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Who makes what at city hall Ted Swabey
[City manager] $231,356
$190,289
Terry Hartley
Brian Clemens
[HR director, org. planning]
[Finance director]
$154,791
Toby Seward
Al Kenning
[GM, corporate services]
[Acting GM/protective services]
[former city manager]
$189,486
$161,050
$155,521
Richard Harding
Craig Richardson
[Director, parks, rec and culture]
Sasha Angus
[Fire chief]
[NEDC CEO]
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$139,374
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Ian Howat
$152,176
$151,601
Former city manager earned $155K in 2014
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ormer Nanaimo city manager Al Kenning remained among the top-paid city employees in 2014, despite leaving his post in 2013, due to banked vacation time and unused sick days, officials said Wednesday. The $155,521 Kenning earned in 2014 puts him as the fifth-highest-paid employee in the city, according to figures in the city’s annual statement of financial information. As city manager, Kenning had earned $237,767 in 2013. The document includes the total pay for all city employees, with specific pay amounts for employees making more than $75,000 annually.
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It shows that non-elected city employees earned approximately $400,000 less in total in 2014 compared to 2013, according to the report. Total payroll dropped to $48.9 million last year from $49.3 million the year before. The number of city management staff making more than $75,000 also decreased by four from the previous year to 73 from 77. However, employees making more than $75,000 collectively saw their total pay increase to almost $22.3 million from $21.6 million in 2013. Some senior management staff saw significant pay raises in 2014, including this year’s top earner, current city manager Ted Swabey. The chief civil servant’s salary increased to $231,356 in
2014. He earned $199,219 in 2013. Other senior staff members who received increases include: Tom Hickey, general manager of community services ($190,289 in 2014, up from $176,413 in 2013); Ian Howat, general manager of corporate services ($189,486 from $159,766); and Toby Seward, acting general manager, community development and protective services ($161,050 from $151,141). According to the city’s human resources department, a bylaw ties pay raises for management and non-exempt staff members to CUPE member increases. Swabey, who took over as city manager in September of 2013, announced a restructuring of management of city hall by cutting and combining several
city departments and axing seven management positions, creating a “flatter” structure with fewer managers with more responsibilities. The financial statements are meant to provide oversight of pay for public employees, “but it isn’t always easy to provide comparisons from one year to the next,” said finance director Brian Clemens. He said the figures in the data can be affected by retroactive payments to union employees and other factors. “You need to be careful how you use it, because context is important,” he said. Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255
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Help is coming for Lantzville residents left without representation after a fourth municipal councillor resigned. Coralee Oakes, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, stepped in after former Coun. Graham Savage tendered his resignation. He left council after Dave Scott did the same last week, as did former councillors Jennifer Millbank and Rod Negrave, in late April. Savage’s resignation, given partway through the council meeting, came before council could look after some pressing business needed to fill the previous vacancies — the appointment of a chief elections officer. Without at least half of the original seven-member council plus one, the minimum needed for quorum, it removed the ability of the three remaining council members — Mayor Colin Haime, Coun. Denise Haime and Coun. John Coulson — to vote on matters affecting the municipal district. In a statement, Oakes issued a solution. “After carefully reviewing the situation regarding the District of Lantzville council, I have decided to use legislative authority to order that the remaining members of council will constitute a quorum until persons are elected and take office to fill the vacancies,” she said. “Staff at the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development have been working closely with District of Lantzville staff. We are working toward a solution that will serve the best interests of the community-at-large and also the District of Lantzville.” No word was available late Wednesday on when a byelection might take place. Darrell.Bellaart @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4235 » 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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FRIDAY, MAY 29 2-6 p.m. Waterfront Bastion Farmers Market. Artisans, produce, fine wines, woodworking, fresh baking and more. 7 p.m. ‘My Father and the Man in Black,’ Fundraiser for the Vancouver Island Mental Health Society. Malaspina Theatre, VIU Building 310. Tickets $25, $30 after May 15, porttheatre.com SATURDAY, MAY 30 12:30-5 p.m. Acrylic Painting: Florals and Still Life Art Lab workshops are at 150 Commercial St. through the City of Nanaimo. Register at ireg.nanaimo.ca or call 250-756-5200, quote registration code 135938. $80 plus GST: All supplies included Instructor: Patricia Banks.
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VIU considers security cameras Between $40,000 and $60,000 work of computers and other items stolen during pair of break-ins JULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS
Vancouver Island University will look into the installation of closed-circuit safety video equipment, after two break-ins on campus this week resulted in the theft of tens of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment. The first break-in occurred on Monday at approximately 5 p.m. in the Arts and Humanities facility in building 345, according to the Nanaimo RCMP. The building was unlocked and 28 MacBook computers were
stolen, along with video equipment and cameras, according to police. The second robbery, which police believe is unrelated, occurred at approximately 3 a.m. on Tuesday at the bookstore. A computer and other small items were stolen. The stolen items had a total value of between $40,000 and $60,000. “We’re taking it seriously and we do have 24-hour security on-campus seven days a week. We are always looking at what else we can do to introduce other
preventative measures to stop things like this from happening in the future,” said Janina Stajic, communications and public engagement manager at VIU. One of the preventative measures they will look at implementing is closed-circuit video equipment. Some cameras are installed on campus already, but not an entire system, said Stajic. The university will continue to work closely with the Nanaimo RCMP in their investigations and will also conduct their own review of the thefts, added Stajic.
“It appears that the person or people involved knew where this equipment was, and they also would have gone in a number of times to take the materials,” said O’Brien. “A lot of people were picking up their kids at the day care at that time. So they would have had to carry this stuff out to a waiting vehicle, and that would have attracted attention.” The Nanaimo RCMP have identified a person of interest in the later bookstore break-in. He was described as a white man in his mid-20s wearing black and white
clothing and a backpack. He was seen on a bicycle in the area at about 2 a.m. Anyone with information on either break-in can contact the Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Julie.Chadwick @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4238 » 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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Arthur Vickers was visibly nervous as he prepared for the unveiling of his latest masterpiece at Vancouver Island University on Wednesday. Vickers, an internationally renowned First Nation artist who will receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters at VIU on Monday, has been designing and creating the unique ceremonial convocation suite for the university since 2008. “I’m sick,” he joked just before the ceremony, where an audience would see his creation for the first time. “As an artist, I’ve spent a lifetime creating art pieces that come from the heart and it’s a constant challenge to try to convey the meaning to others.” The art was sponsored by Coast Capital Savings and is part of a $300,000 commitment CCS has made to VIU, with the goal of inspiring and celebrating future generations of students, graduates and alumni. The suite consists of two chairs made mostly out of ancient red cedar wood for VIU’s chancellor and president to sit in during convocations, and a bent-corner box designed to hold degree parchments. In the art on the pieces, Vickers created 22 original images referencing students, teachers, the natural and spirit worlds and the architecture at VIU. He said the art is presented within the context of the “continuity of wisdom and knowledge through the elders going back to the beginning of time.” Wayne Berg, Coast Capital Savings’ chief commercial officer, said CCS is focused on building
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Artist Arthur Vickers holds a block of wood that he says is at least 175 year old at the unveiling of a new ceremonial convocation suite Wednesday at Vancouver Island University. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]
a richer future for youth in the community, and an “inspiring and beautiful gift” like the convocation suite fits with that philosophy. “Now, when VIU graduates walk across the stage and see this beautiful suite built to celebrate them and their significant accomplishment, I hope they will feel tremendously, and rightfully, proud of what they’ve achieved,” Berg said. “This is the beginning of the
creation of a strong foundation for CCS and VIU to grow and increase our relationship.” VIU president Ralph Nilson said community partnerships like the one with CCS are “integral” for the university to be successful. “With the support of CCS, Arthur (Vickers) has created a magnificent legacy piece that will inspire our students and graduates for generations to come,” Nilson said.
“The fundamental values of VIU and our partner CCS have been beautifully captured in these ceremonial pieces.” Robert.Barron @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234 » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
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Snuneymuxw voters head back to the polls DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
Snuneymuxw First Nation band members go to the polls next month to choose two new band councillors. A byelection was called to fill vacancies created when two members left Snuneymuxw council late last year Bill Yoachim was elected to Nanaimo
city council in the November civic election and John Wesley was elected chief of the band council the following month. The campaign isn’t official until May 28, but Snuneymuxw elder Geraldine Manson has already announced her intention to run. “I’m going to be out there knocking on doors,” said Man-
son, elder-in-residence at Vancouver Island University. The byelection is July 3 at the Snuneymuxw band office, 668 Centre St., 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Advance polls are June 26, same time and place. Snuneymuxw council elections are staggered, with half of council elected every two years. One term ends in December, the other in 2017.
The candidate with the most votes wins the longer term. For more information, contact Lawrence Lewis, electoral officer, toll-free at 1-855-458-5888 or lewis.L@telus.net. Darrell.Bellaart @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4235
Nanaimo’s engineering and public works department will replace the bolts that fasten a section of 30-inch water main in place over a bridge in Colliery Dam Park, after a resident raised concerns the pipe could fall and rupture during an earthquake. The water main in question crosses the Chase River and runs between the middle and lower Colliery dams. It was built in 2010 to provide as additional source of water to the south end of the city as well as better fire protection, a city report says. One section of the pipe is resting on several concrete pillars fastened with metal straps and bolts, forming a bridge. City resident Leon Cake told council he was concerned there was not enough anchoring in place to keep the concrete or the pipe from shifting in an earthquake, which could the pipe to break and water to spill into the lower Colliery dam. The city had the engineer that designed the water main, McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd., examine the structure following Cake’s statement’s to council. In a letter to the city, McElhanney Nanaimo and Duncan branch manager Russ Irish said the structure “will provide good service in a seismic event,” however he said improvements could be made at a “minimal cost” by re-fitting the pipe straps and replacing the existing anchor bolts with new bolts that are coated with an adhesive. Geoff Goodall, director of engineering and public works, said he did not have an estimate as to how much the work would cost, but added: “I don’t think it’s going to be significant.” He also said he engineer’s assessment to be a minor cost. Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255 » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
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t’s time to cut bait. The much-trumpeted downtown Nanaimo hotel project has produced (surprise!) yet another in an endless list of delays. Way back in 2013, Chinese firm SSS Manhao International Tourism Group Co. Ltd. approached the city in 2013 with a proposal to build a 21-storey, 240-room hotel next to the Vancouver Island Conference Centre downtown. There has been virtually no progress on the project (unless you count the unsightly weeds now growing at the site). The developer is poised to miss a May 30 deadline to acquire a building permit and lay the foundations for the building and has asked the city to extend the deadline by one year, explaining there
have been delays in design and preparation work for the project. The situation is now bordering on the absurd. Under an option to purchase agreement, the city can buy back the hotel site for the original price paid by the developer — $565,000 — if the deadline is not met. The city has until Nov. 30 to exercise the option. Officials need to exercise that option, now. However, in keeping with the theme of endless delays, , they put off any decision. Council voted 5-4 to support a motion from Coun. Diane Brennan to postpone consideration of the extension until June 15. Why? Brennan said she wants more information on what changes are
being proposed to the exterior of the building as well as when work on the project will proceed before making a decision. Once again, why? Do we really expect anything to change? The hotel was supposed to be finished long ago. The developer missed a Dec. 17 deadline to submit final building plans, which cost Manhao a $25,000 deposit toward a $250,000 building permit fee. That also triggered newer, more stringent building code standards to kick in, which will drive construction costs up. We’ve had our fill of ceremonies and ribbon-cuttings and smiling politicians. We’ve had our fill of officials assuring us people are “working
on things” or talk of “guarded optimism.” What happened when the project was supposed to be completed in 2015? 2016? 2017? It’s not going to happen. Some flexibility in situations like this is obviously prudent. Stuff happens, and projects get delayed. But at some point, you have to put your foot down. That time is here. We’ve said before the continued acquiescence to the many requests for delays simply reeks of desperation. Coun. Jerry Hong supported Brennan’s motion, but said he was unhappy with the company’s “vague at best” reasons for an extension: “We haven’t had a discussion and I would like to have
that discussion to see what our options are,” he said. No more discussion is required. Four councillors — Gord Fuller, Jim Kipp, Bill Yoachim and Bill Bestwick — voted against Brennan’s motion. Fuller said he thinks the land should be bought back and put up for sale, adding the current agreement should be “scrapped.” He is exactly correct. If May 30 comes and goes without some real action, send sometown downtown with a weed-eater, clean up the site, buy the property back and start looking for a new developer. No more waiting. » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this editorial to letters@nanaimodailynews.com.
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Time for freedom-loving Canadians to speak up There are many who believe we are quite probably living in the most dangerous time in world history. We are living in troubling times worldwide whether you are talking about a fragile economy, the threat of radical terrorists, the possibility of nuclear war, increased poverty and disease or a dozen other depressing events that could be mentioned. I love Canada and am inclined to believe we live in the best country on the planet, yet we would be most naive to close our eyes to certain disturbing trends in our own country that if ignored could well define a darker future for Canada and for our children. Recent troubling actions that can be interpreted in no other way than a direct attack on freedom of speech and religion should concern every Canadian.
These “fundamental freedoms” are enshrined in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms yet there are those in this country who continue to attack them. When a Christian university is targeted by lawyers for their values on marriage, their proposed law school condemned and “blacklisted” and their graduates banned from practising law in certain parts of Canada simply because they are “Christian,” every Canadian regardless of political stripes, faith or non-faith should be disturbed. When a Member of Parliament is mocked, ridiculed and attacked because he believes in creationism as opposed to Darwinism how else can such intolerance be viewed as anything other than an attack on freedom of speech and religion? When a lawyer in presenting his case for Physician-Assisted Suicide to the Supreme Court of Canada states that Christians should keep their views to them-
selves and leave “secular Canada” alone it is no time for people of faith or any Canadian to remain silent. It is time for all freedom-loving Canadians to speak out. Gerald Hall Nanoose Bay
Lantzville needs elected group to co-operate Lantzville has been kneecapped by two new councillors and one returning incumbent who discovered within a few months of their election that the new council is “dysfunctional.” Three out of seven; fascinating. This is not a new problem. The previous Lantzville council was faction-ridden. There were clear animosities among specific councillors toward others, evident at practically every meeting. Senior staff complaints quickly
became public through improper leaks of information on matters that should have remained in-house. There’s something reminiscent of American “Tea Party” oppositionism at work in our tiny community. Lantzville voters have been poorly served by some councillors whose resignations are for reasons that are far from clear. We need a group that will strive to unite, co-operate and serve the community — leaving personality conflicts behind. Garry Gaudet Lantzville Letters must include your hometown and a daytime phone number for verification purposes only. Letters must include your first name (or two initials) and last name. Unsigned letters and letters of more than 350 words will not be accepted. Email to: letters@nanaimodailynews.com.
