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Fentanyl risk big concern for cops There have been three overdoses on the drug in Nanaimo over the last 18 months, say city Mounties substance and has legitimate medical uses, including for pain management and anesthesia. However, its strong properties and relatively cheap cost have made the drug a popular choice among organized crime, said Sgt. Donovan Tait of the Nanaimo RCMP’s street crimes unit. On Thursday, the RCMP seized 36 grams of crack cocaine and 13 grams of Fentanyl after police observed an alleged drug deal. Two suspects were arrested. Tait said it is common to see the drug “cut� or mixed into
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Nanaimo RCMP officials say they are concerned about a growing prevalence of Fentanyl in the illegal drug trade in the city, a sometimes lethal drug that is showing up on streets across the country. Fentanyl is a highly potent drug estimated to be 100 times more powerful than morphine. It is described by Health Canada as a “powerful opioid pain medicine.� The drug is a controlled
cocaine or heroin, which increases the volume that a dealer can sell. Police have seized batches of cocaine and heroin and found that the drugs contained traces of Fentanyl. Tait estimated that police have seen anywhere between 10 and 30 per cent proportion of Fentanyl in some drug seizures. “On some (drug seizures), it’s pure,� he said. “We do see it on it’s own,� Tait later added. “It is a risk for our consumers for sure.�
There have been three overdoses on the drug in Nanaimo over the last 18 months, but some other parts have the country have seen higher spikes. In the first two months of this year, 50 people in Calgary died from overdoses from Fentanyl, the CBC reported. Other jurisdictions are considering measures to help keep the drug off the street. Tait said Nanaimo RCMP have brought their concerns to the public light in an effort to protect addicts and anyone else who
might come in contact with the drug. “I’ve done drug work for a long time,â€? said Tait. “These people aren’t evil, they’re sick,â€? he said, referring to addiction. Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255 Âť We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
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Canada’s energy sector in G7 climate crosshairs Canada’s energy sector will have to transform itself to lower greenhouse gas emissions in the long term, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday.  Nation & World, A7
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he cost of track improvements in the ongoing efforts to bring back passenger train service to Vancouver Island may be much more than anticipated. A report that was publicly released this week concluded that the $15 million that has been allocated for track improvements along the approximately 289-kilometre E&N corridor is probably not enough for the railway to operate in a safe manner. The report, prepared by RTC Rail Solutions, was commissioned by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure and the BC Safety Authority. It said the allocated funding might be good enough to fix isolated defects on the aging railway, but is “pushing the limits of safety to the extreme.� The report concluded that the track is too light for the intended speed of the train, and there isn’t enough money to cover defects. Graham Bruce, CEO of the Island Corridor Foundation which owns the E&N corridor, said the ICF recently submitted a detailed review to the ministry taking issue with some of the information in the RTC report. He said parts of the report were based on “wrong assumptions.� Bruce said the train speed of both passenger and freight trains would actually be much lower than referenced in the report. As well, Bruce said the report indicated RTC had not undertaken an on-site track inspection nor fully appreciated the incremental approach being taken to rehabilitate the track infrastructure.
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“There has been a tremendous amount of work and study that has been done since the findings in the report were compiled,� he said. A spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation acknowledged the ICF review was not included in the RTC’s final report, and the “discussion is ongoing� on whether the province wants to move forward with the project. But Joe Stanhope, chairman of
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the Regional District of Nanaimo which committed $1 million to the project last year, said he’s not surprised by the RTC report. “I’ve taken tours on the rail line and I think the infrastructure requirements to repair it will cost a lot more than previously thought,� he said.
“I’ve taken tours on the rail line and I think the infrastructure requirements to repair it will cost a lot more than previously thought.�
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1 p.m. Great plants for summer and fall with gardener Gary Lewis. Nanoose Place Community Centre, 2925 Northwest Bay Rd., Non-members and guests: $5. For information 250-821-0846.
7:30 p.m. A Celebration of Roots, Folk & Celtic Music with Qristina & Quinn Bachand at St. Andrews United Church, 311 Fitzwilliam St. Advance tickets at porttheatre.com or (250-754-8550), $18, $12 (under 16) or $22, $16 at the door.
7:30 p.m. A Celebration of Roots, Folk & Celtic Music at St. Andrews United Church, 311 Fitzwilliam St., Advance tickets at porttheatre.com or (250-7548550), $18, $12 (under 16) or $22, $16 at the door.
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7 p.m. Vibrant Dance Studios presents Feel the Vibe 2015, year-end recital with a mix of dance styles. Also showing Saturday, June 13, 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets porttheatre.com.
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Dangerous offender bid quashed Judge upholds prior ruling as prosecutors sought indefinite prison term for Kenneth Wayne Gillespie SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
A second B.C. Supreme Court judge has found a dangerous offender provision in the criminal code to be unconstitutional, this time in Nanaimo. Justice David Masuhara ruled Monday to uphold a ruling made by a fellow B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Voith in a separate case earlier this year, which declared that section 753.1 of the criminal code — part of the
dangerous offender provision brought in by the federal government in 2008 — was unconstitutional and no longer valid. Voith’s decision also suspended the ruling for one year to allow parliament time to amend the legislation. Masuhara’s ruling was in response to an application by Kenneth Wayne Gillespie, who is slated to be sentenced for an assault and sexual assault conviction from May 31, 2012.
The Crown is seeking to have Gillespie, who has a criminal record dating back to the 1970s, declared as a dangerous offender and serve an indeterminate sentence. Gillespie’s lawyer John Gustafson put forward two applications before the court. One was to have the judge declare section 753.1 unconstitutional, which Masuhara agreed to Monday. Masuhara is expected to rule today (Tuesday) on whether to
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strike down a further part of the legislation, section 753.1.1 — the so-called ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule, where criminals convicted of two previous serious offences could be declared a dangerous offender if convicted of a third offence. Prior to 2008, a dangerous offender designation came with an automatic indefinite term, but a judge had sole discretion whether to enforce it. The current federal government changed
the law so that judges can mete out a lighter sentence. However, there are now more restrictions on when a court can give a less severe prison sentence. Prosecutor Frank Dubenski said the Crown’s position “throughout the proceedings has been that the legislation is valid and constitutional.” Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255
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Lantzville residents to go to polls on Aug. 8 ROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS
Nanaimo city fleet manager Bruce Labelle looks under the hood of one of the city’s converted propane/gasoline hybrid trucks. The city plans to add five more propane-powered trucks to its fleet. [SPENCER ANDERSON/DAILY NEWS]
City continues to invest in propane for vehicles Conversions only done if analysis shows long-term savings SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
The City of Nanaimo will buy and convert five more trucks to propane power, bringing the total number of pick-up trucks running off of the gas to 10. City fleet manager Bruce Labelle said the cost of purchasing the five new trucks will be around $170,000. It costs approximately $3,500 to equip each one with a propane fuel system, he said. The city is currently accepting bids for the supply and delivery of the five trucks. A sixth, smaller truck is included in the tender, but that one will not be converted to propane power, Labelle said. Trucks that the city has converted to propane power are also
able to use gasoline as a back-up fuel. However, the primary use of propane as fuel has resulted in a 46 per cent fuel cost decrease for running the converted vehicles, Labelle said. Propane also burns more cleanly and produces fewer emissions than fossil fuels. “There has to be a business case, but we endeavour to go green,” Labelle said. The trucks will be used across a variety of city departments, including parks, public works and in the downtown. The city also uses a mix of electric and compressed natural gas-powered vehicles. Specifically, the city owns four electric cars and small trucks, plus two heavy utility trucks
powered by compressed natural gas. The alternative fuels mean lower operating costs and also lower emissions, but the city has also emphasized those benefits have to be balanced against the capital costs that a mass overhaul of the city’s fleet to alternative fuels. A vehicle conversion will only be done if a cost/benefit analysis shows the city will reap savings over the long-term. Labelle said Nanaimo is not alone is experimenting with other means of powering its vehicles. Propane as a vehicle fuel has been in use since the ‘80s, he said. Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255
The District of Lantzville has set a date for its byelection and residents will go to the polls on Aug. 8. The byelection will see the election to office of four councillors after Jennifer Millbank, Rod Negrave, Dave Scott and Graham Savage all resigned earlier this year. All four are eligible to run again if they so wish, although Millbank ruled herself out of doing so Monday. Current director of corporate administration Trudy Coates has been appointed as chief election officer, with the byelection estimated to cost the district up to $23,000. Advance polls will be open on July 29 and Aug. 5 at the district office and those who choose to vote on election day will do so at Costin Hall. The nomination period is June 23 to July 3. “The idea of going back to a full council is one all of the current council members want to see as soon as we can,” said Mayor Colin Haime. Since the first resignations of Millbank and Negrave at the end of April, Haime has stated that he has had numerous Lantzville residents approach him about running for office.
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Woman injured in pair of motorcycle accidents A motorcycle crash and fire Sunday afternoon caused a traffic snarl on the Island Highway near Lantzville, leading to another motorcycle accident and serious injuries for a woman passenger. The first incident started when a southbound rider rolled his motor-
“I continue to receive inquiries, but until the nominations open you are never sure.” Colin Haime, Lantzville Mayor
“I continue to receive inquiries, but until the nominations open you are never sure,” said the mayor. “The biggest things in terms of being on council is the ability to absorb information and critical thinking with regards to local issues.” As of right now, only himself, Coun. Denise Haime and Coun. John Coulson remain on council from November’s municipal election. All three have ruled out resigning. Reasons for the resignations of the previous four who did so included claims of “disarray and dysfunction.” Millbank, Negrave, Scott and Savage all signed a letter prior to resigning which stated they ‘do not condone’ claims of inappropriate behaviour from ‘some members of council.’ Negrave also called Lantzville council ‘broken.’ Ross.Armour @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4230
cycle to the side of the highway after it had caught fire, according to CHEK news. The bike fell into the brush and started a fire. Firefighters put out the blaze, but the incident caused traffic to back up for approximately five kilometres. The woman was injured when another motorcycle crashed into the back of another vehicle and she had to be taken to hospital.
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PARKSVILLE
Warning issued to residents after wolf attacks on dogs ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS
People in the Parksville/ Qualicum Beach area are being advised to be vigilant after a number of reports of a wolf attacking dogs. Conservation officer Troy Sterling said the wolf, which is slightly bigger than a German shepherd, has been luring dogs walking off-leash into the woods
in the green spaces between Parksville and Qualicum Beach. Sterling said there have been no reports to date that the wolf, which hasn’t succeeded in killing a dog in any of the attacks so far, has threatened any humans. He said that while bear and cougar sightings are fairly common on Vancouver Island’s east coast, having a wolf in the area is “very rare.”
Wolves are usually found on the west coast and further north on the Island. “We really have no idea why the wolf is there or where it came from, but it’s probably an older member of a pack that has been kicked out for some reason and has left the pack’s territory,” Sterling said. “There have been no reported sightings or attacks in the
last few days, but that’s likely because people have stopped walking their dogs in that area after the first reports came out.” Sterling encouraged people to keep their dogs on a leash when out walking in the wilderness, particularly in the areas where the wolf has been spotted. He also said that if faced with a wolf, people are advised to maintain eye contact with the animal,
don’t turn your back and back away slowly. Sterling encouraged everyone, especially those who spend time in the wilderness, to visit www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/ explore/wild_gen.html to learn more about animal encounters. Robert.Barron @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015
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» Our View
Flailing FSA test system in need of change
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ill foundation skills assessment test go the way of the dodo bird or the floppy disk? As we reported this week, the number of students taking the controversial FSA tests in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district is dropping. A new report indicates that 716 of the of the 952 eligible students in Grade 4 took the exams this year, a drop of 14 per cent from last year. A total of 647 of the 920 eligible Grade 7 students wrote the tests this year, a drop of 17 per cent. The tests are given annually to Grade 4 and Grade 7 students in B.C. to test their proficiency in math, reading and writing skills. On the surface, you’d think the exams are fairly benign. Simple tests designed to check on the progress of a student. No big deal, right?
Wrong. B.C.’s teachers have been campaigning to boycott FSA testing for years, claiming that the mandatory tests intrude on teaching time, are of little benefit and are unfairly used by the Fraser Institute to rank schools. The last part is the biggest bone of contention. In January, the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district sent a letter to parents with information, both for and against, regarding the FSA tests. The letter also included checkboxes to opt out of the exams, which are required by law, and directed staff to honour parents requests to not have their children write them, without further contact from the school district. More and more parents are obviously becoming more aware of the issue, and opting out.
Mike Ball, president of the Nanaimo District Teachers’ Association, said the letter likely played a big part in the drop in participation this year. “There are better ways to spend time in school and we’re hoping this will be the last year that FSAs will take place in the province’s schools,” he said. He’s correct. There are absolutely better ways to spend time in school. Who could paint a better picture of a student’s progress than their teacher? We have progress reports for children, they’re called report cards. The highly trained professionals handed the important task of educating our young people obviously work within a framework, but for their efforts to be “judged” the way they are (overtly or not) with the institute rankings is inadequate. The abil-
ity for our teachers to use their own techniques to draw the most out of students should never be overlooked. Similar reasoning might apply to government exams counting for 40 or 50 per cent of a final grade in a given class. There is obvious merit to taking exams, but grades should be mostly based on work performed for the hired professionals tasked with covering the curriculum on a daily basis. An FSA test should be a simple snapshot of achievement, nothing more. Everyone would be better off if the rankings were not presented to the Fraser Institute. Well, everyone except the Fraser Institute that is. It isn’t far-fetched to see more and more parents pulling out of the tests each year. At some point, the much-debated
rankings will have little value whatsoever. “The government is looking at a number of different assessments to replace them, but nothing has been pinned down yet.” An official in the Ministry of Education confirmed that the government is considering other options, but said “nothing is set in stone yet.” That the government is considering other options is good to hear. There is little reason to continue with something that does little other than fuel empty (albeit interesting) debate, all the while creating unnecessary tension with our teachers. We wait with interest to see what the government proposes. » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this editorial to letters@nanaimodailynews.com.
