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Water limits rise a stage ERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
The Mars bomber made everyone look up into the sky as the rumble was heard and a test run was completed over Centennial Pier on Friday. The decision to deploy the water bomber was made last week due to the growth of the Dog Mountain forest fire by Sproat Lake [R&B PHOTOS]
Dog Mountain fire 100% contained
Crews put out blaze but experts warn public to stay clear of the area KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
It was what the community was waiting to hear. By Saturday, the Coastal Fire Centre’s fire information officer Marg Drysdale confirmed the Dog Mountain Fire 100 per cent contained. Although the Mars water bomber was not used on this wildfire, the plane gave Port Alberni a hero’s welcome by flying over the city and performing a test run over Harbour Quay on Friday. Heads turned to the sky and people rushed outside to have a look. Over the weekend, 11 people remained on site to check for hot spots. There were also two boats for transport and to patrol the area.
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Drysdale said her most important message was to remind the public to keep away from the area. “I want to warn everyone that the slopes are not stable,” Drysdale said. “There is debris coming off and with this rain, it might loosen it more.” She said there have been people taking photos daily, but warns the area is still dangerous. There is 24-hour patrols on site, as well as the RCMP to keep a watch on the cabins. “We have experts on site and we really need people to stay back,” Drysdale said. The second staged ignition on Thursday was the key to containing the fire, Drysdale said.
“I want to warn everyone that the slopes are not stable. There is debris coming off and with this rain, it might loosen it more.” Marg Drysdale, fire information officer
“It did really well,” she said. “The understory was burned out and it was almost textbook.” There is still risk of hot spots occurring and patrols will continue to monitor the situation. In total, the fire grew to an estimated 450 hectares. Despite its size, Drysdale said
Locals support forest firefighters
it will not look like an eyesore on Sproat Lake. “People have the idea that it is a blackened doom but we want them to know that most trees remain and there is still a lot of green. Residents also noticed a change for the better in air quality on Friday. The Wildfire Smoke Advisory was lifted and air quality levels returned to normal. The rain on the weekend helped to dampen the Valley but residents are reminded to wait until further notice from City officials regarding water restrictions and the ACRD for parks and trail closures. Kristi.Dobson@avtimes.net 250-723-8171 ext. 238
After more than two months of drought the city is imposing more stringent limits on outdoor water usage. Stage 2 water restrictions begin today, a measure that limits sprinklers to just two days a week for residents. Lawn and garden sprinklers can now only be used on Wednesdays and Saturdays for even-numbered addresses, while odd numbers are limited to Thursday and Sundays. Since early June residents have been permitted to turn on their sprinklers from 6 to 9 a.m. and 7 to 10 p.m., but the new restrictions allow a home to only water once, either in the morning or evening on an allotted day. City engineer Guy Cicon said that the natural reservoirs of Bainbridge and Lizard lakes are still full, but the water flowing over the city’s dam at China Creek had declined. “The concern is at the China Creek Dam, where the intake is,” he said. “What’s happening now is that there is minimal flow going over.” In May Port Alberni received just 1.4 millimetres of rain, the lowest since precipitation began being measured in 1917. June brought little rainfall, and until a brief sun shower occurred on Friday evening no rain had fallen in July. Before Stage 1 restrictions were introduced on June 8 the city’s average daily usage was 17,000 cubic metres, equal to 950 litres of water per resident. This has since declined, and by tightening the restrictions the city hopes to see change in one factor affecting the water supply the community actually has control over: usage habits. “Consumption is a main element, and it’s only down six per cent,” Cicon said. “We’d like to see that tapering off more.” The hand watering of vegetable gardens, planters, shrubs and trees is still permitted every day from 6-9 a.m. and 7-10 p.m., as long as a bucket or hose with a nozzle is used for no more than two hours. Car washing is allowed using a bucket or hose with a nozzle. Eric.Plummer@avtimes.net
Young bald eagle recovers from abandonment
Donations have piled up to help feed the Alberni Valley’s Thunderbirds and other personnel who have been battling the blaze on Dog Mountain. »Alberni Region, 3
This juvenile bald eagle was admitted to the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre when it was found on the
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Farmers’ Market is now open every Saturday morning, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., at Cherry Creek School. Spirit Square Farmers’ Market at Harbour Quay, every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. Meat draws and other social events every Saturday at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 293, from 2 to 5 p.m. Every Sunday afternoon, from 3 to 5:30 p.m., the Kingsway Pub holds a meat draw and 50/50 raffle to benefit the Alberni Valley Hospice Society and Ty Watson House.
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Mars on Dog in the past Ray Goddard was reminded of this photo over the past week. He took it from his summer cottage at Sproat Lake in 1975 when the Mars bomber fought a fire on Dog Mountain. [RAY GODDARD]
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Nights Alive, free drop-in recreational program for youth, ages 12-18, Saturday nights from 8 p.m. to midnight at Gyro Youth Centre. Info: 250-723-2181.
Al-Anon and Al-Ateen Support Groups, for family and friends of problem drinkers, meet Saturdays at 10 a.m. (3028 Second Ave.) study group. Info: 250-723-5526, 250-723-2372 or 250-720-4855. Alcoholics Anonymous, Port Alberni. Info: 1-800-883-3968. Narcotics Anonymous, 1-800-807-1780 for meeting times and locations. Port Alberni Friendship Center offers free counselling on addictions, mental health, relationships and other issues. Info: 250-723-8281. Everyone welcome.
Support and help Port Alberni Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Society Care Givers Support Group meets every third Monday of the month at Fir Park Village in the activity room at 6:30 p.m. Meals on Wheels, program needs volunteer drivers. Info: 250-730-0390. Pregnant? Concerned? For caring counsel call 1-877-88WOMAN. Low Vision group meets one Monday per month at Abbeyfield (basement) at 10 a.m. Call 250-724-0933 for more information. First Open Heart Society of Port Alberni support group. Info: 250-723-2056 or 250-724-2196. Literacy Alberni, drop-in times Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info: 250-723-7323.
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Vote on ending lease for waterfront tonight ERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
ADSS Leadership students, from left, Marina Dekoninck, Jamie Vissia, Abbie Kamma and Dara Di Rocco made sandwiches last week for the fire fighters working on Dog Mountain. Missing from photo is April Davidson. [PHOTO SUBMITTED]
From cold water to hot meals, firefighters thanked Community rallys together to show appreciation at Dog Mt. KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
While firefighters were working to put out the blaze on Dog Mountain all week, many people in Port Alberni showed their appreciation for those on the front lines. Most who did, said it was the least they could do. The fire was fought by a crew of over 30 firefighters on ground and in the air. They worked long hours in gruelling conditions, so to end the day with a meal or treat was a welcome gesture. Food, water and other small gifts were donated most days last week by residents and local businesses. Although school is out for the summer, it did not stop five ADSS Leadership class students from taking initiative to lend a hand. It is something they had done all year and saw this as another opportunity to help out. “I thought this was something they could do, so I asked a student if she could get some others to help if I got the donations,” said instructor Mike Roberts. “Within five minutes she texted me and said she had help.” Quality Foods donated enough bread, peanut butter and jam for the girls to make 100 sandwiches. It only took a few hours one morning last
week before they were delivered by Randy Johnson, who was camping at Sproat Lake with a fire captain. Dara Di Rocco was one of the teens. “I love to get on board with any type of event like this,” Di Rocco said. “There has been so many people getting upset over the water bomber not putting the fire out that most people have forgotten all about the men and women already there trying their best for days straight with no breaks. It is the least we could do to help them out and make some sandwiches for them. I wish we could do more.” Amanda Ruel spearheaded a volunteer-drive online. Her brother was one of the firefighters out on the mountain and put out a social media call to see if donations could be collected and delivered. A number of people volunteered and local stores and businesses provided fruit, vegetables, sandwiches, water and snacks. Restaurants, too, got on board. When Dennis See approached Clay and Meloney Edghill, operators of Lime’N Food Truck, about providing a meal, the two did not hesitate to help out. “They got in late and were pretty tired,” Edghill said. “It was the last day before their
rotation and they were working hard, long hours. We thanked them for everything they were doing and they were very appreciative. We just thought it was the right thing to do. They were out there saving our community.” After speaking to Ruel, Boomerangs Cafe supplied muffins and coffee to the site, as well as gift cards to be used at the restaurant after. “We wanted to help out,” said owner Darren Brown. “They are working hard, risking their lives doing their thing, so we wanted to show some appreciation.” Bhupinder Narang, owner of Granny’s Chicken and Royal Canadian 3 for 1 Pizza, is no stranger to providing donations to local causes. Initially, he provided boxes of fruit to the firefighters and continued with pizza lunches for three days. “It’s the least we can do,” Narang said. “We will always try to do our best with anything in the community.” There are many others who lent a hand during the wild fire and it all demonstrates how the community with a heart can come together in times of distress. The teams of firefighters will be leaving for other communities but their lasting mark at Sproat Lake will remain on Dog Mountain.
After a year of stalled negotiations to develop the land elected officials are due to vote on the future of a large waterfront lease this evening. Used for little more than sorting logs over the last two decades, the land next to Canal Beach was supposed to provide for an expansive shipbuilding operation, creating nearly 100 jobs in the community with a large complex designed to take in vessels directly from the Alberni Inlet. But these ambitions announced by Canadian Alberni Engineering failed to materialize, and a tenancy agreement between the local shipbuilding company and the Port Alberni Port Authority has not been signed since the lease of the public property began on July 1, 2014. The port authority currently leases the land from the city for $1,200 a month – an arrangement that was set to last for 25 years. But the deal now faces cancellation after stipulations were not met over the first year of the lease, including the requirement of new industrial activity on the site and at least $500,000 worth of improvements. This led to a motion to kill the lease by Coun. Chris Alemany. If approved by the rest of council tonight, a formal cancellation notice would be given July 15 that the agreement will be terminated 90 days thereafter. The deal was struck a year ago amid opposition from some residents who hoped for more public waterfront access like what is offered at Canal Beach, leading to a petition with over 300 names asking the city to not follow through with the port authority. Alemany said that
“If there is no way to bring back jobs through proper resource utilization, then by all means take the land that supplied jobs and make it green again.” Greg Jenson, former Port Alberni resident
although the development prospects were attractive, the stipulations of the lease ensure the land will not sit underused for more decades. “Those conditions would not have been there is that opposition wasn’t there as well,” he said in an interview last month. Now another petition has surfaced, collecting over 300 names on the Change.org website asking the city to cancel the land deal and make the property a “waterfront green space.” The land is the former home of an Alberni Plywood mill, and environmental studies commissioned by the city have identified contamination from industrial byproducts on the land. But many comments on the Change. org site speak of hopes that the waterfront property will be converted into a park. “If there is no way to bring back jobs through proper resource utilization, then by all means take the land that supplied jobs and make it green again,” said former Port Alberni resident Greg Jenson, who now lives in Fort Myers, Florida. “Plant some trees, grass and create a park for families to enjoy.” Eric.Plummer@avtimes.net
ACCIDENT
Weekend boat crash ends in fatality, another man injured at Sproat Lake ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
A single boat accident claimed the life of an occupant and injured the driver on Sproat Lake Saturday afternoon. At about 4:45 p.m. on Saturday, emergency personnel responded to a call after a high-speed performance boat crashed in about 100 feet of water. According to the Port Alberni RCMP, the driver, a 38-year old male, lost control and the boat disintegrated. Witnesses said the boat sank. The driver was air-lifted to Victoria General Hospital. A search
was conducted along the shoreline on Saturday and the boat was located. The search continued Sunday morning by the RCMP dive team and the body of the 40-year old male passenger was recovered. The crash occurred across the bay from the marina on Lakeshore Road. Police, ambulance, the Sproat Lake Volunteer Fire Department and Alberni Valley Search and Rescue all assisted in the accident and the investigation is still underway. Names of the victims have not been released.
