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Russians seize nuclear plant; attack triggers global alarm ANDREW DRAKE, FRANCESCA EBEL, YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russian troops

Friday seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn yet in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Firefighters put out the blaze, and no radiation was released, UN and Ukrainian officials said.

Russian forces pressed on with their week-old offensive on multiple fronts, though they did not appear to make ­significant gains in fighting Friday, i­ ncluding their offensive to cut Ukraine off from its coastline. The ­number of refugees fleeing the country eclipsed 1.2 million.

With world condemnation mounting, the Kremlin cracked down on the flow of information at home, blocking Facebook, Twitter, the BBC and the U.S. government-funded Voice of America.

While the vast Russian armored column threatening Kyiv remained stalled outside the capital, Russia’s military has launched hundreds of ­missiles and artillery attacks on c ­ ities and other sites across the ­country, and made significant gains on the ground in the south in an apparent bid to cut off Ukraine’s access to the sea.

In the attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar, the chief of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said a Russian “projectile” hit a training centre, not any of the six reactors. Nuclear officials from Sweden to China said no ­radiation spikes had been reported, as did Grossi.

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In Victoria, charities join forces to send aid to Ukrainians as the community prepares for a rally along Douglas Street to show support

Dell Wergeland, president of the Compassionate Resource Warehouse, organizes items for trauma-counselling kits to be sent to Poland along with medical and other much-needed supplies. Story, page 4. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST

Victoria Ukrainians ramp up Sunday rally LOUISE DICKSON Times Colonist Victoria’s Ukrainian c ­ ommunity is hoping hundreds of people will line Douglas Street on ­Sunday afternoon to denounce the ­Russian attack on their ­country and show support for their homeland.

“We’re hoping for an even better turnout than the rally last week,” Victoria Grando, manager of the Ukrainian Cultural Centre, said Friday.

“It was amazing. We’re just speechless. We can’t even express how much we appreciate the support.”

The rally will begin at

12:30 p.m. Organizers are asking people to stand with ­Ukrainian flags and signs, from the U ­ krainian Cultural Centre at 3277 Douglas St. through ­downtown to Dallas Road.

“It’s so important so the Ukrainian people know that someone is behind them,” said Grando.

“They are able to see news.

And they see the show of ­support from around the world.

When they have an opportunity to have their phones on, they see how the world is supporting us and what’s the latest from the front lines.”

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Victoria’s landmark 1940sera Turner building with its ­distinctive rounded frontage is on the market for $4.375 million after sitting vacant for more than two decades.

The 1946 building at ­Richmond Road and Birch Street, across from Royal ­Jubilee Hospital, is beloved by those who used to frequent Ian’s Jubilee Coffee Shop and by others who admired its ­architecture.

But in 2013, the structure was threatened with d ­ emolition, after a section of wall fell off and crashed to the sidewalk.

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family, then its owners, to repair or dismantle the building to ­protect the public. A safety report found mould and water damage, along with structural problems.

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was launched to save the ­building. Many hoped to see a ­replacement restaurant.

In the end, Island Cardiology Holdings Inc. bought the building and its two lots.

Former Victoria mayor Alan Lowe, an architect, unveiled a plan for the site in 2016 s­ howing a 29,000-square-foot building with ground-floor c ­ ommercial and offices above. A s­ eparate rental building was also ­proposed.

But that project did not proceed. Since then, the building has been boarded up.

A new sign advertising it for sale was recently installed.

Ross Marshall, senior vicepresident at commercial real estate firm CBRE in Victoria, said Friday that the 2013 purchasers had originally intended

The Turner Building on Richmond Road was built in 1946 and once housed Ian’s Jubilee Coffee Shop. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST to be owner-occupiers of a new building. But they decided not to go that route, and because they are not developers, the property went on the market.

The property is zoned for both commercial and residential uses. There were four ­apartments above the groundfloor r­ estaurant in the Turner building. The two lots facing Birch Street are empty.

Together, the three sites total 17,079 square feet. The size of a potential redevelopment is not yet known and would have to go through rezoning if a mixed-use project is envisioned.

The property is being ­marketed as a development opportunity and has received

a lot of interest, Marshall said, since it’s close to downtown ­Victoria and Oak Bay, and across the street from the Amica ­seniors development project now under construction.

The Turner building has no heritage designation.

Marshall anticipates that interested developers will be speaking to city hall about what might be feasible on the ­property.

With the new seniors f­ acility going up, he said, “It is really going to transform that c ­ orner into something a lot more ­prominent and it’s going to breathe some life into the ­neighbourhood.” cjwilson@timescolonist.com

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B.C. Bid upgrade has been years in waiting LES LEYNE Opposition B.C. Liberals are under the impression that a ­government information ­technology upgrade that runs into a host of unexpected ­problems and years past ­deadlines is still news.

How quaint.

We’re decades into the Information Age now and one constant is that anything ­government does in that sphere instantly gets a lot more complicated and time-consuming than you’d expect.

Still the Liberals took a run at yet another example this week, focusing on the B.C. Bid website.

It was partly based on the usual delay, which is impressive even by public sector standards. It was also due to the fact Citizens’

Services Minister Lisa Beare is nominally responsible for it.

The veracity of her earlier ­assurances about the work is up for scrutiny, and she has already been a target in that regard on another issue.

B.C. Bid is supposed to be a handy government website devoted to procurement. The province of B.C. buys billions of dollars worth of goods and services every year. Much of it is through the site, through which bidders can make offers on ­government requests.

(Do you have any “­ hexagonal double-twist gabion mesh” on hand? The transportation ­ministry needs 1,800 square metres of it. Do you want to sell 199,000 rounds of 9 mm practice ammunition? See the sheriff’s department post on B.C. Bid.) Municipal and other entities also advertise their needs on the site.

Front and centre on the website is this notice: “Changes are coming to B.C. Bid! “We’re launching a new, ­modernized B.C. Bid application — a priority project within the B.C. Procurement Strat-

egy — that will make it easier for c ­ ompanies of all sizes to do ­business with the province.”

Sounds exciting. But ­opposition critics are more excited about how long that teaser has been posted.

The exact time is hard to determine, but it looks like years.

The NDP government issued a news release a few months after taking office in 2017 in which the previous minister responsible, Jinny Sims, said the government was looking for ­contractors to upgrade the site.

They had a month to respond, then bids would be assessed, work would begin and “the new B.C. Bid app is expected to be up and running in 2019.”

In June 2018, there was another news release heralding a new strategy to modernize ­government purchasing. The B.C. Bid upgrade was called a major part of that.

Beare took over the Citizens’ Services portfolio in late 2020 and later set a new deadline of the end of 2021.

But the “changes are coming” teaser is still posted.

Liberal MLA Bruce Banman said: “The NDP and the minister have completely bungled this project from day one.”

He specifically targeted the impression left by Beare ­earlier that the upgrade is going smoothly, saying documents clearly establish the opposite.

The accusation rekindles last month’s controversy about the new fee for freedom of ­information requests.

Beare had assured e ­ veryone last fall there would be ­consultation. But then she imposed the fee immediately after the law was changed.

That prompted a contempt of parliament motion when the house resumed sitting that was rejected by the Speaker.

On the B.C. Bid issue, she explained that it was all the ­previous government’s fault for letting the site fall 25 years behind the times.

“It no longer meets the needs of people and the businesses that do use it.”

She told the legislature the government is now “testing the application … preparing buyers and suppliers for registration …

Death toll feared much higher: UN > FROM A1: UKRAINE The attack triggered global alarm and fear of a catastrophe that could dwarf the world’s worst nuclear disaster, at Ukraine’s Chernobyl in 1986.

In an emotional nighttime speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he feared an explosion that would be “the end for everyone. The end for Europe. The evacuation of Europe.”

Authorities said Russian troops had taken control of the overall site but plant staff continued to run it. Only one reactor was operating, at 60% of capacity, Grossi said in the aftermath

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in the north and the east, where the Russian offensive has stalled, meeting fierce Ukrainian resistance.

A round of talks between Russia and Ukraine yielded a tentative agreement Thursday to set up safe corridors to evacuate citizens and deliver food and medicine. But the details still had to be worked out.

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The phone at the cultural centre has rung thousands of times in the last week, said an exhausted Grando, who is no longer answering it. Like many concerned about Ukraine, she can’t sleep because late night in Victoria is morning in Ukraine.

“We’re phoning all the family friends — ‘Are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK?’ Thank God they still have an internet connection and mobile providers have offered free calls to Ukraine until the end of March,” she said.

Margaret Bachmann, a former nurse, arrived at the centre

with yellow tulips and a card, asking for information about donations and refugees.

“I feel that I need to help in whatever way I can,” said Bachmann. “It’s really important to me to show that we care. It’s the little things that matter most, whether that’s opening up our wallets or giving of our time.”

Bachmann said she was grateful to live in Canada, and she praised the bravery and courage of the Ukrainian people and their leader.

“I can’t even fathom what they are going through. I’m so sad. But I think flowers bring a sense of hope and faith.”

Victoria philanthropist and furniture retailer Gordie Dodd also dropped by the centre Friday, offering to help future refugees with furniture,

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28 have been killed, according to Ukraine’s government. A total of 331 civilians had been confirmed killed in the invasion, but the true number is probably much higher, the UN human rights office said.

Frequent shelling could be heard in the centre of Kyiv, though more distant than in recent days, with loud thudding every 10 minutes resonating over the rooftops.

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Just So You Know: The B.C. Liberals’ Mike de Jong told the house: “If there were a Nobel prize for secrecy and misinformation, she’d be in Oslo today.”

Beare responded: “Well, if there was an Oscar for little ­theatre, the member for Abbotsford West would certainly win that.” lleyne@timescolonist.com

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of the attack. Two people were injured in the fire, Grossi said.

Ukraine’s state nuclear plant operator Enerhoatom said three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and two wounded.

In the U.S., Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the episode “underscores the recklessness with which the Russians have been perpetrating this unprovoked invasion.” At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Ukraine’s UN. ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said the fire started as a result of Russian shelling of the plant and accused Moscow of committing “an act of nuclear terrorism.”

Without producing evidence, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that a Ukrainian “sabotage group” had set the fire at Zaporizhzhia.

Russian forces did not make significant progress Friday in their offensive to sever Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, which would deal a severe blow to its economy and could worsen an already dire humanitarian situation. There were also no changes

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That update comes four years after the first word of the upgrade. Hundreds of pages of d ­ ocuments released via freedom-of-information requests from the opposition and The Tyee news website s­ uggest the traditional pattern on IT upgrades is being followed.

Unexpected problems, contract rewrites and scope reductions to cope with extra costs. No doubt the pandemic also makes it harder.

Beare referred last year to it being “re-baselined.”

That either means it is on budget only because the budget was increased, or because the scale of the project was reduced.

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mattresses — even employment, said Grando.

Donations can be made through the Red Cross and the Canada Ukraine Foundation, she said.

The cultural centre does not yet have its charitable tax status.

The Ukrainian Cultural Centre is putting together a list of people who have offered their homes and to sponsor refugees.

The list includes lawyers who have offered to help process documents, she said. The government has been slow and bureaucratic in its response to the refugee crisis, said Grando.

This week, Immigration ­Minister Sean Fraser announced the Canadian government will create a new visa category allowing Ukrainians to come to Canada to live, work or study for up to two years.

There is no limit on how many people can come under the program. The government is also introducing an expedited path to permanent residency for Ukrainians with family members in Canada, allowing a “wider circle of family members” to sponsor those who want to stay here.

Churches are ready to sponsor Ukrainian refugees who have fled, Grando said. “The Greek Catholic church, the Orthodox church — we are ready. We are just waiting for the federal government to announce there is refugee status for Ukrainians.” ldickson@timescolonist.com

OTTAWA — Pfizer Canada has recalled a prescription drug used to treat high blood pressure but the company and Health Canada are advising people to continue the medication unless told to stop by a doctor.

The recall affects all lots of Accuretic (quinapril hydrochloride and hydrochlorothiazide) medication in 10/12.5 milligrams, 20/12.5 mg and 20/25 mg strengths.

Pfizer said the recall is due to impurities of nitrosamine (N-nitroso-quinapril) above the accepted level. Long-term exposure to higher levels may increase the risk of cancer.

Health Canada said a person taking a drug that contains this impurity at an acceptable level every day for 70 years is not expected to be at increased risk of cancer.

The agency said people may keep using the medication unless a doctor says otherwise, noting that not treating the ­condition may pose a greater health risk.

Health Canada said to contact a health-care provider to discuss other treatment options.

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High school students show their mettle in robot contest Esquimalt High School ­Robotics Club members ­prepare their robot “Tower of Power” for the rapid react competition during the First Robotics Canadian Pacific Regionals, a robotics ­competition for high school students at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Friday.

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Horn honkers N-word complaint raises questions about teaching at legislature of Black history in schools protests could face $125 ticket JEFF BELL Times Colonist

Victoria council supports right to protest, but noise has become ‘very trying’ for James Bay residents, mayor says JEFF BELL Times Colonist With another rally against pandemic measures planned for Saturday at the legislature, horn honkers might want to think twice about filling Victoria streets with noise.

Area residents have complained about persistent honking during recent protests at the legislature against COVID-19 health restrictions, prompting the city to implement a direct ticketing process for unnecessary horn use — use that isn’t intended to warn of a potential danger from a vehicle.

Previously, the ticketing process could get bogged down, since it involved potential court appearances.

Police and city bylaw officers can now slap honkers with immediate tickets for as much as $125, which will be reduced to $75 if paid within 30 days.

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said ticketing honkers has nothing to do with stopping people from expressing their opinions.

“Council absolutely supports the right to demonstrate, to gather peaceably to make a point,” she said. “We’re the capital city and we welcome people to the legislature all the time to do that.”

But the horn honking has

become “very trying” for residents and businesspeople. “It’s disruptive on an ongoing basis,” Helps said.

The goal of the municipal tickets is “to act as a deterrent to give our residents some peace and quiet, even while democracy is being exercised,” she said.

Helps said the city received complaints that customers were leaving stores because of the noise.

Victoria police spokesman Bowen Osoko said the council move “adds to the toolkit that we can use.”

“Our approach is always de-escalation and then enforcement.”

Police said the public should expect traffic disruptions today downtown and around the ­legislature.

During last weekend’s protest, officers issued 10 tickets for offences ranging from excessive noise to obstructing traffic.

They also issued more than 50 warnings for various ­infractions, including horn honking.

Police said they have heard concerns from James Bay ­residents during protests and will try to minimize disruptions in the area. jbell@timescolonist.com

A Sooke School District ­teacher’s use of the n-word while reading a historical novel about escaping slaves prompted ac ­ omplaint from a parent and touched off a debate about how Black history is taught in schools.

Superintendent Scott S ­ tinson said that as part of Black ­History Month in February, the teacher planned to read with the students Underground to ­Canada, a youth novel by ­Barbara Smucker first published in 1977 about the Underground Railroad and how it helped slaves from the American south escape to Canada.

“So prior to instruction, she sent a letter home to all families indicating the sensitivity of the subject that they were teaching, the novel that was going to be used and what instruction would happen around the language,” said Stinson, who wouldn’t reveal the name of the school or the grade involved, although CBC reported it was a Grade 6 class.

The teacher also did lessons with the class prior to starting to read the book, Stinson said.

When she read the book aloud, he said, the students had it in front of them to read along.

“She was reading, and when she came to that word read it out,” Stinson said.

He said a parent emailed the teacher and said the reading had affected her child. The parent also later made a complaint to the district.

Stinson said the teacher responded within hours “to apologize, to say she won’t use it any more and to ask how she could help make this better for the child.”

He said that from his point of

Underground to Canada by ­Barbara Smucker tells the story of two enslaved girls who escape a southern U.S. plantation and travel to Canada via the Underground Railroad. PUFFIN CLASSICS view, she did almost everything she should have in teaching content that was sensitive in nature.

“The one piece that is in error is saying the word out loud, in my opinion,” Stinson said. “We’re not claiming that we’re perfect at this. We’re learning as we go and we’re open to being better as a school district.”

Markiel Simpson of the group B.C. Community Alliance — a Black-led group looking at how to deal with racism in educational settings — said similar incidents are happening around the province “because good teachers aren’t being given good learning resources and good anti-racism training.”

He said another part of the problem is that slavery and the Underground Railroad tend to

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be the primary focus of Black history instruction.

“There should really be a focus on more of a Canadian context, more of an African context, things outside and beyond enslavement,” Simpson said.

“I think we have to grow the context of what we’re teaching British Columbians and support teachers in doing so.”

Teaching of Black history should also include topics such as the accomplishments of Black people through Canadian history, he said, and systemic racism that persists today.

He added that there is no reason that learning about Black history has to be concentrated in just one month out of the year.

B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Teri Mooring said she is unaware of the details of the Sooke School District incident, but the goal is to learn from mistakes. “When mistakes are made, then there needs to be a recognition of that, and we need to quite frankly do better in those situations.”

She said the federation has worked for decades on racialjustice issues “within our own union, in society and in our classrooms.” Many resources are supplied through the TeachBC website, Mooring said.

“Especially given that last month was Black History Month, there are a plethora of resources there, including generalized resources around racism, recognizing racism, interfering with racism and that kind of thing.”

She said the BCTF realizes there is still work to do.

“We recognize that there is more support that’s needed,” she said. “We are actively looking to work with districts in terms of that anti-racism work that needs to happen in schools.” jbell@timescolonist.com

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Rapid tests free for over-60s at pharmacies next week Times Colonist British Columbians over age 60 can pick up free rapid ­antigen test kits from pharmacies ­beginning Monday.

The move, announced by the province Friday, expands a program currently reserved for those over 70.

“Eligible individuals can pick up one kit containing five tests every 28 days from participating pharmacies at no cost,” the

Health Ministry said. “Individuals must present their personal health number when picking up the kit or, if others are picking up kits on their behalf, in addition to the individual’s name and personal health number, date of birth must also be supplied.”

People are supposed to pick up the kits when they are asymptomatic, so they’re available if they develop symptoms.

As of March 3, the ministry had shipped 3.9 million tests to

Charities join forces to help Ukrainians PEDRO ARRAIS Times Colonist Two local charities have joined forces to help to fill a shipping container with relief supplies for Ukrainians fleeing the war in their country, including hygiene products for hospitals and tool kits to help children, with donations accepted at two locations.

Soap for Hope Canada is working with Compassionate Resource Warehouse in Victoria to pack a 40-foot container with hygiene products, humanitarian aid and medical supplies destined for the Polish-Ukrainian border. Another container filled with non-perishable food is already en route to the region.

With the help of iCROSS Canada and their partners on the ground, the charities plan to set up a field hospital and registration centre for new arrivals.

“The situation is very fluid at this time, so we may be setting up feeding stations along with general relief supplies,” said Dee Wergeland, president of Compassionate Resource Warehouse.

Among the relief supplies will be trauma-counselling kits, with very specific items to support children who have undergone mental trauma.

“The kits encourage children to tell their stories,” said Wergeland. “Some children find it hard to vocalize the trauma they have experienced. The notebooks, art supplies and even hand ­puppets give children an avenue to express their feelings, to help them get it out.”

Trauma counselling supplies needed for the kits include drawing paper, construction paper, beads, sidewalk chalk, crayons, pencils crayons, sharpeners and hand puppets.

Due to COVID-19, the ­warehouse is not open to walk-in traffic. People wishing to donate should make an

­appointment to drop off items.

They will be accepting ­donations from 9 a.m. to noon Monday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Wednesday and Friday. An address will be given once the appointment is confirmed.

A full list of items needed can be found on the website. People can also help by donating cash.

For more information, go to crwarehouse.ca.

Local charity Soap for Hope is pitching in to fill the shipping container, which the partners have jointly purchased.

Once the container arrives at its destination and has been unloaded, it will be repurposed to serve as secure storage for equipment and supplies.

“There is huge worry and anxiety over this crisis. People are standing by wanting to help ... and not knowing what to do,” said Anne McIntyre, executive director of the local charity.

“Soap for Hope Canada will help by providing Ukrainians fleeing their homes with basic products that save lives and bring comfort. Soap is very important at any hospital and is necessary in these conditions.”

They hope to include personal hygiene products such as body lotion, bars of wrapped soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, combs, brushes, face cloths, towels and feminine products. There is also a call for baby items (diapers, diaper cream, baby shampoo, baby lotion) and basic first aid items.

Donations will be accepted from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 7 to 10 at 426b William St. and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 12 at Second Hand Hope, 444 William St. Soap for Hope Canada is also accepting financial donations to cover the cost of the container, shipping and supplies. For more ­information, or to donate, go to ­­soapforhopecanada. ca. parrais@timescolonist.com

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pharmacy distributors. Almost half of those had been shipped to community pharmacies ­throughout B.C., with up to 583,000 rapid tests dispensed through more than 1,000 participating pharmacies.

B.C. expects to get another nine million tests from the federal government, which the ministry said will “support the province’s strategy to further distribute tests to members of the broader community.”

Provincial health officials reported eight more deaths due to COVID-19 on Friday, including four in the Island Health region. A total of 2,903 people with COVID-19 have died in B.C. since the start of the pandemic.

The Health Ministry on ­Friday said 484 people were in hospital with COVID-19 while 69 were in intensive care. The number was down from Thursday, when 511 people were being treated in hospital and 79 were

in intensive care.

B.C. reported 340 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, for a total of 349,944 infections since the pandemic began. Sixty-five new confirmed cases were reported in Island Health.

Officials say 90.8 per cent of those eligible 12 and older have received their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 58 per cent have had their third dose.

— With a file from The Canadian Press

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Pedestrians make their way past orange safety cones as construction continues on Government Street in Victoria. The project, which started last September and stretches from Pandora Avenue to Hillside Avenue, includes the addition of protected bike lanes on both sides of the street, replacement of an aging water main, road paving and new traffic signals. ADRIAN LAM, TIMES COLONIST

Man told to remove Ukrainian flag from Richmond condo window ALANNA KELLY Glacier Media Adam Easterbrook and his partner were in their Richmond condominium watching scenes play out from the Russian invasion of Ukraine when they decided they wanted to do something to show their support.

Easterbrook made two Ukrainian flags from paper to hang on his street-­facing window.

He had tried to buy a flag, but the shop was sold out.

“I think it is important because the symbols that people see every day matters to them,” he said. “By putting up these sorts of symbols, we are showing solidarity.”

The two small flags went up Sunday night. On Monday morning, however, management at the condominium building called Easterbrook, telling him to take the flags down.

In an email shared with Glacier Media, a building manager

told Easterbrook: “we cannot open this box as everyone will then want to display flags, signs, etc. for everything. If you allow this, we must allow everyone to do the same, which is against our bylaws and [would] create tension and political mess within the property.”

Glacier Media reached out to the building’s management by phone and email but did not immediately receive a response.

“There’s 40 million people who are potentially losing their way of life, there’s people dying, there’s loss of culture, there’s trauma, there’s potentially millions of people who are being put out of their country, becoming refugees,” said Easterbrook. “If now isn’t a time to support the Ukrainian people, I don’t know when is.”

Taking down the small flags did not sit well with him, so he came up with a creative alternative, purchasing six blue and yellow light bulbs. “What we did was move our lights close to the

blinds and we made it so that the lights in the bedroom and office are blue and then these ones are yellow. At night, it looks pretty cool. It looks like the Ukrainian colours.”

While it’s disappointing not to be able to signal support for Ukraine 24 hours a day, Easterbrook said the light display demonstrates “there’s other ways around it and we are going to show support one way or another.”

Easterbrook is aware they could face a fine for having the signs up — he says he’d give the money to the Red Cross instead of building management.

“Obviously, there are a lot of Ukrainians living in Canada.

I can’t even imagine how horrible this is for them.”

Even if one person sees his lights, Easterbrook will be satisfied. “It’s just a small act that we are doing,” he said. “But that small act can hopefully create change and help people feel like they belong.”

Nanaimo police on lookout for street racers Times Colonist Nanaimo RCMP officers are cracking down on street racing and “stunting” after many complaints about revving engines and screeching tires in some areas.

A resident near the Nanaimo North Town Centre mall, where the activity is a daily occurrence, told police the noise is unbearable at times.

Police said 30 or more vehicles driven by predominantly young males will gather in one

of the mall parking lots and drive around.

Const. Gary O’Brien said the RCMP’s traffic unit has fielded “one too many calls from residents who are sick and tired of constant tires screeching.”

“Enforcement is being ramped up and we are serving notice to those participating in these illegal activities that it is going to stop.”

Police have stepped up patrols of the mall parking lots, a gathering place for street racers.

“The street racing takes this

to an entirely different level, as it is not only dangerous to those involved, it places other motorists and pedestrians at risk,” O’Brien said.

Two drivers were ticketed on the night of Feb. 19 for excessive noise and driving without reasonable consideration.

Stunting and street racing could lead to a seven-day vehicle impoundment, a substantial fine and a licence suspension for new drivers, police said. “Stunting” is reckless driving and trying to do tricks like laying rubber.

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Times Colonist The police watchdog is looking into an incident where a driver claimed she was injured during an arrest after a traffic stop in Cobble Hill.

The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. is probing

the arrest, which occurred Feb. 11 in the area of Shawnigan Lake and Mile End roads. The civilianoversight agency investigates police-related incidents resulting in serious harm or death.

In this case, an officer conducted a traffic stop where the driver reportedly did not obey

directions and was taken into custody. She was transported to the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment.

On Feb. 16, she told police that she had sustained a serious but non-life-threatening injury during the arrest. The IIO investigation began the same day.

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schedule. The one-day closure at Duke Point is to allow upgrading of the terminal’s hydraulic valves and ramp controls, B.C. Ferries said.

Regular sailings between Duke Point and Tsawwassen will

resume on Sunday.

Today, ferries will leave Departure Bay for Tsawwassen at 5:05 a.m., 7:55 a.m., 10:25 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 3:55 p.m. and 6:35 p.m. The sailing takes two hours.

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A photo of UBC Okanagan campus security guard Harmandeep Kaur on display at a vigil held in her honour on Friday. CASTANET

UBC Okanagan holds vigil for slain security guard VICTORIA FEMIA Glacier Media A vigil was held at UBC Okanagan on Friday to honour the life of campus security guard, Harmandeep Kaur, 24, who was killed at work last week.

Hundreds gathered at University Centre in Kelowna to mourn Kaur after she was assaulted by a worker at the university and later died in hospital.

Kelowna city councillor Mohini Singh said she was devastated when she learned what happened. “Just absolutely devastating. I just knew a young woman had been murdered and the more I got into it I realized who she was and what happened, how it occurred,” said Singh.

“This poor young woman was just here doing her job to keep people safe, but my big question is who is keeping her safe.”

Kaur moved to Canada from India in 2015 in hopes of ­furthering her education. She was attending school and hoped one day to become a paramedic.

She obtained her permanent residency status three weeks before her death.

Kaur was working for Paladin Security, which has so far refused to comment beyond offering condolences in a social media post.

Mohini said she would like to see legislation making it mandatory for security guards to work in pairs.

“What was a young woman doing early in the morning in the big campus, by herself. It put her in a very dangerous spot.”

Some UBCO students attending the vigil said while they didn’t know Kaur personally, they had seen her around campus and were saddened by the tragedy.

“Honestly, it was just kind of

a shock because I’m here all the time, everyone I know, we’re here all the time studying and we go in the building every day and I think it was just scary to realize how close it was to us,” said Victoria Baker, a UBCO student.

“So when we found out she was in the hospital and a ­ ctually passed away from it, it was actually like a big shock to all of us, just cause we’ve seen her around.”

Another student from UBCO said Kaur’s death has loomed over the campus and c ­ ommunity.

“It’s a week of just m ­ ourning and remembering and for something that some people feel could’ve been prevented,” said Lucas Arnold.

He said he didn’t know Kaur, but he saw her around campus “walking around and making sure everything’s good and ­looking out for other people.”

Members of the public lit candles and placed flowers outside the UNC building while the university lowered flags in her memory. A Sikh prayer was said at the vigil.

“Harmandeep was part of the community, not only the UBCO community, but the Sikh community as well. I didn’t know her personally, but my sister has friends who knew her pretty well,” said Namanpreet Lamba, a UBCO student. “And I’m here because this could’ve happened to any s­ tudent or any other person at UBC, this was an isolated event, but it’s making us question our security here.”

Lamba said after recent police incidents at the campus students are feeling unsafe.

A male suspect was arrested after the attack under the Mental Health Act and is being detained. Charges have not been announced.

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B.C. Supreme Court has denied the province’s mink farmers interim relief from a ban on their industry, saying deference must be given to health authorities attempting to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last November, Agriculture Minister Lana Popham and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced a ban on mink farming with a timeline for ending the industry. The province’s plan includes a permanent ban on live mink on farms by April 2023. All pelts, meanwhile, must be sold by 2025.

“This decision follows the recommendations of public health officials and infectious disease experts about managing the threat of the virus for workers at the farms and the broader public,” Popham said at the time.

Justice Carol Ross noted the farmers assert provincial actions would “extinguish an entire agricultural industry.”

With the breeding season now upon the farmers, they brought an application to the court on Friday to have an interim stay on the ban until their case can be heard in full.

Ross heard there are 10,825 farmed mink in the province.

They breed in March with an estimated 46,500 kits to be born this year. The farmers said not breeding this year would result in no breeding stock for 2023.

Ross noted the Animal Health

Act provides for an order for destruction of animals if needed.

“No such order has been made in the present case,” she said.

Ross further noted the COVID virus can jump between humans, mink and other animals. She said mutations can create variants of concern to health officials trying to contain the pandemic.

While the farmers lost the argument on deference to health authorities, Ross did agree that there were serious questions to be answered in a Feb. 15 petition and that they had demonstrated the ban would cause irreparable harm to the industry.

The Canadian Mink Breeders Association (CMBA) and B.C. Mink Producers Association claim the ban and other measures are ultra vires — or beyond the provincial government’s jurisdiction.

Neither the CMBA nor their lawyer could be reached for comment.

The suit asserts that a ban on production early in the ­pandemic was not within the government’s powers and should be overturned, that it would destroy the industry, and cause employment losses and financial and reputation damage to the farmers. ”The province incorrectly assessed the risk associated with mink farming, failed to meaningfully consider available mitigation measures and instead chose an unreasonable solution,” said the petition to B.C. Supreme Court.

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Miami Seaquarium ending shows with aging orca Lolita MIAMI — The new owners of

Trainer Marcia Hinton with Lolita the orca, during a 1995 performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami.

Lolita, now 56, was captured near Seattle five decades ago. NURI VALLBONA, MIAMI HERALD VIA AP

Ontario offers $10M to Ottawa businesses hit by protests The Canadian Press OTTAWA — The Ontario ­government is offering Ottawa businesses affected by the weeks-long protest in the city’s downtown $10 million in ­supports.

Tourism and Culture Minister Lisa MacLeod, who also represents an Ottawa riding, also announced a $1.5-million investment in Ottawa Tourism to help it launch a campaign to encourage visitors in the coming months.

“The illegal blockades in downtown Ottawa this winter caused significant financial losses for local businesses,” MacLeod said in a statement on Friday. “Today’s announcement will help Ottawa — and the small businesses at the heart of our

community — get ready to welcome visitors for the spring and summer tourist seasons.”

Eligible businesses can apply for grants of up to $5,000 to help pay for non-deferrable o ­ perating expenses they incurred during the blockade, up to a total of $10 million.

MacLeod said the grants will help small businesses and ­entrepreneurs get the relief they need to recover quickly.

The funding will be ­administered by Invest Ottawa, and the government said ­eligibility criteria will be posted soon on that website.

The federal government ­previously announced that small businesses could apply for up to $10,000 for non-deferrable operational costs for a total of up to $20 million.

Federal government to fight for Quebec against loss of seat on electoral map MARIE WOOLF The Canadian Press OTTAWA — The federal government is preparing to take action to ensure Quebec does not lose a seat when Canada’s electoral map is redrawn.

A number of government departments are working on proposals to protect Quebec’s voice in Parliament as it faces losing a seat in an upcoming redistribution of seats based on population.

Because Quebec’s population has declined, it stands to lose an MP, while other provinces with growing populations, including Alberta, would gain MPs. The last time a province lost a seat in redistribution was in 1966.

This week MPs voted to back a motion tabled by the Bloc Québécois rejecting the proposal to redraw the electoral map in a way that reduces the province’s political weight in the House of Commons.

The motion called for changes to the formula used by Elections Canada to allot seats. It was supported by the Liberals, NDP and some Conservatives.

The existing formula means that on the new electoral map Quebec loses a seat, Alberta gains three more, Ontario and British Columbia each gain an MP, and other provinces and territories keep the same number.

Jean-Sébastien Comeau, press secretary to Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, said the government is working on a way to ensure that Quebec’s share of MPs does not shrink.

“We reject any scenario where Quebec loses a seat. We are carefully considering next steps in terms of the redistribution of seats in the House of Commons and we will have more to say in due course,” he said.

The office of Pablo Rodriguez, who is the government’s spokesman on Quebec, also known as the Quebec lieutenant, is among those working on ways to protect the province’s representation in the Commons.

A source in the Quebec lieutenant’s office, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment to media, said there were “live discussions” ongoing about ensuring the number of seats in the province does not fall.

One of the things the government is looking at is the

2011 Fair Representation Act, which put forward ways to maintain the number of MPs in ­slower-growing provinces, to see if similar measures could be used to protect the number of ridings in Quebec, the source said.

The federal government is also looking at the formula used by Elections Canada to ­allocate provincial seats based on population and whether it can be changed to protect Quebec without more far-reaching ­consequences.

The government will likely present its proposal this month before a Bloc Québécois private member’s bill is voted on. The Bloc bill, if passed, would ensure that Quebec’s MPs never fall below a quarter of members of the House of Commons.

Canada’s chief electoral officer calculated the proposed redistribution of seats last year based on a mathematical model applied to population.

The Bloc Québécois says the proposal fails to acknowledge Quebec’s official status as a nation and would reduce the power of Quebecers in Parliament. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet believes Quebec should gain a seat, bringing it to 79 MPs, rather than lose a seat and take it down to 77.

A spokeswoman for Elections Canada said it calculates the number of House of Commons seats for each province using the population estimates supplied by Statistics Canada and a formula set out in the Constitution.

“This process is purely administrative on the part of the chief electoral officer and is done in an independent, neutral and non‑partisan manner in accordance with applicable laws,” said Natasha Gauthier.

