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MONTREAL — Actor Randy Quaid has been ordered released by the Immigration and Refugee Board but faces the looming prospect of being returned to the United States as early as next week. Quaid appeared briefly before the board in Montreal on Thursday for a detention review and was released in short order by board member Dianne Tordorf, who said there were no grounds to hold him. Quaid has already been arrested once by CBSA officers in May and released on $10,000 bond and a host of conditions by the same board member, all of which had been respected. “All the conditions have been respected, I find that the offer of release that I made in the past is completely valid today,” Tordorf ruled. “I’m releasing you right now because there’s no reason to detain you, there is no breach, there is nothing under the law that would permit me even to deprive you of your freedom.” The CBSA’s Anthony Lashley told the hearing an impending departure date and the rejection of a pre-removal risk assessment application on Sept. 22 prompted the arrest on Tuesday, fearing he wouldn’t comply with an order to leave the country next Wednesday. “This is the position of the agency: Mr. Quaid represents a flight-risk, we feel it’s an important one, we feel that the circumstances have changed enough to warrant his arrest,” Lashley said, before Tordorf immediately rule that Quaid be released.

Actor Randy Quaid is escorted into his Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in Montreal on Thursday. Quaid has been ordered released by the Immigration and Refugee Board but still faces being sent back to the United States next week. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Sporting the same massive beard and shoulder-length grey hair, Quaid was silent during the hearing as his wife, Evi, sat in the audience. They both left the downtown Montreal office, politely declining comment. His lawyer, Mark Gruszczynski, told the hearing Quaid’s arrest was “tantamount to a preventative detention.” The 65-year-old Quaid was informed this week he would be sent back to the United States, where he faces an outstanding warrant and pending criminal charges.

Contacted Thursday, a CBSA spokeswoman did not say whether the removal would proceed or provide any further explanations. Quaid and his Canadian wife fled to Canada in 2010, saying they were the victims of persecution. Quaid had sought to stay in Canada and said he was being hunted by “Hollywood star-whackers.” Quaid’s bid for permanent residency was denied in December 2012 and he was arrested earlier this year after he stopped checking in with immigration officials.

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VICTORIA — Battered by a series of teen deaths and damning reports that say British Columbia’s government is failing at protecting vulnerable children, the minister in charge said Thursday confronting tragedy is part of her job description. Stephanie Cadieux acknowledged there have been government failures connected to working with children and families hurt by violence, neglect and poverty, but those missteps and their real-life consequences are not a result of her ministry’s indifference. “The ministry will always have really unfortunate things that happen,” she said. “Really sad, really tragic. Sometimes we learn from those situations

that perhaps could have been prevented. Sometimes they couldn’t.” B.C.’s independent children’s watchdog Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond said in a report Thursday that children and youth in government care are not being properly protected because of ministry underfunding. Her report, The Thin Front Line, concluded the ministry needs to increase its budget by $20 million in order to hire 250 more people, including 200 front-line social workers, just to make its social service duties functional. “We need to add 250 positions immediately,” she said at a news conference. Turpel-Lafond said the government’s position that it hired 110 new social workers in the

past year doesn’t add up because 91 social workers left government, leaving only 19 new people. Turpel-Lafond’s report was released on the same day the B.C. Government and Services Employees Union issued its own review criticizing government support of social workers in aboriginal child service agencies. The union’s report, Closing the Circle, said the aboriginal child welfare system is culturally unsuitable, underfunded and understaffed. Aboriginal leaders also demanded Thursday an independent investigation into the death of an aboriginal teenager in government care. The First Nations Leadership Council sent a letter to Premier

Christy Clark urging an immediate independent inquiry into the death of 18-year-old Alex Gervais. Gervais fell to his death from a fourth-floor window of an Abbotsford hotel on Sept. 18. Turpel-Lafond has said it’s believed he killed himself. The a case review of Gervais’s care has been launched, but the ministry has resisted calls for a public inquiry. Opposition NDP Leader John Horgan has called for Cadieux to resign, describing her job as minister as “pathetic.” Cadieux said in the legislature a review was underway to determine if proper policy was followed for the rejection, but she didn’t say if a case review would be held into the teen’s death.

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Walk-on weekend will be busy for BC Ferries DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

BC Ferries is bracing for throngs of walk-on passengers this long weekend. Thanksgiving is the heaviest weekend of the year for walk-on traffic on all BC Ferries routes, according to a B.C. Ferries spokesman. Darin Guenette said the reason is tied to the number of students travelling home for the first long weekend of the school year. “Anecdotally what we see is a lot of post-secondary students, some of them literally carrying their laundry with them,” said Guenette. The ferry service expects 300,000 passengers this weekend, a four per cent increase from last year and on par with the seasonal increase seen throughout 2015. “It traditionally is our busiest foot

passenger weekend of the year. We actually see, on this weekend, the odd overload in foot passengers. It’s extremely busy.” The largest, Spirit-class vessels have a capacity of 2,100 crew and passengers. The Queen of Cowichan holds 1,488 and 897 will fit on the Queen of Burnaby. BC Ferries prepares for the increase by increasing its ticket agent staff numbers, making automatic ticketing kiosks available where possible, and preparing as best it can to get the flow of people moving. But the squeeze is specifically for walk-ons. On summer long weekends, overall ferry traffic can be much heavier than this weekend. By comparison Thanksgiving is “not in the top five,” Guenette said. Expect ferries to be busiest at either end of the Thanksgiving weekend, and especially so on the holiday

Monday. BC Ferries saw travel start to pick up marginally on Thursday, but today the numbers are expected to rise steeply throughout the day, before dipping close to normal levels Saturday afternoon. “At the end of the long weekend, everyone travels on Monday. It’s all on one day, and it tends to be in the daylight hours,” Guenette said. So if there are delays, expect them Monday afternoon. One option for Islanders returning that day is to board the Tsawwassen ferry, which has considerably lighter traffic than the Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay route, Guenette said. “There are far fewer vehicles and fewer people.” Darrell.Bellaart @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4235

The Departure Bay ferry terminal will be busy during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. [DAILY NEWS]

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VIU students were not included in pilot project DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

A push by Elections Canada push to engage post-secondary students won’t include those at Vancouver Island University. In a pilot project for the 2015 federal general election, Elections Canada opened temporary offices at select campuses, friendship centres and community centres this week. Described as additional service points where people can get information, register and vote, they are open to students and other eligible voters. Support from Elections Canada would be welcome on the VIU campus, where many students are from out of town and are unsure where they can vote. “We would love as much support as possible to engage our students,” said Patrick Barbosa, VIU Students Union organizer and advocate. That Elections Canada did make a stop at the campus in late September to register students helps, but Barbosa said there is a gap between Elections

Canada services and what young voters need. New voting requirements call for identification with a current address. Many students are unsure “if they should be voting in this riding or their home riding,” and Barbosa finds it strange to make it more difficult, even though there have been no reports of voter fraud. “The issue in Canada wasn’t people cheating, the issue was engagement in the process,” Barbosa said.“Government ought to have been finding a way to encourage people to vote, rather than (make it more) challenging.” Elections Canada opened temporary offices at several campuses, youth centres and friendship centres to make the voting process more accessible. B.C. locations include University of Victoria, University of B.C. and Simon Fraser University. Darrell.Bellaart @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4235

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How much is too much? Salaries for municipal politicians always good fodder for debate

yebrows were raised last month when the directors in the Capital Regional District voted to double their wages for 2016. The elected directors of the CRD, which encompasses the 13 municipalities of Greater Victoria, voted to raise their salaries from $8,940 to $17,000 next year. The argument in favour of the pay hikes was that their salaries had not Robert been adjusted Barron in 20 years and Reporting the current wage was not taking into consideration the increasing costs of inflation, the increased work load of directors over two decades and other factors. The question of how much Vancouver Island politicians should make is posed on a regular basis. It is one those same politicians must answer. “I don’t think we should be making decisions that reward ourselves,” CRD director Marianne Alto — one of six members of the CRD’s 18-director board to vote against her wage increase — said at the time. The provincial government disagrees. In fact, all municipal councils and regional districts in B.C. are required by legislation to set their own pay rates, and they are established as part of their responsibilities in managing their municipality’s budgets. While that may make many elected councillors and directors uncomfortable, Alec Tully,

Nanaimo city hall. [DAILY NEWS]

a spokesman for the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, said there are reasons for the process. He said actions by elected officials, including voting on their own pay raises, are scrutinized by the public who have the opportunity to keep them accountable through the local municipal-election cycle. “The province, as with any level of government, expects that elected officials will be financially responsible and accountable to the one taxpayer we all serve,” Tully said. It’s also up to each municipality to determine a process in which their elected officials are paid.

Many establish external committees comprised of independent citizens who study the pay rates for elected leaders in similar-sized communities to help determine remuneration. Other factors, such as inflation and the differing responsibilities of elected officials in each municipality, are also considered in the process. In Nanaimo, it’s city staff who do the research and make recommendations for remuneration to council members. John Van Horne, Nanaimo’s director of human resources, said council adopted a policy in 2011 in which it looks at 12 similar-sized

communities and bases its pay in the middle. The current base pay for the mayor of Nanaimo, with a population of 88,000, is $95,103 per year, while the mayor of Victoria, with a population of 80,000, makes $99,714. Van Horne said other organizations, like CUPE and firefighter unions, use the same type of methods to determine their pay scales. “But one issue with this is that council members must cast votes to determine their own pay, and then have to defend their positions,” he said. Ron Bowles, Campbell River’s general manager of corporate services, said the city’s independent community partnership committee conducts a review every six years to determine pay. He said the committee also considers the pay of other communities of comparable size with a similar “make-up” in regards to tax bases and other factors. Bowles said that in between these reviews, the pay is annually adjusted to the rate of inflation. He said having the committee review the pay scale and making recommendations takes the elected officials at least one level away from determining their own pay. Talitha Soldera, the City of Duncan’s director of finance, said that in 2012, the city hired a consultant to conduct a review of council remuneration in other municipalities. The consultant discovered that Duncan’s mayor and council were paid significantly less than other municipal councils. She said that at the time, council voted to increase the mayor’s remuneration by five per cent per year until 2017, and council’s pay by five per cent in 2012 and 2013,

and six per cent annually from 2014-2017. Additionally, these amounts would be increased each year by the Consumer Price Index for Vancouver for the previous year. “This would allow the mayor and council’s remuneration to be more comparable to similarly sized municipalities by 2017 when the next review is to be conducted,” Soldera said. Ladysmith’s town manager Ruth Malli said the community also relies on an independent committee to review pay scales in comparable communities, with similar services, and make recommendations to council. Malli said sometimes the recommendations are not followed, and council has rejected recommended pay raises in past years. “It’s difficult for council members to set their own pay, but (provincial) legislation requires it,” she said. “Some other countries, like Australia and New Zealand, provide their municipalities with a framework to work under and offers a range of compensation options for elected officials, depending on a number of factors.” Malli said public service is a necessary component of any democracy and “good people” are needed to determine policy direction in municipalities, so adequate compensation is required. Robert.Barron @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234

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CANADA VOTES!

Local issues dominate Ladysmith meeting SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Candidates vying to represent Nanaimo and Ladysmith in the next Parliament went head to head in a lively all-candidates forum Thursday. Local issues took prominence throughout the evening, as the four made their pitches â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and took one another to task â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a packed Aggie Hall in Ladysmith. Each of the candidates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Conservative Mark MacDonald, New Democrat Shiela Malcolmson, Green Paul Manly and the Liberal Tim Tessier â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were given three rebuttal cards to raise to challenge one another at various points in the event. They were given an opportunity to answer three questions they had seen in advance. Moderator Jennar Forster kicked off questions by asking each candidate what piece of legislation they would introduce, change or repeal. MacDonald was the first to reply, with two words. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Derelict vessels,â&#x20AC;? he said to applause. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to get the Ladysmith harbour cleaned up.â&#x20AC;? He called an NDP bill giving the Canada Coast Guard jurisdiction over abandoned wrecks â&#x20AC;&#x153;well-intentioned,â&#x20AC;? but said those who abandon the ships should be made to pay. The Green Partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manly also cited derelict vessels the most prominent issue in the town, and said the solu-

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tion was introducing registration, licensing and safety standards similar to those for vehicles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we need to empower the Coast Guard and Transport Canada to deal with these things,â&#x20AC;? Manly said. Malcolmson said she has worked on the derelict vessels issue for years and said she and local officials â&#x20AC;&#x153;have been asking the Conservatives for 10 yearsâ&#x20AC;? to address the problem. She said infrastructure replacement was the most pressing issue she would tackle as an MP, claiming a $30-million infrastructure â&#x20AC;&#x153;deficitâ&#x20AC;? in Ladysmith alone. The Liberalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tessier said he would immediately form a task force on becoming an MP and said his partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pledge to invest $60 billion in infrastructure would help clear up areas tarnished by pollution and build projects like affordable housing.

The four were also asked what the largest issues facing small and medium businesses. Manly cited the need to streamline regulations for smaller companies but also cited the need for energy efficiency measures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We waste 30 per cent of energy in this country to leaking buildings and it costs money,â&#x20AC;? he said. MacDonald slammed his opponents for promises to raise corporate taxes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a good investment climate in Canada and we need to maintain that,â&#x20AC;? he said. Malcolmson repeated her partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pledge to cut the small business tax rate two percentage points, while Tessier said his party would improve infrastructure as a means of helping business. Candidates were also asked whether they would support the expansion of

dental, vision and pharmacare coverage for seniors. Tessier said the Liberals would commit $3 billion to affordable housing, while Manly said the Greens support a guaranteed liveable income and a universal pharmacare plan. MacDonald said the Conservatives would curb spending and ensure seniors have more income. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seniors tell me theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very happy with what the Conservatives have done.â&#x20AC;? In reply Malcolmson said,â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Mark and I have been knocking on different doors,â&#x20AC;? adding that her party supports the construction of additional nursing home beds and national pharmacare, Candidates also took questions from audience members. One asked Malcolmson about her stance on strategic voting, which she acknow-

ledged was an issue among some voters concerned about splitting the â&#x20AC;&#x153;progressiveâ&#x20AC;? vote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the fact that a lot of us are really torn up about that to me is evidence of our broken voting system . . .â&#x20AC;? she said to applause, adding the NDP would switch the electoral system to proportional representation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our strategy is to give people something to vote for,â&#x20AC;? Manly said in response. Tessier encouraged voters to look at each partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s platform before casting a ballot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take the time to go online and truly look at the policies and go, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hmm, imagine; can this actually work?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255

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Pay for civic politicians must balance duty and hard work

ow would you like to set your own wage? Would it make you uncomfortable? And how much is too much? One topic always sure to spark debate is what someone earns. Particularly when it comes to the salaries of our civic politicians. As we reported today, some eyebrows were raised last month when the directors in the Capital Regional District voted to double their wages for 2016. The elected directors of the CRD (Greater Victoria), voted to raise their salaries from $8,940 to $17,000 next year. They claimed salaries had not been adjusted in 20 years. Interestingly, the call to adjust those salaries is up to them. All municipal councils and regional districts in B.C. are required by legis-

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We want useful candidates of all ages and all walks of life to put their names forward. Anyone who does deserves praise. lation to set their own pay rates, and they are established as part of their responsibilities in managing their municipality’s budgets. It makes some politicians uncomfortable. “I don’t think we should be making decisions that reward ourselves,” CRD director Marianne Alto, who voted against her wage increase. Her point of view is very understandable. Given the public nature of

the positions, they open themselves up for all kinds of criticism if folks think they have their hands in the proverbial trough. But they are paid to make those decisions on our behalf. That’s how the system works. If the public thinks they have made poor economic decisions, they can be voted out during subsequent elections. If it’s viewed as a gravy train, with giant raises every year, the public will definitely have something to say. The amount of work put in by municipal politicians, using Nanaimo’s mayor and councillors as an example in this case, is substantial. While former Mayor John Ruttan did point out in 2009 that “when I get my paycheque from the city it rates the position as permanent

part time, and even legally it’s recognized as a part-time position,” the hours put in by a mayor in a city of Nanaimo’s size are surely full-time, and many folks believe that’s how it should be when the salary checks in at $95,000. Councillors come in at about $35,000. The thing is, such positions shouldn’t be making what would be viewed as an average living wage. We don’t want people making careers out of what is primarily a public service. We want useful candidates of all ages and all walks of life to put their names forward. Anyone who does deserves praise. Ladysmith town manager Ruth Malli put it well when she noted public service is a necessary component of any democracy and “good

people” are needed to determine policy direction in municipalities, so adequate compensation is required. There’s is a real need to get the best candidates and the valid concern of elected officials being more interested in their pay than their duties to the taxpayer. For now at least, that decision is up the politicians themselves. And it’s public accountability that keeps them from going too far. We can’t expect them to work for free, and if they work for us they also need to be fairly compensated. Nobody wants to see exorbitant wage hikes, but we also don’t want to see the positions pay so little that nobody wants to run for office. » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this editorial to yourletters@nanaimodailynews.com.

» YOUR LETTERS // EMAIL: YOURLETTERS@NANAIMODAILYNEWS.COM Mayor’s 13-minute ride is much longer by bus Re: ‘Vital Signs survey finds surprises some’ (Daily News, Oct.8) In dismissing the poor grade regarding transportation made in the Vital Signs report produced by the Nanaimo Foundation, Mayor Bill McKay’s remark, “As for getting around an entire commute across the city only takes 13 minutes” merely illustrated he doesn’t get out of his car very much. For example, assuming he caught a Number 30 bus at the Prideaux Street exchange just in time at 10:30 a.m., typically a bus which runs every half hour, he would arrive at the Woodgrove Exchange at 11:22 a.m. Since when does 52 minutes equal 13 minutes on a trip only halfway across the city? Edwin Turner Nanaimo

Increased global trade a problem, not a solution Prime Minister Stephen Harper rendered the Trans Pacific Partnership an election issue by signing an agreement, without clarification of its negative effects, days before the election. Trade agreements are too frequently seen through the eyes of dollar signs. How many people have noticed the correlation between free trade, such as NAFTA, and the loss of good paying jobs, lower wages, lack of social benefits, increase in pension age, more drugs and crime, increased environmental pollution and climate change, migrants fleeing war and starvation, political and institutional corruption, and the widening gap between the very wealthy and the rest of society? More free trade with a multitude of countries involved in the TPP, CETA (with Europe) and FIPPA (with China) will necessitate the transport of more goods via ship, rail and air

craft. Think of the increase in carbon emissions and possibly the added risks of many more tanker ships with their concomitant spills of bitumen, oil, LGN and other toxic cargo. Not only will air traffic control be greatly challenged, but ocean traffic control will need to be instituted to ensure a multitude of ships, whether the oceans are tossing or not, do not accidentally crack each other’s hulls. Global trade will increase the desire for more resource extraction, consumerism, and unsustainable growth. Harper has made this an issue for those with the capacity to discern the bigger picture of long range effects in these already challenging times of climate change. Politicians need to better inform the Canadian public of the issues that go beyond economics, jobs and the niqab. Unless, the jobs of the future are meant to be dirty work to clean our environment and deal with damage from more ravaging storms, floods, heat waves and droughts.

