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Health officials are still in the dark as to how long it will take to clear up a backlog of patients awaiting surgery after recent flooding in one hospital resulted in more than 100 cancellations.

Victoria Sullivan, operations executive director with the Nova Scotia Health Authority, said Sunday 91 surgeries were postponed, after parts of the Victoria General building of the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Halifax flooded.

Sullivan also said more sur-

geries are expected to be delayed. When asked how long it would take for all surgeries to be complete, Sullivan said, “That’s a difficult question to answer. The amount of time will vary.”

She said physicians must assess the urgency of each surgery on a patient-by-patient basis, as well as evaluate the building’s capacity in order to begin performing day surgeries on Monday.

She added that some of the surgeries have been rescheduled at the Halifax Infirmary while officials are working to return other patients from out of town back to their district hospitals.

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‘It’s bigger than basketball’ community outreach

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For Eric Crookshank, being able to look a child in the eye and provide a chance to play basketball is priceless.

Crookshank, a former Halifax Rainmen player, author, and founder of the Bench Bullying movement, is launching a basketball club in Spryfield that welcomes all children — but especially those who don’t usually get to play.

“Money shouldn’t stop us from helping children. We should do whatever it takes,” Crookshank said.

While some families in the Herring Cove area might not have the funds to sign up for a Metro Basketball Association team, Crookshank said he’s found programs that can cover the cost for low-income families to join the Bench Bullying teams based at Rockingstone Heights School.

There will be an Under-10 and an Under-12 team for boys this season, Crookshank said, with the goal of adding more ages and girls’ teams next year.

“It’s bigger than basketball.

This is more of helping children,” Crookshank said.

“This (is) a way to show kids

Professional basketball player Eric Crookshank visited Rockingstone Heights School on Friday afternoon. The former Rainmen forward has travelled throughout Atlantic Canada to speak to dozens of schools as part of his anti-bullying campaign.

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family and discipline, and put them in environments where … they can have fun with nobody being bullied.”

Crookshank has travelled around Atlantic Canada speaking to dozens of schools about anti-bullying, but said ones

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like Rockingstone really “hit home.”

After growing up in California as an “at-risk” kid, Crookshank said, he identifies with the children he speaks to at Rockingstone and has watched over the past few years as they

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Many students in Spryfield and other areas of HRM are just “waiting for a breakthrough,” Crookshank said, which is why he’d like to bring Bench Bullying teams to all parts of the region.

“When I told them, ‘I’m starting a club and I want you kids to sign up’ … it was priceless,” Crookshank said of his Rockingstone visit.

“One kid said ‘Eric, I want to play but I have no money.’

For me to look him in his eye and say, ‘Buddy, it doesn’t matter, just come anyway,’ it made him super excited. That really touched me.”

Crookshank, who lives in Halifax and is likely headed to the Harlem Globetrotters training camp in November, said the teams will be run and coached by community members since it’s important to have parents and residents invested.

Those who play will also have academic progress reports submitted to the team, since Crookshank said that’s how it works in university and kids should know how important grades are.

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Judge Judy makes a stop in Halifax The verdict is in — Judge Judy dines in Halifax.

Judith Sheindlin, the host of the popular courtroom series Judge Judy, stopped in to The Bicycle Thief restaurant on Friday. Manager Steve Adams even snapped a picture with her.

According to the waterfront restaurant’s Facebook page, the famous judge came to have a bite of lunch.

“We’ve got the best guests,” the photo caption read. “Case dismissed!”

Sheindlin served as a judge in New York’s Family Court until 1996. Judge Judy premiered that same year and has been con-

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tinuing for 20 seasons. In the Los Angeles-based reality show, Sheindlin adjudicates real small claims matters. Metro

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Candidates to battle over student issues Tuition fees, mental health and youth underemployment are among issues to be discussed during an all-candidates’ federal debate on student issues on Monday.

Hosted by the Dalhousie Student Union and the provincial chapter of the Canadian Federation of Students, the event

is scheduled to take place at Dal’s Student Union Building on Monday from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

All Halifax riding candidates from the NDP, Conservatives, Green and Liberal parties were invited to attend, however, an event page does not name which MP hopefuls will participate. Metro

IN BRIEF Police investigate robbery Halifax Regional Police are investigating a robbery in the south end.

A woman says she entered a building on South Park Street at 3:36 a.m. Saturday when a man grabbed her from behind, threw her down and stole money.

The suspect is described as a Middle Eastern man in his mid-20s with very short black hair, about five-foot-six iand 140 pounds. Metro

Missing woman located The RCMP say they have located a missing woman from Lower Sackville.

Police say Vanessa Raychel Adams hadn’t been heard from since 5:30 p.m.

Friday after texting a friend that her vehicle broke down and she was near Windsor.

In a release Sunday morning, the RCMP say Adams was located safe and sound inside a residence in Windsor. Metro

Stuart Glen scrapes his way through the dirt at Saturday’s public archeological dig. Rebecca Dingwell/For Metro

Archeology lovers get down in the dirt Shubie Park

Volunteers help pros dig up 1826 home, personal items Philip Croucher

Metro | Halifax Along the east side of the canal in Dartmouth’s Shubie Park, archeologists and volunteers spent the weekend getting their hands dirty.

For the second year in a row, a public dig took place at the park.

Diggers were excavating what is believed to be a worker’s cottage or bunkhouse from between 1826 and 1831. “(The public dig) not only increases interest, but also increases our sense of having a stake in the past,” said archeologist Laura de Boer.

“We’re really hoping to increase awareness of the Shubenacadie Canal, which was a massive industrial project that very few people know about.”

On Saturday, diggers discovered things such as animal bone, pearlware ceramic and a smoking pipe stem.

“The site is interesting, but not so sensitive that an amateur

digger is going to make mistakes or anything,” said de Boer. “It’s fairly straight forward.”

Eri Fujita was one of those amateur diggers. “I thought it was going to be a little bit boring,” the 10-year-old admitted.

“But we found some cool stuff.”

Eri was happy to show off her bag of findings and had few complaints about the challenges of digging.

“What I didn’t like was the bugs,” she said.

Stuart Glen, a member of the Nova Scotia Archeology Society, was also volunteering his time on Saturday.

“I’ve always had an interest in archeology,” said Glen. “(I like)

the digging — the search for an artifact.”

After a couple of hours in the dirt, he hadn’t found very much.

“I have a brick,” Glen said with a smile. “But you never know.

The next scrape I do might find something more exciting.”

The public dig wrapped up on Sunday.

Volunteers Archeologist Laura De Boer said she hopes public digs will continue taking place, but it depends on volunteers.

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Big Brother hopefuls try their luck Dartmouth

Dozens flood Mic Mac Hall to audition for fourth season Rebecca Dingwell

For Metro | Halifax

Hopscotch Halifax Live Street Art amazes Festival-Goers Montreal artist Axe Lalime works on a huge wall mural as part of Hopscotch Halifax on Friday night in Dartmouth Cove. The annual festival, which wrapped up Saturday, brought artists, dancers and performers into town for three days. Jeff Harper/Metro Westville

Chase the Ace players get one last chance A journey that began as a reconnaissance mission to learn more about community fundraising has turned into a life-changing experience for a Westville pizza shop employee.

Three weeks ago, Carol Hartling travelled to Inverness to take part in the phenomenon that is Chase the Ace. On Saturday she returned to the mainland with a cheque for $235,132 after her ticket was selected from a box holding more

than 700,000 others.