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Search continues for missing Nanaimo man JULIE CHADWICK DAILY NEWS
Alexis Smith, left, a Grade 11 student at Ladysmith Secondary School, prepares to be tested at Wednesday’s Hul’qumi’num language contest at the school with her grandmother Mandy Jones, who teaches the language in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]
Students learn language to help maintain culture Ladysmith principal among those taking special courses ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS
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lexis Smith isn’t yet fully fluent in the Hul’qumi’num language, but she plans to keep studying the ancestral native tongue of the region’s First Nations until she does. Alexis, a Grade 11 student at Ladysmith Secondary School, is a member of the Stz’uminus First Nation. She is one of approximately 100 students, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, from the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district as well as from schools in Qualicum and the Cowichan Valley who participated in the second annual Spuptitul Hul’qumi’num language competition at LSS on Wednesday. The competition had students
from kindergarten to Grade 12 speaking what language skills they have learned in class as elders from their communities judged them on knowledge and fluency. Alexis said she began learning the language from her grandparents when she was a just a toddler, and continued her learning through courses at school. “I want to be entirely fluent in the language because I think it would be great to be able to speak well in our ancestral language,” she said. “I think it’s also very important for our culture. I’ve heard it said that if we lose the language, then we would be only aboriginal people with status.” Leila Lattimer, an aboriginal enhancement co-ordinator with the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district, said the competition is
intended to help revitalize and celebrate the Hul’qumi’num language. She said not many members of the local First Nations are fluent in the language anymore. “Luckily, there are some family members who still speak Hul’qumi’num at home and it’s now being increasingly taught in schools as well,” Lattimer said. Steve Thompson, the principal at LSS, has been taking courses in Hul’qumi’num since he started at the school this year. “It’s very important to maintain this culture, and learning the language is wonderfully beneficial for me because some of my students are also my classmates,” Thompson said. Robert.Barron @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234
Nanaimo search and rescue volunteers spent a second night searching for clues on Wednesday in the disappearance of a 42-year-old man, missing since May 4. Jason Burns left his assisted-living facility on Rosstown Road more than three weeks ago and has not been seen since. The search focused on a large wooded area near Burns’s lastknown location. Foul play is not suspected in his disappearance. “They only covered off a portion of the area of interest, it’s a large wooded area, very dense. They are going back tonight and had 25 people out searching last night,” said Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman on Wednesday. “It’s a cold search, we’re going in and hoping that he might have been there or that it might give us clues or a starting point from where he was.” NSAR have volunteers trained specifically in urban searches, as well as whitewater raft and high-elevation searches, said
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O’Brien. “We use them all the time for any type of missing person situation,” said O’Brien. Burns, who is six foot three and 240 pounds has limited finances and no friends or acquaintances in town. His father resides in Courtenay and is Burns’s only relative. Anyone with information on the disappearance of Burns can call Const. Jean Gelderblom of the Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345. Julie.Chadwick @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4238
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Nanaimo RCMP put out call for help after theft from campground DAILY NEWS
Mounties are asking the public to help identify a suspect in the theft of cash from the till of Westwood Campground. Surveillance cameras at the business at 380 Westwood Rd. show a man arrive at 5:54 a.m. Monday riding a dirt bike, which was later reported stolen from Fourth Street. The suspect wore a full face shield emblazoned with stickers with the words “Rockstar” and “Fox.”
The video showed him walk up to the till, force it open and remove several hundred dollars. Less than five minutes later he made off on a yellow 2015 Suzuki dirt bike. The man is white, believed to be in his late 20s and wore blue jeans and a green or grey hoodie. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or www.nanaimocrimestoppers. com, or text 274637, keyword Nanaimo.
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A sailboat drifts across Upper Campbell Lake on a beautiful, calm afternoon.
Brian Parsons walks on the new suspension bridge at Elk Falls Provincial Park.
This photograph was taken from the road to Myra Falls, which wraps around Buttle Lake.
Spectacular scenes on the Island
Myra Falls feeds into Buttle Lake in Strathcona Provincial Park. ‘Daily News’ photographer Aaron Hinks offered up some recent snapshots from one of his favourite spots on the Island. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]
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Woman snared by cops into terror plot: Lawyer Police preyed on Amanda Korody’s submissiveness, says her counsel GEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — A Crown prosecutor says a husband-and-wife duo facing terrorism-related charges is “undeniably, undoubtedly and undisputedly� guilty of scheming to blow up the provincial legislature. However, defence lawyers are adamant that the couple’s plot would have had no chance of success had undercover police not propelled it along. A B.C. Supreme Court jury heard closing submissions on Wednesday, which recapped nearly four months of evidence — including more than 100 hours of video and audio surveillance — presented in the trial of accused terrorists John Nuttall and Amanda Korody. They’re accused of plotting to detonate homemade pressure-cooker bombs on the crowded front lawn of the B.C. legislature lawn during Canada Day festivities two years ago. They were arrested on July 1, 2013, following an elaborate RCMP sting operation and have each pleaded not guilty. In his address to the jury, Korody’s lawyer Mark Jette described his client as the perfect, submissive, Muslim wife who lived an isolated life marred by poverty and drug addiction. He said she became the victim of a controlling husband and an overeager RCMP operation intent on “pulling her into their orbit.� Jette asked the jury to question the likelihood that Nuttall and Korody would have been able to accomplish their alleged plot without the support and guidance of the police. He criticized the operation’s primary undercover officer as playing a heavy-handed role in guiding the accused. “He’d frequently lead Nuttall and Korody down a path. When they took the bait he’d step back and say, ‘Well it’s up to you. It’s your decision, not mine,�’ said Jette. “This was the man with everything and he was prepared to guide, support, babysit and coddle these two former
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street people — methadone-dependent drug addicts surviving on social assistance.� Crown lawyer Peter Eccles dismissed those claims in his final arguments to the jury, saying all that mattered was whether the couple carried out the act. Eccles told the jury that Nuttall and Korody were fully aware they were getting involved with what they believed were high-ranking terrorists. Their lawyers told the jury earlier that the pair was manipulated and
pressured by undercover officers to come up with a viable plan. “You don’t get to raise the devil then complain when he misbehaves,� Eccles told the jury. “It doesn’t work that way.� He refuted defence’s argument that Nuttall and Korody intended only to cause structural damage to the legislature building by referencing numerous instances in video and audio evidence where they express a desire to kill and maim people. “If they didn’t want to kill why would they set (the bombs’ timers) 15 minutes apart?� asked Eccles. “They wanted to get the first responders. They wanted to get firefighters, ambulance attendants, military personnel and police.� Eccles is expected to complete his closing submissions on Thursday. After instructions from the judge, the jury could start deliberations as early as Friday.
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BC Hydro and the province’s unionized building trades workers have reached an agreement over the construction of the $9-billion Site C hydroelectric dam. The deal means union members will work alongside non-union workers and with independent and First Nations contractors. Hydro president Jessica McDonald says the agreement allows labour peace at an open site and takes steps to ensure that BC Building Trades unions will take part in the construction of the megaproject. The unions have waived the practice of signing project labour deals that restrict other non-affiliated groups from working on the site. Tom Sigurdson, head of the BC and Yukon Building Trades Union, says the compromise reflects members’ desire to work on the project at union wages and benefits while respecting the employer’s mixed-worker model.
A Vancouver Island private school says a teacher accused of a series of sexual offences against young people is no longer employed at its facility. Andrew Olson is accused of four counts of sexual exploitation — a charge which applies to authority figures who sexually assault a minor — one count of luring a child and one count of assault causing bodily harm. Crown spokesman Neil MacKenzie says the alleged offences happened at or near Shawnigan Lake between December 2014 and March 2015. Shawnigan Lake School released a statement saying it is very serious about its duty to care for young people, that the situation is upsetting for the school community and that the teacher is no longer at the school. Vancouver Island RCMP spokesman Cpl. Darren Lagan confirmed that an investigation into allegations against Olson began in late March, but would not provide any further detail.
A Mountie charged with assault has told a B.C. judge that he was scared for his life when a drunk man tried to reach for his gun. Const. Grant Jacobson said he was trying to remove the man from a downtown pub at closing time but he refused to co-operate and swore at him. Jacobson, 32, told court that as he grabbed John McCormick’s wrist to handcuff him from behind, the man turned around and caught him off guard. “He was either trying to assault me or trying to escape,� Jacobson said Tuesday. “At that point I decided I was going to take Mr. McCormick to the ground to handcuff him.� The altercation was caught on surveillance video above the pub’s patio at about 2 a.m. on June 28, 2014. Jacobson, a former bouncer, has been a Mountie for eight years. He was one of three officers at the pub that night.
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Notley says Alberta in poor fiscal shape Premier says revelations of numbers indicate big challenges BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — Premier Rachel Notley says she and her cabinet have been surprised by the state of Alberta’s finances in the first few days since the NDP took over from Jim Prentice and the Progressive Conservatives. “There’s no question that as we get briefed we are starting to find that the challenges are a bit bigger than what may have been featured in the Prentice government’s campaign,” Notley said Wednesday after her cabinet met for the first time. “There’s no question that you will probably over time hear from us, ‘Gee, we’ve got some new information now that we are behind the curtain and we are going to have to adjust accordingly.”’ She wouldn’t get specific with what the discoveries might mean in terms of how the party plans to deliver on its election platform, which was based on the previous government’s numbers. “We are the ones that are in charge, but I also think that it is not unreasonable to expect that anyone who is new on the job take a bit of time to become well informed,” she said. “Rushed decisions can be bad decisions and . . . it is in the best interests of Albertans that we continue with a careful, well-informed approach.” Alberta’s new finance minister, a former Calgary city councillor, admitted he’s got a case of the nerves as he takes over during an economic downturn in the oilpatch.
Rachel Notley is applauded after being sworn in as Alberta’s 17th premier in Edmonton. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
“I kind of feel a little bit of the weight of the work and the promises we made,” Joe Ceci said earlier in the day as he went into the meeting. “The economic situation and all of that is nerve-racking, but I’ve been to this rodeo a few times. “The briefings are revealing and eye-opening and they make you want to get down to work right away.” The budget brought down by the former Tory government before the May 5 election showed Alberta facing a $7-billion shortfall in revenues this year as a result of low oil prices. The NDP toppled almost 44 years of successive Tory governments with a campaign that promised more taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The party also plans to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2018 and
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Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard met briefly with Pope Francis on Wednesday and invited the pontiff to Montreal to attend the city’s 375th-anniversary celebrations in 2017. Couillard had a 45-second conversation with the pontiff at the Vatican and said it touched him very deeply. “He had very moving words at the end and that surprised me,” the premier said. “He said, ‘I ask you to pray for me.’ The Pope asking me to pray for him. I found that surprising and moving.” Couillard also gave the Pope gifts from the Lac-Saint-Jean region: a pilgrim’s staff and products from Trappist monks. Later on Wednesday, the premier was to give a speech to elected Italian officials.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing Canadians fear their needs as voting citizens might be lost in the shuffle in the coming election campaign as the federal parties squabble over the formats and hosts of the leaders’ debates. The proposal by the major TV networks, put to the federal parties, includes closed captioning in French and English — as has been done in previous debates. However, the Conservative Party of Canada has rejected the proposal from the so-called broadcast consortium, which includes CBC/Radio-Canada, Global News and CTV. Regardless of whether they have hearing difficulties, many new Canadians rely on closed captioning, said Susan Masters of the Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
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Local governments should have a say in the placement of large community mailboxes even if federal law states they can go on municipal property, a lawyer for a southern Ontario city argued in court Wednesday. Canada Post and the City of Hamilton are locking horns over a local bylaw that requires Canada Post to obtain a $200 permit per site to install the mailboxes on municipal land. The city’s lawyer told a Hamilton court the dispute isn’t about wresting control away from Canada Post, but about ensuring the city has a role to play, which she called “a question of national importance.” “The city isn’t choosing a location, it’s just confirming the location chosen by Canada Post,” she said.
A former Conservative candidate and longtime Montreal city councillor has entered guilty pleas to breach of trust and corruption charges. Saulie Zajdel won’t serve any time in jail after pleading guilty Tuesday to two of the five charges he faced stemming from land deals in a borough where he was an elected official. Zajdel was given an 18-month suspended sentence and must perform 240 hours of community service during that period. He also has to donate $10,000 to various groups. He was at one point hired by then-heritage minister James Moore to work as an “ethnic outreach officer” but Cotler referred to him as a “shadow MP.” Zajdel quit his federal post in 2012.
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U.S. soldiers prepare to participate in a training mission with an Iraqi Army soldier, right, outside Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]
Islamic State suicide bombs kill 17 in Iraq
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Prime Minister David Cameron is setting off Thursday on a whirlwind visit to four European capitals, pressing his case that Britain needs to renegotiate its relationship with the 27 other members of the bloc. The trip began as Cameron’s government revealed the question British voters will be asked in a referendum by the end of 2017: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?” Cameron said Wednesday that he expected the referendum bill to make it through Parliament and into law in “extra quick time.”
A radio journalist known for denouncing drug traffickers and organized crime groups was murdered in northeastern Brazil, police said Wednesday. Three men armed with machine-guns and pistols killed Djalma Santos da Conceicao Saturday night in the small town of Conceicao da Feira in the state of Bahia, police inspector Gustavo Coutinho said by telephone. He said the gunmen barged into a small bar where the journalist was taking part in a party and “abducted, tortured and murdered” him before dumping his body in a rural zone outside the town.