It is easy to see that what the majority of humanity is already reaping to its detriment can have an even greater impact with increased global trade, which mostly benefits those with money that trickles down only enough to keep dollar signs in front of eyes. Lavonne Garnett Nanaimo

TPP deal will only make rich richer, poor poorer The Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal looks like the North American Free Trade Agreement on steroids. Yuk. That many economists support both is enough to make one suspicious. If NAFTA was so great for Canada, how come worker’s wages and salaries have stayed the same or declined since the 1970s despite productivity increasing? Not to mention thou-

sands are now using food banks and many are homeless. I guess we¹re supposed to ignore the majority because a few greed freaks got obscenely richer from NAFTA. Both deals give corporations the right to sue Canada for health and environmental protection laws that may impact their profits. Assumed profits. These deals are proof the kid flipping burgers in a fast-food understands economics better than professors and politicians. Jim Erkiletian Nanaimo Letters must include your hometown and a daytime phone number for verification purposes only. Letters must include your first name (or two initials) and last name. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, taste, legality and for length. Unsigned letters and letters of more than 300 words will not be accepted. Email to: yourletters@nanaimodailynews.com

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Ocean biologists uncover specimens in unusual places

VIU joins special remembrance project

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In their quest to document all the known species of fishes in the Salish Sea, ocean biologists Ted Pietsch and Jay Orr found specimens in some unusual places. One search led to the Shrimp Shack in Bellingham, Wash., where Pietsch located the specimen of a four-metre long thresher shark they had been searching for, stuffed and hung from the ceiling. Caught on a hook and line in the water off the coast of Sucia Island in the 1970s, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the odder finds in the 253 species recorded in the Salish Sea and published in their study Fishes of the Salish Sea. Released online Sept. 29 by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the find also illustrates the lengths to which the scientists went to ensure they had properly documented the species for the area, which encompasses the Strait of Georgia, the San Juan Islands, the Canadian Gulf Islands and Puget Sound. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything in here has been documented by a specimen,â&#x20AC;? said Orr, a

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I go back to the very earliest specimens, and hope I can find those in collections around the world .â&#x20AC;? Jay Orr, scientist

scientist with the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my work I go back to the very earliest specimens, and hope I can find those in collections around the world, and then tie that all together to see what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at right now.Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very important part of it, that all of these records are supported by specimens, actual specimens that somebody collected and preserved.â&#x20AC;? Of the 253 species, five species were removed from the previous lists and 37 new species were added, including a leopard shark found in Samish Bay near Bellingham and the spotted cuskeel found off Bowen Island, said Orr. Both of these were found in 2007 and are typically found in waters further south, he added.

The work also encompasses the painstaking research of local biologists Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane, whose primary research over two decades in the Strait of Georgia informed their award-winning bestseller, The Sea Among Us, released last year. In their research and subsequent book, Beamish and McFarlane caught and documented 26 new species of fishes in the Strait of Georgia that were not previously included in the 1980 list for Puget Sound, as well as 17 species that had not been recorded in the 1971 list in Pacific Fishes of Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it had been 34 years since anyone had updated a list, and the list before was not for the Salish Sea, it was for Puget Sound,â&#x20AC;? said Beamish. Fishes of the Salish Sea now offers the most comprehensive and up-todate list of fish species in the 16,925 square-kilometre inland marine ecosystem, said Pietsch in an interview with UW Today.Â Julie.Chadwick @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4238

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As dusk falls every day until Remembrance Day on Nov. 11, the names of more than 519,000 soldiers killed in the First World War will appear, one by one, on a digital screen at Vancouver Island Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Welcome Centre, in Building 300. VIU has joined â&#x20AC;&#x153;The World Remembers Project,â&#x20AC;? an international remembrance, education and reconciliation project begun by Canadian actor and director R.H. Thomson. As part of five years of remembrance recognizing the centenary of the First World War, VIUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history department and its Canadian Letter and Images project invite the public to view the display of names, and remember the men and women who lost their lives in the Great War 100 years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;VIU is honoured to be participating in The World Remembers Project, which recognizes the centennial of the First World War and commemorates those who lost their lives during this conflict,â&#x20AC;? said Ralph

Nilson, VIUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The project gives us the space to pause and reflect on the sacrifices made by those who lost their lives in the Great War, through a remembrance of each person who died in that world-changing conflict 100 years ago,â&#x20AC;? he said. More than half a million names of soldiers who lost their lives from the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Turkey, Belgium, Australia, the Czech Republic, Italy, New Zealand, Slovenia and the former British Indian Army will appear. The display runs for eleven hours each day, with each name programmed to appear at a precise day, hour and minute. For those who want to remember a person who was killed in the First World War, they can learn the exact time it will appear on the screen by entering the name at www.theworldremembers. Âť We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to yourletters@nanaimodailynews.com. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.

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Hurricane remnant alert for North Coast TODD HAMILTON THE NORTHERN VIEW

Batten down the hatches. Environment Canada has issued an alert for the North Coast as remnants of Hurricane Oho are expected to hit coastal sections, taking a dead aim for Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii, over the long weekend. In what has been coined as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;atmospheric river,â&#x20AC;? meteorologists with Environment Canada warned that Prince Rupert could expect 200mm of rainfall beginning Thursday and continuing until Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A series of storms will take aim at the North and Central Coasts from today through Sunday night. A front will move across the region today with wet and windy conditions expected. From tonight into Friday stronger southeasterly winds and heavier rain are forecast as an intense storm develops from the remnants of hurricane Oho, as it races northward towards Haida Gwaii. Rain and wind warnings are now in effect for this storm. The storm will move north of the region by Friday evening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the wake of this storm a strong westerly flow will bring another disturbance to the Central Coast Saturday morning with yet another storm impacting the North Coast on Sunday. Computer models are estimating rainfall accumulations in the 100- to 200-mm range for the above mentioned areas from Friday through Sunday night,â&#x20AC;? Environment Canada said in a statement posted on their website at 4:58 p.m. on Thursday. As of 4 a.m. Thursday, Environment Canada has now issued a wind warning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strong winds that may cause damage are expected or occurring. The remnants of Hurricane Oho will approach the North Coast tonight as a strong post-tropical low pressure system. Strong southeasterly winds of 70 to 110 km/h will develop over Haida Gwaii, Central Coast - Coastal Sections, and North Vancouver Island overnight as the low approaches. Winds will ease off late Friday morning as the low moves quickly north of the region.â&#x20AC;?

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UCLUELET

Bumpy landing upsets visitor to West Coast JACKIE CARMICHAEL WESTERLY NEWS

A bumpy landing — and lack of reporting — has one West Coast visitor upset. Denis McMullen was on his way from Vancouver to Ucluelet when the Orca Air Beechcraft he was a passenger in had trouble with the landing. “It was completely clouded over, the beach and the airport were completely socked in,” said Denis McMullen, recalling the pilot’s initial landing effort. “On the first attempt, he should have seen there wasn’t sufficient visuals.”

After the failed attempt to land, McMullen expected the pilot to go with the contingency plan he told them about in Vancouver, they might have to divert to Port Alberni and get a shuttle, he said. McMullen flies to Ucluelet from Vancouver to work on the District’s health and safety program twice yearly. There were five other passengers and the first officer aboard as well as the pilot. Instead of rerouting to Port, the plane continued, enshrouded in low cloud.

“He flew blind for a number of minutes, then he must have seen a patch of runway beneath him because he twisted the aircraft quite suddenly,” McMullen recalled. “He turned the plane very suddenly in mid-air, I think he was trying to find the runway . . . when he saw what he saw . . . he turned it really quickly and we started the final descent,” he said. “The aircraft was not aligned properly and corrective air work had to be carried out to align the plane with the runway,” reads the report McMullen later filed.

The plane landed hard on the paved portion of the runway and rolled for what seemed like two seconds before it ran off the end of the runway into the grass, he wrote. Trenches in the grass at the far end of the runway show where the plane actually came to a halt. Safely on terra firma, McMullen expected a report. He came in to talk with airport manager Mark Fortune and discovered the pilot hadn’t filed a report on the incident. “I contacted Mike Betchel at the Nanaimo Flight Service Station

to review the Aircraft Occurrence Reports but there were no reports for the Long Beach Airport, Fortune noted in a Sept. 10 report. McMullen said the company’s owner called to update him on Friday. The pilot involved no longer works for the company. The experience had a negative effect on his wife, who had cosmetic items broken in the rough landing. On their subsequent vacation trip to Austin, Texas – she was a bundle of nerves all the way there and back, McMullen said.

PORT ALBERNI

Man pleads guilty to elk poaching

NOTICE TO ELECTORS WITHIN THE WHOLE OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY REGIONAL DISTRICT OF AN ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS OPPORTUNITY FOR CVRD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT BYLAW NO. 3931 [Arts & Culture Initiatives Service]

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD), proposes to adopt “CVRD Bylaw No. 3931 – Arts & Culture Initiatives Service Establishment Bylaw, 2015”. BYLAW SUMMARY If adopted, Bylaw No. 3931 will allow the CVRD to annually requisition up to the greater of $130,000 or an amount equal to the amount that could be raised by a property value tax of $0.01029 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements to support Arts & Culture initiatives and programs within the regional district. The maximum cost to residential property owners within the CVRD with a residential property assessed at $100,000 would be $0.85 per year, as set out in the table below. The complete bylaw is available for review at the CVRD office, located at 175 Ingram Street in Duncan, during regular office hours, Monday to Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, excluding statutory holidays. A copy of the bylaw is also available on the CVRD website at www.cvrd.bc.ca. CALCULATION TABLE

Net Taxable Value (Land & Improvements) $100,000

Maximum Annual Cost Per Residential Property Owner $0.85

Number of Electors in the Services Area 60,388

10% of the Electors 6,038

ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS AND ELIGIBILITY The CVRD may adopt this bylaw unless at least 10% of electors within the regional district indicate that a referendum must be held by submitting a signed Elector Response Form to the CVRD office no later than 4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 18, 2015. The Elector Response Form must be in the form established by the CVRD, and only those persons who qualify as electors of the Cowichan Valley Regional District comprised of Electoral Areas: A - Mill Bay/Malahat; B - Shawnigan Lake; C - Cobble Hill; D - Cowichan Bay; E - Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/ Glenora; F - Cowichan Lake South/Skutz Falls; G - Saltair/Gulf Islands; H - North Oyster/Diamond; I - Youbou/Meade Creek; and the City of Duncan; District Municipality of North Cowichan; Town of Ladysmith; and Town of Lake Cowichan are entitled to sign. Electors may qualify as either resident electors or as non-resident property electors, as follows: Resident Elector – You are entitled to submit an Elector Response Form as a resident elector if you are age 18 or older on the day of submission, are a Canadian citizen, have lived in BC for at least six months, and have been a resident of the CVRD for the past 30 days or more. Non-Resident Property Elector – You are entitled to submit an Elector Response Form as a non-resident property elector if you are age 18 or older on the day of submission, are a Canadian citizen, have lived in BC for at least six months, have owned and held registered title to a property in the CVRD for the past 30 days or more, and do not qualify as a resident elector. NOTE: Only one non-resident property elector may submit a response form per property, regardless of how many owners there may be. If less than 10% (6,038) of the area electors submit an Elector Response Form, the bylaw will be deemed to have the approval of the electors and the CVRD Board may adopt the bylaw. For the purpose of conducting the alternative approval opportunity, the number of area electors is calculated at 60,388.

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A man accused of elk poaching pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Wilson Timothy Jack (a.k.a. Timothy Wilson Jack), 49, pleaded guilty to hunting wildlife out of season under the B.C. Wildlife Act. He appeared in court without a lawyer. His sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 14 in Port Alberni provincial court. Jack committed the poaching between Nov. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2013. The poached elk was found south of Port Alberni on Nuu-chah-nulth territory. Jack’s arrest is part of an investigation into a wave of elk poaching on the West Coast in recent years. Ken Watts, vice-president of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, said there has been a number of elk poaching incidents in the region with at least 23 Roosevelt elk illegally killed since 2013. When eight elk carcasses were discovered in late 2013, the NTC offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction for poaching. B.C. Coastal Outfitters (now the Wildlife Stewardship Council) added $5,000 to the award amount. With pledges from other organizations, the total reward is $34,000. Jack was arrested and first appeared in Port Alberni court on Aug. 5, requesting more time to consult a defence lawyer.

SAANICH

Governance reviewed SAANICH NEWS

Saanich council will create a 13-person Governance Review Citizen Advisory Committee to help determine how it citizens are best served in the patchwork of local governing bodies that make up Greater Victoria. The goal is to have anonymous applications for the Governance Review Committee positions. Staff will receive the applications and black out the names on the résumés. The committee members will be selected by a 10-person focus group made up of members on Saanich advisory committees, as per the consultant recommendation. The governance review committee will spend a year meeting with residents, Saanich-based stakeholder groups, Saanich committees, Saanich staff, CRD and other municipalities.

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Number of cougar sightings on the rise KENDRA WONG VICTORIA NEWS

Victim Brooklyn Chalmers, left, and responder Jay Spence, during a mock disaster exercise at the Coombs Fairgrounds. [J.R. RARDON/PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS]

Nightmarish scene for mid-Islanders

The number of cougar sightings has gone up in Greater Victoria compared to previous years, according to a B.C. conservation officer. Sgt. Scott Norris said in October there have been five to 10 reported sightings in the Oak Bay and James Bay areas. In August, there were upwards of 10 sightings in Oak Bay. “We have a steady number of cougar sightings and reports in Greater Victoria. In downtown and Oak Bay, there are more than last year definitely,” he.

Peninsula — something that is happening more often. “From time to time, they make their way across and follow the shoreline down and end up in areas where they don’t expect to normally be and they’re looking for a way out,” he said, adding the cougar was likely the same one spotted in Oak Bay last month. “Like humans, they think ‘If I keep going this way, I’ll find my way out’ and they don’t and get deeper and deeper in the city.” The increased deer population is also having an impact on the Island’s cougar population, driving them closer to the city.

In traditional predator-prey relationship, if the deer population is up, predator numbers will also increase. With more cougars in the Highlands, Metchosin and Goldstream areas, younger cougars will have to look elsewhere to establish their territory, Norris said. “There’s no real rhyme or reason other than just normal wild animal behaviour. “They’re hungry, they’re looking for food and territory,” he said, noting he expects the sightings to decrease in the winter since they usually hunt from dusk until dawn.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3934

(APPLICABLE TO ELECTORAL AREA H - NORTH OYSTER/DIAMOND) NOTICE is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held as follows to consider the above noted Amendment Bylaw: DATE: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 TIME: 7:00 pm PLACE: North Oyster Community Centre, Room 201, 13467 Cedar Road, Ladysmith, BC ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 3934 proposes to amend Electoral Area H – North Oyster/Diamond Zoning Bylaw No. 1020 by incorporating a new Section 946 – subdivision for a relative – regulation into the text of the Zoning Bylaw, with a new parcel area requirement of 25 hectares. Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3934 would also repeal the stand-alone Subdivision for a Relative Bylaw No. 1741, because all electoral areas, in the event this Bylaw is adopted, would have the Section 946 regulation incorporated into each of their zoning bylaws. At the present time, Bylaw No. 1741 only applies in Electoral Area H. The purpose of Bylaw No. 3934 is to curtail the creation of parcels smaller than zoning regulations would require, in order to encourage orderly and predictable land development in accordance with the long-standing Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaw. Section 946 is part of a Provincial Statute (Local Government Act - LGA) that in some limited circumstances permits a landowner to subdivide land despite a zoning regulation that would not permit the subdivision. The proposed subdivided lot must only be used and occupied by a defined relative of the owner for a period of five years following the subdivision. Subsection 946(4) of the LGA authorizes local governments to specify the area of land that must be present to enable an owner to use Section 946. If the owner has the minimum area specified in the local government’s Section 946(4) regulation, or larger, the resultant subdivided lot may be of any size deemed appropriate by the Provincial Approving Officer. A local government regulation under Section 946(4) does not apply to lands in the Provincial Agricultural Land Reserve. In the case of Bylaw No. 3934, the Cowichan Valley Regional District is proposing that the specified parent parcel size be 25 hectares in Electoral Area H - North Oyster/Diamond. This is the same standard utilized in Electoral Areas A, B, C, D, G and I. At the public hearing, all persons who deem their interests affected by the proposed amendments will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions on matters contained therein, before representatives of the Regional Board. Prior to the public hearing, submit written comments on the Bylaw by: Fax: 250-746-2621 Email: ds@cvrd.bc.ca Mail and/or deposit at the Regional District office, 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC, V9L 1N8, until 4:30 pm on Wednesday, October 21, 2015. The public should not assume that correspondence submitted on the proposed Bylaw prior to commencement of the statutory notification period on Friday, October 9, 2015, will be made available to the Regional Board. Please be advised that the CVRD Board cannot receive correspondence or comment following the close of the Public Hearing. For further information, please call the Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620. Please note that all correspondence submitted to the CVRD in response to this Notice will form part of the public record and will be published in a meeting agenda that is posted online when this matter is before the Board or a Committee of the Board. The CVRD considers the author’s address relevant to the Board’s consideration of this matter and will disclose this personal information. The author’s phone number and email address are not relevant and should not be included in the correspondence if the author does not wish this personal information disclosed. Please contact the Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620 or 1-800-665-3955, or the Recording Secretary at the time of submission. For more information on disclosure, contact the CVRD FOI Coordinator at 250-746-2507 or 1-800-665-3955. The Public Hearing is to be held by the Electoral Area Directors for Electoral Area H (North Oyster/Diamond), Electoral Area I (Youbou/Meade Creek) and Electoral Area G (Saltair/Gulf Islands) as delegates of the Board. A decision concerning the adoption of Bylaw No. 3934 will not be made until the record of Public Hearing is presented to the Board. A copy of the proposed Bylaw, the resolution delegating the holding of the public hearing, and other documents that may be considered by the Board in determining whether to adopt the Bylaw are available for public inspection at the Regional District Planning & Development Department office: 175 Ingram Street, Duncan, BC From Friday, October 9, 2015, to Wednesday, October 21, 2015, between the hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, except Monday, October 12, 2015, being the Thanksgiving Day Statutory Holiday. A copy of the Bylaw and supporting material may also be viewed on the CVRD website at the following address: http://www.cvrd.bc.ca/index. aspx?NID=1282

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT Mike Tippett, Manager, Community & Regional Planning Division, Planning & Development Department at 250-746-2620 or 1-800-665-3955

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With the low rumble of the earth shaking, the roar and crash of buildings toppling and the strident call of car alarms and shrieks for help, nearly 150 mid-Island residents were thrust into a nightmare emergency response Sunday at the Coombs Fairgrounds. The catastrophic earthquake and resulting “injuries” were not real, but the lessons learned in the Regional District of Nanaimo’s weekend-long disaster response training and simulation will help emergency response coordinators determine future policies and training procedures with groups of community volunteers, said Jani Drew, RDN’s emergency coordinator. “This is our third big (disaster response) workshop and our second simulation,” said Drew. “And it’s a total 180-degree change from how we ran the last one, all based on the feedback we got.” Unlike similar mock-disaster drills used to coordinate efforts of law enforcement, fire department and ambulance personnel, last weekend’s Prepare to Survive training and drill in Coombs was held for civilian volunteers through the RDN’s Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness Program. These are the people, Drew and other trainers noted, who will likely be first on the scene locally if the professional responders are without access or are called to higher-priority areas. Partnering with the municipalities of Parksville, Qualicum Beach and Lantzville, regional district personnel hosted training classes throughout Saturday, covering the basics of site assessment, search-and-rescue, power shut-off, communications, triage, evacuation and first aid. The day was supported by representatives and display booths from BC Hydro, Fortis, St. John Ambulance, the Canadian Red Cross, Emergency Social Services of Gabriola Island and a number of private businesses specializing in safety and first aid equipment and training. After a review Sunday morning, the simulated disaster began with sound effects piped in through speakers placed about the fairgrounds. Actors in bloody makeup were scattered throughout the buildings, representing injured victims in the homes and businesses of a neighbourhood. Volunteers from Coombs-Hilliers Fire Department provided smoke machines to add an air of realism to the event and also coordinated fire-suppression training, but did not participate in the response as the civilian responders were left to their own devices. “The people had to go and use their rapid damage-assessment skills to see if it was going to be safe for the rescuers to go in (buildings),” said Drew. “And then they brought people out to safety, to the first aid station. Each of these groups had to practise their particular response skill, and in doing so learned so much.” Another group of volunteers was stationed in the fairgrounds bleachers as observers. Their input was combined with that of the responders and even the victims in a debriefing following the simulation.