“We wanted to do a Chase the Ace for the town of Westville to raise money possibly for the fire department,” said Hartling, who is splitting her winnings with another person.

“Initially, I wanted to go home and go right to the Harley shop and buy a new motorcycle, but that’s not happening with this. I think I might have to buy a little house or something because I just rent.”

I think I might have to buy a little house or something.

Carol Hartling

Hartling did not pick the Ace of Spades, and thus won the growing jackpot. She would later learn that her hand hov-

ered over the jackpot-winning card before settling on a card that turned out to be the nine of hearts.

That means the jackpot will carry over to next week’s grand finale when someone is guaranteed to win a pot that is expected to be worth more than $1.5 million given that next Saturday’s ticket sales are similar to the most recent numbers and there is no reason to suggest they will be less. Cape Breton Post

Devin Marks drove all the way from Sydney in Cape Breton to audition for Big Brother Canada on Saturday.

Dozens stood in very long lines with other hopefuls at Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth to hopefully stand out from the pack.

“I like the concept of the show and pretty much everything about it,” Marks said.

“So, why not be on it?”

Big Brother Canada began after the success of the American version of the show. It follows a group of contestants — aptly referred to as houseguests — as they live together in a camera-rigged house. During their time on the show, contestants are not allowed to contact anyone outside the house.

Houseguests compete for a grand prize of $100,000, all the while participating in competitions and doing their best not to get “evicted” from the

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Marks is 19 — the minimum age requirement for competing on the show. He thinks being a long-time Big Brother fan will give him an advantage if he makes the cut for Season 4.

“I’ve watched all the different types of competitions ... all the different types of gameplay,” Marks said. “I’ve got pretty good confidence going in.”

Ashley Dickinson, Big Brother Canada’s casting producer, said she hopes the East Coast will be well represented in the upcoming season.

“I think there’s something a little gritty, something strong about people from the East Coast,” she said.

Dickinson pointed out that Jillian MacLaughlin — a Nova Scotian — won Big Brother Canada’s first season.

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Saturday night tilt was the lone pre-season game in Halifax Kristen Lipscombe Metro | Halifax

Hardcore New York Islanders fans may have gone home disappointed with Saturday night’s result in Halifax, but they were still pumped about getting to see their longtime favourite NHL team play locally.

“I’ve been a fan since I was about five,” said Chris MacLellan, 39, of Dartmouth, who was wearing an old-school Islanders jersey, circa 1992, for the preseason game at the Scotiabank Centre.

“It’s been a long time coming that they have a team that makes the playoffs, so we’re pretty excited that they came here.”

“Awesome!” eight-year-old son Liam MacLellan added, wearing another one of his dad’s old Islanders jerseys, apparently purchased around 1987.

Jeff Skinner scored twice to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to a 5-3 victory over the Islanders in Halifax’s lone pre-season NHL game this year.

Although there was plenty of Islanders apparel out at the rink, the occasional Hurricanes jersey was also spotted, along with other random NHL gear worn by fans, ranging from the Boston Bruins and Colorado

IN BRIEF Lottery ticket worth $1M sold in Sydney Someone in Nova Scotia should have one million reasons to smile Saturday.

One of the Maxmillion prizes from Friday night were awarded to a ticket that was bought in Sydney. The numbers drawn were: 0415-23-26-34-45-46. There were a total of 12 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each won during Friday night’s draw. One ticket in Ontario matched all seven numbers to win the $60 million Lotto Max prize. The $1-million lotto win is the second winning ticket sold in Nova Scotia in the past week. A Lotto 6/49 ticket worth $1 million was sold in Halifax for the Sept. 19 draw. cape breton post, with files from metro halifax

New York Islanders’ John Tavares (91) controls the puck at the side of Carolina Hurricanes goalie Drew MacIntyre’s net as Hurricanes’ Ryan Murphy (7) defends during third-period exhibition action. Darren Pittman/The Canadian Press

It’s always fun coming to Canada, especially cities we don’t play in very often.”

New York Islanders star forward John Taveres

Avalanche to locally popular teams the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs.

It’s not too often, after all, that the NHL comes to town.

Caroline Kuepers bought her

boyfriend, Chad Jones, tickets to the exhibition NHL game for his birthday last month because he’s a longtime Carolina fan, and had yet to see his favourite team play live.

“Especially for me, I thought I might be the only ‘Canes fan in Nova Scotia,” Jones said, adding he saw a few others kicking around the rink Saturday. “I was a Hartford Whalers fan as a kid, and they moved to Carolina, so I always stuck with them.”

The Halifax couple, who were “just hoping for the win,” got exactly what they wanted from their NHL experience Saturday night.

4,641 The total attendance of Saturday’s game was 4,641, which was actually less than the typical crowd seen at Halifax Mooseheads games during QMJHL action.

Freight rail relaunch would be costly: Studies Relaunching a freight rail service in Cape Breton would be a challenging prospect and require more than the $31.4 million estimated for rail line improvements over five years.

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‘I trust none of them’ — except Green party leader Rosemary Westwood in Edmonton It’s all about one federal leader for Anna Rushdy.

“I feel like I’m pretty good at reading whether someone’s being honest. I trust none of them, with the exception of Elizabeth May.” To the 27-year-old Edmontonian, every other federal party leader is a slave to partisan politics. And May is the antidote.

So, on Oct. 19, Rushdy will vote Green.

“Partisan politics actually does nothing, especially for me — and when I say for me, I mean poor people.

“We already know Harper doesn’t care about poor people, but I’d be hardpressed to believe that the other two do.”

The Liberals’ Justin Trudeau, in particular, earned Rushdy’s ire through his glad-handing presence at Pride events in the city, politicking at a time when Rushdy says the LGBTQ community, and its oppression, should be in the spotlight.

They (Rushdy is gendernon-conforming and rejects he/she pronouns) sit in the basement café of an old brick building in Edmonton, the site of a former job, before they landed a slightly better lowpaying job at a bakery.

After graduating in 2011 with a degree in education with a specialization in specialneeds care, Rushdy hasn’t been able to find related work.

Deferring student loans has helped, but it doesn’t make them disappear.

Rushdy’s been to the polls twice before: Once to vote Green, and once to spoil the ballot — drawing happy faces beside each candidate. It was only after hearing Elizabeth May promise to make postsecondary education free and forgive student debt above $10,000, that Rushdy decided to pick a candidate this time.

“Those are things that actually affect my quality of life. It’s very anti-classist, and I love that.”

Planning to vote Green in a riding pollsters are predicting is a tight NDP/Liberal race doesn’t worry Rushdy.

“If you’re constantly telling people, ‘If you vote a certain way, you’re throwing way your vote’ — no one will ever vote that way.”

That kind of language only underlines the status quo, Rushdy said.

“If we truly believe in democracy and that’s how we have our voices heard, we need to vote for who we think is best, and not because all your friends are voting NDP, and it’s hip and fashionable.”

Rushdy believes change is possible: “We never thought we would see a non-Conservative Alberta.”

As the election approaches, Rushdy senses a chance to shift political discourse.

“I think my needs are most met not even just by what the party platform is, but by antipartisan politics.

“Because what it is, is a discussion between people not against people.”

Plus: “I’m looking forward to a Harper-free Canada.”

