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TORONTO — The first large group of Syrian refugees coming to Canada by government aircraft arrived in Toronto late Thursday night, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on hand to welcome them at a temporary processing centre at Pearson International Airport. Trudeau was joined by the ministers of immigration, health and defence, as well as Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, local mayors and opposition immigration critics. “They step off the plane as refugees, but they walk out of this terminal as permanent residents of Canada with social insurance numbers, with health cards and with an opportunity to become full Canadians,” Trudeau said. “This is something that we are able to do in this country because we define a Canadian not by a skin colour or a language or a religion or a background, but by a shared set of values, aspirations, hopes and dreams that not just Canadians but people around the world share.” All of the Syrians on board are sponsored by private groups, many of whom had filed the necessary paperwork months ago in order to bring in some of the estimated 4.3 million Syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war in that country. More than 400 refugees have already arrived on commercial flights since the Liberals took office on Nov. 4. Just before the aircraft arrived, the prime minister thanked the staff and volunteers helping to

Mazan Khabbaz, centre left, a refugee from Syria, is embraced by a well wisher as he arrives with his family at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Wednesday. [ THE CANADIAN PRESS]

process and welcome the 163 refugees. “How you will receive these people tonight will be something they will remember for the rest of their lives, but also I know something that you will remember for the rest of your lives,” Trudeau said. “So I thank you deeply for being a part of this because this matters. Tonight matters, not just for Canada but for the world.” Canadians eager to show their support for the newcomers weren’t deterred by the fact that they couldn’t do so face to face. A handful of people gathered at the international arrivals gate at Pearson bearing signs and gifts. Stefania Dunlop and Lubna

Altaher dropped off dozens of bags brimming with snacks and plush toys for the children, as well as hats and mittens for the adults. The pair said they had made arrangements with airport security to have the items —and several hundreds more bags — brought to the designated terminal where the government flight landed. “We don’t have direct access, sadly, but these are going to be delivered,” Dunlop said. Canadians have a reputation for being welcoming and the response to the refugee crisis “is just a true testament to that,” she said. Andrew Harris, 51, said he wanted to counter the fearful messaging about Muslims that

has circulated since the Paris attacks. He held up a large yellow sign that read “Welcome to Canada,” saying that even if the arriving refugees don’t see it, the positive words won’t go unnoticed. “I knew that they were going to be at a terminal where the public wasn’t allowed, which I totally understand, but I thought I can come out here and just express a message of goodwill . . . and I know it’s liable to reach them eventually.” This marks the first government aircraft carrying refugees as the government works to fulfil a pledge of bringing in 25,000 refugees by the end of February. A second flight is set to arrive in Montreal on Saturday.

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abbi Bentzi Shemtov walked up the steps of Nanaimo city hall Tuesday evening and, with a flourish, began lighting the large menorah. Mayor Bill McKay, city officials and dozens of residents looked on. It was not the first time a rabbi has kicked off the eight-day festival of light, Hanukkah. But this time, the ceremony had special significance. That’s because Shemtov is the first resident Spencer rabbi the city has Anderson ever had. Reporting It’s a milestone for a small religious community that has quietly thrived in Nanaimo for years. Shemtov recently moved to Nanaimo from his hometown Toledo, Ohio with his wife Blumie and their two daughters Mendel and Levi. The 28-year-old had rabbinical training in New York and Israel. He decided to come to Nanaimo with persuasion from his brother-in-law, a rabbi in Victoria. Shemtov decided to make the move with his family to the Island, convinced there was adequate need for his services. The 2011 national household survey identified only 75 Jews living within the geographic borders of the city. However, Arlene Ackerman estimates the number living in Nanaimo and the surrounding region might be closer to 1,000 or 1,500. Ackerman and her husband Phil Lipsey moved to the city in the mid’80s. The couple, Jewish and from Toronto and Montreal respectively, and decided they wanted their children to grow up with the shared religious and cultural experience of a Jewish community.

Dozens of Jewish and non-Jewish people met at city hall on Tuesday to celebrate the city’s new Rabbi and light a ceremonial menorah. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

“We realized that the community does need a full-time rabbi and centre over here .” Bentzi Shemtov, Rabbi

“(We asked) ‘Could we live here if there wasn’t a Jewish community,’ and we said no,” Ackerman said. “It really added so much to our lives,” she said. At the time, there was no local Jewish organization, so they began their own: the Central Vancouver Island Jewish Community Society, which has members from Cedar to north of Qualicum Beach. Membership of the community group, which has organized Hebrew classes and other events, has fluctuated over the years. There are currently 50 families that are part of the group, although Ackerman said younger people are starting to join. A problem for local Jewish residents has been access to religious resources and institutions. Those who want to attend a synagogue or religious service must travel to Victoria or the Lower Mainland.

But that seems poised to change with the arrival of Shemtov, who wants to eventually open a Jewish centre in the mid-Island. “(Shemtov’s arrival) shows that this is a really growing community,” Ackerman said. Shemtov’s background is with Chabad, an outreach organization with branches worldwide aimed at promoting and educating about Judaism as well as providing a variety of local services. He said the local connection to a rabbi is important, especially during Jewish holidays. “Some people will drive down to Victoria or go to Vancouver for two days, but that’s obviously not very and enjoyable and there’s an expense,” Shemtov said. “It’s hard; People have kids, people are older.” A visit he made to Nanaimo before deciding to move here cemented the community’s appeal. “We kept on meeting more and more people and the response was great,” he said. “We realized that the community does need a full-time rabbi and centre over here.” Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255

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Annual Give & Go event another rousing success DAILY NEWS

The 13th annual Give & Go event was a rousing success. Vehicles from individuals and businesses streamed through the Daily News parking lot Wednesday in Nanaimo, dropping off enough donations to fill a Salvation Army truck and another van. Event organizer Cathy Webster says she co-ordinates the event to fill a need in the community. “At this time of the year if you’re not able to provide for your family it can be extremely stressful and I believe this event does alleviate this for some families in our community,” she said. “This event runs on a zero budget and only made possible because of the businesses generosity, without them there would be no Give & Go.” Dawne Anderson of the Salvation Army said more than 6,000 pounds of food was donated, valued at $14,600, as well as $2,300 in cash donations. “The generosity of all the donors this year is huge for (Hamperville). There are over 2,000 hampers, this will go a long way to help fill those bags,” Anderson said.

‘Nanaimo Daily News’ Give & Go event organizer Cathy Webster gives Santa a hug on Wednesday night. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

Some of the major donors to this year’s Give&Go included Canadian Tire with $2,000 worth of food, St. Jean’s Cannery & Smokehouse with a pallet of

canned goods and Steve Marshall Ford with their annual assistance and generosity. V3 Media provided the Christmas music for the event.

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If you’ve got a garage, attic or basement full of stuff to sell, and no time to sell it, Jeff Gilmore can help you out. The 18-year-old Vancouver Island University student took the grand prize and first place in the student category in the VIU Business Plan Competition for “Barter Brothers,” a service he started back at home in Chilliwack while he was still in high school. “The old saying that one’s man’s

junk is another man’s treasure is incredibly true,” Gilmore said in his pitch to judges at the Dragon’s Den-style competition finale on Dec. 4 at VIU. Gilmore’s successful pitch earned him $2,500 cash and a package of donated business services valued at $7,000. A first-year bachelor of business administration student, Gilmore was first tasked with starting a small business in a high school entrepreneurship class, and got the idea to help sell used items

that range from sports equipment and electronics to furniture and vehicles for friends and family. Gilmore plans to launch Barter Brothers in Nanaimo, and hopes to invest in a truck or van with his prize money. John Predyk, professor in VIU’s faculty of management and chairman of the 2015 competition, said judges were faced with a difficult decision in determining winners, due to the high quality of presentations.

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A rental housing construction boom is underway on the Island. Starts on new housing reached 831 units in Nanaimo through November 30, a 46 per cent increase over the first 11 months of last year, and a good portion of those units are for rental housing. The trend is similar in other Island communities, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Courtenay saw 357 new units started, a 73-per cent increase, and n Victoria, construction started on

1,807 units, a 46-per cent increase in Victoria. In both cases, multi-unit housing makes up the brunt of the increase, with much of that due new rental housing. CMHC doesn’t provide data for urban areas of fewer than 50,000 population. “What we’re seeing, overall housing starts are up 46 per cent but in multi-housing it’s up 72 per cent whereas semi-detached housing is up 23 per cent,” said Erick Bond, CMHC senior market analyst for Vancouver Island.

He said new rental housing is being built to meet demand from an influx of residents from other provinces to B.C., a trend that started in mid-1914. “It’s really multi-family that is leading the growth.” Of 461 multi-housing units under construction in Nanaimo this year, 327 are rental apartments. “That’s just over 70 per cent,” Bond said. “When new people move to an area, they tend to live in rental accommodation first and we increasingly see builders are responding.”

Nanaimo’s biggest rental accommodation project for 2015 is on Summerhill Place, and is expected to be ready to accept new tenants this month. “That’s a 103-unit, brand-new rental building,” said Bruce Anderson, City of Nanaimo manager of planning and design. The builder of that project also built the 121-unit Terminal Heights building, on Terminal Avenue at St. Andrews Street. That building is now fully rented. “We’re seeing proposals for new buildings in various stages of the

(planning) process,” Anderson said. “It is a phenomenon that has not happened since 30 years ago, rental buildings being built in mediumsized buildings.” Darrell.Bellaart @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234 » 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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CHRISTMAS DINNER For those who are less fortunate Darragh Duff shelters herself from the rain along Bowen Road. Nanaimo was hit with a heavy dose of rain Thursday. Environment Canada predicts a 30-per cent chance of rain Friday with a mix of sun and cloud. [AARON HINKS/DAILY NEWS]

High winds ground planes, cancel sailings on B.C. coast SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

High winds and stormy weather battered Vancouver Island, putting thousands in the dark and grounding planes and keeping ferries in berth on Thursday. Environment Canada issued a high wind warning that stood throughout most of the day, warning of potential damage as a result of the storm. The warning was later lifted. The storm cancelled the 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. ferries and delayed the 12:30 p.m. ferry sailings between Horseshoe Bay and Departure Bay in Nanaimo, according to BC Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall. Marshall said a sailing did not

leave Departure Bay terminal until 2 p.m., which departed ahead of the planned 3 p.m. sailing “because we knew we had people waiting there.” Marshall said the two ships that were cancelled earlier would run later in the day. The Duke Point to Tsawwassen run was unaffected by the weather, as was the third major route, Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen, although sailings were running behind by approximately 40 minutes due to the weather. “We’ve had quite a lot of heavy weather lately, but tomorrow is supposed to be OK,” said Marshall. Thursday’s storms also saw morning and early afternoon flights by Harbour Air and Seair Seaplanes from Nanaimo cancelled.

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Storms also caused power outages up and down the Island. In Nanaimo, 2,500 homes were in the dark just before noon. By late afternoon, 7,000 were still without power in Port Alberni, while 1,400 were without power in Duncan. Six thousand BC Hydro customers lost power between 9-10 a.m., said Hydro spokesman Ted Olynyk. Olynyk called the severity of the storm “typical” for this part of the province, this time of year. “It’s a good storm but nothing out of the ordinary,” he said.

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EDITORIAL

Liberal promises more about votes than the economy I t’s funny how power gives politicians amnesia. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have been in government for just a few weeks — but that’s been more than enough time for them to forget one of the biggest promises that put them there. Less than two months ago, the Liberals won the federal election with a platform that pledged tax breaks for the middle class, tax hikes for the rich, new infrastructure spending for the economy and carefully-limited deficits to make it all work. The last vow was the foundation for all the others and existed to prove the Liberals could be trusted as astute and responsible money-managers. How strange, then, that when it comes to this promise, the Liberals have experienced a sudden memory lapse.

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In the new government’s first throne speech last week, the Liberals confirmed the tax cuts and increases as well as the new infrastructure spending are all on the way. But their oft-repeated election promise to run annual deficits of no more than $10 billion over the next three years and produce a surplus in the final year of their mandate was nowhere to be found. In place of that solemn election vow was a vague commitment to a “responsible” fiscal plan “suited to challenging economic times.” Sorry, but that’s not good enough. The government’s credibility and the good of the country depend on the Liberals sticking to their initial deficit vow. That this will be difficult is increasingly obvious.

On Monday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau admitted that far from being revenue-neutral as originally planned, the Liberal tax changes would actually cost the federal treasury $1.2 billion a year. The new tax on the rich, it turns out, won’t pay for the new tax cut to the middle class. There’s a gaping hole in the Liberal budget plans. But it isn’t the only one. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has already warned the Liberals’ assumptions for economic growth are “optimistic.” They’ve counted on billions of dollars in revenue that won’t be coming. As a result, instead of enjoying a surplus for this fiscal year, the Liberals are headed for a $3-billion deficit. It gets even worse in 2016-17 when a $4-billion deficit is expected.

And that’s the deficit being predicted before Trudeau’s lavish plans for new spending are factored in. Unless the government changes course, its annual deficits will be far greater than $10-billion. Let’s be clear: The Liberal’s original commitment to spend $5 billion a year more on infrastructure while running limited deficits was reasonable. It was a gamble, sure. But it represented a calculated risk that could jolt Canada’s lacklustre economy out of the doldrums. Reality, however, has shattered the Liberals election dreams. The government is now in danger of falling into the trap of writing budgets where its spending reach always exceeds its revenue grasp. It is in danger of condemning the coun-

try to perpetual federal deficits and unsustainable debt levels. This doesn’t have to be the Liberals’ fate. But it must stick to the original deficit plan. Keep the infrastructure commitment, by all means. But review the billions of dollars worth of spending promises that have nothing to do with stimulating the economy and everything to do with buying votes. The Liberals may have short memories. The voters do not. — THE CANADIAN PRESS (WATERLOO REGION RECORD)

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t’s the festive time of year when folks are frequently out and about — company events, social occasions, family gatherings, etc. I was sitting around the other day, (not so) patiently waiting for my wife to get ready to go somewhere, and in quiet desperation, I mulled the complex synchronization process for a couple to “get ready.” My learning curve in this respect could be judged as less than stellar. It took years. In fact, my wife might suggest I have not yet achieved full enlightenment. Many of you, I’m sure, can relate. Me: “Are you ready to go?” Her: “In a few minutes.” Me: “But a few minutes ago you said you were ready.” Her: “I am, almost.” Me: “Almost is not ready.” Her: “Don’t pester me. I’m getting ready!” As we can see, the interpretation of “ready” can vary dramatically between the genders, and I suspect, has for generations. If you and your partner have managed to switch these roles, or

better yet, fully reconcile them, well, congratulations! The first time I asked my eventual wife-to-be if she was ready, and she replied in the affirmative, I made the mistake of interpreting that to mean she was actually prepared to walk out to the car. It is now more than two decades, but I have come to marginally appreciate that when she says, “I’m ready,” it actually means one of two things: One: “I am now mentally prepared. I am satisfied that I have carefully considered what I need to do in order to get ready, and I am engaged in the process of doing them.” Think of “Ready, Set, Go.” Note that Set is between Ready and Go, and that Ready is at the beginning of the sequence. It is a distance from Go. There is a transition through Set. Translation Two: “I am saying I am

ready because that is what you want to hear. If I tell you I’m ready, you go away for awhile and I can then continue to get ready. I am standing here not fully dressed because I have not yet fully confirmed what I am going to wear. Do I look ready?!” She then offers if I really want to be helpful, I will help select an outfit. Eager to do so, I point at something. “That.” And that draws an immediate suspicious look. “You did that too quickly. You’re just saying that to rush me.” I now operate on the principle that we are ready when we are both in the vehicle and wheeling out of the driveway. As in Go. Now this next part I’ve known for years, but I still occasionally do it. I simply cannot resist the temptation. “I’ve been ready for ages!”

That statement carries distinct circumstances. The observation is painfully obvious. The past hour has been spent pacing, calling out the time, and making repeated tours to check on m’lady’s progress — and issue encouraging rhetoric. Stating the painfully obvious can result in the “get ready” process becoming grievously delayed. As well, when I utter the above statement, I must be absolutely and positively certain that I am indeed ready. If I make this announcement, and then need to drive back home because I forgot something, she will be ready to throttle me. Ready — as in now. » Andrew Holota is the editor of ‘The Abbotsford News.’

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Boil water advisory issued by Island Health Residents of the Town of Lake Cowichan must boil their water before consumption until further notice. The advisory from Island Health and the Town of Lake Cowichan was issued on Monday, Dec. 7. As per Island Health, Boil Water Notices are issued when turbidity level exceeds 1 NTU at point of disinfection. “The Town of Lake Cowichan’s source water is an unprotected body of water and at this time there is not a Watershed Protection Plan. Because a specific source of the turbidity cannot be specified, we are unable to determine whether the make-up is organic or inorganic material,” said a joint press release put out by Island Health and the town. “At this time, we cannot be sure that harmful pathogens are not present at levels that exceed the capacity of the chlorination to properly treat the water. Due to these reasons, Island Health is considering this an elevated risk event which requires the issuance of a Boil Water Notice.”