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Freezer full of explosives seized near Qualicum Beach, detonated by Lower Mainland specialists JOHN HARDING PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS
“It rocked our RV... It was terrifying”
Shawnigan Lake residents Daniel and Karen Burgess were in their RV Tuesday night at a campground near the Little Qualicum River when the evening was interrupted by loud explosions. “It rocked our RV,” said Daniel. “It was terrifying.” Police have confirmed explosives found in a rural area of Qualicum Beach were detonated Tuesday night in Dashwood by the RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit from the Lower Mainland. The explosives were found at 3 p.m. Tuesday when police were investigating an unrelated incident, said Oceanside RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman. He also said no charges had been laid as of Wednesday afternoon. The “scene showed us a freezer full of explosives,” he said. According to a news release issued by the Oceanside RCMP, the freezer was “full of dynamite and detonator assemblies.” Foreman said the local RCMP does not have the capability
Daniel Burgess, Shawnigan Lake resident
to detonate the explosives, so they had to wait for the unit to arrive from the Lower Mainland. The explosives were detonated at approximately 10 p.m. behind Dashwood Fire Hall No. 2. “Due to the urgency of the matter, the general public was not able to be advance notified about the blasts leaving many people wondering what was transpiring,” said the RCMP release. “The blasts were made in the safest controlled environment available to EDU. At no time was the public in danger.” It took five explosions to destroy the explosives, said Foreman. “We thought it was a propane explosion,” said Daniel Burgess. “We were worried it could start a fire.” — with contributions from Carli Berry
NOTICE OF STAGE 2 WATER RESTRICTIONS Due to low reservoir levels it is necessary to impose restrictions on Outdoor Water Use including garden and lawn watering. Therefore effective 12:01 a.m. July 13th , 2015 and until further notice, Outdoor Water Use is restricted as follows: Lawn Sprinkling Even numbered addresses can sprinkle on Wednesdays and Saturdays 6 – 9 am OR 7 – 10 pm. Odd numbered addresses can sprinkle on Thursdays and Sundays 6 – 9 am OR 7 – 10 pm. New unestablished lawns, trees, shrubs and flowers Sprinkling outside of restricted times allowed only at the discretion of the City with a permit from City Hall. Vegetable Gardens, planters, shrubs and trees – Watering must be done by hand using a spring loaded shut off nozzle or bucket. 6 – 9 am or 7 – 10 pm. 2 hours per day maximum – any day. Private pools, spas and garden ponds Public and commercial fountains (recirculating) Filling is prohibited, topping up is permitted. Outdoor washing of cars, boats and houses Washing must be done by hand using a spring loaded shut off nozzle or bucket. Anytime. Washing driveways and sidewalks All forms of washing using treated drinking water are prohibited. Commercial car washing, gardens, and pressure washing Exempt. Public Parks, Playing Fields, Boulevards, and Planters Restricted as per detailed watering plan by Parks and Recreation For more information contact the City of Port Alberni at 720-2840 or go to www.portalberni.ca Guy Cicon, City Engineer
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Senate discredits itself with terrorism report
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s if Conservatives in the Senate weren’t discredited enough with spending scandals, they have now managed to make themselves look like hare-brains by proposing to regulate clerics in this country. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s loyalists on the Red Chamber’s national security and defence committee have just issued a spectacularly obtuse report, Countering the Terrorist Threat in Canada, that should embarrass the party on the hustings in the coming
election. The Liberals on the panel had the sense to dissent. Its most incendiary proposal – that Canada concoct some sort of scheme to train Muslim clerics and certify their credentials to stamp out “extreme ideas” – would be comic if it weren’t so offensive. The Conservative movers and shakers who were so eager to kill the gun registry now want to create an imam registry. It’s the Senate that needs certifying, not imams. Canadians have no time for terror. But the Senate would
never have the gall to suggest that Christian ministers be “certified” to preach in this country, no matter how unschooled in formal theology they might be, how eccentric their views, or how tiny their congregations. The same goes for Catholic, Jewish, Hindu or Buddhist spiritual leaders. Yet seeing imported Islamist extremists everywhere, Conservative senators are keen to “investigate the options that are available for the training and certification of imams in Canada” by working with
Muslim communities and the provinces. In fact, Canada’s spy agency reports that Islamist extremism isn’t the world’s biggest worry. “Lone wolf” terror attacks worldwide are likelier to come from white supremacists and right-wing extremists than Muslims. Yet in a country of 35 million people, including 1 million Muslims, the Senate seems obsessed by 318 Muslims the security services deem to have been radicalized. It’s a safe bet most were self-radicalized on the Internet, not in
hometown mosques. Moreover the Muslim religious community has been instrumental in preventing terror attacks in this country. Like other bad ideas in the report, the proposal to certify imams reflects the government’s cynical, ham-fisted campaign to fan generalized fear and suspicion of Muslims as it brands itself tough on terror. This is a solution in search of a problem.
their agenda. This information is pushed through media to enflame public opinion in a campaign of fear. Political science is the quest for control of people’s thinking and actions. This science uses repetition, mistruths, fear based negativity to promote its politics. They use accusations of nonsense foolishness to intimidate opposition into silence. Politics is self-serving and is not known for its sincerity. Consider the politics of climate disaster. Simple weather cycles were developed into concerns about human-effected weather, which became climate change, and evolved into statements of weather chaos. Science gave research statistics to political scientists who release the fear-based situation and move to control the wealth of people. Focus on the climate problem has gone from statements like “people need to understand” to “we need to impose action plans with goals.” “Governments need to do more” are really demands for more taxpayers funding. More money will come from imposed Carbon Tax on consumer products. Cap and Trade schemes increase the cost of consumer products purchased by the same taxpayer. The people will be drained of their money. Science should not be positioned as savior, because they serve their own agenda. It is man’s creativity that needs to be encouraged to master problems, not reactionary fear to the panic spawned from political scientists.
Forest fire wasted taxpayer money
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» Your Letters // e-mail: letters@avtimes.net Five Acre Shaker a bigger fire risk than local trails I see that the ACRD directors in their infinite wisdom have closed the parks and trails under their jurisdiction. They are apparently very worried about the extreme fire danger. Bravo directors. I wonder why it is that they are worried about a few hikers starting a fire on a trail somewhere in the bush, but have absolutely no regard for taxpayers lives or property near the planned “Music Festival/ Rave” in a rural residential neighborhood. It seems to me gathering 500-700 people who are consuming alcohol and smoking in a hay field surrounded by trees, for three days, may be a more of a danger than hikers out for a walk and exercise. Are the 86 neighbors in the immediate area who signed letters of opposition to the event, and I, the only ones who see the hypocrisy and irony in this decision? I hope the directors are proud of their decision to SAVE THE PUBLIC. What a joke. ACRD taxpayers will be on the hook for all damages caused by partygoers including fire costs. Hopefully no lives will be lost because surely some homes and property will be. Loren Smith Port Alberni
Fond memories of Sproat Lake and water bombers I was born and raised in Port Alberni and spent my summer vacations camping at Sproat Lake. We are talking a long time ago. The
Mars Bombers were part of my life in the Valley. I moved away for 36 years when I married a member of the RCAF. Came back to live in the Valley in 1998 at Sproat Lake. The sound of those four tremendous motors never leaves you. Was always proud to show any kind of video of the bombers to people from all over the world. Now I read in the AV Times that the one bomber is sitting in the lake while Dog Mountain burns because of the provincial government. Do they dislike the Coulsons so much as to let the precious forest burn? I have since moved to Phoenix Arizona and am now a US citizen, but I still consider Port Alberni home. What is it with the provincial government that they can allow this to happen. Not only are the forests burning but it is causing a lot of health problems to the people of the valley. Julie Huot (Blais) Sun City, Arizona
Don’t let the scientists coerce you into a panic It is a principle of science to remain critically realistic in its study parameters. They are well motivated by beliefs in their study and of course in adequate funding. However, scientists do not assert achieving absolute certainty about anything. There is a constant flow of new research studies that suggest conclusions not previously thought. Politicians and activists with “political science” teaching promote particular science that supports
Bruce E Hornidge Port Alberni
The other day B.C. TV Global news and Chris Galas made a point more than once that the bomber firefighting issue was an EMOTIONAL ISSUE. Actually it is a financial issue. Washington state declared a drought state of emergency months ago, every one in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Washington and California knew this was going to be a long, hot and dry summer – that is everyone except the B.C. government, our government and my government. All they had to do was say, ‘Hey we need all the resources we can get.’ But absolutely not, for some political reason. I was told by a member of the Mars flying team that this Sproat Lake fire was probably a three to five-drop situation. Now six days later four Aurora aircraft flying from Abbottsford on the first day, three helicopters flying all day for six days, SO FAR, and 20-plus personnel fighting the fire, plus the spotter plane and the RCMP and other government- financed boats on the water. I say that WAS and IS a waste of taxpayers money, the bomber would have done it cheaper and would now be available to fight other fires. I know what I’m talking about and yes I own property near the fire. Let’s stop the BS and get on with protecting all B.C. citizens, their property and our forests. Glen White Port Alberni
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Djokovic takes Wimbledon title
Serbian star beats Roger Federer at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships HOWARD FENDRICH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — A game away from a third Wimbledon championship and ninth Grand Slam title, Novak Djokovic sized up a 108 mph serve from none other than Roger Federer and stretched to smack a cross-court forehand return winner. Two points later, Djokovic again took the measure of a serve from Federer, this one at 123 mph, and delivered a downthe-line backhand for another return winner. After this one, Djokovic bellowed. “I roared because I felt like that’s the moment,” Djokovic would say later. “Now is the time for me to close this match out.” One forehand winner later, he did. For the second year in a row, Djokovic solved Federer’s superb serve in the final at the All England Club. And for the second year in a row, Federer’s bid for a record eighth championship at the grass-court tournament ended with a defeat against Djokovic. This time, the match was even as can be through two sets, before the No.
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Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates winning the men’s singles final against Roger Federer of Switzerland at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, on Sunday. [AP PHOTO]
1-seeded Djokovic grabbed ahold of it and wouldn’t let go, beating No. 2 Federer 7-6 (1), 6-7 (10), 6-4, 6-3 Sunday thanks to brilliant returning. “It feels, obviously, good when you make a return winner out of Roger’s serve on the grass,”
Djokovic said, “but it doesn’t happen too often.” Over the past three seasons, Federer has reached two Grand Slam finals — both at Wimbledon, both against Djokovic, both losses. “You sort of walk away emp-
ty-handed. For me, a finalist trophy is not the same,” a grimfaced Federer said. “Everybody knows that.” At Wimbledon in 2014, Federer won 88 of 89 service games through the semifinals, then was broken four times by Djokovic during the five-set final.This fortnight, Federer won 89 of 90 service games entering the final, then again was broken four times. “It takes a little bit of everything: recognizing the moment, having the good intuition, following your instincts of where the serve is going to go, being in the right balance,” Djokovic said. “I mean, it’s not that easy, especially with Roger’s precision and accuracy.” Djokovic’s serve was stout, too: He saved six of seven break points. On a windy afternoon, Federer was simply not the same height-of-his-powers player who defeated Andy Murray in the semifinals. Pressured by Djokovic’s body-twisting ability to extend points, Federer committed 35 unforced errors; Djokovic made 16.
MLS SOCCER
◆ NBA
Thunder match Portland offer, keep Enes Kanter The Thunder will keep centre Enes Kanter after matching an offer sheet by the Portland Trail Blazers. Oklahoma City acquired Kanter in a trade with the Utah Jazz last season, and he helped the Thunder while Kevin Durant and Serge Ibaka battled injuries. He averaged 13.8 points and 7.8 rebounds in 49 games with Utah, but those numbers ballooned to 18.7 points and 11.0 rebounds in 26 games with the Thunder. The Thunder announced their decision Sunday. Kanter entered the off-season as a restricted free agent, and person with knowledge of the details told The Associated Press that he signed a four-year, $70 million offer sheet with Portland last week.