Most recently, conservation officers and the Victoria Police Department chased a male cougar that found its way into James Bay. The big cat was originally spotted Monday around 3 a.m. After several hours of chasing it through backyards in the 200-blocks of Michigan, Ontario and Superior streets, the cougar was eventually tranquilized and relocated to the middle of Vancouver Island. Norris said the cougar, who was roughly two years old and still trying to establish a territory, may have come from the Saanich

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QUALICUM BEACH

Woman rebuilds life after tragic blaze Lynda Llewellyn suffered burns over 80 per cent of her body; devotes time now to fire prevention talks CANDACE WU PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

Don’t play with matches. We’ve all heard it before — but if you’re going to listen to anyone preach fire prevention, let it be new Qualicum Beach resident Lynda Llewellyn, who literally walked through fire to save her five-year-old son, scalding her own skin, leaving her hospitalized for nearly a year. She underwent 35 plastic reconstruction surgeries after the fire. The single mother lost everything she owned in her uninsured Edmonton apartment. And it all started with matches one unassuming Friday morning in 1983. “I woke up at about 7:15 a.m. and went to see my son, Adam . . . he normally would wake me up but he didn’t that morning . . . I found Adam was sitting in the living room totally surrounded by fire,” Llewellyn said. “He had woken up earlier and found some matches somebody had left behind, not something that was normally in our home, and he did what any child that age would do — he started playing with them.” Llewellyn said she called Adam but he didn’t look up, he just sat there paralyzed with fear in the centre of a ring of fire. “So I just instinctively did what I think any parent would have done,”

Qualicum Beach new resident Lynda Llewellyn was badly burned in an apartment fire in 1983. Now she talks about the importance of fire prevention around Western Canada. [CANDACE WU/PARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS]

she said. “I walked through the flames and I picked him up.” With Adam tucked under her arm, both ablaze, she walked to her bedroom as it was the furthest room from the fire. She wrapped a blanket around herself and Adam to put the fire

out, then looked out the window of her third storey apartment building along 66th Street to find neighbours scattered down below looking up. “I dropped Adam down three storeys,” she said. “My hands were so badly burned I couldn’t hold onto him.”

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Neighbours reacted quickly, putting Adam in a tub of cool water. She remembers hearing the blaring sirens of fire trucks getting closer and closer, but at that moment she was all alone. Soon after, a firefighter appeared to take Llewellyn down. “I remember him saying he couldn’t take me down because the ladder wasn’t secure, and I looked at him and I said, ‘Well, I’m not going back in there,’ and he just stayed at the top of the ladder and kept me calm until they put a second ladder up,” she said. Llewellyn was rushed to University of Alberta Hospital, where she stayed for eight months. At just 30 years of age, she was on the critical care list for three months and had weekly surgeries for the first five months. Eighty per cent of Llewellyn’s body is now covered in burns, 50 per cent of them are third degree. The most extensive burns are on her face, hands, arms and back. “The first time I saw my face was two and a half months after the fire,” she said. “I had pictures on the wall of what I used to look like and I looked at my doctor and I said, ‘Okay, but you can make me look like that again . . . right?’ and pointed at the pictures and he went, ‘No, there’s no way I can make you look like that again.’”

She recalled feeling completely numb for two days after hearing the news. “And then I just accepted it and moved forward because there’s no going back,” she said. Today, Llewellyn is glowing with a serene sense of optimism and strength. Her face is covered in scars, reminders of the blaze that changed her life forever. She now dedicates her life to guest speaking about the importance of fire prevention telling her story to people all over Western Canada. She talks to school groups, community organizations and fire departments. “The gift I give to teenage girls in particular is that I talk about my surgeries,” she said. “A lot of young girls are struggling to fit in . . . I say, if I can look the way I look and be fine, there’s no reason they can’t.” Llewellyn got married two years ago and she and her husband relocated to Qualicum Beach in July. She continues to share her story, recently making a presentation to the Bow Horn Bay Volunteer Fire Department. Fire Prevention Week wraps up Saturday. According to a news release issued by the City of Parksville, fire prevention week was inspired by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which lasted two days Oct. 8-9 killing more than 250 people and leaving 100,000 homeless.

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On Sept. 25, Const. Blouin of the Comox Valley RCMP started her shift like most others, not knowing what she might encounter, or how her presence would be needed. At 12:25 p.m., she responded to a report of an unconscious man, possibly suffering a drug overdose, at a residence in Courtenay. Blouin rushed to the scene, where she located the man inside the residence. Putting her first aid skills to work, Blouin assessed the man’s vital signs, but found no pulse. She initiated CPR, which she continued for several minutes until the fire department arrived and took over. Several minutes after taking over, the Courtenay Fire Department personnel were rewarded with a weak pulse. Thanks to the efforts of Blouin and the firefighters, the man survived, and has made a full recovery. “I have absolutely no doubt that the CPR performed by Const. Blouin and our firefighters was instrumental in this man’s survival,” said Courtenay Fire Chief Don Bardonnex. “We’re hopeful this will be a turning point in his life.”

“What’s the difference between graffiti and art? All it is, is permission, that’s all, because some of these taggers are really talented.” Coming from Darren Stackhouse, whose newest job is to find and eradicate graffiti wherever it may be found in Town of Ladysmith public spaces, that may sound like a case of ‘love thine enemy,’ but perhaps it could be thought of more pragmatically as knowing graffiti well. For 10 years or more Stackhouse, whose company SEI Chemicals Canada has been working with municipalities from Campbell River to Nanaimo and Victoria blasting away graffiti before the taggers’ paint really gets a chance to dry. Now he’s the frontline guy implementing the Town of Ladysmith’s new policy of removing graffiti within 24 hours. The hope is taggers will be discouraged if they know their works are not likely to be seen. “Ladysmith has said they are going to be more proactive,” Stackhouse said. It’s a policy that has worked elsewhere. “We’ve promised we’ll be here within 24 hours to remove any graffiti,” Stackhouse said.

The man who drove his truck into the side of a Saanich home has now come forward to police. A truck crashed into the Nigel Avenue home of Andrea Deman and her two children in the early morning hours of Sept. 23. The truck plunged off Ravine Way and down an embankment before striking the dining room of the home, completely destroying a small deck before landing on the driveway below. “I heard a loud bang and then the house shook and I heard a crash. I thought it was an earthquake,” said Deman, The owner of the white 2015 GMC pickup reported the vehicle stolen later that morning. “I can advise that the owner of the vehicle has now come forward and admitted that they were the driver of the vehicle at the time of the incident” said Sgt. Steve Eassie of the Saanich Police. “The driver has stated that they fell asleep at the wheel and panicked when they found themselves in the damaged vehicle, pinned between the residence and a retaining wall.” The driver, a 37-year-old Central Saanich resident, was issued a violation ticket for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

Graveside robberies unsettling for family JACKIE CARMICHAEL WESTERLY NEWS

An angel, a postal box and a school bus watch over a family grave in tranquil Ucluelet cemetery. If only they could talk, perhaps they could say who robbed the gravesides of Maddie, Annette and Guy Paterson. Darlene Paterson Nelson and husband Andy came to town for the annual Ucluelet reunion this weekend, and they were dismayed to see the nameplates had been stolen, along with a few other headposts and plates from neighbouring graves. “It’s kind of shocking. They’ve always been here,” Nelson said. Darlene’s father, the late Maddie Paterson of Ucluelet, landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in Second World War with the 1st Hussars, the tank corps and helped liberate Holland. After a career in the woods, he had a second career as a school bus driver on the West Coast, and Maddie was named British Columbia’s oldest school driver before he retired at 81. His beloved wife’s interred there also. Annette was a familiar face in town, as she worked at the Ucluelet Post Office.

“I don’t know who would do that. They have to live with themselves .” Darlene Paterson Nelson, dismayed family member

They are joined by their son, Guy, who died, too early, in a logging accident. Const. Chris Squire of Ucluelet RCMP said about seven headstones have been taken from the cemetery recently. He guessed the thieves were after metal to sell, perhaps the same sort of people that rob construction sites for metal. “There are a lot of desperate people,” he said. Follow-up efforts will be made at area foundries, Squire said. It’s hard to imagine someone so desperate they’d rob the dead, Darlene Paterson Nelson said. “I don’t know who would do that,” she said. “They have to live with themselves.”

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Victim was kicked in head at least 15 times A 20-year-old Langley man has been found guilty in the November, 2014 beating of a man in Langley City — an attack that outraged many in the community. On Oct. 6, a provincial court judge in Surrey found Mathew Samms, 20, guilty of assault causing bodily harm and robbery in connection to the beating of Chris Lafrenier, who suffered a head injury during the altercation. Samms will be back in court Jan. 21 for a pre-sentence report. Samms’ friend, a 16-year-old Aldergrove boy, had already pleaded guilty and was sentenced last year for assaulting and robbing Lafrenier. The 16-year-old testified at Samms’ trial that he’d kicked the victim in the head at least 15 times.

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Investigation sought into death of young teen Powerful First Nations leaders in British Columbia are speaking with a single voice as they demand an independent investigation into the death of a teenager in government care. The First Nations Leadership Council has sent a letter to Premier Christy Clark urging an immediate independent inquiry into the death of 18-year-old Alex Gervais. He fell from a fourth-floor window of an Abbotsford hotel on Sept. 18, and children’s representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond has said it’s believed he killed himself. The leadership council says recent comments by Clark are inflammatory and make it impossible to conduct a fair and impartial investigation. Council members say the Representative for Children and Youth must take over the probe to ensure the inquiry is independent. The First Nations Leadership Council speaks on behalf of three influential First Nations organizations, including the First Nations Summit and Grand Chief Edward John, who was recently appointed B.C.’s senior adviser on aboriginal child welfare.

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Residents howl for justice after death of beloved pooch Buttons Tiny therapy dog killed by a bull mastiff while on the patio at McDonald’s NEIL CORBETT MAPLE RIDGE NEWS

Pitt Meadows council chambers was packed with people Tuesday, and at least a dozen dogs. Together, they were howling for tougher bylaws in the city for dangerous dogs. The group filled the gallery to standing room only, and brought a banner, a beagle and several other breeds. The banner read “Justice for Buttons,” referring to the Shih Tsu cross who was killed by a bull mastiff on Sept. 28 at the patio of the Harris Road McDonald’s restaurant. The delegation was led by the dog’s owners, John and Yvonne McDonald. Yvonne spoke about Buttons’ work as a therapy dog, about the attack, and the couple’s recommendations for tougher laws. Their supporters included several other dog owners whose pets had been injured or killed in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge. Yvonne urged the city to do more to ensure dog owners are responsible

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for their pets. She said the mastiff’s handler was running home with the dog, and would not have been identified if she hadn’t been followed home by a “good Samaritan.” The dog’s owner expressed condolences, but then refused to pay $1,200 in veterinary bills, she said. Pitt Meadows should put animal control back in the control of the SPCA, said Yvonne. “The city of Pitt Meadows has failed its citizens terribly,” she added. She also recommended: That a

dangerous dog have an implanted microchip that details its history, so that it follows the animal to other communities; that the fine for an unprovoked dog attack start at $500; and that the municipality seize the offending dog until the victim dog’s vet bills are paid. “As it is, they’re walking away,” she said. And the McDonalds say dangerous dogs should not be allowed in public places, including trails and parks. Yvonne said the city was negligent in allowing a dog that was already determined to be dangerous to be out in public. The dog had been reported to be aggressive, but was not deemed dangerous under the bylaw. According to city staff, the bylaws officer recommended the dog be muzzled in public, and the owners were complying with that request. But the muzzle had been removed so the dog could get a drink of water. The McDonalds’ position is that if a dog kills another, it should immediately be put down.

The couple got sympathy from councillors. “I have two dogs and I can only begin to try and understand how you must feel with the loss of Buttons, particularly in terrible, horrific circumstances in which it occurred,” said Mayor John Becker. He responded that one of the new council’s first initiatives was a “more robust” dog bylaw. Staff are following those new protocols, he said, and while they may not be enough, they are tougher than the preceding bylaws. “We are going to be revising the whole animal welfare situation,” including getting SPCA service back, he said. He called the SPCA presence “a very significant budget item.” Becker clarified that the city cannot force the dog owners to be financially responsible for the damage their pets do. “We, as a local government, do not have the jurisdiction to impose liability on the dog owner in this kind of situation,” said the mayor.

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Double-amputee ex-gangster warns youngsters DALE BOYD PENTICTON WESTERN NEWS

A former Vancouver gang member who had both of his legs amputated after a brutal stabbing hopes to turn his life around in Penticton by warning school children of the consequences of gang life. “He’s already been sentenced to life, that’s my submission,” said Robert Maxwell, defence counsel for Scott Andrew McArthur, 26, who pleaded guilty on Sept. 30 to the breaking and entering of a Vancouver business in February 2014. McArthur was very emotional when

speaking to the court, he said he and his mother, who was by his side in the courtroom, have faced drug abuse issues for a long time, but he has been clean since the stabbing. “We’ve been going through hell, every day is a challenge. I’m not longer a threat to society,” McArthur said. “I really want to do better with my life after what has happened.” “I’m very lucky to be alive and I thank God for that,” McArthur said. Maxwell said his client is a former member of the Greeks gang and was the target of a stabbing on Dec. 26, 2014 after refusing an order to take

drugs into a prison. After leaving the area for North Fraser, McArthur was the target of a stabbing for refusing the gang’s order. He was attacked by three assailants and died on the operating table twice, with severed arteries doctors were forced to amputate his legs to save McArthur’s life Maxwell said. “He basically got stabbed to death,” Maxwell said, adding that his client still faces significant medical and personal challenges looking forward. Crown counsel John Swanson called McArthur’s criminal record “significant” with directly related

charges and convictions including a one-year jail sentence served in Surrey in 2009, suggesting a sentence at the “high-provincial or low-federal rate.” “He got stabbed doing the right thing, contrary to what that record says,” Maxwell said. The charge of breaking and entering was waived in from Vancouver as McArthur and his mother now reside in Penticton. Koturbash sentenced McArthur to a nine-month conditional sentence to be served within the community with a curfew from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

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Syria battles intensify with Russia airstrikes Heavy fighting concentrated in the rural provinces — areas of operation for an array of insurgent groups ALBERT AJI AND SARAH EL DEEB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAMASCUS, Syria — Clashes intensified Thursday between Syrian troops and insurgents in central and northwestern Syria, part of what a top general called a “wide-ranging” offensive aided by Russian airstrikes and apparently aimed at clearing positions near government strongholds on the coast. U.S. defence officials said as many as four of the 26 long-range cruise missiles that Russia said Wednesday it fired at Syria landed instead in Iran, but it was unclear if they caused any significant damage. Russia said all of its missiles fired from warships hit their targets. Russia’s involvement in Syria, which began with airstrikes Sept. 30 and escalated Wednesday with cruise missiles, “raises serious concerns,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said after a meeting of the alliance’s defence ministers in Brussels. Russia says its air campaign in Syria is aimed against militants of the Islamic State and al-Qaida-linked groups, but the West accuses it of intervening to support President Bashar against even moderate rebels in the civil war.

In this frame grab from video provided taken from Syrian TV via Al Manar, Gen. Ali Ayoub, Syria’s chief of staff, speaks on Thursday. [AL MANAR VIA AP]

The Syrian government’s multipronged offensive began Wednesday, and state-run media said it seized several villages in central Syria, with fighting continuing Thursday. The government media and activists reported heavy fighting in Sahl al-Ghab, a vital plain bordering Assad’s stronghold of Latakia on the Mediterranean. The plain also lies between Hama and Idlib, the northwestern provinces seized from government troops

in September. Insurgents have been advancing there since summer, threatening the coastal region where Assad’s family and the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, are concentrated. The Islamic State — also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh — has strongholds in Raqqa and Aleppo provinces, while Syria’s al-Qaida affiliate, the Nusra Front, has a strong presence in Idlib. Gen. Ali Ayoub, the Syrian army’s

chief of staff, said Russia’s airstrikes had weakened the Islamic State fighters and other insurgents so that his troops could keep up the initiative. “Today, the Syrian Arab armed forces began a wide-ranging attack with the aim of eliminating the terrorist groups and liberating the areas and towns that suffered from their scourge and crimes,” Ayoub said in rare televised remarks. The government uses the term “terrorists” to refer to all armed opposition groups in Syria. Russia said its warplanes flew 22 sorties and carried out 11 airstrikes on IS training facilities in Hama and Raqqa provinces. The Russian Defence Ministry also said its aircraft destroyed firing positions in rural Hama, where fighting has raged, and struck militants’ underground facilities in rural Latakia with concrete-piercing bombs. Syrian TV showed government troops loading and firing artillery as helicopters flew over rural Hama and Idlib. It also showed tanks and airstrikes. The state run SANA news agency said joint Syrian-Russian airstrikes hit 27 targets belonging to Nusra Front. Heavy fighting was concentrated in the rural parts of Idlib, Hama

and Latakia provinces — areas of operation for an array of insurgent groups that includes the Nusra Front. The Western-backed Free Syrian Army also has a presence in the area, while the Islamic State has a limited presence in western Hama, where activists reported no fighting or airstrikes. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and other activists said a military helicopter was downed in Kfar Nabouda, in northern Hama. Local media said the helicopter belonged to the Syrian government. The Observatory said Russian jets bombed areas near the site. Syria’s conflict, which began as an uprising against Assad in March 2011 but became a full-blown civil war after a fierce government crackdown, has killed 250,000 people, according to UN figures. Russia said Wednesday it launched 26 cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea that hit targets in the Syrian provinces in the north and northwest, taking flight paths over Iran and Iraq. Russia’s intervention has alarmed the West and its NATO allies, particularly Turkey, which shares a long border with Syria and has been a leading backer of the Syrian rebels.

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Housing starts in Calgary, Edmonton trend down

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Legal pot likely, minister told

Low oil prices and the economic downturn are hurting housing construction in Calgary and Edmonton, says the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The corporation says housing starts in Calgary are down 29 per cent overall

The public safety minister’s top bureaucrat has advised him Canadians are “increasingly likely” to support the legalization or decriminalization of drugs, including marijuana. It’s a message that runs counter to the Conservative government’s firm opposition to softer penalties for recreational pot smokers — an issue that has flared up regularly on the federal campaign trail. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau proposes legalizing marijuana — selling and taxing it much like alcohol — while the NDP’s Tom Mulcair has come out in favour of decriminalizing pot.

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so far this year compared with the same time in 2014. Analyst Richard Cho said the new data reflects several factors, including a weak job market, fewer people moving to Calgary and more listings in the resale market. “The decline in the price for oil is having an impact on the labour market as

well as on migration, which is having an impact on demand for new homes,” Cho said Thursday. “There is more competition from the resale market as well, so buyers have more choice.” The largest decline is in single-detached homes, where construction is down 39 per cent.

Multi-family units, which include condos, apartments and row housing, is down 23 per cent, he said. The Calgary numbers are in stark contrast to last year, when housing starts were at record highs. But overall housing starts were down 12 per cent last month due to the soft economy.

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The Calgary Zoo has had to say goodbye to one of its big cats. The zoo says Mbira, a 20-year-old female lion, was euthanized last week due to declining health. An examination by zoo veterinarians found that her kidneys had failed and cancerous changes in her spleen were spreading to her abdomen. Mbira came to Calgary from the Aalborg Zoo in Denmark in 1997. She is survived by her 20-year-old half-sister, Tisha, and two younger males. The median life expectancy for lions in captivity is 16.8 years.