Tory MP Michelle Rempel Garner said the Bloc motion had raised new questions about Canada’s electoral system and in a column suggested the Conservatives should take a fresh look at reforming the electoral system, including a form of proportional representation.

The MP for Calgary Nose Hill said the Conservatives, despite winning the popular vote in the last two elections, had not made gains under the first-past-thepost system. She said the Conservative party should not have to rely on splits in the left-ofcentre vote to win.

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NOTICE REGARDING THE CLASS ACTIONS RELATED TO THE PERSONAL INFORMATION BREACH ANNOUNCED BY DESJARDINS IN 2019 THIS NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY LAW. IF YOU ARE A PERSON AFFECTED BY THE PERSONAL INFORMATION BREACH, THIS NOTICE IS FOR YOU. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY BECAUSE THE SETTLEMENT OF THE CLASS ACTIONS COULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON YOUR RIGHTS. An out-of-court settlement has been reached and will be submitted to the Superior Court of Québec for approval Applications to file class actions were filed in Québec related to the personal information breach announced by Desjardins in 2019. The class actions are the subject of an out-of-court settlement agreement. This agreement follows mediation sessions before the Honourable François Rolland, former Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Québec.

The settlement agreement will be submitted to the Superior Court of Québec for approval. In order to hold a hearing on this agreement, it was necessary for the Superior Court of Québec to first authorize the class action brought against the Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec in the judicial district of Québec. The class action was authorized at the request of the parties on February 7, 2022.

The class actions include anyone in Canada who was affected by the personal information breach disclosed publicly by Desjardins on June 20, 2019 (the “class” or “class members”).

What are the main terms of the settlement agreement if approved?

The settlement provides up to $200,852,500 in total compensation for class members.

Class members may submit a claim form online or by mail and may be entitled to the following benefits: 1) Compensation for loss of time up to $18/hour, for a maximum of 5 hours, i.e., the time you spent taking certain eligible steps related to the personal information breach at Desjardins; and/or 2) Up to $1,000 if you were the victim of identity theft, i.e., the use or modification of your personal information to impersonate you without your knowledge in order to commit a fraudulent act.

All class members who have not yet registered for Equifax’s credit monitoring service offered by Desjardins can register and will thus be able to obtain, at no cost, Equifax coverage for a period of five (5) years from the date they register. The other protective measures implemented by Desjardins following the breach will be maintained for at least five (5) years.

Desjardins will pay all fees and disbursements of the attorneys for the class covered by the class actions. The fees and d isbursements that will be paid to the attorneys for the class will therefore not be deducted from the amounts awarded to class members. Desjardins will also assume all costs related to the administration of claims arising from the settlement agreement.

The settlement is not an admission of liability by Desjardins. The allegations made in the class actions have not been proven before a court of law and are contested by Desjardins.

Desjardins Group entities will receive a full and final release from all members of the class, except those who have chosen to exclude themselves (i.e., opt-out) from the class actions.

You can refer to the Final Settlement Agreement on the website of the Claims Administrator at the following address www.desjardinssettlement.com. This document is also available on the class attorneys’ websites at www.siskinds.com or www.kklex.com.

The legal costs of the class action will not be charged to the members of the class.

If the settlement agreement is approved, another notice will be published to inform you in detail of the claim process.

Right of exclusion (opt-out) You can opt-out of the class action if you prefer to pursue an individual proceeding against Desjardins. If you chose to opt-out, you will lose the opportunity to be eligible for benefits under the settlement agreement and the settlement agreement and its benefits will not apply to you even if they are approved.

To opt-out, you must both file with the Registry of the Superior Court of Québec (District of Québec) and send the Claims Administrator (see contact information below), before April 8, 2022, an exclusion form duly completed and signed, which is available to be printed from the Claim’s Administrator’s website at : www.desjardinssettlement.com.

The Clerk of the Superior Court of Québec (Palais de Justice de Québec) 300 Boulevard Jean Lesage, local 1.24 Québec QC G1K 8K6

RicePoint, a Computershare company Desjardins Class Action Claims Administrator P.O. Box 3355 London (Ontario) N6A 4K3

There is a proposed class action in British Columbia which is also based on the personal information breach announced by Desjardins in 2019: Matthew Wenman c. Desjardins Cabinet de services financiers inc. et al, Supreme Court of British Columbia, file no. VIC-S-S, 192723, district of Victoria. That proposed class action, filed on June 21, 2019, has not been certified as a class action. The release resulting from the settlement agreement covers persons and claims that are the object of the class action in British Columbia and the parties in Québec intend to work together to ensure the settlement agreement is enforced. If you opt-out of the class actions filed in Québec, you may be included in the class action in British Columbia if and when it is certified as a class action and if you are part of the class that is certified. If you do not opt-out of the class actions filed in Québec, you will not be included in the class action in British Columbia and you will have the opportunity of benefitting from the compensation under the settlement agreement.

Next steps: Hearing before the Court and your right to participate The hearing to approve the settlement agreement will be held before the Honourable Claude Bouchard, Justice of the Superior Court of Québec, on May 24, 2022 at 10:00 AM. You do not need to attend the approval hearing to be eligible for benefits.

The law allows class members to object to the settlement agreement. If you object, the Superior Court of Québec will hear your objection if you write to the Claims Administrator (see contact information below) no later than April 8, 2022, indicating: a) Your full name, current mailing address, fax number (if applicable), telephone number and email address; AND b) A brief statement of the nature and reasons for the objection; AND c) A statement indicating that you believe you are a member of the class, specifying the reasons for this belief; AND d) Whether you intend to appear at the approval hearing or whether you intend to be represented by an attorney and, if you are represented by an attorney, the attorney’s name, address, telephone number, fax number and email address.

For additional information, to obtain a copy of the settlement agreement, to obtain information regarding the settlement approval hearing, including how to opt-out, submit an objection, or indicate your intent to participate in the settlement approval hearing, please contact RicePoint, the Claims Administrator, at the contact information below: RicePoint, a Computershare Company Desjardins Class Action Claims Administrator P.O. Box 3355 London (Ontario), N6A 4K3 Phone: 1-888-886-7164 Website: www.desjardinssettlement.com The contact information for the attorneys for the class is: Me Karim Diallo Me Francis-Olivier Angenot-Langlois Siskinds Desmeules 43, rue de Buade, bureau 320 Québec (Québec) G1R 4A2 Canada Email: recoursdesjardins@siskinds.com Telephone Number: 1-581-316-0191

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Russia cracks down on dissenting media, blocks Facebook The Associated Press DUSSELDORF, Germany — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday intensified a crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on Russia’s war in Ukraine, blocking Facebook and ­Twitter and signing into law a bill that criminalizes the intentional spreading of what Moscow deems to be “fake” reports.

The moves against the social media giants follow blocks imposed on the BBC, the U.S. government-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, German ­broadcaster Deutsche Welle and Latvia-based website Meduza.

The government’s sweeping action against the foreign outlets that publish news in Russian seeks to establish even tighter controls over what information the domestic audience sees about the invasion of Ukraine.

The state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said it cut access to Twitter and ­Facebook in line with a ­decision by the prosecutor general’s office. The watchdog has ­previously accused Twitter of failing to delete the content banned by Russian authorities and slowed down access to it.

Twitter said in a statement Friday afternoon that while the company is “aware of reports” that its platform is blocked in Russia, it has not been able to confirm whether this is the case.

The bill, quickly rubberstamped by both houses of the Kremlin-controlled parliament and signed by Putin, imposes prison sentences of up to 15 years for those spreading information that goes against the Russia’s narrative on the war.

Multiple outlets said they would pause their work inside Russia to evaluate the s­ ituation.

CNN said it would stop ­broadcasting in Russia while Bloomberg and the BBC said they would temporarily suspend the work of their journalists there.

People fleeing Ukraine wait for a bus to take them to the train station across the border in Przemysl, Poland, on Friday.

New diaspora: 1.2 million flee VISAR KRYEZIU, AP

‘I’m leaving my home, my country. I was born there, and I lived there, and what now?’

FLORENT BAJRAMI and ALEXANDER TURNBULL The Associated Press MEDYKA, Poland — Walking the

final 22 kiilometres to Ukraine’s border and to safety, Ludmila Sokol was moved by the mounds of clothes and other personal effects that many people discarded as they fled the fighting before her.

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“I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, but the only thing I know is that everything will be fine because Victoria Andreevna is nearby.”

Her host tied a homemade Ukrainian flag to a fishing rod to wave in a small gesture of defiance over Russia’s invasion.

The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine has now reached 1.2 million, the International Organization for Migration said Friday. This could become the “biggest refugee crisis this century,” the UN has said, predicting that as many as four million people could leave.

The European Union decided Thursday to grant people fleeing Ukraine temporary protection and residency permits.

The influx is “enormous, ­ normous,” UN refugee chief e ­Filipo Grandi told the Associated Press during a visit to a border crossing in Moldova. He urged more international support for host countries. “You see behind me, there’s 20 kilometres of cars in line waiting to come.”

One newly arrived refugee in Romania, Anton Kostyuchyk, struggled to hold back tears as he described leaving everything, even his parents, behind in Kyiv and sleeping in churches with his wife and three children during their journey out. “I’m leaving my home, my country. I was born there, and I lived there, and what now?” he said.

At a refugee camp in Siret, Romania, volunteers and emergency workers paused to hold a birthday party for a seven-year-

old girl from Ukraine, complete with cake, balloons and song.

The UN children’s agency said a half-million children in Ukraine had to flee their homes in the first week of Russia’s invasion, though it didn’t say how many left the country.

Some Ukrainians had little but grief. “My colleague was shot by Russian soldiers when she tried to go out of Kyiv to Zhytomyr. And she was shot, she is dead now, unfortunately,” said Vladislav Stoyka, a doctor from Kyiv who had been in Slovakia on vacation when he woke up the day of Russia’s invasion to find himself a refugee.

He said the slain woman was a pediatric doctor. Now he seeks to move on to Germany or the Czech Republic, part of a growing wave westward.

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Trudeau heads to Europe to discuss strategy with allies Putin has chosen to use military might and violence to achieve his ends, but he will fail, Trudeau said. “The biggest and strongest response we’ve had is actually in crippling the Russian economy, demonstrating to all Russians that Vladimir Putin made a terrible mistake. ... The co-ordinated economic sanctions are working.

Russia is reeling from the strong and aligned measures that democracies around the world have engaged in.”

Canada’s foreign affairs minister met counterparts at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Friday to advance continuing efforts to sanction Russia for its invasion.

Before the meeting, Mélanie Joly said ministers planned to discuss a Russian attack on a major nuclear power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of

JIM BRONSKILL The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to several European capitals to strategize with allies as fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies.

Trudeau will spend next week in meetings in London and Berlin as well as Riga, Latvia, and Warsaw, Poland, saying he is joining partners to stand against Moscow’s aggression and strengthen democratic values.

Allies will also work on countering “the kind of disinformation and misinformation that we know is a facet of day-to-day life these days, but a particularly strong facet of this conflict, this war in Ukraine,” Trudeau said during a news conference Friday.

Russian President Vladimir

Enerhodar. Russian troops seized the plant, the largest in Europe, after a middle-of-thenight attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe.

Firefighters put out the blaze, and no radiation was released, United Nations and Ukrainian officials said, as Russian forces pressed on with their week-old offensive on several fronts and the number of refugees fleeing the country topped 1.2 million.

Joly tweeted Friday that she had spoken to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency about the episode. “We call on the Russian regime to stop threatening nuclear sources,” she said. “A countless number of civilian lives are put at risk by these reckless acts.”

Trudeau said late Thursday he

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets people from the Ukrainian community in Toronto on Friday. THE CANADIAN PRESS had spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the assault on the power plant.

In London, Trudeau plans to meet U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, to co-ordinate additional responses to Russia’s invasion, the Prime Minister’s Office said.

Trudeau will also have an audience with the Queen.

On Tuesday, the prime minister heads to Riga, where he will meet leaders from the region, before going to Germany and Poland. In Latvia, Trudeau also plans to see Canadian Armed Forces members serving as part of Operation Reassurance.

Russian propaganda ‘outgunned’ by rebuttals on social media DAVID KLEPPER The Associated Press Russian state media is spreading misinformation about the location of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in what analysts say is an attempt to discourage resistance fighters and erode support for Ukraine.

A story published by the Russian news agency Tass quoted a Russian MP saying Zelenskyy had “hastily fled” Kyiv for Lviv in far western Ukraine, despite photos and video clips showing him leading Ukraine’s defence from its capital.

It’s one of many distorted claims to emerge from a Russian propaganda and disinformation campaign that aims to strengthen domestic support for the invasion and undermine the resolve of Ukrainians. But the tactics that have sustained such propaganda for years are running into a more complex reality where the claims can be instantly and credibly rebutted on social media.

Videos and photos of Zelen-

skyy in Kyiv have become some of the defining images of the invasion, rallying support for Ukraine at home and abroad and challenging Russia’s attempt to control public perception.

By claiming he has fled Kyiv, Russia hopes to undermine Zelenskyy’s status as a Ukrainian hero while also suggesting legitimate sources of news and information can’t be trusted, according to Sarah Oates, a professor at the University of Maryland who studies Russian propaganda. To Oates, it’s a move that smacks of desperation by a Russian propaganda machine that can’t compete with viral images of Ukrainian defiance.

“They’re flailing. They’ve been doing this for decades and they have a very well-oiled delivery system, but right now their content just isn’t working,” Oates said. “The Ukrainians may be completely outgunned by traditional military, but they are winning the propaganda war.”

Some of the most popular posts falsely claiming Zelenskyy

has fled are clearly aimed at an international audience. The news outlet Sputnik ran translated versions of the story not only in English and Spanish but also Portuguese and Vietnamese. A Spanish-language TikTok video created by Sputnik has racked up more than 2.3 million views.

Despite the evidence that Zelenskyy is in Kyiv, Sputnik and Tass have not removed their claims or added corrections. .

The false story began spreading on Twitter on Friday when George Papadopoulous, a former aide to U.S. ex-president Donald Trump, posted a link to the claim in an Italian publication.

Papadopoulos went to prison for lying to the FBI during its investigation into Russia’s meddling on behalf of Trump in the 2016 election.

“Breaking: Zelensky, after saying he would not abandon Ukraine, has fled the country,” Papadopoulous tweeted. He did not immediately return a message seeking comment on Friday.

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B.C. is paying too much for social-housing properties BOB WHEATON A commentary by a former Victoria real-estate agent.

I was dumbfounded to read of the auditor general’s report that all the recent purchases of Victoria properties, to be used as social housing, were at or below market/appraised value.

Firstly, “market value” is supposed to reflect what a knowledgeable arms-length buyer in an open market is willing to pay, and a seller is willing to accept, for a property.

“Assessed value” is what B.C. Assessment calculates a property to be worth, using a series of computer models (and that becomes the basis for the property tax applied to that property by a municipality).

“Appraised value” is what a

professional appraiser calculates the value of a property to be, using a series of tests to arrive at an estimated value.

After many years in business (22 of them as a Victoria real-estate agent) I rarely saw an appraisal that was worth the paper it was written on. I could cite many unsavoury reasons for this, but one of them is that appraisals are too often conducted after a deal has been negotiated, and the obvious tendency is to conclude that if that’s the price a buyer is willing to pay, and a seller accept, then that is what it must be worth.

Appraisals are too often used to “paper” a file at a bank, corporation or bureaucracy in order to provide evidence that the agreed-on price was justified.

(Banks use them for that purpose all the time, when agreeing

to provide mortgage financing.

That is one of the fundamental reasons our property values are skyrocketing. One can offer virtually any outrageous price on a property they choose and, regardless of how far it is above its “true” value, the banks will provide a mortgage, as long as they get an appraisal to provide justification to their insurers, after the fact.)

The Russell Street purchase of an old warehouse in Vic West is a fascinating case of an owner trying to sell the property in an open market, at a price of $3.4 million. It was professionally marketed by real-estate agents and they couldn’t find a buyer at that price, so it was taken off the market.

A year later, the provincial government paid $9.6 million.

And the auditor general thinks

that is just fine … because the appraisal the government called for agreed with that valuation.

Really? Interesting.

It was then renovated for the use of 40 homeless occupants, for a period of 18-24 months. The operating cost was to be approximately $2 million per year. That meant the purchase cost was $235,000 per unit, not including the renovation or operating costs. The total is likely in the range of $14 million to $15 million for the two years. You could rent 40 rooms at the Empress Hotel for far less than that.

The Capital City Centre hotel was purchased last year for $25.2 million. Now they’re going to tear it down.

My family built and owned that hotel (formerly the Imperial Inn), along with the Elworthy and Manning families. I helped

build it and worked in it. I don’t know what the operating and repair costs have been, but by the time it’s demolished it will bring the purchase cost of the site to about $30 million. And the auditor general thinks that is all OK ? (In the meantime, it, and Paul’s Motor Inn across the street, have created commercial havoc in that neighbourhood.

Just ask the White Spot and others).

Perhaps the auditor general should look at the assessed values his own government priced these properties at, and get the opinions of the commercial realestate agents who actually know what these properties should have sold for, rather than rely on after-the-fact appraisals.

We’d be talking about a very different, and very interesting, story.

Refugees are not enjoying a holiday Re: “Refugee status a tool of last resort,” letter, March 3.

I am pleased that the letter-writer states that he “agrees that the government is right to accept Ukrainian refugees.”

However, his second sentence appalled me when he wrote that “it should not be an all-expense paid vacation on the taxpayer’s back.”

Who in their right mind would even think of using those words applied to the life-and-death decision these Ukrainian refugees, predominately women and children, made to flee their country in subzero weather, leaving family and possessions behind, carrying nothing but what they could put on their back or push in a stroller? Some holiday.

The suggestion that fleeing from a country should be a tool of last resort, not a preference, insinuates that the decision to flee was not a tool of last resort. They had bombs falling on their neighbourhoods, buildings were being destroyed, lives were being lost. … it WAS a last resort. These people were giving up their lives and facing an uncertain future.

The suggestion that the Ukrainian refugees should go tree-planting and live in a tent “until the dust settles” smacks of ethnocentrism and has no place in today’s society.

Pat Meyer Nanaimo

Ukrainians not alone in needing refuge We opened the door to Ukranians, but what about the Afghans who have been waiting months, the ones who helped our troops in time of need?

Robert Irvin Metchosin

Russian invasion fits their pattern Are we learning from history? Russians have a history of invasions.

I lived in Prague during the Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia 54 years ago. Events happening in Ukraine today bring back painful and very sad memories: I still can see very clearly Russian tanks rolling in my street.

At the beginning it was very similar — massive army gathering at the border, endless reassurances that invasion will not happen. And of course it did happen.

Here the similarities will end. There was shooting in Prague, some people died and more were injured. But there was less bloodshed then, the Soviet Union wanted just to keep a so-called socialist camp in their orbit.

Unfortunately, it’s not the situation in Ukraine. Daily, we see the horror of bloodshed and destruction in their cities.

My heart is bleeding for Ukraine, and I only hope that this situation will be solved the diplomatic way, not by war.

I came to Canada as a refugee with my husband and a small child. We have built a new home here, and to this day we are grateful to the Canadian people, who took us in with open arms.

I only hope that some refugees from Ukraine will find a new home and life in Canada, the same as we did all those years ago.

Anna Klinka Victoria

Keystone needed now more than ever Re: “Isolate Russia and avoid the abyss,” letter, March 2.

The letter ends with: “Climate change and global warming are the least of our concerns at this time.” I completely agree.

I’ll take a slightly warmer world over one that has hundreds, if not thousands, of radioactive “exclusion zones” after a nuclear exchange.

Refugees fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine walk on a platform after disembarking from a train in Zahony, Hungary, on Wednesday. A letter-writer suggests that refugees fleeing the war are most deserving of all that western governments can do for them. BALAZS KAUFMANN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The U.S. imported 241 million barrels of Russian oil in 2021. The Keystone pipeline could supply 830,000 bpd or 305 million barrels a year to U.S. refineries. The choice is a no-brainer. Now is the time for Prime Minister Trudeau to get on the phone with President Biden.

Wayne Cox Saanichton

Putin didn’t invade during Trump’s term Re: “Pitching in, but on the wrong team,” letter, March 1.

Riddle me this: If Trump was a puppet of Putin in the way the letter-writer indicates, then why didn’t Putin invade Ukraine while Trump was still in office?

April J. Gibson Duncan

What to do with those Russian assets Western nations have rightly frozen the Russian central bank’s hoard of foreign funds that are held by Western banks. I suggest we go a step further and seize such funds and hold them in a pool to help rebuild Ukrainian infrastructure destroyed in the fighting. They could also hold funds to assist families who have lost loved ones in the indiscriminate assaults launched by the Russian military.

This may not be strictly legal, but it cannot be more illegal than the unwarranted attack on a peaceful nation. Keep it simple, make it painful.

John Gabel Saanich

Leave donations to individuals I can understand B.C. businesses and individuals taking a stand with boycotts and donations and protests toward support for Ukraine against Russian aggression. They are using their own money and directing their own efforts.

But I take exception to the B.C. government’s announcement of a contribution of “$1 million to the Red Cross to support the people of Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion.” Unless the government was able to pass the hat among those elected members of the legislature and other unwary individuals wandering the halls of government to accumulate such a considerable sum, where did they get that money? You guessed it.

Taxpayer monies should not be used as a charitable contribution to make our citizens, both elected and not, feel good and worthy and charitable. A million dollars would have gone a good way towards the proper role of a provincial government as outlined in the constitution, i.e. education, health care, some natural resources, road regulations and some social services shared with the federal government.

A donation to the Red Cross on behalf of B.C. doesn’t cut it.

is a shot in the dark, especially in the Colwood area. Not only are a lot of roads dimly lit, but the white lines are not visible at all; it seems to me this should be a service we can depend on, especially in the winter months. Local governments need to help keep us safe on the roads and keep their white lines painted on all roads.

M.J. Shaw Victoria

It’s time to drop COVID mandates

Does B.C. Ferries really need two boards?

According to Les Leyne (March 2) taxpayers will now be getting one real management board of B.C. Ferries but pay for two.

The cost of redundancy? It’s likely taxpayers are on the hook for at least a million dollars for a redundant board. Come on, Premier Horgan, save us a few bucks on our next ferry trip.

Rick Pepper Saanich

ICBC should invest profits in safety Last week ICBC forecasted record profits for this fiscal year: $1.9 billion. I would like to see that invested in safety.

Each dollar ICBC invests in safety results in $4.70 in savings in motor vehicle crashes that cause property damage, injuries and deaths.

The leading causes of traffic fatalities are speeding and driver inattention, and the largest proportion occur in 40- to 60-km/h zones.

ICBC should cost-share with municipalities to install speed bumps near schools, elevated crosswalks, advanced pedestrian walk signals, and improvements such as the one Saanich just installed on Cedar Hill Cross Road. A pedestrian was recently killed in a crosswalk there, and a cyclist knocked unconscious and injured in the same spot. It was improved in two days, at a low cost.

Do it now. Save lives.

Dave Thompson Victoria

Road markings vital for safety Is it too much to ask that municipalities keep the white lines painted on our roads?

Driving Veterans Boulevard after dark

Faye Oakes Victoria

As other nations, as well as the greater part of ours, drop COVID mandates, one wonders why B.C. remains a stand- alone.

Dr. Bonnie Henry does not offer any firm timeline for removing restrictions, and instead speaks of re-evaluating in the coming weeks and months. With all due respect to Dr. Henry, the situation has evolved to a point that it would seem appropriate for a fresh set of eyes to re-examine what appear to be outdated policies.

Guy Morson Duncan

Beacon Hill Park is big enough to share I live within a five-minute walk from Beacon Hill Park and go there almost daily for my exercise. During the time when homeless people set up tents in the park, I continued my presence there.

Not once did I see “destruction and criminal activity.” Yes, I saw the tents, and sometimes spoke with the tenters in a friendly way. I was willing to share the park with them during this terrible time.

Just to let you know — I am in my 80s and am under five feet in height. Never was I frightened.

I’m happy that most of the tenters have found a place to live and maybe help with their addictions and mental health.

Yes, I know that some are still staying overnight.

Freda Knott Victoria SEND US YOUR LETTERS • Email: letters@timescolonist.com • Mail: Letters to the editor, Times Colonist, 201-655 Tyee Rd., Victoria, B.C. V9A 6X5 • Submissions should be no more than 250 words; subject to editing for length and clarity. Provide your contact information; it will not be published. Avoid sending your letter as an email attachment.

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Arrest of fugitive from B.C. stuns Puerto Rico DÁNICA COTO The Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Last

week, phones across Puerto Rico began to ring as members of a private WhatsApp group dedicated to helping others in the U.S. territory stared at their screens in disbelief.

The businessman they knew as administrator of that chat — someone who organized philanthropic efforts such as a Christmas toy drive for needy children and renovations for an elementary school — had just been arrested.

Conor Vincent D’Monte, who went by Johnny Williams in Puerto Rico, was allegedly a leader of a violent gang sought

by Canadian authorities on charges including first-degree murder. He had been on the run for more than a decade.

“It’s like a Netflix story,” said Antonio Torres, chief deputy U.S. marshal for the district of Puerto Rico.

Authorities don’t know exactly when D’Monte, 44, arrived in Puerto Rico, but they believe he had been using the alias “Johnny Williams” for a while. The six-foot, one-inch fugitive settled into a rural, eastern mountain community near El Yunque rainforest, living in a working-class neighbourhood on a street with no name, Torres said.

Every month, D’Monte would accompany employees of a nonprofit organization known as Karma Honey Project to a ­farmer’s market in the nearby city of Carolina, said a woman who lived in the same community and sold goods next to his stall. She declined to give her name out of fear.

“No one knew anything,” she said, adding that she remembers his quiet demeanour the most.

“We were surprised.”

Others who met D’Monte said they were struck by his charisma, good looks and biological knowledge about bees, adding that he was a frequent name-dropper who easily made connections with Puerto Rico’s wealthiest residents. He didn’t like having his picture taken but didn’t make any effort to hide.

He even met with Puerto Rico’s agriculture secretary and

Conor Vincent D’Monte, known as Johnny Williams in Puerto Rico, was allegedly a leader of a violent gang sought by Canadian authorities on charges including first-degree murder, and had been on the run for more than a decade. He was arrested in Puerto Rico in February. RCMP VIA CP a local senator and was invited to the governor’s mansion last month for his role in trying to save honeybees after Hurricane Maria as part of his involvement with the Karma Honey Project, a nonprofit company created in February 2019. Its president, Candice Galek, is a Miami entrepreneur and former model.

Neither Galek nor her company returned messages for comment.

In its 2020 annual report, the most recent one available, the company stated that its volume of business did not exceed $3 million US. Its balance sheet reported no assets or liabilities, according to filings with Puerto Rico’s Registry of Corporations and Entities.

“The guy fooled us all,” said a Puerto Rican businessman who asked that his name not be used out of fear.

He said he met D’Monte in the early days of the pandemic after being added to his W ­ hatsApp group, and that D’Monte was known as “Johnny Teeth,” because his teeth were so white and straight. The businessman described D’Monte as a “tremendous sales guy” who was very jovial.

“It struck me that he didn’t have Facebook or any of those things because he truly was a great networker,” the businessman said, adding that D’Monte

once called him asking if he could borrow a hammer since he was helping repair a school.

When he was working on the Christmas toy drive, D’Monte messaged his WhatsApp group warning they were 500 presents short and that he was “­ grinding” to get donations as he noted that the prices went up 40% at the toy distributor warehouse: “Caught us off guard. Will figure it out. Universe conspires,” he wrote, adding three different star emojis.

D’Monte remains in federal prison in Puerto Rico as he awaits an extradition process.

His public defence attorney declined comment, but she noted in a court hearing on Thursday that D’Monte, who has Canadian and Irish citizenship, requested that the consulates of those countries be notified.

It’s unclear why D’Monte chose Puerto Rico or if he knew anyone in the U.S. territory.

He is accused in the killing of a rival gang member at a V­ancouver strip mall in ­February 2009, at a time when that city was experiencing one of the worst gang v ­ iolence ­outbreaks in its history, ­according to a police statement.

D’Monte also is accused of conspiring to murder two alleged rival gang members known as the Bacon Brothers, RCMP said.

The United Nations gang that D’Monte allegedly belongs to is considered one of the most powerful in British Columbia and is best known for exporting B.C. bud. The gang also imported about 100 kilos of cocaine every three months and paid someone to create a personal encrypted phone system for them to prevent police from tapping their phones, said Doug Spencer, a retired detective with Vancouver’s police gang unit who knew D’Monte and described him as “treacherous” and a “very smooth talker.”

At its height, the gang had an estimated 200 members, and they often sport tattoos of tigers, dragons and Chinese characters.

The gang also imports firearms and other drugs, making millions of dollars a year, said Keiron McConnell, a criminal justice expert and professor at Kwantlen Polytechnic Univer-

sity in Surrey.

“Anyone thinking that Mr. D’Monte was a street-corner hustler, it couldn’t be further than the truth,” he said. “Mr. D’Monte was a fairly sophisticated individual.”

McConnell said it’s highly unusual for fugitives to be on the run for as long as D’Monte and to successfully assimilate themselves into a community.

D’Monte, who police said has travelled to Asia and allegedly is associated with a drug network in Mexico, was last seen in the Vancouver area in January 2011. He then fled to Spain and travelled to Ireland where he obtained a fake passport, said Spencer, the retired detective.

He noted that authorities tried to catch D’Monte by monitoring all calls to his daughter’s phone every year on her birthday, “but that never worked out. That tells you how smart he is. He knows not to do that.”

After stopping in Ireland,

D’Monte vanished until he reappeared in Puerto Rico more than a decade later.

Torres, with the U.S. Marshals Service, said high-profile fugitives often assume the profile of a very wealthy person because they have the means.

“It doesn’t raise any red flags,” he said. “It will draw attention, but not suspicion.

They just act like a businessman.”

Three weeks before federal agents arrested D’Monte, Torres said his agency finally had collected enough information to identify the fugitive, noting they never received any tips.

As D’Monte drove through the popular tourist district of Isla Verde on Feb. 25, the agents closed in.

“He acted surprised,” Torres said, adding that he didn’t resist arrest.

D’Monte was alone, except for a 9-mm pistol at his side.

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Canada scrambles to rebook rapid test deliveries amid ban on all Russian planes The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Canada is rescheduling 11 planeloads of rapid tests this month that were due to be delivered via Russian cargo jets.

A Russian-owned cargo plane successfully delivered a shipment of tests to Canada Sunday morning at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

Hours later Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced Canada was closing its airspace to all Russian aircraft, effective immediately, in response to Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and that plane remains grounded in Toronto.

Eleven more shipments of rapid tests were to be delivered this month on Russian planes but have all been cancelled.

A spokesman for Public Services and Procurement Minister Filomena Tassi said most have found new planes already, though the Russian planes can typically carry more and a small number of the deliveries have yet to find space on a cargo plane that can land in Canada.

Since Jan. 1, 300 million rapid tests have been delivered to the federal government, which is buying them mainly on behalf of provincial governments.

Legislation to approve $2.5 billion in funding to Health Canada to buy and distribute the tests received royal assent ­Friday. That was on top of $1.7 billion approved in the fall fiscal update also for rapid tests.

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said at her weekly briefing Friday that the easier access to rapid tests will help Canada in the event of another wave of COVID-19.

Early in the Omicron wave access to rapid tests became a massive problem, as infection rates soared and public health systems couldn’t keep up with demand for PCR tests in person.

That demand has now dropped along with infection rates, and Tam said that after months of high infection rates from Omicron and Canada’s high vaccination uptake, there are high levels of immunity to the variant across the country.

Because of testing limitations there is not yet good data on how many people got Omicron, she said. Since Omicron became the

dominant variant in Canada in mid-December, 1.3 million cases were confirmed but only a small fraction of infections are now being recorded.

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore said this week the actual number in his province is likely 10 times the reported figure.

“I do think that if it’s Omicron that’s circulating in the next month, we have a very good level of protection in the community, particularly with boosters protecting against severe outcomes,” Tam said. “But if there’s a variant that’s very different to Omicron, then that’s a different story and we will have to re-evaluate the risk of any vaccine-evasive variants.”

Tam said even if such a variant arrives, there are more treatment options for COVID-19, including the recently approved Paxlovid antiviral drug from Pfizer, as well as more access to rapid tests, a better understanding of the virus’s transmission, the benefits of good ventilation and easy access to masks.

She said with all of those measures “we’ve got to be able to go into the fall and winter season, or indeed the next wave if it should come in between, with much more ability to respond without those really severe restrictions. That is the goal.”

Tam did urge health systems to take the time they have now to invest in surge capacity so if another wave arrives, it will avoid drastic closures to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed.

She said possibly reconsidering how we license international health professionals to help in Canada could come into play, as could finding efficiencies by using virtual care. Tam also said face masks should be kept on hand as the first line of defence against COVID-19 even if they are not mandatory.

Alberta and Saskatchewan lifted mask mandates this week, with Manitoba following midmonth, Ontario possibly by month’s end and Quebec by the middle of April.

She said she personally will look at local infection rates and the risk to her or her family members from COVID-19 to determine when or if she will stop wearing a mask.

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Today’s weather picture is by five-year-old Lily, a student at Deep Cove Elementary School.

Alberta widens restrictions on coal mining in Rockies BOB WEBER The Canadian Press EDMONTON — The Alberta

Containers of Canadian trash that were returned from the Philippines in 2019 to a terminal in Delta.

DARRYL DYCK, THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada must do more to control plastic waste exports: minister MIA RABSON The Canadian Press OTTAWA — In the year since new rules to slow global exports of plastic waste took effect, Canada’s shipments rose by more than 13 per cent, and most of it is going to the United States with no knowledge of where it ultimately ends up.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said that kind of lackadaisical approach to exporting plastic waste has to stop.

“I’m very worried about that and I think we clearly have to do better,” Guilbeault said in an interview. “If we’re shipping plastics that are aimed at recycling, we better make sure that that’s what happens. And frankly, right now, it’s not clear to me that is always the case and in fact there’s been a number of instances where it’s not.”

Guilbeault said he is talking to his officials about what can be done to fix the problem “because right now we’re not doing a very good job.”

Canada’s shaky history on plastic waste exports got international attention in 2019, when shipments of garbage falsely labelled as plastics for recycling led to a diplomatic standoff with the Philippines. It put a spotlight on the global trade in garbage, which mostly saw wealthy countries putting their trash on container ships bound for the developing world where it often ends up in landfills or burned, causing a raft of environmental and human-health repercussions.