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» Your Letters // e-mail: letters@nanaimodailynews.com Politicians more loyal to leaders than the public Re: ‘Comments by NDP MLA show lack of research’ (Your Letters, Daily News, June 6) After seeing the damage that well-seasoned “experienced” politicians such as our B.C. government, the Alberta government and our federal government have done to our country in past years, one would think that everybody would more than welcome a change. The Conservatives’ stacked senate is under investigation. Christy Clark is once more searching desperately for someone to unload the blame on for firing seven health ministry researchers without due cause or documentation. Many politicians who are allowed to remain in power too long can become complacent, e.g. Alberta and B.C. Instead of going to bat for “experienced” politicians, why not instead welcome some new politicians who are young enough not to be set in their ways and eager to learn? These young ones are not likely to follow the example of the “experienced” ones. Why don’t we just wish them luck, and before we condemn them to failure, how about giving them a chance to prove themselves? Joe Sawchuk says social work-
ers don’t qualify; I think they would make fantastic politicians. How experienced was Peter MacKay when he became defence minister then justice minister? And don’t expect miracles, it took many years of slovenly governing to destroy the good things we had going for us. The fairest and most well-meaning government possible, could not begin to rectify overnight, all the wrongs that need to be righted. Who needs self-serving ‘’experienced’’ politicians who already know how to screw things up, over partially inexperienced ones that have not yet been taught the ugly art of political deception? Teaching leadership and management qualities would not be wasted on someone with an open mind and a desire to learn instead of some”experienced” politicians who in fear of their cushy jobs have chosen loyalty to their leaders instead of their betrayed constituents. John A. Martin Nanaimo
No thanks after alert leading to road signs A few years ago I noticed many speeders in an elementary school zone on Hammond Bay Road. I then noticed that there was no
special warning to advise drivers of entering a school zone. The Nanaimo Daily News published my letter to the editor. The city, as common practice, never thanked me about my concerns for all residents, especially school-age children and their parents. A while later, new road signs appeared and are still there. The signs, ‘END of school zone’ should have been placed on the right side of the road — not the left and should have been placed at the start of the school zone, with special highlighting effects. We are told that the city must sky wages to have personnel with exceptional qualities. Ralph Forshaw Nanaimo
Symphony also in need of community support
not the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music which has the instrument tryout in conjunction with Symphony Community Days held at the Port theatre. This event happens twice a year where kids come and try all the instruments of the orchestra with guidance from the symphony’s professional musicians. The VIS then opens the rehearsal to everyone in the community to attend and hear the Symphony for free. VIS also presents Symphony by the Sea, a free concert in Maffeo-Sutton Park that 4,000-plus attend annually. The date this year is Aug. 8. Thus it is not only the Port Theatre that deserves our support but also the Vancouver Island Symphony. As Mr. Miller so adequately stated, “This is a truly good and artistic community to have come to.” Let us continue to support it and help it thrive.
Re: ‘Arts community plays huge role in Nanaimo’ (Your Letters, Daily News, June 8)
Rosemarie Sherban Nanaimo
I appreciate Alan Miller’s letter concurring with the editorial article in support of the Port Theatre and totally agree with what Mr. Miller has stated. There is a correction I would like to make to his letter. It is in fact the Vancouver Island Symphony
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Longtime hospice volunteer earns honour for her years of dedication Leins has put in more than 2,500 hours with Nanaimo group since 1985 Downtown Nanaimo Dental Group and Daybreak Rotary Club. Email info@drmahara.com if you would like one and send your size. Mahara and Daybreak Rotary offer a huge thank-you to volunteers and supporters.
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enny Leins has been recognized for years of dedication working in hospice. The Shara Lee Volunteer Award recognizes the outstanding personal achievements of volunteers working in Hospice Palliative Care in B.C.. Leins has put in more than 2,500 hours with Nanaimo Community Hospice since 1985. She volunteered four years in the Home Visiting Program as a 1:1 volunteer with palliative clients, on the Palliative Care Unit at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and as a grief group facilitator in our drop-in grief group. During the five years she spent in the Cowichan Valley, she volunteered with Cowichan Valley Hospice Society. In 1995, she returned to Nanaimo and picked up where she left off, volunteering with palliative clients in their homes and on the palliative care unit. For the next three years she balanced her client work with administrative work such as training volunteers and coordinating clients and programs. By 1998, she had joined Nanaimo Community Hospice as staff and worked as the client service co-ordinator until 2000. When Leins retired she returned to volunteering. In 2007 she joined the team of volunteers working at Hospice Thrift Shoppe, and continues to volunteer every Friday at the Departure Bay location, and goes on Hike for Hospice every year. Known for her compassionate
Support for Haven
Hospice volunteer Penny Leins, left, is recognized with the Prestigious Volunteer Award at BC Hospice Palliative Care Association Conference in Richmond. Next is Lorraine Gerard of the provincial organization and fellow Nanaimo Hospice volunteer Shannon Farahbakhsh.
The community came out in spades to support Haven, through PCWM Waste Recycling. The recycling company had a drop-off day by donation recently, which raised $1,540 for Haven Society. Nearly 100 people took part in the event at the company’s Biggs Road facility. Another 33 paying customers also donated.
Hub City Paving helps
To celebrate ‘Daily News’ photographer Aaron Hinks’s B.C.-Yukon Community Newspaper Association Ma Murray Award for best feature photo, TD Canada Trust will donate $500 to the local food bank. From left, TD Canada Trust Terminal Park branch manager Duncan Miller, Turner Road branch manager Leah Page, Port Place manager Darryl Lenko, Hinks, Terminal Park branch manager Kiran Parhar, and Bowen Road branch manager Jeff Krafta.
nature, she cheerfully offers support to clients, volunteers and staff. Leins’s steady commitment through the years has earned her a Lifetime Membership at Nanaimo Community Hospice.
Vigil raises $5,600 The recent Candlelight Vigil for Nepal� raised $5,600 for people affected by the recent devastat-
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ing earthquakes that caused massive destruction in the shadow of the Himalayas. Nearly 200 people showed up at Maffeo Sutton Park on May 24 for the Vigil for Nepal. They raised $5,600 through buying Nepal T-shirts and with monetary donations. Shirts are still for sale for $20, cash only. They can be purchased through Dr. San Mahara from
Hub City Paving teamed up with the City of Nanaimo in the recent upgrades at the Harewood Water Park. The company, a division of Lafarge Canada Inc., volunteered its services to pave the pathway at the popular water park. Company spokeswoman Christina Belcourt said Lafarge has been volunteering its time and equipment to help the community for years. Hub City Paving’s next big project will be cleaning of the beaches in Neck Point Park in July as part of the annual Great Canadian Shoreline Clean Up. Belcourt said volunteering with such projects is a “critical element� of the company’s community investment. “Lafarge Canada’s goal is to contribute more than one million volunteer hours per year,� she said. “Lafarge believes that the community gives us the right to do business, and the company believes in giving back by supporting the local community.�
Town enters Stage 2 water restrictions ROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS
As the current hot, dry weather continues, the Town of Ladysmith has decided to err on the side of caution. On Monday, the town entered into Stage 2 water restrictions, weeks after staff had envisioned going no further than the first. The move means that sprinkling can only occur on two days a week either between 6-8 a.m. or 8-10 p.m. Even-numbered houses are to sprinkle on Wednesdays and Saturdays only, with odd numbered houses permitted to do so on Thursdays and Sundays. The regulations are also in place for the Shellwood and Saltair area of the Cowichan Valley Regional District, as well as the Diamond Improvement District and the Stz’uminus First Nation. The decision on watering restrictions is made by town staff on the basis of the work and findings of the public works department mainly. “It’s a proactive approach for sure,� said manager of operations Kevin Goldfuss. “The hot, dry season is upon us much earlier this year.� Mayor Aaron Stone also believed staff’s decision to be a smart move. “I think it’s wise and it’s important we raised awareness as well,� he said. “The priority now is to keep the important stuff alive like the vegetables in your garden. The unnecessary uses need to be shut down. “By enlisting Stage 2, hopefully we’ll put some savings in the bank for later in the year.� Certain exemptions from the restrictions include nurseries, tree farms, school and municipal playing fields, sprinkling permit holders, car dealerships and other commercial enterprises which require regular use of water to operate a business. Ross.Armour @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4230
COMMUNITY
Realignment at libraries designed to boost service ROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS
The Vancouver Island Regional Library has released details of a realignment of service hours across its 39 branches, designed to improve service at more than half of them. The move increases accessibility at a number of rural branches as of July 1, but it also means that certain urban branches will have hours cut. Two of the branches in Nanaimo will see a loss in operation hours. The Nanaimo Wellington branch will see its hours per week cut from 57 to 54 and will close at 5 p.m. on Fridays instead of 8 p.m.
The Nanaimo Harbourfront branch will be cut from 61 hours to 57.5. Its hours will also be trimmed on Fridays in a mirror image of the Wellington branch and will also open half an hour later on a Sunday at 12:30 p.m. instead of noon. Ladysmith’s hours remain at 51 but that branch will now stay open three hours later on a Tuesday night until 8 p.m. and close three hours earlier at 5 p.m. on a Friday. Nanaimo North remains the same as does Parksville, both with 57.5 hours of operation and Gabriola Island with 41. Marketing and communications officer Natasha
Bartlett said the changes were cost neutral and approved by the board back in March. She confirmed the realignment will result in staff layoffs at branches that will have hours cut, but those staff will be offered positions elsewhere at other branches. She said that VIRL will also look at internal hires first for branches with increased operation that will now require extra staff. “We love our staff and we want them to stay here,� she said. Ross.Armour@ nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4230
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Canada in focus as G7 calls for energy sector changes German Chancellor Angela Merkel had put climate change at heart of agenda
Edmonton cop said to be slain in shooting
MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS
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SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany — Canada’s energy sector will have to transform itself to lower greenhouse gas emissions in the long term, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday. He was commenting at the end of the G7 leaders’ summit which called on its members to put their energy sectors on a low-carbon footing by 2050, a move with serious implications for Canada’s greenhouse-gas-emitting oilsands. German Chancellor Angela Merkel fell short of her goal of pushing her fellow leaders to a broad, iron-clad commitment to a low-carbon economy by 2050. Instead, the G7 agreed to a fullblown no-carbon economy, but not until 2100. “We commit to doing our part to achieve a low-carbon global economy in the longterm, including developing and deploying innovative technologies striving for a transformation of the energy sectors by 2050 and invite all countries to join us in this endeavour,” the leaders said in their final communique. “To this end we also commit to develop long-term, national low-carbon strategies.” Asked what this means for Canada’s energy sector, Harper said: “Nobody’s going to start to shut down their industries or turn off the lights. We simply got to find a way to create lower-carbon emitting sources of energy.” Harper took part the G7 leaders’ shortened talks on climate change as the summit entered its second and final day. “All leaders understand that to achieve these kinds of milestones over the decades to come will require serious technological transformation,” Harper said.
The Canadian Press has been told by sources who saw the working draft of the G7’s climate-change communique that Canada and Japan worked behind the scenes to water down the statement. Harper’s spokesman Stephen Lecce said that was “false,” noting the G7 reached a consensus that Canada supported. Merkel placed the fight against
climate change at the heart of her sweeping agenda. She wanted the G7 summit to give France momentum when it hosts the United Nations climate change conference this December, which aims to reach a breakthrough agreement in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Merkel had been pushing the G7 to endorse a pledge to reach zero carbon emissions, but Canada and Japan were holdouts. “Canada and Japan are the most concerned about this one,” said one source who was privy to discussions but would only speak on the condition of anonymity. “The two of those countries have been the most difficult on every issue on climate. They don’t want any types of targets in there, so I think they are trying to make it as vague as possible at this point.”
Harper and Merkel spoke together on Sunday, but the prime minister’s office said they did not discuss climate change. “It’s shocking that Mr. Harper didn’t even bother to bring up climate change as an issue for discussion during his bilateral meeting with Chancellor Merkel,” said New Democrat foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar. He said Harper is out of touch and sidelining Canada internationally. Liberal environment critic John McKay said the prime minister “has embarrassed Canada on the world stage.” “Other G7 countries have very clearly identified strong and immediate actions to tackle climate change,” McKay said in a statement. “Unfortunately, Mr. Harper is fixated on ensuring that he obstructs all progress nationally or internationally.”
There were media reports Monday night that an Edmonton police officer had been killed in a shooting. Unnamed sources told multiple media outlets that one officer died and another is in hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening. Chaos unfolded in the residential neighbourhood Monday evening when residents reported hearing gunfire. A man named Ryan told radio station CHED he is the neighbour of the shooter and was there when everything happened. “I was on my back deck, saw what I thought was a routine arrest,” he said. “They had six officers come over to do a routine arrest. They didn’t know if he had any weapons in the house, and when they went to breach the door that’s when the fire started. “He did fire on two officers, hit one in the back. I helped the one officer, got him out to the side, got him into the car. The bullet was stopped by his vest, but it did pierce through his skin. A massive police presence quickly gathered, with dozens of police cars, a police helicopter and three ambulances on scene. Smoke also started billowing from a home in the neighbourhood and police evacuated several homes. Fire trucks stood at the ready to move in once the scene was contained and safe enough for them to move in, and before long, they had extinguished the blaze. Edmonton police did not immediately confirm the officer’s death but sent out a Tweet: “We appreciate all of your words of support and sympathy at this time.”
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Lawyer says polygamist charge should be tossed
NDP wants inquiry into health researcher firings
Police say 28-year-old man shot in vehicle
Group promises protests Province rejects gaming if Walbran logging goes proposal for BC Ferries
A polygamy charge against the leader of a fundamentalist, Mormon breakaway commune in southeastern British Columbia is unfair and should be thrown out because he wasn’t given “fair notice,” a court has heard. Winston Blackmore’s lawyer Joe Arvay argued in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday that the provincial government doesn’t have the right to criminally charge Blackmore for historical acts of polygamy. The cutoff, said Arvay, should be a 2011 question that found polygamy laws did not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
British Columbians deserve to know what really happened when the province fired eight health researchers three years ago and went on to claim an RCMP investigation was underway, says the Opposition leader. “Nothing short of a public inquiry will get to the bottom of this,” said New Democrat leader John Horgan. The researchers were either fired or suspended in 2012 after an investigation into the relationship between university researchers seeking grants and employees working on B.C.’s PharmaCare program.
Police are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever is responsible for shooting a passenger in a vehicle in Williams Lake, B.C. RCMP Cpl. Jason Pole says Mounties received multiple reports of shots being fired in a residential area at about 11 p.m. on Saturday. He says responding officers saw two vehicles speeding away but only managed to stop one. Pole says a 28-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds was found inside that vehicle, and that he’s in critical condition.
