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because the posters were tested in focus groups of regular and recreational drug users. In April, B.C.’s provincial health officer declared a public health emergency linked to the soaring number of opioid overdoses, and the declaration remains in effect. Dr. Victoria Lee, Fraser Health’s Fraser Health has launched a chief medical health officer, says poster ad campaign bolstering its the poster campaign is an extenongoing drive to raise awareness sion of the health authority’s onof what it says is the overdose going public awareness campaign, crisis in British Columbia. but she says much more has been The posters will be displayed done to fight overdose deaths. at transit stops, bars “We’ve created new and restaurants, and substance-use beds to provide safe and supare aimed at recreational and regular drug portive environments users, their families for people (who) reand friends. quire additional supThe posters also ofport on their road to fer instructions for anyrecovery,” Lee said. one finding an overOver the last 12 dose victim, directing The posters aim to 18 months, Fraser them to call 911, start to draw attention Health has opened emergency breathing to crisis. COURTESY 50 new substance-use and use naloxone, FRASER HEALTH beds. A further 97 beds which can reverse the are slated to open by effects of an opioid overdose. 2017 across the region, which Fraser Health says in a news stretches from Burnaby, through release that it is confident about Surrey to White Rock and east to the effectiveness of the campaign Hope. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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a few examples Abbotsford Police Department An officer stated his or her department-issued rain jacket was damaged and asked for a new one, but when the officer was asked to show the damaged jacket, he or she cut a colleague’s jacket instead to “conceal his/her actions,” said the report. The same officer also asked for a new winter jacket in another incident, stating he or she had lost the original. Discipline: Dismissal (officer resigned before dismissal)

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Metro | Vancouver There is a 14 per cent increase in the number of complaints against municipal B.C. police forces in the last year, according to the police watchdog’s annual report. The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner (OPCC) opened 1,230 files this year, almost 150 more than the previous year, according to the report. But only 50 files resulted in officers being disciplined, ranging from verbal reprimands to dismissals. In fact, the OPCC found that only seven per cent of the allegations it processed were substantiated. Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe explains the increase in the number of files is mainly due to a jump in the number of “monitor files,” which are cases that involve injuries but don’t necessarily result in an investigation. It turns out many of the complaints do not include any actual misconduct from police officers. About 44 per cent of the complaints fall into this category, according to the report.

New Westminster Police Department An officer stole money from a container that the department’s Street Crime Unit had been adding to. Discipline: Dismissal. The officer was also charged with two counts of theft and one count of breach of trust.

The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner released its 2015-16 report on Monday. Emily Jackson/Metro File

Of the complaints that do involve misconduct from police, about half of them allege abuse of authority, according to the report. Other common allegations include discourtesy, discreditable conduct, and neglect of duty. The report uses data collected from April 2015 to

March 2016 and does not cover jurisdictions like Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby and Coquitlam, which are policed by the RCMP. The OPCC report includes recommendations for police forces and details various infractions — both alleged and substantiated — that officers have made over the past year.

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Delta Police Department When an off-duty officer was kicked out of a nightclub for being intoxicated, he or she tried to get back into the club by claiming to be an undercover officer. Discipline: Written reprimand, a one-day suspension, and further training to assess the officer’s behaviour.

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It took 100-year-old Indian runner Man Kaur almost a minute and a half to complete the 100-metre race, but she never broke her stride. And when she crossed the finish line Monday at the Americas Masters Games in Vancouver, her competitors — many of them two decades younger — were there to cheer her on. Kaur’s energy and drive to compete have become an inspiration to participants in the unique international event for

athletes over 30, say her son and fellow athletes. “When she wins, she goes back to India, and she’s excited to tell others, ‘I have won so many medals from this country,’” said her son Gurdev Singh, 78, translating for his mother. “Winning makes her happy.” After Kaur finished the race on Monday in one minute and 21 seconds, she stood smiling with her hands raised in the air.