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Weaver acclaimed as B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver has been acclaimed as the leader of the B.C. Green Party. The Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA was the only person seeking the party’s nomination, earning unanimous endorsement from the Green Party’s provincial council. “I am greatly humbled by the outpouring of support that I received over the course of this leadership process,” said Weaver. “There is a lot of work to do in order to get ready for the 2017 election, but it has never been more clear that British Columbians are looking for something new. I am excited to introduce them to the B.C. Green Party.”

Residents welcome first family of Syrian refugees to new home Church representatives greet newcomers after their long journey to Island KEVIN ROTHBAUER COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

“I feel safe and love.” That’s what Faten, a 29-year-old refugee from the conflicts in Syria told Tammy Klassen on Monday as she and her family travelled from the Victoria International Airport to their new home in the Cowichan Valley. Faten, her mother Aisha, and Faten’s nine-year-old son, Mohammad arrived safe in the Cowichan Valley, where they are being sponsored by the Mill Bay Baptist Fellowship, the first of a number of refugees heading to the Valley. “They were scared when they first arrived,” Klassen said. “But I think they felt very welcome and safe.” Faten, Klassen said, lost her husband to a heart attack four years ago, and Aisha’s husband was killed in bombings earlier in the war. The Sunni Muslim family speaks Arabic, and only Faten speaks any English. The representatives of the church who greeted them at the airport did have an interpreter, but even then, the conversation was brief. “(They didn’t say) a ton, other than it was a really long day of travelling,” said Klassen, who noted that it took a 29-hour journey to reach Vancouver Island. After escaping Syria, the family had been “in limbo” in Lebanon for two and a half years, but Klassen hasn’t been able to determine if they were in a house or a refugee camp. As part of the process for getting to their new home, they did go through screening by the Canadian government. “They said they didn’t choose

Cowichan Valley residents welcome the first Syrian refugee family moving to the community as they step off their plane Monday.

“They were scared when they first arrived. But I think they felt very welcome and safe.” Tammy Klassen, spokeswoman

Canada,” Klassen elaborated. “Some international immigration organization helped them and told them they were going to Canada. They didn’t choose Canada, but they are very happy to be here.” The weather on Vancouver Island,

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American bullfrogs invade Qualicum Beach

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There will be a change of the guard at the Regional District of Nanaimo board table. In a secret-ballot vote at a meeting Tuesday night, second-term Bowser/ Deep Bay director Bill Veenhof ousted veteran politician Joe Stanhope for the chairman-of-the-board position. Stanhope, a French Creek representative, had held the title since 2002. “For my first act as chair I want to start by recognizing the outstanding service that Joe has given the RDN . . . It’s a better place because of his influence,” said Veenhof. “All of Vancouver Island should be grateful for his achievements . . . Joe, you can hold your head up high, secure in the knowledge that you’ve done exceptionally well. Please accept my sincere thanks — well done.” Everyone in the board chambers rose to give Stanhope a standing ovation pierced with loud applause. Veenhof said his top priority as chairman is to “preserve the confederation through respectful dialogue.” He said it’s also important to support the interim CAO — announced Tuesday as Dennis Trudeau — and to oversee a smooth transition to a new, permanent CAO. “Another priority is I want to see a local government that’s transparent and accountable to its constituents where there’s effective and efficient services,” he said. “It’s very important to me that we have a staff that’s empowered to achieve the goals of the board.”

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Asked if that meant he thought the RDN was failing in those areas, Veenhof said: “I think we can do better.” He said his immediate work focuses will be the strategic plan and the budget, reaffirming “the most important thing for me is the preservation of the confederation.” The RDN chair is elected by board members every year in December. As chair, Veenhof will make an additional $19,500 on top of the $10,985 that electoral area directors receive for a total annual remuneration of $30,485. Stanhope left the meeting immediately after it ended and was not available for comment. As no other nominations came forward for the deputy chair position, Lantzville Mayor Colin Haime was acclaimed for the second consecutive year. Parksville and Qualicum Beach mayors Marc Lefebvre and Teunis Westbroek, respectively, will continue serving as their council’s RDN representative on the board. During an in-camera meeting, Trudeau, the RDN’s general manager of transportation and solid waste services was selected by the board to serve as interim CAO on the heels of Paul Thorkelsson’s resignation. Thorkelsson recently accepted a CAO position in Saanich. Tuesday night was his last meeting as CAO of the RDN board. Trudeau, who has worked with the RDN for nearly two decades, said he’s “excited” about the opportunity. “I’m looking forward to it,” he said Tuesday night, noting he is “absolutely” interested in applying for the permanent CAO job.

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Americans are invading Qualicum Beach. Experts say the invasive American bullfrogs are taking over and they eat anything that fits in their large mouths. And with almost 1,000 invasive plant and animal species listed by the provincial government, the frogs are just one of many species thriving on the east coast of the Island. Like the European cottontail rabbits, grey squirrels, rats, starlings, Canada geese and numerous plants including giant hogweed, gorse, knotweed and broom, the frogs were brought in by people. “They were brought here for restaurant use,” said Julie Mackey, wildlife manager at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Association in Errington. “They were raised for frogs legs to be served in restaurants. They breed very well and they were released and have taken over the environment here,” she said. Various sources suggest several restaurants and/or farms on the Island, including possibly one in Coombs, tried this in the 1930s to 50s. The American bullfrogs were first reported in the wild in the Parksville Qualicum Beach area in 1976. They’re rather vicious visitors, Mackey said. “They out-compete everything and they’ll eat anything they can find — the smaller native frogs, eggs, everything from eating each other to eating ducklings, native fish species. They can do quite a bit of damage.” While there are no agreed-upon numbers, according to media

Invasive American bullfrogs were first reported in the wild in the ParksvilleQualicum Beach area in 1976.

reports, one Vancouver Island biologist collected more than 30,000 of these bullfrogs over a few years, apparently without affecting the population. In Qualicum Beach they are commonly seen around the townowned dog park near the airport. “If town-owned property is a centre for infestation of an invasive species such as bullfrogs, then it’s incumbent upon us to act on that,” said Coun. Neil Horner, who sits on the town’s committee on environment and sustainability. “The bullfrogs are a longstanding concern on the Island, moving north and eating anything in their path,” he said, explaining that the newly re-established committee hasn’t met yet, but he hopes bull-

frogs will be one of their key issues. When he proposed the committee, Horner called it the “bunnies, bullfrogs and broom” committee and suggested the long-term goal should be creating an overall invasive species plan. “Step one is to stop them from spreading, stop the problem from growing, and then once you stabilize it you can think about if we can eradicate it or how do we keep a lid on it.” Horner said Australia’s a good example of what can go wrong, where there are now estimated to be more than 200 million cane toads doing massive ecological damage after being introduced in 1935 to eat a specific problem beetle . . . which is still a problem.

TOFINO

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Unexpected fireworks displays have some Tofino locals fired up. The district’s fireworks bylaw, which was last updated in 2010, states “the exploding of firecrackers or other fireworks is prohibited within the district except by special permit.” Tofino’s council has directed staff to look into the possibility of banning fireworks entirely during certain times of the year to allow for specific holiday celebrations while cutting down on surprise disruptions. This direction was spurred by two letters council received from locals expressing frustration over being startled awake by other

people’s celebrations. Chesterman Beach area residents Sandi Rideout and Margaret Eady wrote that they have experienced disruptive fireworks displays from vacationers at the beach “at least once a week for the past several months.” They suggested people setting off fireworks are doing so without consideration of the environment or those around them. “Not only are these people contravening bylaws for the possession and explosion of fireworks, but they are oblivious to the fact that they are disturbing families, pets and other vacationers,” they wrote. “It’s dangerous for fire safety and this summer’s drought conditions made it even more so. The detritus

that is often left on the beach is there for others to clean up. This area is valued as a ‘pristine wilderness’ and to us, this type of behaviour is absolutely contradictory to our region’s reputation.” They asked council to kill Tofino’s permit process and ban fireworks altogether. “We are recommending that council consider a motion to ban fireworks completely from our town and area,” they wrote. “That way, people will be left in no doubt as to how our town will respond to those who set them off.” Sulo Hovi and Louise Poirier penned a similar letter and suggested banning remote controlled planes and drones from local beaches.

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Variable speed signs may come to Island later CRAIG SPENCE LADYSMITH CHRONICLE

If you’re one of those drivers who plows right on through at the posted speed limit or above come rain, sleet, snow or hail, B.C.’s Ministry of Transportation is testing out some technology that’s designed just for you. Variable speed signs are being installed on sections of the Coquihalla, the Trans-Canada, and the Sea to Sky Highway, as part of a pilot project to help reduce the frequency of weather-related crashes.

The digital signs will be very visible to drivers, and the speed limit will be changed to reflect driving conditions. Overhead message signs at the entrance of each corridor will inform drivers that they are entering a variable speed zone, and to be aware of changing weather conditions. “These variable speed signs will be a great addition to our community, which is often subject to challenging weather and road conditions that can change rapidly,” said West

Vancouver-Sea to Sky MLA Jordan Sturdy. “These routes are some of the busiest in the region, and having the ability to adjust speed limits to fit weather conditions is an innovative way we can increase safety for all road users.” But drivers heading over the Malahat between Victoria, the Central Island and points north will have to wait to see if they are going to benefit from the system. There will be at least two to three

months of testing before the systems go live, and then it will have to be determined if the signs actually reduce accidents before the technology might be considered for the Malahat or other regions outside the pilot routes. “If, as I expect it will, the technology proves itself, and it makes our highways safer in these three pilot locations, then it would be my absolute intention to roll this technology out on other sections of highway in the province,” Transportation Minis-

ter Todd Stone said, announcing the pilot program. “One of the top candidates in my mind would probably be the Malahat, on Vancouver Island, but there’s all kinds of sections of highway like these three pilot locations where this technology I think could make a difference.” The ministry has invested $12.5 million to install and run the three pilot systems, which are part of the ministry’s $25-million peryear Roadside Safety Program.

ALBERNI

VICTORIA

Preparations continue to deal with potential Alberni flooding

Missing $40K from elementary school PAC results in charges

KATYA SLEPIAN ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

A police investigation into the disappearance of more than $40,000 from the Keating Elementary School Parents’ Advisory Council (Keating Home and School Association) has resulted in charges announced today. In a media release, the Central Saanich Police Service state they have recommended charges of forgery, fraud and theft against 43-year-old Tanya Larayne Adam. She is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 20. Police began their investigation into the disappearance of the money in mid-July, 2015 when they were contacted by

a member of the Keating Home and School Association. The department has since been working with members of the council, School District 63 (Saanich) and school administrators. “Like anything, our investigations are open minded and the focus of our investigation is around record keeping and the person responsible for that,” said police Chief Les Sylven. Superintendent of Schools Keven Elder said at the time news of the investigation became public, funds raised by a PAC are usually spent in accordance with the needs of the school, based on consultation with administration and staff.

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The Alberni Valley missed the worst of the expected Monday night storm, said Tseshaht elected Chief Councillor Hugh Braker. “The storm went north last night and the rain we got was half of the expected rain,” said Braker. He had declared a state of emergency for the Tseshaht First Nation on Sunday afternoon and called for volunteers to fill sandbags in anticipation of flooding along the Somass River. The Somass on Tuesday was downgraded from a flood watch to a high stream flow advisory by the province. Levels in the Ash and Sproat rivers have fallen and snow on the mountains is no longer melting. “The snow is not melting because the storm went north and so the snow elevation didn’t go as high as we thought it would,” said Braker. “So there’s less snow, there’s less rain, the rivers are falling—everything’s good.” However, it’s not all clear skies ahead. “The projection from Environment Canada is that we’ll keep up with the rain cycle and the warmer weather until at least Dec. 17 and that will bring us up to the king tide season for this year,” said Braker. That means that the Tseshaht will keep all of their preparations in place until the storms have passed. “We’ll keep all the sandbags in place around the homes,” said Braker, adding that the Somass River has broken its banks in some areas along Hector Road. “The river has spilled over its banks and it’s in some people’s backyards on our reserves.” If another big storm hits the Valley, Braker said, all of those sandbags will be even more necessary. Conscious of the devastation wreaked by last December’s floods, the Tseshaht started their preparations early. “We started sandbagging Sunday at noon and continued with the sandbagging yesterday and the plan was to continue today, but the plan was discontinued after the flood

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Port Alberni Fire Department firefighter Anthony Selva, left, and Capt. Scott Burrows help fill sandbags at the Tseshaht administration centre. [KATYA SLEPIAN/ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS]

“We’ll have to talk to a hydrologist and people who specialize in flood control and see what can be done.” Hugh Braker, Tseshaht Chief councillor

watch was lifted,” said Braker. Much like last year, Braker said he was overwhelmed by the support the Tseshaht received. “We were overwhelmed by the support we got from the community. We had approximately 30 people show up yesterday, another 10 people who assisted in the emergency operations centre and about six people who were driving trucks and bringing sandbags to homes.” But while sandbags can help the Tseshaht weather the now expected winter storms, Braker said that

council is looking for a more longterm solution. “Last year was at least the biggest flood in 60 years or more,” said Braker. “We’ll have to look at where we authorize building and whether or not we can take any other mitigation in regards to the homes that are already along the river.” The Tseshaht reserve has homes at Hector Road that suffered heavily in last year’s flooding. “The river has a choke point at the (Orange) Bridge and that chokepoint has the effect of backing along the water exactly to where the people live.” Tseshaht council will consider the issue in the new year. “I don’t know what the answer is to that. We’ll have to talk to a hydrologist and people who specialize in flood control and see what can be done,” he said. “If not dikes, perhaps we could put berms around them and try to divert some of the water.”

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B.C. agrees to global climate goal Province signs agreement aimed at filling highways and city streets with zero-emission vehicles THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA — British Columbia has joined a global alliance aiming to fill highways and city streets with zero-emission vehicles over the next 35 years, an initiative that could lower global vehicle emissions by 40 per cent. Environment Minister Mary Polak signed an agreement in Paris at the United Nations climate talks Thurs-

NEWS IN BRIEF The Canadian Press ◆ PRINCE GEORGE

UNBC senate opposes Moore selection process The University of Northern British Columbia’s senate is formally opposing the process by which former Conservative MP James Moore was selected as chancellor. Members voted after a lengthy debate Wednesday to ask UNBC president Daniel Weeks to inform the school’s board of governors that it didn’t sufficiently consult with the senate on Moore’s appointment. The appointment has caused an outcry among some faculty and students who say Moore’s previous position in Stephen Harper’s government clashes with the university’s values. The board is required by the University Act to consult with the senate before appointing a chancellor, but the legislation does not say exactly what the process involves. Student senator Angela Kehler says the only consultation that took place was an in-camera meeting in October, shortly before the board announced on Nov. 26 that Moore had been chosen.

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Pair had Christmas list and various stolen items They were making a list, but the police only had to check it once. A man and a woman from Merritt were picking up Christmas presents at the Real Canadian Superstore, Save On Foods, Dollarama and Value Village in Penticton, but as Cpl. Don Wriggleworth with the Penticton RCMP puts it “problem is they didn’t pay for any of them.” Police caught the two with their list in hand and the stolen items on the list. Both were released with a future court date and an order not to come to Penticton for anything but court dates. The man and woman were caught at the Real Canadian Superstore on Dec. 1 after police received multiple calls regarding the suspects.

day, making B.C. the 14th member of the International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance. B.C. joins Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, along with California and seven other states in pledging to ensure all new vehicles are zero-emissions models by 2050. Quebec also signed the pledge, which could cut harmful carbon dioxide emissions from the global

transportation sector by one billion tonnes a year. B.C.’s Energy Minister Bill Bennett said the province already has the largest public-charging network in Canada for electric vehicles at more than 1,000 outlets, but more can be done. So far, there are less than 2,000 electric vehicles on the road in B.C., he said. “How do you get more people doing it?” Bennett said.

“You have to show them that they can save a lot of money on not having to buy fossil fuels and you have to make it easy for them to charge their vehicle.” B.C. introduced its Clean Energy Vehicle Program four years ago. It offers electric vehicle buyers point-of-sale incentives of more than $8,200. The program also invests in charging infrastructure improvements.

“You continue to provide incentives at this stage and we’ll have to do that for at least the next decade,” Bennett said. “If this is going to work, we’re going to have to invest in charging stations all along the Trans-Canada Highway. Every community is going to have to have convenient access to charging.” “We’re a long ways from that, but that’s where it’s going to have to go.”