Rosemary Westwood is travelling across the country talking to young voters.

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Most politicians miss the basic issues people care about Ryan Tumilty

Metro | Edmonton Chris Henderson has run three highly successful municipal campaigns. His most recent gave Edmonton’s 36-year-old mayor, Don Iveson, a resounding win in 2013.

Henderson, 33, took leave from his full-time job in marketing to work 20-hour days for months to help Iveson get elected, but he’s decidedly less interested in the federal election.

“I would let my children watch violent television before I would let them watch a leaders’ debate,” he said.

Henderson said the partisan-

Chris Henderson sits in the campaign office during Mayor Don Iveson’s 2013 run. Despite his willingness to get heavily involved in municipal politics, Henderson said federal politics don’t interest him or other young people. metro file

ship and acrimonious debates in federal politics are turning young people off and keeping them out of the process.

He said that Iveson’s campaign was able to attract hundreds of young volunteers in large part because no one cared what someone had done before or what party they belonged to.

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“There was no ideological behaviour involved.”

On top of that, he said, federal politicians are missing the basics people care about — issues like good roads, affordable housing and reliable transit.

“Municipal services are the things that actually matter to people.”

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi agrees there is far too much “mindless partisanship” in federal politics and he believes Canadians feel the same way.

“I don’t identify with the left or the right or the Conserva-

tive or the Liberal and I think very few Canadians actually do,” he said. “They identify with pragmatic things that will make their community better.”

Nenshi said party politics forces leaders to focus on matters essential to their base, but meaningless to most Canadians.

“The current debate around the niqab at citizenship ceremonies is a really good example of that,” he said. “It matters to no one.”

Iveson said the young people he talks to are engaged, but in local issues, like housing and transit, or global ones like climate change and the refugee crisis.

“Federal politics in particular is pretty abstract when you’re dealing with your postsecondary issues, or your transportation issues or your housing issues,” he said.

Iveson said there are battleground ridings that could swing if federal politicians were talking about how to make buying a house or getting to work easier.

“Federal leaders who can speak with authenticity on those issues will find themselves all of a sudden relevant to that potentially deciding vote.”

The mayors

Young superstars Much of the energy and enthusiasm emanating from politically active young Canadians is being directed not at the House of Commons or provincial legislatures but at city halls, particularly in the West.

Gilbert Ngabo Metro | Toronto

Naheed Nenshi: He was only 38 when he won the Calgary mayoral race in 2010, and the first Muslim mayor of a large North American city. A Harvard graduate, nonprofit management professor and business adviser to corporate leaders, his popularity has grown over the years in office. He’s a strong advocate of making cities work better.

Don Iveson: He’s serving his first term as mayor of Edmonton, a job he assumed in 2013 when he was only 34. His strong asset is community organizing. From his experience running the university newspaper to

serving as president of Canadian University Press and advocacy director of the University of Alberta Student Union, he’s always seemed destined for politics. He’s also a strong advocate of the LGBTQ community.

Gregor Robertson: He was 44 when, in 2008, he won the race to become mayor of Vancouver. Now serving his third term, Robertson was an active member of the NDP of British Columbia until he resigned to run for mayor.

Public transit and ending homelessness are two of his top priorities.

12 Monday, September 28, 2015 Heritage

Quebec to fix 11 racist site names Eleven Quebec sites whose names contain words with pejorative or racist connotations will be renamed, a provincial commission announced Friday.

In a news release, the commission announced it had “deofficialized” the place names, all of which contain the word “n-----” or the French word “negre.”

“Some of these place names, over time, testify to historical events,” the statement read.

“However, even if the words ‘n-----’ and ‘negro’ are of ancient usage, they can violate the dignity of the members of the black community.”

Rachel Zellars, a McGill University PhD candidate who studies the history of slavery and of black Canadians, started a petition in early August after hearing a media report that included the statement that no official complaints had been lodged against the names.

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Canada

Leaders keep it local ELECTION 2015

NDP, Tories keep focus on homegrown issues All three main federal parties concentrated on homegrown, hot-button issues and largely kept their foreign policy powder dry ahead of the next leaders’ debate.

New Democrats put themselves squarely in the spotlight with Tom Mulcair outlining, in broad strokes, the party’s plan to address climate change. But in a half-hour long question-and-answer session with party members and the media, he forcefully reiterated his case to repeal two signature pieces of the Harper government’s security and anti-terror agenda.

Not to be outdone, the Conservatives rolled out two cabinet ministers to take shots at the Liberals over Justin Trudeau’s suggestion his party would scrap some aspects of the mandatory minimum sen-

tencing law, another marquee piece of legislation for a government that paints itself as tough on crime.

Tony Clement and Julian Fantino, speaking in Vaughan, Ont., also went after Trudeau for interview comments earlier in the weekend where he was quoted as saying deficits are a way of measuring economic growth and success of a government.

Both ministers, additionally, piled on the $146 billion costing of the Liberal platform, released Saturday in Ottawa, saying it would “destabilize” the economy.

Trudeau and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper were both off the campaign trail in anticipation of Monday’s foreign policy debate.

Mulcair, in Toronto to talk climate change, gave a taste of how acrimonious the exchange could get by accusing the Conservatives of holding back until the middle of the election campaign on the plan to strip the citizenship of the convicted Toronto 18 terror ringleader.

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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair addresses supporters during a campaign stop in Toronto. Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press

WHERE THE LEADERS ARE MONDAY

• Stephen Harper,

Justin Trudeau and Tom Mulcair will be in Toronto for the Munk debate on foreign policy taking place at 7 p.m. EST.

• Elizabeth May will be in Vancouver.

robert pickton

Missing tributes shock brother A brother of one of the women murdered by Robert Pickton says he’s shocked and upset after the City of Vancouver removed plaques honouring three of the killer’s victims.

Bronze plaques bearing the names of Georgina Papin, Brenda Wolfe and Marnie Frey were installed in a sidewalk in the city’s Downtown Eastside in 2012.

George Papin said he treasured the memorial “as it was a part of me, just like my sister,” he said. “And now they take this away.”

The memorials were part of an unfinished project called The Living Stones, which was originally set to lay 62 plaques at the last known locations of missing and murdered women.

The city took over the project in 2013 after the nonprofit group that launched it dissolved. A city spokesman said staff had been working to “resolve issues” around the project. the canadian press

Monday, September 28, 2015 13

World

A ‘moral outrage’ development

Obama pledges U.S. support to new UN antipoverty strategy President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to a new blueprint to eliminate poverty and hunger around the world, telling a global summit that a sweeping new development agenda is “not charity but instead is one of the smartest investments we can make in our own future.”

It was the first of two addresses Obama is making at the United Nations. His second, to the annual UN General Assembly of world leaders and expected Monday, will be a broader examination of world issues, especially the escalating conflict in Syria and the related refugee crisis.

As Secretary of State John Kerry said after a meeting Sunday, “It would be a complete understatement to say that we meet at a challenging time.”

Obama offered a powerful defence of a 15-year development

agenda that will require trillions of dollars of effort from countries, companies and civil society.

He told delegates 800 million men, women and children scrape by on less than $1.25 a day and billions of people are at risk of dying from preventable diseases.

He called it a “moral outrage” that many children are just one mosquito bite away from death.

Obama said the goals are ambitious but can be achieved if governments work together.