Though she lagged behind other runners in their 70s and 80s, the centenarian picked up a gold medal as the only female competitor in her age category. It’s her third top prize this week, after javelin and shotput. She has won more than 20 medals in Masters Games across the globe. While practising in her home of Chandigarh, she goes out every evening to run five or 10 short distances, said Singh. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The occupants of the car, one man and one woman, were killed instantly. Three pedestrians were also injured when they were stuck by the falling tree and debris from the crash. The pedestrians, all men, were taken to hospital. Two of them had “significant” injuries; the third was treated for cuts. Police are still investigating, but said speed was a contributing factor in the crash. Anyone who witnessed the collision and who has not spoken with police is asked to call VPD collision investigators at 604-717-3012. metro

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The province’s anti-gang police squad has seized a small arsenal of weaponry and drugs they allege are connected to an Abbotsford gang war. Officers with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit’s gang enforcement team were checking on several people under curfew bail conditions in the Fraser Valley city when they saw marijuana “in plain view in an open garage” and

also “noticed an assault rifle,” a spokesperson said Monday. “If individuals show disregard for the law and the safety of the public, our officers will be there to ensure that these individuals are dealt with by disrupting their criminal activities and taking their guns and drugs off the streets,” said Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton in a statement. “Having charges approved against these individuals will now hold them accountable for their actions which have negatively impacted the residents of Abbotsford.”

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A Filipino-Canadian arts group in Vancouver is hoping to add a new word to our lexicon — and build deeper ties to local First Nations at the same time. “Indipino” is a new term coined to denote someone of mixed indigenous and Filipino ancestry. That could mean First Nations and Métis people here in Canada, or any of the numerous tribal cultures indigenous to the Philippines, said JR Guerrero, who is organizing a conference on the topic next month in B.C. “It’s pretty unique, at least for us in the Filipino community,” he told Metro in a phone interview. “It’s some of the first major work on this within our communities to actively engage indigenous people from the Philippines and from here on Turtle Island. “We’re really, really proud of this project.” Guerrero is a co-founder of the arts group Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society, and also its theatre wing’s musical director. He’s also helping organize the International Babaylan Conference on Squamish Nation territories from Sept. 23 to 25. The Tagalog word “Babaylan” means shaman — one of the most important roles for many indigenous cultures of the Philippines, he explained. Guest speakers will include shamans from that country, as well as people of mixed ancestry with

IN BRIEF Provincial firefighter finds unexploded ordinance A Defence Department team has been asked to dispose of an unexploded ordnance found by a firefighter mopping up a wildfire near Vernon. Fire Rescue Chief Keith Green says crews were pulled out of the area near Predator Ridge Resort when the provincial firefighter discovered it on Sunday. Green says the ordnance was likely left over from military training during the Second World War. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Concern rises over possible Vernon arsonist Two more suspicious fires within a few minutes of each other in Vernon are adding to concerns that an arsonist may be at work. Crews were able to quickly put out the fires Sunday afternoon, and each blaze only scorched a few square metres. Police say there have been about 14 suspicious fires in the area since April, and fire officials are urging residents to report anything suspicious. THE CANADIAN PRESS

The Babaylan Conference, to be held next month on Squamish Nation Territory, brings together artists, shamans and activists to share traditions. Contributed

It’s basically about being in the same boat together, First Nations and Filipinos. Ian Campbell

Métis and First Nations from Canada and the U.S. The event will launch with a traditional canoe and blanket

welcoming ceremony to Squamish territories including Chief Ian Campbell, who has been involved in his First Nation’s opposition to oil tanker traffic increases associated with the proposed Kinder Morgan bitumen pipeline. “It’s basically about being in the same boat together, First Nations and Filipinos,” he said. “This is a very big opportunity that entailed a lot of bridging. “Like Canada, the Philippines is also a colonized nation — by Spain and the U.S. — so we felt

a natural direction was to go towards First Nations in solidarity more intentionally in the last year or so. Indigenous peoples of the world are very similar in their challenges to reclaim ancestral territory, and discrimination they face.” But the conference’s tagline, “Filipinos and indigenous Turtle Islanders revitalizing ancestral traditions together,” also hints at organizers’ hopes to have a space for arts, cultural sharing, traditional ceremonies and healing.

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“Being a shaman is not just being a medicine person, it’s also about being a leader and being connected to the land, all the elements in nature and all the members of the tribe and of society … It’s a sacred way of living our lives.” Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society the Third International Babaylan Conference on Sept. 23 to 25, 2016 at the YMCA Camp Elphinstone, Squamish Territory. For more information, visit www.jlynumi. wixsite.com/cfbsconference.