LANGLEY

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Identity of $50-million lottery winner in B.C. remains a mystery

Pervert on the loose in Saanich

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SAANICH NEWS

An attempt by CBC Vancouver to find out more about the mystery winner of a $50-million Lotto Max ticket sold in Langley has failed to uncover many new details, according to a report posted online by the broadcaster last week. After the CBC filed a request under Freedom Of Information guidelines about the March of 2014 jackpot, it said the B.C. Lottery Corporation withheld 275 pages of material. CBC said the provincial gaming authority claimed the documentation would “reveal policy advice or recommendations; reveal legal advice; harm the effectiveness of investigative techniques; harm intergovernmental relations; and harm personal privacy.” According to the CBC report, BCLC indicated the process of verifying the winner was still underway, several months after someone finally stepped forward in March of this year to claim the prize. “The response (to the CBC) also says that BCLC won’t provide any more information about the claim until the verification process is concluded,” the online report stated. The CBC reported the BCLC did release a memo issued by BCLC president Jim Lightbody, who told staff to be careful about being overheard discussing the matter. “As you know, we are now in the process of verifying the rightful ticket holder and we expect that process to take some time,” Lightbody wrote in March, shortly after the anonymous person claimed the $50 million. “In the meantime, BCLC has made certain commitments to keep all information regarding the prize claim confidential until we complete our internal processes. “To meet those commitments, we need all employees to uphold our confidentiality standards: be mindful

Saanich Police believe three separate incidents — two of them cases of indecent exposure — were likely committed by the same culprit. The first incident, which Saanich Police announced last week, took place at about 8 a.m. on Dec. 3 in the 400-block of Boleskine Road. In that case a male suspect entered the bus stop and began asking questions of a vulgar and sexual nature to a teenage girl then exposed his penis and began to masturbate. The next morning, a similar incident began to unfold at about 8:35 a.m., at a bus stop on Shelbourne Street near McRae Avenue, said Saanich Police Sgt. Steve Eassie. A female in her teens was sitting alone at the bus stop awaiting arrival of the bus when an unidentified male approached her and began speaking to her in a sexual manner, making lewd and sexually explicit comments. The female was uncomfortable and disturbed by the comments and was able to board a bus upon its arrival moments later. “The bus may have come before he could commit the act,” Eassie said. On Monday at approximately 8:30 p.m. a male followed a teenaged girl up Cedar Hill Road near the intersection to Cedar Hill X Road. The girl was walking alone and believed she was being watched and followed by the male. At some point, he was able to get in front of her, pull down his pants, and begin to masturbate. “This time there’s no conversation, but the next thing you know he’s in front of her exposing himself,” Eassie said. The suspect in all three instances is a white male around 40 years old, five-foot-seven to five-foot-nine in height with a medium build. One witness said he was clean shaven while another described a beard or some kind of facial hair.

The mystery surrounding the person who purchased a $50-million Lotto Max ticket in March 2014 remains.

of where conversations are occurring (stay away from discussing this matter in public locations such as the parkade or local coffee shops); share information only on a ‘need-to-know’ basis.” The CBC application was not the only attempt to use a Freedom Of Information request to find out more about the mystery winner. A report posted on the BCLC website shows an unnamed individual made a separate FOI application to find out exactly which Langley lottery distributor sold the ticket, and was denied the information. While lottery corporations usually require winners to be identified, the CBC report notes there has been at least one exception granted, in Manitoba in 2008, because the winner was in law enforcement. A lawsuit over the jackpot was filed last year, but has not yet been heard by a judge.

Dalbir Sidhu was taken to court by Gayleen Rose Elliott, who is convinced that Sidhu, a co-worker who was responsible for buying tickets for a workplace lottery pool, has the winning March 14 Lotto Max ticket that was sold in Langley and is trying to avoid sharing the winnings. Elliott filed her notice of civil claim in the Vancouver B.C. Supreme Court registry on Dec. 1. of last year. In his response, filed on Dec. 19, Sidhu said he forgot to buy the tickets on March 14 but “mistakenly believed he did purchase the . . . tickets at a gas station in Surrey . . .” and didn’t realize his mistake until Elliott asked about the purchase after the $50 million prize went unclaimed. Sidhu said he checked with BCLC and none of the numbers the pool was playing were drawn on March 14. None of the allegations has been proven in court.

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Man sorry for sex-trade killings

Firefighters rescue pair of exotic birds

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It has been almost nine years, but Aldergrove resident Davey Butorac has admitted to and apologized for killing Langley City sex trade worker Sheryl Lynn Koroll and Abbotsford prostitute Gwendolyn Lawton in 2007. In Supreme Court in New Westminster on Dec. 4, Butorac, 36, expressed remorse for his actions, through his lawyer, before being sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years. In joint submissions from Crown and his defence counsel, Butorac pleaded guilty to killing Lawton. The judge said he is to serve the two life sentences concurrently. He is getting credit for time served since his arrest in 2008 on a oneto-one basis, and will be eligible for

parole in less than 18 years. “Mr. Butorac acknowledged, through his lawyer, having committed these offences and he wants to obtain treatment to find out why he did what he did,” said Crown counsel Wendy Dawson. “His lawyer did say in respect to the Koroll murder, Mr. Butorac had extreme anger at the time.” No motive was ever revealed during his two trials by jury for killing Korroll. In court, Crown chose to drop a charge of second degree murder of Aldergrove resident Margaret Redford. Butorac was charged in 2010 with killing Redford, more than three years after her body was found in Bertrand Creek in Aldergrove. Her family, including her father and daughter, pleaded for the killer to come forward but it wasn’t until

2010 when DNA linked Butorac to the case, that he was charged with her murder. The Redford family did respond to a request for comment. Dawson said she has spoken to all three families. Butorac’s lawyer indicated he won’t appeal his sentences, as he did the first time he was convicted of the murders. “He wants to move forward and get on with his life,” said Dawson. Lack of motive is one of the aggravating factors Dawson spoke to in her submissions for sentencing. It has concerned the judge as well, she said. There has never been a psychological assessment of Butorac presented in court. His parents have written letters to the courts, saying he is a loving son, he has no criminal background and

has never had any real employment. An acquaintance of Butorac’s testified that the pair would sometimes drive around and smoke pot. This year, he posted his profile on a dating website set up to cater exclusively to Canadian inmates. He said he was looking for someone to share a life with. Crown filed updated victim impact statements and the judge commented on the effect these murders have had on the families, said Dawson. Butorac’s lawyer filed letters of support from his family. His mother and sister have attended every time he has been in court. In April, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Butorac guilty of murdering Korroll. This was the second time Butorac had been convicted of the murder.

A pair of exotic South American birds were rescued from a pickup truck fire on the Trans-Canada Highway in Revelstoke early Monday morning. Revelstoke Fire Rescue Services were called to the fire on the Trans-Canada Highway near Alpine Lane at 3:23 a.m. on Dec. 7, reports fire chief Rob Girard. There, they found a pick-up engulfed in flame and commenced to extinguish the fire. During the attack, they saw two large rhea birds escape the box of the pick-up truck and run eastbound down the highway. Firefighters quickly grabbed one of the birds, while a search team found the second nearby. The lone occupant of the vehicle escaped the truck unharmed, however several ducks being transported in the cab did not survive. — BLACK PRESS

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Diplomats from 196 governments trying to forge a pact in Paris to slow global warming KARL RITTER AND SYLVIE CORBET THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LE BOURGET, France — French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a new draft of a global climate accord that showed headway on some key issues and stalemate on others as negotiators headed into the final stretch of talks outside Paris. The 27-page draft — two pages shorter than a previous version — included a long-term goal of keeping global warming “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C. The draft also said governments would aim to peak the emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases “as soon as possible.” That was weaker language than in previous drafts that included more specific timeframes. The issue appeared far from settled, however, with one negotiator from a developed country saying his delegation would “push back” on the longterm goal. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were ongoing. Fabius, who leads the talks, told negotiators to review the draft and come back in two hours to continue. The Paris conference was scheduled to end on Friday, but the annual UN talks rarely finish on time. “I think, I hope that by the end of this night we’ll have a draft of the final text,” Fabius said. “We are much closer.” Diplomats from 196 governments are trying to forge a global pact in Paris to slow global warming by collectively slashing emissions, mostly from the burning oil, coal and gas for energy.

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A participant holds a poster at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, north of Paris on Wednesday. [AP PHOTO]

The biggest challenge is to define the responsibilities of wealthy nations, which have polluted the most historically, and developing economies including China and India where emissions are growing the fastest. That draft suggested compromises were emerging in some sections. But the text still contained competing options on the key issue of transparency — making sure countries follow through on their emissions targets. That section included an option asking for different rules for rich and poor countries, which the former have said is unacceptable.

“Reporting and verification of emissions is the heart of a strong agreement and will clearly be the last thing decided,” said Paul Bledsoe, former Clinton White House climate adviser. More than 180 countries presented plans to cut or curb their emissions before the conference, and negotiators are discussing ways to anchor those pledges in the agreement. Several options remained on the contentious issue of financing to help poor and vulnerable countries such as small island nations cope with climate change. Western countries want advanced developing economies such as China and oil-rich

Arab countries to pitch in. The new draft said other countries could join the donor base “on a voluntary, complementary basis.” The draft didn’t resolve how to deal with demands from vulnerable countries to cope with unavoidable damage from rising seas and other climate impacts. One option said such “loss and other damage” would be addressed in a way that doesn’t involve liability and compensation — a U.S. demand. Some environmental advocates rejected the draft as too weak to make a real difference in fighting climate change while other said important progress was made.

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OTTAWA — The privacy watchdog is urging the Liberal government to engage in open debate on national-security legislation as Justin Trudeau’s cabinet reviews the controversial anti-terrorism law known as Bill C-51. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien expressed hope Thursday that the new government would follow through on its commitment to consult the public and specialists before revamping the bill, suggesting there was insufficient discussion on the Conservative legislation last spring.

“It would be very desirable to have a more complete and exhaustive debate on the issues before legislation is adopted,” Therrien said after tabling his annual report. “I certainly look forward to presenting my views on what amendments should be considered.” Therrien railed against C-51 last March, saying the bill’s scope was “clearly excessive” and put personal information at risk. The legislation gave the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the explicit power to disrupt terror plots, made it easier to limit the movements of a suspect, expanded no-fly

list powers and cracked down on terrorist propaganda. It also alarmed Therrien by removing many barriers to sharing security-related information. Therrien said the bill could make available all federally held data about someone of interest to as many as 17 government departments and agencies with responsibilities for national security. In his annual report, Therrien said the bill and two other major pieces of security-related legislation ushered in by the former Conservative government amounted to a “sea change for privacy rights in Canada.”

“Ensuring government powers under these new acts are exercised in a manner which respects privacy will be an ongoing focus of the (privacy commissioner’s) office in the months and years to come.” Therrien also urged federal agencies to put more rigorous safeguards in place to protect sensitive personal information — especially when that data is on an easy-to-lose memory stick. While many institutions have made strides, there is still much room for improvement — particularly with the use of portable storage devices, Therrien said.

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says an organization the size of the RCMP is going to have people with racist views and he’s appealing to the public to help root them out. Goodale was responding to a surprisingly candid acknowledgment by RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson that there are racist members within the national police force. “When you’re dealing with an organization as big as the RCMP — some 30,000 members — not everybody’s perfect, and there will be bound to be some untoward attitudes that are harboured,” Goodale said outside the House of Commons on Thursday. A day earlier, Paulson had spoken to a meeting of chiefs of the Assembly of First Nations in Gatineau, Que., where he faced a scathing, public broadside about attitudes among some police dealing with indigenous peoples and patrolling remote communities. “I hear what you say, I understand there are racists in my police force,” the RCMP commissioner responded. “I don’t want them to be in my police force.” He urged the assembled delegates to report any abuses, including to Paulson personally: “Call me if you are having a problem with a racist.” Goodale, whose public safety portfolio includes responsibility for the Mounties, lauded such a frank admission “coming from the very top of the RCMP.” “The message is clear: racism is intolerable, and if it’s brought to the commissioner’s attention, he will deal with it quickly and decisively,” he said. “And I’m very glad that he put that on the public record.” The new Liberal government comes to office promising to reset the historically troubled relationship between the Crown and Canada’s indigenous peoples. Goodale said the entire Liberal cabinet is charged with turning the relationship around. As Goodale put it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised that “of all the important relationships that a prime minister and a government will have, there is nothing that matters more to him than getting it right in terms of the relationship with Canada’s indigenous people and communities. “That’s a very strong message to everybody around the cabinet table that this matters.”

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Man arrested for child sex tourism Police have arrested a man in northern Alberta after he allegedly travelled to Europe to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met online. Jashua Robert Tremblay of Fort McMurray, who is 33, faces charges of child sex tourism, sexual interference and luring. Officers in Ireland say Tremblay twice travelled to the country in late 2013. Police in Canada joined the investigation the following year. Officers with the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team say they don’t believe there are any other alleged victims in the province.

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RCMP alert to reports of plots targeting Canada The RCMP say media reports from Switzerland about possible threats against Canadian cities are being taken very seriously. One report cited Geneva, Toronto and

Chicago as possible targets in connection with an investigation of four men alleged to be supporters of the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Other European news stories referred to a video in which a fifth suspect allegedly talked about attacks in Geneva, Vancouver and Ottawa. Mounties say the safety of Canadians is of utmost importance to the RCMP.

Apology follows death of activist The Nova Scotia government apologized Wednesday to the friends and family of a prominent gay rights activist who was beaten to death outside a Halifax bar, promising that lessons will be learned from what happened to Raymond Taavel. “His death will not be in vain,” Leo Glavine, minister of health and wellness, told the legislature. “ We are determined to ensure that positive change comes from this terrible tragedy.” Andre Denny, a patient deemed not criminally responsible for his own actions, was issued a onehour unescorted pass from the East Coast Forensic Hospital on April 6, 2012, but didn’t return.

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government’s response to that report would be out by the end of December. But Notley said Thursday her government wants to take more time to make sure it gets its response right. A panel headed by ATB Financial President Dave Mowat is reviewing aspects of the royalty regime to determine, among other things, whether Albertans get a fair share of the profits.

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee at the site of a landslide near Woodland, Wash., on Thursday that shut down northbound lanes of Interstate 5. [NATALIE BEHRING/THE COLUMBIAN VIA AP]

SEATTLE — A rain-soaked hillside collapsed on the main highway connecting Washington and Oregon, stranding thousands of motorists for hours Thursday while rain continued to fall throughout the region. The storms that have been sending rivers out of their banks, closing roads and killing at least two people in the Pacific Northwest this week were easing a bit, but forecasters said mudslide danger on the saturated hills would remain high through the weekend. “It was crazy and I was scared,” said Diane Smith of Lacey, Wash., who was stuck for three hours behind the landslide on Interstate 5 north of Portland, Ore., and then drove a steep, windy mountain road to get around the slide. The landslide blocked the lanes Wednesday afternoon after a hillside of rocks and dirt collapsed on the roadway after days of pounding rain.

More rain is on the way through the weekend. Forecasters at the U.S. National Weather Service say that also could mean more landslides as drenched hillsides keep soaking up water. “The threat of landslides doesn’t end when the rain does,” said Kirby Cook, science and operations officer with the weather service office in Seattle. Smith said her detour onto the Green Mountain Road above Woodland, Washington, was by accident. After being stuck on the highway, she followed directions and left the freeway. But when she got off I-5, it wasn’t clear which of three routes to take. Residents throughout western Washington and Oregon were assessing damage Wednesday from the heavy rains and strong winds when another storm hit that night, cutting power to more residents and businesses. People who live along the Sno-

qualmie River in Washington state are used to waters cresting the banks, but the storms that slammed the Pacific Northwest this week were more intense and destructive than residents have seen in some time. On Wednesday afternoon, a woman was found dead inside a vehicle in knee-to-waist deep water in Clatskanie, Oregon. Firefighters rescued her husband who was standing on top of the car. In Portland, a large Douglas fir tree crashed into a home early Wednesday, killing a 60-year-old woman who was in bed. Dennis Elleson told The Oregonian that his wife, Roberta “Bobbi” Elleson, had moved to a different bedroom to sleep a few hours before. “I ran in the bedroom and she was moaning,” Dennis Elleson told the newspaper. “I went to her side and told her, ‘Hang on. Hang on.”’ He said he couldn’t move the tree and tried to find a place for her to get air, but it was too late.

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CALGARY — The editor of the Calgary Herald testified Thursday that steps were taken to remove from the web a contentious article that led to a lawsuit by former television journalist Arthur Kent. Lorne Motley said the Herald’s parent company, Postmedia, attempted to suppress the 2008 column written by Don Martin on its websites as well as in its Infomart archives after Kent filed his suit and demanded the article be taken down. “The story should be very difficult to search or call up,” Motley told a defamation trial Thursday. “You really shouldn’t see anything on Infomart. There would be a notation saying why it’s being restricted. Online you would not be able to find it.” Court has already heard that the article suddenly re-emerged in 2012 on the Ottawa Citizen’s home page, as well as on websites of other papers across the Postmedia network. Kent described it as a “Lazarus article.” He testified that he complained to an editor at the Citizen, who agreed to take it down, but the column was resurrected within a day. Motley acknowledged that had happened. “The article was dealt with by employees who did not know the litigation that was ongoing between the parties. When those familiar with the litigation became familiar over what happened, there was a decision to unsuppress the column,” Motley said. Kent’s lawyer, Kent Jesse, argued that the reposting was an effort to put pres-

“The article was dealt with by employees who did not know the litigation that was ongoing between the parties.” Lorne Motley, ‘Calgary Herald’ editor

sure on Kent to move the lawsuit along. He pointed to earlier Motley testimony which said Postmedia had tendered an offer to Kent. “I have a very difficult time answering that question because I don’t know the answer. But I also know that I am not to say anything about that in this court, so you’re putting me in an awkward position,” Motley replied. Kent, who was nicknamed the “Scud Stud” for his reporting on the Gulf War for NBC, is suing Postmedia, the National Post and Martin for the piece that referred to Kent as a “dud” while he was campaigning for a seat in the Alberta legislature. The piece portrayed him as an out-ofcontrol star candidate facing a revolt from his election team. Jesse questioned whether all versions of the Martin article had been suppressed by Postmedia. He said there were several versions ranging in length from 722 words to 778 and all had different ID numbers. “I would suggest to you that this demonstrates there were at least six versions of the Martin article that were posted or available on the media defendants’ websites,” said Jesse.

