 72, 7,239 yards. Purse: $600,000. 2014 champion: Greg Owen.

Champions Tour This week’s tournament Insperity Invitational, May 1-3 (54 holes) The Woodlands Country Club, The Woodlands, Texas. Par 72, 7078 yards.

Purse: $2,050,000. 2014 champion: Bernhard Langer.

Today’s schedule Game 5 Dallas at Houston Game 5 San Antonio at L.A. Clippers Wednesday, April 29 Game 5 * Brooklyn at Atlanta Game 5 * Portland at Memphis Thursday, April 30 Game 6 * Chicago at Milwaukee Sunday at Verizon Center

Wizards 125, Raptors 94 Washington MIN PT RB A ST B TO Pierce 22:25 14 4 2 1 1 1 Hilario 27:57 10 4 2 1 0 2 Gortat 28:59 21 11 5 2 1 3 Beal 35:34 23 1 5 4 0 1 Wall 25:22 14 4 10 1 1 2 Gooden 22:41 13 4 0 0 0 1 Sessions 23:31 15 2 3 0 0 1 Porter 26:02 7 7 0 0 1 0 Butler 07:21 0 1 1 0 0 0 Seraphin 06:30 4 1 0 0 0 1 Humphries 05:14 2 3 0 0 0 0 Webster 04:12 2 0 0 0 0 0 Bynum 04:12 0 0 2 1 0 0 Totals 125 42 30 10 4 12 Toronto MIN PT RB A ST B TO Ross 30:31 3 2 1 1 1 1 Johnson 25:57 4 3 0 0 1 2 Valanciunas 27:11 16 9 0 1 0 1 DeRozan 33:33 14 4 4 3 0 3 Lowry 32:51 21 8 4 0 0 6 Williams 25:13 14 1 0 0 0 0 Vasquez 25:12 11 1 4 0 0 1 Patterson 21:40 6 4 2 0 0 2 Hansbrough 11:07 0 3 1 0 0 0 Johnson 04:47 0 2 1 0 0 0 Stiemsma 01:58 5 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 94 37 17 5 2 16 Washington 36 30 36 23 Toronto 22 28 20 24 3 FG: Washington 15-26, Toronto 7-25.

FT: Washington 28-34, Toronto 15-20.

Fouled Out: Washington - N. Hilario Technicals: Wizards: Beal, Raptors: Lowry Att: 20,356 Time of game: 2:29

SOCCER MLS

Eastern League Club PTS GP W L N. England 14 8 4 2 DC United 14 7 4 1 NY Red Bulls 12 6 3 0 Columbus 11 7 3 2 Chicago 9 6 3 3 Orlando 8 8 2 4 Toronto 6 6 2 4 NY City FC 6 8 1 4 Philadelphia 6 9 1 5 Montreal 2 4 0 2 Western League Club PTS GP W L Vancouver 16 9 5 3 Dallas 14 8 4 2 Seattle 13 7 4 2 Los Angeles 12 8 3 2 Houston 10 8 2 2 Sporting KC 10 8 2 2 San Jose 9 7 3 4 Portland 9 8 2 3 Salt Lake 9 7 2 2 Colorado 7 7 1 2 Sunday’s results Toronto 2, Orlando 0 Portland 0, Seattle 1 NY Red Bulls 1,LA Galaxy 1

T 2 2 3 2 0 2 0 3 3 2

GF GA 10 7 8 6 10 5 12 6 6 7 6 10 10 11 5 7 10 17 2 6

T 1 2 1 3 4 4 0 3 3 4

GF GA 11 9 11 11 10 5 9 8 10 8 11 12 7 9 7 8 6 9 6 6

Friday, May 1 Dallas at Houston, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

English Premier League Position/Club 1 Chelsea 2 Man City 3 Arsenal 4 Man United 5 Liverpool 6 Tot Hotspur 7 Southampton 8 Swansea 9 Stoke City 10 Everton 11 West Ham 12 Crystal Pal 13 West Brom 14 Newcastle 15 Aston Villa 16 Hull City 17 Leicester 18 Sunderland 19 Q.P. Rangers 20 Burnley

W D L GF GA 23 8 2 65 26 20 7 7 70 36 20 7 6 63 32 19 8 7 59 34 17 7 9 47 36 17 7 10 55 49 17 6 11 47 26 14 8 12 41 44 13 8 13 39 42 11 11 12 44 43 11 11 12 42 42 11 9 14 42 47 9 10 15 32 46 9 8 17 36 57 8 8 18 26 48 7 10 16 31 45 8 7 18 35 51 5 15 13 26 49 7 6 21 38 59 5 11 18 26 52

Pts 77 67 67 65 58 58 57 50 47 44 44 42 37 35 32 31 31 30 27 26

Sunday’s results Everton 3, Manchester United 0 Arsenal 0, Chelsea 0 Today’s schedule Hull vs. Liverpool, 11:45 a.m.

Wednesday, April 29 Leicester vs. Chelsea, 11:45 a.m.