In the wake of that embarrassment, Canada said it would work with the Canada Border Services Agency to halt exports of contaminated plastic and agreed to amendments to the United Nations Basel Convention on hazardous waste that added mixed plastic waste to the substances covered by the conventions rules. On paper that meant that after Jan. 1, 2021, Canada should only be able to export waste to other convention members, and such exports would need prior informed consent

from the importing country, and confirmation of how the waste was disposed.

But a few months before the amendments came into force, Canada quietly signed an agreement with the United States allowing for free flow of plastic waste between the two, even though the U.S. is not a party to the Basel Convention. The agreement is allowed under Basel rules, but because the U.S. is not bound by the convention, it can do what it likes with the waste, including shipping it anywhere else it wants.

Gord Johns, NDP MP for Courtenay-Alberni, who successfully passed a motion to create a national strategy against plastic pollution, said Canada’s record on plastic pollution “is horrendous.” He said if Guilbeault is serious about plastic waste, he would get Canada to sign the full Basel Convention amendment that would ban the export of hazardous waste, including most plastics, with or without the consent of an importing nation.

government is renewing and expanding its restrictions on coal mining in the province’s Rocky Mountains in response to a strong public outcry and two reports written following extensive consultations on the issue.

Energy Minister Sonya Savage said Friday she will maintain a ministerial order that already blocks all coal exploration and development in the region’s most sensitive lands. That order has been extended to cover a much wider swath of the province’s summits and foothills.

Coal development will now be blocked on all the lands originally covered by the province’s 1976 coal policy until land-use plans, which require public consultation and legislative approval, are complete. “We’ve actually strengthened the 1976 coal policy,” said S ­ avage. “No new activity will be allowed.”

Some environmentalists cautiously welcomed the announcement. “It’s a big step, especially considering where we were two years ago,” said Katie Morrison of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

“My caveat on that is concern about kicking the can down the road to the land use planning.

“They haven’t said this is permanent protection of these regions. It’s a protection for now until those land-use plans are completed.”

New Democrat Opposition leader Rachel Notley agreed, noting that the development ban is subject to the minister’s ­discretion.

“The whole question of ‘until

Alberta’s Energy Minister Sonya Savage: “No new activity will be allowed.” TODD KOROL, CP there’s a land-use plan in place’ is up for a tremendous amount of interpretation. With these guys, that worries me,” Notley said. “[A development ban] needs to be in legislation.”

Notley said she will reintroduce a private member’s bill in the legislature Monday that will do just that.

Savage said the government’s original move in 2020 to open those lands missed the mark.

“We heard a tremendous backlash from Albertans,” she said.

“We saw that as a problem.”

Friday’s announcement came with the release of two reports, the result of nine months of work from a five-member panel that held 67 sessions with more than 70 groups and received 176 written submissions.

The submissions and a survey with about 25,000 respondents have already been made public and show Albertans have major concerns about open-pit coal mining in one of the province’s best-loved and most environmentally sensitive landscapes, as well as the source of much of its drinking water.

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Athletes from Canada enter the Bird’s Nest stadium for the opening ceremony at the 2022 Winter Paralympics on Friday in Beijing.

ANDY WONG, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Paralympics open with eye on Ukraine and ‘a message of peace’ LORI EWING The Canadian Press BEIJING — The Beijing Paralympics opened with an impassioned plea for peace with war raging in Ukraine, and an almost audible sigh of relief two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Flag-bearers Ina Forrest and Greg Westlake led Canada’s redclad team of 49 athletes and four guides into Bird’s Nest ­stadium for an emotionally charged ­opening ceremony.

Andrew Parsons, the ­president of the International Paralympic Committee, spoke of his horror at the fighting in Ukraine.

“Tonight, I want — I must — begin with a message of peace,” Parsons told the athletes and some 30,000 spectators in attendance. “As the leader of an organization with inclusion at its core, where diversity is celebrated and differences embraced, I am horrified at what is taking place in the world right now.”

The ceremony punctuated a tumultuous week in Beijing that saw Russia and Belarus initially permitted to compete, but under a neutral banner. But a day later,

Jepsen golden at Paralympics for Canada’s first medal The Canadian Press BEIJING — Alpine skier ­Mollie Jepsen has won Canada’s first medal of the 2022 Beijing ­Paralympics.

Jepsen took gold in the ­women’s standing downhill in one minute 21.75 seconds.

China’s Zhang Mengqiu took silver and Sweden’s Ebba ­Aarsjoe earned bronze.

Jepsen has now won five ­medals over the course of her Paralympic career.

The product of West ­Vancouver won four medals at the Pyeongchang Games.

She won gold in super ­combined, a silver in slalom, and a bronze in both downhill and giant slalom in 2018.

Shortly after Jepsen’s gold, Canada won another Alpine ­skiing medal.

Mac Marcoux of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., took silver in the men’s downhill vision impaired.

Austria’s Johannes Aigner won gold in 1:13.45, Marcoux was behind him in 1:13.81, and France’s Hyacinthe ­Deleplace earned bronze in 1:14.10.

in an unprecedented reversal, both countries were banned.

Parsons said the charged atmosphere in the athletes village was “untenable.”

Russia invaded Ukraine days after the Beijing Olympics closed, and Parsons pointed out that the Olympic Truce for peace “must be respected and observed, not violated.”

Much of Parsons’ speech wasn’t heard on the live ­broadcast in China. Chinese state TV didn’t translate his condemnation of war, and then cut the volume from his mic.

The Chinese government has refrained from criticizing the invasion and opposed the U.S., European and other sanctions imposed on Russia.

The Canadian Paralympic Committee was among nations who expressed concerns over the presence of Russia and Belarus, who’d both arrived in Beijing, but departed Thursday evening within hours of being banned.

Canada’s Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge said the federal government shared the concerns, “and condemns, in the strongest possible terms,

Russia’s horrific and unjustified actions against Ukraine.

“As we stand in solidarity with the brave and resilient people of Ukraine, we applaud the International Paralympic Committee’s decision to ban athletes from Russia and Belarus from the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. This was the right decision,” St-Onge said in a statement. “We will continue to work with our international sport counterparts to hold Russia and Belarus accountable for their actions.”

Biathlete Maksym Yarovyi carried Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow flag ahead of the besieged country’s 20-athlete delegation that took four days of harrowing travel to reach China.

“It’s a miracle that we have made it to the Paralympics,” said Ukrainian delegation head Valerii Sushkevych, who said he’d slept on the floor of a bus during the journey because of a back condition. “We overcame a lot of barriers on the way.

Many members of our team had to escape while there was bombardment and shells exploding.”

Beijing is the second Paralympics to be held during the

global pandemic, and Canadian athletes faced some of the world’s biggest hurdles to get the Games, due to tight travel restrictions and strict lockdowns that closed training facilities.

Josh Dueck, Canada’s chef de mission, said the team hasn’t set medal targets. With so few international competitions amid COVID-19, it’s simply too tough to gauge how Canada stacks up.

The crush of cases amid the fast-spreading Omicron variant also turned just getting to the Games without testing positive practically an Olympic sport in itself.

“I think it’s pretty fair to say that the herculean task is simply arriving safely,” Dueck said.

Canada has 48 athletes competing in hockey, curling, alpine and Nordic skiing and snowboarding over 10 days in Beijing, which is the first city to host both a Summer and Winter Games. Westlake is making his fifth Paralympic appearance in Para hockey, while Forrest is a two-time Olympic champion in wheelchair curling.

About 560 athletes from 46 countries are competing in Beijing.

COVID bout slows Canucks captain GAME DAY: VANCOUVER AT TORONTO, 4 P.M. BEN KUZMA The Province VANCOUVER — It became urban legend to chart how many line combinations Bo Horvat has centred in his eight seasons with the Vancouver Canucks. Two dozen is a conservative estimate.

The captain has shouldered expectations and disappointments as the ninth overall selection in the 2013 NHL draft. He doesn’t deliver ear-splitting motivational speeches because he’s not wired that way and his play usually does the talking as a key cog in the club’s top-six forward mix.

And, yet, in this demanding marketplace there’s always a clamour for wanting more.

In the 2020 playoff bubble, Horvat had 10 post-season goals in 17 games and his end-to-end rushes were highlight-reel material. He also dominated faceoffs by taking the most, winning the most at even strength and on the power play, and his overall 59-per-cent efficiency in the ­circle ranked sixth.

“When I watched him, the highlights were always of him bursting through the middle or

around defencemen and making great plays,” Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau recalled Thursday. “It took him a while to get back and he’ll be the first one to say that’s it’s been a little difficult since COVID [diagnosis].

“And he’s had a lot of different wingers. I’m not blaming him.

He’s one player when he looks good, he looks great and people want that all the time, and it’s hard to give all the time.”

So what is it?

Did COVID-19 kick the centre that hard, or is it that constant carousel of revolving linemates that comes into play? On Thursday in a 4-3 win over the New York Islanders, Horvat centred rookie Vasily Podkolzin and Alex Chiasson. He has also been with Jason Dickinson, Matthew Highmore and Nils Höglander.

The five have combined for just 54 points.

Horvat is on pace for 27 goals, which would equal his career high established in 2018-19. He is tied for fourth in club s­ coring with 31 points (17-14) in 51 games, leads in power-play goals (eight) and faceoff success rate (55.4). On Thursday, he set up Podkolzin’s winner and won

15 of 19 draws (79 per cent) However, of his nine evenstrength goals only four have come since Dec. 1. Since missing five games with COVID-19 from Jan. 18-27, Horvat has but one goal in five-on-five play over a dozen games. And in his first eight games after recovering from the virus, he had just three points.

The bigger question is where the Canucks are heading in advance of the March 21 trade deadline? A new hockey operations department has vowed salary-cap compliance, getting fast and younger as well as accumulating draft picks for a roster retool.

Horvat turns 27 in April and has another season after this at a $5.5-million US cap hit. It’s up to new management to decide if he’s a long-term fit for the ­culture they hope to develop.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson served as captain of the A ­ rizona ­Coyotes and had an instant appreciation in how Horvat has handled himself among his peers and in the public.

“He has been really good,” said Ekman-Larsson. “He’s obviously a good leader and player for us and has been talking a lot to try and help everybody.

He’s a little bit like Shane Doan ­[former Coyotes captain.]”

The Victoria Royals twice squandered two-goal leads, including in the third-period, and were relegated to escaping Kelowna with a point in a 5-4 Western Hockey League overtime loss to the Rockets.

It was the fourth time this season that the Rockets have won against Victoria in overtime or shootout with the Royals 1-5-4 against Kelowna.

“There’s no acceptance of a moral victory here,” said Victoria coach Dan Price.

“The players know they have to close out better than that. It’s not me saying that, it’s them.”

The Royals enter each game now with one eye on the ice and the other on the scoreboard. The Spokane Chiefs won in Prince George to move one point ahead of Victoria into eighth place and the final playoff slot in the Western Conference. The Tri-City Americans, 3-1 losers to Seattle, fell to 10th place and are two points behind Spokane and one behind Victoria but with a game in hand on both clubs.

“The guys know the old adage: ‘Control what you can control,’ and they are living in the moment,” said Price, of the tight race.

Minnesota Wild draft-pick Pavel Novak, who has twice represented the Czech Republic in the world junior championship, opened the scoring for Kelowna.

Goals by San Jose Sharks fourthround draft selection Gannon Laroque, on a two-man power play, and the lethally swift Tanner Scott gave Victoria a 2-1 lead in the first period. Victoria’s power play struck again with Bailey Peach’s 29th goal of the season at 9:32 of the second period before the Rockets moved back to within one thanks to Mark Liwiski at 13:38. Wyatt Wilson restored the two-goal cushion in the third period before Max Graham and Tyson Feist tied the game for Kelowna. Gabriel Szturc won it at 1:29 of overtime.

Victoria captain Tarun Fizer had two assists. Peach had a three-point night.

It was another towering ­performance by Victoria goaltending with Campbell Arnold facing 50 shots. The Royals (15-31-6) put 28 shots on Talyn Boyko.

The Royals now head to Kamloops tonight to play the nationally No.8-ranked Blazers (37-14-2). cdheensaw@timescolonist.com

Szeto, Grizzlies clip Kings It took a while, but the Victoria Grizzlie stayed perfect against the Powell River Kings this ­season.

Kalen Szeto tied it late in the third period at Hap Parker Arena and then was the only one to score in the shootout to give the Grizzlies a 3-2 win and improve their record against the Kings to 6-0.

After Luc Pelletier beat Zak Brice in the Kings net just four minutes into the game, the Kings fought back to score the next two. Nolan Krogfoss scored on a 4-on-4 with 3:30 left in the opening period, and then Anthony Lucarelli beat Cole Schwebius just 36 seconds to the second to put the Kings in control. Or so they thought. With six minutes left in the third, Matthew Wood sprung Szeto free and the 19-yearold buried his 19th of the season to send the game to overtime.

After OT solved nothing, Schwebius stopped all four ­Powell River shooters to allow Szeto to play hero.

Schwebius finished with 53 saves on the night.

The Grizzlies (26-21-0) and Kings (13-27-8) are right back at it tonight, capping a back-toback at Hap Parker.

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Veterans Koe, Bottcher start Brier with wins The Canadian Press

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Alberta’s Kevin Koe scored a single in an extra end for a 9-8 victory over Saskatchewan’s Colton Flasch on Friday night as fans returned to the Tim Hortons Brier for the first time in two years.

Flasch, skipping at a Brier for the first time, had a chance for a game-winning hit in the 10th but settled for one point when his other stone spilled out. Koe had hammer in the extra end and made a raise takeout to end it.

Defending champion Brendan Bottcher edged Ontario’s Glenn Howard 5-4 in the opening round-robin draw at the Enmax Centre. Bottcher won his first Canadian men’s curling title last year in the spectator-free bubble in Calgary.

Patrick Janssen moved from fifth to third for the Canada rink as a replacement for Darren Moulding, who was let go last December in a surprise split.

New Brunswick’s James Grattan, with Moulding at vice, dropped a 7-6 decision to Matt Dunstone’s Wild Card Two team.

Nathan Young of Newfoundland and Labrador defeated Yukon’s Thomas Scoffin 7-5 in the other game.

Flasch threw second stones for Koe in 2019 on a team that won world silver in this same venue. The team parted ways with Flasch the following year and replaced him with John Morris.

Flasch drew for a pair in the fourth end and made a runback double-takeout to set up a steal of two in the fifth. Koe rebounded with a tap for three in the sixth end and added a deuce in the eighth.

Hovland grabs lead as McIlroy falters at Bay Hill The Associated Press

Team Canada skip Brendan Bottcher directs his teammates during opening-draw action against Ontario at the Tim Hortons Brier in Lethbridge, Alta., on Friday. JEFF McINTOSH, THE CANADIAN PRESS Earlier in the day, four athletes set to compete at the Brier did not make the trip to Lethbridge, Alta. They tested positive for COVID-19 on their predeparture PCR tests, Curling Canada said in a statement.

Each competitor plays on a different team, the federation said, without identifying any of the athletes. The players remained in isolation in their respective hometowns.

Depending on recovery times

and further test results, the players may be permitted to participate later in the event — which runs through March 13 — pending evaluation by Curling Canada’s medical staff, the federation said.

All participants had to produce negative PCR tests before departure and upon arrival. All arrival PCR tests conducted on Thursday came back negative, Curling Canada said.

Alberta recently lifted many

of its COVID-19 restrictions.

There are no capacity limits at the four-sheet venue and masking is recommended but not required. Most of the 3,003 fans in attendance Friday night were not wearing masks.

A vaccine passport is not needed for fan entry into the venue, but players must be fully vaccinated in order to compete.

In addition to the PCR tests, athletes will have two rapid tests done during round-robin play.

No. 1-ranked Ko charges into tie for lead at LPGA Singapore like I hit it really well and I gave myself some good birdie looks,” Henderson said. “It was nice to cash in, I guess, on five birdies, and unfortunately one bogey.”

Thitikul said she was looking forward to the weekend.

“I will say I think my game is fine,” she said. “Just trying to give myself a lot of chances to make it and then just, like, commit to it.”

Fourth-ranked Danielle Kang (71) was three strokes behind.

She’s tied for 10th and had only

Yang’s round included seven birdies.

“I was hitting the ball very solid today and also putted well.

But I was more aware of how to prepare for each shot than, you know, what outcome would come,” Yang said. “And I think I did manage well today.”

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., Meghan Kang and Atthaya Thitikul were tied for third after each shooting 68s, two strokes behind.

“It was a good day … I felt

The Associated Press SINGAPORE — Top-ranked Jin

Young Ko moved into a tie for the lead at the HSBC Women’s World Championship on Friday in only her second round since returning from a three-month break from the LPGA Tour.

Ko shot a 5-under 67, including a birdie on the par-5 16th, and was even with Amy Yang (67). They had 8-under totals of 136 on the Sentosa Golf Club’s Tanjong course.

one ball left in her bag after a difficult round.

“I kept hitting a lot of golf balls in the hazard today. I only have one golf ball left,” Kang said. “But I saved pars from the fairway with a 5-wood and a wedge. I also 4-putted today …

I’m far from where I want to be right now still. But I kept myself in it, which is the main goal.”

Patty Tavatanakit, who led by a stroke after the first round, shot 74 and was five strokes behind.

ORLANDO, Florida — Viktor ­ ovland had the lowest round of H the day with a 6-under 66 and is off to another great start at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. This time, he has a good idea what to expect on the weekend at Bay Hill.

Rory McIlroy got a sneak preview. Hovland played Friday morning and set the target on a warm day with increasing wind, making seven birdies and a few key pars saves late in the second round. He posted a 9-under 135.

McIlroy played in the afternoon and was poised to catch him until his putter let him down on greens that were getting crisp and slippery. Tied for the lead, McIlroy missed a four-foot par putt, putts from eight feet on the next two holes for birdie and par, and he finished off his 72 by missing a good birdie chance from 15 feet.

He was two behind along with past Bay Hill winner Tyrrell ­Hatton (68) and Talor Gooch (68), who won his first PGA Tour title in the final official event last year.

Hovland was two shots out of the lead going into the weekend last year when he closed with rounds of 77-78 and wound up 15 shots behind.

“I kind of try to forget the weekend here last year,” he said.

“I played really well the first few days, very similar to how I played so far this year. The course just gets harder and harder every single day, and it started blowing.

A few too many bad swings and I ended up in bad spots and just didn’t really take my medicine.”

McIlroy opened with a 65 in slightly softer conditions Thursday morning and it didn’t take long for him to realize how much the course had changed. He bogeyed the opening hole and did well to battle back with three birdies.

And then it was a diet of pars until those dried up. He was seven shots worse, and said it didn’t feel that way.

“Those are the sort of greens you expect to see late on a ­Sunday, not late on a Friday,” McIlroy said.

SCOREBOARD NHL

NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTERN CONFERENCE

ATLANTIC DIVISION

CENTRAL DIVISION

GP W L Tampa Bay 54 36 12 Florida 54 36 13 Toronto 54 35 15

OL 2 2 3

SL GF GA 4 186 152 3 221 161 1 198 157

Pt 78 77 74

METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP Carolina 55 Pittsburgh 57 N.Y. Rangers55

W 38 34 35

L 12 14 15

OL 5 4 3

SL GF GA 0 188 132 5 185 152 2 165 138

OL 3 4 0

EASTERN CONFERENCE

SL GF GA 1 219 155 2 191 146 3 200 171

Pt 84 70 67

OL 7 5 3

SL GF GA 0 186 130 2 166 160 1 182 166

Pt 71 67 66

OL 1 2 4 5 3 6 4 6 4 0

SL GF GA 2 159 157 2 166 155 0 182 175 4 169 177 3 158 161 4 166 170 2 143 168 2 138 188 1 144 199 4 124 196

Pt 65 64 64 61 60 58 54 48 39 34

PACIFIC DIVISION Pt 81 77 75

WILD CARD GP W Boston 55 33 Washington 56 29 Columbus 55 28 Detroit 55 24 N.Y. Islanders51 20 Buffalo 56 18 Ottawa 53 19 New Jersey 55 19 Philadelphia 54 16 Montreal 55 14

GP W L Colorado 55 40 11 St. Louis 53 32 15 Minnesota 53 32 18 GP W L Calgary 53 32 14 Los Angeles 56 30 19 Vegas 56 31 21

WILD CARD L 18 18 25 25 23 30 29 31 28 34

OL 2 7 1 5 3 7 4 1 6 7

SL GF GA 2 166 148 2 180 156 1 182 200 1 161 197 5 131 146 1 153 200 1 137 169 4 168 200 4 135 189 0 132 210

Pt 70 67 58 54 48 44 43 43 42 35

Dallas Nashville Edmonton Anaheim Vancouver Winnipeg San Jose Chicago Seattle Arizona

GP 54 54 55 57 56 55 54 55 56 54

W 31 30 30 26 27 24 24 20 17 15

L 20 20 21 22 23 21 24 27 34 35

Friday’s results Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 1 N.Y. Rangers 3 New Jersey 1 Los Angeles 4 Columbus 3 (OT) Buffalo 5 Minnesota 4 Carolina 3 Pittsburgh 2 (OT) Dallas 4 Winnipeg 3 (OT) Vegas 5 Anaheim 4 Thursday’s results Washington 4 Carolina 0 Minnesota 5 Philadelphia 4 Florida 3 Ottawa 0 Pittsburgh 5 Tampa Bay 1 Vancouver 4 N.Y. Islanders 3 Chicago 4 Edmonton 3 (OT) Boston 5 Vegas 2 Arizona 2 Colorado 1 Montreal 5 Calgary 4 (OT) Saturday’s games St. Louis at N.Y. Islanders,

9:30 a.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 12 p.m.

Ottawa at Arizona, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 3 p.m.

Boston at Columbus, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Seattle at Washington, 4 p.m.

Vancouver at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Nashville at San Jose, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s games Los Angeles at Buffalo, 10 a.m.

St. Louis at New Jersey, 10 a.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

Seattle at Carolina, 4 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Chicago, 4 p.m.

Ottawa at Vegas, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 5 p.m.

DALLAS 4, WINNIPEG 3 (OT)

Jonathan Huberdeau, FLA Auston Matthews, TOR Nazem Kadri, COL Johnny Gaudreau, CGY Alex Ovechkin, WSH Mikko Rantanen, COL Kirill Kaprizov, MIN Kyle Connor, WPG Matthew Tkachuk, CGY J.T. Miller, VAN Steven Stamkos, TBL

First Period 1, Dallas, Robertson 24 (Suter, Pavelski), 5:23.

Penalties — Pavelski, DAL (Hooking), 1:08; Hintz, DAL (Hooking), 7:37; Benn, DAL (Hooking), 12:04; Ehlers, WPG (Hooking), 16:25.

Second Period 2, Winnipeg, Stastny 14 (Copp, Ehlers), 13:38 (pp).

3, Dallas, Robertson 25 (Harley), 19:09.

Penalties — DeMelo, WPG (Tripping), 0:51; Dubois, WPG (Holding), 5:00; Suter, DAL (Interference), 5:26; Faksa, DAL (Tripping), 6:08; Tufte, DAL (Slashing), 11:39.

Third Period 4, Winnipeg, Connor 33 (Svechnikov, Dubois), 1:21.

5, Winnipeg, Stastny 15 (Wheeler, DeMelo), 12:19.

6, Dallas, Gurianov 9 (Suter, Benn), 15:28.

Penalties — Scheifele, WPG (Roughing), 10:18; Raffl, DAL (Roughing), 10:18.

Overtime 7, Dallas, Robertson 26, 4:30.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Dallas Winnipeg

14 16

7 8 5—42 8 16 2—42

Goal — Dallas, Holtby (W,10-10-1).

Winnipeg, Hellebuyck (L,18-19-9).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Dallas 0 of 3; Winnipeg 1 of 6.

Attendance — NA.

NHL SCORING LEADERS

Not including Friday’s games Connor McDavid, EDM Leon Draisaitl, EDM

G 29 38

A PTS 50 79 40 78

18 37 22 21 33 26 24 32 27 21 26

57 31 46 47 32 39 41 29 34 40 34

75 68 68 68 65 65 65 61 61 61 60

SOCCER MLS

Saturday’s games FC Dallas at New England, 10:30 a.m.

New York at Toronto FC, 11 a.m.

Houston at Sporting Kansas City, 12:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at CF Montréal, 1 p.m.

Columbus at San Jose, 2:30 p.m.

D.C. United at Cincinnati, 3 p.m.

Orlando City at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Nashville at Minnesota, 3 p.m.

Atlanta at Colorado, 3 p.m.

Seattle at Real Salt Lake, 3 p.m.

New York City FC at Vancouver, 3 p.m.

LA Galaxy at Charlotte FC, 4:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Miami at Austin FC, 1 p.m.

Portland at Los Angeles FC, 7 p.m.

ENGLAND PREMIER LEAGUE

Saturday’s matches Leicester vs. Leeds, 4:30 a.m.

Aston Villa vs. Southampton, 7 a.m.

Burnley vs. Chelsea, 7 a.m.

Newcastle vs. Brighton, 7 a.m.

Norwich vs. Brentford, 7 a.m.

Wlvrhmptn vs. Crystal Palace, 7 a.m.

Liverpool vs. West Ham, 9:30 a.m.

Chicago Miami Philadelphia Milwaukee Chicago Boston Cleveland Toronto Brooklyn Atlanta Charlotte Washington New York Indiana Detroit Orlando

W 39 42 39 39 39 38 36 34 32 31 31 28 25 22 17 16

L 21 22 23 25 25 27 27 29 32 32 33 34 37 43 47 48

Pct GB .650 Ñ .656 — .629 2 .609 3 .609 3 .585 4 1/2 .571 5 1/2 .540 7 1/2 .500 10 .492 10 1/2 .484 11 .452 13 .403 16 .338 20 1/2 .266 25 .250 26

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

GOLF

HOCKEY

W 50 43 43 39 38 37 35 34 27 27 25 24 24 20 15

L 12 20 21 23 25 26 29 31 35 36 37 39 41 43 48

Pct GB .806 — .683 7 1/2 .672 8 .629 11 .603 12 1/2 .587 13 1/2 .547 16 .523 17 1/2 .435 23 .429 23 1/2 .403 25 .381 26 1/2 .369 27 1/2 .317 30 1/2 .238 35 1/2

Note: The top eight teams per conference qualify for the playoffs.

Friday’s results Detroit 111, Indiana 106 Philadelphia 125, Cleveland 119 Atlanta 117, Washington 114 Orlando 103, Toronto 97 Milwaukee 118, Chicago 112 Minnesota 138, Oklahoma City 101 New Orleans 124, Utah 90 Denver 116, Houston 101 New York at Phoenix Thursday’s results Atlanta 130, Chicago 124 Boston 120, Memphis 107 Miami 113, Brooklyn 107 Detroit 108, Toronto 106 Dallas 122, Golden State 113 Sacramento 115, San Antonio 112 L.A. Clippers 132, L.A. Lakers 111 L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s games Sacramento at Dallas, 2 p.m.

San Antonio at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Orlando at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 5 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers,

CURLING THE BRIER At Lethbridge, Alta.

PRELIMINARY ROUND

Friday’s result FIRST DRAW Wild Card (2) 7 New Brunswick 6 Canada 5 Ontario 4 Alberta 9 Saskatchewan 8 (EE) Nfld & Labrador 7 Yukon 5 Saturday’s games SECOND DRAW, 3:30 P.M. Wild Card (3) vs. Northern Ontario, British Columbia vs. Manitoba, Northwest Territories vs. Nova Scotia, Quebec vs. Wild Card (1) THIRD DRAW, 8:30 P.M. Yukon vs. P.E.I., Alberta vs.

Newfoundland & Labrador, Ontario vs. Wild Card (2), Canada vs. New Brunswick

WHL

BCHL

WESTERN CONFERENCE

INTERIOR DIVISION

B.C. DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA Pt x-Kamloops 53 37 14 2 0 225 135 76 Kelowna 50 32 14 1 3 198 155 68 Vancouver 48 20 26 2 0 132 162 42 Pr. George 50 19 28 2 1 134 178 41 Victoria 52 15 31 5 1 145 223 36 x — clinched playoff berth. Note: Two

points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Friday’s results Winnipeg 4 Saskatoon 3 (OT) Red Deer 3 Regina 2 Prince Albert 5 Moose Jaw 3 Brandon 6 Lethbridge 3 Edmonton 7 Calgary 2 Kelowna 5 Victoria 4 (OT) Portland 4 Everett 2 Spokane at Prince George Seattle at Tri-City Kamloops at Vancouver Thursday’s results No games scheduled Saturday’s games Edmonton at Calgary, 1 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Prince Albert, 5 p.m.

Lethbridge at Regina, 5 p.m.

Red Deer at Saskatoon, 5 p.m.

Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Tri-City at Portland, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Kelowna at Vancouver, 4 p.m.

Tri-City at Seattle, 5:05 p.m.

AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE PACIFIC DIVISION GP Ontario 46 Stockton 43 Colorado 49 Bakersfield 44 Abbotsford 45 Henderson 44 San Diego 43 Tucson 45 San Jose 45

W 30 30 26 22 24 23 19 17 16

L 10 9 17 13 17 18 22 24 28

OTLSOLPts GF GA 3 3 66 188 143 3 1 64 152 113 3 3 58 160 143 4 5 53 146 135 3 1 52 155 134 2 1 49 133 131 2 0 40 126 138 3 1 38 123 177 1 0 33 136 189

Friday’s results Abbotsford 4, Laval 2 Bridgeport 5, WB/Scranton 4 Iowa 4, Grand Rapids 0 Rochester 3, Belleville 2 Utica 8, Syracuse 5 Charlotte 5, Lehigh Valley 2 Springfield 4, Hershey 3 Milwaukee 4, Texas 3 San Diego at Colorado Bakersfield at Stockton Henderson at Ontario Thursday’s results Manitoba 7, Rockford 2

LACROSSE NLL

WEEK 14

Friday's results Georgia 17 Rochester 16 (OT) Calgary at San Diego Saturday's games Vancouver at Halifax, 3 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Buffalo at Albany, 4 p.m.

Saskatchewan at Fort Worth, 5:30 p.m.

GP x-Penticton 46 x-Salmon Arm 46 x-P. George 48 x-W. Kelowna 44 x-Cranbrook 46 x-Vernon 46 x-Wenatchee 43 x-Trail 43 Merritt 43

W L OL 37 7 0 33 8 4 25 12 3 27 16 1 24 18 2 22 17 4 17 21 4 17 22 2 3 37 2

SL 2 1 8 0 2 3 1 2 1

GF 214 174 151 174 141 118 123 148 79

GA PT 104 76 111 71 108 61 139 55 140 52 131 51 143 39 169 38 255 9

GF 172 161 174 177 182 142 141 132 128

GA PT 132 66 143 65 145 56 130 55 153 52 145 46 191 36 214 34 178 31

COASTAL DIVISION x-Alberni V. x-Langley x-Nanaimo x-Chilliwack x-Victoria Surrey Coquitlam Powell River C. Valley

GP 48 48 45 44 47 45 45 47 46

W L OL 31 13 3 31 14 1 27 16 1 26 15 1 26 21 0 23 22 0 15 24 1 13 26 7 13 28 4

SL 1 2 1 2 0 0 5 1 1

x — clinched playoff position. Note: two points for a win, one point for a loss in overtime or shootout Friday’s results Victoria 3 Powell River 2 (SO) Surrey at Cowichan Valley Chilliwack at Nanaimo Prince George at Penticton Vernon at Merritt West Kelowna at Trail Coquitlam at Langley Thursday’s result Cranbrook 2 Salmon Arm 1 (OT) Saturday’s games Trail at Penticton, 6 p.m.

Merritt at Salmon Arm, 6 p.m.

Cranbrook at Wenatchee, 6 p.m.

Victoria at Powell River, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at Cowichan Val, 7 p.m.

Surrey at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Prince George at W. Kelowna, 7 p.m.

VIJHL FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7)

NORTH DIVISION CAMP RIVER VS. P ALBERNI (Series tied 2-2) Friday’s result Port Alberni at Campbell River Tuesday’s result Port Alberni 4 Campbell River 3 (OT) Monday’s game Campbell River at Port Alberni, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 8 x-Port Alberni at Campbell River, 7:30 p.m.

COMOX VAL VS. OCEANSIDE (Comox Valley leads series 3-1) Wednesday’s result Comox Valley 5 Oceanside 2 Tuesday’s result Oceanside 3 Comox Valley 2 (2OT) Saturday’s game Oceanside at Comox Valley, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game x-Comox Valley at Oceanside, 7 p.m.

SOUTH DIVISION KERRY PARK VS. VICTORIA (Kerry Park wins series 4-0) Tuesday’s result Kerry Park 5 Victoria 3 PENINSULA VS WESTSHORE (Peninsula wins series 4-2) Wednesday’s result Peninsula 4 Westshore 2 x — played only if necessary.