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Chilean police said Thursday that they have arrested four people for possessing thousands of child pornography images. Commissioner Renzo Benni of the police cybercrime unit said the suspects were connected to an international pedophile ring. About 5,700 pictures and 516 videos of young children and nursing infants were seized during raids, he said. “Operation Rattle” began in August after foreign authorities alerted Chile’s equivalent of the FBI. A local court granted three of the men provisional release during the investigation. One of the men arrested worked for the state’s National Service for Minors in charge of protecting children.

Temple University faculty have voted to condemn Bill Cosby over the sex assault allegations he faces. They also are urging the school to rescind the longtime Temple supporter’s honorary degree. Cosby stepped down as a trustee last year. The school’s faculty senate also condemned the chairman of the trustees, Patrick O’Connor. It said it was a conflict for the Philadelphia attorney to have defended Cosby in a sex assault lawsuit by a former Temple employee a decade ago. The university and O’Connor are downplaying the voice vote’s significance. They say fewer than 40 of more than 2,000 full-time faculty members attended last week’s meeting.

The UN human rights chief has told the Security Council it is “essential” that the council refer North Korea’s bleak human rights record to the International Criminal Court, a proposition that the reclusive country views with alarm. Zeid Raad al-Hussein spoke Thursday after China tried to keep the meeting from happening. Russia, Venezuela and Angola backed China, but the United States and eight other countries voted to go forward. The UN report also recommended a referral to the ICC, an idea that 112 countries supported last month in a vote in the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee. The assembly itself is expected to vote on the non-binding resolution next week.

Haitian human rights groups have led a protest calling for new elections even as the country’s electoral council says the Dec. 27 presidential runoff will take place as scheduled. The rights groups say the firstround vote was plagued by irregularities and they don’t believe official results that put the previously obscure government-backed candidate finishing first. They led about 1,000 chanting demonstrators to the headquarters of Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council Thursday. The first-round vote brought so many complaints that many doubt the runoff between the top two finishers can take place. Electoral council spokesman Roudy Stanley Penn insists the runoff will take place as planned on Dec. 27.

Triple car bombs exploded in a town in northeastern Syria’s predominantly Kurdish province of Hassakeh on Thursday, killing 15 civilians and wounding dozens more, Syria’s state-run news agency said. It said one of the explosions took place near a medical centre and another at a crowded market in the town of Tal Tamr, adding that the vehicles were packed with large amounts of explosives and significantly damaged shops and businesses. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 12 people were killed in the bombings, adding that the death toll was likely to rise because of the large number of wounded and missing.

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Group says Harkat at risk of torture if deported JIM BRONSKILL THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Amnesty International says Mohamed Harkat faces serious mistreatment if he is returned to his native Algeria and it joined the Ottawa man Thursday in urging the Trudeau government to halt his deportation. Harkat, a former pizza delivery man, was taken into custody 13 years ago on suspicion of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent — an accusation he denies. The federal government has been trying to deport the Algerian refugee on a national security certificate — a seldom-used tool in immigration law for removing non-citizens suspected of extremism or espionage. Harkat, 47, fears he will be tortured if forced to leave Canada.

“I love this country and I came here for a better life,” he said during a news conference.“I just want my life back.” Amnesty International’s research suggests a return to Algeria could put Harkat at serious risk of being placed in “incommunicado detention,” meaning he would be denied access to family, legal counsel or an independent doctor, contrary to international human rights law, said Hilary Homes of the organization’s Canadian branch. Harkat’s lawyers have long argued the security certificate process is unfair because the person facing deportation doesn’t see the full case against them. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the certificate against Harkat last year and the government has since taken initial steps toward removing him.

Swiss police officers search a car at the Geneva airport in Switzerland on Thursday. Geneva police were ‘actively searching’ for suspects in connection with an investigation into the Paris attacks last month, and authorities raised the security alert level in the city and surrounding region. [SALVATORE DI NOLFI/KEYSTONE VIA AP]

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GENEVA — Working on a tip from the CIA, Geneva police were hunting for at least four suspects allegedly linked to the radical Islamic State group and believed to be plotting a “specific” attack in the city, Swiss officials said Thursday. As city police raised their security alert level, Swiss state prosecutors opened investigations into a suspected criminal plot and suspected violations of a ban into groups like Islamic State and al-Qaida. The CIA alerted Swiss authorities to the four men on Wednesday, prompting the manhunt, a Swiss official with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press on Thursday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. The official confirmed the suspects were four men shown in a photograph linked to a news report in Swiss daily Le Matin. They were pictured each in a crouched pose and holding up an index finger — said to be an Islamic State gesture.

It was too early to determine whether other suspects might still be at large, the official said. He also declined to identify the names, ages or nationalities of the people being sought. The Geneva security department said Swiss national authorities flagged “suspicious individuals” who could be in Geneva or the vicinity to city authorities on Wednesday. It didn’t specify how many people were being sought or name them. The official said, however, the suspects were not believed to have had links to the Paris terror attacks, appearing to revise an earlier statement from the Geneva security department. Heavily-armed police carrying submachine guns stood guard outside diplomatic missions in Geneva on Thursday. Normally, officers carry lighter weapons. Geneva police were also deploying more officers at the city’s train station and airport. The UN office in Geneva was also increasing its security precautions, even though it said

there was no indication of any specific increased threat against UN staff. Police were working with international and national authorities to locate suspects they believed to be in the Geneva region, officials said. “We have gone from a vague threat to a specific one,” Emmanuelle Lo Verso, a spokeswoman for the security department, told the AP. The Geneva prosecutor’s office said an official investigation has been opened into “criminal preparatory acts” — a charge against anyone who takes “concrete measures of a technical or organizational type in the aim of committing a grave infraction.” The Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, claimed by the radical group, left 130 people dead and hundreds of others wounded. Two fugitives including Salah Abdeslam — who slipped through the fingers of French police hours after the attacks — remain at large. Several arrests were made in Belgium following the attacks.

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NEWARK, N.J. — A 20-year-old New Jersey man admitted to planning to travel to Syria so he could join the Islamic State group and to discussing homemade bombs that he would detonate in New York. Nader Saadeh pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to conspiring with others to provide material support to ISIS. He remains detained without bail.

Saadeh is the last of three New Jersey defendants to admit guilt in the case, which came to light in August when he was arrested by the FBI. He acknowledged a co-defendant showed him diagrams for making bombs and discussed plans to use them in Times Square, the World Trade Center and Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in Queens. He faces 15 years in prison when he is sentenced March 18.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Saadeh admitted that before his arrest on Aug. 10, he planned to travel overseas to join ISIS. Saadeh discussed his plans to join ISIS with his brother, Alaa Saadeh, and Samuel Rahamin Topaz, Munther Omar Saleh, and Fareed Mumuni, and admitted that at various times each of them indicated that they wanted to join the terror group.

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BQ obstructs assisted dying, budget hearings The new Liberal government’s maiden budget is expected to be brought down in February or early March. And it’s under enormous pressure to act swiftly on medically assisted dying, facing a Supreme Court deadline and a new Quebec law allowing doctors to help patients die. The government had wanted a special parliamentary committee to consult broadly with Canadians, experts and stakeholders, examine research studies and models for assisted dying used elsewhere — including potentially travelling within Canada and to other countries — and report back with recommendations for new legislation, all by Feb. 26.

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OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is blaming the Bloc Quebecois for thwarting public consultations on next year’s budget and the sensitive issue of medically assisted dying. Bloc MPs denied unanimous consent Thursday when the government attempted to set up a special joint Commons-Senate committee on assisted death as well as the Commons finance committee. They were protesting the fact they aren’t eligible for membership on any parliamentary committees because the Bloc is two short of the dozen MPs required for official party status in the Commons.

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EDMONTON — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says he knows of no reason why school boards should cancel international student trips over terrorism fears, but he says the decision is ultimately up to educators. Goodale suggests school boards should consult with RCMP and other federal authorities if they are concerned. He was responding Thursday to questions about schools boards that have cancelled trips following recent terror attacks in Paris and California. “To the best of my knowledge at this moment, there is nothing that would particularly provoke that kind

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of a response, but it will be up to school boards and so forth to make their own decisions in these matters,” Goodale said in Ottawa. “What terrorists are trying to do is

destroy our way of life, and we must be very clear that we’re not going to give in to that kind of abuse and threat,” he said. “At the same time, you have to behave prudently.” This week three school districts in Alberta suspended international student trips for the remainder of the 2015-2016 school year over safety concerns. The Black Gold Regional Division south of Edmonton said it made the decision after conferring with parents. Johnette Lemke, chairwoman of the division’s board, said the safety of students and staff cannot be put at risk. “We are aware that some students and parents may be disappointed

with this decision,” Lemke said in a notice posted on the division’s website. “We had to consider several factors but, first and foremost, student and staff safety needed to be our No. 1 priority.” The Calgary public board has put such trips on hold and is expected to make a decision soon on whether to cancel them. The Alberta School Boards’ Insurance Exchange sent out a bulletin last month that strongly recommended school districts review international travel plans. The insurance exchange noted that the Islamic State’s aggressive disregard for all life makes it very dangerous and volatile.

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Duffy says misleading robocalls helped Tory MP win Island riding Elizabeth May wants investigation of 2008 Gary Lunn victory in Saanich-Gulf Islands JENNIFER DITCHBURN THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Sen. Mike Duffy has introduced a new plotline into his story about his life with the Conservatives, alleging that party operatives deliberately misdirected voters in a Vancouver Island riding in 2008. Duffy testified Thursday about a trip he took to British Columbia in September 2009, at the request of former sport minister Gary Lunn. Many of the 31 charges that Duffy faces have to do with travel he billed to the Senate. Duffy says he met Lunn and David Angus, a lobbyist for Molson Canada, a few months prior to his trip. He said Lunn was worried about re-election and wanted Duffy to appear at a local fair and for Molson to help with an Olympic torch. “He’d had a close call during the previous election and it was only through the divine intervention of (late campaign manager) Doug Finley’s black ops group at Conservative headquarters that he managed to get himself re-elected,” Duffy told the court. Julian West, the federal NDP candidate in Saanich-Gulf Islands in 2008, had withdrawn from the race, but his name remained on the ballot. Duffy recounted that the Conservatives used the party’s voter database to encourage NDP voters to vote for that candidate. “Basically what happened was that they used robocalls to misdirect NDP voters, to split the vote and allow Gary Lunn to win,” Duffy said.

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“He knew nothing about it, except that they phoned him afterward and said ‘You’re welcome Gary.’ “He said ‘What?’ (They said) ‘We got you in’.” Lunn told The Canadian Press on Thursday that he has no recollection of the June 2009 lunch, never knew who made the misleading phone calls and never told Duffy that it was Conservative headquarters. Angus did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections. Lunn was defeated in the 2011 elec-

tion by Green party Leader Elizabeth May. May told Global News on Thursday that she would like the RCMP and Elections Canada to take a look at the matter. Duffy’s third day of testimony went through several of the trips he took to Conservative events on the Senate’s dime, many of which were specifically partisan. The defence has emphasized that the Senate’s rules mention partisan activities as one of a senator’s core functions. On the September 2009 trip to British Columbia, Duffy met his

children in Vancouver and says he received a phone call the night before Lunn’s event on Vancouver Island telling him not to come. “The campaign strategist who worked on B.C. decided that they had the Olympic torch in Saanich and to have me there would detract from Gary Lunn,” Duffy said he was told later. Lunn testified at the trial earlier this year that Duffy’s participation was cancelled weeks before the event because the riding association didn’t want to pick up any related expenses.

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PARIS — The head of France’s farright National Front made a final push for votes on Thursday, three days ahead of crucial elections, promising pragmatism over ideology in any regions won by her anti-immigration party and assuring there would be no witch hunts. At a final rally, Le Pen underscored the national character of the regional vote, telling cheering supporters that a new France is within their grasp — and inside the ballot box. The lead candidates in all 13 French regions contesting the presidency of leadership councils shared the stage with Le Pen. The anti-immigration National Front led in six regions in the Dec. 6 first round, and Le Pen herself led by a wide margin in the north where she is running. But a poll by TNS-Sofres-One Point published Wednesday suggested that both Le Pen and her niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, who is running in the south, would lose in the final round. Such an outcome would be a major setback for the National Front — and for Marine Le Pen’s planned bid for the presidency in 2017. The two Le Pens scored so well in round one that the governing Socialists, straggling in third place, ordered their candidates to withdraw so their voters could cast ballots for the rival conservative mainstream to block the far right. Le Pen softened her usually trenchant stance in a reach-out to left and right, saying her party represents a new way where “patriots” respect the interests of the regions and clans and “political fraud” have no place. “There will be no political witch hunts in the regions. They key word won’t be ideology but pragmatism,” she said in a clear bid to lure voters fearful of an agenda by a party accused by the mainstream of dividing the French. But she also said that National Front regions would “open each file” when deciding on subsidies for associations and other interests and “stop, reform or continue.” She and her niece have said in the past that they would refuse funding to interests representing a single community, a reference to Muslim groups. Both regions have large Muslim populations. The poll of voter intentions suggested Marine Le Pen would get 47 per cent and her conservative adversary Xavier Bertrand, a former labour minister, 53 per cent. Marechal-Le Pen, running in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region, would take 46 per cent of the vote, according to the poll.

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van Johnson was brought into an awkward situation. Now, he’s thriving in comfort. The 19-year-old goalie makes his first home start tonight at Frank Crane Arena as the Nanaimo Clippers official No. 1 goaltender and as the reigning B.C. Hockey League player of the week. Not to mention being tasked with backstopping a Clippers team on a nine-game winning streak hoping to push it to 10. “I feel pretty good,” Johnson said. “The guys in front of me are playing really well, so I can’t complain about that. It’s nice to get some help from the guys up front — it make my job a lot easier.” Nothing was easy about Johnson’s situation in October. Released from the Western Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers after serving as their back-up, Johnson was looking for a place to play and

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found one in Nanaimo. One problem — two goalies were already signed, with Jonathan Reinhart the assumed Clippers starter from training camp and 16-year-old Jakob Walter not going anywhere as one of Nanaimo’s two 16 or 17-yearold players BCHL players must carry on a full roster. “It’s not the best situation to come

into, relationships-wise,”Johnson said, “but you just have to do the best you can. “In a way I guess would be kind of awkward, but the other guys were pretty good about it, and that helped a bit.” Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp wanted Johnson to inject competition into the position, but it took a while for any of them to take off the with No. 1 job in the Nanaimo crease. Johnson had a sloppy first two games, but put forth a fantastic effort in his third against the Penticton Vees in an overtime loss. He then posted a 40-save win in his next game against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs, but three days later he was yanked from the goal after 40 minutes and six goals against in a loss to Alberni. He never lost confidence. “I always thought it would work out,” Johnson said. “I was just getting my game back. I hadn’t played in a while and I had never been given

the starting job before so I was just trying to learn what it was like to play a lot of games. “I got a couple bad ones out of the way, and it’s been good ever since.” Very good, actually. After being pulled against the Bulldogs, Johnson went on to win his next six starts as part of his team’s BCHL-best ninegame winning streak. He officially won the starting job on Dec. 1 when Vandekamp traded Reinhart to the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s Brooks Bandits for defenceman Taylor Karel. Johnson said he simply needed to work harder to turn his game around. “I realized I had to work harder than I had been on shots and stuff like that,” he said. “That little bit of intensity was probably what helped.” Tonight, after playing six straight road games, the Clippers host the Merritt Centennials and former teammates Ryan Forbes and Ryan Coghlan. And they’ll do so with a goalie who’s as confident as ever, all

because someone finally gave him a chance to run with a bunch of games in a row. “It’s huge,” Johnson said of his new opportunity. “I always thought I was capable of being a starter but I never really had the chance. “It’s the biggest reason I came here — to see what I can really do — and it’s going pretty good so far, so hopefully it continues.” Puck drop tonight is at 7 p.m. TOSS YOUR TEDDIES Tonight’s game at Frank Crane is the Clippers’ annual Teddy Bear Toss night. Fans are invited to bring teddy bears to the game and throw them on the ice when the Clippers score their first goal. Each of them will then be donated to the Great Nanaimo Toy Drive. Teddy bears will be available at the game to be purchased for $5. Scott.McKenzie @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4243

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Trent Bell leads Bucs past Wolves finding the back of the net. The Wolves, though, didn’t go away and scored twice in the third. But so did Bell. Calverley finished the game with a goal and two assists while Jordan Levesque and Nick Gomerich both had two helpers. Kayden Peck and Tomba Huddlestan scored the Westshore goals. In net for the Buccaneers, Alex Orth stopped 22 shots in the win as his team was outshot 24-20. Twenty-eight games into the season, the Bucs are now 11 points back from the Campbell River Storm for first place in the division.