BAGHDAD — As Iraqi forces gathered for a major new offensive to try to take back the sprawling Sunni heartland of Anbar province, Islamic State militants struck first, unleashing a wave of suicide bombings that killed at least 17 soldiers. The attacks outside the extremist-held city of Fallujah came just hours after the Iraqi government announced the start of a wide-scale operation to recapture areas under Islamic State control in the vast desert province that stretches to the border with Jordan. The militants used a sandstorm that engulfed most of Iraq to launch the
deadly wave of bombings late Tuesday night, Brig. Gen Saad Maan Ibrahim, the spokesman for the Joint Military Command, told The Associated Press. He said it was not clear how many suicide attackers were involved in the bombings but they struck from multiple directions at the Iraqi troops, who were gathered near a water control station and a lock system on a canal between the Euphrates River and Lake Tharthar as they prepared to deploy. Last month, the water station near Fallujah fell into the hands of the militants following attacks that also included multiple suicide bombings that killed a general commanding the 1st Division and a dozen other officers and
soldiers, Ibrahim said. Iraqi government forces retook the station a few days later. Fallujah lies to the east of the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, which was captured 10 days ago by the Islamic State militants in a major defeat for Iraqi troops. The military, humiliated last year when it crumbled in the face of the militant onslaught in the city of Mosul, had regained some momentum after its victory in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit last month. The campaign to retake Anbar, which is said to be backed by Shiite militias and pro-government Sunni fighters, is deemed critical in regaining momentum in the fight against the Islamic State group.
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Greece’s prime minister said Wednesday that his country is close to a deal with its bailout creditors, prompting European stock markets to jump on hopes of a breakthrough in the slow-moving, often acrimonious talks. Alexis Tsipras spoke shortly before Greek negotiators were due to meet in Brussels with representatives of the bailout creditors — whose cash has kept Greece from bankruptcy for the past five years. “We have taken very many steps. We are in the home stretch, close to the final agreement,” Tsipras told reporters, after a meeting at the finance ministry in Athens.
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‘Aloha’ more like Crowe’s goodbye
Bradley Cooper is an ex-space program officer reduced to being the ‘fixer’ for a space tech billionaire Aloha STARRING: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachael McAdams, Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Dennis Bumpy Kanahele, Bill Murray Director: Cameron Crowe RATING: PG-13 RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes Playing at: Galaxy Cinemas
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ameron Crowe fans — and that includes most movie critics — have cut him a lot of slack over the years. Our love for Say Anything, Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire made us embrace the big romantic gestures and little traces of heart in Elizabethtown, Vanilla Sky and We Bought a Zoo. But Aloha is a breaking point, a movie that makes you start to see the guy just, well, full of it. Whatever it was going to be — and editing has been a Crowe problem since Elizabethtown — Aloha has been reduced to a shambling, lurching Hawaiian comedy full of big name actors making long, rushed, declamatory speeches. And every minute or so, there’s another annoying traditional Hawaiian song, or Hawaiian pop or blues or country tune. They’re meant to tie the mess together, to allow the picture to coast along on musical emotions where script coherence is lacking. And they don’t. Even Elvis gets into the act. It’s so grating that you find yourself waiting for Don Ho to croon “Tiny Bubbles.” Bradley Cooper plays a onetime Air Force space program officer, wounded in Afghanistan, semi-disgraced and reduced to being the “fixer” for a space tech billionaire (Bill Murray, seemingly improvising his role). Brian Gilchrest is back in Hawaii, at the little “Mayberry of a base” where he was stationed, to talk the natives into blessing a gate that’s being moved so that big
Bradley Cooper, left, and Rachel McAdams in a scene from ’Aloha,’ playing at Galaxy Cinemas in Nanaimo. [AP PHOTO]
rockets can be moved from location to location. Rachel McAdams is the girl he left behind, married, with kids and a comically silent Air Force pilot husband (John Krasinski). Danny McBride is an old comrade, now a colonel more or less in charge. And Emma Stone is the eager beaver Captain Ng, a pilot assigned to be Gilchrest’s minder, his shadow as he goes to deal with Hawaii’s most nativist natives. The movie’s more Hawaiian than The Descendants, but the
early culture clash promise — “Below the Aloha exteriors?” “Casablanca, baby!” — unravels. The president of the Sovereign Nation of Hawaii (Dennis Bumpy Kanahele) just shrugs at how low his old friend has sunk. “You’re on the wrong side, bra.’” At least he doesn’t throw “Mahalo” in there. The son of Gilchrest’s ex-girlfriend is a space and Hawaiian mythology buff who insists Gilchrest is a mythical character, The Arrival, newly returned to set the future in motion. A little
magical realism helps set the expected Gilchrest/Captain Ng romance in motion. But it feels absurdly abrupt, the way we get to “Boy, am I a goner.” That was to be this movie’s “You had me at hello.” It isn’t. Not a lot of chemistry, despite Stone’s enthusiastic plunge into the part. The performances are passable, save for Murray — who goes ham, and Alec Baldwin, as a general who goes comically nuclear. He at least leaves an impression. The film-buff Hawaiian resident Crowe has, in essence, made
his Donovan’s Reef, a movie John Ford and John Wayne did to celebrate Ford’s Second World War service in the Pacific, and to get a studio to pay for long tropical vacations for the cast and crew. Aloha has a nod to the power of music and respect for religious traditions and the once-promising frontier of space. But it’s also about the versatility of that one-word title. Sadly, in this case, Aloha doesn’t mean “Hello,” or even “Welcome back, Cameron Crowe.” This feels like goodbye, at least to his major film career.
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‘Results’ doesn’t deliver on charm or laughs Results STARRING: Cobie Smulders, Guy Pearce, Kevin Corrigan DIRECTOR: Andrew Bujalski RATING: Restricted RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes
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Results is a random, generally pointless romantic comedy that is set in the world of personal trainers. We have Trevor (Guy Pearce), the Aussie building his dream “Power 4 Life” gym in Austin, Texas, exercising compulsively, with only his big galoot of a dog for company. Kat (Cobie Smulders) is one of his best trainers, but intense — wrapped-too-tight, just as compulsive about running, lifting, etc. Only she’s inclined to
Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders in ‘Results.’ [AP PHOTO]
tear into clients who “quit” on her. Maybe she and Trevor could have a “thing,” if only she didn’t have that temper. Got to love her training regimen, though.
“Imagine there’s a wall right behind you, and you’re trying to knock it down with your butt!” Into this world comes pasty, balding and doughy Danny
(Kevin Corrigan). His wife just dumped him, and he’s suddenly come into money. So. Train him. “I want to be able to take a punch.” Something about Kat — her temper, the fact that she’s played by the willowy knockout Smulders — gets to Danny. But there’ll be no rich guy courting his trainer here, thank you. Money or no money, Kat won’t have it. And Trevor seems to take that attempt a tad too personally, as well. Actor turned writer-director Andrew Bujalski has some promising angles he could have pursued. Trevor’s idol is a Russian kettle bell trainer living and running gyms and selling his own line of equipment. The joke is that he’s played by Anthony Michael Hall and Grigory runs his empire from . . . West Texas.
Brooklyn Decker plays his adoring wife. Giovanni Ribisi is a lawyer rich-Danny meets and hires in a dumpy bar. Ribisi usually makes such sleaze funnier. A sharper comedy would have played around with the addictive nature of exercise, the roid rage that Kat seems to suffer from with no other evidence that she takes steroids. There’s little contrast between the unhappy six-packers with the equally miserable “pudgy and mellow” Danny. So, as nice as it is to see Smulders get offered something other than a S.H.I.E.L.D. jumpsuit in the Avengers movies after How I Met Your Mother, as interesting as Pearce and Corrigan usually are, Results is a comedy that never offers more than unsatisfactory ones — results, I mean.
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Mid-Island tournament returns Jackie Little, from Port Alberni, returns to defend her title and will be joined in the field by local hotshot Shirin Anjarwalla, who won the B.C. Juvenile championship in 2014. Anjarwalla, 15, attends Dover Bay Secondary and also won the gold medal at the BC Summer Games which were held in Nanaimo last year. Laird Wheaton car dealership is one of the main sponsors for the tournament and will donate a 2015 Cadillac CTS. The vehicle will be
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The 66th annual Women’s Mid-Island Golf Tournament returns to the Harbour City next weekend and as usual, some of the country’s biggest talents are set to showcase their skills at the Nanaimo Golf Club. It all begins next Saturday, June 6, with a shotgun start and the first 18 holes being played from 1:30 p.m. onwards. The second 18 holes will be played the following day from 8:30 a.m. Last year’s champion
awarded to a golfer who hits a hole in one. “We are hoping for a field of approximately 70 golfers, we’ll have some of the best golfers in British Columbia and Canada,” said tournament chairperson Heather Lindsey-Lecuyer. “We have players of all ages, skill and ability.” Entry fee for the tournament is $140 and that includes the Saturday banquet and Sunday luncheon. Ross.Armour @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4230
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The Nanaimo Museum has announced its 2015 inductees into the Sports Hall of Fame. Harry Manson, Fred Fulla, Wayne Bianchin and Dr. Ed Johnson will all be inducted this June. The Sports Hall of Fame acts as a tribute to outstanding Nanaimo athletes from the past and present. It recognizes inductees across five categories: Athlete, Builder, Media, Pioneer and Team. “We are proud to honour outstanding athletes from our community,” said Nanaimo Museum general manager Debbie Trueman. “They represent local achievement in all levels of sport and many are strong contributors to community athletics in Nanaimo.” The induction ceremony is an invitation only event.
Manson has been inducted under the Pioneer category after his local soccer exploits back in the late 1800s which has led the museum to describe him as a legend of the sport. Manson was the only First Nations player to play on all of Nanaimo’s European and indigenous teams. His Snuneymuxw name, Xul-si-malt, stands for “one who leaves his mark.” Manson was been described as one of the best soccer players in Nanaimo back in his day. Athlete inductee Fulla, also known as ‘Fabulous Fred,’ is regarded as one of the most recognized netminders in Nanaimo lacrosse. In 1952, he set a record of 1492 shots on net which remains unbeaten to this day.
In 1954, Fulla won the Leo Nicholson Trophy awarded to the best goalie in the league. Bianchin is also an Athlete inductee. He played for seven seasons in the NHL, most notably with the Pittsburgh Penguins. His hockey career then led him to play for the Italian national team at the Group B World Championships in 1981-82, where he led the tournament in scoring. Johnson, a Builder inductee, was involved for 25 years with the Canadian Soccer Association as a doctor for many Canadian World Cup teams. In 1984, he was national team doctor at the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. Sports @nanaimodailynews.com
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“I think Mike is probably one of the best coaches in our game,” Roy said before he was honoured in a pregame ceremony at the Mastercard Memorial Cup. “He’s been in the league a long time and he earned that right. “I think it’ll be good. If you look at all the sports, I think hockey was a little behind, looking at coaches being paid. And not just the coaches, the assistant coaches as well. I think our game needs to look at this and I hope that what happened with Mike will help other coaches and assist-
ant coaches one day.” Babcock elected to leave the Detroit Red Wings to sign the biggest deal ever for an NHL head coach with the Leafs. The Memorial Cup is the last major hockey event to be held at the 66-year-old Pepsi Colisee before the new 18,482-seat Videotron Centre next door opens in September. Roy, a Quebec City native who watched and played games as a youngster at the Colisee, was honoured for a career that included two years as general manager.
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ZURICH — The U.S. government launched a corruption attack on soccer’s global governing body Wednesday, pulling FIFA executives out of a luxury Zurich hotel to face racketeering charges and raiding regional offices in Miami. Swiss officials also invaded FIFA headquarters, seizing records and computers to investigate whether the decisions to award World Cups to Russia and Qatar were rigged. Scandals and rumours of corruption have dogged FIFA throughout the 17-year reign of its president, Sepp Blatter, but he was not named in either investigation. He is scheduled to stand Friday for re-election to fifth term, and the organization said the vote would go ahead as planned, despite the latest turmoil. FIFA also ruled out a revote of the World Cup bids won by Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022. “We welcome the actions and the investigations by the U.S. and Swiss authorities and believe that it will help to reinforce measures that FIFA has already taken to root out any wrongdoing in football,” Blatter said in a statement. The organization said it was co-operating fully with the investigation. Former soccer great Diego Maradona said he had been complaining about corruption in FIFA for years. “I was treated like a crazy person,” he told radio station Radio La Red in Buenos Aires. “Now the FBI has told the truth.” Former Brazilian star Romario, an outspoken FIFA critic, said
In this April 2011 file photo FIFA President Sepp Blatter, right, gives a pennant to Nicaragua’s Soccer Federation President Julio Rocha. Rocha is among the officials arrested and detained by Swiss police on Wednesday. [AP PHOTO]
“someone had to eventually arrest them one day.” Authorities conducted early morning raids in Zurich at FIFA headquarters and the five-star Baur au Lac Hotel downtown in the investigations. In Miami, FBI and IRS agents carried computers and boxes out of the headquarters of CONCACAF, the governing body of North and Central America and the Caribbean, whose past and current presidents were among 14 defendants under indictment for corruption. Swiss police arrested seven
soccer official at the request of American prosecutors and threatened them with extradition to the U.S. Four other soccer and marketing officials agreed to plead guilty. “Beginning in 1991, two generations of soccer officials . . . used their positions of trust within their respective organizations to solicit bribes from sports marketers in exchange for the commercial rights to their soccer tournaments,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said at a news conference in New York. “They did this over and over,
year after year, tournament after tournament.” U.S. prosecutors said they will seek forfeiture of more than $151 million the government alleges was illegally obtained. They said the indictments represented only the beginning of their efforts. Richard Weber, head of the IRS Criminal Division, called the case “the World Cup of fraud.” Two current FIFA vice-presidents were among those arrested and indicted, Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands and Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay,
the Justice Department said. The others are Eduardo Li of Costa Rica, Julio Rocha of Nicaragua, Costas Takkas of Britain, Rafael Esquivel of Venezuela and Jose Maria Marin of Brazil. All seven are connected with the regional confederations of North and South America and face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. FIFA suspended 11 people, including Webb and Figueredo, from all soccer-related activities following the U.S. announcement. Webb called himself a reformer when he was elected as CONCACAF president in 2012 to replace Jack Warner, who also was named in the indictment. Prosecutors alleged that part of the bribe money directed to Webb was transferred to the account of a contractor building a swimming pool at Webb’s home in Loganville, Georgia. The seven soccer officials arrested are connected with CONCACAF or CONMEBOL, South America’s governing body. Each faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The Swiss justice ministry said six of the seven officials arrested oppose extradition to the United States, adding that U.S. authorities now have 40 days to submit the formal extradition request. One of those detained, who was unidentified, agreed to “a simplified extradition procedure,” meaning he can be sent to the U.S. in the coming days. Four of the men indicted are sports marketing executives and another works in broadcasting. Jack Warner, a former FIFA vice-president from Trinidad and Tobago, was among those indicted.