And, with a possible nod toward his address on Monday, he noted “military interventions might have been avoided over the years” if countries had spent more time, money and effort on caring for their own people.

“Development is threatened by war,” Obama said, and war often arises from bad governance. Addressing the world’s greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War as millions flee conflict in Syria and elsewhere, he said countries “that can, must do more to accommodate refugees” but added those efforts “must be matched by hard work of diplomacy.” the associated press

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 2015 Sustainable Development Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Sunday. richard drew/the associated press

papal visit

Pontiff takes part in massive Mass Pope Francis joined hundreds of thousands of the faithful Sunday for the last and biggest event of his joyful, six-day U.S. visit — a Mass on Philadelphia’s grandest boulevard — after meeting with victims of the church sex abuse scandal and offering words of hope to jail inmates.

Riding through the streets in his open-sided popemobile, the pontiff waved to cheering, screaming, singing, flag-waving crowds as he made his way up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and reached the altar at the foot of the broad steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was the final stop on his itinerary before he was to return to Rome.

Organizers predicted a crowd of one million, though there were fears unprecedented security — including airport-style bag searches, crowd-control cattle chutes and blocked streets — had scared many people away.

Prior to the Mass, Francis met with victims of child sexual abuse and told them he is “deeply sorry” for the times they told their story and weren’t believed. He assured them he believes them and bishops will be held to account for what they did.

We will follow the path of truth wherever it may lead.

Pope Francis

“I pledge to you that we will follow the path of truth wherever it may lead,” Francis said in Spanish.

Then, he went into a meeting with American bishops in town for a Catholic festival on the family and told them the same thing face-to-face.

“God weeps” over what was done to the youngsters, he said.

Also Sunday, Francis visited a Philadelphia jail to give hope of redemption to about 100 inmates.

“May you make possible new opportunities, new journeys, new paths,” he said, standing before a wooden chair the men had made for him for the occasion.

The blue-uniformed inmates, some of them heavily tattooed, seemed moved. They clasped Francis’ hands, and two gave him a hug. the associated press

middle east

europe

Concessions made for refugees Countries will pool intelligence Co-operation replaced confrontation this past weekend among European nations as thousands of asylum-seekers streamed into Croatia in hopes of creating a new future in Western Europe.

Despite steps that should eventually ease the chaos, the sheer number of people flooding into Croatia strained the resources of one of the European Union’s poorest nations.

At least 10,000 arrived on Friday alone, and Croatian authorities struggled to keep up with the influx of those flee-

ing war and poverty in the of its territory. The gesture folMiddle East, Africa lowed the reopenand Asia. ing of the main borStill, a new coder point between operative mode Croatia and Serbia. began emerging The concessions, among the nacoming two days The number of after an EU sumtions in southeast migrants that Europe. Hungary mit on the migrant have entered announced it had crisis, suggested Croatia since the bloc had beremoved spools of Sept. 15. the associated come alarmed at razor wire from a press section of its borthe lack of co-operder with Slovenia, ation among its a barrier that members and the breached EU rules about un- increasingly ugly tone of their restricted travel within much exchanges. the associated press

65K

Iraq’s military said Sunday it will begin sharing “security and intelligence” information with Syria, Russia and Iran to help combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a move that could further complicate U.S. efforts to battle the extremists without working with Damascus and its allies.

Iraq has long had close ties with neighbouring Iran and the nations have been working together to combat ISIL, which controls about a third of Iraq and Syria in a self-

declared caliphate.

A U.S.-led coalition has also been conducting airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria while training and advising Iraqi forces, but U.S. officials insist the efforts have not been co-ordinated with Iran.

The U.S. also refuses to cooperate with Syrian President Bashar Assad, who Washington has insisted should step down. Russia and Iran have provided crucial support to Assad since Syria’s uprising began in 2011.

The Baghdad-based spokes-

prairie dogs

Relocation ‘better than letting somebody shoot it’ Most mornings, wildlife biologist Jessica Van Woeart and her team go to work armed with peanut butter.

In subdivisions and across rural pastures in southern Utah, they use it to help trap prairie dogs to move them away from residents who have been besieged by the small burrowing rodents for years.

The Utah prairie dog is the smallest of five species and lives in underground colonies in the southern part of the state. Considered key to the ecosystem,

their numbers dropped precipitously as land was cleared to make way for people. They were listed as endangered in 1973.

With federal protection, the population rebounded to about 28,000 as of this spring, according to state tallies, and they were upgraded to threatened.

But the animals weren’t rare to locals.

“They’re really cute little things, but they really cause so much damage,” said Sharon Peterson, a Cedar City resident.

In 2013, a group of residents

A Utah prairie dog in its artificial burrow. rick bowmer/the associated press

sued in federal court. After U.S. District Judge Dee Benson’s ruling, the ranks of prairie dogs near Peterson’s house thinned

under a new trapping program.

Van Woeart heads that program up. Some days, they catch more than 100 prairie dogs. After they’re caught, the creatures are weighed, tagged and then loaded into a pickup truck for an hourlong drive to a new home.

Their new homes are prepared ahead of time: A system of artificial burrows made from irrigation piping and plastic boxes and buried underground.

The workers leave food and water and try to keep the highly social animals together, but many

of them don’t survive transition.

“When you pick an animal up out of its natural setting and you move it to a new location ... you can expect a fairly high mortality rate,” Keith Day, a state biologist who oversees the program, said.

Still, he said trapping an animal and moving it is better than the lethal methods that fed-up locals used to employ.

“If we can put a prairie dog out on federal land and get a colony out of it, that’s better than letting somebody shoot it,” Day said. the associated press

man for the U.S.-led campaign against the ISIL group, Col. Steve Warren, said the U.S. remains committed to working with Iraq to defeat the extremists.

“We recognize that Iraq has an interest in sharing information on ISIL with other governments in the region who are also fighting ISIL,” Warren said. “We do not support the presence of Syrian government officials who are part of a regime that has brutalized its own citizens.” the associated press

IN BRIEF Axle to be examined in fatal duck boat collision Federal investigators say the left front axle of a duck boat involved in a deadly Seattle accident was sheared off, but they don’t know if it was damaged beforehand. National Transportation Safety Board Member Earl Weener said Saturday the axle will be examined in a federal lab, but it’s too soon to know how or when the axle was damaged. the associated press

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World

launches first Secessionists jubilant France airstrikes against ISIL Syria

catalonia

Victory in Spanish vote could lead to breakoff nation Pro-secession parties pushing for Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region to break away and form a new Mediterranean nation won a landmark vote Sunday by capturing a majority of seats in the region’s parliament, setting up a possible showdown over independence with the central government in Madrid.

With 97 per cent of the vote counted, the “Together for Yes” group of secessionists had 62 seats in the 135-member parliament. If they join forces with the left-wing proindependence Popular Unity Candidacy party, which won 10 seats, they will have the 68 seats needed to push forward their plan to make Catalonia independent from Spain by 2017.

But CUP had insisted that it would only join an independence bid if secessionist parties

Pro-independence supporters cry out in Barcelona on Sunday, after an election that might propel Catalans toward separation from the rest of Spain by 2017. The Associated Press

won more than 50 per cent of the popular vote. They won only about 46 per cent because of a quirk in Spanish election law that gives a higher proportion of legislative seats to rural areas with fewer voters.

Still, Catalonia leader Artur Mas claimed victory as a jubilant crowd interrupted him with cheers and chants

of “Independence!”