The prospect of logging in the Walbran Valley near Lake Cowichan has generated calls for civil disobedience in the woods. The Wilderness Committee says centuries-old cedar trees in the area are part of the logging plans of forest company Teal Jones. Wilderness Committee spokesman Torrance Coste says Teal Jones has been marking zones where it wants to cut, but he warns that environmental groups will stage protests to prevent logging. Officials from Teal Jones or the province could not be immediately reached for comment.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, front right, with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, front left, at the G7 Summit in Garmisch, Germany on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
“Nobody’s going to start to shut down their industries or turn off the lights. We simply got to find a way to create lower-carbon emitting sources of energy.” Stephen Harper, Prime Minister
B.C. NEWS The Canadian Press
The provincial government says it’s folding its cards when it comes to gambling on BC Ferries. British Columbia’s Transportation Ministry says a study finds gaming on ferries will end up costing more money than it makes. A ministry statement today says a B.C. Lottery Corporation business analysis finds potential revenues from gaming will not generate a return on the investment. The lottery corporation estimates a loss of about $240,000 a year because of added staffing, IT and equipment.
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Senators repay expenses but deny any wrongdoing Auditor general finds about $1M in problematic spending JORDAN PRESS AND JOAN BRYDEN THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — A scathing report on the spending habits of Canadian senators suggests there’s a strong sense of entitlement among members of the upper chamber, many of whom often ignore “economical” options that would save taxpayers money. Auditor general Michael Ferguson makes the statement early in a highly anticipated report, coming today, that finds about $1 million in problematic spending after a two-year review of 80,000 transactions worth about $180 million. “We found that the oversight, accountability, and transparency of senators’ expenses was quite simply not adequate,” reads the report, a copy of which was reviewed by The Canadian Press. “We also found that senators did not always consider the requirement to ensure that expenses funded through the public purse were justifiable, reasonable, and appropriate.” From stopovers on the way home to the choice of flight routes, Ferguson’s report identifies areas where senators could make decisions that are “more economical for taxpayers” — part of the “transformational change” he calls for in a report that reportedly carries a $21-million price tag. Part of that report is now in the hands of the RCMP, who have been asked by the Senate to review the files on nine of the most cavalier spenders. But the fallout won’t end there: The Mounties are also expected to look at the 21 other senators named in the audit and their tens of thousands of dollars in dubious claims before deciding if they, too, warrant criminal investigation. On Monday, a trio of top senators said they would repay expenses flagged in the audit, even though they felt they had done nothing wrong. Senate
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Officer put on leave after Pistorius to be released pulling gun at pool party from prison Aug. 21 A suburban Dallas police officer has been placed on leave after a video showed him pushing a 14-year-old girl in a bikini to the ground outside a pool and pointing his gun at other black teens. McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley said at a news conference Sunday that the incident began when officers responded Friday to a report of a disturbance involving a group of young people at a neighbourhood pool. The police department has said they did not live in the area or have permission to be there. When officers arrived, residents and private security pointed out the juveniles, who were “fighting and refusing to leave,” Conley said. As officers dispersed the crowd, the 14-year-old girl was “temporarily detained” by an officer, said Conley, who did not describe what led to her detainment.
Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison for good behaviour on Aug. 21 and go under house arrest after serving just 10 months for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, South Africa’s department of corrections said Monday. “He’s behaving himself very well,” Acting National Commissioner of Correctional Services Zach Modise told The Associated Press. “He hasn’t given us any problems.” Prosecutors will again seek a murder conviction at the Supreme Court of Appeal in November, the court announced, also on Monday. Judge Thokozile Masipa had granted prosecutors permission to go to the Supreme Court of Appeal, the second-highest court in South Africa, to appeal her decision to acquit Pistorius of murder at trial.
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Iceland announces it will Egyptian soldier dies in dial back capital controls Sinai Peninsula attacks Auditor General Michael Ferguson speaks in April following the tabling of his spring report to Parliament. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Speaker Leo Housakos, his deputy Nicole Eaton, and Senate Liberal leader James Cowan all said they would give up the right to appeal Ferguson’s findings. Together, they accounted for about $20,000, including Cowan’s $10,000 bill. Senate government leader Claude Carignan has also already repaid about $3,000 in questionable travel claims for one of his staff. The trio faced tough questions from their colleagues last week over why, despite having been named in Ferguson’s report, they were involved in setting up an arbitration process that gives senators a chance to potentially quash Ferguson’s findings. Housakos, Cowan and Carignan were accused of having a conflict of interest for setting up a process that could end up helping them. Housakos said he repaid about $7,500 in all for travel by a staffer and contracts handed out through his office before
he became Speaker because he didn’t want to impugn the “integrity of the process or the manner in which it was implemented.” Cowan, too, denied any conflict of interest, saying he continues to “respectfully disagree” with Ferguson’s claim that three trips to Toronto in 2011 were for personal events, rather than parliamentary business. “I have taken this action solely to remove any lingering perceptions about the integrity of the arbitration process.” Eaton said Ferguson disallowed $3,489 worth of expense claims for four trips she made to her hometown of Toronto to attend meetings of not-for-profit boards on which she sits. In a statement, Eaton said she disagrees with Ferguson’s conclusion that the trips were aimed at advancing her “personal interests.” Senate spending rules, she said, allow senators to charge taxpayers for trips that have a “public interest.”
Iceland is to introduce a hefty 39 per cent exit tax on assets from its failed banks starting next April as part of moves to lift capital controls imposed after the tiny island nation’s economy collapsed seven years ago. Following a vote in Parliament, the government said Monday it will impose the tax as part of the lifting of the capital controls. The hope is that the end of the controls won’t prompt a mass exodus of money from the country if the cost of doing so is prohibitive. The moves announced Monday are designed to free up about 1,200 billion kronur ($9 billion) in assets have faced restrictions since the 2008 financial crisis, when Iceland went from economic powerhouse to financial disaster almost overnight. The so-called “stability tax” could raise as much as 850 billion kronur.
Militants in Egypt’s northern Sinai carried out two separate attacks against military troops in the restive province, killing one soldier and wounding five, security and hospital officials said. In one Monday attack, fighters ambushed a military checkpoint near the town of Sheikh Zuweyid, firing several mortar shells that killed one conscript and wounded a soldier, the officials said. In another attack, attackers detonated a bomb by remote control as an armoured vehicle passed, wounding four soldiers near the city of Rafah, which borders the Gaza Strip, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists The long-restive northern Sinai has seen a spike in attacks targeting security forces.
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ATHENS — Greece faced acute international pressure, notably from President Barack Obama, to secure a deal with creditors fast following days of acrimony that stoked fears of a Greek debt default and exit from the euro. With Greece facing an end-ofmonth deadline to secure a deal, Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel led calls Monday for a swift resolution to Greece’s protracted bailout talks. At the end of a G-7 summit in Elmau, Germany, Obama said there was a “sense of urgency” to resolve the situation. “What it’s going to require is Greece being serious about making some important reforms,” Obama said. The Greeks, he added, will have to “make some tough political choices that will be good for the long term.” Obama also stressed that the international community should “recognize the extraordinary challenges that Greeks face, and
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if both sides are showing sufficient flexibility, then I think we can get this problem resolved.” And German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned time was running out, and that while Greece’s euro partners want the country to remain in the eurozone, Athens has to do its part by implementing reforms. “There’s not a lot of time, that’s the problem, that’s why we have to work as intensively as possible,” Merkel said. A resolution is needed by June
30, when Greece’s bailout program ends and the remaining 7.2 billion euros ($8.1 billion) in rescue loans will no longer be available. Without the funds, Greece cannot repay its debts and could end up crashing out of Europe’s joint currency. Discussions hit a wall late last week, when Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rejected as unacceptable a proposal from the three institutions overseeing Greece’s bailout — the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and European Commission. Worries of a Greek default and euro exit kept markets in check Monday — the Stoxx 50 index of leading European shares closed down 0.8 per cent lower and the Athens Stock Exchange ending 2.7 per cent lower. Greek government spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis said negotiators were in Brussels to explore the “scope for convergence” with creditors and indicated there was room for negotiation.
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or those who fought Toronto’s devastating SARS outbreak in 2003, the news out of South Korea right now sounds eerily familiar. A man infected with a new coronavirus for which there are no vaccines or drugs turns up in a hospital sick and infectious. It is days before he’s recognized as a carrier of the new disease and during that time he isn’t isolated. He infects a couple dozen people who then pass the disease to still more. The widening circle involves hospital patients, family members who visited and health-care professionals who cared for them. Cases start popping up in other hospitals. The public gets spooked. Authorities order exposed people into quarantine as they struggle to get ahead the outbreak. That could almost be a recitation of the early days of Toronto’s SARS outbreak. But South Korea is battling a cousin virus, Middle East respiratory syndrome or MERS. Right now there is a lot of sympathy for the South Koreans among people who work in Toronto’s hospital and public health sectors. “All of us who went through SARS — you know what they’re going through. It’s very similar and you understand what they feel like,” says Dr. Allison McGeer, head of infection control at Mount Sinai Hospital and a SARS survivor. “They will get through it. But it’s just such an awful thing to happen to people.” As of today, South Korea is reporting 87 cases and six deaths. In the past 24 hours alone, the case count jumped by 23. Dr. Bonnie Henry is British Columbia’s deputy provincial health officer. But in March 2003, when SARS hit, she was an associate medical officer of health for the City of Toronto. Henry admits she gets “this feeling in my stomach” when she hears dispatches from the MERS front in South Korea. She’s not alone. Dr. Brian Schwartz, Public Health
Workers wearing masks clean up public facilities as a precaution against the MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus on a subway train in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]
Ontario’s chair for communicable diseases, emergency preparedness and response, says for many health-care professionals who fought SARS, the MERS news evokes a “visceral” response. An emergency room physician, Schwartz was vice-chair of the SARS scientific advisory committee back in the day. He says the South Korean outbreak isn’t making him nervous. But he is driven to do all he can to ensure Ontario’s health-care system remains vigilant, so that if a MERS case shows up at a hospital in the province, the disease isn’t given the chance to take off. With SARS, Toronto’s outbreak was already well underway when authorities realized a critically ill man suspected of having tuberculosis was actually dying of a new disease that would touch off big outbreaks in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore. Early on Henry and McGeer
went to the first hospital in the Toronto chain, Scarborough Grace, to try to determine how many people had been exposed and might be infected. “When we looked back on it and pieced it together there were 15 cases by the time we recognized that this person probably had this disease that was happening in China. Some of them were in hospital and some of them were in the community. Some of them were health-care providers,” Henry says. All those ill people were exposing multiple others to the disease. Sick health-care workers started booking off work. “And we realized they were in multiple parts of the facility. They were nurses, they were X-ray techs.... The security guard in the emergency department. So it became very clear within a short period of time that there were people that we didn’t know who had been in contact (with the first case),” Henry says.
“And then there were healthcare workers who were sick who’d been in contact with other health-care workers. And it sort of snowballed. And we had to make the decision to close the hospital.” Though there are many similarities, there are differences too. When SARS hit Toronto, it didn’t yet have a name. MERS hit the world’s radar in September 2012 and has made headlines off and on ever since, mainly for cases on the Arabian Peninsula. There was no test for SARS for much of the global outbreak, which burned out within four months. There is now a test for MERS. But a test only assists if you think to use it. “It’s a way of saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’ But it doesn’t help if you haven’t recognized that the person has a respiratory infection to start with. And that’s where we need to focus, is on catching people early,” Henry says.
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UBC gets $1M to study treating HIV with pot
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VANCOUVER — A company vying for a licence to produce and sell medical marijuana has pledged $1 million to a University of British Columbia researcher studying pot’s potential to treat HIV-AIDS. National Green Biomed Ltd. was founded by a group including former Liberal MP Herb Dhaliwal and private investment banker David Sidoo, who is also a member of the UBC Board of Governors.
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“Because cannabis has been seen primarily as a recreational drug, its medicinal implications have been much overlooked in formal research circles,” Dhaliwal said Monday in a statement. University of B.C. assistant professor of medicine M.J. Milloy said National Green has so far donated $200,000 toward his work, with a promise to contribute the rest of the money within five years. The infectious disease epidemiologist was the lead inves-
tigator of an ongoing observational study that looked at the cases of 88 people infected with HIV and living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Milloy said their medical records suggested that people who smoked the most marijuana had significantly less of the virus in their blood compared to those who smoked less pot or none at all. Milloy said the donation may be used to conduct a clinical trial to draw more firm conclusions than those available
through the limited study published in Drug and Alcohol Review in March. A study on monkeys at Louisiana State University showed similar results, Milloy said. “That’s what I think is the exciting thing about science, that we’re beginning to see the same thing.” Dr. Julio Montaner, head of the UBC Division of AIDS and director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, said some patients have reported benefiting from cannabis.