◆ NHL
Blackhawks send Sharp to Dallas for defenceman The Chicago Blackhawks aren’t resting easy after their third Stanley Cup championship in six seasons. The Blackhawks made their fourth trade in two weeks, this time sending forward Patrick Sharp — a key part of all three titles — and defensive prospect Stephen Johns to the Dallas Stars for veteran defenceman Trevor Daley and forward Ryan Garbutt. It was the second major move recently by general manager Stan Bowman, who sent winger Brandon Saad to Columbus late last month after the best season of his three-year career. The sides couldn’t agree on a contract before he was set to become a restricted free agent.
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Nets agree to deal with former Raptor, No. 1 pick The Brooklyn Nets have agreed to a deal with former No. 1 pick Andrea Bargnani. Bargnani remains in New York after spending the last two seasons with the Knicks. He has struggled with injuries and appeared in just 29 games last season, averaging 14.8 points. Terms of the deal the Nets announced Sunday on Twitter were not disclosed. Bargnani hasn’t played more than 35 games in a season since 2010-11 in Toronto, when he averaged a career-best 21.4 points. The Raptors, who drafted the Italian forward first overall in 2006, dealt him to the Knicks in the summer of 2013.
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South Korea’s Gee Chun wins Women’s U.S. Open South Korea’s In Gee Chun birdied four of the last seven holes to rally for a one-stroke victory at the U.S. Women’s Open on Sunday. The 20-year old Chun shot a 4-under 66 in the final round and finished at 8 under, becoming the first player to win her U.S. Open debut since Birdie Kim in 2005.
From left, Vancouver Whitecaps Mauro Rosales, Kendall Waston, Octavio Rivero, and Matias Laba prepare to block a Sporting Kansas City free kick during the second half of an MLS game in Vancouver on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Sporting Kansas City shuts out Whitecaps in 1-0 victory JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — Six weeks on the road didn’t solve the Vancouver Whitecaps’ struggles at home. Kevin Ellis scored on a header off Krisztian Nemeth’s chipped cross in the 52nd minute Sunday as Sporting Kansas City downed Vancouver 1-0. The Whitecaps could have taken sole possession of top spot in the Western Conference with a single point, but instead lost at home in Major League Soccer for the fourth time in nine games after failing to find the range while carrying the run of play in the first half. “It hurts,” said Vancouver head coach Carl Robinson. “You create a number of chances and you don’t score. Sometimes it comes back to bite you in the bum and it did today.” The Whitecaps (10-8-2) were playing in front of their fans for the first time since the end of May after a five-game road trip that saw them pick up nine of a possible 15 points while B.C. Place Stadium was occupied by the Women’s World Cup. Sunday also marked the beginning of a busy summer stretch of 11 matches over the next seven weeks for Vancouver as the club competes in MLS, the Amway Canadian Championship final and the CONCACAF Champions League group stage. Kansas City (8-3-6) improved to 6-1-3 over its last 10 matches in MLS and is now just two points back of the Whitecaps with three games in hand. The top six teams in the ultra-tight West are all within two points of each other, which made the loss even harder to swallow for Vancouver. “It’s going to be nip and tuck between now and the end of the year,” said Robinson. “We know where we are. We need to be better, I need to be better. We will be better ... a lot of things need to be
better.” After setting up Ellis’ goal, Nemeth fired a shot off the post behind Ousted in the 58th minute that stayed out before Jacob Peterson sent the rebound just wide. Vancouver came close to tying it in the 61st when Cristian Techera blasted an effort that Kansas City goalkeeper Tim Melia blocked with his body. The ball rebounded off Sporting defender Matt Besler and was headed towards goal, but Amadou Dia cleared the ball from danger. The Whitecaps pressed for the equalizer late, with Tim Parker’s header going just wide in the 90th minute, but couldn’t find a way through on the way to suffering their second straight loss. “We had control of this game,” said Ousted. “We need that killer instinct. We need to be better at putting those chances away.” The latter stages of the match ended with Vancouver defender Kendall Waston and Kansas City forward Dom Dwyer coming together on a few occasions. Each player finished with a yellow card. “Both good players. Both super professionals,” said Robinson. “I don’t think it was handled correctly.” Teams often get off to sluggish starts following long road trips, but the Whitecaps dominated the first half and could have easily found themselves ahead. Melia made a nice stop on Kekuta Manneh in the 11th minute before Parker’s glancing header from a corner was cleared off the line by Benny Feilhaber in the 13th. Manneh then sent Techera in on a partial break three minutes later, but Dia recovered in time to make a clean tackle with the pint-sized winger bearing down on Melia to keep the game scoreless.
“Credit to them. They weathered the storm, especially in the first 45 minutes,” said Robinson. “It’s a tough one to swallow today.” Notes: The Whitecaps were without captain Pedro Morales and defender Pa-Modou Kah because of calf injuries. Morales sat out his fourth straight game, while Kah limped off in last weekend’s 2-1 road loss to the Colorado Rapids. ... Vancouver visits the Portland Timbers next weekend.
WILLIAMS
Serena Williams closing in on a Slam HOWARD FENDRICH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — Before Serena Williams moves on from completing a second “Serena Slam” to pursuing tennis’ first true Grand Slam in more than a quarter-century, it’s worth pausing to appreciate what she’s done. First of all, there are the statistics. And what statistics they are: — She’s won 21 Grand Slam titles; only Steffi Graf, with 22, has more in the Open era of professional tennis (the all-time record is Margaret Court’s 24). — Her 6-4, 6-4 victory over Garbine Muguruza in Saturday’s final gave Williams six Wimbledon titles; only Martina Navratilova (with nine) and Graf (with seven) have more. Williams also has a half-dozen trophies each from the U.S. Open and Australian Open, along with three from the French Open. — She’s won 28 Grand Slam matches in a row and four consecutive major titles over two seasons, something last done by — guess who? — Williams in 2002-03, when she coined the term “Serena Slam.” — At 33, she is the oldest woman to win a major title in the Open era, nearly a month older than Navratilova was at Wimbledon in 1990. It’s all impressive. And it all helps Williams believe she can continue this remarkable run at the U.S. Open, which begins in late August in New York. A trophy there would give Williams a calendar-year Grand Slam, which no one — not even Roger Federer — has accomplished in tennis since Graf did it in 1988. Only two other women (Maureen Connolly in 1953, and Court in 1970) and two men (Don Budge in 1938, and Rod Laver in 1962 and 1969) have pulled off the feat, and none of them had to deal with the intense media scrutiny of this day and age. “I feel like I’ll be OK. I feel like if I can do the Serena Slam,’ I will be OK heading into the Grand Slam. Like I always say, ’There’s 127 other people that don’t want to see me win.’” Nothing personal, they just want to win,” Williams said, referring to the size of the field at a major tournament. “I had a really tough draw (at Wimbledon). This gives me confidence that if I had this draw, I can do it again. I’ll just do the best I can.” Her best is the best there is, and might ever have been.
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MLB - Results and standings W 2 1 1 1 0 W 2 2 1 1
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Pts 4 2 2 2 0 Pts 4 4 2 2
PF 81 51 57 35 98 PF 68 64 75 70
PA 101 59 43 52 107 PA 51 78 50 56
Remaining Week 3 schedule (with odds by Oddsshark) Favourite Line (O/U) Underdog Home team in CAPS Today’s game, 6 p.m. CALGARY 5.5 (50.5) Toronto Last Friday’s results Winnipeg 25, Montreal 23 BC Lions 35, Saskatchewan 32 Last Thursday’s result Edmonton 46, Ottawa 17 Week 4 schedule Thursday, July 16 Hamilton at Montreal, 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 17 Edmonton at Ottawa, 4 p.m. BC Lions at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m. Saturday, July 18 Winnipeg at Calgary, 4 p.m.
League leaders Q-backs Comp Att Glenn, K, SSK 69 87 Burris, H, OTT 66 101 Lulay, T, BC 52 76 Collaros, Z, HAM 53 71 Willy, D, WPG 45 60 Harris, T, TOR 54 65 Cato, R, MTL 42 56 Mitchell, B, CGY 41 66 Nichols, M, EDM 13 27 Reilly, M, EDM 16 28 Durant, D, SSK 13 18
Pct 79.3 65.3 68.4 74.6 75.0 83.1 75.0 62.1 48.1 57.1 72.2
Yards 868 731 658 635 624 614 558 507 220 170 165
Rushing Att Yards Sutton, T, MTL 50 278 Messam, J, SSK 31 244 Whitaker, B, TOR 22 186 Allen, A, SSK 25 184 Cotton, P, WPG 32 174 Walker, C, OTT 46 171 Cornish, J, CGY 25 129 Harris, A, BC 25 118 Lawrence, K, EDM 12 79 Burris, H, OTT 13 72
Avg 5.6 7.9 8.5 7.4 5.4 3.7 5.2 4.7 6.6 5.5
Receiving Tot Yards Green, S, MTL 15 285 Smith, R, SSK 11 251 Moore, N, WPG 19 244 Dressler, W, SSK 14 204 Sinopoli, B, OTT 18 190 Owens, C, TOR 15 187 Bowman, A, EDM 11 181 Williams, C, OTT 13 180 Denmark, C, WPG 7 167 Arceneaux, E, BC 14 161 Richardson, J, SSK 12 159 Fantuz, A, HAM 17 156 Sinkfield, T, HAM 8 154
Avg 19.0 22.8 12.8 14.6 10.6 12.5 16.5 13.8 23.9 11.5 13.3 9.2 19.3
Tackles 1. Cox, C, MTL 21 2. Knox Jr., J, SSK 18 3. Elimimian, S, BC 17 4. Bighill, A, BC 15 5. Bucknor, M, WPG 15 Interceptions 1. Sears Jr., J, HAM 2 2. Adams, J, WPG 2 3. Evans, Z, OTT 1 4. Johnson, J, OTT 1 5. Butler, C, HAM 1 Sacks 1. Bowman, J, MTL 3 2. Hughes, C, CGY 2 3. Bass, K, WPG 2 4. Cummings, E, TOR 2 5. Howard, M, EDM 2
American League East W L NY Yankees 48 40 Tampa Bay 46 45 Baltimore 44 44 Toronto 45 46 Boston 42 47 Central W L Kansas City 52 34 Minnesota 49 40 Detroit 44 44 Cleveland 42 46 Chicago Sox 41 45 West W L LA Angels 48 40 Houston 49 42 Texas 42 46 Seattle 41 48 Oakland 41 50 National League East W L Washington 48 39 NY Mets 47 42 Atlanta 42 47 Miami 38 51 Philadelphia 29 62 Central W L St. Louis 56 33 Pittsburgh 53 35 Chicago Cubs 47 40 Cincinnati 39 47 Milwaukee 38 52 West W L LA Dodgers 51 39 San Fran 46 43 Arizona 42 45 San Diego 41 49 Colorado 39 49
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PCT .545 .505 .500 .495 .472 PCT .605 .551 .500 .477 .477 PCT .545 .538 .477 .461 .451
GB Strk - W1 3.5 W3 4.0 L2 4.5 L1 6.5 L1 GB Strk - W1 4.5 W3 9.0 L3 11.0 L2 11.0 L1 GB Strk - W1 0.5 L6 6.0 L2 7.5 L1 8.5 W2
PCT .552 .528 .472 .427 .319 PCT .629 .602 .540 .453 .422 PCT .567 .517 .483 .456 .443
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Yesterday’s results NY Mets 5, Arizona 3 Miami 8, Cincinnati 1 Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3 Oakland 2, Cleveland 0 NY Yankees 8, Boston 6 Washington 3, Baltimore 2 Minnesota 7, Detroit 1 Kansas City 11, Toronto 10 Chicago Cubs 3, Chicago Sox 1 San Diego 2, Texas 1 San Francisco 4, Philadelphia 2 Colorado 11, Atlanta 3 LA Angels 10, Seattle 3 LA Dodgers 4, Milwaukee 3 Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 5 (10 innings) Saturday’s results Toronto 6, Kansas City 2 Chicago Sox 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Minnesota 9, Detroit 5 NY Mets 4, Arizona 2 Colorado 3, Atlanta 2 Miami 14, Cincinnati 3 Tampa Bay 3, Houston 0 Oakland 5, Cleveland 4 Boston 5, NY Yankees 3 Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 5 Washington 7, Baltimore 4 San Diego 6, Texas 5 San Fran 8, Philadelphia 5 Seattle 5, LA Angels 0 Milwaukee 7, LA Dodgers 1 Today’s schedule with probable starters No games scheduled Regular season resumes Friday, July 17 Kansas City at Chi. Sox, 11:10 a.m. Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Miami at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Baltimore at Detroit, 4:08 p.m. Cleveland at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Chi. Cubs at Atlanta, 4:35 p.m. Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Texas at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Kansas City at Chi. White Sox, 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. San Francisco at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. Minnesota at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Boston at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 7:10 p.m. Saturday, July 18 (Early games) Seattle at NY Yankees, 11:10 a.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 4:05 p.m. Miami at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.