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A hat trick from Trent Bell was enough to give the Nanaimo Buccaneers a three-goal win over the Westshore Wolves Thursday night in Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League action at the Nanaimo Ice Centre. The Bucs (15-11-1-2) have now won three straight games after enduring a brutal eight-game losing streak that took them out of the top spot of the VIJHL’s North Division. They built a three-goal lead against the Wolves Thursday night, with Bell scoring first and Mitch Popp and Jake Calverley also

They also hold a four-point lead, with two games in hand, over the Comox Valley Glacier Kings for second place. Bell moved into the Top 10 in the VIJHL scoring race with his hat trick, taking over the No. 9 spot with 19 goals and 15 assists. He is second in team scoring behind the franchises all-time leader, Levesque, who is fifth in league scoring so far with 13 goals and 33 assists. The Bucs and Galcier Kings meet in the Comox Valley on Saturday night, while the next game in Nanaimo is on Thursday against the last-place Oceanside Generals at 7:45 p.m. Gabriela Fernandez, 8, breaks a board during testing for her black belt at Nanaimo Tae Kwon Doe. [PHOTO CONTRIBUTED]

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The defending Island Triple A champion Islanders hit the floor after that against a Claremont Spartans team that is always a tough matchup in Quad A basketball. Nanaimo’s only Quad A team, the Dover Bay Dolphins, take on the Belmont Bulldogs at 3:45 p.m. Other teams in the tournament are the Cowichan Thunderbirds and the Duncan Christian Chargers. The championship game is on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Cowichan Secondary School. The Mid-Island Triple A league gets back to business Tuesday with the Islanders hosting the John Barsby Bulldogs and the Wildcats hosting the Ballenas Whalers, with both games at 7 p.m.

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Canucks sign second-round pick Guillaume Brisebois to entry contract The Vancouver Canucks signed defenceman Guillaume Brisebois to a three-year, entry-level contract on Thursday. Brisebois, 18, has appeared in 28 games for the Acadie-Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he currently leads all defencemen on the team in scoring with 12 points (four goals, eight assists). Brisebois collected 28 points in 63 games played with Acadie-Bathurst last season, leading all Titan defencemen in goals, assists and points. On the international stage, the Longueuil, Que., native is a two-time medallist with Canada, winning gold at the 2014 Ivan Hlinka Memorial and bronze at the 2015 Under-18 world junior championship.

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Alain Vigneault paused for a moment when asked what advice he would give a younger version of himself — one who had yet spend a single game behind an NHL bench as a head coach. “You sacrifice a lot things on a personal level,” he said. “The balance people have in life between their family lives and their work is really tested and put to the limit. I’ve never felt I worked a day in my life because I love the game. I was willing to make that sacrifice.” Vigneault will coach his 1,000th NHL game on Friday when his New York Rangers visit the Edmonton Oilers, a milestone he has reached despite a roller-coaster career. The Quebec City native was in his late 30s and leading the Montreal Canadiens in the 2000-01 season when he was blindsided by an abrupt firing just over three years into his tenure. “’Challenging’ would be an understatement. It was six months where even though I had sent my resume to tons of people and I had just been up for coach of the year with the Habs, I couldn’t find a job,” said Vigneault. “I was six months out of work, I was going through a challenging (marriage) separation, two young daughters, a lot of bills.” After a brief career as an NHL defenceman, Vigneault got his start coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and as an assistant with the expansion Ottawa Senators. He knew he would have to take a step backwards to get another crack at the big time after Montreal, so he signed on with the QMJHL’s PEI Rocket before the Vancouver Canucks hired him to coach their AHL affiliate. And when then-Canucks general manager Dave Nonis fired Marc Crawford in 2006, Vigneault was the man entrusted with getting the club to the next level. “To say that I was very confident that I would get back (to the NHL) would not be the truth,” he said in Vancouver earlier this week prior to the Rangers’ game against the Canucks. Vancouver made the playoffs and Vigneault won coach of the year in his first campaign, but the team missed out on the post-season in 2007-08, with Nonis paying the price for that failure with his job. Mike Gillis came on board as GM and supported Vigneault during a rough stretch in 2008-09 when many were clamouring for him to be fired. “(Gillis) never buckled,” said Vigneault. “He was right by my side.” Gillis’ faith was repaid and two years later Vigneault led Vancouver to the best record in the league and within a game of winning the Stanley Cup. Canucks forward Alexandre Burrows, who played eight seasons for Vigneault, said honesty is one of the coach’s greatest attributes. “There’s no grey areas,” said Burrows. “If you’re a shooter you better shoot, if you’re a grinder you better grind. He tells you how it is.”

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Vancouver Canucks twins Henrik, right, and Daniel Sedin celebrate Daniel’s goal against the New York Rangers in Vancouver on Wednesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Enjoy the Sedin twins while still spectacular JASON BOTCHFORD THE PROVINCE

t was not a lament, just an observation. Daniel Sedin couldn’t help but think about the old days. “The Rangers, they are really similar to the way we played back then with him (Alain Vigneault),” he said. Funny, because many of the rest of us have been thinking of “back then,” too. How can you not when you’re watching the Sedins? It’s not like it was, and it will never be that. There are fewer of the long, crescendo shifts which often worked like someone heaving air into a balloon until it finally popped with a dynamic goal, inevitable because of the pressure. They don’t bury their opponents with possession quite like they used to. But there are have been enough bread crumbs strewn across the ice during the past six weeks to lead us all back to the heyday. The Canucks don’t have much these days. They have a goalie, when he’s rested. They have a fourth line, which is relied on too much. They have two good, legitimate top-pairing defencemen. And they have the Sedins. Thank holy Christmas. Because Vancouver will never see anything like them again. When sports are most compelling, they gather a city and fan base together. It’s a collective experience, a community. The Sedins are the only current Canucks with the ability to tap into it. We rally around them when they’re bullied. We protest when they’re disrespected and

Jason Botchford The Province ignored. And we revel it in when they’re great. When apparent philosopher king Todd Bertuzzi was here this week, he talked about his career going by “a thousand times faster than I ever thought it would.” He shared a story about a veteran player telling him, back when he was 21, to “Enjoy it kid, enjoy every day.” The same applies to Vancouver and the Sedins. Trust me, you don’t long for them to be traded in hopes of a better future. You want this to last as long as it can. You can say again and again, you want your team to tank; you want your team to lose, while you drool over the latest mock draft. But when you’re watching, when they’re playing, you can’t help but hope for good things, and wins. On Wednesday, the Sedins gave the Canucks that, producing two more goals, and galloping their way to an unexpected, feel-good win. In the past 15 games, they have combined for 42 points, including 15 goals and 27 assists for a team that scored 36. Two years ago, people thought the Sedins were over as a top line. But there they were Thursday, both in the top 10 in scoring, including Daniel at No. 4. They have been exceeding what anyone could have rea-

sonably expected from them. Can it last? Probably not like this. There will dips, maybe an injury. But if they could somehow sustain a level of production close to this, it could be the greatest season they’ve ever had. It’s a strong statement for two former Art Ross winners. But consider their age, now 35 in a league in which a player’s prime has been trending downward and probably is in the mid-20s now. Consider the team, without a decent second and third line for much of the season. Consider the defence, their main offensive weapon on the blueline in a lockdown role. Consider, the centres behind them for a good chunk of this season have been a struggling Bo Horvat, a rookie Jared McCann, and a 30-year-old journeyman in Adam Cracknell. How they are thriving in that lineup is one of this year’s best NHL stories. The only shame would be if the Sedins would continue to play like this and not get the Canucks to the playoffs. It’s possible in the division they’re in, even though they’re currently on pace for 82 points, which, rather jarringly, is actually one fewer than they Canucks had in their lone, disastrous John Tortorella season. But in this division the Canucks are in, no one is ever out of it. Can the Sedins drag this group to 90 points, which could be enough? Not sure on that. I do know, I’m going to enjoy watching them try. JBotchford@theprovince.com

Dan Hamhuis needs surgery after taking shot to his face on Wedneday Vancouver Canucks defenceman Dan Hamhuis will undergo surgery for a facial fracture after taking a slapshot to the face in Wednesday’s 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers. The 32-year-old was hit by a puck off the stick of New York’s Dan Boyle from close range with under eight minutes remaining in the third period and Vancouver clinging to a one-goal lead. Hamhuis laid on the ice for a few seconds before leaving a trail of blood as he was helped to the locker-room. The Canucks announced the surgery set for Friday in a message posted to the team’s official Twitter feed on Thursday afternoon, adding that there’s no timetable for Hamhuis’ return to the lineup. Vancouver head coach Willie Desjardins addressed the injury after Wednesday’s game. “It’s scary,” he said. “It’s a hard thing to take. He’ll suffer with that for a little while.” A member of Canada’s 2014 men’s Olympic hockey team, Hamhuis suffered a groin injury last season that kept him out of the lineup for an extended period of time.

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NBA icon Steve Nash headlines ‘16 B.C. Sports Hall of Fame inductees GARY KINGSTON VANCOUVER SUN

VANCOUVER — Steve Nash, the Victoria-area high school product who went on to win back-to-back NBA MVP awards, headlines the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame’s 2016 induction class. Generally acknowledged as one of Canada’s greatest athletes, the six-foot-three point guard was an allstar eight times in his 18-year NBA career, leading the league in assists five times and retiring in with the third-most assists in league history. He was only the third point guard to be named an NBA MVP, with Magic Johnson and Bob Cousy being the others. “The greatest gift has been to be completely immersed in my passion and striving for something I loved so much — visualizing a ladder, climbing up to my heroes,” Nash wrote when he officially announced his retirement last March in a letter on The Players’ Tribune website. “The obsession became my friend. I talked to her, cherished her, fought with her and got knocked on my ass by her. In some ways, having this friend — this ever-present pursuit — has made me who I am, taught me and tested me, and given me a mission that feels irreplaceable.” Joining Nash in the athlete category for 2016 are golfer Dave Barr, a two-time winner on the PGA tour, Dave Cutler, who spent 16 seasons as a kicker in the CFL, retiring in 1984 as the then-leading scorer in pro football history, and soccer players Carl Valentine and Geri Donnelly. Donnelly was an original member of the first Canadian women’s national team and was capped 71 times and scored the first two goal in the history of the team in a 2-1 win over the U.S. in 1986.

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Victoria’s Steve Nash has been inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

The English-born Valentine is one of the all-time great Vancouver Whitecaps/86ers, standing third in club history with 65 goals and 69 assists. He also earned 31 caps with the Canadian national team. Nash, a three-time winner of the Lionel Conacher Award as Canadian male athlete of the year, starred with the Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns before finishing up his career with two injury-plagued seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. He is the most accurate free throw shooter in NBA history at 90.4 per cent. He captained the Canadian men’s national team to the quarter-finals of the 2000 Olympics and is the current general manager of the squad. He also started the Steve Nash Youth Basketball program, which

began in B.C. before spreading across Canada. In the builder/coach category, the newest inductees are long-time BC Lions general manager and head coach Wally Buono, former Canadian women’s basketball team head coach Allison McNeill and Diane Clement, co-founder of The Vancouver Sun Run, and the Richmond Kayaks Track and Field Club and a former president of Athletics Canada. Arthur Griffiths, whose family financed the building of GM Place (now Rogers Arena) and who helped bring the NBA Grizzlies to Vancouver, will be honoured as the W.A.C. Bennett award winner. Griffiths also chaired the Vancouver/Whistler 2010 Bid Society. The 1994-95 Memorial Cup-winning Kamloops Blazers will go

into the hall in the team category. That squad, which went 52-14-6 in the WHL regular season, included sure-fire NHL Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla, plus long-time NHLers Shane Doan, Darcy Tucker, Tyson Nash, Brad Lukowich and Jason Strudwick. Wendy Long, who spent two decades at The Vancouver Sun covering amateur and Olympic sports as one of the few female sports writers during the 1980s and ‘90s, will enter the hall in the media category. And, finally, entering the hall in the Pioneer category is Nanaimo-born Harry Manson, a trailblazing aboriginal soccer player from 1897 to 1905. He was also known as Xul-si-malt, which means “one who leaves his mark.” GKingston@vancouversun.com

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White Sox deal for Langley’s Brett Lawrie JANIE MCCAULEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics made two more moves to boost their pitching staff Wednesday, acquiring a pair of minor leaguers from the Chicago White Sox for third baseman Brett Lawrie and agreeing to terms with right-hander John Axford on a $10 million, two-year contract. Axford’s deal was pending a physical, a person with knowledge of the agreement said on condition of anonymity because it hadn’t been announced. Axford spent 2015 with Colorado, but had a scary start to the year when his then-two-year-old son Jameson was hospitalized at spring training in Arizona after being bit on the foot by a rattlesnake. The pitcher missed more than a week to be with his toddler.

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The A’s announced the trade of Lawrie, an anticipated move for the club during baseball’s winter meetings. Oakland received right-hander J.B. Wendelken and minor league left-hander Zack Erwin in the swap. The departure of Lawrie leaves Oakland with five remaining arbi-

tration-eligible players, down from 12 last week. New general manager David Forst has made an improved pitching staff a priority this off-season. The A’s reached agreement on a $22 million, three-year contract with free-agent reliever Ryan Madson on Sunday. In a trade last Wednesday with San Diego, Oakland acquired reliever Marc Rzepczynski, who later that night agreed to a one-year deal to avoid arbitration. Oakland had a full infield after acquiring shortstop Jed Lowrie from Houston on Nov. 25, leaving third basemen Lawrie and Danny Valencia as possible options to be dealt. Valencia is scheduled to play third, Lowrie at second, Marcus Semien at shortstop and Eric Sogard as a utility infielder. Lawrie hit .260 with career highs of 16 homers and 60 RBIs in

his lone season for the A’s, also staying off the disabled list for the first time in five major league seasons. “Certainly when we got Jed from Houston, people were checked in, were made aware we might do something else on the back end,” Forst said. “Brett had a great year. He worked really hard to stay on the field. I know he was very proud of that. This was an opportunity for us to add some pitching to our system and being able to secure Jed a few weeks ago allowed for this opportunity.” Wendelken, who pitched for the U.S. team at the Premier 12 tournament last month and played in the Arizona Fall League, went a combined 6-2 with five saves and a 3.20 ERA in 39 relief appearances between Double-A Birmingham and Triple-A Charlotte this past season.

TORONTO — Golfer Brooke Henderson had two dreams come true this year: she became a member of the LPGA Tour and won her first tournament at that level. She’s setting her sights even higher in 2016. Henderson hopes to continue her ascent on the top women’s professional golf circuit and also lead Canada to the podium when the sport makes its return to the Olympic program next summer in Rio. She got a chance to learn more about the Olympic experience at this week’s Canadian Olympic Committee symposium at a downtown Toronto hotel. Watching promotional videos of fellow Canadians winning medals and hearing the national anthem has her counting down the days until the 2016 Games. “Every time I watch those videos, I get goose bumps. My blood runs crazy,” Henderson said Thursday. “It’s an amazing opportunity that I have just to play in the Olympics and to play on the LPGA Tour. “They’re both dreams that I’ve had since I was young and now this year is the first year that I can achieve both of those.” Henderson, a former top-ranked amateur, showed this past season that she was the real deal. She finished third at the Swinging Skirts LPGA stop last April before picking up fifth-place ties at the Women’s PGA Championship and the U.S. Women’s Open. Her statement performance came in August at the Cambia Portland Classic, when she blew away the field with a whopping eight-stroke victory. Henderson was about three weeks shy of her 18th birthday at the time. She was granted immediate LPGA Tour membership by commissioner Mike Whan after the win. The teenager from Smiths Falls, Ont., has since climbed to No. 18 on the Tour’s ranking list. Henderson is planning a full schedule in 2016 and plans to treat the Games like the sixth major of the season. “The Olympics is a dream that I had as a little girl,” she said. “I didn’t know what sport or what I was going to do or how I was going to get there. But I wanted to be in the Olympics and I wanted to share the same passion as all these other athletes that I watched on TV in the Winter and Summer Games. “So Rio is in August, it’s going to be a long summer and it’s going to be a long season. But it’s definitely something that I want to peak for and I want to represent Canada as best as I can.” Sixty golfers will compete in the four-round women’s stroke play competition at the Aug. 5-21 Games.