hat would I do if I wanted to be rich? I’d start a class action suit against food companies for their role in creating three major epidemics in this country. After all, a judge has recently created the “perfect guidelines” for a win/win situation. He ruled that smokers can be rewarded for ill health or death. Of course, it’s not their fault they ignored health warnings for 50 years about smoking. But since obesity causes more deaths than smoking, why shouldn’t food companies also reward us for our ill health? Faced with a class action suit, food companies wouldn’t have a leg to stand on in court. Consider the junk they’ve been selling unsuspecting customers for years. So now you’re suffering from obesity, Type 2 diabetes and recovering from a heart attack. In fact, your cardiologist claims that without bypass surgery you’ll be dead in a couple of years. And all this trouble because of too many calories. Someone has to be held responsible. Diabetes has resulted in the need for cataract surgery. Moreover, your ophthalmologist is worried that due to diabetic complications you may eventually lose your sight. To add more insult to injury, diabetes has caused such hardening of arteries that renal failure is a distinct possibility. You may say to yourself, “How did all this happen?” But you know damn well how. Your doctor repeatedly told you long before you hit the scale at 200 pounds that this excess weight would most likely cause Type 2 since other family members also suffer from this disease. But in spite of his warning about the need to exercise and diet, you ignored his advice. However, the fact that you were warned about health problems isn’t the point. Life has become a living hell because food companies continue to add excessive amounts of calories to packaged foods. Or they have made prepared food so appealing that will power can’t resist it. Why are supermarkets foolishly selling 14-ounce steaks when smaller ones would satisfy? And why do they tempt you to purchase desserts loaded with hundreds of calories. It is dishonest, deceptive marketing. Someone has to pay for it. In fact, if getting rich is the motive, why stop at food corporations? After all, it was the damn liquor companies that should have realized you were becoming an alcoholic. One could go on and on blaming various aspects of society for our own self-inflicted problems. So this $15 billion verdict against several tobacco companies is the wrong health message. In 2015 North Americans would have to be living on Mars and have half a brain not to know that tobacco kills. I’m no friend of these companies, but they should not have to reward people for lack of discipline. Nor make them rich for irrational reasons. If anyone should be sued, it should be the government which for years allowed tobacco to be sold legally while it reaps the reward. If tobacco were introduced to the world today, it would be immediately banned as a hazardous substance. It contains 4,000 chemicals of which 40 are known to cause cancer in humans! This is another example of an illogical ruling by a court. But it is sad that society has reached a stage where individual responsibility is forsaken. Those who abuse their bodies with tobacco, drugs and alcohol cost us billions of dollars a year. This is bad enough, but to reward them for their folly is utter madness. See the website www.docgiff.com For Comments info@docgiff.com
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Lightning take the lead Paquette scores Game 3 winner as Bolts win 3-2 to go up 2-1 over Chicago CHRIS KUC CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CHICAGO — The Blackhawks and Lightning have reached the point in the 2015 Stanley Cup Final when very little will be a surprise to either team. “We learn more and more how they play,” Hawks center Marcus Kruger said before puck drop for Game 3 on Monday night at the United Center. “We have a pretty good idea of what they’re trying to do out there.” Still, the teams put on an eye-popping display of skilled, frenetic hockey in front of a crowd of 22,336 that rode a roller coaster of emotion. It was an unhappy ride home for them as Cedric Paquette scored late in the third period to help the Lightning stun the Hawks 3-2 and take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Ben Bishop, who gutted his way through an unspecified injury, earned the win in goal. He also received offensive support in the form of goals by Ryan Callahan and Ondrej Palat. Brad Richards and Brandon Saad had goals for the Hawks, but it wasn’t enough as Corey Crawford yielded a lead in third. That put history on
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W Tampa Bay Lightning Game 3 hero Cedric Paquette, left, celebrates after scoring during the third period in Game 3 of the NHL’s Stanley Cup finals against the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday in Chicago. [AP PHOTO]
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series resumes Wednesday night at the UC. “We’ve been down a few times, even in the last series against Anaheim,” Hawks veteran Marian Hossa said. “We’ve been in this situation. I thought we played a pretty solid game, but we have to give them credit. They’re a great team and they’re battling. We did pretty good tonight, but a few mistakes cost us.” The teams resumed their track meet from Game 2, racing up and down the ice. The Hawks had the better chances early on, but it was the Lightning who struck first. When Hawks defenseman Johnny Oduya tripped and fell down leaving Ryan Callahan some space, Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman made a masterful stretch pass to his teammate. A step ahead of a recovered Oduya, Callahan fired a cannon shot from the right circle that zipped past Crawford’s left shoulder. The Hawks responded by dominating play the rest of the first period. Not only did the Lightning not record a shot for the next 13 minutes, the Hawks peppered Bishop
with shots. Hossa and Teuvo Teravainen both misfired and sent pucks just outside the left post and it appeared it was just a matter of time until the Hawks scored — and it was. Richards tied it at one when his shot from the point during a power play found its way through traffic to Bishop, who got a glove on it but watched helplessly as it hopped over the goal line. With the amount of zone time, crisp passes and terrific looks, it was arguably the Hawks’ best effort with a man advantage all season. “We fired lots of shots right at the beginning and after they played a little bit in our zone and we stopped shooting pucks at (Bishop),” Hossa said. “If he’s not OK we should take advantage of it and just keep peppering the puck at the net like we did in the first period.” It was the Lightning’s turn to control play in the second as the Hawks appeared sluggish. Still, neither team mounted much of an attack except for a couple of breakaways that the goalies handled.
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Contrary to widespread opinions, the Cavaliers are not doomed yet. Instead, they found a new resolve, again, to stun the Golden State Warriors, 95-93. Never mind the doubters who declared the Cavaliers finished with Irving joining Kevin Love on the injured list. Good thing the Cavaliers, deflated as they were on Thursday night, didn’t pay attention to the noise. “I don’t need any extra motivation,” James said. “I think our guys love it . . . love the fact that we’ve been counted out and come into the series being an underdog. They’re pretty much saying that especially after Kyrie got hurt and the series was over.” Well, this series is far from over, with James scoring 39 points Sunday night to counter a sizzling performance by Golden State’s Klay Thompson (34 points). Better than that, he answered an essential question. Yes, LeBron can still do even more.
hen Jason Garrison left the Nanaimo Clippers in 2005 for the University of Minnesota-Duluth, one thing was clear — it was this city’s loss, and that school’s gain. Last summer, nearly a decade later, what the Vancouver Canucks thought they were losing when they gave him up for a second-round draft pick and cap space, had to have been a little more murky. Or, at least, a Canucks fan would hope. Because what Garrison, now a 30-year-old second-pairing defenceman with the Tampa Bay Lightning, has become not only just a solid defenceman that can run a power play with the booming point shot he made famous in Nanaimo, but an affordable, experienced asset on a very good team. In other words: something that comes around just a little more often than Stanley Cups in Vancouver. Don’t forget the six-year contract he signed in Vancouver in 2012 was front-loaded and that he only gets cheaper as his contract goes on through 2017-18, when they’ll be paying him a measly $2.5 million in the final year, half what they paid him for this season. And that’s with a young team still growing into form that loses all of Brendan Morrow to free agency this summer, and nobody else. But the Canucks wanted to get younger. They wanted Linden Vey, who was a good player in junior with the Medicine Hat Tigers under current Canucks coach Willie Desjardins, so they gave up Garrison for the gamble of a second-round draft pick which they flipped for Vey. Freshly hired Canucks general manager Jim Benning used the resulting cap space to spend money on the much-maligned Luca Sbisa. Which brings us back to Garrison, who on Saturday night scored the game-winning goal for the Lightning to lock the Stanley Cup final at a game apiece with the Chicago Blackhawks on a slapshot from the point. Of course he did. Would the Canucks package Vey and Sbisa to bring back Garrison, seeing what has procured since they deemed him expendable? You’d bet your last orca tail they would. Because it wasn’t just the game-winner on Saturday. Let’s not forget that after a late-season injury he wasn’t available to the Lightning until Game 4 of their opening-round playoff series with the Detroit Red Wings. The Garrison-less Bolts were down 2-1 prior to his return, but with him back on the point they won three of their next four games to boost themselves through the playoffs and into the finals. And now, here he is. In the longest playoff run of his life and playing a key role. Nanaimo hockey fans knew what he was capable of 10 years ago. Did the Canucks know 10 months ago? » Scott McKenzie is the sports editor at the Nanaimo Daily News. To offer comments on this column or to submit a story idea, send an email to: scott.mckenzie@nanaimodailynews.com.
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D-Backs draft Vanderbilt shortstop first overall The Arizona Diamondbacks selected slugging Vanderbilt shortstop Dansby Swanson with the No. 1 pick in the Major League Baseball draft on Monday night. Swanson, who helped lead the Commodores to the College World Series earlier in the day, is the first college shortstop to be chosen with the top selection in the draft since Brown University’s Bill Almon in 1974. The pick at MLB Network studios marked the first time the Diamondbacks had the No. 1 selection since they took Justin Upton in 2005. It’s the 50th anniversary of the first draft in 1965, and the first for new Commissioner Rob Manfred.
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Pre-draft tour takes McDavid to Cup finals Connor McDavid stood in the crowded Chicago Blackhawks locker-room and chatted with Steven Stamkos of the Tampa Bay Lightning down the hall. An appearance at the Stanley Cup final with other top prospects was just the latest stop on McDavid’s rock-star tour before the Edmonton Oilers, as expected, draft him first overall later this month. Along the way, McDavid has been to the Memorial Cup and the scouting combine and gotten to know fellow top prospect Jack Eichel. “It’s been a whirlwind and it’s been a dream come true,” McDavid said Monday morning at United Center. “It’s been crazy. It’s been a very busy couple of weeks. But it’s exciting. It’s where you want to be.”
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Ottawa turf heat sizzling at Women’s World Cup Sizzling pitch-level heat was a storyline on the opening weekend of the Women’s World Cup. Fox Sports, on its game broadcast, reported temperatures at turf level had reached 54 degrees Celsius during the early afternoon Norway-Thailand match Sunday in Ottawa and 43 degrees for the Germany-Ivory Coast match that followed. FIFA listed the air temperature at 18 and 25 degrees, respectively, for the Ottawa doubleheader. A Fox sideline reporter said turf temperatures had reached 49 degrees in Edmonton for the Canada-China game Saturday. Air temperature was 26 degrees.
◆ NHL
Red Wings introduce Blashill as head coach For the first time in a decade, the Detroit Red Wings are holding a news conference to announce a new head coach. Jeff Blashill is to be introduced at Joe Louis Arena at 11 a.m. Tuesday, three weeks after the job opened up when Mike Babcock decided to depart for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Wings didn’t want to make the announcement while Blashill was still busy coaching Detroit’s AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins. The Griffins were eliminated from the playoffs last week. Blashill’s contract is expected to be for three years, matching that left on the contract of general manager Ken Holland. At 41, Blashill will be the second-youngest NHL head coach, behind 40-year-old John Hynes in New Jersey. One of Blashill’s first duties will be to hire assistants. Assistant coach Tony Granato has told the Wings he will not be exercising the option he had on his contract for the coming season. Holland told the Free Press that Granato is talking to multiple NHL clubs.
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015 | NANAIMO DAILY NEWS |
TRACK
Athletes win five golds at B.C.’s
Nanaimo competitors bring home 13 total medals from provincial championships DAILY NEWS
Hassy Fashina-Bombata, Alyssa Mosseau, Madison Heisterman and Jason Clare, all of Nanaimo each brought home gold medals from the 2015 B.C. High School Track and Field Championship from Langley over the weekend. Their haul, led by Fashina-Bombata’s double-gold performance, added to the 13 medals Nanaimo athletes brought back to the Harbour City. Fashina-Bombata, a Wellington student, was also a member of the Wildcats’ 4x400-metre relay team that took silver at provincials. Her gold medals came in both the junior women’s 100-metre and 200-metre dash events, where she won with finishing times of 12.56 seconds and 25.27 seconds, respectively. Her preliminary 100-metre dash time of 12.34 seconds set a provincial record, according to Nanaimo Track Club public relations director Terri Doughty. Clare, a Nanaimo District Islander, won his gold medal in the senior men’s pole vault event with a 4.65-metre heave that also qualifies him for the IAAF Youth World Championships in Cali, Colombia in July. Mousseau, in addition to her silver with the Wellington women’s relay team, took gold in the sen-
Wellington’s Amy Morris, middle-left, passes the baton to 4x400-metre relay teammate Hassy Fashina-Bombata at the B.C. High School Track and Field Championships in Langley over the weekend. [PHOTO CONTRIBUTED]
ior women’s 800-metre run with a time of 2:09.04, more than five seconds quicker than the secondplace finisher. She, too, is on the shortlist to compete at the Youth Wiorld Championships. Heisterman, of Queen Margaret’s School, took her gold medal in the junior women’s 800-metre run in a time of 2:11.97, nearly six seconds quicker than the silver medal finisher. Dover Bay Dolphin Carter Higgins took the senior men’s 400-metre hurdles silver medal in the hurdles, just .26 seconds away from a gold medal for the Grade 11 student. Higgins was
also on Dover Bay’s men’s 4x400metre relay team, which finished in fifth. Wellington’s Jenaya Pynn, another member of the school’s silver-medal relay team, also won bronze in the senior women’s 1,500-metre race with a time of 4:32.44, nine seconds away from gold. Jenaya Pynn was on Wellington’s silver-medal-winning senior women’s 4 x 400m relay team, and she picked up a bronze medal running individually in the senior women’s 1,500m race. Amy Morris was also on the Wellington senior women’s 4x400-
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metre relay team. She also ran for ninth in the senior women’s 3,000-metre run and 16th in the senior 1,500-metre run. Marina Andersen of NDSS won silver in the junior women’s 1,500-metre race walk with a time of 7:24.65, while fellow Islander Maya Asselin-Debelic won silver in the senior women’s pole vault event. John Barsby senior athlete Sean Miller took bronze in the senior men’s 1,500-metre run and narrowly missed the podium in the 3,000-metre run, finishing fourth. Concurrent with the high school provincials was the B.C. Grade 8 Invitational Championship, which Nanaimo sent numerous athletes to. Javelin was a strong event, with Ben Toth (Dover Bay) taking silver; he also was 12th in the Grade 8 men’s long jump. Makayla Mitchell (Woodlands) took bronze in the Gr. 8 women’s javelin and 11th in triple jump. Another medalist was Maria Johnson (Dover Bay), who took bronze in the Grade 8 women’s 200-metre dash; she was also fourth in the 100-metre dash and a member of Dover’s Grade 8 women’s fourth-place 4x100metre relay team. Sports@nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4243
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Sr. B T-Men remain in first place Clippers add two American forward prospects DAILY NEWS
The Nanaimo Senior B Timbermen couldn’t quite pick up their 10th straight victory on Saturday, as they were dealt a 9-8 loss at the hands of the Royal City Capitals at the Nanaimo Ice Centre. Not a team to be swept, however, the Timbermen turned around Sunday to beat the same team 14-7, keeping them in first place with a record of 10-2 as the still-undefeated Ladner Pioneers continue to nip at their heels at 9-0. Timbermen rookie Travis Mickelson, who went into the weekend as the West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association’s leading scorer, was held to just one goal on Saturday. It came in the third period as Nanaimo outscored the Capitals 3-1, however the deficit was too large since Royal City had an 8-5 lead through 40 minutes. Timbermen captain Jon Diplock took over the league scoring lead with four goals in the game, while Ryan Hanna, Steve Higgs and Simon Stocks each scored once. Nanaimo was without starting goalie Nick Patterson in the loss, as Mike Berti and Matt Zeller, a Junior A callup, split the workload. On Sunday, after having their nine-game winning streak snapped, the Timbermen began a
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Josh Fagan of the Nanaimo Timbermen fends off a check from Royal City Capitals defender Niko Goglia during a West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association game at the Nanaimo Ice Centre on Sunday. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]
new one in a seven-goal win. Nanaimo led 5-2 after the first period and 11-4 after the second before cruising to the 14-7 result. Diplock was again dominant, this time posting seven points on two goals and five assists. Mickelson wasn’t held down, either, scoring two goals and two assists a day after giving up the league’s scoring lead to Diplock. Higgs also had a four-goal, five-
point game, while Ryan Forslund scored twice. The Timbermen now have six games remaining in the season, with three on home floor. The stretch-drive begins Sunday with a 5 p.m. game at the NIC against the North Shore Indians. Sports@nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4243
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◆ NCAA
Men’s basketball will have shorter shot clock College basketball is undergoing a major overhaul next season. Men’s teams will use a faster shot clock — 30 seconds instead of 35 seconds — and have fewer timeouts, while women’s teams will play four 10-minute quarters instead of two 20-minute halves. All of it became official Monday when the NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a series of changes that everybody hopes will improve the game. It’s hardly a surprise after the men’s and women’s rules committees made separate sweeping recommendations in May. The men’s committee had spent months debating how to increase scoring and speed up play.