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CHICAGO — Duncan Keith had three assists and saved a goal in the third period, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 on Wednesday night to force a Game 7 in the Western Conference finals. Brandon Saad, Marian Hossa and Patrick Kane scored in the second to help the Blackhawks hand the Ducks their first regulation loss of the playoffs. Andrew Shaw had two goals in the third, and Corey Crawford finished with 30 saves. Patrick Maroon and Clayton Stoner scored for the Ducks, and Frederik Andersen made 18 saves. Anaheim caught a break when Jakob Silfverberg brushed up against Crawford’s glove on Stoner’s first goal of the playoffs at 1:57 of the third, trimming Chicago’s lead to 3-2. There was no call on the play and Crawford threw up his hands in exasperation after Stoner’s big slap shot went into the net. But Crawford quickly put the play behind him, hanging tough while the Ducks made a frantic push for the tying goal. He got some help from Keith when the two-time Norris Trophy winner swept a shot away from the goal line about 3 1/2 minutes into the period. Shaw finally got the Blackhawks some breathing room
SURREY — Maxx Forde was in the building when the B.C. Lions hoisted the 1994 Grey Cup. He just doesn’t remember much of the game. The club’s seventh-round pick at this year’s CFL draft is the son of Montreal native and former Lions linebacker Brian Forde, a member of the ’94 team that won the title at B.C. Place Stadium. “They have a little commemorative VHS tape and I’m on my dad’s shoulders after the game,” said Forde. “Some of my earliest memories are from around that time.” The younger Forde, who was born in New Orleans while his father was playing for the NFL’s Saints, was just two years old at the time of the Lions’ victory over Baltimore, but the Univer-
Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (50) stops Anaheim Ducks left wing Patrick Maroon’s (19) shot during the first period in Game 6. [AP PHOTO]
when he beat Andersen with a nifty backhander high into the net with 3:32 left. Andrew Desjardins made a nice hustle play to get the puck over to Shaw for his third playoff goal. Shaw then added an empty-netter in the final minute as Chicago improved to 7-1 at home in the playoffs. Shaking off the Ducks’ plan to wear down Chicago’s top four defencemen, Keith had his fourth multipoint game of the playoffs. The defenceman picked up his first assist of the night when he made a long pass ahead to Kane, who touched it to a streaking Saad. The rugged forward then skated in and beat
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Andersen at 8:23 of the second, sending a charge through the crowd of 22,089. Keith connected with Hossa for a pretty score at 10:41, patiently waiting while the winger got open for the other side of the net. He got his 14th assist of the playoffs when Kane made a dazzling move to get past Matt Beleskey and then managed to squeeze a shot past Andersen with 7:52 left in the second. Anaheim appeared to be looking for its own big comeback when Maroon scored a powerplay goal at 14:13 of the second. Stoner then scored in the third, but Keith, Crawford and Shaw stepped up to turn away the rally.
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THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015
SCOREBOARD HOCKEY
Memorial Cup
NHL Playoffs - Round 3 (Stanley Cup semifinals) All series best-of- seven Conference Finals West - Chicago Blackhawks vs. Anaheim Ducks East - Tampa Bay Lightning vs. New York Rangers Yesterday’s result (Game 6) Chicago 5, Anaheim 2 (Series tied 3-3)
Canadian Hockey League (CHL) championship, Quebec City, May 22-31 at Colisee Pepsi. Final standings Teams W L GF-A Oshawa Generals (OHL) 3 0 11-8 Kelowna Rockets (WHL) 1 2 11-9 Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL) 1 2 10-11 Quebec Remparts (Host) 1 2 8-12 Yesterday’s result Rimouski 4, Quebec 0 Today’s playoff game - Tiebreaker Quebec vs. Rimouski, 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 29 - Semifinal Third Place vs. Kelowna, , 4:30 p.m.
Friday’s schedule (Game 7) Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 5 p.m. (Series tied 3-3)
Sunday, May 31 - Final Semifinal Winner vs. First Place, 4 p.m.
Saturday May 30 (Game 7) Chicago at Anaheim, 5 p.m.
American Hockey League
Blackhawks 5, Ducks 2 First Period No scoring Penalties: Perry Ana (Hooking) 7:06 Second Period 1. Chicago, Saad (5) (Keith, Kane) 8:23 2. Chicago, Hossa (3) (Richards, Keith) 10:41 3. Chicago, Kane (10) (Keith) 12:08 4. Anaheim, Maroon (7) (Fowler, Vatanen) 14:13 (PP) Penalties: Sekac Ana (Elbowing) 4:57, Richards Chi (Hooking) 14:06, Kesler Ana (Tripping) 16:04 Third Period 5. Anaheim, Stoner (1) (Silfverberg, Thompson) 1:57 6. Chicago, Shaw (3) (Desjardins, Vermette) 16:28 7. Chicago, Shaw (4) (Desjardins, Oduya) 19:11 Penalties: Desjardins Chi (Goalkeeper Interference) 3:15 Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd T Anaheim 10 9 13 32 Chicago 6 13 4 23 Goaltending summary: Anaheim: Andersen (18/22), Chicago: Crawford (30/32) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Anaheim: 1 of 3, Chicago: 0 of 3 Att: 22,089
Playoff leaders Points 1 Tyler Johnson TB 2 Ryan Getzlaf ANA 3 Corey Perry ANA 3 Nikita Kucherov TB 3 Steven Stamkos TB 6 Jakob Silfverberg ANA 6 Jonathan Toews CHI 8 Patrick Kane CHI 8 Alex Killorn TB 10 Ondrej Palat TB 11 Duncan Keith CHI 12 Ryan Kesler ANA 12 Derek Stepan NYR 12 Patrick Sharp CHI 15 Derick Brassard NYR 15 Marian Hossa CHI 17 Zach Parise MIN 17 Rick Nash NYR 17 Valtteri Filppula TB 17 Sami Vatanen ANA 17 Victor Hedman TB
G 12 2 9 7 7 4 7 9 6 6 2 6 5 4 6 2 4 4 3 3 1
A 8 17 8 10 10 13 9 7 9 8 11 6 7 8 5 9 6 6 7 7 9
Goals 1 Tyler Johnson TB 2 Corey Perry ANA 2 Patrick Kane CHI 4 Nikita Kucherov TB 4 Steven Stamkos TB 4 Jonathan Toews CHI 4 Chris Kreider NYR 4 Matt Beleskey ANA
GP G 19 12 14 9 15 9 18 7 18 7 15 7 17 7 14 7
Plus/Minus 1 Ryan Getzlaf ANA 1 Corey Perry ANA 1 Victor Hedman TB 4 Andrew Cogliano ANA 5 Duncan Keith CHI 5 Patrick Maroon ANA 5 Cam Fowler ANA
GP 15 15 18 14 16 15 15
G 2 9 1 3 2 7 2
Pts 20 19 17 17 17 17 16 15 15 14 13 12 12 12 11 11 10 10 10 10 10
A+/17 10 8 10 9 10 6 9 11 8 3 8 7 8
Calder Cup playoffs - Round 3 Eastern match-ups 1-Manchester Monarchs vs. 3-Hartford Wolf Pack Western match-ups 1-Utica Comets vs. 2-Grand Rapids Griffins Yesterday’s result (Game 4) Manchester 3, Hartford 1 (Manchester sweeps series 4-0) Today’s schedule (Game 3) Utica at Grand Rapids, 4 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) Friday, May 29 (Game 4) Utica at Grand Rapids, 4 p.m.
BASKETBALL NBA Playoffs (All series best-of-seven) Eastern Conference final (Round 3) Cleveland Cavaliers def. Atlanta Hawks 4-0 Western Conference finals Golden State Warriors def. Houston Rockets 4-1 NBA Championship final Golden State vs. Cleveland Schedule TBA Yesterday’s result (Game 5) Golden State 104, Houston 90 (Golden State wins series 4-1) Tuesday’s result (Game 4) Cleveland 118, Atlanta 88 (Cleveland sweeps series 4-0)
Warriors 104 Rockets 90 Golden StateMIN PT RB A ST B TO Barnes 34:30 24 7 0 1 0 2 Green 34:04 9 13 4 0 1 3 Bogut 19:14 0 14 1 0 2 1 Thompson 22:08 20 1 4 1 0 0 Curry 41:48 26 8 6 5 0 3 Ezeli 28:27 12 9 1 0 2 3 Iguodala 30:11 6 4 6 4 0 2 Livingston 17:52 0 1 2 0 0 2 Barbosa 11:27 7 2 1 0 0 0 Totals 104 59 25 11 5 16 Houston MIN PT RB A ST B TO Ariza 43:33 15 6 4 2 0 0 Smith 20:40 11 4 1 0 2 0 Howard 42:08 18 16 1 2 4 4 Harden 43:15 14 6 5 3 0 13 Terry 39:09 16 2 3 1 0 2 Jones 16:35 0 1 0 1 0 0 Prigioni 07:05 0 0 1 1 0 1 Brewer 24:24 16 3 1 1 0 0 Capela 03:11 0 1 0 1 0 0 Totals 90 39 16 12 6 20 Golden State 17 35 22 30 Houston 22 24 22 22 3 FG: Golden State 9-29, Houston 5-24. FT: Golden State 21-31, Houston 33-44. Fouled Out: None Technicals: Warriors: Bogut, Rockets: Howard Att: 19,596 Time of game: 2:44
Rockets guard James Harden drives between Draymond Green, left, and forward Harrison Barnes. [AP PHOTO]
Rockets end season in loss to Warriors JOSH DUBOW THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAKLAND, Calif. — After carrying Houston to the Western Conference finals, James Harden couldn’t even hold onto the ball when the Rockets needed him most. Harden set a playoff record with 13 turnovers and the Rockets were unable to stave off playoff elimination for a fifth time this post-season, losing 104-90 to the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals. “I put so much pressure on myself to just be really good every single night, and so some cases you’re not going to do that,” Harden said. “You’re not going to be good. Tonight that was the case. It’s tough to go out like this.” Harden helped lead Houston to a Southwest Division title, fuelled the comeback from a 3-1 series deficit in the second round against the Los Angeles Clippers and carried his team to a Game 4 win to extend the conference finals. But with the season on the line once again, Harden struggled against the tough Warriors defence. “James didn’t play well, but as I’ve said all year long, we don’t win the division, we don’t win 56 games, we don’t have home court, we don’t beat the Clippers in Game 7 if it wasn’t for James,” coach Kevin McHale said. “He had a tough go tonight. There’s nothing else you can really say about it, man. Sometimes you go out there and you’re trying your best and things just don’t work out.” Harden finished with just 14 points on 2-for-11 shooting and didn’t make a single shot from the field for the final 29:48 of the game. His rough night could be encapsulated in the closing minutes, when he shot an airball from three-point range and then dribbled the ball off his foot for his 13th turnover. That’s how the whole night went for Harden, whose turnovers fueled the Warriors’ transition game and gave them easy baskets on a night both teams struggled to score.
CYCLING Road racing Giro d’Italia Ryder’s bad day Stage 17 - 170 km, Melide (Switzerland) to Verbania. Weather: Cold with intermittent rain. 1. Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida, 3:07:51 2. Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) TrekRacing 3. Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team GiantAlpecin 4. Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling 5. Davide Appollonio (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 6. Stig Broeckx (Bel) Lotto Soudal 7. Juan Jose Lobato (Spa) Movistar Team 8. Alexander Porsev (Rus) Team Katusha 9. Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ.fr 10. Nick Van Der Lijke (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 45. Ryder Hesjedal (Victoria) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team, 0:02:12 General Classification (pink jersey) 1. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo, 68:12:50 2. Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Astana Pro Team, 0:04:02 3. Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team, 0:04:52 4. Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team, 0:05:48 5. Yury Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha, 0:08:27 6. Leopold Konig (Cze) Team Sky, 0:09:31 7. Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team, 0:09:52 8. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo, 0:11:40 9. Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ.fr, 0:12:48 10. Ryder Hesjedal (Victoria) Cannondale-Garmin, 0:13:01
AUTO RACING NASCAR
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SOCCER
BASEBALL
Yankees 4, Royals 2
2015 rankings and upcoming tournaments
MLS
MLB
ab r h bi ab r h bi Escobar SS 5 0 3 0 Gardner LF 4 1 1 0 Moustakas 3B4 1 1 1 Headley 3B 3 1 1 0 Cain CF 3 1 0 0 Rodriguez DH4 1 2 3 Hosmer 1B 4 0 1 0 Teixeira 1B 4 0 1 0 Morales DH 4 0 2 0 McCann C 2 1 1 1 Gordon LF 3 0 0 0 Beltran RF 3 0 2 0 Perez C 4 0 0 0 Young PR-RF 1 0 0 0 Infante 2B 4 0 0 0 Drew 2B 4000 Orlando RF 4 0 1 0 Heathcott CF 4 0 1 0 Totals 35 2 8 1 Gregorius SS 4 0 0 0 Totals 33 4 9 4
PGA AT&T Byron Nelson, May 28-31 TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas, Irving, Texas. Par 70, 7,166 yards. Purse: $7,100,000. 2014 champion: Brendon Todd Golfer Tour points 1 Rory McIlroy 644.75 2 Jordan Spieth 473.98 3 Henrik Stenson 359.94 4 Bubba Watson 314.95 5 Jim Furyk 287.46 6 Justin Rose 313.29 7 Sergio Garcia 294.11 8 Jason Day 240.6 9 Rickie Fowler 310.69 10 Dustin Johnson 238.61 11 Adam Scott 228.28 12 Jimmy Walker 263.58 13 J.B. Holmes 199.23 14 Hideki Matsuyama 231.2 15 Patrick Reed 226.37 16 Martin Kaymer 217.05 17 Chris Kirk 216.68 18 Matt Kuchar 213.6 19 Phil Mickelson 179.82 20 Billy Horschel 199.57 Canadian rankings 82 Graham DeLaet 86.22 152 David Hearn 57.2 160 Adam Hadwin 56.27 261 Nick Taylor 35.15 266 Richard Lee 26.85 421 Mike Weir 18.5 480 Brad Fritsch 15.42 557 Roger Sloan 11.43 642 Ryan Yip 7.66 727 Ryan Williams 6.12 732 Justin Shin 6 749 Eugene Wong 5.78 813 Michael Gligic 4.73 866 Greg Machtaler 4.11 895 Peter Campbell 3.68 949 Adam Cornelson 3.16
Canadian PGA Tour
FedEx 400 Sunday, May 31, 10 a.m. Dover International Speedway, Dover, Delaware. 400 laps, 1 mile per lap. Qualifying: Friday, May 29, 12:45 p.m.