Kansas City Royals pitcher Greg Holland, left, celebrates with catcher Salvador Perez, right, following a game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday. [AP PHOTO]
Blue Jays blow lead, fall 11-10 to Royals THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays combined for 21 runs, 11 unearned after seven errors, on Sunday. There were 27 hits, nine for extra-bases. The Royals won 11-10 after blowing a seven-run lead, helped by a base-running gaffe by Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin. Martin had a RBI double to pull Toronto within 10-9 in the seventh and went to third on Kelvin Herrera’s wild pitch with one out. When catcher Salvador Perez delayed picking up the ball and Herrera was slow to cover home, Martin rounded third base. Perez grabbed the ball and threw out Martin before he could retreat to the bag. “If you look at it, it really wasn’t that far, but that kid’s got a cannon arm,” Martin said. The play was reviewed but not overturned after a delay of more than two minutes. “That saved us,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Salvy made a phenomenal play.” Toronto’s Jose Reyes, who had his second straight three-hit game, singled home Kevin Pillar, who had tripled, in the eighth to tie it 10-10. It was only the second run Royals reliever Wade Davis (5-1) had allowed this season. “We hit the ball pretty well.” Martin said. “They just hit the ball a little more at the end there. They got the big hit. It was a frustrating loss. “We definitely could have played better and we made some mistakes, but we got back in the game.” Paulo Orlando broke the tie with a homer in the bottom of the eighth, and Kendrys Morales hit a three-run homer in a six-run Royals first. Greg Holland worked the ninth, earning his 19th save in 20 opportunities. Kansas City led 7-0 after five, but the Blue Jays sent 12 men to the plate in an eight-run sixth. Danny Valencia and Jose Bautista had two-run doubles.
Tuesday, 5:15 p.m. at Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. Recent winners: 2014 AL 5, NL 3 at Minneapolis 2013 AL 3, NL 0 Citi Field, New York, 2012 NL 8, AL 0 Kansas City 2011 NL 5, AL 1 Arizona 2010 NL 3, AL 1 Anaheim 2009 AL 4, NL 3 St. Louis 2008 AL 4, NL 3 Yankee Stadium 2007 AL 5, NL 4 San Francisco 2006 AL 3, NL 2 Pittsburgh 2005 AL 7, NL 5Detroit 2004 AL 9, NL 4 Houston 2003 AL 7, NL 6 Chicago 2002 NL 7, AL 7 Milwaukee 2001 AL 4, NL 1 Seattle 2000 AL 6, NL 3 Atlanta Rosters, with number of All-Star appearances for each player.
American League Starters C: Salvador Perez, Royals 3 1B: Miguel Cabrera, Tigers 10 2B: Jose Altuve, Astros 3 3B: Josh Donaldson, Blue Jays 2 SS: Alcides Escobar, Royals 1 OF: Mike Trout, Angels 4 OF: Lorenzo Cain, Royals 1 OF: Alex Gordon, Royals 3 DH: Nelson Cruz, Mariners 4 RHP: Chris Archer, Rays 1 Pitchers RHP: Dellin Betances, Yankees RHP: Brad Boxberger, Rays LHP: Zach Britton, Orioles RHP: Wade Davis, Royals RHP: Sonny Gray: Athletics RHP: Kelvin Herrera, Royals RHP: Felix Hernandez, Mariners LHP: Dallas Keuchel, Astros RHP: Darren O’Day, Orioles LHP: Glen Perkins, Twins LHP: David Price, Tigers LHP: Chris Sale, White Sox Reserves C: Russell Martin, Blue Jays C: Stephen Vogt, Athletics 1B: Albert Pujols, Angels 1B: Mark Teixeira, Yankees 2B: Jason Kipnis, Indians 3B: Manny Machado, Orioles SS: Jose Iglesias, Tigers IF/OF: Brock Holt, Red Sox OF: Jose Bautista, Blue Jays OF: Adam Jones, Orioles OF: J.D. Martinez, Tigers DH: Prince Fielder, Rangers Final Vote candidates SS: Xander Bogaerts, Red Sox OF: Yoenis Cespedes, Tigers 2B: Brian Dozier, Twins OF: Brett Gardner, Yankees 3B: Mike Moustakas, Royals
2 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 3 5 4
1 2 1 1 1
3 3 2 2 3 3 3 7 3
Pitchers RHP: Gerrit Cole, Pirates 13 RHP: Zack Greinke, Dodgers 31 RHP: Shelby Miller, Braves 13 RHP: Jacob deGrom, Mets 11 LHP: Madison Bumgarner, Giants 3 1 RHP: Michael Wacha, Cardinals 1 3 RHP: A.J. Burnett, Pirates 11 RHP: Trevor Rosenthal, Cardinals 1 1 RHP: Mark Melancon, Pirates 21 LHP: Aroldis Chapman, Reds 42 RHP: Jonathan Papelbon, Phillies 6 4 RHP: Francisco Rodriguez, Brewers6 6 Reserves C: Yadier Molina, Cardinals C: Yasmani Grandal, Dodgers 1B: Anthony Rizzo, Cubs 1B: Adrian Gonzalez, Dodgers 2B: DJ LeMahieu, Rockies 2B: Joe Panik, Giants SS: Brandon Crawford, Giants 3B: Nolan Arenado, Rockies 3B: Kris Bryant, Cubs OF: Andrew McCutchen, Pirates OF: Joc Pederson, Dodgers OF: A.J. Pollock, D-backs OF: Justin Upton, Padres
7 1 2 5 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 3
Final Vote candidates RHP: Johnny Cueto, Reds RHP: Jeurys Familia, Mets LHP: Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers RHP: Carlos Martinez, Cardinals SS: Troy Tulowitzki, Rockies
2 1 5 1 5
Saturday at Kauffman Stadium
Blue Jays 6, Royals 2 Toronto
Kansas City
ab r h bi ab r h bi Reyes SS 4 1 3 1 Escobar SS 4 1 1 0 Donaldson 3B3 0 0 0 Moustakas 3B3 0 0 0 Valencia 3B 2 1 1 3 Morales DH 4 0 1 1 Bautista RF 5 1 1 0 Hosmer 1B 4 0 0 0 Enc’acion DH 5 1 1 2 Rios RF 3110 Smoak 1B 4 0 1 0 Infante 2B 4 0 1 0 Martin C 4 0 1 0 Orlando LF 2 0 0 1 Pillar CF 3 0 1 0 Butera C 3010 Carrera LF 4 1 0 0 Dyson CF 3 0 0 0 Travis 2B 4 1 2 0 Totals 30 2 5 2 Totals 38 6 11 6
Toronto 000 200 103 6 Kansas City 100 000 100 2 SB: TOR Pillar (13, 2nd base off Young, Cr/Butera), Reyes 3 (14, 2nd base off Young, Cr/Butera, 3rd base off Young, Cr/Butera, 2nd base off Madson/ Butera). 2B: TOR Reyes (15, Finnegan); KC Escobar, A (16, Buehrle), Rios (5, Buehrle). HR: TOR Encarnacion (18, 4th inning off Young, Cr, 1 on, 0 out), Valencia (6, 9th inning off Finnegan, 2 on, 0 out). S: KC Moustakas; Orlando. Team Lob: TOR 10; KC 4. E: KC Infante (6, fielding). Toronto IP H R ER BB SO M Buehrle (W, 10-5) 7.0 5 2 2 0 2 P Schultz 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 R Osuna 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO C Young (L, 7-5) 6.0 5 3 3 2 4 F Morales 0.1 2 0 0 0 0 R Madson 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 L Hochevar 1.0 0 0 0 2 1 B Finnegan 1.0 4 3 3 1 1 HBP: Rios, A (by Buehrle). Time: 2:42. Att: 30,790. Saturday at Angel Stadium of Anaheim
Mariners 5, Angels 0 LA Angels
Toronto
Kansas City
ab r h bi ab r h bi Reyes SS 5 1 3 1 Escobar SS 5 2 1 1 Travis 2B 5 1 2 1 Moustakas 3B4 0 2 0 Bautista DH 4 1 1 1 Cain CF 5231 Smoak PH-DH1 0 0 0 Hosmer 1B 4 1 2 2 Enc’acion 1B 4 0 0 1 Morales DH 4 1 1 3 Colabello LF 2 2 0 0 Perez C 4100 Martin C 5 1 1 2 Infante 2B 4 2 3 1 Valencia 3B 4 1 2 2 Rios RF 4110 Pillar CF 4 2 2 1 Orlando LF 3 1 2 2 Carrera RF 4 1 1 1 Totals 37 111510 Totals 38101210
Toronto 000 008 110 10 Kansas City 600 013 01x 11 SB: TOR Travis (3, 2nd base off Volquez/ Perez, S), Bautista (4, 3rd base off Volquez/Perez, S). 2B: TOR Bautista (17, Volquez), Valencia (13, Madson), Pillar (18, Madson), Martin, R (15, Herrera, K); KC Infante (17, Doubront), Cain, L (19, Doubront). 3B: TOR Pillar (2, Davis, W). GIDP: TOR Martin, R; KC Hosmer, Cain, L. HR: KC Morales, K (11, 1st inning off Doubront, 2 on, 1 out), Orlando (3, 8th inning off Schultz, 0 on, 0 out). S: KC Orlando. Team Lob: TOR 5; KC 4. DP: TOR 2 (Encarnacion, Valencia-Travis-Encarnacion); KC 2 (Escobar, A-Infante-Hosmer, Perez, S-Infante). E: TOR Colabello (4, throw), Reyes 2 (10, fielding, fielding); KC Infante 2 (8, throw, missed catch), Moustakas 2 (8, throw, fielding). Toronto IP H R ER BB SO F Doubront 5.010 7 5 0 2 S Delabar 0.1 2 3 2 0 0 A Loup 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 B Cecil 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 P Schultz (L, 0-1) 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO E Volquez 5.1 5 4 1 3 2 R Madson 0.1 4 4 0 0 0 K Herrera 1.1 1 1 0 0 0 W Davis (BS, 1)(W, 5-1) 1.0 2 1 1 0 2 G Holland 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 HBP: Moustakas (by Loup). Time: 3:23. Att: 31,962.
Angels 10, Mariners 3 4 1 10 3 1 2 1 2 6 5 1 6
National League Starters C: Buster Posey, Giants 1B: Paul Goldschmidt, D-backs 2B: Dee Gordon, Marlins 3B: Todd Frazier, Reds SS: Jhonny Peralta, Cardinals OF: Bryce Harper, Nationals OF: Matt Holliday, Cardinals OF: Giancarlo Stanton, Marlins RHP: Max Scherzer, Nationals
Royals 11, Blue Jays 10
Seattle
ab r h bi ab r h bi Giavotella 2B 3 0 0 0 Jackson CF 5 0 0 0 Calhoun RF 4 0 1 0 Smith PH-DH 1 0 1 0 Trout CF 3 0 1 0 Cano 2B 4000 Pujols DH 4 0 0 0 Cruz RF 3330 Aybar SS 4 0 1 0 Seager 3B 2 2 2 0 Freese 3B 4 0 0 0 Montero 1B 2 0 0 1 Cron 1B 3 0 1 0 Morrison 1B 1 0 1 1 Joyce LF 3 0 0 0 Miller SS 3 0 0 1 Perez C 3 0 0 0 Zunino C 3 0 0 0 Totals 31 0 4 0 Totals 24 5 7 3
LA Angels 000 000 000 0 Seattle 021 000 20x 5 2B: SEA Cruz, N (13, Morin), Smith, S (19, Pestano). S: SEA Zunino. Team Lob: LAA 6; SEA 10. E: LAA Wilson, C (2, throw), Cron (2, fielding). LA Angels IP H R ER BB SO C Wilson (L, 7-7) 6.2 5 3 3 4 5 M Morin 0.0 2 2 2 1 0 J Alvarez 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 V Pestano 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO H Iwakuma (W, 1-1) 8.0 3 0 0 2 6 M Lowe 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 Time: 2:42. Att: 40,765.