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offence ‘Concussion’ neurosurgeon Seahawks’ keeps on improving Bailes endorses youth football TIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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he one thing about the upcoming movie Concussion on which most people can agree is that talking about the topic as it relates to football safety is a good thing. So Julian Bailes did just that Tuesday during a conference call with reporters, the transcript of which ran more than 7,600 words. And this was between him doing two brain surgeries that day. Bailes is chairman of the department of neurosurgery and co-director of the NorthShore Neurological Institute, as well as an expert on the subject of sports-related concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. In the film, he is played by Alec Baldwin. In real life, he still works with Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who in the film is portrayed by Will Smith. But while Omalu wrote an op-ed column in The New York Times Monday calling for a ban on youth football, Bailes is far more optimistic about the improvements in safety since the era depicted in the film, and about the sport in general. “I’m a big believer in the benefits of organized sports, and the benefits of football,” he said. “I have two children who play football. And I think football is safer than it’s ever been.” For Bailes, chairman of Pop Warner Football’s medical advisory committee, that belief is based on greater understanding of the long-term impact of repeated blows to the head, and steps designed to protect players from those effects. Bailes said he found the film generally accurate in portraying the events of the late 2000s, even though he allowed for some Hollywood touches to compress and dramatize events. “I think they made an effort to get the story straight,” he said. Still, while the film inevitably will scare some people — and parents — away from football, Bailes believes CTE is an issue

Jilian Bailes, the neurosurgeon portrayed in the upcoming movie ‘Concussion,’ spoke to reporters Tuesday through a conference call. [YOUTUBE]

“I have two children who play football. And I think football is safer than it’s ever been.“ Julian Bales, neurosurgeon

for a minority of NFL players from earlier eras and likely for an even smaller minority today because of reforms in the sport. Most former players who have been examined for CTE after their deaths have had it. But Bailes said that is a “very skewed, very biased sample if you look at it scientifically or epidemiologically,” because it mostly includes those who exhibited possible signs of the disease in their behavior. Said Bailes: “I don’t think we have an epidemic on our hands. And I think that we don’t know the exact prevalence … I would say maybe 20 percent to 30 percent of the ones who played in the pre-reform era may have some form of CTE. But that is just a guess.” Bailed pointedly disagreed with

Omalu’s take on youth football, saying, “Certainly, you know, hitting your brain doesn’t do anybody any good. But there have been a lot of changes made at the youth football level. I think it is not scientifically accepted that the youth’s brain is necessarily more vulnerable than an adult brain. “I don’t think the facts support that there are cases of CTE from youth football participation. And I don’t think the facts support that kids are suffering or being brain damaged from playing youth football as they had the last 50 years.” He said playing football is and should be a personal choice. “You know, as parents for instance we teach our kids a lot of things,” he said. “We teach them how to snow ski, how to snowboard, how to swim, how to hunt. We teach them about driving. We teach them a lot of sports and activities and so part of that is our responsibility to teach them the safe and right way to do it. But at the end of the day all these activities have potential risks.” The key at every level, Bailes said, is education and reform where needed.

“I think that we’ve done almost all we can do to reduce unnecessary or gratuitous head contact, whether it’s in practice or in games,” he said. “The sport may continue to need to evolve some more in the future. We may need to take linemen out of the three-point stance. One day we may need to eliminate punt returns or other high-velocity plays. I’m not advocating that but I’m saying that there may be further evolution. “But I’ve been involved at the administrative level from the NFL and I’m a member of the NFL Players Association Health and Safety Committee. From the NFL on down through the NCAA and the National Federation of High School and Pop Warner Football, so I’ve been involved in every level, and I can tell you there is zero denial of the problem, zero minimization of the problem. “And I think there’s been a wonderful acceptance of the nature of this problem and a willingness and a great American spirit and the greatest American sport to make appropriate changes to make it safe for everyone to enjoy.”

RENTON, Wash. — Seattle’s offence is no longer easy to solve. Defences once had a simple answer for shutting down Russell Wilson and the Seahawks offence but changes in recent month have made the unit worthy of even more headlines than the prolific defence. Wilson and the Seahawks are on a three-week run that’s been unmatched in his time as a pro, as Seattle has shown it can do more than just run the ball. The Seahawks are explosive and potent, scoring from all over the field, whether it’s Wilson throwing darts to Doug Baldwin or rookie Thomas Rawls bulling his way through the defence. The recent run of three straight wins on the back of its offence has quickly put Seattle WILSON into the conversation among the NFC favourites. “When the answer to the riddle used to be make him leave the pocket and you got him, or keep him in the pocket and you got him, or contain him, just keep him in there and you’ve got him solved. “When that’s not the answer anymore, it’s a really dangerous offence,” cornerback Richard Sherman said. “When he’s standing there confidently and delivering strikes to your receivers, you start to understand how dynamic our offence really is.” Since the bye week in early November, Seattle’s offence has gone from sometimes being unable to get out of its own way to an efficient group capable of carrying the Seahawks to a victory. Just look at two weeks ago when Seattle beat Pittsburgh 39-30 on a day the Seahawks gave up 456 yards passing to Ben Roethlisberger. They won thanks to five TD passes from Wilson. It’s the kind of game Seattle never won previously with Wilson at quarterback.

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Last 10 Strk 4-3-3-0 L-1 4-4-2-0 L-1 6-4-0-0 W-1 4-6-0-0 L-5 5-4-1-0 W-2 6-3-1-0 W-4 6-3-1-0 W-4 5-5-0-0 L-1

WILD CARD Chicago Minnesota Winnipeg Arizona Anaheim Calgary Edmonton Colorado

L OL SL 10 4 0 7 5 0 13 1 1 14 1 0 12 4 1 14 1 1 15 2 0 16 1 0

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

Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Minnesota at Arizona, 9 p.m. NY Rangers at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m. Carolina at Anaheim, 10 p.m. 6DWXUGD\ÂˇV JDPHV Florida at Boston, 1 p.m. Los Angeles at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Washington at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m. NY Islanders at Columbus, 7 p.m. Dallas at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Colorado at Nashville, 8 p.m. Carolina at Arizona, 9 p.m. NY Rangers at Calgary, 10 p.m. Minnesota at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

LIGHTNING 4, SENATORS 1

JETS 6, BLUE JACKETS 4

First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 9 (Stamkos, Hedman) 19:52 (pp). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stamkos TB (holding) 10:47; Chiasson Ott (tripping) 14:12; Cowen Ott, Callahan TB (cross-checking) 16:07; Wideman Ott (interference), Borowiecki Ott (hooking) 18:44. 6HFRQG 3HULRG Âł No Scoring. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Marchessault TB (hooking) 13:10; Filppula TB (holding) 18:13. Third Period 2. TB, Filppula 3 (Brown, Callahan) :25. 3. TB, Kucherov 10 (unassisted) 8:33. 4. Ottawa, Ceci 3 (Ryan, Stone) 12:06. 5. TB, Brown 3 (Callahan) 19:46 (en). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Ottawa 8 12 11 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;31 Tampa Bay 6 11 13 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;30 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ottawa: Anderson (L, 13-8-3); TB: Bishop (W, 12-8-2). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ott: 0-3; TB: 1-3. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,092 at Tampa Bay.

First Period 1. Wpg, Scheifele 11 (Stafford, Perreault) :27. 2. Wpg, Lowry 1 (Byfuglien, Peluso) 2:22. 3. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 8 (Perreault, Little) 10:48 (pp). 4. Col, Jenner 12 (Savard, Johansen) 15:38. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wheeler Wpg (high-stick) 6WXDUW :SJ Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ &DPSEHOO &OE Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ LQVWLJDWRU PLVFRQGXFW 6HFRQG 3HULRG 5. Columbus, Hartnell 12 (Wennberg, Johansen) 19:04 (pp). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dubinsky Clb (hooking) 8:57; Wheeler Wpg (hooking) 9:12; Enstrom Wpg (hooking) 18:23; Dubinsky Clb (tripping) 19:40. Third Period 6. Wpg, Stafford 10 (Byfuglien, Perreault) 4:03. 7. Wpg, Perreault 4 (Scheifele, Stafford) 7:36. 8. Colu, Atkinson 7 (Wennberg) 13:21. 9. Col, Atkinson 8 (Wennberg, Murray) 18:16. 10. Wpg, Wheeler 10 (Little) 19:15 (en). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ehlers Wpg (hook) 15:07; Thorburn Wpg, Hartnell Clb (rough) 17:27. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Columbus 5 7 17 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;29 Winnipeg 11 15 9 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;35 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Col: McElhinney (L, 0-5-1); Wpg: Hellebuyck (W, 4-0-0). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Col: 1-4; Wpg: 1-3. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 15,294 at Winnipeg.

FLYERS 4, BLUES 2 First Period â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No Scoring. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; B. Schenn Pha, Tarasenko StL (roughing) 4:58. 6HFRQG 3HULRG 1. St. Louis, Fabbri 5 (Jaskin) 1:35. 3KLO 5DIĂ % 6FKHQQ *LURX[ 3. Phi, Read 5 (Del Zotto, Simmonds) 6:39. 4. Phi, Giroux 11 (B.Schenn, Schultz) 18:06. 3HQDOW\ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lehtera StL (tripping) 15:22. Third Period 5. StL, Backes 8 (Steen, Shattenkirk) 7:37 (pp). 6. Phil, White 3 (Giroux) 19:58 (en). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Simmonds Pha (hooking) 6:59; Bellemare Pha (interference) 9:54. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Philadelphia 10 12 7 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;29 St. Louis 10 13 14 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;37 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Phil: Neuvirth (W, 7-3-2); St. Louis: Elliott (L, 4-3-2). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Phil: 0-1; StL: 1-2. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 14,428 at St. Louis.

SCORING LEADERS Kane, Chi Benn, Dal Seguin, Dal D. Sedin, Vcr Karlsson, Ott Hall, Edm Cammalleri, NJ Klingberg, Dal H. Sedin, Vcr

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A 26 20 24 20 26 18 19 25 20

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PREDATORS 5, HAWKS 1 First Period 1. Nash, Neal 11 (Weber, Ribeiro) 6:54. 2. Nashville, Smith 6 (Arvidsson) 15:56. 3. Nashville, Forsberg 6 (Josi, Jarnkrok) 16:33 (pp). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Shaw Chi, Jackman Nash Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ $UYLGVVRQ 1DVK WULSSLQJ 11:02; Kruger Chi (hooking) 16:14; GausWDG 1DVK 'HVMDUGLQV &KL Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ 6HFRQG 3HULRG Âł No Scoring. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jackman Nash (check to head minor) 7:07. Third Period 4. Chicago, Kane 18 (Keith) 5:43. 5. Nashville, Neal 12 (unassisted) 14:55. 6. Nashville, Nystrom 5, 18:46 (en-sh). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Salomaki Nash (interference) 17:03. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Chicago 7 13 16 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;36 Nashville 18 8 8 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;34 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chicago: Darling (L, 2-3-2); Nash: Rinne (W, 12-7-5). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chic: 0-3; Nash: 1-1. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 17,113 at Nashville.

PANTHERS 4, CAPITALS 1 First Period 1. Fla, Jagr 9 (Kulikov, Huberdeau) :51. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jokinen Fla (tripping) 6:24; Williams Wash (slashing) 8:31; Pirri Fla (elbowing) 13:29; Backstrom Wash (stick holding) 13:33. 6HFRQG 3HULRG 2. Florida, Pirri 6 (Campbell, Trocheck) 9:16 (pp). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alzner Wash (holding) 1:28; Ovechkin Wash (high-sticking) 7:24; Kulikov Fla (hooking) 12:46; Kulikov Fla (delay of game) 17:50. Third Period 3. Fla, Ekblad 6 (Huberdeau, Mitchell) 7:19. 4. Washington, Ovechkin 14 (Carlson, Backstrom) 17:52. 5. Florida, Shaw 2 (Jokinen) 18:56 (en). 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wilson Wash (boarding - major, misconduct) 5:43; Kulikov Fla (tripping) 6:30; Trocheck Fla (slashing), Ovechkin Wash (cross-checking) 15:04; Montoya Fla (interference) 15:35. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Washington 6 10 4 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;20 Florida 9 10 7 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;26 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Washington: Grubauer (L, 2-21); Florida: Montoya (W, 4-1-1). Power SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wash: 0-5; Florida: 1-6. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 12,810 at Florida.

RED WINGS 3, CANADIENS 2 First Period â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No Scoring. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fleischmann Mtl (hooking) 6:01; Abdelkader Det (charging) 10:01; Petry Mtl (cross-checking) 15:38. 6HFRQG 3HULRG 1. Detroit, Helm 2 (Glendening, Andersson) 11:18. 2. Mtl, Andrighetto 4 (Hudon, Markov) 13:21. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Smith Det (holding) 5:37; Carr Mtl (cross-check) 13:37; Flynn Mtl (roughing), Abdelkader Det (trip) 18:23. Third Period 3. Mtl, Fleischmann 8 (Desharnais, Carr) 4:30. 4. Detroit, Abdelkader 10 (Zetterberg, Kronwall) 12:47 (pp). 5. Detroit, Helm 3 (Datsyuk) 13:59. 3HQDOWLHV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fleischmann Mtl (hooking) 8:42, Emelin Mtl (high-sticking) 12:30, Subban Mtl (delay of game) 18:16. 6KRWV RQ JRDO Montreal 7 8 10 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;25 Detroit 10 6 13 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;29 *RDO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Montreal: Tokarski (L, 0-1-0); Detroit: Mrazek (W, 9-4-3). 3RZHU SOD\V (goal-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mtl: 0-2; Detroit: 1-6. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 20,027 at Detroit.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2015

HOCKEY

NFL

CURLING

NBA

WHL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

GRAND SLAM

EASTERN CONFERENCE

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

CANADIAN OPEN

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EAST DIVISION Prince Albert Brandon Moose Jaw Regina Saskatoon Swift Current

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Pt 42 40 38 29 19 14

CENTRAL DIVISION Calgary Red Deer Lethbridge Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

GP W L 33 20 11 30 20 10 29 19 10 31 13 15 28 8 17 32 6 24

B.C. DIVISION GP W L 29 22 6 29 19 8 29 18 9 26 12 10 30 8 18

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U.S. DIVISION Seattle Spokane Everett Portland Tri-City

GP W L 28 17 9 29 16 10 27 15 10 28 14 14 29 11 17

Note: Division leaders ranked in top 2 positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 pts. & a victory in W column; team losing in overtime or shootout gets 1 point in OTL or SOL columns 7KXUVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOW Swift Current 3 Edmonton 1 :HGQHVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Calgary 4 Regina 3 Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 5 Red Deer 4 Medicine Hat 3 Portland 7 Everett 5 Spokane 4 Seattle 2 )ULGD\ÂˇV JDPHV $OO WLPHV /RFDO Kelowna at Regina, 6 p.m. Calgary at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Kamloops at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Lethbridge at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Prince George at Portland, 8 p.m. Everett at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Victoria at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Spokane at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

BCHL INTERIOR DIVISION GP W L Penticton 31 28 2 Salmon Arm 30 19 8 West Kelowna 31 17 12 Vernon 34 14 18 Trail 30 13 17 Merritt 32 10 20

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ISLAND DIVISION Nanaimo Cowichan Vally Powell River Victoria Alberni Valley

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T OL GF GA Pt 0 1 126 98 43 1 3 111 139 36 0 1 105 77 35 0 4 90 102 30 2 1 89 119 25

MAINLAND DIVISION Chilliwack Wenatchee Langley Coquitlam Prince George Surrey

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SOUTH Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee

NORTH

WESTERN CONFERENCE Kelowna Victoria Prince George Kamloops Vancouver

: 10 7 6 5

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

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

WEST Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST Washington Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Dallas

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/ 7 7 7 8

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3) 3$ 257 286 278 302 307 296 223 277

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243 298 257 380

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4 5 7 8

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238 255 290 315

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SOUTH y-Carolina Tampa Bay Atlanta New Orleans

NORTH Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit

WEST x-Arizona Seattle St. Louis San Francisco

x â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched playoff berth. y â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinched division. 7KXUVGD\ V UHVXOW Arizona 23 Minnesota 20 6XQGD\ V JDPHV Detroit at St. Louis, 1 p.m. San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Washington at Chicago, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. San Francisco at Cleveland, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Tennessee at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m. Seattle at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 4:05 p.m. Dallas at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. New England at Houston, 8:30 p.m. 0RQGD\ V JDPH N.Y. Giants at Miami, 8:30 p.m.

CARDINALS 23, VIKINGS 20 Minnesota Arizona

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D;20 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;23

First Quarter Ariâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Catanzaro 27, 7:23. Minâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Peterson 9 run (Walsh kick), 3:57. Ariâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jo.Brown 65 pass from Palmer (Catanzaro kick), 1:43. 6HFRQG 4XDUWHU Minâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Walsh 44, :02. Third Quarter Ariâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Floyd 42 pass from Palmer (Catanzaro kick), 8:31. Fourth Quarter Ariâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Catanzaro 23, 14:55. Minâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Walsh 54, 12:10. Minâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wallace 7 pass from Bridgewater (Walsh kick), 4:55. Ariâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Catanzaro 47, 1:23. $WWHQGDQFH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 64,784. TEAM STATISTICS First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

Min 23 389 24-72 317 1-0 3-93 0-0 25-36-0 3-18 2-45.5 3-3 3-25 28:01

Ari 22 393 29-97 296 1-4 1-23 0-0 25-35-0 2-14 3-44.3 0-0 4-30 31:59

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 5XVKLQJâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Minn: Peterson 23-69, Bridgewater 1-3. Ariz: D.Johnson 19-92, Palmer 3-3, K.Williams 6-2, Taylor 1-0. 3DVVLQJâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Minn: Bridgewater 25-36-0335. Ariz: Palmer 25-35-0-310. 5HFHLYLQJâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Min: Rudolph 6-67, Wright 5-51, Wallace 3-42, Pruitt 2-36, Asiata 2-30, Diggs 2-12, Ellison 1-41, Line 1-24, Peterson 1-17, McKinnon 1-8, Thielen 1-7. Ariz: Floyd 5-102, Fitzgerald 5-41, D.Johnson 5-31, Jo.Brown 4-78, Fells 3-43, Iupati 1-10, Taylor 1-4, Ja.Brown 1-1. 0LVVHG )LHOG *RDOV â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None.