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Petroleum, LNG sales hit $9.8M The Saskatchewan government says the October sale of petroleum and natural gas rights brought in $9.8 million. That brings land-sale revenues to $45.5 million so far this year. Economy Minister Bill Boyd says the province is cautiously optimistic that exploration activities on the land will prove successful. But the numbers are far below what the province raked in last year. The October 2014 sale of petroleum and natural gas rights was $21.6 million and land sales were $179.6 million — nearly four times more than the total so far this year.

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Failed Airbus deal stokes fears for Bombardier ROSS MAROWITS THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Bombardier’s admission that it sought a rescue deal from Airbus has stoked fears about the future of the CSeries program and the transportation company itself. Analyst Richard Aboulafia, a CSeries critic at consultant the Teal Group, says Bombardier’s effort to sell a majority stake in the

aircraft to its European rival — and its rejection — weakened the market’s view about the viability of the CSeries program and marked “the beginning of the end for the very troubled program.” With its financial resources lacking and a partner appearing unlikely, Aboulafia says Bombardier should pull the plug on the 110- to 160-seat aircraft. By devoting more money to the

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OTTAWA — The political debate over the plight of Syrian refugees has re-emerged in the election campaign, with media reports that suggest the Prime Minister’s Office temporarily halted their entry into Canada, citing potential security threats. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s opponents quickly accused him Thursday of once again trying to whip up public safety fears ahead of the Oct. 19 vote. Harper, however, insisted later in the day that political staffers were never part of the refugee approval process. The PMO ordered a security review in June of government-assisted refugee cases from Syria after U.S. intelligence reports suggested the foreigners could pose a risk to that country. Following a few weeks of delay, the process was eventually restarted after no threats were found. The audit did not affect the processing of privately sponsored files. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair pulled no punches Thursday, calling the decision to halt the process “a shame on Canada.” He also demanded that Harper apologize. “We learned today that Stephen Harper intervened personally to stop the arrival of Syrian refugees,” Mulcair said at a campaign stop in Toronto, where he also reminded his audience about the stunning September images of lifeless, three-year-old refugee Alan Kurdi. “(Harper) had already done that before he appeared before us to emote, talking about his own family after seeing the body of that little child on that beach in Turkey. “That is abject behaviour on the part of a Canadian prime minister.” Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau called the PMO’s refugee move another example of how Harper has reverted to the politics of “fear and division” in

order to distract from Conservative failures on files like the economy. Trudeau said PMO officials had no business interfering in what he called “important processes where lives are at stake.” “Mr. Harper over the past 10 years has . . . conflated the interests of the Conservative party of Canada with the actions and role of the government of Canada, which is supposed to serve all Canadians,” Trudeau said in Vaughan, Ont., where he outlined his party’s plan to commit $2 billion to improve local transit. Later Thursday, Harper defended the PMO’s audit of the Syrian refugee applications. “Political staff are never involved in approving refugee applications — such decisions are made by officials in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration,” Harper said during a stop in Vancouver. He also reiterated his government’s position that keeping Canada secure is a priority. Earlier in the election campaign, the Syrian emergency materialized as a potentially important ballot-box issue in Canada. After the photos of Kurdi appeared, public pressure mounted and political leaders were peppered with questions on how they would respond to the crisis. Mulcair has vowed to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of 2015, while Trudeau pledged to resettle 25,000 over the same period. Harper has promised to bring in an additional 10,000 Syrians, if re-elected. After facing criticism, the Conservative government has also said it would accelerate the processing of refugee applications in an effort to issue “thousands more” visas before the end of this year. Some 2,500 refugees have arrived in Canada since the government began opening spaces for Syrians in 2013.

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EU takes steps to counter influx of migrants THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LUXEMBOURG — The European Union on Thursday took measures to buttress its porous external borders and toughen up its migrant return program in an attempt to build a credible refugee policy that would continue to embrace those fleeing for their lives yet punish those seeking economic gain. Facing their toughest refugee emergency since the Second World War, the 28 EU nations committed to speed up and intensify the deportation of people who do not qualify for asylum, including more special flights out and detention for those who might slip into illegal residence.

“We need to see Europe upping its game.”

More than 500,000 people have arrived this year seeking sanctuary or jobs. But of the people who fail to obtain asylum or residency in the 28-nation EU, less than 40 per cent actually go back, and all agree that should change quickly. “We need to see Europe upping its game,” Britain’s interior minister, Theresa May, said. “If there is no return policy there is no basis for the refugee policy,” said French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, adding agreements should be quickly made with many of the developing nations from where tens of thousands of economic migrants leave in desperation for a better life in Europe.

Teresa May, British interior minister

It all was to underscore one key message: Europe feels overwhelmed and needs to be far more rigorous in sending economic migrants back if it wants to find enough goodwill among its population to continue harbouring true refugees. “Increased return rates should act as a deterrent to irregular migration,” the conclusions of the meeting said.

At the same time, he put to the EU nations a far-reaching plan to beef up the external borders by committing member states to contribute more personnel to the EU’s border agency and eventually set up a largely autonomous international “corps” that could intervene wherever a crisis appears. French officials said that in the short term, member states would be obliged to contribute more personnel to the Frontex border agency based on their population, wealth and other criteria. Last week, Frontex appealed for 775 additional staff to deal with the migrant crisis in Greece and Italy. It would roughly double the

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BRUSSELS — Urged on by the United States, NATO is open to keeping more troops in Afghanistan than initially planned after 2016, but officials said Thursday the alliance is waiting for the Obama administration to announce its decision on a larger military presence there. Defence Secretary Ash Carter said he discussed the issue with a number of NATO allies Thursday and asked them to consider abandoning their earlier plans to cut troop levels in Afghanistan to just a small presence at the end of next year. “I have asked all of the NATO partners to remain flexible and to consider the possibility of making adjustments to the plan, which is now 2 1/2 years old, for the presence in Afghanistan,” Carter told reporters during a meeting of NATO defence ministers. “I was very pleased to hear ministers of defence from our NATO allies reaffirm CARTER their commitment, discussing not whether but how to continue the mission in Afghanistan.” Carter’s reference to the “2 1/2-year-old” plan, which had the U.S. leaving just 1,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2016, lent credence to suggestions that the Obama administration is likely to affirm military commanders’ requests and leave several thousand troops there instead, because fighting between the Taliban and Afghans continues. While several people within the administration back keeping a troop presence beyond 2016, Obama has not made a decision. And a decision is not expected to be announced imminently, said U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t allowed to discuss administration thinking. The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell made that argument to Congress Thursday, saying that drawing the force down to 1,000 by the end of next year will limit coalition training and counterterrorism operations. He said he has recommended to President Barack Obama keeping more than 1,000 troops in the country beyond 2016. But Campbell would not provide a precise number.

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Despite errors, Crown is vindicated Review finds that while investigation was marred by errors and took too long, not laying charges was correct MICHAEL MACDONALD THE CANADIAN PRESS

review into how Nova Scotia police and prosecutors handled the high-profile Rehtaeh Parsons case says the investigation took too long and mistakes were made, but it was reasonable for the Crown to conclude that sexual assault charges should not be laid. Parsons was 17 when she was taken off life-support in April 2013 after attempting suicide. Her tragic case attracted national attention when the young woman’s family alleged she had been sexually assaulted in November 2011 when she was 15 and bullied after a digital photo of the alleged assault was passed around her school. The case and a number of other high-profile cyberbullying cases sparked a national debate about online harassment and changes to provincial law and the Criminal Code. At the time of the girl’s death, police said they had looked into the allegations of sexual assault and an inappropriate photo, but concluded there weren’t enough grounds to lay charges after consulting with the prosecution service.

hat led Parsons’ parents to organize demonstrations that alleged police and prosecutors weren’t doing their jobs. The independent review released Thursday, led by former Ontario chief prosecutor Murray Segal, concluded that the initial police investigation, which lasted almost a year, took too long and was marred by human errors. However, the review also found that the Crown’s advice to a police investigator not to lay sexual assault charges was correct. “While I find that more attention could have been given to the allegations . . . the Crown’s position, in view of the many evidentiary challenges in this case, was not unreasonable,” Segal said in his report.

Murray Segal, who conducted an independent review into the actions of police and the Public Prosecution Service in Nova Scotia in the Rehtaeh Parsons case, along with his associate Christine Mainville, releases his report in Halifax on Thursday.

the issue in the House of Common and Nova Scotia introduced the country’s first anti-cyberbullying law, which was followed by changes to the Criminal Code that made it an offence to distribute intimate images of someone without their consent. Segal’s report, which makes 17 recommendations, also found that the decision not to lay child pornography charges was an error. A police investigator was told by a Crown attorney that the offence could not be prosecuted because it was not possible to tell from the photo that the persons involved were under age. That advice was incorrect because it was based on a misunderstanding of the law, the report says. Segal told a news conference that other factors should have been considered at the time, including the fact that the young people in the photograph knew each other and were probably aware of each other’s age.

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Even though there was a photo of the alleged offence, there were other pieces of evidence that weakened the case, the report says. There may have been sufficient grounds to believe a sexual assault occurred, but there was no realistic prospect for conviction, Segal concluded. The report says the Crown identified inconsistencies between two statements Parsons gave to police. As

well, there were inconsistencies with a statement given by a witness and various text messages. The Crown also considered that due to her intoxication at the time, Parsons had little or no recollection of large portions of what happened that night in November 2011 at a home in Eastern Passage, N.S. “Both the credibility and reliability concerns raised by the Crown prosecutor were not fanciful or based on personal opinion, but rather grounded on some objective facts collected by the police,” the report says. “These primarily went to the Crown’s ability to prove lack of consent to the sexual activity at the time in question.” Parsons’ father, Glen Canning, could not be reached for comment but he issued a statement on his blog Thursday saying that his daughter had lost faith in the justice system before she died. “There is no excuse for someone so young to lose faith like that,” the statement says.

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olice acknowledged the shortcomings and offered an apology for the mistakes Segal identified. “We apologize and we remain committed to addressing the issues and recommendations so we continue to progress,” said acting Chief Supt. Dennis Daley of the RCMP. “We have acknowledged some shortcomings that we take responsibility for. Will we improve? Yes . . . we will improve.” Daley and Chief Jean-Michel Blais of Halifax Regional Police didn’t get into specific failures, but said they have improved the training of officers investigating sexual assault cases. Soon after Parsons’ suicide, Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed

s for errors that police made, the report says Parsons gave an unrecorded statement to a police officer before the case was handed to an investigator from the sexual assault unit, who conducted a second interview, which was a lapse in protocol. Because of Parsons’ young age, she should have been interviewed only once, alongside a social worker from the Department of Community Services. A week after Parsons died, police reopened their investigation after receiving what they said was new information. In August 2013, child pornography charges were laid against two young men, both 18 at the time. A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty to distributing a sexually graphic image of Parsons. Another 20-year-old man pleaded guilty to making child pornography. Both men were youths at the time of the offences and were charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which means they cannot be identified.

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WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s child-welfare system is being called a “national disgrace” as the province continues to come under fire for having more than 10,000 children in care. Conservative Opposition critic Ian Wishart said the system is in crisis while the NDP government ignores the problem and makes excuses. “The child-welfare system in this province has become a bit of a national disgrace,” he said Thursday at a joint press conference with

Manitoba’s First Nations children’s advocate. “This is not what we want the rest of the country to think of when they think of Manitoba.” Child and Family Services seizes an average of one newborn baby a day. The province has said almost half of them have a developmental or addiction issue. About 90 per cent of the children under provincial care are aboriginal. Manitoba’s child-welfare system has come under sharp criticism for years, sometimes for being too

quick to apprehend children or for repeatedly returning children to abusive parents. First Nations children’s advocate Cora Morgan said the situation is “out of control”, with kids being taken from their families without proper assessments. The result on families is devastating, she said. Family Services Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross said she appreciates Morgan’s role and her advocacy. But she said it’s up to individual child-welfare agencies to decide who can or cannot attend case meetings.

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SANTIAGO, Chile — Newly declassified U.S. intelligence documents that came to light Thursday reveal that Gen. Augusto Pinochet directly ordered the 1976 assassination of a Chilean diplomat in Washington. Orlando Letelier, a former defence and foreign minister, was killed by a car bomb along with American Ronni Moffitt. Letelier had been a top official under President Salvador Allende, who was ousted by the Pinochet-led coup in 1973. Letelier was tortured and jailed, then later fled to the U.S. “We hope that studying these documents will shine a light” on both Pinochet’s role in the killing and a judicial system that never tried the dictator for the crime, Letelier’s son, Sen. Juan Pablo Letelier, told reporters Thursday. Letelier said he had received copies of the documents at the behest of President Michelle Bachelet. Bachelet received them from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in Chile on Monday for an oceans conference. One document includes an assertion by the former head of Chile’s intelligence agency, Manuel Contreras, that “he authorized the assassination of Letelier” on “direct orders from Pinochet.”

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STOCKHOLM — Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that chronicled the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and those that followed in the wake of its 1991 collapse. The Swedish Academy cited the 67-year-old journalist and prose writer “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Alexievich, the 14th woman to win the literature award since 1901, used the skills of a journalist to create literature chronicling the Second World War, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster, and social problems like attempted suicides after the Soviet Union disintegrated. The academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, praised Alexievich as a great and innovative writer who has “mapped the soul” of the Soviet and post-Soviet people. “She is offering us new and interesting historical material and she has developed a particular writing style, as well a new literary genre,” Danius told The Associated Press. Like many intellectuals in Belarus, Alexievich supports the political opponents of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is up

Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 Nobel literature winner, leaves a news conference in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday. [AP PHOTO]

for re-election on Sunday. Because of her criticism of the government she has periodically lived abroad — including in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden — but now lives in Minsk, the Belarusian capital. Her first book, War’s Unwomanly Face, published in 1985, was based on the previously untold stories of women who had fought against Nazi Germany. It sold more than two million copies. Her books have been published in 19 countries, with at least five of them translated into English. She

also has written three plays and the screenplays for 21 documentary films. Speaking to Swedish broadcaster SVT, Alexievich said winning left her with “complicated” emotions. “It immediately evokes such great names as (Ivan) Bunin, (Boris) Pasternak,” she said, referring to Russian writers who have won the Nobel Prize for literature. “On the one hand, it’s such a fantastic feeling. But it’s also a bit disturbing.” Asked what she was going to do with the 8 million Swedish kronor

(about $960,000) in prize money, she said it would allow her to write more. “I do only one thing: I buy freedom for myself. It takes me a long time to write my books, from five to 10 years,” she said. “I have two ideas for new books, so I’m pleased that I will now have the freedom to work on them.” Born on May 31, 1948, in the western Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankvisk to two village schoolteachers, Alexievich studied journalism in Belarus, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. She worked at newspapers near the Polish border and in Minsk while collecting material for her books. In 1989, she published Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War, a book about the war that had been concealed from the Soviet public for 10 years. Her 1993 book Enchanted with Death focused on attempted suicides resulting from the downfall of communism, as people who felt inseparable from socialist ideals were unable to accept a new world order. In 1997, Alexievich published Voices from Chornobyl: Chronicle of the Future. The book, which was released in English two years later, is not so much about the nuclear disaster as it was about the world after it: how people adapt to a new reality, living as if they had survived a nuclear war.

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Ruling fuels movement to impeach Brazil’s president President Dilma Rousseff’s ability to govern Brazil has been dealt a serious blow by a federal audit court ruling that her government violated accounting practices and financial laws last year,

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a decision that could fuel efforts to impeach her, analysts said Thursday. The court on Wednesday approved a report that said Rousseff’s government illegally used money from state banks to fill budget holes. The finding is not binding, but may help Congress decide whether Rousseff violated fiscal rules. — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Iran exits book fair over author Iran is boycotting this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair in protest over a planned opening speech at the venue by Indiaborn British novelist Salman Rushdie. Iranian state TV reported on Thursday that the ministry of culture called the decision by the fair organizers to invite Rushdie an “anti-cultural action.” It said Iran won’t attend the fair in protest and urged other Islamic countries to do the same. Hundreds of Iranian publishers usually attend the annual event, due Oct. 14-18.

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No copyright for Bikram yoga A federal appeals court says a sequence of 26 poses and two breathing exercises used in hot yoga classes is not entitled to copyright protection. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday the yoga sequence is a process intended to improve people’s health, and copyright law does not extend to such processes. The court said a copyright on the yoga sequence would be akin to giving a surgeon the exclusive right to perform a complicated surgery.

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Experts look at student deaths Mexican prosecutors say they have picked seven experts from five countries to carry out a new review of the area where drug gang members allegedly killed and incinerated 43 missing college students. Prosecutors have said the students were killed and incinerated at a garbage dump, and their charred bone fragments dumped in a river. One of the experts on that panel was Jose Luis Torero of the University of Queensland, Australia. The Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that Torero has been invited to join the new investigation, along with experts from Mexico, the United States, Canada, Spain and Germany.

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NOT A SURE THING Toronto Blue Jays pitcher David Price reacts after giving up a two-run home run to the Texas Rangers in Toronto on Thursday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Price remains winless in playoffs as Blue Jays fall 5-3 NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

dvantage Texas Rangers. The underdog AL West champions, no strangers to being written off, spoiled the Blue Jays’ long-awaited return to the post-season Thursday, beating Toronto ace David Price en route to a 5-3 win. Rangers manager Jeff Banister sends Cole Hamels, his marquee man, to the mound Friday afternoon to face Marcus Stroman in Game 2. There’s a ways to go in the best-offive series, but Texas is smiling while Canada has its fingers crossed. “I care a ton,” said a disappointed Price. “I want to go out there and pitch well for my teammates and pitch well for this country and I didn’t do that today.” A sellout crowd of 49,834, waving rally towels, lived and died with every pitch under the roof at the Rogers Centre, which last saw playoff action in 1993 when the Jays won a second straight World Series. Russell Martin, the Jays’ Canadian

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catcher, called the atmosphere “awesome.” “The fans were great. Good energy, from start to finish,” he said. “The only thing that wasn’t good was the result.” Countless other Canadians took in the game from further afield as baseball took centre stage at the start of hockey season.

Rougned Odor and Robinson Chirinos homered and combined to score four of the Rangers’ runs as the bottom of the Texas order took its toll on Price, who was pitching on 11 days rest. Price, who left after seven innings, gave up five earned runs on five hits with five strikeouts and two walks. He threw 90 pitches, 59 for strikes in taking the loss. “That’s baseball. If you don’t like it, pitch better,” he said, quoting a slogan that hangs in his locker. “That’s something I always say. I definitely don’t like the result of what happened today but there’s a lot of things that were in my control today and I didn’t control those things.” Price, who did not hit a batter as a Jay during the regular season, hit Odor twice in five innings — a Toronto playoff record. Both times the Texas second baseman came home to score. Odor, a 21-year-old from Venezuela, is the second-youngest player to score three runs in a post-season game, according to ESPN Stats. Only Andruw Jones in the 1996 World Series was younger.