Many Catalans who favour breaking away from Spain say their industrialized region, which represents nearly a fifth of Spain’s economic output, pays too much in taxes and receives less than its fair share of government investment.

“As democrats we were prepared to accept the defeat.

Now, we demand that they accept the victory for Catalonia and the victory of the ‘yes,’” said Mas. “We have a lot of work ahead, we won’t let you down, we know we have the democratic mandate. We have won and that gives us an enormous strength to push this project forward.”

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Six French jet fighters target- earlier. ed and destroyed an Islamic “Our nation will strike each State of Iraq and the Levant time our national security is (ISIL) training camp in eastern at stake,” the statement said.

Hollande told reporters the Syria in a five-hour operation on Sunday, President Francois strikes on the training camp, Hollande announced, making and others to come, were aimed good on a promise to go after at “protecting our territory, the group that he has said is cutting short terrorist actions, planning attacks against several acting in legitimate defence.” countries, including France.

However, the strikes will The multiple airstrikes were likely have but a limited effect. the first in Syria by France as The U.S.-led coalition has been it expands its carrying out regular airmission against strikes that ISIL, until now punish but centred in Iraq.

Our nation will have failed “The camp strike each time to decimate was totally ISIL, which d e s t r o y e d ,” our national Hollande said security is at stake. controls large Sunday after swaths of Syra r r i v i n g a t Statement from the office of ia.

President Francois Hollande the United NaHollande’s tions, before decision to the start of a major develop- carry out targeted strikes on ment summit and the U.N. strategic ISIL sites is coupled General Assembly bringing with France’s bid to press for a together world leaders. political solution to the Syrian “We’re sure there were no crisis. Beyond military objectcasualties” among civilians, ives, the strikes serve to bolster he added.

France’s position in helping to The French president’s office find a solution to a crisis that announced the strikes, without also includes Russia and Iran. details, in a statement hours The Associated Press

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Business

BlackBerry tries Android Technology

problems BlackBerry faced: Its phones are missing some of the most popular apps and games used by most customers and even businesses.

“I am now going to eliminate apps as an excuse not to buy our phone,” Chen said.

“We’ll see how it goes.”

With its hardware sales still BlackBerry’s lack of apps flagging BlackBerry’s chief has been a thorn in its side. executive John Chen Handfuls of popusays he’s found a diflar apps, from datferent way to sell his ing service Tinder devices. For the first to Candy Crush, were unavailable time in BlackBerry’s history, the comfor years. pany is going to sell Chen tried to eliminate that a smartphone that problem last fall runs on somebody in a partnership else’s programming with the Amazon rather than its own in-house creation.

Appstore, which ofBlackBerry will fers thousands of release the Priv apps built for the phone later this year, Android operating which uses Google’s system.

Android operating The BlackBerry Priv.

His hope was system. The switch Courtesy @evleaks that Amazon’s store was a controversial would see its app decision at BlackBerry, Chen selection multiply quickly told reporters Friday at the after the launch of the Amacompany’s Waterloo, Ont. zon Fire phone last year. But headquarters, but it addresses when sales of Amazon’s first one of the biggest marketing device failed to ignite, it left

New phone to address issue of lack of apps, CEO says

IN BRIEF Millennials digging into news, study finds Four out of every 10 young adults actively seek out the news, reveals an analysis of their media habits by the Media Insight Project, breaking the stereotype image about the millennial generation being uninformed.

Even the out-of-it others say they stumble on news while they’re catching up with friends on Facebook, scanning their Twitter feeds or looking for entertainment online. Older millennials, ages 25 to 34, say they make staying informed a priority.

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BlackBerry chief executive John Chen says switch from its in-house operating system means to eliminate one of the company’s biggest marketing problems. The Canadian Press file

Chen in a partnership that wasn’t quite as ideal as he’d hoped — many apps, like Netflix and Snapchat, were still

missing from the mix — and BlackBerry sales suggested that customers weren’t swayed by the proposition.

BlackBerry hopes the Priv will give it another swing at making a smartphone that competes with the best.

Ottawa posts surplus of $150 million for July The federal government posted a $150-million surplus for July compared with a $1.23-billion deficit for the same month last year. The Finance Department says the surplus came as government revenue increased by $2.12 billion in July, while expenses grew at a slower pace.

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Apocalypse already? Norway’s “doomsday vault” — which stores seeds in case of global agricultural disaster — has been cracked open to retrieve species lost in Syria’s civil war.

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Public-service contract should mean what it says Halifax matters

Stephen Kimber

I like Bernie Miller, and I think Premier Stephen McNeil is lucky to have the currently on-leave managing partner at law firm McInnes Cooper as one of his government’s key political advisors.

We should question Stephen McNeil’s cavalier, condescending attitude to legitimate questions about Miller’s contract.

Having said that, I also think, as a matter of public policy, we need to ask serious questions about McNeil’s deal with Bernard F. Miller Services P.C., Inc., the company that provides the services of its sole employee — one Bernie Miller — to the government.

And beyond that, we should question Stephen McNeil’s cavalier, condescending attitude to legitimate questions about Miller’s contract.

The major concern raised is that this type of employment arrangement may allow someone to pay less income tax.

Let’s start with the contract. Miller is a de facto government employee. He doesn’t have another job. He works full-time — probably more — as deputy minister.

His office, office services, computer, cellphone, work-related expenses and more are covered by the government.

The contract says he’s en-

titled to standard employee benefits, even if the premier and Miller insist he has chosen not to take them. (If that’s the case, government lawyers should have struck the clause from the contract.)

McNeil claims the government saves money because it’s not paying benefits and wouldn’t pay severance if Miller leaves early (another provision that, mysteriously, isn’t in his actual contract).

But it isn’t clear whether, in negotiating Miller’s $180,000 compensation package, anyone fluffed up the total to reflect the fact he’d fund his own health and other benefits. Or, conversely, if anyone took into account the disconnect between the three-percent corporate tax Miller Services would pay, versus the 21 per cent Bernie Miller, as an individual taxpayer, would fork over to the treasury.

McNeil’s ludicrous suggestion that he’d welcome other

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public servants choosing to work under such contracts shows how little he understands where his government’s revenues come from — and how little he respects salaried public servants.

McNeil began by suggesting the contract included provisions — no benefits, no severance — it didn’t, then argued the contract’s words didn’t matter. Finally, he fell into the last defence of the otherwise defenceless: blaming those who asked legitimate questions for scaring public-minded citizens like Miller from public service.

If that’s all it takes to scare them off, we’d be better off without them.

Stephen Kimber is a professor of journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax and an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. Halifax Matters runs every Monday.

He came, he spoke, he went.

Pope Francis visited the United States for the first time, delivered a speech to congress and the United Nations and met with the country’s Catholic and nonCatholics leaders alike. The man has a human touch, a generosity of spirit and a progressive persona that gives hope and differentiates him from his predecessor. But in all honesty, the visit will change very little.

I realize this is not what the public wants to hear, but passing emotionalism is simply not enough. The same occurred when Pope John Paul visited Canada for World Youth Day in 2002 — massive enthusiasm for a few days and then a severe case of back-to-business-asusual.

In his speeches, Francis spoke lyrically of the Golden Rule, of love, humanity and our communal existence.