LACROSSE BC Junior A Lacrosse League Standings GP W L T Pts Langley 1 1 0 0 2 Delta 1 1 0 0 2 Coquitlam 1 1 0 0 2 Victoria 0 0 0 0 0 New Westminster 0 0 0 0 0 Nanaimo 1 0 1 0 0 Burnaby 1 0 1 0 0 Port Coquitlam 1 0 1 0 0 Sunday’s results Coquitlam 10, Nanaimo 9 Port Coquitlam 10, Burnaby 7 New Westminster at Victoria postponed Friday May 1 Langley at Burnaby, 8 p.m.

Saturday May 2 Delta at Nanaimo, 4:30 p.m.

Port Coquitlam at Victoria, 5 p.m.

Sunday May 3 Victoria at Coquitlam, 2 p.m.

Nanaimo at New Westminster, 5 p.m.

National Lacrosse League West W L GB y-Edmonton 12 5 x-Colorado 9 8 2.5 Calgary 6 11 5.5 Vancouver 5 12 6.5 East W L GB x-Toronto 13 4 x-Rochester 12 5 1 Buffalo 10 7 3.5 Minnesota 5 12 8 New England 4 12 8

Pct .706 .529 .353 .294 Pct .765 .706 .588 .294 .250

GF 228 202 198 198 GF 220 193 216 172 169

Sunday’s result Buffalo 20, New England 9 Friday, May 1 Toronto at New England, 4 p.m.

GA 167 205 204 251 GA 178 160 198 214 219

MLB

BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy Bucharest, Romania. Surface: Clay.

Purse: €439,405.

Singles - Final Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (5), Spain, def.

Jiri Vesely (7), Czech Republic, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (11) Doubles - Final Marius Copil, Romania, and Adrian Ungur, Romania, def. Nicholas Monroe, United States, and Artem Sitak, New Zealand, 3-6, 7-5, 17-15

WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany. Surface: Clay.

Purse: $731,000 Singles - Final Angelique Kerber, Germany, def.

Caroline Wozniacki (4), Denmark, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 Doubles - Final Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova (3), Czech Republic, def. Caroline Garcia, France, and Kata This week’s tournaments

ATP Millennium Estoril Open Estoril, Portugal. Surface: Clay. Purse: €439,405 (NOTE: 1 euro=CDN$1.33) Singles - Round 1 Borna Coric, Croatia, def. Jeremy Chardy (6), France, 6-2, 6-4.

Gilles Muller (8), Luxembourg, def.

Frederico Ferreira Silva, Portugal, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.

Robin Haase, Netherlands, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4.

Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, def. Alejandro Gonzalez, Colombia, 6-3, 6-3.

BMW Open by FWU AG Munich, Germany. Surface: Clay. Purse: €439,405 Singles - Round 1 Alexander Zverev, Germany, def. Benjamin Becker, Germany, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.

Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, def. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

WTA GP SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem Marrakech, Morocco. Surface: Clay.

Purse: $250,000 Prague Open Prague, Czech Republic. Surface: Clay.

Purse: $250,000 Singles - Round 1 Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat Jana Cepelova (Slovakia) 6-2 6-1 Aleksandra Krunic (Serbia) beat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Croatia) 3-6 7-6(4) 6-0

AUTO RACING NASCAR Toyota Owners 400 Today, 4 p.m.

Richmond International Raceway, Virginia. 400 laps, 300 miles Race Statistics Avg Speed of Winner: 97.157 mph Time of Race: 3 hours, 5:16 Margin of Victory: 0.754 seconds Caution Flags: 8 for 53 laps Lead Changes: 12 among 5 drivers Final results (Start position in parentheses) 1 (3) Kurt Busch, Chev, $221,240 2 (5) Kevin Harvick, Chev, $211,050 3 (36) Jimmie Johnson, Chev, $176,961 4 (9) Jamie McMurray, Chev, $154,491 5 (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 400, $163,233 6 (40) Kasey Kahne, Chev, $115,840 7 (8) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, $132,501 8 (11) Jeff Gordon, Chev, $135,026 9 (17) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, $123,923 10 (6) Martin Truex Jr., Chev, $114,710 11 (23) Ryan Newman, Chev, $125,490 12 (12) Kyle Larson, Chev, $114,433 13 (4) AJ Allmendinger, Chev, $122,908 14 (26) Dale Jr., Chev, $99,525 15 (15) Paul Menard, Chev, $91,750 16 (16) Chase Elliott, Chev, $78,800 17 (7) Brad Keselowski, Ford, $127,166 18 (22) Justin Allgaier, Chev, $106,608 19 (18) Carl Edwards, Toyota, $77,825 20 (27) Aric Almirola, Ford, $118,936 21 (32) Greg Biffle, Ford, $112,258 22 (2) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, $95,350 23 (10) David Ragan, Toyota, $122,141 24 (34) Trevor Bayne, Ford, $121,575 25 (21) Danica Patrick, Chev, $88,450 26 (19) Landon Cassill, Chev, $80,225 27 (20) Austin Dillon, Chev, $116,886 28 (24) Stenhouse Jr., Ford, $87,725 29 (14) Brett Moffitt, Toyota, $108,214 30 (25) Casey Mears, Chev, $102,883 31 (30) David Gilliland, Ford, $98,658 32 (41) Alex Bowman, Chev, $88,397 33 (38) Michael Annett, Chev, $75,725 34 (43) Reed Sorenson, Ford, $75,600 35 (29) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, $104,245 36 (31) Cole Whitt, Ford, $75,215 37 (37) M DiBenedetto, Toyota, $75,074 38 (39) Jeb Burton, Toyota, $70,112 39 (42) Alex Kennedy, Chev, $66,040 40 (33) Jeff Green, Chev, $62,040 Did not finish 41 (13) Tony Stewart, Chev, accident 42 (28) Josh Wise, Ford, engine 43 (35) Joey Gase, Ford, accident