$W <RUNWRQ 6DVNDWFKHZDQ MEN'S ROUND ROBIN 7KXUVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Draw 7 Epping 6 McEwen 5 Gushue 7 Murdoch 5 Bottcher 9 Michel 3 Shuster 7 Simmons 6 Jacobs 3 Casey 2 Draw 9 Epping 9 Koe 3 Bottcher 8 Shuster 1 Edin 7 McEwen 2 Carruthers 7 Laycock 3 Cotter 5 Howard 3 :HGQHVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Draw 3 M.McEwen 6 S.Michel 4 J.Epping 4 B.Bottcher 2 N.Edin 9 J.Shuster 4 K.Koe 7 P.Simmons 3 D.Murdoch 6 B.Jacobs 3 Draw 5 K.Koe 7 N.Edin 5 D.Murdoch 5 S.Laycock 4 B.Gushue 6 R.Carruthers 3 B.Jacobs 7 J.Cotter 3 A.Casey 9 G.Howard 3 )ULGD\ÂˇV JDPHV Draw 10, 10 a.m. Michel vs. Simmons Rest of match-ups TBD WOMEN'S ROUND ROBIN 7KXUVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Draw 6 Jones 6 Rocque 5 Sweeting 8 Tirinzoni 3 Sidorova 5 Sigfridsson 3 Fleury 9 McDonald 4 Carey 8 Middaugh 5 Draw 8 Paetz 7 Homan 5 Jones 7 Sweeting 5 Fleury 6 Sidorova 5 Muirhead 10 Feltscher 3 Tirinzoni 4 Rocque 3 :HGQHVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Draw 2 R.Homan 8 S.Lawton 2 B.Feltscher 9 S.Middaugh 4 J.Jones 8 M.Sigfridsson 4 K.Rocque 9 A.Sidorova 3 S.Tirinzoni 9 K.McDonald 3 Draw 4 V.Sweeting 7 T.Fleury 6 R.Homan 6 B.Feltscher 1 A.Paetz 9 E.Muirhead 3 S.Middaugh 6 S.Lawton 2 C.Carey 9 E.Kim 6 )ULGD\ÂˇV JDPHV Draw 10, 10 a.m. Lawton vs. Kim; Sigfridsson vs. McDonald. Draw 11, 12 p.m. Carey vs. Sweeting; Muirhead Tirinzoni; Fleury vs. Homan. Draw 12, 3:30 p.m. Middaugh vs. Sidorova. Rest of match-ups TBD

SOCCER UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP STAGE Group A Ajax (Neth.) 1 Molde FK (Norway) 1 Fenerbahce (Turkey) 1 Celtic (Scot.) 1 Group B Bordeaux (Fra.) 2 Rubin Kazan (Rus.) 2 Sion (Switz.) 0 Liverpool (Eng.) 0 Group C Borssia Drtmund (Ger.) 0 PAOK (Gre.) 1 Gabala (Azer.) 0 Krasnodar (Russia) 3 Group D Midtjylland (Den.) 1 Club Brugg (Belg.) 1 Napoli (Italy) 5 Legia Warsaw (Poland) 2 Group E Rpd Vien (Austria) 2 Din Mnsk (Belar.) 1 Viktoria Plzen (Cze.) 3 Villarreal (Spn.) 3 Group F Groningen (Neth.) 0 Braga (Portugal) 0 Liberec (Czech Rep.) 2 Marseille (Fra.) 4 Group G Dnipr Dnprptrvsk (Ukr.) 3 Rsnbrg (Nor.) 0 Saint-Etienne (Fra.) 1 Lazio (Italy) 1 Group H Sporting Clube (Port.) 3 Besikts (Turky) 1 Skndrb Krc (Alb.) 0 Lkmtv Mscw (Rus.) 3 Group I Fiorentina (Italy) 1 Belenenses (Port.) 0 Lech Poznan (Pol.) 0 Basel (Switz.) 1 Group J Anderlecht (Belg.) 2 Qarabag (Azer.) 1 Tottenham (Eng.) 4 Monaco (Monaco) 1 Group K APOEL Nicsi (Cyp.) 1 Sprt Prgu (Cze.) 3 Asteras Tripoli (Gre.) 0 Schlk 04 (Ger.) 4 Group L Athletic Bilbao (Spn.) 2 Alkmaar (Neth.) 2 Partizan (Serb.) 1 Augsburg (Germany) 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE

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Golden State San Antonio Oklahoma City L.A. Clippers Memphis Dallas Utah Houston Phoenix Minnesota Portland Denver Sacramento New Orleans L.A. Lakers

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7KXUVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Brooklyn 100 Philadelphia 91 Chicago 83 L.A. Clippers 80 Oklahoma City 107 Atlanta 94 New York at Sacramento :HGQHVGD\ÂˇV UHVXOWV Boston 105 Chicago 100 Houston 109 Washington 103 Charlotte 99 Miami 81 Toronto 97 San Antonio 94 Memphis 93 Detroit 92 Minnesota 123 L.A. Lakers 122 (OT) L.A. Clippers 109 Milwaukee 95 Utah 106 New York 85 Phoenix 107 Orlando 104 Atlanta 98 Dallas 95 )ULGD\ÂˇV JDPHV Miami at Indiana, 7 p.m. Detroit at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Orlando, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Washington at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Charlotte at Memphis, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 9 p.m. Portland at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m.

MOVES BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE ORIOLES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Claimed LHP Edgar Olmos off waivers from the Chicago Cubs. Designated OF Junior Lake for assignment. LOS ANGELES ANGELS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Agreed to terms with OF Craig Gentry on a 1-year contract. TEXAS RANGERS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Agreed to terms with OF James Jones on a minor league contract. Acquired RHP Myles Jaye from the Chicago White Sox for LHP Will Lamb.

NATIONAL LEAGUE COLORADO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Traded RHP Luis Perdomo to San Diego for a player to be named or cash considerations. SAN DIEGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Acquired OF Jabari Blash from Oakland to complete an earlier trade. ST. LOUIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Agreed to terms with RHP Jonathan Broxton on a 2-year contract. WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Acquired RHPs Trevor Gott and Michael Brady from Los Angeles Angels for INF Yunel Escobar and cash.

FOOTBALL CFL WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Announced retirement of OL Tommy *ULIĂ&#x20AC;WKV 6LJQHG /% .\OH .QR[

HOCKEY NHL NEW JERSEY DEVILS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Placed F Travis Zajac on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 3. Recalled F Joseph Blandisi from Albany (AHL).

NFL

Freeney, Cardinals hold on to beat Minnesota 23-20 BOB BAUM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GLENDALE, Ariz. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dwight Freeney joined the Cardinals a month into the season to help boost Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s troubled pass rush off the edge. He helped it a whole lot on Thursday night with a game-clinching play. Freeney stripped the ball from Teddy Bridgewater with five seconds remaining to deprive the Vikings a chance at the tying field goal, and

the Cardinals clinched a playoff berth with a 23-20 victory over Minnesota. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I came back, because moments like this, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t duplicate those in life,â&#x20AC;? Freeney said. Bridgewater moved the Vikings to the Arizona 31-yard line, well within the range of Blair Walsh. But Freeney hit the quarterbackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arm as Bridgewater tried to pass. The ball came loose and Calais Campbell recovered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be able to have this type of

dream situation, fourth quarter, game on the line, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like ninth inning, two outs,â&#x20AC;? Freeney said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of those situations for a defensive lineman, and I was able to make a play.â&#x20AC;? Chandler Catanzaroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 47-yard field goal with 1:23 to go was the winning score as Arizona (11-2) won its seventh in a row. Bridgewater passed for 335 yards and a touchdown for the Vikings (8-5), who were playing without four defensive starters but made

it close after being embarrassed at home by Seattle 38-7 on Sunday. Carson Palmer threw for 310 yards and two touchdowns for the Cardinals, who will win the NFC West if Seattle is beaten Sunday at Baltimore. Minnesotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adrian Peterson wanted more carries than the eight he got (for nine yards) against the Seahawks. He got them, carrying 23 times for 69 yards, but had only 31 yards on 19 attempts after his

nine-yard touchdown run on the Vikingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first possession of the night. Palmer connected on scoring plays of 65 yards to John Brown and 42 to Michael Floyd. His 30th and 31st touchdowns broke the franchise record of 30 set by Kurt Warner in Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2008 Super Bowl season. Floyd caught five passes for 102 yards. David Johnson, the rookie who stepped in when the Cardinalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; top two backs were hurt, rushed for 92 yards in 19 attempts.

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CHESTER, Pa. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Former U.S. national team star Earnie Stewart has fulfilled his dream of returning to the United States. Stewart was officially introduced Thursday as the Philadelphia Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sporting director, taking over player personnel operations for the MLS club after spending 10 years as a soccer executive in Holland. Stewart, who made over 100 appearances for the U.S. national team, most recently worked as the director of football affairs at Dutch top-flight club AZ Alkmaar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There have been questions asked about what my next step would be after AZ Alkmaar because things went pretty well over there,â&#x20AC;? Stewart said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always answered that I have one ambition and that is to come back to the United States and actually mean something to U.S. Soccer in general and to build something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lasting.â&#x20AC;?

ristiano Ronaldo is really serious about keeping his options open for the future. Not even Barcelona or Manchester Unitedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rivals in England are off limits. Ronaldo told The Associated Press on Thursday that he knows it would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;very complicatedâ&#x20AC;? to play for these clubs, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that the Real Madrid star doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rule out either. He said nothing is certain in soccer, so he will not close doors to any leagues or teams, not even Madridâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest rival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little more difficult, but . . .â&#x20AC;? he said, with a long pause, not dismissing the possibility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are things that you kind of already have an idea, that to play one day for Barcelona would be almost impossible, or to play for another English club other than Manchester, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very complicated,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not 100 per cent guaranteed. As I said before, there are no certainties in football.â&#x20AC;? In his interview with the AP, the Portugal forward made it clear that when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to decide about his future, he will consider all options on the table. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything is open, all leagues,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I may end my career here with Real Madrid. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just being honest. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen tomorrow. If I was 75 per cent certain, I would say so, it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a problem. But I have no idea.â&#x20AC;? Speaking before the launch of his new product with nutrition partner Herbalife, Ronaldo said he may even decide to be somewhere else other than Europe, and that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not impossible for him to be playing in the United Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Major League Soccer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see myself playing in the American league, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right now,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In two or three years I may think differently.â&#x20AC;? He said that in the future he may be at a stage of his life in which he might prefer playing in the U.S., instead of the more traditional European leagues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are always difficult questions to answer because we never know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen tomorrow,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And as a football professional, this is always an unknown, so I prefer to stay in the present. The present is good and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m enjoying being at Real Madrid. But in a few years I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to be thinking.â&#x20AC;? Ronaldo has a contract with Real Madrid until 2018, but there has been widespread speculation about him leaving the Spanish club - despite having become its all-time leading scorer. Those rumours gained

Real Madridâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring his sideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth goal during a Champions League Group A match against Malmo at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

ground after his brief sideline meeting with Paris Saint-Germain coach Laurent Blanc in a recent match at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, but Ronaldo has been downplaying any immediate move out of Madrid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closer to ending my contract Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to have to make decisions, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staying at Real Madrid or going to another club or ending my career in a few years,â&#x20AC;? the 30-year-old Ronaldo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normal. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not worried, because I know that everything has a beginning and everything has an end. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ready for that. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ready to stay at Real Madrid, to leave, to end my career when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of my job.â&#x20AC;? The Portugal star, voted the best player in the world three times, played six seasons with Manchester United before joining Madrid in 2009. Here are other topics addressed by Ronaldo: PORTUGAL AT EURO 2016 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Portugal has never been the favourite. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normal, it never won a major title with its senior team, so obviously itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a favourite. But in football

there are always surprises and anything can happen. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hopeful that this time Portugal can come up with a brilliant performance. We have a good team, with 20 good new players and a very good coach (Fernando Santos). â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have all the ingredients to win an important competition. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always the luck factor, especially in these short competitions. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always important when it comes to the groups, the teams that you have to play against. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hopeful and I think that Portugal has a good chance. We have a good team and good players who are ready and motivated.â&#x20AC;? BALLON Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;OR â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have control over who wins it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like the Golden Boot, which is based on statistics. This one is about votes, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harder. Sometimes people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at what you did in the past, just what you are doing now, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very complicated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it would be a surprise if I won it, I personally had an excellent season. In terms of numbers, this was my

best season. But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in terms of titles, for sure. Whoever wins it will be a deserving winner.â&#x20AC;? MADRID WOES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complicated when the team is going through a moment of instability. We want to make the fans happy every day, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult, obviously. But after the storm comes the calm and I hope thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we will find now. We have won five straight matches after the loss to Barcelona. We had the setback against Cadiz (in the Copa del Rey), but we are going through a good moment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personally too, I am feeling good, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m more confident, and the goals and the good performances are happening. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m at ease and hopeful of always being able to do more.â&#x20AC;? RETIREMENT â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not thinking about that just yet. I feel Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m strong, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fast. Even faster than some of the 21-year-old and 22-year-old players that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing against. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I hope that it stays this way.â&#x20AC;?

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WHALE OF A TALE Chris Hemsworth and Sam Keeley in a scene from ‘In the Heart of the Sea.’ The movie is playing in Nanaimo at the Galaxy Cinemas. Cinemas [WARNER BROS. PICTURES VIA AP]

Film’s ambitions big as the sea In the Heart of the Sea STARRING: Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Holland, Chris Hemsworth, Charlotte Riley DIRECTOR: Ron Howard PLAYING AT: Galaxy Cinemas RUNNING TIME: 121 minutes

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on Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea is a curious beast. The ambitions are as big as a whale; the results are an earnest wreck. It could possibly work if you think of the movie as a metaphor for the story it’s trying to tell, but that’s a little too meta for something that should be fairly straightforward. It’s ostensibly about the real expedition that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick that Nathaniel Philbrick wrote about in his nonfiction book. Despite a promising start, something is lost in the spectacle and the framing device, which ultimately undermines its own story. Howard uses Melville as a character (played by Ben Whishaw) and his curiosity about the mysterious circumstances of how the whaleship Essex sank as the audience’s entry into the story. He’s looking for big answers about the unknown. So, he finds Tom Nickerson (Brendan

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Gleeson), the ship’s only remaining survivor, who’s drinking his life away. At his wife’s pleading, and Melville’s promise of generous payment for one night’s conversation, Tom starts to spill about the events of 30 years ago, when he was 14 (played by Tom Holland). It’s best not to do the math. This is the story of two men, he says: A Captain, George Pollard (Ben-

jamin Walker), and his first mate, Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth). Pollard is the son of the expedition’s proprietor. He’s wealthy, arrogant, entitled and inexperienced. Chase is the real seaman — a working-class Adonis with a classist chip on his broad shoulders. He’s also arrogant, but has the skills to back it up. Chase flexes his hero muscles

early, bounding up a ladder to cut free a tangled sail, and the Captain responds with ill-advised bravado in leading the men full-speed into a squall. But the “who leads” question is abandoned quickly and without much resolution once the whaling starts. Perhaps the most striking scenes are those that deal with the process

of catching a whale, from spearing to the gory disemboweling. But whales are scarce on the ship’s normal route and they must sail on to get enough oil for their bosses. It’s thousands of miles off the coast of South America where they encounter the big one, which locks on the Essex with a Terminator’s resolve. Hemsworth is best when he’s by himself — either barking orders or doing something physical. Of all the actors he shares scenes with, it’s Cillian Murphy as his second mate who brings out something resembling emotion. But we never really care about the lead, so there’s little hope that we’ll be interested in the rest of the men once it becomes solely about survival. Indeed, most of the second half is spent drifting with them on lifeboats. In these interminable minutes, we don’t get anything resembling an understanding of how they survived (or didn’t) either mentally or physically. Future Tom Nickerson isn’t much help either, and Melville is already too focused on his own literary ambitions to actually ask the big questions he told us he was seeking. In the Heart of the Sea tries to be about so many things — ambition, capitalism, greed and survival. In the end, it feels most interested in how Herman Melville got his classic. The pieces are there, but apparently it’s up to Moby-Dick to assemble them, not Ron Howard.

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Horgan: New technologies trump big dams B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official leader of the Opposition tours the province touting his plan for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;21st-centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; power solutions â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems to me more efficient and more job intensive to create opportunities in every corner of the province with new technologies.â&#x20AC;?