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A young champion The 66th Annual Nanaimo Women’s Mid-Island Tournament saw a local golfer bring home the championship this on Sunday as Shirin Anjarwalla, right, with tournament sponsor Joy Tangen, of Nanaimo Golf Club, topped the field of the two-day, 36-hole tournament with a score of 152. Runners-up were Kim Evans (Nanaimo, 163), Penny Baziuk (Cordova Bay, 165), and Michelle Waters (Pheasant Glen, 168). Hilary Jaeger (Royal Colwood) won the low net title for the tournament, with a score of 145. Sherry Coutts (Nanaimo, 147) was a runner-up for the low net title. [PHOTO CONTRIBUTED]
The Nanaimo Clippers have announced the commitments of two more American forwards for the 2015-16 season as they continue their effort to replace the wealth of talent they lost in April to graduation and early college scholarships. Forwards Charley Borek, 19, and Lucas Finner, 18, have both committed to wear the white and orange this fall. Borek, who played the last two seasons in Connecticut with Choate Rosemary Hall School posted 11 goals and 11 assists in 22 games last season out of his hometown of Durham, New Hampshire. Finner spent last season on the Chicago Mission U18 team in Illinois where he contributed eight goals and 14 assists in 25 games and comes to Nanaimo already committed to play his college hockey at Ferris State University in the NCAA Div. I Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The two American commitments give the Clippers five import players on the roster for the 2015-16, one below the league limit of six. Returning winger Brendan Shane and defenceman Kale Bennett account for two of the spots, as do incoming rookies D.J. Petruzzelli and Matthew Creamer. Last season, the Clippers played with four imports in addition to Kale Bennett, as Jake Jackson and Cole Maier took up those spots but have since left to American universities. Graduated defenceman Austin Dick, also an American, did not count against that limit as U.S. players are only considered imported players in their first years in the B.C. Hockey League. The Clippers have seven forwards eligible to return from last year’s Fred Page Cup finals roster, along with five defenceman and two goalies. Eight incoming rookies have now made their commitments to replace the nine who either graduated, left early for college, or, in Nic Carrier’s case, dealt to the Cowichan Valley Capitals. Second-year winger Anthony Rinaldi will be the club’s top returning scorer after putting up 22 goals and 16 assists in 53 games in his rookie year. Sports@nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4243
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SPORTS
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015
SCOREBOARD HOCKEY
NHL Stanley Cup Finals Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Chicago Blackhawks (Best of seven series) Yesterday’s result (Game 3) Tampa Bay 3, Chicago 2 (Tampa Bay leads series 2-1) Game 1, Wednesday June 3 Chicago 2, Tampa Bay 1 Game 2, Saturday, June 6 Tampa Bay 4, Chicago 3 Wednesday, June 10 (Game 4) Tampa Bay at Chicago, 5 p.m. Saturday, June 13 (Game 5) Chicago at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Monday, June 15 (Game 6*) Tampa Bay at Chicago, 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 (Game 7*) Chicago at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.
Lightning 3 Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Callahan (2) (Brown, Hedman) 5:09 2. Chicago, Richards (3) (Shaw, Hossa) 14:22 (PP) Penalties: Saad Chi (Cross checking Valtteri Filppula) 8:12, Coburn Tb (Tripping Marian Hossa) 8:12, Coburn Tb (Hooking Brandon Saad) 12:42 Second Period No scoring Penalties: Kucherov Tb (Tripping Johnny Oduya) 8:53, Bickell Chi (Roughing Ryan Callahan) 15:18, Saad Chi (Goalkeeper Interference Ben Bishop) 15:52 Third Period 3. Chicago, Saad (7) (Keith, Hossa) 4:14 4. Tampa Bay, Palat (8) (Kucherov, Johnson) 4:27 5. Tampa Bay, Paquette (3) (Callahan, Hedman) 16:49 Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd T Tampa Bay 7 17 8 32 Chicago 19 7 12 38 Goaltending summary: Tampa Bay: Bishop (36/38), Chicago: Crawford (29/32) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Tampa Bay: 0 of 2, Chicago: 1 of 2
American Hockey League Calder Cup Final Manchester Monarchs vs. Utica Comets Sunday’s result (Game 2) Manchester 2, Utica 1 (OT) (Manchester leads series 2-0) Wednesday, June 10 (Game 3) Manchester at Utica, 4 p.m. Friday, June 12 (Game 4) Manchester at Utica, 4 p.m. Saturday, June 13 (Game 5*) Manchester at Utica, 4 p.m.
BASKETBALL NBA Championship final (Best-of-seven series) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors Sunday’s result (Game 2) Cleveland 95 Golden State 93 (OT) (Series tied 1-1) Today’s schedule (Game 3) Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Thursday, June 11 (Game 4) Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Sunday, June 14 (Game 5) Cleveland at Golden State, 5 p.m.
BASEBALL
Blue Jays 11, Marlins 3
MLB - Results and standings
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CFL
Miami 000 201 000 3 Toronto 610 010 30x 11 SB: MIA Suzuki, I (4, 2nd base off Estrada/Martin, R); TOR Pillar (8, 2nd base off Hand/Realmuto), Carrera (2, 2nd base off Rienzo/Realmuto). 2B: MIA Stanton 2 (10, Estrada, Delabar); TOR Valencia 2 (11, Hand, Mazzaro), Kawasaki (2, Hand), Carrera (5, Mazzaro). GIDP: MIA Hechavarria. HR: MIA Stanton (19, 4th inning off Estrada, 1 on, 0 out); TOR Donaldson (16, 2nd inning off Rienzo, 0 on, 0 out). Team Lob: MIA 4; TOR 9. DP: TOR (ReyesKawasaki-Colabello). E: MIA Realmuto (1, throw). Miami IP H R ER BB SO B Hand (L, 1-2) 0.2 6 6 6 1 1 A Rienzo 4.1 2 2 1 3 5 V Mazzaro 1.2 3 3 3 3 0 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO M Estrada (W, 3-3) 7.0 7 3 3 0 6 S Delabar 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 D Tepera 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 Time: 2:47. Att: 17,582.
Friday, June 12 BC Lions at Calgary, 6:30 p.m.
American League East W L NY Yankees 32 25 Tampa Bay 31 27 Toronto 29 30 Boston 27 31 Baltimore 26 30 Central W L Kansas City 32 23 Minnesota 33 24 Detroit 30 28 Cleveland 27 29 Chicago Sox 26 30 West W L Houston 34 25 Texas 30 27 LA Angels 28 29 Seattle 25 32 Oakland 23 36 National League East W L NY Mets 31 27 Washington 30 27 Atlanta 27 30 Miami 24 34 Philadelphia 22 37 Central W L St. Louis 38 20 Pittsburgh 31 26 Chicago Cubs 30 25 Cincinnati 25 31 Milwaukee 21 37 West W L LA Dodgers 33 25 San Francisco 32 26 San Diego 30 29 Arizona 27 30 Colorado 26 30
Miami
PCT .561 .534 .492 .466 .464 PCT .582 .579 .517 .482 .464 PCT .576 .526 .491 .439 .390
GB Strk - W6 1.5 W1 4.0 W6 5.5 W3 5.5 W1 GB Strk - W2 - L1 3.5 W2 5.5 L1 6.5 W1 GB Strk - L5 3.0 L1 5.0 L5 8.0 L1 11.0 L3
PCT .534 .526 .474 .414 .373 PCT .655 .544 .545 .446 .362 PCT .569 .552 .508 .474 .464
GB Strk - W1 0.5 L2 3.5 L2 7.0 L1 9.5 L1 GB Strk - L1 6.5 L1 6.5 W2 12.0 W2 17.0 W1 GB Strk - W1 1.0 L1 3.5 W1 5.5 L2 6.0 W1
Yesterday’s results Milwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 0 Toronto 11, Miami 3 Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 4 San Diego 5, Atlanta 3 (11 innings) Chicago Sox 3, Houston 1 Kansas City 3, Minnesota 1 Colorado 11, St. Louis 3 L.A. Dodgers 9, Arizona 3 Sunday’s results NY Yankees 6, LA Angels 2 Toronto 7, Houston 6 Baltimore 7, Cleveland 3 Cincinnati 4, San Diego 0 Boston 7, Oakland 4 Pittsburgh 3, Atlanta 0 Philadelphia 6, San Fran 4 Detroit 6, Chicago Sox 4 Minnesota 2, Milwaukee 0 Kansas City 4, Texas 3 Chicago Cubs 6, Washington 3 Miami 3, Colorado 2 NY Mets 6, Arizona 3 Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 1 St. Louis 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 Today’s schedule with probable starters Boston at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Rodriguez (2-0) vs. Gonzalez (5-4) Washington at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Scherzer (6-4) vs. Tanaka (3-1) Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Nelson (2-6) vs. Liriano (3-4) Miami at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Haren (6-2) vs. Buehrle (7-4) Chicago Cubs at Detroit, 4:08 p.m. Lester (4-4) vs. Sanchez (3-7) San Diego at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m. Shields (7-0) vs. Foltynewicz (3-2) L.A. Angels at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Santiago (4-3) vs. Karns (3-2) Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Harang (4-6) vs. DeSclafani (4-4) Seattle at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Walker (2-6) vs. Kluber (3-6) San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Heston (5-4) vs. Syndergaard (2-3) Kansas City at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Young (4-2) vs. May (4-3) Houston at Chi. White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Keuchel (7-1) vs. Rodon (1-0) St. Louis at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Wacha (8-1) vs. De La Rosa (2-2) Today’s late games Texas at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Martinez (4-2) vs. Gray (7-2) Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Ray (1-0) vs. Frias (4-3)
Toronto Blue Jays Jose Bautista and Chris Colabello celebrate scoring against the Miami Marlins during MLB action on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Jays beat Marlins for sixth staight win LARRY MILLSON THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — First baseman Chris Colabello extended his hit streak to 18 games and the Toronto Blue Jays scored six runs in the first for an 11-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday, extending their win streak to six. Designated hitter Josh Donaldson homered and had three runs batted in for the Blue Jays (29-30). Right-hander Marco Estrada (3-3) pitched seven innings for his second winning start in a row. He allowed seven hits and three runs in the opener of the three-game interleague series. Designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton homered for Miami (24-34). Marlins left-hander Brad Hand (1-2) allowed six hits and six runs in two-thirds of an inning. It was the first game between the teams since they made a blockbuster trade on Nov. 19, 2012. The Blue Jays sent catcher Jeff Mathis, shortstops Adeiny Hechavarria and Yunel Escobar, pitchers Henderson Alvarez, Justin Nicolino and Anthony DeSclafani and outfielder Jake Marisnick to the Marlins. Toronto received shortstop Jose Reyes, pitchers Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson, infielder Emilio Bonifacio, and catcher John Buck from Miami. The Blue Jays scored six runs in a first inning that was started by a single by Reyes and a one-out single by right fielder Jose Bautista. Colabello then extended his hit streak to 18 games with an RBI single. Catcher Russell Martin walked, third baseman Danny Valencia hit a two-run double and centre-fielder Kevin Pillar hit a two-run single. After second baseman Munenori Kawasaki hit a two-out RBI double, Hand was replaced by right-hander Andre Rienzo. Donaldson led off the second with his 16th homer of the season. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, who was celebrating his 53rd birthday, was ejected from the game in the second after Bautista struck out on a checked swing.
Toronto
Royals 3, Twins 1 Kansas City
Minnesota
ab r h bi Escobar SS 4 0 0 0 Dozier 2B Moustakas3B 4 1 2 0 Hunter RF Cain CF 4 0 1 0 Mauer 1B Hosmer 1B 4 1 2 1 Plouffe 3B Morales DH 4 1 1 2 Vargas DH Gordon LF 3 0 1 0 Suzuki C Rios RF 4 0 0 0 Rosario LF Perez C 3 0 1 0 Escobar SS Infante 2B 4 0 0 0 Hicks CF Totals 34 3 8 3 Totals
ab r h bi 3010 3000 4000 4000 4010 4000 4121 3020 3020 32 1 8 1
Kansas City 020 000 010 3 Minnesota 000 000 100 1 2B: KC Perez, S (10, Hughes, P); MIN Hicks, A (2, Vargas, J). GIDP: KC Cain, L; MIN Hunter, To, Mauer. HR: KC Morales, K (7, 2nd inning off Hughes, P, 1 on, 0 out); MIN Rosario, E (3, 7th inning off Madson, 0 on, 2 out). Team Lob: KC 6; MIN 6. DP: KC 2 (Escobar, A-Infante-Hosmer, InfanteEscobar, A-Hosmer); MIN (Escobar, E-Dozier-Mauer). Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO J Vargas (W, 5-2) 6.0 5 0 0 0 2 R Madson 1.0 3 1 1 0 2 W Davis 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 G Holland 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO P Hughes (L, 4-6) 7.2 7 3 3 1 3 A Thompson 0.1 1 0 0 1 1 T Pressly 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 Time: 2:36. Att: 22,796.