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 2-1 Dortmund: Bob Baffert; Martin Garcia 9-2 Carpe Diem: Todd Pletcher; John Velazquez 7-1 Mubtaahij: Mike de Kock; Christophe Soumillon 12-1 Materiality: Todd Pletcher; Javier Castellano 14-1 Firing Line: Simon Callaghan; Gary Stevens 16-1 Frosted: Kiaran McLaughlin; Joel Rosario 16-1 Upstart: Rick Violette Jr.; Jose Ortiz20-1 International Star: Mike Maker; Miguel Mena 25-1 El Kabeir: Trainer; John Terranova II; Calvin Borel 33-1 Far Right: Ron Moquett; Mike Smith 33-1 Ocean Knight: Kiaran McLaughlin; Irad Ortiz, Jr. 40-1 Itsaknockout: Todd Pletcher; Luis Saez 40-1 Bolo: Carla Gaines; Rafael Bejarano40-1 Danzig Moon: Mark Casse; Julien Leparoux 40-1 Madefromlucky: Todd Pletcher; undecided 30-1 Tencendur: George Weaver; Manny Franco 40-1 Mr. Z: D. Wayne Lukas; Ramon Vazquez 50-1 Ocho Ocho Ocho: Jim Cassidy; Elvis Trujillo 50-1 Current odds, Bovada.lv

American League East W L NY Yankees 12 8 Boston 11 9 Tampa Bay 11 9 Baltimore 9 10 Toronto 9 11 Central W L Detroit 14 6 Kansas City 13 6 Chicago Sox 8 9 Minnesota 8 11 Cleveland 6 12 West W L Houston 11 7 LA Angels 9 10 Seattle 8 11 Oakland 8 12 Texas 7 12 National League East W L NY Mets 15 5 Atlanta 10 9 Miami 8 12 Philadelphia 8 12 Washington 7 13 Central W L St. Louis 12 6 Chicago Cubs 11 7 Pittsburgh 11 9 Cincinnati 9 10 Milwaukee 4 16 West W L LA Dodgers 12 7 Colorado 11 8 San Diego 11 9 Arizona 8 11 San Francisco 8 12

PCT .600 .550 .550 .474 .450 PCT .700 .684 .471 .421 .333 PCT .611 .474 .421 .400 .368

GB 1.0 1.0 2.5 3.0 GB 0.5 4.5 5.5 7.0 GB 2.5 3.5 4.0 4.5

Strk W2 W1 L1 W2 L4 Strk W3 W1 W2 L1 L3 Strk W3 L1 W1 L4 L1

PCT .750 .526 .400 .400 .350 PCT .667 .611 .550 .474 .200 PCT .632 .579 .550 .421 .400

GB 4.5 7.0 7.0 8.0 GB 1.0 2.0 3.5 9.0 GB 1.0 1.0 4.0 4.5

Strk W1 W1 L1 W2 L6 Strk L2 W3 L1 W1 L1 Strk W1 W1 W1 L4 L1

Yesterday’s results Kansas City 6, Cleveland 2 Boston 6, Toronto 5 NY Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 1 Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 6 NY Mets 3, Miami 1 Atlanta 8, Washington 4 Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago Sox at Baltimore (postponed) Seattle 3, Texas 1 Detroit 5, Minnesota 4 Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 1 Colorado 5, Arizona 4 LA Dodgers 8, San Francisco 3 Houston at San Diego Sunday’s results Detroit 8, Cleveland 6 Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 2 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 1 Miami 6, Washington 2 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 4 Baltimore 18, Boston 7 Chicago Sox 5, Kansas City 3 Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 3 Texas 5, LA Angels 4 Houston 7, Oakland 6 San Diego 3, LA Dodgers 1 Minnesota 4, Seattle 2 Pittsburgh 8, Arizona 0 San Francisco at Colorado, postponed N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 4 Today’s schedule Kansas City at Cleveland, 3:10 p.m.

Ventura (2-1) vs House (0-2) Toronto at Boston, 3:10 p.m.

Hutchison (2-0) vs Buchholz (1-2) Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m.

Odorizzi (2-1) vs Tanaka (2-1) Chi. White Sox at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.

Sale (2-0) vs Tillman (2-2) Washington at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m.

Scherzer (1-2) vs Teheran (2-1) N.Y. Mets at Miami, 4:10 p.m.

Montero (0-1) vs Phelps (1-0) Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m.