He also touched briefly and implicitly on his condemnation of abortion and samesex marriage but was far more precise in dealing with climate change, immigration and the need for peace and gave specific attention to the plight of the poor. It was compelling stuff.

But the reality of the situation is that the modern Catholic Church is polarized and top-heavy. The leadership rejects contraception,

gay rights, abortion and female ordination, even while the vast majority of western Catholics disagree. Indeed, these papal positions are considered so morally anachronistic today in North America and Europe that it prevents Catholicism from preaching the gospel or being taken seriously. Young people in particular reject any institution or ideology that in their eyes rejects gender and sexual equality.

Then there was what Francis did not say. While he referred to the sexualabuse crisis in the United States and met with some of its victims, he didn’t admit to its systemic nature and ignored the fact that the church had denied and obfuscated until the media made acknowledgement unavoidable.

Francis is the Pope of paradox. While he is certainly concerned for the marginalized, his church refuses to sanction condom use even in countries with staggeringly high levels of HIV/AIDS. He cares for the disabled but leads an institution that fights embryonic stem-cell research that could lead to countless medical cures.

He embraces the poor, but the wealth of the Vatican is beyond counting.

Nobody would deny that the Roman Catholic message is now being delivered in far more empathetic tones than in the past, but it is substance rather than delivery that matters. Forgive me, Father, but I am still waiting.

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Stories help parents with talks about sex and death Megan Haynes

For Metro Canada How young is too young to learn about sex? Disease? Death?

“As parents, we want our kids to learn everything,” says Cory Silverberg, author and sex educator. “We get so excited when they learn a new word, how to walk. But even in the most open of households, sex is a topic that gets treated a bit differently. It’s the same for death, violence and war. And that’s confusing to kids.”

Books, he says, can help parents have those difficult conversations.

Bug in a Vacuum examines the five stages of grief, even though it doesn’t explicitly talk about death. contributed/melanie watt

Sex is a Funny Word Silverberg started writing Sex is a Funny Word (Seven Stories, $23.95, out now) more than two years ago — well ahead of the deluge of news around the current Ontario curriculum, issues of consent, and transgender rights. And with all these topics in the news, the timing of its release couldn’t be better.

Sex is a Funny Word is a transpositive and feminist-leaning sex education guide for kids eight to 10 that tackles consent, gender and masturbation (and more). It was written and illustrated to be

as inclusive as possible, he says.

Phrases like “could feel” and “is an example of” are meant to help kids realize that just because they don’t feel a certain way, have a certain body part or do a certain thing, it doesn’t mean something is wrong with them.

“When you say ‘having your mom brush your hair is an example of feeling good in your body,’ well what happens if that person doesn’t have a mom?” he says. “That’s a little moment that kid (thinks) ‘Oh, this book doesn’t reflect me.’”

Books are a tool that can help make very difficult conversations a little easier.

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And while inclusivity is a primary goal of the book, the main purpose is to define words kids might hear but not understand and facilitate discussion, he says. “‘Sexy’ is a great example,” he says “I say ‘some people think sexy is this’ (in one chapter) and that gives parents an opportunity to say ‘In our family, sexy is something else.’”

Bug in a Vacuum Opening a discussion was a key goal for Mélanie Watt’s Bug in a Vacuum, (Tundra Books, $24.99, out now), which follows a fly

sucked into a vacuum as it (and its wiener-dog friend on the outside) go through the five stages of grief, she says.

The book, for kids five to nine, isn’t explicitly about death, but there are overtones towards the topic (the bug deals with the realization that it might never escape the vacuum, while the dog deals with the loss of its friend).

“The two characters both struggle with a problem. They react in similar ways, but for totally different reasons,” she says. “I think that’s a nice metaphor to

life: Everyone can go through a difficult moment, and it’s OK, because you’re not alone.”

Today is the Day Of course, being alone is a relative concept. Eric Walters’ Today is the Day, (Tundra Books, $19.99, out Oct. 13, 2015) helps kids tackle what happens to youth in nations with high mortality rates. Set in Kenya, the story, for kids five to nine, follows a young girl celebrating her birthday alongside the rest of the orphanage. All the kids celebrate on the same day, as most don’t have re-

cords of when they were born.

The epilogue explains many children in the region grow up without parents due to HIV/AIDS, but they too have value and are deserving of birthdays.

“Books are a tool that can help make very difficult conversations a little easier,” adds Silverberg. It isn’t that kids don’t understand these big concepts like war, death, disease, sex, or gender issues, he says.

“Often these conversations don’t go well because of a lack of language.

“Kids are smart — they understand the world around them — they just want the right words.”

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18 Monday, September 28, 2015 Oscar hopeful

Foreign language pick: Felix et Meira Maxime Giroux’s Felix et Meira noted the film was made on a has been selected as Canada’s budget of about $800,000 and Oscar hopeful in the best for- was shot in Venice and New eign-language film category.

York City among other locations.

It stars Martin Dubreuil “We had to be really inventand Hadas Yaron and deals ive to make it realistic and with the unusual romance be- good,” said Corbeil. tween a married Orthodox JewWriting the script was difish woman and a young man ficult because it was not easy mourning his to research the father’s death in closed communMontreal’s Mile ity. Corbeil also End neighbourhailed the acIt’s difficult for me tors — many hood.

T e l e f i l m to say in English, of them came from Hasidic Canada made it official at a but I guess ‘wow’ backgrounds Montreal news in English is OK? and had left the conference on community.

Director Maxime Giroux Friday in the “Through our presence of its elated director. research for this film, we dis“It’s difficult for me to say covered it was a very, very huge in English, but I guess ‘wow’ step to make because once you in English is OK?” Giroux said leave the community, you’re an laughing. “It’s a Montreal film outcast in your family, in your — it’s in French, in English, in community,” Corbeil said. “For Yiddish,” he added. “I’m really them to have this courage was happy that I’m here to repre- a great source of inspiration sent Canada and also Montreal.” for us.”

Co-producer Sylvain Corbeil The Canadian Press

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Del Toro returns to dark side in drug cartel film Sicario

There’s talk that role could earn actor an Oscar nod Sicario, opening Friday, puts actor Benicio Del Toro in the same U.S.-Mexico drug war milieu as Traffic, the 2000 Steven Soderbergh film that won Del Toro the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. There’s serious talk of another Oscar for him. His predatory character Alejandro in Sicario, a Mexican operative involved in an FBI and DEA sting on an entrenched and violent drug cartel, is decidedly more threatening than the conflicted cop Del Toro played in Traffic. But he similarly radiates a sense of righteousness out of the gloom, which he was happy to discuss.

You play dark characters so well. Are you happy to do so?

When I first started acting, the characters that turned me on were characters by actors that I looked up to, guys like Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, and later Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke.... There’s something about the characters who are conflicted where you can perhaps play different notes or go against it and find stuff that you never thought you would.

But I think doing a character that is dark or doing a character that is light is equally as

Sicario starring Benicio Del Toro opens Friday. Tommaso Boddi/Getty Imagess

complicated. One thing about this character (Alejandro) was to make sure that less is more.

You aren’t from Mexico, but you’ve often played Mexican characters. You convey understanding and empathy for the country.

I’ve been to Mexico many times. It’s a country that I admire, its history and culture.

It’s one of my favourite countries to visit. In order to do this film, I talked to DEA friends of mine who are involved or have been involved in this world

to get information about that because I don’t know much about this problem in Mexico with the violence.