PC Financial Open, May 28-31 Point Grey Golf and Country Club, Vancouver. Par 72, 6,801 yards. Purse: $175,000 First tournament of 2015, no winnings or rankings yet available.
Formula One
LPGA
Canadian Grand Prix Sunday, June 7, 11 a.m. Ile Notre Dame, Montreal (street circuit). 305.270 km, 70 laps, 4.361 km per lap. Qualifying Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m.
ShopRite LPGA Classic, May 29-31. Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club, Bay Course, Galloway, New Jersey. Par 71, 6,247 yards. Purse: $1,500,000. 2014 champion: Stacy Lewis Average score Score 1 Stacy Lewis 69.525 2 Inbee Park 69.625 3 Hyo Joo Kim 69.639 4 Lydia Ko 69.75 5 Anna Nordqvist 70.25 6 Sei Young Kim 70.405 7 Amy Yang 70.432 8 Lexi Thompson 70.472 9 Suzann Pettersen 70.577 10 Azahara Munoz 70.643 11 Shanshan Feng 70.75 12 Ha Na Jang 70.789 13 Sandra Gal 70.909 14 Mirim Lee 70.925 15 Jessica Korda 70.944 16 Alison Lee 70.967 17 Cristie Kerr 71.025 18 So Yeon Ryu 71.05 19 Ilhee Lee 71.068 Canadian golfers 20 Brittany Lincicome 71.075 95 Alena Sharp 73.156 126 Sue Kim 74.091 132 Rebecca Lee-Bentham 74.5
TENNIS French Open - Men, Women Grand Slam event: Stade Roland Garros, Final June 7 Paris, France Surface: Clay. Total purse (men and women): €13,008,000 Competitors: 128 singles, 64 doubles Men’s singles - Round 2 Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain, 6-2, 7-6 (1), 6-3. Tomas Berdych (4), Czech Republic, def. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-3. Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, def. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. Stan Wawrinka (8), Switzerland, def. Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. Gilles Simon (12), France, def. Martin Klizan, Slovakia, 7-5, 6-2, 6-3. Gael Monfils (13), France, def. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (14), France, def. Dudi Sela, Israel, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Roberto Bautista Agut (19), Spain, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. Pablo Cuevas (21), Uruguay, def. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 7-6 (7), 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-5. Philipp Kohlschreiber (22), Germany, leads Pablo Andujar, Spain, 1-6, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, 4-2, Suspended. Nicolas Mahut, France, def. Ernests Gulbis (24), Latvia, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. Benoit Paire, France, def. Fabio Fognini (28), Italy, 6-1, 6-3, 7-5. Benjamin Becker, Germany, def. Fernando Verdasco (32), Spain, 6-4, 0-6, 1-6, 7-5, 10-8. Steve Johnson, United States, def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6). Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, def. Juan Monaco, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2. Women’s singles - Round 1 Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def. Vitalia Diatchenko, Russia, 6-3, 6-1. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, def. Simona Halep (3), Romania, 7-5, 6-1. Ana Ivanovic (7), Serbia, def. Misaki Doi, Japan, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Carla Suarez Navarro (8), Spain, def. Virginie Razzano, France, 6-3, 1-0, retired. Ekaterina Makarova (9), Russia, def. Teliana Pereira, Brazil, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3. Angelique Kerber (11), Germany, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, 6-3, 6-2. Lucie Safarova (13), Czech Republic, def. Kurumi Nara, Japan, 6-2, 6-0. Elina Svitolina (19), Ukraine, def. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 1-6, 7-5, 9-7. Sabine Lisicki (20), Germany, def. Daria Gavrilova, Russia, 6-1, 0-0, retired. Garbine Muguruza (21), Spain, def. Camila Giorgi, Italy, 6-1, 6-4. Samantha Stosur (26), Australia, def. Amandine Hesse, France, 6-0, 6-1. Flavia Pennetta (28), Italy, def. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, 6-2, 6-0. Alize Cornet (29), France, def. Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, 6-2, 7-5. Annika Beck, Germany, def. Paula Kania, Poland, 6-2, 6-2. Men’s Doubles - Round 1 Bob Bryan, United States, and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Raven Klaasen, South Africa, and Lu Yen-Hsun, Taiwan, 7-6 (8), 6-2. Vasek Pospisil, Vernon, B.C., and Jack Sock (2), United States, def. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, and Joao Souza, Brazil, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (4). Daniel Nestor, Toronto, and Leander Paes (10), India, def. James Duckworth, Australia, and Chris Guccione, Australia, 6-2, 5-7, 7-5. Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (5), Romania, def. Rameez Junaid, Australia, and Adil Shamasdin, Canada, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Alexander Peya, Austria, and Bruno Soares (8), Brazil, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, and Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-1. Women’s Doubles - Round 1 Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Julia Goerges, Germany, and Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-0. Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (3), France, def. Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, and Heather Watson, Britain, 6-4, 7-6 (2). Andrea Hlavackova, Czech Republic, and Lucie Hradecka (9), Czech Republic, def. Vera Dushevina, Russia, and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, 6-3, 6-4.
Champions Tour No tournament this week Golfers Points 1 Bernhard Langer 58 2 Michael Allen 85 3 Jeff Maggert 127 4 Joe Durant 153 5 Kenny Perry 157 6 Gene Sauers 162 7 Wes Short, Jr. 178 T8 Rocco Mediate 182 T8 Corey Pavin 182 T10 Woody Austin 186 T10 Olin Browne 186 T12 Bart Bryant 187 T12 Kevin Sutherland 187 14 Colin Montgomerie 188 15 Esteban Toledo 195 T16 Fred Funk 199 T16 Tom Lehman 199 18 Tom Pernice Jr. 207 19 Marco Dawson 211 20 Scott Dunlap 228 Canadian golfers 22 Stephen Ames 233 26 Rod Spittle 260 79 Jim Rutledge 513
Web.com Tour Rex Hospital Open, May 28-31 TPC Wakefield Plantation, Raleigh, North Carolina, Par 71, 7,257 yards. Purse: $625,000. 2014 champion: Byron Smith Golfers Points 1 Wes Roach 189 2 Smylie Kaufman 199 3 Adam Long 209 4 Patton Kizzire 216 5 Bronson Burgoon 257 6 Ryan Blaum 277 7 Jason Allred 307 8 Timothy Madigan 314 9 Steve Marino 316 10 Kelly Kraft 317 11 Roland Thatcher 334 12 Rob Oppenheim 347 13 Kevin Tway 350 T14 Rick Cochran III 352 T14 Dicky Pride 352 16 Brian Richey 353 17 Miguel Angel Carballo 370 18 Chase Wright 371 19 Dawie van der Walt 374 Canadian golfers 80 Brad Fritsch 571 131 Ted Brown 789
Eastern League Club PTS GP W L DC United 22 13 6 3 N. England 20 13 5 3 NY Red Bulls 17 11 4 2 Columbus 15 11 4 4 Toronto 13 10 4 5 Orlando 13 12 3 5 Philadelphia 12 13 3 7 Chicago 11 10 3 5 Montreal 8 7 2 3 NY City FC 7 12 1 7 Western League Club PTS GP W L Seattle 23 12 7 3 Dallas 21 12 6 3 Vancouver 20 13 6 5 Los Angeles 20 14 5 4 San Jose 18 12 5 4 Sporting KC 18 12 4 2 Salt Lake 17 13 4 4 Houston 16 13 4 5 Portland 16 13 4 5 Colorado 13 12 2 3 Yesterday’s results Colorado 0, Seattle 1 DC United 0, Portland 1 Salt Lake 0, Los Angeles 1
T 4 5 5 3 1 4 3 2 2 4
GF GA 14 11 18 16 14 11 17 14 14 14 14 15 13 21 11 14 9 10 9 16
T 2 3 2 5 3 6 5 4 4 7
GF GA 18 9 18 15 14 12 13 15 13 12 17 15 12 16 16 16 11 13 10 10
Friday, May 29 Dallas at Sporting KC, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 30 San Jose at Toronto, 2 p.m. Salt Lake at Vancouver, 3 p.m. Houston at NY City FC, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at DC United, 4 p.m. Columbus at Orlando, 4:30 p.m. Montreal at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. Portland at Colorado, 6 p.m.
English FA Cup Final, Saturday May 30 Wembley Stadium, 9:30 a.m. Arsenal v Aston Villa
UEFA Champions League Final Saturday, June 6 Olympiastadion, Berlin, 11:45 a.m. Juventus vs. Barcelona
Pacific Coast Soccer League Team Mid Isle Victoria Vancouver Tbirds Vancouver Utd Tim Hortons Khalsa Kamloops Abbotsford FC Tigers
W 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 0 0
D 1 4 2 2 0 1 1 3 2
L 1 1 0 0 4 0 2 1 4
GF GA Pts 10 7 10 12 10 10 9 4 8 7 2 8 11 19 6 3 0 4 7 10 4 5 6 3 11 17 2
Tuesday’s result Vancouver Tbirds 2,. Abbotsford 2 Saturday, May 30 Abbotsford vs. Mid Isle, 2:30 p.m. Kamloops vs. Victoria Highlanders, 6 p.m. Tim Hortons Pinnacles vs. Vancouver Thunderbirds, 7 p.m. Khalsa SC vs. Vancouver United, 8 p.m.
FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015, Canada, June 6-July 5 Defending champion: Japan Venues: Vancouver: BC Place, Capacity 54,500 Edmonton: Commonwealth Stadium Winnipeg: Winnipeg Stadium Ottawa: Lansdowne Stadium Montreal: Olympic Stadium Moncton: Moncton Stadium 24 Teams, with current FIFA world rank 1 Germany 2 United States 3 France 4 Japan 5 Sweden 6 England 7 Brazil 8 Canada 10 Australia 11 Norway 12 Netherlands 14 Spain 16 China 17 New Zealand 18 South Korea 19 Switzerland 25 Mexico 28 Colombia 29 Thailand 33 Nigeria 37 Costa Rica 48 Ecuador 53 Cameroon 67 Ivory Coast Preliminary round Saturday, June 6 Canada vs. China, 3 p.m. at Edmonton New Zealand vs. Netherlands, 6 p.m. at Edmonton Sunday, June 7 Norway vs. Thailand, 10 a.m. at Ottawa Germany vs. Ivory Coast, 1 p.m. at Ottawa Monday, June 8 Sweden vs. Nigeria, 1 p.m. at Winnipeg Cameroon vs. Ecuador, 4 p.m. at Vancouver United States vs. Australia, 4:30 p.m. at Winnipeg Japan vs. Switzerland, 7 p.m. at Vancouver
LACROSSE Western Lacrosse Assn WLA Senior A Standings GP W L Nanaimo 2 2 0 Burnaby 1 1 0 Coquitlam 0 0 0 New Westminster 1 1 0 Maple Ridge 1 0 1 Langley 1 0 1 Victoria 2 0 2 Yesterday’s result New Westminster 6, Langley 5
T Pts 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Today’s schedule Coquitlam at N.Westminster, 7:45 p.m. Friday, May 29 Burnaby at Victoria, 7:45 p.m. Saturday, May 30 Langley at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.
Irish Open, May 28 - 31 Royal County Down Golf Course, Newcastle, Northern Ireland. Par 71, 7,204 yards. Purse: $2,000,000. 2014 champion: Mikko Ilonen. Race to Dubai 2015 Golfer (Country) Points 1 Rory McIlroy (NIR) 2,665,169 2 Danny Willett (ENG) 1,742,406 3 Byeong Hun An (KOR) 1,121,706 4 Justin Rose (ENG) 1,037,717 5 Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 927,563 6 Branden Grace (RSA) 909,739 7 Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 897,027 8 Miguel Angel Jimenez (ESP) 873,590 9 Lahiri Anirban (IND) 823,389 10 Ross Fisher (ENG) 816,499 11 Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 786,204 12 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA) 776,981 13 Tommy Fleetwood (ENG) 749,815 14 George Coetzee (RSA) 685,300 15 David Howell (ENG) 646,321 16 Andy Sullivan (ENG) 626,282 17 Marc Warren (SCO) 601,811 18 Henrik Stenson (SWE) 573,207 19 Gary Stal (FRA) 567,096 20 Alex Noren (SWE) 558,502
Upcoming tournaments Next week’s schedule Canadian PGA Tour Bayview Place Island Savings Open presented by Times Colonist, June 4-7 Uplands Golf Club, Victoria. Par 70, 6,420 yards. Purse: $175,000.