LA Angels
Seattle
ab r h bi ab r h bi Giavotella 2B 5 1 2 0 Jackson CF 4 1 2 0 Calhoun RF 4 0 0 0 Cano 2B 4110 Trout CF 4 2 2 1 Cruz RF 3000 Pujols 1B 5 1 1 0 Ackley LF 1 0 0 1 Aybar SS 3 2 3 0 Seager 3B 4 0 3 1 Feath’ston SS 1 0 0 0 Montero DH 2 0 0 0 Freese 3B 5 2 2 2 Smith PH-DH 1 1 1 1 Cron DH 5 0 3 0 Morrison 1B 4 0 0 0 Joyce LF 2 0 0 1 Zunino C 4 0 0 0 Rob’son PH-LF3 1 0 1 Miller SS 4 0 2 0 Iannetta C 4 1 1 2 Totals 31 3 9 3 Totals 411014 7
LA Angels 021 006 010 10 Seattle 000 000 021 3 2B: LAA Freese 2 (17, Walker, T, Walker, T), Aybar (16, Walker, T), Giavotella (16, Rodney), Cron (7, Smith, Ca); SEA Seager (19, Heaney). HR: LAA Iannetta (5, 6th inning off Rollins, D, 1 on, 1 out); SEA Smith, S (8, 9th inning off Shoemaker, 0 on, 0 out). S: LAA Aybar. Team Lob: LAA 7; SEA 6. DP: LAA (Pujols). E: SEA Cano (4, fielding), Trumbo (3, throw), Walker, T (3, throw). LA Angels IP H R ER BB SO A Heaney (W, 3-0) 7.0 5 0 0 1 6 T Gott 1.0 3 2 2 0 1 M Shoemaker 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO T Walker (L, 7-7) 5.0 7 7 6 0 7 D Rollins 0.1 3 2 2 1 0 D Farquhar 1.2 2 0 0 0 2 F Rodney 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 C Smith 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 Time: 2:56. Att: 36,955. NY Yankees 020 013 002 8 11 2 Boston 003 001 002 6 12 0 W: N. Eovaldi (9-2) L: W. Miley (8-8) HR: NYY- B. McCann (14), R. Refsnyder (1) BOS- None White Sox 000 001 000 1 2 0 Chi. Cubs 200 010 00x 3 8 0 W: J. Arrieta (10-5) L: J. Quintana (4-9) HR: CHW- None CHC- J. Arrieta (1) 10 innings St. Louis 011 000 010 2 5 9 0 Pittsburgh 020 100 000 3 6 12 1 W: A. Caminero (1-1) L: T. Rosenthal (1-2) HR: STL- J. Peralta (13) PIT- None
West Coast League East Kelowna Yakima Valley Walla Walla Wenatchee South Bend Medford Corvallis Klamath Falls West Bellingham Victoria Cowlitz Kitsap
W 21 17 16 12 W 27 6 7 3 W 20 14 10 10
L PCT 9 0.700 13 0.567 17 0.485 18 0.400 L PCT 6 0.818 9 0.400 14 0.333 12 0.200 L PCT 10 0.667 16 0.467 14 0.417 20 0.333
GB 4 6.5 9 GB 6 10 9.5 GB 6 6 10
Strk W1 L2 L1 W1 Strk W1 L1 L1 L1 Strk L1 W6 L1 L10
Yesterday’s result Bend 4, Medford 3 Victoria 7, Klamath Falls 1 Kelowna 5, Walla Walla 4 Saturday’s results Medford 4, Bend 1 Victoria 8, Klamath Falls 5 Victoria 8, Klamath Falls 2 (doubleheader) Walla Walla 4, Kelowna 3 Wenatchee 8, Cowlitz 3 Corvallis 5, Kitsap 1
Tuesday, July 14 Bellingham at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m. Victoria at Medford, 6:35 p.m. Yakima Valley at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m. Klamath Falls at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m. Kelowna at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, July 15 Bellingham at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m. Victoria at Medford, 6:35 p.m.
L 9 12 13 14 15 20 21 25 24 25 26 33
GOLF
The Championships, Wimbledon,
Current tournaments PGA
x-Advance to knockout stage y-eliminated Group A W D L GF GA Pts 1 x-USA 2 0 0 3 1 6 2 x-Panama 0 2 0 2 2 2 3 Honduras 0 1 1 2 3 1 4 y-Haiti 0 1 1 1 2 1 Group B 1 x-Jamaica 2 x-Costa Rica 3 El Salvador 4 y-Canada
W 1 0 0 0
D 1 2 2 1
L 0 0 0 1
GF GA Pts 3 2 4 3 3 2 1 1 2 0 1 1
Group C 1 x-Trinidad 2 x-Mexico 3 Guatemala 4 y-Cuba
W 2 1 0 0
D 0 1 1 0
L 0 0 1 2
GF GA Pts 5 1 6 6 0 4 1 3 1 0 8 0
Weekend results United States 1, Haiti 0 Jamaica 1, Canada 0 Yesterday’s results Trinidad 2, Cuba 0 Guatemala 0, Mexico 0 Today’s schedule at Sporting Park, Kansas City, Missouri Haiti vs. Honduras Panama vs. United States Tuesday, July 14 at BMO Field, Toronto Jamaica vs. El Salvador, 3 p.m. Canada vs. Costa Rica, 5:30 p.m.
MLS Eastern League Club PTS GP W L T DC United 35 21 10 6 5 NY Red Bulls 26 18 7 6 5 Toronto 24 17 7 7 3 Orlando 24 19 6 7 6 Columbus 24 19 6 7 6 N. England 24 21 6 9 6 Philadelphia 22 20 6 10 4 Montreal 21 16 6 7 3 NY City FC 21 19 5 8 6 Chicago 18 17 5 9 3 Western League Club PTS GP W L T Seattle 32 20 10 8 2 Vancouver 32 20 10 8 2 Dallas 32 19 9 5 5 Portland 31 20 9 7 4 Los Angeles 31 21 8 6 7 Sporting KC 30 17 8 3 6 San Jose 25 18 7 7 4 Houston 24 19 6 7 6 Salt Lake 23 20 5 7 8 Colorado 21 19 4 6 9 Weekend results New England 1, NY Red Bulls 4 Portland 0, Philadelphia 3 Dallas 2, Orlando 0 Columbus 0, Montreal 3 Seattle 0, Chicago 1 Salt Lake 1, Colorado 3 Toronto 4, NY City FC 4 Sporting KC 1, Vancouver 0
GF GA 23 18 27 23 26 27 23 24 27 29 26 33 25 32 23 25 24 27 19 24 GF GA 25 19 23 20 26 23 22 23 31 23 26 17 19 19 24 24 19 26 17 19
Friday, July 17 San Jose at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.
Pacific Coast Soccer League WDL 11 2 3 8 61 9 23 7 35 5 64 6 26 2 57 3 19 0 3 13
GF GA Pts 41 19 35 33 17 30 23 14 29 32 23 24 31 24 21 23 25 20 16 23 11 23 40 10 16 53 3
Saturday’s result Abbotsford 1, Kamloops 1
Pct .769 .707 .675 .650 .583 .500 .447 .390 .385 .359 .333 .214
Yesterday’s results Abbotsford 2, North Delta 1 North Shore 4, Parksville Royals 2 North Delta 10, Abbotsford 5 North Shore 2, Parksville 1 Saturday’s results North Shore 8, Abbotsford 3 Langley 4, Whalley 3 White Rock 4, Parksville 3 Langley 6, Whalley 3 Abbotsford 7, North Shore 4 White Rock 8, Parksville 7 Tuesday, July 14 Okanagan at North Delta, 2 p.m. North Delta at Okanagan, 4:30 p.m. White Rock at Langley, 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 15 Okanagan at North Delta, 2 p.m. North Delta at Okanagan, 4:30 p.m.
Women’s Doubles - Final Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, and Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, 5-7, 7-6 (4), 7-5. Mixed Doubles - Final Leander Paes, India, and Martina Hingis (7), Switzerland, def. Alexander Peya, Austria, and Timea Babos (5), Hungary, 6-1, 6-1.
PAN-AM GAMES Toronto, July 10-26
Rank/Country Gold Sil Bro 1 Canada 10 8 6 2 United States 7 5 7 3 Colombia 6 5 3 4 Mexico 4 6 7 5 Brazil 4 4 5 6 Cuba 3 1 4 7 Chile 2 0 2 8 Argentina 1 4 4 9 Ecuador 1 3 3 10 Dominican Rep. 1 0 3 11 Venezuela 0 3 1 12 Bermuda 0 0 1 El Salvador 0 0 1 Puerto Rico 0 0 1
Tot 24 19 14 17 13 8 4 9 7 4 4 1 1 1
Events with Canadian medalists Men’s BMX G- Tory Nyhaug, Canada S- Alfredo Campo Vintimilla, Ecuador B- Long Nicholas, United States
Women’s 3m Springboard G- Jennifer Abel, Canada S- Pamela Ware, Canada B- Dolores Hernandez, Mexico Women’s 10m Platform Paola Espinosa, Mexico Roseline Filion, Canada Meaghan Benfeito, Canada Judo: Women’s -52 kg G- Erika Miranda, Brazil S- Ecaterina Guica, Canada B- Angelica Delgado, United States and Gretter Romero, Cuba
Mountain cycling - Women’s XCO G- Emily Batty, Canada S- Catharine Pendrel, Canada B- Erin Huck, United States
LACROSSE Western Lacrosse Assn WLA Senior A L 3 5 7 6 6 7 10
T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pts 22 14 14 12 12 10 4
Saturday’s result Today’s schedule Coquitlam 15, Nanaimo 6
Men’s XCO G- Raphael Gagne, Canada S- Catriel Soto, Argentina B- Stephen Ettinger, United States Shooting - Women’s 10m Air Pistol G- Lynda Kiejko, Canada S- Alejandra Zavala, Mexico B- Lilian Castro, El Salvador Weightlifting - Men’s 69 kg G- Luis J. Mosquera Lozano, Colombia S- Bredni Roque, Mexico B- Francis Luna-Grenier, Canada
Tuesday, July 14 Victoria vs. Nanaimo, 7:00 p.m. Coquitlam vs. Maple Ridge, 7:45 p.m.
Rugby 7s - Men G- Canada S- Argentina B- United States
BC Junior A Lacrosse League
Rugby 7s - Women G- Canada S- United States B- Brazil
Saturday’s results Coquitlam 14, New Westminster 9 Coquitlam leads series 2-0 Delta 14, Victoria 6 (Game 1) Yesterday’s result Victoria at Delta, 5 p.m. (Game 2) Wednesday, July 15 New Westminster at Coquitlam, 7:30 p.m. (Game 3) Saturday, July 18 Coquitlam at N Westminster*, 2:30 p.m. Delta at Victoria, 5 p.m.
This week’s race GB 2 3.5 4.5 7.5 10.5 12.5 15 15 16 17 22.5
DOUBLES Men’s Doubles - Final Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (4), Romania, def. Jamie Murray, Britain, and John Peers (13), Australia, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4.