West Coast League Standings East Division W Yakima Valley Pippins 3 Kelowna Falcons 2 Walla Walla Sweets 1 Wenatchee AppleSox 0 West Division W Bellingham Bells 2 Victoria HarbourCats 1 Kitsap BlueJackets 1 Cowlitz Black Bears 0 South Division W Medford Rogues 3 Bend Elks 2 Corvallis Knights 1 Klamath Falls Gems 0
L 0 1 2 0 L 1 2 2 0 L 1 1 2 4
Pct GB 1.000 .667 1.0 .333 2.0 0.000 Pct GB .667 .333 1.0 .333 1.0 0.000 Pct GB .750 .667 .333 1.0 .000 3.0
Yesterday’s result Medford 13, Klamath Falls 1 Sunday’s results Kelowna 8, Victoria 3 Bend 7, Corvallis 1 Kitsap 3, Bellingham 1 Yakima Valley 16, Klamath Falls 2 Medford 10 Walla Walla 9 Today’s schedule Bend at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m. Kitsap at Victoria, 6:35 p.m. Klamath at Medford, 6:35 p.m. Yakima Valley at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m. Bellingham at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m. Wenatchee at Walla Walla, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday June 10 Klamath at Medford, 6:35 p.m. Bend at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m. Kitsap at Victoria, 6:35 p.m. Yakima Valley at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m. Bellingham at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m. Wenatchee at Walla Walla, 7:05 p.m. Sunday at Royal Athletic Park
Falcons 8,Harbourcats 3 Kelowna
Victoria
ab r h bi ab r h bi Grimsley RF 4 0 1 0 Rogers 2B 4 1 0 1 Grimsley RF 4 0 1 0 Rogers 2B 5 0 1 0 Esposito 3B 5 2 3 1 Rankin CF 4 0 1 0 Gamba 1B 4 0 1 1 Fougner RF 3 1 0 0 White 1B,PH 2 0 0 0 Francis LF 4 1 1 0 Flores DH 5 1 3 2 Thoreson 1B 4 0 1 2 Villanueva SS 4 0 1 0 Willow DH 2 0 0 0 Gulden LF 4 2 1 0 Takhar PH 1 0 1 0 Jackson CF 5 1 3 2 Floyd SS 4100 Egan C 4 1 3 2 Fujinaka C 2 0 1 0 Hearn 2B 4 1 1 0 Varley 3B 3 0 1 1 Totals 41 8 17 8 Totals 32 3 7 3
Kelowna 002 100 410 8 17 0 Victoria 000 000 201 3 7 1 2B: V.Esposito (1), W.Gulden (1), K.Francis (1). HR: V.Esposito (1), J.Flores (1), A.Jackson (1), J.Egan (1). RBI: V.Esposito (1), B.Gamba (4), J.Flores 2 (2), A.Jackson 2 (2), J.Egan 2 (2), J.Thoreson 2 (4), M.Varley (3). HP: B.Grimsley (1), V.Esposito (1), W.Gulden (2), M.Hearn (1), D.Fujinaka (1). SB: D.Fujinaka (1). CS: B.Grimsley 2 (2), J.Egan (1), M.Varley (1). E: B.Rogers (2). LOB: Kelowna 13, Victoria 7. DP: M. Hearn(2B)-H. Villanueva(SS)-B. Gamba(1B) Kelowna Falcons IP H R ER BB SO E. Bedolla (W,1-0) 6.0 2 0 0 2 7 S. Murphy 1.0 2 2 2 2 1 A. Kearney 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 M. Kirk 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 Vic Harbourcats IP H R ER BB SO S. Kennedy ll (L,0-1)5.0 9 3 3 1 3 R. Edmonds 2.0 4 4 4 1 0 C. Suing 1.0 2 1 1 1 1 P. Ryan 1.0 2 0 0 0 1
B.C. Premier League Team North Shore Vic Eagles Langley North Delta Nanaimo Okanagan Whalley Abbotsford Coquitlam White Rock Vic Mariners Parksville
W 17 21 19 12 17 17 14 8 9 9 6 4
L Pct GB 5 0.773 8 0.724 .5 `8 0.704 .5 6 0.667 3 11 0.607 3 11 0.607 3 16 0.467 7 15 0.348 9.5 19 0.321 11 21 0.300 12 17 0.261 11.5 16 0.200 12
Sunday’s results Okanagan 9, Victoria Eagles 0 Nanaimo 8, Whalley 2 Coquitlam 10, Victoria Mariners 3 White Rock 6, North Shore 4 Langley 10, North Delta 0 Victoria Eagles 5, Okanagan 1 Victoria Mariners 15, Coquitlam 9 Nanaimo 13, Whalley 3 Langley 8, North Delta 4 North Shore 7, White Rock 1 Today’s schedule North Delta at North Shore, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday June 10 Parksville at Nanaimo, 6 p.m. Vic Mariners at Vic Eagles, 7:30 p.m.
FOOTBALL Pre-season schedule Yesterday’s result Ottawa at Hamilton, 4:30 p.m. Today’s schedule Winnipeg at Toronto, 4:30 p.m., at Varsity Stadium
Saturday, June 13 Montreal at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m., at Stade TELUS-Universite Laval, Quebec City Saturday, June 13 Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 7 p.m., at SMS Equipment Stadium, Fort McMurray
SOCCER FIFA Women’s World Cup June 6-July 5 Defending champion: Japan Yesterday’s results (Groups C, D) Sweden 3, Nigeria 3 Scoring Sweden: Oparanozie 21’ (OG); Fischer 31’; Sembrant 60’. Nigeria Okobi 50’; Oshoala 53’; Ordega 87’ Cameroon 6, Ecuador 0 Scoring: Ngono Mani 34’; Enganamouit 36’, 73’, 90’+4 (pen); Manie 44’ (pen); Aboudi Onguene 79’ (pen) United States 3, Australia 1 Scoring USA: Rapinoe 12’, 78’; Press 61’. Australia: De Vanna 27’ Japan 1, Switzerland 0 Scoring: Miyama 29’ (pen) Sunday’s results Norway 4, Thailand 0 Scoring: Trine Ronning 15’; Isabell Herlovsen 29’ and 34’; Ada Hegerberg 68’ Germany 10, Ivory Coast 0 Scoring: Celia Sasic 3, 14, 31’; Anja Mittag 29, 35, 64’; Simone Laudehr 71’; Sara Daebritz 75’;, Melanie Behringer 79’; Alexandra Popp 85’ Today’s schedule (Groups E, F) France vs. England, 10 a.m. at Moncton Colombia vs. Mexico, 1 p.m. at Moncton Spain vs. Costa Rica, 1 p.m. at Montreal Brazil vs. South Korea, 4 p.m. Montreal Group standings, rules Two top teams in each group plus the four best third-place teams advance to the tournament’s knock-out stage, the Group of 16. Group A W D L GF GA Pts 1 Canada (H) 1 0 0 1 0 3 2 Netherlands 1 0 0 1 0 3 3 New Zealand 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 China 0 0 1 0 1 0 Saturday’s June 6 (at Edmonton) Canada 1, China 0 Netherlands 1, New Zealand 0 Group B W D L GF GA Pts 1 Germany 1 0 0 10 0 3 2 Norway 1 0 0 4 0 3 3 Thailand 0 0 1 0 4 0 4 Ivory Coast 0 0 1 0 10 0 Sunday’s June 7 (at Ottawa) Norway 4, Thailand 0 Germany 10, Ivory Coast 0 Group C W D L GF GA Pts 1 Cameroon 1 0 0 6 0 3 2 Japan 1 0 0 1 0 3 3 Switzerland 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 Ecuador 0 0 1 0 6 0 Yesterday’s results (at Vancouver) Cameroon 6, Ecuador 0 Japan 1, Switzerland 0 Group D W D L GF GA Pts 1 United States 1 0 0 3 1 3 2 Sweden 0 1 0 3 3 1 2 Nigeria 0 1 0 3 3 1 4 Australia 0 0 1 1 3 0 Yesterday’s results (at Winnipeg) Sweden 3, Nigeria 3 United States 3, Australia 1 Group E W D L GF GA Pts 1 Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Spain 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Costa Rica 0 0 0 0 0 0 Today’s schedule Spain vs. Costa Rica, 1 p.m. at Montreal Brazil vs. South Korea, 4 p.m. Montreal Group F W D L GF GA Pts 1 France 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 England 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0 Today’s schedule France vs. England, 10 a.m. at Moncton Colombia vs. Mexico, 1 p.m. at Moncton Thursday, June 11 (Groups A, B) China vs. Holland, 3 p.m., Edmonton Germany vs. Norway, 1 p.m. at Ottawa Ivory Coast vs. Thailand, 4 p.m. Ottawa Canada vs. New Zealand, 6 p.m. at Edmonton
MLS Eastern League Club PTS GP W DC United 28 16 8 N. England 21 15 5 Toronto 19 12 6 Orlando 17 14 4 NY Red Bulls 17 13 4 Columbus 16 14 4 Philadelphia 15 16 4 Montreal 14 10 4 Chicago 14 13 4 NY City FC 11 14 2 Western League Club PTS GP W Seattle 26 14 8 Vancouver 26 16 8 Sporting KC 24 14 6 Portland 22 15 6 Dallas 22 14 6 Los Angeles 21 16 5 Houston 20 15 5 San Jose 19 14 5 Salt Lake 18 15 4 Colorado 14 14 2 Sunday’s results Colorado 0, Salt Lake 0 Dallas 0, San Jose 0
T 4 6 1 5 5 4 3 2 2 5
GF GA 20 15 20 20 19 16 19 19 17 17 20 21 18 25 13 15 17 20 12 18
L 4 6 2 5 4 5 5 5 5 4
T 2 2 6 4 4 6 5 4 6 8
GF GA 20 11 18 15 22 15 15 14 18 19 15 18 21 19 14 15 13 18 11 12
Pacific Coast Soccer League D 4 1 2 2 1 1 0 3 2
L 1 1 0 1 2 4 4 4 7
French Open - Men, Women
Canadian Tour - Victoria
Grand Slam event: Stade Roland Garros Paris, France Surface: Clay. Total purse (men and women): €13,008,000 Men’s singles - Final Stan Wawrinka (8), Switzerland, def. Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Women’s Doubles - Final Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo (3), Brazil, def. Bob Bryan, United States, and Mike Bryan (1), United States, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-5. Current tournaments
ATP ATP Top 10 (last week’s ranking in parentheses): 1 (1) Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 13,845 points 2 (2) Roger Federer, Switzerland, 9,415 3 (3) Andy Murray, Britain, 7,040 4 (9) Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, 5,835 5 (5) Kei Nishikori, Japan, 5,570 6 (4) Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 5,050 7 (8) David Ferrer, Spain, 4,490 8 (6) Milos Raonic, Canada, 4,440 9 (10) Marin Cilic, Croatia, 3,460 10 (7) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 2,930 Topshelf Open, June 8-14 ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Surface: Grass. Purse: €537,050 (CDN$742,700) Singles - Round 1 Vasek Pospisil (9), Vernon, B.C., def. Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 6-3, 6-2. Robin Haase, Netherlands, def. Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia, 6-2, 7-5. Marius Copil, Romania, def. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, def. Marsel Ilhan, Turkey, 6-0, 7-5. Doubles - Round 1 Daniel Nestor, Toronto, and Leander Paes (2), India, def. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, and Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain, 6-4, 6-3. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, and Matt Reid, Australia, def. Marin Draganja, Croatia, and Henri Kontinen (4), Finland, 2-6, 6-3, 10-5. Mercedes Cup, June 8-14 Stuttgart, Germany. Surface: Grass. Purse: €574,965 (CDN$795,150) Singles - Round 1 Philipp Kohlschreiber (6), Germany, def. Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-3. Viktor Troicki (8), Serbia vs. Borna Coric, Croatia, Postponed Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austria vs. Maximilian Marterer, Germany, Postponed Doubles - Round 1 Rohan Bopanna, India, and Florin Mergea (4), Romania vs. Marin Cilic, Croatia, and Frank Moser, Germany, Postponed Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia, and Robert Farah (5), Colombia vs. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, and Dominic Thiem, Austria, Postponed
WTA Current rankings (released June 8) Genie Bouchard drops 5 places Player Points 1 Serena Williams (USA) 11,291 2 Petra Kvitova (CZE) 6,870 3 Simona Halep (ROM) 6,130 4 Maria Sharapova (RUS) 5,950 5 Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 5,000 6 Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 4,305 7 Lucie Safarova (CZE) 4,055 8 Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 3,620 9 Carla Suarez (ESP) 3,345 10 Angelique Kerber (GER) 3,120 11 Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 3,118 12 Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 3,010 13 Agnie. Radwanska (POL) 2,765 14 Andrea Petkovic (GER) 2,660 15 Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) 2,628 16 Venus Williams (USA) 2,586 17 Elina Svitolina (UKR) 2,405 18 Madison Keys (USA) 2,395 19 Sabine Lisicki (GER) 2,165 20 Sara Errani (ITA) 2,140 Topshelf Open, June 8-14 ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Surface: Grass. Purse: $226,750 Women’s Doubles - Round 1 Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (1), France, def. Eugenie Bouchard, Montreal, and Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 1-6, 6-2, 11-9. Singles - Round 1 Coco Vandeweghe (3), United States, def. Andreea Mitu, Romania, 7-6 (1), 6-1. Camila Giorgi (5), Italy, def. Irina Falconi, United States, 7-5, 6-2. Michaella Krajicek, Netherlands, def. Oceane Dodin, France, 7-5, 6-4.
LACROSSE WLA Senior A Standings GP New Westminster 4 Victoria 5 Nanaimo 5 Langley 4 Coquitlam 3 Burnaby 3 Maple Ridge 4
W 4 3 2 2 1 1 1
L 0 2 3 2 2 2 3
T Pts 0 8 0 6 0 4 0 4 0 2 0 2 0 2
Sunday’s result Maple Ridge 16, Nanaimo 10 Today’s schedule Nanaimo at Burnaby, 7 p.m. Langley at Maple Ridge, 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 10 Victoria at Langley, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11 Burnaby at New Westminster, 7:45 p.m. Saturday, June 13 Burnaby at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 13 NY City vs. Montreal, 4 p.m. Columbus vs. LA Galaxy, 4:30 p.m. New England vs. Chicago, 4:30 p.m. Seattle vs. Dallas, 7 p.m. W 5 5 4 3 3 2 2 0 0
GOLF
Western Lacrosse Assn L 4 4 5 5 4 6 9 4 7 7
CONCACAF World Cup qualifier Thursday June 11 Canada at Dominica, 4 p.m.