PCT .532 .500 .477 .449 .447 PCT .609 .609 .583 .457 .455 PCT .625 .492 .500 .489 .347
GB Strk - W3 1.5 L5 2.5 W1 4.0 L1 4.0 L3 GB Strk - L4 - W5 1.0 W2 7.0 W1 7.0 W1 GB Strk - L1 6.0 L2 6.0 W3 6.5 L1 13.5 L2
PCT .596 .563 .489 .388 .375 PCT .660 .543 .522 .413 .333 PCT .622 .583 .468 .457 .422
GB Strk - W1 1.5 W3 5.0 L2 10.0 L4 10.5 L3 GB Strk - W4 5.5 L1 6.5 W6 11.5 L1 15.5 L5 GB Strk - W2 1.5 W3 7.0 W2 7.5 L3 9.0 W1
Yesterday’s results Cleveland 12, Texas 3 Colorado 6, Cincinnati 4 Pittsburgh 5, Miami 2 Chicago Sox 5, Toronto 3 NY Yankees 4, Kansas City 2 Minnesota 6, Boston 4 NY Mets 7, Philadelphia 0 Seattle 3, Tampa Bay 0 San Fran 3, Milwaukee 1 Detroit 3, Oakland 2 Baltimore 5, Houston 4 Washington 3, Chicago Cubs 0 St. Louis 4, Arizona 3 San Diego 5, L.A. Angels 4 Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers Today’s schedule with probable starters Chi. White Sox at Baltimore, 10:05 a.m. Sale (3-1) vs. Wright (1-0) Chi. White Sox at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m. Quintana (2-4) vs. Gonzalez (5-2) Boston at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Wright (1-1) vs. Martinez (3-0) N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Sabathia (2-5) vs. Graveman (1-2) Detroit at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m. Lobstein (3-4) vs. Wilson (2-2) Pittsburgh at San Diego, 7:10 p.m. Burnett (3-1) vs. Kennedy (2-3) Cleveland at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Kluber (1-5) vs. Paxton (2-2) Atlanta at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. Miller (5-1) vs. Heston (3-3)
Mariners 3, Rays 0 Seattle
Jackson CF Smith RF Cano 2B Cruz DH Seager 3B Morrison 1B Miller SS-RF Ackley LF Zunino C Totals
Tampa Bay
ab r h bi ab r h bi 4 0 0 0 Kiermaier CF 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 Beckham 2B 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 Butler DH 4 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 Longoria 3B 3 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 DeJesus OF 3 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 Forsythe 1B 3 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 Franklin SS 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 Elmore 2B-LF 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 Guyer RF-CF 3 0 1 0 30 2 3 3 Rivera C 1010 Cabrera PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 26 0 4 0
Seattle 000 000 003 3 Tampa Bay 000 000 000 0 2B: SEA Smith, S (10, Archer). GIDP: TB Elmore, Kiermaier, Franklin, Butler, Jy. HR: SEA Cruz, N (18, 9th inning off Boxberger, 2 on, 2 out). S: TB Rivera, R. Team Lob: SEA 2; TB 2. DP: SEA 4 (Seager-Cano-Morrison, Miller, B-Morrison, Cano-Miller, B-Morrison, Cano-Morrison). Seattle IP H R ER BB SO F Hernandez (W, 8-1) 9.0 4 0 0 1 8 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO C Archer 8.0 2 0 0 0 12 B Boxberger (L, 2-3) 1.0 1 3 3 2 2 Time: 2:13. Att: 10,365.
White Sox 5, Blue Jays 3 (10 innings) Chicago Sox
Toronto
ab r h bi ab r h bi Eaton CF 5 1 2 0 Reyes SS 5020 Cabrera LF 5 0 1 0 Donaldson 3B4 1 1 2 Abreu 1B 5 1 3 2 Bautista DH 5 0 1 0 LaRoche DH 4 1 2 1 Enc’acion 1B 5 0 0 0 Ramirez SS 5 0 0 0 Martin C-2B 5 1 2 0 Shuck RF 5 0 2 1 Colabello LF 5 0 3 0 Beckham 3B 5 0 2 1 Carrera RF 3 0 1 0 Soto C 5 0 1 0 Smoak PH 1 0 1 1 Sanchez 2B 4 1 1 0 Pillar CF 4110 Totals 43 4 14 5 Goins 2B 3 0 1 0 Valencia RF 2 0 0 0 Totals 42 3 13 3
Chicago Sox 002 001 000 2 5 Toronto 000 000 111 0 3 SB: CWS Shuck (2, 2nd base off Estrada/Martin, R). 2B: CWS Abreu (8, Estrada), Beckham, G (4, Osuna); TOR Reyes (6, Samardzija). 3B: CWS Abreu (2, Osuna). HR: TOR Donaldson (13, 9th inning off Robertson, D, 0 on, 1 out). Team Lob: CWS 9; TOR 12. E: TOR Encarnacion (1, throw). PICKOFFS: TOR Martin, R (Abreu at 2nd base). Chicago Sox IP H R ER BB SO J Samardzija 7.0 8 1 0 1 5 J Petricka 0.1 2 1 1 0 0 S Putnam 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 Z Duke 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 D Robertson (W, 4-1) 2.0 2 1 1 1 2 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO M Estrada 7.0 8 3 3 0 2 A Loup 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 B Cecil 1.0 2 0 0 0 1 R Osuna (L, 1-1) 1.0 3 2 2 0 1 HBP: LaRoche (by Estrada). Time: 3:31. Att: 15,463.
Nationals 3, Cubs 0 BC Junior A Lacrosse League
European Tour
American League East W L NY Yankees 25 22 Tampa Bay 24 24 Baltimore 21 23 Toronto 22 27 Boston 21 26 Central W L Kansas City 28 18 Minnesota 28 18 Detroit 28 20 Cleveland 21 25 Chicago Sox 20 24 West W L Houston 30 18 LA Angels 23 24 Seattle 23 23 Texas 23 24 Oakland 17 32 National League East W L Washington 28 19 NY Mets 27 21 Atlanta 22 23 Philadelphia 19 30 Miami 18 30 Central W L St. Louis 31 16 Chicago Cubs 25 21 Pittsburgh 24 22 Cincinnati 19 27 Milwaukee 16 32 West W L LA Dodgers 28 17 San Francisco 28 20 San Diego 23 25 Arizona 21 25 Colorado 19 26
Kansas City
Standings GP Coquitlam 9 Delta 9 Victoria 9 New Westminster 7 Nanaimo 7 Langley 9 Port Coquitlam 9 Burnaby 9 Yesterday’s result Coquitlam 13, Delta 8
W 8 7 6 4 3 2 2 1
L 1 2 3 3 4 6 6 8
T 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Pts 16 14 12 8 6 5 5 2
Friday, May 29 Burnaby at Port Coquitlam, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 30 New Westminster at Victoria, 5 p.m. Langley at Delta, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 31 Delta at Nanaimo, 4 p.m. Victoria at Burnaby, 5 p.m.
National Lacrosse League Champion’s Cup Finals Game 1: Saturday, May 30, 4 p.m., Air Canada Centre Edmonton Rush (15-6) at Toronto Rock (16-5) Game 2 Friday, June 5, 6:30 p.m., Rexall Place Toronto at Edmonton Game 3 (if necessary): Saturday, June 13, 4 p.m. Edmonton at Toronto
Washington
Chicago Cubs
ab r h bi ab r h bi Span CF 5 0 2 0 Coghlan LF 3 0 0 0 Desmond SS 5 0 3 0 Soler PH-RF 1 0 1 0 Escobar 3B 5 1 1 0 Rizzo 1B 3010 Harper RF 3 1 1 1 Bryant 3B 3 0 0 0 Zim’man 1B 4 0 0 0 Fowler CF 3 0 0 0 Ramos C 3 0 0 0 Castro SS 4 0 2 0 Uggla 2B 4 0 0 0 Lake RF-LF 4 0 1 0 Moore LF 3 0 0 0 Ross C 2000 Taylor LF 1 0 0 0 Montero C 2 0 0 0 Scherzer P 3 0 1 0 Lester P 2000 Espinosa 2B 1 1 1 1 Baxter PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 37 3 9 2 Herrera PH 1 0 1 0 Russell 2B 4 0 1 0 Totals 33 0 7 0
Washington 000 101 001 3 Chicago Cubs 000 000 000 0 SB: CHC Lake (2, 3rd base off Scherzer/ Ramos, W). 2B: WSH Desmond 2 (16, Lester, Lester); CHC Lake (2, Scherzer), Soler (12, Grace). GIDP: WSH Span. HR: WSH Harper (18, 6th inning off Lester, 0 on, 0 out), Espinosa (6, 9th inning off Wood, T, 0 on, 1 out). S: CHC Fowler. Team Lob: WSH 10; CHC 9. DP: CHC (Russell, A-Castro, S-Rizzo). E: CHC Russell, A (7, throw), Castro, S 2 (11, fielding, fielding). Washington IP H R ER BB SO M Scherzer (W, 6-3) 7.0 5 0 0 1 13 M Grace 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 R Janssen 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 D Storen 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO J Lester (L, 4-3) 7.0 7 2 1 2 10 J Russell 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 J Motte 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 T Wood 1.0 2 1 1 0 2 HBP: Rizzo (by Grace). Time: 3:00. Att: 34,215.
NY Yankees
Kansas City 100 000 010 2 NY Yankees 013 000 00x 4 SB: KC Cain, L (8, 2nd base off Betances/McCann, B). 2B: KC Orlando (3, Pineda); NYY Headley (7, Young, Cr), Gardner (9, Young, Cr). HR: KC Moustakas (5, 1st inning off Pineda, 0 on, 1 out); NYY McCann, B (6, 2nd inning off Young, Cr, 0 on, 0 out), Rodriguez, A (11, 3rd inning off Young, Cr, 2 on, 0 out). Team Lob: KC 8; NYY 8. E: NYY Gregorius (6, throw). Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO C Young (L, 4-1) 6.0 7 4 4 2 7 R Madson 1.0 2 0 0 1 1 F Morales 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SO M Pineda (W, 6-2) 6.2 6 1 1 1 8 D Carpenter 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 J Wilson 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 D Betances 1.0 1 1 0 1 3 A Miller 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 Time: 2:42. Att: 32,734.
Indians 12, Rangers 3 Texas
Cleveland
ab r h bi ab r h bi DeShields 2B 4 0 0 0 Kipnis 2B 5 2 3 0 Choo RF 4 1 2 0 Santana 1B 3 2 1 3 Fielder DH 4 0 1 0 Brantley LF 2 1 2 1 Beltre 3B 3 0 1 0 Ramirez SS 1 0 0 0 Martin CF 1 1 1 2 Murphy RF 5 1 1 1 Moreland 1B 4 0 1 0 Swisher DH 5 1 2 1 Andrus SS 2 0 0 0 Chisenhall 3B5 2 3 3 Rosales 2B-3B2 0 0 0 Aviles SS-LF 5 1 1 0 Chirinos C 2 1 1 1 Bourn CF 5 1 3 2 Field 2B-SS 3 0 0 0 Perez C 4111 Totals 29 3 7 3 Totals 40121712
Texas 000 010 002 3 Cleveland 028 110 00x 12 SB: CLE Bourn (4, 2nd base off Lewis/ Chirinos). 2B: TEX Beltre (8, Carrasco); CLE Brantley (17, Lewis), Chisenhall (9, Lewis), Kipnis (14, Lewis). 3B: CLE Kipnis (4, Bass). GIDP: TEX Fielder. HR: TEX Chirinos (5, 5th inning off Carrasco, 0 on, 1 out), Martin, L (3, 9th inning off Atchison, 1 on, 1 out); CLE Swisher (2, 2nd inning off Lewis, 0 on, 0 out), Santana, C (6, 3rd inning off Lewis, 2 on, 2 out), Chisenhall (4, 4th inning off Bass, 0 on, 1 out). Team Lob: TEX 4; CLE 8. DP: CLE (Kipnis-AvilesSantana, C). E: TEX Field (3, throw). Texas IP H R ER BB SO C Lewis (L, 4-3) 2.211 10 9 1 2 A Bass 4.1 5 2 2 2 2 J Edwards 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO C Carrasco (W, 6-4) 8.0 5 1 1 1 8 S Atchison 1.0 3 2 2 0 1 Time: 2:47. Att: 15,956.
Twins 6, Red Sox 4 Boston
Minnesota
ab r h bi ab r h bi Pedroia 2B 4 2 2 4 Dozier 2B 3 1 0 0 Betts CF 4 0 1 0 Hunter RF 4 0 1 2 Sandoval 3B 4 0 1 0 Mauer 1B 4 0 2 1 Ramirez LF 3 0 0 0 Plouffe 3B 4 0 0 0 Ortiz DH 4 0 0 0 Escobar DH 3 0 1 0 Napoli 1B 4 0 0 0 Rosario LF 3 1 1 1 Bogaerts SS 4 0 0 0 Herrmann C 3 1 1 0 Holt RF 4 1 2 0 Hicks CF 2212 Swihart C 3 1 1 0 Santana SS 3 1 1 0 Totals 34 4 7 4 Totals 29 6 8 6
Boston 002 020 000 4 Minnesota 003 201 00x 6 SB: BOS Betts (6, 2nd base off Hughes, P/Herrmann). 2B: BOS Holt, B (8, Hughes, P). GIDP: MIN Plouffe 2. HR: BOS Pedroia 2 (7, 3rd inning off Hughes, P, 1 on, 1 out; 5th inning off Hughes, P, 1 on, 2 out); MIN Hicks, A (1, 4th inning off Porcello, 1 on, 2 out), Rosario, E (2, 6th inning off Porcello, 0 on, 2 out). Team Lob: BOS 4; MIN 1. DP: BOS 2 (Bogaerts-Pedroia-Napoli, Pedroia-Bogaerts-Napoli). Boston IP H R ER BB SO F Porcello (L, 4-4) 7.0 7 6 6 2 2 J Tazawa 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO P Hughes (W, 4-4) 6.2 6 4 4 0 3 B Duensing 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 T Pressly 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 A Thompson 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 M Tonkin 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 G Perkins 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 Time: 2:29. Att: 30,027.