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he leader of B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Democrats touted the energy-efficient features of Pentictonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence on a tour promoting his PowerBC plan, which he said will create jobs in every community in the province. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve started an initiative called PowerBC which is, in my view, an alternative to the BC Liberal plan of building large dams, like Site C, and instead I believe we should be focusing on 21st-century solutions,â&#x20AC;? John Horgan said in the halls of the Okanagan College Penticton campus during his tour of the Centre of Excellence. Horgan said the tour was a chance to come to the Interior and Okanagan to talk about what he believes is the new way to approach energy needs in the future. He pointed to the solar panels on the roof of the centre as an example of what that future would hold. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Pattison Centre here in Penticton is a living, breathing example of what new technologies can achieve as far as energy conservation, energy efficiency and leading the way through student involvement in creating the new energy future that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to need in a climate change environment,â&#x20AC;? Horgan said. The $27.6 million centre which opened its doors in 2011 has received awards in the past including the International Architecture Awardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Green Good Design award from the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in 2012. The photovoltaic solar array on the roof of the centre generates enough power for all the facilities, Horgan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At some points in the long days when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more sun, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re selling power back to the Penticton utility,â&#x20AC;? Horgan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not only keeping the power

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here at no cost to themselves, but in fact they are making money through using innovative, new dynamic technologies.â&#x20AC;? Those are the kind of initiatives Horgan hopes to see more of with his PowerBC plan. The plan looks to protect BC Hydro customers from runaway bills, produce good-paying jobs in B.C., protect farmland and the environment and arguably the most ambitious is to ensure B.C. has access to clean and affordable electricity for generations to come. A big part of that is retrofitting existing public buildings to be more energy efficient creating jobs in the process.

Horgan cited a Statistics Canada report noting that 16 jobs are created for every million dollars invested in retrofitting, compared to the four jobs created by every million dollars invested in new construction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rather than focus on, as the Liberals are, on building a dam on the Peace River, thousands of kilometres away from the load centre, it seems to me more efficient and more job intensive to create opportunities in every corner of the province with new technologies, new building designs that reduce costs and create efficiencies that will reduce our demand for energy over the long term,â&#x20AC;? Horgan said.

While he acknowledged the scarcity of rare earth metals used to create photovoltaic solar panels, Horgan said the technology is always growing and changing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fairly confident that by 2020, 2025, 2030, new ideas are going to be coming to address the rare earth metal issues that are currently bedevilling solar technologies.â&#x20AC;? Asked if his PowerBC program could be a bridge between environmentally friendly policy and job creation, Horgan said the amount of jobs created are â&#x20AC;&#x153;limited only by the amount that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re prepared to spend and the amount youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re prepared to spend is only limited by the opportunities available to you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are 520 days away from the next election so when we get into that last number of weeks Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be laying out in more detail what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m prepared to spend and where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m prepared to spend it,â&#x20AC;? Horgan said. Public facilities including schools, hospitals and correctional facilities would benefit from improving existing envelopes which Horgan said are currently leaking energy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just improving envelops of our existing public buildings will create jobs in every corner of the province, not just in one location, which is the premierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If she can find a photo opportunity with hard hats, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in, and I think we need to be more creative than that,â&#x20AC;? Horgan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get more jobs, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll save more by looking at conservation first.â&#x20AC;?

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Depression, terminal illness not same in right-to-die issue Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar Annie’s Mailbox Dear Annie: Every so often, you print a letter from someone who is concerned that a loved one has expressed a desire to commit suicide. Depending on the circumstances, what’s so terrible about that? When you have lived a full life and are in failing health, ending your life

certainly seems to be a reasonable consideration for many. You know you are not going to get better, so why not end your life in the most humane way you can design for yourself? Dying is the last thing we do, so we may as well make it easy on ourselves. I’m 81 years old, have been married for 50 years, have two dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren, am in fair health and live comfortably. Should those circumstances change for the worse, I know how to end my life successfully. — But Not Just Yet Dear Not Just Yet: There are already laws in place in three states that permit the terminally ill to hast-

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Space race

Thomas Jane, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Steven Strait star in “The Expanse”

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The universe is a big, scary vacuum, and sci-fi TV shows likes to explore these outer reaches. “The Expanse,” however, is bucking this trend and bringing things a little closer to home. Thomas Jane (“The Mist,” 2007), Steven Strait (“Magic City”) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (“House of Sand and Fog,” 2003) star in this sci-fi series that explores our own solar system. “The Expanse” premieres Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14 and 15, on Space. Portable Ultrasound Machine. The Nanaimo & District Hospital ine Foundation needs your help to purchase a Portable Ultrasound Machine for the Renal Department at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. A Portable Ultrasound is a mobile diagnostic tool used to visualize many internal organs to capture their size, structure and pathological Hospital Foundation conditions with real time imaging. $35,000 1.5714”

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umans have always had a penchant for exploring â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from the depths of the ocean to the vastness of the universe, we want to know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out there. Space exploration has come a long way as technologies have advanced and evolved, which makes it easy to dream of what waits for us beyond our solar system. TV likes to go out into the cosmos, too: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Trek,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battlestar Galactica,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Firefly,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Andromeda,â&#x20AC;? the list goes on and on. These shows are classic examples of intergalactic, outer space human exploration shows, but what about staying closer to home? There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t many sci-fi shows that revolve around the vacuum of space nearest our sun. But Spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest offering does stay within our solar system for a change; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Expanse,â&#x20AC;? a space opera set 200 years in the future on Earth, Mars and the asteroid belt that separates the two planets, is the cablerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest original show. The 10-episode series kicks off with a special two-night event Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14 and 15, on Space, before sliding into its regular Tuesday time-slot. The show is based on the international bestselling series of novels of the same name from James S. A. Corey (the pen name used by authors Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), and stars threetime Golden Globe nominee Thomas Jane (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Mist,â&#x20AC;? 2007) as Det. Josephus Miller, and Steven Strait (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Magic Cityâ&#x20AC;?) as rogue ice freighter captain James Holden. The pair are on the hunt for a missing woman, and ultimately end up hot on the trail of the biggest conspiracy in human history. If the source material is any indication, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Expanseâ&#x20AC;? promises to be an intriguing tale that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to zipzoom to the outer reaches of the galaxy to

make for good TV. Co-creator Mark Fergus commented on this at the Television Critics Association press tour in January: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always felt that the great struggle of a lot of sci-fi we grew up on takes us into a story world where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already jumped over the interesting part, which is the first fumbling steps of us pushing off this planet, getting out into the solar system, sorting ourselves out as a race. All the struggle and the pain and the glory of that, ... [e]verything is kind of done. And to us, we really got turned on by the books because they told of this world where â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Here is the scaffolding. Here is how it got built. Here is who built it. Here is how humanity started looking at itself differently and getting rid of old forms of racism and creating new forms of racism.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;weâ&#x20AC;? Fergus is talking about is his partner in crime, Hawk Ostby. The screenwriting duo penned the Oscar-nominated film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Children of Menâ&#x20AC;? (2006), the mega-hit superhero film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iron Manâ&#x20AC;? (2008) and the Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde-starring film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cowboys & Aliensâ&#x20AC;? (2011), and now they make their first foray into TV writing with â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Expanse.â&#x20AC;? The co-creators have a lot of material to draw from as the series progresses and, if reaction from San Diego ComicCon in July and New York Comic Con in October is any indication, the series looks primed for a long run after its initial 10 episodes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welp, we have a new favourite show,â&#x20AC;? io9.comâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lauren Davis wrote following the July screening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At San Diego Comic-Con, we got to watch the entire pilot ... and we were blown away.â&#x20AC;? Max Nicholson from IGN said that the pilot episode â&#x20AC;&#x153;looked gorgeous. The exterior space shots and zero gravity effects in particular were top notch, especially for television,â&#x20AC;? and after the viewing in New York, Blastrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cher Martinetti said that Syfy â&#x20AC;&#x153;has a winner on their hands,â&#x20AC;? judging by fan response.

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Sports this week Basketball Friday, Dec 11 4:30 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NBA Basketball Milwaukee Bucks at Toronto Raptors Site: Air Canada Centre Toronto, Ont. Live (2h30)

Saturday, Dec 12 9:00 a.m. CBS (49) (49) NCAA Basketball Ohio State vs. Connecticut Site: Gampel Pavilion Storrs, Conn. Live (2h30) 2:00 p.m. KCPQ (15) (15) Fox College Hoops Tip-Off Live (30m) 2:30 p.m. KCPQ (15) (15) NCAA Basketball Cincinnati vs. Xavier Live (2h) 7:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NCAA Basketball UCLA at Gonzaga Site: McCarthey Athletic Center Spokane, Wash. Live (2h)

Wednesday, Dec 16 5:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NBA Basketball Memphis Grizzlies at Chicago Bulls Site: United Center Chicago, Ill. Live (2h30) 7:30 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NBA Basketball Phoenix Suns at Golden State Warriors Site: The Oracle Oakland, Calif. Live (2h30)

Boxing Saturday, Dec 12 5:30 p.m. NBC (46) (46) Boxing Premier Champions Card TBA Site: AT&T Center San Antonio, Texas Live (2h30)

Curling Friday, Dec 11 4:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) Curling Canadian Open Grand Slam Round Robin Site: Gallagher Center Yorkton, Sask. Live (2h30)

Saturday, Dec 12 9:00 a.m. RSP (45) (45) Curling Canadian Open Grand Slam Women’s Quarter-final Site: Gallagher Center Yorkton, Sask. Live (2h30) 12:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) Curling Canadian Open Grand Slam Men’s Quarter-final Site: Gallagher Center Yorkton, Sask. Live (2h30) 4:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) Curling Canadian Open Grand slam Men’s and Women’s Semifinal Site: Gallagher Center Yorkton, Sask. Live (2h30)

Sunday, Dec 13 9:00 a.m. RSP (45) (45) Curling Canadian Open Grand Slam Women’s Final Site: Gallagher Center Yorkton, Sask. Live (2h30) 12:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) Curling Canadian Open Grand Slam Men’s Final Site: Gallagher Center Yorkton, Sask. Live (2h30)

Extreme Sports Saturday, Dec 12 11:30 a.m. NBC (46) (46) Dew Tour Snowboard Pipe Site: Breckenridge Ski Resort Breckenridge, Colo. Live (1h30)

Sunday, Dec 13 10:00 a.m. NBC (46) (46) Dew Tour Ski Slopestyle Site: Breckenridge Ski Resort Breckenridge, Colo. Live (2h)

Football Saturday, Dec 12 11:30 a.m. CBS (49) (49) College Football Today Live (30m) 12:00 p.m. CBS (49) (49) NCAA Football Army vs. Navy Site: Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, Pa. Live (3h30)

Sunday, Dec 13 7:00 a.m. TSN (8) (8) NFL Insiders Live (1h) 9:00 a.m. KCPQ (15) (15) Fox NFL Sunday Live (1h) CBS (49) (49) The NFL Today Live (1h2) 10:00 a.m. TSN (8) (8) CTV (9) (9) NFL Football Teams TBA Live (3h) KCPQ (15) (15) NFL Football Seattle Seahawks at Baltimore Ravens Site: M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, Md. Live (3h) CBS (49) (49) NFL Football New England Patriots at Houston Texans Site: NRG Stadium Houston, Texas Live (4h3) 1:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NFL Football Teams TBA Live (3h) CTV (9) (9) KCPQ (15) (15) NFL Football Dallas Cowboys at Green Bay Packers Site: Lambeau Field Green Bay, Wis. Live (3h30) 4:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NFL Football Night in America Live (1h15) NBC (46) (46) Football Night in America Live (1h20) 4:30 p.m. KCPQ (15) (15) The OT Live (30m) 5:15 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NFL Football New England Patriots at Houston Texans Site: NRG Stadium Houston, Texas Live (3h15) 5:20 p.m. NBC (46) (46) NFL Football New England Patriots at Houston Texans Site: NRG Stadium Houston, Texas Live (3h15)

Monday, Dec 14 3:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NFL Monday Night Countdown Live (2h15) 5:15 p.m. TSN (8) (8) NFL Football New York Giants at Miami Dolphins Site: Sun Life Stadium Miami Gardens, Fla. Live (3h15)

Golf Friday, Dec 11 8:00 p.m. GOLF (144) (144) AsianTour Golf Thailand Championship Round 3 Site: Amata Spring CC Bangkok, Thailand Live (4h) 12:30 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) LET Golf Dubai Ladies Masters Final Round Site: Emirates Golf Club Dubai, UAE Live (4h)

Saturday, Dec 12 7:00 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) Golf Central Pre-game Live (1h)

8:00 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) Golf Father/ Son Challenge Day 1 Site: The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando, Fla. Live (2h) 10:00 a.m. KCPQ (15) (15) PGA Golf Franklin Templeton Shootout Final Round Site: Tiburon Golf Club Naples, Fla. Live (4h) 1:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) PGA Golf Father/ Son Challenge Site: The RitzCarlton Golf Club Orlando, Fla. Live (2h) 8:00 p.m. GOLF (144) (144) AsianTour Golf Thailand Championship Final Round Site: Amata Spring CC Bangkok, Thailand Live (4h)

Sunday, Dec 13 10:30 a.m. GOLF (144) (144) Golf Central Pre-game Live (30m)

Hockey Friday, Dec 11 7:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) WHL Hockey Victoria Royals at Vancouver Giants Live (2h30)

Saturday, Dec 12 2:00 p.m. SN360 (109) (109) Hockeycentral Live (1h) 3:30 p.m. CBC (3) (3) Hockey Central Saturday Live (30m) CITY (13) (13) Hockey Central Live (30m) RSP (45) (45) Hockeycentral Live (30m) 4:00 p.m. CBC (3) (3) CITY (13) (13) NHL Hockey Ottawa Senators at Montréal Canadiens Site: Bell Centre Montreal, Que. Live (3h) M (10) (10) Hockey Teams TBA Live (3h) 7:00 p.m. CBC (3) (3) NHL Hockey New York Rangers at Calgary Flames Site: Scotiabank Saddledome Calgary, Alta. Live (3h) M (10) (10) Hockey Live (3h) 10:00 p.m. CBC (3) (3) Hockey Central Post-game Show Live (30m)

Sunday, Dec 13 3:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) Rogers Hometown Hockey Pre-game Live (30m) 4:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) NHL Hockey Vancouver Canucks at Chicago Blackhawks Site: United Center Chicago, Ill. Live (3h)

Monday, Dec 14 9:00 a.m. RSP (45) (45) Hockeycentral Live (1h) 4:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) NHL Hockey Washington Capitals at Pittsburgh Penguins Site: Consol Energy Center Pittsburgh, Pa. Live (2h30)

Tuesday, Dec 15 9:00 a.m. RSP (45) (45) Hockeycentral Live (1h) 4:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) Hockey Central Live (30m) 5:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) NHL Hockey Vancouver Canucks at Minnesota Wild Site: Xcel Energy Center St. Paul, Minn. (subject to blackout) Live (2h30)

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Wednesday, Dec 16 9:00 a.m. RSP (45) (45) Hockeycentral Live (1h) 3:30 p.m. RSP (45) (45) Hockeycentral Live (30m) 4:00 p.m. RSP (45) (45) NHL Hockey Ottawa Senators at Washington Capitals Site: Verizon Center Washington, D.C. Live (2h30)

Thursday, Dec 17 9:00 a.m. RSP (45) (45) Hockeycentral Live (1h) 3:30 p.m. SN360 (109) (109) Hockey Central Live (30m)

Martial Arts Friday, Dec 11 7:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Live (3h)

Saturday, Dec 12 5:00 p.m. TSN (8) (8) UFC 194 Preliminaries Live (2h)

Soccer Friday, Dec 11 4:00 a.m. TSN (8) (8) Barclays Premier League Live Live (45m) 4:45 a.m. TSN (8) (8) EPL Soccer Everton at Norwich City Site: Carrow Road Norwich, England Live (2h15)

Saturday, Dec 12 6:30 a.m. RSP (45) (45) EPL Soccer Swansea City at Manchester City Site: Etihad Stadium Manchester, England Live (2h30) 6:55 a.m. TV5 (113) (113) FFF Soccer Championnat de France Équipes à communiquer En direct (2h5) 7:00 a.m. TSN (8) (8) EPL Soccer Stoke City at West Ham United Site: Boleyn Ground London, England Live (2h) 9:00 a.m. TSN (8) (8) Barclays Premier League Live Live (30m) 9:30 a.m. TSN (8) (8) NBC (46) (46) EPL Soccer Manchester United at AFC Bournemouth Site: Dean Court Bournemouth, United Kingdom Live (2h)

Winter Sports Saturday, Dec 12 11:00 a.m. CBC (3) (3) Bobsleigh and Skeleton IBSF World Cup Konigssee, Germany Live (1h) 12:00 p.m. CBC (3) (3) Alpine Skiing Men’s Val D’Isere, France Live (1h)

Wrestling Monday, Dec 14 5:00 p.m. SN360 (109) (109) WWE Monday Night Raw Live (3h) Nanaimo Daily News, BC: Sports Dec 11, 2015 to Dec 17, 2015

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Best Bet tonight

Dr. Ken KOMO (47) (47)

8:30 p.m.

Ken (Ken Jeong) could be in big trouble when he realizes he forgot to book days off of work so he and his wife Allison (Suzy Nakamura) can go to Hawaii for the holidays in a new episode of “Dr. Ken,” airing Friday, Dec. 11, on ABC. Not wanting to fess up, he tries lying, begging and bribing to get the time off.

Suzy Nakamura stars in “Dr. Ken”

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