PGA-ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL

LPGA-HSBC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Viktor Hovland Talor Gooch Tyrrell Hatton Rory McIlroy Billy Horschel Sam Burns Paul Casey Beau Hossler Charles Howell III Patton Kizzire Martin Laird Cameron Young Hayden Buckley Russell Henley David Lipsky Jon Rahm J.J. Spaun Aaron Wise Gary Woodland Rickie Fowler Lanto Griffin Max Homa Stephan Jaeger Marc Leishman Troy Merritt Taylor Pendrith Ian Poulter Scottie Scheffler Brendan Steele Matt Fitzpatrick Lucas Herbert Graeme McDowell Adam Schenk Adam Scott Alex Smalley Davis Thompson Lee Westwood Danny Willett Cameron Champ Corey Conners Sergio Garcia Corey Conners Nick Taylor Missed the cut Adam Svensson

in Young Ko Amy Yang Brooke Henderson Megan Khang Atthaya Thitikul Pajaree Anannarukarn In Gee Chun A Lim Kim Angel Yin Danielle Kang Yealimi Noh Su-Hyun Oh Inbee Park Ariya Jutanugarn Jennifer Kupcho Minjee Lee Jeongeun Lee6 Gaby Lopez Madelene Sagstrom Sarah Schmelzel Wei-Ling Hsu Xiyu Lin Emily Pedersen Jenny Shin Patty Tavatanakit Carlota Ciganda Perrine Delacour Ayaka Furue Hyo Joo Kim Lydia Ko Nanna Koerstz Madsen Alison Lee Leona Maguire Emma Talley Momoko Ueda Ashleigh Buhai Chella Choi Hannah Green

At Orlando, Fla. Second Round — Par 72

69-66—135 69-68—137 69-68—137 65-72—137 67-71—138 72-69—141 71-70—141 67-74—141 68-73—141 69-72—141 72-69—141 70-71—141 69-73—142 70-72—142 71-71—142 72-70—142 67-75—142 69-73—142 70-72—142 70-73—143 70-73—143 69-74—143 70-73—143 70-73—143 71-72—143 71-72—143 68-75—143 70-73—143 70-73—143 73-71—144 73-71—144 68-76—144 70-74—144 68-76—144 73-71—144 73-71—144 70-74—144 73-71—144 70-75—145 72-73—145 75-70—145 72-73—145 70-77—147 70-79—149

PGA-PUERTO RICO OPEN At Rio Grande, Puerto Rico Second Round — Par 72 Ryan Brehm Michael Kim Satoshi Kodaira Max McGreevy Callum Tarren Kiradech Aphibarnrat Sang-Moon Bae Patrick Flavin Tommy Gainey Christopher Gotterup Jim Knous Andrew Novak Matthias Schwab Mark Hensby Sung Kang Chad Ramey Chase Seiffert Rafael Campos Brice Garnett Bill Haas Ben Kohles Dawie Van der Walt Brandon Wu Aaron Baddeley Ricky Barnes Greg Chalmers Justin Lower Spencer Ralston Josh Teater D.J. Trahan Kevin Yu Scott Brown Rafa Cabrera Bello Chan Kim Cameron Percy Austin Smotherman Kyle Stanley Brian Stuard Vaughn Taylor Peter Uihlein Also — Michael Gligic Missed the cut Austin Connelly David Hearn

66-67—133 65-69—134 68-66—134 70-64—134 70-65—135 67-69—136 69-67—136 68-68—136 69-67—136 68-68—136 71-65—136 69-67—136 70-66—136 70-67—137 69-68—137 69-68—137 65-72—137 70-68—138 70-68—138 72-66—138 68-70—138 72-66—138 69-69—138 67-72—139 70-69—139 68-71—139 69-70—139 71-68—139 71-68—139 70-69—139 73-66—139 71-69—140 69-71—140 70-70—140 72-68—140 73-67—140 71-69—140 71-69—140 68-72—140 68-72—140 70-72—142 80-70—150 76-75—151

At Sentosa Island, Singapore Second Round — Par 72

69-67—136 69-67—136 69-68—137 69-68—137 69-68—137 69-69—138 70-68—138 68-70—138 69-69—138 68-71—139 75-64—139 69-70—139 68-71—139 72-68—140 69-71—140 71-69—140 70-70—140 70-70—140 71-69—140 69-71—140 70-71—141 69-72—141 71-70—141 70-71—141 67-74—141 70-72—142 70-72—142 72-70—142 72-70—142 69-73—142 69-73—142 72-70—142 70-72—142 72-70—142 71-71—142 69-74—143 74-69—143 74-69—143

CHAMPIONS-HOAG CLASSIC At Newport Beach, Calif.

First Round — Par 71 Cameron Beckman Stephen Dodd Bernhard Langer Darren Clarke Ernie Els Jeff Maggert Rocco Mediate Scott Parel David Toms Stephen Ames Billy Andrade David Branshaw Paul Broadhurst Marco Dawson Tom Gillis Retief Goosen Jerry Kelly Tom Lehman Brett Quigley Y.E. Yang Stuart Appleby Alex Cejka K.J. Choi Jim Furyk Lee Janzen Colin Montgomerie Rod Pampling Tom Pernice Wes Short Scott Verplank Mike Weir Also — Kevin Baker

30-34—64 34-31—65 32-33—65 34-32—66 32-34—66 31-35—66 35-32—67 33-34—67 33-34—67 33-35—68 34-34—68 31-37—68 34-34—68 32-36—68 33-35—68 33-35—68 34-34—68 33-35—68 34-34—68 35-33—68 35-34—69 35-34—69 34-35—69 34-35—69 34-35—69 34-35—69 38-31—69 36-33—69 34-35—69 35-34—69 35-34—69 36-36—72

TENNIS DAVIS CUP QUALIFIER CANADA VS. NETHERLANDS (Netherlands leads 2-0) At The Hague, Netherlands Friday’s results Singles Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, def. Steven Diez, Toronto, 6-4, 6-4.

Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, def. Alexis Galarneau, Laval, Que., 7-5, 7-6 (9).

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Whitecaps back home looking to avenge ugly season opener GAME DAY: NEW YORK CITY FC AT VANCOUVER, 3 P.M. GEMMA KARSTENS-SMITH The Canadian Press VANCOUVER — Heading into the second week of the Major League Soccer season, the ­Vancouver Whitecaps are already looking for a big bounce back performance.

The Whitecaps stumbled into the 2022 campaign last week with an ugly 4-0 road loss to Columbus Crew. Now they’re eager to put forward a stronger effort come today when they host the reigning MLS Cup champions, New York City FC. “Losing games, you learn a lot.

You learn to figure out what went wrong and sharpen things up a little bit more, make things more clinical for us,” said striker

Lucas Cavallini. “There’s always revenge in football and this is our revenge for [last week].”

The Whitecaps (0-1-0) coughed up the first goal of the game in the eighth minute last week and went down to 10 men early in the second half when veteran defender Jake N ­ erwinski was sent off with his second ­yellow card of the day.

“Obviously it’s a tough match to start off the year,” said defender Tristan Blackmon.

“But it’s a long season and we have a lot to look forward to, a good group of guys that have a lot of work ethic. And I think, what better way to bounce back than at home?”

The turf at B.C. Place was kind to the Whitecaps last

s­ eason. The club played just nine games in Vancouver due to pandemic border restrictions but boasted a stellar 7-1-1 at its home stadium.

The Whitecaps respect the fact that NYC FC (0-1-0) are the league’s defending champions, but the group is confident in its abilities, especially in front of a lively home crowd, said Cavallini.

“Obviously we know it’s going to be a tough rival but if we stick to our game plan, we’ll figure things out, especially at home,” he said. “Home is a big advantage for us so I think we could come off with three points easily.”

NYC FC comes into today’s game looking for its first win of the season after being blanked 1-0 by the L.A. Galaxy last ­Saturday.

New York and V ­ ancouver

haven’t encountered one another since Aug. 3, 2019, when an undermanned Whitecaps side dropped a 3-1 decision at the MLS is Back tournament in Orlando.

The ‘Caps know what kind of threat they’re up against this weekend, though, including from Valentin Castellanos. NYC FC’s Argentine striker put away a league-leading 19 goals last ­season.

“He’s a good player. He showed that last year,” Blackmon said.

“It’s about minimizing how many chances he creates and just being on top of him most of the game, doing what we do best and learning from our mistakes last week. And hopefully that translates into a win.”

The Whitecaps need to be “extremely compact” when they press against New York and

keep their play simple when they have the ball, said head coach Vanni Sartini.

NYC FC is a team that likes to overwhelm its opponents and the Whitecaps need to be prepared to face the visiting side’s highquality players, he added.

“They can really put us on a carousel where we just turn, turn, turn and we never get the ball,” he said.

Vancouver will be missing at least one key player for today’s game, with Nerwinski out of the lineup after being ejected from last week’s game.

Star striker Brian White could figure into the match after missing the season opener with a foot contusion. The American is set to participate in full training on Friday and Sartini said if it goes well, White will be available for today’s game.

Balanced Magic attack sinks depleted Raptors The Canadian Press TORONTO — About to embark

on a long road trip, the Toronto Raptors couldn’t take advantage of having a couple of the worst teams in the league come into their barn on consecutive nights.

Jalen Suggs scored 13 points and dished out seven assists to lead a balanced attack as the Orlando Magic defeated the Raptors 103-97 in an offensivelychallenged game Friday night at Scotiabank Arena.

The loss came a day after Toronto dropped a 108-106 ­decision to the Detroit Pistons.

North Vancouver’s Cameron Alexander celebrates after co-winning with Switzerland’s Niels Hintermann the World Cup men’s downhill in Kvitfjell, Norway, on Friday. GABRIELE FACCIOTTI, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

B.C.’s Alexander ends Canadian downhill drought in rare shared victory The Associated Press KVITFJELL, Norway — Cameron

Alexander ended an eight-year ­Canadian wait for a men’s World Cup downhill win on Friday, ­sharing victory with Swiss rival Niels Hintermann after the pair upset the top contenders for the season title.

Alexander, a late starter with bib No. 39, matched Hintermann’s time of 1 minute, 44.42 seconds. The sunny conditions on the ­Olympiabakken course allowed several lower-ranked skiers to post top-10 results.

No Canadian had won a World Cup race in the sport’s fastest discipline since Erik Guay, the 2011 world downhill champion, triumphed on the same course in Norway in 2014.

“To win in the same place that somebody like Erik has … to be at the same level as he was at the same race, is crazy, phenomenal,” said Alexander, a native of North Vancouver who called nowretired Guay one of his idols. “He has obviously shown greatness throughout his career in this sport and he is someone I looked up to coming up as a ski racer.”

Cameron’s run came more than half an hour after Hintermann became the first to beat the leading downhill racers.

Hintermann started 17th, after most pre-race favorites had done their runs, edging then-leader Matthias Mayer of Austria by 0.12 seconds for his second career victory.

Olympic downhill champion Beat Feuz, a teammate of

Hintermann’s, was 0.19 behind in fourth, and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was one-hundredth further back in fifth.

“It’s amazing. He did extremely extraordinary well,” Hintermann said after Alexander posted the same time.

Alexander’s result meant that Kilde stayed at the top of the downhill season standings. With another downhill today and the season-ending event in France the only races remaining, the former overall champion from Norway leads Feuz by three points. Mayer trails by 28 in third.

Kilde remained the only racer to win multiple World Cup downhills this season. He has not won a downhill season title before.

Feuz won the globe in each of the past four seasons.

When many believed the race was over, Alexander used his knowledge of the course to stage the upset.

After failing to make the Canadian team for last month’s Beijing Olympics, Alexander went to Kvitfjell to compete in three speed races on the secondtier European Cup circuit — and with success. He won a downhill, finished fifth in another and placed second in a super-G. “I just tried to give it everything I had,” Alexander said about Friday’s race. “I knew I had speed here, so all I had to do was go out there and try to let it go.”

His only previous top-10 result in the World Cup came on the same course in Norway, when he finished 10th in the downhill two years ago.

Seven different Magic (16-48) players scored in double-digits as they came away with the win despite shooting just 37.9 per cent from the field. Toronto connected on just 39.8 per cent of its field-goal attempts.

“I would say we were finding some decent shots and we didn’t finish at the rim and we didn’t shoot the ball well enough, either,” said Raptors head coach Nick Nurse.

Pascal Siakam had a doubledouble, scoring a game-high 34 points and collecting 14 rebounds for the Raptors (34-29), who went 1-2 on their

three-game homestand.

Malachi Flynn had 20 points with eight assists filling in for the injured Fred VanVleet as the Raptors starting point guard.

“Just figuring out what they were doing on defence,” said Flynn of the success he was finding. “Having a sense of urgency, just trying to come back doing whatever I could to try and lead the comeback.”

Raptors guard Gary Trent Jr. had four points as his outside shooting slump continued. Trent went 0-for-9 on three-point attempts. He now has only made six of his last 69 three-pointers.

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Rogers’ planned Shaw takeover should not go ahead: committee The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee says a proposed multibillion-dollar takeover of one of Canada’s largest telecoms should not proceed.

But the House of Commons industry and technology committee says if Rogers Communications Inc.’s $26-billion bid for Shaw Communications Inc. does go ahead, the government should make its conditions attached to the approval “fully enforceable.”

In a report on the proposed merger that was tabled Friday, the committee recommends the affordability and accessibility interests of Canadians should take precedence over all other considerations during the regulatory review process.

The non-binding report says the government should place an emphasis on the importance of Freedom Mobile, Shaw’s wireless carrier, as a fourth wireless provider that competes with the Big Three of Rogers, Bell and Telus.

The deal is under review by three different federal regulators including the Competition Bureau and the CRTC as well as spectrum regulator Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.

The last of the committee’s four recommendations notes that the committee “believes the merger should not proceed,” but says attaching enforceable conditions, including the resources needed for that enforcement, is a must if the deal goes ahead.

The committee report came a day after Ottawa pledged to block the full transfer of Shaw’s wireless licences to Rogers as part of the deal. Industry watchers had expected that Shaw would have to sell some of these assets as a condition of any approval of the deal.

Experts say the move signals that the federal government is concerned with cellphone bills in Canada — among the highest in the world — and wants to encourage competition.

Yet it’s unclear how stable and sustainable a fourth wireless carrier would be in the marketplace and how much of an impact it would have on prices, they say.

“It’s a good sign in the sense that the government is — at least in theory — keeping the dream of four wireless options alive in Canada,” John Lawford, executive director and general counsel of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, said Friday.

“But whether the fourth player will be stable and still around in 10 years and how big they’ll be is unclear.”

Quebecor Inc., Eastlink Inc. and Xplornet Communications Inc. could all potentially play a role, he said.

“I don’t think there’s an obvious fourth player that’s going to be quasi-national,” he said.

“They might give a chunk to Quebecor and then a little piece to Eastlink out east and maybe some to Xplornet for the north and rural areas.”

The Rogers $26-billion deal to buy Shaw and its Freedom Mobile wireless business has faced stiff opposition from consumer groups, academics and customers.

Federal Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Thursday that the wholesale transfer of Shaw’s wireless licences to Rogers is fundamentally incompatible with the government’s policies for spectrum and mobile service competition.

Telecom observers say the announcement was not a surprise to industry players.

“Rogers and Shaw have always recognized this was a very likely possibility and were prepared to deal with that,” said Carleton University communication professor Dwayne Winseck.

“The real crown jewel in this deal is all of the fibre backhaul in Western Canada that Shaw owns as well as the local wireline networks, which are also fibre that connect all of the cell towers.”

If Shaw’s wireless spectrum is spun off, there will be other suitors there ready to take it up, he said. In addition to other regional wireless players, Wind Mobile founder Anthony Lacavera could be interested in throwing his hat in as well, Winseck said.

But the viability of a fourth wireless carrier depends on much more than spectrum, he said.

“You can’t have a viable fourth player without access to the towers, the antennas, the retail fronts and all that back-end technical administrative stuff as well as some kind of rock-solid, ironclad agreement for wholesale access to the backhaul connections,” said Winseck, also director of the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project.

Quebecor called the decision “a step in the right direction.”

“As it stands, the proposed Rogers-Shaw transaction is contrary to the public interest,” Pierre Karl Péladeau, president and CEO of Quebecor, said in a statement.

“As Bell, Rogers and Telus already control 90 per cent of Canada’s wireless market, it is imperative that we create the necessary conditions for real competition in order to give consumers more choice, better prices, better services and more innovation.”

Rogers and Shaw have said they are continuing to work constructively with the government and regulators.

Parkland profit hurt by refinery pause in aftermath of B.C. floods The Canadian Press CALGARY — Floods in B.C. and the temporary shutdown of the Trans Mountain pipeline in the fourth quarter of 2021 cost ­Parkland Corp. approximately $35 million.

The Calgary-based fuel marketer and convenience-store retailer made the figure public Friday, as part of its fourthquarter results.

On a conference call with analysts, chief executive Bob Espey said Parkland would have delivered record earnings for the full-year 2021 if not for the weather-related shutdown of Trans Mountain in November and the resulting pause in operations at Parkland’s Burnaby refinery.

Instead, Parkland said it earned $23 million or 15 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Dec. 31, down from $53 million or 35 cents per diluted share a year earlier.

The Trans Mountain pipeline was shut down for three weeks while crews assessed damage

and made repairs in the aftermath of the flooding.

The 1,150-km pipeline carries 300,000 barrels per day of petroleum products from Alberta to B.C. During the shutdown, Parkland paused its refinery processing operations in Burnaby due to a lack of crude oil supply from Trans Mountain.

The Burnaby refinery is a key supplier of gasoline to southwest B.C. While its processing operations were paused, Parkland imported fuel into Burnaby, then stored and transported it to retail and commercial locations by truck and barge.

Also on Friday, Parkland Corp. increased its annual dividend to $1.30 per share compared with $1.235 per share and said that starting in the second quarter it will switch to a quarterly payment schedule from monthly payments.

Parkland’s fourth-quarter sales and operating revenue totalled $6.29 billion, up from $3.51 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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Long & McQuade to open new Langford location in December DARRON KLOSTER Times Colonist Long & McQuade, the national music retailer with an established location in Victoria and a 40-year history in the area, is opening a new purpose-built store in Langford.

General manager Mike Arensen said the company is following the area’s surging population growth, the addition of several new elementary and high schools and the increasing numbers of musicians living in Langford, Colwood and other areas of the West Shore.

The new Long & McQuade is under construction at 3108 Jacklin Rd., on the site of the former Trading Post building close to Sooke Road. The 10,000-squarefoot, two-storey building is in its early stages, with steel framing up.

Arensen said the new store is

expected to open on Dec. 1.

He said it will be set up similar to the Hillside Avenue store, with musical instruments, sheet music and electronics on the first floor and a large musiclesson area above.

“We’ve been looking out on the West Shore for quite a long time — it’s been part of our long-term strategy,” Arensen said. “We have lots of long-time customers living out there and many students involved in band programs, so we’re happy about bringing a store closer to them.”

He said the surge in new schools in Langford and Colwood will bring increasing demand for band rental instruments and lessons — a big part of Long & McQuade’s business, as the company supplies everything from violins and saxophones to drum kits and guitars.

It will be a homecoming for Long & McQuade, which opened

its original Greater Victoria store in Langford between the West Shore RCMP detachment and the former Langford Fire Hall in 1982.

Long & McQuade employee Shaun Wilson, who has worked for the company for 32 years, grew up in Langford, returning recently as a resident. He plans to work out of the new store when it opens, and says he is looking forward to “going full circle” and working in his hometown.

It will be the fourth location on the Island for Long & McQuade, which also has stores in Nanaimo and Courtenay.

The company, which has about 90 locations across the country, is owned by the Pickering, Ont.-based Long family and still led by Jack Long, 92, who founded the company in 1956.

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Nanaimo truss company buys competitor in Lantzville Times Colonist A Nanaimo-based roof-truss manufacturer has acquired a competitor in Lantzville in a deal worth $9 million.

Atlas Engineered Products announced this week the purchase of the assets and land of Hi-Tec Industries, which builds trusses and sells engineered wood products such as floor joists and beams to the construction industry throughout Vancouver Island.

Atlas said it acquired all shares of Hi-Tec for $5.8 million

and the land and buildings of the company for $3.25 million after an independent appraisal.

Atlas, a publicly traded company, has been buying companies in Canada’s truss and engineered products industry to create a national network serving regional construction markets. The company now has seven companies under its umbrella in B.C., Manitoba and Ontario.

Hadi Abassi, president and chief executive of Atlas Engineered Products, called Lantzville’s Hi-Tec a successful, well-

run business, adding that when the acquisition opportunity arose “it was too good to pass up.”

The companies are within a 15-minute drive and the deal will provide “unique synergies from labour to shipping to equipment and more,” Atlas said in a statement.

“The future with our Atlas Building Systems location and additional customer base for product expansion is exciting and our team is looking forward to this integration moving forward,” Abassi said in a statement.

Backlash against Russian-branded gas stations hits U.S. owners, staff The Associated Press NEWARK, New Jersey — Outraged by the invasion of Ukraine, lawmakers in New Jersey’s largest city lashed out at one of the closest symbols of Russia they could find — a pair of Lukoil gas stations.

The Newark city council voted unanimously Wednesday to ask the city’s business administrator to suspend the service stations’ operating licences, citing Lukoil’s base in Moscow.

In doing so, however, they may have predominantly been hurting Americans.

The stations are franchises owned by locals, not Russians.

They employ mostly New Jersey residents. And the gasoline sold at the stations comes from a local Phillips 66 refinery.

The campaign targeting the gas stations is one example of collateral damage from the backlash against Russia, as government officials and customers race to show their support for Ukraine by boycotting products and companies — or things they perceive to be Russian.

Roger Verma, a New Jersey resident who immigrated from India 45 years ago, has owned the franchise for one of the Lukoil stations in Newark since 2005. He said the decision to

A Lukoil gas station in Newark, New Jersey. SETH WENIG, AP yank his licence left him baffled and concerned that he could be put out of business, which would affect his 16 employees.

“Let me be clear that I stand with Ukraine and I’m fully in support of Russian sanctions,” Verma said. “But I’m baffled and confused how people sitting in these positions without having any of their facts together and without having full knowledge of how things are done can introduce and change laws and change people’s lives just like that.”

In some places, people have been pouring out Smirnoff vodka, not realizing the bottles consumed in the U.S. are distilled in Illinois.

Charlie Tgibedes, owner of

Box Seats, a restaurant and sports bar in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, told the Sun Chronicle newspaper he’s not ordering more vodka from Russian companies but questioned the wisdom of tossing what he already has.

“It looks good doing it, but the stuff is already in the building and paid for. You’re just hurting yourself dumping it down the drain,” he said.

On social media, people have called for boycotts of Lukoil stations, which operate in 11 states, mainly in the northeastern U.S. A phone message couldn’t be left at a listing for Lukoil Americas Corp. in New York.

In a statement posted on its website Thursday, Lukoil’s board of directors expressed “its deepest concerns about the tragic events in Ukraine” and called for “the soonest termination of the armed conflict.”

“We express our sincere empathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy.

We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy,” it said.

It wasn’t immediately clear when the Newark stations’ licences would be revoked, or if the city administrator might halt the suspension.

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Honda and Sony join forces on new electric vehicle The Associated Press TOKYO — Two big names in Japanese electronics and autos are joining forces to produce an electric vehicle together.

Sony Group Corp. and Honda Motor Co. agreed to set up a joint venture this year to start selling an electric vehicle by 2025, both sides said Friday.

The plan is to bring together Honda’s expertise in mobility development, technology and sales with Sony’s imaging, telecommunication, network and entertainment expertise.

A union of traditionally different manufacturing businesses is uncommon for Japan.

But it makes sense in the age of electric vehicles, which lack gasoline-powered engines and have complicated electronics.

All the world’s automakers have been developing zero-emission electric vehicles as concerns grow about pollution and climate change. But they face tough competition from relative newcomers such as Tesla.

The joint venture will develop and design the product, but will use Honda’s plant for manufacturing. Sony, which makes the PlayStation video-game console and owns movie and music businesses, will develop the mobility services platform.

Honda makes the CR-V sport utility vehicle and Clarity plugin hybrid and already has its own electric vehicle program, teaming up with General Motors to share platforms for EVs in North America.

The joint venture with Sony will be separate, meant to produce unexpected value “in a

Close gap between news media and big tech, feds told The Canadian Press OTTAWA — The Public Policy Forum says “urgent” action is needed from the Canadian government to level the playing field between news media and tech giants such as Meta and Google amid broad revenue declines in the media industry.

In a report titled The Shattered Mirror: 5 Years On, the organization emphasizes the need to support public-interest, fact-based journalism, which it calls an essential part of democracy.

It cites News Media Canada data on the decline of advertising revenue for community newspapers, where almost 300 local Canadian papers either closed or merged with other publications in the decade from 2011 to 2020.

“We can no longer ignore how vulnerable our local and regional news outlets are to Google and Meta,” Katie Davey, editor of PPF Media and policy lead at the Public Policy Forum said in a statement.

The report recommends implementing the model used in Australia, where the government passed laws that would make digital giants help cover the costs of journalism.

Other recommendations include enhancing the Local Journalism Initiative, Canada’s $50-million program launched by the federal government in 2019 aimed at helping news outlets hire reporters to cover underserved communities.

This report comes five years after the Public Policy Forum’s original Shattered Mirror report, which delved into the key issues facing Canada’s journalism industry. That report had 12 recommendations.

There has been movement on at least six of those recommendations in some way, including the suggestion to establish a fund to support local journalism similar to what the BBC has been doing across the pond and the application of GST/HST to foreign digital services.

While the authors of the report are encouraged by greater innovation in policy solutions and are optimistic about a fresh generation of news entrepreneurs, they say support for Canadian news and media is ultimately still not where it needs to be.

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Sony chief executive Kenichiro Yoshida, left, and Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday.

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chemical reaction,” said Honda Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe.

“We’re so used to thinking within the category of autos, it’s hard to think outside that box,” Mibe told reporters, while stressing that Honda will continue with its own EV program.

Sony showed an electric car concept at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas two years ago. It has been eager to find an auto partner, said Sony Group Chief Executive Kenichiro Yoshida.

The two executives, appearing together at a hastily called news conference in Tokyo, did not rule out a future stock listing of the joint venture.

Shares in both companies fell Friday, with Honda down 4.5% and Sony losing 3.2%.

Both Sony and Honda have humble beginnings in the 1940s when Japan was rebuilding

from the ashes of the Second World War. Both had charismatic founders.

Honda was founded by Soichiro Honda, an engineer, industrialist and reputed nonconformist. He started out helping at his father’s bicycle repair shop and eventually built Honda into a global powerhouse. He is often quoted as saying things like “A diploma is worthless, learn to work with your hands,” or “work for yourself and not a company.”

Sony was founded by Akio Morita, who co-wrote The Japan That Can Say No, which advocated for a more assertive and prouder Japan, and Masaru Ibuka.

Morita had market savvy while Ibuka was known for product development. In the 1970s when Sony was developing the Walkman portable audio player, some engineers were skeptical.

But Morita insisted people would want to listen to music on-the-go.

“Although Sony and Honda are companies that share many historical and cultural similarities, our areas of technological

expertise are very different,” Mibe said. “I believe this alliance which brings together the strengths of our two companies offers great possibilities for the future of mobility.”

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MARKETS Canada’s main stock index up for second straight week ROSS MAROWITS The Canadian Press TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index

rose for a second-straight week as commodity prices continued to march higher with oil surpassing $115 US per barrel on Friday over worries about the war in Ukraine.

“All the commodities are running,” said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at SIA Wealth Management.

Crude oil, gold, copper, nickel, steel, aluminum and agriculture prices have all surged on worries that sanctions will hurt supplies from Russia, while exports from Ukraine will also be constrained.

“We’ve seen a lot of different commodities starting to run, because between Russia and Ukraine, they’re both huge commodity producers and not just oil, but also metals and agricultural commodities,” Cieszynski said.

Energy led the TSX, climbing 3.5 per cent as crude oil prices surged 7.4 per cent Friday to end the week up 25 per cent and 52 per cent higher year-to-date.

The April crude oil contract was up $8.01 US at $115.68 US per barrel and the April natural gas contract was up 29.4 cents at $5.02 US per mmBTU. Baytex Energy Corp. increased 9.8 per cent.

Cieszynski was not sure if an eventual ceasefire in Ukraine would prompt commodities, especially oil, to suddenly plummet, because rumours of a nuclear deal with Iran would bring some oil ­supply back to the world market.

“So we’ve got these two opposing forces and either one could just pop out of nowhere all of a sudden, so it’s hard to predict which one might dominate on any given day.”

The Canadian dollar lost ground despite higher crude prices as the U.S. dollar strengthened, trading for 78.43 cents US compared with 78.96 cents US on Thursday. However, it has outperformed the euro, which has lost about one per cent of its value over the

past week. Materials increased 3.2 per cent as metals prices climbed with the April gold contract increasing $30.70 US at $1,966.60 US an ounce and the May copper contract was up 15.6 cents at $4.94 US a pound.

Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. shares were up 7.4 per cent, while Nutrien Ltd. and Capstone Mining Corp. rose 6.3 and 5.0 per cent, respectively.

Commodities propelled the S&P/TSX composite index into positive territory, closing up 152.02 points to 21402.43.

In New York, a strong jobs report in February wasn’t enough to prevent U.S. markets from losing ground for another week.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 179.86 points at 33614.80. The S&P 500 index was down 34.62 points at 4328.87, while the Nasdaq composite was down 224.50 points at 13313.44.

“The headline number for non-farm payrolls was great and the inflation number was not as bad as people had thought, which means it’s the geopolitical situation that’s weighing on markets more right now,” said Cieszynski.

The U.S. economy added 678,000 jobs last month, beating expectations and helping to move the unemployment rate down to 3.8 per cent.

Six the 11 sectors on the TSX were higher, with increases ranging between 1.5 and 3.5 per cent.

Share price increases by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and Canadian National Railway Co. helped to push industrials higher, even though Air Canada followed the path of U.S. travel stocks by falling 5.0 per cent.

Technology was the biggest laggard, losing 3.6 per cent as capital is flowing out of growth sectors into resources and defensive havens. Lightspeed Commerce Inc. fell 8.3 per cent and Shopify Inc. was down 5.9 per cent.

“Certainly we’re seeing that sectors that had benefited from the stay-athome economy have been weakening,” Cieszynski said.

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14.50 61.56 42.24 56.90 2.67 17.20 7.61 589.58 36.77 18.23 15.55 38.49 60.29 5.18 201.33 15.00 25.37 148.94 46.48 1.95 36.65 94.24 37.99 10.40 4.25 44.17 58.77 18.67 39.47 184.04 23.61 5.68 29.63 6.98 41.91 49.98 58.76 106.02 13.01 42.04 11.30 25.13 27.88 8.46 18.24 66.08 79.48 69.65 12.47 99.04 2.25 9.49 40.81 120.92 10.70 2.76 83.49 53.89 17.39 33.80 29.50 28.35 12.80

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+0.50

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-0.17

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+0.59

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+0.65

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+1.42

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+0.58

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SuncorEne

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SuperiorPlusCo

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TD Bank

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+0.24

TeckResClBSV

52.75

+1.86

TELUS

33.50

+0.70

ThomsonReuters

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+3.01

TMXGroupInc

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+3.09

ToromontIndust

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-1.37

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16.70

-0.03

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51.16

+1.58

TransAltaCorp

12.52

+0.16

TransCanCorpor

71.73

+1.52

TranscontinntA

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TricanWellServ

3.26

+0.09

TurquoisHllRes

26.42

+0.08

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25.03

+0.93

VlPharmIntlInc

29.07

-0.86

WCP:CA

9.99

+0.45

WesternForestP

2.16

+0.04

WestFraserTimb

123.76

-2.64

23.93

+0.06

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163.17

+0.27

6.61

+0.08

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NASDAQ TOP % GAINERS

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Cls 40.06 2.14 5.92 20.42 1.38 56.90 71.15 9.51 25.13 6.98

S&P / TSX SUMMARY

Close Penny Chg Percent Chg Open 21402.43 +152.02 +0.72% 21204.41

TSV TOP % GAINERS

TOP % LOSERS COMMODITIES

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NYSE TOP % GAINERS Stock Symbol Vol OccidentalPetr OXY 1013514 PBF Energy Inc PBF 54040 Peabody Energy BTU 308613 IntrepidPotash IPI 13620 W&TOffshoreInc WTI 84075 SandridgeEnerg SD 13710 DelelUsHolding DK 13983 Alcoa AA 196417 GoldFieldsLtd GFI 181439 NatOilwellVarc NOV 64658

Cls 56.15 20.21 26.35 70.56 5.78 15.65 18.30 90.66 15.52 18.32

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PVH 22082 79.16 -11.6 Ooma Inc. OOMA 2848 14.97 -11.3 IngGroepNV ING 129652 9.72 -10.7 DeutscheBkAkti DB 144005 9.98 -10.7 LsbIndustries LXU 16492 17.65 -10.3 Abercrombie&Fi ANF 32287 28.59 -9.5 Aptiv PLC APTV 56308 105.87 -9.4

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Shopify Inc. says it has taken down the vast majority of content that five textbook publishers say is pirated and infringes on their trademarks.

The Ottawa-based e-commerce company says less than two per cent of merchants who have been targeted with takedown requests from Macmillan Learning, Cengage Learning Inc., Elsevier Inc., McGraw Hill LLC and Pearson Education Inc. remain active on the Shopify platform.

Shopify revealed the information in documents filed this week in a Virginia court, where it is being sued by the publishers for allegedly hosting merchants who illegally reproduce and sell the publishers’ textbooks, test banks and other manuals.

The company said it denies all of the publishers’ claims, did not cause them harms, losses or damages and feels the case against it will fail because it has acted on takedown requests.

“Contrary to plaintiffs’ false allegations in their complaint, Shopify has swiftly responded to plaintiffs’ notices of infringement, taken down vast quantities

of allegedly infringing materials, and terminated repeat bad actors,” Shopify said in its response.

“This has been no small feat.”

The company said it has counted more than 5,000 takedown requests or trademark infringement notices the ­publishers have filed under the U.S.’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Shopify has reviewed more than 50,000 unique URLs involving more than 1,750 merchants submitted by the publishers between October 2018 and January 2022.

Shopify claimed more than 90 per cent of the URLs have been removed, 95 per cent were taken down within five business days and more than two-thirds took place within one business day.

“In a small fraction of instances, plaintiffs’ takedown requests have been incomplete and have not contained the appropriate information that would enable Shopify to act,” the company said.

“In the majority of those cases, Shopify has reached out to plaintiffs to request additional information, but has often been met with resistance or silence.”

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Biden rolls out Buy American revamp, PM ‘pleased’ JAMES McCARTEN The Canadian Press WASHINGTON — U.S. President

Joe Biden briefly shouted out America’s allies and trading partners Friday even as he rolled out new details of his administration’s long-promised plan to more stringently enforce the country’s Buy American rules.

That plan includes increasing to 75 per cent the threshold at which a product is deemed to contain “substantially all” domestic content in order to qualify for federal infrastructure projects, a threshold that currently sits at just 55 per cent.

“To me, 55 per cent isn’t ‘substantially all,’ it’s slightly over half,” the president said during a virtual event at the White House that included corporate leaders and Celeste Drake, director of his newly established Made in America office. “‘Substantially all’ is going to

start meaning substantially all.”

The plan, which Biden billed as the single most significant change to Buy American laws in the U.S. in 70 years, also includes a new framework that would allow the use of “enhanced price preferences” in certain circumstances.

Such a scheme would, in essence, give the federal ­government the leeway to pay a higher price for U.S.-made ­products that are critical to national security, health or ­resilience, even when the same products could be had for less from outside the U.S. Friday’s announcement also hinted at something that hasn’t featured much at all in Biden’s past efforts to promote his protectionist strategy for revitalizing the U.S. manufacturing industry: a nod to foreign trading partners like Canada.

“Yes, we’re going to keep trading with our allies and friends. And we’re going to work

with them to ensure every single country [can’t] create global choke points for critical goods,” he said.