Giants 3, Brewers 1 San Francisco
Milwaukee
ab r h bi ab r h bi Aoki LF 5 1 2 0 Gomez CF 4 0 1 0 Panik 2B 4 1 2 2 Davis LF 4020 Pence RF 4 0 0 0 Braun RF 4 0 0 0 Posey C 4 0 1 0 Lind 1B 4110 Belt 1B 4 0 1 0 Ramirez 3B 4 0 1 0 Crawford SS 4 0 0 0 Herrera 2B 3 0 1 1 Pagan CF 4 1 2 0 Maldonado C 3 0 0 0 Duffy 3B 3 0 1 0 Fiers P 1000 Vogelsong P 3 0 0 0 Gomez PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 35 3 9 2 Parra PH 1000 Sardinas SS 3 0 0 0 Totals 32 1 6 1
San Francisco 000 020 001 3 Milwaukee 000 100 000 1 2B: SF Belt (14, Fiers), Pagan (8, Rodriguez, F). 3B: MIL Davis, K 2 (2, Vogelsong, Vogelsong). GIDP: MIL Ramirez, Ar. HR: SF Panik (3, 5th inning off Fiers, 1 on, 0 out). Team Lob: SF 7; MIL 4. DP: SF (Crawford, B-Panik-Belt). San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO R Vogelsong (W, 4-2) 6.0 6 1 1 0 5 H Strickland 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 S Romo 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 S Casilla 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO M Fiers (L, 1-5) 5.0 8 2 2 0 6 M Blazek 2.0 0 0 0 0 3 J Broxton 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 F Rodriguez 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 Time: 3:00. Att: 35,208. Detroit 000 030 000 3 9 0 Oakland 000 000 110 2 6 0 W: K. Ryan (1-0) L: D. Otero (2-3) S: J. Soria (15) HR: DET- Y. Cespedes (6) OAK - None Colorado 320 010 000 6 10 0 Cincinnati 100 000 030 4 6 0 W: K. Kendrick (2-6) L: M. Leake (2-4) S: J. Axford (8) HR: COL - N. Arenado (10), C. Blackmon (7) CIN- T. Frazier (14), T. Barnhart (3) Miami 010 000 100 2 9 0 Pittsburgh 000 000 50x 5 11 1 W: G. Cole (7-2) L: S. Dyson (2-2) S: M. Melancon (12) HR: MIA- J. Bour (3), C. Yelich (2) PIT - None
B.C. Premier League Team North Delta North Shore Vic Eagles Langley Okanagan Nanaimo Whalley Abbotsford Coquitlam Vic Mariners Parksville White Rock
W 11 14 17 15 16 15 10 8 7 5 4 5
L 2 3 7 7 8 11 13 15 17 13 12 19
Pct GB .846 .824 1 .708 .5 .682 .5 .667 .5 .577 2.5 .435 6 .348 8 .292 9.5 .278 8.5 .250 8.5 .208 11.5
Saturday, May 30 Parksville at Whalley, 1 p.m. Parksville at Whalley, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 31 North Delta at Coquitlam, 11 a.m. North Delta at Coquitlam, 1:30 p.m.
DIVERSIONS ARCTIC CIRCLE
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015 | DAILY NEWS |
B5
BRIDGE
WORD FIND
A Push Dealer: North N-S vulnerable NORTH ♠72 ♥J6543 ♦632 ♣KJ5 WEST EAST ♠KJ10963 ♠Q85 ♥Q ♥ ♦A5 ♦KJ984 ♣Q843 ♣109762 SOUTH ♠A4 ♥AK109872 ♦Q107 ♣A W N E S Pass Pass 1♥ 1♠ 3♥* 3♠ 4♥ 4♠ Pass Pass 5♥ All Pass * weak Opening Lead: ♠J
SHERMAN’S LAGOON
S
ZITS
ANDY CAPP
SOLUTION: IT’S JUST FUN TO PLAY IT
CRYPTOQUOTE CRANKSHAFT
outh won the spade ace, unblocked the club ace, drew trump with the king and continued with the heart ten to dummy’s jack. A spade was discarded on the king of clubs and a diamond was led to the ten and ace. The spade return was ruffed with the nine and dummy was entered by playing the carefully preserved heart deuce. A diamond was advanced towards the closed hand resulting in eleven tricks, N-S +650. West could have scored a ruff by starting with the ace of diamonds, restricting declarer to ten tricks, but there was no legitimate reason to do so. A spade contract fares well since West cannot lose more than three clubs and the ace of spades. The play would be interesting when North begins with a heart ruffed in dummy. West follows with the top diamonds and a ruff establishing the suit. When West continues with a trump to the queen, South must duck or declarer will emerge with ten tricks due to the club blockage. North’s double raise was preemptive and South was not about to defend four spades with such offensive potential. A more interesting question is what he would do when West ventures five spades? 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.
BABY BLUES
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
CROSSWORD PSEUDO-CHEMISTRY
HI AND LOIS
BLONDIE
BC
ACROSS 1 Flour-water mixture 6 Scout uniform part 10 Took off on 14 Prove useful 15 Nobel Peace Center site 16 Flowing rock 17 Academic conference 19 WC Fields oath 20 Do a shop chore 21 Mark again 23 Cardinal point 25 Country singer LeAnn 26 Apple processing plant 30 Esoteric 33 Fields of study 34 Hate the thought of 35 Thing to hail 38 __-edged (top-quality) 39 Operetta composer 40 Folder’s contents 41 Psychic ability 42 Known as 43 Bring about 44 Type of sweatshirt 46 Witticism 47 Low-pH compounds 49 Light source 51 Most outlandish 54 Capitol hall 59 Topaz author 60 Theater arch 62 Lopsided victory 63 Prefix for dynamic 64 Hygienist’s request 65 National Mall flora 66 Emerging adult 67 Rotisserie league concerns DOWN 1 Lobbying orgs. 2 State solemnly 3 BOGO event 4 Word-game piece 5 Ones who fled to wed
PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED
6 Diner selections 7 “Just __ thought!” 8 Sling mud at 9 iPhone button 10 Magnificent Desolation author 11 Kind of protozoan 12 Get out of 13 Steps out with 18 Wharf 22 Gown returner 24 North Carolinian
26 Hamster home 27 Camera part 28 Garden flower 29 Dig in 31 Deciphered 32 Monopoly token 34 Singer Lovato 36 “One more thing . . .” 37 Veggie in V8 39 Little shaver 40 Devotee 42 Wine’s aroma 43 Police vehicles 45 Rhapsodic poets 46 University VIP 47 Blue hue 48 Christmas concert selection 50 Property crime 52 Minor tiff 53 Trap, in a way 55 Part of BTU 56 Singer Simone 57 Attic accumulation 58 Corn Belt city 61 Grist for some mills
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CLASSIFIEDS
CLASSIFIEDS/SPORTS
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015 | NANAIMO DAILY NEWS |
SOCCER
Manchester City scores late to edge Toronto FC 1-0 in exhibiton at BMO NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — George Evans scored from distance in the 85th minute to lift Manchester City to a 1-0 win over Toronto FC in a soccer friendly Wednesday night. The 20-year-old substitute midfielder, a member of City’s Elite Development Squad, found the top corner with an exquisite shot from outside the penalty box. Up until then, it looked like Toronto, sparked by its youngsters in the second half, would hold the England powerhouse to a scoreless draw. Bright Dike had a chance to tie it in stoppage time but headed wide. Toronto had spent much of the first half chasing the slick-passing tourists as the Canadian women’s national team looked on from one corner of BMO Field. The women got a rousing ovation from the announced crowd of 23,169 when they came onto the field to take a bow at halftime. Star striker Sergio Aguero, who led the English Premier League in scoring this season and reportedly makes more than US$300,000 a week, came off the bench to loud cheers to start the second half. Argentine international Pablo Zabaleta also joined the fray. The home side countered by introducing Jonathan Osorio, Warren Creavalle and three players from Toronto FC 2. And it was Toronto teenager Jordan Hamilton who came close when he sent a shot just wide after a fine run into the box was spotted by Manny Aparicio in the 55th minute. The 19-yearold Hamilton came close again 10 minutes later, forcing goalie Willy Caballero to palm the ball away. The younger version of Toronto FC gave a good account of itself as Man City emptied its bench. Aguero had his chances but could not convert and pleaded
Manchester City midfielder Jesus Navas (15) heads the ball past Toronto FC midfielder Daniel Lovitz (19) during second half international club friendly soccer action in Toronto on Wednesday. [CP PHOTO]
unsuccessfully for a penalty when he went down in the 78th minute as a rainbow appeared above the East Stand. David Silva’s hard, close-range shot was stopped by Toronto goalkeeper Alex Bono’s face in the 75th minute, causing the crowd to cringe when the play was shown on the big screen. A minute late, the 19-year-old Aparicio hit the post with a volley off a Jackson feed. At the other end, Nick Hagglund then made a key block. Toronto fielded a strong lineup, at least to start with. Regulars Michael Bradley, Sebastian Giovinco, Benoit Cheyrou, Justin Morrow, Ashtone Morgan and Hagglund started with goalie Joe Bendik returning after a six-game absence due to a foot injury. Giovinco, who came into the game nursing a bruised heel, exited in the 28th minute — to boos from fans who presumably
wanted to see more. Bendik gave way to Bono at the same time, moments after a diving save on David Silva The City starting 11 featured three players — Yaya Toure, Aleksandar Kolarov and Silva — who started in Sunday’s Premier League finale, a 2-0 win over Southampton. Six other City starters Wednesday were on the bench Sunday. They played “God Save the Queen” before the game but the only British starter was Toronto striker Luke Moore. City brought eight members of its Elite Development Squad on tour with 20-year-old French midfielder Seko Fofana starting and the other seven on the 12-man bench. Fofana was loaned to Fulham this season. Silva and Edin Dzeko both fired just wide in the first half as Man City played keepaway against the hosts. One City corner followed a
sequence of two dozen passes. “Little to report in the way of action but Blues largely dominated proceedings,” the official Man City Twitter account correctly surmised. City, which finished runner-up to Chelsea this season with a 24-7-7 record, plays in Houston on Thursday night before wrapping up its tour in New York on Saturday to see sister club New York City FC play the Dynamo. There has been speculation that the flooding in Texas may impact the game Thursday. City players have had a more relaxing time in Toronto since arriving Monday. Aguero tweeted a photo of himself with Will Smith on the Toronto set of “Suicide Squad.” Milner and goalkeepers Hart and Richard Wright visited the Rogers Centre, chatting with Jose Bautista, touring the Jays’ locker-room and trying their hand in the batting cage.
SOCCER
Women’s World Cup sponsors in tight spot IAN BICKIS THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — Corruption allegations against senior FIFA officials have put sponsors of the upcoming Women’s World Cup in Canada in a tight spot, says a sports marketing expert. With less than two weeks to go until the tournament starts, national sponsors including Bell Canada, Labatt Breweries of Canada and Trend Micro have little choice but to go on with the show, says Vijay Setlur, an adjunct sport marketing professor at York University in Toronto. “Those deals are already in
place, the money has already changed hands so to speak,” Setlur said Wednesday. “So if anything, brands are probably trying to figure out how they can ensure these associations with corruption don’t tarnish their own brand.” Setlur says that with it being this close to the women’s World Cup, which starts June 6 in Edmonton, brands will have to try to keep the message about soccer, not FIFA. “At this stage it’s more about emphasizing their own values as a brand, what soccer means to them, but also what soccer means to the communities that it
serves,” he said. “About teamwork and camaraderie, and fair play, and health and fitness and all those more positive associations.” Federal Sports Minister Bal Gosal tried to downplay any repercussions, saying the allegations won’t tarnish the upcoming tournament. All three of the tournament’s national sponsors did not return interview requests. But Bell’s vice-president of corporate marketing sent a statement saying the company supports the competition and its fans, adding that its sponsorship relationship is specific to the
Canadian tournament. “We encourage FIFA to continue to establish and follow transparent compliance standards in everything they do,” Loring Phinney said. International brands with more long-term contracts with FIFA have also responded to the scandal. “This lengthy controversy has tarnished the mission and ideals of the FIFA World Cup and we have repeatedly expressed our concerns about these serious allegations,” Coca-Cola said in a statement. “We expect FIFA to continue to address these issues thoroughly.”
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Former FIFA executive had Canada role NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — Jack Warner, charged in a U.S. Department of Justice indictment that led to a wave of FIFA-related corruption arrests Wednesday, has played a key hand in Canadian soccer over the years. The native of Trinidad and Tobago was president of CONCACAF — which covers North and Central America and the Caribbean — from 1990 to 2011 and was a key power broker as FIFA vice-president. He resigned under a cloud from FIFA, CONCACAF and his national association in 2011, which according to FIFA rules at the time ended all ethics committee cases against him. Warner was a good friend to have in world soccer. Kevan Pipe, former chief operating officer of the Canadian Soccer Association, credited Warner for helping land the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was tied to the building of BMO Field. “None of this would have happened without the complete, committed support of Jack Warner, who really went — in my estimation — above and beyond in his support for Canada to get this thing done,” Pipe said in a 2007 interview. “It all boiled down to if we didn’t build this stadium, this championship wouldn’t have come. And none of this would have occurred without the political support that we had from Day 1 from Jack Warner.” The success of FIFA’s inaugural women’s under-19 tournament in 2002 in Canada prompted the CSA to look for other targets. On Aug. 31, 2002, the night before the U-19 women’s final in Edmonton, the CSA hosted a dinner with Warner, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, then deputy prime minister Anne McLellan and secretary of state Paul Devillers among others. The CSA used the occasion of McLellan’s birthday to float the idea of a FIFA U-20 World Cup bid, linked with the construction of a national soccer stadium in Toronto and an MLS franchise as the ”anchor tenant” to help pay the bills. In 2004, it was Warner who gave Pipe the news that Canada had won the right to host the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, in a 3:30 a.m. phone call from FIFA headquarters in Zurich. Four years earlier, Warner was not so kind towards Canada. In a remarkable September 2000 interview in his Port-of-Spain office, Warner showed his he couldn’t wait to see Canada lose to his native Trinidad and Tobago in an upcoming World Cup qualifying match. “I’ll take extreme pleasure,” he said. “Not special (pleasure), special is too mild. I wear the CONCACAF hat, but (Sunday) I won’t.” Warner said Canada hadn’t deserved to win the CONCACAF championship.