Lohse (1-3) vs Bailey (0-1) Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m.

Locke (2-0) vs Hendricks (0-0) Seattle at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

Happ (1-1) vs Detwiler (0-2) Detroit at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m.

Sanchez (1-2) vs Pelfrey (1-0) Philadelphia at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m.

O’Sullivan (0-1) vs Wacha (3-0) Colorado at Arizona, 6:40 p.m.

Lyles (2-1) vs Bradley (2-0) L.A. Angels at Oakland, 7:05 p.m.

Weaver (0-2) vs Gray (2-0) San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

Peavy (0-2) vs Greinke (2-0) Houston at San Diego, 7:10 p.m.

Hernandez (0-2) vs Ross (1-1)

Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 5 Toronto

Boston

ab r h bi ab r h bi Reyes SS 4 1 1 0 Betts CF 4231 Travis 2B 4 2 2 2 Pedroia 2B 3 1 2 0 Donaldson 3B3 1 0 0 Ortiz DH 3110 Bautista DH 3 0 0 0 Ramirez LF 3 0 0 1 Enc’nacion 1B 4 0 0 0 Sandoval 3B 2 1 2 3 Martin C 3 1 1 2 Craig 1B 2000 Saunders RF 3 0 0 0 Nava 1B-RF 4 0 0 0 Pillar CF 4 0 2 1 Holt RF-3B 4 0 0 0 Pompey LF 4 0 0 0 Bogaerts SS 4 1 1 0 Totals 32 5 6 5 Hanigan C 4 0 1 0 Totals 33 6 10 5

Toronto 301 100 000 5 Boston 200 110 011 6 SB: TOR Reyes (3, 2nd base off Kelly, J/ Hanigan). 2B: TOR Martin, R (3, Kelly, J), Pillar (5, Ogando); BOS Ortiz, D (2, Sanchez, A), Betts (3, Sanchez, A). GIDP: TOR Reyes. HR: TOR Travis (6, 3rd inning off Kelly, J, 0 on, 0 out); BOS Sandoval (2, 4th inning off Sanchez, A, 0 on, 1 out). Team Lob: TOR 4; BOS 6. DP: BOS (Bogaerts-Nava). E: TOR Sanchez, A Toronto IP H R ER BB SO A Sanchez 5.2 5 4 3 2 7 A Loup 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 R Osuna 1.0 2 1 1 1 1 M Castro (L, 0-2) 0.1 3 1 1 0 1 Boston IP H R ER BB SO J Kelly 6.0 5 5 5 3 10 A Ogando 2.0 1 0 0 1 2 K Uehara (W, 2-1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 Time: 2:48 (:33 delay). Att: 34,739.

Yankees 4, Rays 1 Tampa Bay

NY Yankees

ab r h bi ab r h bi DeJesus DH 4 1 1 0 Ellsbury CF 3 0 1 1 Souza Jr. RF 4 0 1 0 Gardner LF 4 0 2 1 Cabrera SS 4 0 1 1 Rodriguez 3B 3 0 0 0 Longoria 3B 4 0 2 0 Headley 3B 0 0 0 0 Loney 1B 3 0 0 0 Teixeira 1B 4 0 0 0 Forsythe PH 1 0 0 0 McCann C 4 2 2 1 Guyer LF 4 0 0 0 Beltran DH 4 1 1 0 Kiermaier CF 3 0 0 0 Young RF 4 0 0 0 Elmore PH 1 0 0 0 Drew 2B 3121 Beckham 2B 2 0 0 0 Gregorius SS 3 0 1 0 Rivera C 3 0 1 0 Totals 32 4 9 4 Totals 33 1 6 1

Tampa Bay 000 001 000 1 NY Yankees 000 012 01x 4 SB: NYY Ellsbury (5, 2nd base off Karns/Rivera, Re). 2B: TB Cabrera, A (2, Warren); NYY Beltran (5, Gomes, B), Drew (3, Teaford), Gardner, B (3, Teaford). GIDP: NYY Teixeira. HR: NYY McCann (2) Team LOB: TB 6; NYY 10. DP: TB (Cabrera, A-Loney).

Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO N Karns 4.2 3 1 1 2 5 B Gomes (L, 0-1) 1.0 2 2 2 1 1 E Teaford 2.1 4 1 1 2 2 NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SO A Warren 5.2 5 1 1 0 6 J Wilson (W, 1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 D Carpenter 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 D Betances 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 A Miller 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 HBP: Ellsbury (by Teaford).

Time: 2:59. Att: 34,590.