For all his regular-season exploits, Price has lost six straight in the playoffs since a win over Boston in 2008. “It’s been about seven years so I want that monkey off my back,” Price said. “I expect to have better results out there on the field. I didn’t throw the ball the way that I’m capable of today and I’ll be ready to go whenever it’s my turn again.” The Rangers never trailed, scoring twice in the third and fifth before adding a single run in the seventh. Toronto, limited to single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth, outhit Texas 6-5 but was only 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position. Jays manager John Gibbons called it one of those games. “He (Price) didn’t give up many hits. The key ones were the two home runs, the two-runner by Chirinos and then Odor getting him later, that was really the difference in the game,” said Gibbons, his voice hoarse from a chest cold. Texas only won two of six games against Toronto this season and Yovani Gallardo was on the mound

for both. He started strongly Thursday, retiring the first nine Jays he faced before exiting after five innings with a 4-2 lead. Rangers manager Jeff Bannister, whose Rangers seemed to come into the series with a chip on their shoulder given the attention on the Jays, pointed to his team’s resolve in the wake of the win “We’ve got a very confident group of guys,” he said. “We’ve got a group of guys that they absolutely love playing together and they’ve been up against it all year long since spring training. “So it’s not anything that we haven’t faced already about what is said on the outside about our ball club. We know that we’re a ball club that’s not a perfect ball club, but we’ve got a group of guys that play extremely well together. It’s a good team. They play very well together.” Both teams lost key players during the game, with Jays’ MVP candidate Josh Donaldson and right-fielder Jose Bautista and Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre leaving early with injuries.

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A day after being shut out of the B.C. Football Conference’s offensive all-star awards, the Vancouver Island Raiders were well represented on the other side of the ball. The Raiders, who ended the season with the second fewest points allowed in the BCFC, had four players named as the conference’s defensive all-stars — the second most behind the Okanagan Sun. At least one player was named from each of the Raiders three defensive units as defensive end Quinton Bowles, middle linebacker Dexter Shea, cornerback Josh Paisley and safety Cole Virtanen were recognized on the 13-player list. Each of the Raiders players named as all-stars were first-time selections. Raiders head coach Jerome Erdman said he wasn’t surprised to see an omission of his players from the BCFC offensive all-star list. “I don’t know about surprised, but maybe a little disappointed,” he said. “I thought Arthur Fabbro played really well down the stretch and Dustin Rodriguez played well. But with the guys that they selected, you really can’t argue. All those guys had great years.” On defence, however, each of the Raiders nominated to be all-stars were selected. “It was well-deserved by those guys and the whole defence,” Erdman said. “All the all-star selections are great for the individual, but I think it’s more of a team thing too, because a defensive back isn’t going to be an all-star unless the guys up front our doing their jobs.” Paisley — a second-year player — was the only player in the Raiders’ secondary, which included rookies Virtanen, Adam McDonald and Max Baldam, that had more than a year’s worth of experience. “Josh doesn’t say a whole heck of a lot,

he just leads by example,” Erdman said of Paisley. “Nobody on the field works harder than Josh does, and I’m just absolutely thrilled with what he’s contributed — I guess he kind of had to, being the old man in the secondary.” Virtanen was Erdman’s star recruit after being named as the 2014 B.C. high school football Varsity AA defensive player of the year last year. He stepped in and had five interceptions, including one for a touchdown, as a starter at free safety. “And if he caught all the interceptions that he dropped and should of had, he would have been leading the league,” Erdman said. “But he did a great job for a youngster — that’s a pretty tough position at free safety for a rookie. I thought he did a great job in his first year.” Bowles and Shea had big shoes to fill at their respective positions with the graduations last year of Ash Gayat and Dylan Chapdelaine, who both committed to UBC. “Those guys definitely had to step up and they did a great job doing that,” Erdman said. The Raiders host their BCFC semifinal game Oct. 17 at 1 p.m. against the defending champion Langley Rams. But past that, Erdman said he’s excited to have each of his defensive all-stars eligible to return next year. “We don’t lose a whole heck of a lot of guys,” he said. “Some of these other teams say ‘oh year we’re so young,’ but I think if you look at the rosters we’re right up there too. And I’m very excited about having these guys back. “If we get a couple more good recruiting classes in the next couple of years, we’re going to be a force to be reckoned with.” Scott.McKenzie@nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4243

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The Nanaimo Buccaneers have won their third straight game, and their second in a row over the Campbell River Storm with a 2-1 win in double overtime Thursday night. After Trent Bell tied the game 1-1 late in the third period to eventually send it to an extra frame, Chad Bell scored the winner 31 seconds before the game could be called a draw.

Brett Witala scored the opening goal for the Storm, who remain in first place in the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League North Division standings. But Bucs goalie Alex Orth shut the door the rest of the way, finishing the game with 31 saves. The Bucs are back in action tonight on the road when they take on the Saanich Braves before returning home Thursday to host the Comox Valley Glacier Kings at the Nanaimo Ice Centre.

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Will Canucks’ gambles pay off?

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In the Nanaimo Clippers first seven games, they were on a dangerous streak of winning one game and then losing the next. But on their eighth and ninth games last weekend, they bucked that trend and will now take a threegame winning streak into a threegame road trip to the Interior starting today against the Venron Vipers. The Clippers also play the Salmon Arm Silverbacks Saturday night and the Merritt Centennials Sunday afternoon. Their focus, however, will again be on a Vipers team they beat 5-2 in a testy affair Saturday in Nanaimo, a game that saw three game misconducts handed out, including one to Vernon head coach Mark Ferner. “It was a good battle, especially for two teams not being in the same division,” said Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp, a former coach of the Vipers. “It had a little bite to it.” Ferner thought the game was tighter than what the score showed, telling the Vernon Morning Star the Clippers “. . . got a few lucky breaks on goals.” One of the keys to the Clippers recent string of success has been their powerplay, which right now is clicking at a B.C. Hockey League-best 31.71 per cent. It’s led by Sheldon Rempal and Matt Hoover, who have combined for seven goals through nine games with an extra attacker. Vandekamp said his team isn’t doing anything out of the ordinary on the powerplay, other than putting good players on the ice. “It’s not really anything the coaches are taking credit for,” he said. “Powerplays will come and go over the course of a season, with hot and cold streaks coming along the way. So when you’re on a bit of a hot one, you want to extend it for as long as you can. It was a key to success (last) week.” Rempal and linemate Devin Brosseau are two of three players in the BCHL who have recorded at least a point in all nine games. And while their line, along with Hoover, has been the best in the BCHL this season, secondary scoring is also coming along. “I think the team’s coming together now and everyone’s starting to click,” said Nanaimo winger Chris Dodero, who scored twice in his team’s three-game home stand last week, including the game-winner against the Vipers. The Clippers next home game is Oct. 17 when they host the expansion Wenatchee Wild for the first time ever, and the only time this season. Scott.McKenzie @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4243

Win over Flames showed they can go into Calgary and ‘steal their lunch money’

en Hutton was trying to play it cool. It was at the end of the exhibition season when he was called in for a meeting with the coach and general manager. He knew what it could mean. He strained to muzzle that billboard smile of his, and managed to do it just long enough to get out of there with the exhilarating news. “But when I got out, I pumped my fist and yelled ‘yes,’” Hutton recalled. For Hutton, it was Step 1. Step 2 was Wednesday, the opening of the regular season. When that one was over, a 5-1 Calgary win, an amped-up Alex Burrows shouted to the young rookie. “Thataway, Hutt — that was one helluva game.” It was. There were flubs. Hutton was the one who was out of position on Calgary’s only goal, which forced Luca Sbisa into trouble. There were anxious moments too, especially at the start. “I was trying to keep the nerves out of the way, but I can’t lie,” Hutton said. “I was really quiet before the game. And when I got out there, it was the first or second shift, I kind of fumbled the puck behind the net and I was like ‘Oh (crap).’ “But the nerves, they slowly went away.” You could say the same for many of the fans watching this team. To be real, no one had a clue what the Canucks would do this regular season. No one. Now, we know they are capable of going into Calgary, gut-punching the Flames and stealing their lunch money, because they did all of that in a 5-1 stampede Wednesday. It won’t be that easy Saturday. Disgusted is not too strong a word for the way Bob Hartley looked after the game. He is going to cattle prod these guys leading up to the rematch.

Vancouver Canucks Jannik Hansen, centre, Alexandre Burrows, left, and Bo Horvat celebrate a goal during an NHL game against the Calgary Flames in Calgary, Wednesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Jason Botchford The Province Despite the win, heading into this home opener, the Canucks are still a team splattered in question marks. They are literally everywhere. The one spot they thought they had solid was in net. But now Jacob Markstrom is out for at least three weeks with a hamstring injury, meaning the unheralded Richard Bachman is the backup. Great, just in time for back-to-back games Monday and Tuesday. Signing Bachman as the third goalie was just one of many gambles the Canucks took in the summer. This is a team that came into this season betting Sven Baertschi is a top-six winger. This is a team that, for now, is

banking on Brandon Sutter not only being a top-six forward, but a productive a first-line winger. There’s Bo Horvat, who the team is hoping can take a huge leap in deployment responsibilities while putting up big-boy points. There’s Adam Cracknell, who the Canucks need to be much more than just a journeyman and fringe NHL player Then, there’s Jared McCann, armed with a fantastic shot and 185 pounds, who the Canucks are counting on to navigate the bruising Western Conference for a least a couple of weeks. And there’s Hutton, who the Canucks are betting is ready for big time, just six months after he couldn’t crack the Utica Comets. All of those gambles looked promising in Calgary, and that was a pretty important test. “It’s different when the games matter,” Jannik Hansen said. “I think we’ve seen a few times in Vancouver when guys have extremely good pre-seasons, then as soon as the

regular season starts, they falter. “But the young guys (this year) are continuing on the same path they were on.” People will say we won’t know what the Canucks are until 20 games into the season. I’m pretty sure you’ll get the biggest clue next week when they go to California to play the L.A. Kings and Anaheim Ducks in backto-back games. “It’s different once you start playing the big teams in the West,” Alex Burrows said. “There’s the Flames, but there’s also the Kings, Anaheim and St. Louis. That’s when you’ll get a good feel for what these players can bring to our team. “In pre-season, there are a lot of young guys. The systems are off. It’s scrambly. It’s not as systematic as it is once you start playing those California teams and the top teams in the West.” JBotchford@theprovince.com Twitter.com/@botchford

MLB

Stroman set to take the mound in Game 2 NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman isn’t much of a fan of the outdoors, doesn’t like bugs and hates spiders. But put him on a pitching mound in front of millions and he’s in his element. Locked and loaded with something to prove. “As far as sports-wise, I feel like I’m able to keep my emotions in check and use the limelight as kind of a way to get up. I love it, I love it,” the 24-year-old right-hander said Thursday on the eve of Game 1 of Toronto’s American League Division Series against Texas. “This is what you dream of. This is when you’re a little kid and you’re playing in the backyard and you say

’I’m playing in the playoffs.’ This is why you play the game. So I couldn’t be more excited. I’m not nervous. I’m not slightly nervous. “I mean I haven’t pitched in nine days so I’m excited to get out there and get on the mound and get going.” Stroman (4-0) will face Rangers ace Cole Hamels (13-8) in Game 2 today, the latest chapter in his remarkable comeback from March surgery to repair an anterior cruciate knee ligament ripped up during a routine fielding drill in spring training. “This is definitely the biggest start of my career, hands down,” he said. “But I’m ready for it.” Stroman is a five-foot-eight, 180-pound bundle of energy topped by a mop of multi-coloured hair

stuffed into an endless supply of baseball caps. He has a pitching repertoire of five pitches — he credits the sinker as a key addition — that is fuelled by the chip on his shoulder and the heart he wears on his sleeve. “I pitch with a lot of hate and anger and emotion in my heart,” he acknowledged. Asked about the hate, he replied: “A lot goes into it. I’m five foot eight. A lot of people doubt me. So that’s with me every single pitch out there on the mound.” He says his father, knowing his son “wasn’t going to be the biggest guy in the room,” told him to play with that chip on his shoulder and not to worry about what anyone else said. According to manager John Gib-

bons, Stroman’s accelerated comeback was “totally unexpected.” “He told me in spring training after the injury ’I’ll see you in September,’ and I thought it was a pipe dream,”’ said Gibbons. “But we encouraged him, he went off and did his education (completing his degree at Duke), did his rehab and he just kept moving and moving. And next thing you know he’s here.” Stroman says the comeback was arduous. “I exhausted every opportunity and did everything in my power to get back to this team. I did. And it was not fun. A lot of it was not fun. I made the best situation out of it. I couldn’t explain it. I’ll never have to go through anything as hard as that in my life.”

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CFL BRIEFS The Canadian Press ◆ MONTREAL

Muamba gears up for debut as Als linebacker Linebacker Henoc Muamba is in a crash course to learn the Montreal defence ahead of his Alouettes debut Monday against the Toronto Argonauts. The coveted free agent, who signed a lucrative (by CFL standards) twoyear deal with Montreal on Sept. 30, is to take over the middle linebacker position that was left vacant by injuries to Bear Woods and Kyler Ellsworth this season. “It’s a long week,” Muamba said Thursday of the 12-day break the Alouettes are enjoying since their crushing 39-17 loss in Ottawa on Oct. 1. “I had an opportunity to come in early and sit down with some of the coaches and get into the playbook, watch some film and see what they expect each play. “It’s been helpful. Now it’s a matter of getting used to the guys around me.” Muamba had a few teams interested when he was released by the Indianapolis Colts on Sept. 5. He finally accepted a deal with Montreal that included a fat signing bonus for the rest of this season and reportedly could pay up to $230,000 in 2016. “It was the best decision for me,” he said. “I’m happy. “I’m excited about the next few weeks and the challenge that’s ahead.”

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Brandon Banks has big expectations for Ticats Diminutive Brandon Banks likes to think big. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ dynamic punt returner expects to score each time he settles under a booming kick. Although such expectations are unrealistic, the five-foot-seven, 153-pound Banks remains the CFL’s most dangerous special-teams performer with four punt returns for touchdowns. That’s one behind the league record held by Ottawa Redblacks receiver Chris Williams, who set the standard in 2012 while with Hamilton. Banks, who had an 83-yard punt return TD in last weekend’s 23-20 home loss to the Calgary Stampeders, will have Williams’ mark in his sights when the Ticats (8-5) host the Saskatchewan Roughriders (2-12) on Friday night. “I just want to go out there pretty much every time and return the kick if I can, but we know the reality,” Banks said on the Ticats’ website. “Hopefully I can get (fifth return TD) to tie the record.”

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MLB playoffs force Argos to play game in Hamilton The baseball playoffs have forced the Toronto Argonauts to consider relocating yet another home game. The Argos announced Thursday their Oct. 17 game against the Calgary Stampeders could be moved to Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton due to a potential scheduling conflict.

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CFL

Q&A with Andrew Harris Former star in Nanaimo still a top player, but getting ready for life after pro football STEVE EWEN THE PROVINCE

Andrew Harris and Jon HameisterRies are teammates once again. Harris, the B.C. Lions running back, and Hameister-Ries, the former Lions offensive lineman, are partners in Meat City Sandwiches, a Davie Street establishment promising to serve up the likes of prime rib and porchetta on bread baked fresh every day. When they were together with the Lions, it was Harris who was front and centre. With Meat City, it’s Hameister-Ries, 31, in the spotlight. He is the one with the culinary background; he received considerable attention from his stint on MasterChef Canada. He was with the Lions from 2007-13. Andrew Jones, another former Lions offensive lineman who’s now with the Edmonton Eskimos, also has a stake in the business. Harris, 28, who is from Winnipeg and played junior football with the Vancouver Island Raiders, has been looking at various business interests. A Province story in June pointed to him selling everything from window frames to houses. Harris talked about the Meat City endeavour earlier this week. Province Sports: How did Meat City come about? Andrew Harris: Me and Jon have been friends for a while. He’s a great cook. You saw that on MasterChef. I’m more behind the scenes. I’m just promoting it and stuff. I’m not in the shop all that much. For me, it’s cool to be a part of something. I’m happy that it’s going well.

PS: If you were in charge of the menu, what would it include? What is the kind of stuff you do at home? AH: I’m pretty basic. I don’t do anything too difficult. That’s why I have Jon doing the hard work. PS: What have you learned from this experience? AH: It’s about life after football. I’ve got a bunch of different things, too. I’m just heading over to the Island for some business stuff. I’m constantly working on different things. I’m trying to diversify. I’m trying to network. It’s been good so far. PS: Has there been an older guy through the years that has taught you that football doesn’t last forever? AH: You’ve seen guys who have transitioned. For me, it’s been largely self-taught. I don’t have a degree. I didn’t go to college. It’s about how can I get my best foot forward in other avenues. PS: Life after football isn’t imminent for you, though. You’re planning on still playing a while? AH: Oh, yeah. Keep in mind, too, that we only play for five months and I’m done most days in the early afternoon. There’s lots of time to do other things, too. PS: How much does it help with Meat City that Jon understands what your life is like as CFLer? AH: Yeah, for sure. He definitely gets it. It makes a big difference. SEwen@theprovince.com Twitter.com/steveewen

B.C. Lions runningback Andrew Harris carries the ball during the first half of a CFL game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Vancouver on Saturday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Lions QB continues to impress his coaches ED WILLES THE PROVINCE

Neil McEvoy could see the kid had skills — hell, anyone could see that — but as he stared at the game video sent by the player’s agent a year ago, a couple of thoughts ran through the head of the B.C. Lions director of football ops. First off, the young quarterback who looked so impressive was playing for that noted football factory Saginaw Valley State and, as McEvoy says: “A lot of guys look phenomenal in Division II.” The video was also two years old and McEvoy had no idea what this prize recruit had been up to. He knew he’d failed tryouts with Kansas City, Detroit and Green Bay in the NFL and had even attended a Saskatchewan Roughriders’ free-agent camp. But McEvoy didn’t know if he was still in game-shape or “weighed 600 pounds.” Still, the Lions had their own freeagent camp in Atlanta in a couple of months and, at the very least, needed a quarterback to throw to the receivers. An offer was made contingent on

the kid showing up in Atlanta, and it was accepted. Then again, Jonathon Jennings didn’t have a lot of other options. At that point, he was working in an auto parts warehouse and, as he says: “Trying to hold on to hope.” “(Lions head coach Jeff Tedford) saw the film and kept saying: ‘Who’s this guy?’” McEvoy recalls. “I told him: ‘He’s a guy we’re going to see in Atlanta at the end of April. He may not show up. He might be good enough.’ You could see he had everything you want in a quarterback. But there’s always the but. In the end, we felt he was good enough to bring to (Lions’) training camp to compete for, at that time, the thirdor fourth-string job.” Remember all this. It might be a story that’s told for a while in our province. Jennings, of course, has been absolutely dazzling in his 10-plus quarters of work with the Lions this season. Forced into the starter’s job four weeks ago when John Beck suffered a shoulder injury in Calgary, the 23-year-rookie has reinvigorated

a team that was starting to circle the drain and excited a fan base that had given up hope. So how did this happen? How did this unheralded, undrafted quarterback who’s changing the present and maybe the future of the Lions become available in the first place? Good question, and the answer has something to do with Jennings’ skills, his strength of character and a league that still offers opportunities to those whom others would forget. “I was always confident I could play,” Jennings says. “I just didn’t know if I’d get the right opportunity, and there’s a lot of guys in that position. When you’re from a Div. II school, you never know if you’re going to get that chance.” The Lions offered him that chance. Now they’re sitting on a winning lottery ticket. Jennings arrived at training camp this spring as a virtual unknown but, every step in his development, he impressed Tedford and his staff. He was given the most reps of any of the rookie quarterbacks. He was productive in both his pre-season appearances. He would

start the season as the Lions’ No. 3 and seemed to be settling in for an apprenticeship when fate intervened in the form of injuries to Travis Lulay and Beck. This is the way of the CFL and it remains one of the most endearing things about our league. But what about the Lions’ coaching staff? Did they see this rising star in their midst? Tedford was around bigtime quarterbacks — Aaron Rodgers, Joey Harrington, Akili Smith, Trent Dilfer — throughout his college coaching career, and he says you could see Jennings’ gifts. “But you have to see it when the live bullets are flying,” says Tedford. “There’s a lot of guys with big arms who can run. The critical thing at that position is their composure, their poise, their intelligence. You need to be around them to learn that stuff. Obviously, he’s athletic and he’s got a quick release. But, with quarterbacks, you have to get to know their makeup.” What Tedford came to know is that the intangibles Jennings brought to the game were even more impressive than his physical gifts.