Synchronized Swimming Team G- Canada S- Mexico B- United States
Tuesday, July 14 Abbotsford at Van Tbirds, 7 p.m.
W 11 7 7 6 6 5 2
Women’s Singles Final Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Garbine Muguruza (20), Spain, 6-4, 6-4.
Synchronized Swimming Duet G- Canada S- Mexico B- United States
Sunday’s schedule Van United 3, Kamloops 2 Khalsa at Tim Hortons Mid Isle 1, FC Tigers 0
Standings GP Victoria 14 New Westminster 12 Langley 14 Burnaby 12 Coquitlam 12 Maple Ridge 12 Nanaimo 12
Men’s Singles - Final Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, 7-6 (1), 6-7 (10), 6-4, 6-3.
Diving Men’s 3m Springboard Diving G- Rommel Pacheco, Mexico S- Jahir Ocampo, Mexico B- Philippegagne, Canada
Wednesday, July 15 Columbus at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.
Vancouver Utd Victoria Mid Isle Khalsa Van Tbirds Kamloops Abbotsford Tim Hortons FC Tigers
Today-Sunday, July 12 (Major) All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London, England Surface: Grass. Purse: $42.2 million (men and women) 2014 champions: Novak Djokovic, Petra Kvitova
Canoeing Flat G- Canada S- Cuba B- Argentina
AUTO RACING
B.C. Premier League W 30 29 27 26 21 20 17 16 15 14 13 9
TENNIS
CONCACAF Gold Cup 2015
Playoffs Series are best-of-5 *=if necessary
Today’s schedule Bellingham at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m. Victoria at Medford, 6:35 p.m. Yakima Valley at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m. Klamath Falls at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m. Kelowna at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.
Team North Shore Victoria Eagles Langley Nanaimo Okanagan Whalley North Delta White Rock Abbotsford Coquitlam Victoria Mariners Parksville
SOCCER
NASCAR Quaker State 400 Saturday at Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, Kentucky. Race results (Start position in parentheses) 1 (9) Kyle Busch, Toyota, $209,316 2 (4) Joey Logano, Ford, $161,118 3 (8) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, $125,335 4 (20) Carl Edwards, Toyota, $124,295 5 (16) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, $142,111 6 (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, $140,656 7 (3) Jeff Gordon, Chev, $135,176 8 (15) Kevin Harvick, Chev, $137,640 9 (6) Jimmie Johnson, Chev, $132,151 10 (13) Kurt Busch, Chev, $102,715 11 (17) R Stenhouse Jr., Ford, $95,890 12 (12) Aric Almirola, Ford, $123,951 13 (28) Trevor Bayne, Ford, $126,790 14 (7) Jamie McMurray, Chev, $116,156 15 (14) Paul Menard, Chev, $93,915 16 (27) Greg Biffle, Ford, $116,523 17 (5) Martin Truex Jr., Chev, $111,035 18 (25) David Ragan, Toyota, $111,479 19 (30) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, $118,123 20 (26) Ryan Newman, Chev, $121,290 21 (10) Dale Jr., Chev $99,365 22 (18) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford $109,660 Race statistics Average Speed of Winner: 129.402 mph Time of Race: 3 hours, 5:42 Margin of Victory: 1.594 seconds Caution Flags: 11 for 49 laps Lead Changes: 13 among 8 drivers
Equestrian - Dressage Team G- United States S- Canada B- Brazil Gymnastics Artistic Women’s Team G- United States S- Canada B- Brazil
CYCLING 102nd Tour de France, July 4-26, 3,360 km in 21 stages. Canadian entries: Svein Tuft (Langley, B.C., Orica GreenEdge) Ryder Hesjedal (Victoria, CannondaleGarmin Pro Cycling Team) Today’s schedule Rest day Yesterday’s results Vannes to Plumelec, 28km team time trial, many hills and dips. 1 Christopher Froome, England, Team Sky, 31 hours, 34 minutes, 12 seconds 2 Tejay van Garderen, United States, BMC Racing Team, 31:34:24 3 Greg Van Avermaet, Belgium, BMC Racing Team, 31:34:39 4 Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Tinkoff-Saxo, 31:34:50 5 Alberto Contador, Spain, Tinkoff-Saxo, 31:35:15 122 Ryder Hesjedal, Victoria, Team Cannondale-Garmin, 32:10:40 180 Svein Tuft, Langley, B.C., Orica GreenEDGE, 32:38:29 Overall standings after Sunday’s stage 1 Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) 31hr 34min 12sec 2 Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) at 0:12sec 3 Greg Van Avermaet (BEL/BMC) 0:27 4 Peter Sagan (SVK/TIN) 0:38 5 Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) 1min 03sec 122 Ryder Hesjedal (Victoria/CAN) 36:28 180 Svein Tuft (Langley, B.C./ORI) 1h04:17.
John Deere Classic, July 9-12 TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Illinois. Par 71, 7,256 yards. Purse: $4,700,000. 2014 champion: Brian Harman Final leaderboard Golfer Par R1R2R3 R4 1 Jordan Spieth -20 71 64 61 68 2 Tom Gillis -20 66 65 69 64 NOTE: Spieth won 2-hole playoff T3 Zach Johnson -19 66 68 66 65 T3 Danny Lee -19 68 68 62 67 T5 Chris Stroud -18 68 68 67 63 T5 Johnson Wagner -18 68 63 68 67 T5 Justin Thomas -18 63 67 69 67 T8 Steve Wheatcroft-16 67 66 70 65 T8 Will Wilcox -16 66 66 69 67 T8 Kevin Chappell -16 68 69 64 67 T8 Daniel Summerhays-16 65 67 68 68 T12 Jason Bohn -15 68 68 69 64 T12 Carl Pettersson -15 66 71 66 66 T14 Robert Streb -14 66 70 68 66 T14 Scott Piercy -14 67 69 67 67 T14 Luke Guthrie -14 64 70 67 69 17 Jerry Kelly -13 70 66 67 68 T18 Roger Sloan Merritt, BC -12 70 68 67 67 T18 Adam Hadwin Abbotsford, B.C. -12 68 70 69 65 T18 Vijay Singh -12 67 68 70 67 Also from Canada T67 David Hearn -1 68 70 75 70
Canada (MacKenzie Tour) The Players Cup, July 9-12 Pine Ridge Golf Club, Winnipeg, Par 72, 6,636 yards. Purse: $175,000. 2014 champion: Timothy Madigan. * denotes Canadian Final leaderboard Golfer 1 Cheng-Tsung Pan 2 Robert Karlsson 3 JJ Spaun 4 *Mackenzie Hughes 5 Krister Eriksson T6 *Justin Shin T6 *Riley Wheeldon T8 Chase Marinell T8 Sam Ryder T8 Ben Briscoe T8 *Christopher Ross T8 Julien Brun T8 Daniel Balin T14 Vince Covello T14 Jared Wolfe T14 Drew Weaver T17 Vaita Guillaume T17 Jamison Sindelar T17 Tommy Cocha T17 *Eugene Wong
Par R1R2R3 R4 -15 71 67 65 66 -13 70 65 67 69 -12 69 64 67 72 -10 68 65 72 69 -9 72 65 68 70 -8 68 68 71 69 -8 72 68 67 69 -7 69 71 71 66 -7 70 67 72 68 -7 68 71 70 68 -7 68 73 68 68 -7 70 70 69 68 -7 70 65 68 74 -6 75 67 70 66 -6 70 71 69 68 -6 66 69 71 72 -5 68 69 75 67 -5 73 65 71 70 -5 70 70 69 70 -5 70 72 62 75
LPGA U.S. Women’s Open, July 9-12 Lancaster Country Club, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Par 72, 6,657 yards. Purse: $4,000,000. 2014 champion: Michelle Wie Final leaderboard Golfer Par R1R2R3 R4 1 In Gee Chun -8 68 70 68 66 2 Amy Yang -7 67 66 69 71 T3 Inbee Park -5 68 70 70 67 T3 Stacy Lewis -5 69 67 69 70 T5 Brooke Henderson Smiths Falls, Ont. -3 70 73 68 66 T5 Pernilla Lindberg -3 70 70 70 67 T5 So Yeon Ryu -3 72 68 70 67 T5 Jane Park -3 66 72 71 68 T5 Morgan Pressel -3 68 70 71 68 T5 Shiho Oyama -3 70 66 71 70 11 Michelle Wie -2 72 68 68 70 T12 Lydia Ko -1 70 72 69 68 T12 Min Lee -1 71 68 70 70 T14 Lizette Salas E 71 69 72 68 T14 Brittany Lang E 70 70 72 68 T14 Karrie Webb E 66 72 73 69 T14 Rumi Yoshiba E 70 68 72 70 T14 Mi Hyang Lee E 68 72 68 72
Champions Tour Encompass Championship, July 10-12 North Shore Country Club, Glenview, Illinois. Par 72, 7,031 yards. Purse: $1,900,000. 2014 champion: Tom Lehman Final leaderboard Golfer 1 Jerry Smith 2 David Frost 3 Wes Short Jr. T4 Woody Austin T4 Bart Bryant T6 Duffy Waldorf T6 Fred Funk T6 Lee Janzen T6 Mike Goodes T10 Fred Couples T10 Kenny Perry T10 Tom Lehman T13 Peter Senior T13 Grant Waite T13 Kevin Sutherland T13 Tom Pernice Jr T13 Jeff Maggert Canadian results T18 Jim Rutledge T18 Rod Spittle T41 Stephen Ames T64 Rick Gibson
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Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ukraine embassy used as a pawn in uprising Conservative government never fully acknowledged the extent of the security breach MURRAY BREWSTER THE CANADIAN PRESS
KYIV, Ukraine â&#x20AC;&#x201D; It was one of those events that simply appeared and disappeared during the bloody, swift-moving events of Ukraine in the winter revolution of 2014. Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s embassy in Kyiv was used as a haven for several days by anti-government protesters during the uprising that toppled the regime of former president Viktor Yanukovych. The Harper government never fully acknowledged â&#x20AC;&#x201D; during the upheaval or since â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the depth and extent of the security breach, which has had far-reaching implications on how Canadians are perceived in the region. The Canadian Press has spent months piecing together the events surrounding the extraordinary incident, which started on Feb. 18, 2014 and occurred at the height of the violent crackdown against pro-European protesters. ARMED WITH STONES, LEFT BEHIND FLOWERS It began, according to multiple sources in Kyiv and Ottawa, when one of the protesters being chased by riot police waved a Canadian passport at embassy security. Once the door was open, the individual was quickly followed by other demonstrators armed with sticks and paving stones. Roman Waschuk, the current Canadian ambassador in Kyiv, confirmed the account in a recent interview with The Canadian Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand there was a Canadian passport holder associated in some way with the group,â&#x20AC;? said Waschuk, who replaced Troy Lulashnyk as ambassador in Kyiv last year. He acknowledged the protesters were camped in the main lobby for at least a week, which is something neither Foreign Affairs nor the Harper government has ever publicly stated. Waschek also suggested no harm came of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From what I was told, it was several days and they left flowers on departure,â&#x20AC;? he said. A host of security improvements were made in the aftermath, but that opening of the doors was â&#x20AC;&#x153;a gesture designed to react and to reach out to the people suffering in the turmoil,â&#x20AC;? Waschek said. ALLIES QUESTION CANADAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ROLE But some of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s European allies, speaking on background because of the sensitivity of the subject, said the fact protesters were allowed to stay for so long and operate freely made it appear Canada was an active participant in regime change, and not just lend-
A protester throws a Molotov cocktail during clashes with police in central Kyiv, Ukraine in January 2014. Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s embassy in Kyiv was used as a haven for several days by anti-government protesters during the revolution that toppled the regime of former president Viktor Yanukovych. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
ing morale support. That was certainly the perception of Ukraineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior ministry, which oversees the police, national guard and the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intelligence services. Two ministry officials, with knowledge of the case and who agreed to meet as long as their identities were not revealed, said a criminal investigation was opened into the actions of the protesters, but quietly dropped after Yanukovych fled to Russia. They described an extraordinary scene of chaos and violence outside of the embassy, which is located in the heart of city immediately adjacent to the Maidan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or independence â&#x20AC;&#x201D; square. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much of an obstacle for them to get in. Not much security,â&#x20AC;? said one official. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canada was sympathizing with the protesters, at the time, more than the government.â&#x20AC;? The lobby was used to treat the wounded on the night of Feb. 18 and they were transferred to hospital by ambulance amid the violence, which included a minivan that was stolen by protesters, according to the officials. It was later found burned, something Ottawa hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t acknowledged, they said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was no public statement from the Canadian side about this, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really interesting what grounds they would use not to say something,â&#x20AC;? said the second official. Multiple layers of intrigue surround the occupation, which was first reported by Russian media as an attack on the embassy by
pro-Russian groups. A spokesman for then-foreign affairs minister John Baird acknowledged, on the day itself, that protesters were in the reception area of the building; they had taken â&#x20AC;&#x153;shelter,â&#x20AC;? and they were â&#x20AC;&#x153;peaceful and have not caused any damage or harm to staff.â&#x20AC;? After the initial report, there was silence. The embassy was closed and remained so throughout the tumultuous events that culminated with Yanukovych fleeing to Russia on Feb. 22. How the protesters got in and what happened during their stay was never fully explained by the Harper government, which â&#x20AC;&#x201D; according to sources in Ottawa â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was seized with how to respond and what options there might be to end the occupation. In the end, a decision was made â&#x20AC;&#x153;at the highest levelsâ&#x20AC;? to let events play-out. STRIDENT CANADA NO SHOCK TO UKRAINIANS If you talk to ordinary people here, academics or even Ukraineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charge dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;affaires in Ottawa, the fact Canada pushed the envelope isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t surprising. They see it as a natural extension of the Harper governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bullish rhetoric, and in fact something theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to expect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Generally speaking in Ukrainian public opinion, as well in the Ukraine government of that time, there was a common understanding that Canadian sympathies are on the side of the protesters, pro-European, pro-democratic,â&#x20AC;? Marko Shevchenko said in a recent
interview with The Canadian Press. Dominque Arel, a noted expert on Ukraine at the University of Ottawa, agreed and said the perception that Canada was more than a disinterested bystander was formed long before the Maidan protests, which erupted in the fall of 2013, turned violent. Perhaps reinforcing that rebel image, at least one local embassy staffer was targeted for her attendance at anti-government rallies and online blogging that was critical of Yanukovych. Inna Tsarkova, who was part of a group called AutoMaidan which carried out mobile protests around Kyiv, had her car torched and she faced traffic violation charges in December 2013. She declined to speak about her experience, but as the local spokeswoman for the embassy her treatment fit with a pattern of official intimidation at the time, which targeted journalists and other high-profile figures. There is no prohibition on locally-hired embassy staff participating in political movements. EMBASSY INCIDENT REFLECTS BROADER FOREIGN POLICY The fallout is rarely discussed, but Canadians are not very popular in some quarters and occasionally loathed by pro-Russian Ukrainians. Arel said he knows of one incident where a Canadian journalist was briefly detained by rebels. Bob Fowler, a former diplomat and senior foreign policy adviser to three prime ministers, says the Harper government has played a dangerous game and pushed the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement in Ukraine.