“But we also need … resilient supply chains of our own, so that we’re never at the mercy of other countries for critical goods ever again.”

It was a subtle nod to the fact those allies and friends have been paying closer attention to the growing bipartisan prevalence of protectionist rhetoric in the U.S., and the second time this week that the White House has appeared to temper its tone.

In Tuesday’s state of the union speech, Biden made brief mention of plans for a suite of tax credits that would encourage more Americans to buy an electric vehicle — but did not say those credits would be stacked in favour of U.S.-made cars and trucks.

The original plan, which was part of Biden’s all-but-dead $2-trillion Build Back Better

package of climate and social spending measures, saved the sweetest $12,500 incentive for vehicles assembled in the U.S. with union labour.

“We’re obviously pleased that the protectionist approach that the United States had proposed is not going forward,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday, an apparent reference to Build Back Better.

“But we’re going to continue to work with our American friends and partners to make sure that we are building electric cars together and creating opportunities for both cleaner air and growing economies and jobs into the future.”

Trudeau did not directly answer a question about whether the exemption Canada negotiated with the U.S. in 2009, the last time Buy American was striking fear in Canadian hearts, would continue to be valid under Biden’s revamped framework.

Killing the ‘carbon tax’ is back while some Conservatives seek credible climate plans STEPHANIE TAYLOR and MICKEY DJURIC The Canadian Press A group of longtime Conservatives is advocating for leadership hopefuls to develop credible climate plans, while cancelling the federal carbon price has emerged as one of the first promises out of the race.

Ken Boessenkool, executive director of the recently launched Conservatives for Clean Growth, says it doesn’t view a consumer carbon price as the make-orbreak feature of a good plan to tackle climate change.

The group emerged shortly after the Tories began searching for a new leader and defines itself as believing in the need for the party to have a “stable, ­credible, long-term” plan to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

“There are many ways to get there,” said Boessenkool, who previously served as an adviser to different Conservative ­leaders, including former prime minister Stephen Harper.

“There’s incentives or smart regulations, relying on ­technology.”

Pierre Poilievre, the highprofile Ottawa-area MP who was the first to declare his candidacy last month, travelled to Saskatchewan this week to release his energy policies, which began with a promise to cancel the Liberal government’s consumer carbon price.

Calling it a “tax,” Poilievre framed the issue to be one of cost and instead pledged that his environmental plan would focus on technology.

“I’m the only candidate for prime minister that will protect people’s paycheques and make

Bombardier Inc. and Canadian Tire Corp. have joined other Canadian companies in suspending their Russia-linked operations following that country’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Bombardier says it is deeply

Investors urge Apple to undergo civil rights audit MICHAEL LIEDTKE The Associated Press

Pierre Poilievre climbs on a pipeline-laying machine at a news conference at Brandt Tractor Ltd. in Regina on Friday. Poilievre said that if he were to become prime minister, he would scrap Bill C-69, the 2019 overhaul of how energy projects are regulated. He characterized Bill C-69 as a ban on new Canadian pipeline projects. MICHAEL BELL, THE CANADIAN PRESS life more affordable by cancelling the carbon tax,” he said in Regina on Friday.

Boessenkool said the new group, which he co-founded alongside former federal c ­ abinet minister Lisa Raitt and exAlberta cabinet minister Jim Dinning, wants to work with any candidate on their proposals.

“What policy is Pierre Poilievre going to use to develop a credible climate change policy that is going to use technology?

And that is the question that Conservatives should be asking

him,” Boessenkool said.

“He said he’s going to address climate with technology — great, how?”

During his stop in Regina, Poilievre also trotted out popular rallying cries for party ­members, particularly those in Western Canada.

He pledged to repeal a Liberal government ban on oil tankers off the coast of northern British Columbia as well as build more pipelines.

The debate around how ­Conservatives will handle

climate-related policies comes after former leader Erin O’Toole introduced carbon pricing into the party last spring. The move was met with shock from party members and seen by some as a betrayal as Conservative ­policies.

O’Toole’s decision to embrace carbon pricing followed the plan former leader Andrew Scheer presented during the 2019 federal election, which didn’t include a carbon price and was slammed by experts as ­insufficient.

Bombardier, Canadian Tire suspend Russia-linked operations The Canadian Press

Instead, he repeated a message International Trade Minister Mary Ng initially delivered Monday in Washington, D.C., after her meetings with U.S. counterparts and lawmakers.

The protests last month that temporarily closed the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., the single busiest commercial crossing along the Canada-U.S. border, provided a compelling endorsement of the federal government’s case, Trudeau said.

“Americans suddenly realize that, ‘Oh my gosh, we are extremely integrated,’ like we’ve always been saying, because shutdowns on the Canadian side had a direct and immediate impact on the American economy,” he said.

“We are going to continue to work together and will continue to make sure that they understand that protectionist policies against Canada end up hurting American jobs and American workers just as much.”

saddened by the unfolding humanitarian crisis and has suspended all activities with Russian clients, including all forms of technical assistance.

Canadian Tire said it has paused its Helly Hansen operations in Russia, which includes 41 retail stores, online sales and product shipments with

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The company said its priority is protecting the safety and wellbeing of its employees, and that it will continue to pay them during the shutdown.

The commitments follow on Magna International Inc. announcing Thursday that it had idled its six automotive plants

in Russia, while on Wednesday Kinross Gold Corp. said it was working to suspend operations at its mining projects in the country.

Canadian pension funds and investment firms have also announced they are divesting their holdings in Russian companies.

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SAN RAMON, California — Apple’s shareholders have approved a proposal urging the iPhone maker to undergo an independent audit assessing its treatment of female and minority employees, delivering a rare rebuke to a management team that runs the world’s most valuable company.

The measure passed ­Friday during Apple’s annual ­meeting is nonbinding, so the ­Cupertino, California, ­company isn’t required to adopt the ­recommendation.

But rebuffing the wishes of its shareholders would thrust Apple into an uncomfortable position, especially since the company has long cast itself as a champion of civil rights. CEO Tim Cook reiterated that belief Friday in response to a question from a shareholder during the meeting held remotely.

“I have long believed that inclusion and diversity are essential in their own right,” Cook said. “And that a diversity of people, experiences and ideas is the foundation for any new innovation.”

Like other major technology companies, Apple’s workforce — particularly in high-paid technical positions — consists primarily of white and Asian men, an imbalance the industry has been trying to address for many years.

Apple’s board had pushed against the shareholder proposal seeking a civil rights audit that eventually be made public. The company pointed to its recent strides in civil rights inside and outside Apple that have made a third-party audit of its practices unnecessary.

The initiatives included Apple making a $130 million US commitment to a racial equity and justice fund after the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The company also says it is raising the pay of women and minority employees while also hiring more female, Black and Hispanic workers.

During Friday’s meeting, Cook said Apple has achieved gender pay equity every year since 2017 and now has racial pay equity within the U.S. He also said 59% of Apple’s ­leadership positions during the past year have been filled by people from “underrepresented communities.”

But proponents of the civil rights proposal insisted Apple hasn’t been doing enough, making it imperative for outsiders to investigate recurring reports of sexual harassment, discriminatory practices and other abuses within the company.

Although he didn’t say whether Apple intends to submit to a civil rights audit, Cook described gender and racial equity “essential to the future of our company.”

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The Times Colonist notes the following obituaries in today’s paper: BAINS, Bildave (Billy) * BURTON, Pauline E. CALDWELL, Robert Montgomery * CAMPBELL, A. Peter * DREWRY, Neil Thomas * EGOYAN, Shushan EVANS, Trevor GRANBERG, Brenda Elaine * HALLETT, Bonnie * HASHKA, Joyce Viola * IVERSON, Kenneth (Ken) Orfield * JAVOR, Elizabeth * KALNCIEMS, Arnold * KOKANOVIC, Alex * LEE, Warren * LUCIAK, Tammy S.V. * MALO, Josée * MAXWELL, Thomas E. * ROLLINS, Christine Elizabeth “Betty” * ROUAULT, Joseph Francois * SANDERS, John * SEDGMAN, Lorraine Elizabeth * THOMSON, Lena * TOZER, Simon * VAN TENT, Reta * WEBB, Stephen * WHITTLE, Derek * Denotes a new notice Due to the varied sizes of Death and Funeral notices, the Times Colonist cannot guarantee an alphabetical sort.

BAINS, Bildave (Billy)

EGOYAN, Shushan

CALDWELL, Robert Montgomery

January 5, 1937 - February 18, 2022 Bob passed away after a long battle with heart and kidney disease. Survived by his loving wife, Diane, Pup Beamer and his family, son Robert Jr., daughter Valerie (John) Wilson, grandchildren Kelly, Andrew (Britney), Wyatt, Samantha (Taylor) Newton, greatgrandchildren Destiny, Madilyn & John James, niece Jennifer, ex-wife Sandy and blended family of Cheryl, Bill, Marley & Chelsey Dickinson, Tricia, Grace & Christian Moritz, Ken Pollard, sister-in-law Sheila Warneken, Sara, Wade & beloved great nieces Haeley & Sydnae Lowe, cousins Cindy (Rick) Adams, Arlene (Ray) Charles, other family and friends.

Predeceased by parents Bert & Fernie Caldwel1, son Christopher, Jack Rowe, Pat & Laurence Haines.

Victoria born raised on Princess Ave. He enjoyed many fishing vacations with his parents and later his own young family. Played Fastball at Central Park, Hockey at Memorial Arena where he was one of the original ice cops when it opened in 1948, part of the Jimmy Littles gang remaining life long friends with many he grew up with. 1955 Vic High Grad, attending annual reunions of his very active grad class. Apprenticed as a pipe fitter at Victoria Machinery Depot, Management at McKay Cormack, retired after 25 years in the Provincial Government working in Human Resources. Enjoyed coaching and umpiring ball games, Toronto Blue Jays fan who got his bucket list wish and watched 2 games in Toronto and several in Seattle. He was a long suffering Vancouver Canucks fan, enjoyed hunting and golf. His real love was fishing and boating on Sealark V his beloved cabin cruiser with a rum and coke in hand as soon as he left the dock. Monthly stays at Surfside in Parksville with family, cruises including bucket list Panama Canal and Disney World. Member Oak Bay Power Squadron, Capital City Yacht Cub and co-founded Ice Cops semi annual reunions.

It is with deep sorrow that we share that our brother Billy (Bildave), son of the late Jogindar Singh Bains and Swarn Kaur Bains, died suddenly from natural causes on February 27, 2022, at the age of 69. Billy faced significant mental health challenges throughout his life and was cared for with great devotion by his mother at home until her passing in 1991. For the remainder of his life Billy received care from several carers and mental health workers who we remember with appreciation. Billy is mourned and remembered for his kindness, sensitivity and generosity by his Victoria siblings Paul Bains, Darshan Bains and Jaswant Guzder, as well as his niece Jivan Bob loved his all his family dearly, known as a Bains-Wood and his nephew Rumi Guzder of character with a great sense of humour, Montreal. thoughtful card giver, a very generous person usually with a twinkle in his eye and the best smile. He will be very much missed.

A special thank you to Doctors Greg Ganz, James Houston, Shannon Houston, RJH 4th Floor South, Royal Oak and RJH Dialysis Units and Handydart for all their care and kindness.

Celebration of Life will take place at a later date.

BURTON, Pauline E.

November 11, 1937 - March 3, 2022 Pauline Elizabeth Burton (nee Francey) was born in Glasgow, Scotland on November 11, 1937. As the youngest of nine children, Pauline developed a “determination to succeed” attitude which served her well throughout life.

Trained in classical ballet at a young age, Pauline, as a young bride, moved to Marathon, Ontario where she established a successful ballet school. Although she eventually moved on to other places and developed other interests, her passion for “the dance” remained throughout her life. Gardening came a close second, and for 10 happy years she created a beautiful prize-winning garden from tired old pastureland. She shared her gardening knowledge with her family and friends and had the annual trepidation and thrill of exhibiting produce at the Picton County Fair.

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CAMPBELL, A. Peter

March 5, 1927 - February 24, 2022 Commander, R.C.N. Rtd. The younger son of the late Dr. And Mrs. Harold L. Campbell. Predeceased by his brother John C. Campbell and his eldest child, A. Victoria Blattmann.

Survived by his loving wife of 71 years, Elizabeth A. Campbell (nee Foote), and their children, Barbara C. Scheck and John P.M. Campbell (Maureen) and seven grandchildren, Lisa Gordon (Ken), Karl Blattmann (Leigh Anne), Adam Scheck (Lisa), Katherine Scheck, Justine Scheck (Derek), Wil and Thom Campbell, and eight great-grandchildren. Also survived by his son-in-law Bert Blattmann (Wendy), sister-in-law Leah Muhleman and niece Carol Brown.

Peter graduated from Victoria High School (1944) and the Royal Canadian Naval College at Royal Roads, class of 1946. He served in the Canadian Navy until his retirement in 1978.

During his naval career Peter was based in Victoria, Vancouver, Kingston, Toronto, Ottawa, Saint John and Halifax in Canada; in Greenwich, Portsmouth and Northwood in England; and Washington D.C. in the United States. During this period he had the honour of commanding Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships Jonquiere, Annapolis, and Thunder.

Following his retirement, Peter and Elizabeth moved to Pender Island where they became involved in the community. He organized sailing instruction for juniors; served on the executive and as chairman of the Fall Fair Committee; served on the executive of the Royal Canadian Legion including the position of President; participated in local political affairs as a member of the Advisory Planning Commission and for six years as an elected Islands Trustee. In later years Peter devoted much of his time to the preservation of the history of the Pender Islands through the establishment of the Pender Islands Museum and Archives.

After twenty years of living on Pender Island, Elizabeth and Peter moved to Oak Bay. There for four years he acted as the Treasurer of the Canadian Club of Victoria. Peter was a member of the Naval Association of Canada, Vancouver Island Branch; a Life Member of the Pender Island Yacht Club and a Life Member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 239 (Pender Island).

The greatest pleasures in Peter’s life were his family and friends. He loved nothing more than hosting a family dinner or dinner party and the discussions that ensued. Peter made an impact on many lives, none more so than on those of his children and grandchildren. They all remember the Razor Point report cards where A stood for Awful and F for Fantastic.

Peter enjoyed the traveling that his naval career offered, and after retirement Elizabeth and he continued to explore both Canada and points farther afield. In 71 years they traveled by naval ship, steamship, cruise ship, airplane, bus, train, 27’ sloop, Impala station wagon, and Jeep with Boler trailer.

The family wishes to thank Dr. Kevin Wylie of the Oak Bay Medical Clinic for years of care, the staff of Berwick House where Peter and Elizabeth have lived for the last two years and the doctors, nurses and health care aides on the SW wing of the fifth floor of the Royal Jubilee Hospital.

In Peter’s memory please consider making a donation to a charity of your choice. No service by request, a gathering will be held at a later date, to be announced.

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August 29, 1933 - February 25, 2022 Shushan Egoyan was a vibrant part of so many lives. Through her paintings and her art, through the ways in which she brought spirit DREWRY, Neil Thomas and beauty to so many homes, she left January 23, 1922 - February 24, 2022 something indelible and exquisite. There is no better word than radiant to describe her Neil passed peacefully and gracefully, at home, remarkable energy. Our mother was full of love surrounded by his family, just weeks after and happy to share that love with those around joyfully celebrating his 100th birthday. In his her. many years, he always wanted to choose quality of life over quantity, but managed to As an interior designer she was involved with achieve both, for which we are deeply grateful. many landmark projects in this city, including work at The Empress Hotel and The Union Dad was predeceased by his six siblings, and Club. While these public projects brought her by his beloved wife Doris in 2009, and son attention, she was never happier than when David (survived by Joan Backus) in 2016. He is she was working with individuals and their survived by his beloved and devoted family, private spaces. Our mother could transform a daughter Donna Field (Rick Gonder), sons Alan room by a simple re-arrangement of furniture, and Glen, and granddaughters Alison Field and a shift in colour palette, and a brilliant choice Stephanie Field. of fabrics. She loved the artisans and tradespeople she worked with, and they loved Neil was born on a homestead farm west of her back. Long after her retirement, so many Herschel SK (Sec 31, Tp 30, Rge 18, W3), the of the people she worked with remained a huge fifth of seven children. It was a rugged part of her life. Everyone understood what a subsistence life and he epitomized the unique and focused person she was. Though strength and grace of prairie stock. Neil moved she could be challenging with her sense of to Victoria in 1941 in search of new perfectionism, everyone ended up agreeing opportunities. He met Doris, also from SK; with her. Her taste, put simply, was they married in 1944 and grew a strong and impeccable. loving partnership of 65 years, raising four children. Neil joined the army in 1943, serving Her very close friends and neighbours (Gill and overseas for the remainder of WWII. When we Chuck, Kathy and John) cherished her and asked “Weren’t you scared?” he responded in were there to help her through some very his typically honest manner, “scared to death”, difficult times. Life was not always easy for our and this cemented our understanding of his mother, and she could not have managed the quiet courage and sense of duty. pressures she was faced with without their amazing support. We are eternally thankful to In 1948, after completing a BSc degree from Steve and Marianne, Patrick, John, Dotter, UBC, Neil began a 33-year challenging and Mona, Erica, Laura and Eduardo, Diane and rewarding career with the provincial Laurence, Ara and Marjorie and her oldest government, beginning with Land Utilization friend and part of the family Vicky Husband. As and travelling every corner of his well-loved another friend wrote on her passing “Shushan rural BC. In 1967 he became Supervisor of was so tuned to other people”, a gift which Assessors for the Surveyor of Taxes, ending made her unbelievably sensitive to other his career as a Director of the newly-formed people’s needs and dreams. People felt a BC Assessment Authority. Retirement in 1981 tremendous sense of intimacy with this wise afforded him over 40 years of enthusiastically soul. She brought out the best in all those embracing new interests and experiences. He around her, and we are so thankful to those took his pilot’s licence and explored the great closest to her in her last years, Alice, Margot, beyond. He and Doris enjoyed many wonderful Dr. Darcy Nielsen, and the unbelievably caring travels together, and they continued their life- staff and workers of Pacific Coast Health long love of bridge, and the longstanding Services (Caprice, Hilary, Kelly, Lilliana, friendships they had. Neil treasured wonderful Ladyen, Pamela and so many others). friends at Uplands Golf Club and was able to passionately enjoy golf until nearly 100. Dad Shushan Egoyan was also an accomplished and Mom shared their great love of immediate artist, and her work is in permanent collections and extended family. Neil was the unofficial around the world, from The National Art patriarch of a large number of devoted nieces Gallery of Armenia to The Art Gallery of and nephews; he took a great interest in their Victoria, not to mention countless private families and was so grateful for their affection. collections. This spring, she was to be We wish to thank all our family and to express honoured by the Victoria Visual Arts Legacy our special gratitude to nieces Bev and Linda, Society. Her last solo exhibition was at The who kept Dad mesmerized and joyfully Winchester Gallery and it completely sold out. connected with steadfast weekly calls. “Nana She shared her artistic dreams with her and Grandad” devoted themselves to their husband, Joseph, who predeceased her by beloved granddaughters from day one, and three years. They also ran the modern were cherished always in return. furniture store Ego Interiors, which was a fixture on Antique Row on Fort Street since the Since the 1950’s, Neil and Doris were faithful early sixties. This space was also one of the members of First United (now First first private galleries in Victoria and presented Metropolitan United) Church, where Neil many important local artists. fulfilled many volunteer roles and maintained genuine connections with his church family. Shushan Egoyan was born in Cairo in 1933 and He was a quietly charitable, generous and studied art with the noted artist Ashot Zoryan helpful man who valued community. He before moving to Canada with her young enjoyed a long and stimulating membership family. Her biological father escaped the with the Round Table Club of Victoria, and over horrors inflicted on the Armenian people in his 30 wonderful years surrounded by a host of native Turkey and raised our mother and her friendly condo neighbours at The Rudyard two brothers until his early death. Our Kipling. grandmother was an extraordinary cook, and our mother inherited this tradition, delighting Dad taught us so much, without “telling”. He guests at our home with amazing Armenian was an extraordinary “everyday” kind of man. dishes that were at that time completely Above all, he was courteous, kind and gentle. unknown in Victoria.

He readily accepted others as they were, and life as it was, but always did what he could to The energy of this extraordinary creative spirit make things better. He was keenly intelligent has been passed to her children Atom and Eve and curious, principled but pragmatic and and - to her great pride - her two practical. He was an enthusiastic, welcoming grandchildren, Arshile and Viva. She is also and relaxed host; others just felt good in his survived by her brother Jirair, many nieces and presence. He was humble and modest (except nephews, and her beloved daughter-in-law at bridge). Without guile, he was honest, Arsinée and son-in-law, David. transparent (except at poker) and uncomplicated in relationships. His discipline In lieu of flowers please make any donations to and fitness regimes were well-known, his The Art Gallery of Victoria. humour was delightful. He had an irrepressible good and positive nature, and just a wee bit of the inner rebel. To know him was to love him, and we and many others did.

Pauline volunteered for 15 years in the Human History department at the Royal British Columbia Museum. She enjoyed this work immensely and often said “I would have happily paid them to let me work there”.

Neil will be deeply missed by his dear friend Joy Message, who, together with long-time friends Gem Templeman and her late husband Peter, developed a strong and enduring circle, filled with fun and friendship, following the loss of Doris. Our family is so grateful for these very special people.

At the age of 80, new husband Jim invited her to spend winters in Thailand, summers in Ontario and to share a home in Sidney.

Thailand was a new and fascinating travel experience.

Our deep thanks to Dr. Shannon Houston, Dr. James Houston, Dr. Caroline Stigant, Dr. Joe, and the amazing Hospice Palliative Response Team, for superlative and compassionate care, both recently and over many years.

The “determination to succeed” made for a happy life.

A Celebration of Life will be held at Uplands Golf Club at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 15, 2022. In lieu of flowers, if desired, donations may be made to Victoria Hospice, Kidney Foundation of Canada or Our Place Society.

Pauline died peacefully at home on March 3, 2022 with close friends and family at her side.

Pauline is survived by her dear husband, James (Jim) George Biggs, her last remaining sibling, Edwin Francey and his beloved wife Brenda. Pauline is also survived by an outstanding family of wonderful children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren by her marriages to John S. Burton (deceased) and Jim Biggs.

No flowers please.

In memory, donations may be made to Victoria Hospice Society, 1952 Bay St., Victoria, B.C. V8R 1J8.

Condolences may be offered at www.mccallgardens.com

The world may change from year to year And friends from day to day.

But never will the one I loved From memory pass away

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REMEMBERING IVERSON, Kenneth (Ken) Orfield

EVANS, Trevor

May 21, 1926 - February 22, 2022 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Trevor James Evans.

Trevor was the youngest of 11 children born to Mr. and Mrs. William Evans in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales.

Trevor emigrated to Canada in 1957 with his wife Helen and daughter Karen. He started his work life in Canada on the fish traps in Sooke, was then employed by McGavin’s Bakery and he finished his career as a stationary engineer for the Victoria School District.

Trevor enjoyed fishing (in his younger years), gardening (at his home, where he lived for 60 years), ballroom dancing, bingo and of course watching his favourite soccer team Manchester United. Trevor enjoyed people and he could often be found striking up conversations with folks he met throughout the day.

Trevor and Helen were blessed with some very close friends and they enjoyed many trips and cruises together. Summers were spent at their place at Shawnigan Lake with friends and family.

He leaves behind his wife of almost 70 years, Helen, daughter Karen (Ray), daughter Brenda (Colin), granddaughter Megan (Mike) and great-grandson Mason. Predeceased by his infant daughter Lynne (1953).

The family would like to thank Dr. Woodley for his care, the cancer clinic and Dr. Joe, as well as the staff at N6C at the Victoria General Hospital for their kindness and compassion.

Family celebration of life to take place at a later date.

Condolences for the family can be left at www.firstmemorialsaanich.com

HALLETT, Bonnie

July 18, 1946 - December 15, 2021 Bonnie passed away peacefully in the company of family. She is survived and dearly missed by daughter Alison, sister Magee and grandson Torin.

Born in 1946 to Pat and Hugh, Bonnie’s early life was shaped by her dad’s airforce career, which brought them around Canada and overseas.

Among the most fondly remembered adventures were childhood in Goose Bay, high school in Switzerland, and living in Czechoslovakia where her dad served as the Canadian military attaché.

Bonnie completed her Bachelor of Arts at Dalhousie, and later a certificate in hotel management in Bermuda. After her daughter Alison was born, she settled in Victoria and began working at the law library at UVic, which was the start of a 35 year career at the university. Bonnie was quickly promoted to acquisitions supervisor, and she later held fond memories of her days in the law library.

She completed a Masters degree in Public Administration at night school while working full time at UVic. In 1991, she moved to the Human Resources Department as an advisor.

Highlights of her HR career included stints in classification and compensation, labour relations, and recruitment and training. In 2005, she became the Manager of Employment Services.

Ken passed away peacefully on Thursday January 13, 2022, in Nanaimo BC. Survived by his sons, Larry (Cecile) of Montreal, Quebec and Lance (Jane) of Britannia Beach, BC, grandchildren, James, Jody (Cameron) and Olivier, cousin Aileen Beasley, his dear friend Margaret Law and many friends and family members near and far. Predeceased by Elizabeth Iverson (nee Bonsall), mother of his children, his beloved daughter, Christine, grandson Maxime and his siblings James, Allan, Henry, Charles, Shirley, Joseph, Ruby, Hazel and Leo. Ken was born and raised on the farm in Naicam, Saskatchewan. His parents were Joseph and Ella (nee Lee) Iverson. Ken followed in the footsteps of his older brothers and came west to BC in his mid-teens. He was hired by the Federal Government to work maintaining the lighthouses and sailed to many ports up and down the Pacific coast. At the time of his marriage, he and Betty moved to Youbou, BC for a year before settling in Honeymoon Bay, BC to raise their family where Ken worked in the Sawmill.

A job opportunity as head sawyer in the newly opened Weldwood Sawmill prompted a move for the family to Squamish in 1963. In his later years Ken worked for BC Rail and later CN Rail in the Carpenter Shop. Ken retired on Vancouver Island and lived for many years in the Comox Valley.

Ken’s love of woodworking was always prominent in his life. He could often be seen about town with his signature walking stick sporting his favourite hat. Ken had a vivid imagination and loved to work with found objects. He created a lasting legacy of many beautiful musical instruments treasured by friends and family. Ken enjoyed long walks, a good book, people watching and Sunday morning Church services. He never lost his love for farming and knew how to drive a team of horses, a story he was proud to tell.

Donations would be appreciated in Ken’s memory to the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada or a charity of your choice.

KOKANOVIC, Alex

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Alex on February 28, 2022 at the age of 89.

Predeceased by his parents and sister, he is survived by his wife Barbara.

Alex spend many years serving in the Canadian Coast Guard and received a 35 year service award in 1997.

Many thanks to the nurses and Doctor at Royal Jubilee hospital for their care.

MALO, Josée

In Victoria BC, on February 21, 2022, at the age of 57, Josée Malo passed away peacefully, surrounded by love. Josée will be deeply missed and is survived by her loving family: daughter Jane, father Paul-André, sister Maryse (nephew Éloi), brother Pierre and his wife Helen (nephew Luc and niece Diane), numerous aunts, cousins, dear friends and predeceased by her mother Lise.

Josée worked as a teacher for 30 years and A Funeral Service will be held at First Memorial was a passionate educator dedicated to her Funeral Services 4725 Falaise Dr Victoria, on career. She tried to live life to the fullest Tuesday March 15th, at 2:00pm. through simple pleasures and developed a greater sense of gratitude as years passed. In Alex will be greatly missed. lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Josée’s honour to the Victoria Hospice and the Rest in peace Victoria Humane Society.

Family, friends and others whose lives Josée touched are invited to the Legacy Garden at Hatley Memorial Gardens, 2050 Sooke Rd, Victoria BC for a celebration of Josée’s life on March 19, 2022, at 11:00 am.

Condolences may be offered at www.sandsvictoria.ca

Please join our family and friends on Sunday May 1, 2022, for a Celebration of Ken’s life in The Little Red Church Hall from 2-4pm 2182 Comox Ave., Comox BC.

Throughout her life, Bonnie cherished a deep connection with her family, and spent most Sundays visiting parents Pat and Hugh. Her loving support of daughter Alison led her to invest her time as the chair of the board of St. Margaret’s School and as an Air Cadet officer.

She was a longtime resident of Fairfield, living next door to sister Magee. She volunteered on the Alumni Board of UVic and with Wear2Start.

Bonnie was a devoted crafter who loved quilting, doll making and other textile arts.

Crafting weekends with friends were a special joy. In her later years Bonnie was a resident of Berwick House Royal Oak, Amica on the Gorge, and Beckley Farm Lodge. In each place, she immersed herself in activities, and was known for her sharp wit and one-liners. Her family is grateful for the care and kindness that Bonnie received at each home. Donations in lieu of flowers can be sent to the Parkinson’s Society of BC.

MAXWELL, Thomas E.

LEE, Warren

June 20, 1962 - February 25, 2022 It is with deep sorrow and much love that we mourn the passing of Warren after a courageous battle with cancer. He is no longer in pain. He was predeceased by his mother, Sylvia (Choi Yuk) August 2015 and his father, Johnny (Jin Wai) May 2020. Warren will be profoundly missed by his sons, Aaron and Thomas and his cat, Tabitha. Also leaving behind his siblings, David (Julie-Anne), Karina (Rob) and Karen (Russ), his nieces and nephews, Steven, Douglas, Michael, Amy-Rae (Scott), Samantha (Andre), Martin and Jillian, a grandnephew, Mateo, an Aunt and four cousins and their families.

The family wishes to send a sincere thank you to the PRT nurses that came to his home and to the Palliative Care Unit at RJH for their care and compassion and to Gwen, for her loving support.

October 6, 1948 - February 24, 2022 Thomas Edward Maxwell, 73, of Victoria, BC, passed away on February 24, 2022. Thomas lived his life fully and loved others wholly even as he battled through cancer these last eight years. Thomas worked for 35 years with the provincial government, land surveying and later, as environmental stewardship officer with the Ministry of Environment. In his retirement, he found another true calling for 15 years as a Captain for Sea Fun Safaris and Eagle Wing Tours. He was a loving husband to Linda, and an amazing father to Aaron, Chris, and Sarah, as well as to daughters-in-law Kwyn, Alaine, Christina, Malika, and Breanna and sons-in-law Segovia, Craig, and Rick.

Thomas’ pride and joy were his grandchildren, Noah, Keaton, Zariyan, Preston, Grayson, Leo and Kylie. Thomas is survived by his sister Cathy and brother Jim and sister-in-law Donna as well as extended family. The family would also like to thank the many healthcare providers that assisted Thomas. www.mccallgardens.com/obituaries/thomasedward-maxwell

JAVOR, Elizabeth

March 1, 2022 Elizabeth Javor passed away peacefully on March 1st at age 68, surrounded by her close family. Liz grew up in Toronto and Saskatoon and received her bachelor and masters degrees in engineering from the Universities of Waterloo and Toronto. She raised her family in Ottawa, and retired in Sidney. She will be remembered for her beautiful garden, her passion for playing bridge, her delicious home cooking, and her impactful career. She was predeceased by her mother Sylvia, and her sister Mary Anne, and she will be missed dearly by her surviving family, her father, Jack, and daughters Andrea and Lauren. Her family would like to thank the staff at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital for their support and attentive care.

GRANBERG, Brenda Elaine (Sinclair)

November 3, 1948 - January 25, 2022 Brenda was surrounded by family and passed away peacefully after her second battle with cancer. She is survived by daughter Donna (Candice), sons Chris (Tara) and Jeremy, as well as her grandchildren Rustin, Kaden and Danika. Sisters Pat Hall, Sharon Sinclair and brothers Ross (Donna) and Bert (Barb) Sinclair along with many nieces and nephews and cousin Merle. She was predeceased by her parents Alex and Irene Sinclair, Sister Peggy Sylvester, brother Wayne Sinclair. Brenda worked at Glendale Lodge from 1972 - 1987.

ROLLINS, Christine Elizabeth “Betty”

Celebration of life will be on March 20, 2022 from 1:00-4:00PM for more information please contact granbergfam3@gmail.com Condolences may be offered at https://carefuneral.com

HASHKA, Joyce Viola (nee Brotherston)

October 28, 1937 - February 26, 2022

Those we love don’t go away, They walk beside us every day, Unseen, unheard, but always near, Still loved, still missed and very dear.

Joyce passed away peacefully at Victoria Hospice after a courageous battle with cancer.

She will be dearly missed and lovingly remembered by her children Dennis (Angela), Teresa (John) and Lloyd (Nancy). Her grandchildren Valerie (Jonn), Bailie, Daniel (Leanne) and Madelyn.

Her greatgrandchildren Troy, Ryder, Dane, Varekai and Ziah. She also leaves to mourn her sister Irene Dowler, various nieces, nephews, cousins and their families. She is predeceased by her husband James Hashka, parents Peter and Hazel Brotherston, sister Gay Bowcott and brother-in-laws Robert Bowcott and Paul Dowler. Joyce was a passionate traveler having visited many international destinations and camped all over North America. She also enjoyed gardening, knitting and was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Her greatest joy was her family. She was the glue that held us together.

KALNCIEMS, Arnold

February 1, 1923 - March 1, 2022 Passed away after a brief illness, in his 100th year. Born in Latvia, conscripted by the German army during WWII, then taken as a POW by the British at the end of the war. From England he made his way to Canada and eventually to Victoria, where he worked in the construction industry until age 70. A kind and gentle soul, lover of all animals, beloved child In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to of God. the Victoria Hospice Society at 250-370-8715. Predeceased by son Wayne and brother Zigfrid. Survived by his wife Marie, sister A private family service to be held.

Elfrida Pujena in Latvia, son Patrick Ten Have (Jean), daughter Katrina Reda (Tony), son Garry Ten Have (Sherri), grandchildren, greatgrandchildren; and by other relatives in Latvia.

No service by request.

Condolences may be offered at www.sandsvictoria.ca

LUCIAK, Tammy S.V.

August 24, 1962 - January 28, 2022 With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Tammy Luciak who went peacefully in her sleep from natural causes. This past year she battled many health issues, only to be taken from us way too soon. Leaving behind her father Alec Luciak, her brother Adam Luciak and his partner Laureen, her Aunt Sophia, Aunt Ellen and the Powell family. As well as a close group of friends who were more like family to her. Many friends through soccer, pole walking, ice hockey and Canada Post.