Royals 6, Indians 2 Kansas City

Cleveland

ab r h bi ab r h bi Escobar SS 5 0 0 0 Kipnis 2B 4 1 2 0 Moustakas 3B5 2 4 1 Aviles 3B 2 1 1 2 Cain CF 5 1 1 0 Brantley LF 2 0 0 0 Hosmer 1B 4 1 2 1 Santana 1B 4 0 0 0 Morales DH 5 0 1 0 Raburn DH 2 0 0 0 Gordon LF 4 0 2 2 Murphy DH 2 0 0 0 Perez C 3 1 1 0 Sands RF 2 0 0 0 Infante 2B 4 0 1 0 Moss PH-RF 2 0 0 0 Dyson RF 4 1 1 0 Perez C 2000 Totals 39 6 13 4 Chisenhall PH1 0 0 0 Bourn CF 4 0 1 0 Ramirez SS 3 0 0 0 Totals 30 2 4 2 Continued, next column

Royals 6, Indians 2 (Cont’d) Kansas City 011 001 300 6 Cleveland 000 020 000 2 SB: KC Dyson, J 3 (3, 2nd base off Kluber/Perez, R, 3rd base off Kluber/ Perez, R, 3rd base off Kluber/Perez, R).

2B: KC Perez, S (4, Kluber), Moustakas (5, Kluber), Gordon, A (3, Kluber); CLE Bourn (3, Vargas), Kipnis (1, Morales, F). GIDP: KC Morales, K, Infante; CLE Santana, C. HR: CLE Aviles (2, 5th inning off Vargas, 1 on, 1 out). Team Lob: KC 9; CLE 6. DP: KC (Infante-Hosmer); CLE 2 (Kipnis-Ramirez, Jo-Santana, C, Ramirez, Jo-Kipnis-Santana, C). E: CLE Kipnis (1, throw), Ramirez, Jo (4, fielding), Aviles (2, fielding).

Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO J Vargas (W, 2-1) 5.0 3 2 2 5 1 R Madson 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 F Morales 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 K Herrera 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 W Davis 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO C Kluber (L, 0-3) 6.110 6 4 2 5 N Hagadone 0.1 1 0 0 0 1 Z McAllister 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 M Rzepczynski 1.0 2 0 0 0 2 HBP: Gordon, A (by Kluber).

Time: 3:22. Att: 9,668.

Mariners 3 Rangers 1 Seattle

Texas

ab r h bi ab r h bi Ruggiano OF 2 2 0 0 Martin CF 4 0 1 0 Smith DH 3 0 1 1 Peguero LF 2 0 0 0 Cano 2B 4 1 0 0 Smolinski LF 1 0 0 0 Cruz RF 4 0 1 1 Fielder DH 4 1 1 0 Seager 3B 4 0 1 0 Beltre 3B 4 0 1 0 Weeks LF 3 0 1 0 Moreland 1B 4 0 1 0 Jackson CF 1 0 0 0 Andrus SS 4 0 2 0 Miller SS 3 0 1 0 Choo RF 4000 B’quist 1B 3 0 0 0 Odor 2B 3020 Morrison 1B 0 0 0 0 Chirinos C 4 0 0 0 Zunino C 3 0 0 0 Totals 34 1 8 0 Totals 30 3 5 2

Seattle 200 010 000 3 Texas 000 100 000 1 SB: SEA Ruggiano (1, 2nd base off Gallardo/Chirinos), Miller, B (3, 2nd base off Pimentel, S/Chirinos); TEX Martin, L (6, 2nd base off Furbush/Zunino). 2B: TEX Fielder (5, Walker, T). HR: None.

GIDP: SEA Jackson, A. Team Lob: SEA 3; TEX 8. DP: SEA (Seager-Bloomquist); TEX 2 (Beltre, A-Moreland, Beltre, A-Odor-Moreland). E: SEA Miller, B (2, throw); TEX Andrus (4, throw).

Seattle IP H R ER BB SO T Walker (W, 1-2) 7.0 6 1 0 1 5 C Furbush 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 C Smith 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 F Rodney 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 Texas IP H R ER BB SO Y Gallardo (L, 2-3) 6.0 3 3 3 3 5 S Pimentel 1.1 1 0 0 0 1 A Claudio 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 R Mendez 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 Time: 2:47 (:55 delay). Att: 19,748.

Phillies 4, Cardinals 1 Philadelphia

St. Louis

ab r h bi ab r h bi Revere LF 5 1 1 2 Carpenter 3B 4 1 2 0 Herrera CF 4 0 3 1 Peralta SS 4 0 1 0 Utley 2B 4 0 0 0 Holliday LF 2 0 1 1 Francoeur RF 4 0 0 0 Adams 1B 3 0 0 0 Howard 1B 4 0 1 0 Reynolds RF 3 0 0 0 Hernandez PR0 0 0 0 Bourjos CF 0 0 0 0 Giles P 0 0 0 0 Heyward PH 1 0 0 0 Papelbon P 0 0 0 0 Molina C 4 0 0 0 Asche 3B 3 0 1 0 Wong 2B 4 0 1 0 Ruiz C 4 2 4 0 Jay CF-RF 2 0 0 0 Galvis SS 3 1 0 0 Lackey P 2000 Hamels P 2 0 1 0 Cruz PH 1000 Ruf 1B 1 0 0 1 Siegrist P 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 4 11 4 Belisle P 0000 Stanley PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 1 5 1

Philadelphia 000 000 301 4 St. Louis 001 000 000 1 HR: None. 2B: PHI Revere (2, Lackey), Ruiz (1, Belisle); STL Carpenter, M (11, Hamels), Wong (4, Papelbon). S: PHI Hamels; Galvis. Team Lob: PHI 6; STL 8.