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Americans take a big lead heading into Day 2 in Korea DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INCHEON, Korea, Republic Of — The Presidents Cup wasn’t an hour old when Nick Price looked at the scoreboard and had that sinking feeling. It was filled with American red. And there wasn’t much Price or the International team could do about it Thursday in an opening session that ended just like so many others in this one-sided affair. Phil Mickelson and Zach Johnson capped off a performance that was as businesslike as their handshakes, and the Americans had a 4-1 lead after foursomes in which they never trailed in any match except the one they lost. “A tough day for us,” Price said. “Having said that, we are only five points into 30. We still have another 25 points left out there. So we’ve got a long way to go, and that’s that

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I told my team. Just to keep their chins up and do the best they can tomorrow.” The International team was adamant that the number of matches be reduced — it was lowered from 34 to 30 — to keep it a close contest. After one day, maybe having one less match on Thursday helped. It could have been worse.

The Americans, who have lost the Presidents Cup only one time since it began in 1994 and are going for their sixth straight victory, had a lead after the opening session for the fifth straight time. The margin was their largest since a four-point lead in 2007 at Royal Montreal. That makes the five matches of fourballs on Friday even more critical. U.S. captain Jay Haas put Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson in the first match, followed by Rickie Fowler and Jimmy Walker. “He’s going for the kill,” Price said. “If we get momentum going, it can change things.” All the momentum belonged to the Americans on Thursday. Bubba Watson and J.B. Holmes ran off four straight birdies early in their match against Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama, and that set the tone. They wound up winning a tight

match when Scott and Matsuyama missed key putts and ended it on the 16th hole. “That was my whole goal,” Watson said. “Get out there fast, change the colour so the other guys see that and it sparks them going forward.” Watson and Holmes didn’t deliver the first point. That came from Fowler and Walker, who picked up their first win as a team. They halved three matches at the Ryder Cup last year, and on Thursday they had the shortest match at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, 5 and 4, over India’s Anirban Lahiri and Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee. The lone International victory came from Louis Oosthuizen and Branden Grace of South Africa, who took advantage of some sloppy play by Matt Kuchar and Patrick Reed in a 3-and-2 victory. Kuchar hit a tee shot into the water on No. 11, and he hit a wedge so far on No. 14 that it didn’t

even reach the creek. Grace went 0-4 in his Presidents Cup debut two years ago, and the South Africans gave the International team at least some hope. “I know we’re behind,” Grace said, glancing at a scoreboard behind him. “But one point is better than none.” The Americans got help from top to bottom. Spieth, coming off a year of two majors, the FedEx Cup and the No. 1 ranking, and Dustin Johnson made for a formidable duo. They set the tone early when Spieth holed a 20-foot birdie putt on No. 2, and Johnson stepped up on the next hole and hammered a tee shot nearly 350 yards. They halved that hole, but a message was sent. “Me hitting bomb drives, Jordan holing putts,” Johnson said. “That’s what you want to get in their heads.”

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NFL

McDavid makes long-awaited NHL debut amid nerves, hype

Hawks kicker Hauschka reliable in tough year

Top overall pick in 2015 draft comes to the NHL with comparisons to Crosby STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

onnor McDavid skated away from his NHL debut without a clear memory that stood out. “It was just kind of all a blur,” McDavid said. The Edmonton Oilers’ No. 1 pick broke into the league Thursday night with two quality scoring chances in 18 minutes of ice time in a 3-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues. McDavid’s first big-league game won’t go down as something of legend but is a milestone for his career. “You can move on from here,” McDavid said. “I know there’s a little bit of attention on it. I’m glad it’s over and certainly enjoyed the day and will remember it for a while.” McDavid entered the league with the nerves of any 18-yearold, but unlike other rookies he also carries the weight of being compared to Sidney Crosby and Wayne Gretzky. There’s also a curiosity factor in play that might be the highest of its kind in the history of the sport. “I did spend some time talking to Sid about his experience and even since then the world has really changed as far as media and social media and that type of stuff,” Oilers coach Todd McLellan said. “This is a new adventure for everybody involved. I know that Connor has the tools to handle the pressure, and we’ll do everything we can to help him.” The Newmarket, Ont., native began his new adventure with 2010 top pick Taylor Hall and fellow rookie Anton Slepyshev as his linemates. He finished with two shots on goal and a minus-1 rating. Hall cautioned earlier in

Edmonton Oilers rookie Connor McDavid warms up before the start of an NHL game against the St. Louis Blues, Thursday in St. Louis. [AP PHOTO]

the day not to make too much of how McDavid comes out of the gate. “It’s important to remember he’s 18,” Hall said. “I’m 23 and I still have bad games, Sidney Crosby’s the best player in the world, he still has bad games. There’s going to be some trials and some errors, but I think that he’s in a position to succeed, and it’s going to be fun to watch him grow.” McDavid is almost timidly bashful about the significance of his NHL debut. He might be the only one. “He’s humble like Gretz,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “He’s sincere, very complimentary to existing veteran players in the league and has a healthy respect for the history of the game.” There’s already respect for McDavid from players who

haven’t yet been on the ice against him and just watched his highlights. Blues defenceman Kevin Shattenkirk said he wanted to “make sure that you’re not the first guy getting danced around by the young guy.” Shattenkirk isn’t the only elite defenceman thinking about that. “When you see highlights, you kind of wonder, ‘What’s this guy going to be like to play against?”’ Duncan Keith of the Chicago Blackhawks said. “He’s pretty shifty for a young guy, and you just don’t want to get embarrassed by him.” New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider expects McDavid to be “the real deal” and says he “seems to be that Sidney Crosby-type player.” Los Angeles Kings defenceman Drew Doughty wants to see for himself. “I’m excited to play

against him,” Doughty said. “I think it’s pretty obvious that no one can take him lightly, so he’s going to come into the league with a big target on his back right off the bat.” That target is already there. St. Louis captain David Backes talked up his team’s in-your-face, hard-nosed style and assured that whenever McDavid is an opponent, “he’s going to experience that and let’s see how he responds to it.” Hundreds of Oilers fans made the trip to St. Louis to witness McDavid’s debut, including many of whom sported No. 97 sweaters and T-shirts. A handful of Erie Otters fans with McDavid sweaters were also in attendance at Scottrade Center. “There was no way I was missing this,” said Alberta native Wes Holliday.

MLB

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Collin McHugh and the Houston Astros beat the Kansas City Royals at their own game Thursday night, relying on sharp pitching and stingy defence for a 5-2 victory in the opener of their AL Division Series. McHugh (1-0) allowed four hits, including a pair of solo homers by Kendrys Morales, while pitching around a 49-minute rain delay. The right-hander lasted six innings before turning the game over to his bullpen, which scattered

RENTON, Wash. — Steven Hauschka remembers vividly the last time he saw this much turnover and struggles among kickers early in the season. The reason the memory sticks out so much for the Seattle Seahawks kicker is because he was in the middle of those changes back in 2009, before Hauschka established himself. “The 2009 season there were a bunch of jobs up for grabs then. A lot of guys were struggling. I was one of the guys struggling,” Hauschka recalled. “Sometimes those times when people struggle, those guys come back from that and improve and it’s a big defining moment in their career.” While there’s been significant turnover in the kicking ranks early in the 2015 season, Seattle is relishing the stability and consistency of Hauschka. Hauschka is 10 of 10 on field goals, including hitting a pair of 50-yarders in last Monday’s 13-10 win over Detroit. Hauschka became the first Seattle kicker to make two 50-yard kicks in the same game since Josh Brown in 2007. Hauschka is tied for the NFL lead in made field goals and so far has been unaffected by the changes in extra points. “I don’t know. I just like to swing away at those,” Hauschka said of his success at longer kicks. “There are a lot of guys that are good at that. You look at the guys in this league good at those, they’re the ones that swing confidently. You can tell on film.” Back in 2009, Hauschka was struggling to find a spot, lasting nine games with the Ravens before getting waived. After bouncing around practice squads, Hauschka kicked four games at the end of the 2010 season in Denver, then found a home in Seattle at the start of the 2011 season. “Once you have that moment of just failure, of letdown, you’ve already experienced that. It can’t get much worse than that, so you lose that fear aspect of it and you swing confidently and you do what you need to do to make kicks in this league,” Hauschka said.

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Astros beat Royals 5-2 in ALDS opener DAVE SKRETTA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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three runners over the final three frames. Tony Sipp, Will Harris and Oliver Perez got the game to Luke Gregerson, part of Oakland’s wild-card collapse in Kansas City last year. He handled the ninth to earn a save. George Springer and Colby Rasmus went deep for the homer-happy Astros, but they also scored via the same sort of small ball the Royals used in reaching the World Series last season. Game 2 is Friday, with lefty Scott Kazmir on the mound for Houston against right-hander Johnny Cueto in a matchup of pitchers traded dur-

ing the season. Yordano Ventura (0-1) yielded three runs on four hits and a walk in two innings for Kansas City, but did not come back following the delay. Chris Young served up Springer’s home run with one out in the fifth, but tossed four otherwise solid innings of relief. The Astros, who struggled so mightily on the road this season, have apparently solved their woes just in time. They beat the Yankees 3-0 in New York in Tuesday night’s wild-card game, then took care of a Royals club built specifically for spacious Kauffman Stadium.

“That’s a young, athletic team and they played really, really good defence,” Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. Houston also made it the first time since 1970 that visiting teams won baseball’s first four post-season games, STATS said. The other two times it happened were 1906 and 1923. The Astros wasted no time getting Ventura in trouble, loading the bases with nobody out in the first inning. The hard-throwing ace settled down to retire the next three batters, but Rasmus and Evan Gattis provided RBI groundouts to give Houston a 2-0 lead.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2015

NHL

HOCKEY

EASTERN CONFERENCE Ottawa Montreal Tampa Bay

GP W 1 1 1 1 1 1

GA 1 1 2

Pts 2 2 2

Home 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 1-0-0-0

Away 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 0-0-0-0

Last 10 Strk 1-0-0-0 W-1 1-0-0-0 W-1 1-0-0-0 W-1

GP W 1 1 1 0 1 0

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Home 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0

Away 1-0-0-0 0-0-1-0 0-1-0-0

Last 10 Strk 1-0-0-0 W-1 0-0-1-0 L-1 0-1-0-0 L-1

GP W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

L OL SL GF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2

GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 6

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Away 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 0-0-0-0

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Red Deer Calgary Lethbridge Medicine Hat Edmonton Kootenay

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GA 2 0 1

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Last 10 Strk 1-0-0-0 W-1 1-0-0-0 W-1 1-0-0-0 W-1

U.S. DIVISION

L OL SL GF 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 1

GA 1 1 3

Pts 2 2 0

Home 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0

Away 1-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 0-1-0-0

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METROPOLITAN DIVISION NY Rangers Philadelphia Carolina

WILD CARD Washington New Jersey NY Islanders Columbus Florida Detroit Toronto Buffalo Pittsburgh Boston

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Winnipeg Dallas St. Louis

GP W 1 1 1 1 1 1

PACIFIC DIVISION San Jose Vancouver Edmonton

GP W 1 1 1 1 1 0

WILD CARD Minnesota Nashville Anaheim Arizona Colorado Chicago Los Angeles Calgary

GP W 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

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GA 4 1 0 0 5 3 5 5

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Away 1-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0

Last 10 Strk 1-0-0-0 W-1 1-0-0-0 W-1 0-0-0-0 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 0-0-0-0 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 0-1-0-0 L-1 0-1-0-0 L-1 0-1-0-0 L-1 0-1-0-0 L-1

Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in the OTL or SOL columns. Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. 7KXUVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Arizona at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Winnipeg 6 Boston 2 6DWXUGD\ÂˇV JDPHV Ottawa 3 Buffalo 1 Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay 3 Philadelphia 2 (OT) Philadelphia at Florida, 7 p.m. St. Louis 3 Edmonton 1 Detroit at Carolina, 7 p.m. Nashville 2 Carolina 1 Edmonton at Nashville, 7 p.m. Dallas 3 Pittsburgh 0 Ottawa at Toronto, 7 p.m. Minnesota 5 Colorado 4 Montreal at Boston, 7 p.m. :HGQHVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Columbus at NY Rangers, 7 p.m. Montreal 3 Toronto 1 NY Rangers 3 Chicago 2 New Jersey at Washington, 7 p.m. Vancouver 5 Calgary 1 St. Louis at Minnesota, 8 p.m. San Jose 5 Los Angeles 1 NY Islanders at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. )ULGD\ÂˇV JDPHV Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m. Winnipeg at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Arizona, 10 p.m. NY Rangers at Columbus, 7 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Chicago at NY Islanders, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

JETS 6, BRUINS 2

LIGHTNING 3, FLYERS 2 (OT)

First Period 1. Boston, Krejci 1 (unassisted) 5:36. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lowry Wpg (tripping) 1:54; Bergeron Bos, Lowry Wpg (roughing), Burmistrov Wpg (illegal check to the head minor) 19:23. Second Period 2. Wpg, Scheifele 1 (Byfuglien) 5:26. 3. Winnipeg, Wheeler 1 (Ladd) 9:17. 4. Wpg, Stafford 1 (Lowry, Chiarot) 17:39. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None. Third Period 5. Bos, Pastrnak 1 (Beleskey, Miller) 1:25. 6. Wpg, Thorburn 1 (Stafford, Burmistrov) 5:17. 7. Wpg, Petan 1 (Copp, Stuart) 9:51. 8. Winnipeg, Burmistrov 1, 16:22 (en). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Winnipeg 6 11 15 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;32 Boston 14 10 7 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;31 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Winnipeg: Pavelec (W, 1-0-0); Bos: Rask (L, 0-1-0). 3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wpg: 0-0; Bos: 0-2. Att. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 17,565 at Boston.

First Period â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No Scoring. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Couturier Pha (high-sticking) 4:12; Stamkos TB (hooking) 10:29. Second Period 1. TB, Garrison 1 (Callahan, Drouin) 1:25. 2. Phil, Read 1 (Laughton, Umberger) 10:14. 3. Phil, B. Schenn 1 (Umberger, Medvedev) 12:03 (pp). 4. TB, Callahan 1 (Hedman, Drouin) 18:22 (pp). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Schultz Pha (hooking) 6:30; Stralman TB (tripping) 11:26; Medvedev Pha (illegal stick) 16:38; Filppula TB (tripping) 19:11. Third Period â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No Scoring. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None. Overtime 5. Tampa Bay, Garrison 2 (Killorn) 2:17. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Philadelphia 13 3 6 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;24 Tampa Bay 10 13 4 5 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;32 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Phil: Mason (LO, 0-0-1); Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 1-0-0). 3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Phil: 1-3; TB: 1-3. Att. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,092 at Tampa Bay.

SENATORS 3, SABRES 1 First Period 1. Ottawa, Turris 1 (Hoffman, Stone) :30. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None. Second Period 2. Ott, Turris 2 (Hoffman, Stone) 10:49. 3HQDOW\ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pageau Ott (hooking) 15:46. Third Period 3. Buffalo, Eichel 1 (Foligno, Kane) 9:11 (pp). 4. Ott, Lazar 1 (Zibanejad, Ryan) 18:56 (en). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wiercioch Ott (hooking) 7:45; Ryan Ott (hooking) 13:50. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Ottawa 7 11 4 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;22 Buffalo 6 7 14 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;27 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ottawa: Anderson (W, 1-0-0); Buffalo: Lehner (L, 0-1-0). 3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ottawa: 0-0; Buf: 1-3. Att. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,070 at Buffalo.

BLUES 3, OILERS 1 First Period 1. Edm, Nugent-Hopkins 1, 17:22 (pp). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hendricks Edm, Ott StL (roughing) 8:52; Reinhart Edm (hooking) 14:19; Shattenkirk StL (tripping) 17:19; Reinhart Edm (high-sticking) 19:40. Second Period 2. StL, Tarasenko 1 (Pietrangelo, Bouwmeester) 9:10. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Edmundson StL, Gryba (GP Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ 2WW 6W/ FKDUJLQJ Third Period 3. StL, Fabbri 1 (Lehtera, Schwartz) 9:29. 4. StL, Brouwer 1 (Schwartz) 19:42 (en). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reaves StL (tripping) 2:44; Slepyshev Edm (holding) 10:06. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Edmonton 9 7 8 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;24 St. Louis 8 14 9 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;31 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Edmonton: Talbot (L, 0-1-0); St. Louis: Elliott (W, 1-0-0). 3RZHU SOD\V JRDO FKDQFHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Edm: 1-3; StL: 0-3. Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,327 at St. Louis.

DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5 series)

EAST DIVISION GP Prince Albert 5 Moose Jaw 4 Brandon 5 Saskatoon 5 Swift Current 4 Regina 4

W 4 3 3 2 1 1

L 1 0 1 0 2 3

OL 0 1 0 3 1 0

SL 0 0 1 0 0 0

GF GA Pt 23 23 8 19 12 7 21 9 7 25 18 7 6 13 3 4 14 2

OL 0 0 0 1 1 0

SL 0 0 0 0 0 0

GF GA Pt 21 13 8 14 10 8 21 15 6 18 21 5 9 14 3 13 24 2

CENTRAL DIVISION GP 5 5 5 5 4 6

W 4 4 3 2 1 1

L 1 1 2 2 2 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION Victoria Kelowna Vancouver Prince George Kamloops

Spokane Tri-City Everett Seattle Portland

GP 6 7 6 3 5 GP 5 4 3 3 3

W 5 5 3 1 0

L 1 2 2 2 5

OL 0 0 0 0 0

SL 0 0 1 0 0

GF GA Pt 24 13 10 34 29 10 25 29 7 6 7 2 12 24 0

W 3 2 2 1 0

L 2 1 1 1 3

OL 0 1 0 1 0

SL GF GA Pt 0 16 17 6 0 17 18 5 0 6 6 4 0 11 10 3 0 7 13 0

Note: Division leaders ranked in top 2 positions per conference regardless of pts.; a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 pts. & a victory in W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in OTL or SOL columns. :HGQHVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Moose Jaw 8 Vancouver 5 Saskatoon 7 Kootenay 2 Tri-City 4 Kamloops 3 Victoria 4 Spokane 1 )ULGD\ÂˇV JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO Kootenay at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Regina, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Swift Current at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Tri-City at Prince George, 8 p.m. Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m. Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. 6DWXUGD\ÂˇV JDPHV Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Swift Current, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Tri-City at Prince George, 8 p.m. Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Prince Albert at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION GP Penticton 9 Salmon Arm 9 West Kelowna 9 Merritt 11 Vernon 10 Trail 8

W 8 5 5 5 4 2

L 1 2 3 6 5 6

T OL GF GA Pt 0 0 37 17 16 2 0 36 22 12 0 1 32 32 11 0 0 42 47 10 0 1 71 32 9 0 0 24 38 4

ISLAND DIVISION GP Powell River 9 Nanaimo 9 Cowichan Vally 8 Alberni Valley 9 Victoria 9