She will be forever in our hearts and always remembered for her kindness, generosity, and big heart. Love you forever and always Tammy, may you be at peace. Celebration of Life at a later date.

1923 - 2022 Betty passed away peacefully on Monday, February 21, 2022 in her 100th year, having lived a very full and rich life. She grew up in rural Alberta during the depression years, moving to Edmonton with her mother and four siblings when she was in high school. She met and married Bryce Rollins in 1943, shortly before he departed for England with the air force. Following the war, Betty and Bryce settled into life in Edmonton, and along the way they had four children, but there was much more in store for her. As a young wife and mother in her 30s, she defied the conventions of the time and enrolled as a fulltime student in Fine Arts at the University of Alberta. Thereafter she and Bryce embarked on a lifetime of adventure and travel. In 1963 they moved the family to south east Asia where Bryce was a Professor at the University of Malaya. Betty immersed herself in the local art scene, painting, exhibiting and teaching.

This was just the start of their travels which subsequently included years spent living in England, the Washington D.C. area and finally in Sidney, B.C. In every location Betty pursued her art, made friends and had a positive impact on her community. She loved her family, her friends and a good party. She was known for her generosity, eccentricities, and elegance.

Betty was predeceased by Bryce in 1987. She leaves behind her children, Rick (Anne), Janie, Alan (Caron), and Wendy (Graham), her grandchildren, Patrick, Megan, Andrew, Stephen, Ethan, Elliot, Oliver and Gillian as well as her surviving sister Robin, extended family and her friends, all of whom she cherished.

The family would like to thank the staff at Saanich Peninsula Hospital, VIHA, the Aberdeen Hospital and Dr. Vaughan, who provided compassionate care to Betty in her final year. The family held a private celebration of life in Victoria. Donations may be made in memory of Betty to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be offered to the family at www.mccallgardens.com

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REMEMBERING SEDGMAN, Lorraine Elizabeth (nee Conway)

ROUAULT, Joseph Francois

December 17, 1938 - February 28, 2022 Predeceased by her husband Brian of 50 years in 2009, Lorraine was a 3rd generation born in Victoria. She is survived by her son, Stuart (Ali), granddaughter Sydney and 2 greatgrandchildren Isabella and Fletcher, and her daughter, Luanne. Always laughing, Lorraine’s hobbies included reading, puzzles and spending many years with Brian and their good friends, Syd and Lydia Cooke at their trailer at Cheanuh Marina. Despite having MS since 1973, she always had a positive attitude.

Lorraine had many friends but cherished her lifelong friendships with Marilyn Tomlinson and Joann Gabriel.

October 2, 1934 - February 4, 2022 Joseph Rouault passed away on February 4, 2022, in Prince Albert, SK with his nephew Andy by his side. Joe was born October 4, 1934, to Henri and Marcelle, the second of three children. His father died of MS when Joe was eight and he and his siblings were raised by his mother on the farm in the Omand School District. When he grew up, he joined the Canadian Navy to see the world. On return, he found employment at the Victoria Dockyards where he worked up into a managerial position. He settled in British Columbia with “Remember me with smiles and laughter his first wife Rita Vader and his adopted sons because that is how I’ll remember you all.

Jack, Basil and Steven. His favourite pastime If you can only remember me with tears, then was fishing, and he spent countless hours don’t remember me at all.” relaxing and fishing off his boat. Canning and BBQ’d Salmon were treats Joe would share A Celebration of life will be held at First with friends and family. Joe moved on in his Memorial Funeral Services, 4725 Falaise Drive career and moved on to work construction on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 2pm. between Vancouver and Victoria. Years later Condolences may be left for the family at and now divorced; Joe reconnected with his www.firstmemorialsaanich.com old high school sweetheart Cathy Dalman.

Together they settled, built a beautiful acreage home in Cochrane, Alberta where they would live for many years which allowed them to be a part of their grandchildren’s, Ben, Sarah and Caelan, lives. Landscaping was now their hobby, and it was amazing, complete with Saskatchewan Lady Slipper orchids that have also been passed on to many family yards.

Joe’s Calgary family loved time at the acreage.

They will always remember Joe’s sense of humour, love of building things, attendance at their activities and shared dinners and celebrations. With age, came some health complications where Joe and Cathy decided to sell their home and move into a Senior’s Home in Calgary, Alberta. As Joe’s health deteriorated, he decided he wanted to move back home to Prince Albert, SK to have family near him for support. He is survived by his wife Cathy and her family, his sister Marie, a few nephews, and a niece. He will continue to be part of many great stories! The family would like to thank the care and support of Good Shepherd Villa and the very compassionate nurses at the Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert, SK. Private Family Services will be held in the summer. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.grays.ca. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Gray’s Funeral Chapel, (306) 922-4729.

TOZER, Simon

It is with great sadness that the Tozer family announces the unexpected passing of Simon Tozer. Simon passed away unexpectedly, just outside of Nanaimo, on February 21st, 2022, at the age of 52. He left the world on Family Day, living life to the fullest with his son Devin, and nephew Brennan, by his side.

Simon was born in England in 1969 and moved with his loving family to Canada in 1973. He was raised in Nanaimo and graduated from NDSS in 1988, then from BCIT in Electrical Engineering Technology in 1995. He worked in his field of study for the past 30 years and recently embarked on an ambitious new business venture which was moving towards great success. He was greatly respected by his colleagues.

Simon was married to his high school sweetheart Sandra, who has been the love of his life for the past 35 years. They built a beautiful life together with two, now grown children, Lindsay and Devin who meant the world to him. He was a wonderful, loving husband and father.

Simon is survived by his wife Sandra, children Lindsay & Devin, Mother and Father Jacqueline & Alan Tozer, Sister Sarah (James) Bonar, Mother and Father-in-Law Ann & Alfred Stefanson, Brother-in-Law Todd (Elly) Stefanson, and his niece and nephews, Rebecca Stefanson and Brennan & Ryan Bonar.

Simon was a kind, generous, confident man with a great sense of humour. He was known for his story telling abilities and told many tales of his adventures in life. He was inventive and was the voice of reason.

Simon loved spending time out on his boat fishing with his buddies. Although it wasn’t expected to be so soon, he requested that when the time came, his ashes be spread out at sea in one of his favourite fishing areas off the West Coast. He loved to travel, had a strong passion for singing, and liked strumming his guitar. He had acquired a love for gardening from his mother and granddad, and his daughter, Lindsay, will now be taking care of his expansive garden and greenhouse for her dad.

Because Simon celebrated life, he will be honored with an outdoor Celebration of Life which will be planned for late spring, early summer.

Simon will be deeply missed by the many who loved him and will be forever in our hearts ‘until we meet again’.

WEBB, Stephen

September 1, 1947 - February 21, 2022 Stephen was born in Cambridge, England to parents Frank and Gwen. He moved to Calgary, then Edmonton with his family and later met the love of his life Barbara. In 1984, they settled in Victoria, BC where they raised their three children Julia, Valerie and Geoffrey.

Stephen’s recreational pursuit then was Friday night hockey at Oak Bay arena.

He was a businessman all his life with his best friend and brother Martin Webb. Together they developed a residential and commercial property.

He was a man who valued excellent customer service and promoted his fellow colleagues.

Stephen loved cars and motorcycles. His most cherished memories were going for rides with his brother, son, nephews and his Monday motorcycle friends.

In retirement, Stephen joined The Union Club of British Columbia where he played endless games of snooker. He left a lasting impression on the members; he even won a trophy! In his memory, the Stephen Webb Billiard Memorial Fund and an annual snooker tournament will be established.

Stephen could make you laugh with his quirky British sense of humour and was generous with his paint brush! His mother and four sisters could rely on him. Stephen’s motto was “Get ‘er done!”

This wonderful man lost his battle with lung cancer and passed away peacefully with family by his side.

WHITTLE, Derek AIB FICB

1928 - 2022 Derek was born in Lancashire England, where he started his banking career as a clerk in 1944. His career was interrupted by his military service in Berlin following World War II. In 1951, he married the love of his life, Doris, a nurse and in 1956 they immigrated to Toronto, Canada with their eight-month-old son Steve.

Later, his daughter Kathryn was born in 1962.

He joined the Bank of Montreal as a clerk/manager in August 1956, and held a variety of positions in the bank, moving to a dozen different cities before retiring in 1979 as Senior Vice President of the Alberta Division. In 1980, together with an economist and two merchant bankers, he established a merchant bank (MerBanco) in Calgary. He continued to serve on the boards of two insurance companies, a bank, and two oil and gas companies after he moved to Victoria in 1986.

He was appointed Honorary British Consul in Calgary in 1983, and served as a Director on the board of the United Way and as a Senator of the University of Calgary.

Derek and Doris enjoyed many travels and spending time with their grandchildren. Doris died in 2011 after 61 years of marriage.

Subsequently, he married the second love of his life, Lois Lacheur with whom Doris and he had enjoyed a wonderful and caring relationship for 20 years. Lois died in 2021. He enriched his family and friends with his humour and positive approach to life. His children and their spouses will miss him greatly, and his grandsons, Bradley, Michael and Alastair will miss their Poppa.

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THOMSON, Lena (nee Souchuk) SANDERS, John

June 18, 1938 - February 28, 2022 On February 28, 2022 we said goodbye to our father, John Sanders. He died peacefully in Victoria, British Columbia surrounded by his daughters and his sister Elaine and brother-inlaw Raymond.

Lena passed away peacefully surrounded by family on February 23, 2022, at the age of 86, in Victoria, BC. Lena was born in Newdale, Manitoba, and was one of 12 siblings. She is survived by her two daughters and sons-inlaw, five grandchildren, three greatgrandchildren, three brothers, two sisters-inlaw, and many other relatives and friends.

John Sanders was born in Yerseke, the Netherlands in 1938. He immigrated to Canada in 1951 with his mum and dad and 4 siblings: Elaine, Rick, Ed and Jane. They moved to Port Alberni, BC where they were surrounded by mountains and adventure. John completed his engineering degree at UBC, his Masters at Queens, and his PhD in Physics at McGill University. In 1967 he married Linda Margaret O’Neill and in 1976 moved to Hemmingford, Quebec where they raised two daughters: Meghan and Julie. John taught Physics at Champlain College in Montreal from 1971 to 1994 when he moved back to British Columbia to be closer to his daughters and to his brother Ed. He continued to teach Physics at Kwantlen College in Vancouver until he retired. John became an active and passionate member of Vancouver and Victoria’s tango communities.

He was a beautiful milonga dancer.

From her early days living in Newdale Manitoba to the majority of her life spent in Victoria, Lena was an incredibly hard worker and had terrific wit, even up to her passing. She spent decades as the in-house hairdresser at Luther Court. Her legendary cooking and baking, which was Ukrainian inspired from her heritage, was known by all that frequented her household and her life. It was not uncommon to see Lena produce a lavish spread of food and baking seemingly out of thin air with the expectation of company, all from her tiny kitchen. She could remember any recipe off the top of her head and loved sharing recipes and spoiling those around her with treats. Lena also enjoyed watching curling and was an avid follower of many Canadian teams and tournaments. Lena was bilingual and would regularly converse in Ukrainian on the phone with her siblings all across the country to stay John was a kind, sensitive and caring person, in touch. When it came to her personal life, an incredible father to Meghan and Julie, and a Lena was fortunate enough to see many generations of her own family grow. She will be wonderful Opa to Anneke and Theo. deeply missed by many, and her legacy will live Online tributes, stories and photos can be on in those who knew her and loved her. shared at The family would like to thank her physicians https://www.forevermissed.com/johnand the incredible Island Health staff at the sanders/about Royal Jubilee Hospital. A private celebration of her life will be held with the family at a future date. In lieu of flowers, donations in Lena’s memory may be made to the Canadian Red Cross to aid those affected by the current crisis in Ukraine.

van TENT, Reta (nee Ormiston)

June 16, 1940 - February 10, 2022 Reta grew up in Victoria on Taylor Street. From 1962, until her peaceful passing, she resided in the Fraser Valley. Predeceased by her parents Chuck (1973) and Ailie Ormiston (2005) and her beloved husband Tony (2005).

Left to mourn are Daughters: Tamara (Neil), Lorna (Pete), Kim (Kevin), Shannon (Kelly); 8 Grandchildren and 2 Great-grands.

Reta will be forever missed by her Ormiston siblings: Wallace (Phyllis), Charlotte (Bob Cronin), Tim (Alisen) and Greg (Miriam) and their families.

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ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Make an effort to get along with partners and colleagues this weekend. You don’t have to be their best-ever buddy but if you want to see progress in matters you are working on together you must disguise your more negative feelings.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21): The more you look ahead over the next 48 hours the more likely it is you will taste success later in the year. And don’t try to do it all yourself. Jupiter in the friendship area of your chart means teamwork is the way to go.

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Most towns in Nunavut have no banks Lack of access to banking highlights systemic inequity that reinforces poverty, Inuit rights group says ANTHONY FONG The Canadian Press IQALUIT, Nunavut — Ameela Aqiatusuk lives in a town that has never had what many Canadians take for granted: a bank.

“It’s really frustrating. It feels like we’re five to 10 years behind everyone else,” says the office clerk from Resolute Bay, a remote hamlet on Nunavut’s Cornwallis Island.

Reliance on hard-to-find cash, fee-heavy prepaid debit cards and cumbersome online banking platforms are a common reality for residents in all but eight of Nunavut’s 25 communities.

Aqiatusuk, 31, banks at a CIBC branch in Iqaluit, the territory’s capital. She says it’s exhausting and costly to travel so far to bank, “which is why people wait for medical travel to get banking done.”

Also, without a bank branch, people don’t have access to financial planning or investment services.

The lack of access to banking in the territory highlights a systemic inequity that Inuit rights organization Nunavut Tunngavik says reinforces poverty.

“Let’s first give Indigenous people the same tools that everybody else has,” says John Anderson, former director of government affairs and public policy for the Canadian Co-operative Association.

“If you want to set up a business, borrow money or send your kids to university, you need a bank.”

The long road to establishing banks in Nunavut dates back to 2000, when the Atuqtuarvik Corp. was created to ensure “direct Inuit participation in major economic opportunities in Nunavut.”

Atuqtuarvik invests in the First Nations Bank of Canada (FNBC), which has a full-service branch in Iqaluit and basic service in five other Nunavut communities. Those service centres are found in the stores of FNBC shareholder Arctic Co-operatives Ltd., known in the territory as “the Co-op,” which runs retail and grocery stores.

“In many Nunavut communities, that’s the only store,”

A CIBC bank in Iqaluit. Due to a shortage of banks in the territory, prepaid debit cards, like reloadable gift cards, are a common cash alternative in all but eight of Nunavut’s 25 communities. THE CANADIAN PRESS Anderson says.

The Co-op’s competitor, The North West Company, is also a grocer and retailer, at which people can use its own prepaid debit cards, ATMs and chequecashing service.

Prepaid debit cards, like reloadable gift cards, are a common cash alternative in Nunavut.

The North West Company’s prepaid card has a fixed monthly fee of $4.95. There are also charges for reloading, transferring and withdrawing funds. Arctic Cooperative’s recently discontinued card charged similar fees.

Why not just rely on cash?

Aqiatusuk says cash seems like a disappearing commodity in Resolute Bay. Many people come up with convoluted workarounds to pay for goods and services.

She says if she wants to buy

goods from someone without a bank account, she can’t send them an electronic money transfer.

“There’s no cash at the store … so you trade an EMT for cash from [a third person], so you can then give that cash to me,” she says.

“People who don’t have banking depend on those that do.”

Another problem is addresses.

Some banks don’t recognize that many Nunavut addresses don’t have street names. Some people, like Aqiatusuk, get creative.

“We just make one up — like 123 Polar Bear Street and so on, P.O. box number or house number, then fake street.”

A statement from CIBC says it recognizes there’s an address problem for Nunavut clients, and there are ways for them to validate their addresses

virtually. However, it can take weeks or months to receive debit cards by mail.

CIBC and Royal Bank only have full-service branches in Iqaluit and Rankin Inlet.

Susan Nichols, comptroller general of the territory’s Department of Finance, says that from 2018 to 2021 the government leveraged its relationship with Royal Bank to open three basicservice branches in Arviat, Pangnirtung and Kinngait.

She says expansion of banks to hamlets is a private industry decision.

Leigh Solomon, vice-president of retail banking at FNBC, says infrastructure is needed.

She says plans to open a new FNBC banking centre in Taloyoak are waiting for installation of internet service. Its lack is a common barrier in the North.

And the opening of a banking centre in Igloolik was delayed after its Co-op burned down in January 2021.

Anderson says Nunavut needs more diversity in financial products in general. “I say postal banking. I say expand credit unions and expand big banks.”

Credit unions seem particularly suited for smaller communities, he suggests. “Their goal is not to make large amounts of money. The whole idea is to keep prices down.”

Until 1968, Canada allowed certain post offices to keep and remit people’s savings. Anderson points to the United Kingdom, France and other European nations as having functioning postal banks.

“How much money would they lose to do some of this stuff?” he asks. “Very little.”

Ghosting an intimate partner shows weak character

ASK ELLIE Dear Ellie: I recently lost a boyfriend who I thought had cared for me. I’m very sad about this and I feel rejected. He didn’t even say why he stopped calling me.

I will never know what it was that ended it, or anything more about him that would explain things. He never once even showed me his home.

But I will be okay. I just don’t want to be hurt anymore.

Heartbroken Yes, you will be OK. It’s that belief in yourself that you’ve just expressed, which defines your strength.

It makes the difference between being naturally sad, but knowing that you didn’t cause his distancing.

It’s on him, from his own lack

of decency and caring about another’s feelings when someone you’ve been talking to regularly doesn’t even suggest a conversation about his wanting to move on.

You didn’t see his home, but you did learn a lot of negative things about him from this parting. Most obvious, he’s weak.

That’s a character trait that lasts: The ability to cut ties, explain nothing, and run. Also, knowingly hurting someone with whom you’ve been intimate, without explanation.

Trust your own inner strength and know that you’re better off without him. You will soon be far more than just “okay.”

Unlike your last “boyfriend,” you’ve got the right stuff to move forward positively, create new connections, and recognize red flags sooner.

Dear Ellie: I’m unsure if the relationship I’m currently in is moving too fast, or is a big mistake.

I’m a widow, went on a dating app, and started to chat with a nice man, who’s divorced and living alone. After a couple of days chatting online, we

exchanged phone numbers.

We met in a coffee shop on a Tuesday, we’ve been texting each other all the time since, and on that Saturday, we went for our first date.

We had dinner at a restaurant, then I invited him to see my place… we started to kiss, and boom we had sex! I’m 71, he’s 72.

He says that I’m unbelievably pretty and nice. He sent me flowers, and confessed to me that he never had such an amazing lady like me in his entire life… blah, blah.

Is it possible that a man who’s a nice guy like him can “feel” so much “love” in a speedy time? Can all those feelings be long lasting?

Well, I’m going to see how long this ‘passion’ is going to last.

Sexy Senior On the pleasure factor alone, I say an enthusiastic, Enjoy!

You’re both single, mature, with life experience, and apparent healthy sexual energy, all factors which should help you assess this man’s inner character.

“Love” is possible at any age.

Still, it’s trust that takes time to assess. If the relationship is, at

this stage, all about companionship and sexual pleasure, see what changes over time in this relationship, or doesn’t change.

Casually learn more about this man whom you only know from what he’s said: See his home, how he lives there, ask about his passions — fitness/ sports, music, art, reading? And learn his work history.

Inquire about his marriage, divorce, adult children, grandchildren, etc. and share your own background. That’s how deeper intimacy develops.

If the relationship develops, talk about finances. A lot of facts about a person and what their attitudes and future plans are, can be learned from that discussion.

Good sex, openly-expressed love, compliments and flowers, are very alluring at any age. But trust is the bond that you most need in a later-life relationship.

Reader’s Commentary regarding the leaving of money to adult children in a will (Feb. 7): “I believe that when a child borrows substantial money from their parents, that amount, if not paid back, should be deducted

from the amount they would normally receive in a will.

“Otherwise, the (the son in this case) benefits financially.

“When making out your own will please be very specific as to who gets what. Until the will has been probated the locks to the parents’ residence should be changed.

“The executor should video tape and photograph every piece of property within the residence and around the exterior.

“When my husband’s family all died within six weeks, extended family (married into the family) broke into the residence and removed property. This led to a violent confrontation.”

Ellie: Though it sounds like an extreme case, those with “extremely” difficult relatives, should beware.

Ellie’s tip of the day If a relationship ends without explanation, trust your own strength of character. It’s missing in the other person.

Send relationship questions to ellie@thestar.ca.

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• Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.

The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases as the week goes on.

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16,377 ACROSS 4.Likely to get knocked down in the alley (7) 8.More created an ideal state (6) 9.In the main, carboniferous deposit (3,4) 10.Sailor Brown checked material (6) 11.Could be passed as a suit (6) 12.Frozen food for which I shout, by the sound of it (3,5) 18.Finish with no pieces missing (8) 20.The French returning to the harbour entrance (6) SOLuTION TO PuZZLE NO. 16,376

(Answers Tomorrow)

21.Go astray when Andrew is upset (6) 22.The kind of points that will provide scope (7) 23.Contemporary style by the Royal Navy (6) 24.Lower fourth class pass standard, we hear (7) DOWN 1.Shorten the end of the dog! (7) 2.Places for running programmes of instruction (7) 3.I’m upset by damaging raid in which planes may be seen (3-3) 5.Supports mother but tells nobody (5,3)

6.This man is a gesticulator of course (3-3) 7.The principal German songs are heard (6) 13.Penned and put in an envelope (8) 14.Suture equipment will be almost superfluous (7) 15.Being informed about judicial proceedings (7) 16.Depressed, but got up after seeing the doctor (6) 17.Lethargy produced by translation of Proust! (6) 19.It was a wonder it warned sailors at Alexandria (6)

Across: 1 Searchlight; 9 Wig; 10 Dentistry; 11 Gears; 13 Unaware; 14 Excise; 16 Debase; 18 Chopper; 19 Wheat; 20 Agitators; 21 Far; 22 Demonstrate.

Down: 2 Erg; 3 Rides; 4 Hang up; 5 Imitate; 6 Hit parade; 7 Swagger coat; 8 Typesetters; 12 Anchorite; 15 Soprano; 17 Crooks; 19 Wiser; 21 Fit.

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Steroids such as prednisone always make blood sugar rise

DR. KEITH ROACH Your Good Health Dear Dr. Roach: My son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in March 2020. We recently learned on our own that prednisone greatly affects blood sugar. This needs to be more common knowledge. We found this out when my son’s blood sugar was averaging 250 a day, 100 more than usual. We called his endocrinologist, who temporarily increased his pump dosage.

K.J.

Prednisone is a synthetic glucocorticoid. It’s a steroid, but it has nothing to do with anabolic steroids, like testosterone. It is very similar to cortisone, which is critical to the body’s response to stress.

One of the effects of cortisone is to oppose the action of insulin by raising blood sugar through several mechanisms, including causing the liver to make more sugar and preventing fat cells from taking up sugar. Steroids always make blood sugar go up, but the effect differs among people and by the dose of steroid.

When used at low doses (the equivalent of a prednisone level of less than 10 mg per day), steroids increase the risk of developing new diabetes by 80%. At doses above 30 mg daily, the risk of new diabetes is more than 1,000% greater.

There are many other sideeffects of steroids like pred-

nisone. They increase blood pressure and might cause behavioural changes ranging from anxiety to psychosis. When taken over a long enough time, steroids weaken bones and can prevent the body from making its own cortisone, a life-threatening condition when the body is under stress, called an Addisonian crisis.

I seldom discuss Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. An insulin pump mimics the body’s regulation of blood sugar by adjusting the insulin production and is an effective treatment, especially given the increasing ability for these units to adjust their own rates of infusion by a system that monitors blood glucose automatically.

Type 1 diabetes should be managed by an endocrinologist whenever possible.

Dear Dr. Roach: When Alzheimer’s disease came to medical attention decades ago, some experts thought aluminum caused the disease, and were concerned that antiperspirants containing aluminum might be dangerous. Should I be alarmed?

I am also concerned that antiperspirants and deodorants might cause breast cancer.

P.G. I also recall back in the ’60s and ’70s that aluminum was found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, and there was concern that drinking from aluminum cans or cooking in aluminum pots might put people at risk. Many studies have looked at this and failed to demonstrate any risk for aluminum, whether ingested (antacids contain large amounts of aluminum) or used topically (only antiperspirants contain aluminum). I don’t think aluminum is a sig-

nificant factor in Alzheimer’s disease.

The role of aluminum in breast cancer is not as well studied. Several small studies have shown no risk; however, one study interviewing women who had breast cancer suggested women who shave and use deodorants more had an earlier age of diagnosis of breast cancer.

There are several reasons why this might be the case without concluding that aluminum causes breast cancer. The preponderance of evidence shows no significant link between breast cancer and aluminum antiperspirants.

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth @med.cornell.edu

Thoughts of harming baby part of postpartum experience, study shows JEREMY HAINSWORTH Glacier Media

Dr. Nancy Sin, an assistant psychology professor at UBC, is studying the link between discrimination and mental health.

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Microaggressions lead to health problems, UBC expert says This more subtle form discrimination happens frequently and ‘can eat away at a person’ KIRSTEN CLARKE Glacier Media A UBC researcher is hoping to better understand the impacts of discrimination on mental health.

Discrimination can have widespread impacts in society as well as implications for mental health and social well-being, said Nancy Sin of the UBC UPLIFT Health Lab and assistant professor in the university’s Department of Psychology.

Sin said her current focus is on experiences of “everyday discrimination” and in particular, microaggressions.

“The reason I focus on microaggressions is because they happen frequently in our lives,” said Sin. While a major form of discrimination, such a being passed over for a promotion or not being hired for a job because of race, gender or age, may not happen to a particular person every day, they may near daily experience more subtle microaggressions, which can “eat away at a person.”

“For Asian Canadians, this might be as subtle as asking, what country are you from or where are you really from,

or [saying] your English is so good,” Sin said.

“Other people might not be aware that those comments or questions can make a person feel as though they are a perpetual foreigner, that they don’t belong. So, in some ways, these microaggressions — they eat away at a person because they always remind a person that they don’t belong in society, or at least they don’t kind of get that sense of belonging.”

What is also harmful about microaggressions is their ambiguity — people may not always know the intent or whether someone meant to make you feel bad, she said.

“So when people face these experiences, these microaggressions, they might spent a lot of time thinking it over in their head, kind of analyzing it.

It causes these feelings of anxiety that really linger, and that’s one of the reasons why these experiences have been shown to impact a person’s emotions for quite a while, even after that experience, after that particular event has passed,” Sin said.

“I think it can be really harmful as well for relationships, for having good, healthy workplaces

and society.”

Sin said research has shown that people who experience microaggressions tend to have serious health and sleep problems, as well as higher levels of inflammation.

“We believe that it could be due to the increased stress and physiological reactivity that’s being repeated time and time again, whenever people are facing these microaggressions.

So we do know that having poor sleep and having elevated inflammation, those are the pathways that set the stage for a whole host of medical conditions,” Sin said, noting this includes an increased risk of metabolic problems, for heart disease and premature death.

During a 2020 study on COVID-19 and mental health, Sin said she and her team found that “everyday discrimination is happening frequently.”

Participants in that study who identified as members of ethnic or racial minorities also were more likely to report increased or worsening instances of everyday discrimination during the pandemic, Sin said. “[That] has impacts on a person’s health and their emotional

well-being,” said Sin. “We found in our previous work on discrimination that on days when people experience discrimination, on those days, they have an increase in their physical symptoms and an increase in their negative emotion.”

What is encouraging, however, is that if people reported facing discrimination and something positive happening on the same day — such as lunch with a friend, going for a walk or engaging in a hobby — that “really helps to bolster from the otherwise negative emotional impacts,” said Sin. While it can be helpful for people facing discrimination to reach out for support, Sin said it’s also important “that we don’t put the burden of dealing with discrimination on the people who are being targeted.”

“Obviously, we need to think about solutions at a more systemic level. But I do think that there are these opportunities at various levels from the individual, in terms of our workplaces, and in terms of society more broadly. We can think of more ways to intervene and to reduce the burden of discrimination.”

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Why are vaccination rates still low in some countries?

Challenges include unpredictable deliveries, weak health care systems, vaccine hesitancy VICTORIA MILKO The Associated Press Why are COVID-19 vaccination rates still low in some countries?

Limited supplies remain a problem, but experts say other challenges now include unpredictable deliveries, weak health care systems and vaccine hesitancy.

Most countries with low vaccination rates are in Africa. As of late February, 13 countries in Africa have fully vaccinated less than 5% of their populations, according to Phionah Atuhebwe, an officer for the World Health Organization’s regional office for Africa.

Other countries with extremely low vaccination rates include Yemen, Syria, Haiti and Papua New Guinea.

For most of last year, developing nations were plagued by a lack of supplies. Rich countries were hoarding doses and many countries didn’t have the facilities to make their own. COVAX — an initiative to distribute vaccines equally around the world

— faltered in delivering shots.

Many rich countries had planned to donate doses once their own populations were vaccinated, but the emergence of the delta and omicron variants spurred booster campaigns that further delayed those plans.

Vaccine makers have largely declined to share their formulas or technology, further restricting production.

Other setbacks to vaccinations have also emerged.

“The main problem among countries with low vaccination rates is poor infrastructure to distribute shots,” says Dina Borzekowski, director of the Global Health Initiative at the University of Maryland. “What

is absent are best practices to get vaccines to populations who typically live without safely managed sanitation systems or reliable electricity.”

Donated vaccines are also sometimes delivered close to their expiration dates, giving health officials little time to distribute them, says Sinhye Ha of Doctors Without Borders.

Some countries also lack materials such as syringes to inject the shots or ways to keep the vaccines at the right temperature.

Vaccine hesitancy fuelled by misinformation and a distrust of governments has also contributed to low vaccine uptake in some countries, says Atuhebwe.

While many new mothers may experience troubling thoughts about harming their babies, those thoughts don’t appear to signal chances a newborn will be hurt, a new UBC study says.

The researchers note that those thoughts should be discussed with mothers as a normal, albeit unpleasant, postpartum experience.

The finding, published March 1, is the first largescale study to investigate the relationship between postpartum-occurring obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and maternal aggression towards the infant. It confirms findings from an earlier pilot study.

“What we now know is that when the thoughts are unwanted and intrusive — the mother is no more at risk of hurting their infant than the women who are just reporting accidental harm thoughts, because those thoughts are really normal and happen all the time,” said Dr. Nichole Fairbrother, a clinical associate professor with UBC’s department of psychiatry and the Island Medical Program.

The research did find evidence that, among vulnerable women, these kinds of thoughts may lead to OCD. OCD is an anxiety-related condition characterized by the recurrence of unwanted, intrusive and distressing thoughts.

Left untreated, it can interfere with parenting, relationships and daily living.

The study stressed a need to make a distinction between perfectly normal thoughts, those possibly indicating a need for treatment and those that might signal a threat to the baby.

That, researchers said, could encourage better communication between health-care workers and new mothers.

“My concern right now is that there is so little understanding and education about this, that disclosures may trigger responses that are unhelpful,” Fairbrother said. “We have examples of people who were suffering from postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder and nevertheless had their child removed from their care because the understanding of this was very poor.”

Out of 763 surveyed postpartum participants in B.C., a total of 388 provided data through questionnaires and interviews in order to assess “unwanted, intrusive thoughts” (UITs) of infantrelated harm, OCD and maternal aggression towards the infant.

Among the 151 women who reported UITs of intentional harm, four reported behaving aggressively towards their infant — resulting in an estimated prevalence of 2.6 per cent — compared to 3.1 per cent in women who did not report such thinking.

Simply put, there was a less than one per cent difference between the two groups.

The findings build on a recent study by Fairbrother and her UBC team, the University of Victoria, the Women’s Health Research Institute and King’s College London. That research found OCD among those who have recently given birth is more common than previously thought, often attributed to thoughts of harm related to the baby.

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Truck convoy shows need to uphold dignity for all RABBI MATTHEW PONAK It was very painful to see Nazi flags flown in Ottawa last month.

Recent reports of racist and anti-Semitic remarks in Victoria during protests create unsafe and uneasy feelings within our communities. Though not representative of the Truck Convoy as a whole, these events remind us of the increase in fear-based rhetoric in Canada.

What can we do?

As an Ashkenazi Jew with relatives who perished in the Holocaust, I feel shocked and angry. A part of me wants to publicly declare that those who fly swastikas are “monsters,” or “pure evil.” But my wiser side knows better.

To quote the compassionate intellectual Brene Brown: “Shame is not a tool of social justice.” She also states, while observing the critically-­ dissolving social connections between Americans: “There is

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING To learn more about what people in Greater Victoria are saying about spirituality, faith and religion, go to our Spiritually Speaking blog at timescolonist.com/spirituality or email faithforum@shaw.ca to join the discussion

a line. It’s etched from dignity.

And raging, fearful people from the right and left are crossing it at unprecedented rates every single day. We must never tolerate dehumanisation — the primary instrument of violence that has been used in every genocide recorded throughout history.”

Although born and raised in Canada, I lived in the U.S. from 2010 until 2020. I was quite relieved to move back home, largely because of the levelheadedness that exists here.

Since returning, I felt a sense of security until witnessing the massive numbers and impact

of the Freedom Convoy. For the first time, I reflected on the rise of national-populism worldwide and thought: “It could happen here.”

It does not need to, however.

We can all play a part in cooling these tensions. And I do not mean only racism and xenophobia. I also include contentions surrounding vaccine mandates and dubious science, and all disagreements that grate on our social fabric.

At the heart of many of these issues is isolation and anxiety.

We are spending so much time alone in front of our computers. Unregulated social media algorithms can potentially draw people further into conspiracy theories. Against these influences — regardless of our own stances — we need to be aware of the power of listening and the damage of belittling.

Quiet attention invites sharing and insight. This tool of healing is a potent societal balm. The

posture is best summed up as “I disagree with you but I respect you: I’m listening.” (Cases of violence are different, of course, and require physical intervention).

The overwhelming majority of Canadians know that white supremacism and neo-Nazism articulate an incredibly dangerous narrative. We need to be outspoken in our opposition, period.

And though it might seem counter-intuitive, we also need to speak with respect, love and humility. We can be firm without being dehumanising. It has been shown that people who join alt-right movements often do so from a place of personal trauma and alienation, as opposed to outright hatred.