DP: STL (Lackey-Adams, M).

Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO C Hamels (W, 1-2) 7.0 4 1 1 4 9 K Giles 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 J Papelbon 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO J Lackey (L, 1-1) 7.0 9 3 3 1 1 K Siegrist 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 M Belisle 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 HBP: Jay (by Papelbon).

Time: 2:32. Att: 40,052.

Reds 9, Brewers 6 Milwaukee

Cincinnati

ab r h bi ab r h bi Segura SS 5 0 2 3 Hamilton CF 5 0 1 0 Schafer CF 4 0 2 0 Cozart SS 4 1 1 1 Jimenez PH 1 0 0 0 Votto 1B 5000 Parra RF 4 1 2 0 Frazier 3B 1 3 0 0 Braun PH 1 0 0 0 Bruce RF 1213 Lind 1B 3 1 2 1 Phillips 2B 5 0 1 1 Davis LF 3 0 0 0 Byrd LF 4221 Cotts P 0 0 0 0 Pena C 2120 Smith P 0 0 0 0 Marquis P 3 0 1 1 Rogers PH 1 1 1 0 Badenhop P 0 0 0 0 Ramirez 3B 4 1 1 0 Chapman P 0 0 0 0 Herrera 2B-LF 4 0 0 0 Totals 30 9 9 7 Maldonado C 3 2 1 1 Nelson P 0000 Wooten P 1 0 0 0 Gomez 2B 0 0 0 1 Totals 34 6 11 6

Milwaukee 001 001 004 6 Cincinnati 043 002 00x 9 SB: CIN Frazier 2 (2nd base off Nelson and off Cotts/Maldonado). HR: CIN Bruce (4, 2nd inning off Nelson, 1 on, 0 out). S: MIL Nelson; CIN Marquis.

Team Lob: MIL 6; CIN 9. E: MIL Segura (7, throw).

Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO J Nelson (L, 1-2) 2.1 6 7 7 5 1 R Wooten 3.0 2 2 2 2 3 N Cotts 1.2 1 0 0 1 1 W Smith 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO J Marquis (W, 2-1) 8.0 7 2 2 2 3 B Badenhop 0.1 3 4 4 1 1 A Chapman 0.2 1 0 0 0 2 HBP: Gomez (by Chapman), Frazier (by Wooten).

Time: 3:02. Att: 17,167.

B.C. Premier League Team Langley Abbotsford North Shore Okanagan Vic Eagles North Delta Nanaimo Coquitlam Whalley Vic Mariners Parksville White Rock

W 9 5 5 8 8 4 5 2 3 2 1 1

L 1 2 2 4 4 2 5 4 8 6 7 8

Pct .900 .714 .714 .667 .667 .667 .500 .333 .273 .250 .125 .111

GB 2.5 2.5 2 2 3 4 5 6.5 6 7 7.5

Sunday’s results Nanaimo 12, Okanagan 9 Victoria Eagles 5, North Delta 4 Whalley 8, Victoria Mariners 3 Langley 4, Parksville 1 North Shore 12, White Rock 5 Okanagan 8, Nanaimo 4 Victoria Eagles 11, North Delta 1 Langley 8, Parksville 2 Victoria Mariners 7, Whalley 2 North Shore 7, White Rock 1 Today’s schedule North Shore at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 29 Parkville at Nanaimo, 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 30 White Rock at Whalley, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 2 Langley at North Delta, 11:00 a.m.

Coquitlam at Vic Eagles, noon Vic Mariners at North Shore, 1:00 p.m.

White Rock at Parkville, 1:00 p.m.

Nanaimo at Whalley, 1:00 p.m.

Langley at North Delta, 1:30 p.m.

Abbotsford at Okanagan, 2:00 p.m.

Coquitlam at Vic Eagles, 2:30 p.m.

Vic Mariners at North Shore, 3:30 p.m.

White Rock at Parkville, 3:30 p.m.

Nanaimo at Whalley, 3:30 p.m.

Okanagan at Abbotsford, 4:30 p.m.

DIVERSIONS ARCTIC CIRCLE

TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015 | DAILY NEWS |

WORD FIND

B5

BRIDGE

A Landing Dealer: South None vulnerable NORTH ♠962 ♥53 ♦AK94 ♣Q1086 WEST EAST ♠J10 ♠AKQ8543 ♥Q1082 ♥76 ♦J1086 ♦52 ♣752 ♣43 SOUTH ♠7 ♥AKJ94 ♦Q73 ♣AKJ9 W N E S 1♥ Pass 1NT* 3♠ 4♣ Pass 5♣ All Pass * forcing Opening Lead: ♠J

SHERMAN’S LAGOON

E

ZITS

ANDY CAPP

SOLUTION: KNOWING WHERE TO GO

CRYPTOQUOTE CRANKSHAFT

ast overtook with the queen to continue with the spade king. South ruffed with the ace to play the jack and ten of clubs on which both defenders followed suit. He trumped a second spade with his last club as West under-ruffed! The ace and king of hearts were followed by a heart ruff on which East discarded a spade.