Team Victoria Mid Isle Vancouver Utd Vancouver Tbirds Khalsa Kamloops Tim Hortons Abbotsford FC Tigers
TENNIS
GF GA Pts 19 10 19 14 7 16 11 3 14 14 9 11 11 8 10 12 16 7 11 19 6 7 14 3 13 26 2
Sunday’s results Vancouver Tbirds 3, Kamloops 1 Khalsa 3, FC Tigers 2 Today’s schedule Vancouver Utd vs. Abbotsford, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 13 Abbotsford vs. Tim Hortons, 2 p.m. Mid Isle vs. Vancouver Tbirds, 4 p.m. Victoria vs. Khalsa, 4 p.m. FC Tigers vs. Vancouver Utd, 5 p.m.
T 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0
Pts 20 20 16 10 9 8 7 4
Today’s schedule Nanaimo at Victoria, 8 p.m. Port Coquitlam at New Westminster, 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 10 Port Coquitlam at Coquitlam, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11 New Westminster at Langley, 8 p.m. Friday, June 12 Delta at Port Coquitlam, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 13 Coquitlam at Nanaimo, 5 p.m. Burnaby at Delta, 7:30 p.m.
Final leaderboard Golfer Par R1 R2 R3 R4 * Denotes Canadian golfer 1 *Albin Choi -15 64 65 70 66 (Won $31,500) T2 *Eugene Wong -12 65 67 70 66 (Second place won $13,067) T2 Jason Millard -12 71 65 65 67 T2 *Adam Svensson -12 68 69 62 69 T5 *Cory Renfrew -11 67 67 67 68 T5 John Ellis -11 66 68 66 69 T7 Sam Ryder -10 69 70 66 65 T7 Ethan Tracy -10 68 66 70 66 9 *Kevin Spooner -9 70 66 67 68 T10 Brien Davis -8 68 70 70 64 T10 Paul McConnell -8 69 69 68 66 T10 Vince Covello -8 68 67 69 68 T10 Drew Weaver -8 67 68 68 69 T10 JJ Spaun -8 65 70 66 71 T15 Dillon Rust -7 69 70 68 66 T15 *Riley Fleming -7 68 69 69 67 T15 *Brad Clapp -7 68 70 67 68 T15 Charlie Bull -7 69 67 69 68 T15 *Ryan Williams -7 71 67 66 69 T20 Mike Van Sickle -6 67 72 71 64 T20 Chris Worrell -6 67 72 68 67 T20 *Adam Cornelson-6 66 68 70 70 T23 *James Love -5 69 69 71 66 T23 Joshua Stone -5 69 70 67 69 T23 Nick Sherwood -5 69 67 68 71 T23 Edward Figueroa -5 70 66 68 71 T23 William Kropp -5 70 67 62 76 T28 Drew Evans -4 66 73 68 69 T28 Bo Hoag -4 71 68 68 69 T28 Olin Browne Jr. -4 68 68 70 70 T28 *Mackenzie Hughes -4 67 71 68 70 T28 *Taylor Pendrith -4 64 75 67 70 T33 Nate McCoy -3 71 66 73 67 T33 *Peter Campbell -3 66 69 72 70 T33 Daniel McCarthy -3 68 68 70 71 T33 John Catlin -3 69 65 70 73 T33 Matt Hansen -3 70 66 68 73 T33 Chase Marinell -3 67 70 66 74 T39 Nicholas Reach -2 68 70 71 69 T39 Dan Buchner -2 64 72 72 70 T39 Conner Godsey -2 69 67 72 70 T39 Drew Preston -2 66 72 69 71 T43 Robert Karlsson -1 72 67 72 68 T43 Kevin Penner -1 69 68 74 68 T43 Daniel Miernicki -1 68 71 70 70 T43 Jay Vandeventer -1 68 71 70 70 T47 Jared Wolfe E 71 63 74 72 T47 Ryan McCormick E 67 69 72 72 T47 Zach Edmondson E 67 72 69 72 T47 *Aaron Cockerill E 68 71 68 73 T51 Mike Ballo 1 70 69 70 72 T51 Phillip Mollica 1 69 70 68 74 T51 Clark Klaasen 1 69 66 71 75 T54 Jaime Gomez 2 72 67 76 67 T54 Jeff Rein 2 68 71 72 71 T54 Neil Johnson 2 70 68 70 74 T57 Zack Byrd 3 69 70 76 68 T57 Chris. Trunzer 3 69 70 71 73 59 Wade Binfield 5 66 68 77 74
Other Tours Results, Winnings PGA The Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, June 4-7. Muirfield Village Golf Course Dublin, Ohio. Par 72, 6875 yards. Purse: $6,200,000 Final leaderboard Golfer Par Winnings 1 David Lingmerth -15 $1,116,000 2 Justin Rose -15 $669,600 T3 Jordan Spieth -13 $359,600 T3 Francesco Molinari -13 $359,600 T5 Marc Leishman -12 $226,300 T5 Hideki Matsuyama -12 $226,300 T5 Jim Furyk -12 $226,300 T8 Tony Finau -11 $179,800 T8 Kevin Kisner -11 $179,800 T8 Keegan Bradley -11 $179,800 T11 Billy Horschel -10 $148,800 T11 Vijay Singh -10 $148,800 T13 George McNeill -9 $116,250 T13 Kevin Na -9 $116,250 T13 Dustin Johnson -9 $116,250 T13 Andy Sullivan -9 $116,250 17 Brendon Todd -8 $99,200 T18 Russell Knox -7 $78,120 T18 Bill Haas -7 $78,120 T18 Robert Streb -7 $78,120 T18 Harris English -7 $78,120 T18 Ryan Moore -7 $78,120 T18 Kevin Streelman -7 $78,120 Canadian golfers T26 Graham DeLaet -5 $45,880 T57 Adam Hadwin +1 $13,826
LPGA Manulife LPGA Classic, June 4-7. Grey Silo Golf Course, Waterloo, Ont. Par: 71, 6,532 yards. Purse: $1,500,000 Final leaderboard Golfer Par Winnings 1 Suzann Pettersen -22 $225,000 2 Brittany Lang -21 $139,572 3 Mariajo Uribe -18 $101,250 T4 Minjee Lee -16 $59,030 T4 Jacqui Concolino -16 $59,030 T4 So Yeon Ryu -16 $59,030 T4 Cristie Kerr -16 $59,030 8 Shanshan Feng -15 $37,826 T9 Hyo-Joo Kim -14 $32,477 T9 Ilhee Lee -14 $32,477 T11 Jenny Shin -13 $26,000 T11 Inbee Park -13 $26,000 T11 Charley Hull -13 $26,000 T11 Julieta Granada -13 $26,000 T15 Alison Lee -12 $20,479 T15 Anna Nordqvist -12 $20,479 T15 Catriona Matthew -12 $20,479 T15 Sarah Jane Smith -12 $20,479 T19 Sandra Gal -11 $16,076 T19 Caroline Masson -11 $16,076 T19 Mi Hyang Lee -11 $16,076 T19 Sei-Young Kim -11 $16,076 T19 Thidapa Su’napura-11 $16,076 T19 Laetitia Beck -11 $16,076 T19 Katie Burnett -11 $16,076 T19 Pernilla Lindberg -11 $16,076 Canadian golfers T27 Alena Sharp -10 $10,934 T54 Sue Kim -5 $4,432 T59 S. Maude Juneau -4 $3,760 68 Natalie Gleadall E $3,209
Champions Tour
BC Junior A Lacrosse League Standings GP W L Coquitlam 11 10 1 Delta 13 10 3 Victoria 12 8 4 New Westminster 10 5 5 Nanaimo 10 4 5 Langley 13 3 8 Port Coquitlam 12 3 8 Burnaby 13 2 11 Sunday’s results Nanaimo 10, Langley 10 (OT) Burnaby 9, Port Coquitlam 7
Bayview Place Island Savings Open presented by Times Colonist, Daily through Sunday, June 7 Uplands Golf Club. Par 70, 6,420 yards. Purse: CDN$175,000. Final group tee off today: 12:40 p.m.
Principal Charity Classic, June 5-7 (54 holes) Wakonda Club Des Moines, Iowa. Par 72, 6,959 yards. Purse: $1,750,000 Final leaderboard Golfer Par Winnings 1 Mark Calcavecchia -12 $262,500 T2 Brian Henninger -11 $140,000 T2 Joe Durant -11 $140,000 4 Cod Spittle -10 $104,125 T5 Rod Spittle -10 $104,125 St. Catharines, Ont. T5 Tom Pernice Jr -9 $64,225 T5 John Cook -9 $64,225 T5 Davis Love III -9 $64,225 T5 Jeff Maggert -9 $64,225 T10 Paul Goydos -9 $64,225 T10 Billy Andrade -8 $36,500 T10 Guy Boros -8 $36,500 T10 Steve Lowery -8 $36,500 T10 David Frost -8 $36,500 T10 Peter Senior -8 $36,500 T10 Kirk Triplett -8 $36,500 T17 Michael Allen -8 $36,500 T17 Chien Soon Lu -7 $27,125 T17 John Huston -7 $27,125 T19 Russ Cochran -6 $22,983 T19 Tommy Armour III -6 $22,983 T19 Rocco Mediate -6 $22,983 T22 Jeff Hart -5 $17,216 T22 Dan Forsman -5 $17,216 T22 Jay Haas -5 $17,216 Also from Canada T56 Jim Rutledge E $3,500
Web.com Tour Greater Dallas Open, June 4-7. The Lakes at Castle Hills Lewisville, Texas. Par 72, 7,356 yards. Purse: $500,000. Final leaderboard Golfer Par Winnings 1 Tyler Aldridge -23 $90,000 T2 Lucas Lee -21 $44,000 T2 Gregory Yates -21 $44,000 4 Adam Long -20 $24,000 T5 Rick Cochran -19 $18,250 T5 Troy Matteson -19 $18,250 T5 Steve Marino -19 $18,250 T8 Tommy Gainey -18 $14,500 T8 Matt Weibring -18 $14,500 T8 Michael Kim -18 $14,500 11 Travis Bertoni -17 $12,500 T12 Peter Malnati -16 $11,000 T12 Brent Witcher -16 $11,000 T14 Jamie Lovemark -15 $8,250 T14 Seamus Power -15 $8,250 T14 Tim Petrovic -15 $8,250 T14 Mark Silvers -15 $8,250 T14 Julian Etulain -15 $8,250 T14 Joel Dahmen -15 $8,250 T20 Edward Loar -14 $5,238 Canadian result T27 Brad Fritsch -13 $3,538
European Tour Nordea Masters, June 4-7. PGA of Sweden National, Lakes Course, Bara, Sweden. Par 72, 7,417 yards. Purse: $1,500,000. Final leaderboard Golfer Par Winnings NOTE: €1=CDN$1.35 1 Alexander Noren -12 €250,00 2 Soren Kjeldsen -8 €166,66 T3 Alexander Levy -6 €71,250 T3 Jens Dantorp -6 €71,250 T3 Seb. Soderberg -6 €71,250 T3 Max. Kieffer -6 €71,250 T7 Fab. Zanotti -5 €33,250 T7 Lee Slattery -5 €33,250 T7 Jonas Blixt -5 €33,250 T7 Bernd Ritthammer -5 €33,250 T7 Tom Murray -5 €33,250 T7 Nic. Colsaerts -5 €33,250 T13 Darren Fichardt -4 €20,812 T13 Alej. Canizares -4 €20,812 T13 Peter Hanson -4 €20,812 T13 Chris Paisley -4 €20,812 T13 R Cabrera Bello -4 €20,812 T13 Callum Shinkwin -4 €20,812 T13 Kris. Broberg -4 €20,812 T13 Henrik Stenson -4 €20,812 T21 Thomas Bjorn -3 €16,950
This week’s schedule PGA: FedEx St. Jude Classic, June 11-14 TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee. Par 70, 7,244 yards. Purse: $6,000,000. 2014 champion: Ben Crane. Canadian PGA Tour No tournament this week LPGA: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, June 11-14 Westchester West Course, Harrison, New York. Par 71, 6,980 yards. Purse: $3,500,000. 2014 champion: Inbee Park. European Tour: Lyoness Open, June 11-14 Diamond Country Club, Atzenbrugg, Austria. Par 72, 7,386 yards. Purse: $1,000,000. 2014 champion: Mikael Lundberg. Champions Tour: Constellation Senior Players Championship, June 11-14 Belmont Country Club, Ashburn, Virginia. Par 72, 7,212 yards. Purse: $2,700,000. 2014 champion: Bernhard Langer. Web.com Tour: Rust-Oleum Championship, June 11-14 Lakewood Country Club, Westlake, Ohio. Par 71,6,824 yards. Purse: $600,000. 2014 champion: Steve Alker.