The posture of openness is valuable with any matter of civic discourse. For example, if you are alarmed by vaccine hesitancy, I implore you to use dignified language online. If someone close to you is drawn to propa-

ganda, a powerful response is to listen with an open heart. They might nuance their own views just by having a chance to speak and you might learn about what they are experiencing.

Two thousand years ago, the Jewish sage Ben Zoma said: “Who is wise? The one who learns from everyone. … Who is honoured? The one who honours others.” Even in difficult circumstances, society benefits from this approach.

For the sake of all of us: nobody deserves to be othered.

Let us work for a society that upholds the humanity of all— including those we disagree with.

Rabbi Matthew Ponak is a scholar of Jewish mysticism, a musician and a teacher of embodied transformation. Together with his wife, Melina Ponak, Rabbi Matthew is currently creating a forum to share the spirit of Jewish innovation more widely.

Priest’s new task: To heal those he invalidly baptized JACQUES BILLEAUD and LUIS ANDRES HENAO The Associated Press PHOENIX — Families came one

by one to the baptismal font in a Phoenix church where the Rev. Andrés Arango, whose ­baptisms up until last summer are presumed to be invalid, poured holy water over the heads of a dozen people in a doover of the Catholic ritual.

The ceremony last week represented a new assignment for Arango, pastor of St. Gregory Parish for nearly five years until news broke that he had repeatedly flubbed the phrasing on the initiation rite. His task now: Healing and helping those he invalidly baptized.

Thirteen-year-old Alysson Najera, who was baptized by Arango in 2009, was among the 11 children and one adult who underwent the rite again during the ceremony, this time with Arango using the churchprescribed language. Like others, she then again received Communion and was confirmed — this time as valid sacraments in the eyes of the church, which require recipients first to be baptized.

Alysson’s mother, Eliana Najera, said she doesn’t hold it against Arango that her daughter’s first baptism was invalidated. She praised him for his work over the years and questioned why the Diocese of Phoenix didn’t gather input from the community before his resignation as pastor.

“To me, he didn’t do it intentionally,” Najera said. “It was just a mistake.”

Arango’s error was in saying: “We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” when he should have begun the sentence by saying, “I baptize you.” The difference is theologically crucial, the

Vatican ruled in 2020, because it’s not the “we” of the congregation doing the baptizing but the “I” of Jesus Christ, working through the priest.

Church officials estimate Arango performed thousands of baptisms that are now presumed invalid and said those affected need to have valid baptisms now.

It’s unclear how many people have received the sacrament again.

Technically in church theology, there’s no “again” or “rebaptism,” since baptism, as well as Confirmation and first communion, are once-ina-lifetime rituals that can’t be repeated. “Rebaptism doesn’t exist because baptism creates an ontological change [a change in being] in a person,” said Jay Conzemius, moderator of the Diocese of Pittsburgh’s tribunal and past president of the Canon Law Society of America.

Arango told the families in the church that the do-over was a chance for the faithful to renew their commitment to God. He declined an interview request from an Associated Press reporter after the ceremony, though he thanked the journalist for attending.

Arango remains beloved among parishioners, some of whom said the error was an honest mistake that unfairly overshadows an honourable record of service and he should have been allowed to remain as leader of St. Gregory Parish.

Members of the congregation credited Arango with launching fundraisers to pay the church’s debt, reversing a drop in membership and counselling them when they lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic.

At the end of his final Sunday Mass at St. Gregory, Arango received a standing ovation and was carried down the aisle by parishioners who thanked him for his contributions.

Rev. Andrés Arango speaks with a parishioner inside St. Gregory Catholic Church in Phoenix, Arizona, last week after he performed a baptism do-over. MATT YORK, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “After all of this and many more positive things that he has done, launched and created … how does the diocese pay him for pronouncing an inclusive word?” parishioner Maria Moran said.

“If he made a mistake in wording, believe me, it was not intentional, it was not lack of heart, faith or education, it was a simple human mistake that I believe Jesus himself would quickly forgive,” parishioners Terri and Steve Flynn wrote via email.

“This is a travesty to be crucified for the use of WE instead of I,” they added Another parishioner, 17-yearold Brisa Lomas, wrote a letter to Thomas Olmstead, the bishop of Phoenix, asking him to reinstate Arango at St. Gregory. She credited him for inspiring her to attend Mass and restoring her faith.

“If Jesus was in charge of The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoe-

nix, I know in my heart that he would forgive Father Andrés for this honest mistake,” she wrote.

In a statement, the diocese acknowledged that Arango’s reassignment had upset people.

“Fr. Arango is a priest in good standing and has led many people to a deeper relationship with Christ in his pastoral work at Saint Gregory Parish, but now he is committing himself to this vital and important pastoral outreach to the people of God — helping and healing,” the diocese said.

The diocese declined to say whether Arango resigned as pastor, as the priest said in a note posted on the diocese’s site. Some parishioners believe Arango was forced to quit the post.

In a petition to the diocese, parishioners requested a town hall meeting at the church to hear their views and demand answers to the diocese’s decision to invalidate thousands of

sacraments. It also included a spreadsheet with hundreds of examples of how Arango positively impacted their lives.

The diocese declined to say whether it planned on holding such a meeting.

Church officials are trying to identify people baptized by Arango. It has set up an FAQ section on its website to confront issues related to the botched baptisms and created a form for people to fill out to start the process of getting valid ones.

Before serving at St. Gregory, Arango was pastor at Saint Jerome Catholic Church in Phoenix and the St. Anne Roman Catholic Parish in nearby Gilbert. Earlier, he served in San Diego and Brazil.

Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.

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45 minutes duration.

Congregations limited to 70 persons to allow respectful distancing; masks required.

Livestreams, recordings of daily devotions, and more information at stjohnthedivine.bc.ca

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis

has urged couples to have more children, rather than pets, and called for family-friendly government policies. So he raised eyebrows this week when he revamped the Vatican’s family leave policy with a new benefit giving new dads a mere three days of paid paternity leave.

The Vatican’s policy sets out the benefits for Vatican employees who have children or must care for disabled family members.

Under the policy, mothers already were entitled to six months’ maternity leave at full pay, which they can extend by another six months at half-pay.

Parents who adopt a child are entitled to a similar benefit.

The new law sets out a threeday leave for new fathers at full pay. In contrast in Italy, fathers can take 10 days paid leave

Pope Francis takes the pacifier of a baby during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican last Wednesday.

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while mothers get five months.

The comparatively paltry Vatican policy for dads drew criticism on social media, with one person saying that three days was about the time needed to learn how to properly install a car seat.

While the Vatican employs priests and nuns who don’t have

children due to the nature of their religious vows, the citystate in the centre of Rome also employs hundreds of lay people who work in the Holy See bureaucracy, at the Vatican Museums and tend to the city state.

Francis has frequently lamented the “demographic winter” in Italy, where birthrates are among the lowest in the world.

The Pope has urged couples to have more children and lamented that many opt instead to have pets.

“Cats and dogs take the place of kids,” he lamented during a recent general audience. “This denial of paternity and maternity diminishes us, it takes away humanity.

“And this way the civilization becomes older and lacking humanity because you lose the richness of paternity and ­maternity. And the country suffers.”

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Lessons from a schoolmaster on the Rhine RICK STEVES Europe

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’m thinking back on my favourite European memories and my favourite Europeans — including Herr Jung, the German schoolteacher who died not long ago. When I close my eyes, I can still imagine Herr Jung walking me around his hometown … and I still hear his caring teacher’s voice.

When cruising down the romantic Rhine River in Germany, I always stop in my favourite town along that fabled river: Bacharach. This pleasant half-timbered village with vine-covered hillsides was once prosperous from its wine and wood trade, and now works hard to keep tourists happy.

The riverfront scene is laidback. Retired German couples, thick after a lifetime of beer and potatoes, set the tempo at an easy stroll. I gaze across the Rhine. Lost in thoughts of Bacchus and Roman Bacharach, I’m in another age … until two castle-clipping fighter jets from a nearby American military base drill through the silence.

The Rhine Valley is stained by war. While church bells in Holland play cheery ditties, here on the Rhine they sound more like hammers on anvils. As the last of the Second World War survivors die, memories fade. The war that ripped our grandparents’ Europe in two will become like a black-and-white photo of a long-gone and never-known relative on the mantle.

I pause at Bacharach’s old riverside war memorial. Its huge sandstone bricks, marked with an Iron Cross and flanked by two helmets, were erected in 1914 to honour local veterans of the then-underway First World War, as well as of five previous

Herr Rolf Jung laughs as he recounts, to visiting American travellers, some of his experiences growing up in Bacharach, Germany.

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wars … but the inscribed names and dates are now mostly illegible. The whole memorial seems pointedly ignored by both the town and its visitors.

Bacharach is probably my favourite Rhine Valley town because of my friendship with Herr Jung, the town’s retired schoolmaster, who takes me on a thought-provoking walk with each visit. He joins me at the memorial and I ask him to translate the still-readable words carved on the stone.

“To remember the hard but great time …” he starts, then mutters, “Ahh, but this is not important now.”

Herr Jung explains: “We Germans turn our backs on the monuments of old wars. We have one day in the year when we remember those who have died in the wars. Because of our complicated history, we call these lost souls not war heroes but ‘victims of war and tyranny.’

Those who lost sons, fathers and husbands have a monument in their heart. They don’t need this old stone.”

As I ponder the memorial, he quotes Bismarck: “Nobody wants war, but everyone wants things they can’t have without war.”

Herr Jung looks past the town’s castle, where the ridge of the gorge meets the sky and says: “I remember the sky. It was a moving carpet of American bombers coming over that ridge. Mothers would run with their children. There were no men left. In my class, 49 of the 55 boys lost their fathers. My generation grew up with only mothers.”

“I remember the bombings,” he continues. “Lying in our cellar, praying with my mother.

I was a furious dealmaker with God. I can still hear the guns.

Day after day we watched American and Nazi airplanes

fighting. We were boys. We’d jump on our bikes to see the wreckage of downed planes. I was the neighbourhood specialist on warplanes. I could identify them by the sound.”

“One day a very big plane was shot down. It had four engines.

I biked to the wreckage and I couldn’t believe my eyes. Was this a plane designed with a huge upright wing in the centre? Then I realized this was only the tail section. The American tail section was as big as an entire German plane. I knew then that we would lose this war.”

The years after the war were hungry years. “I would wake in the middle of the night and search the cupboards,” he says.

“There was no fat, no bread, no nothing. I licked spilled grain from the cupboard. We had friends from New York and they sent coffee that we could trade with farmers for grain. For this I have always been thankful.” He

then gently had me look into his eyes and finished his story: “When I think of what the Nazis did to Germany, I remember that a fine soup cooked by 30 people can be spoiled by one man with a handful of salt.”

Standing there with military jets soaring overhead and contemplating how Herr Jung has dedicated his life to sharing Germany’s hard history so other nations (like mine) can learn from it, I recommit myself to sharing the lessons travel can teach us as widely as I can.

— This article was adapted from Rick’s new book, For the Love of Europe.

Rick Steves (ricksteves.com) writes European guidebooks, hosts travel shows on public TV and radio, and organizes European tours. You can email Rick at rick@ricksteves.com and follow his blog on Facebook.

Murdoch Mysteries launches tour experience DAVID FRIEND The Canadian Press Fans of Canadian television hit Murdoch Mysteries can do their own sleuthing this fall as part of a weeklong excursion across the show’s most famous locations.

Production company Shaftesbury says it’s partnering with U.K.-based Transcendent Travel to launch a luxury coach tour that will take visitors across some of the most prominent Ontario locations from the detective series.

The excursion, dubbed Murdoch Mysteries Tour of Ontario, will wind through Toronto, King-

ston, Dundas and Peterborough with accommodations each night.

Highlights include a stay in Niagara-on-the-Lake where activities include a winery tour, a visit to Toronto’s Casa Loma for a “very special murder mystery dinner” and a stop at one of the sets of Murdoch Mysteries to meet the cast.

The trip is set to begin Sept. 26 and run until Oct. 2.

Shaftesbury spokeswoman Maude DeMarco says the idea was inspired by similar tours that have celebrated other cultural sensations, such as the British period drama Downton Abbey.

“The fact that it really hasn’t been done here before is very exciting,” she added.

“This sort of thing is a big success in England, so we’re really hoping it translates well. I think it will, there’s a lot of good stuff for people to see.”

The long-running Toronto-set Murdoch Mysteries, which airs on CBC and Netflix, takes place in the late 1890s and early 1900s and centres on a detective who uses cutting-edge forensics to solve crimes.

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What’s new for travellers to Alaska in 2022 M.T. SCHWARTZMAN TravelPulse After a nonexistent 2020 season and an abbreviated 2021 season, Alaska travel is gearing up across the board for a return to normal. Cruise lines expect to be back with a full slate of sailings, bringing up to 1.5 million passengers to Alaska’s coastal communities. Elsewhere there are hotel happenings, anniversary celebrations and destination developments across the state.

All this is subject to an important caveat: Will COVID-19 force another pullback of travel operations? Here’s a look at what’s new for Alaska in 2022, assuming all goes as planned.

Cruise currents Princess Cruises leads the charge with six MedallionClass ships, featuring the Discovery Princess, the line’s newest ship and the youngest sailing

in Alaska. Altogether, Princess offers 12 cruise itineraries, 25 cruise-tour options and a choice of four embarkation points including Seattle, Vancouver, Whittier and San Francisco.

Norwegian Cruise Line sends five ships to Alaska for the first time ever: The Norwegian Bliss, Norwegian Encore, Norwegian Sun, Norwegian Jewel and Norwegian Spirit sail five- to 11-day cruises departing Seattle, Seward, Alaska, and Vancouver. Longer repositioning cruises to begin and end the season also are scheduled, such as 16-day voyages between Alaska and Hawaii or Japan.

Royal Caribbean International fields its first four-ship Alaska deployment. Two Quantum-class ships — the Ovation of the Seas and Quantum of the Seas — sail seven-day cruises roundtrip from Seattle. Two Radianceclass ships — the Radiance of the Seas and Serenade of the Seas — sail one-way, seven-day Gulf of Alaska cruises between

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Lindblad Expeditions adds two ships to its Alaska fleet for a total of five vessels. The National Geographic Sea Bird, Sea Lion, Quest, Venture and Orion will sail eight itineraries of six to 15 days exploring the Inside Passage and Bering Sea. American Queen Voyages (the new name for American Queen Steamboat Company, which includes Victory Cruise Lines) debuts Alaska expeditions with 12- and 13-day journeys aboard the brand-new Ocean Victory — one of a new generation of expedition ships featuring an x-bow for comfort and spacious staterooms with private balconies. Rail-tour extensions are available through Rocky Mountaineer.

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Alyeska Resort, located 75 kilometres south of Anchorage, plans to open Alaska’s first-ever Nordic spa. Facilities will include a variety of indoor/ outdoor hydrotherapy pools, steam rooms and saunas, plus an on-site wellness bistro.

The Anchorage Marriott has received a top-to-bottom facelift, upgrading its public spaces, ­dining areas and all 392 guest rooms. The renovation drew ­inspiration from the beauty of Alaska’s great outdoors that lies at the doorstep of the state’s ­largest city.

The Gustavus Inn at Glacier Bay reopens under new Native ownership by the Hoonah Indian Association and will once again serve as a base for visitors to experience Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

Glacier Bay Lodge reopens in May, offering the only overnight lodging accommodations within the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

Activities include a day-boat tour of the park’s tidewater glaciers or a visit to the Huna Tribal House, where Huna Tlingit guides share their ancestral connection to the land.

John Hall’s Alaska celebrates 40 years of bringing visitors to Alaska with an expanded lineup of itineraries. The family-owned company specializes in fully guided, inclusive cruises and tours and is Adventure Green certified for being environmentally responsible.

The Iditarod Sled Dog Race takes off for the 50th time on March 5 in Anchorage on its traditional route after an ­abbreviated course last year.

The winner will cross the finish line some two weeks later in Nome — a historic journey of about 1,600 kilometres.

Holland America Line commemorates 75 years of bringing travellers to Alaska — longer than any other cruise line — with special programming aboard six ships. Three-, four- or seven-day cruises can be combined with land options as far afield as the Canadian Yukon for a total of 16 different Land+Sea Journeys.

Destination notes Icy Strait Point opens its Mountain Top Gondola at the new Wilderness Landing complex, leading to hiking trails and scenic overlooks. This will be the second high-speed gondola in Alaska, joining the destination’s transporter gondola that began operation in 2021.

Whittier welcomes two new ships from Holland America Line, the Nieuw Amsterdam and Noordam, on turnaround calls from June through September. HAL joins sister line Princess in using Whittier as the northern terminus for its Gulf of Alaska cruises.

Travel Juneau and UnCruise Adventures have joined together to promote Juneau’s Ironman triathlon competition on Aug. 7.

UnCruise will be the exclusive small-ship partner for the event, offering a 12-night VIP post-race adventure cruise of the Inside Passage and Glacier Bay. Ketchikan’s new Ward Cove docking facility north of town will be in full swing after a soft opening last year. Ships from Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean International are among those scheduled to call.

Sitka anticipates a surge of cruise passengers thanks to its new 40,000-square-foot cruise terminal. The first call is scheduled for May 2 when Radiance of the Seas visits. The terminal features a restaurant, tap room with locally brewed beer, locally owned retail shops and a staging area for shore excursions.

Fairbanks expects a big boost in arrivals as cruise passengers, which make up 41 per cent of its summertime visitors, return.

Almost 250,000 cruise passengers rode the train to Fairbanks in 2019. That dropped to zero the past two years.

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New Disney Cruise Line ship Disney Wish gets first taste of water RICHARD TRIBOU Orlando Sentinel Disney Cruise Line’s new ship won’t be sailing from Port Canaveral until July, but it dipped its toes in water for the first time.

The 144,000 gross-ton, 1,254-stateroom vessel has been under construction at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenberg,

Germany, since 2020, assembled in pieces in the massive covered dry dock, but saw the light of day in a slow hour-long float out that was accentuated with Disney’s signature fireworks once it made it all the way out.

Now, the ship is floating on its own as work continues likely for at least six more weeks before it’s ready for the slow tugboat-

assisted conveyance on the Ems River, a 32-kilometre trip from the inland shipyard to arrive in Eemshaven, Netherlands to prep for sea trials in the North Sea. Disney this month announced the ship’s debut was being delayed by six weeks so its first sailing from Port Canaveral will be July 14. Citing delays at the shipyard partly because of the

Omicron variant of COVID-19, the cruise line had to cancel 12 sailings, working with customers to either rebook or refund deposits.

The delay isn’t the first as original plans before the pandemic slammed the cruise industry, including shipyards, had Disney Wish being delivered to the cruise line in December 2021 and its first sailing from Port Canaveral

was to have been last month.

Now, though, work will continue on interior spaces of the ship and construction of some exterior features such as the AquaMouse, the signature water ride attraction on the top deck that’s a mashup between a Disney dark ride and the popular water coaster found on Disney Dream and Fantasy.

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The fourth version of the Golden Fans at Sea themed cruise is planned for April 2023, open to up to 1,000 fans of Rose, Dorothy, Blanche and Ma! … I mean Sophia.

The event’s first two cruises sailed back-to-back in February 2020, and sold out according to travel agent Cindy Levine, who is organizing bookings for the upcoming voyage. A third sailing just took place on Celebrity Apex in January.

The next one is a five-night affair on board Celebrity Summit sailing from Port Miami from Saturday, April 8, to Thursday, April 13, with stops in Key West and Cozumel plus two sea days.

“The first sailing sold out in

1 1/2 days! The second sailing sold out in just a few months and this sailing that we just had in 2022 was lower capacity due to CDC and people not feeling 100% to sail, but 2023 will sell out,” Levine said in an email.

Activities planned include a bar crawl in the Keys, karaoka, trivia, celebrity panels, costume parade, game shows and dance parties. In Cozumel, those who book through the agency get to go on the Shady Pines Goes to the Beach Group Excursion.

Guests for this sailing have yet to be announced. Past cruises featured Rue McClanahan’s sister Melinda as well as producer and show screenwriter Stan Zimmerman.

Levine said that to be included in the group events, bookings have to be made through goldenfansatsea.com.

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Cruise ships are set to return to the port of Saint John, N.B., following a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first ship is due to arrive in Saint John harbour on May 4.

The port has released a draft schedule with 69 visits in 2022 from ships owned by 12 cruise lines.

The schedule has 10 vessels in the port between May and late August, with the bulk of the visits after the Labour Day weekend.

In a statement, Port Saint John said there will be 10 days with two ships in port, and five days with three ships at the same time.

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Alamo memorial discarding its tourist-trap surroundings The Alamo — once dubbed the worst tourist trap in Texas — is about to shed much of the schlock that greets visitors to the holiest of Lone Star shrines.

The site of the doomed 1836 stand of a tiny band of Texans and Tejanos against an overwhelming force of Mexican soldiers has long been crowded by storefronts and

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Phillips Entertainment Inc. has agreed to remove Ripley’s Haunted Adventure, a Guinness World Records Museum and Tomb Rider 3D Adventure Ride and Arcade. The buildings, to be vacated by the end of October, will house an Alamo museum.

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The Sanctuary Mandela hotel in Johannesburg, which was once the home of Nelson Mandela and his family, recently opened to the public for bed-and-breakfast accommodations TNS

Nelson Mandela’s family home transformed into high-end hotel KARU F. DANIELS New York Daily News The former home of South Africa’s first Black president has been turned into a luxury getaway.

After a massive renovation, the Johannesburg property Nelson Mandela reportedly lived in for six years with his family is now the location of a boutique hotel.

Hidden on a quiet street in a wealthy Sandton suburb of Houghton, Sanctuary Mandela recently opened to the public for bed-and-breakfast accommodations — boasting nine rooms and the 36-seater Insights restaurant with a menu inspired by the antiapartheid revolutionary, who died in 2013 at 95.

Accentuated by artwork and artifacts in tribute to Mandela, the luxury hotel has four room types decorated in “modern yet simple style.”

Rooms range in pricing from $260 to nearly $1,000 per night for the Presidential Suite, which is said to be Mandela’s former bedroom.

Unique finishes also include window frames bearing his nickname “Madiba” and his Robben Island prison number “466/64.”

According to South Africa Tourism, the home was Mandala’s primary residence following his release from prison after 27 years.

The beloved political leader hosted the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson, Magic Johnson, former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and former president Bill Clinton at the estate, which was later used

The presidential suite, and one-time bedroom of former South African President Nelson Mandela, at the Sanctuary Mandela boutique hotel in Johannesburg. TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE as the headquarters for the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Sanctuary Mandela is managed by Motsamayi Tourism Group, considered the oldest Black-empowered South African tourism group with a significant portfolio in attractions, accommodation and experiences.

“Conceived by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which is tasked with preserving Mandela’s legacy and with sharing that legacy across the globe, the Sanctuary is perfectly

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MIKE DEVLIN Times Colonist Television programming with a gardening focus is nothing new. Entire networks are geared to covering the pursuit. But a series that attempts to widen the definition by showcasing mavericks in the field? That’s definitely a novel concept.

Victoria filmmakers Mark Bradley and Ian Toews of the 291 Film Company wanted to highlight that uniqueness in Visionary Gardeners, which premières Monday at 6 p.m. on VisionTV. “We’ve done a lot of work

[over the years] with artists and designers, architects, these kinds of people,” Toews said.

“Interviewing them, you find that there’s a lot of depth to their ideas, and a lot of philosophies and beliefs. But the gardening shows we’ve done up until now, we hadn’t probed as deeply.

“Visionary Gardeners allowed us to do that, to really get into their minds and understand why they do what they do.”

Bradley and Toews have two decades of experience in film and television, much of which has been award-worthy. They hit upon a groove in recent years with their arts-and-culture programming, winning a Gemini Award for the TV series Landscape as Muse and Canadian Screen Award nominations for the series Ageless Gardens and

documentary Bugs on the Menu.

Visionary Gardeners is liable to continue that run. The series consists of five 30-minute episodes, the first of which features a segment on Paul Spriggs of Victoria. Spriggs is a rock gardener and rock musician who played in several key Victoria punk bands during the 1990s.

His passion for alpine hiking and seed hunting is what drew producers to him. In the première episode airing Monday (which also features a story on Ontario playwright David Young), Spriggs is filmed atop the stunning 50/40 Peak near Port Alberni, gathering mountain seeds he is later shown planting during a commercial job with his company, Spriggs Gardening.

“It’s an exploratory process,”

Toews said. “There was a lot of shooting with Paul around his front yard and at some of his jobs in the region, down at sea level.

“We were trying to find what the story was. And then, at one point, Paul told me about his adventures up into the alpine, and my eyes lit up.”

The remaining episodes are no less interesting. Medical herbalist Chanchal Cabrera of Courtenay appears in the March 21 episode, which explores the nature of healing plants and how they perform physically and psychologically.

Victoria botanist Bob Duncan shows up March 28 and in his episode links the growth of citrus and other exotic tree fruits to Canada’s West Coast.

Garden writer Marjorie

Harris, who has appeared in a previous gardening-related programming from Toews and Bradley, brought several members of the cast to the table, including former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and her husband, novelist John Ralston Saul, who appear in the show’s second episode.

What struck Toews during filming was the spiritual and holistic benefits gardening provides to each cast member in Visionary Gardeners.

“All of these participants are exceptional gardeners, really advanced in their thinking and their practice. They have such a deep knowledge of gardening that when we get into the gardening that gets us into bigger ideas about life and philosophy.” mdevlin@timescolonist.com

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau goes Against the Ice in Netflix pic LINDSEY BAHR The Associated Press Winter could have been over for Nikolaj Coster-Waldau when Game of Thrones ended in 2019, but the Danish star put himself back in the snow for his latest adventure, Against the Ice. The film, which is now available on Netflix, follows the wild saga of Denmark’s Ejnar Mikkelsen, a captain, explorer and author who set out in 1909 to recover the maps and journals of a failed Artic expedition a few years prior.

At stake was a dispute over Northeast Greenland, which the United States had claimed and which the Dutch were attempting to invalidate by proving that Greenland was one island. Mikkelsen had only his sled dogs and one inexperienced mate at his side for the mission, which kept getting more complicated.

It’s a project that has been with Coster-Waldau for almost a decade. Director Peter Flinth, a friend from school, sent Mikkelsen’s book Two Against the Ice to consider. Flinth had heard about it from the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, who had mentioned to Flinth that it might make a good movie. Coster-Waldau agreed and not only does he star: He also co-wrote the script with his longtime friend and collaborator Joe Derrick.

“It was a long journey. It was a complicated book to adapt.”

Coster-Waldau, 51, said in a

recent interview. “I’ve always loved survival stories, explorers who go to unknown places. It’s exciting.

“But what really caught me here was it was an unusual combination. Normally both men would have had the same ambitions and hopes but here one of them was a famous explorer and the other was literally just a mechanic. This is what actually saves them, that they were so different.”

They shot on location on glaciers mostly in Iceland, some in Greenland, and relied minimally on CGI. In casting Joe Cole as Mikkelsen’s very green companion Iver Iversen, the filmmakers warned the actor that the conditions would be harsh and comforts minimal.

(There was a bus people could go to to get out of the elements for a bit, but no personal trailers on the glacier.)

At one point, Netflix sent back a note on footage they had seen worried that they were overdoing it with the snow and ice on his beard, not realizing that it was neither makeup nor effects — it was real. Funnily enough, Coster-Waldau said his fur period costumes proved warmer than the modern artic gear that much of the crew was wearing.

The film’s debut is a full circle moment for Coster-Waldau and Flinth, who over 30 years ago brought one of their stu-

dent short films to New York, hoping it might open the doors to Hollywood magically. They got a screening room somewhere on Broadway and some friends showed up. It was a fun night but not exactly a career changer. But it made the première of Against the Ice at the Paris Theater this week even more poignant for the longtime friends.

“The fact that Nikolaj and I kept working on this story for so long is proof that it had enough material and substance to make it into a great movie,” Flinth said.

Friendship has been a theme of the whole project, both in the story itself and in the fact that Coster-Waldau and Derrick made their creative partnership official a few years ago, founding Ill Kippers Productions. It was actually seeing Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss work together that inspired him to start the company.

“I was like, wow, imagine going to work every day with your best friend,” he said.

Game of Thrones took up a lot of air in the culture when it was on, but Coster-Waldau has always been aware that there is life outside of Jaime Lannister.

He started on the HBO show at age 41, after he was already a major star in his country and had had some big breaks and disappointments in Hollywood.

It was on a trip where he found

Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau heads back into the cold with his latest movie about a Danish explorer.

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he’d lost out on the lead role in John Carter that he found out he’d booked a pilot about dragons.

Though it might not have seemed like it at the time, it turned out to have been the best-case scenario.

Game of Thrones provided stability and renown and made him a household name in the U.S. But even during the eight-season run, he was always doing other projects.

The only difference now is he doesn’t have a few months of his year blocked off to go film in Belfast and he has a little more time to write.

“I love acting. I love getting jobs as an actor,” he said. “But what we’re doing now is so much fun and so interesting, just to get in from the beginning of a story and help create it.”

And next up he has a multipart Audible drama that Derrick wrote and he performs in that will debut sometime in May. He describes it as an “old school radio play.” But first, he’s enjoying the moment with Against the Ice. “There is just such a sense of accomplishment and pride in this movie, because it was not an easy one to make,” he said. “Our ambitions were so high.”

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Offerman gets into the spirit of awards show LINDSEY BAHR The Associated Press Parks and Recreation alum Nick Offerman is teaming up with his wife, Megan Mullally, to host the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the cool, laid-back cousin of awards shows.

This year, the show has moved up a few weeks from its traditional post on the Saturday before Oscars and will air live on IFC and AMC+ on Sunday.

Otherwise, the Spirit Awards are going back to their roots for an afternoon fete in a beachside tent in Santa Monica with a batch of truly independent nominees, from Zola, the basedon-a-Twitter-thread tale of a few sex workers on a wild trip to Florida, to Pig, in which Nicholas Cage plays a recluse forced back into society to hunt for his stolen truffle hunting companion.

Offerman took a few minutes from his home in Los Angeles to speak to the Associated Press about hosting this year, Mullally’s absence from the interview and what to expect from the show.

Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.

AP: I think you and Megan are the first married couple to host the Spirit Awards.

OFFERMAN: Oh that’s a great question. Are Nick Kroll and [John] Mulaney not married apparently? They were just dating?

AP: Did you draw the short stick to have to do these interviews alone?

OFFERMAN: Megan sends her

Nick Offerman and is wife, Megan Mullally, share hosting duties at this weekend’s Spirt Awards.

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apologies. We like to do these things together but we had a boisterous night of love making so she’s now resting.

AP: How are you preparing for the show?

OFFERMAN: It’s nice with our hectic schedules and the preponderance of content available to us these days to be given a strict schedule of courageous art films to watch. Usually we’ll watch something like Red Rocket and then be like: “Wow, that was powerfully moving and really burned some brain calories. So now let’s watch some garbage

for four days.” Instead, we’re watching this great work, day in and day out.

AP: The Spirit Awards seem like one of the most fun awards shows. Do you have any favourite memories from years past?

OFFERMAN: I’ve really enjoyed my time there. It’s by far the most fun because it’s sort of the least under the watchful eye of our corporate moms and dads at the studios and networks. The Spirit Awards is the back of the bus where the cool kids go to smoke jazz cigarettes and play grab ass. I’m told that I

have three very specific favourite memories from the Spirit Awards, but I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of recall of them. But I mean, I still have all my fingers and toes, so think I came out on top of that wrestling match.

AP: Some of your Parks and Recreation co-stars have preceded you as host. Have you looked to any of them for advice?

OFFERMAN: Not so much advice. The fun thing about doing gigs like this is the most powerful weapon we can bring to bear is our personalities.

I’ll talk to Aubrey Plaza about advice for the overall vibe or sort of steering the magic of the evening. But beyond that, you know, she participates in black magic and other witchery and that’s not our thing. We rely on more old-fashioned sort of Nichols and May vibe. We’ll probably have a little more Vaudeville than previous hosts.

AP: And it sounds like you’re keeping busy with lots of other projects, too (including Pam & Tommy on Hulu).

OFFERMAN: Megan is working on a film and a TV show at the same time. It’s the exact same time, but they’re heroically weaving her schedules together. So number one, I’m her trainer. Yeah, she’s Rocky and I’m Burgess Meredith. I’ve got her stool and her bucket and her towel, and I’m sponging her off on a nightly basis, sending her back into the fray. Beyond that, that allows me a lot of time for writing. I have a new book out called Where the Deer and the Antelope Play.

And I’ve started a new experiment, a Substack, which is a thing people can subscribe to where I write a couple of times a week a sort of a humorous/ earnest question-and-answer-like inspiration column. It’s called Donkey Thoughts with Nick Offerman.

I also then record audio versions of it so that people can listen to it or, rather, I understand a lot of people will play my voice to put their children or spouses to sleep if they’re experiencing distemper or digestive problems.

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A Netflix documentary on actor Pamela Anderson has reportedly been in the works for several years. ADRIAN LAM, TIMES COLONIST

KARU F. DANIELS New York Daily News Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson will get to tell her own story in her own way with a new Netflix documentary.

The former Playboy playmateturned-actress — who grew up in Ladysmith and owns a home there — is currently the subject of a much buzzed-about eight-part Hulu series based on the sex tape scandal with exhusband Motley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. Anderson annnounced the film on social media.

“My life/ A thousand imperfections/ A million misperceptions/ Wicked, wild and lost/ Nothing to live up to /I can only surprise you /Not a victim, but a survivor /And alive to tell the real story,” reads her handwritten note on Netflix letterhead.

Her son, Brandon Thomas Lee, who serves as a producer on the project, reposted the note on his Instagram story underscoring the phrase, “The real story.”

The Ryan White-directed

film has reportedly been in the works for several years and will include archival footage, her personal journals and exclusive access to the pop culture icon.

White’s previous documentary credits include Ask Dr. Ruth, Serena and the Sundance Film Festival award-winning The Case Against 8.

Pam & Tommy is a fictionalized account providing background for one of the pair’s most infamous episodes: their stolen sex tape.

The stolen footage was leaked online, prompting the couple to sue the distributor, Internet Entertainment Group – which legitimately sold it in 1998, making a reported $77 million in less than a year.

Helmed by I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie, the series tracks the couple’s whirlwind romance, their quickie 1995 wedding, and their turbulent marriage, which ended in 1998, amid reports of physical abuse.