Declarer played off dummy’s last trump, pitching a heart from hand. West was squeezed in the red-suits and parted with a diamond since he could not let go of the heart queen. The nine of diamonds became South’s twelfth winner, N-S +420.

West had postponed the inevitability of the squeeze by under-ruffing. However, declarer countered by cashing the last club to finish off West.

The pre-empt had posed a significant problem for South.

3NT could be right when partner owned a stopper but an advance to four clubs was adopted as the most flexible option. North could introduce diamonds, offer a heart preference or raise to the club game. The auction is always problematic when the opponents pre-empt and this deal was no exception. The only way to reach slam is for South to venture six clubs but partner might not display the key cards required for success.

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HI AND LOIS

BLONDIE

BC

CROSSWORD WHAT’S COOKING ACROSS 1 Dust or grime 5 Gourmet cook 9 Christmas carols 14 Consumer 15 Keep out of sight 16 Turn out to be 17 Additionally 18 “Be that __ may . . .”

19 Chunk of cheese 20 Vent one’s emotions 23 Tree that sounds like “you” 24 Mice, to owls 25 Peas’ container 27 Response to “Am not!”

30 Long-legged pink bird 35 Sheep’s sound 36 Fanatic 39 Biblical shipbuilder 40 More important matters 43 Norway’s capital 44 Self-sacrificing type 45 Lincoln’s nickname 46 Casual top 48 Choir voices 50 Darlin’ 51 Stubborn beast 53 Leno of TV 56 Becomes anxious 62 Go __ for the ride 64 Apple tablet computer 65 Bubbly beverage 66 Scoundrel 67 Alaskan port 68 Prophetic sign 69 Get off the couch 70 Mix with a spoon 71 Landlord’s income DOWN 1 Twofold 2 Bit of land in the ocean 3 Remainder 4 Army units 5 Irritate by rubbing 6 __ fit (tantrum)

PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED

7 Prepare for publication 8 Elaborate party 9 Her first child was just born 10 Hour after midnight 11 Swirling current 12 Winter Olympics sled 13 Gush out 21 Turned to ice 22 Lack of interest 26 T. Rex, for short 27 Monastery head 28 Lift up

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29 National bird 30 Trifle (with), as an idea 31 Misplaced 32 Like skim milk 33 Movie legend Greta 34 “Now I remember!”

37 Royal fur 38 Way over yonder 41 “Gee whiz!”

42 Singing syllables 47 Wouldn’t share 49 Apartment-check recipient 51 South Florida city 52 Beneath 53 Pickle containers 54 Very much 55 Meditative exercise 57 Pie pans 58 Dalmatian marking 59 Weighty book 60 Biblical garden 61 Feel a need for 63 Convent dweller

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CLASSIFIEDS/ENTERTAINMENT

TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015

MOVIES

Salma Hayek in Lebanon for film premiere The story is based on the ‘The Prophet,’ written in 1923 by legendary Lebanese writer Khalil Gibran SARAH EL DEEB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Salma Hayek said on Monday that the animated feature film The Prophet she co-produced has been a personal project, one she hopes can inspire young viewers to think outside the box about ways to improve the world.

Hayek is visiting Lebanon, her ancestral homeland, for the international premiere of the film, written and directed by Roger Allers, the maker of the Disney production The Lion King.

Hayek told The Associated Press that the movie has a “message of peace.”

“I think the whole world could use a little bit of message of peace, and more than a message of peace, to watch something

HAYEK

that’s uplifting for the spirit and joyous, and that you can share with your family, ” Hayek said as she walked down the red carpet for the movie premiere in a downtown Beirut cinema complex.

The film tells the story of Almitra, a young girl who finds

the voice she lost through her friendship with Mustafa, a poet imprisoned for his ideas. Hayek also provides the voice of the girl’s mother, Kamila.

The story is based on the The Prophet, a book written in 1923 by legendary Lebanese writer Khalil Gibran that has inspired generations of artists. The book, a series of poems about love, joy, sorrow, and work, has been translated into at least 40 languages and has never been out of print.

The film is divided into chapters illustrated by various animators. The score is by Gabriel Yared, the French composer of Lebanese descent who won an Oscar for his work on the English Patient.

Hayek, whose paternal grandparents are Lebanese, described

the film as “a love letter to my heritage” that will hopefully encourage new generations to think differently.

“Through this book I got to know my grandfather. Through this book I got to have my grandfather teaching me about life. So it is a very personal movie for me,” Hayek said in Beirut ahead of the movie’s premiere. The film opens in the U.S. in August.

Hayek said through illustrations, it was possible to capture the spirit of Gibran’s work.

“It encourages the new generation to go somewhere else to break out of the box” to change the world, she said.

The movie also helped bring to the audience a message of compassion and humanity from an author who comes from a violence-torn region.

Gibran, she said, “is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and the world together.”

On the red carpet, Hayek, who was wearing a dress by Lebanese designer Elie Saab, said she didn’t read the book to her sevenyear-old daughter, Valentina, but has watched the film with her.