The drug-cartel violence in Sicario seems all too frighteningly real, threatening to overwhelm legal authorities and society itself. Does it seem this bleak to you in real life?

It’s really scary. Ruben Blades, a singer-songwriter and actor from Panama, has talked about the situation, how it’s gotten out of hand and how

it’s no longer a problem just for Mexico. It’s a problem for other Latin American countries, the United States, Canada, the world.

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gossip Frances Bean Cobain reportedly married without telling mom They grow up so fast. Frances Bean Cobain, 23, the daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, reportedly went off and married boyfriend Isaiah Silva in a super-secret ceremony, according to E! News.

How super-secret are

we talking? Not even Love knew about it. Ouch.

“Courtney loves Isaiah but was devastated to learn that Frances had gotten married without her knowing,” a source says.

“Courtney really likes Isaiah and is very happy for Frances. Courtney is sad she wasn’t at the wedding. Frances called her after but understands why she did it. Frances needs a man in her life and has always craved stability. She’s found it in Isaiah. This has not caused a rift between mom and daughter. Courtney was sad, but she’s cool and Isaiah is a great son-inlaw.” A great son-in-law who dresses eerily similar to his new bride’s dead dad, I think it’s worth pointing out. ned ehrbar/metro hollywood

Wahlberg jokes with pope Within an hour of the start of a festival headlined by Pope Francis, Mark Wahlberg already had made a joke about his raunchy movie Ted. The actor was the master of ceremonies Saturday night while Francis sat on stage to hear from families and musical performances at the World Meeting of Families event.

Fourteen-year-old Bobby Hill of the Keystone State Boychoir performed an opera solo and told Wahlberg that he liked his performance in the movie about an angry talking teddy bear. Wahlberg joked that he told the boy the movie wasn’t appropriate for someone his age, and he asked the pope for forgiveness. The Associated Press

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Work Work-life

Some thrive on pressure, others need downtime Eleni Deacon

For Metro Canada Schedule breaks. Prioritize.

Turn off your phone after 6 p.m. Exercise during your lunch hour. Make sure you actually take your lunch hour.

Make sure you actually eat during your lunch hour. Meditate for six minutes every morning before sunrise. Know when to stop.

Work-life balance is the white whale of the white-collar world. Employees want it — but it’s often too slippery to pin down.

Which is why Amazon became the target of criticism last month when The New York Times published a fascinating — and highly disparaging — investigation into their take-no-prisoners corporate culture.

Former staffers described the organization’s combative atmosphere and punishing workloads, as well as the many personal sacrifices necessary to uphold the company’s ag-

When discussing work-life balance, there’s a prefab idea of what it means. gressive demands.

Compared to other tech giants like Netflix and Google — which famously offer perks like unlimited vacation and time to work on your own projects — Amazon comes off as stingy and cold.

Despite disturbing anecdotes about Amazon’s institutionalized backstabbing and failure to support ailing employees during serious life crises, some of the article’s sources found the company’s breakneck pace exhilarating.

When discussing work-life balance, there’s a prefab idea of what it means: work hard 9 to 5, chill hard when you’re not at work.

So while the Amazon exposé illuminates the company’s failure to uphold this vision, the happy employees suggest a different model altogether.

Their inner scales are not calibrated according to an even distribution of life and work. For them, intensity brings harmony.

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Rather than comparing their current stresses to dreams of unplugged weekends and early-morning yoga, employees might benefit from understanding whether their current workload is an appropriate match for their career ambitions and personal stamina.

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Working until you’re unhappy or burnt out can have dangerous consequences.

But having a healthy understanding of the factors that contribute to your personal work-life equilibrium can help determine whether you’re the type of employee who thrives under Amazon-ian tension— or the type who prefers using Amazon to download ebooks for the weekend.

JAPAN Robot owners warned off droid sex The company behind a chatty Japanese humanoid named Pepper has felt the need to remind customers who purchase the robots not to engage in sex with them.

Mobile phone giant SoftBank, which sells the units in Japan, states helpfully in its user agreement: “The policy owner must not perform any sexual act or other indecent behaviour.”

The wise-cracking Pepper — who, according to its makers, can read people’s emotions — costs a cool $1,600.

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The Raptors have signed 2013 No. 1 pick Anthony Bennett after the Toronto native cleared waivers IN BRIEF

Screaming Eagles goaltender Alexandre Bélanger stops a shot from Mooseheads winger Maxime Fortier as Cape Breton defenceman Olivier LeBlanc gives chase on Sunday afternoon at Scotiabank Centre. Jeff Harper/Metro

Herd edged in overtime QMJHL

Mooseheads fall 3-2 to provincial rival Cape Breton Kristen Lipscombe Metro | Halifax

The Halifax Mooseheads have lost the first instalment of this season’s Battle of Nova Scotia.

The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles edged out their provincial rivals 3-2 in overtime Sunday afternoon, despite the Herd playing one of their tighter, stronger games of the year in front of a loud and proud crowd of 6,010 green- and red-clad fans at the Scotiabank Centre.

Defenceman Loïk Léveillé notched the game-winner with just 35 seconds left in the extra

frame, which played out using the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s new five minutes of three-on-three format.

“You have to be on your toes at all times, and there’s a lot of space out there,” 18-year-old goaltender Kevin Resop said of the new overtime structure he experienced first-hand between the Halifax posts.

“Anything can happen,” the second-year player from St. Petersburg, Fla., said. “It could have gone either way.”

The matchup marked Resop’s second start of the regular season. Despite the loss he earned third-star honours, making an impressive 31 saves to help keep the Herd in it.

Mooseheads rookie forward Barrett Dachyshyn said he enjoyed the excitement of the three-on-three action, despite a disappointing outcome for his team.

“Four-on-four overtime, you

More Moose Game notes: Healthy scratches included defencemen Domenico Argento and Walter Flower and forward Dominik Blain ... veteran import forward Timo Meier was still at San Jose Sharks training camp ... The Mooseheads are currently in sixth and last place of the Maritimes Division and 16th place overall in the QMJHL with a 1-3-1-1 record so far.

Friday night: Despite an early one-goal lead and strong goaltending, the Mooseheads couldn’t hold it together Friday night against the Moncton Wildcats. Netminder Eric Brassard made 40 saves and defenceman Cavan Fitzgerald scored the first of the game, and the lone goal for the Herd, but the Wildcats ended up skating to a 4-1 win in front of 5,916 fans at the Scotiabank Centre.

don’t have as much room,” the 16-year-old Halifax native said after the close loss. “Three-onthree, you have room to skate and use your speed.”

Dachyshyn credited his netminder with some “huge stops,” especially in the third period, to

get another five minutes put on the clock.

“When he’s on his game, he’s on his game,” he said.

Cape Breton netminder Alexandre Bélanger was also on his game Sunday, making 39 saves to be named second star. Léveil-

lé was named first star of the game for his heroic first goal of the season.

Forward Clark Bishop scored in the first, while Maxim Lazarev tied it up again in the middle frame for the Screaming Eagles.

But a wrist shot from Halifax forward Maxime Fortier got the goal scoring started on a power play at 4:42 in the opening frame, while defenceman Jean-Sébastien Taillefer found the back of the net on a point shot, for his first goal of the season, at 15:31 in the second.

“I wish we could have had the win with it,” Taillefer said outside the dressing room, “but “that’s the way it goes.”