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Pope visits slum, urges church to welcome sick Pope Francis put into practice his call for the world’s poor and powerless to not be left on the margins of society by visiting a flood-prone slum Sunday and insisting that the Catholic Church be a place of welcome for all — sick and sinners especially. On the final day of his three-nation South American tour, Francis sought to offer a message of hope and mission to the residents of the Banado Norte shantytown and to an estimated 1 million people gathered for his farewell Mass on the same swampy field where St. John Paul II proclaimed Paraguay’s first saint nearly 30 years ago.
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Unity state to bar UN official over new report A UN diplomat based in South Sudan’s northern Unity state will be expelled from the state in a retaliatory move following the publication of a human rights report last month that accused government forces of committing widespread attacks on civilians there, a South Sudanese official said Sunday. The decision to expel Mary Cummins was made in a state Cabinet meeting, deputy state governor Mabek Lang told The Associated Press. Cummins is head of the UN mission in Unity state. UNMISS’ human rights division released a report on June 30 accusing government forces of committing human rights abuses, including killing women and children, gang rape and burning people.
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Massive marine debris removal project underway A massive cleanup effort is getting underway in Alaska, with tons of marine debris — some likely sent to sea by the 2011 tsunami in Japan — set to be airlifted from rocky beaches and taken by barge for recycling and disposal in the Pacific Northwest. Hundreds of heavy-duty bags of debris, collected in 2013 and 2014 and stockpiled at a storage site in Kodiak, also will be shipped out. The barge is scheduled to arrive in Kodiak by Thursday, before setting off on a roughly one-month venture. The scope of the project, a year in the making, is virtually unheard of in Alaska. It was spurred, in part, by the mass of material that’s washed ashore.
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FINANCE
RESOURCES
Feds look to specifics to boost troubled economy
Parties set to debate LNG deal
Run-up to October’s election comes amid talk of recession
DIRK MEISSNER THE CANADIAN PRESS BRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — All but overlooked in the past week of troubling economic news was federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s unexpected nod to government stimulus spending. The run-up to an October general election is happening amid talk of recession, international downgrades of Canada’s growth prospects, weak world oil prices and several grim provincial outlooks — stormy seas for an incumbent Conservative government seeking a fourth mandate after staking its reputation on sound economic management. A Conservative re-election plan engineered in sunnier days when a return to balanced budgets could comfortably co-exist with voter-friendly spending bonanzas is now being repurposed as a recession-fighting necessity. “What people should understand is that some of the measures which the prime minister announced and which I announced in the budget will inject almost $10 billion in cash into the economy this year,” Oliver told reporters in Vancouver last Tuesday. “The two primary sources of that cash input relate to the family benefits program and infrastructure spending. So that will have an impact, a positive impact on Canadian economic activity.” WHAT’S COMING? Parents with children under 18 will start getting new benefit cheques — retroactive to Jan. 1 — on July 20, a one-time, pre-election burst of cash totalling more than $2.5 billion. Conservative ministers and MPs, meanwhile, are announcing new community infrastructure projects virtually every day this summer from a variety of infrastructure funds — some of which have lain fallow for months awaiting the optimal pre-election moment for government-friendly announcements. Oliver’s office says the government added more than $1.6 billion to existing infrastructure funding for 2015-16. Economists, as is their way, are divided on whether the family benefit spending spree or the infrastructure dollars will have much economic impact this year. But they all agree that with
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a new Conservative balanced budget law in place and an election looming, additional recession-fighting fiscal measures from the government are not in the cards before Canadians go to the polls in October. “They’re a little bit caught because they’re basically making one of the big anchors of their election platform the return to a balanced budget,” said Don Drummond, a former senior Finance Canada official who now teaches at Queen’s University. Mike Moffatt, who teaches economics at the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey Business School and also serves as chief economist at the Mowat Centre, said last week’s 1.2 per cent growth prediction for the year by TD Bank suggests a $3 billion loss in revenue from Oliver’s April budget forecast, which was predicated on growth of 2.0 per cent. STIMULATING CHEQUES? Moffatt, who helped the Liberal party cost its family benefit package, believes this month’s burst of retroactive government cheques will have a positive impact. “I don’t think the government thought we’d be in a recession in July: ’Let’s make sure the cheques start flowing then!’ That is a happy accident, and I think that is quite beneficial,” said Moffatt. “I don’t think stimulus has to be more subtle than that.” Finn Poschman, vice-president of policy analysis at the C.D. Howe Institute, says the lump sum family benefits will certainly be welcome. “But the economic evidence of using transfers — putting cash in hands of households — to stimulate economic activity is mixed. It’s generally not negative, nor is
it strongly positive.” Poschman, a self-described “market oriented” economist, dryly noted that, as long as the family cash infusion isn’t funded through deficits, “the likelihood of it being harmless is much better than otherwise.” Drummond is equally cool to the idea. There’s “a pretty clear hierarchy” of what policy measures stimulate the economy, he said. In fact, the Conservatives’ own 2009 recession-fighting budget included a chart that showed the dollar-for-dollar GDP multipliers of seven different measures, with infrastructure spending the most beneficial. Personal and corporate income tax measures were at the bottom, with help for low-income households in the middle of the pack. Drummond says some portion of any tax relief or transfer to individuals will be saved and some spent, while infrastructure dollars all go back directly into the economy. Moreover, roughly a third of what families do spend goes toward imported items, mitigating the impact on the domestic market. The family cheques will have some effect, said Drummond, “but not an awful lot.” INFRASTRUCTURE BENEFITS He’s more bullish on major infrastructure projects, which use Canadian labour and materials while providing longterm productivity benefits. But Drummond notes that many of the projects currently being announced in the run-up to the election are smaller projects, such as community centres and hockey rinks. “That gets the money spent and gets the concrete going, but that doesn’t have the longrun economic benefits,” said Drummond. INTEREST RATE RELIEF One measure outside the government’s direct control is a move in interest rates. The Bank of Canada is set to make a scheduled announcement Wednesday amid speculation its trend-setting rate could be cut in an effort to boost the economy. But the bank’s key rate, now at 0.75 per cent, is already at rock bottom.
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s politicians are returning to the legislature to debate the details of an agreement that could pave the way for the largest private investment in the province’s history — a proposed $36-billion liquefied natural gas export plant. The Pacific NorthWest LNG project planned for Lelu Island near Prince Rupert still requires federal environmental approval, and Malaysian energy giant Petronas has yet to make its final investment decision. But ratifying the project development agreement in the legislature provides investor certainty, Finance Minister Mike de Jong said. “We think the stakes are big,” he said about the deal he will introduce this week though legislative sessions are not typically held in the summer. “We are anxious to address the remaining issues that would lead to this particular project moving forward,” De Jong said. He said the potential economic returns from B.C.’s first LNG deal would outweigh targeted-tax tradeoffs included in a 25-year deal that is detailed in a legislative document he will table in the legislature. The project is estimated to create 4,500 construction jobs and could generate $9 billion in government revenues in a decade, de Jong said. He said B.C.’s entire forest industry brought in between $550 million and $600 million for the province over the past five years. The agreement includes assurances that Pacific NorthWest LNG will not face significant increases in specific taxes, including the LNG income tax, the carbon tax and the natural-gas tax credit, de Jong said. It does not protect the company from increases in provincial sales and corporate taxes, he added. Opposition NDP Leader John Horgan said what he’s seen of the agreement looks more like a sellout than a payoff for the province. “I believe the (project development agreement), as it’s constituted, is in the interest of Petronas and not in the interest of B.C.,” Horgan said. “A quarter of a century tax holiday for a foreign company, no guarantees for direct jobs, no direct guarantee for local procurement.”