W 7 6 4 3 1

L 2 3 2 6 7

T OL GF GA Pt 0 0 35 17 14 0 0 35 22 12 1 1 28 59 10 0 0 20 38 6 0 1 17 32 3

MAINLAND DIVISION Langley Wenatchee Coquitlam Chilliwack Surrey Prince George

GP 8 7 10 9 8 8

W 6 5 5 3 2 1

L 2 1 4 3 6 6

T OL GF GA Pt 0 0 31 22 12 1 0 30 15 11 1 0 29 37 11 1 2 32 30 9 0 0 20 35 4 0 1 13 37 3

7KXUVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOW Alberni Valley 4 Victoria 2 :HGQHVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Penticton 5 Trail 3 Merritt 2 Salmon Arm 1 )ULGD\ÂˇV JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO Powell River at Coquitlam, 7 p.m. Victoria at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m. West Kelowna at Penticton, 7 p.m. Chilliwack at Surrey, 7 p.m. Nanaimo at Vernon, 7 p.m. Wenatchee at Langley, 7:15 p.m. Prince George at Trail, 7:30 p.m. 6DWXUGD\ÂˇV JDPHV Prince George at Vernon, 6 p.m. Cowichan Valley at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m. Penticton at Chilliwack, 7 p.m. Nanaimo at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m. Surrey at Victoria, 7 p.m. Powell River at West Kelowna, 7 p.m. Coquitlam at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

KANSAS CITY VS. HOUSTON (Houston leads 1-0) 7KXUVGD\ V UHVXOW Houston 5 Kansas City 2 )ULGD\ V JDPH Houston (Kazmir 7-11) at Kansas City (Cueto 4-7), 3:45 p.m. (FS1) 6XQGD\ V JDPH Kansas City (Volquez 13-9) at Houston (Keuchel 20-8), 4:10 p.m. (MLBN) 0RQGD\ V JDPH x-Kansas City at Houston, TBA (FOX or FS1) Wednesday, Oct. 14 x-Houston at Kansas City, TBA TORONTO VS. TEXAS (Texas leads 1-0) 7KXUVGD\ V UHVXOW Texas 5 Toronto 3 )ULGD\ V JDPH Texas (Hamels 7-1) at Toronto (Stroman 4-0), 12:45 p.m. (MLBN) 6XQGD\ V JDPH Toronto (Estrada 13-8) at Texas (Lewis 17-9), 8:10 p.m. (FS1) 0RQGD\ V JDPH x-Toronto (Dickey 11-11) at Texas (Holland 4-3), 1:07 or 4:07 p.m.(FS1) Wednesday, Oct. 14 x-Texas at Toronto (FOX or FS1)

RANGERS 5, BLUE JAYS 3 7H[DV

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DeShields cf

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D;-

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a-grounded out for Donaldson in the 5th. Eâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Revere (1). LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Texas 4, Toronto 4. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;DeShields (1), Ru.Martin (1), Pillar (1). HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Chirinos (1), off Price; Odor (1), off Price; Bautista (1), off Kela. RBIsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;DeShields (1), Beltre (1), Odor (1), Chirinos 2 (2), Bautista (1), Encarnacion (1), Pillar (1). Runners left in scoring positionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Texas 2 (Fielder, Choo); Toronto 2 (Smoak, Carrera). RISPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Texas 2 for 4; Toronto 2 for 9. Runners moved upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Choo, Chirinos, Revere, Tulowitzki, Goins. GIDPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fielder. DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Toronto 1 (Goins, Tulowitzki, Smoak). Texas

FOOTBALL

ASTROS 5, ROYALS 2

AMERICAN LEAGUE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

L OL SL GF 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3

SPORTS 25

MLB PLAYOFFS

WHL

ATLANTIC DIVISION

@NanaimoDaily

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1-ran for Gattis in the 8th. LOBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Houston 7, Kansas City 6. 2Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Marisnick (1). HRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Springer (1), off C.Young; Col.Rasmus (1), off Madson; K.Morales 2 (2), off McHugh 2. RBIsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Altuve (1), Springer (1), Col.Rasmus 2 (2), Gattis (1), K.Morales 2 (2). SBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Col. Rasmus (1), Zobrist (1). CSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Altuve (1). Runners left in scoring positionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Houston 5 (Valbuena 2, Springer, J.Castro, Correa); Kansas City 3 (Hosmer 2, Zobrist). RISPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Houston 2 for 10; Kansas City 0 for 5. Runners moved upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Altuve, Col.Rasmus, Gattis. GIDPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;J.Castro. DPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City 1 (Zobrist, A.Escobar, Hosmer).

NATIONAL LEAGUE WILD CARD :HGQHVGD\ V UHVXOW Chicago 4 Pittsburgh 0

DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5 series) ST. LOUIS VS. CHICAGO )ULGD\ V JDPH Chicago (Lester 11-12) at St. Louis (Lackey 13-10), 6:45 p.m. 6DWXUGD\ V JDPH Chicago (Hendricks 8-7) at St. Louis (Garcia 10-6), 5:37 p.m. 0RQGD\ V JDPH St. Louis at Chicago 7XHVGD\ V JDPH x-St. Louis at Chicago Thursday, Oct. 15 x-Chicago winner at St. Louis LOS ANGELES VS. NEW YORK

Kela H, 1

1 1 1 1 0 1 17 9.00

)ULGD\ V JDPH New York (deGrom 14-8) at Los Angeles (Kershaw 16-7), 9:45 p.m. 6DWXUGD\ V JDPH New York (Syndergaard 9-7) at Los Angeles (Greinke 19-3), 9:07 p.m. 0RQGD\ V JDPH Los Angeles at New York (Harvey 13-8) 7XHVGD\ V JDPH x-Los Angeles at New York Thursday, Oct. 15 x-New York at Los Angeles

2 0 0 0 0 1 16 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 1 17 0.00

Toronto Price L, 0-1

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Cecil

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HBPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by Price (Odor, Odor). Umpiresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Home, James Hoye; First, Vic Carapazza; Second, Alfonso Marquez; Third, Marvin Hudson; Left, Dale Scott; Right, Dan Bellino. Tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2:53. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;49,834 (49,282).

GP W L T PF PA 13 8 5 0 430 269 13 8 5 0 350 383 14 8 6 0 354 376 13 5 8 0 280 282

Pt 16 16 16 10

WEST DIVISION x-Calgary x-Edmonton B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

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x â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched playoff berth. )ULGD\ÂˇV JDPH Saskatchewan at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m. 6DWXUGD\ V JDPHV Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at B.C., 10 p.m. 0RQGD\ V JDPH Toronto at Montreal, 1 p.m. WEEK 17 Bye: Saskatchewan Friday, Oct. 16 Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17 Calgary vs. Toronto (site TBD), 4 p.m. B.C. at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18 Hamilton at Montreal, 1 p.m.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

W 3 3 2 1

L 0 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

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W 3 1 1 1

L 2 2 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

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W 4 2 1 1

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T 0 0 0 0

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W 4 2 2 1

L 0 2 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

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SOUTH

Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

5 4 2 2 1 1 79 3.60

S.Dyson S, 1-1

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HOUSTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Andre Johnson proved to his former team that he still has plenty left. Johnson caught two touchdown passes from Matt Hasselbeck, including one for 2 yards in the fourth quarter, to help the Indianapolis Colts beat the Houston Texans 27-20 on Thursday night. Released by Houston in March after 12 seasons with the team, Johnson

had six catches for 77 yards. The Colts (3-2) extended their AFC South winning streak to an NFL-record 16 games. Brian Hoyer, who replaced Ryan Mallett for Houston (1-4) in the second quarter, threw a pass up for grabs that was intercepted by Mike Adams with less than two minutes left. The 40-year-old Hasselbeck was filling in for Andrew Luck, who missed his second straight game with a shoulder injury. Hasselbeck may

not have been 100 per cent, either, after missing practice Tuesday with an illness. Johnson extended the lead to 27-17 with the two-yard reception with about 10 1/2 minutes left. The Texans intercepted Hasselbeckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pass in the end zone earlier in that drive, but the play was negated because of defensive holding on Eddie Pleasant. A second penalty, this one for pass interference gave the Colts a first down at the 1. Mallett got the wind knocked out

of him on an illegal hit midway through the second quarter and was replaced by Hoyer. Mallett looked to be OK soon after that, but coach Bill Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien stuck with Hoyer. He finished with 312 yards passing with two touchdowns. Both of the touchdowns were to rookie Jaelen Strong and they came on his first two NFL receptions. DeAndre Hopkins had 11 receptions for 169 yards for Houston. Foster, who was shaken up in the

second quarter but returned after halftime, had 44 yards rushing and 77 yards receiving in his second game back after groin surgery. The Colts opened the second half with a drive capped by Frank Goreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three-yard touchdown that made it 20-10. Gore finished with 98 yards rushing. Strongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second catch and touchdown came on an 11-yard pass by Hoyer to get Houston to 20-17 in the third quarter.

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Tonight: Whatever you do, make it memorable. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You’ll zoom through your day, trying to complete as much as humanly possible. You have a roughness about you that turns people off. If you see this pattern happening, think about your style of communication. Avoid sarcasm at all costs. Tonight: Whatever you touch works. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your enthusiasm comes forth and allows more to happen. You might notice that you have no tolerance for any kind of emotional drama right now. Be clear with others about your terms in order to relate more effectively. Tonight: Be with a favorite person at a favorite place. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You’ll see the role that a friendship plays in your life. Your secretive tendencies often stop people from connecting with you. Try to allow others to see the real you. You might hear some criticism, but the compassion you draw out will be more authentic. Tonight: Hang with friends. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Others come toward you. A boss might have plans that involve you. Understand what this person wants, and know that you likely will have to carry out any requests that he or she makes. Keep your opinions to yourself; don’t undermine your relationship. Tonight: Till the wee hours. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) News comes in from a distance. You could be taken aback by everything you have to do. On one hand, you’ll be trying to grasp the mean-

ing of what was said. On the other hand, you’ll be replaying the actual words. Focus on the message. Tonight: Tap into your imagination. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) One-on-one relating could take a new twist. You suddenly might find yourself in an argument. Few people understand the real meaning of your words. Allow a loved one to discuss his or her feelings. You’ll find this discussion to be unusually powerful. Tonight: A quiet dinner. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Try not to make too much out of a personal matter, and do your best to ignore someone’s temper flare-up. Relax and do your thing, but don’t be surprised if someone invites you to join him or her in some plans. Tonight: Paint the town red. YOUR BIRTHDAY (Oct. 9) This year you often have extensive dreams. You will want to have more personal time. Some of you will get into volunteer work, whereas others will opt to kick back and relax. You will move through issues with ease. If you are single, you are in the process of a change. The person you hook up with now will be very different from who you choose to date later in the year. Only commit if you are 100 percent sure of your relationship. If you are attached, the two of you live active lives that do not always intertwine. You need to make a point of setting aside more time for you as a couple. VIRGO can make an excellent healer for you. BORN TODAY Singer/songwriter John Lennon (1940), British Prime Minister David Cameron (1966), actor Tony Shalhoub (1953)

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10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mozzarella cheese-making workshop with Paula Maddison at Costin Hall Kitchen, Lantzville $65 http://stircookingschool.ca/event/cheese-making-workshopmozzarella-with-paula-maddison.

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9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ladysmith Fall Farmer Market, where local producers sell their goods directly to the public, at 49th Parallel Grocery.

4-6:30 p.m. Bowen Road farmers market is Nanaimo’s food-oriented market offering fresh local farm produce, meats, eggs, pasta, bread, baking, preserves, homemade soap and nursery plants. Beban Park fairgrounds, 2300 Bowen Rd. 6:30- 7:15 p.m. Brother XII tour. Downtown walking tour of locations before/ after cult

started in Cedar-By-the-Sea in the late 1920s. Artifacts on exhibit at the museum. Pre-registration is required 250-753-1821, cost is $10. 7-9 p.m. Kombucha Workshop at Costin Hall Kitchen, Lantzville $50/ http://stircookingschool.ca/event/kombucha-workshop-3/ THURSDAY, OCT. 15 9:30 a.m. until closing, (regular mall hours) Rotary Giant Used Book Sale, proceeds to local charities, schools and Literacy Central Vancouver Island. Nanaimo North Town Centre Through Oct. 25 , 4750 Rutherford Rd. Details at nanaimonorth.com or call 250-758-8111.

8 p.m. Clear The Coast, Myc Sharratt live at the Longwood. The Longwood Brew Pub presents a free, weekly live concert series every Thursday. 5775 Turner Rd. FRIDAY, OCT. 16 Noon-4 p.m. Bastion Waterfront Farmers Market moves to fall hours. Fresh produce, crafts, wine tasting, live music. \Next to the Bastion 6:30-8 p.m. Nanaimo Museum Lantern Tours $15, pre-registration required. Email program@nanaimomuseum.ca or call 250-7531821 for details.

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Hardie back from injury as Scotland seeks quarterfinal Concussion behind him, Scottish flanker treated head injury with respect STEVE DOUGLAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

knocked Samoa out of quarterfinal contention.

NEWCASTLE, England â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Scotland flanker John Hardie wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t complaining as he spent time on the sidelines during the Rugby World Cup, recovering from the first concussion of his career. He has learnt that, in rugby, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mess around with the head. The New Zealand-born Hardie is a good friend of Ben Afeaki, the former prop with the Waikato-based Chiefs and a one-cap New Zealand international, who was forced to retire in April after ongoing issues with concussions. So when, after sustaining a blow to the head against Japan on the tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening weekend, Hardie failed some in-depth test questions that make up World Rugbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new, stringent return-to-play protocol, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kick up a fuss. Even if it could have ruined his World Cup ambitions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I treated it with a lot of respect,â&#x20AC;? Hardie says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I failed a wee bit, and I was told I had to get it right. All the protocols now are really strict, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just part of the game and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really cracking down on it.â&#x20AC;? How hard were the questions? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pretty difficult,â&#x20AC;? Hardie says, before adding jokingly: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have got them (right) if I was OK!â&#x20AC;? As a result, Hardie missed Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games against the United States and South Africa. It was a shame as his parents flew in from Down Under to watch him play for his adopted country.

AUSTRALIA vs. WALES (27-10-1 overall, 4-1 in RWC) First place in Pool A â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and avoiding South Africa in the quarterfinals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is at stake when Wales and Australia meet at Twickenham. Both have already beaten England to bundle the host team out of the competition. Their meetings are usually tight, and invariably won by the Wallabies. Ten in a row, in fact, since 2008. In the last five, there have been five points or fewer in it.Australia is missing flanker Michael Hooper, who is suspended. Wales has no fresh problems at the end of an injury-blighted pool campaign. Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tevita Kuridrani passes the ball during a training session at Dulwich College, London, Thursday. [AP PHOTO]

He is back, though, for what is likely to be a must-win game against Samoa in Newcastle on Saturday. Scotland heads into the final weekend in second place, behind already-qualified South Africa, and two points ahead of Japan. If the Scots lose to Samoa, they will be overtaken if Japan beat the U.S. Eagles. With his background in Super Rugby, Hardie says the tough-tackling Samoans are a dangerous proposition, especially as they have something to prove after a disappointing World Cup campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can play from anywhere, they can offload, they are big boys and can hit,â&#x20AC;? Hardie says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can run over you, they can do anything. We are going to have to stick to what we know

best and be really structured.â&#x20AC;? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a look at Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three games at the Rugby World Cup: SCOTLAND vs. SAMOA (7-1-1 overall, 2-0 in RWC) Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s injury problems have cleared up for the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest game of the tournament, with Hardie, flyhalf Finn Russell, and fullback Stuart Hogg all fit to start. It has been estimated there will be 100,000 Scots in the northern city of Newcastle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is close to the Scottish border â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on the day of the game. Captain Ofisa Treviranus is missing for the Samoans in a lineup showing seven changes from the one that started the 26-5 loss to Japan, which

ENGLAND vs. URUGUAY (1-0 overall, 1-0 in RWC) For England, a trip up north to play Uruguay was supposed to represent a breather before tougher challenges in the knockout stage. Not anymore. The English will say farewell to their own tournament on an evening when their game might not even be the biggest rugby occasion in Manchester, usually a hotbed of English football. Sharing the billing is the rugby league final between Wigan and Leeds in Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super League. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surely no chance of England losing to the amateurs and semi-professionals who make up the Uruguay team, but even a big win at the soccer stadium of Manchester City wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t detract from the humiliation of being the first host team to bow out at the pool stage.

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BERLIN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Portugal and Northern Ireland booked their places at Euro 2016 on Thursday, while world champion Germany was made to wait after being upset 1-0 by Ireland in Dublin. Irish substitute Shane Long ran onto a kick out over the German defence from goalkeeper Darren Randolph and blasted past Manuel Neuer to the top corner to ensure Group D will be decided on the final day. Germany, Portugal and Ireland are vying for the top two spots to ensure direct qualification. Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hopes were ended

when Robert Lewandowski salvaged a 2-2 draw for Poland in Glasgow. One hundred miles to the south in Belfast, Steven Davis scored twice for Northern Ireland to qualify for its first European Championship tournament with a 3-1 victory over Greece in Group F. Joao Moutinho struck for Portugal to beat Denmark 1-0 and secure its place by winning Group I. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a roundup of action from Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Euro 2016 qualifying games: GROUP D Shane Longâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strike earned Ire-

land at least a playoff place with a famous 1-0 win over Germany. Ireland had never before beaten Germany in a competitive game. Germany had missed a host of chances through Jerome Boateng, Ilkay Gundogan and Mesut Ozil, with Ireland forced to chase the game for long periods before Long struck in the 70th minute. Thomas Mueller missed the chance to equalize eight minutes later â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a draw would have been enough for Germany â&#x20AC;&#x201D; when he fired wide with the goal at his mercy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bitter for me and worse for the team,â&#x20AC;? Mueller said.

With one game in qualifying remaining, Germany tops Group D on 19 points, one ahead of Poland and Ireland, which meet in Warsaw on Sunday. Poland captain Lewandowskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second goal deep in injury time ended Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hopes of a playoff. Because of its superior goal difference, a draw on Sunday would be enough for Poland to qualify directly, while Ireland needs to win to avoid the playoffs. Germany hosts already eliminated Georgia in Leipzig on Sunday, when a draw would be enough.

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STEVE JOBS Michael Fassbender, left, and Kate Winslet appear in a scene from, ‘Steve Jobs.’ [AP PHOTO]

Fassbender captures Steve Jobs in biopic Steve Jobs STARRING: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Kate Winslet Director: Danny Boyle RUNNING TIME: 122 minutes

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hen is someone going to open a window in Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs? Alas, wrong operating system. Sorkin has dispensed with the traditional format of the biopic, instead framing the life of the Apple co-founder and turtle-necked tech deity in three backstage dramas ahead of major product launches: the Macintosh in 1984, NeXT in 1988 and the iMac in 1998. In the behind-the-scenes swirl, Jobs (Michael Fassbender) is visited each time by ghosts of products past: Apple engineer Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), Apple CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), and Jobs’ daughter, Lisa (played by three actresses), whose paternity Jobs initially disputes.

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It’s a scheme of three-act purity, as tightly compacted as the circuitry of an iPod, and one that few besides Sorkin would dare to attempt. Though the script is adapted from Walter Isaacson’s book, it feels more like a play that director Danny Boyle has transferred to the screen. The stage must be the true home of Steve Jobs; no one steps outside until a pivotal moment late in the film. Like the tightly controlled esthetics of Jobs, himself, the movie is a closed system. Even in the first scenes, Jobs is trying to have the “Exit” signs covered for the show. Tell the fire marshals, he says, “We’re in here changing the world.” Cloistered inside its claustrophobic casing, the movie hums with the high processing capacity of Sorkin’s dialogue. In dressing rooms and the bowels of theatres, Jobs, flanked by his right-hand woman Joanna Hoffman (an excellent Kate Winslet), is the egomaniacal mind amid the media storm of his making. He’s in virtually perpetual argument: strong-arming his engineers to get the first Mac to say “Hello” in his presentation; lamenting a Time magazine cover that dared to make the computer, not him, man of the

year; sneering at PC “hobbyists” who resist the “end-to-end” control he demands for the Mac. What does Steve Jobs do? That’s the question Wozniak (the arguably more important inventor and computer programmer), puts to him, and the one the film, itself, is an answer to. Jobs is the big-picture visionary, the bullheaded narcissist and, above all, the knowing conductor of talent and ideas. It’s not a hard metaphor to grasp by the way Sorkin, the master of multitasking, juggles Jobs in an asteroid storm of turmoil, including, oh yes, one scene set in an orchestra pit. Every interaction bears the tension of tolerance: How much do we accept from a man of some genius? It’s not much fun being around a guy who compares himself to Julius Caesar and sees assassins all around. How to reconcile someone who can refuse to pay for his daughter’s college tuition, but who can, like magic, put a thousand songs in her pocket? He’s as puny as he is mighty, a flawed man who made perfect machines. Steve Jobs hangs heavily, melodramatically, on his relationship with Lisa. But as fraught as life is backstage, the thundering, foot-stopping audiences lurk outside.