The Mooseheads head out on a three-day road trip in Quebec next weekend to take on the Sherbrooke Phoenix, BlainvilleBoisbriand Armada and Drummondville Voltigeurs.

“We’ve just got to get ready, mentally,” Taillefer said.

Huskies’ slide continues Despite a strong start Saturday afternoon on home turf in Halifax, the Saint Mary’s Huskies still fell 23-17 to the Bishop’s Gaiters in Canadian Interuniversity Sport interlock football action.

The loss was a third straight for Saint Mary’s this season.

The Huskies have yet to win a regular-season tilt this year.

In front of just over 900 fans Saturday at Huskies Stadium, Trevor Erdman completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to D’Shawn Miller to give Saint Mary’s a 7-0 lead. An eight-yard run and touchdown from Derek Pisani made it 14-0 when the first quarter was done.

But the Gaiters came back with a six-yard rush from Jamall Hyman-Hamilton in the second, and a 43-yard touchdown pass from Mathieu Demers to Trevon Millings in the third, en route to their win.

Vincent Pruneau had 13 carries for 70 yards, while Hamilton added 12 carries for 53 yeas and the TD, according to atlanticuniversitysport.com.

The Huskies are back in action Saturday, when they travel to Antigonish to take on the X-Men (2 p.m.)

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Macho flexes muscles in Roughriders’ victory Macho Harris tied a Saskatchewan record with three interceptions in a game — bringing one back for a touchdown — as the Roughriders beat the visiting Montreal Alouettes 3321 to earn only their second win of the season.

Jerome Messam rattled off 111 rushing yards and scored one TD for Saskatchewan (2-11), which kept its slim playoff hopes alive.

The Alouettes (5-7) failed to keep pace in a tight East Division in front of 30,843 fans at Mosaic Stadium.

Harris picked off Alouettes quarterback Jonathan Crompton on the first drive of the game at the Riders 46-yard line and brought it back 26 yards. On the next play, Kevin Glenn hit Rob Bagg for a 38-yard TD strike. Paul McCallum missed the convert wide right. The Canadian Press

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Andrew Luck runs upfield against the Titans on Sunday in Tennessee. Andy Lyons/Getty Images NFL

Luck is with Colts Marcus Mariota will be expected to lead the Tennessee Titans past the Indianapolis Colts and Andrew Luck some day.

The Colts’ quarterback made sure it wasn’t Sunday.

Luck threw two touchdown passes 56 seconds apart in the fourth quarter as he rallied the Indianapolis Colts to their first win this season, beating the Tennessee Titans 35-33.

The Colts (1-2) trailed 27-14 before Luck got going, and Luck improved to 7-0 against Tennessee with another stunning comeback.

He drove the Colts 98 yards before hitting Phillip Dorsett on a 35-yard TD with 6:49 left.

Dwight Lowery became the first defender to intercept Mariota with a 69-yard interception return for a touchdown in the second quarter. He picked off Mariota again to give the ball back to Luck.

Luck found Donte Moncrief for an 11-yard TD for a 28-17 lead just 56 seconds later.

The Titans (1-2) have lost 13 of 14 against their AFC South foe.

Mariota drove them to a TD. Defensive pass interference put the ball at the 1, but rookie fullback Jalston Fowler was stopped for a big loss on the 2-point conversion.

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IN BRIEF Leafs clean house First-round draft pick Mitch Marner was reassigned to the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League by the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday.

Toronto’s current training camp roster includes a total of 23 forwards, 15 defencemen and four goaltenders.

One of those forwards is 33-year-old Brad Boyes, who the Maple Leafs signed to a one-year contract on Sunday.

Also cut from Toronto were veteran forwards Curtis Glencross and Devin Setoguchi. the canadian press

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Record payday for Spieth At age 22, Jordan Spieth became the first $22 million man in golf Sunday.

Spieth capped off a dream season when he poured in putts from all over East Lake and closed with a 1-under 69 for a fourshot victory in the Tour Championship. That was all he needed to become the youngest player to capture the FedEx Cup and its $10 million bonus.

His fifth victory of the year, including two majors, allowed the Texan to set a PGA Tour record with $12,030,465 in earnings. the associated press

Donaldson walkoff a fitting home finale MLB

Toronto comes from behind to maintain Jays’ streak The party continued Sunday as Josh Donaldson’s walkoff solo homer gave Toronto a 5-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in the Blue Jays’ regularseason home finale.

Donaldson was doused with Gatorade by delirious teammates as he crossed the plate, to chants of M-V-P, after driving a ball deep to left field for his 41st homer of the season.

The third baseman was then doused with popcorn during his post-game interview.

Justin Smoak, who had driven in three runs already, started the Jays’ rally with a one-out single in the eighth.

Pinch-runner Dalton Pompey stole second and Kevin Pillar doubled him home to tie the game at 4-4.

Ben Revere kept it even in the ninth with a diving catch that saw four Jays converge on a Steven Sousa Jr. fly ball.

It was back to business for Toronto (90-65) after a short but wild post-game celebration Saturday of mark securing at least a wild-card berth.

The champagne and cigars were put away, at least for a while.

The fans were still partying, however. The Jays got a standing ovation coming off the field after batting practice as well as in the third inning when they came out to salute the crowd as part of Fan Appreciation Weekend.

Mikie Mahtook homered

Josh Donaldson follows through on his ninth-inning home run against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday at Rogers Centre. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press

Sunday in Toronto

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Blue Jays

Rays

for Tampa (75-81).

The Jays fought back from 4-1 and had chances to pull even down 4-3 before the eighth.

With one out in the seventh, Revere hit a swerving double deep to left-centre that eluded two Rays outfielders and, one out later,

took third on a passed ball.

But Jose Bautista hit a hard groundout to third to end the threat.

Donaldson kept the Jays close in the eighth with a heady play, tagging out Mahtook at third as the Rays outfielder struggled to get back on a sharply hit grounder. Opening the inning, Mahtook had singled, moved to second on an error and stole third. A double play ended the Rays’ charge.

Smoak doubled home a run in the first inning and hit a two-run homer in the sixth

off Brandon Gomes to cut the Tampa lead to 4-3. Smoak’s 17th home run of the season upped his RBI total to a career-high 56.

Toronto ended up 53-28 at the Rogers Centre. The Jays finish the regular season on the road with four games in Baltimore and three in Tampa.

The 53 home wins match the Jays’ 1992 total and is second only to 1985 (54).

Toronto has been a juggernaut the last two months, going 40-14 since July 28, when it was 50-51. The Canadian Press

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For Metro Canada Can we pretend it’s summer for just a few more days? A salad for dinner is an easy way to keep things light a little longer.

2. Wash kale and use a sharp knife to cut out the rib of each leaf. Slice the leaves horizontally into ribbons. Drizzle with a bit of olive oil, toss, then massage leaves for a minute or two.

Ready in Prep time: 15 minutes Serves 4 Ingredients • 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts • Salt and pepper to taste • 1 small head of kale • 1 Tbsp olive oil • 1 cup blueberries • 1 cup pecans, roughly chopped • Dressing • 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese

3. Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces. Toss the chicken, berries and pecans in with the kale.

Pour a small amount of salad dressing over and toss. Crumble the goat cheese over the salad.

Place the extra dressing on the table for anyone who would like a little more on their salad.

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