AUTO RACING Formula One Canadian Grand Prix Sunday, June 7, Ile Notre Dame, Montreal (street circuit). 305.270 km, 70 laps, 4.361 km per lap. Results 1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:31:53.145 2. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes +00:02.285 3. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) WilliamsMercedes 00:40.666 4. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 00:45.625 5. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Ferrari 00:49.903 6. Felipe Massa (Brazil) WilliamsMercedes 00:56.381 7. Pastor Maldonado (Venezuela) Lotus-Mercedes 01:06.664 8. Nico Huelkenberg (Germany) Force India-Mercedes 1 lap 9. Daniil Kvyat (Russia) RedBull-Renault 1 lap 10. Romain Grosjean (France) LotusMercedes 1 lap 11. Sergio Perez (Mexico) Force IndiaMercedes 1 lap 12. Carlos Sainz Jr (Spain) Toro RossoRenault 1 lap 13. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) RedBullRenault 1 lap 14. Marcus Ericsson (Sweden) SauberFerrari 1 lap 15. Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Toro Rosso-Renault 1 lap 16. Felipe Nasr (Brazil) Sauber-Ferrari 2 laps 17. Will Stevens (Britain) MarussiaFerrari 4 laps Did not finish: Roberto Merhi (Spain) Marussia-Ferrari 13 laps Jenson Button (Britain) McLaren 16 laps Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren 26 laps
NASCAR Pocono 400 Sunday, June 7, 10:18 a.m. Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Lap length: 2.5 miles Results (Start position in parentheses) 1. (3) Martin Truex Jr., Chev, $201,810 2. (5) Kevin Harvick, Chev, $232,850 3. (9) Jimmie Johnson, Chev, $176,086 4. (11) Joey Logano, Ford, $166,683 5. (1) Kurt Busch, Chev, $133,050 6. (19) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, $140,001 7. (14) Jamie McMurray, Chev, $124,856 8. (15) Kyle Larson, Chev, $117,723 9. (10) Kyle Busch, Toyota, $134,456 10. (8) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, $101,615 11. (20) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chev, $101,640 12. (27) Greg Biffle, Ford, $116,233 13. (12) Kasey Kahne, Chev, $97,675 14. (4) Jeff Gordon, Chev, $131,986 15. (2) Carl Edwards, Toyota, $82,550 16. (18) Casey Mears, Chev, $107,283 17. (7) Brad Keselowski, Ford, $125,266 18. (29) Ty Dillon, Chev, $96,778 19. (6) Austin Dillon, Chev, $117,106 20. (30) Justin Allgaier, Chev, $102,503 21. (28) Tony Stewart, Chev, $106,709 22. (23) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, $113,303 23. (21) David Ragan, Toyota, $106,009 Race Statistics Avg Speed of Winner: 134.266 mph Time of Race: 2 hours, 58:45 Margin of Victory: 1.346 seconds Caution Flags: 8 for 31 laps Lead Changes: 12 among 6 drivers
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TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015 | NANAIMO DAILY NEWS |
B5
BRIDGE
WORD FIND
Action Dealer: West None vulnerable NORTH ♠3 ♥K964 ♦AQJ5 ♣QJ108 WEST EAST ♠AQ10872 ♠KJ9654 ♥Q52 ♥ ♦83 ♦762 ♣32 ♣K975 SOUTH ♠ ♥AJ10873 ♦K1094 ♣A64 W N E S 2♠ dbl 6♠ 7♥ All Pass Opening Lead: ♠A
SHERMAN’S LAGOON
D ZITS
ANDY CAPP
SOLUTION: FIELDING A WINNER
CRYPTOQUOTE CRANKSHAFT
eclarer ruffed to continue with the ace of hearts on which East showed out. He drew trump with a finesse and, with theclubkingonside,thegrand slam was home, N-S 1510. It was a toss up on how to beginthetrumpsuitsinceeach defender held six spades. East’s resolve to sacrifice at six spades certainly intimated some shortness and West, in addition, had declined to lead a trump versus the grand slam. South had taken an aggressive stance by advancing to seven hearts but he had no desire to defend a spade contract since the auction indicated that E-W owned an eleven or twelve card fit. In fact, West loses only four tricks so a doubled save at the seven-level would have yielded a substantial profit. A result of +800 would saddle N-S with a dismal matchpoint award although the odd N-S pair might go minus in a grand slam when South loses a trump trick. East had pressured the opponents with an advance sacrifice and could do no more when South bid a grand slam. The ace of clubs might have turned up in dummy and there was also a chance that partner might score a trump winner. South had guessed to bid seven heartsbutthisdecisionwould not always be the right one. Author: Dave Willis - visit his website at www.insidebridge.ca Questions on bridge can be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The New Canadian Bridge c/o Torstar Syndication Services, One Yonge St., Toronto, M5E 1E6.
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EDMONTON — It’s early days yet but teenage defender Kadeisha Buchanan is thriving at the Women’s World Cup. Canadian coach John Herdman acknowledged that some of his players made some nervy, nearly costly mistakes during the early stages of Saturday’s 1-0 win over China in the tournament opener. But not Buchanan. “There’s no jitters there,” Herdman said admiringly. “That’s a kid 19 years of age who just stepped and played like THE best centre back in the world. Look, I’m going to give her that label. That was as good a performance I’ve seen under that sort of pressure from a centre back.” Canada needed a strong showing from Buchanan on the weekend. Centre back partner Lauren Sesselmann had an erratic outing. Buchanan emerged from the China game with an ankle contusion but says she is not worried about the knock. And she reports the Canadian team, with a win under its belt, is “in a great space right now.” Buchanan certainly looks right at home. Physical and fearless, she is extremely hard
Team Canada’s Kadeisha Buchanan walks near the goal during a practice session in Edmonton on Friday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
to beat one-on-one. Plus she has the strength and athleticism to recover if an attacker gets a foot up on her. Her battles with veteran American striker Abby Wambach, who is at the other end of her career, have been relatively few but memorable with Herdman
gleefully giving the edge to his player. “I’m not frightened to say it. She’s the Sinclair of defenders,” Herdman said in May 2014 after Buchanan and Wambach faced off in a 1-1 draw in Winnipeg. “She’s that good.” “Abby Wambach’s scored 200-
plus goals in her career. And Kadeisha Buchanan was the better player tonight,” he added, rubbing salt in the wound. A measure of Buchanan’s importance to the Canadian team is that she has won 36 caps already. Buchanan was 17 when she made her senior debut against China in January 2013. On Thursday, she will lead the Canadian defence against a New Zealand side with its back against the wall after a 1-0 loss to the Netherlands. Buchanan says she is focused but relaxed on the pitch “because I know the hard work that I put in, it’ll just flow right through me.” Away from the pitch, Buchanan is also chill personified. It wasn’t always like that around teammates like captain Christine Sinclair. “I’m not nervous anymore. I used to be super-nervous around Sinclair . . . I was a huge fans of hers.” Growing up, Buchanan played striker but switched to midfield and then defender at the U-15, U-16 level. A sophomore at West Virginia, she took the spring semester off to concentrate on Canada. She will return to school in the fall.
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HAMILTON — It didn’t look like quarterback Jeff Mathews was taking his first snaps in the CFL. The 23-year-old out of Cornell University threw two touchdown passes and led the Hamilton TigerCats to 20 points in the first half as Hamilton cruised to a 37-10 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks on Monday night in CFL pre-season play. Mathews spent last season jumping around the NFL before signing
with Hamilton as a free agent in the off-season. But it was the three years he spent at Cornell playing for Kent Austin — Austin left after the 2012 season to become TigerCats head coach — that Mathews credits with helping his transition into the Canadian game. “It’s a similar system,” he said about the Ticat offence compared to the one he ran at Cornell. “Obviously, the last seven days have been huge, to be in camp and to be working everyday in the offence with these guys.”
Mathews, who is competing for the back-up spot behind veteran Zach Collaros, hit Terrence Toliver down the right sideline for a 73-yard catch-and-run TD and threw a 23-yard score to Matt Coates. He finished the half completing nine of 15 pass attempts for 188 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions. “It’s a quick-paced game,” he said of three-down football. “You don’t really feel that in practice as much as you do in the game. Obviously, you’ve got those two
downs to make things happen so you’ve got to be really efficient in what you’re doing and we were fortunate tonight to be efficient in the passing game and running the ball well.” “He’s a pretty good player,” smiled Austin. “He’s got the benefit of being in (an offence similar to his college days). Obviously, it’s modified to this game, but from terminology and the concepts that we run, these are familiar so that helps him come out of the curve quicker.”
Ask what it is that you hope to accomplish Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: Graduation is coming up, and I don’t know what to do. You see, most of the seniors aren’t qualified to graduate at all. Some of them have been truant for half of the years they were here. At least 15 seniors were absent from class for their entire senior year, and at least 20 percent lack grade-level reading and writing skills. For some, college will be impossible. Every year, we have “alumni” who return to school because they either graduated without necessary credentials or flunked out of college and need academic help. I never give passing grades
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SEATTLE — Robinson Cano was only supposed to hear the jeers and boos cascading from the spectators when he was playing on the road. Hearing them at Safeco Field after strikeouts and weak grounders was not envisioned when he signed a $240 million, 10-year contract with the Seattle Mariners. “I always stay positive and every at bat for me is a different one. I’m not going to overthink,” Cano said. “I haven’t done my job lately. Just go game by game and play hard every single day.” Cano’s unexpected struggles at the plate are just the tip of one of the biggest underachievers in baseball to date. Picked by many observers to be a playoff-bound club thanks to Cano and the addition of Nelson Cruz, the Mariners’ 2-9 homestand left them seven games under .500 at 25-32, the second-worst record in the American League. Seattle became just the fourth team in major league history to score no more than three runs during any game of a homestand of 10 games or longer, following the 1913 Chicago White Sox, 1968 Houston Astros and 2010 Mariners. The three prior teams had only 10 games to fail in, according to STATS. If 90 victories was the benchmark for the Mariners following an 87-win season that left them one victory shy of a post-season tiebreaker game, the ugly first two months has left Seattle needing to win at a .619 clip the rest of the way to reach that mark. It’s certainly possible. But nothing the Mariners have shown lately, highlighted by an offence unable to get clutch hits, makes it appear probable. “The focus is always there to win games. With runners in scoring position is where we need to tighten it up,” Cruz said. “We get all our hits . . . but when it matters the most to drive in runs we don’t get it done.” Cano’s .239 batting average is the second-lowest of his career to this point of a season. Cano’s .278 on-base percentage and .320 slugging are down 100 points from this time last year and his poorest output through 57 games other than 2008 with the Yankees when Cano was hitting .216 with four homers and 19 RBIs. He has only two home runs this season and is batting .188 with one extra base hit in his last 20 games. Even more alarming for Cano are the pitches he’s chasing outside the strike zone and the lack of solid contact. Cano has 40 strikeouts and is on pace for a career-high 113. Cruz has done more than his part for Seattle’s offence, leading the AL in home runs with 18 and hitting .329. “Guys that are supposed to perform have to perform,” manager Llloyd McClendon said. “The fact is if Robbie Cano, Cruz and (Kyle) Seager don’t hit, then we’re not going to win. And if they continue not to hit, then you’ll be talking to someone else. “I’ll be driving a garbage truck. That’s just the way it goes.”
dealing with a touchy associate or loved one. Don’t get your funds involved in any of your dealings, except when paying for lunch! Tonight: Pay bills. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might want to come to a better understanding of what is happening with a loved one. You could be overwhelmed by this person’s attitude, which is likely to be cantankerous and difficult. Go off and do something just for you. Tonight: Let the games begin! YOUR BIRTHDAY (June 9) This year you will need to recognize that you sometimes say one thing yet do another. Because you might not be aware of this behavior, you should listen to feedback from others. Your temper is close to the surface, and it would be wise to learn to share your feelings before they turn into anger. If you are single, in the next few months you are likely to meet someone who knocks your socks off. This person will have a strong effect on your life. If you are attached, you might need to be more in touch with your feelings and be more aware of your sweetie’s response. PISCES can be touchy at times. BORN TODAY Former emperor of Russia Peter the Great (1672), novelist Patricia Cornwell (1956), actor Johnny Depp (1963)
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LAS VEGAS — Just days after blues legend B.B. King was laid to rest near his birthplace in the Mississippi Delta, a battle over his estate is moving from the headlines to the courthouse in Las Vegas. Attorneys for King’s designated executor, LaVerne Toney, have filed documents in a Nevada court to fend off allegations that King family members were kept away in his dying days, that he was mistreated medically and that his money was siphoned off before he died May 14 at his Las Vegas home at age 89. “We’re asking the probate commissioner to approve (Toney) as executor and personal representative of the estate,” attorney Brent Bryson said Monday. “The spurious and unjustified allegations made against Ms. Toney by Patty King, Karen Williams and Larissa Drohobyczer will be dealt with at a later time,” he added. Among King’s 11 surviving adult children, Williams and Patty King have been most outspoken about the music icon’s care in his final days. Through their attorney, Drohobyczer, they accused Toney and B.B. King’s personal assistant, Myron Johnson, of poisoning him to hasten his death. Toney and Johnson denied the claims, and Bryson dismissed them as ridiculous, defamatory and libellous. But the allegation prompted an autopsy by the Clark County cor-
In this May 7, 2015, file photo, LaVerne Toney arrives in Clark County Family Court in Las Vegas. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]
oner the day after a King memorial at a Las Vegas funeral chapel. Results of toxicology tests are expected in several weeks. Police said there was no active homicide investigation. King was buried May 30 at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi. Toney, who managed King’s road show business for 39 years and had power-of-attorney over his personal affairs, is the executor named in his will. She declined on Monday to comment. A King daughter, Riletta Mitchell, was second in line, but she died last September Bryson said Monday the value of King’s estate was being
tallied, but wasn’t expected to amount to the tens of millions of dollars suggested during Williams’ failed court bid to wrest guardianship from Toney a month ago. One court document filed April 29 said one King bank account was believed to have had $5 million in May 2014, and his home was valued at $330,000. It said family members were unable to obtain updated figures or determine the value of King’s road show business or the rights and royalties from his music. Drohobyczer has said she represents at least five of King’s children who refer to themselves as a family board. She said Monday she’ll file papers this week chal-
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lenging Toney as executor, and didn’t want to comment before documents are filed. Three daughters — Williams and Patty King, both of North Las Vegas, and Barbara King Winfree of Houston — declined to comment Monday about the upcoming probate hearing. They’ve said previously that they want Toney out of the picture. “We are the King family,” Patty King said. “We are fighting for the King estate.” Son Willie King of Chicago didn’t immediately respond to messages. Daughter Rita Washington, the fifth family board member, denied the fight to remove Toney is about money. She accused Toney of misleading family members about King’s finances and blocking them from visiting when King was dying. “Dad died by himself,” Washington said. “If it was his wish not to let us see him in that condition, she still could have allowed us to visit him.” In documents filed late Friday, Bryson provided an affidavit from one granddaughter who visited King the day before he died, and sworn testimonials from three doctors saying King was properly cared-for before he died in his sleep. “Mr. King was able to smile, eat, laugh and watch westerns on television up until the time he fell asleep on May 13, 2015,” the court document said. It noted he never awoke.
NICK PATCH THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — How much are Canadians willing to pay to stream music? It’s a question that continues to flummox analysts, record labels and particularly online streaming services. As one component of its extensive Canadian Nielsen Music 360 report, Nielsen Entertainment polled consumers on how much they’d be willing to spend monthly for unlimited streaming of songs and albums without advertising. The respondents, on average, said they would be willing to devote $6.20 per month or up to $7.80 for high quality audio. But, of course, they were speaking on a hypothetical basis. Those numbers lie in the middle of the range of options offered by streaming services in Canada. Currently, Spotify offers a limited free service in addition to a $9.99 per month premium version, which offers ad-free on-demand listening. Apple Music, unveiled Monday, will cost $9.99 in the U.S. when it launches June 30 with international pricing information yet to be announced. Newcomer Tidal provides subscriptions for either $9.99 or $19.99 per month. In Canada, streaming volume is up 94 per cent since Nielsen began tracking streaming in July 2014.