Kamloops jogger badly injured in hit-and-run RCMP in Kamloops were searching for a driver who hit and seriously injured a jogger Sunday morning before speeding away. The vehicle was found abandoned a short time later and police say it had been stolen from a home in Kamloops about 3 1/2 hours before the collision. Investigators want to talk to a young man spotted walking in circles on the travelled portion of the Halston Bridge less than an hour before the jogger was hit. the canadian press

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The Winnipeg Humane Society is trying to find a home for a long-haired rabbit named after Donald Trump. contributed Winnipeg

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easy to see why staff named the critter after the real estate mogul turned reality TV star turned controversial presidential nominee. “It was the hair on him, really,” communications director Kyle Jahns said Monday. “He just had a wackier … wild hairdo, which could have been molded in a similar Donald Trump fashion.” Jahns said the rabbit is sweet, even a bit shy, at first meeting. “I don’t think he’s anything like the guy that’s he’s named after,” he said.

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NGOs rescue 3,000 people trying to cross Mediterranean Italian naval ships and vessels from non-government groups rescued thousands of migrants off the Libyan coast on Monday, the latest surge in desperate attempts to flee to Europe driven by war, poverty, and human traffickers. The dramatic operation took place just 21 kilometres north of the town of Sabratha in Libya. Groups such as Proactiva Open Arms and Doctors Without Bor-

ders helped take on some 3,000 people who had been travelling in some 20 small wooden boats. In images and video by The Associated Press, migrants from Eritrea and Somalia cheered as the rescue boats arrived, with some jumping into the water and swimming toward them while others carefully carried babies onto the rescue ships. Tens of thousands of Africans take the dangerous Mediterranean Sea route as a gateway to a better life in Europe, alongside those fleeing wars from Syria to Afghanistan. Libya’s chaos and lack of border controls have turned it into a migrant transit route.

Pope Francis met with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, at the Vatican. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says one topic of discussion at Monday’s meeting was “how to use communication technologies to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and make a message of hope arrive, especially to those most in need.”

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The B.C. Liberals’ new climate change policy is a futile attempt to balance what’s desperately needed with what’s politcally expedient — and it provides a perfect example of a society frozen in inaction

Rosemary is in Vancouver all week, reporting on the major issues facing the city. Today: The environment. Even those who don’t often dream will likely have had this one: You are alone, and in danger. Some evil is about to fall, but you can’t move or even scream. The doom approaches, and you’re stunned, useless. This, broadly, feels like our collective response to climate change. Certainly, this is the moment of impending catastrophe. In just the last few weeks, one scientist predicted that “next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice”; Rolling Stone magazine warned we’ve reached “the point of no return,” that sea levels could rise 10 times faster than predicted, and suggested “historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan;” the small village of Newtok, Alaska, has voted to relocate as rising waters erode the town’s land; global coffee production is estimated to be halved by rising temperatures; and a New York Times map of projected temperatures across the U.S. showed 100-degreeFahrenheit days soaking the continent by 2100, like some deadly red dye. Tossed into this whirlpool of bad news is the B.C. Liberals’ much-anticipated climate change policy, providing a perfect example of a society frozen in inaction. Released last week, it’s a document written for gentler a time — or a time when we had time on our side. Tom-

If we all took climate change as seriously as we should, high carbon taxes would be politically expedient

Pierre Frappé-Sénécleuze, a senior advisor at the Pembina Institute, described it as “disappointing,” but another equally apt word would be “useless.” Premier Christy Clark is seeking to balance something desperately needed — the curbing of greenhouse

newable energy technology to drive economic growth. Pitting climate change against the “economy” is a false dichotomy, he said, arguing green energy “is a trilliondollar market, globally.” While the policy requires that the liquefied natural gas industry

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would be politically expedient. It’s not that we don’t care about irreversible changes to the world that could wreak havoc on the food supply, force mass migration that would make the situation in Europe seem manageable, upend global trade and slap a