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Why has Sorkin, an acknowledged technology neophyte who also penned The Social Network, become the go-to for some of the greatest tech minds of our time? Perhaps because his rat-tat-tat exchanges gives us some sense of the computing power of elite minds, just as his morality tales render them in the binary codes of good and bad rather than ones and zeroes. Boyle, whose greatest talent is in his slick manipulation of time (127 Hours, 28 Days Later . . .), is in firm control of the screenplay’s high-velocity rhythm. And he does his best to bring a visual component to the stagy screenplay, most notably filming each act different: first grainy 16mm, then 35mm and finally in the hard reality of high-definition digital. The adventurous Boyle feels a little hemmed in here, as does the naturally mischievous Fassbender. But Fassbender captures the thin-skinned sensitivity and detailed obsessiveness of Jobs. In his hands, Sorkin’s dialogue crackles. The film often does too: the Full Sorkin Treatment has electrified a well-trod subject. But it also smothers it in artifice. In Steve Jobs Sorkin does the conducting.

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘He Named Me Malala’ offers a gripping story He Named Me Malala STARRING: Malala Yousafzai DIRECTOR: Davis Guggenheim RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes PLAYING AT: Galaxy Cinemas

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LOS ANGELES — Many people know the basic elements of the story of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was the youngest person ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But He Named Me Malala retells that story in a deft and affecting way. Director Davis Guggenheim, who made the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth and the controversial Waiting for Superman, does some of his most heartfelt work in this tribute to Malala and her entire family. The film opens unexpectedly, with a beautiful animated sequence recounting the legend of the young woman for whom Malala was named,

Malala Yousafzai, left, in Kenya last year. Yousafzai is the subject of the documentary film, ‘He Named Me Malala,’ playing in Nanaimo at the Galaxy Cinemas. [AP PHOTO]

a 19th century freedom fighter against the British in Afghanistan. Elegant pastel drawings are incorporated throughout the film, and although some may feel that the animation is overused, Guggenheim clearly wanted to find ways of filling in some of Yousafzai’s story without relying on talking-head interviews. He certainly benefited from the collaboration of Jason Carpenter, a

talented young animator. A more troubling choice that Guggenheim made is to tell the story in a non-linear manner. This kind of storytelling has become too faddish in all kinds of movies, and it leads to some unnecessary confusion here. The basic story is compelling: When the Taliban took over Malala’s village in the Swat Valley of Pakistan, books and videos were burned, and girls

were forbidden any education except religious education. Malala spoke out against this policy, first on a BBC blog and later more publicly, and she was shot in the head by the Taliban at the age of 15. Miraculously, she survived and was transported to England for surgery. She spent months in the hospital recuperating. Although the left side of her face is partially paralyzed, Malala has become an eloquent spokeswoman for female education, and with her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, she has travelled all over the world as an advocate, in addition to co-authoring the bestselling book, I Am Malala. All of this information is in the film, but not in chronological order, and this leads to disjointed moments. We see Malala in Kenya and Nigeria before we have a full understanding of her educational mission. Despite these few glitches in storytelling, Guggenheim scored marvellous interviews with Malala and her entire family, including a younger brother who is an uninhibited and engaging imp. The fact that he earned their

trust is a tribute to his empathy as a filmmaker. One of the most affecting moments comes when Malala’s mother admits that she misses her home in Pakistan. The Yousafzais now live in Birmingham, England. This uprooting of a loving family is one of the prices Malala and her father paid for their outspokenness. Beyond its protest of the subjugation of women in many parts of the Muslim world, the film contemplates the influence of parents on children. At the end of the movie, Malala ponders the question of whether her father chose her life by naming her after a rebel and by prodding her to speak out on issues of female education. But Malala answers calmly and decisively, “I chose this life,” although she acknowledges the influence of her family. These final scenes, which also incorporate Malala’s memorable address to the United Nations, are heartrending, though Thomas Newman’s score is a bit over-emphatic. The story itself is so powerful that it really doesn’t need any underlining.

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Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: My husband of five years has just learned that his daughter is engaged, and I am already stressing about the wedding. My husband was married when we met. I didn’t intentionally date a married man, but he pursued me, and I told him that if he wanted to date me, he must leave his wife. It only took three months, so he was obviously ready to go. Still, I’m the “other woman.” I have tried to be considerate, avoiding the places where his ex shops. He has lunch regularly with his daughter, but the only time his

daughter sees me is for a short, awkward time at holidays. His daughter came to our wedding, but didn’t stay for the reception. I don’t blame her. I’d hate me, too. I don’t want to go to her wedding. I feel it would stress her out, and I don’t want to ruin her special day. I think the focus should be on her, not on people whispering about the woman who broke up her parents’ marriage. I’ve been the butt of bitter comments already. I also don’t want to confront her mother. If the bride wanted me there, I would go, but I am pretty sure she doesn’t. Should I go and wish them well, then leave? Should I stay away altogether? My husband would have a better time if I were with him, but it’s not his big day. Please tell me what to do. - Somewhere in California Dear California: You are wise to understand the situation, and considerate to put the bride first. Your

husband should ask his daughter directly if she wants you there. If she says no, then stay away. If she says “yes” or she doesn’t care, it might be best for you to attend only the ceremony, and your husband should remain for the reception. But keep in mind that you are now married to Dad and in order for the situation ever to normalize, you will need to endure these encounters so that, over time, they won’t seem so unusual or stressful. Dear Annie: I am continually fascinated at the people who are quick to criticize retired husbands for not taking on 50 percent of the household chores. Why do these stories never include the expectation that the wife will wash the cars, mow the lawn, repair the broken shades, change the air-conditioning filters, clean the gutters and on and on? Everyone is quick to yell at the husbands for not doing the dishes,

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NEW ORLEANS — Paul Prudhomme, the Cajun who popularized spicy Louisiana cuisine and became one of the first American restaurant chefs to achieve worldwide fame, died Thursday. He was 75. Tiffanie Roppolo, the CFO of Prudhomme’s businesses, told The Associated Press that he died early Thursday after a brief illness. Prudhomme became prominent in the early 1980s, soon after opening K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, a French Quarter diner that served the meals of his childhood. He had no formal training, but sparked a nationwide interest in Cajun food by serving dishes — gumbo, etouffee and jambalaya — that were virtually unknown outside Louisiana. Prudhomme’s bearded face and oversized frame became familiar on television talk shows in the 1980s, where he encouraged Americans to spice up their meals. He expanded K-Paul’s and turned it into an upscale operation.

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Andrew Lincoln and Chandler Riggs star in “The Walking Dead”

Undead uprising Story on page 18 Rick (Andrew Lincoln, “This Life”), Daryl (Norman Reedus, “The Boondock Saints,” 1999) and the rest of the survivors are back in the season 6 premiere of “The Walking Dead.” Lennie James (“Jericho”) reprises his acclaimed role as Morgan, who becomes a key player this season. Catch the season premiere of this popular drama based on the comic book series of the same name when it airs Sunday, Oct. 11, on AMC.

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Fans rejoice as season 6 of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Walking Deadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; premieres on AMC By Kyla Brewer TV Media

ot long ago, vampires were all the rage on television and the big screen. Now, zombies have taken over and they seem to be unstoppable. Hailed as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;honest-to-god phenomenonâ&#x20AC;? by Variety, few television shows have sparked the same sort of â&#x20AC;&#x153;fandemoniumâ&#x20AC;? as AMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Walking Dead,â&#x20AC;? which returns Sunday, Oct. 11. The show is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. Season 6 of the series will once again follow the survivors of a zombie apocalypse as they battle the undead and each other. After last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cliffhanger season finale, fans have been champing at the bit for the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return. With nearly 16 million viewers, the season 5 finale broke ratings records for the series. Rick (Andrew Lincoln, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Lifeâ&#x20AC;?) and his group had been taken in by the people of Alexandria, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;safeâ&#x20AC;? community fenced off from zombies, near Washington, D.C. However, they remained skeptical of the Alexandria residents and it appeared that a major power shift was about to take place at the end of the last season. AMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official trailer for the new season alludes to such a power shift, with tense scenes between Rick and the other residents, hordes of zombies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or â&#x20AC;&#x153;walkers,â&#x20AC;? as theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re known in the se-

Melissa McBride as seen in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Walking Deadâ&#x20AC;?

ries â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and banter between new arrival Morgan (Lennie James, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jerichoâ&#x20AC;?) and Alexandria leader Deanna (Tovah Feldshuh, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Law & Orderâ&#x20AC;?). However, according to executive producer and showrunner Scott M. Gimple, fans may not want to put too much stock in what they think might happen. During a panel for â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Walking Deadâ&#x20AC;? at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s San Diego Comic-Con, he hinted: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We sometimes play with the truth in trailers ... just to maintain the experience for everybody.â&#x20AC;? Interesting ... Gimple went on to say that Rick faces challenges in season 6 because of what went down in the season finale (donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find any spoilers here). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things might not be as they seem, but Rick absolutely has to deal with the fact that things went down with Reg [Steve Coulter] and with Pete [Corey Brill] and all of these people who might have been following him into the bowels of hell are maybe looking at him a little differently.â&#x20AC;? Those willing to follow Rick into zombie-populated hell include fan favourites Norman Reedus (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Boondock Saints,â&#x20AC;? 1999) as Daryl, Steven Yeun (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Origins,â&#x20AC;? 2014) as Glenn, Lauren Cohan (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Supernaturalâ&#x20AC;?) as Maggie, Danai Gurira (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tremeâ&#x20AC;?) as Michonne, Melissa McBride (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living Proof,â&#x20AC;? 2008) as Carol, Chandler Riggs (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wronged Man,â&#x20AC;? 2010) as Carl, Sonequa Martin-Green (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toe to Toe,â&#x20AC;? 2009) as Sasha, and Michael Cudlitz (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Southlandâ&#x20AC;?) as Abraham. Since the season 5 finale, people have been buzzing about season 6, especially the addition of James, whose character has been tracking Rick since saving him from a walker at the very beginning of season 1. The actor has been acclaimed for his portrayal, even though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only appeared in a few episodes in seasons 1, 3 and 5. Also new in season 6 are Merritt Wever (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nurse Jackieâ&#x20AC;?) as Dr. Denise Cloyd, Ethan Embry (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grace and Frankieâ&#x20AC;?) as Alexandria resident Carter, and Corey Hawkins (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Straight Outta Compton,â&#x20AC;? 2015) as supply runner Heath. News also recently broke that Xander Berkeley (â&#x20AC;&#x153;24â&#x20AC;?) will join the cast for the latter half of season 6.

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Friday, October 9, 2015

Sports this week Auto Racing Saturday, Oct 10 4:15 p.m. NBC (46) (46) NASCAR Auto Racing Bank of America 500 Sprint Cup Series Live (3h44) 7:00 p.m. FSRacing (41) (41) FIA Endurance Racing World Championship Live (6h) 3:35 a.m. TSN (8) (8) Formula One Pre-race Live (20m) 3:55 a.m. TSN (8) (8) F1 Auto Racing Russian Grand Prix Live (2h5)

Baseball

6:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball National League Division Series Teams TBA (if necessary) Live (3h)

Wednesday, Oct 14 8:00 a.m. SN360 (109) (109) Baseball Central Live (1h) 1:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Central Live (30m) 2:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball American League Division Series Teams TBA (if necessary) Live (3h) 5:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Central Live (30m) 6:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball American League Division Series Teams TBA (if necessary) Live (3h)

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Thursday, Oct 15

5:30 p.m. TBS (33) (33) MLB Baseball Division Series Teams TBA Live (3h30) 6:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball National League Division Series Teams TBA Live (3h)

8:00 a.m. SN360 (109) (109) Baseball Central Live (1h) 1:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Central Live (30m) 2:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball National League Division Series Teams TBA (if necessary) Live (3h)

Saturday, Oct 10 2:00 p.m. TBS (33) (33) MLB Baseball Division Series Teams TBA Live (3h30) SN360 (109) (109) MLB Central Live (30m) 2:30 p.m. SN360 (109) (109) MLB Baseball National League Division Series Teams TBA Game 2 Live (3h) 5:30 p.m. TBS (33) (33) MLB Baseball Division Series Teams TBA Live (3h30)

Sunday, Oct 11 12:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Central Live (30m) 12:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball American League Division Series Teams TBA Live (3h) 3:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Central Live (30m) 4:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) SN360 (109) (109) MLB Baseball American League Division Series Teams TBA Game 3 Live (3h)

Monday, Oct 12 8:00 a.m. SN360 (109) (109) Baseball Central Live (1h) 9:30 a.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Central Live (30m) 10:00 a.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball American League Division Series Teams TBA (if necessary) Live (3h) 1:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball American League Division Series Teams TBA (if necessary) Live (3h) 2:00 p.m. TBS (33) (33) MLB Baseball Division Series Teams TBA Live (3h30) 5:30 p.m. TBS (33) (33) MLB Baseball Division Series Teams TBA Live (3h30) 6:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball National League Division Series Teams TBA Live (3h)

Tuesday, Oct 13 8:00 a.m. SN360 (109) (109) Baseball Central Live (1h) 2:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Baseball National League Division Series Teams TBA (if necessary) Live (3h) 5:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) MLB Central Live (30m)

Football Friday, Oct 9 4:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) CFL On TSN Live (30m) 4:30 p.m. TSN (8) (8) CFL Football Saskatchewan Roughriders at Hamilton Tiger-Cats Live (3h)

Saturday, Oct 10 9:00 a.m. KOMO (47) (47) NCAA Football Oklahoma vs. Texas Live (3h) 12:00 p.m. KOMO (47) (47) College Football Countdown Live (30m) CBS (49) (49) College Football Today Live (30m) 12:30 p.m. KOMO (47) (47) NCAA Football Teams TBA Live (3h) NBC (46) (46) NCAA Football Navy at Notre Dame Live (3h30) CBS (49) (49) NCAA Football Georgia at Tennessee Live (3h30) 3:30 p.m. KOMO (47) (47) College Football Countdown Live (30m) 4:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) CFL Football Edmonton Eskimos at Calgary Stampeders Live (3h) KCPQ (15) (15) College Football Pregame Live (30m) 4:30 p.m. KCPQ (15) (15) NCAA Football Teams TBA Live (3h30) 5:00 p.m. KOMO (47) (47) Saturday Night Football Pre-game Show Live (7m) 5:05 p.m. KOMO (47) (47) NCAA Football Teams TBA Live (3h15) 7:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) CFL Football Winnipeg Blue Bombers at British Columbia Lions Live (3h) 8:20 p.m. KOMO (47) (47) College Football Post-game Show Live (8m)

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Monday, Oct 12 9:30 a.m. TSN (8) (8) CFL On TSN Live (30m) 10:00 a.m. TSN (8) (8) CFL Football Toronto Argonauts at Montreal Alouettes Live (3h) 3:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NFL Monday Night Countdown Live (2h15) 5:15 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NFL Football Pittsburgh Steelers at San Diego Chargers Live (3h15)

Golf Friday, Oct 9 1:00 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) Live From the Presidents Cup Live (2h) 5:00 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) EPGA Golf British Masters Round 3 Live (3h)

Saturday, Oct 10 9:00 a.m. NBC (46) (46) PGA Golf Presidents Cup Round 3 Live (3h30) 10:00 a.m. GBL (11) (11) PGA Golf Presidents Cup Round 3 Live (2h30) GOLF (144) (144) CHAMPS Golf SAS Championship Round 2 Live (2h30) 5:30 p.m. GOLF (144) (144) Live From the Presidents Cup Live (1h) 6:30 p.m. GOLF (144) (144) PGA Golf Presidents Cup Final Day Live (6h) 12:30 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) Live From the Presidents Cup Live (2h30) 5:00 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) EPGA Golf British Masters Final Round Live (4h)

Sunday, Oct 11 10:00 a.m. NBC (46) (46) PGA Golf President Cup Final Round Live (5h) 11:00 a.m. GBL (11) (11) PGA Golf President Cup Final Round Live (4h) 12:30 p.m. GOLF (144) (144) CHAMPS Golf SAS Championship Final Round Live (2h30)

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3:00 p.m. GOLF (144) (144) Live From the Presidents Cup Live (1h)

Wednesday, Oct 14 8:00 p.m. GOLF (144) (144) Golf HanaBank Championship Round 1 Live (4h) 3:30 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) EPGA Golf Portugal Masters Round 1 Live (2h)

Thursday, Oct 15 2:00 p.m. GOLF (144) (144) PGA Golf Frys.com Open Round 1 Live (3h)

Hockey Saturday, Oct 10 4:00 p.m. CBC (3) (3) M (10) (10) NHL Hockey Ottawa Senators at Toronto Maple Leafs Live (3h) CITY (13) (13) NHL Hockey Edmonton Oilers at Nashville Predators Live (3h) RSP (45) (45) NHL Hockey Montréal Canadiens at Boston Bruins Live (3h) 7:00 p.m. CBC (3) (3) M (10) (10) RSP (45) (45) NHL Hockey Calgary Flames at Vancouver Canucks Live (3h) 10:00 p.m. CBC (3) (3) Hockey Central Post-game Show Live (30m)

Monday, Oct 12 10:00 a.m. SN360 (109) (109) NHL Hockey Tampa Bay Lightning at Boston Bruins Live (2h30)

Tuesday, Oct 13 8:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) That’s Hockey 2 Nite Live (1h)

Soccer Saturday, Oct 10 8:45 a.m. RSP (45) (45) UEFA Soccer Euro 2016 Qualifier Italy vs. Azerbaijan Live (2h15) 11:30 a.m. RSP (45) (45) UEFA Soccer Euro 2016 Qualifier Turkey at Czech Republic Live (2h30)

Sunday, Oct 11 8:45 a.m. RSP (45) (45) UEFA Soccer Euro 2016 Qualifier Portugal vs. Serbia Live (2h15) 11:30 a.m. SN360 (109) (109) UEFA Soccer Euro 2016 Qualifier Ireland vs. Poland Live (2h30)

Tuesday, Oct 13 11:30 a.m. RSP (45) (45) UEFA Soccer Euro 2016 Qualifier Czech Republic at Netherlands Live (2h30)

Wednesday, Oct 14 4:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) MLS Soccer New York Red Bulls at Toronto FC Live (2h) 6:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) MLS Soccer Vancouver Whitecaps at FC Dallas Live (2h)

Tennis Friday, Oct 9 11:30 p.m. SN360 (109) (109) WTA Tennis China Open Semifinal Live (2h) 1:30 a.m. SN360 (109) (109) WTA Tennis China Open Semifinal Live (2h) Nanaimo Daily News: Sports Oct 9, 2015 to Oct 15, 2015

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8:00 p.m.

Chris D’Elia and Brent Morin are back as Danny and Justin, roommates who hang out with a group of oddball friends in Justin’s bar in the season premiere of “Undateable,” airing Friday, Oct. 9, on NBC. In a daring twist for network television, each of the episodes this season will be broadcast live.

Ron Funches stars in “Undateable”

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Friday, October 9, 2015

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