Neither Lee nor Anderson were involved in the making of Pam & Tommy.

Jackson, Minaj on tap for Essence NEW ORLEANS — Janet Jackson,

Kevin Hart and Nicki Minaj are among the headliners announced for this summer’s Essence Festival of Culture, which returns to New Orleans after a two-year hiatus brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Others tapped to entertain June 30 through July 3 include New Edition, The Isley Brothers, Jazmine Sullivan, Summer

Walker, The Roots & Friends and D-Nice & Friends, Essence Communications Inc. said in a news release. Additional talent and details will be announced later.

In addition to the nightly concerts inside the Superdome, the festival will include programming on networking, finance, career, wellness, fashion, beauty and more.

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Big Brother Canada boosts diversity, pandemic precautions SADAF AHSAN The Canadian Press TORONTO — Big Brother Canada is back with a 10th edition producers say makes further gains in efforts to boost diversity both in front of and behind the cameras.

This season, 10 of the 16 houseguests are people of colour, including model and single mom Tynesha White of Montreal, graduate student Haleena Gill of Surrey and theatre director Jay Northcott of Toronto.

Tychon Carter-Newman, also of Toronto, made history as the first Black winner of Big Brother Canada last season, at the time touted as the most racially diverse cast of any Canadian edition. Half of the cast were people of colour and four were LGBTQ. Host and executive producer Arisa Cox says she was intent on increasing representation on the show when she took on the producing role last season.

Big Brother Canada host Arisa Cox, seen here in 2018, is back for the show’s 10th season. CP “We knew we could do more and lead,” says Cox. “We were really excited about being part of that wave of productions that really started to look at what diversity means, which is that there are people who will be seen who maybe have never felt

seen or felt ignored or felt stereotyped or reduced or invisible.”

Diversity in reality TV has come under scrutiny in recent years, with complaints about a lack of representation on prime time lineups leading to pledges to do better among networks here and in the United States.

In 2020, CBS announced that at least half of its reality show casts would be people of colour, starting with the 2021-2022 season. It added that 25 per cent of unscripted development funding would back projects led by creators and producers of colour.

That same year, ABC — the network behind The Bachelor franchise, which cast its first Black lead in 2017 with Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay — mandated that half of the written characters and actors on its prime time series be from underrepresented groups, and at least half of direction, production and writing staff come from underrepresented groups.

When it came to Big Brother Canada, Corus Entertainment announced a slew of diversity initiatives in July 2020 for season nine that included a review of production practices, antiracism personnel policies and racial-equity training.

Wednesday’s première introduced even more houseguests of colour, and Cox says the representation is also evident behind the scenes and in the control rooms where key decisions are made and reflected on screen.

Executive producer and showrunner Erin Brock says the efforts have only made the long-running franchise stronger, which again pits strangers in a series of physical and mental challenges for a $100,000 prize.

“From day one, we wanted to cast the show differently than other reality shows, we didn’t want there to be boxes, like you have one parent, one this, one that,” says Brock.

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Arisa was a real leader in that and supported by everybody.

Pandemic protocols have also been stepped up this year.

The eighth season ended early in April 2020 at the start of the pandemic, and season nine introduced new COVID measures.

The show’s second pandemic edition boasts its own epidemiologist, who consults on everything from how groceries are loaded into the house to how challenges are constructed.

“We are operating on so many levels, you could write a 1,000page book and never get close to accurately representing all the different experiences of people that work on the show, Cox says.

“But one thing I feel really proud of is that it feels like a family. It’s not just a TV show, it’s a lifestyle.”

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SATURDAY Children’s Programming

7 a.m. + PAW Patrol Animated.

Chase tries to show Alex that he can overcome his fear of the dentist.

3 Molly of Denali Animated. An injured hip keeps Auntie Midge from emceeing the Spring Carnival.

7:20 a.m. + Pocoyo Animated. Nina resides in Pato’s flower garden along with her friends, Roberto and Ladybug.

7:30 a.m. + Hero Elementary Animated. Fur Blur gets a cold and the only remedy is a flower.

3 Wild Kratts Live action/animated.

Aviva and Koki make a catapult.

G Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Animated. A strange new mini-golf course fuels competition between Poppy and Branch.

8 a.m. 3 Hero Elementary Animated.

The crew discovers that a dog is stealing a little girl’s toys from her backyard; Citytown Hero Con. G Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Animated. The Musical Thrones Tournament tests Smidge and Biggie’s longtime alliance.

8:20 a.m. + Dog Loves Books Dog and Pug are trying to remember what they did yesterday; their diary tells them that they found Granny Pug’s lunch box, so they go off to find her.

8:30 a.m. + Gus the Itsy Bitsy Knight Animated. Itsy-bitsy’s friend has lost a milk tooth, so he goes off in search of the tooth bunny.

3 Alma’s Way Animated. Alma, Eddie and Junior write a hero song for Papi.

G Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir Animated. Marinette is going to have to face a sentimonster that looks like Ladybug.

8:50 a.m. + Astroblast! Animated. A family of new customers are scared of Jet. 9 a.m. + Let’s Go Luna! Animated.

Fabuloso has to take the kids to a birthday party.

3 Curious George Animated.

George decides to make himself into a robot; Bruno the snake.

G Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir Animated. Ladybug decides to entrust a Miraculous to help her stop a supervillain.

9:10 a.m. + The Stinky & Dirty Show Animated. Stinky needs help completing his trash pick-up.

9:30 a.m. 3 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Animated. Daniel practices riding his dad’s bike; magic trick.

G Spirit Riding Free: Riding Academy Animated. Someone steals Bebe’s gavel and uses it to break a window at the academy; everyone suspects Alex, but Pru is certain he’s innocent.

9:50 a.m. + Odo The campers find Odo cute and funny, but he wants to be spooky; Odo plays a trick on the campers.

10 a.m. + Wild Kratts Live action/ animated. nimated. Donkey and Panda’s fun day does not go well; Donkey and Panda find a yodel bird egg.

G Dorg Van Dango Animated. Gang resurrects the town founder to help Dorg write a paper.

10:30 a.m. + Clifford the Big Red Dog Animated. Emily Elizabeth and Clifford host their first-ever backyard campout with all of their friends.

3 Elinor Wonders Why Animated.

Elinor and friends build a log bridge over a stream.

G The Boss Baby: Back in Business Animated. Gigi’s potty training strategy has a diaperless Boss Baby hanging out in the buff, but a horrified Tim can’t handle all the nakey time.

10:50 a.m. + Trulli Tales Animated.

Ring learns that his ancestors gave their name to oil.

11 a.m. + PAW Patrol Animated.

11:20 a.m. + Dog Loves Books Pug and Dog go to the circus, where they meet the Great Splendina.

11:30 a.m. + Belle and Sebastian Anime. Cameron is invited to the Farmhouse to help.

1 p.m. G Backyard Blowout Two siblings want to create a better yard for their hardworking mother and their chickens.

2 p.m. G American Ninja Warrior Junior Twelve young athletes between the ages of 9 to 14 compete in the first of 16 qualifiers.

3:30 p.m. G Just Add Magic Kelly, Hannah and Darbie accidentally intercept a spell that makes them unlikable.

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Expansive views greet visitors to the home of Cameron Turner and Heather Ferguson. Barb Gergle of Demitasse designed a small garden, while a natural mini Garry oak meadow thrives at right amid native camas.

Project house turned into gem with a view

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ivid childhood memories of adventure and exploration in her grandparents’ house were a major influence on Heather Ferguson when she and her husband decided to renovate their 1990 home.

“I remember so well visiting my grandparents’ house at an early age and being able to participate, to do stuff. There was always something going on,” said Ferguson, who wanted to replicate those joyful feelings for her own grandchildren.

She decided to create myriad appealing spaces and unique furnishings. Some of the highlights include a super-soft, Icelandic sheepskin-covered lounger to climb on, amusing stools that swivel, a Buoy seat that bobs and wiggles like its namesake and floor-level windows where kids can lie down and enjoy eagle views over the cliffside of Gonzales Hill.

The fun-loving Ferguson is even considering putting in a little climbing wall.

It’s all been an adventure for her and her husband, too, who originally bought a centuryold home on Hampshire Road after retiring here from Toronto in 2011. But they soon realized they’d have to undertake substantial renovations in order to welcome their growing family, which includes two young grandchildren and a third on the way, back east.

They were having that age-old conversation — do we move or renovate? — when suddenly a 1990 house on the steep, western side of Gonzales Hill came on the market.

Ferguson saw the potential: a lower level with loads of guest space and an upper floor for one-level living — both accessed at grade thanks to the terrain.

Husband Cameron Turner fell in love with the staggering panoramas of Victoria and the Saanich Peninsula.

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“The view was what struck me and the fact Gonzales Hill Park would be our backyard,” said Turner, who was born in Victoria and wanted to retire here after his 40- yearcareer in mergers and acquisitions.

Ferguson, meanwhile, had worked in communications and now wanted to fulfill a lifelong ambition and sing professionally.

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“We couldn’t have done it without them,” said Ferguson.

In addition to her and Turner’s ideas, the couple made use of their design-rich family.

Judy Stothert, a relation by marriage, is a well-known interior designer born in Victoria. > See VIEW, page D4

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Left: Pruning in summer helps to keep apple trees compact and easy to care for.

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Larkspur, which self-sows freely, is a fine cut flower.

Winter-flowering honeysuckle fills garden with sweet fragrance in colder months HELEN CHESNUT Garden Notes

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ear Helen: Is winterflowering honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) rare?

I’ve never seen it in any of the gardens I’ve been in.

We’ve enjoyed our shrub for 20 years. It begins flowering in late December and continues until March or April with a steady stream of very fragrant blossoms that are a source of winter food for hummingbirds.

The sweet scent travels far, and is so enjoyable on a winter gardening day.

Though it can grow larger, we keep our shrub to around

120 cm high and wide.

M.G. Laurel, at Russell Nursery in North Saanich, tells me that she rarely sees Lonicera fragrantissima on plant lists from her growers. “I think it is considered a little unfashionable these days, though I personally love it.”

Laurel hasn’t seen the plant on any of her availability lists for the past two years, and I can’t find it listed with the Loniceras on the website of Monrovia, a major supplier of plants to our local nurseries.

I did find L. fragrantissima listed on the Fraser’s Thimble Farm (Salt Spring Island) site, where the shrub is described as “A must for the fragrant garden.”

They do note, however, that their plant inventory lists are kept only partially updated. Best to phone or email for current availability.

Contacts are on the website at thimblefarms.com.

Dear Helen: Is there a seed company that lists Cyclamen coum?

When we sold our property, we

neglected to take any of the plants or seedlings with us.

H.R. Twining Vine Garden in Fanny Bay lists Cyclamen coum seed. Fraser’s Thimble Farm sells young, seed-grown plants with small tubers. The four forms they list are the species (C. coum with pink flowers), C. coum album with white and violet flowers, a variation with deep crimson rose flowers, and another with silver-marked foliage. These hardy cyclamens flower in winter and early spring.

Dear Helen: Is it true that some flowers can be sown in the fall, for the earliest possible spring germination and, hopefully, early bloom? In what part of the fall would the sowing be done, and what flowers are recommended for fall seeding?

L.F. I’m familiar with the practice of aiming for the earliest possible annual flowers by planting some of the seeds in the fall, just

before the first autumn rains are predicted to begin. Prime candidates are the flowers that self-sow naturally, like annual poppies, larkspur, calendula and cosmos.

I’d never managed to organize a fall flower sowing, until last year, when I planted Mammoth sweet peas at the base of wire fencing in a few locations. It was more than gratifying to see some of the little plants emerging around mid-January.

Dear Helen: A few limbs of a very old, large apple tree in an orchard next to me grow over into my garden — enough for me to gather apples to make sauce.

Everyone who tastes the sauce wants to grow one of those trees.

How can I easily propagate it?

Cuttings haven’t worked.

S.A. The successful rooting rate of cuttings from apple trees is low.

They root slowly, and the resulting tree may not yield the same apples.

Probably the swiftest path to

growing the apples you and your friends want is to have them identified and then find a source for the desired trees. There are orchards that specialize in keeping older varieties of fruit trees in circulation. Some are on Salt Spring Island.

Two sources of useful information come to mind. One is the B.C. Fruit Testers Association.

Local contact information can be found at bcfta.ca. Another trove of knowledge on fruit trees is Fruit Trees and More in North Saanich. Type the name into a search engine for contact information.

Orchid show and sale.

The Central Vancouver Island Orchid Society’s Spring Treasures Orchid Show and Sale continues through Sunday at Nanaimo North Town Centre, 4750 Rutherford Rd. in Nanaimo. Today’s hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission is free. COVID mask protocol will be in place. More information at cvios.org or at 250-937-7143.

Altered windows still common property Dear Tony: We purchased a townhouse in Ladner last year, and love the community and our new home.

Our strata corporation is undertaking some upgrades, including resealing and caulking of doors and windows on the exte-

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transferred from owner to owner.

The bylaws require owners to maintain and repair upgrades to their strata lots, but nothing else. When we purchased from the previous owner, who had lived there for five years until her husband died, there was no indication of an alteration from the owner, or anything disclosed from the strata corporation.

The strata council indicated these were upgrades the owner-developer had installed during the first year when the owners purchased back in 2004. About half of the owners have this upgrade. Council advised that this alteration converted the windows to part of the strata lot.

We contacted the previous owner and spoke to several current owners with this alteration. Everyone is unaware of this requirement.

JJ Rowlson Alteration agreements do not automatically transfer, and they are not blanketed by a general bylaw that imposes such a condition.

If the doors and windows as part of the exterior of your buildings are common property, they remain common property.

A strata corporation is not permitted to make an owner responsible for the maintenance and repair of common property.

If an owner wishes to alter common property, they require the written permission of the strata corporation before they proceed. This includes

all designations of common property, such as pipes, wires, ducts, cables and the structures of buildings, including between strata lots or a strata lot and common property.

A strata corporation may require that the owner be responsible for any costs related to the alteration, and this would form part of an alteration agreement.

That agreement is a record that must be retained by the strata corporation. When a strata lot sells, there is generally a request for a Form B Information Certificate.

The alteration agreement must be attached to the Form B. The alteration agreement should also include a condition that requires the disclosure of the agreement and assumption or transfer to the next owner.

The seller is then obliged to disclose the agreement to buyers, as well as the Form B attachment.

Care should also be exercised when purchasing and renewing insurance, as fixtures, which include doors and windows installed by the owner developer, are part of the insurable assets of the strata corporation, and not betterments.

Before your strata corporation proceeds with its actions, a legal review of the installation of the bay windows, the bylaws and transactions and disclosure will be necessary. tony@bc.choa.ca Tony Gioventu is executive director of the Condominium Home Owners Association

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Stand-alone root cellars like this one can preserve fruits and vegetables right through a Canadian winter.

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Apples need separate walled section in root cellar

STEVE MAXWELL Q: Do I need to keep apples in a root cellar that’s separate from the rest of the produce we want to store? My husband and I are setting up a modern homestead and farm business. Will we need supplemental heat to keep the produce from freezing when it gets to -30ºC in our stand-alone root cellar? We’re planning to put three feet of soil over the roof of the cellar.

A: It sounds like you and your husband are heading into a big adventure! I understand the attraction. I left the suburbs of Toronto in the late 1980s to build a home and life in the country, and we’ve been enjoying it ever since.

The issue with apples is that they give off harmless ethylene gas as they ripen, and this gas triggers rapid ripening (and premature spoiling of other produce). A separate walled section of the cellar with it’s own vents will provide enough separation between apples and everything else. You could also go with two separate cellars.

This might make sense depending on how much storage space you need.

I expect that three feet of soil over your roof will be enough because there’s a fair amount of heat coming up from the surrounding soil. You might have to tweak things as you see how the cellar performs, but three feet is a good start. You should

Kitchen sink hole needs a cover-up ED DEL GRANDE Tribune News Service Q: Ed: I have a five-hole kitchen sink and recently read your article on sink holes and faucets. But here’s my issue. I’m installing a pullout faucet that will use three holes and a soap dispenser in the forth. What do I do with the fifth hole?

Tom, Rhode Island A: If no other faucet accessories or required plumbing controls are needed and you end up with an extra kitchen sink hole, a few options are available. Here are three ideas to consider that range from inexpensive to higher end. You can choose the one that best fits your budget and needs.

First, you can keep it simple with a low-profile sink hole cover. Different finishes and textures are available to best match your sink. Even though you’ll see the cover, it does conceal the hole.

Next, for a more decorative look at a moderate price, you can install a second soap dispenser. With two soap dispensers, the second one can be filled with hand cream so it can also be useful at the sink.

Finally, for a higher-end option that can be very useful, installing a filtered water beverage faucet in the extra sink hole can be a very clear solution for your issue.

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not need an electric heater but it’s a good idea to have power out to your root cellar. Lights, a power tool perhaps, and (in the event of too cold temperatures) an electric heater. Might as well run a power cable while you’re building.

Bathroom renovation Q: What should I have a contractor install on the floor of a bathroom I’m having renovated?

I want ceramic tiles on the floor, but what should I do to waterproof the area first? What are your thoughts on a shower enclosure versus a tiled shower?

A: Schluter is a company with the best tile-related installation products I’ve seen. They invented things like modern uncoupling membranes and several outstanding waterproofing boards and cloths for use under tiles. If I were installing a new bathroom floor or shower stall, I’d definitely use Schulter’s KERDI-BOARD for constructing the walls, one of their foam shower pans for the floor, and DITRA-HEAT uncoupling membrane under the floor tiles.

As for tiled shower versus and enclosure, both will work well and last long if installed correctly. My own preference is for a tiled shower, but the clear enclosure-type prefabbed units do let in more light. The choice is really about your own preference, and is not a technical issue.

Q: Will a wood-burning fireplace insert with a catalytic combustor deliver the same cosy heat we’ve come to enjoy from our wood stove? We’re thinking of going with the insert to make more floor space in our livingroom.

Also, what are your thoughts on a propane insert? We’re not getting any younger and firewood is getting any lighter.

A: Switching to a woodburning catalytic insert will give you the same beautiful heat you have now, and you’ll get more of that heat from a given piece of firewood. There will be less smoke, too. Catalytics are great in all woodburning appliances because they allow smoke and other combustion products to burn cleanly at lower temperatures. The only drawback is that you must only burn wood in them. Other things (coated scrap paper, cardboard, etc) can cause the catalyst to lose effectiveness.

As for a propane insert, in my experience a gas flame is less intense, smaller and less cosy looking than a wood fire.

There’s certainly nothing wrong with propane or natural gas fireplaces and heating stoves, I just think you might find these a little less cheery than a wood fire.

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The rec room sofa used to belong to her parents and was recovered in green wool with scarlet ribbon trim to pick up reds in cushions and ottomans. Farrow & Ball paint in Hardwood White is a complex neutral that her designer calls, a white that isn’t white. Custom, backlit shelves float above cabinets built by Thomas Philips Woodworking.

Indian Yellow paint, from Farrow & Ball, surrounds the fireplace and ties in with tones in cushions and ottomans.

Project was structurally challenging > FROM D1: VIEW “We worked tirelessly together, ably supported by my sisterin-law Peggy Turner, also an interior designer,” Ferguson said. “They brought technique and experience to the table and helped me bring my ideas to fruition.”

Demolition and design work began in early 2020, with construction by Bruce Bowick and Sons.

The couple moved in the following March, finishing just under the wire, before supply chains snarled.

“We dodged a bullet there,” said Ferguson.

The project was structurally challenging, said Zebra Group principal Rus Collins, who noted the home was previously “very chopped up” and the new owners wanted an open plan with easy flow from room to room. They took down many interior walls.

“The house foundations are anchored to rock and you can’t get much better than that, but from a seismic point of view after removing so many walls we needed to do a lot of engineering.”

The front of the house is now mostly steel and the back is sheer walls, he said.

The new design involved integrating a former balcony into the living room, which gives them more room and unobstructed views through floor-toceiling windows and doors.

Balconies are fine, said Collins, “but an eight-foot wide deck is not all that useful … whereas adding that space to a living room makes a ton of difference when entertaining.

“The house really works now.”

Zebra designer Laurin Turner (no relation to Cameron) said it was challenging doing the reno during pandemic, but FaceTime and Zoom made it possible.

“Heather and I were able to meet a few times in person before the big lockdown, and she was very involved and handson,” which was a very good thing, as most of the house was gutted, ceilings taken down and whole rooms moved.

They relocated the kitchen from the middle of the house to the cliff side, reconfigured the den, living-room and diningroom layouts and created a freestanding, three-sided fireplace as a focal point, separating the lounge area from an expanded bar.

Placing the fireplace was the biggest feat, said Turner.

“We had to prioritize which spaces would benefit most. If it faced the dining room, for instance, it would have its back to the kitchen, so we eventually had it open to the bar, kitchen and living room.” > Continued page D5

Emerald Farrow & Ball paint in Duck Green sets off a pair of gilt mirrors and a double-glass light, all secondhand. The room is populated with posters of opera characters and more.

Over the master-bedroom sofa is a painting of the Upper St. Laurence by Quebec artist Claude Langevin, next to a painting by Island artist Ken Horn. Custom lamps were covered by the Lampshade Shop after Ferguson chose a silk linen blend from Bespoke Design.

At left, a classic chair from the Empress Hotel’s former Bengal Room has been recovered in a funky, traditional print from Bespoke Design, while the legs retain their original leather.

Right, a centrepiece from the Oak Bay Florist complements lime green plates, chargers and playful glassware.

The dining table came with the owners from Toronto, while the chairs were recovered in a bright blue print.

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Views from Ferguson’s studio take in a panorama from the Straight of Juan de Fuca to Mt. Tolmie and beyond. Armchairs are from Jordans and match two in the living room, while the desk and stool are from Steelcase. The Buoy stool rocks, is height adjustable and is posture-sensitive for ergonomic style. The carpet came from Lunds Auctioneers.

Floating wall units among design innovations It was a clever and architecturally pleasing solution, since it doesn’t block any views and is a visual highlight for the whole area.

Other innovations included designing floating wall units with hidden lighting to give a cognac glow to the upstairs den, as well as the lower level rec room. These units look more like attractive wall furniture than shelving and are art objects in themselves.

The Zebra crew “worked miracles and Laurin and Rus were phenomenal,” said Ferguson, adding she and her husband are thrilled with how the house looks and operates.

“We have a big family and love to entertain, so we wanted a house with good flow, and this one now has no dead ends or bottlenecks.

“Everyone always congregates in the kitchen or around the bar, so having the kitchen at one end, the bar in the middle and dining room at the other end works beautifully. It helps stagger the food and wine areas.”

Ferguson stresses the move was definitely not a downsize.

“We are upsizing, but doing it strategically, and I had tremendous support from Karla Skontra at The Happy Nest.”

Being crazy about refurbishing and restoring, she and her husband were able to find many treasures online and at auctions, including antiques, tableware and carpets.

The result is a colourful and well-curated collection of artworks, lamps and whimsical furniture, some of which looks as though it stepped out of the pages of Alice In Wonderland.

The kitchen is all about the views and serious gastronomy, since Turner is a keen cook who specializes in classic French cuisine, which he pairs with a diploma from the International Sommelier Guild.

“Julia Child is my guru,” he said flatly, adding his new kitchen domain is perfect.

Turner noted that when they bought the property, they knew it would require quite a bit of reconfiguring. They had renovated four houses before, but nothing on this scale.

“We were warned that with a renovation such as this, we should get three estimates for everything — and then add them together,” he said with a chuckle.

“That was good advice.”

“We doubled down on blue in the dining room,” says Ferguson, who used Farrow & Ball’s Oval Room Blue here.

A two-inch-thick slab on the kitchen island came from Matrix Marble and required substantial reinforcement of the structure. Two black cutting boards from Epicurean protect the marble while fading into the dark surface. Cameron Turner is a gourmet cook and master of this space, where cabinets were made by Thomas Philips Woodworking.

The spacious master ensuite has an Italian villa feel with wall-to-wall and floorto-ceiling marble from Decor Tile and Vancouver Island Marble. The round mirror, from Gabriel Ross, echoes the arched window in the glass-walled shower.

A circular coffee table, rounded settee and carpet from Lunds Auctioneers create a warm atmosphere in the den, just off the kitchen. Blinds are from Bespoke design.

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Designers get creative, cosy with lighting But he says something special happens when the material meets light.

“Bone china appears pure white once it’s fired, but then gives a lovely warm soft glow when lit,” he says. “Despite its challenges and reputation for being a tricky ceramic to work with, the end result speaks for itself — it’s versatile, fun to design with, and the light you get is soothing and can positively affect your mood.”

This year, the studio introduced Shard, a circular chandelier of handmade tiles, and Pebble, an elegant ceiling fixture formed of dozens of pieces of bone china, polished like river rocks and fastened to form a kind of mineral cocoon.

Arteriors has a collection of pendants crafted from materials like wooden beads, raffia and plant fibres. A pendant called Jana, for example, was inspired by traditional thatched roofs; brown wicker fringe creates a playful, textured fixture, suspended on an antique brass chain.

The Jemai table lamp has a charcoal-hued base formed from ricestone, a fine gravel. The stacked asymmetrical forms create a groovy ’70s vibe.

KIM COOK The Associated Press Designers and lighting companies have been busy coming up with new ways to hold a lightbulb and project light, and winter is a great time to explore their latest solutions.

Some are inspired by the skies overhead. Others by style eras, from Deco to disco. Still others are working with interesting materials around which to build a lamp.

“There’s a growing world of lighting that’s so much more than the glass globe on a stem,” says designer Ted Bradley of Boulder, Colorado. He cites fresh, sculptural forms: “When done right, they both capture our attention as standalone sculptures and fill the space around them with beautiful, high-quality light.”

A look at what’s new:

Biophilia Bradley sees a trend toward nature-inspired objects and spaces. “It’s something deeply rooted in all of us,” he says.

Two that he’s been drawn to recently: John Pomp’s Tidal Chandelier, and Ochre’s Moonlight Murmuration. “They’re fascinating, both in their form and the techniques required to make them.”

Pomp is a Philadelphia furniture and lighting designer who’s also a glassblower and surfer.

His collections of glass pendants, chandeliers, sconces and lamps look like blown bubbles, chunks of ice, swelling waves. The Tidal fixture perches sculpted amoeba-like glass pieces on hand-forged brass stems to create an organic canopy.

In Murmuration, the British design firm Ochre conceptualizes the phenomenon of birds swooping through the sky in mesmerizing, cloud-like formations. Dozens of LED-lit solid glass drops are suspended from a white canopy to look as though they had been caught in midflight at night.

Bradley’s own Samsara

Stories in the light Ted Bradley’s Samsara light fixture, made of porcelain and metal, is inspired by the arching ribs of a whale skeleton bleached in the sun. TED BRADLEY STUDIO VIA AP fixture suspends white porcelain rings from a brass spine, evoking the rib cage of a sunbleached whale skeleton. Other configurations he’s devised suggest the bowing branches of a snow-covered aspen tree, a raptor’s nest, a constellation.

“I aim to capture a moment of beauty in the natural world, and bring it to life,” he says.

Loving the limelight Etsy trend expert Dayna Isom Johnson sees a rise in interest in “statement lighting” — sculptural pendants, standout sconces, snazzy shades with lots of wow factor.

She cites more searches

for ’70s-era lamps, decorative lighting, vintage fixtures and colourful pieces.

Statement lighting, she says, “allows folks to spotlight their homes, while doubling as eyecatching artwork.”

Designers of lighting fixtures are getting creative with materials, including fibre, porcelain, glass, fabric, paper and metal.

Some statement lighting has a cosmic vibe. The constellation style comes in configurations big and small, with sticks of LEDs arranged to suggest starry skies.

CB2’s Savina pendant is an alabaster orb with swirls that resembles a planetary gas giant.

And British designer Lee

Broom’s Crescent collection includes suspended lighting with illuminated acrylic spheres bisected to reveal a brass interior, as though a futuristic space station were opening its door. Broom’s Eclipse fixture melds an acrylic circle with a mirrored one, like two moons meeting.

Peter Bowles, who with son Charlie runs Original BTC, was one of the first to use bone china in lamp-shade design, over 30 years ago in Oxfordshire, England.

“The potter he approached initially thought he was crazy, as they’d only ever made tableware and similar products — never lighting,” says Charlie Bowles.

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Carla Regina and James Andrew, who run Regina Andrew Detroit in Michigan, say sconces have been on the uptick with their clientele.

Besides providing light, sconces are wall art and “can quickly transform and update a room,” Regina says.

Their Happy sconce has two white light balls perching playfully atop a smile-shaped tubular base in nickel, rubbed bronze or brass. Their Gotham sconce pairs a sleeve of alabaster with Art Deco brass trim — it’s evocative of that era, yet classically modern.

France & Son’s matte-black Serge sconce is a reproduction of the classic mussel-shaped Serge Mouille midcentury fixture.

Inspired by antlers she saw while visiting Jackson Hole, Wyoming, designer Beth Webb had an antler cast in resin and transformed into the Jackson sconce, with a white linen shade and nickel backplate.

Apartment dwellers take heart; there are many plug-in or battery-operated sconces that don’t need to be hardwired; just attach them to the wall and use a remote. Schoolhouse, AllModern, Rejuvenation and Lamps Plus all have a wide range of plug-in styles, and battery-operated ones can be found at Wayfair and Amazon.

Winter light The Scandinavian trick of using low-level and indirect lighting indoors at this time of year works well because it keeps us attuned to the outdoors.

“It’s more about embracing winter’s natural light, and working to amplify it on those darker days,” says interior designer Clare Gaskin i n London.

She suggests wall and pendant fixtures with reflective interiors to create ambience.

Brass or copper give a lamp’s bulb a warm glow.

Create islands of light in a space for working, relaxing or doing both at different times of day.

New York-based writer Kim Cook writes regularly about homes and design for the AP. She can be reached on Instagram kimcookhome.

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Seed racks are back: Gardeners, act responsibly JEFF LOWENFELS The Associated Press Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, seed racks are back!

These harbingers of spring are now appearing in stores and nurseries all over North America, exciting gardeners with visions of a new gardening season.

Without dampening the excitement that these spinning or stationary racks generate, I do suggest that both novice and expert gardeners alike be careful approaching them. Seed racks are magical. They attract gardeners like magnets attract iron filings. It doesn’t matter that you may have perfectly good seeds left over from last year or that you already ordered seeds from a catalogue; you need to check out what is being offered.

Next thing you know, 10 minutes has passed and you are wandering to the cash register with a handful of seed offerings.

What happened?

Seed sellers know gardeners are hard-wired by the Jack and The Beanstalk story. Plant a magical seed — and all seeds are magical — and up shoots the stalk. If we just choose half a dozen of those hand-size packets of seeds, we can grow a half acre (or even more ) of food or flowers. All it takes are some seeds.

Here they are, all in one place.

So, a few rules gardeners should keep in mind when they stumble upon a spring seed rack: First, never buy seeds unless you have a garden plan, and one that calls for that type of seed.

Seed racks are back in stores promising all kinds of abundance in the gardening season ahead. Be careful approaching them, those seed packets can lure you in with pretty pictures on the front. But it’s the advice on the back you need to follow. JEFF LOWENFELS (This goes for catalogue and online buying as well; start with a plan.) It is OK to take notes on what’s available from racks (use your phone’s note app), but don’t buy any packets until you know you need them and have a place to grow them. Go home, make a simple plan and then come back.

Second, never buy a seed

packet based on its picture.

These are designed to look so good you will reach out and take the packet, and once it’s in your hand you won’t put it back.

Simply put, the picture is a sales gimmick and does not give you the information you need to make a smart purchase.

That information is on the

back of the packet, and the third rule of seed racking is that you study this info carefully before buying. The back describes the plant as an annual, perennial or biennial, which is good to know.

Where appropriate, the range of growing zones will be listed.

And, so important, here’s where you will find how tall the plant

grows and its expected spread, so you can space seeds or seedlings appropriately.

As important, the back of the pack should list how many days it takes for the plant to go from germination to maturity. (You should already know how long your growing season happens to be.)

There are often additional growing instructions, too. These will indicate if growing the plant matches your level of expertise.

And always look for this year’s date printed at the bottom of the packet so you know you are getting fresh and viable seeds, not previous years’.

Last, but not least, note the number of seeds in the packet.

Usually, a single packet will contain more than you need. (How many cabbage plants does your family want you to plant, anyhow?)

I’ve had encounters with seed racks in a local mall. My glasses may be all fogged up from coming in from the cold, but I see them and they pull me in. Within minutes, I am wandering around with a handful of seed packets I really don’t need. Fortunately, my wife makes me put them back (unless they are arugula seeds).

There should be a fourth rule of seed racking: Make sure your spouse or some other responsible soul is with you.

Jeff Lowenfels writes regularly about gardening for the Associated Press. His books include Teaming With Microbes, Teaming With Fungi and Teaming With Nutrients. He can be reached at jeff@gardener.com.

Vancouver home sales up 50% from start of year The Canadian Press The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the region saw a 50 per cent jump between January and February in the number of homes sold, as the market experienced a modest increase in new listings.

The B.C. board says Metro Vancouver home sales totalled 3,424 last month, down 8.1 per cent from 3,727 in February 2021 and up 49.8 per cent from 2,285 in January 2022.

The board says last month’s sales were nearly 27 per cent above the 10-year February sales average and came as more people put their homes on the market.

There were 5,471 new listings last month, up 8.4 per cent from 5,048 in February 2021 and up 31.2 per cent from 4,170 in January 2022.

The home price index composite benchmark price for all residential properties in the region reached more than $1.3 million last month, a 20.7 per cent increase from last February and a 4.6 per cent increase from January of this year.

Taylor Biggar, the board’s chair, says the numbers signal a return to a more traditional housing market after two years of pandemic conditions, but the market remains heated.

“Despite having a higher volume of people listing their homes for sale in February, the region’s housing market remains significantly undersupplied, which has been pushing home prices to new highs month after month,” he said, in a release.

Calgary market sets Feb. record as sales surge

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The Canadian Press The Calgary Real Estate Board says the market set a February sales record as the number of homes changing hands surged by 80 per cent since last year and new listings climbed by 63 per cent in the same period.

The Alberta board says the month’s record sales totalled 3,305, up from 1,831 last year.

New listings soared to 4,652 from 2,850 a year earlier, but the board says that still only gives the market one month of supply.

It says the market continues to favour sellers with the average Calgary home price amounting to $547,720, up almost 13 per cent from $486,490 last February.

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