B.C. Premier Christy Clark, back left, and B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak plug in an electric vehicle before announcing the province’s climate action plan in Richmond, B.C., on Aug. 19. DARRYL DYCK/HE CANADIAN PRESS

gas emissions — with something politically expedient — the protection of gas prices at the pump, as well as “jobs” and the “economy.” The carbon tax will remain frozen, instead of increasing by $10 per tonne a year, as the province’s Climate Leadership Team recommended. Since the province is already off track in meeting 2020 emissions targets set in 2007, the new plan aims to keep a promise to reduce emissions by 80 per cent from the 2007 level by 2050, suggesting accountability is really only important a few decades from now. The policy makes a few weak gestures to the future, said Frappé-Sénécleuze (like increased tree planting and electrical car charging stations), while missing two key opportunities: increasing the carbon tax and investing in re-

reduce leaked emission and methane by 45 per cent by 2025, Frappé-Sénécleuze sees those as efforts to prop up an existing resource industry at the expense of developing new energy sources. “Everybody right now is given a free cheque to pollute,” Frappé-Sénécleuze said, and that “has a real effect and a huge cost to our children.” But not, necessarily, to us. And certainly not to the premier’s political career. Whatever haunts Clark’s dreams, it’s clearly not climate change. It should be obvious to us all that an insufficient amount of fear around environmental changes will be disastrous. But the B.C. Liberals aren’t alone in their blasé response. If we all took climate change as seriously as we should, high carbon taxes and big investments in renewables

foreclosure sign across Whistler Blackcomb. It’s that we can’t quite seem to care more about them then we do our current conveniences. There are undoubtedly some people for whom a gas hike would be a genuine economic hardship (and the premier’s own Climate Leadership Team suggested ways to mitigate that impact), but the truth is most of us could manage to pay more. If we don’t want to, than that’s just our petty preferences. And if we continue to prioritize the status quo — out of sheer laziness, let’s face it — then politicians will continue to offer limp policies, and we’ll all get the apocalyptic future we deserve. Tomorrow: What it takes to rent a place in Canada’s most competitive market.

Back to school time can fill many kids and their parents with dread. When I was a kid, the dread was inspired by the end of midday bike rides, the return of routine, and proper adult supervision. For my single mother, back to school was a relief, as we kids returned to the bosom of public education and she had reason to stop worrying about us and our futures. But I was a kid a long time ago, when governments still invested in the public good. Parents of children today, especially here in B.C., do not have the luxury of imagining their children are well taken care of by the public education system. They see their schools falling into disrepair, they are increasingly asked to pony up for fees or watch programs get named optional or extraneous that were part of everyone’s school experience in the past. Maybe worst of all is the way the B.C. government talks to parents, misrepresenting the math and denying the impact underfunding is having on our next generation. The degree of misrepresentation of the facts is so huge that it could be described as an instance of gaslighting, a form of psychological abuse used to make a victim doubt their own memory, their perception, and ultimately their sanity. That must be how parents feel when they try to reconcile the reality of the leaky pipes and crowded classrooms they see with the

government’s mantra that BC education funding is at “record levels.” In raw dollars, funding may be up, but if schools are putting off long-term maintenance projects, if school boards must cut programs that make for wellrounded student life and stuff classrooms with more kids than staff levels can handle, then the funding is simply inadequate. A recent report on education spending by Alex Hemingway of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives busts the myths told by the provincial government, explaining that spending on public education has been declining as a percentage of our GDP. He also notes that the government’s own Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services has reported that current public education funding is inadequate, “which is causing significant operational and program delivery problems in schools throughout BC.” All this, while the government socks away a surplus. Tomorrow night, CCPA’s Alex Hemingway will be the guest speaker at a forum on the subject of public education funding. For those crowding into the gym of Sir James Douglas Elementary, the event will be a support group as much as instruction in how to advocate for your children’s right to a proper education. But who can blame parents for doing what they can to face the bleak reality their kids return to next week? Trish Kelly lives and writes in East Vancouver. Follow her on Twitter @trishkellyc Philosopher Cat by Jason Logan

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the body to be small but sleek. Option No. 2: “Lord of the jungle.” I can make a normal guy look like Tarzan. Tarzan has broad shoulders, a small waist, increased pectorals that are high and flat on his torso, like two dinner plates. If they

want to look more like Tarzan, I would add in some whole eggs to that diet, some chicken and occasional steak and some turkey. Option No. 3: “The Incredible Hulk.” This guy is massive, covered in muscle. The type of person you see walking down the street and you cross the road because you don’t want to be near the person. I can give him excess physical relevance. If they want to look like the Incredible Hulk: whole eggs, cottage cheese, steak, beef in general — those things would encourage size. torstar news service