MEXICO
Drug lord escapes prison cell through tunnel E. EDUARDO CASTILLO AND KATHERINE CORCORAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Mexico mounted an all-out manhunt Sunday for its most powerful drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who authorities said escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1.5-kilometre (1 mile) tunnel from a small opening in the shower area of his cell. The elaborate underground escape route, allegedly built without the detection of authorities, allowed Guzman to do what Mexican officials promised would never happen after his re-capture last year — slip out of one of the country’s most secure penitentiaries for the second time. “This represents without a doubt an affront to the Mexican state,” President Enrique Pena Nieto said while on a previously scheduled trip to France. “But I also have confidence in the institutions of the Mexican state ... that they have the strength and determination to recapture this criminal.” Guzman’s escape is a major embarrassment to the Pena Nieto administration, which had received plaudits for its aggressive approach to top drug lords. Since the government took office in late 2012, Mexican authorities have nabbed or killed six of them, including Guzman. If he is not caught immediately, Guzman lord will likely be back in full command and control of the Sinaloa Cartel in 48 hours, said Michael S. Vigil, a retired U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief of international operations. “We may never find him again,”
Federal Police patrol outside of the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya, west of Mexico City, Sunday. A massive manhunt is underway after Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, escaped from a maximum security prison through a tunnel. [AP PHOTO]
Vigil said. “All the accolades that Mexico has received in their counterdrug efforts will be erased by this one event.” Thirty employees from various part of the Altiplano prison, 55 miles (90 kilometres) west of Mexico City, have been taken in for questioning, the federal Attorney General’s Office said. When the escape was discovered late Saturday, a widespread manhunt began immediately for Guzman, whose cartel is believed to control most of the major crossing points for drugs at the U.S. border with Mexico. Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel empire stretches throughout North America and reaches as far as Europe and Australia. The cartel has been heavily involved in the bloody drug war that has
torn through parts of Mexico for a decade, taking an estimated 100,000 lives or more. Guatemala’s Interior Ministry said a special task force of police and soldiers were watching its border with southern Mexico for any sign of the fugitive drug lord. To the north, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch issued a statement offering “any assistance that may help support his swift recapture.” Associated Press journalists near the Altiplano prison saw roads being heavily patrolled by federal police, with numerous checkpoints and a Black Hawk helicopter flying overhead. Flights were suspended at Toluca’s international airport near the penitentiary in the State of
Mexico, and civil aviation hangars were being searched. Guzman, who is 58 according to Interpol, was last seen about 9 p.m. Saturday in the shower area of his cell, according to a statement from the National Security Commission. After a time, he was lost by the prison’s security camera surveillance network. Upon checking his cell, authorities found it empty and a 20-by-20-inch (50-by-50 centimetre) hole near the shower. Guzman climbed down a hole 10 metres (30 feet) deep that connected with a tunnel about 1.7 metres (5 feet-6 inches) high that was fully ventilated and had lighting, said National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said. Authorities also found tools, oxygen tanks and a motorcycle adapted to run on rails that they believe was used to carry dirt out and tools in during the construction. The tunnel terminated in a half-built barn-like building in a farm field, according to radio transmissions among authorities, who cordoned off the structure that sits atop a small rise with a clear view of the prison. One woman who lives near the barn-like structure where the tunnel emerged, said outsiders bought the surrounding land about a year ago and immediately started building. The woman, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals, said that her son had been employed as a construction worker on the surface buildings and that the builders paid well. Guzman faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. as well as Mexico and he was on the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration’s most-wanted list. After Guzman was arrested on Feb. 22, 2014, the U.S. said it would file an extradition request, though it’s not clear if that happened. The Mexican government at the time vehemently denied the need to extradite Guzman, even as many expressed fears he would escape as he did in 2001 while serving a 20-year sentence in the country’s other top-security prison, Puente Grande, in the western state of Jalisco. Then Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told the AP earlier this year that the U.S. would get Guzman in “about 300 or 400 years” after he served time for all his crimes in Mexico. He dismissed concerns that Guzman could escape a second time. That risk “does not exist,” Murillo Karam said. Mexico’s extraditions of drug suspects to the United States have dropped under Pena Nieto’s administration, with Mexico preferring to try them at home. Rep. Filemon Vela, a Democrat from Texas, wrote that Mexico’s failure to extradite Guzman and other figures facing charges in the United States “is an insult to the law enforcement and prosecutorial personnel who have worked for years to build criminal cases against these drug profiteers.” “The United States needs to exercise stronger diplomatic muscle” to ensure Guzman and others are sent north to face charges, Vega wrote. It was difficult to believe that such an elaborate structure could have been built without the detection of authorities, though photographs show the corrections facility surrounded by construction.
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HEALTH
LOCAL POLITICS
Concern raised over lack Surgery for swinging-door heart valves; loose, rusty hinges of P&R Dir. replacement
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itral valve surgery can best be described by comparison to the swinging saloon door in old western movies. It demonstrates what can go wrong with the heart’s valves. And what surgical procedure is needed to correct mitral valve prolapse (MVP). To get a firsthand view of this procedure, I watched Dr. Tirone David, one the world’s great cardiac surgeons, perform the operation at Toronto General Hospital. The mitral valve separates the two left chambers of the heart. Each time the heart beats the valves swing open, like the doors of a western saloon. But after opening they close firmly again while the heart pumps blood to the body. The problem is that swinging doors of saloons often develop loose rusty hinges that don’t close well. The mitral valve has the same trouble when the tough parachute-like cords that attach the valves to the heart’s muscle become too loose. When this happens some ejected blood falls back into the heart’s chamber following every beat. This places extra burden on the heart’s muscle. If you’re diagnosed with this condition, don’t panic. You’re far from the end of the road. Prior to the use of echocardiograms (ultrasound of the heart), doctors believed MVP was present in 17 percent of women and 5 percent of men. Now we know it’s less common, affecting about 2.4 percent of both sexes. But, according to a report from Johns Hopkins University, about 25 percent of Americans older than age 55 have some degree of MVP. It’s now believed that, in addition to aging, genetics also plays a role in who develops this condition.
Dr. Gifford Jones The Doctor Game How mitral valve prolapse is treated depends on several factors. The great majority of patients with MVP have no idea it is present and normally do not need surgery. Some patients complain of shortness of breath, palpitations and fatigue. But people without MVP can experience similar symptoms. What often happens is these symptoms occur after the diagnosis, triggering anxiety. Dr. David says that several factors must be considered before deciding mitral surgery is needed. One of the most important is the severity of the prolapse and what affect it’s having on the heart’s muscle. There’s an old saying that, “A stitch in time saves nine”. In mild cases of MVP, there’s no point in exposing patients prematurely to the risk of surgery. But it also makes no sense to wait until either the patient’s symptoms are severe or the muscles of the heart are failing from extra stress. Mitral valve surgery is not just for incompetent valves. It’s also performed when the mitral valve becomes thickened and rigid from aging and the opening becomes as small as a pencil. The extra work of pushing blood through such a tiny opening can also cause heart failure. Patients with these conditions often have heart murmurs that can be detected by a stethoscope. But an echocardiogram of the heart will determine
their severity and help to gauge whether the condition is worsening. In recent years there’s been tremendous advancements in surgical technique for the treatment of MVP or stenosis. The morning I watched Dr. David operate, the patient’s chest was opened in the same way as a bypass operation. This patient suffered from severe mitral stenosis and required a totally new valve. The majority of cases performed today try to save the old valve. For instance, it is often possible to shorten the parachute-like cords which restore the valves to their normal position. The advantage to using the patient’s own tissue is that there is no chance of its rejection by the body. In other cases, minimal invasive surgery can be done by working through the femoral artery, the blood vessel at the top of the leg. A new valve is guided through the artery using a special catheter tube until it reaches the mitral valve location and is inserted. Dr. David says there’s no age limit for mitral valve surgery as long as the patient has no other problems that would increase the risk. His oldest mitral valve patient was 95 years of age. » W. Gifford-Jones M.D. is a graduate of University of Toronto and the Harvard Medical School. He trained in general surgery at the Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University and in Gynecology at Harvard. He has also been a general practitioner, ship’s surgeon and hotel doctor. For more information, see his website, www.docgiff.com or to comment, e-mail him at info@ docgiff.com.
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ith the recent announcement by Parks and Recreation Director Scott Kenny that he will retire in a few weeks, you would think that the politicians we elect to conduct the public’s business should be busy looking for a suitable candidate to fill the position soon to be vacated by Mr. Kenny. Losing a key person in any large organization under any circumstance causes challenges. At time of writing, however, there is no job posting for P&R Director on the City’s website and there have been no employment ads placed in the media to solicit prospective candidates. Mr. Kenny’s intention to retire should not come as a surprise to council. Most who follow local politics could tell you that recently, one of the worst kept secrets in the city was that of Mr. Kenny’s impending retirement this summer. So what is the reason for council’s reticence on the subject of a replacement for Mr. Kenny as Parks and Recreation Director? Since many political observers had an inkling of Mr. Kenny’s impending retirement for the past year, then surely the politicians who make up the current council must have had the same inkling. After all, they just ran campaigns upon which they suggested they had an awareness of local issues, and could do a better job than some of the incumbents they ran against, and beat, in the recent election. Instead though, regarding a smooth transition in the P&R Department, the current council appears to be heading in a direction that economic logic or general good sense would not. In his role as department head, Mr. Kenny is responsible for an operational budget that, according to the current 5-year financial plan, is projected to be $6.4 million for the current
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year, increasing to $7 million by fiscal 2019. Additionally, he is responsible for the safekeeping, operation and maintenance of millions of dollars of tangible, public recreational assets that are owned by city taxpayers. And further to that, he leads and provides direction to five other managers and several more subordinate employees who work at the recreational facilities that taxpayers own. On one level it could be argued that council not acting to find a replacement for Mr. Kenny implies that perhaps his position is no longer needed, and maybe wasn’t so important after all, even if his years of service are viewed favourably. On another level, it ignores the likelihood of an increased workload that city manager Ken Watson may have to face from many of the issues that a P&R Director deals with, and it ignores the effect on the morale for remaining employees in a rather unstructured parks department. A commitment by council for transparency and value for tax money spent is a worthy endeavour, but it has resulted in a majority of council dogmatically pursuing a management review before they’ll address certain personnel issues. Bad decisions can be made when political expediency is placed above the public good, and employee morale. The apparent lack of action by council, or leadership by the Mayor, to oversee a smooth transition for a key personnel position in our city, demonstrates such a decision.
WILDLIFE THROUGH YOUR LENS
This juvenile eagle landed on the ground after part of its nest fell to the ground. [PHOTO SUBMITTED]
Eagle gets some TLC after nest falls
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his juvenile bald eagle was admitted to the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre on July 7th from Nanaimo when it was found on the ground after over half of its nest had fallen from its tree. Part of the nest remained in the tree along with a much larger and healthier sibling eaglet but this one was in poor shape on the ground. Rescuers found it in the thick underbrush and we were able to transport it to NIWRA where it will receive care. Nest building generally begins 1-2 months prior to egg-laying. There is only one brood season but if the nest is destroyed during incubation, replacement clutches may be possible. Eggs take 35 days of incubation. A nest tree is generally one of largest trees available with accessible limbs capable of holding a nest which may measure 2.7 m in diameter, 3.6 m high with an estimated weight of almost 2 metric tons. Among the largest nests of all birds they may be constructed on cliffs using larger sticks than those of Golden Eagles. The largest nest on record in Florida was 2.9
Sylvia Campbell Wild N Free m in diameter and 6.1 m tall. A large, super-canopy nest tree provides good flight access to the nest and good visibility of the surrounding area. Nesttree branches must be capable of holding first sticks brought to the nest as the breeding pair begin nest construction. Ground nests are used in treeless regions such as Northern Canada. Tree species used for nesting vary throughout their range because of regional differences in dominant trees. Coniferous trees, spruces and firs are used where conifers become dominant in canopy. Deciduous trees, including oaks, hickories and cottonwoods and aspen are used where large conifers are absent. Both sexes contribute, although female may place the sticks. Sticks are collected from the ground of the surrounding area for building materials or broken off of nearby trees. Once
initiated, nest-building may take up to 3 mo to complete, although nests may be completed in as little as 4 days. Additional materials are regularly added to the nest throughout the year, including daily additions during the breeding season, such that nests used for multiple years may achieve enormous dimensions. Nests are usually constructed below the crown of a tree, often the highest point where the large branches join the bole of the tree. Nests are constructed from an array of sticks placed in an interwoven pattern. Other materials added as fillers may include grasses, mosses, even corn stalks. Nest boles are lined with finer woody materials, and ultimately lined with downy feathers from the adults. Nests often contain sprigs of greenery and are often reused year after year. Please visit our website at www.niwra.org » Sylvia Campbell works at the North Island Wildlife Centre. If you would like more information about wildlife, call the centre at 250-248-8534.
Heart of Vancouver Island This photo was taken looking at Dog Mountain down Taylor Arm last week. Even in the smoke clouds, it shows that the community still has a heart. [CATHY FERSTER PHOTO]