SPORTS/DIVERSIONS
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TENNIS
Bouchard’s slump continues with first-round elimination in Paris THE CANADIAN PRESS
PARIS — Eugenie Bouchard says she hasn’t been feeling like herself lately. That’s an understatement, judging by her recent results on the court. The Canadian tennis star continued her disappointing season Tuesday at the French Open, as the sixth-seed was stunned 6-4, 6-4, by France’s Kristina Mladenovic in the first round. Bouchard has lost eight of her last nine matches combined on the WTA Tour and in Fed Cup play, and most of the defeats have been to players well below her in the WTA rankings. “Honestly I don’t know what to say. It’s been kind of the same as how I’ve been feeling recently on the court. Just not like myself,” Bouchard said after the loss to Mladenovic. “It’s just a tennis match and I need to not worry too much. Life is still good. Everyone has highs and lows in their career, and this is a little bit of a low point for me.” Tuesday’s loss ended is disastrous clay-court season for Bouchard. She managed just one win in four tournaments, beating No. 34 Zarina Diyas earlier this month at the Italian Open before falling in the third round in a hard-fought match against No. 10 Carla Suarez Navarro. The results in Rome seemed to indicate Bouchard was coming out of a tailspin that saw her lose to the likes of Tatjana Maria (ranked 113th in the world), Lesia Tsurenko (85th) and Lauren Davis (66th). Yet the native of Westmount, Que., came out flat against Mladenovic on Monday en route to losing a first-round Grand Slam match for the first time in her career. “I felt a bit better in Rome, so I think that just makes it more disappointing to have a performance like today,” Bouchard said. “I feel like it’s been a while since this has been happening. It’s unfortunate, but I’m sure one day it will stop.”
Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard returns the ball to France’s Kristina Mladenovic during their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]
Bouchard’s slide includes a pair of singles losses at last month’s Fed Cup tie between Canada and Romania in front of a partisan crowd in Montreal. She refused to shake the hand of opponent Alexandra Dulgheru in a pre-match ceremony, a breach of etiquette that caused a media buzz and showed her off-court image is also suffering through this downturn. In spite of the recent negativity, there were a few positives for Bouchard from Monday’s match. In the first set she saved match point four times before finally losing when her volley went long in the 10th game Bouchard also showed some fight in the second set, battling back from 5-0 down by winning four games in a row. But her comeback started too far too late. “I felt I was in the match, but tennis-wise I know I was still
far off from how I can play,” she said. “I felt like I couldn’t be as relaxed as I wanted to on the court. “It’s important to try to move on quickly. Every Monday there’s a new chance, so I’m going to try to forget this one.” Bouchard reached the semifinal at Roland Garros last year in a breakout season that also saw her advance to the Wimbledon final and the semifinals at the Australian Open. This year has been the complete opposite for Bouchard, who has struggled after reaching the quarter-finals at the Australian Open. The normally competitive Bouchard said she had no expectations at this year’s French Open, and won’t put pressure on herself as she starts the grass season and prepares for another run at Wimbledon.
“At this point I had no expectations going in, and I have no expectations for the foreseeable future. I’m going to try to slowly work my way back up.” Mladenovic has a Canadian connection, as she often pairs with Toronto’s Daniel Nestor in mixed doubles. The duo will compete this week in Paris. Earlier, Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil was eliminated after a first-round loss to Joao Sousa of Portugal. The 53rd-ranked Canadian fell in straight sets 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-1. Pospisil committed 45 unforced errors to Sousa’s 16. The 50th-ranked Sousa converted seven of 14 break chances while Pospisil was 2-for-5. Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., Canada’s top male singles player, is missing the tournament after recent surgery on his foot.
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Canadian Olympian Jessica Smith looks to cement place on team for Pan Am Games JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — Whenever she needs motivation, Jessica Smith turns on highlights of the 2012 Harry Jerome International Track Classic. The 800-metre runner needed a time below Canada’s Olympic standard of one minute 59.90 seconds at the event three years ago to qualify for the London Games later that summer. The official broadcast of the race is nice, but it’s another version that really gets her competitive juices flowing. “My family members took a video from the crowd,” said Smith, who would run what remains a personal best time of 1:59.86 to qualify for her first Olympics. “That moment, just hearing their excitement, their enthusiasm cheering me on ... that’s a moment that I don’t usually hear. “Watching that just makes me
run harder and makes me proud to represent my family and the country.” The North Vancouver, B.C., native will be looking for a repeat performance, or close to it, when she competes at this year’s Harry Jerome taking place on June 8. The meet at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, B.C., is one of the last events for athletes hoping to qualify for Canada’s team at this summer’s Pan Am Games in Toronto. The top two Canadians in each track and field discipline as of the June 14 cutoff date will earn a spot, and the 25-year-old Smith currently occupies the second position in the women’s 800 metres with a top time in 2015 of 2:02.82. Montreal’s Karine Belleau-Beliveau has the year’s best time 2:02.49, while Melissa Bishop of Eganville, Ont. — who has been injured this season but like
Smith competed in London — will also be in the mix if she can get healthy. Belleau-Beliveau and Bishop are both expected at the Harry Jerome. “We don’t know what to expect from (Bishop), but obviously she’s not my only competition,” Smith said Tuesday at a press conference promoting this year’s meet. “I’ve got plenty of girls that are right on my heels. I’m just looking to go out there and compete with the best. “In Canada right now there’s eight ladies that are completely capable of running the time.” A number of other track and field events will take place at this year’s Harry Jerome, which includes Canadian athletes as well as international competitors. Smith finished 22nd at the London Games and would love the opportunity to compete on home soil this summer.
“It would just be unbelievable to have Canadians come together as a whole and just have that support across Canada to be one as a team in your own country,” she said. “It’s just a remarkable experience and you can only hope that you’ll perform at your best and you’re going to go out and make Canadians proud.” But Smith — who will compete in Victoria on June 10, and another race somewhere else if she needs to in order to qualify for the Pan Ams — knows there’s still lots of work to do to make that a reality. “It’s going to come down to the wire,” she said. “There’s been other teams where people have been bumped out on the final day. “That can always happen. It’s out of your control. All you can (control) is what you do on the track. You leave everything else behind.”
Sam signing a historic moment DONNA SPENCER THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — Brian Burke believes the Montreal Alouettes signing football’s first openly gay player is a tipping point in pro sport. The Calgary Flames president of hockey operations, who co-founded You Can Play in memory of his late son and who will also be grand marshal of this year’s Pride Parade in Calgary, says the arrival of Michael Sam in the Canadian Football League will be a watershed moment in sport history. “I think it’s huge,” Burke told The Canadian Press on Tuesday. “To me, this is one of those 20, 30, 40 years from now, people will look back and say ’remember when Michael Sam signed with the Alouettes?’ “We know we have gay athletes in all sports. I think other gay athletes are going to see the reception that Michael Sam gets and how wonderful it’s going to be for him. “You get some idiots on the Internet. You always do. But instead of a hostile environment, he’ll see that intelligent and enlightened people welcome him in this role in Canada and wish him luck.” Burke co-founded You Can Play, an organization to eliminate homophobia in sport, following the death of his gay son Brendan in a car accident in 2010. Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish, who has two moms and is a spokesperson for You Can Play, acknowledges football locker-rooms are conservative. Montreal Alouettes wide receiver Arland Bruce, Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive tackle Bryant Turner Jr., and former Stampeder receiver Maurice Price were all fined by the CFL in early 2014 for homophobic tweets. Cornish says Sam’s participation in the league can change those attitudes. “Attitudes only change when you see something up close,” Cornish said. “It’s easy to have an attitude about something when it’s far away. ‘Gay people over there? I won’t be down with that,’ but when it’s a family member or a teammate, suddenly it’s ’this guy is a cool dude. There’s nothing wrong with what he’s doing.”’ High-profile athletes such as rugby player Gareth Thomas and Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe came out after retirement. NBA player Jason Collins was the first pro athlete of the Big Four — NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL — to come out while an active player, which he did 18 months before retiring last November. Sam came out at the end of his college career. He was the first openly gay football player to be drafted into the NFL last year. The St. Louis Rams cut him at the end of training camp and he spent some time on the practice roster of the Dallas Cowboys. The Alouettes signed the 25-year-old to a contract and introduced him to Montreal media Tuesday. “This is a big day,” Burke said. “I watched the press conference. I thought he pulled it off beautifully. “The perception would be of all the sports, (football is) probably the most macho, probably the last place you’d expect a player to come out. I think what Michael Sam has done is courageous. I think what the Montreal Alouettes have done to sign him and give him an opportunity is courageous.”
You must respect any decision Dad can make Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: My father was in prison for my entire childhood. I am now 23 and have managed to build a good relationship with him since he was released two years ago. Recently, Dad became very ill and stopped breathing. He was on life support for a week. Because I am his closest relative, I am in charge of his health care. I was told the damage was too severe and he would never
recover. They expect him to die within weeks. When Dad woke up, I was given the option of making him “comfortable” with medicine that would eventually stop his breathing. I want Dad to be happy in his last days, so I asked him what he wanted. He said he wanted to live with me, so I brought him home, and he is in hospice care. Now his brothers are furious that I didn’t put him in a nursing home. They think he would get rehab there and be able to live a normal life again. When my father was incarcerated, no one in his family made any effort to be in my life. Dad told his brothers that he is prepared to die and wants to spend his last days with his daughter and his grandchildren. Plus, a nursing home won’t treat him if
he refuses treatment, and it isn’t likely to help him in any event. He suffered terrible brain damage when he stopped breathing. But, Annie, his brothers are making my life terribly stressful. I have tried to explain to them that they can’t make him fight this battle, and sadly, they cannot fight it for him. I feel so overwhelmed. I am thinking of forcing Dad to go to a nursing home so his brothers will know he had every chance. But if he dies there (and he probably would), I will hate myself for not letting him live his remaining days the way he wants. I don’t want to regret this decision forever. What do I do? — Your Happiness or His? Dear Happiness: As long as your father is capable of making this decision, please respect him
enough to allow it. His brothers feel helpless, and that is why they are badgering you to put him in a nursing home. We urge you to have Dad’s doctors and someone from hospice speak to your uncles directly and explain the situation so they will understand more clearly what is at stake. Our condolences. Dear Annie: May I add to the comments on chewing gum during exercise class and sports activities? When I was a senior, in 1959, I attended a high school faculty-senior basketball game in front of the entire student body. Our wrestling coach ran up the court and suddenly stopped and dropped to his knees. Everyone, including the other coaches, thought he was having a heart
attack. He lay there and died. I wrestled for four years under his coaching. We later found out he had been chewing gum and it got stuck in his windpipe, and that’s what killed him. It was one of the saddest days in the school’s history. True story. I can’t say it more strongly: No gum chewing during sports. — Still Sad Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ AskAnnies.
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THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015 | NANAIMO DAILY NEWS |
HOROSCOPE by Jacqueline Bigar
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Follow someone else’s lead, even if he or she suggests something that confuses you. You will gain clarity quickly. News from a distance will make you feel very cared about. Know what you need to do to push a project to the finish line. Tonight: Just say “yes” to an invitation.
you know, and add enthusiasm to your interactions. Tonight: Cheer up a loved one.
to meet. Your ingenuity can’t be tamed. Tonight: Schedule some downtime.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) You’ll be coming from an anchored point of view, but getting others to respond might be difficult right now. Write down your thoughts, and then go off and find someone upbeat who wants to smile more than grumble. Tonight: The moment leads to a fun happening.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You seem to be on the right path, despite a mild fog of confusion that surrounds you. You might want to handle a matter that involves travel and/or a matter that you’ll need an expert for. Recognize that there are no shortcuts to resolving this particular situation. Tonight: Out late.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You have ideas about what works, yet you rarely express them completely. A project appears to be moving on its own. You might want to assess certain items, like the projected cost. Detaching from a hot situation could be difficult. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Listen to news more openly. You might want to reorganize your schedule in order to make more time for a creative project. Lady Luck could make an appearance today. Still, use care with taking risks. Make sure you can handle the outcome. Tonight: Visit over dinner.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Your creativity pops up in nearly every situation today. You might be feeling confused by someone you must answer to, as he or she could be sending you mixed messages. Deal with what
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Be aware of the costs of proceeding on your present course. A friend who means to be helpful just might not be. Tension builds around someone’s expectations, which you are inclined
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might choose to play it lowkey right now. You’ll need some downtime, as you have done more than your fair share on several different projects. Everyone needs to recharge his or her batteries — including you! Use this period well. Tonight: Vanish into the night. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You need to focus on your desires. You could have a difficult exchange with a partner who seems to want to shut you down. Glide past this problem,
and keep your eye on the big picture. Once you have a more complete perspective, you’ll know what to do. Tonight: Accept an offer. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You might want to let others run the show, especially as you recognize how complicated an issue seems to be. You tend to be negative when dealing with those in a higher position of authority. Avoid getting into a power play. Tonight: A loved one reels you in. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Slow down and detach from the here and now. You need to get a better perspective of what is happening around you and of the people you need to involve in order to realize a goal. A friend who wants to be helpful could prove to be the exact opposite. Tonight: Make weekend plans. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Relate to a friend on a one-onone level, as this person often supports you through difficult
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times. Your creativity surges when dealing with others, especially a close loved one. Listen to an offer that might seem too good to be true. Tonight: Honor a sense of fatigue. HAPPY BIRTHDAY (May 28) This year your creativity merges with your curiosity. You might be inspired to produce something that can be put on display for the public or perhaps just your immediate circle. Harnessing your creativity will take some understanding of how to use your self-discipline. If you are single, romance will be a frequent visitor in your life. For some, a new loved one could serve as a muse. If you are attached, the two of you can be seen out and about during the summer, but a strong nesting instinct is likely to take over in the fall. LIBRA knows how to divert your attention! BORN TODAY Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe (1888), James Bond author Ian Fleming (1908), musician John Fogerty (1945)
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