“It’s hard for a kid to understand (the Prophet) as it’s written, that’s why we made the movie. She understands it in the film, because she sees the images of the words,” Hayek said Hayek’s daughter and her father accompanied her on her first trip to Lebanon.

“This has been the most amazing trip. I was not prepared for how emotional it was going to be for my family to be here,” she said.

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My sister’s marriage has been troubled for years.

The two of them live together, but in separate rooms. They haven’t been intimate for ages.

My sister also has some health issues. Roy has said many times that the two of them should be able to see other people.

Recently, I saw Roy with some younger woman, and the way they were looking at each other, I knew they were more than friends. He has never looked at my sister that way.

We do a lot of things together as a family. During our most recent family weekend, Roy kept taking off alone. I believe Roy knows that I’m aware of his affair, even though he hasn’t said anything.

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Roy has cheated before. I don’t want my sister to be hurt again, but I also don’t want to make things awkward between the two of us. I think it’s time for my sister to let Roy go and move on.

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— Hurting, Too Dear Hurting: We think you are overly involved in your sister’s marriage. You have no proof of anything, only suspicions, and the fact that you have flirted with your brother-in-law in the past raises questions about your motives now.

Your sister may be choosing not to confront her husband’s behaviour, and that is up to her. Please try to be emotionally supportive of whatever path she takes to deal with this. Be a shoulder to lean on when she needs one. You don’t have to do more.

Dear Annie: I have liked this boy for almost a year. When I first started hanging out with him, one of his friends told me he liked me, too. He eventually asked for my phone number at church, and I gladly handed it over.

But we soon stopped hanging out, which left me feeling hopelessly confused. My friends say I should just go for it and ask him

for his number. What should I do?

— Hopeless Dear Hopeless: This boy may have needed a lot of courage to ask for your number and didn’t have enough in reserve to actually call. Or he may have been teased by his friends and pretended that it was a joke to save face. Or he may be less interested than you hoped. There’s no way to know unless you take the next step yourself. We know it’s difficult, so imagine a negative result — he turns down your request for his number. So? At least you’ll know he’s not the guy for you, and you can put it behind you. It’s better than hanging in limbo indefinitely. Good luck.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You will need to make an extra effort to determine what to do to get some feedback from an important person. Keep in mind that you could be stubborn or provocative if you don’t get the answer you desire. Be aware of the costs of proceeding. Tonight: Get some exercise.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You typically are logical and forthright, but at this point in time, you’ll tap into your creativity when a problem appears.

A meeting occurs that could confuse you as well as others for a while. You will be fine, as long as you focus on your priorities.

Tonight: Go for what you want.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Lie low and choose to be passive. Listen carefully to a conversation to determine what is being left out. Confusion seems to surround a work-related situation. Let it go; time will help you clear up the problem. Say little and learn a lot. Tonight: Get some extra zzz’s.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You know what you want, and you recognize the power of having support from others. When you speak to others, you have a way of conjuring up a clear mental picture for them. Experiment with new ideas and different approaches. Tonight: Out and about.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Be aware of the costs of heading in a certain direction. A conversation with a friend could be confusing at best. Pressure builds and adds some stress. An associate could paint a totally different picture, void of reality.

Be aware. Tonight: Go for a brisk walk, then decide.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You will jump over any obstacles that appear. Others are drawn to you, as you are able to accomplish a lot quickly. The only problem will be a judgment that might upset you or stop you in your tracks. Remember, this is just one opinion — nothing more. Tonight: Go for the unusual.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) One-on-one relating could prove to be rather fruitful. Nevertheless, keep what you know to yourself right now. Answers might come forward in an odd manner. Someone is likely to

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Tonight: Not to be found.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Keep your goals in mind as you approach a situation that has several implications. Avoid difficult questions or putting someone on the spot. You have the ability to cloak your thoughts and ask the right questions without upsetting someone. Tonight: Where the crowds are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Others see how gifted you are in many different ways. A demand might be overwhelming, and your knee-jerk reaction could cause a problem. You will want to see a situation differently from how you have viewed it in the past. Tonight: Choose a favorite stressbuster.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Reach out to someone you care about. Your way of proceeding will take you down a traditional path. Still, be sure to respect others who might suggest a more creative direction. Try the unusual for once, to see what could develop. Tonight: Expand your mind.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Deal with others on an individual level. You could be exhausted by what is happening in your immediate environment. Pull back some. A financial or emotional risk is sure to be a bad bet.

Stay conservative in this realm for now. Tonight: Make it dinner for two.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Take charge, and run with an idea while you can. Others won’t intend to interfere, but they will.

You have reason to want to back off completely, as confusion seems to surround communication. Play it low-key. Tonight: Don’t challenge someone’s authority.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (April 28) This year you could be more detail-oriented than you have been in the recent past. Your creativity surges. The application of both of these assets will make your work, your choices and your life far more dynamic.

Friends who have high ideals surround you. If you are single, someone of significance could enter your life sometime after August. You will enjoy all the bells and whistles of dating. If you are attached, you will find that the period following summer could be very special and significant.

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