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Mel Brooks mourns passing of collaborator and friend Gene Wilder, the frizzy-haired actor who brought his deft comedic touch to such unforgettable roles as the neurotic accountant in The Producers and the deranged animator of Young Frankenstein, has died. He was 83. Wilder’s nephew said Monday that the actor and writer died late Sunday at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a statement that Wilder was diagnosed with the disease three years ago, but kept the condition private so as not to disappoint fans. “He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world,” Walker-Pearlman said. Wilder started his acting career on the stage, but millions

knew him from his work in the movies, especially his collaborations with Mel Brooks on The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. The last film — with Wilder playing a California-born descendant of the mad scientist, insisting that his name is pronounced “Frahnken-SHTEEN” — was co-written by Brooks and Wilder. “One of the truly great talents of our time,” Mel Brooks tweeted. “He blessed every film we did with his magic & he blessed me with his friendship.” With his unkempt hair and big, buggy eyes, Wilder was a master at playing panicked characters caught up in schemes that only a madman such as Brooks could devise. But he also knew how to keep it cool as the boozy gunslinger in Blazing Saddles or the charming candy man in the children’s favourite Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. His craziest role: the therapist having an affair with a sheep in Woody Allen’s Everything You Wanted

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to Know About Sex. In 1982, while making the generally forgettable Hanky-Panky, he fell in love with co-star Gilda Radner. They were married in 1984, and co-starred in two Wilder-penned films: The Lady in Red and Haunted Honeymoon. After Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, Wilder spent much of his time after promoting cancer research. He opened a support facility for cancer patients called Gilda’s Place. In 1991, he testified before Congress about the need for increased testing for cancer. Wilder is survived by his wife, Karen, whom he married in 1991. the associated press

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Old hockey guard has been slow to take to spreadsheets Remember the summer of analytics? NHL teams tripping over themselves to hire the best and the brightest and hockey-based data analysts were going to turn spreadsheets into knowledge and deliver that extra edge. It felt as if it was going to be revolution. Two years later — outside of growing comfort with terms like “puck possession” and “zone entries” — the sport neither looks nor feels revolutionized. To some, high-profile oustings of analytics professionals through the summer signalled a counter-revolution by the old guard. But to its backers, the days of MoneyPuck are only beginning, with small-market teams such as the Florida Panthers leading the way. “It’s inevitable that analytics will be as big a part of hockey as it is in other sports,” said author Rob Vollman, an analytics pioneer. “The use of analytics is inevitable. Certain teams will get an early lead. Certain teams are already getting an early lead. It’s only a matter of time before all teams have to play catch-up.”

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There have been some notable hiccups for the pro-analytics camp, battles seemingly lost this summer that have slowed the pace of change. • Tyler Dellow, one of the original analytics boosters, was let go in Edmonton. • Matt Pfeffer sent packing in Montreal, apparently for disagreeing loudly about the Shea

Weber-for-P.K. Subban deal. “The Ottawa Senators felt that getting a karate instructor was a good investment, to get an edge,” Vollman said. “If they think there’s an edge to analytics, they haven’t been public about it. “Old-market Canadian teams have a traditional way of doing things. Whereas new market teams, like Florida and Nash-

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ville, are a little bit more open minded, not grounded in traditional thinking, but applying what we’ve learned from other sports and other businesses into hockey.” In Toronto, where the analytics community is loudest, there was downright concern that the organization was ignoring its analytics department in favour of an “old-school” approach with the signings of enforcer-type Matt Martin and rough-and-tumble defenceman Roman Polak. Not true, says Leafs GM Lou

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Donaldson continues his power surge for Blue Jays Josh Donaldson hit his fourth homer in two days and Jose Bautista also went deep in support of Marco Estrada, leading the Toronto Blue Jays over the Baltimore Orioles 5-1 on Monday night. Toronto leads third-place Baltimore by four games in the AL East. The Jays lead the second-place Red Sox by 2.5 games after Boston’s 9-4 win over Tampa on Monday. The Associated Press Browner among cuts made by Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks released veteran defensive back Brandon Browner among six roster moves made by the team Monday. Seattle reduced its roster from 90 to 84. The team must get to the 75-man limit by Tuesday afternoon. Browner was trying to convert from a cornerback to a hybrid safety but saw limited time in the previous two pre-season games. The Associated Press

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